𝕿𝖊𝖈𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍𝖙𝖘 Bulletin for Friday, July 09, 2021 ┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅ Generated Sat 10 Jul 02:39:56 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/2021/07/09/ ╒═══════════════════ 𝐑𝐄𝐂𝐄𝐍𝐓 𝐁𝐔𝐋𝐋𝐄𝐓𝐈𝐍𝐒 ════════════════════════════════════╕ Previous bulletins in IPFS (past 21 days, in chronological order): QmWCc6UN8rXnBKmcnhPY7waCCSXzfsG1AbhZikKfdp3ymB QmQYQoMFrDMTXEe4NcPiv7amMCQS2ho3c6EaMHAU4SfMUe QmacoxEMNBvXGjkyn4JfrL8LyXBMaArcxAJPBaNoTymtHV QmW6B9kehxSBryvAexunPR3eXN8dZc1CHxSebKiiSDXTRh QmTuxFtDwey5L4ibxTM85bAhdiFUVzq9RQwjk5UqDBCmxH QmcN8yR7Z2eWZBS1YERuwRsVnrTaWaznvZVg4RggnCUrnL QmbsFe5ziGquRqcXLGJdSnXGNu2hM1SfSeL88yE4KoNHRm QmXWM739fasQ1QSDPyf7CYGbRzny4RnfstXa97sZoavDtt QmYUKcuZUTw2RX354YZb7KS96QRvrYWBnM9Hc9ECWTxtmZ QmVYKhmzZnA5jSxg73EHK44EQHX2gPMHdJdswiX4sm36VV QmTzjhticCFGYFAPo3w1Yq3BFKqFQ9wkJFVZpCGyhdTYVL QmYfnwQyndVxZ3RBdb3h4no9or9LCWC23rmnAoVKtd61oJ QmSYEW1u6GR4Sx7jgEkZS78bKjEJL8bqy2t755oHQ3bj9M QmSRn7cBREvv5Sqho2U2eunX9LJykgRJNP5fvyy2aQTNVf QmYbCajogMVPFtfaxpbYNPXsCH7YHu4RDrbTn1bwxoFpVL QmWmhZ87epJnat1eMJ4BeFyB6qzD9SSd15E66vFEpywPtq QmeUHDj1sX5kJUYKzH1rtAQ3jcDnWVSc1LmvbW2UUK6NTN QmePPsrpuxrE6PnrxmkA3jbTKbYiwWiedMUCPboaKPHHBs QmcRVoR1XjzcCzpn5UyNcwrYXdAFt3fqixYfrrAGViNk58 QmdBGK8LdfCQt4rspJT96gBBbngug2byT3KpFfQt6qa3UR QmY4VHLzjNBvzEEgkjf3doRJCKmAq2BLUG3gupEwUVi8Hs ╒═══════════════════ 𝐈𝐍𝐃𝐄𝐗 ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⦿ Canonical Dooms the Ubuntu Brand to Appease Microsoft | Techrights ⦿ Arguing With Diplomatic Immunity | Techrights ⦿ Journalists Who Don’t Even Know What the UPC is (or What It’s Called) Carry Water for the Patent Litigation Lobby | Techrights ⦿ [Meme] When Timing is Impossible to Ignore | Techrights ⦿ IRC Proceedings: Thursday, July 08, 2021 | Techrights ⦿ EPO’s Staff Union Fights for the EPO’s Survival and Viability | Techrights ䷼ Bulletin articles (as HTML) to comment on (requires login): http://techrights.org/2021/07/09/canonical-ubuntu-microsoft/#comments http://techrights.org/2021/07/09/diplomatic-immunity-farce/#comments http://techrights.org/2021/07/09/ecb-and-upc/#comments http://techrights.org/2021/07/09/fcc-eu/#comments http://techrights.org/2021/07/09/irc-log-080721/#comments http://techrights.org/2021/07/09/survival-of-epo/#comments ䷞ Followed by Daily Links (assorted news picks curated and categorised): http://techrights.org/2021/07/09/boxboat/#comments http://techrights.org/2021/07/09/germany-moving-to-free-software/#comments http://techrights.org/2021/07/09/xwayland-21-1-2-released/#comments ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 64 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at http://techrights.org/2021/07/09/canonical-ubuntu-microsoft/#comments Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2021/07/09/canonical-ubuntu-microsoft/ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 07.09.21⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ ✐ Canonical_Dooms_the_Ubuntu_Brand_to_Appease_Microsoft⠀✐ Posted in GNU/Linux, Microsoft, Ubuntu at 10:47 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz Video_download_link http://techrights.org/videos/microsoft-canonical-lovefest.webm Summary: A video follow-up for this_morning's_article about Canonical climbing up Microsoft’s bed again; this is the sort of thing that repels users of GNU/ Linux and quite likely the reason the Ubuntu community is unofficially dead THE links from the video and bits of context can be found in the article that was published earlier today. The purpose of the video is to show the sorts of thing people are presented with in the Ubuntu blog (we’re including a screenshot below). 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇Microsoft love baby⦈ Partnerships with Microsoft never work out well for anyone (other than Microsoft executives). Time after time they totally destroy companies by partnering with them (Palm, Nokia, Novell to name a few) and Mark Shuttleworth may think that he’s somehow “special” or invulnerable to Microsoft’s criminal behaviour. A bit less than a decade ago Ubuntu was still mainstream among GNU/Linux distributions; that was before some of the more controversial moves by Canonical, ranging from the Amazon scandal to the Microsoft flirtations. Those flirtations became worse in subsequent years as Canonical started all sorts of projects that flagrantly helped Windows. It was around that time that Microsoft weaponised the media with the “loves Linux” nonsense and later infiltrated the Linux_Foundation. █ 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇microsoft-canonical⦈_> This is no way to attract people to Ubuntu ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠛⢛⣛⣛⣓⠛⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⠈⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⠟⢛⣛⣋⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣥⣉⡛⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢅⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣌⠙⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⢋⣵⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣎⠺⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠉⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⠸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠞⣠⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⠹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢠⣟⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡏⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣇⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣆⠻⣿⣿⡿⣿⣾⣿⠶⡿⢐⣶⡿⠟⣛⠻⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡄⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡒⢨⡙⠿⠶⠶⠖⣛⠐⢿⣿⠀⡿⣿⣿⣆⢹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⣸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⡇⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠅⣸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⠀⣠⣄⢿⣓⣿⡿⠈⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠁⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣭⣭⣽⣿⣿⣿⣧⣭⣭⣭⣽⠃⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠁⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠏⣴⣾⣿⣿⣶⠎⣁⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠄⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣩⣌⣚⠻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⣿⣿⣌⡻⠿⠿⠰⠿⠿⠟⢁⣤⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣆⠙⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⣿⡿⣋⣴⣿⣿⣿⣷⡌⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ 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⣿⣿⣿⠗⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 377 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at http://techrights.org/2021/07/09/ecb-and-upc/#comments Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2021/07/09/ecb-and-upc/ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 07.09.21⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ ✐ Journalists_Who_Don’t_Even_Know_What_the_UPC_is_(or_What_It’s_Called)_Carry Water_for_the_Patent_Litigation_Lobby⠀✐ Posted in Europe, Patents at 4:17 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz Video_download_link http://techrights.org/videos/political-upc.webm Summary: The UPC question in Germany seems to have turned into politics rather than constitutional aspects; in the context of the European_Central_Bank (ECB) this raises all sorts of questions_about_the_German_government THE so-called ‘media’ has long been bought by litigation firms, especially in the area of patents. They’re doing “sales”, but that’s marketed as “news”. To make matters worse, the EPO‘s management throws a lot of money at publishers, conditionally, in order to become “media partners”. Benoît Battistelli took that to a whole new level and reports from the EPO show that António_Campinos does the same. Even coverage about Campinos himself has been reduced to “commercials”. Judging by some new comments such as these, we thus need to rely more and more on comments, i.e. actual people, rather than publishers owned and controlled by law firms, or paid on the side by the EPO. “There’s a widespread sentiment that the timing suggests reasons for rejection that aren’t based on merit but based on fear.”Today’s subject came to my attention by a_tweet from a colleague of Max Walters, who had published this piece in an_EPO_propaganda_rag. It was a very immature non-response to promote his colleague’s article (I did not even speak to him, he just keeps speaking to me) and we’ve since then included early_coverage_in_the_latest_batch_of_Daily Links. All the media coverage I’ve seen about UPC so far isn’t normal media but Team UPC-captured ‘media’ (propaganda apparatuses) funded by UPC wannabes to mislead the public, lawmakers etc. The one exception was Reuters, but it didn’t even know what UPC is called (error in the headline). The complainant wrote: “With decision of 23/06/2021 (German language), the BVerfG has rejected the request to oblige the involved institutions by an interim order (“einstweilige Anordnung”) to desist from completing the UPCA ratification process until a decision in the proceedings on the merits (docket no. 2 BvR 2217/20) (also cf. the court’s press statement no. 57/2021 of 09/07/ 2021).” (And there is a lot more further up in that page) Somehow that has become a semi-official declaration that the UPC is coming, but what might be coming is ratification by Germany, which is not the same thing. To name a few lingering issues, there’s the EBA catastrophe (kangaroo courts), the UK left the EU, there were successful constitutional challenges outside Germany, and several large countries refuse to participate. One person said, “complaints dismissed, UPC will go through. Check the website of Karlsruhe. Bad news.” It is indeed bad news, but the timing suggests that this becomes a political issue, potentially connected to the ECB scandal which we spoke about the other day. In the words of an early comment: I got the impression that the surprising rush of the FCC is caused by the recent decision of the EU Commission to sue Germany regarding the ECB decision of the FCC last year, which dealt with the primacy of the German constitution over EU law. See e.g.: https://www.dw.com/en/brussels-prepares-case-against-germany-over- ecb-ruling/a-57819671 In this new decision the FCC confirms again the primacy of the German constitution at the core of the decision. It reads like a message to the EU commission regarding their plans. There are other lingering questions, such as other outstanding complaints: Whatever happened to the complaints filed in respect of the EPO Boards of Appeal? The FCC appears to believe that the passing of more than a decade since the filing of the first of those complaints – as well as their potential relevance to the viability of the UPC system – is no reason to decide them first. The FCC’s commentary on Art 20 UPCA is also somewhat surprising. Can anyone explain to me how, in practice, the UPC, which will have jurisdiction for patent disputes covering Germany, will ensure that there is no automatic supremacy of EU law over Germany’s Basic law? The maintenance of the status quo, which is assumed by the FCC, appears to demand that the UPC applies the Basic Law in cases where that conflicts with EU law … though I have no idea by which mechanism, or according to which competence, the UPC might do this. This one mentions the ECB again: The FCC does not require the UPC to apply German law, not even the Basic Law. The assumption is that the UPCA is compliant with the Basic Law as the complainants were unable to prove otherwise and there are no other obvious conflicts for the FCC. But this does not preclude further constitutional complaints against UPCA or against individual acts of the UPC in the future as the primacy of the constitution is not altered by Art. 20 UPCA because the FCC does not consider Art. 20 UPCA to be an amendment of the constitution itself. But the EPO complaints are a very good example what this is really worth in practice. Still, I think that this FCC decision can only be understood in the context of the threat of the EU Commission to sue Germany at the CJEU regarding the primacy of EU law vs. the German constitution. “The FCC tries to ensure peace.” Finally, at least for the time being, someone wrote: “It makes you wonder what happened between 2020 and 2021 for the FCC to have such a change of heart.” In connection with the 2017 complaint, the FCC appeared to acknowledge that there was evidence that “the imposition of unconditional primacy of Union law in Article 20 UPCA is contrary to Article 20 (1) and (2) in conjunction with Article 79(2), sentence 3 of the Basic Law”. The ratification law transfers sovereignty for patent disputes relating to Germany from the German courts to the UPC. As you have observed, the German courts would be obliged to ensure the primacy of the German constitution over EU law. However, the UPC would not (and could not) do the same. So the transfer of sovereignty to the UPC would remove the only “safety net” that guards against an unconditional primacy of Union law. In this context, it is clear that, with regard to patent disputes relating to Germany, the practical effect of Article 20 UPCA is not just to reaffirm the UPCA’s adherence to EU law but also to remove a key safeguard provided by the Basic Law. This is hardly maintenance of the status quo. The FCC could see this in 2020. The FCC’s “assumption” regarding Article 20 UPCA is therefore not only self-evidently false but it also flies in the face of their own prior comments. It makes you wonder what happened between 2020 and 2021 for the FCC to have such a change of heart. We’re sure many more comments will come. There’s a widespread sentiment that the timing suggests reasons for rejection that aren’t based on merit but based on fear. █ ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 554 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at http://techrights.org/2021/07/09/fcc-eu/#comments Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2021/07/09/fcc-eu/ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 07.09.21⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ ✐ [Meme]_When_Timing_is_Impossible_to_Ignore⠀✐ Posted in Europe, Patents at 4:46 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz Related: * Letter_From_European_Public_Services_Organisation_(IPSO)_to_Angela_Merkel and_Heiko_Maas_Regarding_EPO_Union-Busting_Catastrophe * European_Central_Bank_Staff_Committee_Adds_to_Growing_Pressure_on_Abusive EPO_Management * Staff_Union_of_the_European_Central_Bank_Blasts_Benoît_Battistelli * Understanding_Thierry_Breton:_The_“Killer_Shark”_Resurfaces… * Understanding_Thierry_Breton:_“Mister_Cash”_and_“Madame_Bailout” * Constitutional_Court’s_Justice_Huber_Reaffirms_Substantial_Concerns_About Viability_of_the_Unitary_Patent/UPC 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇ECB_meme:_Supremacy_of_German_special_interests..._Over_the German_constitution⦈_ 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇Brussels_prepares_case_against_Germany_over_ECB_ruling⦈_ Summary: Over the past week we’ve been discussing the unique ECB situation; it’s getting a little hard to believe that FCC operates independently from what’s at stake there ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣾⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢟⣛⡻⢟⡛⣛⡻⣛⣛⡿⣛⣛⡻⢟⣛⡻⣛⣛⢟⣛⠿⣛⣛⢿⢟⣛⡻⣛⡻⣛⢿⡿⣛⣛⠿⣛⣛⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠟⢿⣏⡛⢸⡇⣿⡇⣿⣹⡇⣿⣏⡿⢸⣿⡁⣿⣿⣼⣿⢀⣿⣿⠀⣿⠹⠷⢸⣿⡏⣿⢸⡏⣿⡇⣿⣉⢾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠿⢿⣿⡿⡛⠉⠁⠈⠀⣴⣝⣿⢸⣇⣿⡇⣿⢩⡅⣿⡏⣿⢸⣿⡁⣿⢸⡏⣿⢸⡷⣿⡇⣿⣰⡶⡇⣿⢸⣿⢸⣇⣿⡇⣿⢩⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⢿⣿⠿⢿⡷⠾⠿⠯⠂⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠬⠩⣵⡷⣭⣭⡶⠭⣼⡷⠭⣥⡭⠮⢭⣥⠭⢬⡵⢭⣬⠥⢬⡵⠯⣭⣵⠷⢭⠼⡿⠷⠭⠭⠦⠭⠼⠿⠿⠿⢿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⢿⠿⠿⠿⡿⠿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣱⡟⣷⠉⣿⠛⢸⡟⣷⠀⣿⡇⣿⣿⢸⣿⣇⢸⣷⢸⡏⡏⣾⡻⠧⢸⡟⣷⢸⡟⠃⣾⡟⣷⢸⣿⢸⣿⣧⢸⣿⢸⡇⣿⡇⣿⡴⣿⠛⣿⠛⣼⡟⠃⣿⢻⡇⢸⡟⠃⣿⠻⠆⢻⣿⠃⣾⡻⠷⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⣶⠀⣿⠛⢸⡟⣿⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣼⣇⣿⢸⡿⣿⡇⡗⣙⢻⣦⢸⡟⣛⢸⡟⠃⣿⡇⣭⢸⣿⣸⣇⣿⢸⣿⠸⡇⣿⡇⣿⢿⣿⠀⣿⠀⣿⡟⠃⣿⢻⣇⢸⡟⠃⣙⢻⡆⢸⣿⠐⣙⢻⣦⢻⣿⣿⣿ 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⣿⣿⣶⣿⣿⣿⣧⣼⣾⣧⣿⣿⣿⣧⣾⣴⣷⣼⣾⣷⣶⣧⣼⣷⣿⣦⣿⣧⣼⣿⣼⣿⣷⣾⣿⣤⣾⣿⣿⣴⣮⣿⣽⣿⣾⣷⣴⣾⣷⣽⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 662 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at http://techrights.org/2021/07/09/irc-log-080721/#comments Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2021/07/09/irc-log-080721/ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 07.09.21⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ ✐ IRC_Proceedings:_Thursday,_July_08,_2021⠀✐ Posted in IRC_Logs at 2:28 am by Needs Sunlight 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇H 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇HTML5_logs⦈_ #techrights_log_as_HTML5 #boycottnovell_log_as_HTML5 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇H 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇HTML5_logs⦈_ #boycottnovell-social_log_as_HTML5 #techbytes_log_as_HTML5 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇t 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇text_logs⦈_ #techrights_log_as_text #boycottnovell_log_as_text 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇t 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇text_logs⦈_ #boycottnovell-social_log_as_text #techbytes_log_as_text Enter_the_IRC_channels_now 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(“the law firms engaged by SUEPO are working on drafting them”) THE corporate media is not covering any of these scandals (I checked everything I could find this morning), but the EPO is deep in a crisis. Of course EPO management will never admit this. As someone put_it_this_week: “If you define what your thermometer you are using, you will never be ill. Even on your deathbed you will be perfectly healthy. It makes me sad to see how the EPO is willfully drawn into the wall by would be managers who do not have a clue about the harm they actually do!” Yesterday we wrote about ILOAT_(or_ILO-AT)_undoing_some_of_the_most_oppressive rules — even_if_eight_years_late — of Mr. Vichy_Battistelli (Benoît_Battistelli has skeletons in his Vichy wardrobe). Emboldened by that major victory, the staff union (SUEPO) is pressing on. It wants to stop or at least slow down these egregious injustices which impact not only EPO staff but also_EPO pensioners. “It’s like partial wage theft and due to diplomatic immunity the thieves will likely get away with it. They always do.”More people now pay attention to EPO scandals (the ViCo blunder contributed to that) and some even find their voice online, despite the smokescreen and the censorship. One person wrote: “Is it any wonder that the AC has given up its control function and that the tail is wagging the dog? Since 2010, the Office Administration has been completely infiltrated by former AC members. To list just a few: Battistelli, Casado, Lutz, Topic, now followed by Campinos (who used to head the Portuguese delegation before he moved to Alicante), Ernst and most recently Ficsor as PD in the Legal Affairs department. With such extensive cross-pollination and no effective external oversight is it any wonder that things have developed as they have?” The AC is very_much complicit at this point. It plays an active role in EPO crimes or cover-up of such crimes. Of course it wants to rob staff and pensioners next… while allocating_a_massive_budget_for_legal_disputes_against them. As if the problem is justice seeking, not those who undermine justice and break the law. Earlier today the SUEPO officials circulated the following letter: 9 July 2021 su21016cp – 0.2.1/0.3.1/5.2 Preparing for the upcoming appeals against the Salary Adjustment Procedure Dear SUEPO members, On 12 March 2021, SUEPO provided a model review request to its members with which the Salary Adjustment Procedure and its implementation could be challenged. Many of you submitted a review request on this basis. The administration decided negatively on these requests. The responses we are aware of (reference MR/2021-0013) are dated 11 May 2021. According to Article 110 ServRegs, an internal appeal must be filed within a period of three months, i.e. by 11 August 2021. For some of you, this date falls in the middle of the holiday season. In order to simplify your work during the holidays as much as possible, we would like to encourage you to have the following documents ready as PDF files for the internal appeal. - Request for review as submitted in March 2021 - Decision by the administration on the request for review - Salary slips or pension statements for December 2020 and January 2021 Your SUEPO Local Bureau will distribute model internal appeals to the SUEPO members at the end of July 2021. Currently, the law firms engaged by SUEPO are working on drafting them. The remaining work for you to be done by the above deadline is then to fill in the forms of the model appeal, to attach the above PDF files, to send it by email to the Appeals Committee, and to pay the appeal fee of EUR 200. Your SUEPO Central Bureau PS: We very much regret that the Office apparently intends to deal with an earlier test appeal that SUEPO organised against the salary freeze in the second half of 2020 in a summary procedure. Our efforts to have a well-structured appeal procedure with a small group of test appellants are thus neglected and even led ad absurdum. It therefore seems all the more important that you now continue the proceedings started with the review request before the Appeals Committee by filing your internal appeal. The Appeals Committee is_troublesome. So is ILO-AT, but this is what staff has access to. The Salary Adjustment Procedure, or “SAP”, has been mentioned here a great number of times, especially last year. It’s a belittling euphemism for a massive attack on past and present workers, whose salary is being taken away while the Office is looted by the management. It’s like partial wage theft and due to diplomatic immunity the thieves will likely get away with it. They always do. █ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠫⡅⠌⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⢟⠀⣀⢡⠚⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠻⡁⢠⠠⡏⠇⠐⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠛⠉⡦⢱⠁⠖⠹⠈⡆⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠟⠀⠆⠐⢋⢃⠀⠀⠐⢄⢁⢽⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡏⠃⡐⣉⠀⢆⣀⡠⠘⢀⠖⠺⢐⣻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠟⣃⠀⠒⠅⠌⠆⠡⠅⢁⠀⠉⢒⡜⠃⣽⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠟⠀⠄⠠⢲⡀⠦⢀⡄⡁⡰⠻⠕⡂⡥⡰⠀⢺⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡏⢉⡿⠛⣉⣉⠹⣿⠉⣉⣉⣩⡿⢉⣉⡉⢻⡿⠉⠹⣿⣿⣿⡿⡟⠱⠡⢽⠟⢠⠼⣀⢰⡂⠃⢠⢡⠀⡀⠀⠑⠁⠀⢹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠃⣸⠁⢾⣏⡉⢹⡟⢠⣤⣤⣾⠇⣈⣉⣠⡿⠡⠾⠀⣿⣿⠟⢥⢕⡠⠀⣮⢘⣮⢀⠅⢸⠁⢡⠀⡸⢀⠉⢀⠸⢆⠀⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣤⣿⣶⣤⣤⣦⣼⣥⣤⣤⣤⣿⣤⣿⣿⣿⣶⣿⣿⣶⣿⣷⡿⠾⠾⣷⡶⢾⣶⣾⢾⣾⠷⠾⠾⢷⡷⠿⠿⢿⣿⡿⠿⠿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣏⠐⠿⠷⣾⠇⢸⣿⠇⣸⠃⠰⠶⢶⣿⠁⠿⠶⢠⡏⢠⣾⣷⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡉⠻⠟⣀⣼⡀⠻⠟⣠⣿⠀⠛⠛⢻⡇⢰⣿⣿⣿⣇⠹⠿⢋⣴⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⣿⣿⠿⣿⡿⠿⠿⢿⣿⡿⠿⠿⢿⣿⠿⠿⠿⠿⣿⠿⠿⠿⣿⣿⡟⠛⢛⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⢀⣿⡿⢠⣏⠐⠻⠷⣾⠋⣴⣿⣷⠀⣿⠀⠿⠿⣿⡇⠸⠿⠃⣼⣿⠢⠲⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣇⠘⠟⣁⣼⣏⠙⠟⣀⣾⣀⠛⠟⣃⣼⡃⠘⠛⠛⣿⠁⠛⠛⣃⣿⠋⠁⢰⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡟⠟⢻⢻⢛⠛⠟⡿⠛⣯⠉⠐⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠏⠁⡈⠑⢄⢅⡆⠸⢂⣰⡂⠐⣽⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡋⣁⢐⠸⠀⠁⣀⡎⢙⠱⢸⠀⢳⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠠⠁⠐⢑⠀⠁⠀⡸⡀⠈⠀⠀⠀⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠋⣻⠐⣷⠀⡎⠀⠙⣤⠱⢳⠸⠀⠄⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣯⣷⣵⣧⣥⣼⣶⣷⣶⣿⣶⣶⣶⣾⣿⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢫⣿⢹⣿⣿⣿⢹⣿⢿⣿⢿⡇⡿⣿⡿⣿⣿⣯⣮⢹⡿⣽⡍⣿⣽⣮⢻⣯⡍⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⣭⢠⣿⣿⣿⢸⣿⣸⣿⢸⡇⣿⡸⢣⣿⣿⡿⣫⣾⣇⢿⡇⣿⡟⣱⣿⣿⡇⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣶⣿⣿⣿⢟⣸⣿⣷⣷⣾⣷⣿⢇⣾⣿⣿⣷⣶⣾⣿⣶⣶⣿⣶⣶⣾⣷⣶⣾⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣛⢿⣿⠟⢿⣿⡿⡛⢿⡿⡛⣿⣿⢟⣛⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢟⡻⣿⣿⡿⣛⠻⣿⣿⣿⠟⣿⣿⡿⣿⢟⠻⣿⣿⣿⣛⠻⣿⣿⡿⡟⣿⣿⣟⡿⠿⢿⣿⣿⡿⣿⢿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⡩⠶⣽⢹⣿⢹⣿⡿⣳⣿⣿⢸⣿⢸⣿⢸⣿⡇⣿⡏⣫⡝⣿⢩⣾⣿⢩⣮⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡏⣾⣷⢹⣿⣿⣿⢣⣿⣿⣿⡇⣿⣿⢣⡇⣿⡇⣿⣿⣿⣛⡱⣿⣿⣿⡇⣿⣿⣸⣇⣯⡻⣿⣿⣾⡿⣡⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣛⣛⣸⣞⣛⣸⣏⣘⣛⣿⣛⣘⣿⣜⣛⣼⣟⣃⣻⣷⣙⣃⣿⣜⣛⣿⢘⣛⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣘⣃⣾⣻⣟⣑⣛⣿⣻⣿⣃⣛⡟⣾⣧⣛⣣⣿⣻⣟⣛⣣⣿⣻⣟⣃⣛⣇⣿⣏⣛⣣⣿⣻⣋⣚⣛⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 949 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐃𝐀𝐈𝐋𝐘 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒 ═════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 07.09.21⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ ✐ Links_10/7/2021:_IBM_Buying_Another_Company,_More_European_Patents_Perish⠀✐ Posted in News_Roundup at 7:03 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇GNOME bluefish⦈ § Contents⠀➾ * GNU/Linux o Distributions o Devices/Embedded * Free_Software/Open_Source * Leftovers * § GNU/Linux⠀➾ o § Server⠀➾ # ⚓ Best_CentOS_Alternatives_for_Large_Companies⠀⇛ The system of most of the top companies is based on CentOS distribution, which includes Verizon, Toyota, Disney, etc. Other major technology companies utilize this Linux distribution for creating various products. What can these and other companies that use CentOS daily do? They try to find out different Linux distributions. But, you don’t have to roam around cause you are at the right place. This post is all about the Best CentOS alternatives for larges companies. So, let’s this journey started: o § Audiocasts/Shows⠀➾ # ⚓ DON’T_Upgrade_To_Windows_11!_Upgrade_To_Linux_Instead. [Ed: Vista 11 is not a product yet; can we stop comparing vapouware to real things?]⠀⇛ o § Kernel Space⠀➾ # ⚓ AMD_VanGogh_APUs_Get_New_Audio_Driver_For_Linux_– Phoronix⠀⇛ Since last year AMD has been working on VanGogh APU support for Linux initially with their graphics driver support and that has spread to other areas. It also turns out now that with VanGogh APUs will be a new Linux audio driver. # § Graphics Stack⠀➾ # ⚓ Mike_Blumenkrantz:_At_Last⠀⇛ Zink(-wip) now fully supports GL_KHR_blend_equation_advanced, which means ES 3.2 is a go (once my local CI clears me to push today’s snapshot). # ⚓ Zink_Now_Supports_OpenGL_ES_3.2_Over_Vulkan_– Phoronix⠀⇛ The latest achievement for Mesa’s generic OpenGL implementation atop Vulkan is being able to handle OpenGL ES 3.2. Within the “zink-wip” development code, today’s work now allows for OpenGL ES 3.2 to be exposed with KHR_blend_equation_advanced being the last extension necessary for this embedded OpenGL version. On the desktop side Zink has supported OpenGL 4.6 while for those making use of GLES there is now v3.2 support. OpenGL ES 3.2 mandates KHR_debug, KHR_robustness, OES_geometry_shader, OES_gpu_shader5, OES_texture_buffer, OES_tessellation_shader, and other extensions. # ⚓ Intel’s_Linux_Compute_Stack_Now_Boasts_Production- Ready_OpenCL_3.0,_Integrates_IGSC_FU_–_Phoronix⠀⇛ Shortly after OpenCL 3.0 was finalized last year it was enabled for Intel’s open-source Compute Runtime stack (and even earlier with their Tiger Lake enablement). But since last year that OpenCL 3.0 support was marked as “beta” while last week was quietly promoted to being “production” grade. With last week’s Intel Compute-Runtime 21.26.20194 build and carried forward with today’s 21.27.20266 build, the OpenCL 3.0 support is marked as production ready. This is a subtle change in noticing the difference from the version tables and just seems to reflect the good state of Intel’s open-source OpenCL support. Even in the months of the “beta” support, OpenCL 3.0 with the Intel Compute-Runtime has been working well for me from Gen9 Skylake graphics through Gen12 Tiger Lake. o § Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ [Older]_Audacity_‘Spyware’_Claims_Follow_Privacy_Policy Changes_By_New_Owner⠀⇛ Popular open-source audio editing software Audacity is facing “spyware” allegations from users for recent privacy policy changes that suggest the desktop app is collecting user data and sharing it with third parties, including state regulators where applicable. Two months ago, Audacity was acquired by Muse Group, which owns other audio-related projects including the Ultimate Guitar website and the MuseScore app. According to Fosspost, changes to the privacy policy section on the Audacity website indicate that several personal data collection mechanisms have since been added by the parent company. The type of data collected now includes the computer’s processor, operating system and version, the user’s IP address, and any crash reports, fatal error codes and messages generated by their machine. More concerning perhaps is the inclusion of a vague section listing data that must be collected “for legal enforcement, litigation, and authorities’ requests (if any).” # ⚓ The_Audacity!_How_to_wreck_an_open-source_project_and_anger a_community⠀⇛ Audacity. Surely, you’ve heard of it. It’s one of the most widely used apps by podcasters everywhere. It’s one open-source project that has managed to strike the perfect balance between feature list and usability. It has everything you could possibly need to record podcasts, music and just about any type of audio, and it does this while maintaining a level of user-friendliness that few software titles can touch. It’s as easy to use as it is feature- rich. [...] Here’s what happened. A company acquired Audacity. Now, prior to this, you may or may not have heard that the Audacity developers were toying around with adding telemetry to collect data from users. After a public outcry, it seemed that idea was sent to /dev/null to die a timely death. [...] Then they continue that they might share data with anyone they classify as a “third-party” or even “potential buyers.” The actual verbiage of the new privacy policy describes those entities they might share your data with as such (taken directly from the official privacy notice that was posted July 2… # ⚓ Users_suspected_that_the_successful_audio_software_was spying_on_them,_so_they_created_a_new_version_of_it. [Ed: Seems like automated mishmash]⠀⇛ Over the years, Audacity has developed a large and loyal user base in line with successful open source software – which some would define as the “default” for sound editors and podcasts. But since the software has changed hands in recent months, it hasn’t stopped bothering users – and this time they’re no longer just protesting and moving on. # ⚓ What’s_The_Deal_with_the_New_Audacity_Privacy_Policy?⠀⇛ The popular audio editing platform has come under fire for new privacy policies, so what’s the fuss all about? Audacity sparked controversy this week amid claims that its new privacy policy essentially turns the platform into ‘spyware’. The allegations, first published by tech site Fosspot, have raged on social media and prompted the company to revise the new privacy Ts & Cs. Audacity is among the most popular audio editing software tools available, boasting at least 100 million users globally. # ⚓ Audacity_clarifies_privacy_policy_over_spyware allegations⠀⇛ The first version of the privacy policy mentioned sharing data with potential buyers, governments and law enforcement Popular open-source audio-editing software Audacity has promised to revise its privacy policy, following allegations that it is being transformed into ‘spyware’. # ⚓ Audio_Recording_And_Editing_Software_‘Audacity’_Is_Not Spyware,_Reports_Said⠀⇛ Early July, numerous reports from tech websites said that the popular audio recording and editing software Audacity is now considered spyware as it claims to collect sensitive data from the users that installed it in their PCs. Since this information was released, many users have already said that they are uninstalling their software and use other alternative software instead. However, it is said that this case has already been addressed two months ago. According to a recent report, although the software is free and open-source, its new owner Muse Group can create “pretty damaging changes” especially on its telemetry features and privacy policy which many people think is too vague and overarching. The new privacy policy released on July 2 mentioned the five bullet points that are not really broad. It’s actually just similar to the collected data that was mentioned in FOSSPost’s own privacy policy which is the following: browser cookies you may provide, browser user-gent, IP address, and your geographical location, cookies for other websites you visited or any other information your browser can give about you. The last row covers the “data necessary for law enforcement, litigation and authorities’ requests (if any)” that is actually broad and not well-defined for its users. The other one is the fact that Audacity is not allowed to be used for users age 13 and below, requesting them to not use the app in order to avoid the expense of dealing with laws related to collecting personal data from children. o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾ # ⚓ rsync_over_SSH⠀⇛ I’ve migrated a few rsync pages yesterday and realised there’s been something I’d wanted to document for some time: using rsync over ssh. rsync initially started as a tool for synchronising local folders, then expanded to also working with external drives, then progressed to working with networking folders and eventually started working with remote servers using its own native rsync protocol. # ⚓ How_to_Install_Libinput-gestures_to_Enable_Multi-Touch Gestures_in_Ubuntu_|_UbuntuHandbook⠀⇛ For laptop users, the built-in touchpad can do more magic by enabling multi-touch gestures. And libinput-gestures is a popular solution besides touchegg. Libinput-gestures is a free open-source utility that reads libinput gestures from your touchpad and maps them to user customized gestures. Each gesture can be configured to activate a keyboard key combination via xdotool utility. # ⚓ IP_Address_Classes_Explained_–_Linux_Hint⠀⇛ This tutorial explains IP address classes or classful networks, their classification and their use. An IP address is a 32 bits unique binary number used to identify networks and devices or hosts, the result of the conversion of the binary number to decimal is what we know as IP address. In decimal format this address consists of 4 numbers ranging from 0 to 255 separated by a dot. For example: 240.34.87.22 is an IP address (in binary format: 11110000.00100010.01010111.00010110). Each one of those numbers separated by dots is called octet. In the previous example 240 is an octet, 34 is another octet, 87 the third octet and 22 the fourth octet. Each octet consists of 8 bits. Some bits are used to identify a network, while the rest are used to identify hosts within a network. # ⚓ How_to_install_Nitrux_1.5.0⠀⇛ In this video, I am going to show how to install Nitrux 1.5.0. # ⚓ Bash_Cut_Command_with_Examples_–_Linux_Hint⠀⇛ The cut command is used to extract the specific portion of text in a file. Many options can be added to the command to exclude unwanted items. It is mandatory to specify an option in the command otherwise it shows an error. In this article, we will throw light on each option of the cut command. # ⚓ UEFI_Shell_Scripting_Tutorial⠀⇛ UEFI (Unified EFI – Extensible Firmware Interface) is a software specification used to interface between the operating system and the firmware of your computer’s hardware. UEFI has a built-in shell program called UEFI Shell or EFI Shell. You can use it to run EFI Shell commands and run your own EFI scripts. This article will show you how to write UEFI/EFI Shell scripts and run them from the UEFI/EFI Shell. So, let’s get started. # ⚓ How_to_Map_a_Host_Port_to_a_Container_Port?_–_Linux_Hint⠀⇛ The Docker open-source platform has completely changed how we build, deploy, and handle containerized apps. You will need to construct a Dockerfile to containerize an application, which contains the instructions Docker needs to generate and run images. To allow seamless communication among containers in multi-container applications and making your Docker ports available by services with the outside world, you may have to set certain networking rules. When you start a container with Docker, all of the applications in the container run on specific ports. If you wish to use a port number to access a specific application, you must first map the container’s port number to the docker host’s port number. Containers can use port mappings to send and receive traffic through ports on the host container instance. The container’s port mappings are defined as part of the container definition. The port number on the container that is connected to the host port was either chosen by the user or allocated automatically. Containers in Docker can have their applications running on ports. When running a container, you must map the container’s port number to the Docker host’s port number if you would like to connect the container’s application via a port number. In this tutorial, we will explain you about mapping a host port to a container port in docker. # ⚓ Sort_Command_in_Linux_with_Examples_–_Linux_Hint⠀⇛ SORT command in Linux is used to arrange the record in a specific order according to the option used. It helps in sorting the data in the file line by line. SORT command has different features that it follows in the resultant of commands. First is that the lines having numbers will come before the alphabetic lines. Those lines having lower case letters will be displayed earlier than the lines having the same character in uppercase. # ⚓ Linux_Tail_Command_with_Examples_–_Linux_Hint⠀⇛ As the name implies, the tail command is used to display the last values of the content of the file. By default, the last 10 lines are selected. Whereas, we can customize the number of lines by providing the number in the command. # ⚓ Linux_Head_Command_with_Examples_–_Linux_Hint⠀⇛ As the name shows, the head command displays the first N lines of data. By default, it is a 10 number but can be customized. It is opposite to the tail command because the tail command helps in displaying the last N lines from the file. # ⚓ How_to_Run_Virtual_Machines_Using_GNOME_Boxes_in_Linux_– Linux_Hint⠀⇛ This article will cover a guide on installing and using “GNOME Boxes” application in Linux. You can use it to create and manage local or remote virtual machines. You can run many supported operating systems in these virtual machines by saving content in virtual hard drives. [...] Developed by the GNOME team, GNOME Boxes is a part of the official GNOME software suite. It is a graphical frontend for creating and managing QEMU virtual machines. QEMU is a command line tool that can emulate hardware components and run virtual machines containing full installation of various operating systems available out there. A graphical utility called, “virt-manager” is available that can be used to manage QEMU virtual machines. However, its user interface can be a bit overwhelming with its numerous built-in configuration options. GNOME Boxes aims to simplify the interface by only exposing necessary features to end users. It is more oriented towards casual desktop users who want to manage virtual machines for day to day tasks and want to run virtual machines quickly without much hassle. Advanced users, specially those who manage QEMU virtual machines for businesses and organizations, can always use the virt-manager graphical frontend. # ⚓ How_to_Mount_CD-ROM_on_CentOS_8_–_Linux_Hint⠀⇛ CDs and DVDs are slowly becoming irrelevant, but they are still efficient data storage devices. They can store data in a large quantity for long periods of time. In this article, we will discuss the mounting process of CD-ROM on CentOS 8 step-by- step. The method we will perform in this article will also work if you want to mount an ISO file on CentOS 8 system. # ⚓ How_to_Install_and_Use_CentOS_Web_Panel_on_CentOS_8_–_Linux Hint⠀⇛ CentOS Web Panel (CWP) is a control panel for web hosting. It is a free alternative to cPanel. It has an easy-to-use interface and several other features for newbies who want to create and manage hosting servers. Using CWP is easy and convenient as you don’t have to access the server with SSH for every small task that needs to be completed. This article provides a detailed guide on installing and using the CentOS Web Panel on CentOS 8. # ⚓ How_to_Install_and_Use_Vagrant_on_CentOS_8_–_Linux_Hint⠀⇛ A vagrant is an open-source tool that helps create, maintain and manage virtual environments. Vagrant has an easy-to-use workflow and focuses on automation. It decreases setup time and increases productivity. On Vagrant, it is straightforward to share setups between team members, enabling everyone to have the same setup. This article provides an extensive guide on how to install Vagrant on CentOS 8. We will also discuss how to create virtual development environments. # ⚓ How_to_Delete_Old_Unused_Kernels_on_CentOS_8_–_Linux_Hint⠀⇛ The kernel is the bridge between software and hardware, and it is part of an operating system that interacts with the hardware. In normal circumstances, the number of installed kernels does not affect the system’s performance, but it is still recommended to remove old unused kernels as it frees up space. Before we start removing old unused kernels, it is essential to note that you should always have at least two kernels on your system at any time. # ⚓ How_to_Pass_Environment_Variables_to_a_Docker_Container_– Linux_Hint⠀⇛ Docker is an open-source program that executes server applications using containers rather than virtual machines. Docker is a development and hosting configuration that utilizes fewer resources, so it’s no surprise that it is sweeping the development world. Docker environment variables are significant to this procedure because they store data that is unique to each user account accessing the software. Using any modern JavaScript framework to create a container for a single app, you may discover that the configuration settings vary depending on where the container will execute. The basic URL for your API, for example, can vary based on whether you are testing or publishing the app. Environment variables are commonly used by developers to tackle this problem because code operates on the backend, environment variables are usually used there. During the image construction, we may need to pass environment information to the operating container. To do so, we employ both ENV and ARG commands. The ARG command creates a variable that can be provided during the build process. Once it’s defined in the Dockerfile, you can use the parameter —build-arg to provide it to the image builder. In the Dockerfile, we can have numerous ARG instructions. In the Dockerfile, the ARG command is the only one that can come before the FROM instruction. However, The ENV instruction sets the environment variable, which in turn specifies the environment for the construction instructions that follow. The ENV instruction is accessible during the construction process as well as when the container is started with the —env flag. However, we are unable to pass the ENV instruction while constructing the image. The ARG directive has the drawback of being unable to persist after the image has been built. To pass the environment data inline when creating the image, we will just utilize both ENV and ARG. In this guide, we will teach you how to pass an environment variable to a docker container. # ⚓ How_to_download_and_extract_a_.deb_package_on_Ubuntu_or Debian_Linux⠀⇛ Sometimes you require a certain file from a Debian .deb package. For example, because you accidentally deleted a file. Or because the package’s installation is faulty and it can’t be restored without first adding the missing file. This FAQ explains how to extract the contents of a.deb file downloaded from the Debian or Ubuntu repository. # ⚓ How_to_Enable_SSH_in_Ubuntu_20.04_Step_by_Step_Tutorial⠀⇛ Do you know what is SSH? If yes then move to the next step how to enable ssh in ubuntu. If you don’t know, listen to my words. SSH (Secure Shell) is a cryptographic network protocol used to establish a secure connection between the client and a server, and both can communicate securely on an encrypted channel. It allows the client to transfer files securely and perform the administrative task on the server remotely by accessing the command line interface on the client machine. The client machine may have an operating system like Windows, Linux, MAC and other. # ⚓ How_to_Use_Maltego_Kali_Linux_a_Complete_guide_for beginners⠀⇛ Welcome you, I am glad you are here and continue reading my notes on Penetration Testing Tutorial and this post is part of Information Gathering and This article will cover How to use Maltego Kali Linux tutorial is an open source intelligence and forensics application. It will offer you timous mining and gathering of information as well as the representation of this information in a easy to understand format. # ⚓ Cain_and_Abel_software_for_cracking_hashes_Guide_for Beginners⠀⇛ According to the official website http:// www.oxid.it/cain.html , Cain and Abel software is a password recovery tool for Microsoft Operating Systems. It allows easy recovery of various kinds of passwords by sniffing the network, cracking hashes passwords using Dictionary, Brute-Force and Cryptanalysis attacks, recording VoIP conversations, decoding scrambled passwords, recovering wireless network keys, revealing password boxes, uncovering cached passwords and analysing routing protocols. The latest version is faster and contains a lot of new features like APR (ARP Poison Routing) which enables Sniffing on switched LANs and man in the middle attacks. The sniffer in this version can also analyze encrypted protocols such as SSH-1 and HTTPS and contains filters to capture credentials from a wide range of authentication mechanisms. The new version also ships routing protocols authentication monitors and routes extractors, dictionary and brute-force crackers for all common hashing algorithms and for several specific authentications, password/hash calculators, cryptanalysis attacks, password decoders and some not so common utilities related to network and system security. # ⚓ Maxim_Burgerhout:_Building_a_load_balanced_Ansible_Tower cluster⠀⇛ As you might know, I do a bit of YouTubing. One video request I got a couple of times, was to do a video about clustering Ansible Tower behind a load balancer. As I had never done that before myself, it sounded interesting, so I did it. # ⚓ 7_steps:_Learn_how_to_migrate_to_Linux_desktop_– TechRepublic⠀⇛ Many businesses depends on Linux and open source in the data center or any number of Linux-based virtual machines hosted on a third-party cloud service. So why are you continuing to ignore Linux on the desktop? Is it because Windows is simply the desktop operating system you’ve always used and can’t figure out a reason to make the switch? Or are you afraid your end-users won’t be able to accept that drastic change? Given that so much of what users do these days happens within a web browser, using a less-than-reliable and easily broken OS as Windows should be a no-brainer of a switch. o § Distributions⠀➾ # § IBM/Red Hat/Fedora⠀➾ # ⚓ CentOS_Stream:_‘I_was_slow_on_the_uptake,_but_I_get what_they_are_doing_now,’_says_Rocky_Linux_founder⠀⇛ Last December Red Hat announced that it would cease work on CentOS Linux, switch its focus to CentOS Stream, and sunset CentOS 8 in December 2021 instead of 2029. It was a change that shook the Linux community. CentOS is hugely popular: exact figures are difficult, but W3techs suggests that CentOS has 10.6 per cent of the websites running Linux, versus 0.9 per cent for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). CentOS is a community build of RHEL whereas CentOS Stream is an upstream project, “a preview of upcoming Red Hat Enterprise Linux minor and major releases,” as described by Red Hat. “The end of life of CentOS as we know it had a negative effect on my company and my company’s customers as well as pretty much everybody in the industry,” Kurtzer told The Register. “I felt it was important to take the lessons learned from CentOS and bring that into a new project… and I enjoy operating systems.” # ⚓ IBM_Plans_To_Acquire_Hybrid_Cloud_Consulting_Firm BoxBoat⠀⇛ IBM has announced plans to acquire BoxBoat Technologies, a DevOps consultancy and enterprise Kubernetes certified service provider. BoxBoat will extend IBM’s container strategy and implementation services portfolio to further advance IBM’s hybrid cloud strategy and accelerate Red Hat OpenShift adoption globally. # ⚓ You_asked,_we_acted:_How_Red_Hat_has_acted_on customer_feedback [Ed: But Red Hat, you still killed CentOS (as it was) in spite of popular demand]⠀⇛ At Red Hat, we take customer feedback seriously. At the end of projects with our clients, formal training, purchases of software or solutions, and even technical support, we regularly hold feedback sessions. In doing so, this feedback loop can help identify points of improvement in various aspects and areas of the company to provide an improved customer experience. In our Customer Portal, you will find a page dedicated to showing the actions we’ve implemented based on feedback we’ve received called “You Asked. We Acted.” This is one of the ways that we show how Red Hat is taking action to implement changes based on feedback we’ve received. o § Devices/Embedded⠀➾ # § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾ # ⚓ RISC-V_Supports_Some_Exciting_Features_With_Linux 5.14_–_Phoronix⠀⇛ The RISC-V architecture code supports more functionality with the in-development Linux 5.14 kernel. First up, with Linux 5.14 RISC-V now supports transparent hugepages. Transparent hugepages for reducing TLB overhead for page look-ups and helping out performance particularly for systems/servers with large amounts of RAM can now work on RISC-V. All of the kernel code is in place for this forthcoming kernel. # ⚓ Test_and_diagnose_your_USB_cables_with_this_Arduino device_|_Arduino_Blog⠀⇛ USB cables come in a variety of shapes and sizes, with a different of internal connections that may be unknown to the user. For an easy way to figure out these connections, and to diagnose if the cable itself is faulty, TechKiwiGadgets has come up the Arduino Cable Tracer. This device features an Arduino Mega board inside a 3D-printed enclosure, with IO pins connected to USB-A, USB-C, Micro-B, and Mini- B ports. It scans these ports to determine the configuration and lets the user know exactly how the cable is wired via a 2.8” TFT screen on top. # ⚓ Tried:_RISC-V_single_board_computer_RVBoards_Nezha with_Debian_Linux [Ed: Automated translation]⠀⇛ The “Nezha” board from the Chinese company RVBoards is probably the first (reasonably) affordable RISC-V single-board computer for Linux. Because the RISC-V calculation core in the system-on-chip Allwinner D1 is compatible with the RV64GC specification. In addition, a 2D graphics processor is built in so that the Nezha can control an HDMI display like a Raspberry Pi. # § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ AV-Comparatives_releases_results_of_2021_Android Security_Test,_reveals_mobile_devices_at_risk⠀⇛ # ⚓ You_Can_Help_the_Planet_With_These_6_Android_Apps⠀⇛ # ⚓ Best_Android_app_deals_of_the_day:_Pavilion,_4K Camera,_more_–_9to5Toys⠀⇛ # ⚓ Android_Apps_Will_Soon_Be_Required_to_Adopt_Android App_Bundles⠀⇛ # ⚓ Google_bringing_on-device_ML_to_Play_services_on Android_–_9to5Google⠀⇛ # ⚓ Google_teases_transformational_feature_for_Android_12 and_game_mode_API⠀⇛ # ⚓ How_to_Fix_Google_Maps_When_It’s_Not_Working_on Android⠀⇛ # ⚓ How_to_change_keyboard_on_Android_|_Tom’s_Guide⠀⇛ # ⚓ The_FBI’s_honeypot_Pixel_4a_gets_detailed_in_new report_|_Ars_Technica⠀⇛ # ⚓ 10_Best_Gangster_Games_for_Android:_Rule_the_Virtual Underworld⠀⇛ # ⚓ 3_Android_Apps_That_Every_Tea_Enthusiast_Needs_to Know_About⠀⇛ # ⚓ 3_Android_Apps_to_Blur_the_Background_of_Your Photos⠀⇛ # ⚓ There’s_now_an_Android_app_that_can_test_if_your phone_is_waterproof_or_not⠀⇛ # ⚓ Samsung_rolling_out_Android_11_update_to_the_Galaxy A10s_–_PhoneArena⠀⇛ # ⚓ The_ultimate_guide_to_customising_your_Android smartphone:_Part_1⠀⇛ # ⚓ Google_will_stop_updating_Play_Services_for_devices running_Android_Jelly_Bean_–_GSMArena.com_news⠀⇛ # ⚓ Google_wants_you_to_stop_using_Android_Jelly_Bean_now –_Android_Authority⠀⇛ o § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾ # § Events⠀➾ # ⚓ Linux_Plumbers_Conference:_Testing_and_Fuzzing Microconference_Accepted_into_2021_Linux_Plumbers Conference⠀⇛ We are pleased to announce that the Testing and Fuzzing Microconference has been accepted into the 2021 Linux Plumbers Conference. In spite of the huge number of products shipping with the Linux kernel which are being thoroughly tested by OEMs and distribution providers, there is still no enforced quality standard upstream. How can we make best use of all the publicly available infrastructure and test frameworks in order to fill this gap? Testing and fuzzing upstream as well as gathering results from products is crucial to keeping a project that has over 5,000 commits every month stable for all to use. # ⚓ Practical_Open_Source_Needs_You!⠀⇛ This is the first such event we’ve planned, so to get the word out, we’ve been reaching out directly to a wide array of open source community members of all stripes — strategists, activists, lawyers, developers — to spread the word about our Call for Speakers, which closes on July 15th, 8:00 EDT. We want this event to be a place where folks can find an accessible entry point into open source practices, learning from community members about best practices, common mistakes, and answers to topics as deceptively simple as choosing the right license for a project, so if that’s something you know about, we want to hear from you! # ⚓ Florence_to_host_International_FOSS4G_Conference 2022⠀⇛ The 16th annual congress of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo), the non-profit organisation that supports and promotes the collaborative development of free and open source geographic technologies and open geospatial data, will be held in Florence at the Palazzo dei Congressi, Palazzo degli Affari and the University of Florence, 22-27 August 2022. * § Leftovers⠀➾ o § Science⠀➾ # ⚓ The_evolution_of_POS_(Point_of_Sale)_Systems⠀⇛ The first computer-driven cash register, which resembles what we have today, was developed by IBM in 1973 – and it marked the first commercial use of a computer-based system used by the restaurant industry. o § Integrity/Availability⠀➾ # § Proprietary⠀➾ # § Security⠀➾ # ⚓ Security_updates_for_Friday⠀⇛ Security updates have been issued by Debian (apache2 and scilab), Fedora (chromium and perl-Mojolicious), Gentoo (inspircd, redis, and wireshark), and Mageia (fluidsynth, glib2.0, gnome- shell, grub2, gupnp, hivex, libupnp, redis, and zstd). # ⚓ Linux_kernel_Livepatching⠀⇛ Canonical livepatch is the service and the software that enables organizations to quickly patch vulnerabilities on the Ubuntu Linux kernels. Livepatch provides uninterrupted service while reducing fire drills during high and critical severity kernel vulnerabilities. It is a complex technology and the details can be confusing, so in this post we provide a high level introduction to Ubuntu Linux kernel livepatching and the processes around it. # ⚓ Increased_security:_Open_Policy_Agent_reaches version_0.30 [Ed: Automated translation]⠀⇛ Designed as an open source general- purpose policy engine, the Open Policy Agent (OPA) is used to program, provision, enforce and monitor context- related policies. The team behind the open source project managed by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) has now presented OPA 0.30.0 – immediately followed by the bug fix release 0.30.1, which contains an error in the behavior of indexof fixes. o § Internet Policy/Net Neutrality⠀➾ # ⚓ Biden’s_new_executive_order_urges_FCC_to_restore_net neutrality⠀⇛ President Joe Biden will urge the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to reinstate net neutrality rules in an executive order he’s expected to sign Friday. Biden’s call will be part of a larger sweeping executive order attempting to promote competition in the country’s economy and combating corporate consolidation. Net neutrality rules were adopted by the FCC in 2015 and prevent internet service providers (ISPs) from blocking, throttling, or using paid prioritization on internet speeds. The rules also classified ISPs under Title II of the Communications Act, which gave the FCC authority over the providers. All of that was undone in 2017 by the Republican- led FCC, which repealed the rules. o § Monopolies⠀➾ # § Patents⠀➾ # ⚓ News_from_Abroad:_European_CVC_CRISPR_Patent_Revoked Because_of_Invalid_Priority_Claim [Ed: More fake patents, including patents on life]⠀⇛ While many patiently await developments in the pending U.S. interference proceedings relating to the CRISPR patents in the U.S., matters are progressing in Europe. The Opposition Division (OD) of the European Patent Office (EPO) has just issued (on June 29, 2021) its written decision in the case of EP3241902, owned by the University of California/Berkeley, the University of Vienna, and Emmanuelle Charpentier (collectively termed “CVC”). While the headline decision of the OD to revoke the patent was delivered orally at the hearing on April 13, 2021, the OD has now provided its detailed reasoning behind the decision. Formally, EP3241902 was revoked for lack of inventive step. However, pivotal in this decision was the finding by the OD that the patent was not entitled to priority from at least the first priority claim of May 25, 2012 (US 61/652,086; “P1″). In view of this, the inventors’ own landmark publication from June 28, 2012 (“Jinek 2012″) became prior art. ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 2104 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐃𝐀𝐈𝐋𝐘 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒 ═════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 07.09.21⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ ✐ Links_9/7/2021:_New_in_KDE,_IBM_Crisis,_Germany_Moving_to_Free_Software⠀✐ Posted in News_Roundup at 2:23 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇GNOME bluefish⦈ § Contents⠀➾ * GNU/Linux o Distributions o Devices/Embedded * Free_Software/Open_Source * Leftovers * § GNU/Linux⠀➾ o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾ # ⚓ How_to_Upgrade_to_Linux_Mint_20.2_from_20.1⠀⇛ Step-by-step instructions for you to upgrade your Linux Mint 20.1 system to latest Mint 20.2. o § Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾ # § K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt⠀➾ # ⚓ This_week_in_KDE:_fixing_longstanding_bugs⠀⇛ This week a whole bunch of longstanding issues got fixed! If you look through the list, I bet you’ll find one or two things that have annoyed you–and no longer! In addition, we did a lot of high-impact Wayland work. o § Distributions⠀➾ # § BSD⠀➾ # ⚓ Status_of_Online_Conference_Software_on_FreeBSD⠀⇛ This project marks the introduction to my internship in FreeBSD Foundation. Conferencing and online video meeting software has become an increasingly popular choice for remote working and video calling, especially since the pandemic at the beginning of 2020. There are a number of popular platforms floating around, such as Google Hangouts and Skype. However, there are not many online resources available showing how well the different platforms work on FreeBSD desktop environments. For FreeBSD desktop users, it is also important that we have a variety of choices on hand when it comes to online meetings. This ensures productivity even when developers are remote from the working site. I decided to spend a few days testing how well the web-based online conferencing applications are working. I did not investigate non web-based online conferencing as browsers are supposed to be widely available to different users. # § IBM/Red Hat/Fedora⠀➾ # ⚓ IBM_CEO:_The_biggest_challenge_holding_back_our economy_right_now⠀⇛ We’re already beginning to see the contours of what our new post-pandemic digital economy will look like. Whether it is cloud-based platforms or AI- powered software, businesses across every industry are reshaping their future around the possibilities of these powerful and exciting technologies. In manufacturing, a factory floor operator now relies on AI- powered robots to detect defects in products that are invisible to the human eye. In health care, AI-powered virtual agents can now handle millions of calls at once. And, in telecommunications, cloud-based networks can now quickly adapt to massive shifts in traffic patterns — almost overnight. As the world continues to grapple with the effects of the global pandemic and the economic strain it has caused, technology must be part of the solution. Digital technologies such as hybrid cloud, artificial intelligence and eventually, quantum computing, can rewire our economy, unleash more productivity and spur business and societal growth. But to get there, there is one challenge we must overcome: We must take big and bold steps to increase access to digital skills training for workers — regardless of their background — so they can take advantage of this new era. # ⚓ Whitehurst_fallout:_‘The_future_IBM_we_will_probably never_see’⠀⇛ Technology columnist Timothy Prickett Morgan is harshly critical of Jim Whitehurst’s departure as president of IBM, writing: “Someone at the company forgot what being named president of the IBM Company means. Or no longer cared.” Morgan, the co-editor of tech site The Next Platform and who lives in Boone according to his LinkedIn site, declares that Whitehurst’s departure means what the longtime CEO of Raleigh-based Red Hat would have done to impact IBM is something “we will probably never see.” While not being harshly critical of Chair and CEO Arvind Krishna – who prevailed over Whitehurst when IBM’s board selected a CEO to replace the retired Ginni Rometty last year – Morgan makes clear that losing Whitehurst hurts Big Blue. # ⚓ IBM_insiders_say_CEO_Arvind_Krishna_downplayed_impact of_email_troubles,_asked_for_a_week_to_sort_things out⠀⇛ IBM CEO Arvind Krishna on Wednesday addressed the company’s ongoing email woes in his monthly video message to employees. Krishna, we’re told, said the email disruption only lost the company one deal worth about $10,000 and he said the situation would be fully fixed in a week. The chief exec’s comments appear to address The Register’s report last week that IBM’s partial email outage might have an impact on company revenue. If the figure Krishna cited is correct, the email disruption’s sales impact is immaterial in terms of the Big Blue’s overall finances. The possibility of brand damage, however, remains. Our first source within IBM described how Krishna likened IBM employees to “shoemaker’s kids,” a reference to the proverb that shoemaker’s children go barefoot and a suggestion that IBM is too busy tending to its customers to provide reliable email to its employees. “I took it as ‘we are too busy doing other things,’” said the individual who told The Register about the video. Krishna, we’re told, spent several minutes on the subject, claiming that IBM sent 4.2 billion emails a week and that IBM employees have been experiencing only about 30 minutes per day of downtime. Our source told us that’s “just not true.” On Tuesday, this individual said thousands of people have been affected and described 27,000 people in the company’s Slack help channel posting requests for assistance. # ⚓ Ex-IBM_whistleblower’s_suit_back_in_court,_8_years after_he_alleged_irregularities_in_$265m_IRS_software deal⠀⇛ # § Canonical/Ubuntu Family⠀➾ # ⚓ Linux_Mint_20.2_arrives,_upgrade_path_made_available too_–_Neowin⠀⇛ The Linux Mint team has announced the release of Linux Mint 20.2 ‘Uma’. Surprisingly, the upgrade path has also been opened up today. In the past, users normally had to wait a week or two before upgrades were allowed from older Mint versions but it looks like the team was confident enough to allow upgrades right away. We already gave a rundown of the features new to Linux Mint 20.2 in June when the beta was made available so head over to that article to see what’s new. Here, we will look at how you can upgrade your Linux Mint 20 or 20.1 system to 20.2. # ⚓ Linux_Release_Roundup_#21.28:_Linux_Mint_20.2,_KDE Gear_21.04.3,_Tor_Browser_10.5,_and_More_New_Releases ⠀⇛ Linux Mint 20.2 final release is here with significant upgrade and improvements. You can learn more about the changes in our news coverage. o § Devices/Embedded⠀➾ # § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾ # ⚓ Collection_of_Raspberry_Pi_retro_tech_projects⠀⇛ # ⚓ The_Old_Computer_Challenge_and_Why_I_Need_It⠀⇛ These two concerns have made me often think about what would happen if I just used an old computer. What if the time cost of each interaction with a device was higher? Would I use it less often and more deliberately? There is only one way to find out, which is why I have decided to take part in an Old Computer Challenge proposed by Solene Rapenne. The rules are simple: outside of work, use something with 1 core and 512 MB of RAM or less, from 10-July to 17-July. I will be using a DEC AlphaStation and nothing else for the duration of this week, and will do a follow up with my thoughts at the end of that time. If you’re interested, why not give it a try too? # ⚓ Biden_to_Sign_Executive_Order_Granting_Farmers_Right to_Repair_Protections⠀⇛ At the White House press briefing today, Psaki said that the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Federal Trade Commission, at the direction of Biden, is working on new rules to increase competition in the farming industry, allow for greater competition between small farmers and big businesses, and “give farmers the right to repair their own equipment how they like.” Psaki said this would be part of an executive order that the Biden administration will sign that is focused more broadly on helping farmers. Bloomberg reported the news earlier Tuesday. # ⚓ Apple_founder_Steve_Wozniak_backs_right-to-repair movement⠀⇛ And right-to-repair advocates say Apple is one of the fiercest opponents to expanding the legislation to cover consumer electronics. It allows repairs by its own authorised technicians only and does not generally provide spare parts or repair information. And it has reportedly engaged lobbyists to persuade lawmakers repairing devices can be extremely dangerous. But Mr Wozniak, 70, said: “Companies inhibit [the right to repair] because it gives the companies power, control, over everything. “It’s time to start doing the right things.” # ⚓ Apple_Co-Founder_Steve_Wozniak_Publicly_Backs_Right to_Repair⠀⇛ But according to Wozniak, the same repair restrictions are not just bad for consumers, they can also stifle innovation. “We wouldn’t have an Apple had I not grown in an open technology world. An open electronics world,” he said. “Back then, when you bought electronic things, like TVs and radios, every bit of the circuits and designs were included on paper.” # ⚓ Steve_Wozniak_Voices_Strong_Support_for_the_Growing Right_to_Repair_Movement⠀⇛ In the video, Woz goes on to illustrate how the prevalence of open-source tech was instrumental to many of his and Apple’s early breakthroughs like being able to manipulate video input on TVs back in the day, which eventually helped pave the way for the Apple I. Woz also cited the breakup of Ma Bell as a catalyst that helped open up consumer choice when it came to telephones, allowing people to make better gadgets in a wide range of designs and colors, while Apple even shipped the Apple I with full design specs, allowing home users to more easily understand and tinker with the device. # ⚓ Apple_co-founder_Steve_Wozniak_supports_right-to- repair_movement_amid_battle_over_whether_you_should_be able_to_fix_your_own_iPhone⠀⇛ “The Apple II was modifiable and extendable to the maximum … this product was the only source of profits for Apple for the first 10 years on the company. This was not a minor product … there were a lot of good things about being so open that everyone could join the party”, he continued. o § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾ # ⚓ Meet_the_open-source_software_powering_NASA’s_Ingenuity Mars_Helicopter⠀⇛ So they turned to F Prime, a reusable, multi- mission flight software framework designed for CubeSats, small spacecraft, and instruments. The program was initially developed in 2013 by a team led by Tim Canham at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California with the aim of creating a low-cost, portable, pliable software architecture option that would allow components written for one application to be reused easily in other applications and run on a range of processors. # § Public Services/Government⠀➾ # ⚓ German_government_executes_OSS-based_vision_of digital_sovereignty⠀⇛ The German government is taking the next steps to fulfil its commitment of increasing the level of digital sovereignty of its public sector. In a recent decision, the Conference of the IT Coordinators of the Ministries approved the “Strategy for Strengthening Digital Sovereignty for Public Administration IT”, with a view of creating a Centre for Digital Sovereignty, built on open source. # § Programming/Development⠀➾ # ⚓ Automated_BLE_Testing⠀⇛ Without too much effort, we now have a pretty powerful script for continuously testing our firmware for basic BLE functionality. And as more requirements are added, it’s straightforward to update the python script to test those as well. # § Rust⠀➾ # ⚓ Announcing_Arti,_a_pure-Rust_Tor implementation⠀⇛ Today I’m happy to announce a new era in Tor implementation. * § Leftovers⠀➾ o ⚓ Could_Other_Condos_Collapse_Like_Surfside?_Ron_DeSantis_Doesn’t Care_to_Know.⠀⇛ o ⚓ ‘Appalling’:_DeSantis_Refuses_to_Back_Calls_for_Inspection_of Aging_Florida_Buildings_After_Condo_Collapse⠀⇛ As the known death toll from the collapse of a high-rise condo in Surfside near Miami continues to rise, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ refusal on Wednesday to commit to a statewide review of aging buildings provoked cries of outrage and fears of repeat disasters. “For those who are missing, who have been identified as being deceased, the impact that they’ve had, not just on Florida but through folks all across the country and the world, has really been profound,” DeSantis said Wednesday after a briefing on Tropical Storm Elsa at the state’s Emergency Operations Center in Tallahassee, according to reporting by the Tampa Bay Times. o ⚓ ‘What_Would_It_Mean_to_Think_That_Thought?’:_The_Era_of_Lauren Berlant⠀⇛ Lauren Berlant, a pioneering scholar and cultural theorist, died on June 28 of a rare form of cancer. A professor at the University of Chicago since 1984, Berlant had wide-ranging influence as a scholar: They made contributions to literary studies, queer theory, and political theory, but were best known through their work on affect theory—a way of understanding political and cultural life through the individual and collective experience of mood and feeling. The loss of Berlant is immeasurable, and the effort of remembering and understanding the legacy of their scholarship is just beginning. As a contribution to that project, The Nation has asked four thinkers to share their thoughts on what Berlant’s thinking meant to them.1 o § Health/Nutrition⠀➾ # ⚓ Secrecy_and_Calamity_in_Australia’s_Vaccine_Rollout⠀⇛ A good deal of this was occasioned by an outbreak in Australia’s largest city in June, which saw the state of New South Wales become the last bastion to yield to the lockdown formula.  For the duration of the pandemic, the state government saw the blunt approach as unnecessarily harsh to residents, preferring to rely on fabled common sense.  We, the argument went, were different.  Business and commerce could be left in peace, bar some tinkering on matters of social distancing. But common sense and wily viruses do not necessarily go hand in hand; and the Delta variant of COVID-19 is proving more than a match for public health authorities.  It began with an airport driver in Sydney, who caught the strain from flight crew from the US.  Infections ballooned, helped along by a gathering at a birthday party of around 40 people, one of whom had unknowingly crossed paths with the driver. Those not infected turned out to be the ones who were vaccinated. # ⚓ Sugar_Companies_Said_Our_Investigation_Is_Flawed_and Biased._Let’s_Dive_Into_Why_That’s_Not_the_Case.⠀⇛ On July 8, The Palm Beach Post and ProPublica published an investigation into harvest practices in the nation’s largest cane sugar-producing region. For decades, residents in Florida’s heartland have raised concerns about exposure to pollution from burning cane fields, a technique used to rid the plant of its leaves. In June 2020, The Post partnered with ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network to investigate the topic. # ⚓ ‘It_Didn’t_Have_to_Be_This_Way’:_WHO_Chief_Laments_4 Million_Covid-19_Deaths⠀⇛ The official global death toll from Covid-19 hit 4 million Wednesday—a “tragic milestone,” said the World Health Organization chief as he blasted “vaccine nationalism” as a “morally indefensible” position. That number of fatalities is likely an underestimate, World Health Organization (WHO) Director-Genereal Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in his remarks at a press briefing. Also troubling, he said, are “fast moving variants” of the coronavirus and premature dropping by some authorities of public health measures meant to contain the spread of the pandemic. # ⚓ New_Study_Shows_Delta_Variant’s_Threat_to_the Unvaccinated—And_Partially_Vaccinated⠀⇛ A study published in the journal Nature on Thursday found that the Delta variant of the coronavirus has the ability to dodge antibodies produced by vaccines or natural infection, an alarming discovery that comes as the ultra-contagious strain is spreading rapidly across the U.S. and throughout the world. “We need to vaccinate the world NOW with an all-out effort led by the United States.”—Kristian Andersen, Scripps Research Institute # ⚓ As_Delta_Runs_Rampant,_Analysis_Pinpoints_Five Undervaccinated_Clusters_Putting_Entire_US_at_Risk⠀⇛ A new data analysis by researchers at Georgetown University pinpoints a number of undervaccinated clusters of the United States that pose a significant threat to the nation’s—and potentially the world’s—gradual progress against the Covid-19 pandemic, particularly given their potential to serve as “factories” for extremely contagious variants such as the now-dominant Delta strain. The five most significant clusters identified by the Georgetown researchers are largely located in the southern U.S., in states such as Georgia, Alabama, Arkansas, Tennessee, Mississippi, and Louisiana—all of which are currently experiencing a rise in coronavirus cases as Delta rips through communities concentrated with people who have yet to receive a single vaccine shot. Those clusters include more than 15 million people. o § Integrity/Availability⠀➾ # ⚓ Sophos_acquires_Intel-backed_Linux_security_vendor Capsule8⠀⇛ # § Proprietary⠀➾ # ⚓ Kaseya_Left_Customer_Portal_Vulnerable_to_2015_Flaw in_its_Own_Software [Ed: Windows TCO]⠀⇛ # ⚓ Cyber_Command_lawyer_calls_for_military_operations against_[crackers] [iophk: Windows TCO]⠀⇛ The disruptions caused by the events “have demonstrated that what initially may be categorized as crime may be better thought of as a national security threat,” and the United States must use its own cyber strength if the threats are to be defeated, Sanger argued. # ⚓ Maryland_town_knocked_offline_as_part_of_massive ransomware_attack⠀⇛ A Maryland town was taken offline last week during the massive ransomware attack on through Miami-based technology firm Kaseya. The Washington Post reported Thursday that Leonardtown in Southern Maryland fell victim to the cyberattack, with town administrator Laschelle McKay first learning of the problem when she logged on Friday. # § Pseudo-Open Source⠀➾ # § Privatisation/Privateering⠀➾ # § Linux Foundation⠀➾ # ⚓ Linux_Foundation_celebrates_30 years_of_Torvalds’_kernel_with_a_dry T-shirt_contest_•_The_Register [Ed: But GNU/Linux_is_turning_38.]⠀⇛ # § Security⠀➾ # § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾ # ⚓ Advocacy_groups_urge_school administrators_to_ban_eproctoring⠀⇛ In an open letter published Thursday, the groups liken the tracking software to “spyware” and argue it raises significant issues that perpetuate racism and ableism while failing to serve its purpose to prevent academic dishonesty. “They also treat students as if they are guilty until proven innocent, which is a disrespectful and harmful stance for any academic institution to take,” the letter reads. The 19 signatories include human rights and youth advocacy organizations including Fight For the Future, AccessNow, Encode Justice, Parents Together and Media Alliance. # ⚓ Facebook_accidentally_lost_a_piece_of_its moderation_policy_for_three_years⠀⇛ The user appealed to the Oversight Board, which agreed to examine the case. As it did, Facebook apparently “found that a piece of internal guidance on the Dangerous Individuals and Organizations policy was ‘inadvertently not transferred’ to a new review system in 2018.” The policy had been developed in 2017 partly because of the debate over Öcalan’s living conditions, and it “allows discussion on the conditions of confinement for individuals designated as dangerous.” But the internal guidance was never made public to Facebook or Instagram users — and Facebook only realized it had dropped out of the moderation guidelines altogether when the user appealed. # ⚓ YouTube’s_algorithm_recommends_videos that_violate_its_own_policies⠀⇛ YouTube’s algorithm recommends videos that violate the company’s own policies on inappropriate content, according to a crowdsourced study. Not-for-profit company Mozilla asked users of its Firefox web browser to install a browser extension called RegretsReporter, which tracked the YouTube videos they watched, and asked them whether they regretted watching each video. Between July 2020 and May 2021, 37,380 users flagged 3362 videos they viewed as regrettable – a fraction of 1 per cent of all those they watched. Reports of these videos were highest in Brazil, with about 22 videos out of every 10,000 viewed being logged as regrettable. # ⚓ Tencent_Uses_Facial_Recognition_to_Ban Kids_Gaming_Past_Bedtime⠀⇛ In the latest bid to curb video- game addiction in China, tech giant Tencent Holdings Ltd. has launched a facial recognition system to stop minors gaming into the night. The initiative will prevent people under 18 from playing between 10 p.m. and 8 a.m. The system, dubbed Midnight Patrol, is in place in more than 60 of Tencent’s games and includes popular titles like “Honor of Kings” and “Peacekeeper Elite,” the company said in a press release Tuesday. o § Defence/Aggression⠀➾ # ⚓ Confronting_America’s_Obscene_Military_Budget⠀⇛ An end to war? It’s certainly necessary, but is it politically possible? # ⚓ France’s_“New”_Nukes:_Another_Industrial_and_Financial Disaster⠀⇛ Despite being fiercely pro-nuclear, President Macron has declared on several occasions that the EPR at Flamanville would need to be operational before any decision to build other reactors could be made. However, it’s very likely that Mr. Macron is perfectly well aware of — and complicit in — this decision by EDF management to move forward with a new project. Just as it has often done in the past, in its contempt for democracy and the interests of the French public, the leadership of EDF intends to use the politics of fait accompli: it proposes to spend hundreds of billions to start one or several “EPR2” reactor construction projects in order to then proclaim that the ship has sailed so the program cannot be stopped…. under threat of wasting hundreds of billions. # ⚓ “Police_State_Without_the_State”:_Palestinian_Authority Faces_Protests_over_Critic’s_Death_in_Custody⠀⇛ We look at growing opposition to the Palestinian Authority after the killing of a prominent activist, Nizar Banat, a vocal critic of the ruling body who died in PA custody after security forces violently arrested him at his home. Banat’s killing has sparked protests calling for President Mahmoud Abbas to step down. “The Palestinian Authority now is acting like a police state without the state,” says Palestinian writer Mariam Barghouti. “The Palestinian Authority has often collaborated with Israel at the expense of Palestinians.” # ⚓ The_People_vs._Mahmoud_Abbas:_Are_the_Palestinian Authority’s_Days_Numbered?⠀⇛ “The Palestinian Authority’s days are numbered.” This assertion has been oft repeated recently, especially after the torture to death on June 24 of a popular Palestinian activist, Nizar Banat, 42, at the hands of PA security goons in Hebron (Al- Khalil). # ⚓ As_U.S._Troops_Withdraw_from_Afghanistan,_Gov’t_Turns_to Armed_Volunteers_to_Fight_Taliban⠀⇛ Taliban fighters are escalating their offensive across much of Afghanistan, attacking major cities and seizing more territory as the U.S. military withdrawal from the country nears completion after nearly 20 years of war. The Taliban now reportedly control a third of all 421 districts and district centers in Afghanistan. Taliban representatives met with the Afghan government in Iran for high-level peace talks and said in a joint statement that “war is not the solution” to the country’s problems. We go to Kabul to speak with reporter Ali Latifi, who says Afghan security forces are arming local groups across the country to oppose the Taliban. “They’re really putting a lot of weight behind these uprising movements,” says Latifi. “It’s really a big gamble at this moment.” We also speak with Sima Samar, longtime Afghan women’s and human rights defender who previously served as the country’s minister of women’s affairs, who says the U.S. should have waited until a firm ceasefire was in place between warring factions before removing troops. “The withdrawal was not in the right time,” she says. “Afghanistan should not be abandoned.” # ⚓ 45+_Groups_Say_‘Future_of_Our_Planet_Depends_on_Ending_New Cold_War’_Between_US_and_China⠀⇛ A coalition of nearly 50 environmental and other advocacy groups critical of the U.S. government’s increasingly hostile approach to China sent a letter Thursday to President Joe Biden and members of Congress to remind them that the existentially threatening climate emergency is a “global crisis,” which can only be solved through “global cooperation.” “To combat the climate crisis and build a global economy that works for everyday working people—in the U.S. and China alike—we must shift from competition to cooperation.”—Coalition letter # ⚓ Carlos_Lazo:_The_Cuban_American_Leading_the_Charge_to Transform_US-Cuba_Policy⠀⇛ Carlos Lazo and a small band of Cuban Americans are on a 1,300-mile pilgrimage from Miami to Washington, D.C., to end the U.S. blockade of Cuba. Despite the blistering summer heat and occasional death threats (including a trucker who tried to run them off the road), the marchers persist. Lazo’s group is called Puentes de Amor, Bridges of Love, and this grueling walkathon is certainly a labor of love. # ⚓ Carlos_Lazo:_The_Cuban_American_Leading_the_Charge_to Transform_US-Cuba_Policy⠀⇛ Carlos Lazo and a small band of Cuban Americans are on a 1,300-mile pilgrimage from Miami to Washington, D.C., to end the U.S. blockade of Cuba. Despite the blistering summer heat and occasional death threats (including a trucker who tried to run them off the road), the marchers persist. Lazo’s group is called Puentes de Amor, Bridges of Love, and this grueling walkathon is certainly a labor of love. # ⚓ ‘Anti-Democratic_Zealots’:_US_Abortion_Opponents_Seen_as Growing,_Wider_Threat⠀⇛ An international reproductive rights group on Thursday warned that the anti-choice movement has grown increasingly dangerous in recent years, with violent extremist groups gaining influence in state legislatures—resulting in some of the most extreme anti-choice laws being passed since Roe vs. Wade affirmed in 1973 that women in the U.S. have the right to abortion care. # ⚓ Lee_Camp:_America’s_Impressive_History_of_Bioweapons Attacks_Against_Its_Own_People⠀⇛ The Biden Administration, the mainstream media and pretty much all the politicians in our country continue to throw fuel on the Sinophobia fire initially stoked by former President and current Mar-a-lago “fungineer” Donald Trump. (Word to the wise, “Sinophobia” means anti-China hatred, not anti-cinema hatred as I had thought. So I apologize to all the people who posted a movie review for Fast And Furious 27 and noticed a response comment from me reading “GODDAMN SINOPHOBE!” Under the circumstances, that was an odd thing to yell.) # ⚓ What’s_Behind_The_Assassination_Of_Haitian_President Moïses?⠀⇛ # ⚓ Haiti_Assassination_Raises_Red_Flags_Among_Observers_Fluent in_History_of_US_Intervention⠀⇛ In the wake of Wednesday’s assassination of Jovenel Moïse, the unpopular, corrupt, and increasingly authoritarian U.S.-backed Haitian president, observers fluent in the history of foreign interference in the hemisphere’s first truly free republic sounded the alarm over the same sort of calls for intervention in the name of “stability” that preceded so many previous American invasions of Haiti. On Wednesday, the editors of the Miami Herald responded to Moïse’s murder by asserting that the “U.S. must get off the sidelines and act.” # ⚓ Foreign_Governments_and_NGOs_Will_Try_to_Exploit_Moïse’s Assassination⠀⇛ # ⚓ Biden_Urged_to_Stop_Deportations_to_Haiti_Following President’s_Assassination⠀⇛ # ⚓ Haiti_in_Chaos_After_President’s_Assassination_as_Activists in_U.S._Urge_Biden_to_Stop_Deportations⠀⇛ The interim prime minister of Haiti has declared a state of siege and imposed martial law following the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse, who died in an armed attack on his home. The first lady of Haiti was injured in the attack and airlifted to a hospital in Miami, where she is reportedly in stable but critical condition. Haitian authorities say police have killed four suspects and detained two others, but the individuals have not been identified. No evidence linking them to the assassination has been made public. It is unclear who is now in charge of Haiti, which was already facing a political, security and economic crisis prior to the assassination of the president. Haitians are “in mourning,” whether they supported Moïse or not, says Guerline Jozef, co-founder and executive director of Haitian Bridge Alliance. “Today the streets of Haiti are empty because people are trying to make sense of what just happened.” She calls on the Biden administration to stop deporting Haitians and to allow more people who fled to the U.S. to apply for temporary protected status. # ⚓ US_Citizen_Arrested_as_Suspect_in_Assassination_of_Haitian President⠀⇛ This is a breaking news story… Check back for possible updates… A U.S. citizen of Haitian descent has been arrested as a suspect in the assassination of Haiti’s president, Jovenel Moïse, a senior government official said Thursday. # ⚓ Biden_Turns_His_Back_on_Yemen⠀⇛ In his first major foreign policy address on February 4, President Joe Biden announced that he was “ending all support for offensive operations in the war in Yemen, including relevant arms sales.” If only. Five months later, US assistance to the Saudi-led coalition attacking Yemen continues, even though some observers don’t realize it.  In an otherwise perceptive article on President Biden’s foreign policy in the May 27, 2021 New York Review of Books, Jessica T. Matthews writes that President Biden “withdrew American support for the Saudi-led war on Yemen that has produced little more than an atrocious level of human suffering.” # ⚓ Hundreds_of_Women,_Girls_Brutalized_by_Soldiers_in_Tigray War⠀⇛ The Ethiopian government has acknowledged rapes allegedly perpetrated by its troops and allied fighters. Three soldiers were convicted in May and dozens of others have been indicted. # ⚓ America’s_longest_war_is_ending_in_crushing_defeat⠀⇛ More likely than any deal, however, is that the Taliban try to use their victories on the battlefield to topple the government by force. They have already overrun much of the countryside, with government units mostly restricted to cities and towns. Demoralised government troops are abandoning their posts. This week over 1,000 of them fled from the north-eastern province of Badakhshan to neighbouring Tajikistan. The Taliban have not yet managed to capture and hold any cities, and may lack the manpower to do so in lots of places at once. They may prefer to throttle the government slowly rather than attack it head on. But the momentum is clearly on their side. o § Environment⠀➾ # ⚓ ‘Heat_dome’_probably_killed_1bn_marine_animals_on_Canada coast,_experts_say⠀⇛ The “heat dome” that settled over western Canada and the north-western US for five days pushed temperatures in communities along the coast to 40C (104F) – shattering longstanding records and offering little respite for days. # ⚓ Family_Farms_Can_Help_Solve_Climate_Change⠀⇛ Solving the climate crisis is one of our generation’s most important responsibilities, and as independent family farmers from four Midwestern states, we’re willing to do our part. But it will require a major shift away from policies that prop up a highly polluting corporate factory farm system that has been gutting rural communities for decades. # ⚓ Fossil_Fuel_Industry_Given_Billions_in_EU_Hydrogen_Support, Report_Finds⠀⇛ Over €8 billion is being invested in hydrogen and “renewable gas” projects in southern Europe using EU Covid-19 recovery funds, thanks to extensive lobbying by the fossil fuel industry, a new report has found.  The research warns that backing for the supposedly green developments has “thrown a lifeline” to fossil fuel companies, despite pledges by the European Commission to pursue a low-carbon transition. Stay up to date with DeSmog news and alerts # ⚓ ‘This_Is_What_Bipartisanship_Looks_Like’:_Vicious_Fire Tornado_Caught_on_Film_in_California⠀⇛ Responding to dramatic footage that went viral Thursday of a so-called “fire tornado” unleashed recently in North California, a longtime aid of Sen. Bernie Sanders said the event—viewed through a political prism—could be seen symbolically as the destructive result of corporate-friendly policies in Washington, D.C. masquerading as bipartisanship while the world burns amid an intensifying climate emergency. “This is what bipartisanship looks like,” tweeted Warren Gunnels, currently the staff director for the U.S. Senate Budget Committee, which is chaired by Sanders. # ⚓ Environmental_Justice_Concerns_Raised_at_a_Hearing_on Louisiana’s_Bid_For_Authority_to_Permit_Carbon_Capture_and Storage_Projects⠀⇛ “Our state is addicted to fossil fuels and, like many addicts, instead of seeking to break our addiction. We seek ways to become functional addicts,” said Jesse George, with the consumer nonprofit group, the Alliance for Affordable Energy, at a July 6 public hearing held by the Louisiana Department of Natural Resources (LDNR) in Baton Rouge.  George was speaking against the regulatory agency’s request to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to lead on issuing permits for carbon capture and storage projects in Louisiana, and against such projects in general: “The pipe dream of carbon capture and sequestration is a prime example of this. False promises about carbon capture and sequestration abound, propagated purposely by those with a vested interest in perpetuating our addiction.”  Stay up to date with DeSmog news and alerts # ⚓ Is_AltE_Truly_the_Best_Solution_to_Climate_Catastrophe?⠀⇛ Yet environmentalists have known for decades that reduction of useless and harmful energy is the “greenest” form of energy available.  Over 50 years ago, the first Earth Day recognized this with the slogan “Reduce; Reuse; Recycle.”  Today, corporate “environmentalism” chants “Recycle; Occasionally Reuse; and, Never Utter ‘Reduce.’”  Even mentioning the word “reduce” can be met with howls of derision that “Reduction means ‘austerity,’” as if any type of collective self-control would plunge the world into depths of suffering. This can lead to a belief that supporting “alternative energy” (AltE) allows everyone on Earth to pursue a lifestyle of endless consumerism.  It avoids the real problem, which is capitalism’s uncontrollable drive for economic growth. # ⚓ Northwest_Heat_Wave_Would’ve_Been_“Virtually_Impossible” Without_Climate_Crisis⠀⇛ # ⚓ Biden_Mocks_Sen._Ron_Johnson_for_Saying_Climate_Crisis_Is “Bullshit”⠀⇛ # ⚓ Elon_Musk’s_Pointless,_Subsidized_Tunnels_Head_To_Flood- Prone_Florida⠀⇛ If you hadn’t noticed by now — and if you’re part of his rabid fanbase you haven’t — there’s often a bit of a chasm between what Elon Musk promises and what usually gets delivered. For every notable innovation his companies deliver, there always seem to be a handful of other side products that promise the moon and deliver something more akin to a Styrofoam ball slathered in grey paint. # ⚓ Study_Shows_Deadly_Northwest_Heatwave_Would’ve_Been ‘Virtually_Impossible’_Without_Climate_Crisis⠀⇛ A rapid-response scientific analysis of the Pacific Northwest heatwave that has killed hundreds of people—and more than a billion intertidal animals—indicates that the extreme temperature event “would have been virtually impossible” in the absence of the human-caused climate crisis. “Our results provide a strong warning: our rapidly warming climate is bringing us into uncharted territory that has significant consequences for health, well-being, and livelihoods,” reads the analysis, which was conducted by a team of more than two dozen scientists as part of the World Weather Attribution initiative. # § Energy⠀➾ # ⚓ ‘This_Is_Huge’:_Schumer_Commits_to_Creating_Civilian Climate_Corps⠀⇛ After being targeted by progressive climate campaigners, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer made clear on Wednesday that he will work to include the creation of a Civilian Climate Corps in evolving federal infrastructure legislation. “We must go big and bold with a Civilian Climate Corps.”—Sen. Ed Markey # ⚓ Sales_of_electric_cars_outnumbered_diesel_cars_for first_time_in_Finland_in_June⠀⇛ Statistics Finland has published data revealing that fully electric cars outnumbered diesel cars for the first time ever in first registrations, albeit only narrowly, with 1,055 registrations compared to 1,029 registrations. The registrations of electric cars increased by over 780 from the previous year, whereas those of diesel cars decreased by almost 310. # § Overpopulation⠀➾ # ⚓ Gov._Newsom_asks_Californians_to_cut_water_use, expands_emergency_as_drought_worsens⠀⇛ California Gov. Gavin Newsom called on residents Thursday to voluntarily cut back on their water consumption by 15 percent as the state dives further into drought and temperatures continue to soar past seasonal averages. Newsom, a Democrat who faces a recall election in September, expanded a regional drought state of emergency to 50 of California’s 58 counties, home to about 42 percent of the population. # ⚓ From_food_surplus_to_famine?⠀⇛ I would like to ask all those who have held the reins of power in this country for the last 20 years a question: why have the links between a large and rapidly growing population and all our present crises (excepting governance) remained unmentioned, unrecognised and therefore unaddressed? There is an obvious link between population growth and per capita availability of both food and water — the latter was highlighted at the Islamabad Security Dialogue and is of critical importance in dealing with climate change. Child malnutrition, a national and international community priority, is also linked to inadequate birth spacing. We see increased land and housing shortages, displacement and above all the lack of jobs, all linked to the numbers of people chasing opportunities which remain static. It’s simple: population increases geometrically, and unless supply does the same, demand will outstrip it # ⚓ [Old] Overpopulation⠀⇛ We can hope that innovation may further lower resource use per capita, but it is not as if the new additions to our population will not consume resources. And, with more of us, the impact on the environment will grow. Talk of sustainability is hollow when the human population on the planet is growing at 1% each year—doubling every 67 years. Only with a population growth rate of zero might we have some hope for planetary stability. # ⚓ [Old] ‘It’s_a_massive_injustice’:_inside_a_film_on the_dangers_of_overpopulation⠀⇛ In 8 Billion Angels, the entelechy of overpopulation ultimately results in harmful pollution and depletion of reserves. It depicts a global growing population reliant on capitalism and industrialization which harms the present and future of the planet, reaping a miscellany of dramatic adverse effects. Overfishing and ocean acidification have made the waters less hospitable for fish, conclude scientists in Japan. In the United States, industrial agriculture degrades the soil so much, the farmers must put nutrients into the ground which harm the water supply downstream. In India, the Yamuna river is so polluted, it releases bubbles of methane. While the rich and the middle class are able to buy filters, the poor must drink the blackened waters and bathe in it. # ⚓ [Old] Column:_Overpopulation_should_not_be_a controversial_topic_or_just_a_women’s_issue⠀⇛ Overpopulation is one of the biggest threats of our generation and the generations that will follow us. It is unfair to blame it solely on certain countries that have a higher population growth rate. We need to look at the issue holistically; it is not a coincidence that in affluent countries resource distribution is more equal and the rate of growth is much lower than in countries that have high unequal resource distribution. This imbalance creates higher rates of social problems which in turn creates unequal rates of population growth. In more developed countries, the rate of population growth is less than in developing countries. To blame certain countries for a problem that affects every single continent will prove useless. # ⚓ [Old] Overpopulation_and_human_greed,_the_two_enemies of_biodiversity⠀⇛ In recent years, the human population has grown exponentially, yet the landmass available to us remains the same. By some estimates in the last 50 years itself, our species population has doubled. The growing number of humans has led to a growing demand for resources, which has led to overexploitation of the earth’s natural resources. Our demands have mostly been achieved at the expense of forests, wetlands & marine ecosystems worldwide. o § Finance⠀➾ # ⚓ The_US_Economy:_Progress,_But_Not_Home_Yet⠀⇛ We also are looking at a situation in which an extraordinarily large share of the unemployed are long-term unemployed (more than twenty-six weeks). Historically, it has been harder for this group of workers to find new jobs. For these reasons, it didn’t seem likely that we could have the sort of million plus monthly job growth that we saw last summer. In that context, adding 850,000 jobs in a month is probably about as good as we could hope for. # ⚓ Right-Wing_Groups_Mobilize_Against_Effort_to_Counter_Tax Dodging_by_the_Rich⠀⇛ # ⚓ The_Billionaire_Playbook:_How_Sports_Owners_Use_Their_Teams to_Avoid_Millions_in_Taxes⠀⇛ At a concession stand at Staples Center in Los Angeles, Adelaide Avila was pingponging between pouring beers, wiping down counters and taking out the trash. Her Los Angeles Lakers were playing their hometown rival, the Clippers, but Avila was working too hard to follow the March 2019 game. When she filed taxes for her previous year’s labors at the arena and her second job driving for Uber, the 50-year-old Avila reported making $44,810. The federal government took a 14.1% cut. # ⚓ Eight_Takeaways_From_ProPublica’s_Investigation_of_How Sports_Owners_Use_Their_Teams_to_Avoid_Taxes⠀⇛ In the latest installment of “The Secret IRS Files,” ProPublica delved deep into tax information for dozens of team owners across the four largest American pro sports leagues. Here’s what we found: Take Steve Ballmer, owner of the Los Angeles Clippers and former CEO of Microsoft. For 2018, Ballmer reported making $656 million to the IRS. His federal income tax rate was just 12%. Compare that with Lakers star LeBron James, who reported making way less than Ballmer, $124 million, but whose tax rate was significantly higher than Ballmer’s: 35.9%. Ballmer’s tax rate was lower even than that of Adelaide Avila, a concession stand worker at Staples Center. Her rate was 14.1% — higher than Ballmer’s even though his income was almost 15,000 times greater than hers. (A Ballmer spokesperson told ProPublica that he “has always paid the taxes he owes, and has publicly noted that he would personally be fine with paying more.”) # ⚓ How_Labor_Can_Win_at_the_Bargaining_Table⠀⇛ The state of the American labor movement has, since the mid-1970s, been dispiriting. There have, of course, been moments of creative and inspiring resistance, but the predominant story has been a chronicle of decline: private-sector unionization rates below where they were a century ago, the abject failure to make breakthroughs in key emerging sectors, defensive stagnation in bargaining achievements, and—election-year rhetoric aside—the political marginalization of working- class concerns. # ⚓ The_Failure_of_the_Obama-Duncan_“School_Improvement_Grants” and_Its_Lessons_for_Today⠀⇛ A while back, I read a vitriolic article in a rightwing publication that expressed contempt for the public schools and congratulated Betsy DeVos for trying to cut federal funding for schools. # ⚓ Visa_says_spending_on_crypto[currency]-linked_cards_topped $1_bn_in_first_half_this_year⠀⇛ The company said it was partnering with 50 cryptocurrency platforms to make it easier for customers to convert and spend digital currencies at 70 million merchants worldwide. # ⚓ Right-Wing_Groups_Mobilize_Against_Effort_to_Crack_Down_on Tax_Dodging_by_the_Rich⠀⇛ Right-wing political advocacy organizations bankrolled by wealthy Americans and large corporations are reportedly mobilizing against a bipartisan agreement to boost IRS funding by $40 billion, money that would go toward cracking down on rich tax cheats who have benefited from the Republican Party’s gutting of the agency in recent years. The proposed increase in the IRS budget—which was cut by an estimated 20% between 2010 and 2018—is part of an infrastructure package negotiated by a bipartisan group of senators and President Joe Biden, who had originally pushed for $80 billion in additional IRS funding over the next decade. o § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾ # ⚓ Trump_Charged_Taxpayers_Over_$50,000_in_Rent_for_Secret Service_This_Year_Alone⠀⇛ # ⚓ America’s_Accountability_Problem⠀⇛ America has an accountability problem. In fact, if the Covid-19 disaster, the January 6th Capitol attack, and the Trump years are any indication, the American lexicon has essentially dispensed with the term “accountability.” # ⚓ In_Latest_Bid_to_Blunt_Progressive_Power,_Congressional Black_Caucus_Endorses_Nina_Turner’s_Opponent⠀⇛ Progressive political observers on Thursday registered the Congressional Black Caucus’s political arm’s endorsement of Shontel Brown in the Democratic primary in Ohio’s 11th district as the latest effort by the caucus—long a defender of corporate power—to stop leftist candidates from making inroads in Congress. The CBC Political Action Committee announced it was endorsing Brown, chair of the Cuyahoga County Democratic Party, over former state Sen. Nina Turner as the former’s campaign surged in fundraising and support. # ⚓ In_18_Months,_Republicans_Are_Very_Likely_to_Control Congress._Being_in_Denial_Makes_It_Worse.⠀⇛ Since the Civil War, midterm elections have enabled the president’s party to gain ground in the House of Representatives only three times, and those were in single digits. The last few midterms have been typical: In 2006, with Republican George W. Bush in the White House, his party lost 31 House seats. Under Democrat Barack Obama, his party lost 63 seats in 2010 and then 13 seats in 2014. Under Donald Trump, in 2018, Republicans lost 41 seats. Overall, since World War II, losses have averaged 27 seats in the House. # ⚓ Hedges:_Kucinich_Memoir_Is_a_Moving_Account_of_a_Battle Against_Corporate_Power⠀⇛ “The Division of Light and Power,” by Dennis Kucinich, like Robert Caro’s “The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York,” is a gripping, moving and lucidly written account of the hidden mechanisms of corporate power in the United States and what happens when these corporate interests are challenged. It is essential reading, especially as we face an intensified corporate assault, done in the name of fiscal necessity following the financial wounds imposed by the pandemic, to seize total control of all public assets. # ⚓ Harlem_Is_Sending_a_Black_Lesbian_Democratic_Socialist_to the_City_Council⠀⇛ Kristin Richardson Jordan, the Black democratic socialist who just won the Democratic nomination for a New York City Council seat on a platform of “Radical Love,” can tell you the exact number of garbage cans—223—her Harlem district has lost in recent years. It’s that attention to detail—block by block, apartment by apartment, empty storefront by empty storefront—that helped Jordan shock the city, as well as incumbent Bill Perkins, a Harlem fixture who’s served in both the council and the state Senate. Perkins, 71, has been plagued by health issues for years and essentially ran no campaign. He lost to the 34-year-old poet, educator, and committed mutual aid activist by an estimated 100 votes, outside the margin that triggers a recount. (The count will be certified July 12.) # ⚓ Noam_Chomsky:_To_Retain_Power,_Democrats_Must_Stop Abandoning_the_Working_Class⠀⇛ # ⚓ Arizona_Secretary_of_State_Probes_Alleged_Trump_Calls_to Election_Officials⠀⇛ # ⚓ Former_Tut.by_journalists_launch_new_media_outlet_— Zerkalo.io⠀⇛ In the aftermath of Tut.by — Belarus’s most prominent independent news outlet — suspending its operations due to pressure from the authorities, its former editorial staff have announced the launch of a new media outlet: Zerkalo.io.  # ⚓ Another_blow_to_the_press_Belarusian_authorities_raid_Nasha Niva_newsroom,_block_website,_and_arrest_journalists⠀⇛ The crackdown on independent media in Belarus is showing no signs of stopping. On July 8, Belarusian law enforcement raided the editorial office of the prominent online newspaper Nasha Niva, as well as the homes of its journalists. Editor-in-chief Yahor Martsinovich has been detained and Nasha Niva journalists have been unable to reach some of their colleagues. Earlier in the day, the Belarusian Information Ministry said the news outlet’s website had been blocked — it’s currently inaccessible to readers in both Belarus and abroad.  # ⚓ Election_officials_in_Perm_bar_former_Navalny_staffer_from running_for_City_Duma⠀⇛ Election officials in Perm have barred Sergey Ukhov, the former head of Navalny’s regional campaign office, from running in the upcoming City Duma elections, reports the business newspaper Kommersant. # ⚓ Misinformation_and_Mythology_and_the_Mainstream_Media⠀⇛ The CIA’s Intelligence Failure Regarding 9/11.  For the past 20 years, oped writers have indulged the myth that the Central Intelligence Agency provided genuine warning to President George W. Bush for al Qaeda’s attack on 9/11.  The most recent example appeared in the Washington Post in an oped by James Hohmann titled “An Insurrection hiding in plain sight.” Hohmann wrote that on August 6, 2001, the CIA’s Presidential Daily Brief “cautioned” Bush that Osama bin Laden was “determined to strike in the U.S.” and that CIA director George Tenet warned that the “system was blinking red” during the summer. The CIA warnings were formulaic and very general, and not very helpful.  In actual fact, the CIA’s Office of the Inspector General prepared an authoritative account of the 9/11 intelligence failure, which pointed to the failures of Tenet and CIA deputy director John McLaughlin, but the Obama administration failed to release of the report.  The public still lacks a comprehensive understanding of the intelligence failure that contributed to the tragedy of 9/11. # ⚓ Twitter_will_comply_with_India’s_new_rules_to_keep_its legal_immunity⠀⇛ Twitter has outlined how it intends to “fully comply” with India’s new social media rules after the government said its lack of compliance meant it could be held legally liable for its user’s posts, Bloomberg reports. In response to the government’s filing, a lawyer for the company said it has already appointed an interim chief compliance officer and that it would soon have a grievance officer and an employee to respond to law enforcement requests, Reuters notes. Twitter is required to fill each of the roles under new regulations introduced this year. The company also said it would be setting up an India liaison office in the next eight weeks. Had Twitter not pledged to comply with the rules, it faced being made legally liable for users’ posts on its platform, potentially allowing its executives to face criminal charges over user- generated content. Social media platforms often take down content in response to legal challenges, but they’re generally not considered liable for it in the first place. # ⚓ Michael_Avenatti:_Celebrity_lawyer_sentenced_to_30_months in_prison_for_extortion⠀⇛ Disgraced US lawyer Michael Avenatti has been sentenced to 30 months in prison for attempting to extort up to $25m (£17.4m) from Nike. o § Misinformation/Disinformation⠀➾ # ⚓ Inconvenient_numbers:_How_Rosstat_manipulates_data_to accommodate_federal_and_regional_officials⠀⇛ The Russian authorities are “fighting statistics instead of problems,” says the investigative outlet Proekt in a new report. Under pressure from the Kremlin, the government, and regional leaders, the Federal Statistics Service (Rosstat) has bent over backward to correct “bad” numbers and bury unflattering statistics. According to Proekt’s sources, the Kremlin and the Cabinet also made a conscious decision to publish official data not only as rarely as possible, but also at the most inconvenient times. Meduza summarizes the story here.  # ⚓ Resistance_is_Not_Futile:_Fighting_Back_in_an_Age_of Manufactured_Ignorance⠀⇛ For many Republicans, racial hatred takes on the ludicrous claim of protecting students from learning about the diverse ways in which racism persists in American society. For instance, Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida stated that “There is no room in our classrooms for things like critical race theory. Teaching kids to hate their country and to hate each other is not worth one red cent of taxpayer money.” In this updated version of historical and racial cleansing, the call for racial justice is equated to a form of racial hatred, leaving intact the refusal to acknowledge, condemn and confront in the public imagination the history and tenacity of racism in American society. Across the globe, democratic institutions such as the independent media, schools, the legal system, certain financial institutions and higher education are under siege. The promise, if not ideals, of democracy recede as the barbarians who breathe new life into a fascist past are once again on the move, subverting language, values, courage, vision and critical consciousness. Education has increasingly become a tool of domination as right- wing pedagogical apparatuses controlled by the entrepreneurs of hate attack workers, the poor, people of color, refugees, immigrants from the south and others considered disposable. o § Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾ # ⚓ Texas_Legislature_Sees_Florida’s_Social_Media_Bill_Go_Down In_Unconstitutional_Flames;_Decides_‘We_Can_Do_That_Too!’⠀⇛ The Republican grievance culture wars about the internet are never ending. The Grand Old Party — which once presented itself as believing in private property rights, keeping government out of business, and mocking “snowflakes” for playing victim all the time — has shown its true colors as being for everything it previously insisted it was against. As we noted earlier this year, a bunch of states with Republican controlled legislatures and governors have been proposing blatantly unconstitutional bills to try to prevent social media companies from moderating disinformation and propaganda. Utah was the first state to pass such a bill, but Governor Spencer Cox wisely vetoed it, noting the Constitutional concerns. # ⚓ Content_Moderation_Case_Study:_Dealing_With_‘Cheap_Fake’ Modified_Political_Videos_(2020)⠀⇛ Summary: For years now there have been concerns raised about the possibility of “deep fake” videos impacting an election. Deep fakes are videos that have been digitally altered, often to insert someone’s face onto another person’s body, to make it appear that they were somewhere they were not or did something they did not. To date, most of the more sophisticated deep fake videos have been mainly for entertainment purposes but there has been a concern that they could lead to faked accusations against politicians or other public figures. However, so far, there has been little evidence of deep fake videos being used in elections. This may be because the technology is not yet good enough or because such videos have been easy to debunk through other evidence. # ⚓ Olympic_Athletes_Deserve_Freedom_of_Speech⠀⇛ The International Olympic Committee is one of those organizations that always says it’s changing so that it never has to actually change all that much. The IOC tinkers around the edges of reform and then trumpets this tinkering as if it has shaken up the Olympic world, when in reality, the only tremors come from their thunderous sense of self- satisfaction. # ⚓ TikTok_Fixes_“Significant_Error”_in_Creator_Marketplace After_Phrases_“Erroneously”_Flagged_as_Hate_Speech⠀⇛ The video, posted on July 6 by the comedian Ziggi Tyler, showed Tyler attempting to edit his bio on the Creator Marketplace, a platform that connects creators and brands together for collaborations. (Creator Marketplace is currently in beta mode and is invite-only.) After numerous attempts, Tyler was unable to include phrases on his bio like “supporting Black Lives Matter,” “Black people,” “pro-Black,” “Black voices” and “Black success” — all of which appeared to be flagged as “inappropriate content,” according to a screen recording he shared on TikTok. But when Tyler replaced those phrases with “white,” as in “supporting white success,” “pro white” and “white voices,” his bio was accepted by the platform, according to his video. Other phrases like “supporting white supremacy” and “I am a neo nazi” were similarly accepted by the platform and not flagged as “inappropriate.” o § Freedom of Information/Freedom of the Press⠀➾ # ⚓ US_government_given_limited_permission_to_appeal_January decision_that_Assange_should_not_be_extradited⠀⇛ # ⚓ Julian_Assange’s_fiancée_reacts_to_reports_that_US authorities_have_given_assurances_regarding_conditions_should the_publisher_be_extradited⠀⇛ # ⚓ US_offers_Julian_Assange_time_in_Australian_prison_instead of_American_supermax_if_he_loses_London_extradition_fight⠀⇛ Julian Assange will remain in a British prison for now after the US government won permission to appeal against a January court ruling that freed him from extradition to America. News of the appeal came as the US Department of Justice offered Assange a deal that would keep him out of the notoriously cruel US supermax prisons, according to The Times. # ⚓ Being_a_Journalist_Is_Ticket_to_Arrest,_Myanmar_Editor Says⠀⇛ For about 20 years, the Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB) broadcast uncensored news into Myanmar from exile. When a civilian government came to power in 2011, the independent outlet was finally able to open a newsroom in Yangon, the largest city in Myanmar. But that significant step for media freedom took a backward step in February when the military seized power and immediately turned its sights on the country’s press. The internet was cut, dozens of journalists were jailed, and more than 10 media outlets, including the DVB, had their licenses revoked. o § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾ # ⚓ Watchdog_Group_Calls_for_Term_Limits_and_Increasing_Size_of the_Supreme_Court⠀⇛ # ⚓ Miserere_for_the_Land_of_the_Free⠀⇛ In social and political constructs and, in fact, in all relating to the tangled, confusing labyrinth of human affairs, absolute precision can never be attained.  The best that can be said of them is that the sounder the foundation on which a social or political premise is based, the more likely it is that forecast of its evolution and  prediction of its future state may be possible. Countries are, and have always been, accidents.  The myriad random events and historic freaks and anomalies that coalesce to form them in their historically malleable plasticity are uncountable, often lost in time, mysterious or untraceable. # ⚓ May_in Stitches⠀⇛ # ⚓ South_Florida_Cops_Ran_Images_Of_Protesters_Through_State’s Facial_Recognition_Database⠀⇛ Thanks to some well-targeted public records requests, the South Florida Sun-Sentinel has discovered local law enforcement deployed facial recognition tech against people engaged in protected First Amendment activity. # ⚓ America’s_Drug_Wars:_Fifty_Years_of_Reinforcing_Racism⠀⇛ While the president was declaring his war on drugs, I was stepping off a trans-Pacific flight into the searing tropical heat of Saigon, the South Vietnamese capital, to report on the sources of supply for the drug abuse that was indeed sweeping through the ranks of American soldiers fighting this country’s war in Vietnam. As I would soon discover, the situation was far worse than anything Nixon could have conveyed in his sparse words. Heroin vials littered the floors of Army barracks. Units legendary for their heroism in World War II like the 82nd Airborne were now knownas the “jumping junkies.” A later survey found that more than a third of all GIs fighting the Vietnam War “commonly used” heroin. Desperate to defeat this invisible enemy, the White House was now about to throw millions of dollars at this overseas drug war, funding mass urinalysis screening for every homeward-bound GI and mandatory treatment for any who tested positive for drugs. # ⚓ A_New_Progressive_Era?⠀⇛ The dance over political identity is playing out in the New York City mayoral election in which three candidates were identified as progressives — Dianne Morales, Scott Stringer and Maya Wiley; Wiley received the endorsement of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio- Cortez, a self-identified Democratic Socialists of America (SPA) member. Over the last century, the U.S. has witnessed three critical periods of “progressive” insurgency that set in motion fundamental changes that helped transform the nation.  The first period was known as the Progressive era and occurred during the late-19th and early-20th centuries.  The second period was Franklin Roosevelt’s response to the Great Depression.  And the third grew out of the post-WW-II recovery and culminated in the social upheaval of the 1960s-‘70s.  In the midst of the current political turmoil, is a new progressive insurgency taking shape in the U.S.? # ⚓ Can_Catalan_Pardons_Pave_a_Way_Out_of_Spain’s_Territorial Crisis?⠀⇛ “We should look joyous, no?” asked Jordi Sànchez as he stood in the lobby of the Lledoners prison on June 23, about to walk out a free man. The Spanish government pardoned the Catalan activist and eight others who had been convicted for their role in the 2017 referendum on Catalan independence. The political leaders strode across the patio, stopping to pose for the global media gathered outside the prison gate. Smiling and cheering, they held up a banner that read, in English, “Freedom for Catalonia.” Trailing behind, Oriol Junqueras, the leader of the Catalan Left Republican party (ERC), looked somber. Still, he waved his right hand and then, almost out of habit, closed it into a raised fist. # ⚓ A_White_Teen_Was_Killed_by_Cops._Working_Class_Lives_Need to_Matter,_Too⠀⇛ Like George Floyd before him and Eric Garner before him and Michael Brown before him, Hunter Brittain was killed in cold blood by the police who ostensibly were there to protect him. Like Floyd and Garner and Brown, he was unarmed. Unlike Floyd, Garner, and Brown though, you probably haven’t heard Hunter Brittain’s name. That’s because Hunter Brittain was white. o § Internet Policy/Net Neutrality⠀➾ # ⚓ The_Internet_Loses_a_Champion_with_the_Passing_of_Sherwin Siy⠀⇛ # ⚓ Community_Broadband_Dominates_List_Of_Fastest_US_ISPs⠀⇛ For years, a growing number of US towns and cities have been forced into the broadband business thanks to US telecom market failure. Frustrated by high prices, lack of competition, spotty coverage, and terrible customer service, some 750 US towns and cities have explored some kind of community broadband option. And while the telecom industry (and the lawmakers, regulators, and policy wonks paid to love them) routinely tries to paint such projects as radical socialist boondoggles that always end in failure, that’s never actually been true. o § Digital Restrictions (DRM)⠀➾ # ⚓ Does_Amazon_even_know_what_it’s_buying_with_the_MGM acquisition?⠀⇛ Any division among company executives for how an MGM and Amazon merger should look moving forward is its own can of worms. The deal also still requires government approval, and it’s reportedly being reviewed by a Federal Trade Commission run by one of Amazon’s biggest antitrust critics, Lina Khan. The merger has also won the ire of several lawmakers, including Senator Elizabeth Warren, who in a recent letter to Khan said the acquisition “could harm consumers and workers and reduce innovation by inhibiting competition in numerous markets.” Should the deal secure government approval and move forward unscathed, Amazon may face new challenges in tapping the rich library of legacy franchises unchecked. Unlike AT&T, it will almost certainly be forced to find common ground with the current creative heads of the studio it’s attempting to buy, at least where MGM’s most valuable IP [sic] is concerned. # ⚓ They_Resurrected_MGM._Amazon_Bought_the_Studio._Now_What?⠀⇛ And being that the two men can’t resist the pull of old Hollywood, Mr. De Luca made sure to amp up the nostalgia associated with his efforts to reinvigorate MGM, the once mighty studio that in recent decades has been reduced to a financial Ping-Pong ball, volleyed back and forth by various investors eager to turn the company’s 4,000-film library into a cash cow. o § Monopolies⠀➾ # ⚓ Google_Facing_Yet_Another_Antitrust_Lawsuit_Over_Its_App Store_Practices,_Even_Though_Android_Is_Quite_Permissive⠀⇛ Another day, another antitrust lawsuit against Google. This one, filed by 36 states and Washington DC, says that the company’s practices regarding its Android app store violate antitrust law. This is now the fourth antitrust lawsuit filed by various governments in the US against Google. There’s the DOJ lawsuit, one from nine state AGs, another from 10 state AGs, and now this new one. I get that everyone wants to hate on the big tech companies these days, and they also want to throw a bunch of things at the wall, but would it really have been that difficult to go through all of this in one single lawsuit? # ⚓ U.S._states_allege_Google_‘unlawfully’_preserves_Play_Store monopoly⠀⇛ Thirty-seven U.S. state and district attorneys general sued Alphabet Inc’s Google on Wednesday, alleging that it bought off competitors and used restrictive contracts to unlawfully maintain a monopoly for its app store on Android phones. The allegations about Google’s Play Store stem from an investigation involving nearly every U.S. state that began in September 2019 and have already resulted in three other lawsuits against the company. The cases threaten to force major changes to how it generates billions of dollars in revenue across its businesses, including advertising, in- app purchases and smart home gadgets. # § Patents⠀➾ # ⚓ The_USMCA_shifts_into_high_gear,_but_still_needs testing⠀⇛ The USMCA modernized trade provisions and added important commitments going beyond NAFTA, which won it bipartisan support in Washington. The new agreement offers businesses, farmers and workers the certainty of agreed rules that will govern North America’s commerce for at least 16 years. The USMCA has provisions for resolving disputes; incorporates new enforceable commitments regarding labor and the environment; includes new sectors such as the digital economy; and has ways to improve three-way cooperation to keep up with economic changes and global competition, including from China, in the years ahead. # § Copyrights⠀➾ # ⚓ IPTV_Operator_Jailed_For_16_Months_For_Selling_& Watching_Pirate_Streams⠀⇛ A UK man has been sentenced to 16 months in prison for operating a pirate IPTV service. Paul Faulkner appeared before Liverpool Crown Court after pleading guilty to multiple copyright infringement and fraud offenses. According to the Premier League, Faulkner was also found guilty of watching his own service, an offense which netted him four months in prison. # ⚓ Fans_Donate_$110K_to_Anime_Tube_But_Piracy Alternative_is_Already_On_Life_Support⠀⇛ Eager anime fans looking for a free alternative to pirate sites have donated more than $110K to Anime Tube, a project that’s soaring on Kickstarter. Unfortunately, the fledgling business is already on life support, with at least one major backer withdrawing and offering to personally pay investors any money they can’t recover. Apparently, licensing is a major unsolved issue. ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 4356 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐃𝐀𝐈𝐋𝐘 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒 ═════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 07.09.21⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ ✐ Links_9/7/2021:_T2_21.7,_LLVM_12.0.1,_and_XWayland_21.1.2_Released⠀✐ Posted in News_Roundup at 11:00 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇GNOME bluefish⦈ § Contents⠀➾ * GNU/Linux o Distributions o Devices/Embedded * Free_Software/Open_Source * Leftovers * § GNU/Linux⠀➾ o § Server⠀➾ # ⚓ A_Linux_sysadmin’s_career_journey_from_beginner_to_expert_| Enable_Sysadmin⠀⇛ The Linux sysadmin role consists of tasks to support activities associated with IT infrastructure. In the end, several concepts and principles remain the same throughout. Still, it’s important to notice that the sysadmin role is also in constant evolution concerning the skills and knowledge needed in the field, according to the pace imposed by technological change. The process of becoming an expert in the field is very demanding but, at the same time, is a worthy and enjoyable journey. This article explores the evolution of the sysadmin’s role and how to become excellent in the field. o § Kernel Space⠀➾ # ⚓ FUTEX2_Spun_Up_A_Fifth_Time_For_This_Linux_Interface_To Help_Windows_Games_–_Phoronix⠀⇛ FUTEX2 continues to be worked on by Collabora as part of their work with Valve on enhancing Linux gaming support. With FUTEX2 the work is driven about enhancing the support for Windows games running on Linux with the likes of Steam Play. FUTEX2 has been in the works for more than one year now with an aim of improving the existing FUTEX system call. The main FUTEX2 design objective is the ability to wait on multiple futexes to better match the behavior of Windows. This interface can be used by Proton that powers Steam Play to implement Windows’ WaitForMultipleObjects interface in a performant manner. While designed with Proton / Windows games in mind, native Linux game engines stand to potentially benefit as well. # ⚓ [PATCH_v5_00/11]_Add_futex2_syscalls⠀⇛ # ⚓ Linux_5.14_Lands_Updates_For_Its_“Various_Driver_Subsystems Mushed_Together”_Tree_–_Phoronix⠀⇛ The Linux 5.14 char/misc updates landed this week in the kernel. The “char/misc” area continues to serve as a growing catch-all portion of the code- base not jiving well elsewhere in other subsystems. Char/misc maintainer Greg Kroah-Hartman commented in his 5.14 pull, “This is looking more and more like the “various driver subsystems mushed together” tree…” Indeed it is, particularly with more AI/compute accelerator drivers working their way into the mainline kernel. In years past there has been talk of likely added an “accelerator” subsystem to the Linux kernel but so far that hasn’t panned out and drivers for AI hardware and the likes continue living within char/misc. # § Graphics Stack⠀➾ # ⚓ xwayland_21.1.2⠀⇛ I'm pleased to announce the Xwayland 21.1.2 release. The only change compared to the release candidate is a fix for a long standing issue where Xwayland wouldn't send events to notify clients of RandR configuration changes in some cases. Michel Dänzer (3): randr: Bail from RRTellChanged if there's no root window yet xwayland: Call RRTellChanged if the RandR configuration may have changed Bump version for the Xwayland 21.1.2 release git tag: xwayland-21.1.2 # ⚓ XWayland_21.1.2_is_out_now_with_support_for_hardware accelerated_NVIDIA_on_the_470_driver⠀⇛ That release has now been made as of today, July 9, where the only difference is “a fix for a long standing issue where Xwayland wouldn’t send events to notify clients of RandR configuration changes in some cases”. Hopefully soon various Linux distributions will pick up the new version, so users don’t have to do any manual work for enabling hardware accelerated OpenGL and Vulkan rendering on Xwayland with their favourite distribution. Once done, it should mean NVIDIA users see a much better experience on Wayland. # ⚓ XWayland_21.1.2_Released_With_NVIDIA_Hardware Acceleration_Support_–_Phoronix⠀⇛ XWayland 21.1.2 is out today and while it may seem like “just a point release”, it’s quite an exciting one at that since it does bring NVIDIA hardware acceleration for XWayland when paired with their new NVIDIA 470 series driver. # ⚓ AMDVLK_2021.Q3.1_Vulkan_Driver_Released_–_Phoronix⠀⇛ This AMDVLK 2021.Q3.1 release updates their Vulkan headers against upstream v1.2.182, enables VK_KHR_shader_subgroup_uniform_control_flow, improves multi-pipeline cache file initialization, and has performance tuning for the game Strange Brigade in Steam Play with Navi 10 class graphics. There is also a bug fix around synchronization using pinned memory. The VK_KHR_shader_subgroup_uniform_control_flow extension is nearly a year old now and allows for using the SPIR- V KHR_subgroup_uniform_control_flow extension and guarantee that the uniform subgroup will re-converge in the same manner as invocation groups. [...] Source downloads of AMDVLK 2021.Q3.1 along with binaries for RHEL/CentOS and Ubuntu can be found via GitHub. o § Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ LeoCAD_21.06_on_openSUSE⠀⇛ I have espoused the glorious wonders of LeoCAD on openSUSE before. This is a fantastic application to work with Lego bricks and components in a virtual, safe for your feet, environment. Building with Lego bricks is a lot of fun, using it virtually can help to refine ideas. Although the title of this post mentions using it on openSUSE, this really should work for all modern Linux distributions. I have, what I would call, an on and off relationship with LeoCAD. Nothing against the applications or the Lego bricks but more due to the time allowed for this sort of entertainment, maybe edutainment as I often use it along with my kids. Regardless, when I do get to playing with LeoCAD, it is a kind of time spiral that I fall into and really enjoy. # ⚓ Haruna_–_video_player_using_libmpv⠀⇛ Are you in the market for a fresh, modern and versatile media player for Linux? Haruna is a media player which may have escaped your radar. mpv is a media player for the command line. It supports a wide variety of media file formats, audio and video codecs, and subtitle types. Haruna is a modern-looking Qt-based video player that acts as a front-end to mpv. Haruna is free and open source software. o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾ # ⚓ How_to_Display_a_Welcome_Message_after_SSH_Login_on Ubuntu⠀⇛ At times when you want to provide remote access to your system via SSH, you want a customized message to be displayed on the terminal for the remotely logged-in user. This message is often called the message of the day. In this tutorial, I will show you how to show a custom text message on SSH login on your Linux server. I have used Ubuntu 20.04 for this tutorial, but the same steps should work on other Linux distributions too. # ⚓ OS_Chroot_101:_covering_btrfs_subvolumes_–_Fedora Magazine⠀⇛ OS chroot command allows you to mount and run another Gnu/Linux from within your current Gnu/ Linux. It does this by mounting nested partition(s) within your system and it gives you a shell which allows access to this chrooted OS. This will allow you to manage or debug another Gnu/Linux from your running Fedora Linux # ⚓ Troubleshooting_bugs_in_an_API_implementation_| Opensource.com⠀⇛ As distributed and cloud computing adoption increase, things are intrinsically getting harder to debug. This article shares a situation where you would expect a library to safeguard against different versions of an API. However, it didn’t and it caused unexpected behavior that was very hard to debug. This might be a useful example of how ripping out layers of abstractions is sometimes necessary to get to the root cause of a problem in a systematic manner. The S3 (Simple Storage Solution) API is an industry standard that provides the capability to interact with cloud storage programmatically. Many cloud providers implement it as one of the ways to interact with the object-store. Having different vendors to choose from is good to avoid vendor lock-in. Also, having different implementations to choose from means you get to select open source implementations of the popular standard that works best for you and your team. However, the differences in API versions may cause unexpected problems, as we learned. This article leverages those differences to illustrate the troubleshooting process. # ⚓ How_To_Install_NRPE_on_Ubuntu_20.04_LTS_–_idroot⠀⇛ In this tutorial, we will show you how to install NRPE on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. For those of you who didn’t know, NRPE is a client-side application for executing Nagios plugins. The Nagios server communicates with the remote system using this plugin. NRPE must be installed on all the remote systems that need to monitor by the Nagios server. It allows the gathering of metrics such as system load, disk utilization, and uptime, etc. This article assumes you have at least basic knowledge of Linux, know how to use the shell, and most importantly, you host your site on your own VPS. The installation is quite simple and assumes you are running in the root account, if not you may need to add ‘sudo‘ to the commands to get root privileges. I will show you the step-by-step installation of the Nagios Client (NRPE) on Ubuntu 20.04 (Focal Fossa). You can follow the same instructions for Ubuntu 18.04, 16.04, and any other Debian-based distribution like Linux Mint. # ⚓ How_To_Add_Plank_Themes_On_Ubuntu_Linux!_–_Fosslicious⠀⇛ Plank is a dock application to beautify the desktop appearance on Linux distributions. This application is very light and useful for those of you who want to create shortcuts from the applications of your choice. # ⚓ How_to_install_Notepadqq_on_Linux_Lite_5.4⠀⇛ In this video, we are looking at how to install Notepadqq on Linux Lite 5.4. # ⚓ Linux_Crontab_with_Examples_of_Cron_Jobs⠀⇛ Crontab file stores the cron jobs in Linux. Cron jobs (cron) runs periodically at fixed time, dates and intervals. Its equivalent in Windows is scheduled task. All repetitive tasks can be scheduled using cron. Crontab file is the configuration file which contains information about the time and command/ scripts to execute. In this tutorial we learn Linux crontab with examples to schedule jobs. # ⚓ How_to_install_0_A.D._on_a_Chromebook_in_2021⠀⇛ Today we are looking at how to install 0 A.D. on a Chromebook in 2021. Please follow the video/audio guide as a tutorial where we explain the process step by step and use the commands below. # ⚓ Unix_Commands_Added⠀⇛ I have migrated quote a few pages from the old website recently, next step will be to start expanding them with additional information on each topic # ⚓ Apache_with_Tomcat,_A_Step-by-Step_Installation_and Configuration_Guide⠀⇛ In this article, we will show you how to install and configure Tomcat 10 on Ubuntu and how we can integrate it with Apache HTTP Server using the mod_jk connector. Apache Tomcat is an open source web server and servlet container that is used to deploy and serve Java web applications. Most of the modern Java web frameworks are based on servlets, e.g. JavaServer Faces, Struts, Spring, etc. Apache Tomcat also provides by default a HTTP connector on port 8080, i.e., Tomcat can also be used as HTTP server. But the performance of Tomcat is not as good as the performance of a designated web server, like the Apache HTTP server. # ⚓ GNU_Linux_Debian_10_how_to_–_Hetzner_dedicated_server console_–_icedtea-netx_Java_Web_Start_(Lantronix_Spider_Duo KVM)⠀⇛ o § Games⠀➾ # ⚓ Crash_Drive_3_is_a_new_fast-paced_stunt_racer_out_now_| GamingOnLinux⠀⇛ Developed by M2H, one of the teams responsible for the likes of Verdun, Tannenberg and Marooners they’ve just released Crash Drive 3 as the latest crazy stunt racer. Crash Drive 3 provides five different areas with a big open world to explore. There’s various competitive events to join in-game including special mini-games like cops and robbers, scenery tagging with stunts, destroying a giant beach ball, tank battles, take the kings crown and more. As you progress in the game there’s a customization and upgrades system too, so you get to race your way with over 50 different vehicles. # ⚓ Muck_is_a_crazy-popular_free_procedural_survival_game_out now_for_Linux_|_GamingOnLinux⠀⇛ What seems to have come out of nowhere is Muck, a brand new survival game that blends in some random generation to make each playthrough different and it’s now on Linux. Originally released on June 5, the Linux release is now fully live. Seems it initially had Linux and macOS builds on itch for testing, with it now all being on Steam. It’s a free game too, so you can try it without spending a penny. It was created by a developer who goes by “Dani”, who is a very popular YouTuber too (over 2 million subscribers). So, it’s not surprising that the game Muck is very popular. # ⚓ X3:_Farnham’s_Legacy_now_available_for_Linux_with_Linux fixes_for_other_games_live_|_GamingOnLinux⠀⇛ Egosoft announced today that the free DLC X3: Farnham’s Legacy that was released back in April is now officially out with a Linux build and there’s more. X3: Farnham’s Legacy is set in the years following X3: Albion Prelude, as the chaos caused by the gate shutdown really takes hold, X3: Farnham’s Legacy starts very differently to previous games in the X3 series. It was developed over five years by long- term members of the Egosoft community in close cooperation with the team at Egosoft. # ⚓ Elroy_And_The_Aliens_is_an_upcoming_world-saving_sci-fi adventure_|_GamingOnLinux⠀⇛ Developer Motiviti has announced Elroy And The Aliens, a fresh modern point & click adventure where you deal with a father who vanished 18 years ago in suspicious circumstances. “Elroy And The Aliens is a brand new point and click adventure game like you’ve never played before. A story about love, loss and regret… of a boy looking for his father, and a girl yearning for adventure. Fasten your seatbelts for a journey of epic, world-saving proportions, with more than 60 characters and 60 odd locations around the galaxy!” # ⚓ The_Machinery_game_engine_launches_the_Early_Adopters program_|_GamingOnLinux⠀⇛ Our Machinery has announced the availability of their game engine The Machinery with an Early Adopters program that gives a discount on the licensing, although it’s free if your team pulls in less than $100K. It’s a pretty crowded market now, especially so with the recent announcement of the free and open source Open 3D Engine based upon Amazon Lumberyard. You have to have something pretty special to have developers pick you over Unity, Unreal, Game Maker, Godot and all the other established names. So what makes The Machinery different? Well, they say the whole thing was designed to be hackable. Everything is plugin-based and they offer a “wide range of tools and applications to help developers create and build compelling games, interactive experiences, and high-end virtual worlds”. The basic idea is to not force developers into a specific way of using it, but give developers a platform they can extend exactly how they want and make The Machinery into their own tool. Something like the Lego of games engines perhaps? Snap pieces together however you want. [...] It has been tested running on Ubuntu 20.04 and Arch Linux. # ⚓ VKD3D_2.4_Out_Now!_GPU_Framerates_Improved_–_Boiling Steam⠀⇛ Normally we don’t cover news posts that often, but I think the latest version of vkd3d-proton — a project that allows Direct3D 12 titles to run through Proton — deserves a spot in the sunlight. In this release we’re specifically looking at GPU improvements. According to the patch notes, the image layouts “for color and depth-stencil targets” have been re-written in a way that allows the developers of the project to remove “a lot of dumb barriers.” They claim that with the removal of these barriers Horizon Zero Dawn has a “GPU bound uplift” of 15%-20%, Death Stranding by 10%, and 5%- 10% in “many other titles.” To put this claim to the test, I ran a few benchmarks with Horizon Zero Dawn: some with the new VKD3D release, the others without it. Have a look at the results below. This was using Proton Experimental (6.29.2021) and benchmarked at 1080p resolution. The only launch parameter I’m using for this game is PULSE_LATENCY_MSEC=60; I am not using GameMode. As always, hardware is as follows: o § Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾ # § K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt⠀➾ # ⚓ KDE_Kicks_Off_July_With_More_Plasma_Wayland_Fixes⠀⇛ Fixes to the Plasma Wayland session continue to be quite steady work in the KDE camp even with the support becoming quite mature and good enough for day-to-day use. KDE developer Nate Graham has published his weekly development summary early this week in outlining the KDE activities over the past week. There are a number of Plasma Wayland fixes along with other notable fixes and improvements to this open-source desktop. o § Distributions⠀➾ # § New Releases⠀➾ # ⚓ T2_21.7_“Rebel_Alliance”⠀⇛ Today T2 SDE Linux 21.7 was released. An interim update to ship full support for the new HiFive SiHive Unmatched 64-bit quad-core RISC-V 64 board as well as a reference for the further refined smart optimizations for 32- and 64-bit x86. Of course all the other architectures, including: alpha, arm, arm64, hppa, ia64, m68k, mips64, mipsel, ppc, ppc64- 32, ppc64le, riscv, riscv64, s390x, sparc64, superh, x86, and x86-64 can be rolling release upated thru the scripted build system. The 21.7 release received updates across the board, with latest Linux kernel 5.13.1, as well as a major GCC 11 C++ templated ctor bug was fixed. There were 305 changesets and this is also the first release with our AI bot “Data” contributing more revisions than human developers: Data: 164, humans: 141! # § PCLinuxOS/Mageia/Mandriva/OpenMandriva Family⠀➾ # ⚓ calibre_ebook_tool_updated_to_5.23.0_»_PCLinuxOS⠀⇛ Calibre is meant to be a complete e-library solution. It includes library management, format conversion, news feeds to ebook conversion as well as e-book reader sync features. # ⚓ evolution_email_updated_to_3.40.3_»_PCLinuxOS⠀⇛ Evolution is a mailer, calendar, contact manager and communications tool. The tools which make up Evolution will be tightly integrated with one another and act as a seamless personal information-management tool. # ⚓ evolution_email_updated_to_3.40.3_»_PCLinuxOS⠀⇛ Whatever your PDF needs are today or in the future, we have a solution for you: creation, conversion, high-fidelity rendering and printing, digital signatures, filling interactive forms, PDF markups, text extraction, and more… For rendering, consider our support for all types of fonts, images, transparency, blending, gradients and color spaces. # ⚓ signal_desktop_updated_to_5.8.0_»_PCLinuxOS⠀⇛ Signal Desktop is a messaging client with privacy in mind. Private messaging from your desktop! # § SUSE/OpenSUSE⠀➾ # ⚓ Tumbleweed_Gets_RubyGems_Updates,_New_systemd⠀⇛ The newest snapshot available for end users was 20210703, which brought just two updated packages. The first package update was made to the data compression library zlib-ng- compat; the update to version 2.0.5 made some minor improvements to small data chunks and fixed an inflate corruption on AArch64. GNU Compiler Collection 11 updated the headbranch and fixed some legacy Fortran code, which is a general-purpose, compiled imperative programming language developed at IBM in the 1950s for numeric computations and scientific computing. The biggest snapshot was 20210702. The snapshot was mostly filled with RubyGems. Both rubygem-rails 6.0.4 and 5.2.6 were updated. The 6.0.4 version fixed an issue in ActiveSupport::Cache::RedisCacheStore that was not passing options to read_multi, which caused fetch_multi to not work properly. The 4.6.0 rubygem-commander, which bridges terminal related libraries, dropped support for Ruby 2.4 and fixed an error with SortedSet on Ruby 3.0. The patch-level verification package for bundled apps, rubygem-bundler-audit 0.8.0, added several configurations and now supports a –database option for specifying a path to an alternative ruby-advisory-db copy. PipeWire updated to version 0.3.31 and provided some fixes for Advanced Linux Sound Architecture- Library 1.2.5 and Bluetooth now uses a hardware database to disable non-working features on listed devices. GNOME’s IRC app Polari updated to version 40.0, which added Libera.Chat to the predefined networks. Other packages to update in the snapshot were GNOME’s library that is full of GTK+ widgets for mobile phones libhandy 1.2.3, text editor vim 8.2.3075, sendmail 8.17.0.3 and openSUSE’s libstorage-ng 4.4.19 package. # § IBM/Red Hat/Fedora⠀➾ # ⚓ Partners_See_Red_Hat_OpenShift_Momentum_Under_Steady Hand_Of_CEO_Paul_Cormier⠀⇛ # ⚓ Coders_push_back_against_offensive_terminology [Ed: Under "Diversity and Inclusion" in sites that racist IBM (now also Red Hat) is funding they tell us that censorship is good and that racist IBM is somehow a champion of tolerance now. Inverting truths, corrupting the media. The headline is also false. Corporations do this, not coders. It's a PR stunt that distracts from their real actions.]⠀⇛ # ⚓ How_Red_Hat_is_helping_drive_telco’s_RAN_revolution⠀⇛ As 5G begins to weave its way into every industry across the globe, service providers are under more pressure than ever to evolve and scale with increased efficiency. At the heart of this transformation lies cloud- native, open source innovation that helps form the foundation for future connectivity from the core, all the way out to the edge – leveraging a ubiquitous, secure, common infrastructure platform. # ⚓ Apply_lean_startup_principles_to_your_open_source project_|_Opensource.com⠀⇛ When brainstorming a good open source idea, consider three domains: industry, inventory, and customers. You want to come up with an idea at the intersection of these domains. For example, I am working on an open source project for the hybrid cloud. Cloud computing is my industry. Inventory could be the set of Ansible playbooks available for the cloud computing industry. The customers could be my OpenShift clients interested in using Ansible playbooks to set up their hybrid cloud infrastructure. These get me to the intersection of the three domains, and this could be a great open source idea. # ⚓ IT_leadership:_3_ways_to_enable_continuous improvement [Ed: IBM Red Hat now a megaphone of Microsoft]⠀⇛ I recently had the honor of hosting a discussion with “The New Faces of Continuous Improvement:” Dana Lawson, VP of engineering at GitHub, Kathryn Koehler, director of product engineering at Netflix, and Charity Majors, CTO of Honeycomb. # ⚓ Why_Whitehurst_is_stepping_away_from_IBM⠀⇛ It was never much of a mystery why James Whitehurst stepped down as IBM’s President. Whitehurst wanted to be IBM’s CEO, and IBM’s board went for company man Arvind Krishna instead. Now, though, Whitehurst himself has admitted that that is indeed the reason. Krishna, who’s only a few years older than Whitehurst, was named IBM’s CEO in January 2020. Clearly, there was no easy route forward for Whitehurst. It was assumed, however, that Krishna would only be an interim CEO. That soon proved not to be the case. Why then did Whitehurst stick around as long as he did? Simple. He wanted to oversee the IBM-Red Hat merger until he felt it was as good as it was going to get. As Whitehurst said, “I feel really good about the Red Hat integration.” # ⚓ The_Future_IBM_We_Will_Probably_Never_See⠀⇛ Let’s get one thing straight right off the bat. If someone has been named president of International Business Machines Corporation, it means they are the heir apparent and future chief executive officer of what used to be the world’s largest IT supplier. Which is why the announcement of the departure of Jim Whitehurst from IBM on the Friday before the Independence Day holiday in America started was such a surprise. Someone at the company forgot what being named president of the IBM Company means. Or no longer cared. That someone is very likely current CEO Arvind Krishna, who was given that role back in January 2021, when the company’s board of directors also named Whitehurst president. Whitehurst came to IBM after being CEO at Red Hat, the open source software giant – the only open source software giant if you want to be precise – that IBM paid $34 billion to acquire in October 2018. Perhaps Krishna, who is 59 and already coming up against the traditional retirement age of 60 for IBM’s chairman and CEO, has decided that he is best to run Big Blue and that the person who ran Red Hat for more than a dozen years, who was chief operating officer for Delta Air Lines for six years (covering ops as a well as the CIO role), who was a partner at the Boston Consulting Group for a dozen years, and who got a double major in computer science and economics from Rice University and an MBA from Harvard University, is not. # § Canonical/Ubuntu Family⠀➾ # ⚓ Linux_Mint_20.2_Released_with_the_Long-Awaited Cinnamon_5_Desktop⠀⇛ Linux Mint 20.2 comes with Cinnamon 5 and brings refinements and many new features to make your desktop even more comfortable to use. Good news for all Linux Mint users. Linux Mint 20.2 “Uma” arrives with Cinnamon 5, while the other two desktop environment have done it with more updated versions of Xfce and MATE. Linux Mint 20.2 is a long-term support release based on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and it is supported until 2025. It is available in Cinnamon, Xfce, and MATE flavors. This release ships with linux-firmware 1.187 and the Linux kernel 5.4. # ⚓ Linux_Mint_20.2_is_out_now_with_upgrades_from_20_and 20.1_possible⠀⇛ The Linux Mint team have now released the latest Linux Mint 20.2 which comes with either Cinnamon, MATE or Xfce. If you’re a current Linux Mint user, the upgrade path is now open too from Linux Mint 20 and 20.1. With this fresh release out now you should be good to stick with it, since it’s a long-term support release and will see updates until 2025 thanks to it using Ubuntu 20.04 as a base for the packages. There’s a lot that’s new and specific to Linux Mint, as the Mint team have a bunch of their own software for the distribution on top of Linux kernel 5.4 and the assorted main software updates that come with the new base. o § Devices/Embedded⠀➾ # § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾ # ⚓ Nokia_E63_phone_converted_into_LoRa_messenger_for secure,_off-the-grid_communication_–_CNX_Software⠀⇛ While LoRa radios are mostly designed to transmit data from sensors and to actuators, there have been attempts to leverage LoRa for messaging in the past with, for instance, the Meshtastic Mesh Networking Project to help hikers exchanged their GPS coordinates or other short messages, the Raspberry Pi Pico powered PICOmputer with QWERTY keyboard, display, and a LoRa module, and Pine64 is also working on developing LoRa hardware for messaging. Trevor Attema decided to repurpose his Nokia E63 Blackberry-life phone with a custom STM32H7 board with a LoRa radio while keeping the enclosure, display, backlighting, keyboard, and speaker which he calls the Off The Grid Messenger, or OTG Messenger for shorts. # ⚓ Embedded_development_board_features_Microchip PolarFire_RISC-V_FPGA_SoC_–_CNX_Software⠀⇛ Microchip/MicroSemi first introduced PolarFire RISC-V FPGA SoC at the end of 2018, with the chip being like the RISC- V equivalent of Xilinx Zynq Ultrascale+ Arm & FPGA MPSoC. The following year, ARIES Embedded unveiled the ARIES M100PF system-on-module and evaluation board, before Microchip launched PolarFire SoC Icicle 64-bit RISC-V and FPGA development board, followed by the more compact PolarBerry SBC in 2020. There’s now at least a fourth platform based on PolarFire SoC with Aldec TySOM-M-MPFS250 embedded development board. # ⚓ Kendryte_K510_tri-core_RISC-V_AI_processor_deliver_up to_3_TOPS_–_CNX_Software⠀⇛ Kendryte K510 is a 64-bit tri-core RISC- V processor clocked at up to 800 MHz with AI accelerators that succeed the 400 MHz Kendryte K210 dual-core RISC-V AI processor released a few years ago first in Kendryte KD233 board, and then boards like Maxduino or Grove AI HAT conveniently programmable with Arduino or Micropython. Canaan formally announced the processor yesterday at the 2021 World Artificial Intelligence Conference claiming K510 had three times the performance of K210 making it suitable for UAV high-definition aerial photography, high-definition panoramic video conferences, robotics, STEAM education, driver assistance scenarios, and industrial and professional cameras. # § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ Some_Android_tablets_are_true_iPad_competitors,_if you_can_find_them⠀⇛ # ⚓ Pixel_6_may_finally_bring_iPhone-like_longevity_to Android_|_Trusted_Reviews⠀⇛ # ⚓ Samsung_monthly_updates:_Bluetooth_is_Android’s weakest_link_in_July_2021_–_SamMobile⠀⇛ # ⚓ The_Privacy_Dashboard_app_brings_Android_12′s_Privacy Dashboard_to_older_phones⠀⇛ # ⚓ Samsung_Galaxy_A10s_gets_Android_11,_its_second_and last_major_OS_update_–_GSMArena.com_news⠀⇛ # ⚓ OnePlus_6_and_6T_get_Android_11_Open_Beta_1_– GSMArena.com_news⠀⇛ # ⚓ Realme_UI_2.0_(Android_11)_update_tracker:_These phones_received_so_far⠀⇛ # ⚓ Chrome_for_Android_is_testing_a_radical_shift_in_its Google_Search_interface⠀⇛ # ⚓ How_to_Sync_the_Clipboard_Across_Android_and_PC⠀⇛ # ⚓ Best_Android_app_deals_of_the_day:_Kickass_Commandos, more_–_9to5Toys⠀⇛ # ⚓ Top_10_Best_Comic_Book_Reader_Android_Apps_–_2021⠀⇛ # ⚓ OPPO_designs_what_might_be_its_take_on_the_Android gaming_phone_–_NotebookCheck.net_News⠀⇛ # ⚓ Blaupunkt_launches_four_new_Made-in-India_Android_TVs starting_at_Rs_14,999_|_TechRadar⠀⇛ # ⚓ Forecast:_Android_TV_shines_as_pay-TV_market_declines |⠀⇛ # ⚓ AV-Comparatives_releases_results_of_2021_Android Security_Test,_reveals_mobile_devices_at_risk⠀⇛ o § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾ # ⚓ The_Apache_News_Round-up:_week_ending_9_July_2021⠀⇛ Happy Friday, everyone. The Apache community has had another great week. Let’s review what we’ve been up to… # § Web Browsers⠀➾ # § Mozilla⠀➾ # ⚓ Open_YouTube_(And_More)_Videos_From_Your_Web Browser_With_mpv_[Firefox,_Chrome]⠀⇛ mpv-handler is a protocol handler for mpv written in Rust which, accompanied by a browser userscript, allows users to open videos from YouTube, Twitch and Bilibili with mpv. It works with both Firefox and Chromium-based web browsers on Linux and Microsoft Windows, without making use of any background service. With everything set up, visiting a video on one of the websites mentioned above, a new button is displayed on the video web page (in the bottom left-hand side corner), allowing you to play that video using mpv, a free and open source media player. From its settings, you can control the video quality and if you want to pass cookies or not, useful to watch member videos. # ⚓ Mozilla_responds_to_the_UK_CMA_consultation_on Google’s_commitments_on_the_Chrome_Privacy Sandbox [Ed: Google-funded Mozilla as little but a corporate lobbying arm of Google]⠀⇛ Regulators and technology companies together have an unique opportunity to improve the privacy properties of online advertising. Improving privacy for everyone must remain the north star of efforts surrounding privacy preserving advertising and we welcome the recent moves by the UK’s Competition Markets Authority to invite public comments on the recent voluntary commitments proposed by Google for its Chrome Privacy Sandbox initiative. Google’s commitments are a positive step forward and a sign of tangible progress in creating a higher baseline for privacy protections on the open web. Yet, there remain ways in which the commitments can be made even stronger to promote competition and protect user privacy. In our submission, we focus on three specific points of feedback. # § Productivity Software/LibreOffice/Calligra⠀➾ # ⚓ Help_us_to_improve_LibreOffice_Calc_by_completing_our survey_–_LibreOffice_Design_Team⠀⇛ We are conducting a survey to learn more about LibreOffice Calc users and to understand where we should focus our efforts to improve the software. The survey consists of questions related to your usage of Calc and its features. We will ask about how frequently you use Calc, how large your data set is, what features are most important to you, and what you would prioritize in the development. It also contains the System Usability Scale (SUS) questionnaire, which we will use to evaluate the usability of Calc. # § Programming/Development⠀➾ # ⚓ New_features_in_stress-ng_0.12.12⠀⇛ The release of stress-ng 0.12.12 incorporates some useful features and a handful of new stressors. # ⚓ Fixing_toolbox_due_to_glibc_2.34_changes⠀⇛ glibc 2.34 has moved pthreads functions from libpthread to libc and toolbox has started to fail in rawhide builds due to this change. The root of this problem is that toolbox need to bind mount itself inside the container to initialize it, so we need the same executable file from the host to work on different containers. # ⚓ LLVM_12.0.1_Release⠀⇛ LLVM 12.0.1 is now available! Download it now, or read the release notes. This release contains bug-fixes for the LLVM 12.0.0 release. This release is API and ABI compatible with 12.0.0. Binaries and sources for 12.0.1 can be found on GitHub: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/ releases/tag/llvmorg-12.0.1 LLVM 12.0.1 would not be possible without the help of our volunteer release team! Thanks to all the release testers: Hans Wennborg, Dimitry Andric, Sylvestre Ledru, Michał Górny, Albion Fung, Yvan Roux, Neil Nelson Also, a big thanks to everyone else who helped identify critical bugs, track down bug-fixes, and resolve merge conflicts. If you have questions or comments about this release, please contact the LLVMdev mailing list! # ⚓ LLVM_12.0.1_Released_For_This_Open-Source_Compiler Stack_–_Phoronix⠀⇛ LLVM 12.0.1 is available today as the only planned point release to this spring’s release of LLVM 12. LLVM 12.0.1 only consists of bug fixes to this open-source compiler stack and remains API/ABI compatible with LLVM 12.0.0. A variety of bug fixes were merged into LLVM 12.0.1 since April and now after going through its release candidate phase has been declared stable. # § Perl/Raku⠀➾ # ⚓ How_I_Uploaded_a_CPAN_Module⠀⇛ So, accumulating effort from Wednesday, today(Friday) I become a CPAN contributor! I got a PAUSE ID 2 weeks ago. If you are also interested in the Perl ecosystem, you may consider to apply for a PAUSE ID as well. # § Python⠀➾ # ⚓ How_to_Read,_Write_&_Parse_JSON_in_Python_– TecAdmin⠀⇛ JavaScript Object Notation aka JSON is a very lightweight standard data representation format. It is used for storing and transporting data. It was derived from Javascript but is now language-independent. It was created with the intention of making a text- based interchange format that is easily readable by humans. JSON is compatible with most programming languages and can easily be integrated as they have built-in functionalities to read, write and parse JSON. JSON is commonly used across the computing world for APIs and for Config files of different programs such as games. It is also used to transfer data from a server to the client and vice versa. In this post, we will go through a guide on how to read, write and parse JSON in python. Python has a built-in package named JSON which can be used to manipulate JSON data. * § Leftovers⠀➾ o § Integrity/Availability⠀➾ # § Proprietary⠀➾ # § Pseudo-Open Source⠀➾ # § Openwashing⠀➾ # ⚓ Google_Makes_New_Attempt_At_“UMCG”_As Part_Of_Their_Open-Sourcing_Effort_Around Fibers [Ed: Openwashing of and by monopolies]⠀⇛ Since 2013 Google has been working on Fibers as a promising user-space scheduling framework. Fibers has been in use at Google and delivering great results while recently they began work on open-sourcing this framework for Linux and as part of that working on the new “UMCG” code. As part of their recent effort towards open-sourcing the Fibers user-space scheduling framework, they have been working on a new underlying component called UMCG, or User-Managed Concurrency Groups, for providing new primitives and the foundation for supporting Fibers. # § Security⠀➾ # ⚓ What_you_need_to_know_about_security_policies_| Opensource.com⠀⇛ A security policy is a set of permissions that govern access to a system, whether the system is an organization, a computer, a network, an application, a file, or any other resource. Security policies often start from the top down: Assume nobody can do anything, and then allow exceptions. On a desktop PC, the default policy is that no user may interact with the computer until after logging in. Once you’ve successfully logged in, you inherit a set of digital permissions (in the form of metadata associated with your login account) to perform some set of actions. The same is true for your phone, a server or network on the internet, or any node in the cloud. There are security policies designed for filesystems, firewalls, services, daemons, and individual files. Securing your digital infrastructure is a job that’s never truly finished, and that can seem frustrating and intimidating. However, security policies exist so that you don’t have to think about who or what can access your data. Being comfortably familiar with potential security issues is important, and reading through known security issues (such as NIST’s great RSS feed for CVE entries) over your power breakfast can be more eye-opening than a good cup of coffee, but equally important is being familiar with the tools at your disposal to give you sensible defaults. These vary depending on what you’re securing, so this article focuses on three areas: your personal computer, the server, and the cloud. o § Monopolies⠀➾ # § Patents⠀➾ # ⚓ All_systems_are_go_for_the_Unified_Patent_Court: Federal_Constitutional_Court_of_Germany_deems complaints_meritless [Ed: Not the full story!!! Techrights will rebut soon.]⠀⇛ The Bundesverfassungsgericht (Federal Constitutional Court of Germany) just published a decision dated June 23, 2021, according to which three pending complaints over the Unified Patent Court (UPC) Agreement are meritless, which is why the top German court does not prevent the country’s federal president from signing the UPCA into law. The court denied the motions for a preliminary injunction because the constitutional complaints in question are inadmissible. In other words, not only is there no preliminary injunction but there is no basis for any further proceedings. # ⚓ Germany’s_Constitutional_Court_paves_the_way_for_the UPC_to_be_up_and_running_in_2022⠀⇛ # ⚓ Latest_German_ruling_paves_way_for_UPC⠀⇛ With their application for a interim injunction, the plaintiffs had already stopped the German ratification of the UPC for the second time. Today, the German Constitutional Court rejected the applications (case IDs: 2 BvR 2216/20 and 2 BvR 2217/20). The court based its decision on the fact that the constitutional complaints are on their merits inadmissible . According to the ruling, the complainants had not sufficiently substantiated the possibility of a violation of their fundamental rights. This means that there will in all probability be no hearing on the merits of the case. Either way, that the German government can now ratify the UPC. # ⚓ German_Constitutional_Court_Upholds_EU_Unitary_Patent Court⠀⇛ Germany’s constitutional court on Friday struck down attempts to halt the creation of a unified framework for granting and enforcing patents in the European Union, finally clearing a roadblock that held up the reform for years. The court in Karlsruhe rejected two petitions seeking an injunction against a law passed by the German parliament last December to enact an EU agreement reached back in 2013 to set up a unified patent court. # ⚓ German_FCC:_No_preliminary_injunction_against ratification_of_Agreement_on_a_Unified_Patent_Court⠀⇛ Two applications for preliminary injunctions against German ratification of the Unified Patent Court Agreement have been rejected. The German Federal Constitutional Court has announced this in a press release. “Order of 23 June 2021 2 BvR 2216/20, 2 BvR 2217/20 In an order published today, the Second Senate of the Federal Constitutional Court rejected two applications for preliminary injunction directed against the Act of Approval that was adopted on 18 December 2020 for the purposes of ratifying the Agreement of 19 February 2013 on a Unified Patent Court (hereinafter: UPC Act of Approval II). In its reasoning, the Court states that the constitutional complaints lodged in the principal proceedings are inadmissible as the complainants failed to sufficiently assert and substantiate a possible violation of their fundamental rights. # ⚓ German_constitutional_court_upholds_EU_unitary_patent court⠀⇛ Germany’s constitutional court on Friday struck down attempts to halt the creation of a unified framework for granting and enforcing patents in the European Union, finally clearing a roadblock that held up the reform for years. The court in Karlsruhe rejected two petitions seeking an injunction against a law passed by the German parliament last December to enact an EU agreement reached back in 2013 to set up a unified patent court. ╘══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╛ ¶ Lines in total: 5860 ➮ Generation completed at 02:40, i.e. 55 seconds to (re)generate ⟲