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notes. “Another point to drive home is that Microsoft is either an also-ran or no-show in servers, supercomputers, embedded system, mobile devices, and anything else besides desktops. So this decline in client-side markets is the entirety of Microsoft’s real business, regardless of however much they might make from buying and selling (their own) stock.” ⣿⣿⠿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⣿⣿⣿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⢿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⡏⢾⡷⡇⣤⠋⣀⡁⣤⢁⢩⢠⢸⢠⣼⠡⣠⣿⣌⢣⠻⣌⡀⣤⡏⣈⡇⣤⣤⣿⡇⡜⢧⠸⣀⢹⣥⢘⢽⣁⣡⣬⣿⣌⣻⢠⣼⢁⢸⢠⡏⣈⣿⣯⡙⣿⡇⡯⣬⡟⡀⡇⣤⢹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣶⣶⣇⣶⣿⣶⣷⣿⣶⣾⣶⣾⣾⣿⣐⣨⣿⣶⣞⣱⣷⣶⣷⣶⣶⣷⣿⣿⣿⣷⣿⣾⣾⣶⣾⣿⣾⣾⣶⣾⣶⣿⣶⣾⣾⣿⣶⣾⣾⣷⣶⣿⣷⣶⣷⣶⣷⣶⣷⣶⣷⣿⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⡇⣏⢹⢩⢹⡷⢺⢰⠈⠶⣕⢊⣟⣻⡟⡘⡹⢿⠉⣽⠗⢸⠶⡱⠢⠗⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣥⣷⣾⣾⣾⣷⣾⣷⣿⣶⣷⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣶⣤⣾⣶⣾⣶⣷⣶⣶⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣗⣃⣀⣄⣸⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣼⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⠸⣿⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⡿⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ 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Links_11/08/2022:_Point_Release_of_Ubuntu_22.04_and_GNUnet_0.17.4⠀✐ Posted in News_Roundup at 2:57 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇GNOME bluefish⦈ § Contents⠀➾ * GNU/Linux o Audiocasts/Shows o Kernel_Space o Graphics_Stack o Instructionals/Technical o Games o Desktop_Environments/WMs # GNOME_Desktop/GTK * Distributions_and_Operating_Systems o Fedora_Family_/_IBM o Canonical/Ubuntu_Family o Open_Hardware/Modding o Mobile_Systems/Mobile_Applications * Free,_Libre,_and_Open_Source_Software o GNU_Projects o Programming/Development # Perl_/_Raku # Shell/Bash/Zsh/Ksh # Rust * Leftovers o Proprietary o Linux_Foundation o Security o Monopolies * Gemini*_and_Gopher o Personal o Technical # Internet/Gemini * § GNU/Linux⠀➾ o ⚓ Liliputing ☛ 22.04_LTS_now_available_for_$1299_and_up⠀⇛ The Dell XPS 13 Plus Developer Edition is an unusual looking thin and light laptop that ships with Ubuntu Linux pre-installed rather than Windows. When the notebook first went on sale in April it shipped with Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, but now Dell is shipping the laptop with Ubuntu 22.04 LTS instead. o ⚓ Linux Links ☛ Linux_Around_The_World:_Belgium_–_LinuxLinks⠀⇛ We cover events and user groups that are running in Belgium. This article forms part of our Linux Around The World series. o § Audiocasts/Shows⠀➾ # ⚓ Video ☛ GNU_And_Linux_Are_Forever_Linked_By_History_– Invidious⠀⇛ It never fails. Any time that I mention GNU/Linux on any of my videos, some wise guy has to chime in with “Stop calling it GNU/Linux…you can have Linux without GNU.” Why do these people feel the need to state something that is obvious? # ⚓ Video ☛ More_NVIDIA_OPEN_SOURCE,_Cutefish_is_ALIVE,_and Duck_Duck_Go_fixes_tracking:_Linux_+_opensource_news_– Invidious⠀⇛ # ⚓ Jupiter Broadcasting ☛ Linux_Action_News_253 [Ed: Too much sucking up to Microsoft, but then again consider_who_owns this_site]⠀⇛ GitHub steps in it this week, Microsoft’s Linux distribution now runs on bare metal, FFmpeg gets IPFS support, and the odd thing going on with the kernel. o § Kernel Space⠀➾ # ⚓ LWN ☛ Linux_5.19.1⠀⇛ I'm announcing the release of the 5.19.1 kernel. All users of the 5.19 kernel series must upgrade. The updated 5.19.y git tree can be found at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ stable/linux-stable.git linux-5.19.y and can be browsed at the normal kernel.org git web browser: https://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/ linux-s... thanks, greg k-h # ⚓ LWN ☛ Linux_5.18.17⠀⇛ # ⚓ LWN ☛ Linux_5.15.60⠀⇛ # ⚓ LWN ☛ Linux_5.10.136⠀⇛ # ⚓ LWN ☛ Linux_5.4.210⠀⇛ # ⚓ LWN ☛ Linux_4.19.255⠀⇛ # ⚓ LWN ☛ Some_5.19_development_statistics_[LWN.net]⠀⇛ The 5.19 kernel was released, after a one-week delay to deal with the fallout from the Retbleed mitigations, on July 31. By that time, 16,399 commits (15,134 non-merge and 1,265 merges) had found their way into the mainline repository, making this development cycle the busiest since 5.13 (16,030 non-merge changesets and 1,157 merges). Tradition dictates that now is the time for a look at where the changes in 5.19 came from, and we’ve learned not to go against tradition. # ⚓ Free Desktop ☛ [ANNOUNCE]_mesa_22.2.0-rc2⠀⇛ Hi list, It's that time again, mesa 22.2-rc2 is now avilaable. We've had lots of changes here, including a bug in my release script setting the version to 22.2.0 (oops)! Per normal, Mike is leading the pack with zink changes, but we've got fixes all over the tree here. See you again next week, same bat time, same bat channel, Dylan # ⚓ LWN ☛ Direct_host_system_calls_from_KVM_[LWN.net]⠀⇛ As a general rule, virtualization mechanisms are designed to provide strong isolation between a host and the guest systems that it runs. The guests are not trusted, and their ability to access or influence anything outside of their virtual machines must be tightly controlled. So a patch series allowing guests to execute arbitrary system calls in the host context might be expected to be the cause of significantly elevated eyebrows across the net. Andrei Vagin has posted such a series with the expected results. The use case for Vagin’s work is gVisor, a container-management platform with a focus on security. Like a full virtualization system, gVisor runs containers within a virtual machine (using KVM), but the purpose is not to fully isolate those containers from the system. Instead, KVM is used to provide address-space isolation for processes within containers, but the resulting virtual machines do not run a normal operating-system kernel. Instead, they run a special gVisor kernel that handles system calls made by the contained processes, making security decisions as it goes. That kernel works in an interesting way; it maps itself into each virtual machine’s address space to match its layout on the host, then switches between the two as needed. The function to go to the virtual-machine side is called, perhaps inevitably, bluepill(). The execution environment is essentially the same on either side, with the same memory layout, but the guest side is constrained by the boundaries placed on the virtual machine. # ⚓ ZDNet ☛ Google_wants_to_make_Linux_kernel_flaws_harder_to exploit [Ed: ZDNet's Microsoft booster says "Google wants to make Linux kernel flaws harder to exploit", but it was actually Google that put NSA back-doored ciphers inside the Linux kernel. Selective amnesia?]⠀⇛ o § Graphics Stack⠀➾ # ⚓ xorgproto_2022.2⠀⇛ This release introduces an new "XWAYLAND" extension: This extension exists to serve one purpose: reliably identifying Xwayland. Previous attempts at doing so included querying root window properties, output names or input device names. All these attempts are somewhat unreliable. Instead, let's use an extension - where that extension is present we have an Xwayland server. Clients should never need to do anything but check whether the extension exists through XQueryExtension/XListExtensions. The DRI3 protocol was bumped to 1.3 and has a new DRI3SetDRMDeviceInUse request: This request provides a hint to the server about the device in use by this window. This is used to provide DRI3GetSupportedModifiers with a hint of what device to return modifiers for in the window_modifiers return value. Using this hint allows for device-specific modifiers to be returned by DRI3GetSupportedModifiers, for example when an application is renderoffloaded and eligible for direct scanout. The remaining commits are the usual combination of housekeeping and maintenance. # ⚓ The_new_XWAYLAND_extension_is_available⠀⇛ As of xorgproto 2022.2, we have a new X11 protocol extension. First, you may rightly say “whaaaat? why add new extensions to the X protocol?” in a rather unnecessarily accusing way, followed up by “that’s like adding lipstick to a dodo!”. And that’s not completely wrong, but nevertheless, we have a new protocol extension to the … [checks calendar] almost 40 year old X protocol. And that extension is, ever creatively, named “XWAYLAND”. If you recall, Xwayland is a different X server than Xorg. It doesn’t try to render directly to the hardware, instead it’s a translation layer between the X protocol and the Wayland protocol so that X clients can continue to function on a Wayland compositor. The X application is generally unaware that it isn’t running on Xorg and Xwayland (and the compositor) will do their best to accommodate for all the quirks that the application expects because it only speaks X. In a way, it’s like calling a restaurant and ordering a burger because the person answering speaks American English. Without realising that you just called the local fancy French joint and now the chefs will have to make a burger for you, totally without avec. o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾ # ⚓ ZDNet ☛ How_to_update_Linux_Mint_to_Mint_21_|_ZDNet⠀⇛ It’s not too hard to move from Linux Mint 20.3 to the long-term support of Linux Mint 21. But it’s not a walk in the park, either. # ⚓ Ubuntu Handbook ☛ How_to_Make_Your_Apps_Start_in_Specified Workspace_in_Ubuntu_22.04_|_UbuntuHandbook⠀⇛ When you try to open an application in Ubuntu, Fedora or other Linux with GNOME, it’s possible to specify in which desktop workspace the app window should start! Most operating systems today have multiple desktops to organize unrelated ongoing projects. In Ubuntu Linux, we usually called them “workspaces”. For most common used applications, user may even let them start automatically in specified workspace to improve workflow efficiency. # ⚓ Barry Kauler ☛ Plan_to_sync_PKGget_and_apt-dpkg⠀⇛ I know this will interest a few people. I have been asked whether the ‘apt’ Debian package manager can be installed in EasyOS. Yes, it can, but the native package manager, ‘PKGget’, originally called the ‘PPM’ (Puppy Package Manager), does not “talk” with apt, so they won’t have any idea what the other is up to. There have been some pups with both the apt and ppm, and I think that VanillaDpup does have some basic syncronization. Just from memory, last time that I played with it, I think that apt recognized the existing packages in the build, at first bootup, listed in file ‘woof-installed-packages’. But there was no cooperation beyond that. # ⚓ ByteXD ☛ How_to_Install_Tor_Browser_in_Ubuntu_22.04_or 20.04_–_ByteXD⠀⇛ Tor browser is a secure browser that routes web traffic through the Tor network. Volunteers run Tor servers. It ensures users’ privacy and anonymity. You are free of network surveillance when you use Tor browser to browse the Internet. The onion icon in Tor symbolizes that, like an onion, Tor has layers to encrypt your internet connection. However, there are some disadvantages to using Tor. You might feel browsing to be a bit or considerably slower than your normal experience. Also, Tor users are blocked by some major websites. Even some governments try to block Tor and outlaw it. This article covers a few methods on how to install the Tor Web in Ubuntu. # ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_To_Install_Dropbox_on_Ubuntu_22.04_LTS_– idroot⠀⇛ In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Dropbox on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. For those of you who didn’t know, Dropbox is application software that is operated by Dropbox inc. It provides cloud storage to store and access the data online by syncing the user device. It provides a free account with 2 GB storage and paid plans for more. A big advantage of using Dropbox is that you can share large files/folders by sharing the dropbox links rather than sending those large files. 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 the Dropbox file hosting service on Ubuntu 22.04 (Jammy Jellyfish). You can follow the same instructions for Ubuntu 22.04 and any other Debian-based distribution like Linux Mint, Elementary OS, Pop!_OS, and more as well. # ⚓ MakeTech Easier ☛ How_to_Find_Large_Files_in_Linux_–_Make Tech_Easier⠀⇛ Identifying large files on your PC can help you quickly reclaim some much needed space. For desktop Linux users, hunting down large unnecessary files might be optional. But when it comes to server space, it costs money and you have to pay for that excess space every month. Here’s how you can locate big files in Linux to quickly get rid of them. # ⚓ TecAdmin ☛ How_to_Import_GPG_Keys_on_Ubuntu_&_Debian_ (without_apt-key)⠀⇛ The latest Debian-based systems have deprecated the use of the apt-key command. This command is used to import the GPG signing keys to systems. This command was working fine till Debian 10 and its derivatives. After the release of Debian 11 (and its derivatives like Ubuntu 22.04), the users start getting a warning message on the screen during the keys import. You will see the warning message “Warning: apt-key is deprecated. Manage keyring files in trusted.gpg.d instead (see apt-key(8))“. As this is a warning message you can still use the apt-key command but the newer version of Debian and Ubuntu will remove the support of this command. So, it will be good to upgrade ourselves and start using the signed-by for maintaining the GPG keys and for the repositories. In this article, we will discuss, how securely import the GPG repository signing keys to the Ubuntu, Debian, Linux Mint and Pop!_OS, etc. # ⚓ Vitux ☛ How_to_Restart_Network_on_Ubuntu_22.04⠀⇛ Whenever a problem occurs with the system, the main solution is to perform a restart or reboot the system. Similarly, if a problem occurs with the network, then its easy treatment is to restart the network. There are many scenarios where you may need to restart the network on Ubuntu like settings of the network were changed or the active network connection not working properly. Restarting the network services is equally important for all Linux systems. # ⚓ TechRepublic ☛ How_to_deploy_the_Adminer_database_admin tool_on_Ubuntu_Server_22.04_|_TechRepublic⠀⇛ If you’re a fan of phpMyAdmin, you know how easy that platform makes managing relational databases. But what if you need to manage more than one type of database? Maybe you work with both relational and NoSQL databases. If that’s the case, where do you turn? One option is Adminer, which supports MySQL versions 5, 7 and 8, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, SQLite, MS SQL, Oracle, Elasticsearch, MongoDB, SimpleDB via plugin, Firebird via plugin and ClickHouse via plugin. # ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ How_to_Stream_Apple_Music_on_Linux_Using Cider⠀⇛ Apple Music is available on most platforms, including Apple’s, as well as Windows and Android. However, there’s no Apple Music—or even iTunes for that matter—on Linux. Ergo, if you’re an Apple Music subscriber and use Linux on the PC side of things, you have to resort to using Apple Music’s web player to listen to music on your computer. But as you may know, the experience is nowhere close to perfect. To fix this, some developers came up with Cider, an open-source Apple Music client for Linux. So let’s jump in to explore Cider on Linux. # ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_To_Install_Android_Studio_on_Linux_Mint_21_– idroot⠀⇛ In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Android Studio on Linux Mint 21. For those of you who didn’t know, Android Studio is a free and open source multi-platform supported and java based developer tool that helps the developer create and develop their android based applications. It provides the options, a graphical user interface (GUI), an app project, importing existing projects, changing the configuration, running the app in debug mode, and much more. 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 an Android Studio on Linux Mint 21 (Vanessa). # ⚓ markaicode by Mark ☛ How_To_Install_Terminator_on_Ubuntu 22.04_LTS_|_Mark_Ai_Code⠀⇛ This guide will talk about one of these emulators, Terminator, and how to install it on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS # ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ How_to_Configure_Networking_on_Ubuntu Servers⠀⇛ Ubuntu ships with some graphical utilities to configure network devices, but there are some topics that server administrators especially need to master—and that includes knowing how to configure network devices from the command line. To manage your Ubuntu Server network from the command line, it is important to know concepts such as Ethernet interfaces, IP addressing, bridging, and name resolution. Here’s a primer. # ⚓ H2S Media ☛ How_to_install_KDE_Plasma_Desktop_on_Fedora Linux_–_Linux_Shout⠀⇛ Learn the steps to install KDE Plasma 5 Desktop on Fedora 36 workstation desktops and other previous versions such as 35, 34… to get a beautiful alternative to the system’s default GNOME 42 Desktop. Fedora plays a not negligible contribution to the Red Hat value chain. It is not meant to generate revenue but instead gives the right direction to the future versions of RHEL. It is an experimental ground for Red Hat. Fedora is allowed to experiment with new technologies, which is why it offers a wide range of packages directly to install using the default system repo. It is more friendly than Redhat and its based distros such as CentOS, Oracle, Rocky, and Almalinux. # ⚓ Video ☛ How_to_install_Linux_Mint_21_MATE_–_Invidious⠀⇛ # ⚓ Video ☛ Linux_CLI_in_60_Seconds_–_find_–_Invidious⠀⇛ # ⚓ Linux Handbook ☛ LHB_Linux_Digest_#22.09:_Pro_Vim_Tips, Dash_Shell,_Unlink,_Find-Exec_Command⠀⇛ # ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ Redis_ZINTERSTORE⠀⇛ # ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ Redis_ZCOUNT⠀⇛ # ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ Redis_XREAD⠀⇛ # ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ Redis_XINFO⠀⇛ # ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ Redis_XDEL⠀⇛ # ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ Redis_SETNX⠀⇛ # ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ Redis_RPOPLPUSH⠀⇛ # ⚓ HowTo Forge ☛ How_to_Install_NetBox_IRM_on_Debian_11⠀⇛ NetBox is Infrastructure Resource Modeling (IRM) software designed for network automation. Learn how to install NetBox IRM on Debian 11 here. # ⚓ Troubleshooting_Linux_SASL_Issues_|_Itsubuntu.com⠀⇛ Simple Authentication and Security Layer or SASL is a framework for authentication, encryption, and data security used in Internet protocols. John Gardiner Myers wrote the original SASL specification (RFC 2222) in 1997. SASL also provides a data security layer offering data integrity and data confidentiality services. o § Games⠀➾ # ⚓ Boiling Steam ☛ Top_11_New_Games_to_Play_on_Linux_with Proton_–_August_2022_Edition_–_Boiling_Steam⠀⇛ We are back with our usual monthly update! Boiling Steam looks at the latest data dumps from ProtonDB to give you a quick list of new games that work (pretty much? see ratings) perfectly with Proton since they were released in June 2022 – all of them work out of the box or well enough with tweaks… # ⚓ LWN ☛ Crosswords_for_GNOME⠀⇛ Jonathan Blandford, who is a longtime GNOME contributor—and a cruciverbalist for longer still—thought it was time for GNOME to have a crossword puzzle application. So he set out to create one, which turned into something of a yak- shaving exercise, but also, ultimately, into Crosswords. Blandford came to GUADEC 2022 to give a talk describing his journey bringing this brain exerciser (and productivity bane) to the GNOME desktop. Blandford got his start with GNOME back in 1997; he is the author of the Evince PDF reader and Aisleriot solitaire card game, for example. He has moved into management over the years, so has done less programming for GNOME, but is still involved in the community. For the purposes of the talk, he said, the important thing to know about him is that he is “a passionate cruciverbalist”. He has been doing crossword puzzles since he was a child, with his parents and grandparents; now he does them with his family as well. Beyond that, he had to work the word “cruciverbalist” into his talk because “people who love crosswords love words, and they love words like that”. He started working on the Crosswords application in mid-July 2021—almost exactly a year before the talk. It is now around 24,000 lines of code, most of which is in C; “I have some regrets about that” but he was comfortable writing in C. The program has been translated into two languages beyond English—Dutch and Spanish—and the project has three additional contributors at this point. There were several motivations that led him to create the application. He has always thought that puzzles would make for an interesting program to write. In addition, anyone searching GNOME Software or Flathub for a crossword puzzle program would not have found one; in fact, Linux, in general, lacks for a good graphical crossword application. Writing a program for these puzzles turned out to be “a whole lot of fun” as well. But he wants its users to also experience fun; he had an overarching rule for the program: “it’s a game, it has to be fun”. # ⚓ Its FOSS ☛ Heroic_Games_Launcher_2.4.0_Released_With_Epic Overlay,_GOG_Cloud_Save_Support,_and_Anti-cheat_Runtime⠀⇛ As gaming on Linux continues to improve, so do the tools we use to play those games. Heroic Games Launcher is a great example of such a tool, as it gives users a native way to access and play Epic Games Store games on their Linux machines. One of its older releases, Heroic 2.0.0, brought major UI improvements, and this release further builds on those. o § Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾ # § GNOME Desktop/GTK⠀➾ # ⚓ LWN ☛ Oaxaca,_Endless_OS,_and_indigenous_languages_ [LWN.net]⠀⇛ A rural Mexican state was the setting for an initiative to use the GNOME-based Endless OS to improve education in indigenous communities. Over the last several years, the Endless OS Foundation has teamed up with the Fundación Alfredo Harp Helú Oaxaca (FAHHO) to deliver offline-first computers to those communities, but also to assist these communities in preserving their native languages. In a talk at GUADEC 2022, Rob McQueen provided a look at the project and what it has accomplished. McQueen was not slated to give the talk—he already gave an earlier presentation at the conference—but Sergio Solis, who is from Guadalajara where the conference was held, was unfortunately unable to attend due to his family coming down with COVID. McQueen apologized for flying into Mexico from England to give a talk about Mexico when he had never been to the country before. But, as the CEO of the Endless OS Foundation, McQueen is obviously knowledgeable about the project and was able to step in and pinch-hit for Solis. * § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾ o § Fedora Family / IBM⠀➾ # ⚓ Meet_The_New_Red_Hat_CEO_Matt_Hicks [Ed: IBM giving “access” to CLICKFRAUD_SPAMNIL says a lot about today’s IBM and what it has in mind for Red Hat.]⠀⇛ # ⚓ Red Hat Official ☛ The_software_defined_programmable_logic controller:_An_introduction_to_Red_Hat’s_predictable_latency /_realtime_capabilities⠀⇛ The software-defined industrial control system is a huge opportunity for open source technologies. Moving away from bespoke specialized hardware (like PLC devices) to standard hardware with software only is a trend that crosses industries, extending now into the industrial and manufacturing world. This type of shift for industrial organizations is similar to telcos moving to network function virtualisation (NFV) and open radio access networks (ORAN). o § Canonical/Ubuntu Family⠀➾ # ⚓ OMG Ubuntu ☛ Check_Out_Ubuntu’s_Slick_New_Promotional Video⠀⇛ It’s been a fair while since Ubuntu (or rather Canonical, I guess) commissioned an engaging promotional video to help promote their desktop OS. Heck, it didn’t even release all of the ones it had made during its peak years. But it’s making up for lost time with an all-new animated introduction that’s shows off the core features of the OS in a zippy style, replete with impactful on-screen text cut to the rhythm of the video’s music (which reminds me of smartphone commercials for some reason). # ⚓ The Register UK ☛ Ubuntu_Focal_user?_Expect_a_Jammy_upgrade popup_soon_•_The_Register⠀⇛ Ubuntu 20.04 is nowhere near end of life, but 22.04 is starting to hit its stride. As is fairly well understood now, the first release of Ubuntu in each even-numbered year is a Long Term Support (LTS) release. Ubuntu 20.04 “Focal Fossa” gets support and updates until 2025 and won’t reach its official end-of-life until 2030. “Jammy Jellyfish” – the 22.04 release – is the replacement LTS version, receiving mainstream support until April 2027 and arriving at its end of life in April 2032. However, users of the previous LTS release don’t start to receive upgrade notifications until the subsequent LTS gets its first point release. For Jammy, if all goes well, that will be next week*: August 11 is the planned release date for Ubuntu 22.04.1. Canonical has published a list of bug- fixes on its Discourse, and you can also track its status on Launchpad. # ⚓ Neowin ☛ Ubuntu_22.04.1_LTS_due_today_making_upgrades possible_from_20.04_LTS⠀⇛ Canonical is due to release Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS today, following a delay last week caused by the discovery of a bug. Ubuntu point releases aren’t normally that important, they just roll all the available updates up and include them in a more up- to-date ISO. People on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS already only need to install available updates to get this point release. What is different about this first point release is that it finally opens upgrades for people who run Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. Canonical releases LTS releases so that people can enjoy a stable version of Ubuntu for their production systems. By leaving the upgrade path closed until the first point release, it gives Canonical time to address any serious issues, so users can continue receiving a stable experience. # ⚓ OMG Ubuntu ☛ First_Point_Release_of_Ubuntu_22.04_LTS_is Available_to_Download⠀⇛ Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS combines all of the bug fixes, app updates, performance tweaks, and security patches rolled out to the “Jammy Jellyfish” since its April debut. The idea is that you can download this version and skip needing to fetch three-months worth of updates after installation. # ⚓ Ubuntu ☛ Upgrade_your_desktop:_Ubuntu_22.04.1_LTS_is_now available⠀⇛ Whether you’re a first-time Linux user, experienced developer, academic researcher or enterprise administrator, Ubuntu 22.04 LTS is the best way to upgrade your creativity, productivity and downtime. Check out our new video to learn more! The release of Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS represents the consolidation of fixes and improvements identified during the initial launch of Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and is the first major milestone in our Long Term Support (LTS) commitment to our users. # ⚓ 9to5Linux ☛ Ubuntu_20.04_LTS_Users_Can_Now_Finally_Upgrade to_Ubuntu_22.04_LTS,_Here’s_How⠀⇛  For those of you not in the know, Canonical opens the upgrade path from the previous Ubuntu LTS release to the new Ubuntu LTS release about six months after the launch of the latter, but not after it publishes the first point release to the new Ubuntu LTS series (in this case Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS). This is done to ensure a safe upgrade process # ⚓ Lubuntu ☛ Lubuntu_22.04.1_LTS_is_Released!⠀⇛ Thanks to all the hard work from our contributors, Lubuntu 22.04.1 LTS has been released. With the codename Jammy Jellyfish, Lubuntu 22.04 is the 22nd release of Lubuntu, the eighth release of Lubuntu with LXQt as the default desktop environment. # ⚓ Linuxiac ☛ Ubuntu 22.04.1_LTS_Arrives_with_Wider_Support for_RISC-V_Devices⠀⇛ The Ubuntu team has announced Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS, which includes package bug fixes, performance improvements, and security patches. Following Canonical’s decision to delay the first point release of Ubuntu 22.04 LTS by about a week due to a bug affecting the ability to install Snap packages, today, the Ubuntu team has announced the Ubuntu 22.04.1. This is the first point release for Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, which was launched on April 21, 2022, featuring a range of new features and improvements. However, for new Ubuntu users, the arrival of a new LTS version may be confusing. The main question they probably have is, “Do I need to reinstall everything?” The short answer is no; it does not! # ⚓ Beta News ☛ Following_bug-related_delay,_Ubuntu_Linux 22.04.1_LTS_(Jammy_Jellyfish)_is_finally_here [Ed: Negative slant from Brian Fagioli]⠀⇛ Earlier this month, we shared the news that Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS (code-named “Jammy Jellyfish”) was being delayed. Sadly, the first point release of the wildly popular operating system was being pushed back an entire week — an absolute eternity in the world of Linux. Well, folks, a week has passed, and thankfully, Canonical stayed true to its word (this time) and sorted the show-stopping Ubuntu Linux 22.04.1 issue. Yes, the major bug that caused snaps not to open on computers that used the OEM install option is now resolved. Even better, starting today, Canonical will being prompting Ubuntu 20.04 users to upgrade to Jammy Jellyfish. “The release of Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS represents the consolidation of fixes and improvements identified during the initial launch of Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and is the first major milestone in our Long Term Support (LTS) commitment to our users. From today, Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS is available to download and install from our download page,” explains Canonical. # ⚓ Linux Shell Tips ☛ The_History_of_Linux_Mint_Distribution and_Releases⠀⇛ Linux Mint is a free and open-source Linux distribution that is hugely popular for desktop lovers. It seeks to provide a modern, sleek, and friendly desktop experience with full multimedia support and a wide range of free and open source applications for everyday use. Linux Mint is based on both Ubuntu and Debian – Linux Mint Debian Edition – is purely based on Debian. It is user-friendly and is generally considered an ideal distribution for newbies starting with Linux. o § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾ # ⚓ Purism ☛ Purism’s_Librem_5_USA,_Privacy-first_Smartphones Ship_Within_10_Business_Days⠀⇛ Purism’s Made in USA phone, Librem 5 USA uses a tighter supply chain. It is powered by PureOS, and designed for longevity. Standard orders ship within 10 days. # ⚓ CNX Software ☛ ESP32_board_with_rotary_encoder_gets_2-key keypad_shield_–_CNX_Software⠀⇛ LILYGO TTGO T-Encoder, a round-shaped ESP32 board with a built-in rotary encoder, has gotten a shield with a 2-key keypad based on WCH CH552 8-bit microcontroller. Launched several months ago, the TTGO T-Encoder is a USB-powered rotary encoder with ESP32 microcontroller offering WiFi and Bluetooth connectivity, and now, you can build a keypad with rotary encoder thanks to T-Encoder shield that features two mechanical switches and keycaps with RGB LED backlight. # ⚓ CNX Software ☛ AquaPing_is_an_open-source,_battery_powered acoustic_water_leak_detector_module_(Crowdfunding)_–_CNX Software⠀⇛ The AquaPing is an open-source hardware, ultra-low power acoustic water leak detector sensor based on Texas Instruments MSP430 microcontroller and a microphone that can detect leaks without having to do any plumbing, instead capturing audio for water leak detection, and it even works for leaks behind walls. All signal processing and analysis occur on the MSP430 MCU, so no audio is streamed to the cloud and eavesdropping is impossible, plus the sensor only captures high frequencies out of the range of normal conversations, so eavesdropping is not feasible, plus those higher frequencies are also said to provide highest sensitivity and reliability. o § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ Google’s_Game_Dashboard_Appears_in_Android_13_Beta⠀⇛ # ⚓ Android Police ☛ 8_awesome_Android_13_features_you’ll_want to_try_today⠀⇛ # ⚓ GSM Arena ☛ Samsung_Galaxy_Z_Fold4_officially_pioneers Android_12L_–_GSMArena.com_news⠀⇛ # ⚓ HowTo Geek ☛ The_5_Biggest_Android_Myths⠀⇛ # ⚓ TechTarget ☛ Google_researchers_dissect_Android_spyware, zero_days⠀⇛ * § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾ o ⚓ OSI Blog ☛ How_to_make_app_stores_friendly_to_Open_Source_– Voices_of_Open_Source⠀⇛ Microsoft recently seemed to propose that Open Source software didn’t belong in the Windows app store. Excuse me? After the news broke, Giorgio Sardo, Microsoft’s General Manager of the Microsoft Store, argued on Twitter that it wasn’t Microsoft’s intent. “We absolutely want to support developers distributing successful OSS apps. In fact, there are already fantastic OSS apps in the Store! The goal of this policy is to protect customers from misleading listings.” o § GNU Projects⠀➾ # ⚓ GNUnet_0.17.4⠀⇛ This is a bugfix release for gnunet 0.17.3 because of a missing file in the tarball required to build the documentation. # ⚓ GNU ☛ a2ps_4.14.92_released_[alpha]⠀⇛ This alpha release reverts extensive whitespace changes to --help output, so as not to annoy translators (thanks, Benno Schulenberg!). These will be restored before the next stable release in a “whitespace-only” change. o § Programming/Development⠀➾ # ⚓ Godot Engine ☛ Godot_Engine_–_Dev_snapshot:_Godot_4.0_alpha 14⠀⇛ We’re working towards finalizing the feature set for 4.0 beta, reviewing many PRs which have been opened prior to our roadmap feature freeze announced a couple of weeks ago. While this process is ongoing, we’ll keep releasing alpha builds so here’s 4.0 alpha 14! Same deal as usual, lots of bugs fixed and more refactoring and feature work. # ⚓ Barry Kauler ☛ Considering_adopting_Nim_language⠀⇛ # § Perl / Raku⠀➾ # ⚓ Perl ☛ CPM0_frl-plugin:perlscript:_ERROR:_‘times’ trapped_by_operation_mask_at_/usr/lib64/perl5/B.pm_line 183._|_kavya_[blogs.perl.org]⠀⇛ When “use DateTime;” library is included in perl file ,getting the error as “CPM0 frl-plugin:perlscript: ERROR: ‘times’ trapped by operation mask at /usr/lib64/ perl5/B.pm line 183.” # ⚓ Perl ☛ Please_relicense_from_“Perl_5″_to_MIT_or Apache_2.0_license⠀⇛ Following from my previous post, I am now actively encouraging everyone to switch licenses to MIT/ISC license or Apache 2.0. My reasoning is that in the vast majority of cases the author and contributors want the software to be used by as many businesses and hobbyists as possible. Previously I described how the burden of understanding and complying with licenses, including open source licenses, can be an unintended barrier to them using the software. Perl modules tend to use “Perl 5″ combination as the default license i.e. “Licensed under the same terms as Perl itself”. And the “Perl 5″ license is actually a dual licensing of the problematic Artistic 1.0 license and the dated GPL1.0 license which also has problems. Both are rarely used outside of Perl and in my view present a barrier to adoption. Recall I described how permissive (“BSD”) and copyleft (“GPL”) licenses are functionally identical if no binary is distributed (websites) or for scripted languages that remain in source form. # § Shell/Bash/Zsh/Ksh⠀➾ # ⚓ HowTo Geek ☛ 9_Examples_of_for_Loops_in_Linux_Bash Scripts [Ed: GNU Bash, not Linux Bash]⠀⇛ The versatile Bash for loop does much more than loop around a set number of times. We describe its many variants so you can use them successfully in your own Linux scripts. # § Rust⠀➾ # ⚓ Rust Blog ☛ The_Rust_Programming_Language_Blog: Announcing_Rust_1.63.0⠀⇛ The Rust team is happy to announce a new version of Rust, 1.63.0. Rust is a programming language empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software. # ⚓ LWN ☛ Rust_1.63.0_released_[LWN.net]⠀⇛ Version 1.63.0 of the Rust language has been released. Changes include the addition of scoped threads, a new ownership model for raw file descriptors, and the completion of the borrow-checker transition… * § Leftovers⠀➾ o ⚓ A_new,_stupid_step_forward_for_road_safety⠀⇛ A new, great step forward for street safety is how an italian newspaper just announced that a new speed control system will become mandatory for all new cars in two phases, between today and July 7th, 2024. o § Proprietary⠀➾ # ⚓ TechRadar ☛ Never_fear,_Microsoft_Office_users_–_you_won’t be_cut_off_early_after_all [Ed: Just move to LibreOffice and stop being hostage of Microsoft]⠀⇛ Microsoft has apparently gone back on initial plans to cut off some generations of its Office software. o § Linux Foundation⠀➾ # ⚓ Aviz_Joins_the_Linux_Foundation_and_Announces_Free_Support for_SONiC_Evaluations_in_The_Enterprise [Ed: Linux Foundation as a front group of Microsoft]⠀⇛ # ⚓ Aviz_Joins_the_Linux_Foundation_and_Announces_Free_Support for_SONiC_Evaluations_in_The_Enterprise⠀⇛ # ⚓ PR Newswire ☛ Boeing_joins_the_ELISA_Project_as_a_Premier Member_to_Strengthen_its_Commitment_to_Safety-Critical Applications⠀⇛ # ⚓ Linux Foundation’s Site/Blog ☛ Boeing_joins_the_ELISA Project_as_a_Premier_Member_to_Strengthen_its_Commitment_to Safety-Critical_Applications⠀⇛ Today, the ELISA (Enabling Linux in Safety Applications) Project announced that Boeing has joined as a Premier member, marking its commitment to Linux and its effective use in safety critical applications. Hosted by the Linux Foundation, ELISA is an open source initiative that aims to create a shared set of tools and processes to help companies build and certify Linux-based safety-critical applications and systems. # ⚓ Boeing_Joins_ELISA_Project,_To_Lead_New_Aerospace_Working Group⠀⇛ o § Security⠀➾ # ⚓ LWN ☛ Security_updates_for_Thursday⠀⇛ Security updates have been issued by Gentoo (aiohttp, faac, isync, motion, and nextcloud), Red Hat (.NET 6.0), SUSE (libnbd, oracleasm, python- codecov, rubygem-tzinfo, sssd, and thunderbird), and Ubuntu (http-parser, linux, linux-aws, linux- aws-5.4, linux-azure, linux-azure-5.4, linux- bluefield, linux-gcp, linux-gcp-5.4, linux-gke, linux-gke-5.4, linux-gkeop, linux-gkeop-5.4, linux- hwe-5.4, linux-ibm, linux-ibm-5.4, linux-kvm, linux-oracle, linux-oracle-5.4, linux-raspi, linux- raspi-5.4, linux, linux-hwe-5.15, linux-lowlatency, linux-lowlatency-hwe-5.15, linux-aws, linux-aws- 5.15, linux-azure, linux-azure-5.15, linux-gcp, linux-gcp-5.15, linux-gke, linux-gke-5.15, linux- ibm, linux-kvm, linux-oracle, linux-raspi, linux- intel-iotg, linux-oem-5.14, linux-oem-5.17, and node-moment). # ⚓ Hacker News ☛ CISA_Issues_Warning_on_Active_Exploitation_of UnRAR_Software_for_Linux_Systems [Ed: How_to_distract_from the_major_problem_CISA_has_just_pointed_out]⠀⇛ # ⚓ PyPI_Package_‘secretslib’_Drops_Fileless_Linux_Malware_to Mine_Monero [Ed: The issue here is not "Linux" but people installing malware on it]⠀⇛ # ⚓ LWN ☛ The_quantum_state_of_Linux_kernel_garbage_collection_ (Project_Zero)_[LWN.net]⠀⇛ The Project Zero blog has posted a detailed look at CVE-2021-0920 in the first of a two-part series on how this bug created a vulnerability that was subsequently exploited. # ⚓ LWN ☛ Security_requirements_for_new_kernel_features_ [LWN.net]⠀⇛ The relatively new io_uring subsystem has changed the way asynchronous I/O is done on Linux systems and improved performance significantly. It has also, however, begun to run up a record of disagreements with the kernel’s security community. A recent discussion about security hooks for the new uring_cmd mechanism shows how easily requirements can be overlooked in a complex system with no overall supervision. Most of the operations that can be performed within io_uring follow the usual I/O patterns — open a file, read data, write data, and so on. These operations are the same regardless of the underlying device or filesystem that is doing the work. There always seems to be a need for something special and device-specific, though, and io_uring is no exception. For the kernel as a whole, device- specific operations are made available via ioctl() calls. That system call, however, has built up a reputation as a dumping ground for poorly thought- out features, and there is little desire to see its usage spread. In early 2021, io_uring maintainer Jens Axboe floated an idea for a command passthrough mechanism that would be specific to io_uring. A year and some later, that idea has evolved into uring_cmd, which was pulled into the mainline during the 5.19 merge window. There is a new io_uring operation that, in turn, causes an invocation of the underlying device or filesystem’s uring_cmd() file_operations function. The actual operation to be performed is passed through to that function with no interpretation in the io_uring layer. The first user is the NVMe driver, which provides a direct passthrough operation. o § Monopolies⠀➾ # ⚓ MakeTech Easier ☛ Google_Suggests_Apple_Should_Adopt_RCS_to “Fix”_iMessage⠀⇛ For iPhone Users, messaging comes down to blue vs. green bubbles, showing them who is also on an iPhone and who is on Android or another alternative. Is it marketing? Of course. Should Apple be forced to dump what it’s built so that it can work better with Androids? Google thinks so, as it suggested in a post on the Android website, “It’s time for Apple to fix texting,” to add RCS to iMessage. * § Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾ o § Personal⠀➾ # ⚓ Coronavirus_Adventure,_Day_5⠀⇛ A friend who is a serious jock bike rider got the virus recently. On day 5 he felt much better, and after testing negative, could not resist a little bike ride (which would probably kill me, but like I said, he bikes all the time). o § Technical⠀➾ # § Internet/Gemini⠀➾ # ⚓ Gopher_Protocol:_Re_How_you_were_using_the_Internet in_the_1991-1995?⠀⇛ I was in my late 20′s during that era. I did my degree in 1983-86, and had never heard of things like BBSs or gopher. After that I got a job as an accountant, where there was no internet, nor had anyone really heard of it. In 1991-93 I did a Masters course in mathematics. It was a joint course between two universities. One had Unix machines, so we had Maple, Fortran, and all that good stuff. Back in those days we were innocent about security, and you could send a picture to someone else’s machine remotely. I still hadn’t heard of the internet. =============================================================================== * Gemini_(Primer) links can be opened using Gemini_software. It’s like the World Wide Web but a lot lighter. ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 1764 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐃𝐀𝐈𝐋𝐘 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒 ═════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 08.11.22⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Links_11/08/2022:_PostgreSQL_Beta_3_Releases⠀✐ Posted in News_Roundup at 8:32 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇GNOME bluefish⦈ § Contents⠀➾ * GNU/Linux o Audiocasts/Shows o Instructionals/Technical o Desktop_Environments/WMs # K_Desktop_Environment/KDE_SC/Qt * Distributions_and_Operating_Systems o New_Releases o BSD o Fedora_Family_/_IBM o Debian_Family o Canonical/Ubuntu_Family o Open_Hardware/Modding * Free,_Libre,_and_Open_Source_Software o SaaS/Back_End/Databases o Programming/Development * Leftovers o Science o Security # Privacy/Surveillance o Environment # Energy o Finance o Censorship/Free_Speech * Gemini*_and_Gopher o Personal o Politics o Technical * § GNU/Linux⠀➾ o § Audiocasts/Shows⠀➾ # ⚓ Video ☛ DreamWorks_Open_Sources_In_House_Renderer_MoonRay_– Invidious⠀⇛ Even if they’re not tools that I use it’s always awesome to see amazing projects go FOSS and today is no different when DreamWorks decided to licence there in house renderer MoonRay under Apache 2.0 o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾ # ⚓ HowTo Forge ☛ How_to_Install_Let’s_Chat_on_Ubuntu_22.04⠀⇛ Let’s Chat is a free, open-source, and persistent messaging application that runs on Node.js and MongoDB. It is designed for small, intimate teams that offer a rich set of features such as LDAP/ Kerberos authentication, a REST-like API, and XMPP support. # ⚓ Video ☛ How_to_install_Moshi_Moshi_Rewritten_on_Pop!_OS 22.04_–_Invidious⠀⇛ In this video, we are looking at how to install Moshi Moshi Rewritten on Pop!_OS 22.04. # ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_Monit_on_Ubuntu_22.04_LTS⠀⇛ Monit is an open-source utility program that manages and monitors resources and services on Linux systems. Some services and resources managed by Monit are CPU usage, memory usage, server uptime, network connections, and server applications services. It also ensures that all running services are always healthy by restarting services that stop or encounter operating errors. These errors can be caused by many things, such as a power outage or a service crash. Monit can help prevent downtime and keep your system running smoothly by monitoring and managing these resources. Additionally, Monit can be configured to send alerts if certain conditions are met, such as high CPU usage or low free memory. This allows you to take action quickly if something goes wrong. Monit is a valuable tool for keeping your Linux system up and running. In the following tutorial, you will learn how to install Monit on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Jammy Jellyfish using the version direct from Ubuntu’s repository and how to configure Monit to be accessible from your browser using the command line terminal. # ⚓ How_to_install_Monit_5_on_Fedora_36_–_NextGenTips⠀⇛ In this tutorial, we are going to learn how to install Monit 5 on Fedora 36. Monit is a small open source utility for monitoring and managing Unix systems. It performs automatic maintenance whenever there is downtime in your system. # ⚓ H2S Media ☛ How_to_install_KDE_Plasma_Desktop_on_Fedora Linux_–_Linux_Shout⠀⇛ Learn the steps to install KDE Plasma 5 Desktop on Fedora 36 workstation desktops and other previous versions such as 35, 34… to get a beautiful alternative to the system’s default GNOME 42 Desktop. Fedora plays a not negligible contribution to the Red Hat value chain. It is not meant to generate revenue but instead gives the right direction to the future versions of RHEL. It is an experimental ground for Red Hat. Fedora is allowed to experiment with new technologies, which is why it offers a wide range of packages directly to install using the default system repo. It is more friendly than Redhat and its based distros such as CentOS, Oracle, Rocky, and Almalinux. So Fedora can be liked not only by developers but also by desktop users. It brings very new packages and technologies. However, it is not a Cup of tea for those who want a long-term supported Linux. Because you have to perform regular system upgrades as it releases new versions every six months and at the same time three versions are maintained for a short time, whereby the oldest and the latest version only have short-term support. # ⚓ Linux Made Simple ☛ How_to_install_the_Brave_Beta_Browser on_a_Chromebook⠀⇛ Today we are looking at how to install the Brave Beta Browser on a Chromebook. Please follow the video/audio guide as a tutorial where we explain the process step by step and use the commands below. o § Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾ # § K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt⠀➾ # ⚓ Midichlorians_in_the_blood:_Summer_Releases⠀⇛ The first two applications, kmetronome and kmidimon, are now over fifteen years old and are only available for Linux. These two new versions are simply bug fixes, with no new features. But it is interesting to note that in FlatHub they are already based on Qt6 and supporting both Wayland and X11, although the packages in AppImage format still use Qt5. The chances of finding these applications in the official repositories of Linux distributions are slim. In fact, kmidimon was removed from the official Debian repositories with some lame excuse, and it is unlikely to be included again. I can’t do anything about it, so please: direct complaints where they belong. Or use the new available distribution formats or the unofficial repositories, like Debian Multimedia, which includes the three mentioned applications and many others. The other app, dmidiplayer, is much newer and cross-platform. It is the successor to Kmid2, the KDE karaoke application that I rewrote many years ago. In this new version the most remarkable new feature is the persistent configuration of the songs. This is a feature that was already present in the old Kmid2 and that allows you to store the tempo, general volume, pitch transposition, and MIDI channel settings for each song, which will be applied when it is played again in the future. The other novelty is the individual volume adjustment for each MIDI channel, something that was not possible in Kmid2. * § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾ o § New Releases⠀➾ # ⚓ The Register UK ☛ System_recovery_solution_Rescuezilla_2.4 released_•_The_Register⠀⇛ Version 2.4 of Rescuezilla – which describes itself as the “Swiss Army Knife of System Recovery,” – is here and based on Ubuntu 22.04. Rescuezilla is a fork and continuation of the Redo Backup and Recovery project. “Redo” went quiet after 2012, with no new releases until 2020. So, in 2019, the developers behind Rescuezilla forked Redo, updated it, and continued development. Since then, the older project has come back to life. A hostile third party had bought its domain name, so rather than pay the typo-squatters’ ransom, its developers simply renamed the project to Redo Rescue and restarted work under the new name. (The old URL, which we won’t link to, now redirects to an advertising site – so you should probably avoid it.) It looks like Rescuezilla is a friendly fork, inasmuch as the maintainers of Redo Rescue actually link to it. (Good on them!) RedoRescue is in active development once again: there’s a new version 4.0, based on Debian 11, released in October 2021, although the website still describes version 3 from 2020. Even so, Rescuezilla is a little more modern still. It’s now based on Ubuntu rather than Debian, and version 2.4 updates this to Ubuntu 22.04. o § BSD⠀➾ # ⚓ DragonFly BSD Digest ☛ In_Other_BSDs_for_2022/08/06⠀⇛ # ⚓ DragonFly BSD Digest ☛ Cleaning_up_a_HAMMER_drive⠀⇛ Predrag Punosevac has some notes on how he cleaned up some HAMMER drives and freed up half his disk space. o § Fedora Family / IBM⠀➾ # ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ Fedora_Silverblue_vs._Workstation:_6_Major Differences_Between_the_Two_Distros⠀⇛ Fedora Silverblue is a rapidly maturing version of Fedora Linux that may come to replace Fedora Workstation as the default version someday. On the surface, Fedora Silverblue looks the same as Fedora Workstation; both provide the GNOME desktop and a similar set of apps. So what sets Fedora Silverblue apart from Fedora Workstation, and why is it generating such excitement among a corner of the Linux community? The differences are primarily under the hood, and they are a drastic rethink of how to build a Linux distribution. # ⚓ The Register UK ☛ A_fix_for_legacy_issues_around_Red_Hat crypto_•_The_Register⠀⇛ If you’re running a mixture of new and old RHEL versions, you may have problems SSHing from new to old. Luckily, someone has worked out a handy way around it. The issue is relatively simple: the default security settings in RHEL 9 mean that you can’t open an SSH connection to a machine running RHEL 6 or older, which use the deprecated SHA-1 encryption algorithm. There are other, related issues as well: the inability to upgrade old RPM packages that are signed with SHA-1 signatures, or for Firefox to connect to an HTTPS server that uses a very old version of the protocol. # ⚓ Video ☛ Partner_Executive_Video:_Red_Hat_and_Kyndryl Partnership_–_Invidious⠀⇛ # ⚓ Common_GLib_Programming_Errors,_Part_Two:_Weak_Pointers_– Michael_Catanzaro’s_Blog⠀⇛ This post is a sequel to Common GLib Programming Errors, where I covered four common errors: failure to disconnect a signal handler, misuse of a GSource handle ID, failure to cancel an asynchronous function, and misuse of main contexts in library or threaded code. Although there are many ways to mess up when writing programs that use GLib, I believe the first post covered the most likely and most pernicious… except I missed weak pointers. Sébastien pointed out that these should be covered too, so here we are. # ⚓ Fedora Project ☛ Friday’s_Fedora_Facts:_2022-32⠀⇛ Here’s your weekly Fedora report. Read what happened this week and what’s coming up. Your contributions are welcome (see the end of the post)! I have weekly office hours on Wednesdays in the morning and afternoon (US/Eastern time) in #fedora- meeting-1. Drop by if you have any questions or comments about the schedule, Changes, elections, or anything else. See the upcoming meetings for more information. # ⚓ NeuroFedora ☛ Next_Open_NeuroFedora_meeting:_15_August_1300 UTC⠀⇛ Please join us at the next regular Open NeuroFedora team meeting on Monday 15 August at 1300 UTC. The meeting is a public meeting, and open for everyone to attend. o § Debian Family⠀➾ # ⚓ IT Wire ☛ iTWire_–_Debian_project_gains_control_of debian.community_domain⠀⇛ The global IP authority has granted ownership of the “debian.community” domain name to the Debian GNU/Linux Project and decided that it should be transferred to the community Linux distribution. A statement from the project, which lodged a complaint about the domain name, said the decision had been taken by the World Intellectual Property Organisation under its Domain-Name Dispute- Resolution Policy. The panel that made the decision said it had found that “the disputed domain name is identical to a trademark in which the Complainant has rights.” The project, an association of free software developers who produce the Debian distribution, said it was committed to the proper use of its trademarks and would take action when there was any violation of its policy. o § Canonical/Ubuntu Family⠀➾ # ⚓ DebugPoint ☛ Ubuntu_22.04.1_Arrives_in_Style_with_Rock Solid_Updates⠀⇛ Release highlights of Ubuntu 22.04.1 which is the first point release of Jammy Jellyfish that brings updated software and bug fixes. # ⚓ Liliputing ☛ Lilbits:_Intel_Arc_A750_GPU_benchmarked_(by Intel),_Ubuntu_22.04.1_LTS_released,_Razer_Phone_ecosystem_is dead(er)⠀⇛ # ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ Ubuntu_22.04_Point_Release_Upgrade_Available to_Loyal_Users_After_Frustrating_Delay⠀⇛ The official Ubuntu account enticed users who may have been waiting to upgrade to the new system with a Twitter post. The post includes a slick desktop tour video that shows the new interface enhancements: Ubuntu point releases typically come several months after a major release. This release follows the Ubuntu 22.04 “Jammy Jellyfish” release in April 2022. The point release comes after a slight delay in early August 2022 to fix some last-minute bugs. Ubuntu only allows users to upgrade using the upgrade tool after the first point release. Impatient users can simply download an image beforehand. This is a Long Term Support (LTS) release, meaning that Canonical recommends this version to most users and that the company will support it until April 2027. o § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾ # ⚓ Tom’s Hardware ☛ Raspberry_Pi_Unlocks_Door_Automatically with_Facial_Recognition_|_Tom’s_Hardware⠀⇛ Automating your smart home with a Raspberry Pi is a popular idea in the Raspberry Pi community and there are plenty of unique ways to implement the SBC into various designs. Today we’re sharing another home automation-based project created by maker and developer Dillon McCardell who’s using a Pi to operate a door locking system using facial recognition known as AuraLock. The system works just as you would expect—it uses a camera to capture images of potential faces. If a recognized and approved face is detected, the Pi will trigger the deadbolt to unlock. Once the deadbolt has been unlocked, users can enter the room and either manually lock the door or do so using the corresponding mobile application. # ⚓ Tom’s Hardware ☛ Raspberry_Pi_Home_Assistant_Runs_on_Old Sony_TV-511_|_Tom’s_Hardware⠀⇛ If there’s one thing a Raspberry Pi is good for, it’s enhancing hardware with more features than you can shake a stick at. This project, created by Telefrag Entertainment, does just that. It’s using a Raspberry Pi to power his custom home assistant system (opens in new tab) using Jarvis—a Python- based voice assistant application that integrates artificial intelligence to interpret commands. This home assistant project stands out as it uses an old Sony TV-511 television for video output. This old TV is both small and big at the same time. Having been released in the 1970s, the Sony TV-511 is not a large TV, but it’s much thicker than TVs you’ll find today. According to Telefrag Entertainment, he picked it up on eBay before turning it into this home assistant display. # ⚓ Tom’s Hardware ☛ How_to_Build_Your_Own_3D_Printed_Raspberry Pi_Robot_(Updated)_|_Tom’s_Hardware⠀⇛ Building your own robot is one of the most satisfying things you can do. It combines mechanical, electrical, and programming skills together in a way few projects do. I’ve been building robots for a couple of years now and love to expand my knowledge and skills by using different controller boards, motors, wheels, and sensors to detect the world around the robot. * § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾ o ⚓ Ariadne Conill ☛ So_you’ve_decided_to_start_a_free_software consultancy…_|_Ariadne’s_Space⠀⇛ Recently a friend of mine told me that he was planning to start a free software consultancy, and asked for my advice, as I have an extensive background doing free software consulting for a living. While I have already given him some advice on how to proceed, I thought it might be nice to write a blog expanding on my answer, so that others who are interested in pursuing free software consulting may benefit. o § SaaS/Back End/Databases⠀➾ # ⚓ PostgreSQL ☛ PostgreSQL_14.5,_13.8,_12.12,_11.17,_10.22, and_15_Beta_3_Released!⠀⇛ The PostgreSQL Global Development Group has released an update to all supported versions of PostgreSQL, including 14.5, 13.8, 12.12, 11.17, and 10.22, as well as the third beta release of PostgreSQL 15. This release closes one security vulnerability and fixes over 40 bugs reported over the last three months. # ⚓ PostgreSQL ☛ PostgreSQL:_pg_partman_4.7.0_released⠀⇛ PostgreSQL Partition Manager (pg_partman) v4.7.0 has been released. IMPORTANT REQUEST: A topic has been opened on the github page to discuss the future development of pg_partman and support for trigger-based partitioning. A plan is currently in place to begin dropping trigger-based support upon the EOL for PostgreSQL 10 on November 10, 2022. Feedback is requested for use-cases that could potentially change these plans and continue supporting trigger- based partitioning until native partitioning better supports them. o § Programming/Development⠀➾ # ⚓ Migrating_from_vscode_to_vim_·_🤠_Major_Hayden⠀⇛ Every Linux user experienced at least one “battle of the text editors” once in their lifetime. I even participated in a few! Text editors form the foundation of nearly every Linux user’s workflow. You need to use one eventually, whether for quick configuration file edits, developing software, or writing blog posts in markdown (like this one)! * § Leftovers⠀➾ o ⚓ IT Wire ☛ iTWire_–_Global_EV_sales_rise_to_4.2m_in_1H22,_China tops_take-up⠀⇛ Global sales of electric vehicles totalled 4.2 million in the first half of 2022, a 63% increase year-on-year, the technology analyst firm Canalys says, adding that this included battery electric vehicles and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles. The firm found that while many new EVs had been launched during the first six months of the year, supply lagged and long wait times for delivery were common. China was the leader in take-up during the period in question, with 2.4 million EVs delivered, equating to 26% of the total passenger cars and a rise from 10% year-on- year. The delivery figures were much smaller for Europe (1.1 million – 20% of all passenger cars) and the US (414,000 – 6% of passenger cars). o § Science⠀➾ # ⚓ IEEE ☛ Baidu’s_PaddlePaddle_Spins_AI_up_to_Industrial Applications⠀⇛ TensorFlow, PyTorch, and Keras: Those three deep- learning frameworks have dominated AI for years even as newer entrants gain steam. But one framework you don’t hear much about in the West is China’s PaddlePaddle, the most popular Chinese framework in the world’s most populous country. It is an easy-to-use, efficient, flexible, and scalable deep-learning platform, originally developed by Baidu, the Chinese AI giant, to apply deep learning to many of its own products. Today, it is being used by more than 4.77 million developers and 180,000 enterprises globally. While comparable numbers are hard to come by for other frameworks, suffice to say, that’s big. o § Security⠀➾ # ⚓ Bruce Schneier ☛ Hacking_Starlink_–_Schneier_on_Security⠀⇛ This is the first—of many, I assume—hack of Starlink. Leveraging a string of vulnerabilities, attackers can access the Starlink system and run custom code on the devices. # ⚓ NSA’s_Kubernetes_Hardening_Guidelines_and_Pod_Security [Ed: NSA is a proponent of back doors, not security]⠀⇛ I previously asked (and answered) the question, What Are the NSA K8s Guidelines and Why Should You Care? I suggested that the first step to compliance is to understand your Kubernetes environment. The next step is to review the five categories and start somewhere! # § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾ # ⚓ IEEE ☛ Amazon_to_Acquire_iRobot_F​or_$1.7_Billion⠀⇛ This morning, Amazon and iRobot announced “a definitive merger agreement under which Amazon will acquire iRobot” for US $1.7 billion. The announcement was a surprise, to put it mildly, and we’ve barely had a chance to digest the news. But taking a look at what’s already known can still yield initial (if incomplete) answers as to why Amazon and iRobot want to team up—and whether the merger seems like a good idea. o § Environment⠀➾ # § Energy⠀➾ # ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Beetaloo,_Scarborough,_Labor lockstep_with_Coalition_on_high_emission_gas_projects_– Michael_West⠀⇛ Will the change of government reset the dial on Australia’s planet-endangering projects? Beetaloo gas fracking, Barnaby Joyce’s petrochemical plant, Scarborough. Australians may soon get the sinking feeling that little has changed from the Morrison-Joyce fossil- fuel spree, writes Callum Foote. Australians heard a lot about the climate crisis during the election campaign. And last Wednesday the Albanese government won sufficient cross-bench support to get its 2030 emissions reduction ”floor not a ceiling” target of 43% through the Senate. But when it comes to big polluting projects, it seems that not a lot has changed. Consider the evidence. The Albanese government is continuing the Coalition government’s legacy when it comes to gas, a recommitment to Barnaby Joyce’s $1.5 billion port of Darwin petrochemical precinct, continuing the fracking of the Beetaloo Basin in the Northern Territory and refusing to impose windfall profit taxes o § Finance⠀➾ # ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Billionaires’_loophole_finally_closed! –_Michael_West⠀⇛ Under cover of climate debate, the Greens and Labor swiftly and smartly killed off a longstanding loophole which let Australian billionaires hide their financial affairs. o § Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾ # ⚓ IT Wire ☛ iTWire_–_Australian_media_reaction_to_Chinese envoy’s_speech_baffling⠀⇛ The reaction of the Australian media to an address by the Chinese envoy at the National Press Club in Canberra on Wednesday is quite baffling, given that most of what he spoke about has been known for the last 50 years. Xiao Qian’s statements have been interpreted as rude, chilling, scary etc but the essence of what he said — China’s stance on Taiwan — has been codified in print since the US changed its stand on relations with the mainland and switched from recognition of Taiwan in 1972. The understanding at that time was that Taiwan was a province of China and that the US would have a one-China policy that did not afford diplomatic recognition to Taiwan. About 180-odd countries have the same stance on Taiwan and hence the almighty uproar about Xiao’s remarks are extremely difficult to comprehend. # ⚓ AccessNow ☛ #KeepItOn_in_Somaliland:_authorities_cannot quash_public_protest_and_access_to_information_–_Access_Now⠀⇛ Access Now and the #KeepItOn coalition condemn the ongoing internet blackout imposed by authorities in Somalia’s self-declared Republic of Somaliland, in a knee-jerk reaction to protests against the postponement of the presidential election. “Shutting down the internet in times of political instability and unrest fuels crisis and conceals human rights violations against people,” said Felicia Anthonio, #KeepItOn Campaign Manager at Access Now. “Whenever the internet is shut down during high tension moments, lives are endangered. This flagrant abuse of power in Somaliland cannot be condoned in any way.” # ⚓ AccessNow ☛ #KeepItOn_in_Sierra_Leone:_the_government_must stop_wielding_internet_shutdowns_for_political_control_– Access_Now⠀⇛ Sierra Leone authorities must ensure an open and accessible internet at all times, and especially during political instability. On Wednesday, August 10, an anti-government protest erupted in Freetown, Sierra Leone, responding to the rising cost of living. The protest escalated quickly into violence with reports of an unspecified number of deaths including police. During the protest, a nationwide internet shutdown was documented for nearly two hours from 12:00 to 14:00 local time. “This outrageous trend of governments flipping the kill switch in times of protests is increasingly alarming and cannot be allowed to become the new norm,” said Felicia Anthonio, #KeepItOn Campaign Manager at Access Now. “Authorities in Sierra Leone must be held accountable for shutting down the internet in order to quell the ongoing protests in the country rather than trying to pass it off as suspiciously-timed ‘maintenance’ activities.” * § Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾ o § Personal⠀➾ # ⚓ A_New_Job_and_Marketabilit⠀⇛ After over five years with my current employer, I’ve decided to accept a new job. I’ve already given notice to my manager, and my last day will be in just under two weeks. The job is an IT job, quite similar to the work I do now, but the company works in the aviation industry. I have had a great passion for aerospace my entire life, and I am indescribably excited to have an opportunity to finally contribute to the field, even if indirectly. o § Politics⠀➾ # ⚓ Re:More_OnlyFans_BBC_Paid_Media_Ads_(by_kevinsan)⠀⇛ I really recommend to read the full series because the analysis really nails this topic lucidly and mercilessly, revealing all the contradictions that such online services come with! o § Technical⠀➾ # ⚓ Don’t_use_DuckDuckGo⠀⇛ Previously, the title was “On DuckDuckGo” which was less inflammatory. However, as I continued to do research for this article, my opinion on DDG continued to worsen. For the most part, DDG is the de facto “mainstream” search engine recommended by privacy advocates. It’s the default search engine in Tor browser, continues to be recommended by PrivacyGuides and despite their missteps (privacy failures with their mobile browser and Microsoft trackers), it continues to resist criticism in the PrivacyGuides community. The search results are “good enough” for most usecases. So what motivated me to write this article? I noticed a peculiar thing where I was getting geographically relevant search results for unrelated search terms (see image below). For example, a search term containing “map project” for a video game would give me search results for my local city/state website that had the word “project” in it. # ⚓ Using_Borgmatic_with_Snapper⠀⇛ Previously I talked about going full BTRFS. Fedora has incrementally following in openSUSE’s footsteps and has not only adopted BTRFS but plans on integrating snapshots as well. However the proposal never went anywhere. So far you can install python3-dnf-plugin-snapper and snapper today. The former takes snapshots prior to and after installing packages. However, due to Fedora’s default filesystem layout, some changes need to be made. =============================================================================== * Gemini_(Primer) links can be opened using Gemini_software. It’s like the World Wide Web but a lot lighter. ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 2669 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐃𝐀𝐈𝐋𝐘 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒 ═════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 08.11.22⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Links_11/08/2022:_Qt_Creator_8.0.1_and_Microsoft’s_3-Year_Bug_Door⠀✐ Posted in News_Roundup at 11:00 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇GNOME bluefish⦈ § Contents⠀➾ * GNU/Linux o Server o Audiocasts/Shows o Graphics_Stack o Applications o Instructionals/Technical o Games * Distributions_and_Operating_Systems o BSD o Fedora_/_Red_Hat_/_IBM o Debian_Family o Canonical/Ubuntu_Family o Open_Hardware/Modding o Mobile_Systems/Mobile_Applications * Free,_Libre,_and_Open_Source_Software o Programming/Development # Shell/Bash/Zsh/Ksh # Rust o Standards/Consortia * Leftovers o Science o Hardware o Health/Nutrition/Agriculture o Proprietary o Security # Privacy/Surveillance o Defence/Aggression o Environment # Energy # Wildlife/Nature 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 Digital_Restrictions_(DRM) o Monopolies # Software_Patents # Trademarks # Copyrights * Gemini*_and_Gopher o Personal o Technical # Internet/Gemini # Programming * § GNU/Linux⠀➾ o § Server⠀➾ # ⚓ The_5_Top_App_Definition_and_Build_Tools_From_CNCF_– Container_Journal⠀⇛ Kubernetes has evolved to become the foundation of the modern cloud-native stack. Yet, adopting this lovable beast of a container platform doesn’t come without its hurdles. Thankfully, many toolsets now exist to help engineers package, deploy and manage applications using Kubernetes. Below, we’ll look at some graduated and incubating CNCF tools that fit under the application definition and image build category. These open source packages address the operational concerns of Kubernetes, making it easier to install dependencies, generate Kubernetes operators, containerize VMs and more. If you want to improve the developer experience around Kubernetes adoption, these tools are an excellent first place to look. # ⚓ CloudNativeDay:_Google_Sees_Containers_Improving_App Reliability_–_Container_Journal⠀⇛ Containers and serverless computing frameworks play a critical role in making environments more resilient as organizations increasingly depend on the availability of applications to drive revenue. Steve McGhee, co-author of Enterprise Roadmap to SRE: How to Build and Sustain an SRE Function and a reliability advocate at Google, tells attendees at the virtual CloudNativeDay summit that smaller containers coupled with serverless computing frameworks make it simpler to build modular components that not only isolate dependencies but also make it easier to restore services in the event of a disruption. o § Audiocasts/Shows⠀➾ # ⚓ The TLLTS Podcast ☛ The_Linux_Link_Tech_Show_Episode_966⠀⇛ Joel and the colonoscopy. # ⚓ FLOSS_Weekly_693:_Open_Source_Analytics_With_Scarf_–_Avi Press,_Scarf_and_Open_Source_Insights⠀⇛ Avi Press, CEO of Scarf, gives good answers to hard questions from Doc Searls and Jonathan Bennett about how to run analytics and gain insights on open source software use in privacy-respecting ways. # ⚓ Video ☛ How_to_install_Gimp_on_Pop!_OS_22.04_–_Invidious⠀⇛ In this video, we are looking at how to install Gimp on Pop!_OS 22.04. # ⚓ Video ☛ Github_Killed_Tornado_Cash_&_Banned_Its_Developers! –_Invidious⠀⇛ Normally I don’t talk about crypto but this time is different, Github, Google, and AWS shutdown Tornado Cash due to sanctions levied by the US, I’ll leave it up to you to decide whether this is good or not but I felt you needed to know. # ⚓ The BSD Now Podcast ☛ BSD_Now_467:_Minecraft_on_NetBSD⠀⇛ Installing BSDs on Cubieboard1, Self-hosting a static site with OpenBSD, httpd, and relayd, NetBSD can also run a Minecraft server, A Little Story About the yes Unix Command, Shell History: Unix, OpenBGPD 7.5 released, and more # ⚓ Bad_Voltage_3×49:_The_Noise_of_Doubt⠀⇛ Stuart Langridge, Jono Bacon, and Jeremy Garcia present Bad Voltage, in which the roflcopter is created, Soli is forgotten… o § Graphics Stack⠀➾ # ⚓ Mike_Blumenkrantz:_New_News⠀⇛ I’m going to kick off this post and month by saying that in my defense, I was going to write this post weeks ago, but then I didn’t, and then I got sidetracked, but I had the screenshots open the whole time so it’s not like I forgot, but then I did forget for a little while, and then my session died because the man the myth the legend the as- seen-on-the-web-with-a-different-meaning Adam “ajax” Jackson pranked me with a GLX patch, but I started a new session, and gimp recovered my screenshots, and I remembered I needed to post, and I got distracted even more, and now it’s like three whole weeks later and here we are at the post I was going to write last month but didn’t get around to but now it’s totally been gotten to. You’re welcome. [...] Render passes control how rendering works. There’s load operations which determine how data is retrieved from the framebuffer (I also hate framebuffers) attachments, there’s store operations which determine how data is stored back to the attachments (I hate this part too), and then there’s “dependencies” (better believe I hate these) which manage synchronization between operations, and input attachments (everyone hates these) which enable reading attachment data in shaders, and then also render pass instances have to be started and stopped any time any attachments or framebuffer geometry changes (this sucks), and to top it all off, transfer operations can’t be executed while render passes are active (mega sucks). Also there’s nested render passes, but I’m literally fearing for my life even mentioning them where other driver developers can see, so let’s move on. o § Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ The_8_Best_Linux_Apps_for_Downloading_and Managing_Wallpapers⠀⇛ The default Linux desktop wallpapers might not suit everyone’s setup. Here are some of the best apps to download wallpapers on Linux. Your Linux distribution likely comes with numerous wallpapers, but it’s no surprise if you don’t want to stick to the defaults. Yet searching for wallpapers online can sometimes be time-consuming and lead you to some sketchy-looking corners of the web. Fortunately, there are more than a few Linux apps committed to the task of finding and downloading wallpapers. But that’s just where the fun starts. Some will help you toggle wallpapers based on the time of day, change wallpapers to fit your dark theme, or even make your own. o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾ # ⚓ [Old] Mark G James ☛ Add_buster-backports_to_a_Raspberry Pi⠀⇛ The Raspberry Pi OS 64 bit already has the necessary signing keys. I haven’t used the 32 bit one for a while but it may also have the necessary signing keys. You only need to do point 2 if you get an error telling you you don’t have the GPG keys. As mentioned in the comments the GPG keyservers disappear. The kfwebs.net listed below is no longer available but there are others listed in the comments that can be used instead. # ⚓ Pragmatic Linux ☛ How_to_find_the_IP_address_of_your Raspberry_PI_–_PragmaticLinux⠀⇛ Planning on running your Raspberry PI as a server on your local network? Excellent idea. They’re cheap, powerful and require little power. The perfect solution for a basic file-, web- or game- server. In order to access the Raspberry PI server from another device on your local network, you need to know its IP address. This article presents several methods on how to find the IP address of your Raspberry PI. # ⚓ Linux Made Simple ☛ How_to_install_Gacha_Club_Edition Update_on_a_Chromebook⠀⇛ Today we are looking at how to install Gacha Club Edition Update on a Chromebook. Please follow the video/audio guide as a tutorial where we explain the process step by step and use the commands below. # ⚓ HowTo Geek ☛ How_to_Check_If_a_File_Exists_in_Linux_Bash Scripts⠀⇛ If a Linux Bash script relies on certain files or directories being present, it can’t just assume they do. It needs to check that they’re definitely present. Here’s how to do that. # ⚓ UNIX Cop ☛ How_to_convert_images_using_the_Linux_terminal⠀⇛ In this post, you will learn how to convert images using the Linux terminal. This post, which can help us in scripts and many external programs. # ⚓ Linux Shell Tips ☛ Fixing_“Command_Not_Found”_Error_When Using_Sudo⠀⇛ It is a right of passage for almost all Linux users to go through the headaches associated with the error “command not found” whenever you try to execute a script or a file on your Linux terminal as a sudoer user. This error directly implies that the script or file you are trying to execute either does not exist on your system or the PATH variable is unaware of its unspecified location. This article guide will walk us through diagnosing and fixing this “command not found” sudo-associated error. # ⚓ markaicode by Mark ☛ How_to_Install_MongoDB_6.0_on_Debian 11_|_Mark_Ai_Code⠀⇛ We will use the official repository to install MongoDB 6.0 server and client on Debian 11 in order to handle local or distant databases using a command prompt. # ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_MySQL_8.0_on_Ubuntu_20.04 LTS⠀⇛ MySQL is a free, open-source database management system based on SQL or Structured Query Language. It is one of the most widely used database systems for several well-known applications. MySQL is used for data warehousing, e-commerce, and logging applications, and its most notable feature is web- based database storage and management. The ease of use and flexibility of MySQL has made it a popular choice for many web applications. One of the key benefits of MySQL is that it runs on multiple platforms, including Windows, Linux, and macOS. This allows developers to create cross-platform applications deployed on various devices. Another benefit of MySQL is that it supports multiple programming languages, making it easy to integrate into existing applications. Lastly, MySQL is highly scalable, which means it can handle large volumes of data without sacrificing performance. This makes it an ideal choice for businesses looking to manage growing amounts of data. In the latest release of MySQL 8.0, the database management system brings new features and security updates. This new release of MySQL adds support for joins with larger data sets, better performance when importing large files, and various improvements to InnoDB, SQL mode, named ‘strict sql_mode,’ which will make MySQL more compliant with the SQL standard. In addition, there are performance enhancements in this release that include an adaptive query cache, a thread pool for connections, and a faster startup time. Finally, there are multiple security fixes included in this release. Overall, this new release of MySQL provides significant improvements and enhancements that will benefit developers and database administrators alike. The following tutorial will teach you how to install MySQL Community on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Focal Fossa using the MySQL official APT repository, which will give you the latest version available on your system using the command line terminal. # ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_Apache_(HTTPD)_on_Rocky Linux_9⠀⇛ Apache, also known as Apache HTTP server, has been one of the most widely used web server applications globally for the past few decades. It is a free, open-source web application software maintained by the Apache Software Foundation. Apache provides some powerful features with dynamically loadable modules, easy integration with other software, and handling of static files, among other popular features. The main reason for its popularity is that it is highly customizable to meet the needs of different users, making it an ideal choice for small and large businesses. Additionally, Apache is constantly updated with new features and security enhancements, making it a reliable and secure option for hosting websites. While many web server options are available today, Apache remains one of the most popular choices thanks to its flexibility, ease of use, and wide range of features. In the following tutorial, you will learn how to install Apache on Rocky Linux 9 using the command line terminal for desktop or server and basic configuration and creating a TLS/SSL certificate with Let’s Encrypt. # ⚓ How_to_install_Monit_5_on_Ubuntu_22.04_–_NextGenTips⠀⇛ Monit is a small open source utility for monitoring and managing Unix systems. It performs automatic maintenance whenever there is downtime in your system. From this tutorial, you are going to learn how to install Monit on Ubuntu 22.04. # ⚓ Red Hat Official ☛ How_to_integrate_Active_Directory Federation_Services_(ADFS)_authentication_with_Red_Hat_SSO using_SAML_|_Enable_Sysadmin [Ed: Red Hat parroting Microsoft talking points]⠀⇛ Most businesses use Active Directory (AD) as it offers a single source of user management in the organization. Many organizations often incorporate additional authentication programs and protocols, such as Red Hat Single Sign On (RH-SSO), in tandem with AD. RH-SSO is based on Keycloak, an open source identity and access management tool for modern web applications. o § Games⠀➾ # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ What_if_Pong_had_‘lore,_special_moves_&_gay aliens’?_You_get_ZONERS⠀⇛ The developer of ZONERS certainly had an interesting pitch when introducing their new game over email and it turns out it’s pretty fun. # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ W4_Games_formed_to_help_developers_using Godot_Engine⠀⇛ Here’s a very interesting development for the world of the open source Godot Engine, as a new company named W4 Games has been formed to push it further than ever before. # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Two_Point_Campus_from_the_dev_of_Two_Point Hospital_out_now⠀⇛ Two Point Campus is the next game from Two Point Studios and SEGA, the same lot that gave us Two Point Hospital. It comes with Native Linux support and works on the Steam Deck right away. * § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾ o § BSD⠀➾ # ⚓ Undeadly ☛ /usr/games_removed_from_the_default_$PATH⠀⇛ So when you next sit down on a fresh snapshot install and want to do a quick rot13 or do a round of tetris, you may need to specify the full path. o § Fedora / Red Hat / IBM⠀➾ # ⚓ Linux Magazine ☛ Rocky_Linux_9_Has_Arrived⠀⇛ Rocky Linux 9 is now available and is a landmark release for several reasons. First off, there has been a surge in Rocky Linux deployments, putting it ahead of CentOS Stream and AlmaLinux. But more than that, Rocky Linux includes several security enhancements and networking features to help make it a best-in-class open source operating system for businesses of all sizes. In the new release, you’ll find SHA-1 message digest for cryptographic purposes has been deprecated (as the cryptographic hash functions are no longer considered secure). In addition, you’ll find OpenSSL 3.0.1 (which includes provider concept, a new versioning scheme, an improved HTTP/ HTTPS client, support for new protocols/formats/ algorithms, and more), OpenSSH version 8.7p1 (which includes the replacement of the SCP/RCP protocol with the more predictable SFTP protocol), SELinux performance improvements, and the automatic configuration of security compliance settings for PCI-DSS, HIPAA, DISA, and more. # ⚓ DebugPoint ☛ Fedora_37_Plans_to_Introduce_New_Anaconda_Web UI_Installer⠀⇛ Fedora 37 team decided to introduce an optional preview of the Web UI installer, replacing the GTK- based Anaconda. # ⚓ IBM Old Timer ☛ IBM_Emeritus_Irving_Wladawsky-Berger:_The Open_Source_AI_and_Data_Ecosystem⠀⇛ “The availability of enterprise-grade open source software (OSS) is changing how organizations develop, maintain, and deliver products,” wrote Ibrahim Haddad in a recent report, Artificial Intelligence and Data in Open Source. Haddad is VP of Strategic Programs at the Linux Foundation (LF) and Executive Director of the LF AI & Data initiative. “Using and adopting OSS can offer many benefits, including reduced development costs, faster product development, higher code quality standards, and more. The open source methodology offers key and unique benefits to the domains of AI and data, specifically in areas of fairness, robustness, explainability, lineage, availability of data, and governance.” Earlier this year, Stanford released the 2022 AI Index report, its fifth annual study on the impact and progress of AI. The Stanford report noted that “2021 was the year that AI went from an emerging technology to a mature technology – we’re no longer dealing with a speculative part of scientific research, but instead something that has real-world impact, both positive and negative.” A few weeks ago I wrote about the impressive scope of the Linux Foundation. The LF supports a large and growing number of open source projects in a wide variety of areas. AI is no different from other technology domains, so it’s not surprising that open source now plays a major role as AI is being increasingly integrated into the economy. # ⚓ Red Hat ☛ Connect_to_services_on_Kubernetes_easily_with kube-service-bindings_|_Red_Hat_Developer⠀⇛ One of the projects the Node.js team at Red Hat has been focusing on over the past year is the development of kube-service-bindings for Kubernetes. We’ve found that combining the Service Binding Operator and kube-service-bindings is a convenient and consistent way of sharing credentials for services, letting you easily secure your deployments. # ⚓ Red Hat ☛ Developer_Sandbox_for_Red_Hat_OpenShift_now available_on_AWS_|_Red_Hat_Developer⠀⇛ The Developer Sandbox for Red Hat OpenShift is a great place to experiment with new technologies and build your next application. It comes with pre- built sample applications and guided tutorials you can use to learn how to use the latest cloud development tools from Red Hat and its partners. To help developers get started, Red Hat and Amazon Web Services (AWS) are partnering to offer free access to the Developer Sandbox for OpenShift AWS users. The Developer Sandbox makes it easy to learn about the concepts of cloud computing. We offer safe environments where you can play, experiment, and learn with your own applications and other users’ code. This learning lab features a variety of tools you can use to build the next big application. It includes live chat with OpenShift experts, free tutorials, and built-in tooling to help you ramp up with cloud development quickly. You can get a free, 30-day trial of Red Hat OpenShift and a rich set of pre-configured developer tools and services. During this trial, you can request an extension or assistance from the Red Hat team at devsandbox@redhat.com. After your trial, you can develop your own OpenShift environment with Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS, export applications from the sandbox, and import them into your running OpenShift cluster. Plus, you can sign up for the trial multiple times. # ⚓ OpenSource.com ☛ Comparing_solar_power_to_traditional_power generation_the_open_way⠀⇛ This is the second article in a two-part series on energy disruption that could lead to open organization projects. In the first part, based on the book, Clean Disruption of Energy and Transportation, by Tony Seba, I discussed disruption in the use of electric vehicles over internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles, the use of self-driving over human-driven vehicles, and the use of solar power generation over nuclear power generation. In this second part, I will discuss additional potential projects likely to introduce more disruption, specifically the use of solar power generation over other sources. Solar power has advantages over other primary power generation methods, including: Finally, another area of disruption is managing distributed electricity generation (small and simple) over conventional large utilities. It’s useful to compare the power generation potential of solar with each of the technologies above in more detail. # ⚓ Linux Handbook ☛ How_to_Autostart_Podman_Containers?⠀⇛ Podman is by far one of my favourite tools for container management. It has a daemon-less architecture that allows an unprivileged user to run containers without root access, further enhancing system security. # ⚓ Enterprisers Project ☛ Remote_work:_How_to_balance flexibility_and_productivity⠀⇛ The Great Resignation has made evident not only what employees want but what they expect and demand. For instance, in the United States, missed employee expectations can be seen in month-after- month high quit rates, including March numbers of 4.5M. Our recent research found that 74 percent of employees will look for new jobs if required to work in the office three or more days a week. We continue to see this play out at companies large and small. Recently, tech employees have spoken up against strict in-office policies and in some cases have resigned. We know that hybrid and flexible work are the most desirable ways of working for employees, but they are also the most difficult to implement for organizations in a way that promotes engagement, inclusivity, equity, connection, and productivity. o § Debian Family⠀➾ # ⚓ CNX Software ☛ CrowPi_L_Review_–_Part_2:_Learn_programming and_electronics_with_a_Raspberry_Pi_4_laptop⠀⇛  In the first part of our review of CrowPi L Raspberry Pi 4 laptop for education, we checked the hardware and accessories such as the CrowTail starter kit with various sensors and other electronics modules, and showed how to install or remove the Raspberry Pi 4 SBC from the laptop shell. I’ve now had more time to play with the educational software, so I’ll report my experience with the laptop when learning game design and hardware control with Letscode visual programming IDE, as well as the Python lessons for more advanced students. o § Canonical/Ubuntu Family⠀➾ # ⚓ 9to5Linux ☛ Ubuntu_22.04.1_LTS_(Jammy_Jellyfish)_Is_Now Available_for_Download,_This_Is_What’s_New⠀⇛  Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS is here to update the iteration that launched in April 2022 for those who want to deploy the long-term supported Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish) operating system on new computers without having to download hundreds of updates from the repositories. This first point release is the first major milestone as part of Canonical’s Long Term Support (LTS) commitment to its users and includes various updated packages that bring bug fixes and improvements to the Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish) operating system series. o § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾ # ⚓ Raspberry Pi ☛ HiFiBerry_DAC2_Pro_&_HD_review⠀⇛ On the more affordable end is the DAC2 Pro. This features a dedicated 192kHz/24-bit DAC, low-jitter clocks, and low-noise voltage regulators, all with the purpose of producing the best sound possible at that price point. It also features a headphone amplifier for convenience. # ⚓ Raspberry Pi ☛ Classroom_activities_to_discuss_machine learning_accuracy_and_ethics_|_Hello_World_#18⠀⇛ In Hello World issue 18, available as a free PDF download, teacher Michael Jones shares how to use Teachable Machine with learners aged 13–14 in your classroom to investigate issues of accuracy and ethics in machine learning models. # ⚓ Wired ☛ The_Hacking_of_Starlink_Terminals_Has_Begun⠀⇛ Today, Lennert Wouters, a security researcher at the Belgian university KU Leuven, will reveal one of the first security breakdowns of Starlink’s user terminals, the satellite dishes (dubbed Dishy McFlatface) that are positioned on people’s homes and buildings. At the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas, Wouters will detail how a series of hardware vulnerabilities allow attackers to access the Starlink system and run custom code on the devices. # ⚓ California18 ☛ Open_source_chips_from_Germany_are possible⠀⇛ In order to be able to have semiconductor components manufactured that reliably do not contain any hidden or unwanted functions, the respective contract manufacturer must disclose the Process Design Kit (PDK) for his manufacturing technology. Until now, only the US contract manufacturer SkyWater has provided such an open- source PDK. Now the IHP Solutions department of the Leibniz Institute for High-Performance Microelectronics (IHP) in Frankfurt an der Oder is following suit. Frank Vater from the IHP announced at the Free Silicon Conference (FSiC) 2022 in Paris that the PDK for the in-house 130-nanometer manufacturing technology S13G2 would be disclosed. This allows chips with digital, analog and high-frequency circuit parts to be manufactured. # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ From_Product_To_Burnout_To_Open-Source:_The_Ergo S-1_Keyboard_Story⠀⇛ [Andrew] from [Wizard Keyboards] emailed us and asked if we were interested in his story of developing an ergonomic keyboard as a product. Many of us can relate to trying to bring one of our ideas to market. [Andrew], being a mechanical keyboard geek, knew a niche with no product to satisfy it, and had a vision he wanted to implement. He started meticulously going through steps for bringing his keyboard idea into life as a manufacturable product, and gave himself six months to get it done. # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ A_Fast_Linear_Actuator_Entirely_In_One_PCB⠀⇛ There are many ways to make a linear actuator, a device for moving something is a straight line. Most of the easier to make ones use a conventional motor and a mechanical linkage such as a rack and pinion or a lead screw, but [Ben Wang] has gone for something far more elegant. His linear actuator uses a linear motor, a linear array of coils for the motor phases, working against a line of magnets. Even better than that, he’s managed to make the whole motor out of a single PCB. And it’s fast! # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Your_MicroPython_Board_Can_Be_Your_Tinkering Peripheral⠀⇛ [Brian Pugh] has shared a cool new project that simultaneously runs on desktop Python and MicroPython – the Belay library. This library lets you control a MicroPython device seamlessly from your Python code – interacting with real-world things like analog/digital trinkets, servos, Neopixels and displays, without having to create your own firmware or APIs. o § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ Android Police ☛ YouTube_beta_users_get_a_taste_of_the redesigned_Android_13_media_controls⠀⇛ # ⚓ Android Central ☛ The_Pixel_6_and_6a_receive_Game_Dashboard update_on_Android_13_|_Android_Central⠀⇛ # ⚓ XDA ☛ OnePlus_7_and_7T_series_get_second_OxygenOS_12_Open Beta⠀⇛ # ⚓ HowTo Geek ☛ How_to_Turn_Off_Wi-Fi_Calling_on_Android⠀⇛ # ⚓ 4_Best_Appointment_Scheduling_Apps_for_Android_in_2022_– Guiding_Tech⠀⇛ # ⚓ Liliputing ☛ Moto_Tab_G62_is_a_mid-range_Android_tablet with_a_10.6_inch_display_and_Snapdragon_680_–_Liliputing⠀⇛ # ⚓ SlashGear ☛ Why_You_Need_To_Stop_Using_Your_Android_Phone Before_Going_To_Sleep⠀⇛ # ⚓ SlashGear ☛ Why_You_Need_To_Stop_Using_Instant_Apps_On_Your Android_Phone⠀⇛ # ⚓ Android Police ☛ Google’s_next_steps_for_Wear_OS_include offline_Maps_navigation_and_a_Play_Store_redesign⠀⇛ # ⚓ 9to5Google ☛ Trade_in_your_old_Android_phone_for_cash_w/ Decluttr_–_9to5Google⠀⇛ # ⚓ Android Central ☛ OxygenOS_13_hands-on:_Broken_promises_| Android_Central⠀⇛ # ⚓ Researchers_Unveil_More_Details_On_How_Hackers_Are Installing_Android’s_Latest_Spyware_‘Dracarys’_/_Digital Information_World⠀⇛ # ⚓ CNET ☛ Stop_Giving_Your_Android_Apps_Invasive_Permissions_– CNET⠀⇛ * § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾ o § Programming/Development⠀➾ # ⚓ KDAB ☛ Is_Qt_Right_for_Your_Project?_–_KDAB⠀⇛ One of the most difficult choices to make when starting any new software project is that of the programming language and framework your team will use to create it. Should you stick with Qt because it’s the best tool for the job? Should you switch to something that uses web-based technology or is designed explicitly for mobile? Is Python a better choice to integrate in machine-learning capabilities? Determining the right framework can be very difficult. Web resources often provide conflicting guidance or are subjectively based on a single developer’s perspective. Rarely does anyone create a substantial program in multiple frameworks that would allow a true comparison; creating a completely duplicate program of any complexity is very difficult and time consuming. It’s not surprising then that developers often follow the course of least resistance. Without a clear reason to switch, they default to language and framework of their previous project, reusing software that is already familiar. Since the choice of a software stack is so important to guiding the project’s future course, it’s worth treating initial software selection as a strategic decision rather than the unconscious assumption that it can sometimes be. We have certainly done a good deal of Qt development and believe it’s a great tool. However, it’s not the only tool in the toolbox. In fact, there are occasions where it’s not a great fit. # ⚓ Qt ☛ Qt_Creator_8.0.1_released⠀⇛ We are happy to announce the release of Qt Creator 8.0.1! # ⚓ Alex Gilleran ☛ Test_against_what_won’t_change⠀⇛ Generally, a software system will expose some kind of interface to allow it to be used – a web service might have a REST API, a local tool might have a command line, or a library might expose a set of public functions or classes. We tend to put extra effort into thinking through the design of these public interfaces because once they’re exposed, making changes without breaking functionality for those who are using them is very difficult. This also applies to external components that our system is dependent on – for instance an external microservice will have its own API that seldom changes, and our database schema will change slowly because making non-backwards-compatible schema changes is difficult and risky. # ⚓ Daniel Stenberg ☛ How_I_merge_PRs_in_curl⠀⇛ The preferred method of providing changes to the curl project, be it source code, documentation or web site contents, is by submitting a pull-request. A “PR”. On the curl repository on GitHub. When a proposed curl change, bugfix or improvement is submitted as a PR on GitHub, it gets built, checked, tested and verified in countless ways and a few hundred developers get a notification about it. # ⚓ C3 ☛ The_case_against_a_C_alternative⠀⇛ Like several others I am writing an alternative to the C language (if you read this blog before then this shouldn’t be news!). My language (C3) is fairly recent, there are others: Zig, Odin, Jai and older languages like eC. Looking at C++ alternatives there are languages like D, Rust, Nim, Crystal, Beef, Carbon and others. But is it possible to replace C? Let’s consider some arguments against. # ⚓ Barry Kauler ☛ More_sanity_checks_for_Limine_Installer⠀⇛ Mike has been very helpful, testing Limine Installer on old computers. # § Shell/Bash/Zsh/Ksh⠀➾ # ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ Bash_Functions_Tutorial⠀⇛ A Bash function is a collection of commands that can be executed repeatedly. The goal of the function is to make the Bash scripts easier to read and prevent you from typing the same script often. Bash functions are considerably constrained in comparison to those of the majority of programming languages. For step-by-step execution, this file contains various commands. Although these commands can be entered simply into the command line, it is more convenient to save all interconnected commands for a given operation in a single file from a reusability perspective. We can utilize that file to run the specified set of commands, a single time or multiple times, depending on our needs. We will go through the fundamentals of Bash functions in this lesson and demonstrate how to use them in shell scripts. # § Rust⠀➾ # ⚓ Rust Weekly Updates ☛ This_Week_In_Rust:_This_Week_in Rust_455⠀⇛ o § Standards/Consortia⠀➾ # ⚓ OpenSource.com ☛ A_gentle_introduction_to_HTML⠀⇛ I feel confident in claiming that HTML is the most widely used markup language ever. While other markup languages exist, including nroff and groff, LaTeX, and Markdown, no other markup language is as widespread as the Hyper Text Markup Language. HTML is the de facto language of the Web. First implemented in web browsers in 1994, the language continues to evolve. Yet the basics of HTML remain the same. If you are just getting started in HTML, I wanted to offer this gentle introduction to learning HTML. I focus on the essentials of HTML to build a basic understanding of how HTML works. You can use this as a starting point to learn more about HTML. * § Leftovers⠀➾ o ⚓ Recruiters_and_job_seekers_are_all_going_bonkers,_and_algorithms make_everything_worst⠀⇛ Human or artificial I don’t know: but “intelligence”, this is not. o ⚓ Fedizine ☛ An_anarchist_introduction_to_federated_social_media⠀⇛ For better or worse, anarchists are using social media like Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook. This sucks. Enter the Fediverse, an alternative, open-source social media network that aligns with anarchist values. Rather than being a thinly-veiled attention and data gathering capitalist vortex, the Fediverse is an actual social network, built out of a multitude of federated, autonomous, and decentralized instances. On the Fediverse, we control the infrastructure, we moderate ourselves, and we can gather and share based on our affinities and desires rather than being guided by addictive algorithms. Many anarchists who have dodged the traps of corporate social media are already here, sharing their projects, art, and ideas. Join us! o ⚓ Craig Murray ☛ Winners⠀⇛ Saturday will be a proud day for our family, after a very difficult year. Winners, Nadira’s first feature film as Producer, will have its World Premiere as part of the Edinburgh International Film Festival. To be part of the official selection at the world’s oldest film festival is a real achievement, and to be given the Saturday evening slot in Filmhouse 1 is something of a triumph. o ⚓ Barry Hess ☛ Vin_Scully⠀⇛ Vin Scully passed away last week. He lived a good life. He lived a charmed life. He lived a life that touched tens of millions of people. o ⚓ CoryDoctorow ☛ A_modest_proposal_to_fix_contracts⠀⇛ Every time I click through one of those garbage legalese novellas you’re expected to say “I Agree” to before doing something totally normal and inconsequential, I’m reminded of the legendary Lenny Bruce bit “Eat, Sleep and Crap.” http://cellar.org/showthread.php?t=24181 In this bit, all civilization begins with agreements: “Let’s see. I tell you what we’ll do. We’ll have a vote. We’ll sleep in Area A. Is that cool?” “OK, good.” “We’ll eat in Area B. Good?” “Good.” “We’ll throw a crap in area C. Good?” This social contract is the foundation of civilization. It’s why you don’t die from fecal-oral bacterial transmission. Naturally, the legal profession has put a little more detail into the idea of what constitutes a contract in the years since. As Stanford Law’s Mark Lemley writes in “The Benefit of the Bargain,” “A canonical contract is a written agreement negotiated between two sophisticated parties.” https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/ papers.cfm?abstract_id=4184946 But that’s really only an infinitesimal fraction of the contracts that we make day to day. When you buy a apple from the grocery store, that’s a contract: there’s an offer, an acceptance, and a “meeting of the minds.” You and the grocer both know what the terms of the contract are, even though neither of you discuss it. The apple is now yours. You can sell it. You can bake a pie with it. You can throw it away. If it turns out to be covered in harmful bacteria or full of razor blades, you might be able to sue the grocer. But you can’t just go and get another apple. You can’t eat the apple and then return the core for a refund. All of that stuff is governed by “implicit and explicit” rules, the “background norms” of contract law. Some of those background norms are common law. Some are statutory. Some have been codified in the Uniform Commercial Code and the Restatement of Contracts. When there is a dispute, judges filter it through all of these layers: what people normally expect, what Congress guaranteed, what earlier courts have found, what the parties signaled to one another. The parties can alter the bargain, of course. You can haggle. The grocer can offer to throw in some grapes at half price. Bargaining enjoys a special place in contract law, because it’s how we get the “benefit of the bargain” – the tailored offers that represent the confluence of the desires of buyers and sellers. But there’s limits on bargaining. It’s not a contract if the bargaining takes place under duress, or fraud, or if the terms are extremely unfair, or if one of the parties can’t form a contract because they are young, or intoxicated, or mentally unwell. A contract is an agreement, and an agreement requires freely given consent. Or at least, it did. o ⚓ The Nation ☛ Summer_in_New_York_City!⠀⇛ o § Science⠀➾ # ⚓ A_gentle_introduction_to_model-free_and_model-based reinforcement_learning_–_TechTalks⠀⇛ Reinforcement learning is one of the exciting branches of artificial intelligence. It plays an important role in game-playing AI systems, modern robots, chip-design systems, and other applications. There are many different types of reinforcement learning algorithms, but two main categories are “model-based” and “model-free” RL. They are both inspired by our understanding of learning in humans and animals. Nearly every book on reinforcement learning contains a chapter that explains the differences between model-free and model-based reinforcement learning. But seldom are the biological and evolutionary precedents discussed in books about reinforcement learning algorithms for computers. # ⚓ Science Alert ☛ Record-Breaking_Experiment_Could_Solve_a Huge_Challenge_in_Quantum_Computing⠀⇛ Two atoms inflated to an almost comical size and cooled to a fraction above absolute zero have been used to generate a robust, insanely fast two-qubit quantum gate that could help overcome some of quantum computing’s persistent challenges. Since a two-qubit gate is the fundamental building block of efficient quantum computers, this breakthrough has huge implications. It could lead to a new type of quantum computer architecture that breaks through current limitations for noise-free quantum operations. Qubit is a contraction, short for the term “quantum bit”. It is the quantum computing equivalent of a conventional bit – the basic unit of information on which computing technology is based. # ⚓ Video_games:_posing_in_3D_|_UdeMNouvelles⠀⇛ What’s the best way to get 3D characters in videogames to look real and expressive? Two computer scientists at Université de Montréal have come up with answer: use simple bitmap sketches to make their poses more lifelike. Assistant professor Mikhail Bessmeltsev and his PhD student Kirill Brodt have developed an animation tool that uses drawings to control how videogame characters stand and move in three dimensions. # ⚓ RetailWire ☛ Kroger_rolls_out_belted_self-checkout_after successful_test [Ed: Kroger wants to outsource the jobs to the clients, for a salary of $0. Seems like a good reason to boycott the shop.]⠀⇛ Kroger is introducing self-checkouts with conveyor belts like conventional registers into 20 additional stores in the Cincinnati area. # ⚓ Semi Engineering ☛ Where_Are_The_Autonomous_Cars? [Ed: This whole industry is based on lobbying, lies, fraud]⠀⇛ While some experts say such vehicles could hit the road in the next few years, they’re a shrinking minority. Most forecasts say a truly self-driving car is at least a decade away — and maybe much longer, because it requires disruptive technology that has yet to be invented. # ⚓ Telex (Hungary) ☛ Katalin_Karikó’s_impressive_ascension_is just_a_glitch_in_the_matrix⠀⇛ The 26:0 male to female ratio of the new full members to be admitted to the Hungarian Academy of Sciences – and Anna Kende’s subsequent protest – have once again drawn attention to the question: what gave rise to the fact that female academics are still receiving far less recognition and senior positions in Hungary and abroad, while the proportion of women in higher education has remained steadily at a higher level? Is academia male-centric? Is the research institutional system inherently patriarchal? Are workplaces insensitive to having children? Is it latent discrimination and sexism? When combined, these factors can shape the difficult paths that women scientists and researchers have to navigate. We explored the topic with a sociologist, a historian, a data scientist, a materials scientist, and a nuclear physicist, as well as members of the Academy of Sciences – experts who, as women themselves, have overcome these hurdles. # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Here’s_The_World’s_Smallest_Wood Plane…Probably⠀⇛ Admittedly, we aren’t really in a position to confirm whether or not the miniature wood plane put together by [Daniel d’Entremont] is actually the smallest in the world, but we’re willing to take his word for it. At the very least, we certainly haven’t seen a smaller one. # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ What_Goes_Into_A_Hacker_Camp⠀⇛ Long-time readers of Hackaday will know that we attend quite a few events, including summer hacker camps. Here in Europe this year there are two large events, the British Electromagnetic Field, and the Dutch MCH, or May Contain Hackers. These events are put together by volunteers from within the community, and as part of the MCH setup I noticed they needed drivers for their off-site logistics. I have a licence to drive medium-sized trucks in Europe so it seemed like a perfect fit. I traveled early on the first set-up day to the Dutch city of Utrecht, and found myself behind the wheel of a large Volkswagen box van. My brief career as a trucker had begun! o § Hardware⠀➾ # ⚓ Linux Gizmos ☛ MiniPC_taps_Ryzen_5_5600U_and_supports triple_4K_displays⠀⇛ Supporting the Ryzen 5 5600U processor from AMD, the Aerofara TANK45 Mini PC is capable of running triple displays at [email protected] This Mini PC offers wireless internet support, one 2.4Gbps ethernet port and flexible storage. The Ryzen 5 5600 from the Cezanne U (Zen 3) generation which features 6-cores/12-threads and has a frequency ranging from 2300 up to 4200MHz (25W). Additionally, the processor integrates a 7- cores GPU (up to 1800MHz) to enable 4k HD graphics. # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ A_Merciless_Environmental_Monitoring_System⠀⇛ We’ve seen plenty of environmental monitoring setups here on Hackaday — wireless sensors dotted around the house, all uploading their temperature and humidity data to a central server hidden away in some closet. The system put together by [Andy] from Workshopshed is much the same, except this time the server has been designed to be as bright and bold as possible. o § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾ # ⚓ Salon ☛ Why_BA.5_became_the_dominant_COVID_variant⠀⇛ According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), studies suggest that reinfection with the same virus variant as the first infection — or, reinfection with a different variant — are both possible. Reinfections can happen within a mere 90 days of the initial infection. A specific report that identified 10 people who got reinfected found that they occurred between 23 to 87 days after initial infection. # ⚓ The Economist ☛ Does_Gen_Z_spend_too_much_time_on_social media?⠀⇛ Teens now shun text-heavy apps, such as Facebook, Tumblr and Twitter. Only 5% of teens have ever used Tumblr, compared with 14% eight years ago. Twitter is used by just 23%, down from 33% in 2014-15. Far more popular are sites, like Snapchat and Instagram, that rely mostly on images. Older teens prefer Insta: 73% of those aged 15 to 17 say they have used it compared with 45% of those aged 13 and 14. TikTok, a Chinese-owned video app, is the rising star: 67% of teens use it and about 16% are on it “almost constantly”. It is especially popular with girls and black teens. # ⚓ ABC ☛ Michigan:_Company_released_industrial_chemicals_into water⠀⇛ The solution ended up at a wastewater treatment facility that sends wastewater into a creek that flows into the Huron River system. Hexavalent chromium is a known carcinogen and can cause a number of health problems if someone ingests, touches or inhales it, according to Michigan’s Department of Health and Human Services. # ⚓ WSWS ☛ Cancer-causing_chemicals_dumped_into_Huron_River threaten_water_safety_of_Michigan_residents⠀⇛ Large quantities of toxic and cancer-causing chemicals were released into the sewage system of Wixom, Michigan late last month by Tribar Technologies, an auto parts provider whose customers include Ford, General Motors and Stellantis Jeep. [...] More than 3 million people could potentially be impacted by the contamination of the river, which flows through six counties downstream of the spill and supplies the drinking water for multiple cities, including Ann Arbor. # ⚓ Michigan Radio ☛ State_finds_hexavalent_chromium_in_pond near_Tribar_Manufacturing_spill⠀⇛ Widespread testing began this week after Tribar Manufacturing disclosed on Monday that it had accidentally released about 10,000 gallons of hexavalent chromium solution into the wastewater sewer system of the city of Wixom. # ⚓ The Sun Times ☛ Hexavalent⠀⇛ Can hexavalent chromium be remediated? According to enviroforensics.com, Since hexavalent chromium is an element that cannot be destroyed, it has to either be physically removed by excavating soil or pumping and treating groundwater or transformed to the less toxic trivalent form and stabilized within the subsurface environment by forming insoluble and immobile trivalent hydroxide precipitates and iron and sulfide complex co-precipitates. Luckily, this transformation can be performed using many of the same injectable chemicals that are used at chlorinated sites for in-situ chemical reduction (ISCR) and enhanced reductive dechlorination (ERD). # ⚓ The Manchester Mirror ☛ Search_for_suspected_hexavalent chromium_plume_in_the_Huron_River⠀⇛ Wixom City Manager Steven Brown said the initial water test results offer hope that much of the chromium that entered Wixom’s sewers may have settled in the treatment plant or attached to solid waste, rather than flowing downstream along with the city’s treated effluent. # ⚓ The Telegraph UK ☛ Why_the_rise_of_clueless_‘Instagram- adventurers’_is_so_dangerous_(and_dumb)⠀⇛ Director of mountain rescue Anjan Truffer explains: “As mountain rescue teams you try not to judge, but I often think even my kids wouldn’t be so dumb to be here with this [lack of] equipment. “Many rescues could be avoided with a simple bit of common sense. There’s growing interest in ski mountaineering and trail running, where people run up the mountain in super-lightweight gear wearing hardly any clothes, and others who try to summit the Matterhorn in Spandex shorts and sneakers, because it’s been done by one or two pro athletes and they’ve seen it on social media,” says Anjan. “And what do people do nowadays? Watch social media all day long and want to do the same.” # ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ ‘A_Vehement_Backlash’:_North_Carolina_Senators Blasted_by_Constituents_for_Opposing_$35_Insulin_Cap⠀⇛ # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Surviving_America’s_Industrial Manufacturing,_Quality_Centric_Health_Care_System⠀⇛ You might say I’ve “doubled my pleasure and doubled my fun.” Hey! You have to have a sense of humor about these matters. The hospital care system is, in fact, an industrial, assembly line operation. Because of this, doctors and nurses do not have time to develop relationships or spend a lot of time with patients. Doctors must make rounds that allow maybe 5-10 minute of time with the patient. Floor nurses are overworked having to respond to calls from different patients and they must prioritize those calls based on critical need. Wait times for assistance from a nurse can feel like a long time when you are sick. # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ The_Toxic_and_Insidious_Legacy_and_Crime_of DDT_Dumping_in_Southern_California⠀⇛ Corroded barrel of DDT waste 3,000 feet deep in the waters not far from the Los Angeles harbor. There are thousands of barrels of DDT waste spread widely in the ocean floor of Southern California. The dumping took place from 1947 to 1982. Courtesy David Valentine, University of California, Santa Barbara. The chemical industry, factories and companies of industrial production, and the military have been dumping wastes in landfills and the seas for more than a century. # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Pacific_Islanders’_Food-Sharing_Customs Ensure_Resiliency_in_Face_of_Disaster⠀⇛ Because most coastal communities across the Pacific region are found on low-lying atolls and narrow coastal margins, they are particularly vulnerable to—and adept at—coping with environmental extremes as a result of their adaptive cultural local practices and knowledge, which have made them more resilient in the face of disasters. These subsistence practices especially helped rural Pacific Island communities cope through the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. While many Pacific Island governments thwarted community transmission of the virus by closing international borders and imposing restrictions on movement, these same measures created hardships through employment losses and supply chain disruptions. # ⚓ The Nation ☛ A_Dead_Sea⠀⇛ The United States’ century-old ambition to impound and divvy up every drop of water that could be wrung from its most arid stretches began with a flood. A private firm called the California Development Company (CDC) completed a canal in 1901 that zigzagged across the state’s border with Mexico in order to connect the Colorado River to a dry riverbed that aspiring farmers had already begun to section off for themselves, heeding the proclamation by the newly founded Imperial Valley Press that the region constituted “the most fertile body of arid land on the continent.”1 # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Judge_Rules_Walgreens_‘Substantially Contributed’_to_San_Francisco_Opioid_Crisis⠀⇛ Pharmacy giant Walgreens “substantially contributed” to San Francisco’s opioid crisis by shipping hundreds of thousands of “suspicious orders” of highly addictive prescription drugs as part of a profit-driven “fill, fill, fill culture,” a federal judge ruled Wednesday. “Walgreens pharmacies in San Francisco dispensed hundreds of thousands of red-flag opioid prescriptions without performing adequate due diligence.” o § Proprietary⠀➾ # ⚓ The Verge ☛ FCC_rejects_Starlink’s_bid_for_rural_internet subsidies_due_to_its_$600_satellite_dish⠀⇛ The funding is part of the broader $9.2 billion Rural Digital Opportunity Fund that provides an incentive for telecom companies to extend internet service to rural and underserved locations. In 2020, Starlink won an initial $885.5 million subsidy as part of a Phase 1 rollout of the program. The FCC also rejected LTD Broadband’s bid for the funding after it initially received $1.3 billion in 2020. # ⚓ Broadband Breakfast ☛ FCC_Denies_Funding_for_Two_of_the Biggest_Winners_of_Rural_Digital_Opportunity_Fund_Money⠀⇛ The reverse auction process for the $9.2-billion fund culminated in December 2020 to awards of $1.3 billion for LTD Broadband – the largest winner in the auction – and $885 million for SpaceX’s Starlink project. But since the winners were announced, a new-look commission emerged under the leadership of Jessica Rosenworcel to weed out projects that did not align with the goals of the program – including bids in areas with adequate coverage or areas that don’t need the services pitched. o § Security⠀➾ # ⚓ The Stack ☛ Windows_zero_day_[sic]_under_attack_was_first reported_in_2019 [iophk: Windows TCO]⠀⇛ Among those that stands out is CVE-2022-34713. That’s both for the fact that Microsoft says exploitation has been detected, meaning a prompt patch or mitigation should be a priority, but because Imre Rad, the Hungarian security researcher who reported the vulnerability (or at least a close variation of it), had reported it to Redmond back in December 2019. # ⚓ Computer World ☛ Microsoft_urges_Windows_users_to_run_patch for_DogWalk_zero-day_[sic]_exploit⠀⇛ The vulnerability was first reported in January 2020 but at the time, Microsoft said it didn’t consider the exploit to be a security issue. This is the second time in recent months that Microsoft has been forced to change its position on a known exploit, having initially rejected reports that another Windows MSDT zero-day, known as Follina, posed a security threat. A patch for that exploit was released in June’s Patch Tuesday update. # ⚓ Google ☛ The_quantum_state_of_Linux_kernel_garbage collection_CVE-2021-0920_(Part_I)⠀⇛ This is part one of a two-part guest blog post, where first we’ll look at the root cause of the CVE-2021-0920 vulnerability. In the second post, we’ll dive into the in-the-wild 0-day exploitation of the vulnerability and post-compromise modules. # ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ A_Linux_Zero-Day_Was_Finally_Patched_After_Half_a Decade_of_Inaction_With_Help_From_Google⠀⇛ Google’s Threat Analysis Group revealed new details today about its efforts to identify and help patch a zero-day exploit impacting Android devices built by a commercial surveillance vendor and dating back to at least 2016. The research, presented at the Black Hat cybersecurity conference in Las Vegas, represents the latest attempt by Google to step up its efforts against a growing private surveillance industry that’s thriving, according to the researchers. # ⚓ Help Net Security ☛ Stratus_Red_Team:_Open-source_tool_for adversary_emulation_in_the_cloud_–_Help_Net_Security⠀⇛ In this Help Net Security video, Christophe Tafani- Dereeper, Cloud Security Researcher and Advocate at DataDog, talks about Stratus Red Team, an open- source project for adversary emulation and validation of threat detection in the cloud. The tool supports common AWS and Kubernetes attack techniques. If you’re at Black Hat USA 2022, you can learn more about Stratus Red Team. Christophe will be at the Arsenal, doing demos and answering questions on Wednesday, August 10, starting at 11:30AM. # ⚓ Naked Security ☛ Slack_admits_to_leaking_hashed_passwords for_five_years [Ed: Does not surprise me us all. They only admit this because they got caught, hence they need to spin this somehow, belittling the severity, just as LastPass did after several blunders (it had suffered a breach). The way forward is self-hosting and encrypting things (on server one controls, not leasing).]⠀⇛ # ⚓ IT Wire ☛ iTWire_–_Cisco_reveals_attack_on_company’s network_by_ransomware_group⠀⇛ Global networking giant Cisco has revealed that its systems have been breached, with the break-in becoming apparent on 24 May and effected through stolen employee credentials obtained from a personal Google account. The company’s Talos Intelligence security unit issued a long blog post on Wednesday, providing details of the incident, but not specifying when the actual break-in occurred. The website Bleeping Computer, which reports on numerous ransomware incidents, said it had been emailed a list of files last week, which were claimed to have been stolen during the attack. # ⚓ Krebs On Security ☛ The_Security_Pros_and_Cons_of_Using Email_Aliases⠀⇛ One way to tame your email inbox is to get in the habit of using unique email aliases when signing up for new accounts online. Adding a “+” character after the username portion of your email address — followed by a notation specific to the site you’re signing up at — lets you create an infinite number of unique email addresses tied to the same account. Aliases can help users detect breaches and fight spam. But not all websites allow aliases, and they can complicate account recovery. Here’s a look at the pros and cons of adopting a unique alias for each website. # ⚓ A_marquee_week_for_cybersecurity_in_Vegas-_POLITICO⠀⇛ # § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾ # ⚓ Edward Hasbrouck ☛ T-Mobile_and_Deutsche_Telekom_lie to_customers⠀⇛ For many years, both Deutsche Telekom AG and its U.S. subsidiary T-Mobile USA, Inc. have been lying to customers about their privacy and data protection policies and practices. I’ve relied on those promises, and assumed that — if I ever needed or wanted to do so — I would be able to exercise my access rights as a data subject in accordance with those policies. But now that I have a reason — because of T-Mobile’s own failure to secure my data — to seek access to the data about me held by T-Mobile (and obtained from them by hackers), T-Mobile has refused to comply with the policies advertised as applicable to it as a subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom, or to allow me to inspect most of the data it holds about me. Let that sink in: T-Mobile allowed unknown and unauthorized third parties to obtain personal information about me, but now refuses to allow me to see or get a copy of the information about me that it allowed those third parties to have. # ⚓ RNZ ☛ Data_specialist_questions_where_his_personal data_went_after_job_application⠀⇛ It is one of more than 3000 entities registered to request the checks on behalf of others, through a system run by the Justice Ministry. Each signs a ministry contract to follow New Zealand privacy laws and other rules, in what is a largely self-regulated system. Taiuru questioned how the system was running. # ⚓ Broadband Breakfast ☛ FCC_Encouraged_to_Limit_Data Collection_on_Affordable_Connectivity_Program,_Others Want_More⠀⇛ Under the Infrastructure, Investment and Jobs Act, the FCC is required by November 15 to adopt rules to collect annual data relating to the price and subscription rates of each internet service offering by a provider participating in the broadband subsidy program, which offers up to $30 per month for low-income households (up to $75 per month on tribal lands) and a one-time $100 off a device. But a number of submissions are warning the FCC against rules that require any additional data collection efforts beyond the scope of the law so as not to unduly burden providers and, at least one other trade group said, push providers away from participating in the program. # ⚓ RTL ☛ Encevo_customers’_stolen_data_ends_up_on_the dark_web⠀⇛ The Encevo group was unable to provide any further details, but according to a statement on its website, the data in question could consist of names, addresses, email address and telephone numbers, and even bank details for certain customer groups. # ⚓ Computer World ☛ Has_Apple_invented_one_ring_to_rule them_all?⠀⇛ Powered by M-series chips, these things will likely consist of a combination of Apple’s existing tools around gesture recognition, voice, movement, and eye direction. And it looks possible the company has come up with some way to make gesture commands more effective. It recently won a patent for a specialized smart ring system that can be used with mixed reality applications. # ⚓ IT Wire ☛ COVIDSafe_app_killed_off,_helped_detect_2 cases_at_$10m_a_pop⠀⇛ The Federal Government has killed off the COVIDSafe app that was built by the former Liberal administration, describing it as “wasteful and ineffective”. A statement issued by Health Minister Mark Butler noted that while more than $21 million was spent on the app, only two COVID-19 cases were found through the app that had not been found through the regular process of contact tracing. Seventeen close contacts of COVID-19 cases that had not been found through manual contact tracing were found by the app. Butler’s statement pointed out that 7.9 million people had registered and downloaded the app between April 2020 and May 2022. The app is still present on the Google Play Store but on installing it and opening it, the screen seen on the right, below, comes up, advising that it is not being used any more. [...] “It was contact tracers working on the ground who were the real success story, not this failed app. It is clear this app failed as a public health measure and that’s why we’ve acted to delete it.” # ⚓ EFF ☛ How_California_Reproductive_Health_Workers_Can Protect_Information_They_Submit_to_the_Government⠀⇛ In 2020, nearly 17% of abortions performed in the United States occured in California, according to data from the Guttmacher Institute, and that number is projected to grow substantially as California endeavors to become a safe haven for pregnant people coming from potentially dozens of states that restrict abortions. Consequentially, it is also reasonable to expect that anti-abortion activists will continue to use California’s public records laws to obtain and release personal information of health care workers at reproductive health clinics. Public records are among the most common sources of information that lead to doxxing and similar harassment of individuals. EFF has provided many guides to protecting one’s data in the online world. In this new guide, we’ll cover how health care workers in California can use AB 1622, a law passed in 2019 that allows them to request protections for the data they must submit to the government from being released under the California Public Records Act. We include a letter template that clinics can submit to government agencies requesting data protection for their employees. We will also provide information about California’s Safe at Home Program, which allows individuals to request a proxy mailing address from the Secretary of State’s office that they can use in place of their home address, including on government records. # ⚓ Pro Publica ☛ Early_Results_on_DNA_Evidence_From Decades-Old_Rape_Cases_Are_Both_Promising_and Alarming⠀⇛ Baltimore County police are starting to get back test results from a long-delayed project to process the oldest known collection of DNA evidence from rape cases. Last year, ProPublica wrote about the trove of evidence and the prescient doctor who began assembling it in the 1970s, long before preserving forensic evidence was common police practice. Police have processed DNA from 49 of about 1,800 remaining cases as of the first quarter of this year, according to a department memo obtained through a public information request and follow-up communications with a sergeant in charge of the cold case unit. Ten of the 49 cases yielded actionable DNA profiles, according to the sergeant. The results, even from such a small batch, are at once promising and alarming: # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Ron_Wyden_Calls_Out_Federal_Court_System For_Failing_To_Redact_Sensitive_Personal_Information⠀⇛ We entrust plenty of our personal data to the US government at all levels. And, at all levels, they fail to protect this information on a far too regular basis. # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ EU_Commissioner_Pens_Barely_Coherent Defense_Of_Spying_On_Everyone,_For_The_Children⠀⇛ You may recall back in May we wrote about a batshit crazy proposal out of the EU Commission to “protect the children” by mandating no encryption and full surveillance of all communications. Those behind the proposal would argue it’s not technically surveilling all messages, but all messages have to be surveillable, should the government decide that a company is not doing enough to “mitigate” child sexual abuse material (CSAM). # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Nebraska_Mother,_Daughter_Face Abortion_Charges_After_Facebook_Shares_Chats_With Police⠀⇛ Digital rights advocates on Tuesday said an abortion case in Nebraska illustrates how powerful tech companies like Facebook could play a major role in prosecutions of people who self-manage abortions as more states ban the procedure, and called on the social media platform to reform its privacy policies to protect users. The case in Nebraska centers on a 17-year-old girl and her mother, Celeste and Jessica Burgess, who sent messages on Facebook regarding plans to terminate Celeste’s pregnancy prior to Roe v. Wade being overturned in June. # ⚓ Masks_–_the_last_bastion_of_privacy⠀⇛ Now that the pandemic is old news, masks use is rapidly declining, at least in NYC. It seems New Yorkers are over the COVID-19 fear, having contracted it several times by now. The current variant (for a vaccinated person) is a tiny flu, or maybe a cold. Five days of days of peace and quiet. Let’s hope new variants don’t become more severe again. But, I also hope that masks don’t go away. Masks are not required, but many people wear them anyway — maybe for the fear of Monkeypox… An interesting side-effect of wearing a mask, one not talked about (or at least not to me) is that if you wear a mask, you are not as easily tracked by the surveillance state. o § Defence/Aggression⠀➾ # ⚓ NPR ☛ Fear_turns_to_shock_among_Albuquerque_Muslims_as police_say_the_shooter_is_a_Muslim⠀⇛ Some reports have suggested the possibility that Syed, a Sunni Muslim, had targeted his victims over anger that his daughter had married a Shia Muslim. Authorities said Tuesday they are still working to determine the motive. (“Detectives discovered evidence that shows the offender knew the victims to some extent and an interpersonal conflict may have led to the shootings,” a police statement said.) # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Report:_Mar-a-Lago_Search_Prompted_by_Informer Who_Told_DOJ_Trump_Had_Docs⠀⇛ # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ There_Are_Good_Reasons_to_Defund_the_FBI._They Have_Nothing_to_Do_With_Trump.⠀⇛ # ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ “Bogus_Charge”:_FBI_Raids_African_People’s Socialist_Party;_Group_Dismisses_Russian_Influence_Claims⠀⇛ Leaders of the African People’s Socialist Party say the FBI carried out a violent raid on its properties with flash grenades and drones early Friday morning in Missouri and Florida. The pan- Africanist group has been a longtime advocate for reparations for slavery and a vocal critic of U.S. foreign policy. The raid appears to be connected to a separate indictment of a Russian man accused of using U.S.-based groups to spread Russian propaganda and tampering with U.S. elections. We speak with Omali Yeshitela, chair of the African People’s Socialist Party, who describes how he was zip-tied while his home was raided. He says the FBI’s implication that their group was taking orders from the Russians is “the most ridiculous, asinine” narrative. “It’s an attack on the right of Black people,” says Yeshitela. “It’s an attack on our struggle for the absolute total liberation of every square inch of Africa.” # ⚓ The Nation ☛ Kevin_McCarthy_Promises_a_Republican_Congress Will_Obstruct_Justice⠀⇛ The FBI’s search of Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago compound in Florida was not a “siege.” FBI agents were not “occupying” the former president’s “beautiful home,” as Trump suggested. It was not an example of what Trump described as “prosecutorial misconduct.” Nor was it an “assault [that] could only take place in broken, Third-World Countries.” The search was a formal action by law-enforcement officials that involved cooperation by at least two federal agencies—the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Secret Service. Those officials executed a court-approved search warrant to advance an appropriate and necessary inquiry into allegations that Trump had engaged in criminal violations of the Presidential Records Act. # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Don’t_Ignore_the_Threat_of_Right-Wing_Violence in_Wake_of_Mar-a-Lago_Search⠀⇛ # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Opinion_|_Is_the_Clock_Running_Out_on Donald_J._Trump?⠀⇛ Isn’t it rich that the man who abused presidential power more than any other, and tried to stage a coup d’etat against the U.S. Government, is now crying about “abuse of power?” And the phony news network that aided and abetted his rise to power and abuses, is stirring up Fascist anti-government forces in his defense? # ⚓ Vice ☛ Far-Right_Extremists_Are_Violently_Threatening_the Trump_Search-Warrant_Judge⠀⇛ Far-right extremists on pro-Donald Trump message boards and social networks are making violent, antisemitic threats against the judge who reportedly signed the warrant that allowed the FBI to search the former president’s Mar-a-Lago property in Florida. Multiple members of these toxic online communities are even posting what appears to be Judge Bruce Reinhart’s home address, phone numbers, and names of his family members alongside threats of extreme violence. # ⚓ The Dissenter ☛ Justice_Department_Unlikely_To_Charge_Trump With_Violating_The_Espionage_Act⠀⇛ The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) coordinated with Trump representatives in 2021, and in January 2022, 15 boxes were transferred. Some of the records contained classified information so NARA contacted the Justice Department [PDF]. # ⚓ Eesti Rahvusringhääling ☛ Estonia_legalizes_migrant pushbacks_at_borders_in_emergencies⠀⇛ The Police and Border Gaurd Board (PPA) will now be able to refuse applications for international protection from migrants who cross an external border illegally — not at an official border crossing point — and send them back. # ⚓ RTL ☛ Up_to_50_missing_after_migrant_boat_sinks_off Greece⠀⇛ Athens says migrant arrival numbers have climbed this year and accuses Ankara of not doing enough to stop smugglers from sending them across the border — often in flimsy boats that make for dangerous journeys. # ⚓ The Hill ☛ Finland’s_parliament_hit_with_cyberattack following_US_move_to_admit_the_country_to_NATO⠀⇛ The Finnish parliament said in a statement on Twitter that a denial-of-service attack hit the parliament’s external websites at around 2:30 p.m. local time. # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ August_6_and_9,_1945:_Two_Days_that_Shook the_World…and_the_Earth⠀⇛ I was able to discover the locations of these Cold War artifacts because Santa Monica had required a special building permit for bomb shelters, and the records for those permits had their own separate file. There was also, back in those pre-computer days, something called a reverse phone directory, a staple of newspapers that allowed a journalist to look up an address and obtain the phone number linked to it. As I dialed those numbers, I discovered that, because most such shelters had been installed or built in the late 1950s or early ‘60s in highly mobile Southern California, very few of the hideaways’ owners were (or would admit to being) the people who had installed them. Some claimed not to know there was a bomb shelter on their property. # ⚓ YLE ☛ Russian_[crackers]_claim_another_denial-of-service attack_on_Finnish_state_website⠀⇛ The latest target was a relatively obscure Valto, a government joint publication archive. Valto is maintained by the National Library. It crashed on Wednesday after being bombarded with spurious service requests. # ⚓ ABC ☛ FBI_director_condemns_threats_to_agents_after_raid_on Trump’s_Mar-a-Lago⠀⇛ There is an uptick in violent threats against rank and file FBI agents in the wake of the raid, senior law enforcement officials told ABC News. # ⚓ Shadowproof ☛ Protest_Song_Of_The_Week:_‘No_More_Wars’_By Mádé_Kuti⠀⇛ Originally published at Ongoing History of Protest MusicIn 2021, Mádé Kuti built upon the legacy of his father Femi and legendary grandfather Fela withthe release of his debut album “For(e)ward.” The album was released alongside Femi’s eleventh full-length album “Stop The Hate” as part of the aptly titled double album “Legacy +.” After completion of a United States tour with his father, Mádé released his latest single “No More Wars,” featuring powerhouse vocals and expert backing from his newly formed band The Movement.The tune promotes the need to re-evaluate values and to make a conscious effort to pursue peace, and the stirring Afrobeat anthem works on both a personal and political level. “‘No More Wars’ is entirely about temper, control, and focus,” Mádé said. “It’s about experiences I’ve had that taught me to reflect intentionally before I resort to violent acts.”“The lyrics are inspired by my father’s consistency in following his path despite dealing with an overwhelming amount of harsh, untrue, and deliberately cruel people inside and outside of his circle,” Mádé added.We live in a world that demands righteous indignation, but there is a danger that we may be consumed by anger. When that danger arises, we can remind ourselves of the lyrical refrain that recommends we how to deal with negative energy.“So when dem come with dem trouble All the negativity dem sabi [they know]So when dem come with dem energyClose your ears and sing.”Listen to Mádé Kuti’s “No More Wars”: # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Ukraine_strikes_crucial_bridge_in_Nova_Kakhovka_— Meduza⠀⇛ A Ukrainian strike has significantly damaged a bridge in Nova Kakhovka, a Russian-occupied city in the Kherson region, according to the Ukrainian authorities. The Kakhovsky Bridge, which crosses over the dam at the Kakhovka Hydroelectric Power Plant, has been one of the Russian army’s few remaining options for transporting supplies across the Dnipro river. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ 13_killed_in_Dnipropetrovsk_region_as_a_result_of overnight_shelling_—_Meduza⠀⇛ Thirteen civilians were killed in overnight shelling in the Nikopol district of Dnipropetrovsk region. Another 11 people were wounded, including five who are in serious condition, said Valentin Reznichenko, the head of the regional administration. # ⚓ The Nation ☛ The_OAS_Admits_Culpability_in_the_Destruction of_Haiti⠀⇛ To the astonishment of those who’ve been watching and studying the Haitian situation during the past 20 years and more, the Organization of America States (OAS) released a statement on Monday admitting, finally, that the international community was responsible for the crisis ravaging Haiti today. # ⚓ The Nation ☛ Pelosi’s_Taiwan_Visit_Launched_a_New_Era_of Military_Competition_With_China⠀⇛ Long before House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s plane touched down in Taiwan on August 2, relations between China and the United States had been on a downward spiral. The Biden administration had been working to encircle China with a network of hostile military alliances, while China had been increasing its aggressive military maneuvers in the East and South China Seas. Still, bilateral relations had not deteriorated to the point where it had become impossible for US and Chinese leaders to discuss cooperation on climate change and other vital matters, as Presidents Biden and Xi Jinping did in their teleconference of July 28. But Pelosi’s visit produced a new chasm in the US-China relationship: From now on, all prospects for cooperation have been swept away, and all that remains is intensified military competition and increased risk of war. # ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ NPR_Distorts_History_of_US_Invasion_of Afghanistan⠀⇛ # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Going_Global_with_NATO⠀⇛ On April 27, the UK Foreign Secretary Liz Truss, prime ministerial contender, made her claim that the North Atlantic Treaty Organization needed to be globalised.  Her Mansion House speech at the Lord Mayor’s Easter Banquet was one of those unusually frank disclosures that abandons pretence revealing, in its place, a disturbing reality. After making it clear that NATO’s “open door policy” was “sacrosanct”, Truss also saw security in global terms, another way of promoting a broader commitment to international mischief.  She rejected “the false choice between Euro-Atlantic security and Indo-Pacific security.  In the modern world we need both.”  A “global NATO” was needed.  “By that I don’t mean extending the membership to those from other regions.  I mean that NATO must have a global outlook, ready to tackle global threats.” # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Trump_Invokes_Fifth_Amendment_in_Deposition_for New_York_Civil_Investigation⠀⇛ # ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ The_Chris_Hedges_Report_Podcast:_John_Kiriakou on_Why_the_CIA_Needs_to_be_Abolished⠀⇛ The CIA has evolved into a rouge and unaccountable paramilitary force that overthrows governments, carries out kidnapping, practices torture in black sites and engages in targeted assassinations. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Opinion_|_Since_9/11_the_US_Has_Increased Military_Interventions_to_Historic_Levels⠀⇛ # ⚓ The Nation ☛ Palestinian_Resistance_Tore_Down_the_Green Line_Long_Ago⠀⇛ My understanding of 1967—the year Israel began its occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip—was completely upended by my maternal grandfather. Born during the British Mandate for Palestine, he was 19 years old when our town, Tira, was subsumed by the newly forged Jewish state in the aftermath of the Nakba of 1948, when hundreds of thousands of Palestinians fled or were expelled by Zionist forces and barred from returning to their homes. Although granted Israeli citizenship, he and 150,000 other Palestinians, who became labeled Arab Israelis, were subjected to a military government that restricted their movement, expropriated their property, and suppressed their political activities. For nearly two decades, until 1966, my grandfather was trapped in a cage built in his own homeland. # ⚓ The Nation ☛ The_Line_Separating_Israel_From_Palestine_Has Been_Erased—What_Comes_Next?⠀⇛ More than a year after a wave of violence, rage, and resistance swept through the land between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea, the events of May 2021 are still very much present in the minds of Israeli Jews and Palestinians. Two hundred and eighty-six Palestinians, most of them in Gaza, and 13 Israelis were killed during the 11 most intense days, but it was not only the number of casualties that left a mark. It was also the fact that the drama unfolded all over historical Palestine: in Jerusalem, in Gaza, in the West Bank, and most important, in Israel’s “mixed cities” such as Lydd, Ramle, Acre, and elsewhere, which was almost unprecedented since 1948. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Mikhail_Zygar_says_Medvedev_still_wants presidency,_revamped_image_to_please_Putin_—_Meduza⠀⇛ In a new column for Der Spiegel, journalist Mikhail Zygar makes the case that Russian Security Council Deputy Chairman Dmitry Medvedev’s new hawkish persona and frequent attacks on Ukraine and the West are all part of an effort to shore up his chances of returning to the Russian presidency. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ DOJ_Charges_Iranian_Over_Alleged_Plot_to Assassinate_John_Bolton⠀⇛ The United States Department of Justice has charged an Iranian citizen who it says is a member of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps with attempting to hire an assassin to murder John Bolton, an ex- national security adviser in the Trump administration, multiple outlets reported Wednesday. According to the Justice Department, Shahram Poursafi, also known as Mehdi Rezayi, offered to pay unnamed individuals $300,000 in November 2021 to “eliminate” Bolton in Washington, D.C. or Maryland. # ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ Albuquerque’s_Muslim_Community_Mourns_4 Killed_as_Suspect_Arrested,_Calls_for_Counseling_&_Support⠀⇛ Police say they have arrested a primary suspect in the recent killings of four Muslim men in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Authorities say Muhammad Syed, 51, committed at least two of the killings and may have been motivated by anger that his daughter had married outside of her branch of Islam. The four victims are Mohammad Ahmadi, Muhammed Afzaal Hussain, Aftab Hussein and Naeem Hussain. We go to Albuquerque to speak with Samia Assed, human rights activist and organizer, who was the host of a memorial Tuesday night at the Islamic Center of New Mexico, Albuquerque’s longest- standing and largest mosque that at least three of the victims had attended. She discusses the increased police presence in the Muslim community and the suspect’s own identity that contradicted initial assumptions that the killings were anti- Muslim hate crimes. “With this perpetrator being Muslim, I just want to say violence is not exclusive to the Muslim community,” says Assed. “It shouldn’t be a judgment call on who we are.” o § Environment⠀➾ # ⚓ The Telegraph UK ☛ Oxfordshire_village_runs_dry_as_drought leaves_residents_relying_on_bottled_water⠀⇛ Thames Water has one of the worst records on leaks in the country, losing around 600 million litres a day – around 24 per cent of its supply – prompting warnings on Tuesday that a hosepipe ban could be ignored by customers. # ⚓ Taiwan News ☛ Taipei_to_ban_beverage_stores_from_using disposable_plastic_cups_from_Dec._1⠀⇛ Local governments in Taiwan will have to submit their plans and schedules for banning disposable plastic cups before Dec. 31, 2024, CNA reported. The DEP has finalized a plan for the submission, which will ban all beverage stores in the city from using disposable plastic cups, starting from Dec. 1 of this year. # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Beyond_Plastics⠀⇛ A half century later the world is being choked by plastic waste from huge items to the smallest micro bits, each causing a slow death to our beautiful living system. As I revisited this non-regenerative life cycle of many pieces of plastic lodged in my brain and yours, it suddenly reminded me of something I learned about in the 1970s, the nuclear fuel cycle. When Prop 13 was on the California ballot encouraging us to vote for nuclear energy, guaranteed to be cheap, clean, and efficient, my husband and I joined with others to explore this too-good-to-be-true source of energy. We soon learned that what we were not told was that the waste from the power plants would be toxic for 250,000 years and could not be safely stored and protected against earthquakes or terrorist attacks for starters. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Massive_Fires_Scorch_France_as_Yet_Another Historic_Drought_Grips_Europe⠀⇛ Climate campaigners on Wednesday once again sounded the alarm as historic drought conditions and massive wildfires scorched Europe during a summer in which nearly 12,000 people across the continent have been killed by extreme heat. “With droughts, floods, and extreme weather on the rise, it’s clear that climate breakdown is well and truly here.” # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Opinion_|_While_Cuba_Deals_with_Blazing Fire,_the_U.S._Heartlessly_Watches_and_Waits⠀⇛ By now, the images of the oil explosion that erupted in the Cuban province of Matanzas on Friday, August 5 and continues blazing have become international news. When lightning struck an oil tank in Cuba’s largest oil storage facility, it quickly exploded and began to spread to nearby tanks. As of now, four of the eight tanks have caught fire. Dozens of people have been hospitalized, over 120 have been reported injured, at least 16 firefighters are still reported missing and one firefighter has died.  # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Top_Economists_Hail_Chilean_Constitution_as ‘New_Global_Standard’_on_Climate,_Inequality⠀⇛ A group of world-renowned economists and social scientists published an open letter Wednesday hailing Chile’s draft constitution as a transformative document that—if granted final approval by the Chilean people on September 4—would serve as a “new global standard” on fighting the climate crisis and pervasive inequality. Signed by Thomas Piketty, Jayati Ghosh, Gabriel Zucman, and other luminaries from across the globe, the new letter praises the proposed constitution as a “visionary product” from which the rest of the world “has much to learn.” # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Historic_Climate_Bill,_Say_Clear-Eyed Critics,_Still_‘Pours_Gasoline_on_the_Flames’⠀⇛ While many environmental advocates celebrate the Senate Democrats’ climate deal this week, frontline activists and more critical voices continue to note that the legislation, whatever its promises and upsides, remains an inadequate response to the global emergency that will likely further harm communities already affected by fossil fuel pollution. “Activists and frontline communities will continue fighting to stop fossil fuel corporations that threaten our air, our water, and a livable planet.” # § Energy⠀➾ # ⚓ Cryptonews ☛ Chinese_Web_Censor_Resolves_to_Keep Cracking_Down_on_[Cryptocurrency]_After_Closing_12K Social_Media_Accounts⠀⇛ Per Yicai, the censor, the Cyberspace Administration of China, says it has closed down some 12,000 accounts – mainly on the Sina-owned Weibo platform and Baidu’s Baidu Tieba. Some 51,000 posts have been deleted and 105 websites were pulled offline. These sites included the likes of Bi Toutiao, which reportedly hosted “cryptocurrency marketing” materials, published tutorials explaining how Mainland Chinese citizens could conduct cross-border transactions despite the crackdown, and even advised Chinese readers on how to engage in [cryptocurrency] mining. # ⚓ DeSmog ☛ ‘Blue_Hydrogen_Cheerleader’:_UK_Government’s Choice_of_Hydrogen_Champion_Draws_Criticism⠀⇛ The UK government has been accused of appointing a “cheerleader for climate- wrecking blue hydrogen” as its hydrogen champion while claiming to support clean energy. Jane Toogood was named as the new “hydrogen champion” by Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng in July and will liaise between industry and government to “accelerate hydrogen production” to help the country reach its net zero goal.  # ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ China’s_New_Green_Energy_Plan_Could Supercharge_the_Global_Fight_Against_Climate_Change⠀⇛ Mitchell Beer reports on how Hu Min, principal and co-founder of the Innovative Green Development Program (iGDP), sees China’s latest renewables plan. # § Wildlife/Nature⠀➾ # ⚓ The Revelator ☛ Collision_Course:_Will_the_Plastics Treaty_Slow_the_Plastics_Rush?⠀⇛ # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ No_Time_for_Polite_Conservation⠀⇛ The organizing for this action mobilized people into action. According to reports, the police presence largely outweighed the number of protestors and some game-watchers responded violently to protests, but the only arrests were of climate activists. On game day, groups sat-in and blockaded multiple entrances at the baseball park, others held banners inside the park (that we immediately ripped from their hands by police) and police violently arrested three activists. Just the suggestion of disrupting the annual congressional baseball game sent up the “civility” flags from the expected hand-wring quarters. It has become normal practice for politicians to call for a polite conversation instead of protest and especially if it is “direct action” and “confrontational protest.” o § Finance⠀➾ # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ A_Pacifist_Even_in_the_Tax_War⠀⇛ In a 2002 profile, Andrew Blackman noted that Cornell “shares common beliefs with liberals and neo-conservatives, communists and cardinals, and he harshly criticizes all of them.” Cornell was the sort of radical for social justice who told liberals that radicalism didn’t mean being “liberal but more so,” since his analysis of the ills of war and poverty traced them to fundamentally “different premises.” He wasn’t any more accommodating to those who professed his anti-abortion position but who seemed to be only  “concerned about people … until they’re born.” Cornell’s means were just as distinct from partisan politics on either side. In a 2014 interview with Commonweal, he explained: “In the Bible we read, ‘I was hungry and you fed me.’ It does not say, ‘I was hungry and you formed a committee!’ Our thing is just getting down and doing it.” # ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Amid_Fears_of_Crime_and_Mental_Illness,_States Move_To_Expand_Forced_Treatment⠀⇛ Advocates of assisted outpatient treatment say it could reduce homelessness and mass shootings. Critics call it incarceration by another name. # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ The_Bombshell_in_the_July_Jobs_Report⠀⇛ The unexpected large increase in jobs was jumped on by Biden administration and business sources alike who had been arguing publicly in preceding weeks that the US economy was not in recession. How could it be a recession, when the jobs market was so robust, the argument went?  Never mind the fact that the US economy measured in GDP terms contracted by -1.6% in the first quarter of 2022, followed by another -0.9% contraction in the second quarter for a combined first half, January thru June, decline of -1.3%.  That was just a ‘technical’ recession, not a real one the recession deniers argued. The real declaration of a recession remains with that group of politically well connected-professional economists from elite universities who are members of the quasi-official NBER (National Bureau of Economic Research). It is they who decide whether a recession has occurred, and months after it is virtually over. The NBER experts are yet to say it’s a recession.  The NBER looks at more than just GDP and that includes employment, and jobs are being created at the rate of 528,000 this past month. Of course this argument ignores the fact that jobs are notoriously what’s called a ‘lagging indicator’ and job decline on average begins six months or later after a recession commences. It also ignores the further fact that whenever GDP has contracted two consecutive months, as recently, in all the past US recessions it has been followed by the NBER also declaring well after the fact that a recession has occurred. # ⚓ The Nation ☛ What’s_Next_for_the_Student_Debt_Cancellation Movement?⠀⇛ As student debt in America reaches a record- breaking $1.8 trillion among 45 million federal borrowers, the student debt cancellation movement is finally close to a win. For a decade, Natalia Abrams and Cody Hounanian at the Student Debt Crisis Center have been working to provide relief to the one in five Americans caught in the student debt crisis—through outreach, surveys, town hall meetings, and their State of Student Debt Summit. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ 70+_Economists_Say_US_Must_Return_$7 Billion_Stolen_From_Afghan_People⠀⇛ More than 70 economists and other academic experts sent a letter to U.S. President Joe Biden and Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Wednesday urging them to allow Afghanistan’s central bank to access the foreign exchange reserves frozen by Washington and to persuade other governments to lift the “coercive economic restrictions” that are exacerbating the suffering of the Afghan people. “The full $7 billion belong to the Afghan people.” # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Opinion_|_Inflation_Reduction_Act_Will_Not Cut_Benefits—It_Will_Reduce_Medicare_Drug_Costs⠀⇛ # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Opinion_|_Far_From_Perfect,_But_the Inflation_Reduction_Act_Is_a_Major_Step_in_the_Right Direction⠀⇛ U.S. Senate Democrats’ compromise bill, the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) of 2022, addresses not just inflation but also several key longstanding problems facing our economy and society. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ To_Tackle_Stubborn_Inflation,_Experts_Urge Bold_Action_Against_‘Corporate_Profiteering’⠀⇛ Despite a hopeful dip from a near four-decade high in July, new Labor Department inflation data released Wednesday prompted progressive economists and experts to double down on their calls for congressional action against corporate price gouging. The Consumer Price Index (CPI) was up 8.5% in July compared to a year earlier, down from 9.1% in June—a potential sign that roaring inflation has peaked. CPI was completely flat in July on a monthly basis, with falling gas prices playing a decisive role in the better-than-expected figures. # ⚓ IT Wire ☛ iTWire_–_Telstra_profit_down_after_challenging year,_dividend_hiked⠀⇛ Telstra has announced an increased dividend for the first time in seven years, despite reporting a drop in income and profit for FY22, according to its results released on Thursday. The company said it had total income of $22.0 billion for the year, a drop of 4.7% and net profit of $1.8 billion, a decrease of 4.6%. Chief executive Andy Penn said in a statement released to the ASX that the T22 strategy had allowed the company to manage its affairs in the existing uncertain economic climate and create a basis for growth. “When we launched our T22 strategy four years ago, we were in part responding to the operational and financial headwinds created by the rollout of the nbn. We were also responding to the technology innovation we could see around us and the growing rate of digital adoption,” he said. o § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾ # ⚓ VOA News ☛ Race_for_Semiconductors_Influences_Taiwan Conflict⠀⇛ Taiwan makes 65% of the world’s semiconductors and almost 90% of the advanced chips. # ⚓ The Hill ☛ House_administrators_warn_lawmakers_against TikTok_use⠀⇛ “TikTok actively harvests content for identifiable data. TikTok ‘may collect biometric identifiers and biometric information as defined under US laws,’ including ‘faceprints’ and ‘voiceprints,’ from videos users upload to their platform,” the advisory states. It also may be able to access the device phone number, Wi-Fi network names, SIM card serial numbers, GPS status information and subscription information. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Trump_Spews_‘Tirade_of_Same_Old_Lies’_But Pleads_the_Fifth_in_New_York_AG_Probe⠀⇛ Former U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday refused to answer questions from New York Attorney General Letitia James about his business dealings, explaining he was invoking his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination. “You don’t take the Fifth if you didn’t do anything wrong.” # ⚓ DaemonFC (Ryan Farmer) ☛ Trump_argues_that_he_invoked_“the constitutional_rights_of_every_American”_after_saying_“only mobsters_and_guilty_people_invoke_the_Fifth_Amendment”_while his_judges_have_destroyed_the_Miranda_Warning.⠀⇛ The Republicans are fine with this. Anyone with millions or billions of dollars certainly already has lots of lawyers telling them to shut up and never cooperate with the police. Video: You Have the Right to Remain Innocent (James Duane) Mr. Duane says that “All too often” we hear, 20 years after a [usually poor and/or black] defendant was sent to prison, that they were actually innocent and the police framed them. They get a very small check and told to just get on with their life and then “we turn back to Brad and Angelina”. If the police arrest and frame a poor person who doesn’t know any better than to keep his mouth shut, and he goes to prison, then the Republicans get one more felon who can never vote again (in most states). It’s a situation without any possible downside to them. Nevertheless, it was funny watching Trump go “On the advice of my attorneys, I can’t answer that because it would incriminate me.” dozens of times for hours and hours. It’s a civil case, so he doesn’t have the right to not take the stand. Essentially, it forces him to admit for hours on end that if he said anything, he’d go to prison in a criminal court later. # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Viktor_Orbán_and_his_“Globalists”⠀⇛ But what does the frame, “globalist” really mean, and what is “globalism” supposedly about? Orbán has staked his political career on using globalism as an anti-Semitic slur, in particular against billionaire George Soros who comes from Hungary and is viewed by conservatives as some kind of sinister mastermind behind the development of a global economic system where the wealthy have supposedly pushed their value system on the world to promote their own economic, political, and cultural interests. The globalists—so the story goes—want the world to be unified in terms of how we relate to one another so that there will be no interference in trade or finance because barriers and borders will no longer matter. Viktor Orbán has repeatedly referred to the system that he has created in Hungary as being an “illiberal democracy.” Elections and voting are possible to select leaders as long as the list of candidates has already been purged of those who believe in liberal values, which Orbán equates to some kind of Marxism and is therefore part of this globalized world in which we now live. # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Montana’s_Political_Trifecta_of_Shame⠀⇛ # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Trump_Campaign_Releases_Everyone_Who_Signed_An NDA_About_2016_Campaign,_Saying_It_Will_Not_Try_To_Enforce Them⠀⇛ Two years ago we wrote about how a former Trump campaign staffer, Jessica Denson had sued the Trump campaign, claiming that the non-disclosure agreement she was pressured into signing by the campaign was not enforceable. As we know, Trump loves his non-disclosure agreements. He seems to use them frequently. When you’re a private citizen, or a private corporation, that’s one thing, but when you’re the President of the United States — or the campaign vehicle to elect you to that office — NDAs take on a slightly different feel. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ ‘Let’s_Send_Ron_Johnson_Packing’:_Mandela Barnes_Wins_Wisconsin_Senate_Primary⠀⇛ Wisconsin’s progressive Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes handily won the state’s Democratic U.S. Senate primary on Tuesday, advancing to take on Republican Sen. Ron Johnson in a November matchup that could play a key role in determining which party controls the upper chamber next year. “This is the honor of a lifetime,” Barnes said following his landslide victory, which was expected after his top Democratic rivals dropped out last month. # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Mandela_Barnes_Wins_Wisconsin_Primary:_“Let’s Send_Ron_Johnson_Packing”⠀⇛ # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Ilhan_Omar_Fends_Off_Primary_Challenger_Who_Was Boosted_by_Right-Wing_PAC_Money⠀⇛ # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Ilhan_Omar_Fends_Off_Primary_Challenger Boosted_by_Right-Wing_PAC_Money⠀⇛ U.S Rep. Ilhan Omar on Tuesday narrowly fended off a Democratic primary challenger whose campaign was bankrolled in part by a GOP operative, corporate lobbyists, and prominent Minnesota businessmen. Omar, a stalwart progressive who has been a frequent target of racist right-wing attacks and death threats, prevailed by fewer than 3,000 votes, a far closer contest than her 2020 primary. Her opponent, former Minneapolis City Council Member Don Samuels, conceded the race. # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Activists_Living_in_Shadow_of_Fossil_Fuels Oppose_Democrats’_Deal_With_Manchin⠀⇛ # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Poll:_A_Majority_of_Americans_Want_to_Abolish the_Electoral_College⠀⇛ # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Becca_Balint,_Backed_by_Bernie_Sanders, Wins_Vermont_US_House_Primary⠀⇛ Becca Balint, a former public school teacher and current president of the Vermont Senate, notched a victory for progressives on Tuesday when she won the Democratic primary for the state’s lone seat in the U.S. House. “Hunger is a policy choice. Homelessness is a policy choice. We can make different choices.” # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Doctors_Against_Oz_Launch_Campaign Denouncing_GOP_Candidate_as_‘Quack’⠀⇛ Highlighting Dr. Mehmet Oz’s spreading of Covid-19 misinformation and his history of dispensing what one study found to be “baseless” medical advice, several Pennsylvania doctors joined Democratic Senate candidate Lt. Gov. John Fetterman on Wednesday in warning that electing Oz to the U.S. Senate would “endanger Pennsylvanians’ health.” “We absolutely cannot trust him to have the best interests of the health of the people of Pennsylvanians and for our country.” o § Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾ # ⚓ New York Times ☛ How_Russia_Took_Over_Ukraine’s_Internet_in Occupied_Territories⠀⇛ Several weeks after taking over Ukraine’s southern port city of Kherson, Russian soldiers arrived at the offices of local [Internet] service providers and ordered them to give up control of their networks. # ⚓ California18 ☛ Russia_“occupies”_the_Ukrainian_Internet⠀⇛ According to the US network surveillance company Kentik, the decisive turning point was a multi-day internet failure in Cherson at the end of May. Until then, data from the city was primarily transported to Europe via Kyiv. Although some internet providers restored their connection over the following days, instead of via Kyiv, all data traffic now went via Crimea and from there on to Moscow. # ⚓ Evening Standard UK ☛ Florence_Given:_“I_hate_the_idea_of self-censorship”⠀⇛ Activist and debut novelist Florence Given says she doesn’t think young authors have to self-censor when creating fiction, despite the fears of literary grandees such as Anthony Horowitz. # ⚓ Reason ☛ U.K.’s_Online_Censorship_Bill_Causes_Far_More_Harm Than_It_Attempts_To_Prevent⠀⇛ At the top of the to-do list is the long-coming Online Safety Bill which, as has become traditional for legislation, does nothing that its title suggests. In fact, those who offend the government with their online speech or efforts to protect privacy may soon be a lot less safe. # ⚓ Carnyx Group Ltd ☛ ‘We’ve_lost_1_million_customers’: Lovehoney_talks_SafeSearch,_censorship_and_sales⠀⇛ Sexual wellness brand Lovehoney has been embroiled in a long-term conflict with Google and Instagram because stringent search and ad policies hinder its marketing efforts and hide its website. Lovehoney’s head of sexual empowerment Johanna Rief tells The Drum how it is fighting back. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Russian_federal_agents_arrest_at_least_half_a dozen_Telegram_channel_administrators_involved_in_anti- corruption_reporting_—_Meduza⠀⇛ In the past week, federal agents in Russia have arrested the administrators of at least half a dozen popular Telegram channels, according to multiple reports. On Wednesday, a court in Moscow jailed three of these people: journalist Alexandra Bayazitova, media expert Olga Arkharova, and publicist Inna Churilova. Only Bayazitova has maintained her innocence against charges that she extorted money from Promsvyazbank. (Case records identify the victim of the alleged extortion as Alexander Ushakov, a senior manager at the state- owned bank.) # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ West_African_Court_Says_Nigerian_Government’s Seven-Month_Twitter_Ban_Was_Unlawful⠀⇛ Last June, the president of Nigeria, Muhannadu Buhari, issued a tweet that looked a lot like a call for genocide in response to often violent anti-government protests: # ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ CBS_Removes_Documentary_on_Ukraine_Military Aid_After_Pressure_From_Ukrainian_Government⠀⇛ Ukraine’s foreign minister called for an investigation into the documentary, which found that most military aid wasn’t making it to the frontlines. # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ The_‘Institute_For_Free_Speech’_Seems_Confused About_Free_Speech_Online⠀⇛ There’s a very strange opinion piece over at The Hill by the chair of something called The Institute for Free Speech, Bradley Smith, basically arguing that because courts are finding that websites are protected by Section 230 while moderating in ways that some people (read: him and his friends)… Congress may take away Section 230, and the way to avoid that is for sites to stop moderating content that some people (again: him and his friends) don’t like… even though they have a 1st Amendment right to do so. o § Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press⠀➾ # ⚓ RTL ☛ Russia_TV_journalist_faces_jail_for_anti-Putin protest⠀⇛ Russian investigators on Wednesday launched a criminal probe against Marina Ovsyannikova, who denounced President Vladimir Putin’s attack on Ukraine on live TV, and detained the journalist, her lawyer said. In mid-July, Ovsyannikova staged a one-woman protest near the Kremlin, holding a poster that read “Putin is a murderer, his soldiers are fascists.” # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Police_raid_home_of_former_state_TV_employee Marina_Ovsyannikova_—_Meduza⠀⇛ The Russian Investigative Committee has launched a criminal case against former Channel One employee Marina Ovsyannikova for allegedly spreading “disinformation” about the Russian military. Her lawyer, Dmitry Zakhvatov, reported that police raided her home on Wednesday, breaking down the door and refusing to wait for him to arrive. Zakhvatov told Meduza that the case was likely opened in response to one of Ovsyannikova’s recent one-woman protests in which she stood in Moscow with a sign that read, “Putin is a killer, his soldiers are fascists.” o § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾ # ⚓ BBC ☛ Iranian_women_who_need_certificates_to_prove_they_are virgins⠀⇛ In Iran, virginity before marriage is important for many girls and their families. Sometimes men demand a virginity certificate – a practice that the World Health Organization (WHO) deems to be against human rights. But in the past year, more and more people have been campaigning against it. # ⚓ Foreign Policy ☛ Meet_the_Woman_Who_Makes_the_Taliban Squirm⠀⇛ Since the Taliban takeover last August, the reinvigoration of women’s rights in Afghanistan has come to a screeching halt. Women have been told not to return to most government offices (though they still receive a reduced government salary at home), and fewer venture out on the streets. They also need a male relative chaperone to travel long distances. The Ministry of Women’s Affairs was replaced by the Taliban’s Ministry for the Propagation of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, whose workers wear white lab coats and “suggest” to women and men how they should dress and behave in an Islamic Emirate. # ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ Biden_to_End_Trump-Era_“Remain_in_Mexico” Border_Policy;_Immigrants_Face_Ongoing_Trauma,_Separation⠀⇛ The Biden administration says it is officially ending the controversial Trump-era “Remain in Mexico” policy that forces asylum seekers to wait in Mexico as their cases wind through court, often in grueling conditions for months or years. We speak to attorney and activist Efrén Olivares with the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Immigrant Justice Project about the impact of this policy, as well as ongoing efforts to reunite families separated at the U.S.-Mexico border under the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” policy in 2018. Olivares represented some of the children and their parents, and wrote about them in his new book, “My Boy Will Die of Sorrow: A Memoir of Immigration from the Front Lines.” # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Biden_Will_End_“Remain_in_Mexico”_Policy,_But Immigrants_Face_Ongoing_Trauma⠀⇛ # ⚓ The Nation ☛ The_Bloody_Money_Trail_From_the_Qatar_World Cup_to_the_LA_Olympics⠀⇛ The 2022 Qatar World Cup is a human rights atrocity dressed up like a soccer tournament. More than 6,500 migrant workers have died in the petro- dictatorship since it was awarded the tournament, with more than two dozen perishing during the rush to construct stadiums. But Qatar’s ruling al-Thani family has a counterpunch for those criticizing their bloody hosting of the Cup: billions upon billions of dollars to purchase positive publicity in the lead-up to the month-long mega-event. They are presenting the World Cup—one of the most- watched sporting events on Earth—to puff up their regime, but the fallout around migrant deaths has been so widespread that they have been compelled to buy favorable relations in cities only too happy to take their money. This is a form of what is often referred to as “sportswashing.” # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ U.S._Audacity_on_Brittney_Griner⠀⇛ Yesterday, a Russian judge sentenced Griner to 9 years in jail. This was after she pled guilty to illegally bringing a small amount of cannabis into the country, in violation of Russia’s drug laws. She faced a maximum sentence of 10 years.  U.S. officials are up in arms over the case. The U.S. State Department has classified Griner as “wrongfully detained.” # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Marcos-Duterte_Hands_Off_Walden_Bello⠀⇛ The arrest of Bello is widely viewed as politically motivated. As a vice presidential candidate, Bello had criticized Sara Duterte’s failure to publicly debate. The former Davao City information officer filed his case in March 2022. Subsequently, Sara Duterte’s regional party labeled Walden Bello a “narco-politician.” Having assumed office on June 30, 2022, the Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos, Jr./Sara Duterte administration is not wasting any time in continuing the de facto martial law regime of Rodrigo Duterte. Under Rodrigo Duterte, government forces have waged a war on the poor (in the guise of a war on drugs), a war on indigenous and Moro people, and red-tagging and extrajudicial killings of human rights, environmental, labor, and peasant activists. Some estimate that as many as 30,000 extrajudicial killings were perpetrated under the Duterte administration. # ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Sleeping_at_the_Wheel:_The_Uber_Files,_the Media,_and_the_Coup_Against_Labor_Rights⠀⇛ Uber’s entire model has been about breaking—if not smashing—labor law (and worker power) through systematic misclassification. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ 70%_of_Americans_Support_Deciding_State Abortion_Rights_by_Ballot_Measure:_Poll⠀⇛ National polling results released Wednesday reveal that 70% of U.S. adults across party lines support using ballot measures to determine abortion rights at the state level. “With abortion no longer a constitutional right, Americans are looking to the voting booth to have their voice heard on the issue.” # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Opinion_|_The_Trend_of_Criminalizing_Self- Managed_Abortion_Is_About_to_Intensify⠀⇛ Since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, as we long feared, we’ve been forced to navigate a new legal landscape. The terrain for people seeking abortions is changing almost daily, and abortion care is increasingly threatened for more communities. In this new era, increased attention has been paid to when the “wave” of criminalization will begin for those providing or seeking abortion care. Prosecutors have declared they won’t enforce laws and journalists have reported on possible police surveillance of period tracker apps. Yet, these responses are disconnected from what reproductive rights and justice advocates know about criminalization, and they are out of line with what I found in my research. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Opinion_|_Why_Does_Canada_Still_Allow Torture_in_Prisons?⠀⇛ Eddy Nalon bled to death in a segregation cell at Millhaven Penitentiary on this day in 1974. For every year since, prisoners have courageously marked Aug. 10 as Prisoners Justice Day. o § Internet Policy/Net Neutrality⠀➾ # ⚓ Benton Institute ☛ Man_who_built_an_internet_service provider_instead_of_paying_Comcast_$50,000_expands_to hundreds_of_homes⠀⇛ Jared Mauch, the Michigan man who built a fiber-to- the-home Internet provider because he couldn’t get good broadband service from AT&T or Comcast, is expanding with the help of $2.6 million in government money. In January 2021, Mauch was providing service to about 30 rural homes including his own with his internet service provider (ISP), Washtenaw Fiber Properties LLC. [...] o § Digital Restrictions (DRM)⠀➾ # ⚓ CoryDoctorow ☛ Epson_boobytrapped_its_printers⠀⇛ “Innovation” has become a curseword, thanks to…innovation. Some of the world’s most imaginative, best-funded sociopaths have spent decades innovating ways to fuck you over. While the whole tech sector likes to get in on this game, no one “innovates” like inkjet printer companies. Printer companies are true fuckery pioneers: the tactical innovations they’ve developed in the war on their customers would make Otto von Bismarck blush. [...] # ⚓ Variety ☛ Disney+_Ad_Plan_Price_and_Launch_Date_Set_—_Along With_Fee_Hikes_for_Disney+_Premium,_Hulu⠀⇛ The strategy appears aimed at mitigating Disney+ subscriber irritation over the price hike on the no-ads plan — and the inevitable cancelations — with the intro of Disney+ Basic at the same price point, albeit with ads stuck into the mix. # ⚓ The Verge ☛ Disney_Plus_and_Hulu_are_getting_steep_price hikes⠀⇛ Disney’s also raising the price of its Hulu subscription. The ad-free tier will jump from $12.99 / month to $14.99, while the ad-supported version will cost $7.99 / month, up from $6.99. The new pricing goes into effect on October 10th. A price hike for unbundled ESPN Plus streaming was announced in July, taking the monthly price from $6.99 to $9.99 / month. # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Another_Round_Of_Mormons_On_The_Mind!:_Four Streaming_Tv_Reviews⠀⇛ o § Monopolies⠀➾ # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Surprise:_U.S._Quest_To_Purge_Chinese_Gear_From Domestic_Networks_Was_A_Sloppy_Mess⠀⇛ We just got done noting how the patriotic quest to purge all Chinese hardware from U.S. networks was a a bit of an incoherent mess. The U.S. demand to purge all Huawei and ZTE equipment imposed huge costs on many mid- and small sized telecom vendors (read: their customers), and the U.S. now says it somehow lacks the money to help pay for the “rip and replace” effort as originally claimed. # § Software Patents⠀➾ # ⚓ Popular Science ☛ Google_and_Sonos_are_fighting_over patents,_again⠀⇛ Google and Sonos have collaborated frequently on their products, so the issues at hand deal more with the particularities of various technologies’ royalty and licensing fine print more than anything else. In one of its legal filings, Google claims its existing patents related to “enabling voice assistant technology and providing improvements to the efficiency, reliability, and durability of voice-controlled and battery-powered devices” are being used in Sonos’ new voice assistant program without the tech giant’s permission. # ⚓ PC Mag ☛ Google_Sues_Sonos_(Again)_for_Infringing_on Speaker-Related_Patents⠀⇛ The litigious spat began in 2020, when Sonos sued Google over multi-room speaker technology. Google quickly countered, claiming the consumer electronics maker also plagiarized some of its own patents. Sonos reciprocated with even more legal proceedings. # ⚓ Android Headlines ☛ Google_Hits_Sonos_With_Multiple Lawsuits_Alleging_Patent_Infringement⠀⇛ Google and Sonos have been involved in legal battles since January 2020. It began with the latter suing the former alleging infringement of a patent related to its multiroom speaker technology. The company said Google got access to the tech through a previous partnership and continued to use it on its products without proper licensing. Several other lawsuits followed, involving more smart speaker technologies. # ⚓ Bloomberg ☛ Google_Expands_Sonos_Audio-Patents_Fight With_Two_More_Suits_(2)⠀⇛ Both complaints were filed in the US District Court for the Northern District of California, where Judge William Alsup last week issued a ruling that canceled a Sonos patent, resolving the second of two issues covered in last month’s “patent showdown” between the longtime partners. # ⚓ Reuters ☛ Google_sues_Sonos_over_new_voice-assistant technology⠀⇛ The cases are Google LLC v. Sonos Inc, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, Nos. 3:22-cv-04552 and 3:22-cv- 04553. # § Trademarks⠀➾ # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ House_Of_Zana_Defeats_Zara’s_Trademark Opposition⠀⇛ A couple of months back, we discussed a bit of a David v. Goliath trademark situation occurring in the UK. Zara is a massive fashion brand, well known throughout Europe. House of Zana is a small boutique clothier that attempted to trademark the full name of the company, “House of Zana”, only to have Zara file an opposition claiming that “Zara” and “Zana” are so close that it would cause confusion with the public. # § Copyrights⠀➾ # ⚓ Torrent Freak ☛ Cheat_Seller_AimJunkies_Uses Subpoenas_to_Fire_Back_at_Bungie⠀⇛ AimJunkies.com has prepared several subpoenas through which it hopes to fire back at game developer Bungie. The cheat seller is interested in “Destiny 2″ player counts and figures, requesting this information from Valve. In addition, it wants PayPal and Google to help track down an alleged violator of the cheat software’s terms of service. # ⚓ Torrent Freak ☛ Brazil’s_New_IPTV_Anti-Piracy Blocking_Plan_Prepares_to_Bypass_Judiciary⠀⇛ As anti-piracy measures gather pace around the world, rightsholders are pushing the message that court involvement is unnecessary and only introduces unwanted delays. Administrative blocking programs are now considered the gold standard so as Brazil seeks to shake off its IPTV piracy problems, powerful agencies are preparing to follow the playbook. # ⚓ Creative Commons ☛ Sharing_Matters:_What_We’ve Learned_at_Creative_Commons⠀⇛ Sharing matters. Thanks to the digital revolution, we share things like never before, from scientific research to family photos, from day-to-day life to college courses — and all instantaneously. The variety and volume of sharing today was unimaginable even just a decade ago. Now social media and publishing platforms, smartphones, cheap data, and expanded internet access have enabled more sharing, both in forms that bring us joy and connection, and in the spread of lies, hate and misinformation. Our digital life reflects human nature in all its complexity, highlighting both the good and the bad. # ⚓ Creative Commons ☛ CC_Open_Education_Platform Lightning_Talks:_Recordings_and_Request_for_Speakers!⠀⇛ And, we hope you will consider presenting in our next round, coming up in 2023. * § Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾ o § Personal⠀➾ # ⚓ Week_4:_Eating_a_lot⠀⇛ I celebrated my birthday this week! I first celebrated with my family in New Jersey. I ordered some Japanese and Thai food for us to share at home. My dad also made smoked pork belly which was absolutely delicious. # ⚓ Coronavirus_adventure,_day_5⠀⇛ According to CDC, I’ll be all set tomorrow. I will still wear a mask outside the house for a few days. I feel like I’ve turned a corner. I’m much less tired. I logged in and worked today. I’d love to swing a kettlebell tomorrow, but I know that if I do that, I’ll be zonked. I feel like I need to go to social events, d— it. I miss burning my feet on the cobblestones kaj mi mankas praktikadon de muziko kun tio bela fraŭlino. Next time I’m in S——, I’m bringing a canoe 🛶. # ⚓ SpellBinding:_GYNRTVI_Wordo:_MUSED⠀⇛ # ⚓ Please_Pretend⠀⇛ o § Technical⠀➾ # ⚓ Smart_Watch [Ed: Spywatch or watch, taken literally (watching you)]⠀⇛ Yesterday I forgot to put on my apple watch before work, and didn’t realize it until I walked in the door. It’s not the first time this has happened, but it felt different this time. I told my partner I had forgotten my watch, and I’d likely be slow to respond to messages, and that was it. [...] It’s sad we’ll never see another Pebble — they got bought out by FitBit, and now there’s nothing left. I really do feel like people think the Pebble isn’t enough in a consumer market, but I’d happily get another one. It’d be a nice, cheap alternative. # ⚓ RE:_Zettelkasten_Utility⠀⇛ I started almost a year ago (damn!) using Org Roam to finally try and organize my notes and random things I write. I heard about zettelkasten I don’t even remember whence anymore, but it stuck with me. I spent a couple of weeks learning more about it, searching for (software) systems, &c, until I finally settled on Org Roam. As a Vim user this was a very… interesting experience! But let’s leave that for another day. # § Internet/Gemini⠀➾ # ⚓ AuraGem_Ask_Activity⠀⇛ # ⚓ AuraGem_Ask_Activity⠀⇛ # § Programming⠀➾ # ⚓ Embedding_Wren,_Pt_1⠀⇛ It’s always been my intention to make the EH500 with some sort of scripting language behind it, else, what’s the point? And originally, I wanted to use this as an excuse to get back into Scheme. I wrote a basic MUD in Scheme, at Uni, and have fond memories of it. 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