𝕿𝖊𝖈𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍𝖙𝖘 Bulletin for Sunday, November 06, 2022 ┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅ Generated Mon 7 Nov 02:43:05 GMT 2022 Created by Dr. Roy Schestowitz (𝚛𝚘𝚢 (at) 𝚜𝚌𝚑𝚎𝚜𝚝𝚘𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚣 (dot) 𝚌𝚘𝚖) Full hyperlinks for navigation omitted but are fully available in the originals The corresponding HTML versions are at 𝒕𝒆𝒄𝒉𝒓𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒔.𝒐𝒓𝒈 Latest in 𝒉𝒕𝒕𝒑://𝒕𝒆𝒄𝒉𝒓𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒔.𝒐𝒓𝒈/𝒕𝒙𝒕 and older bulletins can be found at 𝒉𝒕𝒕𝒑://𝒕𝒆𝒄𝒉𝒓𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒔.𝒐𝒓𝒈/𝒕𝒙𝒕-𝒂𝒓𝒄𝒉𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒔 Full IPFS index in 𝒉𝒕𝒕𝒑://𝒕𝒆𝒄𝒉𝒓𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒔.𝒐𝒓𝒈/𝒊𝒑𝒇𝒔 and as plain text in 𝒉𝒕𝒕𝒑://𝒕𝒆𝒄𝒉𝒓𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒔.𝒐𝒓𝒈/𝒊𝒑𝒇𝒔/𝒕𝒙𝒕 Gemini index for the day: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2022/11/06/ ╒═══════════════════ 𝐑𝐄𝐂𝐄𝐍𝐓 𝐁𝐔𝐋𝐋𝐄𝐓𝐈𝐍𝐒 ════════════════════════════════════╕ Previous bulletins in IPFS (past 21 days, in chronological order): QmV2MXBi3SZKoVRsy5rrvEwJJ2S9T5pKs5B6Ravu4xXApS QmSZzkk2vvg7T5pLZayi713tGeNgvw8o1pX2K38PrthWaz QmXiY6pc7Wic9TMGYJRv1DHHFXZi8qAmMS1GDp97S7KkZL QmQpbKVNQYKS8GikXcbjhn6Pd8QBKST3j18Pt4SWqQ77uE QmesBe7gFXumwSLqLnvSqdg4VAYdzac9DHiRXiAcvcSCZK 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(while telling staff that he is “the F**king President”, demonstrating very weak leadership skills) 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇trumpinos⦈_ Guess who wants another 4 (or 5) years in power… ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣀⣀⣀⣀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣠⣤⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣶⣄⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣀⣠⣴⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢠⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣶⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⣰⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⢐⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⢹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ 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Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ The_European_Union’s_Unspoken-About_Blunder:_EPO_(Patent-Granting_Office) Coup_and_Ongoing_Coup_Against_Patent_Courts⠀✐ Posted in Europe, Law, Patents at 7:29 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz Video_download_link | md5sum b84d35a08a7dc4bb537710b6cea80ec1 Rectifying Lawlessness at EPO Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 4.0 http://techrights.org/videos/suepo-on-patent-quality-and-epc.webm Summary: The EPO‘s “f*cking president” António_Campinos (he actually referred to himself as “the f*cking president”) is going to face more and more challenges as scrutiny from outside the patent microcosm becomes inevitable if not imminent The “patent microcosm” — an old term that refers to self-serving groups with no consideration or any regard/respect to “externalities” – is dominating the EPO and the overseeing body (mostly_representatives_of_national_patent_offices, but not of nation states) must be challenged. The UPC lobby and the people who hijacked the EPO (overlapping groups) make people’s lives miserable, both inside the EPO and outside the EPO. The same people who hijacked the EPO (large corporrations and international law firms) try to do to patent courts what they did to Europe’s largest patent office, but that aspect shall be covered in the next post and today’s final video. We’ve sadly not spent much time lately covering EPO scandals or even the lack of UPC progress. It’s mostly a matter of prioritising based on urgency. It has been about 3 weeks since we last_covered_EPO_staff_affairs except more minor aspects. The above video talks about this_petition, which was brought up again some days ago in light of the union communicating “upwards”, seeking to get member states to intervene and disrupt EPO corruption (such as the violations of the EPC, resulting in European_software_patents among other monstrosities). Some days ago the following message was circulated among examiners (for the most part): § Strong support for the petition to the Administrative Council to call for a Conference of Ministers of the Contracting States under Article 4a EPC⠀➾ Dear Colleagues, In total 1016 EPO staff members support the petition to the Administrative Council to call for a Conference of Ministers of the Contracting States under Article 4a EPC. We would like to express our sincere thanks to all the signatories for their clear support. This strong signal has been sent to the Chairperson and to the Heads of Delegations of the Administrative Council in an open letter. It is now up to the Administrative Council to ensure that the conference is convened as soon as possible. We will continue to monitor the progress of the issue and will keep you informed of further developments in a timely manner. Your SUEPO Central Bureau SUEPO is well aware that the Chairperson is pretty much in the pocket of Campinos. Nothing will be done by the Chairperson unless his own job is at risk; but this is what happens when the “patent microcosm” is being put in charge of the “patent microcosm”. Heck, maybe he’ll get a high-paying job at the EPO later on (like Dr. Ernst, his predecessor). Here is the open letter to with annexes merged: (as discussed in the video at the top) INTERNATIONALE GEWERKSCHAFT IM EUROPÄISCHEN PATENTAMT STAFF UNION OF THE EUROPEAN PATENT OFFICE UNION SYNDICALE DE L’OFFICE EUROPEEN DES BREVETS Zentraler Vorstand Central Executive Committee Bureau central 21 October 2022 su22052cl – 0.3.1 – 5.3 To the Chairperson and to the Heads of Delegation of the Administrative Council of the European Patent Organisation SUEPO Central Executive Committee OPEN Letter To the members of the Administrative Council of the EPO Call for a Conference of Ministers of the Contracting States under Article 4a EPC Dear Mr Chairperson, Dear Heads of Delegation, In total 1016 EPO staff members support the following petition on a call for a Conference of Ministers of the Contracting States under Article 4a EPC and ask you to act accordingly: “We, staff members of the European Patent Office (EPO) and the signatories of this petition, perceive that the development of the European Patent Organization (EPOrg) has increasingly departed from the structure and its mission as foreseen under the EPC and it appears that no appropriate countermeasures will be taken. Therefore, we consider an external review of the EPO’s situation by a Conference of Ministers of the Contracting States under Article 4a EPC to be expedient; such a Conference is anyway long overdue in view of Article 4a EPC. ===================================================================== We call on you to have anew a close look: - at the development and administration of the organization’s resources, in particular the alarming reduction of staffing levels in the core tasks; - at the development of EPO employment law, at the (absence of) internal dialogue with social partners; and - at hidden attempts to de-centralize the EPO towards National Patent Offices and weaken the roles and competencies of the various organs defined under the EPC. We also call you to reflect on whether the strategic governance of the EPO is compatible with the long-term continuity of the Organization’s existence and with the future fulfilment of its mission, also in the context of its role in the Unitary Patent system. We ask you to transmit this petition to your Ministries in order to convene such Conference without delay.” Additional more detailed information can be found in the annexes to this letter. Yours sincerely, C. Lopes Chair of SUEPO The Hague I. Brumme Chair of SUEPO Munich T. Czogalla Chair of SUEPO Berlin J. Schaaf Chair of SUEPO Vienna Copy: President of the EPO, A. Campinos Attachment: Detailed information on the petition ===================================================================== 1 – 1 Date 30.09.2022 Update on the petition to the Members of the Administrative Council of the EPO to call for a Conference of Ministers of the Contracting States under Article 4a EPC When the petition was launched in June 2022, compelling reasons had already been published as to why such a Conference of Ministers of the Contracting States is necessary and, in fact, overdue. Since then, more events have occurred that speak for such an external review of the organisation and thus for the support of the petition, which are: - The production demands for examiners are to be increased – increases of up to 10% are in the air – and this despite the fact that quality has fallen further; - The office’s practice concerning patentability of business methods under Article 52(2)(c) EPC has become unclear again; and - More embarrassing ILOAT Judgments showing the EPO’s violation of fundamental rights were issued three months ago and while implementation could be smooth and easy, it has yet to occur. In more detail: In the meantime it has been announced by senior managers and line managers that examiners will be required to produce more and that production pressure will be significantly increased for the coming year. This is even though staffing levels in core tasks are alarmingly low, examiner productivity is at its limits and at the same time the quality of issued patents has further deteriorated to below 75% compliance rate. In team meetings the figure of an increase of up to 10% of production has bee mentioned (see also the corresponding CSC publication 1). It seems that management no longer has any meaningful answers to manage the office’s workload. Concerning the assessment of patentability of business methods in substantive examination (Article 52(2)(c) EPC), a recently started debate illustrates that this issue still seems to be very unclear. A clear guidance at the level of the Contracting States of the EPC seems to be necessary. In early July the ILOAT issued inter-alia the Judgments no. 4550 and 4551, the latter clarifying that again the EPO has violated fundamental rights of staff freedom of association for roughly a decade. With the Judgment, the ILOAT lifted the presidential ban on Staff Committee sending mass emails to staff. However, even after repeated requests by the Staff Committee and SUEPO, the President has not yet removed his technical restrictions on Staff Representation in the office’s email system that were put in place to enforce the ban. Currently, it looks like the Office continues to refuse to comply with the court’s ruling and allows the illegal email ban to remain in place. It seems that the ILOAT will have to be called again in this matter, this time simply to obtain the enforcement of its judgment. Thus, not only has the fear that further embarrassing ILOAT Judgments will be issued against the organisation been confirmed, but it is compounded by the lack of willingness in the office leadership to recognise the highest court having jurisdiction over the organisation and to comply with the EPC. This procedure could put the existence of the organisation, and thus our own, in jeopardy. It is unclear whether the Administrative Council can or wants to put a stop to this. In view of the above, an external review of the situation of the EPO by the Contracting States has become even more urgent. This external review is claimed by the petitioners to the Members of the Administrative Council of the EPO to call for a Conference of Ministers of the Contracting States under Article 4a EPC. _____ 1 Open letter of the Central Staff Committee to the EPO President on the subject “Unsustainable productivity increase of +10% for 2023” dated 22.09.2022, =============================================================================== [Redacted: a letter previously published here] =============================================================================== [Redacted: a letter previously published here] =============================================================================== Detailed information on the PETITION To the Members of the Administrative Council of the EPO Call for a Conference of Ministers of the Contracting States under Article 4a EPC as launched by SUEPO Central in the EPO on 07.06.2022. We, staff members of the European Patent Office (EPO) and the signatories of this petition, perceive that the development of the European Patent Organization (EPOrg) has increasingly departed from the structure and its mission as foreseen under the EPC. It appears that the EPO is being more and more transformed into a profit center, which is – in our view – inappropriate for a public service with quasi- judicial bodies responsible for granting monopoly rights by sovereign acts, which have a wide impact on their owners, their competitors and on the public. The fact that almost all management decisions are made on the basis of financial figures calculated according to the accounting standards applicable to the private sector (IFRS) rather than to the public sector (IPSAS) has led to reforms focused on savings on the expense of staff and downsizing of staff in core business to an amount which endangers the good functioning of the EPO. Core tasks are evaluated increasingly more on a financial perspective, wherein internally a link between the number of patents granted and the financial health of the EPO is openly communicated. The EPO career system further adds to an individual preference for granting of a patent over refusing a patent application. Internal quality control mechanisms have been implemented, by which the President of the European Patent Office has increasingly assumed the position of an additional higher ranking, but hidden instance in the patent granting procedure above the Divisions defined pursuant to Articles 15, 18 and 19 EPC. This not only questions the authenticity and legal validity of the Division’s decisions but also leads to strong influence to quickly grant patents. While surveys among external “stakeholders” ran by the EPO appear to show a high quality of the EPO patents, internal audits disclose that since years more than 20% of the European Patents have severe deficiencies and shouldn’t have been granted. Backlogs in examination and search are increasing and it appears that for tackling the problems the current line management is tempted to return to outdated management approaches like “challenging people” measures and management “by fear”, which are unworthy of a modern organization like the EPO with highly qualified personnel. At the same time the EPO plans to reduce the staffing level in core tasks even further. This adds to current plans squaring with a large-scale decentralization of EPO tasks, including transfer of tasks to NPOs. Such significant amendments of the Organization’s structure fall outside the prerogatives of the President or the Administrative Council as defined in Articles 10 and 33 EPC. Furthermore, such a decentralization of EPO tasks would also affect the legal certainties of the validity of the patents granted by the EPO. Apart from that, virtually all reforms of employment law since 2013 have been legally challenged, a number of which were already considered as null and void by the ILOAT (see e.g. Judgments 4430 to 4435 or 4482) or even in breach of fundamental rights; no significant investments have been made for reviewing the other reforms at stake. The EPO has obviously been unable to develop and apply new policies in line with legal constraints as defined by the ILOAT, so that further embarrassing judgments are to be expected. All these issues have not been appropriately tackled due to the long-lasting failure of the EPO Administration to engage in a genuine social dialog with the staff representation and trade unions, who have drawn attention to them repeatedly to no avail. Therefore, we consider an external review of the EPO’s situation by a Conference of Ministers of the Contracting States under Article 4a EPC to be expedient; such a Conference is anyway long overdue in view of Article 4a EPC. We call on you to have anew a close look: - at the development and administration of the organization’s resources, in particular the alarming reduction of staffing levels in the core tasks; - at the development of EPO employment law, at the (absence of) internal dialogue with social partners; and - at hidden attempts to de-centralize the EPO towards National Patent Offices and weaken the roles and competencies of the various organs defined under the EPC 1 – 2 =============================================================================== We also call you to reflect on whether the strategic governance of the EPO is compatible with the long-term continuity of the Organization’s existence and with the future fulfillment of its mission, also in the context of its role in the Unitary Patent system. We ask you to transmit this petition to your Ministries in order to convene such Conference without delay. The_non-exhaustive_list_of_signs_of_derailment_of_the_EPO_includes: Management of core business and Quality: • Staffing level in core business has been reduced significantly during the past years and the office plans to continue the reduction of staffing level in core tasks by 25% of examiners and by 50% of formalities officers; • Since the beginning of 2021 until the end of April 2022 an increase of the examination backlog by about 12% and search backlog by 5% is visible; • Rather than adapting the recruitment plans in core business to the actual situation the Office continues to focus on prioritizing and re-shuffling examiners tasks in examination and search; • The latest figures of the internal quality audit disclose a decreasing trend of quality of grant decisions from an already low compliance rate of 80% in April 2021 down to less than 75% at the end of March 2022. Decentralisation initiatives: • The EPO has proposed a new „mobility” program which includes secondment of patent examiners between the EPO and NPOs without limitations; it further focuses on harmonization of IT structures between NPOs and the EPO rather than primarily investing in the tools to support the core work; • By the reorganization of 1 April 2022, EPO examining divisions and EPO formality officers were artificially separated geographically to different sites, without any added value for the EPO work procedures; • The Office has departed from long-term and permanent employment towards high rotation short-term contract jobs for the members of the Divisions defined pursuant to Articles 15, 18 and 19 EPC. Legal Certainty of Sovereign acts: • Over the past years the President of the European Patent Office has issued instructions by which he increasingly assumed the position of an additional higher ranking, but hidden instance in the patent granting procedure above the Divisions defined pursuant to Articles 15, 18 and 19 EPC. Every notified action of the Division like a communication, summons to oral proceedings, refusal decision or grant of a patent application requires approval of the line manager in substance, although she or he is not a member of the Division; • No legal means are available for the members of the Divisions for redressing interferences, like unlawful orders of the line manager to issue a communication instead of a decision to refuse an application as no legal instance is available (see e.g., Judgment 4417); • The current electronic file and workflow system systematically implements resulting interference by management with the Division’s responsibilities and tasks and does not ensure an appropriate authentication of signatures of the responsible members of the Division. 2 – 2 Sooner or later they will need to (re)convene and all those massive problems will have piled up by then. 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Who are they working for? Former employers? Themselves? The public? The short story is, some “revolving doors” masters (like Mr. Breton) want to lecture us on matters of fairness, allowing ISPs to not just sell our data to advertisers but to also double-dip*, accumulating fees upstream (from site operators) and downstream (from households and businesses). As insane as this may sound, some people agree with them, based on bogus, false, phony narratives. It was covered_in_Indian_media, which conspicuously omitted Microsoft from this bogus lobby term, “Big Tech” (promoted_by_Microsoft lobbyists_to_distract_from_Microsoft's_unique_crimes). Just to be clear, it’s not about GAFAM and Netflix paying ISPs or being asked to pay ISPs; it’s about those ISPs getting more and more power; they can later charge any site, even Gemini capsules, to relay traffic to visitors. It would destroy what the Net — not just the Web — stands for. What do “Elite” voices say? They present the abusers as victims of their own success. This important subject is covered in_“Elite”-run_media, stating: “In the middle is Amazon, which has over-invested in e-commerce and expanded too far, crushing its cashflow and returns. Mr Bezos, who remains executive chairman, owns less than 15% of the firm’s voting rights, so he has to be at least somewhat responsive to investors. Apple and Microsoft are at the benign end of the spectrum. Both firms are older, no longer have founders with controlling stakes and operate on the principle of one share, one vote. Both listen to outsiders. In 2013 Tim Cook, Apple’s boss, sat down for dinner with Carl Icahn, a fiery investor, and took on board his request to return money to shareholders through buybacks. In 2014 Microsoft invited an activist investor, Mason Morfit, onto its board. The two firms have performed the best of the big five this year.” Microsoft is notably absent from any real scrutiny; this is consistent with this publication’s bias. “Microsoft is anything but benign,” an associate noted in relation to this piece. █ ___________ * Our basic common sense has long indicated that attacks on the Web (or the Net at large) will ride the wave of ‘shrinkflation’. ISPs too rush to exploit “inflation” for price gouging. They deliver less value for a higher price and expect to be paid more based on creative story-telling (like fairy tales regarding capacity limits and why they’re unable to spend federal budget actually improving the infrastructure, even when taxpayers are paying for it; stock buybacks are embezzlement and misuse of public funds). Here in the UK, some ISPs now infiltrate or eavesdrop on personal conversations for sensitive information (this has been done with DPI techniques for at least 1.5 decades by BT), then sell that to data brokers (surveillance partners), in effect profiting by harming the dignity of the clients and harming them financially (e.g. discrimination in insurance policies). On top of that, it is important to note that all those connected to the Internet have already paid for the service which they are receiving and that what is happening here is a push for some very large ISPs with a large team of lawyers to get paid twice for the same service which has already been paid for (hence the term ‘double-dip’; it’s triple if one counts the data brokers because they get additional money this way). ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 849 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at http://techrights.org/2022/11/06/jim-zemlin-in-github/#comments Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2022/11/06/jim-zemlin-in-github/ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 11.06.22⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ I_Can’t_Code,_But_I_Have_a_Proprietary_Microsoft_Account⠀✐ Posted in Microsoft at 2:04 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇Jim_Zemlin_in_GitHub⦈_ Summary: Congratulations to Mr. Zemlin (Linux_Foundation chief) on his Microsoft account; now he can help the company engage in “software_piracy_on_an unprecedented_scale" (GPL violations) ⡴⣄⢤⢤⡀⠀⡠⠤⡀⢀⠤⢄⠀⣠⣤⣄⡤⠤⠤⠤⠤⠤⠤⠤⠤⠤⠤⠤⢤⣤⣤⣤⡤⢤⡤⠀⢠⠤⡤⣠⣤⣤⣤⣴⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣾⣿⣿⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⠤⠀⡠⠠⡀⢀⠤⢄⠀⡤ ⠁⠉⠈⠈⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠃⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠘⠛⠛⠚⠓⠛⠓⠀⠈⠀⠀⢹⣿⣿⣿⡿⠟⠛⠛⠛⠛⠿⣿⣿⣿⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠓⠀⠀⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣀⣀⣿⡿⠻⠀⢀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⢿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣶⣶⣦⣤⣤⣤⣤⣀⣀⣀⣀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠰⠀⢀⣿⠋⠀⠒⠻⡁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⣿⡆⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠿⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠻⢿⣿⣿⣷⣶⣶ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣤⡠⢸⣿⣿⡶⠂⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⡟⡯⠄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠙⢿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠛⠛⣹⣿⠄⢀⠀⠀⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠣⠄⠀⣀⢀⣠⠂⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⢻⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣤⣀⣉⡀⢀⣩⣦⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣿⣿⠃⠀⠀⠈⠙⠛⠭⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⢟⠋⡅⠀⠀⠀⢀⣄⠀⠀⠙⠛⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣯⣦⣶⣶⣦⣤⣿⣧⣽⣿⡿⠿⠿⠿⡿⠻⡟⠛⠻⣛⢻⣿⣿⣶⣾⣿⣦⣾⣿⣴⠐⠀⢠⣶⣶⣶⡆⠀⢀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸ ⣿⣿⣿⡿⠋⠀⠈⠀⡏⠀⠀⠀⠀⠙⡄⣀⡀⠀⠀⠈⠻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣾⣶⣷⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⢉⣸⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠟⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣸ ⣿⣿⢿⡏⢠⠀⢠⠀⠃⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠙⣿⣿⣿⢛⡿⠿⠿⢿⣿⠿⢿⡿⡿⢿⠿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣿⣿⣟⣟⣟⣟⣿⣛⣿⣯⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡃⠿⠿⠟⢛⣫⣿⣏⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣹⣿ ⣿⠏⡈⢠⡟⠘⠉⠀⠂⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠁⠀⢣⡶⠀⠀⠀⠀⠘⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣯⣯⣭⣭⣭⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠂⠀⠰⣶⠿⠿⠋⢀⣠⡄⠀⠀⠀⣠⣿⣿ ⣿⠀⠀⠀⢀⣄⠸⠿⠿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠐⢿⡄⠈⠰⡁⠀⠀⠀⠀⢹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣦⣀⠀⠀⠠⠆⠘⣻⣧⣀⣠⣾⣿⣿⣿ ⣯⠀⠀⡄⠘⠇⠐⠀⠀⠈⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠑⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⡿⡿⠿⠿⠟⠻⡿⡿⢿⠿⠿⠿⠿⢿⡟⡟⡿⠿⢿⠿⢿⠿⡿⠿⣿⡿⠿⡿⢻⡟⠛⡿⣻⣿⡿⣿⡿⢷⣾⣶⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⠀⠀⢀⠀⢰⣿⡆⠀⢀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⣷⣷⣶⣿⣶⣶⣷⣷⣾⣶⣾⣷⣶⣿⣷⣷⣷⣶⣷⣷⣾⣶⣷⣮⣼⣧⣾⣶⣾⣟⣿⡾⠿⣾⣶⣦⣧⣬⣥⣭⣉⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣧⠁⠸⣷⠀⠛⠃⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢠⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡟⣉⢉⠽⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣧⠀⠻⠀⠆⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣴⠟⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣯⣏⣟⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣷⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣀⣽⣷⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣯⣽⣝⣻⣛⣿⣿⡿⡿⠿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣦⣄⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣀⣤⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣿⣾⣿⣶⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣶⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣩⣉⣉⣉⣍⣙⣍⣙⣍⣋⣹⣉⣉⣏⣉⣹⣍⣙⣩⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⢆⠈⣭⣹⠢⡏⡉⣭⡁⢈⣍⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⢟⢛⠛⠛⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⣬⣿⣿⣿⣿⣬⣽⣿⣿⣿⣬⣭⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣬⣽⣿⣿⣿⣯⣽⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣬⣭⣿⣿⣿⣧⣭⣿⣿⣿⣯⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣷⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣟⣛⡛⢛⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣟⣯⣏⣏⣏⣛⣟⣿⣻⣏⣏⣏⣛⣻⣛⣻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣇⣂⣿⣯⣯⣿⣤⣯⣽⣭⣽⣭⣽⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣷⣾⣶⣷⣾⣶⣷⣾⣷⣷⣶⣶⣶⣶⣾⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣶⣾⣴⣶⣷⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣛⣟⣻⣛⣟⣛⢛⣟⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠻⠛⡛⠛⠛⢛⠛⣻⠛⠛⠻⢛⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 907 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at http://techrights.org/2022/11/06/joseph-saveri-law-firm-v-microsoft/#comments Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2022/11/06/joseph-saveri-law-firm-v-microsoft/ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 11.06.22⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Quit_GitHub_and_Tell_Companies_to_Do_the_Same_(GitHub_is_Microsoft’s_Attack on_Git,_on_Free_Software,_and_on_Developers)⠀✐ Posted in Courtroom, Deception, Law, Microsoft at 4:18 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz Video_download_link | md5sum ddf4b7c4cd99cce57dacfce08283fedf GitHub Should Cease to Exist Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 4.0 http://techrights.org/videos/github-lawsuit-at-last.webm Summary: Matthew Butterick and the Joseph Saveri Law Firm are suing Microsoft for “software piracy on an unprecedented scale”; the Open Source Initiative (OSI) is meanwhile bagging_bribes from both_Microsoft_and_GitHub to protect the “pirate” THE VIDEO above deals with news about the Microsoft/GitHub/CoPilot lawsuit [1- 3], but it is preceded by a discussion about GitHub racism. It’s a subject we covered here many times before, e.g. [1, 2, 3]. The video starts with the_story “How GitHub blocked me (and all my libraries)” (relatively early cautionary tale) and then discusses with Shawn told us (in IRC) is “truly fascist behavior by GitHub”. “OSI is little but an organ of Microsoft now. It shunned its own founders!”We wrote extensively on reasons for avoiding GitHub and deleting everything from there. We made many videos about that too. But this time we focus on the stories below, which relate to the plagiarism_machine of ‘Team Mono’. It’s a damn shame that OSI_chose_to_take_Microsoft_bribes and instead of combating the plagiarism/GPL violations it now spins matters to protect Microsoft’s name or weaken the case (prosecution). OSI is little but an organ of Microsoft now. It shunned its own founders! █ Related/contextual items from the news: 1. ⚓ On_the_filing_of_the_Class_Action_Law_Suit_over_GitHub’s_Copilot⠀⇛ Many of you are inquiring about a lawsuit filed yesterday afternoon by two “J Doe” Plaintiffs regarding the serious and ongoing GitHub Copilot problem which we have been working on for the last 18 months. This issue is dire and important, but includes many complex issues that intersect FOSS license compliance with moral questions of software freedom and the future of machine learning in human endeavor. Complex issues need careful, diligent, and community-oriented consideration and response. The attorneys in this newly filed case — Matthew Butterick and the Joseph Saveri Law Firm — did reach out to us, and we’ve been in discussions with them as to the key issues of copyleft policy and concerns about problematic interpretations of copyleft that are inherent in this type of novel litigation. These attorneys expressed to us that they had Plaintiffs who wanted to move very quickly, and we certainly understand their frustration. We pointed these attorneys to our Principles of Community- Oriented GPL Enforcement, which we co-drafted with the Free Software Foundation and has been endorsed by the Linux Netfilter Team, and many others. One of those principles is particularly relevant in this situation: Community-oriented enforcement must never prioritize financial gain. 2. ⚓ Class-action_lawsuit_filed_against_Microsoft’s_GitHub_Copilot_for software_piracy⠀⇛ The lawsuit has been initiated by Matthew Butterick, who is a programmer, author, and lawyer. He is being represented by the Joseph Saveri Law Firm from California. Together, they are claiming that Microsoft is engaging in open-source software piracy by using billions of lines of code written by millions of programmers under various licenses including MIT, GPL, and Apache. The defendants named in the lawsuit are GitHub, Microsoft, and its technology partner OpenAI. 3. ⚓ Microsoft’s_GitHub_Copilot_sued_over_“software_piracy_on_an unprecedented_scale”⠀⇛ GitHub and OpenAI launched Copilot in June 2021, an AI-based product that aims to help software coders by providing or filling in blocks of code using smart suggestions. It charges users $10 per month or $100 a year for its service. “By train­ing their AI sys­tems on pub­lic GitHub repos­i­to­ries (though based on their pub­lic state­ments, pos­si­bly much more), we con­tend that the defen­dants have vio­lated the legal rights of a vast num­ber of cre­ators who posted code or other work under cer­tain open-source licences on GitHub,” said Butterick. These licences include a set of 11 popular open source licences that all require attribution of the author’s name and copyright. This includes the MIT licence, the GNU General Public Licence, and the Apache licence. ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 1038 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at http://techrights.org/2022/11/06/malicious-lobby-for-moles-as-judges/#comments Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2022/11/06/malicious-lobby-for-moles-as-judges/ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 11.06.22⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ This_Tentative_List_of_UPC_Judges_(Industry_as_‘Judges’)_Will_Make_the Unitary_Patent_Explode_Before_Launch⠀✐ Posted in Europe, Patents at 9:10 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz Video_download_link | md5sum d43a27a5ab2f728e884e403e2ab5cbe7 UPC is Like ISDS Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 4.0 http://techrights.org/videos/upc-conflicts.webm Summary: The Unitary Patent and Unified Patent Court are basically scams; they’re being rebranded and falsely marketed by a malicious lobby looking to raid Europe through “judges” who are basically working for this lobby THE Unified Patent Court (UPC) lobby is starting to show its true face, reaffirming everything that UPC critics have cautioned about for over a decade. We have covered_this_before, but the above video shows an article from JUVE, which has its own conflict of interest (it works for the UPC lobby and gets paid by the UPC lobby). This is very closely connected to EPO_corruption because the same people are being spotted doing both things. Benoît_Battistelli has been declaring that the UPC would start “next year” since 2015 (almost 8 years ago) and António Campinos has said similar things since he was parachuted into the EPO to continue this demolition work of his friend, Battistelli, who obliterated the Rule of Law and sought to illegally grant European_software_patents. All he needed was a kangaroo court to approve such patents later on. “We’ve been speaking to elected European politicians about this and will bring this to the attention of many more.”A reader has warned us about a “UPC captured by corporations,” dubbing the latest scheme: “Judge in the morning, MegaCorp in the afternoon…” Corruption at full swing for sure. Will this ever commence? Probably not. People will fight back and maybe more nations will formally express opposition. Some have already condemned this illegal scheme. “Nokia as UPC judge,” a reader told us. Here is the full list: Full list of technically qualified judges Biotechnology Arwed Andreas Burrichter – Germany; patent attorney at Cohausz & Florack Eric Enderlin – France; patent attorney at Novagraaf Rainer Friedrich – Germany; in-house patent attorney at CSL Behring Paolo Gerli – Italy; patent attorney at Botti & Ferrari Krister Karlsson – Finland; patent attorney at Kolster András Kupecz – Netherlands; patent attorney and lawyer at Pinsent Masons Roman Maksymiw – Germany; presiding judge of the 14th Senate at Federal Patent Court Cornelis Schüller – Netherlands; patent attorney at IP-Portunity (also technically qualified judge at the District Court of The Hague) Chemistry and pharmaceuticals Michael Alt – Germany; patent attorney at Bird & Bird Kirsikka Etuaho – Finland; patent attorney at Espatent Oy (also technically qualified judge at the Market Court Helsinki) Renaud Fulconis – France; patent attorney at Bandpay & Greuter Rudi Goedeweeck – Belgium; in-house patent attorney at AGFA-Gevaert John Meidahl Petersen – Denmark; in-house patent attorney at Lundbeck Stefanie Parchmann – Germany; patent attorney at Maiwald Laure Sarlin – France; patent attorney at Beau de Loménie Casper Struve – Denmark; patent attorney at Zacco (also technically qualified judge at the Danish Maritime and Commercial High Court) Steen Wadskov-Hansen – Denmark; patent attorney at Budde Schou Carola Wagner – Germany; judge at the Federal Patent Court Electricity Pascal Attali – France; in-house patent attorney at Bose Corp Eric Augarde – France; patent attorney at Brevalex Bertrand Cochet – France; in-house patent attorney at Orange Grégoire Desrousseaux – France; patent attorney and lawyer at August Debouzy Alain Dumont – Belgium; technical judges at the Boards of Appeal of the European Patent Office Dennis Kretschmann – Germany; patent attorney at Boehmert & Boehmert Alessandro Sanchini – Italy; patent attorney at Modiano & Partner Andrea Scilletta – Italy; patent attorney at IP Sextant Simon Walker – Finland; in-house patent attorney at Nokia Mechanical engineering Michel Abello – France; patent attorney at Loyer & Abello Uwe Ausfelder – Germany; judge at the Federal Patent Court Koen Callewaert – Belgium; patent attorney at Bureau Callewaert Giorgio Checcacci – Italy; patent attorney at Checcacci & Partner Paolo Ernesto Crippa – Italy; patent attorney at Jacobacci & Partner Claus Elmeros – Denmark; patent attorney at Plougmann Vingtoft (also technically qualified judge at the Danish Maritime and Commercial High Court) Frédéric Gaillarde – France; patent attorney at Cabinet FGPI Bernard Christiaan Ledeboer – Netherlands; patent attorney at V.O. Elisabetta Papa – Italy; patent attorney at Società Italiana Brevetti Martin Schmidt – France/Germany; patent attorney as single practitioner and at IXAS Conseil Uwe Schwengelbeck – Germany; judge at Federal Patent Court Max Tilmann ­– Germany; patent attorney since 2022 at König Szynka Tillmann von Renesse; now own firm Marie-Paule Vandeberg – Belgium; patent attorney at MPV Patent Patrice Vidon – France; patent attorney at Vidon Pascal Lucien Pierre Weber – France; former judges at the Boards of Appeal of the European Patent Office Stefan Wilhelm – Germany; in-house patent attorney at 3M Physics Michael Fleuchaus – Germany; patent attorney at Fleuchaus & Gallo Anders Hansson – Sweden; patent attorney at Kransell & Wennborg (also technically qualified judge at the Sveriges Domstolar) Ulrike Keltsch – Germany; in-house patent attorney at Airbus Gérard Myon – France; patent attorney at Lavoix Dörte Otten-Dünnweber – Germany; judge at Federal Patent Court Andrea Perronace – Italy; patent attorney at Jacobacci & Partners Christoph Dominik Schober – Germany; patent attorney at Flügel Preissner Schober Seibel Patrik Rydman – Sweden; judge at the Swedish Patent and Market Court This does not look like a list of judges but a list of companies. This is the “banana republic” they want to introduce… “Nokia, Airbus, Orange technical judges,” as our reader put it. “It would be fun to make some UPC sponsored/corrupted by all those companies who have their staff as part-time technical judges. A proper kangaroo court…” The way we see it, the publication of the list (as shown above) was a giant own goal. We’ve been speaking to elected European politicians about this and will bring this to the attention of many more. This charade won’t end well. All it can do is discredit the EU, but the litigation profiteers value money, not Unity or a European “union” of any kind. █ ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 1202 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at http://techrights.org/2022/11/06/naked-upc-corruption/#comments Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2022/11/06/naked-upc-corruption/ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 11.06.22⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ [Meme]_Unified_Patent_Court_Corruption⠀✐ Posted in Courtroom, Europe, Patents at 9:15 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇Patent judge vs UPC 'judge'⦈ Summary: Patent judges are being targeted_by_the_litigation_lobby,_which_is looking_to_replace_them_with_industry_insiders_in_a_robe_or_a_gown, deciding on cases which may later open up employment opportunities or entice new clients (where they work for a large salary) 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⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣯⠀⠈⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 1280 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐃𝐀𝐈𝐋𝐘 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒 ═════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 11.06.22⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Links_06/11/2022:_Mutt_2.2.8_and_PGroonga_2.4.1⠀✐ Posted in News_Roundup at 1:00 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 o Desktop_Environments/WMs # K_Desktop_Environment/KDE_SC/Qt * Distributions_and_Operating_Systems o BSD o PCLinuxOS/Mageia/Mandriva/OpenMandriva_Family o SUSE/OpenSUSE o Fedora_Family_/_IBM o Debian_Family o Open_Hardware/Modding o Mobile_Systems/Mobile_Applications * Free,_Libre,_and_Open_Source_Software o Web_Browsers/Web_Servers # Mozilla o SaaS/Back_End/Databases o Content_Management_Systems_(CMS) o FSFE o Programming/Development o 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Lots of big announcements and interesting releases. # ⚓ Computer Weekly ☛ Alibaba_Cloud_debuts_cloud-powered laptop⠀⇛ Users will also get to run multiple operating systems, including Windows, Linux and Android, on the same device simultaneously. o § Audiocasts/Shows⠀➾ # ⚓ Video ☛ Sourcehut_Takes_A_Stand_Against_Cryptocurrency_– Invidious⠀⇛ Drew Devault is kind of a devisive figure in the FOSS world and to keep that trend going he’s decided to take a stand against cryptocurrency and blockchains by banning them from Sourcehut # ⚓ Video:_Intel_CEO_and_Linus_Torvalds_Talk_| www.montanalinux.org⠀⇛ We don’t get to see Linus talking much these days but here’s a recent interview. # ⚓ Video ☛ My_laptop_broke,_Steam_Deck_was_there_for_me!_– Invidious⠀⇛ # ⚓ Video ☛ NCSC_Is_Scanning_Every_Machine_in_the_UK’s_Internet –_Invidious⠀⇛ In this video I discuss the National Cyber Security Centre Scanning Made Easy program where they are doing automatic scans of internet facing devices in the UK for software vulnerabilities and how you can do these same scans yourself using NMAP scripts. # ⚓ Video ☛ Using_Vim_with_Linux_Commands_–_Invidious⠀⇛ Vim has the ability to run system commands. In this video I’ll explain how you can use this feature to sort your text, apply filters. Compute lines and run Python expressions all in Vim. o § Kernel Space⠀➾ # ⚓ Results_of_requested_backlight_testing_for_6.1_–_Hans’ hacking_log_—_LiveJournal⠀⇛ I have received quite a few test reports in response to my previous blog post. Many thanks to everyone who has run the tests and send me their results! These tests show that as a result of the current 6.1 changes quite a few laptop models will end up with an empty “/sys/class/backlight”, breaking users ability to control their laptop panel’s brightness. # ⚓ Second_request_for_Linux_backlight_testing_for_changes planned_for_6.2_–_Hans’_hacking_log_—_LiveJournal⠀⇛ As mentioned in my previous blog post, I have written a new patch series for 6.2 to try to avoid having multiple entries in /sys/class/backlight for a single panel again. This new series might cause regressions on a different set of even older laptop models then the one affected by the 6.1 backlight work. So I’m again looking for people willing to run a few quick tests. # ⚓ PC Linux ☛ Short_Topix:_Linux_Kernel_5.19.12_Code_Could Permanently_Damage_Some_Laptop_Screens⠀⇛ Chaos, a new malware written in the Go language, is causing havoc. Chaos is a cryptocurrency miner and DDoS piece of malware with backdoor capabilities, according to an article at TechRepublic. It is written for both Windows and Linux. Malware authors are using Go to write the code for the malware, since it is more difficult for security researchers to analyze. Facebook is warning one million users that their account credentials may have been compromised by apps downloaded from the Apple and Alphabet software stores, according to an article from the Seattle Times. Meta (the parent company of Facebook) identified more than 400 malicious apps that target users to steal their login information. Apple has removed 45 of the problem apps, while Google removed all of the apps in question. The apps disguise themselves as photo editors, mobile games, or health trackers. [...] According to a recent article on Ars Technica, Linux kernel 5.19.12 has the potential to damage certain laptop screens. Users of laptops that used Intel GPUs started complaining that their laptop screens would rapidly flicker after updating to the 5.19.12 kernel. Intel engineers took a look at log files and discovered some bogus panel power sequencing delays, which were found to be responsible for the rapid flashing of the displays. They recommended immediately reverting the changes that caused the issue, and that people using laptops with Intel GPUs avoid using the 5.19.12 kernel, even if they didn’t experience the display flashing. One day later, kernel 5.19.13 was released without the screen flashing issue. Even though kernel 5.19.12 is behind most of us now (the most recent Linux kernel in the PCLinuxOS repository at the time of the writing of this article is 6.0.6), it’s reassuring that such issues as these get addressed so, so quickly, and in such a public manner. You would NEVER see this swift of a response from the “commercial” operating system vendors! And, because the “commercial” operating system vendors are close-sourced, much of the discussion and “fixes” would occur behind closed doors, away from the watchful eyes of the end users. It makes you proud to be a Linux user! o § Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ Ubuntu Handbook ☛ This_tool_adds_current_Weather_in_Top-Bar Clock_in_Ubuntu_22.04_|_UbuntuHandbook⠀⇛ There are quite a few weather applications for Linux desktop. GNOME, the default desktop environment for Ubuntu, Fedora, and some other Linux, also has a core weather application. With the core weather app, user can either open the app window to get current weather condition, hourly and daily forecast, or open the clock menu to see the weather forecast for next hours. # ⚓ Mutt_2.2.8_was_released_on_November_5,_2022⠀⇛ Mutt 2.2.8 was released on November 5, 2022. This is a bug-fix release, fixing a possible crash when using GPGME to view an application/pgp key block. It also makes some changes to resizing and window size logic, and enables batch-mode IMAP Fcc’ing. See the UPDATING file for more details. o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾ # ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ How_to_Use_diff_to_Compare_Text_Files_in_the Linux_Terminal⠀⇛ diff is a standard command-line Linux utility that lets you compare the differences between two files. Here’s how you can use it to your advantage. Have you ever had two similar files and wondered which parts are different? Are you writing code and trying to figure out how to blend in changes that you or some other programmer made? There’s a standard Linux utility called “diff” that will help. # ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_FreeOffice_on_Debian_11/10/ Sid⠀⇛ FreeOffice is a free, open-source office suite with a word processor, spreadsheet application, and presentation program. The suite is compatible with Microsoft Office, making it an ideal choice for users who want an alternative to expensive proprietary software. FreeOffice offers all the features of a mainstream office suite, including support for complex documents, multimedia elements, and more. The following tutorial will teach you how to easily install the office suite using the command line terminal on Debian Bullseye, Buster, and Sid with the SoftMaker repository. # ⚓ Bootlin ☛ Workaround_for_creating_bootable_FAT_partition for_Beagle_Bone_/_AM335x_on_recent_distros⠀⇛ On recent GNU/Linux distributions such as Ubuntu 22.04 and 22.10, you may hit an issue creating a bootable FAT partition for embedded boards, at least with the TI AM335x processor, such as the 32 bit Beagle Bone boards. # ⚓ The Server Side ☛ Docker_interview_questions_for developers⠀⇛ # ⚓ PC Linux ☛ PDF_Part_Two:_Editing_The_Universal_Document⠀⇛ Before we get too into talking about how to edit PDF files, I need to talk about two more ways to create PDF files. A post by PCLinuxOS forum member dm+ showed me a “new” (to me, anyway) way to create a PDF file, which then reminded me of yet another way to create a PDF file that I had tried several years ago, but couldn’t satisfactorily nor reliably get it to create a PDF file. Granted, when I first tried the “second” way alluded to above (and couldn’t get it to work), I was a pretty green Linux noob. So, I abandoned it and pretty much forgot about it until I read dm+’s forum post. This time, with considerably more Linux “experience” under my belt, the “second” method worked, and works easily and reliably. So, it’s quite likely (as in, highly probable) that I didn’t have the command line parameters set appropriately when I made my first attempt. Both of these “new” methods of creating a PDF file are linked to using LibreOffice. If you have LibreOffice installed, then both of these methods are available for you to use. In the first method, dm+ points out that you can create a PDF file by running the following LibreOffice command at a command prompt to convert any file “understood” by LO to a PDF file. First, however, you will need to know which version of LO you have installed. To do that, open a terminal window, type “libre” (without the quotes) at a command line prompt, and hit the “Tab” key. Note the version of “libreoffice” that shows up. In his example, he uses “libreoffice7.3″ as his version of LO. On my home laptop, I’m still using LO 6.0, as indicated by the “libreoffice6.0″ that shows up on the command line. On my “travel” laptop, I have “libreoffice6.1″ installed. Don’t judge … I just don’t have a need to “update” LO very often. I feel safe (enough) in the “if-it- ain’t-broke-don’t-fix-it” approach. So, just replace “libreofficeX.X” in the command below with the version of LO that is installed on your computer. Also, keep in mind that whenever you DO update LO, you will have to slightly alter the command to reflect the newer version of LO that you have installed. # ⚓ PC Linux ☛ GIMP_Tutorial:_An_Uncommon_Fishbowl⠀⇛ On the YouTube channel, Logos By Nick, he uses a light bulb image to make a fish bowl. It looked really fun, so let’s do something like it. # ⚓ HTTP_UEFI_Boot_with_TianoCore_libvirt_–_Lukáš_Zapletal⠀⇛ One of the new features in EFI 2.x is “HTTP Boot” also known as “UEFI HTTP Boot” or “UEFI Boot”. Let’s explore how you can use it in your environment, I will show everything on a Fedora server running KVM/QEMU with Open Virtual Machine Firmware (OVFM) TianoCore implementation. # ⚓ Linux Nightly ☛ Convert_File_Names_to_Lowercase_–_Linux Nightly⠀⇛ In Linux, file names are case-sensitive, so you might face situations where you want to change file names to lowercase. In general, it’s easier to work with files on the Linux command line that are entirely lowercase. In this tutorial, you will learn how to change file names to lowercase with Linux commands. # ⚓ UNIX Cop ☛ How_to_install_Podman_Desktop_on_Linux⠀⇛ After a long time, Podman Desktop for Linux is now available. Now, yes, Podman continues to consolidate as the main alternative to Docker. # ⚓ Beebom ☛ How_to_Record_the_Screen_in_Ubuntu⠀⇛ If you recently moved to Ubuntu Linux and are looking for the easiest way to record the screen, well, this guide is for you. We have added detailed instructions on how to screen record in Ubuntu. You don’t even need to use any third-party apps anymore as the Gnome Desktop Shell comes with a native screen recorder. Along with that, we have included popular apps like SimpleScreenRecorder and OBS Studio in case you want more options to record the screen. So on that note, let’s go ahead and learn how to do screen recording in Ubuntu. # ⚓ H2S Media ☛ How_to_restore_Trash_can_icon_on_Ubuntu_22.04 Desktop⠀⇛ Restore the Trash can or Recycle bin icon if missing on your Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Jammy JellyFish Desktop using the command terminal. In Windows, the deleted files go in to Recycle bin in case later you want o restore them. Similarly, we have a bin in Ubuntu Linux known as a Trash can. The purpose of it is also the same, whenever we delete some files, it moved to this Trash can. Well, we are not comparing the Recycle bin and Trash can to each other instead we are here to know the command to restore the icon of it in Ubuntu 22.04. On this Linux instead of on the Desktop, you will have the Trash can icon again on the Dock only. However all users won’t like it, some of us might want it again on the right-side bottom. Well, there is an option in the Dock settings to show or hide the Trash can icon from the Dock but not for the Desktop. Hence, if you are not finding an option to show the Trash can icon on Ubuntu Desktop, then here is the tutorial for that. # ⚓ The New Stack ☛ Create_a_Local_Git_Repository_on_Linux_with the_Help_of_SSH_–_The_New_Stack⠀⇛ Have you ever found yourself in a situation where you need to deploy a quick Git repository on a machine within your LAN? If you’re a developer, chances are pretty good this task has fallen into your lap on several occasions. Fortunately, you don’t really need to depend on a bunch of overly complicated software packages or third-party tools to make this happen. Sure, if you want a sweet GUI to make the lives of all those who will contribute to your development project considerably easier, you might turn to a platform like Gitea. But if you prefer the simplicity and ease of deployment that comes along with the command line, you’re going to want to give this method a go. It might not have all the bells and whistles of the web-based options but it does the job reliably and quickly. And so, how do you deploy this magical repository? With the help of git and SSH. Both of these tools are freely available to all Linux distributions, so you don’t have to worry about searching out or paying for the tools. Sound like a winner? I thought so. Let’s make it happen. # ⚓ dwaves.de ☛ LibreOffice_–_how_to_edit_–_read-only_content⠀⇛ # ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ 2_Ways_to_Install_Google_Chrome_on_Pop!_OS 22.04_|_20.04⠀⇛ Google Chrome is the most popular web browser in the world, and for a good reason. It’s fast, feature-rich, and compatible with nearly every website and online service. And for Pop!_OS users, Chrome is an especially great choice. That’s because it’s faster than Firefox, the default browser installed on your desktop. The following tutorial will demonstrate how to install Google Chrome on your desktop using the command line terminal. o § Games⠀➾ # ⚓ Make Tech Easier ☛ 11_of_the_Best_Game_Boy_Advance_(GBA) Emulators_for_Android_–_Make_Tech_Easier⠀⇛ The Game Boy Advance is one of the most popular portable game consoles of all time. Android smartphones take up such a large part of the market, that it’s almost inevitable that Android owners would take an interest in playing their old GBA favorites on their phones. The maturity of the Android platform means there are now a few good Android GBA emulators worth using. We’ve gathered the best of them for you here. o § Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾ # ⚓ Linuxiac ☛ LXQt_1.2_Desktop_Environment_Released,_This_Is What’s_New⠀⇛ LXQt 1.2.0 is still based on Qt 5.15, as this release includes many new features for the File Manager, Panel, QTerminal, and so on. LXQt is a free, open-source, lightweight, and user- friendly desktop environment built using Qt libraries. It consists of many small individual components like a panel, session manager, hotkey daemon, and more. It is an excellent choice if you require a low- resource, nearly fully-featured desktop environment. So, users looking for extreme performance in a desktop environment should consider LXQt. Today, nearly seven months after the previous release of LXQt 1.1, this lightweight desktop environment has surprised its users with the release of LXQt 1.2.0. So, let’s see what’s new. # ⚓ Release_LXQt_1.2.0_|_LXQt⠀⇛ The LXQt team announces the release of LXQt 1.2.0, the Lightweight Qt Desktop Environment. # § K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt⠀➾ # ⚓ Dolphin_Meeting_at_Barcelona_–_Felix_Ernst⠀⇛ Among my contributions towards KDE I am probably best known for becoming a dolphin maintainer recently. “Maintainers” are the people most responsible for something, and I share this responsibility with Méven Car these days. The plan was to have a dolphin meeting at Barcelona, so I set off. # ⚓ Adriaan de Groot ☛ Adriaan_de_Groot:_I_got_some badges⠀⇛ While reconstructing my blog archievs – something I do every now and then, dig up another month from the Internet Archive and add it to my modern site – I found that my Serendipity blog setup had nice category badges. So here are some blasts from the (2008) past. # ⚓ KDE_Gear_22.12_branches_created⠀⇛ Make sure you commit anything you want to end up in the KDE Gear 22.12 releases to them We’re already past the dependency freeze. The Feature Freeze and Beta is next week Thursday 10 of November. * § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾ o § BSD⠀➾ # ⚓ Klara ☛ Easily_Migrate_from_Linux_to_FreeBSD_–_Klara_Inc.⠀⇛ If you are already experienced with Linux, FreeBSD should feel very familiar. The operating systems have a lot in common, due both to their Unix heritage and many shared modern components. Much of what may be unfamiliar to a Linux user adopting FreeBSD is also inconsistent between Linux distributions themselves. In this article, we will cover some of the conceptual differences between Linux and FreeBSD, and go on to contrast some aspects of the basic system utilities and the differing views of hardware given by the two systems. # ⚓ FreeBSD ☛ The_FreeBSD_Journal_is_still_Free! ⠀⇛ In January 2019, the FreeBSD Journal moved away from a subscription model, and we’ve been proud to offer it as a free publication ever since. We’ve hoped to raise awareness of FreeBSD throughout the world by making the voice of the FreeBSD community as accessible as possible. Issues are published on a bi-monthly schedule and can be found on the Foundation’s website. You can also find past issues, details on becoming involved, and information about the editorial and advisory boards. Article ideas are always welcome and are a fantastic way to give back to the FreeBSD community. o § PCLinuxOS/Mageia/Mandriva/OpenMandriva Family⠀➾ # ⚓ PC Linux ☛ Repo_Review:_FeatherNotes⠀⇛ FeatherNotes is a lightweight and powerful hierarchical note manager with plenty of features. It has support for many text formatting options, embedding images and tables into notes, printing notes, password protection, searching, and more. FeatherNotes uses a node system, where essentially all hierarchical items in a note document are called nodes. You can create an assortment of parent and child sub-nodes, allowing for a great degree of organizational flexibility within note documents. FeatherNotes is quite well laid out and easy to use. Most of the formatting options are easily available from the toolbar at the top. To the left of the text field is the node tree, where you can arrange and organize the nodes and sub-nodes that you create. A system tray icon can also be enabled from the preferences, allowing you to easily access the FeatherNotes window when you need it. Once you create a new note document, you can begin adding nodes to it. By default, there is always one node already present in the document. You can add more nodes by right clicking on an already existing node and then selecting to either create a sibling or a child node. You can rename, assign tags, and even add icons to nodes. These nodes can then easily be rearranged by dragging them around in the node tree. FeatherNotes gives you plenty of common text formatting options, such as bold, italic, underline, strike through, as well as text alignment, and text font and size. Images can easily be embedded by dragging and dropping them into the text field, and they can then be resized and placed to your liking. Tables can also be added and inserted into notes, as well as hyperlinks to internet addresses or local files. You can also change the text and background colors if you so wish. FeatherNotes has spell checking functionality, but one has to first configure the Hunspell dictionary path in the preferences. # ⚓ PC Linux ☛ PCLinuxOS_Screenshot_Showcase⠀⇛ # ⚓ PC Linux ☛ From_The_Chief_Editor’s_Desk…⠀⇛ In the U.S., for most people, the “earliest” you can retire is age 62. I turned 62 years old this past August. The only other people who can “retire” earlier are those who are very wealthy, or those who lived their lives in utter austerity (think eating a 50 cent box of macaroni and cheese every night for dinner and reusing tea bags four or five times), amassing their income into a sizable nestegg that most of us would be envious of. I am in neither of those groups. But, I am planning on retiring at the end of the year. [...] So many of my coworkers keep saying “you’re gonna get bored.” After 35 years, believe it or not, I don’t think I’ll be bored at all. I plan to refocus all my attention on raising my kids. I had my kids late. I was almost 53 when my son was born, and almost 56 when my daughter was born. Now, I just want to spend as much time as I can with them, and (hopefully) help set them down a good path in life. o § SUSE/OpenSUSE⠀➾ # ⚓ Dominique Leuenberger ☛ Dominique_Leuenberger:_openSUSE Tumbleweed_–_Review_of_the_week_2022/44⠀⇛ Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers, Despite the week being one hour shorter (as a reminder: Europe switched from summer time to winter time on Oct 30), the maintainers and contributors went beyond and still delivered 7 snapshots (1028…1103). The staging projects have been nicely balanced and performance seems good. Unless the requests cause breakages, they are still going through the process rather quickly. o § Fedora Family / IBM⠀➾ # ⚓ Fedora Project ☛ Fedora_Community_Blog:_Friday’s_Fedora Facts:_2022-44⠀⇛ Here’s your weekly Fedora report. Read what happened this week and what’s coming up. Your contributions are welcome (see the end of the post)! I have weekly office hours on Wednesdays in the morning and afternoon (US/Eastern time) in #fedora- meeting-1. Drop by if you have any questions or comments about the schedule, Changes, elections, or anything else. See the upcoming meetings for more information. o § Debian Family⠀➾ # ⚓ Thorsten Alteholz ☛ My_Debian_Activities_in_October_2022_– blog.alteholz.eu⠀⇛ This month I accepted 484 and rejected 55 packages. The overall number of packages that got accepted was 492. # ⚓ Annual_donations_for_our_server_2022_–_SparkyLinux⠀⇛ The annual payment day for our server is coming. We got quite a large increase from our server provider. So, until 15.01.2023 we would collect for the server the amount of 510 Euros, plus min. 720 Euros for our monthly living and bills, such as: electricity, gas, water, internet, domains, expenses related to improving the functionality of the sites, constantly consuming small computer equipment (memory sticks, pendrives, mice, batteries, etc…), fuel, as well as rent, medicines and living, which become more and more expensive every month. We are starting the collection today to make sure we will pay for the server on time, so we could stay online for you another year. o § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾ # ⚓ Tom’s Hardware ☛ Linux_Kernel_6.2_Set_To_Enable_Easier_4K Connections_for_Raspberry_Pi_|_Tom’s_Hardware⠀⇛ Presently, you can connect the Pi 4 to a pair of 4K monitors, thanks to its dual micro-HDMI ports, and it will happily display its Debian-based desktop across them, at a refresh rate of 30Hz. This isn’t enough for some people, and the option exists to raise the output of one of the ports – the one nearest the USB-C power input socket – to 60Hz. To do this, you need to edit the config.txt file from a Terminal window then select it in the screen configuration utility. It’s a fiddly job, but perfectly in line with the Raspberry Pi (opens in new tab) ethos. Version 6.2 of the Linux kernel seems about to change all that. For some time, you’ve been able to use an unofficial patch (opens in new tab) to drive both ports at 60Hz, but official support missed the merge window for kernel 5.15, then a regression occurred from 5.18 that made things worse. The new code in kernel 6.2 does slightly more than simply unlock the higher refresh rate. To use it, you need a monitor and HDMI cable capable of carrying and displaying the signal, and HDMI detection code has been reworked to permit automatic configuration if the entire chain is compliant. # ⚓ Tom’s Hardware ☛ Raspberry_Pi_Protects_Candy_by_Screaming at_Trick_or_Treaters_|_Tom’s_Hardware⠀⇛ Halloween 2022 may have already been and gone but this project serves as inspiration for 2023! Haloween is an exciting holiday but what can you do to stop would-be candy thieves from running off with all of your sweet treats? Dr. David Pride has developed a Raspberry Pi-powered solution to this problem with his “Super Spooky Sweetie Stealer Stopper” project. When trick-or-treaters approach the candy bowl, this Pi-powered horror blasts them with air duster while emitting a horrifying scream. Dr. Pride joined our Raspberry Pi-themed podcast, The Pi Cast, and he showed us what the project looks like in action and provided a thorough breakdown of its design. According to Dr. Pride, he was inspired to create the project while cleaning an old PC with a can of compressed air. Spraying the can while upside down creates a visible smoky blast which it makes it the perfect tool for his screaming mask project. # ⚓ Tom’s Hardware ☛ Raspberry_Pi_RP2040_PCB_Streams_and Records_Game_Boy_Games_|_Tom’s_Hardware⠀⇛ The Raspberry Pi is no stranger to retro gaming but this is one of the first Pi projects we’ve seen that allows users to capture gameplay from original Game Boy hardware. Using a custom PCB created by maker Sebastian Staacks, users can record and stream original Game Boy games. In his demonstration, Staacks is using a Game Boy Color which is cross-compatible with original Game Boy games. The adapter was designed from scratch and features a Raspberry Pi RP2040 processor as its main controller. It plugs directly into the cartridge slot of a Game Boy DMG-01 or Game Boy Color and has a port on the top in which original Game Boy games can be connected. This adapter captures data in real time and transmits the visual feed to your PC so it can be recorded or streamed. With this setup, the game is not connected directly to the Game Boy but the adapter allows for seamless gameplay with no interference on the main screen. However, there is a slight delay in the capturing process that leads to an occasional skipped frame on the captured video. According to Staacks, it has an average refresh rate of 24 fps. # ⚓ Tom’s Hardware ☛ Raspberry_Pi_Costume_Automatically Dispenses_Candy⠀⇛ There are no tricks with this Raspberry Pi project—only treats available on demand thanks to this amazing, wearable project created by maker Yinglish119. Instead of just creating a simple candy dispenser, Yinglish119 has turned his idea into a totally portable and wearable Nerds costume that looks just like the candy it provides. Yinglish119 himself is dressed in suspenders and bowtie combo while sporting a huge Nerds candy box which contains all of the Pi-powered goodness we love. To get the candy to dispense, users wave their hands in front of an ultrasonic sensor which triggers the mechanisms inside to dispense a box of candy out of the bottom of the giant Nerds box. According to Yinglish119, the candy is magazine loaded and pushed through the bottom thanks to a continuously rotating servo motor. When the sensor detects a user, it initiates a wheel inside the suit which picks up a box of candy and moves it down the channel, guiding it out to the platform at the base of the costume. # ⚓ peppe8o ☛ Arduino_Uno_Calculator:_How_to_Create_your_DIY Calculator⠀⇛ One of the most basic but formative projects with Arduino Uno is performing algebraic calculus with a custom-designed calculator by using a 4×4 keypad, Arduino # ⚓ Arduino ☛ Mole_crab_robot_burrows_into_sand_using_flexible legs_|_Arduino_Blog⠀⇛ Revolutionary new technologies tend to require small, incremental developments. For example, physicist Julius Edgar Lilienfeld filed a patent for a transistor way back in 1925. But it wasn’t possible to actually build transistors until semiconductor production caught up in 1947 — something that took decades of “boring” materials research. Such research may seem trivial, but often turns out to be important to the bigger picture. That is likely the case with this burrowing mole crab robot, called EMBUR, built by UC Berkeley engineers. This Arduino Due-controlled robot can burrow into loose substrates like a mole crab in sand. In the wild, mole crabs can bury their bodies in sand within a few seconds. That is surprisingly hard to replicate, as wriggling robots tend to just push themselves up on top of the sand. The key to this robot’s burrowing ability is a special set of flexible legs. The Arduino spins motors that rotate a reciprocating mechanism to actuate legs covered in fabric. When the legs push forward into the substrate, the fabric folds to decrease resistance. Then when the legs move back, the fabric unfurls and creates resistance for propulsion. # ⚓ Arduino ☛ The_Great_Resistor_lamp_makes_color_codes readable_|_Arduino_Blog⠀⇛ Resistor color codes are great, because they make it easy to identify a resistor’s value by referencing a simple chart (or memorizing that chart). But resistors are also very small and their color bands are hard for many of us to see clearly. Instead of buying a magnifying glass, J built the Great Resistor lamp that reproduces a resistor’s color code at a much larger scale. To display a resistor’s value, one must first find that value. To measure the resistance of unknown resistors, J used an Arduino Nano and a 16-bit ADC (analog-to-digital converter) to measure the input and output voltages of a voltage divider circuit. One of the resistors in that circuit has a known value, while the second is the unknown resistor being tested. The three known values let the Arduino calculate the unknown value, which is the resistance of the tested resistor. # ⚓ Arduino ☛ Keep_your_packages_safe_with_Clem_Mayer’s_secure parcel_pickup_box_|_Arduino_Blog⠀⇛ As a part of his business, element14 Presents’ Clem Mayer sells physical goods online and has people retrieve them near his house. But for the times he is not able to be home, Mayer was inspired by his post office’s pickup lockboxes to create his own version that could be accessed with just a code at any time. Because this parcel container would be outside and exposed to the elements, Mayer went with a sturdy electronics cabinet that is IP66 rated and made entirely from metal. Initially, he was thinking of a system that would require users to scan a QR code on the box, go to a website, and then enter the code to gain access. However, the complex nature and network connectivity led him towards a much simpler solution instead- just enter the digits on a physical keypad. This way, a single code could be set in the Arduino Leonardo’s EEPROM and then compared each time a total of six digits are selected. o § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ XDA ☛ Mecool_Now_KA2_Android_TV_review:_Could_be_smarter⠀⇛ # ⚓ Android Authority ☛ 5_Android_apps_you_shouldn’t_miss_this week_–_Android_Apps_Weekly⠀⇛ # ⚓ Unpaid_Volunteers_At_CyanogenMod_Successor_LineageOS Maintain_Builds_For_Old_Android_Devices_–_Slashdot⠀⇛ # ⚓ PC Mag ☛ Nearly_Half_of_Local_Govt._Employees_Use_Old Android_Devices_|_PCMag⠀⇛ # ⚓ HowTo Geek ☛ How_to_Record_Audio_on_an_Android_Phone⠀⇛ * § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾ o ⚓ Why_Mastodon_is_Better_–_Quick_Fixes⠀⇛ It is no secret I am a great fan of the Fediverse. I am especially fond of its most successful incarnation, Mastodon. I wrote an intro to Mastodon for Linux Magazine back in 2019, then expanded it into a tutorial. Later, I went on to explain how to write a command line client for reading toots, and then expanded that into a full-fledged client that allowed you to post and schedule posts in the following issue. By that time, the editors at Linux Magazine where advising me to please, please move onto another topic. Maybe now, with the Muskquake leading to a tsunami of users flooding Mastodon they will see the errors of their ways and regret not commissioning five more pieces on the matter. Even mainstream journalists from the The Guardian and CNN regarding the platform as “interesting”. What I am saying is that I am going to be biased in this piece. Big whoop. As if anybody wasn’t. o ⚓ Computing UK ☛ Why_enterprises_must_do_more_to_support_open source_software_they_use⠀⇛ CNCF panellists discuss what if the maintainer of that vital component goes under a bus o § Web Browsers/Web Servers⠀➾ # § Mozilla⠀➾ # ⚓ Mozilla_Ventures:_Investing_in_Responsible_Tech_– Mark_Surman [Ed: Now Mark Surman hopes you forget who funds Mozilla]⠀⇛ Many people complain about today’s tech industry. Some say the internet has lost its soul. And some even say it’s impossible to make it better. My response: we won’t know unless we try, together. Personally, I think it is possible to build successful companies — and great internet products — that put people before profits. Mozilla proves this. But so do WordPress, Hugging Face, ProtonMail, Kickstarter, and a good number of others. All are creating products and technology that respect users — and that are making the internet a healthier place. o § SaaS/Back End/Databases⠀➾ # ⚓ PostgreSQL ☛ PostgreSQL:_PGroonga_2.4.1_released!⠀⇛ PGroonga 2.4.1 has been released! PGroonga is a PostgreSQL extension that makes PostgreSQL fast full text search platform for all languages! It’s released under PostgreSQL license. There are some PostgreSQL extensions that improves full text search feature of PostgreSQL such as pg_trgm ^1. # ⚓ PostgreSQL ☛ PostgreSQL:_PostgreSQL@SCaLE_20x_Call_for Presentations_Now_Open_Until_Dec_2,_2022!⠀⇛ PostgreSQL@SCaLE is a PostgreSQL two day, two track event that takes place on Thursday-Friday March 9- 10, 2023, in Pasadena, California, at the Pasadena Convention Center as part of SCaLE 20x. The CFP is currently open through December 2, 2022. We are looking for talks that showcase PostgreSQL stories, features and applications! # ⚓ PostgreSQL ☛ PostgreSQL:_Octopai_is_adding_out-of-the-box support_and_analysis_of_PostgreSQL⠀⇛ Octopai’s platform enables data teams by providing them with complete end-to-end lineage across multiple systems regardless of being on-prem or cloud-based. Octopai’s Data Intelligence Platform provides cost savings to enterprises using cloud- based systems, from the migration phase all the way to day-to-day use. By getting the full picture of what and how different tables, columns etc. are being used, Octopai decreases the number of exploration queries over various cloud-based systems, directly reducing expenses. o § Content Management Systems (CMS)⠀➾ # ⚓ Linux Links ☛ 3_Best_Free_and_Open_Source_Scheme_Static Site_Generators_–_LinuxLinks⠀⇛ 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. There are lots of other advantages of running a full, static HTML website. o § FSFE⠀➾ # ⚓ FSFE ☛ The_coding_contest_Youth_Hacking_4_Freedom_launches its_second_edition_–_FSFE [Ed: YH4F: Child Labour at FSFE (Exploiting Underpaid or Unpaid Youth)]⠀⇛ The registration for the second edition of “Youth Hacking 4 Freedom “, the FSFE’s hacking competition for teenagers from all over Europe, has started. This contest offers young people aged between 14 and 18 the opportunity to challenge themselves, meet like-minded people and win cash prizes. # ⚓ FSFE ☛ Let’s_talk_with_young_hackers_Ekaterina,_Miquel_and Alexia_about_YH4F_–_FSFE⠀⇛ The first edition of the Youth Hacking for Freedom contest has ended. After 5 months of coding, over 35 young people came up with outstanding projects. Three of them will be introduced to you in this interview. Ekaterina, the mind behind Music Companion, Miquel who developed Smart Table Assistant and Alexia, the creator of a basic password manager. The Youth Hacking 4 Freedom contest, is a competition organised by the FSFE that encourages young Europeans to start working on their personal technical project. As there are no limits to the possibilities of projects that could be submitted and every technical idea is welcome, the first edition ended up with a great number of diverse and inspiring projects, making it really hard for the jury members to choose the six winners.With all those well done projects we thought about a way how to best highlight the effort and work that was put into them. Hence, we are happy to present three of the contestants. o § Programming/Development⠀➾ # ⚓ Introducing_yahoofinancer_–_Rsquared_Academy_Blog_–_Explore Discover_Learn⠀⇛ We are excited to announce the yahoofinancer package. The yahoofinancer R package allows the retrieval of nearly all data visible via the Yahoo Finance front-end and aims to reduce the pre- processing steps needed in analyzing such data. yahoofinancer is inspired by and a port of the Python package yahooquery. yahoofinancer is not affiliated, endorsed, or vetted by Yahoo, Inc. It’s an open-source tool that uses Yahoo’s publicly available APIs, and is intended for research and educational purposes. # ⚓ IT Pro Today ☛ Software_Accessibility:_Back-End_Developers Play_a_Major_Role⠀⇛ Front-end developers aren’t the only ones responsible for building accessible apps; back-end developers can also help improve software accessibility. # ⚓ Python Speed ☛ Early_speed_optimizations_aren’t_premature⠀⇛ As you code, you might have a coworker, or friend, or a little voice in your head, reminding you of Knuth’s famous saying: “premature optimization is the root of all evil.” But what makes an optimization premature, anyway? The short answer is that this aphorism is a tautology. “Premature” means “too early,” so we can rephrase the point as “doing things at the wrong time isn’t ideal.” Can’t argue with that! The problem with this saying is that many people wrongly interpret it as “early optimization is the root of all evil.” In fact, writing fast software from the start can be hugely beneficial. In order to reduce the scope a bit, I’m going to focus on one particular problem domain: data processing pipelines or batch jobs. This is the kind of software you often write when doing data science, or scientific computing: you load in some data, process them, spit out a result. # ⚓ Karl Sutt ☛ How_to_communicate_effectively_as_a_developer⠀⇛ # ⚓ Python Speed ☛ Good_old-fashioned_code_optimization_never goes_out_of_style⠀⇛ Sometimes, making your Python data processing software faster doesn’t require libraries like NumPy or Pandas, or specialized techniques like vectorization. In fact, if you’re doing string processing, libraries like Pandas won’t help. Pushing calculation down to a faster implementation is just one way to speed up software. Another way to get faster results is to remove code that is redundant, repetitive, superfluous, needless, or otherwise does unnecessary work. The fastest software, after all, is software that doesn’t run at all. In short, sometimes all you need is some good old- fashioned speed optimization. # ⚓ The_type_system_is_a_programmer’s_best_friend⠀⇛ I am tired of primitive obsession and the excessive use of primitive types to model a domain. A string value is not a great type to convey a user’s email address or their country of origin. These values deserve much richer and dedicated types. I want a data type called EmailAddress which cannot be null. I want a single point of entry to create a new object of that type. It should get validated and normalised before returning a new value. I want that data type to have helpful methods such as .Domain() or .NonAliasValue() which would return gmail.com and foo@gmail.com respectively for an input of foo+bar@gmail.com. Such useful functionality should be embedded into those types. It provides safety, helps to prevent bugs and it immensely increases maintainability. # ⚓ Performance_Musings_–_Kai_Uwe’s_Blog⠀⇛ Sometimes while using my computer I notice random slowness when launching a certain application or some feature that just doesn’t run very well. That’s always reason enough for me to take a deeper look. My tool of choice for analyzing performance issue is Hotspot, KDAB’s excellent perf visualizer. It comes with an easy to use GUI for browsing the results collected by it. Particularly its flame graph view lets you detect, well, hotspots during execution quickly. Just launch an application through Hotspot or attach it to an existing instance, and look at the graphs. Depending on your system configuration you might need to adjust the perf_event_paranoid kernel setting in order for it to inspect other processes. # ⚓ Dirk Eddelbuettel ☛ Dirk_Eddelbuettel:_RcppEigen_0.3.3.9.3 on_CRAN:_Maintenance⠀⇛ A new release 0.3.3.9.3 of RcppEigen arrived on CRAN moments ago (and just went to Debian). Eigen is a C++ template library for linear algebra: matrices, vectors, numerical solvers, and related algorithms. This update is again mostly maintenance. To accomodate one small aspect of the Fortran interface, we now require R 3.6.0 or later. Jonah Gabry spotted a really old typo and fixed it. The fastLm support code now uses the unabbreviated df.residual. We accomodated clang-15 in one signature as is common with many recent uploads, and also updated one aspect of GitHub Actions. # ⚓ Reproducible_Builds,_Read-only_FS_and_How_a_Persistent_QML Cache_then_Can_Ruin_Your_Day_–_cordlandwehr⠀⇛ Long title, but the combination is important. Recently, I had an embedded device on my desk, which drove me to claiming quite strongly that “this is not possible what is happening in front of me!!!” If you are familiar with setups of all the points above, this article might be interesting to you. Starting from the very strange effects I had. The device itself in question has a read-only root file system, as it is common for embedded devices. On this device a QtQuick application is running and, because I have not the most efficient processor, QML cache is enabled. Instead of going the build- time cache generation route, I have a persistent writable partition on the device, on which the QML cache is generated and stored at first start of the QtQuick application after first boot. Note that the cache needs to be persistently stored since otherwise the whole performance improvement on startup is moot. So far so good, everything works well… until we are starting to update the software or more precisely the root file system. For this example, and this will be important later, the update of the root file system just updates my QtQuick application and its QML file but not the Qt version. What I then see after the update and the following boot is a system where the QML application still looks like before the update. Looking deeper at the file system, everything seems fine, files are updated, even QML files are updated, but the application just ignores them. But even worse, the application now randomly crashes because the executable and the shared libraries apparently do not match to the QML code being executed. — I will shorten this up, because with the intro the problem is quite obvious: the QML cache is not being invalidated even if it should and old versions of the QML files are used to run the applications. But how can this be?! o § Standards/Consortia⠀➾ # ⚓ Terence Eden ☛ Not_Quite_Emoji_Domain_Names⠀⇛ That’s “Unicode Power Symbol Dot Gabon”. Because why not. Regular readers will know that I helped get ⏻ and several power symbols into Unicode. When I do talks about this, I usually refer to them as Emoji because, to most people, Emoji are simply little pictures in text. But that is a gross oversimplification. You know the meme that real Champagne must be from the Champagne region of France – otherwise it is merely sparkling wine? Well, Emoji must come from the Supplementary Multilingual Plane of Unicode otherwise they’re just ✨sparkling✨ characters. Except… That’s not quite true. There are a bunch of symbols stuffed in the Miscellaneous block of the Basic Multilingual Plane which are also Emoji. The Power Symbol appears in the block Miscellaneous Technical. The symbol itself is not an Emoji, but it is in a block which has 18 Emoji. Confused? Good1! * § Leftovers⠀➾ o § Security⠀➾ # ⚓ TechTarget ☛ OpenSSL_vulnerabilities_get_high-priority patches⠀⇛ # ⚓ Google ☛ Project_Zero:_A_Very_Powerful_Clipboard:_Analysis of_a_Samsung_in-the-wild_exploit_chain⠀⇛ As defenders, in-the-wild exploit samples give us important insight into what attackers are really doing. We get the “ground truth” data about the vulnerabilities and exploit techniques they’re using, which then informs our further research and guidance to security teams on what could have the biggest impact or return on investment. To do this, we need to know that the vulnerabilities and exploit samples were found in-the-wild. Over the past few years there’s been tremendous progress in vendor’s transparently disclosing when a vulnerability is known to be exploited in-the-wild: Adobe, Android, Apple, ARM, Chrome, Microsoft, Mozilla, and others are sharing this information via their security release notes. While we understand that Samsung has yet to annotate any vulnerabilities as in-the-wild, going forward, Samsung has committed to publicly sharing when vulnerabilities may be under limited, targeted exploitation, as part of their release notes. We hope that, like Samsung, others will join their industry peers in disclosing when there is evidence to suggest that a vulnerability is being exploited in-the-wild in one of their products. # ⚓ Hacker News ☛ Microsoft_Warns_of_Uptick_in_Hackers Leveraging_Publicly-Disclosed_0-Day_Vulnerabilities [Ed: At Microsoft, a lack of security is often intentional]⠀⇛ # ⚓ Hacker News ☛ Researchers_Uncover_29_Malicious_PyPI Packages_Targeted_Developers_with_W4SP_Stealer [Ed: Microsoft (GitHub) is distributing malware against while banning innocent and innocuous projects]⠀⇛ Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered 29 packages in Python Package Index (PyPI), the official third-party software repository for the Python programming language, that aim to infect developers’ machines with a malware called W4SP Stealer. “The main attack seems to have started around October 12, 2022, slowly picking up steam to a concentrated effort around October 22,” software supply chain security company Phylum said in a report published this week. o § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾ # ⚓ The_bird,_the_billionaire_and_the_precipice._– affordance.info⠀⇛ Is Twitter really worth 44 billion dollars ? Nobody knows. But for some background and history, Google acquired Youtube for 1.65 billion dollars in 2005. In 2021 and for 20 billion Microsoft bought the company “Nuance”, specialized in conversational artificial intelligence. In 2016, Microsoft again spent 26 billion dollars to buy LinkedIn. In 2014 Facebook bought WhatsApp for 22 billion dollars, half the amount that Musk is investing today to acquire Twitter. And in 2012 the same Facebook bought Instagram for $1 billion. The company is now worth 100 times more. All of the companies targeted by these acquisitions have a history. And the biggest offers don’t always make the best stories. o § Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press⠀➾ # ⚓ Jacobin Magazine ☛ Free_Speech_Is_Too_Important_To_Be Entrusted_to_Elon_Musk⠀⇛ Liberals who minimize the importance of free speech on Twitter are dead wrong. But we shouldn’t have to hope that a billionaire with a track record of suppressing his critics will live up to his free speech rhetoric. [...] As a democratic socialist, I reject that view root and branch. Empowering ordinary people to run society in their own interests is the whole point of the socialist project — and that’s flatly incompatible with the technocratic liberal view that ordinary people can’t be trusted to decide for themselves what to believe. And socialists obviously reject the view that free speech only applies to governments and that private companies should be able to do whatever they want. If I didn’t think private regimes of power could be dangerous, I wouldn’t be a socialist in the first place. A better concern about Twitter becoming the personal property of Musk is that he can’t be trusted to practice what he preaches. Musk has a sketchy history of trying to shut down his own critics. He’s also deeply connected to the national security state, giving him a vested interest in enabling the United States’s giant surveillance regime — historically one of the biggest threats to free expression here and abroad. * § Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾ o § Personal⠀➾ # ⚓ winds_blowing⠀⇛ Bartender, I know it’s kind of early, but I’m in the mood for a shot of Grey Goose and a pint of whatever ale you have on tap, as long as it is not of the India variety. Sure is windy outside today. # ⚓ i’m_in_a_resort_7_hours_ago,_pretty_good.⠀⇛ i’m in a resort 7 hours ago, pretty good. # ⚓ A_quick_vacation⠀⇛ I got back from a small vacation yesterday. I took the train up to Chicago on Tuesday, puttered around the city for a couple of days, rode the L, zoomed around on a Divvy bike, skulked around the enemy’s baseball stadium (it’s neat! I would have done a tour if they were having them), and generally was on no one’s schedule but my own for a few days. I ended up in Wicker Park, to see Myopic Books, of course, but also Quimby’s. Quimby’s is a bookstore full of independent publications, and more importantly, zines. I’ve been going through my backlog, and picked up a few there. It’s a great store, and if I make it back to Chicago, I plan on going again. That it’s right on a subway line is just an added bonus. # ⚓ Sports_Fans_Flying_Flags_on_Their_Cars⠀⇛ With the Football World Cup starting soon in Qatar, lots of fans will be dusting off their little plastic national flags to clip to the doors of their cars to show support for their teams. You must have seen them around, little flags with the cross of St George fluttering above the side windows. OK, so I object to anyone flying our national flag who feels the need for the word England to be printed across the middle. It smacks of the far- right Little-Englanders protesting the arrival of refugees from war zones on the basis that they want to take jobs that should by all rights be left vacant by born-and-bread Englishmen. But is there a better reason for banning the flags flown from car doors? # ⚓ Biking_and_Idling⠀⇛ Today B was sick and stayed home from school. Meg had some calls, so I worked from home. It was a fun morning- I printed out fantasy RPG map tiles and taped them to the table so he could color in a world- but it’s difficult to actually focus working with a small child. Meg came home around 1, and I biked to a coffee shop to work for the back half of the day. The coffee shop is only 1km away, but on the other side of a divided highway. I rolled up to the light, hit the button, after a few minutes the lights changed. I got the walk sign, and the highway paused in both directions… for 35 seconds. During this time, at least 40 cars piled up at the stoplight while I crossed, each idling for half a minute. 40 cars stopping, idling, and accelerating back to 60mph. # ⚓ Love_a_good_letter⠀⇛ When I gave up my social media, I fell back on email and texting as a way to stay in touch with people. But now, ten months on, I’m finding that texting and email are just so troublesome. There’s been no drama (quite the opposite, it’s been lovely) but the physical act of hunching over my phone or sitting at my computer has started to feel like work. This is a good thing, I think. I want to believe it means my brain is learning to see technology as tool rather than as interface for living. It feels like the right direction for me. That said, I now feel bad that I told my social media friends to text and email me instead, only to now have their emails put me in such an ambivalent mood. # ⚓ Agile:_Or_how_to_show_how_bad_you_are_at_your_job⠀⇛ Just completed another sprint. Doing our retro we didn’t have too many issues. It was an odd two weeks, a few days where all developers worked on “fun” projects unrelated to normal day to day so our velocity was going to be messed up. On the bright side, we are deep in the middle of a green service so there is all new APIs and UX work to be done that we couldn’t help but be super productive. # ⚓ the_dog_lead_and_the_backpack⠀⇛ i bought a new backpack with a internal laptop pocket and suitable for cabin hand luggage: decathlon of course:-) the backpack looks smart but lacks high visibility features. i failed to find some reflective tape that i could tie on to the backpack but i did find a high visibility dog lead and had an idea. the lead had high visibility tape platted around it. # ⚓ Extreme_disappointment,_Brevard_NC_editon⠀⇛ Bunny and I choose The Bromfield Inn [1] because The Red House Inn [2] was no longer, having been sold last year [3]. The Bromfield Inn is beautiful, but it turns out it’s not suitable for us. The owners are new to the bed-and-breakfast business, having bought The Bromfield Inn just a few months ago (and after we had made reservations with the previous owners). The owners are a mother and daughter team, and thus, I will refer to them as Mother and Daughter. Mother lives on site and currently manages the inn, while Daughter is still in Florida closing up her real estate business there. o § Politics⠀➾ # ⚓ Food_should_not_be_bought_and_sold⠀⇛ [ The following is _satire_. Originally posted in a different space, 2012-11-29. ] i’d like to discuss an issue pervading Western society which doesn’t get anywhere near the attention it deserves. That issue is the commodification of food, and the scourge that is the food industry. Food shouldn’t be commoditised. It is an essential human need. When people buy and sell food, the act of preparing and eating food becomes mere support for, and reinforcement of, the notion that it’s acceptable to transform relations between humans into relations between a human and an unimportant unfeeling object. We must reject all buying and selling of food. # ⚓ Obsolescence_Culture⠀⇛ Capitalism requires consumption. That is not a value judgment, but an observation. Unfortunately, the pace of consumption leads to waste – and this is made worse when vendors deliberately cultivate a culture of obsolescence and constant upgrades. o § Technical⠀➾ # ⚓ Pop_Ups_are_Terrible_UI⠀⇛ So what’s so terrible about pop-ups? The gist is contained in the code comment above: surprise! there’s a continuation key (argh) or something about some new feature (don’t care) or would you like to know that the wifi went away? (not really) or how about you subscribe to our newsletter (die, modern web, die) and what you wanted to do is no longer possible, or at the very least you risk distraction, like being bothered by an annoying fly whilst trying to craft a fine hammer. It’s like some mischievous prankster god will–randomly!–move things around on you. And people–often deliberately–put this crap into their user interfaces. # ⚓ The_Analog_Guideline⠀⇛ Often when I think of a philosophical or moral or behavioral issue related to online, a guideline I use is “how would we have done this before the internet?” In the sixties, seventies, early eighties when even long-distance phonecalls were expensive and noisy. Conversations would’ve happened around the kitchen table or at parties between people who knew each other, and exchange of ideas would be at clubs or in the library or in the letter’s pages of magazines, like cooking magazines for example. That’s why I’m a huge fan of encrypted email but a lot more indifferent on or even reluctuant towards encrypted anonymous publishing. People were able to speak freely and try out ideas fearlessly when talking to their own friends, but you didn’t have to fear a dog-pile of two hundred anonymous sealions everytime you left your house. # ⚓ Matrix_To_MMS-Over-Email_Bridge:_Step 1 —_MMS_Over_Email⠀⇛ Getting MMS working over email was exceedingly easy because all of the work was already done for me; I just used my phone provider’s email gateway. # ⚓ replacing_google_websearch⠀⇛ Every now and then I get to install or re-install a computer with a brand new libre operating system, allowing for a few days of futzing around and trying new things. If it’s a general purpose machine, I also need to install a big web browser. Whenever I install a a big-web browser I change the default search engine, and then, after a few days, reluctantly revert it back to google. For all its ills Google did create a good search engine, even if its results have become worse over the last decade for people like me–likely because me and those like me are not economically important enough, but it’s still the only option for many queries I need to make. # ⚓ The_Outernet⠀⇛ NB: Andrew Roach’s “small things Manifesto” says much of what I’m saying here, better. I flirted with not posting this as a result, but it was mostly complete before the stM dropped, so here it is. When I first got into Gopher, around 2013, I saw it as little more than a toy. I liked the underground nature of it, and I enjoyed how straightforward it was to use, but it had no particular ideological context to me. It was just cool. # ⚓ Contemplating_My_Perfect_Gemini_Client⠀⇛ Okay now that I’ve finished the bulk of Lasso, I’m currently pondering what features I absolutely want in a smallnet client I’d like to write. I’ve assembled an incomplete list, more for my reference than for anybody else. (although I’d love somebody backing me up that they want features like these as well!) [...] Right now I’m debating writing it in Ada or Common Lisp. It’s 1000% narrowed down to those two programming languages because they’re the only programming languages I ​*really* enjoy writing; and the ones I’d want to choose for a semi-large- ish project. Up until now I’d planned to use Ada and I’ve spent quite a bit of time writing various support libraries for a Gemini client in Ada. However, after writing Lasso in Common Lisp and having it be so quick, easy, and legitimately fun to write, it’s really made me reconsider. I still feel like Ada will result in a better and more maintainable final product, just because it’s explicitly designed to basically force writing well-organized and understandable code, with an emphasis on large codebases; while in CL even something as small-scale as Lasso requires a lot of genuine effort to keep the code organized and clean. But it’s so hard to ignore the literal breeze that ​*initially* developing anything in Lisp is… # ⚓ How_to_Install_Linux⠀⇛ Change your software to Linux software before you switch operating systems. # § Science⠀➾ # ⚓ Notes_from_Pantheist_(Secular)_Astronomy_(November_5 2022)⠀⇛ Newfound planet b Centauri b is a problem for the standard model of planet evolution, because it orbits “a pair of stars so massive that they challenge [their] ideas of how planets and stars form”. In the conventional model, “dust grains surrounding the fledgling star” supposedly “begin glomming on to each other” and “this process of accumulation eventually snowballs”. But the problem is that “stars that hot emit powerful ultraviolet and X-ray radiation, which should disrupt the planet-forming process”. # § Internet/Gemini⠀➾ # ⚓ Leaving_Twitter⠀⇛ If you’re leaving Twitter because Elon Musk is a terrible boss, or because he fired half the team, either moderators or accessibility engineers, I don’t really know the details, then my recommendation is to join the fediverse. Personally, I have three accounts on three instances, and they don’t all use the same software but they all interoperate. # ⚓ smolZINE_–_Issue_35⠀⇛ # ⚓ ANSI_movie_stills.⠀⇛ Busy busy busy – done lots of work on the 3d engine. I wrote documentation, examples, tutorials, and all that(1). Initially encouraged to do so because screwtape needed some material for a class, and was looking to use Eternal. Did work on the physics in the engine (fixing the timestep was harder than I thought it would be) and now working on a post-processing pipeline and ultimately some anti-aliasing stuff. # ⚓ How_GNUnet_File_Share_stores_it’s_data_securely,_on other_people’s_computers⠀⇛ Took me a while to understand how GNUnet File Share is able to encrypt and store data on the decentralized network. While making nodes unable to decrypt it. The answer is in the GNUnet whitepaper published in 2002. Like any technical documentation, you need some background knowledge to understand it. I will try to explain it in a simple way. # § Programming⠀➾ # ⚓ Expressing_operations_and_psychology⠀⇛ I complained about stack manipulation in Whitespace and Forth, but maybe that’s only because I’m so used to infix operators. Postfix means you’re using a stack of values. Perhaps prefix would seem easier. The only language I know of that’s like that is Lisp, but I did once implement it as a formula “language” in a (very simple) spreadheet app. There’s still a stack, but it’s the other way around. Instead of values stacked up waiting for operations, there are operations and values waiting until the top-most operation has enough params. For some reason this isn’t making my head hurt so much. Maybe my problem is that the postfix stack is just a bunch of values waiting for… what? You can’t look at the stack and see anything meaningful. Two values waiting for addition look just like two values waiting for subtraction. And umpteen values looks like a mess. The right number of operations might well be applied to use up all those values, but there’s no way of knowing that by looking at the stack. In the prefix case, a stack of operations has a bunch of meaning in it, and I can see how many values it’s waiting for so it can do its thing. # ⚓ Adventure_Game⠀⇛ I agree but I’d wanna add… an adventure game is a game that’s about you experiencing the game world, doing things in the game world, pawn stance or actor stance or adventurer stance, as opposed to how some other games (including some really really good games) lean more into the experience of being a story-creator, being in the writer’s room, being in the “wouldn’t it be cool if such- and-such” happened. =============================================================================== * Gemini_(Primer) links can be opened using Gemini_software. It’s like the World Wide Web but a lot lighter. ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 3428 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐃𝐀𝐈𝐋𝐘 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒 ═════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 11.06.22⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Links_06/11/2022:_Twitter_Continues_to_Shrink_(Exodus)⠀✐ Posted in News_Roundup at 4:17 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇GNOME bluefish⦈ § Contents⠀➾ * GNU/Linux o Audiocasts/Shows o Applications o Instructionals/Technical o Games * Distributions_and_Operating_Systems o Fedora_and_Red_Hat o Devuan_Family o Devices/Embedded o Open_Hardware/Modding o Mobile_Systems/Mobile_Applications * Free,_Libre,_and_Open_Source_Software o Programming/Development # Shell/Bash/Zsh/Ksh # Java o Standards/Consortia * Leftovers o Science o Hardware o Health/Nutrition/Agriculture o Security # Privacy/Surveillance o Defence/Aggression o Environment # Energy # Wildlife/Nature # Overpopulation o Finance o AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics o Censorship/Free_Speech o Freedom_of_Information_/_Freedom_of_the_Press o Civil_Rights/Policing o Monopolies # Copyrights * Gemini*_and_Gopher o Personal o Technical # Internet/Gemini * § GNU/Linux⠀➾ o ⚓ DebugPoint ☛ DebugPoint_Weekly_Roundup_#22.12:_OpenSSL_Fixes, Nitrux_2.5,_elementary_OS_7_Updates⠀⇛ We present the weekly roundup #22.12 featuring FOSS and tech updates across the web. Welcome to the DebugPoint Weekly roundup #22.12, where you can find all the happenings from this week, mainly from the Linux and open-source space. This week, we saw several critical security updates from major packages, distro updates and new features on some major app releases. Here’s what happened this week. o ⚓ Linux Links ☛ Linux_Around_The_World:_Cyprus_–_LinuxLinks⠀⇛ We cover events and user groups that are running in Cyprus. This article forms part of our Linux Around The World series. o ⚓ Bryan Lunduke ☛ Lunduke’s_Normal_Computing_News_–_October_26, 2022⠀⇛ While there are interesting — and valid — points made by Poettering (creator of systemd), the idea of making the mere act of “booting Linux” reliant on a locked down Microsoft specification… well… no sir, I don’t like it. o § Audiocasts/Shows⠀➾ # ⚓ Video ☛ Robots_Writing_Code…What_Could_Go_Wrong?_– Invidious⠀⇛ # ⚓ Video ☛ Creating_Countdowns,_Timers_and_Stopwatches_In Linux_–_Invidious⠀⇛ There are many small timer or stopwatch programs available in Linux, but…why not make our own? I will show you many different ways to create your own custom timers using the standard Linux command line utilities. I’ll use ‘for’ loops, ‘while’ loops, cat, read, time, timeout, and several other standard utilities. o § Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ Obnam ☛ Obnam_Iteration_planning:_November⠀⇛ The goal of the previous iteration was: The goal of this iteration is to restart Obnam development. # ⚓ Bozhidar Batsov ☛ Meta_Reduce_2022.0⠀⇛ Lately I haven’t written much here, so I thought it’d be nice to change this with a short update on my recent OSS activity. # ⚓ dwaves.de ☛ list_of_open_source_projects_to_donate_to_– Want_to_support_Free_(GNU)_and_Open_Source_software?⠀⇛ # ⚓ PowerDNS ☛ dnsdist_1.7.3_released_|_PowerDNS_Blog⠀⇛ We are very happy to release dnsdist 1.7.3 today, a maintenance release with no functional changes. This release strictly serves to bring dnsdist packages to our EL9 and Ubuntu Jammy repositories, and upgrades the dnsdist Docker image from Debian buster to Debian bullseye, as buster is officially EOL. # ⚓ PowerDNS ☛ Authoritative_Server_4.7.1⠀⇛ This is the release of version 4.7.1 of the Authoritative Server. After 4.7.0 (quite recently) was released, we realised the SQL schema update files were missing. 4.7.1 corrects this. It also contains a few small fixes in the catalog zones implementation. # ⚓ PowerDNS ☛ Authoritative_Server_4.7.2⠀⇛ Just one day after releasing version 4.7.1, we realised an important fix was missing from it. Specifically, AXFR clients (secondaries) can get very busy checking for updates on primaries, or could miss updates entirely. 4.7.2 fixes this. # ⚓ Barry Kauler ☛ OpenEmbedded_meta-quirky_layer_now_on github⠀⇛ I have now named the project “oe-qky-dunfell” and uploaded it to github.com This project will cross-compile hundreds of packages (currently 956 packages), on a x86_64 host system, for x86_64 (nocona), i686, or aarch64 target. o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾ # ⚓ systemd_encrypted_boot_may_be_broken_by_upgrade_(systemd- cryptsetup)_–_suggest_to_postpone_upgrading_openssl⠀⇛ # ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_To_Install_GlassFish_on_AlmaLinux_9_– idroot⠀⇛ In this tutorial, we will show you how to install GlassFish on AlmaLinux 9. For those of you who didn’t know, GlassFish is a free, open-source server for deploying JAVA based applications. It also provides both web and CLI-based administration consoles for easier configuration and management of your Java applications and their respective components. 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 GlassFish on AlmaLinux 9. You can follow the same instructions for CentOS and Rocky Linux. # ⚓ Ubuntu Handbook ☛ How_to_Enable_macOS_spotlight_style Search_Box_in_Ubuntu_22.04_|_22.10_|_UbuntuHandbook⠀⇛ Prefer macOS spotlight or Alfred style search system? You can now get similar feature in Ubuntu via an extension. It’s ‘Search Light‘, an extension so far supports for Gnome 42 & 43, meaning for Ubuntu 22.04, Ubuntu 22.10, Fedora 36/37, Arch and Manjaro Linux. With it, you may press a custom shortcut key on keyboard to open the search box. Then, type to search and launch applications, settings, and/or app content. # ⚓ Jeff Geerling ☛ Docker_and_systemd,_getting_rid_of_dreaded ‘Failed_to_connect_to_bus’_error⠀⇛ Docker and systemd, getting rid of dreaded ‘Failed to connect to bus’ error # ⚓ Michael_Ablassmeier:_virtnbdbackup_in_unstable/bookworm⠀⇛ Besides several bugfixes, the latest version now supports using higher compression levels and logging to syslog facility. I also finished packaging and official packages are now available, # ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ Linux_sysfs_File_System⠀⇛ In Linux, every directory has its own purpose for its existence. The same is true for the sysfs directory. The sysfs entries are used by the kernel to export the information to processes in the user domain and to get input from the user. These entries travel through the file system to find the show and store functions registered for it. Entries in sysfs can be sorted based on the bus type, object type, device type, parent/child relationships, etc. Symlinks aid in reducing redundancies. # ⚓ Manuel Matuzovic ☛ Day_30:_the_hwb()_color_function⠀⇛ Like the lab() color function, hwb() is one of the more recent methods for defining colors in CSS. Just like rgb() and hsl() it uses colors from the sRGB color space. HWB, which stands for hue- whiteness-blackness, describes colors with a starting hue, then a degree of whiteness and blackness to mix into that base hue. The function takes 3 space-separated values. # ⚓ Idiomdrottning ☛ Font_size_on_the_Web⠀⇛ People wanna completely erode the entire meaning of setting a font-size in the browser by moving into some wack-ass race-to-the-bottom of shifting the “de facto” default up by 25%. What’s the, uh, what’s the long-term consequence of that, you think? It’s gonna be a slippery slope, a tug of war of increase/decrease/increase/decrease—your CSS is just the wrong place to set this. There are four places prose text font-size can be set: [...] # ⚓ uni Toronto ☛ On_not_having_a_separate_/boot_filesystem_on modern_(x86)_Linux⠀⇛ Once up on a time there were good reasons to use a separate /boot filesystem, but they’ve gone away these days in basic configurations. No x86 system’s firmware has problems reading all of your disks, and if you’re sticking to non-exotic storage devices, the firmware can boot from anything you want to use. There remain reasons like having your root filesystem encrypted or using btrfs for it (the current Fedora default), but if your Linux distribution does this, the installer should get it right if you need a separate /boot (and also if you don’t). # ⚓ Javier Martinez Canillas ☛ How_to_install_Fedora_on_an_HP X2_Chromebook⠀⇛ We have been working lately with Enric Balletbo and Dorinda Bassey to improve the support for the HP X2 Chromebook in Fedora. This post explains how to install Fedora on that Chromebook. # ⚓ Linux Handbook ☛ Connect_to_SSH_Server_on_Alternate_Port⠀⇛ By default, SSH utilizes port number 22 and many sysadmins change it to avoid the influx of bot attacks trying to brute-force their way in. # ⚓ Linux Handbook ☛ Exclude_Files_and_Directories_While Creating_Tar_File⠀⇛ The tar command is used for creating archive files from various files and folders. It’s quite simple when you have all the required files in one place. But what if you want to put some files or folders in the tar file and exclude some? One way would be to copy those required files into a new directory and then proceed with the standard procedure, but it is not an efficient way. # ⚓ Linux Nightly ☛ How_to_Install_Lutris_on_Manjaro_–_Linux Nightly⠀⇛ Lutris is the most popular Linux game manager on Linux that allows you to install games from different platforms like Steam, Battle.net, and others. In this tutorial, we will learn how to install Lutris on Manjaro Linux, and also how to add games from the application and from the official Lutris website. # ⚓ Pi My Life Up ☛ How_to_Install_the_Plex_Media_Player_on Ubuntu_–_Pi_My_Life_Up⠀⇛ In this tutorial you will learn how to install the Plex Media Player to your Ubuntu device. This Plex client is the best way to stream media from a Plex server thanks to its advanced media playback engine. # ⚓ Pi My Life Up ☛ How_to_use_the_groupdel_Command_–_Pi_My Life_Up⠀⇛ The groupdel command enables you to remove specific groups from a Linux operating system. After invoking the command, it will attempt to remove all entries that refer to the specified group from all the system account files. If you maintain a system with many users and groups, this command will eventually come in handy. # ⚓ Pi My Life Up ☛ How_to_use_the_date()_Function_in_PHP_–_Pi My_Life_Up⠀⇛ The date() function in PHP allows you to print the date and time using the specified format. You can get the date and time from any point by specifying a Unix timestamp. However, if you don’t specify a timestamp, then the date() function will use the current date and time as retrieved from the “time()” function. While this function may initially seem confusing, it is relatively simple once you know what characters are replaced within the string. Over the following sections, you will learn all there is to know about using this function within your scripts. # ⚓ Pi My Life Up ☛ How_to_use_the_gpasswd_Command_on_Linux_– Pi_My_Life_Up⠀⇛ The gpasswd command allows you to edit a group’s password, members, and administrators. It is used to edit both the /etc/group and /etc/gshadow files. If you use the command without any options, it will prompt for a new password for the group. Since a group password is often shared amongst multiple people, they are not considered very secure. However, they are a useful tool if elevated security is required. # ⚓ Citizix ☛ How_to_Install_and_Configure_Postgres_15_on Rocky/Alma_Linux_9⠀⇛ Postgresql is an open source object-relational database system with over 30 years of active development that has earned it a strong reputation for reliability, feature robustness, and performance. Postgres, is a free and open-source relational database management system emphasizing extensibility and SQL compliance. # ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_Microsoft_Teams_on_Debian 11/10/Sid [Ed: These instructions not only tell people to put malware in GNU/Linux but also let Microsoft spy, on top of being able to control (via root) the machine during updates, adding additional malware covertly and without consent]⠀⇛ o § Games⠀➾ # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Get_some_quality_titles_like_Frostpunk_and Children_of_Morta_in_the_11bit_bundle⠀⇛ Ready for some more quality games? There’s an 11 Bit developer / publisher bundle on Humble and it seems like a pretty good deal overall. Here’s what to expect from it on Linux desktop and Steam Deck, along with ProtonDB rating if needed. # ⚓ Björn Wärmedal ☛ Give_Me_Your_Best_OpenTTD_NewGRFs_–_Björn Wärmedal⠀⇛ I’ve finished my NewGRF that adds tea to OpenTTD. It’s not publicly available yet, because I want to test it more and see if there’s anything that should be tweaked. * § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾ o § Fedora and Red Hat⠀➾ # ⚓ NeuroFedora ☛ Next_Open_NeuroFedora_meeting:_07_November 1300_UTC_|_NeuroFedora:_Blog⠀⇛ Please join us at the next regular Open NeuroFedora team meeting on Monday 07 November at 1300 UTC. The meeting is a public meeting, and open for everyone to attend. You can join us over: # ⚓ Red Hat Official ☛ Modenization:_Strategies_for_modernizing existing_code [Ed: "Modenization" is a typo in the headline and a trap for vendor lockin]⠀⇛ So far in this series I have established that the following are all necessary components of the modernization project planning process: # ⚓ Red Hat Official ☛ Do_all_vulnerabilities_really_matter?⠀⇛ Vulnerabilities in software are a global concern, and open source software is no different from proprietary software in this regard. Any software vulnerability has the potential to be exploited by miscreants to harm its user. Whether this is on- premises, in the cloud, or on your mobile device, vulnerabilities in software make headlines (for good reason). There is tension, however, between software producers and software users. On the surface, any vulnerability is scary due to the potential for harm. Yet, the reality is that most vulnerabilities have minimal opportunity to cause harm, whether due to the type of vulnerability itself, the type of authorization required to execute it, the vulnerability’s level of exposure in typical use of the software, and many other factors. This variability means a vulnerability in a particular component used in different products could result in different severities in those products. All software vulnerabilities are not created equal, and there is a substantial body of work to support this assertion. # ⚓ Market Watch ☛ IBM’s_expensive_and_risky_pivot_to_the_cloud is_finally_paying_off [Ed: Clown computing is meaningless nonsense and IBM was already in the server market since the 1950s. This is just a way to distract from he chaos in Red Hat.]⠀⇛ Red Hat is a bright spot for the company, which is starting its third transformation in history o § Devuan Family⠀➾ # ⚓ 9to5Linux ☛ Devuan-Based_PeppermintOS_November_2022_Release Brings_New_and_Updated_Tools⠀⇛ Probably the biggest news in this new PeppermintOS update are the redesigned Welcome screen and Peppermint Hub in-house-built apps. There’s no word from the devs about what exactly was changed, but I took this release for a spin to check out the changes and report them back to you. The Welcome screen, which is the first thing you see when running the distribution, now features two sections. On the left side, you get the same items that have already been present in the previous design, while on the right side you have access to the various social media accounts of the distribution. o § Devices/Embedded⠀➾ # ⚓ Linux Gizmos ☛ Wi-Fi_6_mesh_router_supports_up_to_150 devices⠀⇛ Synology launched this week a Wi-Fi 6 router with transmission rates up to 600Mbps (2.4 GHz) and up to 2400Mbps (5 GHz). The WRX560 router features one 2.5GbE WAN/LAN port, one Gigabit WAN and up to three Gigabit LAN ports. o § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾ # ⚓ SparkFun Electronics ☛ ASCII_Annihilator⠀⇛ One of my favorite SparkFun products is the Binary Blaster. It’s a lovely little soldering kit, which, when completed, is a fun game to help the user practice converting from decimal and hex to binary! I picked one up and had fun putting it together and playing it, but found that rather quickly I mastered both game modes and wanted more of a challenge! # ⚓ SparkFun Electronics ☛ Automation_Hits_the_Trick-or-Treating_Industry⠀⇛ You might remember Rob’s candy throwing robot from last year, when he used the ESP-32 and some other materials to change the social-distancing trick-or- treating game! o § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ New York Times ☛ What_Are_Those_Mysterious_New_Towers Looming_Over_New_York’s_Sidewalks?⠀⇛ New York City has an agreement with CityBridge, the team behind LinkNYC, that involves installing 2,000 5G towers over the next several years, an effort to help eliminate the city’s “internet deserts.” Ninety percent will be in underserved areas of the city — neighborhoods in the Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island and above 96th Street in Manhattan. # ⚓ These_Oppo_smartphones_get_Android_13-based_ColorOS_13: Details_on_new_features_|_Mint⠀⇛ # ⚓ Indian Express ☛ How_to_setup_parental_controls_on_an Android_smartphone_|_Technology_News,The_Indian_Express⠀⇛ # ⚓ CNET ☛ Clearing_Your_Android_Web_Browser’s_Cookies,_Cache Helps_Clean_Up_Your_Phone_–_CNET⠀⇛ # ⚓ Android Police ☛ The_best_DACs_for_Android_in_2022⠀⇛ # ⚓ Sportskeeda ☛ 5_best_Android_phones_expected_deals_on_Black Friday_2022_sale⠀⇛ # ⚓ Android Police ☛ The_best_entertainment_apps_on_Android_in 2022⠀⇛ # ⚓ LifeSavvy Media ☛ The_First_Android_Phone_That_Could_Have Been_But_Wasn’t_–_Review_Geek⠀⇛ * § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾ o § Programming/Development⠀➾ # ⚓ R_ggmap_–_How_to_Visualize_Spatial_Data_in_R_–_R programming⠀⇛ Spatial data is always tougher to visualize than it seems at first. Well, not anymore. R ggmap is an amazing package you can start using almost instantly, after some light configuration. It won’t take you more than a couple of minutes to configure everything and have your first map ready. Today you’ll learn how to use the ggmap package to do almost everything geodata-related. We’ll kick things off by plotting basic maps, markers, and paths, and then dive into changing map themes. Once that’s under our belt, we’ll focus on advanced topics, including geocoding, reverse geocoding, drawing routes, and calculating distance between locations. # ⚓ Towards Data Science ☛ Decision_Trees_Explained_—_Entropy, Information_Gain,_Gini_Index,_CCP_Pruning_|_by_Shailey_Dash_| Nov,_2022_|_Towards_Data_Science⠀⇛ Though Decision Trees look simple and intuitive, there is nothing very simple about how the algorithm goes about the process deciding on splits and how tree pruning occurs. In this post I take you through a simple example to understand the inner workings of Decision Trees. # ⚓ A_Footnote_in_History_|_Quantum_Jitter⠀⇛ Producing a journal-quality table requires fine- grained and reproducible control over presentation. Surgical targeting of footnotes, capable of adapting to changes in the underlying data, is one example. This post briefly explores the shifts in the nature of employment whilst at the same time visiting the grammar of tables gt: The natural companion to the grammar of graphics ggplot2. # ⚓ Julia Evans ☛ Making_a_DNS_query_in_Ruby_from_scratch⠀⇛ Hello! A while back I wrote a post about how to write a toy DNS resolver in Go. In that post I left out “how to generate and parse DNS queries” because I thought it was boring, but a few people pointed out that they did not know how to parse and generate DNS queries and they were interested in how to do it. This made me curious – how much work is it do the DNS parsing? It turns out we can do it in a pretty nice 120-line Ruby program, which is not that bad. So here’s a quick post on how to generate DNS queries and parse DNS responses! We’re going to do it in Ruby because I’m giving a talk at a Ruby conference soon, and this blog post is partly prep for that talk :). I’ve tried to keep it readable for folks who don’t know Ruby though, I’ve only used pretty basic Ruby code. # ⚓ How_we_use_binary_search_to_find_compiler_bugs⠀⇛ I work on Cinder, a just-in-time (JIT) compiler built on top of CPython. If you aren’t familiar with Cinder and want to learn more, a previous post about the inliner gives a decent overview of the JIT. This post will talk about how we use binary search to isolate miscompiled functions, a technique that is applicable to any compiler if you have the right infrastructure. # ⚓ Matt Rickard ☛ UGC:_User-Generated_Code⠀⇛ The concept of time-sharing has been around since the early days of UNIX. However, it wasn’t until the advent of virtual machines that the security boundary between two different workloads was hardened enough to support two different customers on the same hardware. True cloud multi-tenancy changed the way we write programs. And it’s still improving – lightweight isolation like containers and WebAssembly are becoming more secure. # ⚓ Mark Dominus ☛ A_map_of_Haskell’s_numeric_types⠀⇛ I keep getting lost in the maze of Haskell’s numeric types. Here’s the map I drew to help myself out. I think there might have been something like this in the original Haskell 1998 report but I like this one better. # ⚓ Unix Sheikh ☛ The_heavy_responsibility_of_the_package maintainer⠀⇛ In the world of BSD and Linux, a software developer is someone who develops software, it’s someone who knows how to program in a programming language like C (or something else). A ports or package maintainer on the other hand, is not someone who develops software, it is someone who typically maintains a port or a package (I am going to use the term “package” henceforth in this article for both ports and packages). # ⚓ Nicholas Tietz-Sokolsky ☛ My_first_impressions_from_a_few weeks_with_Lean_and_Coq⠀⇛ For the last few weeks, some of us have been working through learning about interactive theorem proving together at Recurse Center. I’ve been curious about proof assistants since undergrad, and finally have the time, space, and peers to dive into it with. It’s been an interesting experience getting started. Since we’re just getting started, I can’t tell you much about the long-term experience, but I can give some basic guidance on what it’s like to get started on each and who I imagine the audience for each is. First off, what’s a proof assistant? Simply, it’s a piece of software that helps develop formal proofs via human-machine collaboration. You want formal proofs in a lot of cases; they’re used in math, but it would also be great to know that an algorithm you want to implement does what you say it does, or that a bigger piece of software is proven correct. Proving software correct does, of course, lead to the question of how you check that the spec is correct, and that you’re specifying the properties you care about. That’s a whole other conversation. # ⚓ Nicholas Tietz-Sokolsky ☛ RC_Week_6:_Halfway_done,_wrote_a parser!⠀⇛ I’m halfway done with my RC batch now. Time feels like it has sped up. The feeling that my time at RC is infinite is gone. This was compounded by seeing folks from the Fall 1 batch conclude their batches yesterday. We’ll get a new boost from the Winter 1 batch joining on Monday, which I’m really pumped for! New people, new excitement, new energy! I’m happy with how things have gone so far in the batch. I don’t think I want to do anything dramatically different in the second half of the batch, except be a little bit more focused on one project instead of splitting between two. I did have a less social week this week than most weeks, because I have some personal life stress right now (should wrap up next week) and it made it hard to focus, and I withdrew a little bit. Despite that, I still had a pretty social week! Something for me to take away here is that RC has shifted my understanding of where I get energy from and how much I do benefit from social things. # ⚓ Buttondown ☛ Software_Moves_•_Buttondown⠀⇛ The piece You might as well timestamp it argues that instead of storing booleans in databases, you store the timestamp of when it became true. A missing timestamp means that value is false. This is generally more useful than a boolean, because in addition to boolean behavior you also get auditing information. # § Shell/Bash/Zsh/Ksh⠀➾ # ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ Mastering_Backticks_in_Linux_Bash Scripts⠀⇛ Bash scripts are best when it comes to simplifying the daily tasks. These scripts contain commands and tricks that you can use as a sysadmin. The backtick (`) operator is one of those features of Bash script that can ease up your work. However, many beginners misunderstand the backticks as quotation mark characters used in the strings. That’s why learning about back quote characters or backticks is essential. In this guide, we will list down the approach on how to master the backticks in Linux Bash scripts. # ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ Making_a_Bash_Script_Return_with Different_Return_Codes_on_Exit⠀⇛ Exit codes are integer numbers that indicate that a script has been successfully executed. These codes are also known as return codes or exit statuses. Exit codes usually return zero upon successful execution and non-zero upon unsuccessful execution. However, many Bash script users want to return with different return codes on exit, but they get errors. In this tutorial, we will explain the different approaches to make a Bash script return with different return codes on exit. # ⚓ Matt Rickard ☛ Mastering_the_Command_Line⠀⇛ The command line might seem daunting for new (and old) developers, but another unlock for developer productivity — if you can master it. A crash course syllabus that will get you 80% there (Pareto principle). The caveat is that “the command line” means a lot of things. To be more specific, these are UNIX-y, bash, and popular terminal emulator tricks. This is not a list of complex one- liners that you can alias and never remember what they do. It’s a hopefully practical list of things you can learn and remember. # § Java⠀➾ # ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ Java_Getters_and_Setters⠀⇛ When we do the program, we tend to work with many user-defined and built-in methods. Java programming is also diverse when it comes to the use of functions. The special class methods known as getters and setters are employed in Java programming to read from and apply to an entity’s attributes. In Java, the setter function serves to set up or populate corresponding class fields while the getter function serves to read the value stored in the variable or retrieve the content. This procedure can be performed with inheritance as well. Most classes come with getter and setter methods by convention. Nevertheless, by specifically declaring the getter and setter functions, we may override the standards. In this regard, we are going to explain the usage of getter and setter functions in Java programming. # ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ Java_Array_to_List⠀⇛ Arrays and lists are the two most basic data structures in Java. The array provides the common names of the collection which has the same data type. It includes both primitive data types and objects of a class that is based on the array’s definition. On the other hand, the Java lists are the collection frameworks that organize the elements and store them in an object in a manner that maintains the insertion order. There come various scenarios where the Java arrays are required to be converted into Java lists. We can accomplish the conversion of the arrays to lists by using the methods provided by Java. # ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ Java_Logical_OR⠀⇛ The logical operator in java is utilized to integrate two or more conditions as well as to enhance the examination of the initial condition. There are various logical operators in Java and one of them is the logical OR operator. The logical OR operator used the two vertical bar symbols “||” in the program. It is utilized between the operand which is to be evaluated. The result of the logical OR operator is true when the two or more specified operands have true values on the evaluation of the condition. It is frequently applied to Boolean (logical) values. o § Standards/Consortia⠀➾ # ⚓ James Brown ☛ New_Style⠀⇛ No more JavaScript (except for Commento and GoatCounter, neither of which impacts any important functionality) # ⚓ Xe’s Blog ☛ Various_site_updates_–_Xe⠀⇛ One of the big things I’ve done is add support for embedding mastodon posts in a more native way. Mastodon normally has an “embed this post” link, which makes things look like this: # ⚓ Marco d’Itri ☛ Mastodon_is_not_ready_for_me⠀⇛ I just did again the usual web search, and I have verified that Mastodon still does not support managing multiple domains on the same instance, and that there is still no way to migrate an account to a different instance without basically starting from scratch. [...] I have managed my own email server since the ’90s, but I do not feel that the system administration effort required to maintain a private Mastodon instance would be justified at this point: there is not even a Debian package! # ⚓ Lightweight_Mastodon_instance:_gotosocial_–_Lukáš Zapletal⠀⇛ If you need a lightweight Mastodon instance, I have a tip for you: GoToSocial is an ActivityPub backend written in Go, no dependencies needed, lightweight (well, 50MB binary) and can store data in either SQLite3 or Postgres. The setup is well documented, you can download pre- built binary, create an empty directory, configure database connection and just run it. It has a built-in support for Let’s Encrypt, however, if you already have a domain with existing web server and Let’s Encrypt certificate, you can turn this feature off. # ⚓ Follow_Me!_Blog,_RSS,_and_Social⠀⇛ Twitter is rapidly declining, and users are going elsewhere; my updates have been infrequent, and you thought I was gone. Take this chance to review your options and continue getting the latest Xubuntu and Xfce news however you’d like. * § Leftovers⠀➾ o ⚓ Unix Sheikh ☛ Will_the_ranting_on_this_website_ever_stop?⠀⇛ However, what I have experienced more than once is that some people tend to simply skim an article, misunderstand or simply read things completely out of context, then make a whole LOT of assumptions (without bothering to email me and try to get clarification about the issue), and then comment emotionally about it on Hacker News, Lobsters, Reddit or somewhere else. [...] Now, I don’t mind this guy hating me, but why would someone “hate” another person whom they have never met, don’t know anything about, just because they express their opinion about what they consider or analyze to be, the true motivations behind a piece of software? o ⚓ MWL ☛ Talk_on_Rat_Operated_Vehicles⠀⇛ On Tuesday, 8 November 2022, 7PM Detroit time, I’ll be giving a talk for mug.org about Rat Operated Vehicles. If the guys are cooperative, there might be a demo. o ⚓ Matt Rickard ☛ Man_in_the_Arena⠀⇛ In 1910, Theodore Roosevelt arrived at the Sorbonne in France – after a yearlong traveling after leaving office. He gave a speech titled Citizenship in a Republic, in which he reflected on the qualities that a successful democracy required of its citizens. o ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Nanoassembly_With_Water⠀⇛ Water is sometimes known as the universal solvent. But researchers at Harvard want to use water to put things together instead of taking them apart. Really small things. In the video below, you can see a simple 3D- printed machine that braids microscopic fibers. o ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Wall_Art_With_A_Moving_Coil_Or_Two⠀⇛ Almost every type of retro indicator technology from a Nixie tube to a flipdot with everything else in between has found itself on these pages in some form of artwork or decoration. It’s pleasing then to see one that hasn’t appeared so much over the years, and particularly at the hands of our colleague [Voja Antonic]. He’s taken a large array of moving-coil panel meters and hooked them up to a microcontroller board that’s triggered by a PIR sensor. Normally the readings are random, but get too close to it and all those needles start moving, making for a very different take on an electronic wall display. o ⚓ TechCrunch ☛ Uber_tests_push_notification_ads,_a_feature literally_no_one_wants⠀⇛ Instead, ads from other companies are being sent out as push notifications, much to the chagrin of some Uber users. Over the weekend, people turned to Twitter to complain about the notifications, sharing screenshots of ads, including one particularly popular one from Peloton that Uber had sent out. One of the primary complaints: notifications are being sent out when users aren’t engaging with the app. o ⚓ Daniel Miessler ☛ Reverse_Transcription⠀⇛ What happens when everyone can become a video star just by having a script? o ⚓ Arturo_Borrero_González:_Home_network_refresh:_10G_and_IPv6⠀⇛ few days ago, my home network got a refresh that resulted in the enablement of some next-generation technologies for me and my family. Well, next-generation or current- generation, depending on your point of view. Per the ISP standards in Spain (my country), what I’ll describe next is literally the most and latest you can get. The post title spoiled it already. I have now 10G internet uplink and native IPv6 since I changed my ISP to https://digimobil.es. My story began a few months ago when a series of fiber deployments started in my neighborhood by a back-then mostly unknown ISP (digimobil). The workers were deploying the fiber inside the street sewers, and I noticed that they were surrounded by advertisements promoting the fastest FTTH deployment in Spain. Indeed, their website was promoting 1G and 10G fiber, so a few days later I asked the workers when would that be available for subscription. The told me to wait just a couple of months, and the wait ended this week. I called the ISP and a marketing person told me a lot of unnecessary information about how good service I was purchasing. I asked about IPv6 availability, but that person had no idea. They called me the next day to confirm that the home router they were installing would support both IPv6 and Wi-Fi 6. I was suspicious about nobody in the marketing department knowing anything about any of the two technologies, but I decided to proceed anyway. Just 24 hours after calling them, a technician came to my house and 45 minutes later the setup was ready. o ⚓ Jamie Brandon ☛ 0029:_san_francisco,_seattle,_tigerbeetle, studying,_links⠀⇛ I’m getting tired of working alone and I’ve had no success finding collaborators. All of the people I’d like to work with are either already busy working full-time or are totally burnt out. o ⚓ Zach Flower ☛ [Repeat]_Merit_Badges_for_Grownups_|_flower.codes⠀⇛ I was never a Boy Scout. My career has largely involved an abundance of isolation, my hobbies are enjoyed in solitude, even the sports I played growing up involved individual events without any real “team effort.” Call it social anxiety, or introversion, or something else; I was just never much of a joiner. But one thing I’ve always envied the scouts for (both the Girl and Boy varieties) was merit badges. There’s something deeply satisfying about the clearly defined path these organizations have laid towards earning each badge, and once a candidate demonstrates their understanding and application of the underlying skills, they earn a physical token of their accomplishment. It’s like video game achievements, but in real life. What’s not to like? I’ve always been a bit of a collector of hobbies. I like to learn new things, and enjoy the satisfaction that comes from exercising a newly acquired skill. Granted, it makes for a pretty clear jack-of-all-trades mentality (master of none), but understanding and applying the basics of painting, or lock picking, or genealogy isn’t about mastery, but exploration. o § Science⠀➾ # ⚓ ACM ☛ What’s_Your_Placebo?⠀⇛ A tale of woe: Our institution, like many others, has a high attrition rate in introductory computer science (CS1), our first programming class for majors. We often use the term “DWF rate,” as those students who earn Ds or Fs, or who withdraw from the course are ineligible to continue further in taking other CS classes as part of the major. Beyond the DWF rate, students who earn Cs in their CS1 course, while technically allowed to continue taking CS classes, tend to struggle in those later classes. We do offer a pre-CS1 programming class to help students who are not ready to jump directly into CS1. Many researchers have shown students with prior programming experience tend to do better in the initial CS1 course. We have published research on this,3 as have many others. # ⚓ IEEE ☛ AI_Helps_Humans_Level_Up⠀⇛ Chess players and programmers now have access to tools that can improve skills and unleash creativity # ⚓ Natural_language_processing_software_evaluates_middle school_science_essays⠀⇛ # ⚓ Nature ☛ Living_material_assembly_of_bacteriogenic protocells_|_Nature⠀⇛ Advancing the spontaneous bottom-up construction of artificial cells with high organizational complexity and diverse functionality remains an unresolved issue at the interface between living and non-living matter. # ⚓ Justin_Swansburg,_DataRobot:_On_combining_human_and_machine intelligence⠀⇛ Explainable AI (XAI) is the idea that an AI should always provide reasoning for its decisions in a way that makes it easy for humans to comprehend. XAI helps to build trust and ensures that issues can be more quickly identified before they cause wider damage. # ⚓ New Scientist ☛ Quantum_watch_is_a_’completely_new_way_of measuring_time’_|_New_Scientist⠀⇛ A quantum stopwatch made of lasers and helium atoms can measure the time that has passed with complete accuracy, without counting seconds like other clocks o § Hardware⠀➾ # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ The_Great_Resistor_Embiggens_The_Smallest Value⠀⇛ With surface-mount components quickly becoming the norm, even for homebrew hardware, the resistor color-code can sometimes feel a bit old-hat. However, anybody who has ever tried to identify a random through-hole resistor from a pile of assorted values will know that it’s still a handy skill to have up your sleeve. With this in mind, [j] decided to super-size the color-code with “The Great Resistor”. # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ When_Only_A_TO92_Will_Do⠀⇛ As through-hole components are supplanted by their surface-mount equivalents, we’re beginning to see the departure of once-common component form factors. Many such as the metal can transistors became rare years ago, while others still hang on albeit in fewer and fewer places. One of these is the once-ubiquitous TO92 moulded plastic transistor, which we don’t see very much of at all in 2022. [Sam Ettinger] is a fan of the D-shaped plastic blobs, and has gone as far as to recreate them for a new generation to enjoy. # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Creating_Your_Alarm_On_The_Fly⠀⇛ We suspect that most of us who use an alarm clock have our particular sound memorized. Common choices are annoying beeping, energetic marimbas, or what used to be your favorite song (which you have now come to despise). [Adam Kumpf] wanted a more pleasant alarm clock and came up with WakeSlow, an alarm clock audio stream, which is a spiritual successor to an earlier project he did called Warmly. # ⚓ Reuters ☛ China_imposes_fresh_lockdown_around_major_Apple iPhone_plant⠀⇛ China ordered an industrial park that houses an iPhone factory belonging to Foxconn (2317.TW) to enter a seven-day lockdown on Wednesday, in a move set to intensify pressure on the Apple supplier as it scrambles to quell worker discontent at the base. The Zhengzhou Airport Economy Zone in central China said it would impose “silent management” measures with immediate effect, including barring all residents from going out and only allowing approved vehicles on roads within that area. # ⚓ Taiwan News ☛ Factory_run_by_Taiwan’s_Foxconn_placed_under total_lockdown_in_China’s_Zhengzhou⠀⇛ China cripples production at world’s largest iPhone factory under zero-COVID policy # ⚓ The Verge ☛ This_robotic_tentacle_gripper_is_gentle, practical,_and_terrifying⠀⇛ Hands, man, they’re a tough gig to beat. Four fingers? An opposable thumb? A design classic. But that’s never stopped scientists from trying to surpass what nature perfected. And their latest attempt to out-fing humanity’s fingers is pleasingly terrifying. # ⚓ Tony_Fadell_Joins_Arm_Board_of_Directors_–_Arm®⠀⇛ Arm today announced the appointment of Tony Fadell, Build Collective Principal, to its Board. Mr. Fadell brings decades of experience with the Arm architecture and ecosystem to his role as the company prepares for a potential public listing. o § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾ # ⚓ NPR ☛ Men_are_struggling._A_new_book_explores_why_and_what to_do_about_it⠀⇛ The reluctance was simply because the way the debate is framed — it’s ‘Whose side are you on?’ But of course, most people in the world are perfectly capable of worrying about two things at once. The danger with even raising the specific challenges of boys and men is that it will be seen as a distraction from ongoing efforts to help women and girls. I think that’s a false choice. Partly as a result of the changes of recent decades, we both can and should now pay attention to both sides of gender inequality. # ⚓ The Hill ☛ Time_is_running_out_for_House_to_pass_permanent daylight_saving_bill⠀⇛ But the likelihood of lawmakers pushing the bill over the finish line in the final stretch is dimming. # ⚓ Zach Flower ☛ You_Should_Probably_Go_Donate_Blood⠀⇛ In case you are unaware, the US is currently experience a critical shortage of blood. # ⚓ Extreme Tech ☛ New_X-Ray_Technique_Could_Help_Detect Explosives,_Tumors⠀⇛ A new X-ray technique that combines conventional equipment with a deep-learning algorithm might find its way into both security settings and the healthcare industry. Researchers from the United Kingdom’s University College London (UCL) recognized that X-ray security systems, though good at detecting shapes, weren’t so great at recognizing textures. Identifying textural abnormalities could be the key to locating explosives and other harmful items—especially those hidden away within larger objects. So they set about devising a system that could be paired with existing equipment to detect concerning textures. o § Security⠀➾ # ⚓ IT Wire ☛ iTWire_–_LockBit_ransomware_gang_hits_Melbourne school_Kilvington_Grammar [Ed: Microsoft TCO/Windows TCO]⠀⇛ Data exfiltrated from independent co-educational Baptist institution Kilvington Grammar School by the LockBit ransomware gang has been posted on the dark web on 14 October. LockBit only attacks Windows systems. iTWire asked the school, which is based on Ormond, on 15 October whether it had anything to say about the breach, but there has been a studious silence from the institution. However, on Sunday, The Age reported that the school had notified the families of children who attend the school that it had suffered a data breach. In a statement to The Age, the school said: “Kilvington Grammar confirms it has experienced a data incident involving unauthorised access to some of its online systems. # ⚓ The Age AU ☛ Data_[breach]_at_IT_firm_may_include_health records_of_Victorian_school_students [iophk: Windows TCO]⠀⇛ Thousands of Victorian students and their families may have had personal data including medical information [compromised] after a technology company that has contracts with the Victorian government was [breached]. # ⚓ The Hill ☛ Here’s_how_lawmakers_are_tackling_rising_cyber threats_in_the_health_sector [iophk: Windows TCO]⠀⇛ “Over the past decade, the American public has witnessed increasingly brazen and disruptive attacks on its health care sector that jeopardize sensitive personal information, delay treatment, and ultimately lead to increased suffering and death,” Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.), chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, noted in a report published this week, before outlining recommendations on ways the federal government can improve security standards in the sector to combat those attacks. The report, which is divided into three sections, recommends that the federal government improve the country’s cybersecurity risk posture in the health care sector, help the private sector mitigate cyber threats and assist health care providers in responding to and recovering from cyberattacks. # ⚓ CyberRisk Alliance LLC ☛ Vidar_info-stealer_distributed_via spoofed_GIMP_site⠀⇛ Searching for ‘GIMP’ in Google until last week would yield a Google ad leading to the phishing site, which facilitates the delivery of a malicious executable ‘Setup.exe’. Binary padding has been leveraged by attackers to make the malware file, which is under 5 MB in size, seem like a 700 MB file. # ⚓ Why_Did_the_OpenSSL_Punycode_Vulnerability_Happen [Ed: This was mostly a media blunder; it hyped_up_something_based_on misinformation_in_“tweets”]⠀⇛ Some room-temperature takes on yesterday’s not- quite-RCE vulnerabilities in OpenSSL 3.0, and on what there is to learn about safe cryptography engineering. # § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾ # ⚓ 9to5Mac ☛ Horizon_Worlds_metaverse_app_so_bad_that Meta_has_to_force_employees_to_use_it⠀⇛ It seems Meta is having problems persuading even its own employees to don one of its virtual reality headsets and use its primary metaverse app, Horizon Worlds. So much so that an internal memo says the company would “hold managers accountable” for their teams using it. It’s one of a set of leaked memos that suggest Apple may not have too much to fear from Meta’s competition to its own upcoming VR/AR headsets … # ⚓ Engadget ☛ A_data-sharing_agreement_between_the_US and_UK_is_now_in_effect_|_Engadget⠀⇛ As of today, a data-sharing pact between the US and the UK is in effect, five years after it was first floated. The two sides claim that the Data Access Agreement, which was authorized by the Clarifying Lawful Overseas Use of Data (CLOUD) Act in the US, will help law enforcement to combat serious crimes in both countries. The Department of Justice called the initiative the first of its kind, adding that it would enable investigators “to gain better access to vital data” to fight serious crimes in a manner that’s “consistent with privacy and civil liberties standards.” Under the agreement, authorities in one country can request data from ISPs in the other country, as long as it’s related to preventing, detecting, investigating and prosecuting serious crimes including terrorism, transnational organized crime and child exploitation. US officials can’t submit data requests targeting people in the UK and vice-versa — presumably the requests can either be used to assist domestic investigations or investigations into foreign nationals. Authorities also need to adhere to certain requirements, limitations and conditions when they access and use data. # ⚓ ACM ☛ Small_Sensors_for_Big_Challenges⠀⇛ Shwetak Patel loves to combine academic research with being an entrepreneur, all in the field of sensing technology and ubiquitous computing. At a press conference during the 9th Heidelberg Laureate Forum this September, he put it this way: “Being an academic is my intellectual playground. Entrepreneurship is a way to show impact. When I was a young researcher, one of my goals was to build something that could impact the lives of a million people. I hit that goal, so now I’m going to go for a billion people.” Patel is the Washington Research Foundation Entrepreneurship Endowed Professor in Computer Science & Engineering, and Electrical and Computer Engineering, at the University of Washington. In 2018, he was awarded the ACM Prize in Computing for his contributions to creative and practical sensing systems for sustainability and health. As a result, he was invited to the Heidelberg Laureate Forum (HLF), an annual conference where 200 young researchers spend a week interacting with laureates of the most important prizes in computer science and mathematics. Among many other applications, Patel and his research group have developed a new way of screening for tuberculosis using low-cost microphones to monitor coughing, and a way of using a smart watch to predict whether somebody is infected with the COVID-19 virus days before symptoms appear (based on a combined measurement of heart rate, heart rate variability, and respiratory rate). Says Patel, “With more intelligent sensors integrated into the Internet of Things, we can better understand the world, better intervene, and better take action. Sensors make the unknown known, and when we combine sensing with AI (artificial intelligence), as is happening now, you get so many new possibilities.” # ⚓ Engadget ☛ The_NYPD_is_joining_Ring’s_neighborhood watch_app_amid_privacy_and_racial_profiling_concerns⠀⇛ One of the most recognizable police forces is joining Ring’s Neighbors app. The New York Police Department has announced that it will participate in Ring’s neighborhood watch tool. Officers won’t look for posts “around the clock,” but they will respond to users’ crime and safety concerns, post notices and ask for help with “active police matters.” The move potentially gives the NYPD another way to interact with the community. It may also obtain footage of criminal activity that it wouldn’t otherwise have, with maps and timelines that could help pinpoint crime sprees and trends. # ⚓ MIT Technology Review ☛ Smartphone_data_from_drivers could_help_spot_when_bridges_need_urgent_repairs⠀⇛ Smartphones could be used to monitor the safety of bridges much more quickly and cheaply than currently possible, providing engineers with data they can use to fix the structures before they become dangerously unstable. o § Defence/Aggression⠀➾ # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Fire_in_Kostroma_bar_kills_13_A_soldier_returning from_Ukraine_set_off_a_‘pyrotechnic’_and_burned_down_a nightclub_—_Meduza⠀⇛ In Kostroma, a fire occurred in the Polygon nightclub in the early morning hours of November 5. The conflagration was reported to emergency services at 2:37am. There were hundreds of people in the club at the time. 250 people were evacuated from the nightclub building, as well as 15 residents of a neighboring home, due to heavy smoke. It took five hours, 50 emergency responders, and 20 pieces of equipment to extinguish the fire, which consumed a 3,500-square meter (over 37,000 square feet) area. The nightclub’s roof collapsed over the entire affected area. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Supreme_Court_judge_in_the_annexed_‘DNR’_wounded in_assassination_attempt_—_Meduza⠀⇛ In the city of Vuhlehirsk, in the Russian-annexed “DNR,” an attempt was made on the life of Alexander Nikulin, judge on the region’s Supreme Court, reports the regional Ministry of Internal Affairs. # ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Africa_Does_Not_Want_to_Be_a_Breeding_Ground for_the_New_Cold_War⠀⇛ Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research On 17 October, the head of US Africa Command (AFRICOM), US Marine Corps General Michael Langley visited Morocco. Langley met with senior Moroccan military leaders, including Inspector General of the Moroccan Armed Forces Belkhir El Farouk. Since 2004, AFRICOM has held its ‘largest and premier annual exercise’, African Lion, […] # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Opinion_|_The_Global_Food_System_Enables Russia_to_Use_Food_as_a_Weapon⠀⇛ Russia’s back and forth with Ukraine wheat exports—first accepting a deal to allow their shipment, then threatening to block them, and apparently agreeing to allow them to be released again – is yet one more illustration of the use of food as a weapon.  o § Environment⠀➾ # ⚓ RTL ☛ Hundreds_arrested_after_Schiphol_climate_protest⠀⇛ “This action today is about Schiphol airport needing to cut its emissions which means we need to fly less,” Greenpeace spokeswoman Faiza Oulahsen said. “We are starting with those flights we absolutely don’t need like private jets and short flights,” she told AFP. # ⚓ The Economist ☛ The_world_is_going_to_miss_the_totemic 1.5°C_climate_target⠀⇛ Many island states had the same red line. Their reasoning was simple. For a country like the Maldives, with more than 80% of its land rising less than one metre above sea level, more than 1.5°C (2.7°F) of global warming would see most of its sovereign territory disappear. Some continental countries which felt themselves at particular risk, or felt a particularly strong sense of solidarity, embraced the cause too. Third-strike make-or-break Paris was the perfect place to take a stand. # ⚓ The Spectator UK ☛ Meet_the_Bristol_Tyre_Extinguishers⠀⇛ If the world really does face a climate emergency, what ought you, personally, be doing about it? Should you, as increasing numbers of young people are doing, roam the streets at night letting down the tyres of SUVs? The fast-growing movement that calls itself the ‘Tyre Extinguishers’ thinks this is an effective approach, and has targeted thousands of SUVs in cities around the world. My home town of Bristol – always quick to espouse a green cause – has seen at least 200 SUVs ‘extinguished’ in recent weeks. # ⚓ Sky News ☛ Mother,_62,_deflates_tyres_on_100_SUVs_–_and wants_‘army_of_middle-aged_women’_to_join_her_protest⠀⇛ The protester, who is a writer and film editor, says she is willing to spend time in jail over her cause and will only stop if the government takes action against SUVs, including banning adverts for the vehicles. # ⚓ Bristol_Tyre_Extinguishers_deflate_55_SUV_tyres_overnight⠀⇛ The Bristol Tyre Extinguishers (BTX) took to the streets in the early hours of Wednesday morning for their eighth major extinguishing action. Targeting the affluent areas of Clifton, the group deflated the tyres of 55 SUVs. This brings the total number of SUVs ‘disarmed’ across Bristol to just over 500 since they first became active in March 2022. # ⚓ Clifton_latest_target_of_Bristol_Tyre_Extinguishers_as_55 vehicles_hit_overnight⠀⇛ The activists say they are ‘disabling’ 4×4 and SUV vehicles in cities as they are the most polluting and dangerous, and they say no one needs to own one in a city. The group has also targeted electric 4×4 vehicles, much to the fury of one 4×4 EV owner, with the Tyre Extinguishers stating that even electric vehicles are statistically more dangerous to other road users, particularly cyclists and pedestrians. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Over_100_Climate_Activists_Arrested_for Blocking_Private_Jets_From_Taking_Off_in_Amsterdam⠀⇛ More than 500 environmental and social justice campaigners on Saturday occupied the runway and blocked private jets from taking off from a major airport in the Netherlands to call attention to the highly-polluting travel practices of the uber-rich in the face of runaway climate catastrophe. The organizers of the protest said participants—many of whom were arrested by police for their actions—said the plan was “to keep air traffic from the private jet terminal grounded for as long as possible.” # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Opinion_|_To_Save_Planet_Earth,_the_US Should_Buy_Out_the_Fossil_Fuel_Industry⠀⇛ Back on October 13th, I wrote an article here titled When Will the Victims of Oil Companies’ Lies Get Their Day In Court? detailing how Big Oil has been deceiving Americans—and, thus, killing Americans and our climate—for more than a half- century.  Their model, “Doubt is our product,” was borrowed from the tobacco industry and weaponized against us. # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ PR_Firm_Plays_Both_Sides_at_Upcoming_Global Climate_Talks⠀⇛ # § Energy⠀➾ # ⚓ Helsinki Times ☛ Non-fossil_electricity_made_up_86% of_production_in_Finland_in_2021⠀⇛ The amount of electricity generated from renewable sources increased by six per cent from the previous year to 69.3 terawatt hours, largely as a result of the growing use of food fuels in electricity production. Renewable electricity accounted for 53 per cent and nuclear energy 33 per cent of total electricity production in the country. # ⚓ Eesti Rahvusringhääling ☛ Finnish_nuclear_reactor shutdown_not_direct_threat_to_Estonia’s_energy⠀⇛ The nuclear reactor at the Olkiluoto power plant, the third reactor at the site, has been under construction since 2005, and its original scheduled on-line start date of 2009 has been continually pushed back, due to various technical issues. It is now due to start work in December, as things stand. # § Wildlife/Nature⠀➾ # ⚓ NPR ☛ If_bumblebees_can_play,_does_it_mean_they_have feelings?_This_study_suggests_yes⠀⇛ The finding suggests that like humans, insects also interact with inanimate objects as a form of play. Also similar to people, younger bees seemed to be more playful than adult bees. # ⚓ CNN ☛ The_robotic_falcon_designed_to_help_prevent bird_strikes⠀⇛ Airplanes and birds have been sharing the skies since the first ever flight back in 1903. However, to say this has led to some issues, particularly over the last few decades, is something of an understatement. Collisions between birds and aircraft are the cause of thousands of bird deaths every year. Such incidents, known as bird strikes, can also result in aircraft damage, as well as delays and cancellation of flights, costing the International Civil Aviation Organization a reported $1.4 billion each year. # § Overpopulation⠀➾ # ⚓ Arab News ☛ Almarai_acquires_huge_farmland_in Arizona⠀⇛ The purchase was done through its fully-owned subsidiary Fondomonte, Arizona LLC, composed of 3,604 acres of freehold land, 3080 acres of agriculture lease hold land and 3,150 acres of grazing lease hold land. # ⚓ The Guardian UK ☛ The_future_of_life_on_Earth_depends on_curbing_overpopulation⠀⇛ We are using up the renewable resources of 1.7 Earths. If things don’t change, we’ll need three by 2050. As more of us demand more from nature, we worsen already catastrophic biodiversity loss, accelerating water scarcity, pollution and deforestation. At current rates, our planet doesn’t have enough to support our burgeoning numbers – let alone sustaining all other species. In less than a month, humanity will hit 8 billion people on our planet. Governments, international bodies and societies can no longer ignore our population’s role in adding to the climate, wildlife and ecosystem collapses confronting us. # ⚓ Are_there_too_many_of_us?_Why_we_should_and_how_to address_overpopulation⠀⇛ However, the population may not level off as soon as the UN projects. If climate change continues unchecked, developed countries with low birthrates could be driven into poverty, pushing their birthrates back up. Even if the population levels off, the world will still have to support 10.4 billion people for several decades. Regardless of whether the population declines in the future, the repercussions will still be felt during and after the population is at its peak. Resources will be scarce, climate change will worsen and rates of sickness and conflict will increase. o § Finance⠀➾ # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Opinion_|_It’s_the_Corporate_Greed, Stupid⠀⇛ # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Critics_Warn_GOP_Midterm_Victory_Would_Be Disaster_for_Working_Class,_Democracy,_and_Planet⠀⇛ Progressive leaders and Democratic Party supporters are raising last-minute alarms over the unparalleled catastrophe that would result if the Republican Party—an organization many see as a creeping fascist force in the United States and on the world stage—manages to win control of one or both chambers of Congress in Tuesday’s midterm election. “We owe it to generations before us who fought and died for democracy and the rule of law, and to generations after us who will live with the legacy we leave them—to get out the vote next Tuesday.” # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Opinion_|_President_Biden_Must_Pass_a Windfall_Tax⠀⇛ President Biden has the opportunity to show the public he stands with them instead of Big Oil. He’s set up a clear choice for the fossil fuel executives gouging American families at the pump: lower prices or face the consequences. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ ‘Americans_Aren’t_Serfs’:_House_Democrats Propose_End_to_Wall_Street_Rent-Gouging⠀⇛ To help address the nation’s housing crisis while at the same time confronting Wall Street greed, three California members of Congress on Saturday touted new legislation to target rent-gouging in the U.S. by private equity firms and investment giants who have gobbled up huge numbers of single- family home and residential units in the years since the 2008 financial crash. “Wall Street should not be any family’s landlord.” # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Opinion_|_This_Is_an_Election_Poor_and_Low- Income_Americans_Cannot_Afford_to_Lose⠀⇛ Our wellbeing is on the ballot this November. Amid a pandemic, rising inflation, and deepening financial instability, we need a strong commitment from all candidates to our children, families, and planet. # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Housing_and_Homelessness_Are_on_the_Ballot._Will Unhoused_People_Have_a_Say?⠀⇛ # ⚓ CoryDoctorow ☛ Substituting_economics_for_politics_is_a failure⠀⇛ Most of us believe that we do stuff because we want to be good people, and that other people act the same. But the dominant political philosophy for the last half-century, “economism,” views us as slaves to “incentives” and nothing more. Economism is the philosophy of the neoclassical economists, whose ideology has consumed both the Democrats and Republicans. They dismiss all “non- market” solutions (that is, projects of democratically accountable governments) as failed before they’re begun, due to the “incentives” of the individuals in the government. Economism’s major project has been to dismantle the achievements of the New Deal (Social Security, unions, public housing, limits on corporate power) and to discredit the very idea that we can or should attempt those sorts of bold initiatives. # ⚓ The Wall Street Journal ☛ Walgreens_Turns_to_Prescription- Filling_Robots_to_Free_Up_Pharmacists⠀⇛ Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc. is turning to robots to ease workloads at drugstores as it grapples with a nationwide shortage of pharmacists and pharmacist technicians. # ⚓ Bert Hubert ☛ Bonds_and_the_Ten_Year_Interest_Rate⠀⇛ So in these wild times, the “ten year interest rate” is suddenly in the news again. But what does this mean? There is no committee that sets these rates, but it is also not something you can just measure. While you’ll find various other explanations of how to calculate the 10 year interest rate online, this may be the geekiest one, and definitely is the only one with a built-in calculator. # ⚓ Amos Wenger ☛ Becoming_fasterthanlime_full-time⠀⇛ As of today, I am no longer employed by fly.io. We’re both very sad, and we’ve promised to stay friends and send postcards to each other over winter break. [...] For now, I’m aggressively embracing my new reality: funemployment. I’m not going to seek employment in the near future — I will rely on donations to pay the rent, utilities, various server costs, software subscriptions, etc. # ⚓ Yanis Varoufakis ☛ Trickle-down_Truss_is_carrying_on_the dirty_work_of_Thatcher,_Blair_and_Osborne_–_THE_GUARDIAN_– Yanis_Varoufakis⠀⇛ If Kwasi Kwarteng’s mini-budget survives the storm it triggered, a banker on a million-pound annual salary stands to receive £50,000 of income tax relief – on top of the extra bonuses the bank can throw in, now that the Liz Truss government has removed the cap on them. Meanwhile, a Deliveroo rider gets a pep talk on the emancipatory value of aspiring to be wealthy, presumably as an incentive to pedal harder. This is the gist of the government’s growth strategy or, according to former Brexit minister David Frost, its antidote to stagnation and defeatism. While it’s tempting to draw the obvious analogy between zombie ideas such as the trickle-down growth effect, and the classic Hollywood horror film Night of the Living Dead, a more appropriate response to the seriousness of the situation is to follow the banker’s extra cash. The government claims the banker will invest it, thus promoting growth. If it were not a blatant lie, it might have passed as a touching example of unfounded faith. But unlike Adam Smith’s bakers, butchers and brewers, who would invest any spare cash into better and more bread, ale and meat, the banker will buy into some fund that will, in turn, purchase shares, derivatives and bonds. o § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾ # ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ The_Racism_of_the_Supreme_Court’s Supermajority_Was_on_Full_Display_This_Week⠀⇛ During more than five hours of oral arguments in two cases that will probably spell the death of affirmative action in colleges and universities, the racism of the six right-wingers on the Supreme Court was on full display. # ⚓ IT Wire ☛ iTWire_–_Age_reporter_accuses_Vic_premier_of deceit,_but_then_has_second_thoughts⠀⇛ With the elections in Victoria due in about three weeks and the incumbent government looking very much like it will romp home, media in the state are resorting to every tactic in the book to push their barrows. It is probably this kind of approach that led to Paul Sakkal, a political reporter for The Age, accusing the Victorian premier Daniel Andrews of making a “extraordinary and deceitful statement” when the latter issued a release about a story on the state’s Independent Broad-based Anti-corruption Commission. Sakkal, apparently, had second thoughts about his comments, as he deleted the tweet in question. But then deleting such things from Twitter does not always ensure that they disappear, as one can see from the image below. # ⚓ The Hill ☛ Twitter_founder_apologizes_amid_Musk’s_mass layoffs:_‘I_own_the_responsibility’⠀⇛ Musk, whose deal to acquire Twitter for $44 billion was finalized late last month, has defended his decision to lay off up to half of all Twitter staff, equal to about 3,700 employees. He tweeted on Friday, the day that the layoffs began, that he has no choice when Twitter is losing $4 million per day. # ⚓ The Hill ☛ Twitter_launches_$8_per_month_subscription service_including_verification⠀⇛ “Your account will get a blue checkmark, just like the celebrities, companies, and politicians you already follow,” the company wrote. It also listed several features that are “coming soon” to the subscription service. # ⚓ NBC ☛ Twitter_co-founder_Jack_Dorsey_apologizes_after_Elon Musk’s_team_begins_mass_layoff_days_after_$44_billion takeover⠀⇛ One Twitter user, however, pointed out a tweet Dorsey wrote in April in which the former CEO praised Musk as the “singular solution I trust” to take over the company. # ⚓ Daniel Miessler ☛ Twitter’s_Blue_Checkmark_Strategy_Reduces Trust_in_Pursuit_of_Revenue⠀⇛ So we haven’t gained anything for the community. In fact I’d argue we’ve lost a lot. One of the biggest features of the blue check—not just on Twitter but on any social media platform—is disambiguation from copycats. If the analysis above is true and correct, we lose that. Now it’s just blue checks everywhere. Which would be fine if that was the case for validated non-public people—the more the better. But they’re not validated. In sum, this is less validation, and more blue checks. Seemingly all in the name of revenue. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ We_Pay_an_Ugly_Cost_for_Ads_on_Twitter⠀⇛ The idea that advertisers alone will save us from hate speech and the further degradation of digital social media is wishful thinking. A primarily advertiser-financed site is neither free nor healthy. The reliance on advertising by so much of our digital public sphere — Facebook, YouTube, TikTok, Instagram and Twitter — has perniciously fueled tribalization, hate speech and surveillance. With advertiser-financed digital media, advertisers are the true customers, and what they are paying for is our attention, as much of it as they can get for as long as possible, and our data, so that they can target ads with more precision. # ⚓ Insight Hungary ☛ Pro-government_media_calls_for_the resignation_of_two_judges_for_meeting_US_ambassador⠀⇛ Hungarian pro-government outlets are demanding the resignation of two judges because they met with US Ambassador David Pressman. The government-friendly media outlets argued that Csaba Vasvari and Tamas Matusik must resign because the meeting interferes with the “judicial independence”. The meeting with the two judges was public, Pressman tweeted about the event on his official account, saying it was an “informative discussion about the [ National Judicial] Council’s critical role in Hungary’s judicial system”. Thank you to members of the National Judicial Council, Judges Csaba Vasvári & @TamasMatusik , for the informative discussion about the Council’s critical role in Hungary’s judicial system. pic.twitter.com/2FmWcdT0fh Correction: the number has increased since I last checked about a week ago. Currently, there are -57 🇷🇺 diplomats in Budapest-3 in Debrecen-2 “bank executives” with diplomatic immunity at the @IIB_Press in BudapestThis is likely the largest 🇷🇺 diplo presence since the 90s. https://t.co/ 8rEYTkDLln # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Russians_made_nearly_10_million_trips_out_of_the country_from_July_to_September_—_Meduza⠀⇛ From July to September of this year, Russians made 9.7 million trips outside the country, nearly twice as many as they made during the previous three month period, says Russian state broadcasting company RBC. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ NATO_on_Russia’s_nuclear_threat:_‘The_risk_isn’t great,_but_we’re_taking_it_very_seriously’_—_Meduza⠀⇛ Jens Stoltenberg, the secretary general of NATO, does not believe that Russia will use a nuclear weapon in Ukraine, he said during an interview with Turkish television channel NTV. # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Democrats_Burn_it_All_Down⠀⇛ The Democrats are burning it all down. They are going to lose the midterms because of the Ukraine War. # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Out_of_Prison,_Meat_in_the_Game⠀⇛ # ⚓ Pro Publica ☛ Texas_Churches_Violate_the_Law_Ahead_of Tuesday’s_Election,_Experts_Say⠀⇛ Texas gubernatorial candidate Beto O’Rourke and Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, who is seeking reelection, have been crisscrossing the state in the lead-up to Tuesday’s election, visiting megachurches and smaller houses of worship packed tight with parishioners. The stops are part of a longstanding tradition for political candidates that often accelerates as Election Day nears. # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ AIPAC_Had_a_Banner_Year_in_Election_Meddling_— and_We_Should_All_Be_Concerned⠀⇛ # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ 55,000_Ontario_Education_Workers_Strike_Despite ‘Draconian’_New_Anti-Labor_Law⠀⇛ # ⚓ Visual Capitalist ☛ Mapped:_The_World’s_Billionaire Population,_by_Country⠀⇛ The world’s billionaires—only 3,311 individuals—represent almost $11.8 trillion in wealth. [...] We’ll begin by zooming out to look at how various continents and world regions rank in terms of their billionaire population. North America is home to most billionaires, worth $4.6 trillion. The U.S., unsurprisingly, accounts for the majority of this wealth, with 975 billionaires and a collective net worth of $4.45 trillion. # ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Jim_Chalmers_brings_a_Budget potpourri:_something_for_everyone,_the_fossil_fuel_lobby_too –_Michael_West⠀⇛ The “Potpourri Budget” has something in it for everyone, including the fossil fuel lobby which has attracted another $3 billion in spending commitments. Callum Foote reports. This was the potpourri budget. Lacking in adventure, low on risk, higher on fiscal rectitude; Labor’s first Budget in nine years is designed to leave a pleasant scent in the air. # ⚓ Mark Dominus ☛ The_Universe_of_Discourse_:_Trollopes⠀⇛ I guess the common name “Hooker” is occupational, perhaps originally referring to a fisherman. # § Misinformation/Disinformation/Propaganda⠀➾ # ⚓ New York Times ☛ On_Social_Media,_Hunting_for_Voter Fraud_Becomes_a_Game⠀⇛ But facts are often not the point of these games. Instead, they are part of a broader trend of “participatory misinformation,” in which people become more actively involved in sharing falsehoods and conspiracy theories. That leads to people integrating with a wider community and earning kudos, which makes them more likely to believe and invest in the misinformation, researchers said. “There’s a feeling that you can participate in the construction of a narrative and have impact,” said Kate Starbird, a professor of human-computer interaction at the University of Washington who studies misinformation. “It’s very empowering.” # ⚓ Mandiant ☛ How_to_Understand_and_Action_Mandiant’s Intelligence_on_Information_Operations [Ed: Conflating security with misinformation (two very different things, merged only for political purposes)]⠀⇛ Defenders positioned across a wide range of roles and industries are engaged in identifying and exposing different types of malicious online influence activity. # ⚓ Mandiant ☛ Pro-PRC_DRAGONBRIDGE_Influence_Campaign Leverages_New_TTPs_to_Aggressively_Target_U.S. Interests,_Including_Midterm_Elections_|_Mandiant⠀⇛ Mandiant has recently observed DRAGONBRIDGE, an influence campaign we assess with high confidence to be operating in support of the political interests of the People’s Republic of China (PRC), aggressively targeting the United States by seeking to sow division both between the U.S. and its allies and within the U.S. political system itself. o § Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾ # ⚓ Meduza ☛ From_‘protecting_children’_to_‘discrediting_the army’_A_brief_history_of_10_years_of_Russian_Internet censorship_—_Meduza⠀⇛ In November 2012, Russia’s federal censor, Roskomnadzor, published a “blacklist” of banned websites. In the decade since, Roskomnadzor and other Russian authorities have gained increasing control over the Russian Internet, limiting foreign companies’ operations in Russia as well as Russia publications’ reach and content. The war in Ukraine has only accelerated these processes. Here are the major moments in the Russian state’s ongoing takeover of the Internet within the country. o § Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press⠀➾ # ⚓ VOA News ☛ After_Fleeing_Taliban,_Afghan_Journalists_Find Visa,_Money_Woes⠀⇛ Afghan journalists who fled across the border to Pakistan to escape Taliban rule say they still face an uncertain future. Living in Pakistan often on temporary or family visas, many are unable to find work and are concerned about their legal status when their permits expire. o § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾ # ⚓ Black_Friday_and_Buy_Nothing_Day⠀⇛ Instead of taking the opportunity to buy as much as possible on Black Friday, you could do the opposite and buy absolutely nothing. Since 1997, Buy Nothing Day has been held on the same day as Black Friday. The rules are simple. Just don’t buy anything at all for 24 hours. Many people are surprised how difficult this actually is. The aim is to make people think more about their spending and to make better decisions about what they buy and where they buy it from. # ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Harvard_Professors_Call_For_500k_More_Armed Cops⠀⇛ In a long and detailed Twitter thread, Alec Karakatsanis dives into a controversial academic article from two Harvard professors calling for the expansion of police. # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Rail_Unions_Got_Pressured_Into_a_Bad_Deal,_Now Workers_Are_Threatening_to_Strike⠀⇛ # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Opinion_|_Concerned_About_the_Economy?_Then Vote_for_Candidates_Who_Support_Abortion_Rights⠀⇛ The Supreme Court’s June 2022 Dobbs decision ending nearly 50 years of established abortion rights, ignited a burst of anger and widespread support for Democratic candidates who made abortion a centerpiece of their mid-term campaigns.  But recently, as alarm about inflation and the economy has escalated, abortion rights have become a less pressing concern to voters, as if access to abortion and the economy were not intimately connected. In fact, access to abortion is as much of a “kitchen-table” issue as the price of groceries or gasoline. And denying women this access has profound immediate and long-term economic consequences.  # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ During_Speech_on_Fascism_and_‘Creepy’_GOP, a_Direct_Appeal_to_Texas_Governor’s_Wife_in_the_Audience⠀⇛ After he said what he had to say, that’s when “it got wild.” Author and political commentator Anand Giridharadas was about to deliver a speech touching on the ideas of democracy, freedom, and fascism at a gala event during the Texas Book Festival on Friday night when he learned that Cecilia Abbott, wife of the state’s Republican Gov. Greg Abbott, was in the audience. # ⚓ Ali Reza Hayati ☛ Obeying_the_law⠀⇛ You would have to agree with me that all people should obey just laws but I would also say that unjust law is no law at all. And when we find an unjust law, I think we have a moral obligation to take a stand against it. I do feel there are two types of laws: one is a just law and one is an unjust law. We all have moral obligations to disobey unjust laws because noncooperation with evil is as much as moral obligation as is cooperation with good. Any man who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust and willingly accepts the penalty by staying in jail in order to arouse the conscience of the community on the injustice of the law is in that moment expressing the very highest respect for law. Laws have been made for us to have a better life, and to provide a good condition for living in communities. At least it is the purpose that we have been told the laws have. However, laws were supposed to trigger the moral obligation of humans toward each other in societies to do good and avoid evil. Since we made laws zero and one, it is doing more damage than good to the soul and spirit of the original purpose and idea of having laws. Since the creation of classes and since one class made to rule and control other classes, laws have changed to protect the benefits of the master class against other people. [...] My brothers and sisters, we are living in a new slavery and we are bound by unjust laws to obey these lords and masters, but we are morally obligated to disobey the unjust laws forced on us and we are morally and humanly obligated to fight against these masters for the sake of ourselves and the good of people and for a better future. # ⚓ There_are_50_million_people_in_situations_of_modern_slavery on_any_given_day:_Report⠀⇛ Some 49.6 million people are trapped in modern slavery on any given day. They are either forced to work against their will or are in a marriage that they have been forced into, according to the 2021 Global Estimates of Modern Slavery released September 12, 2022. Forced labour accounted for 27.6 million of those in modern slavery and forced marriage for 22 million. The new estimates showed that forced labour and forced marriage had increased significantly in the last five years. # ⚓ The Wire ☛ Hindu_Men_Have_Highest_Number_of_Multiple_Sexual Partners,_Sikhs_Second:_NFHS-5_Data⠀⇛ Among men of all religions, Hindus rank at the top when it comes to having multiple sexual partners in India. They are followed by Sikhs, Christians, Buddhists, Muslims and Jains, in descending order. The Wire‘s analysis of National Family Health Survey-5 (NFHS-5) data reveals that Hindu men, who chose to have partners outside of marriage or were in live-in relationships, had 2.2 ‘mean number of sexual partners in their lifetime’. Sikhs and Christians had 1.9, while Buddhists and Muslims had 1.7, on an average. Jains had the lowest mean number of 1.1. o § Monopolies⠀➾ # § Copyrights⠀➾ # ⚓ Torrent Freak ☛ Anti-Piracy_Companies_Locked_Down Russian_TV,_Now_Putin_Wants_It_Back⠀⇛ Russia’s premium broadcasters use conditional access systems to restrict viewing to paying customers and prevent piracy. These systems are reportedly very good but that’s making Russia nervous. Western anti-piracy companies dominate the market and at least in theory, could black out TV sets all over the country. A second scenario has Russia equally worried – free premium TV for all. # ⚓ Shutterstock_partners_with_OpenAI_to_advance_AI_image generation⠀⇛ Shutterstock is expanding its partnership with OpenAI to advance how AI image generators are trained and how contributors are rewarded. The stock image service will offer “direct access” to OpenAI’s DALL-E 2 image generator through its website. “The mediums to express creativity are constantly evolving and expanding. We recognize that it is our great responsibility to embrace this evolution and to ensure that the generative technology that drives innovation is grounded in ethical practices,” said Paul Hennessy, CEO at Shutterstock. # ⚓ Michael Geist ☛ Why_Bill_C-18’s_Mandated_Payment_for Links_is_a_Threat_to_Freedom_of_Expression_in_Canada⠀⇛ The study into the Online News Act continues this week as the government and Bill C-18 supporters continue to insist that the bill does not involve payment for links. These claims are deceptive and plainly wrong from even a cursory reading of the bill. Simply put, there is no bigger concern with this bill. This post explains why link payments are in, why the government knows they are in, and why the approach creates serious risks to the free flow of information online and freedom of expression in Canada. # ⚓ Michael Geist ☛ Heritage_Minister_Pablo_Rodriguez Tweets_Video_Suggesting_it_Shows_Creator_Support_for Bill_C-11,_But_the_Video_Pre-Dates_the_Bill_By_Nearly_a Year_–_Michael_Geist⠀⇛ Canadian Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez’s credibility took another hit yesterday with an exceptionally misleading tweet on Bill C- 11. The tweet featured a video of artists encouraging Canadians to seek out Canadian content, which Rodriguez used to tweet “I’m hearing so many stories from artists about how Bill #C11 will make a real difference for artists. This is what it’s all about: supporting diverse Canadian culture, artists, and stories.” Leaving aside the fact that thousands of digital creators have vocally opposed the bill with warnings that it will result in serious harm to their careers and livelihood, the artists in the video were not speaking about Bill C-11. We know that because the video was launched in April 2021, pre-dating Bill C-11 by nearly a year and created before the government started the ruckus by removing Section 4.1 protections for user content from Bill C-10, the predecessor to Bill C-11. * § Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾ o § Personal⠀➾ # ⚓ 🔤SpellBinding:_CFUMOSI_Wordo:_FOULS⠀⇛ # ⚓ Have_COVID,_Will_Travel⠀⇛ As is the trend these days, nobody was wearing face masks save for one woman. I overheard someone mocking her for this. Everyone is acting like the pandemic is over. I tested positive for COVID as soon as I got home. The first day (Friday) it felt like a bad head cold, but by Saturday I was running a fever, had chills, and muscle-aches all over. It feels like a combination of strep throat and the flu. Not a fan. My doc offered to prescribe me something called Paxlovid. I hope that that helps, because this is miserable. I’m worried about transmitting the virus to my partner, who has a weakened immune system. They’ve been kind enough to deliver tea and snacks while I’ve been sequestered in this room all day. I make sure they know they’re appreciated (from a distance and behind a mask). o § Technical⠀➾ # § Internet/Gemini⠀➾ # ⚓ A_vision_for_Gemini_applications⠀⇛ There has been a lot of talk on the Gemini mailing list lately about applications, and dealing with the ugly realities of things like spam and CSRF vulnerabilities To some extent, all this app stuff has taken me kind of by surprise. Not the fact that they’re possible or that people want them, I expected that, and the client certificate stuff in Gemini was partially motivated by wanting a better way to do server-side applications. But I guess I was not prepared for how badly people would want apps, how many of them, how quickly, and what kind they would be – that serving static content out of the filesystem would be seen as an unfortunate limitation. I guess years of living in Gopherspace have narrowed my vision a bit. # ⚓ API_Evolution⠀⇛ Adding support for PCRE2 in the_Foundation (and thus Lagrange as well) has got me thinking about APIs. Generally speaking, the challenge in API design is to fit together internal and external views of a system. There’s a tension between how the internal implementation wants things to be — for maximum efficiency — and the user wanting a friendly easy-to- understand black box. Choosing the right level of abstraction is crucial. 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