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Welcome to the ‘new’ Sirius, where lies become the norm THE terrible shape that Sirius_‘Open_Source’ has found itself in is a downward spiral caused largely by lying management; a bloated company with almost as many “managers” as workers (who actually do the job) is compelling people to not be honest with clients and to make matters worse the CEO starts lying to staff and also about staff. This is the downfall of Sirius; the true story of the company needs to be told and future victims ought to be cautioned upfront. To be very clear, the company has a history dodging liability and facing litigation. One former employee or a pair of them sued the company. One of them asked me if the company was still “busy”, I can only assume because the two managers (then defendants) claimed to be broke and therefore unable to pay upon losing the case, which was costly (time and money). Generally speaking, here we are again and the company creates more shells, hoping to shuffle people between one shell and the next in order to ‘cancel’ the debt (insolvency) and start afresh. But with what name? And at what point will associates too come to grips with the sort of eel they’re dealing with? We’ll give more concrete examples next month. █ ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 245 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at http://techrights.org/2022/12/25/microsoft-and-www-down/#comments Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2022/12/25/microsoft-and-www-down/ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 12.25.22⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ 2022:_GNU/Linux_Up,_Microsoft_and_the_World_Wide_Web_Down⠀✐ Posted in Free/Libre_Software, GNU/Linux, Microsoft at 9:28 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz More Microsoft_layoffs_expected_soon 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇This_is_the_ongoing_trend_this_past_year:_Web_waning⦈_ This is the ongoing trend this past year: Web waning 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇Microsoft_does_not_interest_Web_developers⦈_ Microsoft does not interest Web developers 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇In_fact,_sites_are_moving_away_from_Microsoft⦈_ In fact, sites are moving away from Microsoft 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇In_relative_terms,_Apple_loses_its_appeal_among_developers⦈_ In relative terms, Apple loses its appeal among developers 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇Polls_show_a_positive_trend⦈_ Polls show a positive trend Summary: According_to_Netcraft and according_to_Stack_Overflow, there are many reasons to be satisfied about this past year ⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⠐⠈⢩⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠀⠀⢈⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠛⢛⠟⠛⢻⢻⣿⡟⠛⡻⠛⢛⠛⣛⣿⣿⠛⠛⠛⣿⣿⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⢿⢻⣿⡟⠛⠛⠛⡛⠛⢟⣻ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⣤⣤⣴⣾⣿⣿⣿⣶⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶ ⣿⣿⡿⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠿⡿⠿⠿⠿⠿⣿⢿⡿⡿⣿⣿⢿⣿⡿⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡏⠉⠉ ⣿⣿⡇⢓⣄⢀⡑⣊⡀⡅⡆⡆⣇⢂⡁⣸⢰⣟⠁⣆⢃⠋⢘⠁⣿⣎⣠⢡⡀⣸⡐⣸⣇⢉⡀⣸⣰⡈⣄⢀⣧⣿⡂⣹⣘⢀⣴⣈⣄⢀⠜⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀ ⣿⣿⠉⠉⠙⠉⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⣻⠉⠉⠹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀ 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Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇Not_sure_if_CEO_or_a_cop⦈_ Summary: Sirius_‘Open_Source’ compared Network Operation Centre (NOC) staff to “monkeys”; the company’s management refuses to talk to staff, resorts to pathological lying, and hopes to somehow maintain the illusion that it is still behaving “professionally” THE series is getting longer as we go on and on. We’re continuing to accumulate and sometimes receive more explosive revelations, showing that the management of Sirius is not only lying to clients and to staff. It is a lot worse. Sirius makes stuff up. It’s also misrepresenting clients, attributing to them something they never said. “We’re continuing to accumulate and sometimes receive more explosive revelations, showing that the management of Sirius is not only lying to clients and to staff.”As we shall show next month, the so-called ‘CEO’ (a relatively new arrival) has the audacity to act like a Private Investigator when in fact fabricating and distorting allegations. There may be legal ramifications here, but the company started attacking the staff just two days after it had changed its official registered address to the address of the accountancy, which means it’s hard to serve legal papers to Sirius (i.e. suing the company). Below we reproduce text from the report sent to the management 4 weeks ago (further context will be provided later as another major scandal unfolds): =============================================================================== Those who accuse Roy, and moreover lump his wife into it (more on that later), conveniently forget all the many positive things Roy wrote about Sirius in Techrights even years before working for the company. This is what’s shown publicly in blog posts, not some assorted chat gossip with a ton of typos. None of this is about defamation (no falsehoods contained therein), it’s all about ego. It’s about egotistic people, whose names are never even mentioned, not knowing how to cope with constructive and factual criticism. As noted before, the company is deaf to its own staff. Technical people are treated as clueless. This is a recipe for corporate failure. To be very clear, the company’s clients are never named in relation to the company but in relation to news (they are famous people, public figures). To claims that people with audience of millions cannot be even mentioned in Techrights is outright crazy. In IRC, the main channel talks about technology, but the company instead cherry-picks some side channel that was deprecated back in 2010. In it, some real issues are discussed, potential misconduct by the company at many levels, even gross misconduct by the company and lies devised to cover up failure to comply with contracts (possible legal breach and actionable). But no person or company gets mentioned, except maybe by accident (very rarely). Roy insists that he did not name people or the companies; the PDFs supplied to Roy support that, as he was always careful. Roy is entitled to an opinion, especially outside work. He used reasonably polite wording. To be very clear, the job in the overnight Support Team involves about 1 hour of practical work on actual servers (true for NOC colleagues; there’s nothing practical to do aside from response to incidents), the rest of time being devoted to tickets, monitoring, response, and discussion with colleagues. Roy did all of these things very well. Roy never posted to social media while on shift. Ever. That much is very evident. To be very clear, the company defamed the NOC (Support Team) staff, comparing it to “monkeys” in the official wiki (before hiring those “monkeys”). Staff should not be compared to animals; it’s not fair to animals and it’s not fair to people. This is an example of unprofessional behaviour inside the company. Now the management is running after us “monkeys”. To wit, the company name- called Roy even in company E-mail (calling him “paranoid” in writing and over the telephone). This culture issue isn’t limited to staff. For instance, the company says bad things in Slack, worse than in IRC, and with identifiable names included (e.g. one manager of a client being called “an arse” by the Sirius founder). This is really bad, this is unprofessional, and this gets transmitted to a surveillance company (Salesforce) in another continent, working for clients like ICE. When one’s own chief (and founder) is name- calling the clients by their real name in a privacy-infringing tool, visible to all staff, why are high standards expected from low-paid, exploited, “milked” staff like Roy and Rianne, who already endured unwarranted abuse years prior? It should be noted that low-quality “gossip” (two-person chat) — with quantity to make up for the low quality — don’t add up to a serious case of disciplinary action, especially against someone who never even spoke in that IRC network, never mind the channel. █ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣛⣛⣛⢟⣛⡻⣛⣛⣛⡿⣛⣟⡛⣛⢛⡛⣛⣛⡻⣛⣛⢻⢟⣛⣛⣛⣻⢿⣛⣛⢟⣛⡛⢛⣛⡻⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⣿⡏⢹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⠿⠻⣿⠻⢿⡿⢿⡿⣿⠟⢿⡟⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠇⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢹⣿⠙⠃⣿⣽⡃⣿⢸⡇⣿⣿⡿⣿⣯⢀⢸⣿⣿⣯⡁⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⡅⣿⣿⣿⣶⣿⣿⣿⣷⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣿⡿⡇⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣷⠀⣿⣴⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⢸⡇⢀⣶⣾⣿⡿⠃⠀⠀⣿⢻⣿⢿⣿⡿⢸⣿⠀⠀⣶⣽⡇⣿⣼⡇⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⣿⣸⣿⣿⡇⠀⢸⣿⣿⢿⣿⣤⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⢀⡇⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢸⡇⠀⡿⠟⠋⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢺⡆⠀⢀⣶⣶⣿⣷⣶⡆⠀⠀⣠⣶⣾⣿⣶⣶⡲⠀⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⢸⡇⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣄⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣸⣧⣤⡗⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢠⣤⣄⣶⣤⣠⣤⣤⣀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡃⢠⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡀⣴⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⣴⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣾⣿⣿⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢠⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⡄⠀⣤⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠋⠉⠉⠉⠀⠉⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠉⣩⣿⡿⠛⠛⠛⢚⣿⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣷⣦⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢠⣾⠋⠉⠀⠀⠀⠠⠋⠀⠀⠀⠉⠻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⠉⠁⠀⢻⣿⡄⠀⠀⠀⠀⡀⠀⠀⠀⣤⣶⣤⡀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣛⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠿⣾⣿⣿⢿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠠⣶⣶⣄⠀⣴⣿⡿⠷⣼⠋⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢠⣴⣶⣦⣴⡄⠈⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣶⣾⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠗⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣦⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⣶⣿⣿⣿⣷⣀⣘⣾⣿⣏⠀⠌⣿⡀⠀⠀⣄⣼⣿⣧⢸⣿⣿⡇⢠⠇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠐⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⠀⣸⣿⣋⠉⢹⣿⣿⡝⡿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡧⠀⠀⠙⠀⠀⠀⠘⠿⠿⣿⣾⣿⡟⢃⣾⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢠⣿⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠰⢣⣿⣿⡆⠘⠉⠁⠀⠀ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⠋⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠁⠀⠀⣀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠹⠛⠿⣿⠃⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣇⠀⣼⣿⣿⣧⣀⣠⣤⣤⣤ ⠀⠈⠉⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⡇⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠇⠈⠏⠉⠀⠀⠀⠛⠀⠀⠀⣦⣶⣶⣶⣶⠀⢀⠋⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠸⣿⡄⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⠀⠰⣴⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢠⣤⣠⣠⣾⣾⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠃⠀⠀⢠⣀⠅⣿⣿⣿⣿⡀⠘⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⢀⢻⡇⠈⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⠀⠀⠈⢗⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⠃⠻⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡟⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠘⢿⣠⣿⠛⡿⠛⠇⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠈⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠻⡄⠀⣀⣴⣿⣿⣿⣿⠇⠀⠀⠀⠙⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢇⣀⣀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠟⠹⠀⣣⡀⡅⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣽⣛⠿⠿⠟⠀⠀⣬⣿⣯⣭⣿⣷⣿⣿⣿ ⠀⠀⠀⠐⠀⠁⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡏⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠙⠿⣿⣿⣿⣬⣝⠻⠿⠿⠟⠋⠈⠉⠋⠀⠀⠀⢠⡄⠀⠀⠀⠀⡇⣸⠀⡏⡇⡄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠙⠋⠀⠀⠀⠀⢠⣿⣻⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠐⢿⣿⡏⢹⣿⠿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⢻⠻⣿⠀⡄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠘⠃⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢹⠀⠉⡇⣅⣤⣴⢶⡒⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣶⣶⡆⣶⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠉⠙⠻⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣨⣾⣯⣋⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠸⢸⠀⣿⠠⠙⠷⣦⣀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢠⣧⠿⠏⢫⣽⣿⣾⠃⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠻⠹⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠉⢠⡿ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣠⣴⣻⣟⣿⢹⣻⣶⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠉⠓⢦⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⠀⠀⠀⢀⠂⠀⠀⠀⠀⢻⡿⣿⣇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠀⠀⠀⠀⢠⣤⢠⢠⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠸⡇ ⠀⢀⡠⠚⠉⠋⠉⠑⠻⣿⣿⡿⢟⣷⣦⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⠀⠀⢤⣤⣄⣙⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠸⠀⠀⠀⠈⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠘⣿⣿⣿⡄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⢨⣮⣾⣾⡂⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⢁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠘⢿⣿⣥⠊⣻⣦⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠢⠀⠻⢙⣿⡋⠁⣤⣶⣶⣦⣀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢹⣿⣿⣷⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⡀⠀⠀⠀⢻⣿⣿⣿⡟⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⢠⣛⣓⣒⠶⠤⢤⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠙⠳⣿⣿⣿⣿⣦⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣤⣤⡄⣤⣬⣟⣿⢤⣼⣟⣍⣻⣭⣟⢢⣤⣄⢠⣤⣤⠀⠀⠀⢿⡿⣟⣳⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠻⣿⡿⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠉⠉⠛⠛⠛⠿⠶⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠻⢿⣿⣿⣟⣷⣤⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⢸⣷⣿⣿⣟⢿⣼⣿⡇⠋⣿⣟⣛⣿⡇⣿⢸⣧⡿⠀⠀⠀⠈⠛⡅⠠⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠙⠻⣿⣿⣿⣧⣈⡆⠀⠀⠀⠀⠿⣼⠇⠿⠿⠿⠀⠿⢿⡿⠀⠿⣿⠟⠻⣷⠿⠸⠇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣼⡄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠠⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠻⢿⡿⠋⠀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠱⠀⠀⠀⢳⣾⣿⡄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠉⠘⢄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 520 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at http://techrights.org/2022/12/25/sirius-stalking-staff/#comments Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2022/12/25/sirius-stalking-staff/ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 12.25.22⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ [Meme]_When_Sirius_‘Open_Source’_Can_No_Longer_Pay_the_Staff,_So_It_Starts Fabricating_Timelines⠀✐ Posted in Deception, Free/Libre_Software at 9:42 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz When the CEO was up all night for several weeks stalking staff instead of doing his real job 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇Are_you_once_again_stalking_staff_outside_work_to_defame_the staff?_No,_I_need_to_find_some_false_pretext_to_justify_this_stalking_of_mine⦈_ Summary: As we've_just_noted, Sirius_‘Open_Source’ management is framing people by stalking them, muck-raking, and then falsely accusing them (lying basically); 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maybe the media has a conflict of interest because it made itself somewhat reliant on Twitter THE media seems to be missing the biggest scandals about Twitter, maybe by intention. There’s this misguided idea that only Social Control Media that’s controlled by China can be sinister and there’s almost no discussion about controllers of Twitter; aside from Elon Musk, there’s the political influence of ‘Gulf States’ and Saudi Arabia — a subject that is well documented but seldom explored in the media. It’s not even new! It has gone on for over a decade already. In our Daily Links we regularly give many examples of people fleeing Twitter, not due to the supposedly controversial policy changes but even worse aspects, such as time-wasting, manipulation, and now even privacy_issues. In the video above I explain that, contrary to how media frames it, the main issue should not be “engagement” but more crucial aspects. Maybe the media is just accidentally dodging the real or the biggest problems with Twitter. Or maybe it’s intentional. █ ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 650 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐃𝐀𝐈𝐋𝐘 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒 ═════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 12.25.22⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Links_25/12/2022:_Kodi_19.5_and_Linux_6.2_RC1⠀✐ Posted in News_Roundup at 9:07 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇GNOME bluefish⦈ § Contents⠀➾ * GNU/Linux o Kubernetes o Audiocasts/Shows o Kernel_Space o Graphics_Stack o Applications o Instructionals/Technical * Distributions_and_Operating_Systems o Red_Hat o Canonical/Ubuntu_Family o Mobile_Systems/Mobile_Applications * Free,_Libre,_and_Open_Source_Software o Programming/Development # Perl_/_Raku # Python # Rust * Leftovers o Security * Gemini*_and_Gopher o Technical # Xmas * § GNU/Linux⠀➾ o ⚓ Web Pro News ☛ Stack_Overflow:_Linux_Surpasses_macOS_Among Developers⠀⇛ Linux has reached a major milestone, surpassing macOS among developers for both personal and professional use. Linux has long been the third most popular operating system (OS), after Windows and macOS. Stack Overflow has released its 2022 Developer Survey, and it’s good news for Linux fans. According to the Developer Survey, Linux use has passed macOS by a significant margin. Linux is used by 40.23% of developers as their primary OS for personal use, while 39.89% use it as their primary OS for professional use. In contrast, macOS is used as a primary OS for personal use 31.07% of developers and for professional use by 32.97%. o ⚓ Slashdot ☛ Stack_Overflow_Survey_Finds_More_Developers_Now_Use Linux_Than_MacOS_–_Slashdot⠀⇛ Justin Garrison works at Amazon Web Services on the Kubernetes team (and was senior systems engineer on several animated films). o ⚓ Linux Made Simple ☛ Linux_Weekly_Roundup_#215⠀⇛ We had a full week in the world of Linux releases with Manjaro Linux 22.0, Clear Linux 37860, Bluestar Linux 6.1.1, ArcoLinux 23.01.03, Q4OS 4.11, Linux Mint 21.1, EndeavourOS 22.12, and BunsenLabs Beryllium. o § Kubernetes⠀➾ # ⚓ Kubernetes Blog ☛ Kubernetes_1.26:_Pod_Scheduling_Readiness |_Kubernetes⠀⇛ Kubernetes 1.26 introduced a new Pod feature: scheduling gates. In Kubernetes, scheduling gates are keys that tell the scheduler when a Pod is ready to be considered for scheduling. o § Audiocasts/Shows⠀➾ # ⚓ Video ☛ Linux_Mint_21.1_Cinnamon_Edition_Includes_Some_New Features_–_Invidious⠀⇛ Linux Mint 21.1 is a long term support release which will be supported until 2027. It comes with updated software and brings refinements and many new features to make your desktop experience more comfortable. # ⚓ Video ☛ LastPass_|_Withheld_that_Password_Vaults_were Stolen_–_Invidious⠀⇛ What’s up, Linux Community!!! In this video, we check an article on how the world-leading password manager, LastPass, became victim’s of a security breach, again. Last month, the company announced that threat actors had accessed “certain elements” of customer info. Just as many US workers are leaving for a holiday break, the company reveals that meant their encrypted passwords. # ⚓ Video ☛ Steam_Deck_–_An_average_users_thoughts_on_Valve’s first_handheld!_*reaction*_–_Invidious⠀⇛ What does the every day average user think of Vales first handheld the Steam Deck? # ⚓ Video ☛ ChatGPT_Malware_is_a_Thing_–_Invidious⠀⇛ This week in Business News, Pine releases info on the next Linux tablet, Linux teams up to make a Google Maps Alternative, and Tesla causes a another crash. # ⚓ Video ☛ Will_Rust_Free_Linux_Kernels_Exist_Anymore?_– Invidious⠀⇛ Now that Rust is a part opf the Linux kernel is this the end for a C only kernel, well right now maybe not but one day in the future it might not be that simple. # ⚓ Jupiter Broadcasting ☛ 2022_Tuxies_|_LINUX_Unplugged_490_| Jupiter_Broadcasting⠀⇛ It’s the third annual Unplugged Tuxies; our community votes on the best projects, distros, desktops, and services of 2022. # ⚓ Open Source Security (Audio Show) ☛ Episode_355_–_Security Boxing_Day_–_Open_Source_Security⠀⇛ Josh and Kurt talk about some security gifts for boxing day. We start out with the idea of the security poverty line and discuss a few ideas for how a low resource group can make their open source more secure. There are no simple answers unfortunately. o § Kernel Space⠀➾ # ⚓ Linux mailing lists ☛ Linux_6.2-rc1⠀⇛ So it's Christmas Day here, but it's also Sunday afternoon two weeks after the 6.2 merge window opened. So holidays or not, the kernel development show must go on. Thanks to a lot of people sending their pull requests early, I got much of the merge window work done before the holidays started in earnest, and mostly before my pre-xmas travel. So despite flight delays, missed connections, and the resulting airport hotel excursions, the merge window mostly went smoothly, and there was no reason to delay rc1. That said, realistically I expect most people to be on vacation for at least another week, so I wouldn't be surprised if we end up with a delayed final release due to the season. But it's too early to worry about that yet, we'll just have to see how it goes. Also, 6.2 looks like it's a bigger release (certainly bigger than 6.1 was). The summary below is, as usual, just my merge log: we've got about 13.5k commits from ~1800 people in total in this merge window, which is actually not that far off the total size of the whole 6.1 release. But let's hope that despite the size, and despite the likely slow start of the post-merge-window calming down period, we'll have a smooth release. And in the meantime, Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all (replace as appropriate with whatever holiday, if any, you are celebrating). Linus o § Graphics Stack⠀➾ # ⚓ WCCF Tech ☛ AMD_Focuses_On_Various_Driver_Improvements_For RDNA_3_GPUs_Running_In_Linux⠀⇛ AMD left Linux users without great graphics support when they released the new Radeon RX 7900 GPUs based on the RDNA 3 architecture. The graphics kernel was old and did not prepare users with newer firmware during launch. Now, engineers are beginning to change their focus towards the RDNA 3 support with a newly published firmware update, allowing users to rely on the frame buffer from the firmware when the AMDGPU driver crashes. o § Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ What_Are_the_Best_Disc_Burning_Apps_for Linux⠀⇛ CDs and DVDs might seem to be a relic of the past with most people choosing to stream music and video from remote servers to their entertainment devices, and storing large collections of files on USB flash drives of up to a terabyte. But even though few laptops come with an optical drive these days, it’s occasionally useful to burn a CD or DVD for use in your car, or for entertainment in an area where network connectivity is spotty. Here are the best tools for CD burning on Linux. # ⚓ Ubuntu Handbook ☛ Kodi_19.5_Released!_How_to_Install_in Ubuntu_22.04_|_20.04_|_22.10_|_UbuntuHandbook⠀⇛ Happy Christmas and happy new year to my dear readers! Kodi, the popular home media center software, release 19.5 version to celebrate the holidays. It’s the last point release for the 19.x release, while Kodi 20 now is in RC2 stage. And, this release mainly include bug-fixes and improvements backport from dev release. o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾ # ⚓ Video ☛ How_to_install_MEGASync_on_KDE_Neon_–_Invidious⠀⇛ # ⚓ Linux Made Simple ☛ How_to_install_MetaTrader_5_with_the Traders_Global_Group_Incorporated_Broker_on_a_Chromebook⠀⇛ Today we are looking at how to install MetaTrader 5 with the Traders Global Group Incorporated Broker on a Chromebook. # ⚓ AddictiveTips ☛ How_to_convert_images_on_a_Chromebook⠀⇛ Do you have some image files you need to convert to your Chromebook? Can’t find any Chrome OS apps that do the job? Good news! Since Chrome OS supports Linux, it is possible to install the Converter tool. An easy-to-use tool for converting image formats. Here’s how to get it working on your system. # ⚓ LinuxOpSys ☛ How_to_Make_Ubuntu_Terminal_Look_like_Kali Linux⠀⇛ Here learn how to make your Ubuntu terminal look like Kali Linux. For this install zsh shell, zshell plugins and some additional tools. # ⚓ Why_won’t_crusty_old_host_recognize_my_shiny_new_terminal emulator?⠀⇛ Spiffy new terminal emulators seem to come with their own terminfo definitions. Venerable hosts that I ssh into tend not to know about those. kitty comes with a thing to transfer that definition, but it breaks if the remote host is running tcsh (don’t ask). Similary the one liner for alacritty on the arch wiki seems to assume the remote shell is bash. Forthwith, a dumb shell script that works to send the terminfo of the current terminal emulator to the remote host. # ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ How_to_Find_Your_MAC_Address_on_Linux⠀⇛ If you are administering a Linux system, there will likely be times when you need to know your system’s MAC address. You may need this information for several reasons. Perhaps you want DHCP to assign you a fixed IP address. For this, you will need the MAC address so that you can add the IP and MAC address mapping to your DHCP server configurations. You may also need this information for MAC address filtering to allow or block certain devices on your network. Or maybe you want to set up Wake-on-LAN. Whatever the reason is, here are a few different ways to find the MAC address on your Linux system. # ⚓ How_to_Install_Microsoft_Teams_on_Ubuntu [Ed: This is proprietary Microsoft spyware; better never to install such a thing]⠀⇛ # ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ Reducing_Docker_Image_Sizes_With_Alpine_Linux Images⠀⇛ The size of a Docker image affects its runtime and the performance of your application. Small containers run faster, are easier to manage, and take up less disk space. There are several ways to reduce the size of Docker images. In particular, you can use Alpine Linux images which are much smaller than the rest. # ⚓ UNIX Cop ☛ Install_Samba_Server_with_Selinux_and_Firewalld Enabled⠀⇛ Hello, friends. In this post, you will learn how to Install Samba Server with Selinux and Firewalld Enabled. For this post, we will use Rocky Linux 9, but actually the algorithm followed should work for other distributions, of course making the necessary modifications. * § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾ o § Red Hat⠀➾ # ⚓ Container Journal ☛ Red_Hat_Extends_Managed_OpenShift Service_for_Building_AI_Models_–_Container_Journal⠀⇛ Red Hat extended the capabilities of its managed service for building artificial intelligence (AI) models on top of its Kubernetes distribution to foster greater collaboration among data scientists and DevOps teams. In addition, the latest edition of Red Hat OpenShift Data Science service includes support for NVIDIA data center graphical processor units (GPUs) that can run a certified instance of the NVIDIA AI Enterprise software suite. # ⚓ CRN ☛ AWS_Star_Innovative_Solutions_Bets_On_Red_Hat OpenShift,_AI_And_Cloud_Migration_In_2023 [Ed: Too many buzzwords rather than substance]⠀⇛ Innovative Solutions CEO Justin Copie explains to CRN his vision to drive sales in 2023 by creating new practices and services that customers are demanding. # ⚓ Red Hat Official ☛ Modularity_in_Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux 9⠀⇛ Many have noticed a general lack of modules in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 9. There was only a single module in the Beta release, and none in the initial release, leading many to question the current status and plans for modules in general. In this article we will delve into a bit of history as to how modules have been used, some of the lessons learned during their initial adoption, and what you can expect from RHEL 9. o § Canonical/Ubuntu Family⠀➾ # ⚓ DebugPoint ☛ Linux_Mint_21.1_“Vera”:_Best_New_Features⠀⇛ An article featuring the best new features of Linux Mint 21.1 “Vera”. Linux Mint 21.1 was released a few days back and received a positive response overall. If you are still trying to get this version, do it today. We have several guides on upgrading to this version because it’s one of the best Linux Mint versions. Before getting your new Mint desktop, do check out the new features of Linux Mint 21.1 in this assorted list. o § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ The Sun ☛ People_are_only_just_realizing_a_quick_trick_can save_you_from_annoying_Android_notification_confusion_|_The US_Sun⠀⇛ # ⚓ Android Police ☛ 20_of_the_best_Android_games_released_in 2022_for_your_new_phone,_tablet,_or_Chromebook⠀⇛ # ⚓ Android Police ☛ How_to_transfer_photos_from_Android_to_a computer⠀⇛ # ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ How_to_Control_Your_Android_Phone’s_Camera Using_the_Galaxy_Watch_4_or_Watch_5⠀⇛ # ⚓ How_to_tell_if_someone_is_snooping_on_your_Android_|_Fox News⠀⇛ # ⚓ Hindustan Times ☛ The_top_ten_android_TVs_as_per_customer satisfaction⠀⇛ # ⚓ 9to5Google ☛ Android_apps:_Install_these_on_your_new smartphone_–_9to5Google⠀⇛ * § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾ o ⚓ Libre Arts ☛ Libre_Arts_–_Weekly_recap_—_25_December_2022⠀⇛ The next weekly recap will be out in January. But for now, here are this week’s highlights: new releases of darktable, Hugin, LSP Plugins. o ⚓ FOSS Weekly ☛ FOSS_Weekly_#29_–_Tails_5.8,_Google’s_OSS_tools, Linux_Mint_21.1_and_more_|_FOSS_Weekly⠀⇛ Welcome to this week’s edition of FOSS Weekly! This post includes updates from Google, Tencent, and the EFF, as well as Linux updates from Manjaro, Tails, and Linux Mint. There were also some notable releases from Rust, NetBSD, NumPy, and Ruby. Read on for all the updates! o § Programming/Development⠀➾ # § Perl / Raku⠀➾ # ⚓ Russ Allbery ☛ Eagle’s_Path:_podlators_5.01_(2022-12- 25)⠀⇛ podlators is the Perl distribution providing Pod::Man and Pod::Text, along with related modules and supporting scripts. The primary change in this release is the addition of configurable guesswork for Pod:: Text, paralleling Pod::Man. I had forgotten that Pod::Text also had complex heuristics for whether to quote C<> text that have the same Perl-specific properties as Pod::Man. This is now configurable via a guesswork option, the same as in Pod::Man, although the only type of guesswork supported is quoting. I also updated the default regexes, which include some fixes from Pod::Man. # ⚓ Russ Allbery ☛ Eagle’s_Path:_rra-c-util_10.3_(2022- 12-25)⠀⇛ This is a minor feature and bug fix release of my collection of utilities and tests intended for copying into other packages I maintain. The new feature is an additional Perl test using Test::Kwalitee to check a few more things about the Perl packaging, and a MANIFEST.SKIP file that is suitable for copying as-is into most Perl packages. # ⚓ Rakulang ☛ Raku_Advent_Calendar:_The_2022_Raku_Advent Posts⠀⇛ # § Python⠀➾ # ⚓ TecAdmin ☛ How_to_Call_a_function_in_Python_– TecAdmin⠀⇛ In Python, a function is a block of code that performs a specific task and can be called from other parts of your program. Functions are an essential part of Python programming, and they allow you to write reusable, modular code that is easier to maintain and debug. In this tutorial, we will learn how to call a function in Python. We will discuss the different ways you can pass arguments to a function, and we will also look at some common mistakes to avoid when calling functions in Python. # ⚓ TecAdmin ☛ Current_Date_and_Time_in_Python:_In-Depth Tutorial_–_TecAdmin⠀⇛ Getting the current date and time is a common task in Python programming. There are several ways to do this, depending on your needs and the libraries you have available. In this article, we will explore some of the most common methods for getting the current date and time in Python, including using the built-in datetime module, the time module, and the dateutil module. We will also discuss how to format the date and time values as strings, and how to convert between timezones. Whether you are working with timestamps, scheduling tasks, or just want to display the current date and time in your Python program, this article will provide you with the tools you need. # § Rust⠀➾ # ⚓ Amos Wenger ☛ Day_15_(Advent_of_Code_2022)⠀⇛ The day 15 puzzle falls into the “math puzzle” territory more than “let’s learn something new about Rust”, but since several folks asked if I was going to continue… let’s continue. * § Leftovers⠀➾ o ⚓ Matt Rickard ☛ Christmas_2022⠀⇛ Over the next few days, I’ll be reflecting on the predictions I had for 2022 and the process I used to get there (the process is more important to me than the outcome). I’ll reflect on some of the things that I did, and some of the things I wished I had done. And finally, I’ll try to put out some thoughts on what I think 2023 might hold, for both me and the the broader market. And it wouldn’t be an end-of-the-year reflection without thinking about some of my posts that resonated the most (and the ones that resonated the least) and why. o § Security⠀➾ # ⚓ Help Net Security ☛ Open-source_tool_for_security_engineers helps_automate_access_reviews_–_Help_Net_Security⠀⇛ ConductorOne open-sourced their identity connectors in a project called Baton, available on GitHub. Each connector gives developers the ability to extract, normalize, and interact with workforce identity data such as user accounts, permissions, roles, groups, resources, and more, so they can audit infrastructure access, start to automate user access reviews, and enforce the principle of least privilege. # ⚓ Linux_Kernel_Security_Bug_Allows_Remote_Code_Execution_for Authenticated_Remote_Users_–_Slashdot [Ed: The severity of 10 is no longer 10 for the "Linux" flaw; it was SMB related and was downgraded later, days after all the drama]⠀⇛ This new program, which was introduced to the kernel in 2021, was developed by Samsung. Its point was to deliver speedy SMB3 file-serving performance…. Any distro using the Linux kernel 5.15 or above is potentially vulnerable. This includes Ubuntu 22.04, and its descendants; Deepin Linux 20.3; and Slackware 15. # ⚓ Security Affairs ☛ Critical_Linux_Kernel_flaw_affects_SMB servers_with_ksmbd_enabled [Ed: No, the severity is not 10!]⠀⇛ Experts warn of a critical Linux Kernel vulnerability (CVSS score of 10) impacting SMB servers that can lead to remote code execution. * § Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾ o § Technical⠀➾ # ⚓ the_concept_of_fragments_log,_taken_from_Brandur⠀⇛ This post might be cross-linked from the gemlog, but it’s not gemlog. Wait nevermind It will be the other way now. # ⚓ cleaning⠀⇛ I’ll be doing some general cleaning by the end of this week and that includes this gemlog. changing the header/footer and maybe adding something other than email for getting in touch. # ⚓ Evolving_harn:_C_+_Forth_polyglot_system⠀⇛ I presented my project as an interactive linker for a harnessed C compiler. And it true: I’ve implemented the infrastructure for extracting compiled C functions and data out of ELF object files, and interning them into the system, including being able to replace old versions with new ones. I set up a basic way to track ingested code as symbols, which are kept in packages, kind of like Lisp. The whole thing lives as an image which can be saved and restored. Oh, and I made provisions for keeping the sources of everything ingested. # § Xmas⠀➾ # ⚓ Merry_Christmas⠀⇛ No matter what holiday(s) you celebrate this season, I hope it brings you an opportunity to be with people you care about and share in your joys and gratitude. # ⚓ it’s_25th,_how_has_December_been⠀⇛ One has been in my family and the other I bought because the former had keyboard keys not working. The keyboard issues are something that historically one could sometimes fix by twisting the whole case of the laptop. Dad suggests it may be fixable by remounting the keyboard. That other one I bought had the keyboard work well but the Touch Stick in it has issues about going all the way upper-right or all the way lower-left, unless pressed hard in the opposite direction. I had to install the pointing device driver and in it I can disable Touch Stick separately from Touch Pad. I expected the former one to have a broken HDD and the other one to lack a HDD. But they turned out to both have HDDs. The former one had Ubuntu 6.XX with the familiar login prompt sound and the other one had an empty installation of Windows 98 that I subsequently reinstalled, also having a sticker for Windows.. 95, which seems a bit odd. =============================================================================== * Gemini_(Primer) links can be opened using Gemini_software. It’s like the World Wide Web but a lot lighter. ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 1426 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐃𝐀𝐈𝐋𝐘 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒 ═════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 12.25.22⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Links_25/12/2022:_‘The_LastPass_Hack_Was_Worse_Than_We_Thought’⠀✐ Posted in News_Roundup at 12:52 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇GNOME bluefish⦈ § Contents⠀➾ * GNU/Linux o Audiocasts/Shows o Kernel_Space o Applications o Instructionals/Technical o Games * Distributions_and_Operating_Systems o New_Releases o Open_Hardware/Modding * Free,_Libre,_and_Open_Source_Software o Web_Browsers/Web_Servers # Chromium o SaaS/Back_End/Databases o Programming/Development # Perl_/_Raku * Leftovers o Science o Security o Defence/Aggression o AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics o Monopolies # Copyrights * Gemini*_and_Gopher o Personal o Technical # Internet/Gemini # Programming * § GNU/Linux⠀➾ o ⚓ Merry_Christmas_from_OSMC_–_OSMC⠀⇛ The OSMC team would like to wish you a Merry Christmas. We hope you’re enjoying the festive break and watching lots of TV with OSMC. We’re readying a small update to keep things running smoothly and will release this in the next few days with Kodi v19.5. We are already working hard on the impending Kodi v20 release. o § Audiocasts/Shows⠀➾ # ⚓ Video ☛ The_LastPass_Hack_Was_Worse_Than_We_Thought_– Invidious⠀⇛ In this video I cover the latest information about the lastpass data breach. # ⚓ Video ☛ Manjaro_GNOME_Shows_Why_Distros_Shouldn’t_Ship Themes_–_Invidious⠀⇛ It seems like we can’t go more than a few weeks without Manjaro giving me something fun to talk about and being used as a counter example of what should be done with a distro and GNOME is no exception o § Kernel Space⠀➾ # ⚓ WCCF Tech ☛ New_Intel_Xe_Linux_Kernel_Graphics_Driver_To Replace_“i915″_For_Future_GPUs⠀⇛ Intel open-source engineers are working hard on developing a new graphics driver to replace the twenty-year-old i915 driver. Intel open-source i915 graphics driver to be replaced with new, Xe-based graphics kernel for better optimization and broader adoption in previous architectures The i915 graphics driver was initially introduced during the 915G Northbridge chipset generation. Now, developers are looking into updating the i915 graphics kernel with a Xe-based kernel graphics driver that will help support integrated and discrete Intel graphics cards with an estimated launch as quickly as next year. o § Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ Run_Multiple_Linux_Terminal_Sessions Simultaneously_With_Terminator⠀⇛ Unlike traditional Linux terminal emulators, Terminator lets you run as many terminal sessions as you want, all at the same time. Terminator is a terminal emulator that lets you work on multiple terminal sessions in a single window. It is a handy tool for system administrators and other users who deal with configurations and management of multiple systems. In Terminator, you can split, switch and arrange terminals in a grid, create tabs, rename terminal sessions, configure key bindings, and much more. The best part about Terminator is that it lets you send your input to multiple terminal sessions simultaneously. Let’s see how to install and use Terminator to run multiple terminals in one window. # ⚓ Linux Links ☛ 9_Best_Free_Linux_e-book_Tools_–_Updated_2022 –_LinuxLinks⠀⇛ An electronic book (commonly abbreviated e-book) is a text and image-based publication which can be read on a computer or other digital devices such as an e-book reader. The rise of multimedia digital downloads in recent years has been truly extraordinary. The impact has been so great in respect of digital music downloads. Digital music accounted for half of the all the revenue generated by the music industry in 2016 and amounted to a total of 7.8 billion U.S. dollars that year. Over the years, many music labels stopped releasing singles on a physical format. We do not foresee that major book publishing companies will abandon paperbacks. However, the expansion of digital downloads equally applies to books. The biggest booksellers have reported that they sell more digital books than paperbacks. Digital books are well established. Project Gutenberg, an online library of books that can be downloaded free of charge, has been expanding its collection since 1971. Almost its entire library consists of books that are available in the public domain, although there are a few copyright texts which are also included. o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾ # ⚓ OSTechNix ☛ How_To_Find_The_Size_Of_A_Directory_In_Linux_– OSTechNix [Ed: Page updated]⠀⇛ This brief tutorial explains how to find the size of a directory in Linux operating systems. Finding the size of files and directories in graphical mode is very easy! All we have to do is just right click on the file or directory, and choose the properties option from the context menu. However, it is equally important to know how to check directory size from CLI mode as well. # ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ How_to_Install_and_Set_Up_ProFTPD_With_TLS_on Ubuntu⠀⇛ ProFTPD is a feature-rich FTP daemon for Linux and Unix-based OSes. Here’s how you can set it up on Ubuntu. File Transfer Protocol (FTP) is a popular lightweight protocol used to transfer files over a network. Although it is an efficient mechanism for the transmission of data, there is one drawback to it: the data is transmitted and received in plain text. This means the data transfer is unencrypted, and it can be compromised. Modern FTP servers such as ProFTPD allow support for SSL/TLS. This makes the file transfer between the two systems not only efficient but also safe by adding a security element. Let’s explore how to install and set up ProFTPD with TLS on Ubuntu 22.04. # ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_To_Install_Mono_on_Ubuntu_22.04_LTS_–_idroot [Ed: Not a good idea. Mono_is_how_Microsoft_‘infects’_Linux or_puts_Trojan_horses_in_it.]⠀⇛ In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Mono on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. For those of you who didn’t know, Mono is an open-source project that was developed by Xamarin (now owned by Microsoft) to provide a .NET framework-compatible set of tools for Linux, macOS, and other platforms. It allows developers to build and run .NET applications on non-Windows platforms. This includes support for .NET libraries and frameworks, such as ASP.NET and WPF. # ⚓ Linuxize ☛ How_to_Install_Tomcat_10_on_Ubuntu_22.04⠀⇛ This article explains how to install and configure Tomcat 10 on Ubuntu 22.04. o § Games⠀➾ # ⚓ Boiling Steam ☛ 7000_Games_(Playable_and_Verified)_on_the Steam_Deck!_–_Boiling_Steam⠀⇛ Just before Christmas, Valve and their partners have crossed a new milestone with 7000 games (Verified and Playable) on the Steam Deck! # ⚓ Advent_of_DDNet_2022_Recap_–_DDraceNetwork_News⠀⇛ DDNet ran the Advent of DDNet 2022 for the first time this year. The event just ended and the results are out! I hope everyone had fun playing these maps, got to see new parts of DDNet and met new people in the community. This was a spontaneous idea by heinrich5991, which we started implementing in the evening before December 1. Huge thanks to our testing co-leader Pipou for modifying maps for the event! Thanks to Patiga for the map scaling, mirroring, and rotating tools, thanks to louis and nothing for helping with picking maps! * § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾ o § New Releases⠀➾ # ⚓ 9to5Linux ☛ Manjaro_Linux_22.0_“Sikaris”_Is_the_First Distro_Release_Powered_by_Linux_Kernel_6.1_and_Xfce_4.18_– 9to5Linux⠀⇛ After months of hard work, the Manjaro Linux team announced today the release of Manjaro Linux 22.0 “Sikaris” as the latest version of this widespread Arch Linux-based distribution for the masses bringing some of the most exciting GNU/Linux and Open Source software. Coming six months after the Manjaro Linux 21.3 “Ruah” release, Manjaro Linux 22.0 “Sikaris” is powered by the just-released Linux 6.1 kernel series for the best possible hardware support at the moment of writing and features the amazing Xfce 4.18 desktop environment for its flagship edition. This probably makes Manjaro Linux the first stable distro release to ship with both Linux 6.1 and Xfce 4.18. The KDE Plasma and GNOME editions received the latest KDE Plasma 5.26.4 desktop environment update, which is accompanied by the recently released KDE Frameworks 5.101 and KDE Gear 22.12 software suites for the best Plasma desktop experience possible, as well as the latest GNOME 43.2 desktop environment update, which looks gorgeous with its dark theme and a dock at the bottom of the screen. o § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾ # ⚓ Arduino ☛ Roving_Rock_‘Em_Sock_‘Em_Robots_make_the_perfect Secret_Santa_gift_|_Arduino_Blog⠀⇛ As part of what has become an annual holiday tradition, several YouTube makers coordinated their efforts this year for a Secret Santa exchange. Returning participant James Bruton drew Emily the Engineer and found inspiration for his gift from an automatic boxing glove that she built. Taking that idea and running with it, he created a pair of Rock ‘Em Sock ‘Em Robots that can drive around and compete in real-life bouts. The two 3D-printed robots, which are obviously red and blue, roam around on two driven wheels and punch with massive fists. That fists attach magnetically to automatic reciprocating punching mechanisms very similar to the one Emily the Engineer designed. If one robot pilot is able to punch the fist off of the opposing robot, they win the round. To kick off another round, all the players have to do is snap the fist back onto the magnetic mount. * § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾ o ⚓ Open_Source_Grindset_Explained⠀⇛ Let’s talk about how to develop an open sourcerer mindset. Very much like any other open source developer who has a great passion, I have been dreaming about doing open source full-time to make a living. o § Web Browsers/Web Servers⠀➾ # § Chromium⠀➾ # ⚓ TecAdmin ☛ How_to_Install_Google_Chrome_Web_Browser on_Ubuntu_–_Debian_–_TecAdmin⠀⇛ Google Chrome is a popular web browser that is widely used for accessing the internet. It is known for its fast performance, security features, and support for a wide range of web technologies. If you want to use Google Chrome on your Ubuntu or Debian system, you can install it using the steps described in this article. There are two methods for installing Google Chrome on Ubuntu and Debian: using the official Google Chrome repository and downloading the Debian package from the Google Chrome website. In this article, we will cover both methods. # ⚓ Google ☛ Dev_Channel_Update_for_ChromeOS_/_ChromeOS Flex⠀⇛ The Dev channel is being updated to OS version: 15278.0.0, Browser version: 110.0.5464.0 for most ChromeOS devices. # ⚓ Google ☛ Chrome_Releases:_Beta_Channel_Update_for ChromeOS_/_ChromeOS_Flex⠀⇛ The Beta channel is being updated to 109.0.5414.41 (Platform version: 15236.35.0) for most ChromeOS devices. This build contains a number of bug fixes and security updates. # ⚓ Google ☛ Chrome_Releases:_Long_Term_Support_Channel Update_for_ChromeOS⠀⇛ LTS-102 is being updated in the LTS channel to 102.0.5005.193 (Platform Version: 14695.166.0) for most ChromeOS devices. Want to know more about Long Term Support? Click here. # ⚓ Google ☛ Chrome_Releases:_Dev_Channel_Update_for Desktop⠀⇛ The dev channel has been updated to 110.0.5478.4 for Windows, Linux and 110.0.5478.5 for Mac. # ⚓ Google ☛ Chrome_Releases:_Chrome_Dev_for_Android Update⠀⇛ We’ve just released Chrome Dev 110 (110.0.5476.3) for Android. It’s now available on Google Play. You can see a partial list of the changes in the Git log. For details on new features, check out the Chromium blog, and for details on web platform updates, check here. # ⚓ Google ☛ Chrome_Releases:_Beta_Channel_Update_for Desktop⠀⇛ The Beta channel has been updated to 109.0.5414.46 for Windows, Mac and Linux. # ⚓ Google ☛ Chrome_Releases:_Stable_Channel_Update_for Desktop⠀⇛ The Stable channel has been updated to 108.0.5359.124 for Mac and Linux and 108.0.5359.124/.125 for Windows, which will roll out over the coming days/weeks. A full list of changes in this build is available in the log. o § SaaS/Back End/Databases⠀➾ # ⚓ PostgreSQL ☛ PostgreSQL:_Pgpool-II_4.4.1,_4.3.4,_4.2.11, 4.1.14,_4.0.21_and_3.7.26_released.⠀⇛ Pgpool-II is a tool to add useful features to PostgreSQL, including: - connection pooling - load balancing - automatic failover and more. # ⚓ PostgreSQL ☛ PostgreSQL:_CloudNativePG_1.18.1,_1.17.3_and 1.16.5_Released!⠀⇛ The CloudNativePG Community has released a new update for the supported 1.18, 1.17 and 1.16 versions of the CloudNativePG Operator. o § Programming/Development⠀➾ # ⚓ bnosac_::_open_analytical_helpers_–_audio_transcription with_whisper_from_R⠀⇛ Last week, OpenAI released version 2 of an updated neural net called Whisper that approaches human level robustness and accuracy on speech recognition. You can now directly call from R a C/ C++ inference engine which allow you to transcribe .wav audio files. # ⚓ Daniel Lemire ☛ Fast_base16_encoding_–_Daniel_Lemire’s blog⠀⇛ Given binary data, we often need to encode it as ASCII text. Email and much of the web effectively works in this manner. A popular format for this purpose is base64. With Muła, we showed that we could achieve excellent speed using vector instructions on commodity processors (2018, 2020). However, base64 is a bit tricky. A much simpler format is just base16. E.g., you just transcribe each byte into two bytes representing the value in hexadecimal notation. Thus the byte value 1 becomes the two bytes ’01’. The byte value 255 becomes ‘FF’, and so forth. In other words, you use one byte (or one character) per ‘nibble’: a byte is made of two nibbles: the most-significant 4 bits and the least-significant 4 bits. # ⚓ Bert Hubert ☛ Always_use_feenableexcept()_when_doing floating_point_math⠀⇛ This is a refreshed & expanded copy of a very old page I hosted outside of this blog. I recently ran into “silent NaNs” again, and thought it might be a good idea to republish this advice here. # ⚓ ROS Industrial ☛ Summary_of_ROS-Industrial_Conference_2022 |_ROS-Industrial⠀⇛ The 10th edition of the ROS-Industrial Conference took place on December 15-16, 2022 in Stuttgart, Germany and remotely. During the conference, 55 participants present in Stuttgart and an online audience of more than 200 people attended 17 talks in six sessions. The goal of the conference was to show and discuss what currently is possible in the ROS2 ecosystem when it comes to industrial applications. # ⚓ ROS Industrial ☛ ROSCon_2022_Rewind⠀⇛ This October I was fortunate enough to attend ROSCon with fellow colleagues Jerry Tower and Michael Ripperger in beautiful Kyoto, Japan. By luck, it just so happened that the month-long trip I booked to Japan one year ago lined up with Japan’s borders opening and the conference’s location and dates. Now that I’m back in America and have my work and personal business back in order, I’d like to share with you my ROSCon 2022 experience. With an attendance of approximately 800 ROS developers ranging from absolute beginners to seasoned industry and academia experts, there was something for everyone at ROSCon. The panels were particularly useful to better understand the current state of ROS, ROS2, future plans, and concerns of the community. I found the presentations about integrating CANopen with ROS 2 in addition to the development work on a ROS 2 simulator with the Unreal Engine 4 interesting as well. # ⚓ Emily M Stark ☛ The_death_of_the_line_of_death_|_Emily_M. Stark⠀⇛ The line of death, as Eric Lawrence explained in a classic blog post, is the idea that an application should separate trustworthy UI from untrusted content. The typical example is in a web browser, where untrustworthy web content appears below the browser toolbar UI. Trustworthy content provided by the web browser must appear either in the browser toolbar, or anchored to it or overlapping it. If this separation is maintained, then untrusted content can’t spoof the trustworthy browser UI to trick or attack the user. Though the line of death has been an axiom of browser security for years, it’s losing relevance in modern browsers, and fortunately being replaced by more effective patterns for some attacks. The line of death principle is a bit antiquated. First of all, I’m not aware of any research to support that it’s effective. In fact I’m not aware of much research about it at all. There’s plenty of research and practical experience to show that phishing is effective, picture-in-picture attacks are effective, and security indicators in the URL bar are misunderstood. There’s also some research on operating system equivalents to the line of death (thanks to Stuart Schechter for the pointer). But I’m not aware of any research that focuses on the line of death concept in browsers specifically. For example, I’d like to see a study looking at whether users perceive a dialog anchored to the browser toolbar differently than an identical dialog shown by web content. (Please send me pointers!) In the absence of usability studies, my intuition is that the line of death is simply a foreign, incomprehensible idea to many, many browser users. # ⚓ Linux Foundation ☛ R_en_Buenos_Aires_in_2023:_Compiling_a list_of_Latin_American_R_packages_–_R_Consortium⠀⇛ The R Consortium caught up with Elio Campitelli, organizer of the R en Buenos Aires Group in Buenos Aires, Argentina, to talk about their experience leading a group with almost 1,000 members. Elio discusses their early exposure to programming, the group’s special interest in R and social sciences, and plans on building a compiled list of Latin American R packages in 2023. # ⚓ Hillshade,_colors_and_marginal_plots_with_tidyterra_(II)_| One_world⠀⇛ This is the second post of the series “Hillshade, colors and marginal plots with tidyterra”. In this post I would explore an approach for annotating marginal plots to a ggplot2 map of a SpatRaster, including information of the values by longitude and latitude. See the first post of the series here. # ⚓ rOpenSci_|_rOpenSci_News_Digest,_December_2022⠀⇛ We have recently started building HTML reference manuals for each package in the R-universe! For packages that have had an update in the past 3 weeks, the reference manual is now linked from the package homepage on R-universe.dev. All packages in the R-universe are rebuilt at least once per month, so soon all packages should have an online HTML manual. You can also find reference manuals for base-R packages. # ⚓ Jumping Rivers ☛ What_is_R7?_A_New_OOP_System_for_R⠀⇛ This blog post aims to give a brief introduction to R7, a new R package for OOP in R. It’s not a tutorial on how to write code using R7 – the documentation provides great instructions for getting started if you’re already ready to start programming in R7. # ⚓ Touching_the_3rd_Rail_of_Data_Science:_‘R_or_Python?’_–_Win Vector_LLC⠀⇛ I’ve been seeing a lot of hot takes on if one should do data science in R or in Python. I’ll comment generally on the topic, and then add my own myopic gear-head micro benchmark. I’ll jump in: If learning the language is the big step: then you are a beginner in the data science field. So the right choice is: work with others and use the tools they are most able to teach you. After that there are other considerations: what/who are you working with or integrating with. If you are working with statisticians, likely they will want R. If you are working with software engineers, likely they will want Python. If you are actually adding value in terms of translating business needs, picking machine learning models, methods for organizing data, designing experiments, controlling for bias, reducing variance: then programming is the least of your worries. # § Perl / Raku⠀➾ # ⚓ Rakulang ☛ Day_25:_Rakudo_2022_Review_–_Raku_Advent Calendar⠀⇛ In a year as eventful as 2022 was in the real world, it is a good idea to look back to see what one might have missed while life was messing with your (Raku) plans. Rakudo saw about 1500 commits this year, about the same as the year before that. Many of these were bug fixes and performance improvements, which you would normally not notice. But there were also commits that actually added features to the Raku Programming Language. So it feels like a good idea to actually mention those more in depth. So here goes! Unless otherwise noted, all of these changes are in language level 6.d, and available thanks to several Rakudo compiler releases during 2022. * § Leftovers⠀➾ o § Science⠀➾ # ⚓ BBC ☛ The_cargo_hauling_aircraft_with_no_pilots_on_board_– BBC_News⠀⇛ Svilen Rangelov sports an impressive beard. It’s eight years’ worth of growth he says. The beard dates back to when he and his younger brother, an aerospace engineer by training, formed Dronamics as Europe’s answer to the emerging market for cargo drones. He agreed with his brother Konstantin that they would shave their beards only after the first flight of the drone they’ve been building in their native Bulgaria. At the time he established Dronamics big tech giants like Amazon were experimenting with drone deliveries to domestic addresses. But Mr Rangelov never believed in the concept of personal goods delivered by the drone. The practical difficulties of flying a drone right up to someone’s front door were obvious to Mr Rangelov. “We couldn’t buy into the concept of small drones. We took a different approach.” o § Security⠀➾ # ⚓ Daniel Miessler ☛ My_Philosophy_and_Recommendations_Around the_LastPass_Breaches_–_Daniel_Miessler⠀⇛ Why do we give our passwords to third parties when we have built-in password management? # ⚓ Wladimir Palant ☛ What_data_does_LastPass_encrypt?_|_Almost Secure⠀⇛ A few days ago LastPass admitted that unknown attackers copied their “vault data.” It certainly doesn’t help that LastPass failed to clarify which parts of the vaults are encrypted and which are not. LastPass support adds to the confusion by stating that password notes aren’t encrypted which I’m quite certain is wrong. In fact, it’s pretty easy to view your own LastPass data. And it shows that barely anything changed since I wrote about their “encrypted vault” myth four years go. Passwords, account and user names, as well as password notes are encrypted. Everything else: not so much. Page addresses are merely hex- encoded and various metadata fields are just plain text. [...] As I’ve already established in the previous article, decrypting LastPass data is possible but expensive. Nobody will do that for all the millions of LastPass accounts. But the unencrypted metadata allows prioritizing. Someone with access to admin.bigcorp.com? And this account has also been updated recently? Clearly someone who is worth the effort. And it’s not only that. Merely knowing who has the account where exposes users to phishing attacks for example. The attackers now know exactly who has an account with a particular bank, so they can send them phishing emails for that exact bank. # ⚓ Slashdot ☛ Fedora_Change_Proposal:_Supporting_Unified Kernel_Images_for_Improved_Security [Ed: This Microsoftism is misframed as 'security'; it's not]⠀⇛ The goal is to move away from initrd images being generated on the installed machine. They are generated while building the kernel package instead, then shipped as part of a unified kernel image. A unified kernel image is an all-in-one efi binary containing kernel, initrd, cmdline and signature…. o § Defence/Aggression⠀➾ # ⚓ Declassified UK ☛ Unexploded_bombs:_The_British_army’s deadly_legacy_in_Kenya⠀⇛ In 2015, a teenage boy stumbled across a strange metal object while playing football. Lisoka Lesasuyan, 13, had unwittingly found a mortar fuze. “It exploded in his hands,” his father Lawan tells me as we sit on the outskirts of Dol Dol, a dust swept settlement three hours drive down dirt roads from a UK military barracks in Kenya. “After the blast, the British army came and took the debris and gave him first aid.” Lisoka is perched nervously next to his dad, wearing a white shawl to disguise his injuries. The damage was so severe that Lisoka lost both arms below the elbow. His right eye was gouged out by shrapnel, and his chest covered in burns. I’ve written about Lisoka’s story several times before, but it’s the first time we’ve met. He was keen to see me and got up at 3am to start walking towards Dol Dol. Apparently it’s too dangerous for foreigners to visit his village without armed security. There’s a severe drought in northern Kenya – some areas haven’t had rain for two years. People are starving and some resort to shooting passing cars to steal water. It’s an incredibly difficult environment for anyone to live in, let alone a double amputee. # ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Dumb_Ways_to_Buy:_Defence_“shambles” unveiled_–_former_submariner_and_senator_Rex_Patrick_– Michael_West⠀⇛ “The AUKUS nuclear submarine project will bleed the Australian Defence Force white”, on top of the billions in annual Defence spending waste, reports Rex Patrick. o § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾ # ⚓ The Verge ☛ Twitter’s_new_view_counts_for_tweets_offer measurement_without_meaning_–_The_Verge⠀⇛ The internet is, in many ways, built on fraudulent measurement. Measuring article and video views keep the wheels of online advertising spinning, while counting likes, faves, etc, constitute an insidious drip of “engagement” that has us all opening apps when we should know better. But some metrics are stupider than others, and Twitter’s new public view count for tweets is definitely one of them. [...] This disparity between view counts, likes, and retweets is already being highlighted by users. “the view count is genuinely about to ruin mutuals cause if i ask a question and no one replies but that shit got 50 views im killing everyone and myself,” tweeted user @eternalcurse, dispassionately. “this ‘view count’ thing is the dumbest feature in twitter history. hey here’s the number of people who saw your tweet and completely ignored it. does that make you feel good is that useful to you,” observed @capybaroness. [...] Twitter is big, open, and ever-flowing. These qualities offer a freedom similar to the anonymity of the city. At its best, it means you can just watch life flow by on the timeline and just… say whatever comes into your brain. And as others have noted before now, the site becomes truly horrible when you reach a certain level of fame, either through a single viral tweet or a gauche and sustained commitment to gaining followers. That’s when the hordes arrive at your door, eager to misinterpret you in whatever way they can. But when it’s just you and a few mutuals tweeting into the void it is — dare I say it — quite fun. All of this helps explain why public view counts are such a bad idea. They’re bad because they turn every tweet into an event. Counting views create potential for failure, comparison, scrutiny, and analysis. Instead of tweeting into the void, it encourages us all to become brand managers of our own life (as if the pressure to do so wasn’t already there); engagement hustlers trying to strike it lucky with our next #THREAD and summaries of financial advice and impending technological revolution. Indeed, it’s perhaps no coincidence that public tweet views encourage us to become exactly the sort of people who seem to actively enjoy Elon Musk’s new Twitter; one where you can pay for priority. In short, adding view counts will do to Twitter what they have already done to YouTube. # § Misinformation/Disinformation/Propaganda⠀➾ # ⚓ Mandiant ☛ Information_Operations_Targeting_2022_U.S. Midterm_Elections_Include_Trolling,_Narratives Surrounding_Specific_Races,_Politicians_|_Mandiant⠀⇛ In the lead up to, during, and following the 2022 U.S. midterm elections, Mandiant identified information operations activity from various foreign state-aligned campaigns, including those we assessed to be operating in the interests of Russia, the People’s Republic of China (PRC), and Iran. U.S. midterm elections present a more diffuse set of potential targets than a presidential election, and we observed information operations employing narrative strategies shaped by this dynamic (Figure 1). These operations differ in various ways; however, we note that they all appeared to be somewhat limited in the level of effort dedicated to election-related messaging and/or in potential reach to mainstream audiences based on observed activity, though we note that such operations’ impact is difficult to measure. While the activity identified in this report does not represent a comprehensive accounting of information operations targeting the midterms, we note some broad observations based on newly identified and previously reported operations contextualized within the wider view of relevant information operations activity observed throughout this elections cycle… o § Monopolies⠀➾ # ⚓ CoryDoctorow ☛ Pluralistic:_How_cable_monopolists_tricked conservatives_into_shooting_themselves_in_the_face_(15_Dec 2022)_–_Pluralistic:_Daily_links_from_Cory_Doctorow⠀⇛ No matter how hard conservative culture-war cannon- fodder love big business, it will never love them back. Take network policy, where rural turkeys in Red State America keep on voting for Christmas, then profess outrage when Old Farmer Comcast gets to sharpening his ax. For two years, the FCC has been hamstrung because MAGA Senators refuse to confirm Gigi Sohn, leaving the Commission with only four commissioners. What do the GOP have against Sohn? Well, to hear them tell of it, she’s some kind of radical Marxist who will undermine free enterprise and replace the internet with tin cans and string. The reality is that Sohn favors policies that will specifically and substantially benefit the rural Americans whose senators who refuse to confirm her. For example, Sohn favors municipal fiber provision, which low-information conservatives have been trained to reflexively reject: “Get your government out of my internet!” Boy, are they ever wrong. The private sector sucks at providing network connectivity, especially in rural places. The cable companies and phone companies have divided up the USA like the Pope dividing up the “New World,” setting out exclusive, non-competing territories that get worse service than anyone else in the wealthy world. Americans pay some of the highest prices for the lowest speeds of any OECD nation. # § Copyrights⠀➾ # ⚓ Ruben Schade ☛ Rubenerd:_New_music_is_old⠀⇛ What struck me is how awful the radio is! Regardless of your views of current music, everything from the advertisements to the DJs themselves were obnoxious. Was it always this grim, or have I become desensitised? But for the real observation here: at least half of the songs we heard were remakes! In a one hour sitting we heard rebaked Eiffel 65, Mark Morrison, Elton John, and Fleetwood Mac. They introduced new lyrics, recycled hooks, or only went as far as adding new backing drum loops. # ⚓ Michael Geist ☛ The_Year_in_Review:_Top_Ten_Posts_– Michael_Geist⠀⇛ Today’s post starts with the most-read posts, which have a strong Bill C-11 emphasis alongside posts on Bill C-18, online harms, and the Rogers outage during the summer. # ⚓ Michael Geist ☛ The_Year_in_Review:_Top_Ten_Law_Bytes Podcast_Episodes_–_Michael_Geist⠀⇛ This week’s Law Bytes podcast features a look at the year in review along with some guesses at what lies ahead. Yesterday I highlighted the top ten posts on this site and the series of looking back wraps up today with the most streamed or downloaded Law Bytes podcast episodes of the year. Bill C-11 once again leads the way, though there are episodes on privacy, security, Bill C-18, the invocation of the Emergencies Act, and copyright. * § Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾ o § Personal⠀➾ # ⚓ State_the_Obvious⠀⇛ It’s easy to get in trouble when we assume that the other person will understand (or be able to deduce) what we feel. Most people love hearing things explicitly and clearly. # ⚓ Invalidating⠀⇛ There’s a scene early on in Howl’s Moving Castle where Howl gets his hair messed up and his potion collection engarbled and Sophie, who is responsible for the mess, says “What a pretty color” and “Come on, it’s not that bad. You should look at it now, this shade is even better” in order to comfort him. It’s maybe not the best example since she’s lived through worse on her own, and she used similar thoughts as a coping mechanism, telling herself “You’re still in good shape, and your clothes finally suit you”. o § Technical⠀➾ # ⚓ Eliminating_PulseAudio_Pops⠀⇛ After a brief pause in sound playback, my speakers make a popping sound. My operating system is Manjaro Linux 22.0 “Sikaris”. I believe the underlying cause is that the PulseAudio service puts my audio hardware to sleep. In principle, I would like to increase the timeout so that my sound card stays powered for longer periods after playing a sound. Unfortunately, I only found instructions for disabling the suspend-on-idle module. I searched for information on timeouts, but I only found information relating to PipeWire. I don’t believe the PipeWire instructions apply to me. # § Internet/Gemini⠀➾ # ⚓ Creative_universe⠀⇛ I have been participating in an annual work- internal project contest (we call it Pet Project contest) since I moved to London and switched jobs to my current employer. I am very happy to say that I won a “silver” prize last week here 🎆. Over the last couple of years I have been a finalist in this contest six times and won some kind of prize five times. Some of my projects were also released as open source software. One had a magazine article published, and for another one I wrote an article on my employer’s engineering blog. If you have followed all my posts on this blog (the one you are currently reading), then you have probably figured out what these projects were: # § Programming⠀➾ # ⚓ Ultra(re)learning_Java_–_My_takeaways⠀⇛ As a regular participant in the annual Pet Project competition at work, I always try to find a project where I can learn something new. In this post, I would like to share my takeaways after revisiting Java. =============================================================================== * Gemini_(Primer) links can be opened using Gemini_software. It’s like the World Wide Web but a lot lighter. ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 2629 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐃𝐀𝐈𝐋𝐘 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒 ═════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 12.25.22⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Links_25/12/2022:_Ruby_3.2.0_Released⠀✐ Posted in News_Roundup at 8:46 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇GNOME bluefish⦈ § Contents⠀➾ * GNU/Linux o Server o Audiocasts/Shows o Instructionals/Technical o Games o Desktop_Environments/WMs # GNOME_Desktop/GTK * Distributions_and_Operating_Systems o New_Releases o BSD o Fedora_Family_/_IBM o Mobile_Systems/Mobile_Applications * Free,_Libre,_and_Open_Source_Software o Programming/Development * Leftovers o Science o Education o Hardware o Health/Nutrition/Agriculture o Proprietary o Security # Privacy/Surveillance o Defence/Aggression o Transparency/Investigative_Reporting o Environment # Energy # Wildlife/Nature o Finance o AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics o Civil_Rights/Policing o Monopolies # Copyrights * Gemini*_and_Gopher o Personal * § GNU/Linux⠀➾ o ⚓ Linux Links ☛ Season’s_Greetings_from_LinuxLinks_–_LinuxLinks⠀⇛ Everyone involved at LinuxLinks wishes you all a very Merry Christmas and a prosperous New Year. 2022 has been another immensely challenging year for the world (particularly Ukraine). Let’s hope that peace prevails soon. We have many exciting projects on the horizon in the new year. For example, we plan to massively ramp up the number of articles about hardware running on Linux. But rest assured, we will continue to focus on recommending the best free and open source software. After all, that’s our raison d’etre. o § Server⠀➾ # ⚓ IEEE ☛ Europe_Gets_an_Exascale_Supercomputer_–_IEEE Spectrum [Ed: It runs GNU/Linux]⠀⇛ FRONTIER, THE WORLD’S FIRST exascale supercomputer—or at least the first one that’s been made public—is coming online soon for general scientific use at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee. Another such machine, Aurora, is seemingly on track to be completed any day at Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois. Now Europe’s getting up to speed. Through a €500 million pan-European effort, an exascale supercomputer called JUPITER (Joint Undertaking Pioneer for Innovative and Transformative Exascale Research) will be installed sometime in 2023 at the Forschungszentrum Jülich, in Germany. o § Audiocasts/Shows⠀➾ # ⚓ Video ☛ Linux_BS_Is_Everywhere_|_I_Am_Tired_Of_It⠀⇛ # ⚓ Video ☛ What_Linux_Distro_Is_Right_For_You?_|_No_BS⠀⇛ # ⚓ Video ☛ Void_Linux_–_Stability_Focused_Linux_Distro⠀⇛ # ⚓ Video ☛ Linux_Independents_|_Best_Of_2022⠀⇛ # ⚓ Video ☛ 3_Linux_Distros_That_Will_STOP_Your_Distro Hopping⠀⇛ # ⚓ Video ☛ XeroLinux_–_One_Of_The_Best_Gets_Better_|_Fantastic Arch_Spin⠀⇛ # ⚓ Video ☛ “Linux_Is_Hard_To_Use”_–_It’s_2022_Stop_The_BS Already⠀⇛ # ⚓ Video ☛ Best_Gnome_Linux_Distros_Of_2022⠀⇛ # ⚓ Video ☛ ExTix_Linux_Deepin_–_Amazing_Linux_Distro_|_Perfect Form_&_Function⠀⇛ # ⚓ Video ☛ Linux_Distros_Tracking_You_–_From_Deepin_to_Astra Linux_|_What’s_The_Truth⠀⇛ # ⚓ Video ☛ New_To_Linux?_|_Want_To_Try_Linux?_|_Watch_Before You_Try!⠀⇛ # ⚓ Video ☛ Linux_&_BSD_Out_Of_The_Box_Perfection⠀⇛ o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾ # ⚓ University of Toronto ☛ Handling_numbers_in_Vim_when_they have_a_dash_in_front_of_them⠀⇛ I wanted to copy and duplicate in order to make ‘machine-2′, ‘machine-3′, and so on entries, so I copied that first line and hit Ctrl-A to increment the machine number, which didn’t work because Vim, by default, saw the ‘-1′ as a negative number and duly incremented it to ’0′. Visually selecting the number before using Ctrl-A isn’t really a great solution for this particular case, because I want to do it repeatedly to create different numbers; at best I’d be repeatedly selecting shorter and shorter columns and incrementing them by one. # ⚓ BSDly ☛ Can_Your_Spam-eater_Manage_to_Catch_Seventy-one Percent_Like_This_Other_Service?⠀⇛ Measuring the effect of what you do is important. Equally important is knowing what is the measure of your actions. A question turned up on IRC that had me thinking. Do you have a percentage of the spam traffic you catch on your MXes? The reason I ask is I lust learned that fastmail.com claim they catch 71% of all incoming spam. Also a rate of false positives would be nice to have, but that’s likely harder to measure. # ⚓ University of Toronto ☛ The_systemd_journal_is_primarily time-based⠀⇛ However, on deeper examination I realized that this goes deeper than just what ‘journalctl -b-1′ will report is the boot before the current one (or even earlier boots). If your system boots with a bad time in the past and then corrects the time, ‘journalctl -r’ will stop abruptly at a log line where the time began to be stepped to the correct value, like this (in reversed order): [...] # ⚓ Earthly ☛ Comprehensive_guide_to_Defining_Application Routing_in_Kubernetes_Cluster_–_Earthly_Blog⠀⇛ When you’re getting started with Kubernetes, setting up the proper routing can be a challenge. There are a lot of moving parts and understanding how IP address get assigned and what they point to can be confusing at first. In this article, you will learn what an Ingress is, and its usefulness when routing in Kubernetes. You will also be introduced to Service and how they differ from an Ingress. We’ll start by covering these two essential pieces of Kubernetes before doing a deeper dive into how you can use them to set up effective routing. For this article, you will use an NGINX image on Docker Hub. You will learn how to make deployments and create services for the NGINX image and use Ingress to forward requests from a domain name to your application. You will also learn how to use Ingress to configure multiple paths for a particular domain and also run your application on HTTPS. # ⚓ Earthly ☛ How_to_Work_with_YAML_in_Python_–_Earthly_Blog⠀⇛ If you’ve ever worked with Docker or Kubernetes, you’ll have likely used YAML files. From configuring an application’s services in Docker to defining Kubernetes objects like pods, services, and more—YAML is used for them all. If you’d like to learn how to work with YAML in the Python programming language, then this tutorial is for you. This tutorial will cover creating, writing, reading, and modifying YAML in Python. o § Games⠀➾ # ⚓ Björn Wärmedal ☛ Tea_Tea_Deluxe_Version_1.2.0⠀⇛ Last night I published an update to my OpenTTD NewGRF called Tea Tea Deluxe. Version 1.2.0, downloadable from the “Check online content” menu in the game. [...] I’ve played the game with these changes for a couple of weeks now, and the improvements are very enjoyable. The production rates for the farms is now a little bit higher. Increased from 8 to 12, compared to 15 for coal, which actually makes tea leaves somewhat competitive. They start out at a higher value than coal but drop off radically, whereas coal loses value very slowly. For short distances tea leaves are more valuable, for medium to long distances coal is the winner. For the longest distances, when value of any cargo has dropped to the lowest point at 12% of its maximum, tea leaves are quite superior. I didn’t intend to make it this way, but it’s how it turned out. # ⚓ thibault’s_Blog_•_Lichess_–_Scala_3_•_lichess.org⠀⇛ Lichess gets a big upgrade. It doesn’t go as planned. Lichess is a 100% open-source/free-software chess website, used by millions of players to play billions of games. # ⚓ Boiling Steam ☛ Best_Steam_Deck_Games_Released_in_the_Past Week_–_2022-12-25_Christmas_Edition_–_Boiling_Steam⠀⇛ Merry Christmas! Between 2022-12-18 and 2022-12-25 there were 122 new games validated for the Steam Deck. We use many different features to get to that Best Steam Deck Games list, such as popularity, ratings, and more. o § Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾ # § GNOME Desktop/GTK⠀➾ # ⚓ Ubuntu Handbook ☛ Display_Wireless_Mouse/Keyboard Battery_Percentage_on_Ubuntu_22.04_Panel_| UbuntuHandbook⠀⇛ Got wireless mouse, keyboard, or controller connect to your PC? You can have a glance at the battery level of them in top-bar of Ubuntu 22.04|22.10, Fedora 36/37, Arch/ Manjaro with GNOME desktop! This can be done via a Gnome Shell extension based on upower power management daemon. * § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾ o § New Releases⠀➾ # ⚓ It’s Ubuntu ☛ Manjaro_Linux_22.0_“Sikaris”_Released_With Linux_Kernel_6.1_|_Itsubuntu.com⠀⇛ Manjaro Linux 22.0 “Sikaris” is now available for download. The latest version of Manjaro is powered by Linux Kernel 6.1. Some of the new features that you will find on Manjaro Linux 22.0 is Xfce 4.18 desktop environment and Linux Kernel 6.1. Manjaro Linux 22.0 is available for download from the official website of Manjaro. o § BSD⠀➾ # ⚓ MWL ☛ ‘OpenBSD_Mastery:_Filesystems’_status_–_Michael_W Lucas⠀⇛ I just finished indexing the manuscript. That’s normally a hard day’s work, but this being the week before a major holiday I was unable to get a full day to dedicate to the task. I wound up spending about two hard man-days on the task, because context switching in and out of indexing has a higher cost than any other task my brain runs. o § Fedora Family / IBM⠀➾ # ⚓ Red Hat Official ☛ Partner_success:_Highlights_from_our partner_success_stories_in_2022⠀⇛ The Red Hat partner ecosystem is an integral part of how Red Hat develops and delivers business and technical value to customers. It provides a community to solve customer challenges, build integrated solutions and establish and grow deep relationships—all built around Red Hat’s enterprise open source solutions. Here we highlight seven partner success stories from 2022, covering everything from 5G telecommunications through manufacturing and financial services. Grab a cup of holiday cheer and read on to learn how Red Hat and Red Hat’s partners might be able to help your organization in the coming year. # ⚓ Red Hat Official ☛ A_year_in_review:_Red_Hat_Training’s most_popular_courses_of_2022⠀⇛ Throughout 2022, Red Hat Training and Certification continued to update our training course catalog to keep pace with changes in Red Hat technology and industry trends. With options for self-paced, live virtual and in-person classroom training, opportunities to sharpen your skill set abound. Check out our top five most visited training courses and resources of 2022. o § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ Google_To_Enable_“Find_My_Device”_For_Android_Smartphones Reveals_Play_Services_Update⠀⇛ # ⚓ CNET ☛ Clean_Up_Your_Phone_By_Deleting_Your_Android_Web Browser’s_Cookies,_Cache_–_CNET⠀⇛ # ⚓ Android Central ☛ How_to_drag_and_drop_between_apps_on Android_tablets_|_Android_Central⠀⇛ # ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ How_to_Create_Shortcuts_to_Anything_on_Your Android_Phone’s_Home_Screen⠀⇛ # ⚓ Tech Advisor ☛ How_To_Set_Up_a_New_Android_Phone_–_Tech Advisor⠀⇛ # ⚓ Giz China ☛ Android_14_will_natively_integrate_Health Connect_functions⠀⇛ # ⚓ Android Police ☛ Scrcpy_gets_its_clipboard_mojo_back_with Android_13_devices⠀⇛ # ⚓ Giz China ☛ ColorOS_13_(Android_13)_is_now_available_for these_Oppo_phones⠀⇛ # ⚓ Giz China ☛ More_Pixel_features_are_coming_to_other_Android 13_devices⠀⇛ # ⚓ Hindustan Times ☛ iQOO_11,_FASTEST_Android_chipset_phone_in India_set_to_launch_on_Jan_10_|_Mobile_News⠀⇛ # ⚓ Tom’s Guide ☛ Forget_Galaxy_S23_—_Google_Pixel_7a_could_be the_best_Android_phone_in_2023_|_Tom’s_Guide⠀⇛ # ⚓ Metro UK ☛ 5_essential_apps_to_download_to_your_new_Android phone_or_tablet_|_Metro_News⠀⇛ # ⚓ The_Best_Android_Games_Sales_and_Deals_–_Christmas_2022_– Droid_Gamers⠀⇛ # ⚓ Android Police ☛ The_Google_Pixel_7_Pro_is_Android_Police’s 2022_smartphone_of_the_year⠀⇛ * § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾ o ⚓ Glyn Moody ☛ open…:_Where_to_find_me_on_Mastodon⠀⇛ Since Elon Musk is trying to ban any mention of Mastodon on Twitter, I thought I’d just make it as easy as possible to find me on the former. I’m at https://mastodon.social/@glynmoody I look forward to meeting lots of you there, where we can discuss the continuing and inevitable decline of Twitter under Musk. o ⚓ Xe’s Blog ☛ More_counter.social_“private_account”_bypasses_–_Xe Iaso⠀⇛ counter.social is a social network built on the open source software Mastodon. For various reasons, counter.social is one of the few Mastodon servers that does not federate to the larger community, and as such has implemented unique account security features that allows it to differentiate itself from other Mastodon instances. It also has an embedded stream of CNN and other news sites. o § Programming/Development⠀➾ # ⚓ Ruby_3.2.0_Released⠀⇛ We are pleased to announce the release of Ruby 3.2.0. Ruby 3.2 adds many features and performance improvements. WASI based WebAssembly support This is an initial port of WASI based WebAssembly support. This enables a CRuby binary to be available on a Web browser, a Serverless Edge environment, or other kinds of WebAssembly/WASI embedders. Currently this port passes basic and bootstrap test suites not using the Thread API. # ⚓ OpenSource.com ☛ 5_Raspberry_Pi_tutorials_to_inspire_DIY creativity_|_Opensource.com⠀⇛ ‘Tis the season for holiday pies and tasty treats, so why not talk about every open source enthusiast’s favorite hardware delight: the Raspberry Pi. This year, Opensource.com contributors put in work on how to use the Pi for all sorts of cool projects and use cases. (Did you see the one about creating your own holiday light display with ping pong balls?) From business solutions to just-for-fun projects, these articles will show you a brand new way to use the Raspberry Pi in your life. # ⚓ Data Science Tutorials ☛ OLS_Regression_in_R_–_Data_Science Tutorials⠀⇛ OLS Regression in R, OLS Regression is a statistical method used for modeling in the R programming language. Additionally, the examination of linear relationships between a response variable is done using it. A straight line can be used to represent the relationship between the two variables if it is linear. # ⚓ Designing_Accessible_Research_with_R/Shiny_–_Data_For_Good, R_programming⠀⇛ R/Shiny is quite versatile from a developer’s perspective, and at Appsilon, we try our best to stretch those limits even further. That is what we did for the Future Forests application. Which, at first glance, doesn’t even appear to be an R/Shiny application. # ⚓ Data Science Tutorials ☛ Credit_Card_Fraud_Detection_in_R_– Data_Science_Tutorials⠀⇛ Credit Card Fraud Detection in R, We will learn how to perform credit card detection in this R project. We’ll go over a variety of methods, including Gradient Boosting Classifiers, Logistic Regression, Decision Trees, and Artificial Neural Networks. We will use the Card Transactions dataset, which includes both fraudulent and legitimate transactions, to carry out credit card fraud detection. # ⚓ Adafruit ☛ a_rp2040_eInk_specialty_driver_board⠀⇛ “this board is sorta like a trinkey (https:// www.adafruit.com/?q=trinkey&sort=BestMatch) – it’s a dedicated RP2040 board just for driving eInk displays with common 24-pin connectors. could be handy for folks who want to make USB-powered eInk displays without needing a feather + eInk wing (https://www.adafruit.com/product/4224) there’s a STEMMA QT port for expansion in case one wants to add GPIO or sensors. to be honest, i’m mostly designing this for myself to make it easier for me to quickly test and evaluate eInk panel samples in Arduino or CircuitPython!” # ⚓ Matt Rickard ☛ Software_Rewrites⠀⇛ The other day, Elon Musk and George Hotz mentioned that Twitter would probably need a full rewrite to get to the place where it could reliably and quickly ship new features. There was a lot of pushback from the infrastructure side – many developers who either maintain legacy software for a living or were the ones who originally wrote it. Two laws often cited – Chesteron’s Fence – Don’t take down a fence until you know why it was put up. Gall’s Law – you cannot design a complex system from scratch # ⚓ Jim Nielsen ☛ Notes_from_Ryan_Dahl_on_Shop_Talk_Show⠀⇛ Deno is trying to alleviate the problem of choice in today’s JavaScript. With features like a standard library, a native test runner, and built- in typescript support, Deno is trying to combat the problem of too much unnecessary choice that runs rampant in the world of Node. # ⚓ Bert Hubert ☛ Always_use_feenableexcept()_when_doing floating_point_math⠀⇛ A small post that documents something that almost no one appears to know. And if you do anything with floating point, you do need to know. # ⚓ SparkFun Electronics ☛ LoRa:_Field_Testing_Antennas_–_News –_SparkFun_Electronics⠀⇛ It turned out to be quite and adventure (a bear even made an appearance!) to reach the outer limits of testing the range of a LoRa signal. Any of the configurations mentioned in this blog would work with the following tutorial if you’d like to play along. # ⚓ SparkFun Electronics ☛ SparkFun_Vacation_–_News_–_SparkFun Electronics⠀⇛ This is a bit of a different week for us because we are in the middle of Hanukkah and the Christmas Holiday is this Sunday, so we are off spending time with our families and enjoying some us time. We don’t have any new products this Friday, but we’d like to remind you of our closures this weekend and next as well as take a look at some of our more recent new products that you may have missed! # ⚓ Earthly ☛ Monorepo_Build_Tools_–_Earthly_Blog⠀⇛ In the software development world, there is a growing trend of using monorepos to manage codebases. A monorepo is a single repository that contains the code of many interrelated but distinct projects. While monorepos have their benefits, they also come with their own set of challenges. And guess what? The challenges are primarily around tooling. In this article, I’ll compare some of the most popular monorepo build tools on the market and see how they stack up against each other. [...] Things get more complex when code repositories contain multiple partially-independent pieces of software. For example, if a repo has tens or hundreds of services, many services likely depend on each other. Still, changes to one do not necessarily mean all others need to be retested, rebuilt, or redeployed. This is why monorepos build tools, to do a good job, need to track project dependencies. # ⚓ R-Ladies_Cologne_–_Our_first_year_in_the_books!⠀⇛ Thank you all for a fantastic year at R-Ladies Cologne! We had a series of great events which gave us the chance to meet so many wonderful and kindhearted people across the globe. This is one thing that always makes me so thankful to be part of the community # ⚓ Export_in_Bananen_in_Tonnen_von_1994-2005_(Banana_exports in_tonnes_from_1994-2005)_–_Pachá⠀⇛ # ⚓ 2022-04_Constructive_Solid_Geometry_and_Function Representation_in_R_|_Stat_Tech⠀⇛ The HyperFun Project provides a language and interpreter for describing 3D scenes using Function Representation and Constructive Solid Geometry. This document describes the R package ‘hyperfun’, which provides an interface to the HyperFun language and interpreter. # ⚓ {drawCell}_–_R_package_and_Shiny_app_for_drawing_cell structures_–_R_programming⠀⇛ Are you a life sciences educator looking to engage students with interactivity or a student needing to draw and label cells? Are you a researcher looking to offload the tedium of data visualization? There’s an R solution for you: drawCell! This tool provides a convenient, engaging solution for educators and researchers alike. # ⚓ Barry Kauler ☛ gcc_problem_in_Kirkstone-series⠀⇛ First bootup of EasyOS Kirkstone-series, looking good. * § Leftovers⠀➾ o ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Blinky_Project_Is_6502s_All_The_Way_Down⠀⇛ Virtually any platform you might find yourself programming on has some simple method of running a delay. [Joey Shepard] got rather creative on a recent project, though, relying on a rather silly nesting method that we’re calling 6502s All The Way Down. o ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ The_Newborn_King⠀⇛ o ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Bridges,_Buses_and_Barbed_Wire⠀⇛ o § Science⠀➾ # ⚓ Berkeley Lab ☛ ESnet_Launches_Next-Generation_Network_to Enhance_Collaborative_Science_–_News_Center⠀⇛ Today, the Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) formally unveiled ESnet6, the newest generation of the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) high-performance network dedicated to science. The hybrid in person and virtual event was held at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and live- streamed on streaming.lbl.gov. “ESnet6 represents a transformational change in the way networks are built for research, with improved capacity, resiliency, and flexibility,” said ESnet Executive Director Inder Monga. “Together, these new capabilities make it faster, easier, and more efficient for scientists around the world to conduct and collaborate on ground-breaking research.” For more than 35 years, ESnet – headquartered at Berkeley Lab – has served as the “data circulatory system” for the DOE, connecting all of its national laboratories, tens of thousands of DOE-funded researchers, and DOE’s premier scientific instruments and supercomputing centers. This interconnected system enables data to move quickly between sites and collaborators, accelerating time to discovery. # ⚓ IEEE ☛ Amazing_Robotic_Sculpture_Balances_Itself_on_One Corner_–_IEEE_Spectrum⠀⇛ The Balancing Cube is a robotic sculpture that can stand on any of its corners. Pendulum-like modules, located on the inner faces of the cube, constantly adjust their positions to shift the structure’s center of gravity and keep it balanced. The cube remains stable even if you poke it. But not too hard! Created by Raffaello D’Andrea, Sebastian Trimpe, and Matt Donovan at ETH Zurich, the contraption is half art and half technology. They got their inspiration from a Cirque du Soleil performance in which acrobats use their bodies to support each other and balance together in seemingly impossible positions. # ⚓ HKU_Mechanical_Engineering_team_develops_new_microscale_3D printer_for_multi-level_anticounterfeiting_labels_–_All_News –_Media_–_HKU⠀⇛ Counterfeiting threatens the global economy and security. According to the report issued by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) in 2020, the value of global counterfeit and pirated products is estimated between US$ 1.7 and 4.5 trillion a year. Despite enormous efforts, conventional anticounterfeiting approaches such as QR codes can be easily fabricated due to limited data encryption capacity on a planar space. How can we increase the encryption density in a limited space? The team led by Dr Ji Tae Kim from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Hong Kong (HKU) has developed a high-precision 3D printing method that can produce new polarisation- encoded 3D anticounterfeiting labels. This new 3D label can encrypt more digital information than a traditional 2D label. The work has been published in Nano Letters in an article entitled “Three- Dimensional Printing of Dipeptides with Spatioselective Programming of Crystallinity for Multilevel Anticounterfeiting”. o § Education⠀➾ # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ School_Librarians_Are_in_the_Crosshairs_of Right-Wing_Book_Banners_and_Censors⠀⇛ o § Hardware⠀➾ # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ A_Hacker’s_Christmas_Story⠀⇛ Twas the night before Christmas, and because I decided to make everyone’s presents myself this year, I’m still working like mad to get everything done before the big deadline. Why do I do this to myself? Well, partly because I enjoy the process. # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Spotify_Player_Brings_Back_Physical_Media⠀⇛ Digital music has made keeping all your tunes with you a lot more convenient, but have we lost something with dematerialization? [Jordi Parra] felt that there was something lacking with the digital music experience and designed a Spotify player with a tactile interface. # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Drone_Rescue_Uses_VHS_Tape_And_Careful Planning⠀⇛ If you regularly fly your drones outdoors, you’ve probably worried about getting your pride and joy stuck in a big tree at some point. But flying indoors doesn’t guarantee you’ll be safe either, as [Scott Williamson] found out. He once got his tiny 65 mm Mobula 6HD quadcopter stuck in a roof beam at an indoor sports complex, and had to set about a daring rescue. # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ The_Spit-Detecting_USB_Flash_Drive_Is_Nearly Here⠀⇛ Regular readers may recall that security researcher and general open source hardware fanatic [Walker] has been planning a rather unusual flash drive for some time — one that will only show its contents if the user makes sure to lick their fingers before plugging it in. We’re pleased to report that theory has recently given way to real hardware, and the Ovrdrive “self-destructing” flash drive is now a step closer to reality. # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Non-Replaceable_Battery?_Not_If_This_Proposed_EU Law_Passes!⠀⇛ A disturbing trend in consumer electronics has been a steady disappearance of replaceable batteries on our devices. Finding a mobile phone with a swapable battery is a struggle, and many other devices follow the trend by sealing in a Li-Po cell. The result is an ever-shorter life for electronics, and a greater problem with devices going to recycling or worse still, landfill. Hope is at hand though, thanks to a proposed European Union law that would if passed make batteries in appliances “designed so that consumers can easily remove and replace them themselves“. # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ A_Dungeon_Master_With_A_Thermal_Printer⠀⇛ The thermal printer is ubiquitous in today’s world, mostly found whenever we have to get a receipt from somewhere. They’re cheap, fast, and easy to use. Not only that, though, but as [Daniel] found out, they’re also pretty straightforward to re-program and use for other things than a three-foot-long receipt from a drug store. He’s adapted them to serve as a key tool of the dungeon master in his D&D games. o § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾ # ⚓ Chicago Tribune ☛ Jetsons-style_robots_are_invading Chicago-area_hospitals,_amid_worker_shortage [Ed: Maybe the problem isn't shortage of workers but shortage of budget or salaries]⠀⇛ It’s not polite to stare. Especially in the hospital. But nearly everyone who passes Moxi the robot at Elmhurst Hospital can’t help but goggle at it, as it slowly rolls through hallways and corridors. The robot is roughly human-shaped, stands about 5 feet tall and, perhaps most strikingly, has big blue eyes, reminiscent of circles on a Lite Brite screen, that occasionally blink. “That’s technology these days,” said David Crisp, of Westchester, laughing, as he waited for an appointment with his mother at the hospital on a recent day. He sat there as the robot rolled up to the infusion center door, delivering medication to a nurse. “These are the times.” # ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Big_Pharma’s_Obscene_Profits,_Not_Striking Nurses,_Are_Killing_the_NHS⠀⇛ Monopoly pricing and corporate greed are destroying healthcare systems in the UK and globally. # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Lawsuits_Against_Plastic_Industry_Could_Exceed $20_Billion_in_Damages_by_2030⠀⇛ # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Marijuana_Law_Reached_Peak_Absurdity_in_2022⠀⇛ o § Proprietary⠀➾ # ⚓ Terence Eden ☛ Zeno’s_Paradox_and_Why_Modern_Technology_is Rubbish⠀⇛ How true is that! If you’ve worked on any project, you know how easy it is to get most of the way there. And how difficult it is to get all of the way there. o § Security⠀➾ # ⚓ TechCrunch ☛ LastPass_says_hackers_stole_customers’ password_vaults⠀⇛ In an updated blog post on its disclosure, LastPass CEO Karim Toubba said the intruders took a copy of a backup of customer vault data by using cloud storage keys stolen from a LastPass employee. The cache of customer password vaults is stored in a “proprietary binary format” that contains both unencrypted and encrypted vault data, but technical and security details of this proprietary format weren’t specified. The unencrypted data includes vault-stored web addresses. It’s not clear how recent the stolen backups are. LastPass said customers’ password vaults are encrypted and can only be unlocked with the customers’ master password, which is only known to the customer. But the company warned that the cybercriminals behind the intrusion “may attempt to use brute force to guess your master password and decrypt the copies of vault data they took.” # ⚓ John Gruber ☛ LastPass_Admits_Hackers_Stole_Customers’ Password_Vaults⠀⇛ In one sense this is a triumph for secure password managers. Even if we get hacked, the hackers can’t access your passwords. That’s true for LastPass. But they did get hacked, badly, so for LastPass this seems devastating. It’s a second-order disaster for an attacker to steal customer’s encrypted vaults, but it’s still a disaster. Anyone who uses LastPass who hasn’t spent today moving to something else [...] either hasn’t heard about this breach or is an idiot. # § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾ # ⚓ EFF ☛ EFF’s_Threat_Lab_Sharpens_Its_Knives:_2022_in Review⠀⇛ Here we highlight some of the achievements that made 2022 such an eventful year for Threat Lab. Our Atlas of Surveillance project surpassed a major milestone, documenting over 10,000 instances of police tech programs across the US. Shining a light on these programs was bittersweet, reminding us that this transparency also reveals just how expansive and widespread advanced technologies employed by police departments across the country have become. A collaborative effort between EFF and the University of Nevada Reno’s Reynolds School of Journalism crowdsourced thousands of distinct mini-research tasks to students to achieve this milestone. Cell-site simulators are one such technology employed by law enforcement. Sometimes called “Stingrays,” these devices use a small, mobile transceiver to masquerade as a cellphone tower, tricking phones into connecting to it instead of the legitimate tower, and allowing location tracking and even potentially interception of communications from everyone in a certain area—not just those suspected of a crime. Alongside Threat Lab’s efforts to reveal cell-site simulators (CSSs), dozens of FOIA requests were issued to California police departments in 2018 to reveal the extent of their usage of CSSs. As a result, EFF learned that San Bernardino County law enforcement officials were improperly sealing search warrant records involving the use of CSSs indefinitely. In October, we asked the Supreme Court of California to review the case, arguing that sealing these records in perpetuity violates the public’s right to access court records and effectively prevents the public from raising important questions regarding the scope and overreach of law enforcement use of invasive technologies. # ⚓ EFF ☛ Pivotal_Year_for_the_Metaverse_and_Extended Reality:_2022_in_Review⠀⇛ Visions for the metaverse include ways for people to work, socialize, and interact using virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) technologies (collectively called Extended Reality or XR). While Meta has attempted to claim the term metaverse for its own, this area has also become a research focus for Google, Apple, Microsoft, Sony, and Tiktok’s parent company ByteDance among others, all of whom have launched or announced plans to launch XR hardware or services in the near future. This next generation of devices will be more sophisticated than today’s gadgets, which means their data collection capabilities will likewise increase along with new and substantial risks to our human rights and fundamental freedoms.  There’s no single definitive understanding of what a “Metaverse” or “Metaverse(s)” might be. In its ambiguity, the term has become a placeholder for many things, often reflecting the interests of the person using it. Some, like Apple, have avoided the term entirely for their XR products. The major point of overlap in describing a “metaverse,” however, is the idea of additional virtual environments connected to the internet becoming important parts of our day-to-day lives in the real world. One prominent vision of this is the fictional OASIS from Ready Player One, a virtual society where people can play massively multiplayer online games (MMO) using VR gadgets. Another popular conception emphasizes spatial computing and AR devices, creating a shared “annotation” of virtual objects in the real world. Others, however, define the term metaverse as making the internet a reflection of the physical world to facilitate work, socializing, and commerce, perhaps supported by a metaverse “tax”. Visions of the metaverse often interact with another ambiguous term for the future iteration of the internet— Web3.  # ⚓ The Express Tribune ☛ FBI_‘doorman_to_social_media censorship,_surveillance’,_reveal_Twitter_Files⠀⇛ Mentioning that FBI did not refute the previous claims about how it benefited from the social media platform, which had basically asserted that the FBI moderates the Twitter, journalist Matt Taibbi said on Twitter that the bureau shared a statement on Wednesday, saying: “The men and women of the FBI work every day to protect the American public…” # ⚓ Essel Group ☛ Twitter_Files_9.0_reveals_a_web_of ‘social_media_surveillance,_censorship’_by_not_just FBI,_other_agencies_too⠀⇛ The latest and the ninth instalment of the ‘Twitter Files’ has uncovered a web of coordination between the tech giant and US government agencies. Releasing the latest instalment on Christmas eve, Substack writer Matt Taibbi claims that it goes beyond the FBI which was acting as the “doorman to a vast programme of social media surveillance and censorship, encompassing agencies across the federal government – from the State Department to the Pentagon to the CIA.” # ⚓ New_facial_recognition_technology_scans_your_ear⠀⇛ In the post-COVID world of face coverings and heightened hygiene awareness, the need for new authentication methods that don’t require a person’s full face to be visible has arisen. New research from the University of Georgia may soon have people using their ears to get into their devices rather than their face or thumbprint. o § Defence/Aggression⠀➾ # ⚓ Craig Murray ☛ Trains_(mostly),_Planes_and_Automobiles_Part 4⠀⇛ Having entirely unexpected cause to become acquainted with the subject, I learn that all main railway stations in Germany have their own police stations. At Bochum, you have to walk round the outside to find a door with a buzzer, which nobody answers. # ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Sen._Lindsey_Graham_Says_Ukraine_War_Will_Only End_If_Putin_Is_‘Taken_Out’⠀⇛ The hawkish senator says the US should give Ukraine Gray Eagle drones to ‘kill tons of Russians’ o § Transparency/Investigative Reporting⠀➾ # ⚓ The Telegraph UK ☛ Inside_Jihad_Rehab,_the_‘Islamophobic’ documentary_the_Left_doesn’t_want_you_to_see⠀⇛ “Cancel culture has gone crazy in the US, but my hope is that the Bafta judges and other British people will judge it with an open mind and see it for what it is,” she tells me. # ⚓ Computers Are Bad ☛ santa_tracking⠀⇛ As tends to be the case with such popular stories, the version we hear today is arms length from the truth. From contemporaneous reporting, it seems the facts go more like this: The phone number printed in the advertisement was correct, but one particularly child misdialed. Instead of getting Santa Claus, they got the desk phone of Col. Harry Shoup, at what was then called CONAD. Shoup was reportedly gruff and ended the call quickly, only later realizing (due to a joke made by another NORAD employee, placing an image of Santa on a map board) that they could turn the incident into a publicity coup. That they did, and over decades the story has become more and more embellished to the favor of NORAD. o § Environment⠀➾ # § Energy⠀➾ # ⚓ Financial Times ☛ Fusion_energy_breakthrough_by_US scientists_boosts_clean_power_hopes⠀⇛ # ⚓ Times Higher Education ☛ Utrecht_short-haul_flight ban_‘will_cut_emissions_by_15_per_cent’⠀⇛ Staff at Utrecht University will only be allowed to take short-haul flights in very exceptional circumstances from 2023, and are being encouraged to use their grant funding to cover the difference if trains cost more. # § Wildlife/Nature⠀➾ # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Stopping_the_Sixth_Extinction⠀⇛ o § Finance⠀➾ # ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ The_Perils_of_Pious_Neoliberalism_in_the Austerity_State⠀⇛ The International Labour Organisation’s Global Wage Report 2022–23 tracks the horrendous collapse of real wages for billions of people around the planet. The gaping distance between the incomes and wealth of 99% of the world’s population from the incomes and wealth of the billionaires and near- trillionaires who make […] # ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Top_10_Inequality_Victories_of_2022⠀⇛ Champions of a more egalitarian society made important strides, building the power of workers while reducing the power of wealthy tax dodgers and greedy pharma execs. o § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾ # ⚓ Pete Warden ☛ Short_Links_–_Pete_Warden’s_blog⠀⇛ Years ago I used to write regular “Five Short Links” posts but I gave up as my Twitter account became a better place to share updates, notes, and things I found interesting from around the internet. Now that Twitter is Nazi-positive I’m giving up on it as a platform, so I’m going to try going back to occasional summary posts here instead. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ What_Democrats_Can_Learn_From_the_2022 Midterms_to_Beat_the_GOP_in_2024⠀⇛ # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ AOC_Casts_House_Democrats’_Sole_Vote_Against Omnibus_Spending_Bill⠀⇛ # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Right-wing_Attempts_to_Eliminate Constitutional_Protections_are_No_Joke⠀⇛ But is his latest childish tantrum really something to be laughed off? Having skipped the “tragedy” phase and gone straight to “farce,” Trump is facing what is likely to become a politically terminal case of irrelevancy as new contenders for Mussolini’s crown, most notably but not only Ron DeSantis, emerge. The nascent fascist movement that has coalesced around Trump, and the varieties of extreme right menace that shade into it that are now expressed through the Republican Party, are no laughing matter. And while embarrassed silence or a quick change of subject might be Republicans’ default position when asked to comment on Trump’s increasing irrationality due to their fear of the Frankenstein monster they have let loose, eviscerating the Constitution is actually on their agenda. To read this article, log in here or subscribe here. If you are logged in but can’t read CP+ articles, check the status of your access hereIn order to read CP+ articles, your web browser must be set to accept cookies. # § Misinformation/Disinformation/Propaganda⠀➾ # ⚓ NBC ☛ Idaho_professor_sues_TikToker_over_allegations in_the_killing_of_4_university_students⠀⇛ The Moscow Police Department had previously called out what it described as misinformation “stoking community fears and spreading false facts” in the case. The department includes a “rumor control” section on its website under frequently asked questions about the case. # ⚓ Sabine Hossenfelder ☛ Fake_News,_Echo_Chambers_& Polarization:_How_Bad_Is_Social_Media?⠀⇛ o § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾ # ⚓ NPR ☛ The_Taliban_have_banned_women_from_working_for_NGOs in_Afghanistan⠀⇛ The bans are the latest restrictive moves by Afghanistan’s new rulers against women’s rights and freedoms, coming just days after the Taliban banned female students from attending universities across the country. Afghan women have since demonstrated in major cities against the ban — a rare sign of domestic protest since the Taliban seized power last year. The decision has also caused international outrage. # ⚓ BBC ☛ Afghanistan:_Taliban_bans_women_from_working_for NGOs⠀⇛ Saturday’s order came in a letter from the Ministry of Economy to both national and international NGOs. It threatened to cancel the licence of any organisation that did not swiftly comply. By way of explanation, it said women were breaking Sharia law by failing to wear the hijab. # ⚓ ABC ☛ US_slams_Taliban_for_women’s_NGO_jobs_ban_in Afghanistan⠀⇛ “Women are central to humanitarian operations around the world,” U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Saturday. “This decision could be devastating for the Afghan people.” # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ How_Iranian_Women_and_Girls_Use_Powerful Images_to_Protest_Oppression⠀⇛ # ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ UN_Experts:_US_Sanctions_Violate_Iranians’ Human_Rights⠀⇛ Top United Nations experts wrote a letter to the United States government, emphasizing that its illegal unilateral sanctions on Iran violate the human rights of the Iranian people, calling for them to “be eased or lifted completely.” # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Cal_Grad_Student_Worker_Strike_Ends_With Deal_Panned_by_Many_Rank-and-File_Union_Members⠀⇛ # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ San_Francisco_Macy’s_Workers_Strike_over ‘Totally_Unacceptable’_Contract⠀⇛ # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ 2023_Military_Budget_Far_Exceeds_NLRB Funding_for_Workers⠀⇛ # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Silence_From_Media_as_Twitter_Suspends Palestinian_Journalist⠀⇛ # ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Twitter_Suspends_Palestinian_Journalist Arikat,_and_Media_Response—Silence⠀⇛ In yet another demonstration of anti-Palestinianism in the U.S. mainstream, there is no outcry over Twitter’s arbitrary suspension of Said Arikat, longtime D.C. correspondent for Al-Quds newspaper. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Online_Hate_Is_Bigger_Than_Elon_Musk⠀⇛ # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Nearly_200_Rohingya_Refugees_Adrift_at_Sea Desperately_Seek_Rescue⠀⇛ # ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ The_Chris_Hedges_Report:_“The_Catholic_Church Expelled_Me_for_Supporting_Women_Joining_the_Priesthood”⠀⇛ Father Roy Bourgeois discusses his life of religion and activism. # ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ The_Holidays_are_the_Most_Painful_Time_of_the Year_to_be_Behind_Bars⠀⇛ Every holiday season, prisoners suffer spikes in suicides, violence, and depression. Eddie Conway, who spent 44 years locked up, explains what people on the outside can do to help. # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Let’s_Challenge_Abortion_Stigma_This_Holiday⠀⇛ o § Monopolies⠀➾ # ⚓ India Times ☛ Google_to_appeal_India_antitrust_ruling_on Android⠀⇛ About 97% of 600 million devices in India run on Android, according to Counterpoint Research estimates. # § Copyrights⠀➾ # ⚓ Torrent Freak ☛ EU:_Complex_Pirate_IPTV_Networks Underpin_a_Parallel_Black_Market⠀⇛ For rightsholders seeking to disrupt the pirate IPTV market, the European Commission’s Piracy Watch List is an opportunity to name specific services and focus attention. This year’s report does just that while also highlighting fundamental challenges. Pirate IPTV networks are international, technically complex, and inherently difficult to monitor. 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