𝕿𝖊𝖈𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍𝖙𝖘 Bulletin for Saturday, August 07, 2021 ┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅ Generated Sun 8 Aug 02:40:06 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/2021/08/07/ ╒═══════════════════ 𝐑𝐄𝐂𝐄𝐍𝐓 𝐁𝐔𝐋𝐋𝐄𝐓𝐈𝐍𝐒 ════════════════════════════════════╕ Previous bulletins in IPFS (past 21 days, in chronological order): QmRGU5iwsjUHJB4EjXfazgsqgHzHK6412gKq55LburtW48 Qmd8WHahN5nzwDSCrEbZUPPxjJGgqkyDBtKNuMAVUn7FfC QmazVkrVDCoAotDdNyXHtw8rnnwuE32LKJi9Y43UU1tZ8C QmPbs4kN1GHeAEUEUWtCVVhT8zRVM7LcHdvAnAsqczstvA QmdngEJ8etJ4zrerS5iXUUtfJk9kJTK9S2oDFMkDvT7NYm QmZka1ezCX6Jq1bqJcd8DAopjUggU4MUpZGXkMw5m4Z4ZN QmP8RifZKvqinSSG2CZnUUzTMGP1P4jkMknygd8T11oZKh QmX8ZpmiXYbSrmwypsB2cg64GZppWcud7Wm37qBiBdDZST QmRVH4rgisQJw7tfjpSYpE4grUeGzk3WqhpWLXXgXgR23v QmQnCr2nU4WxQKHW7E1rNeJT8h2q1DppwFTCxNdPbJsKVu QmXorFxCY8x9KkgemX183bprQUQRvqqbxBBZppkyzunwtY QmQoYA3rtYhK4AhVVweyrKCMnCpdqN6saCz8cj1d9f9MXX QmYPuxGxUuA2otUfB7HDtRmTpivWTUWAabpcpCcCWUjDPe QmTWNbUkuvdmDn7t3Fk2bJVTcpy7AaW5viHLRpUMPZqPmN QmYLHQ18BUjsoqQrYh2hfAARNThKQwcJMPEWNrHSRDqpbJ QmNSNxDGf8uW24qwfnLjXrvXVvHmUMuSgb1HJu756yHhud QmRS9PeWnJkwSM9uFwhXg9oWnWvAdJYnqn5BvY4mFwyNtW Qmeww9N1YnQ2Znw5A9zRvL5cLmS649Q6VCiDCx91X2ZJqo QmZG8SsTJ2EBg5zMrWS4NdoMh7QZt2TnLqG82m3jgLsAZd QmUBS5HzGuXErkfDwpHxMKeu8if7jt5YH6ph1UrqNMz1B4 QmSWfDrRGYcLy39sAw1ufjzyZqmJSUhgxqCS1mGSB3cgvL ╒═══════════════════ 𝐈𝐍𝐃𝐄𝐗 ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⦿ Forking is Easy, But the Hard Part is Finding a Strong Rationale for It (Essential for Momentum) | Techrights ⦿ IRC Proceedings: Friday, August 06, 2021 | Techrights ⦿ [Meme] Today in ’Tech Rights’ | Techrights ⦿ When Tech Rights Go ’Mainstream’ | Techrights ⦿ Microsoft Uses the Media to Attack GNU/Linux and It Also Utilises Windows ’Defender’ to Discourage Adoption of Free Software | Techrights ⦿ This Chart Explains or Helps Explain Why Microsoft Invoked Version Inflation (+1) for Vista 10 and Then Bombarded the Media With Paid-for Churnalism | Techrights ䷼ Bulletin articles (as HTML) to comment on (requires login): http://techrights.org/2021/08/07/forking-needs-reason/#comments http://techrights.org/2021/08/07/irc-log-060821/#comments http://techrights.org/2021/08/07/tech-rights/#comments http://techrights.org/2021/08/07/tech-rights-eff-and-fsf/#comments http://techrights.org/2021/08/07/the-market-share-video/#comments http://techrights.org/2021/08/07/windows-monopoly-waning/#comments ䷞ Followed by Daily Links (assorted news picks curated and categorised): http://techrights.org/2021/08/07/godot-3-4-beta-3/#comments http://techrights.org/2021/08/07/new-release-of-multics/#comments ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 63 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at http://techrights.org/2021/08/07/forking-needs-reason/#comments Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2021/08/07/forking-needs-reason/ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 08.07.21⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ ✐ Forking_is_Easy,_But_the_Hard_Part_is_Finding_a_Strong_Rationale_for_It_ (Essential_for_Momentum)⠀✐ Posted in Free/Libre_Software at 8:51 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz Forks are meant for particular purposes 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇Bart_pretends_to_put_a_fork_into_an_electric_socket.⦈_ Licensed under_the_Creative_Commons_Attribution-Share_Alike_3.0_Unported licence Summary: In centralised Git repositories with a Web GUI, “forking” is just one mouse click away (although the fork is still controlled by the same masters); so forking is not hard, but making the fork supersede or overtake the original is the hard part THERE were lousy attempts over the years to fork_Linux (by the very same people who viciously attacked Linus Torvalds and defamed Richard Stallman). On what basis? Fabrications_and_lies? Of course such forks didn’t stand a chance; those involved have since then vanished and now work for proprietary software companies… because being_a_professional_troll can pay a 6-figure salary or more than_$600,000_a_year. In any case, the existence of forking as an option is highly important; it keeps projects and developers beholden to some degree to those who depend on them. The very risk (or mere threat) of forking has already caused Audacity's new_owner_to_try_some_diplomacy, walking back on some plans and apologising (which would likely be insufficient). This matters to us because we’ve used Audacity for over a decade in TechBytes. If we can find a resolution other than forking, it’ll be simpler for everybody. Similarly for IRC networks, but at this stage Freenode is just shooting its very own foot and last night it posted anti-vaccination_nonsense_in_its_very_front_page! 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇On Apple, Trojan Horses and Truth⦈ Screenshot taken in case they change the text later; this was composed and signed by “His Imperial Highness” (“HIH Andrew Lee, Joseon” and “[o]n behalf of the free world”) There’s a chance the text will change, so screenshots help. This is the top of the very front page of freenode.net at the moment. 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇ Bobby Moss⦈ We’re already mentioned the Glimpse/GIMP situation because a few months ago Glimpse basically died. GIMP isn’t an offensive word but a meaningful, descriptive acronym that goes decades back. Bobby Moss (on the right) knows what it stands for, but it seems like a convenient excuse for making a splash. Did GIMP developers flock over to his ’cause’? Of course not. So Glimpse could not keep up and therefore died, just like many other GIMP forks/branches, including those trying to ‘reinvent’ Photoshop. There needs to be a very good reason for forking. Apparently some people had to audacity to say that the very founder of Mastodon should step down (from his own project). Why not fork Mastodon instead? Because those calling for resignation/ousting very well knew they wouldn’t stand a chance. The arguments for leadership change (or forking) is just too weak. So Mastodon stays Mastodon, just like GIMP stays in tact and moves on. Then there’s the whole LibreOffice/OpenOffice situation. It was profoundly different when it was Novell’s Go-OO (Microsoft-connected disruption and thus indebted to OOXML) versus Sun. We wrote many articles back then and we welcomed LibreOffice because it tackled a real problem (the whole situation was very different by 2010; prior to that, even IBM was participating in development, unlike Oracle which never cared about office suites). “That’s just copyleft at work! It helps ensure forks do come about when they need to and forks perish when there’s no real need for them.”Forking is a good thing provided a fork has a good reason for it. Without compelling motivations, especially when the forked project is very large, the fork does not stand a chance. That’s just copyleft at work! 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🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇techrights-eff⦈_ Summary: EFF uses meaningful terminology which ought to be widely adopted ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⡏⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⡇⡆⡇⡂⣦⢰⠀⡇⠀⠁⠈⡦⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⡇⠀⠀⠀⠰⠶⠶⠶⠶⠶⠶⠶⢾⡗⡗⠷⠲⢺⠞⡲⡗⡖⢷⣶⣶⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠶⠶⠶⠶⠶⠶⠶⠶⣿⠀⠀⠀⠰⠶⠶⠶⠶⠶⠶⠶⢾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⡇⡇⢀⢇⢀⡇⡇⡇⠇⢸⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⡇⠀⠀⠀⠈⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⢹⡏⡍⠉⡏⠹⡏⢹⠙⠉⢹⠉⠙⢹⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣧⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣼⣧⣧⣤⣥⣤⣧⣬⣦⣤⣼⣤⣴⣼⣤⣤⣤⣤⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣤⣤⣤⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ 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█▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 08.07.21⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ ✐ When_Tech_Rights_Go_‘Mainstream’⠀✐ Posted in EFF, FSF, Site_News at 9:04 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz Video_download_link | md5sum 01510b0db4d7994b97ed86c4b8b1eddb http://techrights.org/videos/tech-rights-eff-and-fsf.webm Summary: Our focus on exposing organised crime and criminals [1, 2] is generally being recognised; but the term “tech rights” also spreads a little further as the reach of the message broadens This is a different kind of “tech rights” video. We start by showing an embrace of the term, this time by Doctorow from the EFF* (there were some British doctors who used the term several years ago) and then we end up landing on the FSF’s site, showing this latest_blog_post about software_patents, including a discussion of the UPC — or putting a rogue, judge-hostile EPO in charge of courts — and this_still-active_“End_Software_Patents_Wiki” (whose original maintainer no longer seems to be involved with the FSF). The video is spontaneous, it talks about our future direction and focus, and it commends the FSF and some of the geeks who are still at the EFF (there_are_elements_in_the EFF_which_we_don't_like, but the EFF isn’t a monolith so we’d rather not throw out the baby with the bathwater). █ _______ * In “Tech_Rights_Are_Workers’_Rights:_Doordash_Edition” he says that “[t]hough customers input their tips when they place their orders, the amount is hidden from drivers until they complete the job – turning each dispatch into a casino game where the dealer knows the payout in advance but the worker only finds out whether they’ve made or lost money on a delivery after it’s done.” ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 448 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at http://techrights.org/2021/08/07/the-market-share-video/#comments Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2021/08/07/the-market-share-video/ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 08.07.21⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ ✐ Microsoft_Uses_the_Media_to_Attack_GNU/Linux_and_It_Also_Utilises_Windows ‘Defender’_to_Discourage_Adoption_of_Free_Software⠀✐ Posted in Free/Libre_Software, GNU/Linux, Microsoft, Windows at 9:56 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz Video_download_link | md5sum 5514dec2e40d846f250bd081d4da160c http://techrights.org/videos/windows-mischief.webm Summary: “Defender” is to Microsoft just a Monopoly Defender; as it turns out, Microsoft rapidly loses its monopoly power/rents (this is the main subject of the video) and now it wants to put “Defender” even in GNU/Linux (we suppose just to censor software on other platforms as well, based on what Microsoft deems “safe”) THE monopoly of Windows is waning, but the abuses of Windows have not ended. Moreover, it corrupts and infects the media. Money is being used to manipulate so-called ‘news’ sites. Following this_morning's_charts_about_Microsoft's_version_inflation_(Vista 10+1) I’ve decided to do a quick video, which ended up much longer than I had expected. It’s not a repetition of what’s of the text but rather a discussion of the tough situation Microsoft has found itself in — to the point of blocking parts of LibreOffice and other software in Windows. Here is a screenshot Ryan took last night (more information and further context in the video). █ 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇ryan-windows⦈_ Ryan: “I had it delete a help pack for LibreOffice even. Downloads QBittorrent and LibreOffice….Microsoft Defender: “AWOOGA! AWOOGA!!!! RED ALERT! SHIELDS TO MAXIMUM!”.” It would be worse than foolish to make LibreOffice dependent on a manipulative_censorship_network of this LibreOffice enemy, Microsoft, but check out this_somewhat_irrational_post_from_yesterday; what next? 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(+1)_for_Vista_10_and_Then_Bombarded_the_Media_With_Paid-for_Churnalism⠀✐ Posted in GNU/Linux, Microsoft, Windows at 12:01 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz There’s no potent strategy for restoring the monopoly on desktops/laptops 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇Windows_desktop_share⦈_ On desktops/laptops, put aside mobile devices and servers, Windows is perpetually_declining (original_dataset_as_ODF_file) 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇Windows_desktop_share_median⦈_ Median of Windows market share (%) on desktops/laptops, over time (year-month) Summary: Across all form factors, Windows_may_already_have_less_than_30%_of_the overall_share, but even on desktops/laptops in isolation Microsoft has quite a crisis and no_signs_of_turnaround/recovery TAKING into account some_figures_with_caveats, ‘classic’ GNU/Linux is already on about 3% of desktops/laptops, not even counting Chrome_OS and other forms which count differently (or don’t get counted at all, e.g. “Unknown” at over 8% of the whole), it’s hardly surprising that Microsoft is attempting new (but still-failing) attacks on GNU/Linux with strategies akin to E.E.E. Too many ridiculous ‘news’ sites are presenting Vista 11 like it’s something that 1) already exists, is final etc. 2) not just a marketing slant/media propaganda campaign to rebrand Vista 10. It’s Vista_all_over_again. We’ve seen it before! Those shameless puff pieces (a Vista 11 PR onslaught, or media with vapourware placements_24/7_for_2-3_weeks) came at a convenient time for Microsoft because there were many simultaneous_scandals/blunders_to_distract_from. “The graphs above (with source data) tell a story.”There are old sayings along the lines of, what hurts them most they will try to hide or distract from. Vista 11, we believe, is generally seen as a much-needed distraction from the disaster Windows has had since Vista. Internally? An empty promise for morale boost. 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08.07.21⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ ✐ Links_7/8/2021:_Latte_Dock_0.10,_Godot_3.4_beta_3,_Krita_4.4.7⠀✐ Posted in News_Roundup at 2:18 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇GNOME bluefish⦈ § Contents⠀➾ * GNU/Linux o Distributions o Devices/Embedded * Free_Software/Open_Source * Leftovers * § GNU/Linux⠀➾ o § Audiocasts/Shows⠀➾ # ⚓ Want_A_List_Of_Your_Keybindings?_Write_A_Shell_Script!⠀⇛ I love showing real-world problems being solved through the use of shell scripting. One question I often get is “How can I get complete list of my keybindings for my window manager?” # ⚓ Geeks_at_Home:_The_Gear_That_Makes_Us_Happy⠀⇛ Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls talk to Shawn Powers and Petros Koutoupis about how we make our personal spaces better for work and play. o § Kernel Space⠀➾ # § Graphics Stack⠀➾ # ⚓ AMD_Prepares_More_Graphics_Driver_Code_For_Linux_5.15 –_Phoronix⠀⇛ Last week’s AMDGPU pull request to DRM-Next for Linux 5.15 added support for the “Cyan Skillfish” APU and other early work while an additional pull request was submitted on Friday. Another week’s worth of code is now heading into DRM-Next for staging until the Linux 5.15 merge window opens in a few weeks time. Among the changes to the open-source AMD Radeon Linux kernel graphics driver this week includes… # ⚓ DRM_Lease_Protocol_Support_Merged_For_Wayland_For_VR Headsets_–_Phoronix⠀⇛ The months-long effort for adding DRM lease support to Wayland via a new protocol has now been merged into Wayland Protocols as a new staging addition. The “drm_lease_v1″ is principally motivated for improving the virtual reality head-mounted dispkay support under Wayland. Going back to 2017 was the work around DRM leases that was spearheaded by Keith Packard working under contract for Valve. That DRM leasing is about allowing the DRM (GPU) resources to be leased/sub-allocated to a client for its exclusive control. The primary use-case and why Valve funded the work is about allowing DRM leases for the VR head- mounted displays so they can have direct control over the respective output in a performant manner. # ⚓ Gallium_Nine_Lands_Threaded_Context_Support,_Other Improvements_–_Phoronix⠀⇛ Several improvements were merged on Friday to Mesa’s Gallium3D Nine state tracker that allows for an alternative means of Direct3D 9 support within Wine. Mike Blumenkrantz who is known for his work on the Zink OpenGL-on-Vulkan implementation within Mesa was responsible for Friday’s Gallium Nine improvements that are now part of the Mesa 21.3 code-base. o § Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ Top_14_Podcast_Tools_–_best_free_podcast_software⠀⇛ A podcast is a form of digital media consisting of an episodic program downloaded or streamed over the Internet using an XML protocol called RSS. Podcast episodes can be audio radio, video files, PDFs, or ePub files. These episodes can be viewed and listened to on a number of different devices including computers, portable media players, and smartphones. The publisher or broadcaster podcasts the program by offering the episodes and the XML document to a web server. Whilst large media corporations are prominent publishers of podcasts, almost anyone can publish them, as often or as infrequent as they wish. Podcasts are a great way of keeping up to date with the latest news, reviews, banter, gossip, to deepen your understanding of the world we live in, and much more. # ⚓ 22_Linux_Networking_Commands_for_Sysadmin⠀⇛ A system administrator’s routine tasks include configuring, maintaining, troubleshooting, and managing servers and networks within data centers. There are numerous tools and utilities in Linux designed for administrative purposes. In this article, we will review some of the most used command-line tools and utilities for network management in Linux, under different categories. We will explain some common usage examples, which will make network management much easier in Linux. o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾ # ⚓ Linux_101:_Why_do_file_and_directory_names_lack_spaces?_– TechRepublic⠀⇛ Open source expert Jack Wallen explains why spaces in files and folder names aren’t always the best option in Linux. # ⚓ A_Complete_Magento_2_Elasticsearch_Configuration_Tutorial_– Programming_Insider⠀⇛ Until version 2.3, Magento Open Source (OS) users relied on the database to manage catalog search queries out of the box. However, the default database search offered limited functionality and wasn’t scalable. # ⚓ How_to_Install_MariaDB_on_Rocky_Linux_8⠀⇛ MariaDB is a community-driven fork of MySQL relational database management system. It is completely free and open-source. MariaDB is compatible with Linux and Windows operating systems. MariaDB gives improved performance over MySQL and offers better storage engines, a larger and faster connection pool, speed and replication improvements. MariaDB is now the popular Database for CMS tools such as WordPress, Joomla, and Drupal. Apps like phpMyAdmin work out of the box on it. # ⚓ What_is_Git_and_how_to_install_Git_in_Linux_–_OSTechNix⠀⇛ This brief guide explains what is Git, benefits of using Git, how it works, what is GitHub and how to install Git in Linux operating systems. # ⚓ Linux_Runlevels_Explained_–_ByteXD⠀⇛ There are times when Linux system boots either into a Graphical User Interface (GUI) or a command line. A Linux system may also boot as a single-user system, which means that it is available only to a single user, the superuser used for system maintenance. The way the Linux system boots and operates is known as the system’s state, known as the runlevel. # ⚓ Linux_101:_How_do_you_hold_packages_back_from_getting upgraded_with_apt?_–_TechRepublic⠀⇛ Learn how to mark a package on an Ubuntu system so that it won’t upgrade when the apt-get upgrade command is issued. o § Games⠀➾ # ⚓ Jupiter_Hell_shows_off_how_brutal_and_thrilling_a_roguelike can_be_and_it’s_out_now_|_GamingOnLinux⠀⇛ It’s done! Jupiter Hell, the roguelike from ChaosForge is officially out now and it’s easily one of the best turn-based action games I’ve played in some time. # ⚓ Valve_to_make_avail_EVERY_WINDOWS_GAME_on_Deck_before December⠀⇛ Its a very big move they have made and it will change the gaming industry for sure. what do you think? It is a highly missed video by steamworks a youtube channle. After the 1.54 mins he says they aim at getting every Api of As many windows games as possible. In order to make almost all windows games to work on Steam deck. # ⚓ Chinese_state_media_describes_gaming_as_‘spiritual_opium’ that_stunts_education_and_destroys_families⠀⇛ China’s government has again expressed its severe dislike of gaming, and one of the nation’s major purveyors of such entertainment has reacted by limiting the time that can be spent on the pastime. Beijing has never been entirely comfortable with gaming. In 2013, China sought to define gaming addiction so it could be treated, after previously having regulated internet detox camps to ensure that they got results – but without brutalising those felt to need an intervention to curb their online activities. In 2019, industry analysts suggested China was a key backer of World Health Organisation attempts to define gaming-related disorders as comparable to drug or gambling addictions. # ⚓ Godot_Engine_–_Dev_snapshot:_Godot_3.4_beta_3⠀⇛ The upcoming Godot 3.4 release will provide a number of new features which have been backported from the 4.0 development branch (see our release policy for details on the various Godot versions). We had a beta 2 build ten days ago, and a number of issues have since been found and fixed, so it’s time for Godot 3.4 beta 3. If you already reviewed the changelog for the previous beta, you can skip right to the differences between beta 2 and beta 3. This build also fixes a nasty crash on Windows for some projects using dynamic fonts with outlines, triggered by a buildsystem update (GH-50790). # ⚓ 11_Unanswered_Questions_about_the_Steam_Deck⠀⇛ # ⚓ Hands_on_with_Steam_Deck:_Here’s_what_to_expect_from Valve’s_portable_–_and_powerful_–_gaming_PC⠀⇛ It’s still early enough in the production process that it’s hard to say what lies ahead for the Steam Deck. From what I saw, the new portable gaming PC from Valve is flexible, surprisingly powerful, and affordable. It’s got potential. If Valve can get the Deck into wide enough circulation, it’s got a chance to change the face of PC gaming. Again. The Deck, which was first officially announced a couple of weeks ago, is a handheld PC that runs a new version of Valve’s Linux-based SteamOS. Out of the box, it features gamepad controls and two trackpads, built into either side of a 7-inch LCD touchscreen, but you can also hook it up to a monitor, mouse, and/or keyboard and treat it like an ultra-portable PC tower. # ⚓ Steam_Deck_hands-on:_PC_power_with_console_conveniences⠀⇛ Seeing every photo and video of the Steam Deck on the internet didn’t prepare me for seeing it in person. It’s a goliath—somehow way bigger than I expected, especially when compared side-by-side with a Nintendo Switch. This is the full tower PC case of videogame handhelds. Once I picked up the Steam Deck, though, the size didn’t seem to matter much. It’s solid, but at 1.47 pounds, not too heavy to hold comfortably. It’s wide, but the inputs are close enough to reach naturally. The button arrangement looks silly and top heavy in pictures, but fits with how you’ll naturally grip the device. # ⚓ Steam_Deck_Using_Linux_Explained⠀⇛ Valve recently announced the Steam Deck, its entry into the handheld PC market that would be fully integrated with Steam. Alongside some impressive specs for its small size, Valve has confirmed that the Steam Deck will be a Linux-based system. With a new version of SteamOS based on Arch Linux, the Steam Deck will likely feature a user-friendly experience and function as an actual Linux PC. However, Linux has a bad reputation for PC gaming since Linux-based systems are often limited to games that are natively designed for them. Thankfully, Steam Deck runs on a Linux-based software called Steam Proton which functions as a compatibility layer for PC games that are native to Windows. While it’s not perfect and still has a long way to go before the release of the Steam Deck, Steam Proton offers a solution to the Linux problem without heavily impacting performance. # ⚓ Eureka!_Playing_Vulkan_Games_in_Crostini⠀⇛ Today is a day I’ve been waiting for for a long time: Vulkan support in Crostini is a reality. Technically, it’s been available in the default “termina” virtual machine since Chrome OS 93. The catch was that the Debian container inside the virtual machine needs an updated and experimental graphics driver (the VirtIO Venus driver). Thankfully, we can run any container we want! That includes Arch Linux. The same Linux distribution that the upcoming Steam OS 3 on the Steam Deck is based on, where tinkering with the latest packages and drivers is, relatively speaking, a breeze. Enabling Vulkan support right now is not for the faint of heart. There are a lot of technical steps to get this working on Chrome OS today. We believe this may be available to the wider public in Chrome OS 94 along with the new Debian 11 container. We had noticed that, with Debian 11, there is now a (very slow) CPU-based “lavapipe” driver for Vulkan available by default. This is not what we are talking about today. The Venus driver provides full GPU-accelerated Vulkan graphics. o § Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾ # § K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt⠀➾ # ⚓ Latte_Dock_0.10_Released⠀⇛ It’s been two years already since Latte Dock 0.9 was released while finally Latte Dock 0.10 is ready to officially meet the world this weekend. Latte Dock as this popular desktop dock for KDE desktops now supports having multiple docks and panels on the same edge, floating docks and panels support, new visibility modes, on-demand sidebars, various applet improvements, improved layout dialogs, and much more. There are also many bug fixes and other improvements — more than two thousand commits since Latte Dock 0.9. # ⚓ Latte_Dock_0.10_Released_with_Support_for_Multiple, Floating_Docks_and_Panels⠀⇛ After many months of development, Latte Dock 0.10 is finally here as the latest stable version of this replacement dock for the KDE Plasma desktop that provides an elegant and intuitive experience. It’s been more than a year and half since the first development release of Latte Dock 0.10 hit the streets, and now, after a lot of hard work, the final version is here and it’s already landing in the stable software repositories of some of the most popular rolling-release GNU/Linux distributions (e.g. Arch Linux and KDE neon). As you can imagine, Latte Dock 0.10 is a massive update and introduces amazing new features like support for floating docks and panels that you can move anywhere on your screen, support for multiple docks and panels on the same screen edge, as well as support for multiple Latte Tasks in the same dock or panel. # ⚓ Latte_Dock_v0.10.0_|_Official_Stable_Release⠀⇛ Let’s welcome Latte Dock v0.10.0 the Official Stable Version of v0.10.x branch! No major issue was reported during the last month, only small bug fixes were added in the stack here and there. Version 0.10 will be the only official stable version that will be maintained in the future, any previous versions are considered obselete and out of date. Enjoy… # ⚓ This_week_in_KDE:_Stability⠀⇛ This was a major bugfix week, with many important fixes to our core apps as well as the touchscreen experience. More of these are in the pipeline too! We are really trying to improve the stability of our software now that it’s starting to be used in more 3rd- party products like the Steam Deck. The idea is that this will become a virtuous circle of better more stable products leading to more use leading to even better more stable products! So check it out… # ⚓ KDE_Kicks_Off_August_With_Many_Bug_Fixes_To_Benefit Steam_Deck_&_More⠀⇛ The first week of August saw many fixes land in the KDE camp as they prepare for their software to be used on more third-party products, with Steam Deck being just the latest notable product leveraging KDE. # ⚓ Krita_4.4.7_Released⠀⇛ This is strictly a bug fix release. The most important fix is a performance regression compared to Krita 4.4.5. o § Distributions⠀➾ # § BSD⠀➾ # ⚓ Register_multiples_wifi_networks_on_OpenBSD⠀⇛ This is a short text to introduce you about an OpenBSD feature arrived in 2018 and that may not be known by everyone. Wifi interfaces can have a list of network and their associated passphrase to automatically connect when network is known. # § PCLinuxOS/Mageia/Mandriva/OpenMandriva Family⠀➾ # ⚓ blender_updated_to_2.93.2_»_PCLinuxOS⠀⇛ Blender is the essential software solution you need for 3D, from modeling, animation, rendering and post-production to interactive creation and playback. Professionals and novices can easily and inexpensively publish stand-alone, secure, multi-platform content to the web, CD-ROMs, and other media. # ⚓ syncthing_updated_to_1.18.1_»_PCLinuxOS⠀⇛ Syncthing is a continuous file synchronization program. It synchronizes files between two or more computers. # ⚓ teamviewer_updated_to_15.20.6_»_PCLinuxOS⠀⇛ TeamViewer provides easy, fast and secure remote access and meeting solutions to Linux, Windows PCs, Apple PCs and various other platforms, including Android and iPhone. # ⚓ vivaldi_browser_updated_to_4.1.2369.16_»_PCLinuxOS⠀⇛ Vivaldi is a new web browser based on Chromium that is built by an Opera founder. It’s aimed mostly at power users, but it can be used by anyone. # ⚓ Some_Issues_and_Challenges_[OpenMandriva,_PCLinuxOS, and_Mageia_experiences]⠀⇛ The excessive amount of work has kept me away from my blog, that’s true. However, the fact that my Linux distros have been performing beyond my expectations has also, in a way, stopped me from writing here. I mean… There’s very little to write about when nothing breaks. # § IBM/Red Hat/Fedora⠀➾ # ⚓ IBM_to_set_up_software_lab_in_Kerala;_CM_Pinarayi Vijayan_hails_decision⠀⇛ # ⚓ Fedora_Community_Blog:_Friday’s_Fedora_Facts:_2021- 31⠀⇛ Here’s your weekly Fedora report. Read what happened this week and what’s coming up. Your contributions are welcome (see the end of the post)! # § Debian Family⠀➾ # ⚓ UserLand_is_a_way_to_add_Puppy_or_EasyOS_to_Android⠀⇛ Now this is interesting. As I am now getting into Android tablets, have been looking around at ways of running Linux on Android. Many choices, one of them is UserLand that has favourable reports. # ⚓ Vintage_Test_Equipment_Addiction_Justified_| Hackaday⠀⇛ But in the case of Recore, the processor is a four-core ARM A53 SoC running Debian Linux — an arrangement that itself could well serve as an automated test computer in other projects. # § Canonical/Ubuntu Family⠀➾ # ⚓ Ubuntu_Should_go_for_Rolling_Release_Between_the_LTS Versions⠀⇛ There are three short-term releases in between two LTS release. Ubuntu should replace them with a rolling release model. o § Devices/Embedded⠀➾ # § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾ # ⚓ Code_your_own_pinball_game_|_Wireframe_#53⠀⇛ # ⚓ Arduino_powered_5-key_keypad_includes_a_rotary encoder_–_CNX_Software⠀⇛ There was a time when people were happy to interact with their computer with a standard keyboard and mouse. But in recent years, we’ve noticed more programmable, custom- designed keyboards with more ergonomy, a built-in touchscreen display, integrated into a multi-function USB dock/hub, as well as tiny keypads with a couple of mechanical keys to speed up specific functions. JC Pro Macro is another one of those compact USB keypads. Powered by an Arduino Pro Micro board, the keypad features five mechanical keyboard keys, and adds a rotary encoder, plus an optional I2C OLED display for debugging, and some I/Os to control external hardware like a fan. # § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ Mi_11_Ultra,_Mi_11_Pro,_Mi_11,_Redmi_K40_Pro_Plus_to lead_Xiaomi’s_Android_12_charge_–_NotebookCheck.net News⠀⇛ # ⚓ Redmi_8_series_receive_Android_11-based_MIUI_12.5 update_–_Gizchina.com⠀⇛ # ⚓ Realme_X7_is_the_latest_phone_to_get_Android_11-based Realme_UI_2.0_stable_update_–_GSMArena.com_news⠀⇛ # ⚓ Poco_M3_Android_11_update_to_be_released_“very_soon,” as_per_mod⠀⇛ # ⚓ Google_will_kill_off_very_old_versions_of_Android next_month_|_Ars_Technica⠀⇛ # ⚓ Google_Podcasts_redesign_adds_grid_view,_rolling_out now_–_9to5Google⠀⇛ # ⚓ How_to_Transfer_Contacts_From_iPhone_to_Android_in_3 Ways⠀⇛ # ⚓ 30_new_Android_phones_join_the_list_that_support ARCore_–_PhoneArena⠀⇛ # ⚓ 7_new_and_notable_Android_apps_from_the_last_two weeks_including_Data_Restore_Tool,_Videoleap,_and_IMDb TV_(7/24/21_–_8/7/21)⠀⇛ # ⚓ Marvel_uses_Android_TV_to_push_Shang-Chi_film_– 9to5Google⠀⇛ # ⚓ ZTE_Axon_30’s_20GB_RAM_Makes_it_the_First_Android Smartphone_to_Carry_One_|_Tech_Times⠀⇛ # ⚓ HTC_apparently_wants_to_sell_you_a_new_mid-range Android_tablet⠀⇛ # ⚓ The_Best_New_Android_Games_This_Week_–_My_Time_at Portia,_My_Friend_Pedro,_Mini_Blaster_and_More_–_Droid Gamers⠀⇛ # ⚓ Mophie_Snap_review:_MagSafe_for_the_Android_masses⠀⇛ # ⚓ Gboard’s_getting_ready_for_Android_12_with_even_more Material_You_enhancements⠀⇛ # ⚓ List_Of_OnePlus_Devices_Getting_The_Android_12 Update:_Check_If_Yours_Is_On_The_List⠀⇛ # ⚓ Top_10_Best_RPG_Games_For_Android_–_Action,_Open- World,_JRPG_&_More⠀⇛ # ⚓ Stolen_or_lost_Android_phone?_Here’s_how_to_find_it and_get_it_back_as_fast_as_possible_–_CNET⠀⇛ # ⚓ How_to_Transfer_Contacts_From_iPhone_to_Android_in_3 Ways⠀⇛ # ⚓ How_To_Play_Xbox_Game_Pass_Games_On_Your_Android Phone⠀⇛ # ⚓ How_to_check_Android_battery_health_—_assess_your phone’s_charging_power_|_Laptop_Mag⠀⇛ # ⚓ Is_Google_TV_Going_to_Replace_Android_TV?_|_Digital Trends⠀⇛ # ⚓ Even_Google_Thinks_Sideloading_Apps_on_Android_Is Horrible⠀⇛ # ⚓ Punjabi_University_VC_releases_Punjabipedia_Android mobile_app_:_The_Tribune_India⠀⇛ # ⚓ The_Lenovo_Tab_P12_Pro_could_revitalize_the_Android tablet_space_–_Phandroid⠀⇛ # ⚓ Medium_for_Android_allows_you_to_create_and_follow custom_lists⠀⇛ # ⚓ Android_Circuit:_Samsung_Loses_European_Crown, Honor’s_Anti-Wind_Earbuds,_Pixel_6_Secrets⠀⇛ # ⚓ Office_for_Android_is_getting_File_Cards_this_month_– Neowin⠀⇛ # ⚓ Update_to_ZTE_Axon_30_makes_it_the_first_Android phone_with_20GB_of_RAM_–_PhoneArena⠀⇛ # ⚓ Android_phones_have_an_annoying_glitch_but_a_fix_is finally_on_its_way_|_Express.co.uk⠀⇛ o § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾ # § Web Browsers⠀➾ # § Mozilla⠀➾ # ⚓ Thunderbird_91_Promises_New_Account_Setup Wizard_with_CalDAV_Support,_Encryption,_and More⠀⇛ After Thunderbird 78 comes Thunderbird 91, probable due for release next week as part of the Mozilla Firefox 91 web browser and promising lots of enhancements, new features, and improvements to everyone’s favorite email client. The biggest change, however, is a brand new account setup wizard, and I want you to be the first to see it in action and learn about its new features. First, the new account setup wizard has been modernized and looks pretty cool, even if you probably won’t use it anytime soon if you already have Thunderbird install. # ⚓ New_Release:_Tor_Browser_11.0a3_(Android Only)⠀⇛ Tor Browser 11.0a3 is now available from the Tor Browser download page and also from our distribution directory. Note: This is an alpha release, an experimental version for users who want to help us test new features. For everyone else, we recommend downloading the latest stable release instead. # § Public Services/Government⠀➾ # ⚓ German_health_professionals_will_communicate_with each_other_through_the_open_source_Matrix_protocol⠀⇛ Gematik, the provider of digital solutions for the German health care system has chosen the open source Matrix protocol to underpin Germany’s new instant communication platform, which will be used by over 150.000 organisations, such as general practitioner offices, hospitals, and insurance organisations. The decision follows examples such as the German armed forces and France’s government adopting Matrix as the basis for their instant communication needs. # § Programming/Development⠀➾ # § Perl/Raku⠀➾ # ⚓ They_returned_an_empty_package⠀⇛ I don’t like to solve maths-puzzles. I do like to read other folks solutions thought. You never know where to spot a new idiom. # § Python⠀➾ # ⚓ How_to_install_PyCharm_2021_on_a_Chromebook_– Professional_Edition⠀⇛ Today we are looking at how to install PyCharm 2021 on a Chromebook – Professional Edition. Please follow the video/audio guide as a tutorial where we explain the process step by step and use the commands below. # § Shell/Bash/Zsh/Ksh⠀➾ # ⚓ Unix_Shell:_History_and_Trivia⠀⇛ This post is part of the Summer Blog Backlog: Understanding and Using Shell. It has links and #comments about the history of shell. The most important topic is Ken Thompson’s paper on the first Unix shell. I quote it below and will refer to it in future posts. It motivates the Perlis-Thompson Principle, an important idea in #software-architecture. This principle relates to both the Kubernetes-Multics analogy and the design of the Oil language. o § Standards/Consortia⠀➾ # ⚓ HTTP/2:_The_Sequel_is_Always_Worse⠀⇛ HTTP/2 is easily mistaken for a transport-layer protocol that can be swapped in with zero security implications for the website behind it. In this paper, I’ll introduce multiple new classes of HTTP/ 2-exclusive threats caused by both implementation flaws and RFC imperfections. I’ll start by showing how these flaws enable HTTP/ 2-exclusive desync attacks, with case studies targeting high-profile websites powered by servers ranging from Amazon’s Application Load Balancer to WAFs, CDNs, and bespoke stacks by big tech. These achieve critical impact by hijacking clients, poisoning caches, and stealing credentials to net multiple max-bounties. After that, I’ll unveil novel techniques and tooling to crack open desync-powered request tunnelling – a widespread but overlooked request smuggling variant that is typically mistaken for a false positive. Finally, I’ll share multiple new exploit-primitives introduced by HTTP/2, exposing fresh server-layer and application-layer attack surface. * § Leftovers⠀➾ o ⚓ Opinion_|_We_Showed_This_Week_What_Grassroots_Movements_Are Capable_of⠀⇛ This week, the limitless power of people was on full display from the steps of the US House of Representatives. o ⚓ Citizen_Is_Paying_Users_To_Run_The_App_And_Their_Mouths_At_Crime Scenes_And_Medical_Emergencies⠀⇛ The app formerly known as “Vigilante” is surreptitiously redefining the term “citizen journalist.” The new definition will probably be capitalized and trademarked. The crime reporting app that once entertained plans to become part of the law enforcement community by partnering with private security companies is paying users to head out to crime scenes and annoy civil servants. o ⚓ About_Those_RVs_Parked_in_Your_Neighborhood⠀⇛ “Look at that mess!!” She snapped. “There’s gotta be a way to get them out of here!!” Up came insinuations the RVs occupants were dumping toilet waste and trash on the street though none had ever been apparent. Elsewhere in this country these complaints are being voiced about monopolizing parking space, unsightliness, propane fires, dumping refuse in residents’ garbage cans, domestic violence, noise, break-ins to finance drug and alcohol habits, and today’s parking-lot plague of catalytic- converter thefts. Few mention occupants dying from heatwaves, as happened to one Portland resident in a private RV park when July’s 116ºF temperature knocked out the air conditioner of his uninsulated motorhome. “This is like a tin can,” said his RV neighbor about no shade trees from direct sunrays and asphalt pavement helping to draw its heat. Another neighbor tin-foiled her windows and had to use two ACs. o ⚓ Brazil,_Amazon,_World:_Toxic_Masculinity⠀⇛ This isn’t only about loss of an extraordinary territory, home to more than three million species and some 10% of the world’s biodiversity. Bolsonaro and men like him are also driving the probability of a whole new array of zoonotic pandemics that are linked with habitat fragmentation, deforestation, biodiversity loss, intensive agriculture, livestock farming, land grabbing, and pollution, all of which feature high on Bolsonaro’s get-done list. Shortly before he was elected, the Spanish daily El Pais described him as “a former captain in the Army’s paratrooper brigade, lover of military government, torture, police executions; macho, racist, and profoundly ignorant about any matter that doesn’t entail testosterone displays”. The title explains why a country would want to be led by this “thing”, as he is called by many Brazilians who can’t bear to pronounce his name: “The Elite Prefers an Alpha Macho”. This brings us to the part about homophobia and sociopathic masculinity. As for the elite, more than Bolsonaro, they actually prefer his ultraliberal economic guru, Paolo Guedes. Anyway, elites have never been expected to like the goons they employ to do their dirty work. Whatever their testosterone levels, alpha machos still have to find a way of justifying their behavior and comments (for example, “human rights are bullshit”) which are still thought indecorous in at least some government circles. One of the more effective ways to ensure that this vile virility is venerated is to enlist the help of religious zealots, in Brazil’s case, the evangelicals who occupy many first- and second-level positions in government, mainly in the areas of education, culture, human rights, and foreign policy (forging alliances with Israel, the Trump Administration, Viktor Orbán’s Hungary, the Law and Justice Party in Poland, etc.) thus getting international support as well as providing the sanctified extremist discourse the thuggish president needs. o ⚓ Shropshire_in_New_York⠀⇛ Though this swath of territory is peaceful, if poor, there are signs of past struggles. Heading east over rolling hills divided by the Tioghnioga, Chenango, and Susquehanna Rivers—the first two tributaries of the last—one comes to the graceful, dilapidated town of Greene. It was founded, a sign informs motorists, in 1792—that is, during the post-independence land rush Upstate. It is named after the Revolutionary War general Nathanael Greene, Lafayette’s friend and fellow Freemason. As Commandant of West Point, Greene presided over the execution of John André, Benedict Arnold’s contact in the British army. The Town of Greene’s glory days are behind it. The main street is called Genessee, a double avenue that must have once boasted a median lined with American Elms. They are gone and the area paved over for angled parking spots. o ⚓ Ireland’s_Gaelic_Athletic_Association:_a_Vehicle_for_Social Solidarity_or_for_Social_Consensus?⠀⇛ Having not kept up with the newcomers to the team since somewhere around the time of their third All-Ireland title in a row several years ago, I realized I only recognized a handful of faces. A quick Google search later and I had the names of all 36 players on the squad in front of me. o ⚓ The_Progressive_Death_of_Progressivism⠀⇛ Our Revolution surrenders Good bye Medicare-for-All, now that Nancy Pelosi, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and even Bernie Sanders have abandoned the cause. Never mind that a majority of the electorate still favors the proposal. But to get Medicare-for-All, progressives would have to stand up to the Democratic Party. And that would entail a fight and therefore is not pragmatic. o ⚓ The_Politics_of_Cheering_and_Booing:_On_Palestine,_Solidarity_and the_Tokyo_Olympics⠀⇛ I grew up watching the Olympics. All of us did. Throughout the month-long international sports event, the Olympics were the main topic of discussion among the refugees in my refugee camp in Gaza, where I was born. Unlike other sports competitions such as football, you did not need to care about the sport itself to appreciate the underlying meaning of the Olympics. The entire exercise seemed to be political. o ⚓ The_Days_of_August,_1990⠀⇛ This apparent lack of opinion led Mr. Hussein to conclude that, since Kuwait apparently had no intention of paying debts to Baghdad for the Iraqi military’s protection during the recently concluded Iran-Iraq war, he had every right to send in the Iraqi military to Kuwait and demand payment.  Other issues between Iraq and Kuwait involved a Kuwaiti oil drilling operation which saw Kuwait removing oil from Iraqi territory.  Another factor in the Iraqi government’s calculations was that Washington had been quite supportive of the Iraqis during its aforementioned conflict with Iran.  Part of that support included the export of biological agents, including anthrax, and cluster bombs sold by a CIA front operating out of Pinochet’s Chile. The US support was provided despite the fact that Washington knew Hussein was using nerve gas against Iranian troops.  Horrifically, many of those troops were teenage boys drafted into Iran’s military and sent to the front for use as fodder in what were called “human wave” operations.  In modern warfare, these operations were first noted in the Boxer Rebellion and involve a coordinated mass of soldiers falling upon the enemy force and sweeping them away with their numbers and momentum.  In other words, tsunami warfare. President Hussein acted on his belief on August 2, 1990.  At 2 AM local time, Iraqi ground troops overwhelmed the Kuwaiti military, forcing them to retreat into Saudi Arabia, and occupied Kuwait’s oil fields.  Within hours, George Bush the Elder told the world that the invasion “would not stand.”  On August 7th, Bush announced the formation of Operation Desert Shield and the Pentagon began sending hundreds of thousands of soldiers, sailors and airmen to the deserts of Kuwait.  Washington would ultimately make a deal with the monarchs of Saudi Arabia to also place US forces on its territory, as well.  This decision by the Saudi monarchy would rile up certain fundamentalist Wahhabi Muslims, who considered the presence of infidel troops on Islamic Holy Lands to be blasphemy.  Among these Muslims was a scion of the wealthy bin Laden family—a man named Osama bin Laden, who had worked in concert with US intelligence agencies in Afghanistan to indoctrinate and train mujaheddin fighters in the US proxy war with the Soviets in Afghanistan. o ⚓ Finis_to_the_Grand_Fool’s_Errand…or_to_All_Of_Us?⠀⇛ Investments of that capital in oil and coal, and steel and machinery, catapulted the 19th century American industrial revolution, enriching a new elite, creating a broader middle class but forcing many into working class grinds. A few years later the rising oligarchs fostered a new form of colonialism aimed at accessing markets and more industrial resources. The noted “American way of life” began to take shape and such exploitation would eventually advance Washington’s and Wall Street’s financial and military dominance in the 20th. Until 1945 the U.S. was by far the leading source and purveyor of the critical energy indispensable for capitalist civilization though this arrangement is backfiring and presages a calamitous and dire future for our species. Today, despite intensifying perception of the need to address climate change, reduce carbon emissions and the necessity for alternative sources of energy, the demand and competition for oil, natural gas and even coal ramps up daily across the globe. Now the Prez who as a senator voted for the all-time longest war claims a desire to end it, but let’s be real…not really, and says that Washington should never have joined the “misadventure” in Afghanistan in the first place. Remember the Taliban in Texas in negotiations to build pipelines in Afghanistan to draw natural gas from the “Stans” for the profit of American energy corporations? It was the Taliban’s ultimate refusal to cooperate that provided a prime motivation for the invasion to topple them in 2002. And where exactly on the time frame is this “first place” that Biden notes? A broad-spectrum strategy had been in the works well before the events of 9-11. As Zbigniew Brzezinski made clear back in 1998 he and his elite collaborators had deliberately drawn the Soviet Union into an elaborate trap i.e. its own version of America’s invasion and defeat in Vietnam. “The secret operation” said Zbig, “was an excellent idea. It had the effect of drawing the Russians into the Afghan trap. You want me to regret that?” o ⚓ Opinion_|_Is_Humanity’s_Return_to_Barbarism_Unavoidable?⠀⇛ A cursory glance at the state of today’s world will give pause to anyone wishing to celebrate humanity’s progress. In fact, evidence abounds that the possibility of a reversion to barbarism should not be rejected as too far- fetched. o ⚓ Dishonor_by_Association:_A_Red,_White,_and_Blue_Object_Lesson⠀⇛ Rest assured, I will connect the dots leading from Aldous Huxley’s prescient observation to the mindset and moral code required to engage in what someone like Mr. Osius believes is honor by association. Note that this is a selective, not a blanket condemnation of Osius’ modus vivendi. That doesn’t make it any less damning. Huxley goes on to say that the people he describes are only normal “in relation to a profoundly abnormal society. Their perfect adjustment to that abnormal society is a measure of their mental sickness. These millions of abnormally normal people, living without fuss in a society to which, if they were fully human beings, they ought not to be adjusted.” Hold that thought until the end. o ⚓ Opinion_|_Is_a_United_World_Possible?⠀⇛ What if . . . ? o ⚓ Porn_Workers_as_Labor_Force⠀⇛ Since the days of Oliver Reed’s “X-rated masterpiece” (BBC) which “is still being censored”, the money for adult workers has improved and working conditions as well. This is the non-sex-side of the pornography industry. Overall, the industry is valued at about $100bn globally. Despite many moral misgivings, it operates, after all, like a normal business. There is marketing which tells people that films like The Party at Kitty and Stud’s do exists; there is finance who compensates actors, pays bills, collects profits, etc.; there is operations management that gets props, costumes, toys, cameras, etc. onto the set; and there is HRM who manages workers, i.e. adult actors. o ⚓ Scorched_Earth⠀⇛ o § Health/Nutrition⠀➾ # ⚓ AK:_Older_people_getting_vaccine_certificate_printouts_at Pärnu_library⠀⇛ The requirement from Monday to present coronavirus certification at larger events has led to a surge in members of the public, particularly older people, going to libraries to obtain a printout, if they were unable to use digital solutions such as Mobile-ID, and also lacked a home printer. Getting a printout at a library or other public facility still requires both ID Card PIN codes, which leads to the next obstacle in many cases – people often lose or forget their codes or were unaware they had them in the first place. # ⚓ Mexico_sues_11_US_gun_makers_over_illegal_flow_of_weapons across_border⠀⇛ 2.5 million illicit weapons have crossed into Mexico in past decade, according to one government study # ⚓ ‘This_Ain’t_Right!’:_Top_US_Insurers_Made_$11_Billion_in 2nd_Quarter⠀⇛ Five of the most profitable health insurance companies in the U.S. brought in over $11 billion in profits in the second quarter of 2021, it was reported on Friday—an outrageous amount of money, especially during a pandemic, that progressives said provides further evidence of the need for Medicare for All. Between April and June of this year, UnitedHealth Group, Aetna, Anthem, Cigna, and Humana reported profits of $4.37 billion, $2.78 billion, $1.8 billion, $1.47 billion, and $588 million, respectively. # ⚓ Democrats_Propose_Medicare_for_a_Few_More_Instead_of Demanding_Medicare_for_All⠀⇛ # ⚓ GOP_Lawmaker_Suing_Pelosi_Over_House_Mask_Rules_Contracts COVID⠀⇛ # ⚓ How_the_Alt-Right_Have_Used_Online_Conspiracy_Theories_to Create_a_False_Class_Consciousness_and_Take_Down_Democracy⠀⇛ Social media blurs the distinction between fact and fiction, legitimising disinformation with every like, comment and share. Those who dig deeper, find more “alternative facts” as online algorithms become complicit in suggesting videos of similar content. As the gullible fall further down the rabbit hole, their scepticism is validated as it reverberates around the echo chamber. It is in these far-flung corners of the internet where the vulnerable fall into the conspiratorial labyrinth. Internet searches for conspiracy theories have proliferated since the beginning of Covid-19. The first myth peddled around the pandemic was that it was a “plandemic” or a hoax. After the death of millions worldwide, the conspiracy shifted its claim, this time speculating that the lockdown would never end. Since the lockdown has been lifted, they now predict that Bill Gates, amongst others, are using vaccinations to insert us with microchips. # ⚓ New_CDC_Data_Shows_Covid-19_Reinfection_Risk_Double_for Unvaccinated_People⠀⇛ As new data published Friday by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows that unvaccinated people are more than twice as likely to be reinfected with the coronavirus than those who have been inoculated against the virus, public health officials and experts underscored the importance of vaccination. “Even among the uncommon cases of Covid-19 among the fully or partially vaccinated, vaccines make people more likely to have a milder and shorter illness compared to those who are unvaccinated.”—CDC # ⚓ Vaccine_Regrets_Proliferate_as_Delta_Surges_‘Like_a Tsunami’_Among_Unvaccinated⠀⇛ As Covid-19 cases surge in parts of the country with low vaccination rates, driven by the highly contagious Delta variant, stories of unvaccinated Americans expressing deep regrets from their deathbeds are spreading across social media, with healthcare workers facing the excruciating task of telling some patients that it’s too late to help them.  On Friday CNN reported the story of Travis Campbell, who has been in a hospital in Virginia for two weeks battling Covid-19—which has caused him to develop pneumonia and left him with a partially collapsed lung—after putting off getting vaccinated not because of stubborn “vaccine hesitancy,” but due to a move and knee surgery. # ⚓ Covid-19_Vaccine:_A_costly_dilemma_over_pregnant_women?⠀⇛ The government is yet to decide whether to vaccinate pregnant women despite a WHO recommendation to that end and an alarming rise in the number of pregnant Covid-19 patients. The death toll too is higher among pregnant and lactating women compared to other patients. According to two major hospitals — Dhaka Medical College and Hospital and Mugda Medical College Hospital — where most pregnant women are taking treatment in the capital, the infection rate in the Covid-19 gynaecology units had reached their peaks towards the end of last month. The number of pregnant Covid-19 patients in ICUs has also increased. o § Integrity/Availability⠀➾ # § Proprietary⠀➾ # § Security⠀➾ # ⚓ Report_Again_Finds_US_Government_IT_Security Sucks,_Three_Years_After_Saying_The_Same_Thing⠀⇛ Three years ago a US Senate Committee report showcased that the U.S. government’s cybersecurity defenses were the IT equivalent of damp cardboard. The study found numerous government agencies were using dated systems that were expensive to maintain but hard to properly secure. It also noted how from 2008 to 2018, the government repeatedly failed to adequately protect sensitive data at the Social Security Administration and Departments of Homeland Security, State, Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, Agriculture, Health and Human Services, and Education. # ⚓ Spam_is_Chipotle’s_secret_ingredient:_Marketing email_hijacked_to_dish_up_malware⠀⇛ Between July 13 and July 16, someone took over the Mailgun account owned by restaurant chain Chipotle Mexican Grill and placed an order for login credentials using misappropriated marketing messages. Phish-fighting firm INKY said on Thursday that it spotted 121 phishing emails during this period originating from Chipotle’s Mailgun account. [...] But a sample Microsoft phishing message published by INKY suggests that inconsistency would not have been visible to recipients. # ⚓ Apple_Undermines_Its_Famous_Security_‘For_The Children’⠀⇛ Apple is somewhat famous for its approach to security on its iPhones. Most famously, Apple went to court to fight the FBI’s demand that they effectively insert a backdoor into its on-phone encryption (by being able to force an update to the phone). Apple has tons of goodwill in the security community (and the public) because of that, though not in the law enforcement community. Unfortunately, it appears that Apple is throwing away much of that good will and has decided to undermine the security of its phone… “for the children” (of course). # ⚓ SAML_is_insecure_by_design⠀⇛ SAML uses signatures based on computed values. The practice is inherently insecure and thus SAML as a design is insecure. # ⚓ Open_Web_Application_Security_Project_(OWASP) online_community_web_application_security⠀⇛ # § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾ # ⚓ Facebook_Acting_Badly:_Shuts_Down Researchers_Accounts_Over_Claims_Of_Privacy Violations_That_Don’t_Stand_Up_To Scrutiny⠀⇛ Last year we wrote about Facebook threatening NYU researchers who had set up a browser extension that would allow users to voluntarily collect information about ads and ad targeting on Facebook — information that Facebook does not publicly reveal — and provide it to the researchers’ “Ad Observatory” project. As we noted at the time, Facebook’s threats were definitely going too far, though you could see how it came about, as it could be argued that there were technical similarities to what the NYU researchers were doing, and what an academic from Cambridge did many years ago that turned into… the Cambridge Analytica scandal, which resulted (in part) in a massive fine from the FTC for privacy violations. # ⚓ Twitter_Judge_Rejects_Early_Escape_From Youth_Exploitation_Suit⠀⇛ U.S. Magistrate Judge Joseph C. Spero in San Francisco said during a virtual hearing Friday he has tentatively concluded Twitter should face an accusation it benefited from the display of sexual images of the youths. # ⚓ Zoom’s_$85_Million_Settlement_Won’t Change_a_Thing,_but_It_Could_Get_You_a Refund⠀⇛ For the most part, the changes seem to apply to the second charge the company was hammered with; sharing data with third parties. For the most part, this data sharing occurs via software development kits, or “SDK’s”—tiny trackers that apps like Zoom use to know who’s using their product, and how often. SDK’s that are owned by Facebook or Google help the company retarget users with ads across Facebook- or Google-owned properties, like Instagram or Youtube. But by loading up their app with that software, Zoom’s sharing some sort of analytics with these two data-hoovering giants each time you hop on a video call. As part of the settlement, Zoom is agreeing not to integrate Facebook’s SDK into its iOS app for a year. It’s a change that doesn’t really mean much for two reasons; it ignores the fact that many Facebook SDKs are effectively useless in phones equipped with iOS 14′s privacy changes, and it ignores… Android phones. In other words, it’s very likely that the only reason Zoom’s caving on using these particular analytics is because they just don’t work in Apple’s OS anymore; not because they’re an obvious privacy problem. The company hasn’t yet responded to questions about what changes it plans to implement for Android devices. # ⚓ Zoom_to_pay_$85_million_in_settlements for_false_encryption_claims,_sharing_user data_with_Facebook_and_Google⠀⇛ Zoom has also been blamed for sharing user data with other tech majors like Facebook and Google, despite its promise of not selling user data to third parties. The lawsuit highlighted that Zoom used Facebook SDK and similar software development kits from other vendors that enabled the data transfer. The users thus had their personal information, associated with Zoom, shared with other online services without their consent. The list of other services that this data was allegedly shared with includes hotjar, Zendesk, AdRoll, Bing, and others. # ⚓ Zoom_Agrees_To_$85_Million_Settlement Over_Failure_to_Protect_Users’_Privacy⠀⇛ The settlement is pending approval by a judge, with a motion for preliminary approval filed on Monday in federal court in San Jose, the attorneys said. # ⚓ Zoom_to_Pay_$85_Million_Over_Encryption, Sending_User_Data⠀⇛ The proposed settlement [PDF] would give Zoom users either US$15 or US$25 each, depending on if you are a free user or a paid subscriber. It was filed Saturday at US District Court for the Northern District of California. In 2020 the company faced 14 class action lawsuits saying that it misled users about its security and privacy practices. Most of the claims were rejected but California District Judge Lucy Koh let two charges go through. # ⚓ Zoom_Raked_In_Revenue_While_It_Lied_About Encryption_And_Sent_Your_Data_To_Facebook⠀⇛ Where There Is A Sniff Of Data, There Is Facebook: While the end- to-end encryption lying was a reality and the lawsuit which followed subsequently, there were also concerns about Zoom sharing user data. With Facebook. Zoom claimed all this while that this was because the app gave users the option of logging in via Facebook, using the Facebook Software Development Kit. That SDK was later removed, though the option of using Facebook to sign in, using the web browser, remained. Zoom has always maintained that they never sold any user’s data. The data that was shared with FB, included user’s account information, what device they were using and that device’s unique advertising identifier. o § Defence/Aggression⠀➾ # ⚓ Answering_the_Armies_of_the_Cheated:_No_Questions_About War,_Please!⠀⇛ In fact, the armies of the cheated know exactly what happened, even if they haven’t yet settled on precisely the right term to describe the disaster that has befallen this nation. What happened was this: shortly after the end of the Cold War, virtually the entire American foreign-policy establishment succumbed to a monumentally self-destructive ideological fever. # ⚓ Journalist_Removed_From_McCarthy_Presser_Over_Question_on Jan_6_Commission⠀⇛ # ⚓ When_Will_They_Lift_the_Blockade?_Lessons_From_Cuba_to_Iraq and_Back_to_Cuba⠀⇛ A polite smile did not hide her deep anxiety. She wasn’t Venezuelan, not Iranian, not Syrian, nor a citizen of other nations struggling under U.S.- imposed sanctions. # ⚓ Remembering_the_Battle_of_Blair_Mountain⠀⇛ Hard-pressed tenant farmers from all backgrounds — white, black, brown, indigenous, women, men, including prominent indigenous women organizers — were involved with this abortive effort that became known as the Green Corn Rebellion.  Less well-known than even this virtually unknown Oklahoma uprising is the fact that it was born out of a secret multiracial network known as the Working Class Union, with an estimated 35,000 members in Oklahoma alone, which had been waging a campaign of armed resistance and industrial sabotage against the landed gentry and the mine operators of the region for years. Although most people reading this are probably people already fairly knowledgeable about historical events a lot of other people have never heard of, my guess is most of you have never heard of the Working Class Union in Oklahoma or their campaign of sabotage and armed struggle, or the fact that it was a consciously multiracial endeavor. # ⚓ Today’s_Crisis_in_Afghanistan_Grew_Out_of_20_Years_of_US War⠀⇛ # ⚓ As_the_U.S._Withdraws_From_Afghanistan,_China_Forges_Ties With_the_Taliban⠀⇛ China’s meetings with the Taliban are practical. China and Afghanistan share a very short—76- kilometer—border, which is relatively unpassable. But the real transit point between the two countries is Tajikistan, which has long feared the return of the Taliban to Kabul and the emergence of a free hand to extremism in Central Asia once more. From 1992 to 1997, a terrible civil war took place in Tajikistan between the government and the now- banned Islamic Renaissance Party; tensions over the growth of Taliban-inspired Islamism remain intact in the country. Tajikistan’s President Emomali Rahmon has sought assistance from Moscow and Beijing to help in case his country is overrun by refugees from Afghanistan. The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO)-Afghanistan Contact Group met in Tajikistan’s capital of Dushanbe on July 14. Afghanistan is not a member of the SCO, although it made an application to join in 2015. The day before that meeting, China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi visited President Rahmon in Dushanbe to discuss the deteriorating situation and “carry out more substantive security cooperation.” At the core of their agenda was President Rahmon’s pledge to prevent his country from becoming a base for extremism. # ⚓ Beirut_Explosion:_368_Days_Later⠀⇛ The blast that followed the explosion shook Beirut with a force akin to that of a 3.3 magnitude earthquake. Witnesses in the Eastern Mediterranean Island of Cyprus, more than 250 kilometers across the waters, felt the tremors. The destruction of the port, many city landmarks, and large swaths of Beirut’s downtown neighborhoods has left an indelible mark on the lives of Lebanon’s traumatized population. # ⚓ Austrian_court_sentences_Chechen_‘gunrunner’_to_life_in prison_for_Kadyrov_critic’s_murder⠀⇛ A court in Korneuburg, Austria, has sentenced 48- year-old Sarali Akhtaev to life in prison after finding him guilty of the murder of Chechen blogger Mamikhan Umarov. # ⚓ ‘Every_child_in_Novokolosovo_knows’:_Belarus_says_suspected ‘detention_camp’_is_a_military_arms_depot_built_in_the 1950s⠀⇛ On August 5, CNN released a report on a “possible prison camp for political dissidents” located outside of Minsk. The Belarusian government didn’t respond to requests for comment prior to publication, CNN said. But on August 6, both Belarusian state television and the Defense Ministry denounced the article as “fake news.” Defense officials maintained that the site is the location of an arms depot for the Belarusian air defense forces, which was built in the 1950s. The independent news outlet Zerkalo.io also reported that CNN’s article got “everything” wrong. That said, opposition activists in Belarus have previously warned that the Lukashenko regime may try to construct prison camps. # ⚓ We_Are_Not_an_Indispensable_Nation⠀⇛ The 30-year interregnum of US global hegemony,” writes David Bromwich in the journal Raritan, “has been exposed as a fraud, a decoy, a cheat, [and] a sell.” Today, he continues, “the armies of the cheated are struggling to find the word for something that happened and happened wrong.” # ⚓ Opinion_|_Nuclear_Weapons_Still_a_Clear_and_Present_Danger 76_Years_After_Hiroshima⠀⇛ Seventy-six years ago today at 8:15 am, Japan Standard time, the world changed forever with the dropping of the first atomic bomb over the city of Hiroshima resulting in the deaths of over 140,000 human beings—mostly civilians—by year’s end. # ⚓ Rejection_of_US_Hiroshima_Myths_Long_Overdue⠀⇛ The “good bomb” story is still believed by many in the United States because of decades of deliberate myth-making started by President Truman. He announced after Hiroshima, “The world will note that the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, a military base. That was because we wished this first attack to avoid, insofar as possible, the killing of civilians.” Some 140,000 people were killed in Hiroshima, another 70,000 in Nagasaki. Almost all were civilians. The bombs were dropped miles from the nearest military base in both cases. The incurious can be excused for accepting this cover-story — even though it was publicly rejected at the time by great thinkers and writers including Albert Camus and Dorothy Day — because documents that prove the president and his administration lied were kept secret for decades. # ⚓ 76_Years_After_Hiroshima_Bombing,_Fresh_Call_for_End_to_All Nuclear_Weapons⠀⇛ Peace advocates in Japan and around the globe on Friday marked the 76th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima with renewed calls for a world free of nuclear weapons and the existential threat they pose to humanity. “In just one blast, an entire city disappeared, and people were massacred. It was all too cruel. We must never allow nuclear weapons to be used again.”—Pak Nam-ju, survivor # ⚓ Blinded_by_the_Light:_Remembering_Hiroshima_and_Nagasaki_in the_Age_of_Normalized_Violence⠀⇛ Within a short time after the dropping of the atom bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, John Hersey wrote a devastating description of the misery and suffering caused by the bomb. Removing the bomb from abstract arguments endorsing matters of technique, efficiency, and national honor, Hersey first published in The New Yorker and later in a widely read book an exhausting and terrifying description of the bombs effects on the people of Hiroshima, portraying in detail the horror of the suffering caused by the bomb.  There is one haunting passage that not only illustrates the horror of the pain and suffering, but also offers a powerful metaphor for the blindness that overtook both the victims and the perpetrators. He writes: The nightmarish image of fallen soldiers staring with hollow sockets, eyes liquidated on cheeks and mouths swollen and pus-filled stands as a warning to those who would refuse blindly the moral witnessing necessary to keep alive for future generations the memory of the horror of nuclear weapons and the need to eliminate them. Hersey’s literal depiction of mass violence against civilians serves as a kind of mirrored doubling, referring at one level to nations blindly driven by militarism and hyper-nationalism and at another level the need to exorcise history which now functions as a curse. # ⚓ Mythmaking_and_the_Atomic_Destruction_of_Hiroshima_and Nagasaki⠀⇛ Reality: Hiroshima and Nagasaki were destroyed to prevent the Soviets from making a contribution to the victory against Japan, which would have forced Washington to allow Moscow to participate in the postwar occupation and reconstruction of the country. It was also the intention to intimidate the Soviet leadership and thus to wrest concessions from it with respect to the postwar arrangements in Germany and Eastern Europe. Finally, it was not the destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, but the Soviet entry into the war against Japan, which caused Tokyo to surrender. With the German capitulation in early May 1945, the war in Europe was over. The victors, the Big Three, [1] now faced the complex and delicate problem of the postwar reorganization of Europe. The United States had entered the war rather late, namely in December 1941. And the Americans only started to make a major contribution to the victory against Germany with the landings in Normandy in June 1944, that is, less than one year before the end of the hostilities in Europe. When the war against Germany came to an end, however, Uncle Sam occupied a seat at the table of the victors, ready and eager to look after his interests, to achieve what one might call the American war aims. (It is a myth that the presumably deeply isolationist Americans just wanted to withdraw from Europe: the country’s political, military, and economic leaders had urgent reasons for maintaining a presence on the old continent.) The other big victorious powers, Britain and the Soviet Union, also looked to pursue their interests. It was clear that it would be impossible for one of the three to “have it all”, that compromises would have to be reached. From the American point of view, the British expectations did not present much of a problem, but Soviet aspirations were a concern. What, then, were the war aims of the Soviet Union? # ⚓ Calling_Sanctions_by_Their_Name:_Rania_Khalek_on_US_Mideast Genocide⠀⇛ # ⚓ James_Early_on_Cuban_Embargo,_David_Cooper_on_‘We_All Quit’⠀⇛ # ⚓ The_Israeli-Palestinian_Conflict⠀⇛ # ⚓ First_Capitol_[insurrection]_defendants_plead_guilty_to officer_assaults⠀⇛ Prosecutors said that Thompson admitted that he “was among a crowd of individuals on the lower west terrace who were pushing against and assaulting MPD and U.S. Capitol Police (USCP) officers in the tunnel leading into the U.S. Capitol.” # ⚓ Over_24_Chadian_Soldiers_Murdered_in_Jihadist_Attack⠀⇛ The soldiers were attacked while resting after returning from patrolling the lake, which is located on the border between Chad, Niger, Nigeria, and Cameroon. Local authorities are already looking for the crime’s perpetrators. Since 2015, Lake Chad has been a refuge for the Islamic State in West Africa Province (ISWAP) and the Boko Haram group. # ⚓ Chad:_Dozens_of_soldiers_dead_after_jihadi_attack⠀⇛ The military blames Islamic fundamentalist group Boko Haram for the attack, but the region is also home to a rival splinter group called the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP). Lake Chad borders: Chad, Nigeria, Niger and Cameroon. Boko Haram began its insurgency in 2009 in northeastern Nigeria and gained a notorious reputation for its mass kidnapping of schoolgirls. The group later expanded its operations to neighboring countries. # ⚓ 9/11_families_to_President_Biden:_Don’t_come_to_our memorial_events⠀⇛ The victims’ family members, first responders and survivors will release a statement Friday calling on Biden to skip 20th-anniversary events in New York and Shanksville, Pennsylvania, and at the Pentagon unless he releases the documents, which they believe implicate Saudi officials in supporting the acts of terrorism. The group says that as a candidate Biden pledged to be more transparent and release as much information as possible but that his administration has since then ignored their letters and requests. # ⚓ Afghanistan:_Dawa_Khan_Menapal_assassinated_in_Kabul⠀⇛ The director of Afghanistan’s media and information centre has been assassinated by Taliban militants in the capital, Kabul. o § Transparency/Investigative Reporting⠀➾ # ⚓ Official_Secrets_Acts_Must_Not_Follow_U.S._Espionage_Act⠀⇛ The Courage Foundation is an international support network dedicated to protecting and promoting the rights of those who make disclosures in the public interest, including journalists and their sources. We study the effects of national and international laws on disclosure of government and classified documents, and our recommendations regarding proposed reforms to the Official Secrets Acts are based on our experience working with those who have suffered negative and sometimes grave consequences as a result of sincere efforts to inform the public about secret wrongdoing. o § Environment⠀➾ # ⚓ The_Grim_Legacy_That_Edwin_Edwards’s_Obit_Writers_Left Out⠀⇛ Edwin W. Edwards, 93, Louisiana’s only four-time governor, got a statesman’s funeral July 18 at the Louisiana state capitol in Baton Rouge. The fawning media attention after his death was a far cry from the battering coverage of the fast life that landed Edwards in federal prison, beginning in 2002, for eight years for bribery and extortion involving casino permits. Obituaries and career recaps celebrated a “flamboyant” populist champion of the little man, all but ignoring his staggering legacy of industrial pollution. # ⚓ UK_says_a_failure_to_act_on_the_climate_‘is_justified’⠀⇛ Three months before hosting the UN conference, COP- 26, the UK says a failure to act on the climate treaty can be justified. # ⚓ 460+_Groups_Demand_Biden_Pick_a_Climate_Champion_for_Key Energy_Position⠀⇛ With U.S. West plagued by raging wildfires and scientists warning of what the future holds on a rapidly heating planet, more than 460 advocacy groups on Friday urged President Joe Biden to choose a climate champion for a key federal energy post—and gave him three potential candidates. “We need a new FERC commissioner who will center science, justice, and equity, and end the era of dirty gas and other fossil fuels.”—466 groups # ⚓ A_10-Point_Platform_(and_Anti-Platform)_on_Climate_Change⠀⇛ These are all good questions, and we have been asked many more. So rather than reply ad hoc, we decided to assemble our answers in a carefully written but succinct document. That’s what follows. We have no illusions that our platform is going to turn the tide of battle in Gulfport, MS, Port Arthur Texas, Klamath County, Oregon, or Washington D.C. But it might be useful for activists, organizers, and anybody else trying to sort through the multiple proposals and counterproposals swirling around the most momentous issue of this or any other time. # ⚓ IPCC_to_Say_Drastic_Methane_Cuts_Necessary_to_Avert_Climate Hell⠀⇛ Slashing carbon dioxide emissions will not be sufficient to avert climate disaster unless the international community also acts boldly to stop releasing methane, a powerful greenhouse gas that is playing an increasingly significant role in intensifying planetary heating and extreme weather. “Cutting methane gives us time.”—Durwood Zaelke, Institute for Governance and Sustainable Development # ⚓ Climate-Linked_Drought_Leads_to_First_Ever_Shutdown_of California_Hydropower_Plant⠀⇛ California officials blamed the climate crisis- fueled drought and earlier lack of snowmelt in announcing Thursday that, for the first time ever, historic low water levels forced the hydropower plant at Lake Oroville to be taken offline. The development comes amid a massive drought gripping the western United States, with entire state of California experiencing some level of drought. # ⚓ Roaming_Charges:_Welcome_to_the_Pyrocene⠀⇛ + From Thomas Pynchon’s Mason & Dixon, as the surveyors look back at the swath of cleared forest removed to demarcate their infamous line… + A few words about fire. The temperate forests of North America evolved with fire. Fire has been a shaping force in forest ecosystems since the end of the last ice age. Forests have adapted to fire and been reborn out of it. From Yellowstone to the Oregon Coast Range, the Siskiyous to the Sangre de Cristos, forests have burned and remained forests. Douglas-firs, redwoods, Ponderosa pines, and Giant Sequoias have all evolved and even thrived under natural fire regimes. But not now. Not with these forest-killing infernos that burn for weeks and months, killing everything in in their paths, down to the soil itself. These fires are hotter and more intense. They burn longer, spread faster, travel farther. Of course, the climate has changed and it’s a driving force behind these super-charged fires. It’s hotter and drier, in both winter and summer. The moisture content of forest soils has withered. The understories of forests are dry and crisp. The snow pack has dwindled. The fogs of summer have dissipated. The warming climate has primed the forests to burn. But the forests themselves have changed–or rather–change has been inflicted upon them. The fire-resistant old growth trees–95 percent of them, anyway–have been logged off. The forests themselves have been fractured and fragmented by clearcuts, pipelines, power corridors, monocultural plantations, and a road network that in some places exceeds 10 miles per square mile of land. Fires, most of them, start near roads, many by accident others by design. Some for sick kicks, others for profit. There’s a dark history of arson for profit in America’s forests: for the jobs that come in putting them out and “cleaning” them up. Not just in the firefighting, but the roadbuilding and logging and milling and log exports that come afterwards. Managed forests–that is logged, roaded, grazed–forests burn and they tend to burn long and hot. Under normal circumstances, logging is an accelerate not a deterrent for fire. Under these extreme climate conditions, logging has fueled the infernos that have swept the West for the last decade. Last year was the worst fire season in the West in the last 2,000 years. This year will worse. And so, likely, will be the consecutive years of the next several decades. There’s no immediate solution and all of the proposed political responses will only exacerbate the crisis. Welcome to the Pyrocene. # ⚓ Western_States_Are_at_the_Forefront_of_Fighting_Hunger⠀⇛ # ⚓ Top_Scientists_to_Biden_and_Congress:_‘Go_Big_on_Climate… Do_So_Now’⠀⇛ Ahead of next week’s highly anticipated United Nations report on the climate emergency, 21 leading U.S. scientists on Friday urged President Joe Biden and federal lawmakers to “go big on climate action and to do so now.” “Climate change is here and already exerting a fearsome toll on people, critical ecosystems, and our economy.”—21 U.S. scientists # ⚓ Researchers_Fear_Gulf_Stream_System_Could_Catastrophically Collapse⠀⇛ # § Energy⠀➾ # ⚓ HSBC_Plans_to_Close_Asian_Coal_Plants_to_Curb Emissions_–_While_Also_Investing_£80_Billion_in_Fossil Fuels⠀⇛ Plans by HSBC to buy and close coal plants in Asia have been dubbed a “cynical” attempt to clean up the bank’s image before the COP26 climate conference by “one of the world’s top financiers of fossil fuels”.  This week HSBC joined a scheme led by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to buy coal- fired power plants in Asia and then close them within 15 years to help cut carbon emissions.  Stay up to date with DeSmog news and alerts # ⚓ Steven_Donziger,_Lawyer_Who_Sued_Chevron_over_Amazon Oil_Spills,_Marks_2_Years_Under_House_Arrest⠀⇛ Protests across the United States are calling for the immediate release of environmental and human rights lawyer Steven Donziger, who has been held under house arrest in New York for two years after being targeted by the oil giant Chevron. Donziger sued the oil giant in Ecuador on behalf of 30,000 Amazonian Indigenous people for dumping 16 billion gallons of oil into their ancestral lands. Ecuador’s Supreme Court ordered Chevron to pay $18 billion a decade ago, a major victory for the environment and corporate accountability. But Chevron refused to pay or clean up the land, and instead launched a legal attack targeting Donziger in the United States. A federal judge in July found Donziger guilty of six counts of criminal contempt of court after he refused to turn over his computer and cellphone. In an unusual legal twist, the judge appointed a private law firm with ties to Chevron to prosecute Donziger, after federal prosecutors declined to bring charges. “This is a broader threat to our society,” says Donziger. “We cannot allow in any rule-of-law country, or any country, private prosecutions run by corporations.” # ⚓ Indonesia_Begins_Construction_of_SE_Asia’s_Largest Solar_Power_Plant⠀⇛ Indonesia is stepping up its efforts to reach clean energy targets with the construction of a 145 megawatt (MW) floating solar power plant, set to be the largest in Southeast Asia. The project, with constructions underway in West Java, secured financing from state utility company Perusahaan Listrik Negara (PLN) and Masdar of United Arab Emirates on Tuesday. Solar may be Indonesia’s best shot of reaching its short-term clean energy target, an energy expert told the Jakarta Globe. The government aims to have 23 percent of energy coming from new and renewable sources by 2025, but by the end of last year, it was only halfway to the target. # § Wildlife/Nature⠀➾ # ⚓ Industrial_Agriculture_and_Brittany’s_Algae_Problem⠀⇛ The Australian public broadcaster SBS prides itself on its coverage of the Tour, having clocked up 30 years on the job. This year Australian viewers witnessed the eye candy of Brittany’s chateaux, antique churches, quaint villages, manicured rolling fields and pristine waterways, plus sumptuous food offerings – diversions from the carnage facing the riders for which the race organisers assume no responsibility. But no mega pig or poultry factory farms and no green algae. Brittany’s green algae problem # ⚓ Vanishing:_The_Bleaching_in_My_Backyard⠀⇛ # ⚓ Drought_Flood_Fire⠀⇛ Is the sky (actually) falling? According to SPEI Global Drought Monitor, the current drought cycle is worldwide. Only Antarctica is spared. In some corners of the world water reservoirs are dangerously low, big hydroelectric plants sputter, as long- standing verdant forests morph into dried-out firetraps. # § Overpopulation⠀➾ # ⚓ Recreation_at_risk_as_Lake_Powell_dips_to_historic low⠀⇛ Lake Powell is the second-largest reservoir in the United States, right behind Nevada’s Lake Mead, which also stores water from the Colorado River. Both are shrinking faster than expected, a dire concern for a seven- state region that relies on the river to supply water to 40 million people and a $5 billion-a-year agricultural industry. They are among several large bodies of water in the U.S. West that have hit record lows this summer, including the Great Salt Lake in Utah. Lake Oroville in California is expected to reach a historic low by late August, with the state’s more than 1,500 reservoirs 50% lower than they should be this time of year. o § Finance⠀➾ # ⚓ Job_Recovery_Is_Happening_Far_More_Quickly_Than_It_Did After_Great_Recession⠀⇛ # ⚓ Pelosi_Opposed_Student_Loan_Cancellation_After_Billionaire Ally’s_Memo⠀⇛ # ⚓ Republicans_Balk_at_Infrastructure_Adding_to_Deficit_After Opposing_Pay-Fors⠀⇛ # ⚓ ‘Inexcusably_Cruel’:_7.5_Million_Set_to_Lose_Jobless Benefits_on_Labor_Day⠀⇛ Unless Congress and the Biden administration act quickly, more than seven million people across the United States will soon completely lose unemployment benefits that were approved as part of the federal government’s emergency response to the coronavirus pandemic—which is nowhere near over. Cutting off benefits by Labor Day will leave 7.5 million workers without critical assistance they need to keep themselves financially stable until they can find a new job.”—Andrew Stettner, The Century Foundation # ⚓ GOP_‘Millionaires_Caucus’_Stands_to_Benefit_From Obstructing_Tax_Hikes_on_the_Rich⠀⇛ A new analysis by the government watchdog group Accountable.US finds that two-thirds of GOP senators—and more than 40% of House Republicans—are millionaires who stand to personally benefit from obstructing tax hikes on the wealthy proposed under Senate Democrats’ reconciliation package, which aims to invest in climate action and the tattered social safety net. “For corporations to successfully derail reform for working families, they will depend on the help of their millionaire friends in Congress who themselves stand to benefit from maintaining a broken status quo.”—Kyle Herrig, Accountable.US # ⚓ The_Inside_Story_of_How_We_Reported_the_Secret_IRS_Files⠀⇛ In late July, ProPublica hosted a virtual event with reporters and editors to talk about our reporting on the U.S. tax system. Thus far, the series has focused on how the ultrawealthy use legal stratagems not available to average Americans to avoid paying what many regard as their fair share of taxes. The stories that we’re collectively calling The Secret IRS Files have inspired calls for reform in Congress and ignited a national discussion around tax fairness and wealth inequality. Here are some excerpts from that event, featuring panelists: # ⚓ Progressives_Say_Student_Loan_Moratorium_Extension_‘Not Enough’_in_Call_for_Debt_Cancellation⠀⇛ As the U.S. Department of Education announced Friday that it would extend a moratorium on federal student loan payments through the end of January 2022, Democratic lawmakers and progressive advocacy groups urged the Biden administration to go even further and cancel at least $50,000—or even all—outstanding student loan debt in service of economic and racial justice. “We must continue fighting to cancel student debt and make public colleges and universities tuition- free and debt-free.”—Sen. Bernie Sanders o § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾ # ⚓ MLK’s_Family_and_Civil_Rights_Leaders_Call_for_Voting Rights_March_on_Washington⠀⇛ # ⚓ Violetta_Grudina_Brings_Political_Dissidence_to_Murmansk⠀⇛ In a recent Instagram story posted from a secure Covid hospital in Russia’s Arctic city of Murmansk, Violetta Grudina flashed a weary smile. “This is my happy face,” she told her 1,427 followers, holding up a plastic cup of glistening red currants and gooseberries sent by friends in a care package. # ⚓ Is_the_Party_Over_in_China?⠀⇛ Four decades of turbo-charged growth have given way to Xi Jinping thought. Enough is enough. Total party supremacy is what matters now. This ushers in the profits, not of doom, but slow growth. Entrepreneurs will feel the party’s wrath unless they heed it in every respect. Consequently, party cadres, with no business experience, have and will have a greater say in corporate decision making. # ⚓ Republicans_Are_Reaping_Millions_in_Donations_With_the “Pre-Checked_Box”⠀⇛ # ⚓ Bootlicking_Grifters,_Trumpenelft_Victims,_and_the Bourgeois-Democratic_God_That_Failed⠀⇛ One of the most depressing things I’ve beheld since the elections of the cruel fascistic maniac Donald Trump and the doddering neoliberal caretaker Joe Biden has been the determination of many people I formerly thought be of at least somewhat sound left mind to become useful idiots for the right. Look, for just one example among dozens, at Krystal Ball and Glenn Greenwald’s recent conspiratorial, paranoid-style claims that the “deep state” FBI is basically creating a false specter of right-wing terrorism. Relying on reporting from the mainstream New Republic, Ball and Greenwald blame the federal government for the specter of right-wing terrorism, as if the nation is not in fact rife with lethal neofascist white-supremacist terrorists. Consistent with their defense of Trump and other fascists against censorship and prosecution and their mockery of the notion that the fascist January 6th Capitol Riot was all that big a deal, they refuse to grasp the obvious fact that two things can be going on at the same time: that the FBI was recruiting, funding, and planning terror plots and that neofascists are also perfectly sincere, active, and deadly serious in their plans to act. # ⚓ Opinion_|_Any_Delay_to_Save_Democracy_Is_a_Loser’s_Game⠀⇛ The right to vote is fundamental to a democracy. Today in America, however, that right is under partisan attack across the country. If it is to be defended, nonpartisan reforms must pass across a partisan divide. The question now is whether Democrats will join together to protect the right to vote from the assault it faces from Republicans at every level of government. # ⚓ As_Fascist_GOP_Threat_Grows,_Dems_Verge_on_Historic_Failure to_Secure_Voting_Rights⠀⇛ The window for action to protect voting rights from the GOP’s nationwide assault is rapidly closing as Democrats—despite controlling both chambers of Congress and the White House—fail to take the steps necessary to pass federal legislation that would expand ballot access, restore the gutted Voting Rights Act of 1965, and end partisan gerrymandering. “Tick tock, folks. Kill the filibuster. Pass the For the People Act. End gerrymandering. And do it now. Or we all know what’s coming.”—Ezra Levin, Indivisible # ⚓ Opinion_|_No_Senate_Recess_Until_Voting_Rights_Protected⠀⇛ To paraphrase Mark Twain, reports of the death of the voting rights, anti-corruption, anti- gerrymandering legislation pending in Congress are greatly exaggerated. This urgently needed legislation is still alive, belying the claims made for months by political pundits and commentators. # ⚓ Unions_Are_the_Heart_of_Arizona’s_Political_Change⠀⇛ In May, Governor Doug Ducey of Arizona signed into law SB 1268—an anti-union bill critics say violates federal law and the Constitution—firing a shot at organized labor as Arizona Republicans seek to hold power ahead of the 2022 midterm elections. # ⚓ ‘They_spat_into_the_souls_of_veterans’_Russian_authorities launch_probe_into_Moscow_play_after_veterans’_rights_groups say_it_offends_them⠀⇛ Investigative Committee head Alexander Bastrykin has ordered a probe into Moscow’s Sovremennik Theater for staging a play that allegedly “offended veterans.” The play, which is called “First Bread” and stars actress Liya Akhedzhakova, has been the target of complaints from several veterans’ organizations that say it contains “same-sex love propaganda” and “incites ethnic hatred,” in addition to offending veterans. Meduza takes a look at the controversy. # ⚓ ED’S_DESK:_News_Corp_Columnist_Lectures_Others_On ‘English’._Wat_Coold_Posibly_Go_Rong?⠀⇛ If you live in a glass house, it’s never a good idea to throw stones. Equally, if you’re a News Corp columnist planning to use sarcasm to lecture other people about ‘The Queen’s English’… well, you’ll do yourself less injury living in a glass house… and throwing stones. Over to Ed’s Desk to explain the Courier-Mail’s latest self-inflicted injury…. # ⚓ China_Launches_Campaign_Against_‘Fake_News’_Amid_Flood_Row With_BBC⠀⇛ It said that while Chinese state media like Xinhua, CGTN, and Radio China International are statutorily compelled to relay CCP propaganda, the UK’s public broadcaster practiced “fact-based journalism” and enjoyed editorial freedom. The BBC on July 27 called for “immediate action by the Chinese government to stop the attacks on journalists following reporting on the floods in Henan Province.” # ⚓ Twitter_says_it_has_appointed_permanent_officials_in_India required_under_revised_IT_rules⠀⇛ Twitter has appointed permanent employees to three key positions required under the revised Information Technology rules, the US-based microblogging platform told the Delhi High Court on Friday, more than two months after the regulations took effect. Twitter said it had appointed a chief compliance officer cum resident grievance officer, and hired a nodal contact person, as required under the rules that govern significant social media intermediaries. # ⚓ Democratic_senators_increase_pressure_to_declassify_9/11 documents_related_to_Saudi_role_in_attacks⠀⇛ Menendez and Blumenthal are co-sponsors of the September 11th Transparency Act of 2021. The bill, introduced Thursday, would require the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) to oversee a full declassification review of the government’s investigation of the 9/11 attacks. Families of the victims of the 9/11 attacks are seeking government documents related to Saudi Arabia’s role in aiding or financing any of the 19 individuals associated with the terrorist group al Qaeda and who carried out the devastating attack on the twin towers of the World Trade Center in lower Manhattan, the Pentagon, and the downing in Pennsylvania of a hijacked flight. The families are party to a lawsuit against Saudi Arabia alleging Riyadh’s involvement in organizing the attack and are calling out the Department of Justice and the FBI for continuing to block the release of key intelligence related to the Kingdom’s connection under the guise of the “states secret privilege.” # ⚓ Release_Details_of_Saudi_Involvement_or_Stay_Away_From Memorials,_9/11_Families_Tell_Biden⠀⇛ Nearly 1,800 family members, survivors, and first responders who were affected by the September 11 attacks are intensifying pressure on the federal government to declassify information that they believe points to Saudi leaders’ involvement in or support for the attacks, with the group calling on President Joe Biden to stay away from next month’s 20th anniversary memorial events unless he releases the documents first. “Through multiple administrations, the Department of Justice and the FBI have actively sought to keep this information secret and prevent the American people from learning the full truth about the 9/11 attacks.”—9/11 Families # ⚓ 9/11_families_tell_Biden_not_to_attend_victims_memorial events⠀⇛ “Since the conclusion of the 9/11 Commission in 2004 much investigative evidence has been uncovered implicating Saudi government officials in supporting the attacks,” the letter reads. “Through multiple administrations, the Department of Justice and the FBI have actively sought to keep this information secret and prevent the American people from learning the full truth about the 9/11 attacks.” # ⚓ Josh_Hawley’s_Orwellian_“Love_America_Act”_and_the_fascist campaign_to_rewrite_history⠀⇛ Malignant normality creates a playground for fascism and other forms of right-wing maleficence. The Jim Crow Republicans and other elements of the white right are taking advantage of this broken America to escalate their attacks on free speech, reason, truth, reality, human and civil rights and multiracial democracy by weaponizing the nearly meaningless term “critical race theory.” (Yes, the term has a real meaning in academic discourse, but not as bandied about by Republicans in 2021.) o § Misinformation/Disinformation⠀➾ # ⚓ Killer_Disinformation:_How_Anti-Vaccine_Propaganda_Hijacked American_Political_Discourse⠀⇛ Republican officials and their supporters in rightwing media have bitterly attacked the Biden administration for pressuring social media to crack down on this disinformation. Senator Marsha Blackburn condemned as “shocking” Biden’s effort “to work with Big Tech companies to censor Americans’ free speech,” depicting it as “a violation of the First Amendment,” although her attack would surely amuse Constitutional scholars, since users of social media platforms do not benefit from First Amendment free speech rights, which are applied against government, not private corporations. Former Trump administration advisor Stephen Miller appeared on Fox News’s Hannity to deride the Biden administration and “creeping authoritarianism from the left,” which he claimed “has now reached a full gallop” after the President’s attempts to target vaccine disinformation on social media. For those who have been following the numbers, national polling data reveal that the United States is facing an epidemic of ignorance when it comes to mass opposition to vaccination, and this willful ignorance is killing people in mass. As of early August, an estimated 39 percent of adult Americans were not yet fully vaccinated. Of that group, 80 percent say they probably (35 percent) or definitely (45 percent) will not get vaccinated in the future. And as reporting by the summer of 2021 made abundantly clear, virtually all of the patients admitted to hospitals requiring urgent care, and all the deaths due to Covid-19 were among the unvaccinated. # ⚓ NYU_Researchers_Were_Studying_Disinformation_On_Facebook. The_Company_Cut_Them_Off⠀⇛ The researchers at the NYU Ad Observatory launched a tool last year to collect data about the political ads people see on Facebook. Around 16,000 people have installed the browser extension. It enables them to share data with the researchers about which ads the users are shown and why those ads were targeted at them. Facebook said on Tuesday that it had disabled the researchers’ personal accounts, pages, apps and access to its platform. # ⚓ There’s_a_better_way_for_Facebook_to_resolve_its_fight_with NYU_researchers⠀⇛ So let’s talk about Facebook’s decision to disable the pages and personal accounts associated with the Ad Observatory project at New York University, which took data that had been volunteered by willing Facebook users and analyzed it in an effort to better understand the 2020 election and other subjects in the public interest. In one corner, you have academic researchers working to understand the platform’s effects on our democracy. In the other, you have a company battered by nearly two decades of privacy scandals and regulatory fines, forever terrified that a Cambridge Analytica sequel is lurking somewhere on the platform. # ⚓ Facebook’s_justification_for_banning_third-party researchers_‘inaccurate,’_says_FTC⠀⇛ The research itself was based on a browser plug-in called Ad Observer, which Facebook users can install to collect information about which political ads they’re shown and why. This information is pooled by the researchers, and used to find out more about political advertising. As well as helping track who is funding political campaigns, this work helps track misinformation on Facebook, as political ads aren’t fact-checked. The Ad Observer plug-in is still live and operational, but Facebook banned the pages advertising the project on the social network as well as the personal accounts of researchers involved in the work. # ⚓ FTC_rejects_Facebook’s_justification_for_cutting_off researchers_as_‘inaccurate’⠀⇛ The Federal Trade Commission has dismissed as “inaccurate” Facebook’s claim that it cut off a group of researchers’ access to data to comply with a privacy agreement with the agency, according to a letter obtained by The Washington Post. On Tuesday, the social media giant disabled the accounts of researchers at the New York University Ad Observatory, which tracks digital advertisements on the platform, saying in a blog post it did so to comply with a privacy order it struck with the FTC. # ⚓ FTC_hits_Facebook_over_‘inaccurate’_explanation_for_banning researchers⠀⇛ The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) slammed Facebook for sharing an “inaccurate” explanation after it suspended the accounts of researchers who have been critical of the platform. The agency’s acting director of Bureau Consumer Protection, Samuel Levine, sent a letter to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Thursday calling out the company for using what Levine deemed a misleading claim in its explanation. o § Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾ # ⚓ Roskomnadzor_unblocks_‘Genius’_website_after_it_removes banned_songs⠀⇛ The website Genius — one of the world’s largest collections of song lyrics — is once again accessible in Russia. The federal censor, Roskomnadzor (RKN), lifted restrictions on the site after it deleted the lyrics of banned songs.  # ⚓ Internet_freedom_declines_further_in_Thailand⠀⇛ Internet freedoms in Thailand are “73% restricted”, it said, placing the country among a small group — along with Belarus, Qatar, Syria, Turkmenistan and the United Arab Emirates — assigned a score of 8 out of 11, with 11 being North Korea and China. Full details can be seen in the interactive map published on the Comparitech website. Thailand’s score declined significantly from 6 out of 10 in 2020, mainly because of increased censorship of adult websites including Pornhub, one of the 20 most-visited sites in the country, Comparitech said. # ⚓ Censorship_on_the_Rise_Worldwide⠀⇛ Since the start of the Covid pandemic, there’s been a rise in instances of government censorship of books around the world. In October 2020, the International Publishers Association released a 106-page report, “Freedom to Publish: Challenges, Violations and Countries of Concern,” that outlined 847 instances of censorship in a host of countries, including France, Iran, Serbia, and the United Kingdom, as well as the United States. According to the report, in 55% of those instances, the censorship was undertaken by government authorities. The report is downloadable from the IPA website. # ⚓ Opposition_leaders_accuse_Centre_of_‘selectively_using’ House_channels⠀⇛ Former information and broadcasting minister Manish Tewari alleged that the Lok Sabha Television, which airs proceedings of the House, was “censoring” content in a “concerted effort to squelch dissent in the supreme legislative institution”. “Lok Sabha TV is not the property of a particular political party, it must show proceedings in (an) unbiased manner. The selective focusing of the camera is (the) worst form of censorship,” the Congress MP tweeted. # ⚓ ‘A_slippery_slope’:_Liberals’_proposed_online_harms_bill raises_serious_privacy,_free_speech_concerns,_say_experts⠀⇛ It would create a new digital safety commissioner, who would have the authority to send inspectors into workplaces and homes to search for documents, software, and information. It also brings Charter concerns about unreasonable search and seizure violations, critics say. o § Freedom of Information/Freedom of the Press⠀➾ # ⚓ Fighting_Malta’s_Rule_of_the_Jungle:_The_Daphne_Caruana Galizia_Inquiry⠀⇛ In such a climate, the State duly failed in recognising “real and immediate risks” including from criminally minded third parties facing Caruana Galizia and also “failed to take measures within the scope of its powers which, with reasonable judgment […] was expected to take to avoid that risk.” Caruana Galizia was killed on October 17, 2017 by a car bomb.  For years she produced exemplary copy, baffling her peers and causing those flutters of irritation that eventually became headaches for the authorities.  Her efforts involved an incremental unmasking of rotting institutions.  She unearthed the network of offshore companies ranging from the British Virgin Islands to Panama, linking them to funnelled funds from Malta’s government officials in alleged money laundering efforts.  She exposed the cash-for-passports scheme in 2013 which was described by members of the European Parliament as “fomenting corruption, importation of organized crime and money laundering.”  Members of the Maltese government preferred to call this a matter of being “business friendly”. # ⚓ Preliminary_Assange_Appeal_Hearing_Scheduled_for_August 11⠀⇛ Following that hearing, the High Court will schedule a date to hear full appeal arguments. # ⚓ ACLU_calls_on_DOJ_to_enact_permanent_protections_for journalists_covering_protests⠀⇛ The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is calling on the Justice Department (DOJ) to enact permanent protections for journalists and legal observers at protests, including preventing federal agents from arresting or using physical force against these individuals. In a letter sent Friday to Attorney General Merrick Garland and shared exclusively with The Hill, the ACLU, along with the National Association of Black Journalists and the NewsGuild-CWA labor union, urged the DOJ to adopt protections for journalists and legal observers at protests within the department’s law enforcement guidelines for First Amendment-protected events. # ⚓ Altan:_Journalism_is_considered_to_be_a_“crime”_in_Turkey⠀⇛ “The government wants to connect all media companies to itself,” Altan stated, emphasizing that journalism is considered to be a “crime” in Turkey. He continued: “Once it is unable to control the media, the government exerts even more pressure on the free press. This is something we see on the ground when there is an incident and the journalists who want to report it are exposed to police violence. Journalists are beaten, detained, their cameras are seized and blocked in every way. The government has issued an order banning journalists from carrying out their duties. Those who want to protest on the ground and in the streets, as well as journalists who want to report them, are barred from doing so. Even worse, journalists are persecuted and tortured. # ⚓ Calls_Grow_For_Release_of_Wuhan_Citizen_Journalist_on Hunger_Strike⠀⇛ Citizen journalist Zhang Zhan, 37, was sentenced to four years’ imprisonment by Shanghai’s Pudong District People’s Court on Dec. 28, 2020. One of a group of citizen journalists detained, jailed or “disappeared” after they went to the central city of Wuhan to cover the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, Zhang was sent to see the doctor by prison authorities on July 31 amid rising concerns for her health on hunger strike. # ⚓ A_Cycle_of_War_Crimes:_Today’s_Crisis_in_Afghanistan_Grew Out_of_20_Years_of_U.S._War⠀⇛ As the United Nations Security Council holds an emergency session to discuss the crisis in Afghanistan, we speak with Polk Award-winning journalist Matthieu Aikins, who is based in Kabul. The Taliban have been seizing territory for months as U.S. troops withdraw from the country, and the group is now on the verge of taking several provincial capitals. “In the 13 years I’ve been working here, I’ve never seen a situation as grim,” says Aikins. # ⚓ Taliban_Rampage_Puts_Afghan_Journalists_in_Crosshairs⠀⇛ “It’s a major success of the last 20 years,” he said. “That’s because Afghans wanted it and embraced the media. Authoritarian terrorist groups like the Taliban have no time or respect for the media. It’s a dangerous time for Afghan journalists. They are some of the bravest journalists I have met.” # ⚓ UK_offers_haven_to_Afghan_journalists⠀⇛ Although the term “UK” has previously been used to mean only British forces, diplomats and officials, it will be widened to include British media organisations. o § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾ # ⚓ Appeals_Court_Says_No_Sovereign_Immunity_For_Turkish Security_Forces_Who_Attacked_DC_Protesters⠀⇛ In 2016, Turkish president Recep Erdogan visited the United States, bringing with him his security team, as most foreign dignitaries do. That much of the visit was normal. What wasn’t so normal was his team’s decision to attack protesters, critics, and journalists on US soil — something that really wasn’t necessary considering Washington DC’s Metro police were already on the scene, keeping protesters away from Erdogan and the Turkish ambassador’s residence. # ⚓ ‘Long_Past_Time_to_Fire_DeJoy’:_Postmaster_General’s_Ex- Company_Gets_$120_Million_Contract⠀⇛ U.S. lawmakers and ethics advocates on Friday reiterated calls for firing Postmaster General Louis DeJoy after The Washington Post revealed that the United States Postal Service awarded a $120 million contract to XPO Logistics, a company he helped run and “with which his family maintains financial ties.” “Louis DeJoy is a walking conflict of interest,” declared Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-Va.). “He had no business being named postmaster general, and he has no business continuing to serve.” # ⚓ Tech_Rights_Are_Workers’_Rights:_Doordash_Edition⠀⇛ Doordash maintains that its workers are “independent contractors” who can pick and choose among the delivery jobs available from moment to moment, based on the expected compensation. Given the outsized role that tips play in Dashers’ compensation, you’d think that the company would tell the workers the size of the tip that its customers had offered on each job. But that’s not the case. Though customers input their tips when they place their orders, the amount is hidden from drivers until they complete the job – turning each dispatch into a casino game where the dealer knows the payout in advance but the worker only finds out whether they’ve made or lost money on a delivery after it’s done. Dashers aren’t stupid – nor are they technologically unsophisticated. Dashers made heavy use of Para, an app that inspected Doordash’s dispatch orders and let drivers preview the tips on offer before they took the job. Para allowed Dashers to act as truly independent agents who were entitled to the same information as the giant corporation that relied on their labor. # ⚓ Meet_Zhan_Beleniuk_Ukraine’s_first_Black_lawmaker_won_the country’s_first_gold_at_the_Tokyo_Olympics⠀⇛ Greco-Roman wrestler Zhan Beleniuk won Ukraine’s first gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics on August 4. The 30-year-old Kyiv native, who became Ukraine’s first Black lawmaker in 2019 and was subsequently sanctioned by Russia, celebrated his win with a traditional folk dance. Beleniuk took home a silver medal at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics in 2016 and has won both European and world championships multiple times. However, in conversation with journalists after his win, the wrestler revealed that he almost didn’t compete in Tokyo after sustaining a shoulder injury three weeks before the start of the games. # ⚓ Remembering_Richard_Trumka:_Union_Leaders_Reflect_on_Death of_AFL-CIO_Head_&_Labor_Movement_Challenges_Ahead⠀⇛ Richard Trumka, the longtime president of the AFL- CIO and one of the most powerful labor leaders in the United States, has died of a heart attack at the age of 72. Trumka’s death has prompted an outpouring of tributes from fellow labor figures, activists and lawmakers, including President Joe Biden. Trumka was a third-generation coal miner from Pennsylvania who, at the age of 33, became the youngest president of the United Mine Workers of America. He continued climbing through the ranks of organized labor for the rest of his life, fighting campaigns against apartheid in South Africa, racism within the labor movement and anti-union rules across the United States. He was elected president of the AFL-CIO, the country’s largest labor federation, in 2009. “We were broken by the news,” says Arlene Holt Baker, former executive vice president for the AFL-CIO and friend of Trumka’s. “He’s the brother in our movement who fought in so many ways for what was right.” We also speak with veteran labor organizer José La Luz, who says Trumka’s main challenge was fighting the erosion of worker power. “What we have witnessed in the past few decades is a massive distribution of wealth from the bottom to the top,” says La Luz. “This remains a fundamental challenge for whoever is going to take up the mantle.” # ⚓ ‘Governments_Are_Spying_on_the_People_Who_Bring_Us_the News’⠀⇛ Janine Jackson interviewed Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Cindy Cohn about Pegasus spyware for the July 31, 2021, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript. # ⚓ CCO_Of_Activision_Blizzard_Busy_Blocking_Everyone, Including_Employees,_On_Twitter_Amid_Fair_Employment Lawsuit⠀⇛ Good public relations, when mired in a controversy, isn’t always easy, but it does tend to be quite simple. If you have a controversy on your hands, be direct, be honest, be transparent, do not attempt to paper over the controversy with other good works already done, and for the love of god do not give any indication that you’re turning a deaf ear to those who are upset over the controversy. # ⚓ Pathologizing_Dissent⠀⇛ That was when dissenting POWs were repatriated – to a country averse to hearing their criticisms of the war. Instead, U.S. media, politicos and military bigwigs pathologized these protesters, implying that they were weak and had been tortured into supporting the North Vietnamese. Or they had been brainwashed – something communists supposedly excelled at. The word “trauma” was bandied about, and the proper place for these protester’s views was deemed the psychiatrist’s office. A new book, Dissenting POWs, by Tom Wilber and Jerry Lembcke assails this nonsense that protest is pathological, by detailing how such rubbish littered public discourse since the late 1970s. The book announces its aim: to restore “to proper prominence the record of antiwar voices within the POW population.” A big part of that is removing the mental illness smear, which has enabled interested parties to smother critiques of war, critiques are based on politics and morality, not an emotional debility. The chief interested party is the military, but there’s also the rest of the imperial government and its stenographers in the media. # ⚓ Oleg_Navalny_handed_one-year_suspended_sentence_in_the ‘Sanitary_Case’⠀⇛ Russian courts handed down sentences to two more defendants in the so-called “Sanitary Case,” on Friday August 6. # ⚓ Hidden_camera_captures_customs_agent_demanding_a_bribe⠀⇛ The video was not the first indication of corruption on Hernández’s part. The Federation of Tamaulipas Chambers of Commerce and the vice president of the Confederation of National Chambers of Commerce (Concanaco) have accused the same agent of committing acts of corruption against both merchants and tourists. Concanaco vice president Julio Almanza Armas said his reports to the General Customs Management Office received no response. # ⚓ Saudi_Arabia:_fresh_persecution_following_country’s presidency_of_G20_–_new_report⠀⇛ Crackdown has seen jump in executions and jailings by notorious anti-terror court At least 39 people currently behind bars for their activism ‘As soon as the G20 spotlight on Saudi Arabia faded the authorities resumed their ruthless pursuit of people’ – Lynn Maalouf # ⚓ Doctor_Hossam_Metwally_poisoned_partner_in_‘exorcism ritual’⠀⇛ He believed there were a number of the entities “hiding” inside his partner, the court heard, and that he had to remove them by reciting verses of the Koran and placing holy water and oils on her skin. Jurors heard he had performed more than 250 rituals, and made dozens of recordings over a four- year period starting in 2016. # ⚓ Former_anaesthetist_found_guilty_of_poisoning_his_partner during_exorcism_rituals⠀⇛ The police investigation revealed that Dr Metwally had been supplying and administering a range of anaesthetic drugs to his partner, as well as performing a Muslim exorcism ritual on her, known as Ruqya. His administration of potentially lethal anaesthetic drugs and the use of restraints during the ritual were his own dangerous perversions of this ritual. # ⚓ The_‘fanatical’_doctor_who_carried_out_bizarre_exorcism_on nurse_to_free_her_of_evil_spirits_–_and_nearly_killed_her⠀⇛ The trial started on June 14 but could not be reported until now because of a blanket ban court order postponing publication. A second trial had been due to take place but Metwally has this afternoon pleaded guilty to two charges of voyeurism against two female patients, triggering the lifting of the restrictions. # ⚓ Encoded_messages_from_Australian_law_enforcement⠀⇛ The police would know that the courts would make suppression orders on reporting in each of these cases. Nonetheless, the suppression orders could not prevent people joining the dots between these cases. The police want us to think about the connection between these cases. Why? Well, the suppression orders and trials may take two or three years to be resolved. Australia’s next federal election must be held on or before 3 September 2022. People who want to run for public office or vote have a right to know that the Prime Minister and Parliament rapist attended the same church. In a case like this, is informing the voters more important than protecting potential jurors from information about the accused? o § Internet Policy/Net Neutrality⠀➾ # ⚓ The_FCC_finally_made_a_new_broadband_map_of_the_US⠀⇛ It’s also worth noting that the map isn’t based on data that the FCC collected or crowdsourced. FCC acting chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel said in a news release that the data was provided by the carriers who don’t have a great reputation for having the most accurate picture of where they do and don’t provide broadband (though the FCC is working on getting a better picture of home internet availability, and The Verge and Consumer Reports are working on examining how cost-effective broadband is). The map also doesn’t address the issue with home internet availability, which has been a long-running concern. o § Monopolies⠀➾ # ⚓ You_Can’t_Be_Tough_On_Big_Tech_While_Killing_Off Alternatives_To_It⠀⇛ The Biden administration has been talking a big game about being “tough on Big Tech” and Silicon Valley monopolies. But right now they’re quietly defending a provision in the must-pass Infrastructure Bill that targets software developers who are building alternatives to the exact Big Tech systems the administration decries. # ⚓ Daniel_Hanley:_Federal_Communications_Commission_Must_Block Verizon’s_Acquisition_of_TracFone⠀⇛ In late July, Democratic senators sent a letter to the Federal Communications Commission urging the agency to investigate the acquisition of TracFone, the largest prepaid carrier, by Verizon, the second-largest wireless phone carrier in the U.S. The FCC should use its broad merger review authority to block it outright. With prepaid service, consumers pay for a set amount of cellular usage upfront rather than receive a bill at the end of the month. While such a service may seem like a relic of the 1990s, more than 74 million Americans rely on the service as a low-cost and accessible alternative to traditional cellular plans provided by Verizon, AT&T, and T- Mobile. # § Patents⠀➾ # § Software Patents⠀➾ # ⚓ This_Captcha_Patent_Is_An_All-American Nightmare⠀⇛ Defenders of the American Dream, LLC (DAD ), is sending out its demand letters to websites that use Google’s reCAPTCHA system, accusing them of infringing U.S. Patent No. 8,621,578. Google’s reCAPTCHA is just one form of a Captcha test, which describes a wide array of test systems that websites use to verify human users and keep out bots.  DAD’s letter tells targeted companies that DAD will take an $8,500 payment, but only if “licensing terms are accepted immediately.” The threat escalates from there. If anyone dares to respond that DAD’s patent might be not infringed, or invalid, fees will rise to at least $17,000. If DAD’s patent gets subject to a legal challenge, DAD says they’ll increase their demand to at least $70,000. In the footnotes, DAD advises its targets that “not-for-profit entities are eligible for a discount.”  The DAD demand letters we have reviewed are nearly identical, with the same fee structure. They mirror the one filed by the company itself (with the fee structure redacted) as part of their trademark application. This demand letter campaign is a perfect example of how the U.S. patent system fails to advance software innovation. Instead, our system enables extortionate behavior like DAD’s exploding fee structure.  # § Copyrights⠀➾ # ⚓ Why_Companies_Keep_Folding_to_Copyright_Pressure, Even_If_They_Shouldn’t⠀⇛ Here is the deal. Online platforms that host user content are not liable for copyright infringement done by those users so long as they fulfill the obligations laid out in the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). One of those obligations is to give rightsholders an unprecedented ability to have speech removed from the internet, on demand, with a simple notice sent to a platform identifying the offending content. Another is that companies must have some policy to terminate the accounts of “repeat infringers.” Not content with being able to remove content without a court order, the giant companies that hold the most profitable rights want platforms to do more than the law requires. They do not care that their demands result in other people’s speech being suppressed. Mostly, they want two things: automated filters, and to be paid. In fact, the letter sent to Twitter by those members of Congress asks Twitter to add “content protection technology”—for free—and heavily implies that the just course is for Twitter to enter into expensive licensing agreements with the labels. Make no mistake, artists deserve to be paid for their work. However, the complaints that the RIAA and record labels make about platforms are less about what individual artists make, and more about labels’ control. In 2020, according to the RIAA, revenues rose almost 10% to $12.2 billion in the United States. And Twitter, whatever else it is, is not where people go for music. # ⚓ World_Kung_Fu_Governing_Body_Uses_Copyright_Law_to Hunt_Down_YouTube_Critics⠀⇛ The world governing body for kung fu is using copyright law to identify a user who allegedly made defamatory remarks about the organization on YouTube. The action by the International Wushu Federation is taking place in Australia’s Federal Court where a judge has ordered Google to hand over subscriber information. The action appears connected to a kung fu controversy in Turkey. # ⚓ YouTube_Rippers_Shut_Down_in_US_&_UK_After_Giving_Up Legal_Fight⠀⇛ YouTube rippers FLVTO.biz and 2conv.com have closed their doors to visitors from the US and UK. The services are “permanently unavailable” according to a message posted on the sites. This drastic decision follows shortly after their operator backed out of the legal battle against several record labels, which now hope to get a default judgment in US court. ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 4373 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐃𝐀𝐈𝐋𝐘 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒 ═════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 08.07.21⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ ✐ Links_8/8/2021:_dbForge_Schema_Compare_for_PostgreSQL_1.2_and_New_Release_of MULTICS⠀✐ Posted in News_Roundup at 8:22 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇GNOME bluefish⦈ § Contents⠀➾ * GNU/Linux o Distributions o Devices/Embedded * Free_Software/Open_Source * Leftovers * § GNU/Linux⠀➾ o § Audiocasts/Shows⠀➾ # ⚓ What_we_learned_from_Hands_On_w/_the_Steam_Deck⠀⇛ # ⚓ The_ONE_REASON_why_I_fell_in_LOVE_with_LINUX_(and_a_lot_of other_reasons)⠀⇛ Today, we’re going to go to a very happy place: the time when I started using desktop Linux, and why I fell in love with it. So grab a cup of tea, or coffee if you’re THAT sort of person, wrap yourself in a cozy blanket, and close your eyes, because it’s story time! # ⚓ I_Still_Burn_CDs,_DVDs_and_Blu_Ray_(And_You_Should_Too!)⠀⇛ People often ask me about backing up data. While there are a lot of good options for backing up data in the short term; for long term archival storage, there is really only one thing I trust. Blu-ray. # ⚓ Touch_Cursor_Linux:_A_Better_Way_Too_Type⠀⇛ One of things that’ll always slow you down when typing is taking your hands out of the optimal typing so what if you could minimise having to do so as much as possible, this is touch cursor linux which moves all you other typing keys into an alternative layer around your home row. # ⚓ What’s_The_Point_Of_A_Linux_Init_System⠀⇛ Every Linux system has an init but have you ever thought about what an init has to do, not what they various implementations do but broken down to the core what an init has to actually do. I hadn’t either and the result was actually kind of surprising. o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾ # ⚓ How_To_Install_phpPgAdmin_on_Ubuntu_20.04_LTS_–_idroot⠀⇛ In this tutorial, we will show you how to install phpPgAdmin on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. For those of you who didn’t know, PhpPgAdmin is a web-based database management interface for PostgreSQL. It provides an easy way to manage PostgreSQL through the web interface. This article assumes you have at least basic knowledge of Linux, know how to use the shell, and most importantly, you host your site on your own VPS. The installation is quite simple and assumes you are running in the root account, if not you may need to add ‘sudo‘ to the commands to get root privileges. I will show you the step-by-step installation of the phpPgAdmin 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_monitor_disk_space_usage_with_shell_script⠀⇛ It is an important task for Linux administrators to monitor disk space usage on any system that’s used for hosting critical applications, in order to prevents the system from becoming unresponsive or get into an unknown problem. # ⚓ Remove_files_and_folders_in_the_Linux_terminal_| Opensource.com⠀⇛ To remove a file on a computer using a graphical interface, you usually drag a file or a folder to a “trash” or “recycle” bin. Alternately, you might be able to select the file or folder you want to remove, right-click, and select Delete. When removing a file or folder in the terminal, there is no trash bin, at least by default. On a graphical desktop, the Trash is a protected directory so that users don’t accidentally trash the Trash, or move it from its default location and lose track of it. The Trash is just a highly managed folder, so you can make your own Trash folder for use in your terminal. # ⚓ Our_favorite_Chrome_flags_you_should_try_on_your Chromebook⠀⇛ Chrome OS 92 arrived to Chromebooks on Monday this week following a week of delay, and it’s packed with a ton of helpful features to supercharge your ability to communicate on Chrome OS. There are several additional features and tweaks that are not yet part of the default experience — a few we detailed earlier this week. That’s because they’re still in development and need polishing before being made available for millions of Chromebook users around the globe. Google has hidden these work-in-progress Chrome OS features, or “flags,” behind a page in the Chrome browser, and you’d be wise not to enable them at random — the wrong one could render your device unusable. o § Games⠀➾ # ⚓ Seems_the_Valve_Steam_Deck_has_been_impressing_people_with some_hands-on_time_|_GamingOnLinux⠀⇛ Recently a bunch of people from other sites went to Valve’s offices for some hands-on time with the Steam Deck and it seems the overall impression was pretty positive. Like a lot of others, we’re in the waiting line for whenever our unit ships early next year so we’re currently going by whatever info Valve give out and by what other lucky people think after testing. Obviously Valve are going with the top few PC gaming sites / video content creators to make as big a splash as possible, they’re certainly doing massively better on pushing it this time compared with the Steam Machines. With that in mind, we do have a few videos to show from others. # ⚓ FSR_Integrated_in_RPCS3_Emulator;_Magpie_Tool_Lets_You_Add It_in_Virtually_Every_Game⠀⇛ AMD FSR, the FidelityFX Super Resolution spatial upscaling technique, has now been integrated into RPCS3, the PlayStation 3 emulator for PC. The news came yesterday from the official Twitter account of the emulator. [...] For those who yearn to activate FSR in (almost) every game, the open source tool Magpie, developed by Liu Xu and Steve Donaghy, promises to do just that. There are several zoom modes to pick from, from the traditional Lanczos to FSR, recommended for 3D games. o § Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾ # § K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt⠀➾ # ⚓ Latte_Dock_0.10.0_Released_for_KDE_with_Floating Dock/Panel_Support⠀⇛ Latte Dock 0.10.0, the popular dock launcher for KDE Plasma, is available with exciting new features. The release introduced floating dock and panel feature. In “Edit Dock -> Appearance” settings you can move the slider of “Screen edge” under Margins, so the dock/panel will no longer stick to the screen edge. # ⚓ Krita_4.4.7_Comes_Strictly_to_Fix_7_Bugs,_Krita_5_is Coming_Soon⠀⇛ With the release of Krita 4.4.7, all eyes are now focused on the forthcoming Krita 5 release, which is expected to be released in the next few months. Krita is a free and open source painting software that can be used by both professional and amateur artists. It offers an alternative to the most expensive software of its kind. With its line up of tools and powerful capabilities, it has become a favorite program for illustrators, texture renderers, concept designers, and 2D artists. The program contains simulations for all kinds of techniques, including watercolor, oil paint, charcoal and pastel chalk. By default Krita offers many types of brushes that artists can use depending on what they are most comfortable with. These brushes are designed to perform unique functions to meet specific needs. Krita 4.4.5 was released earlier in June this year. If you are wondering where version 4.4.6 is, the answer is that there is no Krita 4.4.6. That version number was created only for the release on the Epic store. # ⚓ KDE_is_All_About_the_Apps,_an_Akademy_2021_recap_– TheBlindCow⠀⇛ Besides the talks, something very important about Akademy is the meetings you get to have with the different people working across KDE products. Our community work can fall into small groups, it’s in this occasions when we get to share and collaborate that we have that opportunity to make a big difference, at large. o § Distributions⠀➾ # § SUSE/OpenSUSE⠀➾ # ⚓ HP_EliteBook_840_G7_with_openSUSE_Continued⠀⇛ The HP EliteBook 840 G7 is a fantastic, 14″ chassis computer to take on the go that gives you long battery life, good performance and a fantastic keyboard for long sessions of writing or whatever tasks you might need that keyboard. As far as design goes, this really is a great machine, it looks nice, feels great, works fantastically well and has all the right features. I highly recommend this particular model for anyone that needs a capable, battery efficient, light weight computer that just looks good. This computer can, quite easily, be upgraded and therefor extending the life of this machine for many years. The only thing of which you may need to be very aware is the life of the battery. Outside of that, the build of this computer suggests that it should continue to be useful for many years. Great job HP! Now I’d like to see some kind of deal with the openSUSE folks about some sort of OEM offering. If HP provided some kind of openSUSE out-of-the-box experience would be absolutely fantastic. So, hopefully, some talks between the two organizations about this can happen. # § Canonical/Ubuntu Family⠀➾ # ⚓ It’s_Time_for_Ubuntu_to_Opt_for_a_Hybrid_Rolling Release_Model⠀⇛ Even if you are not an Ubuntu user, you probably are aware of its release model. There is a long term support (LTS) release that comes every two year and gets supported for five years. In between the two LTS releases, we see three non-LTS releases that are released at an interval of six months. The LTS version retains the same kernel (unless you opt for HWE kernel) and it also holds on to various software components to provide a stable production environment. The non-LTS Ubuntu releases that come in between feature new features from Ubuntu, newer kernel, new desktop environment and newer version of various software available from Ubuntu repositories. # ⚓ LTTng_Latest_Stable⠀⇛ LTTng (Linux Trace Toolkit Next Generation) project repository. For more information: http://lttng.org Most of the LTTng utilities are now packaged in Debian/Ubuntu, but this PPA offers the latest stable versions. Ubuntu 12.04 and up are supported. Problems, questions, comments? Please let us know: http://lttng.org/contact You can also report bugs at: https:// bugs.lttng.org/projects ==== SETTING UP LTTng 2.x ==== LTTng 2.x features a unified trace-control client "lttng" to control both kernel tracing (through lttng-modules) and userspace tracing (through UST). The client itself is shipped in the "lttng-tools" package. To install the toolchain: $ sudo apt-add-repository ppa:lttng/ppa $ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install lttng-tools lttng- modules-dkms babeltrace You may also want to install: liblttng-ust-dev: To compile applications instrumented with UST tracepoints python3-babeltrace: Python bindings for babeltrace Once the modules are installed correctly, you can start tracing right away. No need to reboot! You can now refer to http://lttng.org/ quickstart to use the kernel or userspace tracers. ==== Daily build packages ==== If you prefer living on the edge, you can use the latest development versions in the daily PPA: https://launchpad.net/~lttng/+archive/ daily # ⚓ ernel_Tracing_With_LTTng_On_Ubuntu_Maverick⠀⇛ “Linux Tracing Toolkit (LTTng) provides high- performance kernel tracing for Linux. This is the killer app for system level debugging and performance tuning. It’s now easier than ever to install, with packages released for Ubuntu Maverick. The short introduction to kernel tracing shows how to interpret a simple kernel trace and relate it to strace. I would like to ask Slashdot readers what they would expect as features for a kernel tracing analysis tool, because I’m starting my PhD on this topic and looking for ideas. Also, I wonder why LTTng is not mainline yet. Will Linus Torvalds see the light in 2011?” o § Devices/Embedded⠀➾ # § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ Google_says_Pixel_6,_6_Pro_coming_this_year_with custom_AI_acceleration⠀⇛ Google today said the latest iteration of its Android smartphones, the Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro, are coming this fall. So far the internet advertising goliath has only offered a glimpse of the gear: no official specifications have been released. The Pixel 6 and 6 Pro look like your standard high-end 6.ish-inch aluminium-framed smartphones. The Pixel 6 Pro is expected to sport a 6.7″ 120Hz screen, 5G connectivity, and a raised bank of cameras on the back that includes a wide-angle main sensor and one with a 4X optical-zoom telephoto lens. o § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾ # ⚓ New_Release!⠀⇛ MR12.7 has been released. See MR12.7 for information about this new release. # ⚓ MULTICS_Gets_A_New_Release…_52_Years_After_Launch_| Hackaday⠀⇛ If you have ever read anything about the history of UNIX, you may remember that its early development was influenced by an older operating system. MULTICS was developed in the 1960s by MIT and General Electric as a commercial operating system, and had been the system which UNIX writers [Thompson] and [Ritchie] had used. It became a Honeywell product, and the source code for its final commercial version was eventually released to the public. Has it become a dusty relic of interest only to historians? Seemingly not, because a new version has been released. It’s intended for us on the dps8m Honeywell mainframe simulator rather than physical hardware, so perhaps while it’s not such a dusty relic it remains something only for the enthusiast. # § Web Browsers⠀➾ # § Chromium⠀➾ # ⚓ Google_hits_undo_on_Chrome_browser_alert_change that_broke_websites,_web_apps⠀⇛ Google has temporarily reversed Chrome’s removal of browser alert windows and other prompts created via cross-origin iframes after a rocky rollout over the past two weeks broke web apps and alarmed developers. An iframe, or Inline Frame, is a portion of a web page embedded in another web page. When it includes resources from a different origin or domain, it’s a cross-origin iframe. Since March, 2020, the team behind Chromium, the open-source engine of Chrome, has been planning to limit the capabilities of cross-origin iframes because they’re a security liability. Specifically, they allow an embedded resource like an ad to present a prompt as if it were the host domain. # § Mozilla⠀➾ # ⚓ TenFourFox_FPR32_SPR3_available⠀⇛ TenFourFox Feature Parity Release 32 Security Parity Release 3 “32.3″ is available for testing (downloads, hashes). There are, once again, no changes to the release notes and nothing notable regarding the security patches in this release. Assuming no major problems, FPR32.3 will go live Monday evening Pacific time as usual. FPR32.4 will appear on September 7 and the final official build FPR32.5 on October 5. # § SaaS/Back End/Databases⠀➾ # ⚓ dbForge_Schema_Compare_for_PostgreSQL_1.2_Released with_a_Bunch_of_New_Features⠀⇛ Devart rolled out dbForge Schema Compare for PostgreSQL version 1.2. The release brought a number of new features and major improvements. Devart, one of the leading developers of database management software, ALM solutions, and data providers for the most popular database servers, introduced the update of dbForge Schema Compare for PostgreSQL – version 1.2. # § Programming/Development⠀➾ # ⚓ Does_the_world_need_another_cross-platform_framework? Tough,_here’s_JetBrains_with_Compose_Multiplatform_• The_Register⠀⇛ An open-source Kotlin framework for cross- platform applications, based on Jetpack Compose for Android, is now in preview. Google’s Jetpack Compose is an official framework for building a user interface in an Android application, and reached version 1.0 last week, at the same time as the first stable release of Android Studio, 2020.3.1 or “Arctic Fox”. Despite only just hitting 1.0, Google said: “There are already over 2,000 apps in the Play Store using Compose – in fact, the Play Store app itself uses Compose.” # § Perl/Raku⠀➾ # ⚓ samcv:_I_am_resigning_from_The_Perl Foundation⠀⇛ It is with great sadness that I must announce my resignation as chair of the Perl Foundation’s Community Affairs Team (CAT, the team that responds to Code of Conduct reports), effective immediately. Normally this would be a hard decision to make, but I have no choice given TPF’s recent actions. A Charter and a Code of Conduct could and should have been passed many months ago by the Board of Directors. Sadly this has not happened. The TPF Board of Directors has now unilaterally retracted all of the CAT’s transparency reports of 2021 (first, second). This includes the second transparency report that the TPF Board itself approved the contents and penalties of. Retracting the CAT’s transparency reports sends the message the Board of Directors is not willing to support the CAT, and is not prioritizing the safety of the community. I was not involved in the decision by the Board of Directors. Remaining on the Community Affairs Team would imply I accept or support TPF’s actions. I do not. The reason given by the Board of Directors, was that the CAT shouldn’t have acted before a Charter was passed. And since the CAT acted without such a Charter, all of its reports need to be retracted. Even the ones previously approved by the same Board of Directors! # § Python⠀➾ # ⚓ Python_3.9_vs_Python_3.10:_A_Feature Comparison⠀⇛ * § Leftovers⠀➾ o § Health/Nutrition⠀➾ # ⚓ The_Untold_Story_of_Purdue_Pharma’s_Cozy_Relationship_With the_American_Medical_Association⠀⇛ The American Medical Association’s new training on pain management arrived in the midst of a burgeoning crisis. It was September 2007, and doctors were prescribing enough opioid painkillers each year for every American adult to have a bottle of the addictive pills. Overdoses were at a historic high and showed no signs of slowing down. Just four months earlier, executives at Purdue Pharma had pleaded guilty to felony charges for misleading regulators and physicians about the dangers of OxyContin. In light of this news, one might have expected the AMA—the prestigious organization that bills itself as the “unified voice” of America’s doctors dedicated to “the art and science of medicine and the betterment of public health”—to bring attention to the crisis in its newly updated continuing education course on how to treat pain. Instead, the 12-module training suggested that doctors were still too tentative about prescribing narcotics. “The effectiveness of opioid therapy may be undermined by misconceptions about their risks, particularly risks associated with abuse and addiction,” read materials from one session. The class included ideas like “pseudoaddiction,” referring to when pain patients seem “inappropriately drug seeking,” but aren’t truly addicted—rather, they just needed more pills. o § Integrity/Availability⠀➾ # § Proprietary⠀➾ # § Security⠀➾ # ⚓ Golang_Cryptomining_Worm_Offers_15%_Speed_Boost [Ed: The typical Microsoft-leaning FUD, looking to associate Go with malice just because -- gasp! -- people can use the language to write malicious programs]⠀⇛ The latest variants of the Monero- mining malware exploit known web server bugs and add efficiency to the mining process. # § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾ # ⚓ Frank_Ch._Eigler:_hash_attack⠀⇛ Apple has announced that it will start scanning your personal files on your devices for “Child Sexual Abuse Material”, as identified by its cryptographic hash. It will apparently match hashes against a database of hash codes of “known” bad content distributed by some sort of well- meaning activist organization. A match will apparently trigger an automatic disabling of one’s Apple account, just for starters. Not creepy at all, right? Hey don’t worry, it’s not like political activists are trying to stop the spread of right wing hate memes via the exact same image-hash-code matching technology. Oh wait. # ⚓ Got_your_number:_Privacy_concerns_hobble Nigeria’s_digital_ID_push⠀⇛ Joining several other countries, including Kenya, Uganda and India, Nigeria’s government is in the process of rolling out a digital identity system to enable easier access to public and private services. But, like those and other digital ID projects around the world, Nigeria’s initiative has been dogged by privacy concerns, with citizens and rights groups saying the country’s lack of data protection leaves their personal information open to abuse. By October 2020, six years after the government launched a national electronic identity card, less than a quarter of Nigeria’s 200 million people had signed up for a National Identification Number (NIN), according to the agency overseeing the scheme. o § Transparency/Investigative Reporting⠀➾ # ⚓ Apple_Whistleblower’s_Advice_to_Potential_Whistleblowers: “Your_employer_is_not_going_to_be_on_your_side.”⠀⇛ For the National Whistleblower Center’s National Whistleblower Day celebration, which Whistleblower Network News (WNN) co-sponsored, WNN had the pleasure of interviewing Thomas le Bonniec. In 2019, le Bonniec worked in Ireland for a subcontractor employed by Apple. When he first started the job, he was enthusiastic about the location and good pay, but he quickly took issue with what the job entailed: listening to user recordings from Siri, Apple’s virtual assistant. “I disagreed from the first day with what I was supposed to do at my job,” le Bonniec says during the interview. He stayed at the job for two months, but when he listened to a recording from a pedophile, he decided he couldn’t stay on any longer. That was also the moment le Bonniec decided that the public needed to know what was going on. o § Finance⠀➾ # ⚓ The_Evolution_of_Shopping_in_the_Digital_Economy⠀⇛ Earlier this year, The Economist published a special report on The Future of Shopping, with nine articles on the subject. In its overview article, The Economist argued that “a new species of shopper is emerging: less centered on America, more intent on ensuring that what they buy reflects what they believe, and technologically dexterous. This latest incarnation of the global consumer looks likely to change how capitalism works – for the better.” Three major changes are transforming the world of retailing. First, Western Europe and North America are no longer the biggest retail markets; nor do they epitomize the leading edge of retail as has long been the case, with innovations like the department store, the mall, catalogue shopping, and e-commerce. Shoppers are increasingly Asian. “Last year China and America were almost neck-and-neck as the world’s biggest retail markets. China’s two biggest online marketplaces, Alibaba’s Taobao and Tmall, both do more third-party business than Amazon.” And Asia’s shoppers are now at the frontier of retail, with innovations like livestreaming e-commerce. # ⚓ Venezuela_to_Roll_Out_New_Monetary_Reconversion_| Venezuelanalysis.com⠀⇛ The Venezuelan Central Bank (BCV) will overhaul the national currency beginning in October. A BCV communique on Thursday announced the launch of the digital bolívar (BsD), wiping off six zeroes and replacing the sovereign bolívar (BsS) in an attempt to “introduce a simpler monetary scale.” “The monetary scale adjustment [...] is necessary at a moment when the country begins on the path of economic recovery following the crisis produced by brutal attacks against our economy, our currency, and the criminal imposition of a financial blockade,” the BCV statement read. # ⚓ Europe_mulls_anonymous_crypto-wallet_ban,_rules_to_make transfers_more_traceable⠀⇛ The European Commission has put forward legislation requiring cryptocurrency exchanges and other companies to ensure crypto-asset transfers include the personal details of the customers involved. That information is set to include the sender’s name, address, and date of birth, and the name of the receiver. Anonymous crypto-asset wallets are banned, too, under the proposals, which are supposed to ensure crypto-payments and suchlike are transparent and traceable. Anonymous bank accounts are already outlawed by the EU, after all. Europe has rules in place to clamp down on money laundering, and the proposed laws would extend that red tape to the “entire crypto sector, obliging all service providers to conduct due diligence on their customers,” according to an announcement this week. Officials also want to limit all cash payments to €10,000 in all member states, making it more difficult to shift large amounts of money. EU nations with lower limits can keep those limits. o § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾ # ⚓ US_labor_official_suggests_Amazon’s_Alabama_workers_rerun that_unionization_vote⠀⇛ Amazon interfered with a formal election by its warehouse workers in Alabama to unionize – and staff ought to be given a second chance to vote again, an official at the US National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has concluded. After pro-union employees, represented by the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU), working at the BHM1 fulfillment center in Bessemer in the Cotton State lost their unionization election in April, the union swiftly filed objections to the labor relations board. “A free and fair election was impossible,” said [PDF] Kerstin Meyers, an NLRB hearing officer, this week. “Under the circumstances, I recommend that a second election be ordered.” o § Internet Policy/Net Neutrality⠀➾ # ⚓ BT_says_it’s_trading_in_line_with_expectations_as_revenue slides_and_pre-tax_profit_shrinks⠀⇛ BT’s revenues slipped during the three months to the end of June – when French-owned Altice took a 12.1 per cent stake in the business and the telco went some way to resolving an industrial dispute. Overall – across its consumer, enterprise, global, and infrastructure businesses – the former state- run monopoly reported revenues of £5.071bn, down 3 per cent year-on-year and trading as expected, BT said. ╘══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╛ ¶ Lines in total: 5298 ➮ Generation completed at 02:40, i.e. 51 seconds to (re)generate ⟲