𝕿𝖊𝖈𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍𝖙𝖘 Bulletin for Wednesday, August 18, 2021 ┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅ Generated Thu 19 Aug 02:50:12 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/2021/08/18/ ╒═══════════════════ 𝐑𝐄𝐂𝐄𝐍𝐓 𝐁𝐔𝐋𝐋𝐄𝐓𝐈𝐍𝐒 ════════════════════════════════════╕ Previous bulletins in IPFS (past 21 days, in chronological order): QmQoYA3rtYhK4AhVVweyrKCMnCpdqN6saCz8cj1d9f9MXX QmYPuxGxUuA2otUfB7HDtRmTpivWTUWAabpcpCcCWUjDPe QmTWNbUkuvdmDn7t3Fk2bJVTcpy7AaW5viHLRpUMPZqPmN QmYLHQ18BUjsoqQrYh2hfAARNThKQwcJMPEWNrHSRDqpbJ QmNSNxDGf8uW24qwfnLjXrvXVvHmUMuSgb1HJu756yHhud QmRS9PeWnJkwSM9uFwhXg9oWnWvAdJYnqn5BvY4mFwyNtW Qmeww9N1YnQ2Znw5A9zRvL5cLmS649Q6VCiDCx91X2ZJqo QmZG8SsTJ2EBg5zMrWS4NdoMh7QZt2TnLqG82m3jgLsAZd QmUBS5HzGuXErkfDwpHxMKeu8if7jt5YH6ph1UrqNMz1B4 QmSWfDrRGYcLy39sAw1ufjzyZqmJSUhgxqCS1mGSB3cgvL QmNxGTwQ4Jqei88THW4dMGEZoRKbJsm6pBPtpAahou3GQi QmXBU6oKqgN1Lsd8vCX9iBHiUi66fm8iL3uXsJgyh4LH33 QmW2EY2r5wFnfosCfi1BSdBM7GSdTj92HYk4q7e3g7b9WR QmSkz4YGj3vTuC8Q6t7fPmQkSbvtThba65AHUjyotSbHLW QmWZ187KL1KiuWZ2T69aUFqaDmvDMVo7e6ALsQCK58yNP1 QmY1VJmnrgnvD1UeZntn4kd7Q7Jkehp6eqZHBkGEiqnTdi QmaFyToU47jF5UkU2CTtva1HKGz8X6fJ9MiRnoN9EVF2PR QmfBw8KjEL4jUBLnCDfDMTME9vkCdKPKjn6wFninkuMEkV QmPdYmkA2hjyfyb9e14JCR2pZHcisLHLdZcWJARrrMyhgf Qmb89E6YUPLiH43tv6JNBD4QzFumg2nk2gABmYEbbPv2KP QmXVwu1HjvyJZ3HSFKoFGkBp26Y9G8sfvY6NBAe4KoK6Kp ╒═══════════════════ 𝐈𝐍𝐃𝐄𝐗 ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⦿ Corruption is Everywhere, But EPO Officials Very Well Know the Law and They Know That They Break the Law | Techrights ⦿ [Meme] Who Needs Laws Anyway? | Techrights ⦿ An EPO Administrative Council Exposé — Part XIV: No Great Loss... | Techrights ⦿ IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, August 17, 2021 | Techrights ⦿ [Meme] Every Publisher in Europe Was Supposed to Cover EPO Corruption | Techrights ⦿ Warning: Campaign of Disinformation by Team UPC | Techrights ⦿ U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Has a Deep Revolving Doors Crisis (Former Officials Cashing in as Lobbyists and Private Sector Actors) | Techrights ䷼ Bulletin articles (as HTML) to comment on (requires login): http://techrights.org/2021/08/18/epo-breaking-the-law/#comments http://techrights.org/2021/08/18/epo-without-laws/#comments http://techrights.org/2021/08/18/goodbye-emruli/#comments http://techrights.org/2021/08/18/irc-log-170821/#comments http://techrights.org/2021/08/18/meme-every-publisher-in-europe-was-supposed-to-cover-epo-corruption/#comments http://techrights.org/2021/08/18/team-upc-weaponised-lies/#comments http://techrights.org/2021/08/18/uspto-revolving-doors-kappos-iancu/#comments ䷞ Followed by Daily Links (assorted news picks curated and categorised): http://techrights.org/2021/08/18/amiga-500-back/#comments http://techrights.org/2021/08/18/krita-5-0-beta/#comments http://techrights.org/2021/08/18/nailing-cargo-1-0-0/#comments ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 67 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at http://techrights.org/2021/08/18/epo-breaking-the-law/#comments Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2021/08/18/epo-breaking-the-law/ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 08.18.21⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ ✐ Corruption_is_Everywhere,_But_EPO_Officials_Very_Well_Know_the_Law_and_They Know_That_They_Break_the_Law⠀✐ Posted in Europe, Patents at 7:03 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz Video_download_link | md5sum d08d1cbcd472f59035ff22396506d6b9 http://techrights.org/videos/emruli-series-summary.webm Summary: Hard on the heels of the "EPO_Administrative_Council_Exposé" we make one last video and prepare ourselves for the next series THIS is the last video about this particular series, which deals with enablers of Benoît_Battistelli and António_Campinos in light of another new scandal (as fresh as months ago). It helps show how EPO governance really works (or does not work) because this is how ‘ViCo’ became_mandatory and European_software patents were shoved down our throats. The EPO has no sense of law; it’s a corrupt dictatorship. “We recently saw a number of megaphones/loudspeakers of Team UPC resigning, so there’s a sign of fatigue.”There’s a lot more coming, both articles and videos, and we’ll probably tackle the latest misinformation regarding the UPC quite soon. We recently saw a number of megaphones/loudspeakers of Team UPC resigning, so there’s a sign of fatigue. Their articles did not age well. 4 days later we see that Bristow still tweaks its own ‘articles’, even several times per day. Corruption tends to breed itself and where corrupt officials are prevalent (sometimes installed by outsiders) corruption inevitably follows. █ ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 113 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at http://techrights.org/2021/08/18/epo-without-laws/#comments Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2021/08/18/epo-without-laws/ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 08.18.21⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ ✐ [Meme]_Who_Needs_Laws_Anyway?⠀✐ Posted in Deception, Europe, Fraud, Law, Patents at 7:27 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇'It_came_from_Campinos';_baby_yoda:_die_trash,_Fucking_EPC⦈_ In a fantastic act of dynamic interpretation, Josef puts the EPC out of its misery for babyface Tony. 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇Visser_on_EPC⦈_ Yes, Sir Visser. Your book now deals with imaginary (or theoretical) laws. 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⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢠⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⣿⣙⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣞⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣾⣿⣿⣴⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢠⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 208 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at http://techrights.org/2021/08/18/goodbye-emruli/#comments Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2021/08/18/goodbye-emruli/ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 08.18.21⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ ✐ An_EPO_Administrative_Council_Exposé_—_Part_XIV:_No_Great_Loss…⠀✐ Posted in Europe, Patents at 6:45 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz Series index: 1. An_EPO_Administrative_Council_Exposé_—_Part_I:_A_New_EPO_Balkan_Affair? 2. An_EPO_Administrative_Council_Exposé_—_Part_II:_A_Mysterious_Fist-Bumping Masquerade_in_Skopje 3. An_EPO_Administrative_Council_Exposé_—_Part_III:_A_Longtime_Associate_of the_Doyen 4. An_EPO_Administrative_Council_Exposé_—_Part_IV:_A_Party_Political_Animal 5. An_EPO_Administrative_Council_Exposé_—_Part_V:_Sharing_Out_the_Spoils_of Public_Office 6. An_EPO_Administrative_Council_Exposé_—_Part_VI:_A_Learned_Legal_Luminary 7. An_EPO_Administrative_Council_Exposé_—_Part_VII:_An_Academic_Institution With_a_Political_Mission 8. An_EPO_Administrative_Council_Exposé_—_Part_VIII:_An_Inspector_Calls 9. An_EPO_Administrative_Council_Exposé_—_Part_IX:_“There_Are_Indications_of a_Violation_of_the_Law…” 10. An_EPO_Administrative_Council_Exposé_—_Part_X:_A_“Fall_Guy”_For_the Deputy_Minister? 11. An_EPO_Administrative_Council_Exposé_—_Part_XI:_Captured_States_in_the EU’s_Waiting_Room 12. An_EPO_Administrative_Council_Exposé_—_Part_XII:_Captured_Delegates_on the_Administrative_Council? 13. An_EPO_Administrative_Council_Exposé_—_Part_XIII:_In_Good_Company… 14. You are here ☞ No Great Loss… 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇Emruli_and_Campinos⦈_ Emruli was an unquestioning supporter of Battistelli’s “reign of terror” and he continued to turn a blind eye to the ongoing mismanagement of the Office under the new President, António_Campinos. Summary: Emruli is gone and “EPO staff can now be excused for heaving a collective sigh of relief at his departure.” The main focus of the present series has been the sudden and mysterious “disappearance” of Safet Emruli from the EPO‘s Administrative Council at the end of 2020. The casual observer might be inclined to dismiss the misconduct which led to his resignation as a relatively trivial case of “moonlighting” or “double- jobbing”. But given that he was a graduate of a law school and held an academic teaching position prior to his appointment as Director of the SOIP, there is a legitimate expectation that he should have conducted himself in a more ethical and legally compliant manner. However, the available information indicates that Emruli showed a deliberate and wilful “blindness” to the rules and regulations governing academic appointments in North Macedonia. “…the available information indicates that Emruli showed a deliberate and wilful “blindness” to the rules and regulations governing academic appointments in North Macedonia.”In any case, the media reaction in support of Gjorgji Ilievski shows that Emruli’s “double-jobbing” did not go down well in his home country – a “captured state” where the lives of ordinary citizens are bedevilled by official corruption and the lack of a functional rule of law, notwithstanding the carefully cultivated democratic façade. The rank and file of EPO staff are also unlikely to shed any tears over Emruli’s departure from the Administrative Council. “As far as is known, Emruli – in his capacity as a member of the organisation’s governing body – never once raised his voice in protest against Benoît Battistelli’s excesses.”In this regard it should be remembered that he was a long-serving member of an Administrative Council which tolerated massive and egregious abuses of power and authority on the part of the chief executive of the European Patent Office. As far as is known, Emruli – in his capacity as a member of the organisation’s governing body – never once raised his voice in protest against Benoît Battistelli‘s excesses. 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇Battistelli_and_Macedonia⦈_ Emruli is mentioned several times in this_2012_puff_piece/PR (warning: epo.org link) Like most of his colleagues on the Administrative Council, he turned a blind eye while Battistelli and his minions were permitted to conduct internal witch- hunts targeting staff representatives and union officials. As_subsequently confirmed_by_the_ILOAT_in_June_2018, this persecution of staff representative and union officials relied on bogus charges of “serious misconduct” and kangaroo-court procedures that made a mockery of due process. “And last but not least, let it not be forgotten that Emruli was one of the 28 delegates that voted in favour of Battistelli’s infamous “Strike Regulations” at the 136th Meeting of the Administrative Council in June 2013.”Emruli has written scholarly articles on the importance of judicial_independence and the role_of_constitutional_courts in protecting the rule of law, but in his capacity as a member of the EPO’s governing body he failed miserably to apply his theoretical knowledge in practice. This is clearly demonstrated by the manner in which he voted in favour of Battistelli’s botched “reform” of the Boards of Appeal in 2016. In this regard, it deserves to be pointed out that the inveterate “double- jobber” at the University of Tetovo also rubber-stamped the imposition of disproportionate restrictions on the post-service employment of former Board members, without any provision being made for compensation due to loss of income. “In summary, Emruli’s track record as an Administrative Council delegate during the years of Battistelli’s presidency between July 2010 and June 2018 seems to be one of unquestioning “collaboration” with the reign of terror conducted by the Corsican despot and his lackeys.”And last but not least, let it not be forgotten that Emruli was one of the 28 delegates that voted_in_favour_of Battistelli’s_infamous_“Strike_Regulations” [PDF] at the 136th Meeting of the Administrative Council in June 2013. The crass illegality of those strike regulations was confirmed recently when they were struck_down_by_the_ILOAT on 7 July 2021 – after being allowed to remain in force for a period of eight_years (!). In summary, Emruli’s track record as an Administrative Council delegate during the years of Battistelli’s presidency between July 2010 and June 2018 seems to be one of unquestioning “collaboration” with the reign of terror conducted by the Corsican despot and his lackeys. “Or maybe he was just too busy with his academic “sideline” at the University of Tetovo to notice what was really going on at the EPO…”Emruli’s culpability in this regard is compounded by the fact that, following Battistelli’s departure, he continued to turn a blind eye to the ongoing mismanagement of the Office under the new regime of António Campinos. Or maybe he was just too busy with his academic “sideline” at the University of Tetovo to notice what was really going on at the EPO… “…EPO staff can now be excused for heaving a collective sigh of relief at his departure.”Whatever “explanations” Safet Emruli might be inclined to offer for his dereliction of duty on this front, his abject failure to make any positive contribution to the governance of the EPO for over a decade between 2009 and 2020, means that EPO staff can now be excused for heaving a collective sigh of relief at his departure. It remains to be seen whether or not his successor – Goran_Gerasmovski – is capable of doing a better job or whether he will permit himself to be “captured” by Team Campinos – assuming that this is not already a fait accompli! █ 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇EPC:_The_rules_are_whatever_the_despot_says⦈_ ⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣾⣿⣿⣷⣶⡄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⣿⣿⣿⡆⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣀⣀⣠⣄⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣀⣤⣄⣀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠄⠶⠿⠿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡷⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡆⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡀⠀⢤⣤⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣀⣤⣷⣿⣿⣿⣿⣏⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠇⢀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⣀⣀⣄⣤⣤⣤⣭⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢰⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠟⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠏⢀⣶⣶⡂⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢰⣾⣿⠟⠛⠉⠉⠁⠀⠈⢿⣿⣿⣿⡟⠁⠀⣼⣿⣿⣏⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣯⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ 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did_I_need_to_read_Techrights?⦈_ Summary: There’s only one Web site that the EPO blocks; it’s (almost) the only site that still covers EPO_scandals_and_corruption ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣽⣿⠉⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠘⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣅⣠⠤⠤⠼⠏⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢢⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠘⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣭⣿⣿⣯⣭ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠁⣿⣿⣷⡀⠀⠀⠀⢁⣼⣶⣦⣄⣀⣉⣴⣤⡄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⡟⠁⢀⣉⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⢿⣿⣯⠀⠀⠀⢰⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢠⡀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣟⣛⣛⣛⣉⣉⣁⣈⣉⣀⡈⠁⠀⠉⠙⠻⣿⣿⣯⠉⠙⣿⣿⣧⠀⢠⡄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢘⣿⠀⠘⡟⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣻⡿⠙⠫⣿⣿⣅⠀⠠⠉⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣻⣿⣿⣿⣷⣶⣿⣿⣿⣦⣠⣿⣦⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠟⠀⠀⠈⠈⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣭⣧⣤⣤⡿⠿⠛⠃⠄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣰⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠘⢻⣿⣻⡿⠿⣟⣻⣿⣟⣛⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣟⣿⣿⣯⣽⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⡾⠳⠟⠶⠒⠒⠶⠂⢀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡏⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠰⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠂⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⢿⢽⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⠿⠿⣧⢾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠿⠿⠿⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣲⣂⠀⠂⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢠⣍⣉⣽⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢠⡬⠽⣿⣿⣿⣿⣭⢉⣭⣭⣥⣤⣶ 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version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2021/08/18/team-upc-weaponised-lies/ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 08.18.21⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ ✐ Warning:_Campaign_of_Disinformation_by_Team_UPC⠀✐ Posted in Deception, Europe, Patents at 8:44 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz What have they sunk to? Fabrications. This is deliberate lying (in the case of IAM, the UPC lies are subsidised by the EPO’s PR firm, FTI Consulting) 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇UPC_set_to_be_operational_by_mid-2022,_according_to_latest official_forecast⦈_ What they call “official forecast” is basically Team UPC’s own “forecast” (wishful thinking, lobbying strategy of superimposing a falsehood, hoping it will miraculously materialise this way) 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇Unified_Patent_Court_will_start_operating_within_a_year_- Kluwer_Patent_Blog⦈_ Lies as headlines aren’t a novel ‘invention’ and they’re a long-running tradition of Team UPC (they’re long done this in IAM, Managing IP, JUVE, and also in Kluwer Patent Blog) 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇Germany_Ratifies_EU_Unified_Patent_Court_(UPC)_Agreement, but_Prospects_for_the_UPC_Remain_Uncertain⦈_ No, Germany did not ratify. As members of a law firm, the authors already know this, but they have decided to lie anyway. Truly shameless and Trumpian. Summary: All the above are patently false; yet these serve to show how desperate Team UPC has become; it’ll likely get even worse in days to come because they’re metaphorically gasping for air and hope that news from Germany can be distorted to say something else, misleading everybody ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⠛⠛⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣇⣀⣀⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿ ⣿⣿⣿⠁⠀⠠⠛⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠙⠃⠀⠀⠉⠀⠀⠈⠛⠁⠀⠀⠈⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⣿⣿⡟⠀⠀⢠⣤⠤⠾⠿⠆⠀⠀⠀⠀⢠⣶⡆⠀⠀⢠⣶⡆⠀⠀⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⣿⣿⠇⠀⠀⠋⠀⠀⣀⣤⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣾⣿⠇⠀⠀⣿⣿⠁⠀⢀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠺⠟⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣿⣿⠀⠀⢰⣿⡿⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶ ⣿⣯⣤⣤⣴⣤⣀⣠⣤⣦⣤⣤⣤⣤⣼⣿⣧⣤⣤⣼⣿⣧⣤⣤⣥⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ 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Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2021/08/18/uspto-revolving-doors-kappos-iancu/ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 08.18.21⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ ✐ U.S._Patent_and_Trademark_Office_Has_a_Deep_Revolving_Doors_Crisis_(Former Officials_Cashing_in_as_Lobbyists_and_Private_Sector_Actors)⠀✐ Posted in America, IBM, Microsoft, Patents at 10:36 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz Video_download_link | md5sum b06283f14c6f1dc5efcf02251ea30c45 http://techrights.org/videos/uspto-conflicts.webm Summary: Conflict of interest? Sure. Even worse: revolving doors. How USPTO Directors benefit from the job well after their time in the Office, occasionally lobbying for the very firms that they came from in the first place. THIS Web site has long focused on EPO_scandals and as a result of that we’ve written more about the status of European_software_patents while mostly ignoring 35 U.S.C. § 101 since 2019 (when Andrei_Iancu crafted new workarounds to bypass Alice/SCOTUS and weaken the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) by rejecting more inter partes reviews (IPRs)). “A reader of ours who is a GNU/Linux user and patent applicant (not software patent) looked more closely at what’s happening, noting along the lines that USPTO services seem to exclude GNU/Linux users (only clients of Microsoft and Apple are accepted).”It has since then been pointed out that Mr. Iancu is attracting patent trolls as clients* , even just months after leaving the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). So he’s exploiting his time inside the Donald Trump regime; now he’s cashing in. But he would not be the first one. Under Obama we saw the same thing (two people appointed as USPTO Directors — the latter of whom, who supported PTAB, is now being sued by some crackpot). The former one (in Office for longer) comes from IBM and he’s on Microsoft’s payroll too, lobbying for software patents. A reader of ours who is a GNU/Linux user and patent applicant (not software patent) looked more closely at what’s happening, noting along the lines that USPTO services seem_to_exclude_GNU/Linux users (only clients of Microsoft and Apple are accepted). 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇The boiler room of hell⦈ This same reader wrote to us about “Action in US Senate”. Last week he sent us this_lengthy_report_of_his [PDF], noting: “If you look at page 7 in the Report on the USPTO I sent you a few months ago – new copy attached – you will see that, a few years ago, Senator Capito got the Inspector General involved in my fight with the USPTO, and they lied to her. I’ve been in touch with her again, and she is going to contact them. Might be interesting, given that they lied to her once, and I have a lot more information.” “RT reports today that some Senators are going after Apple and Google. Might be a good sign. Maybe they will be in the mood to go after Microsoft, as well. Believe it or not, I found that David_Kappos is a partner_in_something_called Partnership_for_Public_Service. Funny as hell, right?” “He’s also at_the_Cravath_law_firm_in_New_York, a pretentious 200-year-old law firm in New York that portrays itself as an enlightened and progressive law firm. Funny them having Kappos.” “I did some research into the Microsoft_lobbyists_in_Washington. They are really really trying to portray themselves as liberal and progressive. They all think they are such wonderful people, and so lucky to have Kappos.” As we’ve noted here before, Microsoft and Bill_Gates are in fact right-leaning and nationalist types. They just know how to hide that when it suits their financial agenda (depending on the current political atmosphere and regime). Our reader said: “They have a_Black_man and a_Jewish_man involved in civil rights (his LinkedIn page shows the Edmund Pettus Bridge, famous sight of civil rights battle in the 1960′s) [and] I’ve been sending e-mails and letters informing them about Kappos, and about how he corrupted the Patent Office for IBM and Microsoft. Microsoft owns LinkedIn, and I had a few mysterious views on my LinkedIn page, so maybe they are trying to figure out who I am, what to do with the problem I am trying to create for them. Might get interesting. Never know.” █ ______ * As Expose_Patent_Troll_recently_put_it: “Given all that, this other bit of news is also concerning. It centers on VLSI’s firm of choice, Irell & Manella. We all knew that former United States Patent Office Director Andrei Iancu rejoined Irell & Manella after stepping down from the USPTO. We’ve written about Iancu before and how his changes to the patent system played to the interests of patent troll plaintiffs. Now, word is that—fresh off of making a ton of money litigating in Western Texas on behalf of VLSI—Irell is expanding its footprint . . . there’s an office coming to D.C. . . . and only Irell knows where it will expand to after that. Boy howdy. For all the patent trolls out there, and for firms like Irell, there’s lots of money to be made in Waco.” ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⢸⣿⠇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠀⠀⠘⠉⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣤⠀⢶⣤⣤⣶⣶⣶⣾⣷⣦⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣾⣿⣷⣾⣿⣿⣽⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⣤⣄⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⠋⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⡄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⣿⣿⠛⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠠⠀⠀⠐⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢠⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣯⣿⣿⣿⣿⣇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠟⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠨⠀⠐⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡆⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣠⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣦⣀⢤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣄⣀⣀⣀⡀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣠⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣤⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣀⣤⣶⣾⣿⣿⠟⠁⠁⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉ 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When a 1.8kg drone successfully lifted 3m from Mars’ dusty surface for less than a minute, it wasn’t simply another small step for humanity exploring the universe: it was also a giant leap for open-source software. For this tiny drone is powered by Linux. The drone’s name is Ingenuity, although NASA also refers to it as the Mars Helicopter (for reasons that become obvious once you see it). The project is highly experimental, with future flights only expected to last for 90 seconds and the mission itself slated to run for 30 days, but the technology could lead to future Mars missions that deploy drones to explore and collect samples, covering a much vaster swathe of the planet’s surface than a ground-based rover could ever manage. o § Kernel Space⠀➾ # § Graphics Stack⠀➾ # ⚓ Zink_Vulkan_driver_Suballocator_lands_in_Mesa, certain_games_get_‘over_1000%’_more_FPS⠀⇛ Zink, the OpenGL implementation on top of Vulkan continues to be an exciting development for Linux open source graphics drivers, with some new code landing in Mesa to improve its performance. The code in question relates to a Suballocator, something that developer Mike Blumenkrantz who has been contracted by Valve blogged about that we covered back in June. Even back then, Blumenkrantz showed how Tomb Raider running on Zink with this new code went from 9FPS to 91FPS (those are the last specific numbers given). o § Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ Excellent_Utilities:_lsd_–_next_gen_ls_command⠀⇛ This is a series highlighting best-of-breed utilities. We cover a wide range of utilities including tools that boost your productivity, help you manage your workflow, and lots more besides. There’s a complete list of the tools in this series in the Summary section. The Command Line Interface (CLI) is a way of interacting with your computer. To harness all the power of Linux, it’s highly recommended mastering the interface. It’s true the CLI is often perceived as a barrier for users migrating to Linux, particularly if they’re grown up using GUI software exclusively. While Linux rarely forces anyone to use the CLI, some tasks are better suited to this method of interaction, offering inducements like superior scripting opportunities, remote access, and being far more frugal with a computer’s resources. o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾ # ⚓ Install_VistA_on_GT.M_or_YottaDB⠀⇛ A Mumps database (like VistA) is a series of routines and globals (a global in Mumps really means a file on disk). To load VistA into GT.M/ YottaDB, you need to obtain the these from the CACHE.DAT distributed by the VA. Efforts are underway to lobby the VA to distribute the FOIA instance as a set of globals and routines; rather than in a proprietary format. Since the establishment of OSEHRA, each monthly update of FOIA is exported as routines and globals in zwrite format at GitHub. In addition, DSS vxVistA can be obtained from this repository and WorldVistA can be obtained from here. In our example, for setting up a VistA Database, we will use FOIA VistA. # ⚓ How_To_Install_and_Secure_MongoDB_on_CentOS_8_–_TecAdmin⠀⇛ MongoDB is a popularly used document-oriented, NoSQL, database program. The term NoSQL refers to not only SQL which is an approach to designing databases. A NoSQL database is modeled in a way that the storage and retrieval of data are done through documents, instead of using the tabular structure (tables and rows) used in the more traditional relational databases. MongoDB is a general-purpose database in which data is stored in flexible JSON-like documents in key- value pairs. Each MongoDB database has collections that contain documents. These documents can have different sizes, contents, and numbers of fields. It supports an optional schema model which means that the blueprint of the database doesn’t need to be defined beforehand. The MongoDB databases are very scalable. The document-oriented model makes MongoDB very flexible. It is great at load balancing and duplicating data and can run on multiple servers. These features allow it to keep the system running even if there is hardware failure. Following are some of the key features of MongoDB… # ⚓ How_To_Mount_Google_Drive_On_Linux_Operating_Systems_| Itsubuntu.com⠀⇛ Thinking of using Google Drive in your Linux based operating systems then this tutorial is for you. In this tutorial post, we are going to show you the basic idea behind the mounting Google drive on Linux operating systems. # ⚓ How_to_Install_Ionic_Framework_on_Debian_11_– LinuxCapable⠀⇛ Ionic Framework is a free and open-source toolkit for building performing, high-quality mobile and desktop apps. Ionic comes with integrations for popular frameworks like Angular, React, and Vue and is one of the more popular frameworks amongst developers today in the mobile applications field. In the following tutorial, you will learn how to install Ionic Framework on your Debian 11 Bullseye, its dependencies, create a project, and learn how to start the test application. # ⚓ How_to_Install_KDE_Plasma_in_Linux_Desktop⠀⇛ KDE is a well-known desktop environment for Unix- like systems designed for users who wants to have a nice desktop environment for their machines, It is one of the most used desktop interfaces out there. o § Games⠀➾ # ⚓ Having_VR_issues_on_Linux?_You_should_look_to_disable_async reprojection_|_GamingOnLinux⠀⇛ Virtual Reality is still a niche and doing it on Linux is a niche within a niche, that said when it works it’s brilliant but there’s a few problematic issues that have arisen recently. After having played a great many hours, and picking up a fan to prevent myself overheating, I feel it’s safe to say I’m now a huge fan of VR. Sadly though, there are times where updates roll out with SteamVR that cause problems on Linux and it doesn’t really seem much of a priority for Valve to fix (compared with updating Proton). # ⚓ Is_AMD_Ryzen_Good_For_Gaming?_The_Best_AMD_CPUs_Reviewed_– Make_Tech_Easier⠀⇛ Is AMD Ryzen good for gaming? This has been a pretty common question since the initial launch of the Ryzen series in 2015. Even today, there can be legitimate debates launched when AMD fails to compete with Intel in some way. To properly answer the question, we need to dive into the details of how AMD has competed with Intel in the CPU space and provide good Ryzen CPU recommendations. # ⚓ Among_Us_not_connecting_on_Linux_with_Proton?_Here’s_a simple_fix_|_GamingOnLinux⠀⇛ Among Us continues to be a very popular game and it can run quite nicely on Linux with Steam Play Proton, however if you have issues with it not connecting or getting a black screen – there’s a really simple fix. One reason we’re bringing this up, is that recently Epic Games released a new game mode for Fortnite called Fortnite Impostors. No guessing needed where they got the idea and terminology from. There’s been a lot of talk on how Epic with Fortnite has, again, copied a developer without credit. The Among Us developers don’t seem to be particularly amused by this either. Epic teams up with all sorts of brands but apparently not indie game developers. o § Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾ # § K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt⠀➾ # ⚓ Debian_KDE/Plasma_Status_2021-08-18⠀⇛ Bullseye has been released, and we are in the post-release rush with lots of changes going on. On the KDE/Plasma side we are trying to move all our accumulated changes to unstable. On the OSC side, frameworks 5.85 and KDE Gears 21.08.0 have been released. As mentioned previously, the now released Debian/Bullseye contains KDE Frameworks 5.78, including several backports of fixes from 5.79 to get smooth operation. Plasma 5.20.5, again with several cherry picks for bugs will be in Bullseye, too. The KDE/Apps are mostly at 20.12 level, and the KDE PIM group packages (akonadi, kmail, etc) are at 20.08. o § Distributions⠀➾ # ⚓ SerenityOS_offers_a_Unix-like_experience_with_90s_computing vibes⠀⇛ Microsoft is busily working away on Windows 11 and its redesigned, modern interface. Andreas Kling, meanwhile, is building the wonderfully retro Unix- like SerenityOS from the kernel on up. Maybe Fluent has really struck a chord with you. If, however, you feel like Windows interfaces peaked with Windows 2000, you’ll love the aesthetic in SerenityOS. Kling calls the project “a love letter to 90s user interfaces,” and it’s easy to see why. There are elements of classic Windows, MacOS and NeXT UIs and there’s no attempt to accommodate touchscreens the way most of today’s desktop OSes do. # § New Releases⠀➾ # ⚓ Zorin_OS_16_Officially_Released_:_Linux_Alternative To_Windows_11⠀⇛ Zorin OS 16 is now available for the public. Based on the Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa), Zorin OS 16 has been refurbished with a new and improved appearance.You will see new artwork and desktop wallpapers on the Zorin OS 16. One of the interesting GUI feature that you will see on Zorin OS 16 is Windows 11-like desktop layout. Zorin OS which is one of the easy to use Linux distro now displays a blurred version of your desktop wallpaper in it’s latest version of Zorin OS 16. # ⚓ Manjaro_Linux_21.1.0_Pahvo_is_out_with_installer improvements,_new_desktop_upgrades⠀⇛ Manjaro Linux, the distribution based on Arch Linux but with an aim to make it more suitable for less advanced users, has a big new version released with Manjaro 21.1.0. With this release the major supported desktops have been upgraded with GNOME 40, which sees the Manjaro team tweak the layout used to more closely follow standard GNOME with “some adjustments to reduce the pointer travel for users who prefer using mouse with gnome”. However, they also supply a “legacy” layout option too which gives you a different approach if you prefer it. o § Devices/Embedded⠀➾ # ⚓ Realtek_AP-Router_SDK_vulnerabilities_could_impact_millions of_routers_and_IoT_devices⠀⇛ The IoT Inspector Research Lab has discovered four high and critical vulnerabilities in the Realtek AP-Router “Jungle” SDK used for RTL819x SoCs that could impact millions of WiFi routers and dongles. An attacker can use a network attack, e.g. without physical access to the device, to generate a buffer or stack overflow helping him access the system and execute his own code. Realtek has released an advisory (PDF) with patchsets for all four vulnerabilities so you should upgrade the firmware if you can. # § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾ # ⚓ Celebrating_the_community:_Toshan⠀⇛ # ⚓ Introducing_the_PineNote⠀⇛ You’ve been asking us to create an e-ink device for years, and indeed we actually looked to make one as early as 2017. I even remember publicly ping-ponging ideas with the community members at the time and researching which SoC would be the best fit for such a device. At the time we were looking to create an alternative to the entry-level Kindle and other such big-brand e-readers. We quickly learned, however, that big brands heavily subsidize their e-readers via book sales and even if we sold an open e-reader at cost (or a loss), we still couldn’t possibly match popular devices’ price tag. Thankfully, the technology landscape and what is achievable using e-ink has significantly changed since 2017. Since the announcement of Rockchip’s RK3566 we knew our opportunity to create an open e-ink device had arrived. Early this year we made the decision to create the PineNote. o § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾ # ⚓ Setting_new_expectations_for_open_source_maintainers⠀⇛ For a long time, there were two basic tests for releasing open source: “Does it do what I need it to do?” and “Does it compile?” Sure, it was nice if it did things for others, but more than anything else, it at least needed to be fun for the developer and run at all for others. Then with the rise of package management, things leveled up a bit: “Is it packaged?” Shortly after that, the increasing popularity of test-driven development added another requirement: “Do the tests pass?” Each of these new requirements made more work for open source maintainers, but (by and large) maintainers didn’t grump too much about them. I think this happened for two reasons: First, the work was often aligned with skills developers needed to learn for their jobs, and second, they were broadly perceived as beneficial for all users of the software, not just corporate developers. # ⚓ A_guide_to_database_replication_with_open_source⠀⇛ In the world of constantly evolving data, one question often pops up: How is it possible to seamlessly replicate data that is growing exponentially and coming from an increasing number of sources? This article explains some of the foundational open source technologies that may help commoditize database replication tasks into data warehouses, lakes, or other databases. One popular replication technology is Change Data Capture (CDC), a pattern that allows row-level data changes at the source database to be quickly identified, captured, and delivered in real-time to the destination data warehouse, lake, or other database. With CDC, only the data that has changed since the last replication—categorized by insert, update, and delete operations—is in scope. This incremental design approach makes CDC significantly more efficient than other database replication patterns, such as a full-database replication. With full-database replication, the entire source database table with potentially millions of rows is scanned and copied over to the destination. # § Web Browsers⠀➾ # ⚓ Browsers_listening_to_developers_or_users_requires them_to_be_humble⠀⇛ The reality of the modern web is that browsers currently hold all of the power, which practically speaking means that Chrome holds all of the power. What happens is in their hands, and Chrome especially has demonstrated that it will add or remove things regardless of what the standards may or may not say. This will not be changed just by changing who is involved in the standardization process; it will only be changed by Chrome and other browsers deciding to listen and then to change their plans based on what they hear, to do things they didn’t plan to do and not do things that they had planned to do. # § Programming/Development⠀➾ # § Perl/Raku⠀➾ # ⚓ 1994:_How_Perl_Became_the_Foundation_of_Yahoo⠀⇛ A quick note about what Yahoo was, as a product, during the year 1994. It was a simple directory of websites, structured as a hierarchy. As 1994 began, there were just 623 websites on the Web, according to a study by MIT Researcher Matthew Gray. Yes, less than 1,000 websites in the entire world! So Yang and Filo’s directory was designed to help early web users navigate this small but growing world of websites. (Incidentally, the software program Gray used to measure the size of the Web was called World Wide Web Wanderer, aka the Wanderer — and it was a Perl- based web crawler, first deployed in June 1993.) Thanks to some Twitter sluething by Andy Baio and Joe Crawford earlier this year, the May 1994 Perl script that generated an early version of the Yahoo directory is available to view on GitHub. Here’s a slice of that Perl code, which in this case served to create the directories: [...] * § Leftovers⠀➾ o ⚓ Whatever,_Voice_of_Reason⠀⇛ Support independent cartooning: join Sparky’s List—and don’t forget to visit TT’s Emporium of Fun, featuring the new book and plush Sparky! o ⚓ Mythos_and_Cliché:_The_Fractured_History_of_Los_Angeles⠀⇛ In his seminal study of Los Angeles in the boom and bust years from 1920 to 1940, Carey McWilliams memorably called Southern California “an island on the land.” Mostly he was talking about the weather. An area of approximately 275 miles, Southern California is often described as possessing the only Mediterranean climate in the United States. McWilliams disputed this; he found the region’s extreme temperateness “a freak of nature”—like nowhere else on earth—and “climatically insulated, shut off from the rest of the continent.” Alas, this insulation no longer holds: While ever a land of “sky and air and ocean breezes,” Southern California is being changed by the climate crisis just like everywhere else. Sea level rise is eroding its beaches, and, away from the coast and sand, the weather is no longer as mild, so fire season has become a year-round prospect. (This past winter was among the three driest on record.) In a globalized world undergoing a global catastrophe, nowhere is really an island after all. o § Education⠀➾ # ⚓ Opinion_|_Is_Higher_Education_a_Pyramid_Scheme?⠀⇛ For the last decade and a half, I’ve been teaching ethics to undergraduates. Now—admittedly, a little late to the party—I’ve started seriously questioning my own ethics. I’ve begun to wonder just what it means to be a participant, however minor, in the pyramid scheme that higher education has become in the years since I went to college. o § Hardware⠀➾ # ⚓ Amiga_500_is_back!_This_is_this_replica_console_with gamepad_and_25_games⠀⇛ A whole generation of gamers grew up playing with one of these consoles, and the Retro Games company already carries a few models including the THEC64 Mini that replicates the famous Commodore 64 (as well as its original size variant). Now it is the turn of the emblematic Amiga 500, which will arrive in a reduced format thanks to the fact that, like the previous ones, it actually carries modern hardware and an emulator to run the games. o § Health/Nutrition⠀➾ # ⚓ Joining_Fight_Against_Line_3,_Health_Professionals_Urge Biden_to_Block_Project⠀⇛ U.S. doctors, nurses, and other health professionals came together Tuesday for a national day of solidarity against Line 3 that included various events and a letter calling on President Joe Biden to block Enbridge’s tar sands project. The health professionals are pressuring Biden to “take action that climate science demands, listen to the voices of Indigenous frontline leaders,” and reverse the federal government’s permitting of Line 3 under former President Donald Trump. # ⚓ Public_Education_Is_Set_Up_to_Fail_in_the_Pandemic⠀⇛ The spike in Covid-19 cases in the United States, driven largely by the Delta variant, is on a collision course with back-to-school season, which will see children—who are more affected by the variant—returning to in-person instruction en masse, often without masks, vaccinations, regular testing, or better ventilation. # ⚓ The_Delta_Variant_of_Global_Stupidity⠀⇛ Avoiding global catastrophe from the more infectious delta variant of COVID-19 doesn’t require a huge commitment from people and governments. Richer countries just have to ensure more widespread availability of vaccines. And individuals have to get vaccinated. COVID-19 is not an asteroid on a collision course with the planet. It’s not an imminent nuclear war. It’s an invisible enemy that humanity has demonstrated it can beat. It just requires a bit of cooperation. # ⚓ After_Banning_Mask_and_Vaccine_Mandates,_GOP_Texas_Gov. Greg_Abbott_Gets_Covid-19⠀⇛ Already under fire for his handling of the coronavirus pandemic—in addition to recent attacks on voting rights and immigrants—Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott tested positive for Covid-19 on Tuesday, provoking fresh criticism of his anti- public health policies. “Our governor has been working to keep masks out of schools harder than he has worked to keep guns out of schools.”—Marked by Covid # ⚓ Feds_Set_to_Advise_an_Extra_Round_of_Vaccinations,_Which Could_Start_Next_Month⠀⇛ # ⚓ Nearly_7_in_10_Support_Mask_Requirements_in_Schools,_New Poll_Shows⠀⇛ # ⚓ Opinion_|_Why_Does_Your_Right_to_Unmask_Usurp_My_Child’s Right_to_a_Safe_School?⠀⇛ “Daddy, I’m afraid.” # ⚓ Why_no_one_really_knows_how_bad_Facebook’s_vaccine misinformation_problem_is⠀⇛ Researchers aren’t just clamoring for more information about Facebook, either. YouTube, Twitter, and other social media networks also have troves of data about Covid-19 misinformation that could help researchers. But because Facebook is the largest social media platform for sharing news — one where many posts are private — the company is central to the debate about transparency in Big Tech and the societal impacts of its products. # ⚓ Pesticides_can_amplify_each_other._Bees_have_become_the victims.⠀⇛ When different pesticides mix together, as they often do on farms, they can amplify the effect of one another, according to a new study published in the journal Nature. In deadly combination, they can be even more damaging to bees. Previous research has found that these “synergies” can harm fish and other creatures, too. What’s most troubling is that regulators in the US and elsewhere don’t take the dangers of these interactions fully into account — even though they’ve long been aware of them. The Environmental Protection Agency, which oversees pesticides in the US, effectively ignored a recommendation to determine which chemicals farmers most commonly mix together, and what risk those combinations pose to bees. Europe is making more progress, but its regulations still fall short, experts say. # ⚓ Why_it’s_so_hard_to_be_a_nurse_in_America,_according_to_two nurses⠀⇛ The roughly 3 million registered nurses (RNs) currently employed in the United States are, in Sara’s words, “the eyes and the ears and hands and feet of providing health care.” But nurses are leaving the profession at a staggering rate. According to a 2021 report from Nursing Solutions, the turnover rate for registered nurses last year was close to 20 percent. This leaves hospitals understaffed: About 10 percent of hospital RN positions were vacant last year, the same report found, perpetuating a cycle of burnout and likely worsening the quality of care for patients. o § Integrity/Availability⠀➾ # § Proprietary⠀➾ # ⚓ Redaction_Failure_Shows_Grayshift_Is_Swearing_Cops_To Secrecy_About_Its_Phone-Cracking_Tech⠀⇛ Law enforcement loves its new tech advances. It also hates to talk about them, operating under the assumption that the business of serving the public isn’t the public’s business. When pressed, officials will say something about staying one step ahead of criminals. But more often the opacity is nothing more than antagonism directed at people who expect transparency from those cashing publicly funded paychecks. # ⚓ LockBit_2.0_Ransomware_Proliferates_Globally⠀⇛ The LockBit ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) gang has ramped up its targeted attacks, researchers said, with attempts against organizations in Chile, Italy, Taiwan and the U.K. using version 2.0 of its malware. Attacks in July and August have employed LockBit 2.0, according to a Trend Micro analysis released on Monday, featuring a souped-up encryption method. # ⚓ Top_researcher_slams_Microsoft_over_‘astonishingly bad’_security_advisories⠀⇛ A well-known security researcher has slammed Microsoft for its “astonishingly bad” security advisories, pointing to the wording in a TCP/IP remote code execution vulnerability released on 10 August this year as an example. # ⚓ BlackBerry_software_flaw_could_impact_cars,_medical devices_–_U.S._agencies⠀⇛ The warning came after the Canadian company disclosed that its QNX Real Time Operating System has a vulnerability that could allow an attacker to execute an arbitrary code or flood a server with traffic until it crashes or gets paralyzed. The software is used by automakers including Volkswagen, BMW and Ford Motor in many critical functions including the Advanced Driver Assistance System. # § Security⠀➾ # § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾ # ⚓ Speak_Out_Against_Apple’s_Mass Surveillance_Plans⠀⇛ Last year, EFF supporters spoke out and stopped the EARN IT bill, a government scheme that could have enabled the scanning of every message online. We need to harness that same energy to let Apple know that its plan to enable the scanning of photos on every iPhone is unacceptable.  # ⚓ Good_News:_Twitter_Announces_An_Excellent Lead_For_The_Bluesky_Decentralized_Social Media_Protocol_Project⠀⇛ It has been nearly two years since Jack Dorsey announced plans to explore switching Twitter from its current setup as a centralized platform controlled by one company to a distributed protocol project that anyone can build on — called Bluesky. This was especially exciting to me, since some of Jack’s thoughts were inspired by my “Protocols, not Platforms” paper. There hasn’t been that much news on Bluesky since then — leading many to insist that the project was going nowhere. However, there have been plenty of things happening behind the scenes — at least somewhat complicated by the whole pandemic thing. In January of this year, an “Ecosystem Review” document was published. # ⚓ Jewel_v._NSA:_Americans_(Still)_Deserve Their_Day_in_Court⠀⇛ Though we filed our our landmark Jewel v. NSA case in 2008, no court has yet ruled on the merits – whether the mass spying on the Internet and phone communications of millions of Americans violates U.S. constitutional and statutory law. Instead, despite the enormous amount of direct and circumstantial evidence showing our clients’ communications swept up by the NSA dragnet surveillance, along with those of millions of other Americans, the trial and appeals courts still found that the plaintiffs lacked legal “standing” to challenge the practices. As we said in our brief to the Ninth Circuit, this dismissal “hands the keys to the courthouse to the Executive, making it impossible to bring any litigation challenging the legality of such surveillance without the Executive’s permission.  It blinds the courts to what the Executive has admitted: the NSA has engaged in mass surveillance of domestic communications carried by the nation’s leading telecommunications companies, and this surveillance touches the communications and records of millions of innocent Americans.” This fight has been long and hard. But we remain determined to ensure that the network we all increasingly rely on in our daily lives—for communicating with our families, working, participating in community and political activities, shopping, and browsing—is not also an instrument subjecting all of our actions to NSA mass surveillance. We are evaluating the options for moving the case forward so that Americans can indeed have their day in court. # ⚓ Palantir_Buys_Gold_Bars_as_Hedge_Against ‘Black_Swan_Event’⠀⇛ The company spent $50.7 million this month on gold, part of an unusual investment strategy that also includes startups, blank- check companies and possibly Bitcoin. Palantir had previously said it would accept Bitcoin as a form of payment before adding precious metals more recently. # ⚓ Business_Round-Up:_Cashless_future_closer thanks_to_corona⠀⇛ Vendors are obliged to accept cash between 06:00 and 22:00, but if they are located in an area deemed vulnerable to robberies, a card-only policy is legal during midnight hours. # ⚓ Pegasus_row:_SC_issues_notice_to_Centre, says_govt_need_not_disclose_anything_which compromises_national_security⠀⇛ A bench headed by Chief Justice N V Ramana sought the Centre’s response on the pleas and said it will take up the matter after 10 days and see what course should be adopted. o § Defence/Aggression⠀➾ # ⚓ Opinion_|_We_Are_the_Least_Trustworthy_People_On_the Planet:_Another_Ghastly_Retreat_From_Empire⠀⇛ # ⚓ Opinion_|_When_Will_We_Stop_Letting_Our_Presidents_Lie America_Into_Wars?⠀⇛ Let’s never forget that what we are watching happen right now in Afghanistan is the final act of George W. Bush’s 2004 reelection strategy. # ⚓ Progressive_Critics_Say_Investors_in_US_Weapon-Makers_Only Clear_Winners_of_Afghan_War⠀⇛ As the hawks who have been lying about the U.S. invasion and occupation of Afghanistan for two decades continue to peddle fantasies in the midst of a Taliban takeover and American evacuation of Kabul, progressive critics on Tuesday reminded the world who has benefited from the “endless war.” “Never has it been more important to end war profiteering.”—Public Citizen # ⚓ Opinion_|_We_Can’t_Let_Pro-War_Generals_Who_Lied_About_the Afghanistan_War_Define_Its_Legacy⠀⇛ The horrific culmination of the 20-year U.S. occupation of Afghanistan should be cause for sober reflection on the imperial hubris and bipartisan pro-war consensus that enabled such a ruinous military intervention to grind on for so long. But instead of a reckoning, the very architects of the war are getting the final word on its legacy—a kafkaesque conclusion to a remarkably cruel chapter. This dynamic adds fresh insult to the disastrous conditions Afghans now face, as the Taliban seizes control of Afghanistan, and the United States implements callous closed-door policies toward people attempting to flee the country, leading to ghastly scenes at Kabul’s airport. # ⚓ Opinion_|_A_Thoughtful_Response_to_the_Tragedy_in Afghanistan⠀⇛ As my husband and I ate dinner Sunday evening and reflected (as we do each night) about what we are grateful for, I was simultaneously aware of our abundance of unearned good fortune and sick to my stomach thinking about the people— especially the girls and women—in Afghanistan. I can only imagine their terror and despair, and imagining leaves me overwhelmed. # ⚓ Biden_Forfeits_His_Afghan_Victory_by_Defending_His_Deep State_Advisors⠀⇛ The effect was to show how drastic his own misconceptions are, and how he will continue to defend neocon adventurism. What seemed for an hour or so as a public relations recovery is turning into a denouement of how U.S. fantasy is still trying to threaten Asia and the Near East. By throwing all his weight behind the propaganda that has guided U.S. policy since George W. Bush decided to invade after 9/11, Biden blew his greatest chance to burst the myths that led to his own bad decisions to trust U.S. military and state officials (and their campaign contributors). # ⚓ Azmat_Khan:_Deadly_U.S._Air_War_in_Afghanistan_Helped Taliban_Gain_New_Recruits_Who_Wanted_Revenge⠀⇛ Investigative journalist Azmat Khan, who has reported extensively in Afghanistan, says President Joe Biden has not yet addressed the chaos unleashed by the collapse of the Afghan government. In remarks on Monday, Biden “really focused on the decision to end the war” and ignored criticism about chaos at the Kabul airport and the abandonment of thousands of Afghans who helped the U.S. over the last 20 years. “None of that was really discussed in any detail,” Khan says. She also discusses why the Afghan military fell so quickly to the Taliban, its overreliance on U.S. air power, how civilian casualties weakened support for the U.S.-backed government, and the massive profits the two-decade-long war generated for U.S. defense contractors. # ⚓ Last_Charge_for_the_Dead_Enders:_Blame_Biden_for_Leaving Afghanistan⠀⇛ Never mind that the U.S. national-security establishment had twenty long years to achieve its goal of bringing a model society to Afghanistan.  Never mind that U.S. officials sacrificed the lives of thousands of U.S. soldiers and hundreds of thousands of Afghans in their quest to bring “democracy” and “enduring freedom” to Afghanistan. # ⚓ The_Death_of_the_“Lima_Group”_and_Re-Birth_of_the_Latin American_Anti-Imperialist_Left⠀⇛ # ⚓ Taliban_Vow_‘No_Revenge’_Against_Fellow_Afghans_Who_Worked With_US_Forces⠀⇛ During their first press conference since retaking control of Afghanistan, Taliban representatives on Tuesday vowed not to seek retribution against fellow Afghans who worked with U.S. occupation forces and said the new government will respect the rights of women—with the caveat that they must adhere to the group’s interpretation of Sharia law. “Whoever has worked in the military, in translation, we have given amnesty to everybody. There is no revenge,” Taliban spokesperson Zabihullah Mujahid said from the capital of Kabul as the U.S. resumed evacuation flights for Americans and some Afghans who worked with U.S. forces, which have been in the country since the disastrous 2001 invasion. # ⚓ Opinion_|_American_Wars:_Blood_in_the_Sand⠀⇛ The magnitude of the United States’ failure in Afghanistan is breathtaking. It is not a failure of Democrats or Republicans, but an abiding failure of American political culture, reflected in US policymakers’ lack of interest in understanding different societies. And it is all too typical. # ⚓ It_is_Government_Weakness,_Not_Taliban_Strength,_That Condemns_Afghanistan⠀⇛ The speed of the Taliban success has caught the world by surprise – as no doubt it was intended to do. There has been no “decent interval” between the US departure and the Taliban attack, as there was in South Vietnam between the final US withdrawal in 1972 and the defeat of the South Vietnamese government by the North Vietnamese army in 1975. The fact that everything the US and Britain fought for in Afghanistan over two decades is collapsing at such a pace underlines the extent of the Western defeat and will reinforce the belief that the era of the US as the sole super power is coming to an end. As with the Soviet Union in the 1980s, failure in Afghanistan has global implications far beyond the country where the war is being waged. In fact the defeat is more complete than that suffered by the Soviet Union in the 1980s, but after Soviet withdrawal the Communist government in Kabul survived for several years, in sharp contrast to the present debacle. # ⚓ One_Year_of_Afghanistan_War_Spending_Could_Fund Resettlement_of_1.2_Million_Refugees⠀⇛ As the Biden administration faces criticism for not doing enough to assist those fleeing Afghanistan, an analysis released Monday showed that the roughly $19 billion the Pentagon budgeted for the U.S. occupation of the country in 2020 alone could cover initial resettlement costs for 1.2 million refugees. “We have a duty to save lives—and to do so, we must welcome many, many more refugees as quickly as possible.”—Rep. Cori Bush # ⚓ Corporate_Media_Are_Erasing_US’s_Long-Term_Culpability_for Afghanistan_War⠀⇛ # ⚓ Deadly_US_Air_War_in_Afghanistan_Helped_Taliban_Gain_New Recruits⠀⇛ # ⚓ White_Feminists_Wanted_to_Invade⠀⇛ On a March evening in 1999, a wealthy Hollywood socialite named Mavis Leno, the wife of late-night superstar Jay Leno, held a fundraiser to which she invited her rich and/or famous friends. The event was to benefit the Feminist Majority Foundation’s campaign to “End Gender Apartheid in Afghanistan,” which highlighted the barbaric conditions of women living under Taliban rule. (Nowhere, of course, did anyone point out that the Taliban owed its strength at least in part to US foreign policy.) Before long, actresses like Susan Sarandon and Meryl Streep signed on and made the issue a cause célèbre. # ⚓ US_Policy_Toward_Afghanistan_Was_a_Recipe_for_Collapse_From the_Start⠀⇛ # ⚓ A_Year’s_Worth_of_Afghanistan_War_Spending_Could_Resettle 1.2_Million_Refugees⠀⇛ # ⚓ The_United_States,_Afghanistan,_and_the_Doctrinal Boundaries_of_Permissible_Reflection⠀⇛ Hence, while there is contestation in U.S. media and political culture over how to respond to the flood of migrants seeking entrance to the United States on the nation’s southern border, there is little if any serious mainstream media discussion and critique of the long and many-sided role that U.S. capitalist imperialism has played in imposing abject misery on millions of people across Central America and Mexico. The US invasion of Vietnam (and Cambodia) and Iraq could be criticized in dominant US media as bad strategy, as mistakes, but never as monumentally mass-murderous, racist, and imperialist war crimes and crimes against humanity. # ⚓ Afghanistan:_Taliban_Victories_Explain_the_Wisdom_of_US Withdrawal⠀⇛ The US occupation’s puppet president, Ashraf Ghani, blames his government’s debacle in progress on the “abrupt” withdrawal of US forces. Apparently 20 years of the US doing his heavy lifting — contributing not just troops but money, training, and support for his own army — followed by 15 months’ notice of withdrawal, then a three-month extension of the withdrawal deadline, just didn’t give him time to prepare. American hawks aren’t complaining about the “abruptness” of the withdrawal timeline. They’re appalled that the US would ever, under any circumstances, consider withdrawing at all. The fiction they’d have us subscribe to is that until and unless Afghanistan becomes a western-style “liberal democracy,” withdrawing means that the 2,500 Americans killed there will have “died for nothing.” # ⚓ AOC_Stresses_Moral_Obligation_to_Afghan_Refugees_as_Fox Revives_Racist_Tropes⠀⇛ # ⚓ If_Liz_Cheney’s_Assigning_Blame_for_an_“Epic_Failure”_in Afghanistan,_She_Can_Start_With_Her_Father⠀⇛ “This has been an epic failure across the board, one we’re going to pay for for years to come,” declared Representative Liz Cheney, of Wyoming, as she denounced Joe Biden’s decision to complete the withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan. # ⚓ ‘Why_Isn’t_‘Afghanistand’_Leading_The_News?’_Sky’s_US_Troop Withdrawal_Coverage_Is_Going_About_As_Well_As_You’d Expect…?⠀⇛ As distressing scenes emerge from Afghanistan of a panicked population trying to flee slaughter, it’s comforting to know that Sky News has worked out who is to blame. Chris Graham suspends reason and accountability to bring you this special report. # ⚓ Rather_Than_Focus_on_How_the_US_Got_Out_of_Afghanistan, Focus_on_How_It_Got_In⠀⇛ While politicians and pundits debate “who lost Afghanistan,” that question will likely seem very distant from many Americans’ lives. Indeed, more than two-thirds supported the decision to withdraw. If anything, most Americans might wonder how the United States came to be in the position to “lose” Afghanistan in the first place. # ⚓ Ret._Col._Ann_Wright_on_Reopening_U.S._Embassy_in_Kabul_in 2001_&_Why_She_Supports_Troop_Withdrawal⠀⇛ Retired U.S. Army colonel and former State Department official Ann Wright, who helped reopen the U.S. Embassy in Kabul in December 2001 and later resigned in protest, says the United States should reopen its embassy now and needs to maintain a diplomatic footprint in Afghanistan after the Taliban takeover. “If the United States really wants to help the people of Afghanistan … we’ve got to have a presence in Afghanistan,” says Wright. # ⚓ Afghan_Scholar:_The_U.S._Can’t_Distance_Itself_from_Chaos Unfolding_Now_After_20_Years_of_War⠀⇛ Thousands of Afghans who worked for the United States and other foreign countries remain stranded in Kabul two days after the Taliban seized control of Afghanistan. Military flights out of the Kabul International Airport have resumed a day after thousands of Afghans raced to the airport with hopes of leaving the country. President Joe Biden has defended his decision to withdraw troops from Afghanistan after 20 years of occupation and criticized the U.S.-trained Afghan military for collapsing “without trying to fight” the Taliban in many cases. Afghan law professor Haroun Rahimi, who was en route to Kabul when he heard the news of the Taliban takeover and stayed in Turkey, says Biden must take responsibility for the U.S. role in Afghanistan. “He was not willing to accept any responsibility. It’s as if the U.S. was there as a bystander,” says Rahimi. “The way that President Biden was distancing the U.S. from everything that happened over the past two years was just disingenuous and just inaccurate.” # ⚓ War_Powers:_immense_profits_for_arms_dealers,_incalculable losses_for_Australians⠀⇛ The economic cost to Australia are in the billions of dollars. But of course that price tag is nothing compared to the millions of lives that have been lost, lives of Australian defence personnel and civilians. The number of defence personnel killed does not even include the 500 veteran suicides in Australia since the start of the Afghanistan war. # ⚓ Profits_and_poppy:_Afghanistan’s_illegal_drug_trade_a_boon for_Taliban⠀⇛ Despite the threats posed by Afghanistan’s illicit drug business, experts noted, the United States and other nations rarely mention in public the need to address the trade – estimated by the UNODC at more than 80% of global opium and heroin supplies. # ⚓ The_Afghanistan_War_And_The_Dissenters_We_Should’ve Listened_To⠀⇛ This article was funded by paid subscribers of The Dissenter. Become a paid subscriber and help us expand our coverage of whistleblower stories. President Joe Biden delivered a speech where he stood by the withdrawal of United States military forces from Afghanistan, but he crudely blamed the people of Afghanistan for the chaos that has unfolded over the past several days.It was a lie to assert the war in Afghanistan was never about nation-building. Neoconservatives in President George W. Bush’s administration, who launched the war, deployed troops for an open-ended mission to establish a government that could secure the country against the Taliban and be a reliable ally in the region.Biden also lied about opposing a surge in Afghanistan when he vice president in President Barack Obama’s administration. He backed sending an additional 20,000 troops but was opposed to sending more than 20,000 like Obama did.The president had nothing to say about the Pentagon and CIA’s resistance to adequately planning for withdrawal, even though that could have helped avoid some of the scenes of panic which were broadcast.As Matthew Hoh, former State Department official who resigned in protest against Obama’s surge, put it in a CODEPINK webinar, the speech reflected the willingness and ease in which U.S. officials can lie and get away with it. They do not have to fear being called out or confronted. And that has allowed “all wars throughout the Muslim world to continue” and evolve into wars that are hidden and secret. (But of course, not secret and hidden to the people suffering from their impacts.)Plenty of time should be spent sifting through the lies and delusions spread about the Afghanistan War because many of those lies and delusions contributed to a collective shock as the Taliban took control of Kabul. However, just as important are the truths that were uttered by dissenters against the agenda of perpetual war promoted by war hawks and craven politicians.So let’s elevate those voices that were right and remember to seek out such voices next time a presidential administration—with the support of legislators—moves toward launching a war. o § Environment⠀➾ # ⚓ A_Climate_Stat_We_Can’t_Afford_to_Overlook:_CEO_Pay⠀⇛ # ⚓ Postcard_From_Thermal:_Surviving_the_Climate_Gap_in_Eastern Coachella_Valley⠀⇛ The first thing to know about Thermal, California, is: It’s really damn hot. Already, at this early date in our planetary crisis, 139 days a year are over 95 degrees Fahrenheit in Thermal. Over the next 30 years, temperatures will rise 4 to 5 degrees more, and by the end of the century, more than half the year there will be hotter than 95 and nearly a quarter will be hotter than 112. The second thing to know about Thermal, California, is: It’s a cartoonishly horrible expression of a moral and practical issue that exists, at some level, in every society on earth. The climate crisis is an inequality magnifier. The heat and the hurricanes, the flooding and the wildfire smoke, slam down with full force on the disadvantaged. Meanwhile, the more privileged remain comparatively safe, protected by money and power. That difference in suffering is known as the climate gap, defined by researchers in a foundational paper on the subject as “the disproportionate and unequal impact the climate crisis has on people of color and the poor.” # ⚓ Daily_Mail_and_Telegraph_‘Well_Behind_the_Curve’_on Reporting_Climate_Change_Accurately⠀⇛ Right-leaning UK newspapers provide some of the least scientifically accurate coverage of climate change among outlets analysed in a new study, with the Daily Mail and Telegraph “well behind the curve”, according to one of its authors.  Researchers at the Technological University of Munich, the University of New England, and the University of Colorado Boulder looked at nearly 5,000 articles published between 2005 and 2019 in 17 print media outlets in the English-speaking world.  Stay up to date with DeSmog news and alerts # ⚓ Three_in_four_say_climate_‘tipping_points’_close⠀⇛ The survey, conducted before the publication of a bombshell UN climate science report last week, showed that more than half (58 percent) of respondents in G20 nations feel very or extremely concerned about the state of the planet. Scientists are increasingly concerned that some feedback loops in nature — such as irreversible melting of icesheets or permafrost — may be close to being triggered as mankind’s mind-boggling carbon emissions show no signs of slowing, despite a pandemic. The IPCC report warned that Earth is on course to be 1.5C hotter than pre-industrial times around 2030 — a full decade earlier than it projected just three years ago. # ⚓ Refugee_Advocates_Demand_US_Stop_Deportations_to_Haiti Following_Earthquake⠀⇛ As Haitians reel amid the aftershocks of a major earthquake, a tropical storm, political upheaval, and the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, refugee advocates this week are calling on the Biden administration to stop deporting people back to the ravaged nation and to extend its Temporary Protected Status designation. “It is unconscionable for the U.S. government to forcibly remove anyone to Haiti right now.”—Blaine Bookey, CRGS # ⚓ Damaged_Hospitals_in_Haiti_Struggle_to_Help_Earthquake Survivors_as_Death_Toll_Tops_1,400⠀⇛ We get an update from Les Cayes, Haiti, not far from the epicenter of Saturday’s earthquake, as Tropical Storm Grace drenched parts of the country and the death toll has now climbed to more than 1,400, with nearly 7,000 suffering from injuries amid overwhelmed hospitals. The impact from the latest earthquake is “just as great” as the devastation from the 2010 earthquake, says Jacqueline Charles, Haiti and Caribbean correspondent for the Miami Herald. “Haitians are not sitting around and waiting for international aid. They’re not waiting for their national community to come and rescue them,” Charles says, noting the presence of many makeshift hospitals despite medical supply shortages. She also describes how Haiti is is grappling with the aftermath of the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse. # ⚓ Haitians_Ask_for_Solidarity_as_Storm_Makes_Landfall_Days After_Earthquake⠀⇛ # ⚓ Ireland_faces_future_of_climate_change_division⠀⇛ Ireland, known as the Emerald Isle for its verdant pastures, may soon lose its title as climate change division takes hold. # ⚓ ‘Hard_to_Imagine_Worse_Idea’:_Biden_to_Resume_Fossil_Fuel Leases_on_Public_Lands_and_Waters⠀⇛ Climate groups are expressing deep concern following an Interior Department announcement Monday that the Biden administration will resume oil and gas drilling leases on public lands and waters—a practice President Joe Biden vowed to ban during his 2020 run for the White House—in response to a federal court ruling. “The climate emergency reality we are facing demands immediate action, not acquiescence.” —Nicole Ghio, Friends of the Earth # ⚓ Opinion_|_The_Glasgow_Climate_Talks_Are_a_Vital_Deadline for_Action⠀⇛ It’s only 76 days until world leaders convene in Glasgow, Scotland, for some of the most important international negotiations in history. What happens during the twelve days of the Glasgow Climate Talks (known by climate wonks as COP26) will go a long way to determining the fate of much of the Paris Climate Agreement―which is another way of saying the fate of much of life on earth. # ⚓ Climate_Change_is_a_Public_Health_Emergency⠀⇛ According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration 2020 was Earth’s second hottest for the past 140 years. Furthermore, 19 of the warmest years on record have occurred since 2000. There has been a considerable impact of these increasing global warming trends on people of all ages. Annual deaths as a result of climate change are estimated in 150,000 by the World Health Organization (WHO). Between 2030 and 2050, this number could be as high as 250,000 additional deaths. Most of those deaths will be due to heat stress, and to malnutrition, malaria and intestinal and respiratory infections, particularly in children from developing countries. # ⚓ Cheap_Talk_From_the_Fed_on_Global_Warming?⠀⇛ My favorite remedy for the bubble was talk, or more specifically, talk from Alan Greenspan and other top Fed officials, about research documenting the housing bubble. The point I tried to make in those years was that the hard data showed we had a bubble. It wasn’t an issue of crystal ball reading. We had an unprecedented divergence of house sale prices and rents. While house sale prices were soaring, rents were moving along roughly in line with the overall rate of inflation. At the same time, the vacancy rate for housing units was hitting record highs. These facts were hardly consistent with a story of house prices being driven by an increased demand for housing. # § Energy⠀➾ # ⚓ Scraping_the_Bottom_of_the_Sea:_the_Movement_to_Stop Deep_Sea_Mining⠀⇛ Instead it’s a seasonal rite where fishers paddle out from shore and summon sharks with noise and motion makers—and then they hope, capture them. It’s supposed to ensure shark harvests for peoples who depend in part on this source of protein. It’s actually one of many such ceremonies that take place in this area of the Pacific. Although the Kono Village festival hadn’t been observed for years, it has been revived this year with an added fillip. It’s being held to rally the campaign to stop the relentless attempt by deep-pocketed mining investors called the Solwara 1 project to tear up the local sea bed in search of minerals. Local groups such as the West Coast Development Foundation and the Alliance of Solwara Warriors have been battling Solwara for years, but the latest mining push in the form of a new company called DeepGreen has heightened the struggle. # ⚓ One_in_Three_Directors_at_Australia’s_Major_Banks Have_Ties_to_Oil,_Gas,_and_Mining⠀⇛ Nearly one in three directors of Australia’s largest banks have worked for firms operating in the oil, gas and mining industries, DeSmog research has revealed, prompting concerns about a “vested interest” on the banks’ boards that campaigners fear could delay action to address climate change. DeSmog’s research analysed director CVs on company profiles, LinkedIn pages, official filings and news clippings to log the past and present work experience of 38 current directors across Australia’s “big four” banks: ANZ, Commonwealth Bank, Westpac, and National Australia Bank (NAB),  Stay up to date with DeSmog news and alerts # ⚓ Texas’s_Fossil_Fuel_Elite_Is_Driving_Us_to_Climate Disaster⠀⇛ Oil and gas donors have spent $100 million on elections in Texas. Now storms made worse by climate change have flooded the state capitol building in Austin. # § Wildlife/Nature⠀➾ # ⚓ Photo_Essay:_In_the_Company_of_Bison⠀⇛ # § Overpopulation⠀➾ # ⚓ Greed_and_Consumption:_Why_the_World_is_Burning⠀⇛ In Via Appia, bins are overflowing with garbage, often spilling over into the streets. The smell, especially during Italy’s increasingly sweltering summers, is suffocating. Meanwhile, many parts of the country are literally on fire. Since June 15, firefighters have reportedly responded to 37,000 fire-related emergencies, 1,500 of them on July 18 alone. A week later, I drove between Campania, in southern Italy, and Abruzzo, in the center. Throughout the journey, I was accompanied by fire and smoke. On that day, many towns were evacuated, and thousands of acres of forests were destroyed. It will take months to assess the cost of the ongoing destruction, but it will certainly be measured in hundreds of millions of euros. # ⚓ ‘Loudest_Alarm_Bell_Yet’:_Unprecedented_Water Shortage_Declaration_for_US_West⠀⇛ As the climate emergency offers repeated signals it’s an extreme new world, federal officials on Monday declared a record first “Tier 1″ water shortage for Lake Mead, citing historic drought affecting the Colorado River basin. The declaration from the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation was triggered by its projection that Lake Mead’s elevation at the end of the year will be 1,065.85 feet, an estimate below the 1,075-foot threshold for the water shortage determination. # ⚓ Colorado_River:_First-ever_shortage_declared_amid record_US_drought⠀⇛ Around 40 million people in the US and Mexico rely on the river for water. Lake Mead, which was created near Las Vegas after the building of the Hoover Dam, supplies water to Arizona, Nevada, California and Mexico. The lake is now at its lowest level since it was first formed in the 1930s. # ⚓ Overpopulation_and_poverty⠀⇛ Rajyogi Brahmakumar Nikunj Ji postulates that the steadily increasing numbers on our planet may spiral into a serious concern of disastrous proportions. # ⚓ Why_we_must_become_fewer_people_and_consume_less_– and_suggestions_to_improve_the_situation⠀⇛ The mainstream media rarely report about the role of population growth in environmental and climate disruptions, but the Op-Ed below was actually published in the high- circulating Swedish Social Democratic newspaper Aftonbladet a week ago. The original Swedish text is available here. The article gives a broad overview, ending with an unusual suggestion. There were 250 on-line comments, and the author expands on his idea after the translated text below. o § Finance⠀➾ # ⚓ Corporate_Property-Buying_Spree_May_Make_Housing_Even_Less Affordable_Amid_COVID⠀⇛ # ⚓ Are_Bezos_and_Musk_Launching_Us_Into_a_New_Space_Age,_or Just_a_U.S._Space_Grab?⠀⇛ Behind this apparent show of rich kids playing with their expensive space toys, there are bigger forces at play—namely, that big capital is entering spaceflight, hitherto the exclusive domain of nation-states. While it appears that three men with deep pockets are funding their respective space ventures, the reality is that it is the U.S. taxpayers who are funding these space efforts. In this new space age, the U.S. is also proposing to ride roughshod over the space agreements that space is a “global commons.” The U.S. would like to convert space into its “final frontier,” under the premise that space belongs to any country that can mine its riches. Many people take for granted that the U.S. was the winner of the space race against the Soviet Union, since they beat the Soviets to the moon. But what is overlooked in this narrative is that the space competition is not simply about who sent the first man to the moon, but also about who built the better rockets. o § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾ # ⚓ A_Right-Wing_Call_For_Rough_Men⠀⇛ # ⚓ Why_Is_The_Republican_Party_Obsessed_With_Social_Media?⠀⇛ “In 1970,” observes Edmund Fawcett in his recent survey of political conservatism, “the best predictor of high conservative alignment in voting was a college education.” “Now,” he notes, “it is the reverse.” Many other statistics sing this tune of political realignment. Whereas the counties Al Gore won in the 2000 election accounted for about half the nation’s economic output, for instance, the counties Joe Biden won in 2020 account for more than 70 percent of it. Many observers have tried to capture this shift’s cultural significance. You could say that the Republicans have rejected Apollo for Dionysus. You could conclude that they have embraced Foucault and postmodern philosophy. Or you could sting to the quick, as David Brooks does, and acknowledge that “much of the Republican Party has become detached from reality.” # ⚓ Governor_Cuomo_Resigns⠀⇛ # ⚓ ‘No_Time_for_Amateur_Hour’:_Pelosi_Signals_Plan_to Steamroll_Right-Wing_Dems⠀⇛ Progressives commended House Speaker Nancy Pelosi for signaling late Monday that she does not intend to cede to conservative Democrats who are demanding passage of a bipartisan infrastructure bill before any vote on a $3.5 trillion budget resolution, a centerpiece of the party’s social spending and climate agenda. “This is no time for amateur hour,” Pelosi (D- Calif.) reportedly said during a private call with her leadership team, in an apparent reference to the nine conservative House Democrats who are publicly threatening to tank the budget resolution that—if passed—will set the stage for the construction of a sweeping reconciliation bill. # ⚓ West_Virginia_Activists_Are_Coming_for_Joe_Manchin⠀⇛ In 2017, West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin dared a group of local activists to mount a primary challenge against him. “What you ought to do is vote me out,” he told the activists, who were asking him to hold a public town hall for his constituents. “Vote me out! I’m not changing. Find somebody else who can beat me and vote me out.” # ⚓ GOP_Removes_Page_Praising_Donald_Trump’s_‘Historic’_Peace Deal_With_Taliban⠀⇛ The Republican National Committee has removed a webpage from 2020 in which it praised Donald Trump for signing a “historic peace agreement with the Taliban.” David Weigel, of The Washington Post, was the first to spot that the page had been removed with the web address redirecting to a 404 error page featuring the quip: “It looks like you’re as lost as Biden is.” # ⚓ RNC_post_on_Trump_peace_deal_with_Taliban_among_pre-2021 items_offline_during_site_maintenance⠀⇛ Internet archive site Wayback Machine shows a Sept. 15, 2020, post praising former President Trump’s “historic peace agreement with the Taliban.” The post is no longer on the RNC site, nor are any posts from that section of the website before Jan. 1, 2021. # ⚓ Republicans_delete_webpage_celebrating_Trump’s_deal_with Taliban⠀⇛ RNC officials did not respond to an emailed request for comment on the deletion. # ⚓ GOP_takes_down_2020_page_touting_Trump’s_‘historic_peace agreement_with_the_Taliban’⠀⇛ In researching his new book, Reign of Terror: How the 9/11 Era Destabilized America and Produced Trump, Spencer Ackerman spoke in 2020 with retired Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the former Joint Special Operations Command and Afghanistan War commander, and asked him if the War on Terror had been worth it. “It would be impossible to argue that it was,” McChrystal answered, Ackerman writes at The Daily Beast. “The outcome just hasn’t been positive enough to argue that.” # ⚓ Facebook’s_Taliban_Policy_Could_Delete_a_Lot_More_Than_Just Pro-Taliban_Content⠀⇛ Facebook, Twitter, YouTube take different approaches to Taliban content. Facebook considers the Taliban a terrorist group and will continue to ban pro-Taliban content from Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, the company confirmed. Content moderators will continue to block not only content from Taliban-associated accounts but all pro- Taliban content, regardless of who is sharing it. “The Taliban is sanctioned as a terrorist organization under U.S. law and we have banned them from our services under our Dangerous Organization policies,” a Facebook spokesperson said in a statement. “This means we remove accounts maintained by or on behalf of the Taliban and prohibit praise, support, and representation of them.” o § Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾ # ⚓ Bill_Maher_on_free_speech,_comedy,_and_his_haters⠀⇛ I recently spoke to Bill Maher, an acclaimed stand- up comedian and the longtime host of HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher, for an episode of Vox Conversations. Maher’s a political comic, and clearly a liberal, but I’ve always enjoyed his work because I’ve never really considered him a partisan, even though conservatives are the butt of most of his jokes. For all of his anti-Republican bits, you also get jabs at the left, like his recent segments on “progressophobia” and “cultural appropriation.” # ⚓ Moscow_Court_Levels_More_Fines_Against_Google_For_Failing To_Delete_Banned_Content⠀⇛ A Moscow court has leveled more fines against Google for violating Russia’s rules on banned content. The five fives handed to the U.S. technology giant on August 17 amount to a total 14 million rubles ($190,398), a minute fraction of the company’s $180 billion in revenue last year. o § Freedom of Information/Freedom of the Press⠀➾ # ⚓ Imprisoned_Chinese_citizen_journalist_not_well,_lawyer says⠀⇛ A Chinese citizen journalist serving a four-year sentence after reporting on the early stage of the COVID-19 pandemic in the city of Wuhan is in ill health after staging a long-running hunger strike, according to a lawyer who spoke with her family. Zhang Zhan was hospitalized on July 31 and now weighs less than 40 kilograms (90 pounds), according to a message sent by Zhang Zhan’s mother to a group on Chinese social media. Authorities notified the family that she was in poor health and told them to come to the prison, said Peng Yonghe, a lawyer who spoke with Zhang’s mother about the visit. Her parents and brother went to Shanghai on August 2 but were only permitted to speak with her over the phone. # ⚓ U.S._Lawyers_Challenging_U.K._Decision_to_Block_Julian Assange’s_Extradition⠀⇛ U.S. prosecutors have indicted Assange on 17 espionage charges and one charge of computer misuse over WikiLeaks’ publication of thousands of leaked military and diplomatic documents a decade ago. The charges carry a maximum sentence of 175 years in prison. # ⚓ Mob_attacks_journalists_covering_Istanbul_protest_and police_beat,_detain_two_reporters⠀⇛ Derya Saadet, a reporter with the leftist news website Sendika.org said that about 20 people charged at the protest and the journalists covering it in an interview with leftist broadcaster Artı TV, which the outlet posted to Twitter. Saadet said in the interview that she fell to the ground but when she tried to get up roughly eight men hit her and kicked her after identifying her as a journalist until other reporters dragged her away. o § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾ # ⚓ Is_Surviving_Assault_a_Conflict_of_Interest?⠀⇛ When sexual assault allegations came out against then–Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, former Washington Post political reporter Felicia Sonmez expected to cover the story. But, according to a discrimination lawsuit she recently filed, editors said she couldn’t, partially because she had just made public statements recounting being sexually assaulted the year prior. # ⚓ Illinois_Governor_Signs_Law_Banning_Cops_From_Performing Background_Searches_On_Public_Speakers⠀⇛ The Chicago PD has a host of problems. Ones that have gone unaddressed for years and appear to remain unaddressed even after the federal government has been forced to step in. Misconduct goes unpunished, investigations into officers are left uncompleted, the PD buys surveillance tech with forfeiture funds to dodge its oversight, and it operated a CIA-style black site in the city where arrestees and their rights vanished with alarming regularity. # ⚓ Dems_Unveil_Key_Voting_Rights_Bill_Amid_Calls_to_Pass_For the_People_Act⠀⇛ As Democratic U.S. lawmakers and progressive advocates welcomed Tuesday’s reintroduction of H.R. 4—the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act—they stressed that neither it, nor the more sweeping For the People Act, can be passed unless the Senate ends the filibuster. “Our demands are clear: Eliminate the filibuster and pass the For the People Act, the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, and the Washington, D.C. Admission Act.”—Declaration for American Democracy # ⚓ “Nobody_is_Above_the_Law”_–_Except_The_“Big_Boys”⠀⇛ They should all be charged in varying degrees with manslaughter. Note how the definition fits the facts on the ground: “Reckless homicide is a crime in which the perpetrators were aware that their act (or failure to act when there is a legal duty to act) creates significant risk of death or grievous bodily harm in the victim, but ignores the risk and continues to act (or fail to act), and a human death results.” # ⚓ Gig_Companies_Are_Bringing_the_Disastrous_Prop_22_to_a State_Near_You⠀⇛ The measure follows the Prop 22 model. It proposes to enshrine ride-hail and delivery-app drivers’ status as contractors rather than employees in state law, excluding them from minimum-wage and overtime laws, as well protection against discrimination and injury, among other important hard-won standards. In return, it promises health care stipends and a minimum wage, but only for time spent driving, not the significant amount of time spent in between tasks or rides. In California, a UC Berkeley study found the minimum offered in exchange for permanent exclusion from actual minimum-wage and overtime laws works out to a paltry $5.64. As for the promised health care plan, it is a pittance, should a driver even hit the high hourly hurdle required to qualify. # ⚓ [Old]_Forced_Marriage_Affects_All_of_Us⠀⇛ The broad impact of forced marriage has fostered a widespread response from within all communities. Tahirih’s Forced Marriage Initiative works alongside committed advocates and survivors from all backgrounds who together are striving to end forced marriage. Many of whom have joined together in a National Forced Marriage Working Group. Together we share best practices for serving clients, collaborate to raise awareness within the mainstream movement to end gender-based violence, and advance public policy to end forced marriage. # ⚓ Woman_Survives_Attempt_on_Her_Life_for_Becoming_Christian⠀⇛ Neighbors soon arrived, including the area chairperson, who called Kasasira police. Officer Afande Hire responded quickly and rescued her, Nanzala said. As police took Mugooda away, he was shouting that he would attack again, Hire said. “After my release, I will kill Harriet for renouncing Islam, the religion of Allah,” Mugooda said, according to Hire. Police have charged Mugooda with threatening violence, an area source said. # ⚓ Mother_Beaten_Unconscious_for_Leaving_Islam,_Marrying Christian⠀⇛ A mother of four children in eastern Uganda remains in pain after her Muslim father beat her and forced her to take mosquito repellant when he learned that she had left Islam and her Muslim husband and married a Christian, sources said. # ⚓ Afghanistan’s_female_footballers_make_tearful_calls_for help⠀⇛ Popal stopped playing in 2011 to focus on coordinating the team as a director at the Afghanistan Football Association. But the threats continued and she was eventually forced to flee Afghanistan to seek asylum in Denmark in 2016. “My life was in great danger,” she said. But she never abandoned the female footballers, helping to expose physical and sexual abuse, death threats and rape that implicated the Afghanistan federation leadership. The corruption in the sport was reflective of the shaky foundations of a country that has deteriorated rapidly after the withdrawal of troops from the U.S.-led mission. # ⚓ The_world_must_not_look_away_as_the_Taliban_sexually enslaves_women_and_girls⠀⇛ In early July, after Taliban leaders who took control of the provinces of Badakhshan and Takhar issued an order to local religious leaders to provide them with a list of girls over the age of 15 and widows under the age of 45 for “marriage” with Taliban fighters. It’s not yet known whether they’ve complied. If these forced marriages take place, women and girls will be taken to Waziristan in Pakistan to be re-educated and converted to “authentic Islam.” This order has caused profound fear among women and their families living in these areas and forced them to flee and join the ranks of internally displaced persons, adding to the humanitarian disaster unfolding in Afghanistan. In the past three months alone, 900,000 people have been displaced. # ⚓ New_Orleans_Man_Fights_the_Federal_Government_for_His_Life Savings⠀⇛ Like many others, Kermit lost his job at the historic Roosevelt Hotel due to the COVID-19 pandemic. So he decided to turn his part-time scrapping business into a full-time job. But on a trip to Ohio to purchase a tow truck for the business, Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agents took his life savings. Months later, the federal government filed a civil forfeiture case with flimsy allegations that the money is somehow connected to the drug trade. Kermit’s case demonstrates the abusiveness of civil forfeiture, which requires property owners to effectively prove their own innocence in court. “Traveling with cash is not a crime, but DEA and TSA continue to treat innocent travelers like criminals and take their hard-earned money using civil forfeiture,” said IJ Senior Attorney Dan Alban. “These abuses disproportionately harm those of modest means and people of color. Like Kermit, many victims are blue-collar workers who are traveling to buy used vehicles or other equipment for their business from people they’ve never met; they have to pay cash to close the deal.” o § Internet Policy/Net Neutrality⠀➾ # ⚓ Zittrain_On_Internet_Rot⠀⇛ I spent two decades working on the problem of preserving digital documents, especially those published on the Web, in the LOCKSS Program. So I’m in agreement with the overall argument of Jonathan Zittrain’s The Internet Is Rotting, that digital information is evanescent and mutable, and that libraries are no longer fulfilling their mission to be society’s memory institutions. He writes: People tend to overlook the decay of the modern web, when in fact these numbers are extraordinary—they represent a comprehensive breakdown in the chain of custody for facts. Libraries exist, and they still have books in them, but they aren’t stewarding a huge percentage of the information that people are linking to, including within formal, legal documents. No one is. The flexibility of the web—the very feature that makes it work, that had it eclipse CompuServe and other centrally organized networks—diffuses responsibility for this core societal function. o § Digital Restrictions (DRM)⠀➾ # ⚓ Netflix’s_Ramped_Up_War_On_VPNs_Comes_With_Collateral Damage⠀⇛ As Netflix has grown internationally, the company has increased its crackdown on “content tourism,” or the act of using a VPN to trick Netflix into letting you watch content specifically licensed for other countries. If you take a look at what’s available per country, the motivation to use a VPN to watch content not available in your market becomes abundantly obvious. o § Monopolies⠀➾ # § Patents⠀➾ # § Software Patents⠀➾ # ⚓ U.S._trade_agency_finds_Google_infringed_five Sonos_patents⠀⇛ A U.S. trade judge ruled on Friday that Alphabet’s Google infringed five patents belonging to Sonos that concern smart speakers and related technology, a decision that could lead to an import ban. The brief ruling from Charles Bullock, the chief administrative law judge of the U.S. International Trade Commission, did not explain why Google’s sale of the products violated a 1930 federal tariff law, commonly known as Smoot-Hawley, designed to prevent unfair competition. # ⚓ U.S._trade_judge_finds_Google_infringed_five Sonos_patents⠀⇛ Friday’s ruling is subject to review by the full ITC, scheduled for Dec. 13 according to the commission’s website. The ITC case is part of an array of litigation between the two companies, including cases in California, Texas, France, Germany and the Netherlands, according to regulatory filings. # § Copyrights⠀➾ # ⚓ Gen_Saleh’s_empty_gift_to_artistes,_list_of_rights for_music_industry⠀⇛ The truth is, their assertion is based on a deliberately wrong interpretation of the copyright law in regards to collecting societies under the Copyright and Neighbouring Rights Act, 2006, and the Copyright and Neighbouring Rights Regulations of 2010. The law states, in part, that only one licensing agency is mandated to manage a specific bundle or set of rights associated with any given artisan sector, a phrase that is amateurishly understood by UPRS to refer to a monopoly of management, which is false. The bundling does not mean the issuance of performing rights licences in a given artisan sector should monopolistically be under one public performance licenser, but rather it is meant to parcel up the rights of related entities within a given artisan sector for ease of management. # ⚓ Reflections_from_my_first_year_as_Creative_Commons’ CEO⠀⇛ However, as I sit and write this reflection, I know for so many in our global community and network that our thoughts and prayers are with the women and girls in Afghanistan with whom I want to express my solidarity. I sincerely hope the international community will do all that it can to support women and girls in Afghanistan to exercise their basic human rights against a backdrop of chaos, violence and uncertainty.  # ⚓ Techdirt_Podcast_Episode_294:_When_Your_Art_Projects Keep_Getting_Cease_&_Desist_Letters⠀⇛ We’re continually amazed that so many companies still think they can get away with abusing the law to take down parodies, satire, and criticism without invoking the Streisand Effect and making things worse on themselves. One person who has a lot of experience being on the receiving end of these foolish threats is artist and culture hacker Danielle Baskin, whose recent Brand- Aid project is just the latest in a series of works that drew the ire of Johnson & Johnson. This week, Baskin joins us on the podcast to discuss what it’s like when your art is constantly hit with demands to cease and desist. # ⚓ The_Conservative_Election_Platform:_Freedom_of Expression_Commitment_Tainted_By_Support_for_Payments for_Links,_Restrictions_on_Fair_Dealing⠀⇛ Given the rest of the platform, the Conservatives could have recommended pro- innovative copyright reforms such as the right to repair to support the agriculture sector, an exception for AI, limitations on digital lock rules, and the repeal of crown copyright. Instead, they bizarrely supports link taxes and restrictive fair dealing, both of which would have a negative impact on the very freedom of expression the platform otherwise supports. # ⚓ Federal_Court_Orders_Pirate_Box_Sellers_To_Pay US$23.6m_in_Copyright_Damages⠀⇛ Bell Canada, Videotron, Group TVA and Rogers Communications have been awarded in excess of US$23.6m in copyright damages by a judge at Canada’s Federal Court. The long-running case was filed against retailers involved in the distribution of set-top boxes configured to access TV content, without compensating the relevant rightsholders. # ⚓ Amazon,_Facebook_and_Google_Paid_Millions_to_Pirates, Study_Finds⠀⇛ A new report published by the Digital Citizens Alliance suggests that pirates sites earn more than a billion dollars in revenue per year, while pirate apps are good for another quarter. Part of the money comes from big brands such as Amazon, Facebook and Google. While Amazon appears to take the problem seriously, the report sees plenty of room for improvement at Google’s end. # ⚓ Court_Urders_Injunction_Against_RomUniverse_To Permanently_Shut_Down,_Destroy_Nintendo_ROMs⠀⇛ What a ride for RomUniverse and its owner, Matthew Storman. By way of background, 2019 saw Nintendo start an all out assault on ROM sites, websites where users could download ROMs of old Nintendo games to play on emulators. When the company set its eyes on RomUniverse, Storman attempted to crowdfund a legal defense, which failed, only to represent himself in court and make a lame argument that somehow first sale doctrine allowed him to commit mass copyright infringement. When that all failed miserably and RomUniverse lost in court, Storman was ordered to pay $2.1 million in damages in monthly $50 installments. He failed to make even those payments. ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 3567 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐃𝐀𝐈𝐋𝐘 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒 ═════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 08.18.21⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ ✐ Links_18/8/2021:_Krita_5.0_Beta,_IPFire_2.27_Core_Update_159⠀✐ Posted in News_Roundup at 4:46 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇GNOME bluefish⦈ § Contents⠀➾ * GNU/Linux o Distributions o Devices/Embedded * Free_Software/Open_Source * Leftovers * § GNU/Linux⠀➾ o § Desktop/Laptop⠀➾ # ⚓ The_evolution_of_Linux_on_the_desktop:_Distributions_are_so much_better_today⠀⇛ It’s been 30 years since Linus Torvalds created Linux. It’s been almost 25 years since I first experienced Linux on the desktop. I remember like it was yesterday. The very first time I booted into the Linux desktop. The distribution in question was Caldera Open Linux 1.0, which installed with kernel 2.0 and the desktop was Fvwm95. I cannot confirm what I had assumed the desktop would have looked like, but I can assure you I had no idea it would have taken on a rather Windows 95 clone-ish look about it. o § Audiocasts/Shows⠀➾ # ⚓ Second-Class_Desktop_|_Coder_Radio_427⠀⇛ Chris makes a big mistake on the road, and Mike drops some reality-based sage wisdom. But it’s really all just a ruse to get you to email the show. # ⚓ mintCast_367.5_–_Not_Talkin’_Shop⠀⇛ 2:03 Linux Innards 43:38 Vibrations from the Ether 52:35 Check this Out 55:29 Announcements & Outro In our Innards section, we talk hobbies And finally, the feedback and a couple of suggestions # ⚓ Setting_up_a_Windows_to_Linux_Game_Streaming_Server_– Invidious⠀⇛ There are many tweaks, hacks, and work-arounds for forcing Windows games to run on Linux. o § Kernel Space⠀➾ # ⚓ Asahi_Linux_August_progress_report⠀⇛ Asahi Linux, the effort to port Linux to Apple’s new M1 SoC, has posted its second progress report. # ⚓ Asahi_Linux_progress:_Apple_Silicon_OS_works_–_though_it’s ‘rough_around_the_edges’_and_has_no_GUI_acceleration_•_The Register⠀⇛ Developer Hector Martin has reported on progress with Asahi Linux, a port for Apple Silicon Macs, and said that the OS now works but with some limitations, notably a lack of accelerated graphics. In his August progress report, Martin talks further about the challenges of porting Linux to a platform that was created by Apple for the sole purpose of running its own operating systems. He calls the M1, the Arm-based SoC (System on a Chip) used in the Mac Mini and iPad Pro, “a massive reverse engineering challenge.” Rather than attempting to dissemble the macOS drivers, Martin created a hypervisor to sit between macOS and the M1 hardware, for the purpose of “transparently intercepting and logging hardware access.” Python code running on a separate machine can control the hypervisor. # ⚓ PREEMPT-RT_Locking_Infrastructure_Possibly_Ready_For_Linux 5.15_–_Phoronix⠀⇛ Six dozen patches working on the PREEMPT-RT locking infrastructure for real-time kernels is now queued up in TIP’s “locking/core” branch and will presumably be sent in for the Linux 5.15 merge window coming up quickly. These 72 patches are part of the Linux real-time (RT) work by Thomas Gleixner and others. This locking infrastructure work for real-time kernel builds is replacing mutex, ww_mutex, rw_semaphore, spinlock, and rwlock with RT-Mutex-based primitives. For non-real-time kernel builds there should be no functional changes with these locking changes. # ⚓ Proposed:_Allow_Building_The_Linux_Kernel_With_x86-64 Microarchitecture_Feature_Levels_–_Phoronix⠀⇛ A set of two patches posted this week would allow the Linux kernel to be easily built with the different x86-64 micro-architecture feature levels supported by the latest LLVM Clang and GCC compilers. Rather than just having per-CPU/core family targeting by the code compilers, over the past year the “x86-64 micro-architecture feature levels” have gained adoption as some common levels for both AMD and Intel processors to group CPU capabilities into a few tiers. # § Graphics Stack⠀➾ # ⚓ Mike_Blumenkrantz:_Submerged⠀⇛ Just a quick update today while I dip my toes back into the blogosphere to remind myself that it’s not so scary. Remember when I blogged about how nice it would be to have a suballocator all those months ago? Now it’s landed, and it’s nice indeed to have a suballocator. o § Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ 10_of_the_best_email_clients_for_Linux⠀⇛ Email is an indispensable medium of communication. Services like Gmail, Yahoo Mail, and Outlook provide a web-based client to let users use Email services with the help of the internet and a browser. However, while accessing emails from web browsers may be the de-facto way of accessing emails, it might not be the quickest or efficient. Email clients for Linux provide an efficient way to manage both online and offline emails and lets you easily sync email accounts with the system and notify users of any new email. In addition, email clients can add multiple email accounts and supports plugin-ins that add additional features to increase productivity and functionality. # ⚓ below:_a_time_traveling_resource_monitor⠀⇛ One of the kernel’s primary responsibilities is mediating access to resources. Sometimes this might mean parceling out physical memory such that multiple processes can share the same host. Other times it might mean ensuring equitable distribution of CPU time. In all these contexts, the kernel provides the mechanism and leaves the policy to “someone else”. In more recent times, this “someone else” is usually a runtime like systemd or dockerd. The runtime takes input from a scheduler or end user — something along the lines of what to run and how to run it — and turns the right knobs and pulls the right levers on the kernel such that the workload can —well — get to work. In a perfect world this would be the end of the story. However, the reality is that resource management is a complex and rather opaque amalgam of technologies that has evolved over decades of computing. Despite some of this technology having various warts and dead ends, the end result — a container — works relatively well. While the user does not usually need to concern themselves with the details, it is crucial for infrastructure operators to have visibility into their stack. Visibility and debuggability are essential for detecting and investigating misconfigurations, bugs, and systemic issues. To make matters more complicated, resource outages are often difficult to reproduce. It is not unusual to spend weeks waiting for an issue to reoccur so that the root cause can be investigated. Scale further compounds this issue: one cannot run a custom script on every host in the hopes of logging bits of crucial state if the bug happens again. Therefore, more sophisticated tooling is required. Enter below. # ⚓ Foliate_eBook_Reader_for_Linux_is_a_Must_Have⠀⇛ Have you heard of Foliate ebook reader? It’s one of the best Ubuntu apps available. In this post we show you its features, and detail how to install Foliate on Ubuntu so you can try it yourself. Foliate is a GTK app for Linux desktops (though it may work on Linux phones like the PinePhone). The back-of-the-book blurb described it as a “simple and modern ebook viewer”. But it’s so much more than that. Most of probably prefer to read ebooks on an e- reader device like an Amazon Kindle or a Nook. But there are features that an eBook viewer for your PC can offer that a dedicated ebook reader can’t. And it’s precisely those features you’ll find within the ‘pages’ of Foliate. # ⚓ Budgeting_tools⠀⇛ On the advice of many friends, I tried to use You Need A Budget. I gave it a seriously long, proper evaluation: over a year. But I just couldn’t get it to work for me. I don’t want to try and explain why. To be honest, those same friends who advocated for it fairly strongly, also gave me a pretty hard time for giving up on it! [...] Jimmy Kaplowitz suggested back in 2012 that I should take a look at GNUCash. It took me a few more years before I did. The eventual trigger point for me was organising an event where I paid for a load of things on behalf of others and needed to track who had paid me back. It excelled for that. I’ve continued to use GNUCash to manage my personal money &emdash that is, my “play money” and anything I’ve accumulated &emdash but I haven’t committed to it for my family finances. Practically speaking that would lock my wife out of them, which wouldn’t be fair. But also because GNUCash’s shortcomings (and despite its strengths, it certainly has some) mean that I don’t expect I will be using it into the indefinite future, even for my personal stuff. The most significant drawback, in my opinion, is GNUCash’s support for scripting. Sometimes, there’s a laborious but easily-mechanisable (in theory) task I need to perform that would be ideal to script. GNUCash has built-in scripting support using Guile &emdash the GNU lisp/scheme dialect &emdash but this is limited to Reports only, I don’t think it can be used for a task such as “match a series of transactions using one or more filters or regular expressions, and apply a transformation to them, such as change the account to which they are posted”, etc. It also has a C library and auto-generated bindings for other languages. This has a horrible API, which is carried over into the language bindings. Documentation for the whole lot is basically non- existent too. o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾ # ⚓ How_to_run_Apache_Spark_on_MicroK8s_and_Ubuntu_Core,_in_the cloud:_Part_1⠀⇛ # ⚓ How_to_run_Apache_Spark_on_MicroK8s_and_Ubuntu_Core,_in_the cloud:_Part_2⠀⇛ # ⚓ How_to_run_Apache_Spark_on_MicroK8s_and_Ubuntu_Core,_in_the cloud:_Part_3⠀⇛ # ⚓ How_to_run_Apache_Spark_on_MicroK8s_and_Ubuntu_Core,_in_the cloud:_Part_4⠀⇛ # ⚓ Set_up_KVM_&&_Cockpit_WEB_Console_on_Ubuntu_DDE_21.04⠀⇛ # ⚓ How_to_Check_Battery_Status_Using_Linux_Command_Line_| Linux_Journal⠀⇛ Checking the battery status through GUI is easy. Hovering the mouse cursor over the battery indicator given in the Laptop task bar simply shows the battery level. But, did you know you can find the battery status through the Linux command line as well? Yes, there are some utilities in Linux that can be of help in this regard. This article explains 4 different methods of checking laptop battery status using the Linux command line. So, # ⚓ How_to_Download_and_Install_Zoom_on_Linux⠀⇛ Zoom is one of the popular video conferencing solutions out there. It’s essentially a cloud-based app that lets you organize meetings and team up in real-time to conduct webinars and group calls. Although you can access Zoom on the web via its web client or progressive web app (PWA), it is advisable you download its desktop client for quick and easy access. # ⚓ How_to_Install_and_Use_Neofetch_on_Linux⠀⇛ Neofetch displays an ASCII logo of your Linux distribution along with information related to your system in the terminal. Many Linux users will use it in screenshots of their desktops just because they think it’s cool. And they’re right. You can use it to show off your setup in screenshots too. Since the utility doesn’t come preinstalled on Linux, users have to install it manually on their system. By the end of this, you’ll have a decent understanding of how to install and use Neofetch on a Linux machine. # ⚓ How_to_install_Webmin_on_Debian_11_Bullseye_Server_Linux_– Linux_Shout⠀⇛ Webmin is an open-source application platform that gives a web-based graphical user interface to manage Linux servers. Here we learn how to install Webmin on Debian 11 Linux server to manage web hosting using its repository. Managing command line servers can be tricky especially for beginners, hence a Webmin-like admin control panel can make all this easy. Because of the web-based system administration interface for Unix. Any modern web browser can be used to set up user accounts, Apache, DNS, file sharing, and much more. Webmin eliminates the need to manually edit Unix configuration files such as /etc/passwd and allows a system to be managed from the console or remotely. Further extension of Webmin features is possible with the help of built-in or external modules. # ⚓ How_to_install_Debian_11_“Bullseye”_–_Invidious⠀⇛ In this video, I am going to show how to install Debian 11 “Bullseye”. # ⚓ How_to_Install_Debian_11_(Bullseye)_Step_by_Step⠀⇛ Hello Geeks, Debian has finally released its stable OS version 11 and It’s code name is ‘bullseye’. Debian 11 is a LTS version which means we will get updates and support till 2025. It has come up with brand new theme ‘Homeworld’ and new Linux kernel 5.10. Apart from this, it also supports 32-bit systems and exFat file system. Other noticeable feature of Debian 11 is that it has updated version of desktop environments like GNOME 3.38, KDE plasma 5.20, Xfce 4.16 and other OS package updates. # ⚓ How_to_Install_Bagisto_eCommerce_Platform_on_Ubuntu_20.04⠀⇛ Bagisto is the popular open-source eCommerce platform built on the hottest technologies Bagisto is the popular open-source eCommerce platform built on the hottest technologies Laravel & Vue.js. A complete eCommerce solution built for merchants to cater to their online shop needs and very easy for developers to contribute and build. Bagisto has a built-in easy navigable admin panel and is bundled with functionalities like Multi-Currency, Multi- Localization, Access Control Level, Multi-Channel, Payment integration, and much more. # ⚓ How_To_Install_Pritunl_VPN_Server_on_AlmaLinux_8_–_idroot⠀⇛ In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Pritunl VPN Server on AlmaLinux 8. For those of you who didn’t know, Pritunl VPN is currently one of the most secure open-source VPN tools that can be used for multi-cloud VPN peering. Pritunl VPN server uses MongoDB and can be deployed on any cloud infrastructure. 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 Pritunl VPN on AlmaLinux 8. You can follow the same instructions for Rocky Linux. # ⚓ How_to_pair_the_Nintendo_Switch_Pro_controller_on_Linux⠀⇛ Do you want to play games on your Linux PC using your Nintendo Switch Pro controller but don’t know how to get it to pair to your computer? We can help! Follow along as we go over how to pair the Nintendo Switch Pro controller on Linux! # ⚓ Access_Your_Database_Remotely_Through_an_SSH_Tunnel_| RoseHosting⠀⇛ Secure Shell or SSH is a client-server-based communication protocol that is used to connect securely from one machine to another. It uses a network port to create a connection session between the server that listens on the chosen port and the client which sends the SSH connection request on that port. # ⚓ How_To_Install_UrBackup_on_Ubuntu_20.04_LTS_–_idroot⠀⇛ In this tutorial, we will show you how to install UrBackup on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. For those of you who didn’t know, UrBackup is a free and powerful network backup solution for personal and enterprise. It has almost all the features you need from backup software. It provides a web-based interface to manage all backups. It is cross- platform and can be installed on Windows, Linux, and many Linux-based NAS operating systems. 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 UrBackup open source network backup 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_Install_Grafana_Monitoring_System_on_CentOS_8_– VITUX⠀⇛ Grafana is a widely used open-source system monitoring solution for Linux servers. It is e.g. used by PayPal, eBay, and Red Hat. Grafana is a good choice for all engineers who want to use a scalable and robust dashboard monitoring tool. This monitoring tool monitors various data sources. Using Grafana, you can bind time-series databases like Prometheus or Influx DB and relational databases like PostgreSQL or MySQL. # ⚓ How_to_Install_UrBackup_Server_and_Client_on_Ubuntu_20.04⠀⇛ Regularly backup the live server is a very important task of any system administrator. It will help you to recover your data in the event of data loss or system failure. There are a lot of free and commercial backup tools available in the market. UrBackup is an open-source and client/server backup system for Linux operating systems. It supports both file and image backups in a live system without interrupting current processes. It provides a web-based interface to manage all backups. It is cross-platform and can be installed on Windows, FreeBSD, Linux, and many Linux-based NAS operating systems. # ⚓ wget_–_CentOS:_How_to_Install_and_Use_Wget⠀⇛ Wget is used to download files via the CLI. In this beginner-friendly tutorial, we’ll show you how to install and use the wget command on CentOS. # ⚓ How_to_set_up_and_use_Python_virtual_environments_for Ansible_|_Enable_Sysadmin⠀⇛ It’s vital to test new technology before rolling it out into your production environment. I like to use Python virtual environments provided by the venv module for developing and testing Ansible playbooks and features. Instead of using the default Python and Ansible commands installed on your system, you can easily set up multiple Python environments and test different versions of Ansible and its component libraries. # ⚓ Install_and_Use_Curl_on_Debian_11_Bullseye_Linux_–_Linux Shout⠀⇛ cURL is an open-source command-line program integrated into Linux systems for a long time. It enables files to be transferred from or to a server without user interaction. In addition to HTTP, the program supports a variety of other network protocols such as FTP, FTPS, HTTPS, GOPHER, TELNET, DICT, FILE, and LDAP. It is controlled via command- line parameters that are specified when the program is called. Furthermore, since 2018 cURL is also the part of the Microsoft operating system. It is also used in cars, televisions, routers, printers, smartphones, tablets, and many other devices. cURL uses the libcurl library for all functions relating to data transfer. It is often used for working with REST used -ful services, such as for the development or debugging of such services. # ⚓ Easy_guide_to_monitoring_your_systems_with_Checkmk⠀⇛ This tutorial will show you how to take your first steps with Checkmk, a comprehensive IT monitoring system that identifies issues across your entire IT infrastructure. Checkmk monitors servers, applications, networks, cloud environments and many other systems. I will show you how to install Checkmk on Ubuntu 20.04 and add hosts (systems to be monitored) to the monitoring. Checkmk also runs on other Linux distributions such as Debian, RHEL, CentOS or SLES, in a Docker container, or also as a virtual appliance. You can download the latest version for all platforms from the official Checkmk website. For this tutorial I will use the Checkmk Raw Edition, which is completely open source. The goal of this article is to give you a quick start into Checkmk and the world of IT monitoring. Checkmk comes with numerous powerful features, and I recommend checking the documentation online for further reference. You will see that it is fairly easy to set up a first monitoring, as many configuration tasks are performed automatically, and thanks to the around 2,000 official monitoring plug-ins, Checkmk supports many systems right out of the box. # ⚓ Connect_to_an_external_PostgreSQL_database_with_SSL_and_Red Hat’s_single_sign-on_technology_|_Red_Hat_Developer⠀⇛ This article shows you how to connect securely to applications and data sources using Red Hat’s single sign-on technology. The example connects to an external PostgreSQL database in secure Single Sockets Layer (SSL) mode, first locally and then on Red Hat OpenShift. As you will see, it is usually much easier to carry out the integration first on a standalone instance of Red Hat’s SSO, and then deploy it on OpenShift. o § Games⠀➾ # ⚓ Save_your_school_in_Kraken_Academy!!_with_the_help_of_a time-loop_on_September_10_|_GamingOnLinux⠀⇛ Kraken Academy!! sounds like a wonderfully weird game where you attending the most unusual high- school that’s full of ghosts, cultists, crocodiles and a magical Kraken. Described in their email as “groundhog-day adventure inspired by 90s comedy anime” and that pretty much sold me right away. In the game you need to find a traitor who is trying to apparently destroy everything and they could be anyone at your school. Thankfully some friendly magical Kraken decides to bestow upon you the ability to time travel so you loop over and over, each time getting that little bit closer to find out who this traitor is. Sounds wild. # ⚓ Play_through_a_sci-fi_cooking_competition_show_in_Galactic Chef_|_GamingOnLinux⠀⇛ Thoughtquake Studios are currently developing Galactic Chef, a fun spin on cooking games with a sci-fi theme where you take part in a competitive cooking show. Featuring procedural generation to make it meals fresh each time, along with plenty of voxels you will make up some fancy looking delights while being scored by alien judges on flavour, texture, ambition, technical execution, and the unique requirements of each challenge. It honestly sounds great with it being simulated quite a bit behind the scenes on how the different ingredients and their voxels react to heat, moisture, damage, and more. # ⚓ ScummVM_continues_keeping_games_alive_with_early_Macromedia Director_support_|_GamingOnLinux⠀⇛ Remember any classic games made with Macromedia Director? Well you’re in luck, as the ScummVM project is adding in some early support for it. For those unaware ScummVM is a free and open source application that allow you to run tons of classic graphical adventure and role-playing games, as long as you have the data files needed. This allows you to easily play them on modern systems, often with enhancements to make the experience a bit smoother. # ⚓ Icculus_has_released_MultiZork,_making_the_1980_classic Zork_multiplayer_|_GamingOnLinux⠀⇛ Some games live on forever and that’s very much the case with Zork, a true classic interactive fiction adventure from 1980 and thanks to Ryan “Icculus” Gordon there’s also now MultiZork. In a post on Patreon, Icculus gives a brief history of their love for Zork, a game that “not only uses its own programming language, it uses its own CPU” and so it’s been made to run practically everywhere. As long as a system had a working Z- Machine emulator it would work, and that was needed as this was back in the days where there wasn’t much of a standard for PC systems. All it needs is a working text interface and so you can play it across so many places. For fun Icculus wrote MojoZork, a “single C file that is just enough of the Z-Machine to complete Zork 1 (and probably several other early Infocom games)” and it seems due to the way it was made there’s just enough room to squeeze in a couple of extra players and so that’s what Icculus did. o § Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾ # § K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt⠀➾ # ⚓ Krita_5.0_Enters_Public_Beta_Testing_with_All-New Resource_System,_Many_New_Features⠀⇛ Development on Krita 5.0 kicked off a few months ago, and, as a major release, it promises numerous new features and improvements. The biggest change being an all-new resource system that has been in development for a few years now. With the new resource system in place, Krita 5.0 will no longer load all brushes, gradients, patterns, etc. during start-up. Instead, it will cache all these information during the first run, which means that the app will be a bit faster when starting up, yet the first run will be slower as all the info needs to be cached. # ⚓ First_Beta_for_Krita_5.0_released⠀⇛ Today, the Krita team releases the first beta for Krita 5.0. Krita 5.0 is a major release, with a lot of new features and a lot of changes. We intend to release the final version in September, but that is not a hard promise! We will continue fixing issues that come in from testing the beta and the nightly builds so we can release a solid Krita 5. Please consider supporting Krita’s development through the development fund… # ⚓ Krita_5.0_Beta_Released_With_Better_Performance,_UI Polishing_–_Phoronix⠀⇛ Krita 5.0 is on the way as the next major feature release to this popular, open-source digital painting program. Krita 5.0 beta debuted today to help in vetting this major update. Krita 5.0 is introducing a new resource system, adds support for HEIF / AVIF / WebP image formats, improves its TIFF support, brings the all new MyPaint brush engine, support for gradient dithering and wide-gamut gradients, various performance improvements, a redesigned animation timeline docker, an in-stack transform tool preview, and UI improvements. # § GNOME Desktop/GTK⠀➾ # ⚓ MATE_1.26_released⠀⇛ This release might have taken a little longer than usual but now after 18 month of development we are very pleased to release MATE 1.26. A big thank you to all contributors who helped to make this happen. # ⚓ Dhanuka_Warusadura:_GSoC_21:_Final_report⠀⇛ This is my last GSoC blog post. And the purpose of writing this blog post is to share the work I have completed during the past 10 weeks of Google Summer of Code 2021. # ⚓ How_to_Gradient_When_You_Can’t⠀⇛ While this topic isn’t anything new (the asset in question is probably a decade old) I never shared a dirty little secret about some of our symbolic assets. UI icons in GNOME are to a major extent monochrome. They behave like text and can be rendered with various foreground colors depending on context. In a small subset of icons we use partially shaded elements. Those are done as a solid fill as well, but lowered opacity. Then can still remain recolorable at runtime. What we don’t have is the ability to draw a gradient that remains recolorable, because we’d need more somphisticated machinery to rewrite the stops of the gradient definition. Or can we? Unless you’re reading this on Planet or in your fancy RSS reader, you can see the spinner we’ve been using for well over 7 years now: It actually isn’t filtered particularly well in Firefox, but is nice and clean in gtk. Firefox amplifies one of the big downsides of this method, it’s quite prone to moiré. If you hover over the spinner, it reveals the nasty hack how the fade to transparency has been achieved. o § Distributions⠀➾ # § Reviews⠀➾ # ⚓ Not-a-Linux_distro_review:_SerenityOS_is_a_Unix- y_love_letter_to_the_‘90s⠀⇛ Today, I test-drove an in-development operating system project that seems almost disturbingly tailored to me specifically: SerenityOS. I cannot possibly introduce SerenityOS more accurately than its own website does… Every word of this introduction is almost surgically accurate. To someone in SerenityOS’s target demographic—someone like myself (and likely many Arsians), who grew up with NT4 systems but matured on modern Linux and BSD—SerenityOS hits like a love letter from the ex you never quite forgot. # ⚓ Manjaro_21.1_Pahvo_Released_With_GNOME_40,_Plasma 5.22_and_Xfce_4.16_–_It’s_FOSS_News⠀⇛ Manjaro 21.1 “Pahvo” is now available. This release brings many major improvements, especially in terms of desktop environments and the installation process. Although the version number suggests a small upgrade, that can’t be anything further from the truth, especially if you use GNOME or KDE. [...] As you may remember, many community members disliked the looks of GNOME 40, causing them to stick with older versions such as GNOME 3.38. Fortunately, it appears that the Manjaro team has come up with a solution for those disgruntled by the changes. This comes in the form of Manjaro Legacy Layout, which aims to modify GNOME to look similar to the GNOME 3.x series. In my experience with Manjaro 21.1, it does this quite convincingly, although the new theme does give it away slightly. # § New Releases⠀➾ # ⚓ Zorin_OS_16_Released!_New_Modern_Beginner_Friendly Linux_based_on_Ubuntu_20.04⠀⇛ Zorin OS 16 was officially released! Features Ubuntu 20.04 LTS package base, Kernel 5.11, and modified Gnome Desktop 3.36. Zorin OS is an open-source Linux distribution for personal computers. It provides an user friendly desktop appearance based on Gnome. With built-in utility, it allows to single click changing UI layout to original Gnome, classic or modern Windows style. A lightweight version is also available for old computers based on XFCE desktop environment. And it features “Zorin Connect”, GSConnect / KDE Connect similar implementation to link your Android phone and computer together. # ⚓ Manjaro_21.1.0_Pahvo_Released,_Brings_GNOME_40_to_the Scene⠀⇛ Manjaro just dropped the latest version of its beginner-friendly Arch-based distro – Manjaro 21.1.0 Pahvo. Let’s see what’s new. Over the years, Manjaro has attracted many users by delivering an easy-to-use, intuitive user experience that’s backed by the power of Arch Linux. It features a rolling release model that means you can apply updates and upgrades without reinstalling the operating system. Now, with their latest Pahvo update, the distro just got even more user-friendly and perfect for everyday use. # ⚓ IPFire_Linux_Firewall_Distro_Is_Now_Powered_by_the Long-Term_Supported_Linux_5.10_Kernel⠀⇛ The biggest change in the IPFire 2.27 Core Update 159 release is a new major kernel update as the firewall/router distribution is now powered by the long-term supported Linux 5.10 LTS series, which will receive updates for five years, until December 2026. As expected, the new kernel version brings better hardware support with its many new and updated drivers, especially network drivers, increased networking throughput through zero- copy TCP receive and UDP and Bottleneck Bandwidth and RTT congestion control (BBR) for decreased latency of the firewall in the network when forwarding packets. # ⚓ IPFire_2.27_–_Core_Update_159_released_[New_Kernel Inside]⠀⇛ This is the official release announcement for the next major release of IPFire: IPFire 2.27 – Core Update 159. It comes with a brand new kernel based on Linux 5.10 and an updated toolchain as well as general bug fixes and a large number of improvements. Before we talk about what is new, I would like to ask you for your support for our project. IPFire is a small team of people from a range of backgrounds sharing one goal: make the Internet a safer place for everyone. Like many of our open source friends, we’ve taken a hit this year and would like to ask for your continued support. # § Screenshots/Screencasts⠀➾ # ⚓ Zorin_OS_16_–_The_BEST_DISTRO_to_move_to_LINUX?_– Invidious⠀⇛ Zorin OS 16 was just released a few days ago. This distro gets a ton of praise from beginners and windows switchers, and this new release, in my opinion, cements its place as the go-to recommendation for new Linux users. Let’s see what’s new and if Zorin can earn a nice “Linux beginner” seal of approval. # § SUSE/OpenSUSE⠀➾ # ⚓ S.u.S.E.,_Opensuse_and_me⠀⇛ Recently connect.opensuse.org, the openSUSE member directory and social site was shut down. You can read more about the reasons on openSUSE News. I also had my profile on the site, listing many of the things I worked on during the past two and a half decades. Reading it was quite a trip down the memory lane. It also reminded me, how the name changed over the years. Did you know that SUSE was originally an acronym for Software- und System-Entwicklung? This is why the original name is S.u.S.E. # § IBM/Red Hat/Fedora⠀➾ # ⚓ Looking_back_on_30_years_of_Linux_history_with_Red Hat’s_Richard_Jones [Ed: A look back at 38_(thirty eight)_years_of_GNU/Linux; one has to appreciate how IBM has managed to delete GNU from history while still mentioning MINIX and it refers to “Open Source”, which did not even exist as a term in 1991, simply because it hates the F word, freedom]⠀⇛ The Linux kernel and the second version of the GNU General Public License (GPLv2) turned 30 this year. As part of that major milestone we asked Red Hatters who have been using or contributing to Linux since the early days about their experiences. What was it like contributing to Linux, what was it like using it? Could you imagine that Linux would have the impact it’s had on the world up until now? Today we’re talking to Richard Jones who has been using Linux since the early 1990s, joining Red Hat in 2007. Richard is now a Senior Principal Software Engineer in Red Hat’s R&D Platform team. # ⚓ How_to_accelerate_Artificial_Intelligence_(AI):_9 tips_|_The_Enterprisers_Project⠀⇛ Artificial Intelligence (AI) has moved from “when will we do it?” to “how will we speed it up?” in many organizations. AI passed some important tests during the pandemic, says David Tareen, director of AI and analytics at SAS. “The pandemic put AI and chatbots in place to answer a flood of pandemic-related questions. Computer vision supported social distancing efforts. Machine learning models have become indispensable for modeling the effects of the reopening process.” “If there’s one reason IT leaders should accelerate the broader adoption of AI, it’s the ability to uncover opportunities.” But the future upside of AI is still considerable. “Artificial intelligence is designed to reveal what you can’t see due to the sheer volume of data that is available,” says Josh Perkins, field CTO at digital platform company AHEAD. “If there’s one reason IT leaders should accelerate the broader adoption of AI, it’s the ability to uncover opportunities that generate real business value through insights and efficiencies where perhaps there were none.” That puts pressure on IT teams to deliver and work harder to overcome the challenges that exist in scaling the implementation and adoption of AI in the enterprise. # ⚓ IT_careers:_3_habits_of_continuous_learners_|_The Enterprisers_Project⠀⇛ Increasingly, knowledge is the new currency in the IT industry. Given the rapid pace of change, knowledge management has become crucial for professionals to stay competitive and succeed. IT professionals who invest time in continuous learning (and leaders who facilitate this) will not only keep their skillset relevant, but also gain confidence in their own capabilities to embrace change. Continuous learners can leverage their knowledge of new trends, tools, coding languages, etc. to boost their professional growth. Both IT professionals and leaders must cultivate continuous learning habits for their teams to stay on top of the latest information. # ⚓ Two_keys_to_adopting_AI/ML:_Data_excellence_and collaboration⠀⇛ Machine learning has many applications and benefits for a variety of businesses. However, it’s complicated and requires collaboration to bring you value. In this post, we’ll talk about how Red Hat can assist you in being successful with artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML), no matter what phase of your journey you’re in. # ⚓ New_features_in_JBoss_Tools_4.19.1_and_Red_Hat CodeReady_Studio_12.19.1_for_Eclipse_(2021-03)_|_Red Hat_Developer⠀⇛ JBoss Tools 4.19.1 and Red Hat CodeReady Studio 12.19.1 for Eclipse (2021-03) are now available. In this release, we focused on improving tooling for the Quarkus framework, adding improvements for container-based development, and bug fixing. This article highlights just a few of these enhancements. # § Debian Family⠀➾ # ⚓ Debian_11_Performance_Uplift_Is_Looking_Great_For Intel_Xeon,_AMD_EPYC⠀⇛ This past weekend marked the release of Debian 11 “Bullseye” as the newest version of this major Linux distribution that is also the basis for many others. Given the popularity of Debian stable on servers, our first round of Debian 11.0 benchmarking is looking at the performance relative to Debian 10.10 on latest-generation Intel Xeon “Ice Lake” and AMD EPYC “Milan” hardware. As Debian 11 incorporates the latest upstream software releases over the past two years, it should be little surprise but it makes for often sizable performance uplift when migrating to new releases, especially if you are running newer hardware. # ⚓ Debian_11_Bullseye_Released_–_Download_DVD_ISO Images⠀⇛ The Debian Linux operating system distribution is in the limelight for another significant stride. As of August 14th, 2021, it has successfully transitioned from Debian 10 Buster to the new and improved Debian 11 Bullseye. It is a stable version that accommodates various desktop applications and environments. # ⚓ Debian_vs_Ubuntu:_What’s_the_Difference?_Which_One Should_You_Use?⠀⇛ You can use apt-get commands for managing applications in both Debian and Ubuntu. You can install DEB packages in both distributions as well. Many times, you’ll find common package installation instructions for both distributions. So, what’s the difference between the two, if they are so similar? Debian and Ubuntu belong to the same side of the distribution spectrum. Debian is the original distribution created by Ian Murdock in 1993. Ubuntu was created in 2004 by Mark Shuttleworth and it is based on Debian. Ubuntu is based on Debian: What does it mean? While there are hundreds of Linux distributions, only a handful of them are independent ones, created from scratch. Debian, Arch, Red Hat are some of the biggest distributions that do not derive from any other distribution. Ubuntu is derived from Debian. It means that Ubuntu uses the same APT packaging system as Debian and shares a huge number of packages and libraries from Debian repositories. It utilizes the Debian infrastructure as base. # ⚓ Debian-noroot_works_great_on_new_Alldocube_7-inch tablet⠀⇛ Having a native Android X server is more efficient than going through a VNC connection, so I explored this some more… Sergii, the guy who developed Xserver XSDL, has also created a complete Debian Buster XFCE desktop, bundled with Xserver XSDL, as an Android APK package. It is simply a matter of install, tap the “debian” icon, and the Debian desktop is up and running. I thought that as Sergii has modified this Debian specifically to run on his Xserver XSDL, that it should be stable, and yes, it is. Used it for about an hour yesterday, no freeze, no crash. Again today, still stable. # § Canonical/Ubuntu Family⠀➾ # ⚓ New_Ubuntu_Linux_Kernel_Security_Patches_Fix_Up_to Seven_Vulnerabilities,_Update_Now⠀⇛ The new Ubuntu Linux kernel security update is available for the Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo), Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa), and Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver) operating system series, and addresses three security issues related to the Bluetooth subsystem and NFC implementation and affecting all three releases. These are CVE-2021-3564 and CVE-2021-3573, two flaws discovered in Linux kernel’s Bluetooth subsystem that could lead to a double-free vulnerability or a use-after-free vulnerability, respectively, allowing an attacker to cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code. # ⚓ Travel_Technology:_Desktop-As-A-Service_with Shells.com [Ed: Why would anyone want this? Controlled by the family of the man who killed Freenode]⠀⇛ # ⚓ Design_and_Web_team_summary_–_13_August_2021⠀⇛ Hey! My name is João and I’m a Senior Web Engineer on the Web Team. Since I’ve joined Canonical about 3 years ago I’ve had the opportunity of contributing to a lot of different projects. Those include, maintaining our websites, working with other teams across the company to build dashboards that ship as part of our products, improving continuous integration pipelines and creating tools to improve development and QA experience on the team’s projects. When I’m not doing any of the above, I would ideally be found traveling, trying out food, playing some tennis/padel or binge watching sports. o § Devices/Embedded⠀➾ # § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾ # ⚓ Pi_HAT_brings_Time-Sensitive_Networking_(TSN)_to Raspberry_Pi_4⠀⇛ InnoRoute has launched its “Real-Time HAT,” a HAT for Raspberry Pi 4 that enables support for TSN and other real-time protocols. The Artix-7 FPGA-based HAT supports TSN and PoE through its 3 GbE ports. InnoRoute has rolled out the Real-Time HAT, a HAT that brings Time-Sensitive Networking (TSN) capability to the Raspberry Pi 4. At the heart of the Real-Time HAT’s functionality is a Xilinx Artix-7 FPGA and three Analog Devices ADIN13007 Gbit Ethernet transceiver PHY chips. The HAT enables precise network timing for real time protocols such as TSN and others. It can do synchronization between HATs, over the network, or with external GPS PPS. Its connectors are set up so that additional HATs can be attached on top of the Real-Time HAT. # ⚓ $18_Tang_Nano_4K_FPGA_board_comes_with_HDMI_output, optional_camera_–_CNX_Software⠀⇛ Sipeed’s Tang Nano 4K FPGA board is an upgrade to the company’s Tang Nano FPGA board with a more powerful GOWIN GW1NSR-LV4C FPGA with 4608 LUT (instead of 1152) and a Cortex- M3 microcontroller embedded into the chip. Like the previous board, the new Tang Nano 4K features a USB-C port for power and downloading the bitstream, but replace the RGB LCD interface with an HDMI port, and adds support for an optional OV2640 camera. # ⚓ Keep_tabs_on_your_daily_runs_with_this_interactive tracker_|_Arduino_Blog⠀⇛ Being able to keep oneself accountable while working out is a vital component to almost any good exercise plan, since repetition is the key to success. In response to their significant other wanting a way to track their workouts throughout the week, Instructables user smooth_jamie set out to build a highly interactive device that gives the person using it motivation to continue on after accomplishing the day’s goal. The project largely consists of a large rectangular enclosure, which houses a series of seven 128×32 OLED screens, along with a single push button next to each one. Just across from the displays is a string of WS2812B LEDs that correspond to that day’s achievement or lack thereof. Jamie had run into the issue of the OLEDs having hardcoded I2C address, so they were forced to use an I2C multiplexer breakout. They also wanted for the device to play a short song to really commemorate meeting that day’s goal, so a speaker and amplifier circuit was added onto the Arduino Mega. # § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ Android_Auto_for_Phone_Screens_stop_working_for_some users_–_9to5Google⠀⇛ # ⚓ Itel_A48_With_Android_10_(Go_Edition),_Dual_Camera Setup,_3,000_MAh_Battery_Launched_In_India:_Everything You_Need_To_Know⠀⇛ # ⚓ BIO-key_Announces_New_MobilePOS_Pro_Android_All-in- one⠀⇛ # ⚓ Onyx_Boox_Nova3_Color_review:_The_ghost_of_a_great tablet_|_Android_Central⠀⇛ # ⚓ Samsung_is_removing_ads_from_its_One_UI_Android_apps |_Engadget⠀⇛ # ⚓ Why_making_a_GTA_5_Android_port_would_be_a_smart_move for_Rockstar⠀⇛ # ⚓ Realme’s_new_device_takes_one_of_the_best_Android phones_and_makes_it_even_cheaper_|_TechRadar⠀⇛ # ⚓ How_to_Enable_Android’s_New_Chat_Bubbles⠀⇛ # ⚓ 10_Best_Flight_Tracking_Apps_for_Android_to_Stay Updated_About_the_Flights⠀⇛ # ⚓ Best_MOBAs_on_Android_2021:_Top_Multiplayer_Online Battle_Arenas_on_Mobile_–_Droid_Gamers⠀⇛ # ⚓ Best_Android_app_deals_of_the_day:_Door_Kickers,_more –_9to5Toys⠀⇛ # ⚓ Best_Android_phones_of_2021_|_Popular_Photography⠀⇛ # ⚓ Best_Android_Games_of_2021_So_Far_–_TechStory⠀⇛ # ⚓ Best_Android_Controllers_for_Mobile_Gaming_in_2021_ [Buying_Guide]⠀⇛ # ⚓ Android_12_will_let_you_take_full_page_screenshots_in Chrome_–_Android_Community⠀⇛ # ⚓ Pixels_are_getting_Adaptive_Charging_improvements with_Android_12⠀⇛ # ⚓ JioPhone_Next_tipped_to_feature_up_to_3GB_RAM, Android_11_Go_&_starts_at_Rs._3499_(~$47)!⠀⇛ # ⚓ Google_bans_yet_another_9_Android_apps,_now_you_must delete_them_|_Express.co.uk⠀⇛ # ⚓ Google_Associate_Android_Developer_Exam_Dumps_|_The African_Exponent.⠀⇛ # ⚓ Google_Pixel_5A_Review:_Still_the_Best_Deal_in Android_|_WIRED⠀⇛ # ⚓ The_best_Android_TV_box_of_2021,_the_Nvidia_Shield TV,_is_now_$20_off_this_week_only_|_Android_Central⠀⇛ # ⚓ Infinix_X1_40-Inch_Android_Smart_TV_Review:_Good Display_At_An_Affordable_Price_Tag_Pros_–_Gizbot Reviews⠀⇛ # ⚓ Elisa_Estonia_launches_hybrid_Android_TV_service powered_by_Nagra,_Technicolor,_Tech4home_and_3SS_| Daily_News_|_IBC⠀⇛ # ⚓ These_are_all_the_watches_being_updated_to_Wear_OS_3 |_Android_Central⠀⇛ # ⚓ Android’s_beta_accessibility_feature_will_help_users control_phone_using_facial_expressions⠀⇛ # ⚓ Bluvy_Is_the_Android-Powered_Shower_Speaker_of_the Future⠀⇛ # ⚓ Google_‘Snapshot’_homescreen_comes_to_life_w/_new tool_–_9to5Google⠀⇛ # ⚓ AYN_Odin_handheld_game_console_with_Snapdragon_845 and_Android_coming_soon_for_$199_and_up_(crowdfunding) –_Liliputing⠀⇛ # ⚓ Android_Automotive_OS_in_Volvo_XC40_Recharge_Could Make_Android_Auto_and_Carplay_Extinct–But_Too Smartphoney?⠀⇛ # ⚓ This_cheap_Android_handheld_could_be_an_emulation beast⠀⇛ o § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾ # § Web Browsers⠀➾ # § Mozilla⠀➾ # ⚓ Hacks.Mozilla.Org:_Spring_cleaning_MDN:_Part_2 [Ed: Mozilla has become somewhat of a laughing stock by outsourcing to Microsoft's proprietary software monopoly with surveillance; "It actually started before we moved MDN content to GitHub." What an awful shot in one's own foot. Mozilla is killing itself, bleeding itself to death.]⠀⇛ Last month we removed a bunch of content from MDN. MDN is 16 years old (and yes it can drink in some countries), all that time ago it was a great place for all of Mozilla to document all of their things. As MDN evolved and the web reference became our core content, other areas became less relevant to the overall site. We have ~11k active pages on MDN, so keeping them up to date is a big task and we feel our focus should be there. # § Programming/Development⠀➾ # ⚓ Git_2.33_released_with_new_optional_merge_process likely_to_become_the_default:_It’s_‘over_9,000′_times faster⠀⇛ Git 2.33 has been released, including a new optional merge process called merge-ort, which the team hopes will become the default in the next version. Git releases are relatively frequent. Git 2.31 was released in March and Git 2.32 in June. According to the release announcement, version 2.33 “does not have many end-user facing changes and new features” aside from fixes and internal improvements – but there is one major change, described as a “new merge strategy backend.” The strategy in question is merge-ort, where ort stands for “Ostensibly Recursive’s Twin,” according to its creator Elijah Newren. A merge strategy is the mechanism used to combine code from multiple versions of the same codebase. Merging is a critical feature of distributed version control systems since it avoids the need for locking a main version when a checked-out copy is being edited. Merge mechanisms work by comparing the contents of a file with the contents of its ancestor, to identify changed sections, and then comparing the changed sections of one file with those of another. # ⚓ John_Goerzen:_Distributed,_Asynchronous_Git_Syncing with_NNCP⠀⇛ I have a directory that I use with org-mode and org-roam. I want it to be synced across multiple machines. I also want to keep the history with git. And, I want to use end-to- end encryption (no storing a plain git repo on a remote server), have a serverless setup, not require any two machines to be up simultaneously, and be resilient in the face of races and conflicts. # ⚓ Top_10_Best_Programming_Languages_to_Learn_in_2021_ (Most_In-Demand)⠀⇛ Unlock your career opportunities to learn most in-demand Programming languages. In this article we have discuss top 10 best Programming languages to learn in 2021. Traditional programming languages become outdated over time, whereas the latest programming languages are introduced but never acquire momentum. # § Perl/Raku⠀➾ # ⚓ Making_Taint_support_optional_in_Perl ⠀⇛ One of the changes to Perl that we’re considering on p5p (the perl5-porters mailing list) is the removal of taint support. The first step towards that is to add a Configure option that lets you build a Perl without taint support. In this post I’ll explain what we’re considering, and why. The purpose of this post is to let everyone beyond p5p know about this, and give you a chance to comment. # ⚓ A_dream_realized⠀⇛ Have you heard that they are finally putting together a proposal to add a clean modern OO system into the core of Perl? If you haven’t, I strongly encourage you to look over the RFC for Corrina, or at least watch Ovid’s excellent presentation on the project. It’s reassuring that the list of contributors to the proposed design includes some of the most highly respected names in the Perl community, many of whom have previously taken one (or more!) tilts at this particular object-oriented windmill. Indeed, over the past two decades I too have repeatedly attempted to design and prototype richer and more robust OO systems for Perl, starting way back in the previous millennium with a brief stint as the maintainer of Class:: Struct, and continuing on though the release of modules such as Class::Std, Class::Delegation, and most recently: Dios. # § Python⠀➾ # ⚓ Python_Iterators_And_Generators⠀⇛ In this notebook, we would explore the difference between iterators and generators, how to use them and also the best use cases for each of them. # ⚓ How_to_Graph_in_Python⠀⇛ This article was contributed by Juni Learning, a learning platform for students ages 7-18 that offers 1: 1 classes in computer science, math, and English. The article originally appeared on the Juni Learning website and is reposted here with permission. Hi, my name is Ritika and I’m a senior instructor at Juni Learning! Welcome to this basic Python data science tutorial. Today we’ll talk about how we can gather data and graph it in Python. Specifically, today we’ll be working with survey data that we get beforehand from friends or family by asking what their favorite food is. We’ll learn how to create bar graphs specifically using dataframes and the Seaborn package. # § Java⠀➾ # ⚓ Build_a_JAR_file_with_fastjar_and_gjar_| Opensource.com⠀⇛ One of the many advantages of Java, in my experience, is its ability to deliver applications in a neat and tidy package (called a JAR, or Java archive.) JAR files make it easy for users to download and launch an application they want to try, easy to transfer that application from one computer to another (and Java is cross- platform, so sharing liberally can be encouraged), and easy to understand for new programmers to look inside a JAR to find out what makes a Java app run. * § Leftovers⠀➾ o § Integrity/Availability⠀➾ # § Proprietary⠀➾ # § Pseudo-Open Source⠀➾ # § Privatisation/Privateering⠀➾ # § Linux Foundation⠀➾ # ⚓ Linux_Foundation’s_InterUSS_Adopted by_Swiss_Federal_Office_of_Civil Aviation_to_Meet_European_U-Space Requirements_for_Unmanned_Aircraft⠀⇛ InterUSS, a Linux Foundation open source project that enables trusted, secure and scalable interoperability to advance safe, equitable and efficient drone operations, today announced the launch of the network remote identification service (NET-RID). The new feature meets the European U-Space Regulation established by the European Union Safety Council, which will be enforced beginning January 2023. # ⚓ The_Linux_Foundation_and_the_TODO Group_Announce_the_Schedule_for OSPOCon_Europe_2021,_Oct_6 [Ed: Between the lines now, further down in the press release, CoC also means "must carry spying device" (to prove one's vaccine status)]⠀⇛ The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization enabling mass innovation through open source, along with co-host the TODO Group, an open group of organizations who collaborate on practices, tools and other ways to run successful and effective open source programs and projects, today announced the conference agenda for OSPOCon Europe 2021. The event takes place October 6 in London, England. The schedule can be viewed here. # ⚓ The_Linux_Foundation_and_the_TODO Group_Announce_the_Schedule_for OSPOCon_Europe_2021,_Oct_6⠀⇛ In-person attendees will be required to be fully vaccinated against the COVID-19 virus and wear a mask while onsite at the event. Additionally, all attendees will need to comply with all on-site health measures, in accordance with The Linux Foundation Code of Conduct. To learn more, visit the Health & Safety webpage and read our blog post. # ⚓ Google_announces_the_Allstar_GitHub app_for_continuous_enforcement_of best_security_practices [Ed: It is not best security practice to outsource one’s code to proprietary software of Microsoft and the NSA; Linux Foundation put a Microsoft person_in_charge_of_OpenSSF and now we see where it’s going]⠀⇛ # ⚓ Expanded_Keynote_Line-Up_for_Open Networking_and_Edge_Summit_+ Kubernetes_on_Edge_Day_Includes Industry_Luminaries⠀⇛ The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization enabling mass innovation through open source, along with co-hosts LF Edge, LF Networking, and Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), ​​today announced four top keynote speakers for Open Networking and Edge (ONE) Summit + Kubernetes on Edge Day, taking place October 11-12 in Los Angeles, Calif. The events will be produced in a hybrid format, with both in-person and virtual participation available, and are co-located with KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America (October 11- 15). ONE Summit is the industry’s premier open networking & edge computing event gathering developers, architects and business leaders across enterprises, government, global services providers and cloud for education, inspiration and collaboration. This year, it is joined by Kubernetes on Edge Day which gathers developers and adopters to share their lessons learned in building, breaking, and bettering their edge infrastructure on top of Kubernetes. # ⚓ Expanded_Keynote_Line-Up_for_Open Networking_and_Edge_Summit_+ Kubernetes_on_Edge_Day_Includes Industry_Luminaries⠀⇛ # § Security⠀➾ # ⚓ Kaspersky_Hybrid_Cloud_Security_enhances protection_for_Linux [Ed: Manila Standard reprints spammy trash for snakeoil peddler whose proprietary software poses more risk than whatever it claims to tackle]⠀⇛ # ⚓ HolesWarm_Malware_Exploits_Unpatched_Windows, Linux_Servers [Ed: Same old pattern of trying_to make_“Linux”_and_Windows_sound_like_they_are equally_vulnerable]⠀⇛ # ⚓ [Kubernetes]_Alpha_in_v1.22:_Windows HostProcess_Containers [Ed: Microsoft is trying to steer Kubernetes into back-doored malware]⠀⇛ # ⚓ Security_updates_for_Wednesday⠀⇛ Security updates have been issued by Debian (haproxy), Fedora (c-ares, hivex, kernel, libtpms, newsflash, python-django, rust-gettext-rs, and rust-gettext-sys), openSUSE (c-ares and libsndfile), Scientific Linux (cloud- init, edk2, exiv2, firefox, kernel, kpatch-patch, microcode_ctl, sssd, and thunderbird), SUSE (c-ares, fetchmail, haproxy, kernel, libmspack, libsndfile, rubygem-puma, spice-vdagent, and webkit2gtk3), and Ubuntu (exiv2, haproxy, linux, linux-aws, linux-aws- 5.4, linux-azure, linux-azure-5.4, linux-gcp, linux-gcp-5.4, linux-gke, linux-gke-5.4, linux-gkeop, linux- gkeop-5.4, linux-hwe-5.4, linux-kvm, linux-oracle, linux-oracle-5.4, linux- raspi, linux, linux-aws, linux-aws-hwe, linux-azure, linux-azure-4.15, linux- gcp, linux-gcp-4.15, linux-hwe, linux- kvm, linux-oracle, linux-raspi2, linux- snapdragon, and linux, linux-aws, linux-azure, linux-gcp, linux-hwe-5.11, linux-oracle, linux-raspi). o § Monopolies⠀➾ # ⚓ China_seeks_greater_control_over_its_own_‘Big_Tech’⠀⇛ # ⚓ American_Federation_of_Teachers_Sells_Out_to_Rockefellers, Trilateralists,_and_Big_Tech⠀⇛ On May 1st, 2021, Americans for Public Trust leaked email correspondences between the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) and the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). Obtained through Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests, these emails revealed how the bureaucracy of this teachers’ union was lobbying the CDC to roll back its school reopening guidelines. Pumping the brakes on the return to in-person learning, the AFT emails successfully petitioned the CDC to add “language” recommending that schools continue to provide “telework” and “virtual teaching opportunities” as alternatives to face-to- face education. The AFT also requested that the Center for Disease Control add a coronavirus “variant closing metric” that would renege on the CDC’s greenlight for in-person instruction “at any level of community [COVID] transmission.” By prioritizing “telework” and “virtual teaching,” while seeking to reinstate COVID lockdown measures in the event of new coronavirus variants, the lobbying efforts of the AFT basically pressured the CDC into relegating schools to prolonged virtual “distance learning” that is outsourced to private ed-tech corporations. # § Patents⠀➾ # ⚓ Anixa_Biosciences_Announces_Issuance_of_U.S._Patent for_Ovarian_Cancer_Vaccine_Technology⠀⇛ Anixa Biosciences, Inc. (NASDAQ: ANIX), a biotechnology company focused on the treatment and prevention of cancer and infectious diseases, announced today that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has issued the first U.S. patent for its novel ovarian cancer vaccine technology. This technology was invented and developed at Cleveland Clinic and Anixa is the worldwide licensee. A European patent covering this technology was issued earlier this year. The patent is titled, “Ovarian Cancer Vaccines,” and the inventors are Drs. Vincent K. Tuohy, Suparna Mazumder, and Justin M. Johnson, all of Cleveland Clinic. [...] Dr. Amit Kumar, President and CEO of Anixa Biosciences, said, “We are pleased that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has issued this patent. This technology is now patented in Europe and the U.S., and we continue to prosecute the intellectual property in other jurisdictions.” # ⚓ Assessing_the_licensing_environment_of_SEPs_in_Japan [Ed: Notice how Managing 'IP' is nowadays receiving money to just 'plant' a bunch of 'plugs' from litigation firms; it's not journalism but marketing and the concessional 'propaganda mill' mode, including the deliberate lies for EPO, Team UPC etc.]⠀⇛ # ⚓ Romania:_Patents_Comparative_Guide [Ed: “Decisions of the Examination Board can be challenged,” sure, but they’re then referred to a rigged_and_utterly_corrupted tribunal_controlled_by_criminals]⠀⇛ The patent application can be submitted to the State Office for Inventions and Trademarks (SOIT) for national patents or to the European Patent Office (EPO) for European patents designating Romania as one of the member states for which protection is sought. [...] Decisions of the Examination Board can be challenged before the Patent Office Board of Appeals within three months of communication. Decisions of the Board of Appeals can be challenged at the Bucharest Tribunal within 30 days of communication. Decisions of the Bucharest Tribunal can be appealed to the Bucharest Court of Appeals within 30 days of communication. # ⚓ EPO’s_highest_legal_authority_to_decide_if_post- published_data_can_support_inventive_step [Ed: This totally neglects to say that the Enlarged Board of Appeal is provably_rigged,_corrupted_by_EPO_management. The litigation cartel hopes to cover this whole thing up. Now that the media is being bribed and intimidated by EPO lawyers there are parallels to be drawn between serial high-profile sexual predators and how they kept the media from reporting their crimes for years or decades, enabling further abuse of new victims.]⠀⇛ The European Patent Office’s (EPO) highest legal authority, the Enlarged Board of Appeal, is about to be referred questions from the Board of Appeal (BoA) on whether data produced after the filing date of a patent application (post-published data) can be used as the sole basis to support the inventive step of a claim. Essentially, can the patentee utilise post- published data to support the plausibility that the technical problem has been solved over the full scope of the claim. The patent in question, EP2484209, has been granted and concerns insecticide compositions with the opposition raised by agrochemical giant Syngenta. [...] According to established jurisprudence from the BoA, assessment of inventive step is made on the effective date of the patent using the information in the patent and common general knowledge available to a skilled person (see e.g. decisions T 609/02, T 1329/04, T 1545/ 08). Moreover, there can only be an invention if the application makes it at least plausible that its teaching solves the problem it purports to solve. The instant Board of Appeal arrived at the preliminary view that previous BoA decisions diverge on the criteria that should be applied in determining whether or not post- published data can be taken into consideration when assessing inventive step before the EPO, and in particular whether such data are admissible in opposition proceedings. A previous ruling from 2005 stated that the technical effect underlying the inventive step must be plausible from the patent application as filed if the effect was not considered plausible; post-published data could not be relied upon as the sole basis for the inventive step (T1329/04). In other words, the BoA considered it a precondition for taking into account post-published data that it was already plausible at the filing date that the claimed technical effect was obtained (the ab-initio plausibility criterion). # ⚓ Unified_Patent_Court_will_start_operating_within_a year [Ed: Kluwer Patent Blog has just published a lie as a headline. Team UPC has gone truly insane. COVID has entered the heads of Team UPC. Lies are fine. Lie to everyone. Don’t worry. They think it’s their last chance to pull something off. It is bad enough that many people perceive lawyers as opportunistic liars. In the case of UPC, patent lawyers present themselves as people who publish “fake news” and violate constitutions. It’s probably best to refrain from linking to “fake news” from Team UPC, including totally false reports (by law firms) that UPC_was_ratified. This is far from the first time they intentionally say falsehoods for personal gain.]⠀⇛ The Unified Patent Court will open its doors for cases around mid-2022. That is the expectation of the UPC Preparatory Committee, which has published a time plan for the Provisional Application Period (PAP) and start of the UPC today. According to the plan, the PAP will have to be approximately eight months “to conclude all the work that needs to be done”. # ⚓ Asia_divergence_on_consent_letters_requires_adaptive strategies [Ed: These so-called 'co-existence arrangements' are just another worthless job for lawyers; they create conflicts and feuds, then try to work out settlements and "co-existence arrangements"]⠀⇛ Counsel discuss the impact of disparities in IP office practice on written consent and other considerations for co-existence arrangements # ⚓ “An_Australian_patent_is_a_start._But_Dabus_needs_the EPO_to_succeed” [Ed: The patent system never before looked so ludicrous and self-discrediting; stenographer and liar Amy Sandys (puff piece composer of the patent litigation cartel) looks for ways to still defend the lunacy]⠀⇛ When Stephen Thaler filed the first applications designating an AI system, known as Dabus, as the inventor of two patents, it set off a chain of activity in global patent offices. The invention simulates independent thinking and creativity, which according to the inventor it can apply to the creation of inventions. Last month, the UK Court of Appeal examined whether the AI system owner Stephen Thaler is entitled to the grant of the patents based on Dabus not being a ‘natural person’. Now, after years of struggle, a breakthrough has emerged elsewhere in the world. South Africa’s patent office determined that an AI system can be named as an inventor on a patent application. This was the first time a patent office has handed down such a decision. In some corners, the AI-oriented patent attorney community reacted with excitement. Then the Federal Court of Australia delivered a similar verdict. The decisions, and especially Australia’s recognition of Dabus, lend credence to the development of a globally-patentable AI system. But Dabus requires the capitulation of other, stronger, patent courts to have a fighting chance of lasting global recognition. # § Trademarks⠀➾ # ⚓ Gazprom_Neft:_meet_the_team_with_lofty_trademark ambitions [Ed: What on Earth is this? Obligatory paid- for puff pieces, which Ed Conlon and Max Walters are forced to write for income? Ads as 'articles'? No wonder writers have been leaving this propaganda mill in droves.]⠀⇛ The counsel at one of Russia’s leading oil producers have already notched up some trademark successes – and have plans to do much more ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 5887 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐃𝐀𝐈𝐋𝐘 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒 ═════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 08.18.21⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ ✐ Links_18/8/2021:_SMPlayer_21.8.0,_HandBrake_1.4.1,_nailing-cargo_1.0.0⠀✐ Posted in News_Roundup at 12:20 am 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’s_Cookin’_at_System76_|_LINUX_Unplugged_419⠀⇛ Live from Denver, we chat with old friends and new. We get the inside scope on what has been going on at System76, and what’s coming up next. Plus we catch up with a few members of our crew, and find out what Linux tech they’re loving these days. Special Guests: Aaron Honeycutt, Alex Kretzschmar, Brent Gervais, Carl Richell, Cassidy James Blaede, chzbacon, and Ian Santopietro. # ⚓ No_DT,_Blu_Ray_Isn’t_A_Good_Data_Backup_Media_–_Invidious⠀⇛ We need to talk about Distrotube’s data archival video, please do not use blu ray to backup your data if you want it to last into the future. Blu ray is a dead storage media and will fade out of existence within the next 10 years # ⚓ Deepin_20.2.3⠀⇛ Today we are looking at Deepin 20.2.3. It comes with Linux Kernel 5.10, based on Debian 11, and uses about 1.8GB of ram when idling. Enjoy! # ⚓ Deepin_20.2.3_Run_Through_–_Invidious⠀⇛ In this video, we are looking at Deepin 20.2.3. o § Kernel Space⠀➾ # ⚓ Maple_Tree_v2_Patches_For_The_Linux_Kernel_–_13~840%_Faster For_Malloc_Threads_Test_Case_–_Phoronix⠀⇛ Sent out last year was a “request for comments” on “Maple Tree” as a new data structure for the Linux kernel. The latest version of the Maple Tree patches were sent out today with mixed results but for where gains are being made they can be quite significant. The Maple Tree is a data structure for storing index ranges that map to a single pointer and work well on modern CPUs (modern CPU caches) in an RCU- safe manner. Post-RFC, earlier this year Oracle sent out their Maple Tree patches with promising results and have now been succeeded by the “v2″ patches. # ⚓ Xen_Developer_and_Design_Summit:_A_Year_of_Fuzzing_with_Xen –_Xen_Project⠀⇛ At the 2021 Xen Developer and Design Summit, Tamas K Lengyel, Senior Security Researcher at Intel Corporation, gave a deep dive into the latest developments of Intel’s Xen-based fuzzer that the organization open-sourced last year. A fuzzer is a program that helps detect bugs in code. Since open-sourcing, Tamas and his team have gained operational experience while fuzzing a variety of kernel modules in Linux. In this talk, he showcases the workflow that led to the discovery of several security issues in the Linux kernel, such as NULL- pointer dereferences, array-index out-of-bounds, and infinite loops in interrupt-context. All the issues were triggerable by an external device via DMA but thanks to the fuzzing effort, are now fixed upstream. This talk covers how Xen can be used to fuzz Windows VMs and even Xen itself! # ⚓ 30_Years_of_Linux_History_Told_via_Distros [Ed: GNU is 38; it's unfair to pretend distros are just a kernel]⠀⇛ Happy Birthday, Linux. At 30 years old, you have made quite a reputation for yourself. Having spirited the rise of open-source software, you have turned the world of proprietary computing upside down. Of course, you had a bit of a premature start. You entered the world of technology with little more than a kernel to call your own. That was the intent of a young computer science student from Helsinki named Linus Torvalds in doing this personal fun project. In 1991, he created your code that would become the basis for a completely new approach to operating systems for computers. The rest of that story, as they say, is history. You suffered a name change at first. You started out being called Freax, as in “free,” “freak,” and “x” (referencing the Unix computer OS). But eventually, your creator came around to sharing his own lineage with you, christening you Linux. # § Graphics Stack⠀➾ # ⚓ Mesa_21.3_LLVMpipe_Enables_OpenGL_4.5_Compatibility Profile_Support_–_Phoronix⠀⇛ The LLVMpipe driver providing a generic OpenGL implementation that’s CPU-accelerated for Mesa – and more performant than alternatives thanks to LLVM – can now support OpenGL 4.5 compatibility profile contexts. LLVMpipe has already supported OpenGL 4.6 with core contexts when making use of NIR and all the other improvements in recent time to this Gallium3D driver. Now for any software still relying upon OpenGL compatibility contexts, OpenGL 4.5 compatibility profile support is in place for this software GL driver. # ⚓ VA-API_AV1_Decode_Lands_In_Mesa_21.3_Gallium3D_– Phoronix⠀⇛ The change led by AMD engineers for adding AV1 VA-API acceleration support to the Gallium3D “VA” state tracker front-end has landed in Mesa 21.3. This is the change we talked about last week when the patches were still pending but have now made it to mainline. The Gallium3D VA code now supports the royalty-free AV1 video codec with 10-bit decode capabilities. Of course, it’s contingent upon the Gallium3D driver having AV1 capabilities. On the AMD front, AV1 decode is available with the latest-generation Radeon RX 6000 series “RDNA2″ GPUs. # ⚓ Zink_Now_Supports_OpenGL_Compatibility_Contexts_– Allowing_More_Games/Apps_To_Work_–_Phoronix⠀⇛ In addition to Tuesday seeing the Zink sub- allocator merged for sharply improving the performance of this OpenGL-on-Vulkan implementation within Mesa, the Zink Gallium3D code subsequently merged support for OpenGL compatibility contexts. While Zink supports OpenGL 4.6 for a while now with the core GL contexts, it hasn’t supported compatibility contexts. Creating an OpenGL compatibility context with supported drivers allows making use of legacy/ deprecated GL functionality that is otherwise not available with the core context. # ⚓ Zink_Suballocator_Lands_In_Mesa_–_“Over_1000%” Performance_Increase_For_Some_Games_–_Phoronix⠀⇛ Mesa’s Zink Gallium3D code for implementing OpenGL-over-Vulkan can now run a heck of a lot faster with the newest Mesa 21.3 code. Back in June was when the news of Zink seeing “massively improved performance” thanks to a suballocator for Zink. Zink’s suballocator was based on Gallium3D auxiliary / pipebuffer code started by RadeonSI and led to significant performance improvements. It’s that suballocator code that as of today has been merged into Mesa 21.3-devel. o § Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ The_9_Best_Open_Source_Pomodoro_Apps_for_Productivity⠀⇛ One of the biggest challenges that people face today is being productive. Compound it with procrastination; it feels like you can’t get anything done. However, it does not have to be the case. You can use many productivity tools to get more done. Pomodoro is one of them. This simple, easy-to-use productivity technique enables you to spend time doing the things that require longer periods of concentration. Here are some free, open-source Pomodoro apps you can use while on your computer to be more productive. # ⚓ SMPlayer_21.8.0_Adds_macOS_Support,_Linux_Appimage, Flatpak,_&_Snap⠀⇛ SMPlayer media player released version 21.8.0 with official dmg package for macOS, and more binary packages for Linux users. SMPlayer is a free open-source video player for Windows and Linux. By releasing v21.8.0, it finally adds macOS support officially. It uses MPV and/or MPlayer multimedia engine, so it can play virtually all video and audio formats. The player remembers the settings of all files you play, so when you open an unfinished movie it will be resumed at the same point you left it, as well as the same settings. It also has built-in YouTube browser, allows to search for and click to play YouTube video directly in the media player. o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾ # ⚓ Using_Linux_Process_Monitoring_Commands:_ps,_pstree,_top⠀⇛ In this tutorial we’ll learn the fundamentals of the ps, pstree, and top commands, to monitor processes in Linux. When we start a Linux system, it starts with several processes. Some are system processes, and some are application processes set to trigger when we start a system. We need to be able to monitor these processes. Depending on the situation, we may need to monitor active and child processes, or the amount of system resources they consume. To do this, we can use various commands, based on what we need to monitor. # ⚓ How_to_install_Wavebox_on_a_Chromebook⠀⇛ Today we are looking at how to install Wavebox on a Chromebook. Please follow the video/audio guide as a tutorial where we explain the process step by step and use the commands below. # ⚓ Wi-Fi_Not_Working_on_Ubuntu?_Here’s_How_to_Fix_It⠀⇛ Has your Wi-Fi stopped working again on Ubuntu? Don’t worry. Check out these four ways to fix your Wi-Fi problems for good. Ubuntu is popular for its robustness and relatively fewer errors. But it’s not without its bag of problems, for sure. One such problem is with its Wi-Fi driver. You might power up your system only to find that your Wi-Fi is not working. While there is no definite answer to why this happens, there certainly are various kinds of fixes that you can try to get it working again. Let’s start with the simplest one first. # ⚓ How_to_Download_and_Install_uGet_Download_Manager_on Linux⠀⇛ Download managers are a popular tool to manage all your downloads within a single application and provide you with some handy features. If you’ve recently transitioned from the Windows operating system to Linux, you might be looking for an alternative to the famous Internet Download Manager (IDM). With uGet, your search for a download manager compatible with Linux ends here. Should you consider using such a tool, and what features does it have to offer? Find out in this article. # ⚓ How_to_play_Psychonauts_on_Linux⠀⇛ Psychonauts is a platforming game developed by Double Fine Productions and published by Majesco Entertainment in 2005 and later made its way to Linux and Mac OS in 2011. It follows the character Raz, a boy gifted with psychic abilities who runs away from the circus. Here’s how to play it on Linux. # ⚓ Lsmod_Command_(linux_list_kernel_modules)⠀⇛ lsmod is a command-line tool used to display kernel modules that are currently loaded. Kernel modules are pieces of code that can be loaded and unloaded into the kernel upon request. It will extend the kernel functionality at runtime. The most common functionalities of kernel modules are device drives to support new hardware, filesystem support, system calls, and more. Kernel modules are loaded either automatically ( by udev) or manually. You can manually load modules using the modprobe command. Modules explicitly listed in /etc/modules-load.d/.conf to load on boot.kmod package provides tools to manually handle kernel modules. The kernel modules are kept in the /lib/modules/ directory. Use uname -r command to find the kernel version. # ⚓ Silver_Searcher_–_A_Code_Searching_Tool_Similar_to_Ack⠀⇛ The Silver Searcher is a reputable command line code-searching tool that is attributed to be cross- platform, open-source, and free. It shares most of its functional attributes with grep’s plain-text search features. The primary difference between these two tools is that Silver Searcher offers a faster performance overhead. # ⚓ Linux_101:_How_to_delete_files_and_folders_from_the_CLI_– TechRepublic⠀⇛ When you’re using a GUI, deleting a file and/or a folder is as simple as right-clicking and selecting delete. But when you’re logged into a GUI-less server, you won’t have that option. What do you do? As you probably expected, there’s a command for that. In fact, there’s a single command you can use for both instances. How you use that command varies, depending on what you’re deleting. # ⚓ Convert_your_PC_to_entertainment_center_:_Install_Kodi_on Ubuntu_&_Debian_–_LinuxTechLab⠀⇛ If you are movie or TV lover, then you should already know what KODI is. For those of you who still don’t know about Kodi, it is an open source media center for playing all sorts of movies, TV series, games etc. Kodi is available to download for Windows, Linux, MacOS, Android & IOS as well. It supports a number of features like multi audio/ video format playback, streaming of online contents, watch and record live TV & best feature of them all is ability to install hundreds of user created add ons, which only enhances its abilities. In this tutorial, we will learn how to install Kodi on Ubuntu, Debian systems. But before we proceed to the installation steps, I would like to warn you that Kodi users are always on the surveillance radar of ISPs and Governments due to the rapid increase in copyright infringements. If you want to avoid unnecessary legal issues, it is best that you get a Kodi VPN. o § Games⠀➾ # ⚓ Early_Macromedia_Director_titles_are_supported_now⠀⇛ MacroMind/Macromedia Director-based games to be supported. Iskrich, a GSoC student, laid down the engine’s first lines of code, based on the initial reverse engineering efforts of fuzzie, which she wrote in Python as part of the continuity project. Then, the work was continued by sev in 2017 when Lingo compiler development was started and stevenhoefel started adding Director 5-related code. In 2018, there was practically no development, but in 2019, moralrecordings made some advancements for Director 4. Finally, in 2020 and 2021, there was a big chunk of development, first by npjg and djsrv, then by sheep and djsrv, while rvanlaar set up a continuous integration buildbot for the project. # ⚓ Check_out_the_pumping_new_trailer_for_SPRAWL_an_upcoming hardcore_FPS_|_GamingOnLinux⠀⇛ SPRAWL is yet another promising upcoming FPS that we managed to get some new footage of thanks to the Realms Deep 2021 event, and it’s looking really good. Mentioned here on GOL in a previous article, where the developer mentioned their clear plan to release it for Linux (plus a teaser shot of it running on Linux) so we’ve been itching to see more. “SPRAWL is a hardcore retro FPS set in an endless cyberpunk megapolis. Escape the walled city and take on the militarized government of the sprawl. Fuelled by the blood of your enemies and a mysterious voice in your head, make your way towards the spire to topple whatever lays within.” # ⚓ Kythera_AI_Gives_Free_Access_to_New_Open-Source_Engine_with Linux_Foundation’s_O3DE⠀⇛ Kythera AI, a company recognized for its powerful, all-encompassing AI middleware for video games, has started freely sharing its AI middleware as a Gem with the Linux Foundation’s new Open3D game engine (O3DE). Kythera AI’s toolset will now be distributed as a binary Gem packaged with O3DE, making it the first middleware provider to make its advanced AI solution available to any developer at any level; free for non-commercial use, with royalty and upfront licensing available for commercial products over a certain threshold. o § Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾ # ⚓ GSOC_contribution_summary⠀⇛ .desktop file is a special kind of script that is optimized for launching application. It can use custom icon and name to represent application. However, this feature can be abused as it can disguise it as any type of file. To prevent this security breach, I introduced a “trused” flag to mark whether this .desktop file is safe to execute. By utilizing GVFS-metadata, there is no way that the flag of any downloaded file. A user will be warned about the safety hazard until the user sets “trusted” flag up. # § K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt⠀➾ # ⚓ Kdenlive_21.08_is_Out_with_an_Upgraded_Engine_and_UI Improvements⠀⇛ Kdenlive 21.08 now requires MLT7, which comes with a new time remapping feature and a more stable and concise code base. Kdenlive, perhaps the most robust free video editor on Linux, is a non-linear and cross- platform program that enables you to create compelling video content without paying a dime. It processes all video operations using the MLT framework. Kdenlive is one of the best non-linear multi- purpose video editing software. It provides support for dual video monitors, a multi- track timeline, clip list, customizable layout support, basic effects and basic transactions. It is very easy to use even by users who do not have much knowledge about video editing. # ⚓ New_Krita_Video_by_Ramon_Miranda:_Crayons:_Comment Timelapse⠀⇛ We’ve got a new video for you! Ramon Miranda uses the set of crayons brush brush presets to make a drawing, and tells you what he’s doing along the way. # ⚓ GSoC’21_Week_9_and_10:_Finalizing_Mouse_Control Action_Activity⠀⇛ Hi everyone! GSoC coding period is in its last stage, The final evaluation has started yesterday, I am really happy that all activities have been finished on time, 3 of them already merged in master and I hope the last one would also merge soon. # ⚓ KDE_GSOC:_Wrapping_it_up…⠀⇛ Well, we all know that the work on open source projects is never truly finished, but most of the core goals have been achieved and the time is up :). In this post I’ll briefly summarize my GSOC work and then talk about one last small but user-facing feature that I’ve implemented. I’ve successfully implemented a new DSO backend and smoothed out most of the bugs. The python framework does work satisfactory and all existing catalogs have been ported. There remains the UGC catalog which will be imported in the future, either by me or by another member of the project. The latter option would be a good way to battle-test the documentation and I would prefer this option because I do not want to remain the only person familiar with the system. # § GNOME Desktop/GTK⠀➾ # ⚓ Matthias_Clasen:_Text_input_in_GTK_4⠀⇛ To wrap up the recent series of posts about input topics, lets talk about text editing in GTK 4. # ⚓ Onboarding_Sketches⠀⇛ GNOME 41 is now UI frozen, so without spoiling the release much, I’d like to share some of the explorations that led to some of the onboarding in both app space (mostly Connections) and the new Tour. o § Distributions⠀➾ # § New Releases⠀➾ # ⚓ Manjaro_21.1_Released_With_Better_Btrfs_Support, GNOME_40_Update⠀⇛ Manjaro 21.1 is now available as the latest stable version of this Arch Linux based operating system. Manjaro 21.1 is an incremental update over Manjaro 21.0 from earlier this year. Manjaro 21.1 brings with it many improvements to its Calamares installer. In particular, Manjaro 21.1 has better support for Btrfs. With the Btrfs support, the default sub-volume layout has been improved for easier rollbacks and less wasted snapshot space, support for swap files on Btrfs, and there is also now automatic backups of any package upgrade action thanks to Btrfs snapshots. # ⚓ Zorin_OS_16_Released_as_an_Alternative_to_Windows_and macOS⠀⇛ Zorin OS 16 is an ultimate Linux desktop distro designed to appeal to those coming from popular proprietary OSes, namely Windows and macOS. Zorin OS is an Ubuntu-based Linux distribution designed especially for newcomers to Linux. It is designed to make your computer faster, more powerful, secure, and privacy-respecting. There are several ways you can get started with Zorin OS. The first is to download Zorin OS Core which is the free edition of the distro. If you prefer the XFCE desktop environment, you can try their Zorin OS Lite which is targeted for basic use on low-spec PCs. # ⚓ Zorin_OS_16_is_the_Windows_11-like_Linux_distribution Microsoft_doesn’t_want_you_to_know_about⠀⇛ Windows 11 is a very good operating system, and it hasn’t even gone gold yet. In fact, despite only being Beta, I can confidently call it the best version of Windows ever. It is shockingly polished and beautiful — the true successor to Windows 7. Windows 10 wasn’t bad, but it never felt complete. Windows 11 feels purposeful and well-loved by developers. Microsoft has impressed me with the upcoming operating system. It is appearing to be more than a superficial update as I once thought. With all of that said, understandably, not everyone wants or needs Windows 11. Due to some rather lofty hardware requirements, some consumers will find their computer simply can’t run Windows 11 even if they want it to. While Microsoft and the overall computer industry would love to see these consumers buy new computers, that simply is not necessary. Instead, a Linux-based operating system can breathe new life into your aging PC. Unfortunately, picking a Linux-based operating system can be confusing, as there are just too many options. It’s a good problem to have, I suppose, and ultimately, you really can’t go wrong. Whether you pick Ubuntu, Manjaro, Linux Mint, Linux Lite, or something else, you are likely to have a solid experience. One of the best choices, however, is Zorin OS. Not only is it specifically designed for Windows converts, but it even has an optional Windows 11-like user interface. # § BSD⠀➾ # ⚓ NetBSD_Explained:_The_Unix_System_That_Can_Run_on Anything⠀⇛ NetBSD is an open-source operating system. Like Linux, NetBSD aims for broad compatibility with Unix, offering similar utilities and behavior. NetBSD is based on the Berkeley Software Distribution version of Unix, hence the “BSD” in the name. It’s a branch off of the 386/BSD release that supported PCs in the early 1990s. Where FreeBSD focuses on the PC platform and OpenBSD focuses on security, NetBSD focuses on portability to different platforms. While NetBSD might look like another Linux distribution, the entire system, including the kernel and user utilities, is developed together as a whole. This contrasts with the way Linux distributions cobble together components from multiple sources. # § Screenshots/Screencasts⠀➾ # ⚓ Zorin_OS_16_Review:_It’s_a_Visual_Masterpiece_– Invidious⠀⇛ I am not kidding. Zorin OS 16 is visually stunning. Have a look at its new features. # § SUSE/OpenSUSE⠀➾ # ⚓ What_Managed_Service_Providers_Can_Now_Expect_from SUSE⠀⇛ SUSE open source offers the ability to avoid vendor lock-in which can limit commercial agility in the long run and stymie the ability to innovate and bring new service offerings to market that unlock more revenue streams. # § IBM/Red Hat/Fedora⠀➾ # ⚓ Transform_your_IT_operations_with_Red_Hat_Insights⠀⇛ Digital transformation is a team sport, requiring deliberate coordination between application developers, infrastructure administrators, IT security practitioners, and even finance. At Red Hat Summit this year, we shared some of our recommendations to help you better align these different domains within your organization. In this post, we’ll cover what you might have missed at Summit and share how Red Hat Insights can support these efforts. # § Debian Family⠀➾ # ⚓ This_week_in_Chrome_OS:_Chrome_OS_92_hits_stable⠀⇛ If you use Linux on your Chromebook, you probably know that the underlying container on Chrome OS is based on Debian. As of now, the latest version of Debian for Chrome OS is Debian 10, code-named ‘Buster.’ It appears that this will soon change with the arrival of Debian 11 ‘Bullseye’ on Chrome OS. Gabriel Brangers from Chrome Unboxed was playing around on the Canary channel with a Tiger Lake Chromebook (I presume the ASUS Chromebook CX9) and noticed that there is now a flag to enable Debian 11 on your Chromebook. This brings some kernel improvements and also the possibility of running Vulkan games on a Chromebook, which coincidentally is our next topic. You won’t notice much difference from Buster to Bullseye if you aren’t a Linux power user, but this is exciting stuff for Chrome OS fans. # § Canonical/Ubuntu Family⠀➾ # ⚓ Autonomous_mobile_robots_(AMR)_–_a_beginner’s_guide to_adoption⠀⇛ The process of automation with autonomous mobile robots (AMR) is challenging. Is not only about the budget for companies looking to automate. It also requires a deep understanding of your processes, from material handling to end product. Automation taps into having a broader sense of where you are and where you want to be. All of this adds complexity to an already demanding task. It starts with, figuring out the type of devices you need to buy. Then looking for options, reviews, reports, or going to conferences as you try to get as much context as possible. Figuring out safety and security regulations. Listening to cobots more than once. But just like when buying a car, you will end up taking a risk. This blog post won’t provide a definite guide for adopting AMRs. How could it? The market is constantly changing and everyone’s needs and goals are different. Standards and regulations are domain-specific. So instead we wanted to focus on what you shouldn’t miss; the structure of AMR. By understanding the main components you will be able to understand the most important requirements and points of discussion with your AMR vendors. o § Devices/Embedded⠀➾ # ⚓ 3_Raspberry_Pi_Cloud_Storage_Software_Solutions⠀⇛ Cloud storage is extremely useful, enabling you to access your files from any device, wherever you are. The downside is that since your data is held on remoted servers by a third-party company, you don’t have total control over its security and privacy. In addition, cloud providers may well charge you for extra storage. One alternative is to host your files on your very own cloud server running on a Raspberry Pi computer in your home or office. But which self-hosted platform should you use? We explore the three main options for Raspberry Pi cloud storage: Nextcloud, ownCloud, and Seafile. # ⚓ Pine64_introduces_the_PineNote,_a_$399_e-ink_reader_running Linux⠀⇛ Forward-looking: Pine64 is mainly known for manufacturing alternative single-board computers to the Raspberry Pi and a few other budget-oriented electronics. At the moment, Pine64′s lineup includes laptops, phones, smartwatches, and tablets, but it will soon grow with the launch of PineNote, an e-ink reader running Linux and powered by the Quartz64 SoC. Inside the Quartz64 SoC in the PineNote, you’ll find a quad-core RK3566 CPU with four Arm Cortex A55 cores clocked at 2.0GHz. There’s also 4GB of LPDDR4 RAM, 128GB eMMC flash storage, two microphones, two speakers, a USB-C port to transfer data or fast charging, and 5GHz AC Wi-Fi. For the display, there’s a 10.3-inch touchscreen panel with a 1404×1872 resolution, capable of displaying 16 levels of grayscale, but Pine64 also added added a capacitive glass layer and a Wacom electromagnetic resonance layer (EMR) on top of it for pen input. # ⚓ $399_PineNote_E-ink_Tablet_Features_Quartz64_SBC⠀⇛ PINE Microsystems, producer of Raspberry Pi alternative single board computers, has announced the PineNote, an e-ink tablet powered by the same SoC as found in the Quartz64 single-board computer. The first batch of units comes with a caveat, don’t expect to write your dissertation or read too many e-books, unless you have the coding skills to make it happen. For those unfamiliar with the Quartz64, it was released in June 2021, and packs a Rockchip RK3566 Quad-Core ARM Cortex A55 64-Bit Processor with a MALI G-52 GPU. Key features include a PCIe x4 open ended slot (on the model A, which also has the e- ink interface) or M.2 (for the model B) using one Gen 2 lane electrically, and up to 8GB of LPDDR4 RAM. The CPU in the PineNote is clocked at 1.8 GHz, and uses the full complement of eMMC, plus 4GB of RAM. Wireless connectivity is taken care of by Wi-Fi 5 and Bluetooth 5, and the 10.3in e-ink screen has a resolution of 1404×1872 pixels, for a density of 227ppi. The screen can be rotated thanks to a built in rotation sensor. The screen may only be able to display 16 levels of grayscale, but is a full multi-touch panel with a pen digitizer, and the front light has 36 levels of intensity. There are stereo speakers and four microphones built in, but no webcam. Charging the onboard 4000mAH LiPo battery is via USB-C. # ⚓ High-end_E_Ink_tablet_PineNote_announced_with_powerful internals⠀⇛ Pine64, a Hong Kong-based electronics manufacturer, has introduced one of the most powerful e-paper devices to date. Priced at $399, the E Ink tablet is called the PineNote and it runs a custom version of Linux OS. It will support first-party EMR pens (sold separately) and third-party Wacom EMR pens upon release. Users will also be able to buy magnetic covers for the e-paper device. The PineNote boasts a 10.3-inch 1404×1872 (227 DPI) E-ink panel with a 3:4 aspect ratio and is capable of showing 16 levels of grayscale. There’s an adjustable frontlight that can display cool to warm tones of light. The display consists of capacitative glass and a layer of Wacom electromagnetic resonance (EMR). A final protective layer of anti-scratch and glare-proof glass reinforces the display. Pine64 initially touted a 60Hz refresh rate for the display panel but has since reverted that claim. # ⚓ PineNote_is_an_open_source_Linux_e-reader_with_Wacom_stylus support⠀⇛ PINE64 may have started out as a competitor to the Raspberry Pi’s single-board computers (SBCs), but it has long grown out of its shell to expand into new territories. It is now better known for daring to create open source Linux devices that span laptops, tablets, smartphones, and even smartwatches. Now it is taking that growth a step further with the PineNote, an e-paper reader that’s designed to be just as open as its other Pine- branded devices. This isn’t the first Linux-based e-reader, of course, and the Remarkable 2 probably holds the title of being the most popular in that respect. The PineNote, however, could very well be the most powerful e-reader in the market while also be being the most open to the point that you’ll be able to install almost any operating system you choose. PINE64, however, is naturally eying a Linux-based OS just as it had with the Pinebook, PinePhone, and PineTab. # ⚓ PineNote_E_Ink_tablet_with_RK3566_processor_and_pen_support coming_this_year_for_$399⠀⇛ Pine64, maker of inexpensive, Linux-friendly laptops, tablets, phones, and single board computer plans to launch its first device with an ePaper display later this year. While most of the company’s products to date have been low cost devices meant to spur open source software development, the upcoming PineNote will sell for $399, making it one of Pine64’s most expensive devices yet. But it will also be one of the most powerful gadgets to date on the eReader/ E Ink tablet space. # ⚓ Lilbits:_Intel_Arc_graphics,_Debian_11,_Asus_ROG_Phone_5s, and_PinePhone_Keyboard⠀⇛ In addition to introducing the new PineNote E Ink tablet, Pine64 announced this week that the PinePhone keyboard will go on sale in September, wireless charging and fingerprint reader accessories are coming soon after that, and software for the phone keeps getting better. Some recent examples: visual voicemail now works, and so does Bluetooth contact synchronization with supported in-car systems. # ⚓ Offline_speech_recognition_MCU_module_comes_with_speaker, microphone,_and_UART_connectors⠀⇛ # ⚓ ZiGate-Ethernet_–_An_ESP32_Ethernet,_WiFi,_and_BLE_Gateway with_optional_Zigbee_connectivity_–_CNX_Software⠀⇛ Frédéric Dubois, aka fairecasoimeme, has recently released ZiGate-Ethernet, an home automation gateway based on Espressif Systems ESP32 wireless SoC with Ethernet, WiFi, and Bluetooth LE connectivity. The gateway can also take an optional PiZiGate+ Zigbee module for support for a wider range of home automation gizmos, and everything is designed to fit in the official Raspberry Pi 4 enclosure. # § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾ # ⚓ $4_Lolin_S2_Mini_ESP32-S2_WiFi_IoT_board_works_with Wemos_D1_Mini_shields_–_CNX_Software⠀⇛ If you liked Wemos D1 mini ESP8266 board with stackable add-on boards, you’ll probably love Wemos/Lolin S2 Mini board with the same factor, but fitted with an ESP32-S2 single- core WIFi processor, and offering twice the number of I/Os. The board comes with 4MB flash, 2MB PSRAM, a USB-C port for power and programming, as well as two 16 pin headers for GPIOs, ADC, DAC, and more. # ⚓ Altium,_IPC_Education_Foundation,_and_Arduino Announce_Student_Electronics_Design_Competition⠀⇛ # ⚓ This_overengineered_robotic_clock_will_not_be underappreciated_|_Arduino_Blog⠀⇛ Normally when an inexpensive wall clock stops ticking, you simply buy a new one. However, ‘Developer Hendrik’ decided to bring his broken clock back to life, or some semblance thereof, using a 3D-printed four-axis robot arm dubbed “Serworm Michael.” Under the control of a MKR 1010 WiFi and DYNAMIXEL MKR Shield, along with a Raspberry Pi, Serworm Michael is set up to push the minute hand into the next position. Five DYNAMIXEL XL330-M288-T servos drive the robot, which are programmed by physically moving the arm and using a command line interface. o § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾ # ⚓ A_privacy_review_of_Tribler,_the_onion-routed_BitTorrent app⠀⇛ Tribler is a free and open-source file-sharing app for Linux, macOS, and Windows. It adds something unique to the BitTorrent peer-to-peer protocol: onion routing. Onion routing, best known from the Tor Browser project, is a network routing scheme that relays connections via multiple proxies. Tribler encrypts your connections in layers, so that each relay proxy only knows the IP address of the next and previous hop in the routing chain. This system can help provide more anonymity and obscure what you’re downloading and from where from prying eyes. I’ve followed the development of Tribler closely over the last two years. In this article, I’ll discuss how Tribler works, which parts of it are anonymized and which broadcast what you’re doing in the clear. Tribler features solid core technology, but the project’s mixed goals and priorities don’t live up to its user expectations of privacy. # ⚓ Best_10_Open_Source_Self-hosted_Google_Keep_Alternatives and_Evernote⠀⇛ Google Keep is a note-taking web app, hosted and managed by Google Inc. As it is simple, easy to use, and comes with mobile apps for iOS and Android devices, it becomes the main note-taking app by people around the world. Evernote as well as a note-taking free service that comes with paid plans for all sorts of users. It offers dozens of features for enterprise users. However, some may need their own note-taking service hosted at his server, for privacy reasons and/or to control and own his data. So, we collect the best open-source free Google Keep alternatives, aiming to enrich the community with more choices. # ⚓ HandBrake_1.4.1⠀⇛ HandBrake is an open-source, GPL-licensed, multiplatform, multithreaded video transcoder, available for MacOS X, Linux and Windows. Handbrake can process most common multimedia files and any DVD or BluRay sources that do not contain any kind of copy protection. # ⚓ The_Ultimate_Guide_to_Dolphin_Emulator._–_Make_Tech Easier⠀⇛ Today you can find hundreds of emulators for dozens of old systems for multiple platforms. However, Dolphin manages to stand out from the crowd by achieving something almost impossible: combining advanced features and a high degree of compatibility with ease of use. With Dolphin, which is available for Windows, macOS, Linux, and Android, you gain access to the vast majority of titles for Nintendo’s GameCube and Wii consoles. Theoretically, since it’s easy to use, you only have to run it, add some games, and play. Practically, though, it’s worth investing some time to customize and configure Dolphin to your liking. This way, you’ll be able to take advantage of its advanced features and play your games better than you would on the actual hardware. # § Events⠀➾ # ⚓ The_Apache®_Software_Foundation_Announces_Program_for ApacheCon@Home_2021⠀⇛ The Apache® Software Foundation (ASF), the all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of more than 350 Open Source projects and initiatives, announced keynotes, sponsors, and program for ApacheCon@Home, taking place online 21-23 September 2021. Registration is open and free for all attendees. “With dozens of compelling talks on the latest Apache innovations, presented by noted community experts and supported by an impressive roster of sponsors, we expect a record turnout of attendees,” said Ruth Suehle, ASF Executive Vice President and ApacheCon@Home co-Chair. “We’re excited to enable participants to join us at their own convenience online and to build on the success of last year’s inaugural ApacheCon@Home, with nearly 3,500 attendees.” # § Web Browsers⠀➾ # § Mozilla⠀➾ # ⚓ Firefox_91.0.1_and_Firefox_ESR_91.0.1⠀⇛ These releases of Firefox 91.0.1 and Firefox ESR 91.0.1 fix two issues; one caused buttons on the tab bar to be resized and the other caused tabs from private windows to be visible in non- private windows. There is also a fix for a header splitting attack, and fixes for various stability issues. # § SaaS/Back End/Databases⠀➾ # ⚓ WAL-G_1.1_released⠀⇛ Great news, we’ve just released the new WAL- G version. # § Productivity Software/LibreOffice/Calligra⠀➾ # ⚓ Milestone_2_–_Rendering_an_image_of_the_search result⠀⇛ In the part 1, I talked about the functionality added to LibreOffice to create indexing XML file from the document, which can be used to feed into a search indexing engine. After we search, we expect a search hit will contain the added internal node information from the indexing XML file. The next step is that with the help of that information, we now render that part of the document into an image. # § Programming/Development⠀➾ # ⚓ OpenAI’s_GPT-3-based_pair_programming_model_–_Codex_– now_open_for_private_beta_testers_through_an_API_•_The Register⠀⇛ OpenAI has released its new and improved version of Codex, its AI code-completion model, to beta testers through an API. Co-founders Greg Brockman and Ilya Sutskever demonstrated Codex’s abilities during a livestream broadcasted on Twitch, earlier this week. They showed the system was capable of generating Python code for simple tasks like printing and formatting text, given instructions in plain English. # ⚓ [Older]_What_Does_“Learn_to_Code”_Actually_Mean?_– DEV_Community⠀⇛ Over the years, the phrase “learn to code” has gained a lot of popularity, most notoriously as a sort of cheeky suggestion to throw at folks that aren’t happy with their job. However, I can’t count the number of times I’ve been approached personally for sincere advice on “learning computer coding” or the number of times I see something related asked about in a group on social media where I feel compelled to give advice. This post intends to shed some light on if this path is right for you, how to actually get started and how deep you may need to go, and to share some of my opinions around job prospects throughout the post. # ⚓ Qt_Creator_5_–_CMake_projects_update⠀⇛ Qt Creator 5 comes with bug fixes and new features that affect CMake projects. # § Perl/Raku⠀➾ # ⚓ Releasing_nailing-cargo_1.0.0⠀⇛ It’s not really possible to make a nontrivial Rust project without using cargo. But the build process automatically downloads and executes code from crates.io, which is a minimally-curated repository. I didn’t want to expose my main account to that. And, at the time, I was working on a project which for which I was also writing a library as a dependency, and I found that cargo couldn’t cope with this unless I were to commit (to my git repository) the path (on my local laptop) of my dependency. I filed some bugs, including about the unpublished crate problem. But also, I was stubborn enough to try to find a workaround that didn’t involve committing junk to my git history. The result was a short but horrific shell script. # ⚓ Most_fancy_|_Playing_Perl_6␛b6xA_Raku⠀⇛ On Discord (yes, we are that cool) MrDispatch wished for a way to collect a bunch of classes right after their declaration. I believe, with the power of the MOP, we can go a step further and register the type-object even before the definition is finished. # § Shell/Bash/Zsh/Ksh⠀➾ # ⚓ CSV_viewers_for_CSV_haters⠀⇛ There are quite a few programs that let us CLI people view a CSV file as a simple table. I doubt if there any CSV parsers that work perfectly with all variations in the wild of the horrible, awful CSV format, but the two parsers shown here are usually reliable. * § Leftovers⠀➾ o § Health/Nutrition⠀➾ # ⚓ Health_Care_Workers_Share_Stories_of_Delta_Variant’s_Toll⠀⇛ With the Delta variant surging across the country, already spread-thin health care workers are facing even sicker — and younger — Americans affected by COVID-19 than at the start of the pandemic. While we won’t know the exact toll the pandemic will take on our essential workers, one thing is clear: The COVID-19 outbreak they’re experiencing right now on the front lines is a far cry from the original strain. They’re scared, exasperated, and crying out for us to pay attention and get vaccinated. Five health care workers tell WebMD about their experiences working the front lines amid the recent surge and what they think needs to happen — fast. o § Integrity/Availability⠀➾ # ⚓ Please_do_not_touch_the_exhibits_–_or_this_tabletop_Windows Boot_Manager⠀⇛ There are some things in life that are not meant to be touched – museum exhibits, the biscuit tin that you’re not supposed to know about, Microsoft Windows… People have shoved the operating system into all sorts of places over the years. Even Microsoft itself has crowbarred the poor thing into jumped-up whiteboards and eye-wateringly expensive tables in recent times. Then there are the signage manufacturers who have taken matters into their own hands, with occasionally less than successful results. One example of Windows being somewhere it doesn’t belong lurks within the hallowed walls of the UK’s National Motor Museum at Beaulieu. # § Proprietary⠀➾ # § Security⠀➾ # ⚓ Are_Your_Containers_Secure? [Ed: A bit of a marketing "plug" in article clothing...]⠀⇛ Most seem to think containers are secure; that they somehow contain magical powers when it comes to malware protection. But Dan Walsh, a Senior Engineer at Red Hat, says IT managers need to stop assuming that Docker and the Linux kernel protect you from malware. # ⚓ Resurgent_FluBot_malware_targets_German_and Polish_banks⠀⇛ Netcraft’s research into the Android banking malware FluBot confirms that its operations are expanding rapidly, with a spike in the number of malware distribution pages deployed, and finance applications affected in greater numbers. In recent days new overlays have been distributed that target a number of Polish and German banks, only days after news that FluBot has begun to target Australian banks. FluBot is distributed in the first instance using text messages, containing links to so-called “lure” pages: web pages unintentionally hosted by compromised web servers, commonly impersonating parcel tracking services, or voicemail notifications. Lure pages attempt to induce visitors to download the malware. # ⚓ SUSE_Linux_Enterprise_Server_earns_Common Criteria_EAL_4+_certification_–_Help_Net Security⠀⇛ SUSE announced its flagship Linux distribution has earned Common Criteria EAL 4+ certification. SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 15 SP2 is now EAL 4+ level certified for IBM Z, Arm and x86-64 architectures, signifying compliance with the most-demanding security requirements for mission- critical infrastructure. # ⚓ SUSE_Linux_Enterprise_Earns_Common_Criteria_EAL 4+,_Proving_Top_Security_for_Mission-Critical Environments⠀⇛ # ⚓ An_Investment_Firm_Built_Its_Own_SIEM._Here’s How._|_eSecurityPlanet⠀⇛ At last week’s Black Hat USA, NYC-based financial technology firm Two Sigma Investments took the virtual stage to outline why their existing solution didn’t cut it, the work needed to create an in-house security information and event management (SIEM) system, and the project’s implications. Presenting their experience on behalf of Two Sigma was Ethan Christ (VP of Security Identity, Monitoring, and Response) and Bret Rubin (Security Engineer). # ⚓ Secure_Socket_Layer_SSL_analysis_with_sslstrip in_Kali_Linux_2021⠀⇛ SSL analysis (Secure Socket Layer) is a standard security technology used for establishing an encrypted channel between a server and a client. For example a web server (website) and a browser; or a mail server and a mail client. SSL allows sensitive information such as credit card numbers, social security numbers, and login credentials to be transmitted securely. Normally, data sent between browsers and web servers is sent in plain text—leaving you vulnerable to eavesdropping. If an attacker is able to intercept (capture) all data being sent over the internet between a browser and a web server they can see and use that information. Http is sent data in plain text over a network. HTTPS protocol is used for establishing secure channel between browser (client) and the web server. # ⚓ This_minor_Linux_bug_fix_created_a_much_more serious_problem [Ed: Notice how media calls GNU just "Linux" as if GNU does not exist or is a sub-project of the kernel]⠀⇛ While studying the patch for a recently fixed vulnerability in the GNU C library (glibc), cybersecurity engineers discovered another issue, which they say affected every Linux distro. CloudLinux engineer Nikita Popov chanced upon what can essentially be classified as a denial-of-service vulnerability in the upstream glic. Popov believes the bug, tracked as CVE- 2021-38604, can be exploited to cause a segmentation fault, causing an application to crash. # ⚓ Remote_code_execution_flaws_lurk_in_countless routers,_IoT_gear,_cameras_using_Realtek_Wi-Fi module_SDKs_•_The_Register⠀⇛ Taiwanese chip designer Realtek has warned of four vulnerabilities in three SDKs accompanying its Wi-Fi modules, which are used in almost 200 products made by more than five dozen vendors. # ⚓ I_was_offered_$500k_as_a_thank-you_bounty_for pilfering_$600m_from_Poly_Network,_says_crypto- thief_•_The_Register⠀⇛ The mysterious miscreant who exploited a software vulnerability in Poly Network to drain $600m in crypto- assets, claims the Chinese blockchain company offered them $500,000 as a reward for discovering the weakness. Most of the digital funds have been returned over several transactions. “We appreciate you sharing your experience and believe your action constitutes white hat behaviour … Since, we believe your action is white hat behaviour, we plan to offer you a $500,000 bug bounty after you complete the refund fully,” the thief wrote in their transaction metadata, seemingly quoting or paraphrasing a message received from Poly Network. # § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾ # ⚓ Once_again,_Facebook_champions_privacy_… of_its_algorithms:_Independent_probe_into Instagram_shut_down_•_The_Register⠀⇛ AlgorithmWatch, a non-profit group based in Germany, said it has been forced to end its efforts to monitor Instagram’s newsfeed after parent company Facebook intervened. In July, the advocacy organization shuttered its Instagram transparency project, launched in March, 2020, because of alleged veiled legal threats after Facebook claimed the group’s data-collecting browser extension violated its Terms of Service and Europe’s GDPR. o § Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾ # ⚓ Adding_comments_to_the_blog⠀⇛ Internet can be ugly sometime, and this is why I will keep a strict eye on the comments, and I will probably adjust moderation settings in the future, based on how things evolve – maybe no-one will comment, then no need for any strict moderation! The only rule I ask you to abide, and I’ve put as moderation policy, is: “Be excellent to each other”. I’ve read it at the CCC Camp 2015, and it sticks with me: as every short sentence, cannot capture all the nuances of human interaction, but I think it is a very solid starting point. If you have any concern or feedback you prefer to do not express in public, feel free to reach me through email. Otherwise, I hope to see you all in the comment section 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇;-)⦈ o § Monopolies⠀➾ # ⚓ Book_Review:_The_Transformation_of_EU_Geographical Indications_Law [Ed: Review of an ad? Seems like an ad to me... also uses tortured terms like "IP", which don't mean anything but a lie]⠀⇛ # ⚓ Do_trade_secrets_matter?_It_is_not_at_all_clear_if_you_ask the_stock_market⠀⇛ IP matters. Or, at least, IP should matter to companies. But what if markets didn’t really care about IP? What if IP doesn’t really matter? My co- author Professor Andy Vivian and I are trying to better understand IP’s role by analysing the market reaction to the theft of a company’s trade secrets. Plot twist: the market is remarkably nonplussed. To address these questions, we use what is known as an ‘event study.’ Event studies take an event, in this case the announcement of case of trade secret theft, and analyse its impact. Our analysis models the firm’s stock market performance before and after the event, while controlling for any fluctuations in the market as a whole. Differences between the market and the firm’s stock price are subjected to statistical analysis, and those differences that survive the harrowing experience of stats are considered ‘abnormal returns.’ The basis of event studies using stock market prices is the ‘efficient market hypothesis.’ This hypothesis, common to financial economics, argues markets efficiently ‘price-in’ changes. The market adjusts prices to account for the present and future financial impact of information revealed by the event. The consequence is that stock market prices reflect the fair market value of the firm, including the impact of the trade secret theft. # § Patents⠀➾ # ⚓ Enlarged_Board_of_Appeal_rules_on_double_patenting [Ed: The Enlarged Board of Appeal is provably_rigged and_corrupted, but ‘Managing IP’ goes out of its way, for money as in this case (“Sponsored by…”), to pretend all is normal]⠀⇛ On June 22 2021, the Enlarged Board of Appeal of the European Patent Office issued decision G 4/19 (Double patenting), in which it held that a European patent (EP) application can be refused if it claims the same subject matter as a granted European patent (i.e. not just a co-pending EP application) which has been granted to the same applicant and has the same effective date. The application can be refused irrespective of whether it (a) was filed on the same date as, or (b) is a parent application or a divisional application of, or (c) claims the same priority as the European patent already granted. In other words: if an applicant already achieved grant of an EP patent on a certain subject matter, the Examining Division will deny grant to claims on the ‘same’ subject matter in later examination proceedings pertaining to an application having the same ‘effective date’ as the granted patent. # ⚓ Artificial_inventors:_key_lessons_from_recent_AI patent_decisions [Ed: This is totally lunatic agenda that's assured to discredit the patent system as a whole for a long time to come; Bomb manufacturers never met a bomb they did not like (unless it fell on them). Likewise, law (or litigation rather) firms never met a patent or lawsuit that did not suit them (they profit from both sides of lawsuits/disputes).]⠀⇛ # ⚓ Law_School_Canons:_All_Roads_Lead_to_Rome:_Preserving an_Issue_for_Appeal [Ed: Endless and fruitless/wasteful litigation would benefit nobody but those so-called 'law' students, looking to tax science for personal gain alone]⠀⇛ NetScout had lost a case against Packet Intelligence in the Eastern District of Texas in 2018. Id. at 1303. Packet Intelligence owns three patents at issue in the district court case: US 6,665,725, US 6,839,751, and US 6,954,789 (the “asserted patents”). Id. At their core, the patents involve packet transmission and monitoring in a computer network. Id. Packet Intelligence asserted these patents in a jury trial against NetScout’s “G10” and “GeoBlade” products. Id. at 1304. NetScout unsuccessfully brought invalidity defenses, and the jury found all asserted patents’ claims infringed, awarding pre- and post-suit damages, along with enhanced damages. Id. at 1304-05. Upon appeal, the Federal Circuit affirmed all aspects of the district court’s judgment save for vacating the pre-suit damages award. Id. at 1303. # ⚓ Patents_and_the_energy_transition [Ed: The patent litigation giant which promotes illegal software patents now helps criminals_who_run_the_EPO greenwash patent monopolies which in fact harm the environment]⠀⇛ In April 2021, the European patent office published their report on patents and the energy transition1. The report comes amidst both the Covid-19 pandemic and a concerted commitment from many companies and a large number of countries to significantly reduce, if not entirely eliminate, their greenhouse gas emissions. This second joint report by the European patent office and the International Energy Agency analyses global trends in clean energy technology innovation by determining which fields in the low-carbon energy sector are seeing an increased number of patent filings. The authors of the report believe that it could be used to influence how both the public and private sectors manage their strategies for meeting the ambitious, but much needed, target of zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 by identifying key trends and opportunities for value creation. # ⚓ ToolGen_Files_Opposition_to_CVC_Substantive Preliminary_Motion_No._1_for_Priority_Benefit [Ed: How would the public react if it knew that law firms like Kevin E. Noonan's have misused patent law to pursue monopolies on life and nature? For no reason other than personal gain and maybe health dangers too?]⠀⇛ On May 20th, Junior Party the University of California, Berkeley; the University of Vienna; and Emmanuelle Charpentier (collectively, “CVC”) filed its Substantive Preliminary Motion No. 1 in Interference No. 106,127 (which names ToolGen as Senior Party), asking the Patent Trial and Appeal Board for benefit of priority to U.S. Provisional Application No. 61/652,086, filed May 25, 2012 (“P1″), U.S. Provisional Application No. 61/716,256, filed October 19, 2012, (“P2″), and U.S. Provisional Application No. 61/757,640, filed January 28, 2013 (“Provisional 3″), pursuant to 37 C.F.R. §§ 41.121(a)(1)(ii) and 41.208(a)(3) and Standing Order ¶ 208.4.1. On July 15th, ToolGen filed its opposition. # ⚓ Authenticating_Prior_Art⠀⇛ Duncan Ironmonger and Simon Burgess founded the UK companies Scuf Gaming and also Ironburg with the goal of reengineering the gaming console. Corsair purchased the companies in 2019, but by that time the litigation with Valve was well underway. Ironburg won a $4 million judgment regarding two patents (now on appeal) and the district court stayed the litigation regarding U.S. Patent Nos. 9,289,688 and 9,352,229. Those two patents are the subject of this appeal. # ⚓ NHS_v_Servier:_unlawful_means_tort_claim_fails,_but the_saga_continues [Ed: Patents against public health; who would have thought monopolies would harm the interests of people?]⠀⇛ The latest episode in the long-running dispute between the NHS and French pharmaceutical company Servier has been marked by a UK Supreme Court judgment of July 2, 2021 on Servier’s application to strike out the NHS’s unlawful means tort claim. In this article, we summarise the Supreme Court’s judgment which upholds the lower courts’ decisions in refusing to allow the NHS to avail itself of the tort of unlawful means against Servier, and we comment on the reasoning of the Supreme Court. [...] The patent was granted by the EPO in 2004 and upheld by the Opposition Division of the European Patent Office (EPO) in 2006. # ⚓ Setting_AI_to_rights_|_E&T_Magazine [Ed: No, there are no "intellectual property laws"; there are various laws, they do not refer to rights (this headline is false), and the latest twist shows that the system has gone south and lacks credibility; it merely exists to give lawyers more money]⠀⇛ Intellectual property laws are lagging behind the latest advances in AI tech, but should intelligent systems ‘own’ the inventions they come up with? High-performance cloud-based compute power has brought AI within reach of a wide range of businesses, giving the technology the chance to show how it can make commercial processes run more profitably. ‘Revenue from AI’ (RAI) looks set to become a trending industry acronym and to help win more funding for next-generation AI product development. # ⚓ Germany_Ratifies_EU_Unified_Patent_Court_(UPC) Agreement,_but_Prospects_for_the_UPC_Remain_Uncertain [Ed: UPC is legally and constitutionally impossible, but Team UPC will still look for way to mislead and corrupt politicians into this scam; Moreover, this law firm links to this_page, which invalidates the claim Germany ratified. Team UPC does damage to the patent system by advancing the perception they’re lying, corrupt, and manipulative to the point of bribery and abuse of media.]⠀⇛ On 7 August 2021, Germany formally ratified the Agreement on a Unified EU Patent Court (“UPC Agreement”). The ratification came after battles in recent years over the constitutionality of the ratification bill. In 2017, the German ratification was put on hold because a constitutional complaint had argued that the German law approving the UPC Agreement was passed without the required quorum of the German Parliament. After the German parliamentarians fixed their mistake and approved the draft law with a two-thirds majority on 26 November 2020, the ratification was stopped for a second time due to two applications for an interim injunction against the ratification bill. On 23 June 2021, both complaints were held inadmissible by the Federal Constitutional Court as the complainants had failed to sufficiently substantiate a possible violation of their fundamental rights. The ratification concludes the German national ratification process, but the prospects of the Unified EU Patent Court and the EU Unitary Patent entering into force anytime soon remain uncertain, especially after the UK ceased to be a member of the EU in 2020. # ⚓ Key_UPC_legislation_ratified_in_Germany,_marking further_progress_towards_the_advent_of_a_new_patent system_in_Europe [Ed: Boosted by news_hubs, Team UPC is still conveniently ignoring reality, such as Brexit dooming UPC for good. Don’t call yourself “law firm” when you undermine constitutions and lie to clients…]⠀⇛ The key legislation underpinning the Unified Patent Court (“UPC“) and the unitary patent system has been ratified in Germany. The Federal President signed the legislation on 7 August 2021, and it was published in the Federal Law Gazette on 12 August 2021. The next step is for the Protocol on Provisional Application (the “PPA“) to be deposited with the Council of the European Union, and for two other UPC Member States to sign it. It is likely that this will happen during the Autumn of this year. The PPA provides for a provisional application period in which various preparations will be made so that the UPC can become fully operational, including the employment of judges and finalising the UPC Rules of Procedure. # ⚓ Australian_Court_finds_AI_systems_can_be_an “inventor” [Ed: Thug_army_Bird_&_Bird LLP on Australia putting to shame the patent system by offering monopolies to bots]⠀⇛ # ⚓ Bayer_in_Munich:_injunctions_against_generics_over cancer_drug [Ed: Bayer is not solving cancer but spreading cancer to millions of people with its Monsanto pesticides; now it's attacking generics as well. Bayer helped Nazi Germany kill millions and nothing has changed.]⠀⇛ The patent in suit EP 2 305 255 protects the compound of a tosylate (a type of salt) of the active ingredient sorafenib. It is the basis of Bayer’s drug Nexavar, which is used to treat various types of cancer, including kidney, liver cell and thyroid cancer. EP 255 is still valid until mid-2022, but the original patent for sorafenib has already expired. When the SEP based on the basic patent also expired in mid-July 2021, imitation products threatened to enter the German market. Ready, set, generics A total of seven generic drug companies have applied to the IFA to list their products containing the active substance sorafenib in the German pharmaceutical database “Lauer Taxe”. The IFA is an information service provider which maintains an online database containing information on the medicinal products and pharmaceuticals available in Germany. Products that are not listed in the IFA database cannot be sold at pharmacies. # ⚓ A_Cautionary_Tale_for_Assignment_of_Rights_in_U.S. Patents [Ed: Patents are not rights and law firms like Ropes & Gray LLP in this case should quit telling lies; anyway, they make money from this sordid chaos]⠀⇛ In Omni MedSci, Inc. v. Apple Inc., ___ F.4th ___, Nos. 2020-1715, -1716 (Fed. Cir. Aug. 2, 2021), the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit held that the University of Michigan’s technology transfer bylaws did not constitute an automatic assignment of a professor’s patent rights. This decision has important implications for the drafting of employee agreements as they relate to the ownership of inventions, which in the U.S. vest initially in the inventors. # ⚓ Jury_tells_Apple_to_cough_up_two_days_of_annual profit_in_4G/LTE_patent_damages_retrial_•_The_Register [Ed: How to twist patent verdicts in favour of crooked people like Rodney Gilstrap]⠀⇛ This week ended with two separate patent- related blows against Apple and Google in the United States. On Friday, a jury in Texas awarded $300m in damages to Optis Wireless and its constellation of companies, to be paid by Apple because the 4G/LTE tech in its iPhones, iPads, and Watches were deemed to have infringed Optis’ communications patents. # ⚓ World_Intellectual_Property_Office_settles_dispute with_CIO_it_previously_ousted_for_‘criminal_misconduct [Ed: WIPO itself_engages_in_criminal_conduct]⠀⇛ # § Software Patents⠀➾ # ⚓ $2,000_for_Longhorn_HD_prior_art⠀⇛ On August 12, 2021, Unified Patents added a new PATROLL contest, with a $2,000 cash prize, seeking prior art on at least claim 1 of U.S. Patent 8,725,924. The patent is owned by Longhorn HD, LLC, an NPE. The ’924 patent generally relates to an information backup system with a storing mechanism, a power supply, and a host microcontroller. It has been asserted against Kyocera, TCT Mobile International, OnePlus Technology, and Samsung. # ⚓ Arigna_Technology_Limited_reexamination_request granted⠀⇛ On August 13, 2021, less than four weeks after Unified filed an ex parte reexamination, the USPTO granted Unified’s request, finding substantial new questions of patentability on the challenged claims of U.S. Patent 7,397,318. Formerly owned by Mitsubishi Electric Corp, the ‘318 patent is currently owned by Arigna Technology Limited, an Atlantic IP Services Limited subsidiary, and has been asserted against several auto makers such as Daimler AG, Toyota, BMW, Volkswagen, Nissan, and others. # ⚓ New_study_shows_surge_in_data-driven_and computer-assisted_healthcare_patents [Ed: Still disguising_illegal_software_patents_as “medical”]⠀⇛ A new study reveals there has been a surge in computer-assisted healthcare IP protection. 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