𝕿𝖊𝖈𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍𝖙𝖘 Bulletin for Tuesday, June 22, 2021 ┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅ Generated Wed 23 Jun 02:40:42 BST 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/2021/06/22/ ╒═══════════════════ 𝐑𝐄𝐂𝐄𝐍𝐓 𝐁𝐔𝐋𝐋𝐄𝐓𝐈𝐍𝐒 ════════════════════════════════════╕ Previous bulletins in IPFS (past 21 days, in chronological order): QmZ6Zf5nQRZVzYYm4jzgCrbdKxok91htjwKD44EuFT47hn Qmdp1J2cA6jPEX5t7cXe6PXCm6aj4n6m3ck2JEdoi75xs4 Qmb217FYPqyf5YeENZfJEneBy7C32dfcpBu4B2XYDVJx3B QmUJcn8AWpxosDPn74zfzdk9fmm2NfAiGE5A2FKhfEe7sN QmTLpCFhnZNUGtUUaydcHLKw8X8UtM9SVzGkdtC96nawfE QmSAQ3gHueMDVJvK7fqcUVfyPEJTatiEuv2MxnruZfCTbQ QmfV5LDX5WsaqFg9Nyo26N9JWemXAuUFwHXN6HQ3FLiNht Qmarn4LZt4SFbSrQ7aYMgXjrR6PSFowthNW7AL2sxHTbh2 QmcDA7FbLzad36FKCSkeVFEjFXPwpcrt1a9h9kg77mG1fr QmajwF31nmyxxm7e5imo4QUnrAmMGNU9jkY4beybcxWevv QmXeVCbTbi5P1GkGm1gYJnWmeN4nbuehzDpz7Egwwm6Zy1 QmVUBLf9g24CeTFZPr1KCBQh3mA5e5VvjUSi5aU6aj3q9y QmSQCUVKmy81pXTXH7aKYGdbdqZaC9MBduQNu8giufhpGC QmWUuHEZ2oaiCQvka8SLGahoMnqWoQAYEYcBWvmbUrf6Us QmTereeSs2vayhRxEgEKA8eGzkZmqyGmds18oLNaRM5Z9N QmbBtrgn5vZv4zAnCwEsSEbNfqZyMc1GXjrxGtjFJubZo6 QmSqJtaqrrXbzBF4sG3nBzauArR36q6YbF5P7htcHd5cDB QmWCc6UN8rXnBKmcnhPY7waCCSXzfsG1AbhZikKfdp3ymB QmQYQoMFrDMTXEe4NcPiv7amMCQS2ho3c6EaMHAU4SfMUe QmacoxEMNBvXGjkyn4JfrL8LyXBMaArcxAJPBaNoTymtHV QmW6B9kehxSBryvAexunPR3eXN8dZc1CHxSebKiiSDXTRh ╒═══════════════════ 𝐈𝐍𝐃𝐄𝐗 ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⦿ Neil’s Misgovernment | Techrights ⦿ IRC Proceedings: Monday, June 21, 2021 | Techrights ⦿ “Linux Foundation Partners With Microsoft” Again | Techrights ䷼ Bulletin articles (as HTML) to comment on (requires login): http://techrights.org/2021/06/22/governance-of-governments/#comments http://techrights.org/2021/06/22/irc-log-210621/#comments http://techrights.org/2021/06/22/lf-partners-with-microsoft/#comments ䷞ Followed by Daily Links (assorted news picks curated and categorised): http://techrights.org/2021/06/22/kde-plasma-5-22-2/#comments http://techrights.org/2021/06/22/nvidia-dlss/#comments ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 54 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at http://techrights.org/2021/06/22/governance-of-governments/#comments Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2021/06/22/governance-of-governments/ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 06.22.21⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ ✐ Neil’s_Misgovernment⠀✐ Posted in Free/Libre_Software, FSF, GNOME, GNU/Linux at 5:34 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz Video_download_link http://techrights.org/videos/remove-rms-in-collapse.webm Summary: The GNOME Foundation has one member of staff fewer; the_attack_on_the founder/father_of_Free/libre_software_activism and GNU (the “G” in GNOME) failed and backfired spectacularly A governance of governments And government-connected corporations Influence through Gulag of Work (GSoC) Reprehensible manifestations 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇GNOME Foundation⦈ IBM buying GUADEC Through_Red_Hat_staff, what the heck Software patents in_check As long as they write the cheque It’s about the money Freedom doesn’t buy honey A coalition that just ain’t funny Its deterioration makes today more sunny Karma and blowback still work Unlike Watson and her Sherlock █ “I’d like to see Gnome applications written in .NET in version 4.0 – no, version 3.0. But Gnome 4.0 should be based on .NET.” –“Gnome_to_be_based_on_.NET_–_de_Icaza” (Miguel_de_Icaza, now at Microsoft along with his successor Stormy Peters) “We could refresh the look and feel of the entire desktop with Moonlight” –Miguel de Icaza ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⢠⠸⠀⠾⠃⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣀⣀⡀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠈⣴⣶⣿⠆⠀⢰⠚⠑⠀⣶⡀⢰⢠⡖⠑⡆⢰⣆⢀⣶⠀⣶⠒⠀⠀⠀⠀⠰⠀⠀⢀⢀⠀⠀⠀⡀⢀⢀⠀⢀⠀⡇⠀⢀⠀⡄⢀⠀⠀⢀⠀⣀⢀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⢿⣏⢡⡄⠀⠸⣄⣉⡇⡇⠙⢾⠘⣆⣀⠏⢸⠘⡾⢸⡄⣿⣉⡀⠀⠀⠀⢸⠉⠁⢀⠀⡀⢀⠀⡇⠀⠀⡇⢂⠀⡇⡄⢒⠀⡃⢸⠀⡀⢀⠀⠇⠰⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠉⠉⠁⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠈⠉⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ 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Foundation Summary: Jim "Open_Source_Loves_Microsoft" Zemlin shows (or rears) his face again, and as usual it’s just more promotion of marketing rubbish and openwashing of Microsoft (several new partnerships with Microsoft announced just hours ago) THE Linux_Foundation is going to find itself in the same situation Freenode is in. It’s alienating all the people who actually use GNU/Linux (not counting some large corporations, which don’t actually care about GNU/Linux but just use it somewhere in the background). “Zemlin is just selling (or vendoring off) an illusion of trust (in NSA enablers) and killing off the Linux brand.”A few hours ago the so-called ‘Linux’ Foundation issued a bunch of press releases. The first we saw was an article from ZDNet, a media partner of Zemlin and his cohorts. It’s openwashing Microsoft, as usual, and it’s based on the press release [1, 2] albeit spun as shameless Microsoft promotion. emlin is just selling (or vendoring off) an illusion of trust (in NSA_enablers) and killing off the Linux brand. The headline was “Linux Foundation partners with Microsoft and Target to create standards for voice technology” about an hour ago. It later became “Linux Foundation creates standards for voice technology with major partners” and it still focuses on Microsoft (very superficial coverage with quotes thrown in like a marketing department): “The Linux Foundation is teaming up with companies like Target, Microsoft and Veritone to create the Open Voice Network, an initiative designed to “prioritize trust and standards” in voice-focused technology. “Jon Stine, executive director of the Open Voice Network, told ZDNet that the rapid growth of both the availability and adoption of voice assistance worldwide — and the future potential of voice as an interface and data source in an artificial intelligence-driven world — makes it important for certain standards to be communally developed.” And on it goes. Another new_press_release announced a belated replacement to the CMO, who had come from NSA circles and Edelman, then left within a few years. Those who know a thing or two about both will recognise the Microsoft connection. The new hire comes from a Microsoft partner, Sonatype. To quote: “Prior to Sonatype, Weeks held global marketing leadership positions for software portfolios in private and public companies, including: Global 360 (acquired by OpenText), Systar (acquired by Axway), Hyperformix (acquired by CA, Inc.), and Hewlett-Packard in the US and Germany. “Weeks has received wide recognition for his achievements in the industry where he has been named to the DevOps 100 by TechBeacon, distinguished as the DevOps Evangelist of the Year by DevOps.com, and received the Industry Executive of the Year from Advanced Technology Academic Research Center (ATARC). Weeks, who spent his adolescent years growing up and working in Silicon Valley, holds a degree from San Jose State University in International Business.” The so-called ‘Linux’ Foundation is little more than a marketing apparatus and we know whose. Moments ago it helped_promote_SPAMnil_Bhartiya’s_video (he typically cannot even reach 100 views) in Linux.com and it tried_shoring_up_its training_business_with_a_paid-for_press_release. Notice how this doesn’t do anything to actually help GNU/Linux. In fact, it’s not about “Linux” at all. Also a short while ago there was this_press_release about yet another new Microsoft partnership (second in a matter of hours). To quote: “We’re happy to announce that IBM and Microsoft are making data sets available today using CDLA-Permissive-2.0.” IBM is in bed with Microsoft. Not exactly news. In their development blog they wrote: As more organizations embrace artificial intelligence (AI) technologies and big data, there is a growing need to share and collaborate with data sets to analyze and use for AI training. But just as you should not release valuable software to the public without choosing an appropriate open source software license, you should not release data sets without a proper license written specifically for sharing data. Today, the Linux Foundation AI announced the release of CDLA- Permissive-2.0 license agreement, developed to make it easier than ever for governments, academic institutions, businesses, and other organizations to share, access, and protect open source data sets. Guess where this “hey hi” nonsense is hosted. You’ve guessed right! The_so- called_'Linux'_Foundation_is_an_ally_of_monopolists,_not_communities,_not_Open Source,_and_definitely_not_Linux. 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Pricing for the laptop starts at €1299 or roughly $1540 and the Linux laptop is now available to configure over on the Slimbook website. A number of Linux operating systems are available to install when you purchase the laptop including Ubuntu, Ubuntu Mate, Linux Mint, KDE Neon, Manjaro, Fedora and more. # ⚓ Put_the_Classic_PDP-8_Minicomputer_on_Your_Shelf⠀⇛ This Raspberry Pi–powered replica runs all the original PDP-8 software with enough cycles left to double as a media server # ⚓ Chrome_OS_is_getting_old-school_cool_with_an_upcoming productivity_feature [Ed: Google is just mimicking GNU/Linux ('proper'), poorly. Just wipe ChromeOS and install a real distro. It would do far more than the malicious OS made by Google.]⠀⇛ Chrome OS has been steadily growing up over the years, with Linux and Android app support helping it to stray from its “just a browser” roots. Thanks to powerful multitasking features like virtual desks and window snapping, Google’s operating system is a solid productivity choice for consumers and many professionals. To help you work even faster, Chrome OS will soon pick up a classic productivity feature that will give your Chromebook the old-school coolness you never thought you needed. o § Server⠀➾ # ⚓ VMs_were_a_fad_fit_for_the_Great_Recession._Containers’ time_has_finally_come⠀⇛ Welcome to the latest Register Debate in which writers discuss technology topics, and you – the reader – choose the winning argument. The format is simple: we propose a motion, the arguments for the motion will run this Monday and Wednesday, and the arguments against on Tuesday and Thursday. During the week you can cast your vote on which side you support using the poll embedded below, choosing whether you’re in favor or against the motion. The final score will be announced on Friday, revealing whether the for or against argument was most popular. It’s up to our writers to convince you to vote for their side. [...] Even the early container efforts in Free BSD Jails and Solaris containers, which had a shared kernel and a collection of userland sandboxes – were too much. At some point, thanks to the advent of VMware’s ESXi, XenSource’s Xen, Microsoft’s Hyper-V, and Red Hat’s KVM, server virtualization hypervisors and the VM as software distribution package became normal because it was relatively easy to explain and justify, even if VMs are a bit heavy in terms of server overhead. All those monolithic applications running in the enterprise will have to die a slow death before VMs and hypervisors disappear from the datacenter, and the container platform security model has had to improve, too. But the direction for the future seems clear. Some years ago, when Docker and Kubernetes were first gaining steam, we treated containers as a special kind of application running atop virtual machines, but now we are starting to treat VMs as a special kind of container running atop bare metal. New applications will be written in new ways and with new tools, and they will be containerized because this is the easiest way to get the benefits of the microservices approach that the hyperscalers have demonstrated is the best way to build and deploy software. # ⚓ 6_steps_to_reduce_SRE_toil⠀⇛ The work around an IT platform can be separated into two types: work that adds value to the business and work that keeps the platform running. The aim of an IT operations team should be to maximize the amount of the former while minimizing the time and cost spent on the latter. Work that keeps the IT platform running has many different names — “keeping the lights on” is one — but one term, toil, is growing in acceptance. The way to reduce toil is to adopt site reliability engineering (SRE). o § Kernel Space⠀➾ # § Graphics Stack⠀➾ # ⚓ PanVK_Merged_Into_Mesa_21.2_For_Open-Source_Vulkan Driver_With_Arm_Mali_GPUs_–_Phoronix⠀⇛ Hitting mainline Mesa today for Mesa 21.2 next quarter is PanVK as the open-source Vulkan driver in development for newer Arm Mali GPUs. Earlier this year the PanVK driver was started for this open-source Vulkan API driver part of the “Panfrost” initiative. Panfrost has only been focused on a Gallium3D OpenGL driver for Arm Mali GPUs while PanVK is bringing things up for Vulkan. # ⚓ Ricardo_Garcia:_VK_EXT_multi_draw_released_for Vulkan⠀⇛ The Khronos Group has released today a new version of the Vulkan specification that includes the VK_EXT_multi_draw extension. This new extension has been championed by Mike Blumenkrantz, contracted by Valve to work on Zink, an OpenGL implementation that’s part of Mesa and runs on top of Vulkan. Mike has been working very hard to make OpenGL-on- Vulkan performant and better, and came up with this extension to close an existing gap between the two APIs. As part of the ongoing collaboration between Igalia and Valve, I had the chance to participate in the release process by reviewing the specification text in depth, providing feedback and fixes, and writing a set of CTS tests to check conformance for drivers implementing the extension. As you can see in the contributors list, VK_EXT_multi_draw had input and feedback from more vendors. Special mention to Jason Ekstrand from Intel, who provided an initial review of the text, and Piers Daniell from NVIDIA, who was also involved since the early stages. # ⚓ Nvidia_DLSS_has_arrived_on_Linux_–_will_this_tempt gamers_to_switch_from_Windows_10?⠀⇛ Nvidia has brought DLSS to Linux, or rather, Team Green has made it available on Proton for Vulkan titles with its latest graphics driver, which further introduces DLSS support for a trio of games including Doom Eternal. The new Game Ready driver means that those gamers running Linux rigs with GeForce RTX graphics cards will be able to benefit from DLSS when using Proton to play Windows 10 games. [...] Speaking of Doom Eternal, Nvidia’s new Game Ready driver introduces the double whammy of ray tracing and DLSS to the shooter, although it won’t officially be live until the game gets its incoming big update delivered on June 29. Rust has also been announced as getting DLSS on July 1 – the survival game already has support for Nvidia Reflex – and Lego Builder’s Journey launches on PC today with both ray tracing and DLSS, with the latter promising up to 92% frame rate boosts. # ⚓ NVIDIA_470.42.01_for_Linux_adds_DLSS_for_Proton, Xwayland,_asynchronous_reprojection_|_GamingOnLinux⠀⇛ This is it. The big one! NVIDIA has today released the NVIDIA 470.42.01 beta driver which brings in lots of fun new things and further improves their Linux support. Firstly, as promised, they’ve now added an NVIDIA NGX build for use with Steam Play Proton and Wine. This means Windows games and applications can use DLSS when run through Proton and Wine, providing they have been updated to support the features of this new driver. You should at least be able to try out the Windows versions of DOOM Eternal, No Man’s Sky and Wolfenstein: Youngblood with this new driver and Proton, as they use Vulkan. DirectX support for DLSS with Proton arrives “this Fall”. Support for the VK_QUEUE_GLOBAL_PRIORITY_REALTIME_EXT from the VK_EXT_global_priority extension was added, finally giving Linux / NVIDIA users asynchronous reprojection in SteamVR. For Linux users, you need the Beta version of SteamVR which added support for this as of version SteamVR 1.18.2 – so Valve were quick to have it readied. # ⚓ NVIDIA_Posts_470_Linux_Driver_Beta_With_Better Wayland_Support,_DLSS_+_Improved_PRIME_–_Phoronix⠀⇛ NVIDIA announced yesterday they would be releasing DLSS Linux support tomorrow and indeed they have delivered on that first milestone of Deep Learning Super Sampling support for Linux gamers. NVIDIA has published their first 470 driver series beta in the form of the NVIDIA 470.42.01 build. NVIDIA’s Deep Learning Super Sampling (DLSS) has been popular among Windows gamers as a temporal image upscaling technique leveraging AI and accelerated using the tensor cores with NVIDIA GeForce RTX graphics cards. Today’s driver support allows Windows games with DLSS that supports the Vulkan API to make use of the upscaling feature. It won’t be until the autumn where the NVIDIA driver and DXVK/VKD3D-Proton support is in place for Direct3D DLSS usage on Linux over Vulkan. # ⚓ AMD_FidelityFX_Super_Resolution_Source_Code_Coming Next_Month_–_Phoronix⠀⇛ AMD today released FidelityFX Super Resolution that was announced earlier this month at Computex. Today it’s Windows-only with no Linux support being introduced. FidelityFX Super Resolution is open-source but the code drop will not be until next month. AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution is now available for Windows as the company’s alternative to NVIDIA DLSS. For launch day there are seven Windows games supporting this technology. FidelityFX Super Resolution works across all supported AMD GPUs and even NVIDIA GPUs too. # ⚓ AMD_releases_FidelityFX_Super_Resolution,_source_code dropping_mid-July⠀⇛ Today AMD released FidelityFX Super Resolution, their attempt to answer NVIDIA’s DLSS and the source code to it is coming soon for developers to look at. What exactly is it then? It’s AMD’s solution for producing high resolution frames from lower resolution inputs. From what AMD say: “it uses a collection of cutting-edge algorithms with a particular emphasis on creating high-quality edges, giving large performance improvements compared to rendering at native resolution directly. FSR enables “practical performance” for costly render operations, such as hardware ray tracing.”. It supports Vulkan and DirectX, although currently it seems it’s actually limited to Windows as mentions of Linux have been absent from any press materials and official announcements from AMD. Once it’s properly open source, which AMD say will happen “mid July” on GPUOpen, there should hopefully be nothing to stop Mesa developers hooking up support for it to then work for Linux native titles and Windows games run through Steam Play Proton. The latest “official” AMD driver (being the Radeon Software for Linux) had an update only yesterday, June 21, which simply bumped up the supported Linux distribution version. # ⚓ AMD_Drops_Pre-Polaris_GPU_Support_From_Their_Mainline Radeon_Software_Driver⠀⇛ AMD has shifted all their graphics processors and APUs prior to Polaris / GCN 1.4 to being legacy and will not be supported by their new Radeon Software Adrenalin releases. AMD announced that products ranging from their A-Series APUs up through the Radeon R9 300 series (including R9 Fury) are now legacy and will not see new releases with their mainline driver. On Monday for Windows users they published the Radeon Software Adrenalin 21.6.1 release while 21.5.2 is the last for these pre-Polaris graphics processors. o § Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ 5_Best_Linux_Video_Players_on_Which_You_Can_Rely_on⠀⇛ In this article, we have compiled a list of what we think are the 5 best Linux video players and thoroughly discuss their features. There are a lot of free and open-source video players available for Linux today. Most of them do the basic job pretty well. However, some players provide additional features and you can pick which one would suit you best depending on the feature list. # ⚓ Security-Focused_Tutanota_Mail’s_Linux_Desktop_Application is_Now_Available⠀⇛ Tutanota is an open-source privacy-oriented email service. It is an impressive secure email service as an alternative to Gmail. In fact, our ethical web portal LinuxHandbook hosts emails on Tutanota. While it is already a full-fledged service with constant improvements added regularly, the desktop client was something in beta since 2018. Now, they have finally announced the availability of their desktop client for Linux, Windows, and macOS for every Tutanota user. o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾ # ⚓ LFCA:_Learn_the_Basic_Concepts_of_Using_Containers_–_Part 22⠀⇛ Over time, as demand for rapid testing and deployment of applications grew coupled with faster business cycles, organizations were compelled to innovate in order to keep up with the fast-paced business environment. The quest to modernize applications and build new ones to create agile workflows led to the concept of using containers. Containerization technology is nearly as old as virtualization. However, containers didn’t ignite much excitement until Docker exploded into the scene in 2013 and evoked a frenzied interest among developers and other IT professionals. # ⚓ Kubernetes_Operators_101,_Part_2:_How_operators_work⠀⇛ Kubernetes Operators might seem complex at first, but if you understand Kubernetes, you can easily extend that knowledge to Kubernetes Operators. Part 1 of this series provided an overview of Kubernetes Operators and what they do. This article explains aspects of how a Kubernetes cluster works, including the structure of a cluster, how workloads are managed, and the reconciliation process. # ⚓ Introduction_to_the_Node.js_reference_architecture,_Part_4: GraphQL_in_Node.js_|_Red_Hat_Developer⠀⇛ In this part of our ongoing introduction to the Node.js reference architecture, we dig into some of the discussions the team had when developing the GraphQL section of the reference architecture. Learn about the principles we considered and gain additional insight into how we developed the current recommendations for using GraphQL in your Node.js applications. # ⚓ Using_a_compressed_diff_instead_of_lines_of_code_|_Bryan Quigley⠀⇛ Lines of code (LOC) has some known flaws, but one of its advantages is that it lets humans visualize it for a small enough number. For bigger numbers like 100,000 vs 200,000 lines of code it really doesn’t help us humans picture it. For big enough changes, you could switch to just compressing the diff and measuring that. That also nicely tracks what developers would have to actually download to get the new changes. It also helps with understanding the bandwidth requirements of contributing to a project. # ⚓ Linux_/_BSD_command_line:_process_monitoring_and_control with_top,_htop_&_Co.⠀⇛ Users and admins regularly need more detailed information about the processes running on a GNU / Linux or Free / Net / OpenBSD system. You have to identify which processes are particularly demanding on the CPU and locate crashed and frozen programs in order to be able to terminate them in a targeted manner. For system monitoring and process management, there are many tools (including graphical ones) that help you sift through and clear the process list. But these are not always available on servers or appliances such as firewalls / routers or NAS. Classic tools such as ps and kill. In the area of ​​system management, more extensive command line programs such as top and its numerous further developments, however, significantly more. top and some derivatives of this we present in this article and explain the basic operation using small practical examples. # ⚓ How_I_automatically_run_things_after_waking_up_my_computer |_Hund⠀⇛ Some time ago, Gentoo deprecated pm-utils, which didn’t come as a surprise considering it hasn’t been updated upstreams for 11 years now. pm-utils was a small collection of scripts that handles suspend and resume on behalf of HAL. One of the things that pm-utils allowed me to do, was to automatically run any scripts when I woke up the computer. With the deprecation of pm-utils, I was left with two alternatives; 1) elogind (the systemd project’s logind, extracted to a standalone package) and 2) s2ram. Considering the fact that I’m not a big fan of systemd, I really only had one choice. # ⚓ How_to_Disable_‘Recommended_by_Pocket’_Articles_Suggestion in_Firefox_New_Tab [Ed: Mozilla should just disable this by default, but Firefox isn't about the users anymore]⠀⇛ Now, I don’t like an algorithm to tell me which articles I should be reading. I use feed readers and read articles from the sources I choose to follow. If you don’t like these article recommendations and you prefer not to see it in your new tab area, there is an easy way to disable it. Let me show it to you. # ⚓ How_to_Install_Ubuntu_21.04_Hirsute_Hippo_[Step_by_Step]⠀⇛ Ubuntu 21.04 Hirsute Hippo is the first short-term release of 2021 which brings moderate changes and updates. In case you missed it, here’s a quick recap of the new features of Ubuntu 21.04. # ⚓ How_to_Install,_Remove,_Manage_Flatpak_Apps_in_Ubuntu Command_Line_|_UbuntuHandbook⠀⇛ This simple tutorial shows how to search for, install, remove, and manager Flatpak apps in Ubuntu Linux. Flatpak is an universal Linux package format developed by an independent community. Like snap, it runs in sandbox and bundles most runtime libraries. Flatpak is supported out-of-the-box in many Linux Distros, e.g., CentOS, Fedora, Linux Mint. And it’s available in the most Linux repositories. Since many software developers publish binary packages via flatpak, it’s a good choice to install external apps in Ubuntu Linux. # ⚓ How_to_install_Oracle_Linux_8.4⠀⇛ In this video, I am going to show how to install Oracle Linux 8.4. # ⚓ How_to_compress_images_on_Linux_with_Curtail⠀⇛ If you’ve got large image files on your Linux PC and need to compress them, the easiest way to do it is with Curtail. What is Curtail? It’s a super user-friendly, easy-to-use application that Linux users can use to compress image files. Here’s how it works. # ⚓ How_to_play_Tetris_on_the_Ubuntu_command_line⠀⇛ Tetris is our childhood favorite falling blocks game. The 90s generation has literally grown up playing this game and the best thing about it is that even today, it is as popular as it was years ago. Many of the Computer Science students are asked to build this game in different programming languages as a part of their different course projects. On a commercial level also, this game has undergone several revisions and today, many different variations of Tetris are available out there. If we talk about the rules of this game, then there is a rectangular boundary defined inside which you are supposed to play. Once your selected level of the game starts, the blocks of different shapes start falling and you have to move them and adjust them in a way that they fall perfectly on the block that has already fallen on the ground. The blocks continue to fall until the upper limit of the defined boundary has reached. After that, the game terminates and your score is presented to you on the screen. While playing Tetris, your goal should be to align as many blocks in symmetry as possible. That is the exact factor on which the score of your game depends. As a Linux user, you might also like to have this amazing game installed on your system. Therefore, today, I will show you how to install theTetris clone ‘Tint’ on a Ubuntu 20.04 system. Apart from that, we will also learn how we can actually play this game once it is installed on our system. Finally, we will share with you an additional tip about Tetris. # ⚓ How_to_read_Wikipedia_from_the_Linux_desktop⠀⇛ Have you ever wanted to read Wikipedia from the comfort of your favorite Linux desktop environment rather than relying on Firefox or Chrome? As it turns out, thanks to the Wike app, it is possible. # ⚓ Fix_Linux_Server_Server_Issues_With_These_5_Troubleshooting Steps⠀⇛ If your Linux server isn’t performing to its full potential, it’s likely there is an underlying issue that needs resolving. Follow these five simple yet practical steps to troubleshoot a Linux server and reduce the downtime to an absolute minimal. # ⚓ Gitlab_setup_tutorial_–_Things_to_do_after_installation_– LinuxTechLab⠀⇛ Earlier we have discussed the detailed installation of the Gitlab server on CentOS & Ubuntu systems. Once we have our Gitlab server ready, we must be able to perform common operations, some post- installation Gitlab setup like the ones mentioned below, Add SSH keys Create/Remove User Create/Remove Groups Create Project In this Gitlab tutorial, we are going to discuss just that. We will learn how we can perform all these things step by step with the help of some screenshots. # ⚓ How_to_install_Diskonaut_on_Linux_–_Unixcop⠀⇛ diskonaut is a Terminal Disk Space Analyzer & Navigator for Linux. It is a simple terminal disk space navigator built using Rust and supports Linux and macOS. # ⚓ How_to_Get_macOS_Monterey_Universal_Control_Feature_on Windows_and_Linux ⠀⇛ In this tutorial, we are going to use Barrier, an open-source application, which allows you to share your mouse and keyboard between Windows, Linux, and macOS devices. Its functionality is similar to the Universal Control feature on macOS Monterey. The best part is that Barrier is completely free to use and also offers clipboard sharing and keyboard shortcuts. Synergy is also an excellent alternative, but it’s a paid application ($29). # ⚓ Secure_Your_Apache_Web_Server_Best_Practice_–_Unixcop⠀⇛ Apache is the most popular web server used on the internet. And it is ideal for most situations and allows flexibility for shared environments. In this tutorial, we will see how to secure an Apache webserver. For this tutorial, we will use Centos 8. you can find the apache installation tutorial here. We will see how to modify Apache configuration on Ubuntu/Debian system also. # ⚓ Hold_Or_Prevent_A_Package_From_Upgrade_In_Debian,_Ubuntu_– OSTechNix⠀⇛ Rocky Linux 8, code-named Green Obsidian, stable version has been released! This guide explains how to migrate to Rocky Linux 8 from CentOS 8 Linux using migrate2rocky script. # ⚓ 15_things_to_do_after_installing_MX_Linux_|_FOSS_Linux⠀⇛ X Linux is currently one of the most popular Linux distributions out there and the most highly rated Linux distribution on DistroWatch. Thanks to its focus on delivering a highly stable and performance-optimized system, that too with a beautiful and highly customizable interface. But with all that being said, the distribution isn’t without its fair share of issues and user complaints. Luckily, most of these problems are avoidable if you follow the best practices from the get-go, ensuring an optimized user experience. And so, for this read, we have put together a detailed list of the top 15 things to do after installing MX Linux and how to do them. All the points are arranged serially, starting with the most important stuff, to things that are optional yet useful. Just follow the guide step by step, and by the end, you will have for yourself an optimized and personalized MX Linux system. # ⚓ How_To_Install_MySQL_Workbench_on_Debian_10_–_idroot⠀⇛ In this tutorial, we will show you how to install MySQL Workbench on Debian 10. For those of you who didn’t know, MySQL Workbench is a GUI tool to manage MySQL servers. You can use this tool to manage your MySQL Server installed locally or remotely. It has many important tools you need to create, edit, delete databases, create and edit users, tables, and many more. 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 MySQL Workbench on a Debian 10 (Buster). # ⚓ Replace_du_with_dust_on_Linux_|_Opensource.com⠀⇛ If you work on the Linux command line, you will be familiar with the du command. Knowing commands like du, which returns information about disk usage quickly, is one of the ways the command line makes programmers more productive. Yet if you’re looking for a way to save even more time and make your life even easier, take a look at dust, which is du rewritten in Rust with more intuitiveness. In short, dust is a tool that provides a file’s type and metadata. If you trigger dust in a directory, it will report that directory’s disk utilization in a couple of ways. It provides a very informative graph that tells you which folder is using the most disk space. If there is a nested folder, you can see the percentage of space used by each folder. # ⚓ What_To_Do_When_Linux_GUI_Freezes_–_ByteXD⠀⇛ Once in a while, your operating system might hang or freeze when you run too many resource-intensive applications. Of course, you might not even be running any heavy software at times, but because two apps are struggling to access a single system resource, you might fall into a deadlock. Unfortunately, Linux systems are also not spared in GUI (Graphical User Interface) hanging/ freezing. o § Games⠀➾ # ⚓ Heroic_Games_Launcher_for_Epic_Games_sees_a_small_bug_fix release_ahead_of_the_big_1.8_|_GamingOnLinux⠀⇛ Heroic Games Launcher is an application built on top of the a command-line client called Legendary, and Heroic has a fresh bug fix release out to help ahead of a major release. The application itself is built for Linux upon tech like Electron, and it does work very nicely. Why the need for it? Well, Epic Games don’t support Linux with their official client or with the games on the service even if they have a Linux build elsewhere. With that in mind, games downloaded will run in a compatibility layer like Wine and Proton. # ⚓ Peachleaf_Valley_is_an_upcoming_farming-sim_inspired_otome visual_novel_|_GamingOnLinux⠀⇛ Peachleaf Valley, currently having a big success on Kickstarter is a visual novel inspired by farming life sims like Harvest Moon and Stardew Valley. It’s an “otome” visual novel, which if I do have my lingo correct means it’s primary target is towards women. # ⚓ Residual_aims_to_give_us_a_‘new_breed’_of_survival platformer_in_Q3_2021_|_GamingOnLinux⠀⇛ Residual, a “new breed” of survival platformer from OrangePixel and revived publisher Apogee Entertainment is set to release in “Q3 2021″ and there’s a new trailer. What makes it different? Well there’s no traditional combat, and there’s no focus on shooting or anything like that at all. It’s a survive the elements kind of experience, across worlds generated new each time with their fancy sounding “Nature Engine” (not based on Unity or Unreal). “When designing Residual, my goal was to offer players something brand new every time they sat down to play,” said Pascal Bestebroer of one-man studio OrangePixel. “Every world tells its own story, shaped by your personal journey through it. The experience will always be challenging, but never unfair, and a rich story awaits for those who choose to seek it.” o § Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾ # § K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt⠀➾ # ⚓ KDE_Plasma_5.22.2_Released_with_Better_Flatpak_and Wayland_Support⠀⇛ Coming just one week after KDE Plasma 5.22.1, the KDE Plasma 5.22.2 point release is here to further improve the Plasma Wayland session by fixing an issue with the mouse cursor being invisible for a short period of time after the screen comes back from sleep, as well as to implement activities window rule. It also improves the Plasma Discover package manager by addressing a regression that made the graphical package manager to notify users all the time about Flatpak app updates even when there weren’t any. o § Distributions⠀➾ # § BSD⠀➾ # ⚓ FreeBSD_13.0_vs._DragonFlyBSD_6.0_vs._Linux_On_AMD EPYC_7003_Series_“Milan”⠀⇛ For those wondering how well the likes of FreeBSD 13.0 and DragonFlyBSD 6.0 performance on AMD’s EPYC 7003 “Milan” processors launched earlier this year, here are some initial benchmarks of those BSDs alongside a few Linux distributions. With recently having a Tyan 1U server in the lab with EPYC 7543 32-core processor, I’ve been running a number of BSD benchmarks on it given these recent BSD releases have been running well on this 1P server. This initial round of BSD operating system testing on AMD EPYC 7003 series was carried out using a retail Tyan Transport CX GC68- B8036-LE barebones server. A full review of this server will be posted on Phoronix in the coming weeks along with more (Linux) benchmarks of this 1U1S cloud server while today we are just looking at the BSD support and performance. # § IBM/Red Hat/Fedora⠀➾ # ⚓ Rocky_Linux_8.4_Released⠀⇛ Rocky Linux, a distribution created to fill the void left when CentOS Linux was discontinued by Red Hat, announced general availability of Rocky Linux 8.4. # ⚓ Rocky_Linux_8.4_is_officially_available_to_replace your_CentOS_deployments⠀⇛ Sometimes it’s hard to believe the speed at which technology evolves. One minute Distribution X is all the rage, the next it has become a pariah and we find myriad forks in the road—each of which can lead to success. In this case, CentOS made a crucial misstep and we find ourselves having more than enough replacements to select from. That’s the way of open source; the second one door closes, a handful of newer, better doors open. When CentOS opted to become an option many businesses could no longer trust, it came as no surprise when AlmaLinux and Rocky Linux appeared. What did surprise me was that AlmaLinux beat Rocky Linux to the punch. Rocky Linux already had the pedigree of being led by the same gentlemen (Gregory Kurtzer) who originally launched CentOS. # ⚓ Rocky_Linux_is_Finally_Ready_as_a_CentOS_Replacement with_8.4_Stable_Release_–_It’s_FOSS_News⠀⇛ One of the most anticipated release in 2021 — Rocky Linux, as an alternative to CentOS, is finally here with its first stable release 8.4 (Green Obsidian) ready for production use. If you have been keeping up with the news, it was interesting to see that Rocky Linux 8.3 release candidate was not slated for a stable release. Instead, it was followed by another 8.4 RC 1 release, which finally made its way to the general availability. Not to forget, it was also one of my favorite distros to look forward to in 2021. Now that it is here as a CentOS replacement, potentially dropping the need to switch to CentOS Stream, what’s on board in this release (changes from upstream)? # ⚓ Rocky_Linux_8.4_Released,_Aims_to_Fill_the_Void_Left by_CentOS⠀⇛ Rocky Linux, one of the most anticipated CentOS replacements, has announced the general availability for Rocky Linux 8.4 “Green Obsidian”. Rocky Linux 8.4 is designed as a drop-in CentsOS replacement. It was created by the same person who birthed CentOS into being, Gregory Kurtzer, and Rocky follows the same mission of offering an enterprise-ready version of Linux. The name was chosen as a tribute to early CentOS co-founder Rocky McGaugh. Rocky Linux 8.4 is a complete binary- compatible release using the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 operating system source code. The release is launching more than a half year after Red Hat deprecated its support for the widely popular CentOS server operating system. Rocky Linux and competitor AlmaLinux, which released its own binary compliant RHEL clone in March, are built from the same source code as RHEL. This ensuring that a wide range of proprietary software designed with only RHEL in mind will “just work”. Users of other RHEL 8.4 binary-compatible distributions can use the free migrate2rocky tool for convenient, in-place migration to Rocky Linux 8.4. It has been tested to be useful for migrating from Alma Linux 8.4, CentOS Linux 8.4, RHEL 8.4, and Oracle Linux 8.4 but to be used at your own risk. # ⚓ Red_Hat_Process_Automation_Adds_New_End-to-End Kubernetes-Native_Decision_Management_Capabilities⠀⇛ Red Hat has announced new end-to-end Kubernetes-native decision management capabilities as part of the latest release of Red Hat Process Automation. # ⚓ Mindshare_Committee_F2F_Readout⠀⇛ The Mindshare Committee held a face-to-face spread over two days, June 7th & 14th. We met for a total of four hours, spending half our time on discussion and half playing GeoGuessr. We discussed topics such as new logo swag and what we want to do at Nest. We also got a sneak peak at the Community Survey results. Another goal of the F2F was to actually see each others faces and spend a bit of time out of IRC hanging out with each other. In a pre-COVID world, we definitely would have met up a couple times already—we miss each other! # § Debian Family⠀➾ # ⚓ Digital_Forensics_Company_Modernizes_Data Management⠀⇛ Over the years, they have become expert at using open source tools and have built their foundation on the OpenZFS file system and the open source Linux-based Debian operating system. To handle data management and storage, for example, the team used ZFS-based file stores running on Debian-run servers with replication between sites. ZFS uses snapshots to track changes in the file system. # ⚓ A_higher_purpose:_Alumnus_John_Goerzen_uses_personal plane_to_help_others⠀⇛ Goerzen’s written books about programming and operating systems and he’s developed multiple programs as Free Software. He’s been a volunteer developer for the Debian GNU/Linux operating system since the late 1990s. o § Devices/Embedded⠀➾ # § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾ # ⚓ SiFive_launches_Cortex-A75_like_RISC-V_core_debuting on_Intel_dev_kit⠀⇛ SiFive has launched a Cortex-A75 like, RISC- V RV64GC “Performance P550” core plus a lower-end “Performance P270” that adds RVV extensions. The P550 core is being deployed by Intel in a new RISC-V dev platform. In Oct. 2019, leading RISC-V IP developer SiFive, Inc. announced a next-gen U8-Series platform for high-end Linux driven processors, starting with a U84 core. The company has now announced the availability of the first U84-based core IP: the SiFive Performance P550. The highly area-efficient core design delivers a SPECInt 2006 score of 8.65/GHz, “making it the highest performance RISC-V processor available today,” says SiFive. # ⚓ SiFive_Announces_The_Performance_P550_As_The_Fastest RISC-V_Processor_Yet⠀⇛ # § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ Android_phones_will_get_six_new_features_–_and_you don’t_need_to_wait_until_Android_12_|_TechRadar⠀⇛ # ⚓ Samsung_Galaxy_A51_finally_receives_Android_11_update with_One_UI_3.1_in_the_US_–_GSMArena.com_news⠀⇛ # ⚓ Android_11_arrives_for_the_Redmi_Note_9_in_Europe_as Xiaomi_expands_MIUI_12.5_rollout_for_the_Mi_10T_Pro_– NotebookCheck.net_News⠀⇛ # ⚓ Google_Messages_on_Android_smartphones_to_get_pinch to_zoom_feature:_Details_here⠀⇛ # ⚓ 9to5Google_Daily_681:_Google_apps_keep_crashing_after latest_Android_update,_Pixel_Buds_now_‘out_of_stock’_on Google_Store,_plus_more_–_9to5Google⠀⇛ # ⚓ Google’s_‘Android_Enterprise_Essentials’_is_geared for_SMBs_–_9to5Google⠀⇛ # ⚓ Android_warning:_Nasty_malware_returns_to_Play_Store –_delete_these_8_apps_NOW_|_Express.co.uk⠀⇛ # ⚓ Best_Android_phone_to_buy_in_2021_–_Radio_Times⠀⇛ # ⚓ Why_your_Android_may_warn_you_of_an_‘emergency’_today |_North_Wales_Chronicle⠀⇛ # ⚓ What_is_an_APK_file?_How_to_install_APK_file_on Android?_–_PhoneWorld⠀⇛ # ⚓ Zero-encryption_zero-day_–_Android_fitness_app_caught sending_data_in_clear_text_|_The_Daily_Swig⠀⇛ # ⚓ Porsche_PCM_6.0_infotainment_system_adds_Android Auto,_“Hey_Porsche”_voice_recognition⠀⇛ # ⚓ Reinkstone_goes_big_on_color_with_10-inch_e-paper Android_tablet⠀⇛ # ⚓ XCOM_2_Collection_comes_to_Android_next_month_| Gamepur⠀⇛ # ⚓ Sharp_Selects_Zebra_Technologies_To_Develop_Android- Powered_Mobile_Computers_–_The_Independent_Global Source_for_the_Flexible_and_Printed_Electronics Industry.⠀⇛ o § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾ # ⚓ Haiku_R1/Beta3_Timeline_Approved⠀⇛ The release timeline for Haiku R1/Beta 3 has been approved after a 7 day RFC (Request for Comment) period on the mailing list. # ⚓ Haiku_R1_Beta_3_Aims_For_Release_In_About_One_Month_– Phoronix⠀⇛ The Haiku open-source operating system inspired by BeOS has been in development since 2001. It took until September 2018 for the Haiku R1 Beta and then last summer was succeeded by Haiku R1 Beta 2. Now a year later the third beta for this inaugural release is now approaching. # ⚓ Edit_text_like_Emacs_in_FreeDOS_|_Opensource.com⠀⇛ On Linux, I often use the GNU Emacs editor to write the source code for new programs. I learned GNU Emacs long ago when I was an undergraduate student, and I still have the “finger memory” for all the keyboard shortcuts. When I started work on FreeDOS in 1994, I wanted to include an Emacs-like text editor. You can find many editors similar to Emacs, such as MicroEmacs, but these all take some shortcuts to fit into the 16-bit address space on DOS. However, I was very pleased to find Freemacs, by Russell “Russ” Nelson. You can find Freemacs in FreeDOS 1.3 RC4, on the Bonus CD. You can use FDIMPLES to install the package, which will install to \APPS\EMACS. # § SaaS/Back End/Databases⠀➾ # ⚓ PostgreSQL_Weekly_News_–_June_21,_2021⠀⇛ pgMustard 4, a user interface for ‘explain analyze’ which provides performance tips, released. psycopg2 2.9.0, a Python connector for PostgreSQL, released. pgAdmin4 5.4, a web- and native GUI control center for PostgreSQL, released. # ⚓ Upgrade:_pgCenter_0.9.0⠀⇛ “The new version of command-line admin tool for observing and troubleshooting Postgres – pgCenter, has been released.” # § Productivity Software/LibreOffice/Calligra⠀➾ # ⚓ Design_the_LibreOffice_Conference_2021_logo!⠀⇛ Our next LibreOffice Conference will take place from September 23-25, 2021 (and it’ll be online, due to the ongoing pandemic situation). LibreOffice developers, supporters and users from around the world will share their work, ideas and suggestions. And we’ll have fun with online social events and more! But we need a logo. For last year’s conference, we had a competition and Kukuh Syafaat from Indonesia won with this great design, which includes the openSUSE logo too, as it was a joint conference… # ⚓ A_More_Realistic_Light_Bulb_for_LibreOffice’s_Tips_of The_Day⠀⇛ With the arrival of new trends like neomorphism, glassmorphism in the design world, using realistic assets is not always a bad thing. I took the initiative to update the childish light image in the tips of the day LibreOffice 7.1 to make it more pleasing to the eye. In addition to making the lights more realistic, I’ve also made the icons sharper. Unfortunately, the thing that might be a little annoying is the incompatibility of this realistic style with the Colibre’s default icons. That’s why I’ve suggested that the image of this asset can be changed according to the icon theme (see tdf#13177). Meanwhile, enjoy what has been made first. # § Programming/Development⠀➾ # ⚓ Janet_Blackquill:_C++_Coroutines_Three:_More_Than Asynchrony⠀⇛ If you haven’t read my previous blogposts on C++ coroutines, I would recommend doing so. This post isn’t an explanation of implementing something, as much as it is an explanation of something cool you can do in C++ using coroutines. Warning: this is very esoteric from a C++ perspective, and you’re probably going to have problems understanding this post without knowing what algebraic effects are from other languages (mostly research ones), despite my best attempts to explain them. In short, you can implement a rudimentary version of algebraic effects using C++ coroutines. # ⚓ Qt_for_Android_Automotive_tech_preview_released⠀⇛ It is no secret that Google’s Android Automotive OS (AAOS) has made waves in the automotive space; built to offer openness, customization, and scale to automotive information systems and head units, its adoption in production vehicles is constantly rising as it is set to further disrupt the industry. # ⚓ GitLab_14_signals_shift_to_modern_DevOps:_A_DevOps platform_with_velocity,_trust,_and_visibility_| GitLab⠀⇛ There is a better way to build software. GitLab 14 delivers modern DevOps with a complete DevOps platform, for a streamlined experience that unleashes the power of DevOps. Over the past year, GitLab has shipped advanced DevOps platform capabilities that enable any team to build and deliver software with velocity, trust, and visibility – no matter their size, industry, or location. With enhancements across the software development lifecycle, GitLab has placed strongly in several market reports across a broad range of areas from Enterprise Agile Planning and Application Security Testing to Continuous Delivery and Release Automation. Tying it all together with a platform approach is a keystone of the next shift in the DevOps movement. GitLab was named a representative vendor in a market overview of DevOps platforms. As a “new normal” is taking shape after the pandemic, companies worldwide are coming to grips with what it means to work in hybrid and remote environments. A modern DevOps solution needs to meet the emerging demands for a more flexible workplace. GitLab has been a pioneer and champion of remote work for years and was recently mentioned by Fast Company as a world-changing idea. Having unlocked many of the secrets to remote work success, GitLab stepped up to help others out by shipping a Remote Work Playbook and a Coursera course on “How to Manage a Remote Team.” Our all-remote know-how and experience went into the development of GitLab 14 to build capabilities that work wherever you do. # ⚓ GitLab_14_Features_Built-in_Application_Security_For Risk_Mitigation⠀⇛ GitLab has announced the next iteration of its single application with its 14 release. This release enables global businesses to advance their adoption of modern DevOps by replacing disparate technologies and toolchains with a single DevOps platform that is configured to work by default. With GitLab’s CI/CD dashboard, deployment frequency charts, and monitoring, organizations gain confidence in their ability to drive both team performance and competitive advantage, with visibility on lead time for changes, change failure rate, deployment frequency, time to restore service (collectively known as the DORA4 metrics), and supporting value stream analytics that identifies and breaks down bottlenecks. # § Rust⠀➾ # ⚓ Google_is_Trying_Hard_to_Use_Rust_Code_in_the Linux_Kernel⠀⇛ Google said on Thursday that they are funding a project to improve the security of Linux by writing the kernel part of the operating system in the Rust programming language. The recently announced proposal to make the Rust programming language one of two main languages for the Linux kernel is getting a major boost. The main goal of the push to bring Rust to Linux is to wipe out an entire class of memory- related security bugs in the kernel. Google’s investment in Rust will take the form of a contract for Miguel Ojeda, who’s worked on programming language security, to write software in Rust for the Linux kernel. The new contract gives Ojeda a full-time paycheck to continue memory safety work he was already doing on a part-time basis. As you can guess, introducing a second language into the Linux kernel isn’t a light decision. Historically, the major Linux drivers that make up the kernel were written in C, which isn’t memory- safe, but Rust does. o § Standards/Consortia⠀➾ # ⚓ W3C_Publishes_Working_Draft_For_Web_Neural_Network_API_– Phoronix⠀⇛ The latest JavaScript API to see a public working draft out of the W3C is for a Web Neural Network API. The W3C and their stakeholders have been developing the Web Neural Network API as a means of allowing neural network inference hardware acceleration from the browser. This follows the W3C launching a web machine learning working group earlier in the year. Google and Microsoft have been among the companies involved with this working group in looking to be able to exploit dedicated machine learning hardware accelerators and native instructions from within web browsers. * § Leftovers⠀➾ o § Integrity/Availability⠀➾ # § Proprietary⠀➾ # § Security⠀➾ # ⚓ 8_Great_Static_Application_Security_Testing Tools⠀⇛ No matter how good an app is made and how talented and experienced the team behind it is, you can never render it safe without adequate testing. Testing apps is done in a number of different ways, from deliberately trying to compromise the security of an app to analyze every line of the code for potential vulnerabilities. Static Application Security Testing (SAST), or static analysis, is a set of technologies designed to scan and analyze source code to find security vulnerabilities, which helps developers fix security issues. # ⚓ Wormable_DarkRadiation_Ransomware_Targets_Linux and_Docker_Instances [Ed: Microsoft has NSA back doors, but let's focus on what can be done on "Linux" provided it is already compromised, somehow...]⠀⇛ DarkRadiation’s infection chain involves a multi-stage attack process and is noteworthy for its extensive reliance on Bash scripts to retrieve the malware and encrypt the files as well as Telegram API to communicate with the C2 server via hardcoded API keys. # ⚓ Do_you_want_speed_or_security_as_expected? Spectre_CPU_defenses_can_cripple_performance_on Linux_in_tests [Ed: Let's talk not about Microsoft back doors but about how hardware defects (nothing to do with Linux) can cause Linux to slow down a bit]⠀⇛ The mitigations applied to exorcise Spectre, the family of data-leaking processor vulnerabilities, from computers hinders performance enough that disabling protection for the sake of speed may be preferable for some. Disclosed in 2018 and affecting designs by Intel, Arm, AMD and others to varying degrees, these speculative execution flaws encompass multiple variants. They can be potentially exploited by malware via various techniques to extract sensitive information, such as cryptographic keys and authentication tokens, from operating system and application memory that should be off limits. Though a lot of research has gone into the Spectre flaws, and work done to prevent their exploitation, basically no miscreants are abusing the weaknesses in the real world to steal information, to the best of our knowledge. There in lies the rub; does one keep the protections on and take whatever performance hit arises (it does depend enormously on the type of workload running) or switch them off because the risk is low? Or, from another point of view, put speed promised by chip manufacturers over security that was supposed to be present. # ⚓ Software_bills_of_materials_(SBOM)_could_help improve_cybersecurity_–_CNX_Software⠀⇛ There have been some widely publicized hacks in recent months including the SolarWinds hack and the Colonial pipeline cyber attack. Those two were particularly costly and disruptive, and the US government issued an executive order that lists some of the requirements to stretch cybersecurity. # ⚓ Security_updates_for_Tuesday⠀⇛ Security updates have been issued by Fedora (audacity), openSUSE (chromium), Oracle (glib2), SUSE (Salt and salt), and Ubuntu (apache2 and openexr). # ⚓ Nvidia_Jetson_chips_make_IoT_devices_vulnerable to_attack_|_IT_PRO⠀⇛ Nvidia has patched several vulnerabilities in its Jetson system- on-module (SOM) series chips that hackers could have exploited to escalate privileges and mount denial- of-service (DoS) attacks. The products affected by the vulnerabilities include the Jetson TX1, TX2 series, TX2 NX, AGX Xavier series, Xavier NX, Nano, and Nano 2GB running Jetson Linux versions before 32.5.1. The product line comprises embedded Linux AI and computer vision compute modules and developer kits for AI-based computer vision applications and autonomous systems, such as mobile robots and drones. # ⚓ NVIDIA_Jetson_Chipsets_Found_Vulnerable_to High-severity_Flaws⠀⇛ U.S. graphics chip specialist NVIDIA has released software updates to address a total of 26 vulnerabilities impacting its Jetson system-on-module (SOM) series that could be abused by adversaries to escalate privileges and even lead to denial-of-service and information disclosure. Tracked from CVE‑2021‑34372 through CVE‑2021‑34397, the flaws affect products Jetson TX1, TX2 series, TX2 NX, AGX Xavier series, Xavier NX, and Nano and Nano 2GB running all Jetson Linux versions prior to 32.5.1. The company credited Frédéric Perriot of Apple Media Products for reporting all the issues. # ⚓ Bugs_in_NVIDIA’s_Jetson_Chipset_Opens_Door_to DoS_Attacks,_Data_Theft_|_Threatpost⠀⇛ Chipmaker patches nine high-severity bugs in its Jetson SoC framework tied to the way it handles low-level cryptographic algorithms. Flaws impacting millions of internet of things (IoT) devices running NVIDIA’s Jetson chips open the door for a variety of hacks, including denial-of- service (DoS) attacks or the siphoning of data. NVIDIA released patches addressing nine high-severity vulnerabilities including eight additional bugs of less severity. The patches fix a wide swath of NVIDIA’s chipsets typically used for embedded computing systems, machine- learning applications and autonomous devices such as robots and drones. o § Defence/Aggression⠀➾ # ⚓ Live_Updates:_U.S._Prepares_New_Sanctions_on_Russia_For Navalny_Poisoning⠀⇛ • The Biden administration is preparing new sanctions against Russia for the poisoning of jailed dissident Alexei Nalvany. On CBS’s “Face the Nation” on Sunday, Fiona Hill, the former National Security Council official for European and Russian Affairs, called the sanctions “obligatory,” because he was poisoned with the banned nerve agent Novichok. President Joe Biden said he warned Russian President Vladimir Putin during their summit in Geneva on Wednesday that if Navalny died in Russian custody, the consequences “would be devastating for Russia.” Putin in separate remarks did not mention Navalny by name but said had repeatedly broken Russian laws, including by “deliberately” going abroad to Germany after he was poisoned. Biden also gave Putin a list of 16 critical areas of infrastructure he said were “off- limits” to cyberattack, guidelines Hill said the Russians will test. “President Biden, by sitting opposite Putin, looking him in the face, as he said, and then being very clear about what the red lines are, is already setting the tone for next sets of meetings,” she added. o § Monopolies⠀➾ # § Patents⠀➾ # ⚓ Duke-NUS_and_GenScript_Announce_Notice_of_Allowance for_U.S._Patent_Application_for_SARS-CoV-2_Surrogate Virus_Neutralization_Test [Ed: Instead of solving coronavirus pandemic we're granting monopolies. Coronavirus loves patents because patent monopolies help it spread further and faster. The business model is, let it spread further, we'll have more clients. And stopping it by abundance of solutions is no longer the real objective. Not from a fiscal perspective. The corporate media says "vaccine nationalism" to hide the reality of actual nationalism and racism... as if to say, don't get angry at the patents. Patent monopoly isn't bad... it's just that awful "vaccine nationalism"... fight racism, not patents]⠀⇛ GenScript Biotech Corporation (“GenScript”, Stock Code: 1548.HK), a world-leading life sciences research and application service and product provider, and Duke-NUS Medical School, a premier, research intensive medical school, announced today that the U.S. Patent and Trade Office has issued a notice of allowance for the patent application for a novel Surrogate Virus Neutralization Technology (sVNT). Neutralizing antibodies have been scientifically shown to play a major role in preventing infection by blocking a virus from infecting cells. # ⚓ How_Do_I_Protect_My_Business_Idea_–_Our_Step_By_Step Guide [Ed: This promotes the lie or propaganda of "Intellectual Property", conflating actual laws with something that they're not]⠀⇛ IP can be generated through commercial activities such as research and development, a manufacturing process or a creative action such as writing lyrics or a novel. There are four main areas of IP: copyright, trademark, design rights and patents. All four types of IP can be protected at the UK Intellectual Property Office – but not all need to be. # ⚓ Ensuring_Data_Integrity,_Facilitating_Centralized Control_Of_Logistics_Plants_And_Improving_Data_Exchange To_Other_Logistics_Plants:_Non-technical [Ed: More fake patents from the EPO; in this case, Team UPC and proponents of software patents (litigation profiteers, they don't code anything) comment on this kangaroo court]⠀⇛ This decision concerns a data exchange system in the area of logistics. However, none of the effects produced by said system were considered technical by the EPO. Here are the practical takeaways from the decision T 2522/ 16 () of March 25, 2021 of Technical Board of Appeal 3.4.03… [...] The subject-matter of claim 1 of the main request differs from such a conventional networked information system only by aspects relating to an administrative information exchange process which do not provide a technical effect, as set out by the Examining Division (see points 2.3.1 to 2.3.10 of the Reasons). Since the distinguishing aspects represent pure business matter, they can be included in a non-technical requirement specification given to the technically skilled person in line with what was set out in T 1463/11 (see point 13 of the Reasons). Thus, it is not appropriate to formulate the objective technical problem as suggested by the appellant. Instead, the objective technical problem can be formulated as how to implement the administrative information exchange process as defined by the Examining Division in points 2.3.1 to 2.3.10 of the Reasons of the contested decision on a generally known conventional networked information system. Such an implementation would have been a straightfor­ward task for the technically skilled person. # ⚓ Brazil_counsel_embrace_creative_enforcement_after_SC ruling [Ed: Instead of obeying high courts they try to work around the courts and around the law, at least until they get their lobbyists and bribed politicians to pass the next round/s of legislation to protect the rich and abolish courts' decisions (or people's interest). Publications funded by litigation giants never quote actual folks or ordinary people (they pretend they don't know anything, need corporate lawyers as 'nannies'), or most stakeholders with a stake in outcomes; instead they quote corporations or people looking to profit from litigation, change the law etc.]⠀⇛ Counsel in Brazil are becoming more creative with their enforcement strategies after the Supreme Court ruled last month to remove the 10-year guarantee for successful patents and to make that judgment retroactive for pharmaceutical and medical device patents. Lawyers at Daniel and a pharmaceutical company told delegates at the Managing IP Life Sciences Forum on Thursday, June 17, that secondary patents and exclusivities provided by food and drug law could become much more important as a result of the ruling. They pointed out that companies might enforce these rights more actively if the Supreme Court judgment significantly reduces the terms of their main patents, particularly chemical compound patents, which are extremely valuable to pharma companies. # ⚓ From_the_US_to_Europe:_how_counsel_manage_global litigation [Ed: When the litigation profiteers fund the publications and the so-called 'news' sites it hardly surprises anyone that everything is seen in the framing of litigation and the talking points come from echo chambers]⠀⇛ With companies increasingly taking on cross- jurisdictional patent litigation, it’s more important than ever to understand how the courts work and what remedies are available in different countries, according to counsel at Johnson & Johnson, Ferring Pharmaceuticals and Dentons. # ⚓ BioCardia_Announces_European_Patent_Office_Decision to_Grant_Patent_on_Autologous_Cell_Therapy_Patient Selection_Diagnostic⠀⇛ # ⚓ BioCardia_Announces_European_Patent_Office_Decision to_Grant_Patent_on_Autologous_Cell_Therapy_Patient Selection_Diagnostic_Assay [Ed: This overlooks the fact that a very high proportion of patents granted by today's EPO are invalid and not in compliance with the EPC; hardly a cause for celebration]⠀⇛ # ⚓ Pharmaceutical_Industry_and_Intellectual_Property Rights_–_An_Indian_Perspective [Ed: There is no such thing as "Intellectual Property Rights"; They're not Intellectual, not Property, and not Rights. Does a law degree entitle you to lie to the public?]⠀⇛ # ⚓ Long-lasting_data_storage_with_encapsulated_DNA [Ed: Another publisher that writes_spam_for_corrupt_EPO management_in_order_to_distract_from_EPO_crimes]⠀⇛ The European Patent Office (EPO) honoured Austrian and Swiss researchers Robert N. Grass and Wendelin Stark with the European Inventor Award 2021 in the “Research” category. Their technology for encapsulating data in DNA inside tiny glass spheres provides a novel means of preserving information, as well as a robust DNA barcode for use in supply chains. # ⚓ Technical_primers_where_infringement_/_essentiality_/ equivalents_case_involves_complex_technology_– Mitsubishi_&_Sisvel_v_OnePlus_&_Xiaomi_[2021]_EWHC_1639 (Pat) [Ed: Is Bristows still boosting patent trolls such as Sisvel? Does it work for them?⠀⇛ On Wednesday 16 June 2021, Mr Justice Mellor handed down his judgment in the second technical trial in the Mitsubishi & Sisvel v OnePlus & Xiaomi proceedings ([2021] EWHC 1639 (Pat)), holding that the patents in suit were valid and essential to the LTE standard. The proceedings had been brought in an attempt to persuade the defendants to take licences to a pool of patents administered by Sisvel (referred to as ‘the MCP Pool’) which were alleged to be essential to various telecoms standards. The two patents in suit (one of which was a divisional patent) related to the use of pilot signals to request uplink resources in a telecommunications network and were alleged to be essential to the transmission of scheduling requests on the uplink control channel in LTE. The judgment is a mammoth 85 pages long and deals with issues of essentiality and validity based on lack of inventive step and added matter. The arguments raised were very facts specific and many of them turned on points of construction which are unlikely to be of wider interest, save perhaps for the judge’s finding at paragraphs 165 and 166 that a subsidiary claim is very frequently but not necessarily narrower than an independent claim (depending on the circumstances). What strikes this author in particular is the very large proportion of the judgment devoted to explaining the underlying technology, not just in relation to the patents and common general knowledge, but also the operation of the LTE standard. It is perhaps not surprising that Mr Justice Mellor took the opportunity in his judgment to issue some guidance to practitioners regarding the provision of technical primers in future cases. # ⚓ SCOTUS_vacates_and_remands_Arthrex;_preserves_PTAB [Ed: Patent extremists and profiteers are sobbing a lot this week. Pass them a cup to soak the tears and explain to them that patents aren’t rights and many granted patents are simply fake and part of a scam to protect the few, at everyone else’s expense⠀⇛ # ⚓ United_States_v._Arthrex:_Supreme_Court_Preserves_the PTAB [Ed: Of course the court supports the notion that fake patents need to go away]⠀⇛ The Supreme Court has confirmed that PTAB Judges yield unreviewable authority during inter partes review and therefore acting as Principal Officers under the US Constitution. Therefore the APJs should have been nominated by the President and confirmed by the Senate. BUT, the Court solved the problem in a new way–by making PTAB determinations reviewable by the USPTO Director. This leaves the PTAB system in-place, but will place major insider political pressure on the PTO Director (and current Acting Director). [...] Regarding the Appointments Clause, Hamilton wrote that the President should appoint the officers so that the President can be held directly accountable for the good and the bad. “[S]ole and undivided responsibility of one man will naturally beget a livelier sense of duty and a more exact regard to reputation.” The Federalist No. 77. In its opinion, the Federal Circuit found that APJ’s were improperly appointed, but then issued a savings-severance. The appellate court invalidated the tenure protections for APJs guaranteed by statute and concluded that was enough to reduce APJs to inferior officers who did not need presidential appointment. On reflection, the Supreme Court wrote “This satisfied no one.” # ⚓ Patents_are_Political [Ed: Patents are Political, says someone who takes money from litigation firms to do political lobbying for software patents and other ludicrous patents (they made it about business, not science)]⠀⇛ I have been repeating this mantra for quite a while – patents are political. In US v. Arthrex, the Supreme Court added an exclamation point. By design, the US governmental system places presidential political appointees at the top of each executive agency, including the US Patent & Trademark Office so that the US President can then be held directly accountable for the successes and failures. Note here that the accountability we’re talking about is political accountability. The Federalist Papers (Hamilton) repeatedly focused on this issue, albeit not in the patent context: “The blame of a bad nomination would fall upon the President singly and absolutely.” Federalist 77, for example. Now, in the words of the Supreme Court, the Presidentially Appointed USPTO Director “is the boss.” [...] The practical result is that a political appointee is given direct input on each and every IPR decision. In some ways this is a fairly new thing for the PTO who has endeavored to keep its head down as a bureaucratic agency and create a sense of separation between the merits decisions and agency administration. That has now changed, and the PTO Director now has an express role to play with each and every merits decision. This court-ordered change will be done alongside changes required in the Trademark Modernization Act of 2020 which similarly provides the USPTO Director with authority in certain situations to “reconsider, and modify or set aside, a decision of the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board.” # ⚓ Press_Communiqué_of_22_June_2021_on_decision_G_4/19 of_the_Enlarged_Board_of_Appeal [Ed: Corrupt EPO management pushing some propaganda for its kangaroo court, EBA, which is nothing more than a rubberstamping tool_of_dictators_who_do_illegal_things_and_crave_the veneer_of_judges]⠀⇛ The Enlarged Board of Appeal of the European Patent Office issued decision G 4/19 (Double patenting) today, in which it held that a European patent application can be refused by reason of the prohibition on double patenting. # ⚓ China’s_high-speed_validity_trials_can_be_hard_to keep_up_with [Ed: Patent maximalists never liked the ability to throw out fake patents]⠀⇛ Already quick by international standards, patent reviews are fast-tracked when parallel litigation is involved, China’s patent office has confirmed # ⚓ German_Parliament_Adopts_Patent_Act_Amendment⠀⇛ One of the most hotly debated topics in the German patent community in recent years has been if, and to what extent, the legislature should limit the availability of injunctive relief. To date, it has been the invariable practice of German patent infringement courts to grant an injunction upon a finding of infringement. This practice was perceived as something of the holy grail of German patent law and never seriously challenged in principle for a long time. This began to change when German automakers began facing patent infringement claims from nonpracticing entities like Broadcom and Nokian over patents covering connectivity features of their vehicles. The influential German automobile industry was now faced with serious threats of having to stop their entire production and sales because of (potentially) infringing patents covering only minor vehicle connectivity features. [...] First, the predominant reasons for the injunction gap is insufficient staffing at the Federal Patents Court and the consequential case backlog. With that in mind, it is not at all clear whether the Federal Patents Court will actually be able to issue high-quality preliminary assessments that provide clear guidance to the infringement courts within the six-month deadline prescribed by the legislature. Second, the deadline only applies to German nullity proceedings, not to oppositions before the European Patent Office—which presently have an average duration of roughly 18 months in the first instance. Since a German nullity action cannot be brought while opposition proceedings against the same patent are pending with the European Patent Office, many infringement cases will not benefit from a swift preliminary assessment by the Federal Patents Court in the first place. # § Trademarks⠀➾ # ⚓ U.S._Patent_Office_rejects_‘Washington_Football_Team’ trademark⠀⇛ The Washington Football Team was always meant to be a temporary name after Washington ditched their old nickname. Then it became somewhat popular with fans, leading to some consideration of making it permanent. That appears less likely now, as the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office just “issued an initial refusal” of the team’s attempt to trademark the name, Sam Fortier of the Washington Post reports. The decision cited the “generic geographic nature of the request.” ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 2718 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐃𝐀𝐈𝐋𝐘 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒 ═════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 06.22.21⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ ✐ Links_21/6/2021:_NVIDIA’s_DLSS_and_Most_Beautiful_GNU/Linux_Distributions⠀✐ Posted in News_Roundup at 6:57 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⠀➾ # ⚓ Slimbook_reveal_the_Slimbook_Executive_14″_ultrabook⠀⇛ Need a reasonably high-end Linux powered ultrabook? Slimbook think they have it ready with the Slimbook Executive. This is another “3K” laptop with a 16:10 2880×1800 screen and a sweet 90Hz refresh rate,. Announced today, they claim “Our new ultrabook bests even our top sales champion, the Slimbook ProX. The Executive is even lighter, has a sturdier chassis with an elegant and minimalist design, a higher resolution display, larger battery and better I/O.”. Not only that, they say it rivals the likes of the Microsoft’s Surface Book or the Zenbook Ultralight from Asus. # ⚓ Slimbook_Executive_is_a_lightweight_14_inch_laptop_with Windows_or_Linux_(or_both) ⠀⇛ Spanish PC vendor Slimbook sells laptops with a choice of Windows or Linux, and the company’s latest is the Slimbook Executive, a 2.2 pound notebook with a 14 inch, 2880 x 1800 pixel 90 Hz display and an Intel Core i7-1165G7 processor. o § Audiocasts/Shows⠀➾ # ⚓ Late_Night_Linux_–_Episode_130⠀⇛ Tim Berners-Lee jumps the shark, Chrome OS is 10, KDE Korner, good things about all sorts of projects, our Linux frustrations, Android or iOS, and more. # ⚓ Destination_Linux_#231:_Is_Linux_Desktop_Near_The_End:_Fact or_FUD?⠀⇛ 00:00 = Welcome to DL 231 00:53 = Community Feedback: ProtonMail Tutanota & Other Mail Services 06:47 = How To Send In Your Community Feedback 07:13 = Digital Ocean: App Platform / Cloud ( https://do.co/dln ) 09:59 = End of the Linux Desktop: Fact or FUD? 38:19 = Bitwarden Password Manager ( https:// bitwarden.com/dln ) 41:06 = Google Invests Into Hardening Linux Kernel with Rust Programming Language 49:22 = Linux Gaming: Mighty Goose 52:49 = Software Spotlight: Deskreen (Make Any Device A Second Monitor) 53:50 = Tip of the Week: Encrypt Your Files With GPG 54:56 = All of Our Picks at destinationlinux.org/ picks 55:13 = Outro o § Kernel Space⠀➾ # ⚓ AMD_SEV/SEV-ES_Local_Migration_Support_Patches_For_Linux_– Phoronix⠀⇛ Google engineers have prepared a set of Linux kernel patches allowing for AMD Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV) / SEV-ES encrypted state to allow for local migration support of these encrypted virtual machines on the same host. Local migration of VMs allow for moving the guest to a new user-space VMM within the same host such as when upgrading/changing its resources or other alterations to the virtual machine but short of remote migration to a different host. # ⚓ A_very_successful_first_KernelCI_hackfest⠀⇛ Last week, Nicolas wrote about KernelCI’s newly added ability to detect regressions on the Linux kernel that can directly affect camera. This new test was one of many that was written during the recent KernelCI hackfest, which took place from May 27 to June 4. Initiated as a joint effort by the Google Chrome OS team and Collabora, it was a public event with engineers and developers from different communities in attendance. What led to the KernelCI hackfest? KernelCI is community-led test system focused on the upstream Linux kernel. While following mainline and LTS branches is the best way to maintain stability and security, there are numerous products in a wide variety of industry segments that run on their own versions of Linux with their own, custom changes. Several members of the KernelCI Linux Foundation project make such Linux-based products and rely on testing upstream, as every issue caught is something they won’t have to fix in their downstream, Linux-based products. In fact, over time, the more these issues are fixed, the closer it brings their products to the upstream kernel. One such member is Google, and their Chrome OS products. There are an increasing number of Chromebook devices in KernelCI (mostly located in Collabora’s lab) which can be used to test upstream kernels, and in particular stable kernels, which are working quite well on this hardware. They are currently running all the regular tests that other platforms also use, such as LTP, kselftest, igt, v4l2-compliance, etc. As a member company, Google wanted to extend coverage with additional tests that are only currently available within Chrome OS. Hence, Google encouraged the KernelCI community to hold a hackfest to write tests. # ⚓ Linux_Plumbers_Conference:_Toolchains_and_Kernel Microconference_Accepted_into_2021_Linux_Plumbers Conference⠀⇛ We are pleased to announce that the Toolchains and Kernel Microconference has been accepted into the 2021 Linux Plumbers Conference. Toolchains are the main part of any development, as they create the executables from the code a developer writes. In order to run efficiently on the operating system, there needs to be a strong understanding of the interface between the application and the kernel it runs on. This microconference is focused on the integration of toolchains and the Linux kernel. # § Graphics Stack⠀➾ # ⚓ NVIDIA’s_DLSS_upscaling_comes_to_‘Rust’_and_a_wave_of Linux_games⠀⇛ # ⚓ NVIDIA_Releasing_DLSS_Support_For_Vulkan_API_Games_On Linux_Tomorrow_–_Phoronix⠀⇛ NVIDIA announced earlier this month that they would be bringing DLSS to Linux / Steam Play and tomorrow they will be introducing that initial driver support. There aren’t yet any Linux native games making use of DLSS but this support is focused on Steam Play (Proton) for Windows DLSS-enabled games to also benefit from that upscaling technology under Linux. Tomorrow NVIDIA will provide their initial Linux driver for supporting DLSS on Linux with Vulkan API games. It won’t be until autumn that all the pieces are in place for allowing Direct3D-based DLSS games to make use of the functionality with DXVK/VKD3D- Proton under Steam Play. # ⚓ NVIDIA_to_launch_DLSS_support_for_Proton_on_Linux tomorrow_(June_22)_|_GamingOnLinux⠀⇛ While DLSS has been technically available in the NVIDIA drivers for Linux for some time now, the missing piece was support for Proton which will be landing tomorrow – June 22. # ⚓ Nvidia_beefs_up_DLSS_with_more_games_and_Linux support⠀⇛ In the war to prove who’s better at high- resolution gaming performance, Nvidia on Monday added three more allies: Rust, Doom Eternal and Lego Builder’s Journey are joining the more than 55 other games to support its DLSS technology. The company also said Linux gamers would soon get access to DLSS through Proton for Vulkan. DLSS, or Deep Learning Super Sampling, taps the AI Tensor cores on Nvidia’s 2000- and 3000-series GPUs to render games at a lower resolution, with comparable visual quality when increased to a higher resolution. We’ve tried DLSS, and it’s like black magic. The company said that starting June 22, Linux gamers can download the Nvidia Linux Driver and enable Proton by going into steam to get DLSS in such games as Doom Eternal, No Man’s Sky and Wolfenstein Youngblood. Nvidia’s announcement comes just a day before its rival AMD is set to unveil its highly- anticipated FidelityFX Super Resolution technology. Although we don’t yet know how AMD’s FSR works, the company has said FSR will offer increased performance on graphics cards as old as its Radeon RX 480, as well its current Radeon RX 6000-series of GPUs. AMD has also said FSR can improve performance even on Nvidia’s older GeForce GTX 1060. AMD’s technology is obviously built without the need for AI cores on the graphics card, so many assume it’s some type of advanced upsampling. # ⚓ Finally_We_Did_It⠀⇛ After months and months of the construction crews hammering away, VK_EXT_multi_draw has now been released for general use. Will this suddenly make zink the fastest GPU driver in history? o § Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ Best_OCR_Apps_for_Linux⠀⇛ This article will cover a list of useful “Optical Character Recognition” software available for Linux. An optical character recognition (OCR) software attempts to detect text content of non- text files whose content cannot be selected or copied but can be viewed or read. For instance, an OCR software can identify text from images, PDF or other scanned documents in digital file formats using various algorithms and AI based solutions. These OCR software are especially useful for converting and preserving old documents as they can be used to identify text and create digital copies. Sometimes the identified text may not be 100% accurate but OCR software removes the need for manual edits to a great extent by extracting as much text as possible. Manual edits can be made later to improve accuracy further and create one- to-one replicas. Most OCR software can extract text into separate files, though some also support superimposing a hidden text layer on original files. Superimposed text allows you to read content in original print and format but also allows you to select and copy text. This technique is specially used to digitize old documents into PDF format. # ⚓ A_Collection_Of_Linux_Tools_On_Steroids_|_Hackaday⠀⇛ Some of the commands replace very common commands. For example, bat is like cat with syntax coloring and git integration. The exa and lsd commands are like ls, and lsd is even compatible with ls. There’s delta for replacing diff, and duf or dust to replace du. Instead of cd, you can use zoxide to get some advanced capabilities that are native so some shells. Many of the commands offer less power to make common tasks easier. For example, you can use sed to search and replace text, but sd is easier. You can use cut to pull parts of a file or stream out, but choose makes it easier. Sometimes the man command gives you too much detailed information. The tldr and tealdeer commands give you just the common options for commands and cheat offers interactive cheat sheets. Rounding out the list are commands that offer dedicated network help where you might use telnet, wget, or curl. Programs like xh, curlie, and httpie, for example, offer easier ways to do various network requests. # ⚓ Michael_Kerrisk_(manpages):_man-pages-5.12_released⠀⇛ Alex Colomar and I have released released man- pages-5.12. The release tarball is available on kernel.org. The browsable online pages can be found on man7.org. The Git repository for man-pages is available on kernel.org. This release resulted from patches, bug reports, reviews, and comments from around 40 contributors. The release includes more than 300 commits that changed around 180 manual pages. # ⚓ Junichi_Uekawa:_Updated_my_simple_web_recording_app_to support_multiple_cameras_and_selecting_from_it.⠀⇛ Updated my simple web recording app to support multiple cameras and selecting from it. WebRecord. I didn’t need it until today because I didn’t use a device with more than one camera as often, but I got hold of a HDMI USB capture device and that changed the game. o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾ # ⚓ Expanding_TeX’s_\newif⠀⇛ Like most of my colleagues, I use LaTeX to write papers, reports, notes, or what have you. In fact, I think all of the places that I regularly write supports some variable subset of LaTeX. Also like most of my colleagues, I’m not a TeXnician. I’m not proud to be ignorant in this regard, but there’s only so many hours in a day, and the gains from properly learning a huge ecosystem like LaTeX seems minuscule compared to the initial buy-in cost. Still, I was curious. # ⚓ MariaDB_5.5.68_Upgrade_to_10.4⠀⇛ # ⚓ Kill_Processes_in_Linux_–_Kill,_Pkill,_Killall_Commands_– Linux_Nightly⠀⇛ The kill, pkill, and killall commands are used to terminate processes on a Linux system. They are default command line utilities that all pretty much do the same thing, but in different ways. Mastering these commands will allow a Linux user to exercise more control over their system, as they’ll have the ability to end (or kill) services and processes that are running. This guide will show you how the commands work, and take you through some examples to learn the proper syntax. Let’s go kill some processes. # ⚓ Screen_Command_in_Linux_to_Manage_Terminal_Sessions⠀⇛ Screen is command line utility which works in Linux systems as a terminal multiplexer. Sometimes we may face some issues like terminating the remote ssh connections due to network issues while performing an important task. It may be painful if the task is running on production environment. So, to handle this kind of issues, separate screen session is recommended which does not terminate with the end of terminal sessions. In the Linux system, we have command line utility tool called screen which is used to manage terminal sessions. In this article we will cover how to use screen command in Linux to manage terminal sessions while working on important task in production systems. # ⚓ How_to_enable_Red_Hat_Subscription_on_RHEL_8/7⠀⇛ Red Hat subscription model is a software support model that allows Red Hat to manage their customers. It allows customers to download Red Hat tested and certified enterprise software packages, patches, updates, and upgrades for Redhat Enterprise Linux. In addition to software support, customers will also receive technical support for the product and vast knowledge base articles. Red Hat Subscription Management (RHSM) is a customer-driven solution that allows users to track their subscription quantity and consumption. In this guide, we’ll show how to register or un- register a new Red Hat Enterprise Linux system to the Customer Portal using Red Hat subscription- manager. # ⚓ How_to_Update_Firmware_on_Ubuntu_using_fwupd⠀⇛ Fwupd is a daemon to help to manage the installation of firmware on Linux. Fwupd is configured by default to download firmware from the Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS). LVFS is a secure website that allows hardware vendors to upload their firmware updates. Fwupd aims to make firmware update on Linux systems automatic, safe, and reliable. It is mainly used to update UEFI firmware. There are many companies that already support native firmware updates such as Dell, Lenovo, HP, Intel, and System76. # ⚓ How_to_Merge_PDF_Files_Using_GUI_&_CLI_Tools_in_Linux⠀⇛ Whether you prefer to use a command-line or graphical application, several tools are available for free to combine multiple PDF files in Linux. # ⚓ How_to_Export_and_Import_Gnome_Terminal_Profile_in_Ubuntu⠀⇛ Gnome Terminal is customizable, due to this some prefer to use default settings and some prefer to customize their terminal. I always have different profiles created with different color schemes and switch between them. # ⚓ What_is_a_config_file?_|_Opensource.com⠀⇛ There are thousands of configuration files on your computer. You may never directly interact with the bulk of them, but they’re scattered throughout your /etc folder and in ~/.config and ~/.local and /usr. There are probably some in /var and possibly even in /opt. If you’ve ever opened one by accident or to make a change, you may have wondered why some configuration files look one way while others look completely different. # ⚓ [Old] Deprecating_ntpdate⠀⇛ Back in the “old days”, it was Important to get the system time in the right ballpark before starting ntpd. This was usually done by running ntpdate before starting ntpd. Originally, ntpdate and ntpd used duplicated code to decide what the correct time. Over time, the algorithms (and therefore code) used by ntpd evolved, but the code for ntpdate started to suffer serious bit-rot. It became evident that there were 2 camps using ntpdate, those who wanted to set the time as quickly as possible, and those who wanted to set the time as well as possible. This was still generally “something to do” before starting ntpd. # ⚓ Everything_You_Need_to_Know_About_Snap_and_Snap_Store⠀⇛ A package manager is a set of integrated services that facilitate installing, updating, removing, and configuring packages/programs on a computer. Talking specifically about the Linux operating system, you get to choose from a wide range of package managers, such as APT, YUM, RPM, and Pacman. Each of these package managers has some distinct feature that sets them apart from the other. However, a relatively new package manager, Snap, has emerged as a viable alternative to traditional package managers. Let’s check out Snap, its pros and cons, and how to install and use it on Linux. # ⚓ Get_the_name_of_the_newest_file_in_a_directory_on_the_linux shell⠀⇛ If you have a directory with many files (a few thousand in my case) and need to know which one is the newest, then the following command might be useful. # ⚓ How_to_run_SSH_command_and_exit_–_Linux_Hint⠀⇛ The users need to connect with the remote host by using SSH (Secure Shell) to run different commands for multiple purposes remotely. It helps the user do their task more easily. Many administrative tasks can be done remotely by the user with some simple steps that save the time and effort of the user. The user may require to run a single or multiple SSH commands remotely and terminate the connection safely from the remote host. How the SSH command can be run in the remote host and exit have shown in this tutorial. # ⚓ How_To_Install_Brotli_Module_for_Nginx_on_Ubuntu_20.04_LTS –_idroot⠀⇛ In this tutorial, we will show you how to install the brotli module for Nginx on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. For those of you who didn’t know, Brotli is a high- performance, lossless compression algorithm developed and maintained by Google. It can be used by webservers to compress files like .html and .css files and increase the perforce of websites and reduce their bandwidth requirements. 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 enabling Brotli Compression on Nginx. You can follow the same instructions for Ubuntu 18.04, 16.04, and any other Debian-based distribution like Linux Mint. # ⚓ How_to_Increase_SSH_Connection_Timeout_–_Linux_Hint⠀⇛ If the user remains inactive for long times after connecting to a remote server, the user must connect again with the server using SSH. The connection of the server resets if the user is not doing any activity for a while. It is necessary for security purposes. But when the user tries to perform any task on the server that needs long times to complete, the user will require to log in multiple times after a certain time. Sometimes it becomes very irritating for the user. The user will require to increase the SSH connection timeout to solve this problem; It can be done in two ways. One way is to set the keep-alive options in the server configuration file, and another way is to set the keep-alive option in the client configuration file. Both ways have been explained in this tutorial. # ⚓ How_to_disable_the_screen_lock_in_ubuntu_–_Linux_Hint⠀⇛ This short tutorial explains how to disable the screen lock in Ubuntu, which is enabled by default. Below you’ll find instructions to turn off the screen lock from Gnome settings and the command line using the gsettings cli. You’ll also find instructions to disable the screen lock at boot, allowing automatic login. # ⚓ How_to_Use_LDD_Command_in_Linux_–_Linux_Hint⠀⇛ In Linux systems, we constantly work with executable files either in the terminal or graphical applications. Executables contain shared libraries, which are files that are shared and reused across programs. In windows, these are typically in the form of DDL files. In Linux, however, they are in the form of .o or .so files. This guide will show you how to use the ldd command-line utility to show shared objects and the dependencies in an executable. # ⚓ How_to_Emulate_Kali_Linux_as_a_Virtual_Machine_–_Linux Hint⠀⇛ Virtualization involves running a virtual computer system in a separated layer from the actual computer hardware. It allows users to run more than one operating system without installing them on the actual hardware. Operating systems that run using a hypervisor will operate as they would in the actual hardware. That allows you to install tools, test systems, and other tools on your virtual machine without affecting the main host. This tutorial will show you how to use Virtual-Box as the Hypervisor to run Kali-Linux as a virtual machine. Before we begin, allow me to give a few theory concepts about virtualization before getting to the practical part. Feel free to skip if you are familiar with the concepts. # ⚓ Kill_All_Stopped_Jobs_Linux_–_Linux_Hint⠀⇛ In Linux, a job refers to a process started and managed by the shell. That can be a single command, a long and complex shell command including pipes and redirections, an executable, or a script. Each job in Linux is managed by assigning a sequential job IP associated with a specific process. # ⚓ Linux_Sync_Time_with_Another_Server_–_Linux_Hint⠀⇛ Time is a crucial factor in our daily lives and the technical side of things. Therefore, maintaining an accurate time between the Linux systems is an important factor. It allows you to accurately know when various accounts are logged, file changes, network packets, and other critical system logs. This can, in turn, be useful in troubleshooting and fixing problems. In this tutorial, you will learn how to synchronize the time between two servers using SSH. # ⚓ Use_Netcat_to_Transfer_Files_–_Linux_Hint⠀⇛ This tutorial offers an easy explanation of how to use Netcat to transfer files between devices. # ⚓ MySQL_INFORMATION_SCHEMA_Examples_–_Linux_Hint⠀⇛ In version 5.0, MySQL implemented the INFORMATION_SCHEMA database, which is visible as a normal database. Although its behavior and functionality are similar to a normal database, the information contained in the database is not all regular data. Here is the best way I can describe the MySQL INFORMATION_SCHEMA database. It is a database containing information about other databases. It is available in every MySQL instance and is used to store metadata information about all other databases in the server. It is also called the system catalog or data dictionary. Like all the MySQL databases, the information in the INFORMATION_SCHEMA database gets stored in read-only tables. However, in actuality, they are views and not base MySQL tables. In that sense, you can not perform MySQL triggers against the tables stored in the database, nor are there any files associated with them. NOTE: You will also not find a directory in the name of INFORMATION_SCHEMA. Despite all that, the INFORMATION_SCHEMA database is the perfect place to query information about other databases stored on the server. This tutorial aims to provide you with an overview of the INFORMATION_SCHEMA database and give you a few examples of using the database. # ⚓ Linux_xargs_Command_–_Linux_Hint⠀⇛ The xargs command is a command-line tool used to read data from standard input and later runs a command based on the standard input. It is a useful tool in file management, especially when used with other commands such as mkdir, grep, rm etc. In this tutorial, we are going to learn how to use xargs on Linux. # ⚓ Is_It_Okay_to_Use_Different_RAM_Brands_and_Sizes_Together? –_Linux_Hint⠀⇛ Adding more memory to your PC can be one of the most rewarding upgrades you can make, resulting in an instant boost in responsiveness, decreased loading times, and the ability to keep more applications and web browser tabs open without annoying slowdowns. But RAM sticks come in many different sizes and from many different brands. As such, you have a good reason to wonder if using a random stick of RAM that’s been sitting in your drawer for ages or buying a discounted memory kit instead of the one that’s currently on your computer is a good idea. The answer may surprise you. # ⚓ How_to_Install_NEOS_CMS_on_Ubuntu_20.04⠀⇛ Neos CMS is a free and open-source content management system that allows you to build your website easily. It has its own CMS system that helps you to manage websites and blogs without any coding knowledge. It is designed for ease of use and allows business owners to collaborate with users across multiple devices. It offers a rich set of features including, full Unicode support, complete internationalization, SEO, inline editing, and more. In this post, we will show you how to install Neos CMS with Apache on Ubuntu 20.04 server. # ⚓ How_to_Use_ssh-keygen_to_Generate_an_SSH_Key_–_Linux_Hint⠀⇛ SSH or Secure Shell is a useful encrypted protocol to secure connections between the client and the server for different administrative tasks. It supports various types of authentication systems. Public key-based authentication and password-based authentication are mostly used. Key-based authentication is more secure than password-based based authentication. Authentication key pairs for the SSH are generated by the ssh-keygen tool that can be used for different purposes such as authenticating the host, automating login, etc. How this tool can be used in Ubuntu has been shown in this tutorial. # ⚓ LiteSpeed_Benefits_Over_Other_Servers_for_WordPress_Hosting |_RoseHosting⠀⇛ The purpose of web servers is to store files belonging to a website and broadcasting them further online to your audiences. Web hosting is simply the service offered by hosting providers where they lease web server resources to other users. # ⚓ How_to_Use_UEFI_Interactive_Shell_and_Its_Common_Commands_– Linux_Hint⠀⇛ The newer generation UEFI motherboards come with UEFI Interactive Shell. The UEFI interactive shell is a simple shell program (like bash) responsible for booting your operating system. You can also use the UEFI interactive shell to run EFI shell commands and scripts. It can be used to update the System Firmware of your motherboard as well. This article will show you how to access the UEFI interactive shell on UEFI motherboards and use some of the common EFI commands on the UEFI interactive shell. So, let’s get started. # ⚓ Updating_the_BIOS_on_UEFI_Systems_–_Linux_Hint⠀⇛ The BIOS of your UEFI-supported motherboard is also called the UEFI firmware of the motherboard. There are times when you will need to update the BIOS/ UEFI Firmware of your motherboard. You may have different reasons for that. For example, your motherboard manufacturer may have released new features or bug fixes for your motherboard that are important for you. Or, you may want to replace the processor of your motherboard with a later generation one, and for that, a BIOS/UEFI Firmware update of the motherboard is required. Or, you may just want to keep the BIOS/UEFI Firmware of your motherboard up to date. Whatever the case may be, if you’re thinking of updating the BIOS/UEFI Firmware of your motherboard, this article should assist you on your job. So, let’s get started. # ⚓ Getting_started_with_automating_and_managing_SSH_server configuration_with_RHEL_system_roles⠀⇛ The SSH server is a critical, ubiquitous service that provides one of the main access points into Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) for management purposes. Over my career as a system administrator, I can not think of any RHEL systems I have worked on that were not running it. RHEL 8.4 adds new roles to manage the SSH server and SSH client configurations, which are the sshd and ssh roles, respectively. This post will walk you through an example of how to use the sshd RHEL system role to manage the SSH server configuration. In the next post, you’ll see how to adapt to different real-world scenarios where servers need a slightly different configuration. Why automate SSH server configuration? Having a properly configured and secured SSH server is a key component of hardening a RHEL system. This is why security benchmarks such as the CIS benchmark and DISA STIG specify SSH server configuration options that need to be set. This makes the SSH server a great candidate for automation. While it is possible to manually configure the SSH server, doing so is time consuming and prone to error. Additionally, if you manually configure SSH, there is no guarantee it will stay properly configured (e.g., when a fellow system administrator is troubleshooting and makes a few “temporary” changes to the configuration that end up being permanent). Red Hat introduced RHEL System Roles in RHEL 7. These are Ansible roles and collections that provide a stable and consistent interface to manage and automate multiple releases of RHEL. RHEL System Roles are a feature included in RHEL subscriptions and are supported by Red Hat. o § Games⠀➾ # ⚓ Looks_like_a_possible_Valve_Index_2_will_make_their_VR_kit go_wireless_|_GamingOnLinux⠀⇛ Thanks to a new patent that went public on June 17, we can see a little more behind the scenes work on what Valve has planned for their next VR kit with what could be a Valve Index 2. The news and speculation comes thanks to a video from SadlyItsBradley. The patent itself was actually filed back in December 2019, so it’s not actually new. However, it did only just this month go public so now we’re able to dive in and see what Valve were thinking about their next steps. It goes to show that they were clearly already thinking about the next generation as the Valve Index was releasing back in June 2019. Wireless VR is the next true step to make the experience even better. As an owner of a Valve Index (and it’s awesome), a can safely say it would be far nicer without the big thick wire attached to it. It gets in the way, you can easily step on it and unplug it, and it’s just another part that can break. Part of the problem with wireless or standalone VR kits, as Valve say in the patent, is that they can be heavy and hot due to doing all of the rendering. Some of the skimp on the power to get around this but then you get less of an experience. So how to do deal with those and other issues? o § Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾ # § K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt⠀➾ # ⚓ Akademy_2021_–_Monday_BoF_Wrap_Up⠀⇛ Monday was the first day of Akademy 2021 BoFs, group sessions and hacking. There is a wrap-up session at the end of the day so that what happened in the different rooms can be shared with everyone including those not present. # § GNOME Desktop/GTK⠀➾ # ⚓ Molly_de_Blanc_has_been_terminated,_Magdalen_Berns’ knockout_punch_and_the_Wizard_of_Oz⠀⇛ In the early hours of Monday morning, a Debian blogger released the video of former GNOME employee Magdalen Berns singing Zombie. Less than twenty-four hours later and we have the news that GNOME Foundation has sacked Molly de Blanc. Now there really is a Zombie. Berns once won a championship title in women’s boxing. She packs a punch, even when she sings. o § Distributions⠀➾ # ⚓ Most_Beautiful_Linux_Distributions⠀⇛   Today there is Linux distribution for every type of computer user present on this planet irrespective of their work. From a kid studying in school to a professional working in a multinational company, there is Linux distribution available for every user. Linux is an open-source operating system; developers worldwide use various open-source technologies to develop a new surprising fork of Linux. Everyone gets tired of looking at the same desktop every day; we need something refreshing at a fixed interval of time to keep ourselves fresh and focused on work. Especially if you’re working on Windows or Mac OS, you get tired of the same look and layout because they generally possess the same look and feel even after some major updates. # § Screenshots/Screencasts⠀➾ # ⚓ Debian_10.10_LXQt⠀⇛ Today we are looking at Debian 10.10 LXQt. It uses Linux Kernel 4.19, LXQt 0.14.1, and uses about 500-600MB of ram when idling. Enjoy # ⚓ Debian_10.10_LXQt_Run_Through⠀⇛ In this video, we are looking at Debian 10.10 LXQt. # § IBM/Red Hat/Fedora⠀➾ # ⚓ CentOS_replacement_distro_Rocky_Linux’s_first_general release_is_out⠀⇛ Rocky Linux—one of at least two new distributions created to fill the void left when CentOS Linux was discontinued by parent corporation Red Hat—announced general availability of Rocky Linux 8.4 today. Rocky Linux 8.4 is binary-compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4, making it possible to run apps designed and tested only for RHEL without RHEL itself. # ⚓ Rocky_Linux_8.4⠀⇛ Rocky Linux is a community enterprise operating system, created by Gregory Kurtzer, founder of the CentOS project. Rocky Linux 8.4 has been released for x86-64 and aarch64. “Sufficient testing has been performed such that we have confidence in its stability for production systems.” # ⚓ Hello_Rocky_Linux_8.4_(and_belated_Hello_to_Alma Linux_too)⠀⇛ So according to LWN.net, Rocky Linux 8.4 reached General Available (GA). This is great as it means that there are two* ‘community rebuild’ to move CentOS 8 systems to if CentOS Stream is not a good match. [...] My other reason was to remind people that if they are using CentOS Linux, that the end of life for 8 is December 31, 2021. Before that time it would be good to look at switching to Alma, CentOS Stream 8, Oracle Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, or Rocky. These transitions take time, and there are only ~190 days before it needs to be done. # ⚓ CentOS_Stand-in_Rocky_Linux_Becomes_a_Ready_for_Prime Time_Player_|_Data_Center_Knowledge⠀⇛ Nearly three months after CentOS replacement AlmaLinux reached it’s first stable release, Rocky is ready to be a contender. # ⚓ Digital_transformation:_10_ways_DevOps_helps⠀⇛ Back in 2016, technology and business consultancy Everest Group published a report entitled “No DevOps, No Digital.” They were onto something: While DevOps is not necessarily mandatory for digital transformation, it’s awfully close. The processes and tools involved certainly accelerate the digital journey on a number of fronts. “DevOps, in its simplest form, is the coming together of various technology design, build, delivery, and operations teams to serve business objectives,” says Yugal Joshi, vice president of digital, cloud, and application services research for Everest Group. For years, these teams have worked independently. DevOps brings them together to not only accelerate software delivery and better manage infrastructure, but also to illuminate each team’s pain points for the other. “It makes them appreciate other people’s point of view rather than throwing something ‘over the wall’ and hoping it works,” Joshi says. In fact, he adds, “it is next to impossible for any enterprise to digitally transform without using concepts of DevOps.” # ⚓ IT_careers:_4_ways_to_recover_from_a_setback⠀⇛ You’re a rising star at your company. Everything is going right, and your team is working on a big project – the biggest in the company’s history. Launch day arrives … and there’s a massive glitch in the system. All the hard work you’ve put in has been for nothing! Or so you might think. Stay calm. Take a breath. Setbacks are part of every career. It’s how you handle those setbacks – how you push through the feelings of shock, anger, and fear – that will define your career (and your life) for years to come. # ⚓ Migrating_to_RHEL_8?_Enter_Red_Hat’s_giveaway [Ed: You can really tell that IBM/Red Hat sees its userbase slipping away...]⠀⇛ As part of the Red Hat “Leap into RHEL 8 Giveaway,” we will give swag to the first 500 people to migrate a system to RHEL 8 through July 31. # § Canonical/Ubuntu Family⠀➾ # ⚓ Ubuntu_Weekly_Newsletter_Issue_688⠀⇛ Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 688 for the week of June 13 – 19, 2021. The full version of this issue is available here. o § Devices/Embedded⠀➾ # ⚓ Tiny_i.MX8M_Mini_module_also_ships_on_dev_kit_with_Digi XBee⠀⇛ Digi’s rugged “ConnectCore 8M Mini” module runs Linux or Android on an i.MX8M Mini with Digi TrustFence security, up to 2GB LPDDR4 and 8GB eMMC, and 802.11ac/Bluetooth 5.0. A dev kit offers mini- PCIe and Digi XBee expansion. Digi has launched a Digi ConnectCore 8M Mini module and development kit that feature NXP’s i.MX8M Mini and support for Digi XBee modules including cellular add-ons. The ConnectCore 8M Mini has the same 45 x 40 x 3.5mm dimensions as the i.MX8X based Digi ConnectCore 8X module from 2018. We missed a similarly sized, i.MX8M Nano based ConnectCore 8M Nano from 2019, which has many of the features of the ConnectCore 8M Mini but is limited to 1GB RAM instead of 2GB. # § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾ # ⚓ Use_your_smartphone_to_control_Wilson_the_IoT_hat_| Arduino_Blog⠀⇛ Wearable displays are nothing new, but many of them lack that all-important “fun” element. That’s why OlivierZ over on Instructables created Wilson the IoT hat. The smart hat contains a large 232mm by 22mm flexible LED strip on its front that prominently shows rainbow text across a 71×7 LED matrix. The whole thing runs on a single 9V battery, which powers an Arduino Nano, HC- 05 Bluetooth module, and LED matrix. All of these components are nicely tucked away within the top of the hat to prevent wearers from seeing unsightly wires. # ⚓ Software_Updates_that_Respects_Civil_Liberties_– Purism⠀⇛ Yet-another reminder of how disrespectful Apple, Google, and Microsoft are with their software update process was highlighted to Android phones that were in Massachusets, USA. The unintentionally descriptively named “MassNotify” application was installed to all Android phones in Mass.—en masse—without consent. Mass Upgrade, Without Consent From a forced album install by Apple, to the forced upgrade to the Microsoft Edge browser, to the truth is stranger than fiction forced removal of the book 1984 from Kindle devices, mass forced upgrades/updates has been abused as technological dictatorship in the name of “security”. All technological advancements—even software updates—can be done where it respects the freedoms and civil liberties of humans. Not only can it be done, we can look at one of the earliest (and one of the most secure) operating system distributions and how they did software updates the right way. # ⚓ This_pocket-sized_uses_tinyML_to_analyze_a_COVID-19 patient’s_health_conditions_|_Arduino_Blog⠀⇛ In light of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, being able to quickly determine a person’s current health status is very important. This is why Manivannan S wanted to build his very own COVID Patient Health Assessment Device that could take several data points from various vitals and make a prediction about what they indicate. The pocket-sized system features a Nano 33 BLE Sense at its core, along with a Maxim Integrated MAX30102 pulse oximeter/heart-rate sensor to measure oxygen saturation and pulse. From this incoming health data, Manivannan developed a simple algorithm that generates a “Health Index” score by plugging in factors such as SpO2, respiration rate, heart rate, and temperature into a linear regression. Once some sample data was created, he sent it to Edge Impulse and trained a model that uses a series of health indices to come up with a plausible patient condition. # ⚓ Raspberry_Pi_R2D2_console_(plus_tons_of_other_Star Wars_projects)⠀⇛ # ⚓ 2021–06–20:_Pinephone_keyboard’s_firmware_I2C interface⠀⇛ I’ve implemented a USB stack for the pinephone keyboard’s firmware, to be able to perform printf debugging and tracing of what the MCU does. It’s now possible to see MCU’s operation using a simple USB debugging tool that shows the output from debugging code on the MCU in real-time. I’ve used the new debugger it to get to understand precise behavior of I2C slave peripheral. How interrupts are fired, and what’s the contents of various status registers during various I2C transfers from the pinephone SoC over POGO pins. This understanding can be used to write a more proper I2C control interface for the keyboard, that will be modelled as is typical with various other I2C devices a set of I2C „registers“ that can be read from and written to. The proposed specification for the register set is here. It will be possible to configure the keyboard’s scanning behavior in various ways over the I2C, and perform self- tests for QA purposes. I’ve also finalized the USB flashing tool. It now has a very nice interface and is quite useable and better documented. Samuel shared his keyboard kernel driver recently. So you’ll have a choice between kernel and userspace drivers for the keyboard. Both have their strengths. Userspace one will be easier to customize and play with, and the kernel one will be more available and better integrated into kernel’s suspend/resume functionality, I assume. # § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ Google_just_added_this_highly_requested_feature_to Messages_on_Android_|_Android_Central⠀⇛ # ⚓ Google_Keeps_Stopping_on_Android_Phones_As_Users Report_Issues⠀⇛ # ⚓ Unlocked_Galaxy_A51_is_finally_getting_Android_11_/ One_UI_3.1_in_the_USA_–_SamMobile⠀⇛ # ⚓ All_of_Motorola’s_2021_Android_smartphones_fall_to new_all-time_lows,_more_from_$115_–_9to5Toys⠀⇛ # ⚓ Stadia_for_Android_TV_–_9to5Google⠀⇛ # ⚓ How_to_disable_Samsung_Pay_swipe_gesture_on_Android smartphone⠀⇛ # ⚓ How_To_Keep_Hackers_Out_Of_Your_Android_Phone⠀⇛ # ⚓ Boss_Audio’s_6.2-inch_CarPlay_+_Android_Auto_receiver hits_low_of_$143,_more_from_$95_–_9to5Toys⠀⇛ # ⚓ OnePlus_Nord_N200_will_get_only_one_major_Android update_–_GSMArena.com_news⠀⇛ # ⚓ Avast_reports_the_most_threatening_malware_that_is faced_by_Android_Phones_/_Digital_Information_World⠀⇛ # ⚓ Android_gaming_tablet_powered_by_Snapdragon_8xx chipset_and_100W_fast_charing_to_launch_soon⠀⇛ # ⚓ Tablet:_A_high-end_Android_‘gaming’_tablet_is_in_the works,_claims_report_–_Times_of_India⠀⇛ # ⚓ The_most_powerful_Android_smartwatch_is_at_its cheapest_ever_for_Prime_Day_|_Android_Central⠀⇛ # ⚓ These_4_mobile_game_controller_deals_are_perfect_for Android_phones_|_Android_Central⠀⇛ # ⚓ 8_new_Android_apps_found_to_contain_malware_that steals_data_and_money_–_SamMobile⠀⇛ # ⚓ Google_2021_Games_Dev_Summit:_Android_12_and_Stadia_– 9to5Google⠀⇛ # ⚓ DOOGEE_packs_a_laser_rangefinder_into_its_latest Android_11_rugged_phone_–_NotebookCheck.net_News⠀⇛ # ⚓ The_OnePlus_Nord_N200_5G_will_only_get_one_major Android_update_|_Android_Central⠀⇛ # ⚓ Some_Android_users_to_get_Government_Emergency_Alert as_part_of_new_trial_–_LBC⠀⇛ o § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾ # ⚓ 11_Best_Free_and_Open_Source_Email_Servers⠀⇛ Email remains the killer information and communications technology. Email volume shows no sign of diminishing, despite the increasing popularity of collaborative messaging tools. There were over 4 billion email users in 2020. Messages are exchanged between hosts using the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol with software programs called mail transfer agents, and delivered to a mail store by programs called mail delivery agents, frequently referred to as email clients. Within the Internet email system, a message transfer agent, or mail transfer agent, or mail relay is software that transfers electronic mail messages from one computer to another using SMTP. The terms mail server, mail exchanger, and MX host are also used in some contexts. # § Web Browsers⠀➾ # § Mozilla⠀➾ # ⚓ New_Release:_Tor_Browser_10.0.18⠀⇛ Tor Browser 10.0.18 is now available from the Tor Browser download page and also from our distribution directory. This version updates Tor to 0.4.5.9, including important security fixes. In addition, on Android, this version updates Firefox to 89.1.1, and NoScript to 11.2.8 This version includes important security updates to Firefox for Android. # § Openness/Sharing/Collaboration⠀➾ # § Open Access/Content⠀➾ # ⚓ Opinion:_Textbooks_are_expensive._Universities should_use_Open_Educational_Resources_instead.⠀⇛ Stories like these are far too common. According to a survey released by the California Student Aid Commission, nearly two-thirds of California students say their biggest obstacle to succeeding in college is costs and juggling jobs with school. Many do not have the financial means to cover the costs of college, unfortunately skipping meals, sleeping in cars or falling deeper into poverty due to student debt. Ultimately, students should not have to worry about the price of materials in a course they already paid to take. This issue has a simple solution — adopting university-wide Open Educational Resources. These are free, peer-written and peer-reviewed materials that are downloadable and published under an open access license — allowing professors to assign them to students without purchase. There is an urgent need to transition to these resources and the California PIRG chapter has launched its Affordable Textbook Campaign to focus on this issue. Its immediate goal is to have the UC Regents invest funding into a grant program that would incentivize faculty to use open-source textbooks in the classroom. This program would compensate faculty members for the time they spend transitioning their classes to this new approach. # § Programming/Development⠀➾ # ⚓ Google’s_UI_Toolkit_Flutter_2.2_Claims_Cross-Platform Crown⠀⇛ At the recent Google I/O conference, Google announced version 2.2 of its cross-platform UI toolkit, Flutter. According to a study, it is now the most popular cross-platform option. Google concentrated on fixing issues, optimizing performance, and refining existing features in this release. Microsoft, Samsung, Adobe, Sony, and Ubuntu Linux all increased their Flutter support. Google cited SlashData’s “Mobile Developer Population Forecast 2021″ and said that 45% of developers select Flutter now, with a 47% year-over-year growth. This would make Flutter the most popular cross-platform UI toolkit. Google also announced that 200,000 apps in the Play Store are built with Flutter. That is 50,000 more than at the end of 2020 and shows a growth rate of 440% since December 2019. In those same 16 months, though, the number of Google teams building Flutter apps only grew by 50%, from “over 20″ to “more than 30″. For comparison: In the 27 months from February 2019 to April 2021, Google’s Angular applications increased 430% from “600+” to “2600 or 2700″, as Google Developer Advocate Emma Twersky explained in this podcast (28:35 min). # § Python⠀➾ # ⚓ Python_Reduce_Function_Usage_–_Linux_Hint⠀⇛ Reduce() seems to be a Python method that performs the folding or compression of the mathematical approach. When you’re about to implement a method over an iterable and limit it to a singular cumulative value, reduce() comes in handy. Python’s reduce() method is famous among functional programmers, although Python has many more to offer. You’ll learn how to use reduce() functions and how to implement them efficiently in this article. # ⚓ Python_Sleep_Function_Usage_–_Linux_Hint⠀⇛ Python sleep () is used to delay the specific processes by adding a sleep function in the source code. The time provided in seconds allows a delay in the process. In this article, we will perform many examples to enhance your knowledge of the sleep method in Python. We have used the Spyder tool for the execution of code. # ⚓ Python_Time_Module_Examples_Usage_–_Linux Hint⠀⇛ You may use the Python time package to interact with all time-related methods. The majority of them merely call the same-named platform C library routines. There would be minor changes across platforms. The time package is included in all Python releases. o § Standards/Consortia⠀➾ # ⚓ The_new_ACCESS_Act_is_a_good_start._Here’s_how_to_make_sure it_delivers.⠀⇛ We’ve praised the ACCESS Act as “a step towards a more interoperable future.” However, the bill currently before Congress is just a first step, and it’s far from perfect. While we strongly agree with the authors’ intent, some important changes would make sure that the ACCESS Act delivers on its promise. One of the biggest concerns among proponents of interoperability is that a poorly thought-out mandate could end up harming privacy. Interoperability implies more data sharing, and this, skeptics argue, increases the risk of large- scale abuse. We addressed this supposed paradox head-on in a recent whitepaper, where we explained that interoperability can enhance privacy by giving users more choice and making it easier to switch away from services that are built on surveillance. Requiring large platforms to share more data does create very real risks. In order to mitigate those risks, new rules for interoperability must be grounded in two principles: user consent and data minimization. First, users should have absolute control over whether or not to share their data: they should be able to decide when to start sharing, and then to rescind that permission at any time. Second, the law must ensure that data which is shared between companies in order to enable interoperability—which may include extremely sensitive data, like private messages—is not used for secondary, unexpected purposes. Relatedly, the law must make sure that “interoperability” is not used as a blanket excuse to share data that users wouldn’t otherwise approve of. # ⚓ NHS_Digital_launches_its_Terminology_Server_to_help_boost data_sharing⠀⇛ NHS Digital’s Terminology Server, which is FHIR conformant, transforms the way in which data is captured, shared and analysed across the health and care system. At the heart of the solution is the ability to translate items into a common ‘language of health’ when professionals describe something using different terms. For example, a symptom could be described as “back-ache” or equally referred to as “lower lumbar pain”. When such information is recorded and shared across the health and care system the Terminology Server can be used to match the disparate descriptions so that all the organisations and software involved in a patient’s journey can ‘talk’ to each other and the patient data can be reconciled and compared effectively. * § Leftovers⠀➾ o ⚓ Political_trolling_twice_as_popular_as_positivity,_study suggests⠀⇛ Social media posts are twice as likely to go viral if they are negative about politicians they oppose rather than positive about those they support, a Cambridge University study suggests. It analysed 2.7 million tweets and Facebook posts from US media outlets and political figures over five years. The negative posts were also twice as likely to be commented on. o § Science⠀➾ # ⚓ The_COVID-19_pseudoscience_suffocating_Brazil⠀⇛ In Brazil, where more than 474,000 people have already died due to Covid-19 — second only to the United States — pseudoscience has become government policy. Bolsonaro regularly promotes repurposing unproven and cheap drugs to his nearly 40 million social media followers as he continues to minimize the gravity of the pandemic and dismiss its victims. Meanwhile, his administration has spent millions of dollars to produce, purchase, and promote pills such as the lice medication ivermectin, the antimalarial chloroquine, and popular antibiotic azithromycin, as well as anticoagulants, painkillers, and a set of vitamins. The Ministry of Health and numerous doctors endorsed using a combination of these medications to treat Covid-19, even though there is no solid evidence that it works. o § Education⠀➾ # ⚓ [Old] Are_We_Really_Engineers?⠀⇛ So that’s what I set out to find: people who used to be professional engineers and then became professional software developers. I call these people crossovers, hybrids between the two worlds. I interviewed 17 crossovers on common software misconceptions, how the two worlds relate to each other, whether we can truthfully call what we do engineering, and what the different fields can teach and learn from each other. There’s a lot I want to talk about here, much more than can comfortably fit in one blog post. I divided the write up into three parts, dealing with my three core topics. Part one is about the term “engineering”. Is what we do engineering, and can we honestly call ourselves engineers? # ⚓ America’s_school_teachers_aren’t_the_Marxist_cabal_Fox_News keeps_depicting⠀⇛ This legislative movement received a big push from the demonization of the New York Times’ 1619 Project and from Trump’s short-lived 1776 Commission. But it has its roots in decades of conservative accusations of liberal bias in the teaching ranks. Yes, teachers are more liberal than the nation at large, but not dramatically. A 2017 Education Week survey found 41 percent self- identified as Democrats, higher than the 33 percent of registered voters polled by Pew around the same time. Just as many teachers as voters overall were Republicans. And that doesn’t take into account how hard many teachers work to keep their politics out of the classroom. For many, this is a pride point; they want to produce independent thinkers, not clones. For others, it’s fear; they want to avoid complaints from parents, reprisals from administrators, or swarming by trolls. o § Health/Nutrition⠀➾ # ⚓ Trump_Complained_COVID_Testing_Would_Lose_Him_the_Election, New_Book_Says⠀⇛ # ⚓ The_Response_to_the_Pandemic_Has_Been_Driven_by_Vaccine Nationalism⠀⇛ Fifteen months ago, the SARS-CoV-2 virus unleashed Covid-19. Since then, it’s killed more than 3.8 million people worldwide (and possibly many more). Finally, a return to normalcy seems likely for a distinct minority of the world’s people, those living mainly in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, the European Union, and China. That’s not surprising. The concentration of wealth and power globally has enabled rich countries to all but monopolize available vaccine doses. For the citizens of low-income and poor countries to have long-term pandemic security, especially the 46% of the world’s population who survive on less than $5.50 a day, this inequity must end, rapidly—but don’t hold your breath. # ⚓ Doctors_Without_Borders_Calls_on_BioNTech_to_Share_Vaccine Tech_With_World⠀⇛ Humanitarian group Doctors Without Borders on Monday urged BioNTech—one of the makers of a Covid- 19 vaccine—to share its vaccine technology with the world to lessen the stark inequality in dose access and save lives. The demand from the group, also known Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), came on the eve of BioNTech’s virtual shareholder meeting and amid concerns over the emergence of new coronavirus variants. # ⚓ End_Vaccine_Apartheid:_Summit_on_Vaccine_Internationalism Demands_Urgent_Action_to_Help_Global_South⠀⇛ We look at the push to end what the World Health Organization is calling “vaccine apartheid,” as many countries have yet to see a single COVID-19 vaccine shot amid mounting infections. “What we’re looking for is an alternative to a system that has basically allowed for COVID-19 vaccines to be absolutely concentrated in the higher-income countries,” says Carina Vance Mafla, former health minister of Ecuador, who co-chaired this weekend’s emergency Summit on Vaccine Internationalism. She argues vaccine access can be improved by expanding vaccine “production in other countries … that have developed vaccine candidates, but also having pricing that is based on solidarity.” We also speak with Achal Prabhala, coordinator of the AccessIBSA project, which campaigns for access to medicines in India, Brazil and South Africa. Prabhala says the pandemic is now “largely a developing country problem.” # ⚓ Yanis_Varoufakis:_Capitalist_Nations_Bailed_Out_Banks_While Skimping_on_Funds_to_Vaccinate_Humanity⠀⇛ More than 2.6 billion COVID-19 vaccines have been administered worldwide, but many countries have yet to see a single shot amid mounting infections. Eighty-five percent of vaccines administered worldwide have been in high- and upper-middle- income countries. Only 0.3% of doses have been administered in low-income countries. Last week, G7 nations pledged to donate just 613 million new vaccine doses — far less than the 1 billion originally promised. This was the focus of an emergency four-day virtual Summit for Vaccine Internationalism this weekend, attended by government ministers, parliamentarians and public health officials from many countries, including Argentina, Bolivia, Vietnam, India, Greece, the United Kingdom, Canada and Cuba. The summit was organized by Progressive International, an organization founded by Senator Bernie Sanders and former Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis. “This is how we radicalize the world in order to be able to end the patent monopoly of Big Pharma,” says Varoufakis in his address, “so that there are no more patents that prevent people from access to pharmaceuticals … available in order to save lives.” # ⚓ Throughout_the_Pandemic,_Some_Hospitals_Still_Sued_Patients Over_Medical_Debt⠀⇛ Last year as COVID-19 laid siege to the nation, many U.S. hospitals dramatically reduced their aggressive tactics to collect medical debt. Some ceased entirely. # ⚓ Schumer_Backs_Sanders_Plan_to_Expand_Medicare_to_Cover Dental,_Vision_&_Hearing⠀⇛ # ⚓ Skt_Hans_bonfires_permitted_all_over_Denmark⠀⇛ Last year Sankt Hans Aften was cancelled because of the COVID-19 pandemic. # ⚓ More_People_Than_Ever_Use_Medicaid_to_Pay_for_Healthcare⠀⇛ A record number of Americans are relying on Medicaid for healthcare coverage during the pandemic. Nearly 74 million people are currently enrolled on Medicaid, the highest number participating in the program on record, according to a report by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). During the pandemic, from February 2020 to January 2021, an additional 9.7 million individuals enrolled in Medicaid, increasing the size of the program by nearly 14 percent. In an interview with the Washington Post’s Amy Goldstein, CMS Administrator Chiquita Brooks-LaSure said that Medicaid has been a “lifeline” for many Americans. “We’ve really seen how important Medicaid is to ensuring the overall health of our country and have seen this through the pandemic,” she said. o § Integrity/Availability⠀➾ # ⚓ Finding_the_Bottom_Turtle⠀⇛ So, how do we get back to a bootstrappable system today? That’s the purpose of the Bootstrappable.org family of projects. They seem to be mostly GNU- affiliated these days, so their goal is to go backwards from a working gcc build environment to as close to “nothing” as possible. Ultimately, the goal is to have the miraculous pre- existing seed of software be small enough that a single human can inspect and verify its machine code by hand, and build back up using source code from there on. Here’s a summary of the current state of the art (meaning, a very small number of distros bootstrap this way, and are the “most bootstrappable” distros out there): [...] # § Proprietary⠀➾ # ⚓ How_Cyber_Safe_is_Your_Drinking_Water_Supply?⠀⇛ Amid multiple recent reports of hackers breaking into and tampering with drinking water treatment systems comes a new industry survey with some sobering findings: A majority of the 52,000 separate drinking water systems in the United States still haven’t inventoried some or any of their information technology systems — a basic first step in protecting networks from cyberattacks. # ⚓ Cyber_agency_says_SolarWinds_[crack]_could_have_been deterred_by_simple_security_measures [iophk: Windows TCO]⠀⇛ The SolarWinds [crack], one of the largest cybersecurity incidents in U.S. history, may have been deterred or minimized if basic security measures had been put in place, a top government official acknowledged earlier this month. In a June 3 letter to Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) provided to The Hill on Monday, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) acting Director Brandon Wales agreed with Wyden’s question over whether firewalls placed in victim agency systems could have helped block the malware virus used in the SolarWinds attack. # ⚓ Police:_Looming_non-EU_import_delays_likely_to increase_scams⠀⇛ If that link is followed, users will end up at a bogus website which will automatically install malware on Android phones. Then, the software begins seeking out personal information like banking details. “After that, it’s open, which means that scammers can empty people’s accounts and make payments,” Pöyhönen explained, saying that the software can even help scammers apply for payday loans in a victim’s name. # ⚓ Inside_a_ransomware_attack:_how_dark_webs_of cybercriminals_collaborate_to_pull_one_off [iophk: Windows TCO]⠀⇛ The problem for law enforcement is that ransomware – a form of malware used to steal organisations’ data and hold it to ransom – is a very slippery fish. Not only is it a blended crime, including different offences across different bodies of law, but it’s also a crime that straddles the remit of different policing agencies and, in many cases, countries. And there is no one key offender. Ransomware attacks involve a distributed network of different cybercriminals, often unknown to each other to reduce the risk of arrest. So it’s important to look at these attacks in detail to understand how the US and the G7 might go about tackling the increasing number of ransomware attacks we’ve seen during the pandemic, with at least 128 publicly disclosed incidents taking place globally in May 2021. # § Pseudo-Open Source⠀➾ # § Privatisation/Privateering⠀➾ # ⚓ Why_the_Neoliberal_Drive_to_Privatize Everything_Is_Running_Out_of_Gas⠀⇛ Pity the poor libertarians. Their audience fades because the same intrusive government they blame for all economic ills demands loyalty in its fight with China. Former President Richard Nixon was less dishonest 50 years ago when he reportedly said, “We are all Keynesians now.” In contrast, today’s GOP mouths “conservative economics,” yet merely quibbles over details of the government’s gigantic money creation and deficit financing. Today’s declining U.S. capitalism can no longer repeat its previous bland celebrations of private enterprises and free markets. Too much is going wrong, provoking criticism, and deepening divisions across U.S. society. The last time U.S. capitalism stumbled this badly—the Great Depression of the 1930s—public health did not suffer massive failure at the same time. Yet, then too, criticism of capitalism reached far, wide, and deep. It was expressed in the unionization by the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) of millions alongside zooming enrollments in two socialist parties and one communist party. # § Linux Foundation⠀➾ # ⚓ Linux_Foundation_Makes_Available Software_Manifest_Tool_–_DevOps.com⠀⇛ The Linux Foundation is making available a set of free tools for building software bills of material (SBOMs) based on the software data package exchange (SPDX) file format it curates. Backed by more than 20 organizations, SPDX is an effort to standardize the way metadata describing the contents of a software package is described. # § Security⠀➾ # § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾ # ⚓ DOJ_Asks_DC_Court_To_Compel_Decryption_Of Device_Seized_In_A_Capitol_Raid_Case⠀⇛ The DOJ is testing some waters it may not want to be troubling, not with hundreds of prosecutions stemming from the January 6 Capitol raid on the docket. It has asked the DC court to compel a defendant to decrypt his laptop so the FBI can search it for evidence. (h/t Marcy Wheeler) # ⚓ On_Prime_Day,_Groups_Demand_Federal_Ban on_Amazon’s_‘Punitive’_Worker Surveillance⠀⇛ A coalition of worker advocacy and racial justice organizations marked the start of Prime Day on Monday with an open letter demanding that state and federal lawmakers take action to end Amazon’s systems of employee surveillance, which critics say are at the heart of the company’s devastating injury crisis. “Amazon knows their system physically harms workers and ruins lives, but refuses to roll back the system that injures workers at such a despicable rate: workplace surveillance.”—Evan Greer, Fight for the Future # ⚓ ACLU_Alarm_as_Amazon_Activates_Sidewalk Surveillance_System⠀⇛ # ⚓ Wither_Encryption:_What_Operation_Trojan Shield_Reveals⠀⇛ The haul was certainly more than the usual: over 32 tonnes of an assortment of drugs including cocaine, cannabis, amphetamines and methamphetamines; 250 firearms, 55 luxury cars, and some $48 million in cash, both tangible and digital. Operation Trojan Shield arose because of a grand dupe.  It involved recruiting an FBI informant who had developed an adulterated version of the encryption technology platform Anom, to be used on modified cell phones for distribution through a range of organised crime networks.  The platform included a calculator app that relayed all communications sent on the platform back to the FBI.   “You had to know a criminal to get hold of one of these customised phones,” the Australian Federal Police explained. “The phones couldn’t ring or email.   You could only communicate with someone on the same platform.” # ⚓ The_Law_Bytes_Podcast,_Episode_93:_Lex Gill_on_the_RCMP,_Clearview_AI_and_Canada’s History_of_Surveillance⠀⇛ CityNews, RCMP Violated Privacy Act by Using Facial Recognition: Privacy Commissioner # ⚓ Researchers:_2G_Connection_Encryption Deliberately_Weakened_To_Comply_With Cryptowar_Export_Restrictions⠀⇛ Researchers have discovered a backdoor in 2G encryption, one that was deliberately created. As this report by Lorenzo Franchesi- Bicchierai for Motherboard points out, the researchers didn’t necessarily know it was deliberate when they discovered it. # ⚓ Coalition_Demands_Federal_Ban_on_Amazon’s Punitive_Worker_Surveillance⠀⇛ # ⚓ Carnival_Cruise_says_customer_data exposed_in_breach⠀⇛ Carnival spokesperson Roger Frizzell told The Hill in a statement Friday that the company detected an intrusion to parts of its IT systems on March 19. It quickly shut down the [attack], and engaged a cybersecurity firm to investigate. # ⚓ Fastest_alternatives_to_Google’s_DNS servers_for_StarLink_users_–_how_to manually_dig-test_dns_nameservers⠀⇛ Thus Google and CloudFlare have some easy to remember DNS server IPs: 8.8.8.8 and 1.1.1.1 But a nameserver can see all websites & services that a device requests access to (looking up the websites & service’s ip address), so if the user does not want to turn over what is essentially the “record of dialed phone numbers” to Google or Cloudflare: what about alternatives that do not store the user’s browsing habbits for eternity for AIs to dig into that BigData and try to exploit it somehow? o § Defence/Aggression⠀➾ # ⚓ GOP_Stands_for_Guns_Over_People⠀⇛ # ⚓ Presidents_Biden_and_Putin’s_Nuclear_Words⠀⇛ “A nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought.” These words echoing the Reagan— Gorbachev Principle issued thirty six years before in Geneva came as a joint statement at the conclusion of Presidents Biden and Putin’s Summit last week.  # ⚓ Burma’s_Refugees_Deserve_Global_Solidarity_and_Support⠀⇛ Sunday, June 20 marked the United Nations’ World Refugee Day, a time to highlight refugees worldwide, applaud their courage, and highlight their contributions. This year’s theme, “Heal, Learn, Shine,” recognized the challenges of COVID- 19, the need to uphold the right to education, and how refugees persevere despite the challenges presented to them. According to the UN, there are greater than 1.1 million refugees from my home country of Burma, making it one of the top five source countries of refugees worldwide. While many may celebrate World Refugee Day, those forced to flee Burma continue to witness repeated mass atrocities. # ⚓ Afghanistan:_Negotiations_in_Confusion,_Press_Suppressed⠀⇛ Until a few months ago, the main debate centred on whether the talks could be a truly national peace process, or whether they would merely be a locus of foreign policy manoeuvring by exogenous powers. Today, though, people are asking each other a more difficult question: will conferences and negotiations even take place? The media are currently unable to provide an answer to this question. To try and get some answers, Ahmad Soheil Ahmadi spoke to Professor Mohammad Akram Gizabi, the Afghan writer, journalist, and political activist. He gave us a seasoned perspective on today’s media and journalistic landscape in Afghanistan and the jockeying among participants of the peace talks. # ⚓ Over_30,000_US_Veterans_of_Post-9/11_Wars_Have_Killed Themselves_Since_2001⠀⇛ New research released Monday shows the post-9/11 wars launched by the U.S. military since 2001 have resulted in over 30,000 suicides by active duty American solders and veterans—over four times the number killed in combat operations. According to Brown University’s Costs of War Project—established in 2010 to account for the loss of lives and taxpayer dollars spent on U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan—an estimated 30,177 veterans and service members have killed themselves over the last nearly two decades, compared with 7,057 members of the military who have been killed in combat.  # ⚓ Did_U.S._Push_Iran_to_Right?_Hard-Line_Cleric_Wins Presidency;_Nuclear_Talks_in_Vienna_Show_Promise⠀⇛ Hard-line cleric Ebrahim Raisi won the Iranian presidential election with about 62% of the vote. Raisi has headed Iran’s judiciary since 2019 and is seen as a protégé and possible successor of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Turnout in the election was just 49% — the lowest since the 1979 Iranian revolution — and dozens of candidates were barred from running in the election, including former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Raisi appears to “have higher ambitions than just [the] presidency,” says Nega Mortazavi, an Iranian American journalist and host of “The Iran Podcast.” “He is preparing to be a potential successor to the supreme leader,” Mortazavi says. “The hard-liners tried to disqualify any serious moderate or reformist rival to Ebrahim Raisi to clear a path to victory for him.” # ⚓ Jan._6_Wasn’t_the_End_—_the_Right_Is_Trying_a_Hostile Takeover_State_by_State⠀⇛ # ⚓ Coup_Fears_Grow_as_Right-Wing_Candidate_in_Peru_Falsely Claims_Election_Fraud⠀⇛ # ⚓ The_Taliban_Are_Winning_the_War_of_Words_in_Afghanistan⠀⇛ The government’s radio silence is handing a propaganda victory to the insurgents. o § Transparency/Investigative Reporting⠀➾ # ⚓ Estonian_master’s_thesis_on_ferry_sinking_in_spotlight_in Sweden⠀⇛ Sweden’s largest daily, Dagens Nyheter, published an article in its science section of a study planned by the Accident Investigation Authority at the MS Estonia wreck. In short, it is planned to bring representatives of the relatives on board the research vessel. However, Jonathan Lindstrom, a journalist who lost his parents in the shipwreck, is protesting against the way these representatives are being selected, using the recent Estonian master’s thesis as the argument. The purpose of the underwater survey is, according to the Swedish Accident Investigation Authority, to prepare for the investigation of holes found in the wreck, and the trip will take place on July 8-18. According to Lindstrom, the choice of representatives has been entrusted to Lennart Berglund, chairman of the management board of the next-of-kin association Stiftelsen Estoniaoffren och Anhoriga (SEA). He protests that the SEA, whose representatives have threatened next-of-kin with different views, is now trying to independently represent all the relatives of the victims. Lindstrom emphasized that while he respects the work of the Swedish Accident Investigation Authority and its balance, he would like to point out that the SEA is far from representing all the relatives of the victims. o § Environment⠀➾ # ⚓ Climate_Crises_Can_Lead_to_Improved_Social_Cooperation_and Economy⠀⇛ The article, “Climate Change and State Evolution,” was published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) on April 6 and was authored by Carmine Guerriero from the University of Bologna in Italy and Giacomo Benati from Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen in Germany. The authors note in the article’s abstract that prior literature on climate disasters in ancient societies focuses on “collapse archaeology,” and tends to correlate “severe droughts” with “institutional crises.” The article instead used a game theory approach to analyze a stream of papers that have been published in recent years on Bronze Age Mesopotamia that challenge this narrative. As the article’s abstract states, the papers the authors analyzed for the study have been “building on more detailed data on Bronze Age Mesopotamia and a more credible theory-based empirical strategy.” The abstract further states that the authors’ study of these papers yielded the following two results: # ⚓ Climate_heat’s_tides_may_rise_above_safety_levels⠀⇛ Millions will either have to flee from climate heat’s tides, or find new ways to stay above water. # ⚓ We_Watched_GB_News’_First_Week_of_Climate_Coverage_and… Ouch⠀⇛ It’s been a bumpy start for the new kid on the block. Such have been the teething problems of Britain’s youngest news channel that there’s already a dedicated Twitter account posting clips of the gaffes and technical hitches besetting its programmes. The channel has also been subject to an advertising boycott from some major brands, some of which quickly rowed back on the decision once some unpalatable truths about their own activity came to light. Who needs soap operas when you’ve got drama like this? # ⚓ Global_Hopes_in_Doubt_After_G7_Fails_to_Meet_Climate Finance_Pledges_for_Poor_Nations⠀⇛ The Group of 7 leaders last week ended their summit without a firm and clear commitment on how they’re going to deliver on the annual $100 billion climate finance pledge they made over a decade ago, sparking criticism from United Nations climate chief Patricia Espinosa. The climate finance for developing nations, Espinosa has said, is “absolutely crucial” to the success of ongoing climate negotiations. # § Energy⠀➾ # ⚓ Supreme_Court_Will_Decide_Whether_Pipeline_Developers Can_Seize_Public_Land⠀⇛ # ⚓ Another_Inconvenient_Truth:_A_Simple_Guide_To_A Global_Energy_Agency’s_Roadmap_To_A_Cooler_Future⠀⇛ Geoff Russell spent weeks reading and researching the International Energy Agency’s landmark report into the planet’s energy future, so that you didn’t have to. You can thank him later. # § Wildlife/Nature⠀➾ # ⚓ Necropolitics_in_the_Amazon⠀⇛ Governments, the private sector and many other actors are using the pandemic as an excuse to justify harmful practices.  These actors are pushing extraction strategies, such as mining and oil concessions and agricultural expansion, in order to re-start economic growth. As usual, the Amazon is on the frontlines of the war for the appropriation of the natural world. Most people when they hear ‘Amazon’, think only of Brazil. And while the situation in that country certainly is alarming, the battlefields of the Amazon region span northern Bolivia, various departments of Peru, several areas of Ecuador and southern Colombia and Venezuela. # ⚓ California’s_Opportunity_to_Shape_Worldwide Biodiversity_Policy⠀⇛ # ⚓ Can_The_Fate_Of_Dolphins_and_Louisiana’s_Fishing Industry_Stop_A_Massive_Mississippi_River_Diversion Plan?⠀⇛ The tide is turning against Louisiana’s proposed $2 billion Mississippi River sediment diversion project, that supporters say is needed to save the coast from rapid land loss due to subsidence, damage done by the oil and gas industry, extreme weather events, and sea level rise quickened by climate change. The proposed Mid-Barataria sediment diversion project, is a key part of the state’s $50 billion master plan to restore the rapidly eroding coast. If constructed, the diversion is designed to let the river’s natural land building process restore Louisiana’s disappearing marshland.  o § Finance⠀➾ # ⚓ (Still) _In_the_Land_o’_Cotton⠀⇛ Yes, America was built on cheap labor. Maybe you’ve noticed. It still is. And as the Founding Fathers understood in their bones, the cheapest labor is the slave kind. Early America was heavily peopled by indentured “servants” who might, after a period of servitude, eventually emerge from their bondage. But a large population of “chattel slaves” were property: Owned by the purchaser as one might own a machine or a piece of furniture. The Framers’ constitution which made a claim to independence and popular government was, however, diligent in protecting the “peculiar institution” of slavery. Daniel Lazare’s important book, The Frozen Republic numbered the ways by which the Framers sought to keep the public structurally at-bay. The “separation-of-powers” that we are taught to revere as children is part of this matrix. The utterly unrepresentative “rotten borough” of the U.S, Senate was a key element. There, slave states could block “wicked projects” like emancipation. There, thinly populated states could block the interests of more populous ones. The subversive  principle of One person/one vote is an affront to the institution of the this millionaire’s club. # ⚓ Criminal_Probe_Into_DeJoy_Demanded_Over_‘Suspicious’_GOP Donations⠀⇛ An election watchdog organization on Monday demanded a state-level criminal probe into Postmaster General Louis DeJoy after research uncovered “suspicious” new details surrounding a straw donor scheme he allegedly orchestrated during his time as chief executive of the North Carolina- based firm New Breed Logistics. “These new, detailed findings reveal an alarming and highly suspicious pattern of campaign donations by Louis DeJoy’s employees while he led New Breed Logistics.”—Bob Phillips, Common Cause North Carolina # ⚓ The_Dangers_of_Working_While_Black_on_Wall_Street⠀⇛ At 3:30 am on a warm fall morning in 2009, Glenn D. Capel, a stockbroker at Merrill Lynch, was speeding down the Interstate in his Lexus LS 400 from his home in Greensboro, N.C., toward Candor, 75 miles away. A half-hour earlier, his 84-year-old mother had called from her home in the rural town and said that her heart felt “heavy” and that she had pain going down her left arm. “I’m on my way,” he had told her.1This story was reported in partnership with Type Investigations with support from the Puffin Foundation. In the cardiologist’s office hours later, Capel stepped outside the room where his mother was being monitored to check his voice mail before the 9:30 am opening of the stock market. It was then that he was dealt the day’s second blow.2 # ⚓ How_America’s_50_Largest_Inherited-Wealth_Dynasties Accelerate_Inequality⠀⇛ # ⚓ If_You_Thought_Employers_Were_Exploiting_Workers_With_Too Many_Insecure_Jobs_Before_The_Pandemic,_Wait_Till_You_See_The Figures_Now⠀⇛ Australia paid a big price for the over reliance on insecure jobs prior to the pandemic. But as our economy recovers, insecure jobs account for about two out of every three new positions. Dan Nahum from the Centre for Future Work at the Australia Institute explains why that’s a very bad thing for everyone. # ⚓ Progressives_Say_‘Do_What_the_People_Want_and_Tax_the_Rich’ to_Pay_for_Infrastructure⠀⇛ Amid ongoing negotiations over federal infrastructure legislation, progressive lawmakers and advocates on Monday reiterated their commitment to a popular policy that could help pay for a sweeping package: taxing the rich. “Taxing the rich isn’t about discouraging wealth, it’s about making sure the wealthiest Americans play by the same rules as the rest of us.”—Tax March # ⚓ Payment_Processors_Are_The_True_Internet_Evil⠀⇛ When people talk about censorship they’ll talk about Social Media giants like Facebook and Twitter, but the true evil of the internet are the payment processors they are the ones truely [sic] in control. o § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾ # ⚓ How_Progressives_Could_Lose_New_York’s_Mayor’s_Race—but_Win the_City⠀⇛ From the perspective of New York City’s left, the current mayoral race is a mess. In April, many prominent progressives hastily suspended endorsements of Scott Stringer, at the time the leading left-leaning candidate, after he was accused of sexual harassment. In the aftermath, many progressives tried to drum up enthusiasm for the nonprofit executive Dianne Morales, despite reservations over her shallow roots on the left—only to see her campaign implode last month after she fired four staffers leading a unionization drive. # ⚓ Why_NYC_Progressives_Should_Fear_an_Eric_Adams_Mayoralty⠀⇛ Among despairing progressives in New York City, there is an urgent, ongoing debate: In the ranked- choice Democratic primary for mayor on Tuesday, should Andrew Yang or Eric Adams be left off your ballot? # ⚓ Solidarity,_Not_Bourgeoisie_Interests,_Will_Lead_to_Peace in_Israel/Palestine⠀⇛ For Al Jazeera’s Marwan Bishara, “in a confident and prosperous Israel, personal ambition trumps politics, and politicking outweighs ideology.” Thus, as he (Bishara) put it in a separate interview, Benjamin Netanyahu’s ousting was a ‘family feud’, not a signifier of any ideological shift. Indeed, most of the key figures in the new government served as ministers in the right-wing Likud-led government of Netanyahu. It is reasonable to assert that the prospects of any changes that may be brought about by the new Israeli government are almost nil. As Bishara concludes: “Netanyahu may be finished, but short of a miracle, Netanyahu’s Netanyahus are here to stay.” The key concern for activists around the world therefore should be how the struggle for the liberation of the Palestinian people should continue to be prosecuted. # ⚓ Socialists_Were_Once_Serious_Contenders_for_Mayor_of_New York,_and_They_Will_Be_Again⠀⇛ New York Mayor David Dinkins, just months after taking office in 1990, welcomed members of the Socialist International to Manhattan with a robust reflection:1Socialist ideals have played a powerful role in this city and this country—which have served as gateways for millions of immigrants, many of whom were socialist activists. Public education, a strong and vibrant trade union movement, and many great cultural institutions are products of the socialist movement. As Eugene Debs said, socialists believed in an America of “great possibilities, of great opportunities and of no less great probabilities.”2Subscribe to The Nation Subscribe now for as little as $2 a month! Get The Nation’s Weekly NewsletterFridays. The best of the week. By signing up, you confirm that you are over the age of 16 and agree to receive occasional promotional offers for programs that support The Nation’s journalism. You can read our Privacy Policy here. # ⚓ The_Rise_and_Fall_of_Netanyahu⠀⇛ Similarly, the stories of how they fell have points in common. Each has lost office by the narrowest of margins – Trump in the presidential election last November; Netanyahu by a single vote in the knesset on Sunday. Their personality cults may be damaged, but they retain a commanding status on the far right – and with it a fighting chance of winning back power. Any such return to national leadership is likely to be through stirring up antagonism on every side. # ⚓ Opinion_|_It’s_About_Time_(To_Throw_Out_the_Crooks_and Liars_and_Rednecks))⠀⇛ # ⚓ From_MSNBC_to_NPR,_Corporate_“Liberal”_Media_Propaganda Tells_the_World:_America_Is_First⠀⇛ If you get your foreign policy news today from CNN or MSNBC or NPR or similar outlets, then you’re bombarded hour after hour with the idea that the United States has the absolute right to impose sanctions on country after country overseas if they violate human rights or are not democratic. # ⚓ Our_Biggest_Enemy_Isn’t_China._It’s_Right_Here_at_Home⠀⇛ # ⚓ Schumer_Backs_Sanders’_Proposal_to_Include_Dental,_Hearing, and_Vision_Care_in_Medicare⠀⇛ Following calls from progressives to include an expansion of Medicare in the infrastructure bill being negotiated in Congress, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer announced late Sunday his support for covering dental, vision, and hearing care under the popular 56-year-old program, backing a proposal long pushed by Sen. Bernie Sanders. “With the current Medicare platform, those three things are just left out, like it’s no big deal. But it is a big deal and we should fix it,” Schumer told reporters at a news conference.  # ⚓ Sanders_Says_Congress_Must_Combat_GOP_Attacks_on_Voting Rights_in_‘Any_and_Every_Way’⠀⇛ With the Senate set to vote this week on a sweeping bill that would revamp U.S. election laws and expand ballot access, Sen. Bernie Sanders on Sunday condemned state-level GOP attacks on the franchise and said Congress must combat such voter suppression efforts “in any and every way” possible. “What Republican legislatures and governors are doing in the most disgraceful way imaginable is to try to deny people of color, young people, poor people the right to vote, people with disabilities,” the Vermont senator said in an appearance on CNN. “That is outrageous.” # ⚓ Tabloids_Want_Crime,_Not_Rent,_on_NYC_Voters’_Minds⠀⇛ New York City voters will finish choosing their Democratic mayoral candidate in primary elections tomorrow. With no strong Republican candidates, the winner of the primary is widely expected to become the next mayor of the country’s biggest city. # ⚓ Trump_Loses_to_Ron_DeSantis_as_GOP’s_Top_Pick_for_2024,_New Poll_Finds⠀⇛ # ⚓ Sunrise_Ends_400-Mile_Climate_March_With_Arrests_at_Ted Cruz’s_House⠀⇛ After six weeks of marching 400 miles from New Orleans to Texas amid fruitless federal infrastructure negotiations, Sunrise Movement activists concluded their march on Monday with arrests outside the Houston home of renowned Republican climate villain Sen. Ted Cruz. Eight demonstrators with the movement’s “Generation on Fire” campaign were arrested on the Texas Republican’s lawn while delivering a message to President Joe Biden. # ⚓ Socialist_Pedro_Castillo_Won_Peru’s_Election,_But_Coup Fears_Grow_as_Fujimori_Falsely_Claims_Fraud⠀⇛ Fears are growing in Peru that supporters of right- wing presidential candidate Keiko Fujimori, the daughter of imprisoned former dictator Alberto Fujimori, will stage a coup to prevent her rival, the socialist teacher and union leader Pedro Castillo, from taking power. With 100% of votes counted from the June 6 election, Castillo has a 44,000-vote lead, but Fujimori is claiming fraud without offering any evidence. She is calling for hundreds of thousands of votes, mostly from poor Andean regions, to be annulled. Thousands took to the streets in Lima to protest against Fujimori’s claims. We speak with José Carlos Llerena, a Peruvian educator and activist, who recently co- authored a piece for Peoples Dispatch titled “The coup that is taking place in Peru.” # ⚓ America’s_largest_evangelical_denomination_is_at_war_with itself⠀⇛ These tensions culminated in a dramatic fight over the SBC’s presidential election, held on Tuesday during the organization’s annual meeting in Nashville, Tennessee. In the election, two prominent far-right candidates lost to a more mainstream conservative named Ed Litton, blunting the momentum of a Tea Party-style group aiming to lurch the SBC in an even more right-wing direction. # ⚓ European_Union_Prepares_to_Cut_Brit_Film_and_TV_Content Post_Brexit⠀⇛ Currently, despite leaving the European Union via Brexit, British films and TV series still qualify as “European works” under EU law, meaning they count towards those content quotas. But an EU document from June 8 tabled with diplomats takes aim at this classification, suggesting British programming accounts for a “disproportionate” amount of content on European television and may threaten “cultural diversity” in the EU. The European Commission, the EU’s executive branch, is set to launch an impact study on British programming, a move that could be the first step in re-classifying U.K. content. o § Misinformation/Disinformation⠀➾ # ⚓ COVID-19_vaccines_as_part_of_a_“depopulation_agenda”⠀⇛ As I’ve long been saying, when it comes to the COVID-19 pandemic, everything old is new again, at least with respect to the antivaccine movement. I listed a number of the tropes repurposed by antivaxxers for COVID-19 last week, including (but not limited to) misinformation claiming that COVID- 19 vaccines are loaded with “toxins” (the lipid nanoparticles in the mRNA-based vaccines, given that they can’t contain aluminum, don’t you know?); blaming every death reported to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) database on vaccines, not designed to determine causation and we would expect a large baseline number of deaths in the time periods covered by random chance alone; claiming that vaccines cause Alzheimer’s and prion disease; blaming the vaccines for cancer; resurrecting the favorite old trope of “shedding” from the vaccinated in the most risible manner possible; invoking evolution to predict the selection of more deadly coronavirus variants that could wipe out humanity; warning that the vaccines can “permanently alter your DNA“; and that they cause female infertility. So what other evil thing could vaccines do? “Depopulation,” anyone? o § Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾ # ⚓ Twitch_bans_two_top_creators_in_struggle_with_sexually suggestive_streams⠀⇛ Twitch is once again struggling with how to handle sexually suggestive streams from some of the most popular women on its platform. Over the weekend, the service banned two top female streamers — Amouranth and Indiefoxx — who had been broadcasting ASMR streams from their beds. Both streams involved the creators licking a microphone while wearing what appeared to be the TikTok-famous leggings known for making your butt look great. It’s just the latest instance of Twitch making itself the arbiter of what counts as too sexy for its audience and advertisers. As usual, Twitch declined to explain why either streamer was banned. But the reason seems to be a breach of Twitch’s restrictions on “sexually suggestive” content. The rules ban behaviors like “erotic dances,” showing sex toys for purposes other than education, and perhaps most relevant in this case, posing in ways that “deliberately highlight” a person’s “breasts, buttocks, or pelvic region.” # ⚓ Procedures_for_release_of_foreign_publications_being expedited⠀⇛ Esra Assery, CEO of the General Commission for Audiovisual Media (GCAM), said that the commission has taken all the measures to expedite the release of foreign publications after completing censorship and all other related procedures. Speaking to Okaz/Saudi Gazette, she said that the simplified censorship procedures for books from abroad are aimed at enhancing the accessibility of the books to Saudi readers. # ⚓ Microsoft’s_Tiananmen_Square_fiasco_draws_the_attention_of Republican_law_makers⠀⇛ Over the last few years, Microsoft has been lucky enough to avoid the attention of crusading antitrust legislators, but the company may have overplayed its hand, after its recent Tiananmen Square fiasco where it censored searches for the image of the so-called Tankman worldwide instead of just in China. [...] “Despite Microsoft’s size and market dominance, House Democrats curiously did not significantly examine Microsoft’s conduct during their investigation of competition in digital markets,” the letter reads. “Democrats also seem to have excluded Microsoft from scrutiny in their large package of bills to radically rewrite American antitrust law.” o § Freedom of Information/Freedom of the Press⠀➾ # ⚓ Assange_Is_Still_in_Jail⠀⇛ Julian Assange remains in a maximum security jail, despite never being sentenced for anything but a long ago served spell for bail-jumping, and despite the US Government’s request for extradition having been refused. # ⚓ Protected:_Assange_Week_–_Julian_turns_50⠀⇛ o § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾ # ⚓ Putting_an_End_to_Extreme_Sentencing⠀⇛ I am writing in the hope that I might contribute to changing the way that people think about the laws with regards to the draconian life without possible parole sentences, as well as other extreme sentencing. # ⚓ How_the_Supreme_Court_Learned_to_Stop_Worrying_and_Love Religious_Bigotry⠀⇛ Conservatives would have us believe there is an unresolved conflict in our laws between two legitimate but competing interests. On one side are the overwhelming majority of Americans who think discrimination and bigotry should not be supported by the secular government. On the other side are the vocal minority of Americans who believe that state-sponsored discrimination and bigotry is required by God. Conservatives are pretty sure discrimination and bigotry should win the day always, but they’re deeply divided about how to get there legally. # ⚓ Our_Family_Members_Died_on_9/11._We_Want_to_See_Guantánamo Bay_Closed.⠀⇛ Eight Republican senators representing seven states recently sent a letter to President Biden imploring the president to keep Guantánamo Bay open, claiming that a bipartisan majority of members of Congress and most Americans support this view. They assert that this would ensure “justice.” # ⚓ Gaslighting_on_a_Global_Scale⠀⇛ For the entirety of Donald Trump’s presidency, academics and pundits continually debated if he was a fascist, a populist, a nativist, a businessman president, and so forth. This debate continues. Sometimes sidelined in these conversations was a perspective that might’ve understood the heart of Trump and Trumpism from the start—feminism. From beginning to end, some of the most sustained protest against Trump’s presidency came from feminists galvanized by his blatant misogyny and the fear that their rights stood endangered by it. Indeed, given Trump’s macho manner and sexism, feminist criticism offers rich resources for making sense of the Trump phenomenon to encompass man and movement.1 # ⚓ Making_Juneteenth_a_Holiday_Was_the_Easy_Part,_Will_Real Justice_Follow?⠀⇛ To his credit, Schumer added, “But we must continue to work to ensure equal justice and fulfill the promise of the Emancipation Proclamation and our Constitution.” Ensuring “equal justice” is precisely the step that would carry real meaning and add teeth to the very short, one-page Juneteenth bill. So why is that critical aspect missing from the bill? There are many historical accounts of how Juneteenth came about, but the most widely accepted one is that enslaved Black people in Texas were the last in the U.S. to know that they had the legal right to be free—two and a half years after the Emancipation Proclamation of January 1, 1863. The revelation that freedom was at hand came from General Gordon Granger in Galveston on June 19, 1865, and if ever there was a declaration of American independence that carried any moral weight, it is the day that came to be known as Juneteenth—rather than the Fourth of July and the syrupy and blind patriotism that accompanies it. # ⚓ We_Need_to_Help_Asylum-Seekers,_Not_Traumatize_Them⠀⇛ One woman, a refugee, arrived in the United States in February. Originally from the Democratic Republic of Congo, she lived most of her life in a refugee camp in Tanzania. Although she still has some family at the camp, she has a job, receives resettlement services and lives with her husband in the U.S. # ⚓ No,_Facebook’s_Argument_In_Response_To_Muslim_Advocates’ Lawsuit_Is_Not_‘Awkward’;_Facebook_Caving_On_230_Is_What’s Awkward⠀⇛ Mother Jones has a slightly weird article saying that Facebook is making an “awkward legal argument” in a lawsuit that was filed against the company by Muslim Advocates, arguing that Facebook and its executives lied to Congress when it insisted that the company would remove hate speech. There’s a lot to unpack here, though I’d note that there are two things I find awkward here — and neither of them are Facebook’s legal arguments in the case. The real awkwardness is Muslim Advocates trying to argue that Facebook failing to remove certain content violates consumer protection laws. The second awkward bit is Facebook’s constant political posturing about its openness to Section 230 reform. # ⚓ Trump_Asked_Aides_About_Sending_Infected_Americans_to Guantánamo,_New_Book_Says⠀⇛ # ⚓ Shake_Shack_Manager_Sues_NYPD_Officers,_Union_Reps_For Falsely_Claiming_His_Business_Sold_Cops_Poisoned_Shakes⠀⇛ Last June, as anti-police brutality protests were sweeping across the nation following the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, some NYPD officers claimed it was the public that was actually violent and abusive. # ⚓ Study_Shows_Blood_Pattern_Analysis_Is_Just_More_Guesswork Posing_As_Scientific_Evidence⠀⇛ Another form of evidence used in criminal cases is being called into question. The latest (via CJ Ciaramella) to receive the dubious honor of being designated “dubious” is blood spatter analysis. This brings it in line with a long list of other things long-considered (and, in too many cases, still considered) to be evidence worthy of introducing into a court of law, joining bite mark analysis, hair analysis, um… pair of blue jeans analysis… and even the old standby, DNA analysis. # ⚓ Christian_Pastor_Slain_over_Outreach_to_Muslims,_Sources Say⠀⇛ Police told family members that Olingha confessed killing Bishop Obo, with an officer telling them, “Olingha openly confessed that he can’t regret that he killed the bishop because he did it in the cause of Allah’s word to kill all infidels who mislead Muslims. He added that Allah will be with him in jail, but the kafiri [infidels] deserved the killing,” Christine Obo said. # ⚓ Chicago_Dyke_March_Posts_Promotional_Image_Showing_Burning Israeli_and_American_Flags⠀⇛ The Chicago Dyke March, an annual LGBT parade that in 2017 ejected marchers carrying flags with Jewish symbols, promoted its upcoming event with an image showing the burning of Israeli and American flags. o § Internet Policy/Net Neutrality⠀➾ # ⚓ Glitches_And_Greed_Mar_Effort_To_Bring_COVID_Relief_To_US Broadband_Users⠀⇛ As part of a recent COVID bill, the government announced that folks struggling economically during COVID would be getting some temporary help. Under the EBB (Emergency Broadband Benefit program), U.S. consumers can nab a $50 discount off their broadband bill, or $75 if you live in tribal areas. The program ends when its $3.2 billion in federal funding expires, or six months after the government has declared an end to the pandemic. # ⚓ Shirish_Agarwal:_Accessibility,_Freenode_and_American imperialism.⠀⇛ I had not been using IRC for quite some time now. The reasons have been multiple issues with Riot (now element) taking the whole space on my desktop. I did get alerted to the whole thing about a week after the whole thing went down. Somebody messaged me DM. I *think* I put up a thread or a mini-thread about IRC or something in response to somebody praising telegram/WhatsApp or one of those apps. That probably triggered the DM. It took me a couple of minutes to hit upon this. I was angry and depressed, seeing the behavior of the new overlords of freenode. I did see that lot of channels moved over to Libera. It was also interesting to see that some communities were thinking of moving to some other obscure platform, which again could be held hostage to the same thing. One could argue one way or the other, but that would be tiresome and fact is any network needs lot of help to be grown and nurtured, whether it is online or offline. I also saw that Libera was also using a software Solanum which is ircv3 compliant. Now having done this initial investigation, it was time to move to an IRC client. The Libera documentation is and was pretty helpful in telling which IRC clients would be good with their network. So I first tried hexchat. I installed it and tried to add Libera server credentials, it didn’t work. Did see that they had fixed the bug in sid/unstable and now it’s in testing. But at the time it was in sid, the bug- fixed and I wanted to have something which just ran the damn thing. I chanced upon quassel. I had played around with quassel quite a number of times before, so I knew I could play/use it. Hence, I installed it and was able to use it on the first try. I did use the encrypted server and just had to tweak some settings before I could use it with some help with their documentation. Although, have to say that even quassel upstream needs to get its documentation in order. It is just all over the place, and they haven’t put any effort into streamlining the documentation, so that finding things becomes easier. But that can be said of many projects upstream. There is one thing though that all of these IRC clients lack. The lack of a password manager. Now till that isn’t fixed it will suck because you need another secure place to put your password/s. You either put it on your desktop somewhere (insecure) or store it in the cloud somewhere (somewhat secure but again need to remember that password), whatever you do is extra work. I am sure there will be a day when authenticating with Nickserv will be an automated task and people can just get on talking on channels and figuring out how to be part of the various communities. As can be seen, even now there is a bit of a learning curve for both newbies and people who know a bit about systems to get it working. Now, I know there are a lot of things that need to be fixed in the anonymity, security place if I put that sort of hat. For e.g. wouldn’t it be cool if either the IRC client or one of its add-on gave throwaway usernames and passwords. The passwords would be complex. This would make it easier who are paranoid about security and many do and would have. As an example we can see of Fuchs. Now if the gentleman or lady is working in a professional capacity and would come to know of their real identity and perceive rightly or wrongly the role of that person, it will affect their career. Now, should it? I am sure a lot of people would be divided on the issue. Personally, as far as I am concerned, I would say no because whether right or wrong, whatever they were doing they were doing on their own time. Not on company time. So it doesn’t concern the company at all. If we were to let companies police the behavior outside the time, individuals would be in a lot of trouble. Although, have to say that is a trend that has been seen in companies that are firing people either on the left or right. A recent example that comes to mind is Emily Wilder who was fired by Associated Press. Interestingly, she was interviewed by Democracy now, and it did come out that she is a Jew. As can be seen and understood there is a lot of nuance to her story and not the way she was fired. It doesn’t give a good taste in the mouth, but then getting fired nobody does. On few forums, people did share of people getting fired of their job because they were dancing (cops). Again, it all depends, for me again, hats off to anybody who feels like dancing or whatever because there are just so many depressing stories all around. o § Monopolies⠀➾ # ⚓ Amazon_Could_Be_Forced_To_Sell_Logistics_Business_Under Bill⠀⇛ Washington Democrat Pramila Jayapal has proposed a bill with bipartisan support that would prevent Amazon from luring sellers to use its logistics services in exchange for preferential treatment on its busy web store. Nearly 85% of Amazon’s biggest sellers use its Fulfillment by Amazon service, paying the online retailer fees for warehouse storage, packing and shipping of their products, according to a report last October from Democratic staff on the House Judiciary Committee’s antitrust panel. Jayapal’s bill was introduced on June 11 and will be considered on Wednesday by the Judiciary Committee along with five other bipartisan antitrust reform bills, with votes to advance the measures to the House floor expected this week. There’s no Senate companion for the legislation, and support in that chamber is unclear, clouding its prospects. # § Patents⠀➾ # ⚓ Senate_Passes_the_Endless_Frontier_Act⠀⇛ In a rare showing of bipartisanship, the U.S. Senate has passed Senate Bill S.1260, the “Endless Frontier Act.” Co-sponsored by senators Schumer, Young, Hassan, Collins, Coons, Portman, Baldwin, Graham, Peters, Blunt, Daines, Van Hollen, Romney, and Kelly, the bill most notably seeks to establish “a new Directorate for Technology and Innovation in the National Science Foundation [and] to establish a regional technology hub program.” The goal of these efforts is to increase U.S. capabilities in key technology areas that are believed to be able to provide the country with a competitive advantage in the global economy. The bill outlines doing so in a way that increases diversity and inclusion in STEM fields while reducing the geographic concentration of R&D and the STEM workforce. If signed into law in its current form, Congress will be able to authorize just short of $250 billion in funding for R&D, education, technology transfer, and intellectual property over the course of five years. # ⚓ ‘Don’t_donate_AI_by_mistake’:_in-house_speak_out_on open_source [Ed: These people have absolutely no idea what "hey hi" is and they misuse terms like "open source" (to mean something else completely)]⠀⇛ Companies have to review open-source licences to make sure they don’t inadvertently donate their entire inventions to the public # ⚓ EPO_announces_winners_of_annual_innovation_prize [Ed: More paid-for EPO puff pieces, to_help_distract_from the_EPO’s_crimes]⠀⇛ # ⚓ Compulsory_Licensing_Argentina [Ed: These patents ought not exist in the first place (for many reasons); they just make a concession of making "licensing" obligatory, which means obligatory tax]⠀⇛ If after 3 months have elapsed since the grant of the patent or 4 months since the filing of the application, the invention has not been exploited, except in cases of force majeure, or if no genuine and effect preparations have been made for the exploitations or where such exploitation has been interrupted for more than 1 year, any person may apply for authorization to use the invention without seeking the permission of the owner thereof. As established under Article 43, if the time period for an invention has elapsed and the invention has not been exploited (or has an exception), any person may apply to the National Institute of Industrial Property ( e.g. Argentina Patent and Trademark Office) for the grant of a compulsory license. This application can be for the manufacture and sale of the patented product or the use of the patent procedure. [...] The compulsory license decision from the National Institute of Industrial Property may be appealed before the Federal Civil and Commercial Courts with ten days of receiving notification of the decision. Once a decision has been made, the National Institute of Industrial Property will order the publication of a notice in the Official Patent Gazette and in a national circulating newspaper informing the public of its decision. Third parties interested in obtaining a compulsory license will then have thirty days to make a request and the National Institute of Industrial Property will decide on whether to grant or deny the license request. Granting a compulsory license is determined by the circumstances of each request. # ⚓ FOSS_Patents:_Podcast_on_key_patent_injunction developments:_new_German_patent_injunction_statute,_ECJ referral_regarding_preliminary_injunctions,_and standard-essential_patent_injunctions⠀⇛ It’s time for another FOSS Patents podcast. I don’t do these very often, but from time to time I see great value in letting experts share their views on important developments. # ⚓ Why_Americans_Pay_Through_the_Nose_for_Brand-Name Drugs [Ed: Many of them will not pay but die instead, because of patents...]⠀⇛ Riti Krishtel’s first case as a legal aid lawyer in India was as tragic as they come. One day in 2004, she recalls a couple walking into her office in Bengaluru with their three children. Unable to afford life-saving medicine to keep their HIV infections in check, the parents were dying of AIDS. With no other options, they wanted Krishtel to draw up guardianship transfer papers: The rambunctious siblings were to be sent to an orphanage before their parents died. Even though drugs that could save the parents’ lives were available, the cost at the time was out of reach for the couple, who were living in poverty. Krishtel and the collective of lawyers she was working with at the time went on to handle many similar cases. By 2007, she came up with a strategy to slash the cost of HIV drugs in India: On behalf of patients’ rights groups, lawyers with the nonprofit Initiative for Medicines, Access, and Knowledge (I-MAK) she had cofounded would challenge specific patent applications on brand-name drugs, opening opportunities for generic manufacturers. Through a combination of patent expirations and legal challenges, price competition in India drove down the cost of the most common HIV therapy by more than 80 percent between 2003 and 2008. Hoping for a repeat, in 2015 Krishtel turned the organization’s focus to the United States, where skyrocketing drug prices increasingly threaten to drag families into financial ruin. A 2019 Kaiser Family Foundation survey of more than a thousand Americans found that 29 percent did not take their medicines as prescribed at some point during the previous year because of cost; 8 percent reported that the lapse made their illness worse. The reasons for high prescription drug prices in America are complex and varied. But the patent system, Krishtel says, is one culprit. # ⚓ The_Unified_Patent_Court_(“UPC”)_and_Unitary_Patents [Ed: Team UPC still writes about deal and utterly illegal_things_it_tries_to_shoehorn_into_the_system]⠀⇛ # ⚓ The_EPO_extends_the_use_of_video_conferencing [Ed: EPO broadens adoption of an illegal and unconstitutional practice while rigging_the_courts_to pretend_it’s_OK]⠀⇛ The European Patent Office (EPO) can schedule hearings (referred to as “oral proceedings”) either before the Examining Divisions during the examination of a patent application, or before the Opposition Divisions during opposition proceedings following the grant of a patent. Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, oral proceedings were conventionally held in person at the EPO offices in either Munich or The Hague. The EPO did allow oral proceedings before the Examining Divisions to be held by video conference, although this was relatively rare. However, oral proceedings before the Opposition Divisions, which typically involve several different parties and potentially also simultaneous interpretation, had to be held in person. # § Software Patents⠀➾ # ⚓ Aeritas_reexamination_request_granted⠀⇛ On June 17, 2021, 30 days after Unified filed an ex parte reexamination, the USPTO granted Unified’s request, finding substantial new questions of patentability on all challenged claims (claims 1-10) of U.S. Patent 9,390,435, owned by Aeritas LLC, an NPE. The ‘435 patent relates to receiving notifications related to products or services of interest, at a mobile device based on the location of the mobile device and notification criteria, and then receiving additional information about the products or services or a purchase confirmation, at the mobile device in response to an input. The patent has been asserted in 21 litigations, including current assertions against Finnair Oyi, Darden Restaurants, Whataburger Restaurants, Burger King, and WestJet Airlines. # ⚓ Another_EPO_challenge_filed_against_ETRI⠀⇛ On June 9, 2021, Unified Patents filed an opposition in the EPO against EP 3448035. The EP ‘035 patent is owned by the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI). The patent is related to patents that are designated essential to the HEVC Advance patent pool as well as SISVEL’s AV1 patent pool. # ⚓ $2,000_Awarded_for_’411_WSOU_prior_art⠀⇛ Unified is pleased to announce PATROLL crowdsourcing contest winner, Preeti Dua, who received a cash prize of $2,000 for her prior art submission for U.S. Patent 8,209,411. The patent is owned by the most prolific NPE assertor in 2020, WSOU Investments, LLC d/b/a/ Brazos Licensing and Development. The ’411 patent generally relates to systems and methods of providing content to a terminal and, more particularly, relates to systems and methods of providing content to a terminal having a limited display area for presenting such content. The ’411 patent is currently being asserted against Salesforce, in the Western District of Texas. # § Copyrights⠀➾ # ⚓ Explained:_What_is_music_acquisition,_and_why_is_it now_so_popular_among_the_world’s_financial_giants?⠀⇛ Music catalogue acquisition refers to the process of enormous deals under which artistes sell their music and its copyrights — either a particular section or their music in its entirety — to a particular company. Traditionally, the recording rights of music were signed to a label and the performers. The publishing rights usually went to another company and the songwriters. In the new era of music acquisition, the two have been merged — everything is now bought by another company or a collaborative deal is struck with the recording or publishing company. This tends to include all the other assets, with the artiste’s brand value in tow. # ⚓ As_Predicted,_Smaller_Media_Outlets_Are_Getting Screwed_By_Australia’s_Link_Tax⠀⇛ Ever since the giant news organizations, led by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp., began pushing the ridiculous idea of forcing Google and Facebook (and often just Google and Facebook) to pay a “link tax,” we’ve been pointing out that while this might be a windfall of free money for the news giants, small news organizations (like, um, us) would likely get totally screwed over. With Australia leading the charge of silliness and passing its link tax, we’re discovering that our predictions were exactly correct. # ⚓ EU_Court:_Copyright_Trolls_Can_Target_BitTorrent Pirates_Provided_Claims_Aren’t_‘Abusive’⠀⇛ Europe’s top court has ruled that so-called copyright trolls can demand cash settlements from alleged BitTorrent pirates. Clarifying that sharing fragments of data associated with BitTorrent transfers still represents a communication to the public, the EU Court of Justice says that cases can be pursued but only when local courts consider them to be non-abusive, justified, and proportionate. # ⚓ Sony_Wins_Pirate_Site_Blocking_Order_Against_DNS- Resolver_Quad9_(Updated)⠀⇛ Sony Music has obtained an injunction that requires the freely available DNS-resolver Quad9 to block a popular pirate site. The order, issued by the District Court in Hamburg, Germany, is the first of its kind. 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