𝕿𝖊𝖈𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍𝖙𝖘 Bulletin for Monday, November 14, 2022 ┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅ Generated Tue 15 Nov 02:41:40 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/2022/11/14/ ╒═══════════════════ 𝐑𝐄𝐂𝐄𝐍𝐓 𝐁𝐔𝐋𝐋𝐄𝐓𝐈𝐍𝐒 ════════════════════════════════════╕ Previous bulletins in IPFS (past 21 days, in chronological order): Qmam1d2RF5tBzhN6dRgHGAQ4qtLayQtpQHjio6cRSPKrcq QmWQuEaedqKfnCvC3TTkjk1W11rJx9Jry8Tg1zmmSe22LV QmbZfgGTWEFktrixtKA1f8HwPDiqFSbSCmugQfJB3KsFx3 QmRXANaYRMaXicTWRnU2AhDUs9NP4sZ4K7v1ahH8UizZi1 QmayDAaedtPtRdyjHkq8VJaNw4yXhz4LThsrNtYK12WLdE QmZm5eHFmNNzzux9VVzo7ex1GyGjZD4HzFoxJWEaZe8Mby QmUms9EuWBHXEEkvgXfiNBHhTnkSeHCSbJ5Nez2q3VB3uY QmPYtqSLb1u1ZcxEizXSrp4b5VQ7gARTj185s8YHFAeMRk QmXV7rrWTSSXC3w6moqPRSw67fU2wDZ3j6JKez5ku8nuUa QmWzWCzM3tE735knZAeUF9t2XXJbeSby2oJPv244xEiuY1 QmZ2KLkBsoi9Y99QLQdEKQjcZr4RoSctXcD2P2JaQq15Ak QmZqxQxc5reDLFiDy7WdrazVG9u3R3zLSPNZ5JkPK4ceRN QmbZEbJJCx2oKiHzb46Kk8u6KJxE8cDB7rPcJrBgk59rrt QmWe4ZcUCXb7gFxjGDk3PjF7HNHjTbgcquYd9u9jD5g5ge QmektpPiXCuvc8NaNmCE8j37akU1yn7EEyRiwBET52oW8A Qmde6QEourkyGGcYZLdpsAi286GrfoXVkX6CUevUzZsmmk QmQS4yFupXPo1svfrLiFxv6BB7gRHbYFynrvyydPucmB9q QmY1X6m9vp1ra3VDuZ2GjBhKAvVsGutnYCpd4oKRpMw4SV QmWPNBYGqyuq9XLTiax7rt77KVGCae8BFDeLQFksaDCp5f QmSPzNDAW3D3KqfWRdHYQEWtxEEJUVdqqtEGcu8S14rTd8 QmWTq3p2zQ7a59rDPtHBC9gQ3CEiuAhkP7zbU1HsUEK7ss ╒═══════════════════ 𝐈𝐍𝐃𝐄𝐗 ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⦿ Linux According to Monopolistic Corporations | Techrights ⦿ [Meme] European Patent Office (EPO) Wants You to Know Only Bigots Oppose Illegal EPO Agenda | Techrights ⦿ The European Patent Office (EPO) Cannot Understand Women | Techrights ⦿ Gemini to Exceed 2,900 Known Capsules Soon (and Maybe 3,000 by Year’s End) | Techrights ⦿ IRC Proceedings: Sunday, November 13, 2022 | Techrights ⦿ Linus Torvalds Did Not Do Linux for Software Freedom (at Least Not Initially, Back When Linux Was Still Proprietary) | Techrights ⦿ European Patent Office (EPO) Uses Women and Greenwashing to Distract From EPO Crimes and Unified Patent Court (UPC) Travesty | Techrights ䷼ Bulletin articles (as HTML) to comment on (requires login): http://techrights.org/2022/11/14/closed-linux/#comments http://techrights.org/2022/11/14/dictatorship-meme/#comments http://techrights.org/2022/11/14/epo-cannot-understand-women/#comments http://techrights.org/2022/11/14/gemini-to-exceed-2900-known-capsules-soon-and-maybe-3000-by-years-end/#comments http://techrights.org/2022/11/14/irc-log-131122/#comments http://techrights.org/2022/11/14/pat-gelsinger-and-linus-torvalds/#comments http://techrights.org/2022/11/14/unitary-patent-smokescreen/#comments ䷞ Followed by Daily Links (assorted news picks curated and categorised): http://techrights.org/2022/11/14/kde-frameworks-5-100/#comments http://techrights.org/2022/11/14/linux-6-1-rc-5/#comments http://techrights.org/2022/11/14/repost-of-mastodon-vs-ryan-farmer/#comments ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 67 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at http://techrights.org/2022/11/14/closed-linux/#comments Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2022/11/14/closed-linux/ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 11.14.22⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Linux_According_to_Monopolistic_Corporations⠀✐ Posted in Deception, Free/Libre_Software, GNU/Linux, Kernel at 2:04 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz Video_download_link | md5sum 9ba1a626422cdfb106fd96a2e006bf1a Linux Revisionism Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 4.0 http://techrights.org/videos/linus-on-history.webm Summary: Free-as-in-freedom software is more important than ever before; when companies like Intel speak about “Linux”, however, what they have in mind is UEFI and Microsoft remotely controlling it (akin to a back door) THIS morning we had clipped and then shared a new Linus_Torvalds_video where he avoids talking about Software Freedom and instead speaks of “Open Source” in reference to an era that predates that term by as much as 7 years. “Software Freedom is crucial and it is being crushed along with general-purpose and/or open-ended devices (programmable, configurable computers).”Just over a decade ago Torvalds made it crystal clear that choosing the GPL (copyleft) was one of the most important decisions he had made. This is why GNU/Linux succeeded. Of course Torvalds does not like to talk much about GNU, either. That sort of changes how people understand history — a subject also remarked on in the video above. Software Freedom is crucial and it is being crushed along with general-purpose and/or open-ended devices (programmable, configurable computers). Git is being attacked by GitHub (proprietary and Microsoft-controlled) along with the software that’s in there; that too is under attack and Microsoft has just been sued for the GPL violation it is not only facilitating but actively encouraging for profit. The way we see it, Torvalds ought to speak more about Software Freedom; we don’t expect him to do so (the Linux_Foundation probably wouldn’t permit this either), so instead we might see Linux_becoming_a_legacy_brand. As an associate put it today: “It’s rather important to note that Torvalds still refers to freedom and reciprocity despite using the phrase “open source”. So while he is definitely for backing the f-word [freedom] up with deeds, he remains very reluctant to say it out loud.” █ ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 132 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at http://techrights.org/2022/11/14/dictatorship-meme/#comments Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2022/11/14/dictatorship-meme/ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 11.14.22⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ [Meme]_European_Patent_Office_(EPO)_Wants_You_to_Know_Only_Bigots_Oppose Illegal_EPO_Agenda⠀✐ Posted in Europe, Patents at 3:11 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇Tony, it's illegal; I am the f***ing president!⦈ Summary: The EPO is run like a monarchy and anybody pointing out that the laws are being violated by such monarchs is accused of “insulting” the kingdom; this is autocracy or dictatorship at the very heart of Germany, supported by the patent microcosm across nations (to the 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Video_download_link | md5sum 677d4cd8d2baa294cdc0f8d9bdbc038c EPO a Men Club Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 4.0 http://techrights.org/videos/epo-womens-issues.webm Summary: The EPO is being made aware of women’s issues; since a lot of the management is a bunch of ‘alphamales’ [1, 2, 3] like Benoît_Battistelli and his crony António_Campinos (and their friends) we’re not likely to see policies that are kind to women (heck, Campinos tells women that he is “the f***ing president”; borderline harassment) THE EPO has a number of crises, including a crisis of legitimacy. It does not obey court orders, it discriminates_against_women_(even_in_2022), and only about a third of staff is female. Those in higher-up positions are spouses and friends of male managers. Imagine trying to extend this crooked system to the courts (UPC), setting aside the gross biases on European_software_patents; the EPO is an epic bubble of crime, a bundle of corruption. Diplomatic immunity helps this persist. “With management like this, will they get listened to? Will they find a sympathetic ear or just more “mansplaining”?”This video concerns a new document in circulation. In it, menopause is explained and the Central Staff Committee insists that EPO management should take the matter seriously. With management like this, will they get listened to? Will they find a sympathetic ear or just more “mansplaining”? In the words of the Central Staff Committee: “Dear colleagues, Have you already dared to talk about menopause with your colleagues or your manager? Considering the EPO’s age pyramid, women over 45 are a growing population and this should make menopause and menopausal staff an important topic in our organisation. Yet the challenges faced by our colleagues at this natural phase in their life have been so far largely ignored and there is no specific support in place to ensure they can remain at work. Your Staff Representation explains the need for a menopause policy at the workplace and strives for a supportive working environment for menopausal colleagues in this paper.” The paper is discussed above and reproduced below as HTML/GemText/plain text: Zentraler Personalausschuss Central Staff Committee Le Comité Central du Personnel Munich, 04/11/2022 sc22132cp § Menopause: not a taboo⠀➾ Dear Colleagues, According to the Social Report 2021, out of a total of 6.261 staff members, 2.125 are female, this is 33,9% of EPO staff. The majority of our female colleagues are 45 years or older1 and might therefore presently be going through pre-menopause or menopause. The menopausal transition most often begins between ages 45 and 55. It usually lasts about seven years but can be as long as 14 years, hence, it is likely that female staff suffer symptoms up to the time they retire. Menopause is a natural part of a woman’s life; all female colleagues will eventually go through it. It can affect work-life severely, making this topic a major occupational health matter. Still, menopause does not come naturally in conversations, and its impact on women remains largely ignored or underestimated. And worse still, it is often dismissed as a joke. Women themselves are often underinformed about the symptoms and fail to identify the first signs. When they finally become aware, they mostly keep to themselves and do not seek support. For instance, almost half of the women who needed a day off due to menopause symptoms say they would not tell their employer the real reason2. Symptoms of pre-menopause and menopause impacting life at work The symptoms that a woman in the menopausal phase experiences vary from one woman to another. We list below the most frequent menopausal symptoms that can affect women’s life at work3: • vasomotor symptoms, including hot flashes, night sweats, and flushing (an estimated 75 percent of women experience hot flashes with menopause) • insomnia • depression • anxiety • difficulty concentrating • memory problems • headaches • racing heart • urinary tract infections (UTIs) • reduced muscle and bone mass • painful or stiff joints _____ 1 EPO Social Report 2021 (CA/40/22 Add.2, page 9) 2 A woman’s relationship with the menopause is complicated. British Menopause Society fact sheet. Women’s Health Concern. www.womens- health-concern.org, published October 2017 3 Menopause:_Symptoms,_Causes,_Treatment,_and_More_(healthline.com) ===================================================================== These symptoms have an impact on well-being at work, self-confidence, performance, and might simply render it impossible to complete a normal working day. Certain tasks become more challenging or stressful than before, and symptoms occur unpredictably throughout the day making it harder to plan the working day. Why the Office should offer support to pre-menopausal and menopausal staff A menopause policy should be regarded as part of the duty of care of an organisation. Failing to support staff suffering menopause-related symptoms also bears risks for the employer and creates a lose-lose situation4. The European Menopause and Andropause Society (EMAS) published exhaustive recommendations to employers, managers, healthcare professionals and women to make the workplace environment more menopause supportive, and to improve women’s wellbeing and their ability to remain in work5. Some assessments of the impact of menopause at work show an alarming trend. An UK’s industry-wide research has revealed that nearly one million women (in UK) have had to leave their jobs due to uncomfortable menopausal symptoms, as menopausal_women_become_the ‘fastest_growing_workplace_demographic’6. On the 22nd of March 2022, the EPO addressed the topic of menopause in a CIN drop-in session. The topic attracted 100 participants, mostly women. A poll among the participants revealed that 87% of them were impacted by menopausal symptoms at work. There seems to be a cause for action at the EPO. With respect to the Office’s duty of care, and the recent initiatives on D&I topics, we expect that the Office is prepared to update the work policies in collaboration with the staff representation in order to truly support women in menopause. Staff representation supports our female colleagues In recent months, we have been in contact with the Occupational Health Services and the training department in order to find ways to raise the awareness of staff. We also encourage our female colleagues to bring up the topic of menopause. A review of the health and safety, well-being, and staff absence policies and frameworks is necessary so that menopause is recognised as a health issue. We strongly encourage you to contact OHS should you experience symptoms or be in need of a medical advice. As staff representatives, we re-affirm our offer for a safe place to share your concerns. We are there to support you and will work towards a review of the Office’s policies. For us, menopause is not taboo, and it should also not be for you. The Central Staff Committee _____ 4 Employment_law_and_menopause_–_Menopause_in_the_Workplace_| Henpicked 5 Global_consensus_recommendations_on_menopause_in_the_workplace:_A European_Menopause_and_Andropause_Society_(EMAS)_position_statement 6 Research_shows_that_menopause_symptoms_are_forcing_women_out_of_the workplace_|_Aon Based on the above links, the Microsoft takeover of the EPO persists. The EPO has become so utterly incompetent that it outsourced a lot of stuff to Microsoft (almost_certainly_illegal) and now it has Sharepoint with an intranet domain called “epocloud”. The EPO is run by corrupt clowns who rob the place and promote an illegal agenda of special interests. There’s more on this topic in our next video. █ ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 443 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at http://techrights.org/2022/11/14/gemini-to-exceed-2900-known-capsules-soon-and-maybe-3000-by-years-end/#comments Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2022/11/14/gemini-to-exceed-2900-known-capsules-soon-and-maybe-3000-by-years-end/ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 11.14.22⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Gemini_to_Exceed_2,900_Known_Capsules_Soon_(and_Maybe_3,000_by_Year’s_End)⠀✐ Posted in Protocol at 12:09 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz Video_download_link | md5sum ee27c47a649212a58258fef26aa5447b Another Impending Gemini Milestone Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 4.0 http://techrights.org/videos/2900-capsules.webm Summary: At the start of this year there were about 1,900 known Gemini capsules and we might soon exceed 3,000 that are known to Lupa (it’s 2878 at_this_time) THE Gemini Protocol is being adopted by more people and more sites (which add or become capsules). 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So I put it out and it wasn’t really initially about Open Source, for me. Intially it was more like, hey ,look at what I’ve done. Right. Kind of. This is kind of cool, this is kind of interesting, maybe somebody else is interested, and that completely changed everything. And that’s, I went from being kind of knowing about open source to being [00:30] Linus Torvalds: completely convinced this is the only way I ever want to do it. That was my lightbulb moment. ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 661 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at http://techrights.org/2022/11/14/unitary-patent-smokescreen/#comments Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2022/11/14/unitary-patent-smokescreen/ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 11.14.22⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ European_Patent_Office_(EPO)_Uses_Women_and_Greenwashing_to_Distract_From_EPO Crimes_and_Unified_Patent_Court_(UPC)_Travesty⠀✐ Posted in Europe, Patents at 3:29 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz Video_download_link | md5sum 863c857a45a4d638a8301105329b9f4a UPC and the Smokescreen Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 4.0 http://techrights.org/videos/illegal-agenda-greenwashed.webm Summary: The Unitary Patent or Unified Patent Court (UPC) agenda is being dressed up in a robe of “justice” while as a matter of fact it is all about injustice on many levels; the EPO is going to make people more and more cynical about those causes it falsely claims to be championing TODAY I receive a physical letter — a threatening letter — in connection to a post I published last year about EPO breaking labour laws. I cannot prove that this is connected to EPO managers, but some of the pertinent details are curious [1, 2]. Either way, today the EPO boasted about trying to commence an illegal and unconstitutional system in violation of several conventions. Also, amid complaints_from_female_staff the management found the audacity to pretend that it cares about women’s issues — for the second week in a row! They seem to be stuffing their illegal agenda with puff pieces that are greenwashing and fashionable pleas for morality (like this (warning: epo.org link) and more that are shown in the video above). “They seem to be stuffing their illegal agenda with puff pieces that are greenwashing and fashionable pleas for morality…”The EPO has become like a classic crime syndicate that presents itself as sympathetic to animals while butchering actual human beings. The longer this charade goes on for, the more harm will be done to the reputation of the European Union and Commission, which instead of cracking down on EPO corruption (and the thugs who hijacked it and now try to use the EU as a springboard to kangaroo_courts) actively participates_in_the_cover-up. █ ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 718 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐃𝐀𝐈𝐋𝐘 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒 ═════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 11.14.22⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Links_14/11/2022:_KDE_Frameworks_5.100_and_Sparky_6.5_Released⠀✐ Posted in News_Roundup at 4:55 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇GNOME bluefish⦈ § Contents⠀➾ * GNU/Linux o Server o Audiocasts/Shows o Applications o Instructionals/Technical o Games o Desktop_Environments/WMs # K_Desktop_Environment/KDE_SC/Qt # GNOME_Desktop/GTK * Distributions_and_Operating_Systems o New_Releases o Arch_Family o Rocky_Linux_and_Red_Hat o Debian_Family o Canonical/Ubuntu_Family o Devices/Embedded o Open_Hardware/Modding o Mobile_Systems/Mobile_Applications * Free,_Libre,_and_Open_Source_Software o Productivity_Software/LibreOffice/Calligra o FSFE o Programming/Development # Perl_/_Raku * Leftovers o Security # Privacy/Surveillance o AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics * Gemini*_and_Gopher o Personal o Politics o Technical # Science # Internet/Gemini # Announcements # Programming * § GNU/Linux⠀➾ o ⚓ DebugPoint ☛ DebugPoint_Weekly_Roundup_#22.13:_AlmaLinux_8.7,_New Version_of_sed_+_More⠀⇛ Welcome to the DebugPoint Weekly roundup #22.13, where you can find all the happenings from this week, mainly from the Linux and open-source space. This week mostly concentrates on the application updates and distro updates see their testing versions for the upcoming releases. Here’s what happened this week. o ⚓ 9to5Linux ☛ 9to5Linux_Weekly_Roundup:_November_13th,_2022⠀⇛ This week was a bit slow in news and releases, probably due to the Ubuntu Summit 2022 event that took place in Prague, Czech Republic, but we still got a few goodies like new AlmaLinux and Red Hat Enterprise Linux releases, as well as a major DXVK release that should please many Linux gamers out there. On top of that, the upcoming Ubuntu 23.04 distribution now has a release date and Thunderbird developers share some of the major changes coming to the popular email client next year. 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If a threat actor is able to gain access to OpenSSH on your Linux server, then they have full access to cause all kinds of mischief. In this video, Jay goes over 5 must-have tweaks to strengthen the security of OpenSSH on your server. o § Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ DebugPoint ☛ Kodi_Becomes_the_First_App_to_be_Verified_in Flathub_(beta)⠀⇛ Verification badges are trending now, considering the entire endless Twitter 🐦 tumble. Last month, I wrote about a recent merge request for the Flathub portal is bringing the verification badge for individual applications. Today looks like the popular free, and open-source home theatre application – Kodi received a verified badge. Here’s how it looks. # ⚓ It’s FOSS ☛ Nestbox_Lets_You_Run_Linux_Virtual_Machines_on Your_Google_Pixel_Device⠀⇛ Nestbox is an app that allows you to run virtual machines and create containers on your Google Pixel device—created by kdrag0n (a Senior Member of XDA Forum). It is a slightly modified version of a popular terminal emulator for Android called Termux. # ⚓ Linux Links ☛ Excellent_Utilities:_Kooha_–_simple_screen recorder⠀⇛ This series highlights best-of-breed utilities. We cover a wide range of utilities including tools that boost your productivity, help you manage your workflow, and lots more besides. Kooha is billed as a simple GTK-based app to “elegantly record your screen”. It’s free and open source software written in the Rust programming language. # ⚓ LinuxStans ☛ Best_IDEs_(Code_Editors)_for_Linux [Ed: This article is self-discrediting, legitimising proprietary garbage that Microsoft control and uses to spy on GNU/Linux users]⠀⇛ Recently, most developers prefer to use Linux as their alternative or even primary OS because Linux provides a secure environment, a plethora of customization options, reliability, and a stable environment. Arguably, Linux is the best open-source operating system which provides a safer and more reliable environment as compared to other operating systems, like Windows. If you’re a developer and you’re using Linux, you’ll need an IDE (Integrated Development Environment). Just like any other operating system, Linux has a ton of IDEs for developers. Since the introduction of IDEs, developers can now develop brilliant software with numerous features and tools installed in the various IDEs themselves that help their workflow. In this article, we’re exploring the best IDEs for Linux (any distro) o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾ # ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_Valentina_on_Ubuntu_22.10_| 22.04_|_20.04⠀⇛ Valentina is a software package for creating clothing patterns distributed according to the open-source software model. The main idea of this concept is to combine modern technologies with traditional design methods. The main feature of Valentina, which qualitatively distinguishes it from other solutions for the fashion industry, is the work with parametric patterns. This allows you to create complex pattern shapes using a set of basic parameters. Some of features of Valentina you will find further exploring the application is a wide range of tools for pattern creation, including automatic drawing tools, freehand drawing tools, and a library of ready-made templates. Thanks to these features, Valentina has become one of the most popular software packages for fashion designers and sewing professionals. The following tutorial will teach you how to install Valentina on Ubuntu 22.10, 22.04, and 20.04 with cli commands on the command line terminal using the LaunchPAD PPA maintained by Roman, which has the latest stable version on it at all times. # ⚓ OSTechNix ☛ How_To_Reset_Forgotten_Windows_Password_With Linux_Live_CD⠀⇛ This step by step guide explains what is Chntpw utility and how to reset Windows password using Chntpw with a Linux Live CD. # ⚓ H2S Media ☛ Install_and_Configure_Ansible_on_Ubuntu_22.04 Linux_–_Linux_Shout⠀⇛ If you have to manage multiple Linux servers then manually configuring and installing software on each of them is not only a time-consuming but also a labor-intensive task. Thus, Automation or orchestration is used in such environments. There are already well know applications available to perform orchestration for server systems/data centers such as Ansible, Puppet, Chef, and a few others. Well, here we learn about Ansible and how to use it to centrally manage multiple servers for installing various packages; code deployment, network configuration, cloud management, and much more. Ansible is an open-source project sponsored by RedHat, thus if somebody wants, support and a graphical interface for Ansible they can go for the paid additions Tower’offered by RedHat. # ⚓ HowTo Forge ☛ How_to_Install_Django_with_Postgres,_Nginx, and_Gunicorn_on_Rocky_Linux_9⠀⇛ Django is a python framework used for developing dynamic websites and applications. # ⚓ HowTo Forge ☛ How_to_Install_Odoo_16_ERP_Software_on_Ubuntu 22.04⠀⇛ Odoo (formerly known as OpenERP) is a self-hosted suite of over 10,000 open Odoo is a free and open- source ERP solution for multiple types of businesses. # ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ Relative_vs._Absolute_Path_in_Linux:_What_Is the_Difference⠀⇛ Absolute and relative path names are two ways to specify the virtual address of a directory or file on Linux. But what’s the difference between these two path types, and which one should you use in your commands? Let’s find out. An absolute path always starts from the root directory and ends at the actual directory or file you want to point to. While using absolute path expression, you need to type all the sub-directory names present inside the hierarchy that lead up to the final location. # ⚓ Convert_an_image_sequence_into_a_video⠀⇛ # ⚓ OpenSource.com ☛ Make_swap_better_with_zram_on_Linux_| Opensource.com⠀⇛ Zram is a compressed RAM disk on Linux. Lately, it’s been put to use for swap space on many distributions. In my previous article, I introduced zram and demonstrated how to use it. In this article, I cover some of the ways you can customize how your system puts zram to use. # ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_VeraCrypt_on_Ubuntu_22.10_| 22.04_|_20.04⠀⇛ VeraCrypt is a free, open-source, cross-platform data encryption tool available for all major operating systems and a popular choice among Linux users. It is an alternative to TrueCrypt, the popular encryption tool discontinued in 2014. VeraCrypt is easy to use and offers a variety of features that make it an excellent choice for encrypting data. One of the best features of VeraCrypt is that it can be used to encrypt entire partitions or disks, making it ideal for protecting sensitive data. VeraCrypt offers three levels of encryption: standard, hidden, and plausible deniability which allows the user to choose the level of security that best suits their needs and is highly customizable, allowing users to select from various options when encrypting their data. The following tutorial will teach you how to install VeraCrypt on Ubuntu 22.10, 22.04, and 20.04 Linux using a LaunchPAD APT PPA with the command line terminal using a popular LaunchPAD PPA. # ⚓ TecMint ☛ How_To_Remove_Passphrase_from_SSL_Certificate_and SSH_Key⠀⇛ Have you created a certificate key or private key with a passphrase and wish to remove it? In this guide, we will show how to remove a passphrase using the openssl command line tool and from an ssh private key. A passphrase is a sequence of words used to secure and control access to a private key. It is a key or secret used to encrypt the file that contains the actual encryption key. # ⚓ TecMint ☛ How_to_Hide_Files_and_Directories_in_Linux⠀⇛ Do you occasionally share your Linux desktop machine with family members, friends, or perhaps with colleagues at your workplace, then you have a reason to hide certain private files as well as folders or directories. The question is how can you hide files in linux? In this tutorial, we will explain an easy and effective way to hide files and directories and view hidden files/directories in Linux from the terminal and GUI. As we’ll see below, hiding files and directories in Linux is so simple. # ⚓ It’s FOSS ☛ Using_Firewall_With_UFW_in_Ubuntu_Linux_ [Beginner’s_Guide]⠀⇛ UFW (Uncomplicated Firewall) is a simple-to-use firewall utility with plenty of options for all kinds of users. It is actually an interface for iptables, which is the classic low-level tool (and harder to get comfortable with) to set up rules for your network. o § Games⠀➾ # ⚓ Godot Engine ☛ Godot_Engine_–_Movie_Maker_mode_arrives_in Godot_4.0⠀⇛ The idea of using a game engine for projects other than creating video games is not new. For decades, game engines have been used to create applications, simulations and more. However, with the ever- increasing visual fidelity of their rendering engines, game engines have grown in popularity for situations that demand high-end visuals. These use cases include architecture visualization, cinema, animation and cutscene rendering. With the addition of non-real-time video recording, Godot opens itself to these new use cases. o § Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾ # § K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt⠀➾ # ⚓ 9to5Linux ☛ KDE_Frameworks_5.100_Released_with_Many Improvements_for_Plasma_Desktop_and_Apps⠀⇛ The monthly KDE Frameworks releases continue with version 5.100, which brings more improvements for your KDE Plasma desktop and related apps. New features include the ability to show hidden folders in the dropdown menus for Dolphin’s path navigator bar if you have hidden files visible. KDE Frameworks 5.100 also brings massive improvements to the appearance of list views and list section headers throughout KDE apps, adds a new option to immediately delete trash items that are bigger than the current trash size, and makes avatar images across KDE apps sharper and better looking on HiDPI screens or when using a scale factor. # ⚓ KDE ☛ KDE_Ships_Frameworks_5.100.0_–_KDE_Community⠀⇛ KDE today announces the release of KDE Frameworks 5.100.0. KDE Frameworks are 83 addon libraries to Qt which provide a wide variety of commonly needed functionality in mature, peer reviewed and well tested libraries with friendly licensing terms. For an introduction see the KDE Frameworks release announcement. This release is part of a series of planned monthly releases making improvements available to developers in a quick and predictable manner. # ⚓ Jonathan Riddell ☛ Ubuntu_Summit_2022_Prague_– Jonathan_Esk-Riddell’s_Diary⠀⇛ One of the lovelyest things about open community development is you can do it from home but you also get to travel to fancy places to meet your fellow devs and share ideas. Lockdowns stopped that for two years but with Akademy last month it felt like open tech life could return to a more fun state. Then came the return of a meeting that had last happened a decade ago, the Ubuntu Summit. A bunch of KDE devs were invited, me (who does KDE neon), Ade (who does Calamares installer), Scarlett (who does Snap packages), Aleix (who does Discover app installers), Harald (KDE neon), Luca (OpenRazor and hangs around KDE). # § GNOME Desktop/GTK⠀➾ # ⚓ Ubuntu Handbook ☛ Use_GTK4_port_of_Desktop_Icons_NG Extension_in_Ubuntu_22.04_|_22.10_|_UbuntuHandbook⠀⇛ As you may know, icons on Ubuntu desktop is handled by an extension called “Desktop Icons NG”. While GNOME has been moving to GTK4, the extension so far still uses GTK3 toolkit to implement all the functions. A GTK4 port of this extension now is in development, with all previous functions, bug-fixes, as well new features. The new version works as another extension as it’s not been merged upstream. It comes with GSconnect integration, and features drag and drop app icons from Ubuntu Dock (Dash-to- Dock) to the desktop. * § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾ o § New Releases⠀➾ # ⚓ Rolling…_Things_change_–_Ultimate_Edition⠀⇛ That is a rolling release, no version Ultimate Edition 7.7. One thing I can see it is lightning fast. As soon as I build the core files it is coming. Repostorm is right behind it to fill in the gaps. I have err Reposorm has cross-platform built software. It is a scary app. I told you that years ago. It runs on both platforms. o § Arch Family⠀➾ # ⚓ Linuxiac ☛ CachyOS:_Arch-Based_Linux_Distro_Targeting Performance⠀⇛ CachyOS is a very young Linux distribution still in its infancy, so we should not judge it too harshly. However, I would like to make a few remarks. The distribution’s appearance, with its electric blue on the dark blue theme, gives some teen- hackerish feel. In addition, the icons are so identical that it is easy to lose track of whatever app you’re in. Or maybe I’m just getting old. Furthermore, we have three package managers all doing the same thing. So, they have no advantage other than confusing users. At the same time, the lack of an office suite is evident. So, it may be a good idea to consider including one. Last but not least – is the browser. Probably the essential app for the majority of users. It is difficult for a desktop-centric distro to attract users by not including the well-known Firefox or, at the very least, Chrome/Chromium by default. Cachy Browser’s preinstalled extensions make things worse. For example, the Dark Reader add-on. It is beyond my understanding why the CachyOS devs decided that all sites should be forced into a dark theme, regardless of the user’s preferences or if the sites are even intended to be used in that mode. Nevertheless, the amount of work done on distribution is enormous. These performance improvements show the time and effort spent building CachyOS. However, because it is more of a benchmark topic, the actual performance is unlikely to be noticeable to the average Linux user. In other words, under the hood, everything seems good, and we can only admire the devs’ efforts. However, the presentation part, the one that faces users, remains a feeling of choices based on fan bias and does not work in favor of the distro. With a bit more attention to detail, CachyOS has the potential to compete with its larger brethren that have earned the honor of being listed among the best Arch-based Linux distros. Only time will tell if this happens and how this distro will evolve. You can learn more about CachyOS by visiting its website or browsing its Wiki. o § Rocky Linux and Red Hat⠀➾ # ⚓ ZDNet ☛ Rocky_Linux_Foundation_launches_|_ZDNET⠀⇛ Once upon a time, 2002 to be exact, Gregory Kurtzer started a Linux distribution called CentOS, a clone of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). It became really popular. Businesses that had Linux-savvy administrators used it to run their businesses. Then, in 2014, Red Hat acquired CentOS. # ⚓ OpenSource.com ☛ 5_metrics_to_track_in_your_open_source community_|_Opensource.com⠀⇛ The core of open source is about using, sharing, and collaborating in software creation. With its roots in the free software movement and ensuring the rights of software users, open source has evolved from being solely the work of volunteers and hobbyists to also include the enterprise. Collaborative software development has taken on a new dimension in the last 5 to 10 years. Today open source makes up 58% of software in the enterprise. In fact, 63% of companies in a 2021 survey indicated wanting to increase their use and engagement with open source. Open source is everywhere and forms the digital infrastructure we rely on. The US issued a directive mandating more software supply chain security. The European Union is also working on similar legislation and guidelines. To address this challenge, you must understand how open source software is built. The process typically involves an open source project. # ⚓ Enterprisers Project ☛ IT_talent:_The_3_C’s_for_job satisfaction⠀⇛ In my 40+ years in IT executive search and technical recruiting, I’ve interviewed over 10,000 candidates. I’ve learned about their skills, experience, career goals, frustrations, and priorities. And I’ve used these factors to assess the fit between their aspirations and available opportunities. I’ve also observed how candidates evaluate job offers and ultimately make “go” or “no-go” decisions. Their evaluation criteria often differ from what they initially told me they were looking for. # ⚓ Enterprisers Project ☛ AI:_3_top_risks_and_how_to_avoid them⠀⇛ Artificial intelligence systems and projects are becoming more commonplace as enterprises harness the power of this emerging technology to automate decision-making and improve efficiency. While its benefits are clear, AI can also introduce risk. How should you prepare if you are leading a large-scale AI project? Here are three of the most significant risks associated with AI and how to mitigate them. o § Debian Family⠀➾ # ⚓ Sparky_6.5_–_SparkyLinux⠀⇛ The 5th update of Sparky 6 – 6.5 is out. It is a quarterly updated point release of Sparky 6 “Po Tolo” of the stable line. Sparky 6 is based on and fully compatible with Debian 11 “Bullseye”. Changes: – system upgraded from Debian & Sparky stable repos as of November 13, 2022 – PC: Linux kernel 5.10.149 (6.0.6, 5.15.78-ESR and 4.9.333-ESR49 can be installed from Sparky unstable repos) – ARM: Linux kernel 5.15.76-v7+ – Firefox 102.4.0.0esr (107.0 Mozilla build can be installed from Sparky repos as the ‘firefox-sparky’ package) – Thunderbird 102.4.0 – LibreOffice 7.0.4 – LXQt 0.16.0 – Xfce 4.16 – Openbox 3.6.1 – KDE Plasma 5.20.5 – small improvements o § Canonical/Ubuntu Family⠀➾ # ⚓ 9to5Linux ☛ You_Can_Now_Install_Ubuntu’s_Unity_Desktop_on Arch_Linux,_Here’s_How⠀⇛ If you’ve been waiting to install and enjoy the Unity7 desktop environment on your Arch Linux machine, the wait is finally over thanks to unity- installer-arch, a new command-line tool developed by Rudra Saraswat that lets you install the latest and greatest version of the Unity7 desktop on Arch Linux. The unity-installer-arch tool has been uploaded this morning to AUR (Arch User Repository), which needs to be enabled on your Arch Linux machine before attempting to download and install the Unity7 desktop. I highly recommend using one of the popular AUR helpers like Yay, Paru, Pacaur, or Pamac. o § Devices/Embedded⠀➾ # ⚓ The Register UK ☛ Build_your_own_pen-plotter,_for_under_$15 •_The_Register⠀⇛ BrachioGraph is a DIY pen-plotter built from a Raspberry Pi Zero, a few $2 servomotors, plus household parts such as clothes pegs and bulldog clips… and controlled in Python. An enjoyable side to the Ubuntu Summit was that unlike some of the more worthy events from the commercial side of the industry, here people were presenting their own personal passion projects. BrachioGraph is one of these, and was presented by its creator, Daniele Procida, whose day-job is director of engineering at Canonical. # ⚓ Linux Gizmos ☛ AI_Camera_Dev_Kit_features_Jetson_Nano_SoC⠀⇛ ADLINK just unveiled a camera development kit designed to quickly develop proof of concept applications. This AI Camera Dev Kit integrates the Jetson Nano (128 NVIDIA CUDA core + 4x Arm Cortex- A57) along with an 8MP color MIPI Sony IMX179 camera module, a single GbE port and up to 16Gb of eMMC storage. As stated earlier, ADLINK’s new AI Camera Dev Kit is offered only with the following NVIDIA SoC: o § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾ # ⚓ Arduino ☛ This_wearable_cough_monitor_can_help_improve respiratory_disease_detection_|_Arduino_Blog⠀⇛ A large number of diseases involve coughing as one of their primary symptoms, but none are quite as concerning as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), which causes airflow blockages and other breathing problems in those afflicted by it. Consistently monitoring the frequency and intensity of coughing is vital for tracking how well the disease is being treated, yet current solutions are impractical outside of a hospital setting. Eivind Holt had the idea to use an Arduino Nano 33 BLE Sense running a custom tinyML model to automatically classify sounds as either a cough or non-cough and report them to a cloud service. Once a total of 647 audio samples had been collected, Eivind trained a Keras neural networking using Edge Impulse that could correctly identify the sound about 99% of the time. The program he wrote for the Nano creates a custom BLE service with a single cough counting characteristic that is incremented for each detection. o § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ SamMobile ☛ Samsung_Galaxy_XCover_6_Pro_gets_Android_13_ (One_UI_5.0)_update_–_SamMobile⠀⇛ # ⚓ TechCrunch ☛ A_simple_Android_lock_screen_bypass_bug_landed a_researcher_$70,000_•_TechCrunch⠀⇛ # ⚓ LifeSavvy Media ☛ Google_Chrome_Takes_a_Colorful_Cue_from Android_–_Review_Geek⠀⇛ # ⚓ Take_Better_Written_Notes_on_Android_Without_Ever_Typing_a Thing_«_Android_::_Gadget_Hacks⠀⇛ # ⚓ SamMobile ☛ Android_Auto’s_revamped_UI_design_is_finally available,_but_there’s_a_catch_–_SamMobile⠀⇛ # ⚓ Geeky Gadgets ☛ How_to_free_up_space_on_your_Android_Phone –_Geeky_Gadgets⠀⇛ # ⚓ Android Police ☛ Samsung_Galaxy_Tab_S8_is_the_first_tablet to_receive_the_Android_13_update⠀⇛ # ⚓ Android Police ☛ Android_13_update_starts_on_these_Asus flagships_next_month⠀⇛ # ⚓ Phone Arena ☛ Asus_rolls_out_its_official_Android_13 update…_schedule_for_recent_Zenfones_and_ROG_Phones_– PhoneArena⠀⇛ # ⚓ Honor_MagicOS_with_Android_will_beat_Huawei_HarmonyOS?_– Huawei_Central⠀⇛ # ⚓ Ghacks ☛ Total_Cookie_Protection_is_now_available_in Firefox_for_Android_–_gHacks_Tech_News⠀⇛ # ⚓ Android Police ☛ OnePlus_could_shake_up_the_Android_tablet market_in_2023⠀⇛ # ⚓ Samsung_Galaxy_Tab_S8_Plus_is_the_big_Android_tablet_to beat_at_this_price⠀⇛ # ⚓ The Sun ☛ Millions_of_Android_owners_urged_to_learn_‘hide away’_trick_that_stops_creepy_spying_|_The_US_Sun⠀⇛ # ⚓ Neowin ☛ Mozilla_enables_Total_Cookie_Protection_Firefox feature_for_Android_by_default_–_Neowin⠀⇛ # ⚓ SlashGear ☛ Here’s_What_You_Need_To_Do_Before_Selling_Your Android_Phone⠀⇛ # ⚓ Express ☛ Massive_Android_boost_tomorrow_is_especially_good for_Samsung_fans_|_Express.co.uk⠀⇛ # ⚓ Phone Arena ☛ Samsung_Galaxy_A73_5G_is_now_getting_Android 13_update_–_PhoneArena⠀⇛ # ⚓ SamMobile ☛ Samsung_Galaxy_S21_gets_stable_Android_13 update_in_India_and_other_Asian_markets_–_SamMobile⠀⇛ # ⚓ GSM Arena ☛ Asus_unveils_Android_13_update_schedule: Zenfone_9_first,_then_8,_then_ROG_Phones_–_GSMArena.com news⠀⇛ # ⚓ How_to_check_if_Android_13_is_available_for_your_OnePlus phone⠀⇛ # ⚓ Geeky Gadgets ☛ How_to_free_up_space_on_your_Android_Phone –_Geeky_Gadgets⠀⇛ # ⚓ Phone Arena ☛ Spotify_introduces_new_billing_choice_for Android_users_–_PhoneArena⠀⇛ * § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾ o ⚓ Open-source_software_vs._the_proposed_Cyber_Resilience_Act⠀⇛ NLnet Labs is closely following a legislative proposal by the European Commission affecting almost all hardware and software on the European market. The Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) intends to ensure cybersecurity of products with digital elements by laying down requirements and obligations for manufacturers. o ⚓ LWN ☛ Open-source_software_vs._the_proposed_Cyber_Resilience_Act_ (NLnet_Labs)_[LWN.net]⠀⇛ NLnet Labs has put up a blog entry warning about the possible effects of the “Cyber Resilience Act” proposal in the European Commission. o ⚓ Red Hat Official ☛ Switching_from_Twitter_to_Mastodon:_What sysadmins_need_to_know_|_Enable_Sysadmin⠀⇛ Joining and using open source social network Mastodon isn’t quite as simple as with mainstream sites, but this step-by-step guide offers all you need to know. o ⚓ ZDNet ☛ Mastodon_isn’t_Twitter_but_it’s_glorious [Ed: Microsoft Perlow agrees with Microsoft's Ad Bot (Ed Bott) that "there is no direct replacement for Twitter"; ZDNet is obstructing adoption of Free software because it's sponsored by Microsoft and run by Microsofters]⠀⇛ The wild world of Mastodon is open source, completely distributed, and at the mercy (and budgetary restrictions) of individual server administrators. But it’s engaging and a lot of fun. o § Productivity Software/LibreOffice/Calligra⠀➾ # ⚓ Document Foundation ☛ Community_Member_Monday: Muthuramalingam_Krishnan_(Tamil_project)_–_The_Document Foundation_Blog⠀⇛ I’m Muthuramalingam, from Tirunelveli – a southern district in Tamil Nadu, currently living in Chennai. I was in the IT industry for around 10 years, from 2007 to 2017. Currently, I’m giving training on technical matters around open source programming languages like Java and Python in Payilagam, Chennai. o § FSFE⠀➾ # ⚓ FSFE,_CCC,_Erik_Albers_–_secret_punishments⠀⇛ At CCC in December 2017, an FSFE volunteer, Michael Kappes (MajestyX) distributed a leaflet with the slogan “FUCK GOOGLE FSFE”. We are leaking the full email below. (Twitter, Gnusocial, Ubuntu, BeLUG). There is a Twitter hashtag #fuckgooglefsfe For writing these three words, Michael was subjected to a three month exclusion from the FSFE local group in Berlin. Michael wrote a blog with his side of the story and it vanished. Censorship. It looks like many of his online profiles have gone dark. We don’t know where he is. There is a close correlation between extreme isolation punishments and suicides. There are too many suicides in free, open source software. When Germans like Erik Albers behave like this and impose punishments, the world needs to worry. Volunteers like Michael donate approximately thirty percent of the FSFE budget. Albers is there to serve us. He has no right to give us orders. The key point to note here is that the volunteer stopped distributing the leaflets at the FSFE booth and distributed them from another location in the CCC. Albers and FSFE have no right to interfere in the work of activists outside their FSFE booth. Following volunteers around the CCC is stalking. o § Programming/Development⠀➾ # ⚓ Khronos_Blog_–_The_Khronos_Group_Inc⠀⇛ First introduced in 2014 by the Khronos Group®, SYCL™ is a C++ based heterogeneous parallel programming framework for accelerating high performance computing (HPC), machine learning, embedded computing, and compute-intensive desktop applications on a wide range of processor architectures, including CPUs, GPUs, FPGAs, and tensor accelerators. SYCL 2020 launched in February 2021 to bring a new level of expressiveness and simplicity to developers programming heterogeneous parallel processors using modern C++, and further accelerating the deployment of SYCL on multiple platforms, including the use of diverse acceleration API backends in addition to OpenCL™. # ⚓ Medevel ☛ CMS.js:_A_Super_light_Simple_Static_Site Generator⠀⇛ CMS.js is a fully Client-side, JavaScript Markdown Site generator in the spirit of Jekyll that uses plain ol’ HTML, CSS and JavaScript to generate your website. CMS.js is like a file-based CMS. It takes your content, renders Markdown and delivers a complete website in Single-Page App fashion…without the aid of server-side scripting (no Node.js, PHP, Ruby, etc.). # ⚓ Medevel ☛ Slinger:_an_Open_Source_Free_UPnP_Media_Server⠀⇛ A simple CLI for streaming media files over a local network to UPnP media renderers. Designed to work with cheap HDMI/DLNA/UPnP/Miracast Dongles. # ⚓ Medevel ☛ NextUI:_A_Fancy_Interface_Library_for_React_and Next.js_Projects⠀⇛ NextUI is a React-based user-interface library that allows developers to build fancy beautiful websites and applications. It comes packed with dozens of beautiful components such as cards, loading/ spinners, nice themes, dark mode and more. # ⚓ Medevel ☛ CesiumJS:_A_3D_Globe_Visualization_Library⠀⇛ CesiumJS is a JavaScript library for creating 3D globes and 2D maps in a web browser without a plugin. It uses WebGL for hardware-accelerated graphics, and is cross-platform, cross-browser, and tuned for dynamic-data visualization. # ⚓ Qt ☛ Get_Started_with_Qt_for_Android_Automotive⠀⇛ If you’re looking to develop Qt applications for the Android Automotive operating system, then you are in the right place. # § Perl / Raku⠀➾ # ⚓ Rakulang ☛ 2022.46_Rainbow_Butterfly_–_Rakudo_Weekly News⠀⇛ Sometimes good ideas almost fall through the cracks! In September the TPRF suggested the idea of setting up a yearly Rainbow Butterfly Award to be awarded to the person who has done outstanding non-core support for the Raku Community / promotion of the Raku Programming Language (discussed in the Raku Steering Council meeting of 17 September). Please consider who you would like to receive the Rainbow Butterly Award 2022 by sending your nomination by email to: rainbow@raku.org . And if at all possible, add your reasons as to why the nominated person should receive the award! Nominations will be accepted until the 1st of December, after which the Raku Steering Council will deliberately choose and announce the winner. * § Leftovers⠀➾ o § Security⠀➾ # ⚓ Hacker News ☛ New_KmsdBot_Malware_Hijacking_Systems_for Mining_Crypto_and_Launch_DDoS_Attacks [Ed: Trying to blame "SSH" for people choosing lousy UNIX password. Amazing 'journalism'.]⠀⇛ “The botnet infects systems via an SSH connection that uses weak login credentials,” Akamai researcher Larry W. Cashdollar said. “The malware does not stay persistent on the infected system as a way of evading detection.” # ⚓ Dhaka Tribune ☛ Sysnova_to_hold_cyber_security_awareness training_for_IT_professionals⠀⇛ Improving cyber-security by purchasing licenses for all proprietary software is expensive, however, a better alternative may be to migrate to open-source software like Ubuntu Linux and LibreOffice. # ⚓ Hacker News ☛ Over_15,000_WordPress_Sites_Compromised_in Malicious_SEO_Campaign [Ed: Poor research; they only identity impact but not the actual cause]⠀⇛ It’s not immediately clear how the WordPress sites are breached, and Sucuri said it did not notice any obvious plugin flaws being exploited to carry out the campaign. # ⚓ Bruce Schneier ☛ A_Digital_Red_Cross [Ed: Bruce Schneier has mentioned "ransomware" and fails to note this is primarily a Microsoft Windows issue, to be resolved by disconnecting such machines and firing those who deployed such machines in the medical domain]⠀⇛ The International Committee of the Red Cross wants some digital equivalent to the iconic red cross, to alert would-be hackers that they are accessing a medical network. # ⚓ The Wall Street Journal ☛ Red_Cross_Wants_Digital_Symbols to_Deter_Hackers_From_Healthcare_Institutions [Ed: Removing Microsoft would be vastly more effective]⠀⇛ Mr. Rodenhäuser said on Thursday that a digital protection emblem likely wouldn’t have deterred hackers intent on penetrating the Red Cross, but it might have waved off attackers unaware their victim was a healthcare organization. # ⚓ Hacker News ☛ New_“Earth_Longzhi”_APT_Targets_Ukraine_and Asian_Countries_with_Custom_Cobalt_Strike_Loaders [Ed: This is Microsoft Windows, though the article fails to mention this explicitly (low-grade 'journalism')]⠀⇛ Entities located in East and Southeast Asia as well as Ukraine have been targeted at least since 2020 by a previously undocumented subgroup of APT41, a prolific Chinese advanced persistent threat (APT). # ⚓ LWN ☛ Security_updates_for_Monday⠀⇛ Security updates have been issued by Debian (dropbear, php7.4, pixman, sysstat, and xorg- server), Fedora (mingw-expat, mingw-libtasn1, and mingw-pixman), Mageia (binutils/gdb, chromium- browser-stable, exiv2, libtiff, nodejs, pcre, pixman, wayland, and webkit2), Red Hat (device- mapper-multipath and libksba), SUSE (autotrace, busybox, libmodbus, php72, python-numpy, rustup, samba, varnish, xen, and xterm), and Ubuntu (thunderbird). # § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾ # ⚓ Politico ☛ Egypt’s_COP27_summit_app_is_a_cyber weapon,_experts_warn⠀⇛ Security officials raise fears over the Egyptian government’s mobile app as POLITICO analysis shows it can listen to private conversations and access encrypted texts. # ⚓ CNN ☛ Google_agrees_to_$392_million_settlement_with 40_states_over_location_tracking_practices⠀⇛ o § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾ # ⚓ The Register UK ☛ Twitter_engineer_calls_out_Musk_for technical_incompetence⠀⇛ * § Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾ o § Personal⠀➾ # ⚓ Unique_Jewels⠀⇛ I don’t know what edition where the the random jewel and art object table in the 5e DMG (p 134) first appeared, but it’s become my second most used page (after “lingering injuries”). Gems especially. Have you ever had the problem where the characters find some gems and they don’t have a way to appraise ‘em so they just throw them into a pouch and then three months later when they are in a town and remember those gems and they wanna sell them and they’re like… “we have some gems, what are they worth?” and you have no idea? Especially if you’re like me and you run several different modules mashed together. # ⚓ 🔤SpellBinding:_GINRYVT_Wordo:_BIJOU⠀⇛ # ⚓ Dark_Summer⠀⇛ Here in Sweden where I live, we have warm bright summers and cold dark winters. This year for the first time ever, the meteorological institute (SMHI) reports that even though it’s November, there are several regions where it’s still technically, meteorologically, summer. It’s dark and gray and warm. One of the dumbest takes on climate change is “Maybe it’s good actually, that humans die, that could be great for all the other animals and species, they could get a breather from us, Earth will recover, never mind all our libraries and semantics”. It’s not just humans that are in danger here. # ⚓ Diegetifying_downtime⠀⇛ Xanathar’s Guide to Everything gave us guidelines and outcome tables for actions that are on the scale of weeks, rather than exploration turns or combat rounds, and sometimes that works great: “I wanna spend three weeks trying to learn archery” but more often than not, actions on that time scale is not very appealing to many players. Let’s say you’re looking for a seller for a Wand of Yak Shaving you’ve found. Sometimes it’s fine to go “Now that we’re here in Jumlat, while Alice is doing that stint fighting in the arenas and Bob is doing temple service, I spend a week asking around for a seller, and don’t worry, I’ve got money to spend”. That’s fine. But some players are inclined to play things a li’l bit more zoomed in and moment-by-moment. “I look at the other people in the tavern… Do I see any adventurers who might wanna buy a Wand of Yak Shaving?” # ⚓ All_fears_stem_from_death⠀⇛ Fear is a natural instinct which protects us from dying, indirectly helping the species survive. Most of us dislike various fears we have or have irrational ones, commonly called phobias. Fear also shows up in anticipation of something happening. You fear a future event. So not only fear helps us not drive off a rock into the Deep Blue, but also it acts as a catalyst for our brain to start thinking about future events. If you’re like me, this can go wrong in many ways. The joys of overthinking. Coming back to the first point, fear helps us not die. Seems simple enough. But in some situations we override it and it can help us or not. For example, if you ignore your fear of heights, you might see a very nice sunset from a tall mountain or you might fall to your death from an airplane. Rational judgment beforehand is the key. o § Politics⠀➾ # ⚓ Ricky_Gervais_vs_The_Drag_Queens⠀⇛ I’ve heard complaints from certain groups about the wholesomeness of ‘drag queens’ in such contentious situations as libraries when reading stories to children and (usually) their mums. Drag acts have always amused me. For my generation, it’s Paul O’Grady (Lily Savage) and Steve Coogan (Pauline Calf) who jump to mind. More recently, Rue Paul has brought numerous celebrity drag queens to the fore, one of whom was a contenstant on Celebrity Masterchef (Kitty). o § Technical⠀➾ # ⚓ The_Elusive_4K_16:10_Big_Picture_Touchscreen_Monitor⠀⇛ 4K is everywhere these days. Except that’s 16:9, not 16:10. Not to mention the whole extra feature of touch tacked on. It’s my white whale. Of course a brand new model is readily available for the right bit of coin which would make the Apple tax feel painless. There’s even proper SKUs for it after all e.g. https:// www.cdw.com/product/barco-coronis-6mp-touch-screen- monitor/6911923. Let’s go back to the beginning however. # § Science⠀➾ # ⚓ Fractal_subsystems ⠀⇛ This is one of the most difficult mind whacks for a new DM. It’s easy to get the impression that it’s a big branching flowchart of scenes, “if the players say yes, the NPC is gonna say this, if the players say no, the NPC is gonna say that instead…” # § Internet/Gemini⠀➾ # ⚓ 2022_Week_45:_Thoughts_and_Photos⠀⇛ I’ve recently been trying to figure out how to assign subdomains to some of my online services. Gopher in particular seems to be giving me trouble: I’d like to make my gopherhole available via either gopher.jsreed5.org:70 or simply jsreed5.org: 70, but if I define the subdomain gemini.jsreed5.org:1965 for my Gemini capsule, then gemini.jsreed5.org:70 also resolves to the gopherhole. It seems Gopher requests are not DNS aware, so I can’t use a filter on a reverse proxy to route the request correctly. Also, since I self-host my services, I only have one public IP address to associate with a DNS entry, so I can’t (or rather don’t want to) put my Gopher subdomain on another IP. Any help on this matter would be greatly appreciated! # ⚓ Capsule_updates_and_the_Masqq_archives⠀⇛ Jokes aside, I’ve got some actual Capsule updates going on. The index page is fully revamped, I wanted to enrich my capsule with text, so I did and now there’s loads of text everywhere for your eyes to bathe in. Also tidbits of upcoming content on my brain waves page (fancy name for a tinylog, I guess it sounded interesting). A few folks on here might remember Masqq. That’s the pseudonym I wrote under a few months back, I’ve deleted everything relating to it around the end of July, I felt there needed to be a change but at the same time I wasn’t going through my best of times, so I’ve started from scratch under this pseudonym. I don’t attach myself to usernames, but perhaps it wasn’t justified and people found value in my writings and I actually liked some of the things I wrote there, so I’m putting them back on my posts page here and on the old URL[1]. Eventually I plan to only keep the old posts under this name only. I definitely want to get back to writing more and I will get back to it. I was going through some trying times and I’m better now. # § Announcements⠀➾ # ⚓ Announcement⠀⇛ For those subscribed to Masqq, thank you! I’m migrating everything to Evenfire, my new pseudonym and place on the Geminispace, for more details check out this post[1]. # § Programming⠀➾ # ⚓ Handcrafted_Integers⠀⇛ Have you ever wanted your own integer, one that is uniquely yours and can’t be taken away? Oh sure, you could generate a random integer with your device now, but no one will respect that it’s yours until you publish it somewhere – somewhere that everyone can agree on. =============================================================================== * Gemini_(Primer) links can be opened using Gemini_software. It’s like the World Wide Web but a lot lighter. ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 2301 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐃𝐀𝐈𝐋𝐘 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒 ═════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 11.14.22⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Links_14/11/2022:_MPV_0.35_and_Linux_6.1_RC_5⠀✐ Posted in News_Roundup at 3:26 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇GNOME bluefish⦈ § Contents⠀➾ * GNU/Linux o Server 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 Reviews o Debian_Family o Canonical/Ubuntu_Family o Open_Hardware/Modding * Free,_Libre,_and_Open_Source_Software o SaaS/Back_End/Databases o Programming/Development # Shell/Bash/Zsh/Ksh * Leftovers o Education o Hardware o Health/Nutrition/Agriculture o Proprietary o Security # Privacy/Surveillance o Defence/Aggression o Environment # Energy # Overpopulation o AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics o Censorship/Free_Speech o Freedom_of_Information_/_Freedom_of_the_Press o Civil_Rights/Policing o Internet_Policy/Net_Neutrality o Monopolies # Copyrights * Gemini*_and_Gopher o Personal o Technical # Announcements * § GNU/Linux⠀➾ o ⚓ Linux Made Simple ☛ Linux_Weekly_Roundup_#209⠀⇛ Welcome to this week’s Linux Weekly Roundup. We had a full week in the world of Linux releases with, Bodhi Linux 7.0.0 Alpha, Bluestar Linux 6.0.7, deepin 23 alpha, and Mageia 9 alpha1. o § Server⠀➾ # ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ 5_Practical_Uses_of_Docker_Containers⠀⇛ What is Docker used for? Here are some practical, real-world benefits of using Docker containers. Docker is an open-source platform for deploying applications in bundled components known as containers. At the very core of most Docker containers is a lightweight Linux server running in a virtualized environment. Are there any practical use cases for Docker Linux containers? Let’s find out. o § Audiocasts/Shows⠀➾ # ⚓ JupiterMedia ☛ Fedora_Falls_Flat_|_LINUX_Unplugged_484⠀⇛ Why this latest release of Fedora misses the mark, and Ubuntu’s quiet backing away from ZFS. # ⚓ GNU World Order (Audio Show) ☛ GNU_World_Order_486⠀⇛ **kontact** , **kontactinterface** , **kontrast** , **konversation** , **kopeninghours** , **kopete** , and the great Mastodon influx. # ⚓ Open Source Security (Audio Show) ☛ Episode_349_–_The_cyber is_coming_from_inside_the_house_–_the_UK_is_scanning_itself⠀⇛ Josh and Kurt talk about the UK plan to scan their country’s IP space. The purpose and outcome of this isn’t completely clear at this point, but we are hopeful the data can be used as a positive force. We are only going to see more programs like this as all the governments are told they have to cyber harder. # ⚓ Video ☛ Linux_User_Repository:_An_AUR_For_Every_Distro_– Invidious⠀⇛ The AUR is one of the biggest selling points of arch linux but could it be possible to have an Arch User Repository linux system for every linux distro, well maybe and the Linux User Repository is trying to do that o § Kernel Space⠀➾ # ⚓ Linux mailing lists ☛ Linux_6.1-rc5⠀⇛ Another week, another rc. Did things calm down and shrink this week? No. We've got about as many commits in rc5 as we had in rc4. It's not outrageously big, but it's certainly on the bigger side for this timeframe. Am I getting worried? Not yet. There's nothing particularly worrisome in here, and the rc5 changes are just a little bit of everything, so I'm hoping it's just that it's one of those timing things and all the pull requests came in this week, and it's going to calm down now. But we'll see. If things don't start calming down, this may be one of those releases that need an extra week. It wasn't a particularly big merge window, but I don't particularly like how the rc's keep being on the bigger side. Anyway, lots of small fixes, fairly spread out (the diffstat looks fairly flat apart from some maple tree tests moving to the testing subdirectory). Nothing really stands out, the stats all look normal apart from the "just slightly more than usual". Drivers, networking, architecture fixes, with some smattering of noise elsewhere. Linus # ⚓ LWN ☛ Kernel_prepatch_6.1-rc5_[LWN.net]⠀⇛ Linus has released 6.1-rc5 for testing. o § Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ Linuxiac ☛ MPV_0.35_Video_Player_Brings_PipeWire_Audio Backend_Support⠀⇛ After a year of development, the new MPV 0.35 version of the free video player is here, with PipeWire backend support and optimization improvements. MPV, which was forked in 2012 from MPlayer2, is a free, open-source, and cross-platform video player with a minimalist GUI and a feature-rich command- line version. It is one of the best free media players in the market nowadays. MPV supports various video file formats, audio and video codecs, and subtitle types. But the best part is that everything it requires to play media files is contained within; thus, no external codecs are needed Exactly one year after the previous 0.34 release, MPV 0.35 has some significant new features and improvements. So let’s have a look at them. # ⚓ Help Net Security ☛ 5_Kali_Linux_tools_you_should_learn_how to_use_–_Help_Net_Security⠀⇛ Kali Linux is a specialized Linux distribution developed by Offensive Security, designed for experienced Linux users who need a customized platform for penetration testing. Kali Linux also comes with several hundred specialized tools for carrying out penetration testing, security research, computer forensics, reverse engineering, vulnerability management, and red team testing. Here are 5 you should learn how to use. o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾ # ⚓ uni Toronto ☛ Questionable_TLS_Certificate_Authorities_and Certificate_Transparency⠀⇛ One piece of web security news of the time interval is that TrustCor Systems is, to quote the grugq’s newsletter, “a root certificate authority with intelligence community ties that’s registered in Panama and operates out of a UPS Store PO box in Toronto” (also, also, also). Concern over TrustCor is apparently not entirely new, but for whatever reason it didn’t bubble back up in the modern era of browsers being more strict on CAs until now. # ⚓ uni Toronto ☛ I_wouldn’t_use_ZFS_for_swap_(either_for swapfiles_or_with_a_zvol)⠀⇛ As part of broadly charting how Linux finds where to write and read swap blocks, I recently noted that ZFS on Linux can’t be used to hold a swapfile. David Magda noted that you could get around this by creating a zvol and using it for swap. While the Linux kernel will accept this and it works, at least to some extent, I wouldn’t rely on it and I wouldn’t do it unless I was desperate and had no other choice. Fundamentally, swapping to ZFS is not in accordance with what people (and often Unix kernels) expect from writing pages out to swap. # ⚓ LinuxTechi ☛ How_to_create_a_sudo_user_on_Ubuntu_Linux⠀⇛ In this post, we will show you how to create a sudo user on Ubuntu Linux. Sudo user is a regular user in Linux who has some admin rights to perform administrative task on the system. In Linux, root is the super user who has full admin rights, but it not recommended to give root credentials other users or to work on a system as root user. So, the best practice is to create a regular user and assign sudo rights. By doing so we can track which user has executed which commands using sudo logs (/var/log/auth.log). When we install Ubuntu Desktop or Ubuntu server then a group named ‘sudo’ is created automatically. If we add any regular user to that sudo group then that user will have sudo admin rights. # ⚓ DragonFly BSD Digest ☛ dsynth_without_stopping_–_DragonFly BSD_Digest⠀⇛ If you have a bulk build of packages happening with dsynth(1), you can now add – literally, that’s the command – to the package list without interrupting the build. # ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_qBittorrent_on_Fedora_37/36/ 35⠀⇛ qBittorrent is a cross-platform free and open- source BitTorrent client. qBittorrent is a native application written in C++ which uses Boost, Qt 5 toolkit, and libtorrent-rasterbar library and is extremely lightweight and fast. qBittorrent is very popular amongst torrent users as the main alternative to uTorrent. # ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_Brave_Browser_on_Fedora_37/ 36/35⠀⇛ Brave is a free and open-source web browser based on the chromium web browser with a strong privacy- focused. It sets itself apart from other browsers by automatically blocking online advertisements and website trackers in its default settings. # ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_UbuntuDDE_on_Ubuntu_22.04_| 20.04⠀⇛ The Deepin Desktop Environment (DDE) is the default desktop environment for the Linux Deepin distribution. It is known for its sleek and elegant design and modern aesthetics with traditional desktop productivity. # ⚓ Video ☛ How_to_install_Minetest_on_Linux_Mint_21_– Invidious⠀⇛ In this video, we are looking at how to install Minetest on Linux Mint 21. # ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_To_Install_RethinkDB_on_Rocky_Linux_9_– idroot⠀⇛ In this tutorial, we will show you how to install RethinkDB on Rocky Linux 9. For those of you who didn’t know, RethinkDB is a highly scalable and open-source NoSQL database server for building real-time web applications with dramatically less engineering effort. It supports many popular languages, including PHP, Java, Ruby, and Python. You can use it for automatic failover and robust fault tolerance. RethinkDB has very minimal response times and updates. 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 RethinkDB on Rocky Linux. 9. # ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_Audacity_on_Fedora_37/36/ 35⠀⇛ Audacity is a free and open-source digital audio editor and recording application software for Windows, macOS, Linux, and Unix-like operating systems such as Fedora Linux. The software includes many features that allow users to edit and record quickly, mix audio files, and support a variety of audio file formats, as well as VST plug-ins. Audacity also offers several built-in effects that can be applied to audio tracks, such as noise reduction, equalization, and reverb. Audacity is a powerful and versatile tool for anyone who needs to edit or record audio files. In the following tutorial, you will learn how to install Audacity on Fedora 37/36/35 Linux desktop with either DNF or Flatpak package manager using the command line terminal with cli commands, along with instructions on how to update and remove the software in the future if required. # ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_Microsoft_Fonts_on_Fedora 37/36/35⠀⇛ When switching from Windows to Linux, there are several factors to consider. One crucial element is fonts. Most Linux distributions, such as Fedora, do not come with natively installed proprietary fonts, such as Microsoft Fonts. This is because most distributions focus on open-source for the most part. However, given many Windows users port over to Fedora, given that it is an upstream distribution that is well-known and popular, they may require these fonts to work with or prefer having them installed for their projects. Additionally, they may receive a PDF or word document with the windows specific fonts embedded in it as the substituted font does not look good and, in rare cases, makes the document hard to read. # ⚓ UNIX Cop ☛ Using_the_find_command_to_exclude_files_for_the searching⠀⇛ In this short post, I will help you to use the find command to show hidden files but excluding a specific file. The Linux find command is used to search the file system. As you can imagine it is powerful, that is, if you manage to use it properly. There is nothing better for doing all kinds of file and folder searches than this command. We can even use find to search according to many search criteria. And that’s the trick we’re going to show you today. o § Games⠀➾ # ⚓ Engadget ☛ This_Steam_Deck_dock_has_a_thermoelectric cooler⠀⇛ If you’re lucky enough to track down a Steam Deck, chances are you’ve already experienced the sweaty palm syndrome with this handheld console — just as our very own Jess Conditt did in her review. Worse yet, the machine is prone to throttling or even crashing due to overheating, to the point where modders came up with their own creativesolutions. For the rest of us who don’t want to void the warranty, though, Hong Kong-based Unitek is now offering the Cooler Dock Pro for Steam Deck. o § Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾ # § K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt⠀➾ # ⚓ DebugPoint ☛ KDE_Vs_Kubuntu_Vs_Neon_Vs_Plasma:_What’s the_Difference?⠀⇛ Ever wondered why there are so many KDE Distros & types out there? KDE Plasma, Neon, Kubuntu, etc. What’s the difference between them? If you are a new Linux user and have started exploring distros for your own need, you may already have come across KDE. And I am sure you heard of Kubuntu, KDE Plasma and KDE Neon. With so many KDE flavours, it is a little confusing. Well, that’s why this article clarifies things and explains KDE Vs Kubuntu Vs Neon Vs Plasma – What’s the Difference? * § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾ o ⚓ DebugPoint ☛ Top_5_Privacy_Focused_Linux_Distributions_ [Compared]⠀⇛ We list the best five privacy centric Linux Distributions of 2022 in this article to give you a heads up before choosing one. Internet privacy has become a major concern with the Pandemic and work from home situations. The more we all go deep into the digital edge, the more cyber security and privacy become a considerable aspect of everyone’s daily life. Almost every day, you see CVEs, a couple of zero-day in a month and ransomware attacks. Fortunately, Linux is generally secured by design if you compare it with Windows. In addition, most Linux distributions are secure if you follow some best practices while using them for your day to day work. Besides, some specific Linux Distributions give you an additional layer of security with extra tools for your work and personal usage. For example, suppose you want complete anonymity on the internet or are a cyber security expert. In that case, you may consider something other than popular mainstream Linux distros such as Ubuntu or Fedora. Here’s a list of 5 Linux distributions that offer better privacy and protection for users. o ⚓ DebugPoint ☛ Top_10_Linux_Distributions_for_Windows_Users_in 2022⠀⇛ We compiled an inventory of the 10 best Linux distributions for Windows users in 2022 based on how easy they are to adopt and successfully migrate from Windows. Although there are hundreds of Linux Distributions, very few of them can seriously replace Windows operating system. With the advancements and stability across Linux Kernel and desktop environments, 2022 is the perfect year to adopt Linux as a daily driver. This applies to students, school administrations, hobbyists, scientists, and related work profiles. In addition, the hardware makers also provide Linux support for their device live- ups. Linux, in general, still requires some workaround for specific workflows. However, Linux is still catching up on specific niche work profiles. The reason is some specific application vendors do not provide Linux executables. But there are plenty of alternatives available for everything in the Linux world. Moreover, for day-to-day work from an average user standpoint, the Linux operating system is now at a stage that can perform all the work you throw. With that in mind, we compiled the below 10 best Linux distributions in 2022 for Windows users. These should cover almost all possible use cases and work profiles (including desktop or Laptop). o ⚓ Barry Kauler ☛ Easy_now_has_inxi⠀⇛ inxi is a script that reports hardware information. It was originally a bash script, but the developer moved to perl. I found the perl script to be buggy. Like, for example, running “jwm –version”, which doesn’t work, only “jwm -v” works. Rather than trying to fix it, I have installed the old bash script in Easy. o ⚓ Barry Kauler ☛ JWMDesk_updated_to_version_3.6⠀⇛ Roger (radky in the forum) has updated JWMDesk to version 3.6, so I have updated in woofQ. o § Reviews⠀➾ # ⚓ Distro Watch ☛ Review:_Redcore_Linux_2201⠀⇛ Redcore Linux is a Gentoo-based distribution which offers an easy to use graphical install process. Redcore also offers the option of using binary packages to provide most applications as opposed to compiling software from its source code which is an approach Gentoo is famous for using. Redcore is a rolling release distribution and its latest snapshot introduces a number of improvements and fixes. There are a few fixes which address edge-case bugs in the system installer and the package manager (Sisyphus) should more gracefully handle situations when large dependency trees are involved. The Discover software centre should now handle Flatpaks faster than it did before. The release announcement mentions some other highlights, such as older (and less secure) methods for authenticating with wireless networks have been re-added. These insecure protocols were dropped for security reasons, but enough people are still using them to justify their return. The announcement also warns there is no VirtualBox support and, regardless of which language preferences are stated, Redcore will end up using English as the default language. Something which might give potential users pause is Redcore has a wiki, but very little documentation is included. There is virtually nothing on installing the distribution or default passwords. (Password information is presented on the download page.) There are good tips shared on package management, though not much else at the time of writing. Redcore Linux is currently available in one edition for x86_64 machines which features the KDE Plasma desktop. The project’s download media is a 4.1GB ISO file. Booting from this media quickly loads the KDE Plasma desktop. A panel sits at the bottom of the screen and holds the application menu, quick launch icons, task switcher, and system tray. The application menu is presented in a classic tree style with a search function. o § Debian Family⠀➾ # ⚓ Utkarsh Gupta ☛ FOSS_Activites_in_October_2022_· utkarsh2102⠀⇛ Here’s my (thirty-seventh) monthly but brief update about the activities I’ve done in the F/L/OSS world. o § Canonical/Ubuntu Family⠀➾ # ⚓ It’s Ubuntu ☛ Ubuntu_23.04_“Lunar_Lobster”_Release_Date Schedule⠀⇛ o § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾ # ⚓ Tom’s Hardware ☛ Raspberry_Pi_Powers_VR_Headset_for_Mice_| Tom’s_Hardware⠀⇛ The Raspberry Pi is an excellent tool for fun projects and hobbies, but it’s also a popular choice in professional fields. Such is the case with this project from the team at the Schaffer- Nishimura Lab (opens in new tab). Using a Raspberry Pi, they’ve constructed a custom VR headset (opens in new tab) to aid in their neuroscience research involving mice. The headset is small enough to fit on the head of a mouse and features two SPI displays. These screens project a look into a custom world designed using the open-source Godot game engine. A custom map was created in the example pictures shown with a grid texture on the ground. It has cliffs, edges, and other obstacles that the mouse can encounter as needed for their neuroscience research. # ⚓ Tom’s Hardware ☛ Khadas_Edge_2_Pro_Review:_Living_on_the Edge_|_Tom’s_Hardware⠀⇛ Khadas has a history in single board computers. The company makes high-spec, high cost boards that outperform the Raspberry Pi in almost every area. The Raspberry Pi may still hold the throne, but there are many challengers seeking to end its reign. The Khadas Edge 2 Pro comes in two configurations, a Maker kit and an Arm PC kit. The Maker kit is the bare board which comes in a $199 model with 8GB of RAM and 32GB of eMMC 5.1 storage. For $100 ($299) more you can get the Pro version, with 16GB of RAM and 64GB of eMMC 5.1. The Arm PC version costs an additional $30 more and provides a rather lovely looking case. These prices are either side of the VIM 4 which weighs in at $239. # ⚓ Tom’s Hardware ☛ Raspberry_Pi_Remotely_Controls_Robot Guinea_Pig_Using_SSH_|_Tom’s_Hardware⠀⇛ Practical Dad, as he’s known on YouTube, has earned his title thanks to projects like this Raspberry Pi-powered robotic guinea pig named K-V. The only thing this guinea pig eats is electricity, and he listens pretty well to commands. To spice things up a bit, he opted to add remote controls to the project using SSH as the primary communication platform. If you’re not familiar with SSH, we have a few guides handy to help you get started. First, check out this guide by Les for detailed instructions on using SSH to connect to computers remotely—this guide works for Windows, macOS and Linux operating systems. We also have steps handy for setting up an SSH Key to keep the connections secure. # ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ Alexa-Powered_Side_Table_Mixes_Drinks_on Command⠀⇛ The video is a little light on the hardware details, but the folks at Hackster.io managed to spot a few components, including an Arduino Mega 2560 development board that controls pumping mechanisms, and servos that raise and lower dispenser nozzles. # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Emulate_Any_ISA_Card_With_A_Raspberry_Pi_And_An FPGA⠀⇛ One of the reasons the IBM PC platform became the dominant standard for desktop PCs back in the mid- 1980s was its open hardware design, based around what would later be called the ISA bus. Any manufacturer could design plug-in cards or even entire computers that were hardware and software compatible with the IBM PC. Although ISA has been obsolete for most purposes since the late 1990s, some ISA cards such as high-quality sound cards have become so popular among retrocomputing enthusiasts that they now fetch hundreds of dollars on eBay. # ⚓ Zach Flower ☛ My_Writing_Laptop_is_15_Years_Old⠀⇛ One of the things that I have been thinking about lately is how I get value out of some of my older laptops. To a degree, nostalgia has been a motivator (who doesn’t like tinkering around in obsolete versions of Windows?), but I actually want these things to do more for me than just tickle my early-aughts memory recall. # ⚓ Old VCR ☛ Meet_your_new_two-factor_authenticator:_your Commodore_64⠀⇛ The TOTP display depends on the Time-of-Day clock in CIA #1. This is different from the Timer A jiffy clock accessible in BASIC as TI and TI$; the CIA TOD clock is a real clock that keeps time in BCD and uses either the 60Hz or 50Hz frequency from your wall mains. We use this clock because it is unaffected by interrupts. If the progress bar fails to advance, your CIA #1 is broken, and/or the 9V AC line from your power supply is defective, and/or the 2.7V Zener diode and/or glue chip (on breadbin 64s, a 74LS08 or similar, on 128s, a 74LS14) connected to the TOD pin of the CIAs have blown. If everything else with your system functions normally, then it’s likely the latter two components since relatively few programs use the TOD clock but do use other CIA features. On a breadbox 64, check U27 and CR1. On a 128 or 128D (CR), check U16 and CR8; on the 128D(CR), CR8 is inconveniently under the power supply at the edge of the logic board, so you’ll have to unscrew it from its standoff and the rear and side of the case to move it away. (I mention this because during testing it turned out my “daily driver” 128DCR has a faulty TOD clock. Fixing this will be a future blog entry. Fortunately both VICE and the SX-64 worked fine.) # ⚓ Andrew Hutchings ☛ Acorn_RiscPC:_Restoration_Part_2⠀⇛ I decided at this point to plug in the motherboard, turn it on and see what happens. I have two SIMMs with this and the machine only needs one, the 4MB stick and the corroded 32MB stick. So, for starters I tried with the 4MB stick. This is what I got on the screen. # ⚓ Ken Shirriff ☛ The_unusual_bootstrap_drivers_inside_the 8086_microprocessor_chip⠀⇛ The 8086 microprocessor is one of the most important chips ever created; it started the x86 architecture that still dominates desktop and server computing today. I’ve been reverse- engineering its circuitry by studying its silicon die. One of the most unusual circuits I found is a “bootstrap driver”, a way to boost internal signals to improve performance.1 * § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾ o § SaaS/Back End/Databases⠀➾ # ⚓ Nicholas Tietz-Sokolsky ☛ RC_Week_8:_Life_happens,_and databases_are_hard⠀⇛ In that vein, I spent the last two weeks mostly focused on figuring out how to build an inverted index over all the unique positions in a collection of chess games I have. To make it concrete, this is 3.8 million games and about 240 million unique positions (north of 300 million before dedup). I ran in circles, and I think it was a combination of: [...] # ⚓ Phil Eaton ☛ Writing_a_SQL_database,_take_two:_Zig_and RocksDB⠀⇛ As a second non-trivial post while learning Zig, I decided to port an old, minimal SQL database project from Go to Zig. In this post, in ~1700 lines of code (yes, I’m sorry it’s bigger than my usual), we’ll create a basic embedded SQL database in Zig on top of RocksDB. Other than the RocksDB layer it will not use third-party libraries. o § Programming/Development⠀➾ # ⚓ Red Hat ☛ 3_ways_to_embed_a_commit_hash_in_Go_programs_| Red_Hat_Developer⠀⇛ Whether you are using Go to write a simple console- based utility or a fancy web application, it is always helpful to reference the previous version of your software. This information is essential, especially for developers. They need to know what the source code looked like in previous versions, so they can debug any issues introduced at specific points in time. To do that, you need a system that can control and manage different versions of the source code, such as git. Whenever you want to capture a snapshot of the program’s current codebase, you run a git commit command that saves the code at that point in time. To make sure you do not overwrite a previously saved record, git creates (by default) a unique identifier, hashed with the SHA-1 algorithm, for every commit. Usually, when a decent amount of progress has been made, a couple of features have been implemented and lots of bugs have been fixed, it’s about time to make things official and announce a new release version of your software. Of course, embedding the release version is not new. You most likely already have automation in place to provide this information within your software (e.g., during the release pipeline). But this kind of progress doesn’t happen in a day. So what happens in the meantime? You do what the rolling-release model does, associating every build (go build) with a snapshot of the code at that point in time. This is when the git commit hash comes in handy. There are three ways to embed this hash into your Go program. # ⚓ Carlos Becker ☛ GoReleaser_Split_and_Merge⠀⇛ Since v1.12.0-pro, GoReleaser can split and merge its release process. This means that you can run the builds for each platform in its own machine, and then merge the results and publish later. This can be useful if you need CGO, or if your build process takes too long. # ⚓ Adriaan de Groot ☛ Daily_Buggle_(2)_|_[bobulate]⠀⇛ Not even all-that-long-ago I ported about playing around with Rust to build a little bot that gets my FreeBSD bug counts (currently me:0/cmake:9/desktop: 24/kde:34, thanks for asking) and posts it to a social thing I no longer participate in. So it’s time to re-jig the bot, switching to Mastodon posting (my profile, thanks for asking) and re- implement it in a different language. I’m vaguely inclined to try some more Haskell, or Zig, or Dart. Very different kinds of language, but that’s kind of the point. # ⚓ The_“idiotism”_of_software_developers_|_Mardy⠀⇛ Before you get angry at me for this title, please let me state that I count myself in the number of the “idiots” and, secondly, that what I mean by “idiotism” here is not to be intended as an offence, but as some traits of mindset which are typical of very logical brains. Some months ago I finished reading Dostoevskiy’s “The Idiot”, a book about an exceedingly good- hearted man, prince Lev Mishkin, whose behaviour was puzzling the people around him so much that they thought of him as an idiot. Sure, the fact that he was suffering from epilepsy didn’t help, but it was far from being the primary reason for their thinking, since his epileptic seizures were very rare (if I remember correctly, only two occurred during the time of the story) and everybody’s opinion had already formed well ahead of witnessing him in such a state. He was an idiot because he was open, trustful, and especially because he could not “read between the lines” of what was been said to him: his social conduct was straight, and although he was following at his best the customs that he had been taught, he was supposedly awkward and unable to perceive and parse all the messages that are implicitly conveyed by social behaviours and human interactions. I added the word “supposedly” because, as a matter of fact, his behaviours were all perfectly normal for me: I only noticed their awkwardness when it was pointed out by the other characters, at which point I couldn’t help smiling and acknowledging that, indeed, that thing he did was weird. # § Shell/Bash/Zsh/Ksh⠀➾ # ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ What_are_Double_Parentheses_in_Bash⠀⇛ # ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ Floating_Point_Math_in_Bash⠀⇛ # ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ Bash_Continue_Built-In_Statement⠀⇛ * § Leftovers⠀➾ o § Education⠀➾ # ⚓ Teen Vogue ☛ Teacher_Salaries_Are_So_Low_That_They’re Working_Multiple_Jobs⠀⇛ In addition to low salaries, teachers report they are chronically overworked. In her experience, Hannick says, lesson plans can take 40 hours to develop, all falling outside of time spent on actual classroom instruction. That doesn’t include time spent in the classroom before the official start of the school day or the hours spent grading papers at home in the evening. “It’s disheartening,” says Eden, who has taught while covering a person on maternity leave and worked as a substitute teacher. “Teachers put in a lot more hours than people think we do. At minimum, it’s a 12-hour workday, and we’re putting in hours on weekends. Really, you’re looking at a 60- to 80- hour workweek, depending on who you are and how many classes you’re teaching. I did the math right before [our interview], actually, and if a teacher’s starting salary is approximately $40,000 a year, and if you’re working 60 hours a week, that’s only about $12 or $13 an hour.” o § Hardware⠀➾ # ⚓ CNX Software ☛ Sipeed_M1s_–_M0sense_–_Low-cost_BL808_& BL702_based_AI_modules_(Crowdfunding)_–_CNX_Software⠀⇛ Sipeed has launched the M1s and M0Sense AI modules. Designed for AIoT application, the Sipeed M1s is based on the Bouffalo Lab BL808 32-bit/64-bit RISC- V wireless SoC with WiFi, Bluetooth, and an 802.15.4 radio for Zigbee support, as well as the BLAI-100 (Bouffalo Lab AI engine) NPU for video/ audio detection and/or recognition. The Sipeed M0Sense targets TinyML applications with the Bouffa Lab BL702 32-bit microcontroller also offering WiFi, BLE, and Zigbee connectivity. # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ RFID_Sticker_On_Bike_Helmet_Grants_Garage Access⠀⇛ [Glen] might describe his project of opening his garage door by way of an RFID sticker on his bike helmet as simple, but some of the interfacing he needed to do was quite complex. He walks through the project from beginning to end, and there’s plenty to learn from. # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ DIY_USB_Charging_The_Right_Way⠀⇛ Since the widespread adoption of USB 1.1 in the 90s, USB has become the de facto standard for connecting most peripherals to our everyday computers. The latest revision of the technology has been USB 4, which pushes the data rate capabilities to 40 Gbit/s. This amount of throughput is mindblowing compared to the USB 1.x speeds which were three to four orders of magnitude slower in comparison. But data speeds haven’t been the only thing changing with the USB specifications. The amount of power handling they can do has increased by orders of magnitude as well, as this DIY USB charger demonstrates by delivering around 200 W to multiple devices at once. # ⚓ CNX Software ☛ This_is_what_a_100_µAh_micro-battery_looks like_–_CNX_Software⠀⇛ Electronic components have shrunk a lot over the year, but batteries are usually one of the larger items in a design. ITEN changes that with solid state lithium-ion micro-batteries in the shape of SMD components with up to 100 µAh capacity. This is clearly not going to power your next smartphone, but ITEM micro-batteries could be found in ultra- low-power sensors potentially replacing non- rechargeable coin cell batteries with much higher capacities (e,g. 100 mAh). o § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾ # ⚓ Sabine Hossenfelder ☛ Why_are_male_testosterone_levels falling?⠀⇛ All of which brings up the question how much testosterone is normal? This question is surprisingly difficult to answer. To begin with, testosterone levels change during the day, especially in young men, where they peak in the early morning. That’s why testosterone levels are measured in the morning, and another reason why early-morning classes should be illegal. But that’s not the only reason testosterone levels vary. According to a 2020 study testosterone levels change with the seasons and are higher in summer. They are also known to change with partnership status. According to a Harvard University study published in 2002, married men have lower levels of testosterone than single men, and the more time they spend with family, the lower the testosterone level. Other studies have shown that men’s testosterone levels drop when holding an infant, or even a baby doll, and that the level goes up again after divorce. That’s all very interesting, but these are all quite small effects. What we want to know is what’s a normal average level? # ⚓ Pro Publica ☛ Help_Us_Report_on_Stillbirths⠀⇛ Every year, more than 20,000 pregnancies in the United States end in stillbirth, the death of an expected child at 20 weeks or more. That number exceeds infant mortality, and is 15 times the number of babies who died of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, or SIDS, according to 2020 data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. # ⚓ Pro Publica ☛ Her_Child_Was_Stillborn._She_Blames_a_System That_Doesn’t_Always_Listen_to_Mothers.⠀⇛ The day before doctors had scheduled Amanda Duffy to give birth, the baby jolted her awake with a kick. A few hours later, on that bright Sunday in November 2014, she leaned back on a park bench to watch her 19-month-old son Rogen enjoy his final day of being an only child. In that moment of calm, she realized that the kick that morning was the last time she had felt the baby move. # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Abortion_Access_and_Funding_Have_Always_Been_a Struggle_in_US_Territories⠀⇛ o § Proprietary⠀➾ # ⚓ NBC ☛ Holocaust_survivors_turn_to_TikTok_to_teach_a_new generation_not_to_forget⠀⇛ In a recent TikTok video, 98-year-old Lily Ebert told her 1.9 million followers about the Auschwitz number tattooed on her forearm: A-10572. Like many Holocaust survivors, Ebert didn’t talk about the experience for decades. But then her great-grandson Dov Forman started recording her stories and posting them on TikTok, including the 24-second video about her tattoo that has drawn more than 22 million views. o § Security⠀➾ # ⚓ IT Wire ☛ iTWire_–_More_Medibank_members’_data_leaked_ahead of_shareholders’_meeting [Ed: Microsoft Windows TCO]⠀⇛ The attacker(s) who launched a ransomware attack on medical insurer Medibank Group has released some additional data from among the tranche which was stolen. Ransomware generally attacks only systems running Microsoft’s Windows operating system. On Monday morning AEDT, the attacker(s) updated a post on the dark web, specifying that a file containing data about the mental health of some members had joined the others already released. The attacker(s) said more data would be released by Friday and appear to be waiting to see what happens at the Wednesday meeting of Medibank shareholders before acting. “There is some more records for everybody to know,” the updated portion of the post said. “We’ll announce, that next portion of data we’ll publish at Friday, bypassing this week completely in a hope something meaningful happened on Wednesday.” # ⚓ Hacker News ☛ Worok_Hackers_Abuse_Dropbox_API_to_Exfiltrate Data_via_Backdoor_Hidden_in_Images [Ed: Microsoft Windows TCO]⠀⇛ The Slovak cybersecurity company also documented Worok’s compromise sequence, which makes use of a C++-based loader called CLRLoad to pave the way for an unknown PowerShell script embedded within PNG images, a technique known as steganography. That said, the initial attack vector remains unknown as yet, although certain intrusions have entailed the use of ProxyShell vulnerabilities in Microsoft Exchange Server to deploy the malware. # § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾ # ⚓ The Dissenter ☛ US_Labor_Agency’s_Top_Lawyer_Fights Corporate_Spying_That_Discourages_Whistleblowers⠀⇛ # ⚓ Make Tech Easier ☛ Everything_You_Should_Know_About Your_IMEI_Number⠀⇛ IMEI numbers are a source of both mystery and paranoia within many circles around the Internet. These cryptic, nebulous numbers stamped around various parts of your phone are commonly used to identify it, leading some to wonder whether they can be used for surveillance or other nefarious activities. We’re here to demystify IMEI numbers and tell you what they are, how they work, and how you can find them. # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Circadian_Lighting_For_The_Home_Via_Home Assistant⠀⇛ Artificial lighting is great, in that it lets us work and live well into the night. However, our bodies are dependent on the natural lighting cycles of the sun as part of their basic operation, and artificial lighting can interfere with this. [Tyler Cipriani] decided to use Home Assistant with some smart lights to try and make home lighting more suitable for our natural circadian rhythms. o § Defence/Aggression⠀➾ # ⚓ The Gray Zone ☛ UN_envoy_admits_fabricating_claim_of Viagra-fueled_rape_as_‘Russian_military_strategy’⠀⇛ # ⚓ Meduza ☛ ‘Nothing_short_of_a_prison’:_Russian_conscripts who_refuse_to_fight_are_held_in_crowded_basements_and pressured_to_return_to_the_front_line_—_Meduza⠀⇛ The news outlets Current Time and Siren have learned of new cases of the Russian government violating the basic rights of citizens who refuse to fight in the war in Ukraine. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ ‘Excellent_directorial_work,’_says_Prigozhin_A former_prisoner_who_fought_for_PMC_Wagner_and_surrendered_to Ukrainian_Armed_Forces_was_murdered_as_a_‘traitor.’_The murder_was_filmed._—_Meduza⠀⇛ On the evening of November 12, the Telegram channel Grey Zone, which is connected with PMC Wagner, posted a video which allegedly shows the murder of former prisoner Yevgeny Nuzhin. Nuzhin was recruited to fight for Russia in Ukraine, surrendered, and in an interview with Ukrainian journalists said he was prepared to fight for Kyiv. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Peskov:_Putin_orders_demobilization_of_students from_‘LNR’_and_‘DNR’_—_Meduza⠀⇛ Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the demobilization of students who were mobilized by the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk “People’s Republics” (“LNR” and “DNR”), said his press secretary, Dmitry Peskov. # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Exiled_Russian_Activist_Challenges_Pacifist Approach_to_Ending_War_on_Ukraine⠀⇛ # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Inter-American_Commission_Hears_Landmark_Case_of Killing_by_US_Border_Patrol⠀⇛ # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Opinion_|_The_Ukraine_War_and_the_U.S. National_Security_Strategy:_Dangerous_Great_Power Confrontations⠀⇛ The catastrophic Ukraine War is about far more than Ukraine. As the Biden Administration’s recently released National Security Strategy tells us, “The post-Cold War era is definitely over, and competition is underway between the major powers to shape what comes next.” The Ukraine war is a primary front in the global competition for power and privilege. Even as Russia finds itself on the defensive, the current moment disturbingly resembles the period before the First World War: competition between rising and declining imperialist powers, arms races with new technologies, complicated alliance structures, economic competition and cooperation, wild card actors, and territorial disputes. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Opinion_|_US_Complicity_With_Israel Enhances_any_Future_Annexation_Plans⠀⇛ The U.S. will push back against annexation, according to U.S. ambassador to Israel, Tom Nides, as the Abraham Accords are set to feature as a continuation of an internationally approved U.S. policy. “Our position is quite clear: We do not support annexation. We will fight any attempt to do so,” Nides stated during an interview. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ ‘Wherever_Russians_were,_they_blew_things_up’_An eyewitness_account_of_Russia’s_retreat_from_Kherson_and what’s_happening_there_now_—_Meduza⠀⇛ o § Environment⠀➾ # ⚓ BBC ☛ COP27:_Fears_of_compromise_on_key_1.5C_global temperature_issue⠀⇛ One of the big concerns though is that as the organisers struggle to find a way forward, a clear statement on the commitment to 1.5C figure might be fudged. In last year’s Glasgow climate pact, all countries agreed to “keep 1.5C alive” by undertaking “rapid, deep and sustained” cuts in greenhouse gases. But at a G20 meeting in Indonesia in August, ministers were unable to agree a communique on climate change, as China and India were reported to have questioned the scientific feasibility of the 1.5C threshold. # ⚓ BBC ☛ COP27:_Sharp_rise_in_fossil_fuel_industry_delegates at_climate_summit⠀⇛ Campaign group Global Witness found more than 600 people at the talks in Egypt are linked to fossil fuels. That’s more than the combined delegations from the 10 most climate-impacted countries. # ⚓ [Old] EcoWatch ☛ Sweden,_Once_a_Climate_Leader,_Axes Environment_Ministry⠀⇛ On Tuesday, the day he took office, the country’s Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson moved to jettison the Ministry of Environment. The country will still have a Minister of Climate and Environment but she will work under the Minister for Energy, Business and Industry. # § Energy⠀➾ # ⚓ Matt Rickard ☛ What_is_a_Token?_A_Technical Explanation⠀⇛ First, there are two main types of tokens: native tokens and programmatic tokens. # ⚓ RTL ☛ FTX_working_to_secure_assets_after ‘unauthorized’_transactions⠀⇛ FTX officials did not detail the quantity of unauthorized transactions made, but cryptocurrency analysis firm Elliptic said in a report published Saturday that “$477 million is suspected to have been stolen.” # ⚓ ABC ☛ Funds_vanish_at_bankrupt_crypto_exchange_FTX; probe_underway⠀⇛ Collapsed cryptocurrency trading firm FTX confirmed there was “unauthorized access” to its accounts, hours after the company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Friday. The embattled company’s new CEO John Ray III said Saturday that FTX is switching off the ability to trade or withdraw funds and taking steps to secure customers’ assets, according to a tweet by FTX’s general counsel Ryne Miller. FTX is also coordinating with law enforcement and regulators, the company said. # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Go_Fly_A_Kite⠀⇛ Harvesting energy from the wind has been a commercially viable way of generating clean energy for around three decades now. Wind turbines are a reliable, proven technology but they do have some downsides, one of which is that since there’s more wind higher above the ground this usually means tall, expensive towers. There is a way around this problem, though, which is using kites to generate energy instead of a fixed turbine. # § Overpopulation⠀➾ # ⚓ arXiv ☛ Avoiding_the_“Great_Filter”:_Extraterrestrial Life_and_Humanity’s_Future_in_the_Universe [PDF]⠀⇛ [...] We postulate that an existential disaster may lay in wait as our society advances exponentially towards space exploration, acting as the Great Filter: a phenomenon that wipes out civilizations before they can encounter each other, which may explain the cosmic silence. In this article, we propose several possible scenarios, including anthropogenic and natural hazards, both of which can be prevented with reforms in individual, institutional and intrinsic behaviors. We also take into account multiple calamity candidates: nuclear gwarfare, pathogens and pandemics, artificial intelligence, meteorite impacts, and climate change. Each of these categories have various influences but lack critical adjustment to accommodate to their high risk. The Great Filter has the potential to eradicate life as we know it, especially as our rate of progress correlates directly to the severity of our fall. This indicates a necessary period of introspection, followed by appropriate refinements to properly approach our predicament, and addressing the challenges and methods in which we may be able to mitigate risk to mankind and the nearly 9 million other species on Earth. o § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾ # ⚓ The Wall Street Journal ☛ Twitter’s_Advertising_Exodus Accelerates,_Despite_Outreach_From_Elon_Musk_–_WSJ⠀⇛ # ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Twitter,_Twits_&_Tycoons⠀⇛ The Elon Musk/Twitter affair has riveted our attention like no other celebrity melodrama since Meghan & Harry went top of the charts 4 years ago. Perfect lead character, perfect script, perfect timing: megalomanic multibillionaire encounters high-tech social media giant. Engagement, each jilts the other, shotgun reengagement, nail-biting wedding, new jefe immediately shows […] # ⚓ Rolling Stone ☛ Elon_Musk_Picks_a_Fight_With_the_Wrong Senator⠀⇛ All it took for Post reporter Geoffrey A. Fowler to create a fake verified Markey account, Fowler said, was “a spare iPhone, a credit card and a little creativity.” That’s because Musk launched a new Twitter Blue paid subscription that allows anyone with a spare $8 and a credit card to get a blue verified checkmark on their Twitter account. Before Musk’s takeover, those blue checks were largely reserved for notable public figures, celebrities, and journalists who confirmed their identity with the platform. Now, these newly verified accounts have been wreaking havoc. One tweet from a fake Eli Lilly account claiming the company would make insulin free sent its stock plummeting, causing the pharmaceutical giant to lose billions in stock value this past week. # ⚓ Variety ☛ Musk_Says_Twitter_Will_End_‘Legacy’_Verification Status_‘in_Coming_Months’⠀⇛ Elon Musk is planning to dismantle Twitter’s decade-plus-old verification program, designed to increase trust in the social network by providing a visual signifier that high-profile accounts are, in fact, who they say they are. Going forward, Musk’s $7.99/month Twitter Blue subscription will the only way to get the “verified” blue check-mark — except that the identities of the users who pay for that are not actually going to be verified by Twitter. # ⚓ Marcy Wheeler ☛ The_Tanking_Of_Twitter⠀⇛ I don’t even dare embed the original tweet because it may disappear if the worst should come to pass and swaths of Twitter are shuttered to outside access. # ⚓ Pierre Equoy ☛ What_most_people_see_when_you_post_on corporate_social_networks⠀⇛ Sure, it might take a little bit more skills to setup a website on your own than to click the “Yes I agree that you sell all of my data and my soul to any of your sketchy commercial partners” button, but you will actually learn something in the process (think about technical emancipation). If you think you cannot do it, and if you really have no one around who could help you with this, then there might be solutions to help you host your website. The French collective CHATONS (“kittens”), for instance, “aims to bring together structures offering free, ethical and decentralized online services in order to allow users to quickly find alternatives that respect their data and privacy to the services offered by GAFAM (Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft).” # ⚓ The Fosstodon Hub ☛ Fosstodon_vs_Twitter_–_Round_2⠀⇛ Actually, I don’t really need to go into anymore detail, those are all the salient points. Needless to say it’s been a horrendous few weeks and we’re still seeing a lot of traffic, but that may just be the new norm. # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Sen._Catherine_Cortez_Masto_Projected_to_Win Crucial_Nevada_Senate_Race_for_Dems⠀⇛ # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Trump_Sues_House_January_6_Panel_to_Avoid Testifying⠀⇛ # ⚓ India Times ☛ Australia_unveils_joint_cyber_police taskforce_to_‘hunt_down’_hackers⠀⇛ Australia on Saturday formalised a new cyber- policing model in a stepped-up effort to “hunt down” cyber criminal syndicates, following recent hacks impacting millions of Australians. Australia’s biggest health insurer, Medibank Private Ltd, last month was hit by a massive cyber attack, as Australia grapples with a rise in damaging hacks. At least eight companies, including Singapore Telecommunications-owned telecoms company Optus, Australia’s second largest telco, have reported breaches since September. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ ‘Democracy_Won’:_Cortez_Masto_Victory_Means Democrats_Keep_Control_of_Senate⠀⇛ Democracy defenders breathed a collective deep sigh of relief Saturday night as Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada was projected to win reelection, ensuring Democrats retain control of the U.S. Senate regardless of the results of next month’s Georgia runoff. “Voters across the country showed election-denying MAGA Republicans that we can see through their lies and fearmongering.” # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Opinion_|_The_Election_Averted_Some Disasters,_But_the_Danger_Remains⠀⇛ Last week I began writing a piece entitled “Dreading Election Day.” I decided to stop tormenting myself and so I stopped writing midstream, opting for quiet desperation instead of public dread. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Opinion_|_Pundits_Fortunetelling_Coverage Over_Actual_Reporting_Poses_a_Danger_to_Democracy⠀⇛ Most people who follow corporate news were probably surprised by the midterm election outcomes, which saw Democrats hold far more seats than predicted. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Ministry_of_Justice_will_publish_birthdates_and identification_numbers_of_individual_‘foreign_agents’_— Meduza⠀⇛ The government of the Russian Federation confirmed a list of information about “foreign agents” that is now subject to publication on the Internet. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Prigozhin_asks_FSB_to_investigate_St._Petersburg governor_for_treason_—_Meduza⠀⇛ Businessman Evgeny Prigozhin’s press service reports that Prigozhin sent requests to the FSB and the Prosecutor General to investigate St. Petersburg Governor Alexander Beglov for high treason. o § Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾ # ⚓ VOA News ☛ Iran_Charges_More_Than_750_People_for Involvement_in_‘Riots’⠀⇛ Iran’s judiciary has charged more than 750 people in three provinces for participating in “recent riots”, local media reported, amid nationwide protests since the death of Mahsa Amini. More than 2,000 people had already been charged, nearly half of them in the capital Tehran, since the demonstrations began in mid-September, according to judiciary figures. o § Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press⠀➾ # ⚓ JURIST ☛ Journalists_covering_climate_protests_should_not have_been_arrested,_UK_police_say⠀⇛ In an exclusive interview with British broadcaster LBC, Hertfordshire Police and Crime Commissioner David Lloyd Thursday said that police “got it wrong” when they arrested reporter Charlotte Lynch during a Just Stop Oil protest this week. In total, three journalists were arrested while reporting on climate protests in the UK this week, raising concerns about freedom of the press. o § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾ # ⚓ RTL ☛ Taliban_ban_Afghan_women_from_gyms_and_public_baths⠀⇛ Gyms and public baths are now also off limits to Afghan women, the Taliban confirmed Sunday, days after banning them from parks and funfairs. Women are increasingly being squeezed out of public life since the Taliban’s return last year despite the hardline Islamists promising a softer version of the harsh rule that characterised their first stint in power that ended in 2001. # ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Four_States_Voted_to_End_Slavery_—_But_Not Louisiana⠀⇛ Wardens and industries that rely on prison labor will undoubtably argue that their “work programs” do not constitute slavery, but it should be up to the courts, the public and incarcerated people to decide. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Iranians_Continue_Protests,_Defying_Rising Death_Toll_and_Potential_Execution⠀⇛ Demonstrations against Iran’s authoritarian regime continued for the 58th straight day Sunday despite the rising number of people killed by state forces and the Iranian parliament’s recent vote to execute protesters. “The Iranian parliament is so disconnected from its people that it would rather kill them instead of hearing their legitimate concerns.” # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Opinion_|_Freedom_of_Press_is_Dealt_Deadly Blows_by_Modi’s_Proto-Fascist_Regime_in_India⠀⇛ Since the end of the Cold War, hybrid political regimes have been steadily gaining ground across the world. Hybrid regimes rest on a form of governance which, as Steven Levitsky and Lucan Way pointed out in a 2002 essay in the Journal of Democracy, is essentially authoritarian in nature while “using formal democratic institutions” for “obtaining and exercising political authority.” The term used for this type of political regime is competitive authoritarianism. In popular literature, the term “illiberal democracy” is encountered more frequently for the hybrid regimes that have emerged in the post-Cold War period, but an argument can be made against the use of such term as it weakens and stretches the definition of democracy. o § Internet Policy/Net Neutrality⠀➾ # ⚓ Unicorn Media ☛ GoDaddy_Sucks_—_and_Here’s_Why⠀⇛ Starting last night, we thought we were well on our way to having this website propagating to a brand new VPS with a brand new IP address. The new server has a lot better stats, meaning faster performance, and would bring an end to an issue with our server crashing several times a day due to an out-of- memory problem. Understandable, since we’ve been using the same server for about 10 years now. As I write this, that isn’t even starting to happen yet, and if you’re reading this, it hasn’t happened since, this article is only on the old server and will disappear from the site when visitors start reaching our new server. # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Dial-Up_Internet_Over_WhatsApp⠀⇛ As we returned from Supercon 2022, we noticed many airlines offer free in-flight messaging. While the messages are handy for complaining about the seat size, it isn’t quite as exciting as access to the internet. In the air, we wondered how hard it would be to tunnel an internet connection over messaging. Funny enough, [Aleix Rodríguez Alameda] has a project that does exactly that by tunneling traffic over Whatsapp. o § Monopolies⠀➾ # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ As_Workers_Flee_China’s_Largest_iPhone_Factory, Activists_Say_Apple_Is_to_Blame⠀⇛ # § Copyrights⠀➾ # ⚓ Torrent Freak ☛ Pirate_IPTV:_Fines_For_Suppliers_& Users_as_Govt._Plans_Pre-Approval_System⠀⇛ Brazil says blocking measures to tackle the rise of pirate IPTV services and devices are coming soon. In the meantime, a new system of fines will apply to suppliers and users alike. The government has other plans which appear to render all TV boxes illegal by default, pending official approval. And if anyone modifies an approved device or “uses it incorrectly”, that’s an offense too. * § Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾ o § Personal⠀➾ # ⚓ The_Silver_Standard⠀⇛ I’m not onboard with the “silver standard” that parts of the D&D community promoted a few years ago. Our dinar (GP) / dirham (SP) prices are pretty close to the historical prices, mesh well with how money is used in the original Arabian Nights stories, and is compatible out of the box with everything TSR/WotC. Except for weights; we use the WotC weights, where a coin is much lighter than a B/X coin. A B/X / 1e coin weigh five times as much as a 3.x/4E/5e coin. Because of this difference in the weight of metal, the “silver standard” prices aren’t ahistorical either, they just have heavier coins. And more boring. The idea is that you have silver in your day to day life and then you go into the dungeon and you find… gold! Exciting! Adventure! A rare and special treasure! Except that they then also often put silver in their dungeons after all. o § Technical⠀➾ # § Announcements⠀➾ # ⚓ introduction_to_uxn_programming_book⠀⇛ introduction to uxn programming is a beginner’s, slow-paced and comprehensive guide of the uxntal programming language and the varvara computer. =============================================================================== * Gemini_(Primer) links can be opened using Gemini_software. It’s like the World Wide Web but a lot lighter. ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 4240 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐃𝐀𝐈𝐋𝐘 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒 ═════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 11.14.22⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ I_Was_Already_Banned_From_Mastodon.social_After_Three_Days_for_Insulting_the Chinese_Communist_Government_and_Talking_About_Bill_Gates⠀✐ Posted in Bill_Gates, Deception, News_Roundup at 3:51 pm by Guest Editorial Team Reprinted with permission from Ryan Iwas already banned from Mastodon.social after three days (of actually using it much) for insulting the Chinese Communist government and talking about Bill Gates. My Mastodon.social account was “Limited” today and they cited “the rules” without actually citing any rules. But they did list three posts that were the reason they did it. I have screenshots and you can decide for yourself if this is another Social Control Media site like Facebook and Twitter. Fortunately, Mastodon is federated, so I’ve made another account at mstdn.social and pinned a “I’m not here anymore.” message for anyone who was following me to see, so they know where_I_am_at_now. We’ll see how this goes. █ 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇Insulting_the_Chinese_Communist_government_and_talking_about Bill_Gates⦈_ 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇Insulting_the_Chinese_Communist_government_and_talking_about Bill_Gates⦈_ ╘══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╛ ¶ Lines in total: 4292 ➮ Generation completed at 02:42, i.e. 67 seconds to (re)generate ⟲