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Estonia_Adopting_GNU/Linux_Fast_Since_Russia_Invaded_Ukraine⠀✐ Posted in GNU/Linux at 7:34 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz Days ago: One_Can_Speculate_Why_Windows-Friendly_OEMs_Start_Enforcing_Windows- Only_Boot_on_Laptops_(Microsoft_Blocking_BSD_and_GNU/Linux_With_UEFI) 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇Estonia and GNU/Linux ⦈ Source Summary: Windows has back doors; Estonia seems wise enough to move away from it, more so after Russian hostility ⠀⠀⠀⠀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⣴⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣦⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀ ⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀ ⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀ ⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀ ⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀ 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█▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 08.07.22⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ In_These_Censorious_Times…⠀✐ Posted in Site_News at 7:21 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz Video_download_link | md5sum ddb6a16c9f1a7abf2bfb2ce2fbcfdf94 IPFS in DC Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 4.0 http://techrights.org/videos/scaling-up-ipfs.webm Summary: The World Wide Web has rapidly become a platform of censorship (not just in places like China and Russia) and we’re extending to protocols that make censorship very difficult, sometimes infeasible THIS past Sunday we moved IPFS to a DC, hoping it would resolve a longstanding capacity issue. Running Gemini from home scales OK (albeit slows_down_the_whose home_network_if_over_50,000_pages_are_requested_per_day), whereas IPFS is a bandwidth and CPU hog, which means we’ve outgrown the home network. “All the Technical work will be fully public in 2 or 3 Git repositories; those too are being consolidated and rebased on Alpine Linux.”IPFS is an important anti-censorship component, which bypasses the DNS chokepoint and moreover tackles the single-point-of-failure conundrum (Microsoft gags its own whistleblowers in a number of ways, even demanding takedowns from platforms that publish leaks, demonstrating Microsoft’s misconduct). I still run IPFS from home, but it will be further boosted or accelerated from a DC. We’ve not been posting many articles lately. The news is relatively slow (August; people on holiday), we dealt with system recoveries last week, and we’re migrating almost everything to Alpine Linux. Techrights turns 16 soon and we’re establishing a strategy to keep both active and effective for 10 or maybe 20 more years. A World Wide Web-only plan isn’t wise because the Web faces a number of perils. Some people reach out, looking for alternatives. IPFS is one of many. Gemini is very good and several days ago we expended Tux Machines to Geminispace. All the Technical work will be fully public in 2 or 3 Git repositories; those too are being consolidated and rebased on Alpine Linux. Will_Devuan_replace_Debian_one_day? Will Debian_just_censor_critics? Either way, the community’s fight for technical independence and freedom of expression is ongoing. █ ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 200 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at http://techrights.org/2022/08/07/irc-log-060822/#comments Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2022/08/07/irc-log-060822/ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 08.07.22⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ IRC_Proceedings:_Saturday,_August_06,_2022⠀✐ Posted in IRC_Logs at 2:24 am by Needs Sunlight Also available via the Gemini protocol at: * gemini://gemini.techrights.org/irc-gmi/irc-log-techrights-060822.gmi * gemini://gemini.techrights.org/irc-gmi/irc-log-060822.gmi * gemini://gemini.techrights.org/irc-gmi/irc-log-social-060822.gmi * gemini://gemini.techrights.org/irc-gmi/irc-log-techbytes-060822.gmi Over HTTP: 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇H 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇HTML5_logs⦈_ #techrights_log_as_HTML5 #boycottnovell_log_as_HTML5 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇H 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇HTML5_logs⦈_ #boycottnovell-social_log_as_HTML5 #techbytes_log_as_HTML5 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇t 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇text_logs⦈_ #techrights_log_as_text #boycottnovell_log_as_text 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇t 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇text_logs⦈_ #boycottnovell-social_log_as_text #techbytes_log_as_text Enter_the_IRC_channels_now =============================================================================== § IPFS Mirrors⠀➾ CID Description Object type 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇IPFS logo⦈ § Bulletin for Yesterday⠀➾ Local_copy | CID (IPFS): ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 273 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐃𝐀𝐈𝐋𝐘 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒 ═════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 08.07.22⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Links_06/08/2022:_Five_Years_of_Fosstodo_and_Arti_0.6.0⠀✐ Posted in News_Roundup at 8:07 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇GNOME bluefish⦈ § Contents⠀➾ * GNU/Linux o Server o Audiocasts/Shows o Instructionals/Technical o Games * Distributions_and_Operating_Systems o Debian_Family o Open_Hardware/Modding o Mobile_Systems/Mobile_Applications * Free,_Libre,_and_Open_Source_Software o Web_Browsers # Tor o Funding o Programming/Development # Python * Leftovers o Education o Hardware o Health/Nutrition/Agriculture o Proprietary o Security # Privacy/Surveillance o Defence/Aggression o Transparency/Investigative_Reporting o Environment # Energy # Overpopulation o Finance o AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics o Censorship/Free_Speech o Freedom_of_Information_/_Freedom_of_the_Press o Civil_Rights/Policing o Internet_Policy/Net_Neutrality o Monopolies # Copyrights * Gemini*_and_Gopher o Personal * § GNU/Linux⠀➾ o § Server⠀➾ # ⚓ Xe’s Blog ☛ Do_I_need_Kubernetes?⠀⇛ Image generated by DALL-E 2 — A hexagon comprised of pink, blue, green, yellow, orange and purple colored trangles combining into octarine in space, digital art, 8k uhd, anime style… o § Audiocasts/Shows⠀➾ # ⚓ Tux Digital ☛ 208:_Linux_5.19,_Linux_Mint_21,_DreamWorks, Fedora_Linux,_SCALE_19x_and_more_Linux_news!_–_This_Week_in Linux_–_TuxDigital⠀⇛ On this episode of This Week in Linux: Linux 5.19, Linux Mint 21, My Trip to SCALE 19x in Los Angeles, Slax 11.4 & 15.0, QPrompt 1.1, Fedora to Disallow CC0-Licensed Code, DreamWorks Open-Sourcing MoonRay Renderer, Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS Delayed, Q4OS 4.10, 4MLinux 40 and much more on Your Weekly Source for Linux GNews! # ⚓ Video ☛ Is_Wayland_Tailored_Only_For_GNOME’s_Needs?_– Invidious⠀⇛ There’s this interesting theory I saw pop up the other saying that the Wayland XDG shell was tailored entirely for GNOME’s needs, lets go through he arguments and see if it makes any sense. o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾ # ⚓ Data Swamp ☛ Fair_Internet_bandwidth_management_on_a network_using_Linux⠀⇛ A while ago I wrote an OpenBSD guide to fairly share the Internet bandwidth to the LAN network, it was more or less working. Now I switched my router to Linux, I wanted to achieve the same. Unfortunately, it’s not really documented as well as on OpenBSD. The command needed for this job is “tc”, acronym for Traffic Control, the Jack of all trades when it comes to manipulate your network traffic. It can add delays or packets lost (this is fun when you want to simulate poor conditions), but also traffic shaping and Quality of Service (QoS). # ⚓ Niels Provos ☛ Type-On_Typewriter_Animation_in_Nuke⠀⇛ Users of AfterEffects are used to a plethora of presets for text animation. Unfortunately, text animation in Nuke is significantly limited in that the contents of the text field cannot be easily animated. I was working on producing a music video in which type-on text shows the lyrics in time with the music and ran into the limitation. I was not willing to mask letters individually using roto tools and instead decided to write a small python program that generates the animation in side of Nuke. # ⚓ Xe’s Blog ☛ How_to_look_up_a_Nix_package’s_Nix_store_path from_flake_inputs⠀⇛ Image generated by MidJourney — The fall of the Archons, colored pencil drawing, fireball spell, bright sky, digital art, lake of fire Sometimes God is dead and you need to figure out what the version of a package in your Nix flake’s inputs is. With flakes, you can figure this out using nix eval on a flake reference, but what the hecc is a flake reference? # ⚓ Its FOSS ☛ How_to_Upgrade_to_Linux_Mint_21_[Step_by_Step Tutorial]⠀⇛ This is a regularly updated guide for upgrading an existing Linux Mint install to a new available version. # ⚓ H2S Media ☛ How_to_install_BigBlueButton_on_Ubuntu_20.04 LTS_Linux⠀⇛ Learn the quick steps to install and configure BigBlueButton on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Focal Fossa server to create your own web-based video conferencing platform free of cost. “BigBlueButton” or “BBB” is an open-source web- based video conferencing tool. This means that users have to enter the URL in the browser instead of downloading the program to their computer. With the free version of “BigBlueButton”, users can conduct video conferences, as well as host webinars and online presentations. # ⚓ markaicode by Mark ☛ How_to_Install_Sublime_on_Debian_11_| Mark_Ai_Code⠀⇛ Sublime Text is a powerful text editor for creating code, narrative, and markup languages that are cross-platform. It’s coded in C++ and Python. The sublime text editor is compatible with a variety of programming and markup languages. It is often produced by the community and has many complex features such as window management and symbol indexing. It enables consumers and programmers to extend its capabilities by using various plugins. In this article, we will demonstrate how to install Sublime Text on Debian 11 “bullseye.” The Debian Terminal is used to run all of the commands listed here. Let’s get started with the installation. # ⚓ HowTo Forge ☛ How_to_Install_Calibre_E-book_Server_on Ubuntu_22.04⠀⇛ Calibre is a free and open-source e-book manager. In this tutorial, you will learn to install the Calibre server on an Ubuntu 22.04 machine. # ⚓ Install_Sysdig_System_Visibility_Tool_on_Ubuntu_22.04_– kifarunix.com⠀⇛ This tutorial will take you through how to install Sysdig system visibility tool on Ubuntu 22.04. Sysdig is a simple visibility tool that provides deep visibility into your system. # ⚓ uni Toronto ☛ A_brief_history_of_looking_up_host_addresses in_Unix⠀⇛ In the beginning, back in V7 Unix and earlier, Unix didn’t have networking and so the standard C library didn’t have anything to look up host addresses. When BSD famously added IP networking to BSD Unix, that had to change, so BSD added C library functions to look up this sort of information, in the form of the gethost* functions, which first appeared in 4.1c BSD but are probably most widely known in the 4.2 BSD version. Because this was before DNS was really a thing, functions like gethostbyname() searched through /etc/hosts. The next step in practice in host lookups was done by Sun, when they introduced what was then called YP (until it had to be renamed to NIS because of trademark issues). To avoid having to distribute a potentially large /etc/hosts to all machines and to speed up lookups in it, Sun made their gethostbyaddr() be able to look up host entries through YP; on the YP server, your hosts file was compiled into a database file for efficient lookups (along with all of the other YP information sources). As a fallback, gethostbyaddr could still use your local /etc/hosts, which was useful to insure that you weren’t completely out to sea if the YP server stopped responding to you. People who didn’t use YP (which was a lot of us) still used / etc/hosts, and perhaps distributed a (large) local version to all of their machines. # ⚓ uni Toronto ☛ I_wish_that_systemd_(and_everything)_would rate-limit_configuration_warnings⠀⇛ The obvious reason you’re seeing this message is that the 22.04 ‘oidentd@.service’ template service unit specifies the now-obsolete ‘StandardError=syslog’ setting. You’re seeing this message frequently because systemd apparently generates these messages whenever the unit is started and oidentd.socket is set to start it on every connection (ie, oidentd.socket specifies ‘Accept=yes’, which is also the only time you can have a templated socket service unit). # ⚓ uni Toronto ☛ Using_Prometheus’s_recent_‘@_end()’_PromQL feature_to_reduce_graph_noise⠀⇛ Modern versions of Prometheus support a special ‘@’ time modifier on PromQL queries. These let you evaluate a part of the query at a specific, fixed time, rather than at either the ‘now’ of an instant query or at every step of a range query. In addition to literal times, this can use two special time functions, ‘start()’ and ‘end()’, which evaluate to the start and end of a range query. # ⚓ uni Toronto ☛ Vim_settings_I’m_using_for_editing_YAML_(with a_sideline_into_Python)⠀⇛ I normally stick with minimal Vim customizations, partly because as a system administrator I’m not infrequently editing files as a different user instead of myself. However, due to Prometheus and other things I’m editing more and more YAML these days, and YAML files have such a rigid and annoying requirement for their indentation and formatting that it’s painful to edit them in a stock vi-like Vim setup. Initially I stuck ‘modelines’ at the top of most of the the Prometheus YAML files, but by default these are ignored if you’re root so I had to remember to ‘:set’ them by hand. Recently I decided that enough was enough, so I’d set our Prometheus server up so that YAML editing worked properly. # ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_To_Install_VirtualBox_on_Linux_Mint_21_– idroot⠀⇛ In this tutorial, we will show you how to install VirtualBox on Linux Mint 21. For those of you who didn’t know, VirtualBox is a free and open-source hypervisor for x86 and x86-64 virtualization, which the Oracle Corporation develops. Not only is VirtualBox an extremely feature-rich, high- performance product for enterprise customers, it is also the only professional solution that is freely available as Open Source Software under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2. It can be installed on operating systems, including Linux, Windows, Solaris, and macOS. This article assumes you have at least basic knowledge of Linux, know how to use the shell, and most importantly, you host your site on your own VPS. The installation is quite simple and assumes you are running in the root account, if not you may need to add ‘sudo‘ to the commands to get root privileges. I will show you the step-by-step installation of a VirtualBox Virtualization on Linux Mint 21 (Vanessa). o § Games⠀➾ # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Proton_Experimental_gets_Halo_Infinite working_plus_Airborne_Kingdom⠀⇛ Hot on the heels of Proton 7.0-4 getting a Release Candidate, Valve has put up a new build of Proton Experimental and it’s quite an exciting one. This is the special version of Proton you can try, that often pulls in new features and fixes earlier to get more Windows games working on Linux desktop and Steam Deck. # ⚓ Linux Links ☛ 10_Fun_Free_and_Open_Source_2D_Shooter_Games –_Part_2_–_LinuxLinks⠀⇛ 2D shooter games are a subgenre of shooter game, which in turn is a type of action game. It’s difficult to exactly define which specific design elements make up a shooter game, but often they feature spacecraft and certain types of character movement. This type of game is extremely popular and fairly well represented by open source developers. All of the games featured below are highly addictive, immersive, fascinating, and hugely satisfying. Attractive graphics are an important element to any shooting game. But these games also have great gameplay coupled with the urge of always having just one more play. And as the source code is freely available, anyone can pick up, modify, and expand upon the games. There is an eligibility criteria that needs to be met to be included in this round up (see below). Let’s explore the 10 games. For each game we have compiled its own portal page, a full description with an in-depth analysis of its features, a screen shot of the game in action, together with links to relevant resources. * § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾ o ⚓ Arca Noae ☛ USB_driver_package_version_12.13_now_available⠀⇛ Arca Noae is pleased to announce the immediate availability of release 12.13 of our USB stack. o § Debian Family⠀➾ # ⚓ Paul_Wise:_FLOSS_Activities_July_2022⠀⇛ This month I didn’t have any particular focus. I just worked on issues in my info bubble. o § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾ # ⚓ Tom’s Hardware ☛ How_to_Use_Raspberry_Pi_Pico_W_With_Node- RED⠀⇛ In a previous how to, we introduced MQTT (Message Query Telemetry Transport) with the $6 Raspberry Pi Pico W. In that tutorial we kept things relatively simple. Publishing and subscribing to messages using a little MicroPython and an MQTT broker. We then used an online MQTT service to interact with the Pico W. This proved that everything worked, but in this how-to, we are going to kick things up a notch and build a web application using very little code. # ⚓ Old VCR ☛ The_Pong_you_could_program,_possibly:_the_MOS 7600/7601⠀⇛ What’s odd about the MOS 7600/1 is that everyone seems to have a clear idea of what it can do, but there’s yet to be any hard proof like an available datasheet to substantiate it. Most of the sites that talk about it (including, I must admit, my entry at the Secret Weapons of Commodore) make reference to the other sites in terms of its specifications, which circularly point at other sites which point back at the originals. In any event, what allegedly made the 7600 unique compared to the TI, NS and GI silicon-Pong designs was that instead of hardwired circuitry it supposedly had a mask ROM containing the game programming and a primitive internal CPU to run it (though it did use internal discrete circuitry for the graphics and audio; more in a moment). This internal ROM is confidently and consistently described as 512 “words,” despite no surviving MOS or CSG spec sheet to back that up, nor any idea what the actual word size is (possibly eight bits, but at that time could have been four). On the other hand, given the constraints MOS was working under, it isn’t inconceivable that they might have used some of the pre-existing work from the 6501/2 and combined it with a ROM and some internal static RAM and colour video circuitry to get a superior working design up quick. In that sense the mask ROM would have been an advantage, as it could be customized by/for any potential vendor. And MOS knew how to make cheap chips, another obvious advantage in a market with low margins. # ⚓ J Pieper ☛ Debugging_bare-metal_STM32_from_the_seventh level_of_hell⠀⇛ Here’s a not-so-brief story about troubleshooting a problem that was at times vexing, impossible, incredibly challenging, frustrating, and all around just a terrible time with the bare-metal STM32G4 firmware for the moteus brushless motor controller. # ⚓ Raspberry Pi ☛ Big_Mouth_Billy_Bass_meets_Raspberry_Pi_Pico W⠀⇛ He then wrote a MicroPython class to give easy access to the pins that control particular motors in Billy’s various fishy moving parts, and html code so that visitors to his Pico W’s website can control Billy from a distance – the best way to experience Big Mouth Billy Bass. # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ PixMob_Wristband_Protocol_Reverse-Engineering Groundwork⠀⇛ The idea behind the PixMob wristband is simple — at a concert, organizers hand these out to the concertgoers, and during the show, infrared projectors are used to transmit commands so they all light up in sync. Sometimes, attendees would be allowed to take these bracelets home after the event, and a few hackers have taken a shot at reusing them. o § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ CNX Software ☛ TTGO_T4_ESP32_board_features_2.4-inch_color display,_IP5306_battery_charging_IC_–_CNX_Software⠀⇛ LilyGO has launched yet another ESP32 board with an integrated color display. The TTGO T4 offers a 2.2- inch or 2.4-inch color display, LiPo battery support, but in contrast to many other boards from the company, features a battery charging circuitry based on Injonic IP5306 “fully-integrated power bank system-on-chip with 2.1A charger, 2.4A discharger”. The WiFi and Bluetooth IoT board is also equipped with 4MB flash, a MicroSD card socket, 8MB PSRAM, a 20-pin GPIO header and a 5-pin I2C connector for expansion, and a few buttons for programming and user control. # ⚓ Sportskeeda ☛ Android_TV_guide:_How_to_control_all_your smart_devices_from_your_smart_TV⠀⇛ # ⚓ 9to5Google ☛ Samsung_details_what’s_from_Android_13_in_One UI_5_–_9to5Google⠀⇛ * § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾ o ⚓ Kev Quirk ☛ Five_Years_of_Fosstodon_Questions_–_Kev_Quirk⠀⇛ Brandon, incidentally one of the oldest members on Fosstodon, asked a few questions in response to my post on Five Years of Fosstodon. So I thought I’d answer them here. The answers to these questions will take up way more than the 500 characters allowed by Mastodon, and as regular readers will know, I really dislike threads. So it made sense for me to post the answers here. o § Web Browsers⠀➾ # § Tor⠀➾ # ⚓ Tor ☛ Arti_0.6.0_is_released:_bugfixes,_error improvements,_and_preparation.⠀⇛ Arti is our ongoing project to create a working embeddable Tor client in Rust. It’s not ready to replace the main Tor implementation in C, but we believe that it’s the future. o § Funding⠀➾ # ⚓ Matt Rickard ☛ Open-Source_and_Quadratic_Funding⠀⇛ Open-source developers are rarely compensated relative to the impact that their code has. So how should we fund code that might be considered a public good? o § Programming/Development⠀➾ # ⚓ The Register UK ☛ GitLab_U-turns_on_deleting_dormant projects_after_backlash⠀⇛ GitLab has reversed its decision to automatically delete projects that are inactive for more than a year and belong to its free-tier users. As revealed exclusively yesterday by The Register, GitLab planned to introduce the policy in late September. The biz hoped the move would save it up to $1 million a year and help make its SaaS business sustainable. This news did not go down well. # ⚓ SequoiaPGP ☛ Plan_For_User_Testing_Of_sq⠀⇛ The goal of this is to find out pain points when using sq: what is easy and straightforward; what is difficult to understand; what is difficult to do. The testing will cover the sq command line tool and its built-in help, but not any other manuals or materials. The outcome I hope for is a list of proposed improvements to sq. The volunteers will not be judged or graded. # ⚓ Terence Eden ☛ The_point_of_a_dashboard_isn’t_to_use_a dashboard⠀⇛ A dashboard shows that you have access to your data. And that is a huge deal. # ⚓ Bozhidar Batsov ☛ Clojure_Tricks:_Number_to_Digits_–_ (think)⠀⇛ If you’re into programming puzzles you probably know that there’s a whole class of problems about doing something (e.g. some calculations) with the digits of a number. # ⚓ Bozhidar Batsov ☛ Clojure_Tricks:_Zipping_Things_Together⠀⇛ Many programming languages have a function for combining the elements of multiple collections (e.g. arrays or lists) together. # ⚓ Bozhidar Batsov ☛ Clojure_Tricks:_Replace_in_String_–_ (think)⠀⇛ Today I saw a clever bit of Clojure code involving clojure.string/replace, that reminded me how powerful the Clojure standard library is. # ⚓ A_Guile_Steel_smelting_pot_—_Dustycloud_Brainstorms⠀⇛ Last month I made a blogpost titled Guile Steel: A Proposal for a Systems Lisp. It got more attention than I anticipated, which is both a blessing and and curse. I mean, mostly the former, the curse isn’t so serious, it’s mostly that the post was aimed at a specific community and got more coverage than that, and funny things happen when things leave their intended context. The blessing is that real, actual progress has happened, in terms of organization, actual development (thanks to others mostly!), and a compilation of potential directions. In many ways “Guile Steel” was meant to be a meta project, somewhat biased around Guile but more so a clever name to start brewing some ideas (and gathering intelligence) around, a call-to-arms for those who are likeminded, a test even to see if there are enough likeminded people out there. The answer to that one is: yes, and there’s actually a lot that’s happening or has happened historically. I actually think Lisp is going through a quiet renaissance and is on the verge or a major revival, but that’s a topic for another post. The goal of this post is to give a lay of the landscape, as I’ve seen it since then. There’s a lot out there. If you enjoy this post by the way, there’s an IRC channel: #guile-steel on irc.libera.chat. It’s surprisingly well populated given that people have only shown up through word of mouth. # ⚓ Austin Z Henley ☛ My_HCI_toolbox:_Methods_for_designing_and evaluating_UIs⠀⇛ I’m a big advocate for HCI being integrated into all disciplines, no matter your job title. Anyone on a software team could run a user study—an engineer, PM, designer, researcher, manager, etc. Showing up to a meeting with actual evidence to support you is very powerful. It can often be done without too much effort. And even if you aren’t the one interacting with users directly, there is a lot of value in empathizing with users. I recently gave a presentation about conducting user studies that went over the methods I tend to use and my experiences with them. My goal was to give a taste of conducting user studies even to someone that may not have a background in user research or HCI. This is the same content as that presentation but in an elaborated text form. I hope you find it helpful! # ⚓ Chen HuiJing ☛ The_horizontal_overflow_problem⠀⇛ But first, let’s go with the broad strokes situation of simply not testing at a narrow enough viewport. The last I checked, Firefox stops at 435px, Chrome stops at 500px and Safari stops at 559px. That is, if you have your Devtools in a separate window. If you dock your Devtools to the left or right of your viewport, then you can shrink the viewport down to near 0px if you really wanted to. So the tip here is, dock your Devtools for testing narrow viewports. Or you could, I don’t know, ACTUALLY test on a narrow mobile device? # ⚓ Geeks For Geeks ☛ Is_there_a_limit_for_the_total_variables size_on_the_Memory_Stack?⠀⇛ # ⚓ NVISO Labs ☛ Finding_hooks_with_windbg⠀⇛ In this blogpost we are going to look into hooks, how to find them, and how to restore the original functions. I’ve developed the methods discussed here by myself and they have been proven to be useful for me. I was assigned to evaluate the security and the inner working of a specific application control solution. I needed a practical and easy solution, without too much coding preferably using windbg. # ⚓ The_New_Wave_Frontend_Toolchain⠀⇛ A new wave frontend toolchain is emerging, and it’s extremely performance-driven. I’m talking about Deno and bun (runtimes), esbuild, swc, and Rome (bundlers), to name a few. These tools were built as a response to the slowness and complexity of Webpack. # ⚓ OpenSource.com ☛ Why_we_chose_the_Clojure_programming language_for_Penpot_|_Opensource.com⠀⇛ “Why Clojure?” is probably the question we’ve been asked the most at Penpot. We have a vague explanation on our FAQ page, so with this article, I’ll explain the motivations and spirit behind our decision. It all started in a PIWEEK. Of course! During one of our Personal Innovation Weeks (PIWEEK) in 2015, a small team had the idea to create an open source prototyping tool. They started work immediately, and were able to release a working prototype after a week of hard work (and lots of fun). This was the first static prototype, without a backend. # ⚓ SparkFun Electronics ☛ Submit_Your_Jetson_Project_to_the SparkFun_and_NVIDIA_Community_Project_Contest!⠀⇛ In case you’ve been out of the loop, we are in the middle of our #SummerofJetson with NVIDIA Embedded! Quizzes, prizes, educational resources, and a project showcase offer a whole array of ways to use and learn about your Jetson Nano this summer. We’ve already run 3 quizzes, with the 4th going up today! Check out this blog for more information. # § Python⠀➾ # ⚓ markaicode by Mark ☛ Itertools_Combinations_–_Python |_Mark_Ai_Code⠀⇛ Using Itertools, we go through the combinations() method. However, before digging more into the subject, it is critical to understand how it is used. Let’s have a look at it first. When conducting various computations, we constantly encounter combinations or permutations. Even though humans can calculate numbers, dealing with high quantities may be difficult at times. Consider what may happen if we had technologies that could make this decision for people. # ⚓ Geeks For Geeks ☛ How_to_Use_Multiple_Screens_on PyGame?⠀⇛ In this article, we are going to know how to use multiple screens on PyGame. Multiple screens are one of the best features of so many apps and games. This feature of an app or game allows users to navigate from one tab to another tab of the game within the same window and screen. This flexible way of moving within the game environment is easily seen as navigating from the game menu tab to the control bar of a game. The same and lot easier approach is also available in PyGame of Python. Thus by using PyGame one can use multiple screens on PyGame. This helps the user to generate a more flexible and seamless way to switch from one screen to another screen via Python. # ⚓ Geeks For Geeks ☛ Python_–_Multi-Line_Statements⠀⇛ In this article, we are going to understand the concept of Multi-Line statements in the Python programming language. # ⚓ Geeks For Geeks ☛ Load_Images_in_Tensorflow_– Python⠀⇛ In this article, we are going to see how to load images in TensorFlow in Python. * § Leftovers⠀➾ o ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Compare_PDFs_Visually⠀⇛ Sometimes a problem seems hard, but the right insight can make it easy. If you were asked to write a program to compare two PDF files and show the differences, how hard do you think that would be? If you are [serhack], you’ll make it much easier than you might guess. o ⚓ New York Times ☛ Vin_Scully,_Voice_of_the_Dodgers_for_67_Years, Dies_at_94⠀⇛ The team has had many great players since World War II, but it was Mr. Scully, a gifted storyteller and a master of the graceful phrase, who became the enduring face of the franchise. o ⚓ Hackaday ☛ This_Stainless_Steel_Knife_Build_Starts_With_Raw_Iron Ore⠀⇛ Making knives at home has become a popular hobby, thanks partly to reality TV and the free time and idle hands afforded by lockdowns. Depending on how far you get into the hobby, builds can range from assembling and finishing a kit with pre-forged parts, to actual blacksmithing with a hammer and anvil. But pretty much every build includes steel from a commercial supplier. o ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Learning_By_Playing⠀⇛ Summer break has started over here, and my son went off to his first of a few day-camp-like activities last week. It was actually really cool – a workshop held by our local Fablab where they have the kids make a Minecraft building and then get to 3D-print it out. He loves playing and building in Minecraft, so we figured this would be right up his alley. o ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Hackaday_Prize_2022:_DIY_Brushless_Hand_Cranked Generator⠀⇛ A standard part of travel kit for the 2020s is now a battery pack — a hefty lithium-ion cell with onboard electronics for USB charging, that ensures all of our devices stay topped up while we’re out of range of a socket. But what happens when there is no handy mains supply to recharge it from? Step in [Chleba], with a hand cranked generator. o § Education⠀➾ # ⚓ Jacobin Magazine ☛ Eugene_V._Debs:_“Back_Up_the_Teachers”⠀⇛ Eugene Debs supported the struggles of workers everywhere for power on the job. That included Chicago teachers — who he praised in this 1915 article, never before reprinted, for doggedly fighting a local ban on their union. o § Hardware⠀➾ # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Laptoppin’_Like_1975⠀⇛ When we first saw the PZ1 laptop — a 6502 laptop- style computer with a small display and 512K of RAM — we couldn’t help but think of the old AIM 65 computer from Rockwell, although that only had 1K of memory. The other thing the AIM didn’t have was an ancillary microcontroller to help out that is way more powerful than the main processor. # ⚓ Bryan Lunduke ☛ The_story_of_the_1991_HP_DOS_Palmtop_–_by Bryan_Lunduke⠀⇛ The HP 100 / 200 LX palmtops are nothing short of spectacular little machines. Pocket-sized, clamshell, battery powered, MS-DOS computers — with a fascinating (and highly useful) array of hardware and software. # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ MCH2022_Badge_CTF_Solved,_With_Plenty_To_Learn From⠀⇛ Among all the things you could find at MCH2022, there were a few CTFs (Capture The Flag exercises) – in particular, every badge contained an application that you could  try and break into – only two teams have cracked this one! [Joachim “dojoe” Fenkes] was part of one of them, and he has composed an extensive reverse-engineering story for us – complete with Ghidra disassembly of Xtensa code, remote code execution attempts, ROP gadget creation, and no detail left aside. o § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾ # ⚓ Bridge Michigan ☛ Huron_River_chromium_spill_investigation zeroes_in_on_Milford_pond⠀⇛ A don’t touch advisory remains in effect for the section of the river from North Wixom Road in Oakland County and Kensington Road in Livingston County, after a recent release of some 10,000 gallons of liquid containing the toxic metal from a Wixom automotive supplier that uses it to chrome- plate auto parts. # ⚓ Digital First Media ☛ State_continues_water_testing_after traces_of_toxin_found_in_Milford’s_Hubbell_Pond⠀⇛ Hexavalent chromium is a potent cancer-causing material. The state issued a no-contact order Tuesday for the Huron River between North Wixom Road in Oakland County and Kensington Road in Livingston County, recommending people and pets avoid touching the water, using it to water plants or eating fish from the river. # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ California_and_Maine_Are_Implementing_Universal Meal_Programs_for_All_Children⠀⇛ # ⚓ DaemonFC (Ryan Farmer) ☛ Lake_County,_Illinois_Health Department_leaving_voicemails_with_me_and_my_spouse_over Monkeypox_“Grindr_vaccine”._–_BaronHK’s_Rants⠀⇛ Lake County, Illinois Health Department leaving voicemails with me and my spouse over Monkeypox “Grindr vaccine”. I’ve posted about how aggravated I am with the Lake County Illinois Health Department. You can get a recap if you like: Lake County, IL Health Department doctors should probably be avoided, in my experience. This was on top of their two years of incessant COVID lockdown terrorism that they used to wave their dick around with and force small businesses into bankruptcy court, and then used to surveil library patrons, and other abuses, before giving up completely. (Nobody even wears a mask on the bus anymore.). Now they’re leaving voicemails on our phones urging us to get a Monkeypox vaccine. I blogged about the Monkeypox vaccine too. (Who gets Monkeypox, why I won’t get the vaccine.) # ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Clue_to_children’s_COVID_immune response⠀⇛ Kids’ noses may be better at fighting off COVID-19 than those of adults. Dr Kirsty Short from the school of chemistry and molecular biosciences at the University of Queensland says it may be one reason immune responses among children have proved more effective against the virus. o § Proprietary⠀➾ # ⚓ Digital Music News ☛ TikTok_Integrates_Ticketmaster_Concert Tickets_Directly_In-App⠀⇛ Ticketmaster formed this partnership with TikTok because it wants to reach fans on their favorite platforms. Some of the artists available at launch include Demi Lovato, OneRepublic, Usher, Backstreet Boys, WWE, and many other ticketed events. Ticketmaster is going all-in on social media ticket discovery after launching a partnership with both TikTok and Snapchat. The Snapchat feature shows users events they may be interested in based on their preferences. o § Security⠀➾ # ⚓ QSB-084:_Split_GPG:_GnuPG_file_descriptor_confusion_and file_existence_leak_|_Qubes_OS⠀⇛ We have just published Qubes Security Bulletin (QSB) 084: Split GPG: GnuPG file descriptor confusion and file existence leak. The text of this QSB is reproduced below. This QSB and its accompanying signatures will always be available in the Qubes Security Pack (qubes-secpack). More information about QSBs, including a complete historical list, is available here. # § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾ # ⚓ NPR ☛ Amazon_is_buying_Roomba_vacuum_maker_iRobot_for $1.7_billion⠀⇛ iRobot sells its products worldwide and is most famous for the circular-shaped Roomba vacuum, which would join voice assistant Alexa, the Astro robot and Ring security cameras and others in the list of smart home features offered by the Seattle-based e- commerce and tech giant. o § Defence/Aggression⠀➾ # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ The_CIA’s_First_War_on_China⠀⇛ # ⚓ China_fires_missile_strikes_over_Taiwan_Strait_after_Pelosi visit⠀⇛ China has fired several waves of missiles over the Taiwan Strait, hitting targets in the waters that encircle the island of Taiwan after a visit from Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi triggered a tense military standoff in the East Asia region. Taiwan’s Defense Ministry confirmed 11 Chinese Dongfeng type missiles were fired in Taiwan’s direction between 1:56 p.m. to 4 p.m. Thursday afternoon, local time. Taiwan’s armed forces said it was on high alert status, monitoring Chinese military activity in the region, and that the island’s long-range radar had detected the incoming missiles. “We condemn such irrational action that has jeopardized regional peace,” Taiwan’s Defense Ministry said in a statement. # ⚓ Nikkei ☛ Apple_warns_suppliers_to_follow_China_rules_on ‘Taiwan’_labeling⠀⇛ Apple has asked suppliers to ensure that shipments from Taiwan to China strictly comply with Chinese customs regulations after a recent visit by senior U.S. lawmaker Nancy Pelosi to Taipei stoked fears of rising trade barriers. Apple told suppliers on Friday that China has started strictly enforcing a long-standing rule that Taiwanese-made parts and components must be labeled as being made either in “Taiwan, China” or “Chinese Taipei,” sources familiar with the matter told Nikkei Asia, language that indicates the island is part of China. # ⚓ France24 ☛ Somalia_appoints_al_Shabaab_co-founder_as minister_of_religion⠀⇛ Somalia’s prime minister has named former al Shabaab group co-founder and spokesperson Mukhtar Robow as a minister in the country’s new cabinet, a move that could either help strengthen the fight against the insurgency or provoke clan clashes. # ⚓ Site36 ☛ Military_reconnaissance:_German_drones_in_use_in Ukraine⠀⇛ The German Ministry of Defence is supplying a total of 43 unarmed aerial drones to its partner in Ukraine, as well as various technology to defend against such systems. In addition, there is talk of up to 20 naval drones. # ⚓ Site36 ☛ Secret_aerial_surveillance:_What_does_an_hour’s flight_with_a_Frontex_drone_cost?⠀⇛ With a new regulation, the EU border agency has set up its own aerial surveillance with aircraft. With the arrival of drones, migration control with the „Multipurpose Aerial Surveillance“ has become much more effective, but presumably also more expensive. o § Transparency/Investigative Reporting⠀➾ # ⚓ CNN ☛ London’s_River_Thames_has_shrunk_as_extreme_heat_and looming_drought_dries_up_its_headwaters⠀⇛ The start of the river has moved 5 miles (8 kilometers) downstream to Somerford Keynes, according to the Rivers Trust, which works across the UK and Ireland. The flow there is weak and only just discernible. # ⚓ Jacobin Magazine ☛ Private_Jets_Should_Be_Illegal⠀⇛ The role of drastic inequality in worsening in the climate crisis is not itself news. Oxfam last year reported that the carbon emissions of the richest 1 percent globally are set to be thirty times the level compatible with the 1.5°C limit in 2030, while the carbon footprints of the poorest 50 percent are set to remain well below. Jet-setter celebrities like Taylor Swift, Floyd Mayweather, and Jay-Z — the three Yard report-toppers — are not just irresponsible individuals but symptoms of the rank inequality and grotesque overconsumption enabled and encouraged in the economic system under which we live. o § Environment⠀➾ # ⚓ LRT ☛ Lithuania_is_paying_100_times_more_for_electricity than_Sweden_–_why?⠀⇛ The discrepancy, he says, is down to differences in infrastructure. Unlike Sweden, Lithuania imports most of its electricity, but the capacity of electricity connections is limited and not enough to meet the demand. # § Energy⠀➾ # ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Oil_languishing_on_fears_of recession_–_Michael_West⠀⇛ Oil languished near its lowest price since the start of the war in Ukraine on Friday on fears of a global recession, though stocks ignored such worries, gaining ahead of US jobs data that will give another clue to the health of the world’s largest economy. Benchmark Brent crude futures were up a touch at $US94.23 ($A135.19) a barrel and US crude futures were also a whisker higher at $US88.70 ($A127.26) a barrel, after both closed the previous session at their lowest levels since February. # ⚓ David Rosenthal ☛ Helium⠀⇛ A major reason that cryptocurrencies have become such a problem is that mainstream journalists normally just regurgitate the hype they are fed by people Talking Their Book. Kevin Roose is a New York Times “technology columnist” who is infatuated with cryptocurrencies. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ ‘Extremely_Concerned’:_Shelling_of Europe’s_Biggest_Nuclear_Power_Plant_More_Worrying_Than Chernobyl⠀⇛ The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) raised grave concerns on Saturday about the shelling the previous day at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in Ukraine, saying the action showed the risk of a nuclear disaster. IAEA chief Rafael Mariano Grossi said he was “extremely concerned” by the attacks on Europe’s largest nuclear power plant. # § Overpopulation⠀➾ # ⚓ Overpopulation ☛ World_population_is_growing_faster than_we_thought⠀⇛ We’ve all heard the aphorism ‘Lies, damned lies and statistics.’ Statistics are an invaluable tool for understanding and responding appropriately to the world, but when the numbers say one thing and the headlines say another, it’s a cause for concern. TOP takes a dive into World Population Prospects 2022. # ⚓ Jacobin Magazine ☛ Why_Capitalists_Care_About_Our Record-Low_Birth_Rate⠀⇛ Heideman argues that our corporate overlords are neutral on abortion or may even favor abortion rights. He points to Amazon and other corporations that say they’ll cover abortion travel costs for some employees. But this only confirms that capitalists want their own workers to be unencumbered by childbearing, the better to get work out of them. It doesn’t mean Amazon’s owners have no long-term class interest in a non-shrinking US labor force. o § Finance⠀➾ # ⚓ Raspberry Pi ☛ New_Raspberry_Pi_Approved_Resellers,_Design Partners,_and_more_in_Africa⠀⇛ We had worked with just one reseller, PiShop in South Africa, when I wrote my last blog post. As of July 2022, we have no fewer than eight more. I am delighted to introduce them: [...] # ⚓ The_Metaverse_Real_Estate_Boom_Turns_Into_a_Bust_—_The Information⠀⇛ The metaverse is in the midst of a real estate meltdown. Sales volumes and average prices for virtual land have plunged this year, part of a broader slide in crypto and non-fungible token prices. # ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ UK_‘can_overcome_economic_challenges’ –_Michael_West⠀⇛ Britain’s finance minister Nadhim Zahawi remains confident the country is taking the right actions to overcome global economic challenges, after the Bank of England hiked rates and warned inflation would top 13 per cent. o § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾ # ⚓ Gannett ☛ ‘Speaking_the_language_of_TikTok’:_Politicians court_young_voters_by_using_Gen_Z_humor_online⠀⇛ In an effort to raise their profiles and connect with young people, whose votes are notoriously hard to earn, politicians and political candidates are courting Gen Z voters by speaking the language they know best: TikTok. # ⚓ JURIST ☛ Nigeria_broadcast_regulator_fines_TV_service providers_over_BBC_banditry_report⠀⇛ The National Broadcasting Commission fined the service providers over their carriage of the BBC documentary “Bandits Warlords of Zamfara,” which it stated violated the provisions of the Nigerian Broadcasting Code, sixth edition. It also fined private TV provider Trust TV 5 million naira for airing a documentary called “Nigeria’s Banditary- The Inside Story” The provisions allegedly contravened prohibit broadcasts that encourage or incite crime, violence, public disorder, hate, mass panic, or political and social upheaval, among other things. # ⚓ Latvia ☛ Elections_will_come_with_cyber_challenges,_say experts⠀⇛ The Information technology safety incident prevention body “Cert.lv” and the national security authorities estimate that the approaching 14th Saeima elections will come with provocations in cyberspace, deputy head of Cert Varis Teivāns told Latvian Television on August 4. # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Melilla_and_the_Monster_the_EU_Made⠀⇛ # ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ To_the_New_York_Times_–_“We_Thought_We_Knew Ye”⠀⇛ “This paper is pointing toward a journalistic monoculture, keeping out of its pages knowledgeable, experienced writers on many important, ignored subjects and positions.” # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Opinion_|_The_New_York_Times’_Slide_Toward Mediocrity⠀⇛ In 1980 we produced a report titled How to Appraise and Improve Your Daily Newspaper: A Manual for Readers, authored by David Bollier, one of our precocious interns, who had just graduated from Amherst and went on to become an expert on the Commons (See, bollier.org). I thought about this past initiative to empower readers/consumers while contemplating what is happening in recent months to the print edition of the New York Times. # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Biden’s_Assassination_of_al-Qaeda_Leader_Ayman al-Zawahiri_Was_Illegal⠀⇛ # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ ‘Backsliding_on_Democracy’:_Indiana Governor_Signs_Extreme_Abortion_Ban_Bill⠀⇛ Late Friday night, Indiana Governor Eric Holcomb signed legislation making the state the first in the nation to pass extreme abortion restrictions since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. Earlier, the Indiana senate approved the near-total ban on a 28-19 vote just hours after the House passed it in a 62-38 vote. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Opinion_|_To_Turn_Back_the_‘Clock_of_Doom’ Millions_of_Us_Need_to_Step_Forward⠀⇛ On the 6th and 9th day of August 1945 a new dark age began. Two unarmed Japanese cities were each destroyed by a single atomic bomb dropped from the sky. From the beginning of the nuclear age until this present moment human beings across the globe have struggled to turn back the clock of doom. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Opinion_|_Why_Isn’t_the_Media_Talking_About Banning_Nuclear_Weapons?⠀⇛ It’s of critical importance—indeed, existential importance—to the world: the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. And a coalition of peace organizations in the United States is charging that media are acting like the treaty “does not exist.” # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Candidates_Running_for_Senate_in_2022_Midterms Have_Raised_Nearly_$1_Billion⠀⇛ # § Misinformation/Disinformation⠀➾ # ⚓ NPR ☛ A_jury_tags_Alex_Jones_with_$45.2_million_in punitive_damages_for_2_Sandy_Hook_parents⠀⇛ The jury’s decision Friday came the day after it awarded the parents of slain first grader $4.1 million for mental anguish, bringing the total damages against the InfoWars founder to $49.3 million. Jones spent years telling his audience that one of the worst school shootings in American history was a hoax. Neil Heslin and Scarlett Lewis, who brought the charges against Jones, told the court how he made their lives a “living hell” after Jesse, their 6-year-old son, was gunned down in the attack. # ⚓ YLE ☛ [SUPO]:_Spreading_fake_news_on_behalf_of foreign_power_should_be_illegal⠀⇛ According to [SUPO], it would be necessary to evaluate and find out whether the most blatant forms of disinformation should be regulated as punishable by law. # ⚓ France24 ☛ Italy:_Images_shared_online_make_false claims_about_the_country’s_heatwave⠀⇛ This summer, Italy is experiencing its worst drought and heatwave in 70 years. Amid the scorching conditions, some people are sharing photos and videos online that they claim are showing the consequences of this extreme weather. In reality, these images that have been circulating since July 28 were taken out of context. # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ A_“Stop_the_Steal”_Trumper_Steps_Closer_to Controlling_Arizona’s_Elections⠀⇛ o § Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾ # ⚓ Neritam ☛ Serfing_The_Net⠀⇛ We are living in an age of unprecedented creativity, they tell us. But there was a dark time not long ago, the story goes, when authors exercised dictatorial control over passive readers, movie studios foisted films on captive audiences, listeners were held hostage in their own homes by long-playing records, prime-time television only came on once a day, and professional journalists were gatekeepers to world events. # ⚓ Netblocks ☛ Indonesia_cracks_down_on_unlicensed_online platforms_and_services⠀⇛ NetBlocks metrics confirm that restriction of online platforms from Friday 29 July 2022. The incident comes as telecom regulator Kominfo starts implementing new licensing rules. Impacted platforms cover widely used online payment services and gaming platforms including PayPal and Steam from Valve. o § Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press⠀➾ # ⚓ Reason ☛ Proposed_Bill_Would_Protect_Journalists_Like Julian_Assange_From_Espionage_Charges⠀⇛ The Espionage Act Reform Act would change the law in a couple of ways. First of all, the reform would clarify that the espionage law specifically affects people authorized to receive confidential government information (federal employees or contractors), meaning that journalists who receive classified information and publish it are not engaging in espionage. It also establishes that whistleblowers within the government are able to turn to members of Congress, federal courts, an inspector general, and a couple of other key oversight agencies with important classified information without running afoul of the law. # ⚓ Independent AU ☛ Penal_assassination:_The_gradual_effort_to kill_Julian_Assange⠀⇛ In the context of Assange, Britain has been a willing gaoler from the start, guided by the good offices of Washington and none too keen in seeing this spiller of secrets released into the world. Bail has been repeatedly and inexcusably refused, despite the threats posed by COVID-19, the publisher’s own deteriorating health and restrictions upon access, at regular intervals, to legal advice from his team. # ⚓ CPJ ☛ CPJ_to_publish_‘Afghanistan’s_Media_Crisis,’_an assessment_of_the_state_of_press_freedom_one_year_after_the return_of_the_Taliban⠀⇛ CPJ’s report, a series of richly reported features, highlights the experiences and knowledge of nearly two dozen Afghan journalists and experts, offering a nuanced picture of a once-vibrant media landscape now plagued by brutally repressive policies that have left Afghan journalists out of work, in exile — or cautiously finding ways to continue reporting. The report includes policy recommendations and accompanying videos. # ⚓ CPJ ☛ Taliban_members_beat_Afghan_journalist_Selgay_Ehsas, force_her_to_record_video_message⠀⇛ Locals took Ehsas, unconscious, to a clinic and later to the Fetame Zahra Public Hospital, where she received treatment for a bruised back, head pain, and dizziness, she told CPJ. She said that no items were stolen from her, and she believed the attack was reprisal for her work as a female journalist. # ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Death_of_journalism_patriarch, Barnett⠀⇛ Veteran federal political journalist David Barnett, who spearheaded the first official Canberra bureau of Australian Associated Press more than 50 years ago, has died aged 90. Barnett became the national newswire’s first bureau chief in 1971 overseeing two journalists in what’s now called Old Parliament House. He was just in time to report on one of the most seismic shifts in Australian politics – the 1972 election of Labor prime minister Gough Whitlam. Mr Barnett died in Canberra’s Calvary hospital on Saturday after a short admission. o § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾ # ⚓ Neritam ☛ The_Owner_Of_The_Proprietary_Software_Controls The_Computer,_Not_The_Owner_Of_The_Computer⠀⇛ # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Hijab_Protester_Beaten_Before_‘Confession’_Aired_On TV,_Says_Rights_Group⠀⇛ Iran’s notorious Guidance Patrols, or morality police, have become increasingly active and violent. Videos have emerged on social media appearing to show officers detaining women, forcing them into vans, and whisking them away.s # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Opinion_|_In_a_Landslide_Victory,_Kansas Chose_to_Trust_Women⠀⇛ The “Vote Yes” side screamed at us that we wanted to kill babies. Their skillfully branded mother- and-child logo and cynical three-word slogan “Value Them Both” were everywhere here in Salina, Kansas. Always the same cozy white-on-purple image and soothing words on yard signs and banners, as if they were My Pillow or Hobby Lobby. On weekends, they would occupy street corners. Just a half-dozen or so actual humans accompanied by a much larger number of stars-and-stripes flags (almost certainly made in China) flying in the crazy Kansas winds (which are quickly going climate-change crazier). # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Indiana_Becomes_First_State_to_Pass_Extreme Abortion_Ban_After_Roe’s_Fall⠀⇛ # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Hundreds_of_California_Farmworkers_Are_Marching for_Union_Voting_Rights⠀⇛ o § Internet Policy/Net Neutrality⠀➾ # ⚓ Ruben Schade ☛ Rubenerd:_When_CDNs_and_DDoS_vendors_go offline⠀⇛ Everyone notices when a content delivery network or distributed denial of service protection vendor goes offline, because they take half the modern web with them. Much of the world’s Internet traffic is transmitted and delivered by just a handful of these vendors. For a global network originally designed by the US military for resiliency, our current situation seems ridiculous. Why would everyone put their trust into a just a few players like this? Is it ignorance? Penny pinching? Bad design? o § Monopolies⠀➾ # ⚓ Matt Rickard ☛ Gacha_Game⠀⇛ Mcdonald’s announced that its Monopoly promotion is coming back this year. Mcdonald’s ran its first Monopoly-themed promotion in 1987. You’d collect scratch-off tokens corresponding to different properties on the monopoly board. Different menu items would yield chances at different property tokens or an “instant win” for something small like a free coffee or fries. If you matched all properties in a color set (e.g., Illinois Ave, Indiana Ave, and Kentucky Ave), you’d win a grand prize. The chances of acquiring any property are about 1 in 11 — except for one piece of every set. The chances of pulling the rare piece in these sets range from 1 in 450,000 (Mediterranean Ave, $50 gift certificate) to 1 in 450,000,000 (Boardwalk, $1 million). # § Copyrights⠀➾ # ⚓ Torrent Freak ☛ Leaseweb_Asks_Court_to_Dismiss Copyright_Infringement_Lawsuit⠀⇛ A few weeks ago, hosting provider Leaseweb was sued for copyright infringement in California. Photographer Barry Rosen filed the lawsuit claiming that the company failed to take action against “infringing” poster sites, despite receiving repeated DMCA notices. Leaseweb disagrees and is now asking the court to dismiss the case. * § Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾ o § Personal⠀➾ # ⚓ Naturally_Ungood⠀⇛ I had this thought like 2 days ago, that people aren’t naturally ungood and selfish, but instead do what seems to them to be the best way to minimize their own misery. Obviously it doesn’t lead to the globally optimal results (both intuitively and empirically), but what is one to do? What is one to do when everything around is so out of one’s control and in general so misery inducing? I don’t know why it popped into my head while in the shower, but the thought was surely in part inspired by the recent “Human Un-nature”, and an interview with Aaron Swartz where he mentioned the book “Moral Mazes”. If memory serves me right (it’s been several months) his own description of the book was something like, the decisions people make in companies are rational and even morally good decisions, possibly the best, but somehow the results are what we see all around us. It’s in my reading list. # ⚓ the_trip,_hotel_covid_quarantine⠀⇛ After 14 days of visiting the UK and France, I’m now back in Hong Kong. Though I’m not home yet, as there is also a 7 day quarantine for everyone who’s visting this place who doesn’t come from China. The trip was fine. Needed to do a lot of assist for finding locations, but the events have all been done successfully. # ⚓ Coronavirus_adventure,_day_1⠀⇛ Hey hey hey! Happy feast of the Transfiguration! So far, I’ve been very tired and mildly congested, like I have bad allergies or something. No cough, no sneezing, just a funny feeling in my chest and nose. I still have a sense of taste and smell, though perhaps they are a little dulled. It’s been heartening to get some messages from friends from the conference (greetz to Daria, Ana, and Jenny). I’ve spent almost the whole day on discord with some friends from North America. # ⚓ Don’t_check_your_phone_now!⠀⇛ Do you have the urge to check your phone for messages now? Unless you are expecting something very important, don’t check it now! `99.99%` of the time your phone can wait until later. Important things will reach you even later anyway. The world will go on without you checking your messages. # ⚓ On_abuse⠀⇛ Today I thought I’d diverge from my usual tech topics and talk about a real life/mental health topic instead. This is something I feel strongly about and usually keep distinct from my tech space, but in a blog, any topic goes. First, what do I mean by abuse? There are many different types of abuse, including but not limited to emotional, verbal, financial, physical, etc. Generally speaking, abuse causes the victim distress and often involves isolation or controlling several aspects of their life. The exact type does not matter for what I am talking about today. But, as abuse is a nebulous topic and some may bikeshed about what exactly constitutes “abuse”, I figured I’d get that out of the way. =============================================================================== * Gemini_(Primer) links can be opened using Gemini_software. It’s like the World Wide Web but a lot lighter. ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 2163 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐃𝐀𝐈𝐋𝐘 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒 ═════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 08.07.22⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Links_07/08/2022:_SystemRescue_9.04_Out,_Debian_Officially_Celebrates Censorship⠀✐ Posted in News_Roundup at 4:05 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇GNOME bluefish⦈ § Contents⠀➾ * GNU/Linux o Server o Audiocasts/Shows o Instructionals/Technical o Games o Desktop_Environments/WMs # K_Desktop_Environment/KDE_SC/Qt * Distributions_and_Operating_Systems o SUSE/OpenSUSE o Arch_Family o Fedora_Family_/_IBM o Debian_Family o Canonical/Ubuntu_Family o Open_Hardware/Modding o Mobile_Systems/Mobile_Applications * Free,_Libre,_and_Open_Source_Software o Content_Management_Systems_(CMS) o Programming/Development # Python o Standards/Consortia * Leftovers o Science o Hardware o Health/Nutrition/Agriculture o Security # Privacy/Surveillance o Defence/Aggression o Environment # Energy o Finance o AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics o Internet_Policy/Net_Neutrality o Digital_Restrictions_(DRM) * Gemini*_and_Gopher o Personal o Technical # Internet/Gemini # Announcements # Programming * § GNU/Linux⠀➾ o § Server⠀➾ # ⚓ Matt Rickard ☛ Will_v8_Isolates_Coexist_With_Containers?⠀⇛ Long term, will v8 Isolates become the basis of a generalized computing platform, or will containers (or some other type of software container)? Or will there continue to be separate infrastructure, application, and edge runtimes? The isolation technologies are complementary today – they make different trade-offs with cold starts, security boundaries, and resource profiles. You’ll find v8 Isolates powering edge functions like Cloudflare Workers (but not Lambda@Edge). However, there are many public and private companies working to make isolates more generalized – hardening the security boundary, improving the cold starts, and expanding the supported languages (through WebAssembly). o § Audiocasts/Shows⠀➾ # ⚓ Petros Koutoupis ☛ RapidDisk_Tutorial_–_Episode_2:_NVMe Target_Exporting_–_Random_[Tech]_Stuff⠀⇛ RapidDisk is an advanced Linux RAM Disk which consists of a collection of modules and an administration tool. Features include: Dynamically allocate RAM as block device. Use them as stand alone disk drives or even map them as caching nodes to slower local disk drives. Access those drives locally or export those volumes across an NVMe Target network. # ⚓ Video ☛ The_SDDM_Login_Manager_Has_So_Many_Amazing_Themes_– Invidious⠀⇛ Over the years, I’ve tried out a few different login managers for Linux. But recently, I have switched over to using SDDM mainly due to its choice of so many gorgeous themes. And it’s easy to customize the themes to your liking! o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾ # ⚓ LinuxTechi ☛ Top_12_Things_to_Do_After_Installing_Linux Mint_21_(Vanessa)⠀⇛ Linux Mint is one of the highly rated Linux distribution for desktops. Recently Linux Mint 21, code name Vanessa has been released. We have already covered an article which shows Linux mint 21 Installation steps. In this article, we will learn what are the Top 12 things to do after installing Linux Mint 21. # ⚓ Data Swamp ☛ Creating_a_NixOS_live_USB_for_a_full_featured APU_router⠀⇛ At home, I’m running my own router to manage Internet, run DHCP, do filter and caching etc… I’m using an APU2 running OpenBSD, it works great so far, but I was curious to know if I could manage to run NixOS on it without having to deal with serial console and installation. # ⚓ Internxt_–_Web3_Ready_Privacy-centric_Cloud_Storage_with Linux_client⠀⇛ Cloud storage has grown in importance in our daily digital lives. Almost all of us utilise some form of cloud storage service to ensure that our crucial information are kept forever. While cloud storage allows us to keep our data and retrieve them whenever and wherever we want, not all of them are as private and safe as Internxt. # ⚓ Ubuntu Pit ☛ How_To_Enable_Dark_Mode_on_Chromebook⠀⇛ # ⚓ uni Toronto ☛ Link:_The_MGR_Window_System⠀⇛ The MGR Window System (via) is a brief introduction to MGR, an interesting and under-mentioned Unix windowing system, including a screenshot. I once used MGR myself and have reasonably fond memories of it, so it’s nice to see more writing about it on the Internet. # ⚓ DebugPoint ☛ List_Files_and_Directories_in_Style_Using_lsd and_exa⠀⇛ Reimagine and style your file and directories list using two ls utilities – lsd and exa. The ls command in Linux is the most used command. This command lists files and directories in the terminal. So, as you can see, it’s pretty popular and perhaps used by everyone. But the command outputs a large set of information, and it’s sometimes easier to view them colourfully. For example, if you run the ls command in the most basic way, it should look somewhat like this. o § Games⠀➾ # ⚓ Thomas Rinsma ☛ Porting_Doom_to_a_payment_terminal⠀⇛ For the past half a year or so I have been playing around with a specific type of payment terminal, the VX820 from Verifone. I randomly bought a couple of second-hand devices, and found out that they are wonderful pieces of hardware with lots of potential for alternative uses. I figured that a fun goal for myself would be to port Doom to it, which would nicely showcase the device’s unexpected computational power. # ⚓ ScummVM ☛ Lilah?_Is_that_you?_This_place…_it’s…_amazing…⠀⇛ Obsidian, the first supported game of the mTropolis engine, is ready for public testing! Created in 1996 by Rocket Science Games and published in early 1997, this ambitious 3D-rendered first-person adventure has you journey through 4 surreal, dream-like worlds in search of your lost colleague. # ⚓ Evan Hahn ☛ Everything_we_know_about_the_sequel_to_The Legend_of_Zelda:_Breath_of_the_Wild,_as_of_August_2022⠀⇛ o § Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾ # § K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt⠀➾ # ⚓ Krita ☛ What_the_Krita_Developers_Are_Up_To,_Part II⠀⇛  Krita 5.1 is nearing its release, and working on that has claimed a lot of our attention. Not that there haven’t been other things happening! And not just bug reports, though with on average a hundred new bug reports a month, that’s taking a lot of work as well. Even if the bug report is more a cry for user support than a real bug report, it will take time to evaluate and close. Say, on average, half an hour of engagement with the report and reporter before the real work starts, just triaging these bugs takes 50 hours a month! At the same time, every artist who starts using Krita will have ideas that must be implemented, so there is a never ending stream of feature requests, often of the form “Photoshop has X, it’s incredible that Krita still hasn’t X, too!”. That is not only discouraging, it is also a big timesink. And since there’s so much of it, it’s not possible for the Krita developers to meaningfully engage with all the ideas artists bring to the table. # ⚓ Review:_KDE_neon_5.25⠀⇛  In conclusion, I emphasize that for most other things that I use my computer to do, I would install & use other applications anyway (like GNU Emacs for programming or VLC for audio or video), so I feel like my review doesn’t have to go much beyond what I’ve written thus far. I was quite happy & comfortable using KDE, and if I ever have to move away from MATE, I’d be fine with going to KDE. In fact, if the Linux Mint developers still made a KDE edition (which they stopped doing many years ago in order to focus efforts on MATE, Cinnamon, and Xfce), I’d seriously consider using it. It is worth noting that some things I used to harp on in my reviews many years ago, like desktop effects, accessing remote filesystems, and seeing & interacting with previews of audio or video files as well as folders in the file browser, no longer matter to me, so in that regard, I may be easier to please now than I was several years ago. (UPDATE: I forgot to also mention that compared to several years ago, with the exception of Mozilla Firefox, I much prefer visible top menu bars in each application instead of consolidated menu buttons. I’m glad that KDE applications give the option to restore a full menu bar, though it might have been nice to have a global KDE setting to show or hide full menu bars for all KDE applications or to allow each application to have its own setting.) In any case, I really like what I see, and I think KDE is a desktop environment that can work for almost anyone. * § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾ o ⚓ Slashdot ☛ Can_a_Fork_Save_Cutefish_OS_(or_Its_Desktop)?_– Slashdot⠀⇛ In April ZDNet called its beta “the cutest Linux distro you’ll ever use,” praising the polished “incredible elegance” of Debian-based Cutefish OS, with its uncluttered, MacOS-like “Cutefish DE” desktop. o ⚓ Ruben Schade ☛ Rubenerd:_Superficial_Linux_distribution_reviews⠀⇛ Google’s search results for software projects, technical announcements, and questions have steadily been reduced to a mountain of spam and duplicate content wrapped with ads. The remaining original material also tends to be hastily produced, with only a superficial exploration and grasp of the topic they discuss before moving onto the next thing. [...] These define the ethos and practical applications of a distribution, and get to the interesting questions and points of difference people care about. I don’t mean to criticise everyone here. For every churn factory producing low-quality clickbait (the Linux equivalent of those 5 Minute Craft lifehack videos), there are others who are breaking into the space and wanting to share their journey. We should encourage this! I just think with only minor tweaks and a few additional ideas, this content could be way more useful. We need more authentic voices if we’re ever going to be heard over spammers. o § SUSE/OpenSUSE⠀➾ # ⚓ LWN ☛ Future_of_reiserfs_in_Tumbleweed_(and_beyond)⠀⇛ Hi folks - When we introduced reiserfs in SUSE products over 20 years ago, it was a cutting edge file system that brought the protection of journaling to Linux for the first time. In 2006, I proposed moving away from it in openSUSE as the default file system, citing a small and shrinking developer community. These days, while I am technically the maintainer of the reiserfs userspace project upstream. Practically, it's abandoned and I haven't touched it in over 5 years. The kernel implementation gets attention only when updating a common subsystem requires it. It has none of the resiliency features that we've come to expect from modern file systems, and that includes the ability to craft file system images that could result in system crash or possibly compromise. It's time to let reiserfs go from openSUSE entirely. So, I propose: - Removing the reiserfs package from Tumbleweed immediately (and fixing any fallout caused by removing libreiserfscore), - Disable the kernel implementation immediately. I recognize that there may be people out there with disks containing reiserfs file systems. If these are in active use, I would seriously encourage migrating to something actively maintained. If these are sitting on a shelf for archival purposes, GRUB ships with a fuse frontend for all of its file system drivers, including reiserfs. It's not fast but it's enough for data access. -Jeff # ⚓ LWN ☛ OpenSUSE_considers_dropping_reiserfs⠀⇛ As Jeff Mahoney notes in this message to the openSUSE factory list, the reiserfs filesystem has been unmaintained for years and lacks many of the features that users have come to expect. He has thus proposed removing reiserfs from openSUSE Tumbleweed immediately. # ⚓ Ish Sookun ☛ Announcing_the_availability_of_two_openSUSE mirrors_in_Mauritius⠀⇛ I was invited to speak at the event and I chose to explain a little about openSUSE, its different distributions and how we have managed to set up two mirrors to improve the performance of openSUSE updates in Mauritius. Girish is a representative for OSCA Mauritius and he works at OceanDBA. He put all the effort into organising this event. At about 09h30, the conference room at Flying Dodo was almost full. Girish welcomed everyone and introduced the presentation themes for the day. o § Arch Family⠀➾ # ⚓ 9to5Linux ☛ Arch_Linux-Based_SystemRescue_9.04_Distro Brings_New_Packages,_Improvements⠀⇛  SystemRescue 9.04 also comes with several new packages to make your system administration tasks easier. These include the rclone command-line utility to manage files on cloud storage, unrar data compression, encryption and archiving tool, qemu-img disk image utility, as well as multipath- tools binaries to drive the Device Mapper multipathing driver. o § Fedora Family / IBM⠀➾ # ⚓ Jean-François Fortin Tam ☛ Jean-François_Fortin_Tam: Unsettled_by_Unison’s_Fadeaway_from_Fedora⠀⇛ This is in part a rallying cry for packagers, but also a story illustrating how fragile user workflows can be, and how some seemingly inconsequential decisions at the distro level can have disastrous consequences on the ability of individuals to continue running your FLOSS platform. [...] But karma had other plans. As I wanted to upgrade from Fedora 33 to Fedora 34 (and newer) in the spring of 2021, I found out that Unison, another mission-critical app I’ve been depending on everyday for the last 15+ years, has been orphaned from Fedora. Déjà-vu, anyone? [...] “Sounds like a lot of community management work. Why don’t you just switch distros?” Pretty much no other distro does exactly what Fedora does (and listing the possible alternative distros here would be beyond the scope of this blog post). o § Debian Family⠀➾ # ⚓ Debian_Suicide_FYI:_Lucas_Nussbaum_&_Debian_attempted exploit_of_OVH_Hosting_insider⠀⇛ When Debian cabalists wanted to steal the domain debian-multimedia.org in 2014, they didn’t go to a lawyer or the World Intellectual Property Organization. The Debian Project Leader (DPL), Lucas Nussbaum, who is a professor at Université de Lorraine, France, relied on another Debian Developer to tap the shoulder of an insider at OVH, which is also a French company, to see if the domain registration could be hijacked covertly. According to the email below, OVH managers didn’t want to get involved in Debian dirty politics. # ⚓ Ownership_of_debian.community_domain [Ed: This statement was issued on a Sunday; they've solved none of the underlying issues, they're just gagging those who speak about Debian issues]⠀⇛ The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), under its Uniform Domain-Name Dispute- Resolution Policy (UDRP), decided that ownership of the debian.community domain should be transferred to the Debian Project. The appointed panel found that the disputed domain name is identical to a trademark in which the Complainant has rights. o § Canonical/Ubuntu Family⠀➾ # ⚓ Linux_Mint_21_“Vanessa”_Released⠀⇛ Linux Mint 21, codenamed “Vanessa,” is now available packed with a slew of new features. This release is based on the most recent Ubuntu LTS release, 22.04. This post will go over what’s new in Linux Mint 21 “Vanessa.” Thousands of people have been waiting for this stable release of Linux Mint, and once it is available, it will be fascinating to see if it is worthwhile to upgrade to the latest version. One of the most popular Linux distributions is Linux Mint. Linux Mint is a great place to start if you’re new to Linux. It’s available in three flavours: Cinnamon, Xfce, and Mate. It works on practically all modern computers and supports both old and new hardware. The large community assists new Linux users in acclimating to the environment by providing quick resolutions to all typical problems. However, there should be no mistake that it is solely for newcomers. I’ve been using Linux Mint for years due to its stability, timely updates, and a vast community that teaches new things about everyday. o § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾ # ⚓ Slashdot ☛ Purism’s_‘Librem_5_USA’_Smartphone_Achieves Major_New_Shipping_Milestone⠀⇛ Purism posted an announcement Thursday about their privacy-focused “Librem 5 USA” smartphones. “New orders placed today will ship within our standard 10-business-day window.” o § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ Top_5_Useful_Lock_Screen_Apps_For_Android⠀⇛ # ⚓ The_Samsung_Galaxy_S23_could_be_the_best_Android_phone_ever made_|_T3⠀⇛ # ⚓ The Verge ☛ Samsung_launches_its_Android_13-based_One_UI_5 beta_on_Galaxy_S22_phones_–_The_Verge⠀⇛ # ⚓ FOSSBytes ☛ OnePlus_Devices_That_Will_Get_Android_13:_Was Your_Phone_“One_Minus-ed?”⠀⇛ # ⚓ Nokia_5.4,_Android_12_review_:_General_overview_and_Imaging Performance_–_Nokiapoweruser⠀⇛ # ⚓ Gizmo China ☛ Teclast_P30_Air_with_a_MediaTek_Helio_P22 chip_and_Android_12_launched⠀⇛ # ⚓ HowTo Geek ☛ What_Is_Android_System_WebView?⠀⇛ # ⚓ Best_Android_GameCube_Emulator:_What’s_the_best_GameCube emulator_on_mobile?_–_Droid_Gamers⠀⇛ * § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾ o § Content Management Systems (CMS)⠀➾ # ⚓ Plays.org_–_Entertaining_And_Educational_Games_For Everyone⠀⇛ You may play on your PC, tablet, or mobile phone. Plays.org, interestingly, runs on the WordPress platform. Lightweight JavaScript web apps are used to create games. o § Programming/Development⠀➾ # ⚓ Barry Kauler ☛ BaCon_dependency_removed_from_OE⠀⇛ Many years ago, I was keen on BaCon. It converts traditional BASIC language to C and then calls gcc to create an executable. The problem I have is that it is cross-compiler-unfriendly. Host x86_64 and target x86_64, compiled in OE, it would generated executables, but some simply didn’t work. Host x86_64, target i686, compiling in OE is broken. I have previously rewritten some in C, however, there still remained picscale’, ‘popup’, ‘pup_event_ipc’, ‘find_cat’ and ‘debdb2pupdb’. # ⚓ Dirk Eddelbuettel ☛ Dirk_Eddelbuettel:_RApiSerialize_0.1.1 on_CRAN:_Updates⠀⇛ A new release 0.1.1 of RApiSerialize is now on CRAN. While this is the first release in seven years (!!), it brings mostly minor internal updates along with the option of using serialization format 3. The package is used by both my RcppRedis as well as by Travers excellent qs package. Neither one of us has a need to switch to format 3 yet so format 2 remains the default. But along with other standard updates to package internals, it was straightforward to offer the newer format so that is what we did. # ⚓ coarse_or_lazy?_—_wingolog⠀⇛ One of the things that had perplexed me about the Immix collector was how to effectively defragment the heap via evacuation while keeping just 2-3% of space as free blocks for an evacuation reserve. [...] To Immix, a “recyclable” block is partially full: it contains surviving data from a previous collection, but also some holes in which to allocate. But when would you have recyclable blocks at evacuation-time? Evacuation occurs as part of collection. Collection usually occurs when there’s no more memory in which to allocate. At that point any recyclable block would have been allocated into already, and won’t become recyclable again until the next trace of the heap identifies the block’s surviving data. Of course after the next trace they could become “empty”, if no object survives, or “full”, if all lines have survivor objects. # § Python⠀➾ # ⚓ Niels Provos ☛ Type-On_Typewriter_Animation_in_Nuke⠀⇛ Users of AfterEffects are used to a plethora of presets for text animation. Unfortunately, text animation in Nuke is significantly limited in that the contents of the text field cannot be easily animated. I was working on producing a music video in which type-on text shows the lyrics in time with the music and ran into the limitation. I was not willing to mask letters individually using roto tools and instead decided to write a small python program that generates the animation in side of Nuke. o § Standards/Consortia⠀➾ # ⚓ Jim Nielsen ☛ Multiple_Inline_SVGs_(From_QuickChart)⠀⇛ I’m working on generating some stats and accompanying graphs for my blog (blog post to come on this…). For the charts, I’m using the quickchart.io API (a tool I’ve used before) and it’s beautifully simple: pass data as a URL, get back a chart. It’s working. My build hits the quickchart API, gets an SVG, and inlines it into my HTML. It looks great! * § Leftovers⠀➾ o ⚓ SparkFun Electronics ☛ Meet_Mariah!_–_News_–_SparkFun Electronics⠀⇛ Hey all! My name is Mariah Kelly and I will be your Technical Documentation and Content Support Specialist for this evening. Now, if you’ll take a moment to review the safety guide located in the seatback pocket in front of you – ah, just messin’ with ya! I’ve worked at SparkFun for almost two years and am so excited to now be on this team, interacting with y’all and making cool things together! o ⚓ Chris ☛ Markov_Chains_for_Queueing_Systems⠀⇛ I’m finally taking the time to learn queueing theory more properly, and one of the exercises in the book I’m reading1 really got me with how simple it was, yet how much it revealed about how to analyse some queueing systems without simulating them. o ⚓ Positech Games ☛ Officially_announcing_the_next_Democracy_4 expansion_–_Cliffski’s_Blog⠀⇛ In the old days, I used to send press releases to news websites etc…and maybe I’ll still do that once I’m testing this and have some screenshots to show. Not that screenshots of Democracy 4 are exactly a visual feast that makes people’s jaws drop as they gasp at the photorealism…but there ya go. o § Science⠀➾ # ⚓ Wired ☛ VR_Still_Stinks_Because_It_Doesn’t_Smell_|_WIRED⠀⇛ VR STILL STINKS, and its stench has many notes. It reeks of rich white guys, who wildly overfund and consistently overhype the always-on-the-verge-of-a- breakthrough technology. It has a festering funk of entrenched privilege, despite its purveyors’ claims that it fosters empathy and inclusion. It’s too expensive and only getting more so. Meta’s and the crypto community’s forays into VR stand to make it more putrid. It also, some complain, smells underbaked: In VR, nobody has legs. But perhaps more than anything, the metaverse stinks because it doesn’t smell like anything. Smell is VR’s blind spot. Most VR technologists don’t even notice the lack of smells or worry about its consequences, despite the fact that convincing smell technology is becoming available. # ⚓ ACM ☛ Building_a_Practical_Quantum_Computer⠀⇛ Researchers have speculated about quantum computation for decades, but recent years have seen steady experimental advances, as well as theoretical proofs that it can efficiently do things that classical computing devices cannot. The field is attracting billions of dollars from governmental research agencies and technology giants, as well as startups. Conventional companies also are exploring the potential impact of quantum computing. # ⚓ IEEE ☛ This_Startup_Is_Using_AI_to_Help_Keep_Store_Shelves Stocked⠀⇛ StartupWisy developed an AI platform to make it easier for stores to track whether there are available products that haven’t yet been put on display. It uses image recognition to detect which items need to be restocked. “We are not only solving a customer-experience problem but also a sustainability problem,” says IEEE Senior Member Min Chen, Wisy cofounder and CEO. “All those products that are not sold because they were not displayed get thrown away. WisyAI enables store employees to quickly get information about the stock, reduce losses, and sell [products] more effectively.” # ⚓ ACM ☛ Transforming_Science_through_Cyberinfrastructure⠀⇛ CI encompasses more than the computing resources themselves. Rather—and as the response to the pandemic illustrates—CI constitutes an expansive ecosystem, comprising these resources as well as data, software, networking and security, coordination and user support, and connections to instrumentation and large-scale infrastructure. Realizing such a CI ecosystem requires blending fundamental and translational research in computer and computational science, research infrastructure, and private-sector innovations to ensure continuous refresh of the ecosystem to align with evolving use cases and needs. # ⚓ Six_Ways_Blockchain_Is_Bolstering_Supply_Chains⠀⇛ In today’s digital world, companies are under pressure to be more transparent with their customers. This is especially true for supply chains, where customers want to know where their products are coming from and how they’re being made. Ethical compliance is one area that customers are putting under the magnifying glass. In Xinjiang, for example, the Chinese government is using a massive surveillance program to track the movements of the Uyghur Muslims, detaining more than one million people in forced labor camps, according to reports by the State Department and Department of Labor, as well as independent media outlets and the United Nations. As a result, U.S. companies that source products from Xinjiang are finding themselves under increased scrutiny. # ⚓ IEEE ☛ Necrobotics:_Dead_Spiders_Reincarnated_as_Robot Grippers_–_IEEE_Spectrum⠀⇛ Bugs have long taunted roboticists with how utterly incredible they are. Astonishingly mobile, amazingly efficient, super robust, and in some cases, literally dirt cheap. But making a robot that’s an insect equivalent is extremely hard—so hard that it’s frequently easier to just hijack living insects themselves and put them to work for us. You know what’s even easier than that, though? Hijacking and repurposing dead bugs. Welcome to necrobotics. Spiders are basically hydraulic (or pneumatic) grippers. Living spiders control their limbs by adjusting blood pressure on a limb-by-limb basis through an internal valve system. Higher pressure extends the limb, acting against an antagonistic flexor muscle that curls the limb when the blood pressure within is reduced. This, incidentally, is why spider legs all curl up when the spider shuffles off the mortal coil: There’s a lack of blood pressure to balance the force of the flexors. # ⚓ A_secret_language_of_cells?_New_cell_computations_uncovered |_King_Abdullah_University⠀⇛ ​Throughout evolution, individual cells have been making successful decisions on their own, even while forming parts of vast networks, such as neurons and glia in the human brain. Now scientists from King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) and the EPFL Blue Brain Project (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland) have published a new theory describing a secret language that cells may use for internal dialogue about the external world. Using a computational model, they hypothesize that metabolic pathways, which are primarily a means of extracting energy and building block molecules from glucose and other substrates to feed the brain, might also be capable of coding details about neuromodulators that stimulate increases in energy consumption. Neuromodulators are chemical messengers that regulate the exchange of information in the brain. o § Hardware⠀➾ # ⚓ Jon Udell ☛ Subtracting_devices_–_Jon_Udell⠀⇛ At some point I opted for the convenience of just using my phone. Why carry an extra, single-purpose device when the multi-purpose phone can do everything? That was OK until my Quixotic attachment to Windows Phone became untenable. Not crazy about either of the alternatives, I flipped a coin and wound up with an iPhone. Which, of course, lacks a 3.5mm audio jack. So I got an adapter, but now the setup was hardly “ideal for dynamic environments.” My headset’s connection to the phone was unreliable, and I’d often have to stop walking, reseat it, and restart the podcast. If you are gadget-minded you are now thinking: “Wireless earbuds!” But no thanks. The last thing I need in my life is more devices to keep track of, charge, and sync with other devices. o § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾ # ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Foot_and_mouth_outbreak_risk ‘diminishing’_–_Michael_West⠀⇛ The risk of foot and mouth disease reaching Australia is diminishing as Indonesia suppresses its outbreak, state and territory leaders have been told. More than 450,000 cases of the disease have been recorded in Indonesia and thousands of infected cattle have been slaughtered, according to media reports. An expert biosecurity task force has been established to ensure Australia is fully prepared for any potential outbreak. But West Australian Premier Mark McGowan on Friday indicated there was optimism Indonesia was getting on top of its outbreak. “We had a long discussion about foot and mouth disease yesterday at national cabinet,” he told reporters. # ⚓ Researchers_use_wearable_tech_to_detect_COVID-19_before onset_of_symptoms⠀⇛ Wrist-worn health devices can be combined with machine learning to detect COVID-19 infections as early as two days before symptoms appear, McMaster researcher David Conen and a team of experts from across Europe have determined. The COVI-GAPP study, born out of a larger research project based in Lichtenstein, was conducted by researchers from McMaster, the Dr. Risch Medical Laboratory, the University of Basel in Switzerland and Imperial College London. Based on the team’s findings, which were published last month in BMJ Open, another group of researchers have begun a larger study, which could open the door to applying the use of wearable health tech for the early detection of other infectious diseases. # ⚓ Most_British_COVID-19_mourners_suffer_PTSD_symptoms:_survey |_News⠀⇛ The study, based on data from people seeking help and guidance from the United Kingdom’s National Bereavement Partnership in collaboration with researchers from the Portland Institute for Loss and Transition and Christopher Newport University in the United States of America, also found almost two-thirds of British COVID-19 mourners experienced moderate or severe symptoms of anxiety and depression. Lead author Professor Lauren Breen, from the Curtin School of Population Health, said the results were alarming given more than six million people had died from COVID-19 across the globe. “These survey results indicate a concerning ‘shadow pandemic’ in the wake of a COVID-19 death with the vast majority of British mourners reporting alarming rates of psychological distress including constantly feeling on guard or easily startled,” Professor Breen said. # ⚓ Multi-layered_strategies_needed_to_protect_public_health from_oil_and_gas_drilling_impacts_<_Yale_School_of_Public Health⠀⇛ The growth in the oil and gas development (OGD) industry has placed millions of United States residents in the path of multiple hazards associated with OGD operations. In 2020, nearly one million oil and gas wells were in operation, and a 2017 analysis estimated that 17.6 million U.S. residents lived within 1,600 meters (1 mile) of an active oil or gas well. Evidence continues to mount that OGD contributes to air pollution, water contamination, noise, psychosocial stress, and health risks. # ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Marvellous_Medicare_is_becoming Labor’s_Achilles_heel_–_Michael_West⠀⇛ When MWM reported that bulk-billing was falling off in general medical practice, we were met with some scepticism. But on Friday Australians were warned across news outlets of a crisis in the provision of primary care. ”Bulk billing is on the verge of collapse,” an article in The Australian warned on Thursday. As our article reported, the official bulk-billing rate in Australia is still at 83%. Is that a healthy rate or a slippery slope? That’s in the eye of the beholder. Certainly, even under that yardstick, one in six patients are out of pocket. o § Security⠀➾ # ⚓ Wired ☛ Apple_Just_Killed_the_Password—for_Real_This_Time [Ed: Apple also gives your data and passwords to the NSA, so...]⠀⇛ # ⚓ Silcon Republic ☛ New_quantum_encryption_method_could_lead to_truly_secure_communication [Ed: Adding mystique with the word "quantum" to make things sound impenetrable]⠀⇛ By tapping into quantum entanglement, researchers said they could develop secure communications that are ‘fundamentally beyond’ an adversary’s control. An international team of researchers has tested a new form of quantum cryptography that could lead to the ultimate standard in secure communications with real-world devices. It is based on quantum key distribution (QKD), which is a method of sharing encryption keys between two parties that can be used to encrypt and decrypt messages. This promises communication security unattainable in conventional cryptography. # ⚓ Matt Rickard ☛ The_End-to-End_Principle_in_System_Design⠀⇛ It was formalized in a 1984 paper, End-to-End Arguments in System Design, by Saltzer, Reed, and Clark. The paper uses an example of securing a file transfer between two computers. There are many steps during the transfer where the file could get corrupted or lost. Should the network be responsible for error checking, de-duplication, ordering, and crash recovery? The end-to-end solution solves this problem at the end node – a simple checksum at the source and destination. David Clark wrote a follow-up paper in 2000 examining how the Internet had changed. Namely, he recognized that the Internet was full of users that might not have others’ best interests at heart – spammers, the government interests, users who don’t trust each other, users who don’t trust the software they’re using, etc. Clark touches on different ways of approaching this problem: firewalls, NAT, trusted-third parties, public-key cryptography, and non-technical solutions. # ⚓ CoryDoctorow ☛ Your_computer_is_tormented_by_a_wicked_god⠀⇛ Computer security is really, really important. It was important decades ago, when computers were merely how we ran our financial system, aviation, and the power grid. Today, as more and more of us have our bodies inside of computers (cars, houses, etc) and computers in our body (implants), computer security is urgent. # § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾ # ⚓ Bluetooth_Signals_Can_be_Used_to_Identify_and_Track Smartphones⠀⇛ A team of engineers at the University of California San Diego has demonstrated for the first time that the Bluetooth signals emitted constantly by our mobile phones have a unique fingerprint that can be used to track individuals’ movements. Mobile devices, including phones, smartwatches and fitness trackers, constantly transmit signals, known as Bluetooth beacons, at the rate of roughly 500 beacons per minute.These beacons enable features like Apple’s “Find My” lost device tracking service; COVID-19 tracing apps; and connect smartphones to other devices such as wireless earphones. Prior research has shown that wireless fingerprinting exists in WiFi and other wireless technologies. The critical insight of the UC San Diego team was that this form of tracking can also be done with Bluetooth, in a highly accurate way. # ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Australia’s_creeping surveillance_state:_Big_Brother_is_on_the_march_– Michael_West⠀⇛ With facial recognition becoming increasingly sophisticated, it will soon be possible to monitor an entire population with minimal effort, discouraging people from participating in political protests and social movements, writes Manal al-Sharif. Last year, 7-Eleven in Australia collected the facial prints of 1.6 million customers without their knowledge or consent. The company was not fined. And now the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) is investigating Bunnings and Kmart over facial recognition. Privacy advocates say that with lack of governance, there is not much hope for fines. The private sector will continue extracting and abusing freely. Facial recognition technology violates fundamental human rights such as the right to privacy and self-determination. And if you still don’t care about your privacy, you should care about the collective harm that such practices inflict on freedom of expression, peaceful assembly, civil liberties and democracy in general and will do so for generations to come. o § Defence/Aggression⠀➾ # ⚓ Jonathan_Schell,_A_Niagara_Falls_of_Post-9/11_Violence⠀⇛ [Note for TomDispatch Readers: In July 2014, almost four months after the death of Jonathan Schell, I posted the following excerpt from his 2004 book The Unconquerable World (which I edited) as a memorial to an old friend I had long admired. Writing that book in the wake of the 9/11 attacks, he was focused on the cliff the U.S. seemed to be going over with its invasion of Afghanistan and its declaration of a Global War on Terror. Schell suggested that it might prove a long-term equivalent of 1914, the year the First World War began. In reading that excerpt again recently, I noticed these lines that — with the war in Ukraine in full swing and a growing confrontation between Washington (backed by NATO) and Russia (supported by China) — seemed all too eerily of this moment: “It is of course impossible to predict how and where history might again go over the precipice… It could even be — hard as it is to imagine now — intentional or semi-intentional nuclear war between Russia and the United States in some future crisis that we cannot foresee but cannot rule out, either.” o § Environment⠀➾ # ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Greens_to_vote_for_climate_change_bill –_Michael_West⠀⇛ The Albanese government has agreed to a number of changes to its climate laws, securing Greens support to get them through parliament. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese declared the laws an opportunity to end the climate wars and urged the coalition to reconsider their stance. “This is an opportunity for the whole of the parliament to be on the right side of history,” he told reporters in Canberra. (The coalition is) stuck in the past, they’re frozen in time while the world warms around them.” # § Energy⠀➾ # ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ The_Reverse_Bradbury:_your electricity_bill_and_the_ACCC’s_gas_report⠀⇛ Famously, Australian ice skater Stephen Bradbury won the speed skating gold medal at the Salt Lake City Winter Olympics when his four more fancied rivals all fell just before the finishing line. So it was yesterday that the ACCC did a Reverse Bradbury and fell at the finishing line, letting the four gouging champions of Australia’s gas cartel through for a knife-edge victory. # ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Gas_crisis_really_a_transparency crisis,_says_architect_of_the_“Trigger”_Rex_Patrick⠀⇛ As regulator ACCC warns the gas lobby is sending companies to the wall, the political architect of the Gas Trigger, former senator Rex Patrick, writes Australia’s gas crisis is more a crisis of transparency than a shortage of gas. “Australia is a country with relatively abundant gas resources,” wrote the ACCC in its latest gas inquiry report. The surrounding words were ugly – words like “joint venture” and “exclusivity arrangement” and “risk of coordinated conduct” and “market power of the LNG exporters”. I would have preferred more direct language like “gas cartel”, but I’m not as polite as the ACCC. o § Finance⠀➾ # ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ If_we_can_cancel_New_York,_we_can cancel_anywhere_–_Michael_West⠀⇛ The fiasco over the appointment of former NSW deputy premier John Barilaro to a plum post in New York may yet do some good for long-suffering taxpayers. # ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Warning_on_$16bn_industry_assistance bill⠀⇛ The federal government is being warned to rein in its spending on industry assistance as Australia’s economy bounces back from the COVID-19 pandemic. At least $16 billion was spent on aiding various industries in 2020/21, a $4 billion increase on the previous year, a report by the Productivity Commission has found. # ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Lights_out_and_blinds_drawn_on_the Australian_dream_as_black_money_fuels_house_prices_–_Michael West⠀⇛ Gaping loopholes, earnest advisers and an international reputation for stability have made Australia a place of choice for illicit funds. Despite a crackdown on the foreign ownership of established houses, there are still many ways for crooks to score a piece of the action, no matter which government is in power, writes Nathan Lynch in an extract from his book The Lucky Laundry – how the Aussie economy got hooked on the world’s dirtiest cash. The Lucky Country. The envy of the world. Pure air, pristine beaches and even relatively clean politicians. A place where the world’s hopeless and oppressed can come to make a fresh start. A land of democracy, good governance, bountiful resources and plentiful opportunity. A nation where hard work and a spirit of enterprise will guarantee a roof over your head, a backyard if you want it, top-tier health care and a solid education for your children. # ⚓ Will_RBI’s_New_Measures_Open_Forex_Floodgates?_–_Madhyam⠀⇛ Amid large capital outflows, downward pressure on the rupee and reserve drawdowns, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) announced on July 6 a slew of measures to attract greater foreign exchange flows to India. “In order to further diversify and expand the sources of forex funding so as to mitigate volatility and dampen global spillovers, it has been decided to undertake measures to enhance forex inflows while ensuring overall macroeconomic and financial stability”, the RBI said in its press release. # ⚓ The Week ☛ The_CHIPS_Act_and_industrial_policy,_explained_| The_Week⠀⇛ The United States is going to start making more of its own electronics, and taxpayers are going to pick up a good chunk of the tab. Congress has passed the CHIPS Act, a bill that devotes billions of dollars to the research and manufacture of semiconductor chips used in “the nation’s smartphones, cars, computers, medical equipment, and weapons systems,” Barbara Sprunt reports for NPR. The bill had support from both Democrats and Republicans, who say it “will lower U.S. reliance on China for chip manufacturing, which they say poses a national security risk.” In the CHIPS Act — and in the new climate bill backed by Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) — some observers see the United States drifting from free- market philosophies in favor of “industrial policy,” giving the federal government a firmer hand in shaping the American economy. Even a few conservatives are on board. “What we are doing is industrial policy unlike people of my free-market background have done before,” Sen. John Cornyn (R- Texas) said after the CHIPS Act passed. Is the United States really returning to an era of industrial policy? Why? And how will that shape the nation’s future economy? # ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Capital_v_labour:_where_is_the_poll_on neo-liberalism?_–_Michael_West⠀⇛ In Fleet Street they used to call it the Reverse Ferret, to say one thing one day then take entirely the opposite editorial stance the next. And so it is with Nine, News Corp and Anthony Albanese. Michael West on media, government and neo- liberalism. No less than 34 points now stand between Albanese and Opposition Leader Peter Dutton. Murdoch’s Newspoll today marks a record approval rating for Albo and Dutton has sunk even lower than Scott Morrison in the public esteem. It’s a far cry from the relentless campaign headlines: “Desperate Albo”, “Not so Albaneasy”, “Don’t Count on Me”, “Amateur Albo” and “Albo’s 600bn carbon bill”. Today, beneath the routine propaganda for the fossil fuel juggernauts in The Australian, is a demure “Record electoral satisfaction with PM”. # ⚓ Business Insider ☛ ‘Complete_Chaos’_Inside_Oracle_Marketing As_Mass_Layoffs_Hit_the_Group⠀⇛ # ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Lamborghini_Crisis:_Australia_crippled by_critical_shortage_of_Lamborghinis_–_Michael_West⠀⇛ Business is calling for urgent government intervention to address crippling shortages of Lamborghinis on the East Coast of Australia, according to an exclusive report in the Australian Financial Review. Michael West reports. An exclusive report in the AFR today revealed devastating supply issues in Australia’s Lamborghini market, the crisis coming at a time when prices were rising across the board and the sector was grappling with soaring costs and labour shortages. “The boss of luxury carmaker Lamborghini says the group is still assessing by how much it will lift prices as inflation across the industry accelerates, with heavy demand meaning backlogs for new vehicles have now blown out to 18 months,” said the report. “Jobs will be destroyed unless the Government moves immediately to ease restrictions on the luxury car sector,” said Jennifer Westacott from the Business Council of Australia. # ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ New_Zealand’s_unemployment_at_3.3_per cent_–_Michael_West⠀⇛ Joblessness in New Zealand remains at rock bottom, with unemployment measured at 3.3 per cent in the June quarter. On Wednesday, Stats NZ released its latest jobless numbers, confirming a slight uptick from 3.2 per cent for the March quarter but remaining at a historically low level. “Measures of spare labour market capacity have fallen over the year and remained low for several quarters, continuing to show a tight labour market,” Stats NZ spokeswoman Becky Collett said. o § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾ # ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ ABC_exodus_from_Pyrmont_to_Parramatta: what’s_the_scam?_–_Michael_West⠀⇛ It was a Coalition idea. Aunty’s getting a new home in Parramatta and former news boss Gaven Morris has landed the plumb consulting gig. What’s the scam? The scam is the consultancy deal appears to have been un-tendered. Gaven Morris, only weeks after leaving his role at the ABC to become CEO of Bastion Transforms, has been awarded a contract to advise on the ABC’s newsroom relocation to Parramatta. # ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ A_reluctant_thank_you,_Mr_Christensen: what_we_learnt_about_a_travelling_MP_–_Michael_West⠀⇛ A Federal Police warning to the Coalition government over the conduct of one of its MPs was kept secret until it was too late for his constituents, writes Rex Patrick. “Thank you, Mr Christensen.” Words I thought I’d never say, and especially never write. The Australian Federal Police have been forced to release a June 2018 letter they wrote home affairs minister, Peter Dutton, stating that Queensland federal MP George Christensen, “undertakes extensive international travel to South East Asia during non-sitting periods and has engaged in activities that could potentially place him at risk of being targeted for compromise by foreign interest”. Whatever Mr Christensen’s activities in South-East Asia were (and it’s probably best to steer clear of that topic), the battle over access to the AFP’s correspondence relating to the matter has been helpful in showing the public how moribund our FOI regime is. o § Internet Policy/Net Neutrality⠀➾ # ⚓ Matt Rickard ☛ Sufficiently_Decentralized⠀⇛ Most web3 applications will probably be more off- chain than on-chain. And I think that’s OK. [...] Take a look at how the web works today. Sufficiently decentralized – it may be difficult to become a domain registrar, start an ISP, or run your own DNS infrastructure (that others use), but anyone can create a website and host it on the web. You can post pretty much whatever you want, although it’s not completely censorship resistant – remember when Cloudflare erased a Nazi group from the web in 2017 and 8chan in 2019? I think that’s a good thing. Our financial infrastructure isn’t nearly as open. One of the Plaid co-founders spent $50 million to purchase a chartered bank just so that he could build a fintech startup with it. Of course, building programmatic financial products shouldn’t be as easy as spinning up a website, but if it were a little easier, we might see far more innovation in the fintech stack from motivated hackers. o § Digital Restrictions (DRM)⠀➾ # ⚓ Stacy on IoT ☛ How_upset_should_you_really_be_about Insteon’s_subscription_plans?⠀⇛ To recap the situation, Insteon hubs lost access to the Insteon servers in April. # ⚓ Citing_Danger_of_“Ink_Spills”_Epson_Programs_End_of_Life for_Some_Printers⠀⇛ * § Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾ o § Personal⠀➾ # ⚓ So_I_made_a_couple_things⠀⇛ I am definitely paying attention to Gemini. Yep. Anyway, I made a couple things. A program, and an “album”. # ⚓ 🔤SpellBinding:_ACIPTVY_Wordo:_BOWIE⠀⇛ # ⚓ When_does_a_Zettelkasten_become_useful?⠀⇛ As mentioned in a previous blog post of mine, I started using a Zettelkasten about three months ago. It currently has about 240 zettel (without templates and journals). But I also wondered, even before starting the Zettelkasten, when it will actually become useful? Already on the first note? A few hundred notes in? Today I am going to try to answer it, at least for my Zettelkasten. But before listening to anything I am saying, I have to note that I don’t even know whether I am doing the Zettelkasten-thing correctly and that my Zettelkasten is still in very early stages so I might not even have reached the point where it is actually useful. o § Technical⠀➾ # ⚓ How_to_get_NixOS_hosted_at_OpenBSD_Amsterdam⠀⇛ In this guide, I’ll explain how to create a NixOS VM in the hosting company OpenBSD Amsterdam which only provides OpenBSD VMs hosted on OpenBSD. I’d like to thank the team at OpenBSD Amsterdam who offered me a VM for this experiment. While they don’t support NixOS officially, they are open to have customers running non-OpenBSD systems on their VMs. # ⚓ Trash_rules_everything_around_me⠀⇛ In my last post I wrote about finding a 13-yr old not functional windows laptop and throwing Lubuntu on there and having a ‘new’ to me snappy computer. In this post I’m writing about re-using ‘trash.’ # § Internet/Gemini⠀➾ # ⚓ Gemini_Search_Results_Study,_Part_1⠀⇛ This is going to be a fairly brief post that will be further expanded upon in Part 2, which probably won’t be published for at least a few days. [...] Note that all of the statistics below are only representative of results from 2022-08- 07. Changes that affect these statistics could happen in the future. Additionally, more work could be done to get more accurate study results, because the sample sizes provided here are quite low. They are meant to be preliminary, and are not conclusive of which Search Engine is better or worse. # § Announcements⠀➾ # ⚓ Offline_Week_July_2022⠀⇛ A week ago, I switched my life to being primarily ‘offline’. Or, perhaps it is better to say I took steps in that direction. I was still online during working hours, and I left the messaging apps on my phone online. Still, being offline for that majority of my non-working time was, a little unexpectedly, a bit of a shock. The impetus for this little experiment was blog posts by Ploum and the software they’ve developed, Offpunk. # § Programming⠀➾ # ⚓ My_experience_writing_a_Lisp_system_shell⠀⇛ A couple years ago I found a document that I can only describe as half academic whitepaper, half manifesto. It was dated to the early 2000s (decade), and discussed-then- evangelized the idea of replacing the Unix shell with a dialect of Scheme. The first half of the document, which was about 100 pages or so, was dedicated to enumerating problems with the Unix shell; many of the problems were related to long-term maintenance of software written in Unix shell languages. The document also discussed tradeoffs between interactibility and elements of strutured programming, which make long-term maintenance easier. # ⚓ Re:_Preformatted_table⠀⇛ The general idea is to add a new gemtext tag type, with the identifier |||, followed by a label on the same line, and then starting on the next line an ASCII-formatted table similar to Markdown or org-mode’s (but not exactly the same). The tabular formatted data ends with another ||| line, similar to “`. The proposal for multiline and merged-cells table feels a lot more problematic. Gemtext is line-based; you can implement a gemtext parser with a fixed amount of global state and no lookbehind. In other words, the gemtext language is strictly more restricted even than context-free grammar. # ⚓ Thoughts_on_separate_compilation_(part_2)⠀⇛ Continuing musing on how to recover C language optimization lost to separate compilation. # ⚓ Deeps_of_C_runtime⠀⇛ Recently I have been reading x86-64 SysV ABI documentation, and I found curious paragraph there… =============================================================================== * Gemini_(Primer) links can be opened using Gemini_software. It’s like the World Wide Web but a lot lighter. ╘══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╛ ¶ Lines in total: 3973 ➮ Generation completed at 02:41, i.e. 30 seconds to (re)generate ⟲