Basically, Linux is everywhere and everyone keeps talking about it. And that gives you FOMO.
So, you wonder about the advantages of Linux and whether is it really worth trying.
I have compiled various possible advantages and disadvantages of Linux in this article.
If you are on the fence about choosing Linux over your preferred operating system, we would like to help you out.
Throw your desktop environment and start using the terminal app for your daily routine. Sounds easy! Those who did this can easily relate to the pain of navigating to the different directories using the cd command.
For instance, you may ignore the stress of navigating to different directories from the terminal. However, over time, this hidden stress will exhaust your mental power, which will reduce your productivity.
To tackle the pain of navigation and increase your productivity on the terminal can be easily achieved using the nnn terminal-based file browser.
Apache Tomcat or Tomcat is a widely known and used Java application server. It is an open-source web server and servlet container developed and maintained by a community of developers of the Apache Software Foundation. In this tutorial, we will guide you through the steps of installing Tomcat on Ubuntu 22.04. At the time of this writing, Tomcat 10 is the latest stable version available to download.
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install PlayOnLinux on Linux Mint 21. For those of you who didn’t know, PlayOnLinux is an open-source gaming framework (software) based on Wine, that allows you to easily install any Windows-based applications and games on Linux operating systems. The purpose of PlayOnLinux software is to simplify and automates the process of installing and running Windows applications on Linux platforms. Apart from Linux OS, it also offers PlayOnMac to run Windows programs on macOS.
This article assumes you have at least basic knowledge of Linux, know how to use the shell, and most importantly, you host your site on your own VPS. The installation is quite simple and assumes you are running in the root account, if not you may need to add ‘sudo‘ to the commands to get root privileges. I will show you the step-by-step installation of a PlayOnLinux on Linux Mint 21 (Vanessa).
Follow through this tutorial to learn how to install MySQL 8 on Oracle Linux 9. Being a popular open-source relational database management system, MySQL is available and can be installed on Oracle Linux 9.
This is a complete, beginner-friendly, detailed guide to the chown command in Linux. This tutorial will teach you what the chown command does, and how to use it, along with a few useful examples.
Legacy Of Sin Blood Oath is a real-time strategy, RPG, survival and route defense game.
90’s kids think that the Power Glove was the coolest game peripheral of the epoch. We might have thought so too, until we heard about Don’t Touch: The Story of the U-Force from [The Gaming Historian].
Due to a problem with releaseme's tarme.rb script, the release tarball for KPhotoAlbum 5.9.0 didn't contain any translation data. Alas, I noticed this not before the tarball already spread the mirrors, so we had to withdraw it an create a new one, with a bumped version number.
Writing an operating system for a computing platform is one of those non-trivial tasks few people actually need to do, regardless of whether it’s for a small microcontroller or a larger general-purpose computer. Many of us spend a large amount of our time working on producing robust code for embedded systems, occasionally diving deeper into the abstraction when we’re stuck on a problem. Quite often this work is sitting on top of an RTOS, which we consider a solved problem. [Jonathan Diamond] had picked up a fair bit of knowledge of some of the low-level AVR black magic, as well as some details of how operating systems work internally, and so decided to have a crack a building a toy operating system called KittyOS, for the learning experience alone.
Linux is open source, which means anyone can help improve it. Here's how you can help test the latest Fedora Linux kernel by participating in community Test Days.
In August, we published 12 posts. The site had 7,318 visits from 4,656 unique viewers. 2,710 visits came from search engines, while 34 came from Fedora Planet and 33 came from Fedora Discussion.
Canonical has announced Ubuntu Unity will once again be an official flavor of the venerable Linux distribution (distro).
Ubuntu is the world’s most popular Linux distro and is widely credited with making Linux easy for the masses. While the Gnome desktop environment (DE) is Ubuntu’s current default, for a number of years, its own home-grown Unity DE held that honor. Ubuntu switched from Gnome to Unity in 2011, before abandoning it in favor of a return to Gnome in 2017. Thankfully, enterprising developer Rudra Saraswat kept the DE alive, releasing an unofficial spin called Ubuntu Unity Remix.
Beginning with Ubuntu 22.10, scheduled for release next month, the Unity version of Ubuntu will be an official flavor, dropping the “Remix” from its name.
Groupgets PureThermal 3 (PT3) is a hackable thermal webcam that ships with the low-cost FLIR Lepton FS module, and is compatible with FLIR Lepton (2.x – 3.x) LWIR camera core.
The company explains the new model offers the same basic functionality as the PureThermal 2 but with a few changes and additional features, although the motivation for the new design was primarily to address component shortages. Some changes include the removal of pads to install an RF shield, and the Tag-Connect TC2030 programming connector is replaced by the Tag-Connect EC-10-IDC.
There are plenty of open-source code editors available for Linux.
What would you think about another option: A Rust-based open source code editor focusing on performance?
It should be exciting, right?
Lapce is one such project in development that aims to present a feature-rich and fast code editor as an alternative to Microsoft's Visual Studio Code.
The developer also mentions that it was inspired by Xi-editor (which is no longer in active development).
I wrote an article about the best web browsers for Linux a while ago. Since then, a slew of web browsers have appeared, many of which appear to be based on Chromium or Firefox. However, many of those cool-looking Linux web browsers are not as private as you might think. In this article, I’ll go over the best privacy-focused web browsers for Linux.
I’ve used more than ten web browsers on my Linux in the last few months. Each one focuses on providing secure web browsing, regular feature updates, and customizability, but there are few developers who actually focus on providing not only secure but private web browsing, no matter how far they have to go to do so.
Remember that bad actors aren’t the only ones to be wary of these days; tech behemoths like Google, Facebook, Instagram, and others are constantly monitoring users’ activities across the Internet, even when the user isn’t on their website. Typically, internet users are unaware of how these tech juggernauts track their online activities, so they make no effort to avoid it. Some even do not consider it a matter of privacy, which is a topic for another day.
The Document Foundation is the non-profit home of LibreOffice, and its Membership Committee (MC) administers membership applications and renewals following the criteria defined in the Foundation’s Statutes.
One of the types of software that’s important for a web developer is the web framework. A framework “is a code library that makes a developer’s life easier when building reliable, scalable, and maintainable web applications” by providing reusable code or extensions for common operations. By saving development time, developers can concentrate on application logic rather than mundane elements.
A web framework offers the developer a choice about how to solve a specific problem. By using a framework, a developer lets the framework control portions of their application. While it’s perfectly possible to code a web application without using a framework, it’s more practical to use one.
Lua is a lightweight, small, compact, and fast programming language designed as an embeddable scripting language. This cross-platform interpreted language has a simple syntax with powerful data description constructs. It has automatic memory management and incremental garbage collection, making it ideal for configuration, scripting, and rapid prototyping.
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Here’s our recommended web frameworks for Lua captured in a legendary chart.
It was the usual information stall like described several times before in this blog. Unfortunately I didn’t have time yet to write more about it. I created an updated information leaflet and really should get a tent because this time we had heavy rain twice and it was very hard to protect the paper materials with only an umbrella as cover.
In this issue we look into the software development of Librem 5 phone and of Phosh, the popular graphical environment for Linux phones. And booths are back! We are happy to discuss Free Software in person again.
Version 5.2.0 of the GNU Awk implementation is out. The biggest change, perhaps, is the addition of "persistent memory" support that allows gawk to keep values around between runs. Old-timers will be disappointed by the removal of VAX/VMS support.
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Greetings all.
This note announces the next major release of GNU Awk: version 5.2.0.
The following files may be retrieved via HTTPS from https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gawk:
-rw-rw-r-- 1 arnold arnold 6540181 Sep 4 18:52 gawk-5.2.0.tar.gz -rw-rw-r-- 1 arnold arnold 3228577 Sep 4 18:52 gawk-5.2.0.tar.lz -rw-rw-r-- 1 arnold arnold 3386344 Sep 4 18:52 gawk-5.2.0.tar.xz
This is a major new release. The relevant part of the NEWS file is appended below.
This release represents a lot of very hard work by a number of people. I thank them all for their contributions, I could not have done it by myself.
Differences from gawk 5.1.1 are not available; they would be too large.
The online documentation on the GNU web site is already updated, including a manual for the new persistent memory feature.
The usual GNU build incantation should be used:
tar -xpvzf gawk-5.2.0.tar.gz cd gawk-5.2.0 ./configure && make && make check
Please use the new buggawk script to report bugs. If it doesn't work for you, then send email to bug-gawk@gnu.org.
NOTE that the manual's instructions for sending bug reports have been updated. Please review them carefully before submitting a report!
ONLY bug reports should be submitted to the bug-gawk list. All other questions should use the relatively new help-gawk@gnu.org mailing list.
Enjoy!
Arnold Robbins (on behalf of all the gawk developers) arnold@skeeve.com ------------------------------------------------------------ Copyright (C) 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification, are permitted in any medium without royalty provided the copyright notice and this notice are preserved.
Changes from 5.1.x to 5.2.0 ---------------------------
***************************************************************************** * MPFR mode (the -M option) is now ON PAROLE. This feature is now being * * supported by a volunteer in the development team and not by the primary * * maintainer. If this situation changes, then the feature will be removed. * * For more information see this section in the manual: * * https://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/manual/html_node/MPFR-O... * *****************************************************************************
1. Infrastructure upgrades: Libtool 2.4.7, Bison 3.8.2.
2. Numeric scalars now compare in the same way as C for the relational operators. Comparison order for sorting has not changed. This only makes a difference when comparing Infinity and NaN values with regular numbers; it should not be noticeable most of the time.
3. If the AWK_HASH environment variable is set to "fnv1a" gawk will use the FNV1-A hash function for associative arrays.
4. The CMake infrastructure has been removed. In the five years it was in the tree, nobody used it, and it was not updated.
5. There is now a new function, mkbool(), that creates Boolean-typed values. These values *are* numbers, but they are also tagged as Boolean. This is mainly for use with data exchange to/from languages or environments that support real Boolean values. See the manual for details.
6. As BWK awk has supported interval expressions since 2019, they are now enabled even if --traditional is supplied. The -r/--re-interval option remains, but it does nothing.
7. The rwarray extension has two new functions, writeall() and readall(), for saving / restoring all of gawk's variables and arrays.
8. The new `gawkbug' script should be used for reporting bugs.
9. The manual page (doc/gawk.1) has been considerably reduced in size. Wherever possible, details were replaced with references to the online copy of the manual.
10. Gawk now supports Terence Kelly's "persistent malloc" (pma), allowing gawk to preserve its variables, arrays and user-defined functions between runs. THIS IS AN EXPERIMENTAL FEATURE!
For more information, see the manual. A new pm-gawk.1 man page is included, as is a separate user manual that focuses on the feature.
11. Support for OS/2 has been removed. It was not being actively maintained.
12. Similarly, support for DJGPP has been removed. It also was not being actively maintained.
13. VAX/VMS is no longer supported, as it can no longer be tested. The files for it remain in the distribution but will be removed eventually.
14. Some subtle issues with untyped array elements being passed to functions have been fixed.
15. Syntax errors are now immediately fatal. This prevents problems with errors from fuzzers and other such things.
16. There have been numerous minor code cleanups and bug fixes. See the ChangeLog for details.
Changes from 5.1.1 to 5.1.x ---------------------------
1. Infrastructure upgrades: Automake 1.16.5, Texinfo 6.8.
2. The rwarray extension now supports writing and reading GMP and MPFR values. As a result, a bug in the API code was fixed.
The new release of Coco is now available and offers a huge step forward in usability and functionality for your testing. Developers can now review code coverage directly from their Integrated Development Environment (IDE) without switching back and forth between tools.
By bringing this information into the IDE, you’re empowering your developers to consider code testing and coverage as part of their ongoing development rather than seeing it as a separate process.
In fifth grade, I moved from Lagos, Nigeria, to New York City. Right away, I learned that my name, Boluwatife (pronounced bow-luh-wah-tea-feh), is a tongue twister for many Americans. They just cannot get it right.
If you’ve ever dealt with orbital mechanics or sophisticated computer graphics, you’ve probably run across the math term quaternions. [Anyleaf] has a guide to the practical use of this math concept which focuses more on practicality than theory. We like it!
Last week, President Biden addressed a crowd in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, pitching his plan to combat crime and gun violence, dubbed the "Safer America Plan". The plan includes a number of important measures in line with what advocates of criminal justice reform have been fighting for, with these specific measures receiving praise from organizations like the ACLU.
Hydrogen fuel is promising, and while there’s plenty of hydrogen in the air and water, the problem is extracting it. Researchers have developed a way to use aluminum nanoparticles to rip hydrogen out of water with no additional energy input. It does, however, require gallium to enable the reaction. The reaction isn’t unknown (see the video below), but the new research has some interesting twists.
We just wrote about the Infineon XENSIV PAS CO2 Shield2Go board to measure carbon dioxide (CO2) levels last week, but I’ve just come across two more hardware with a CO2 sensor designed for makers, but based on Sensirion SCD40 sensor instead, and mostly designed to monitor indoor CO2 levels since high concentrations may impact your health negatively.
The first one is the M5Stack UNIT CO2 that’s designed to be connected to one of the company’s Core modules through an I2C interface, and TeHyBug portable mini sensor device equipped with ESP8285 WiFi microcontroller, as well as optional AHT10 temperature & humidity sensor and BMP280 pressure sensor, besides the SCD40 sensor.
The third part of the HUN-VE series of studies was published at the end of July. This is a study that systematically assesses the efficacy of coronavirus vaccines used in Hungary and is unique in that it has government support as well as high professional quality. HUN-VE 3 tested vaccine efficacy against the then dominant Delta variant during last autumn's epidemic wave and found that although the efficacy of all vaccines declines over time after vaccination, the Chinese Sinopharm vaccine offers the lowest protection in almost all respects. According to the authors, this is the first study to investigate the efficacy of Sinopharm's booster vaccine, particularly in comparison with mRNA-based booster vaccines. The study was published more than a month ago, but its results have not been communicated anywhere.
[Matt Thomas] wanted to answer the question of whether 3D printed structures can be food-safe or even medical-safe, since there is an awful lot of opinion out there but not a lot of actual science about the subject. As a mechanical engineer who dabbles in medical technical matters, he designed as series of tests using a wide range of nasty-sounding pathogens, to find once and for all what works and what does not.
The second source of pestilence is the centuries-long devastation of the natural world by mining, fossil fuels extraction, the logging of forests, industrialized fishing and one-crop mechanized agriculture relying on synthetic fertilizers and pesticides. Nature also suffers from wastes dumping in the oceans, the intentional burning of the Amazon and other forests in several countries for the growing of soybeans, corn, and other cash crops. Wars and vast armies inflict destruction and death to nature.
Citizens of Dunn County, Wisconsin, have a plan to place national, publicly-funded health care for everyone on their November 8th county ballot.€ In June and July at meetings of the County Board of Supervisors, many spoke of a broken health care system and their proposal to fix it.€ After the third meeting, the Board voted unanimously to put the following question on the ballot:€ €
Security updates have been issued by Red Hat (pcs), SUSE (389-ds and firefox), and Ubuntu (linux-hwe-5.4 and linux-oracle).
As part of digital transformation, more and more organizations are transforming their application using cloud native architecture to become more agile and accelerate time to market. They are increasingly adopting containers and Kubernetes to do so. However, the increasing Kubernetes adoption has also increased security risks.
In this Help Net Security video, Deepak Goel, CTO at D2iQ, talks about best practices for Kubernetes security in the enterprise market.
Container management is a heated subject when it comes to developing software. Containerization has revolutionized how we look at infrastructure, making it easier to execute software in production. But, you don’t need to become a developer or administrator to take advantage of containers. There are several orchestration tools available that can help you automate the management of your containers.
As part of our research, we used an experiment to test the effectiveness of different nudging interventions at increasing adoption of Tor Browser. We found that our nudge based on Protection Motivation Theory nearly doubled the odds that participants would use Tor Browser. Our results also show that users commonly encounter usability challenges when using Tor Browser, and that people use Tor Browser for a variety of benign activities. Our study contributes to a greater understanding of factors influencing the adoption of Tor Browser, and how nudges might be used to encourage the adoption of Tor Browser and similar privacy enhancing technologies.
Most of the action is being taken by Europol and Frontex, which together have deployed around 280 staff to the region. Eurojust collects evidence against war crimes. The agency for the operation of large databases, on the other hand, plays a minor role.
Two employees of the Russian Embassy in Kabul died in an explosion Monday morning, according to Russia’s Foreign Ministry. At 10:50 am local time, an unidentified suicide bomber detonated an explosive device near the entrance to the embassy’s consular department. A source from the ministry told Izvestia that one of the victims was a guard and the other was Russian diplomat Mikhail Shakh.
On the morning of September 5, 2022, an explosion occurred near the gates of the Russian Embassy in Kabul. According to media reports, the explosion was carried out by a suicide bomber. At that time, a line had been gathering outside the building to apply for visas.
Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J.S. Davies argue that the only realistic alternative to this endless slaughter is a return to peace talks to bring the fighting to an end.
Noam Chomsky, Daniel Ellsberg, and Paul Jay discuss the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, the war in Ukraine, and the climate crisis.
Six months ago, Russia invaded Ukraine. The United States, NATO and the European Union (EU) wrapped themselves in the Ukrainian flag, shelled out billions for arms shipments, and imposed draconian sanctions intended to severely punish Russia for its aggression.
Kirill Stremousov, who is described as the "deputy head of the military-civil administration" of the occupied Kherson region, which is occupied by Russian troops, believes that the Kherson region is ready to hold a referendum on joining the Russian Federation. However, as he told TV station Rossiya-1, they are taking a pause because of the security situation.
When I first began plowing through masses of official records in the 1970s, I was attempting to discover the role of the U.S. government in the€ Greek civil war of the 1940s, which inspired the Truman Doctrine and a broad pattern of overseas U.S. military intervention. After official review, the relevant State Department files, many of them previously classified, had recently been opened to researchers at the U.S. National Archives. But when I started digging through these records, I found that a considerable number of classified documents remained unavailable. When I complained about this to another historian, he responded: “Those are exactly the documents you should see. File for them under FOIA” (the Freedom of Information Act). So that’s what I did. As a result, after another review, some were declassified, sometimes with sections redacted (“sanitized”).
"We are at a point of no return."
Zaporizhzhia, which the Russians took over soon after invading Ukraine on February 24, is the largest power plant in Europe, and Zelenskyy compared the occupation to the Russians occupying "six Chernobyls," referring to the deadliest nuclear disaster in history.
Ukraine’s electrical grid has been disconnected from the last remaining power line that was connecting it to the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant (NPP), the Ukrainian state energy company Enerhoatom reported on Monday. According to the company, Russian troops have shelled the facility repeatedly throughout the last three days. On September 5, it said in a statement, the attacks caused a fire to break out on the station's territory.
Lithium-Sulphur batteries have been on the cusp of commercial availability for a little while now, but nothing much has hit the shelves as of yet. There are still issues with lifetime due to cell degradation, and news about developments seems to be drying up a little. Not to worry, because MIT have come along with a new battery technology using some of the most available and cheap materials found on this planet of ours. The Aluminium-Sulphur battery developed has very promising characteristics for use with static and automotive applications, specifically its scalability and its incredible charge/discharge performance.
These days, we’re all running around toting smartphones and laptops that could always use a bit more charge. Portable battery packs have become popular, and [Anuradha] has designed one that packs plenty of juice to keep everything humming.
Aired on the same day that the ruling Tory government chose a new leader in Liz Truss to become the nation's next Prime Minister, the segment on This Morning! featured a rotating wheel where the prize was either a €£1,000 or four-months payment of "Energy Bills."
Greenpeace Italy led the direct action including more than 50 campaigners from across Europe, confronting officials there to promote gas, liquefied natural gas (LNG), and hydrogen as "greener" alternatives to oil and coal.
Seeing these giants hacked down is like watching old friends killed. An ugly new road now crosses the trail and stumps are everywhere.
There are 3.8 million tenants are likely to be evicted in the next two months, more than eviction cases filed in the entire year of 2018.
Amid a continued high-profile€ push for workers' rights at U.S. companies including Starbucks and Amazon, polling released Tuesday showed that Americans' approval of labor unions is the highest it's been in nearly six decades and has risen substantially since a low point in the 2010s.
Seventy-one percent of Americans now have a favorable view of unions. That figure is comparable to the level of support for labor in the 1930s, when the movement saw explosive growth. This burgeoning enthusiasm for union thrills Vice President Kamala Harris who, as the leader of the Biden administration’s concerted effort to remove barriers to organizing workers and bargaining contracts, is determined to clear the way for a dramatic renewal of America’s labor movement.
While Newsom vetoed a similar bill last year and a spokesperson recently suggested he may do the same with Assembly Bill 2183, Biden's statement on the eve of Labor Day increases pressure on the governor—whom the president supported during a failed 2021 recall attempt.
This Labor Day, America is at a crossroads in its approach to work and retirement. Americans are living longer and healthier lives, on average, than they did a half-century ago—and they’ll need income for more years of life. Where should this money come from? The most common policy answer over the past three decades has been: Delay retirement. Keep working.
Most important now are the lessons of the Bork fight in the face of the rogue, all-originalist Roberts/Thomas Supreme Court, staffed by multiple justices laboring under heavy partisan political stenches.€ Their new-and-improved doctrine seems to be something like ‘ignore all the racist skeletons in the national closet, lie about the neofascist monsters under its bed, gaslight the voters and do whatever else will help whites steal elections and institutionalize minority rule’.€ Nice work if you can get it.
Choose Your Elected Representatives in Congress Wisely: They Will Determine the Future of Our Democratic Deliberation.
We remember the legendary historian, author, professor, playwright and activist Howard Zinn, who was born 100 years ago this August. Zinn was a regular guest on Democracy Now!, from the start of the program in 1996 up until his death in 2010 at age 87. After witnessing the horrors of World War II as a bombardier, Zinn became a peace and justice activist who picketed with his students at Spelman College during the civil rights movement and joined in actions such as opposing the Vietnam War. He later spoke out against the U.S. wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. “I believe neutrality is impossible, because the world is already moving in certain directions. Wars are going on. Children are starving,” Zinn said in a 2005 interview. “To be neutral … is to collaborate with whatever is going on, to allow it to happen.”
This year marks 100 years since the birth of the historian Howard Zinn. In 1980, Zinn published his classic work, “A People’s History of the United States.” The book would go on to sell over a million copies and change the way many look at history in America. We begin today’s special with highlights from a production of Howard Zinn’s “Voices of a People’s History of the United States,” where Zinn introduced dramatic readings from history. We hear Alfre Woodard read the words of labor activist Mother Jones and Howard’s son Jeff Zinn read the words of an IWW poet and organizer Arturo Giovannitti.
Even before she went to China, Bachelet was criticized for her China agenda. Over 220 regional groups expressed concerns that the trip risked “walking into a propaganda minefield laid out by the Chinese Communist Party.”
Joseph Allbright and Marcia Kunstel, former Moscow correspondents and authors of the book on Ted Hall, Bombshell (1997), appear on numerous occasions in the film to offer expert historical commentary on the Hall narrative. Photos of Hiroshima and an interview with the pilot of Enola Gay, Paul Tibbets, provide historical evidence of the nuclear devastation that Ted Hall helped create and wished to end. Well-chosen music evokes past events.
Cannon, who was appointed by the former Republican president and confirmed after he lost the 2020 election, ruled that Trump "faces an unquantifiable potential harm by way of improper disclosure of sensitive information to the public" if the review of the materials, which included documents marked "confidential" and "top secret" continues.
"New prime minister, same old deceit!"
A vocal advocate of free-market economics, during her campaign Truss called solar farms on agricultural land “depressing” and on Sunday claimed “gas is a very important transition fuel” to help reach net zero.€
He was the lone dissenter in the Court’s February 2021 ruling dismissing baseless MAGA claims of voter fraud and in its January 2021 ruling allowing the National Archives to release to the January 6 committee Trump White House documents, rejecting monarchical claims of executive privilege. Ethics 101: you don’t rule on cases which concern your family. Given his wife’s active role in promoting voter fraud claims and in the January 6 coup attempt being investigated by Congress he obviously should not have ruled in these cases. His outlier views in them affirm his lack of impartiality and further tarnish the Court.
He’s not wrong, but his emphasis on a single aspect — Donald Trump’s cult of personality — obscures the real nature of “semi-fascism” and comes a century too late.
High Commissioner Bachelet did well in delaying publication of the Xinjiang “assessment” and returning to Chile before the unappetizing and destructive debates start during the forthcoming 51st session of the Council (12 September-7 October 2022).€ Already the Chinese mission has rejected[2]the “assessment” as unprofessional and incompatible with the end-of-mission statement issued by Michelle Bachelet after her successful mission to China and Xinjiang in May 2022, a statement, which I consider balanced, detailed and constructive[3].€ Alas, Bachelet’s statement after her well-prepared visit did not succeed in silencing the Washington and Brussels critics that have been systematically misrepresenting the situation in Xinjiang and misusing it for purposes of their geopolitical hybrid war against China.€ Bachelet’s sedate statement was met by hostility, media mobbing and calls for her resignation.
In other words, Putin is doubling down on winning a war that is proving as risky for the Russian state as the radical changes introduced by Gorbachev during his years in power between 1985 and 1991. Unsurprisingly, Putin wants to avoid any close association with a man who presided over the dissolution of the USSR and failed utterly in his ambition to modernise the Communist party and the Soviet state.
In a democratic republic, after their term in office ends, the person who was the executive returns to the same status as everyone else; being a citizen of that nation—a nation where all citizens have the same legal rights and responsibilities. Consequently, a former executive must obey the laws, no matter how long they served as the executive or how popular they were while in office. This is the second important characteristic of a democratic republic.
A Moscow court has revoked the print license of independent newspaper Novaya Gazeta, effectively banning the outlet from operating inside Russia. Russia's federal censor, Roskomnadzor, first asked the Basmanny District Court to declare the 29-year-old paper's license invalid in July.
As the paper noted in scathing tone, the MPs debating the matter in Parliament seemed ignorant about what was actually at stake and taking place at Tikkakoski.€ In the miasma of celebrated political ignorance, powers could be enlarged with little care and worry, elected representatives remaining, as they often have in history, asleep as the needle is administered.
The Moscow City Court has sentenced former journalist Ivan Safronov to 22 years in a high-security prison colony, as well as a 500,000-ruble ($8,200) fine and two years of “restrictions on freedom” after his release, on treason charges. Safronov's defense team said they plan to appeal the sentence.
Several thousand people protested in Budapest the day after the new school year began, demanding a solution to the many problems in the Hungarian education system. Many of the students told us that there is a lack of teachers in their schools, and said that even those who are there are overworked and always tired and would deserve more money for their work.
"We resisted for 500 years and will continue to do so."
Most recently my work has focused on understanding and addressing racially disproportional school suspensions and the ways in which those are also gender disproportionate. For example, we know nationally that in the 2017-2018 academic year, over 2.5 million children received one or more out-of-school suspensions. While these numbers are going down compared to years prior, students of color and students with disabilities are receiving a greater share of suspensions and expulsions.
While this was bothersome, folks who follow the data closely know that the household survey often does weird things. On a month to month basis its movements are largely noise, and even over a period of several months it can often follow a path that is inconsistent with what we know about the economy.
Only a week of two before Barbara Ehrenreich’s death I was in a used bookstore, where I found and bought an out-of-print pamphlet she co-wrote in 1988 with journalist and author Annette Fuentes. It’s called "Women in the Global Factory."
His most ambitious project was probably Let’s Encrypt, the free and automated certificate authority, which entered public beta in 2015. Peter had been incubating the project for several years, but was able to leverage the famous “smiley face” image from the Edward Snowden leaks showing where SSL was added and removed, to build a coalition that actually made it happen. Let’s Encrypt fostered the web’s transition from non-secure HTTP connections that were vulnerable to eavesdropping, content injection, and cookie stealing, to the more secure HTTPS, so websites could offer secure connections to their users and protect them from network-based threats.€
Today, Public Knowledge joined 20 public interest, consumer advocacy, and civil society groups as well as media companies and both antitrust and copyright law experts in a letter urging Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Dick Durbin (D-IL), Ranking Member Chuck Grassley (R-IA), and other members of Congress to reconsider the “Journalism Competition and Preservation Act” (JCPA). The groups argue that the bill remains “enormously problematic,” worsening some of the biggest problems in journalism while simultaneously failing to support local news.
The following is an excerpt from the letter:
“[We] represent a broad cross-section of organizations focused on protecting and advancing our democracy. We include civil society organizations; librarians and archivists; creators; technology companies; experts in antitrust, copyright, constitutional and digital rights law; and media and news groups. While we represent a broad range of policy positions, we join in the view that this legislation should not be passed.
The New Delhi High Court has issued a site-blocking injunction in favor of Star India to protect the film "Brahmastra". Local ISPs have been ordered to block 18 pirate sites but the same order also applies to domain registrars, including US-based Namecheap and GoDaddy. These far-reaching measures apply to a movie that hasn't yet been released and hasn't been pirated either.
These two treatises detail the art of leaf preservation through “skeletonization”.
A few comments around Antenna recently have noted that the service will order links by their apparent post date, even if that post date is in the future. Right now the community is well-meaning enough that such behavior is not a problem, but I worry that it could be abused. Were a bad actor to try to spam the service, he could force junk posts to always appear at the top by giving them a date far out in the future, then simply re-submitting them from a different IP address when the offending is banned. It might be paranoia on my part, and I hope such checks will never be necessary in this space.
* Gemini (Primer) links can be opened using Gemini software. It's like the World Wide Web but a lot lighter.