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Today’s focus was the_migration_to_Slack. THE above video discusses the migration/transition/downgrade from Jabber to a truly terrible, centralised, proprietary and vulnerable platform known as Slack. Aside from technical problems and various glaring limitations, Slack was a risk not just to Sirius_‘Open_Source’ but also to its clients. No matter the hard evidence and how much I pointed this out (maybe a dozen times, at personal risk), that always fell on deaf ears. The company was already governed by incompetent people. “From what we can gather, Red Hat staff was subjected to similar treatment after IBM had bought the company.”It was abundantly clear that many colleagues did not like this. Some opposed this. Some faced disciplinary action for antagonising. That would include me. So in a company called “Open Source” we’re meant to assume that adopting proprietary software — and not because some client requires it — is considered acceptable. Whereas insisting on the company’s values is considered an offense. From what we can gather, Red Hat staff was subjected to similar treatment after IBM had bought the company. It’s hard to believe that later this year it will be 5 years since that announcement. █ ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 123 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at http://techrights.org/2023/01/29/finding-software-from-debian-10/#comments Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2023/01/29/finding-software-from-debian-10/ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 01.29.23⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Debian_11_on_My_Main_Rig:_So_Far_Mostly_OK,_But_Missing_Some_Software_From Debian_10⠀✐ Posted in Debian, GNU/Linux at 1:01 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz Video_download_link | md5sum 76599171df667cb220bae1c371058d11 My Life With Debian 11 on Main Laptop Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 4.0 http://techrights.org/videos/debian-11-so-far.webm Summary: Distributions of GNU/Linux keep urging us to move to the latest, but is the latest always the greatest? On Friday my Debian 10 drive died, so I started moving to Debian 11 on a new drive and here’s what that did to my life. THIS household isn’t unfamiliar with Debian 11. My wife’s Raspberry Pi (400) has had it since 11 months ago and my own Pi has had it for over a year. But our main working machines were running Debian 10 for 3 years already. It worked really well. My sister recently moved from Debian 10 to 11 and complained about it; her colleagues had suffered the same and she was pressured to ‘upgrade’ regardless. Some people in IRC say that moving from 10 to 11 caused them problems, partly overcome by moving to 12 (testing). “My move to Debian 11 wasn’t entirely voluntary.”The video above explains that some of my main problems with Debian 11 is software that’s no longer supported, causing me to make rather big changes, as happened this morning. Time will tell if any other issues may be coming up. The Debian repository is still very extensive, but any change can be disruptive. The Pis with Debian 11 aren’t used as traditional laptops, so that never bothered us (my wife uses 3 computers that are switched on all the time; I use 5). My move to Debian 11 wasn’t entirely voluntary. My hard drive died and it make no sense to stay on Debian 10 given its limited support plan (remaining time). The same is true for my Pi; after the hardware was damaged it made sense to move to the latest stable version of Debian, i.e. 11. Over the past year I heard and read many stories about Debian upgrades, especially from 10 to 11. On our Pis it didn’t seem so disruptive and so far on my desktop/laptop I’m pleased with this latest version. In all cases — two Pis and a laptop — those were ‘clean installs’; I’ll probably report again on my experiences in weeks or months. Two days is way to little to properly assess a distro. █ ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 187 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at http://techrights.org/2023/01/29/hardware-failures-and-linux/#comments Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2023/01/29/hardware-failures-and-linux/ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 01.29.23⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Stigmatising_GNU/Linux_for_Not_Withstanding_Hardware_Failures⠀✐ Posted in Deception, FUD, GNU/Linux, Hardware, Microsoft at 11:25 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz Video_download_link | md5sum 06304c0f6049081e578bb696a000a942 Making Linux Sound Culpable for Hardware Issue Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 4.0 http://techrights.org/videos/linux-server-fud-2023.webm Summary: Nowadays “the news” is polluted with a lot of GNU/Linux-hostile nonsense; like with patents, the signal-to-noise ratio is appalling and here we deal with a poor ‘report’ about “Linux servers” failing to work THE OTHER day in IRC we discussed this article_that_mentions_“Linux”_many_times when in fact mentioning a hardware incident. “Are Microsofters trying to generate bad press for Linux?” we asked. “This is a hardware problem, not at all related to GNU/Linux. Maybe some Microsofters are trying to undermine the teaching of GNU/Linux there?” The video above discusses what’s in the article and why it’s a tad suspicious. It is reminiscent of some FUD campaigns we saw before. “Third-year Rohan Gupta reported that, in addition to the CS website, he was also unable to access his classes’ Linux servers,” it says. Well, hardware dies sometimes. My laptop died some days ago (Friday), but within 2-3 hours I replaced the physical drive and began installing the latest Debian. This can take time. The media still loves to stigmatise GNU/Linux as not secure, not reliable etc. But for much of the time they would be better off focusing on Microsoft’s reliability and insecurity issues, including last week’s massive Clown Computing outage at Microsoft. 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We’ll still try to stick to the original schedule with a closing day after exactly 2 months (since the start of the series). After that we have more to cover, but maybe not on a daily basis. “The video moreover gives a recent example of “managers” failing to do very simple and very critical tasks.”The video above goes back to the days when a backstabbing manager had been appointed; he asked if not demanded all of us to get Microsoft Skype accounts and get the darn thing installed only for useless presentation based on invalid data. The video moreover gives a recent example of “managers” failing to do very simple and very critical tasks. This puts clients’ businesses at great risk. “Clients are noticing this, but some chose Sirius because of very old past reputation (and revisionist history).”Sirius hasn’t been managed by competent people for years already. Clients are noticing this, but some chose Sirius because of very old past reputation (and revisionist history). █ ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 426 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at http://techrights.org/2023/01/29/slack-failing-miserably/#comments Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2023/01/29/slack-failing-miserably/ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 01.29.23⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ The_ISO_Delusion:_A_Stack_of_Proprietary_Junk_(Slack)_Failing_Miserably⠀✐ Posted in Deception, Free/Libre_Software at 5:47 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz And the management that chose this junk resorts to blaming the victims “Giving the Linus Torvalds Award to the Free Software Foundation is a bit like giving the Han Solo Award to the Rebel Alliance.” –Richard Stallman Summary: When the company where I worked for nearly 12 years spoke of pragmatism it was merely making excuses to adopt proprietary software at the expense of already-working and functional Free software LAST night we covered the use of Microsoft Skype in Sirius_‘Open_Source’. It only happened once, but that was enough to damage the brand and injure some workers’ morale. Why would a company called “Open Source” something be eager to abandon Free/Open Source software, opting for proprietary stuff of the most vicious rival? What message does that send to longstanding clients or existing staff? What about potential/prospective/future clients and staff? “Why would a company called “Open Source” something be eager to abandon Free/ Open Source software, opting for proprietary stuff of the most vicious rival?”Slack on GNU/Linux is a mess. Slack on Free/libre browsers is almost an impossibility. So why on Earth would Sirius move away from Jabber and force/ impose the use of Slack? I’ve uploaded 2 images from several years back; they’re screenshots of what happened when I tried accessing Slack from a GNU/ Linux PC using a decent Web browser that isn’t controlled by spying firms: 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇Slack_on_GNU/Linux_PC⦈_ 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇Broken_Slack⦈_ That does not seem like it’s going to work, does it? This is from 2019. It has only gotten worse since. So we’ve just belatedly used two screenshots of what Slack looks like on GNU/ Linux with a proper (Free/libre) browser; “bossware” that insists on browsers which spy on their users. Using some User Agent (UA) sniffing they try to undermine or prevent access with perfectly capable browsers (if the UA is faked, there’s a way to get in). Back then I wrote to an incompetent manager who threatened me repeatedly for not using Slack: “I tried to access my account from two computers, from two browsers, including Chrome. It’s not working. See screenshots. It only works from Rianne’s laptop.” At one point they agrees to let me use Rianne’s laptop, but then they “changed their minds” (in other words, they had lied to me right to my face in the illegal contract-signing). I got this: xxxx wrote on 21/07/2019 02:23: > Hi Roy, > > You need to fix this problem and use Slack. > > You are a well qualified tech who can fix this issue and comply with > management’s request. > > As I have explicitly explained to you that you need to have your log in > for Slack and not use Rianne’s. Yet today you’re logged in via Rianne’s > and not using yours even though you sent me details of your own log in. > > To refresh your memory, this is from my previous email. I need to install a new OS or a new browser for this. Remember that the company never even paid us for any of our hardware purchases (for our work machines). That seems unreasonable. “Slack itself has been having issues and it was sold to Salesforce.”In hindsight, it seems clear this manager scared away almost all the technical people. The damage was irreversible. Slack itself has been having issues and it was sold to Salesforce. The New York Times reported Salesforce_layoffs_earlier_this_month. The Wall Street Journal published_this_article noting that Slack just made bloated proprietary junk nobody truly wants to depend on: When Salesforce Inc. bought the messaging application Slack for $27.7 billion almost two years ago, it said the marriage would “transform the way everyone works in the all-digital, work-from-anywhere world.” Corporate technology buyers so far aren’t impressed, analysts said. The acquisition sought to capture the fast-growing market for communications and collaboration software during the Covid-19 pandemic, as employers sent workers home and shifted to remote systems. Today, companies in the market for customer-relationship management software — Salesforce’s signature product — don’t appear to be swayed one way or another by the addition of messaging and collaboration features, said Liz Herbert, a vice president and principal analyst at information-technology research firm Forrester Research Inc. “We don’t really see, when it comes to Slack, any pent up demand from Salesforce’s base for a tool like that,” Ms. Herbert said. “It really hasn’t become something compelling,” she said. Salesforce bought itself a dud and in December of last year the_CEO_said_that he_would_leave_this_month. From what we can gather, the decision to adopt Slack came from the CEO, who posted Trump_support_tweets while encouraging staff to use pictures of superheroes in Slack. How childish and unprofessional. What a betrayal of Free software. Is this really the same person who became a patron of the Free Software Foundation? Maybe his personal life took him on a crazy ride — a subject we might revisit some other day in another month. To be clear, Slack doesn’t do anything that Free software cannot do. It’s bloated and it is not secure. It also has security breaches. Just two days before the above E-mail message (from a manager) I received this: ——– Forwarded Message ——– Subject: 💥 Slack Security Incident Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2019 16:58:59 +0000 From: Keybase To: r@schestowitz.com *schestowitz*, We’ve been getting questions about this, so an announcement for everyone. Today, Slack announced that a break-in from 2015 was possibly more severe than previously announced. A lot of people have been getting emails today. It seems 1% of Slack users still had compromised accounts (after 4 years); but more seriously, Slack has not disclosed what percent of Slack teams had their messages stolen. Also, if a small fraction of users have had compromised accounts, that may still mean a majority of teams were compromised. We’re sending this note because people are now asking if this could happen with Keybase teams. Simple answer: no. While Keybase now has all the important features of Slack, it has the only protection against server break-ins: *end-to-end encryption*. Keybase’s CEO, Max, just wrote how this Slack incident personally affected him *in a new blog post* keybase.io/blog/slack-incident>. tl;dr. Hackers who break into Keybase’s servers could not read your company’s, family’s, friend’s, or community’s messages. Hope this simple update answers everyone’s questions. *https://keybase.io/app* And Keybase is free! ❤️ the Keybase team Slack took over Keybase and Slack itself was a vulnerable piece of garbage with habitual data breaches. The Keybase reputation was tarnished and not many people seem to be using it anymore, certainly not me. I eventually responded to the manager as follows: > Hi Roy, > > You need to fix this problem and use Slack. > > You are a well qualified tech who can fix this issue and comply with > management’s request. > > As I have explicitly explained to you that you need to have your log in > for Slack and not use Rianne’s. Yet today you’re logged in via Rianne’s > and not using yours even though you sent me details of your own log in. > > To refresh your memory, this is from my previous email. I’m going to try to install another browser, as Chome and other browsers don’t work for me. They don’t show anything when I log in (I sent you screenshots). Maybe I’ll be logged in with my username in a few hours when it’s installed (if that works). In the meantime, I have to raise other concerns. The inevitable has happened to Slack. They announced it days and and they can be held criminally accountable To say that Slack got merely “compromised” would be an understatement Yes, it did in fact get compromised, but it’s a lot worse. It’s far worse than a compromise per se. I’m going to explain, starting with the basics. Slack accumulates all data and never deletes any of it. GDPR should be applicable here and I suspect that EU authorities have not assessed that aspect just yet. What Slack is to users isn’t what it is to Slack, the company. The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) issued strongly- worded warnings about Slack and even Microsoft utright banned Slack for security reasons. They very much foresaw the latest disaster. It’s difficult to assess or measure because it’s almost impossible to track the sources of rogue actors’ data. Slack did not have a mere ‘incident’. They knew about it for quite some time (at higher levels, too). It’s the complete doomsday scenario, an equivalent of having one’s own Jabber server completely and totally hijacked, and all communications in it (names, passwords) stolen. But in the case of Slack millions of businesses are affected. In one fell swoop. Just like that. Even the public sector. Military, hospitals, you name it… Slack got cracked, but they won’t admit that. They will lie about the extent of the damage, just like Yahoo and Equifax did (each time waiting months before revealing it was orders of magnitude worse). They game the news cycle that way. People must assume that all data is compromised. Businesses and their clients’ data is on Slack. Even HR stuff, which gets passed around in internal communications. Super-sensitive things like passwords, passports and so on. Who was Slack data copied by? Mirrored or ‘stolen’, to put it another way? Possibly by rogue military actors that can leverage it for espionage and blackmail, as many do. Covertly. You rarely hear about blackmail because that’s just the nature of the blackmail. It happens silently. Some would say Slack got “hacked” (they typically mean cracked). But it’s actually a lot worse than getting cracked! I’ll explain further… About a month ago Slack got to its IPO milestone. But it committed an actual crime by not informing the customers of the breach. They would change passwords etc. had they known. But Slack did not obey the law. It did not inform customers. It announced all this after the IPO, in order to make shareholders liable, and it did so late on a Friday (to minimise press coverage about this likely crime). The shareholders too should sue for concealment of critical information. Slack knew what had happened and why it waited all this time. This scandal can unfold for quite some time to come. It would be wise to move to locally-hosted FOSS. However, that would not in any way undo the damage of having uploaded piles of corporate data to Slack and their compromised servers. In the coming days many companies will come to realise that for years they tactlessly and irresponsibly gave piles of personal/corporate data to Slack and now a bunch of crackers around the world have this data. You can expect Slack to stonewall for a while, saying that it’s the weekend anyway. When it comes to Slack, expect what happened with Yahoo; First they say it’s a small incident; Months pass; Then they toss out a note to say it was actually big; A year later (when it’s “old news”): 3 BILLION accounts affected. Now, like Yahoo, they will downplay scope of impact. A lot of companies can suffer for years to come (e.g. data breaches, identity theft). I have great concern for the company where I’m working for almost a decade, including our compliance with the law and our clients’ compliance with the law. This is why I bring this up. I’m going to install something new and see if I can somehow logged in. I already tried, unsuccessfully, from two of my laptops. In summary, Slack is a pile of garbage. With Slack, Sirius too became a pile of garbage. They deserve each other. A few weeks ago John_Goerzen_wrote: “I loaded up this title with buzzwords. The basic idea is that IM systems shouldn’t have to only use the Internet.” Slack does not work when the company has downtime. It happened several times, which meant people could not speak to colleagues for hours. Why was our Jabber server shut down? Surveillance through Slack? Remember that Sirius kept promoting_fake_security as if the company is a bunch of people who never used computers before. When clients ask about ISO certification (not an isolated incident) they don’t seem to understand what truly happens inside Sirus. There’s spying, outsourcing, security breaches and so on. 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Almost nothing that’s presented in the media about it can be considered new. Even the chatbots are old; the only novel thing about them is the size of the set they were trained on, probably owing to Microsoft’s over-provisioned and underutilised ‘Azure’ (even Microsoft now openly admits to its shareholders there’s a “slowdown” in Clown Computing). “Expect many more Microsoft layoffs later this year.”My thoughts in the above video are personal and Andy’s article stands on its own. We extended it a bit this morning with a paragraph he wished to add. Due to personal ordeals (covered in passing in the video above) we’ve not produced many articles and videos lately, but that will change soon. We’re building back better (BBB) and when the Sirius_‘Open_Source’ series is over we hope to produce about 10 articles/videos per day. We’ve been reading many rumours about Microsoft_layoffs (what’s to come, who’s affected etc.) and it sounds far worse than the Microsoft-connected media nonchalantly puts it. Expect many more Microsoft layoffs later this year [1, 2]. All that “Hey Hype” is the media lends to the delusion about Microsoft having a bright future based on perceived leadership in something. █ ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 903 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐃𝐀𝐈𝐋𝐘 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒 ═════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 01.29.23⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Links_29/01/2023:_GNOME_43.3_Fixes_and_Lots_About_Games⠀✐ Posted in News_Roundup at 9:38 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇GNOME bluefish⦈ § Contents⠀➾ * GNU/Linux o Applications o Instructionals/Technical o Games o Desktop_Environments/WMs # GNOME_Desktop/GTK * Distributions_and_Operating_Systems o Canonical/Ubuntu_Family o Mobile_Systems/Mobile_Applications * Leftovers o Science o Education o Hardware o Health/Nutrition/Agriculture o Proprietary o Security # Privacy/Surveillance o Defence/Aggression o Transparency/Investigative_Reporting o Environment # Energy/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 # Patents # Copyrights * Gemini*_and_Gopher o Personal o Politics o Technical # Science # Programming * § GNU/Linux⠀➾ o § Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ Trend Oceans ☛ MPV_Media_Player_0.35.1_is_now_available, with_bug_fixes_from_0.35⠀⇛ MPV Media Player 0.35.1 is now available, with several bug fixes from 0.35 to make the user experience even smoother and more enjoyable. o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾ # ⚓ Ubuntubuzz ☛ How_To_Switch_Ubuntu_Desktop_Language_to Korean⠀⇛ This tutorial will help you switch Ubuntu operating system language into Korean (한국어, hangugeo). This will change English words into Korean in the menu, calendar, tray, application names, windows, and everything else. Good luck! o § Games⠀➾ # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ FPS_Game_Engine_Built_In_Ancient_Macintosh HyperCard_Software⠀⇛ Wolfenstein 3D and Doom are great examples of early FPS games. Back in that era, as Amiga was slowly losing its gaming supremacy to the PC, Apple wasn’t even on the playing field. However, [Chris Tully] has used the 90s HyperCard platform to create an FPS of his own, and it’s charming in what it achieves. # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Valve_fixed_up_Dead_Space_on_Steam_Deck⠀⇛ For those of you waiting for news on Dead Space becoming more playable on Steam Deck — Valve have already delivered. # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Humble’s_Survival_Instinct_Bundle_looks like_a_good_deal⠀⇛ Want some more survival games? Humble’s Survival Instinct Bundle has a few good picks in it and far cheaper than buying individually. # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Steam_Deck_and_Steam_Beta_fix_on-screen keyboard,_Gyro_improvements,_Linux_input_fix⠀⇛ More goodies coming to the Steam Deck and Steam Desktop Beta, as Valve sure do like to work quickly to solve bugs and add features. # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Watch_Dogs:_Legion_from_Ubisoft_arrives_on Steam,_playable_on_Steam_Deck⠀⇛ Here’s yet another Steam release from Ubisoft, as they continue dumping their older titles on Steam. Watch Dogs: Legion is here and playable on Steam Deck. # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ The_new_Dead_Space_is_sadly_a_great_big mess_on_Steam_Deck⠀⇛ Dead Space got a remake that was released today and I was incredibly excited by it but sadly it’s just a mess. # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Steam_Deck_now_in_stock_across_Japan,_Hong Kong,_South_Korea_and_Taiwan⠀⇛ Komodo PR sent word that there’s no longer a reservation queue to purchase a Steam Deck across Japan, Hong Kong, South Korea, and Taiwan. # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ The_overlooked_gorgeous_pixel-art_Lila’s Sky_Ark_is_now_on_GOG⠀⇛ Here’s a fresh chance for me to tell you to take a look at the overlooked gem that is Lila’s Sky Ark, as it’s now on GOG. # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Trackmania_heads_to_Steam_and_the_devs_say it’s_playable_on_Steam_Deck⠀⇛ Trackmania, the 2020 remake, is heading to Steam and the developers have started answering questions like — will it run on Steam Deck? # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Rhythm_adventure_Hi-Fi_RUSH_from_Tango Gameworks_gets_a_surprise_release⠀⇛ Tango Gameworks, developer of The Evil Within and Ghostwire: Tokyo, along with publisher Bethesda just stealth released their latest game called Hi- Fi RUSH. # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ 4A_Games_release_a_full_Metro_Exodus_SDK for_modders⠀⇛ 4A Games have done something quite awesome. They’ve released a SDK for people to make full game modifications of Metro Exodus. # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Developer_of_point_and_click_adventure Splittown_looking_at_Linux_support⠀⇛ Love your adventure games? Here’s one to keep an eye on. The developer of Splittown has mentioned they’re looking into Native Linux support. # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Might_and_Magic_6,_7_and_8_get_an_open source_reimplementation_with_OpenEnroth⠀⇛ Want to play Might and Magic 6, 7 and 8 on modern systems with an updated game engine? Well, OpenEnroth looks mighty promising. # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ NVIDIA_Vulkan_Beta_Driver_525.47.06_out now⠀⇛ NVIDIA has released another fresh update to their Vulkan Beta Driver, with version 525.47.06 rolling out now. o § Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾ # § GNOME Desktop/GTK⠀➾ # ⚓ 9to5Linux ☛ GNOME_43.3_Brings_Minor_Fixes_to_GNOME Maps_and_GNOME_Software⠀⇛ GNOME 43.3 was released only a month after GNOME 43.2 so you can imagine that it doesn’t include big changes. In fact it’s a small update, but I wanted you to know that it’s officially out and it’s coming soon to your distro’s repositories in the coming days. GNOME 43.3 brings bug fixes to the GNOME Maps app, for the blurry shape layers issue on zoom, as well as for the accuracy of the user location marker positioning. Various other bugs were also fixed, but no details were provided, so if you’re using GNOME Maps regularly, keep an eye on this update. * § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾ o § Canonical/Ubuntu Family⠀➾ # ⚓ FOSSLinux ☛ Do_Linux_Mint_users_really_need_Antivirus protection⠀⇛ Since its inception in the market, Linux Mint has proven to be one of the most secure operating systems. It is among the only operating systems to function without any substantial risk. Even though you don’t need to set up an antivirus on Linux Mint, it does not mean that you cannot do anything to keep your Linux Mint system safe. To secure your system, ensure you regularly update your installed software, especially the ones you often use. It is also recommended that you set up software from the secured official software store of Linux Mint. An important thing to note in Linux Mint is that a virus or rootkit cannot install itself in your Linux Mint OS unless you let it. By allowing it, we mean for anything to install itself on Linux Mint, it will need your root password, and for that reason, you cannot install it, meaning you are always safe unless you decide not to. o § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ Giz China ☛ HarmonyOS_Vs_Android_Vs_iOS_Main_Differences- Gizchina.com⠀⇛ # ⚓ GSM Arena ☛ Xiaomi_11T_and_Poco_F4_are_receiving_Android 13-based_MIUI_14_–_comments⠀⇛ # ⚓ PC Mag ☛ Android_Chrome_Users_Can_Now_Lock_Their_Incognito Tabs_|_PCMag⠀⇛ # ⚓ Indian Express ☛ BharOS:_5_free_open-source_mobile_OSes_to try_on_your_Android_smartphone_|_Technology_News,The_Indian Express⠀⇛ # ⚓ Android Authority ☛ 5_Android_apps_you_shouldn’t_miss_this week_–_Android_Apps_Weekly⠀⇛ # ⚓ Top_8_Ways_to_Fix_Waze_Not_Working_on_Android_Auto_– Guiding_Tech⠀⇛ # ⚓ Bennett, Coleman & Company Ltd ☛ Google_Introduces_AI Music_System_“MusicLM”_–_Lock_Incognito_Sessions_on_Android Now_Available⠀⇛ # ⚓ The Sun ☛ People_are_only_just_realizing_there’s_an_Android setting_that_fixes_annoying_‘sound_problem’_|_The_US_Sun⠀⇛ * § Leftovers⠀➾ o ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Toroidal_Propellers_Make_Drones_Less_Annoying⠀⇛ Despite being integral to aviation for more than a century, propellers have changed remarkably little since the Wright Brothers. A team at MIT’s Lincoln Lab has developed a new propeller shape that significantly reduces the noise associated with drones. [PDF via NewAtlas] o ⚓ The Nation ☛ My_Nhan,_Half_Moon,_Pokey,_Midnight_Mass,_Navasky⠀⇛ o ⚓ Hackaday ☛ LED_Air_Vent_Gauges_Are_A_Tasteful_Mod_For_The_Mazda Miata⠀⇛ Anyone in the JDM scene can tell you, round air vents are prime real estate for round analog gauges. If you want a gauge but don’t want to block your vent, you could consider building these LED vent gauges from [ktanner] instead. o ⚓ Hackaday ☛ The_Times_They_Are_A-Chaining⠀⇛ If [Bob Dylan] had seen [Pgeschwi]’s bike chain clock, it might have influenced the famous song. The clock uses a stepper motor and a bike chain to create a clock that has a decidedly steampunk vibe. Despite the low-tech look, the build uses 3D printing and, of course, a bike chain. o § Science⠀➾ # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ An_Atomic_Pendulum_Clock_Accurate_Enough_For CERN⠀⇛ That big grandfather clock in the library might be an impressive piece of mechanical ingenuity, and an even better example of fine cabinetry, but we’d expect that the accuracy of a pendulum timepiece would be limited to a sizable fraction of a minute per day. Unless, of course, you work at CERN and built  “the most accurate pendulum clock on the planet.” o § Education⠀➾ # ⚓ Pro Publica ☛ Judge_Orders_Washington_State_Private_Special Education_School_to_Turn_Over_Records⠀⇛ A King County judge ruled last week that a private special education school that has been the subject of a recent Seattle Times and ProPublica investigation has to comply with public information laws and release records to the Times. The ruling has the potential to shed light on an obscure part of Washington’s special education system, in which school districts send students with disabilities to private programs at taxpayer expense. Few other legal rulings have defined how the state’s public records laws apply to private organizations that assume the functions of government agencies. o § Hardware⠀➾ # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Speak_To_The_Machine⠀⇛ If you own a 3D printer, CNC router, or basically anything else that makes coordinated movements with a bunch of stepper motors, chances are good that it speaks G-code. Do you? # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Cut_Your_Own_Gears_With_This_DIY_Machine⠀⇛ You can buy gears off the shelf, of course, and get accurately machined parts exactly to your chosen specification. However, there’s something rugged and individualist about producing your own rotating components. [Maciej Nowak] demonstrates just how to produce your own gears with a homemade cutting tool. # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Hackaday_Podcast_203:_Flashlight_Fuel_Fails, Weird_DMA_Machines,_And_A_3D_Printed_Prosthetic_Hand_Flex⠀⇛ This week, Editor-in-Chief Elliot Williams and Managing Editor Tom Nardi meet up virtually to talk about all the hacks that are fit to print. This week’s episode starts off with a discussion about the recently unveiled 2023 Hackaday.io Low-Power Challenge, and how hackers more often than not thrive when forced to work within these sort of narrow parameters. Discussion then continues to adding a virtual core to the RP2040, crowd-sourced device reliability information, and mechanical Soviet space computers. We’ll wrap things up by wondering what could have been had Mattel’s ill- fated ThingMaker 3D printer actually hit the market, and then engage in some wild speculation about the issues plaguing NASA’s latest Moon mission. # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Reverse-Engineering_The_Conditional_Jump Circuitry_In_The_8086_Processor⠀⇛ As simple as a processor’s instruction set may seem, especially in a 1978-era one like the Intel 8086, there is quite a bit going on to go from something like a conditional jump instruction to a set of operations that the processor can perform. For the CISC 8086 CPU this is detailed in a recent article by [Ken Shirriff], which covers exactly how the instructions with their parameters are broken down into micro-instructions using microcode, which allows the appropriate registers and flags to be updated. # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ A_Single-Resistor_Radio_Transmitter,_Thanks_To The_Power_Of_Noise⠀⇛ One of the great things about the Hackaday community is how quickly you find out what you don’t know. That’s not a bad thing, of course; after all, everyone is here to get smarter, right? So let’s work together to get our heads around this paper (PDF) by [Zerina Kapetanovic], [Miguel Morales], and [Joshua R. Smith] from the University of Washington, which purports to construct a low- throughput RF transmitter from little more than a resistor. # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ 3D-Printed_Servo_Motor_Has_360_Degrees_Of Rotation⠀⇛ Hobby servos are nifty and useful for a wide range of projects. There’s nothing stopping you from building your own servos though, and you can even give them nifty features like 360-degree rotation In fact, that’s exactly what [Aaed Musa] did! # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Illuminate_Your_Benched_Things_With_This_Death Stranding_Lamp⠀⇛ [Pinkman] creates a smart RGB table lamp based off of the “Odradek device” robot arm from the video game “Death Stranding”. o § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾ # ⚓ [Old] Scientific American ☛ Scientific_Heretic_Rupert Sheldrake_on_Morphic_Fields,_Psychic_Dogs_and_Other Mysteries⠀⇛ Sheldrake—I think even his most adamant critics will agree–is a fascinating scientific figure. I was thus delighted when he agreed to the following email interview. Horgan: I admit that I’m still not sure what morphic resonance is. Can you give me a brief definition? o § Proprietary⠀➾ # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ AI_Lawyer_Has_A_Sad:_Bans_People_From_Testing Its_Lawyering_After_Being_Mocked⠀⇛ Well, a lot has happened since I first started looking into the “World’s First Robot Lawyer,” from DoNotPay. First, Joshua Browder, DoNotPay’s CEO, reached out to me via direct message (DM) and told me he would get me access to my documents by 2 PM the next day – Tuesday, January 24th – saying that the delay was caused by my account being locked for “inauthentic activity,” a term he did not explain or define. Then, Josh claimed he was going to pull out of the industry entirely, canceling his courtroom stunt and saying he would disable all the legal tools on DoNotPay.com. He said he was doing it because it was a distraction, but the fact that he cited exactly the same two documents that I was waiting to receive seemed like a hell of a coincidence. o § Security⠀➾ # § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾ # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Surveillance_Tech_Firm_Sued_By_Meta_For Using_Thousands_Of_Bogus_Accounts_To_Scrape_Data⠀⇛ About a half-decade ago, major social media companies finally did something to prevent their platforms from being used to engage in mass surveillance. Prompted by revelations in public records, Twitter and Facebook began cutting off API access to certain data scrapers that sold their services to government agencies. Twitter blocked both Dataminr and Geofeedia from accessing its “firehose” API. Facebook did the same thing to Geofeedia, denying it access to both its core service and Instagram. o § Defence/Aggression⠀➾ # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Russian_Defense_Ministry_says_a_Ukrainian_strike on_a_hospital_in_annexed_Luhansk_has_killed_14_—_Meduza⠀⇛ The Russian Ministry of Defense claims that Ukrainian troops used a HIMARS rocket launcher to shell a regional hospital in the village of Novoaidar, in a Russian-annexed area of Ukraine’s Luhansk region. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ The_Inspiring_Outrage_of_Norman Finkelstein⠀⇛ As I was reading Norman Finkelstein’s new book, I’ll Burn That Bridge When I Get to It!: Heretical Thoughts on Identity Politics, Cancel Culture, and Academic Freedom, I thought early on of Obama’s joke at the expense of Rahm Emanuel: “he’s one of a kind, and thank god he’s one of a kind.” Finkelstein, too, is very much one of a kind. But the analogy with Emanuel fails, because in fact one Rahm Emanuel is far too many whereas one Finkelstein is not nearly enough. We need hundreds of him. That is to say, we need hundreds of left intellectuals with the courage and intelligence to think for themselves and never sell out, to refuse to compromise—even to risk alienating fellow leftists by publicly repudiating woke culture and the more vacuous forms of identity politics in favor of an unstinting adherence to class politics. Nor would it hurt to have more writers who are as eloquent and hilarious as him. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Bryansk_schools_ordered_to_prepare_to_accommodate Russian_military_personnel_—_Meduza⠀⇛ Russian investigative outlet iStories reports that the regional administration in Bryansk, Russia, has ordered at least six elementary schools to prepare to host Russian troops. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Russian_authorities_are_investigating_a_Moscow resident,_allegedly_the_owner_of_a_popular_Telegram_channel, for_posting_calls_to_terrorism_—_Meduza⠀⇛ The Moscow Investigative Committee is reviewing Telegram channel Nexta Live for posting calls to terrorist activities, report both state broadcasting corporation RBC and online news outlet Baza. # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ History_of_the_Vietnam_War_Holds_Lessons_for Ukraine_Today⠀⇛ # ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Patrick_Lawrence:_The_Shadows_Descend_in Ukraine⠀⇛ By Patrick Lawrence / Original to ScheerPost Two of my favorite New York Times words are “shadowy” and “murky.” They are brilliantly suited to the Manichean version of our world the Times inflicts daily upon its unsuspecting readers. When The Times terms someone or some society or some chain of events shadowy or murky it […] # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Sinema’s_Democratic_Challenger_Ruben_Gallego Opposes_Cutting_Pentagon_Spending⠀⇛ # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Creative_Vandalism_The_KITT_Way⠀⇛ It’s probable that most of us have at some time dreamed up a witty and subversive way to deface our city, but that few of us will have followed through on the idea. [Matt Gray] then is something of a modern-day urban hero for doing just that. Who couldn’t walk past Knightrider Court, EC4, in the City of London, without thinking of the 1980s TV series featuring David Hasselhoff and a talking car? [Matt] couldn’t, and so of course he simply had to upgrade the street sign with the signature LED scanner. # ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Ukraine’s_Zelensky_Sends_Love_Letter_to_US Corporations,_Promising_‘Big_Business’_for_Wall_Street⠀⇛ In a video address to a US corporate lobby group, Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky thanked companies like BlackRock, JP Morgan, Goldman Sachs, and Starlink, insisting “everyone can become a big business by” investing in Ukraine, where “we are defending freedom and property”. # ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Fired_Memphis_Cops_Charged_With_Second-Degree Murder_for_Killing_Tyre_Nichols⠀⇛ “The video must be that bad,” said law professor Sherrilyn Ifill. “But fired does not prevent rehiring elsewhere, and charged does not mean convicted. But more important than all, none of this brings back Tyre Nichols.” # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Released_Footage_Shows_Five_Memphis_Cops Brutally_Beating_Tyre_Nichols⠀⇛ # ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ ‘Sheer_Brutality’:_Released_Footage_Shows Fired_Memphis_Cops_Beating_Tyre_Nichols⠀⇛ “Charging or jailing the killers is not enough,” said the national director of the Working Families Party. “Justice is changing the conditions so no one dies during a traffic stop.” # ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ Memphis_BLM_Activist:_Tyre_Nichols’_Killing Is_Part_of_Police_Brutality_Crisis_Facing_Black_Residents⠀⇛ Amid nationwide protests, prosecutors have charged five former Memphis police officers with murder in the death of Tyre Nichols, who died January 10 of kidney failure and cardiac arrest after a vicious beating three days earlier during a traffic stop. Memphis and other cities across the U.S. are expecting mass protests against police violence over the weekend, with body-camera footage of the deadly traffic stop set to be released Friday evening. We go to Memphis for an update from community organizer Amber Sherman, a member of the Memphis chapter of Black Lives Matter, who says police brutality is nothing new for many residents. “It’s literally just being caught on camera,” Sherman says. “We have experienced this same kind of violence over and over and over again in our communities.” # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Black_Cops,_White_Justice?⠀⇛ Let’s acknowledge that the summary firing and subsequent indictment of five Memphis police officers for the brutal murder-by-beating of Tyree Nichols, a young Black man, is a good measure of justice – as pointed out by lawyer Ben Crump, an example that will give less cover to the police chiefs and prosecutors who almost invariably give a free pass to murderous cops. Let’s also not pretend that the five charged police officers aren’t Black themselves. How convenient is it to make an example out of them, while the murderers of Michael Brown, Philando Castile, Tamir Rice, Stephon Clark and thousands of others have not been held accountable? # ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ Tyre_Nichols’_Parents_Remember_Son_as “Beautiful_Soul”_&_Describe_Video_of_Beating_by_Memphis Police⠀⇛ A day after prosecutors charged five former Memphis police officers with murder over the fatal beating of Tyre Nichols, we speak with his parents, RowVaughn and Rodney Wells, about their drive to seek justice for their son. “He had a beautiful soul, and he touched everyone,” RowVaughn Wells says of her son. Nichols was a 29-year-old Black father, amateur photographer and longtime skateboarder who died January 10 from kidney failure and cardiac arrest, three days after he was brutally beaten by the five officers during a traffic stop. The officers were fired earlier this month and indicted on Thursday with second-degree murder, kidnapping and other charges for their role in Nichols’s death. We also speak with civil rights attorney Ben Crump, who is representing the family. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Russian_government_proposes_allowing_items confiscated_by_authorities_to_be_donated_to_Defense_Ministry —_Meduza⠀⇛ The Russian government has submitted a bill to the State Duma that would allow items seized by authorities to be donated as “humanitarian aid” to the Defense and Emergency Situations ministries rather than being destroyed. # ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Ukraine_Expects_to_Get_All_the_Western_Weapons It_Wants⠀⇛ After getting tanks, Ukraine wants fighter jets and longer-range missiles. # ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ It_Is_90_Seconds_to_Midnight⠀⇛ This year, the Science and Security Board of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists moves the hands of the Doomsday Clock forward, largely (though not exclusively) because of the mounting dangers of the war in Ukraine. The Clock now stands at 90 seconds to midnight—the closest to global catastrophe it has ever been. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ North_Korea_promises_to_‘always_be_in_the_same trench’_with_Russia_—_Meduza⠀⇛ North Korea “will always be in the same trench with the service personnel and people of Russia” in the struggle against “the imperial forces” of the U.S. and the West, says Kim Yo-jong, sister of the North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Protests_Erupt_Across_US_After_Memphis Releases_Video_of_Ex-Cops_Beating_Tyre_Nichols⠀⇛ # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ ‘Just_the_Next_Step’_Toward_Justice_for Tyre_Nichols:_Memphis_Police_Shutter_SCORPION_Unit⠀⇛ The family of Tyre Nichols and others appalled by his death—for which five fired Memphis cops now face murder charges—welcomed the police department’s decision on Saturday to disband a unit created in 2021 to patrol high-crime areas. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Ukrainian_Foreign_Ministry_demands_a_‘frank conversation’_with_Hungary_after_Viktor_Orban_calls_Ukraine_a ‘no_man’s_land’_—_Meduza⠀⇛ The Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs called on Hungary’s Ambassador to Ukraine, István Íjgyártó, to have a “frank conversation,” following recent remarks by Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban. # ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ War_With_China_Could_Come_as_Soon_as_2025, Predicts_‘Untethered’_US_General⠀⇛ Air Force Gen. Mike Minihan struck a Dr. Strangelove pose in urging the troops under his command to be ready to fight China in two years. o § Transparency/Investigative Reporting⠀➾ # ⚓ The Dissenter ☛ Every_Official_Everywhere_With_Classified Documents_All_At_Once:_A_Conversation_With_John_Kiriakou⠀⇛ # ⚓ Pro Publica ☛ Nearly_Half_of_All_Sheriffs_in_Louisiana_Are Violating_Public_Records_Laws⠀⇛ Nearly half of Louisiana sheriffs are in violation of a state law regulating the preservation and destruction of public records, according to documents provided by state officials. The disclosure follows an article this month by Verite, also published by ProPublica, on accusations that the Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office illegally destroyed documents in a lawsuit involving an autistic boy who died in custody. It also comes on the heels of increased scrutiny on the outsize power wielded by Louisiana sheriffs. o § Environment⠀➾ # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ No_False_Solutions!_Citizens_Rise_Up_to Resist_Dangerous_Carbon_Pipelines_in_the_Midwest⠀⇛ Iowa is the battle ground where the fate of world’s largest proposed carbon capture and storage pipeline is being decided. Summit Carbon Solutions intends to build a 2,000-mile pipeline to carry CO2 captured from ethanol plants across five states, to eventually inject and store it underground in North Dakota to supposedly reduce carbon emissions. But who truly stands to gain if the pipeline is built? A November 2022 report from the Oakland Institute, The Great Carbon Boondoggle, unmasked the billion- dollar financial interests and high-level political ties driving the project—despite opposition from a large and diverse coalition of Indigenous groups, farmers, and environmentalists. # § Energy/Transportation⠀➾ # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Chevron_More_Than_Doubled_Its_Profits_Last Year_as_Gas_Prices_Squeezed_Wallets⠀⇛ # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Lone_Democrat_Jared_Golden_Joins_House_GOP in_Passing_Massive_Big_Oil_Handout⠀⇛ # § Wildlife/Nature⠀➾ # ⚓ The Revelator ☛ Elephant_Poop,_Tasmanian_Snails_and Other_Links_From_the_Brink⠀⇛ o § Finance⠀➾ # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ How_Concentrated_Wealth_and_Corporate_Power Nurtures_the_Greed_of_Thieves⠀⇛ What makes for a thieving culture? An overabundance of pickpockets? Tsunamis of burglary and shoplifting? # ⚓ The Nation ☛ Why_It’s_Okay_for_Progressives_to_Enjoy_Sam Bankman-Fried’s_Downfall⠀⇛ Political fortunes are always waxing and waning, but few roller-coaster rides have been as dizzying as the rapid ascent and precipitous fall of Sam Bankman-Fried, who went in a matter of weeks from being a billionaire savior clasped to the bosom of the Democratic Party establishment to a bankrupt pariah facing criminal charges. On August 4, 2022, Politico swooned over SBF (as he is commonly known) as the Democratic Party’s newest “megadonor.” Only 30 years old, he had already amassed vast personal wealth—estimated in the neighborhood of $26 billion—as a cofounder of the Bahamas-based cryptocurrency exchange FTX. Starting in 2020, with donations totaling more than $5 million to Joe Biden’s election run, SBF was quickly anointed a donor-class princeling. His stature rose even higher in the 2022 election cycle, when he gave more than $40 million to Democratic campaigns and offshoots. This lavish endowment made SBF second only to George Soros as a party benefactor. Politico breathlessly cited SBF’s promise that in the event of a Biden-Trump rematch in 2024, he would kick in upwards of $1 billion to ensure a Democratic victory.1 # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ HBO_Max_Jacks_Up_Prices_After_Cheapskate Executives_Trash_Popular_Shows,_Refuse_To_Pay_Artist Residuals⠀⇛ We’ve already noted how HBO and Discovery executives keep demonstrating the immense, pointless harm of media megamergers. You’ll recall AT&T’s $200 billion acquisition of Time Warner and DirecTV wound up being a hot mess, forcing AT&T to take a huge loss and run for the exits after laying off more than 50,000 employees. o § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾ # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Billionaire’s_Lawsuit_Against_O’Rourke_May Stifle_Criticism_of_Money_in_Politics⠀⇛ # ⚓ The Dissenter ☛ Unauthorized_Disclosure:_Kicking_Off_A_10th Season⠀⇛ # ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Matt_Taibbi:_Move_Over,_Jason_Blair:_Meet Hamilton_68,_the_New_King_of_Media_Fraud⠀⇛ The Twitter Files reveal that one of the most common news sources of the Trump era was a scam, making ordinary American political conversations look like Russian spywork. # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Omar,_Schiff_and_Swalwell_Blast_McCarthy_for Stripping_Them_From_Committees⠀⇛ # ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ It_Was_the_Workers_Who_Brought_Us_Democracy, and_It_Will_Be_the_Workers_Who_Establish_a_Deeper_Democracy Yet⠀⇛ Democracy has a dream-like character. It sweeps into the world, carried forward by an immense desire by humans to overcome the barriers of indignity and social suffering. When confronted by hunger or the death of their children, earlier communities might have reflexively blamed nature or divinity, […] # ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ How_the_Arizona_Attorney_General_Created_a Secretive,_Illegal_Surveillance_Program_to_Sweep_Up_Millions of_Our_Financial_Records⠀⇛ New records obtained by the ACLU shed light on the scope of a mass surveillance program keeping tabs on Americans’ financial data. # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Arizona_Republicans_Exempt_Themselves_From_Open Records_Rules⠀⇛ # ⚓ Telex (Hungary) ☛ Uzbekistan_to_open_embassy_in_Budapest, Orbán_receives_president_of_Turkic_Investment_Fund⠀⇛ o § Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾ # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Ron_DeSantis’s_Attack_on_Black_Studies_Is Textbook_Proto-Fascism⠀⇛ # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Omsk_governor_calls_proposed_public_art_project ‘LGBT_propaganda’_—_Meduza⠀⇛ Mayor of Omsk Sergey Shelest has criticized a project that would install statues of pigeons painted in various colors along the Irtysh River embankment. # ⚓ Unicorn Media ☛ Why_Content_Moderation_on_Mastodon_Isn’t the_Train_Wreck_Some_on_Twitter_Say_It_Is⠀⇛ Last week, when working on an article for FOSS Force I wanted to embed a toot, which is what Mastodon calls tweets. That’s easy to do in Twitter, but I wasn’t sure that Mastodon had that capability. I looked around briefly, didn’t find the answer, so I dashed off a quick toot for help. “Help! How do I link to a particular toot?” o § Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press⠀➾ # ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ The_Chris_Hedges_Report:_Will_Julian_Assange Ever_Be_Free?⠀⇛ Chris Hedges speaks with film producer and brother of Julian Assange, Gabriel Shipton, on his new film about his family’s journey to get Julian free. o § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾ # ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Far_Right_Supreme_Court_Ready_to_Gut_Unions_ (Again)_as_Workers_Die_on_the_Job⠀⇛ By Eve Ottenberg / CounterPunch One of the first dead giveaways for fascism is animosity toward trade unions. That’s not to say all anti-union businesspeople are fascist, but simply that that hatred is a first step on the primrose path to a polity of utterly oppressed wage slaves and strictly limited civil rights, a step […] # ⚓ The Nation ☛ “Restore_Roe”_Is_Not_the_Answer_to_the Abortion_Access_Crisis⠀⇛ As abortion rights supporters commemorated the 50th anniversary of Roe v. Wade this month, we were inundated with calls to action from elected leaders saying that we need to “restore Roe,” “codify Roe,” and pass the Women’s Health Protection Act (WHPA). o § Internet Policy/Net Neutrality⠀➾ # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Biden_Administration_Declares_War_On_The Internet,_Clears_Path_For_Offensive_Hacking_Efforts_By Federal_Agencies⠀⇛ It’s impossible to be the “aggressor” of the free world. Those words just don’t make sense together. “Defender of the free world,” maybe. If you’re going on the offensive, it seems unlikely you’re there to protect anyone’s freedoms. # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ New_Dumb_Attack_Against_Gigi_Sohn_Tries_To_Shame Her_For_Being_On_The_EFF’s_Board⠀⇛ We’ve explained how telecom and media giants have pulled out all the stops trying to block Gigi Sohn from being seated at the FCC. That has involved a sleazy smear campaign, seeded in the press by non- profits linked to companies like News Corporation, AT&T, and Comcast, falsely accusing Sohn of being a radical extremist who hates Hispanics, rural Americans, cops, puppies, and freedom. # ⚓ EFF ☛ Brazil’s_Telecom_Operators_Made_Strides_and_Had Shortcomings_in_Internet_Lab’s_New_Report_on_User_Privacy Practices⠀⇛ In this seventh annual assessment of Brazil’s providers, InternetLab evaluated six companies, and looked at both their broadband and mobile services. Operators assessed include Oi fixed and mobile broadband; Vivo (Telefónica) fixed and mobile broadband, TIM fixed and mobile broadband,Claro/NET (América Móvil), Brisanet fixed and mobile broadband, and Algar (broadband only). The operators were evaluated in six categories, including providing information about their data protection policies, disclosing guidelines for law enforcement seeking user data, defending user privacy in courts, supporting pro-privacy policies, publishing transparency reports, and notifying users when the government requests their data. This year, Oi broke into the top and tied with TIM in receiving the highest scores—each company garnered  full credit in four out of six categories. Every company in the report received full credit for challenging privacy-abusive legislation and government requests for user data except Algar, which received half credit. While Brisanet improved its overall standing, earning full credit in this category, it received the least amount of credit among its peers, echoing last year’s report. With Brazilian providers steadily improving transparency and customer data protection over the years, methodological changes were made in this edition to raise the bar for achieving credit in a few categories. Specifically, assessing companies’ compliance with data protection legislation has been expanded to include more requirements for transparency about data sharing with third parties. New criteria for measuring transparency around customers’ rights,  data handovers to authorities, and cybersecurity protocols were also added. o § Monopolies⠀➾ # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ The_Latest_Antitrust_Case_Against_Google_Is,_By Far,_The_Most_Serious⠀⇛ There have been a whole bunch of antitrust lawsuits filed against Google over the last few years. The DOJ filed one in October of 2020 that was pathetically weak. That one seemed like it was Attorney General Bill Barr appeasing then President Trump with what Trump hoped would be an election- boosting attack on “evil woke big tech.” Then, in December of that year, a bunch of states, lead by Texas’ Ken Paxton filed another antitrust lawsuit, which we noted got some fairly basic things completely wrong, but had some potential to be legit depending on what was behind a bunch of redactions. That case has plodded along, and the amended complaint filed last year was much stronger than the original complaint and looked pretty damning to us. Then there was another antitrust lawsuit from a bunch of other states. # § Patents⠀➾ # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Time_for_a_Showdown_With_Big_Pharma: Chairman_Sanders_vs._Sky-High_Drug_Prices⠀⇛ It is showdown time. Senator Bernie Sanders, new chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee versus Big Pharma. # § Copyrights⠀➾ # ⚓ Torrent Freak ☛ MPA_&_ACE_Need_OSINT_Investigators_to Track_Down_IPTV_Pirates⠀⇛ The MPA’s Global Content Protection team and the connected Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment are on a mission to disrupt video content piracy and those behind it. Job listings reveal openings at the MPA for OSINT investigators, with one position stating a strong preference for a candidate with IPTV experience. * § Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾ o § Personal⠀➾ # ⚓ 🔤SpellBinding:_ACSILOG_Wordo:_FREON⠀⇛ # ⚓ Side_Effects⠀⇛ I’ve been diagnosed with psoriasis about two years ago. Around the age of 25, I noticed an uncontrollable itch in the lower back, the buttocks and the gluteal fold, especially after exercise or prolonged periods of sitting. It went away after some time, and I assumed it’s just some random skin irritation. Around my 26th birthday, I noticed I have some bald spots in my beard, around the chin. My wife’s aunt, a well-regarded naturopathy practitioner with clients all over the country, said it looks like alopecia areata and must be related to stress. She gave me some custom-made homeopathic potion, which didn’t work, and I decided to finally go to a skin doctor, to solve both problems. # ⚓ Most_things_are_not_worth_it⠀⇛ Most things are not worth your attention you give to them! # ⚓ Strange_High_Pressure_Weather_2023-01-29_(Fairbanks,_AK, US)⠀⇛ From what I’ve read and observed, usually when a high-pressure bubble develops in the winter, then you get clear skies and colder temperatures. But the opposite is the case: we have overcast skies and warm weather, and snow. Also, humidity is quite high: late yesterday evening, about 4pm AKST, we had frost suddenly form on all our parked vehicles. And that appears to be the NOAA forecast continuing for the next few days: warm temps, cloudy skies, and steady snow. # ⚓ Show_notes⠀⇛ This week was a busy week. On monday, the plan was to have a look around St Joseph’s Church, but it was closed, so we wandered down Wangfujing and ended up outside the Theatre Museum of Beijing People’s Art Theatre. We weren’t sure exactly what it was, but it looked interesting, so we headed inside. It turns out that it’s not just a theatre museum, it is also a theatre. We’d headed into the box office, where the staff offered us a choice of plays to buy tickets for. After we’d established we were looking for a museum, they made some phone calls and we found our way to the museum. # ⚓ back_to_the_internet⠀⇛ I stumble around with all these static site generators so often, but actually what i want is to be able to write. I don’t want to faff with a command line. Things don’t work. Installing jekyll breaks. This post is the post i write most often because i’m too caught up in the means to the end than in the end in itself. I think of something that i want to share with my own place on the internet and yet i cannot because my place is a shambles. # ⚓ Trumpet,_Illness_and_a_Leap_of_Faith⠀⇛ I’m adopting a new belief system, or joining what appears to be the winning side of a paradigm shift. I’m learning the Maggio System. For me, it’s a completely new way to play the trumpet, after 23 years. As a kid, my trumpet teacher taught me to smile to play higher, but keep the corners of the mouth tight. The lip is a string, he said, and you need a thin string that vibrates freely, to play high. Like many trumpet players, I also learned that I need to press harder to increase the vibration and produce louder and fuller notes, especially when I play high. # ⚓ Hakuho’s_Retirement_Ceremoney⠀⇛ When a rikishi retires, they will keep to the rules of being a sumo wrestler until they have a retirement ceremony known as a danpatsushiki. This ceremony is often many months after the rikishi has announced their retirement. Well yesterday was Hakuho's, held over a year after his retirement in September 2021. o § Politics⠀➾ # ⚓ Investment_Times,_Hargreaves_Lansdown⠀⇛ Average house price: £296,000 Average discount on the asking price: 4% Average first time buyer ager 2021: 32 Average time it takes to sell: 18 weeks Proportion of sellers who’ve cut the asking price: 25% Average gain in price since the onset of the pandemic: £69,000 Average first time buyer deposit 2021: £53,935 # ⚓ RE:_Are_you_ok?⠀⇛ I’m not okay, no. And the world around me isn’t, either. I mean the entire reason I CAN go out and touch grass is because the snow that’s supposed to be covering it, isn’t. In January in the Midwestern US. My finances are shit. I’m about a week away from bankruptcy at any given moment. o § Technical⠀➾ # ⚓ Maintaining_Simplicity_While_Acknowledging_FOMO⠀⇛ As people can see from the “Gemini Helpers” section on my home page, I spent quite some time figuring out the best way to layout and structure my capsule and especially the gemlog. # ⚓ Pavlov’s_dog_receives_e-mails⠀⇛ I’m a natural zero-inboxer. So from the first e- mail box, I am acting what I read afterward as inbox zero rules. All unwanted messages are flagged as spam. All quick matters are dealt with on the spot. The rest things are marked to deal with them at the proper time (invoices, birthday reminders, etc.). # § Science⠀➾ # ⚓ Buzz_Aldrin’s_Race_into_Space⠀⇛ Given the theme of Gemini, I just remembered an old DOS game I played in the early 1990s. It’s called “Buzz Aldrin’s Race into Space” and let players re-play the race into space from a US or Soviet point of view. It was released to the public domain years ago, so it’s free to play. # § Programming⠀➾ # ⚓ Validate_email_address_using_Regex_in_C++⠀⇛ Qucik one. Something I want to write down before I forget. Validating email addresses have been a constant pain for software developers. The RFC spec for a valid email is complex. No, it’s not simply `^\S+@\S+\.\S+$`. For example. The spec prohibits email addresses on TLD. Thus `bob@example` is not valid. There’s a very helpful post on the internet that shares how to validate on using regex. # ⚓ Tools:_redo_(part_6)_The_yacc/bison_problem:_one_call produces_two_artifacts⠀⇛ One of the things any build system must do for me, is the build of hoc, the “Higher Order Calculator” as presented in “Kernighan, Pike — The Unix Programming Environment” published in 1984. There is this one detail: a call to bison produces two targets from one prerequisite file. bison should not be called twice during the build — even though in the case of hoc this is an affair of seconds. # ⚓ Tools:_redo_(part_7)_The_N_artefact_problem,_a minimal_example⠀⇛ I wanted to have something to simulate a call to a code generator, which will produce a number of artefacts, which in turn are needed to build a (generated) hello world executable. And I wanted to build this thing using redo. How hard can it be? This was not overly complicated. The generator comes in at 71 lines of code. This comes in a bit smaller than the 73 lines of code I needed in all .do snippets together. # ⚓ Configure_syncthing_to_sync_a_single_file⠀⇛ Quick blog entry to remember about something that wasn’t as trivial as I thought. I needed to use syncthing to keep a single file in sync (KeePassXC database) without synchronizing the whole directory. You have to use mask exclusion feature to make it possible. Put it simple, you need the share to forbid every file, except the one you want to sync. This configuration happens in the `.stignore` file in the synchronized directory, but can also be managed from the Web interface. =============================================================================== * Gemini_(Primer) links can be opened using Gemini_software. It’s like the World Wide Web but a lot lighter. ╘══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╛ ¶ Lines in total: 2397 ➮ Generation completed at 02:41, i.e. 60 seconds to (re)generate ⟲