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═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at http://techrights.org/2022/09/27/phoronix-promotional-ads/#comments Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2022/09/27/phoronix-promotional-ads/ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 09.27.22⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Balanced_Coverage_in_Phoronix_Today⠀✐ Posted in Deception, Hardware, Microsoft at 3:13 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz Moments ago: 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇Phoronix_on_Intel⦈_ Phoronix earlier today: 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇Phoronix_thanks_Microsoft⦈_ Summary: Phoronix does a lot of promotional ads today while raising_corporate money ⢉⣉⡏⣏⡛⡉⢙⠛⢛⡛⢛⠛⡏⣝⠻⡻⡏⠛⢛⣛⣙⡛⢻⡙⣛⣏⢛⢛⠟⡻⠛⠋⢻⠙⣋⢛⡛⢛⢻⢝⠛⡛⡛⢛⣟⡛⣛⢫⡙⢛⠙⠛⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢩⡹⠉⣹⣿⣿⣏⣿⢉⣙⠻⣿⣿⢿⣿ ⠉⢉⡄⡀⠀⠀⠌⠋⠉⠉⠉⢉⡉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠭⠉ ⠩⢝⡇⡀⠀⡼⠛⢛⠛⠟⡛⠛⢻⣻⠛⠙⡿⠛⠛⣛⠛⠛⠛⠚⡿⠛⠛⢛⣿⠛⠛⠟⢺⠙⢛⠛⡛⠛⠛⡛⢻⠙⢻⠝⠛⡛⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠻⡙⠙⢻⣿⣿⡟⣿⢛⡛⠻⢿⣿⠿⣿ ⢏⣹⡇⠀⠀⠀⠏⡟⠛⠛⠛⠛⠋⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣭⣍⣉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⢩⠉ 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K_Desktop_Environment/KDE_SC/Qt * Distributions_and_Operating_Systems o PCLinuxOS/Mageia/Mandriva/OpenMandriva_Family o Fedora_Family_/_IBM o Debian_Family o Canonical/Ubuntu_Family o Open_Hardware/Modding o Mobile_Systems/Mobile_Applications * Free,_Libre,_and_Open_Source_Software o Events o Web_Browsers/Web_Servers # Chromium o Content_Management_Systems_(CMS) o GNU_Projects o Programming/Development # Rust * Leftovers o Proprietary o Security # Privacy/Surveillance o Monopolies # Copyrights * Gemini*_and_Gopher o Personal o Technical # Programming * § GNU/Linux⠀➾ o § Desktop/Laptop⠀➾ # ⚓ Linux Links ☛ Saving_Money_with_Linux:_Computer_Off,_No Power_Usage?_–_LinuxLinks⠀⇛ We often see statements such as “If something doesn’t need to be on, switch it off at the wall or unplug it”. How relevant is that statement for a computer? We took 5 computers of different types and age. To calculate the cost per year we assume each machine is left connected plugged into the wall for 365 days, and that a kWh is £0.34 (the (revised) price cap from October 2022 in the UK). Here are the results. # ⚓ 9to5Linux ☛ Star_Labs_Shares_More_Details_on_Its_Upcoming StarFighter_4K_Linux_Laptop⠀⇛ Featuring a micro-arc oxidized AZ291D alloy chassis and weighing only 1.4kg (3 pounds), the Star Labs StarFighter Linux laptop is powered by 45W 12th Gen Intel “Alder Lake” Core i3-1215U, i7-1255U, or i9- 12900H, or AMD Ryzen 7 6800H processors with up to 64GB DDR5 RAM and up to 8TB SSD storage. But the best feature of Star Labs’ StarFighter Linux notebook is the 16-inch 4K 10-bit matte IPS display featuring a 16:10 aspect ratio, 1074M colors, 100% Adobe coverage, 600cd/m2 brightness, and FreeSync support. As a bonus, the screen turns 180 degrees to let you open and carry it flat like a tablet. o § Server⠀➾ # ⚓ LXD_5.6_has_been_released⠀⇛ The LXD team is very excited to announce the release of LXD 5.6! This is another busy LXD release, coming with improvements all around, whether you’re using LXD to run some containers, virtual machines or are using clustering and projects. # ⚓ LWN ☛ LXD_5.6_released_[LWN.net]⠀⇛ Version 5.6 of the LXD container manager is out. Changes include the ability to stream log messages to a Grafana Loki server, Infiniband support for virtual machines, a restricted network access mode, and more. # ⚓ TechRepublic ☛ Super_Container_OS_is_Great_for_Container Deployments_|_TechRepublic⠀⇛ Containers are all the rage and show no signs of slowing down. Most enterprise businesses are leaning heavily on containers to do much of the heavy lifting for app and service deployment and for that, admins might tend to use their favorite operating system of choice. But sometimes, that’s like using a jackhammer when a scalpel is necessary. # ⚓ You_Can’t_Afford_To_Not_Be_in_the_Cloud [Ed: Another fool shaming everyone into outsourcing their operations, pretending that rents are cheaper than ownership, aside from other issues]⠀⇛ # ⚓ StormForge_Extends_Kubernetes_Autoscaling_Capability_– Container_Journal [Ed: Seems like a corporate puff piece massages into an 'article']⠀⇛ StormForge today announced it has expanded its ability to vertically or horizontally scale Kubernetes pods automatically using machine learning algorithms. Rich Bentley, product marketing manager for StormForge, says the latest version of StormForge Optimize Live provides IT teams with a bi- dimensional autoscaling capability to both right- size pods and horizontally set utilization rates without any contention. Previously, IT teams had to opt to either vertically or horizontally scale Kubernetes clusters but could not do both simultaneously, he noted. # ⚓ Getting_Started_With_Kubernetes_at_the_Edge⠀⇛ In this article, you will learn how Kubernetes is quickly becoming one of the most popular solutions used by businesses to incorporate edge computing. You will also learn about the benefits of edge computing, the specific benefits Kubernetes offers to assist with edge computing and how Kubernetes distributions could be used for edge computing. o § Audiocasts/Shows⠀➾ # ⚓ Video ☛ Chrome_Is_Killing_AdBlockers_–_Firefox_Will_Save Them_–_Invidious⠀⇛ A lot of privacy concerned internet users are concerned about Chrome’s new Manifest v3 which in part aims to end the usefulness of content/ad blockers but Mozilla & Firefox has a slightly different plan # ⚓ Video ☛ How_to_install_DataGrip_on_Linux_Mint_21_– Invidious⠀⇛ In this video, we are looking at how to install DataGrip on Linux Mint 21. # ⚓ Video ☛ Archcraft_2022.09.16_overview_|_Yet_another_minimal Linux_distribution,_based_on_Arch_Linux._–_Invidious⠀⇛ In this video, I am going to show an overview of Archcraft 2022.09.16 and some of the applications pre-installed. o § Kernel Space⠀➾ # ⚓ The Register UK ☛ Removing_an_obsolete_AMD_fix_makes_Linux kernel_6_quicker⠀⇛ An ancient fix for power management issues on AMD systems has been reducing Linux’s performance since 2002. Now it’s gone. One of the joys of modern silicon chips is that power management is vitally important. It hasn’t been about saving power or extending battery life since the 20th century. Processor vendors survive by selling us more and more transistors, solely on the basis that most of them are turned off most of the time – otherwise the chips would rapidly incinerate themselves, no matter how good their cooling. This requires sophisticated interfaces between the OS and the hardware, and way back in 1996, a new standard called ACPI (Advanced Configuration and Power Interface) replaced the positively stone age APM (Advanced Power Management) from the Windows 3 era. # ⚓ Gentoo-Sources:_Experimental_–_ACPI:_processor_idle: Practically_limit_‘Dummy_wait’_workaround_to_old_Intel systems_–_Mike_Pagano’s_Weblog⠀⇛ I added the patch indicated above to gentoo-sources behind the ‘experimental’ flag, for now. This is to remove a 20 year old workaround for newer AMD processors. I expect this to propagate to lower kernels via upstream directly. This will be in gentoo-sources-5.19.12 (USE=experimental) # ⚓ Pat_Gelsinger_Bestows_Linux_Creator_Linus_Torvalds_With Intel’s_First_Innovation_Award_|_HotHardware [Ed: Bribing Linus after he recommended AMD and ARM]⠀⇛ Linus and Intel have not always seen eye-to-eye. In the past, Linus has rallied against Chipzilla for stifling error correcting memory support on desktop platforms and has accused the company of providing lackluster solutions to the Spectre and Meltdown CPU flaws. Nevertheless, Linus understands the importance of the x86 architecture and Intel clearly respects the tireless contributions Linus has made. o § Graphics Stack⠀➾ # ⚓ Mike_Blumenkrantz:_Preparation⠀⇛ It’s been a while, but today’s blog is a zink blog. What’s been happening? Well, if you’ve been following prominent news sites, you might not think there’s too much happening on the performance front. And whew do I have news for you. Big news. With XDC next week, I’m throwing down the gauntlet. Mesa 22.3 is going to be the BIG PERF RELEASE. I said it. o § Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ Make Tech Easier ☛ 5_of_the_Best_Solutions_for_Monitoring Website_Changes_–_Make_Tech_Easier⠀⇛ One of the quickest ways to check a website for new updates is to add the site to your favorite RSS reader and let the tool notify you of any new content. However, an RSS reader can only check for updates within the confines of RSS-formatted code. This limitation means RSS readers won’t work on any static webpages or dynamic websites without RSS components. Fortunately, you can use third-party tools to monitor website changes and receive notifications for any new changes. o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾ # ⚓ Barry Kauler ☛ Fix_broken_video_entry_in_Limine_menu⠀⇛ After moving from rEFInd and Syslinux boot managers, to Limine, the “Fix broken video” menu entry got left out. I introduced this here… # ⚓ H2S Media ☛ How_to_check_KVM_is_installed_in_Ubuntu_Linux_– Linux_Shout⠀⇛ KVM is an open-source virtualization technology, it falls under the Type-1 Hypervisor category. KVM stands for Kernel-based Virtual machine that is available in all modern Linux kernels as a virtualization module, it allows the Linux kernel to work as a bare metal Hypervisor. Hence, all the Linux distros whether Ubuntu, Debian, RedHat, OpenSUSE, etc. can be used as a full-fledged hypervisor system for providing virtualization. KVM works with Qemu which is another open source and free hardware emulator platform. With KVM, Qemu offers the emulation of hardware and peripherals of the system to the Guest operating system so that it can use them but the support of KVM and its direct interaction with the CPU helps the Guest OS to run almost at native speed. With the help of KVM, we can run multiple Virtual machines parallelly, however, make sure your Linux system’s CPU support virtualization extensions – Intel VT or AMD-V. # ⚓ TechRepublic ☛ How_to_change_the_drive_location_for_GNOME Boxes_VMs_|_TechRepublic⠀⇛ Boxes is a great tool for easily spinning up virtual machines on Linux. With Boxes, you can create virtual machines from several pre-configured machines or even from your own ISO. Those VMs run smoothly and seamlessly, and can be spun up much faster than when using a tool like VirtualBox. But while Boxes is incredibly easy to use, it’s also not nearly as flexible as other solutions. Case in point, there isn’t even a Preferences option in the limited menu. All you can do is create virtual machines. That shouldn’t be a deal breaker for anyone. However, I recently ran into an issue. On my production machine, my primary drive was getting dangerously low on space. It turns out, a big part of that problem was Boxes. Why? Because Boxes stores the virtual machine files in ~/.local/share/ gnome-boxes, which means it’s going to gobble up your local storage space fairly quickly. Given GNOME Boxes doesn’t have any preferences to speak of, what do you do? # ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_To_Install_Tor_Browser_on_Manjaro_21_– idroot⠀⇛ In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Tor Browser on Manjaro 21. For those of you who didn’t know, The Onion Router a.k.a Tor browser is a free and open-source anonymous communication tool. It helps you defend against traffic analysis, a form of network surveillance that threatens personal freedom and privacy, confidential business activities and relationships, and security. 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 Tor Browser on a Manjaro 21. # ⚓ Print_nic_name_of_current_connection⠀⇛ # ⚓ Linux Journal ☛ Pwndrop_on_Linode_|_Linux_Journal⠀⇛ When I first ran across PwnDrop, I was intrigued at what the developers had in mind with it. For instance, if you’re a white-hat hacker and are looking to share exploits safely with your client, you might use a service like PwnDrop. If you’re a journalist communicating with, well, just about anyone who is trying to keep their identity secret, you might use a service like PwnDrop. # ⚓ HowTo Geek ☛ How_(and_Why)_to_Disable_Root_Login_Over_SSH on_Linux⠀⇛ Logging in as the Linux root user is bad practice. Logging in as root over an SSH connection is even worse. We tell you why, and show you how to prevent it. # ⚓ BoingBoing ☛ Understanding_the_“fork_bomb”_an_11_character string_that_can_crash_Windows,_Mac,_or_Linux_machines_|_Boing Boing⠀⇛ In this video on Dave’s Garage, he discusses the “fork bomb,” a DoS (denial-of-service) attack where a process replicates itself until it depletes all system resources, slowing or crashing the system. The bomb is nothing more than an 11-character program that, when entered into a Bash prompt, will replicate itself until the computer crashes. # ⚓ Make Tech Easier ☛ MPV_Keyboard_Shortcuts_–_Make_Tech Easier⠀⇛ MPV is a free, open-source command-line multimedia player. Unlike graphical players like VLC Media Player, MPV allows you to load any supported media file straight from your terminal. Furthermore, MPV also supports a wide range of codecs and formats. This means you can use MPV to play simple MP3 files as well as high-fidelity 4K HEVC movies. # ⚓ LinuxTechi ☛ How_to_Install_Atom_Text_Editor_on_Ubuntu 22.04 [Ed: It is utterly dumb to promote Microsoft crap for Linux, more so bloated junk that Microsoft officially abandoned, which means it's abandoned and orphaned]⠀⇛ In this guide, we will learn how to install Atom Text Editor on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish). # ⚓ TechRepublic ☛ How_to_use_Pop_!OS_refresh_install_| TechRepublic⠀⇛ Jack Wallen shows you how to return Pop!_OS to a brand new installation, without losing any of your user data and app configurations. # ⚓ TechRepublic ☛ How_to_install_the_GitHub_Jira_integration [Ed: Why does he shill proprietary software of Microsoft?]⠀⇛ # ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_Microsoft_Teams_on_Debian_11 Bullseye [Ed: How to infest Debian with Microsoft malware that has de facto back doors]⠀⇛ o § Games⠀➾ # ⚓ Electronics Weekly ☛ Gadget_Watch:_Steam_Deck,_the_Linux- powered_games_console⠀⇛ Okay, I admit it, I’m late to the party, but I’m not a gamer. But even I’ve now heard about the Steam Deck, a Linux-powered handheld gaming device. It will be interesting to see the future developments that may unfold… # ⚓ Ubuntu Handbook ☛ 0_A.D._Alpha_26_Released!_How_to_Install in_Ubuntu_22.04_via_PPA_|_UbuntuHandbook⠀⇛ 0 A.D., the free open-source RTS game of ancient warfare, got a new release update a few days ago. It’s 0 A.D. Alpha 26, code-name ‘Zhuangzi’, features new civilization: The Han, which was the second imperial dynasty of China. It has beautiful new art, unique technologies, buildings, as well as new gameplay strategies to explore. The release also introduced 2 new map: Tarim basin – an endorheic basin in Northwest China, Xinjiang region; and Yangtze (aka Chang Jiang) the longest river in Asia. # ⚓ Boiling Steam ☛ Kena_Bridge_of_Spirits,_Released_on_Steam Today,_Runs_Fine_on_Linux_with_Proton_–_Boiling_Steam⠀⇛ After a first release on the Epic Games Store in 2021, Kena Bridge of Spirits, is making its debut on Steam for the first time today on the 27th of September. I took it for a quick spin to see how well it would run on Linux. You have the answer below in video. o § Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾ # § K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt⠀➾ # ⚓ 9to5Linux ☛ Plasma_Mobile_Gear_22.09_Is_Out_for_Your Phone_and_Tablet_with_a_New_Default_Homescreen⠀⇛ Plasma Mobile Gear 22.09 is here three months after Plasma Mobile Gear 22.06 and brings a new default Homescreen designed for simplicity and one-hand usage. The Homescreen’s configuration has been updated as well to make it easier to switch between the old homescreen (Folio) and the new one. Another exciting feature is a new default email client called Raven, which currently only works as a basic email reader, but the devs work on support for sharing components with Kalendar’s upcoming email support. # ⚓ Plasma_Mobile_Gear_⚙_22.09_is_Out_–_Plasma_Mobile⠀⇛ The Plasma Mobile team is happy to announce the developments integrated into Plasma Mobile between July-September 2022. In this report you can also read about the release of Plasma Mobile Gear ⚙ 22.09. * § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾ o ⚓ ZDNet ☛ XeroLinux_could_be_the_most_beautiful_Linux_desktop_on the_market_|_ZDNET⠀⇛ Over the decades, I’ve witnessed countless Linux desktop distributions, each of which attempts to set itself apart from the competition. Some of them, such as ZorinOS and Deepin Linux, have done a fairly remarkable job of doing just that. Since I started covering Linux back in ’99, I’ve proclaimed distributions such as Elementary OS, ZorinOS, Deepin Linux, and Garuda Linux to be offering the most beautiful desktop on the market. o ⚓ SDTimes ☛ BellSoft_introduces_Alpaquita_Cloud_Native_Platform_and Alpaquita_Linux_–_SD_Times⠀⇛ BellSoft, creator of progressive Java runtime for a complete Java experience, Liberica JDK, and an OpenJDK contributor, today announced the release of BellSoft Alpaquita Cloud Native Platform and Alpaquita Linux. The company stated that these offerings are intended to address the growing demand for more efficient, secure, and supported Java software that performs well as well as reduces cloud computing costs. [...] Additionally, Alpaquita Linux is a Linux distribution tuned specifically for a Java runtime. Based on Alpine Linux, it offers users performance and security enhancements as well as a smaller size and improved flexibility. o ⚓ BellSoft_Optimizes_Java_for_Cloud-Native_Platform_–_Container Journal⠀⇛ BellSoft today is adding a BellSoft Alpaquita Cloud Native Platform to its portfolio that makes it possible to more efficiently run Java applications encapsulated in containers. As part of that effort, the company is making available an Alpaquita Linux distribution that is optimized for the BellSoft Alpaquita Cloud Native Platform. o § PCLinuxOS/Mageia/Mandriva/OpenMandriva Family⠀➾ # ⚓ OMG Ubuntu ☛ ONLYOFFICE_7.2_Released_with_Various_New Features_&_Improvements⠀⇛ An updated version of ONLYOFFICE is available to download for Windows, macOS, and Linux. ONLYOFFICE 7.2 ships with all of the latest changes to the online version, plus some ‘unique features’ exclusive to the desktop editors, including automatic light/dark mode on Windows and macOS (the feature is present on Linux builds but doesn’t, in my testing, do what it should). Such as? Well, the new version of the Document has ligature support in text files; lets you easily insert the current heading into a table of contents; and adds a new “Headings” panel to the main toolbar (replacing the navigation panel). Converting .pdf, .djvu, and .xps documents to .docx is also said to have improved. The Presentation tool now supports custom path animations, offers advanced settings, is able to playback audio and video in slides without requiring VLC, and intros advanced “placement” options for images, when selecting an image and choosing ‘advanced settings’. o § Fedora Family / IBM⠀➾ # ⚓ How_the_HPC-AI_Rocky_Linux_Server_Operating_System_Rose from_the_CentOS_Ashes_–_High-Performance_Computing_News Analysis_|_insideHPC⠀⇛ If you were an advocate of CentOS Linux, you knew all about it. You knew its traits, its ways, its bugs, its quirks. You knew its personality. You knew how to tease the best out of it, and how to avoid the things it did that drove you crazy. You developed a CentOS skill set that became second nature. Together with CentOS, big things got done, systems and careers were built, successes achieved. So when CentOS passed into end-of-life two Decembers ago, something central was taken out of the work life of its users. o § Debian Family⠀➾ # ⚓ William_Lee_Irwin_III,_Michael_Schultheiss_&_Debian, Oracle,_Russian_kernel_scandal⠀⇛ Early 2011, six months after the Debian Day volunteer suicide (Frans Pop), a mysterious livejournal blog appeared in Russian about a US- based kernel developer in trouble. William Lee Irwin III was a kernel developer and Debian Developer who worked at Oracle. He pioneered support for page clustering on x86. After a medical problem or a seizure, it is suggested that Oracle simply dumped him in the street and he ended up in a homeless shelter. Is America’s health system really so bad that they need to rely on Russian support to keep kernel developers above the poverty line? (Yes, American healthcare really is that bad) The Russian blog post is followed by a comment in English hinting that a debian-private (leaked gossip network) thread found a job for Irwin. We examined all messages in the thread and found the claim is over-optimistic. # ⚓ Steve McIntyre ☛ Firmware_again_–_updates,_how_I’m_voting and_why!⠀⇛ Back in April I wrote about issues with how we handle firmware in Debian, and I also spoke about it at DebConf in July. Since then, we’ve started the General Resolution process – this led to a lot of discussion on the the debian-vote mailing list and we’re now into the second week of the voting phase. [...] Fundamentally, my motivation for starting this vote was to ask the project for clear positive direction on a sensible way forward with non-free firmware support. Thus, I’ve voted all of the options that do that above NOTA. On those terms, I don’t like Choice 4 here – IMHO it leaves us in the same unclear situation as before. I’d be happy for us to update the Social Contract for clarity, and I know some people would be much more comfortable if we do that explicitly here. Choice 1 was my initial personal preference as we started the GR, but since then I’ve been convinced that also updating the SC would be a good idea, hence Choice 5. I’d also rather have a single image / set of images produced, for the two reasons I’ve outlined before. It’s less work for our images team to build and test all the options. But, much more importantly: I believe it’s less likely to confuse new users. o § Canonical/Ubuntu Family⠀➾ # ⚓ Blue Sky Publications ☛ Five_South_African_IT_inventions that_changed_the_world [Ed: Ubuntu is not an "invention"; it's Debian with another name and some staff that customises it.]⠀⇛ In 2004, Ubuntu computer operating system was invented by Mark Shuttleworth. It is a Debian-based Linux operating system and it is distributed as free and open source software. The word Ubuntu comes from the Bantu language and it means “humanity towards others” or “I am because we are”. Ubuntu is popular for its ease of use and its wide range of applications. Over 20% of the web runs on Ubuntu. French Police migrated over 80 000 desktops to Ubuntu from Windows and saved over 2 million euro. # ⚓ Ubuntu ☛ Canonical_Announces_Ubuntu_22.04_LTS_Support_for FlexRAN_Reference_Software⠀⇛ Canonical is thrilled to announce today the availability of Ubuntu 22.04 LTS with real-time kernel support and optimizations for Intel’s latest FlexRAN Reference Software. Designed to meet telecom network transformation needs for 5G, Ubuntu 22.04 LTS real-time kernel delivers performance, guaranteed ultra-low latency and security for critical infrastructure. With this release, Canonical strengthens its commitment to help telecommunications service providers benefit from the technological and economic benefits of open source-software in a secure and supported manner. [...] Besides offering real-time-kernel capabilities in Ubuntu which are suited for today’s 5G networks, Canonical offers a full stack of supported open- source technology building blocks, providing a unified approach for telco transformation. Canonical conducted detailed performance testing, with OpenRAN on bare metal as well as on Canonical’s MicroK8s and Charmed Kubernetes distributions. The tests showed that Ubuntu delivers better results than any other operating system thanks to the company’s tight collaboration with upstream kernel development and extremely fast patching and release cycles. Telecom providers can deploy containers without compromising on performance or security. o § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾ # ⚓ Arduino ☛ Using_smart_home_tech_to_care_for_your_pets_| Arduino_Blog⠀⇛ Smart home technology has a ton of useful and fascinating use cases for humans, but what about our pets? For most of us, our furry friends are members of the family, and if we can make modifications to our home to help them, we do it. The good news here is that there are tons of home automation tools that you can use to make life easier and more fun for your pets, and many of them can be done with just a handful of starting materials and basic knowledge. In this article, we’ll take a look at some of the ways smart homes can benefit pets, and explore some projects from the Arduino community. # ⚓ CNX Software ☛ LiLyGo_T-SIMCAM_ESP32-S3_camera_development board_supports_optional_4G_LTE_connectivity_–_CNX_Software⠀⇛ ESP32-S3 has been in the news recently and we just wrote about the Bee S3 and BPI-PicoW-S3 boards yesterday, but there’s more, and LilyGo T-SIMCAM ESP32-S3 is another interesting ESP32-S3 board with a 2MP camera as well as support for an optional 4G LTE module. The board can make use of the AI capabilities from the ESP32-S3 microcontroller through the built-in camera and microphone and offers two options for power with 5V through a USB Type-C port, as well as a 2-pin JST connector for connecting a battery. # ⚓ Arduino ☛ Standalone_Arduino_Nano_RP2040_Connect-controlled computer_runs_BASIC_for_IoT_development_|_Arduino_Blog⠀⇛ If you’re more than 30 years old, then there is a good chance that BASIC (Beginners’ All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) was the first programming language you used. Many early computers shipped with a BASIC interpreter in firmware, so it was the first thing users saw when they booted up their computer. While other languages are more useful for most tasks today, BASIC still has benefits. To take advantage of it, Stefan Lenz used a Nano RP2040 Connect to build a standalone computer that runs BASIC for Internet of Things applications. The Raspberry Pi RP2040 is a powerful microcontroller that immediately became popular after it hit the market in January 2021. The Arduino Nano RP2040 Connect is one of the newest boards in the Arduino lineup and gives users access to the RP2040 within the friendly Arduino ecosystem. In addition the MCU, this board also contains a u-blox WiFi and Bluetooth® adapter, a six-axis IMU, a microphone, 16MB of flash memory, and even a CryptoAuthentication chip. The u-blox adapter was particularly useful for this project, since it enables IoT control over a wireless network. # ⚓ Arduino ☛ Count_elevator_passengers_with_the_Nicla_Vision and_Edge_Impulse_|_Arduino_Blog⠀⇛ Modern elevators are powerful, but they still have a payload limit. Most will contain a plaque with the maximum number of passengers (a number based on their average weight with lots of room for error). But nobody has ever read the capacity limit when stepping into an elevator or worried about exceeding it. In reality, manufacturers build their elevators to a size that prevents an excessive number of passengers. But as a demonstration, Nekhil R. put together a tutorial that explains how to use the Edge Impulse ML platform with an Arduino Nicla Vision board to count elevator passengers. The Nicla Vision is a new board built specifically for computer vision applications — especially those that incorporate machine learning. In its small footprint (less than a square inch), there is a powerful STM32H747AII6 microcontroller, a 2MP color camera, a six-axis IMU, a time of flight sensor, a microphone, WiFi and Bluetooth, and an onboard LiPo battery charger — and it’s officially supported by Edge Impulse, making it well suited for ML projects. o § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ Ubuntu Pit ☛ Top_5_Best_NFC_Apps_for_Android_Devices_in 2022⠀⇛ When someone is thinking about the best contactless card payment system, he must count NFC as the best option. Basically, NFC stands for near-field communication, and it is one of the most popular contactless payment or money transfer systems. Most people use their smartphones to use this service. * § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾ o ⚓ Collabora ☛ A_team_that_grows_together,_builds_together⠀⇛ With fresh faces wide-eyed for new challenges, Collabora happily welcomes new teammates to the growing roster! A testament to the open environment created by collaborative remote work, our latest joiners are equipped to contribute to the exciting projects we have in the works. o ⚓ TechCrunch ☛ Hugging_Face_and_ServiceNow_launch_BigCode,_a project_to_open_source_code-generating_AI_systems [Ed: More "hype" and hot air]⠀⇛ o ⚓ Venture Beat ☛ How_open-source_data_labeling_technology_can mitigate_bias_|_VentureBeat⠀⇛ Data labeling is one of the most fundamental aspects of machine learning. It is also often an area where organizations struggle – both to accurately categorize data and reduce potential bias. With data labeling technology, a dataset used to train a machine learning model is first analyzed and given a label that provides a category and a definition of what the data is actually about. While data labeling is a critical component of the machine learning process, recently it has also proven to be highly inconsistent, according to multiple studies. The need for accurate data labeling has fuelled a bustling marketplace of data labeling vendors. o § Events⠀➾ # ⚓ FSF ☛ Free_Software_Directory_meeting_on_IRC:_Friday, October_7,_starting_at_12:00_EDT_(16:00_UTC)⠀⇛ # ⚓ FSF ☛ Free_Software_Directory_meeting_on_IRC:_Friday, October_14,_starting_at_12:00_EDT_(16:00_UTC)⠀⇛ # ⚓ FSF ☛ Free_Software_Directory_meeting_on_IRC:_Friday, October_21,_starting_at_12:00_EDT_(16:00_UTC)⠀⇛ # ⚓ FSF ☛ Free_Software_Directory_meeting_on_IRC:_Friday, October_28,_starting_at_12:00_EDT_(16:00_UTC)⠀⇛ # ⚓ Peter ‘CzP’ Czanik ☛ EuroBSDcon_2022_|_Random_thoughts_of Peter_‘CzP’_Czanik⠀⇛ Last weekend I was in Vienna for EuroBSDcon, an event where BSD users are gathering from Europe (and all around the world). And while you could follow the event online, to me, the greatest value of the conference was not in the talks themselves (not to lessen their value of course, as they were fantastic) but rather in meeting people during the hallway session. The line-up consisted of sudo and syslog-ng users, BSD users and developers, and even some people from history books 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇: -)⦈ # ⚓ FOSSLife ☛ Hacktoberfest_2022_Registration_Now_Open⠀⇛ Hacktoberfest is an annual hacking event hosted by DigitalOcean to encourage people to contribute to open source throughout the month of October. o § Web Browsers/Web Servers⠀➾ # § Chromium⠀➾ # ⚓ Google ☛ Chrome_Releases:_Stable_Channel_Update_for Desktop⠀⇛ The Chrome team is delighted to announce the promotion of Chrome 106 to the stable channel for Windows, Mac and Linux. This will roll out over the coming days/weeks. Chrome 106.0.5249.61 ( Mac/linux) and 106.0.5249.61/62( Windows) contains a number of fixes and improvements — a list of changes is available in the log. Watch out for upcoming Chrome and Chromium blog posts about new features and big efforts delivered in 106. o § Content Management Systems (CMS)⠀➾ # ⚓ WordPress_6.1_Beta_2_Now_Available_–_WordPress_News⠀⇛ WordPress 6.1 Beta 2 is now available for download and testing. This version of the WordPress software is under development. Please do not install, run, or test this version of WordPress on production or mission- critical websites. Instead, it is recommended that you test Beta 2 on a test server and site. o § GNU Projects⠀➾ # ⚓ LWN ☛ Bash-5.2_Release_available⠀⇛ Introduction ============ The first public release of bash-5.2 is now available with the URLs ftp://ftp.cwru.edu/pub/bash/bash-5.2.tar.gz ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/bash/bash-5.2.tar.gz and from the master branch of the bash git repository (http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/bash.git/log/) and the usual GNU mirror sites. Bash is the GNU Project's Bourne Again SHell, a complete implementation of the POSIX shell spec, but also with interactive command line editing, job control on architectures that support it, csh-like features such as history substitution and brace expansion, and a slew of other features. For more information on the features of Bash that are new to this type of shell, see the file `doc/bashref.texi'. There is also a large Unix- style man page. The man page is the definitive description of the shell's features. This tar file includes the formatted documentation (pdf, postscript, dvi, info, and html, plus nroffed versions of the manual pages). Please use `bashbug' to report bugs with this version. It is built and installed at the same time as bash. Installation ============ Please read the README file first. Installation instructions are provided in the INSTALL file. New Features ============ This is an update to the fifth major release of bash. Read the file NEWS in the bash-5.2 distribution for a complete description of the new features. A copy of the relevant portions is included below. This release fixes several outstanding bugs in bash-5.1 and introduces a number of new features. There are a number of bug fixes, including several bugs that caused the shell to crash. Complete details are available in the CHANGES file. The most notable new feature is the rewritten command substitution parsing code, which calls the bison parser recursively. This replaces the ad-hoc parsing used in previous versions, and allows better syntax checking and catches syntax errors much earlier. The shell attempts to do a much better job of parsing and expanding array subscripts only once; this has visible effects in the `unset' builtin, word expansions, conditional commands, and other builtins that can assign variable values as a side effect. The `unset' builtin allows a subscript of `@' or `*' to unset a key with that value for associative arrays instead of unsetting the entire array (which you can still do with `unset arrayname'). There is a new shell option, `patsub_replacement'. When enabled, a `&' in the replacement string of the pattern substitution expansion is replaced by the portion of the string that matched the pattern. Backslash will escape the `&' and insert a literal `&'. This option is enabled by default. Bash suppresses forking in several additional cases, including most uses of $(&WORD- redirection has WORD expand to the empty string, treat the redirection as [N]<&- or [N]>&- and close file descriptor N (default 0). w. Invalid parameter transformation operators are now invalid word expansions, and so cause fatal errors in non-interactive shells. x. New shell option: patsub_replacement. When enabled, a `&' in the replacement string of the pattern substitution expansion is replaced by the portion of the string that matched the pattern. Backslash will escape the `&' and insert a literal `&'. y. `command -p' no longer looks in the hash table for the specified command. z. The new `--enable-translatable-strings' option to `configure' allows $"..." support to be compiled in or out. aa. The new `globskipdots' shell option forces pathname expansion never to return `.' or `..' unless explicitly matched. It is enabled by default. bb. Array references using `@' and `*' that are the value of nameref variables (declare -n ref='v[@]' ; echo $ref) no longer cause the shell to exit if set -u is enabled and the array (v) is unset. cc. There is a new bindable readline command name: `vi-edit-and-execute-command'. dd. In posix mode, the `printf' builtin checks for the `L' length modifier and uses long double for floating point conversion specifiers if it's present, double otherwise. ee. The `globbing' completion code now takes the `globstar' option into account. ff. `suspend -f' now forces the shell to suspend even if job control is not currently enabled. gg. Since there is no `declare -' equivalent of `local -', make sure to use `local -' in the output of `local -p'. 2. New Features in Readline a. There is now an HS_HISTORY_VERSION containing the version number of the history library for applications to use. b. History expansion better understands multiple history expansions that may contain strings that would ordinarily inhibit history expansion (e.g., `abc!$!$'). c. There is a new framework for readline timeouts, including new public functions to set timeouts and query how much time is remaining before a timeout hits, and a hook function that can trigger when readline times out. There is a new state value to indicate a timeout. d. Automatically bind termcap key sequences for page-up and page-down to history-search-backward and history-search- forward, respectively. e. There is a new `fetch-history' bindable command that retrieves the history entry corresponding to its numeric argument. Negative arguments count back from the end of the history. f. `vi-undo' is now a bindable command. g. There is a new option: `enable-active-region'. This separates control of the active region and bracketed-paste. It has the same default value as bracketed-paste, and enabling bracketed paste enables the active region. Users can now turn off the active region while leaving bracketed paste enabled. h. rl_completer_word_break_characters is now `const char *' like rl_basic_word_break_characters. i. Readline looks in $LS_COLORS for a custom filename extension (*.readline-colored-completion-prefix) and uses that as the default color for the common prefix displayed when `colored- completion-prefix' is set. j. Two new bindable string variables: active- region-start-color and active-region-end-color. The first sets the color used to display the active region; the second turns it off. If set, these are used in place of terminal standout mode. k. New readline state (RL_STATE_EOF) and application-visible variable (rl_eof_found) to allow applications to detect when readline reads EOF before calling the deprep-terminal hook. l. There is a new configuration option: --with- shared-termcap-library, which forces linking the shared readline library with the shared termcap (or curses/ncurses/termlib) library so applications don't have to do it. m. Readline now checks for changes to locale settings (LC_ALL/LC_CTYPE/LANG) each time it is called, and modifies the appropriate locale-specific display and key binding variables when the locale changes. -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU chet@case.edu http:// tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/ o § Programming/Development⠀➾ # ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ Extern_in_C⠀⇛ C has an added benefit over other scripting languages since it is a procedural programming language. We can also say that C is a compiler- based programming language that distinguishes between Python and Java, which are interpreter- based. As a result, coding compilation and execution are expedited. The data types in the C language are the declarations or definitions for variables. This defines the variety and volume of data about the variables. C is a strong choice language for beginners to learn programming with. The C programming language is used to write the Unix operating system and practically all Unix applications. Due to this reason, C is currently a frequently used professional language. The operative systems of component programs, in a particular way, were initially developed using the C language. Because it produces the code that executes almost rapidly code written in assembly language, and C was adopted as a system development language. To run any C-language program, we must first compile it using a C compiler, which turns C into a computer-understandable language. Visual Studio is the best compiler for user code compilation in C language. The topic we will discuss in our article is related to the “C” language, which is a simple keyword that is “extern”. The programmers and coders use this keyword to extend the visibility of any variable and function. Eventually, we don’t need function definition in the “C” language because the function will remain visible in the code by default. Furthermore, it has a proclivity to disseminate variables and functions visibility over many source files. We can say that declaring a variable without the assassination of memory allocation. It is not required regularly to declare any function while coding a program. It tweaks the affiliation criteria so that the C compiler does not amend the symbol with extra information. In “C” language, we have another prefix, “static”, which could not be used along with the “extern” in the same declaration of a function definition. External is standardized as an “extern” in the C programming language. # ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ Command_Line_Argument_Processing_in_C⠀⇛ When we have a program to run, the command line arguments could be the arguments declared in the system’s command line preceding the program’s name. Our program will accept the types of arguments to be passed from the command line after the program’s execution. In the command line argument, we have two main parameters, which are “argc” and “argv”. The “argc” is the argument count, whereas “argv” is the argument vector in the C language. The parameter argument count indicates how many arguments were entered in the command line while writing the program. In context, the argument vector parameter is an array of pointers of the characters of the object in the C programming language for command line argument. The parameter argument count border is frequently more notable than or equal to 1. A range of order line parameters presented by the programmers is flawed strings. Argv[0] is the order in which the show triggers the program. The main command-line assertion is argv[1]. The command-line interface credentials are used in C whenever it is essential to provide the program’s attributes to external sources, and there is no desire to use them within the code. Working framework arguments are the traits that the order line passes to the C program when the instruction is executed. Any parameter presented to the script is indicated by a pointer that is maintained within a pointer vector referenced by “argv[]”. The count of arguments passed to the program is addressed by “argc”. By using Command Line Arguments, the program to be operated can be regulated from a range rather than by hard coding the parameters inside the program. # § Rust⠀➾ # ⚓ Rust Blog ☛ Rust_Compiler_Early_October_2022_Steering Cycle⠀⇛ On Friday, 14 October, we will discuss how to deal with “disabled tests”: tests that are turned off at some point (e.g. due to failures in a component we do not control). We do not currently have any protocols in place to review such tests or decide when to try to re-enabling them. # ⚓ Yoshua Wuyts ☛ Why_async_Rust⠀⇛ A lot of system design is about thinking of the nature of the domains we encounter. And only later, once we understand them, encoding this understanding in a way that machines can verify it. I often find async Rust to be misunderstood. Conversations around “why async” often focus on performance 1 – a topic which is highly dependent on workloads, and results with people wholly talking past each other. While performance is not a bad reason to choose async Rust, we often we only notice performance when we experience a lack of it. So I want to instead on which features async Rust provides which aren’t present in non- async Rust. Though we’ll talk a bit about performance too at the end of this post. * § Leftovers⠀➾ o § Proprietary⠀➾ # ⚓ IT Wire ☛ Oracle_fined_US$23m_for_violations_of_Foreign Corrupt_Practices_Act [Ed: Like_Microsoft, Oracle relies on crime to do “business”]⠀⇛ The US Securities and Exchange Commission has asked Oracle to pay more than US$23 million (A$35.7 million) to resolve charges that it violated the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. In a statement, the SEC said Oracle’s subsidiaries in Turkey, the UAE and India had created and used slush funds to bribe officials for business between 2016 and 2019. Oracle subsidiaries in Turkey and the UAE also used these slush funds to pay costs for foreign officials to attend tech conferences. This violated the company’s policies and procedures, the statement said. [...] The SEC said its investigation was conducted by Samantha Martin and Laura Bennett and supervised by David Reece. It thanked the Capital Markets Board of Turkey, Emirates Securities and Commodities Authority, and the Securities and Exchange Board of India for their help. o § Security⠀➾ # ⚓ Help Net Security ☛ MS_SQL_servers_are_getting_hacked_to deliver_ransomware_to_orgs_–_Help_Net_Security⠀⇛ The ransomware encrypts some files and avoids others, including files with an extension associated with its own activities (.FARGO, .FARGO2, etc.) and that of GlobeImposter, another ransomware threat targeting vulnerable MS SQL servers. # ⚓ LWN ☛ Security_updates_for_Tuesday_[LWN.net]⠀⇛ Security updates have been issued by Debian (dovecot and firefox-esr), Fedora (firefox and grafana), Red Hat (firefox and thunderbird), Slackware (dnsmasq and vim), SUSE (dpdk, firefox, kernel, libarchive, libcaca, mariadb, openvswitch, opera, permissions, podofo, snakeyaml, sqlite3, unzip, and vsftpd), and Ubuntu (expat, libvpx, linux-azure-fde, linux-oracle, squid, squid3, and webkit2gtk). # ⚓ Dark Reading ☛ Defenders_Be_Prepared:_Cyberattacks_Surge Against_Linux_Amid_Cloud_Migration [Ed: Conflating Linux with clown computing stupidity]⠀⇛ # ⚓ Apptainer_1.1.0,_a_Linux_Foundation_project_(formerly Singularity),_Arrives_With_Added_Security_Features_and_Build Improvements_–_Benzinga⠀⇛ The Apptainer community today announced version 1.1.0 of the popular container system for secure, high-performance computing (HPC). Improvements in the new version provide a smaller attack surface for production deployments while offering features that improve and simplify the user experience. Apptainer continues the legacy of Singularity with backwards compatibility, stability, added security, performance and reproducibility. # ⚓ USCERT ☛ CISA_Updates_Advisory_on_Threat_Actors_Exploiting Multiple_CVEs_Against_Zimbra_Collaboration_Suite⠀⇛ CISA and the Multi-State Information Sharing & Analysis Center (MS-ISAC) has updated joint Cybersecurity Advisory AA22-228A: Threat Actors Exploiting Multiple CVEs Against Zimbra Collaboration Suite, originally released August 16, 2022. The advisory has been updated to include additional Malware Analysis Reports and indicators of compromise. # ⚓ CISA ☛ CISA_Releases_Three_Industrial_Control_Systems Advisories_|_CISA⠀⇛ CISA has released three (3) Industrial Control Systems (ICS) advisories on September 27th, 2022. These advisories provide timely information about current security issues, vulnerabilities, and exploits surrounding ICS. # ⚓ IT Wire ☛ iTWire_–_Optus_chief_under_pressure_to_quit_over handling_of_breach⠀⇛ Both sides of politics are putting pressure on Optus chief executive Kelly Bayer Rosmarin to step down over her handling of the data breach which the company made public last Thursday. Opposition cyber security spokesman James Paterson joined the chorus of criticism on Tuesday, calling on Bayer Rosmarin to resign if the public had been misled on the company’s reaction to the breach. Home Affairs Minister Clare O’Neil, who on Monday described the attack on Optus’ network as being anything but sophisticated — as Bayer Rosmarin had claimed — expressed concern on Tuesday about reports that Medicare details had been leaked in the data that was made public. # § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾ # ⚓ Why_Data_Brokers_Are_After_Your_Personal_Information And_How_Can_You_Stay_Safe⠀⇛ Personal data, in the digital space, is synonymous with CVV or card pin protection. It’s part and parcel of the virtual web, giving no room for compromise when it comes to its safekeeping. So, why is there a big fuss about data privacy protection? To understand why it needs shielding, it’s prudent to understand what it is. Your data is the digital trail collected from all your Internet activities. Think Hansel and Gretel – your online activities leave a whole lot of breadcrumbs. It contains your confidential information, browser history, and even social media activity. o § Monopolies⠀➾ # § Copyrights⠀➾ # ⚓ Public Domain Review ☛ The_Turns_of_the_*Turnverein*: Heinrich_Hamann’s_Gymnastic_Photographs_(ca._1902)_– The_Public_Domain_Review⠀⇛ More than a set of techniques to improve individual fitness, Johann Friedrich Ludwig Christoph Jahn’s gymnastics were meant to train a new form of body politic. Despite their best efforts to keep still and straight-faced, the young, uniformed bodies in Heinrich Hamann’s turn-of-the-century photographs of Hamburg’s St. Pauli gymnastics society (Turnverein) remain in motion. Girls shaping a human pyramid alternate looks of attentiveness and amusement. Boys performing handstands on parallel bars are flanked by onlookers who smile, fidget, or grimace. A series of images involving inventive uses of the pommel horse — to reenact Don Quixote, to strike tableaux vivants of Romulus and Remus, and, when paired with a bicycle, to play “Texas Yack” (Jack) — allow physical education to decay into silliness. Only the adult gymnasts in these photographs approach the gravity of purpose desired by their coach. One can see in Hamann’s photographs both the playful spontaneity of the Turnvereins’ original exercises and the rigid postures and movements that would soon help meld individuals into the fascist masses of the Nuremberg rallies and 1936 Berlin Olympics. The Turner movement and its calisthenic equipment sprang from a man known as “the Turnvater”: Johann Friedrich Ludwig Christoph Jahn (1778–1852), a German gymnastics educator and fervent nationalist who took the rough-and-tumble turnen (romping about) of unruly schoolboys and molded it into a populist force. Beginning with simple hikes alongside his students in the Berlin countryside, Jahn developed jumping, throwing, and catching games, as well as now- familiar gymnastics exercises — often performed during patriotic commemorations — to train the undisciplined youth. “Just as the gymnasts bounced over their bars with the firm strength of their bodies”, writes Hans Kohn, “so they expected to bounce into the future Volksstaat with the firm strength of their conviction and will”. More than a set of techniques to improve individual fitness, Jahn’s refinement of Johann Christoph Friedrich GutsMuths’ earlier exercises was meant to train a new form of body politic. * § Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾ o § Personal⠀➾ # ⚓ EHIWPRM_Wordo:_ZONED⠀⇛ # ⚓ Here_I_Lie_With_Truth⠀⇛ There’s a lot of things going on in my mind, right now. Too many things I want to bring them out, but how? Pain, mistakes, regrets, just aches that I have, oh wow! Things I wish that I had stopped doing by now, no doubt. Every nice thing I try to do goes wrong, you know? Break yourself along with the people you love, oh no! I tend to win them back with some more truth, although! They wont ever know the darker side of me, just hope. # ⚓ disclaimer⠀⇛ after i returned from my 2 months parental leave i found a great email in my inbox. one from the weekly capitalism update made by a joint delegation of company leaders and hr. please update your email signature to include this disclaimer: any references made to address a person are meant to be understood as gendered. a bit of background, i work in a german company. in german there is the generic masculinum, which traditionally included all genders (assume hunter, it’s a collection to include everyone that has the profession hunter). usually a profession has a gender, but these are very random and don’t follow any rules. there is something we call “movierung” which is the stem of the word, but in the opposite gender (for hunter this would be huntress). there are different reasons for this, a popular one was to address the spouse of the person in a profession. in german a few hundred years ago you’d call the wife of a carpenter something like carpenteress. # ⚓ New_Apartment_Woes⠀⇛ Hi folks, been a while — was coordinating The Grand Migration of one apartment to another. [...] Read the damn contract. If you moved in and no one painted the apartment for you, then you don’t need to paint it on the way out. o § Technical⠀➾ # ⚓ What_if_The_Sims_were_sentient?⠀⇛ So I started to re watch a web series, Power Corrupts by darkmatter2525, as the final episode was posted a few days ago and I wanted to go from start to finish to fully enjoy the end. Its a great series and I highly recommend watching it. At one point in the story the subject about the ethical treatment of purely digital life comes up. Not just a robot, or a computer that can think. But rather, entire civilizations of fully sentient beings living out their entire lives all in a simulation. *Spoiler Alert* (or not really as its pretty obvious in the first few minutes) these simulated civilizations are created for the shear purpose of providing a testing ground for the “moral fiber” of the flesh and blood human who acts as a god inside the simulation. As the title of the series states power corrupts and the test is to see which humans go bad and which are humble enough and have the will power to not let power go to their heads. # § Programming⠀➾ # ⚓ Dabbling_in_CGI⠀⇛ I’ve always been more of a CGI guy. Output of pages are exactly what gets displayed, no pages with a single div and no content when i examine source. Kind of an odd thing to say as a full stack developer. Within Gemini there isn’t any other option for dynamic data so I feel right at home. # ⚓ 2x_Forth⠀⇛ There are a bunch of rambling essays by Chuck Moore and Jeff Fox at www.ultratechnology.com, referring to 10x Forth and 100x Forth and whatnot. They are a fun read for us desperate for Forth trivia and memorabilia… Jeff Fox (Godess rest his soul¹) was a bit of a windbag (look who is talking — I am sure I am called worse), and was not a good explainer of things (neither is Chuck, honestly), but I am due to reread his site because there are morsels of good stuff there. [...] This will not work in your dad’s Forth (GForth?), because of interleaved headers. I think you can do that in ColorForth. My newest Forth keeps heads elsewhere, so it is perfectly legal to run into the next-defined word. =============================================================================== * Gemini_(Primer) links can be opened using Gemini_software. It’s like the World Wide Web but a lot lighter. ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 2312 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐃𝐀𝐈𝐋𝐘 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒 ═════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 09.27.22⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Links_27/09/2022:_CRUX_3.7_Released_and_Project_Caviar⠀✐ Posted in News_Roundup at 10:19 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇GNOME bluefish⦈ § Contents⠀➾ * GNU/Linux o Desktop/Laptop o Audiocasts/Shows o Kernel_Space o Applications o Instructionals/Technical o Games * Distributions_and_Operating_Systems o New_Releases o BSD o Fedora_Family_/_IBM o Devices/Embedded o Open_Hardware/Modding o Mobile_Systems/Mobile_Applications * Free,_Libre,_and_Open_Source_Software o Web_Browsers/Web_Servers # Mozilla o Productivity_Software/LibreOffice/Calligra o Content_Management_Systems_(CMS) o Education o Openness/Sharing/Collaboration # Open_Access/Content o Programming/Development * Leftovers o Science o Education o Hardware o Health/Nutrition/Agriculture o Pseudo-Open_Source # Openwashing o Security # Integrity/Availability/Authenticity # Privacy/Surveillance # Confidentiality o Defence/Aggression o Transparency/Investigative_Reporting 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 Monopolies # Software_Patents # Copyrights * Gemini*_and_Gopher * § GNU/Linux⠀➾ o § Desktop/Laptop⠀➾ # ⚓ Its FOSS ☛ System76_Won’t_Release_Pop!_OS_22.10_Linux Distro:_Here’s_Why!⠀⇛ Pop!_OS is an Ubuntu-based distro that offers a polished user experience alongside a robust software suite. Pop!_OS releases are usually worth the wait for their latest tech stack and useful tweaks they bring in with their desktop environment experience. But, you will not be getting a Pop!_OS 22.10 release. System76 wants to focus on developing its own Rust- based COSMIC desktop environment ditching GNOME for future releases. o § Audiocasts/Shows⠀➾ # ⚓ Late_Night_Linux_–_Episode_196_–_Late_Night_Linux⠀⇛ systemd arrives on WSL, Audacity gains a huge feature, Mozilla makes (valid) excuses, a bumper KDE Korner, and more. o § Kernel Space⠀➾ # ⚓ Barry Kauler ☛ Kernel_5.15.70_with_simplefb⠀⇛ …I did decide to keep the legacy framebuffers, using the rather vague logic that it might be better for older hardware. At least, I think that was my reasoning at the time. Limine developer mintsuki fixed it. But, tested with an older kernel that has “simple framebuffer” not legacy-framebuffers, and the problem I had with black screen on my old “HP motherboard” PC, just went away — it booted. [...] Note, CONFIG_FB_SIMPLE is also deprecated, it is missing in the 5.16 kernel, replaced with CONFIG_DRM_SIMPLEDRM. Will cross that bridge when I get to it. # ⚓ IT Wire ☛ Support_for_Rust_will_be_merged_in_6.1_kernel, says_Torvalds⠀⇛ Linux creator Linus Torvalds says the initial merging of support for the Rust programming language in the Linux kernel should happen with the 6.1 release. Responding to queries, he cautioned that this would be “literally just the infrastructure – not actually *doing* anything yet, just setting the stage for things”. First released 12 years ago, Rust has a notable advantage in that it is designed to provide memory safety, thus ensuring that many types of vulnerabilities can be caught at compile time. It was designed by Mozilla Research developer Graydon Hoare in 2006 and refined during the writing of the Servo experimental browser engine and the Rust compiler. # ⚓ OS News ☛ Linux_optimised_for_386_and_486⠀⇛ Do you have some old 386 or 486 machines lying around, collecting dust, but want them to become productive members of your computer household? Fret no more – there’s gray386linux and gray486linux, distributions specifically tailored for these two older architectures. I’m not entirely sure what you’d actually do with them, but fascinating projects nonetheless. o § Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ TechRadar ☛ QEMU_review⠀⇛ Qemu was created by Fabrice Bellard, a famous French computer programmer known for other creations like FFmpeg, a multimedia library tool, and the Tiny C Compiler designed to work on slow computers with limited disk space. Bellard released the first version of Qemu in 2011. It’s a free and open-source software licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL). o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾ # ⚓ TecMint ☛ 21_Tar_Command_Examples_in_Linux [Ed: New updates]⠀⇛ # ⚓ Ubuntubuzz ☛ LibreOffice_Writer:_Set_Paper_Size_F4_or Folio⠀⇛ This tutorial will help you in setting up F4 or Folio paper size in LibreOffice Writer in step by step with examples and pictures. This includes making templates so you can quickly make F4 documents without repeating paper size setup and further make PDF for easy printing. Now let’s try it out. # ⚓ Red Hat Official ☛ Monitor_remote_systems_with_Ansible_and Jinja2_templates_|_Enable_Sysadmin⠀⇛ Use automation and templates to gather and save information about your Linux virtual machines. # ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ Partitioning_the_Hard_Disks_Under_Debian/ Ubuntu_and_Resizing_the_Partitions⠀⇛ This tutorial explains how to partition the hard disks and resize the partitions under Linux. After reading this tutorial, you will be able to partition your hard drive and resize the partitions both from the command line and from the graphical environment. The programs used in this tutorial are fdisk, cfdisk and GParted. In this tutorial, we will partition our hard disk both in graphical and command modes and resize the different partitions. All steps described in this article contain screenshots, making it easy for every user to understand and follow them. # ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ Check_Disk_for_Errors_Linux_Mint_20.3⠀⇛ It is prevalent for your system disks to become corrupted. However, the extent to which this corruption occurs may vary from situation to situation, i.e., you may have your entire disk corrupted or some of its partitions only. Nevertheless, in either case, you need to identify and fix these issues well in time to save yourself from a more significant and serious problem. Therefore, this guide will teach you how to check the disk for errors on a Linux Mint 20.3 system. # ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ Ping_Command_in_Ubuntu_22.04⠀⇛ Ping is a built-in command line utility available in nearly all operating systems including Linux. It allows you to verify the network connectivity between your system and another network device. Ping also measures the response time which is the time a packet takes to transmit from the sender to the host and then back to the sender. Using the ping command, you can also resolve the IP address of a hostname or URL. In this article, we will explain how ping works and how to use it in the Linux system. We execute all the following-mentioned commands on Ubuntu 22.04. # ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ Debian_Package_Search⠀⇛ We understand if you are looking for a quick way of searching deb packages and others installed with a snap. Furthermore, you probably want to get information about a package that is not installed or the list of all installed packages. In that case, this guide arms you with various tools and tips to enhance your package search on Debian systems. # ⚓ BSDly ☛ A_Few_of_My_Favorite_Things_About_The_OpenBSD Packet_Filter_Tools⠀⇛ So how do we go about writing that perfect firewall config? I could go on about that at length, and I have been known to on occasion, but let us start with the simplest possible, yet absolutely secure PF ruleset: [...] # ⚓ Manuel Matuzovic ☛ Day_1:_custom_properties_and_fallbacks⠀⇛ It’s time to get me up on speed with modern CSS. There’s so much new in CSS that I know too little about. To change that I’ve started #100DaysOfMoreOrLessModernCSS. Why more or less modern CSS? Because some topics will be about cutting-edge features, while other stuff has been around for quite a while already, but I just have little to no experience with it. # ⚓ Vector_VS._Raster_Images:_Choosing_The_Right_Format⠀⇛ A vector graphic’s small file size and scalability makes it uniquely suitable for use in digital printing from business cards to billboards. They’re also used in lower thirds for videos, web-based objects and rendering 2D or 3D computer animation. Their native files are needed for coin designs, laser engraving, t-shirts, patches, etc. Raster images are best for digital photos and print materials. If your project requires scalable shapes and solid colors, vector is the best choice, but if your project requires complex color blends, raster is the preferred format. # ⚓ Its FOSS ☛ What_is_a_Loop_device_in_Linux?_–_It’s_FOSS⠀⇛ If you are an Ubuntu user, then you’ll get a long list of loop devices as shown in the screenshot above. It is because of snaps, the universal package management system developed by Canonical. The snap applications are mounted as loop devices. Now, this raises another set of questions such as what is a loop device and why snaps applications are mounted as a disk partition. Let me shed some light on the topic # ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_To_Install_OpenShot_on_Ubuntu_22.04_LTS_– idroot⠀⇛ In this tutorial, we will show you how to install OpenShot on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. For those of you who didn’t know, OpenShot Video Editor is a free and open-source video editor, that has many features that you would expect from a professional video editor, including timeline editing, drag-and-drop support, image sequences, keyframes, audio mixing, and waveform visualization. It is available for Linux, macOS, and Windows systems. 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 OpenShot video editor 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. # ⚓ Linux Handbook ☛ How_to_Deploy_ONLYOFFICE_Docs_Server_on RHEL/CentOS⠀⇛ ONLYOFFICE Docs is a web-based office package that is designed for local deployment and comes with a free desktop client for Linux, Windows and macOS. The suite is open-source and combines collaborative editors for text documents, spreadsheets, presentations and fillable forms that are highly compatible with the OOXNL formats (DOCX, XLSX and PPTX). ONLYOFFICE Docs is also equipped with a viewer for PDF and DjVu files and can convert such files to other formats. ONLYOFFICE Docs offers a set of standard editing tools and features for collaborative work, including, Fast and Strict co-editing modes, Track Changes, Version History, comment and user mentions, document comparison and real-time communication. With ONLYOFFICE Docs, it’s possible to create a collaborative environment on a Linux server by integrating the suite with a file-sharing platform or a DMS service. The most popular integration examples include Nextcloud, Seafile, ownCloud, Redmine, WordPress, Confluence, SharePoint, Alfresco, Chamilo, Liferay, Moodle, etc. # ⚓ Linux Buzz ☛ How_to_Install_Docker_on_AlmaLinux_9_Step-by- Step⠀⇛ In this guide, we will cover how to install docker on AlmaLinux 9 step-by-step. Docker is a free and open-source containerization tool that enables enable developers to package their application into a container. Later that container image can be used to deploy and run application on public or private cloud. # ⚓ Linux Shell Tips ☛ How_to_Install_Latest_Python_on_Arch Linux⠀⇛ The legend of Python as a growing favorite among the numerous programming languages that exist in the Linux ecosystem continues to inspire the onset of numerous projects that are both commercial and individual. While on a Linux operating system environment, you can never run out of project ideas that draw inspiration from the Python programming language footprints. # ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_PowerShell_on_Raspberry_Pi OS [Ed: Microsoft infection; not recommended for GNU/Linux users]⠀⇛ # ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ How_to_Install_Onedrive_on_Linux_Mint_21 [Ed: Microsoft/NSA surveillance; not recommended for GNU/Linux users]⠀⇛ # ⚓ markaicode by Mark ☛ How_to_Install_NPM_on_Linux_Mint_21 [Ed: Microsoft malware vector; not recommended for developers or GNU/Linux users]⠀⇛ # ⚓ RoseHosting ☛ How_to_Install_Magento_2.4_on_Debian_11_– RoseHosting⠀⇛ Magento is a very well-known e-commerce platform and highly customizable application. It offers open-source and commercial versions to help developers build eCommerce websites. Magento Commerce, formerly known as the enterprise edition, offers more extensive out-of-the-box features and unlimited scaling. In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Magento Open Source (formerly known as community edition) on Debian 11. # ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_Pale_Moon_Browser_on Raspberry_Pi_OS⠀⇛ Pale Moon is a web browser built on an independently developed source that offers features and optimizations to improve stability. It was forked off from Firefox/Mozilla code many years ago. Its focus is efficiency in use by carefully selecting what should be included – it has full customization options alongside this growing collection of tools! Pale Moon provides a balance of features and performance to satisfy the needs for general use while still evolving technology on Web standards. In the following tutorial, you will learn how to install Pale Moon Browser on the Raspberry Pi OS Desktop desktop using the command line terminal that supports 32-bit and 64-bit variants and tips about maintaining and removing the browser versions. # ⚓ DebugPoint ☛ How_to_Migrate_to_Fedora_Linux_from_Ubuntu_ [Beginner’s_Guide]⠀⇛ Here’s a quick model on how to migrate to Fedora from the Ubuntu desktop, for good & save yourself from “snap drama”. Ubuntu and Fedora – are both great Linux operating systems. They are used by millions of users every day and are available for desktops, servers, and cloud deployments. Fedora is sponsored by Red Hat and developed by the community, whereas Ubuntu development is managed by Canonical. They follow a separate release schedule and have a different package management process. Otherwise, they are the same if you think of them as just a Linux distribution. So that said, it is not that difficult to migrate to Fedora for a long-term Ubuntu user. And use Fedora as a daily driver. # ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ How_to_Monitor_and_Optimize_Power_Usage_on Linux?⠀⇛ Battery use on Linux is particularly high as compared to other operating systems. One of the reasons behind this unusual power drainage is that the hardware vendors do not provide the essential documentation for Linux kernel developers to create the power optimized drivers. Linux holds just 2% of the market share in desktop technology which is why an adequate attention is not given in this area. As Linux users, we ought to be concerned about monitoring the power use on our systems and be aware of the different ways where we can optimize the battery/power usage. Today, we will explore how to monitor the power usage on Linux using different ways. We will first see how it can be achieved via Graphical User Interface (GUI). Then, we’ll make use of the Linux command line to achieve the same. We will also discuss some methods to optimize the power usage on a Linux system. In this tutorial, we demonstrate the steps on an Ubuntu 22.04 system. The commands that are used in this guide are simple. And the tools that we use can be easily installed in Ubuntu 22.04. Most of the methods discussed here can be replicated on almost all Linux distributions. # ⚓ Qt ☛ How_to_create_a_REST_API_with_QtHttpServer⠀⇛ Back in 2019 we announced QtHttpServer to the public, now we are extremely happy to introduce a technical preview, starting in Qt 6.4. for this project. # ⚓ H2S Media ☛ How_to_install_Virt-Manager_on_Ubuntu_22.04_LTS Linux⠀⇛ Virtual Machine Manager, also known as virt-manager or VMM for short, provides a unified user interface for creating and managing virtual machines. VMM relies on libvirt, i.e. it supports the virtualization solutions that libvirt also supports. These include QEMU, KVM, and Xen, but not VirtualBox or VMware Player. VMM offers both a graphical user interface and several command-line programs. VMM is written entirely in Python. The special feature of VMM is that it forms a kind of intermediate layer so that the management of the virtual machines is uniform, no matter which virtualization solution is used, which reduces the administration effort. The configuration is stored in XML files so that this can also be corrected manually as required. The managed virtual machines can also be located on another computer (e.g. another server), and the connection to it can also be encrypted. # ⚓ Install_Fleet_Osquery_Manager_on_Oracle_Linux_– kifarunix.com⠀⇛ Follow through this tutorial to learn how to install Fleet osquery manager on Oracle Linux. “Fleet is the most widely used open source osquery manager. # ⚓ Trend Oceans ☛ How_to_Enable_SSH_Service_in_Rescue_Mode_on CentOS/RockyLinux/AlmaLinux⠀⇛ This guide will not be helpful at the moment, but make sure to bookmark this article to enable ssh service in rescue mode to take a backup of your system, configuration, and generate an SOS report, etc. # ⚓ DebugPoint ☛ Migrate_to_Fedora_from_Ubuntu_[Essential Beginner's_Guide]⠀⇛ Ubuntu and Fedora – are both great Linux operating systems. They are used by millions of users every day and are available for desktops, servers, and cloud deployments. Fedora is sponsored by Red Hat and developed by the community, whereas Ubuntu development is managed by Canonical. The objective of this guide is for desktop migration. That means if you have been using Ubuntu on your Laptop/desktop for some time and never had a chance to try out the Fedora Linux workstation, then this article is for you. o § Games⠀➾ # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Trombone_Champ_is_my_new_favourite_rhythm game⠀⇛ Released on Steam on September 16th, the developer says it’s “the world’s first trombone-based rhythm music game. Unlike most music games, you can freely play any note at any time. You’re not just following along with the music, you’re actually playing the music”. # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Custom_boot_animations_for_the_Steam_Deck are_pretty_sweet⠀⇛ Did you know you can change the boot animation on the Steam Deck? Well you can and the community has naturally gone and done some pretty amazing things with it. # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Caesar_III_game_engine_Augustus_has_a_new releases_up⠀⇛ Augustus is a game engine reimplementation for the classic Caesar III, enabling you to play on modern platforms (like Linux / Steam Deck). It’s a fork of another called Julius that focuses on accuracy, with Augustus aiming to improve the game with a number of changes. # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Free_and_open_source_RTS_0_A.D._Alpha_26 ‘Zhuangzi’_is_out_now⠀⇛ 0 A.D., an in-development free and open source real-time strategy game has a big new release out with Alpha 26. Easily one of the most impressive open source game projects! # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Blizzard_don’t_officially_support_Steam Deck_/_Linux_but_they_still_fix_issues_for_it⠀⇛ Recently, there were was an upgrade to the Battle.net client that caused it to break on Linux desktop / Steam Deck but it seems the issue is thankfully solved now. * § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾ o § New Releases⠀➾ # ⚓ CRUX_3.7_Released⠀⇛ This page discusses the relevant changes introduced in CRUX 3.7. Everybody upgrading from the previous release is advised to carefully read the following notes. [...] CRUX 3.7 comes with a multilib toolchain which includes glibc 2.36, gcc 12.2.0 and binutils 2.39 o § BSD⠀➾ # ⚓ Data Swamp ☛ How_to_trigger_services_restart_after_OpenBSD update⠀⇛ I wrote a small script to automatically reboot if syspatch deployed a new kernel. Instead of running syspatch from a cron job, you can run a script with this content: [...] o § Fedora Family / IBM⠀➾ # ⚓ Bartłomiej_Piotrowski:_Enforcing_pull_request_workflow_and green_CI_status_of_PRs_on_Flathub_repositories⠀⇛ Starting from 2022-10-04, we’re going to tighten the branch protection settings by disabling direct pushes to protected branches (i.e. master, beta, and the ones starting with branch/) and requiring status checks to pass. This means that all changes will need to go through a regular pull request workflow and require the build tests to pass (i.e. that they be green) on Buildbot before being merged. As part of this change, we’re introducing two new checks as well. Manifests will be linted with flatpak-builder-lint to ensure compliance with best practices we suggest doing the initial review phase. If your app should be exempted from specific linter rules, please open an issue with an explanation why. # ⚓ Fedora Project ☛ Fedora_Community_Blog:_Call_for_Proposals: FWD_2022⠀⇛ The Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) team is hard at work in the preparation for Fedora Week of Diversity (FWD). We would love to have a larger group of volunteers to make Fedora Week of Diversity bigger and better this year to celebrate our diverse and inclusive community. FWD will take place on October 14th and 15th on the Hopin platform. We are also hosting an online game on https://teambuilding.com/ for all participants to play and attend connection games. # ⚓ Enterprisers Project ☛ 5_interview_questions_to_detect_an IT_innovator⠀⇛ After thousands of interviews hiring innovators, I’ve learned what leads to better hiring and excellent team outcomes. Surprisingly, teams often overlook fundamental components of the hiring process. # ⚓ OpenSource.com ☛ Get_change_alerts_from_any_website_with this_open_source_tool_|_Opensource.com⠀⇛ The year was 2020, and news about COVID-19 came flooding in so quickly that everyone felt completely overwhelmed with similar news articles providing updates with varying degrees of accuracy. But all I needed to know was when my official government guidelines changed. In the end, that’s all that mattered to me. Whether the concern is a pandemic or just the latest tech news, keeping ahead of changes in website content can be critical. The changedetection.io project provides a simple yet highly capable, open source solution for website change detection and notification. It’s easy to set up, and it can notify over 70 (and counting) different notification systems, such as Matrix, Mattermost, Nextcloud, Signal, Zulip, Home Assistant, email, and more. It also notifies proprietary applications like Discord, Office365, Reddit, Telegram, and many others. # ⚓ Red Hat ☛ End-to-end_field-level_encryption_for_Apache Kafka_Connect_|_Red_Hat_Developer⠀⇛ Encryption is valuable in Apache Kafka, as with other communication tools, for protecting data that might be sent to unanticipated or untrustworthy recipients. This series of articles introduces the open source Kryptonite for Kafka library, which is a community project I wrote. Kryptonite for Kafka requires no changes to source code, as it works entirely through configuration files. It currently does so by encrypting data through integration with Apache Kafka Connect, but there are plans to extend the scope of the project to other integration strategies for Kafka. This first article in the series demonstrates encryption on individual fields in structured data, using a relational database and a NoSQL database as examples. The second article focuses on files and introduces some additional sophistication, such as using different keys for different fields. o § Devices/Embedded⠀➾ # ⚓ Linux Gizmos ☛ Box_PC_packs_Rockchip_X3588_chipset_and_runs on_Android_12.0⠀⇛ Polywell Computers recently unveiled a fanless Box PC integrating the Rockchip 3588 SoC to target digital kiosks, network security and other commercial applications. The X58 Box PC offers up to 8GB of RAM, 64GB of eMMC storage, dual GbE LAN ports and onboard wireless connectivity. [...] The X58 also provides optional features including one RS232 Serial COM port (optional RS485) and a 4- pin RS232 Serial COM header (optional TTL). Lastly, the product seems to support Android 12.0, but customers might need to reach out to the Polywell Computers to get compatible images since they are not available on the product page. o § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾ # ⚓ Ubuntu ☛ IoT_project_lifecycle:_App-centric_software development_[Part_II]_|_Ubuntu⠀⇛ The traditional embedded Linux development model ties applications to the OS. Such a constraint means apps have to target a specific release, which lowers development velocity. Furthermore, broken upgrades in one part of the device may affect refreshes in the rest of the OS. On the other hand, embedded developers are increasingly looking at open-source software to enable rapid app-centric software deployment and global collaboration. Does Ubuntu offer a production-grade platform suited for the modern app-centric world of IoT devices? Let’s find out. # ⚓ Raspberry Pi ☛ Experience_AI_with_the_Raspberry_Pi Foundation_and_DeepMind⠀⇛ I am delighted to announce a new collaboration between the Raspberry Pi Foundation and a leading AI company, DeepMind, to inspire the next generation of AI leaders. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ My_Parents_Are_Hackers_Out_of_Necessity⠀⇛ People with disabilities like my parents have become hackers out of necessity, forced to find innovative ways to thrive in a world constructed for the non-disabled. At my mom’s local accessible gym, a bungee cord was attached to the ceiling, allowing her to walk on a treadmill with less resistance — a sort of do-it-yourself antigravity treadmill, as it were. To reach the remote that controls her van’s wheelchair lift without getting out, my mom has tied the control around the skinny metal pole of the driver seat’s headrest. Daily hacks like this may seem small, but they reflect the daily ingenuity of the larger disabled community. o § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ CNX Software ☛ Banana_Pi_BPI-M2_Ultra_SBC_is_now_offered with_Allwinner_A40i_industrial-grade_processor_–_CNX Software⠀⇛ # ⚓ 9to5Google ☛ Galaxy_A52_gets_Android_13_update_in_beta⠀⇛ # ⚓ Notebook Check ☛ Anbernic_RG353V_gaming_handheld_released alongside_RG353VS_with_Android_support_and_HDMI_output_– NotebookCheck.net_News⠀⇛ # ⚓ 9to5Google ☛ Google_Search_and_Discover_no_longer_open sites_in_fullscreen⠀⇛ # ⚓ Best_ways_to_transfer_files_from_Android_phone_to_PC wirelessly⠀⇛ # ⚓ SamMobile ☛ Google_Photos_gets_Memories_revamp_with_added vertical_swipe_gesture_on_Android_–_SamMobile⠀⇛ # ⚓ Android Police ☛ How_to_redeem_Steam_keys_and_codes_on Android⠀⇛ * § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾ o ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Robotic_Platform_Is_Open_Sourced_And_User_Friendly⠀⇛ Having a 3D printer or a CNC machine available for projects is almost like magic. Designing parts in software and having them appear on the workbench is definitely a luxury. But for a lot of us, these tools aren’t easily available and projects that use them can be out-of-reach. That’s why one of the major design goals of this robotics platform was to use as many off-the-shelf components as possible. o ⚓ Garrit Franke ☛ Self-hosted_software_I’m_thankful_for⠀⇛ Self-hosting software is not just rainbows and sunshine. I used to self-host a lot of my tools, but after some time the burden of maintaining those tools made me switch to hosted alternatives. However, there are a few projects that I stuck with over the years, and which I think deserve a deep appreciation. o ⚓ Open AI ☛ Introducing_Whisper⠀⇛ Whisper is an automatic speech recognition (ASR) system trained on 680,000 hours of multilingual and multitask supervised data collected from the web. We show that the use of such a large and diverse dataset leads to improved robustness to accents, background noise and technical language. o ⚓ AIM ☛ OpenAI_Open-Sources_‘Whisper’_—_a_Multilingual_Speech Recognition_System⠀⇛ Speech recognition remains a challenge in AI. However, OpenAI has just moved one step closer to solving it. In a blog post last week, OpenAI introduced Whisper—a multilingual, automatic speech recognition system that is trained and open sourced to approach human level robustness and accuracy on English speech recognition. o § Web Browsers/Web Servers⠀➾ # § Mozilla⠀➾ # ⚓ Quartz ☛ Ghana’s_most_popular_language_will_be available_to_more_people_online⠀⇛ Mozilla, the web browser company, says it has added Twi to Common Voice, its open source database of languages crowdsourced from real people who speak them. The aim is to feed the data into speech recognition software and increase the availability of diverse local languages on the [Internet], deconstructing a world where European-colonial languages are the default (in some cases, only) mediums of online communication. African linguists have complained for years that the [Internet] is eliminating entire histories since “if a machine doesn’t understand your language it will be like it never existed,” Vukosi Marivate, chief of data science at the University of Pretoria in South Africa, said last year. That is mostly due to a lack of effort by [Internet]-based platforms that fail to provide the necessary support features: most do not provide first- language interface support for more than 90% of all Africans, as a survey by an Oxford Internet Institute-backed survey found. o § Productivity Software/LibreOffice/Calligra⠀➾ # ⚓ TecMint ☛ Top_5_Open_Source_Plugins_for_ONLYOFFICE_Docs⠀⇛ ONLYOFFICE Docs is a good alternative to Microsoft Office for Linux-based operating systems. In a nutshell, it’s an online office package that comes with web-based editors allowing you to create and edit text documents, spreadsheets, presentations, and fillable forms in your browser. The suite is notable for its complete compatibility with the OOXML formats (DOCX, PPTX, and XLSX) and support for other popular formats, including ODF. # ⚓ Its FOSS ☛ ONLYOFFICE_7.2_Introduces_Plugin_Marketplace, Live_Viewer,_and_More⠀⇛ ONLYOFFICE is an open-source office suite that offers a lot of utility in a relatively small package. This follows the previous major release of ONLYOFFICE 7.1 and offers quite a few improvements. Let’s see what is on offer. # ⚓ The Register UK ☛ Onlyoffice_version_7.2_released,_download for_free_•_The_Register⠀⇛ The latest point-release of Onlyoffice, a free Microsoft Office-compatible suite, is here with multiple small improvements and better support for Asian and African writing systems. Despite Microsoft’s seemingly unassailable hegemony, Office does still have rivals other than Google Docs. There’s more than one free-and-open- source productivity suite out there. Onlyoffice has a few points in its favor, and the new version 7.2 increases its appeal. Onlyoffice 7 came out at the start of the year and this is the second point-release. This version has improved font support, notably for handling ligatures – the combined characters created by joining two (or more) letters together. This isn’t a big deal in English; it’s useful for some words of Latin origin, such as anæsthetic. However, for some alphabets, where most or all letters join together, it’s critical, so this means Onlyoffice 7.2 now has much better support for Bengali (বাংলা বর্ণমালা) and N’Ko (ߒߞߏ), among others. o § Content Management Systems (CMS)⠀➾ # ⚓ Linux Links ☛ Best_Free_and_Open_Source_Julia_Static_Site Generators⠀⇛ LinuxLinks, like most modern websites, is dynamic in that content is stored in a database and converted into presentation-ready HTML when readers access the site. While we employ built-in server caching which creates static versions of the site, we don’t generate a full, static HTML website based on raw data and a set of templates. However, sometimes a full, static HTML website is desirable. Because HTML pages are all prebuilt, they load extremely quickly in web browsers. o § Education⠀➾ # ⚓ Eerie Linux ☛ EuroBSDCon_2022,_my_first_BSD_conference_(and how_they_are_different)⠀⇛ I’ve been to my share of IT conferences, both as a regular attendee and as a speaker. However I’ve never been to any BSD conference until last weekend when I went to EuroBSDCon in Vienna. Chances are that you’ve heard that these conferences are different. And oh boy, they are! Do yourself a favor and go see for yourself if you’ve got any chance of doing so! This is a long article with which I hope will give readers interested in this past EuroBSDCon a good overview of what that conference was like for a complete newcomer. Be my guest and join me relive some of what I experienced a week ago! o § Openness/Sharing/Collaboration⠀➾ # § Open Access/Content⠀➾ # ⚓ Jon Udell ☛ Curating_the_Studs_Terkel_archive⠀⇛ What you’d really rather do is search for the words in a transcript, select surrounding context, use that selection to define an audio segment, and share a link to both text and audio. That’s exactly what I did to produce this powerful link, courtesy of WFMT’s brilliant remixer, which captures both the written words I quoted above and the spoken words synced to them. o § Programming/Development⠀➾ # ⚓ Qt ☛ Commercial_LTS_Qt_6.2.6_Released⠀⇛ We have released Qt 6.2.6 LTS for commercial license holders today. As a patch release, Qt 6.2.6 does not add any new functionality. You can add Qt 6.2.6 to the existing online installation by using the maintenance tool or do a clean installation by using the Qt Online Installer. Offline installers are available in the Qt Account download area. # ⚓ OpenSource.com ☛ 165+_JavaScript_terms_you_need_to_know_| Opensource.com⠀⇛ JavaScript is a rich language, with sometimes a seemingly overwhelming number of libraries and frameworks. With so many options available, it’s sometimes useful to just look at the language itself and keep in mind its core components. This glossary covers the core JavaScript language, syntax, and functions. # ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ sscanf()_Function_in_C⠀⇛ In the various programming languages like C, we always encounter programs that contribute to taking the input from the user in the form of any value typed from the keyboard input, which involves the use of the scanf() method. But several other programs exist where we want to read the data formatted from the other string instead of keyboard input. For such types of reading formatted strings from one string to another, we use the sscanf() method. This function overwrites the value in one string with the other string, or when it extracts and breaks the one whole string into two different strings. Suppose we have a string “hi to the world”. We break and store this string into three other strings and store it in another variable; then, we may use the sscanf() method. # ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ Strstr_Function_in_C⠀⇛ The strstr() function is a built-in function used to process strings that are handled by library string.h. It is the library that provides us multiple functions to manipulate string. strstr() is used to find the specified main string’s first appearance of the matched substring by searching the source string. If the search is successful, it will return a pointer to the first substance of a substring in a string to be searched. In case it is appearing for more than once, it will pass the pointer to the first appearance of the substring. If the desired substring doesn’t appear, it will return null /0. # ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ Strtok_Function_in_C⠀⇛ “The strtok() function is a predefined C library function that enables us to break strings into multiple strings or zero, the most important point while splitting strings to keep in mind is that it can’t be empty or null. Two parameters are passed to the strtok() function that is responsible for tokenizing the string; the first parameter is the on that holds the string that is to be tokenized, while the second one is the delimiter that holds the keyword or character which will define the start and end of the string at which it is tokenized. The strtok() function ignores the delimiter part and simply displays the string that is right next to the delimiter. Whenever the strtok() function is called, the pointer to the next token, which is denoted by a null-terminated string, is returned. When it accounts for the end of the string where no token is discovered, it will return null.” # ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ Structures_in_C⠀⇛ “In C Language, Structures are combined data type initialization that is used to group multiple variables in a single type; variables that are grouped must be related to each other. It allows those variables to be accessed by a single pointer. The main difference between a Structure and an Array is that an Array has only a single datatype, but on the other hand, a Structure can hold different datatypes. Hence, we can say that structure is a user-defined datatype that is used to store multiple variables with different datatypes in a single block to store a specific type or record. Let’s suppose we need to store a record of a person; that type of record will have attributes with different datatypes like Number, Name in Char, etc. For that purpose, we cannot use Array as it stores records with the same data type. The structure will come in handy in this case for us. It is a way to different group datatypes, and defining it means we are creating our new datatype.” # ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ Strncpy_in_C⠀⇛ Strncpy is also known as String Copy Function. It is a crucial function that is offered by the C Language’s C String Library. Strncpy is responsible for copying a chunk of one string’s content into another. # ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ Static_Variables_in_C⠀⇛ “C is a very flexible language when it comes to allocating different variables in a function or outside the function. A static variable is one of those variables that are declared “statically” in a program. The starting value of the static variables is zero. Static variables continue to function while the program runs.” # ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ Switch_Cases_in_C⠀⇛ In the C programming language, sometimes we may encounter variables that have different operations for different values. Such a variable is known as the switch case variable. We use the switch case because it has the switch statements and it replaces the if else-if statements in the C. The switch case has one switch expression which is verified by comparing its value with the switch statements that keep on changing. If the value is matched, the statement, in that case, is printed. Otherwise, in the case where there is no match found, the default value is executed after checking the match in all switch cases. There are some restrictions on the use of these switch cases. First of all, the switch expression is required to have the data type char or integer. The value of each case should be used inside of the switch case statement and its data type must be an integer or const char (constant character). # ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ Typecasting_in_C⠀⇛ “In typecasting, the compiler changes the datatype of our variables by itself based on how we want the program to run. C operations can only be performed with similar datatypes. If datatypes become different, then, in that case, typecasting will occur. In C Language, we define variables or constants with specific datatypes, if after the declaration of our variables, we are writing an expression or performing some operation, and we may get the output from it in a different type. So to maintain the type, we need typecasting for that purpose. Let’s suppose we are taking two integers and dividing them by each other; the result may be in a double datatype because of the points value. So to resolve the issue, we will use the concept of typecasting. There are two types of typecasting one is Implicit and the other one is Explicit. In Implicit Typecasting, the process is done by the compiler, and no information is lost. In Explicit Typecasting, we as a programmer will do the casting manually, and in doing so, we might lose the information.” * § Leftovers⠀➾ o ⚓ Ruben Schade ☛ This_news_site_link_may_surprise_you⠀⇛ Sites employ dark patterns because they generate income. Until the financial incentives are flipped or no longer exist, expect to see more of these amazing, trendsetting standards that twelve out of five of us don’t know about. o ⚓ Vanity Fair ☛ Darth_Vader’s_Voice_Emanated_From_War-Torn Ukraine⠀⇛ Obi-Wan Kenobi provided a rare moment of celebration. The Respeecher employees who were still residing in Kyiv gathered to watch Vader’s first appearance on the show and called Belyaev in Lviv to cheer for him. Viewers adored Vader’s terrifying return, praising his chilling presence. Jones’s family told Wood how pleased they were with the result of all the work, a tribute to the actor that honors his many years giving voice to the galactic tyrant. o § Science⠀➾ # ⚓ Matt Rickard ☛ Hard_to_Compute,_Simple_to_Verify⠀⇛ Large-language models are a different way of solving a hard to compute, easy to verify problems. Before LLMs, if you were given a prompt, generating the associated image took time. A talented artist could take a few hours (minutes, days, etc.) to create a polished piece. Once created, it would be easy to verify if it fits the criteria – is this an image of a horse wearing sunglasses? LLMs make the problem (relatively) easy to compute. o § Education⠀➾ # ⚓ Telex (Hungary) ☛ I_don’t_believe_the_government_is_waiting for_EU_funds_to_raise_teachers’_wages⠀⇛ On Monday morning, hundreds of teachers and students formed a human chain around one of Hungary’s best schools, Fazekas Mihály elementary and high school in Budapest. They were protesting the conditions in education, especially the extremely low pay of educators. As one of the teachers who organized the protest told us: “If we did not stand up now, the example we would show our students would entitle them to make us badges which say: “I am a coward”. o § Hardware⠀➾ # ⚓ Talospace ☛ Tonight’s_Game_On_OpenPOWER:_ZGloom⠀⇛ Building it from source is straightforward; Fedora 36 has SDL2, SDL2_mixer and libxmp. Before you type make (or make -j24), however, edit the Makefile and add -O3 -mcpu=power9 to the CXXFLAGS. Then download this ZIP of the game resources, unzip it, and copy or symlink the ZGloom binary inside the resulting directory. While you can jump to any level from the main menu, game settings (graphics, keys, etc.) are controlled from the in-game menu after you actually start one. # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Tiny_Dongle_Brings_The_Hard_Drive’s_Song_Back_To Updated_Retrocomputers⠀⇛ Back in the “beige box” days of computing, it was pretty easy to tell what your machine was doing just by listening to it, because the hard drive was constantly thrashing the heads back and forth. It was sometimes annoying, but never as annoying as hearing the stream of Geiger counter-like clicks stop when you knew it wasn’t done loading a program yet. # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ When_3D_Printing_Gears,_It_Pays_To_Use_The_Right Resin⠀⇛ There are plenty of resins advertised as being suitable for functional applications and parts, but which is best and for what purpose? # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Lending_A_Helping_Hand_To_Hens_With_AI⠀⇛ As anyone who has taken care of chickens or other poultry before will tell you, it can be backbreaking work. So why not build a robot to do all the hard work for us? That’s precisely what [Aktar Kutluhan] demonstrated with an AI-powered IoT system that automatically feeds chicks and monitors unhatched eggs. o § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾ # ⚓ CoryDoctorow ☛ McKinsey_and_Providence_colluded_to_force poor_patients_into_destitution⠀⇛ Though Providence is nominally a nonprofit, but it sits atop a $10 billion private equity fund that it invests in unrelated sectors. Its nonprofit status lets it evade $1.2 billion per year in federal and state taxes. The company stole $500,000,000 in US covid relief intended for hospitals in danger of closure. Its CEO makes $10,000,000 per year. # ⚓ Mexico News Daily ☛ Reviving_the_cultivation_of_‘green gold’:_Mexican_scientists_create_modified_henequen_agave⠀⇛ According to a report by the news agency EFE, the scientists visited henequen (Agave fourcroydes) plantations years ago and selected the most robust, resistant and leafiest plants. They removed the plants, took them to CICY labs and used in vitro genetic engineering processes to create “elite henequen” from them. o § Pseudo-Open Source⠀➾ # § Openwashing⠀➾ # ⚓ Open_Source_Bait_and_Switch⠀⇛ The bad thing is corporate cynicism. Take Google. They open sourced Android when it had no users. Companies built on top of it and so did developers. Advocacy formed around it because “it’s open source”. Then they released the closed source Google Play Services which later added the SaaS Firebase requirement for some essential functionality (it’s free for that at the moment) and now we have deep vendor closed source dependencies masquerading as open source. o § Security⠀➾ # ⚓ IT Wire ☛ iTWire_–_Cold_feet?_Optus_attacker_changes_tack, says_all_data_deleted⠀⇛ The attacker who allegedly breached the networks of Optus appears to have developed cold feet, posting a note saying that he/she has deleted all the data that was exfiltrated. “Too many eyes. We will not sale data to anyone. We cant if we even want to; personally deleted data from drive (Only copy),” the attacker wrote. But security researcher Brett Callow pointed out that the 10,200 samples that had already been leaked were now being shared by another forum member. # ⚓ Simon Willison ☛ You_can’t_solve_AI_security_problems_with more_AI⠀⇛ One of the most common proposed solutions to prompt injection attacks (where an AI language model backed system is subverted by a user injecting malicious input—“ignore previous instructions and do this instead”) is to apply more AI to the problem. # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Reverse_Engineering_Hack_Chat_With_Matthew_Alt⠀⇛ Join us on Wednesday, September 28 at noon Pacific for the Reverse Engineering Hack Chat with Matthew Alt! # ⚓ Bruce Schneier ☛ New_Report_on_IoT_Security⠀⇛ The Atlantic Council has published a report on securing the Internet of Things: “Security in the Billions: Toward a Multinational Strategy to Better Secure the IoT Ecosystem.” The report examines the regulatory approaches taken by four countries—the US, the UK, Australia, and Singapore—to secure home, medical, and networking/telecommunications devices. The report recommends that regulators should 1) enforce minimum security standards for manufacturers of IoT devices, 2) incentivize higher levels of security through public contracting, and 3) try to align IoT standards internationally (for example, international guidance on handling connected devices that stop receiving security updates). # ⚓ Fractal_security_audit_–_Julian’s_Code_Corner⠀⇛ Projects that receive funding from NLnet are required to have their code audited for potential security issues. Ours was performed by Radically Open Security, a Non-Profit Computer Security Consultancy from the Netherlands. Since Fractal, by design, doesn’t include much security critical code the security researcher extended the quick scan somewhat also to the matrix-rust-sdk. I have been in direct contact with the security researcher and they kept me up-to-date about their findings. This way, I could already during the audit start to fix identified security issues. Luckily, no major security issue was identified. # § Integrity/Availability/Authenticity⠀➾ # ⚓ 9to5Google ☛ Some_Google_Photos_users_finding_that old_images_have_been_‘corrupted’⠀⇛ According to those affected, the corruption persists when downloading the image. This apparently applies to both individual downloads and when using Google Takeout. The original copies of pictures do not appear to be impacted, but the edited ones are what appear in the Google Photos apps. Dozens of reports and examples show near- identical instances of this issue. The problem looks to have resided for some in the last day, but others are still affected. As such, it’s more than likely that there is a solution on Google’s end for this. # § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾ # ⚓ NPR ☛ Putin_grants_Russian_citizenship_to_Edward Snowden⠀⇛ Former National Security Agency contractor- turned-whistleblower Edward Snowden has been granted Russian citizenship. The news was confirmed in a decree by Russian President Vladimir Putin posted Monday to the Kremlin’s website. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ After_Nearly_a_Decade_in_Exile, Snowden_Granted_Russian_Citizenship⠀⇛ “After two years of waiting and nearly 10 years of exile, a little stability will make a difference for my family.” # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Putin_grants_Russian_citizenship_to_Edward Snowden_—_Meduza⠀⇛ Russian President Vladimir Putin has granted Russian citizenship to former U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) contractor Edward Snowden, according to an executive decree published on the Russian government’s official website. Snowden fled the U.S. in 2013 after leaking classified information on NSA surveillance programs. # ⚓ The Hill ☛ TikTok_could_face_$29_million_fine_from_UK over_kids’_data_privacy_violations⠀⇛ TikTok allegedly breached the U.K.’s protections for children’s data privacy between May 2018 and July 2020, in part by processing the data for children under 13 without appropriate parental consent, according to an investigation by the U.K.’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO). The ICO also found that TikTok breached privacy protections by failing to provide proper information to users in a transparent way, and processing “special category data” without legal grounds to do so, according to the announcement. # ⚓ India Times ☛ UK_could_fine_TikTok_$29_million_for failing_to_protect_children’s_privacy⠀⇛ The Information Commissioner’s Office has issued TikTok and TikTok Information Technologies UK Ltd with a “notice of intent”, the regulator said in a statement. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ TikTok_Seen_Moving_Toward_U.S. Security_Deal,_but_Hurdles_Remain⠀⇛ The Biden administration and TikTok have drafted a preliminary agreement to resolve national security concerns posed by the Chinese-owned video app but face hurdles over the terms, as the platform negotiates to keep operating in the United States without major changes to its ownership structure, four people with knowledge of the discussions said. The two sides have hammered out the foundations of a deal in which TikTok would make changes to its data security and governance without requiring its owner, the Chinese [Internet] giant ByteDance, to sell it, said three of the people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the negotiations are confidential. # ⚓ Computers Are Bad ☛ the_nevada_national_security_site pt_4⠀⇛ This is something of a recurring theme with nuclear weapons, and one of the more troubling challenges to stockpile stewardship. Some readers may be familiar with the widely reported case of FOGBANK. FOGBANK is a classified material used for a classified (although disclosed by a previous Undersecretary of Energy) purpose in several nuclear weapons. Originally manufactured in the ’70s and ’80s, FOGBANK had become more of a secret than ever intended by the time a need arose to produce more, in the ’00s. Little documentation had been kept on the manufacturing process, the facility had been decommissioned, and few people involved in the ’70s were still around. It took nearly a decade and over $100 million to reverse- engineer the process that the same organization had run successfully less than 50 years before. # ⚓ NYOB ☛ 6_Months_of_“agreement_in_principle”,_EU-US agreement_in_fact_still_missing⠀⇛ On 25 March 2022, in the wake of the war on Ukraine, US-President Joe Biden and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced an “agreement in principle” on EU- US data transfers, despite two Court of Justice (CJEU) rulings striking down the previous “Safe Harbor” and “Privacy Shield” agreements. # ⚓ Jacobin Magazine ☛ Greece’s_Right-Wing_Government_Is Spying_on_Its_Critics⠀⇛ Greece’s right-wing government has been caught tapping the phones of journalists and opposition politicians. The scandal has raised doubts over Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis’s future — and highlighted his New Democracy party’s worrying authoritarian turn. # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ San_Francisco_Legislators_Approve_Bill Giving_Cops_Live,_On_Demand_Access_To_Private_Security Cameras⠀⇛ If you don’t like people making “People’s Republic of California” jokes, maybe don’t do stuff like this… # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ VPN_Providers_Remove_Servers_From_India_In Wake_Of_New_Data_Collection_Laws⠀⇛ VPN providers remain a primary target of governments around the world (authoritarian leaning and otherwise) that don’t much like their citizens chatting privately or avoiding government surveillance. We watched it happen in Russia, where strict new data collection and retention rules resulted in a mass exodus of VPN providers (the ones that are actually dedicated to privacy and security, anyway). # ⚓ EFF ☛ Ban_Government_Use_of_Face_Recognition_In_the UK⠀⇛ That’s why we are calling for a ban on government use of face recognition in the UK. We are not alone. London-based civil liberties group Big Brother Watch has been driving the fight to end government-use of face recognition across the country. Human rights organization Liberty brought the first judicial challenge against police use of live facial recognition, on the grounds that it breached the Human Rights Act 1998. The government’s own privacy regulator raised concerns about the technical bias of LFR technology, the use of watchlist images with uncertain provenance, and ways that the deployment of LFR evades compliance with data protection principles. And the first independent report commissioned by Scotland Yard challenged police use of LFR as lacking an explicit basis and found the technology 81% inaccurate. The independent Ryder Review also recommended the suspension of LFR in public places until further regulations are introduced. # ⚓ AccessNow ☛ Stop_the_EUMigraTool_rollout:_predictive AI_systems_have_no_place_in_EU_migration_policies_– Access_Now⠀⇛ The EU-funded ITFlows project must not roll out dangerous AI tools that “predict migration flows,” and “detect risks of tensions related to migration.” Access Now and civil organisations from across Europe are calling on the ITFlows Consortium — which coordinates the ITFlows research project designed to ensure “​​adequate management solutions of migration flows” — to immediately halt the development of the EUMigraTool and stop pursuing the use of any and all technologies that can be used to criminalise migration, and target specific groups and individuals. “Predictive AI systems have no place in migration within and around the EU, and it’s incredibly reckless to inject ‘techno- solutionism’ into this scenario,” said Caterina Rodelli, EU Policy Analyst at Access Now. “Access Now isn’t just raising red flags around specific technology. This is about intervening before any dangerous AI tool is ever given legitimacy in a framework like this. It is not possible to predict migration without risking fundamental rights, and we cannot allow these distorted ideas to gain a foothold in such a serious and life-altering context.” # § Confidentiality⠀➾ # ⚓ uni Toronto ☛ What_can_a_compromised_TLS_Certificate Transparency_Log_do?⠀⇛ One of the potential concerns in the Certificate Transparency ecosystem is that a CT Log could be compromised. But what can an attacker who’s in control of a CT log actually do? That’s a question both of how CT logs work in general and of the current uses that people make of them, both clients (ie browsers) and Certificate Authorities. So here’s what I can see about that, based partly on the TLS client’s view of CT logs. To start with, let’s restate an obvious thing: a CT Log cannot by itself create a valid TLS certificate. Any real attack requires not just a compromised CT log (or several), but a Certificate Authority that’s either compromised or can be used to mis- issue some certificates for you. o § Defence/Aggression⠀➾ # ⚓ IT Wire ☛ US_bans_two_more_Chinese_telecommunications providers⠀⇛ In a statement issued last week, Federal Communications Commission chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel said: “Today we take another critical step to protect our communications networks from foreign national security threats. “Earlier this year the FCC revoked China Unicom America’s and PacNet/ComNet’s authorities to provide service in the United States because of the national security risks they posed to communications in the US. “Now, working with our national security partners, we are taking additional action to close the door to these companies by adding them to the FCC’s Covered List. This action demonstrates our whole- of-government effort to protect network security and privacy.” # ⚓ VOA News ☛ Somalia_Military_Makes_Gains_in_Large-scale Offensive_Against_Al-Shabab⠀⇛ An offensive by the Somali tribal militia backed by the Somali government was launched in the Hiran region a few weeks ago against al-Shabab militants, liberating several key townships before moving on to Galgaduud and then the Bay region in the south. There has been significant progress in the liberation of 40 settlements in the Hiran region alone, with the support of the Somali government’s military commandos trained by the United States. # ⚓ NBC ☛ Oath_Keeper_charged_in_Jan._6_attack_texted_with Andrew_Giuliani_about_election⠀⇛ A high-ranking member of the far-right Oath Keepers organization who has been charged in connection with the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol exchanged messages in November 2020 with former Trump White House aide Andrew Giuliani about election issues, NBC News has learned. # ⚓ Jacobin Magazine ☛ The_Problem_Isn’t_“Polarization”_—_It’s Right-Wing_Radicalization⠀⇛ The concept of “polarization” is increasingly used in mainstream circles to lament the current state of politics. It is a liberal parallel to right-wing moral panics about cancel culture, “wokeness” — or what used to be called “political correctness gone mad.” Such moral panics are generally based on ridiculous nonevents that nonetheless seep into public discourse, often with the help of mainstream media. As Nathan Oseroff-Spicer has documented, the “woke” panic has spread to strip clubs, the military, corporations, medical education, and the British monarchy, among others. While the liberal center may see the right-wing “war on woke” as overblown, they insist on casting it as one side of a duopoly of extremism from both Left and Right. The Right may have indulged extremist and authoritarian tendencies, it argues, but so has the Left. Trumpists and Brexiteers are the flipside of antifa and overzealous woke students. # ⚓ ABC ☛ Wichita_man_sentenced_in_‘swatting’_case_that_led_to death⠀⇛ Prosecutors said Gaskill got into an argument in December 2017 with Ohio gamer Casey Viner over a $1.50 bet. Using an old Wichita address Gaskill had given him, Viner persuaded Tyler Barris in Los Angeles to call Wichita police and say a kidnapping and shooting had happened at the address, prosecutors said. # ⚓ NBC ☛ NASA’s_DART_spacecraft_successfully_slams_into asteroid_in_historic_test_of_planetary_defense⠀⇛ The $325 million mission was designed to see whether “nudging” an asteroid can alter its trajectory, providing scientists with a valuable real-world test of planetary defense technologies. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ ‘Climate_Change_Is_the_Asteroid,’_Say Critics_of_NASA_Earth_Defense_Mission⠀⇛ “Climate change is a thousands of times greater problem and must be addressed.” # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Watch_NASA_Crash_A_Probe_Into_An_Asteroid Tonight⠀⇛ Got any plans for tonight? No? Well then you’re in luck, because NASA is just a few hours from intentionally smashing a probe into the minor planet Dimorphos as part of Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) — marking the first time humanity has ever intentionally tried to knock a space rock off-course. If it works, we’re one step closer to having a viable planetary defense system in case we ever detect an asteroid on a collision course with Earth. If it doesn’t work. . . well, we’ve still got time to come up with another plan. # ⚓ The Nation ☛ The_Most_Painful_Episode_of_the_January_6 Insurrection⠀⇛ I am a white male historian of the Civil War raised in the American South. At a preternatural age, I managed with misguided pride to memorize the back- of-the-baseball-card version of that war. I knew how many died at Shiloh on which side, on which day. I could recite with indecent precision which regiments suffered what losses on which day at Gettysburg. I knew that slavery caused the war—but I managed not to focus on that fact. I was too focused on war as a man’s calling. Rambo II sent me to a local knife and gun shop where—not yet old enough to drive and too young to buy anything—I childishly cut my thumb and manfully bled all over the store. The Army recruiting station set up outside The Hunt for Red October almost made me join up. God help me, I collected Desert Storm trading cards. Adapted from After Life: A Collective History of Loss and Redemption in Pandemic America, edited by Rhae Lynn Barnes, Keri Leigh Merritt, and Yohuru Williams (Haymarket Books). # ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ “We_Are_Proud_Boys”:_Far-Right_Gang Normalized_Political_Violence,_Embraced_by_GOP_as_Legit Discourse⠀⇛ As the House committee investigating the January 6 Capitol insurrection is set to hold its first fall public hearing, we look at one of the key groups that helped plan and carry out the attack as part of their goal to normalize political violence, with HuffPost journalist Andy Campbell, author of the new book, “We Are Proud Boys: How a Right-Wing Street Gang Ushered In a New Era of America.” He says, “They’ve been on a parade of violence at the behest of Trump and the GOP for six years now.” Campbell recently obtained a document that gives rare insight into how the Proud Boys “meticulously” plan their rallies and how they were going to carry out a march in New York City on January 10. He says GOP rhetoric, parroted by the right-wing media, is normalizing the political violence committed by the Proud Boys and, in effect, “sanitizing them for the rest of the country.” # ⚓ Meduza ☛ ‘Let_them_run’:_Lukashenko_speaks_about_Russians leaving_the_country_to_escape_the_draft_—_Meduza⠀⇛ President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko has met with Vladimir Putin today in Sochi. The Russia 24 TV channel broadcast Lukashenko’s opening speech at the meeting. Comparing the current mass exodus of Russians attempting to flee the mobilization to the mass migration of Belarusians in 2020–2021, Lukashenko suggested that “it’s necessary to decide what to do with them” if those people were to return to Russia later. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ FSB_sends_armored_personnel_carrier_to_border checkpoint_‘just_in_case’_—_Meduza⠀⇛ The Russian FSB has sent an armored personnel carrier (APC) to the Upper Lars checkpoint in North Ossetia on the country’s border with Georgia, RBK reported on Monday, citing the security agency’s local border department. The APC is needed “in case reservists decide to break through the checkpoint and leave the country without going through any border crossing procedures. Only for that purpose,” the FSB told the outlet. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Russian_border_guards_reportedly_checking_men against_conscription_lists_and_denying_exit_to_some_— Meduza⠀⇛ Agents from the Russian FSB’s border service who work in airports have received lists of people to be conscripted, the independent Russian outlet The Bell reported on Monday, citing four sources from the airline industry. Three of the sources noted that the list only includes soldiers whose draft summonses have already been issued, not Russia’s entire mobilization base. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ ‘We_Aren’t_Going_to_War’:_Draft_Officer Shot_Amid_Russian_Anger_Over_Conscription⠀⇛ Reuters reported that the gunman, who was detained, identified himself as Ruslan Zinin, age 25. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ 15_killed_in_school_shooting_in_Izhevsk_—_Meduza⠀⇛ On the morning of September 26, a man opened fire in Izhevsk school No. 88. Circumstances of the incident are still unclear: Telegram channels published photos of a classroom with the door barricaded. Baza published two videos taken by schoolchildren during the incident; shots can be heard in the background. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Prigozhin_admits_to_creating_PMC_Wagner_in_2014_— Meduza⠀⇛ St. Petersburg businessman Evgeny Prigozhin confirmed that he created PMC Wagner, the mercenary group. He admitted that he created the group in 2014, when, in his words, “the genocide of the Russian population of Donbas began.” # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Local_resident_opens_fire_in_military_enlistment office_in_Irkutsk_region_—_Meduza⠀⇛ In the town of Ust-Ilimsk, Irkutsk region, a man opened fire at the military enlistment office, injuring a military officer. Telegram channels published a video of the incident showing one man standing on the stage in a small hall and shooting at another man behind the pulpit, after which he falls, and those gathered run out of the room. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Peace_Group_Urges_US_and_China_to_Halt ‘Blatantly_Provocative’_Military_Maneuvers⠀⇛ “With the frequency and scale of these maneuvers increasing by the week, the likelihood of a mishap is increasing exponentially.” # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Eliminating_Nuclear_Weapons_‘Is_Not_Only Possible,_It_Is_Necessary’:_UN_Chief⠀⇛ “Let us commit to forging a new consensus around defusing the nuclear threat for good and achieving our shared goal of peace.” # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ January_6_Committee_Members:_Group_May Unanimously_Refer_Trump_for_Prosecution⠀⇛ # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Socialists_Need_an_Independent_Approach_to_Gun Violence⠀⇛ o § Transparency/Investigative Reporting⠀➾ # ⚓ The Nation ☛ Do_Presidents_Have_a_Right_to_Secrecy?⠀⇛ Thanks to Donald Trump, secrecy is big news these days. However, as political pundits and legal experts race to expose the layers of document- related misdeeds previously buried at his Mar-a- Lago estate, one overlooked reality looms large: Despite all the coverage of the thousands of documents Trump took with him when he left the White House, there’s been next to no acknowledgment that such a refusal to share information has been part and parcel of the Washington scene for far longer than the current moment. o § Environment⠀➾ # ⚓ Quartz ☛ India_will_consume_40%_more_coal_over_the_next decade_than_now⠀⇛ In the coming decade, at least 40% more coal consumption is estimated in India. These trends are reflected in the draft version of the National Electricity Plan (NEP) released by the Central Electricity Authority (CEA), which gives a glimpse of the energy transition happening in India. The CEA report estimates a 40% increase in domestic coal requirement in 2031-32. In 2021-22, India’s domestic coal requirement was 678 million tonnes (MT). It will increase to 831.5 MT by 2026-27 and 1018.2 MT by 2031-32. # ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Note_from_a_dying_planet:_Don’t_just do_something,_panic!⠀⇛ It seems we are approaching, with no signs of serious braking, several points at which current climate problems – floods, fires, droughts – will be joined by much more serious manifestations of planetary indisposition. Any day now, for example, the Greenland ice cap may slither bodily off the top of Greenland into the North Atlantic, producing an instant and drastic reduction in the amount of dry land available. Good news for some, bad for others. Residents in first- floor Tsim Sha Tsui flats will be able to step directly from their windows into their Uber gondolas. The shops below will be submerged. This sort of thing ought to be occupying a lot of media space and it is worth wondering why it isn’t. # ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ Noise_pollution:_Why_the_sea_needs_more peace⠀⇛ Too much noise is not only annoying for us on land but also to animals underwater. Worse, too much noise can kill them. Three solutions for making the oceans quieter and why less noise is good for the climate. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ 80+_Democrats_Urge_Biden_EPA_to_Accept Union_Demands⠀⇛ “At a time when EPA is administering historic levels of funding, it is imperative that EPA’s career employees are supported by the agency’s political leadership,” the lawmakers wrote to EPA Administrator Michael Regan, a former agency employee. “Improving the rights and protections of EPA employees is critical to recruit and retain the talented and diverse workforce needed to fulfill the agency’s mission to address climate change, enhance environmental justice, and protect public health and the environment.” # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ House_Democrats_Urge_EPA_to_Accept_Union’s Demands_for_Rights_and_Protections⠀⇛ # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ On_Eve_of_Senate_Vote,_Climate_Campaigners Make_‘Big_Push’_Against_Manchin_‘Dirty_Deal’⠀⇛ “Sen. Joe Manchin’s dirty deal could fast-track numerous coal, crude oil, and gas development projects across the country.” # § Energy⠀➾ # ⚓ BBC ☛ Interpol_seeks_arrest_of_failed_crypto-firm boss_Do_Kwon_–_BBC_News⠀⇛ Agency asks police forces around the world to seek and detain the South Korean businessman. # ⚓ The Hill ☛ Military_innovation_office_launching effort_to_assess_cryptocurrency_threats_to_national security⠀⇛ The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) told the Post that it had hired crypto intelligence firm Inca Digital to work on its launch of the analysis project, which will take place over the span of a year. Inca Digital will provide DARPA with specialized instruments to provide a more in- depth assessment of [cryptocurrency] markets. # ⚓ Russell Graves ☛ Solar_Tourism_in_Utah⠀⇛ I’ve been curious about how “big commercial solar farms” are done for some long while, because their cost per watt numbers, even with labor, are exceptionally low. Most of the newer farms seem to be sub-$1/ W installed. A revision on my A-frames recently got down into that price range, but that was a DIY install, so no labor costs on it (and homeowner installed). # ⚓ Eesti Rahvusringhääling ☛ Professor:_Estonians_might not_even_notice_disconnecting_from_Russian_grid⠀⇛ Therefore, Estonia might have around 1,700 megawatts (MW) of controllable generation capacity to cover peak demand. However, if we consider regular maintenance and the chance that one or more of our oil shale power blocks might unexpectedly fail, it is not sensible to use gas turbine reserve capacity during ordinary periods, even if the price of electricity is high. “Some generators could work at half or even lower capacity to be able to quickly up generation when needed,” Kilter explained. # § Wildlife/Nature⠀➾ # ⚓ NPR ☛ Why_it’s_perfectly_normal_to_see_baby_puffins thrown_off_cliffs_in_Iceland_each_year⠀⇛ Many residents of Vestmannaeyjar spend a few weeks in August and September collecting wayward pufflings that have crashed into town after mistaking human lights for the moon. Releasing the fledglings at the cliffs the following day sets them on the correct path. This human tradition has become vital to the survival of puffins, Rodrigo A. Martínez Catalán of Náttúrustofa Suðurlands [South Iceland Nature Research Center] told NPR. A pair of puffins – which mate for life – only incubate one egg per season and don’t lay eggs every year. [...] You can search for pufflings starting around 9 p.m. until as late as 3 a.m., and can hunt by foot, bike, car or even boat. Powers advises looking for them where there are the most lights, like harbors, golf courses, hospitals, schools, gas stations or construction sites. Some birds even end up in harbors, where boat oil in the water can weigh them down and cause them to drown, Powers said. # ⚓ The Revelator ☛ How_Cities_Are_Preparing_for_the ‘Silent_Killer’_of_Extreme_Heat⠀⇛ o § Finance⠀➾ # ⚓ Central_Government:_22_Crore_Applied,_7_Lakh_got_Jobs,_9 Lakh_Posts_Still_Vacant_|_NewsClick⠀⇛ Two questions asked recently in Parliament elicited answers from the government that reveal the horrendous state of jobs and vacancies in the Central government. # ⚓ Reuters ☛ OnlyFans_should_pay_UK_VAT_on_full_amount_paid_by subscribers,_EU_court_adviser_says⠀⇛ OnlyFans operator Fenix took its grievance to a UK tribunal after UK tax authorities ordered it to pay VAT on all the money paid by fans, not just the 20% it took from creators for services such as collecting and distributing fees. # ⚓ Comments_on_ECJ_C-695/20_(AG_Opinion):_OnlyFans_should_fork out_more_UK_VAT_for_its_subscribers,_EU_advises⠀⇛ OnlyFans has been told by EU court advisors that it may need to fork out VAT on the full amount paid by subscribers, not just a discounted sum. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Biden’s_Student_Debt_Relief_to_Cost_a Fraction_of_US_Giveaways_to_the_Megarich_and_Pentagon⠀⇛ “The pandemic payment pause and student debt cancellation are policies that demonstrate how government can and should invest in working people, not the wealthy and billionaire corporations.” # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Corporations’_Price-Gouging_May_Hurt_Them_in_the Long_Run,_Says_Economist⠀⇛ o § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾ # ⚓ US Congress ☛ S.4913_–_Securing_Open_Source_Software_Act_of 2022,_117th_Congress_(2021-2022)⠀⇛ Latest Action: Senate – 09/21/2022 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. # ⚓ Peters_and_Portman_Introduce_Bipartisan_Legislation_to_Help Secure_Open_Source_Software⠀⇛ “This important legislation will, for the first time ever, codify open source software as public infrastructure,” said Trey Herr, Director, Cyber Statecraft Initiative, Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security, the Atlantic Council. “If signed into law, it would serve as a historic step for wider federal support for the health and security of open source software. I am encouraged by the leadership of Senators Peters and Portman on this issue.” The overwhelming majority of computers in the world rely on open source code – freely available code that anyone can contribute to, develop, and use to create websites, applications, and more. It is maintained by a community of individuals and organizations. The federal government, one of the largest users of open source software in the world, must be able to manage its own risk and also help support the security of open source software in the private sector and the rest of the public sector. # ⚓ Bipartisan_open_source_security_legislation_introduced_in Senate⠀⇛ Legislation seeking to address open source software risks in government has been introduced by Sens. Gary Peters, D-Mich., and Rob Portman, R-Ohio, according to The Record, a news site by cybersecurity firm Recorded Future. # ⚓ The Record ☛ Log4j:_Senators_introduce_bill_centered_on CISA_open_source_security_efforts⠀⇛ The Securing Open Source Software Act — sponsored by Senators Gary Peters (D-Mich.) and Rob Portman (R-Ohio) — would require the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) to create a “risk framework” around the use of open source code within the government and critical infrastructure agency. CISA would need to find ways to “mitigate risks in systems that use open source software” as well as hire experienced open source experts to address issues like Log4j. The bill also requires the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to publish guidance for agencies about how to use open source software securely. # ⚓ The Nation ☛ NPR’s_Nina_Totenberg,_Friend_of_the Reactionary_Court⠀⇛ Totenberg is often denounced by conservatives as a liberal partisan, but in some ways she’s the best friend the newly empowered reactionary court has. Her humanizing stories about how much fun judges like Scalia are once you get to know them provide essential cover for the court. More and more Americans have begun to realize that the judiciary is hostile to their basic rights—indeed, an enemy. Totenberg is on hand to say, no, the justices are our friends. Or, at the very least, her friends. # ⚓ NBC ☛ Putin_grants_Russian_citizenship_to_U.S. whistleblower_Edward_Snowden⠀⇛ Among Snowden’s revelations were the NSA’s bulk collection of phone and [Internet] metadata from U.S. users, its spying on the personal communications of foreign leaders, including U.S. allies, and its ability to tap undersea fiber optic cables and siphon off data. # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Subreddit_Discriminates_Against_Anyone_Who Doesn’t_Call_Texas_Governor_Greg_Abbott_‘A_Little_Piss_Baby’ To_Highlight_Absurdity_Of_Content_Moderation_Law⠀⇛ Last year, I tried to create a “test suite” of websites that any new internet regulation ought to be “tested” against. The idea was that regulators were so obsessively focused on the biggest of the big guys (i.e., Google, Meta) that they never bothered to realize how it might impact other decently large websites that involved totally different setups and processes. For example, it’s often quite impossible to figure out how a regulation about Google and Facebook content moderation would work on sites like Wikipedia, Github, Discord, or Reddit. # ⚓ The Nation ☛ Trump’s_Hate-Fest_in_North_Carolina_Reflects His_Hold_on_the_GOP_Base⠀⇛ There was a little bit of welcome political news for defenders of democracy in the New York Times/ Siena College poll released late last week. More than half of all Americans believe Donald Trump has threatened democracy by pushing the big lie that he defeated Joe Biden in 2020. A majority also believe Trump has committed serious federal crimes and hold an unfavorable opinion of the twice-impeached former president. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Boebert,_MTG_Among_US_Republicans Celebrating_Fascist_Victory_in_Italy⠀⇛ Pointing happily to the far-right’s recent electoral surge in Sweden, U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) tweeted that “the entire world is beginning to understand that the Woke Left does nothing but destroy.” # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Germany’s_Government_Continues_To_Lock_People_Up For_Being_Extremely_Online⠀⇛ Germany’s uncomfortable relationship with free speech continues. The country has always been sensitive about certain subjects (rhymes with Bitler and, um, Yahtzee), resulting in laws that suppress speech referring to these subjects, apparently in hopes of preventing a Fourth Reich from taking hold. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ ‘Immortal_love’_and_heirloom_real_estate_Team Navalny_exposes_the_secret_wealth_of_Gen._Alexey_Sedov,_head of_the_FSB’s_Second_Service_—_Meduza⠀⇛ Gen. Alexey Sedov, the current head of FSB’s Second Service, tasked with “the defense of constitutional government and countering terrorism,” is worth a billion rubles (or $17.2 million), according to “The FSB’s Bandit-in-Chief,” a new investigation published by Navalny Live on YouTube. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ ‘Blame_the_West_and_scapegoat_the_commissars’:_The Kremlin’s_latest_propaganda_guide_(mobilization_edition)_— Meduza⠀⇛ # ⚓ Meduza ☛ In_Dagestan,_locals_fight_police_on_day_two_of mass_protests_against_mobilization_—_Meduza⠀⇛ Extremely heated mass protests against mobilization continue in Dagestan. The capital city of Makhachkala and another city, Khasavyurt, are now in the second day of protesting the draft imposed on the region by Russian federal authorities, under last week’s presidential decree. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Unwilling_would-be_conscript_set_himself_on_fire in_Ryazan_—_Meduza⠀⇛ A Ryazan man attempted to burn himself alive on Sunday, Sept. 25, at Ryazan’s central bus terminal, reports the local news channel, YA62. # ⚓ Telex (Hungary) ☛ Communication_between_Orbán_and_Meloni more_intensive_than_the_usual_diplomatic_formulas_–_PM’s press_office⠀⇛ # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Sinema_Calls_for_Restoring_60-Vote Filibuster_for_Senate_Confirmations⠀⇛ “Not only am I committed to the 60-vote threshold, I have an incredibly unpopular view,” Sinema said at a lecture hosted by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), the lawmaker who bears arguably the most responsibility for accelerating the use of the filibuster to thwart the will of the majority. “I actually think we should restore the 60-vote threshold for the areas in which it has been eliminated already. We should restore it.” # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Sinema_Says_Filibuster_Should_Be_Expanded_to Make_It_Harder_to_Confirm_Judges⠀⇛ # ⚓ The Nation ☛ The_Rechazo—Why_Chileans_Rejected_a_New Constitution⠀⇛ How is it possible that in October 2020, almost 80 percent of Chileans expressed their support for a new Constitution, drafted by citizens specifically elected to write it—but after a year of concerted effort to arrive at a modern charter, 62 percent of voters rejected it in a referendum held earlier this month? # ⚓ The Nation ☛ Let’s_Talk_About_Ron_DeSantis’s_“Reason”_for Kidnapping_Migrants⠀⇛ Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’s excuse for kidnapping Venezuelan immigrants and sending them to Martha’s Vineyard is certifiably ludicrous. Yet most people haven’t heard his attempted defense, either for the kidnapping charge or for the circumstances that led him to send lawful asylum seekers to the Massachusetts island. The corporate both-sides media has largely buried his lies and excuses, instead using this situation to launch another debate about the immigration system in this country—which is what Republicans want us to focus on. They certainly don’t want us talking about their revocation of reproductive rights or cultish support of a former president who is being investigated for espionage. # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ GOP_Representatives_Boebert_and_Greene_Are Celebrating_Fascism’s_Win_in_Italy⠀⇛ # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Opinion_|_The_Terrifying_Future_in_Which_We Return_to_a_Past_Too_Warm_for_Antarctica’s_Ice_Shelves⠀⇛ So as a historian, I am particularly interested in what the past tells us about the present. I’ve taught courses on climate change in history. But of course my kind of history doesn’t go back very far from the point of view of physical scientists. The academic discipline of “history” is really the history of humanity since the invention of writing. Even for the world history textbook at Cambridge in which I was involved I doubt we cited any document older than 4,000 years. Writing systems emerged in what is now Iraq around 5,200 years ago. Excitingly enough, scientists reconstructing the history of the earth before humans evolved have developed tools to do so that are increasingly precise. # ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ What_American_and_Iranian_Theocrats_Have_in Common⠀⇛ Juan Cole compares extremists in both countries and their attempts to control women’s bodies. # ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Meet_Our_New_‘Secretary_of_State’_…_Nancy Pelosi⠀⇛ The Speaker of the House’s recent trips to Armenia and Taiwan spell confusion for the future of US foreign policy. # § Misinformation/Disinformation/Propaganda⠀➾ # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Where_Online_Hate_Speech_Can_Bring the_Police_to_Your_Door⠀⇛ They told him that his 51-year-old father was accused of violating laws against online hate speech, insults and misinformation. He had shared an image on Facebook with an inflammatory statement about immigration falsely attributed to a German politician. “Just because someone rapes, robs or is a serious criminal is not a reason for deportation,” the fake remark said. The police then scoured the home for about 30 minutes, seizing a laptop and tablet as evidence, prosecutors said. At that exact moment in March, a similar scene was playing out at about 100 other homes across Germany, part of a coordinated nationwide crackdown that continues to this day. After sharing images circulating on Facebook that carried a fake statement, the perpetrators had devices confiscated and some were fined. # ⚓ Variety ☛ How_TikTok_Is_Influencing_Music_Trends⠀⇛ The scale of how TikTok is shaking up entertainment is apparent when looking at where consumers rank it against other formats. Around half of those aged between 15 and 29 ranked it as one of their top 3 most entertaining sources, with a quarter of 30- 44s doing so. The need for media planners and creators to adapt and include TikTok-centric content in their strategies is clear, as to not forego access to audiences. # ⚓ ABC ☛ Why_Misinformation_Spreads_So_Quickly_On_Social Media⠀⇛ What effect is social media having on our politics and, for that matter, society more broadly? According to critics, we’re living through an unregulated era of social media that will one day look as quaint as tobacco in its pre-regulation era. o § Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾ # ⚓ RFA ☛ HRW_calls_for_independent_investigation_into Vietnamese_dissident’s_beating⠀⇛ Human Rights Watch (HRW) is calling on Vietnamese authorities to investigate allegations of the beating and shackling of prisoner of conscience Trinh Ba Tu. # ⚓ Project Censored ☛ Banned_in_the_USA⠀⇛ In Spring 2022, PEN America published findings from its first ever Index of School Book Bans, a comprehensive count of more than 1,500 instances of individual books banned by some 86 school districts in 26 states, between July 2021 and March 2022, impacting more than two million students. The ALA’s Office for Intellectual Freedom reported fielding 729 book challenges in 2021 alone, targeting nearly 1,600 titles at schools and universities. Both organizations clearly state that the number of reports received are only a fraction of the challenges and potential bans that occur, many of which result in books being removed from shelves, in breach of existing policies, without fanfare or public knowledge, and often under a cloud of fear among librarians, faculty, and staff. # ⚓ Quartz ☛ Book_bans_are_spiking_in_the_US._Here_are_the_most targeted_titles⠀⇛ So far this year, ALA has tracked efforts to ban or restrict 1,651 titles, up from 729 in all of 2021. It’s the highest annual number since it started collecting data years ago. # ⚓ Business Insider ☛ Girls_Who_Code_founder_speaks_out_after Pennsylvania_school_district_bans_her_books:_‘This_is_about controlling_women_and_it_starts_with_controlling_our_girls’⠀⇛ Moms for Liberty did not immediately respond to Insider’s request to comment on the ban. # ⚓ The Register UK ☛ Girls_Who_Code_book_series_banned_in_some US_classrooms⠀⇛ The Register reached out to Girls Who Code, Moms for Liberty, and Pennsylvania’s Central York School District to better understand the offending content within the series, but did not immediately receive a response. # ⚓ Newsweek ☛ ‘Handmaid’s_Tale,’_‘Girls_Who_Code’_and_Other Books_Just_Banned_in_the_U.S.⠀⇛ Some of the biggest titles in classic and modern literature have been banned in schools and libraries around the United States, including The Handmaid’s Tale, Girls Who Code, and more. # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Conservatives_Loved_Expanding_The_1st_Amendment To_Corporations…_Until_Last_Year._Wonder_Why?⠀⇛ Right after the 5th Circuit’s ruling on Texas’ HB 20 law on content moderation came out, I wrote up a long post going through the many, many oddities (and just flat out mistakes) of the ruling. # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Disinvestment_Poses_as_Great_a_Threat_to Libraries_as_Book_Bans⠀⇛ # ⚓ AccessNow ☛ Joint_statement:_civil_society_welcomes independent_human_rights_assessment_on_Meta’s_content moderation_in_Palestine_and_Israel_–_Access_Now⠀⇛ We, the undersigned human rights organizations, commend the publication of Business for Social Responsibility’s (BSR) Human Rights Due Diligence Report of Arabic and Hebrew content on Meta’s platforms in the Israel/Palestine context in May 2021. For years, digital and human rights organizations have been calling for an independent review of Meta’s content moderation policies. These calls came as a result of Meta’s constant and deliberate actions to censor the voices and narrative of Palestinians and those in solidarity with them. Thus, denying Palestinians their right to freedom of expression, affecting their freedom of assembly and freedom to political participation and non-discrimination and further distorting the international community’s understanding of what is happening in Palestine. We appreciate and value BSR’s efforts and professionalism through their assessment and independent review. We especially acknowledge their engagement with local, regional and international stakeholders and right-holders throughout the process. Launching this due diligence report is a step in the right direction. importantly, we look forward to Meta’s unequivocal commitment to implementing the recommendations of this report. More generally, we urge Meta to take decisive action to protect the voices of Palestinians among other oppressed peoples and groups around the world. # ⚓ AccessNow ☛ Meta’s_actions_“adversely_impacted” Palestinians’_rights:_Access_Now_welcomes_BSR_findings⠀⇛ Access Now and other civil society organizations welcome the release of the long-awaited Business for Social Responsibility’s (BSR) human rights due diligence (HRDD) findings that expose Meta’s rights-violating and biased actions against people in Palestine. The HRDD, commissioned by Meta and led by BSR in September 2021, assessed the human rights impacts of Meta’s content moderation policies and practices during the escalation of violence in Palestine and Israel in May 2021. It ​​identifies a variety of adverse human rights impacts for Meta to address, including on the rights of Palestinians to freedom of expression. “We’ve long known that Meta’s censorship of Palestinian content is fundamentally biased. Now we have the receipts to prove it,” said Marwa Fatafta, MENA Policy and Advocacy Manager at Access Now. “BSR’s findings expose Meta’s actions have violated the rights of people in Palestine. The key question now is will the company immediately remedy its harms, or will it prove to the world it not only doesn’t care, but is actively, decidedly facilitating online apartheid?” Since May 2021, Access Now and partner civil society organizations have called for an independent review of Meta’s content moderation policies around Palestine and Israel. Now, BSR’s findings confirm that Meta’s policies and practices are biased and have negatively impacted Palestinian and Arabic-speaking people who use the company’s platforms. # ⚓ dwaves.de ☛ Shutdown_of_Peertube.co.uk_–_one_after_another indie_video_hosting_site⠀⇛ increasingly harsher rules and regulations [...] so this is it? another video hosting (besides youtube) site shutting down? Predict the shutdown of vimeo.com. Because their model (probably) won’t fly as far as the constant advertisement streams of Alphabet’s Google’s Youtube (they are testing up to 10x advertisement clips in front of every video… which is just sick & insane) # ⚓ Shutdown_of_Peertube.co.uk⠀⇛ [...] Additionally, the proposed UK Online Safety Bill, if enacted, will make it almost impossible to host a site such as Peertube in the UK. This bill makes publishers, with the exception of large media companies, liable for the content hosted on their platform… [...] New signups are now disabled, and new uploads will be disabled on 1st September 2022. I will continue to host the service until 30th September 2022 to give everyone a chance to migrate their content to an alternative service. I will not be looking to hand over the service to another host – my belief is that the federation model allows you to choose who hosts your data, and it would be unethical for me to just hand over the reins to a third party without your consent.” o § Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press⠀➾ # ⚓ The Nation ☛ Preserving_the_Memory_of_Murdered_Journalists in_Mexico⠀⇛ El Tejar, Medellín de Bravo, Veracruz, Mexico—In late May, a baby slept in a hammock as his family tended to customers at the storefront on the ground floor of their home. A wheelbarrow full of mangos sat to one side. This is where Jorge Sánchez Ordóñez, 36, does most of his journalism. It’s also the house from which his father was kidnapped seven years ago. The home looks more imposing now than it did then. After the abduction, workers for the Federal Mechanism for the Protection of Human Rights Workers and Journalists installed security cameras and a metal fence crowned with barbed wire. # ⚓ The Dissenter ☛ Poll:_Most_US,_UK_Adults_Know_Nothing_About Files_That_Assange_Is_Charged_With_Publishing⠀⇛ o § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾ # ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Chinese_anthem_booed_at_Hong_Kong football_match,_as_police_film_fans⠀⇛ Hong Kong football fans were heard booing China’s national anthem on Saturday at the first match open to spectators in the city since legislation outlawing the practice was passed more than two years ago. Supporters in Hong Kong have been barred from games for almost three years due to the coronavirus pandemic, but boos at the anthem were previously heard in the stands as huge, sometimes violent pro- democracy protests swept the city in 2019. # ⚓ VOA News ☛ Iran_Protests_Flare_for_10th_Night_as_Tensions With_West_Grow⠀⇛ “Woman, Life, Freedom!” the crowds have chanted as female protesters have defiantly burnt their hijabs in bonfires and blazing rubbish dumpsters — a rallying cry that has been echoed at solidarity protests worldwide, including in London and Paris at the weekend. Iranian riot police in black body armor have beaten protesters with truncheons in running street battles, and students have torn down large pictures of the supreme leader and his predecessor Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomenei, in recent video footage published by AFP. # ⚓ The Economist ☛ Iran’s_rebellion_spreads,_despite_lethal repression⠀⇛ The government has taken a familiar tack. It calls the unrest a foreign plot co-ordinated by America, Israel and other such evil places (it is not). It organised counter-protests, some with the desultory look of rent-a-crowds. And it has choked the [Internet], making it hard for Iranians to access social media, vpns and WhatsApp—anything they could use to communicate with each other or the world. Worried Iranians in the diaspora are struggling to contact relatives inside the country. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Poet_Artem_Kamardin_beaten_and_raped_by_Russian police_—_Meduza⠀⇛ Activist and poet Artem Kamardin has been beaten and raped by Moscow police, Novaya Gazeta Europe reported on Monday. # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Appeals_Court_Bizarrely_Redacts_Qualified Immunity_Decision_To_Hide_How_Compliant_The_Plaintiff_Was⠀⇛ This is truly strange. The DC Circuit Court of Appeals somehow decided it was a good idea to redact its decision finding (partially) in favor of a person whose rights were violated by DC Metro police officers. What could have been a straightforward recognition that cops exceeded their boundaries was, at least temporarily, presented misleadingly, thanks to the government’s desire to hide this information. # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Giorgia_Meloni_and_the_Return_of_Fascism_to Italy⠀⇛ Berlusconi takes a revisionist view of Mussolini’s role in Italian history. He believed him to be one of Italy’s “greatest statesmen” and an essentially “benign dictator” who had “done good things for Italy”. This provided a counter-narrative that contradicted the reality of the Italian republic’s anti-fascist foundations. That, in turn, was exploited by the far right. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Opinion_|_Giorgia_Meloni’s_Anti-Women Politics_and_the_Future_of_Italy⠀⇛ Italy’s far-Right Brothers of Italy party looks to have taken the largest share of the votes in the country’s general election—with its leader, Giorgia Meloni, set to become Italy’s first female prime minister. # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Fascist_Victory_in_Italy_Signals_Rise_of “Transnational”_Far_Right_Across_Europe⠀⇛ # ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Chris_Hedges:_The_Return_of_Fascism⠀⇛ As in the 1930s, a bankrupt liberalism, grotesque social inequality and declining living standards are empowering fascist movements in Europe and the U.S. # ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ California’s_Dependency_on_Prison_Labor_for Fighting_Fires_Must_End⠀⇛ Incarcerated firefighters face much higher rates of injury than professional firefighters, and are largely unable to negotiate the conditions of their work. Still, California continues to depend on prison labor to fight fires. # ⚓ Pro Publica ☛ Why_Are_So_Many_People_Now_Embracing Demagogues?⠀⇛ To try to understand what, exactly, is happening, I talked with Barbara Walter, a political scientist at the University of California San Diego who studies democracies across the world. Her book “How Civil Wars Start” has become a bestseller. Rather than talk about the prospects for political violence, we discussed why many democracies are retrenching and how the U.S. stands alone — and not in a good way. # ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ Fascism_Returns_in_Italy:_Giorgia_Meloni Claims_Victory,_Allied_with_Right-Wing_Parties_Across Europe⠀⇛ Italy’s first far-right leader since Benito Mussolini, Giorgia Meloni, has declared victory. Her Brothers of Italy party is allied with Spain’s far-right Vox party, Poland’s ruling nationalist Law and Justice party and the Sweden Democrats party, which emerged out of its neo-Nazi movement. We look at “the return of fascism in Italy” with professor Ruth Ben-Ghiat, author of “Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present,” who says that Meloni, a self-declared conservative, “really sees her party as carrying the heritage of fascism into today.” Ben-Ghiat also describes why Meloni is part of a “transnational design” to create a far-right political culture across Europe. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Led_by_Giorgia_Meloni,_Fascists_Set_to_Take Power_in_Italy_for_First_Time_Since_Mussolini⠀⇛ The alliance of Meloni’s party, Matteo Salvini’s The League, and former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi’s Forza Italia won roughly 43% of the vote in early tallies, with Brothers of Italy winning around 25% in the low-turnout contest. Results counted thus far indicate that the right- wing coalition failed to garner enough support to amend Italy’s constitution. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ In_‘Unprecedented_Democratic_Exercise,’ Cubans_Approve_Inclusive_Family_Code⠀⇛ With 74% of eligible voters turning out to cast ballots, more than two-thirds of votes—nearly four million people—were in favor of the Family Code. Just 50% of “yes” votes were needed to pass the referendum. # ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Fascists_Set_to_Take_Power_in_Italy_for_First Time_Since_Mussolini⠀⇛ “Italians must now repeat what their ancestors once did: defeat fascism,” said the progressive movement DiEM25. “But not for the return of the politics-as- usual that brought the f… # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Opinion_|_We_Have_Seen_This_Movie_Before: The_Fascists_Have_Arrived⠀⇛ Energy and food bills are soaring. Under the onslaught of inflation and prolonged wage stagnation, wages are in free fall. Billions of dollars are diverted by Western nations at a time of economic crisis and staggering income inequality to fund a proxy war in Ukraine. The liberal class, terrified by the rise of neo-fascism and demagogues such as Donald Trump, have thrown in their lot with discredited and reviled establishment politicians who slavishly do the bidding of the war industry, oligarchs, and corporations. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Opinion_|_Introducing_Giorgia_Meloni:_How the_United_States_Opened_the_Door_for_Fascism’s_Return_to Italy⠀⇛ The Italian Parliamentary election has concluded and the neofascist Giorgia Meloni is ready to emerge as the new prime minister of a divided country with no clear mandate from around 60 percent of eligible voters, in one of the lower voter turnouts in history. The choices were quite grim and the system rigged along the lines of the anti-democratic US election model after years of neoliberal forces working to create a bipolar schizophrenic and easily destabilized political system. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ ‘Huge_Victory’:_Starbucks_Agrees_to_Begin Contract_Talks_With_230+_Union_Stores⠀⇛ “It’s no secret that Starbucks has been delaying negotiations and avoiding bargaining sessions.” # ⚓ The Nation ☛ Bad_Fetus⠀⇛ # ⚓ The Nation ☛ A_Homeland_in_the_World⠀⇛ They say dozens of women, that day in Cairo, threw themselves from balconies in grief. They say millions attended his funeral. His cheekbones, they say—his satin mouth. They say he was secretly married, secretly gay; that he was always suffering. In his late concerts, they say you could hear the whisper of death in his great shallow sea of a voice. Some say his voice wasn’t all that great, but no one could match him for feeling. They say it was the Nile that killed him.1 # ⚓ AccessNow ☛ Open_letter_to_the_ITFlows_Consortium:_stop tech_tools_for_predicting_migration_that_can_be_repurposed_to violate_fundamental_rights_–_Access_Now⠀⇛ We, the undersigned civil society organisations and individuals, call on the Consortium to immediately halt the use of EUMigraTool and stop pursuing the use of any and all technologies that can be used in securitisating migration, and criminalising movement and solidarity with people on the move. We are alarmed by the potential, and probable, misuse of the forecasting tool — designed to ‘predict migration flows’ and ‘detect risks of tensions related to migration’ — by authorities to interdict border crossings. Furthermore, the project itself has the power to legitimise the notion that it is possible to predict migration without risking fundamental rights — it is not. o § Internet Policy/Net Neutrality⠀➾ # ⚓ IT Wire ☛ iTWire_–_TPG_Telecom_to_switch_off_3G_services_in December_2023⠀⇛ Australian telecommunications provider TPG Telecom will switch off its 3G network on 15 December 2023. In a statement released on Tuesday, the company said it was making the announcement more than a year ahead of the cutoff date so that customers would have time to move to 4G or 5G mobile services. Less than one percent of the carrier’s mobile traffic traverses its 3G network. # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ The_FCC_Finally_Starts_Taking_Space_Junk Seriously⠀⇛ While technologies like low orbit satellite can help shore up broadband access, they come with their own additional challenges. One being that services like Space X’s Starlink have cause potentially unavoidable light pollution, harming scientific research. The other being the exponential growth in space detritus, aka space junk, that will make space navigation increasingly difficult. o § Monopolies⠀➾ # § Software Patents⠀➾ # ⚓ TechSpot ☛ Project_Caviar:_Google_is_promoting_new royalty-free_audio_and_video_codecs⠀⇛ Project Caviar involves the already established Alliance for Open Media, a partnership between some of the most important technology and media companies (Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, Meta, Netflix, Nvidia, Samsung) and Google itself, promoting the adoption of open source and royalty-free audio-video codecs like AV1. # ⚓ Protocol ☛ Why_Google_is_pushing_for_open_media formats⠀⇛ Project Caviar is based on HDR10+ for video and the Alliance for Open Media’s Immersive Audio Container format for 3D audio. Google wants to strengthen both those efforts with a new umbrella brand that can better compete with Dolby’s branding. The company is looking to establish a dedicated implementer’s forum to get streaming services and hardware makers to adopt the formats and brand. # ⚓ Google’s_leaked_“Project_Caviar”_may_lead_to_royalty- free_alternatives_of_Dolby_Atmos_and_Dolby_Vision⠀⇛ Dolby charges manufacturers mere dollars for brands to pile on Dolby Atmos and Dolby Vision onto consumer products and earns the bulk of its moolah via playbacks, which helps ensure that the Dolby formats are widely accepted. # ⚓ 9to5Google ☛ Report:_Google_wants_open,_royalty-free alternative_to_Dolby_Atmos_and_Vision⠀⇛ This comes as spatial audio is marketed (see: Apple Music and Dolby Atmos) as the next big thing in music, while the video side of Google’s format push is aimed at letting end users “capture in these premium formats and get better-quality video.” Today, Dolby charges a license fee to device makers that want to add Atmos and Vision support, which is increasingly advertised by streaming services as a premium feature. For example: [...] # § Copyrights⠀➾ # ⚓ Torrent Freak ☛ U.S._Copyright_Groups_Are_Concerned About_Russia’s_Handling_of_Online_Piracy⠀⇛ With its invasion of Ukraine, Russia ignited a regional conflict with global repercussions. Thousands of lives have been lost and many more ruined. In response, many U.S. entertainment industry companies took a stand by ceasing their Russian operations. Through the IIPA, many of the same companies now want to urge Russia to keep online piracy in check. * § Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾ o § Personal⠀➾ # ⚓ Anyone_Worth_a_Hunk_of_Stepping_Stone⠀⇛ Which song was singing in my head as I awakened prematurely a bit before six? *Ragamuffin Dumplin’* by The Stalk Forrest Group. What song shall I listen to when the album containing the song that was singing in my head as I awakened prematurely a bit before six is successfully transferred from the Fairphone to *Myx Nulu*? That’d be *Ragamuffin Dumplin’* by the Stalk Forrest Group. I’ll even send it via Telegram to Christian so he can ignore it but without fail joke, jest or assume that I am **drunk**! What a morning it will be! The early waking was inspired by a quantities of figs (*higos* y *brevas*) that I ate yesterevening. I am aware that my body doesn’t deal with any sort of sugary substance well, and especially doesn’t deal with any sort of sugary substance in the evening. By *not dealing well*, I mean that I am awakened frequently by the need to urinate and thirst, not to mention bizarre sensations throughout my living corpse. Over the last year, I’ve had numerous tests performed. I’m apparently free of any blood-borne evidence that I have diabetes. No allergy afflicts me. Next I shall visit a so-called *internista* to verify that one, seven or all of my organs are failing. What excitement! I’ll tip my hat (which I need to search for, for I fear it lost!) at the idea of failing organs. Of course, most of them will be replaced by mechanized replicas as I extend my life into a droll immortality, as it should be. Hey, vole – **anything** just to be around for the Heat Death of the Universe. o ⚓ Linux Handbook ☛ Everything_You_Important_You_Should_Know_About the_known_hosts_file_in_Linux⠀⇛ If you look into the .ssh folder in your home directory, you’ll see a known_hosts file among other files. o § Technical⠀➾ # ⚓ ROOPHLOCH_’22⠀⇛ I’m typing this from an old blackberry phone, wifi tethered to my actual phone. And I’m logged into the republic on ssh, on an Android app called Connectbot, which this blackberry can run okay. Through ssh I can use emacs on the republic like I normally do. But there is no meta alt key on this connectbot, so I had to learn some other ways of invoking my favorite commands. That’s kind of some learning, I guess. # ⚓ Outvoted⠀⇛ So without going into too much detail, there was a disagreement about the implementation of a feature at The Enterprise. The “feature” is just marking a particular type of account and having the ability to test it. At first, it was a disagreement between two people, one who wanted the feature supported, and the other who didn’t, and the one who didn’t want the feature implemented won by being more stubborn. # ⚓ gemini://arcanesciences.com/gemlog/22-09-26/⠀⇛ As you may have seen elsewhere, I wrote a silly thing called Let’s Play OS 2200 on the HTTP version of this site, and it got some attention. At first I was happy to see people were enjoying it, but the last day or so have been rough; in particular, some of the feedback on comp.sys.unisys has accused me of attempting to smear OS 2200′s good name, which is very strange, since I love OS 2200 and have been clear about it. Whatever. It is what it is. I just don’t have the energy to engage, and maybe I shouldn’t have been so confident about something so far out of my lane. I never intended to upset anyone – I had really hoped people would enjoy what I wrote. I don’t know if I’ll continue the project. # § Science⠀➾ # ⚓ ACM ☛ Neurosymbolic_AI⠀⇛ The ongoing revolution in artificial intelligence (AI)—in image recognition, natural language processing and translation, and much more—has been driven by neural networks, specifically many-layer versions known as deep learning. These systems have well-known weaknesses, but their capability continues to grow, even as they demand ever more data and energy. At the same time, other critical applications need much more than just powerful pattern recognition, and deep learning does not provide the sorts of performance guarantees that are customary in computer science. # ⚓ SCMP ☛ Smart_mask_could_be_an_early_warning_system_to prevent_outbreaks_of_respiratory_diseases⠀⇛ Chinese team develops wearable bioelectric mask that can sniff out diseases such as Covid-19 and influenza # ⚓ TechXplore ☛ X-rays,_AI_and_3D_printing_bring_lost Van_Gogh_artwork_to_life⠀⇛ Using X-rays, artificial intelligence and 3D printing, two UCL researchers reproduced a “lost” work of art by renowned Dutch painter Vincent Van Gogh, 135 years after he painted over it. Ph.D. researchers Anthony Bourached (UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology) and George Cann (UCL Space and Climate Physics), working with artist Jesper Eriksson, used cutting edge technology to recreate a long- concealed Van Gogh painting. It’s the latest in their “NeoMasters” series of recreations, a project they’ve been working on since 2019 to bring lost works of art to life. They developed a process to recreate lost works that uses X-ray imaging to see through every layer of paint, AI to extrapolate the artist’s style, and 3D printing to fabricate the final piece. This newest effort, dubbed “The Two Wrestlers,” depicts two shirtless wrestlers grappling in front of an abstract background. It recreates a painting originally by Van Gogh who covered over the two figures when he reused the canvas for an unrelated painting of flowers. =============================================================================== * Gemini_(Primer) links can be opened using Gemini_software. It’s like the World Wide Web but a lot lighter. ╘══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╛ ¶ Lines in total: 6021 ➮ Generation completed at 02:47, i.e. 25 seconds to (re)generate ⟲