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The_EPO’s_Overseer/Overseen_Collusion_—_Part_I:_Let_the_Sunshine_In! 2. The_EPO’s_Overseer/Overseen_Collusion_—_Part_II:_A_“Unanimous” Endorsement? 3. The_EPO’s_Overseer/Overseen_Collusion_—_Part_III:_Three_Missing_Votes 4. The_EPO’s_Overseer/Overseen_Collusion_—_Part_IV:_The_Founding_States 5. The_EPO’s_Overseer/Overseen_Collusion_—_Part_V:_Germany_Says_“Ja” 6. The_EPO’s_Overseer/Overseen_Collusion_—_Part_VI:_A_Distinct_Lack_of_Dutch Courage 7. The_EPO’s_Overseer/Overseen_Collusion_—_Part_VII:_Luxembourgish_Laxity 8. The_EPO’s_Overseer/Overseen_Collusion_—_Part_VIII:_Perfidious_Albion_and Pusillanimous_Hibernia 9. The_EPO’s_Overseer/Overseen_Collusion_—_Part_IX:_More_Holes_Than_Swiss Cheese 10. The_EPO’s_Overseer/Overseen_Collusion_—_Part_X:_Introducing_the Controversial_Christian_Bock 11. The_EPO’s_Overseer/Overseen_Collusion_—_Part_XI:_“General_Bock”_– Battistelli’s_Swiss_Apprentice? 12. The_EPO’s_Overseer/Overseen_Collusion_—_Part_XII:_The_French_Connection 13. The_EPO’s_Overseer/Overseen_Collusion_—_Part_XIII:_Battistelli’s_Iberian Facilitators_–_Spain 14. The_EPO’s_Overseer/Overseen_Collusion_—_Part_XIV:_Battistelli’s_Iberian Facilitators_–_Portugal 15. The_EPO’s_Overseer/Overseen_Collusion_—_Part_XV:_Et_Tu_Felix_Austria… 16. The_EPO’s_Overseer/Overseen_Collusion_—_Part_XVI:_The_Demise_of_the Austrian_Double-Dipper 17. The_EPO’s_Overseer/Overseen_Collusion_—_Part_XVII:_The_Non-Monolithic Nordic_Bloc 18. The_EPO’s_Overseer/Overseen_Collusion_—_Part_XVIII:_Helsinki’s_Accord 19. The_EPO’s_Overseer/Overseen_Collusion_—_Part_IXX:_The_Baltic_States 20. The_EPO’s_Overseer/Overseen_Collusion_—_Part_XX:_The_Visegrád_Group 21. The_EPO’s_Overseer/Overseen_Collusion_—_Part_XXI:_The_Balkan_League_–_The Doyen_and_His_“Protégée” 22. The_EPO’s_Overseer/Overseen_Collusion_—_Part_XXII:_The_Balkan_League_– North_Macedonia_and_Albania 23. The_EPO’s_Overseer/Overseen_Collusion_—_Part_XXIII:_The_Balkan_League_– Bulgaria 24. The_EPO’s_Overseer/Overseen_Collusion_—_Part_XXIV:_The_Balkan_League_– Romania 25. The_EPO’s_Overseer/Overseen_Collusion_—_Part_XXV:_The_Balkan_League_– Fresh_Blood_or_Same_Old,_Same_Old? 26. The_EPO’s_Overseer/Overseen_Collusion_—_Part_XXVI:_A_Trojan_Horse_on_the Budget_and_Finance_Committee 27. The_EPO’s_Overseer/Overseen_Collusion_—_Part_XXVII:_Cypriot_Complicity 28. The_EPO’s_Overseer/Overseen_Collusion_—_Part_XXVIII:_Benoît_and_António’s Loyal_“Habibi” 29. The_EPO’s_Overseer/Overseen_Collusion_—_Part_IXXX:_The_EPOnian_Micro- States_–_Monaco_and_Malta 30. The_EPO’s_Overseer/Overseen_Collusion_—_Part_XXX:_San_Marino_and_the Perfidious_Betrayal_of_Liberty 31. The_EPO’s_Overseer/Overseen_Collusion_—_Part_XXXI:_The_Abstentionists 32. YOU ARE HERE ☞ “Plucky Little Belgium”? 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇Jérôme Debrulle⦈ Head of the Belgian delegation, Jérôme Debrulle Summary: The UPC booster at the EPO‘s “Select Committee” did not endorse the illegal proposal on “Strike Regulations”; he did, however, happily approve almost all the other oppressive proposals In this part we will look at the delegation representing “plucky_little Belgium” which, as we have already mentioned, was the only one of the Benelux states that refrained from endorsing Benoît_Battistelli‘s “Strike Regulations” in June 2013. “The “Select Committee” was established for the specific purpose of supervising the EPO’s activities connected with the EU “unitary patent” project and it held its inaugural meeting in Munich on 20 March 2013.”At the time in question, the Belgian delegation was headed by Jérôme Debrulle, who remains in that position to this day. Debrulle was – and still is – the Chairman of the “Select_Committee” (warning: epo.org link) of the EPO’s Administrative Council. This is a sub-committee of the Council established under the terms of Article 9(2) of EU_Regulation_No 1257/2012 and Article_145 of the European Patent Convention. “The competences of this body include the setting of fees for “unitary patent” procedures.”The “Select Committee” was established for the specific purpose of supervising the EPO’s activities connected with the EU “unitary patent” project and it held its inaugural_meeting in Munich on 20 March 2013. The Committee consists of the representatives of the participating EU member states. It also includes a representative of the EU Commission as an observer and it “may be assisted by advisers or experts”. The competences of this body include the setting of fees for “unitary patent” procedures. “…his abstention in June 2013 during the vote on Battistelli’s “Strike Regulations” is something of an anomaly.”The official record between 2010 and 2018 indicates that Debrulle was for the most part an uncritical supporter of Battistelli and his “reforms”. This is not very surprising given Debrulle’s leading role in the planned implementation of the “unitary patent” project. Thus, his abstention in June 2013 during the vote on Battistelli’s “Strike Regulations” is something of an anomaly. Maybe the Belgians were jealous at the level of the attention which Battistelli had been lavishing on their Benelux neighbours, Netherlands and Luxembourg. “This isn’t very enlightening and it leaves the reader to wonder what exactly motivated the Belgian abstention on that occasion.”Or maybe they genuinely had reservations about the legality of Battistelli’s proposal. The official statement of the Belgian position recorded in the minutes_of_the 136th_meeting [PDF] of the Administrative Council reads as follows (under point no. 121): “The Belgian delegation said that it would have liked to have more time, given the sensitivity of the topic and the need to study the international situation. It acknowledged that rules were needed, but would need to abstain for the reasons given.” This isn’t very enlightening and it leaves the reader to wonder what exactly motivated the Belgian abstention on that occasion. “In the next part we will look at the delegation representing Sweden, one of the two Scandinavian states which abstained.”We’ll probably never find out the answer to that question. Such is the lack of transparency when it comes to the governance of international organisations like the EPO. 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═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at http://techrights.org/2021/12/11/canonical-soft/#comments Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2021/12/11/canonical-soft/ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 12.11.21⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Canonical:_Over_a_Decade_Later⠀✐ Posted in GNU/Linux, Microsoft, Ubuntu at 2:49 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz When Ubuntu had an actual community: 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇Ubuntu bug #1⦈ When Ubuntu has new masters (Microsoft): 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇Canonical_Ubuntu_WSL⦈_ Summary: Canonical does not always promote Ubuntu; when it promotes Windows, for_its_true_masters, it is WSL (screenshot from yesterday) ⣿⣿⣿⡿⠋⠉⠀⠈⠉⠻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⡟⠀⢀⠄⠀⠀⢅⠀⠸⣿⣿⢻⡟⠋⠿⢿⢿⠿⠿⠿⡟⠻⠿⡿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣇⠈⠡⡀⠀⠀⡄⠀⢠⣿⣿⡘⠃⡇⠘⢨⠐⠀⠀⡇⣅⠚⡃⠃⣸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ 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Need_for_an_EPO_That_Works_for_Europe_and_for_Science⠀✐ Posted in Europe, Law, Patents at 8:10 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz Video_download_link | md5sum c3c145134cd819d489c6180a62a42a3c http://techrights.org/videos/no-epo-oversight.webm Summary: The EPO isn’t functioning anymore; it works_against_the_very_things_it was_supposed_to_be_for,_including_its_very_own_staff LAST night at around midnight (i.e. the usual) we resumed the 40-part series after we had already published 30 parts (mostly in October). Tonight at around midnight we’ll publish Part 32 regarding_Belgium. “Large, monopolistic, international/multinational conglomerates that leverage patents in bulk and cross-license do not have this issue because rarely do their patents get challenged (it does not scale economically).”The series isn’t limited to just one awful decision or one outlier. It’s certainly not a ‘fluke’; it is part of a long-running pattern wherein governance at the EPO assumes the Office President is a person of integrity acting out of goodwill; this hasn’t been the case for at least a decade and those entrusted to govern the institution willingly participate in the abuse to the detriment of EPO staff and of Europe in general. The video above contains very personal thoughts and views on the matter; the bottom line is, the mis-governance or the maladministration at the EPO harms everyone, but delegates who are often just heads of national patent offices simply don’t care, or they cannot coordinate any effective resistance. Maybe they need something like a union — like SUEPO — for national delegations. It’s well overdue because the institution will otherwise drive straight into a wall. As we shall show in Daily Links later this weekend, nowadays a lot of patents — including European Patents — perish in courts. In other words, they should never have been granted in the first place. Large, monopolistic, international/multinational conglomerates that leverage patents in bulk and cross-license do not have this issue because rarely do their patents get challenged (it does not scale economically). █ ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 444 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at http://techrights.org/2021/12/11/in-rome-act-like-jerome/#comments Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2021/12/11/in-rome-act-like-jerome/ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 12.11.21⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ [Meme]_Team_UPC_Undermining_Home/Host_Nations⠀✐ Posted in Europe, Patents at 7:07 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇Jérôme_Debrulle:_Does_he_work_for_Belgium?_Or_only_gets_paid by_Belgium?⦈_ Summary: Jérôme Debrulle says_he_represents_Belgium at the EPO, but does he represent Belgium or just some patent litigation firms and large corporations with an office in Brussels? 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(ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at http://techrights.org/2021/12/11/neutral-belgium/#comments Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2021/12/11/neutral-belgium/ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 12.11.21⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ [Meme]_A_‘Neutral’_(Facial_Expression)_Jérôme_Debrulle⠀✐ Posted in Europe, Patents at 8:44 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇Jérôme_Debrulle:_I_'acknowledged_that_[illegal]_rules_were needed,_but_would_need_to_abstain_for_the_reasons_given.'⦈_ Appeasing Napoleonic Benoît_Battistelli to secure one’s career with the EPO and its_Belgian_sibling 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇Jérôme_Debrulle/Neutral_Moresnet⦈_ This even predates the Second World War Summary: Belgium’s long history of ‘neutrality’ became a cynical ploy or joke, just like in Sweden or Switzerland; inaction when something illegal is being done isn’t good enough ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⠀⠀⠀⠻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠃⠀⠀⠘⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ 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GNU/Linux o Distributions o Devices/Embedded * Free_Software/Open_Source * Leftovers * § GNU/Linux⠀➾ o § Desktop/Laptop⠀➾ # ⚓ HP_Chromebase_Makes_Chrome_OS_Desktops_a_Smart_Choice⠀⇛ Chrome OS is built on a Gentoo Linux-based operating system. But Chrome OS users do not need any knowledge of Linux. The Chrome OS interface is familiar to anyone who has used the Chrome web browser. # ⚓ [Older]_The_best_Linux_distros_for_2021⠀⇛ Linux is a powerful and fully customizable operating system with an endless number of distributions that differ significantly from one another, offering complete personalization for all applications. Trust us — it gives MacOS and Windows a run for their money. When choosing a Linux system, it’s common to pick a distribution, or “distro,” that compiles all the open-source features you want into one installation package. The number of distros that Linux has would take way too much time for you to sift through. To help you narrow down your search, we’ve compiled a list of the best distros that Linux has to offer. o § Audiocasts/Shows⠀➾ # ⚓ Avoid_Boot_Loops,_Try_Librem_5_Serial_–_Purism⠀⇛ Debugging a Librem 5 that boots is pretty easy–just open a terminal or access the serial console over USB. But if you are doing kernel development or porting alternative OSes to the Librem 5, you might end up with a Librem 5 that won’t boot far enough to load regular diagnostic tools. When that happens it’s time for raw serial access. # ⚓ LHS_Episode_#443:_The_Weekender_LXXXIII⠀⇛ It’s time once again for The Weekender. This is our bi-weekly departure into the world of amateur radio contests, open source conventions, special events, listener challenges, hedonism and just plain fun. Thanks for listening and, if you happen to get a chance, feel free to call us or e-mail and send us some feedback. Tell us how we’re doing. We’d love to hear from you. o § Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ Major_Update_for_Blender⠀⇛ Twenty-one years after Blender 2.0, Blender 3.0 has been released in what the Blender Foundation claims is a “new era of content creation” using the free, open-source and cross-platform 3D computer graphics software for Windows, macOS and GNU/Linux platforms. # ⚓ Open_source_advent_calendar:_the_public_transport_timetable information [Ed: Automated/machine translation]⠀⇛ # ⚓ Open_source_advent_calendar:_the_password_manager_KeePass [Ed: Automated/machine translation]⠀⇛ # ⚓ Open_source_advent_calendar:_the_messenger_Telegram [Ed: Automated/machine translation]⠀⇛ # ⚓ Open-Source-Adventskalender:_Die_Browser-Engine_Chromium [Ed: Automated/machine translation]⠀⇛ # ⚓ Open_source_advent_calendar:_the_media_player_VLC [Ed: Automated/machine translation]⠀⇛ o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾ # ⚓ Install_Zabbix_on_Debian_11_Bullseye_with_MySQL/MariaDB_& Apache⠀⇛ Want to learn how to install Zabbix free and open- source network monitoring tool on Debian 11 Bullseye Linux using Apache, MySQL, and command terminal? Then here is the step-by-step tutorial to follow. Well, in the open-source world Nagios is probably one of the best known free and open-source networking monitoring software. However, slowly over the years, Zabbix is steadily taking over the market by offering features enough to compete with other players. # ⚓ How_to_install_Zabbix_Agent_on_Debian_11_Bullseye_–_Linux Shout⠀⇛ If you already have a Zabbix server installed and want to monitor any target machine or server then to make things easy use its Agent. Here in this tutorial, we will learn the steps to install Zabbix Agent on Debian 11 Bullseye. The Zabbix agent is part of the whole open-source network monitoring tool offered by the developers of it. That is required to actively monitor a target/server or to query its resources (HDD, RAM, CPU, database, general statistics, network, etc.). The agent runs as a service on the server or desktops. It is not necessary because the Zabbix server can also collect information using, for example, SNMP, SSH, IPMI, macros, etc. After that, the admin can evaluate the data of various machines using the web interface. Based on the information provided by the Agent the server part of Zabbix can generate alerts in a case of emergency to admins via various channels (email, SMS, etc.). # ⚓ How_to_Enable_&_Disable_AppArmor_on_Linux_Mint_20_– LinuxCapable⠀⇛ Linux Mint distributions come with AppArmor, a Linux kernel security module that allows the system administrator to restrict programs’ capabilities with per-program profiles. Profiles can allow network access, raw socket access, and permission to read, write, or execute files on matching paths. Rhel family users would notice this is similar to Selinux; however, they work differently and have pros and cons. The following will cover how to enable and disable AppArmor and individual profiles; usually, most users would not need to adjust any settings with AppArmor, but if the need arises, some simple commands are all needed in the tutorial will explain. # ⚓ How_to_Customise_the_GNOME_Shell_Clock_–_OMG!_Ubuntu!⠀⇛ GNOME Shell is an eminently customisable desktop environment — even though it’s not always apparent. Take the clock. Sitting at the top of every modern Ubuntu desktop, this titular timepiece couldn’t be any more conspicuous. And yet… The only clock customisation GNOME Shell supports out-of-the-box is a choice of showing a 12 hour clock or a 24 hour clock. For most people this is fine. It’s a sane default: it tells you the date and time. # ⚓ How_to_Install_MariaDB_10.7_on_CentOS_8_Stream⠀⇛ MariaDB is one of the most popular open-source databases next to its originator MySQL. The original creators of MySQL developed MariaDB in response to fears that MySQL would suddenly become a paid service due to Oracle acquiring it in 2010. With its history of doing similar tactics, the developers behind MariaDB have promised to keep it open source and free from such fears as what has happened to MySQL. MariaDB has become just as popular as MySQL with developers, with advanced clustering with Galera Cluster 4, faster cache/indexes, storage engines, and features/extensions that you won’t find in MySQL. # ⚓ How_to_Install_PHP_8.1_on_CentOS_8_Stream_–_LinuxCapable⠀⇛ PHP 8.1 is a significant update of the PHP language that was “officially” released on November 25, 2021. As we advance from the existing PHP 8.0 release, this is a standard upgrade. The new PHP 8.1 brings enums, fibers, never return type, final class constants, intersection types, read-only properties, and a long list of new features and changes. In the following tutorial, you will learn how to import the REMI Module and install PHP 8.1 on CentOS 8 Stream. # ⚓ How_to_Install_and_Use_Rdiff-backup_in_RHEL_Systems⠀⇛ Data backup is an important element of successful Linux administration. It is a skill set mastered by most Linux users and administrators. Whether you are after remote or local data backup solutions, it is important to consider the efficiency of a backup tool like Rdiff-backup. Rdiff-backup data backup utility is attributed as a cross-platform data backup solution. Therefore, its usability also extends to FreeBSD and macOS operating system platforms. This cross-platform flexibility is partially a result of the Rdiff- backup tool being written in Python. # ⚓ How_to_use_ss_Command_(Monitor_Network_Connections)_– Unixcop_the_Unix_/_Linux_the_admins_deams⠀⇛ The ss command is a tool used to dump socket statistics and displays information in similar fashion (although simpler and faster) to netstat. The ss command can also display even more TCP and state information than most other tools. Because ss is the new netstat, we’re going to take a look at how to make use of this tool so that you can more easily gain information about your Linux machine and what’s going on with network connections. The ss command-line utility can display stats for the likes of PACKET, TCP, UDP, DCCP, RAW, and Unix domain sockets. The replacement for netstat is easier to use (compare the man pages to get an immediate idea of how much easier ss is). # ⚓ How_to_Compile_and_Install_Software_From_Source_in_Linux⠀⇛ Do you want to fix a bug in a software package, or do you simply want to modify a package to meet your needs? Linux has got you covered. Most Linux packages are free and open-source, giving you the freedom to customize or modify any piece of software to your own liking. Additionally, you are also free to look at the source code of Linux packages to learn good architecture practices and coding patterns from other software projects. # ⚓ How_to_Find_JAVA_HOME_in_Linux_–_Linux_Shout⠀⇛ It is an environment variable that is nothing but a location or directory where after the installation of Java on Linux, Windows, or mac we can find the java executables such as java, javac, and keytool. Being an environment variable, we don’t need to mention the folder path again and again where Java has been installed to use any of its executable files. However, sometimes while installing some software platforms or creating systemd service unit files, we need to mention the location or Java_Home path manually in them. Hence, for those who don’t where exactly the path is, we can use the below-given command in our respective Linux operating system to find it. # ⚓ How_to_install_MATLAB_in_Ubuntu_20.04_–_Linux_Shout⠀⇛ MATLAB from Mathworks is a platform-independent software for solving mathematical problems and graphically displaying the results. The software package is best-known for tools for calculating and simulating complex mathematical and technical problems. Here we learn the steps to install MATLAB on Ubuntu Linux and how to create its Desktop shortcut… In addition to the basic module, a whole range of extensions for MATLAB is available, which is known as Toolbox. This includes Simulink, a graphical user interface block-oriented development platform for the modeling, simulation, and analysis of dynamic, non-linear, and event-driven systems, that can be used to model and simulate systems interactively. # ⚓ Junichi_Uekawa:_Updated_my_raspberry_pi_to_bullseye_and_no longer_connects_to_network.⠀⇛ Updated my raspberry pi to bullseye and no longer connects to network. Seems like eth0 got renamed. probably this thing that I was supposed to have migrated away from. Not entirely sure how to recover from this now. # ⚓ How_to_install_KDE_Plasma_on_Debian_11_Bullseye_Linux⠀⇛ KDE is currently available in version 5.20 while doing this tutorial. The main focus of this Linux desktop environment is on providing wide range of customization options. Here we will see the commands to install KDE Plasma’s latest and testing desktop version on Debian 11 Bullseye server or desktop using the terminal. Users who have used Windows will defnatley find KDE desktop environment on their Linux quite familiar. KDE is popular becuase of its beautiful interface, sleek icons and lots of tools and apps developed by KDE community. Further, if one doesn’t like the arrangements of elements then he or she can position the Widgets, Taskbar and almost every element to get the look and feel he/she wants. However, the variety of options can make inexperienced users quickly overwhelmed. Hence, you might have to invest time to become aware and comfortable with it. # ⚓ Install_VNC_Server_on_Ubuntu_20.04_|_18.04_LTS_to_access GNOME⠀⇛ In this tutorial, we will learn the commands to install a VNC server on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Focal or Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic using the terminal to access Gnome Linux graphic user interface, remotely. # ⚓ Fix_the_error_can’t_find_the_command_hwmatch_on_Grub_– Unixcop_the_Unix_/_Linux_the_admins_deams⠀⇛ Hello, friends. In our previous post, we showed you how to set a password to grub to make it more secure. In this one, we will help you to fix the error can’t find the command hwmatch on grub. If you saw the screenshot of the previous post, you may have noticed that it has an error regarding the hwmatch command that although it does not affect our computer at all, is good to eliminate. Indeed, although this error is not serious and does not affect the grub startup, many people find it annoying, and if we are giving technical support, better to make it complete. So, let’s go for it. o § Games⠀➾ # ⚓ Game_development:_Open_3D_Engine_reaches_first_major version_–_Market_Research_Telecast [Ed: Automated/machine translation]⠀⇛ The Open 3D Foundation has presented the release of Open 3D Engine (O3DE) 11/21. The inconspicuous version number conceals the first major release of the open source engine for 3D content. Windows users will thus receive the first stable version. Under Linux, the 3D engine goes from the developer preview to the preview phase, and a simplified installation option is available for both operating systems. o § Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾ # § K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt⠀➾ # ⚓ This_week_in_KDE:_Polishing_up_Ark_and_Dolphin⠀⇛ This week you might notice a lot of fixes for Ark and Dolphin and for interactions between them. That’s coming out of our initiative to fix all the issues found in recent Linus Tech Tips videos. And there’s more where that came from going forward! New Features Spectacle’s annotation tools now include functionality to crop, scale, undo, redo, and more (Damir Porobic and Antonio Prcela, kImageAnnotator 0.6.0 or later in Spectacle 22.04) The Weather applet now lets you pick cities from German Weather Service (DWD) as the data source (Emily Elhert, Plasma 5.24) # ⚓ KDE_Prepares_More_Crash_Fixes_Ahead_Of_The_Holidays_– Phoronix⠀⇛ Even with the holidays quickly approaching, KDE developers remain very busy in landing fixes — especially crash fixes — and fixing up Plasma’s Wayland session for ensuring it is very polished for 2022. It’s been another busy week of fixes and other improvements to the KDE desktop. KDE developer Nate Graham is out with his usual Saturday morning recap that highlights all of the changes to land for the past week. # ⚓ Building_KDE_Frameworks_against_Qt6⠀⇛ With a number of recent changes in KDE Frameworks it’s now possible to build the first module (KCoreAddons) against Qt6 out of the box. This isn’t officially supported or ready for consumption yet of course, but meant as a development tool and is an important step towards the transition to KF6. Extra CMake Modules (ECM) The biggest change towards Qt6 support happened in ECM, by no longer forcing Qt5 on its Qt features and by adjusting default installation paths accordingly. The key for this is the new QtVersionOption module, which follows the Qt requirement explicitly set by a project, or if there is none, follows the user choice. The output is a single CMake variable, QT_MAJOR_VERSION, which then can be used in all subsequent places depending on a specific Qt version. This is now in use inside ECM for all modules that provide Qt specific functionality. This doesn’t mean all that already works with Qt6 of course, in fact a lot is still just empty scaffolding. It does however mean ECM no longer pulls in Qt5 unconditionally, even when used in a Qt6 context. To further support porting, the standard installation directories defined by KDEInstallDirs now also provide version-less aliases. It’s worth noting though that any Qt6 functionality provided by ECM 5.x isn’t coming with the same source and behavior stability guarantee as everything else, but is subject to change until the 6.0 release. # ⚓ KDE_Gear_21.12,_last_update_of_the_year_for_KDE applications⠀⇛ KDE Gear 21.12 It is the third and last version of the year of the set of applications maintained by the KDE project and that can be enjoyed both in the KDE Plasma environment, and beyond in a completely independent way, not in vain it includes some of the most powerful alternatives of its category for the Linux desktop. As we already told you, KDE Gear is the new name of what until the beginning of the year we knew as KDE Applications and even there the external changes, since internally we are facing the same launch as always … which has nothing wrong, Quite the contrary: each version of the KDE Applications Gear brings joy in the form of new features and functions for KDE applications, and sometimes even new applications. So far in 2021, KDE Gear 21.04 and KDE Gear 21.08 have been released and now KDE Gear 21.12 arrives, as in the previous versions, with hardly any surprises as far as protagonists are concerned, but with enough juice so that users Staunch of the environment welcome the update with enthusiasm. o § Distributions⠀➾ # ⚓ Available_Zorin_OS_16_Lite_with_all_the_flavor_and_half_the calories⠀⇛ It has been done to beg, but it is already here Zorin OS 16 Lite, the light edition of the most recent version of this popular distribution focused on the common users, with special attention for those who come new, especially from Windows. Or so Zorin OS has always sold herself. In the case of Zorin OS 16 Lite, whose particularity is to use the Xfce desktop environment (4.16), comes almost four months after its main release, based on a modification of GNOME. What caused the gap between the previous release and the present? There are no details about it. Thus, Zorin OS 16 Lite comes with the same new features of Zorin OS 16 that we already saw at its launch, both in substance and form, except those of GNOME: based on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, including components such as Linux kernel 5.11 or Mesa 21; refined visual theme, new wallpapers, revamped desktop layouts, a new welcome wizard … Other new features of Zorin OS 16 Lite shared with the main edition of the distro include the flatpa bracketk (via Flathub) pre-installed and enabled by default (for Snap I already had it), as well as improved support for installing Windows applications using “a built-in database that detects popular Windows installation files, so the system can guide you through through the installation process. # § New Releases⠀➾ # ⚓ Freespire_8.0_GNOME_Released⠀⇛ Today we have a very special release for you guys, Freespire 8.0 with the GNOME desktop. A freespire build with the GNOME desktop has been the most requested build that we have ever received. We do not like to release anything unless we think its functional, beautiful and ready. We released Freespire 8.0 last week to much fan fare. It was our most successful release to date. We have been working on the GNOME release for months and a testing issue kept us from releasing it with the XFCE build. This GNOME release is identical to the GNOME desktop release of Linspire. The GNOME release does not mean we will stop making an XFCE build. We will be doing both parallel with one another. Our GNOME release is based on GNOME 3.36.8. With Freespire 10 we will be moving to GNOME 4. Our GNOME desktop features a single panel with app launchers and “show applications” button which brings you to the App drawers. # ⚓ New_IPFire_version_improves_performance_and_includes exFAT_support⠀⇛ When we talk about Linux we usually refer mainly to servers and desktops, but it is more than known that the Open Source system has gone much further. Therefore, we are going to take this opportunity to publish about IPFire, a hardened distribution in terms of security that can function as a router and a firewall. IPFire version 2.27 Core Update 161 has introduced some new features along with some changes and improvements. The first thing that stands out about this release are the improvements at the support level, which include the Open Source FriendlyARM NanoPI R2S mini router, Fast Flux Detection in the web proxy to detect Fast Flux settings and for the exFAT filesystem, which has long been an official Linux feature courtesy of Microsoft. Another important point is the removal of support for Python 2, a version of the language (and its official interpreter) that has been discontinued for two years, but in which many programs are still supported and have not migrated to the third version. Following with more news from IPFire 2.27 Core Update 161, we have the ability of the web proxy to always hide the version number and thus prevent information leaks, support for the Pakfire page to correctly display the locked status after starting an update, support for the status of Logwatch software RAID configurations, backups improved, support for RAID configurations in Logwatch, Backups of Avahi and Minidlna Configurations Enhanced and better disk utilization statistics. # § BSD⠀➾ # ⚓ FreeBSD_on_Slimbook_–_14_months_of_updates⠀⇛ I didn’t use the laptop with FreeBSD much this month, it’s mostly my video-call box with meet.kde.org – something I still have not set up correctly with my FreeBSD workstation. WiFi tops out inside the house at 2.2MB/s, it is reported as a 36Mbit 802.11a connection in system tools, so that is .. not great, but a far cry from what it could be. KDE Plasma Wayland, which was working in September, is now broken. It’s not just my laptop, it’s on my workstation (AMDGPU), on the spare machine (Intel iGPU) and the laptop (Intel iGPU). I have chatted a bit with Plasma developers, but the debugging is on me, unfortunately. # § IBM/Red Hat/Fedora⠀➾ # ⚓ Vanessa_Christopher:_Introduction⠀⇛ When I heard about outreachy, an internship that welcomes total beginners that was a very good motivation and the stipends?? Free mentoring from professionals? This was definitely my chance to broaden my scope. # ⚓ Ubuntu_22.04_LTS_To_Shift_Its_PPC64EL_Baseline_To POWER9_CPUs,_Dropping_POWER8_–_Phoronix⠀⇛ Ubuntu 22.04 LTS isn’t expected to run on aging IBM POWER8 hardware as Canonical is shifting its PPC64EL architecture baseline to POWER9 for building packages. Matthias Klose issued a notice this week that for Ubuntu 22.04 “Jammy Jellyfish” they are bumping the PPC64EL architecture baseline requirement to POWER9 with their GCC 11 compiler. On recent Ubuntu releases the PowerPC builds they have been producing were targeting “- march=power8 -mtune-power9″ while now they are moving ahead with “-march=power9″ to optimize the code generation for POWER9 processors. # ⚓ Qualys_:_Continuous_Security_Hardening_and_Monitoring for_IBM®_z/OS®_Mainframes_and_Databases_Using_Qualys Policy_Compliance⠀⇛ # ⚓ CentOS_Stream_9:_Understanding_the_new_Red_Hat_OS release_for_non-Red-Hat-type_people⠀⇛ Red Hat has released CentOS Stream 9, the first major version since the company badly shook its community by announcing it was ending traditional CentOS a year ago. This is the second release of the new CentOS Stream distro, and presumably the IBM subsidiary hopes it will offer a more appealing migration path for CentOS users than for them to jump ship. Notably, in CentOS Stream 8, RH’s Application Streams – analogous to Fedora’s “Modularity” – were mandatory, but they’re optional in 9. This is a big deal in the Red Hat world, but can be mysterious to the millions of non-Red Hat Linux users. Since it seems to please Red Hat to imagine that Red Hat is the entirety of the Linux world, its official materials don’t really give you any context, so The Register will try to translate for you. # ⚓ CentOS_Linux_8_is_about_to_die._What_do_you_do_next? |_ZDNet⠀⇛ The end of CentOS 8 Linux has been coming for awhile now, and the day is finally here. On December 31, 2021, Red Hat’s CentOS Linux 8 will reach End Of Life (EOL). Since that falls right in the heart of the holiday season, Red Hat will extend CentOS Linux 8 zero-day support until January 31, 2022. Indeed, there will be one last CentOS Linux 8 release — perhaps even after CentOS 8′s official EOL. After that, it’s all over for CentOS Linux. # § Debian Family⠀➾ # ⚓ Kali_Linux_2021.4_improves_ARM_support_and_updates desktops⠀⇛ Three months after the last launch (or penultimate, depending on how you see it), we already have between us Kali Linux 2021.4, the latest version of the distribution aimed at security audits and which provides a large number of tools for conducting penetration testing and ethical hacking. Despite being a system created for specific purposes, in recent times it has evolved to be more user- friendly for desktop use. From Kali Linux 2021.4 what stands out are the improvements in hardware and virtual reality support and the update of the desktop environments, an area in which it offers variety while keeping Xfce as the default option. For starters, thanks to the inclusion of Linux 5.14, Kali Linux already works on build for Apple Silicon from the VMware Fusion Tech Preview, the virtualization solution of the well-known company for teams from the bitten apple. This means that the system has support for the virtual GPU, in addition to the update of the ‘open-vm-tools’ package and the automatic detection of a VMware environment to install the package ‘open-vm-tools- desktop’ by default on installation. Those responsible for the distribution remember that this support is limited for now to the 64-bit ARM architecture. # ⚓ Kali_Linux_2021.4_comes_with_several_improved features,_including_Samba_compatibility,_better_Apple M1_support,_switching_package_manager_mirrors_– Download_Kali_Linux_2021.4_now.⠀⇛ Offensive Security has finally released Kali Linux 2021.4. The release has been grabbing headlines for the array of new capabilities and tools embedded with. Here’s a look at what’s included in the new release. # ⚓ Anonymizing_operating_system:_Tails_4.25_makes_data backup_easier_–_Market_Research_Telecast [Ed: Automated/machine translation]⠀⇛ If you want to navigate the Internet without leaving any traces, you can’t avoid the Linux distribution Tails. The developers have now improved the operating system, which is fully geared towards maintaining anonymity and privacy, in detail. Everything on board Tails is a live system that starts directly from a USB stick. Alternatively, you can do this from a DVD. You can also boot the ISO image as a virtual machine. You can start right away with an email client, the Tor Browser and LibreOffice. Surfing is possible via the encrypting Tor network. If you restart the system, it forgets all settings made for security reasons. However, data can be stored permanently on a special partition (persistent storage). As the developers write in a post, you can with Tails 4.25 It is now even easier to make a backup of this partition. This makes sense, for example, if you want to use a second Tails stick as a backup and should also contain your own data. The backup process was previously only possible via the command line, but now also works via a graphical assistant. o § Devices/Embedded⠀➾ # § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾ # ⚓ Tim_Peake_joins_us_as_we_get_ready_to_launch_special Raspberry_Pi_computers_to_space⠀⇛ # ⚓ Arduino_Drives_Faux_Spirograph_|_Hackaday⠀⇛ The holidays always remind us of our favorite toys from when we were kids. Johnny Astro, an Erector set, and — of course — a Spirograph. [CraftDiaries] has an Arduino machine that isn’t quite a Spirograph, but it sure reminds us of one. The Arduino drives two stepper motors that connect to a pen that can create some interesting patterns. The build uses a few parts that were laser cut, but they don’t look like they’d be hard to fabricate using conventional means or even 3D printing. The author even mentions you could make them out of cardboard or foamboard if you wanted to. # ⚓ How_the_FPGA_Came_to_Be,_Part_1_–_EEJournal⠀⇛ I started designing engineering workstations in 1981 for Cadnetix in Boulder, Colorado. The top computer-aided engineering (CAE) vendors of the day – Daisy Systems, Mentor Graphics, and Valid Logic (I called them the DMV) – were all founded in 1981, like Cadnetix, and each developed their own proprietary CAE software suite. The five proprietary Cadnetix workstations that I helped to design, introduced from 1982 to 1985, were all based on versions of Motorola Semiconductor’s 68000 microprocessor family (the 68000, 68010, and 68020) running a proprietary, stripped-down version of Unix (which I privately called Eunuch as an inside joke). # ⚓ Fraunhofer_extends_RISC-V_embedded_processor_for_edge AI⠀⇛ Fraunhofer IPMS has added TensorFlow Lite and Zve support to its EMSA5-FS RISC-V processor for edge AI applications Fraunhofer IPMS in Germany has developed a new option for its EMSA5-FS RISC-V processor to support artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) functions at the edge Edge AI requires a capable but ultra-low- power and relatively inexpensive System on Chip (SoC). The EMSA5-FS is a 32-bit, single- issue, in-order, five-stage pipeline processor that supports the RISC-V open- standard instruction set architecture. It can include error correction and fault-tolerant features and is ready for ISO 26262 Functional Safety certification. # ⚓ Embedded_Studio_gets_64bit_Risc-V_support⠀⇛ Covering CPUs including RV64I, RV64E and RV64GC with a floating-point unit, it comes integrated with emRun C/C++ runtime and emFloat floating-point libraries, the Segger Linker and Compiler. The GNU compiler and linker are also included. “64bit embedded systems are gaining popularity with faster chips and bigger applications,” said compamy MD Ivo Geilenbruegge. “As a long-standing member of the Risc-V foundation, we are committed to support from small 32bit through high-end 64bit cores, from simple debug to flash programming and real-time trace.” # § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ Upcycling_Android:_Initiative_for_switching_to_free smartphone_software [Ed: Automated/machine translation]⠀⇛ Everything always revolves around shopping – be it for Black Friday, Christmas or Easter. But why not just repair and reuse instead of always buying something new? This is what our series of articles “Repairing and Upcycling” is all about. With the “Upcycling Android” initiative, the Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) wants to encourage Android smartphone users to disconnect from the Google system and switch to free software. On the occasion of the current “European Waste Prevention Week”, the FSFE wants to help avoid electronic waste, save resources and enable cell phones to have a longer life. The Federal Environment Ministry and the Federal Environment Agency support the upcycling project financially. o § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾ # ⚓ Ventoy_turns_any_disk_into_a_multi-boot_OS_installer_•_The Register⠀⇛ Ventoy is a free tool that turns any USB key into a multi-boot wonder. Even if you’re not a distro-hopping FOSS fundie, having a few bootable USB keys around is handy. You can often revive a sickly PC by just booting Windows and running CHKDSK /F on it, or boot Linux to retrieve some files off a computer if a PEBCAK error occurred and someone’s forgotten their password. If you have a few PCs knocking around, it’s quicker to mount the latest Windows 10 disk image and run setup.exe than it is to let Windows Upgrade chug through the download on each one. Ventoy isn’t unique or unprecedented. There are some gadgets for this – for example, if you can find one, Zalman has made a few external hard disk enclosures which let you pick an ISO file with physical buttons, then the box emulates a USB CD drive with that disk inserted. There are also tools such as DriveDroid to make an Android phone do it too. But why carry a cable around? # ⚓ GridGain_Launches_Service_to_Recognize_Non-Code Contributors_to_the_Apache_Ignite_Community⠀⇛ # § Web Browsers⠀➾ # § Mozilla⠀➾ # ⚓ Firefox_95_for_Windows_and_Mac_introduces RLBox,_a_new_sandboxing_tech_|_Ars_Technica⠀⇛ Firefox 95 follows the November 2 release of Firefox 94, which, among other things, added new color themes, introduced Site Isolation (which is now on by default for all users in Firefox 95), made changes to the way updates were delivered, and made several OS- specific optimizations like improved WebGL performance under Linux. # § SaaS/Back End/Databases⠀➾ # ⚓ Database:_MariaDB_is_increasing_the_release_speed_on the_Community_Server_–_Market_Research_Telecast [Ed: Automated/machine translation]⠀⇛ The 10.6.x series of the MariaDB Community Server, presented for the first time in spring, is supposed to be the last version to follow an annual release cycle. As the database provider announced, the server edition from version 10.7 follows a quarterly rhythm, which should provide users with new features more quickly in the future. In addition, developers from the open source community should be able to incorporate their new code contributions into the database server more quickly. # § Productivity Software/LibreOffice/Calligra⠀➾ # ⚓ Users_with_a_pirated_version_of_Office_are_getting_a discount_offer_for_a_Microsoft_365_subscription⠀⇛ That said, if you can’t pay for Microsoft Office, you don’t have to pirate it. You can still get nearly the same features for free, via Office Online, right from your web browser. I used the service for a few years, until I bought a cheap license for Office 2013 via a reseller. Or, you could just use a free and open source alternative like LibreOffice. # ⚓ Best_Microsoft_Office_alternatives_of_2021:_Free, paid,_online_mobile_office_suites⠀⇛ One of the extra features that makes Calligra stand out is that it offers a mind-mapping and project managing tool. Usually these cost extra. Calligra allows you to read DOCX and DOX formats but you cannot edit them. This can cause difficulties if your contacts send you Microsoft Office documents, so ask them to use a different format such as ODT (Open Document Text) instead. # § FSF⠀➾ # § Licensing/Legal⠀➾ # ⚓ Vizio_Responds_to_Software_Freedom Conservancy’s GPL_Compliance_Lawsuit:_Will_Not Release_Source_Code,_Files_to_Move_Case_to_US Federal_Court_–_WP_Tavern⠀⇛ In October 2021, the Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC) initiated a lawsuit against Vizio, an American TV manufacturer, for shipping products with copyleft licenses but refusing to provide the source code after multiple attempts at contact since 2018. The lawsuit is historic in its approach, because it focuses on consumer rights conferred by copyleft licenses and SFC is filing as a third- party beneficiary. Vizio has responded by filing a request to remove the case from the California State Court and move it into US federal court. The company contends that the computer programs and source code at issue in VIZIO’s SmartCast operating system “fall within the ‘subject matter of copyright.’” # § Programming/Development⠀➾ # ⚓ Godot_4.0_Alpha_Is_Near,_Another_Pre-Alpha_Build Available⠀⇛ Godot 4.0 is a massive feature update with introducing Vulkan API support, countless renderer improvements, editor enhancements, better multiplayer capabilities, and much more building up for this big release. It’s going to be a hell of a release and quite a shining open-source game engine that looks like it should be better capable of taking on the proprietary/commercial game engines. (Recent commits to godot-benchmarks repo also has me all the more excited.) # ⚓ Qt_Creator_6_available_with_improvements_for_Linux and_the_code_editor_–_itsfoss.net⠀⇛ The Qt Company has announced the publication of Qt Creator 6, the new major version of its official IDE to work with the well-known framework, which is also the base technology used by projects like KDE and LXQt. The first thing that stands out about Qt Creator 6 is that it is based on Qt 6.2, the latest LTS version of the technology that at the time was a great advance towards parity with version 5.15, since version 6, at least until that moment, did not have all the ported features. Of the new features incorporated into the new version of the IDE, we find that those responsible have moved the start-up of external processes tools such as compilation and clang-tidy. “This avoids problems in Linux, where branching a process from a large application is more expensive than from a small server process “. Continuing with more things brought by Qt Creator 6, we have the multi-cursor support in editing, a C ++ code model updated to LLVM 13, full support but not enabled by default editing of C ++ with Clangd and now the Built-in Qt Quick Designer is disabled by default, which means that the IDE will open the ‘.ui.qml’ files in Qt Design Studio to offer, according to the company, a more integrated workflow. Another important support aspect is the universal binaries for macOS, which span the ARM and Intel architectures. # § Perl/Raku⠀➾ # ⚓ Raku_Advent_Calendar:_Day_11:_Unix_philosophy without_left-pad,_Part_2:_Minimizing_dependencies with_a_utilities_package⠀⇛ In the previous post, I made a case for why programming languages should have a utility library that provides small- but-commonly-needed functions. Today I’m introducing a new Raku package that I hope will fill that gap. I’m going to start by introducing you to this new package as it exists today. Then I’ll turn to plans for the future and how I’d like to see this package (or a similar one) grow over time. Then we’ll wrap up by taking a step back and discussing how all of this fits with the Unix philosophy. (Today’s post is a bit more Raku- focused than the previous one. But I think there’s still plenty here that’s relevant to any language.) # § Rust⠀➾ # ⚓ Rust-Based_Cloud_Hypervisor_Heads_to_Linux Foundation_–_The_New_Stack⠀⇛ The Cloud Hypervisor project has found a home with the Linux Foundation, bringing its modular approach to virtual machine monitoring for cloud- based workloads to the vendor-neutral foundation. Cloud Hypervisor was first created during a wave of hypervisor creation, explained Arjan van de Ven, an Intel Fellow and founding technical sponsor for the project, and finds common roots with other similar projects, but offers an approach through modularity that provides security and performance alongside flexibility. # § Java⠀➾ # ⚓ Development_environment:_NetBeans_12.6_brings pattern_matching_for_switch_expressions_–_Market Research_Telecast [Ed: Automated/machine translation]⠀⇛ The NetBeans team has released version 12.6 of the development environment. NetBeans, which is under the patronage of the Apache Software Foundation (ASF), is approaching Java 17 and introducing innovations for other programming languages. MultiViews can now be displayed in the TypeScript and CPPLite editor, which provides access to the History-Tab enables. There are also changes in the release cycle: In October 2021, the NetBeans team decided to completely do without further LTS versions and instead concentrate on quarterly updates – with appropriately adapted versioning. According to the official roadmap the next version, NetBeans 13.0, is scheduled for February 2022. o § Standards/Consortia⠀➾ # ⚓ After_a_decade_on_FHIR,_where_are_we_at?⠀⇛ We remember doing some of the first reporting on FHIR back in the early days, when we were alerted to the concept by former chair of HL7 Australia Klaus Veil. Klaus told us back in 2012 that FHIR was “the latest trending interoperability technology that has taken the eHealth world by storm”, and he was right. The promise was that it would be faster, easier and far more comprehensible than standards like HL7 v3, which got so bogged down in its own complexity that it was pretty much dropped. * § Leftovers⠀➾ o ⚓ Reparations_for_the_Blues⠀⇛ The British Invasion In 1964, the Beatles took American pop music by storm with mop haircuts, some catchy original bubblegum songs and a scattering of ‘50’s rock retreads like “Matchbox.”  In quick succession they were followed by the Rolling Stones, the Who, the Animals, Them, The Yardbirds, Led Zeppelin. What would become known as the “British Invasion” changed the face of American—and world—pop music forever. o ⚓ Great_Reads_in_Photography:_December_5,_2021⠀⇛ Gentoo Penguins. While penguins may be flightless, they are well adapted for flying through the water. Using its vestigial wings as paddles, its rear-set feet as propellers, and its stiffened tail feathers as rudders, the gentoo penguin can drive its torpedo-shaped body through the water at more than 22 miles (35 km) per hour—the fastest speed recorded by any swimming bird. o ⚓ 8_Perfect_Gifts_I_Found_At_The_Unclaimed_Baggage_Store⠀⇛ The airlines and transportation companies spend up to 3 months trying to locate the owners of the baggage. Turns out that only 0.03 percent of lost luggage and packages go unclaimed. That small percentage ends up here in Scottsboro. o ⚓ The_SEC_is_investigating_whistleblower_claims_that_Tesla_was reckless_as_its_solar_panels_go_up_in_smoke⠀⇛ The Securities and Exchange Commission has launched an investigation into whether Tesla failed to tell investors and customers about the fire risks of its faulty solar panels. Whistleblower and ex-employee, Steven Henkes, accused the company of flouting safety issues in a complaint with the SEC in 2019. He filed a freedom of information request to regulators and asked to see records relating to the case in September, earlier this year. An SEC official declined to hand over documents, and confirmed its probe into the company is still in progress. “We have confirmed with Division of Enforcement staff that the investigation from which you seek records is still active and ongoing,” a letter from the SEC said in a reply to Henkes’ request, according to Reuters. Active SEC complaints and investigations are typically confidential. “The SEC does not comment on the existence or nonexistence of a possible investigation,” a spokesperson from the regulatory agency told The Register. o ⚓ Activision_Blizzard_Management_are_Scum:_Abuse_People,_Promise Better,_Then_Lay_off_Staff_(Update:_Statement_from_Activision)⠀⇛ My response to this is that conversion of approximately 500 employees from temp/contract to full time is a positive thing, indeed. However, I have to question why the twenty were let go if members of studios are indicating crunch and when the publisher is making record levels of profit. I also have to question this when they are openly celebrated as good staff. I also must point out that staff are being left in a state of limbo to find out if they have a job or not, which is simply cruel. o § Science⠀➾ # ⚓ Recycling_Science_Denial⠀⇛ The science deniers have become so comfortable these days that they don’t even try to hide their tracks. Even some of the most staunchly conservative outlets quoted Fauci’s remarks in full, which should have made it clear to all mildly attentive readers that the offending statement had been deliberately taken out of context. What the chief of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases had in fact said was that, to anti-science Republicans, he represented a more convenient target than science itself, a constantly evolving, fuzzy thing, the concerted effort of many people at arriving something like a temporary agreement on the truth. Which is, undeniably, harder to criticize than an identifiable human being, and who’d be a better punching bag than Tony Fauci from Brooklyn? It helps that Fauci, with his close-cropped hair, wire-rimmed glasses, constantly raspy voice, and a tendency to speak off the cuff, looks less like a modern Alexander Fleming fresh from the lab than your bank’s local branch manager about to deny you an extension of your credit line. Context is not what matters to GOP politicians, especially Senator Rand Paul, who immediately shouted that Fauci, in his obvious arrogance, was like the medieval church. Which, to complete the analogy, also means that science deniers like Paul (whose claim to scientific expertise comes from the fact that he once worked as an eye doctor) represent progress, the forces of light battling the encroaching darkness. # ⚓ Male_and_Female_Athletic_Performance:_Worlds_Apart⠀⇛ In line with the biology of sexual reproduction and evolutionary pressure on reproductive fitness, males and females are physically different. Physical divergence begins with primary sex development at around seven weeks in utero when, triggered by genetic information inherited at fertilization, bipotential gonads differentiate as either testes in males or ovaries in females. The differentiation and development of gonad type generates a sex-specific hormonal profile that drives ongoing development associated with sex class. Testes contain cells that produce the hormone testosterone, and it is testosterone and its derivatives that mediate the development of male internal and external genitalia, the establishment of growth parameters during high- testosterone “minipuberty” in the neonatal period, and the development of secondary sex characteristics at puberty. # ⚓ Meet_the_real_NASA_scientist_behind_Netflix’s_Don’t_Look Up⠀⇛ Mainzer happens to be “one of the world’s leading scientists in asteroid detection and planetary defense,” according to NASA, and she has also turned her attention to climate change (she’s using remote sensing to find invasive species that fuel wildfires). The Verge talked with Mainzer about the end of the world and what to do about it. This interview has been lightly edited for length and clarity. o § Education⠀➾ # ⚓ Right-Wing_Authoritarianism_and_the_Crisis_of_Education⠀⇛ Violence in the United States has gone into overdrive. Building on a history of disposability, genocide, and militarism, it increasingly has gained support, particularly among the Republican Party, as a potentially justifiable path to power. [ii]  How else to explain the   shocking defense by most Republicans of the insurrection against the Capitol on January 6th,  as “a patriotic attempt to protect the nation against its enemies.”[iii]  How does reason and justice prevail in a society when the legal justification given to macho-infused vigilantes in the aftermath of the Kyle Rittenhouse acquittal provides them with a pass to shoot, if not kill, peaceful protesters.[iv]  How else to clarify the rise of deadly misogynist violence, operating under the discourse of surveillance and vigilantism, that has moved from Texas  to the law of the land, subjecting women to an incriminating reality that dictates that they are second class citizens who can no longer have control over their reproductive rights.[v] How else to address the rise of a gun culture that trades on fear to immunize people to the tsunami of mass shootings, suffering, and death that appears as an everyday experience in the United States? How does one explain crazed images of guns being celebrated in the social media by Republicans, as if the spectacle of violence does not present a danger to a larger public? In one telling instance, US congressman, Thomas Massie, of Kentucky “posted a Christmas picture of himself and what appears to be his family, smiling and posing with an assortment of guns, just days after four teenagers were killed in a shooting at a high school in Michigan.” Accompanying the image was the tweet “Merry Christmas! ps. Santa, please bring ammo.” [vi] o § Hardware⠀➾ # ⚓ Ninja_Art:_PCB_Nightlight_Jutsu!_|_Hackaday⠀⇛ This latest PCB artwork comes to you courtesy of [Arnov]. His Naruto nightlight is definitely going to get your anime-loving friends’ attention. The LED illumination styles are controlled by an ATtiny13A microcontroller. He probably could have opted for a 555 timer with this one, but maybe he wanted easily programmable blinking patterns. He also programmed the ATtiny to read a small button which he used to cycle through different illumination styles. Finally, a small LiPo battery makes this project pretty portable, so you can reposition it freely around your work area as you might like. # ⚓ How_remouldable_computer_hardware_is_speeding_up_science⠀⇛ Field-programmable gate arrays can speed up applications ranging from genomic alignment to deep learning. # ⚓ Build_Your_Own_Submarine_|_Hackaday⠀⇛ If you are tried of building things that fly, why not try a submarine like [DIYPerks] did? As you can see in the video below, the key is to control buoyancy, and the mechanism used is impressive. The sub has two giant syringes fore and aft to compress or decompress water. The plungers are now 3D- printed actuators that travel on a lead screw. Two high-torque motors and some batteries sandwiched in acrylic disks make up the rest. This is a big vessel — you won’t be trying this in your bathtub and maybe not even your pool unless it is a big one. Of course, everything needs to be watertight. Instead of trying to waterproof a power switch, this sub uses a reed switch so that a nearby magnet can turn it on. Not an original idea, but we always think it is more elegant than seals and potting compounds. # ⚓ Controller_Swaps_Can_Save_An_HDD_If_You_Do_It_Right_| Hackaday⠀⇛ Hard drives are fragile and reliable all at once. It’s entirely possible to have a hard drive fail, even if your data is still in perfect condition on the magnetic platters inside. [Keith Sherry] was recently trying to recover data for a friend off a damaged hard drive, and demonstrated that modern twists on old tricks can still work. The drive in question was an old 160GB disk that itself was being used as a backup. Of course, a backup you haven’t tested is no backup at all, and this one failed in the hour it was most needed. The suspicion was that the controller board was the culprit, and that swapping the board out might bring things back to life. Back in the day, this was a common hacker trick. However, it often fails with modern drives, which store a great deal of drive-specific calibration data on the controller board. Without this specific data, another controller will be unable to access the data on the drive, and could even cause damage. o § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾ # ⚓ A_Century_of_Tragedy:_How_the_Car_and_Gas_Industry_Knew About_the_Health_Risks_of_Leaded_Fuel_But_Sold_it_for_100 Years Anyway⠀⇛ The new fuel was tetraethyl lead. With vast profits in sight – and very few public health regulations at the time – General Motors Co. rushed gasoline diluted with tetraethyl lead to market despite the known health risks of lead. They named it “Ethyl” gas. It has been 100 years since that pivotal day in the development of leaded gasoline. As a historian of media and the environment, I see this anniversary as a time to reflect on the role of public health advocates and environmental journalists in preventing profit-driven tragedy. # ⚓ Jayapal_to_Biden:_Stop_Trump-Era_Medicare_Privatization Scheme_‘While_We_Have_the_Chance’⠀⇛ U.S. Rep. Pramila Jayapal on Thursday joined the growing chorus of physicians and advocates urging the Biden administration to immediately end Direct Contracting, a Trump-era pilot program that could result in the total privatization of traditional Medicare by the end of the decade. In an op-ed for The Hill, Jayapal and Dr. Susan Rogers—president of Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP)—called Direct Contracting (DC) “the biggest threat to Medicare you’ve never even heard of,” alluding to how little attention the pilot program has received from the press and members of Congress, few of whom have spoken out against it. # ⚓ CNN_Goes_Full_Moral_Panic_About_Kids_And_Social_Media⠀⇛ CNN, the news organization that, until recently, employed Chris Cuomo, and still employs Jeffrey Toobin, and is (for the moment at least) owned by AT&T which funded an entire extremist propaganda TV network just to appease President Trump (not to mention being absolutely terrible on privacy issues), wants you to hate social media. There may be reasons to hate on social media, but it’s difficult to take CNN seriously when it presents itself (1) as some unbiased party in this discussion, and (2) puts forth an article that is nothing more than blatant moral panic propaganda about kids and social media. # ⚓ At_Last,_Florida_Families_Hit_Hard_by_Their_Children’s Birth_Injuries_Are_Promised_More_Help⠀⇛ In the past eight months, lawmakers have approved a comprehensive overhaul of Florida’s embattled compensation program for children born with brain injuries, its top administrator has resigned, and new leaders have announced broad reforms aimed at improving the lives of frail, severely disabled children. On Thursday, the Birth-Related Neurological Injury Compensation Association’s chairman gave parents the message some of them have waited decades to hear: “You have been heard.” # ⚓ Government_says_has_taken_several_steps_to_curb_harmful content_on_social_media⠀⇛ The government has taken several steps to address the challenges of user harm and hateful information available on social media platforms, Parliament was informed on Friday. Minister of Electronics and IT Ashwini Vaishnaw, in a written reply (starred question) in the Rajya Sabha, also stated the ministry has taken note of reports based on a whistleblower’s statements about Facebook and its alleged role in circulation of hate speech, fake news and misinformation. # ⚓ The_antivax_assault_on_state_medical_boards_has_begun⠀⇛ The COVID-19 quack assault on state medical boards has begun, with the first shots fired in Tennessee and California, where there are a legislative assault and a potential actual assault, respectively. I’ll go into detail about what I mean in a moment, but first let me provide a brief history lesson. o § Integrity/Availability⠀➾ # § Proprietary⠀➾ # ⚓ Major_outage_hits_Amazon_Web_Services;_many_sites affected⠀⇛ # § Security⠀➾ # ⚓ Apache_Log4j_Security_Vulnerabilities⠀⇛ CVE-2021-44228: Apache Log4j2 JNDI features do not protect against attacker controlled LDAP and other JNDI related endpoints. # ⚓ “The_[Internet’s]_on_fire”_as_techs_race_to_fix critical_software_flaw⠀⇛ But patching systems around the world could be a complicated task. While most organizations and cloud providers such as Amazon should be able to update their web servers easily, the same Apache software is also often embedded in third-party programs, which often can only be updated by their owners. # ⚓ ‘The_[Internet]’s_on_fire’_as_techs_race_to_fix software_flaw⠀⇛ “The [Internet]’s on fire right now,” said Adam Meyers, senior vice president of intelligence at the cybersecurity firm Crowdstrike. “People are scrambling to patch, and there are script kiddies and all kinds of people scrambling to exploit it.” He said Friday morning that in the 12 hours since the bug’s existence was disclosed, that it had been “fully weaponized,” meaning that malefactors have developed and distributed tools to exploit. # ⚓ ‘Extremely_bad’_vulnerability_found_in_widely used_logging_system⠀⇛ The vulnerability is found in log4j, an open-source logging library used by apps and services across the [Internet]. Logging is a process where applications keep a running list of activities they have performed which can later be reviewed in case of error. Nearly every network security system runs some kind of logging process, which gives popular libraries like log4j an enormous reach. # ⚓ Officials,_experts_sound_the_alarm_about critical_cyber_vulnerability⠀⇛ The vulnerability in an Apache logging framework, known as “Log4j,” that could allow [crackers] to obtain access to targeted systems remotely sent experts running to update systems. Apache put out a security advisory warning of the threat and recommending steps to help organizations protect themselves. # ⚓ Apache_Log4j_Zero_Day_Exploit_Puts_Large_Number of_Servers_at_Severe_Risk⠀⇛ A critical vulnerability in the open- source logging software Apache Log4j 2 is fueling a chaotic race in the cybersecurity world, with the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) issuing an emergency security update as bad actors searched for vulnerable servers. # ⚓ CISA_Adds_Thirteen_Known_Exploited Vulnerabilities_to_Catalog_|_CISA⠀⇛ CISA has added thirteen new vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, based on evidence that threat actors are actively exploiting the vulnerabilities listed in the table below. These types of vulnerabilities are a frequent attack vector for malicious cyber actors of all types and pose significant risk to the federal enterprise. # ⚓ Zero_Day_in_Ubiquitous_Apache_Log4j_Tool_Under Active_Attack_|_Threatpost⠀⇛ The Log4Shell vulnerability critically threatens anybody using the popular open-source Apache Struts framework and could lead to a “Mini internet meltdown soonish.” An excruciating, easily exploited flaw in the ubiquitous Java logging library Apache Log4j could allow unauthenticated remote code execution (RCE) and complete server takeover — and it’s being exploited in the wild. The flaw first turned up on sites that cater to users of the world’s favorite game, Minecraft, on Thursday. The sites reportedly warned that attackers could unleash malicious code on either servers or clients running the Java version of Minecraft by manipulating log messages, including from text typed into chat messages. # ⚓ to_secure_the_supply_chain,_you_must_properly fund_it⠀⇛ Yesterday, a new 0day vulnerability dropped in Apache Log4j. It turned out to be worse than the initial analysis: because of recursive nesting of substitutions, it is possible to execute remote code in any program which passes user data to Log4j for logging. Needless to say, the way this disclosure was handled was a disaster, as it was quickly discovered that many popular services were using Log4j, but how did we get here? Like many projects, Log4j is only maintained by volunteers, and because of this, coordination of security response is naturally more difficult: a coordinated embargo is easy to coordinate, if you have a dedicated maintainer to do it. In the absence of a dedicated maintainer, you have chaos: as soon as a commit lands in git to fix a bug, the race is on: security maintainers are scurrying to reverse engineer what the bug you fixed was, which is why vulnerability embargoes can be helpful. # § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾ # ⚓ 44_House_Dems_Urge_FCC,_FTC_to_Boost Privacy_Protections_for_Consumers’_Location Data⠀⇛ Online privacy advocates on Thursday welcomed a letter by dozens of House Democrats urging the Federal Communications Commission and Federal Trade Commission to enact rules prohibiting the collection and sale of consumers’ location data. Writing to FCC Chair Jessica Rosenworcel—who was confirmed to the post on Tuesday—and FTC Chair Lina Khan, 44 lawmakers led by Reps. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) and Katie Porter (D-Calif.) noted that “currently, app developers are able to collect sensitive user information and sell it to interested parties for a substantial profit.” # ⚓ Polish_Prosecutor_First_Beneficiary_Of Apple’s_‘You’ve_Been_Hacked_By_NSO_Spyware’ Notification_Program⠀⇛ Concurrent with Apple’s announcement that it was suing Israeli tech company NSO Group over its iPhone exploits was its announcement that it would be notifying customers of suspected hacking attempts utilizing NSO’s extremely powerful Pegasus malware. # ⚓ Apple’s_‘Do_Not_Track’_Button_Is_Privacy Theater⠀⇛ Earlier this year Apple received ample coverage about how the company was making privacy easier for its customers by introducing a new, simple, tracking opt-out button for users as part of an iOS 14.5 update. Early press reports heavily hyped the concept, which purportedly gave consumers control of which apps were able to collect and monetize user data or track user behavior across the internet. Advertisers (most notably Facebook) cried like a disappointed toddler at Christmas, given the obvious fact that giving users more control over data collection and monetization, means less money for them. # ⚓ Surveillance_Company_CEO_Threatens_To_Sue Reporter_For_Writing_About_His_Company⠀⇛ When a reporter sends inquiries about claims made on your website, the best response is obviously to threaten them with a lawsuit. That should ensure a steady stream of positive press and deter them from asking further questions about claims made on your website. # ⚓ European_Commission_jumps_the_gun_with proposal_to_add_facial_recognition_to_EU- wide_police_data_sharing_scheme⠀⇛ Today, 8 December 2021, the European Commission has published its proposal to expand the Prüm framework, Prüm II, as part of the new Security Union package. The original Prüm decision regulates the exchange of DNA, fingerprint and vehicle registration data between EU police authorities. EDRi has warned that any proposal to expand the framework would be premature, because the Commission has thus far failed to provide sufficient evidence of the necessity and proportionality of the existing Prüm Decisions, which they are obliged to do under EU law. # ⚓ These_Eyes_Are_Trackin’⠀⇛ There’s this tool I’ve used for a number of years that I’ve found incredibly useful and important. It’s a password manager called 1Password, and it helps me save logins so I don’t have to remember them. It’s far from a new application, but at its foundation is a basic layer of trust. You use 1Password, or LastPass, or whatever other tools of this nature, because you trust them. What if I told you that one of the most infamous examples of adware and spyware, one that snuck onto tens of millions of computers, started out as the 1999 version of 1Password, but almost immediately was bastardized by the desire to bake in a business model. That tool, once a scourge of Windows users everywhere, is called Gator eWallet—and it set the stage for a climate where our data is constantly being grabbed around the internet with little in the way of end-user control around the issue. Today’s Tedium looks straight into the eyes of the spyware gator that hates that I just called it spyware. o § Defence/Aggression⠀➾ # ⚓ “Shameful”:_The_Democratic-Led_House_Approves_a_Massive Military_Spending_Bill⠀⇛ Voters gave Democrats control of the White House, the Senate, and the House last year. That should have been a mandate for change. But when it comes to defense spending, the change is for the worse. # ⚓ Afghanistan:_Washington’s_Forty-Year_Folly⠀⇛ Despite the cries of concern echoing faintly in the west, the fact of the matter is that most of the Afghan people are better off. This should be obvious, given that there are no longer planes and drones bombing their villages or troops kicking in their doors in the middle of the night intimidating families and taking away the men and boys. However, the truth is that some policymakers still believe Afghanistan would be better off if the US and its cohorts were still engaged in those actions. Of course, those policymakers are wrong. It is certain that the immediate future for Afghanistan is desperate. The level of desperation could be minimized if Washington and other NATO nations would free up the Afghan funds they are currently holding hostage. Unfortunately, the likelihood of that happening is minimal. It’s clear from the past few decades that the United States would rather let Afghans suffer than help them rebuild on their own terms. Indeed, it is quite clear that Washington would rather guarantee that Afghans suffer than help them rebuild on their own terms. # ⚓ Mass_Shootings_are_the_Screams_of_America_Falling⠀⇛ America is now a self-wounded giant, angry and entitled, striking right and left in the stupor of her imperial drunk, casting blame on smaller nations to justify invading them for sheer plunder, but always under the guise of bringing them American democracy. The French used to call their imperial colonizing “The Civilizing Mission”. Only the powerful get to make sacred their plunder and rape. # ⚓ Opinion_|_Are_We_Forever_Captives_of_America’s_Forever Wars?⠀⇛ As August ended, American troops completed their withdrawal from Afghanistan almost 20 years after they first arrived. On the formal date of withdrawal, however, President Biden insisted that “over-the-horizon capabilities” (airpower and Special Operations forces, for example) would remain available for use anytime. “[W]e can strike terrorists and targets without American boots on the ground, very few if needed,” he explained, dispensing immediately with any notion of a true peace. But beyond expectations of continued violence in Afghanistan, there was an even greater obstacle to officially ending the war there: the fact that it was part of a never-ending, far larger conflict originally called the Global War on Terror (in caps), then the plain-old lower-cased war on terror, and finally—as public opinion here soured on it—America’s “forever wars.” # ⚓ Opinion_|_Can_You_Believe_We_Live_in_the_United_States_of Mass_Murder?⠀⇛ Four students dead, six more, plus a teacher, wounded. Can you believe—another mass shooting last week. This one north of Detroit, at Oxford High School. A 15-year-old boy—and his parents—were arrested. # ⚓ The_Confrontation_in_Ukraine_Is_Political_Theater_Aimed_at a_Domestic_Audience⠀⇛ An outside observer could be forgiven for thinking that the current agitation about Russia resembles a carefully orchestrated pantomime of aggression, rather than real aggression. Were an invasion actually imminent, any military leader worth his salt would insist on its being swift, decisive, and above all, secret. # ⚓ Nuclear_Weapons_and_World_Order:_a_Dialogue⠀⇛ Against this background, I think there are two dramatic developments that have a bearing on how the anti-nuclear global movement might best direct its efforts to alert the public to intensifying nuclear dangers and emerging opportunities for new anti-nuclear initiatives. The aroused awareness of nuclear risks is associated particularly with the intense geopolitical rivalry with China that already has acquired the features of a second cold war, that has several hot war risks. This danger exists especially in the South and East China Seas where opposing naval and air forces are daily testing each other’s resolve in the event of a confrontation. # ⚓ Dangerous_Games:_Western_Militaries_on_the_Doorsteps_of Russia_and_China⠀⇛ So Russia hesitates and the U.S. screams. What else is new? Don’t get me wrong: NATO and the U.S.’s idiotic brinksmanship on Russia’s borders could yet cause real damage. But wild-eyed speculation about the Kremlin’s intentions has so far run aground on Russia’s apparent reluctance to engage in a shooting war that could spiral into a full-on nuclear holocaust. In early November CIA chief William Burns trekked to the Kremlin amid worries about a Russian troop buildup. As if Russia can’t move its military around      WITHIN ITS OWN BORDERS without catapulting the west to high alert. If the U.S. shifted troops to the Mexican border – which was a real possibility not too long ago, given the so- called migrant crisis and right-wing hysteria about it – it would not tolerate for one instant queries or commentary about this from ANY foreign government, even Mexico itself.  But Russia is one of the Great Game enemies du jour in Washington, and so we have the likes of director of national intelligence Avril Haines jetting off to Brussels to pow-wow with Europeans about Russia’s nefarious designs. Meanwhile, Russia’s complaints about a gigantic Ukrainian military build-up in the east go almost unnoticed in the U.S. press, where most reporters sagaciously avoid facts they know their employers won’t print. # ⚓ Ineffectual_Boycotts:_The_Beijing_Winter_Olympics⠀⇛ The Biden administration is proving to be particularly good on that score. Since taking office US President Joe Biden has nipped at the heels of China’s Xi Jinping with moral urgency. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan has lectured Beijing on human rights abuses with mistaken clarity. The Pentagon has been firming up plans for militarising the Indo-Pacific and expanding its military footprint, notably in Australia. Now comes a sporting boycott of the Beijing Winter Olympics. On December 6, the White announced that US officials would not be attending the games. In the words of White House press secretary Jen Psaki, the administration would “not send any diplomatic or official representation to the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics and Paralympic Games given the PRC’s ongoing genocide and crimes against humanity in Xinjiang and other human rights abuses.” # ⚓ German_Complaint_Against_Iran_Rings_Hollow_with_US_H-bombs Still_In_Country⠀⇛ When it comes to double-standards, sheer hypocrisy, and laughable duplicity, Germany takes the cake this week — for nuclear weapons two-facedness. The country helped create the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), along with China, France, Russia, the UK, and the US, in which Iran agreed to dismantle most of its nuclear program and open its facilities to extensive inspections in exchange for sanctions relief. # ⚓ ‘This_Violent_Piece_of_Insurrection_Was_Planned_Openly_on Unencrypted_Channels’⠀⇛ The December 3, 2021, episode of CounterSpin included an archival interview with Dorothee Benz about the January 6 insurrection.  Janine Jackson originally interviewed Benz for the January 8, 2021, show. This is a lightly edited transcript. # ⚓ “The_Forever_Prisoner”:_Alex_Gibney_on_Abu_Zubaydah,_Held in_Guantánamo_Without_Charge_Since_2006⠀⇛ We speak with Academy Award-winning filmmaker Alex Gibney on his new film, “The Forever Prisoner,” which follows the story of Guantánamo prisoner Abu Zubaydah, who was the first so-called high-value prisoner subjected to the CIA’s torture program and has been indefinitely imprisoned since 2006 without charge. Nearly two decades after the start of the U.S. so-called war on terror, there are still 39 people detained in Guantánamo, where for years prisoners have detailed rampant torture and other horrific conditions. The Biden administration has so far refused to outline a clear plan and timeline for Guantánamo’s closure. # ⚓ Appeals_Court_Deals_a_Blow_to_Trump’s_Privilege_Claims_Over January_6_Docs⠀⇛ # ⚓ The_U.S._Military_Poisons_the_People_of_Hawaiʻi⠀⇛ The U.S. military has been very effective in destroying water infrastructure when they want to kill the enemy. It bombed dams in Korea during the Korean War to drown the people who lived in villages downstream. During the first Gulf War, the U.S. military bombed dams in Iraq, because why should those enemy women and children have access to clean water? Those babies are going to grow up into terrorists anyway. # ⚓ ‘Stop_the_Steal’_organizer_served_with_lawsuit_after_8-hour Jan._6_commission_deposition⠀⇛ Ali Alexander, an organizer behind the “Stop the Steal” rally, was served with a civil lawsuit on Thursday following his hours-long deposition before the Jan. 6 commission. Alexander had met with the House select committee tasked with investigating the events around the Jan. 6 insurrection earlier on Thursday. Alexander, who has denied that he played any role in the violence that ensued following the rally on Jan. 6, acknowledged before the deposition that he would cooperate with officials. # ⚓ Trump’s_Next_Coup_Has_Already_Begun⠀⇛ For more than a year now, with tacit and explicit support from their party’s national leaders, state Republican operatives have been building an apparatus of election theft. Elected officials in Arizona, Texas, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan, and other states have studied Donald Trump’s crusade to overturn the 2020 election. They have noted the points of failure and have taken concrete steps to avoid failure next time. Some of them have rewritten statutes to seize partisan control of decisions about which ballots to count and which to discard, which results to certify and which to reject. They are driving out or stripping power from election officials who refused to go along with the plot last November, aiming to replace them with exponents of the Big Lie. They are fine-tuning a legal argument that purports to allow state legislators to override the choice of the voters. # ⚓ Kanye_West_publicist_pressed_Georgia_election_worker_to confess_to_bogus_fraud_charges⠀⇛ The following day, Jan. 6, Kutti’s prediction that people would descend on Freeman’s home in 48 hours proved correct, according to a defamation lawsuit Freeman and Moss filed last week against a far- right news site. Freeman, the lawsuit said, left hours before a mob of angry Trump supporters surrounded her home, shouting through bullhorns. # ⚓ Terras_and_Laanet:_Finland’s_F-35_tender_significant⠀⇛ Finland’s decision, to be announced on Friday, to procure American fighters for its air force is telling and reflects Estonia’s northern neighbor’s desire to maintain close ties with the U.S. even without being a NATO member, Minister of Defense Kalle Laanet (Reform) and former Estonian Defense Forces (EDF) Commander Riho Terras (Isamaa) find. Finnish daily Iltalehti reported that the country’s armed forces have proposed procuring American F-35 fighter jets for the Finnish Air Force. The Swedish public broadcaster SVT has also reported the news. o § Transparency/Investigative Reporting⠀➾ # ⚓ France_to_open_classified_Algerian_War_archives⠀⇛ France will open classified police files from the Algerian war 15 years ahead of schedule in order to “look the truth in the eyes”, the government announced on Friday. The files cover judicial proceedings by the French police and military forces during the 1954-1962 war of independence. They are likely to confirm widespread use of torture and extra-judicial killings by French forces. o § Environment⠀➾ # ⚓ 7_People_in_Virginia_Play_an_Outsized_Role_in_Progress_on Global_Climate_Goals⠀⇛ While the recent UN climate change conference in Scotland may have captured the world’s attention, an equally important, albeit far more obscure process has been slowly unfolding far from the glitz and glamour of the global stage. Indeed, just seven people in Virginia will play an outsized role in determining whether we keep accelerating toward climate breakdown, or begin, finally, to tap the brakes. # ⚓ How_Big_Oil_Rigs_the_System_to_Keep_Winning⠀⇛ This article is published as part of Covering Climate Now, a global collaboration of news outlets strengthening coverage of the climate story. Despite countless investigations, lawsuits, social shaming, and regulations dating back decades, the oil and gas industry remains formidable. After all, it has made consuming its products seem like a human necessity. It has confused the public about climate science, bought the eternal gratitude of one of America’s two main political parties, and repeatedly out-maneuvered regulatory efforts. And it has done all this in part by thinking ahead and then acting ruthlessly. While the rest of us were playing checkers, its executives were playing three-dimensional chess. # ⚓ Universities_need_to_work_together_to_make_an_impact_on climate_change⠀⇛ Both before and during the recent COP26 conference, academics showcased the latest research and innovations, advised governments, convened international partnerships and provided expert commentary on everything from biodiversity to carbon capture to law. As co-chairs of the COP26 Universities Network, we’ve seen at first hand the important contribution a collaborative research- community effort can make to the success of such international deliberations. # ⚓ Climate_Critics_Warn_of_‘Big_Gaps’_in_Biden_Plan_to Eliminate_Overseas_Fossil_Fuel_Funding⠀⇛ Climate action groups expressed cautious optimism Friday after the Biden administration unveiled plans to immediately eliminate federal support for overseas fossil fuel projects—answering a demand long made by advocates and lawmakers—but warned that the new policy contains significant loopholes and called on the White House to take further action. “The loopholes for ‘strategic’ projects, and the lack of action at home, leave big gaps.” # ⚓ As_Planet_Careens_Toward_Disastrous_‘Crash,’_Earth’s_Black Box_Records_Leaders’_Climate_Inaction⠀⇛ Just as investigators examine an airplane’s black box after a crash to determine what went wrong in flight, researchers and artists in Australia are preparing for future inhabitants of Earth to go searching for clues about humanity’s potential demise—and are constructing an archive of humans’ failure to stop the climate emergency, which scientists say could drastically alter life on the planet. Data researchers at the University of Tasmania are working with the marketing company Clemenger BBDO and the artists’ collective Glue Society to construct a 33-foot long vault made of three-inch thick steel, which they’ve dubbed “Earth’s Black Box.” # § Energy⠀➾ # ⚓ Opinion_|_Big_Oil’s_Secret_Strategy_to_Keep_Winning⠀⇛ # ⚓ NYT_Hypes_Coal_Industry_Line_About_Job_Loss_Due_to Climate_Change_Measures⠀⇛ While the importance of Senator Manchin to Biden’s plans is undeniable, the rest of the story makes no sense. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, there were less than 5,100 coal miners in Pennsylvania in 2019. (It doesn’t have data for 2020 or 2021.) Pennsylvania has a population of more than 12.8 million. # ⚓ How_Big_Oil_Rigs_the_System_to_Keep_Winning⠀⇛ # ⚓ Big_Oil’s_New_Strategy:_Profit_Today,_Fight_Again Tomorrow⠀⇛ # ⚓ Mapped:_Europe’s_Fossil_Fuel-Backed_Hydrogen_Lobby⠀⇛ Hydrogen has shot up the European legislative agenda in recent years, with politicians of all stripes touting its potential to help countries meet their climate goals. The UK government’s Hydrogen Strategy, launched in August, promises to develop a “thriving low carbon hydrogen sector” as a “key plank” of its climate plans, and the fuel was given pride of place at a “Hydrogen Transition Summit” hosted in Glasgow during the recent UN climate talks.  # § Wildlife/Nature⠀➾ # ⚓ Deforestation_Deep_Cut⠀⇛ # ⚓ Scapegoats_and_Holy_Cows:_Climate_Activism_and Livestock⠀⇛ The film remained top of her twitter account for months. She has several million followers, so the value of the advertising she gave this little-known not-for-profit must run into millions of dollars. As opposition to livestock has become a major plank in climate activism, it’s worth looking at how the world’s biggest climate influencer chooses to influence it. Mercy for Animals is an American NGO with the stated purpose of ending factory farming because it’s cruel to animals, a fact with which few would disagree. There are other reasons to shun food from factories as opposed to the open air of course, not least because some of the meat it produces is subsequently heavily processed with unhealthy ingredients and then shipped long distances. The reason it remains so profitable is obviously because its meals are cheap and those who can’t afford expensive free range or organic have little other option. o § Finance⠀➾ # ⚓ Wealthy_Spent_Over_$300K_in_Failed_Bid_to_Stop_Manhattan Hotel_From_Housing_Homeless⠀⇛ After dumping hundreds of thousands of dollars into a hostile anti-homeless campaign, wealthy residents in one of the most expensive neighborhoods in New York City have officially lost their legal battle to prevent the opening of a local hotel that has been converted into a rapid re-housing program. “Nestled in between a 24-hour parking structure and an apartment building on a predominantly residential street” near Central Park, the Park Savoy Hotel “blends in with the other hotels in the neighborhood,” The Guardian reported Friday. The key difference is that its occupants are unhoused workers—not the business travelers or tourists preferred by many rich people living on so-called Billionaires Row, a nearby cluster of recently built luxury high-rises. # ⚓ China’s_Sputtering_Economy⠀⇛ China’s economic engines are spluttering as they seek thrust to emerge from a stall.  The property sector is mired in debt. Empty apartment blocks, about 65 million units, dot the landscape. They represent just over 20 percent of homes in urban China. They seem to taunt the many millions in the country who desperately need better housing.  The World Bank estimates that 61 percent of China’s population lives in cities, up from 36 percent at the turn of the century. It is a property-owning society. About 90 percent own their own homes, with at least 20 percent having more than one. On top of this, it is estimated that about 100 million properties have been purchased but not occupied. # ⚓ Hey_Kid,_Wanna_Buy_a_City?⠀⇛ If you’re in the market for a banana republic, have I got a deal for you. Head on down to the digital offices of Petri Friedman’s Pronomos Capital, a band of plucky upstarts using the “lessons of Silicon Valley” to provide an investment vehicle “where the city is the product.” # ⚓ “Your_Debt_Is_Someone_Else’s_Asset”:_Calls_Grow_to_Keep Student_Loan_Moratorium⠀⇛ # ⚓ Rising_Inflation_Yet_Another_Reason_for_Biden_to_Extend Student_Loan_Payment_Pause,_Groups_Say⠀⇛ New data out Friday showing that U.S. inflation reached a nearly 40-year high last month was cited as yet another reason that President Joe Biden should—at the very least—extend the federal student loan payment pause that’s set to end in just 52 days. “Today’s economic data make the strongest case imaginable for a change of course as the Biden administration rushes headlong into a hasty and poorly timed restart of the entire student loan system,” Mike Pierce, executive director of the Student Borrower Protection Center, said in a statement. # ⚓ With_Razor-Thin_Recall_Lead,_Socialist_Seattle_Council Member_Sawant_Declares_‘Apparent_Victory’⠀⇛ Socialist Alternative Seattle, Washington District 3 City Council member Kshama Sawant declared “apparent victory” Friday morning after taking a razor-thin lead in her bid to defeat a billionaire- backed recall effort. “We did not back down in fighting for workers.” # ⚓ Report:_Borrowers_Will_Lose_$85_Billion_Yearly_If_Student Loan_Payments_Resume⠀⇛ # ⚓ How_the_West_invited_China_to_eat_its_lunch⠀⇛ But there was a sting in the tail – that it was US politics that failed to account for the inevitable impact of Chinese competition on some sectors. “When the uneven distribution of wealth happens, a government should take measures to adjust that distribution through domestic policies, but it’s not easy to do that,” said Mr Yongtu. “Maybe blaming others much easier, but I don’t think blaming others can help to solve the problem. In China’s absence, the US manufacturing industry would move to Mexico.” o § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾ # ⚓ After_Senate_Proves_‘Exceptions_to_Filibuster_ARE Possible,’_Progressives_Say:_Now_Do_All_the_Good_Stuff⠀⇛ After the U.S. Senate demonstrated this week that the filibuster can be ignored at- will—by establishing a process to raise the nation’s debt ceiling with a simple majority vote—progressives demanded that Democrats fully repeal the chamber’s anti-democratic 60-vote rule and pass legislation to protect voting rights and improve working peoples’ lives. “If we can abolish the filibuster to raise the debt ceiling, we can abolish the filibuster to protect voting rights.” # ⚓ The_Puzzling_Case_of_Saule_Omarosa⠀⇛ In October, the Vanderbilt Law Review published a 69-page paper by Omarova in which she made the following bizarre recommendations to reform the U.S. banking system: By early November, Omarova was facing a new controversy when it was revealed that she had called the very industry that she had been nominated to supervise the “quintessential a**hole industry” in a 2019 Canadian feature documentary. # ⚓ Opinion_|_CNN_Missed_Opportunity_to_Ask_Sinema_the_Hard Questions⠀⇛ Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D.–Arizona) is notorious for being inaccessible to the press—and to constituents—while threatening to tank the Democratic Party’s key social spending bill. As Mother Jones (10/7/21) reported, Sinema has not held a single town hall since her election, doesn’t hold press conferences, and refuses to speak to reporters and constituents alike when approached. So when CNN’s Lauren Fox (12/2/21) landed a sit- down interview with Sinema, it presented a rare opportunity to do what journalists are supposed to do: hold power to account. # ⚓ The_Dangerous_Myth_of_Woke_Left_Fascism⠀⇛ Without a doubt, the politics of identity have long been used in order to maintain hegemony and neoliberal policies. It is a cynical, but effective, way to distract from issues of class and capitalist exploitation. And it has been used to silence people who may offer a differing point of view by unfairly casting them as racist, sexist, homophobic, etc. But the nonsense of “woke fascism” has been created by far-right ideologues and peddled by grifters like Bari Weiss, Bret Easton Ellis, Jordan Peterson and Glenn Greenwald who rake in tons of money off this ahistorical, erroneous and dangerous rubbish. “Wokeness” is a new term, but it is derived from the mid 20th century. “Stay woke” was a phrase Black American workers used to encourage attention to civil and labor rights issues. It was later revived by activists in this century. As is the case of all progressive movements under capitalism, the term was co-opted by corporations as well as the police/surveillance/military sector to whitewash real systemic inequities with feel good, empty slogans or lifestyle choices which simply amounted to more profit for their particular brand. # ⚓ In_Like_Flynn⠀⇛ # ⚓ Opinion_|_The_Curious_Case_of_Two_Generals_Named_Flynn⠀⇛ Time flies whether one is having fun or not: it’s now almost a year since insurrectionists worked to nullify your vote in a violent storming of the Capitol. Investigations of the attempted overthrow of the government thus far have proceeded with all the urgency of an interagency review of the price structure of cafeterias in federal facilities. # ⚓ Manchin_Takes_the_Teeth_Out_of_Democrats’_Plan_for_Seniors’ Dental_Care⠀⇛ # ⚓ Stop_Normalizing_Islamophobia⠀⇛ This might be business as usual for the Colorado Republican. But for Muslim Americans like myself, it’s another painful reminder of prevailing hatred in the country we call home. In the past, Boebert has made other pointedly hateful anti-Muslim comments. She once called Omar the “Jihad Squad member from Minnesota” during a speech on the House floor, as well as an “honorary member of Hamas” on other occasions. # ⚓ Macedonian_Ramble:_Leon_Sciaky’s_Farewell_to_Salonica⠀⇛ Walking from the Holocaust monument to the railway station to continue my journey to Istanbul, I decided (when back home) to hunt around for a book about Thessaloniki’s vanished Jewish quarter. It took me several months of searching—on Amazon and elsewhere—but at The Strand bookstore in New York City I finally came across a book with the title Farewell to Salonica: City at the Crossroads by Leon Sciaky. # ⚓ Biden’s_Democracy_Summit_Is_a_PR_Stunt._We_Need_Real International_Democracy.⠀⇛ # ⚓ Great_Britain:_No,_You_Won’t_Fool_the_Children_of_the Revolution⠀⇛ The response to the pandemic by the government and wider establishment in Great Britain has been wilfully incompetent and corrupt, resulting in a ridiculous, but predictable, level of death and suffering, that only a few countries around the world can rival. The extreme-capitalist economic system already in place here, has ensured that those most befouled by the system, have suffered most during this latest capitalist-induced crisis. There have been a couple of bright moments during this continual wave of doom.  The “everyone in” campaign of housing the street homeless people during the height of the first wave in Spring 2020, presented an extraordinary opportunity to end street homelessness in this country, forever. This has since been squandered, wilfully, as this government does not believe in housing as a basic and fundamental human right, it believes in the right of landlords, many of whom they are or protect, to continue to hoard wealth gained from property and land (including the monarchy) and make money off the backs of the poor. # ⚓ Change_is_Coming_to_Berlin:_What_Will_Germany’s_New_Foreign Policy_Look_Like?⠀⇛ Baerbock, a 40-year-old diplomatic novice, has consistently espoused liberal interventionist views that one left-wing American news site has described as a combination of “aloof complacency, ignorance and aggressiveness.” To help understand the implications of this appointment, I interviewed Douglas Macgregor, a retired U.S. Army colonel and an expert on U.S.- German relations, about what he thought of the incoming German foreign minister. Macgregor, a fluent German speaker who holds a doctorate from the University of Virginia, was former President Donald Trump’s choice to become U.S. ambassador to Germany. Ultimately, he served as senior adviser to acting Secretary of Defense Christopher Miller in the last months of that administration. # ⚓ “Every_Option_Is_on_the_Table”:_US_Prepping_for_Libya-Style Intervention_in_Ethiopia⠀⇛ Amid a bloody civil conflict and increasing great- power competition between the United States and China, there are a number of alarming signs that Ethiopia will become the next Libya – an African nation where the U.S. intervenes militarily under the pretext of stopping an impending genocide. # ⚓ Free_the_Weed:_50_Years_After_the_John_Sinclair_Freedom Rally⠀⇛ This modest gift was a token of my belief in the necessity of giving away marijuana to those who don’t have any. When I was coming up in the marijuana culture of the sixties, we believed that if you had some weed and didn’t pass along a little bit to the next person who didn’t have any, you risked the distinct possibility of never being given any weed again for your own use. I didn’t want to face that particular reality and it was Christmas time, so I went ahead and gave the woman two joints when she asked for one. I learned quite painfully from my first two marijuana busts—this was the third!—that it was more than just stupid to be selling weed in my position because the police would move in at their earliest convenience and knock you down for sales and possession of narcotics. # ⚓ Social_media,_cryptocurrencies_must_empower_democracy:_PM⠀⇛ Delivering India’s “national statement” at the US Summit for Democracy on Friday, PM Narendra Modi called for efforts to jointly shape global norms for emerging technologies like social media and crypto currencies, so that “they are used to empower democracy, not to undermine it”. o § Misinformation/Disinformation⠀➾ # ⚓ Devin_Nunes_Is_Trading_Congress_for_Social_Media⠀⇛ # ⚓ Big_Tech_to_face_higher_scrutiny_as_they_may_be_tagged_as publishers⠀⇛ India, which is finalising its data protection law, is planning to classify social media platforms as content publishers. Social media entities are publishers of content, have to be “accountable” for the content on their platforms and cannot take cover behind their “algorithms” when it comes to online harm, discrimination of users, and spread of misinformation, Rajeev Chandrasekhar, Union Minister of State for Electronics and IT told ET in an exclusive interview last month. o § Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾ # ⚓ Censorship_as_an_Investment:_Turn_Two_Cents_Into $311,562!⠀⇛ The “underlying transaction” in question? Getting paid to write for a publication the US government disapproves of: The Strategic Culture Foundation, a Russian think tank sanctioned by the Treasury Department because it’s regarded as an arm of the Russian state. Yes, you read that right: Putting in one’s two cents on current affairs (the SCF’s focus) can yield a profit of more than 1.5 million percent! # ⚓ Can_#MeToo_Survive_Chinese_Censorship?⠀⇛ In the days since Ms. Peng’s post went live, Beijing appeared to close its iron fist in an effort to mitigate damage. And the censors might have succeeded if Steve Simon, the head of the Women’s Tennis Association, had not spoken out on Nov. 14, calling on Beijing to investigate Ms. Peng’s accusations and stop trying to bury her case. “I think there has been significant impact already on Chinese formal diplomacy,” Mr. Tsang said. The Biden administration and the United Nations human rights office have joined the tennis association in calling for Beijing to provide proof of Ms. Peng’s well-being. # ⚓ Meta_reverses_censorship_imposed_by_Instagram_on traditional_medicine⠀⇛ Meta is today the leading ecosystem of social networks, which houses apps such as WhatsApp, Facebook app, Oculus, Workplace, Portal and Instagram, it was in the latter that a controversy arose due to the fact that the application focused on photography and stories of In the short term, it decided to censor the content of some of its users, since within the images it was possible to observe the active consumption of Ayahuasca, a plant considered traditional medicine by some peoples and communities of the world. Meta, has decided to revoke this decision and allow the transmission of graphic content. o § Freedom of Information/Freedom of the Press⠀➾ # ⚓ As_COVID-19_Raged,_Incarcerated_Journalists_Fought Isolation_And_Illness_To_Expose_Abusive_Conditions⠀⇛ In the summer of 2020 we launched a collaborative writing program to connect incarcerated writers with outside journalists and editors. Our goal was to help them publish their writing in mainstream media publications. We began only a few weeks after COVID-19 came into San Quentin State Prison, where Rahsaan lives. We knew that COVID-19 would be an incredible threat to people incarcerated, but were unprepared for the devastation and loss ahead. At San Quentin — which became home to the largest outbreak in the country — Rahsaan became infected with the virus and experienced the mental health toll of being locked in a cell, 24 hours a day, for days at a time. With a total of 2,607 confirmed cases, 29 people died.  # ⚓ Ralph_Nader_on_Journalism_and_the_Public_Interest⠀⇛ # ⚓ “Hold_the_Line”:_Watch_Filipina_Journalist_Maria_Ressa’s Full_Nobel_Peace_Prize_Acceptance_Speech⠀⇛ Filipina journalist Maria Ressa and Russian journalist Dmitry Muratov accepted the Nobel Peace Prize Friday for their “efforts to safeguard freedom of expression.” “There are so many more journalists persecuted in the shadows with neither exposure nor support, and governments are doubling down with impunity,” said Ressa in her acceptance speech at Friday’s Nobel ceremony, which we play in full. # ⚓ Roaming_Charges:_King_of_Tides⠀⇛ + A side note: I’ve become increasingly incensed by the abusive treatment of the historical and cultural landscape of the Northwest. One of the sites I photographed is Abernethy Creek at its confluence with the Willamette. By any measure, this meeting of creek and river should be one of the most significant sites in the Pacific Northwest. It was the location of one of the oldest continuously inhabited indigenous villages on the continent, going back probably 5,000 years, maybe more. As late as the 1850s, it was the site of Charcowah village of the Clowewalla band of Tumwaters, before they were uprooted and forcibly relocated to the Grand Ronde reservation 80 miles to the West. Abernathy Creek was also the location of one of the first white settlements in the Northwest. It was the end of the Oregon Trail, where the “settlers” came to regroup after their arduous journey across the West to file their “claims” to the land the Tumwaters had been expelled from. By any measure (even if you exclude Critical Race Theory), a very important location in the history of the country, so important, apparently, that they put one of the ugliest bridges ever built on top of it and put a landfill on Abernethy Green. America, in a nutshell.) + I’m disgusted but hardly surprised by the UK court’s decision on the Assange extradition. The UK was a co-conspirator with US in the war on Iraq, helping to fabricated the case for war and cover up the crimes that were committed during it. Wikileaks exposed the UK’s deep complicity not just in war crimes but in a war that was a crime. It is revealing that the two nations which bray the most stridently about a “free press”, crack down the most viciously when their self-righteous is exposed as a sham. In the eyes of the empire, whistleblowers are great as long as they’re blowing the whistle on your enemies. When they blow the whistle on you, suddenly they’ve become a subversive threat which must be silenced by any means. # ⚓ The_Judicial_Kidnapping_of_Julian_Assange⠀⇛ Miscarriage of justice is an inadequate term in these circumstances. It took the bewigged courtiers of Britain’s ancien regime just nine minutes last Friday to uphold an American appeal against a District Court judge’s acceptance in January of a cataract of evidence that hell on earth awaited Assange across the Atlantic: a hell in which, it was expertly predicted, he would find a way to take his own life. Volumes of witness by people of distinction, who examined and studied Julian and diagnosed his autism and his Asperger’s Syndrome and revealed that he had already come within an ace of killing himself at Belmarsh prison, Britain’s very own hell, were ignored. # ⚓ [Old] A_Guide_To_The_U.S._Government’s_Appeal_In_The Assange_Extradition_Case⠀⇛ Because Assange is the first publisher to be charged under the law, press freedom organizations around the world have roundly condemned the political prosecution. It also is part of a troubling development where the U.S. government increasingly seeks to impose its domestic laws on foreign nationals. Assange is an Australian citizen and has no ties whatsoever to the United States. # ⚓ British_Court_Authorizes_Extradition_Of_Assange_To_The_US⠀⇛ According to the High Court, the United States offers sufficient guarantees that Assange will not be subjected to the harsh regime known as “special administrative measures” when in custody in the country. Assange’s defense, however, still has the right to challenge the verdict by filing an appeal. As soon as the judicial decision was known, Reporters Without Borders (RWB) expressed its rejection of the possibility of extraditing the Australian journalist to the United States. # ⚓ Julian_Assange_can_be_extradited_to_the_US,_court_rules⠀⇛ Wikileaks editor-in-chief Kristinn Hrafnsson said in a statement: “Julian’s life is once more under grave threat, and so is the right of journalists to publish material that governments and corporations find inconvenient. “This is about the right of a free press to publish without being threatened by a bullying superpower.” Amnesty International described the ruling as a “travesty of justice” and the US assurances as “deeply flawed”. # ⚓ WikiLeaks_founder_Julian_Assange_could_be_extradited_to_the U.S._after_U.K._ruling⠀⇛ WikiLeaks and Assange burst onto the international scene with the release of footage from a 2007 airstrike in Baghdad that resulted in the deaths of two Reuters journalists, among others. # ⚓ Rights_Groups_Warn_Extradition_of_Assange_Would_Have ‘Dangerous_Implications_for_Future_of_Journalism’⠀⇛ A chorus of international human rights and press freedom groups roundly condemned a British court’s Friday ruling that WikiLeaks founder and publisher Julian Assange can be extradited to the United States where he could face torturous conditions and life in prison. “Julian Assange should be immediately released, and steps taken to ensure no journalist, publisher, or source can ever be targeted in this way again.” # ⚓ Press_Freedoms_Under_‘Grave_Threat’_as_British_Court_Rules Assange_Can_Be_Extradited_to_US⠀⇛ This is a developing news story… Check back for possible updates… A British court ruled Friday that WikiLeaks founder and publisher Julian Assange can be extradited to the United States to face charges of violating the Espionage Act, a decision that rights groups say poses a profound threat to global press freedoms. # ⚓ Press_Freedoms_Threatened_as_British_Court_Rules_Assange Can_Be_Extradited_to_US⠀⇛ # ⚓ Assange_Plans_To_Appeal_High_Court_Decision_Backing Extradition_To_United_States⠀⇛ This article was funded by paid subscribers of The Dissenter, a project of Shadowproof. Become a paid subscriber and help us expand our work. Attorneys for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange plan to appeal to the Supreme Court in the United Kingdom after the country’s appeals court overturned a decision that blocked the extradition of Assange to the United States. # ⚓ “Terrible_Step”:_Press_Freedom_in_Danger_as_U.K._Court Clears_the_Way_for_Julian_Assange_Extradition_to_U.S.⠀⇛ WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange could soon face charges in the United States after a U.K. court ruled Friday in favor of the U.S. government’s appeal to extradite him. U.K. Judge Timothy Holroyde said he was satisfied with a pledge from the United States that Assange would not be held in a so-called ADX maximum-security prison in Colorado, despite a U.K. district court ruling in January that said Assange should not be extradited because it would be “oppressive” due to his mental health and that he would likely die by suicide in a U.S. prison. “They can’t guarantee his safety in the U.S. prison system. He will likely die here, if not beforehand,” says Gabriel Shipton, filmmaker and Julian Assange’s brother. “Think about what the precedent will mean around the world if every regime can now point to us and say, ‘We want to extradite these journalists,’” adds Ben Wizner, director of the ACLU’s Speech, Privacy and Technology Project. # ⚓ High_Court_decision_“Grave_miscarriage_of_justice,”_says Julian_Assange’s_fiancée⠀⇛ The prosecution against Julian Assange is an existential threat to press freedom worldwide. Leading civil liberties groups, including Amnesty International, Reporters Without Borders, ACLU, and Human Rights Watch have called the charges against Julian Assange a “threat to press freedom around the globe.” Journalist unions, including the National Union of Journalists and the International Federation of Journalists, have said that “media freedom is suffering lasting damage by the continued prosecution of Julian Assange.” He faces a 175-year prison sentence. # ⚓ Opinion_|_‘People_as_the_Enemy_of_Conservation’:_The Militarization_of_Conservation_in_Nepal⠀⇛ Chitwan National Park in the Southern lowlands of Nepal is famous for its one-horned rhinoceros and other wildlife living in its tropical grasslands and forests. Adjoining India, this landscape was once famous as the hunting grounds of big game and entertained Royals and important government officials working for the British empire. Before the early 1960s, Indigenous Tharus occupied this land. This changed with the eradication of malaria which encouraged a massive migration from the hills, leading to deforestation and large shrinkages of the forest. Due to this deforestation and decline in wildlife, the government established its first Protected Area, a rhino sanctuary, in the 19th century to protect the one-horned rhinoceros with park rangers. These rhino guards demolished thousands of Tharu houses, forcing them to leave their land in order to make way for the newly established sanctuary.  o § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾ # ⚓ An_Unplanned,_Ad-Hoc_Collaboration_Reveals_The_On-The- Ground_Truth_About_China’s_Internment_Camps_For_Uyghurs⠀⇛ The US, UK and Australia have all announced a diplomatic boycott of the Beijing Winter Olympics. The reason given for the move is because of human rights abuses in China, particularly in the turkic- speaking region of Xinjiang. Techdirt has been writing about the Chinese authorities’ use of technology to censor and carry out surveillance on the local Uyghur population, among others, for some years. One of the most controversial aspects of China’s policy in the region is the use of huge detention camps. According to the authorities there, these camps are for educational and vocational training. Human rights organizations call them internment camps; some governments speak of “genocide” against the Uyghurs. # ⚓ Beyond_Passive_Resistance:_Against_Democratic_Surrender_in a_Time_of_Fascitization⠀⇛ “the assault on abortion is not taking place in isolation…[it] is part of a larger fascist remaking of society…Already, fascist mobs are invading every sphere of public life. They are threatening school board members, public health officials, election workers and more. And the Republican Party has not only purged itself of anyone who firmly opposed the violent coup attempt by Trump’s supporters on January 6, it has been moving aggressively to so thoroughly corrupt the election processes that they will either win regardless of the popular vote or be able to unleash violent mobs to nullify an election they lose. A win for them in decimating abortion rights would accelerate their momentum. The idea that the ‘pro-choice movement’ could then just retreat into local elections and build up power over years and decades (a ‘strategy’ put forward by Amy Littlefield…as well as by many ‘pro- choice leaders’…) a complete fantasy out of touch with what is really going on.” Big Pro-“Life” Lies # ⚓ PewDiePie_Dives_Into_The_Mark_Fitzpatrick,_Toei_Animation Saga⠀⇛ We had just been talking about how Mark Fitzpatrick, a YouTube personality who focuses on doing reviews and let’s draws for anime properties, had been targeted by Toei Animation for the takedown of over a 150 of his videos over copyright claims. Toei is the animation house for several popular animes, including the Dragon Ball series. While Fitzpatrick’s videos fall squarely in the category of fair use, as they are chiefly commentary and reviews that use snippets of the animes in question in order to illustrate points, because of the onerous way YouTube enforces such claims, his videos were taken down first and remain down at the time of this writing. # ⚓ On_the_Matter_of_Black_Lives:_an_Interview_With_Jelani Cobb⠀⇛ This past summer, he co-edited with Matthew Guariglia, The Essential Kerner Commission Report, which examined and explained the underlying conditions that led to a dozen urban uprisings between 1964 and 1967. Cobb says Republicans used the uprisings as political fodder but ignored the Report’s findings. Last fall, he wrote The Substance of Hope: Barack Obama and the Paradox of Progress, where he explores the paradoxes that President Barack Obama’s election raised with regards to race and patriotism, identity and citizenship, and progress and legacy. # ⚓ Countering_Liberal_Human_Rights_with_the_Black_Radical Human_Rights_Framework⠀⇛ Two centuries ago, a former European colony decided to catch up with Europe. It succeeded so well that the United States of America became a monster, in which the taints, the sickness, and the inhumanity of Europe have grown to appalling dimensions. ~Frantz Fanon International Human Rights Day is December 10. On that day in 1948 the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) was promulgated as the first in a series of covenants, treaties, and legal interpretations that would make up the post-war human rights framework. # ⚓ “People_Are_at_a_Breaking_Point”_After_Transfers_From Rikers⠀⇛ In mid-October, after ongoing protests about the violence and abuse at Rikers Island, as well as repeated calls from community leaders to close the island jail, New York Governor Kathy Hochul announced the transfers of approximately 230 women and trans people from the New York City complex to Bedford Hills Correctional Facility, a women’s state prison 45 minutes north of the city. Despite outcry from advocates and women at Rikers, transfers began the following week. # ⚓ Opinion_|_El_Salvador_Offers_a_Dark_Glimpse_Into_Our_Post- Roe_Future⠀⇛ Manuela was a 33-year-old Salvadoran mother of two when she fell and suffered a stillbirth. # ⚓ Mental_Health_Care_is_Hard_to_Come_By,_Especially_If_You’re Poor⠀⇛ I was relieved that somebody had finally asked about my mental health. All spring and summer 2020, I kicked the ball of my fritzing brain down the field to some imaginary goal of “things” getting better in the world, or at least more stable. Plainly, that didn’t happen. # ⚓ Trump’s_Revenge_Against_Georgia_Republicans_Could_End_Up Boosting_Stacey_Abrams⠀⇛ # ⚓ ‘This_Is_Horrific’:_US_Supreme_Court_Keeps_6-Week_Abortion Ban_in_Place⠀⇛ This is a developing story and may be updated. Reproductive rights advocates on Friday expressed outrage after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Texas’ six-week abortion ban can remain in effect—a ruling that will continue to force Texans to travel out of state to obtain care at clinics which have reported surging demand, or to continue their unwanted pregnancies. # ⚓ Playing_‘Both_Sides’_on_Immigration_Leaves_Public_in_the Dark⠀⇛ Immigration, as both an area of policymaking and a topic of public discourse, holds the peculiar distinction of having perhaps the widest gulf between how strongly the public and the press feel about it, on the one hand, and how much they actually know about its history and mechanics on the other. # ⚓ The_Supreme_Court’s_Texas_Abortion_Ruling_Isn’t_the_Victory Many_Want_It_to_Be⠀⇛ The Supreme Court today allowed some lawsuits to go forward against Texas’s six-week abortion ban, commonly known as Senate Bill 8. The majority opinion, written by Neil Gorsuch, allows abortion providers to sue a limited number of state officials and argue that the ban is unconstitutional. The decision means that lower courts will now be allowed to rule on the merits of the ban, and those lower court decisions will eventually be appealed back to the Supreme Court. The law will remain in place while that litigation plays out. # ⚓ The_Better_CEO_who_fired_900_people_over_a_Zoom_call_is taking_time_off⠀⇛ Following the news of the layoffs, reports of Garg’s past insensitive comments and behavior began to trickle out; Motherboard reported he once referred to a top investor in Better as “sewage” and reportedly told Better employees that instead of taking a day off for Indigenous Peoples’ Day, it was better for them to work and earn the company “capital, and therefore our freedom.” # ⚓ Legislator_Pushes_for_Law_Requiring_Illinois_Hospitals_to Report_All_Assaults_to_Police⠀⇛ An Illinois lawmaker said she will propose legislation to require hospital employees to report suspected patient-on-patient sexual assaults to law enforcement. The proposal, from State Sen. Julie Morrison, a Lake Forest Democrat, was prompted by a ProPublica investigation that found that Roseland Community Hospital officials failed to report a possible sexual assault of a patient in its psychiatric ward, even though it was captured on surveillance video. # ⚓ Systemic_Sadism_at_the_Sonoma_County_Sheriff’s_Office⠀⇛ Police reform advocates have for decades called out Cops for its good-apples emphasis on police transparency, often at the expense of the citizens they are charged to serve. The show emphasizes the hard work of policing, but never shows the rotten officers who wreck the barrel for the rest of their colleagues. You’ll never see a police encounter of the George Floyd variety on Cops. The program, says documentarian and former Sacramento County Deputy district attorney Ron Rogers, promulgates an us- versus-them view of policing, glorifies police violence, and often makes a mockery of the very communities that law enforcement agencies are supposed to be protecting. “Cops is a complete step backwards,” says Rogers. # ⚓ First_Starbucks_Store_Votes_to_Unionize⠀⇛ On Thursday, workers at a Buffalo Starbucks became the first of the chain’s 9,000 stores to vote to unionize, following a mail-in vote swarmed by controversy and allegations of union busting by Starbucks’ corporate offices. The Elmwood Starbucks location voted 19 to 8 in favor of unionizing with Starbucks Workers United, an independent affiliate of the SEIU; the vote was overseen by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). # ⚓ What_the_first_Starbucks_union_means_for_workers everywhere⠀⇛ On Thursday, workers at a Starbucks store in Buffalo, New York, voted to form a union, making it the first of more than 8,000 corporate Starbucks locations in the US to unionize. A second Buffalo location voted against unionizing; a third had a majority vote for the union but, due to a number of challenges to individual ballots, the results aren’t final. For the Starbucks employees at the union store, this means they’ll begin to negotiate a contract for better wages, benefits, and working conditions. For everyone else, this could spur more unionization across the US — whether at more Starbucks locations or anywhere else — thanks to the company’s high profile. # ⚓ ‘An_Existential_Attack_on_the_Union’:_Biden_Blasts Kellogg’s_Plan_to_Replace_Striking_Workers⠀⇛ U.S. President Joe Biden on Friday joined the growing chorus of labor rights advocates and workers who have condemned an attempt by Kellogg Company to hire permanent replacements for unionized workers who remain on strike after rejecting a proposed contract earlier this week. “I am deeply troubled by reports of Kellogg’s plans to permanently replace striking workers.” # ⚓ Redditors_are_spamming_Kellogg’s_job_portal_to_support striking_workers⠀⇛ The underlying ethos of r/antiwork isn’t just to be a place to vent—it’s to push back on the idea of work as we know it. So it might seem counterintuitive that on Thursday, a thread blew up that was urging members to apply for jobs. The jobs in question are permanent positions at Kellogg’s cereal plants in Michigan, Pennsylvania, Nebraska, and Tennessee. The goal was to overwhelm the system with fake applications, making it a nightmare for recruiters to sort through. # ⚓ Texas_Says_Its_Unconstitutional_Content_Moderation_Law Should_Still_Go_Into_Effect_While_We_Wait_For_Appeal;_Judge: ‘No,_That’s_Not_How_This_Works’⠀⇛ Last week, the district court Judge Robert Pitman wrote an excellent ruling tossing out Texas’ silly content moderation law as clearly unconstitutional under the 1st Amendment. As was widely expected, Texas has appealed the ruling to the 5th Circuit (undeniably, the wackiest of the Circuits, so who knows what may happen). However, in the meantime, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton also asked the lower court to have the law go into effect while waiting for the appeals court to rule! o § Internet Policy/Net Neutrality⠀➾ # ⚓ Outcome_of_850/900MHz_band_spectrum_auction⠀⇛ All 16 lots available were allocated. The allocation realised a total revenue of $2,091,618,000, equivalent to almost $1.21/MHz/pop. Optus won eight lots of spectrum at auction for $1,119,183,000, and acquired a total of 12 lots of spectrum for $1,475,958,000. Two set-aside lots were allocated to Optus for a pre‑determined price, and two lots of 1 MHz were automatically allocated also to Optus as the winner of the 900 MHz lower products. Telstra won four lots of spectrum for $615,660,000. # ⚓ Bringing_Domain_Names_Back_to_the_People:_What_You_Need_to Know_About_Handshake_|_Benzinga⠀⇛ Blockchain domains serve more than one purpose. Besides being suites of smart contracts, these domains can work as name registrations for crypto wallet addresses. Unfortunately, people don’t get to choose the domains of their preference every time because most of them already exist or are owned by large companies. This is where Handshake, a decentralized DNS server, has stepped in to give domain names back to the people. o § Digital Restrictions (DRM)⠀➾ # ⚓ Netflix_Wants_to_Own_Online_News_About_Its_Content,_Too⠀⇛ Tudum will function under the streamer’s marketing division, run by Bozoma Saint John. “Netflix is a part of the cultural zeitgeist, and what makes my job so exciting is that through the work we do, I get to constantly connect with fans all over the world through their favorite shows and movies,” wrote Saint John in a blog post announcing the site. The content on Tudum will be curated according to a subscriber’s viewing habits. Meaning, a subscriber who is watching Bridgerton will be fed stories about the Shonda Rhimes-produced series when they open Tudum on devices where they are logged in to Netflix account. Tudum can be accessed worldwide but is currently available only in English. o § Monopolies⠀➾ # § Patents⠀➾ # ⚓ Big_Pharma_and_Omicron⠀⇛ And that’s the biggest problem we’re facing in the ongoing coronavirus pandemic: Private enterprise is not capable of dealing with a global health crisis. Because big pharmas are built to focus on markets that make the most profit for their investors. Yet only a small fraction of the world’s nations are wealthy enough to be profitable markets even for products as desperately needed as good coronavirus vaccines. So companies like Pfizer, Cambridge’s own Moderna, and Johnson & Johnson compete with each other by developing rival vaccines, then fight for market share in wealthy countries, and ignore the rest of the world other than donating smallish fractions of their total vaccine output to poor countries. Worse still, these multinationals then refuse to open up their quickly patented vaccine research to the world for free—preventing poor countries from being able to work with the World Health Organization and rich nations to produce enough doses to cover every person on the planet that needs one. # ⚓ Probe_Shows_Big_Pharma_‘Manipulated’_Patent_System and_‘Raised_Prices_With_Abandon’⠀⇛ Bolstering calls for the U.S. Senate to pass the Build Back Better bill with drug pricing reforms, a House panel on Friday released a report detailing how Big Pharma has not only “raised prices with abandon,” but also “manipulated the patent system” to suppress competition. “The evidence overwhelmingly supports the need to pass the Build Back Better Act.” # § Copyrights⠀➾ # ⚓ Tarantino:_Pulp_Fiction_NFT_Sale_Lawsuit_is “Offensively_Meritless”,_Won’t_Succeed⠀⇛ Last month Miramax sued director Quentin Tarantino over his plans to sell exclusive Pulp Fiction NFTs worth potentially millions of dollars. In a scathing response, the veteran filmmaker now accuses Miramax of “biting the hand that fed it for so many years” while describing the copyright, trademark, and unfair competition lawsuit as “offensively meritless”. # ⚓ EU_Study:_Pirate_Site_Traffic_Continues_to_Drop Despite_the_Pandemic⠀⇛ New research published by the European Union Intellectual Property Office shows that, despite the pandemic, piracy site visits continue to fall. This trend is visible for movies, TV shows, and music, with the latter showing the sharpest drop. Income level and inequality appear to be major piracy drivers, but there’s a major caveat as well. # ⚓ Michael_Nesmith,_Monkees_Singer-Songwriter,_Dead_at 78⠀⇛ Nesmith spent the rest of the Seventies recording under-the-radar solo albums. In 1977, he promoted his single “Rio” with a clever music video that got a lot of play in Europe and Australia, turning the song into a minor hit. It gave him an incredible idea. “ [I realized that] radio is to records as television is to video,” he told Rolling Stone in 2013. “Then it was like, ‘Of course!’ and thus MTV was born. I just took that idea and put together some programs and sent it over to Warner Bros. and so forth. Next thing you know, there it was.” # ⚓ Book_Publishers_Sue_Maryland_Over_Law_That_Would Require_Them_To_Offer_‘Reasonable’_Prices_On_Ebooks_To Libraries⠀⇛ For years now, we’ve been highlighting how book publishers are at war with libraries, and see ebooks and ebook pricing as a key lever in that war. With regular books, a library can just buy the book and lend it out and do what they want with it. But not ebooks. Because of a broken copyright law, publishers retain excess control over ebooks, and they lord that over libraries, arbitrarily raising prices to ridiculous levels, limiting how many times they can lend it out before they have to “repurchase” the ebook, and generally making it as difficult as possible for libraries to actually be able to offer ebooks. ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 4743 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐃𝐀𝐈𝐋𝐘 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒 ═════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 12.11.21⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Links_12/12/2021:_Whisker_Menu_2.7.1_and_SeaBIOS_1.15_Released⠀✐ Posted in News_Roundup at 9:23 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇GNOME bluefish⦈ § Contents⠀➾ * GNU/Linux o Distributions o Devices/Embedded * Free_Software/Open_Source * Leftovers * § GNU/Linux⠀➾ o § Server⠀➾ # ⚓ Kubernetes_v1.23_Is_Here._Are_You_Ready?⠀⇛ Kubernetes’ final release for the year 2021 is ready: Version 1.23. The Christmas edition of Kubernetes comes with 45 new enhancements to make it more mature, secure and scalable. There are some critical changes grouped into the Kubernetes API, containers and infrastructure, storage, networking and security in this latest release. # ⚓ What_Is_PostgreSQL?_Open-Source_Database_System⠀⇛ PostgreSQL is an open-source, object-relational database system that lets you store and scale complicated data workloads safely. In this article, we discuss PostgreSQL, its uses, and benefits. # ⚓ 18_New_Members_Join_Cloud_Native_Computing_Foundation_at KubeCon_+_CloudNativeCon_+_Open_Source_Summit_China_2021 Virtual⠀⇛ # ⚓ AlmaLinux_OS_Foundation_Welcomes_Codenotary_to_Governing Board_as_First_Platinum_Member⠀⇛ AlmaLinux OS Foundation, the nonprofit that stewards the community owned and governed open source CentOS alternative, today announced that Codenotary has joined its governance board as the first Platinum member. As a former CentOS user, Codenotary is investing in AlmaLinux to support its growth. The company brings easy-to-use trust and integrity into the software lifecycle using its own super fast, immutable, and cryptographically verifiable ledger database to underpin its notarization and verification product for creating Software Bill of Materials (SBOM). Codenotary also stewards immudb, its open source key value, SQL database with over 3,300 stars on GitHub. # ⚓ AWS_wobbles_in_US_East_region_causing_widespread_outages⠀⇛ Technical errors with the US-EAST-1 region of Amazon Web Services have caused widespread woes for customers, including difficulty accessing the management console and some other service problems. # ⚓ What_Does_That_Server_Really_Serve?⠀⇛ Digital technology can give you freedom; it can also take your freedom away. The first threat to our control over our computing came from proprietary software: software that the users cannot control because the owner (a company such as Apple or Microsoft) controls it. The owners often take advantage of this unjust power by inserting malicious features such as spyware, back doors, and Digital Restrictions Management (DRM) (referred to as “Digital Rights Management” in their propaganda). Our solution to this problem is developing free software and rejecting proprietary software. Free software means that you, as a user, have four essential freedoms: (0) to run the program as you wish, (1) to study and change the source code so it does what you wish, (2) to redistribute exact copies, and (3) to redistribute copies of your modified versions. With free software, we, the users, take back control of our computing. Proprietary software still exists, but we can exclude it from our lives, and many of us have done so. However, we now face a new threat to our control over our computing: Software as a Service. For our freedom’s sake, we have to reject that too. # ⚓ Develop_a_Daily_Reporting_System_for_Chaos_Mesh_to_Improve System_Resilience⠀⇛ Chaos Mesh is a cloud native chaos engineering platform that orchestrates chaos experiments on Kubernetes environments. It allows you to test the resilience of your system by simulating problems such as network faults, file system faults, and Pod faults. After each chaos experiment, you can review the testing results by checking the logs. But this approach is neither direct nor efficient. Therefore, I decided to develop a daily reporting system that would automatically analyze logs and generate reports. This way, it’s easy to examine the logs and identify the issues. o § Audiocasts/Shows⠀➾ # ⚓ I’d_buy_THIS_over_a_MacBook_Pro_–_Tuxedo_InfinityBook_Pro 14_Review_–_Invidious⠀⇛ # ⚓ What_Could_A_GUI_Terminal_Actually_Look_Like?_–_Invidious⠀⇛ Sometimes it’s fun too theorycraft about how a type of software could work if it existed and I found this post doing just that with a GUIfied terminal. # ⚓ Using_Windows_and_Mac_in_Linux_–_Invidious⠀⇛ o § Kernel Space⠀➾ # ⚓ x86_Straight-Line_Speculation_Mitigation_On_Track_For_Linux 5.17_–_Phoronix⠀⇛ The recent activity around x86 (x86_64 included) straight-line speculation mitigation handling is set to culminate with this security feature being set for mainline with the upcoming Linux 5.17 cycle. Recent weeks have seen x86 straight-line speculation mitigations underway by compiler developers and the Linux kernel folks. This is similar to the Arm straight-line speculation “SLS” vulnerability and mitigation of last year but now seeing similar activity on the x86/x86_64 front for Intel and AMD. The issue at hand is over processors speculatively executing instructions linearly in memory past an unconditional change in control flow. GCC 12 landed its compiler mitigation option and LLVM Clang is doing the same. The compilers are introducing a “- mharden-sls” option to add INT3 instructions after function returns and indirect branches to protect against possible straight-line speculation. # ⚓ Linux_boot_times_are_about_to_get_a_whole_lot_faster_on monster_AMD_EPYC_and_Intel_Xeon_rigs_–_Neowin⠀⇛ A patch to improve the boot times on massively parallel Linux systems is currently being prepared and initial performance numbers are extremely impressive. The patch isn’t exactly new though and has been in the making since at least February of this year. It will improve the effective utilization of many- core/thread server and workstation processor systems, like those based on AMD’s EPYC / Ryzen Threadripper, and Intel’s Xeon, while booting. On a 96-threaded Skylake system, the patch reduced the Bringup time (wake up time) for the cores from 500ms down to just 34ms, which is around a factor of 15. o § Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ 5_Best_Free_and_Open_Source_Audio_Samplers⠀⇛ Linux is an attractive platform for professional audio production. It is an extremely stable operating system that has good support for audio hardware. Using a Linux machine as the focus of your recording setup opens a world of possibilities for an affordable price. Software that creates music can often be expensive. The heavyweight Cubase, Apple LogicPro, FL Studio, Adobe Audition, and Sony ACID Pro are all impressive software music production environments. Unfortunately, they cost hundreds of dollars and are released under a proprietary software license. Fortunately, there is a good range of open source software that lets you produce professional quality recordings. # ⚓ Best_Free_and_Open_Source_Alternatives_to_Corel_WinDVD Pro⠀⇛ Corel Corporation is a Canadian software company specializing in graphics processing. They are best known for developing CorelDRAW, a vector graphics editor. They are also notable for purchasing and developing AfterShot Pro, PaintShop Pro, Painter, Video Studio, MindManager, and WordPerfect. Corel has dabbled with Linux over the years. For example they produced Corel Linux, a Debian-based distribution which bundled Corel WordPerfect Office for Linux. While Corel effectively abandoned its Linux business in 2001 they are not completely Linux-phobic. For example, AfterShot Pro has an up to date Linux version albeit its proprietary software. This series looks at the best free and open source alternatives to products offered by Corel. # ⚓ Open_source_digital_painting_with_Krita⠀⇛ Digital painting is an art form all its own. It obviously emulates the discipline it’s named for, but painting in the physical world and a digital environment is unique. Krita is a digital paint application that’s seen use at major film production houses, book publishers, and art studios. It specializes in materials emulation, allowing the artist to adjust and fine-tune their tools through a brush engine so that they can achieve exactly the look and drawing feel they need. Krita won’t make you a great painter, but if you love to paint, Krita can help you make sure your artwork looks its best. # ⚓ Blender_3.0_open_source_3D_modelling_and_animation_software launches⠀⇛ Blender 3.0 the highly anticipated next generation 3D modelling software is now available to download providing a free open source application for anyone to create both 2D and 3D content. The Blender Foundation has been working on the 3rd generation of Blender for some time and now the software cycles even faster than ever. The Cycles GPU kernels have been rewritten for better performance, rendering between 2x and 8x faster in real-world scenes and Blender 3.0 now features a more responsive viewport thanks to new display algorithms and scheduling systems. # ⚓ Whisker_Menu_2.7.1_released⠀⇛ Fix not selecting second icon in search results (Issue #50) Fix incorrect selection when leaving treeview Fix skipping first treeview item Fix unnecessary button size changes Translation updates: Catalan, Greek o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾ # ⚓ How_to_play_Call_of_Duty:_Black_Ops_III_on_Linux⠀⇛ Call of Duty: Black Ops III is a military FPS game developed by Treyarch and published by Activision. It is the 12th game in the COD franchise. Here’s how you can play this game on Linux. # ⚓ How_to_Install_XanMod_Kernel_on_Pop!_OS_20.04_– LinuxCapable⠀⇛ XanMod is a free, open-source general-purpose Linux Kernel alternative to the stock kernel with Pop!_OS 20.04. It features custom settings and new features and is built to provide a responsive and smooth desktop experience, especially for new hardware. XanMod is popular amongst Linux Gaming, streaming, and ultra-low latency requirements and often boasts the latest Linux Kernels, having multiple branches to choose from the stable, edge, and development. # ⚓ 2_ways_to_install_Oracle_Java_17_on_Ubuntu_20.04_|_22.04 LTS_–_Linux_Shout⠀⇛ Oracle Java 17 is not available to install on Ubuntu 20.04 or 22.04 LTS using the default main repository of these Linux. Hence, here we will know the steps to set up the same using the command terminal. # ⚓ How_to_Install_deb_File_in_Ubuntu_[with_Examples]⠀⇛ There are several ways to install deb files in Ubuntu. Here I’ll show you the two easiest ways, closely following best practices. For Ubuntu users, software can come from many sources. There’s official repos, PPAs, Snap store, Flathub, and more. However, you won’t find every app you want in one of those. Sometimes, you may have to visit an website to download and install file with a .deb extension. So let’s first answer the question, what is a .deb file? # ⚓ How_to_install_Go_1.17_on_Ubuntu_20.04_–_NextGenTips⠀⇛ In this tutorial, we are going to explore how to install Go 1.17 on Ubuntu 20.04. Golang is an open-source programming language that is easy to learn and use. It is built-in concurrency and has a robust standard library. It is reliable, builds fast, and efficient software that scales fast. Its concurrency mechanisms make it easy to write programs that get the most out of multicore and networked machines, while its novel-type systems enable flexible and modular program constructions. Go compiles quickly to machine code and has the convenience of garbage collection and the power of run-time reflection. # ⚓ How_to_Set_Up_a_Local_Kubernetes_Instance_With_MicroK8s_on Ubuntu⠀⇛ DevOps has greatly changed the way software engineers and developers develop and deploy applications. One of the technologies at the heart of this revolution is Kubernetes. Let’s explore how you can install a local instance of Kubernetes on Ubuntu using MicroK8s (MicroKates). With this setup in place, you can easily host container applications in a secure, reliable, and highly scalable manner. # ⚓ What_is_TTY_in_Linux?⠀⇛ You must have heard about the term “TTY” when it comes to Linux and UNIX. But, what is it? Is it useful to you as a desktop user? Do you need it? And, what can you do with it? In this article, let me mention everything essential to get you familiar with the term TTY in Linux. Do note that there’s no definitive answer to this, but it relates to how input/output devices interacted in the past. So, you will have to know a bit of history to get a clear picture. o § Games⠀➾ # ⚓ 17_of_the_Best_Linux_Games_in_2021_–_Make_Tech_Easier⠀⇛ There have been many false dawns for Linux gaming, but in recent years things have been improving unabated. The launch of the Proton compatibility layer meant that thousands of DirectX-only games can now be translated to Vulkan and therefore work on Linux, while new Linux-compatible games continue to be released as well. If you want to play Windows-only games on Linux, see our guide on how to set up Proton and Steam Play. If, however, you just want to check out all the best native Linux games in 2021 you can play, then read on below. o § Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾ # § K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt⠀➾ # ⚓ KDE_developer_urges_KDE_to_embrace_simplicity_by default,_without_removing_features_–_OSnews⠀⇛ Nate Graham, KDE developer, is arguing that KDE needs simpler defaults – without losing the customisability that makes KDE, well, KDE. I think this is a good goal – especially since many distributions can opt for different defaults anyway. KDE is an amazing collection of software, but there’s no denying its plethora of options and customisation can also be intimidating and a little bit overwhelming, even for experienced users such as myself. # ⚓ PCLinuxOS_KDE_Plasma_Application_Update⠀⇛ The KDE Plasma Desktop application packages have been updated to 21.12.0. This is a service release update. # § GNOME Desktop/GTK⠀➾ # ⚓ Loop:_A_simple_music_application⠀⇛ In the last year I’ve seen some really good musician that performs all the instruments in a song with just a loop machine, recording each instrument one by one in tracks and looping. I was thinking that it should be easy to have a desktop application that does exactly the same, just some tracks to record some sounds and the playback with a loop option, and that’s what I created during this week. o § Distributions⠀➾ # ⚓ OpenEmbedded_Dunfell_3.1.12_recompile⠀⇛ I have synced my local OpenEmbedded with the latest release in the Dunfell series, now version 3.1.12 (only coincidentally similar to EasyOS versions). # § BSD⠀➾ # ⚓ iXsystems_Reveals_Five_Storage_Industry_Predictions as_2022_Promises_Record_Breaking_Demand_for_Enterprise Storage⠀⇛ Xsystems, a global leader in Open Storage solutions, today announced five predictions expected to shape enterprise storage spending in 2022. The predictions come as new research from IDC shows enterprise spending on storage systems accelerated in 2021, with total storage capacity shipped rising 13.8% year over year to 88.7 exabytes. According to the 2021 Worldwide Quarterly Enterprise Storage Systems Tracker by International Data Corporation (IDC), “The global market revenue for enterprise external OEM storage systems grew 9.7% year over year to $6.9 billion during the second quarter of 2021 (2Q21). Total external OEM storage capacity shipped was up 27.9% year over year to 22.1 exabytes during the quarter.” # § IBM/Red Hat/Fedora⠀➾ # ⚓ State_of_Fedora_Kinoite,_December_2021_edition_– Siosm’s_blog⠀⇛ This is the first post about the state of Fedora Kinoite since the release as part of Fedora 35. The goal is to have at least one post before or shortly after each release to help track the progress of Fedora Kinoite, the new features and the missing ones. For a live updating version of this, you can follow the list of known Kinoite bugs issue in the Fedora KDE SIG tracker or on the Kinoite Board. For a video version of this, see the Fedora Kinoite talk I made for the Fedora 35 release party (slides). # ⚓ Development_on_Fedora_Silverblue_and_Fedora_Kinoite⠀⇛ This is a guide covering how to work on applications on Fedora Silverblue and Fedora Kinoite. Depending on the case, it may be easier to work with Flatpak, with RPM packages or directly from the source repository thus I will cover all three options. Note that while this guide focuses on Fedora Silverblue and Fedora Kinoite, it also applies to all rpm-ostree based Fedora variants and in a lesser form to all distributions that feature Flatpak and toolbox. As always, make sure to backup your data before attempting system wide changes that could result in the loss of your personal cat picture collection. If you encounter issues with this guide, reach out to me in one of the following Matrix rooms: Flatpak, KDE Flatpaks, Fedora Silverblue, Fedora KDE. Try to avoid contacting me privately as there is a high chance that other people from those rooms will also be able to help you with your issue. If you want to work on building images of Fedora Silverblue, Fedora Kinoite or other desktop variants, you should follow the steps from the README in the workstation-ostree- config repo. # ⚓ The_Projects_and_People_that_Shaped_Open_Source_in 2021_–_The_New_Stack⠀⇛ According to Red Hat’s 2021 State of Enterprise Open Source Report, 90% of IT leaders are using enterprise open source, and 79% expect their use of enterprise open source software for emerging technologies to increase over the next two years. With most businesses using some form of open source, there is still varying maturity along the spectrum from consuming to producing and embracing open source. # § Debian Family⠀➾ # ⚓ Volumio_3_launches_later_today…⠀⇛ 18 months. That’s the amount of time spent by Volumio’s software team in developing the latest version of its music playback platform: Volumio 3 (no space). What’s new? As well as offering functionality for Roon, Spotify Connect and Tidal Connect, Volumio 3 features a brand new UI called ‘Manifest’ and the much-requested multi-room (synchronized) playback when streaming UPnP- derived content. Like the previous generation, Volumio3 is built around a Linux operating system, this time tapping Debian Buster for its zippier performance. Under the hood, Volumio 3’s audio playback engine has also been reworked to feature what the Italian company calls an Advanced Audio Modular Processing Pipeline (AAMPP): approved third-party plugins can be inserted into the playback chain to perform digital signal processing on the music signal before it is handed off to the endpoint/s for playback. # ⚓ Utkarsh_Gupta:_FOSS_Activites_in_December_2021⠀⇛ Here’s my (twenty-sixth) monthly but brief update about the activities I’ve done in the F/L/OSS world. # § Canonical/Ubuntu Family⠀➾ # ⚓ The_State_of_Robotics_–_November_2021⠀⇛ Learning how to fly. Again. Because certain technologies and processes can always be optimized. Take laptops, for instance (I always wanted to become a laptop designer!). From foldable screens to computers that incorporate e-readers, we are always pushing for new designs that address ergonomic requirements but also improve the way we work. We are doing the same with drones. This month features innovations that dare to challenge the status quo of how we fly. The seat belt sign is on, and we’re cleared for takeoff. Let’s go! o § Devices/Embedded⠀➾ # § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾ # ⚓ Raspberry_Pi_just_added_an_alternative_version_of_its operating_system⠀⇛ The Raspberry Pi company has decided to expand its Raspberry Pi OS releases from one to two branches of Debian to better support all users. The Raspberry Pi OS legacy release will be based on Debian Buster, the 2019 release before Debian Bullseye, which was made the basis of current Raspberry Pi OS in November. # ⚓ Open_Source_Collaboration_and_Creativity_Comes_to Hardware [Ed: This article is mostly openwashing of a Microsoft front group, but there is a section on RISC- V]⠀⇛ RISC-V is a free and open source standard instruction-set architecture (ISA) for computer chips, and RISC-V International, the foundation behind it, has been around since 2015. As Calista Redmond, RISC-V’s CEO, said during a talk at the Linux Foundation Member Summit, “this is about creating commercial success, changing the game and disrupting the status quo for semiconductors.” The growth of both RISC-V’s adoption and membership in RISC-V International’s foundation have grown exponentially recently. Membership in the foundation doubled in just the first six months of 2021, and includes chip manufacturers, software and firmware companies and the makers of connected devices. Meanwhile, nearly a quarter of hardware designs incorporate the RISC-V open ISA, including 40% of CPU designs. Part of the increased demand for open hardware has to do with just an increased demand for hardware, period. As more and more connected devices hit the market, there are more places to incorporate open hardware. “Let’s think about that 50 billion connected IoT devices by 2030,” Redmond said. “This skyrocketing opportunity means we’re putting microprocessors in corners we never imagined.” # ⚓ Free_RISC-V_Training_Explores_Internals_of_Compiler Toolchains_and_Optimization⠀⇛ As RISC-V has made it easier to bring up processor chipsets, the need for compiler engineers in the RISC-V ecosystem has increased. In fact, RISC-V adoption globally has been growing at a rapid pace for several years with no end in sight, meaning this need will only grow more acute as time goes on. That is why RISC-V International and Linux Foundation Training & Certification have partnered to release a new, free online training course on the edX platform, RISC- V Toolchain and Compiler Optimization Techniques (LFD113x). The new course, which was officially announced today at RISC- V Summit in San Francisco, is designed for engineers working with RISC-V vendors who are designing their own architectures, and those using RISC-V development boards to build applications. It is also useful for RISC- V application developers looking to improve performance or reduce the code size of their applications, toolchain developers, compiler engineers/performance engineers, and computer science students aspiring to major in systems software. # ⚓ More_Chinese_organizations_are_backing_RISC-V_with new_CPUs_•_The_Register⠀⇛ China’s been scammed for billions by rogues in its chase to become a chip powerhouse, though ironically, a free, open-source CPU architecture is emerging as its best bet to create a powerful homegrown chip. China was a winner at this week’s RISC- V Summit, with many organizations introducing CPUs based on RISC-V, an open-source chip architecture sometimes called the Linux of chips. The government-backed Chinese Academy of Sciences, which is on the US Entity List, and StarFive Technology released new RISC- V chip designs for PCs and servers. # ⚓ China_to_upgrade_mainstream_RISC-V_chips_every_six months⠀⇛ China is gut punching Moore’s Law and the roughly one-year cadence for major chip releases adopted by the Intel, AMD, Nvidia and others. The government-backed Chinese Academy of Sciences, which is developing open-source RISC-V performance processor, says it will release major design upgrades every six months. CAS is hoping that the accelerated release of chip designs will build up momentum and support for its open-source project. RISC-V is based on an open-source instruction architecture, and is royalty free, meaning companies can adopt designs without paying licensing fees. CAS’ first XiangShan chip, called Yanqihu, was taped out in July 2021. Its successor, called Nanhu, was announced on Monday with major performance and architectural upgrades, and will be out early in 2022. # ⚓ Chatter_around_GPUs_for_RISC-V_is_growing⠀⇛ The activity around creating a legit graphics processor for RISC-V chip designs, an emerging competitor to x86 and ARM, is gaining steam. Special interest groups at RISC-V next year will expand the focus on extensions for shaders and advanced matrix operations, which is important for artificial intelligence and machine learning, Mark Himelstein, chief technology officer at RISC-V, told The Register. RISC-V International, which developed the instruction set architecture, has interest groups develop extensions that users can add to their chip designs. In 2021, 16 RISC-V extensions were ratified, Himelstein said, and that number will grow next year. Many new extensions were part of mainstream computing chips announced this year at the RISC-V Summit. # ⚓ HiSilicon_Hi3731V110_32-bit_RISC-V_processor_is_made for_Full_HD_televisions_–_CNX_Software⠀⇛ We’ve previously covered Hisilicon Hi3861V100 32-bit RISC-V microcontroller, but HiSilicon Hi3731V110 32-bit RISC-V processor designed for Full HD televisions, the company has gone up the scale with its RISC-V offerings. The processor is equipped with an M-LVDS interface for TCON panels, CVBS output, YPbPr, VGA, and multiple HDMI 1.4 video inputs. The processor also comes with a 1080p30 VPU supporting H.265, H.264, MPEG4, MPEG2, and other codecs. # § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ Gmail_update_finally_fixes_annoying_bug_on_Pixel phones_running_Android_12_–_PhoneArena⠀⇛ # ⚓ 6_easy_fixes_for_Android_12_annoyances_| Computerworld⠀⇛ # ⚓ Samsung_One_UI_4.0_(Android_12)_update_tracker: Eligible_devices_&_more⠀⇛ # ⚓ Realme_Is_Rolling_Out_Android_12-Based_One_UI_3.0 Early_Access_For_These_Phones⠀⇛ # ⚓ OnePlus_put_the_brakes_on_the_Android_12_update_for its_9-series_flagships_–_NotebookCheck.net_News⠀⇛ # ⚓ How_to_clear_your_cookies,_cache_on_your_Android phone’s_web_browser_–_CNET⠀⇛ # ⚓ The_Best_Android_Tablets_of_2021_Ranked_–_SlashGear⠀⇛ # ⚓ The_Best_4K_Video_Downloader_for_Android_and_Desktop_ [Review]_|_Tech_Times⠀⇛ # ⚓ Android_privacy_settings_to_change_now_|_The_Seattle Times⠀⇛ # ⚓ Want_to_unlock_your_Android_phone_without_password? Check_these_steps⠀⇛ # ⚓ Vivaldi_5.0_makes_web_browsing_on_Android_tablets_fun again_|_Ars_Technica⠀⇛ # ⚓ Nokia_G20_and_Nokia_T20_tablet_getting_Android_Build updates_|_Nokiamob⠀⇛ # ⚓ 5_Android_apps_you_shouldn’t_miss_this_week_–_Android Apps_Weekly⠀⇛ o § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾ # § Libreboot/BIOS⠀➾ # ⚓ [libreboot]_Translations_wanted⠀⇛ The libreboot website is currently only available in English. I’ve recently added support for translations to the Untitled Static Site Generator, which the Libreboot website uses. Pages on libreboot.org are written in Markdown, and this software generates HTML pages. This very page that you are reading was created this way! # ⚓ SeaBIOS_1.15_Released_With_Better_NVMe_&_USB_Device Support_–_Phoronix⠀⇛ SeaBIOS 1.15 is the open-source project’s first release in sixteen months. Highlights of SeaBIOS 1.15 include better support for USB devices with multiple interfaces, support for USB xHCI devices using direct MMIO access, NVMe support improvements, and increased “f-segment” RAM allocations for BIOS tables. Plus there is the usual assortment of bug fixes and code clean-ups that have come about over the past year. # § Web Browsers⠀➾ # § Mozilla⠀➾ # ⚓ Firefox_update_brings_a_whole_new_sort_of security_sandbox⠀⇛ Today’s a Firefox Tuesday, when the latest version of Mozilla’s browser comes out, complete with all the security updates that have been merged into the product since the previous release. We used to call them Fortytwosdays, because Mozilla followed a six-weekly coding cycle, instead of monthly like Microsoft, or quarterly like Oracle, and seven days multiplied by six weeks gave you the vital number 42. # ⚓ Firefox_Mozilla_build⠀⇛ There are two new applications available for Sparkers: Firefox Mozilla builds # ⚓ Mozilla’s_revenue_increased_in_2020_to_$496 million⠀⇛ The Mozilla Foundation published the financial report for the year 2020 today, revealing that it earned $496 million in 2020. The Foundation earned $828 million in 2019, but $338 million came from a legal dispute with former search engine provider Yahoo. Revenue increased by about $6 million in 2020 as a consequence if you ignore the $338 million one-time payment. # ⚓ Open_source_advent_calendar:_Tor_and_its ecosystem⠀⇛ This is an advent calendar for techies. In the fully commercialized digital world, almost everything belongs to a large Internet corporation. Their software is neither open nor free. As an alternative, there is this small island of the open source world: software whose code is publicly visible and can be independently checked for possible security gaps and backdoors. Software that can be freely used, distributed and improved. Often the drive for work is simply the joy of providing something useful to society. # § Programming/Development⠀➾ # ⚓ The_Eclipse_Foundation_Releases_2021_IoT_&_Edge Developer_Survey_Results⠀⇛ The Eclipse Foundation, the world’s largest open source foundation focused on the Internet of Things (IoT), today announced results from its 2021 IoT & Edge Developer Survey. Administered by the Eclipse IoT Working Group, the Eclipse Edge Native Working Group, and the Eclipse Sparkplug Working Group, the survey provides essential insights into IoT and edge computing industry landscapes, the challenges developers are facing, and the opportunities for enterprise stakeholders in the IoT & edge open source ecosystem. Now in its seventh year, the survey is the IoT & edge industry’s leading technical survey. “The IoT and edge computing go hand-in-hand with each technology influencing the other,” said Mike Milinkovich, executive director of the Eclipse Foundation. “Once again, this survey provides significant insights into what developers are working on and what challenges they face as we move into 2022.” # § Rust⠀➾ # ⚓ Rust_support⠀⇛ Rust support This is the patch series (v2) to add support for Rust as a second language to the Linux kernel. If you are interested in following this effort, please join us in the mailing list at: rust-for-linux@vger.kernel.org and take a look at the project itself at: https://github.com/Rust-for-Linux As usual, special thanks go to ISRG (Internet Security Research Group) and Google for their financial support on this endeavor. Cheers, Miguel # ⚓ The_Linux_Kernel’s_Second_Language?_Rust_Gets Another_Step_Closer_–_Slashdot⠀⇛ “In 2022 we will very likely see the experimental Rust programming language support within the Linux kernel mainlined,” writes Phoronix, citing patches sent out Monday “introducing the initial support and infrastructure around handling of Rust within the kernel.” # ⚓ Patch_suggests_Rust_may_be_the_next_frontier for_Linux_kernel⠀⇛ The Linux kernel has maintained portability due to reliance on the C programming language, but serious adoption of Rust now threatens its dominance. Mozilla’s decade old technology has become a major force, offering the same level of flexibility afforded by classic compiled languages, while offering interoperability with C. Kernel developers have long discussed the possibility of bringing Rust to Linux, and the Linux kernel now includes a stable Rust compiler. This has led Kernel developer Miguel Ojeda to introduce a patch that would make Rust its second official language. * § Leftovers⠀➾ o ⚓ The_Next_Step⠀⇛ Instead, I will help Autoliv Research’s ML/AI team to help them build awesome detection tools to help save more lives. This means working with a group of very smart people ranging from domain experts on things such as psychology, bio-mechanics, machine learning, embedded systems, mechatronics and more. I’m really really excited about this – so much fun to learn. o § Hardware⠀➾ # ⚓ Vacuum_Forming_With_3D_Printer_Filament_|_Hackaday⠀⇛ Even if they don’t have one themselves, we’d wager the average Hackaday reader is at least vaguely aware of how a vacuum former works on a fundamental level. You heat up a plastic sheet until it’s soft, then use a vacuum pump to pull the ductile material down onto an object and hold it there while it cools off. It’s easy to build a vacuum forming rig yourself, but small commercial units are cheap enough that it might not be worth your time. If everything goes to plan, the technique is a quick and effective way of duplicating items around the home and shop. [...] But that’s not really the most interesting part. With printed sheets loaded into the vacuum former, you’ve got access to a much wider array of materials to work with. For example, [Nathan] shows off some very interesting flexible pieces he was able to produce using sheets of TPU. You can also experiment with different surface textures. These can not only be used to give your vacuum formed pieces a bit of interesting visual flair, but could actually have some practical applications. In the video we see how a printed mesh could be formed over a piece to create a conformal air vent or filter. # ⚓ Snip_Your_Way_To_DIY_PCB_Castellations_|_Hackaday⠀⇛ Castellated PCB edges are kind of magical. The plated semicircular features are a way to make a solid, low-profile connection from one board to another, and the way solder flows into them is deeply satisfying. But adding them to a PCB design isn’t always cheap. No worries there — you can make your own castellations with this quick and easy hack. # ⚓ Has_DIY_Become_Click_And_Buy?_|_Hackaday⠀⇛ We are living in great times for DIY, although ironically some of that is because of all the steps that we don’t have to do ourselves. PCBs can be ordered out easily and inexpensively, and the mechanical parts of our projects can be ordered conveniently online, fabricated in quantity one for not much more than a song, or 3D printed at home when plastic will do. Is this really DIY if everything is being farmed out? Yes, no, and maybe. It all depends on where you think the real value of DIY lies. Is it in the idea, the concept, the design? Or in its realization, the manufacturing? I would claim that most of the value actually lies in the former, as much as I personally enjoy the many processes of physically constructing the individual parts of many projects. For instance, I designed and built a h o § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾ # ⚓ Latinx_with_dementia_and_caregiving:_A_balancing_act⠀⇛ Dr Lynn Woods, Professor in the Department of Doctoral Programs, School of Nursing, Azusa Pacific University, discusses the challenges of dementia and caregiving within the Latino community Twenty-one percent of Latinos are caregivers to someone with dementia., generally a family member. They spend more time and experience increased burdens compare to their White or Asian-American counterparts. The stress that caregivers experience can, and frequently does, lead to negative emotional (depression) and physical (cardiovascular, hypertension) events. The increased stress associated with caring for someone with behavioural symptoms of dementia (BSD) elevates this risk further. o § Integrity/Availability⠀➾ # § Proprietary⠀➾ # ⚓ Better.com’s_morale_and_SPAC_merger_success_in question_after_CEO’s_unruly_comments_–_Fortune⠀⇛ # ⚓ Tech_Bro_CEO_lays_off_900_people_in_Zoom_call_and makes_himself_the_victim⠀⇛ Managing a business during the plague years has been tough for many, but one plucky CEO has found a clever and efficient way to execute such an unpleasant task: fire 900 workers at once in a Zoom meeting. In an exercise completely devoid of sensitivity, Better.com CEO Vish Garg gathered around 900 of his staff onto a five- minute Zoom call during the month of Christmas to tell them their jobs were officially nonexistent. “If you are on this call, you are part of the unlucky group being laid off. Your employment here is terminated, effective immediately,” the CEO said. # ⚓ Better_CEO_is_‘taking_time_off’_after_firing_900 staff_on_Zoom⠀⇛ Better CEO Vishal Garg, best-known for firing 900 employees over one giant Zoom call, is taking time off work while the company hires a third-party to perform a “leadership and cultural assessment.” After video footage of the meeting was leaked, the Softbank-backed digital mortgage biz was suddenly thrust into the limelight. Garg was blasted for not only laying off nine per cent of staff in such an abrupt manner just weeks before Christmas, but for his stunning lack of empathy. “The last time I did it, I cried,” he told stunned staffers. “This time I hope to be stronger.” His previous treatment of employees was also dug up. He once called some staff “dumb dolphins” or “too damn slow” and “embarrassing.” He urged people to not take Indigenous Peoples’ Day off because time should be spent working towards “capital, and therefore our freedom.” # ⚓ Android_Phones_With_Microsoft_Teams_Installed_May_Not Be_Able_to_Call_911⠀⇛ # ⚓ Some_Android_phones_can’t_call_911_thanks_to_a_weird bug_•_The_Register⠀⇛ Google confirmed there was, indeed, a software issue that affects devices running on Android 10 and above from reaching 911. It appears to only affect emergency calls; other phone numbers are fine. The glitch seems to stem from the Microsoft Teams app, according to a response posted on Reddit from an official Google account. # ⚓ Microsoft_signs_settlement_with_US_Justice_Dept_over ‘immigration-related_discrimination’_claims⠀⇛ Microsoft has settled with the US Justice Department over immigration-related discrimination claims. At the heart of the investigation were allegations that the Windows giant discriminated against non-US citizens based on their citizenship status as well as against lawful permanent residents. # ⚓ Flash?_Nu-uh._Windows_11_users_complain_of_slow_NVMe SSD_performance [Ed: Microsoft_Tim is discovering that Vista 11 is hype and bugs, little else]⠀⇛ Users of Windows 11 are complaining about slow write speeds on NVMe SSD drives, a problem which persists even though it was acknowledged by a Microsoft engineer three months ago. # § Security⠀➾ # ⚓ Countless_Servers_Are_Vulnerable_to_Apache Log4j_Zero-Day_Exploit⠀⇛ A critical vulnerability has been discovered in Apache Log4j 2, an open- source Java package used to enable logging in many popular applications, and it can be exploited to enable remote code execution on countless servers. The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) has identified the vulnerability as CVE-2021-44228; LunaSec has dubbed it Log4Shell. (And security researcher Kevin Beaumont was kind enough to create a logo for it, too.) ASF says Log4Shell receives the maximum severity rating, 10, on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) scale. # ⚓ Apple_iCloud,_Twitter_and_Minecraft_vulnerable to_‘ubiquitous’_zero-day_exploit_–_TechCrunch⠀⇛ A number of popular services, including Apple iCloud, Twitter, Cloudflare, Minecraft and Steam, are reportedly vulnerable to a zero-day exploit affecting a popular Java logging library. The vulnerability, dubbed “Log4Shell” by researchers at LunaSec and credited to Chen Zhaojun of Alibaba, has been found in Apache Log4j, an open source logging utility that’s used in […] # ⚓ Log4j_RCE:_Emergency_patch_issued_to_plug critical_auth-free_code_execution_hole_in_widely- used_logging_utility⠀⇛ An unauthenticated remote code execution vulnerability in Apache’s Log4j Java-based logging tool is being actively exploited, researchers have warned after it was used to execute code on Minecraft servers. Infosec firm Randori summarised the vuln in a blog post, saying: “Effectively, any scenario that allows a remote connection to supply arbitrary data that is written to log files by an application utilizing the Log4j library is susceptible to exploitation.” Crafted proof-of-concept code snippets are already doing the rounds. # ⚓ Global_race_to_patch_critical_computer_bug⠀⇛ # ⚓ Global_tech_experts_race_to_fix_‘fully weaponised’_software_flaw⠀⇛ A software vulnerability exploited in the online game Minecraft is rapidly emerging as a major threat to internet- connected devices around the world. # ⚓ Serious_bug_puts_Apple_iCloud,_Twitter, Minecraft_at_hacking_threat⠀⇛ Several popular services, including Apple iCloud, Amazon, Twitter, Cloudflare and Minecraft, are vulnerable to a ‘ubiquitous’ zero-day exploit, cybersecurity researchers have warned, leaving IT security teams at several companies scrambling to patch the vulnerability called ‘Log4Shell’. # ⚓ ALPHV_BlackCat_–_This_year’s_most_sophisticated ransomware [Ed: By Microsoft booster Lawrence Abrams]⠀⇛ ALPHV BlackCat also uses the Windows Restart Manager API to close processes or shut down Windows services keeping a file open during encryption. # ⚓ Irish_Health_Service_ransomware_attack_happened after_one_staffer_opened_malware-ridden_email [Ed: Irish Health Service victim of Microsoft; like_so_many_hospitals]⠀⇛ “The Malware infection was the result of the user of the Patient Zero Workstation clicking and opening a malicious Microsoft Excel file that was attached to a phishing email sent to the user on 16 March 2021.” # ⚓ Git_cybersecurity_startup_GitGuardian_raises $44M⠀⇛ Git cybersecurity startup GitGuardian SAS has announced that it has raised $44 million in new funding to accelerate growth strategies, extend its secret detection solution to become a comprehensive code security platform, expand its go-to-market and increase its headcount. # ⚓ FontOnLake_a_new_malware_that_also_affects Linux_systems⠀⇛ It’s called FontOnLake and, as they tell about Security Week , this new malware can attack Linux systems. A somewhat unprecedented issue for this malware is the fact that developers are constantly tweaking modules so that they evolve to infect as many systems as possible. The extensive PDF that ESET researchers published details the ways in which the malware works. Once the system is infected, in addition to collecting personal information, such as the history of commands, sshd credentials, it loads backdoors and rootkit modules, to make the system available to the attacker. # ⚓ Spar_shops_across_northern_England_shut_after cyber_attack_hits_payment_processing_abilities⠀⇛ The British arm of Dutch supermarket chain Spar has shut hundreds of shops after suffering an “online attack,” the company has confirmed to The Register. “This has not affected all SPAR stores across the North of England,” a Spar spokesman told us, “but a number have been impacted over the past 24 hours and we are working to resolve this situation as quickly as possible.” LancsLive, a local news website for Lancashire, reported that a “total and widespread IT outage” hit the chain at the weekend, along with “security breach” problems today. The publication reported that food distie James Hall & Co, which provides services to 600 Spar stores was also down – the company website is serving up only an Error 20 code, indicating a general network failure. # § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾ # ⚓ Biden_Acts_on_Surveillance,_Florida Broadband_Maps,_Free_State_Wants Constitutional_Spectrum⠀⇛ The Biden administration announced on Thursday an initiative to prevent the use of technology for surveillance by authoritarian governments, the Wall Street Journal reports. The Chinese government is among many authoritarian governments that rely on imported technology to conduct state surveillance. U.S. technology has been used in China to surveil citizens, modernize its military and target Uyghurs in Xinjiang. o § Finance⠀➾ # ⚓ Ginther_disbands_Coleman’s_Department_of_Education,_folding staff_into_mayor’s_office⠀⇛ When former Mayor Michael B. Coleman’s business- backed push to share Columbus City Schools property-tax revenue with charter schools was shot down by voters in 2013, he nonetheless moved forward with his promised new city Department of Education. # ⚓ Some_Texas_religious_leaders_live_in_lavish,_tax-free estates_thanks_to_obscure_law⠀⇛ This fall, county officials mailed out property tax bills to the owners of a 10-bedroom, 10.5-bath Houston-area mansion, an 8,000-square-foot residence in a historic San Antonio neighborhood, an elegant Highland Park estate in Dallas and a house on more than an acre overlooking Corpus Christi Bay. The homes are worth millions of dollars. In each case, their 2021 tax bill was identical: Zero. Most people know that religious organizations pay no property taxes on their houses of worship. Lesser known is that many also get a valuable break on residences for their clergy as well. The word “parsonage,” as these residences are called, conjures images of humble, spartan rooms attached to drafty churches. A few still are. Yet in many places across Texas, parsonages are extravagant estates nestled in the state’s most exclusive enclaves. Like their wealthy neighbors, the clergy occupants enjoy spacious and well- appointed homes, immaculate grounds, tennis courts, swimming pools, decorative fountains and serene grottos. # ⚓ Samsung_shakeup_overlooks_one_important_component⠀⇛ Samsung Electronics nicely rearranged some deck chairs, but unhelpfully left a big one in place. As part of a significant restructuring, the $435 billion company will combine https:// news.samsung.com/global/samsung-electronics- announces-new-leadership-2 its mobile and consumer electronics units into one division overseen by rising star Han Jong-hee, who was also elevated to vice chairman and chief executive. o § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾ # ⚓ Trump’s_Big_SPAC_Deal_Is_Under_Investigation_by_the S.E.C.⠀⇛ o § Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾ # ⚓ Facebook_slapped_with_an_eyepopping_$150B_lawsuit_for spreading_hate_speech_against_Rohingya_refugees⠀⇛ Meta was sued on Tuesday for a whopping $150 billion in a class-action lawsuit for allegedly amplifying hate speech and aiding the Myanmar military in the genocide of the Rohingya people. The case, led by an anonymous Rohingya refugee living in the US, accuses the entity formerly known as Facebook of inciting hatred and inflicting real harm on the predominantly Muslim group for years. Not only did the social media platform ignore hate speech posts, it’s alleged that the service’s algorithms actively promoted anti-Rohingya propaganda as hundreds of thousands of people fled from Myanmar to escape persecution. # ⚓ Peter_Thiel’s_Free_Speech_for_Race_Science_Crusade_at Cambridge_University_Revealed_–_Byline_Times [Ed: Riling up racists with pseudo-science of white supremacy]⠀⇛ network of academics influencing Government policy on ‘free speech’ in universities is being steered by pro-Donald Trump lobbyists and donors linked to Republican billionaire venture capitalist Peter Thiel – the chairman and co-founder of CIA-backed data analytics giant Palantir Technologies, a special investigation by Byline Times can reveal. Sources at Cambridge University have confirmed to Byline Times that the network of conservative academics – many of whom ended up mobilising around Toby Young’s Free Speech Union (FSU) and writing for Claire Lehmann’s Quillette magazine – has been supported from its inception by Peter Thiel’s top chief of staff. # ⚓ Why_the_Kremlin_Blocking_TOR_Is_a_Big_Deal⠀⇛ Throughout 2021, Russia’s Internet censors mounted a systematic attack on technologies that could be used by the country’s users to bypass censorship. In the summer, Roskomnadzor blocked the first two VPNs, then the popular browser Opera killed support for its VPN. In September, eight more popular VPNs were blocked. And then Apple turned off its Private Relay service in Russia. Private Relay was designed to encrypt all the traffic leaving the user’s device so no one can intercept it. Apple has already been forced to turn it off in China, Belarus, Colombia, Egypt, Kazakhstan, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Turkmenistan, Uganda and the Philippines, citing ‘regulatory requirements’ in those countries. Now it is Russia’s turn. TOR was Russia’s next natural target because the software allows users to access websites and pages blocked by the authorities. But the significance of this development is much bigger. Many technologies the users use today to avoid censorship were developed as commercial tools. VPNs, or virtual private networks, were developed when companies understood they needed a secure way to share data between different offices, and to allow employees to access sensitive files remotely and safely. o § Freedom of Information/Freedom of the Press⠀➾ # ⚓ Assange_extradition_case_goes_to_UK_Home_Secretary_as_High Court_rules_he_can_be_sent_to_US_for_trial⠀⇛ Julian Assange will be sent stateside for trial on criminal charges after the US government won an appeal against an earlier court order that released him from the threat of extradition. The former WikiLeaks editor-in-chief lost the latest stage of his attempt to avoid being sent to the US after the Lord Chief Justice and Lord Justice Holroyde accepted US assurances that he would be treated humanely in their prisons. The High Court has quashed a previous court order “freeing” Assange*, meaning the case will now join the growing pile on Home Secretary Priti Patel’s desk awaiting her decision on whether to extradite. After Judge Baraitser formally discharged Assange in January, the US filed an immediate appeal. Baraitser had thrown out all of Assange’s arguments except one: that he would kill himself if sent abroad to stand trial. # ⚓ TLAV:_Maxwell_Trial_Facade,_Assange_Extradition_&_The “Vaccine_Equity”_Hypocrisy⠀⇛ Whitney joined TLAV to discuss her perspectives on the recent UK ruling regarding Julian Assange’s potential extradition, the utter facade that is the Ghislaine Maxwell trial, and how the Omicron variant has exposed an inherent hypocrisy in the stance of those calling for “vaccine equity” while pretending to be anti-imperialists. o § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾ # ⚓ Crime_Prediction_Software_Promised_to_Be_Free_of_Biases. New_Data_Shows_It_Perpetuates_Them⠀⇛ Between 2018 and 2021, more than one in 33 U.S. residents were potentially subject to police patrol decisions directed by crime prediction software called PredPol. The company that makes it sent more than 5.9 million of these crime predictions to law enforcement agencies across the country—from California to Florida, Texas to New Jersey—and we found those reports on an unsecured server. The Markup and Gizmodo analyzed them and found persistent patterns. Residents of neighborhoods where PredPol suggested few patrols tended to be Whiter and more middle- to upper-income. Many of these areas went years without a single crime prediction. By contrast, neighborhoods the software targeted for increased patrols were more likely to be home to Blacks, Latinos, and families that would qualify for the federal free and reduced lunch program. These communities weren’t just targeted more—in some cases they were targeted relentlessly. Crimes were predicted every day, sometimes multiple times a day, sometimes in multiple locations in the same neighborhood: thousands upon thousands of crime predictions over years. A few neighborhoods in our data were the subject of more than 11,000 predictions. # ⚓ Set_Them_Free:_A_Manifesto_Towards_Moving_Beyond_Academic Imperialism⠀⇛ When you love your country, you do things to keep them free from the new age of imperialism. Imperialism has come to the point that anyone who wishes to be promoted is requested to speak and write in a language which they don’t natively speak. All of this is in the name of international recognition. Various offers — be they — calls for a paper or a book, invitations to webinars on how to publish in high impact journals, bundled subscription for access to databases and paywalled journals, to editing services — are flowing to the email inbox of Indonesian academics practically daily. The senders are publishers, paid database indexing service, and also companies providing editing services. Not only individuals are targeted, but also institutions. Academics are now merely the object, not the subject, in the development of knowledge. # ⚓ Saudi_activist_Loujain_al-Hathloul_files_lawsuit_claiming_3 former_U.S._officials_helped_hack_her_iPhone_before_she_was imprisoned,_tortured_–_CBS_News⠀⇛ Loujain al-Hathloul, a prominent Saudi political activist who pushed to end a ban on women driving in her country, is suing three former U.S. intelligence and military officials she says helped hack her cellphone so a foreign government could spy on her before she was imprisoned and tortured. The nonprofit Electronic Frontier Foundation announced Thursday that it had filed a lawsuit in U.S. federal court on al-Hathloul’s behalf against former U.S. officials Marc Baier, Ryan Adams and Daniel Gericke, as well as a cybersecurity company called DarkMatter that has contracted with the United Arab Emirates. In the lawsuit, al-Hathloul alleges that the trio oversaw a project for DarkMatter that hacked into her iPhone to track her location and steal information as part of broader surveillance efforts targeting dissidents within the UAE and its close ally Saudi Arabia. She said the hacking of her phone led to her “arbitrary arrest by the UAE’s security services and rendition to Saudi Arabia, where she was detained, imprisoned, and tortured.” o § Internet Policy/Net Neutrality⠀➾ # ⚓ FCC_Commissioner_Carr_Details_Steps_Needed_for_5G,_Says Talk_of_6G_‘Almost_Too_Early’ [Ed: Commissioner for buzzwords and faked hype to push monopolistic patent pools that have ramifications on safety and health?]⠀⇛ Federal Communications Commissioner Brendan Carr says that proper planning on increased spectrum release and infrastructure reform is necessary for the FCC to ensure a smooth rollout of 5G technology. # ⚓ Swiss_propose_boosting_minimum_internet_speed⠀⇛ From 2024, an internet connection with a download speed of 80 Mbit/s and upload speed of 8 Mbit/ s will replace the current standard of 10 and 1 Mbit/s, it suggested when putting the proposal out for public comment which runs until March. o § Monopolies⠀➾ # ⚓ Nextcloud_Asks_EU_to_Stop_Microsoft_From_Bundling_OneDrive With_Windows⠀⇛ Nextcloud has asked the European Commission to stop Microsoft from pre-installing OneDrive and Teams on Windows to give competitive services a fair chance to appeal to PC users. “Microsoft is integrating 365 deeper and deeper in their service and software portfolio, including Windows,” Nextcloud says on a web page dedicated to its antitrust complaint against Microsoft. “OneDrive is pushed wherever users deal with file storage and Teams is a default part of Windows 11. This makes it nearly impossible to compete with their SaaS services.” # ⚓ Amazon_fined_€1.13bn_by_Italy’s_antitrust_authorities_•_The Register⠀⇛ Amazon was slapped with a whopping €1.13bn (£963.7m or $1.3bn) fine by Italy’s antitrust regulator on Thursday for “abusing its dominant position” and handicapping sellers that aren’t using its logistics service. The ecommerce giant offers to pack, ship, and deliver goods sold by third-party vendors under its Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA) platform. Sellers only have to send their products to an Amazon warehouse, and its workers will handle everything else from there. Although the service is handy, it cuts into their profits. # ⚓ Regulating_Big_Tech_is_not_enough._We_need_platform socialism⠀⇛ Facebook whistleblower, Frances Haugen described the company as “morally bankrupt” before a panel of the US Senate Commerce Committee on 5 October. From her position on the company’s civic misinformation team, she witnessed its leadership consistently resolve conflicts between the company’s profits and users’ safety in favour of the former. This was true across a range of issues from hate speech to teenage mental health, ethnic violence and differential treatment for VIP users. She has also called for greater government regulation and oversight but has dismissed claims that tougher action is needed against the tech giant. In Europe, greater oversight is fast approaching. The proposed Digital Services Act will change the rules for how digital platforms handle content that has been flagged as illegal and will regulate digital gatekeepers to prevent anti- competitive behaviour. # § Patents⠀➾ # ⚓ This_invention_could_be_relevant_to_metaverse_CAD/CAM •_The_Register⠀⇛ Nvidia’s CEO Jensen Huang continues inventing, as if his role in the rise of GPUs wasn’t enough. A patent application published on December 2 credits Huang as one of the inventors of a system to open and share a file in the cloud without the need for a corresponding application on local devices. Instead, the opened file is encoded and presented through a video stream, with everything happening in the cloud. To be clear, the application is a continuation of filings and patents granted dating back to 2012 related to graphics processing in the cloud and network-attached GPUs. The new patent hasn’t been granted yet. # ⚓ Nurses_from_28_countries_file_UN_complaint_alleging human_rights_violations_by_EU_and_four_countries_for ‘the_loss_of_countless_lives’_in_the_pandemic⠀⇛ A coalition of nurses unions representing well over 2.5 million health care workers from 28 countries around the world, coordinated by Global Nurses United (GNU) and the Progressive International (PI), have filed a complaint with the United Nations alleging human rights violations by the European Union, the United Kingdom, Norway, Switzerland, and Singapore during the Covid- 19 pandemic, whose end, they write “is nowhere in sight.” In their complaint addressed to Dr. Tlaleng Mofokeng, the UN’s Special Rapporteur on Physical and Mental Health, the nurses charge that “these countries have violated our rights and the rights of our patients — and caused the loss of countless lives” through “continued opposition to the TRIPS waiver … resulting in the violation of human rights of peoples across the world.” # § Software Patents⠀➾ # ⚓ Clearview’s_dodgy_selfie-scraping_AI_facial recognition_technology_set_to_be_patented⠀⇛ Clearview’s controversial facial recognition technology is getting closer to being patented by the US Patent and Trademark Office. The USPTO has given Clearview a “notice of allowance”, a sign that the startup’s patent application will be approved once it pays administrative costs, Politico reported. Clearview said it has scraped ten billion photos from public social media accounts. Although companies like Instagram and Twitter disapprove, Clearview has continued to download these images without permission. # § Copyrights⠀➾ # ⚓ Supreme_Court_Urged_To_Reverse_Warhol_Copyright Ruling_–_Law360⠀⇛ A copyright battle over a decades-old series of Andy Warhol prints of music legend Prince has reached the steps of the U.S. Supreme Court, with Warhol’s foundation arguing that the high court has “repeatedly made clear” that a work can be transformative when it conveys a different meaning from the preexisting work. ╘══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╛ ¶ Lines in total: 6883 ➮ Generation completed at 02:42, i.e. 104 seconds to (re)generate ⟲