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Links 26/04/2023: Release of Git 2.40.1 and Canonical Pushing Microsoft Clown Computing Again



  • GNU/Linux

    • Kernel Space

      • OMG! LinuxGNU Linux-libre Kernel 6.3 Now Available

        GNU Linux-libre 6.3 is based on recent Linux kernel 6.3 release but strips out all binary blobs, non-free firmware, and any code subject to a proprietary license.

    • Instructionals/Technical

      • It's FOSSThe Ultimate Guide to i3 Customization in Linux

        Learn about customizing your system's look and feel with i3 window manager in this super-detailed guide.

      • OSTechNixHow To Install Fedora 38 [A Step By Step Guide]

        Fedora Linux 38 has been released a few days ago! If you are a newbie who wants to install and test the latest version of Fedora, then we are here to help you in setting up Fedora 38 desktop operating system. This step by step guide explains how to download the latest Fedora 38 workstation edition, and then how to install Fedora 38 with screenshots.

      • TecMintWikit – A Command Line Tool to Search Wikipedia on Linux

        Wikit is a free and open-source command-line program for easily viewing Wikipedia summaries of search queries on the Linux command line; it is built using Nodejs.

        The verb Wikit (derived from “wikipedia it“) means looking up something on wikipedia.org, the popular and remarkable open-source encyclopedia on the Internet.

      • Frederic CambusFun with Kermit and ZMODEM over SSH

        In my "Capturing text screens on modern operating systems" article published back in 2013, I mentioned finding a very promising program called Qodem. It has since reached maturity and version 1.0 was released in 2017. I have been enjoying it on a regular basis to reminisce about the glorious days of using Terminate and Minicom in the nineties, and even packaged it in both OpenBSD and NetBSD.

        Qodem has built in support for SSH, and also lets you spawn a local shell and SSH from there, which allows authentication using SSH keys.

        For the purpose of this article, I used two Fedora machines and installed the ckermit and lrzsz packages to handle the Kermit and ZMODEM protocols respectively. There is a qodem package as well, but it only bundles the X11 binary. I prefer to use the curses version, so I built it from source.

    • Games

    • Desktop Environments/WMs

      • K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt

  • Distributions and Operating Systems

    • Canonical/Ubuntu Family

      • 9to5LinuxYou Can Now Install Linux Kernel 6.3 on Ubuntu, Here’s How

        Released over the weekend by Linus Torvalds, Linux kernel 6.3 has already landed in Ubuntu’s official Mainline Kenrel Archive and it’s available for all Ubuntu users and supported on amd64 (x86_64), AArch64 (ARM64), ARMhf, PowerPC 64-bit Little Endian (ppc64el), and IBM System z (s390x) architectures.

        I’ve only tested Linux kernel 6.3 on a fresh Ubuntu 23.04 (Lunar Lobster) installation and everything went smoothly. Of course, you can install it on any supported Ubuntu release, such as Ubuntu 22.10 (Kinetic Kudu) or Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish).

      • UbuntuUbuntu Pro is now part of the AWS EC2 console [Ed: Canonical selling proprietary software]

        We are happy to announce that Ubuntu Pro is now available as a native product on AWS. You can now enjoy premium enhanced security coverage for your Ubuntu machines by launching Ubuntu Pro instances from the EC2 console with no additional requirements, subscriptions or long term commitments.

      • UbuntuTry Ubuntu confidential VMs with Intel TDX today: limited preview now available on Azure [Ed: Canonical continues to promote anti-privacy scams (outsourcing) and Microsoft proprietary junk, as if Canonical is a subsidiary of Microsoft]

        On behalf of the Canonical confidential computing team, I am happy to announce the limited preview of Ubuntu Confidential VMs with Intel TDX on Microsoft Azure. As part of the DCev5-series and ECesv5-series VMs, they’re available for you to try today! This exciting development is an important milestone in Ubuntu’s journey to power the confidential public cloud of the future.

        With cloud technology enabling faster and more flexible infrastructure deployment than ever before, security challenges have also become more complex. Traditionally, any vulnerability within the millions of lines of code in the cloud’s privileged system software (such as the operating system, hypervisor, and firmware) would compromise the confidentiality and integrity of the running code and data. Similarly, a malicious cloud administrator could potentially access the VM or its platform, compromising the security of your data.€ 

      • CanonicalNo more DHCP(d)
    • Open Hardware/Modding

      • Raspberry PiCreating mesmerising kinetic art furniture with Sisyphus

        In a list of things I thought I’d ever read about alongside Raspberry Pi, “coffee tables” and “sand” were not near the top. Sisyphus started life as an art installation for museums, but Raspberry Pi has allowed the company behind this mesmerising creation to scale up and offer you “museum-quality kinetic sculpture” for your own living room. They’re named “Sisyphus”, of course, because they never finish pushing the ball bearing across the sand, leaving patterns behind it.

      • J Pieperpower_dist r4.5b

        The changes are largely the same as for the new pi3hat: [...]

      • ArduinoBuild your own tachometer with an IR sensor and an Arduino

        This infrared sensor module works by emitting infrared light from an LED and monitoring the reflection. When one of the wheel’s spokes passes in front of the sensor, the reflection becomes strong and easy to detect. An Arduino Nano board measures the time between those events and multiplies the result by the number of spokes to determine the total time for a complete revolution. Divide 60 by that number and you get the RPM. The Arduino continuously calculates that value and displays the number on a small OLED screen. Power comes from a 9V battery.

      • ArduinoAn Arduino Leonardo-powered, 3D-printed robotic arm designed from scratch

        The premise of the arm project was to utilize a total of five servo motors for manipulating each degree of freedom, as well as an Arduino Leonardo and a PCA9685 driver for controlling them. Once the components had been selected, Build Some Stuff then moved onto the next step of creating 3D models of each of the robot arm’s joints in Fusion 360 before 3D printing them. He also made a scaled-down version of the larger arm assembly and replaced the servo motors with potentiometers, therefore allowing him to translate the model’s position into degrees for the motors.

    • Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications

      • Martijn BraamNitroKey disappoints me

        This feature isn't even only in the Qualcomm 630 chipset, it's in practically all Qualcomm devices. Some third party Android roms go as far as to obscure the IP address of your phone by proxying this http request with another server. The rom they have tested obviously didn't.

        This feature is not even limited to Qualcomm devices, this practice happens in practically all devices that have both GPS and [Internet] because people don't like waiting very long for their position when launching their navigation software. The NitroPhone has their GPS provided by Broadcom chips instead of Qualcomm ones so obviously it won't make the same HTTP requests, doesn't make it any more or less secure though.

  • Free, Libre, and Open Source Software

    • Programming/Development

      • TecMint18 Best NodeJS Frameworks for App Development in 2023

        Node.js is used to build fast, highly scalable network applications based on an event-driven non-blocking input/output model, and single-threaded asynchronous programming.

        A web application framework is a combination of libraries, helpers, and tools that provide a way to effortlessly build and run web applications. A web framework lays out a foundation for building a website/app.

      • Matt Rickard16 Lessons from the Tanenbaum–Torvalds Debates

        Part 2 of The Tanenbaum–Torvalds Debates. 16 generalized software development lessons from the debate of microkernels vs. monolithic kernels, and two computer science visionaries — Andrew Tanenbaum and Linus Torvalds.

      • LWNGit v2.40.1 and friends
        A maintenance release Git v2.40.1, together with releases for older
        maintenance tracks v2.39.3, v2.38.5, v2.37.7, v2.36.6, v2.35.8,
        v2.34.8, v2.33.8, v2.32.7, v2.31.8, and v2.30.9, are now available
        at the usual places.
        
        

        These maintenance releases are to address security issues identified as CVE-2023-25652, CVE-2023-25815, and CVE-2023-29007. They affect ranges of existing versions and users are encouraged to upgrade.

        The tarballs are found at:

        https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/

        The following public repositories all have a copy of the 'v2.40.1' tag, as well as the tags for older maintenance tracks listed above...
      • LWNGit 2.40.1 (and several others) released

        There is a new stable Git release containing fixes for three separate security vulnerabilities. The fixes have also been backported to the older v2.39.3, v2.38.5, v2.37.7, v2.36.6, v2.35.8, v2.34.8, v2.33.8, v2.32.7, v2.31.8, and v2.30.9 releases. Sites using Git in untrusted environments — or with untrusted input — should probably upgrade soon.

      • GCC 13 and the state of gccrs

        The first official GCC 13 release is just around the corner, and you may be a bit surprised to find out that gccrs will not be included in it. The aim of this blogpost is to go into a little bit more detail as to why this was done and how you can still try out our compiler if you’d like to.

        Back in 2022, we started investigating the process of merging our code upstream with GCC. Quickly after that, our frontend was accepted for the merge, which was a great moment for us - it demonstrated people’s faith in the gccrs community and in the project’s goal of having an alternative GCC toolchain implementation of the Rust Programming Language. Given that the compiler is still not ready, we decided to go through that process with some limitations.

        The expectation we had was that by making it clear the compiler was still not ready for real Rust code, we could get valuable feedback from early users as well as more engagement from two different communities - the Rust one as well as the GCC one. We would continue to push as hard as possible right up until the release’s deadline to get as much working as we could, but now that the GCC 13.1 release is upon us, we are still not there in terms of completeness.

        What this means is that when using gccrs, you are still not able to do “easy Rust things” - examples like “Hello World!”, or using the standard library in general, will not work. Similarly, even more complex concepts which are essential to the Rust Programming Language like borrow-checking are not implemented yet, and gccrs will not be considered complete without such features. We believe that this would cause a lot of confusion for unsuspecting users, who might see gccrs as part of an official GCC release and expect a working compiler.

      • LWNAn update on the GCC frontend for Rust

        Philip Herron and Arthur Cohen have posted an update on the status of gccrs — the GCC frontend for the Rust language — and why it will not be a part of the upcoming GCC 13 release.

  • Leftovers

    • Gregory Hammond100th Day To Offload!

      It’s been a long time coming, but this is my 100th post as part of 100 Days To Offload. 100 Days To Offload was created by Kev Quirk to get people to publish 100 posts on their personal blog in a year. “The point is to just write”.

    • ZimbabweYour social media grumblings led to this, $6000 in funeral policy premiums = fully paid up

      Sometimes it pays to voice your displeasure with something. In Zimbabwe, that is rarely the case and so when we see it happen, we just have to take a minute to celebrate. So, this is what having a voice feels like huh? Insurance is one of the bedrocks of a functioning economy.

    • Science

      • Vice Media GroupA Mysterious Mayan Calendar Stumped Scientists for Decades. A New Study Has Cosmic Answers.

        A pair of anthropologists demonstrated that multiples of this number sync up with the rhythms of planets in the solar system that are visible to the naked eye, which underscores the astronomical sophistication of these ancient Pre-Columbian peoples.

      • International Business Times1,000-year-old Viking coins unearthed by young girl in Denmark

        "They include Danish, Arab and Germanic coins as well as pieces of jewellery of Scottish and Irish origins," according to The Viking Herald. It is being said that the coins are from King Harald "Bluetooth" (Blåtand) Gormsson's time.

      • NPRContact is lost with a Japanese spacecraft attempting to land on the moon

        For this test flight, the two main experiments were government-sponsored: the UAE's 22-pound (10-kilogram) rover Rashid, named after Dubai's royal family, and the Japanese Space Agency's orange-sized sphere designed to transform into a wheeled robot on the moon. With a science satellite already around Mars and an astronaut aboard the International Space Station, the UAE was seeking to extend its presence to the moon.

      • CBSSwedish research rocket flies off course, accidentally lands in Norway

        Shortly after landing, Swedish and Norweigan authorities were notified, the SSC confirmed later on Tuesday. The rocket and its payload were found to be in good condition and were transported back to Esrange Space Center in Sweden by helicopter.

    • Education

      • LatviaLatvia's teachers begin three-day strike

        Having reached no agreement with the government on systematically raising teachers' salaries and balancing their loads, the Latvian Education and Science Workers' Trade Union (LIZDA) starts a three-day strike on Monday, April 24, with more than 19,000 teachers participating, and goes on a€ protest march in Rīga from the trade union building to the Saeima.

    • Health/Nutrition/Agriculture

      • European CommissionOpening Remarks by Commissioner Stella Kyriakides at the European Parliament AGRI Committee - Structured Dialogue

        European Commission Speech Brussels, 24 Apr 2023 Chair, Honourable Members

        At our last structured dialogue, Russia's unprovoked invasion of Ukraine...

      • European CommissionGlobal Gateway: EU and Togo strengthen partnership in sustainable agribusiness, energy and connectivity

        European Commission Press release Brussels, 24 Apr 2023 As part of Global Gateway, the EU is announcing a new contribution of €70 million for two Team Europe Initiatives (TEIs) to boost agri-businesses, energy and connectivity in Togo in line with the country's 2025-development plan, in partnership with France and Germany and the European Investment Bank

      • LatviaHealthcare workers might strike in autumn

        In solidarity with teachers, around 1,000 health workers participated in the protest on Monday, April 24. Ilze Aizsilniece, head of the Latvian Medical Society, has repeated her readiness to organize a strike in the autumn. The industry ministry hopes to prevent this with a clear plan for predictable additional funding for the health sector.

      • teleSUREuropean Leaders Raise Alarm Over Falling Vaccination Rates

        Over 1 million children in the WHO European Region have missed all or some routine vaccinations since the start of the pandemic in 2020.

      • NPRThe truth about teens, social media and the mental health crisis

        Take for instance, hanging out with friends, in person. Since 1976, the number of times per week teens go out with friends — and without their parents — held basically steady for nearly 30 years. In 2004, it slid a bit. Then in 2010, it nosedived.

        "It was just like a Black Diamond ski slope straight down," Twenge tells NPR. "So these really big changes occur."

        At the same time, around 2012, time on social media began to soar. In 2009, only about half of teens used social media every day, Twenge reports. In 2017, 85% used it daily. By 2022, 95% of teens said they use some social media, and about a third say they use it constantly, a poll from Pew Research Center found.

        "Now, in the most recent data, 22% of 10th grade girls spend seven or more hours a day on social media," Twenge says, which means many teenage girls are doing little else than sleeping, going to school and engaging with social media.

    • Proprietary

      • Corporate Layoff: 3M Announces Mass Cutback of Workforce Amidst Downtrend in Manufacturing

        3M has become one of the corporate firms impacted by the turbulent economic period as it announced significant layoffs due to the recession and a slump in demand for goods.

      • Morningstar US Meta in the layoffs spotlight ahead of first-quarter results

        More than 183,000 global technology-sector employees have been laid off since the beginning of 2023

        Meta is the latest big-name tech company in the layoffs spotlight, joining Electronic Arts, Amazon, Palantir Technologies, Twilio, Zoom, eBay, Okta, Splunk, PayPal, IBM, SAP, Spotify, Alphabet, Intel, Microsoft, Coinbase, Cisco, Salesforce, HP, Roku, Beyond Meat and Twitter in making job cuts.

        More than 183,000 global technology-sector employees have been laid off since the start of 2023, according to data compiled by the website Layoffs.fyi.

        Here's a look at the list of big names across a number of sectors that have been cutting back their workforces.

      • Bleeping ComputerNew Microsoft 365 outage causes Exchange Online connectivity issues

        Microsoft is investigating ongoing Microsoft 365 issues preventing some Exchange Online customers from accessing their mailboxes.

        "We've identified an issue affecting Exchange Online connectivity for users in North America and are investigating further," the company tweeted earlier.

        "More details can be found in the Microsoft 365 admin center under EX546390."

    • Security

      • LWNSecurity updates for Tuesday [LWN.net]

        Security updates have been issued by CentOS (firefox, java-11-openjdk, and thunderbird), Debian (apache2), Fedora (kernel), Oracle (emacs), Red Hat (emacs, haproxy, java-1.8.0-openjdk, kernel, kernel-rt, kpatch-patch, pcs, pki-core:10.6, and qatzip), and SUSE (avahi, cdi-apiserver-container, cdi-cloner-container, cdi- controller-container, cdi-importer-container, cdi-operator-container, cdi- uploadproxy-container, cdi-uploadserver-container, cont, giflib, kernel, kubevirt, virt-api-container, virt-controller-container, virt-handler-container, virt-launcher-container, virt-libguestfs-tools- container, virt-operator-container, ovmf, and protobuf-c).

      • Data BreachesFormer Methodist employees plead guilty to HIPAA violations



        There’s an update to a case announced in November 2022 in which five former Methodist Hospital employees in Memphis Tennessee were charged with criminal violations of HIPAA.

        According to the indictment, between November 2017 and December 2020, the five were charged with conspiring with Roderick Harvey to unlawfully disclose patient information in violation HIPAA. Harvey paid Kirby Dandridge, Sylvia Taylor, Kara Thompson, Melanie Russell, and Adrianna Taber to provide him with names and phone numbers of Methodist patients who had been involved in motor vehicle accidents.

        Harvey then sold the information to third parties that included personal injury attorneys and chiropractors.

      • Elk Grove Unified School District investigating after employees report issues filing taxes

        The Elk Grove Unified School District confirmed Monday it is investigating tax filing issues for some of its employees.

        KCRA 3 first received a tip about the potential identity theft two weeks ago but heard about official action from the district on Friday when we obtained a survey sent to some district employees.

    • Defence/Aggression

      • LatviaLatvian, Estonian presidents stress need for Ukraine's accession to NATO

        President of Latvia€ Egils Levits, said Monday after meeting with Estonian President Alar€ Karis€ that both countries were in favor of a faster accession of Ukraine to NATO.

      • LatviaLatvia goes all-in on Stingers for Ukraine

        Latvia has responded to Ukraine's request for anti-aircraft missiles and has made a decision to donate all the remaining Stinger systems the Latvian army has, said Latvian Defense Minister Ināra Mūrniece (National Alliance) at€ the Ukraine defense contact group meeting in Ramstein, Germany on April 21.

      • Federal News NetworkLA’s big Armenian community marks genocide remembrance day

        The killing and deportation of Armenians by Ottoman Empire forces in the early 1900s is being remembered in Southern California. Only recently has its enormous Armenian American community been able to celebrate U.S. recognition that the systematic oppression was genocide. Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day has long been marked in the Los Angeles region by big rallies and marches. In 2021, Joe Biden became the first U.S. president to use the word “genocide” to describe the violence, over the objections of Turkey, successor to the empire. More than 200,000 people of Armenian descent are estimated to live in Los Angeles County, where April is celebrated as Armenian History Month.

      • Federal News Network$1.6M settlement reached in handcuffed prisoner’s 2014 death

        Nevada's Department of Corrections has agreed to pay $1.6 million to the family of a handcuffed inmate who was shot and killed in 2014 by a prison guard trainee armed with a shotgun. The deal was reached Monday in a wrongful death lawsuit filed by relatives of Carlos Perez. The settlement still needs to be approved by the state's Board of Examiners. A Department of Corrections spokesman declined to comment. Perez's death at High Desert State Prison raised questions about the use of shotguns by prison guards. The Department of Corrections removed shotguns from all its facilities less than two years after the shooting.

      • AntiWarRFK Jr. Takes Strong Antiwar, Anti-Empire Stance in Presidential Run

        Robert Francis Kennedy, Jr., near the very beginning of his April 19 announcement to run for President in the Democratic Party spoke these words: "Fifty-five years ago last month, I sat as a 14-year-old boy behind my father as he now announced in a Senate caucus room in Washington, DC, his campaign for President of [...]"

      • AntiWarA Bad Idea Resurfaces: Using the US Military Against Mexico’s Drug Cartels

        There has been a recent flurry of proposals to have the U.S. military launch a full-scale war against Mexican drug cartels – primarily to stem the alleged fentanyl crisis. Former Attorney General William P. Barr initiated the latest campaign with an op-ed in the March 2, 2023, Wall Street Journal.

      • New York TimesPutin’s Spokesman, Dmitri Peskov, Claims Son Fought in Ukraine

        Dmitri S. Peskov’s comments highlighted the Moscow elite’s uneven participation in a war that has cost the lives of tens of thousands of Russian soldiers.

      • New York TimesOpposition Leader Says He Left Venezuela After Being Threatened

        Juan Guaidó said he crossed the border into Colombia and hours later was put on a plane to the United States.

      • New York TimesMen in Military Uniforms Killed at Least 60 People, Burkina Faso Says

        A prosecutor opened an investigation into the killing of about 60 people by men in uniforms of the national military. Days earlier, the authorities said they would investigate the killing of seven boys.

      • CS MonitorUkraine’s drive to put Putin on trial

        The principle of territorial integrity would be affirmed if Ukraine wins U.N. support for a special court to deal with Russia’s invasion – a “war of aggression.”

      • New York TimesDeadly Blasts Destroy Police Station in Pakistan

        Some officials said the explosions, which killed at least 15, were caused by an accident. But a rise in militant attacks has put the region on edge.

      • New York TimesThese Countries Lined Up to Help Ukraine. Now Their Farmers Are Angry.

        A grain deal that got Ukrainian exports moving and eased a global food crisis is now fueling protests in Romania and among other staunch supporters of Kyiv.

      • LatviaLatvia summons Chinese diplomat over 'former Soviet' comments

        Latvia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) said April 24 it had summoned the senior Chinese diplomat in the country€ in response to€ statements made by€ the Ambassador of China to France, Lu Shaye, during a€ TV interview on April 21.

      • New York TimesChina’s Ambassador Lu Shaye Comments on Ex-Soviet States Drawing Ire

        Remarks by China’s ambassador to France questioning the sovereignty of ex-Soviet states threatened to upset China’s efforts to balance courting Europe with supporting Russia.

      • New York TimesRussian Foreign Minister Faces Rebuke at U.N. Over War in Ukraine

        The U.S. and European members of the Security Council had declined to send their foreign ministers to the meeting chaired by Sergey V. Lavrov, which was a key event for Russia’s rotating presidency.

      • CS MonitorA reporter’s ‘full investment of head and heart’

        Reporter Martin Kuz sees potential for Ukraine to find a kind of positive transformation known as post-traumatic growth on the other side of the war.

      • CS MonitorBattle rages on in Sudan as mass airlifts rescue foreign nationals

        Foreign governments are evacuating their citizens from Sudan amid a battle for power between two rival generals. While foreign evacuations continue, many Sudanese are risking their lives to escape the violence by driving to the border with Egypt.

      • CS MonitorNuance in the fog: Plumbing for honesty in Russian opinion polls

        Russia’s government allows public opinion polls, but some say the surveys are skewed by the reluctance of opposition supporters to express themselves.

    • Environment

      • Energy/Transportation

        • Federal News NetworkPlanned Senate bill would counteract Mining Law ruling

          A Nevada Democratic U.S. senator wants Congress to step in to ensure mining companies can use established mineral claims to dump waste on neighboring federal lands. Federal agencies had allowed that before a U.S. appeals court adopted a stricter ruling of a 150-year-old mining law. The 2022 ruling from the 9th Circuit said companies must prove minerals exist under federal land where they dump tailings and other waste. Environmentalists largely praised it, though it's worrisome for President Joe Biden's clean energy agenda. Nevada U.S. Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto's office tells The Associated Press she'll introduce a bill Tuesday that essentially would counteract the 9th Circuit ruling in an Arizona copper mining case.

        • teleSURDiane Wilson: 2023 Goldman Environmental Prize Winner

          "She is our hero, and we are thrilled that she is receiving this well-deserved recognition," CODEPINK said in a press release.

        • teleSUR9 European Countries to Turn North Sea Into Green Power Plant

          "...a bold vision that encompasses the generation of a minimum of 120 gigawatts of offshore wind power..."

    • Finance

    • AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics

    • Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press

    • Monopolies

      • Copyrights

        • Torrent FreakBulgaria Approves Draft Law That Turns Pirate Site Operators Into Criminals

          A draft law that aims to criminalize and prosecute those who "create conditions for online piracy" has been approved by Bulgaria's Council of Ministers. The proposed amendments are Bulgaria's response to heavy criticism from the United States, most publicly via the USTR's Special 301 Reports. It's hoped that prison sentences of up to six years will send a deterrent message.

        • Torrent Freak1337x's Search is Broken, Can't Find Recent Torrents

          1337x.to, one of the world's most-visited torrent sites, has trouble finding recent torrents. While uploaders continue to add new content to the site, the broken search function only shows files that were uploaded on or before April 10th. Thus far, the site's operator has yet to comment on the technical problem.

  • Gemini* and Gopher

    • Personal

      • Lantashi's Dance - Ch 2 - H'shalyn

        It has been forever since the Player and I have worked on this story. Time to change that! I have a lot of ideas for Lantashi, and the adventures that take place after the campaign the story is based on.

    • Technical

      • All in on dwm; cheatsheet

        I've been extatic with the suckless tiling desktop manager dwm on my notebook. Feeling all cocky I decided to switch my main machine to dwm as well. The result is great, but it took more time than I imagined.

      • Internet/Gemini

        • This, that, and otherness

          for setting me straight on an Antenna detail or two critical to my gemlog entries showing on Antenna!

          In related news, I was very happy to receive some nearly immediate email after relaunching my capsule. I don't need a lot of attention, but I generally need more than zero to feel effort is worthwhile.


* Gemini (Primer) links can be opened using Gemini software. It's like the World Wide Web but a lot lighter.



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Links 22/10/2025: Study on Misinformation by Slop and Heavily Debt-Sabbled Microsoft OpenAI (ClosedSlop) Uses "Browser" as Gimmick/Distraction
Links for the day
They've Already Spent Close to a Million Dollars on Lawyers and Sent Us About 50 KG of Legal Papers (Sponsored by Mysterious Third Party) to Try to Censor Techrights, Without Success
They try to overcompensate with sheer volume for a lack of solid, clear arguments (we are the victims here)
12 Months Ago the 'Hulk Hogan of UEFI' Officially Went 'Tag-Team'
We're actually sort of flattered or proud that such despicable people are so desperate to censor us
"Cloud Computing" Was Always a Joke, But This Week Was the Punchline
Maybe stop following tech trends and fashions
"Cloud Computing" Does Not Mean Safety
Fault tolerance is related to the notion of software freedom
Over at Tux Machines...
GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, October 21, 2025
IRC logs for Tuesday, October 21, 2025
The Fall of Windows: From Something to Nothing
Of course Microsoft will pretend everything is fine and "just trust the hey hi" (AI)
Sounds Like Fedora is Ready to Become Less of a Slave of Microsoft (GitHub)
This seems like a belated move in a positive direction
XBox is a Dead Microsoft Product in a Dying Industry
It's probable that another wave of XBox layoffs is just over the horizon (maybe even before month's end)
Progress on Techrights Site Search
Fun times
IBM's Bluewashing of Red Hat Means the Layoffs Are Silent, Barely Reported
Don't wait to hear about "Red Hat layoffs"
Gemini Links 21/10/2025: Happy Disconnection, AWS Falling Apart, Closing of Gemlog Blue
Links for the day
Full Audio of Today's Richard Stallman Talk in the Technical University of Munich
Free/Libre software and freedom in the digital society
Microsoft XBox is Just Vapourware (Promises of Hardware That Doesn't Exist), Real Products Perish
just as developers lose interest in developing for XBox Microsoft is increasing the costs imposed upon them
Slopwatch: Fake Articles (Slop) in "Linux" Clothing in Google News (Noise)
all about what Google does
Links 21/10/2025: Even "Inventor of Vibe Coding" Rejects Vibe Coding, USPTO Experiments With Slop in Examination
Links for the day
Richard Stallman Talk Now Available for Viewing (Archived Copy, Not Live-streamed)
This recording is over 2 hours old
Links 21/10/2025: AWS-Induced Chaos and Social Control Media Curbs
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Gemini Links 21/10/2025: Programming, StarGrid, Brand-New Palm OS Strategy Game in 2025, and Chatbot as Addiction Mechanisms
Links for the day
The African Lion and the American Cowards
Safaris exist for people to watch and enjoy animals
Amazon Web Shenanigans Perfectly Timed for Today's Talk by Richard Stallman
Maybe listen to him instead of looking for excuses to ridicule the messenger
Mission:Libre Has Taken Off (Project by Carmen Maris)
there will be a lot more to report on next month (after the event)
Techrights to Publish More EPO Leaks Next Week
We're meanwhile also doing lots of work on search, whose interface now looks better
Links 21/10/2025: 'The Lost Art' of Neon Signs and Twitter (X) to Enable Identity Theft (or Handle Theft) as a Service
Links for the day
Plagiarism With LLM Slop: Hindustan Times (HT Digital Streams Limited) Has Become a Slop Factory/Hub
What a disgrace
A radical proposal to keep your personal data safe, by Richard Stallman
"The surveillance imposed on us today is worse than in the Soviet Union. We need laws to stop this data being collected in the first place"
Next Week We Launch Search at Techrights
We're planning to launch it some time next week. Maybe Tuesday, maybe Thursday.
Talk by Richard Stallman Will be Live-streamed in Less Than 10 Hours
Happy hacking
"No Kings" in the Software World (GAFAM Should Not Exist, Either)
"No Kings" is a good slogan. Let's start by ridding ourselves of masters, not only those who reside in DC or visit DC
Every Morning
Bugs/edge cases combined with automation can spell disaster
Insane, Deliberately Dishonest, or Just Another Bigot?
very intellectually-dishonest human being
A Lot of Techrights is Built on Perl
Perl also runs the sister site
The Register MS Selling Slop for Microsoft (Vapourware, Ponzi Scheme, False Claims)
What will be left of The Register MS if it keeps repeating falsehoods and looking to profit from Ponzi schemes?
analytics.usa.gov Says Less Than 14% of Web Requests (to Government Sites) Come From Vista 11
Vista 11 was released more than 4 years ago!
People Who Attempt to Take Down Correct Information Need a Doctor a Day
“Journalism is printing something that someone does not want printed. Everything else is public relations.” ― George Orwell
Over at Tux Machines...
GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Monday, October 20, 2025
IRC logs for Monday, October 20, 2025
Vista 11 is Sinking While Microsoft is PIPing (Mass Layoffs But Silent Layoffs)
We're witnessing a shift in platform dominance
Richard Stallman is Having a Good Week Already (Stallman Was Right About 'Clown Computing')
That alone is worth bringing up in his talk
An Update About Soylent News, With Jan Rinok "Back in the Saddle"
Burnout or "near burnout" a possibility when having to curate abuse
When Prominent GNU/Linux Distros Are Run by Spies
What has Microsoft Canonical become?
More Publishers and Companies Nowadays Say "GNU/Linux", Not "Linux"
It's not to see InstallAware saying GNU/Linux this week