Much like Linux had trouble gaining users back in the day because the general public didn't know about it, independent online radio stations like The Barrel of Rock are having trouble finding an audience because potential listeners can't wade through tens of thousands of music radio stations to find them.
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Although that situation has changed a lot for those of us who already use Linux, it still hasn’t changed in a way that’s meaningful for those who’ve never used anything other than Windows or Mac. Sure, you can easily order machines from outfits that specialize in Linux-based computers, such as System76, Tuxedo, and Purism, but they’re targeted at those who already know and use Linux. And while it’s true that most mainline computer makers, such as Dell and HP, offer several lines of computers with Linux preinstalled, you pretty much have to know what you’re looking for to find them.
Even more importantly, you’re absolutely not going to walk into Best Buy or any other consumer-focused electronics store and find any computers with Linux preinstalled, meaning you’re still not going to learn that there’s an easy-to-use Windows alternative.
Operators of independent online radio stations say that they are finding themselves in a similar situation in their quest to attract listeners, because potential listeners can’t find them. This is a problem because radio stations have to have listeners to survive, but even with the best programing possible, they’re not going to be able to attract listeners if potential listeners can’t find them for that first listen.
Adaptive Computing announced the release of Moab 10.0.0, an update that includes scores of enhancements and fixes. TORQUE 7 is now also available. Moab 10.0.0 fully supports the following operating systems:
Red Hat 7 Red Hat 8 SUSE 12 SUSE 15 Ubuntu 18.04 Ubuntu 20.04 Ubuntu 22.04
The AlmaLinux OS Foundation, the nonprofit that stewards the community-owned and governed open-source CentOS alternative AlmaLinux, has announced that CERN, the European Laboratory for Particle Physics, located near Geneva, Switzerland, and Fermilab, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, based in Illinois in the United States, will offer AlmaLinux as one of the standard Linux distributions for experiments at their facilities.
TSplus is excited to announce the release of the 5.4 version of Server Monitoring, their monitoring and reporting tool for Remote Desktop Services (RDS) infrastructures. It now offers the ability to monitor Linux servers.
A classic gadget gets a Linux-powered new lease on life, the next project getting Rusty, great news for Btrfs users, and more.
5 Key reasons for a OpenZFS Performance Audit, The Ping from Hell, OpenBGPD 7.9 released, Setting the clock ahead to see what breaks, and more
The Ubuntu 23.04 release is out on April 20 and to help hype its arrival I put together a video to show off the most striking changes.
Linux offers an unsurpassed breadth of open source small utilities that perform functions ranging from the mundane to the wonderful. These tools help make Linux a compelling operating system. This series of articles identifies indispensable open source utilities which make using Linux that bit more special.
Whatever the size of the hard disk, our disks always fill up over time; it seems data expands to fill any void. This is partly because we experiment with lots of distributions and software. But hard disks do seem to fill up by themselves. Whether you use SSDs or mechanical hard disk drives, you cannot afford to be rash with storage. When a hard disk is full, it can be very time consuming to sort out and remove offending files and directories.
Linux distributions come supplied with utilities to explore disk usage. For example, du is a popular tool used to estimate file space usage; space being used under a particular directory or files on a file system.
One of the joys of using Debian and Ubuntu-based distros is the Advanced Package Tool (APT) which helps you to quickly search for packages online, then install, update, or remove them with a single command.
Another way of installing packages is using DEB files. You can find these on random sites across the internet, and to update them you need to re-download and install the newest version.
deb-get is a tool that aims to replicate APT functionality. You can use it to search dedicated DEB repositories and install, update, and remove software—just like APT.
To set up the Firewall with iptables on your Linux system, you need to install it first. Open up a terminal window and follow the installation instructions below for your Linux OS. Iptables is installable on both Linux desktops and servers, and if you prefer a generic Linux download of iptables, you can visit the official website. Once the installation is complete, you can proceed to set up your Firewall with iptables.
Opera was developed by the Norwegian software company and is a well-stabled browser. It was first released in 1995, and since then it has been a preferable choice for many users. Although many users shifted to Google Chrome, there was a time when Opera was the first choice of everyone because of its interface, tabs-based browsing, and other unique features.
But Opera never stopped adding new & innovative features to its browser. Features like Opera Turbo, a built-in ad blocker, and a free VPN service to enhance user privacy and protection are a few which still make it worth trying. Albeit it is based on Chromium but its looks and feels are completely different from other Chromium-based browsers such as Edge, Brave, and Google Chrome
With deb-get, you can install and manage DEB files downloaded from third-party sources, using a familiar APT-like syntax.
In this article, we are going to review and see how we can schedule and run Linux tasks in the background automatically at regular intervals using the Crontab command. Dealing with a frequent job
In this article, we will review the wget utility which retrieves files from World Wide Web (WWW) using widely used protocols like HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, and FTPS. Wget is a free command-line utility and
Linux is by default a multi-user system (meaning many users can connect to it simultaneously and work), thus Linux user management is one of the fundamental tasks of a system administrator, which includes everything
Twinimation Studios' Adria has prepared three new commercial animation courses, each one teaching you a distinct style, in Krita. Read on for the details!
Do you love Rubberhose, Golden Age, and Limited Animation? Good News! You can now learn all three of these classic animation styles in this full course utilizing the animation program Krita!
This course will begin with a history lesson to explain the notable elements of these 3 animation styles, including character designs, environment, color usage, music incorporation and much more. We will also look at numerous film examples from these eras to show how the learned elements have already been utilized.
Today, we bring you a quick report on the Maui Project’s progress after our previous 2.2.2 release; here you will find some detailed information on the new features, bug fixes, and improvements that have been made to the Maui set of apps and frameworks.
My second release of the day: Kirigami Addons 0.8.0. This release contains a few new components.
AbstractMaximizeComponent
This is part of the
org.kde.kirigamiaddons.labs.componentsmodule and is a popup that covers the entire window to show some items. This is already used in NeoChat and Tokodon to magnify image and videos.Thanks James Graham for developing the initial version and upstreaming it to Kirigami-addons.
Speed is a critical factor in determining your experience while browsing the Web. The faster the browser, the more enjoyable your browsing experience will be. With the latest release of Chrome, we went deep under the hood of Chrome’s engine to look for every opportunity to increase the speed and efficiency, from improved caching to better memory management.
This is a summary of the work done by the CPE Team. Each quarter CPE Team together with CentOS and Fedora community representatives chooses the initiatives that will be worked on, in this quarter.
Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, has announced that Hardware Enablement (HWE) kernels will receive updates via the Livepatch service, just like Long-Term Release (LTS) kernels. The first kernel to gain support will be Linux 6.2 which will ship with Ubuntu 23.04 Lunar Lobster next week before being made available as an HWE kernel in Ubuntu 22.04 LTS in July.
For those not familiar with Livepatch, it’s a service available to customers with an Ubuntu Pro subscription. If you don’t have a subscription it can be enabled on five of your personal machines. With this enabled, you are able to get the latest kernel updates installed on your computer without having to reboot. Linux kernel updates are one of the very few packages that typically require a restart in Ubuntu but with Livepatch there’s no need to restart.
With HWE kernels, users of the more stable Ubuntu LTS releases get support for the newest hardware. New HWE kernels typically arrive around the time of Ubuntu point releases following the launch of an interim Ubuntu release, such as 23.04. If you decide to enable Livepatch as a result of this news, there’s another major benefit.
Livepatch is a valuable tool for fixing critical and high security kernel Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures, CVEs, at run-time, without the need for an immediate system reboot. However, it should not be used as a replacement for regular maintenance windows and rebooting. A good enterprise policy should include both livepatching and regular reboots to ensure the system remains stable and secure.
This is because some system CVEs, such as firmware or device driver updates, will still require a system reboot. Additionally, Livepatch does not include kernel updates for non-security bug fixes, lower-priority security fixes, and performance improvements.
Furthermore, there may be instances where critical kernel CVEs cannot be addressed through livepatching and will require a standard system update. Last but not the least, It is important to recognise that Livepatch is not a viable solution for upgrading to the next kernel release. To do so, a traditional system update is required which entails a reboot.
For all these reasons, Canonical has always strongly recommended its customers to follow good enterprise policies for regular maintenance windows, and to use Livepatch to bridge the gap until their next scheduled maintenance window.
Sliding support window
In order to ensure that our customers adhere to the industry’s best-practices and that livepatch does not hinder their maintenance schedules, Canonical has decided to introduce a sliding support window of 13 months for every version revision of the GA kernels of all its Ubuntu LTS releases. This change is scheduled to take effect on April 20, 2023, coinciding with the release of Ubuntu 23.04, also known as Lunar Lobster.
You have been telling us how much you love Livepatch’s ability to fix your kernel’s high and critical vulnerabilities at run-time, and how it significantly reduces your unplanned reboots. And many of you have requested that we make it available on Hardware Enablement (HWE) kernels, alongside the Long-Term Release (LTS) kernels we already support.
We’ve listened to your feedback and are pleased to announce that Livepatch will now be available on HWE kernels. This will debut with the release of kernel version 6.2, which will initially accompany Ubuntu’s interim release of 23.04 Lunar Lobster, in April 2023. Thereafter, it will be made accessible as an HWE kernel for the 22.04 LTS release, Jammy Jellyfish, starting July 2023.
This change means that you’ll be able to keep your kernel updated and secure with Livepatch, regardless of which kernel you choose to run with your Ubuntu LTS release.
What are Ubuntu LTS releases?
Ubuntu is known for LTS releases which come every two years and are designed to provide a stable and secure operating system. They are supported for up to 10 years with an Ubuntu Pro subscription and this makes them ideal for enterprises and production environments.
The UP Squared Pro 7000 series from AAEON is an embedded platform built around the Intel Core/Atom/N-Series processors. These devices come with up 32GB LPDDR5 Memory, 64GB eMMC, dual 2.5 GbE and multiple expansion interfaces.
As we gear up for the big releases next week, take a look at CatchyOS Linux distro and TUXEDO InfinityBook Pro Linux laptop.
This is a minor update to GNU a2ps, an Any to PostScript filter. Of course
it processes plain text files, but also pretty prints quite a few popular
languages.
See https://gnu.org/s/a2ps for more information.
This release is a minor bug-fix release. Most importantly, it now works
correctly with libpaper version 1 (although version 2 is recommended!).
Here are the compressed sources and a GPG detached signature:
https://ftpmirror.gnu.org/a2ps/a2ps-4.15.4.tar.gz
https://ftpmirror.gnu.org/a2ps/a2ps-4.15.4.tar.gz.sig
Use a mirror for higher download bandwidth:
https://www.gnu.org/order/ftp.html
Here are the SHA1 and SHA256 checksums:
c612f64ca4cc319fb0d5e7f734283c6e0dcfbb4d a2ps-4.15.4.tar.gz
SgY/hLqJ2GvhSmcEyjX9EwCDtXLxN2tDmht5tnsgbdc a2ps-4.15.4.tar.gz
The SHA256 checksum is base64 encoded, instead of the
hexadecimal encoding that most checksum tools default to.
Use a .sig file to verify that the corresponding file (without the
.sig suffix) is intact. First, be sure to download both the .sig file
and the corresponding tarball. Then, run a command like this:
gpg --verify a2ps-4.15.4.tar.gz.sig
The signature should match the fingerprint of the following key:
pub rsa2048 2013-12-11 [SC]
2409 3F01 6FFE 8602 EF44 9BB8 4C8E F3DA 3FD3 7230
uid Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org>
uid keybase.io/rrt <rrt@keybase.io>
If that command fails because you don't have the required public key,
or that public key has expired, try the following commands to retrieve
or refresh it, and then rerun the 'gpg --verify' command.
gpg --locate-external-key rrt@sc3d.org
gpg --recv-keys 4C8EF3DA3FD37230
wget -q -O- 'https://savannah.gnu.org/project/release-gpgkeys.php?group=a2ps&download=1' | gpg --import -
As a last resort to find the key, you can try the official GNU
keyring:
wget -q https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gnu-keyring.gpg
gpg --keyring gnu-keyring.gpg --verify a2ps-4.15.4.tar.gz.sig
This release was bootstrapped with the following tools:
Autoconf 2.71
Automake 1.16.5
Gnulib v0.1-5892-g83006fa8c9
NEWS
* Noteworthy changes in release 4.15.4 (2023-04-13) [stable]
* Bug fixes:
- Fix to read configured paper size correctly with libpaper 1.x.
* Documentation:
- Various minor documentation improvements.
* Build system:
- Fix tests when building with libpaper 1.x.
- Require gperf for bootstrapping, and use it correctly in build system.
- Require a new-enough version of texinfo.
Something doesn't fit.
Herculaneum's grisly secret.
Untangling the mystery.
Earth didn't always look like this.
The wife of lawyer Chang Weiping says nobody has seen him since he appeared very thin at his trial last year.
A small but important study.
The smell of luxury.
Solving two problems at once!
KBRA releases research on U.S. commercial mortgage-backed security (CMBS) office exposure to recent white-collar layoffs as announced by large companies. The news of layoffs is unwelcome for the property type segment, which is experiencing weakening demand owing to remote-working arrangements as well as increasingly cost-conscious companies.
The recent round of Google layoffs — the shock firing of 12,000 people that has now taken on legendary proportions in the tech world — could be followed by another round of redundancies, Google CEO Sundar Pichai appears to hint in his new interview published by The Wall Street Journal.
Google's motion is the Internet company's latest attempt to get out of several costly and time-consuming lawsuits from state and federal governments.
For the first time in this decade, Amazon reported a decline of almost 115% in 2022 over its 2021 net income, mainly in its retail unit.
Tech companies have reduced head count and tightened spending in response to weaker revenue growth and a slumping macroeconomic environment. The job cuts have attracted most of the headlines—27,000 at Amazon.com (ticker: AMZN), 21,000 at Meta (META), 10,000 at Microsoft (MSFT). But layoffs aren’t the only place where money can be saved.
The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization enabling mass innovation through open source, today announced the full schedule for Embedded Open Source Summit. The event will take place June 27-30, 2023 in Prague, Czech Republic, as well as virtually.
Security updates have been issued by Debian (chromium, firefox-esr, lldpd, and zabbix), Fedora (ffmpeg, firefox, pdns-recursor, polkit, and thunderbird), Oracle (kernel and nodejs:14), Red Hat (nodejs:14, openvswitch2.17, openvswitch3.1, and pki-core:10.6), Slackware (mozilla), SUSE (nextcloud-desktop), and Ubuntu (exo, linux, linux-kvm, linux-lts-xenial, linux-aws, smarty3, and thunderbird).
Authorities say Jack Teixeira, a 21-year-old member of the Massachusetts Air National Guard, posted sensitive materials in an online chat group.
A high alert has been sounded in view of possible attacks on as many as 12,000 Central and state government websites by Indonesian hackers. CERT-In issued an ‘Urgent- High Alert’ warning all Central and state agencies and departments to be alert and report any such incidents to them immediately.
With the alert, departments concerned, particularly those from defence, critical installations, vital establishments, all law enforcement agencies including the Central and state Intelligence wings have braced up to thwart the attacks.
CERT-In informed that it has been reported that websites of state and Central government are being potentially targeted. " A hacktivist Indonesia group is claiming to target 12,000 websites of India and the threat actors are launching DoS/DDoS attacks," the alert said.
A cyberattack on the Town of St. Marys that encrypted municipal systems and stole sensitive data cost the local government roughly $1.3 million, including a $290,000 Bitcoin ransom payment made to the hackers, officials have revealed.
Ireland's data regulator has one month to make an order on blocking Facebook's transatlantic data flows, European Union regulators said on Thursday.
EU regulators led by Ireland's Data Protection Commissioner (DPC) Helen Dixon have been finalising a ban on the legal tool used by Facebook to transfer European user data because of concerns U.S. intelligence agencies could access the information.
Two Candlelight Party activists say they were hit with steel batons in Phnom Penh last week.
The latest bombing should be a clarion call for international sanctions on the sale of jet fuel to the junta.
Iran saw a “dramatic surge” in executions in 2022, human rights groups reported on April 13.
Malaysia’s Parliament Tuesday passed two bills reforming death penalty sentencing and abolishing the mandatory death penalty for certain offenses. Human rights groups welcomed the move as a step towards abolishing capital punishment entirely.
Iranian-British dual national Mehran Raouf, imprisoned at Tehran's Evin prison, has criticized Tehran's treatment of prisoners who hold foreign passports and accused it of using them as bargaining chips.
The Russian Foreign Ministry said on April 12 it had imposed sanctions against 333 more Canadian nationals -- including regional officials, lawmakers, politicians, and athletes -- "involved in unbridled Russophobia."
China's President Xi Jinping called on the country's armed forces to "strengthen military training oriented towards actual combat", state media reported Wednesday, after Beijing conducted military drills intended to intimidate Taiwan.
In a interview with FRANCE 24, Moldova's minister of internal affairs said that Moscow was attempting to "reinstall a pro-Russian government" in Moldova, and that "Russian interest groups" and "fugitive oligarchs" were behind recent protests calling for the resignation of the pro-Western President Maia Sandu.€ "There is clear evidence that these so-called protests were financed, that the transportation of people to Chisinau [was] being truly organised, very well targeted, in clear places and clear timing with clear instructions. And [in] the media space, there is clearly pro-Russian propaganda, there is [a] clear pro-Russian narrative. If you look into the investigations about the cyber attacks, many of the IP addresses were coming from Russia," Ana Revenco said.
French President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday stood by his controversial comments on Taiwan, saying that being a US ally did not mean being a "vassal".
The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) says it has launched an investigation into the online appearance of a video on social media purporting to show the beheading of a Ukrainian prisoner of war.
When Russian authorities announced a “partial mobilisation” last year to reinforce their military objectives in Ukraine, thousands of reservists immediately knew what it meant – they would be sent to war. To avoid being deployed, thousands left Russia or tried to hide from recruitment agents at home. For many, their strategies worked. Now the Russian government wants to put a stop to that with a new electronic draft system that will be almost impossible to dodge.
Several Kyrgyz activists jailed over their protest against a border demarcation deal with Uzbekistan have been transferred to house arrest.
South Africa said on April 12 that an international arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin over the Ukraine war was a "spanner in the works" ahead of a BRICS summit in the country in August.
A controversial memorial service marking the “Day of Russian Volunteers” was held on April 12 in the small town of Visegrad in eastern Bosnia, honoring Russians who died fighting on the side of Bosnian Serbs in the 1992-1995 Bosnian War.
China’s CO2 emissions are also 3 times higher than the US, a new report found.
The Biden administration Wednesday unveiled two initiatives aimed at decreasing passenger and heavy duty vehicle emissions. The Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) proposed rule making details two initiatives to target greenhouse gas emissions from vehicles, applying to model years 2027 to 2032. Those affected by the rule include vehicle manufacturers and vehicle importers.
Kishanganj district in India's Bihar state is one of the poorest regions in the country but is also home to one of its highest birth rates, with each woman having nearly five children on average. To try to curb the population growth, the local government is attempting to educate locals on family planning, distributing free condoms and even encouraging people to get sterilised.
Switzerland’s parliament has rejected the government’s 109 billion Swiss francs ($A180.41 billion) aid for Credit Suisse’s merger with UBS, leaving the fallen bank’s hastily arranged rescue without a largely symbolic parliamentary blessing. While the upper house had approved the government’s contribution to the rescue package, parliament’s lower, and larger chamber, pushed back again on Wednesday.
Bankrupt crypto exchange FTX has recovered more than $US7.3 billion ($A10.9 billion) in cash and liquid crypto assets, an increase of more than $US800 million since January, the company’s lawyer says at a US bankruptcy court hearing in Delaware.
France’s highest constitutional authority, the Constitutional Council, will rule Friday on whether President Emmanuel Macron’s contentious pension reform proposal should be accepted, modified or rejected based on the guidelines of the French constitution. FRANCE 24 explains the three possible outcomes.
A banknote maker whose business was hit by the pandemic continues to see tough times ahead.
Elon Musk isn’t helping Twitter grow as a business. In fact, there’s good reason to believe he’s actively hurting the company’s ability to retain advertising dollars and bring in new revenue.
Police in Kazakhstan have detained opposition politician Mukhtar Taizhan in the country’s largest city, Almaty, and journalist Luqpan Akhmedyarov in the western city of Oral over their participation in April 9 rallies protesting the results of parliamentary elections last month.
The United Kingdom has sanctioned individuals and companies whom it accused of acting as "financial fixers" for Russian oligarchs Roman Abramovich and Alisher Usmanov.
An Iranian technical delegation arrived in Saudi Arabia on April 12 to prepare for the reopening of Tehran's embassy there, Iran's Foreign Ministry said.
A court in the Kazakh capital, Astana, has sentenced opposition politician Nurzhan Altaev to 15 days in jail over his support for protesting oil workers from the Central Asian nation's volatile town of Zhanaozen.
The former chief of police of Kazakhstan's southern region of Almaty, General Serik Kudebaev, has fled the country to evade a trial on charges of abusing his office in a case related to the deadly mass unrest that rocked the nation in January last year.
Their videos get huge amounts of clicks and profits on YouTube. And their vlogs show a Syria that has turned the page on years of civil war. But these so-called "apolitical" travel influencers are shown around the country by regime-sponsored guides that shape the narrative. One guide who appears in a number of travel vlogs even has family ties with the Syrian deputy minister of tourism.
Fox faces yet another lawsuit—this time from one of its own shareholders.
Dominion and Fox are set to face off in a historic defamation trial.
Aleksei Moskalyov, who was sentenced in absentia to two years in prison by Russia and deprived of his parental rights after anti-war drawings by his 13-year-old daughter drew attention to his online posts about the Kremlin's invasion of Ukraine, has been extradited to Russia.
The move comes amid an exodus of journalists amid 'a severe crackdown on freedom of expression,' a report says.
Hong Kong prosecutors have alleged that former lawmaker Dennis Kwok was a “co-conspirator” in the city’s largest national security case against 47 pro-democracy figures. Prosecutor Jonathan Man Tak-ho referred to a press conference held by the Civic Party, the pro-democracy party that Kwok was a founding member of, when naming him in court on Wednesday.
Dutch police detained two protesters who ran towards French President Emmanuel Macron in Amsterdam on Wednesday as his domestic troubles intruded once again on his state visit to the Netherlands.
Italy's cabinet on Tuesday announced a state of emergency on immigration following a "sharp rise" in flows across the Mediterranean, a statement said, in a move aimed at better management of migrant arrivals and repatriation facilities.
Sofia Sapega, a Russian citizen who is serving a six-year prison term in Belarus on charges related to civil disturbances that followed a disputed 2020 presidential election, has agreed to be extradited to Russia.
The Biden administration is urging U.S. meat processors to make sure children aren't being illegally hired to perform dangerous jobs at their plants.
The call comes after an investigation found more than 100 children working overnight for a company that cleans slaughterhouses, handling dangerous equipment like skull splitters and razor-sharp bone saws.
On March 28, 2023, Reuters reported that a proposed European Parliament and Council Regulation would empower the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) to determine “fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory” (FRAND) royalty rates for European patents that are essential to industry standards (standards-essential patents or “SEPs”), and also to assess the essentiality of SEPs to the relevant standards.€ In this post, I compare the leaked EU Proposal to last year’s Standards Essential Royalty Act (SERA)€ to which the EU Proposal bears a notable resemblance, with some important differences. Overall, I believe that the EU Proposal makes a positive contribution toward the efficient and fair resolution of FRAND disputes, though its most valuable role may be to nudge stakeholders toward the preferred solution of global rate-setting arbitration.
Mexico’s government has announced plans to investigate the impact and trace the presence of genetically modified (GM) corn imports on tortillas, an essential ingredient in many of the country’s staple dishes.
On April 12, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued a precedential ruling in Sequoia Technology, LLC v. Dell, Inc. reversing part of a District of Delaware ruling invalidating digital storage patent claims owned by Sequoia under 35 U.S.C. €§ 101. Although the ruling restores Sequoia’s rights to the patent claims at issue in the case, the Federal Circuit affirmed portions of the district court’s claim construction order that had supported a finding that Dell and other defendants did not infringe upon Sequoia’s asserted patent claims.
Spring's here. A week ago it only threatened. Red- bud blossoms are pink and tasty on the branch, dogwood flowers in woods, violets in grass, trout- lilly leaves by the creek. Mayapples poked from damp leaf litter, wind gusted.
Robins nest, everything's up now: spring onions & ramps, backyard horseradish, garlic mustard, field plantain, yaller dock. Vines climb snags, sun burns skin, first daughter sleeps in her bike chariot on the way home from the library & playing with Bugz's dogs.
i think it's important to make a distinction between two general categories of experts.
Firstly, there are experts in fields such as climatology and mathematics, fields where the ‘objects of study’ don't directly or necessarily involve people. Those of us who don't have significant relevant training in these fields should respect the many years of training and experience these people have, and start from a working assumption that they're more likely to be correct than not.
On the other hand, there are experts on topics such as queerness and gender. Such people are not necessarily _inherently_ more correct than individuals who have direct lived experiences of those topics.
I was in training session on racism yesterday, and it was in English. Not my choice. As much as I thrive in Montreal's feminist and antiracist spaces, I've known for a while that I rarely feel at ease in such a space. Too many people who elevate themselves as judges of what's the right thing to say.
Certainly, French speakers do that too. Probably a bit less: we value deliberation quite a bit more, and self-expression quite a bit less (I don't mean bullshit less, but bullshit is less sleepy (*ronflant*), more dynamic). As a result, we don't take every assertion to be encapsulating a person's moral essence.
I'm approaching 2 years of sobriety which I'm thankful for and proud that I was able to make that decision without being forced into it. That said, addictions are everywhere so although I haven't used drugs (I'll make my one exception for caffeine) I can see the media, consumerist, and productivity type addictions trying to step up. I'm glad I can recognize it and so as I approach an anniversary of sobriety I've been mindful that there's more to sobriety than not using.
I have been working from home for over three years now and, turns out, now I have less chances to use Internet on my phone -unless it is connected to my WiFi at home-.
After many months using about a 10% of my monthly allowance, when my mobile phone provider was raising prices (again), I downsized to reduce the bill.
* Gemini (Primer) links can be opened using Gemini software. It's like the World Wide Web but a lot lighter.