𝕿𝖊𝖈𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍𝖙𝖘 Bulletin for Tuesday, August 03, 2021 ┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅ Generated Wed 4 Aug 02:40:16 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/2021/08/03/ ╒═══════════════════ 𝐑𝐄𝐂𝐄𝐍𝐓 𝐁𝐔𝐋𝐋𝐄𝐓𝐈𝐍𝐒 ════════════════════════════════════╕ Previous bulletins in IPFS (past 21 days, in chronological order): QmNxnvJey55AAuFVenrZxVPSX76eF5wHTJH3VJBhafac33 QmTEc55i2525TPe47yzXhgGhNWewFBdj8FCkg3pJ7X8J9T QmYq2ZBtL883eCzUWS8dtrNRWXtEiJaBV5RgeXHMrp1Wqt QmZMMJb74WX7Ypaf2H127WPnDK2VpTcXakHN3ZXbrzvQya QmRGU5iwsjUHJB4EjXfazgsqgHzHK6412gKq55LburtW48 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Greatest Asset | Techrights ⦿ IRC Proceedings: Monday, August 02, 2021 | Techrights ⦿ How the News About ’Linux’ Gets Manipulated to Spread FUD and Promote the Competition of GNU/Linux | Techrights ⦿ The EPO is Europe’s Largest Scale Scam (by Far the Largest) | Techrights ⦿ Seven Eleven: 11 is to 10 What 7 Was to Vista | Techrights ䷼ Bulletin articles (as HTML) to comment on (requires login): http://techrights.org/2021/08/03/epo-non-compliance/#comments http://techrights.org/2021/08/03/ibm-vs-the-community/#comments http://techrights.org/2021/08/03/irc-log-020821/#comments http://techrights.org/2021/08/03/manipulated-linux-news/#comments http://techrights.org/2021/08/03/scammers-gonna-scam/#comments http://techrights.org/2021/08/03/vista-11/#comments ䷞ Followed by Daily Links (assorted news picks curated and categorised): http://techrights.org/2021/08/03/amd-and-valve/#comments http://techrights.org/2021/08/03/libreoffice-autoupdater/#comments http://techrights.org/2021/08/03/nitrux-1-5-1/#comments http://techrights.org/2021/08/03/weatherclock/#comments ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 65 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at http://techrights.org/2021/08/03/epo-non-compliance/#comments Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2021/08/03/epo-non-compliance/ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 08.03.21⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ ✐ Four_Weeks_of_Non-Compliance:_EPO_Only_Accepts_Courts_That_It_Rigs_and Controls⠀✐ Posted in Courtroom, Europe, Patents at 4:56 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇ILO-AT_time⦈_ 4 weeks tomorrow 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇EPO_President,_ILO-AT,_I_have_diplomatic_immunity⦈_ The media in the US calls such behaviour “fascistic” Summary: Compliance is for suckers, believes the “Mafia” which runs the EPO; it is not even responding (for_three_weeks!) to letters from the victims who won the cases; this is bad_for_Europe's_image_and_it_sets_a_dangerous_precedent 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇Willy Minnoye speaks⦈ There’s no “Real Judge” in the world’s highest or even Supreme Courts, Mr. Vichy and his_cohorts believe ⢀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⠀ ⠠⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀ ⢀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀ ⠠⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣇⠞⠺⣿⢸⢠⢸⠉⠉⢿⣷⣰⡏⠙⢩⠉⠅⡇⢄⠎⡏⠙⢩⠉⠅⣿⡘⡼⣿⢸⢠⢘⠉⡿⡇⢔⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀ ⢈⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀ ⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣡⣻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀ ⢈⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⠿⠿⡿⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀ ⠐⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣘⣃⣠⣄⣃⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀ ⠈⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀ ⠐⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀ ⠨⣿⣿⡟⣟⠻⡻⠿⡿⢻⡟⣻⢿⠿⢿⠻⢿⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠻⡿⠟⠻⠿⠿⢿⢿⠿⠿⣟⢻⠻⢿⣿⡟⡿⢟⢻⠻⣿⣿⣿⠀ ⠐⣿⣿⣧⣭⣤⣬⣬⣤⣼⣯⣴⣤⣤⣤⣤⣼⣤⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣯⣴⣤⣬⣄⣠⣥⣴⣴⣤⣤⣯⣷⣤⣼⣽⣦⣶⣬⣼⣤⣿⣿⣿⠀ ⠠⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀ ⢐⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀ ⠠⣿⣿⣿⠿⠿⡿⢿⡿⣿⠿⡿⡿⢿⢿⠿⠿⠿⠿⢿⢿⠿⠿⢿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡟⣿⣷⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣿⣿⠀ ⢀⣿⣿⣿⣼⣤⣧⣽⣵⣼⣬⣶⣥⣼⣤⣧⣤⣧⣧⣼⣦⣧⣧⣯⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢽⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡙⣿⣿⡇⣿⣿⡿⠻⣿⣿⡟⣿⣿⠀ ⠠⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣏⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣾⣿⣿⡇⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⣿⣿⠀ ⢈⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⣿⣿⠀ ⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣯⣻⣋⣋⣏⣝⣉⣏⣩⣹⣉⣻⡣⣇⣸⣉⣽⣽⣿⣿⣿⣟⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣟⢟⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣟⠟⣿⣿⡇⣿⣿⡟⣟⢻⣿⡇⣿⣿⡟⡟⣿⣿⡇⣿⣿⠀ ⢈⣿⣿⡏⢿⡿⢟⠿⢛⡟⢟⠟⢻⡟⢻⠛⡿⠟⣻⣻⢻⡟⠿⡛⢻⣿⣿⣿⣷⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠾⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣾⣿⣿⡇⣿⣿⣷⣷⣾⣿⡇⣿⣿⣷⣷⣿⣿⡇⣿⣿⠀ ⠐⣿⣿⣷⣶⣶⡾⣶⣴⣷⡶⣶⠾⣷⢷⣶⣶⣶⣾⣾⣶⣾⠮⡦⢾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⢸⣿⣿⣯⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⣿⣿⣿⣽⣯⣭⡅⣭⣭⣽⣽⣿⣿⡇⣿⣿⠀ ⠈⣿⣿⣇⣄⣗⣄⢆⣾⣔⣇⣿⣢⣟⣄⣰⣆⣀⣀⣇⢎⣾⣓⣜⣼⣿⣿⣿⡟⣟⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡟⡟⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡟⠘⣿⣿⡏⣿⣿⡟⡟⢿⣿⡇⣿⣿⡟⡟⢻⣿⡇⣿⣿⡟⣟⣻⣿⡇⣿⣿⡟⡟⢻⣿⡇⣿⣿⠀ ⠐⣿⣿⡏⠙⢟⣻⢙⡏⣉⢹⢹⡝⢿⡛⠛⡟⣛⢛⢻⡟⢻⡛⠋⢻⣿⣿⣿⣷⣷⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣿⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⢰⣾⣿⡇⣿⣿⣷⣿⣾⣿⡇⣿⣿⣷⣷⣾⣿⡇⣿⣿⣷⣷⣿⣿⡇⣿⣿⣷⣷⣾⣿⡇⣿⣿⠀ ⠈⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣯⣿⣿⣿⢸⣿⣿⣧⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣇⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣇⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣇⣿⣿⠀ ⠐⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣏⠶⣏⠍⡍⢙⢈⢝⠩⢹⠈⢽⠉⡏⢯⢉⢹⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⢟⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡟⣟⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣟⠘⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣟⣟⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣟⣟⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣟⡿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣟⡟⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀ ⠨⣿⣿⡟⢿⠛⢻⡟⣿⢿⠿⢿⣿⢻⡟⣿⢿⠟⠿⡖⠿⠿⣿⣿⢹⣿⣿⣿⣷⣧⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣥⣯⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣥⣤⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⣧⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⣯⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⣷⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⣯⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀ ⠐⣿⣿⣷⣷⣾⣾⣾⣿⣾⡶⣾⣿⣾⣷⢷⣷⣶⣶⡷⣶⣶⣿⣷⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀ ⠠⣿⣿⣗⣑⣁⣎⡁⣘⣃⣁⣀⣁⣗⣁⣿⣙⣇⣀⢏⣁⣹⣊⣑⣹⣿⣿⣿⠿⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⣿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⡿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀ ⢐⣿⣿⡯⡉⡝⢍⢩⣛⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣥⣦⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣥⣧⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣥⣥⣽⣿⣿⣿⣿⣥⣧⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣥⣯⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⣥⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀ ⠀⠛⠛⠗⠺⠺⠒⠗⠓⠻⠛⠟⠟⠻⠛⠛⠟⠻⠻⠛⠟⠛⠻⠛⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡟⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠻⣿⣿⣟⣛⣛⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣽⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣮⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣽⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣮⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣟⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣇⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣟⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣟⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣟⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣟⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣟⣿⣿⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀ 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█▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 08.03.21⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ ✐ IBM’s_Attack_on_the_Community_and_on_GPL/FSF_is_an_Attack_on_Red_Hat’s Greatest_Asset⠀✐ Posted in Deception, FSF, GNU/Linux, GPL, IBM, Red_Hat, Servers at 6:09 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz IBM has no_clue_what_it's_doing (and it_has_lost_someone_who_knew_better, Mr. Allowhurst) 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇We've_made_centos_users_become_IBM_customers,_but_it_didn't work_because_of_Alma,_Rocky,_Debian_etc.⦈_ IBM attacks what it cannot understand (or cannot control) Summary: Ever since IBM bought Red Hat it has repeatedly attacked_the_FSF (in a malicious and personified fashion), looking for its own ‘copyright grab’ whilst outsourcing loads of code to proprietary_software_monopolisers_who_attack_the GPL; by doing so, IBM is destroying the value of what it paid more than 30 billion dollars for (IBM is governed by pretentious fools, according to IBM insiders; they’ve already lost Red Hat’s longtime CEO and IBM’s new 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Bulletin for Yesterday⠀➾ Local_copy | CID (IPFS): QmRS9PeWnJkwSM9uFwhXg9oWnWvAdJYnqn5BvY4mFwyNtW ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 402 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at http://techrights.org/2021/08/03/manipulated-linux-news/#comments Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2021/08/03/manipulated-linux-news/ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 08.03.21⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ ✐ How_the_News_About_‘Linux’_Gets_Manipulated_to_Spread_FUD_and_Promote_the Competition_of_GNU/Linux⠀✐ Posted in Site_News at 10:29 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz Video_download_link | md5sum 770b4ec25d016b276a9fdc2d70359bcd http://techrights.org/videos/linux-in-the-news.webm Summary: We quickly examine the sorts of news one gets from Google_'News' when searching for “Linux” and we conclude that real news is occluded or missing THE sad situation we’re in means that important news won’t be covered; instead, those with the money will control the press, e.g. via the Linux_Foundation and other PR agencies. Churnalism is what it boils down; that’s just their business model. We’ve noticed ZDNet perishing lately (not much output) and diverting some “content” to other domains, but there’s still ample room for misinformation and Microsoft pays for a lot of it — in the same way the EPO keeps buying buying_press_coverage_about_itself (it helps distract the public from EPO crimes). █ ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 440 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at http://techrights.org/2021/08/03/scammers-gonna-scam/#comments Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2021/08/03/scammers-gonna-scam/ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 08.03.21⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ ✐ The_EPO_is_Europe’s_Largest_Scale_Scam_(by_Far_the_Largest)⠀✐ Posted in Europe, Patents at 6:53 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz Video_download_link | md5sum 88bbe062900f259dba8a029c63e4fd75 http://techrights.org/videos/epo-scam.webm Summary: In another_fine_instance_of_deja_vu, the biggest scammers are warning everybody else about lesser “scammers”; one might be tempted to call this “projection tactics” or deflection (staring at the mirror) which helps churn/ flood_the_"news"_section_with_tons_of_recycled_old_fluff (they_could_certainly use_a_distraction_right_now) THE EPO‘s management, under Benoît_Battistelli at least, had the audacity to constantly pretend to have cracked down on crime and “nazis” and “terrorists”. António_Campinos uses other but similarly ludicrous themes. The EPO itself falls for scams and is the perpetrator of scams, so it was rather amusing to see (yesterday in the EPO’s site) a warning about “scammers”. Seriously? “The EPO itself falls for scams and is the perpetrator of scams…”In the video above I show the “news” item in question; the biggest scam, which the_EPO's Administrative_Council_is_largely_complicit_in (it participates and benefits from these scams), is the EPO itself. █ 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇Kongstad scam⦈ ⠙⢻⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣟⢫⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣽⠛⠛⠛⠋⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⢸⣿⣿⡧⠤⢼⣟⣛⣋⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠰⠆⢆⠀⣀⠀⠀⠀⡰⠀⡰⠆⡄⠢⠀⡀⠀⠰⣆⠐⠄⠰⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠸⠿⠿⠧⠤⠴⠿⠿⠟⠀⠀⠀⠿⠿⠿⠃⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤ ⣿⣿⠀⠒⣄⣂⡦⡆⢆⠆⣤⢰⠂⣦⠂⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣤⣥⣤⣤⣤⣥⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣥⣤⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⡟⣿⣿⣿⠿⣿⡿⢿⢹⣿⠿⢿⣿⢿⠿⣿⣿⠿⢹⣿⠿⢿⣿⣿⡿⡿⢿⡿⢿⣿⠿⢿⣿⡿⠏⣿⡿⠿⣿⢿⠿⡏⠿⢿⣿⡿⢿⣿⢽⡿⠿⢹⣿⡿⢿⣿⢿⢿⣿⡯⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⡇⣿⣿⢐⣛⣸⢰⣿⢸⡇⣚⣃⣿⢸⣷⢹⢰⣿⢸⡇⣛⣂⣿⣿⡇⣾⡆⣿⡎⡇⣛⣂⡇⣾⡇⣿⢛⣥⢸⢠⣿⡇⣿⡆⡏⣚⣃⣽⢸⢰⣿⢸⡇⣚⣃⣿⢸⣿⣿⡇⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣷⣶⣾⣷⣶⣾⣷⣶⣾⣿⣶⣶⣿⣾⣿⣾⣷⣶⣾⣷⣶⣶⣿⣿⣷⣿⣷⣿⣷⣷⣶⣶⣿⣶⣶⣿⣶⣶⣾⣾⣿⣷⣶⣾⣿⣶⣶⡟⣸⣷⣶⣾⣿⣶⣶⣿⣾⣿⣿⣷⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⢟⣛⣿⢙⣻⣟⡛⢿⡋⣛⡿⣛⠻⡿⢟⡻⣿⣿⣟⢐⡞⣿⡟⣿⠻⡛⢿⡟⣟⠻⣿⢟⡻⣟⢙⣻⣿⣟⢐⡾⢟⡻⣿⢛⣻⣿⡟⢟⡻⢟⡻⡷⢾⢸⡇⣿⢺⡿⣛⢿⡟⢟⠻⣿⢟⡻⢿⠻⣻⣿⣿⢺⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⠦⠭⣻⠸⣿⠹⠶⢸⡇⣿⡇⠭⠥⡇⣾⡇⣿⣿⣿⢸⣇⠿⠇⣿⠸⡿⢸⡇⠿⢇⣇⠭⠭⣾⢸⣿⣿⣿⢸⣇⠿⠇⣭⢸⣿⣿⡇⣾⡇⣿⡇⡇⢸⢸⡇⣿⢸⡸⠿⢂⡇⣿⡇⣯⠨⠭⢼⢸⣿⣿⣿⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣸⣿⣿⣧⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣇⡇⢈⢿⠀⡗⣿⢛⡛⢻⠟⣛⡻⡟⣛⡓⣿⣛⡛⣿⣿⣿⢛⣛⣟⢿⡟⣻⢺⡟⣛⠻⡿⣛⡃⣿⢟⣛⢻⡇⣇⣿⣛⣿⣿⡇⣶⣶⠙⡿⣛⡛⣿⢛⣛⢘⡿⣛⡛⣿⢛⣻⣿⡇⢘⡛⢿⢸⡿⣛⡛⡟⣿⡟⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⡇⢸⣎⢀⡇⣧⡸⢟⢸⣔⠶⢶⡇⣿⡇⣿⠰⢆⢸⣶⣾⠶⢎⣿⡜⢱⣿⢸⡇⣿⡇⣇⠻⠇⣿⡐⠶⢾⡇⣿⣿⠿⣿⣿⡇⠿⢟⣰⣇⠲⠶⣿⢸⣿⢸⣧⡻⢇⣼⢸⣿⣿⡇⠸⢟⣼⢸⣇⠲⠶⣿⡘⣸⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣿⣿⣿⣭⣥⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⡝⣿⢹⡏⣿⣿⡏⠭⣽⡏⣭⡝⣯⢻⡏⡟⣩⣍⢸⡅⣽⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣷⣁⣿⣇⣿⣿⣟⣛⣼⣇⣿⣇⣿⡆⣸⣷⣜⣫⣸⣇⣛⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣿⣿⣿⣻⣿⣿⢿⣿⡿⣿⣿⡟⣿⢿⣿⡿⣿⣻⣿⣿⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⣟⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⠿⠛⠻⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⠁⢰⡖⠂⠀⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⡀⠸⠤⠇⠀⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣶⣤⣴⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⠿⠿⣿⡿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿ ⠀⠀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⣷⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣀⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⡄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠠⠶⠶⠶⠶ ⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣶⣆⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢠⣤⣤⣤⣤⣴⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣶⣤⣀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣀ ⡆⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⣤⣀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⠤⣤⣶⣴⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣦⣿⡍ ⡟⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣄⠀⢸⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠉⠉⠉⠉⠛⠛⠋⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠙⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠿⠿⠿⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠙⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣀⣀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⣀⣀⣀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⡿⠀⣿⣿⣿⣍⠉⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣴⣿⣿⣿⣿⣶⡆⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⡆⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢬⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡗⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⡇⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠯⢿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢰⢦⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⢿⣧⠆⠀⠀⠀⢀⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⡟⣿⡿⠟⠛⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⡿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⡭⠁⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠃⠀⠈⢿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢨⣾⣾⣿⣿⣷⣄⠀⣰⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠟⠁⠀⠀⠀⠉⠉⠀⠀⠙⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠉⠉⡏⠁ ⣆⡇⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠁⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢻⣿⣿⣿⡿⠟⣻⣿⠇⠀⠀⠀⢠⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣴⣤⣷⣆ ⠹⠇⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣜⣿⣿⣿⠁⡚⠷⠈⠀⠀⠀⠀⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⠼⠆⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣶⣶⣶⣸⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢿⣞⠾⣾⣶⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠹⣿⣿⣿⡟⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⠀⠀⣿⣿⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠻⣷⣄⠉⠛⠃⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠒⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⠀⠀⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⡿⠇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⢿⣷⣤⡀⠀⠀⠀⡀⠀⠙⠻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⠀⠀⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢨⠏⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠻⣿⠏⢤⠀⠀⠃⠀⠀⠀⠈⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠐⢰⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢐⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⠛⠛⠉⠉ ⠀⠀⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠹⣿⣿⣦⠇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢻⣿⣿⡿⠇⠀⠀⢀⠀⠀⠀⠘⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⡄⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠹⣯⣿⣇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠻⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⢿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠹⣿⡟⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠉⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠘⠛⠛⠿⣿⣿⡟⠃⠀⠀ ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 532 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at http://techrights.org/2021/08/03/vista-11/#comments Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2021/08/03/vista-11/ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 08.03.21⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ ✐ Seven_Eleven:_11_is_to_10_What_7_Was_to_Vista⠀✐ Posted in Deception, Marketing, Microsoft, Vista_10 at 4:20 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz “Well the initial impression is how much it [Windows 7] looks like Vista. Which I think is…uh…the thing I’m not supposed to say.” –Microsoft Jack (Schofield) 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇Vista_11_coming_out;_It's_just_Vista_10_with_additional restrictions⦈_ Summary: Microsoft is, as_usual, aggressively manipulating/bribing the media (hyping_up_a_shallow_version_inflation along with paid-for vapourware advertising) while strong-arming the market; there’s no_other_way_they_can compete_anymore THE spyware bundled in ‘Third parties’ down the bin Multi-billion-dollar media spin Booting nothing but Win* Innovation curtailed Because since Vista we’ve failed Bribery money mailed By Trump we got bailed Share buybacks increased For truth tellers Cease and Desist By regulators only slapped on the wrist So we can persist in being a beast █ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣠⡄⣴⣆⠀⠄⠀⠀⠀⢸⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⡄⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡿⡧⠀⠀⠄⠀⠀⠀⣿⣺⣟⣻⣿⣿⡀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣀⣀⢠⣴⡶⢸⣿⣆⠀⠙⣿⠀⣿⡄⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠟⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣟⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠇⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿ ⠀⠀⠀⢤⡄⣶⣸⣇⢿⣽⣅⢸⣷⠸⣷⢿⣆⠀⠹⠇⠘⠃⠀⣀⣠⣤⡴⢹⣿⣿⡿⠟⠀⠀⠀⠀⠸⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠰⢂⣦⠀⠀⢀⢀⣀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠿⠿⠿⠿⠛⠉⠀⠀⠀⠀⢿⣿ ⠀⠀⠀⠈⣿⣿⡏⣿⡴⣮⡿⠀⠟⠂⠯⢈⣀⠀⠀⣴⢶⣎⣿⣹⣧⠸⣷⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠘⢿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣀⣿⣿⡇⠀⠘⠸⡯⡟⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢻ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠘⠛⠣⠭⢑⣂⢠⡄⣶⣸⣇⣿⣝⣃⠀⢻⡟⣿⣹⣧⣿⠀⠿⠂⠀⢠⣶⣦⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⠄⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠠⣶⣶⣇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢰⣿⣿⣦⣤⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⡶⣒⣒⢦⣴⣦⣸⣿⣼⣿⡼⣿⢻⡿⣿⣹⣯⣿⠆⠈⠛⠛⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣠⠘⠿⣿⣿⣿⣆⠀⠀⠀⢸⣶⣷⣾⣿⣿⣿⣶⣿⣿⣿⣷⣦⣤⣭⣅⣉⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣀⢈⡙⢻⠿⠿⠿⠀⠀⠀⢀ ⢹⣿⠿⠞⣿⣹⣧⣿⣻⡿⣷⠻⠏⠛⠉⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣠⡎⣾⣄⣀⡼⠀⠉⠁⠀⠀⢀⣾⢛⡛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⢩⣥⣤⣄⢀⣀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣼⢹⣧⣤⡿⠀⠐⢀⡀⠀⣠⣿ ⡀⢿⣾⡿⠙⠿⢋⣈⣡⣤⣶⣶⣶⠀⠄⠀⠀⢀⣠⣶⣤⣤⣶⣶⣾⣿⣿⡇⢌⡀⡿⠃⠰⣶⠖⢀⣠⣾⣿⣤⣤⣤⣤⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⡆⣸⢇⡿⠈⣸⣮⠀⣼⢹⣿⣷⣶⠆⣶⢟⣿⣿⢸⠿⣙⡁⢸⡿⠏⠀⣼⣿⣿ ⣿⣶⣤⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠿⠃⣷⣷⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⡀⣿⡒⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢰⣦⡌⣭⣥⡌⣈⣁⣰⡽⣫⡖⣛⡸⢾⡱⠿⠇⣿⣸⣿⣿⣇⢩⣁⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿ ⠛⠋⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠁⣀⣴⣿⣿⣷⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣳⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣠⠟⠿⠿⢿⠛⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⢸⣿⢻⣧⣿⡇⣼⢁⣿⡇⡕⣿⣾⣷⠉⣾⣯⣩⣤⣭⣍⢓⣊⡃⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣞⢻⣿⣿ ⠀⠀⠠⠀⣠⠀⢀⣸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣵⣄⠀⠀⣴⡿⣸⣿⢸⣿⣶⣶⡆⣶⢦⡤⣤⣠⣜⢓⣉⡵⡽⠜⠛⣣⣷⣇⠿⠿⡀⣿⢻⡿⣿⢸⡇⣿⣾⢡⣷⡀⠀⢠⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⣹⠰⣿⣿⣿⣿⣟⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣆⣼⣿⣧⣛⣛⡻⢾⠹⠿⢷⡇⣾⢡⡟⣿⣿⣾⣿⣹⣿⢸⡇⢱⣖⡆⡶⢮⣧⣤⣤⣔⣙⣊⡡⢝⠛⠼⢿⣿⣠⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⠀⠀⠀⣤⣿⡏⠉⠀⠀⢹⣿⣷⣭⡍⠛⠿⠁⠀⢻⣿⠟⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⢠⣴⣮⠁⠉⠁⠉⢛⣛⡛⠺⠆⠸⠿⢿⣯⢬⣻⢄⡿⢸⣿⣿⣷⡏⠿⣻⠟⣶⣴⣶⢹⣭⢭⣭⣹ ⠀⠀⠀⠿⠛⡃⠰⠀⠀⠈⠻⢿⣿⣷⣆⡀⠀⠀⢈⣥⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣹⣿⡇⠀⠀⠸⠟⢛⠀⡇⠀⠀⠈⠻⢿⣿⣶⣄⡀⠀⠀⣤⣴⣮⣵⣭⣼⣜⣛⣛⣃⠿⡰⠇⢿⡿⣿⣿⣼⣷⢸ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⡁⠸⢤⠀⢰⣆⠀⠈⠙⠿⣿⣿⣶⣜⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡏⢡⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢈⠀⠇⡆⠈⣰⣀⠀⠈⠙⢿⣿⣿⣷⣽⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣶⣶⣶⡦⠈⣩⣾ ⠀⠀⠀⢀⠊⡀⠰⠀⠀⢿⣿⠀⠀⢣⡀⠈⠙⠿⣿⣿⣾⣿⣿⠿⣿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠋⠀⢸⣿⣿⡆⠀⠀⠀⡀⢂⡀⢠⠀⠀⣿⣿⠀⠈⣷⠀⠈⠹⠿⢿⣿⣾⣿⣿⢿⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠟⠁⠀⣛⣿ ⠀⠀⠠⠛⠛⡃⠀⠀⠀⠈⢿⠀⠀⠸⣇⠀⠀⠀⠘⣿⢿⠻⠹⡏⠀⢛⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣶⣾⣿⣿⣿⠁⠀⠀⠘⠛⢋⡅⠀⠀⠀⠹⠿⠀⠀⢻⡆⠀⠀⠀⠸⠿⢟⠹⢹⡆⠀⠩⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⠀⠀⠀⣾⡄⠃⠀⠀⠀⢀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢮⣿⣷⣦⣀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠉⠉⠛⠿⠿⠿⠛⠛⠉⠉⠀⢸⠀⠀⠀⢠⣿⡘⠇⠀⠀⠀⢀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣾⣿⣷⣦⣀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠛⠿⠿⠛⠛⠉⠉⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠻⠁⠒⠀⠀⠀⠀⠚⠀⠀⠀⠘⢿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣤⣤⣀⣀⣀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠈⠋⠰⠇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠃⠀⠀⠀⠙⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣶⣤⣤⣤⡤⠤⠄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿ ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 604 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐃𝐀𝐈𝐋𝐘 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒 ═════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 08.03.21⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ ✐ Links_3/8/2021:_DeaDBeeF_1.8.8,_CrossOver_21,_AMD_and_Valve_Hook_Up_for_GNU/ Linux_Work⠀✐ Posted in News_Roundup at 4:22 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇GNOME bluefish⦈ § Contents⠀➾ * GNU/Linux o Distributions o Devices/Embedded * Free_Software/Open_Source * Leftovers * § GNU/Linux⠀➾ o § Desktop/Laptop⠀➾ # ⚓ Android_and_Linux_apps_can_be_moved_between_Virtual_Desks in_Chrome_OS_92⠀⇛ Ever since Chrome OS launched its Virtual Desks feature, you’ve only been able to shift chrome tabs and web apps around between them. For anyone utilizing Crostini for Linux applications or the Google Play Store for Android apps, the very experience of using desks has likely felt incomplete. Neither of these could previously be moved between spaces, and have remained on the primary desk as a result. This has caused clutter and frustration, even if just a little. Google’s development team is now addressing this – as of Chrome OS 92, which is rolling out now, users will finally be able to move Linux and Android apps between virtual desks at will! o § Server⠀➾ # ⚓ Most_Reliable_Hosting_Company_Sites_in_July_2021 [Ed: This is the first time I see GNU/Linux in all the top spots (there's usually at least one BSD in there)]⠀⇛ In July 2021, dinahosting had the most reliable hosting company site: it responded to all of Netcraft’s requests, with an average connection time of 75ms. dinahosting has appeared in the top 10 table five times in 2021 so far and offers its services from Interxion and Global Switch in Madrid. Customers can choose from a range of cloud and managed solutions as well as register domain names. Bigstep, Webair and ServerStack appear in second, third and fourth places respectively. These sites responded to the same number of requests and were separated by average connection time. Bigstep’s bare metal cloud hosting provides the flexibility of cloud hosting without the associated overhead and performance reductions of virtualization. The bare metal offerings are available in data centres in the UK and Romania. Webair offers managed and private cloud services, storage and backup solutions from its eight facilities in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Montreal, London, Paris, Amsterdam and Singapore. ServerStack provides managed and dedicated solutions from its three data centres in North America and Amsterdam. o § Audiocasts/Shows⠀➾ # ⚓ The_Linux_Desktop_That_Windows_11_Wishes_It_Could_Be⠀⇛ The recent announcement of Windows 11 has a lot of Windows users excited. The previews that Microsoft has released reveal a modern and sleek operating system. But many Linux users can’t help but notice that Windows 11 seems to be heavily inspired by the KDE Plasma desktop. # ⚓ Linux_overview_|_KDE_NEON_20210729⠀⇛ In this video, I am going to show an overview of KDE NEON 20210729 and some of the applications pre- installed. o § Kernel Space⠀➾ # ⚓ Mainline_Linux_support_for_the_ARM_Primecell_PL35X_NAND controller ⠀⇛ It has been more than 7 years since the first draft of a Linux kernel driver for the ARM Primecell PL35X NAND controller was posted on a public mailing list. Maybe because of the lack of time, each new version was delayed so much that it actually needed another iteration just to catch up with the latest internal API changes in the MTD subsystem (quite a number of them happened in the last 2-3 years). The NAND controller itself is part of an ARM Primecell Static Memory bus Controller (SMC) which increased the overall complexity. Finally, the way the commands and data are shared with the memory controller is very specific to the SMC. All these technical points probably played against Xilinx engineers, and Bootlin was contracted in 2021 to finalize the work of getting the ARM Primecell PL35X NAND controller driver in the upstream Linux kernel. # § Graphics Stack⠀➾ # ⚓ Valve_and_AMD_buddy_up_to_improve_Steam_Deck_CPU performance_on_Linux⠀⇛ Valve’s Steam Deck handheld could be the start of something beautiful for Linux gamers; proof that the operating system is more than capable of running your favourite games on the go. Yet even before its launch the PC gaming handheld might be paying dividends for Linux gaming, as Valve and AMD join forces to improve CPU performance on the open-source OS. Valve’s upcoming handheld gaming PC, the Steam Deck, is built around an AMD APU, which includes both a Zen 2 CPU and RDNA 2 GPU. It’s a Linux-based system, powered by SteamOS 3.0, an operating system switching to use the Arch Linux distribution. That means it will only be able to run Windows games via a compatibility layer, so for that Valve has Steam Play, also known as Proton. # ⚓ AMD_Hiring_For_Open-Source_GPU_Driver_Work_With Mentions_Of_Tesla_Model_S,_Steam_Deck⠀⇛ With AMD’s increasing marketshare on the CPU and GPU front, scoring more data center wins, and also scoring custom design wins for Linux-based environments such as with the Tesla Model S and most recently with the Steam Deck, AMD continues hiring more Linux engineers. Several times this year I’ve noted about AMD ramping up their Linux engineering talent and even forming a “new [client] organization” within the company. Especially on the CPU side they’ve been hiring more Linux kernel engineers this year to focus on areas that hadn’t been as much of a focus for them during their down times and not a priority until more recently when scoring big data center deals and other enterprise wins that now allow them to invest more into power management, the kernel scheduler, virtualization, etc. # ⚓ Valve_and_AMD_Join_Forces,_Developing_an_Improved Linux_CPU_Driver⠀⇛ Valve and AMD are working together to develop a better CPU performance scaling driver for Linux, targeting the Steam Deck gaming console. It is reported that AMD is working with Valve, which develops the game sales platform Steam, to improve the CPU driver with the aim of improving performance on Linux. It is expected that this initiative will improve the performance of Valve’s handheld game console Steam Deck announced last month. This type of close collaboration with Valve will be required if the Steam Deck is to compete with other devices. The main reason for this development effort is that the current ACPI CPUFreq driver is “not very performance/power efficient for modern AMD platforms.” In other words, the new driver will allow the processor in the Steam Deck to quickly ramp up to a higher performance state when needed and achieve better performance per watt. # ⚓ Radeon_ROCm_4.3_Released_With_HMM_Allocations,_Many Other_Improvements_–_Phoronix⠀⇛ AMD has released ROCm 4.3 as the newest version of their Radeon Open eCosystem stack for providing open-source GPU compute and CUDA portability for their supported graphics processors under Linux. ROCm 4.3 is the biggest update we’ve seen for this important enterprise piece to their enterprise GPU compute stack in a while. o § Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ DeaDBeeF_Audio_Player_1.8.8_Now_Reads_WAV_RIFF_Tags⠀⇛ DeaDBeeF audio player 1.8.8 was released as the 8th bugfix release for the 1.8 series. The new release introduced some new features, including reading WAV RIFF tags, handling of Disc subtitle frames in ID3v2 and APE tags, and handling samplerates higher than 192KHz to pulseaudio. New context menu options “Play Next” and “Play Later” are now available to choose your favorite song to play next, or set one-time play order for songs in play list. It will add marks at the beginning that indicates the sequence. o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾ # ⚓ How_To_Install_Ghost_on_Ubuntu_20.04_LTS_–_idroot⠀⇛ In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Ghost on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. For those of you who didn’t know, Ghost is a lightweight, open-source Content Management System (CMS) and blogging platform built with Node.js. It has full support for Markdown and provides an easy-to-use web interface for administration purposes. This article assumes you have at least basic knowledge of Linux, know how to use the shell, and most importantly, you host your site on your own VPS. The installation is quite simple and assumes you are running in the root account, if not you may need to add ‘sudo‘ to the commands to get root privileges. I will show you through the step-by- step installation of Ghost CMS 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_Download_and_Install_Discord_on_Linux⠀⇛ Introduced in 2015, Discord quickly became gamers’ first choice of communication platform. Although it was originally developed for gamers, the versatile features of the application found their needs in other communities as well. Discord runs natively on all major operating systems, including Windows, macOS, and Linux. Since there are several ways of installing software on Linux, not to mention the variety of distributions available to users, it can become really complicated for a beginner to install Discord. # ⚓ Apache_Cassandra:_Features_and_Installation⠀⇛ Apache Cassandra is one of the most popular NoSQL databases. Though there are other versions of NoSQL that are available. But, why Apache Cassandra is popular? let’s have a look. Here we will see the features and installation of Apache Cassandra. # ⚓ How_to_Secure_Containers_–_A_Comprehensive_Guide⠀⇛ Containerization is a word often thrown around when talking about cloud computing and DevOps. Popular services like Docker and Kubernetes have accelerated the use of containers for developing and shipping software. But what is containerization? In essence, a containerization is a form of virtualization. The software code is packaged and required dependencies and operating system libraries in an isolated space referred to as a “container.” To put it simply, whatever requirements a piece of code has, are bundled together in the form of a package that can essentially run on any infrastructure without requiring any refactoring. o § Games⠀➾ # ⚓ Linux_takes_1%_of_Steam_market_share_as_interest_in_Steam Deck_rises⠀⇛ Valve published its monthly Steam Hardware Survey for July, and the biggest surprise came from the Linux gaming crowd. Aside from showing the usual Nvidia and Intel dominance in GPUs and CPUs usage among Steam users, there weren’t many new takeaways from the latest report except Linux gaming rising to 1% in July, a first in years. The fact that coincides with the unveiling of the Linux-powered Steam Deck surely can’t be ignored. It seems likely gamers will have started to investigate whether their Steam libraries really will be playable on Valve’s new handheld gaming PC when it launches in December. Sweclockers suggests the last time Linux saw a spike remotely this close was a 2% market share jump when Valve announced Proton, a compatibility layer that allows Windows games to run on Linux, back in 2018. As impressive as Proton’s first outing was, it still struggled to deliver as compelling a gaming experience as either native Linux ports, or gaming on a Windows OS. We haven’t found evidence of that 2% spike ourselves, which could mean it tapered off real quick. For context, Linux gaming has historically sat below 1%, according to the folks at gamingonlinux who have been tracking market share of the open source OS for a good few years now. They estimate that over 1.2 million active Linux users are currently on Steam, and the trend seems to be moving upward. # ⚓ Relax_with_the_new_Lazy_Galaxy_2,_a_mix_of_an_RTS_with_an idle_game⠀⇛ Lazy Galaxy 2 blends together two rather different genres you don’t often see together. Mixing an idle / clicker game with real-time strategy its pretty interesting. # ⚓ Top_10_New_Games_To_Enjoy_With_Proton_Since_July_2021⠀⇛ We are back with our usual monthly update! Boiling Steam looks at the latest data dumps from ProtonDB to give you a quick list of new games that work (pretty much?) perfectly with Proton since July 2021 – all of them work out of the box or well enough with tweaks… # ⚓ CodeWeavers_Releases_CrossOver_21_–_Rebased_On_Wine_6.0_– Phoronix⠀⇛ With CrossOver 21.0 the software has been re-based against Wine 6.0 that in turn provides “thousands of improvements”, including the initial Vulkan back-end work around WineD3D. CrossOver 21.0 also delivers on Xbox and PlayStation controller improvements under macOS, dark mode support on macOS, and various Microsoft Office 2016 and Office 365 fixes for running on Linux. CrossOver 21.0 also provides faster start-up times under Linux and Chrome OS. o § Distributions⠀➾ # § Reviews⠀➾ # ⚓ Solus_OS_Review⠀⇛ Although Linux distributions like Ubuntu and Mint have made great strides regarding user- friendliness, they’ve sometimes had difficulty convincing the majority of users of other operating systems to drop the way they currently do things and adapt to something new. Solus OS is a new Linux operating system that isn’t based on anything. It’s a fresh take on Linux with a message: less is more. No hassling with settings or choices. Everything is taken care of for you ahead of time. [...] After more than five years in development, Solus OS has come a long way from its early beginnings and kept to its promise of becoming an operating system for the “everyman.” Adding a plethora of applications to its software repository, it’s become accommodating for even the most veteran of power users, while at the same time retaining the ability to appeal to a less “nerdy” demographic. It does what you expect, looks after you, and curates your experience so that you don’t have to fumble around. If you are looking around for a stylish Linux distro, you should also check out Deepin Linux. # § IBM/Red Hat/Fedora⠀➾ # ⚓ IBM_Semeru_Runtimes_Bring_Flexibility_To_Java Developers,_Hybrid_Cloud_Deployments⠀⇛ IBM has announced the availability of IBM Semeru Runtimes that enables developers to create and run Java applications in hybrid cloud environments from the cloud to data centers in stable, no-cost environments. # ⚓ Open_Practice_Library_basics:_Showcasing_and improving⠀⇛ The Open Practice Library is a repository of open practices and principles used during engagements by Red Hat’s Open Innovation Labs. In the previous post in this series, we discussed how to plan and execute a sprint/ iteration. In this post, we will talk about showcasing our work and continuously improving. # ⚓ FlashGrid_announces_support_for_RHEL_8_and_Oracle Linux_8⠀⇛ FlashGrid Inc. has announced RHEL 8 and Oracle Linux 8 operating systems support with its newly released FlashGrid Cluster version 21.06. Enterprise customers use FlashGrid engineered cloud systems with Linux OS for running mission-critical Oracle databases, including clustered Oracle RAC databases, in AWS, Azure, and GCP clouds. The databases typically stay in production for multiple years with non-stop 365x24x7 operation. Minimizing any disruptive changes that might affect database uptime is important in such environments. # ⚓ Now_Available:_SQL_Server_2019_on_Red_Hat_Enterprise Linux_8_in_AWS_Marketplace [Ed: Red Hat says get Microsoft proprietary software]⠀⇛ # § Canonical/Ubuntu Family⠀➾ # ⚓ Ubuntu_Blog:_UbuntuOnAir_update⠀⇛ It’s been a couple of months since we restarted UbuntuOnAir. We had a few ideas, and lots of aspirations, but we wanted to be realistic and work our way up. You can read about why we brought it back and why we didn’t use the more mainstream channel “Celebrate Ubuntu” elsewhere. Here I talk about some of the things we’ve done, some of the lessons we’ve learnt, and what’s next. If at any point you become curious and want to watch the videos head to ubuntuonair.com and scroll through. [...] We’ve done other things too, not as much as I’d have liked, but some. We’ve done a ‘gaming’ stream, a tutorial about making tutorials, and a chat with the engineers behind Ubuntu on the Raspberry Pi. They were all one-offs but with the potential to become a series/playlist with return appearances. There’s a sizable difference in the engagement figures with these videos though. The Raspberry Pi video did significantly better, both in terms of views and general engagement. We tracked this down to three factors; consistency, relevancy, and marketing. The consistency factor is inferred since the other videos we do have are all part of a consistent series and these are not. The relevancy factor is really unavoidable, from my work on Ubuntu on Raspberry previously I know that if you put ‘Raspberry Pi’ in a headline it’s going to do well. And marketing. In the beginning, we promoted the videos more openly. That isn’t to say we don’t still, but we have more things to promote now so it feels like the traffic to the videos is cannibalizing itself. Some food for thought. o § Devices/Embedded⠀➾ # ⚓ Tiger_Lake-H_module_claims_to_be_first_with_PCIe_Gen4_x16⠀⇛ Adlink’s rugged, Linux-ready “Express-TL” COM Express Basic Type 6 module features up to octa- core Tiger Lake-H CPUs with up to 128GB DDR4, optional NVMe, quad 4K displays, 2.5GbE and GbE, 4x USB 3.2 Gen2, and PCIe Gen4 x16. Adlink announced the second embedded board we have seen based on Intel’s new hexa- and octa-core H- series additions to its dual- and quad-core 11th Gen Tiger Lake processors. The Express-TL follows TQ’s TQMx110EB, which similarly deploys Tiger Lake- H on the 125 x 95mm COM Express Basic Type 6 form factor. TQ may be the first to market — it was previously listed as “coming soon,” but has now changed to “new.” The Express-TL is “preliminary.” # ⚓ Congatec_COM-HPC_&_COM_Express_Xeon_modules_target_high-end IoT_gateways,_medical_edge_applications_–_CNX_Software⠀⇛ Yesterday, we wrote about ADLink Express-TL COM Express Basic Size Type 6 module powered by the latest Intel Tiger Lake-H Xeon, Core, and Celeron processors designed for high-end industrial & embedded systems. But as one would expect more such modules are coming to market, and Congatec announced both COM- HPC and COM Express CPU modules based on Intel Tiger Lake-H processors with target applications include high-end IoT gateways and medical edge applications. Let’s check out both conga-HPC/cTLH COM-HPC Client Size B modules (120mm x 120mm), as well as the conga-TS570 COM Express Basic Type 6 modules (125mm x 95mm). [...] congatec offers support for Microsoft Windows 10, Windows 10 IoT Enterprise, Linux, the Yocto Project, and RTS Hypervisor. # ⚓ Pico-ITX_board_and_compact_system_set_sail_on_Elkhart Lake⠀⇛ Vecow’s “EPCB-1000” Pico-ITX SBC runs Linux or Win 10 on Intel’s dual-core Atom x6211E with up to 32GB DDR4, SATA, DP, 2x GbE, 2x USB 3.1, and 2x M.2 with SIM. The SBC also powers a “PCB-1000” box PC. Vecow announced the Pico-ITX form-factor EPCB-1000 board and compact PCB-1000 embedded system along with a larger, more feature rich SPC-6000 system that similarly runs Linux or Win 10 on Intel’s Elkhart Lake processors. We already reported on the SPC-6000 shortly after Vecow announced the system back in Sep. 2020. We don’t see any changes except that the case is colored blue. # ⚓ Raspberry_Pi_Compute_Module_4_Gains_Native_SATA_Support⠀⇛ Raspberry Pi OS now has SATA support built into the kernel. Before you rush to tear the hard drive from your PC and hook it up to your Pi, there’s a catch: you’ll need a Compute Module 4 instead of the standard 4B or 400 models. And for now you can’t boot from it. YouTuber and Jeff Geerling, who is responsible in part for the addition, has an insightful blog post on the matter, and a video essay embedded below. # § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾ # ⚓ The_Explore_IoT_Kit_gets_a_mini-makeover_|_Arduino Blog⠀⇛ A year after the Arduino Education Explore IoT Kit launched globally, we’ve been improving the content of the kit and have made a few tweaks and upgrades! o § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾ # ⚓ The_Institute_for_Computing_in_Research_Announces_Portland Cohort⠀⇛ Exposure to mentors, communities and the varied academic disciplines is a great opportunity for these budding scientists. Bridging the gap between programs like Outreachy (another member project of Conservancy’s, Outreachy, which provides internships to historically underrepresented groups in technology), Google Summer of Code and other open source internship options with the academic programs like Research Experience for Undergraduates, the ICR is filling a vital role in connecting FOSS and the academy. Showing students computing tools used in industry and the workflows and day to day experiences of academics doing research. Typically these kind of positions are unpaid and not everyone has the luxury of working unpaid for a summer. It’s this kind of equitable thinking that makes the ICR standout to us and why we are pleased to work with them. # § Web Browsers⠀➾ # § Mozilla⠀➾ # ⚓ Hacks.Mozilla.Org:_How_MDN’s_autocomplete search_works [Ed: Mozilla is already being outsourced to Microsoft proprietary software with NSA-connected keyloggers]⠀⇛ The code for all of this is in the Yari repo which is the project that builds and previews all of the MDN content. To find the exact code, click into the client/src/search.tsx source code and you’ll find all the code for lazy- loading, searching, preloading, and displaying autocomplete searches. # § CMS⠀➾ # ⚓ 11_Popular_Free_And_Open_Source_WordPress_CMS alternatives_in_2021⠀⇛ So you want to create a website or blog but would rather avoid WordPress? WordPress is very powerful and scalable, it’s also pretty complicated for beginners. What is WordPress? WordPress is just a software that you use to build your own website or blog and publish it on the Internet it is also called a content management system or CMS. because WordPress is an open source software meaning that there is thousands of software engineers out there that are working on it every day to make it better and better. There are plenty of good alternatives available in the market. We will show you the three best non-WordPress options that are, most importantly also easy to use! [...] The main reason why we add Drupal on top of this list is: It has thousands of people and organizations are using Drupal to power an endless variety of websites. Drupal is the open-source CMS of choice for some of the world’s leading technology companies, marketers, developers, Agencies. It was written in PHP language and distributed under GPL (“GNU General Public License”). With Drupal, you can build community web portals, Discussion sites, corporate websites, intranet applications, personal websites or blogs, Aficionado sites, E- commerce applications, Resource directories, Social Networking sites. # ⚓ The_Month_in_WordPress:_July_2021⠀⇛ WordPress is global in reach and open source in nature. And you would assume that what allows the software to be used by anyone would also enable it to be built by anyone. After all, your location doesn’t matter, and who employs you also doesn’t matter. And your relative social standing certainly shouldn’t matter. As long as you can communicate with the others contributing to the project, there should be no obstacle to your participation. # § Programming/Development⠀➾ # ⚓ Getting_started_with_wxWidgets_on_Linux⠀⇛ Interested in developing a graphical user interface application for Linux, but not sure where to start? As a first step you select a fitting graphical user interface (GUI) library, followed by a programming language to develop your application in. wxWidgets is such a GUI library for C++. It’s also cross- platform and even offers bindings for other programming languages. This article helps you getting started with developing a GUI application using wxWidgets on Linux. [...] Once you selected the GUI library, your next step is to select the programming language for developing your GUI application. wxWidgets is a C++ library, so C++ is an obvious choice. However, bindings exist for other programming languages, making it possible to use those as well. For example Python, Ruby and Perl. The goal of this article is getting you started with wxWidgets on Linux. The focus lies on getting the development environment setup on your Linux system. Then together, we’ll create a Hello World! type GUI application in C++. You can use the resulting application as a starting point for developing your own GUI application. As whip- cream on top, I’ll also show you how you can build your wxWidgets based GUI application with the help of CMake. # ⚓ Beatriz_Martins_de_Carvalho:_Mid-point:_I_got_halfway through_my_internship_and_what_do_I_do_now?⠀⇛ Finally today the part 4 of my Outreachy Saga came out, the mid-point was on 5/7/21 and as you can see I’m really late, this week had the theme: “Modifying Expectations”. But why did it take me so long to post? First, I had to internalize the topic a lot, because in my head I thought that when I reached this point, I would have achieved all the goals I had proposed at the beginning of the internship, but when the mid-point arrived, it seemed to me that I didn’t have done anything and that my internship was going to end, as I didn’t fulfill expectations. # § Perl/Raku⠀➾ # ⚓ Perl_Weekly_Challenge_124:_Happy_Women_Day_and Tug_of_War⠀⇛ # § Python⠀➾ # ⚓ Supply_Chain_Flaws_Found_in_Python_Package Repository⠀⇛ Administrators overseeing the Python Package Index (PyPI) in recent days found themselves responding to vulnerabilities found in the repository of open source software, the latest security problems to hit the Python community. Most recently, the PyPI group sent out fixes for three vulnerabilities that were discovered by security researcher RyotaK and published on his blog. Two of the vulnerabilities could be used by bad actors to delete documentation or roles within the software package. The third flaw was found in a GitHub Actions workflow within the PyPI repository that, if exploited, could allow a hacker to write permission against the repository and launch malicious code on pypi.org. # ⚓ How_to_Create_an_executable_from_a_Python program⠀⇛ Applications or scripts developed with the Python language can be converted into executables for the Windows operating system. In this way, they can be usedwithout having to install Python and are thus made available to as many people as possible. It is possible to perform this conversion with different modules created for this purpose. To use one of these modules, you must of course have previously installed Python on your machine. # ⚓ Wanna_use_your_Nvidia_GPU_for_acceleration_but put_off_by_CUDA?_OpenAI_has_a_Python-based alternative⠀⇛ If you’ve always wanted to program your Nvidia GPU to accelerate machine learning, image processing, and other workloads, but find Nv’s CUDA too daunting or too much of a faff to learn, you’re in luck. OpenAI late last month released Triton, a Python-based environment that tries to help developers write and compile code to run on your Nvidia GPU much more easily without having to grapple with CUDA. The San Francisco upstart has been using Triton to optimize their software so that their machine-learning algorithms run more efficiently on specialized hardware. Building state- of-the-art models is costly, developers have to be able to train and tweak their performance quickly, which requires writing custom GPU kernels. # § Shell/Bash/Zsh/Ksh⠀➾ # ⚓ Visualising_data_as_a_PGM_image⠀⇛ An ASCII PGM file (“Portable Gray Map”) is a simple text file that encodes a grayscale image. The image below is “face.pgm” and shows a scanning electron micrograph of the face of a tiny Australian millipede: # ⚓ Linux_Essentials_–_awk⠀⇛ In this episode of Linux Essentials, we take a look at the awk command. With awk, you can leverage its power for the “manipulation of data files, text retrieval and processing, and for prototyping and experimenting with algorithms”. In this particular video, we’ll cover the basics of awk to get you started. # § Rust⠀➾ # ⚓ The_Rust_Programming_Language_Blog:_The_push for_GATs_stabilization⠀⇛ The biggest reason for this decision is that there’s still a bit of design and implementation work to actually make this usable. And while this is a nice feature, adding this in the future would be a backward-compatible change. We feel that it’s better to get most of GATs stabilized and then come back and try to tackle this later than to block GATs for even longer. Also, GATs without object safety are still very powerful, so we don’t lose much by defering this. * § Leftovers⠀➾ o § Hardware⠀➾ # ⚓ Shipping_costs_from_China_are_going_through_the_roof_–_CNX Software⠀⇛ Since the beginning of the year, we’ve had a worldwide chip shortage that increased the price of components, followed by long lead times. My Twitter feed is often filled with complaints of expensive components (e.g. STM32 being 10 times more expensive), and ever-increasing lead times of up to two years. o § Integrity/Availability⠀➾ # § Proprietary⠀➾ # § Pseudo-Open Source⠀➾ # § Privatisation/Privateering⠀➾ # § Linux Foundation⠀➾ # ⚓ EdgeXFoundry_Rolls_Out_Second_Major Release,_Taking_Developers_to_Ireland [Ed: Did Linux Foundation pay for this puff piece? Probably. And more on the way. Linux Foundation as a PR agency.]⠀⇛ EdgeX Foundry, a project under the LF Edge umbrella organization within the Linux Foundation, has introduced a second major release with advances in API sets, message-based communications, and simplified and more secure interfaces. # ⚓ EdgeX_Foundry_Releases_the_Most Modern,_Secure,_and_Production-Ready Open_Source_IoT_Framework⠀⇛ EdgeX Foundry, a project under the LF Edge umbrella organization within the Linux Foundation, today announced it’s Ireland release. Focused on edge/ IoT solutions, EdgeX Foundry’s second major release overhauls API sets, removes technical debt, provides more message-based communications, and simplifies and secures interface for adopters and developers, making the platform significantly easier to use and more reliable. “As a leading stage 3 project under LF Edge, the EdgeX Ireland release has expanded use cases across retail, building automation, smart cities, process control, and manufacturing,” said Arpit Joshipura, general manager, Networking, Edge & IoT, at the Linux Foundation. “It’s a key to standardizing IoT frameworks across market verticals.” # § Security⠀➾ # ⚓ Security_updates_for_Tuesday⠀⇛ Security updates have been issued by Arch Linux (chromium, nodejs, nodejs- lts-erbium, and nodejs-lts-fermium), Debian (pyxdg, shiro, and vlc), openSUSE (qemu), Oracle (lasso), Red Hat (glibc, lasso, rh-php73-php, rh- varnish6-varnish, and varnish:6), Scientific Linux (lasso), SUSE (dbus-1, lasso, python-Pillow, and qemu), and Ubuntu (exiv2, gnutls28, and qpdf). # ⚓ Qualys_Collaborates_with_Red_Hat_to_Enhance Security_for_Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux_CoreOS_and Red_Hat_OpenShift⠀⇛ Teaming with Red Hat, Qualys is offering a unique approach providing a containerized Qualys Cloud Agent that extends security to the operating system. The Cloud Agent for Red Hat Enterprise Linux CoreOS on OpenShift combined with the Qualys solution for Container Security provides continuous discovery of packages and vulnerabilities for the complete Red Hat OpenShift stack. Built on the Qualys Cloud Platform, Qualys’ solution seamlessly integrates with customers’ vulnerability management workflows, reporting and metrics to help reduce risk. # ⚓ Google_Calls_On_Companies_To_Devote_More Engineers_To_Upstream_Linux,_Toolchains [Ed: Is this some kind of a sick joke? Google put weakened encryption inside Linux, in effect an NSA back door, before it was compelled to remove it many months later. Google doesn't value real security but US "national security" (empire).]⠀⇛ Longtime kernel developer Kees Cook of the Google Security Team published a post on Google’s Security Blog today effectively calling for more organizations to devote a greater number of engineers to the upstream Linux kernel in order to improve open- source security. In addition to Google backing the Rust initiative for the Linux kernel, they also acknowledge there is a manpower issue. o § Monopolies⠀➾ # § Patents⠀➾ # ⚓ I_have_heard_what_the_Federal_Circuit_has_to_say_on motions_to_transfer,_says_WDTX’s_Albright [Ed: The megaphone of EPO criminals, IAM, gives a platform to another person who has perverse concept of justice. IAM: we_support_crime. Pretty stunning how much of the self-described “legal” media and “law” firms basically support crime, promote corruption, cover up injustices, and look to trick/undermine those who do the correct/ just/right/true thing.]⠀⇛ US District Judge Alan Albright’s Waco court in the Western District of Texas is the US’s busiest patent litigation venue. It is also the most controversial. In an exclusive IAM interview, the judge explains how he has responded to recent CAFC criticisms and discusses plenty more besides # ⚓ Federal_Circuit_to_Judge_Albright:_You_Get_An_F [Ed: Corrupt judge in Texas, who treats the court like a private for-profit business, gets much-needed scrutiny]⠀⇛ In yet another mandamus order directed to the Western District of Texas, the Federal Circuit has once again explained to Judge Albright that his analysis of transfer motions is incorrect and ordered him to send a case elsewhere. It’s worth reading the entire order in In re Hulu, but if you don’t have time, I can sum it up for you: Judge Albright got pretty much everything important wrong. Yet again, the Federal Circuit found that Judge Albright “clearly abused [his] discretion” in denying transfer. Of the factors that are weighed when determining a motion to transfer, Judge Albright found that two factors slightly favored transfer, three factors weighed against transfer, and three factors didn’t apply. The Federal Circuit disagreed. Of the three factors Judge Albright found to weigh against transfer, the Federal Circuit found one to be neutral—and the other two to actually weigh in favor of transfer. And of the factors that slightly favored transfer, the Federal Circuit suggested that the analysis employed by Judge Albright was incorrect and that the factor might better be understood as significantly favoring transfer. Judge Albright has joked about how he “may get guidance from the people that grade my papers at some point that that’s not the right approach.” And this is yet another instance of that kind of guidance. But this order isn’t his graders saying he got it a little bit wrong and marking him for a B. This is having every reason you relied upon to deny a transfer marked “incorrect”—it’s your graders telling you you failed completely. # ⚓ Recent_Developments_in_Artificial_Intelligence_and_IP Law:_South_Africa_Grants_World’s_First_Patent_for_AI- Created_Invention [Ed: It's safe to say that in addition to the blunder over COVID-19 monopolies the patent system is self-discrediting at this stage; not they grant patents to bots!]⠀⇛ On July 28, the Companies and Intellectual Property Commission of South Africa granted the world’s first patent on an invention created by an artificial intelligence (“AI”) inventor. This development marks an important milestone in what will certainly be a significant battle for legal recognition of such inventions in the United States and other countries. “Device for Autonomous Bootstrapping of Unified Sentience” aka “DABUS” is an AI developed by Missouri physicist Stephen Thaler. The recently-issued patent is directed to a food container based on fractal geometry. The patent application was filed on September 17, 2019 under the Patent Cooperation Treaty. [1] Under the heading of “inventor”, the application identifies DABUS and states “The invention was autonomously generated by an artificial intelligence.” [2] # ⚓ Recent_Developments_in_Artificial_Intelligence_and_IP Law:_South_Africa_Grants_World’s_First_Patent_for_AI- Created_Invention [Ed: Litigation 'industry' delighted that more junk patents can be granted to bots in some places because it means more litigation (between bots)]⠀⇛ On July 28, the Companies and Intellectual Property Commission of South Africa granted the world’s first patent on an invention created by an artificial intelligence (“AI”) inventor. This development marks an important milestone in what will certainly be a significant battle for legal recognition of such inventions in the United States and other countries. “Device for Autonomous Bootstrapping of Unified Sentience” aka “DABUS” is an AI developed by Missouri physicist Stephen Thaler. The recently-issued patent is directed to a food container based on fractal geometry. The patent application was filed on September 17, 2019 under the Patent Cooperation Treaty. [1] Under the heading of “inventor”, the application identifies DABUS and states “The invention was autonomously generated by an artificial intelligence.” [2] # ⚓ Venue_Games_–_What_is_Victoria’s_Secret?⠀⇛ Andra sued Victoria’s Secret for infringing its US Pat. 8,078,498 covering a lingerie virtual showroom. Actually, Andra sued L Brands Inc (LBI), the parent company, as well as Victoria Secret Stores LLC (Stores) which operates the physical retail stores; Victoria’s Secret Direct Brand Management, LLC (Direct), which manages the internet activities (including in-store direct online and returns from the stores); and Victoria’s Secret Stores Brand Management, Inc. (Brand) which creates the apparel products. At the time of the lawsuit*, these companies were all directly linked together in a tight corporate subsidiary structure under LBI. Still, each defendant gets to raise the defense of improper venue. # § PTAB⠀➾ # ⚓ $10,000_for_prior_art_on_all_5_patents_asserted by_Invincible_IP,_an_IP_Edge_entity,⠀⇛ # ⚓ PTAB_Strategies_and_Insights_–_July_2021: Arthrex:_One_Month_Later [Ed: Fake patents, such as software patents, can still be squashed more easily then before without having to pay much, e.g. court fees]⠀⇛ Following the Supreme Court’s decision in United States v. Arthrex, the Federal Circuit issued requests for briefing regarding the decision’s impact in pending PTAB appeals in which an Appointments Clause challenge had been raised. Those briefs have now been filed and the parties are awaiting action from the court of appeals. Here we provide a brief overview of the types of arguments we have seen from the parties and of likely next steps. Responses from Patent Owner-Appellants who raised Appointments Clause challenges generally fall into two categories. The first category consists of responses that affirmatively waive the appellant’s right to relief under Arthrex and request that the Federal Circuit decide the appeal on the merits.[1] The second category consistent of responses that request a remand so that the patent owner can have the opportunity to request Director review.[2] At least one appellant proposed a hybrid approach under which the Federal Circuit would address the merits of the appeal first and then—if the merits are decided adversely to the appellant—remand the case to the PTAB to allow the appellant to ask for Director review.[3] In that case, the Federal Circuit responded with an order instructing the appellant to choose between (i) requesting a limited remand and (ii) waiving its right to seek Director review.[4] # § Copyrights⠀➾ # ⚓ Book_review:_Harnessing_Public_Research_for Innovation_in_the_21st_Century [Ed: If it is publicly- funded research, thwn it should be free and exempt from all monopolies, including patents]⠀⇛ Previous Guest Kat Rosie Burbidge, Intellectual Property Partner at Gunnercooke LLP and author of European Fashion Law, returns with a review of Harnessing Public Research for Innovation in the 21st Century An International Assessment of Knowledge Transfer Policies, edited by Anthony Arundel (UNU-MERIT, Maastricht University and University of Tasmania), Suma Athreye (Essex Business School, London), and Sacha Wunsch- Vincent (World Intellectual Property Organization). Here is what Rosie has to say about the book: It is a pleasure to review Harnessing Public Research for Innovation in the 21st Century, edited by Anthony Arundel, UNU-MERIT, Maastricht University and University of Tasmania, Suma Athreye, Essex Business School, London and Sacha Wunsch-Vincent, World Intellectual Property Organization. Public research and the important issue of how to foster “innovation” are popular concerns for governments and industry alike. This book enables a holistic overview of different innovation practices. By comparing different issues and strategies on an international basis, the common trends and best practices can be more readily identified and questions such as which subsidies produce the greatest economic value can be considered. [...] However, as they also note, in the context of public research, it “may produce a lot of inventions, but no significant innovations”. This observation ties in with one common issue throughout the book, and with measuring innovation more generally, is that the focus is on the number and type of patent filings which can be a poor proxy for genuine innovation. That is not to say that this data and the associated analysis is not helpful but that it is much harder to get accurate and bias free information regarding other rights, particularly trade secrets which, by their nature, are not widely shared. ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 2062 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐃𝐀𝐈𝐋𝐘 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒 ═════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 08.03.21⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ ✐ Links_3/8/2021:_LibreOffice_Autoupdater_and_Vulkan_in_X-Plane⠀✐ Posted in News_Roundup at 1:03 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇GNOME bluefish⦈ § Contents⠀➾ * GNU/Linux o Distributions o Devices/Embedded * Free_Software/Open_Source * Leftovers * § GNU/Linux⠀➾ o § Kernel Space⠀➾ # ⚓ AMD_and_Valve_Are_Building_a_Better_CPU_Driver_For_Linux⠀⇛ o § Benchmarks⠀➾ # ⚓ Sabrent_Rocket_4_Plus_1TB_NVMe_PCIe_4.0_SSD_On_Linux⠀⇛ Last year Sabrent launched the Rocket 4 Plus PCIe 4.0 NVMe solid-state drive and left me puzzled for months finding that the Linux performance was coming in short of expectations under Linux. However, Sabrent recently released a firmware update (v1.2) for the Rocket 4 Plus and now the drive seems to be much better positioned under Linux. At launch the Sabrent Rocket 4 Plus NVMe solid- state drive was coming in short of expectations and similar to the odd performance I have been seeing out of the Samsung 980 PRO under Linux also performing worse than expected. But it looks like things have smoothed out with the v1.2 firmware update available for the Sabrent Rocket 4 Plus. The firmware update was made available to download in June while for a while now new drives have been shipping using this latest version. o § Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ Goggles_Music_Manager_–_music_collection_manager_and player⠀⇛ I spend an inordinate amount of time listening to music. My favorite pastime is to see an eclectic range of bands, solo artists, and orchestras live. It’s such a life-changing and exhilarating experience. It’s one thing to be sitting at home listening to a CD or watching music videos on TV or on YouTube, but being in the audience, packed out in a stadium or music hall, takes it to another level. But it’s an expensive pastime. And it’s been a long time since I’ve been able to attend music performances. Instead, I’m listening to music from my CD collection which I’ve encoded to FLAC. I’ve reviewed a smorgasbord of open source music players. But Linux is endowed with a huge selection, there remains a fair few I’ve yet to explore. For this review, I’m looking at Goggles Music Manager. # ⚓ Virtualization_on_PC,_Explained_for_Beginners_with Practical_Use_Cases⠀⇛ This guide is designed specifically for home users who want to try virtualization on their PC. We’ll take a detailed look at the different types of virtualization as well as the benefits of it. If you need to run more than one operating system on your laptop or PC there are several ways to do it. You’ve probably heard the terms “virtualization” and “virtual machine” before, but do you actually know what that is? # ⚓ What’s_New_in_VMware_Horizon_8_v2106_&_v2103⠀⇛ o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾ # ⚓ Use_the_Linux_terminal_to_navigate_throughout_your computer⠀⇛ To navigate through the directories of your computer in a graphical interface, you’re probably used to opening a window to get “into” your computer, and then double-clicking on a folder, and then on a subfolder, and so on. You may also use arrow buttons or keys to back track. To navigate through your computer in the terminal, you use the cd command. You can use cd .. to move one directory back, or cd ./path/to/another/folder to jump through many folders into a specific location. The concept of a URL, which you use on the Internet already, is actually pulled directly from POSIX. When you navigate to a specific page on some website, like http://www.example.com/tutorials/ lesson2.html, you are actually changing directory to /var/www/imaginarysite/tutorials/ and opening a file called lesson2.html. Of course, you open it in a web browser, which interprets all that weird- looking HTML code into pretty text and pictures. But the idea is exactly the same. # ⚓ Basic_Hacks_for_Kobo_E-Readers⠀⇛ With a little hacking, you can free your Kobo e- reader from its proprietary chains. You may even transform your e-reader into a more general-purpose device. Any piece of proprietary hardware eventually spawns a community of hackers. Kobo e-readers are no exception. However, while I have used Kobo e- readers for a decade, I only recently started to explore Kobo’s hacker community. New Kobo models are released frequently, so all documented hacks do not work for every e-reader, especially hardware hacks. Moreover, as always when hacking, you may sometimes risk bricking your device. Still, the variety and ingenuity of known modifications is proof of how determined the free hardware and software communities are to bypass the arbitrary restrictions imposed by proprietary hardware. Rakuten Kobo is a Toronto-based company, whose products are a distant second to Kindle e-readers in market share. The company also hosts its own site for ebooks and audio books. Over the years, the company has shown a strong tendency to experiment with its hardware, no doubt in an attempt to increase its market share. For instance, Kobo’s first releases supported a Debian client, and several of its early devices used LCD displays rather than e-ink. These experiments sometimes make Kobo a moving target for hackers, but its primary use of the open ePub format makes it popular among those who prefer not to use the proprietary formats like MOBI used by Kindle. # ⚓ Connect_Ubuntu_Linux_Desktop_21.04_to_an_Active_Directory domain:_Here’s_how_–_TechRepublic⠀⇛ # ⚓ Set_up_a_VPN_server_on_your_Linux_PC_|_Opensource.com⠀⇛ Have you been connected to an untrusted network such as a hotel or café WiFi and need to securely browse the internet from your smartphone or laptop? By using a virtual private network (VPN), you can access that untrusted network anonymously and as safely as if you were on a private network. VPN is an amazing tool for safeguarding private data. By using a VPN, you can connect to a private network on the internet while maintaining anonymity. There are many VPN services available, and many people have found that the preferred option for securing private data when using untrusted networks is OpenVPN. OpenVPN creates an encrypted tunnel between two points, preventing a third party from accessing your network traffic data. By setting up your VPN server, you become your own VPN provider. Many popular VPN services use OpenVPN, so why tie your connection to a specific provider when you can have complete control yourself? # ⚓ Install_Apache_Tomcat_10_on_Debian_11_Linux_–_Linux_Shout⠀⇛ Learn the steps and commands to install the latest version of Apache Tomcat on Debian 11 Bullseye Linux to test various Java-based applications… Apache Tomcat is an open-source web server that allows you to run web applications written in Java. Tomcat is developed and maintained by a free community of developers and our Apache license is published as open-source software. Well, Tomcat is significantly different from the Apache web server, it was developed to primarily focus on Web applications. Tomcat does not understand URLs as a file specification, but as a notification of a user action. This is comparable to event-driven programming in classic GUI programming: a click on a button generates an event that the window manager reports to the program. Calling up a URL is analogous, be it in the form of a link or a form called. # ⚓ 13_Tips_for_Tuning_and_Optimizing_Mysql_and_Mariadb Databases_–_VITUX⠀⇛ MySQL and MariaDB are the most widely used relational database management systems (RDMS) when it comes to website hosting and CMS systems such as Joomla, WordPress, Drupal, and Typo 3. In this article, I will explain how to speed up and optimize your MySQL and MariaDB database server. # ⚓ How_To_Install_and_Configure_Todoist_in_Linux Distributions⠀⇛ The word Todoist is the phonetic short form of To- Do List, and it can be used for organizing work, tasks, and quick notes. The Todoist can remember all of your works for you and recall you when you need them. If you work for different clients, Todoist can also manage to remind you of the high prioritized tasks. Mostly, if you’re a Linux sysadmin, I’m sure there is too much work to do for you in the entire week. You can now use the Todoist tool on your Linux system to remind the tasks, share the load among others, customize workload, and keep a balance between your work and life. You can also use Todoist for managing your shopping, store, day-to- day life, and social gathering. The Todoist application is available for Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, and iPhones. It allows you to set labels, filters on the worklist, and even you can customize the Todoist theme based on your work category. # ⚓ How_To_Install_Java_on_AlmaLinux_8_–_idroot⠀⇛ In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Java on AlmaLinux 8. For those of you who didn’t know, Java is a general-purpose and object-oriented programming language, lets application developers write once and run everywhere. This means that a compiled java code runs on all platforms that support Java without the need for recompilation. JDK is a collection of various programming tools such as JRE (Java Runtime Environment), Java, Javac, Jar, and many others. This article assumes you have at least basic knowledge of Linux, know how to use the shell, and most importantly, you host your site on your own VPS. The installation is quite simple and assumes you are running in the root account, if not you may need to add ‘sudo‘ to the commands to get root privileges. I will show you through the step-by- step installation of Java on AlmaLinux 8. You can follow the same instructions for Rocky Linux. # ⚓ How_to_Find_and_Remove_Duplicate_Photos_in_Linux⠀⇛ Clicked too many similar photos? Have saved the same photo in different folders? I know that feel. You click photos on camera, send it through WhatsApp. Now you back up the images and you have two copies of the photos from the gallery and WhatsApp. It is annoying, cluttered and takes extra space unnecessarily. I came across this issue while going through my father-in-law’s photo collection. Here’s what I did to find the duplicate photos and remove thm. # ⚓ How_to_Install_Java_16_in_Rocky_Linux_and_AlmaLinux⠀⇛ Java is a cross-platform, object-oriented, and multipurpose programming language that is primarily used for creating mobile, web, and cloud applications. Additionally, you can use Java to create games, chatbots, enterprise applications, and a whole lot more. To develop Java applications, you need to install an IDE (Integrated Development Environment). IntelliJ IDEA is a perfect example of an IDE that is designed specifically for the development of Java applications. However, you need to have Java installed beforehand. This can be provided by either the OpenJDK (Open Java Development Kit) or Oracle JDK (Oracle Development Kit). # ⚓ How_to_Install_Postfix_Mail_Server_on_Ubuntu_20.04⠀⇛ Postfix is both a popular and preferred Mail Transfer Agent (MTA) for more than 25% of active and public internet mail servers. This attribute has something to do with its open-source status. Many Linux systems benefit from its extensive mail routing and delivery services. If you are a user of the Ubuntu 20.04 or Ubuntu 18.04 system and wish to install and explore the depths of Postfix MTA, then this article will answer all your queries. We are going to take you through Ubuntu 20.04 Postfix installation and configuration. The final bit of this tutorial will test Postfix’s mail routing capabilities after we install “s-nail” – it is a popular email client or in more technical terms, a Mail User Agent (MUA). # ⚓ How_to_define_multiple_when_conditions_in_Ansible_– nixCraft⠀⇛ Sometimes we need to evaluate multiple when conditions in Ansible playbooks. Let us see how to define multiple when conditions in Ansible for a single task. This page explains how to define multiple when conditions in Ansible. The examples further tell how to do a logical “OR” or “AND” using Ansible IT automation tool on your macOS, Linux, or Unix desktop. # ⚓ How_to_patch_modules_in_Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux_|_Red_Hat Developer⠀⇛ Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), in version 8, introduced modules as a higher-level concept for packaging software stacks. Modules enable new features such as adding alternative versions of stacks, called streams. That’s great, but what if you want to patch a stream? Is it possible? It is. Is it more difficult than patching non-modular software? Slightly. This article shows you how to patch a module stream while avoiding the invisible package problem. # ⚓ 3_Ways_to_Remove_Files_from_Trash_on_Ubuntu_using_GUI_and Terminal⠀⇛ By choosing files and documents and hitting the “Remove” key on the keyboard, users can remove all data. Those files are then moved to Junk, a computer location for discarded data. Deleted files remain inside the “Trash” folder unless you elect to clear it or restored the contents. Throughout this article, we’ll look at the first choice: how and where to delete documents via Trash. # ⚓ Get_started_with_Argo_CD_|_Opensource.com⠀⇛ In a typical push-based deployment, tools like Ansible and Jenkins connect directly to the server or cluster and execute the provisioning commands. This approach works well when the cluster is accessible on the network and there is direct connectivity between your deployment server and the destination server. For compliance or security reasons, connectivity between the deployment tool and the cluster may not be possible. Argo CD is a pull-based deployment tool. It watches a remote Git repository for new or updated manifest files and synchronizes those changes with the cluster. By managing manifests in Git and syncing them with the cluster, you get all the advantages of a Git-based workflow (version control, pull- request reviews, transparency in collaboration, etc.) and a one-to-one mapping between what is in the Git repo and what is deployed in the cluster. This method is called GitOps. o § Games⠀➾ # ⚓ X-Plane_Flight_Simulator_Continues_Advancing_Its_Renderer With_Vulkan_–_Phoronix⠀⇛ X-Plane is not only the most realistic flight simulator that has long offered native Linux support but it’s the only instance of a Vulkan- powered flight simulator I am aware of. While long tied to OpenGL, the company behind X-Plane is making it clear that the graphics rendering future is with Vulkan (and Metal when talking about Apple platforms). It was just last year that X-Plane debuted with Vulkan support after being tied to OpenGL support previously for its custom renderer developed at Laminar Research. That Vulkan support debuted in X- Plane 11.50 and has continued improving since and even more enhancements ahead for future releases. # ⚓ Steam_Hardware_Survey_Shows_Linux_Finally_Breaks_the_1% Barrier⠀⇛ The monthly Steam Hardware Survey is quite possibly one of the best windows we get into not only how consumers are playing games but how their hardware is transitioning to keep up with the graphical advances. It’s also pretty handy for judging which operating system currently holds the biggest slice of the gaming pie. Following the release of the latest figures, however, Linux’s quite devoted fanbase is undoubtedly going to be exceptionally happy as for the time ever (to my knowledge) the operating system has finally hit the magical 1% market share figure on the platform. [...] We daresay that Microsoft is exceptionally unhappy that their Windows 10 (64 bit) user-based is down in the latest Steam Hardware Survey. More so likely in the fact that those users who did decide to leave the platform have seemingly chosen Windows 7 as a seemingly more viable alternative, or worse, their pretty much sole nemesis Linux. While Linux clearly still has a long way to go, as noted above, the operating system is very popular, and you’ll struggle to find someone using it who has any complaints. With 1% now hit though, who knows, maybe more developers will start looking at making their games compatible with it. # ⚓ Proton_6.14_GE-2_and_Wine_6.14_GE-2_are_out,_easily_update Proton_GE_with_ProtonUp⠀⇛ Multiple updates to community-built versions of Proton and Wine, along with a very interesting bit of software to help you upgrade Proton GE called ProtonUp. If you’re not clear on what Proton and Steam Play are, be sure to check out our constantly updated dedicated page. It’s a special compatibility layer for running Windows games and apps from Steam on Linux. Proton GE is not affiliated with Valve/ Steam, it also has less quality assurance versus the official Proton but often ends up with special game-specific fixes quicker. # ⚓ Vomitoreum_is_a_FPS_Metroidvania_with_a_sprinkle_of_horror out_now⠀⇛ Built using the power of the open source GZDoom (although it’s a full standalone game), Vomitoreum is an FPS Metroidvania with a focus on atmosphere and horror, inspired by the paintings of Zdzisław Beksiński set in an interconnected and nightmarish world. If you love retro-styled first-person shooter then this is one you need to take a look at. # ⚓ SkateBIRD_gets_delayed_until_September_16_|_GamingOnLinux⠀⇛ You’re going to have to wait a bit longer to do flips and things as a cute little bird, as SkateBIRD from Glass Bottom Games has been a bit delayed. Seems all platforms have been delayed at this point with a new release date set at September 16. Why? In the brief announcement post Glass Bottom Games mentioned “Why? Usual reasons. Shipping a game is hard. Hit some bugs, SDK stuff where the old code worked but the new one suddenly didn’t, you get the idea. Gave us more time to polish other stuff though, so that’s nice!” # ⚓ Flare,_a_free_and_open_source_RPG_and_game_engine_has_a huge_new_1.12_release_|_GamingOnLinux⠀⇛ Flare is a name I’ve not heard for a while. It is both an RPG and a game engine for other developers to make their own games and a massive new release is out. The idea behind Flare as a game engine is to specifically deal with single-player 2D action RPGs. It is not a reimplementation of anything else but a tribute to the whole genre. While the developers also made Flare: Empyrean Campaign to show it off a little. # ⚓ First-person_brawler_Paint_the_Town_Red_is_officially_out now_|_GamingOnLinux⠀⇛ After a long time in Early Access, you can now go ahead and start all kinds of ridiculous fights in the first-person brawler Paint the Town Red as it’s out properly now. If you love ridiculous games, this is the one for you. Start a fight in a bar? On a dance floor? Punch a shark. Yup, it has it all. Then there’s also the Beneath roguelike RPG mode filled with secrets, hordes of monsters, and otherworldly bosses takes all fighters foolish enough to brave its depths. # ⚓ A_Prologue_demo_for_IRIS:_A_Colorful_Dream_shows_off_the unique_world_|_GamingOnLinux⠀⇛ IRIS: A Colorful Dream is an upcoming 3D exploration platformer about restoring colour to the world. It looks simply wonderful and you can play a small unique slice of it right now. The developer recently put out a Prologue demo, which has its own unique world that won’t be in the full game. The developer mentioned it’s partly to “explore our ideas and hone our skills before diving into the real thing”. o § Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾ # § K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt⠀➾ # ⚓ Your_Hot_New_Stuff_Here⠀⇛ KNewStuff, our Framework designed to make it as easy as possible for people to Get Hot New Stuff for whatever app they’re running, and for the people who make those apps to add that same functionality to the apps, has for some time suggested that the KDE Store has the ability to accept uploading of content directly from the application. Unfortunately, due to the way this was originally built (which was essentially built around the idea that People Are Nice) turned out to be a fairly effective vector for spam and malicious content. The result of this is that for several years, while KNewStuff has had an implementation of the OCS Content Create functionality, there is no serverside implementation which supports it as it stands. Which is a shame, especially when, while we may not be able to do it through the API because people are, apparently, sometimes Not Nice, what we can do instead is make it easier for people who are nice to learn how to add their own stuff to those listings. [...] While working on this innocent seeming bit of stuff, i ran into few little things that needed to be done first. Of course, i could have hacked this and just Made It Work, but also that is not what we do in KDE. The first, probably smallest thing is that this inherently shows up in our mobile apps, because it’s now a part of both Page and Dialog now. Not that there’s a problem with people finding their way to the store and uploading things there, but if we catch just a couple of people who would have otherwise not uploaded their stuff for the rest of the world to see, well, i’ll chalk that down as a win 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇:D⦈ As for more technical things, the way in which one would get a list of the providers known to a KNewStuffCore::Engine was previously all manner of awkward, and really does not fit into how a modern Qt application works (that is, you’d call one function to get some string IDs, then you’d call another function to get each provider, and there was no good way to keep track of what might happen if another got added late, and so on). So, we now have a little model, KNSCore:: ProvidersModel, which handles this, and just gives you a list of all the Providers known to an Engine, with a bunch of roles that lets you read all the information you need. # ⚓ Getting_Started_with_UFW_(Uncomplicated_Firewall)_on Ubuntu_20.04⠀⇛ UFW or Uncomplicated Firewall is an application to manage an iptables based firewall on Ubuntu. UFW is the default firewall configuration tool for Ubuntu Linux and provides a user-friendly way to configure the firewall, the UFW command is just like English language so the commands are easy to remember. The UFW firewall supports IPv4 and IPv6. UFW provides also a GUI application, if you use a GNOME desktop you can install gufw, or if you use a KDE desktop you can install kcm- ufw. # § GNOME Desktop/GTK⠀➾ # ⚓ GNOME_Web_Canary_is_Now_Available_to_Test_Bleeding Edge_Features⠀⇛ Epiphany or GNOME Web is a minimal and yet capable browser for Linux distributions. You should find it as the default browser for elementary OS. With GNOME 40, the Epiphany browser has had some improvements and additions. Behind the scenes, it regularly gets some exciting improvements and feature additions. And for that, you can opt for the Tech Preview version of GNOME Web tailored for early testers. Now, a new Canary flavor has been introduced that you can use to test features that are not yet available even in the tech preview build. # ⚓ Cinnamon_5_desktop_review⠀⇛ Based on this article review, Cinnamon 5.0 is a worthy Linux desktop environment to consider as it has more thumbs up than dislikes. A new user will find it amicably adaptable and scalable, while veteran users might have to re-adjust their muscle memories to adapt to some new GUI tweaks. It is responsive and performs in a lightweight manner. Furthermore, it automates most of its functionalities so that its user only needs to acknowledge their implementation, if any. Our articles on the features of Linux Mint 20.2 “Uma” and updating to Linux Mint 20.2 “Uma” directly reference Cinnamon 5.0 as the default associated desktop environment for Linux Mint 20.2 “Uma”. The Cinnamon desktop developmental status and mileage can be followed up on Github. Here, you can keep a close eye on the upgrade changes associated with it from the beta stage to an official release. o § Distributions⠀➾ # § New Releases⠀➾ # ⚓ 4MLinux_37.0_Release_Packs_in_Linux_Kernel_5.10_LTS and_New_Applications⠀⇛ One of the most lightweight distros, 4MLinux, has just announced its 37th major release. This version brings a variety of improvements, of which we shall be looking at here. Before that, however, I feel that it would be appropriate to find out more about it, especially since it’s such a niche distro. # § IBM/Red Hat/Fedora⠀➾ # ⚓ Introducing_the_no-cost_IBM_Semeru_Runtimes_to develop_and_run_Java_applications_–_IBM_Developer⠀⇛ With the launch of IBM Semeru Runtimes, IBM makes it easier than ever to develop and run Java applications more cost-effectively in hybrid cloud environements, from public cloud to data centers. IBM Semeru Runtimes use the class libraries from OpenJDK, along with the Eclipse OpenJ9 Java Virtual Machine to enable developers to build and deploy Java applications that will start quickly, deliver great performance, all while using less memory. # ⚓ IBM_Semeru_Runtimes_deliver_enterprise_quality_for Java_applications_–_IBM_Developer⠀⇛ A large number of IBM software and services rely on IBM Semeru Runtimes technology to provide a solid foundation for IBM and many other Fortune 500 companies operating across a wide range of industry sectors. The runtimes are rigorously exercised across numerous architectures and operating systems, from desktops running Windows, Linux, or macOS to servers such as IBM Power Systems, IBM Z system mainframes, and X86 systems. IBM provides high-quality production-ready runtimes that meet the most demanding quality standards in the Java ecosystem. IBM stands behind that statement with optional commercial support available with IBM Runtimes for Business, offering flexible licensing to fit your needs. # ⚓ Why_I_was_scared_of_IT_automation_|_Enable_Sysadmin⠀⇛ New technology often makes lots of promises but experienced IT professionals are likely to greet these promises warily. There can easily be a disconnect between what the vendor’s sales team is pitching as a solution and the actual problems or challenges you’re trying to solve. Having anxiety about significant change is expected. In our experience working with customers at Red Hat, we’ve found that certain roles share common concerns about IT automation. # ⚓ IT_modernization:_5_truths_now⠀⇛ IT Modernization increasingly means something new. Go back five, and certainly 10 years, it would have been primarily an efficiency – which is to say primarily a cost-cutting – story. Out with Solaris and in with Linux. Out with legacy Unix system hardware and in with x86. Out with a proprietary database and in with MySQL. We also saw the continued mainstreaming of virtualization, which served to improve the historically dismal utilization of mass- market servers, without requiring much of a fundamental change in how servers were operated. This was a common theme of that era of IT modernization. Make things more efficient but don’t upset existing processes, workflows, and development methods. Don’t require any large-scale upskilling of staff. But that’s changing. While some percentage of existing platforms are being either left as is or lightly refreshed, many others are being modernized through major refits or other fundamental platform shifts. o § Devices/Embedded⠀➾ # ⚓ $23_N6110E_NVR_supports_AI_features,_10TB_SATA_drive,_up_to 10_video_channels⠀⇛ Network video recorders (NRV) typically cost a couple of hundred dollars, but in the past, we noted a low-cost, entry-level NVR with a single Ethernet port may sell for under $50. But now, I’ve been made aware that $20 Linux-based NVR’s had shown up on Aliexpress either based on XM8536D processor, or SigmaStar SSR621Q dual-core Cortex-A7 processor. I’ll look at the N6110E model with the latter that sells for $22.99 plus shipping as it includes an enclosure and is said to support up to 10 channels, as well as AI features such as face & human body detection, “auto tracking” (vehicle tracking?), and mixed-traffic detection. # § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ You_may_soon_be_able_to_play_Xbox_games_on_your Android_TV_|_SoyaCincau.com⠀⇛ # ⚓ Android_TV_LineageOS_builds_published_for_some devices_–_9to5Google⠀⇛ # ⚓ Motorola_Android_11_update:_List_of_eligible_devices &_release_date⠀⇛ # ⚓ Motorola_Android_11_update_bugs,_issues,_&_problems tracker⠀⇛ # ⚓ Google’s_redesigned_emoji_rolling_out_to_Chat_for Android_–_9to5Google⠀⇛ # ⚓ How_to_download_Free_Fire_Max_latest_update_for Android_devices_in_August_2021⠀⇛ # ⚓ Researchers_warn_of_Vultur_Trojan_attempting_to_steal banking_credentials_from_Android_devices⠀⇛ # ⚓ Realme_Flash_is_a_new_Android_phone_with_a_better version_of_iPhone’s_MagSafe_|_TechRadar⠀⇛ o § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾ # ⚓ Apache_Pinot_Makes_It_To_The_Organization’s_Top_Shelf_For Real-Time_Big_Data_Analytics⠀⇛ After being started by LinkedIn and open-source now for more than a half-decade while incubating at the Apache Software Foundation the past three years, Apache Pinot is the latest project graduating to become a top-level Apache project. # § Programming/Development⠀➾ # ⚓ LibreOffice_project_recap:_July_2021_–_The_Document Foundation_Blog⠀⇛ # ⚓ Tender_to_implement_autoupdater_(#202108-01)⠀⇛ The Document Foundation (TDF) is the charitable entity behind the world’s leading free/libre open source (FLOSS) office suite LibreOffice. # ⚓ Managing_GitOps_control_planes_for_secure_GitOps practices⠀⇛ Red Hat OpenShift GitOps provides Argo CD and other tooling used to implement GitOps workflows for cluster configuration and application delivery. OpenShift GitOps is a Red Hat OpenShift add-on, available as an operator in the OperatorHub. Once you’ve installed the OpenShift GitOps operator, you can deploy Argo CD instances using Kubernetes custom resources. # ⚓ 2022_Fukuoka_Ruby_Award_Competition_–_Entries_to_be judged_by_Matz⠀⇛ The Government of Fukuoka, Japan together with “Matz” Matsumoto would like to invite you to enter the following Ruby competition. If you have developed an interesting Ruby program, please be encouraged to apply. # ⚓ Git_2.33_Is_On_The_Way_With_An_Assortment_Of_Fixes, Updated_Documentation⠀⇛ Monday marked the release of Git 2.33-rc0 as the first test release of the next version of this distributed revision control system. Git 2.33 isn’t the most exciting update in recent times but primarily an assortment of many different bug fixes. In fact, Git 2.33 seems to be primarily a maintenance release with no big shiny new features at this time but just an assortment of fixes and other smaller items. # ⚓ LLVM_13_Feature_Development_Is_Over,_LLVM_14_Enters Development_–_Phoronix⠀⇛ LLVM 13.0 feature development has ended with the code now branched and the first release candidate tagged. LLVM 13 brings AMD Zen 3 tuning, the GFX1013 target being added to the AMDGPU back-end for RDNA2 APUs, guaranteed tail calls are now supported via statement attributes for C and C++, many improvements to clang-format, the build system now allows building multiple distributions, support for ARMv9-A’s Realm Management Extension (RME), the Hexagon target now supports the V68/HVX ISA, C API improvements, and a variety of other enhancements. * § Leftovers⠀➾ o § Hardware⠀➾ # ⚓ My_Google_Pixel_C:_the_end_of_an_era⠀⇛ I got my Google Pixel C tablet in early 2016, well over five years ago. I use it ever since almost every day. A big part of it is that I also have the Pixel C keyboard accessory. I prefer touch typing and funnily enough that does not work on a touch screen. It needs a real keyboard. And that keyboard died today. My Pixel C can still recognize the attached keyboard, but it does not work any more. Most likely it is a battery problem. And – as a nice coincidence – all this happened on the day, when Google announced its first own mobile CPU, called Tensor. [...] Without the keyboard I’m not sure how much I’ll use it in the future. Obviously, it will be still good for reading or listening to music. But I’ll need to switch to other devices a lot more often, as I prefer typing on real keyboards instead of screens. # ⚓ Jakub_Steiner:_Single_Cycle_Rave⠀⇛ Some pointless technicalities: Digitakt is a drum machine that allows to loop even super tiny samples so what you get is a very versatile oscillator to furter shape with EQ and effects. I am still terrible and slow, but there is definitely joy in playing versus programming a pattern in a tracker. Sure it feels a bit odd to keep the amazing Digitone off, but I feel like I always spoit the broth by adding and adding more. This track benefts from the minimalistic constraints I think. o § Defence/Aggression⠀➾ # ⚓ Belarusian_NGO_chief_found_hanged_in_Ukraine⠀⇛ o § Monopolies⠀➾ # § Patents⠀➾ # ⚓ UK_to_look_at_whether_change_to_the_current_SEP framework_is_required [Ed: FRAND as a concept should be banned as it boils down to a number of misleading euphemisms, perfuming a grave injustice]⠀⇛ The UK courts have become an important reference point in the global FRAND landscape, so a process looking at whether changes to the current SEP environment are needed has the potential to be very significant # ⚓ TiVo_and_Google_renew_patent_partnership [Ed: This is not a "partnership"; this shows distortion or extreme miscomprehension of what patents are and how they work]⠀⇛ TiVo has announced a long-term renewal of its patent license with Google. The agreement will see Google continue to have broad coverage under TiVo’s patent portfolios, and extends a relationship first established in 2012. TiVo, which became a wholly-owned subsidiary of Xperi Holding Corporation in June 2020, has spent decades investing in R&D for technologies deployed across the media and entertainment industry. The company holds a global patent portfolio of more than 5,000 patents. # ⚓ New_call_for_proposals_under_revamped_Academic Research_Programme [Ed: The criminals who run the EPO are once again bribing_scholars_to_produce_biased_and false_‘studies’_for_reputation_laundering_purposes,_in effect_corrupting_universities]⠀⇛ Today the EPO is launching its call for proposals for its Academic Research Programme (ARP). With this revamped scheme, now in its fifth edition, the EPO will support collaborative research with scientific partner institutions, which can benefit from a wider scope, bigger budget and longer duration. The ARP foresees closer interaction between researchers and staff from across the EPO. Under the programme, grants of up to EUR 150 000 will be awarded per research area in relation to two streams (each with a grant envelope of €300 000). # ⚓ UK_court_hands_down_first_judgment_in_InterDigital and_Lenovo’s_five-patent_battle⠀⇛ EP 588 is one of five European patents are at the heart of the debate. The other patents at issue are EP 23 63 008, EP 2 557 714, EP 24 21 318 and EP 33 55 537. All pertain to the 3G and 4G standard. The court has already heard a second technical trial relating to EP 537, with a decision expected in the coming months. Since 2009, the parties have discussed licensing EP 558. InterDigital claims that it has made global licensing offers to Lenovo on FRAND terms. InterDigital also offered to licence the patent on alternative terms. However, so far the parties were unable to reach an agreement. InterDigital claimed that Lenovo was an unwilling FRAND licensee and would not accept the offered FRAND licence. However, Lenovo rejected claims that InterDigital’s offer was FRAND. Furthermore, InterDigital claims that Lenovo has imported and marketed 4G devices into the UK. Such an action, argued InterDigital, constituted infringement of EP 558. InterDigital patent is valid Lenovo denied infringement and counterclaimed for invalidity of the patent, on the basis of lack of novelty, lack of validity, and inventive step. The court rejected the counterclaim. The next trial is a FRAND trial, scheduled for next year, over EP 558. InterDigital had also initiated parallel proceedings in Germany, with the company filing infringement claims against Xiaomi at the Regional Court Munich. The claims are over EP 537, EP 318, and EP 558, on which the UK has just ruled. However, according to an InterDigital press release, the parties have now settled all pending litigation. # ⚓ FOSS_Patents:_InterDigital_on_a_roll,_settles_with Xiaomi:_patent_infringement_complaints_and_anti- antisuit_injunctions_in_Germany_and_India_prove decisive–license_covers_5G_and_HEVC⠀⇛ The summer is treating U.S. research and patent licensing firm InterDigital well. Less than a week after netting a strategic victory in a UK patent infringement case against Lenovo, InterDigital (often referred to by its stock ticker symbol, IDCC) today announced a license deal that settles all pending litigation against Chinese smartphone giant Xiaomi. The covered patents include InterDigital’s 3G/4G/5G cellular portfolio as well as its HEVC (aka H.265) video codec patents. The amounts involved are not known, but the volume must be rather significant. Just last month, Bloomberg reported that Xiaomi had overtaken Apple to become the world’s no. 2 smartphone maker by unit sales. Xiaomi is truly an amazing entrepreneurial success story, and also has ambitious plans in the electric vehicle market. Maybe Xiaomi will once again manage to “come out of nothing” and rise to the top. While InterDigital had greater leverage in litigation at this point, Xiaomi has so far been doing a good job demonstrating to patent holders that it is neither a soft target nor an unwilling licensee or “hold-out.” Xiaomi seems to have learned the patent licensing and litigation game fast. Given its market share, I guess I’ll have to pay closer attention to its future patent cases. # § Copyrights⠀➾ # ⚓ EU_Copyright_Directive:_what_legal_threats_mean_in reality⠀⇛ The EU has begun legal action against 23 member states for failing to implement the directive into their national laws, but what impact will this have? ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 3347 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐃𝐀𝐈𝐋𝐘 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒 ═════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 08.03.21⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ ✐ Links_3/8/2021:_Nitrux_1.5.1_and_Gerbera_Media_Server_1.9.0⠀✐ Posted in News_Roundup at 12:01 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇GNOME bluefish⦈ § Contents⠀➾ * GNU/Linux o Distributions o Devices/Embedded * Free_Software/Open_Source * Leftovers * § GNU/Linux⠀➾ o ⚓ Linux_in_space:_CloudLinux_powers_Atlas_V_rocket⠀⇛ In a world where some question the code-share channels of open source communities and the use of components that may (or indeed may not) bring into question their provenance, prowess and performance… CloudLinux is an organisation on a mission to increase security, stability and availability of Linux servers and devices. Headquartered in Palo Alto, CloudLinux Inc. develops a hardened Linux distribution, Linux kernel live security patching, extended support options for Linux and web server security software. The organisation this year detailed what it calls TuxCare services, with the Tux reference obviously being the Linux penguin. o § Server⠀➾ # ⚓ The_Apache_Software_Foundation_Announces_Apache®_Pinot™_as a_Top-Level_Project [Ed: More Microsoft_entryism_in_Apache? Apache “incubation”: we cannot (or can barely) get anyone but ourselves to use this bad code, partly because people know we control it, so let’s pretend it is now a “community” thing…]⠀⇛ The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the all- volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of more than 350 Open Source projects and initiatives, announced today Apache® Pinot™ as a Top-Level Project (TLP). # ⚓ Nokia_adds_SR_Linux_data_center_network_operating_system_to public_container_registry_for_testing⠀⇛ The company announced its Data Center Fabric solution two years ago, built on its Service Router Linux OS. # ⚓ Kubernetes_and_Cloud-Native_Operations⠀⇛ o § Audiocasts/Shows⠀➾ # ⚓ WP_Briefing:_Episode_14:_The_Art_and_Science_of Accessibility⠀⇛ In this episode, Josepha Haden Chomphosy discusses the nuances of building accessible software, the differences between access, usability, and accessibility, and how this all applies to the WordPress project. # ⚓ LHS_Episode_#423:_[Title_of_Podcast]⠀⇛ Hello and welcome to the 423rd episode of Linux in the Ham Shack. In this short-topics episode, the hosts discuss the upcoming third QSO Today Virtual Ham Expo along with ham radio emcomm in India and Pakistan, Missouri’s bicentennial radio event, insecurity in Python libraries, an open source laptop, Linux sound subsystems and much more. Thanks for listening and we hope you have a great week. # ⚓ LEVEL_UP_Linux_Gaming_with_ProtonUp!⠀⇛ What’s better than Proton for gaming on Linux? A bleeding-edge, rolling release version of Proton! What’s better than THAT? Installing and updating it automatically! # ⚓ USB_Type_C_Docking_Stations_–_Getting_Started_Primer⠀⇛ Docking stations are incredibly useful – with the right hardware, they can enable you to transform your notebook into a desktop. Unfortunately, there’s a great deal of complexity around them. In this video, I attempt to demystify some of the confusion. # ⚓ Chat_About_Linux_And_Open_Source_on_Matrix_and_IRC⠀⇛ In the early days of the channel, I had a couple of chat rooms where fans of the channel could talk about Linux and free and open source software. Those chat rooms were on Discord and the Freenode IRC network. Ultimately, I deleted those channels because I didn’t want to be on those platforms. But now, I’m creating two new chat rooms… ON MATRIX… # ⚓ Buying_A_Free_Software_Project:_How_Is_That_Possible⠀⇛ Every so often a company will purchase a free software project and this causes mass outrage so instead of just fueling outrage again why not talk abouw how it’s possible for a company to actually do this. # ⚓ Destination_Linux_237:_What’s_The_Most_Underated_Linux Distro?⠀⇛ This week’s episode of Destination Linux, we’re discussing what’s the most underrated distro in Linux? Then we’re going to cover the amazingly awesome and repairable Framework Laptop. Plus we’ve also got our famous tips, tricks and software picks. All of this and so much more this week on Destination Linux. So whether you’re brand new to Linux and open source or a guru of sudo. This is the podcast for you. # ⚓ Late_Night_Linux_–_Episode_136⠀⇛ Whether GNOME is meant to be used in its default state, why open source doesn’t need to conquer the world to succeed, emulating ancient Windows versions on dirt cheap modern hardware, KDE Korner, and more. o § Kernel Space⠀➾ # ⚓ Five_trends_that_will_mark_the_development_of_Linux_in_2021 [Ed: This perpetuates the highly offensive lie that Microsoft "loves Linux" while in fact it continues to besiege and attack it]⠀⇛ The Linux kernel currently has about 27.8 million lines of code (Phoronix data) that is, one and a half million lines more than what it presented a year ago (26.1 million). Its “controversial” and relatively new startup system, system, has reached 1.3 million lines in the last year. That same year, 75,000 code commits were registered, compared to the 80,000 registered in 2018, and represents the lowest figure since 2013. The companies that contributed the most to the cause were Intel and Red Hat, while individually, in addition to the everlasting Linus Torvalds (3.19% of the commits), David Miller (Red Hat), and Chris Wilson (Intel) stood out. In total, more than 4,000 people contributed to improving the code. As we pointed out at the beginning against its initial rejection, the system is gaining in popularity (43,000 commits in 2019) and has begun to replace init systems in many distributions. The new system is also evolving at great speed and there are plans to extend it to also manage home folders. # ⚓ AMD_SB-RMI_Driver_Coming_For_Linux_5.15_–_Phoronix⠀⇛ AMD continues pushing new code out for Linux in better exposing their platform’s capabilities in the open-source world. The latest AMD driver work now queued via “-next” branches for introduction this autumn in Linux 5.15 is SB-RMI sensor support. AMD SB-RMI is the Side-Band Remote Management Interface for out-of-band communication between the AMD SoC/CPU and the baseboard management controller (BMC) via the Advanced Platform Management Link (APML / SBI). Queued via the hwmon-next Git branch is an initial AMD SB-RMI sensor driver for Linux. # ⚓ Following_Torvalds’_nudge,_Paragon’s_NTFS_driver_for_Linux is_on_track_for_kernel [Ed: Microsoft Tim and SJVN (below) boosting Microsoft agenda inside Linux… just like their employers would like.]⠀⇛ Paragon Software, in response to a nudge from Linux Torvalds, said it will submit a pull request for its NTFS driver for Linux. The process of submitting a read-write NTFS driver for Linux was initiated by Paragon nearly a year ago, when it ran into complaints that its 27,000 line patch was too big to review. Paragon resubmitted the code in more manageable chunks, but its less than complete understanding of the Linux kernel development process apparently continued, with Torvalds stepping in last month to point out that it was not enough to post the code to the fsdevel list – at some point the code would actually have to be submitted as a pull request. # ⚓ Paragon_NTFS_driver_might_finally_make_it_into_Linux⠀⇛ Microsoft introduced the New Technology File System (NTFS), a proprietary journaling file system, in Windows NT 3.1 in 1993. Since then, it replaced 1977′s File Allocation Table (FAT) file system in all versions of Windows. Unlike FAT, which Microsoft would eventually open up for other users, NTFS has remained proprietary. That’s made it difficult, but not impossible, to use in Linux. Recently, Paragon Software announced it would port some of its NTFS driver software to the Linux kernel. o § Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ FWUPD_1.6.2_Released_With_Exciting_Improvements_For Hardware_Firmware_Updates_On_Linux⠀⇛ While FWUPD 1.5.12 released last week with expanded support for Poly web cameras, FWUPD 1.6.2 is out today as the newest feature release in their latest series. FWUPD 1.6.2 brings several significant improvements for advancing open-source firmware update capabilities on Linux. FWUPD 1.6.2 is an exciting update with: - Initial support for interacting with the Powerd daemon. - Support for CapsuleOnDisk, which allows for storing UEFI system capsules to be delivered to the pre-OS environment on-disk. # ⚓ Gerbera_Media_Server_1.9.0_Released_with_New_and_Improved Features⠀⇛ If you’re searching for an easy to use, flexible media server for in-home streaming, Gerbera is a great choice. Gerbera is a free UPnP media server which allows you to stream your digital media through your home network and consume it on a variety of UPnP compatible devices. It’s based on MediaTomb and work with any UPnP compliant client. With Gerbera you can stream your personal media library of movies, TV shows, and music to a wide range of devices ranging from smart TVs and streaming boxes to game consoles and mobile devices. o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾ # ⚓ Why_You_Should_Update_Linux_Package_Repositories_Before Installing_New_Software⠀⇛ One of the best things about Linux distributions is that they install software from central repositories using package managers, a concept that other operating systems are just picking up on. But if you don’t frequently update these repositories, your system might run into trouble while installing new packages. Here’s why. # ⚓ Jakub_Steiner:_5G_Backup⠀⇛ When I get glimpses of the world outside of my FOSS bubble, I see all these tips and tricks articles how people can use their computers that provide something surprising or not universally known. The equivalent of this in the FOSS world is a 6 page wiki outlining how to produce a smb.conf to share files between two computers in 2021. To offset this depression, I’d like to present some cases when things work … as they should. # ⚓ How_to_Install_Sublime_Text_4_on_Ubuntu_20.04⠀⇛ Sublime Text is a cross-platform and proprietary source code editor. It provides tons of features and plugins which greatly help in the development of applications. Sublime Text is written in C++ and Python. Notable features include split editing, quick shortcuts, syntax highlighting, autocompletion, selection of multiple lines or words, and much more. # ⚓ How_to_Install_LAMP_on_Rocky_Linux_8_Server⠀⇛ LAMP is a stack of software- Apache, MySQL, and PHP installed on Linux operating systems such as Rocky Linux 8 server, AlmaLinux, CentOS, Ubuntu, etc. To run a website on any server we need to install a web server platform such as Apache or Nginx. Whereas to save data and support PHP-based CMS; Mysql, and PHP are needed. In today’s world, where hundreds of websites are running on CMS like WordPress you will easily find LAMP setup on most of the hosting services- pre-installed. Thus, no hassle or messing with commands at all. Moreover, WHM Cpanel-like control panels make our life further easier. Nevertheless, if you are already a user of Linux and want to set up your own LAMP server from scratch on some VPS or Cloud hosting platform using Rocky Linux then here is the tutorial to assist you. # ⚓ How_to_Install_DevOps_Lab_–_Gitlab_Server_on_RH_Cloud_| RoseHosting⠀⇛ GitLab is a web-based Git repository manager providing wiki, issue-tracking, and continuous integration and deployment. It is a DevOps platform that helps developers to modernize their application development lifecycle. It allows you to create your private repository with the required control, flexibility, and simplicity within your own server. RoseHosting Cloud provides pre-configured GitLab image. You can deploy a GitLab with Docker containers in the RoseHosting PaaS platform to increase scalability and elasticity. In this post, we will show you how to deploy a GitLab with Docker on RoseHosting Cloud. # ⚓ How_to_install_Medibang_Paint_on_a_Chromebook_in_2021⠀⇛ Today we are looking at how to install Medibang Paint on a Chromebook. Please follow the video/ audio guide as a tutorial where we explain the process step by step and use the commands below. # ⚓ How_to_configure_static_IP_address_in_CentOS_8_/_RHEL_8⠀⇛ Dynamic IP can be used in home system or Local Area Network (LAN) because they are only used internally. It can be assigned through DHCP (Dynamic Network Configuration Protocol) by either your ISP or your router. But, you should assign a static IP address to the Linux servers that are accessible through internet. Also, large organizations use static IP to avoid network issues due to the unavailability of DHCP servers. # ⚓ How_to_Install_and_Set_up_Gerbera_Media_Server_in_Ubuntu_/ Debian_|_UbuntuHandbook⠀⇛ This simple tutorial shows how to install and setup Gerbera home media server in all current Ubuntu and Debian releases. Gerbera is a free and open-source UPnP media server for Linux, BSD, and Mac OS. With it, you can stream audio and/or video files over home network, and play on any device with a media player with UPnP support, e.g., VLC. # ⚓ How_to_install_and_use_PhotoRec_to_recover_deleted_files_in Ubuntu_20.04_–_VITUX⠀⇛ PhotoRec is an open-source software utility to recover lost or deleted media files like photos, videos, documents, etc from CD-ROMs, Hard disks, and digital camera memory. PhotoRec is associated with TestDisk. The TestDisk is used to recover deleted partitions and make non-bootable disks bootable again and photoRec recovers deleted media files or document files. It supports and can recover more than 480 file extensions. When you accidentally deleted the file you better not add more media or document files to that memory or hard drive as you might overwrite your lost data. In this article, we will install and use PhotoRec to recover deleted files in ubuntu 20.04 LTS. # ⚓ Linux_101:_How_to_compress_a_folder_from_the_command_line with_tar⠀⇛ The Linux command line is an incredibly powerful tool. From the CLI there’s next to nothing you can’t do. And although a GUI might make some of the tasks a bit easier, the simplicity of doing your work in a terminal window is about as elegant a solution as you’ll find. o § Games⠀➾ # ⚓ Where_Do_Linux_Users_Buy_Games?_Meet_5_Different_Profiles⠀⇛ We are back with another little story coming from the data collected in April 2021 regarding Linux Gamers’ habits and perceptions. This time we thought it could be fun to go through the usage of game stores… Namely which game stores are currently used by Linux gamers, and at what frequency. [....] Where Do Linux Users [License proprietary] Games? Meet 5 Different Profiles https://boilingsteam.com/ where-do-linux-users-buy-games-meet-5-different- profiles/ # ⚓ Linux_Now_Makes_Up_1%_Of_Steam_Users_Once_Again⠀⇛ Linux has always been a popular operating system for a certain kind of user, but it’s always presented complications if you want to play a wide variety of games. Now, however, the number of monthly active Steam users running Linux has risen to 1%, according to the Steam Hardware Survey. As spotted by the Linux site GamingOnLinux, the percentage of Linux users on Steam has increased and decreased over the past three years, but the overall line of fit tends towards the positive. This is the first time that the tracker has shown above a 1% Linux share since at least September 2018. # ⚓ Latest_Steam_Survey_Notes_Linux_Gaming_Market_Share_Hits 1%⠀⇛ Linux wasn’t really popular for its gaming capabilities until Proton stepped in and revolutionized one of the weakest areas of the OS. A recent steam survey shows that Linux gaming has hit a 1% market share, which is the all-time high for the OS. Steam released a survey today, which shows that the market share has hit 1%, a 0.14% increase since last year. Of course, this isn’t a huge feat in itself, but we understand from these numbers that gaming on Linux is getting better with each year. # ⚓ Percentage_of_Linux_Gamers_on_Steam_Tops_1%_for_First_Time in_Years⠀⇛ Gaming on Linux is still niche, but the number of users doing so has recently shot up, according to Valve’s Steam. In July, the market share for Linux-based gaming on Steam reached the 1% threshold after three years of remaining at the 0.8 to 0.9% range. GamingOnLinux noticed the sudden increase through Steam’s hardware and software survey, which regularly polls users to see what platforms they use to game. # ⚓ Building_a_Retro_Linux_Gaming_Computer_–_Part_6:_A_Lone Marine_Battled⠀⇛ In the same vein as Quake: The Offering, the next game in the series got a similar treatment for Linux with Quake II: Colossus from Macmillan Digital Publishing, containing Quake II as well as it’s two mission packs The Reckoning and Ground Zero. This time the mission packs were included on a separate CD-ROM from the main game, but that disc only holds the soundtrack for Ground Zero, meaning that music tracks unique to The Reckoning are absent. Installation was much the same as with the first Quake, with the port now done by David Kirsch still having most of the same limitations as Dave Taylor’s original Quake port, although Quake II does at least have better support for mouselook. That said, I did find I had to copy my system’s libGL.so.1.2 file to the Quake II installation directory twice named as both opengl32 and libGL.so in order to get OpenGL acceleration to work reliably. Rather than featuring multiple different binaries as Quake did to launch the various different rendering options, Quake II instead accepts command arguments using the “vid_ref” variable to just the one application. SVGAlib can still used for both software rendering from a console as well as hardware acceleration on 3dfx cards, with the “softx” and “glx” renderers working instead through an X11 window on any graphics card. Like with the original Quake, I created a custom launch script that blanks the mouse cursor and adjusts the X11 gamma as well as providing a nice menu for selecting the mission packs. After encountering memory leaks with Nautilus when playing the game from Gnome, I also went ahead and created a custom all black style for Blackbox to make use of my full screen hack and switched to playing Quake II from Blackbox instead. o § Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾ # § K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt⠀➾ # ⚓ Release_Announcement:_Nitrux_1.5.1⠀⇛ Today is the day! — Nitrux 1.5.1 is available to download We are pleased to announce the launch of Nitrux 1.5.1. This new version brings together the latest software updates, bug fixes, performance improvements, and ready- to-use hardware support. Nitrux 1.5.1 is available for immediate download. # § GNOME Desktop/GTK⠀➾ # ⚓ Introducing_the_GNOME_Web_Canary_flavor⠀⇛ Today I am happy to unveil GNOME Web Canary which aims to provide bleeding edge, most likely very unstable builds of Epiphany, depending on daily builds of the WebKitGTK development version. Read on to know more about this. Until recently the GNOME Web browser was available for end-users in two flavors. The primary, stable release provides the vanilla experience of the upstream Web browser. It is shipped as part of the GNOME release cycle and in distros. The second flavor, called Tech Preview, is oriented towards early testers of GNOME Web. It is available as a Flatpak, included in the GNOME nightly repo. The builds represent the current state of the GNOME Web master branch, the WebKitGTK version it links to is the one provided by the GNOME nightly runtime. Tech Preview is great for users testing the latest development of GNOME Web, but what if you want to test features that are not yet shipped in any WebKitGTK version? Or what if you are GNOME Web developer and you want to implement new features on Web that depend on API that was not released yet in WebKitGTK? Historically, the answer was simply “you can build WebKitGTK yourself“. However, this requires some knowledge and a good build machine (or a lot of patience). Even as WebKit developer builds have become easier to produce thanks to the Flatpak SDK we provide, you would still need to somehow make Epiphany detect your local build of WebKit. Other browsers offer nightly or “Canary” builds which don’t have such requirements. This is exactly what Epiphany Canary aims to do! Without building WebKit yourself! # ⚓ Matthias_Clasen:_More_on_input⠀⇛ I’ve written about input before (here and here), and more recently, Carlos and myself gave a Guadec talk about input-related topics (slides). In those writings, I have explained how dead keys work, and how you can type # ⚓ Madeline_‘Madds’_Holland:_Career_Goals⠀⇛ For this week’s Outreachy blog post, I’ll be talking about my personal career goals, so it’ll be less GNOME/Librsvg-focused than my recent posts. o § Distributions⠀➾ # ⚓ The_OSMC_Skin_redesign⠀⇛ It’s been nearly five years since the last big change to the OSMC Skin and with our next update which will introduce Kodi v19 (codename Matrix) and our new video stack, we’d like to introduce some design changes to the OSMC skin. The basic structure and look of texts, buttons and fanart will remain the same. There will however be some changes to how background colours are shown and how they structure the overall layout of every window and dialogue. Additionally, we’ve chosen to use a new default colour scheme but have retained the option to use the old colours via the colour sets in the skin settings. Here are some screen shots to give you an idea of how things will look when the next OSMC update lands imminently. # § Screenshots/Screencasts⠀➾ # ⚓ Garuda_Linux_210729,_Gnome_Edition⠀⇛ Today we are looking at Garuda Linux 210729, the Gnome edition. It comes with Linux Kernel 5.13, based on Arch Linux, Gnome 40, and uses about 1.8GB of ram when idling. Enjoy! # ⚓ Garuda_Linux_210729,_Gnome_Edition,_Run_Through⠀⇛ In this video, ware looking at Garuda Linux 210729, the Gnome edition # § SUSE/OpenSUSE⠀➾ # ⚓ SUSE_supports_Guerbet’s_fast-paced_growth,_keeping operating_costs_low [Ed: SUSE is ‘shilling’ SAP’s proprietary software again]⠀⇛ # § IBM/Red Hat/Fedora⠀➾ # ⚓ Optimize_public_cloud_workloads_on_RHEL_with_Red_Hat Insights_Resource_Optimization⠀⇛ The Beta of the Red Hat Insights Resource Optimization service is now available. Resource Optimization is a new service that we’ve added to our portfolio of Insights services. In this post we’ll explain how Resource Optimization can help you optimize your public cloud workloads on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and how to get started with it. Insights helps provide a single, consistent tool for analyzing Red Hat products running across hybrid cloud and on-premises infrastructures. Insights analyzes platforms and applications to predict risk, recommend actions, and track costs so enterprises can better manage hybrid cloud environments. The service is aiming at existing and new Red Hat Enterprise Linux customers who need to grasp control over their public cloud investment. Running legacy or non-scalable workloads in a public cloud requires estimating the instance size and monitoring the actual usage. The Resource Optimization service looks at several metrics of your workload – CPU, memory and disk usage – and compares them to resource allocation information provided by the public cloud provider. # ⚓ Learn_the_networking_basics_every_sysadmin_needs_to know_|_Enable_Sysadmin⠀⇛ One of the sysadmin’s most important domains is the network. While understanding everything there is to know about networking is a big topic, there’s much to learn from your own humble Linux computer’s networking stack. Learning basic networking commands can help you understand how a device knows what network to connect to, how to find a shared printer or a file share—or the biggest network of all, the internet. # ⚓ Leading_teams_at_Red_Hat:_From_individual_contributor to_managing_real-time_Linux_kernel_development⠀⇛ Red Hat’s Products and Technologies organization is doing game-changing work in the IT industry. In showcasing the unique stories of Red Hatters around the world, it’s clear that there’s no one path to finding success at Red Hat. For each of us, it’s about open collaboration and building something together. # ⚓ Fedora_Community_Blog:_Nest_with_Fedora:_Thanks_to our_Sponsors!⠀⇛ Fedora’s annual contributor conference Nest with Fedora is this week: August 5th–7th. Even with the virtual format, we are so excited to see everyone together! Free registration for Nest with Fedora is still open and you can check out the schedule in the wiki. Nest with Fedora is made possible by funding from our sponsors. Their assistance brings us everything from the conference platform to promotion to swag. # § Canonical/Ubuntu Family⠀➾ # ⚓ Xubuntu_Linux_dumps_open_source_Pidgin⠀⇛ Back in the days before Facebook Messenger, iMessage, and WhatsApp, we had other chat platforms such as AOL Instant Messenger (AIM), MSN Messenger, and ICQ to name a few. At first, everyone used the first-party apps for each platform, but eventually, many of us switched to third-party software that could connect to multiple chat platforms at once. The multi-chat apps were more convenient, but equally important, they were usually advertisement-free. AIM, for instance, had annoying ads. One of the most popular such programs was Gaim, which was ultimately renamed to Pidgin. Believe it or not, Pidgin is still being developed to this day. The open source Pidgin is available on both Linux and Windows. Unfortunately, use of Pudgin has dipped dramatically over the last decade. Hell, I don’t even remember the last time I used it. And now, in what is certainly a huge blow to Pidgin, the Ubuntu Linux-based Xubuntu is finally ditching it. # ⚓ Launchpad_now_runs_on_Python_3!⠀⇛ I wanted to take a bit of time to reflect on why my emotional responses to this port differ so much from those of some others who’ve done large ports, such as the Mercurial maintainers. It’s hard to deny that we’ve had to burn a lot of time on this, which I’m sure has had an opportunity cost, and from one point of view it’s essentially running to stand still: there is no single compelling feature that we get solely by porting to Python 3, although it’s clearly a prerequisite for tidying up old compatibility code and being able to use modern language facilities in the future. And yet, on the whole, I found this a rewarding project and enjoyed doing it. Some of this may be because by inclination I’m a maintenance programmer and actually enjoy this sort of thing. My default view tends to be that software version upgrades may be a pain but it’s much better to get that pain over with as soon as you can rather than trying to hold back the tide; you can certainly get involved and try to shape where things end up, but rightly or wrongly I can’t think of many cases when a righteously indignant user base managed to arrange for the old version to be maintained in perpetuity so that they never had to deal with the new thing (OK, maybe Perl 5 counts here). I think a more compelling difference between Launchpad and Mercurial, though, may be that very few other people really had a vested interest in what Python version Launchpad happened to be running, because it’s all server-side code (aside from some client libraries such as launchpadlib, which were ported years ago). As such, we weren’t trying to do this with the internet having Strong Opinions at us. We were doing this because it was obviously the only long-term-maintainable path forward, and in more recent times because some of our library dependencies were starting to drop support for Python 2 and so it was obviously going to become a practical problem for us sooner or later; but if we’d just stayed on Python 2 forever then fundamentally hardly anyone else would really have cared directly, only maybe about some indirect consequences of that. I don’t follow Mercurial development so I may be entirely off-base, but if other people were yelling at me about how late my project was to finish its port, that in itself would make me feel more negatively about the project even if I thought it was a good idea. Having most of the pressure come from ourselves rather than from outside meant that wasn’t an issue for us. # ⚓ Watson:_Launchpad_now_runs_on_Python_3⠀⇛ On his blog, Colin Watson has a lengthy reflection on moving the code for Ubuntu’s Launchpad software-collaboration web application from Python 2 to Python 3. He looks at some of the problem areas for upgrading, both in general and for Launchpad specifically, some pain points that were encountered, lessons learned, and the nine known regressions that reached the Launchpad production code during the process. # ⚓ Ubuntu_Blog:_Model-driven_observability:_modern monitoring_with_Juju⠀⇛ The end-to-end monitoring of complex software systems is difficult, toil-intensive and error-prone. Developers, SREs and Platform teams must continuously invest effort in setting up and maintaining the monitoring setups that underpin the observability of their systems, or accept the risk of being unaware of ongoing issues and their impact on end users. Enter model-driven observability powered by Juju! Juju is a framework for opinionated “charmed operators”, colloquially called charms, that manage other software, like your databases, applications and other infrastructure components (including Kubernetes, OpenStack and LXD). Juju is declarative and model- driven, allowing you to compose charms and the relations between them in expressive, reusable and portable models. This post, the first of a series, provides a first glimpse at a new generation of observability charms for Juju, and how they can drastically simplify the monitoring setup for systems, reduce its ongoing maintenance costs and, at the same time, contextualize and enhance the actionability of the collected telemetry. # ⚓ The_Fridge:_Ubuntu_Weekly_Newsletter_Issue_694⠀⇛ Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 694 for the week of July 25 – 31, 2021. o § Devices/Embedded⠀➾ # ⚓ Time_for_PineTime⠀⇛ I just received my PineTime and set it up with GadgetBridge on my Android device. So far it has been a pleasant experience. [...] My device was shipped with version 1.2 of the InfiniTime firmware, so I’m one release behind. I ordered the sealed device (because the price is amazing), but I already am itching to get coding. # ⚓ Express-TL_Tiger_Lake-H_COM_Express_module_offers_8K_video, PCIe_Gen4_x16_connectivity⠀⇛ # § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾ # ⚓ ESP32-H2_RISC-V_WiSoC_announced_with_Zigbee_3, Thread,_and_Bluetooth_LE_5.2_–_CNX_Software⠀⇛ Just a few days ago, we noted ESP32-H2 802.15.4 & BLE RISC-V SoC had shown up in the source code, and tried to derive specs and a block diagram from the info seeing it was similar to ESP32-C3, but swapping the WiFi radio for an 802.15.4 radio. We don’t need to guess anymore, as Espressif Systems has just announced ESP32-H2 RISC- V WiSoC with support for Zigbee 3.x, Thread 1.x through the 802.15.4 radio, as well as Bluetooth LE 5.2. # § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ Sxmo_1.5.0_released_with_networking,_screen_lock,_and UI_improvements⠀⇛ The latest version of Sxmo adds a few new features including support for configuring a WiFi hotspot from your phone’s Network Menu and support for a proximity lock that automatically locks or unlocks the display based on proximity (so the screen doesn’t come on when your phone is in your pocket, for example). Sxmo 1.5.0 also brings a number of performance and user interface tweaks and some under-the-hood changes. But overall, Sxmo continues to be a simple, speedy user interface for mobile Linux devices. In fact, it’s so well optimized that it can make even a low-end smartphone like the PinePhone feel fast. o § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾ # § Web Browsers⠀➾ # § Mozilla⠀➾ # ⚓ How_to_Sync_Firefox_Bookmarks,_Tabs,_History, and_Passwords_Across_Devices⠀⇛ Firefox comes with a feature that allows you to sync your browsing data across multiple devices. This is very useful, especially if you use Firefox on different Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, or iOS devices. Here we show you how to sync Firefox bookmarks, tabs, history and passwords across all devices you are using. # § Productivity Software/LibreOffice/Calligra⠀➾ # ⚓ LibreOffice_Conference_2021:_Announcing_the_logo!⠀⇛ In late June, we started a competition to design the logo for our upcoming LibreOffice Conference 2021. We received 22 submissions with many great ideas – thanks to everyone who took part! # § FSF⠀➾ # § GNU Projects⠀➾ # ⚓ GNU_Guix:_Taming_the_‘stat’_storm_with_a_loader cache⠀⇛ It was one of these days where some of us on IRC were rehashing that old problem—that application startup in Guix causes a “stat storm”—and lamenting the lack of a solution when suddenly, Ricardo proposes what, in hindsight, looks like an obvious solution: “maybe we could use a per- application ld cache?”. A moment where collective thinking exceeds the sum of our individual thoughts. The result is one of the many features that made it in the core-updates branch, slated to be merged in the coming weeks, one that reduces application startup time. # § Licensing/Legal⠀➾ # ⚓ GitHub_Copilot_is_‘unacceptable_and_unjust’, according_to_Free_Software_Foundation⠀⇛ GitHub Copilot, a Visual Studio Code extension that uses artificial intelligence to help developers write code, has drawn the ire of the Free Software Foundation (FSF), which is calling for white papers that address legal and philosophical questions raised by the technology. GitHub Copilot is “unacceptable and unjust, from our perspective,” the FSF wrote in a blog post calling for white papers on the implications of Copilot for the free software community. The reason is that Copilot requires running software that is not free, such as Microsoft’s Visual Studio IDE or Visual Studio Code editor, the FSF contends, and constitutes a “service as a software substitute” meaning it’s a way to gain power over other people’s computing. # § Programming/Development⠀➾ # ⚓ Dirk_Eddelbuettel:_RcppFarmHash_0.0.2:_Maintenance⠀⇛ A minor maintenance release of the new package RcppFarmHash, first released in version 0.0.1 a week ago, is now on CRAN in an version 0.0.2. RcppFarmHash wraps the Google FarmHash family of hash functions (written by Geoff Pike and contributors) that are used for example by Google BigQuery for the FARM_FINGERPRINT digest. This releases adds a #define which was needed on everybody’s favourite CRAN platform to not attempt to include a missing header endian.h. With this added #define all is well as we can already tell from looking at the CRAN status where the three machines maintained by you- may-know-who have already built the package. The others will follow over the next few days. # ⚓ GSoC_2021_KMyMoney_–_Week_8⠀⇛ Week 8 revolved around removing all the usages of webpricequote on the equity price update dialog source code. For people not much into finance, an article from Investopedia about quotes. I first replaced the WebPriceQuote constructors and their members of AlkOnlineQuoteSource. Replacing m_webIDBy with m_idSelector popped up error. After putting in a little effort I remembered that m_idSelector is the member of AlkOnlineQuoteSource::Private and I will have to use the getter(idSelector()) to use that member for an AlkOnlineQuoteSource object. # ⚓ SEGGER’s_Linux_Studio_makes_top_rated_development environment_available_to_Linux_developers⠀⇛ Linux Studio is a development environment designed specifically for native host development, making the features of SEGGER’s top rated Embedded Studio IDE available to all Linux application developers. With its sleek Visual Studio-style user interface, powerful project management and integrated source-level debugger, Linux Studio greatly simplifies development on Linux. Linux Studio’s project manager enables clear organization of all project resources. Multi- project solutions can keep all parts of an application together, such as an executable file, additional libraries and resources. # § Perl/Raku⠀➾ # ⚓ Only_infinite_elements⠀⇛ # ⚓ Rakudo_Weekly_News:_2021.31_Counting_Down⠀⇛ Only a few days to go until the first Raku Conference (on 6, 7 and 8 August), online this time because of the pandemic. With attendees from more than 30 countries, 3 workshops sessions, 13 presentations, and a nice selection of Lightning Talks (schedule). Brought to you by Andrew Shitov and associates, and sponsored by Edument and Perl Services. It’s not too late to register yet! And if you’re registered, don’t forget to have your Conference T-Shirt made for the complete experience! # § Python⠀➾ # ⚓ Week8kdesoc⠀⇛ helpers module for the printers has been ported to support python2 since no mingw supports python 3 yet, as this just requires removing the variable types in function decarations and returns, however in the case of the actual printers i have decided to create two seperate files for it. Although it may be a little time consuming, it makes more sense because there are have become faster in python3 and would be restricting if still using the python2 implemenetation. for example in the case of f”” and %. Some classes to do not work when used with pyhton2 and gdb-mi # ⚓ Read_QR_Codes_from_Raspberry_PI_with_Pyzbar_and Python⠀⇛ With a camera and a few python code lines you can transform your Raspberry PI into an advanced QR codes reader by usin Pyzbar, also making your RPI able to perform more actions on conditions mach # § Shell/Bash/Zsh/Ksh⠀➾ # ⚓ The_many_faces_of_awk ⠀⇛ The awk command provides a lot more than simply selecting fields from input strings, including pulling out columns of data, printing simple text, evaluating content – even doing math. # § Java⠀➾ # ⚓ Eclipse_Adoptium_achieves_its_first_Java_SE release⠀⇛ The Eclipse Adoptium community has achieved its first Java SE release based upon the OpenJDK code. Adoptium is the new home of the AdoptOpenJDK project, the most popular build of OpenJDK in production according to the recent JVM Ecosystem Report, with over 300 million downloads. Adoptium’s success builds upon the community development of Java SE in OpenJDK. OpenJDK creates the implementation of Java SE and Adoptium performs the structured build, test, and delivery to end users. Red Hat has brought best in class working practices to these projects to deliver high quality binaries that are ready for production usage. Red Hat engineers have a strong representation in the Adoptium project management committee and Red Hat is a strategic member of the Adoptium working group. Together the project management committee and working group provide technical and governance oversight of the project. This release from Adoptium is the first from the Eclipse Foundation. As part of the move to Eclipse, Adoptium code underwent enhanced scrutiny through the Eclipse intellectual property review process, and the project’s binaries have passed the Oracle Java SE JCK test suite—- used to determine compatibility with the Java SE specification. * § Leftovers⠀➾ o § Science⠀➾ # ⚓ A_conversation_with_ACM_Turing_Award_winner_Prof._Alfred_V. Aho⠀⇛ o § Hardware⠀➾ # ⚓ Intel_Ends_A_Two_Decade_Long_Production_of_Itanium_64-Bit Processors⠀⇛ On July 29th, Intel officially ended shipments for the Itanium 64-bit processor, created originally as an alternative to the x86 design used for servers and high-end workloads. Production of Itanium processors has lasted for over two decades. o § Integrity/Availability⠀➾ # § Proprietary⠀➾ # ⚓ Google_Meet_PWA_Launches_On_Windows,_Mac,_Chrome_OS_& Linux [Ed: Google acts like it just owns the Internet (it does Vint Cerf) while pushing its proprietary bits into the WWW]⠀⇛ Google Meet is now available as a Progressive Web App (PWA). It’s a standalone app that offers the same features and functionality as the conventional desktop app but in a smaller package. # ⚓ WireGuardNT,_a_high-performance_WireGuard implementation_for_the_Windows_kernel [Ed: So basically they don't care about real security]⠀⇛ # ⚓ WireGuard_Sees_Native,_High-Performance_Port_To_The Windows_Kernel_–_Phoronix⠀⇛ The excellent WireGuard open-source secure VPN tunnel has been seeing growing adoption on Linux now that it’s been in the mainline kernel for a while and also seeing continued progress on the BSDs. While there has been beta WireGuard for Windows in user-space, “WireGuardNT” was announced today as a native high-performance port to the Windows kernel. This WireGuard port to the Windows NT kernel started as a port of their current Linux kernel code-base but then adapted to better fit with the Windows kernel and its APIs. WireGuard founder Jason Donenfeld commented, “The end result is a deeply integrated and highly performant implementation of WireGuard for the NT kernel, that makes use of the full gamut of NT kernel and NDIS capabilities…For the Windows platform, this project is a big deal to me, as it marks the graduation of WireGuard to being a serious operating system component, meant for more serious usage. It’s also a rather significant open source release, as there generally isn’t so much (though there is some) open source crypto-NIC driver code already out there that does this kind of thing while pulling together various kernel capabilities in the process.” # § Security⠀➾ # ⚓ Security_updates_for_Monday⠀⇛ Security updates have been issued by Arch Linux (389-ds-base, consul, containerd, geckodriver, powerdns, vivaldi, webkit2gtk, and wpewebkit), Debian (aspell, condor, libsndfile, linuxptp, and lrzip), and Fedora (bluez, buildah, java-1.8.0-openjdk, java-11-openjdk, java-latest-openjdk, kernel, kernel-tools, mbedtls, mingw- exiv2, mingw-python-pillow, mrxvt, python-pillow, python2-pillow, redis, and seamonkey). # ⚓ Wladimir_Palant:_Data_exfiltration_in_Keepa Price_Tracker⠀⇛ As readers of this blog might remember, shopping assistants aren’t exactly known for their respect of your privacy. They will typically use their privileged access to your browser in order to extract data. For them, this ability is a competitive advantage. You pay for a free product with a privacy hazard. Usually, the vendor will claim to anonymize all data, a claim that can rarely be verified. Even if the anonymization actually happens, it’s really hard to do this right. If anonymization can be reversed and the data falls into the wrong hands, this can have severe consequences for a person’s life. Today we will take a closer look at a browser extension called “Keepa – Amazon Price Tracker” which is used by at least two million users across different browsers. The extension is being brought out by a German company and the privacy policy is refreshingly short and concise, suggesting that no unexpected data collection is going on. The reality however is: not only will this extension extract data from your Amazon sessions, it will even use your bandwidth to load various Amazon pages in the background. # ⚓ Cloudflare_Vulnerability_Enabled_Compromise_of 12%_of_All_Websites⠀⇛ Cloudflare recently disclosed a vulnerability that could have resulted in successful cyberattacks on the millions of websites (12.7% of ALL websites to be precise) that rely on JavaScript and CSS libraries found on cdnjs, an open-source content delivery network (CDN) hosted by the CDN service provider. Fortunately, there is no evidence (so far) that cybercriminals have exploited the vulnerability. But the fact that this serious vulnerability was most likely present for quite some time is in itself alarming, to say nothing of the “what-if” scenarios. o § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾ # ⚓ Howie’s_Testimony_to_the_New_York_Senate_Committee_on Elections⠀⇛ Few credible democracies in the world still have the governing parties administering their own elections. But that is what we have in New York state. The credibility of U.S. elections are under assault by Republicans. Their national leaders proclaim without evidence that Joe Biden did not win the presidency. In the states, Republicans are passing laws in state legislatures they control to suppress the vote of minorities and give their legislatures the power to certify elections in place independently elected Secretaries of State and local boards of elections. New York should contribute to resolving this democracy crisis by showing how to depoliticize election administration with an independent, nonpartisan election administration agency. As the Green Party candidate for president in 2020 who was removed from the ballot in three states by Democratic challengers to our petitions, I can tell you that the partisan election administration is thoroughly politicized in many states. At every level, from bipartisan election boards to each states’ highest court, Democratic and Republican commissioners and judges voted strictly along party lines on our ballot access cases with little to no reference to the facts and the law. In Montana, Democratic operatives succeeded in harassing and intimidating signers of our ballot petitions to withdraw their signatures by email messages to the Secretary of State’s office months after our ballot petition had been accepted. Signed petitions are similar legally to affidavits. Email messages have no signature or witness. Montana election law has no provision for using email messages to withdraw signatures. Even though these signature removals happened after the Green Party candidates had already run in primaries, the courts affirmed the signature withdrawals by email in order to rule the Green Party off the ballot for the general election. # ⚓ The_Big_Money_Behind_the_Big_Lie⠀⇛ It was tempting to dismiss the show unfolding inside the Dream City Church in Phoenix, Arizona, as an unintended comedy. One night in June, a few hundred people gathered for the première of “The Deep Rig,” a film financed by the multimillionaire founder of Overstock.com, Patrick Byrne, who is a vocal supporter of former President Donald Trump. Styled as a documentary, the movie asserts that the 2020 Presidential election was stolen by supporters of Joe Biden, including by Antifa members who chatted about their sinister plot on a conference call. The evening’s program featured live appearances by Byrne and a local QAnon conspiracist, BabyQ, who claimed to be receiving messages from his future self. They were joined by the film’s director, who had previously made an exposé contending that the real perpetrators of 9/ 11 were space aliens. o § Monopolies⠀➾ # ⚓ KOL353_|_Zoom_AMA_on_IP,_Argumentation_Ethics,_Norms_vs. Facts⠀⇛ Some twitter users were confused about IP and whether stealing someone’s document from their safe implied damages greater than stealing a blank document, and whether this difference implied IP, etc. # ⚓ Neurim’s_Melatonin_War_With_Mylan_Fast-Tracked_For_Trial [Ed: Who benefits from patents that destroy generics? Only greedy monopolies]⠀⇛ Neurim Pharmaceuticals will be headed to trial against a rival drugmaker in October in a bid to pull generic versions of its insomnia medication off the market after a London judge expedited the proceedings on Monday to focus on preliminary issues. High Court Judge James Mellor scheduled a two-day trial to begin sometime in October to hear Neurim Pharmaceuticals’ claims that two Viatris Inc. subsidiaries are legally barred from challenging the validity of its patent for a melatonin-based insomnia drug. The judge said that the trial will likely save time and money by focusing on whether the parties have already litigated the issues and… # ⚓ The_Non-Tech_Antitrust_Conduct_Cases_Defining_2021⠀⇛ Antitrust cases against technology platforms may have grabbed most of the competition headlines so far this year, but antitrust professionals say they shouldn’t outshine equally important developments in pharmaceuticals, labor and… # ⚓ Epic’s_Tim_Sweeney_warns:_‘Apple_Tax_is_far_more_pernicious than_many_realize’⠀⇛ Tim Sweeney, the billionaire owner of Epic Games who is dueling tech giants Apple and Google over what he considers antitrust issues, took to Twitter over the weekend to talk up his case. The comments came after Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk tweeted his support for Epic’s ongoing legal battles. “The Apple Tax is far more pernicious than many realize,” Sweeney warned in a tweet Friday from his personal account. ‘“It only applies to digital goods accessible on iOS”, they say — but in the future all physical goods will have a digital presence, and Apple will tax and gatekeep world commerce. Apple must be stopped.” # § Patents⠀➾ # ⚓ How_to_Expedite_Prosecution_Before_the_Chinese_Patent Office [Ed: When all you care about is litigation, sometimes embargo too, and nothing else (not even justice)]⠀⇛ Chinese patent protection has become a very important component of a worldwide intellectual property portfolio. Considering China only began granting patent rights in 1984, while the United States has been doing so since 1790, this has been an absolute sea change in business planning for many global companies over the past few decades. In the last year alone, a total of 1.49 million patent applications were filed with the National Intellectual Property Administration, PRC (the Chinese Patent & Trademark Office). By comparison, this is more than were filed with the United States Patent & Trademark Office and European Patent Office combined.[1] In such an inundated system, it stands to reason that the backlog and resulting wait times before the Chinese Patent Office until examination can be substantial. For example, patent applicants can often wait over a year after filing until receiving a first substantive examination from a Chinese Examiner, with an overall pendency in excess of two years between filing to final disposition not being uncommon. # ⚓ Broad_Files_Substantive_Preliminary_Motion_No._1_in CRISPR_Interference [Ed: CRISPR should not be allowed in the domain of patents, but endless lobbying by the greedy wants to turn the patent system into its paper tissue]⠀⇛ On May 28th, Junior Party the Broad Institute, Harvard University, and MIT (collectively, “Broad”) filed its Substantive Preliminary Motion No. 1 in CRISPR Interference No. 106,126 (where ToolGen is the Senior Party). While this Motion shares many similarities to a similar motion filed in Broad’s interference against the University of California, Berkeley, the University of Vienna, and Emmanuelle Charpentier; Junior Party and collectively, “CVC”), there are significant differences in the proposed Count 2 in this interference and the proposed Count 2 proposed in the ’115 Interference (wherein the Board denied Broad’s motion in that interference). # § Software Patents⠀➾ # ⚓ DABUS_Scores_Again_with_Win_on_AI_Inventorship Question_in_Australia_Court⠀⇛ # ⚓ PTAB_Won’t_Take_Up_Unified’s_Challenge_Of_Video Patent [Ed: A tad odd as software patents are easy to squash, even using Alice on its own]⠀⇛ Unified Patents was dealt a loss when the Patent Trial and Appeal Board refused to review a video compression standard-essential patent owned by the Electronics Telecommunications Research Institute and other Korean institutions. In a decision issued Friday, the PTAB said Unified failed to show that at least one of the challenged claims in the patent owned by ETRI, Kwangwoon University and Sejong University were invalid for being anticipated or obvious over prior art. Among other things, the PTAB said an earlier U.S. patent known as Nishi did not disclose either the horizontal or vertical intra prediction modes that would render a… ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 5176 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐃𝐀𝐈𝐋𝐘 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒 ═════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 08.03.21⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ ✐ Links_3/8/2021:_Raspberry_Pi_‘WeatherClock’_and_IPFire_2.27_–_Core_Update 159⠀✐ Posted in News_Roundup at 6:45 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇GNOME bluefish⦈ § Contents⠀➾ * GNU/Linux o Distributions o Devices/Embedded * Free_Software/Open_Source * Leftovers * § GNU/Linux⠀➾ o § Distributions⠀➾ # § New Releases⠀➾ # ⚓ Nitrux_1.5.1_Released_with_Latest_KDE_Plasma_Desktop, Updated_Installer⠀⇛ Nitrux 1.5.1 appears to be a small update to the Nitrux 1.5 series of the distribution, which shipped last month as one of the first to support the Linux 5.13 kernel series. Now, the new release ships with updated kernels, including Linux 5.4.137 LTS as the default kernel, as well as Linux 5.10.55 LTS and Linux 5.13.7, which can be installed from the repositories. Nitrux also supports Liquorix and Xanmod kernels, currently Linux 5.12.0-19.3, 5.13.7, and 5.13.7-cacule, as well as Linux-Libre LTS and non-LTS kernels, currently Linux 5.10.55 and 5.12.19, all of which can be installed from the repositories. # ⚓ IPFire_2.27_–_Core_Update_159_available_for_testing⠀⇛  And another update is available for testing, with a brand new kernel and an updated toolchain. This is a major update for IPFire, as it rebases the IPFire kernel on Linux 5.10, the latest long-term supported release of the Linux kernel. Arne has been working through a long spring getting IPFire ported on this release and it is now finally ready for prime-time. It features… o § Devices/Embedded⠀➾ # § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾ # ⚓ Raspberry_Pi_‘WeatherClock’_shows_you_the_hour’s forecast⠀⇛ # § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ Android_System_Intelligence_is_Device_Personalization Services_–_9to5Google⠀⇛ # ⚓ Google_soon_won’t_let_you_sign_in_on_devices_running Android_2.3.7_or_older_–_The_Verge⠀⇛ # ⚓ Google_Pixel:_Android_Security_Bulletin_Releases Flash_Updates,_Soon_Available_for_Other_Android_Phones |_Tech_Times⠀⇛ # ⚓ Google_Play_failing_to_detect_stalkerware_on_Android devices⠀⇛ # ⚓ Google_will_DELETE_Android_apps_from_thousands_of users’_smartphones_|_Express.co.uk⠀⇛ # ⚓ Google_adds_a_‘mic_notification’_accessibility settings_on_Android⠀⇛ # ⚓ Users_of_old_Android_versions_will_no_longer_be_able to_use_Google_apps_and_services⠀⇛ # ⚓ Old_Android_phones_are_about_to_break_FOREVER_–_are you_affected?⠀⇛ # ⚓ Oppo_Android_12_(ColorOS_12)_update_tracker:_Eligible devices,_release…⠀⇛ # ⚓ LineageOS_18.1_build_brings_Android_11_to_Walmart’s Android_TV_boxes⠀⇛ # ⚓ Samsung_Galaxy_A20_is_getting_Android_11-based_One_UI 3.1_update_in_the_US_–_GSMArena.com_news⠀⇛ # ⚓ This_Android_malware_steals_your_data_in_the_most devious_way_•_BGR⠀⇛ # ⚓ Canceled_Nokia_400_Android_feature_phone_appears_in hands-on_video_–_SlashGear⠀⇛ # ⚓ Snapchat_Dark_mode_for_Android_phones:_Here’s_how_to get_the_feature⠀⇛ # ⚓ Android_Auto_update_brings_back_a_favourite_user feature_–_and_it’s_about_time_|_T3⠀⇛ # ⚓ We_asked,_you_told_us:_This_is_your_favorite_Android skin_–_Android_Authority⠀⇛ # ⚓ This_new_Android_banking_malware_can_screen_record everything_on_your_phone_|_Business_Insider_India⠀⇛ o § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾ # § Web Browsers⠀➾ # ⚓ HTTP_Security_Headers:_Why?_How?_What?⠀⇛ Initially used for simple metadata, HTTP headers now play an important role in the vast field that web security is. Setting up HTTP security headers is the quickest, less expensive, and probably the most effective way to secure a web application today. Here is how. # § Education⠀➾ # ⚓ Auckland_University_of_Technology_choose_Koha_Library System⠀⇛ The move away from an overseas vendor product will save the university $100,000 per year from 2022 onwards. The library retains all functionality from the current system and gains a number of other benefits for both students and library staff. AUT and Catalyst find their values around openness closely aligned. Catalyst is excited to partner with AUT, where the library team have become champions in the use of open source software. “Adopting Koha allows us to continue our progress in open source – this drives increased flexibility and control of our own destiny. Open source software allows our people to take ownership – the move to Koha will mean increased capacity, capability and satisfaction for our staff. We get to work directly with a huge global community of librarians and developers to improve and extend Koha, including dozens of libraries in New Zealand,” says AUT Manager of Open Library Initiatives, Craig Murdoch. # § Programming/Development⠀➾ # § Java⠀➾ # ⚓ Azul_Announces_Commercial_Support_for_the Eclipse_Temurin_OpenJDK_Distribution⠀⇛ * § Leftovers⠀➾ o ⚓ Opinion_|_To_Make_the_World_A_Human_Dwelling_Place_For_All:_I Can’t_Believe_What_You_Say_Because_I_See_What_You_Do⠀⇛ o ⚓ “We_Will_Live_in_a_Completely_Different_World”:_A_Conversation With_Svetlana_Alexievich⠀⇛ Nadezhda Azhgikhina: Svetlana, human rights organizations are concerned by the new wave of repressions in Belarus; the independent press and civil society are being targeted. The Belarus Association of Journalists is in danger of being shut down, and so is the Belarus PEN Center o ⚓ Welcome_to_Western_China!⠀⇛ Forbidding millions of people from boarding a train, ordering a meal outdoors, or watching a film in a cinema without proving they are not infected by showing, as many as ten times a day, a document that business-owners will have to check, shifts us into another world. That world already exists and it’s called China. Police officers there have augmented-reality glasses linked to thermal cameras on their helmets so they can pick out a person with a temperature in a crowd. Is this what we want? o ⚓ St._Petersburg_artist_auctions_off_‘foreign_agent’_tattoo_in support_of_Meduza⠀⇛ Arina, an illustrator and tattoo artist from St. Petersburg — also known by her Instagram handle awaystland — has announced plans to auction off a “foreign agent” tattoo in support of Meduza and the advocacy group Nasiliu.net (No to Violence).  o § Health/Nutrition⠀➾ # ⚓ Fed_Up_With_Democrats,_Thousands_March_to_Demand_Medicare for_All⠀⇛ To be fair, President Joe Biden has done what he promised to do during his campaign, which is to preserve and strengthen the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and effectively expand private health insurance coverage via subsidies. The ACA is not designed to cover all people with the best and most affordable health care. Biden’s major legislative achievement thus far, the American Rescue Plan, included more government subsidies for private health insurance plans to cover unemployed Americans while leaving millions more out of the equation. Neither the ACA nor the American Rescue Plan’s health care provisions ensure that all Americans have good-quality free health care. The only assurance is that private insurance company profits remain healthy. Earlier this summer, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) launched a campaign to encourage Americans to sign up for private insurance through HealthCare.gov (perhaps a more appropriate address for the website would be HealthInsurance.gov). The Biden administration celebrated the fact that 2 million more Americans were able to purchase low- cost or no-cost private health insurance plans or sign up under expanded Medicaid programs. The insurance industry front group Partnership for America’s Health Care Future echoed that number as an achievement to celebrate. But neither made mention of the tens of millions who remain uninsured and underinsured. There is even less acknowledgment of the fact that tax dollars are subsidizing corporate profits for what is often mediocre health care coverage. # ⚓ Opinion_|_How_Media_Consolidation_Endangers_Our_Health_Amid Pandemic⠀⇛ On Sunday, New York Times journalists Sheera Frenkel and Tiffany Hsu wrote on a topic that’s gone underreported: the role that local radio and television stations play in spreading lies about COVID vaccines. # ⚓ Lock_Down_(Again?)⠀⇛ # ⚓ Vaccinated_People_May_Spread_the_Virus,_Though_Rarely, C.D.C._Reports⠀⇛ In the new report, which was intended to explain the agency’s sudden revision to its masking advice for vaccinated Americans, the C.D.C. described an outbreak in Provincetown, Mass., this month that quickly mushroomed to 470 cases in Massachusetts alone, as of Thursday. Three-quarters of the infected were fully immunized, and the Delta variant was found in most of the samples that were genetically analyzed. Vaccinated and unvaccinated people who were infected carried high levels of the virus, the agency reported. # ⚓ Pfizer,_Moderna_raising_vaccine_prices_in_Europe:_report⠀⇛ Reuters reported that Pfizer has raised the price of its vaccine from 15.50 euros to 19.50 euros, or around $23.15. Moderna has raised its prices to the equivalent of about $25.50 per dose. # ⚓ Pfizer_and_Moderna_raise_prices_for_COVID-19_vaccines_in EU-_FT⠀⇛ The new price for the Pfizer shot was 19.50 euros ($23.15)against 15.50 euros previously, the newspaper said, citing portions of the contracts seen. The price of a Moderna vaccine was $25.50 a dose, the contracts show, up from about 19 euros in the first procurement deal but lower than the previously agreed $28.50 because the order had grown, the report said, citing one official close to the matter. o § Integrity/Availability⠀➾ # § Proprietary⠀➾ # § Security⠀➾ # ⚓ Pegasus_and_the_Threat_of_Cyberweapons_in_the Age_of_Smartphones⠀⇛ The possible targets not only include journalists and activists, but also government officials. This includes 14 heads of states and governments: three presidents (France’s Emmanuel Macron, Iraq’s Barham Salih and South Africa’s Cyril Ramaphosa), three sitting and seven former prime ministers, and a king (Morocco’s Mohammed VI). The three sitting prime ministers are Pakistan’s Imran Khan, Egypt’s Mostafa Madbouly and Morocco’s Saad-Eddine El Othmani. Among the seven former prime ministers are Lebanon’s Saad Hariri, France’s Édouard Philippe, Algeria’s Noureddine Bedoui and Belgium’s Charles Michel, according to the Washington Post. Once the malware is installed on a target’s phone, the spyware not only provides full access to the device’s data but also controls the phone’s microphone and camera. Instead of a device for use by the owner, the phone becomes a device that can be used to spy on them, recording not only telephonic conversations but also in- person conversations, including images of the participants. The collected information and data are then transmitted back to those deploying Pegasus. # § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾ # ⚓ The_Cryptocurrency_Surveillance_Provision Buried_in_the_Infrastructure_Bill_is_a Disaster_for_Digital_Privacy⠀⇛ While the language is still evolving, the proposal would seek to expand the definition of “broker” under section 6045(c)(1) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to include anyone who is “responsible for and regularly providing any service effectuating transfers of digital assets” on behalf of another person. These newly defined brokers would be required to comply with IRS reporting requirements for brokers, including filing form 1099s with the IRS. That means they would have to collect user data, including users’ names and addresses. The broad, confusing language leaves open a door for almost any entity within the cryptocurrency ecosystem to be considered a “broker”—including software developers and cryptocurrency startups that aren’t custodying or controlling assets on behalf of their users. It could even potentially implicate miners, those who confirm and verify blockchain transactions. The mandate to collect names, addresses, and transactions of customers means almost every company even tangentially related to cryptocurrency may suddenly be forced to surveil their users.  How this would work in practice is still very much an open question. Indeed, perhaps this extremely broad interpretation was not even the intent of the drafters of this language. But given the rapid timeline for the bill’s likely passage, those answers may not be resolved before it hits the Senate floor for a vote. # ⚓ Zoom_settles_$85_million_class-action lawsuit_—_see_how_much_you_could_get⠀⇛ # ⚓ Zoom_Agrees_To_Settle_A_Privacy_Lawsuit For_$85_Million⠀⇛ The settlement still requires approval by U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh in San Jose, Calif., but if she signs off, subscribers would receive 15% refunds on their core subscriptions, or $25, whichever amount is larger. Zoom users who did not pay for an account can submit a claim for $15. Zoom will also up its security, committing to alerting users about third-party app data sharing, and taking more measures to safeguard user data. # ⚓ New_German_ID_Cards:_More_control,_less freedom?⠀⇛ There’s a pressing reason why data protection activists like Leena Simon are raising the alarm: From August 2, authorities in Germany are planning to massively extend requirements for fingerprints to be registered. From that day on, all German citizens applying for a new government-issued ID will be obliged to permit their fingerprints to be stored electronically on the card. So far, this was a voluntary procedure for ID cards and obligatory only for separate passport documents. More than 62 million Germans have an ID card. They have the same dimensions as a credit card and are valid for 10 years. Most people use them for everyday movements within the country, although they can also be used for traveling around the EU. # ⚓ New_Polish_ID_cards_blocked_after fingerprint_scanners_raise_security concerns⠀⇛ The introduction of new national identity cards in Poland has been delayed indefinitely amid concerns expressed by the Internal Security Agency (ABW) about the threat to state security and personal privacy posed by fingerprint scanners. The government has confirmed that it is preparing urgent legislation to postpone the issuance of the cards, which were due to come in on 2 August and bring Poland into line with new EU security rules. # ⚓ [Old] REGULATION_(EU)_2019/1157_OF_THE EUROPEAN_PARLIAMENT_AND_OF_THE_COUNCIL_of 20_June_2019_on_strengthening_the_security of_identity_cards_of_Union_citizens_and_of residence_documents_issued_to_Union citizens_and_their_family_members exercising_their_right_of_free_movement_ (Text_with_EEA_relevance)⠀⇛ 5. Identity cards shall include a highly secure storage medium which shall contain a facial image of the holder of the card and two fingerprints in interoperable digital formats. For the capture of biometric identifiers, Member States shall apply the technical specifications as established by Commission Implementing Decision C(2018) 7767 (13). # ⚓ DOJ_Official_Supports_Mandatory_Breach Reporting [iophk: Windows TCO]⠀⇛ There is currently no federal law requiring such disclosures, but bipartisan Senate legislation co- sponsored by Senator Angus King, I-Maine, would change that. Titled Cyber Incident Notification Act of 2021, the bill was introduced last month. This legislation would require all contractors, federal agencies, companies, and organizations critical to U.S national security to report all breaches of data to the Department of Homeland Securities’ Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) within 24 hours. The bill and discussions about it come in light of high-profile cyberattacks that have targeted software company SolarWinds and oil transport company Colonial Pipeline in the last several months. And the discussion isn’t expected to slowdown as more critical infrastructure is hooked up to the [I]nternet. o § Defence/Aggression⠀➾ # ⚓ Decolonizing_Pan-Americanism⠀⇛ The concept of Pan-Americanism has been a contested space since the early nineteenth century between the Bolivarian project of uniting the newly independent states of Latin America against foreign interference, on the one hand, and Monroeism, which has sought to establish the Americas as a protectorate of the U.S., on the other.[1] The idea that the U.S. has the historic mission of leading a process of Pan-American unity against any European incursion contains the contradiction of introducing a new process of colonization, with all its multiple hierarchies of domination (race, class, gender, culture), but this time by Washington, in the name of regional autonomy and mutual assistance. Today we are witnessing a growing aversion to the Monroeist vision of Pan-Americanism as manifest in the deteriorating legitimacy of the Organization of American States (OAS) as an impartial association of the hemisphere’s countries. This deterioration is precisely due to Washington’s relentless opposition to Latin American independence and integration and its failure to adopt a policy based on recognition of the sovereign equality of nations. Biden follows Trump’s path # ⚓ Opinion_|_Resisting_Nuclear_Weapons_in_a_Climate_Crisis⠀⇛ On July 21, I was walking in the forests surrounding the German Air Force Base at Büchel in the Eifel Mountains with three Catholic Worker friends, Susan van der Hijden of Amsterdam, Netherlands, Susan Crane of Redwood City, California, and Christiane Danowski of Dortmund, Germany. We were there at the end of an “International Week” of protests against the approximately 20 US nuclear gravity bombs known as B61s kept at the base in a “nuclear sharing” agreement with the United States. # ⚓ Just_Let_the_Militias_Have_Iraq⠀⇛ So peace may be a strong word for a weak gesture, but it’s still more than I had hoped for from a century long chickenhawk like Joe. And despite the incessant sob stories coming out of the mainstream media, who will have you and anyone unfortunate enough to listen believe that imperial conquest is the key to feminism in savage brown countries, there appears to finally be something of a bipartisan consensus that Afghanistan has been a gigantic waste of time and resources. Which frankly begs the question, what the fuck are we still doing in Iraq? Out of the two flagship wars on terror, Iraq was always the more obvious mistake. At least Afghanistan had actually hosted the fuckers responsible for 9/11, even if they were more than willing to hand them over before we started shooting. The Iraq War had been precipitated on such obvious lies that I was able to expose them on my PC at 15 in between lesbian porno binges. There were no weapons of mass destruction. Saddam fucking hated al-Qaeda more than we did. And yet we’re still there. Biden can call them advisors all he wants but some 2,500 troops are still in Babylon, ready to die for some hopped up neocon conspiracy to control the world’s oil supply. # ⚓ The Washington_Post Won’t_Let_Go_of_Afghanistan⠀⇛ Meanwhile, civilian casualties in Afghanistan reached record highs in May and June, with women and children making up nearly half of the losses.  The Afghan air force killed and wounded more than twice as many civilians in that period as in the first half of 2020.  During one five-month period in Afghanistan, nearly 90 percent of the people killed by U.S. drones were not the intended target.  The source of the latter information, whistleblower David Hale, was just given a 45-month prison sentence for leaking documents with this information.  President Biden’s Department of Justice was seeking a nine-year sentence. The critics of the withdrawal make very little sense; they are led by David Ignatius, the national security columnist of the Washington Post, who typically shills for the military and intelligence communities.  Last week’s column (“Biden’s options on Afghanistan are shrinking”) is a stunner in view of the fact that the United States has been trying to negotiate an end to this miserable war with one foot long out the door.  Ignatius believes the Biden administration should have left our thousands of contractors in the country to “help the Afghan army continue its operations.”  But who would protect the U.S. contractors?  With the Afghan army, including members of the elite commando corps, beating a hasty retreat from the Taliban, there is no reason to believe the so-called Afghan government could do so. # ⚓ January_6_Commission_Is_Necessary_But_Isn’t_Likely_to_Break Trump’s_Grip_on_GOP⠀⇛ # ⚓ Dems_Blast_McCarthy_Over_Joke_About_Violence_Toward_Pelosi With_Speaker’s_Gavel⠀⇛ # ⚓ Can_Saudis/US_Use_Water_Crisis_to_Bring_Yemenis_to_Their Knees?⠀⇛ When the well ran dry, Abu Yahya al-Hamdani, who provides water to many residents of the Saruf neighborhood in northeastern Sana`a, had no warning. Last week, the water table dipped lower in his water well and the pump began to suck air. For the families in the neighborhood, to whom the danger of water shortage suddenly became visible, the specter of dying of thirst is closer than ever. # ⚓ Whistleblower_Daniel_Hale_Sentenced_To_45_Months_In_Prison For_Exposing_The_Horrors_Of_US_Drone_Strike_Programs⠀⇛ So begins the very dry press release from the Department of Justice. What this is, though, is another successful prosecution of a whistleblower. The “Tennessee man” is Daniel Hale, the whistleblower who exposed the breadth and reach of the United States’ extrajudicial killing programs. # ⚓ US_suffocates_Cuba_for_unwavering,_victorious_anti- imperialism_at_great_cost⠀⇛ # ⚓ As_Taliban_Advances,_Europe_Fears_an_Afghan_Migration Crisis⠀⇛ Around 2,000 Afghans a day are entering Turkey, and migration experts expect the numbers to surge as the Taliban seizes control of more of Afghanistan. The Taliban is currently besieging three major cities in south and west Afghanistan to add to the rapid rural gains it has made in recent weeks in the wake of the decision by the Biden administration to withdraw US troops from the country. Almost all NATO troops will be gone by September. Few observers believe the Afghan government will be able to hold out and last week a Pentagon watchdog warned that the country’s government will likely face an “existential crisis.” # ⚓ Big-Money_Republican_Donors_Are_Now_Backing_the_GOP’s_War on_Fair_Elections⠀⇛ Mayer captures one of the oddities that make it hard for so many journalists to capture the big picture here: So many of the small details are inane. She covers the Arizona “forensic audit” (or “fraudit”) in Maricopa County, and the cast of bizarros behind it, from the grifting Cyber Ninjas to the Overstock.com guy to babbling QAnonics. It’s easy to chuckle at the lunacy on display. But Republicans in other states, and within powerful big-money groups, are taking notes, and hoping to spread the election-undermining tactic to other states where Biden’s win was fairly narrow—Wisconsin, Michigan, Georgia, and Pennsylvania among them. The point is not that they can steal the 2020 election—they can’t—but they’re laying the groundwork for 2022 and 2024. That’s what has Hasen “scared shitless”: the spread of “election subversion,” new laws passed across the country that will elevate election officials “who will mess with the count,” he told Mayer. # ⚓ Third_Officer_Who_Responded_to_US_Capitol_Attack_Dies_by Suicide⠀⇛ This is the third known suicide of a police officer who responded to the attack on the Capitol. # ⚓ He_Killed_Himself_After_the_Jan._6_[Insurrection]._Did_He Die_in_the_Line_of_Duty?⠀⇛ On Friday, his widow, Erin Smith, will petition the Police and Firefighters’ Retirement and Relief Board to designate her husband’s suicide as a death in the line of duty, a designation that comes with vastly greater financial benefits and, she says, more dignity. But the odds are decidedly against her. # ⚓ Four_officers_who_responded_to_U.S._Capitol_attack_have died_by_suicide⠀⇛ The District of Columbia’s police department on Monday said two more police officers who responded to the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol have died by suicide, bringing to four the number of known suicides by officers who guarded the building that day. o § Transparency/Investigative Reporting⠀➾ # ⚓ How_a_ProPublica_Reporter_Learned_Scammers’_Secret_Sauce⠀⇛ When the federal government enacted the CARES Act in March 2020, it boosted jobless aid and expanded the benefits to include people who weren’t typically covered, like gig workers. The legislation was designed to cushion workers against the massive blow of a partial economic shutdown during the pandemic. But if you haven’t already buried your memories of last year, you probably remember how difficult it was to get those unemployment benefits. o § Environment⠀➾ # ⚓ “The_Ants_and_the_Grasshopper”:_Raj_Patel’s_New_Film_Aims to_“Decolonize”_Climate_&_Health_Solutions⠀⇛ We look at a groundbreaking new documentary on the climate crisis and the global food system, “The Ants and the Grasshopper,” which follows the journey of a Malawian farmer as she tries to end hunger and gender inequality in her village, and tackle climate change in the United States. “In this film, what we’re trying to do is decolonize the view of how it is that we fix the climate crisis and the health crisis by foregrounding the wisdom of peasants from around the world, whether they’re in the United States or from Malawi,” says co-director Raj Patel. # ⚓ 4_Major_Environmental_Treaties_the_U.S._Never_Ratified_— But_Should⠀⇛ # ⚓ Report_Outlines_‘Crucial’_Need_for_Biden_Administration_to Aid_Climate_Refugees⠀⇛ A leading refugee advocacy organization on Monday published a report outlining ways in which the Biden administration can help people displaced by the ever-worsening climate emergency find safety. “The U.S. government has many tools that it can use now to make a meaningful impact on the lives of climate-displaced people.”—IRAP report # ⚓ Protestors_Gather_to_Highlight_Social_Justice_and Environmental_‘Crime_Scene’_at_Mossmorran_Petrochemical Complex⠀⇛ Yesterday, Fife locals were joined by hundreds of environmental campaigners from across Scotland at the gates of the Mossmorran petrochemical complex – Scotland’s third largest emitter.  The protest was part of Scotland’s first “Climate Camp” in over a decade, a weekend of dedicated climate activism in the area. It follows five years of campaigning at a local level to shut down the twin ethylene and liquid natural gas (LNG) plants at Mossmorran. Stay up to date with DeSmog news and alerts # ⚓ ‘Civil_Disobedience_Is_Our_Duty’:_Swiss_Climate_Campaigners Occupy_Zürich_Financial_Center⠀⇛ Climate justice campaigners occupied the center of Zürich’s financial district Monday to demand that the two biggest banks in Switzerland divest from oil, gas, and coal. Dozens of “singing and chanting activists” blocked entrances to the headquarters of Credit Suisse and a UBS office building on Paradeplatz square, Reuters reported. Police officers arrested about 30 people who refused to disperse during the peaceful demonstration. # ⚓ Opinion_|_How_Corporate_Courts_Impede_Efforts_to_Battle_the Climate_Crisis⠀⇛ Any day now, Italy expects to be ordered to hand millions of dollars over to an oil exploration corporation, following the Italian government’s decision to ban such exploration off its coast. # ⚓ Near-Record_Temps_and_Deadly_Fires_Engulf_Southern_Europe⠀⇛ Southern Europe continues to bake and burn under intense heat Monday as scores of fires have forced evacuations and caused mass destruction across Italy, Greece, and Turkey. “We are facing the worst heat wave since 1987,” Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said Monday, referring to week-long soaring temperatures that year which claimed over 1,000 lives. # § Energy⠀➾ # ⚓ What_if_bitcoin_went_to_zero?⠀⇛ A rout could be triggered either by shocks from within the system, say through a technical failure, or a big hack of a leading exchange. Or they could come from outside it: a clampdown by regulators, for instance, or an abrupt end to the “everything rally” in markets, say in response to central banks raising interest rates. # ⚓ Illegal_crypto-mining_operation_discovered_in_Polish police_HQ⠀⇛ The civilian employee reportedly used the station’s computers, which he upgraded with specialised software, to mine cryptocurrency. He also stole the station’s electricity for the power-intensive process. The National Police Command’s (KGP) spokesman, Mariusz Ciarka, told Notes from Poland that the employee in question did not access police databases. No breaches of the internal Police Data Transmission Network had been detected. # § Wildlife/Nature⠀➾ # ⚓ The_Collapse_of_Wild_Red_Wolves_Is_a_Warning_That Should_Worry_Us_All⠀⇛ The killing of red wolf 11768f was the beginning of the bad times for this country’s most critically endangered canid. It was mid- 2015, and 11768F was a six-year-old matriarch with a mate and a large family. She’d already given birth several times before, and the evidence suggests she may have been caring for more newborns in the wet coastal forests that flourish near North Carolina’s Outer Banks. She and her family were supposed to be safe, thanks to the strong protections of the Endangered Species Act, which makes it a crime to harm or harass listed animals like red wolves. But then, in a foreshadowing of events to follow, the federal government issued her death warrant: It gave a private landowner permission to gun her down. By late June, she was dead. She was the first-ever federally listed red wolf shot and killed by a private individual with explicit government consent.1This article was written with the support of the Alicia Patterson Foundation. o § Finance⠀➾ # ⚓ Collapsing_Federal_Corporate_Crime_Enforcement⠀⇛ Despite constant exposés in the mainstream media – still only reporting the tip of the iceberg – neither members of Congress nor presidents from the Republican and Democratic parties have raised the banner of tough “law and order” to counter rampaging corporate crime. Proposals to bring the laws up to date in their penalties and coverage to deter corporate lawbreaking are never a priority for Congress. When was the last time you heard a politician demand “corporate reform”? Many people still remember how Wall Street, in its greed and power, collapsed the economy in 2008- 2009, cost nine million jobs, shredded pension and mutual funds, and insisted on a multi-trillion- dollar bailout. In 2018 Public Citizen found during President Donald Trump’s first year in office, enforcement against corporate crime and wrongdoing plummeted from the final year of the Obama administration (See Corporate Impunity “Tough on Crime” Trump Is Weak on Corporate Crime and Wrongdoing). # ⚓ Hundreds_Arrested_in_DC_Demanding_Voting_Rights,_End_to Poverty,_and_Death_of_Filibuster⠀⇛ Leaders of the national Poor People’s Campaign and Rev. Jesse Jackson were among hundreds of people arrested in Washington, D.C. during a direct action Monday led by clergy and low-wage workers from across the country. The “Moral Monday” event—which follows last week’s 27-mile, four-day march in Texas, one of several states where GOP lawmakers have attacked voting rights this year—elevated demands for congressional action to protect ballot access and improve the lives of working people. # ⚓ Homes_—_Not_“Sanctioned_Encampments”_—_Are_the_Solution_to Homelessness⠀⇛ # ⚓ AOC_Slams_Democrats_Who_Would_Rather_Skip_Town_Than_Vote_to Extend_Eviction_Ban⠀⇛ # ⚓ Graduate_Workers_at_UT_Austin_Are_Undervalued,_Underpaid, and_Demanding_Answers⠀⇛ Over the past year, American universities have been eager to tout their role in responding to the Covid-19 pandemic. Among them, the University of Texas at Austin has taken particular pride in its role in developing and delivering vaccines and in graduating its first class of Dell Medical School students. However, these avowed commitments to health ring hollow considering that UT Austin, like many universities and medical centers across the country, fails to prioritize the health of its own students and employees. The university’s careless response to Covid emphasized “good choices” over strong, central leadership and transparent reporting. While UT does not report deaths on its Covid dashboard, graduate workers know of at least three staff members who died of the virus over the past year. # ⚓ Capitalism_Primes_Our_Bodies_for_Illness⠀⇛ # ⚓ Biden,_Pelosi,_and_Schumer_Told_‘Stop_Playing_the_Blame Game’_and_Extend_Eviction_Moratorium⠀⇛ As congressional leaders and the White House continued to point fingers on Monday while coronavirus cases kept rising largely due to the highly contagious Delta variant, the youth-led Sunrise Movement and other progressives demanded that Democratic leadership act to extend the recently expired federal moratorium on evictions by any means necessary. “Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer: Stop playing the blame game and show us who you stand for.”—Lauren Maunus, Sunrise Movement # ⚓ GDP_Rises_6.5_Percent_in_Second_Quarter,_Passing_Pre- Pandemic_Level_of_Output⠀⇛ Productivity Growth Still Strong While the growth for the quarter was somewhat lower than had generally been expected, it would still likely imply strong productivity growth for the quarter. With the increase in hours worked likely to come in near 4.0 percent, the GDP figure would imply productivity growth near 2.5 percent. This is lower than the 4.1 percent rate from the first quarter of 2020 to the first quarter of 2021 but far above the 1.0 percent annual rate in the decade preceding the pandemic. If this sort of uptick in productivity growth could be sustained, it makes it unlikely that inflation would be a problem in the years ahead. # ⚓ America’s_Billionaires:_Borrowing_Their_Way_to_Ever_More Fabulous_Fortunes⠀⇛ The Rockefeller family had hired Rivera to paint the artistic centerpiece of the newly constructed Rockefeller Center in New York. Rivera’s resulting mural contrasted the “debauched rich” with workers on the rise. Right-wingers went apoplectic. Young Nelson, getting hammered, asked Rivera to remove an image of Lenin from the mural. Rivera refused, offering instead to add a portrait of Lincoln. The Rockefellers would eventually have Rivera’s mural plastered over, but not before E. B. White, the beloved author of Charlotte’s Web, penned “a classic of light verse” on the face-off for the New Yorker. His poem’s most famous couplet had grandson Nelson excusing his censorship: # ⚓ “Inflamed”:_Dr._Rupa_Marya_&_Raj_Patel_on_Deep_Medicine_& How_Capitalism_Primes_Us_for_Sickness⠀⇛ As much of the world struggles to cope with the pandemic and its impacts, we speak with Dr. Rupa Marya and Raj Patel, co-authors of the new book, “Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice,” which examines the social and environmental roots of poor health. “Inflammation is the body’s appropriate response to damage, or the threat of damage,” says Marya, a physician and co-founder of the Do No Harm Coalition. “We’re learning that the social structures around us, the environmental, political structures around us, are tuning the immune system to sound out the full range of inflammation.” Patel adds that “capitalism primes bodies … for sickness.” # ⚓ “Give_Us_the_Moratorium”:_Rep._Cori_Bush_Sleeps_on_Capitol Steps_Demanding_Eviction_Protection⠀⇛ We speak with Missouri Congressmember Cori Bush, who is formerly unhoused, about why she has been sleeping on the steps of the U.S. Capitol with others since Friday night to protest her colleagues’ decision to adjourn for August recess without passing an extension to the federal eviction moratorium, which expired July 31, as millions are behind on rent. Bush tells Democracy Now! she could not “walk away from this situation and go on vacation” knowing that millions of people could end up on the streets. “This isn’t easy. This is not performative in any way. I would rather be at home, but I understand the urgency and the need of this crisis right now,” Bush says. # ⚓ Lebanon’s_“National_Financial_Suicide”⠀⇛ # ⚓ Deutsche_Bank_Pivots_to_Virtual_Tech_Conference_as_Delta Spreads⠀⇛ Deutsche Bank AG will shift its September technology conference to a completely virtual format as governments and businesses come to grips with the spread of the highly transmissible delta variant. o § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾ # ⚓ ‘You_can’t_trust_them’_Russia’s_Foreign_Intelligence Service_Director_accuses_investigative_journalists_of_working with_Western_spy_agencies⠀⇛ In an exclusive interview with talk show host Vladimir Solovyov, the Director of Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (the SVR) Sergey Naryshkin claimed that a number of independent Russian news outlets are part of a “network” allegedly linked to Western intelligence services via the investigative outlet Bellingcat. Naryshkin also reiterated claims that the August 2020 poisoning of opposition politician Alexey Navalny was orchestrated by the West, and said that the SVR is anticipating “new provocations” in the lead up to Russia’s fall elections. Meduza summarizes Sergey Naryshkin’s “Solovyov Live” interview here. # ⚓ 100_State_Lawmakers_From_20_States_Join_TX_Dems_in_DC_to Defend_Voting_Rights⠀⇛ # ⚓ ‘He_Should_Resign’:_Women’s_Rights_Group_Denounces_Violent Misogyny_of_Kevin_McCarthy⠀⇛ The women’s rights group UltraViolet on Monday added its voice to the chorus of condemnation of House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy after the California Republican joked how difficult it would be to not beat House Speaker Nancy Pelosi with the chamber’s gavel should he win her job following the 2022 midterm elections. McCarthy’s comments came during a Tennessee Republican Party fundraiser on Saturday, at which he was presented with an oversized gavel. # ⚓ 100+_State_Lawmakers_Join_Texas_Dems_in_DC_to_Demand Passage_of_For_the_People_Act⠀⇛ More than 100 state lawmakers from across the United States converged on Washington, D.C. Monday to join Texas Democrats—who fled Austin to block voter suppression legislation—in demanding that the U.S. Senate pass the For the People Act. The sweeping pro-democracy bill was approved by the Democrat-controlled House in March, but it has stalled in the evenly divided Senate. In June, Republican senators blocked debate on the For the People Act, fueling calls for Democrats to abolish the legislative filibuster. # ⚓ Percentage_of_Russians_who_vote_in_elections_hits_17-year low,_VTsIOM_reports⠀⇛ The share of Russian citizens who vote in elections has reached a 17-year low, writes RBC, citing a survey conducted by the state-owned Public Opinion Research Center (VTsIOM). # ⚓ The_Little_Talked_About_Covid-19_‘Variants’:_Vaccine Mismanagement_Will_Have_Dire_Repercussions⠀⇛ These ambitious goals, which included the eradication of “extreme poverty and hunger”, to “combating lethal diseases” and “reducing child mortality worldwide”, proved to be yet another empty gesture which, unsurprisingly, amounted to little. Even if the architects of the project were well- intentioned as they labored to meet the 2015 deadline, the lack of true international solidarity made their commendable program simply impossible. # ⚓ Time_Running_Out_for_Democrats_to_Block_GOP_Gerrymandering Bonanza⠀⇛ With the U.S. Census Bureau set to release data on August 16 that state governments will use to redraw their 10-year congressional and state legislative maps, progressives are warning Democrats in Congress that if they fail to pass redistricting reform within the next two weeks, Republicans are likely to gerrymander their way to decade-long GOP majorities in the House and in dozens of state houses. “You cannot out-organize a well-crafted gerrymander. Once manipulated maps are drawn, they will be almost impossible to overcome.”—Michael Li, Brennan Center for Justice # ⚓ Opposition_politician_Violetta_Grudina_detained_following release_from_forced_hospitalization⠀⇛ Murmansk police detained opposition politician Violetta Grudina on the morning of August 2 — immediately after she was released from the medical facility where she was involuntarily hospitalized in mid-July. # ⚓ Opinion_|_Trump_‘Shadow_Cabinet’_Drains_Its_Followers_of Cash—and_the_Coup_Rolls_On⠀⇛ Even though the number of dying Trump followers increases daily, his coup rolls on. # ⚓ Trump’s_“Shadow_Cabinet”_Ensures_His_Coup_Is_Ongoing⠀⇛ # ⚓ Both-Sidesing_Democracy_to_Death⠀⇛ After January 6, we noted (FAIR.org, 1/18/21) that many in corporate media finally found the courage to cast aside their commitment to false equivalence. Presumably shocked by what they had witnessed, reporters began using words like “sedition” and “incitement” without having to put them in the mouth of a source who could then be balanced by an opposing view. News outlets directly stated that Donald Trump “set in motion” (New York Times, 1/6/21) or was responsible for “inciting” (CNN.com, 1/12/21) the deadly attack on democracy. # ⚓ Pro-Trump_social_network_inundated_with_terrorist propaganda:_report⠀⇛ Gettr, which was started last month by former President Trump’s campaign aide and spokesman Jason Miller, has seen a jump in posts from supporters of ISIS, including graphic content, videos of beheadings and memes of a militant executing the former president, who is shown wearing an orange jumpsuit, according to Politico. Moustafa Ayad, an executive director at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue who first informed POLITICO of the jihadi propaganda on Gettr, said that the Islamic State has been “very quick” to exploit the app. o § Misinformation/Disinformation⠀➾ # ⚓ Social_Media_Platforms_Are_a_‘Safe_Space’_for_Anti-Jewish Hate:_Report⠀⇛ Despite promises to crack down on hate speech, social media companies took no action against over 80% of the anti-Jewish posts—which included incitements to violence against Jews and Holocaust denial—reported on their platforms during a recent six-week period, a report published this weekend reveals. “This is not about algorithms or automation… Social media companies allow bigots to keep their accounts open and their hate to remain online, even when human moderators are notified.”—Imran Ahmed, CCDH # ⚓ Antivax_quack_tycoon_Joe_Mercola_profits_selling_COVID-19 disinformation⠀⇛ I’ve written about Joseph Mercola, DO on a number of occasions over the years, dating back to before I ever joined this blog, first as a contributor and then as an editor. Out of curiosity, as I was writing this post I tried to identify the first time I ever wrote about Mercola. It turns out that it was quite long ago in 2005, at a point when my very first blog was just over six months old. At the time, Mercola was—surprise! surprise!—comparing school vaccine mandates to the Holocaust. Interestingly, the link to the original article that I discussed then now forwards to an article from 2009 that includes no mention of the Holocaust, and when I tried to find the original article at Archive.org, it turns out that the original link has been excluded from the almighty Wayback Machine. (It’s almost as though he was embarrassed by his use of the analogy, although it was useful to be reminded that the misuse and abuse of Holocaust was commonplace among antivaxxers even 19 years ago, years before my post.) o § Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾ # ⚓ Kallee_Lasn_and_Chase_Palmieri_–_The_Project_Censored Show⠀⇛ o § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾ # ⚓ Anti-domestic_violence_group_‘Nasiliu.net’_to_launch_crisis shelter_program_in_Moscow⠀⇛ Beginning in August, Nasiliu.net will provide emergency accommodations in Moscow hotels and hostels for victims of domestic violence, the advocacy group stated in a message to Meduza. # ⚓ Amid_Allegations_of_Child_Endangerment,_HHS_Inspector General_to_Probe_Fort_Bliss_Detention_Facility⠀⇛ The inspector general for the Department of Health and Human Services said Monday that it is launching a review into a Biden administration-run detention center that holds thousands of unaccompanied migrant children in Fort Bliss, Texas following whistleblower allegations of unsafe conditions. The facility is one of the larger Emergency Intake Sites (EIS) set up to keep children out of Border Patrol custody, but human rights advocates say kids have languished there for too long and in conditions detrimental to their physical and mental well-being. # ⚓ Sha’Carri_Richardson’s_Story_Shows_Us_Drug_Testing_Is_a Harmful_Drug_War_Tactic⠀⇛ # ⚓ The_Story_of_“El_Chapo”_and_Why_the_Drug_War_Will_Never End⠀⇛ On January 31, 2019, US Customs and Border Protection announced its “biggest fentanyl bust ever,” 254 pounds of the synthetic opioid, discovered hidden under the floor of a tractor- trailer chock-full of Mexican contraband bound for Arizona and beyond. “Our great U.S. Border Patrol Agents made the biggest Fentanyl bust in our Country’s history,” then-President Donald Trump tweeted, back when he could still do that. “Thanks, as always, for a job well done!” # ⚓ Lawsuit_Initiated_Against_Trump_for_‘Illegal’_Deportations Resumes_Against_Biden⠀⇛ “The administration is choosing to treat refugees like political pawns, and so we are eager to return to court so we can end Title 42 for families once and for all.”—Noah Gottschalk, Oxfam America # ⚓ ShotSpotter_(Again)_Spotted_Altering_Shots_(And_Spots)_To Better_Serve_Police_Narratives⠀⇛ Dozens of cities around the nation are relying on early warning tech to help their law enforcement get out ahead of crime. (Well, get out slightly behind crime, to be accurate…) Microphones and sensors placed in strategic locations around cities pick up loud noises and pass this information on to police departments so they can scramble cops to the spotted shot. # ⚓ ‘That’s_how_suicide_cases_end_up’_Belarusian_sports officials_caught_on_tape_trying_to_pressure_sprinter Krystsina_Tsimanouskaya_into_quitting_Tokyo_Olympics_after she_criticized_them_publicly._Full_transcript.⠀⇛ A year after protests swept Belarus and nearly forced long-time ruler Alexander Lukashenko from office, the nation’s politics has followed Belarusian athletes to Tokyo. On August 1, Krystsina Tsimanouskaya appealed directly to the Japanese police at Haneda Airport and asked for help from the International Olympic Committee, saying that she was being forced suddenly onto a flight bound for Minsk. The 24-year-old sprinter says the pressure started after she criticized Belarusian sports officials for deciding without her knowledge that she would run a relay race for which she hadn’t trained, in order to fill in for a disqualified team member. In a message shared on social media, Tsimanouskaya said she now fears criminal prosecution if she returns to Belarus. International Olympic Committee spokesman Mark Adams later told journalists that Tsimanouskaya is being protected by the Japanese authorities. The U.N. refugee agency is reportedly involved in her case, and both the Czech Republic and Poland say they are ready to offer the Belarusian Olympian a visa. According to the BBC, Tsimanouskaya is now considering seeking asylum in Europe. # ⚓ New_York_Congresswoman_Thinks_It’s_Too_Hard_To_Be_A_Good Cop,_Offers_Up_Bill_That_Would_Codify_Qualified_Immunity⠀⇛ Last summer, following the George Floyd killing, members of Congress introduced the Justice in Policing Act of 2020. Among other reforms, the bill (since renamed the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act) attempted to bring an end to qualified immunity, the Supreme Court-created legal doctrine that allows officers to escape civil rights lawsuits if the court decides no existing precedent would have put them on notice that the violation of rights they committed was actually a violation of rights. # ⚓ 7_Years_After_Islamic_State_Genocide,_Yazidi_Survivors Still_Seeking_Justice⠀⇛ “They say Daesh is no more. If that’s the case, then where are our missing ones? The parliament passed a law about Yazidi survivors, but where is its implementation? We need action,” she told VOA. Safeel said the “Yazidi genocide continues because we still have many missing people and most of us still reside in displacement camps.” o § Internet Policy/Net Neutrality⠀➾ # ⚓ Judge_Shoots_Down_ViaSat’s_Quest_To_Stall_Starlink Launches⠀⇛ For a few years, scientific researchers have warned that Elon Musk’s Starlink low orbit satellite broadband constellations are harming scientific research. Simply, the light pollution Musk claimed would never happen in the first place is making it far more difficult to study the night sky, a problem researchers say can be mitigated somewhat but not eliminated. Another problem is there are simply so many low orbit satellites being launched, the resulting space junk is creating navigation hazards. US regulators, so far, have done little to nothing about either problem. # ⚓ After_Exploiting_Covid_Broadband_Program,_Verizon_Faces Unsurprising_Opposition_To_Tracfone_Merger⠀⇛ When last we checked in with Verizon, the company had just been caught exploiting the government’s Covid broadband relief program to upsell struggling Americans to more expensive plans. Now, as Verizon tries to gain regulatory approval for its $6.2 billion acquisition of Tracfone, consumer groups and a small cadre of Senators are wondering if a company that thinks nothing of exploiting struggling Americans in need is a good steward for a discount phone company whose client base is predominantly comprised of low-income Americans. # ⚓ Pushing_Gigabit,_FBA_President_Says_Debate_over_Megabit Speeds_‘Silly’⠀⇛ Congress has been inundated with proposed legislation that would raise the speed threshold to address connectivity gaps exacerbated by the pandemic. In March, the Democrats proposed tiered service level connections, with anything below 100 Mbps download as low-tier. The current federal standard is 25 Mbps download and 3 Mbps upload. Conversation should be on gigabit, not 100 Megabit Over the course of the Fiber Connect conference, many panels and keynote speakers did not even discuss 100/100 Mbps symmetrical speeds, and instead were talking about the differences between 1 Gbps service and 10 Gbps service, in between discussing the potential of 100 Gbps services. o § Digital Restrictions (DRM)⠀➾ # ⚓ Where_can_I_buy_DRM-free_ebooks?⠀⇛ Do you prefer to buy DRM-free ebooks? It means you can read them on any device you want, and they’re not locked to a single vendor or company. You actually own them. Here is a list of online bookshops that sell DRM- free ebooks, digital comics, magazines, and RPGs, usually in multiple formats for any of your favourite devices. # ⚓ [Old] How_Vulfpeck_Album_‘Sleepify’_Used_Spotify_Loophole to_Earn_$20,000⠀⇛ Much fuss has been made over the impact of online streaming on artists’ lifestyles, particularly with respect to Spotify, the streaming giant that offers free music to millions, but only pays artists the royalty equivalent of peanuts. In seeking a Spotify loophole, last year a funk band from Michigan called Vulfpeck set out on a creative mission to get around this issue with the album Sleepify, a 5- minute long silent album, complete with 10 tracks, 30 seconds a-piece. The loophole worked for a little while, netting the band around $20,000 before Spotify pulled the plug. The Vulfpeck album coincided with an ambitious call to action, with the band asking its fans to play the silent album on repeat, while they slept, so as to trickle royalties from Spotify down to the band in record numbers — in other words, the ultimate Spotify loophole. At the time, Vulfpeck assured its fans that the album Sleepify would be a resounding success, with replays of the Vulfpeck album Sleepify paying off in the form of an admission- free tour. # ⚓ [Old] A_Band_That_Tried_to_Make_Money_From_Spotify_Have Been_Banned_From_Spotify⠀⇛ The band, who are called Vulfpeck, uploaded a totally silent album and asked fans to play it while they slept, hoping to turn Spotify’s $0.007 pay-per-play into something that would help them survive. They generated revenue from the streams and the profit—which ended up being around $20,000—would be used to finance a free-admission tour to places where the album was played the most. Sadly, Spotify emailed the band, telling them that the album violated the site’s terms and conditions and would be taken down. It’s unclear if the Vulpeck will receive the money. [...] Jack: I think they panicked when they realised someone was actually making money from the music. o § Monopolies⠀➾ # § Patents⠀➾ # ⚓ Insulated_From_Patent_Waivers,_Pfizer_and_Moderna Hike_Vaccine_Prices⠀⇛ “Our governments are complicit in this heist by pharma and companies across the board in other sectors. It’s the system they helped create.”—Tahir Amin, intellectual property lawyer # § Trademarks⠀➾ # ⚓ Israel,_Ice_Cream,_Trademarks:_This_Year’s_Dumbest Controversy_Results_In_Trademark_Skullduggery⠀⇛ Welcome to this year’s dumbest controversy thus far. A couple of weeks ago, famed ice cream maker Ben & Jerry’s announced that it would no longer be selling its products in “occupied Palestinian territory.” Indicating that doing so would not align with the company’s values, the idea here was that settlements that infringed on territory that was deemed to belong to the Palestinians by international law would be off the company’s radar. Not all of Israel, mind you. Just the occupied territories. And that is when everyone lost their god damned minds. Ron DeSantis is seeking to have Florida put B&J and its parent company, Unilever, on a list of companies that should be scrutinized for “boycotting Israel”. Jewish leaders indicated that the kosher rating of the ice cream could be altered for the same reason. Except that isn’t what B&J are doing. It isn’t boycotting Israel at all. It’s simply refusing to sell its product in small sections of land that Israel currently occupies. # § Copyrights⠀➾ # ⚓ YouTube_Class_Action:_Maria_Schneider_Argues_With Google_Over_Class_Expansion⠀⇛ Maria Schneider’s class action lawsuit against YouTube is being fought tooth and nail by both sides, centering around YouTube’s alleged restriction of access to takedown tools and a failure to terminate repeat copyright infringers. After shadowy company ‘Pirate Monitor’ exited the action, Schneider now wants to add new plaintiffs but YouTube and Google are having none of it. # ⚓ Cox_Prioritized_Profits_Over_Limiting_Piracy,_Record Labels_Tell_Court⠀⇛ Cox Communications is appealing the $1 billion piracy liability verdict a Virginia jury issued in 2019. Responding to this request, the opposing record labels argue that the ISP is not as innocent as it claims. Cox deliberately prioritized its own profits over limiting piracy, they stress. # ⚓ Copyright_Ruins_Everything_Again:_How_Dare_A_Sports Writer_Get_People_Excited_About_The_Olympics!⠀⇛ Every few years, the Olympics comes along to remind us not so much about the power of personal triumphs in sports, but the vast overreach of copyright laws to control absolutely everything for no damn reason at all. ╘══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╛ ¶ Lines in total: 7029 ➮ Generation completed at 02:41, i.e. 58 seconds to (re)generate ⟲