GNU/Linux

• Make Use Of ☛ The 5 Best Linux YouTube Channels Every Linux User Should Follow

  If you are a Linux enthusiast who wants to find good channels for information and news discussions, take these picks of which channels to follow.

Distributions and Operating Systems

• SJVN ☛ Chainguard's Wolfi: Revolutionizing Containerized Workloads with Rapid Updates and Robust Security

  A year ago, Chainguard introduced Wolfi, a pioneering community-driven Linux un-distribution. It was engineered for minimalism, swift updates, and accelerated Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) remediation. An un-what you ask? Wolfi is a distroless, minimal container designed to run your containerized application, and nothing else.

  Why? Because every package you add is one more potential attack surface. Wolfi aims at delivering secure, hardened, zero-known CVE containers.

• BSD

  • Make Use Of ☛ OpenBSD vs. FreeBSD: What Is the Difference, Which Is Best?

    OpenBSD and FreeBSD are server-focused descendants of the original Berkeley Software Distribution, or BSD developed at UC Berkeley from the late 1970s through the 1990s.

    As popular open-source projects, they have dedicated followings as alternatives to Linux. How do they differ, and which one may be right for you?

• Fedora Family / IBM

  • Fedora Project ☛ Fedora Community Blog: Kubernetes Support On Fedora Linux 37

    Kubernetes v1.25 is the version available for Fedora Linux 37 from Fedora repositories. Starting with Kubernetes v1.25.12, Kubernetes developers changed the version of the go language used to compile Kubernetes from v1.19 to v1.20. Fedora 37 currently provides go language v1.19. As a result, the latest version of Kubernetes available in the Fedora repository is v1.25.11 which is several versions behind the current v1.25 release. Kubernetes v1.25.12 included an important security patch for clusters that include Windows nodes.

  • It's FOSS ☛ FOSS Weekly #23.39: Linux Shortcuts, LMDE 6, New Bazzite Distro and New Announcement

    The wait and suspense is over. Here's the new offering from It's FOSS.

• Debian Family

  • Debian ☛ Bits from Debian: New Debian Developers and Maintainers (July and August 2023)

    The following contributors got their Debian Developer accounts in the last two months:

  • Emmanuel Arias (eamanu)

  The following contributors were added as Debian Maintainers in the last two months:

  • Aymeric Agon-Rambosson
  • Blair Noctis
  • Lena Voytek
  • Philippe Coval
  • John Scott

  Congratulations!

Devices/Embedded

• Linux Gizmos ☛ New ARIES Embedded Products Built on Renesas RZ/G2L Microprocessors

  ARIES Embedded has recently unveiled two embedded platforms based on the Renesas RZ Family architecture. These SMARC-compliant modules serve a wide range of purposes, from rapid prototyping to applications in both commercial and industrial settings.

Free, Libre, and Open Source Software

• SJVN ☛ The invaluable opensource.com site is reborn as opensource.net [Ed: No, they just made a press release about it 3 months late; and the only output is never coming back]

  There have been many great open-source and Linux sites over the years. Linux Weekly News (LWN) for deep Linux kernel news; Phoronix for down, dirty, and detailed Linux benchmarking; and I've been known to write a thing or two about Linux worth reading over the years. But, for general, how-to and technical features about Linux and open-source software, one website stood out from the others for its breadth of informed coverage: Red Hat's OpenSource.com. But, then, Red Hat had its first layoff, OpenSource.com closed its doors, and all its content disappeared with it.

• Ted Unangst ☛ an aborted experiment with server swift

  I wanted to write a fun little experimental ActivityPub server.

• Programming/Development

  • TechTarget ☛ New Git repository faces corporate open source doubts

    CI/CD pipeline vendor Harness faces two challenges as it launches Gitness: a market dominated by GitHub and GitLab as well as concerns about vendor-led open source projects.

  • Olaf Alders ☛ is: an inspector for your environment

    I love writing bash scripts, but there are some aspects of it which I find to be a bit tedious.

  • Qt ☛ Qt Creator 11.0.3 released

    We are happy to announce the release of Qt Creator 11.0.3!

  • Qt ☛ Qt 6.5.3 Released

    e have released Qt 6.5.3 today. As a patch release, Qt 6.5.3 does not introduce any new features but contains more than 500 bug fixes, security updates, and other improvements to the top of the Qt 6.5.2 release.

  • Qt ☛ Qt Creator 11.0.3 released

    We are happy to announce the release of Qt Creator 11.0.3!

  • Tamiz, a new and great experience

    At the beginning of 2022 I started helping Grupo EVM to shape their plans to ship digital products. They are a technology centric group with a strong data profile, specialised in designing and developing bleeding edge projects and services for public administrations, mostly in Spain, as well as EU funded R&D projects.

  • Pitfalls of lambda capture initialization

    Recently, I’ve stumbled across some behavior of C++ lambda captures that has, initially, made absolutely no sense to me. Apparently, I wasn’t alone with this, because it has resulted in a memory leak in QtFuture::whenAll() and QtFuture::whenAny() (now fixed; more on that further down).

    I find the corner cases of C++ quite interesting, so I wanted to share this. Luckily, we can discuss this without getting knee-deep into the internals of QtFuture. So, without further ado: [...]

Leftovers

• Health/Nutrition/Agriculture

  • The Straits Times ☛ Australia says exports of hay to China will resume

    The Australian government said on Thursday that China was removing barriers to imports of hay from Australia, the latest step towards normalising trade relations between the two countries.

• Linux Foundation

  • Computer Weekly ☛ Cross-architecture unification: Linux Foundation forms Unified Acceleration (UXL) Foundation [Ed: Adrian Bridgwater became stenographer of 'Linux' Foundation, republishing whatever they tell him to]

    As part of the Linux Foundation’s Open Source Summit 2023, the foundation has announced the formation of the Unified Acceleration (UXL) Foundation.

  • Computer Weekly ☛ Camara: The Linux Foundation telco API project

    The Linux Foundation has made note of its Camara (stylised as CAMARA officially) project now having graduated to a funded model.

  • TechTarget ☛ Linux Foundation ups ante on HashiCorp, hosts Terraform fork

    All eyes are on HashiCorp's response now that a community-driven fork of its Terraform infrastructure as code tool has been officially relaunched as a Linux Foundation project.

  • Computer Weekly ☛ CNCF: Developer training is key, the challenge is time & cost

    The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) has conducted a survey (the team modestly called it a microsurvey of just 135 contributors, but size is not important and small is beautiful, right?) to assess the state of developer skills.

• Entrapment (Microsoft GitHub)

  • Alan Pope ☛ Alan Pope: Publishing Hugo site via GitHub Actions [Ed: Alan Pope shilling Microsoft's proprietary software and NSA-controlled compiler you neither can see nor audit]

    My blog at popey.com/blog is hosted on a Bitfolk VPS, built from the Hugo source code in a public GitHub repo.

• Security

  • Privacy/Surveillance

    • Privacy International ☛ International Safe Abortion Day 2023

    • Scoop News Group ☛ Privacy watchdog recommends court approval for FBI searches of spy data

      The recommendations from the executive branch's privacy watchdog to reform Section 702 puts the panel at odds with the White House.

    • New York Times ☛ Watchdog Urges Extending Surveillance Law With New Limits

      In a report about an expiring law that has generated intense debate in Congress, a government panel split over requiring court permission to view Americans’ communications.

• Defence/Aggression

  • Mint Press News ☛ I Was the Only US Official Imprisoned Over the Torture Program — Because I Opposed It

    The only person associated with the CIA's global torture program who was prosecuted and imprisoned was the man who blew the whistle on it — John Kiriakou.

  • France24 ☛ Burkina Faso junta says it thwarted coup attempt

    Burkina Faso's military government said Wednesday it had foiled a coup attempt the previous day, almost a year after the country's leader came to power in a coup himself.

  • France24 ☛ Taiwan unveils first domestically made submarine as China increases pressure

    Taiwan unveiled its first domestically built submarine Thursday as the massively outgunned island seeks to bolster defences against China, which slammed the strategy as "idiotic nonsense".

  • Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Taiwan unveils first domestically built submarine as outgunned island seeks to bolster defences

    By Sean Chang and Amber Wang Taiwan unveiled its first domestically built submarine Thursday as the massively outgunned island seeks to bolster defences against China, which slammed the strategy as “idiotic nonsense”.

  • RFA ☛ Taiwan unveils homegrown ‘sea monster’ sub

    The island’s indigenously developed prototype will be delivered to the navy by 2024.

  • TwinCities Pioneer Press ☛ American soldier who crossed into North Korea arrives back in the US, video appears to show

    The White House said Wednesday that Pvt. Travis King's return was organized with the help of ally Sweden and rival China.

• Finance

  • Latvia ☛ Small-denomination coins may soon be on the way out

    The latest "Payment Radar" information published by the Latvian central bank (Latvijas Banka, LB) suggests that around half of the population is tired of having small coins ratling around in its purses and pockets.

  • Reason ☛ Ron DeSantis and Chris Christie Call Out Trump for Adding to Federal Debt

    "He owes it to you to defend his record where they added $7.8 trillion to the debt that set the stage for the inflation that we have."

• AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics

  • New York Times ☛ In Menendez Case, Prosecutors Confront Tighter Definition of Corruption

    The Supreme Court has said wrongdoing must be clear cut. Some observers say the accusations in the senator’s case pass the test.

  • New York Times ☛ Was Trump’s Real Estate Hype Fraud or Just Business as Usual?

    There’s no doubt he vastly exaggerated the value of his assets, but much of the real estate industry makes claims that are reliably unreliable.

• Civil Rights/Policing

  • LRT ☛ March to Vilnius and sleeping in tents: Lithuanian teachers brace for month-long strike

    On Friday, a teachers’ strike will start in some of the educational institutions in Lithuania. According to the Lithuanian Trade Union of Educational Workers (LŠDPS), the organiser of the strike, some teachers will walk from their schools to Vilnius where they will hold pickets.

  • teleSUR ☛ UAW to Add Strike Targets Against Big Three US Automakers

    The list of potential strike targets in the next stage involves engine and transmission facilities.

  • JURIST ☛ UN women’s rights expert calls for intervention in Afghanistan women’s rights crisis

    UN Women Executive Director Sima Bahous Tuesday called for the UN Security Council (UNSC) to intervene in the Afghan women’s rights crisis. In a speech before the council, Bahous noted the deterioration of women’s rights in Afghanistan under Taliban rule.

• Internet Policy/Net Neutrality

  • SANS ☛ IPv4 Addresses in Little Endian Decimal Format, (Thu, Sep 28th)

    If you look at the XML EventData of Windows events like 1002 (DHCP error), you will see something like this:

• Monopolies

  • JURIST ☛ US federal government and 17 states launch antitrust lawsuit against Amazon

    The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and 17 states sued Amazon on Tuesday for anticompetitive conduct that, they claim, has helped it maintain its “monopoly power” in the online superstore market and the online marketplace services market.

  • Patents

    • JUVE ☛ Video: JUVE Patent’s Netherlands ranking 2023 [Ed: JUVE took bribes to keep promoting illegal agenda (UPC) and it's still publishing a lot of spam, also disguised as ranking. The media is dying because it's becoming webspam and it actively helps lawbreakers.]

      In JUVE Patent’s Netherlands ranking 2023, Mathieu Klos and Amy Sandys discuss the latest issues and developments at the heart of the Dutch patent market.

    • JUVE ☛ Top filing and litigation firms in the Netherlands 2023 [Ed: More spam disguised as "ratings". Some of these firms bribe JUVE for the positions.]]

  • Trademarks

    • TTAB Blog ☛ Precedential No. 28: TTABlog Test - Is WEALE Primarily Merely a Surname for Body Care Products?

      The USPTO refused to register the proposed mark WEALE for various body care products, deeming the mark to be primarily merely a surname under Section 2(e)(4). Database and website evidence identified fewer than 150 individuals with the surname WEALE, leading the Board to find WEALE to be a "rare surname." No one associated with the applicant has that surname. There was no probative evidence that the word has a non-surname meaning. The Board found that WEALE has the structure and pronunciation of a surname. So, how did this appeal come out? In re Weale Care, LLC, Serial No. 90756950 (September 26, 2023) [precedential] (Opinion by Judge Wendy B. Cohen).