𝕿𝖊𝖈𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍𝖙𝖘 Bulletin for Wednesday, March 24, 2021 ┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅ Generated Thu 25 Mar 02:40:20 GMT 2021 Created by Dr. Roy Schestowitz (𝚛𝚘𝚢 (at) 𝚜𝚌𝚑𝚎𝚜𝚝𝚘𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚣 (dot) 𝚌𝚘𝚖) Full hyperlinks for navigation omitted but are fully available in the originals The corresponding HTML versions are at 𝒕𝒆𝒄𝒉𝒓𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒔.𝒐𝒓𝒈 Latest in 𝒉𝒕𝒕𝒑://𝒕𝒆𝒄𝒉𝒓𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒔.𝒐𝒓𝒈/𝒕𝒙𝒕 and older bulletins can be found at 𝒉𝒕𝒕𝒑://𝒕𝒆𝒄𝒉𝒓𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒔.𝒐𝒓𝒈/𝒕𝒙𝒕-𝒂𝒓𝒄𝒉𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒔 Full IPFS index in 𝒉𝒕𝒕𝒑://𝒕𝒆𝒄𝒉𝒓𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒔.𝒐𝒓𝒈/𝒊𝒑𝒇𝒔 and as plain text in 𝒉𝒕𝒕𝒑://𝒕𝒆𝒄𝒉𝒓𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒔.𝒐𝒓𝒈/𝒊𝒑𝒇𝒔/𝒕𝒙𝒕 Gemini index for the day: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2021/03/24/ ╒═══════════════════ 𝐑𝐄𝐂𝐄𝐍𝐓 𝐁𝐔𝐋𝐋𝐄𝐓𝐈𝐍𝐒 ════════════════════════════════════╕ Previous bulletins in IPFS (past 21 days, in chronological order): QmW4WcUNmujGK5kcyYfeyVfYpji6GmKLMaxty6WdhcgNhU QmWJmmXoWSvDVv1GXCBeefymKQ4ous4fqKHL8U96jvMRWM QmZABDo4xMH4KexrW2Lkih6fAve7ujxsBUWpbp6uCF4KY7 QmVqgUwgy82Dv9wbRCHDf8Az5JAxCfFrTdgSmUg7JHckhG QmbwY85pQ1AiuwtWfdbNfv9gxDga5UyiXJrZ1QHd6hbsj7 QmWp121r1GXcbyqSwDPppCeSNezNLzAkSn1ouaS1a1jokb QmdoZcf4iwb2ztjbdiuYHAC9yqNAxqjJ7bLxyu4mWe3eir Qmeh8C9MD58oRRQTZMdxXzz1fPnkNNkZLDGMUBXUZtfYcA QmQwVB9CHJEF8FeK5qE4nVrEt3T4j18queqDGsX1tco7Hu QmbvjnjBPkV9NuX5KzgE4i1MMMvJAtyqXZsxGtid1PSaxN QmR4biofPhoiD3JC7c8mnGqxWSMBkqoxwCBZQ7dT7pthDc QmSA9tsJUQyqpRRdqkKF9RwzKJcTetjDtoCFf54WRpJzdT QmVcJzDwydxRsdrBEoE7ieprrcQgWHRfbAN6LkeYP2GLno QmeMCTKga6Gc9Jauun7YUupAZBj2asqir5j5Y383skr2HP QmUDkM7S8nKeCBcqjF1J1WqKQhBeUg6ckirMnvYYYSEhmL QmVNPxQExEpP4QSgXf39aZaHYfBr16sxUbpV5A8n6o6iuu QmeCsgPX6MV7CCyh4KFweWk65cHTCRdXoUejp7pgQtgiDm QmT3sD7E4z8nzK4tqDm2iAN9rdEQRN2TVetcsYVJtzXw35 QmcjYkx6RyxNc5KYfdiGaUwzwwhudtPJqbH7quCKBTzTmq QmcJTEQCo8C8PEPNccnTtTEqmNWXL5T6wt4cJy2Qi8V24R QmdquhaPfSFCNiLgWpAfp5btpG4xZqsEDiYTUJWmRYbRCb ╒═══════════════════ 𝐈𝐍𝐃𝐄𝐗 ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⦿ The Tactics Against Popular Movements Have Hardly Changed | Techrights ⦿ Let’s Get the Free Software Foundation on Gemini Space! | Techrights ⦿ IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, March 23, 2021 | Techrights ⦿ Lunduke (ex-Microsoft): In Defense of Richard Stallman | Techrights ⦿ OSI Should Elect a Leader Before Trying to Dethrone Others’ | Techrights ⦿ EPO Management Bombards the ’News’ Section to Distract From Unlawful Attacks on the EPO’s Highest Tribunal (This Time in G 1/21) | Techrights ䷼ Bulletin articles (as HTML) to comment on (requires login): http://techrights.org/2021/03/24/derailing-movements/#comments http://techrights.org/2021/03/24/gemini-space-perfect-fit-for-fsf/#comments http://techrights.org/2021/03/24/irc-log-230321/#comments http://techrights.org/2021/03/24/lunduke-rms/#comments http://techrights.org/2021/03/24/osi-should-elect-a-leader/#comments http://techrights.org/2021/03/24/unlawful-attacks-on-eba/#comments ䷞ Followed by Daily Links (assorted news picks curated and categorised): http://techrights.org/2021/03/24/gnome-40/#comments http://techrights.org/2021/03/24/kaos-2021-03/#comments http://techrights.org/2021/03/24/manjaro-linux-21-0/#comments ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 64 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at http://techrights.org/2021/03/24/derailing-movements/#comments Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2021/03/24/derailing-movements/ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 03.24.21⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ ✐ The_Tactics_Against_Popular_Movements_Have_Hardly_Changed⠀✐ Posted in Deception, Free/Libre_Software at 9:53 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz Video_download_link http://techrights.org/videos/fbi-and-provocation.webm 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇Mark Twain⦈ Summary: “History may not repeat itself. But it rhymes,” as the old saying goes THE VIDEO above is a response to events that lower the volume of actual news and replace news with noise (or falsehoods). For the remaining days of this week we intend to focus on issues like software freedom and patent policy, as usual. The aspects of most concern to us are focus and cohesion; the community should stay focused and not divided. “Here in Techrights we focus on “tech rights” (as the name suggests). We don’t deal with ‘pure’ politics not because it’s not important but because it’s just not “our thing”.”The video goes through a casual glimpse at the FBI operations against popular and just causes, such as animal rights and voting rights. Here in Techrights we focus on “tech rights” (as the name suggests). We don’t deal with ‘pure’ politics not because it’s not important but because it’s just not “our thing”. Here is an_example of a popular software freedom advocate being confronted over the focus on software instead of animals. 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we take a look at the sorts of benefits this would entail THE exciting thing, to me at least, is Dr. Stallman (FSF Founder) speaking about the threats posed by “remote” visits to the doctor; in his talk a few days ago he explained that neither Web sites nor “apps” respect his freedom. His right-hand man, Mr. Oliva, gave or intended to give a talk (and_essay) about Gemini as an alternative to the bloated and user-hostile World Wide Web. It was signed with: “Thanks to Richard Stallman for the inspiration to write about this issue, and for the encouragement to publish it.” This was later republished by GNU/FSF, reaching the audience it truly deserved. “It’s a movement that takes off rapidly and reaches outer space.”It’s very, very encouraging to see the FSF talking about those issues. We need solutions as this is a core problem and a threat to software freedom. We wrote_about_this yesterday. One common question that’s important to tackle again and again is, “how can this replace the Web?” No, it won’t replace it, it’s complementary to it. Older versions of HTML aren’t suitable. Temptation to go above and beyond, adding more and more bloat (or bells and whistles), won’t be technically impeded. Gemini protocol is a response to such temptation, instead focusing on privacy, security, and extensive language support through Unicode (by default). The restrictive/limiting nature is a design feature. It’s not “retro”, except on the surface. 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇Free Software⦈ Having spent a lot of time on Gemini this year, I’ve prepared a crudely drafted video (no preparations, only intentions) about what it would take for the FSF to become available over Gemini space. Gemini is no “small potatoes”; in the first 3 weeks of this month we’ve received over 50,000 requests over gemini:// and that number increases over time because more geeks cross over, exploring what might later be adopted by a broader group of people. Quite a few of us at Techrights already use Web browsers and Gemini clients in conjunction. We’ve experimented with many such clients (over half a dozen GUIs exist, and over a dozen CLI/ncurses ones!) and they rapidly improve over time. It’s a movement that takes off rapidly and reaches outer space. It has a lot to do with software freedom because all clients are Free software (as far as we’re aware), not to mention specifications/protocols. It would be a major boost and a much-appreciated addition if the FSF assigned somebody to create Gemini presence (something like gemini://gemini.fsf.org/) as it would not require registering a new domain and it would improve reach/ exposure to the FSF’s goals/messages. 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Oh, sorry, we have to run the election all over again⦈ Summary: The deeply_defunct and intolerant OSI has no members of staff (only one interim member of staff) but it has the audacity to sign hypocritical petitions at Microsoft’s GitHub (proprietary software where most of the OSI’s budget gets funneled to — quite the blunder) ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣤⣤⣤⡄⣤⡄⣤⣄⢠⣤⣤⠀⠀⢀⣤⣤⡀⢀⣤⣤⡀⢠⣤⢠⡄⣀⣤⣄⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠉⣿⣿⠁⣿⣇⣿⣿⢸⣿⣉⠀⠀⣿⡏⣿⣷⢿⣿⣻⠟⢸⣿⠸⠇⣿⣯⡿⠇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⠀⣿⡟⣿⣿⢸⣿⠛⠀⠀⣿⡇⣿⣿⣨⣽⢿⣷⢸⣿⠀⠀⣬⡟⣿⣆⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠿⠿⠀⠿⠇⠿⠿⠸⠿⠿⠆⠀⠻⠷⠿⠃⠸⠿⠾⠟⠸⠿⠀⠀⠻⠷⠿⠏⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣀⣀⣀⢀⣀⠀⢀⣀⣀⠀⣀⣀⣀⢀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⡀⣀⣀⣀⡀⠀⢀⣀⢀⣀⡀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⢀⣀⢀⣀⠀⣀⡀⣀⣀⡀⣀⣀⣀⡀⠀⢀⣀⡀⣀⣀⣀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⠛⢸⣿⠀⢸⣿⠛⢰⣿⡏⣿⡏⢻⣿⡟⢹⣿⡟⠃⣿⡏⣿⡇⠀⢸⣿⢸⣿⡇⣿⡏⣿⣿⢸⣿⣼⣿⢸⣿⣇⣿⡇⣿⡟⠃⣿⣿⣿⣷⠀⢸⣿⡇⣿⣏⠿⠇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⠛⢸⣿⠀⢸⣿⠛⢸⣿⡇⣤⡄⢸⣿⡇⢸⣿⡟⠃⣿⡇⣿⡇⠀⠸⣿⣿⣿⣷⣿⡇⣿⣿⢸⣿⣿⣿⢸⣿⣿⣿⡇⣿⡟⠃⣿⣿⣿⣧⠀⢸⣿⡇⣙⡻⣿⡆⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠿⠿⠶⠸⠿⠶⠸⠿⠶⠞⠿⣷⡿⠃⠸⠿⠇⠸⠿⠷⠆⠿⠷⠿⠇⠀⠀⠿⠿⠋⠿⠿⠁⠿⠿⠼⠿⠻⠿⠸⠿⠸⠿⠇⠿⠷⠆⠿⠿⠿⠿⠀⠸⠿⠇⠿⣷⡿⠇⠶⠶⠶⠶⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢠⣴⣤⣀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠻⠿⣷⡄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠛⠛⠡⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣀⣠⣤⣤⡄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠖⠀⠐⡕⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢲⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢈⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠘⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣠⣤⣴⣶⣾⡄⠀⠉⠉⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣠⣼⣦⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠛⠛⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣴⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣠⣴⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣶⣤⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠠⠒⠂⠂⠼⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣆⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢰⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡎⡬⢀⣠⠤⢤⣀⢹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣶⣤⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡴⠛⠓⠂⢻⠿⠟⠛⠋⠉⠉⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣴⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣇⣳⣋⢶⣛⡿⢿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣦⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⢀⡿⠛⠉⠈⡀⣤⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣫⣥⣍⠛⠙⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⢿⣿⣿⣿⢡⣿⣿⣶⣄⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣠⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠉⣷⣆⠈⣿⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣦⣉⣹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣶⣤⣤⣤⣄⣀⣤⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⢹⣿⣧⣈⠛⢿⣾⣻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠺⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣄⣠⠉⣿⣿⣿⣴⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠉⠛⠿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣟⢸⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠉⠛⠻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠟⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡆⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠉⠛⠿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⠛⠉⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠉⠉⠉⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠇⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢰⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠉⠻⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠋⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣰⣶⣦⢰⡆⣶⠀⠀⢠⡶⣦⢠⡶⣦⢰⡶⣦⢰⡶⣦⢰⣆⣶⠀⠀⣶⢰⣶⣰⣶⣶⠶⠀⣶⣶⣶⢰⣶⡆⣶⣰⣶⣶⡶⠀⠴⣶⡶⣴⣶⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⢸⡿⣿⠀⠀⢘⡿⣦⢸⡇⣿⢸⡷⣿⢸⡿⣿⠈⣿⡇⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠖⠀⣿⣿⣿⣼⣿⣇⢿⣿⡏⣿⡷⠀⠀⣿⠀⣿⢸⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠙⠿⠛⠘⠃⠛⠺⠀⠘⠷⠟⠘⠿⠛⠘⠃⠛⠘⠃⠛⠀⠛⠂⡿⠀⠘⠛⠘⠛⠘⠛⠛⠀⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠘⠛⠃⠛⠛⠀⠀⠛⠀⠛⠿⠋⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⣴⣤⣄⣤⣦⣴⢰⣆⣶⠀⢴⣤⣤⣶⣴⣤⣤⣤⠀⢰⣤⡆⣶⠀⣦⣴⢠⡶⣦⢰⣤⣴⣴⣄⣴⣦⡄⣦⢰⡆⠀⣤⣴⠀⣶⠀⣶⡄⠀⣠⣶⣄⣦⣤⣶⣴⣴⢰⣤⣤⠀⠀⣦⣦⢠⡶⣦⢀⣦⣆⢰⡆⣴⣤⣦⠀ ⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢸⣿⣿⠀⠀⣿⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⡷⠀⢸⣿⠆⣿⠀⣿⡷⢸⡇⣛⠀⣿⡇⣿⣿⣿⢸⡇⣿⣿⡇⠀⣿⣻⡇⣿⠀⣿⡇⠀⣿⣿⣿⢻⣿⡟⣿⡷⢸⣿⣿⠀⢸⣟⣿⢸⡧⣭⢸⣟⣿⢸⡇⣿⣿⣿⠀ ⠀⠀⠿⠟⠿⠙⠿⠟⠸⠏⠿⠀⠀⠿⠀⠿⠻⠟⠿⠷⠂⠸⠿⠆⠿⠶⠿⠷⠘⠷⠟⠀⠿⠇⠿⠏⠻⠿⠃⠿⠹⠇⠰⠿⠹⠷⠿⠖⠿⠷⠀⠻⠿⠏⠸⠿⠇⠿⠷⠾⠟⠿⠀⠸⠏⠿⠟⠷⠻⠿⠏⠿⠾⠇⠿⠸⠟⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 470 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at http://techrights.org/2021/03/24/unlawful-attacks-on-eba/#comments Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2021/03/24/unlawful-attacks-on-eba/ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 03.24.21⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ ✐ EPO_Management_Bombards_the_‘News’_Section_to_Distract_From_Unlawful_Attacks on_the_EPO’s_Highest_Tribunal_(This_Time_in_G_1/21)⠀✐ Posted in Europe, Patents at 5:37 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz Video_download_link http://techrights.org/videos/epo-g1-21.webm Summary: A referral regarding “oral proceedings by videoconference in examination and opposition during pendency of referral” is yet another example of rigged legal processes at the EPO, including_legal_processes_concerning_the legality/independence_of_the_judges (they always bombard the ‘news’ section to distract from the catastrophic ramifications) TODAY’S EPO has a kangaroo_court which is lobbied by António_Campinos (e.g. regarding European_software_patents). Recently, the staff representatives said that the internal appeals process is no better. How long before Campinos starts kidnapping judges like Benoît_Battistelli did? And then proceeds to defame them in corruptible media? Battistelli did that after 4 years at the Office. “The EPO isn’t governed by various branches; there’s no oversight, there are no checks and balances, no rule of law.”The comments in this_thread seem to have struck a nerve at the higher floors of the Isar golden cage. So earlier today this (warning: epo.org link) and that (warning: epo.org link) waffle got published in the EPO’s so-called ‘news’ section. They obviously want people — including staff — to look away from a major scandal, still in the making, still an ongoing problem for virtually all referrals. The EPO isn’t governed by various branches; there’s no oversight, there are no checks and balances, no rule of law. As for the “news” section, it should be renamed “propaganda”. █ ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 519 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐃𝐀𝐈𝐋𝐘 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒 ═════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 03.24.21⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ ✐ Links_24/3/2021:_Krita_4.4.3,_GNOME_40,_and_Stable_Kernels⠀✐ Posted in News_Roundup at 1:23 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇GNOME bluefish⦈ § Contents⠀➾ * GNU/Linux o Distributions o Devices/Embedded * Free_Software/Open_Source * Leftovers * § GNU/Linux⠀➾ o § Kernel Space⠀➾ # ⚓ Linux_5.11.9⠀⇛ I'm announcing the release of the 5.11.9 kernel. All users of the 5.11 kernel series must upgrade. The updated 5.11.y git tree can be found at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ stable/linux-stable.git linux-5.11.y and can be browsed at the normal kernel.org git web browser: https://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/ linux-s... thanks, greg k-h # ⚓ Linux_5.4.108⠀⇛ # ⚓ Linux_4.19.183⠀⇛ # ⚓ Linux_4.14.227⠀⇛ # ⚓ Linux_4.9.263⠀⇛ # ⚓ Linux_4.4.263⠀⇛ # ⚓ Microsoft_Surface_“DTX”_Driver_Slated_For_Linux_5.13⠀⇛ While Microsoft often likes to proclaim their “love” for Linux, it’s been independent open-source developer Maximilian Luz that has been spearheading improvements for Microsoft Surface devices on Linux. With Linux 5.13 his latest work on better handling Microsoft Surface device detachment handling should land. Queued into the x86 platform driver area’s for-next code is this Microsoft Surface DTX driver written by Luz. o § Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ Best_Free_and_Open_Source_Alternatives_to_Google_Calendar⠀⇛ Google has a firm grip with their products and services ubiquitous on the desktop. Don’t get us wrong, we’re long-standing admirers of many of Google’s products and services. They are often high quality, easy to use, and ‘free’, but there can be downsides of over-reliance on a specific company. For example, there can be questions about their privacy policies, business practices, and an almost insatiable desire to control all of our data, all of the time. What if you are looking to move away from Google and embark on a new world of online freedom, where you are not constantly tracked, monetised and attached to Google’s ecosystem. In this series, we’ll explore how you can migrate from Google without missing out on anything. We’ll recommend open source solutions. o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾ # ⚓ mosquitto:_upgrade_from_1.x_to_2.x_requires_configuration changes_to_keep_working⠀⇛ Conclusions: it seems that mosquitto is now dropping privs before writing the PID file and before reading the certificate and password files. # ⚓ SSH_Keygen:_a_2021_update⠀⇛ Not long after the previous article on ssh-keygen, OpenSSH released a whole new version of SSH and related tools. This version came with many changes, the most notable one being the support of FIDO/U2F keys. In this post we summarize these changes, and try to explain some of the inner workings. We’ll focus on ssh-keygen here, and mention other tools when necessary. # ⚓ History_of_ZFS:_Part_1:_The_Birth_of_ZFS_and_How_it_All Started⠀⇛ ZFS (or the Zettabyte File System) is approaching its 15th birthday, and over a decade since integration into FreeBSD. Originally created by Sun Microsystems, ZFS grew in popularity because of its advanced features. Today we will take a look at its history. # ⚓ The_5-hour_CDN⠀⇛ The term “CDN” (“content delivery network”) conjures Google-scale companies managing huge racks of hardware, wrangling hundreds of gigabits per second. But CDNs are just web applications. That’s not how we tend to think of them, but that’s all they are. You can build a functional CDN on an 8- year-old laptop while you’re sitting at a coffee shop. I’m going to talk about what you might come up with if you spend the next five hours building a CDN. It’s useful to define exactly what a CDN does. A CDN hoovers up files from a central repository (called an origin) and stores copies close to users. Back in the dark ages, the origin was a CDN’s FTP server. These days, origins are just web apps and the CDN functions as a proxy server. So that’s what we’re building: a distributed caching proxy. o § Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾ # § K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt⠀➾ # ⚓ Krita_4.4.3_Released_with_Stability_and_Performance Improvements,_Bug_Fixes⠀⇛ Krita Foundation has kicked off development of the next major release of their widely used digital painting software, Krita 5, so they’re only focusing their efforts on making the Krita 4.4 series more stable and reliable. As such, the Krita 4.4.3 point release, the third in the series, is here to address address various crashes that occurred when reapplying a filter with reprompting or when painting on a filter mask that was created from a vector selection, as well as in the halftone filter, due to access to an invalid pointer. # ⚓ Krita_4.4.3_Released⠀⇛ Today, we’re releasing Krita 4.4.3. This is strictly a bugfix release. We spend two beta’s worth of testing trying to make this a really stable release, because from now on, we’re focusing on Krita 5! This will also be the last Krita release for 32 bits Windows; further releases will be 64 bits only. # § GNOME Desktop/GTK⠀➾ # ⚓ GNOME_40_released⠀⇛ The GNOME Project is proud to announce the release of GNOME 40. This release is the first to follow our new versioning scheme. It brings new design for the Activities overview and improved support for input with Compose sequences and keyboard shortcuts, among many other things. Improvements to core GNOME applications include a redesigned Weather application, information popups in Maps, better tabs in Web, and many more. # ⚓ GNOME_40_Released_With_Many_Improvements⠀⇛ # ⚓ GNOME_40_Released_with_Redesigned_Overview,_Touchpad Gestures_+_More⠀⇛ Six months of fastidious development has gone into making the latest release of the GNOME desktop the best one yet. In all, GNOME 40 is composed of a colossal 24,571 commits from more roughly 822 contributors. GNOME 40 features include a new design for the overview screen, a horizontal workspace switcher, and new features in a crop of apps, including the Nautilus file manager. # ⚓ GNOME_40_Desktop_Environment_Officially_Released, This_Is_What’s_New⠀⇛ Six months in the work, GNOME 40 ends the GNOME 3.x series of the open-source Linux desktop environment as a massive milestone adding numerous new features and improvements. The biggest change, however, you already know about from my previous articles, the redesign of the Activities Overview. In GNOME 40, the Activities Overview will be the first thing you see after login. It comes with better overview spatial organization with horizontal navigation and dock, improved touchpad navigation using gestures, more engaging app browsing and launching, and also contributes to a better boot performance of your Linux distro. # ⚓ GNOME_40_Released_with_Major_Design_Change._Here’s What’s_New.⠀⇛ The GNOME team announced the release of the GNOME 40 desktop environment with major design changes and many new features. o § Distributions⠀➾ # § New Releases⠀➾ # ⚓ Manjaro_21.0_‘Ornara’_is_out_now_with_Xfce,_KDE_and GNOME_upgrades⠀⇛ Prefer Manjaro as your favourite Linux distribution or want to try it out? Now looks to be a good time, with the Manjaro 21.0 ‘Ornara’ release now available. Coming in hot with GNOME 3.38, KDE Plasma 5.21, Xfce 4.16, Kernel 5.10 LTS and a 5.4 LTS-Kernel minimal-ISO for those who need older hardware support. Manjaro is not quite as bleeding-edge as Arch itself but they stick reasonably close. Manjaro is supposed to be for those who want up to date systems with at least some stability. Even just going by major upgrades to each desktop environment, it’s a big release with each of them bringing in major changes to their UI and upgraded applications. # § SUSE/OpenSUSE⠀➾ # ⚓ Installing_OpenSUSE_Leap_15⠀⇛ This is my experience on installing openSUSE, the green chameleon operating system, Leap Edition version 15.2 to my computer. It is a family of GNU/Linux hence a distant sibling to Ubuntu with a distinct feature called YaST, the green tapir control panel, on top of its RPM software package basis. I installed it on a virtual machine in normal method as I used on Ubuntu. However, this can be used for actual installation to the real hardware directly including in dualboot mode. Thus, I share this with you by wishing it to be useful. Let’s go! # § IBM/Red Hat/Fedora⠀➾ # ⚓ Fedora_Linux_34_Beta_Is_Now_Available_For_Download⠀⇛ Fedora Linux 34 Beta version is now available for download. Fedora 34 Workstation Beta includes GNOME 40 and is powered by Linux Kernel 5.11. Fedora Linux 34 Beta enables transparent compression for more disk space. Fedora Linux 34 Beta will use PipeWire to mix and manage audio streams. The KDE Plasma desktop now uses the Wayland display server by default. # ⚓ Fedora_34_Beta_Arrives_With_Awesome_GNOME_40_(Unlike Ubuntu_21.04)⠀⇛ Fedora 34 beta is finally available to download for public beta testing. There’s still plenty of time for the final release, but it is interesting to see some exciting changes that come with Fedora 34. Let me highlight a few things about Fedora 34 along with the links to download it. [...] Of course, GNOME 40 is a major highlight for Fedora 34 release. To get your hands on the latest GNOME 40, you will have to wait for the final release of Fedora 34. You may go ahead to test the beta build, but I wouldn’t recommend doing that for your production systems. GNOME 40 should be an exciting change considering the addition of a horizontal dock, revamped activities overview, and more. You should get a stock experience of GNOME 40 with Fedora 34, so it should be a refreshing experience. # § Canonical/Ubuntu Family⠀➾ # ⚓ Canonical_Releases_Another_Ubuntu_Linux_Kernel Security_Update_to_Fix_6_Flaws⠀⇛ The new Linux kernel security update comes just a week after the last kernel update and is available for Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla), Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa), and Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver) operating system series running Linux kernel 5.8 (Ubuntu 20.10) and Linux kernel 5.4 LTS (Ubuntu 20.04 and Ubuntu 18.04). The update fixes CVE-2021-27363, CVE-2021- 27364, and CVE-2021-27365, three flaws discovered by Adam Nichols in Linux kernel’s iSCSI subsystem, which could allow a local attacker to cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code. # ⚓ Ubuntu_20.10_Wallpaper_is_Revealed_–_And_It’s Hairy!⠀⇛ Yes, we’re already at that point of the Ubuntu release cycle. Ubuntu’s design bods have come up with a hypnotic new drape that holds firm to Ubuntu’s history of shipping a new desktop hoarding in each new release. Here, in all its compressed glory, is Ubuntu’s headstrong new mascot: the Hirsute Hippo… # ⚓ Hurrah!_Ubuntu_21.04_Fixes_a_Glaring_Deficiency⠀⇛ Ever since upstream GNOME jettisoned the ability to put icons on the desktop — it has its reasons — Ubuntu has opted to ship with a GNOME Shell extension that reimplements the functionality. Well, soft of reimplements. The simple ‘Desktop Icons’ extension it uses (and has used since Ubuntu 18.04 LTS) is barebones. Oh sure: it shows icons on the desktop …but that’s kind of it as you can’t do anything with ’em! Drag and drop from the file manager to the desktop? Doesn’t work. Drag and drop from an app to the desktop? Doesn’t work. Drag and drop a file from the desktop to the file manager? You get the idea. o § Devices/Embedded⠀➾ # ⚓ PinePhone_Beta_Limited_Edition_Is_Now_Available_for_Pre- Order_with_Manjaro_Linux⠀⇛ Unveiled earlier this month, the PinePhone Beta Edition is the next step in the evolution of this Linux phone developed by PINE64, the makers of the Pinebook ARM laptops, PINE A64 and ROCK64 SBCs, and PineTab Linux tablet. After offering the Linux community several limited editions of the PinePhone Linux phone branded and pre-installed with some of the most popular Linux operating systems for mobile devices, PINE64 announced last month its decision to no longer make these editions and stick with Manjaro Linux as default OS featuring the KDE Plasma Mobile user interface. # § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾ # ⚓ Automate_analogue_film_scanning_with_Raspberry_Pi_and LEGO⠀⇛ # ⚓ Development_of_next-gen_power_dist_(part_1)⠀⇛ The current iteration of the mjbots power_dist board released back in the summer of 2020 is pretty useful. It pre-charges the input, provides a soft switch, and gives you a bunch of output connectors to make wiring easier. However, this version did have some limitations and potential problems. The first is that the pre-charge method it uses, a simple on/off pre-charge resistor, is unable to support a wide range of supply voltages. Either the resistor has a low value, in which case large input voltages will cause thermal failure, or for larger values, it isn’t able to actually pre-charge the bus sufficiently before engaging the primary MOSFET. # ⚓ Two_dies_in_one_package:_Teardown_of_a_vintage_ROM with_double_the_storage⠀⇛ In 1971, semiconductor memory was still a new development so chips couldn’t hold a lot of data. To double the storage capacity, IBM used the brute-force approach of putting two silicon dies into a 1-inch square package.1 The photo below shows a module with two face- down silicon dies, storing 4 kilobytes of data. In this blog post, I look inside this package, examine the dies, and explain how this ROM (read-only memory) was implemented. Although I expected the circuitry to be straightforward, the primitive MOS transistors of the time made the circuitry more complicated in several ways. # § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ Android_12_DP_2_has_a_sweet_new_textured_ripple animation_for_taps⠀⇛ # ⚓ HMD_starts_rolling_out_the_Android_11_update_for_the Nokia_3.2⠀⇛ # ⚓ realme_C11_(2021)_certified_by_FCC_with_Android_11 and_5,000mAh_battery_–_Gizmochina⠀⇛ # ⚓ Nokia_3.2_Receiving_Android_11_Update_in_India_and_33 More_Countries_|_Technology_News⠀⇛ # ⚓ Android_11_begins_rolling_out_for_Nokia_3.2_– 9to5Google⠀⇛ # ⚓ Android_11_is_now_rolling_out_to_the_Nokia_3.2⠀⇛ # ⚓ Nokia_3.2_is_receiving_Android_11_update_–_comments⠀⇛ # ⚓ Qualcomm_is_reportedly_developing_a_Switch-like Android_gaming_device_–_The_Verge⠀⇛ # ⚓ How_to_Flip_a_Photo_on_Android⠀⇛ # ⚓ Android_12:_All_the_new_features_and_changes_so_far⠀⇛ # ⚓ OnePlus_7,_OnePlus_7T_Series_Finally_Get_Stable Android_11_Update:_Report_|_Technology_News⠀⇛ # ⚓ Android_11_released_for_Nokia_3.2_|_Nokiamob⠀⇛ # ⚓ Realme_C11_(2021)_With_5000mAh_Battery,_Android_11 Spotted_on_FCC_Certification_–_MySmartPrice⠀⇛ # ⚓ Samsung_Galaxy_A_series_One_UI_3.0/3.1_(Android_11) update_status⠀⇛ # ⚓ Samsung_starts_rolling_out_Android_11_with_One_UI_3.1 to_the_Galaxy_A40_and_Galaxy_A80⠀⇛ # ⚓ Nokia_3.2_is_receiving_Android_11_update_– GSMArena.com_news⠀⇛ # ⚓ Motorola_Razr_introduces_Android_10_download, upgrading_its_Quick_View_display⠀⇛ # ⚓ How_to_Combine_Photos_on_Android⠀⇛ # ⚓ How_to_set_up_Google_Assistant_on_Sony_Android_TV_| Tom’s_Guide⠀⇛ # ⚓ How_to_set_up_your_Sony_Android_TV_|_Tom’s_Guide⠀⇛ # ⚓ Konka_U5_Android_TV_(55U55A)_review_|_Tom’s_Guide⠀⇛ # ⚓ Best_Android_app_deals_of_the_day:_Star_Traders Frontiers,_more_–_9to5Toys⠀⇛ # ⚓ OnePlus_Nord_Getting_OxygenOS_11.1.1.2_Update_With March_2021_Android_Security_Patch_in_India_|_Technology News⠀⇛ # ⚓ OnePlus_9_Pro_review:_super_slick,_rapid_charging Android_phone_|_Technology_|_The_Guardian⠀⇛ # ⚓ Nokia_8.3_5G_users_in_Europe_now_getting_Android Build_V2.210_|_Nokiamob⠀⇛ # ⚓ Google_Chrome_will_default_to_HTTPS_for_incomplete URLs_on_Android_and_desktop_–_Neowin⠀⇛ # ⚓ Qualcomm_Is_Reportedly_Working_On_A_“Knockoff” Switch,_Powered_By_Android_–_Nintendo_Life⠀⇛ # ⚓ SITI_Networks_launches_Android_STB,_mobile_app_SITI PlayTop_Magic_–_Exchange4media⠀⇛ # ⚓ Qualcomm_Said_To_Be_Developing_Android-Based_Nintendo Switch_Clone⠀⇛ # ⚓ Xiaomi_Mi_11_Pro_/_Ultra_poster_–_challenging_for_the title_of_“Android_King”_-⠀⇛ # ⚓ PinePhone_Beta_Edition_Linux_smartphone_is_now available_for_pre-order_for_$150_and_up⠀⇛ Most modern smartphones ship with Android or iOS operating systems. A few run something different. And fewer still give you the option of picking your operating system, or coding your own. The PinePhone from Pine64 is an inexpensive phone that falls into that latter category. Priced at $150 and up, it’s designed to run GNU/Linux distributions… and to encourage developers to port Linux operating systems to run on mobile devices. o § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾ # § Productivity Software/LibreOffice/Calligra⠀➾ # ⚓ Bibliography_improvements_in_LibreOffice_Writer⠀⇛ The bibliography feature in Writer allows authors of e.g. scientific papers to track sources: first you can insert bibliography entry fields, then at the end you can generate a bibliography table automatically. Writer now has two improvements in this area: more information about these entries in the form of a mouse tooltip and clickable URLs in the table. First, thanks TUBITAK ULAKBIM who made this work by Collabora possible. # § FSF⠀➾ # ⚓ My_Thoughts_On_Richard_Stallman’s_Return_To_the_FSF Board⠀⇛ # ⚓ In_Defense_of_Richard_Stallman⠀⇛ # ⚓ Why_Richard_Stallman_should_step_away_from_the_FSF⠀⇛ If Richard Stallman placed the interests of free software foremost, and his own personal issues second, then he would step down from the board position that he assumed last week, during the annual LibrePlanet conference organised by the Free Software Foundation. # ⚓ Open_Source_Advocates_Want_to_Remove_Not_Only Stallman_but_the_Entire_FSF_Board⠀⇛ Over 800 open source advocates from GNOME, Debian, Ubuntu, System76, Red Hat and more such organizations have called from immediate removal of RMS and the entire Free Software Foundation board. # ⚓ Richard_Stallman_returns_to_the_Free_Software Foundation_amid_calls_for_FSF_resignations⠀⇛ Back in 2019, Richard Stallman (RMS) resigned from the Free Software Foundation and MIT but it appears Stallman has returned and many are not happy about this. When Stallman originally resigned, he cited doing it due to “pressure on MIT and me over a series of misunderstandings and mischaracterizations”. Stallman announced the return during a livestream for the FSF project LibrePlanet where he explained he will not be resigning for a second time. Stallman is now once again listed on the official FSF board. # ⚓ Making_our_Community_Safe:_the_FSF_and_rms⠀⇛ I felt disgust and horror when I learned yesterday that rms had returned to the FSF board. When rms resigned back in September of 2019, I was Debian Project Leader. At that time, I felt two things. First, I was happy that the community was finally taking a stand in favor of inclusion, respect, and creating a safe, welcoming place to do our work. It was long past time for rms to move on. But I also felt thankful that rms was not my problem to solve. In significant part because of rms, I had never personally been that involved in the FSF. I considered drafting a statement as Debian Project Leader. I could have talked about how through our Diversity Statement and Code of Conduct we had taken a stand in favor of inclusion and respect. I could have talked about how rms’s actions displayed a lack of understanding and empathy and how this created a community that was neither welcoming nor respectful. I didn’t. I guess I didn’t want to deal with confirming I had sufficient support in the project. I wanted to focus on internal goals, and I was healing and learning from some mistakes I made earlier in the year. It looked like other people were saying what needed to be said and my voice was not required. Silence was a mistake. # ⚓ FOSS_developers_launch_petition_to_push_out_Stallman, FSF_board⠀⇛ A number of people associated with free and open source software have written an open letter calling for Richard Stallman, the founder of the Free Software Foundation, to be removed from his position on the board, along with the entire FSF board. # ⚓ Statement_on_Richard_Stallman_rejoining_the_FSF board⠀⇛ One crucial factor in making our community more inclusive is to recognise and reflect when other people are offended or harmed by our own actions and consider this feedback in future actions. The way Richard Stallman announced his return to the board unfortunately lacks any acknowledgement of this kind of thought process, and we are deeply disappointed that the FSF board did not address these concerns before electing him a board member again. Overall, we feel the current step sends the wrong signal to existing and future community members. # § Programming/Development⠀➾ # ⚓ Portability_has_ongoing_costs_for_code_that’s changing⠀⇛ Some proponents of alternate architectures like to maintain that portability is free, or at least a one time cost (that can be paid by outside contributors in the form of a good patch to ‘add support’ for something). It would be nice if our programming languages, habits, and techniques made that so, but they don’t. The reality is that maintaining portability to alternate environments is an ongoing cost. # ⚓ Getting_Drunk_with_Datalog⠀⇛ See, I don’t have a very comprehensive liquor collection. I’ve got the basics, sure, and over the course of quarantining I’ve acquired a few fancier ingredients. But fancy ingredients usually aren’t very versatile: I bought a bottle of Amaro Nonino once to mix a Paper Plane. But it turns out I don’t like really Paper Planes. So now I just have, like, 97.1% of a bottle of Amaro Nonino, and nothing to do with it.1 That was not very efficient purchase. We can do better. So I wrote a little program to tell me: given what I have in my bar right now, what should I add that will enable me to make the maximum number of new cocktails. Or in other words, what is my most efficient purchase – what is the ingredient that I am most “blocked on.” # ⚓ [Old] Exotic_Programming_Ideas:_Part_4_(Datalog)⠀⇛ Datalog is executed by a query processor that given these two inputs, finds all instance of facts implied by both the databased and rules. For our examples we’re going to be coding our examples in the Souffle language. The namesake of the language is an acronym for the Systematic, Ontological, Undiscovered Fact Finding Logic Engine. It can be installed simply on many Linux systems with the command: [...] * § Leftovers⠀➾ o ⚓ I’m_SO_Sorry⠀⇛ o ⚓ Opinion_|_Ethnic_Studies_Redux:_Professor_Rudy_Acuña_Still_Has Work_to_Do⠀⇛ An interview with renowned 88-year-old historian and Chicana/Chicano Studies founder o ⚓ ‘Why_didn’t_you_show_me_the_lion?’_The_forgotten_story_of_Vera Chaplina_—_the_Moscow_zookeeper_who_raised_a_lion_in_her_communal apartment⠀⇛ From the time Vera Chaplina was a child, she cared for all kinds of animals. She started gaining wider attention in 1935, however, when people began seeing her around Moscow with a lion cub she called Kinuli. In 1933, she created the famous “Cubs’ Playground,” where bear cubs, dingo pups, piglets, lion cubs, and baby goats all grew up together. Meduza special correspondent Kristina Safonova describes how Vera Chaplina became famous, helped animals, and wrote popular books about them before she was largely forgotten. A small group of people today is working to restore her memory. o ⚓ White_House_Eyes_Funding_Free_Community_College_With_Tax_Increase on_the_Rich⠀⇛ o ⚓ A_New_Portal_for_the_Decentralized_Web_and_its_Guiding Principles⠀⇛ For a long time, we’ve felt that the growing, diverse, global community interested in building the decentralized Web needed an entry point. A portal into the events, concepts, voices, and resources critical to moving the Decentralized Web forward. This is why we created, getdweb.net, to serve as a portal, a welcoming entry point for people to learn and share strategies, analysis, and tools around how to build a decentralized Web. o § Education⠀➾ # ⚓ Nurses,_Teachers,_and_Experts_Push_Back_Against_Rush_to Reopen_Schools_as_Covid-19_Cases_Spike⠀⇛ “The studies commonly cited as supporting school reopening are deeply flawed.” o § Hardware⠀➾ # ⚓ Spectre_attacks_against_websites_still_a_serious_threat, Google_warns⠀⇛ Three years after the infamous Spectre vulnerability was discovered, [attackers] can still exploit the security flaw in order to force web browsers to leak information, Google’s security team warns. The problem has arisen despite extensive efforts by browser developers to harden their software against Spectre-style attacks. The results of the research was published on the Google Security Blog on Friday (March 12) and include a proof-of-concept exploit written in JavaScript that still works against several browsers, operating systems, and processors. The key lesson from the research is that Spectre still haunts the industry – so developers need to deploy application-level mitigation measures in order to guard against potential attacks. o § Health/Nutrition⠀➾ # ⚓ Kremlin_spokesman_comments_on_why_Putin_will_receive coronavirus_vaccine_off_camera⠀⇛ Russian President Vladimir Putin is set to receive his first dose of a coronavirus vaccine on Tuesday, March 23, but the Kremlin has no plans to disclose which one. Putin’s immunization will also be taking place off camera, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told journalists on Tuesday. # ⚓ Four_Ways_to_Support_Latinas/os_during_the_Pandemic_and Beyond⠀⇛ In the state of California, Latinas/os comprise about 40 percent of the population in 2019, representing a significant part of its low-wage and service workforce. This includes the formal and informal economy. According to the state’s official COVID-19 website, “COVID-19 disproportionately affects California’s low income, Latino, Black, and Pacific Islander communities, as well as essential workers such as those in health care, grocery, and cleaning services.” In terms of the County of Los Angeles, where Latinas/os represent the largest racialized/ethnic group (48.6% in 2019), similar to the City of Los Angeles (48.5% in 2019), we’ve been hit hard with COVID-19 related infections, hospitalizations and deaths. According to an article by NBC News (Jan. 17, 2021), Latinas/os are dying at higher rates from COVID-19 compared to Whites: “Death rates among Latinos in L.A. are twice as high as in the rest of the population, according to Los Angeles County public health officials. And Latinos, who are about half of all county residents, are hospitalized three times more often than white people.” # ⚓ Bernie_Sanders_Introduces_Bills_to_Lower_Prescription_Drug Costs⠀⇛ # ⚓ To_Fight_Pharma_Greed_That_Costs_‘Human_Lives,’_Sanders Unveils_Bills_to_Slash_Drug_Prices⠀⇛ “The time is now to stand up to the pharmaceutical industry and say enough is enough.” # ⚓ WHO_Chief_Blasts_‘Grotesque’_Vaccine_Inequality_as_Rich Nations_Block_Speedy_End_of_Global_Pandemic⠀⇛ “We have the means to avert this failure but it’s shocking how little has been done to avert it.” o § Integrity/Availability⠀➾ # § Proprietary⠀➾ # ⚓ Yet_another_Windows_ransomware_strain_appears_on_the scene [iophk: Windows TCO]⠀⇛ The global security firm Sophos said in a blog post that it had begun noticing the new Windows ransomware on 18 March as it took aim at Exchange boxes that still had not been patched to fix the ProxyLogon vulnerabilities disclosed by Microsoft on 3 March. Mark Loman, a director of Engineering for Next-Gen Technologies at Sophos, said the new ransomware did not have the most sophisticated of payloads. # ⚓ Oil_and_gas_company_Shell_suffers_Accellion-related data_breach⠀⇛ Multinational oil and gas company Royal Dutch Shell plc is the latest victim of a data breach related to a vulnerability in software from Accellion Inc. In a statement last week, Shell said that the data security incident involved Accellion’s File Transfer Appliance that it uses to transfer large data files securely. The data accessed, during a “limited window of time” according to Shell, included some personal data along with data from Shell companies and some of their stakeholders. Shell noted that there is no evidence of any impact on their core information technology systems, since the fire transfer service is isolated from the rest of the company’s infrastructure. # ⚓ Mimecast_confirms_[attackers]_behind_SolarWinds supply_chain_attack_accessed_limited_amount_of_customer information⠀⇛ # ⚓ Continued_Worsening_of_Ransomware [iophk: Windows TCO]⠀⇛ Is there no solution? A means of detecting the patterns left by this kind of malware? # ⚓ The_Worsening_State_of_Ransomware [iophk: Windows TCO]⠀⇛ The problem is growing worse, despite the development of new and more advanced ways to battle it, including the use of behavioral analytics and artificial intelligence (AI). “Cybergangs use different cryptographic algorithms and they distribute software that is remarkably sophisticated and difficult to detect,” Hinkley says. “Today, there is almost no barrier to entry and the damage that’s inflicted is enormous.” # § Security⠀➾ # ⚓ Phish_Leads_to_Breach_at_Calif._State Controller⠀⇛ A phishing attack last week gave attackers access to email and files at the California State Controller’s Office (SCO), an agency responsible for handling more than $100 billion in public funds each year. The phishers had access for more than 24 hours, and sources tell KrebsOnSecurity the intruders used that time to steal Social Security numbers and sensitive files on thousands of state workers, and to send targeted phishing messages to at least 9,000 other workers and their contacts. # § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾ # ⚓ Amnesty_International:_Facebook_Plan_To Target_Children_“Incompatible_With_Human Rights”⠀⇛ Facebook has let slip that it is launching an Instagram service for children under 13 years old, who are currently legally barred from using the platform. On Thursday, Instagram’s vice president of product told employees in a leaked communication that this was indeed the plan. Instagram’s boss, Adam Mosseri, confirmed the leak’s veracity to Buzzfeed News, telling them that his goal was to create a transparent and kid- friendly version of the popular photo-sharing app for children and pre-teens. # ⚓ Shamir’s_Password_Store⠀⇛ The core of my idea is that most people own multiple devices. I own a phone, several laptops, and have access to a number of servers. I need to access the password manager on at least the laptops and phone. I would like to self-host the password manager – so why not form a distributed hosting between these devices I own? The passwords themselves would be encrypted as with Unix Pass, so they can be stored in full on each device. Only the decryption key is of concern. The decryption key would need to be split using Shamir’s secret sharing. Let’s assume I have five devices, and at least three parts are needed to recover the decryption key. When we need to access a password, our device makes contact with at least two others to collaborate. # ⚓ TikTok_and_Douyin_Explained⠀⇛ On March 22, 2021 the Citizen Lab published a comparative analysis of security, privacy, and censorship issues in TikTok and Douyin. In this explainer, we discuss the findings with Pellaeon Lin, the report’s lead author. # ⚓ TikTok_vs_Douyin:_A_Security_and_Privacy Analysis⠀⇛ Despite not exhibiting overtly malicious behavior, Douyin contains features that raise privacy and security concerns, such as dynamic code loading and server-side search censorship. TikTok does not contain these features. TikTok and Douyin’s Android apps share many parts of their source code. We postulate that ByteDance develops TikTok and Douyin starting out from a common code base and applies different customizations according to market needs. We observed that some of these customizations can be turned on or off by different server-returned configuration values. We are concerned but could not confirm that this capability may be used to turn on privacy-violating hidden features. # ⚓ Facebook_Is_Building_An_Instagram_For Kids_Under_The_Age_Of_13⠀⇛ Executives at Instagram are planning to build a version of the popular photo-sharing app that can be used by children under the age of 13, according to an internal company post obtained by BuzzFeed News. # ⚓ Zuck_Slowly_Shrinks_and_Transforms_Into_a Corncob_Ahead_of_Apple’s_Looming_Privacy Updates⠀⇛ Facebook hasn’t been too keen on that idea given that roughly 98% of its revenue stream depends on targeted ads, which are built around monitoring a person’s browsing habits. The company launched a campaign to convince folks that personalized ads are good, actually, which has so far involved taking out full-page ads in several leading newspapers to condemn Apple and running a video ad claiming that Apple’s privacy updates are killing small businesses by not giving Facebook and other apps free rein to hoover up your data. # ⚓ Apple_says_its_big_privacy_change_is coming_in_‘early_spring’_as_conflict_with Facebook_heats_up⠀⇛ To target mobile ads and measure how effective they are, app developers and other industry players currently often use Apple’s (IDFA), or a string of letters and numbers that’s different on every Apple device. But once this update rolls out, app makers will be forced to ask permission to access a user’s IDFA through a prompt. A significant portion of users are expected to say no, reducing the effectiveness of targeted ads. Apple first announced the change last summer, giving advertisers and app makers ample time to prepare. But it’s become a major point of contention for ad- supported companies, who could lose revenue from the change. Facebook in particular argues that the change will hurt the availability of free content on the open web and the ability of small business to place personalized ads. On Facebook’s Q4 2020 earnings call Wednesday, CEO Mark Zuckerberg slammed the change, calling Apple one of its biggest competitors and claiming that the change “threatens the personalized ads that millions of small businesses rely on to find and reach customers.” # ⚓ Facebook_CEO_Mark_Zuckerberg_criticizes Apple_on_Clubhouse⠀⇛ Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has made it clear before he isn’t happy with Apple’s upcoming privacy update that will prompt users to give apps, including the social network he co-founded, permission to track their activity across other apps and the web. Apple, on the other hand, has said the change is meant to give users more control over their data. Apple is expected to roll out the change in early spring. o § Defence/Aggression⠀➾ # ⚓ Can_the_Biden_Administration_Lead_Us_to_a_New_Post-Post- Cold_War_Order?_If_Only…⠀⇛ Clinton failed, due to his preoccupation with his own personal shortcomings, to offer anything appreciably new in the conduct of statecraft. That has had much to do with the enduring difficulty of identifying the defining characteristics of the post-Cold War era. Which is where the Biden administration must start in determining where the United States is today and where the country must go from here. To its decided credit, the White House has taken a salutary first step by recently issuing its 7,000- word Interim National Security Strategic Guidance, which recognizes the panoply of threats the United States faces; offers a comprehensive conception of security that transcends defense; commits the United States anew to international cooperation and collective action over unilateralism; opts for relegating the military to a force of last resort after diplomacy, development, and economic measures; and calls for more closely integrating domestic and international affairs, and taking a whole-of-government approach to the affairs of state. Perhaps most importantly, it offers the tacit promise – the emphasis being on tacit – to disengage from “forever wars.” # ⚓ Opinion_|_Dear_Educators,_It_Is_Time_to_Fight_for_Asian America⠀⇛ The racism, the devaluing of life of Asian and Asian Americans, the dehumanizing of immigrant workers, the fetishism of—and violence toward—Asian women have been perpetuated throughout U.S. history. # ⚓ ‘Don’t_Need_to_Wait_Another_Minute’:_Biden_Calls_on Congress_to_Pass_Assault_Weapons_Ban⠀⇛ “Our nation is being held hostage by the gun industry, and until the industry is held fully accountable for the direct role it plays in these massacres, communities across the nation will continue to live in fear of the next horrendous attack.” # ⚓ Opinion_|_Boulder:_Is_it_Time_to_End_the_Second Amendment?⠀⇛ American mass murders are a remnant of our slave patrols; RBG was right that Heller was wrongly decided and needs to be overturned. # ⚓ Calls_Grow_for_Biden_to_Fully_Withdraw_US_Troops_From Afghanistan_by_May_1⠀⇛ “If Biden chooses to stay, every dead soldier, every family broken, and every opportunity wasted to build back better at home will rest on his shoulders and taint his legacy.” # ⚓ Is_the_American_Psychological_Association_Undermining_Its Own_Policies_on_Guantanamo_and_Torture?⠀⇛ After almost a decade of struggles, I and other so- called “dissident psychologists” won major victories changing APA policies that had looked permissively at psychologist participation in detention and interrogations at the Guantanamo detention center and CIA secret prisons. These victories in turn led to the removal of psychologists from detention operations at Guantanamo. With a sense of déjà vu, recent actions by the APA and the Department of Defense (DoD) are raising disturbing questions as to whether these reforms are being undermined. In this article I provide background to explain the issues at stake and why I am concerned that forces within APA may be covertly undermining, again, the APA’s public policy. # ⚓ The_War_of_Hunger_is_Taking_Over_From_the_War_of_Guns…and All_Syrians_are_the_Victims⠀⇛ # ⚓ ‘It_Was_Understood’_as_a_Death_Threat,_Says_UN_Expert_Who Saudi_Official_Warned_Could_Be_‘Taken_Care_Of’⠀⇛ “It didn’t stop me from acting in a way which I think is the right thing to do,” said Agnès Callamard, the top investigator into the gruesome murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. # ⚓ NRA_Tweets_Text_of_Second_Amendment_After_Shooter_Kills_10 in_Boulder,_Colorado⠀⇛ # ⚓ Opinion_|_On_Numberless_Dead_Bodies_and_Weapons_of_War Being_Necessary_to_the_Security_Of_A_Free_State⠀⇛ # ⚓ Opinion_|_After_20_Years_of_Bipartisan_Failure, Washington’s_Imperial_Illusions_Persist⠀⇛ China and the U.S. struggle over Eurasia, the epicenter of world power. # ⚓ ‘End_the_Filibuster_and_Pass_Gun_Safety_Laws._Now’: Colorado_Massacre_Intensifies_Demands_for_Action⠀⇛ “You’re going to see another round of ‘we can’t do anything yet, there was a tragedy’ hand-wringing, but we must end gun violence now.” # ⚓ Chris_Hedges_on_Christian_Right_and_the_Evil_Within_Us⠀⇛ Robert Aaron Long, 21, charged with murdering eight victims, six of whom were Asian women, at three Atlanta-area massage parlors, told police that he carried out the killings to eliminate the temptations that fed his sexual addiction. His church, Crabapple First Baptist Church, in Milton, Georgia, which opposes sex outside of marriage, issued a statement condemning the shootings as “unacceptable and contrary to the gospel.” Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who was a foreign correspondent for fifteen years for The New York Times, where he served as the Middle East Bureau Chief and Balkan Bureau Chief for the paper. He previously worked overseas for The Dallas Morning News, The Christian Science Monitor, and NPR. He is the host of the Emmy Award- nominated RT America show On Contact. # ⚓ Video:_US_Escalates_New_Cold_War_as_Diplomatic_Gloves_Come Off,_with_Carl_Zha⠀⇛ # ⚓ Biden_Backs_Revival_of_His_Brainchild:_Plan_Colombia_2.0 Set_to_Begin_Next_Month⠀⇛ In an effort supposedly aimed at reducing cocaine production, Colombia is set to return to a massive aerial campaign of spraying Monsanto’s glyphosate across the country. Defense Minister Diego Molano confirmed that the highly contentious practice of fumigation — shelved since 2015 — will resume in April. # ⚓ CIA_Pressured_Yemen_to_Release_al-Qaeda_Leader_From Prison⠀⇛ Explosive new recordings released by the Houthi government of Yemen pile more earth atop mountains of existing evidence of the U.S. government’s support for the very same terrorists it has claimed to be waging war against for nearly two decades. # ⚓ To_Western_Media,_Prosecuting_Bolivian_Coup_Leaders_Is Worse_Than_Leading_a_Coup⠀⇛ One can imagine an editor of the London-based Guardian (3/17/21) shaking her head sadly as she typed the headline: “Cycle of Retribution Takes Bolivia’s Ex-President From Palace to Prison Cell.”  The subhead told readers, “Jeanine Áñez’s government once sought to jail the country’s former leader Evo Morales for terrorism and sedition—now she faces the same charges.” # ⚓ Anticipating_Robot_Soldiers,_Britain_Is_Downsizing_Its Human_Troops⠀⇛ # ⚓ American_bombing_50_years_ago_still_shapes_Cambodian agriculture⠀⇛ These wartime remnants have given the United States’ bombing campaign of 1965-73—which ostensibly targeted Viet Cong supply lines, but caused perhaps 150,000 deaths—an enduringly lethal legacy. Since 1979, unexploded ordnance has killed at least 19,000 people in Cambodia (though some may have been blown up by landmines from subsequent wars, rather than by American bombs). Cambodia now has the world’s highest rate of amputees. A recent study by Erin Lin, one of the OSU researchers, shows that America’s bombardment injured not just Cambodia’s people but its economy as well. She first interviewed farmers in the country, who said they thought that richer, darker soil presented an unusually high risk of hidden ordnance—especially in heavily bombed areas. They work in constant fear of explosions. Some said that they only planted crops in parts of their farms that they were confident contained no bombs, or that they used hand tools instead of machines to reduce the risk of detonation. o § Transparency/Investigative Reporting⠀➾ # ⚓ Young_Female_Twitter_Star_Turns_Out_To_Be_50-Year-Old_Man Using_Deepfakes⠀⇛ o § Environment⠀➾ # ⚓ Methane_Spewing_Mines_Are_as_Bad_For_The_Climate_as_Their Coal⠀⇛ New coal mines are leaking methane gases that are in some cases just as destructive to the environment as the pollution released from burning the coal itself, according to a new study. Methane, a greenhouse gas 80 times more potent than carbon dioxide in its first two decades, leaking out of some mines could be having as much of an impact on global warming as burning the coal they produce, researchers with Global Energy Monitor, a San Francisco-based non-profit group, said in the study. The amount of methane that would leak from new coal mines currently being proposed globally would do as much damage as all of the coal power plants in the U.S. combined. # ⚓ The_factories_turning_West_Africa’s_fish_into_powder⠀⇛ The results were alarming. The water contained double the amount of arsenic and 40 times the amount of phosphates and nitrates deemed safe. The following spring, he wrote a letter to Gambia’s environmental minister, calling the death of the lagoon “an absolute disaster”. Pollution at these levels, Manjang concluded, could only have one source: illegally dumped waste from a Chinese fish- processing plant called Golden Lead, which operates on the edge of the reserve. Gambian environmental authorities fined the company $25,000 (£18,000), an amount that Manjang described as “paltry and offensive”. Golden Lead is one outpost of an ambitious Chinese economic and geopolitical agenda known as the Belt and Road Initiative, which the Chinese government has said is meant to build goodwill abroad, boost economic cooperation, and provide otherwise inaccessible development opportunities to poorer nations. As part of the initiative, China has become the largest foreign financier of infrastructure development in Africa, cornering the market on most of the continent’s road, pipeline, power plant and port projects. # § Energy⠀➾ # ⚓ Cancellation_of_Fracking_Project_in_Texas_Shows_Power of_Grassroots_Organizing⠀⇛ # § Wildlife/Nature⠀➾ # ⚓ Declining_English_wetland_‘is_poor_advert_for_UK’⠀⇛ A declining English wetland will embarrass the UK government at November’s UN climate conference, campaigners say. # ⚓ Protecting_30%_of_Our_Lands_by_2030:_Are_National Forests_“Protected”?⠀⇛ On January 27, 2021, President Biden signed the Executive Order on Tackling the Climate Crisis at Home and Abroad. [1] One aspect of that Order directed the Interior Department to formulate steps to achieve the President’s commitment to conserve at least 30% each of our lands and waters by 2030. The Interior Department issued a press release describing this process in more detail and referenced a U.S. Geological Survey report that only 12% of lands in the continental U.S. are permanently protected. [2] [3] Even those given the highest status of current protection such as wilderness areas and national parks are still subject to activities that degrade them from being truly protected. For example, livestock grazing continues in over a quarter of the 52 million acres of wilderness areas in the lower forty- eight states in the U.S. [4] Our National Forests are further down the list and remain far from protected, being in the third of four levels of protection, the fourth level being no protection at all. According to the Executive Order, the Secretary of the Interior shall submit a report within 90 days proposing guidelines for determining whether lands and waters qualify for conservation. The USGS report stresses analyzing and setting aside migration corridors for species to prevent their extinction from the effects of climate change. # ⚓ Another_Dead_Wolf_in_Arizona⠀⇛ Every illegal killing is a theft from all of us, but this wolf’s story adds insult to injury. She was a young female, number 1887, cross-fostered into the Hoodoo Pack in Arizona just last spring. Cross-fostering is the only way that Arizona Game and Fish Department is allowing new wolves to be released in Arizona right now, and it’s a critically important tool for improving the genetic diversity of the struggling population. Cross-fostering is tricky business, requiring wild dens to welcome captive-born pups as their own and raise them up in the wild. Hoodoo 1887 was one who had apparently made it through the crucial first year. Look, we’ve been saying this for a while, but the death of Hoodoo 1887 before she was able to breed underscores the point: relying on cross-fostering alone isn’t going to save this species. We need well-bonded adult and family pack releases into the wild, and we need them yesterday. o § Finance⠀➾ # ⚓ Biden_Eyes_Tax_Hikes_for_Rich,_Ending_Fossil_Fuel_Subsidies to_Fund_Infrastructure⠀⇛ “It’s time for the rich and corporations to pay their fair share in taxes.” # ⚓ Walmart,_Amazon_and_the_Colonial_Deindustrialisation_of India⠀⇛ The deal would lead to Walmart and Amazon dominating India’s e-retail sector. These two US companies would also own India’s key consumer and other economic data, making them the country’s digital overlords, joining the ranks of Google and Facebook. JACAFRE was formed to resist the entry of foreign corporations like Walmart and Amazon into India’s e-commerce market. Its members represent more than 100 national groups, including major trade, workers and farmers organisations. # ⚓ American_Philanthropy:_the_Wealthier_the_Donor,_the_Bigger the_Taxpayer_Subsidy⠀⇛ # ⚓ Where_Is_My_Tax_Refund?⠀⇛ So, you’ve figured out your deductions or credits, calculated how much you owed in taxes, and successfully filed your return (for free, hopefully). If you’re sitting around wondering where your money is, you’re not alone. Lucky for you, the IRS offers several ways to track your tax return. Once you have filed, there are three options for tracking your refund: # ⚓ Corporate_Coalition_Calls_on_Congress_to_Approve_Paid Family_Leave⠀⇛ “Lack of a national paid leave policy makes all of us more vulnerable during this pandemic and for future public health emergencies, while putting the financial stability of businesses on the line.” # ⚓ In_Thumbs-Down_to_Sinema,_Survey_Finds_Majority_of_Arizona Voters_Favor_$15_Minimum_Wage⠀⇛ “The verdict is clear—in Arizona, voting to raise the minimum wage is the smartest political move.” # ⚓ 1_Percent_Owes_Billions_in_Unpaid_Taxes._IRS_Must_Reclaim It_for_Infrastructure.⠀⇛ # ⚓ Opinion_|_Are_Debt_Whiners_Fools_or_Just_Liars?⠀⇛ The national debt is a meaningless number. # ⚓ On_Eve_of_Equal_Pay_Day,_Report_Reveals_Subminimum_Wage ‘Keeps_Incomes_Low_and_Harassment_High’⠀⇛ One Fair Wage found that over 70% of women in the restaurant industry have been sexually harassed while working at least once. # ⚓ DeJoy_to_Unveil_Plan_to_Slash_Post_Office_Hours,_Hike Postage_Prices⠀⇛ “Fire the entire Post Office board. Then fire this corrupt man before he destroys the entire USPS for good.” # ⚓ Democrats_Warn_DeJoy’s_New_10-Year_Plan_Guarantees_‘Death Spiral’_for_US_Postal_Service⠀⇛ “This so-called plan from Louis DeJoy should itself be a dead letter. This is a blueprint for the Post Office’s continued decay and destruction.” # ⚓ Amazon_Intimidates_Workers_Amid_Historic_Union_Vote_in Alabama_as_Jeff_Bezos_Makes_$7_Million_an_Hour⠀⇛ Amazon workers in Bessemer, Alabama, are in the final days of voting on whether to join the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union and become the first unionized Amazon warehouse in the United States. Ballots have been sent to nearly 6,000 workers, most of whom are Black, in one of the most closely watched union elections in decades. Amazon has fought off labor organizing at the company for decades, but workers in Baltimore, New Orleans, Portland, Denver and Southern California are now also reportedly considering union drives. “Amazon is trying to intimidate workers. They want them to be afraid,” says Stuart Appelbaum, president of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union. We also go to Bessemer to speak with Michael Foster, an RWDSU member-organizer leading the union drive at Amazon’s warehouse, who says casting a ballot in the union election, amid Amazon’s attempts to discourage warehouse workers from supporting the union drive, is “the only way that we can allow our voices to be heard.” We also discuss how this week marks the 110th anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, the deadliest workplace accident in New York City’s history and a seminal moment for American labor. # ⚓ Substack’s_UI_and_1Password_just_cost_me_$2,023⠀⇛ The penny drops. When I’ve clicked my card details in 1Password, it’s entered my expiry year in the hidden, custom subscription amount box (I’m not sure why – is this a 1Password bug? *). Because this box has now changed value, the Substack UI has automatically selected this option. I’ve then hit “Subscribe” before I had time to notice and 💸 $2,023. # ⚓ [Old] Facebook_Libra_is_Architecturally_Unsound⠀⇛ I won’t pretend to have an objective opinion about Facebook as a company. Few people in tech view the company in a positive light anymore. Reading through the publications released, it is clear there is a fundamental deception in the stated goal and implementation of the project. Put concisely, this project will not empower anyone. It is a pivot from a company whose advertising business is so embroiled in scandal and corruption that it has no choice but to try to diversify into payments and credit scoring to survive. The clear long term goal is to act as a data broker and mediate consumers access to credit based on their private social media data. This is such an utterly terrifying and dystopian story that should cause more alarm than it does. The only saving grace of this story is the artifact they open sourced is so hilariously unsuited for the task they set out to do it can only be regarded as an act of hubris. There are several core architectural errors in this project: [...] o § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾ # ⚓ ‘The_organizers_decided_to_politicize_it’_Russian_book_fair sparks_controversy_over_cancellation_of_Navalny_spokeswoman’s novel_presentation⠀⇛ Kira Yarmysh, best known as the spokeswoman for imprisoned opposition politician Alexey Navalny, was set to see her debut novel presented at the Non/Fiction international book fair in Moscow this week. Then, the event’s organizers canceled the presentation at the last minute in an alleged attempt “to save the fair at any cost.” The decision has sparked controversy among the festival’s participants, many of whom consider it politically motivated — especially in light of the fact that Yarmysh is currently under house arrest. Now, some Russian literary figures have opted to boycott Non/Fiction altogether, while others are urging their colleagues not only to attend but also to make Yarmysh’s exclusion the main topic of discussion at all of the book fair’s events. # ⚓ EpiVacCorona’s_race_to_the_finish_line_Meduza_speaks_to_the developer_and_manufacturer_about_concerns_surrounding Russia’s_latest_coronavirus_vaccine⠀⇛ The “EpiVacCorona” coronavirus vaccine, developed by the Novosibirsk-based Vector Institute, is now rolling out in regions across Russia, and roughly half a million doses should be distributed by the end of the month. Scientists first registered EpiVacCorona back in October 2020. In early March 2021, Russia’s consumer protection agency Rospotrebnadzor approved the vaccine for persons older than 60, though the drug was made available sooner to many people, even before the end of clinical trials (just as health officials allowed with “Sputnik V,” the country’s first registered coronavirus vaccine). To learn more about Russia’s latest weapon against COVID-19, Meduza journalists Svetlana Reiter and Alexander Ershov spoke to EpiVacCorona developer Alexander Ryzhikov and Vector Institute deputy general director Tatiana Nepomnyashchikh. Why have participants in the drug’s clinical trials tested so low in antibodies? And what’s the evidence that the vaccine actually works? # ⚓ Biden_and_the_Pot_Heads:_The_Return_of_the_Drug_Moralists⠀⇛ The consequence of this change, noted Psaki on Twitter, was that “more people will serve who would not have had in the past with the same level of recent drug use.  The bottom line is this: of the hundreds of people hired, only five people who had started working in the White House are no longer employed as a result of this policy.”  What she did not detail was the primary reason why these changes had been brought in the first place.  With so many actual and potential staffers having taken of the weed, filling posts would have been a problem.  Accordingly, the current White House purportedly allows for up to 15 past uses in a year among staffers while the Office of Personnel Management argues that previous marijuana use should not render a person unfit. In a report by The Daily Beast, a rather different picture emerged, one streaked with callousness and inconsistency.  Certain staffers were allegedly told that previous marijuana use would not be taken into consideration.  That turned out to be rather loose with the hard verity: dozens were asked to resign, suffer suspension or told to work remotely.  The administration had also been vague about how much usage was deemed acceptable or otherwise.  Nor did it matter that the staffers in question came from any one of the 14 states where marijuana use is legal. # ⚓ Navalny’s_associates_launch_new_campaign_calling_for_his release⠀⇛ Alexey Navalny’s supporters have announced the start of a new “Freedom for Navalny!” campaign, which includes plans to hold another rally calling for his release from prison. # ⚓ Progressives_Say_Biden’s_Infrastructure_Plan_Falls_Short⠀⇛ # ⚓ Opinion_|_The_Urgent_Need_for_a_Biden-Putin_Summit⠀⇛ “Do you want to reduce the chances of nuclear war?” Assuming the answer is yes, any opposition to such a summit is illogical at best. # ⚓ Opinion_|_The_Border-Industrial_Complex_in_the_Post-Trump Era⠀⇛ The greater the disaster, the greater the profits. # ⚓ Powell_Legal_Defense:_“Reasonable_People”_Wouldn’t_Believe Election_Fraud_Claims⠀⇛ # ⚓ A_Small_Story_of_Scottish_Justice⠀⇛ A story you will not have heard unless you read the Oban Times or are one of the 146 people who live on the island of Lismore, gives a profound insight into the abuse of state power in Scotland today. # ⚓ Facebook_Failed_to_Prevent_Billions_of_Views_of_Pages Sharing_False_Information⠀⇛ o § Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾ # ⚓ Facebook_Treats_Punk_Rockers_Like_Crazy_Conspiracy Theorists,_Kicks_Them_Offline⠀⇛ Members of an Oakland-based punk rock band called Adrenochrome were taken completely by surprise when Facebook disabled their band page, along with all three of their personal accounts, as well as a page for a booking business run by the band’s singer, Gina Marie, and drummer Brianne. Marie had no reason to think that Facebook’s content moderation battle with QAnon would affect her. The strange word (which refers to oxidized adrenaline) was popularized by Hunter Thompson in two books from the 1970s. Marie and her bandmates, who didn’t even know about QAnon when they named their band years ago, picked the name as a shout- out to a song by a British band from the 80’s, Sisters of Mercy. They were surprised as anyone that in the past few years, QAnon followers copied Hunter Thompson’s (fictional) idea that adrenochrome is an intoxicating substance, and gave this obscure chemical a central place in their ideology. The four Adrenochrome band members had nothing to do with the QAnon conspiracy theory and didn’t discuss it online, other than receiving occasional (unsolicited and unwanted) Facebook messages from QAnon followers confused about their band name. # ⚓ Russia’s_federal_censor_says_Twitter_is_removing_banned content_too_slowly⠀⇛ Following the Russian state censor, Roskomnadzor (RKN), moving to throttle Twitter traffic in Russia, the social network has started work on removing banned content. According to a statement from Roskomnadzor, however, the process is happening at an “unsatisfactory pace.” # ⚓ Senator_Mark_Warner_Doesn’t_Seem_To_Understand_Even_The Very_Basic_Fundamentals_Of_Section_230_As_He_Seeks_To_Destroy It⠀⇛ On Monday morning, Protocol hosted an interesting discussion on Reimagining Section 230 with two of its reporters, Emily Birnbaum and Issie Lapowsky. It started with those two reporters interviewing Senator Mark Warner about his SAFE TECH Act, which I’ve explained is one of the worst 230 bills I’ve seen and would effectively end the open internet. For what it’s worth, since posting that I’ve heard from a few people that Senator Warner’s staffers are now completely making up lies about me to discredit my analysis, while refusing to engage on the substance, so that’s nice. Either way I was curious to see what Warner had to say. # ⚓ What_Are_the_‘Kill_the_Bill’_Protests_in_Britain_All About?⠀⇛ That has been the refrain echoing in streets across Britain in recent weeks as protesters demand a rethinking of a sweeping crime bill that would give the police more power to deal with nonviolent demonstrations. In recent months, a series of issues have galvanized mass protests across Europe: Black Lives Matter demonstrations in cities last summer, protests against security laws across France last fall, and anti-lockdown rallies seemingly everywhere. How the police should handle these mass demonstrations has become a topic of heated debate, especially as officers have been accused in some cases of over-aggressive responses. Coronavirus restrictions have added another layer to questions about the right balance between the rule of law and protecting civil liberties. In Britain, that discussion has zeroed in on the new police bill. o § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾ # ⚓ Border_Invasion?_Mexican_MAGA_Influencers_Push_“Damaging” Conspiracy_Theories_About_Asylum_Seekers⠀⇛ As thousands of asylum seekers continue to wait in Mexico for a chance to enter the United States, investigative journalist Jean Guerrero says Mexican social media influencers connected to right-wing U.S. media outlets and political figures are whipping up “hysteria” about the southern border. She says they are spreading false conspiracy theories about an orchestrated “invasion” and “child trafficking” funded by Democrats that are endangering vulnerable people. “It’s been incredibly damaging,” says Guerrero. # ⚓ US_Consumer_Agency_Investigates_Tesla_Whistleblower’s Complaint_Involving_Solar_Systems_Catching_Fire⠀⇛ The following article was made possible by subscribers of The Dissenter Newsletter.Steven Henkes was a field quality manager for SolarCity, which was acquired by Tesla in August 2017. He learned “thousands of residential and commercial systems” installed were “defective and dangerous” and could start fires. But according to his whistleblower complaint, Tesla ignored his concerns, mounted an “orchestrated campaign of retaliation,” and fired him.  The complaint was filed in Alameda County, California, in November 2020. He also submitted a complaint with the United States Consumer Protections Safety Commission (CPSC) in April 2019.CNBC reported on March 22 that CPSC will investigate the allegations from Henkes and interviewed him for the investigation.Henkes provided evidence that included “failure analysis reports from a third-party engineering firm,” “internal meeting minutes, reports, and emails,” “customer notification examples,” “photos of thermal events [fires] linked to customer houses,” and “meeting minutes and presentations pertaining to a supplier named Amphenol and Tesla.”After Walmart sued Tesla in New York state court in August 2019, it became widely known that SolarCity’s solar power systems had defects. However, prior to Walmart’s suit, Henkes claims he “forcefully advocated for the health and safety of Tesla’s customers” in his role as a field quality manager.Henkes’ job was to ensure Tesla promptly and safely reported, notified, and shut down any solar systems that were using Amphenol H4 Connectors—the part responsible for fire risks. He insists he recommended Tesla inform all customers immediately of the risks posed by continuing to use the “defective solar systems.” Tesla had at least 60,000 residential customers in addition to 500 government and commercial accounts. The complaint filed [PDF] in Alameda County states, “Henkes’ belief that the public was not adequately notified and protected was borne out by the many fires nationwide across Tesla’s customer base. [He] was quite outspoken about his desire to protect public health and openly shared his concerns with many Tesla employees.” # ⚓ The_Truth_about_Filibusters: They_Don’t_Protect_Minority Rights,_They_Don’t_Promote_Legislating⠀⇛ Central to the argument for preserving the filibuster are two assertions. One is that it is needed to protect minority rights. Two, the filibuster encourages compromise. The reality is, neither of these claims are true and in fact its repeal may promote both goals better than retaining it. The filibuster rule is a product of slavery politics, as was true of the electoral college. If the electoral college’s goal was to protect the slave states from being outvoted in presidential selection by the free states, purpose of the filibuster was to do the same. The Senate with its equal representation already gave the South a bonus in representation. But what the filibuster did was to allow one senator the effective ability to shut down the action of the chamber to prevent it from passing legislation hostile to the South. John C. Calhoun, a Senator from South Carolina in the antebellum South, used the tool effectively to block critical legislation. But he is also famous for his role in the nullification crisis where he asserted states had a right to veto or nullify federal legislation. His book A Disquisition on Government, advocated a theory of concurrent majority which would only permit legislation to pass if all classes, interests, groups, or states which had an interest in it supported it.  Effectively, the filibuster went hand-in-hand with his theory of government to support states’ rights and protect a slave holding minority against majority rule. # ⚓ North_Carolina_Legislators_Push_Bill_That_Would_Prevent Cops,_Prosecutors_From_Charging_Six-Year-Olds_For_Picking Flowers⠀⇛ This is today’s law enforcement. While there are multiple societal and criminal problems that deserve full-time attention, our tax dollars are paying cops to turn our children into criminals. We don’t have the luxury of pretending this isn’t happening. Schools have welcomed cops into their confines, turning routine disciplinary problems into police matters. # ⚓ Opinion_|_The_PRO_Act_Would_Transform_the_Playing_Field_for Labor⠀⇛ Labor unions reduce inequality, promote cross- racial solidarity, and boost democratic participation. # ⚓ Connecticut_Legislature_Offers_Up_Bill_That_Would_Make Prison_Phone_Calls_Free⠀⇛ A lot of rights just vanish into the ether once you’re incarcerated. Some of this makes sense. You have almost no privacy rights when being housed by the state. Your cell can be searched and your First Amendment right to freedom of association can be curtailed in order to prevent criminal conspiracies from being implemented behind bars. # ⚓ Khachaturyan_sisters_recognized_as_victims_in_sexual_abuse case_against_their_late_father⠀⇛ Sisters Maria, Angelina, and Krestina Khachaturyan have been recognized as victims in a sexual abuse case launched against their late father, Mikhail, whom they killed in July 2018, arguing that they acted in self-defense. They are still suspects in their father’s murder case.  # ⚓ Attacks_on_Asian_Women_Are_Fueled_by_Criminalization,_War and_Economic_Injustice⠀⇛ # ⚓ Immigrant_Rights_Advocates_Urge_Biden_to_Stop_Detaining Children⠀⇛ # ⚓ As_Biden_Restricts_Media_Access,_Photos_Show_Children_in Crowded_‘Border_Jails’⠀⇛ “Photos of children packed into makeshift detention centers highlight the need for press access to such centers so people can see the ‘inhumanity’ in U.S. immigration policy.” # ⚓ “Shameful”:_Amid_Border_Emergency,_Immigrant_Rights Advocates_Urge_Biden_to_Stop_Detaining_Children⠀⇛ There are now over 15,000 unaccompanied migrant children in U.S. custody as the number of people seeking asylum at the southern border shows no sign of slowing down. The Biden administration has sharpened its rhetoric in recent weeks, insisting that the “border is closed” and pushing Mexico and Guatemala to stem the flow of migrants. The Biden administration has also maintained one of the most controversial Trump policies, which allows the U.S. to deny almost all asylum seekers on public health grounds. “What is happening at the southern border is shameful,” says Luz Lopez, a lawyer with the Southern Poverty Law Center focused on immigration. “We as a country should remain vigilant and hold any administration accountable, regardless of political party, with respect to our treatment of children seeking refuge, who are fleeing countries that are in turmoil, largely because of our geopolitical policies over the past several decades.” # ⚓ Opinion_|_DeSantis_Wants_to_Silence,_Jail_His Opponents—Don’t_Let_Him⠀⇛ Giving those in power the ability to quash dissent is perilous, extremely unwise, and profoundly un- American.  # ⚓ If_Abbie,_Why_Not_Trump?⠀⇛ The trial centered on the so-called conspirators’s “intentions” leading up to their trip to Chicago to lead the protests against the Viet Nam war and the political travesty at the DNC. (LBJ had dropped out of the presidential race, RFK got murdered, and the DNC pushed Hubert Humphrey, who got nominated without any critical appraisal or negotiated platform, meaning university-aged citizens outside could still be drafted to fight in Nam but could not vote). The conspirators weren’t all Yippies, as is sometimes supposed, but also members of the Black Panthers, SDS, and MOBE.  An interesting fact, often left out of MSM reporting about the 1968 Chicago events, is that 8 Chicago police officers were also charged with beating up protesters, and a later internal government investigation determined that the cops had started the rioting. During the trial, it was revealed that undercover cops had infiltrated the group of “conspirators’ and were put on the stand to help establish the mindset (i.e.,intentions) of the defendants. Eventually, after much drama, and not a little hijinks from Hoffman and Jerry Rubin at the trial, the Chicago 7’s “thoughts” were acquitted. # ⚓ Opinion_|_We_Must_Confront_the_Ugly_Plague_of_Racism_and Hate_Crimes⠀⇛ The pandemic and the poisonous rhetoric of Donald Trump have exposed once more the hard work that must be done to bring together an inclusive society. # ⚓ Citi_declares_‘Zoom-Free’_Fridays_amid_pandemic_work fatigue⠀⇛ Citi will institute “Zoom-Free Fridays” and establish an employee day-off in May as firms seek to restore work-life balance amid the pandemic, the bank’s new chief executive announced Tuesday. Jane Fraser, who took over the top job at Citi earlier this month, said in a note to employees she wants to “reset” life at work in light of complaints of non-stop work days during the pandemic when employees labor at home and participate in non-stop digital meetings. # ⚓ This_is_the_EU’s_chance_to_stop_racism_in_artificial intelligence⠀⇛ The use of data-driven systems to surveil us and to provide a logic to discrimination is not novel. The use of biometric data collection systems such as fingerprinting have their origins in colonial systems of control. The use of biometric markers to experiment, discriminate and exterminate was also a feature of the Nazi regime. To this day in the EU, we have seen a number of similar, worrying practices, including the use of pseudo-scientific ‘lie detection’ technology piloted on migrants in the course of the visa application process. This is just one example where governments, institutions and companies are extracting data from people in extremely precarious situations. Many of the most harmful AI applications rely on large datasets of biometric data as a basis for identification, decision making and predictions. What is new in Europe, however, is that such undemocratic projects could be legitimised by a policy agenda “promoting the uptake of artificial intelligence” in all areas of public life. The EU policy debate on AI, while recognising some ‘risks’ associated with the technology, has overwhelmingly focused on the purported widespread “benefits” of AI. If this means shying away from clear legal limits in the name of promoting “innovation”, Europe’s people of colour will be the first to pay the price. Soon, MEPs will need to take a position on the European Commission’s legislative proposal on AI. While EU leaders such as Executive Vice- President Vestager and Vice President Jourová have each spoken on the need to ensure AI systems do not amplify racism, the Commission has been under pressure from tech companies like Google to avoid “over-regulation”. o § Internet Policy/Net Neutrality⠀➾ # ⚓ Yet_More_Studies_Show_That_5G_Isn’t_Hurting_You⠀⇛ On the one hand, you have a wireless industry falsely claiming that 5G is a near mystical revolution in communications, something that’s never been true (especially in the US). Then on the other hand you have oodles of internet crackpots who think 5G is causing COVID or killing people on the daily, something that has also never been true. In reality, most claims of 5G health harms are based on a false 20 year old graph, and an overwhelming majority of scientists have made it clear that 5G is not killing you (in fact several incarnations are less powerful than 4G). o § Monopolies⠀➾ # ⚓ Progressives_Demand_Biden_Break_From_Obama’s_‘Failed Leadership’_on_Antitrust⠀⇛ “With a new wave of Big Tech antitrust investigations today, it’s time to stop appointing industry allies to top regulatory jobs.” # ⚓ What_I_Hope_Tech_CEOs_Will_Tell_Congress:_‘We’re_Not Neutral’⠀⇛ The CEOs of Facebook, Google, and Twitter will once again testify before Congress this Thursday, this time on disinformation. Here’s what I hope they will say: # § Patents⠀➾ # ⚓ Enforceability_of_Clauses_Requiring_Arbitration_of Malpractice_Claims:_Plummer_v._McSweeney⠀⇛ In Plummer v. McSweeney, the plaintiff, Plummer, sued a law firm for legal malpractice. The firm moved to compel arbitration. The district court denied that motion because, among other things, the clause required that the client pay a pro rata share of the arbitration fees and that rendered it substantively unconscionable since she could not afford it and that amount plainly exceeded the ordinary filing costs of a lawsuit. It also held that the firm’s post- dispute offer to pay her costs did not change that result. The firm appealed. The Eighth Circuit reversed. It held that under D.C. law the post-dispute offer to pay mooted the substantive unconscionability. It also rejected procedural unconscionability because she could have chosen another firm and the agreement made clear its terms were negotiable. # ⚓ EPO_continues_oral_proceedings_by_videoconference_in examination_and_opposition_during_pendency_of_referral G_1/21 [Ed: EPO_trying_to_distract_from_corruption_and illegal_appointment_of_judges]⠀⇛ With its decision of 12 March 2021, a Technical Board of Appeal of the EPO has made a referral to the Enlarged Board of Appeal seeking to clarify whether, in view of Article 116(1) EPC, oral proceedings may be conducted by videoconference (VICO) without all parties’ consent. The referral concerns appeal proceedings, but also extends to oral proceedings by VICO before examining and opposition divisions. Following a careful weighing up of the impact for legal certainty and access to justice, the President of the EPO has decided that during pendency of the referral oral proceedings before examining and opposition divisions will continue to be held by VICO as under current practice, i.e. without requiring explicit agreement of the parties. # ⚓ TracFone:_Mandamus_All_Over_Again [Ed: Texas is killing patent law by discrediting the whole patent system in the US. This coverage is sponsored by litigation profiteers.]⠀⇛ NOW: TracFone has filed a new petition for writ of mandamus seeking an order compelling Judge Albright to transfer the case to the Southern District of Florida, TracFone’s home court. The Federal Circuit immediately ordered Precis to respond within 7 days. Although not clear from the docket, I suspect that this petition will be passed to the same trio judges who handled the last one – Judges Reyna, Chen, and Hughes. In my post on the case, I noted troubles with Judge Albright’s venue decision, and the mandamus petition picks up on those — arguing that “the district court here abused its discretion by accepting as true the venue allegations in the complaint where those allegations were directly contradicted by TracFone’s declarations, declarations not rebutted by any declarations of plaintiff.” [TracFone Second Mandamus Petition]. In his opinion, the district court accepted the complaint’s allegations as true and concluded that the plaintiff “has plead sufficient venue facts to establish venue in WDTX.” The district court did not appear consider TracFone’s evidence that it submitted via declaration — that it did not own the store and that the store was closed “well before” the action was filed. Typically, in this situation, courts consider affidavit evidence presented by defendants, and that was not done here. # ⚓ French_competitor_acquires_NovumIP_from_Paragon Partners [Ed: JUVE became “SPAM” site, posting marketing junk in the form of ‘articles’; it_used_to_be a_real_site]⠀⇛ IP firm Novagraaf also offers a full range of prosecution, filing and portfolio management services for patents, trademarks and designs. It has a total of 18 offices in Europe and overseas. In addition to headquarters in the Netherlands and branches in France, Belgium, the UK, Denmark and Switzerland, the firm also has offices in the US, China and Japan. Last year, subsidiary Pavis Payment received approval from the Federal Financial Supervisory Authority to operate as a regulated payment institution. As such, Pavis Payment is also part of the deal. Paragon Fund II also supported the ‘buy-and-build’ strategy. Paris-based IP service provider Questel is taking over NovumIP. Questel offers, among other things, software for searching, analysing and managing inventions and IP assets. Investment companies Eurazeo, IK Investment Partners and Raise back Questel, which recently invested in Munich-based IP manager Brandstock and London patent manager RenewalsDesk. At the beginning of 2021, Munich-based software company Innosabi’s shareholders also sold a majority stake to Questel. According to industry magazine Private Equity Wire, Eurazeo and the IK IX Fund are participating in the latest expansion. They also continue to hold a majority stake in Questel, while Paragon Fund III is simultaneously directly involved in Questel with a minority stake. [...] According to market sources, KPMG was responsible for the tax aspects of the sales process. KPMG has supported Paragon in deals for several years, Pavis Payment hired firm Annerton for the approval procedure, in order to become a regulated payment institution. # ⚓ Neurim_and_Flynn_v_Mylan_–_Who_is_the_real_winner?⠀⇛ Although the case relates to treatments for insomnia, we suspect that the latest episode in the ongoing saga between Neurim and Mylan might result in a few sleepless nights for patent litigators. Somewhat unconventionally, the latest instalment saw Marcus Smith J vary a costs order so as to award costs to the losing party in proceedings before the English Patents Court (the “UK proceedings”) as a result of a near simultaneous (and conflicting) decision at the EPO. On 12 March 2021, Marcus Smith J handed down a formidable 42 page judgment on consequential matters (the “Consequentials Judgment”, a copy of which can be found here). This follows his 4 December 2020 judgment in Neurim Pharmaceuticals (1991) Limited & Flynn Pharma Limited v Generics UK Limited (t/a Mylan) & Mylan UK Healthcare Limited [2020] EWHC 3270 (Pat) (the “Judgment”). A detailed look at the Judgment can also be found here. Readers may also recall Marcus Smith J’s earlier decision in these proceedings to refuse Neurim’s application for a preliminary injunction (as reported here), which was subsequently upheld by the Court of Appeal (as reported here). It is fair to say that this case has an unusual fact pattern on many levels. [...] One can speculate on other variations of the fact pattern and what, if any, impact this would have on Marcus Smith J’s decision to vary the costs order. For example, would it have made a difference if Mylan was not a party to the opposition proceedings before the EPO? What if Neurim had been granted a preliminary injunction? Would that have taken the possibility of adjournment off the table and, if so, what difference would that have made? From a practical perspective, it is clear from the decision that Marcus Smith J considered that the court should have been made aware of the timing of the TBA hearing, despite the expedited trial date having already been set. Although there are legitimate reasons not to seek an adjournment (for example, it is often the case that it is unclear to the parties whether a given TBA hearing would result in a final decision), this decision certainly highlights the importance of keeping the court informed or risk implicitly accepting otherwise unexpected adverse costs orders. In the short term, it seems very likely (if not inevitable) that Neurim will attempt to appeal the costs order and we (like many patent litigators in the UK) will be keeping a close eye on any developments in this regard. # § Software Patents⠀➾ # ⚓ Patent_troll_IP_is_more_powerful_than_Apple’s_ (permalink)⠀⇛ I was 12 years into my Locus Magazine column when I published the piece I’m most proud of, “IP,” from September 2020. It came after an epiphany, one that has profoundly shaped the way I talk and think about the issues I campaign on. https://locusmag.com/2020/09/cory- doctorow-ip/ That revelation was about the meaning of the term “IP,” which had been the center of this tedious linguistic cold war for decades. People who advocate for free and open technology and culture hate the term “IP” because of its ideological loading and imprecision. Ideology first: Before “IP” came into wide parlance – when lobbyists for multinational corporations convinced the UN to turn their World Intellectual Property Organization into a specialized agency, we used other terms like “author’s monopolies” and “regulatory monopolies.” # § Trademarks⠀➾ # ⚓ EUIPO_appeals_to_have_extra_weight,_says_new_BoA chief [Ed: Only softball questions for EUIPO (to keep “access”) and no difficult questions about EUIPO corruption]⠀⇛ João Negrão, the incoming president of the EUIPO Boards of Appeal, explains why the BoA’s decisions are becoming more important – and looks at what’s ahead # § Copyrights⠀➾ # ⚓ New_Year,_Same_You:_Twitch_Releases_Tools_To_Help Creators_Avoid_Copyright_Strikes,_Can’t_Properly_Police Abuse⠀⇛ Readers here will remember that the last quarter of 2020 was a very, very bad time for streaming platform Twitch. It all started when the RIAA came calling on the Amazon- owned platform, issuing a slew of DMCA takedown notices over all sorts of music included in the recorded streams of creators. Instead of simply taking the content down and issuing a notice to creators, Twitch simply perma-deleted the content in question, with no recourse for a counternotice given to creators as an option. After an explosive backlash, Twitch apologized, but still didn’t offer any clarity or tools for creators to understand what might be infringing content and what was being targeted. Instead, during its remote convention, Twitch only promised more information and tools in the coming months. # ⚓ Appeals_Court_Affirms_Retired_Police_Officer’s $47,777_Win_Against_Copyright_Troll⠀⇛ The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has affirmed the victory of a retired police officer against Strike 3 Holdings. The man, who was incorrectly accused of downloading porn videos, is one of the few defendants who fought back. The Court also affirmed the attorneys’ fees and costs award of $47,777, dismissing Strike 3′s objections. # ⚓ DanishBits:_Authorities_Extradite_‘Pirate_Mastermind’ From_Morocco⠀⇛ After being arrested and jailed in Morocco last October, the alleged “mastermind” behind private torrent tracker DanishBits has now been extradited to Denmark. Following a hearing at the Copenhagen City Court last week, the man was remanded in custody for 25 days. ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 3391 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐃𝐀𝐈𝐋𝐘 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒 ═════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 03.24.21⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ ✐ Links_25/3/2021:_KaOS_2021.03_and_qBittorrent_4.3.4⠀✐ Posted in News_Roundup at 8:13 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇GNOME bluefish⦈ § Contents⠀➾ * GNU/Linux o Distributions o Devices/Embedded * Free_Software/Open_Source * Leftovers * § GNU/Linux⠀➾ o § Audiocasts/Shows⠀➾ # ⚓ A_New_Video_By_Ramon_Miranda⠀⇛ Ramon explains everything about perspective, and Krita’s perspective tools this time! # ⚓ I_spent_30_days_with_Plasma_5.21_–_Return_of_the_King?⠀⇛ This is the desktop deep dive of Plasma 5.21 full of my opinions, tweaks, suggestions and brief history with KDE Plasma. # ⚓ FLOSS_Weekly_622:_Keith_Packard_–_Freedesktop.org,_X System⠀⇛ Free software legend, Keith Packard, the prime mover behind the X Window System and Freedesktop.org joins Doc Searls and Simon Phipps on FLOSS Weekly. A range of topics are discussed including the controversy of Richard Stallman returning to the Free Software Foundation (FSF) board of directors. Packard also shares why it’s important to get involved with hardware, working operating systems versus containers and even his rocketry hobby. # ⚓ Brodie_Reacts_To_Luke_Smith_Reacting_To_DistroTube⠀⇛ Recently Luke Smith did a reaction video to Distrotube’s short about the Fish shell which surely had to have been a troll, at least I hope so I decided why not do a reaction to the reaction and just go full on YouTuber. o § Kernel Space⠀➾ # ⚓ OpenRazer_3.0.0_expands_with_many_new_Razer_devices supported_on_Linux⠀⇛ Get your fancy Razer mouse, keyboard, laptop and whatever else ready as OpenRazer 3.0.0 is out now to further expand what Razer devices are nicely supported on Linux. It comes with some big improvements including persistent storage of effects in daemon, previously frontends had no way of reliably getting the effect that a device had set and support for DPI Stages for mice. A few bug fixes made it in too like the addition of missing HAS_MATRIX attribute for Tartarus V2, fixed volume control buttons on Razer Cynosa V2 and more. o § AMD⠀➾ # ⚓ AMD_Releases_Radeon_Pro_Software_for_Enterprise_21.Q1_for Linux_–_Phoronix⠀⇛ AMD today released their Radeon Pro Software for Enterprise 21.Q1 driver packages for Windows and Linux systems. The Radeon Pro Software for Enterprise is AMD’s driver package updated quarterly that is focused on their Radeon Pro products and older FirePro professional graphics while being derived from the same driver sources as their consumer Radeon Software drivers just with added QA and focus on enterprise use-cases. In the case of Radeon Pro Software for Enterprise for Linux, still offering both AMDGPU-Open and AMDGPU-PRO components. # ⚓ AMD_Sends_Out_New_Linux_Code_For_SEV-SNP_With_EPYC_7003 Series_–_Phoronix⠀⇛ In addition to AMD EPYC 7003 “Milan” processors offering fantastic performance, another important highlight for these new Zen 3 server processors is SEV-SNP for upping the Secure Encrypted Virtualization capabilities. AMD has been offering SEV “Secure Nested Paging” patches via a GitHub repository while now they are working towards mainlining this feature for the Linux kernel. AMD Secure Encrypted Virtualization’s Secure Nested Paging builds upon SEV/SEV-ES to offer integrity protections, including against malicious hypervisor attacks. This AMD whitepaper spells out SEV-SNP in more detail for those interested in all of the finer details of this feature round on EPYC 7003 series processors. # ⚓ AMD_Is_Trying_To_Optimize_Their_Gallium3D_Driver_Even Further_With_Lower_Overhead_–_Phoronix⠀⇛ While the RadeonSI Gallium3D open-source OpenGL driver for Linux systems is very well received and generally outperforming the proprietary AMD OpenGL driver on Linux/Windows and performing very strong against NVIDIA’s proprietary OpenGL driver too, it’s not game over for this older graphics API and AMD is still working to lower the CPU overhead even further for this open-source code. RadeonSI Gallium3D allows for maximizing the OpenGL performance out of Radeon graphics cards under Linux. There has even been various remarks about the prospects of porting RadeonSI to Windows given how well this open-source OpenGL driver performs. We have seen various RadeonSI optimizations continue with newer Mesa releases even while newer Linux game ports tend to be Vulkan exclusive and Steam Play’s DXVK/VKD3D-Proton are routing all newer Windows games on Linux by way of Direct3D over Vulkan. o § Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ qBittorrent_4.3.4_Drops_Support_for_Ubuntu_18.04_LTS, Supports_Sub-Sorting_in_Transfer_List⠀⇛ qBittorrent 4.3.4 introduces a few interesting new capabilities to the open-source torrent downloader, including sthe ability to prioritize selected items by shown file order and to allow tab to escape the text box in the “Edit trackers” dialog, sub-sorting support in the Transfer List, as well as the ability to expose ToS setting from the libtorrent library. On Linux, this release drops support for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver), improves support for systemd system by implementing a new mechanism to wait for the local filesystems to be mounted first. Furthermore, qBittorrent 4.3.4 improves the handling of tracker entries, and adds support for Qt 5.12 LTS and libtorrent 1.2.12 as minimum requirements for building/installing the app. # ⚓ Yakuake_|_Drop-down_Terminal_Emulator_on_openSUSE⠀⇛ I was recently asked why I haven’t mentioned anything about Yakuake on CubicleNate.com so I decided to take the time and cover some of its features, what I did to modify it a smidge and why I use it. For starters, I don’t think the terminal is a “power user” function. I truly believe it is an every-day user tool that doesn’t get the credit it deserves. There is a great discussion thread here on the Destination Linux Discourse forum about this subject. It is my belief that the terminal should be an integrated part of every desktop. I believe a person should know to use the terminal to better understand how their computer works, even if they are not “into computers,” basic understanding of the computers workings with the ability to speak its language doesn’t have any drawbacks. If anything, it empowers you to know more and do more with these incredibly powerful tools. Bottom Line Up Front: Yakuake is a great way to integrate the terminal into your desktop in such a way that keeps access to the most powerful tool just a keystroke away. Yakuake isn’t the only terminal emulator I use but it is that one I use most often due to how incredibly convenient it is. o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾ # ⚓ TaskBoard:_Kanban-based_Software_on_CentOS_7_|_Unixmen⠀⇛ TaskBoard is a free and open source software, inspired by the Kanban board, for keeping track of things that need to be done. Kanban is a technique for visualizing the flow of work and organize a project, no matter what it is. In particular, in software development it provides a visual process management system to help in deciding how to organize the production. # ⚓ Difference_Between_apt-get_upgrade_and_dist-upgrade⠀⇛ In our previous guide, we fleshed out the differences between apt update and apt upgrade. In this tutorial, we look at apt-get upgrade and apt- get dist-upgrade commands and seek to understand the difference and when each is used. # ⚓ How_To_Use_Linux_Shutdown_Command,_Restarts_Planned_and immediate⠀⇛ The Linux Shutdown Command is used to stop the operating system safely. Users logged in receive a message that the system will be shut down. The command allows the system to shut down immediately or according to a set period of time. In this tutorial you will learn the basic ways to use the shutdown command as well as the best practices in using it. In some of the newer distributions, the uptime command is associated with the system command systemctl. In addition we are going to explore how to reboot how to schedule reboots, how to warn logged in users and more. # ⚓ How_To_Work_With_Users_And_Groups_In_Linux⠀⇛ In this tutorial we will show you the basics for working with Linux Users And Groups, we will slightly upgrade with additional knowledge where necessary and more. Why do we need to understand user accounts in Linux? Linux is a multi-user platform, in which each user has different rights. Some can read, others can read and write, or have the right to see certain directories. Also, more than one user can be in the system at the same time. # ⚓ How_to_install_Krita_on_a_Chromebook_in_2021⠀⇛ Today we are looking at how to install Krita on a Chromebook. Please follow the video/audio guide as a tutorial where we explain the process step by step and use the commands below. # ⚓ How_to_install_Anaconda_on_Ubuntu⠀⇛ Anaconda is a Python-based data science platform. It comes in various editions, is open source, and installable on most Linux operating systems. In this guide, we’ll show you how to get Anaconda up and running on Ubuntu. # ⚓ How_to_upgrade_Debian_distros_[Guide]⠀⇛ Are you using Debian and want to upgrade it to other releases like Testing, Unstable, or even Experimental, but don’t know how? We can help! Follow along as we show you how to upgrade Debian distros! # ⚓ How_to_check_Kernel_version_on_Linux_–_LateWeb.Info⠀⇛ Every Linux system is running a Linux kernel, which serves as the foundation for a fully packaged operating system. # ⚓ How_To_Mount_ISO_image_in_Lubuntu_20.10_Linux_[&&_How_To Unmount_ISO]_–_LateWeb.Info⠀⇛ An optical disc image is a disk image that contains everything that would be written to an optical disc, disk sector by disc sector, including the optical disc file system. # ⚓ Securely_Copy_Files_in_Linux_With_the_Scp_Command⠀⇛ There are times when you want to transfer files between your local system and a remote server. Several protocols and methods are available that allow you to handle file transmissions in a secure manner. The scp command in Linux is one such tool that helps a user in sharing files remotely between local and remote hosts. In this article, we will discuss the scp command in detail, along with its usage and some additional features of the command. # ⚓ Linux_tricks_to_speed_up_your_workday_|_Network_World⠀⇛ One of the really nice things about working on the Linux command line is that you can get a lot of work done very quickly. With a handle on the most useful commands and some command-line savvy, you can take a lot of the tedium out of your daily work. This post will walk you through several handy tricks that can make your work load feel a little lighter and maybe be a little bit more enjoyable. # ⚓ How_to_deploy_containers_with_aaPanel_–_TechRepublic⠀⇛ aaPanel is an outstanding tool for the management of websites, databases, FTP servers, cron jobs and more. One other feature that aaPanel is quite adept at is the deployment of Docker containers. I want to show you how this feature can be added to aaPanel and then how to deploy your first container with the tool. I’ll be demonstrating on Ubuntu Server 20.04, so you’ll need to have aaPanel already deployed–find out how in my previous piece: How to install aaPanel. Once you have aaPanel deployed, you’re ready to add Docker container support. # ⚓ How_To_Change_OpenLiteSpeed_Port_8088_To_80_In_Ubuntu 20.10⠀⇛ # ⚓ How_To_Create_A_User_With_A_Custom_Home_Directory_In_Linux –_LateWeb.Info⠀⇛ In this tutorial, we’re going to see how to change the default home directory of a user on Linux. By default, it is /home/username. # ⚓ How_To_Use_Uptime_Command_In_Ubuntu_Linux_–_LateWeb.Info⠀⇛ Uptime is a measure of system reliability, expressed as the percentage of time a machine, typically a computer, has been working and available. Uptime is the opposite of downtime. Conversely, long uptime may indicate negligence, because some critical updates can require reboots on some platforms. # ⚓ How_to_Batch_Convert_PNG_Images_to_JPG_Format_in_Linux⠀⇛ Although PNG offers a better image quality compared with JPG, the large size factor is usually a concern for Internet users. This is typically why PNG images are converted to JPG. [...] In this article, you will learn how to convert multiple PNG images to JPG format from the Linux command line using ImageMagick and GraphicsMagick tools. # ⚓ How_to_Install_Audacity_3.0.0_in_Ubuntu_20.04,_Ubuntu_18.04 via_Flatpak_|_UbuntuHandbook⠀⇛ The Audacity audio editor 3.0.0 was released a week ago as the new major release. Here’s how to install it in Ubuntu / Linux Mint via Flatpak package. Audacity 3.0.0 features new all-in-one-file aup3 project file format, improved ‘Noise Gate’ effect, new ‘Label Sounds’ analyzer, and over 160 bug- fixes. # ⚓ How_to_Install_and_Configure_PHP_OPcache_on_Ubuntu_20.04⠀⇛ OPcache is an Apache module for the PHP interpreter. It is used to increase performance by storing precompiled scripts in shared memory space. Generally, it is used to speed up the performance of WordPress and PHP-based applications. OPcache removing the need for PHP to load and parse scripts on each request. In this tutorial, we will show you how to install and configure PHP OPcache on an Ubuntu 20.04 VPS. # ⚓ How_To_Install_XFCE_on_Debian_10_–_idroot⠀⇛ In this tutorial, we will show you how to install XFCE on Debian 10. For those of you who didn’t know, XFCE is a free lightweight, fast, and easy to use software desktop environment for Unix/Linux- like operating systems. It is designed for productivity and aims to be fast and low on system resources. Unlike GNOME and KDE desktops which are heavier, but XFCE uses fewer system resources. XFCE desktop does not need a modern GPU and its CPU and takes up less RAM. You can also install and run XFCE on an old hardware system without any problems. 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 through the step-by- step installation of the XFCE Desktop environment on a Debian 10 (Buster). # ⚓ How_To_Install_Vim_Text_Editor_on_Ubuntu_20.04_LTS_– idroot⠀⇛ In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Vim Text Editor on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. For those of you who didn’t know, Vim is a highly configurable text editor for efficiently creating and changing any kind of text. It is especially useful for editing config files and programs written in shell, python, Perl, c/c++, and more. The latest release of Vim includes a few new features, bug fixes, and documentation updates. 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 through the step-by- step installation of the Vim Text Editor on Ubuntu 20.04 (Focal Fossa). You can follow the same instructions for Ubuntu 18.04, 16.04, and any other Debian-based distribution like Linux Mint. # ⚓ 10_Quick_Linux_Tail_Command_with_Examples⠀⇛ In our previous tutorial, we looked at the Linux head command and its example usages. The tail command is the complementary of the head command. It reads and prints out the last N lines in a file. Without any command options, it prints out the last 10 lines in a text file. In this guide, we will focus on the tail command and explore the various options that come with the command. [...] In this guide, we will learn Linux tail command with practical examples. Tail command is used to print last 10 lines of a file on the terminal. # ⚓ 25_Iptables_Netfilter_Firewall_Examples_For_Linux⠀⇛ # ⚓ How_to_Repair_a_Corrupted_USB_Drive_in_Linux_–_Make_Tech Easier⠀⇛ Everyone has a flash drive. They’re great little things, and they make moving data around easy. However, sometimes flash drives can get corrupted or just flat-out quit working. Thankfully, if you’re using Linux, you already have access to an array of tools that can help you fix the problem. We are using Ubuntu for this tutorial, but everything applies to most modern Linux distributions. Here is how you can repair a corrupted USB drive in Linux. # ⚓ How_to_install_Q4OS_3.14⠀⇛ In this video, I am going to show how to install Venom Linux 20210312. # ⚓ How_to_install_Terraform_on_Linux_such_as_Ubuntu_20.04_LTS server⠀⇛ Terraform is an open-source uniform configuration language that allows administrators to describe IT resources implementation in a “standardized” manner. It provides a command-line interface workflow to manage various types of cloud services such as Aws, Google Cloud, Vmware, Microsoft Azure, OpenStack, Oracle Cloud, Digital Ocean, and more… # ⚓ How_to_install_vnstat_on_Alpine_Linux_–_nixCraft⠀⇛ nnStat is a free and open-source app for servers and routers. It is a console-based network traffic monitor. It keeps a log of the 5-minute interval, hourly, daily, monthly, and yearly network traffic for the selected interface(s). Let us see how to install vnStat on the Alpine Linux server to keep a tab on bandwidth usage. # ⚓ How_to_protect_documents_with_a_digital_signature_in ONLYOFFICE_Desktop_Editors_v.6.2⠀⇛ ONLYOFFICE Desktop Editors is a free open-source office suite that contains viewers and editors for text documents, spreadsheets, and presentations. Along with offline work, it’s possible to connect the app to the cloud (ONLYOFFICE, Nextcloud, ownCloud, Seafile) and collaborate on docs online. The code repository is available on GitHub under AGPL v.3.0 license. # ⚓ How_to_replace_Docker_with_Podman_on_a_Mac_|_Enable Sysadmin [Ed: Free software, but on proprietary operating system]⠀⇛ Several months ago, I came back to my desk after lunch and to my chagrin, my macOS was making a long constant blowing sound—the fan was on high speed. Now, mind you, I have a fairly new and beefy Mac. 2.4 GHz, 8-core, 64GB running Big Sur, 11.2.1. So what in the world could be triggering my fan to such a high level? I discovered that the culprit was Docker. And the only way to rid myself of the noise was a Docker restart. # ⚓ Let’s_Encrypt:_Secure_Apache_Web_Server_on_Ubuntu_16.04⠀⇛ Starting with Chrome 56, the browser developed by Google marks non-secure pages containing password and credit card input fields as Not Secure in the URL bar. It was almost one year ago, when the Mountain View giant announced this choice. Of course, everybody knows that secure is better then insecure; but in this case, the big problem with HTTP is that it lacks a system for protecting communications between clients and servers. This exposes data to different kinds of attacks, for instance, the “Man in the middle” (MIM), in which the attacker intercepts your data. If you are using some transaction system with your bank, using credit card infos, or just entering a password to log in to a web site, this can become very dangerous. # ⚓ Informative_guide_to_NC_(Ncat)_command_in_Linux_–_The_Linux GURUS⠀⇛ Ncat command in Linux or NC command is used in the maintenance or diagnosis-related tasks for a network. Even though the ‘nc command’ or ‘ncat command’ are separate commands but they are similar to how they perform their functions & one can be used or replace by the other. Similar to how CAT common in Linux has the ability to manipulate files, NC command in Linux has the ability to perform operations like read, write, or data redirections over the network. Ncat command can be used as a utility to scan ports, monitoring or can also act as a basic TCP proxy. Organizations can utilize it to review the security of their networks, web servers, telnet servers, mail servers, etc, by checking the ports that are opened or unsecured and then secure them. NC command can also be used to capture information being sent by the system. # ⚓ Monitoring:_How_To_Install_Sensu_on_Ubuntu_16.04_Server_| Unixmen⠀⇛ Sensu is a free and open source tool for composing a monitoring system. It is entirely written in Ruby. It uses RabbitMQ to handle messages and Redis to store its data. Sensu focuses on composability and extensibility, allowing to reuse monitoring checks and plugins from tools like Nagios and Zabbix. This framework was designed to work with software like Puppet, Chef and Ansible, and it does not required additional workflow. o § Games⠀➾ # ⚓ Dungeon-crawler_Tangledeep_gets_a_new_streamlined_mode,_try the_devs_new_game_too⠀⇛ If you want to do some dungeon crawling, look no further today than Tangledeep. A sweet pixel-art experience that’s highly rated, offers deep character progression and it’s still being updated years after release. “Tangledeep combines the 16-bit graphics and polish of classic SNES-era RPGs with elements from roguelikes and dungeon crawlers to create a magical experience for players of all skill levels. Trapped in underground villages with no memory of the world at the surface, you must survive an ever-changing labyrinth to discover what lies above.” # ⚓ GOverlay_gets_another_small_release_to_help_you_manage tools_like_MangoHud⠀⇛ MangoHud is a fantastic way to show off all sorts of details in games on Linux from frame timings to RAM use and plenty more. GOverlay continues making it more accessible with a full UI. GOverlay works with not just MangoHud but also the vkBasalt post- processing layer and the instant-replay solution ReplaySorcery too. # ⚓ Retro_FPS_Ion_Fury_getting_an_Aftershock_expansion_this Summer⠀⇛ Ion Fury, the old-school first-person shooter developed by Voidpoint and published by 3D Realms and 1C Entertainment is getting a big full expansion named Aftershock. Releasing this Summer, Aftershock will offer a new “Arrange” game mode which offers up “enhanced with new enemies, weapons and more” good for first time players and returning players alike. # ⚓ There’s_no_monkeying_around_in_the_new_roller_game_Rolled Out!⠀⇛ Did you love the classic Monkey Ball or Super Monkey Ball? A hugely popular series that gained something of a cult following and a close spiritual successor is out now with Rolled Out! Okay so it’s not the same and not by the same developer, Rolled Out! is an Early Access game from Polarbyte Games and Skymap Games but it seemed to be very promising and is gaining some good early reviews. Another title that has arrived following a successful crowdfunding campaign, as it was up on IndieGoGo back in 2019 with over £40K in funding gained. o § Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾ # § K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt⠀➾ # ⚓ KaOS_2021.03⠀⇛ KaOS is very proud to announce the availability of the March release of a new stable ISO. With almost 60 % percent of the packages updated since the last ISO and the last release being over two months old, a new ISO is more than due. News for Plasma 5.21 include a new application launcher featuring two panes to make it simple to locate your programs and comes with improved keyboard, mouse, and touch input, boosting accessibility across the board, Plasma System Monitor, a new app for monitoring system resources and the sound applet now displays the live microphone volume. # ⚓ KDE_e.V._is_looking_for_a_documentation_writer⠀⇛ KDE e.V., the non-profit organisation supporting the KDE community, is looking for a documentation writer to help KDE improve its (online, technical) documentation. Please see the call for proposals for more details about this contract opportunity. We are looking forward to your application. # ⚓ KDE_&_Qt_Cooperation⠀⇛ In the last days, I read the Qt Interest mailing list and was amazed about the very verbose discussion there about what is all bad with Qt in general and Qt 6. As for any mailing list discussion, that is not representative, but if you just read that, the world looks bleak. A short (personal) digest could read like: Qt 5 => 6 is horrible, the Qt project (and company) doesn’t care for their (open source and other) users and the future is doomed for Qt. # ⚓ Qt_Creator:_CMake_package-manager_auto-setup⠀⇛ As you might know, using 3rd party software in CMake code is done via packages, by using the find_package command. find_package does what the name says: it finds a package. If the package doesn’t exist, it will set the _FOUND variable to FALSE, and if the package was REQUIRED the the CMake configuration will error out. This is where a package manager comes into play. The setup of the package manager could be done in CMake code, by hard coding specific code, or by documenting how the environment needs to be setup before configuring the CMake project. # ⚓ Refining_Peruse_Creator⠀⇛ As per my last blog, the plan was to work more on Peruse Creator to extend it with a new functionality/approach to modify existing objects. So far, I’ve worked on extending the navigation between the visualized jump objects on Reader, extended Creator with a new component to handle modifying created objects, and refined some bits and pieces in Peruse generally. So, in this blog post, I’m going to describe briefly what have been done, and the future plans for the remaining days of SoK. # § GNOME Desktop/GTK⠀➾ # ⚓ GNOME_40_Linux_desktop_environment_is_here⠀⇛ Just yesterday, we told you that Fedora 34 Beta was released, and it was notable for using the upcoming GNOME 40 desktop environment. Well, I have great news Linux fans — today GNOME 40 is officially released, and yes, it will be used in the eventual stable version of Fedora 34. But yo, wait, hold on, why is the newest version of GNOME being designated as 40? Wasn’t the previous version 3.38? Yeah, that is factual, but no, the developers haven’t gone crazy. Actually, as we told you last year, GNOME has a new versioning scheme. It is, understandably, a bit confusing to jump from 3.x to 40, but that’s what it is, folks! You know what though? Who cares what it’s called as long as it remains great. And once again, it looks to be. # ⚓ GNOME_40_is_out_now_with_the_redesigned_Activities Overview⠀⇛ GNOME 40 is out now to showcase the latest Linux desktop environment work from the GNOME Project, which includes a number of feature overhauls and improvements. Safe to say this is one of their biggest releases, at least since the original redesign of GNOME Shell into what we know it as now. In total, the release incorporates 24571 changes, made by approximately 822 contributors. They also dedicated this release to the team behind the GNOME Asia Summit 2020. The biggest user-facing change in GNOME 40 will be the new Activities Overview design where you see all your open applications, workspaces and search through installed applications. Workspaces are now arranged horizontally, while the overview and app grid are accessed vertically and there’s plenty of keyboard shortcuts, mouse actions and support for touchpad gestures too. Here’s some shots of it (click to enlarge)… # ⚓ GNOME_OS_40_without_GNOME_Boxes⠀⇛ The GNOME team have announced GNOME 40. Along with this there’s a GNOME OS image to play with. You can grab that from here with the release notes. The release announcement firmly (in bold) suggests “Do not use any other version including the distro version. Only GNOME Boxes 3.38.0 from flathub is known to work.”. Personally I’ve never managed to have much success with GNOME Boxes, so I thought I’d test using something I already have installed, QEMU! I have used QEMU for many years. Here’s a screenshot of me running Windows XP, Windows 2000, NT Server, NT Workstation, Windows 98 and Windows 95, for lulz. This was all running on a Dell Inspiron XPS Gen 2 back in 2005 (15 years ago!). All under qemu on Ubuntu. How time flies. # ⚓ GNOME_40_–_The_biggest_update_to_GNOME_since_GNOME_3, and_probably_the_best_one⠀⇛ The latest release of GNOME is here, and it moves away from the usual naming convention: no GNOME 3.40, it’s just GNOME 40. This release is one of the biggest in recent years, and a lot has changed, so let’s take a look at what’s new. # ⚓ GNOME_40_Is_Here_With_Radical_Design_Changes_and Improvements_to_the_Desktop_Experience⠀⇛ GNOME 3.38 was the previous major release that came equipped with many improvements and a major performance boost. With the next release, GNOME 40, we’re getting major changes to the user interface along with performance boosts. In case you were out of the loop, you might want to know that the GNOME team changed their version classification to a new system to avoid confusion with GTK 4.0 release and others. Now, every six month, a new release will increase the major version number by one like — GNOME 41, GNOME 42 and so on. The stable point releases will be like this — GNOME 40.1, GNOME 40.2, GNOME 40.3,etc. # ⚓ See_What_the_Much_Anticipated_GNOME_40_Looks_Like_ [First_Look]⠀⇛ GNOME 40 is releasing this week. It’s time to take a look at all the new features in GNOME 40, specially the “horizontal” layout approach. # ⚓ GNOME_40_Released_With_Redesigned_Activities Overview⠀⇛ The latest release of GNOME is here. The changes in GNOME 40 are impressive with many improvements and alterations to the GNOME Shell. [...] Probably the most noticeable user experience change is when interacting with the GNOME shell overview. In GNOME 3.38 and earlier versions, the Activities Overview had a vertical layout, but in GNOME 40, everything goes horizontal. When you click on the application icon in GNOME, the workspaces are horizontal with a snapshot of the running windows. You can easily scroll through them and drag windows from one workspace to another. Moreover, within the new Activities Overview design, all the apps now show their icons so you’ll identify them much easier. o § Distributions⠀➾ # ⚓ The_10_Unix-Based_Operating_Systems_That_Aren’t_Linux⠀⇛ If you are here to know about Unix-based Operating Systems, then you are in the right place. Unix has a long history as an operating system. Actually, it is more appropriate if we call it an OS family rather than a single OS. Because, although it was built for internal usage at the AT&T Bell Labs in the 1970s, now it is powering up a lot of modern operating systems. Some of them are proprietary, like macOS, and some are open-source. Unix was built with C language, and there are many advantages that many organizations took Unix as the base of their operating systems. Most of them are depreciated now. But some Unix-based OS is still functional even as an internal or private operating system. # § Arch Family⠀➾ # ⚓ Manjaro_21.0_Ornara_Comes_Packed_With_GNOME_3.38,_KDE Plasma_5.21,_Xfce_4.16_and_Linux_Kernel_5.10⠀⇛ The popular Arch-Linux based distribution, Manjaro’s latest stable release arrives with Linux 5.10 Kernel along with three fresh desktop environment choices – Gnome 3.38. KDE Plasma 5.21, Xfce 4.16, and other changes. This release is code-named ‘Ornara’ and comes after the last release Manjaro 20.2 Nibia. # § IBM/Red Hat/Fedora⠀➾ # ⚓ Fedora_34_Beta_Run_Through⠀⇛ In this video, we are looking at Fedora 34 Beta. # ⚓ Fedora_34_Beta⠀⇛ Today we are looking at Fedora 34 Beta. It comes with Gnome 40 rc, Linux kernel 5.11, and uses about 2GB of ram when idling. Enjoy! # ⚓ Fedora_Linux_34_beta_Launched⠀⇛ Fedora comes with multiple editions designed to address specific use cases for IT teams and modern developers. This also includes Fedora CoreOS – it addresses the requirements of cloud-native, containerized developers. In the case of desktops, the new version uses the new GNOME 40 desktop. Its enhancements include a better desktop arrangement for windows, search, workspaces, and applications. # ⚓ Finding_common_ground_to_help_robots_master_the mundane⠀⇛ Today we’re launching the second video in our Open Source Stories “Common Connections” series, “Common Connections: Making Robots Boring.” The series features scholars, CEOs, educators, and engineers who’ve never met before coming together to find the common threads in their work, and exploring the potential for future open source innovation and building unexpected connections. “Common Connections: Making Robots Boring” brings together Leila Takayama, Ph. D., human-robot interaction researcher at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and Chris Nicholson, founder and CEO of Pathmind. We first met Takayama in part four of our film “How to Start a Robot Revolution,” when we explored how her work with the startup Willow Garage made a foundational piece of robotics software more user-friendly. While Nicholson showed up in our 2017 film, “Road to A.I.,” which featured his work creating deep learning software tools that have contributed to the growth of autonomous driving. # ⚓ Open_RAN_and_O-RAN_in_Brief⠀⇛ There are many Radio Access Networks (RAN) organizations, some loosely organized (for example, industry alliances) and others more formally structured that define standards. Recent discussion has been growing about open RAN in the industry, spurred by developments, such as Rakuten building the industry’s first cloud-native infrastructure with the help of open source and open RAN. The conversation is centering around what open RAN means: what is being done and how organizations can participate. We continue to see communications services providers (CSPs) and ecosystem players stating that open RAN and open source projects form the future foundation of the industry. # ⚓ Red_Hat_delivers_new_change_data_capture_capabilities and_enhances_user_experience_with_latest_Red_Hat Integration_release⠀⇛ The latest release of Red Hat Integration is now available, and it brings several enhancements that we are pleased to share with you. With this release, we are continuing to focus on strengthening our customers’ ability to respond faster, more efficiently and more intelligently to the world around them. Organizations are building out cloud-based, event-driven solutions that rely on streams of data flowing through the system. With Red Hat Integration we help customers to capture and process information as it’s created. These advanced streaming processing applications are designed to take in more streams and more types of data to gain better insights and ultimately make more effective decisions. # ⚓ Sysadmins:_Where_is_your_organization_using_the_most enterprise_open_source?⠀⇛ o § Devices/Embedded⠀➾ # § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾ # ⚓ Disk_encryption,_GPS,_new_apps_and_settings_coming_to the_Librem_5_with_PureOS⠀⇛ Purism’s Librem 5 smartphone ships with a custom GNU/Linux distribution called PureOS. It’s the same software that runs on Purism’s Linux laptops, but it’s been adapted to work with phones like the Librem 5. So far there are some key features that haven’t worked yet. Now Purism is announcing it’ll enable some of those things in the next release of PureOS, which is code-named Byzantium. Among other things, Byzantium will bring support for full disk encryption and GPS navigation. There are also a bunch of software updates that’ll make it easier to not only use the Librem 5 as a phone, but also as a desktop computer. # ⚓ Sneak_Peek_of_the_Next_PureOS_Release_on_the_Librem 5⠀⇛ Disk encryption will allow for the root disk to be password protected. With this setup, you’ll be asked to decrypt your device before it continues to the phone shell. # ⚓ Valtrix_and_Codasip_Cooperate_on_Verification_of RISC-V_Systems⠀⇛ Valtrix Systems, the provider of design verification products for building functionally correct CPU and system-on-chip implementations, and Codasip, the leading supplier of customizable RISC-V® embedded processor IP, announced today that they are cooperating on the verification of RISC-V- based systems. # ⚓ 96Boards_Consumer_Edition_Specification_v2.0_adds Ethernet,_PCIe,_expansion_connectors⠀⇛ Linaro’s 96Boards specification was first introduced in 2015 with the launch of Hikey SBC following 96Boards CE specification, which CE standing for Consumer Edition. # ⚓ Linaro_Joins_Hands_With_Huawei_For_OpenHarmony_Open- Source_OS⠀⇛ Linaro Ltd, the open-source collaborative engineering organization developing software for the Arm ecosystem, has announced the joint collaboration with Huawei on OpenHarmony. Linaro will collaborate with Huawei and the open-source community on the engineering work needed to make OpenHarmony fully open-source. # ⚓ Geniatech_SDM3399_RK3399_SBC_looks_like_a_PCIe_card⠀⇛ The company provides “Android 7.1 or above” for the board/card, and says it’s designed for digital signage or kiosk display solutions, smart display solutions, and system integration. # § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ Linux_is_back_on_smartphones:_The_PinePhone_Beta Edition_starts_at_US$150_and_fails_to_impress⠀⇛ A few years ago, I was adventurous enough to get the ZTE Open C as my daily driver. The whole experience was interesting enough, but Firefox OS is sadly history now. However, Linux is still around and showing up on smartphones from time to time. Unfortunately, the PinePhone Beta Edition looks like another device that only targets hardcore fans. # ⚓ PinePhone_Beta_Edition_goes_up_for_pre-order⠀⇛ After shipping tens of thousands of PinePhone Community Edition smartphones to enthusiasts, the folks at Pine64 ended the Community Edition program recently. Now you can buy a PinePhone Beta Edition, which will ship with Manjaro Linux and the KDE Plasma user interface pre-installed. It’s called Beta because the software is still a work in progress. But the hardware is pretty much finalized, and after encountering a series of potential delays due to component shortages, Pine64 announced recently that after going up for pre-order on March 24, production of the PinePhone Beta Edition should begin soon and the phone could ship to customers by late April. # ⚓ The_OnePlus_7_and_7T_series_finally_receive_Android 11_and_OxygenOS_11_updates_–_NotebookCheck.net_News⠀⇛ # ⚓ ASUS_ROG_Phone_3_first_Android_11_Beta_update_rolling out_–_Gizmochina⠀⇛ # ⚓ Realme_C11_(2021)_coming_with_Android_11_and_5,000mAh battery,_shows_FCC_certification⠀⇛ # ⚓ Samsung_One_UI_3.1_(Android_11)_update_tracker:_All we_know_about_this…⠀⇛ # ⚓ HMD_Global_releases_Android_11_update_for_Nokia_3.2_| NewsBytes⠀⇛ # ⚓ SITI_Playtop_Magic_Android_TV_Set-Top_Box_Launched⠀⇛ # ⚓ Samsung_dominant_force_in_UK_CTV_market,_but_Amazon and_Android_TV_on_the_rise_–_Digital_TV_Europe⠀⇛ # ⚓ Qualcomm_is_reportedly_building_a_Nintendo_Switch clone,_powered_by_Android_|_Ars_Technica⠀⇛ # ⚓ Google_Assistant_‘Memory’_revamps_reminders_on Android_–_9to5Google⠀⇛ o § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾ # ⚓ The_Apache®_Software_Foundation_Celebrates_22_Years_of_Open Source_Innovation_“The_Apache_Way”⠀⇛ The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the all- volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of more than 350 Open Source projects and initiatives, announced today its 22nd Anniversary. Originally established by the 21-member Apache Group, who oversaw the then-3-year-old Apache HTTP Server, the ASF today is the world’s largest, vendor-neutral, Open Source foundation, comprising 800+ individual Members, 8,100+ Committers, and 40,000+ code contributors located on every continent. Conservatively valued at more than $22B, Apache’s 350+ projects and 37 incubating podlings are all freely-available to the public-at-large, at 100% no cost, and with no licensing fees. “Over the past 22 years the ASF has evolved to meet the growing needs of the greater community,” said Sander Striker, Board Chair of The Apache Software Foundation. “The ASF enables people from all over the world to collaborate, develop, and shepherd the projects and communities that are helping individuals, sustaining businesses, and transforming industries.” # ⚓ How_the_Apache_Project_Boosted_the_Free_and_Open_Source Software_Movements⠀⇛ The Apache project was much more conscious of culture and group dynamics from the start. There was no opportunity to appoint a benevolent dictator, because the person who could have played that role had already left. This is an interesting side discussion in itself. By 1992, the World Wide Web was recognized by internet users as a major force. But the software that supported it was in a fragile state. Tim Berners-Lee had developed a web server for the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN, after the French name), but it was designed for the needs of the organization, which involved sharing large data sets. The server was not appropriate for the kinds of publishing that the general public was starting to do in the early 1990s. The NCSA was also a scientific organization, but its server had a broader appeal. In the development model typical of the time, its development rested on a single programmer, Rob McCool, and other programmers sent him their patches. This changed after Marc Andreessen, the famous developer of web browsers, left the NCSA to form Netscape. (You may quite likely be using a descendant of his work, the Firefox web browser, to read this article.) A lot of NCSA staff followed him to Netscape, including McCool. Because Netscape was concerned only with a browser, suddenly no one was working on any web server at all. From today’s vantage point, it may seem strange that a critical part of internet infrastructure could be orphaned. But even though visionaries recognized great potential in the internet, it was still viewed as a research experiment by managers at most organizations. NCSA itself was concerned with supporting supercomputer researchers, and if it took interest in the web at all—Roy Fielding told me in an interview—they focused on the browser, just as Netscape did. NCSA didn’t even announce that the web server had been effectively abandoned. So in early 1995, according to Fielding, programmers began to notice that no one was responding when they emailed their patches to NCSA, and no updates were coming out. When they figured out what happened, they found each other over email and decided to pick up the project themselves. The key characteristic of this oddly formed community was voluntarism. Nobody could be told what to work on. If they were interested, they wrote code. If not, they turned to other matters. One could jokingly call the team an anarcho- syndicalist commune (which fulfills the requirement of articles on computing to make at least one Monty Python reference). This fundamental trait of the project led to the focus on respect, open communications, and other elements of what was later called The Apache Way. # § Web Browsers⠀➾ # § Mozilla⠀➾ # ⚓ Support.Mozilla.Org:_Play_Store_Support_Program Updates⠀⇛ In late August last year, to support the transition of Firefox for Android from the old engine (fennec) to the new one (fenix), we officially introduced a tool that we build in-house called the Respond Tool to support the Play Store Support campaign. The Respond Tool lets contributors and staff provide answers to reviews under 3-stars on the Google Play Store. That program was known as Play Store Support. We learned a lot from the campaign and identified a number of improvements to functionality and user experience that were necessary. In the end, we decided to migrate the program from the Respond Tool to Conversocial, a third-party tool that we are already using with our community to support users on Twitter. # ⚓ How_two_women_are_taking_on_the_digital_ad industry_one_brand_at_a_time⠀⇛ In the fall of 2016, Nandini Jammi co- founded Sleeping Giants to expose for brands how their digital advertisements were showing up on websites that they didn’t intend their marketing efforts — or dollars — to support. In-house marketing teams were often shocked and confused to see their ads on websites that peddle disinformation and conspiracy theories and would immediately pull their ads from circulation. Over the time, however, Jammi noticed that the problem of misplaced ads persisted. She began to wonder why systemic change wasn’t happening in the advertising industry to better protect brands. Claire Atkin was also growing alarmed about how disinformation was being used to influence elections, and the role that digital advertising played in spreading it. Jammi and Atkin saw an opportunity to team up. If the ad industry wasn’t going to change, they decided to tackle the problem from the brand side. # ⚓ Mozilla_Explains:_What_is_an_IP_address?⠀⇛ Every time you are on the internet, IP addresses are playing an essential role in the information exchange to help you see the sites you are requesting. Yet, there is a chance you don’t know what one is, so we are breaking down the most commonly asked questions below. # § CMS⠀➾ # ⚓ Bastian_Venthur:_Perfection_is_Achieved_When_There_is Nothing_Left_to_Take_Away⠀⇛ In 2007, I started blogging. Back then I used a self-hosted WordPress instance, running on my server. I was never really comfortable with the technology stack involved: a programming language I didn’t speak, a DB I had little experience with, a relatively heavy setup and of course, the occasional security issues related to that setup. All that just to have a somewhat dynamic website with pingbacks and comments generated by your visitors… totally worth it and exciting times! You wrote something to the “lazyweb” department and people would actually comment with useful advice! Then came the spammers. First, it was just a little, and you could easily fight it off with the askimet plugin. Over the years, however the spam-to-useful-comments-ratio shifted to ridiculous levels and the comment section itself became a burden. Hosting the comments on a separate platform like disqus was not an option for me, so I finally turned the comments off. Without the need for a comment section, the whole idea of storing mostly textual content in a DB just to have it served as a website, suddenly seemed like overkill and an unnecessary security risk. So I started looking for alternatives. I wanted to maintain my content as plain text files. Text files are cool because they are future proof, portable and can be managed in git. Consequently, I was searching for a static site generator. # § FSF⠀➾ # ⚓ Mozilla_and_Tor_join_calls_to_oust_Richard_Stallman from_Free_Software_Foundation⠀⇛ More than 1,500 people have signed a petition calling for Richard Stallman to be removed from positions of leadership in free software. # ⚓ RMS_is_back_at_the_FSF:_Proof_they_don’t_care_about free_software.⠀⇛ I have a lot more to say about this–but this is about as much as I can say without getting incredibly angry. Here’s my simple, level- headed reasoning why RMS is a hindrance to the free software movement and the mission of the Free Software Foundation and why he should’ve left the FSF for good a long time ago. # ⚓ Mob_Mentality_Threatens_The_Free_Software_Movement⠀⇛ Richard Stallman recently announced on a video that he’s back. He’s back at the Free Software Foundation and is reinstated as a board member. And the haters are out in full force, actively trying to cancel Richard again. # ⚓ On_the_Recent_Announcement_by_FSF’s_Board_of Directors_–_Conservancy_Blog_–_Software_Freedom Conservancy⠀⇛ # ⚓ Letter_to_support_RMS⠀⇛ Dear FSF, I write this letter to support Dr. Richard Stallman as a board member of FSF. Dr. Richard Stallman has been a strong leader in Free Software Movement ever since the beginning of free software. He has been always thinking from the free software point of view, and has been constantly promoting free software and free software community. This is what we need in Free Software Foundation. This is what we need to inspire people to work for the goal of Free Software Foundation. I am expecting Dr. Richard Stall to do his best in FSF and wish him all the best. best regards, wxie # ⚓ On_the_reappointment_of_Richard_Stallman_as_a director_of_the_Free_Software_Foundation_(FSF)⠀⇛ In KDE e.V., directors are appointed by the full membership, by majority vote. Changes in the composition of our board of directors are participatory and transparent. Today we have doubts that corresponding processes within the FSF hold up to this common standard, which we believe to be critical to functional, sustainable governance given 23 years of our own experience as an organization. Organized activity in the wider Free Software community continues to be important. Participation and representation are necessary ingredients. KDE e.V. will stay involved in the discussion, with our partners and others, on where to take Free Software next. # ⚓ Mark_J._Wielaard:_FSF_Associate_Membership⠀⇛ Since then we setup the GNU Assembly without any resources from the FSF. And created the GNU Social Contract for GNU maintainers and developers to promote the GNU system and create a welcome environment for everybody to be able to create more user freedom. The FSF never officially helped or even replied to our requests to formulate an open and welcoming working relationship with us as GNU volunteers. # ⚓ Gunnar_Wolf:_Regarding_the_Stallman_comeback⠀⇛ Many people (me included, naturally) in the Free Software world are very angry about this announcement. There is a call for signatures for a position statement presented by several free software leaders that has gathered, as I write this message, over 400 signatures. The Open Source Initiative has presented its institutional position statement. And I can only forecast this rejection will continue to grow. # ⚓ Enrico_Zini:_Stallman⠀⇛ When I hear Stallman saying “and I’m not planning to resign a second time”, the only thing I can see is a dangerous person making a power move. I’ll be wary of FSF from now on. # ⚓ Controversial_programmer_Richard_Stallman_returns_to FSF_board⠀⇛ # ⚓ Debian_ponders_vote_as_an_organisation_on_backing Stallman’s_ouster [Ed: Sam's fourth article trying to get rid of RMS. Not even balanced. Not even remotely.]⠀⇛ # ⚓ The_free_software_community_calls_for_the_removal_of entire_FSF_board [Ed: This title is a lie. It's just a vocal minority making noise at Microsoft's GitHub.]⠀⇛ # ⚓ Return_of_Stallman_to_FSF_sparks_outrage_among_open- source_and_free_software_leaders [Ed: More from Microsoft boosters at ZDNet]⠀⇛ # § GNU Projects⠀➾ # ⚓ GNU_Guix:_Cuirass_1.0_released⠀⇛ We are pleased to announce the release of Cuirass version 1.0, after almost five years of development and around 700 commits from 14 contributors. Cuirass is the GNU Guix continuous integration software. It’s a general purpose build automation server written in GNU Guile that checks out sources from VCS repositories, execute build jobs and store build results in a database. Cuirass also provides a web interface to monitor the build results. Cuirass is running on the GNU Guix build farm. Since January, the project is funded through the NGI0 PET Fund, a fund established by NLnet with financial support from the European Commission’s Next Generation, as explained here. Thanks to this support, we were able to speed up the developments and finally propose a first release of this software. Many things have changed in Cuirass over the years and now is the perfect time to give it a try. # § Licensing/Legal⠀➾ # ⚓ Ethereum-based_Decentralized_Exchange_Uniswap Unveils_Timeline_for_Version_3_Launch⠀⇛ This license introduces a time-delay for the commercial use of its code for “up to two years”. After this, the code will remain as an open-source GPL license allowing other projects to build upon it. # § Programming/Development⠀➾ # ⚓ Building_a_molar_mass_calculator⠀⇛ # ⚓ Build_a_to-do_list_app_in_React_with_hooks⠀⇛ React is one of the most popular and simple JavaScript libraries for building user interfaces (UIs) because it allows you to create reusable UI components. Components in React are independent, reusable pieces of code that serve as building blocks for an application. React functional components are JavaScript functions that separate the presentation layer from the business logic. # ⚓ Get_better_at_programming_by_learning_how_things work⠀⇛ When we talk about getting better at programming, we often talk about testing, writing reusable code, design patterns, and readability. All of those things are important. But in this blog post, I want to talk about a different way to get better at programming: learning how the systems you’re using work! This is the main way I approach getting better at programming. # ⚓ From_start_to_finish:_How_to_use_Git_on_Linux⠀⇛ # § Python⠀➾ # ⚓ Read_and_write_files_with_Bash⠀⇛ When you’re scripting with Bash, sometimes you need to read data from or write data to a file. Sometimes a file may contain configuration options, and other times the file is the data your user is creating with your application. Every language handles this task a little differently, and this article demonstrates how to handle data files with Bash and other POSIX shells. # ⚓ Build_Six_Quick_Python_Projects⠀⇛ Are you looking for some quick and easy Python projects to build? # § Rust⠀➾ # ⚓ Rust:_integrating_LLVM_source-base_code coverage_with_GitLab⠀⇛ Earlier this year, the Rust compiler gained support for LLVM source-base code coverage. This feature is called source-base because it operates on AST and preprocessor information directly, producing more precise coverage data compared to the traditional gcov coverage technique. GitLab provides built-in integration of coverage information allowing for example reviewers to check if a MR is changing tested code or if it’s increasing or decreasing the total coverage of the project. In this post we’ll explain how to setup a CI job in a Rust project to feed source-base coverage information to GitLab. Generating coverage profiles The frst step is to add a new job to your CI pipeline, which will take care of generating the coverage reports. See the GitLab documentation if your project does not have any CI setup yet. * § Leftovers⠀➾ o § Integrity/Availability⠀➾ # § Proprietary⠀➾ # § Security⠀➾ # ⚓ Microsoft_Exchange_Server_attacks:_‘They’re being_hacked_faster_than_we_can_count’,_says security_company [Ed: Microsoft_tried_to_blame Asians_until_a_mass_shooting_against_Asian- Americans] ⠀⇛ And cyber criminals are doing just that, with security researchers at F- Secure identifying tens of thousands of attacks targeting organisations around the world that are still running vulnerable Microsoft Exchange Server every day. According to F-Secure analytics, only about half of the Exchange servers visible on the internet have applied the Microsoft patches for these vulnerabilities. “Tens of thousands of servers have been hacked around the world. They’re being hacked faster than we can count. Globally, this is a disaster in the making,” said Antti Laatikainen, senior security consultant at F-Secure. The fear is that an attack that successfully compromises a Microsoft Exchange Server not only gains access to sensitive information that’s core to how businesses are run, but could also open the door for additional attacks – including ransomware campaigns. In order to avoid falling victim to cyber attackers exploiting the Microsoft Exchange vulnerabilities, it’s recommended that organisations apply the critical updates as quickly as possible, because the longer the patches aren’t applied, the more time cyber criminals will have to potentially exploit the vulnerabilities as part of an attack. # ⚓ Security_updates_for_Wednesday⠀⇛ Security updates have been issued by Debian (imagemagick and squid), Fedora (jasper and kernel), Red Hat (pki- core), SUSE (gnutls, go1.15, go1.16, hawk2, jetty-minimal, libass, nghttp2, openssl, ruby2.5, sudo, and wavpack), and Ubuntu (linux, linux-aws, linux- aws-5.4, linux-azure, linux-azure-5.4, linux-gcp, linux-gcp-5.4, linux-gke- 5.3, linux-gke-5.4, linux-gkeop, linux- gkeop-5.4, linux-hwe, linux-hwe-5.4, linux-hwe-5.8, linux-kvm, linux-oem- 5.10, linux-oem-5.6, linux-oracle, linux-oracle-5.4, linux-raspi, linux- raspi-5.4, linux-raspi2-5.3). # ⚓ Open_Source_Initiative_election_hacked⠀⇛ Deb Nicholson, the OSI’s interim general manager, wrote that a “vulnerability in our voting processes was exploited and had an impact on the outcome of the recent Board Election. That vulnerability has now been closed. OSI will engage an independent expert to do a forensic investigation to help us understand how this happened and put measures in place to keep it from ever happening again.” o § Monopolies⠀➾ # § Patents⠀➾ # ⚓ $2,000_Awarded_for_Sanderling_’412_prior_art⠀⇛ Unified is pleased to announce the PATROLL crowdsourcing contest winning submission for U.S. Patent 9,355,412. The patent is owned by Sanderling Management Ltd., an NPE., and relates to forwarding a processing function, such as an overlay, to a user’s mobile image processing application when the user’s mobile device indicates a certain GPS reading. The ‘412 patent is currently being asserted against Snap, Inc. # ⚓ FOSS_Patents:_Component-level_licensing_of_standard- essential_patents_most_controversial_subtopic_of European_Commission_webinar_on_FRAND_licensing_and valuation⠀⇛ The conflict between monetization-focused standard-essential patent (SEP) holders and implementers (the latterg group also including major SEP holders who are nevertheless primarily interested in making products) appears to be everlasting. At times it even looks like both sides are ever more deeply entrenched. But at least they’re still talking to each other, and not just about each other. Yesterday the IP policy unit of the European Commission’s Directorate-General for the Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs (DG GROW) held a webinar on “FRAND licensing & valuation” with a very balanced roster of high-profile speakers and a sizable worldwide audience. The webinar took place via Microsoft Teams and was moderated by DG GROW official Elena Kostadinova, who might have been a TV news anchor in a former life. You can find the detailed agenda on this webpage. If time permitted, I could have done a post on each of the three parts. A survey by the Commission crystallized what SEP holders and implementers are primarily interested in. Among implementers, “license to all” was by far the most popular subject. I know I’m a bit difficult to please with terminology, and in my recent commentary on the SEP Expert Group report I explained why I oppose the terms “access for all”/”license to all” as “access for all” paints too rosy a picture while “license to all” sounds like built-in redundancy (though it’s actually about giving the implementing side the choice of the level at which to take a license). But I recognize I’m the only one out there to criticize those terms, so to my dismay they’re here to stay. The component-level licensing panel–the third and final part of yesterday’s webinar–was indeed the one where the different views of the two camps became clearest, not only in the webinar itself but also in the parallel Q&A chat. Professor Damien Geradin, founder of the Geradin Partners antitrust boutique, acknowledged that both sides of the debate make interesting arguments. In his experience, “most reasonable people” agree that license agreements shouldn’t be concluded at multiple levels of a given supply chain–but there are divergent views on which level it should be. # ⚓ Communiqué_of_24_March_2021_on_the_oral_proceedings before_the_Boards_of_Appeal_by_videoconference [Ed: For the second time in the same day the corrupt EPO management tries to mislead the public about the unlawful_referral_with_illegal_composition_of_judges]⠀⇛ New Article 15a of the Rules of Procedure of the Boards of Appeal (RPBA) on oral proceedings by videoconference enters into force on 1 April 2021. # § Software Patents⠀➾ # ⚓ Senators_Tillis_and_Cotton_Propose_Sequenced Examination_Approach [Ed: Recognition of the fact, from patent maximalists, that many granted USPTO patents are in fact fake and will learn to disappointment]⠀⇛ On Monday, Senators Thom Tillis (R-NC) and Tom Cotton (R-AR) sent a letter to Drew Hirshfeld, the Commissioner for Patents at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, to propose that the USPTO conduct a pilot program on a sequenced approach to patent examination. In their letter, Sen. Tillis (at right), the Ranking Member of the Senate Subcommittee on Intellectual Property, and Sen. Cotton (at left), a member of the Subcommittee on Intellectual Property, suggest that a sequenced approach to patent examination, in which applications are first examined for compliance with 35 U.S.C. §§ 102, 103, and 112, and then for compliance with 35 U.S.C. § 101, could “avoid unnecessary and inefficient rejections on grounds of patent eligibility.” The Senators express their concern that “by conducting an eligibility analysis as per current practice, patent examiners may be issuing Section 101 rejections without the benefit of addressing prior art, clarity and enablement issues that may well inform the examiner that the claim is eligible under Section 101.” While stating that examination under §§ 102, 103, and 112 is based on “well-developed and objective criteria under the law,” the Senators assert that “current patent eligibility jurisprudence lacks the clarity, consistency, and objectiveness the other grounds of patentability possess.” ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 5541 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐃𝐀𝐈𝐋𝐘 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒 ═════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 03.24.21⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ ✐ Links_24/3/2021:_Manjaro_Linux_21.0_and_New_Firefox_Release⠀✐ Posted in News_Roundup at 12:11 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇GNOME bluefish⦈ § Contents⠀➾ * GNU/Linux o Distributions o Devices/Embedded * Free_Software/Open_Source * Leftovers * § GNU/Linux⠀➾ o § Desktop/Laptop⠀➾ # ⚓ Best_Linux_Laptops_That_You_Can_Buy_For_Home_and_Office Usage⠀⇛ If you are looking for the best Linux laptops for your home and office usage, then you are in the right place. As you already know, Linux is becoming mainstream day by day. Normally mass users go for Windows or macOS because of the convenience and hardware compatibility. But with the hard work of the open-source community, Linux is improving too. You can run Linux on an ARM or x86 hardware that is compatible with Windows. Rather you are getting more flexibility and security with Linux. This is why people tend to use Linux in workplaces. And, this leads us to the portability aspect of Linux computers. Of course, you can use any portable machine, especially a laptop, to run Linux natively. But some laptops are optimized specially for running Linux and open-source software. They are also equipped with Linux-compatible drivers. You will be surprised to know that some laptops even come with Linux preinstalled. o § Server⠀➾ # ⚓ Shells.com_Continues_Work_On_Supporting_More_Linux_Distros For_This_“Cloud_Desktop”⠀⇛ Shells.com is a “personal cloud computer” that makes it possible to have a remote secure desktop from the browser whether it be running on a smartphone, tablet, smart TV, or other device. They have been supporting a number of different Linux distributions while more continue to be on the way. o § Audiocasts/Shows⠀➾ # ⚓ mintCast_357_–_Surfboard_Building_Lunch⠀⇛ First up, in our Wanderings, I do a little scripting, Joe drops a laptop, Moss is feeling phone-y, Tony walks a thousand miles, Josh visits Piggly Wiggly, Bo battles trolls, Mike gets a new- to-you Q2u Then, in the News, new LibreOffice and Audacity, 7zip is native, Calamares can use more butter, and a new kernel is coming In Security, how easy it is to buy up your information # ⚓ PCLinuxOS_2021.02_overview_Promo_#Shorts⠀⇛ A promo for the PCLinuxOS 2021.02 Overview video For the full video https://youtu.be/nNkP_bFV458 PCLinuxOS is a user-friendly Linux distribution with out-of-the-box support for many popular graphics and sound cards, as well as other peripheral devices. The bootable live DVD provides an easy-to-use graphical installer and the distribution sports a wide range of popular applications for the typical desktop user, including browser plugins and full multimedia playback # ⚓ LHS_Episode_#402:_Payment_Required⠀⇛ Hello and welcome to the 402nd installment of Linux in the Ham Shack. In this episode, the hosts start by wrapping up the most recent QSO Today Virtual Ham Expo. Afterwards, discussion topics range from in-person ham radio events that are (currently) still happening to Garuda Linux, Audacity, Kooha, Raspberry Pi pico SDRs and much more. Thank you for listening we hope you have a fantastic week. # ⚓ Back_in_the_Freedom_Dimension_|_LINUX_Unplugged_398⠀⇛ We share our favorite networking trick of all time, and then chat with the blokes behind a new WireGuard-powered service. Plus our reaction to RMS’s return to the FSF, some big project updates, picks, and more! Special Guests: Dalton Durst and Daniel Fore. o § Kernel Space⠀➾ # ⚓ Linux_Kernel’s_Preliminary_Rust_Code_Seeing_64-bit_POWER Support⠀⇛ Excitement is building around initial support for the Rust language within the Linux kernel that arrived in Linux-Next and is now seeing more developer interest. This very preliminary infrastructure work around supporting Rust code within the Linux kernel and an example module in tow continues to mature within Linux-Next while awaiting to see if it will try to be mainlined in a few weeks for the 5.13 cycle. Now that activity is happening, more upstream kernel developers are taking note. # ⚓ Linus_Torvalds_on_where_Rust_will_fit_into_Linux⠀⇛ This isn’t just a theory being pushed by Rust enthusiasts. A great deal of Rust in Linux is already being pushed out into the market. Amazon Web Services (AWS) recently released Bottlerocket Linux for containers and it has a great deal of Rust in it. Sylvestre Ledru, a Mozilla director by day and Debian Linux developer by night, has ported a Rust version of Coreutils to Linux using the LLVM compiler infrastructure and its Clang C language front-end and tooling infrastructure. Coreutils are the GNU shell core utilities. With these, Ledru has booted Linux and run the most popular Debian packages. This isn’t, Ledru admits, production- ready yet, but with a lot of elbow grease, it works today. Eventually, it may replace GNU Coreutils. Why do any of this in the first place? Rust is popular because it lends itself more easily to writing secure software. Samartha Chandrashekar, an AWS Product Manager, said it “helps ensure thread safety and prevent memory-related errors, such as buffer overflows that can lead to security vulnerabilities.” Many other developers agree with Chandrashekar. # ⚓ AMD_Sends_Out_Latest_Patches_For_HMM-Based_SVM_Memory Manager_–_Phoronix⠀⇛ Published back in January was the initial work on a HMM-based SVM memory manager for the open-source Radeon compute stack. A second version of that work is now available as it continues working towards the mainline kernel. This Shared Virtual Memory (SVM) memory manager implementation makes use of the Linux kernel’s modern Heterogeneous Memory Management (HMM) code. As part of working on continuing to advance their ROCm compute stack and preparing for their big HPC/ super-computer deployments using a combination of AMD EPYC CPUs and Radeon GPUs, this SVM memory manager is being worked on. This work is critical for heterogeneous computing in letting the GPU transparently access program addresses coherently with the CPU. # ⚓ Linux_Kernel_Patches_Sent_Out_For_A_More_Powerful_Virtual M68k_Machine_–_Phoronix⠀⇛ Right now when it comes to Motorola 68000 “m68k” emulation with Linux the most powerful target is the Quadra 800 that is limited to just 1GB of RAM and specific interfaces. But on the way is the new “Virtual M68k Machine” that is much more powerful. The Macintosh Quadra 800 is from 1993 with its Motorola 68040 running at 33MHz with 8MB of RAM. Linux and QEMU has supported the Quadra 800 as an emulated target but this new Virtual M68k Machine will allow for greater capacity and more modern amenities. The QEMU side support for the new Virtual M68k Machine is coming with QEMU 6.0 while the Linux kernel bits for this virtual machine were sent out today in patch form. # § Graphics Stack⠀➾ # ⚓ Mesa_21.1_Will_Aim_To_Be_Out_By_Mid-May_–_Phoronix⠀⇛ With Mesa 21.0 released earlier this month following a one month delay, the Mesa 21.1 release calendar has now been published for that next quarterly feature release. Mesa 21.1 has been under development since 21.0 was branched off in January and as such a lot of work has already accumulated while there still are a few weeks to build up more feature code. Mesa 21.1 is planned for branching and the first release candidate around 14 April. Following that mid-April branching, weekly release candidates will continue until the official release is ready. # ⚓ Mesa_Could_Fork_Older_“Classic”_Display_Drivers_Out To_A_Separate_“Mesa_Classic-LTS”_Branch_– LinuxReviews⠀⇛ Dylan Baker, release-manager for the Mesa graphics stack used by all the GNU/Linux distributions, is proposing to rid the Mesa of older “classic” display drivers by moving them to a separate “classic-lts” branch. Users of integrated Intel graphics provided by chips prior to Broadwell would have to switch to the new “classic-lts” graphics library to keep their computers working if Mesa goes forward with Bakers proposal. [...] The story on the Intel side is a bit different. The modern Intel Iris graphics driver can only be used with Broadwell-series hardware or newer. The Intel Haswell was launched in 2013. The integrated graphics hardware on those chips can only be used with the “classic” i965 OpenGL driver. Many people still use Haswell, and even older chips, today. I have a family-member who uses one. That person does not use GNU/Linux, or free software in general, so that persons life would not be affected if Mesa removes support for Haswell-era hardware from the from the main branch. People who do use free software operating systems would have to either switch to the proposed new “classic-lts” Mesa branch or a proprietary operating system like Microsoft Windows. Switching to a “classic-lts” Mesa branch may not be that difficult for those who would need to do so – depending on what GNU/Linux distributions decide to do. The “GL Vendor- Neutral Dispatch library” (libglvnd) makes it possible to have several OpenGL libraries installed side-by-side. Distributions could simply ship both the modern Mesa branch and the classic-lts and none of the affected users would notice that their machine happens to be one using “classic-lts”. # ⚓ Proposal_Raised_For_Dropping_Mesa’s_Classic_OpenGL Drivers_From_Mainline_This_Year_–_Phoronix⠀⇛ It’s been proposed in the past but never acted upon yet but the idea of dropping/ retiring Mesa’s “classic” OpenGL drivers from the mainline code-base and letting them potentially live on in an “LTS” branch has once again been brought up. Mesa developer Dylan Baker has brought up the idea of removing the classic drivers from Mesa master following next quarter’s 21.1 release. The Mesa 21.1 branch would then be forked after Mesa 21.1 is EOL’ed to create a “classic-lts” branch. That classic-lts branch would disable the Gallium3D and Vulkan drivers to just focus on these classic drivers. That branch in turn would only see new build and critical bug fixes. Thanks to GLVND, these classic LTS drivers could be installed in parallel along with newer versions of Mesa. # ⚓ Alejandro_Piñeiro:_Improving_v3dv_pipeline_caching⠀⇛ After some investigation, we found that the game was calling ClearAttachment twice every frame. The implementation of those ClearAttachments was relying on a full job with a graphics pipeline. On v3dv by default any pipeline is created with a pipeline cache (provided by the user, or a default pipeline). On v3dv (and in general any Vulkan driver) the main cached data are the compiled shaders, so the main objective of the pipeline cache is avoiding full shader re- compilation on compatible pipelines that are used really often. Why was that time spent on linking shaders? The issue was that for each pipeline lookup on the pipeline cache we were doing two cache lookups. The first one against a cache with the shaders in NIR, that is the main intermediate representation for shaders in Mesa (more info about intermediate representation here). And then we used those shaders to fill up the key for a second cache lookup, that if succesful, will return the compiled shader on Broadcom (QPU) assembly format. The reason of this two-step lookup is that to compile a shader we call the common (for both OpenGL and Vulkan) Broadcom compiler, and we use some data structures that contain info that will affect the compilation (like if blending is enabled). When we implemented the pipeline cache support, for simplicity, we used the same data structures as part of the cache key. But as such keys were filled with info coming from the NIR shaders, those needed to be linked together on the case of the graphics pipelines. When we analyzed how to improve it, we realized that in order to identify the compiled shader, we don’t really need the NIR shaders, as the info derived from them are implicit to the SPIR-V shaders provided to create the pipeline. Those NIR shaders are only really needed to compile the shader. The improvement here was using a different data structure as part of the cache key, and replace the two-cache-lookup with a one- cache-lookup. We needed to do some additional changes, as there were parts of the code that assumed that the NIR shaders would be available, but now if possible we are skipping getting them. # ⚓ V3DV_Pipeline_Caching_Work_Leads_To_Greater_Raspberry Pi_Vulkan_Performance⠀⇛ Alejandro Piñeiro Iglesias of Igalia wrote a new blog post today outlining the V3DV work on pipeline caching to further enhance the performance. By going from a two-cache to one-cache lookup and other improvements, one of the V3DV test cases dropped from taking 11.4 seconds down to 0.8 seconds. (Meanwhile no pipeline caching yielded a 125 second run- time). With some games/software like the Unreal Engine 4 Shooter demo, it meant several FPS gains. # ⚓ Radeon_ROCm_4.1_Released_–_Still_Without_RDNA_GPU Support⠀⇛ ROCm 4.0 released back in December with “CDNA” GPU support while now ROCm 4.1 has been released as the newest quarterly feature release to this open-source Radeon compute stack focused primarily on HPC/data-center needs. ROCm 4.1 delivers on several new features but before anyone asks, no, there still is not any GFX10/RDNA GPU support for either the Radeon RX 5000 or RX 6000 series. The ROCm compute support remains focused on Vega GPUs and CDNA GPUs, the AMD Instinct MI100. There remains full-support-but-not-guaranteed coverage for Polaris and Hawaii GPUs. Those with the newer RDNA consumer GPUs wanting to use the Radeon Open eCosystem stack, you are left waiting still with ROCm 4.1. The ongoing delay in RDNA GPU support for ROCm appears to be due to AMD’s focus on getting everything up to par with the CDNA GPU support with forthcoming super-computer deployments and other big ticket HPC customers. o § Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ The_Older_v2_Tor_Onion_Domain_Name_Format_Is_Axed_In_The Latest_Tor_Alpha_Release⠀⇛ The Tor Onion Router has had support for location hidden services with a special .onion address for a really long time. Support for .onion services was initially introduced in 2005. Tor dropped the first .onion format shortly after it was introduced and replaced it with a v2 format that is still widely used today. A new and improved v3 format was introduced in January 2015. A few services use it, most don’t. Those who don’t will soon be forced to as support for the older v2 .onion format was removed with the release of Tor 0.4.6.1-alpha. o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾ # ⚓ Using_a_Linux_DAW_With_a_USB-Connected_MIDI_Keyboard⠀⇛ If you’re a musician and want to record and monitor using a Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) running in a Linux environment you’ve probably found that the USB connection from the DAW to your Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI) controller isn’t always straightforward. Well, here are solutions for three DAWs, organized from easiest to hardest. The most basic setups are covered for systems with just a computer and a MIDI controller. # ⚓ Linux_on_Oracle_Cloud_Infrastructure:_Managing_security_and access_to_your_cloud_made_easy_with_short_training_videos⠀⇛ In the last Training Tuesday blog, we introduced you to training videos on Linux on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. Today, we continue this series and present a set of free, short videos that demonstrate the security configurations needed to allow access to your Linux cloud instances. # ⚓ News_Hotfix:_Nitrux_1.3.7_/_How_to_create_a_chroot_in Nitrux⠀⇛ In the past days, an update was pushed accidentally to a package (nitrux-repository-settings version 0.7.21 and 0.7.22) to our repository that, when applied, could end up causing severe problems. We have already removed the affected versions from our repository. # ⚓ LFCA:_Learn_Basic_Networking_Commands_–_Part_4⠀⇛ At any given time when using your PC which is connected to a router, you will be part of a network. Whether you are in an office environment or simply working from home, your computer will be in a network. # ⚓ Linux_WC_command_with_examples_|_FOSS_Linux⠀⇛ Previously, we have written articles on various Linux commands like ls, ps, scp, history, and many more present on our website. Today, we will take a look at the WC command. WC stands for “Word Count.” And as the name implies, the wc command is used for counting purposes. It prints out the number of lines, word count, byte, and characters count present in the file passed to the command. # ⚓ How_to_Install_a_Desktop_Environment_(GUI)_on_an_Ubuntu 20.04_Server_–_ByteXD⠀⇛ In Linux, this GUI (Graphical User Interface) is referred to as a Desktop Environment. A desktop environment is a collection of components that make up the graphical user interface (GUI) – it’s made out of widgets, icons, toolbars, wallpapers, and more. I think of it as a theme, but going even further than that. A desktop environment changes the look and feel of your system much more than a theme. What’s more, you have quite few great options to choose from. Linux servers don’t come with a desktop environment installed by default, and in most cases it’s not needed. However there are cases when you do require a graphical user interface on your Linux server to get your work done. # ⚓ How_To_Install_Node.js_on_Debian_10_–_idroot⠀⇛ In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Node.js on Debian 10. For those of you who didn’t know, Node.js is a widely-used program that lets you use your JavaScript skills outside the confines of the browser. Using Node.js, you can build anything from a simple command-line tool to dynamic HTTP servers and APIs. And it’s open-sourced and constantly being updated by both enterprise and open-source developers. Npm is the default package manager for Node.js that helps developers to share and reuse their code. 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 through the step-by- step installation of Node.js on a Debian 10 (Buster). # ⚓ How_to_Download,_Install_&_Use_ExpressVPN_on_Linux⠀⇛ ExpressVPN is one of the rare VPNs to support various Linux distributions natively. So, let’s show you the steps you need to take to set-up and use ExpressVPN on your Linux computer. # ⚓ How_to_install_Baldi’s_Basics_on_a_Chromebook⠀⇛ Today we are looking at how to install Baldi’s Basics on a Chromebook. Please follow the video/ audio guide as a tutorial where we explain the process step by step and use the commands below. # ⚓ How_to_install_Skype_on_Linux_Mint_20.1⠀⇛ In this video, we are looking at how to install Skype on Linux Mint 20.1. # ⚓ Notes_on_keyboard_configuration_in_X_Windows:_Keyboard layout,_Modifier_Key_and_Compose_Key_|_Fitzcarraldo’s_Blog⠀⇛ Before I dive into X Windows, I need to mention Miguel Farah’s excellent and comprehensive Web pages on keyboard layouts and standards: http://www.farah.cl/Keyboardery/ There are umpteen articles, blog and forum posts available on the Web covering keyboard configuration for X Windows, but my notes below may be of help to someone. I briefly cover keyboard layout configuration (non-persistent) from the command line in a pseudo terminal in an X Windows session, and also how to make the configuration persist. I also cover how to configure a ‘Modifier Key‘ and a ‘Compose Key‘, two different things. # ⚓ Creating_A_Dmenu_Script_For_Web_Bookmarks_And_History⠀⇛ In recent weeks, I’ve spent a lot more time scripting than I typically do. I keep finding problems that I want to solve, and the best way to solve them is with some shell scripting and dmenu. # ⚓ How_to_hide_folders_and_show_hidden_files_in_Ubuntu⠀⇛ Ubuntu allows you easily to hide and show folders and files using the file manager. # ⚓ How_to_install_the_Evolution_RSS_reader_plugin_on_Linux⠀⇛ Ever wanted to catch up with your favorite RSS feeds in the Evolution email client? Thanks to the Evolution RSS reader plugin, you can! It adds RSS functionality that you can use to catch up on your favorite RSS feed items. Here’s how to set it up. # ⚓ Getting_Started_With_Dpkg_on_Debian-Based_Linux_Distros⠀⇛ The software that you run on your PC is what makes it truly personal. It tells a lot about what you work with, what you like to do, or your hobbies. This guide takes a look at how to manage software packages using the Debian Package Manager (dpkg) on Debian-based Linux distros like Ubuntu, Debian, Mint, and Kali, etc. Debian software packages have the .deb extension. Software management is one of the most common tasks that you will do on your personal computer or as a system administrator. # ⚓ How_to_Fix_“No_Route_to_Host”_Connection_Error_on_Linux_– Make_Tech_Easier⠀⇛ When you’re trying to connect to a service on Linux, “No route to host” is one of the last things you want to hear. It’s a broad message that means your computer can’t reach the target server, whether a local server daemon running on your system or a remote server that you can’t access for whatever reason. Here we show you how to fix the “no route to host” connection error in Linux. # ⚓ How_to_use_Gnome_System_Monitor_on_Linux⠀⇛ Gnome System Monitor is an excellent system management application for the Linux desktop. It’s simple and easy to use. For this reason, it’s one of the most popular system monitoring tools in the Linux community. Here’s how to use it on your system. # ⚓ How_to_install_Exodus_on_Kodi_on_Ubuntu⠀⇛ Kodi is an open-source, cross-platform media player and entertainment hub that lets you play streaming media such as podcasts, videos, music, documentaries, movies from the Internet, and local network storage. Exodus is one of the third-party add-ons users can add on Kodi. Exodus has a large collection of superior-quality movies and streaming media. # ⚓ Install_Vsftpd_with_SSL/TLS_on_Ubuntu_20.04⠀⇛ Vsftpd (i.e. very secure FTP daemon) is an FTP server software for Linux and other Unix-like systems. An FTP server software facilitates the transfer of files from a client computer to the server and vice versa. In this tutorial, you will learn how to install Vsftpd on Ubuntu 20.04 and enable secure file transfer (FTPS) via SSL/TLS. # ⚓ How_Install_and_Configure_a_Docker_Swarm_Cluster_on_CentOS 8⠀⇛ Docker is an open-source tool that can be used to create, deploy and run applications using a container. The container allows you to package up an application with all required dependencies and ship it out as a single package. Docker Swarm is a clustering tool used for managing the Docker host. It allows you to make a group of Docker hosts into a single logical virtual server. This way you can scale your application horizontally and increase the number of the container instance. Docker swarm offers very useful features including, container self-healing, load balancing, container scale up and scale down, service discovery, and rolling updates. In this post, we will show you how to set up a Docker Swarm cluster on CentOS 8. # ⚓ How_to_Connect_your_Android_phone_to_Zorin_OS_with_Zorin Connect_–_Real_Linux_User⠀⇛ In the relatively limited number of years that I have been enthusiastically and intensively working with Linux and kept a close eye on everything related to this platform, I saw some Linux distributions rapidly growing into more and more user-friendly platform that move towards operating system that in my opinion should undoubtedly appeal to regular non tech savvy users who just want to do regular stuff on their computer or be creative on their computer without going through technical hurdles. In the first years I mainly used Linux Mint, a beautiful Linux distribution for both beginners and advanced users. But as a blogger I want to support a broad target group of starting Linux users, so I also look at other Linux distributions that I think could be very suitable for beginning and non techy users. One of those distributions, which I now also use as my primary platform, is Zorin OS 15.3. Zorin OS is a beautiful and very accessible and friendly operating system and offers a lot of functionality directly out of the box, which in other distributions often has to be installed or adjusted afterwards. One of these functionalities is the connection between your Zorin OS computer and your Android phone, which is supported in an impressive way through Zorin Connect. In this blog I will explain How to Connect your Android phone to Zorin OS with Zorin Connect. o § Wine or Emulation⠀➾ # ⚓ Wine_5.0.4_Is_Released_With_67_Bug-Fixes⠀⇛ Wine 5.0.x is the “stable” branch of the Wine Is Not an Emulator API re-implementation that allows Windows software to be used on GNU/Linux operating systems. It is therefore nothing new in Wine 5.0.4, only bug-fixes for games and applications such as QIP Infium, Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six, Future Pinball, Stellaris, Dolphin EasyReader and many more. Ubuntu-users may rejoice. o § Games⠀➾ # ⚓ To_celebrate_one_year,_Half-Life:_Alyx_is_the_cheapest_it’s ever_been⠀⇛ For those who are lucky enough to have a VR kit, Valve’s Half-Life: Alyx has today hit one year old and so Valve are doing a small celebration. Despite it still not advertising Linux support on the store page, just a reminder that Valve did add a Linux version with Vulkan support back in May 2020. The community around the game has built up since Valve updated it post-released with Steam Workshop support, with over 800 mods now available for Alyx. Sifting through it, Valve teamed up with guest writer Craig Pearson to point out some of the top mods going. # ⚓ Cozy_narrative_driven_adventure_game_Forgotten_Fields releases_April_14⠀⇛ Frostwood Interactive today announce that their latest title, Forgotten Fields, will debut on Steam and GOG on April 14th. This follows their successful Kickstarter campaign that saw over £10,000 in funding and a demo release during the Steam Summer Festival in 2020, Forgotten Fields will take you on a journey back home prior to it being sold off to another family to rekindle memories for Sid, a struggling author with a creative block. [...] The developer, Frostwood Interactive, is made up of a single person – Armaan Sandhu. The studio was founded for the development of their first game, Rainswept, which released back in 2019 and that too supported Linux. # ⚓ Challenging_space_survival_adventure_Derelict_Void_is_out now⠀⇛ FTL mixed with a little colony management and a brutal difficulty, that seems like what you get with the space survival adventure game Derelict Void that’s out now. Manage a ship, its crew and scavenge for resources while you fight the ruthless and unforgiving nature of the game that sees you learn as you go and die often. Originally funded on Kickstarter, a campaign we seemed to entirely miss that didn’t actually say it was coming to Linux but here it is. o § Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾ # ⚓ Simon_Steinbeiß/Xfce:_Post_4.16_fatigue_and_what’s_next⠀⇛ After we successfully released Xfce 4.16 as an early Christmas gift to all users last year I personally fell into the typical “post release fatigue” (PRF). On the one hand I was exhausted, on the other hand that’s how far our plans had taken us so there were no clear next steps we had settled on (apart from taking a break and recharging :)). So what’s been going on since then… Xfce 4.16 maintenance First of all, we’ve done quite a few maintenance release of 4.16 to ensure it’s stability. We already provided lots of bugfix releases of 4.14 – some even very recently (Desktop, Appfinder) – but it looks like 4.16 may end up being (at least: among) the best maintained Xfce release so far. # ⚓ Xfce_4.18_Planning_Begins_With_An_Eye_On_Wayland Application_Support⠀⇛ Now that Xfce 4.16 has been out for a while after successfully hitting its one-year release cycle goal and some maintenance updates to Xfce 4.16 have been made, planning for Xfce 4.18 is beginning. Xfce developer Simon Steinbeiß laid out some of the recent 4.16 maintenance work and early stage work around Xfce 4.18. Additionally, Xfce developers have been working to enhance their developer documentation to make it easier to attract new developers. # § GNOME Desktop/GTK⠀➾ # ⚓ GNOME_3.38.5_Released_with_Support_for_Handling Monitor_Changes_During_Screencasts⠀⇛ Coming a month after the GNOME 3.38.4 point release, which probably most of you are already using on your Linux distros, the GNOME 3.38.5 update is here with more bug fixes and various improvements to make the GNOME 3.38 desktop environment series more stable, secure, and reliable. Among the changes included in this point release, there’s support for handling monitor changes during screencasts in Mutter, the ability to set the resolution for Epson scanners in Simple Scan, better support for Firefox Sync in Epiphany, and improved freezes when switching workspaces. # ⚓ Matthias_Clasen:_Input,_revisited⠀⇛ My last update talked about better visual feedback for Compose sequences in GTK’s input methods. I did not explicitly mention dead keys back then, but historically, X11 has treated dead keys and Compose sequences in exactly the same way. # ⚓ Bringing_FIDO2_device_support_to_sandboxes⠀⇛ Hardening user logins with 2FA is becoming must-feature of Web services; most of the services I use daily (such as GitLab instances) are already enabling it. Although it’s a bit cumbersome to enter secondary factor manually, using hardware tokens (such as FIDO2 authenticators) simplifies the process to a single tap, also making the entire authentication more secure based on public key cryptography. On the client side, major browsers provide built-in support for hardware tokens (at least CTAP1), though sandboxed applications cannot benefit from this without allowing direct access to the host hardware. To improve the situation, we had several discussions in forums last year and somehow reached a rough consensus: we need a proxy for those authenticator devices. # ⚓ Julita_Inca_Chiroque:_GNOME_Latam_2021⠀⇛ Today, we have “celebrated” a year of the lock-down in the UK. It is also been a year that I was not able to travel to anywhere to celebrate with the GNOME community all the advances that this organization has been done for years in pro-FLOSS. o § Distributions⠀➾ # § Arch Family⠀➾ # ⚓ Manjaro_Linux_21.0_“Ornara”_Released_with_Linux_5.10 LTS,_KDE_Plasma_5.21,_and_Pamac_10⠀⇛ Dubbed “Ornara,” Manjaro Linux 21.0 comes hot on the heels of Manjaro ARM 21.02 to give you fresh live and installable ISO images that ship with the long-term supported Linux 5.10 LTS kernel series for top-notch hardware support, the Pamac 10 package manager with a new software-mode, optimized database interaction, speed improvements, and improved support for building AUR packages. Manjaro Linux 21.0 is available in the usual editions with the Xfce, KDE Plasma, and GNOME desktop environments. While the Xfce and GNOME editions are shipping with the same Xfce 4.16 and GNOME 3.38 releases that were available in Manjaro Linux 20.2 “Nibia,” the KDE Plasma edition has been upgraded to the latest KDE Plasma 5.21 desktop environment series. # ⚓ Download_Manjaro_Linux_21_Ornara_with_GNOME,_Xfce, and_KDE_Plasma_now!⠀⇛ One of the most popular Linux-based desktop operating systems these days is the Arch- based Manjaro. Following a short testing period, version 21 of that distribution is now available for download. Code-named “Ornara,” Manjaro 21 uses the fairly new Linux kernel 5.10 LTS. Manjaro Linux 21 can be had with your choice of three desktop environments — GNOME 3.38, KDE Plasma 5.21, and Xfce 4.16. All three are great, but unfortunately, GNOME 40 has still not been finalized, so it is (obviously) not included here. If you do want to try an early version of the upcoming GNOME 40, you can download the recently released Fedora 34 Beta. “We are happy to publish our latest stable release 21.0 we named Ornara. Our last release Nibia was from January and a lot of things changed between those releases. For once, we dropped Gnome Initial Setup routine from our ISOs. It was nice to try out, but the feedback overall was not so great. Since we also have optional OEM ISOs for our manufacturers, we see no need to further investigate into GIS,” says The Manjaro Development Team. # ⚓ Manjaro_21.0_Released_With_Linux_5.10_Kernel,_GNOME 3.38_+_Xfce_4.16_+_KDE_Plasma_5.21⠀⇛ Manjaro 21.0 is out today as the newest feature release to this popular desktop Linux distribution built atop Arch Linux. Manjaro 21.0 is powered by the Linux 5.10 LTS kernel while continuing to keep Linux 5.4 LTS around for those wanting it on older hardware. Manjaro 21.0 is also making use of Pamac 10 graphical package manager, which released at the end of last year with performance improvements, optimized database interaction, systemd dynamic users, and other new features. # § IBM/Red Hat/Fedora⠀➾ # ⚓ Fedora_34_Beta_Released_With_PipeWire_In_Action, GNOME_40_Desktop⠀⇛ Fedora 34 Beta is out today as the march is on towards this latest installment of this Red Hat sponsored Linux distribution. It should come as no surprise with Fedora continuously living on the bleeding-edge of open-source innovations, but Fedora 34 is going to be another big and exciting release. Particularly on the Fedora Workstation front, Fedora 34 is bringing GNOME 40 to the desktop, Btrfs transparent file-system compression is enabled, PipeWire is by default in place of PulseAudio, there is a new i3 desktop spin, and many other Fedora 34 changes. Fedora 34 beta is out this morning while the official F34 release is expected before the end of April. # ⚓ Fedora_Linux_34_Beta_now_available⠀⇛ Today, the Fedora Project, a global community that works to help advance free and open source software, is pleased to announce the availability of Fedora Linux 34 Beta, the latest version of the Fedora Linux operating system. Fedora Linux 34 Beta continues the Fedora Project’s emphasis on delivering editions, each designed to address specific use cases for modern developers and IT teams. Fedora Linux 34 Beta sees a continued trajectory for a more coherent desktop interface for a better user experience with GNOME 40. We also continue to foster the development of emerging Fedora editions like Fedora CoreOS to better address the future of cloud-native, containerized infrastructure and development. Fedora Linux 34 Beta enables a coherent set of packaged application updates, streamlining new versions and enabling users to revert to previous versions. # ⚓ Fedora_Linux_34_beta_rolled_out⠀⇛ As Matthew Miller, Red Hat’s Fedora Project Leader, has explained, “Fedora integrates thousands of ‘upstream’ open-source projects into a unified distribution on a six-month release cadence, and every so often Red Hat takes that collection, forks it off, and produces RHEL.” That remains the same. So, what does the new Fedora bring us? Besides the desktop, which is often the first and sometimes the only thing users think of, Fedora also comes with different editions, each designed to address specific use cases for modern developers and IT teams. This includes Fedora CoreOS. This version addresses the needs of cloud-native, containerized developers. As for the desktop, this new version uses the new GNOME 40 desktop. Its enhancements include a better desktop arrangement for search, windows, workspaces, and applications. It also includes multi-monitor improvements. It also enables users to choose between workspaces on only their primary displays or workspaces on all displays. # ⚓ How_to_rebase_to_Fedora_Silverblue_34_Beta⠀⇛ Silverblue is an operating system for your desktop built on Fedora Linux. It’s excellent for daily use, development, and container- based workflows. It offers numerous advantages such as being able to roll back in case of any problems. If you want to update to F34 Beta on your Silverblue system, this article tells you how. It not only shows you what to do, but also how to revert back if anything unforeseen happens. # ⚓ Video:_Fedora_Council_Update:_Respins_SIG⠀⇛ I’ve been an active member of the Fedora Respin SIG for a while now… and here is a Fedora Council meeting where the Fedora Respin SIG is discussed. Enjoy. # ⚓ tmt_hints:_create_a_basic_test⠀⇛ For those who still haven’t heard: tmt is now fully-supported in Packit, Fedora Continuous Integration (CI) system, and the RHEL CI system. Now you can use the same concise and consistent config to enable tests across all of them, more easily open source tests, share test coverage across releases ,and run tests as early as possible. In the coming weeks we’ll be sharing short, bite-sized examples demonstrating tmt usage. With these, new users can get started quickly and existing users won’t miss various interesting and useful features hidden under the hood. # ⚓ Quick_tips_for_the_OpenShift_oc_client_|_Enable Sysadmin⠀⇛ If you’ve played around with Kubernetes, you are aware of the rapid evolution of the most widely used container orchestration platform. Red Hat OpenShift is an enterprise-ready application platform built on Kubernetes and ready for production environments. With OpenShift 4, Red Hat aims to provide new releases at a frequent cadence. To help keep on top of all of the new changes, and to help and sysadmins and DevOps people who have to deal with multiple versions of your Kubernetes platform at the same time, I wrote this article hoping to help you more easily overcome challenges you may face. # ⚓ Building_a_container_by_hand_using_namespaces:_The mount_namespace_|_Enable_Sysadmin⠀⇛ This article looks at the mount namespace and is the third in the Linux Namespace series. In the first article, I gave an introduction to the seven most commonly used namespaces, laying the groundwork for the hands-on work started in the user namespaces article. My goal is to build out some fundamental knowledge as to how the underpinnings of Linux containers work. If you’re interested in how Linux controls the resources on a system, check out the CGroup series, I wrote earlier. Hopefully, by the time you’re done with the namespaces hands-on work, I can tie CGroups and namespaces together in a meaningful way, completing the picture for you. For now, however, this article examines the mount namespace and how it can help you get closer to understanding the isolation that Linux containers brings to sysadmins and, by extension, platforms like OpenShift and Kubernetes. # ⚓ Using_Red_Hat’s_support_tool_at_the_command_line_to solve_real-world_problems⠀⇛ The support tool allows you to interact with the Red Hat knowledge base, support tickets, analyze log files, and even set site-wide configuration options, all from the command line! At first glance, that may not seem like a big deal, but consider these real world scenarios. You come across some issues getting Nginx to play nice with your Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) server. You remember that there was a Knowledge Base (KB) article about that very same topic. One problem though: Copy+Paste doesn’t work between your browser and the remote virtual machine (VM) console you are working on. No problem! Install the redhat- support-tool, login to your Access account, search for that KB article, and copy that long command and all its options within your terminal! Here’s another scenario. You’ve run into some issues with a kernel module. You’re stumped. You want to put your support subscription to good use and ask one of our amazing engineers to give you a fresh perspective. No problem! Create a ticket from the terminal of your affected system, run an SOS report, and attach some debug logs all to the same ticket without ever leaving the terminal! # ⚓ What’s_coming_for_Node.js_developers_at_NearForm event⠀⇛ Red Hat is sponsoring the very first NearForm Presents event on Mar. 31, hosted by IBM. This online event will feature four talks on interesting topics related to Node.js Core, along with exciting workshop options. # § Debian Family⠀➾ # ⚓ Antoine_Beaupré:_Major_email_crash_with_syncmaildir⠀⇛ TL:DR; lost half my mail (150,000 messages, ~6GB) last night. Cause uncertain, but possibly a combination of a dead CMOS battery, systemd OnCalendar=daily, a (locking?) bug in syncmaildir, and generally, a system too exotic and complicated. # ⚓ More_than_10.000_customized_ISO_image_created_by FAIme⠀⇛ The FAIme service was started in November 2017. After 3,5 years it created more than 10.000 customized installation and cloud images. And we still have enough CPU power and disk space for more users. # ⚓ New_Debian_Developers_and_Maintainers_(January_and February_2021)⠀⇛ The following contributors got their Debian Developer accounts in the last two months: Nicholas D. Steeves (sten) Nilesh Patra (nilesh) David Suárez Rodríguez (deiv) Pierre Gruet (pgt) The following contributors were added as Debian Maintainers in the last two months: Antonio Valentino Boian Nikolaev Bonev Filip Hroch Maarten L. Hekkelman Xialei Qin Xiang Gao Congratulations! # § Canonical/Ubuntu Family⠀➾ # ⚓ Best_Ubuntu_apps_of_2021⠀⇛ Use our collection of the best Ubuntu apps to transform your vanilla installation into a hot fudge sundae. An operating system stands or falls on the quality of its programs, and Linux distros are no exception. In fact, one of the major discussions during the development of a distro centers around the list of default apps. Linux distros are still primarily downloaded via online mirrors and stuffing them with apps will increase their size, making the downloads unfeasible for many people with bandwidth caps or slower connection speeds. And to many, the apps would just be useless bloat. # ⚓ What_is_cloud_native?⠀⇛ The term cloud native is widely used when thinking about computing and software development, encompassing a wide range of concepts that are regularly used in technology. # ⚓ Ubuntu_Figuring_Out_Whether_To_FSCK_Its_File-Systems At_Boot_–_Phoronix⠀⇛ They are a bit late in doing so, but Ubuntu developers are working to figure out if it makes sense to run FSCK “file-system check” at boot time. It turns out Ubuntu Server and other Ubuntu installations making use of their Curtin installation component haven’t enabled the functionality for FSCK at boot but now they are (re)visiting the matter. This bug report from 2018 points out that Ubuntu Server is setting “fs_passno” to 0 which means no FSCK at boot. This is a regression and change in behavior from prior Ubuntu Server installs to Ubuntu 18.04 and beyond where they introduced their new Curtin-based Subiquity installer where FSCK is not happening. That bug wasn’t touched since early 2019 but is now being re-visited by Ubuntu developers. # ⚓ Canonical:_Flutter_now_‘the_default_choice_for_future desktop_and_mobile_apps’⠀⇛ With an aim to expand the Linux app ecosystem, Ubuntu desktop engineering manager Ken VanDine has popped up in marketing material for Flutter to say that Google’s cross-platform framework is Canonical’s “default choice for future desktop and mobile apps”. Flutter is a framework using the Dart language that targets Android, iOS, Windows, Linux, macOS, and web applications – though the macOS and Linux versions are “considered beta quality”. Despite that limitation, Canonical declared last month that it would build new desktop installers in Flutter. Now the company has gone further, pointing developers to a statement by VanDine, who said that “Flutter is the default choice for future desktop and mobile apps created by Canonical” and that the Flutter SDK is available from the Snap Store, making it easy for developers to get started. # ⚓ How_does_Ubuntu_16.04_entering_Extended_Security Maintenance_(ESM)_affect_snap_publishers?_|_Ubuntu⠀⇛ At the end of April, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS will reach the end of its five years of mainstream support and enter the Extended Security Maintenance (ESM) phase. If you’re a snap developer, and you have built or based your snaps on Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial) packages and libraries, you may want to know how this milestone affects you. This blog post outlines the details of the change, the implications, and the future roadmap. [...] To be able to continue building using the ESM base for local and on-premise builds, snap publishers and developers will need to obtain UA tokens. These tokens are free for all community users, for up to three machines, and up to 50 machines for Ubuntu members. o § Devices/Embedded⠀➾ # ⚓ Raspberry_Pi_CM4_based_panel_PC_offers_IP67_protection⠀⇛ Win Enterprises’ Raspberry Pi CM4 based “IP67 Panel PC” provides a 7-inch 800 x 400 capacitive touchscreen with IP67 protected GbE, RS485, and 2x USB 3.0 ports plus WiFi/BT, 40-pin GPIO, and optional 4G. Embedded vendors almost universally boast about the Raspberry Pi foundations of their products. Not so Win Enterprises — the company has posted a product page for a 7-inch IP67 Panel PC that is clearly built around the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4. This is the first CM4-based industrial panel PC we have covered, but we see we missed two CM4-based Chipsee panel PCs from January, which we will get to soon. # ⚓ Raspberry_Pi_CM4_powers_7-inch_panel_PC_and_10.1-inch_AiO system⠀⇛ Chipsee’s RPi CM4-based “Industrial Pi” panel PC in embedded ($199) and finished panel ($219) versions with a 7-inch 1024 x 600 IPS and optional 4G. There is also a new 10.1-inch “All-In-One Pi” based on the CM4. When covering Win Enterprises’ Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4 based, 7-inch IP67 Panel PC yesterday we saw that another CM4-based panel PC was announced in January called the Industrial Pi. Since there has not been much media coverage of Chipsee’s announcement, we will cover it here along with an unpriced 10.1-inch All-In-One Pi desktop system announced in February. The AiO system runs on a 1.5GHz, quad -A72 Raspberry Pi CM4, but with a different mainboard (see farther below). # ⚓ Pockit_modular_Linux_computer_takes_hot_plugging_magnetic blocks⠀⇛ There have been attempts to create modular computers and smartphones to reduce electronics waste and improve user-serviceability over the years with initiatives and products like Google Project Ara, PinePhone and Fairphone3 smartphones, DevTerm mini computer, Olimex TERES-I laptop, and many more. Here’s another modular computer project that looks really cool. Pickit modular computer is comprised of an STM32+ESP32 based mainboard with a socket for an optional Raspberry Pi Compute Module 3. The board includes magnets and electrical contacts to snap and hot-plug modules/blocks while the computer is running. # § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾ # ⚓ Affordable_high-temperature_3D_printers_at_home_| Opensource.com⠀⇛ 3D printers have been around since the 1980s, but they didn’t gain popular attention until they became open source, thanks to the RepRap project. RepRap stands for self-replicating rapid prototyper; it’s a 3D printer that can largely print itself. The open source plans were released in 2004 and led to 3D printer costs dropping from hundreds of thousands of dollars to a few hundred dollars. These open source desktop tools have been limited to low-performance, low-temperature thermoplastics like ABS (e.g., Lego blocks). There are several high-temperature printers on the market, but their high costs (tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars) make them inaccessible to most people. They didn’t have a lot of competition until recently because they were locked up by a patent (US6722872B1), which expired on February 27, 2021. With this roadblock removed, we are about to see an explosion of high-temperature, low- cost, fused-filament 3D printers. # ⚓ Remind-Ino_is_an_alarm_clock_for_everything_–_Arduino Blog⠀⇛ Who says an alarm clock just has to beep, or annoy you in the mornings? Certainly not MakeUnited, who’s put together an Arduino Nano verbal reminder project over on Instructables. His device lets you program a whole bunch of alarms that each play a specific MP3 file. The REMIND-INO is styled to look like a vintage radio, as the maker’s target audience is his grandparents. That being said I’m not a grandparent, and this would be an ideal way to substitute my inability to keep track of what time it is… ever. # § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ OxygenOS_Open_Beta_4_based_on_Android_11_rolls_out_to the_OnePlus_7_and_7T_series⠀⇛ # ⚓ OnePlus_7T_&_7T_Pro_receiving_stable_OxygenOS_11_ (Android_11)_update⠀⇛ # ⚓ OnePlus_Finally_Rolls_Out_Android_11_for_the_OnePlus 7_and_7T⠀⇛ # ⚓ OnePlus_releases_OxygenOS_11_(Android_11)_stable update_for_the_OnePlus_7T_series_–_Gizmochina⠀⇛ # ⚓ Android_11_finally_arrives_on_the_OnePlus_7_and OnePlus_7T_series⠀⇛ # ⚓ OnePlus_7T_series_is_now_getting_the_stable_Android 11_update,_but_it’s_not_all_good_news_|_Android Central⠀⇛ # ⚓ Xiaomi_updates_some_devices_to_Android_11,_including the_Redmi_Note_9_and_Note_9_Pro_–_NotebookCheck.net News⠀⇛ # ⚓ OnePlus_7T_and_7T_Pro_OxygenOS_11_Update_Based_on Android_11_Start_Rolling_Out:_Here’s_the_Full Changelog⠀⇛ # ⚓ ASUS_starts_rolling_out_the_first_Android_11_beta_to ROG_Phone_3_testers⠀⇛ # ⚓ Nusantara_Project_brings_MIUI-less_Android_11_to_the Xiaomi_Mi_10T_and_Mi_10T_Pro_–_NotebookCheck.net_News⠀⇛ # ⚓ Trouble_in_paradise:_MIUI_12.1.2_(Android_11)_for_the Xiaomi_Mi_10T_Pro_is_plagued_by_multiple_bugs_– NotebookCheck.net_News⠀⇛ # ⚓ Nokia’s_first_phone_to_support_face_unlock_is_getting updated_to_Android_11_–_PhoneArena⠀⇛ # ⚓ OnePlus_9_Pro_review:_The_best_Android_phone_you_can get_|_Tom’s_Guide⠀⇛ # ⚓ Lenovo’s_upcoming_Android_tablet_could_be_a_flagship killer_–_PhoneArena⠀⇛ # ⚓ Beta_version_of_possible_Android_replacement_rumored to_be_upcoming_–_PhoneArena⠀⇛ # ⚓ How_to_make_your_Android_phone_feel_more_responsive by_reducing_animations_|_Android_Central⠀⇛ # ⚓ How_to_Combine_Photos_on_Android⠀⇛ # ⚓ Google_Maps_gets_‘Dark_Mode’_feature_for_Android, here’s_how_to_activate_it⠀⇛ # ⚓ LG_Android_phones_may_be_over_|_TechRadar⠀⇛ # ⚓ COD_Mobile’s_Annoying_Crashing_Issue_Reportedly_Fixed On_Android⠀⇛ o § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾ # ⚓ Conservancy’s_Executive_Director_to_Keynote_AI_Law_&_Ethics Conference⠀⇛ After more than a decade of fighting for the right to see the source code of the heart device implanted in her own body, Karen will speak to a conference of AI researchers and industry professionals to help them understand the problems that are often ignored. Too often, our focus on the problems of massive data collection and AI algorithms that analyze it simply ignores the basic fact that so few people can even review the codebases and training sets that create this dystopia. Drawing on her own experience of living with proprietary software in her own body, Karen will introduce these researchers and praticitioners about the concept of software freedom and why it must be paramount in their minds when utilizing AI as part of their software. # ⚓ OSI_Election_Update:_Trust_and_Transparency_in_the_2021 Board_Election⠀⇛ We are committed to nothing less than complete restoration of trust in OSI elections, and transparency as to precisely what went wrong with our initial 2021 Board Election. While our Board was initially confident we could re-run a successful election starting today, lots of people have raised quite reasonable doubts–and then some less reasonable fear, uncertainty, and doubt (FUD) seeped into the discourse. We’re changing plans accordingly. # § Web Browsers⠀➾ # § Mozilla⠀➾ # ⚓ Firefox_87_introduces_SmartBlock_for_Private Browsing⠀⇛ At Mozilla, we believe that privacy is a fundamental right and that everyone deserves to have their privacy protected while they browse the web. Since 2015, as part of the effort to provide a strong privacy option, Firefox has included the built-in Content Blocking feature that operates in Private Browsing windows and Strict Tracking Protection Mode. This feature automatically blocks third-party scripts, images, and other content from being loaded from cross-site tracking companies reported by Disconnect. By blocking these tracking components, Firefox Private Browsing windows prevent them from watching you as you browse. In building these extra-strong privacy protections in Private Browsing windows and Strict Mode, we have been confronted with a fundamental problem: introducing a policy that outright blocks trackers on the web inevitably risks blocking components that are essential for some websites to function properly. This can result in images not appearing, features not working, poor performance, or even the entire page not loading at all. # ⚓ In_March,_we_see_Firefox_87⠀⇛ Nearing the end of March now, and we have a new version of Firefox ready to deliver some interesting new features to your door. This month, we’ve got some rather nice DevTools additions in the form of prefers-color-scheme media query emulation and toggling :target pseudo-classes, some very useful additions to editable DOM elements: the beforeinput event and getTargetRanges() method, and some nice security, privacy, and macOS screenreader support updates. # ⚓ Firefox_87_and_Firefox_ESR_78.9⠀⇛ Firefox 87 has been released. This version introduces SmartBlock, “a new intelligent tracker blocking mechanism for Firefox Private Browsing and Strict Mode.” # ⚓ Mozilla_Accessibility:_VoiceOver_Support_for macOS_in_Firefox_87⠀⇛ Screen readers, an assistive technology that allows people to engage with computers through synthesized speech or a braille display, are available on all of the platforms where Firefox runs. However, until today we’ve had a gap in our support for this important technology. Firefox for Windows, Linux, Android, and iOS all work with the popular and included screen readers on those platforms, but macOS screen reader support has been absent. For over a year the Firefox accessibility team has worked to bring high quality VoiceOver support to Firefox on macOS. Last August we delivered a developer preview of Firefox working with VoiceOver and in December we expanded that preview to all Firefox consumers. With Firefox 87, we think it’s complete enough for everyday use. Firefox 87 supports all the most common VoiceOver features and with plenty of performance. Users should be able to easily navigate through web content and all of the browser’s primary interface without problems. # ⚓ Firefox_87_Released_with_Privacy_Tweaks,_Leaner Library_Menu⠀⇛ Firefox 87.0 is the latest stable release and includes a modest set of changes. The update is available for Windows, macOS, and Linux. Ubuntu users will receive the update automatically at some point in the next few days. So what’s new? Well, Mozilla promise fewer website breakages when you use Firefox’s Private Browsing mode or have the ‘strict’ Enhanced Tracking Protection enabled. This is thanks to something called SmartBlock which provides stand- in scripts to ensure that well-known websites load both properly and promptly. # ⚓ Firefox_87_Released_with_SmartBlock_to_Less Breakage_in_Private_Browsing⠀⇛ Mozilla Firefox 87.0 was released today with further efforts on improving user privacy. Firefox 87 introduced SmartBlock, a new intelligent tracker blocking mechanism for Private Browsing and Strict Tracking Protection Mode. By providing local stand-ins for blocked third-party tracking scripts, you’ll encounter less website breakage while fully protected from trackers. As today’s web is on the way to becoming https-only and browsers are taking steps to improve user privacy, the 87 browser release introduced new default HTTP Referrer policy instead of ‘no-referrer-when-downgrade’. # ⚓ Firefox_87_Released_With_Privacy_Improvements But_Backs_Out_AVIF⠀⇛ Mozilla Firefox 87.0 is out today as the newest release of this open-source, cross-platform web browser. Firefox 87 continues the ongoing trend of privacy and security improvements. Firefox 87 uses Mozilla’s new default HTTP Referrer policy, less website breakage when running in Privacy Browsing and Strict Enhanced Tracking Protection, and a variety of other improvements. Firefox 87.0 also comes with various accessibility improvements, full support for the macOS screen reader, and many bug fixes. Originally slated to be in Firefox 87 was AVIF image decoding support. # ⚓ About:Community:_Contributors_To_Firefox_87⠀⇛ With the release of Firefox 87 we are delighted introduce the contributors who’ve shipped their first code changes to Firefox in this release, all of whom were brand new volunteers! # ⚓ Welcome_SmartBlock:_Script_Surrogates_for_the masses!⠀⇛ Today Mozilla released Firefox 87, introducing SmartBlock, a new feature which “intelligently fixes up web pages that are broken by our tracking protections, without compromising user privacy [...] by providing local stand- ins for blocked third-party tracking scripts. These stand-in scripts behave just enough like the original ones to make sure that the website works properly. They allow broken sites relying on the original scripts to load with their functionality intact.” As long time NoScript users may recall, this is exactly the concept behind “Script Surrogates”, which I developed more than ten years ago as a NoScript “Classic” module. In facts, in its launch post Mozilla kindly wants “to acknowledge the NoScript and uBlock Origin teams for helping to pioneer this approach.”. It’s not the first time that concepts pioneered by NoScript percolate into mainstream browsers: from content blocking to XSS filters, I must admit it gets me emotional every time 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇:)⦈ # § FSF⠀➾ # ⚓ Richard_Stallman_returns_to_the_Free_Software Foundation⠀⇛ Richard Stallman, the founder and former president of the Free Software Foundation (FSF), has announced he is returning to the foundation as a board member. Stallman founded the FSF in 1985 and was the acting president until about 18 months ago when he resigned over comments he made regarding Jeffrey Epstein and his alleged victims. At the time, Stallman said he was resigning over “a series of misunderstandings and mischaracterizations.” The announcement was made in a talk at LibrePlanet this week. “I’m now on Free Software Foundation’s board of directors once again,” he said. “Some of you will be happy at this, and some might be disappointed, but who knows. In any case, that is how it is. And I am not planning to resign a second time.” # ⚓ OSI_Response_to_RMS’s_reappointment_to_the_Board_of the_Free_Software_Foundation⠀⇛ To fully realize the promise of open source, the Open Source Initiative (OSI) is committed to building an inclusive environment where a diverse community of contributors feel welcome. This is clearly not possible if we include those who have demonstrated a pattern of behavior that is incompatible with these goals. Richard M. Stallman recently announced that he will be returning to the board of directors of the Free Software Foundation (FSF), a statement that the FSF has not denied. We believe it is inappropriate for Stallman to hold any leadership position in the free and open source software community. If we do not speak out against this, our silence may be misinterpreted as support. # ⚓ Richard_Stallman_Announcing_His_Return_To_The_FSF’s Board_Of_Directors⠀⇛ Richard Stallman founded the FSF in 1985. He was the acting president until about 18 months ago when he resigned over comments he made regarding Jeffrey Epstein and his alleged victims. Richard Stallman has always been a divisive figure. On one hand, he’s been the biggest champion of free software for decades. On the other hand, his rather absolutist take on free software has helped to create a faction within the Linux and open source communities wherein it is looked down upon to use any software that isn’t free. Stallman announced the news during a live stream for the FSF project LibrePlanet. He also mentioned that the announcement was meant to be made with a more formal video, but that “it didn’t get finished.” # ⚓ Richard_Stallman_Is_Finally_Back_In_The_FSF⠀⇛ Back in 2019 Richard Stallman was removed from the FSF after some poorly thought out comments but in a recent announcement at LibrePlanet 2021 he has been reinstated to the Free Software Foundation board of directors. # ⚓ Free_software_advocates_seek_removal_of_Richard Stallman_and_entire_FSF_board [Ed: Microsoft booster having_a_second_go_trying_to_remove_RMS_and_destroy_the FSF. Showing who’s (at least partly) in charge of this.]⠀⇛ Open letter signed by hundreds: RMS “has no place” in free software community. # ⚓ Ian_Jackson:_Signing_the_open_letter_about_RMS [Ed: Same people who tried_to_CANCEL_Torvalds_also_try_to remove_RMS_now.]⠀⇛ # ⚓ Sean_Whitton:_rmsopenletter⠀⇛ I was shocked to learn today that Richard Stallman has been reinstated as a member of the board of the Free Software Foundation. I think this is plain inappropriate, but I cannot see how anyone who doesn’t think that could fail to see the reinstatement as counterproductive. # § Licensing/Legal⠀➾ # ⚓ Plan_9_Copyright_Transferred_To_Foundation,_MIT Licensed_Code_Released_–_Phoronix⠀⇛ Nokia Bell Labs announced today that the copyright to the Plan 9 operating system software has been transferred to the Plan 9 Foundation for all future development of this novel distributed operating system that originated in the 80′s. In addition to the Bell Labs Plan 9 software copyright being transferred to the Plan 9 Foundation, the code to Plan 9 Editions 1/2/3/4 are now released under an MIT license by the foundation. Previously the Plan 9 code released by Lucent Technologies was under the Lucent Public License or GPLv2. # § Programming/Development⠀➾ # ⚓ Understanding_Mach_Try⠀⇛ There is a lot of confusion around mach try. People frequently ask “How do I get task X in mach try fuzzy?” or “How can I avoid getting backed out?”. This post is not so much a tip, rather an explanation around how mach try works and its relationship to the CI system (taskgraph). Armed with this knowledge, I hope you’ll be able to use mach try a little more effectively. # ⚓ Qt_Desktop_Days_Returns!⠀⇛ KDAB is bringing you another Qt Desktop Days this May! So, if you missed the first one that was held last September, or if you would like to attend a second, please join us May 19th-20th. That’s a little less than two months away! Qt Desktop Days is primarily a technical event and we want our content to be as relevant and interesting as possible to our audience. The target audience is developers programming with Qt, building software for desktop systems. # ⚓ Using_Qt_datatypes_in_Standard_Library_unordered containers⠀⇛ In this post, we’ll continue our discussion regarding hashing functions, tackling a specific problem, namely, how to use a Qt datatype as a key of a Standard Library unordered associative container. The Standard Library unordered associative containers (std::unordered_map, std:: unordered_set, and so on), as well as other third party implementations (like the excellent robin-map), require, by default, a specialization of std::hash to be available for the key type we want to use. # ⚓ How_to_Beat_Coder’s_Block_–_Five_Tips_to_Help_You Stay_Productive⠀⇛ As programmers, we all share a certain number of universal experiences. One is an enduring hatred of semicolons, brackets, and parentheses (who hasn’t wasted hours looking for the one of these they misplaced or omitted?). And another is learning to use compile-time for a convenient break when we don’t feel like getting anything done (I won’t tell if you don’t). But the most universal programming experience of them all is what is now known as coder’s block. That’s when you end up unable to produce any usable code for no discernible reason. # ⚓ Generics_in_Go_Explained_with_Code_Examples⠀⇛ Generics were proposed a few years ago for Go, and they have finally been accepted into the language earlier this year. And they’re scheduled to be officially released at the end of this year. How will Generics really affect Go? Will it change how we code? To really answer these questions, we will need to take a look at how generics work. Conveniently, the devs have provided us with a web compiler where we can experiment with generics ourselves. # ⚓ Create_Pixel_Effects_with_JavaScript_and_HTML Canvas⠀⇛ You can use JavaScript to create some amazing pixel effects. We’ve just published a course that will teach you how to use JavaScript to create really cool effects with images and text. You will learn multiple different particle effects with vanilla JavaScript and HTML canvas. This course was developed by Frank Dvorak. Frank loves to demonstrate his creative coding experiments on his own YouTube channel, and now he is sharing some of his coolest experiments with the freeCodeCamp community. # ⚓ Live_previews_with_Rails_and_Stimulus_2⠀⇛ Who wouldn’t want a live preview for writing their great content? If you happen to be running Rails with Hotwire, it’s surprisingly easy with a small Stimulus controller. The core idea of our preview is that it’s rendered entirely on the backend. This is useful since we can reuse the logic both for presentation as well as actual changes. Whatever happens with the content can come from a single Ruby method. We’ll start with a small controller and a preview method: # ⚓ Twenty_Years_of_Geek_Girl-ing⠀⇛ I recently read a number of articles talking about what women in tech face daily. The one trending on medium currently was written by a developer with three years in the industry. Her experience is absolutely valid of course, but it only tells part of the picture. We’re missing the experience of the greybeards. In tech, the greybeards are the developers who came before you — the ones you go to for advice and wisdom. We’ve been around and have seen all sorts of things. We’re usually willing to share wisdom in exchange for coffee, chocolate, or whiskey. Yes, women can be greybeards too. Really. Doesn’t require actual facial hair. # ⚓ Static_energy:_Crystal_language_hits_v1.0_milestone, ARM_and_Windows_support_still_needs_polishing⠀⇛ The first major release of the Crystal programming language happened this week as the project hit version 1.0. The much anticipated language has been created with the aims of offering the speed of C/C++ but with a programmer-friendly syntax as readable and easy to understand as Ruby. Crystal has been under development for around a decade and is described as a general- purpose, object-oriented programming language. It is a compiled language with static type-checking and a syntax heavily influenced by the Ruby language. # ⚓ Made_in_Thailand_CorgiDude_RISC-V_AI_board_aims_to teach_machine_learning⠀⇛ There’s a relatively small but active maker community in Thailand, and we’ve covered or even reviewed some made in Thailand boards including ESP8266 and ESP32 boards, a 3G Raspberry Pi HAT, and KidBright education platform among others. MakerAsia has developed CorgiDude, a board based on the version of Sipeed M1 RISC-V AI module with built-in WiFi, and part as a kit with a camera and a display used to teach machine learning and artificial intelligence with MicroPython or C/C++ programming. # ⚓ How_to_Create_A_New_React.Js_Application⠀⇛ React is an open-source JavaScript library for creating web frontend and UI components. It is developed and maintained by the Facebook and a large community of developers. This is also useful for creating mobile applications. We will use yarn package manager to create a reactjs application and make production build. Pm2 to run and monitor react application. This tutorial will help you to create a new React.js Application on a developer system. Also help you to run reactjs application and make a production build. # ⚓ How_to_Add_Video_Calling_to_a_React_Native_App⠀⇛ Video calling has become an essential day to day activity during the COVID-19 pandemic. By using features such as chat apps, audio calling, and video calling, we have been able to stay connected with our friends and family. # ⚓ Eclipse_Foundation_Launches_Adoptium_Working_Group_| TFiR:_Interviews,_News_&_Analysis_by_Swapnil_Bhartiya⠀⇛ The Eclipse Foundation has announced the formal establishment of the Adoptium Working Group in collaboration with the AdoptOpenJDK Technical Steering Committee. With this announcement, the Eclipse Foundation is bringing its vendor-neutral governance framework in support of the Eclipse Adoptium top-level project, which is based on the work previously done under the AdoptOpenJDK organization. # ⚓ Red_Hat_joins_the_Eclipse_Adoptium_Working_Group⠀⇛ Red Hat is proud to be a founding strategic member of the Adoptium Working Group as AdoptOpenJDK transitions to its new home at the Eclipse Foundation. It started as a simple mission. In 2017 the AdoptOpenJDK project began delivering high- quality, open source Java binaries based on OpenJDK technology. After several years and impressive success, AdoptOpenJDK is joining the Eclipse Foundation as Eclipse Adoptium, and Red Hat is proud to be part of this effort. # ⚓ Stephen_Michael_Kellat:_Taking_Stock_In_Late_March 2021⠀⇛ Apparently there are people talking about self-hosting their git repositories. There are multiple variations on this as seen elsewhere. There remains the option of using Gitea as well. No, I am not thinking of abandoning my git repos on Launchpad at this time. # § Perl/Raku⠀➾ # ⚓ Subject_Verb_Object_notation;_declarative_Perl without_the_framework⠀⇛ If you’ve read Curtis “Ovid” Poe’s articles on the declarative framework for Tau Station Link and Link, you are undoubtedly aware of many of the benefits this style of programming can bring. It decouples the “what” from the “how”, encourages discrete functions and prevents the OO trap of “god objects”. The result is software that is easy to test, robust and very flexible. Inserting steps, reording steps etc… are done much easier and more clearly than trying to figure this out in 300 lines of imperative code with four to six level deep if-else chains with for loops mixed in for good fun. However, the framework is tightly coupled to the game in spots and has a few other issues that make it not ready for general use. # § Python⠀➾ # ⚓ Python_String_Manipulation_Handbook⠀⇛ String manipulation is one of those activities in programming that we, as programmers, do all the time. In many programming languages, you have to do a lot of the heavy lifting by yourself. In Python, on the other hand, you have several built-in functions in the standard library to help you manipulate strings in many different ways. In this article I will show you how to work with strings specifically along with some nice tricks. # ⚓ Web_Scraping_in_Python_–_How_to_Scrape_an eCommerce_Website_Using_Beautiful_Soup_and Pandas⠀⇛ In this post we are going to scrape an ecommerce website. We’ll get into each individual product page and retrieve our information from there. This is the website we are going to scrape – it’s an online shop that sells whisky. Do remember to check out the robots.txt file before scraping any website. You have to keep in mind that you can unnecessarily bring a website down and can harm their services. So, please do not flood their servers with scraping requests. You can learn more about effective web scraping techniques here before starting to scrape any website. # ⚓ Django_vs._SQLAlchemy_Comparison⠀⇛ As more and more technology is developed and improved over time, the number of users accessing the internet grows even more, and as a result of that, the amount of data that businesses and organizations have to deal with is growing exponentially. For a company to be successful, it needs to have tools and infrastructure that can deal with these large sets of data easily. This is exactly where the database comes into the picture which is mainly designed for the storage and collection of data. Moreover, its organized form allows users to easily manage and access the dataset. Database themselves require a management system that allows them to store and provide access to the data. Mostly, the language SQL is used to perform operations in a database, however, as your application grows and becomes more complex, it becomes extremely difficult to have an idea as to what exactly each operation is doing. An alternative to this that was developed was the ORM (Object Relational Mapping) frameworks that actually create a bridge in connecting the database and the programming language that you prefer using in creating your application. With Python being one of the most popular programming languages this year, we shall, therefore, take a look at and compare the pros and cons of two of its most popular and widely used ORMs, Django and SQLAlchemy, in this article. # § Shell/Bash/Zsh/Ksh⠀➾ # ⚓ Forecast_–_A_simple_Bash_script_for_the_weather service_Yr.no⠀⇛ Some time ago, my rather old (zsh!) script for checking the current weather from the weather service Yr.no broke, after some looking around I found a new alternative called Forecast. The script is written in Bash, and it’s pretty straightforward. It requires bash, curl and xsltproc. # ⚓ How_to_Use_until_Loop_in_Your_Shell_Scripts⠀⇛ In bash for, while, and until are three loop constructs. While each loop differs syntactically and functionally their purpose is to iterate over a block of code when a certain expression is evaluated. Until loop is used to execute a block of code until the expression is evaluated to be false. This is exactly the opposite of a while loop. While loop runs the code block while the expression is true and until loop does the opposite. [...] You can use a break and continue statements inside while loop. The break statement will exit out of the loop and will pass the control to the next statement while the continue statement will skip the current iteration and start the next iteration in the loop. I am using the same infinite loop example. Here when the count is equal to five continue statement will jump over to the next iteration skipping the rest of the loop body. Similarly, the loop breaks when the count is equal to or greater than 10. # § Rust⠀➾ # ⚓ 1.51.0_pre-release_testing⠀⇛ The 1.51.0 pre-release is ready for testing. The release is scheduled for this Thursday, March 25th. Release notes can be found here. # ⚓ Niko_Matsakis:_Async_Vision_Doc_Writing Sessions⠀⇛ # § Java/JavaScript⠀➾ # ⚓ String_to_Char_Array_Java_Tutorial⠀⇛ In this article, we’ll look at how to convert a string to an array of characters in Java. I’ll also briefly explain to you what strings, characters, and arrays are. # ⚓ How_to_Use_Supercharged_Sorts_in_JavaScript⠀⇛ And the answer is, of course, sure. Absolutely. The way Array.filter() works in JavaScript, it’s chainable. That means, when the first .filter() function returns, it can be fed straight into a second .filter(), and to as many filters as you like. But if we want to sort by more than one property, that seems a little trickier. After all, if we sort by one property, then sort by a second, we’ve lost the first. How about if we use something like .reduce() instead? We could use that to reduce the array to an object whose properties are the first sort values, then set each of those properties to an array of items containing those values, and sort them! # ⚓ 3_new_Java_tools_to_try_in_2021_| Opensource.com⠀⇛ Despite the popularity of Python, Go, and Node.js for implementing artificial intelligence and machine learning applications and serverless functions on Kubernetes, Java technologies still play a key role in developing enterprise applications. According to Developer Economics, in Q3 2020, there were 8 million enterprise Java developers worldwide. Although the programming language has been around for more than 25 years, there are always new trends, tools, and frameworks in the Java world that can empower your applications and your career. The vast majority of Java frameworks are designed for long-running processes with dynamic behaviors for running mutable application servers such as physical servers and virtual machines. Things have changed since Kubernetes containers were unleashed in 2014. The biggest issue with using Java applications on Kubernetes is with optimizing application performance by decreasing memory footprints, speeding start and response times, and reducing file sizes. * § Leftovers⠀➾ o § Integrity/Availability⠀➾ # § Proprietary⠀➾ # § Pseudo-Open Source⠀➾ # § Openwashing⠀➾ # ⚓ Google’s_Fuchsia_Could_Be_Near_1st Developer_Release⠀⇛ This could be the time Android fans have been anxiously awaiting. They could be nearing the day when they get to dump Android for its replacement. Google’s Fuchsia, Android’s expected replacement, could be nearing its first developer release. [...] 9to5Google confidently believes that Google’s Fuchsia is nearing a release and that there will be regularly-timed releases after that. What the site is unsure of is what those first releases will look like. Because they will only be developer releases, they won’t be the finished product and could be bare bones. # § Privatisation/Privateering⠀➾ # § Linux Foundation⠀➾ # ⚓ The_Linux_Foundation_and_the_TODO Group_Announce_Call_for_Proposals_for OSPOCon_and_the_OSPO_Landscape⠀⇛ # ⚓ The_Linux_Foundation_and_the_TODO Group_Announce_Call_for_Proposals_for OSPOCon_and_the_OSPO_Landscape⠀⇛ The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization enabling mass innovation through open source, along with co-host the TODO Group, an open group of organizations who collaborate on practices, tools and other ways to run successful and effective open source programs and projects, has opened its Call for Proposals for OSPOCon. The event will take place September 29 – October 1 in Dublin, Ireland, alongside Open Source Summit + Embedded Linux Conference 2021. The TODO Group has also launched an OSPO Landscape as a resource for the community to learn more about OSPOs. The community is encouraged to contribute to the landscape. # § Entrapment (Microsoft GitHub)⠀➾ # ⚓ Daniel_Stenberg:_Github_steel [Ed: Microsoft is sending a gift to Curl... which keeps outsourcing the project to a proprietary software prison of Microsoft]⠀⇛ I honestly don’t know what particular thing I did to get this, but GitHub gave me a 3D- printed steel version of my 2020 GitHub contribution “matrix”. # § Security⠀➾ # ⚓ Security_updates_for_Tuesday⠀⇛ Security updates have been issued by Debian (dnsmasq, libmediainfo, and mariadb-10.1), Fedora (dotnet5.0, moodle, and radare2), Mageia (kernel and kernel-linus), Oracle (python27: 2.7, python36:3.6, and python38:3.8), Red Hat (pki-core:10.6), and Ubuntu (privoxy). # ⚓ Raising_Security_Awareness_in_Your Organization⠀⇛ One of the biggest challenges security professionals face is making security simple for their organization’s workforce, the report states. “Having a strong technical or security background can be beneficial because it provides familiarity with the common technologies and behaviors” related to potential risks. However, the report states, “being ‘too technical’ can mean that individuals lack the skills to effectively communicate those risks or meaningfully engage employees.” To address this potential communication gap, the report recommends working with others to craft messaging that is easily understood. # ⚓ WebAssembly_Security,_Now_and_in_the_Future⠀⇛ WebAssembly is, as we explained recently, a binary format for software written in any language, designed to eventually run on any platform without changes. The first application of WebAssembly is inside web browsers, to make websites faster and more interactive. Plans to push WebAssembly beyond the Web, from servers of all sorts to the Internet of Things (IoT), create as many opportunities as security issues. This post is an introductory overview of those issues and of the WebAssembly security model. [...] WebAssembly code runs closed into a sandbox managed by the VM, not by the operating system. This gives it no visibility of the host computer, or ways to interact directly with it. Access to system resources, be they files, hardware or internet connections, can only happen through the WebAssembly System Interface (WASI) provided by that VM. The WASI is different from most other application programming interfaces, with unique security characteristics that are truly driving the adoption of WASM on servers/edge computing scenarios, and will be the topic of the next post. Here, it is enough to say that its security implications greatly vary, when moving from the web to other environments. Modern web browsers are terribly complex pieces of software, but lay on decades of experience, and of daily tests from billions of people. Compared to browsers, servers or IoT devices are almost uncharted lands. The VMs for those platforms will require extensions of WASI and thus, in turn, surely introduce new security challenges. # § Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt/Fear-mongering/ Dramatisation⠀➾ # ⚓ [Older]_Three_rather_nasty_bugs_lurk_in the_Linux_kernel⠀⇛ Three recently unearthed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel, located in the iSCSI module used for accessing shared data storage facilities, could allow root privileges to anyone with a user account. [...] According to SC Media, if an attacker already had the execution on a box, either because you have a user account on the machine, or you’ve compromised some service that doesn’t have repaired permissions, you can do whatever you want. The vulnerabilities were spotted at the mythically themed GRIMM software security outfit by Adam Nichols. He said that while the vulnerabilities “are in code that is not remotely accessible, so this isn’t like a remote exploit”. o § Defence/Aggression⠀➾ # ⚓ That_time_that_Facebook_made_Turkey_happy⠀⇛ In early 2018, Turkey launched a military offensive against Kurdish minorities in the Afrin District of northern Syria, arresting hundreds of its own residents for criticizing the operation. To minimize dissent, the Turkish government also asked Facebook to block posts from the People’s Protection Units. This is a mostly Kurdish militia group, known as the YPG, that among other things published on its Facebook page graphic images, including photos of mortally wounded fighters, writing in one post “this is the way NATO ally Turkey secures its borders”… [...] Easy: keep the platform operational, to protect profits, before human rights: “Cutting off revenue from Turkey could harm Facebook financially, regulatory filings suggest.” Just like Twitter, banning Trump only when the block would benefit, not hurt the BOTTOM LINE. o § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾ # ⚓ Watch_out!_A_splintered_view_of_reality_is_coming⠀⇛ Can you imagine a world like that? It’s really hard, isn’t it? I mean, “very splintered worldviews of reality” is not what we have today. Today we do not have social media platforms liek that, right? Platforms that carefully filter, for their exclusive profit, what every single user sees, for the only purposes of keeping her addicted, to control what she buys or votes. Nothing like that so far, on this planet, right? o § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾ # ⚓ Daniel_Pocock:_Where_does_violence_against_women originate?⠀⇛ Many people were both shocked and surprised by the intensity of police aggression at a recent vigil for murdered London woman Sarah Everard. When I saw the disturbing photo of Patsy Stevenson being pinned to the ground by male police officers, only days after one of their colleagues had been arrested for Everard’s murder, the first thing that came to mind were scenes I had witnessed and photographed myself half way around the world in Australia. It is important to think about it from the viewpoint of the police. This is not what they sign up for. They are acting on orders that come from the highest level of Government. The set of photos published below come from an event in 1998. Smart phones didn’t exist back then and digital cameras had only begun to appear. Very few students carried any form of camera and police could act with impunity. By chance, I lived across the road and I was shooting on a traditional SLR with film in it. The former Premier is well known for his military service. From time to time, an officer needs to show the troops and the enemy who is really in charge, as Lieutenant General Morrison did in this viral video. o § Monopolies⠀➾ # § Patents⠀➾ # § Software Patents⠀➾ # ⚓ Appellants_Raise_Due_Process_Issues_in_New Vision_Gaming_and_Development_v._SG_Gaming [Ed: Patent maximalists that now pay blogs for propaganda (Patently-O for example) carry on promoting fake patents by seeking to abolish boards that review and invalidate these]⠀⇛ Ever since institution of the post- grant review proceedings enacted under the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act were implemented by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (through the newly constituted Patent Trial and Appeal Board), parties (particularly patentees who lost patent rights thereby) have challenged the outcome on procedural, substantive, and constitutional grounds (see “Cuozzo Speed Technologies LLC v. Lee”; “SAS Institute Inc. v. Iancu; Return Mail, Inc. v. United States Postal Service”; “Thryv, Inc. v. Click- to-Call Technologies, LP “). The most recent (and legally creative) challenge is pending before the Supreme Court (see “U.S. Government Petitions for Certiorari in Arthrex Case”; “Arthrex Files Certiorari Petition in Arthrex Case”), wherein patentee Appellants (and respondents before the Court) argued an Appointments Clause violation because Administrative Patent Judges on the PTAB are principal officers not properly installed with Senate approval. # ⚓ $2,500_for_prior_art_on_mCom_IP⠀⇛ On March 23, 2021, Unified Patents added a new PATROLL contest, with a $3,000 cash prize, seeking prior art on at least claim 1 of U.S. Patent 8,862,508. The ‘508 patent is currently owned by mCom IP, LLC, a Texas entity associated with patent monetization firm Dynamic IP Deals, LLC (d/b/ a DynaIP). The ’508 patent generally relates to a system and method for delivering a retail banking multi-channel solution that unifies interactive electronic banking touch points to provide personalized financial services to customers and a common point of control for financial institutions is provided. It is currently being asserted against major US banks in the Western District of Texas, including PNC, US Bank, BBVA USA Bancshares, DH Corporation, CSI, Inc.. # § Copyrights⠀➾ # ⚓ Book_review:_The_Cambridge_Handbook_of_Copyright Limitations_and_Exceptions⠀⇛ This edited collection provides a stellar list of contributors, many of whom have been included in this Kats recent book review saga, such as Aplin and Bently, Emily Hudson and other leading authors, making this handbook the first to bring together comparative reflection of copyright limitations and exceptions. The book is presented in 22 chapters, organised into 5 parts, which reflect the 5 principle themes presented by the volume. This is something that immediately sets this handbook apart from many others that this Kat has had the pleasure of reading – whilst it is a handbook covering a range of ideas, there is clear narrative that makes you want to read it cover to cover, rather than what we more commonly do with handbooks, which is to take a more a la carte approach to chapters of interest. [...] This part consists of 4 chapters that explore the role of international law in facilitating the global development of limitations and exceptions. The section begins with a chapter by Tanya Aplin and Lionel Bently, summising their arguments set out in their book, recently reviewed, Global Mandatory Fair Use, which focuses on Article 10(1) of the Berne Convention. Chapter 4, by Reto M. Hilty and Valentina Moscon describes the International Instrument for Permitted Uses developed by the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition. The destiny of this Instrument remains open, but the aspiration of the project is to influence international and national legislation. In chapter 5 Martin Senftleben analyses the Marrakesh Treaty and in chapter 6 considers international provisions made for limitations and exceptions under international agreements. [...] This final part, consists of only one chapter, which is a shame as such an interesting topic could have benefited from further perspectives. Nevertheless, David Nimmer takes on the Part and the Chapter by looking at security measures and the future of US fair use. Nimmer argues that the fourth fair use factor that courts consider, namely; “the effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted works”, premises copyright liability on predicting the future, which is further complicated by the development of technology. ╘══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╛ ¶ Lines in total: 8751 ➮ Generation completed at 02:41, i.e. 56 seconds to (re)generate ⟲