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Doesn’t Understand the Company’s Value Proposition (Building Systems) and Rejects Security | Techrights ⦿ New Record Low: Only One ’Linux’ Article in ZDNet in More Than Two Weeks | Techrights ䷼ Bulletin articles (as HTML) to comment on (requires login): http://techrights.org/2023/01/25/irc-log-240123/#comments http://techrights.org/2023/01/25/iso-certification-mill/#comments http://techrights.org/2023/01/25/the-iso-delusion/#comments http://techrights.org/2023/01/25/zdnet-went-dry/#comments ䷞ Followed by Daily Links (assorted news picks curated and categorised): http://techrights.org/2023/01/25/gnu-guile-3-0-9-released/#comments http://techrights.org/2023/01/25/pale-moon-32-0/#comments http://techrights.org/2023/01/25/stratis-3-5-0/#comments ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 58 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at http://techrights.org/2023/01/25/irc-log-240123/#comments Gemini version at 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Attribution-No Derivative Works 4.0 http://techrights.org/videos/iso-and-data-protection.webm Summary: The real-world threats faced by private companies or non-profit organisations aren’t covered by the ISO certification mill; today we publish the last post on this topic before proceeding to some practical examples WORKING for a company that publicly and openly boasts 2 ISO certifications means that expectations (or perception) can be compared to reality. At Sirius ‘Open_Source’, where I had worked since 2011, I saw all sorts of poor security practices, even in more recent years when ISO certifications were bragged about to existing/potential clients. “Free software is a pragmatic choice, but when managers use proprietary software they go not ‘get’ that.”There is no point trying to deflect the attention to accuser. At the moment the company is too broke for workers to sue (and eventually truly win in a monetary sense); it’s also too broke for its clients to sue. Winning in court against an insolvent company would be a Pyrrhic victory. What matters here is the truth. It can hopefully caution others. We still have quite a bit left to cover. We’re going to cite practical examples of stuff being done to the detriment of privacy and security of staff, not to mention clients. Free software is a pragmatic choice, but when managers use proprietary software they go not ‘get’ that. █ ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 240 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at http://techrights.org/2023/01/25/the-iso-delusion/#comments Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2023/01/25/the-iso-delusion/ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 01.25.23⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ The_ISO_Delusion:_When_the_Employer_Doesn’t_Understand_the_Company’s_Value Proposition_(Building_Systems)_and_Rejects_Security⠀✐ Posted in Deception, Free/Libre_Software, ISO, Servers at 9:39 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz Probably the final week of this series 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇Sirius Open Source waterside⦈ Summary: Sirius_‘Open_Source’ has failed to sell what it was actually good at; instead it hired unqualified people and outsourced almost everything THIS is the part of this_series where we focus on examples of Sirius failing on technical merits and compliance/conformance. Eventually we decided to show redacted E-mails on ISO along with my copied messages to management regarding bollocking and how it all started, me asking for an apology etc. Being accredited or recognised isn’t the same as being capable and potent. As I mentioned in the very first post in this series, when I joined the company it was different beyond recognition. The company had its own hosting (in its own premises). In 2022 we were suffering habitual outages as we don’t control our systems anymore (Slack, AWS downtimes were common; in prior years clients that relied on Clownflare also suffered outages due to Clownflare rather than their own hosting). To make matters worse, there were security breaches and the company ignored them. I kept bringing that to management’s attention, only to be ignored or rebuffed. Remember this_hoax_of_Citation/Atlas was covered in Techrights years ago. Sirius does not teach its staff real security and does not hire people who understand or value security. “Sirius does not teach its staff real security and does not hire people who understand or value security.”The company had a bizarre trajectory of moving from self-hosted (e.g. Asterisk), then outsourced (but still Free software, ‘managed’ Asterisk), then outsourced proprietary spyware like Google Voice. If “Open Source has won” and if Free software is becoming more widely used, then why is Sirius going in the exact opposite direction of what it was advocating? This is a management decision. It’s not the fault of technical staff — the staff which all along opposed this. Notice the practice of password outsourcing. Here’s a direct quote sent in a request to me personally: “Put the WordPress credentials (admin user, etc) in a lastpass note and share it with xxxxx (securely, within lastpass) and we’ll be setting up a very temporary and basic portal to share info across the team, to help keep everyone better updated given how Absolutely Mentally Busy it is right now. It’s entirely for internal use when on the VPN.” “It’s not the fault of technical staff — the staff which all along opposed this.”It’s another example of mishandling access credentials inside third parties (Slack, LastPass etc.), oftentimes not just rejecting “Open Source” but actively ripping apart Open Source things that work, replacing them with technically inferior and likely illegal (in some cases, due to data protection) proprietary stuff. The management did even worse than this; it failed to do very basic things, such as sending payslips and sometimes paying the pension provider. Instead they made colourful excuses, so I decided to take_photographs_of_letters_from the_pension_provider, recalling those blunders and deciding that it’s worth discussing belatedly (and maybe add E-mails also; there were loads of E-mails about payslips, not just pensions, spanning different years from 2018 until the present day; there were phonecalls too, but those aren’t recorded). The management was also bad at communication and correspondence. See the example below (2019): Subject: Re: I need these tickets dealt with by support Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2019 11:15:56 +0100 From: Rianne Schestowitz xxxxxxx To: xxxxxxx CC: xxxxxxx Hi xxxxxxx, I responded to this email last weekend. Please check your inbox. If you haven’t received it, I can send it again. Many thanks, Rianne – Rianne Schestowitz, NOC Extension 2834423 Sirius – stress free technology http://www.siriusopensource.com t: xxxxxxx > Hi, > > I need these tickets dealt with by support. > > 1. Ticket#108642: Roy or xxxxxxx need to answer about security. > 2. Ticket#108813: Replied with more questions. Can’t reproduce the > error so far. Back with Support, awaiting feedback. > 3. (Multiple) Tickets relating to masking – Code fix done, Release done > and in live. Check with each client once data reimported. Support > team can do this. xxxxxxx have already confirmed it works. > > 1. Ticket#108833: Already fixed, just needs a fresh xxxxxxx import. > 2. Ticket#108769: The masking fix is done, we just need to schedule a > reload. > > > > xxxxxxx xxxxxxx > Sirius – stress free technology > http://www.siriusopensource.com > Tel: xxxxxxx This was the year bullying against staff started, not too long after Gates Foundation money had landed under an NDA and something called Sirius_Open Source_Inc. was quietly formed in the state of Washington (where Microsoft and Gates are). “Inaction and retaliation led to what became of it, spilling the beans out in public.”We spent nearly a month explaining what I had already written internally before resigning; we remembered to publish the entire PDF at the end (crossposted in my personal site too) as it is important to emphasise that I raised most of these concerns for years inside the company. Inaction and retaliation led to what became of it, spilling the beans out in public. 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Last time we had an overview of the syslog-ng configuration and had our first steps working with syslog-ng. Today we learn about syslog-ng source definitions and how to check the syslog-ng version and its enabled features. # ⚓ Jupiter Broadcasting ☛ 502:_Too_Big_to_Care_|_Coder_Radio 502⠀⇛ How the world without “big tech” might look like, the EU promises to go after Elon and a much-needed head adjustment. # ⚓ Tux Digital ☛ 48:_Rainbow_Vomit_Going_Open_Source:_–_Linux Out_Loud_–_TuxDigital⠀⇛ This week, Linux Out Loud chats about Cooler Master adding to open source. Welcome to episode 48 of Linux Out Loud. We fired up our mics, connected those headphones as we searched the community for themes to expound upon. We kept the banter friendly, the conversation somewhat on topic, and had fun doing it. # ⚓ Video ☛ Are_Chrome_OS_–_Android_Linux_Distributions?_– Invidious⠀⇛ Android and ChromeOS are very clearly there own separate things but is it also fair to call them Linux distributions as well, today we explore that topic in excessive detail # ⚓ Linux in the Ham Shack ☛ LHS_Episode_#494:_Linux_Gaming Deep_Dive⠀⇛ Hello and welcome to Episode #494 of Linux in the Ham Shack. This is the first episode for 2023. To ease into the new year, the hosts have chosen a topic based purely in fun: playing games on Linux. Several options are explored and we take a quick look at the new LHS Minecraft server as well. Thanks for listening and have a great week. # ⚓ Video ☛ EXGENT_(GENTOO_LINUX)_64BIT_LIVE_SYSTEM_WITH_LXDE, SYSTEMD_AND_KERNEL_6.1.7_::_BUILD_230121⠀⇛ In This Video We Are Looking At exGENT 230121 # ⚓ Video ☛ Netrunner_23_“Vaporwave”_overview_|_welcome_to Netrunner._–_Invidious⠀⇛ In this video, I am going to show an overview of Netrunner 23 and some of the applications pre- installed. o § Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ It’s FOSS ☛ Flatpak_vs._Snap:_10_Differences_You_Should Know⠀⇛ Flatpak and Snap packages are more popular than ever among Linux users who no longer prefer native binary packages or AppImages. Primarily because of its ease of use, integration with the software center, and the ability to get the latest app updates hassle-free. # ⚓ Neowin ☛ QOwnNotes_23.1.2⠀⇛ QOwnNotes is a open source (GPL) plain-text file notepad with markdown support and todo list manager for GNU/Linux, Mac OS X and Windows, that (optionally) works together with the notes application of ownCloud (or Nextcloud). So you are able to write down your thoughts with QOwnNotes and edit or search for them later from your mobile device (like with CloudNotes) or the ownCloud web- service. The notes are stored as plain text files and you can sync them with your ownCloud sync client. Of course other software, like Dropbox, Syncthing, Seafile or BitTorrent Sync can be used too. # ⚓ Ubuntu Handbook ☛ Dippi_–_Tells_if_the_Laptop/External Monitor_Best_Choice_(HiDPI_or_LoDPI)_|_UbuntuHandbook⠀⇛ Going to buy a new monitor or laptop, or want to calculate whether it’s a HiDPI display? Here’s a handy app can help! I previously thought that 4K and 8K displays are HiDPI, but 720p that I’m being using is LoDPI. It’s 100% wrong! HiDPI, stands for High Dots Per Inch, also known by Apple’s “Retina Display”. Meaning screens with a high resolution in a relatively small format. A HiDPI monitor may be good for displaying photo images or playing FPS games, but not all software behaves well in high-resolution mode yet. If you’re going to buy a monitor or calculate existing display DPI, then here’s a good app for choice. It’s ‘Dippi’, a free and open-source GTK4 application developed by a GNOME Foundation member. o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾ # ⚓ ZDNet ☛ How_to_easily_and_quickly_clean_your_system_and free_disk_space_with_BleachBit_|_ZDNET⠀⇛ Your computer is filled with various types of files that you don’t need or want hanging around. Given the way we work these days, much of that comes by way of the web browser cache, downloaded files, and temporary files. If you don’t take care and remove those files, the applications that use or save them can become slow to respond or even not run at all. # ⚓ Unix Men ☛ How_To_Use_ldd_Command_in_Linux_with_Examples_| Unixmen⠀⇛ If you’re using a Linux machine, you will be dealing with executable files constantly – be it on the GUI or on your terminal. Executables are comprised of shared libraries, and these are used and reused across programs. Windows users might recognize that the DDL files on their machine are shared libraries. However, these files are stored on Linux with the .o and .so extensions. In this brief guide, we discuss how you can use the ldd utility on the Linux command line to view an executable’s shared objects and dependencies. But first, let’s understand what a shared object file is. # ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ How_to_Schedule_One-Time_Jobs_on_Linux_Using at⠀⇛ Time management is a difficult art to master. Fortunately, with the help of technology, you can automate and delegate mundane tasks to your computer. Unlike humans, PCs are very good at running repetitive tasks at a precise set time. On Linux, you can run repetitive tasks using tools such as cron. In addition, you can also schedule and run one-time tasks using the at command. # ⚓ OMG Ubuntu ☛ How_to_Install_the_Latest_Version_of_Wine_on Ubuntu_–_OMG!_Ubuntu!⠀⇛ The new Wine 8.0 release boasts better-than-ever support for running Windows apps on Linux distributions such as Ubuntu. You can install Wine on Ubuntu from the Ubuntu Software app (or using apt at the command line), but the version of Wine available in Ubuntu is (almost always) an older version than that currently available. If you want to install the latest stable version of Wine on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS or 22.10 follow the steps below, which I’ve adapted from the instructions available on the WineHQ wiki. # ⚓ Linuxiac ☛ How_to_Install_VMware_Workstation_Player_on Ubuntu_22.04⠀⇛ This guide walks you step-by-step through installing VMware Workstation Player virtualization software on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. Installing VMware Workstation Player on Ubuntu 22.04 is a simple process that allows you to run virtual machines on your system. It is a free, lightweight version of VMware Workstation Pro, a popular Windows and Linux virtualization software. With VMware Workstation Player, you can create and run multiple virtual machines on a single physical machine, each with its operating system. This makes it a valuable tool for developers, system administrators, and anyone who needs to run different operating systems for testing or development purposes. This guide will walk you through installing VMware Workstation Player on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, so let’s get started. # ⚓ Video ☛ How_to_use_MASTODON:_the_COMPLETE_GUIDE_(join,_use, find_people_to_follow,_etiquette…)_–_Invidious⠀⇛ # ⚓ AddictiveTips ☛ How_to_schedule_restarts_and_shutdowns_on Linux⠀⇛ Ever wanted to schedule when your Linux PC turns off? With the Time Switch app, you can. It allows you to schedule when your Linux system powers off when it reboots or even suspends. Here’s how to get it working on your system. # ⚓ ZDNet ☛ How_to_add_fields_to_a_LibreOffice_document_| ZDNET⠀⇛ How many times have you created a document and had to add specific items, such as the current date, the number of pages, the author of the document, the time, a chapter, a file name, document statistics, a company name, or more? # ⚓ Unix Men ☛ How_To_Install_the_Apache_Guacamole_Remote Desktop_Gateway_|_Unixmen⠀⇛ There is no shortage of applications that enable administrators to connect to their servers. But using different applications for different purposes can get hectic, to say the least. Thankfully, there’s a smarter way to do things – and it’s existed since 2013. Enter: Apache Guacamole. It is a clientless remote desktop gateway that supports the RDP, VNC, and SSH protocols. The best thing about it is that you only need a web browser to work with it once it’s set up. No extensions or tools are needed to use this open-source tool! Here’s a quick guide to setting up Apache Guacamole. # ⚓ Downgrading_from_MySQL_8.0_on_Windows,_Mac,_and_Linux⠀⇛ MySQL is a popular open-source relational database management system that is widely used for web-based applications and data management. MySQL 8.0 is the latest version of the software, but sometimes you may need to downgrade to an earlier version for compatibility reasons or to fix issues that may have arisen after upgrading. Downgrading MySQL can be a bit tricky, but it’s not impossible. In this article, we will take a look at the steps you need to take to downgrade from MySQL 8.0 on Windows, Mac, and Linux. # ⚓ Upgrading_to_MySQL_8.0_on_Windows,_Mac,_and_Linux⠀⇛ MySQL is a popular open-source relational database management system that is widely used for web-based applications and data management. MySQL 8.0 is the latest version of the software, but sometimes you may need to downgrade to an earlier version for compatibility reasons or to fix issues that may have arisen after # ⚓ Managing_the_MySQL_Server_with_systemd⠀⇛ MySQL is one of the most popular relational database management systems in the world, and version 8.0 brings a host of new features and improvements. In this article, we’ll take a look at how to upgrade to MySQL 8.0 on Windows, Mac, and Linux. o § Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾ # § K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt⠀➾ # ⚓ Linux Magazine ☛ KDE_Plasma_5.27_Beta_is_Ready_for Testing_–_Linux_Magazine⠀⇛ The latest beta iteration of the KDE Plasma desktop is now available and includes some important additions and fixes. KDE Plasma 5.27 beta was recently announced, which is aimed at testers, developers, and bug-hunters. And one of the more exciting additions is the new Bigscreen version, which makes the KDE Desktop available for use on televisions. There also is a new addition to the Display Configuration widget, which now appears active in System Tray by default, when you have more than one monitor connected. The Big Multi-Monitor refactor makes working with multiple screens more reliable and gives you fine-grained controls when you have three or more monitors. The KWin Tiling System is also ready for testing. Using the Meta-T keyboard combination, you can launch the quick tiling features to give you complete control of where your windows are placed. # § GNOME Desktop/GTK⠀➾ # ⚓ 9to5Linux ☛ GUADEC_2023_Conference_Takes_Place_July 26-31_in_Riga,_Latvia,_for_GNOME_44⠀⇛ Just like last year’s GUADEC 2022 conference, the GUADEC 2023 event will offer a hybrid model where attendees can join in person or online. If you’re joining in person, you should know that the conference will take place in Latvia’s capital, Riga, for the first time in Europe since 2019. GUADEC is the place where GNOME users and developers from all over the world gather together to share knowledge and discuss the new features and changes of the next major release of the GNOME desktop environment, in this case for the GNOME 44 series, which launches in late March 2023. * § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾ o ⚓ H2S Media ☛ Windows_10_vs_Linux_Mint:_A_Comprehensive Comparison⠀⇛ For users who don’t want to switch to Windows 11 from Windows 10 and want to adopt Linux Mint; here is a quick comparison between the two operating systems. I hope this helps in making the decision. o ⚓ H2S Media ☛ 5_Best_free_to_use_Linux_Server_distributions_for 2023_–_Linux_Shout⠀⇛ Linux is an open-source software platform developed initially for home computers but later become a dominant Server operating system. Linux Server OS are popular because of their small size and ability to quickly convert to perform some specific operations such as Web server, File server, monitoring tool, etc. That’s why you will see almost all computing cloud platforms prefer Linux servers to distribute their computing services. Apart from powring thousands of racks at hosting companies, in server farms, and at cloud providers, you can also see Linux command line servers nested in container instances or virtual machines, in short Linux keeps the Internet alive. As a server, Linux today supports more architectures and processors than any other kernel – from very large to very small. o § New Releases⠀➾ # ⚓ NuTyX_23.01.1_available_with_cards_2.6.3⠀⇛ This new release is the landmark of the 15 year anniversary of NuTyX. Spiky and me are happy to announce the new version of NuTyX 23.01.1 and cards 2.6.3 . New toolchain gcc 12.2.0, glibc 2.36 and binutils 2.40 . SysV in 3.06 and systemd in 252.4 . The xorg-server graphics server version 21.1.6, the Mesa 3D library in 22.3.3, Gtk4 4.8.3 and Qt 6.4.2 . The python interpreter is updated to version 3.11.1. The XFCE desktop environment is updated to version 4.18.1. The MATE desktop environment is a 1.26.0 version . The GNOME desktop environment is also updated to version 43.2 The KDE desktop environment is available in Plasma 5.26.5, Framework 5.102.0 and applications in 23.01.1. Available browsers are: Firefox 109.0.1, Chromium 109.0.5414.74, Epiphany 43.0, etc Many desktop applications have been updated as well like Telegram-desktop 4.5.3, Thunderbird 102.6.1, Scribus 1.5.8, Libreoffice 7.4.4.2, Gimp 2.10.32, etc. o § SUSE/OpenSUSE⠀➾ # ⚓ LWN ☛ openSUSE_Leap_15.3_has_reached_end_of_life⠀⇛ With the release of the last update (tor) on January 16th, 2023 the SUSE sponsored maintenance of openSUSE Leap 15.3 has ended. openSUSE Leap 15.3 is now officially discontinued and out of support by SUSE. The currently maintained stable release is openSUSE Leap 15.4, which will be maintained until around end of 2023 (same lifetime as SLES 15 SP4 regular support). o § Red Hat and Fedora⠀➾ # ⚓ Red Hat Official ☛ How_to_use_Red_Hat_Insights_malware detection_service⠀⇛ Did you know that Red Hat Insights for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) can be used to help detect the presence of malware? This makes it more likely that you’ll know when a RHEL system has sustained a malware attack. The effectiveness of Insights for this purpose is enhanced by threat intelligence subscriptions from IBM X-Force, in collaboration with Red Hat. The Insights malware-detection service is a monitoring and assessment tool that scans RHEL systems for the presence of known malware. The system incorporates YARA pattern-matching software and detection signatures. # ⚓ Red Hat Official ☛ Simplified_multi-cloud_open_RAN orchestration_and_management⠀⇛ # ⚓ Red Hat Official ☛ Deploying_Red_Hat_OpenShift_Service_on AWS⠀⇛ Many companies choose Red Hat OpenShift as the common platform to develop and run all their applications. By doing so, they avoid a heterogeneous environment that can create a lot of complexity. Not only do they build and run new cloud-native applications on Red Hat OpenShift, but they can also migrate their legacy ones to it. One of the main advantages of using OpenShift is that developers only need to learn one interface while the underlying details of the platform are abstracted away. This can result in significant productivity increases. # ⚓ Cockpit_284⠀⇛ Cockpit is the modern Linux admin interface. We release regularly. # ⚓ Packit_Team:_Automatic_pulling_of_upstream_releases_to Fedora⠀⇛ In the previous year, we automated the Fedora downstream release process in Packit. The first step of the release process, propagating the upstream release to Fedora, is covered by the propose_downstream job. This job updates the sources in Fedora, the spec file, and other needed files and creates pull requests with the changes in the dist-git repository. o § Canonical/Ubuntu Family⠀➾ # ⚓ OMG Ubuntu ☛ Ubuntu_23.04_Makes_Telegram_a_Deb-to-Snap Transitional_Package_–_OMG!_Ubuntu!⠀⇛ If you run sudo apt install telegram-desktop in Ubuntu 23.04 it will install a Telegram Snap instead of the Debian package you might expect. Ubuntu developers are currently debating whether to back-port the transitional package to earlier, stable versions of Ubuntu, such as the latest long- term support release. But why are they doing this? o § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾ # ⚓ Hackster ☛ Arduglasses_–_Hackster.io⠀⇛ The glasses are made out of printed circuit boards from OSH Park. The electronics driving the two displays are entirely on the right side stem of the glasses along with a small 100mAh rechargeable battery that will run the glasses for a little more than an hour. The left side stem is the same PCB, just unpopulated. Flex Cable wrapped around PCB # ⚓ Adafruit ☛ BlueSCSI_v2_Pico_announced_for_retrocomputing storage⠀⇛ BlueSCSI is an open source, open hardware, and open design SCSI solution for vintage computers. The original version 1.x devices use a “Blue Pill” microcontroller board based on ST chips. Due to the chip shortages, clone ST chips have often been used. # ⚓ Adafruit ☛ A_tiny_“AT”_(modem/communications)_command parser⠀⇛ The AT/Hayes communications command set has been in use since the Hayes 300 modem in 1981. It’s a set of commands sent to a controller, setting parameters for communications. Being ubiquitous, it helps not to have to learn yet another set of commands for a new piece of hardware. # ⚓ Adafruit ☛ Harlow_College_students_build_CubeSats_using Raspberry_Pi_Pico⠀⇛ The CubeSat platform is based around the Raspberry Pi Pico, consisting of three parts to the design: an acquisition board loaded with a camera and various sensors and storage; a master controller board with a radio link; and a ground station containing a radio link and decoder software. All three boards use the Raspberry Pi Pico, and the software is written with a mix of MicroPython and CircuitPython across the three boards. # ⚓ Adafruit ☛ A_secure_LoRa_Mesh_communications_network⠀⇛ Thomas has built a secure communications network leveraging the plug-and-play qualities of the Raspberry Pi 4 and the Adafruit LoRa Radio Bonnet. It is the software side of this system that really turns these parts into something useful. o § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ Beta News ☛ TCL_ION_X_Android_smartphone_comes_to_Metro_by T-Mobile_tomorrow⠀⇛ # ⚓ Phone Arena ☛ The_U.S._carrier-locked_Galaxy_Z_Fold_2 starts_to_receive_its_final_major_Android_update_– PhoneArena⠀⇛ # ⚓ TechRadar ☛ Android_14_could_stop_you_from_installing_older apps_–_and_that’s_a_good_thing_|_TechRadar⠀⇛ # ⚓ The Sun ☛ Warning_for_all_Android_owners_–_simple_trick can_save_you_from_major_danger_|_The_US_Sun⠀⇛ # ⚓ The Sun ☛ People_are_only_just_realizing_there’s_an_Android setting_that_gives_you_access_to_multiple_screens_|_The_US Sun⠀⇛ # ⚓ Android Authority ☛ Wallpaper_Wednesday:_Android_wallpapers 2023-01-25_–_Android_Authority⠀⇛ # ⚓ TechCrunch ☛ Google_to_make_changes_to_Android_business terms_in_India_after_antitrust_order_•_TechCrunch⠀⇛ # ⚓ Android Police ☛ Google’s_making_major_changes_to_the_way Android_works_in_India⠀⇛ # ⚓ The Verge ☛ Google’s_changing_Android_billing,_search, and_licensing_in_India_–_The_Verge⠀⇛ # ⚓ 9to5Google ☛ How_to_enable_developer_mode_in_Android_Auto, why_you_should⠀⇛ # ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ How_to_Merge_Duplicate_Contacts_on_Android⠀⇛ # ⚓ 9to5Google ☛ How_Android_is_changing_in_India_following antitrust_ruling⠀⇛ # ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ How_to_Use_an_Android_Device_to_Monitor_Your Network_and_Devices_in_Real_Time⠀⇛ # ⚓ Pocket Lint ☛ Android_phone_won’t_charge?_Try_these_handy tricks⠀⇛ * § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾ o § Web Browsers/Web Servers⠀➾ # § Chromium⠀➾ # ⚓ Google ☛ Chrome_Releases:_Beta_Channel_Update_for Desktop⠀⇛ The Chrome team is excited to announce the promotion of Chrome 110 to the Beta channel for Windows, Mac and Linux. Chrome 110.0.5481.52 contains our usual under-the- hood performance and stability tweaks, but there are also some cool new features to explore – please head to the Chromium blog to learn more! # ⚓ Google ☛ Chrome_Releases:_Chrome_Beta_for_Android Update⠀⇛ Hi everyone! We’ve just released Chrome Beta 110 (110.0.5481.50) for Android. It’s now available on Google Play. o § FSF⠀➾ # ⚓ LWN ☛ A_pair_of_Free_Software_Foundation_governance_changes [LWN.net]⠀⇛ The Free Software Foundation has announced a bylaw change requiring a 66% vote by the FSF board for any new or revised copyright licenses. The FSF has also announced an expansion of its board of directors and a call for nominations from among its associate members. o § GNU Projects⠀➾ # ⚓ GNU ☛ GNU_Guile_3.0.9_released⠀⇛ We are pleased to announce the release of GNU Guile 3.0.9! o § Programming/Development⠀➾ # ⚓ Jussi Pakkanen ☛ Nibble_Stew:_Typesetting_an_entire_book part_V:_Getting_it_published⠀⇛ Writing a book is not that difficult. Sure, it is laborious, but if you merely keep typing away day after day, eventually you end up with a manuscript. Writing a book that is “good” or one that other people would want to read is a lot harder. Still, even that is easy compared to trying to get a book published. According to various unreferenced sources on the Internet, out of all manuscripts submitted only 1 in 1000 to 1 in 10 000 gets accepted for publication. Probabilitywise this is roughly as unlikely casting five dice and getting six with all of them. Having written a manuscript I went about tying to get it published. The common approach in most countries is that first you have to pitch your manuscript to a literary agent, and if you succeed, they will then try to pitch it to publishers. In Finland the the procedure is simpler, anyone can submit their manuscripts directly to book publishing houses without a middle man. While this makes things easier, it does not help with deciding how much the manuscript should be polished before submission. The more you polish the bigger your chances of getting published, but the longer it takes and the more work you have to do if the publisher wants to make changes to the content. # ⚓ Barry Kauler ☛ Escaping_characters_in_translation_strings in_initrd⠀⇛ # ⚓ Socorro_Engineering:_2022_retrospective_|_Will’s_Blog⠀⇛ 2022 took forever. At the same time, it kind of flew by. 2023 is already moving along, so this post is a month late. Here’s the retrospective of Socorro engineering in 2022. # ⚓ FOSSLife ☛ Google_Summer_of_Code_2023_Now_Accepting Applications_for_Mentor_Organizations⠀⇛ Applications are now being accepted for mentor organizations to participate in Google Summer of Code 2023 (GSoC). According to the announcement, Google has set a goal of welcoming 30+ new organizations into the GSoC program. If you’re interested in participating, check out the mentor guide to learn what is involved. New organizations are also encouraged “to get a referral from experienced organizations that think they would be a good fit to participate in GSoC,” the announcement says. # § Perl / Raku⠀➾ # ⚓ Perl ☛ My_Favorite_Modules:_PerlIO::via_|_Tom_Wyant_ [blogs.perl.org]⠀⇛ OK, I confess: PerlIO::via is not a module that I use every day. It allows you, easily, and with minimal code, to modify an I/ O stream before it gets to the reader of the stream. or after the writer has written it. All you do is write (say) My::Module conforming to the parts of the PerlIO::via interface you need, and provide it to the second argument of open() or binmode() as ‘: via(My::Module)’. How cool is that? And how cool is a language that lets you do that with a minimum of fuss, bother, and code? I encountered this when trying to modify (OK, hack) the behavior of a large and complex hunk of Perl not under my control. Rummaging around in this turned up the fact that all file input went through a single module/ object, which had an open() method. I realized if I could insert my own PerlIO layer into the input stream, I would have control over what the victim host code saw. In the true spirit of the Conan the Barbarian school of programming (“Bash it until it submits!”) I wrote a PerlIO::via module whose import() method monkey-patched the open() to insert my layer into the stack. All I had to do was launch the host code with -MMy::Module and the dirty deed was done. # § Python⠀➾ # ⚓ Video ☛ Getting_A_Random_Number_in_Python?_Easier Than_You_Think_#python_#coding_#programming_– Invidious⠀⇛ # § Rust⠀➾ # ⚓ A_small_Rust_program_–_Sam_Thursfield⠀⇛ I wrote a small program in Rust called cba_blooper. Its purpose is to download files from this funky looper pedal called the Blooper. It’s the first time I finished a program in Rust. I find Rust programming a nice experience, after a couple of years of intermittent struggle to adapt my existing mental programming models to Rust’s conventions. When I finished the tool I was surprised by the output size – initially a 5.6MB binary for a tool that basically just calls into libasound to read and write MIDI. I followed the excellent min-sized-rust guide and got that down to 1.4MB by fixing some obvious mistakes such as actually stripping the binary and building in release mode. But 1.4MB still seems quite big. * § Leftovers⠀➾ o ⚓ What_Can_We_Learn_from_Barnes_–_Noble’s_Surprising_Turnaround?⠀⇛ I’ve written too many negative stories about digital media platforms in recent months. I’ve started to worry. Am I turning into Dr. Doom and Mr. Gloom? In all fairness, my predictions have proven sadly accurate. After I served up these dismal forecasts for Facebook, Spotify, Netflix, and others, their share prices took a steep dive. I’m not sure that’s a good thing—I’d like to see digital media improve and flourish. When they falter, we all pay a price. But each of these companies is now suffering for a good reason. Their dominance led to arrogance, and they decided to impose all sorts of heavy-handed policies on users. o ⚓ Tedium ☛ Mis-swiping_the_Point⠀⇛ Public infrastructure is a reflection of a community’s values. Americans, however, are disconnected to what public infrastructure says about our values. We’ll claim the U.S. is the greatest country on earth, yet accept potholes and failing schools as a fact of life. In a larger sense, public infrastructure is a clear sign of a government’s priorities and even what a government thinks about a specific community. Clean streets and robust public spending shows where and who governments value. This is generally pretty obvious like with police responsiveness to community needs or well-maintained community spaces. The issues facing forgotten neighborhoods and communities can manifest in truly nefarious ways that undercut the ability of individuals to improve their lives. Today’s Tedium is going underground to look at the New York City subway system and why paying per ride might cost you your job. o § Hardware⠀➾ # ⚓ CNX Software ☛ $199+_Morefine_M9_mini_PC_is_powered_by_an Intel_Processor_N100_Alder_Lake-N_processor_–_CNX_Software⠀⇛ Morefine says the mini PC can run Windows 10, Windows 11, Ubuntu, or other Linux distributions, but unless you are getting the barebone model, the company will preinstall Windows 11 on the device. o § Linux Foundation⠀➾ # ⚓ Linux Foundation’s Site/Blog ☛ Linux_Foundation’s Sustainability_Project_Leaders_Reflect_on_Climate_Change Challenges_at_COP27 [Ed: Greenwashing fluff from ‘Linux’ Foundation, which takes_funds_from_the_world’s_most_polluting companies_to_serve_their_agenda]⠀⇛ # ⚓ The New Stack ☛ OpenSSF_Aimed_to_Stem_Open_Source_Security Problems_in_2022[Ed: Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols is still “referring to the Log4J vulnerability.” That’s 2021. He helps the FUD campaign of anti-Linux_Foundation.]⠀⇛ In 2022, the Open Source Software Foundation (OpenSSF) set its sights on fixing security problems with the open software supply chain. including joining forces with companies including Apache, Google, Apple, and AWS, and meeting at the White House with the U.S. government’s executive branch. o § Security⠀➾ # ⚓ eSecurity Planet ☛ Top_10_Open_Source_Vulnerability Assessment_Tools_|_ESP⠀⇛ Vulnerability assessment tools scan assets for known vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, and other flaws. These scanners then output reports for IT security and application development operations (DevOps) teams that feed prioritized tasks into ticketing and workflow systems for remediation. Open source vulnerability testing tools provide cost-effective vulnerability detection solutions. Many IT teams even deploy one or more open source tools in addition to commercial vulnerability scanning tools as backup, or as a check to verify vulnerabilities. In our analysis, here are the best open source vulnerability tools for 2023. # ⚓ eSecurity Planet ☛ Cybercriminals_Use_VSCode_Extensions_as New_Attack_Vector [Ed: This proprietary spyware of Microsoft should be avoided for many other reasons too]⠀⇛ And Aqua Nautilus researchers have discovered a big one. # ⚓ LWN ☛ Security_updates_for_Wednesday⠀⇛ Security updates have been issued by Debian (libde265, nodejs, and swift), Fedora (nautilus), Oracle (bash, bind, curl, dbus, expat, firefox, go- toolset, golang, java-1.8.0-openjdk, java-11- openjdk, java-17-openjdk, libreoffice, libtiff, libxml2, libXpm, nodejs, nodejs-nodemon, postgresql-jdbc, qemu, ruby:2.5, sqlite, sssd, sudo, and usbguard), Red Hat (bind, go-toolset- 1.18, go-toolset:rhel8, kernel, kernel-rt, kpatch- patch, pcs, sssd, and virt:rhel, virt-devel:rhel), Scientific Linux (bind, java-1.8.0-openjdk, kernel, and sssd), SUSE (mozilla-nss, rubygem-websocket- extensions, rust1.65, rust1.66, and samba), and Ubuntu (mysql-5.7, mysql-5.7, mysql-8.0, pam, and samba). # ⚓ CISA ☛ CISA,_NSA,_and_MS-ISAC_Release_Advisory_on_the Malicious_Use_of_RMM_Software_|_CISA⠀⇛ Today, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the National Security Agency (NSA), and the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center (MS-ISAC) released joint Cybersecurity Advisory (CSA) Protecting Against Malicious Use of Remote Monitoring and Management Software. The advisory describes a phishing scam in which cyber threat actors maliciously use legitimate remote monitoring and management (RMM) software to steal money from victim bank accounts. # ⚓ CISA ☛ VMware_Releases_Security_Updates_for_VMware_vRealize Log_Insight_|_CISA⠀⇛ VMware released security updates to address multiple vulnerabilities in VMware vRealize Log Insight. A remote attacker could exploit these vulnerabilities to take control of an affected system. o § Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾ # ⚓ Internet Freedom Foundation ☛ Delhi_High_Court_issues notice_in_the_blocking_case_of_satirical_website⠀⇛ Mr Tanul Thakur’s satirical website, dowrycalculator.com was banned by an order of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (‘MeitY’) without providing him a hearing or even a copy of the ban order. Mr Thakur challenged this censorship action before the Delhi High Court December 5, 2019. On May 11 2022, the Court directed MeitY to provide Mr Thakur a copy of the ban order and a post-decisional hearing under the Information Technology (Procedure and safeguards for blocking of Access of Information by public) Rules, 2009 (“Blocking Rules, 2009”). Subsequent to the post-decisional hearing, Mr. Thakur was informed that MeitY decided to continue its ban on his website. The Delhi High Court requested that Mr. Thakur should file a fresh writ petition including a challenge to MeitY’s 2022 decision to continue blocking of the website. Mr. Thakur with the legal assistance of IFF, has filed a writ petition before the Delhi High Court challenging the same. The matter was heard on January 23, 2023 and the court was pleased to issue notice in the matter. o § Monopolies⠀➾ # § Copyrights⠀➾ # ⚓ Public Domain Review ☛ Illusory_Wealth:_Victor Dubreuil’s_Cryptic_Currencies_–_The_Public_Domain Review⠀⇛ After supposedly stealing 500,000 francs from his bank, the mysterious Victor Dubreuil (b. 1842) turned up penniless in the United States and began to paint dazzling trompe l’oeil images of dollar bills. Once associated with counterfeiting and subject to seizures by the Treasury Department, these artworks are evaluated anew by Dorinda Evans, who considers Dubreuil’s unique anti- capitalist visions among the most daring and socially critical of his time. # ⚓ Public Domain Review ☛ Introducing_PDR_Revisited_– The_Public_Domain_Review⠀⇛ We are revisiting older posts in our collection to give them some much needed love. [...] If you venture into the Collections section of The Public Domain Review, you will experience considered meditations on a broad range of subjects: from medieval pattern poems to the emotional lives of pigeons, from Albrecht Dürer’s pillows to various attempts to visualise and chart history. But if you venture far enough down the rabbit holes of our site, you will also encounter posts limited to just a few sentences, which do not always do full justice to the curious objects they describe. These posts were, with little exception, written in the early days of PDR — the best efforts of an overworked sole editor trying to wear too many hats and overheating in the process. While these early posts serve as reminders for how much the site has evolved since those first forays, they can make for a jarring experience, pulling us away from a state of mind where ideas and images, from across our project’s history, are allowed to converse freely. * § Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾ o § Personal⠀➾ # ⚓ The_Stonecutter,_Part_1⠀⇛ I heard this story many years ago and was told that it’s an old Chinese tale. Recently I came to think about it again for no particular reason and when I told it to my kids they were captivated. Seems appropriate that I share it, although it’s no doubt been re-told better in hundreds of other places. It’s quite a bit to write so I’ll be splitting it in several parts until it’s done, however many that might be. I hope you’ll enjoy it. o § Technical⠀➾ # ⚓ Can_robot_brains_break_laws_human_brains_can’t?⠀⇛ I think it is safe to say that most everyone has heard about ChatGPT, DALL-E, and the handful of other new AI driven services that generate content via human prompts. For those who haven’t heard, one of th leaders in image generation, Stability.ai is being sued by multiple groups for copyright infringement due to it’s use of millions of online images in the process of teaching its AI to draw. # ⚓ First_time_messing_with_Sway⠀⇛ It’s Chinese New Year (or Lunar New Year), whatever and I have a long vocation with my family, being lazy and whatnot. I decided to today I’m too bored to do anything scrious. I ended up trying to use a tiling window manager for once. Why? Because they feels very cool the first time I saw somone using one (I think it was i3). And because the claimed productivity imrovments over a floating model. I am a long time Gnome user. I feel I’m very efficent on Gnome. Can Sway improve upon that? We’ll see. # § Programming⠀➾ # ⚓ Floating_Point_Fun⠀⇛ FLoating point math did not get the memo that the magnitude of the velocity of a circular orbit should be constant. The direction of that constant velocity is always changing (like a rolling stone) which under floating point math gives ample opportunity for small errors to accumulate and thus consigns the aliens of the week to (probably) the oblivion that is deep space. # ⚓ Everyone,_learn_how_to_code⠀⇛ For once, Internet was good today instead of just a constant bruising source of pain and misery. # ⚓ Using_libsodium⠀⇛ Libsodium is a wrapper around the Nacl cryptography library which simplifies the handling of buffers. =============================================================================== * Gemini_(Primer) links can be opened using Gemini_software. It’s like the World Wide Web but a lot lighter. ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 1884 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐃𝐀𝐈𝐋𝐘 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒 ═════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 01.25.23⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Links_25/01/2023:_Pale_Moon_32.0_and_DXVK_2.1⠀✐ Posted in News_Roundup at 4:08 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇GNOME bluefish⦈ § Contents⠀➾ * GNU/Linux o Audiocasts/Shows o Graphics_Stack o Applications o Instructionals/Technical o WINE_or_Emulation o Games * Distributions_and_Operating_Systems o Fedora_Family_/_IBM o Open_Hardware/Modding o Mobile_Systems/Mobile_Applications * Free,_Libre,_and_Open_Source_Software o Web_Browsers/Web_Servers # Chromium # Mozilla o Programming/Development # Perl_/_Raku # Rust * Leftovers o Hardware o Proprietary o Entrapment_(Microsoft_GitHub) o Defence/Aggression o AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics * Gemini*_and_Gopher o Personal o Technical # Internet/Gemini * § GNU/Linux⠀➾ o § Audiocasts/Shows⠀➾ # ⚓ mintCast Podcast ☛ mintCast_404_–_The_Tenacity_of Tenacity⠀⇛ First up in the news, RPi adds an autofocus camera, Fairphone2 hits EOL, more Tenacity than ever, new Unity, Xubuntu Minimal arrives soon, Brave adds Bridges, Kodi 20 is released, Libvirt 9.0 is out, Google gets shot down, and new features arrive in Firefox 109; o § Graphics Stack⠀➾ # ⚓ Free Desktop ☛ [Mesa-announce]_[ANNOUNCE]_mesa_23.0.0-rc3⠀⇛ Hi list! Here is a slightly early release for once! I'm giong to be not working tomorrow, so I thought I'd give you a little treat (and save me having to remember to do the release on Thursday). We've got a nice array of fixes here, touching a little bit of evertying, but not too much of anything. Right now we're trending towards a release next week, and not an rc4 (there are no issues on the blocking milestone), so if you have any critical issues make sure you get them on the milestone before next Wednesday! Cheers, Dylan o § Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ DebugPoint ☛ 5_Best_Free_Code_Editors_for_Ubuntu_and_Other Linux [Ed: Why does this list begin with proprietary spyware controlled by Microsoft? This makes no sense.]⠀⇛ Here are five free code editors for Ubuntu and other Linux systems which you can try out for your workflow. There is absolutely no shortage of code or text editors in the Linux ecosystem. Hence finding the best one for your taste requires a little exploration. Whether a beginner or a seasoned developer, finding the perfect code editor can make a big difference in your day-to-day routine. o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾ # ⚓ sRGB↔L*a*b*↔LChab_conversions⠀⇛ # ⚓ Linux Shell Tips ☛ How_to_Install_VMware_Workstation_Pro_on Debian⠀⇛ Do you want to operate multiple operating systems on your computer without dual boot? If yes, then VMware Workstation, a popular virtualization tool is what you need that lets you add multiple guest OS on your single PC. VMware Workstation is available in two different versions: VMware Workstation Player and VMware Workstation Pro. Workstation Player is a non- commercial that offers basic VMware functionality while VMware Workstation Pro offers advanced and professional features for which you need to buy a license key. In this article, I’ll walk you through installing VMware Workstation Pro on Debian 11/10 operating system. # ⚓ Linux Shell Tips ☛ How_To_Install_and_Use_Docker_on_Rocky Linux_9/8⠀⇛ So, do you want to run application processes in complete isolation from your underlying Linux operating system, just like a virtual machine? Docker is an open-source application that fulfills the same purpose along with enabling developers to build and deploy applications consistently. Docker is available in two main editions: open source and free Docker Community Edition (Docker CE) and premium Docker Enterprise Edition (Docker EE). In this article, we’ll go through step-by-step installing Docker CE in a minimal version of Red Hat-based Rocky Linux 9/8 distribution. # ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_Microsoft_Teams_on_Ubuntu 22.04_or_20.04_–_LinuxCapable [Ed: Epic spyware from Linux- hostile company; use Free software instead]⠀⇛ Microsoft Teams is a collaboration and communication platform developed by Microsoft. It provides various tools and features to help users stay connected and collaborate effectively, regardless of location. Installing Microsoft Teams on Ubuntu can offer many benefits to users, especially those who work in a remote or distributed environment. # ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_Microsoft_Edge_on_Rocky Linux_EL8_or_EL9 [Ed: No actual reason for any GNU/Linux users to install this password stealer; even Microsoft fires the developers of this failing Chrome clone]⠀⇛ # ⚓ Trend Oceans ☛ Simple_way_to_Copy_and_Move_a_Large_Number of_Files_using_Terminal_–_TREND_OCEANS⠀⇛ # ⚓ Learn Ubuntu ☛ Fix_“UFW_Status_Inactive”_in_Ubuntu⠀⇛ By default, the UFW firewall is not active on Ubuntu. When you try to check its status, it will show that your firewall is inactive. # ⚓ What_is_/dev/zero_in_Linux_and_its_Uses⠀⇛ In Linux, a “special file” is a type of file that represents a device or a kernel object rather than a regular file or directory. Special files are typically found in the “/dev” directory and represent devices that are attached to your system. However, these files are not intended to be read like normal files. They are used to communicate with the device drivers and hardware, and their content represents the data stored on the device. # ⚓ What_is_Bash?⠀⇛ Bash, also known as the “Bourne Again Shell,” is a command-line interface (CLI) for Linux and Unix- based operating systems. It is the default shell for most Linux distributions and macOS, and it can also be installed on Windows. Bash allows users to interact with their operating system by providing a command prompt, where users can enter commands and execute them. These commands can range from simple tasks such as listing the files in a directory, to more complex ones such as creating and manipulating files and directories, managing processes, and even programming simple scripts. # ⚓ Installing_MySQL_8.0_using_RPM_or_DEB_package_files⠀⇛ Installing MySQL 8.0 using RPM or DEB files is a simple process that can be done in a few steps. MySQL is a popular open-source relational database management system that is widely used for web development, data warehousing, and other applications. In this article, we will show you how to install MySQL 8.0 using RPM or DEB files on different operating systems, including Linux, Ubuntu, and Debian. Before we begin, it’s important to note that you will need to have root or superuser access to your system to perform the installation. If you don’t have root access, you can use the “sudo” command to run the installation commands with superuser permissions. # ⚓ Installing_MySQL_using_YUM_or_APT_Package_Manager⠀⇛ MySQL is one of the most popular open-source relational databases. It is used for storing and managing data for various types of applications, including web applications, content management systems, and more. In this article, we will cover how to install MySQL on a Linux server using YUM (Yellowdog Updater Modified) and APT (Advanced Package Tool) package managers. Before we begin, it’s important to note that the commands and examples in this article are specific to the Red Hat and Debian/Ubuntu distributions of Linux. If you’re using a different distribution, the commands and package names may be slightly different. # ⚓ MySQL:_A_Brief_Introduction⠀⇛ MySQL is a powerful and popular open-source relational database management system. It is widely used in web development, app development, and data warehousing. MySQL is known for its reliability, performance, and ease of use. It is also compatible with a wide range of operating systems, including Windows, Linux, and macOS. In this article, we will take a closer look at MySQL, including its features, benefits, and examples of how it can be used. We will also explore some of the common issues that users may encounter when working with MySQL and how to troubleshoot them. # ⚓ The_Linux_Filesystem_and_Structure_Explained⠀⇛ If you’re new to Linux, the filesystem can seem a bit overwhelming at first. There are a lot of different directories and files, and it can be hard to know what they’re all for. In this article, we’ll take a look at the Linux filesystem and explain what all the different directories and files are for. # ⚓ Setting_Up_Your_Local_Environment_for_Bash_Scripting⠀⇛ Bash scripting is a powerful tool for automating tasks and streamlining your workflow. However, before you can start writing and running scripts, you need to set up your local environment to support Bash. This process can seem daunting at first, but with a little bit of knowledge and the right tools, you’ll be up and running in no time. In this article, we’ll go over the basics of setting up your local environment for Bash scripting, including installing the necessary software, configuring your terminal, and creating and running your first script. # ⚓ Learn Ubuntu ☛ Using_UFW_Firewall_Commands_in_Ubuntu⠀⇛ The UFW (uncomplicated firewall) is the easiest firewall you can use on Linux as it is simple and powerful simultaneously. So in this guide, I will share some common commands you should know if you are using or willing to use UFW in the near future. # ⚓ The New Stack ☛ What_Is_the_Docker_.env_File_and_How_Do_You Use_It?_–_The_New_Stack⠀⇛ When you deploy Docker containers, you will oftentimes have to add customized variables. Those variables could include all sorts of information, including usernames, passwords, database names, etc. Of course, you can always hard code those variables into the container manifest but that is widely considered a security issue. On top of that, if you’re deploying similar containers over and over again, it’s not exactly efficient having to re-type all of that information. To solve these types of problems, most developers opt to go with the .env file. Essentially, an .env file is a list of key pair values that set specific variables for a container deployment. So, instead of having to code those variables into the manifest itself, you add them to an .env file and when you run docker-compose up -d, the variables will be applied from within the .env file (“env” being short for environment variables). # ⚓ Make Tech Easier ☛ LibreOffice_Impress_Keyboard_Shortcuts_– Make_Tech_Easier⠀⇛ LibreOffice Impress is a free open-source presentation editor for Linux, Windows, and Mac OSX. Like Microsoft Powerpoint, Impress allows you to create, modify and publish high-quality presentation slides straight from your desktop computer. # ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_Microsoft_Fonts_on_Ubuntu 22.04_or_20.04_–_LinuxCapable⠀⇛ Ubuntu is a popular Linux operating system known for its ease of use and stability. One of the features that many users appreciate about Ubuntu is its ability to run a wide range of software, including Microsoft fonts. This article will show you how to install the “ttf-mscorefonts-installer” package, which contains a collection of Microsoft fonts, on your Ubuntu desktop. # ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_Telnet_on_Ubuntu_22.04_or 20.04_–_LinuxCapable⠀⇛ Telnet is a protocol that allows users to connect to remote servers and devices over a network. It is a simple and widely-used method for managing servers and network devices, such as routers and switches. When incorporated into your Ubuntu desktop or server, telnet can benefit you by allowing you to access and manage network devices remotely, troubleshoot connectivity issues, and test network services. It is handy when you need to access a remote device or server but do not have physical access to it or if you have a headless server without a GUI. # ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_Unity_DE_on_Ubuntu_22.04_or 20.04_–_LinuxCapable⠀⇛ The Unity desktop environment is a popular user interface for the Ubuntu operating system. It is built on top of the GNOME desktop environment and offers a sleek, modern look and feel. One of the main benefits of using Unity is its ability to provide a consistent and intuitive user experience across different devices, including laptops, tablets, and smartphones. Additionally, Unity is highly customizable, allowing users to tailor their desktops to their specific needs and preferences. # ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_Skype_on_Rocky_Linux_EL9_or EL8_–_LinuxCapable⠀⇛ Skype is a popular communication tool that allows users to make voice and video calls and send instant messages, files, and images. It can be installed on various operating systems, including Rocky Linux. By installing Skype on Rocky Linux, users can stay connected with friends, family, and colleagues from anywhere in the world. # ⚓ UNIX Cop ☛ How_to_enable_remote_access_on_MySQL_8?⠀⇛ This short post will help you to enable remote access to MySQL. Although this is not always recommended, it can be helpful. By default, and for security reasons, MySQL remote access is disabled, and you will only be able to access using Localhost. In most cases, this will suffice, but it is not always the case. A practical case is that some developers use virtual machines to do their testing and require a remote connection to it. Furthermore, if you need to manage the database remotely, it is also useful. # ⚓ UNIX Cop ☛ How_to_Configure_mod_rewrite?⠀⇛ One of the most recommended settings if you have a personal blog on your server is to make the web addresses understandable to novice users. This will make it well weighted by search engines. Therefore, today, you will learn how to configure mod_rewrite on Linux. Let’s see. # ⚓ TecAdmin ☛ How_To_Install_Python_3.11_on_Debian_11/10_– TecAdmin⠀⇛ The Python team has announced the new release of Python 3.11. At the same time, Python 3.12 development has been started. So as of today, Python 3.11 is the latest version available for installation. This version is loaded with various new features and security upgrades. The Python developer will feel better with this version in terms of error display and debugging etc. # ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ How_to_Install_Vue.js_on_Raspberry_Pi⠀⇛ Vue.js is an open-source, progressive, approachable, and effective JavaScript framework for building user interfaces and single-page applications. It provides several tools and libraries that help users develop web applications with the knowledge of Node.js, JavaScript, HTML and CSS. # ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ How_to_Install_SuperTuxKart_on_Raspberry_Pi⠀⇛ SuperTuxKart is a kart racing game in which Tux and friends race together. There are several tracks that one can explore in SuperTuxKart. It can be played with AI (single-player mode) or in a split- screen mode with friends. It has various modes including 3 Strikes Battle, Time Trial, and Grand Prix. The player can explore tracks while racing. The best thing about this game is that it is lightweight due to which it can be installed and played on Raspberry Pi very easily. The complete process to install SuperTuxKart on Raspberry Pi is discussed in this article. # ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ How_to_Install_Ninja_Build_System_on_Raspberry Pi⠀⇛ Ninja is a small and simple build system that allows users to build binaries from source code. It was developed by a Google Employee, Evan Martins and has been quite effective in building binaries faster than the most used “make” command. It is extremely effective in those scenarios where you have to build a large number of input files on the system. # ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ How_to_Install_Docker_Compose_on_Raspberry Pi⠀⇛ Docker Compose is a docker utility based on compose file format and is used to run multi-container applications. Basically, the compose file of docker defines the configuration of multiple containers for an application. The multiple containers of docker-compose have the ability to share networks and data volumes in a customized environment. This tutorial presents the way to install docker-compose on Raspberry Pi. # ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ How_to_Fix_Sound_on_Raspberry_Pi⠀⇛ Raspberry Pi is a valuable device that can be utilized for various purposes, including the home automation system, creating web servers, controlling different machines and much more. The device can run several Linux distributions and has all the power to replace your desktop PC. However, it doesn’t have a built-in speaker for listening to audio. Thus, Raspberry Pi users are forced to connect an external audio device like speakers or headphones with the Raspberry Pi. But most users still won’t be able to listen to the sound from Raspberry Pi even after connecting the external audio device. If you are experiencing the same issue, follow this article’s guidelines to fix it and listen to the audio from a sound device connected to your Raspberry Pi. # ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ How_to_Enable_Login_Screen_on_Raspberry_Pi⠀⇛ Most Linux systems have a login screen enabled by default that protects your data to be easily accessed by any external user. However, unlike other Linux-based operating systems, the Raspberry Pi login screen is disabled by default, making the system insecure and allowing every user to enter and access the system files. To protect the system files and personal data, enabling the login screen is better so that only trusted users can access the Raspberry Pi system. This article is a detailed guide to enable the login screen on the Raspberry Pi system easily. # ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ Web_Application_Information_Gathering_with Kali_Linux⠀⇛ Information gathering is the technique of collecting numerous information about the target. Information-gathering is the most crucial first step in conducting penetration testing. Information gathering gives the penetration tester a gateway to decide on what are common vulnerabilities found in specific web applications. There are a lot of information-gathering tools in Kali Linux. In this tutorial, we will learn specifically about web application information gathering such as Whois, Whatweb, NSLookup, and CMSeek. Those tools are open-source and already pre-installed in Kali Linux. If you do not have Kali Linux, you could download or check those tools projects at GitHub. Links will be provided in each tool section below. # ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ Web_Application_Gathering_Information_with Kali_Linux⠀⇛ A website page that you are visiting on the internet is not just an HTML and CSS page. There are many technologies that work together in running a website such as a web server, content management system, database management system, and soon. # ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ Evil_Twin_Attack_with_Airgeddon_in_Kali Linux⠀⇛ Wi-Fi connections are everywhere, at home, school, office, café, airport, hotel, restaurants, and many other places. Some of the Wi-Fi is protected and other is publicly open. As a hacker, you might sometimes wonder what is the password of that protected Wi-Fi, don’t you? There are two methods to achieve your goal. Either by cracking the captured WPA handshake which relies on a wordlist file, or set up an Evil Twin attack which only requires some time until a client gives the password to us. What is the most reliable and efficient attack between both of them? Of course, the Evil Twin attack, right? As a matter of fact, it is so easy to set up an Evil Twin attack with Kali Linux this day. # ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ How_to_Install_MPlayer_on_Linux_Mint_21⠀⇛ Looking for a free and open-source media player for your Linux Mint 21 then try the MPlayer. It can be used for playing audios and videos either using GUI or through command line and not only that it supports a large variety format for videos and subtitles. This guide is all about installing MPlayer on Linux Mint so if you want to try this application on Linux Mint then read this guide. o § WINE or Emulation⠀➾ # ⚓ Wine_Reviews_:_DXVK_version_2.1_has_been_released_with_HDR support⠀⇛ On systems supporting HDR10 color spaces, HDR can now be enabled by setting the environment variable DXVK_HDR=1, or by setting the option dxgi.enableHDR = True in the configuration file. When using vkd3d- proton 2.8 or newer, this will allow D3D12 games to detect and use the HDR10 color space if they support it. o § Games⠀➾ # ⚓ CubicleNate ☛ JSAUX_Screen_Protector_for_the_SteamDeck_– CubicleNate’s_Techpad⠀⇛ Originally I was going to make a video of applying a screen protector to the SteamDeck but… why? It’s not like it would be all that interesting and would probably be another turd of a video so just a blathering is just as well. The production time for writing something out is far, far less than filming, editing, rendering and publishing a video. I bought the screen protector from JSAUX at the same time as I purchased the dock station and protective shell. I hesitated putting the screen protector on the device because I did spend the extra bit to get that etched glass to take advantage of the anti-glare feature it provides. Anti-glare might be a bit of an oversell… more like dramatic glare reduction. Regardless, it is a very, very comfortable experience due to the reduced glare. * § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾ o § Fedora Family / IBM⠀➾ # ⚓ Red_Hat_certification_–_Now_in_Mangaluru_at_CyberSapiens⠀⇛ o § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾ # ⚓ Arduino ☛ 3D-printed_digital_clock_contains_24_analog clocks_|_Arduino_Blog⠀⇛ locks are fantastic means of creative expression, as they serve a practical purpose and therefore have a reason to exist, but aren’t limited to pure functionality. As such, we see many interesting clock designs. But ihart’s 3D-printed digital clock made from 24 individual analog clocks takes the proverbial cake. When observed from a distance, this clock looks like it contains large seven-segment displays. But it actually displays the numerical digits of the time using the two hands of 24 individual analog clocks. Those analog clocks don’t show the time, but instead form the segments that make up the “digital” digits. The choreographed dance of the clock hands as the time changes is mesmerizing and the sheer complexity of the system should excite even the most stoic engineers in our audience. o § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ Express ☛ Samsung_beware!_New_£89_Android_phone_offers_big features_on_a_budget_|_Express.co.uk⠀⇛ # ⚓ Indian Express ☛ BharOS_is_India’s_own_rival_to_Android. But_how_have_Android_competitors_fared_in_the_past?_| Technology_News,The_Indian_Express⠀⇛ # ⚓ GSM Arena ☛ Unlocked_Samsung_Galaxy_S20_FE_5G,_Galaxy_A51 get_Android_13-based_One_UI_5.0_in_the_US_–_GSMArena.com news⠀⇛ # ⚓ SlashGear ☛ Apple_CarPlay_Vs_Android_Auto:_Which_Is_Best?⠀⇛ # ⚓ 9to5Google ☛ Waze_adds_support_for_Android_Auto_redesign⠀⇛ # ⚓ 9to5Google ☛ Chrome_for_Android_rolling_out_address_bar redesign⠀⇛ # ⚓ Make Tech Easier ☛ How_to_Use_Your_Android_Phone_as_Remote for_Android_TV_–_Make_Tech_Easier⠀⇛ # ⚓ Setting_up_a_new_Android_phone_is_about_to_get_much_easier |_Trusted_Reviews⠀⇛ * § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾ o ⚓ OpenSource.com ☛ Why_sysadmins_should_license_their_code_for_open source⠀⇛ As a Linux system administrator, I write a fair amount of code. Does that surprise you? Well, I strive to be the “lazy” sysadmin, and I do this, in part, by reducing the number of repetitive tasks I need to do by automating them. Most of my automation started as little command-line programs. I store those in executable scripts for re-use at any time on any Linux host for which I have responsibility. o § Web Browsers/Web Servers⠀➾ # § Chromium⠀➾ # ⚓ Google ☛ Chrome_Releases:_Beta_Channel_Update_for ChromeOS/ChromeOS_Flex⠀⇛ The Beta channel is being updated to OS version: 15278.41.0, Browser version: 110.0.5464.46 for most ChromeOS devices. # § Mozilla⠀➾ # ⚓ Neowin ☛ Pale_Moon_32.0⠀⇛ Pale Moon is an Open Source, Goanna-based web browser available for Microsoft Windows, Linux and Android, focusing on efficiency and ease of use. Make sure to get the most out of your browser! Pale Moon offers you a browsing experience in a browser completely built from its own, independently developed source that has been forked off from Firefox/Mozilla code, with carefully selected features and optimizations to improve the browsers speed, resource use, stability and user experience, while offering full customization and a growing collection of extensions and themes to make the browser truly your own. # ⚓ Firefox_Nightly:_New_year,_new_updates_to_Firefox_– These_Weeks_in_Firefox:_Issue_130⠀⇛ # ⚓ Mozilla ☛ Latest_Pocket_Android_app_makes_it_easier to_discover_your_saved_and_new_stories⠀⇛ Google recently named Pocket as one of the best apps of 2022, and it’s only getting better. We spent a lot of time with our users last year to see how we can improve the experience on the Pocket Android app. This month, we’re rolling out updates based on user feedback so you can easily find the stories and topics you care about. Read on to learn more about what’s new in the Pocket Android app. o § Programming/Development⠀➾ # ⚓ Joe Brockmeier ☛ Creating_slides_with_Markdown_using_Marp⠀⇛ Need to make a presentation, but don’t like using a GUI app? Take a look at Marp, the Markdown Presentation Ecosystem. Many folks like to knock slides as a format for conveying information. I don’t dislike slides as a way to convey and present (some) information. But I have never loved using apps like PowerPoint, Google Slides, or LibreOffice Impress. Converting Markdown to slides, though, is a great way for me to knock out a first draft of a presentation. When I work on work documents, I’ll often revert to Vim + Markdown to do a first draft. The important thing in a first draft is to get the outline in place and then fill out the text. Markdown offers enough formatting that I can do the headings (outline), bullets, minimal formatting, and links without needing to fuss with all the formatting options in a word processor. # ⚓ Adriaan de Groot ☛ Ports_updates_in_january_2023⠀⇛ It’s been a really slow month for me on the Free Software front. Roughly since the KDE e.V. board meeting in Berlin I’ve been swamped with work-work (just lots of C++ code to grind through) and personal (family health matters) issues. The effect is that when I sit down at my FreeBSD workstation, I have at most 15 minutes a day to deal with whatever Free Software things affect me. That’s KDE, Calamares, and FreeBSD, so they all get short shrift. I finally did sit down this week and get a little more done, so here’s a brief report. # ⚓ KDE Videos ☛ Healthy_Mind,_Healthy_Code⠀⇛ Let us explore ways to have a healthy relationship with free software work, and how to enjoy working in free software for decades. # ⚓ Drew DeVault ☛ My_plans_at_FOSDEM:_SourceHut,_Hare,_and Helios⠀⇛ FOSDEM is right around the corner, and finally in person after long years of dealing with COVID. I’ll be there again this year, and I’m looking forward to it! I have four slots on the schedule (wow! Thanks for arranging these, FOSDEM team) and I’ll be talking about several projects. There is a quick lightning talk on Saturday to introduce Helios and tease a full-length talk on Sunday, a meetup for the Hare community, and a meetup for the SourceHut community. I hope to see you there! # § Perl / Raku⠀➾ # ⚓ Perl ☛ Perl_Testing_in_2023⠀⇛ With my open source work, I’ve historically taken an approach which relies more on integration testing than unit testing, but with some of my newer projects, I’ve tried adopting principles from $paidwork and applying them to my free software. This is a quick run-down of how I’m structuring my test suite in newer projects. It’s likely that many of my existing projects will never adopt this structure, but some may. # § Rust⠀➾ # ⚓ Rust Blog ☛ 1.67.0_pre-release_testing_|_Inside_Rust Blog⠀⇛ The 1.67.0 pre-release is ready for testing. The release is scheduled for January 26. Release notes can be found here. # ⚓ Packaging_Rust_Applications_for_the_NPM_Registry [Ed: Rust is GitHub/Microsoft prison. NPM: another Microsoft prison. How to enroll your project to prison.]⠀⇛ # ⚓ Rust Blog ☛ Diversifying_our_Content_Delivery Networks_|_Inside_Rust_Blog⠀⇛ Over the past few weeks, the Infrastructure Team has been working on a setting up a second Content Delivery Network (CDN) for releases and crates. * § Leftovers⠀➾ o ⚓ Tim Bray ☛ Class_Reductionist⠀⇛ Let’s start with the Urban Dictionary’s: “The idea in some leftist circles that all oppression based on gender, sex, race, etc. is just a byproduct of class struggle, and that once class disparity is solved, all those issues will vanish.” Salon goes deeper in Asad Haider’s How calling someone a “class reductionist” became a lefty insult. Specifically, it calls out the DSA Philadelphia Chapter statement on the murder of George Floyd by the Minneapolis Police. The DSA presented a very class-centric position: That the murder was a consequence of class oppression and that socialists such as the DSA were thus uniquely qualified to address the problem. You don’t have to be a Political Science Ph.D to notice that Floyd’s murder was a racist act that can only be understood in a racism-aware framework, and that omitting that dimension is clueless. On the other hand, ignoring the class dimension of oppression in general, racism in particular, and George Floyd’s murder in particular particular, would also be clueless. Mr Floyd was a man with a bunch of problems, but one of the biggest was that he was broke. o § Hardware⠀➾ # ⚓ The Next Platform ☛ Building_The_Perfect_Memory_Bandwidth Beast⠀⇛ Memory bandwidth is holding back system performance, and there is something that you can do about it other than to just suffer. It is interesting to contemplate what HPC and AI computing might look like if CPUs were not so limited on memory bandwidth and in some cases memory capacity. Or to speak more precisely, if memory was not so expensive relative to compute. We can, perhaps, do something about the former and we will turn blue in the face and perhaps die waiting for something to happen about the latter, as we talked briefly about last week. Sometimes, all you can do is make a tourniquet and try to keep moving even if you can’t immediately and permanently address the problem at hand. Or foot or wherever the wound is. Which got us to thinking about how server buyers these days, with some modest tweaks from server CPU and system makers, might at least get the memory bandwidth per core more in balance. o § Proprietary⠀➾ # ⚓ Windows Central ☛ Surface_and_Windows_revenue_tanks_39%_in latest_Microsoft_earnings_report_|_Windows_Central⠀⇛ # ⚓ Windows Central ☛ Microsoft_has_laid_off_entire_teams behind_Virtual,_Mixed_Reality,_and_HoloLens [Ed: So will Microsoft refund that_22_BILLION_DOLLARS_in_Biden_graft, seeing that HoloLens is now dead?]⠀⇛ For Microsoft to cull the entire team behind MRTK, which was due to release a new version just next month, it paints a picture of a company that perhaps no longer believes in virtual reality. There are many who believe the “metaverse” represents the next big opportunity in human- computer interfacing, but even Facebook, who rebranded its entire company to Meta in the belief of this technology, is scaling back in this area as well — laying off 11,000 staff back in November. # ⚓ John Gruber ☛ Windows_Central:_‘Microsoft_Has_Laid_Off Entire_Teams_Behind_Virtual,_Mixed_Reality,_and_HoloLens’⠀⇛ It brings to mind the original Surface — a $10,000 touchscreen table the company started selling in May 2007, only to eventually cede the entire touchscreen revolution in personal computing to Apple and Android. o § Entrapment (Microsoft GitHub)⠀➾ # ⚓ FOSS Post ☛ 5_Ways_a_Linux_User_Can_Make_Use_of_ChatGPT [Ed: 'Linux' sites are helping Microsoft plagiarism agenda, and hype which distracts from Microsoft crises]⠀⇛ You probably have already heard about ChatGPT, the AI chatbot that took over the world faster than a Skynet apocalypse. o § Defence/Aggression⠀➾ # ⚓ Exaggerating_China’s_military_spending,_St._Louis_Fed breaks_all_statistical_rules_with_misleading_graph_– Geopolitical_Economy_Report⠀⇛ In an attempt to grossly exaggerate China’s defense spending, and simultaneously downplay the US military budget, the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis published a jaw-droppingly deceptive graph. If a student presented this in a statistics 101 class, the teacher would likely give them an F. But because it involves Washington’s public enemy number one, Beijing, the US regional reserve bank was awarded a Golden Star for exemplary service in the New Cold War. o § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾ # ⚓ David_Frum⠀⇛ I’m doing an experiment. On my computer, I am checking the latest tweets by people I follow. On my phone, I’m checking whether their most recent tweets are showing up in the “Following” column. I’m just getting started, but even in the first dozen cases, Twitter failed to show me an absolute majority of the tweets I had requested to see. That’s the reason your engagement is down, people: Twitter is withholding requested content from those who requested it. For me, Twitter is most valuable as an information source. But Twitter is now rapidly mutating into a source that capriciously withholds information I asked for – including from such highly official sources as the Tate Gallery in London. It’s as if, in the days of the old newspaper, my subscription were delivered with random stories scissored out by the publisher itself, for some capricious whim of the publisher’s own. # ⚓ John Gruber ☛ Twitter’s_Infrastructure_Continues_to Crumble,_Silently⠀⇛ Twitter is no longer able to do that. Here’s a speculative thread explaining what might be going on — sounds like a very solid guess to me. In short: after cutting back on servers and entire data centers, Twitter can no longer keep up with its own content. * § Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾ o § Personal⠀➾ # ⚓ The_development_of_my_atheism_in_two_short_stories⠀⇛ It’s time to explain, why I declare myself as a “soft-washed atheist”. This can be best described by two genius short stories. # ⚓ Notes_on_a_seriously_first_world_problem⠀⇛ # ⚓ Notes_on_an_overheard_conversation_about_“Muskrat_Love”_as it_played_on_satellite_radio⠀⇛ o § Technical⠀➾ # § Internet/Gemini⠀➾ # ⚓ Capsule_of_the_day_–_2023-01-25⠀⇛ Links are selected randomly from a list of known host from the lupa crawler[1]. The links are not manually curated and I’m not responsible of the content of these capsules. If some offensive capsules are listed here automatically, please alert me so I can manually remove them. =============================================================================== * Gemini_(Primer) links can be opened using Gemini_software. It’s like the World Wide Web but a lot lighter. ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 3091 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐃𝐀𝐈𝐋𝐘 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒 ═════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 01.25.23⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Links_25/01/2023:_Stratis_3.5.0_and_Many_Political_Links⠀✐ Posted in News_Roundup at 12:35 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇GNOME bluefish⦈ § Contents⠀➾ * GNU/Linux o Desktop/Laptop o Applications o Instructionals/Technical o WINE_or_Emulation o Games o Desktop_Environments/WMs # K_Desktop_Environment/KDE_SC/Qt * Distributions_and_Operating_Systems o Fedora_Family_/_IBM o Open_Hardware/Modding o Mobile_Systems/Mobile_Applications * Free,_Libre,_and_Open_Source_Software o Web_Browsers/Web_Servers o Education o Programming/Development * Leftovers o Education o Hardware o Health/Nutrition/Agriculture o Proprietary o Linux_Foundation o Security # Privacy/Surveillance o Defence/Aggression o Transparency/Investigative_Reporting o Environment # Energy/Transportation # Wildlife/Nature o Finance o AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics o Censorship/Free_Speech o Freedom_of_Information_/_Freedom_of_the_Press o Civil_Rights/Policing o Internet_Policy/Net_Neutrality o Monopolies # Copyrights * Gemini*_and_Gopher o Personal * § GNU/Linux⠀➾ o § Desktop/Laptop⠀➾ # ⚓ Systemd 76 ☛ Desktop_Environment_(Change)⠀⇛ Pop!_OS and Ubuntu both include the GNOME desktop environment by default. A desktop environment is responsible for the look and feel of the graphical desktop, and includes many of the key programs that get used every day. You can install an alternative desktop environment using the instructions below. o § Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ Stratis_3.5.0_Release_Notes⠀⇛ Stratis 3.5.0 includes one significant enhancement as well as several smaller improvements. Most significantly, Stratis 3.5.0 extends its functionality to allow a user to add a cache to an encrypted pool. The cache devices are each encrypted with the same mechanism as the data devices; consequently the cache itself is encrypted. # ⚓ Linux Links ☛ Best_Free_and_Open_Source_Alternatives_to Apple_Console⠀⇛ Console is proprietary software and it’s not available for Linux. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives. For many years system and kernel logs were handled by a utility called syslogd. Most Linux-based operating systems have since moved to systemd, which has a journal. That’s a giant log file for the whole system. o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾ # ⚓ Manuel Matuzovic ☛ Day_87:_mask_properties⠀⇛ There are a bunch of properties you can use to adjust the styling of the mask. # ⚓ Manuel Matuzovic ☛ Day_86:_the_initial-letter_property⠀⇛ The property takes two arguments. The first one defines the size of the initial letter in terms of how many lines it occupies. The optional second argument defines the number of lines the initial letter should sink. If it’s omitted, it equals the initial letter size. # ⚓ Jim Nielsen ☛ The_Best_Time_to_Own_a_Domain_Was_20_Years Ago;_The_Second_Best_Time_Is_Today⠀⇛ That is why owning a domain (and publishing your content there) is like planting a tree: it’s value that starts small and grows. The best time to own a domain and publish your content there was 20 years ago. The second best time is today. # ⚓ Austin Gil ☛ CSS_Named_Colors:_Groups,_Palettes,_Facts,_& Fun⠀⇛ This page contains everything I’ve ever wanted when working with CSS named colors: groups, palettes, favorites, factoids and more. # ⚓ Sean Conner ☛ A_few_small_differences⠀⇛ The main RFCs for mDNS appear to be RFC-6762 and RFC-6763 and to support them in full requires breaking changes to my library. The first are a bunch of flags, defined in RFC-6762 and it affects pretty much the entire codebase. The first deals with “Questions Requesting Unicast Responses.” Most flags are defined in the header section, but for this, it’s “the top bit in the class field of a DNS question as the unicast-response bit.” And because mDNS specifically allows multiple questions, it’s seems like it could be set per-question, and not per the request as a whole, as the RFC states: “ [w]hen this bit is set in a question, it indicates that the querier is willing to accept unicast replies in response to this specific query, as well as the usual multicast responses.” To me, that says, “each resource record needs a flag for a unicast reponse.” The other bit the “outdated cache entry” bit. which again applies to individual resource records and not to the request as a whole. And again, to me, that says, “each resoure record needs a flag to invalidate previously cached values.” # ⚓ Daniel Lemire ☛ International_domain_names:_where_does https://meßagefactory.ca_lead_you?⠀⇛ Today, in theory, you can use any Unicode character you like as part of a domain name, including emojis. Whether that is wise is something else. What does the standard says? Given a domain name, we should identify its labels. They are normally separated by dots (.) into labels: www.microsoft.com has three labels. But you may also use other Unicode characters as separators ( ., ., 。, 。). Each label is further processed. If it is all ASCII, then it is left as is. Otherwise, we must convert it to an ASCII code called “punycode” after doing the following according to RFC 3454: [...] # ⚓ University of Toronto ☛ I_should_always_make_a_checklist for_anything_complicated⠀⇛ Today I did some work on the disk setup of my home desktop and I got shot in the foot, because when you remove disks from Linux software RAID arrays and then reboot, the boot process may reassemble those RAID arrays using the disks you removed (or even just one disk), instead of the actual live disks in the RAID array. There are a number of reasons that this happened to me, but one of them is that I didn’t make a checklist for what I was doing and instead did it on the fly. # ⚓ OpenSource.com ☛ Count_magical_bunnies_with_LibreOffice Calc⠀⇛ I love working with spreadsheets, and my favorite spreadsheet application is LibreOffice Calc. A spreadsheet is a grid of cells where each column is represented by letters and rows are numbered. You can perform all kinds of calculations using a spreadsheet. If you can perform a calculation based on other values, you can do that in a spreadsheet. Here I illustrate how to use the LibreOffice Calc spreadsheet to perform a particular calculation called the Fibonacci Sequence. Fibonacci Sequence numbers pop up everywhere in mathematics and the sciences and are often used to model a simple population growth. # ⚓ Clean_Up_Unwanted_APT_Packages_in_Linux⠀⇛ New Linux users often install a lot of unnecessary APT packages that they might rarely use in the future. Also, a few bulky distributions come with many pre-installed APT packages. When the Linux system is running low on disk space, it becomes necessary to clean the APT packages to free up some space, as they can cause performance issues and even prevent the system from booting properly. There are several ways to find the APT packages that are taking up the most space on your Debian or Ubuntu system; however, we will only cover two of them in this article. # ⚓ TecAdmin ☛ How_to_Install_PHP_8.x_on_Pop!_OS_–_TecAdmin⠀⇛ If you want to develop web applications using PHP on Pop!_OS, you may need to install multiple versions of PHP for testing or compatibility purposes. One way to install multiple versions of PHP on Pop!_OS is to use a Personal Package Archive (PPA). At the day of writing this tutorial PHP 8.2 is the latest version available. # ⚓ TecAdmin ☛ How_To_Install_Python_3.11_on_CentOS_9/8_– Fedora_–_TecAdmin⠀⇛ Python 3.11 is recently launched with multiple improvement and security upgrades. This version provides developers to easily debug their code with fine-grained error locations in tracebacks. The new “Self” annotation provides a simple way to annotate methods that return an instance of their class. Mostly the latest operating systems comes with the latest Python versions. But the OS versions released before the release of Python 3.11 may not have the latest version . This tutorial will help you to install Python 3.11 on your CentOS, Red Hat & Fedora operating systems by compiling it from source code. # ⚓ UNIX Cop ☛ How_To_Install_OnlyOffice_on_AlmaLinux_9⠀⇛ OnlyOffice (formerly TeamLab), stylized as ONLYOFFICE, is a free software office suite developed by Ascensio System SIA, a subsidiary of “New Communication Technologies”, a company from Russia, but headquartered in Riga, Latvia. In Russian market branded as P7-Office. It features online document editors, platform for document management, corporate communication, mail and project management tools. # ⚓ Installing_MySQL_on_Linux_using_Generic_Binaries⠀⇛ MySQL is one of the most popular open-source relational database management systems. It is used by many websites and applications to store and retrieve data. In this article, we will be discussing how to install MySQL on a Linux machine using the generic binaries. Before we begin, it’s important to note that there are different distributions of Linux, such as Ubuntu, Debian, and Fedora. The instructions in this article are for Ubuntu and Debian, but the process is similar for other distributions. # ⚓ Starting_or_Stopping_MySQL_8⠀⇛ MySQL is a widely used open-source relational database management system. It is commonly used for web applications and can be used to manage and store data for various types of applications. MySQL 8 is the latest version of the software, and it comes with many new features and improvements. In this article, we will discuss how to start and stop MySQL 8 on different operating systems. # ⚓ Uninstalling_MySQL_8_from_windows,_mac_and_Linux⠀⇛ MySQL is a popular open-source relational database management system (RDBMS) that is widely used for web applications and data management. However, sometimes, you may need to uninstall MySQL 8 from your system for various reasons, such as upgrading to a newer version or removing it to free up space. In this article, we will discuss how to uninstall MySQL 8 from Windows, Mac, and Linux systems. # ⚓ Red Hat Official ☛ Understanding_rootless_Podman’s_user namespace_modes_|_Enable_Sysadmin⠀⇛ Customize how you run containers in Podman by changing the user namespace while in rootless mode. o § WINE or Emulation⠀➾ # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Wine_8.0_is_out_now_with_major compatibility_improvements⠀⇛ Wine 8.0 is out now, a big improvement over the last stable release with many upgrades for Windows to Linux compatibility across thousands of games and apps. This is part of what makes up Steam Play Proton, the compatibility used on Steam Deck to run Windows games. # ⚓ It’s FOSS ☛ Wine_8.0_Stable_Release_is_Here!⠀⇛ Wine is a compatibility layer for running Windows applications that has been the primary choice of many Linux users who rely on running such programs. Over the years, it has received numerous updates that allow it to run Windows apps with ease on a variety of hardware. The last major release was Wine 7.0, that offered several important improvements. It was also receiving regular bi-weekly development releases ever since. With the recent announcement, Wine 8.0 has officially landed that unified all the changes from the 7.x release and makes it better. # ⚓ DebugPoint ☛ Wine_8.0_Released_with_8000+_Changes_and Enhancements⠀⇛ After a couple of months of development, testing and RC phase, the Wine team announced the release of Wine 8.0 stable version. This major release brings several improvements over its predecessor to this Windows compatibility layer for UNix-based systems. Changes spread across exe, DLL support, 32-bit execution of apps, gaming performance improvements via Wine, input hardware controller support and many more. Here’s a quick summary of this release. # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Direct3D_to_Vulkan_translation_layer_DXVK 2.1_adds_HDR_support,_improves_shader_stutter⠀⇛ DXVK, one of the secret sauces included with the Proton compatibility layer, has a big new release out now. DXVK 2.1 adds in some big new features like HDR! o § Games⠀➾ # ⚓ Boiling Steam ☛ New_Steam_Games_with_Native_Linux_Clients_– 2023-01-25_Edition_–_Boiling_Steam⠀⇛ Between 2023-01-18 and 2023-01-25 there were 28 New Steam games released with Native Linux clients. For reference, during the same time, there were 256 games released for Windows on Steam, so the Linux versions represent about 10.9 % of total released titles. # ⚓ Godot Engine ☛ Dev_snapshot:_Godot_4.0_beta_15⠀⇛ We’re getting dangerously close to the first Release Candidate for Godot 4.0, and focus on finalizing many of the remaining high priority issues. The beta snapshots cadence allows us to better measure the overall stability and quickly catch regressions, especially when a lot of features are worked on at the same time. # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Forspoken_needs_desktop_Linux_to_spoof being_a_Steam_Deck_to_work⠀⇛ Update 25/01/23: Valve are now forcing the spoofing of a Steam Deck server-side, so the workaround is no longer needed. # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Proton_Experimental_and_GE-Proton_7-47 updates_available_now⠀⇛ Valve gave Proton Experimental a small update with two improvements, plus for users of GE-Proton you may want to know about an important version bump there too for Steam Deck and Linux desktop gamers. # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Lots_more_EA_games_get_a_Steam_Deck Playable_rating⠀⇛ Valve has again continued to go through various EA games that were previously problematic on Steam Deck due to the new EA App, with lots of them now marked as Steam Deck Playable. # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ ControllerTools_plugin_for_Steam_Deck_now gives_low_battery_notifications⠀⇛ A Steam Deck plugin for Decky Loader that I recently mentioned, ControllerTools, has a fresh update out to make it more useful. # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Factorio_is_about_to_increase_in_price_so be_quick⠀⇛ The developers of the awesome Factorio have announced that the price is about to go up, so if you still haven’t purchased it now is the time. Honestly this truly is one of the best indie games ever made, with full Native Linux support and it is Steam Deck “Playable” too. # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Steam_and_Steam_Deck_Beta_add_the_ability to_move_the_on-screen_keyboard⠀⇛ Valve continues to roll out new unstable releases of the Steam Client for Desktop and Steam Deck, with a new update giving the ability to move the on-screen keyboard. Looks like someone has been reading my wishlist. o § Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾ # § K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt⠀➾ # ⚓ digiKam_Recipes_2023-01-27⠀⇛ New year, new digiKam Recipes book release. The new version features the completely rewritten Tag faces with the Face Recognition feature chapter and an all-new example workflow section in the Batch process photos and RAW files chapter. Several chapters have been revised and improved, including Edit tags with Tag Manager, Color management in digiKam, and Move digiKam library and databases. All screenshots have been refreshed, too. As always, the new revision includes plenty of tweaks and fixes. * § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾ o § Fedora Family / IBM⠀➾ # ⚓ Enterprisers Project ☛ 4_tips_for_IT_career_growth_in_2023 |_The_Enterprisers_Project⠀⇛ Despite increasing layoffs across the country, demand for IT pros remains high, especially for software developers and senior software developers. According to our recent IT & Development Outlook Report, 89 percent of CIOs and CTOs say that the global shortage of software developers has impacted them. According to another recent report, over 100,000 jobs for IT pros have gone unfulfilled in the U.S. # ⚓ Enterprisers Project ☛ Hybrid_work:_4_ways_to_manage_work/ life_balance_|_The_Enterprisers_Project⠀⇛ Returning to the office can be a jarring experience after years of working at home. When my company, Alphawave IP, began its transition to a hybrid model, I had to re-incorporate a long commute and break the work-from-home routine I had become accustomed to, balancing work and life as a full- time CTO, professor, husband, and father. However, by structuring each day and optimizing work based on the changing environment, I found that I can create a healthy work/life balance and experience the joy of meeting with my colleagues and students in person again. o § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾ # ⚓ Linux Gizmos ☛ Aetina_carrier_board_supports_Jetson_Orin_NX and_Orin_Nano_modules⠀⇛ Aetina unveiled earlier this month an embedded platform compatible with the Jetson ORIN NANO 8GB and Jetson ORIN NX 16GB SoM models. This industrial grade AI platform offers 1x RJ45 GbE port, 1x HDMI port, 1x M.2 2242 slot and many other peripherals. # ⚓ Jeff Geerling ☛ Hyperscale_in_your_Homelab:_The_Compute Blade_arrives⠀⇛ He’s been testing 40 of these in a rack at Jetbrains for months, and they’re about to go live on Kickstarter. But why build a cluster with these Blades? And what good are they if you can’t even buy a Compute Module 4 from Raspberry Pi? Do any alternative compute modules work? I’ll get to ALL those questions in this blog post. # ⚓ Raspberry Pi ☛ Watch_your_fish_with_a_Raspberry_Pi_camera⠀⇛ This tutorial was inspired by the Entaniya waterproof case for the Raspberry Pi Camera Module. This case protects the Camera Module without distorting the image. With it, we can submerge a camera into the depths of an aquarium and keep an eye on our fishy pals by streaming video. If that doesn’t appeal, you can adapt this tutorial to be able to monitor a video stream of anything you like, whether it be indoors or outdoors. Combined with Home Assistant, you can soon be monitoring your cameras from anywhere in the world. # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Generating_PAL_Video_With_A_Heavily_Overclocked Pi_Pico⠀⇛ Barely a week goes by without another hack blessing the RP2040 with a further interfacing superpower. This time it’s the turn of the humble PAL standard composite video interface. As many of us of at least a certain vintage will be familiar with, the Phase Alternate Line (PAL to friends) standard was used mainly in Europe (not France, they used SECAM like Russia, China, and co) and Australasia, and is a little different from the much earlier NTSC standard those in the US may fondly recollect. Anyway, [Fred] stresses that this hack isn’t for the faint-hearted, as the RP2040 needs one heck of an overclock (up to 312 MHz, some 241% over stock) to be able to pull off the needed amount of processing grunt. This is much more than yet another PIO hack. # ⚓ CNX Software ☛ SOCORAD32_ESP32_walkie-talkie_board_also supports_data_communication_(Crowdfunding)_–_CNX_Software⠀⇛ SOCORAD32, aka ESP32 Software Controlled Radio, is a hackable, open-source hardware ESP32-based amateur radio board for walkie-talkie and data communication applications. The board comes with an ESP32 module with WiFi 4 and Bluetooth connectivity, an RDA Microelectronics RDA1846 RF IC used in many commercial walkie- talkies and offering a range up of to 5 km, a small display, a speaker, and a 18650 battery holder. # ⚓ Raspberry Pi ☛ Combining_computing_and_maths_to_teach primary_learners_about_variables⠀⇛ In our first seminar of 2023, we were delighted to welcome Dr Katie Rich and Carla Strickland. They spoke to us about teaching the programming construct of variables in Grade 3 and 4 (age 8 to 10). o § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ Reuters ☛ Google_makes_changes_to_Android_in_India_after antitrust_setbacks_|_Reuters⠀⇛ # ⚓ Bennett, Coleman & Company Ltd ☛ Big_changes_in Google’s_Android_licensing_terms,_payment,_search_engine option_for_users_to_have_‘options’⠀⇛ # ⚓ TechCrunch ☛ Google_to_make_changes_to_Android_business terms_in_India_after_antitrust_order_•_TechCrunch⠀⇛ # ⚓ Phone Arena ☛ Google_might_soon_improve_Android’s_built-in screen_recorder_–_PhoneArena⠀⇛ # ⚓ Phone Arena ☛ Google_might_debut_a_new_Android_feature_with the_Galaxy_S23_series_–_PhoneArena⠀⇛ # ⚓ Phone Arena ☛ Samsung’s_Android_13_train_is_now_stopping_in two_more_US_stations_–_PhoneArena⠀⇛ # ⚓ SamMobile ☛ Samsung_Galaxy_Z_Fold_2′s_USA_locked_version gets_Android_13_update_–_SamMobile⠀⇛ # ⚓ Computer World ☛ 13_advanced_tips_for_Android_13_| Computerworld⠀⇛ # ⚓ Android Police ☛ Pixel_Launcher_search_is_broken_in_Android 13’s_latest_release⠀⇛ # ⚓ XDA ☛ Here’s_how_Android_13′s_partial_screen_sharing_might work_upon_release⠀⇛ # ⚓ Phone Arena ☛ Android_Auto_update_removes_the_option_to turn_off_‘wireless_Android_Auto’_–_PhoneArena⠀⇛ # ⚓ TuxPhones ☛ Linux_phones_are_not_automatically_secure⠀⇛ A common point in the Linux community is that escaping the walled garden of ecosystems like Android or iOS is already a means to higher security: no contact with Google or Apple servers ever again, nor cloud providers snooping on private files or contacts. The ability to freely sideload applications, switch and update kernels, plus a deeper knowledge of what data apps send to remote servers means that total control of one’s device is finally achievable. And, of course, the mainline Linux kernel is intrinsically safer than the half-baked-often- abandoned-heavily-patched manufacturer kernels (“downstream”) that most mobile devices rely on. There is no catch here: the above are perfectly sound points. But while Linux phones can be potentially more secure devices in the entire control of their owners, it is important to realize that most Linux systems are not any that secure by default, as most distributions prioritize freedom over strict internal isolation. Don’t panic, though: we’ll go through it. # ⚓ Unicorn Media ☛ India’s_New_Indigenous_BharOS_Is_Basically DeGoogled_Android⠀⇛ In a press conference on Thursday, India announced a new mobile operating system, BharOS, as part of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s goal to make India self-reliant in the tech sector, including telecommunications and chip-fabrication. Before you get too excited about having a new mobile operating system to fiddle around with, it’s not quite that new. It’s based on Android, or more specifically AOSP, the Android Open Source Project. # ⚓ NDTV ☛ ‘BharOS’,_Made-In-India_Operating_System,_Tested. Check_Out_Its_Features⠀⇛ The BharOS is an Indian government-funded project to develop a free and open-source operating system (OS) for use in government and public systems. # ⚓ The Hindu ☛ Explained_|_What_is_BharOS_software_and_how different_is_it_from_Google’s_Android_OS?⠀⇛ However, there is no official date disclosed yet for when mainstream users will be able to access and install BharOS. There is also no official information about when BharOS will be available on Android/iOS app stores and smartphones. # ⚓ India Times ☛ Explained:_How_Is_India-Made_‘BharOS’ Different_From_Android_And_iOS?⠀⇛ BharOS is actually based on Android Open Source Project (AOSP) so it is more similar to Android than iOS. The only difference between Android and BharOS is that the latter doesn’t include any Google services, allowing users to download any application of their choice. # ⚓ Essel Group ☛ Explained:_BharOS_an_indigenously-built operating_system_for_smartphones_in_India⠀⇛ Reports suggest that BharOS will be available on a range of devices including laptops, phones, as well as desktops, however, it is still being developed and its release date has not been announced yet. Furthermore, unlike Windows OS, a single build of BharOS cannot be installed on all Android phones, therefore, even after the wider roll-out might not be available for all devices. So far, it is reportedly said to be compatible with Google Pixel smartphones but there is no official confirmation by the developers. # ⚓ Mosaic Media Ventures Pvt Ltd ☛ Google’s_in-house_incubator among_the_worst_hit_by_the_layoffs⠀⇛ Area 120 was created in 2016 to create experimental apps and services which could be subsequently absorbed into Google. Some of the important projects that have emerged out of Area 120 include HTM5 gaming platform GameSnacke (integrated with Google Chrome), conversational ads platform AdLingo, and video platforms Tangi and Shoploop. Since 2021, the Area 120 group has been housed in the new Google Labs division headed by Clay Bavor. Before the recent cuts, Area 120 was downsized and half the projects were cancelled in September 2022. # ⚓ The Register UK ☛ Google’s_Sundar_Pichai_tells_underlings exec_bonuses_will_be_clipped⠀⇛ The job cuts were applied across the megacorp, including 16 percent of the Fuchsia team reportedly getting the bullet, along with folk in the datacenter maintenance team, product designers and user experience researchers, according to the New York Times. The Other Bets portion of Google has also come under the spotlight for investing in innovations that have yet to show a sustained return in terms of profit, notably Waymo. # ⚓ 9to5Google ☛ Google_says_‘nothing_was_random’_about_layoffs in_town_hall⠀⇛ Reports are still coming in about what impact these layoffs will have on the various divisions of Google, with the Fuchsia and Area 120 divisions said to be disproportionately affected. * § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾ o ⚓ OSI Blog ☛ The_2023_State_of_Open_Source_Report_confirms_security as_top_issue [Ed: OSI, heavily bribed by Microsoft, is now citing and amplifying Microsofters in typical anti-Linux, anti-FOSS FUD]⠀⇛ o ⚓ OpenSource.com ☛ Celebrating_the_2023_Opensource.com_Community Choice_authors⠀⇛ Often our first interaction with open source is through community knowledge bases. This past year, I have had the fantastic opportunity to work with the many authors here at Opensource.com (and bring in some new ones!). I am fortunate enough to meet with our Correspondents program authors weekly and see some authors at in-person and virtual conferences. We are diverse in our knowledge, locations, backgrounds, and uniquely lived experiences. Each January, we celebrate the community of authors at Opensource.com. So, (drumroll please), I’m pleased to present the People’s Choice Award winners for 2022! o ⚓ Unicorn Media ☛ With_First_Keynote_Announcements,_SCALE_2023 Looks_Like_a_‘Must_Attend’_Event⠀⇛ The Southern California Linux Expo, better known as Scale (commonly printed as SCaLE), one of the big tent events on the Linux and open source conference circuit, is bouncing back from the lean Covid years very well. Last year, back in the saddle after shutting down due to Covid lockdown in 2021, the event snagged as a keynote speaker none other than Vint Cerf, creator of TCP/IP and widely regarded as one of the, if not the, father of the internet. Who wouldn’t want to see that? o § Web Browsers/Web Servers⠀➾ # ⚓ CNX Software ☛ U-boot_now_supports_booting_Linux_from_an HTTP_server⠀⇛ Up until now, U-boot would only support the User datagram protocol (UDP) allowing for TFTP and NFS boot, but Linaro has now added support for TCP and HTTP in U-boot in order to boot Linux from common web servers. TFTP boot from U-boot has been supported for years, as around the year 2006 I remember implementing TFTP Linux boot for a Karaoke system in order to lower the BoM cost by selecting a smaller flash device, and I also explained how to boot Linux on a TV box with TFTP back in 2014. This requires installing a TFTP server on your server, which is quite a trivial task, but HTTP servers are omnipresent, so it’s a welcome addition to U-boot. # ⚓ Cendyne Naga ☛ Fixing_html_video_playback_on_chrome⠀⇛ I do not often include videos on my blog, but when I do, I test to make sure they work. And to my dismay, these HTML5 videos could start, they could pause, but any time I attempted to seek the video playback position, it would fail. o § Education⠀➾ # ⚓ Data Science Tutorials ☛ Top_7_Skills_Required_to_Become_a Data_Scientist⠀⇛ As a result, the pay scale for data scientists is fairly decent, which is one of the primary reasons why people are gravitating toward this field. However, as simple as it may sound, becoming a successful data scientist necessitates a set of skills that employers seek. # ⚓ James G ☛ Giving_my_first_talk⠀⇛ I am taking away many learnings from this talk. First, preparation upfront, and adequate rehersal time, is crucial. I prepared my demos and tested them in advance of the talk, leaving enough time to ensure I could make any changes as needed. This made me feel a lot more comfortable as I was talking. In addition, rehersal time helped me ponder what auxillery resources I should prepare that would make the talk more seamless. For example, I prepared some short code snippets that freed up time in my talk to walk through more of the how to of Webmention. # ⚓ Buttondown ☛ New_Workshop,_Some_Data-ish_Pipeline_Tricks⠀⇛ Anyway, on to the main thing. A couple of years ago I started work on a Logic for Programmers pamphlet, then ADDed into some other project. I started work on it again last week with the hope (the hope) of having an early version available by the end of winter. I’m writing the book in Sphinx but compiling it to LaTeX and then a pdf. I like using Sphinx because it’s (relatively) easy to create “directives”, or new types of content with special processing rules. o § Programming/Development⠀➾ # ⚓ Nicholas Tietz-Sokolsky ☛ Speeding_up_queries_1000x_by sorting_my_bitmaps⠀⇛ I’m working on a database system that stores and queries chess games and positions. Right now, it contains 240 million unique positions1 from 3.8 million games. One of the things it needs to do is quickly find all the games where a particular position occurs. I’d also like it to do things like find games where this position occurs and it ends in a draw. Bitmaps are really useful here, and with some care they can achieve unbelievable efficiency. They can also be really slow if you’re not careful. It’s a journey. We’ll start by looking at how my bitmaps are implemented, and then we’ll see how an assumption punished me severely and how I fixed it to make things a lot faster. # ⚓ Hillel Wayne ☛ Sources_Of_Complexity:_Constraints⠀⇛ Complexity is bad. Simple software is better than complex software. But software is complex for a reason. While people like coming up with grand theories of complexity (Simple Made Easy, No Silver Bullet) there’s very little info out there on the nitty-gritty specific sources of complexity. Without that, all the theories feel to me like the four elements theory. We just don’t have the data needed to come up with something more predictive. 1 I think a lot about the different sources of complexity. This article is about one particular source. * § Leftovers⠀➾ o ⚓ Terence Eden ☛ How_I_became_the_#1_mapper_in_New_Zealand⠀⇛ I hate leaderboards. I think competition tends to corrupt the incentives people have to contribute to a goal. Yet, at the same time, I was delighted to see that I was the top mapper in the whole of Aotearoa New Zealand. o ⚓ Jim Nielsen ☛ A_Short,_Totally_Unofficial,_History_of_Port Numbers_in_Web_Development⠀⇛ One such bouncing question deals with port numbers. It seems like every time I run npm start on a web project, it’s a roll of the dice as to which port of localhost I’ll get a local dev server on. o ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Sequencing_The_Vintage_Way⠀⇛ For most of us, an 8-bit microcomputer means one of the home computers which set so many of us on our way back in the 1980s. But this ignores an entire generation of 1970s 8-bit machines which filled the market for affordable office and industrial desktop computing before we were seduced by Pac-Man or Frogger. It’s one of these, an SWTPC 6809, that’s found its way into the hands of [Look Mum No Computer], and in direct contradiction to his branding, he’s used it to control a synthesizer. o ⚓ Site36 ☛ Matthias_Monroy⠀⇛ o ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Hide_‘n_Sneak⠀⇛ o ⚓ The Nation ☛ Collective_Disaster⠀⇛ After seeing White Noise, Noah Baumbach’s adaptation of Don DeLillo’s acclaimed 1985 novel, at the New York Film Festival, I discussed the movie with a couple of friends as we walked back to the subway. They had mixed to negative reactions, for a bevy of reasons, but they shared one thing: They felt that the film’s thematic concerns—consumerism as an American religion, the media’s power to shape human behavior, the collapse of high and low culture—were fundamentally dated and quaint. The story of college professor Jack Gladney (Adam Driver), his wife Babette (Greta Gerwig), and their brood of children and stepchildren confronting an “airborne toxic event”—a noxious cloud from a chemical spill that threatens the fictional town of Blacksmith—comports broadly with the tropes of a disaster film, but the fixation on contemporary pop culture can feel tired when depicted on-screen. We live in the age of watered-down postmodernism; contemporary audiences are trained to closely analyze cultural flotsam, inured to metatextuality and pastiche in forms as varied as Quentin Tarantino films and single-camera sitcoms. o § Education⠀➾ # ⚓ Phil Eaton ☛ An_effective_product_manager⠀⇛ There are three specific activities I have loved in some product managers I’ve worked with (and missed in others). # ⚓ The Nation ☛ After_an_Art_Controversy,_Hamline_Faculty_Urge Their_President_to_Resign⠀⇛ On October 6 of last year, Erika López Prater, an adjunct professor of art history, showed a well- known medieval image of the Prophet Muhammad to her students. What happened in the classroom is a matter of some dispute and an ongoing lawsuit, but afterward, a Muslim student lodged an official complaint with the university, and eventually the chair of her department informed López Prater that she would not be returning in the spring to teach another course as previously planned. By December, the story had become the latest anecdote in the narrative about political correctness on college campuses, evidence that the “woke mob” was running amok. # ⚓ CoryDoctorow ☛ David_Graeber’s_“Pirate_Enlightenment”⠀⇛ It’s a reworking of Graeber’s anthropology doctoral research, studying the Zana-Malata people of Madagascar, the living descendants of the feminist, anarchist pirates who ruled the island in the early 18th century. # ⚓ Idiomdrottning ☛ Paragraph⠀⇛ Now that I know a li’l bit more, I think one reason for why they couldn’t is because sentence division is on the syntax layer while paragraph division is on the semantic layer. My guideline is that a paragraph should start and end “being about the same thing”, unlike a DJ segueing from talking about one song to another. Introduce a new concept? New paragraph. # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Media_Literacy_for_Young_People_Is_Crucial_—_But Rarely_Taught_in_Schools⠀⇛ # ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Missing_Links:_The_Legacy_of_Textbook History⠀⇛ It took almost 10 years of teaching before I finally grasped the extent to which secondary American history textbooks fostered misunderstanding and confusion.  The depth of the problem became apparent following class discussions of a 12-page reading assignment on the “Origins of the Cold War.” When I made […] # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ ‘Free_the_Books,’_Say_Opponents_of_New Florida_Law_as_Teachers_Remove_or_Cover_Libraries⠀⇛ Teachers in at least one Florida county this week began removing or covering books in their classrooms to avoid running afoul of a new law requiring every volume to be vetted by a state- trained “media specialist”—violation of which could result in felony charges. o § Hardware⠀➾ # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Lanna_Factory_Makes_You_Work_For_Your Lampshade⠀⇛ While you could 3D print a lampshade, there’s something to be said for having a more active role in the process of creating an object. [THINKK Studio] has made custom lampshades as easy as riding a bike. # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ You_Can_Help_Build_A_Resin_Printer_Review Database⠀⇛ Picking the best resin (SLA) printer is not an easy task. Every large and small 3D printer manufacturer offers a range of models covering many features that are backed by an equally extensive range of customer support. Although review sites and user feedback on forums can help with making a decision, especially for beginners it can feel like just a wild guess. Even for advanced users, it is a chore to stay on top of all the goings-on within the world of resin printers. This is where [VOG] (VOGMan, formerly VegOilGuy) as a popular resin printer review site is asking for feedback (video also linked below) from his viewers on their printer experiences. # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ New_Commodore_VIC-20_Build⠀⇛ In a recent episode of [The Retro Shack], a new Commodore VIC-20 is built, using a ‘Vicky Twenty’ replacement PCB by [Bob’s Bits] as the base and as many new components as could be found. The occasion for this was that a viewer had sent in a VIC-20 that turned out to be broken, so in order to diagnose it, building a new one with known working parts seemed incredibly useful. # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Translating_And_Broadcasting_Spoken_Morse_Code⠀⇛ When the first radios and telegraph lines were put into service, essentially the only way to communicate was to use Morse code. The first transmitters had extremely inefficient designs by today’s standards, so this was more a practical limitation than a choice. As the technology evolved there became less and less reason to use Morse to communicate, but plenty of amateur radio operators still use this mode including [Kevin] aka [KB9RLW] who has built a circuit which can translate spoken Morse code into a broadcasted Morse radio signal. # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Secure_LoRa_Mesh_Communication_Network⠀⇛ The Internet has allowed us to communicate more easily than ever before, and thanks to modern cell- phone networks, we don’t even have to be tied down to a hard line anymore. But what if you want something a little more direct? Maybe you’re in an area with no cell-phone coverage, or you don’t want to use public networks for whatever reason. For those cases, you might be interested in this Secure Communication Network project by [Thomas]. o § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾ # ⚓ The Nation ☛ Biden’s_Former_Covid_Czar_Steps_Up_to_Run_the Show⠀⇛ Jeff Zients seems to be coming into the role of White House chief of staff out of central casting. At a moment of economic uncertainty, the former private equity executive radiates can-do confidence. As the Covid pandemic drags on through the winter, Zients can cite his last résumé entry—Covid czar for the first year and half of the Biden administration—as another high-profile exercise in building public confidence and managing public expectations. Perhaps most crucially, Zients can draw on his private-sector bona fides to ensure the major legislative victories of the Biden White House are secured and translated into palpable gains for ordinary Americans in the run-up to a prospective Biden bid for reelection in 2024. At the same time, Zients’s critics say that his record of equivocal deal-cutting has been a serious liability throughout his career in both the private and public sector. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ ‘Shameful’:_UK_Approves_‘Emergency’_Use_of Banned_Bee-Killing_Pesticide⠀⇛ Biodiversity defenders have sounded the alarm about the United Kingdom government’s Monday decision to provide another so-called “emergency” exception for the use of an outlawed neonicotinoid pesticide lethal to bees. # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ The_US_Finally_Removes_a_Major_Barrier_to_Opioid Addiction_Treatment⠀⇛ # ⚓ Project Censored ☛ “Forever_Chemicals”_in_Rainwater_a Global_Threat_to_Human_Health_–_Validated_Independent_News⠀⇛ To reach this conclusion, the researchers compared levels of perfluorooctanoic acid (or PFOA) and perfluorooctanesulfonic acid (PFOS) in rainwater from around the world with the drinking water guidelines established by environmental agencies in the United States and Denmark, “which are the most stringent advisories known globally.” Based on the latest US guidelines for PFOA in drinking water, “rainwater everywhere would be judged unsafe to drink,” the lead author of the study, Ian Cousins, stated in a press release. # ⚓ Pro Publica ☛ NV_Gov._Lombardo_Turns_to_Lobbyist_Tied_to COVID_Lab_Scandal_for_Help_With_Budget⠀⇛ During his contentious campaign to become Nevada governor, Joe Lombardo accused the Democratic incumbent of catering to the family of a donor and their lobbyist who helped an error-prone COVID-19 testing lab get licensed in the state. Shortly after he won the race, Lombardo, a Republican, quietly turned to that same lobbyist for help building the state budget, giving him access to confidential documents and putting him in a position that allowed him to advocate for state funding sought by his clients. o § Proprietary⠀➾ # ⚓ Reuters ☛ Microsoft_cloud_outage_hits_users_around_the world_|_Reuters⠀⇛ Microsoft Corp on Wednesday was hit with a networking outage that took down its cloud platform Azure along with services such as Teams and Outlook, potentially affecting millions of users globally. # ⚓ BBC ☛ Microsoft_Outlook_and_Teams_down_for_tens_of thousands_around_world_–_BBC_News⠀⇛ Data from outage tracking website Downdetector showed more than 5,000 reports in the UK alone. # ⚓ Jay Little ☛ MacOS_is_the_Worst_Part_of_Apple_Silicon⠀⇛ Fast forward to today and the situation is far more murkier and less clear. For starters, MacOS lacks a wide variety of quality of life features that you can basically expect out of the box in Windows along with most high end Linux desktop environments. For example the ability to easily move application windows between multiple monitors using keyboard shortcuts, or snap windows into place so they partially occupy portions of a particular screen are completely missing out of the box. Yes there are third party applications like Rectangle that will add these features to MacOS at no cost, but I can’t help but to wonder why a modern OS in 2023 requires third party addons for something that basically became standard functionality when they first debutted with Windows 7 in 2009. # ⚓ Stacey on IoT ☛ Ransomware_may_be_waning,_but_wiper_malware is_growing⠀⇛ Ransomware payments are dropping even as there’s been a shift in hackers’ tactics toward using wiper malware to delete data rather than ransom it, according to data released in two reports issued this week. First up, Chainalysis, which tracks cryptocurrency payments to and from known hackers’ accounts, says ransomware groups extorted $311 million less in 2022 compared to the $768 million they scored from victims in 2021. # ⚓ Ciprian Dorin Craciun ☛ Containerized_deployments,_the Death_Star_of_complexity⠀⇛ The article starts with the rise and fall of Java EE, then it goes through the rise and fall of (SOAP/XML based) web-services, and finally it lands on the current hot topic of containerized deployments. It’s perhaps a bit of dry writing, however it boiled down the situation quite nicely. (Although I might be extremely biased…) o § Linux Foundation⠀➾ # ⚓ SJVN ☛ Can_open_source_save_the_metaverse?⠀⇛ Who knows? It’s a mess of old ideas–I’d declared AR was old hat back in 2009–dressed up with new language. But, combined, there may be something novel and worthwhile here. But, neither Meta nor any other company will pull that off. You know who might, though? The newly minted Open Metaverse Foundation (OMF), that’s who. Why do I think an open-source approach might succeed when Meta Reality Labs alone has spent billions on the metaverse? Indeed, Meta’s already lost over $10 billion in 2022 alone. Looking ahead, Meta CFO, Dave Wehner, said, he expected, “that Reality Labs operating losses in 2023 will grow significantly year-over-year.” Ouch! I believe the open-source way can win out for the same reason it has in so many other fields. By enabling people to work together via the Linux Foundation-sponsored Open Metaverse Foundation, they can create an open metaverse that will enable everyone to play and profit from it. By enabling everyone to work with open hardware, open code, and open standards, the market pie will be larger for everyone. o § Security⠀➾ # ⚓ SJVN ☛ New_Linux_kernel_SMB_security_flaw_revealed⠀⇛ Before Christmas 2022, there was a truly nasty security hole in the Linux 5.15 in-kernel Server Message Block (SMB) server, ksmbd. It could be used to execute code in the kernel context. In short: Bad. But, the newest ksmbd security problem, discovered by the Sysdig Threat Team, is relatively minor. Ksmbd, introduced to the kernel in 2021, was developed by Samsung. Its goal was to deliver speedy SMB3 file-serving performance. SMB is used in Windows and Linux–via Samba–as an important file server protocol. Most distributions do not have Ksmbd compiled into the kernel or enabled by default. # ⚓ Wladimir Palant ☛ IPinside:_Korea’s_mandatory_spyware_| Almost_Secure⠀⇛ On our tour of South Korea’s so-called security applications we’ve already took a look at TouchEn nxKey, an application meant to combat keyloggers by … checks notes … making keylogging easier. Today I want to shed some light on another application that many people in South Korea had to install on their computers: IPinside LWS Agent by Interezen. The stated goal of the application is retrieving your “real” IP address to prevent online fraud. I found however that it collects way more data. And while it exposes this trove of data to any website asking politely, it doesn’t look like it is all too helpful for combating actual fraud. # ⚓ Krebs On Security ☛ Administrator_of_RSOCKS_Proxy_Botnet Pleads_Guilty⠀⇛ Denis Emelyantsev, a 36-year-old Russian man accused of running a massive botnet called RSOCKS that stitched malware into millions of devices worldwide, pleaded guilty to two counts of computer crime violations in a California courtroom this week. The plea comes just months after Emelyantsev was extradited from Bulgaria, where he told investigators, “America is looking for me because I have enormous information and they need it.” # § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾ # ⚓ Tor ☛ Announcing_new_board_members⠀⇛ We are excited to announce the result of our open call for board members – three new members are joining the Tor Project’s Board of Directors: Esra’a Al Shafei, Sarah Gran and Christian Kaufman! Each new member comes to Tor with a different set of expertise that will help the organization and our community. At the end of this post, you can read each of their bios. Please join us in welcoming Esra’a, Sarah, and Christian to the board! # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Federal_Court_Says_Scraping_Court_Records Is_Most_Likely_Protected_By_The_First_Amendment⠀⇛ Automated web scraping can be problematic. Just look at Clearview, which has leveraged open access to public websites to create a facial recognition program it now sells to government agencies. But web scraping can also be quite useful for people who don’t have the power or funding government agencies and their private contractors have access to. # ⚓ Site36 ☛ Use_of_Spanish_spyware_in_Germany_illegal, Bundestag_report_says⠀⇛ `Such digital surveillance would be illegal in Germany. This is the conclusion of a study by the Scientific Services in the Bundestag, commissioned by Andrej Hunko, a member of the Left Party. „Intelligence activities of foreign intelligence services in Germany are fundamentally inadmissible as an exercise of foreign state power, unless the Federal Republic permits them,“ the experts write. However, there is no legal basis for such permission. This also applies to the surveillance of telecommunications. This is also the view of intelligence services expert Thorsten Wetzling, who heads the „Surveillance, Fundamental Rights and Democracy“ department at the Berlin-based Stiftung Neue Verantwortung. He further refers to the case law of the Federal Constitutional Court on foreign telecommunications surveillance by the Federal Intelligence Service (BND), according to which independent surveillance measures by foreign services in Germany should not depend on simple tolerance on the part of the federal government in Berlin. # ⚓ Site36 ☛ Europol_is_not_investigating_„Europe’s Watergate“⠀⇛ The EU Parliament is probing one of Europe’s biggest espionage scandals, but has little power to do so. Europol should investigate the misuse of „state trojan „Pegasus“ in the EU, MEPs demand. However, this would only be possible with the permission of governments, which would be violating fundamental rights. Governmental surveillance software such as „Pegasus“ is used to monitor mobile phones remotely. The programmes, known in Germany as „state trojans“, can be installed on devices of targeted persons via manipulated links. This turns the mobile phone into a bug: attackers can switch on the microphone and camera, read out location data and listen in on all communications. The Canadian civil rights organisation Citizen Lab was able to prove in 2016 that some EU states were using „Pegasus“ to spy on political opponents, their lawyers and even critical journalists. This violates the fundamental rights of many of those affected, but also the confidential lawyer-client relationship or the protection of sources, which is important for media professionals. o § Defence/Aggression⠀➾ # ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ ‘This_Is_a_National_Emergency’:_Dems_Push_for Assault_Weapons_Ban_Amid_String_of_Massacres⠀⇛ It is far past time to reenact an assault weapons ban and get these weapons of war out of our communities. # ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Ukraine’s_Corruption_Comes_Home_To_Roost⠀⇛ Around 15 advisers, deputy ministers and regional governors either resigned or were fired as a massive corruption drive shakes up the Ukrainian government. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Zelensky_signs_law_increasing_penalties_for desertion_and_other_military_offenses_—_Meduza⠀⇛ Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has approved amendments to the country’s Criminal Code that impose harsher penalties for soldiers who commit certain offenses during wartime. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ A_casting_call_for_opportunists_The_Kremlin_is gearing_up_for_local_and_parliamentary_‘elections’_in_the annexed_Ukrainian_regions_—_Meduza⠀⇛ Across the regions it annexed last year in Ukraine, the Putin administration and its domestic politics team are busy laying the groundwork to “elect” parliamentary and local officials. Meduza special correspondent Andrey Pertsev spoke with several Kremlin insiders about the preparations and who is in charge of forming collaborationist governments in occupied Ukraine. # ⚓ The Nation ☛ The_Department_of_Defense_Has_Delivered Another_Massive_Intelligence_Failure⠀⇛ Given the secrecy typically accorded to the military and the inclination of government officials to skew data to satisfy the preferences of those in power, intelligence failures are anything but unusual in this country’s security affairs. In 2003, for instance, President George W. Bush invaded Iraq based on claims—later found to be baseless—that its leader, Saddam Hussein, was developing or already possessed weapons of mass destruction. Similarly, the instant collapse of the Afghan government in August 2021, when the United States completed the withdrawal of its forces from that country, came as a shock only because of wildly optimistic intelligence estimates of that government’s strength. Now, the Department of Defense has delivered another massive intelligence failure, this time on China’s future threat to American security. # ⚓ The Nation ☛ Too_Violent?⠀⇛ # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Swiss_Miss:_FBI_as_“Good_Guys”?⠀⇛ You can judge an audience by how much bullshit they tolerate from the podium. By that standard, the World Economic Forum attendees in Davos, Switzerland last week were either depraved or craven. Why else would FBI chief Christopher Wray not get hooted down for portraying his agency as “good guys?” Why was the FBI boss even making an appearance at a conference chockful of political weasels, billionaires, and depraved activists like former Vice President Al Gore? Actually, Wray was part of a panel on national security that included luminaries such as Ukrainian Vice-Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko, who could have offered insights from her government’s perpetual failed war against pervasive corruption. Wray boasted that “the level of collaboration between the private sector and the government, especially the FBI has, I think, made significant strides.” # ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Scott_Ritter:_The_Nightmare_of_NATO_Equipment Being_Sent_to_Ukraine⠀⇛ The West’s recent approval of more military assistance for Kiev risks nuclear nightmare, fails Ukrainian expectations and rebukes the World War II history enshrined in a prominent Soviet war memorial in Berlin. # ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ US_Funds_“Independent_Journalism”_in_Cuba_to Spread_Propaganda,_Ex_Spy_Admits⠀⇛ Former CIA analyst Fulton Armstrong told The Guardian that, in Cuba, “a lot of the so-called independent journalists are indirectly funded by the US”. They spread anti-government disinformation with the support of the NED. # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Strong_Militaries,_Weak_Society:_The Missing_Story_in_the_Global_Firepower_Ranking⠀⇛ The Global Firepower ranking was published on January 6. The annual report classifies the world’s strongest militaries based on over 60 factors, including size, spending and technological advancements. The report, which placed the United States military on top, followed by Russia, China, India and the UK, raised more questions than answers, with some accusing GFP, the organization that compiled the report, of being biased, sloppy and highly politicized. # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Right_&_Left_to_Join_in_D.C._Protest:_“Not one_more_penny_for_war_in_Ukraine.⠀⇛ February 19, New Anti-Interventionist Coalition To March To White House from Lincoln Memorial. On February 19, Washington, DC, will witness a protest against the war in Ukraine that marks a sharp departure from past demonstrations.  The lead demand is simple and direct, “Not One More Penny for war in Ukraine.”  It is a demand that emphasizes what we in the US can do to end the war, not what others can do.  After all, the only government we have the power to influence is our own. # ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ As_Asian_Americans_Reel_After_Mass Shootings_in_California,_Will_Congress_Take_Any_Action_on Guns?⠀⇛ As California is reeling after three mass shootings over the past three days, we go to Oakland to speak with Connie Wun, co-founder of the AAPI Women Lead organization and a researcher on race and gender violence, and look at the state of gun control with Nick Suplina, managing director for law and policy at Everytown for Gun Safety. # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ The_Pentagon’s_Massive_Intelligence_Failure on_China:_Climate_Change⠀⇛ Given the secrecy typically accorded to the military and the inclination of government officials to skew data to satisfy the preferences of those in power, intelligence failures are anything but unusual in this country’s security affairs. In 2003, for instance, President George W. Bush invaded Iraq based on claims — later found to be baseless— that its leader, Saddam Hussein, was developing or already possessed weapons of mass destruction. Similarly, the instant collapse of the Afghan government in August 2021, when the U.S. completed the withdrawal of its forces from that country, came as a shock only because of wildly optimistic intelligence estimates of that government’s strength. Now, the Department of Defense has delivered another massive intelligence failure, this time on China’s future threat to American security. The Pentagon is required by law to provide Congress and the public with an annual report on “military and security developments involving the People’s Republic of China,” or PRC, over the next 20 years. The 2022 version, 196 pages of detailed information published last November 29th, focused on its current and future military threat to the United States. In two decades, so we’re assured, China’s military — the People’s Liberation Army, or PLA — will be superbly equipped to counter Washington should a conflict arise over Taiwan or navigation rights in the South China Sea. But here’s the shocking thing: in those nearly 200 pages of analysis, there wasn’t a single word — not one — devoted to China’s role in what will pose the most pressing threat to our security in the years to come: runaway climate change. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Ukrainian_media:_Brovary_helicopter_crash_was_due to_fog_and_disrupted_navigation_—_Meduza⠀⇛ The January 18 helicopter crash that killed 14 in Brovary was probably due to bad weather and a convergence of wartime factors, reports the Ukrainian news outlet Strana.ua, citing sources in the Ministry of the Interior. Flying in the fog, with poor visibility, the pilot was late to notice a high-rise building, sources claim. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Moscow_art_museum_removes_painting_containing_sign that_says_artist_‘doesn’t_want_to_defeat_anybody,’_citing ‘political_subtext’_—_Meduza⠀⇛ Moscow’s All-Russian Decorative Art Museum has removed a painting by contemporary Russian artist Dmitry Shagin, the founder of the art group Mitki, from its display. The painting shows six people in the blue and white striped shirts traditionally worn by many Russian military servicemen holding up a sign that reads, “Mitki don’t want to defeat anybody!” # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Belgorod_governor:_25_residents_killed_by shelling,_96_more_injured_since_Russia_invaded_Ukraine_— Meduza⠀⇛ In a meeting with President Vladimir Putin, Belgorod Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov told him that 25 residents had been killed, and 96 more injured, as a result of Ukrainian shelling since the start of the war (which he called a “special military operation”). # ⚓ Meduza ☛ ‘Thе_fog_of_war_spreads_over_daily_life’_Human rights_lawyer_Pavel_Chikov_explains_how_arbitrary_and_cruel law_enforcement_is_reducing_Russian_society_to_paranoia_and paralysis_—_Meduza⠀⇛ Last month, attorney Pavel Chikov joined Meduza’s Russian-language podcast “What Happened” to discuss Russia’s main legal trend in 2022: the strengthening of the police state inside the country against a backdrop of the war in Ukraine. The show’s host, Vladislav Gorin, premised the interview on the thought that Russia’s increasingly repressive regulation of society is both the domestic equivalent of the Kremlin’s fear-based foreign policy and an instrument of achieving Putin’s military goals by forcing the population to power the invasion. Pavel Chikov described Russia’s changing legal landscape from his perspective as a practicing attorney and the head of the Agora human rights organization. The interview addressed major changes in Russia’s repressive machinery since the start of the invasion and assessed this system’s capabilities now, a year into the war. Anna Razumnaya distills the show’s key highlights. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ ‘Wagner_opened_the_door_for_me’_How_a_convicted murderer_became_a_decorated_‘war_hero’_in_Russia_—_Meduza⠀⇛ o § Transparency/Investigative Reporting⠀➾ # ⚓ The Nation ☛ The_Original_Sin_Is_We_Classify_Too_Much⠀⇛ With a sitting president, a former president, and a former vice president now implicated in the mishandling of classified information, the classification system itself is coming under scrutiny. This attention is long overdue. But there’s a danger that some observers will conclude we need stronger protections for our nation’s secrets, such as tighter handling restrictions or enhanced penalties for violations. # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Whistleblowers_Face_a_Double_Standard_When_It Comes_to_Classified_Docs⠀⇛ # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Doltish_Ways:_Biden’s_Documents_Problem⠀⇛ Through the course of his political life, the current US president has often been injudicious. He has stumbled, bungled and miscalculated.  His electoral victory was fortuitous, aided by a number of factors, not least the conduct of his opponent and the murderous gift of a global pandemic.  Along with his fellow Democrats, he has made the issue of Donald Trump a matter of pathology rather than politics. It is precisely that pathological approach that has come back to haunt his administration.  While Trump continues to be characterised as the proto- authoritarian in waiting, squirreling off classified documents that should have been deposited in the national archives, Biden claimed to be above such behaviour. o § Environment⠀➾ # ⚓ Project Censored ☛ Deadly_Decade_for_Environmental Activists_–_Validated_Independent_News⠀⇛ Killing of environmental activists have been concentrated in the Global South, with 68 percent occurring in Latin America. Three-hundred-forty-two killings occurred in Brazil, 322 occurred in Columbia, 154 occurred in Mexico, 177 occurred in Honduras, and 80 occurred in Guatemala. Outside Latin America, the Philippines accounted for 270 killings and India accounted for 79. # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Exxon_Got_Rich,_We_Got_Played⠀⇛ When I was a teenager, I knew global warming was caused by fossil fuels. So did Exxon. For decades, Exxon has been hiding the truth about the climate crisis, burying their own scientific reports. From 1970 to 2003, the oil company ran studies that accurately predicted the disastrous consequences of continuing to burn fossil fuels. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Climate_Crisis_Making_Millions_Too_Poor_to Escape…_the_Climate_Crisis⠀⇛ As the worsening climate emergency creates an increasing number of migrants around the world, the economic effects of the planetary crisis are paradoxically making millions of people throughout the Global South too poor to escape its ravages. # § Energy/Transportation⠀➾ # ⚓ DeSmog ☛ Louisiana_Democratic_Party_‘Funneled’ Utility_Donations_to_Climate_Candidate_Challenger⠀⇛ Louisiana Democratic Party leaders are accused of funneling thousands of dollars from utility companies to the campaign of a fossil fuel–friendly candidate who ran for reelection on the state’s utility regulatory committee. Campaign finance records filed this week show that the Party received more than $90,000 in donations from utility companies, energy producers, and their executives during the elections for two Louisiana Public Service Commissioners. The same utility companies — Entergy, Cleco, and CenterPoint Energy — also donated directly to incumbent Lambert Boissiere III, whose campaign was largely sponsored by industry groups. Entergy, Cleco, and CenterPoint Energy did not respond to requests for comment for this story. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Shareholder_Resolutions_Push_Big Banks_to_Phase_Out_Fossil_Fuel_Financing⠀⇛ Taking aim at Wall Street banks financing the oil, gas, and coal extraction fueling the climate crisis, a coalition of institutional investors on Tuesday announced the filing of climate-related shareholder resolutions in an effort to force “more climate-friendly policies that better align with” the firms’ public commitments to combating the planetary emergency. # § Wildlife/Nature⠀➾ # ⚓ The Revelator ☛ Amazon_Freshwater_Stingrays_Gain Much-Needed_Protection_—_Will_It_Be_Enough?⠀⇛ o § Finance⠀➾ # ⚓ The Economist ☛ Britons_in_their_thirties_are_stuck_in_a dark_age⠀⇛ Each of these problems is fixable. The government could and should do more for young parents. That child care is unaffordable is not a fact of life, as any German can attest. That Britain’s homes are small and dear is not a law of nature, but a choice of successive governments. That Britain’s taxation system is tilted too far towards income, while property wealth is left undertaxed, is a policy decision. The government could choose differently. Spread some light on the Dark Ages and everyone would be better off. # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Republicans_Want_to_Raise_Retirement_Age_to_70 as_Life_Expectancy_Is_Falling⠀⇛ # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Critics_Rip_‘MAGA_Extremists’_Over_Plan_to Hike_Social_Security_Retirement_Age_to_70⠀⇛ Not even a month after assuming the majority in the House, Republicans have begun seriously considering a range of proposals to cut Social Security, Medicare, and other federal programs that millions of people across the U.S. rely on to meet basic needs. # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Davos_2023_Showed_Us_a_Ruling_Class_Incapable_of Resolving_Global_Crises⠀⇛ # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Warren:_Debt_Ceiling_Crisis_Wouldn’t_Even_Exist Without_Trump_Tax_Overhaul⠀⇛ # ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Debt,_Overcrowding,_or_Death:_America’s_Very Broken_Healthcare_System⠀⇛ Despite the lack of universal healthcare coverage in the US, the country spends significantly more on healthcare related costs than comparable countries. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ ‘Wall_Street_Loves_Layoffs’:_Rich_Investors Demand_More_Carnage_as_Tech_Slashes_Jobs⠀⇛ Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and other major tech companies have moved in recent days to lay off tens of thousands of employees, slashing jobs across the board amid mounting fears of a Fed-induced recession. # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ How_The_Friedman_Doctrine_Leads_To_The Enshittification_Of_All_Things⠀⇛ We recently wrote about Cory Doctorow’s great article on how the “enshittification” of social media (mainly Facebook and Twitter) was helping to lower the “switching costs” for people to try something new. In something of a follow up-piece on his Pluralistic site, Doctorow explores the process through which basically all large companies eventually hit the “enshittification” stage, and it’s (1) super insightful (2) really useful to think about, and (3) fit with a bunch of other ideas I’ve been thinking about of late. The opening paragraph is one for the ages: o § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾ # ⚓ Patrick Breyer ☛ Political_advertising:_EU_lawmakers_want to_stop_surveillance-based_political_advertising⠀⇛ Today, the European Parliament’s Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection (IMCO) adopted amendments [1] [2] to draft legislation which seek to restrict the use of personal data to target online political advertisements. Only personal data explicitly provided for this purpose by citizens with their consent would be allowed to use for targeting, excluding the use of behavioral and inferred intelligence on citizens private life. IMCO thus follows the position of the LIBE Committee, which has the lead regarding the proposed regulation of targeting. # ⚓ BBC ☛ Twitter_sued_by_Crown_Estate_over_alleged_unpaid_rent at_UK_HQ⠀⇛ The Estate – which oversees a property portfolio belonging to the King – filed a claim against Twitter in the High Court in London last week, according to Reuters news agency. The alleged arrears relate to office space near Piccadilly Circus in central London, the BBC has been told. # ⚓ Telex (Hungary) ☛ A_surprising_plan:_the_state_may_take over_the_best_Hungarian_spas⠀⇛ # ⚓ The Nation ☛ The_Growing_Political_Power_of_TikTok⠀⇛ Gen Z voters are an increasingly powerful political demographic, especially for Democrats and progressives. That much was proven in the 2022 midterm elections, where high turnout among young voters helped fend off the anticipated “red wave,” keeping a Democrat-controlled Senate and near-equal split in the Republican-controlled House in the new Congress, which started its term this month. Indeed, the 2022 midterms saw the second-highest turnout among young voters in three decades (just behind 2018): An estimated 27 percent of voters aged 18 to 29 voted in the midterms. # ⚓ The Nation ☛ Victor_Navasky_Recognized_the_Power_of Cartooning⠀⇛ Although Adolf Hitler was a master of propaganda, he was continually flummoxed by one particular form of communication: the editorial cartoon. Perhaps because the Nazi leader had a high opinion of himself, he couldn’t stand to be caricatured. The very sight of an inky mockery of his goose-stepping gait and toothbrush moustache drove Hitler into a spittling, almost frothy, spasm of rage. # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Jeremy_Clarkson_Must_Parade_Naked_through Every_Town_in_Britain,_while_Crowds_Throw_Lumps_of_Shit_at Him⠀⇛ That is obviously the only recourse left for Clarkson to make amends for the remarks that have caused so much outrage, now that the Duke and Duchess of Sussex (aka Harry and Meghan) have (again) rejected his grovelling apology. My female mentor thinks he should be cut up into meat and sold in his farm, but that is, I think, a tad excessive, and would lead a bad taste in the mouth, something not entirely inappropriate. I am of course referring to Jeremy Clarkson’s comments about Meghan Markle in his Sun newspaper column. They have been judged in the court of public opinion as second only to Mein Kampf in their heinousness. The words causing the most offense are: “At night, I’m unable to sleep as I lie there, grinding my teeth and dreaming of the day when she is made to parade naked through the streets of every town in Britain while the crowds chant, ‘Shame!’ and throw lumps of excrement at her.” I will return to his comments later, but must first address the reaction to them. # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Debunking_the_GOP’s_“Frivolous”_Lawsuits Lie⠀⇛ For years Montanans have been subjected to the claim that “environmental extremists” have been flooding the court system with “frivolous lawsuits.” These absolutely false accusations have come from some of our top elected Republican officials including Sen. Daines, Gov. Gianforte, and Reps. Zinke and Rosendale to name a few. Strangely enough not one of these politicians has ever been able to actually cite a Montana judge tossing an environmental lawsuit as frivolous. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ ‘Corrupt_Bargain’:_Omar,_Schiff,_and Swalwell_Blast_McCarthy_for_Blocking_Them_From_Committees⠀⇛ Speaker Kevin McCarthy on Tuesday formally blocked Reps. Adam Schiff and Eric Swalwell from serving on the House Intelligence Committee and is expected to hold a floor vote to remove Rep. Ilhan Omar from the chamber’s foreign affairs panel, moves that the Democratic lawmakers slammed as “political vengeance.” # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Sinema_Challenger_Gallego_Sets_Arizona Fundraising_Record_With_$1_Million_24-Hour_Haul⠀⇛ Just over 24 hours after announcing his 2024 U.S. Senate candidacy for Sen. Kyrsten Sinema’s seat in Arizona, Democratic Rep. Ruben Gallego set multiple fundraising records and made clear the vast difference between his approach to public service and that of his opponent. # ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ Jeremy_Scahill:_Biden_&_Trump_Scandals Point_to_Deeper_Problems_with_Overclassification_of_Gov’t Docs⠀⇛ We speak with The Intercept’s Jeremy Scahill about the brewing scandals over the handling of classified documents by President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump, and how they “point to deeper systemic problems with Washington’s obsession with secrecy.” While the details differ, Scahill says both cases show powerful players in Washington who routinely mishandle classified documents face different rules than whistleblowers who have endured the full brunt of the law for exposing government secrets in the public interest. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Crisis_in_Peru_Is_What_Happens_When_Popular Aspirations_Ripped_Away⠀⇛ With all eyes on the fight for democratic government in Brazil, with its obvious parallels to events in the United States, it’s easy to miss another equally alarming struggle in the region. Peru has been shaken by protests and violence since the Peruvian Congress removed President Pedro Castillo from office on December 7 following his own attempt to shutter Congress. As of this writing, 55 people have died so far in the unrest, with 18 killed in the town of Juliaca on January 9 alone. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ South_Dakota_AG,_Gov._Threaten_Felony Charges_for_Pharmacists_Prescribing_Abortion_Pills⠀⇛ South Dakota’s Republican governor and attorney general on Tuesday issued a threatening letter directed at the state’s pharmacists in response to a recent move by the Biden administration to ease restrictions on dispensing abortion pills amid the GOP’s nationwide assault on reproductive freedom. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Blue_Dogs_Devour_Themselves_Over_‘Common Sense’_Disagreement⠀⇛ The Democratic Party’s conservative Blue Dog Coalition has been slashed in half due partially to a disagreement within its ranks over efforts to attract more members, Politico reported on Tuesday, with a number of corporate lawmakers insisting on preserving the Blue Dogs’ “longstanding legacy” and name despite its reputation as a “Southern ‘boys’ club’.” # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ ‘Unprecedented_Danger’:_Doomsday_Clock_Set at_90_Seconds_to_Midnight⠀⇛ “We are living in a time of unprecedented danger, and the Doomsday Clock time reflects that reality.” # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Trump_Plans_to_Ditch_His_Own_Social_Media_Site Upon_Returning_to_Twitter_—_Report⠀⇛ # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ The_RNC_Is_Already_Warning_Its_Nominee_Will Boycott_2024_Presidential_Debate⠀⇛ # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ To_Save_Our_Democracy,_We_Must_Transcend Bill_Clinton’s_Legacy⠀⇛ Thirty years ago this month, Bill Clinton launched a presidency he claimed, in his inaugural address, would “reinvent America.” Clinton was right: he did reinvent America, definitively shifting the Democratic Party away from a politics that saw economic security for American working people as the fundamental task of government, a path that had brought the party decades of political success. The disastrous consequences of that shift, limiting working Americans’ expectations about how our political system can improve their lives, are with us to this day. To save our imperiled democracy, we must definitively transcend the political circumstances Clinton brought us. # ⚓ Telex (Hungary) ☛ They_were_given_two_days_to_pack_up_the child’s_life⠀⇛ # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Biden_2024_Decision_Pits_the_Party’s_Elites Against_Most_Democrats⠀⇛ Denial at the top of the Democratic Party about Joe Biden’s shaky footing for a re-election run in 2024 became more untenable over the weekend. As the New York Times reported, investigators “seized more than a half-dozen documents, some of them classified, at President Biden’s residence” in Delaware. The newspaper noted that “the remarkable search of a sitting president’s home by federal agents — at the invitation of Mr. Biden’s lawyers — dramatically escalated the legal and political situation for the president.” Donald Trump’s obstructive refusal to cooperate with the federal investigation into the far more numerous classified documents in his possession stands in sharp contrast with Biden’s apparently full cooperation with the Justice Department. Yet Biden now faces a documents scandal that’s sure to fester for quite a while — the average length of special counsel investigations has been upwards of 900 days — and the impacts on his plans to seek re- election are unclear. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Russian_State_Duma_passes_law_lifting_requirement that_legislators_declare_income_publicly_—_Meduza⠀⇛ The Russian State Duma has passed the third and final reading of a law that lifts the requirement that lawmakers publicly declare their income. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Russian_authorities_move_to_establish_24_new penitentiaries_in_annexed_Ukrainian_regions_—_Meduza⠀⇛ The Russian Federal Penitentiary Service (“FSIN”) has received a government order to set up 24 new penal colonies in the Russian-annexed regions of Ukraine. The order was signed by the Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin. # § Misinformation/Disinformation/Propaganda⠀➾ # ⚓ Salon ☛ The_power_of_a_conspiracy_theory_—_and_a_3- step_plan_to_deprogram_American_idiocracy⠀⇛ More than half of all Americans cannot read at a sixth-grade level. High quality primary and secondary public education, as well as the college and university system — which should create citizens who are capable of critical thinking and acting as responsible members of a democratic community — have been systematically targeted for destruction by the Republican Party and “conservative” movement…. To some significant degree, the [Internet], social media and its algorithms, our ubiquitous smart phones and digital technology, and a larger media culture designed to drive what is euphemistically described as “engagement,” damages people’s ability to think deeply and critically about complex matters. o § Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾ # ⚓ uni Yale ☛ Silencing_Science:_How_Indonesia_Is_Censoring Wildlife_Research⠀⇛ Under President Joko Widodo, Indonesia has gained international praise for its conservation policies. But now the government is clamping down on scientists who are questioning official claims that the country’s endangered orangutan and rhino populations are increasing. # ⚓ duvaR ☛ Turkish_inmate’s_letter_gets_censored_after_writing about_dream⠀⇛ A prison administration has censored an inmate’s letter to his wife that told about his dream. The jail authorities argued that dreams “are used for organizational communication purposes within the crime group of the applicant.” The issue was taken to the Constitutional Court which ruled that the inmate’s right to communication was violated and ordered the state to pay compensation. # ⚓ Copenhagen Post ☛ Fallout_from_another_Koran_burning:_How Rasmus_Paludan’s_actions_could_impact_affairs_of_immense importance⠀⇛ Rasmussen referred to Paludan as a “Danish-Swedish” national, but he is Danish-raised, and it was in Denmark that he trained and worked as a lawyer before becoming a full-time agitator in the build- up to the 2019 Danish General Election, where his party Stram Kurs failed to win any seats. o § Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press⠀➾ # ⚓ NPR ☛ The_number_of_journalist_deaths_worldwide_rose_nearly 50%_in_2022_from_previous_year⠀⇛ Sixty-seven members of the press were killed in 2022, the highest number since 2018, according to the annual report from the Committee to Protect Journalists. At least 41 journalists, or more than 60%, were killed in retaliation for their work. A motive for the other 26 are being investigated by the CPJ. # ⚓ Don’t Extradite Assange ☛ Ithaka_–_Special_Parliamentary Screening⠀⇛ Richard Burgon MP is hosting a special parliamentary screening of Ithaka, an award-winning new documentary on the fight to free Julian Assange. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ In_Deadly_Year_for_Journalists,_Killings Rose_by_Nearly_50%_in_2022⠀⇛ Driven in large part by Russia’s war in Ukraine and a rise in violence in Latin America, 2022 was the deadliest year for journalists in four years and saw nearly a 50% increase in murders, killings in crossfire, and deaths as the result of dangerous assignments, according to a report released Tuesday. # ⚓ The Dissenter ☛ Kevin_Gosztola’s_Remarks_At_The_Belmarsh Tribunal_In_DC⠀⇛ # ⚓ The Dissenter ☛ The_World_Comes_To_DC_To_Demand_Biden_Drop The_Case_Against_Julian_Assange⠀⇛ # ⚓ Telex (Hungary) ☛ Balázs_Orbán:_Whoever_controls_the_media of_a_country_controls_the_thinking_of_that_country⠀⇛ o § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾ # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Florida_Teachers_Cover_Books_in_Classrooms_Over Fear_of_Anti-“WOKE”_Laws⠀⇛ # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ House_Coalition_of_Conservative_Democrats_Falls to_Half_Its_Size⠀⇛ # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Probe_Demanded_After_‘Cold-Blooded_Killing’ of_Eswatini_Human_Rights_Lawyer⠀⇛ Human rights advocates on Monday implored Eswatini authorities to launch a swift, rigorous, and independent investigation into the recent killing of renowned pro-democracy lawyer Thulani Maseko. # ⚓ FAIR ☛ ‘The_Cry_Is_“Lumumba_Lives”—His_Ideas,_His Principles’⠀⇛ Janine Jackson interviewed Friends of the Congo’s Maurice Carney about the assassination of Patrice Lumumba for the January 20, 2023, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript. # ⚓ EFF ☛ The_Next_Stage_in_Security_Expert’s_Trial_Set_for January_31⠀⇛ After years of pretrial procedures, Bini’s actual trial began in January of last year and resumed in May. This was not the end of trial proceedings because the defense still had evidence to present, and the court still had to hear Bini’s testimony and parties’ closing arguments. The trial was set to continue in August, but it was rescheduled given the absence of an expert Swedish-Spanish translator, a right guaranteed by Ecuadorian Law for foreign defendants. The court called a new hearing for November, with no information on whether or not an expert translator would be present. Again, resumption of the trial was delayed when the prosecutor did not show up for the hearing, presenting a medical certificate two days later. The next trial date is now set for January 31, though it is unlikely that this single day will be enough to complete the proceedings.  We hope the court carefully assesses testimonies and alleged evidence, ensuring Ola Bini’s rights; misunderstandings of technology and political implications must not guide the final outcome.  The core accusation against Bini relies mainly on a printed image of a telnet session (telnet is an insecure communication protocol that has largely been abandoned for public-facing technologies). This image, which was supposedly taken by Bini himself and sent to a colleague, shows the telnet login screen of a router. Although the image’s authenticity is under debate, it is not even demonstrative of anything beyond the normal procedures that computer security professionals conduct as part of their work. Centro de Autonomía Digital, co-founded by Ola Bini, reported that expert witnesses on both sides of the case agreed the photo fails to sustain the prosecution’s accusations. In fact, the prosecution’s technical expert reportedly told the court that the report issued by Ecuador’s national communications provider about the alleged attack didn’t include sufficient evidence that any access has ever happened. Expert witnesses on behalf of the defense, including Tor co-founder Roger Dingledine, reiterated the lack of evidence of non-authorized access to a computer system. o § Internet Policy/Net Neutrality⠀➾ # ⚓ Broadband Breakfast ☛ Utilities_Coalition_Warns_Against Shifting_Cost_of_Replacing_Poles⠀⇛ A coalition consisting of 37 electric utility companies serving 31 million households is warning the Federal Communications Commission that shifting the cost burden of replacing wood poles to house communications equipment onto utilities will make them less likely to take voluntary action to help telecoms expand. # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Federal_Court:_Service_Providers_Can’t_Be_Sued Over_User-Generated_Content,_No_Matter_How_Creatively_The Allegations_Are_Framed⠀⇛ Another Section 230 case has made its way into the federal court system. Of course, the plaintiffs really doesn’t want this to be a Section 230 case, since their lawsuit is predicated on content created by users of two chat apps. o § Monopolies⠀➾ # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ DOJ_Suit_Against_Google_Heralded_as_Among ‘Most_Important_Antitrust_Cases’_in_US_History⠀⇛ Anti-monopoly advocates on Tuesday praised the Biden administration and eight states for launching a federal antitrust lawsuit that could break up Google, which is accused of illegally dominating the digital advertising market. # ⚓ NPR ☛ Taylor_Swift_fans_will_protest_outside_the_Senate’s Ticketmaster_hearing⠀⇛ Critics have long accused Ticketmaster of being a monopoly, especially after its controversial merger with Live Nation (now its parent company) in 2010. But outrage reached a new pitch after its botched presale process for Swift’s The Eras Tour in November, when long wait times, exorbitant fees and website outages left thousands of fans frustrated and empty-handed. After years of complaints about high fees, murky resale practices and other issues, the incident seemed to galvanize fans and lawmakers alike. Attorneys general of several states launched consumer protection investigations, many Democratic lawmakers called for Ticketmaster to be broken up and dozens of Swift fans sued the company for fraud and antitrust violations. # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Amazon’s_Dying_Smile_Donation_Program…_Was Really_All_About_Amazon_Keeping_Referral_Fees_To_Google Down⠀⇛ You may have heard last week that Amazon has announced the end of its “AmazonSmile” program, in which you could shop at Amazon, and a portion of all of the money you paid would actually go to the charity of your choice. Amazon claimed that the program “has not grown to create the impact we had originally hoped” and (perhaps reasonably!) implied that the overhead of delivering small amounts to many different charities was not very efficient. The company noted that the “average” donation to charities was less than $230 per charity. # § Copyrights⠀➾ # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Rockstar_Releases_Same_Buggy,_Broken_‘GTA Trilogy’_Game_To_Steam…_But_On_Sale!⠀⇛ Over a year ago, we discussed an annoying and strange set of actions taken by Rockstar and Take2, the companies behind the popular Grand Theft Auto series of games. Two actions were taken in sequence by those companies that were clearly related. First was that they worked to get a fan-made GTA 4 mod taken down, after learning that the mod essentially brought the cities and some of the gameplay from previous GTA games into GTA 4. Shortly after that was done, Rockstar released GTA Trilogy, which was a re-release bundle of those same older games the mod was incorporating. The problem is that GTA Trilogy was such a broken mess that the company had to pull the games out of online stores almost immediately. The launcher for the game was broken, the games were buggy as hell, and so on. # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ The_World’s_First_Robot_Lawyer_Isn’t_A Lawyer,_And_I’m_Not_Sure_It’s_Even_A_Robot⠀⇛ Note: This post is an adaptation of what started initially as a Twitter thread. # ⚓ Torrent Freak ☛ Bungie_Expert:_Destiny_2_Cheats Logged_“Active_Military”_Patient_Data⠀⇛ In June 2022, Bungie obtained a $13.5m copyright infringement judgment against defendants who supplied Destiny 2 cheating software ‘Wallhax’. New filings by Bungie claim that Wallhax logged users’ machines, including medical data of Department of Defense or “active military” personnel. Meanwhile, two defendants are now testifying on behalf of Bungie. # ⚓ Torrent Freak ☛ Big_Brother:_TV_Channel_Staff_Told_to Report_Password_Sharers_For_Piracy⠀⇛ Season 23 of Big Brother has just got underway in Brazil, and broadcaster Globo is taking no chances. In a leaked email, Globo staff are informed that when people share too much BBB23 content on social media, it hurts the show and the company, and it needs to be stopped. And if staff suspect people of sharing their passwords, they should be reported too. * § Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾ o § Personal⠀➾ # ⚓ 🔤SpellBinding:_BILSYVT_Wordo:_MERGE⠀⇛ =============================================================================== * Gemini_(Primer) links can be opened using Gemini_software. It’s like the World Wide Web but a lot lighter. ╘══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╛ ¶ Lines in total: 5903 ➮ Generation completed at 02:43, i.e. 51 seconds to (re)generate ⟲