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This is important! “The EPO does not serve the public interest; heck, it does not even serve the interest of its own staff!”Writing to colleagues, their elected representatives wrote: “The Office systematically presents the operating results (i.e., the difference between the operating income or revenue and the operating expenditure) by referring to the standardised operating results, in accordance with the IFRS accounting method. By reading these figures, one would get the impression that the operating results of the Office are close to zero and may also move into negative territory. However, the actual or real achieved operating results have been strongly positive in the last years and are forecast to remain strongly positive in the upcoming years. The difference between standardised operating results and actual operating results and the influence of the IFRS accounting method is worsening the picture of the financial situation of the Office as explained in the full publication…” Here’s the full publication as HTML: Zentraler Personalausschuss Central Staff Committee Le Comité Central du Personnel Munich, 12/05/2022 sc22056cp Office’s operating results and IFRS accounting Is the financial situation of the EPO as critical as the management presents it? Dear Colleagues, The Office systematically presents the operating results (i.e., the difference between the operating income or revenue and the operating expenditure) by referring to the standardised operating results. By reading these figures, one would get the impression that the operating results of the Office are close to zero and may also move into negative territory. However, the actual or real achieved operating results have been strongly positive in the last years and are forecast to remain strongly positive in the upcoming years. Standardised operating results and actual operating results When one reads the monthly Financial Status Reports, the monthly MAC (Management Advisory Committee) reports or the presentation on the financial situation of the Office given this year, one would get the impression that the total income (or revenue) and the total operating costs are substantially equal, i.e., that the operating result of the Office is close to zero. The example with the most recent data is the Financial status report December 20211, which reads: “The standardised operating result for 2021 was €47.0m, which is €4.2m (9.8%) better than 2020”. In this formulation the key word is standardised, which implies that the given figure has been subjected to some modification in order to comply with some standard. Indeed, the used standard is the IFRS accounting method, which comprises a set of international accounting standards, which state how particular types of transactions and other events should be reported in financial statements. On the other hand, the yearly actual operating results tell a totally different story; the following is the sequence of the actual operating results of the last years: 2019 | EUR 391m (actual)2 2020 | EUR 376m (actual)3 2021 | EUR 332m (forecast)3 2022 | EUR 304m (budget)3 In particular, for 2020, the last year for which the actual figures are available, the operating income has been of EUR 2189m and the operating expenditure of EUR 1813m: the income is about 20% higher than the expenditure! ______ 1 Financial status report December 2021 2 2021 Budget – CA/D 1/20 (p. 18/167) 3 2022 Budget – CA/D 1/21 (p. 21/185) ===================================================================== It is also to be pointed out that the operating expenditure comprises the expenditure for the Pension and Social Security Schemes (PSSS), which amounted to EUR 309m in 2020, is forecast at EUR 325m in 2021 and is budgeted at EUR 361m in 2022. A further indication that said actual operating results represent the real numbers is given by the significant yearly cash transfers from the Office’s Treasury to the Pension Reserve Fund of the RFPSS (Reserve Funds for Pension and Social Security) and to the EPOTIF (EPO Treasury Investment Fund). In 2021 the cash transfer to the RFPSS amounted to EUR 150m4 and the cash transfer to the EPOTIF to at least EUR 250m5. Is the IFRS accounting method suitable for depicting the financial situation of the Office? The management argues that the actual operating results are not suitable for depicting the actual financial situation of the Office and that the IFRS accounting method provides on the contrary the correct picture. Such statement has for example been made in said presentation on the financial situation of the Office given this year. However, no substantial arguments in support of this statement are provided, apart from generic arguments such as “Allows comparability and consistency over time” and “Recognises accrued pension rights of current active employees”. On the other hand, a panel of financial experts has stated that the IFRS accounting method does not provide a good picture of the real financial situation of the Office. These experts are the actuaries of the Actuarial Advisory Group (AAG)6, which have given their opinion on the IFRS accounting method in the Joint report of the Actuarial Advisory Group to the President of the Office – Actuarial valuation as at 31.12.20207. According to the actuaries, the advantage of having a prescribed basis for all employers is that it helps financial analysts compare results across a wide range of schemes and employers. It is therefore particularly appropriate for employers’ accounts. However, IFRS has some major disadvantages: • The discount rate may be very volatile from one balance sheet date to the next, generating volatility in the liability and pension cost accordingly; • The choice of the discount rate does not take account of the scheme’s actual investment strategy; and • The determination of the liability of the pension cost does not take into account the existence of funding assets held in a reserve fund at all. There is therefore often a mismatch between the prescribed accounting basis and what the scheme expects to happen in real life. The result can show considerable volatility in the level of coverage shown in the accounting valuation and thus on the employers’ balance sheet. This is particularly true where the scheme invests predominantly in equities in order to obtain higher returns in the long term, as is common practice for funded plans and as is applicable for the Reserve Funds for Pensions and Social Security (RFPSS). What the actuaries have stated for the RFPSS also applies to the EPOTIF, which also invests a significant part of its assets in equities. ______ 4Summary of Conclusions of the 127th BFC meeting – CA/67/21 (p. 5/6) 5 EPOTIF Performance and Risk Report Q3 2021 – CA/F 31/21 (p. 3/62) 6 The AAG consists of three independent actuaries and advises the Office on the conditions to be met in order to ensure the equilibrium of its pension scheme; was established by the President of the Office in 1992. 7 CA/41/21 (p. 10/44) ===================================================================== Conclusion It is recommendable to be very critical when considering the picture of the financial situation of the Office provided by the management, who acts in the opposite way to the managers of private or public companies, who usually try to give a favourable picture. An overly negative picture of the financial situation of the Office is intended mainly to justify the massive cuts to the employment conditions that have already been made in the last years and further future potential cuts, which are absolutely ungrounded when considering the real situation. The real numbers of the operating results show on the other hand yearly surpluses between about 15% and 20% of the operating expenditure. This is also true at least on the medium term, as shown by the estimates for the years 2025 and 20263. And again, the operating expenditure also comprises the expenditure for the Pension and Social Security Schemes. ⚓ These are quite healthy figures for a non-profit organisation8.⠀⇛ The Central Staff Committee ______ 8 According to Article 42 EPC, the budget of the Organisation shall be balanced. As noted repeatedly in the video, many of the financial gains of the EPO (surplus) are due to violations of the law, like granting tons of bogus patents — not limited to software_patents — and then charging “renewal” fees (to maintain ill-gotten monopolies that harm European individuals and businesses). The EPO does not serve the public interest; heck, it does not even serve the interest of its own staff! █ ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 335 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at http://techrights.org/2022/05/19/epo-funds-luka/#comments Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2022/05/19/epo-funds-luka/ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 05.19.22⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ [Meme]_EPO_Applicants_Unwittingly_Fund_the_War_on_Ukraine⠀✐ Posted in Europe, Patents at 2:48 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇Thank_you,_EPO,_for_sending_your_budget_to_Minsk⦈_ Summary: As we’ve just shown, António_Campinos is desperately_trying_to_hide a massive EPO scandal ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠟⠛⠛⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠟⠛⣋⣩⣤⣤⣶⣶⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣶⣶⣶⣤⣬⣉⣙⠛⠿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠟⢋⣡⣴⣾⣿⣿⣿⠛⡟⢻⠛⡏⠟⠙⣽⡝⡍⡏⠹⢹⣿⢸⢐⡅⡆⣿⣿⣿⣿⣶⣦⣌⠙⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⡟⢽⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡟⢁⣴⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣦⣧⣬⣴⣥⣦⣼⣼⣷⣷⣶⡷⣾⢿⡶⡾⢿⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣦⠈⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢹⣤⠿⣛⡍⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢙⠁⢸⠀⣿⠔⡇⠆⡀⡇⢸⢠⠀⡇⣙⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠿⣟⡃⣭⣶⠸⠿⢃⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡀⠹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣾⢷⡾⢶⠿⡷⠿⠿⡿⣻⡛⡻⡛⣿⠻⢻⠛⠋⡏⢹⠉⣿⣿⣿⣿⠇⢠⣿⣿⡟⣐⡟⣘⣛⢡⣭⡇⣶⣿⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣦⡈⠻⣿⣿⡀⡇⠘⢰⠀⠅⣇⠀⡇⢸⠐⣀⣏⣀⣧⣸⣇⣧⣁⣿⣤⣼⣼⣤⣧⣼⣴⣿⡿⠟⢁⣴⣿⣿⣿⢡⣽⢃⣛⡋⣚⣯⢠⣽⡶⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣶⣤⣉⠓⠷⢾⣷⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠛⣉⣤⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣭⣯⣛⣛⢘⣛⣋⣚⣛⣥⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣶⣤⣬⣍⣉⣉⣛⡛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⣛⣋⣉⣉⠛⠻⢿⣿⣿⣆⠘⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⣿⣟⣛⠛⠇⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣦⣤⣉⡛⠣⠀⠻⣿⣿⡃⣰⣿⢿⣿⡟⠈⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⣫⠹⠶⠦⠾⠿⠶⠶⠰⠶⠶⢶⡏⣭⣭⣽⡛⣛⣛⠷⠶⣤⣽⣿⣏⣿⣷⣦⣼⠃⠀⠈⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣻⢵⣿⣷⠘⠁⠀⠀⢰⠃⠀⠂⠀⠀⠷⡆⢀⣀⡈⣥⡭⢭⠛⡙⠶⠾⡭⡉⣛⠋⠁⠉⠀⠀⢠⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠟⣻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⣖⣿⣾⣿⣿⡆⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠉⠁⠘⠃⠌⠰⣶⡦⠘⠒⠆⠉⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠸⠟⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣯⣭⣴⣶⡟⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣮⣾⣿⢟⣫⣾⣷⠀⠀⠀⠀⠹⣶⣾⣿⣶⣶⣶⣄⣒⣠⣄⡀⡆⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠀⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠙⠛⣸⣿⢇⣿⣛⢃⣭⣽⢹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠉⠉⠙⠛⢙⣭⣽⣿⣿⡿⠷⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠁⠀⠆⠔⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⡄⠈⡛⣘⣛⡛⣨⣭⡅⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣞⢷⣻⣿⣿⣿⣿⡄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣠⣾⣿⣿⣭⣁⣀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠁⡀⠈⠁⠛⣛⡃⣭⣭⢰⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣮⢳⡝⢿⣿⣻⣷⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⣻⠿⣿⣿⣷⡆⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠐⢈⡤⠖⠃⠀⣭⣬⣥⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢧⡹⣦⣿⣿⣿⣷⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⠉⠃⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠁⠀⢀⣠⠴⠂⠈⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⡿⠻⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣮⡙⠈⢻⣿⣿⣿⣷⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠐⠊⠁⠀⠠⠀⠈⡛⠻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⡇⠀⠈⠉⠙⠻⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣇⡁⠂⠙⢿⣿⣿⣷⡄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠐⠒⠊⠉⠁⠀⠿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣶⣤⣀⣀⠀⠀⠀⠍⠙⢻⣿⡿⠟⢛⣿⡏⠁⠻⢟⣿⣿⣿⣿⣄⠁⠀⠙⢿⣿⣿⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠛⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠉⠉⠉⢀⣼⢿⠿⠟⠻⠙⠋⠉⠁⠀⠟ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣶⣦⣍⣛⡛⠂⠀⠀⠒⠀⠀⠐⠿⢟⣻⢭⡻⣤⠀⠁⠀⠹⣌⢿⣆⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠃⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠉⠉⠉⠀⠀⠂⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣾⣧⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⢾⣿⣶⣶⣿⡻⠦⢄⠀⠀⠀⠇⢻⡆⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⣿⣿⢹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠟⠛⠃⠀⢠⣧⣟⣛⣻⣿⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣷⣤⡀⢒⣹⡄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠴⠦⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⣿⣿⠁⣻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⢈⠷⠀⢀⠀⠀⠀⡈⢿⣿⣿⣿⣧⣤⡙⠛⡻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⠀⢎⢿⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣒⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⣿⣿⠐⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠰⠋⠀⣀⣀⣀⣀⡇⠼⠛⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣪⢉⠉⡉⠛⠌⠀⠘⣼⣷⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠁⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣀⠀⢀⣾ ⣿⣿⠀⠀⠩⢽⣿⣿⣿⣷⣿⣿⣿⣿⡟⢛⣩⣭⠀⠆⠰⠄⢀⢨⣽⣿⣿⣿⣿⣾⣝⡱⢶⣀⠀⠉⢀⠄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡒⠶⠤⠤⠵⠶⠖⠀⠀⠟⠋⠉⠀⠉⠀⠀⣿ ⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠐⢻⣿⣿⣿⢸⣿⣿⣿⡿⢸⣿⡏⠀⠀⠀⠸⠈⢸⣿⣿⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣦⣅⠀⢀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠶ ⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠐⣿⣿⣿⡼⣿⣿⡿⠧⢻⡿⠃⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠀⠀⠀⠈⢿⡿⠿⠛⢋⣩⣴⣾⣷⣮⣄⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠐ ⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠐⠻⣿⠁⠀⠀⠀⠉⠁⠀⠀⠘⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢄⣲⣷⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣶⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠛⠶⣦⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣋ ⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢼⡇⠀⠄⡀⠀⠀⢾⠃⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢐⣿⣿⡿⢿⣿⣿⣿⢟⣿⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣶ ⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡠⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⡀⠘⡋⢱⣺⣿⠿⣫⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣆⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿ ⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠀⣠⣶⡿⢛⣵⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿ ⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠉⠰⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿ ⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠙⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⡄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿ ⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣯⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣆⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿ ⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠐⠲⢾⠹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⢿⣗⠇⠆⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿ ⣿⣿⣤⣤⣄⣠⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣠⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣄⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣤⣭⣭⣭⣯⣽⣿⣿⣭⣿⣿⣧⣴⣴⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣠⣤⣤⣠⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣿ ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 401 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at http://techrights.org/2022/05/19/epo-ukrainian-googlebomb/#comments Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2022/05/19/epo-ukrainian-googlebomb/ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 05.19.22⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ EPO_Virtue-Signalling_on_the_Ukrainian_Front⠀✐ Posted in Europe, Patents at 2:35 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇Campinos,_Putin,_and_Lukashenko⦈_ A fellow-traveller of the autocratic despots Putin and Lukashenko? The EPO’s virtue-signalling on the Ukrainian front distracts from the ugly reality of its controversial connections to the Belarus IT sector. Summary: António_Campinos persists in attention-shifting dross and photo ops; none of that can change the verifiable facts about the EPO’s connections to Lukashenko’s 'science_park' in Minsk The EPO’s efforts to engage in public displays of “solidarity” with the Ukraine continue apace as evidenced by a_recent_announcement (warning: epo.org link) that António Campinos met with Andrew_Kudin at the EPO premises in Munich on 13 May 2022. “If – as suspected by EPO insiders – the Chairman of the Administrative Council is relying on the Office Administration for his information, then there’s a fair chance that he is being given the “mushroom treatment” by Campinos and his cronies.”Kudin is the Director-General of the Ukrainian State Intellectual Property Institute (“Ukrpatent”). According to the official press release, the EPO “decided to propose an enhanced package of support measures and cooperation activities to its Ukrainian partner”. Campinos and Kudin used the opportunity to sign a “Declaration of Intent” laying down the basis for future co-operation. 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇Campinos_and_Kudin⦈_ Munich Agreement: Campinos and Kudin sign a “Declaration of Intent” on 13 May 2022. The EPO’s frantic virtue-signalling on the Ukrainian front appear to be designed to distract public attention from the ugly reality of the organisation’s connections with the Belarusian IT sector which were explored in a_recent_Techrights_series. The latest in-person meeting between Campinos and Kudin in Munich was preceded by an_earlier_online_“e-meeting” (warning: epo.org link) in April – which Campinos opened with a dramatic statement informing his interlocutor that “In these difficult times, every one of us in the office [i.e., the EPO] feels Ukrainian”. 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇EPO_on_'feel_Ukrainian'⦈_ António Campinos claims to “feel Ukrainian” but evidently prefers to outsource EPO software development to Belarus. Campinos may “feel Ukranian” – at least when it’s time for virtue-signalling via PR photo-ops – but when it comes to outsourcing software development at the EPO his true loyalties seem to lie with the_Belarusian_IT_sector which is firmly under the control of the local autocrat, Putin’s ally Lukashenko. The EPO’s governing body – the Administrative Council – is another enthusiatic participant in the latest wave of hypocritical virtue-signalling. Back in March of this year, the Council held a symbolic minute_of_silence “in solidarity with Ukraine and as a mark of respect for victims of the Russian military aggression”. 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇EPO_minute_of_silence⦈_ At its March 2022 “e-meeting”, the Administrative Council held a symbolic minute_of_silence “in solidarity with Ukraine”. The photo shows members of the EPO’s senior management – including Campinos (centre) – who participated in the online meeting from EPO premises in Munich. Gestures of this kind – however well-intentioned they may be – ultimately ring hollow when they are accompanied by a refusal to address related matters of urgency such as the EPO’s Belarusian outsourcing arrangment and the risks which this poses for the organisation’s IT security. EPO observers are waiting to see whether the Council will see fit to break its silence concerning this highly contentious affair at its forthcoming quarterly meeting next month. This meeting which is due to be held in Munich on 29 and 30 June 2022 will be the first “in person” meeting of the Council in Munich since the declaration of the Covid pandemic in March 2020. In the meantime, the Council Chairman – Czech delegate Josef Kratochvíl – seems to be "asleep_at_the_wheel" as usual. Despite being asked for comment by the Kluwer_Patent_Blog, Kratochvíl has so far failed_to_take_a_position on Campinos’ most recent display of execrable and "potty-mouthed" behaviour towards EPO staff representatives. Against this background, it is hardly surprising that there is no indication that Kratochvíl has any intention to look into the EPO’s controversial Belarusian outsourcing arrangement. As a matter of fact, it’s not even clear whether he is properly briefed about this affair. If – as suspected by EPO insiders – the Chairman of the Administrative Council is relying on the Office Administration for his information, then there’s a fair chance that he is being given the “mushroom_treatment” by Campinos and his cronies. █ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡟⠛⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠟⣉⠉⠉⠛⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠄⠀⣀⠈⢛⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡟⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣛⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠈⠿⢀⣀⡃⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠃⡄⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣟⡋⢻⠿⠊⠙⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡦⣠⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢟⡇⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠉⠀⣐⣠⣤⣤⡀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⠿⣿⣿⠥⠛⠀⠹⠿⠿⣿⠿⡨⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣿⣾⣇⠀⢀⢙⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠆⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠟⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⣾⠁⢿⠈⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣜⠿⢣⣶⣿⣽⣿⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⣦⣝⣿⢿⡿⡃⠈⠙⠻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡟⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡀⡀⢻⠄⠈⢞⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣼⣿⡛⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⢰⣦⡀⠘⠛⡿⡶⣉⠤⢒⣽⣦⡮⢿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠙⠛⠘⠀⠀⠀⠀⡅⠉⢹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⢀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ 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(ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at http://techrights.org/2022/05/19/leenode-birthday/#comments Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2022/05/19/leenode-birthday/ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 05.19.22⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ A_Libera.Chat_Anniversary_and_Happy_Birthday_(Maybe_the_Last)_to_‘Leenode’⠀✐ Posted in Free/Libre_Software at 8:47 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz Video_download_link | md5sum 4361ab9745e44a014f5da4db97a203f3 One Year of Leenode Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 4.0 http://techrights.org/videos/leenode-freenode-one-year-later.webm Summary: What became known as the so-called ‘Leenode’ is a cautionary tale, but maybe it is also a blessing in disguise because IRC as a whole seem to have become a lot more decentralised (as everything_should_be) Joseon/Chosŏn/Freenode (or “Leenode” as some people jokingly call it because of Andrew Lee [1, 2, 3]) was little more than a relic by the end of last summer with few_active_channels_left because of Libera.Chat and the exodus of long- serving Freenode staff. In the latest twist (there have been several, including the network reopening to unregistered users several months ago) Gustaf Erikson’s_blog_explains that “unmaintained project channels on Freenode automatically redirect to #freenode [as I noticed the same day]” and the night beforehand I saw that Freenode is down_to_9_servers (ours_is_1, but we’re not an IRC giant). It was almost 50 servers the same month but one year before. From up to 100,000 simultaneous (online) users it’s down to 10,000 and the vast majority are inactive/idle/bots. “…IRC as a protocol is alive and well. Last year we demonstrated that the number of networks had grown.”So what’s the impact on the channel #freenode? With people being ‘funneled’ into it there seems to be only more confusion. Just_over_24_hours’_logs_(the_past_day) are quite telling. There are some mentions of Libera.Chat, the so-called ‘anniversaries’, many confused people, and lots of ins and outs (JOIN/QUIT). This was and probably still is the most active channel there and it’s in a state of disarray, just like the Freenode Web site, having attempted to reinvent itself (and recycle the brand) as a Reddit clone. Freenode did not really survive the past year, except in purely technical terms. There are still servers there, the network is still accessible, but not much happens there. On the other hand, IRC as a protocol is alive and well. Last year we demonstrated that the number of networks had grown. Here are 500 active_IRC_network_of_significant_size. We need to further decentralise IRC; throwing everything under Libera.Chat would lead to the same sort of disaster (or tragedy) Freenode became. With censorship being dictated centrally, the same fangers inherent in social control media get inherited. Here are five articles published here last year about the importance of decentralising things (the last one is from late 2020): 1. Self-Hosting_Where_Feasible,_Decentralised_(P2P)_Where_Practical,_World Wide_Web_for_the_Rest 2. The_Decentralised_Web/Internet_is_Constantly_Under_Attack_and_We_Must Talk_About_That 3. Gemini_Over_IPFS_(Decentralised_Web,_Accessed_Over_Gemini_Protocol) 4. The_Internet_Was_Made_to_be_Decentralised_and_We_Need_to_Re-decentralise It 5. Regaining_Control_Over_Infrastructure_With_Decentralisation_and_Trusted Encryption We also published a number of articles specific to our efforts/attempts at decentralising IRC. █ ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 831 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at http://techrights.org/2022/05/19/meme-epo-budget-tanking/#comments Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2022/05/19/meme-epo-budget-tanking/ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 05.19.22⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ [Meme]_EPO_Budget_Tanking?⠀✐ Posted in Europe, Finance, Patents at 5:42 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz Public budget: 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇What EPO Wants you to think of budget for employees; The F- ing president; meme⦈ Private budget (EPOTIF): 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇EPO panzer⦈ Summary: While the EPO‘s António_Campinos incites_people_(and_politicians)_to break_the_law he’s also attacking, robbing, and lying to his own staff; 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EPO.org_(Official_EPO_Site)_Continues_to_Promote_Illegal_Agenda_and_Exploit Ukraine_for_PR_Stunts_That_Help_Unaccountable_Crooks⠀✐ Posted in Deception, Europe, Patents at 5:34 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz Video_download_link | md5sum da64158bd76837fcd4970b41dd17d3ae EPO Attention-Shifting Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 4.0 http://techrights.org/videos/epo-belarus-coverup.webm Summary: epo.org has been turned into a non-stop propaganda machine of Benoît Battistelli and António_Campinos because the EPO routinely breaks the law; it’s rather tasteless that while Ukrainians are dying the EPO’s mob exploits Ukraine for PR purposes THERE is a_crisis_in_EPOnia, but insiders can see that a lot better than outsiders because there’s a PR onslaught — pardon the pun — trying to pretend all is normal. Those with deep pockets (money unlawfully earned) can expend some ‘resources’ on Public Relations (PR). EPOnia is run by mobsters and they pocket a lot of money at everyone else’s expense. More on that will follow in the next post and video. We’ve only just published this_article and cartoon about the EPO’s connections to Belarus. The above video concerns the EPO’s noise-centric_response (warning: epo.org link) to scandals, as explained in the annotated screenshot below. 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇EPO_noise_section:_UPC_is_illegal;_Pretending_to_care_for science;_Greenwashing;_Just_for_a_photo_op_or_political_stunt⦈_ The EPO’s noise section with annotation (and four faces of liars and frauds added) The video ends with discussion about the UPC illegalities (kangaroo court for European_software_patents and more; even_former_EPO_executives_state_that_it's illegal, this_new_comment is one of many!) and reactions to inappropriate behaviour by Campinos (some say he_should_resign_or_be_fired). █ ⣤⡄⢠⡄⣤⠤⡤⣤⢤⡤⠤⢤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤ ⣿⡇⣶⡀⣆⠤⢴⠀⡆⣰⠬⢹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣷⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡟⠋⠉⠉⠉⠻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣸⣡⣃⣙⣊⣜⣍⣂⣺⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⠏⠀⠐⣲⣶⣤⠀⠘⣿⣿⣿⠛⣿⣿⠿⣿⣿⣿⠈⢹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣦⣁⣆⣆⣇⣠⣑⣌⣺⣺⣪⣏⣉⣹⣍⣈⣉⣍⣉⣝⣝⣉⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⡏⠀⠀⠈⠉⠙⠉⠀⠀⡟⠛⠛⠀⣃⣉⣰⣶⣾⣿⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣿⡿⡿⣿⣿⢿⣿⢿⠿⠿⡿⠿⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⣿⠿⣿⢿⢿⡿⣿⣿⣿⢿⢿⠿⣿⣿⣿⠿⡿⢿⣿⣿⡿⣿⡿⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣧⠀⠀⠀⠀⠃⠀⠀⢀⡇⠀⠀⠀⡛⠛⣿⣿⡂⠀⠠⢶⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣤⣴⣎⣧⣍⣴⣧⣠⣷⣦⣤⣤⣧⣼⣦⣾⣿⣴⣤⣴⣤⣴⣴⣽⣿⣧⣯⣤⣄⣵⣽⣧⣧⣥⣤⣼⣼⣿⣥⣦⣤⣰⣧⣬⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣼⣿⣿⠛⠀⠀⠀⠿⢿⣷⣶⣀⣸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣯⡭⡋⡯⠙⢹⡫⡫⣛⢍⠉⡋⣫⠙⠉⠍⢉⢿⠫⣫⠉⠉⣝⢽⠏⣻⢙⠋⠉⠉⡉⢩⡋⡯⣻⣋⡝⣿⠹⡝⠍⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⡿⢯⠟ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣤⣀⣀⣀⣤⣾⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⣿⣤⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⠿⠿⢿⢿⠿⣿⢿⢿⢿⠿⢿⢿⢿⠛⢛⢿⢭⢭⢭⢭⡭⡽⢟⠛⠻⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠿⠋⠀⠀⠀ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣵⣧⣤⣵⣼⣧⣼⣴⣵⣿⣤⣤⣤⣊⠦⠷⢤⣼⣧⣿⣴⣧⣭⠴⠤⣌⣣⣿⣿⠿⡿⡿⠿⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣯⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣶⣶⣶⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣆⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣏⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⣿⡟⠉⠉⠉⠉⠋⠉⠉⠉⠉⡉⠉⢙⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠋⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⣿⣿⢻⠻⡟⢻⡟⢟⢟⢟⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠁⠀⠀⠐⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⠾⠷⠷⠾⣾⢾⠷⠷⠿⢿⠿⡿⡿⠿⣿⢿⢿⢿⠿⠿⠿⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⣤⣤⣤⣦ ⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣀⠇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢰⣿⣿⣤⣴⣧⣵⣾⣮⣦⣤⣧⣤⣴⣥⣦⣤⣿⣧⣤⣴⣼⣥⣤⣌⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠸⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⢸⣿⣿⣉⢩⡫⡝⡏⣽⡟⢛⠋⠋⠛⢛⢻⣏⠛⡛⢻⣿⢻⡟⡟⡽⡛⠛⠛⡛⢛⢿⢿⣿⡛⠛⠋⡏⡏⠙⠛⣿⡟⠛⠛⠛⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣀⣀⣀⣀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣀⣀⣀⡐⠀⠁⠀⠆⢸⣿⣿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⣿⣷⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢟⣻⡭⠽⠿⠷⠯⠭⢝⡻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⢸⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠉⣿⣿⣯⣤⣿⣶⣾⣦⣼⣿⣿⣷⣦⣤⣬⣿⣿⣦⣴⣼⣷⣤⣴⣼⣤⣿⣴⣤⣤⣧⣴⣼⣧⡿⣦⣿⣛⣙⣀⣀⣊⣻⢿⣸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠘⠿⢿⢸⣿⡟⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢘⣻⣟⣛⣛⣂⡀⠀⠀⢀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣾⣯⣭⣭⣽⣷⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣯⣭⣯⣽⣭⣭⣭⣯⣭⣽⣭⣽⣭⣯⣭⢝⢝⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⢿⠟⣿⠻⠛⣿⠟⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠻⡿⠛⠛⢟⣿⣿⣿⢛⢻⣿⣿⣿⢿⣿⣿⣿⠿⠿⢿⣿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠋⣴⣿⣿ ⣿⡟⠾⠀⠀⠇⠀⠁⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠁⠰⠘⠿⠻⠟⠀⠀⢹⡏⡭⠬⣬⣭⣬⣥⣬⣥⣥⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⢭⣭⣭⣭⣭⢭⠭⡭⡭⡭⣭⠭⣭⣭⡭⢭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣿⣿⣿⣿⠄⠾⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⡟⠀⠀⢀⠀⠀⣀⣀⡀⠀⣀⡀⠀⠀⠀⢀⡀⠀⠀⠀⢀⠀⢀⣶⣀⣀⣼⡇⠧⠾⠤⠴⠤⠰⠥⠦⠤⠼⠿⠦⠤⠤⠴⠤⠤⠴⠧⠬⠥⠤⠤⠶⠼⠵⠤⠥⠯⠾⠤⠴⠥⠤⠤⠤⠧⠽⠿⠿⣿⣿⡿⠈⠠⣱⣶⠶⣶ ⠛⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢿⣿⡏⠁⡿⠇⠀⠀⠀⢸⠀⠀⠈⡀⠀⠀⠸⠿⠀⠨⢿⣿⣏⣈⣏⣉⣕⣝⣉⣨⣺⣨⣀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣯⣿⣛⣛⣟⣟⣿⣻⣯⣻⣻⣛⣛⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠈⠀⠀⠛ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠉⠀⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⢀⣀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠀⠠⠀⢸⣿⣿⣻⡿⠿⠿⠿⡟⢿⡿⡿⠿⡿⠿⠿⠿⡟⠿⡿⠿⠟⠿⠻⢿⢿⡿⠿⠻⠿⡟⠿⡿⢿⢿⢿⠿⠿⢿⢿⢿⢿⠿⠿⠇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⠠⠀⠈⣸⣿⣿⣿⣿⠐⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⡷⠶⣶⣛⣒⣒⣳⣿⣬⣭⣤⣭⣬⣤⣥⣥⣴⣿⣿⣶⣷⣶⣶⣷⣷⣤⣦⣥⣥⣤⣥⣥⣭⣥⣭⣽⣞⣚⣛⣓⣿⠶⢶⣄⣆⡀⢀⣠⣴ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⠘⠀⠐⡶⢈⠁⠀⠀⢹⣿⣿⣿⣿⢰⠀⠰⠈⠀⢸⣵⣋⣫⠯⠉⠉⣍⣉⣨⣈⣽⣫⣯⣉⣍⡩⡝⢿⣩⣀⣉⣉⣭⣯⣽⣩⣉⣉⣩⣋⣉⣟⣽⣍⣿⠉⣙⣽⣭⠍⠿⠿⣟⣛⡀⠻⡟⠋⢱⠿ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⢿⣿⠿⠟⠻⠿⠟⡿⠿⠿⢻⢿⣿⢿⡿⠿⠿⡿⠿⡿⣿⡿⠿⠿⠿⢿⣖⡶⠶⠶⠶⠾⠿⣿⣿⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣿⣿⣿⣷⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⡀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣸⣾⣿⣿⣶⣶⣶⣶⣷⣾⣾⣾⣾⣿⣾⣷⣤⣴⣷⣶⣷⣿⣿⣶⣶⣾⣾⣿⣷⣶⣶⣶⣶⣷⣽⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣼⣭⣯⣿⣾⣯⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⠀⠀⠀⠉⠀ ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 1064 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐃𝐀𝐈𝐋𝐘 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒 ═════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 05.19.22⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Links_19/05/2022:_The_Gradual_Fall_of_Netflix/DRM⠀✐ Posted in News_Roundup at 7:04 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇GNOME bluefish⦈ § Contents⠀➾ * GNU/Linux o Desktop/Laptop o Audiocasts/Shows o Kernel_Space o Graphics_Stack o Applications o Instructionals/Technical o Games o Desktop_Environments/WMs * Distributions_and_Operating_Systems o Fedora_Family_/_IBM o Canonical/Ubuntu_Family o Devices/Embedded o Open_Hardware/Modding o Mobile_Systems/Mobile_Applications * Leftovers o Science o Education o Hardware o Health/Nutrition/Agriculture o Proprietary o Linux_Foundation o Security # Privacy/Surveillance o Defence/Aggression o Transparency/Investigative_Reporting o Environment # Energy # Wildlife/Nature o Finance o AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics o Censorship/Free_Speech o Freedom_of_Information_/_Freedom_of_the_Press o Civil_Rights/Policing o Internet_Policy/Net_Neutrality o Digital_Restrictions_(DRM) o Monopolies # Copyrights * § GNU/Linux⠀➾ o § Desktop/Laptop⠀➾ # ⚓ Notebook Check ☛ DeskMini_UM350_with_Manjaro_Linux_is MINISFORUM’s_most_affordable_mini_PC_yet_at_US$299⠀⇛ As of late, MINISFORUM has been focusing on a few powerful mini PC builds that are not exactly affordable, but the budget models are still an important profitable part of the portfolio, so much so that the company is now releasing its most affordable mini PC yet in the form of the DeskMini UM350. This is MINISFORUM’s second Manjaro Linux system that is powered by AMD’s Ryzen 5 3550H processor with Vega 8 iGPU. Sure, the APU might be relatively old, but for a price tag as low as US$299, you can hardly find something faster these days. Now, the lowest price only gets you a system without RAM and just 256 GB of SSD storage preloaded with Manjaro Plasma Edition. However, you can add 8 GB of DDR4 RAM for only US$40 more, while the 16 GB RAM + 512 GB SSD version costs US$399. Users can also add their own 2.5-inch HDD. The case measures 5 x 5 x 2 inches and features ports like 1x USB-C 3.1 Gen 2, 3x USB-A 3.1 Gen 2. 1x USB- A 3.0, HDMI + DisplayPort video outputs, 2.5 GbE jack and an audio jack. Connectivity is ensured through a Wi-Fi 6 + BT 5.1 card. o § Audiocasts/Shows⠀➾ # ⚓ FLOSS_Weekly_681:_Yes,_UCAN_–_James_Walker,_Fission.codes and_UCAN⠀⇛ User Controlled Authorization Networks (UCANs) are just one of the many new and useful approaches to decentralization that James Walker, of fission.codes, shares with Doc Searls and Dan Lynch. If you want a detailed dose of pure optimism about Web3 working for you and me, this is the episode for you on FLOSS Weekly. # ⚓ Tux Digital ☛ 14:_Back_Stage_Pass_–_Linux_Out_Loud_– TuxDigital⠀⇛ This week, Linux Out Loud chats about what it is like for us to be content creators on the Tux Digital Network. Welcome to episode 14 of Linux Out Loud. We fired up our mics, connected those headphones as we searched the community for themes to expound upon. We kept the banter friendly, the conversation somewhat on topic, and had fun doing it. # ⚓ Video ☛ Bringing_Windows_Best_Feature_To_Linux!!_– Invidious⠀⇛ Have you ever felt like Linux was just missing something but not sure what it was missing, well maybe it was missing a really annoying watermark telling you to activate your system everytime you use it. # ⚓ Video ☛ Why_Use_The_Terminal_Instead_of_GUI_Apps?_– Invidious⠀⇛ New Linux users often are confused with why more intermediate-to-advanced users gravitate to the terminal rather than just using GUI apps for the same task. There are reasons why newer users hate the terminal and longtime Linux users love the terminal. # ⚓ Linux_in_the_Ham_Shack/LHS_Episode_#467:_The_Weekender XCI⠀⇛ It’s time once again for The Weekender. This is our departure into the world of hedonism, random topic excursions, whimsy and (hopefully) knowledge. 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 § Kernel Space⠀➾ # ⚓ LWN ☛ Linux_5.17.9⠀⇛ I'm announcing the release of the 5.17.9 kernel. All users of the 5.17 kernel series must upgrade. The updated 5.17.y git tree can be found at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ stable/linux-stable.git linux-5.17.y and can be browsed at the normal kernel.org git web browser: https://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/ linux-s... thanks, greg k-h # ⚓ LWN ☛ Linux_5.15.41⠀⇛ # ⚓ LWN ☛ Linux_5.10.117⠀⇛ # ⚓ LWN ☛ Linux_5.4.195⠀⇛ # ⚓ LWN ☛ Linux_4.19.244⠀⇛ # ⚓ LWN ☛ Linux_4.14.280⠀⇛ # ⚓ LWN ☛ Linux_4.9.315⠀⇛ # ⚓ LWN ☛ LWN_is_hiring⠀⇛ LWN does its best to provide comprehensive coverage of the free-software development community, but there is far more going on than our small staff can handle. When expressed that way, this problem suggests an obvious solution: make the staff bigger. Thus, LWN is looking to hire a writer/ editor. o § Graphics Stack⠀➾ # ⚓ mesa_22.1.0mesa_22.1.0⠀⇛ Hi list, I'd like to announce that mesa 21.1.0 is finally available. This release brings with it a lot of greate featurres, including (since rc5) additional kopper backports for zink, and support for Intel's Alchemist DG2 platform. See you all in two weeks with 22.1.1. Cheers, Dylan # ⚓ 9to5Linux ☛ Mesa_22.1_Released_with_Improvements_for_Elden Ring,_Apex_Legends,_Zink,_and_More⠀⇛  New features in the Mesa 22.1 series include support for Intel’s Alchemist DG2 platform, D3D12 GL4.2 support, Vulkan 1.3 support on Lavapipe, and Kopper interface backports for the Zink OpenGL-on- Vulkan driver to provide some minimal amount of display server info. It also introduces several new OpenGL and Vulkan extensions, including GL_NV_pack_subimage, VK_EXT_depth_clip_control on Lavapipe and RADV (Radeon Vulkan) drivers, and VK_EXT_image_2d_view_of_3d on ANV and Lavapipe drivers. o § Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ Session_Messenger⠀⇛ Session is an end to end encrypted messenger that focuses on anonymity and the prevention of metadata collection. I’ve been trying it out over the past week in my quest to eventually collect every private messenger out there and I have some thoughts on it. o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾ # ⚓ The_journey_to_ZFS_raidz1_with_different_sized_disks_(On NetBSD)_(Wheelbarrow_optional)⠀⇛ Now the question of how to use different sized disks with ZFS comes up reasonably often, and the answer is invariably “you don’t”, quite often followed by: [...] # ⚓ Vitux ☛ 5_Ways_to_Open_or_Launch_an_Application_in_Debian⠀⇛ The calculator is one of the basic tools of any operating system. The Linux operating system also includes a calculator application, which is perfectly sufficient for basic use. You can solve both simple and complex mathematical equations. By default, the calculator application in Linux appears in a simple mode. However, to perform more advanced calculations, you can switch to different modes, such as advanced mode, financial mode, and programming mode. If you use the calculator regularly, you may find ways to start it with a method that best suits your needs. In this article, we’ll explain 5 different methods you can use to open an application in your Linux operating system. The methods described include opening the application both from the GUI and from the terminal. # ⚓ Vitux ☛ How_to_Install_Notepad++_Editor_on_Ubuntu⠀⇛ Notepad++ is one of the best text and source code editors developed for the Microsoft Windows platform. Notepad++ is an open-source code editor that is much better than the standard Windows text editor. It supports various features like syntax highlighting, multi-document view, bracket matching, macro recording, auto-completion, color codes, etc. But it is not available for Linux. If you go to the official website of Notepad++, you will notice that there is no link to download Notepad++ for Linux distributions. Fortunately, however, there is a way to use Notepad++ on Linux distributions, as it is available as a snap package for Linux users. # ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_To_Install_Brave_Browser_on_Fedora_36_– idroot⠀⇛ In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Brave Browser on Fedora 36. For those of you who didn’t know, Brave browser is an open-source browser based on the Chromium web browser developed by Brave Software, Inc. Brave is a privacy-focused internet browser that sets itself apart from other browsers by automatically blocking online advertisements and website trackers in its default settings. This article assumes you have at least basic knowledge of Linux, know how to use the shell, and most importantly, you host your site on your own VPS. The installation is quite simple and assumes you are running in the root account, if not you may need to add ‘sudo‘ to the commands to get root privileges. I will show you the step-by-step installation of the Brave browser on a Fedora 36. # ⚓ Linux Shell Tips ☛ How_to_Find_Video_Resolution_(Width_and Height)_in_Linux⠀⇛ Being characterized as a Linux user does not necessarily imply that we are constrained to a technical lifestyle. The advantage of using Linux as the go-to operating system has contributed to the career growth of content creators, video producers, and even online video streamers. Whether it is project-related or work-related, dealing with videos will always redirect us to the issue of video resolution. # ⚓ UNIX Cop ☛ How_to_Check_IPv4_Address_on_CentOS_9_Stream_– Unix_/_Linux_the_admins_Tutorials⠀⇛ The IP address is a numerical label, for example “192.0.10.1” that logically and hierarchically identifies an interface on the network of a device that uses the Internet Protocol or corresponds to the network level of the TCP/IP model. This is why many people need to know what their IP address is to perform network-related configurations. For an experienced user, this should not be a problem, but for a newcomer, it can be a bit of a challenge. Let’s get to it. # ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_To_Install_Nginx_with_Let’s_Encrypt_on_Ubuntu 22.04_LTS_–_idroot⠀⇛ In this tutorial, we will show you how to install MySQL on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. For those of you who didn’t know, Nginx is an open-source, free HTTP server software. In addition to its HTTP server capabilities, Nginx can also function as a proxy server. Whereas Let’s Encrypt is a certificate authority that provides free SSL certificates for websites. Let’s Encrypt supports auto installation of certificates on Apache, Nginx, Plex, and many more. This article assumes you have at least basic knowledge of Linux, know how to use the shell, and most importantly, you host your site on your own VPS. The installation is quite simple and assumes you are running in the root account, if not you may need to add ‘sudo‘ to the commands to get root privileges. I will show you the step-by-step installation of the Let’s Encrypt SSL with Nginx on Ubuntu 22.04 (Jammy Jellyfish). You can follow the same instructions for Ubuntu 22.04 and any other Debian-based distribution like Linux Mint, Elementary OS, Pop!_OS, and more as well. # ⚓ RE:_How_to_set_up_a_Gemini_server⠀⇛ I provide here an opinionated way of configuring what I would consider a reasonably secure gemini server with a minimum of fuss. It isn’t so easy as running the process from your own login shell with `nohup`, but it does get you things like read-only file system access from the server process, hides home directories, a dynamic user without any special privileges, a private tmp directory, and automatic restarts. I will be using gmnisrv, systemd, and firewalld. Let’s dive right in. These instructions assume you start from a basically blank slate of a Debian-like system (Debian, Raspbian, Ubuntu). I don’t walk you though setting up “sudo” but that’s about the only prerequisite here. # ⚓ RE:_Selfhosting_Gemini?⠀⇛ # ⚓ HowTo Forge ☛ How_to_Add_Ubuntu_System_to_FreeIPA_Server⠀⇛ After you have installed the FreeIPA identity management system, you will need to enroll and add client machines to the FreeIPA server. In this tutorial, learn how to add an Ubuntu system to the FreeIPA server. # ⚓ ByteXD ☛ How_to_Install_and_Use_FFmpeg_in_Ubuntu_22.04⠀⇛ FFmpeg is an open source software to manipulate multimedia files. It can play, record, convert, and stream video and audio files. It comes packaged with leading audio and video codecs. Many enterprises use FFmpeg in their core processing of their applications. Many consumer applications use FFmpeg as well. In this tutorial we will install FFmpeg on Ubuntu 22.04 and use a few of its most frequently used features. If you’d like to learn more about how to use FFmpeg, check out are accompanying in-depth tutorial on FFmpeg which has many more examples to use and details about how it all functions and it’s terminologies. # ⚓ Document Foundation ☛ Impress_Guide_is_updated_to_match LibreOffice_Community_7.3⠀⇛ This 374 pages book covers the main features of Impress, the presentations (slide show) component of LibreOffice. You can create slides that contain text, bulleted and numbered lists, tables, charts, clip art, and other objects. Impress comes with prepackaged text styles, slide backgrounds, and Help. It can open and save to Microsoft PowerPoint formats and can export to PDF, HTML, and numerous graphic formats. # ⚓ Linux Journal ☛ Everything_You_Need_to_Know_about_Linux Input-Output_Redirection_|_Linux_Journal⠀⇛ Are you looking for information related to the Linux input-output redirection? Then, read on. So, what’s redirection? Redirection is a Linux feature. With the help of it, you are able to change standard I/O devices. In Linux, when you enter a command as an input, you receive an output. It’s the basic workflow of Linux. The standard input or stdin device to give commands is the keyboard and the standard output or stdout device is your terminal screen. With redirection, you can change the standard input/output. From this article, let’s find out how Linux input-output redirection works. # ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ How_to_Fix_Screen_Tearing_on_Linux⠀⇛ Screen tearing can be frustrating when scrolling through articles, playing a game, or doing just about anything in the graphical user interface (GUI). It can hamper your Linux experience and drive you into thinking of switching to Windows or macOS. Hold those thoughts because, fortunately, there’s a fix for screen tearing that doesn’t involve migrating to another OS. Let’s dive into the process of fixing screen tearing on your Linux desktop. # ⚓ TechRepublic ☛ How_to_deploy_a_Docker_container_with_SSH access_|_TechRepublic⠀⇛ When you have running containers, there might be a time when you have to connect to that container to run a command or handle some maintenance. Of course, you can always access the running container using the docker exec -it CONTAINER_ID bash command (where CONTAINER_ID is the actual ID of the container). But how do you SSH into those containers? And should you want to? That’s the rub. The problem is that because there are so many moving parts, containers can be insecure. Because of that, you won’t want to allow SSH connections to containers in production environments, but for development and testing environments, this can be a real help. With that said, I’m going to show you how to set up SSH connections for a Docker container. I’ll demonstrate using the latest Ubuntu image. # ⚓ TechRepublic ☛ How_to_flush_the_DNS_cache_on_Ubuntu_Server |_TechRepublic⠀⇛ Sometimes a network connection doesn’t seem to function how we expect them to. And it doesn’t matter how much you troubleshoot the issue, the problem doesn’t go away. You’ve configured a static IP address, you know that configuration is solid and you can ping your gateway, but something is causing that Linux server from reaching the outside world in the manner you expect. One problem could be the DNS cache. DNS is a crucial aspect of networking for all machines, as it translates names to IP addresses. When something goes wrong with DNS, your machine might have trouble reaching the outside world. I have experienced, on a few occasions, a DNS cache to be the problem. When that happens, what do you do? You flush the DNS cache. This is a good task to undertake now and then, as your DNS cache can not only grow too large, but it could also contain corrupt entries (which can cause problems with connections). So, how do you flush the DNS cache on Ubuntu Server? # ⚓ ByteXD ☛ How_to_Fix_“Could_not_get_lock_/var/lib/dpkg/lock” Error_in_Ubuntu⠀⇛ In this article we’ll cover the cause of the Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock – open (11 Resource temporarily unavailable) error, and two methods on how to solve it. # ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_To_Install_Bpytop_on_Ubuntu_22.04_LTS_– idroot⠀⇛ In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Bpytop on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. For those of you who didn’t know, Bpytop is a Linux command-line utility for resource monitoring that shows usage and stats for processor, memory, disks, network, and processes. This article assumes you have at least basic knowledge of Linux, know how to use the shell, and most importantly, you host your site on your own VPS. The installation is quite simple and assumes you are running in the root account, if not you may need to add ‘sudo‘ to the commands to get root privileges. I will show you the step-by-step installation of the Bpytop system monitor tool on Ubuntu 22.04 (Jammy Jellyfish). You can follow the same instructions for Ubuntu 22.04 and any other Debian-based distribution like Linux Mint, Elementary OS, Pop!_OS, and more as well. # ⚓ 10_basic_cat_commands_in_Linux_with_examples_– RoseHosting⠀⇛ In this tutorial, we are going to explain some basic cat commands in Linux, that are applicable on various distributions such as Ubuntu, Debian, CentOS, AlmaLinux and etc. The “cat” command is a shortcut of the word “concatenate” and is a very useful command that is frequently used, by system administrators and DevOps engineers. With this command you can easily view files, create them, filter information from them, display line numbers in files and etc. In this post, the cat command will be explained with real examples on Ubuntu 20.04. You can use the Linux distribution of your choice. Let’s get started! o § Games⠀➾ # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Path_of_Exile_Sentinel_rolls_out, controller_support_works_nicely_on_Steam_Deck⠀⇛ With the big Sentinel update to Path of Exile out now, I gave it a spin on my Steam Deck to get a feel for the controls and it really does work nicely. # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Gamescope_from_Valve_pulls_in_support_for NVIDIA_Image_Scaling⠀⇛ Gamescope, an open source project from Valve that’s part of what powers the Steam Deck, now has support for NVIDIA Image Scaling. So it now supports both FSR 1.0 and NVIDIA Image Scaling for various GPUs. # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Pixel_art_survival_horror_game_Lamentum_now supported_on_Linux⠀⇛ Do you love pixel art and survival horror? Have a look at Lamentum from Obscure Tales and Neon Doctrine, as they have just released an official Native Linux build. The game is also currently Steam Deck Verified! # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Humble_Battles_of_Yore_Bundle_has_plenty for_Linux_and_Steam_Deck⠀⇛ A collection of RPGs, grand strategy and more modern spiritual successors to legendary PC games of yore apparently. Humble have an interesting bundle of titles in the Battles of Yore Bundle. # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Godot_Engine_3.5_RC_1_is_up_with_a_new asynchronous_shader_compilation_system⠀⇛ Godot Engine 3.5 is getting close to release with a first Release Candidate available for developers to test the next version of this open source game engine. # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Canonical_seek_Software_Engineers_for_the ‘Ubuntu_Gaming_Experience’_team⠀⇛ Up for helping to improve Ubuntu Linux and get it into shape for more gaming? Now is your chance, as Canonical are hiring exactly for that. They did say only recently that they were going “all in” with gaming on Ubuntu, when they announced their testing Snap package for Steam and of course there was more to come. # ⚓ OMG Ubuntu ☛ Canonical_is_Recruiting_Devs_for_‘Ubuntu Gaming’_Team⠀⇛ Canonical is on the hunt for software engineers to join an ‘Ubuntu Gaming Experience’ team. That the maker of Ubuntu is advertising roles like this is not unexpected. Canonical said it was going “all in” on gaming when it unveiled the Steam Snap app for testing in April. And with this job posting now live, it seems they’re intent on doing exactly that. Anyone applying for the “Software Engineer” position as listed on the Canonical careers site will need to know their way around the tech integral to modern Linux gaming, e.g., experience in sound, graphics, input, and have some familiarity or interest in OpenGL, Vulcan, MESA, Wine, et al. # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ One_Coder_Is_Porting_Portal_To_The_Nintendo_64⠀⇛ When Portal came out in 2007, developers Valve chose not to release the groundbreaking title on an obsolete Nintendo console long out of production. Nobody cared at the time, of course, but [James Lambert] is here to right that wrong. Yes, he’s porting Portal to the N64. o § Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾ # ⚓ Tech_–_Raspad_–_Linux_MATE下さい⠀⇛ This being a report in my continuing saga to deploy a Raspad as a daily driver information prosthetic, it is meet that I preface with my general feelings and observations at this juncture. The Raspad is a solid bit of kit. The mother- daughter board connexions yet hold fast. Solders feel stolid and not done hastily cold. The plastic shell is certainly not as durable as the aluminium of an iPad. But it isn’t meant to be. Permeability is a virtue in tinkerer context. I already contemplate gluing a 40 pin ribbon cable jack at the provided chassis divot for outside GPIO access, drilling the box for a camera kit, &c. # ⚓ Tech_–_Raspad_–_Beat_the_Clock⠀⇛ In search of more answers, his own curiosity piqued, Vidak was kind enough to ask the Fediverse for input on the issue. Some kind soul immediately replied that I might check the /root/config.txt for a variable named “ARM_SPEED”. This one could set to any integer in reasonable orbit of 700 MHz as one pleases. Swapping MicroSD cards between Ubuntu MATE for Raspi and RaspiOS, I found that the solution only applies to the latter OS. It does indeed work to under or overclock the CPU. I tried the CPU on 200Mhz and found it pitiably slow, but emphatically cooler. Poking at the config.txt revealed several other bits to flip for services on the Raspi. * § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾ o § Fedora Family / IBM⠀➾ # ⚓ Announcing_the_GA_release_of_Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux_9.0⠀⇛ We’re excited to announce the general availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 provides flexibility, stability, and reliability to support hybrid cloud innovation. Deploy applications and critical workloads faster with a consistent experience across physical, virtual, private and public cloud and edge deployments. # ⚓ Unicorn Media ☛ RHEL_Clone_and_CentOS_Replacement_Releases Rocky_Linux_8.6⠀⇛ Rocky Linux, a Red Hat Enterprise Linux clone and legacy CentOS replacement, announced on Tuesday the release of Rocky Linux 8.6. The release comes five days after the release of AlmaLinux 8.6 and about a week after the release of RHEL 8.6 at last week’s Red Hat Summit in Boston. Rocky and Alma are both vying for dominance in the space abandoned by Red Hat at the end of 2021, when the open source giant quit supporting CentOS as a downstream clone of RHEL and repurposed the brand to sit upstream of Red Hat’s flagship distro, where it essentially serves as RHEL’s nightly build. CentOS was being widely used by enterprises as a way of running RHEL without having to pay for Red Hat support, which created a need for a CentOS replacement. # ⚓ Linuxiac ☛ Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux_9_Released_with Security_Enhancements⠀⇛ Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 9 is available and delivers exciting new features and many more improvements. Here’s what is new! # ⚓ Fedora Magazaine ☛ Fedora_Magazine:_Five_common_mistakes when_using_automation⠀⇛ As automation expands to cover more aspects of IT, more administrators are learning automation skills and applying them to ease their workload. Automation can ease the burden of repetitive tasks and add a level of conformity to infrastructure. But when IT workers deploy automation, there are common mistakes that can wreak havoc on infrastructures large and small. Five common mistakes are typically seen in automation deployments. o § Canonical/Ubuntu Family⠀➾ # ⚓ Top_10_Essential_Ubuntu_Apps_For_Everyone_in_2022⠀⇛ This article gives you the top 10 essential Ubuntu apps in 2022 (part 1) that you may use for your daily workflow. # ⚓ Ubuntu ☛ Secure_Multi-Tenancy_for_Charmed_Kubernetes_with Clastix’_new_Charmed_Operator⠀⇛ The new Charmed Operator covering the Capsule Kubernetes extension allows users of Canonical’s Charmed Kubernetes distribution to automatically install and integrate Clastix Capsule Multi-Tenancy as part of the Kubernetes cluster deployment process. o § Devices/Embedded⠀➾ # ⚓ Linux Gizmos ☛ Raspberry_Pi_CM4_cluster_board_includes Rockchip_RK3588_SoC_support⠀⇛ Supporting up to four Raspberry Pi CM4 or Jetson Nano modules, the Turing Pi 2 is the newest cluster module from the same company that launched the Turing Pi V2 last year. Unlike its predecessor, the Turing Pi 2 is enabled to support Rockchip based computer modules. According to the company the Turing Pi is a great platform for users to build their own homelabs, learn about self-hosting, running cloud-native apps (Kubernetes) and even machine learning applications. As shown below the Turing Pi 2 provides SO DIMM slots to interface with various computer modules.  o § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾ # ⚓ Arduino ☛ FingerX_is_a_gadget_that_lets_people_feel_the shapes_of_VR_objects_physically_|_Arduino_Blog⠀⇛ One of virtual reality’s largest unsolved challenges is allowing players to interact with a virtual environment beyond just video and audio. This is why a team of researchers from the National Chengchi University in Taiwan came up with the FingerX project as a way to get physical feedback when touching objects in a real and VR settings simultaneously. Whereas other ideas revolve around constricting finger motion or using pins to generate rudimentary shapes, FingerX incorporates a single extender module that rests upon each fingertip and extends when certain conditions are met. When touching virtual objects that rest on a flat surface, the shape of the virtual object is intersected by the hand’s position and causes the extenders to mold around the form. Entirely virtual objects can also be held in the player’s hand using this same principle while also being able to fold away the extenders when grasping a physical object. # ⚓ Arduino ☛ This_robotic_system_automatically_scans_film slides_on_its_own_|_Arduino_Blog⠀⇛ Before the advent of digital cameras, people used film to capture their most cherished memories. And nowadays, there is a rush to convert them into a digital format before they inevitably degrade and become unrecognizable. Film slides in particular have a major drawback in that they are separate, individual pieces of film placed onto small cards which makes scanning them manually a very long and expensive process. In order to digitize his family’s collection of film slides, Hackster.io user Chris was able to create a robot that automates this tedious task. o § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ XDA ☛ Nokia_G10,_G20,_and_Nokia_2.4_receive_stable_Android 12_updates⠀⇛ # ⚓ Liliputing ☛ Amazon_Fire_OS_8_debuts_this_summer_(Android 11-based_software_for_Fire_devices)_–_Liliputing⠀⇛ # ⚓ WCCF Tech ☛ How_to_Downgrade_Google_Pixel_from_Android_13⠀⇛ # ⚓ 9to5Google ☛ Total_Commander_strips_APK_sideloading_due_to Google_–_9to5Google⠀⇛ # ⚓ 9to5Google ☛ Huawei_AppGallery_flaw_downloads_paid_Android app_for_free_–_9to5Google⠀⇛ # ⚓ Digital Trends ☛ Android_rebrands_mobile_security_measures under_one_umbrella_|_Digital_Trends⠀⇛ # ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ 7_Things_You_Must_Consider_When_Buying_an Android_Gaming_Phone⠀⇛ * § Leftovers⠀➾ o ⚓ Protocol ☛ Facebook’s_hiring_crisis:_Engineers_are_turning_down offers,_internal_docs_show⠀⇛ In an internal memo called “Why hiring is hard right now” written at some point in 2021, a recruiting leader at the company described how engineering teams are fighting a massive imbalance between high demand for new recruits and low supply. The memo, published in full below this story, provides detailed insight into how Facebook calculates its recruitment needs and explains how the company is deeply dependent on successfully recruiting thousands of engineers every year to meet its product development and content goals. The memo also shows Facebook was determined to invest in engineers outside of the Bay Area, but that managers often failed to do so because they were more interested in hiring quickly. o ⚓ Hollywood Reporter ☛ Agency_Dealmaking_for_Journalists_Goes_Into Overdrive⠀⇛ With the 2022 midterm elections kicking into gear, and what is sure to be a heated presidential election cycle just over the horizon, star journalists are in high demand. But while TV anchors and correspondents have seen their profiles (and compensation) rise for decades, the past few years in particular have turbocharged that shift. “News talent in the last five years have become stars in their own right,” says UTA co-president Jay Sures, noting his agency’s clients: “The likes of Don Lemon, David Muir, Anderson Cooper, Bret Baier, Jake Tapper, Norah O’Donnell. They are stars. They are walk-down-the-street stars. And as a result of that, they are compensated in a commensurate way with what they bring to their respective employers, which is a real trusted source in news — people enjoy watching them for different reasons.” o ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Hackaday_Prize_2022:_Recycled_Tire_Table_Is_Where_The Rubber_Meets_The_Road⠀⇛ The problem with good inventions is that we usually end up with way too many of that particular widget lying around, which can cause all kinds of problems. Take the car tire, for instance. They were a great invention that helped spell the end of buggy whips and broken wagon wheels. But there are so many used-up tires about today that some people end up burning them in large piles, of all possible things. o ⚓ Hungary ☛ Some_of_the_photos_are_just_so_he_would_have_a_good photograph⠀⇛ o ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Practice_Your_Shopping_Skills_With_This_Self-Service Checkout_Game⠀⇛ Self-service checkouts have become a common feature in supermarkets the world over, a trend accelerated by the coronavirus pandemic. While some may lament the loss of human contact, others relish the opportunity to do their own scanning: with a bit of practice, self-service can provide for a very fast checkout experience. Assuming, of course, that the machine recognizes each product, the built-in weight sensor works correctly, and you don’t get selected for a random check. o ⚓ At_the_end_of_the_road⠀⇛ In the early history of Oregon, ferries were important part of its infrastructure. Roads were built to connect towns to the ferries. The names of such roads still remain to this day: Scholls Ferry Road, Taylors Ferry Road, and Boones Ferry Road. o ⚓ critique_of_everyday_life_by_henri_lefebvre_(1)⠀⇛ lefebvre continues the idea of valorizing the everyday through ‘a scientific theory of social labour,’ ‘this totality of labour’ which ‘has modified and transformed the face of the world’ (154). in this there is nothing hidden but that which does often go unperceived. o ⚓ quite_an_observation_deck_from_above!⠀⇛ This is Day 2 of “balcony sitting” – sitting out on my balcony all day, in the nice Spring weather, hammering away text on my phone, enjoying the birds and sunshine (and rain, should it ever arrive), and just basking in the ambiance of it all. [...] I saw a video a bit ago called “Alabama Spitfire” about the relationships Truman Capote had with Harper Lee when they were children, and how they would sit in a treehouse at Harper Lee’s house and overlook their neighborhood and try to “solve mysteries” and “fight crime”, much like the Sherlock Holmes novels they were both avid readers of. o § Science⠀➾ # ⚓ The Nation ☛ The_Final_Frontier⠀⇛ There is perhaps no better setting for a workplace novel than outer space. With the exception of time taken for the necessary evils of sleep, nourishment, and hygiene, astronauts are always on the clock. In notable works of sci-fi—Solaris, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Gravity—our heroes are marooned on their ships, surveilled either by faceless colleagues in mission control or by an all-seeing operating system. Glimpses of their humanity appear only fleetingly, through flashbacks of children on Earth or a beloved object from home floating in space. As representatives of their country, their planet, and their species, they have an almost military commitment to decorum. This image of a highly efficient and restrained workplace, functioning even under the most distressing conditions, is not just genuinely fictional; it is also a manager’s ideal. It is only when work subsumes life that a person’s labor can be truly optimized. # ⚓ USCBP ☛ CBP_Moth_Interception_First_Encounter_of_Species Since_1912⠀⇛ Each year, CBP agriculture specialists intercept tens of thousands of “actionable pests” – those identified through scientific risk assessment and study as being dangerous to the health and safety of U.S. agricultural resources. All travelers entering the United States are required to declare meats, fruits, vegetables, plants, seeds, soil, animals, as well as plant and animal products (including soup or soup products) they may be carrying. The declaration must cover all items carried in checked baggage, carry-on luggage, or in a vehicle. o § Education⠀➾ # ⚓ BBC ☛ Afghanistan:_Inside_a_secret_school_for_girls⠀⇛ “We do our best to do this secretly,” says the female teacher, “but even if they arrest me, they beat me, it’s worth it.” o § Hardware⠀➾ # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ MIDI_Controller_Looks_Good,_Enables_Your_Air Guitar_Habit⠀⇛ We all want to be guitar heroes, but most of us have to settle for letting a MIDI board play our riffs using a MIDI controller. [Joris] thinks a MIDI controller should look like a cool instrument and thus the Ni28 was born. Honestly, we first thought we were looking at wall art, but on closer look, you can see the fretboard and the soundhole are festooned with buttons. # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ 3D_Printed_Linear_Actuator_Is_Cheap_And_Strong⠀⇛ Motors are all well and good for moving things, but they’re all about the round-and-round. Sometimes, you need to move something back and forth, and for that a linear actuator will do the trick. While they can be readily sourced for under $50 online, [Michael Rechtin] genuinely felt like reinventing the wheel, and managed to whip up a 3D-printed design that costs under 20 bucks. o § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾ # ⚓ Rolling Stone ☛ The_Buffalo_Shooter_Recorded_His_Deadly Attack._Twitter_Let_the_Video_Go_Viral⠀⇛ That account (now suspended) was just one of many Twitter users sharing bloody footage of the Buffalo rampage, typically beginning as the gunman exited his vehicle and trained his rifle on shoppers at the Tops supermarket. Rolling Stone discovered more than half a dozen examples on Monday, using basic search terms like “Buffalo video” and “Buffalo vid.” The images of the massacre appeared to be in wide circulation on Twitter, with users complaining of being traumatized: “Stop putting the fucking Buffalo shooting video on my timeline,” wrote one. # ⚓ BBC ☛ Ukraine_invasion_could_cause_global_food_crisis,_UN warns⠀⇛ The conflict has cut-off supplies from Ukraine’s ports, which once exported vast amounts of cooking oil as well as cereals such as maize and wheat. This has reduced the global supply and caused the price of alternatives to soar. Global food prices are almost 30% higher than the same time last year, according to the UN. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Sanders_Applauds_Denton,_Texas_for_Passing 100th_Local_Resolution_Backing_Medicare_for_All⠀⇛ The city council of Denton, Texas passed a resolution Tuesday endorsing federal Medicare for All legislation, the 100th local government to do so as millions across the United face rising insurance premiums, skyrocketing drug costs, and imminent loss of coverage. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), who just last week introduced the latest version of his Medicare for All legislation, applauded Denton lawmakers, the progressive advocacy group Public Citizen, and others involved in building support for the nonbinding resolution, which endorses the single- payer bill that Reps. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) and Debbie Dingell (D-Mich.) unveiled in March 2021. # ⚓ Pro Publica ☛ Air_Monitors_Alone_Won’t_Save_Communities From_Toxic_Industrial_Air_Pollution⠀⇛ One summer night last year, air began flowing into a steel canister across the street from the Little Bo Peep Child Development Center in Calvert City, Kentucky. The pollution monitor hummed into the morning as parents dropped off their toddlers and later into the day as the kids played outside. Within a month, a lab analysis would reveal that the canister had captured a troubling concentration of ethylene dichloride, which has been linked to pancreatic and stomach cancers and leukemia. No one, however, raced in to warn parents or alert nearby residents that the air they sucked in with every breath was laced with a poisonous chemical. No one took immediate steps to stop the stream or sue the offending polluter into compliance. # ⚓ Orac ☛ Two-thirds_of_the_Great_Barrington_Declaration aren’t_even_hiding_that_they_are_antivax_anymore⠀⇛ While I was…indisposed…writing a grant application that was due yesterday, something came to my attention that I just knew I had to write about to get the blogging circuits firing again after over a week away. Basically, it came in the form of a Tweet thread a couple of days ago featuring two out of the three authors of the Great Barrington Declaration (GBD) appearing on a discussion panel with antivax tech bro Steve Kirsch, who has repeatedly—and falsely—claimed that COVID-19 vaccines have killed more people than they have saved and Robert “inventor of mRNA vaccines” Malone. Indeed, as you can see, he claims that COVID-19 vaccines have killed a half a million people! # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Morbid_Matters:_Estimating_COVID-19 Mortality⠀⇛ The World Health Organization, ever that herald of dark news, has offered a revised assessment across of the SARS-CoV-2 death toll associated either directly or indirectly with the pandemic.  Between January 1, 2020 and December 31, 2021, the global health body suggests that the mortality figure is closer to 14.9 million, with a range of 13.3 million to 16.6 million. The number considers excess mortality, the figure reached after accounting for the difference between the number of deaths that have occurred, and the number expected in the absence of the pandemic.  It also accounts for deaths occasioned directly by COVID-19, or indirectly (for instance, the pandemic’s disruption of society and health systems). o § Proprietary⠀➾ # ⚓ IT Wire ☛ More_proof_that_paying_ransom_might_not_save_your data [iophk: Windows TCO]⠀⇛ According to the report, 72% of surveyed organisations had partial or complete attacks on their backup repositories, restricting their ability to recover data without paying the ransom. Almost all (94%) of attackers tried to destroy backup repositories, showing their business acumen. Worryingly, though not surprisingly, 80% of successful attacks targeted known vulnerabilities. The majority (76%) of those attacked paid the ransom, but approximately one-third of those were unable to recover their data. # ⚓ The Hill ☛ NATO_cyber_coordinators_hold_first-ever_meeting amid_Russia’s_invasion [iophk: Windows TCO]⠀⇛ Senior cyber coordinators from NATO held their first-ever meeting in Brussels on Wednesday to discuss the cyber threat landscape following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The coordinators also reviewed the progress they’ve made in cyber defense, including efforts to build resilience against cyber threats. # ⚓ The Verge ☛ Costa_Rican_president_says_country_is_‘at_war’ with_Conti_ransomware_group [iophk: Windows TCO]⠀⇛ Ransomware — and particularly the Conti ransomware gang — has become a geopolitical force in Costa Rica. On Monday, the new Costa Rican president Rodrigo Chaves – who began his four-year term only ten days ago – declared that the country was ”at war” with the Conti cybercriminal gang, whose ransomware attack has disabled agencies across the government since April. In a forceful statement made to press on May 16th, President Chaves also said that Conti was receiving help from collaborators within the country, and called on international allies to help. # ⚓ IT Wire ☛ Australian_CISOs_feel_‘least_prepared’,_‘more_at risk’_of_cyber_attacks_compared_to_global_counterparts: Proofpoint⠀⇛ Proofpoint says that while CISOs around the world spent 2021 coming to terms with new ways of working, Australian CISOs fell behind global counterparts when it came to feeling in control of their environment, with 77% of Australian CISOs saying their organisation is unprepared to detect, deter and recover from a cyber attack – the highest in 14 countries surveyed and up 21% from 2021. Proofpoint’s comments come as it released its annual Voice of the CISO report, which explores key challenges facing chief information security officers (CISOs) in Australia and around the globe. # ⚓ OAUTH2_support_for_GMail⠀⇛ Regrettably, these kinds of fees are far beyond what I can afford, given that I rely on donations from my users to make ends meet: even the $4,500 fee is well beyond what I could find on an annual basis. Google do not mention these fees anywhere else I have seen during the development process – only when you move to the publication stage do they appear — they are a kind of “sting in the tail”, as it were. o § Linux Foundation⠀➾ # ⚓ SDTimes ☛ Linux_Foundation,_CNCF,_and_Ethical_Intelligence partner_on_new_ethics_in_open-source_course [Ed: Linux Foundation is spamming legitimate sites to promote a diploma mill. This is not helping Linux!]⠀⇛ # ⚓ Linux Foundation’s Site/Blog ☛ My_DEI_Journey [Ed: Monopolists and racist corporations now disguise themselves as “social justice”; this is the LF doing PR services for political purposes while LF_hires_nobody_black]⠀⇛ o § Security⠀➾ # ⚓ Reproducible_Builds:_Supporter_spotlight:_Jan_Nieuwenhuizen on_Bootstrappable_Builds,_GNU_Mes_and_GNU_Guix⠀⇛ The Reproducible Builds project relies on several projects, supporters and sponsors for financial support, but they are also valued as ambassadors who spread the word about our project and the work that we do. This is the fourth instalment in a series featuring the projects, companies and individuals who support the Reproducible Builds project. We started this series by featuring the Civil Infrastructure Platform project and followed this up with a post about the Ford Foundation as well as a recent ones about ARDC and the Google Open Source Security Team (GOSST). Today, however, we will be talking with Jan Nieuwenhuizen about Bootstrappable Builds, GNU Mes and GNU Guix. # ⚓ USCERT ☛ CISA_Issues_Emergency_Directive_and_Releases Advisory_Related_to_VMware_Vulnerabilities [Ed: Proprietary software is a threat to national security]⠀⇛ CISA has issued Emergency Directive (ED) 22-03 and released a Cybersecurity Advisory (CSA) in response to active and expected exploitation of multiple vulnerabilities in the following VMware products: VMware Workspace ONE Access (Access), VMware Identity Manager (vIDM), VMware vRealize Automation (vRA), VMware Cloud Foundation, vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager. # ⚓ eSecurity Planet ☛ Software_Supply_Chain:_A_Risky_Time_for Dependencies [Ed: This is a proprietary software problem too and it's not a new problem; the FUD patterns are newer and driven by special interests]⠀⇛ The software supply chain is a critical element in the lifecycle of applications and websites. The interdependencies and components common in modern software development can increase the attack surface and sometimes allow hackers to bypass robust security layers you’ve added to your infrastructure. # § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾ # ⚓ EFF ☛ New_Surveillance_Transparency_Report_Documents an_Urgent_Need_for_Change⠀⇛ Specifically, the report reveals that between December 2020 and November 2021, the FBI queried the data of potentially more than 3,000,000 “U.S. persons” without a warrant.  Although Section 702 is intended to facilitate the surveillance of foreign people who are the targets of national security investigations, the collection of all of that data from U.S. telecommunications and internet providers results in the  “incidental” capture of conversations  involving a huge number of people in the United States.  But this data isn’t “incidental” to the program’s operation at all. As the transparency report shows, each agency’s “targeting” and “minimization” rules allow access to Americans’ communications caught in the 702 dragnet. And based on the staggering number of times the FBI searches the 702 database using queries related to individual Americans, 702 has become a routine part of the Bureau’s “law enforcement mission.” The IC lobbied for Section 702 as a tool for national security outside the borders of the U.S., but at its core is instead the ability to conduct domestic, warrantless surveillance on Americans, including for run-of-the-mill crimes. This is the government’s favorite feature of Section 702—it’s not a bug.   # ⚓ Krebs On Security ☛ Senators_Urge_FTC_to_Probe_ID.me Over_Selfie_Data⠀⇛ Some of more tech-savvy Democrats in the U.S. Senate are asking the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to investigate identity- proofing company ID.me for “deceptive statements” the company and its founder allegedly made over how they handle facial recognition data collected on behalf of the Internal Revenue Service, which until recently required anyone seeking a new IRS account online to provide a live video selfie to ID.me. # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Tech_Companies_Oppose_‘Reverse_Warrants,’ Say_Surveillance_Of_User_Location_Data_Should_Be Limited_To_Tech_Companies⠀⇛ Google’s market share and capacity to gather billions of data points has made it the most popular target for so-called warrants that seem to elude both particularity requirements and the Supreme Court’s decision in the Carpenter case. o § Defence/Aggression⠀➾ # ⚓ The Telegraph UK ☛ Vladimir_Putin_‘weaponising’_world’s food_supplies⠀⇛ Vladimir Putin is “weaponising” global food supplies by stealing grain and destroying agricultural equipment as part of his war in Ukraine, Western officials have said. The Kremlin is believed to be dismantling infrastructure needed for food production and blocking ports that are vital in shipping cereals out of the country, which is known as the “breadbasket of Europe”. Officials fear Russia has embarked on a “deliberate policy” of disrupting food supplies, sparking a global crisis and raising the prospect of starvation in developing countries. Vladimir Putin’s army has destroyed silos and other food production infrastructure in cities including Kherson, Luhansk and Donetsk, according to Western sources. # ⚓ The Print ☛ Wine_shop_employee_killed,_3_injured_in_grenade attack_by_burqa-clad_terrorist⠀⇛ “The pillion rider wearing a Burqa walked to the window of the wine shop and dropped a grenade inside the shop through the porthole window and thereafter fled away on the bike from the spot,” he said. “Four employees of the said shop got injured. Among them one succumbed to his injuries,” the spokesman said. # ⚓ The New Humanitarian ☛ A_kidnapped_teacher,_a_fed_up farmer,_and_a_push_for_dialogue_with_Mali’s_militants⠀⇛ Problems weren’t hard to find in Koro before the dialogues. The jihadists’ arrival had poisoned ties between the region’s marginalised Fulani herders – who had joined the militants in large numbers – and members of Guindo’s Dogon group who had joined the militias. With support from the state, the Dogon militias massacred and besieged Fulani villages. The jihadists and Fulani defence groups then did the same to Dogon communities, which hold a mix of Muslim, Christian, and traditional beliefs. It was during this period that the teacher, a Dogon, was kidnapped. He was fetching animal feed outside his village when he bumped into jihadists. His friend had a gun and pulled the trigger; the militants, who were Fulani, fired back and shot him dead. # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Kathy_Boudin:_Revolution_Versus_Direct Action⠀⇛ Boudin was at the center of the debate of nonviolent direct action against war versus violent action. Boudin’s life followed a trajectory of a small group of the radical New Left, a minuscule cohort of those who began as liberals, usually liberal students at the inception of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) in the early 1960s, and became increasingly radical as the killing in Southeast Asia grew exponentially through the administrations of Kennedy, Johnson, and finally Nixon. The movement ended in the cul-de-sac of violence that culminated in the plan to kill soldiers and their guests at a dance at Fort Dix, New Jersey, and finally with the deaths of a Brink’s guard and two policemen during a robbery in Nyack, New York. By the time of the Brink’s robbery in October 1981, the last vestiges of the Weather Underground had formed an alliance with the Black Liberation Army. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ US_Military_Clears_Itself_of_Blame_in_Syria Strike_That_Killed_‘Piles’_of_Women_and_Children⠀⇛ No U.S. personnel will be held accountable for a March 2019 airstrike that killed scores of Syrian civilians including women and children, the Pentagon said Tuesday in announcing that an internal investigation into the massacre found that no laws of war were broken and that there was no cover-up of the incident as alleged in a New York Times exposé. “The investigation says the reporting was delayed… None of the worker bees involved believe it was delayed. We believe there was no reporting.” # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Russia’s_Reported_Abduction_of_Ukrainian Children_Echoes_US_History_of_Kidnapping_Native_American Children⠀⇛ These tactics are horrific, but far from rare. There is a long history of military aggressors forcibly transferring enemy children from their home countries as a means of sowing chaos and terror and weakening resistance. In the U.S., the government conducted child abductions to quell the military resistance of America’s Indigenous peoples and prevent future opposition. # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ The_Little_Big_Dogs_Of_Invention⠀⇛ This is a story about two dogs I know. It is also a story of the U.S. Navy, aviation, and nuclear weapons. Sometimes it is easy to see things in dogs or other people, but hard to see those same things in ourselves. It’s a good thing that dogs can’t read (that we know of) because this is a bit of an embarrassing story for Doc. He’s a sweet good- natured dog and he’s a rather large labradoodle. He occasionally visits another usually good-natured dog, Rocky — a sheltie who is much smaller than Doc. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Opinion_|_As_Big_Oil_Makes_Record Profits—US_Congress_Needs_to_Stop_the_Profiteering_at_the Pump⠀⇛ Amid the ongoing atrocities in Ukraine, rising gas prices, and the existential threat of climate change, policymakers in Washington have a long list of crises to address. But there’s one step that could help mitigate all of them: reducing our dependence on oil—and the giant oil and gas companies who profit from it. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Ahead_of_House_Vote,_Analysis_Details_How Big_Oil_Price_Gouging_Rewards_Wall_Street⠀⇛ As congressional lawmakers prepare to vote on a bill aimed at curbing Big Oil profiteering, an analysis published Wednesday by a trio of advocacy groups shows how fossil fuel companies “continue to generously reward their investors while consumers pay sky-high prices.” “Big Oil is turning humanitarian disaster and consumer pain into Wall Street profits.” # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Are_US_Nuclear_Weapons_Back_in_Britain?⠀⇛ 110 US/NATO free-fall B61 nuclear bombs were removed from Lakenheath in 2008, following sustained protest at the base by CND and the Lakenheath Action Group. US nuclear bombs had been located there since 1954. Their return – assigned to NATO – will increase global tensions and put Britain on the front line in a NATO/Russia war. B61s have continued to be sited in five other countries across Europe – Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands, Italy and Turkey – in spite of strong opposition within some of the ‘host’ countries. # ⚓ The Nation ☛ Time_to_End_the_West’s_Xenophobic_Double Standard_on_Refugees⠀⇛ As Russian forces continue to brutalize Ukraine, millions of Ukrainians have been forced to flee their country. Most have fled to Europe, but thousands have also made their way to the United States by way of Mexico. # ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ The_New_Iron_Curtain⠀⇛ The Ukraine crisis proves to be Europe’s crucible and Europe proves a profound disappointment. # ⚓ The Nation ☛ Mass_Shooting_in_Buffalo,_N.Y.⠀⇛ # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Opinion_|_The_Nobody:_Name_the_Plague,_Not the_Murderer_in_Buffalo⠀⇛ Since the shooting in Buffalo, articles and commentaries have been appearing that condemn the shooting, but which include the name and personal history of the shooter. Why would anybody do that? He’s nobody. # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Blaming_Video_Games_For_Mass_Shootings_Is Ridiculous;_Stop_It⠀⇛ Mike just wrote about how, in the wake of the abhorrent mass shooting that occurred in upstate New York over the weekend, some of our leaders have begun the normal cleansing ritual: blame the things we already hated for the new bad thing that happened whether that makes any sense at all or not. In the case of the previous post, both public servants and buffoonish Sunday news talk hosts discussed how this was all the fault of Section 230 (¯\_(ツ)_/¯) and everyone’s favorite boogeyman, social media. It is abundantly clear to anyone with a brain that these two scapegoats were already targets for those now blaming them. Apparently, these people were simply lying in wait looking for a trigger so that they could shout “Social Media! Section 230!” and they decided that 10 people losing their lives in a racist attack was just that sort of thing. # ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Massacre_in_Buffalo_Exposes_Rotten_Core_of White_Supremacy_in_US⠀⇛ After a white supremacist shooter murdered 10 Black people in Buffalo, many have pointed to the institutionalized racism behind the attack. # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Taking_Aim_At_Maidan_Myths_2018:_Stephen Cohen_Challenges_Fictional_Narratives⠀⇛ Reading Stephen Cohen’s War with Russia: from Putin and Ukraine to Trump and Russiagate (2022) is required if we are to going to strip fictional narratives away from the Russia-Ukraine conflict. In this third article of diving for pearls from our intrepid scholar, we are zeroing in on his penetrating analysis of conflicting narratives on the Ukrainian crisis. In “Four years of Maidan myths,” written on January 3, 2018, Cohen names the crisis the “seminal political event of the early 21st century” (p. 143). I agree: it is seminal because, essentially, the conflict is not about Ukraine per se, but, rather, whether America will have its way with determining who will rule the world. Everyone is to submit, assume their designated place in the hierarchical order of being. America is the Big Teacher; the rest of us immature pupils. But this teacher carries a mighty club to bash us into smithereens if we do not play by the rules. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ ‘Russia_would_do_here_what_they_did_in_Mariupol’ Why_Georgia’s_response_to_the_war_has_been_feeble_—_despite months_of_pro-Ukraine_protests_in_Tbilisi⠀⇛ Since the start of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Georgian citizens have enthusiastically supported Ukraine: thousands of people have attended anti-war rallies in Tbilisi, the city is covered in Ukrainian flags, and some Georgians have even chosen to fight alongside Ukrainians as volunteers. Despite all that, official relations between the two countries remain strained. Ukraine withdrew its ambassador from Georgia a month ago and has criticized the country for imposing insufficient sanctions against Russia, while the Georgian government has rejected Ukraine’s calls for it to open a “second front” and reclaim its occupied territories from Russia. The conflict has started to affect Georgia’s domestic politics as well — its ruling party is facing accusations of cowardice and of supporting Russia. At Meduza’s request, Georgian journalist Iya Barateli reports on how her country is trying to walk the line between Ukraine and Russia. # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Some_Thoughts_on_the_Russia-Ukraine Conflict_in_Week_Number_Twelve⠀⇛ Since the example of the USSR arming Vietnam is being used as a reason to support arming Kyiv by some on the left who support NATO arms shipments, I think it is useful to turn that comparison upside down, as it were. This argument understands that Ukraine’s history is much longer than South Vietnam’s was and that it does meet criterion for a nation (we’ll leave my distaste for nationalism out of the conversation). However, it rejects this element of the left’s argument that the war is a Ukrainian anti-colonial struggle. I would argue that modern Ukraine’s situation is closer to that of what Washington named South Vietnam than Vietnam in general That country was nominally independent, but fiercely determined to stay in the sphere dominated by Washington. In fact, its very life depended on Washington’s largess. Modern Ukraine has a different genesis, having been established in the wake of the disintegration of the USSR. Since then, its government has switched back and forth between favoring the Russian economic sphere and that of the US-dominated west. Since the US-assisted overthrow of the elected government in 2014, the government in Kyiv has given itself to the latter. It is firmly in Washington’s grip, even making its desire to be part of NATO an article in its most recent constitution. Of course, this came with a price. While it seems unlikely that Zelenskyy and his government knew that the price would include the destruction of many of its cities and the deaths of thousands of Ukrainians, there were certainly those Ukrainians who understood this possibility. # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ The_American_Cause_in_Ukraine:_Advancing Freedom_or_the_Course_of_Empire?⠀⇛ The Vladimir Putin record in Ukraine may be as bad as his worst enemies proclaim, but even at that it is well within the norm for war, the selective indignation about him notwithstanding. War and crimes go together. A question larger than the one about Putin’s war crimes concerns the origins of the war itself. Who or what caused the war? From that first cause ineluctable consequences of a criminal character followed. On the principle that historical analysis requires an attempt to understand the motives of all sides in a war, the Russian argument deserves a fair hearing. Roy Medvedev, one of Russia’s most distinguished historians and long a supporter of Vladimir Putin, gave an interview on March 2, 2022, to the Corriere della Sera. The ninety-six-year-old Medvedev succinctly expressed the Kremlin view of the Ukraine crisis as a clash involving far more than Putin’s concern about NATO expansion to his country’s borders. The metastasizing of NATO illustrated but did not define for Russia the fundamental issue, which had to do with the failure of America to understand that the unipolar moment of its rules-based order had ended. The time had come for a paradigm shift in international relations. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ ‘They_won’t_turn_him_over’_Vadim_Shishimarin_is the_first_Russian_soldier_on_trial_for_war_crimes_in_Ukraine. Meduza_interviewed_his_mother.⠀⇛ A Kyiv court began the first war crimes trial for a Russian soldier on May 13. On Wednesday, May 18, the accused, 21-year-old Vadim Shishimarin, pleaded guilty to fatally shooting a civilian in Ukraine’s Sumy region. Meduza interviewed Shishimarin’s mother Lyubov, who lives in the town of Ust-Ilimsk in Russia’s Irkutsk region (she asked that her surname, which isn’t the same as her son’s, not be disclosed). # ⚓ Meduza ☛ ‘Moscow_has_changed_for_me’:_Photographer_Petr Kamanin_captures_Russia’s_‘peaceful’_capital_in_wartime⠀⇛ Russia has been waging a full-scale war against Ukraine for nearly three months. Photographer Petr Kamanin has spent this time taking pictures of Moscow and Muscovites, in an attempt to capture how ordinary, everyday scenes have changed since February 24. Meduza shares these snapshots of the Russian capital along with the photographer’s commentary. # ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ Battle_of_Donbas:_Dramatic_Interview_from Ukrainian-Held_Severodonetsk_as_Missiles_Rain_Down⠀⇛ In a rare interview from the frontlines of the Russian invasion, we speak with American journalist Billy Nessen in the Ukrainian city of Severodonetsk. It is the easternmost city still held by Ukrainian forces after almost three months of war. He says Russian troops have devastated the city with heavy shelling. The interview with Nessen was interrupted when a shell landed in the building next door. Nessen speaks about the Ukrainian resistance, the Azov Battalion and more, including the U.S. and NATO’s role in the conflict, especially as the U.S. Senate is expected to approve an additional $40 billion in military and economic aid to Ukraine. “Obviously the West is determined that Ukraine has to win this war,” says Nessen. # ⚓ I Cringely ☛ Putin_plays_his_asshole_card⠀⇛ It doesn’t look good for the Russian military in Ukraine. Better-supplied and -motivated Ukrainian troops are pushing-back Russian forces even in Donbas— Moscow’s more modest pivot objective after failing to take Kyiv. What gives? Could Ukraine actually win this war? Could Russia actually lose? Or could Putin even be deposed by a coup? Probably not. That’s because, while everyone outside of Moscow was gloating over Russia’s lack of military success, Putin was quietly playing his asshole card. Yes, his asshole card. o § Transparency/Investigative Reporting⠀➾ # ⚓ The Gray Zone ☛ Leaked_emails_expose_UK_Home_Secretary Priti_Patel’s_connection_to_MI6-style_‘research_and_influence operation’⠀⇛ o § Environment⠀➾ # ⚓ BBC ☛ In_a_world-first_initiative,_visitors_to_Palau_will be_offered_exclusive_experiences_based_on_how_they_treat_the environment_and_culture,_not_by_how_much_they_spend.⠀⇛ The idea for this programme and the Palau Pledge both came about in 2015, by which time tourism had reached 150,000 visitors annually – more than seven times the country’s population – many of whom didn’t understand the fragile ecosystem or how important sustainability was to residents. While Palauan culture values hospitality and treating visitors with respect, locals could see how under- educated visitors were eroding their environment. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Stockholm_Institute_Says_World_Is_at_a ‘Boiling_Point’_as_Climate_Crisis_and_War_Rage⠀⇛ The confluence of war in Europe, a worsening hunger crisis, an ongoing pandemic, skyrocketing inequality, and unabated global warming has pushed the world to a “boiling point” that is threatening billions of lives and livelihoods worldwide. That urgent warning was issued Wednesday by the research director of the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI), which along with the Council on Energy, Environment, and Water (CEEW) published a detailed new report charting humanity’s difficult—but, with sufficient political will, attainable—path away from present emergencies and toward a just and livable future. # ⚓ DeSmog ☛ Exxon_Doubles_Down_on_‘Advanced_Recycling’_Claims That_Yield_Few_Results⠀⇛ By Amy Westervelt, The Guardian. This story was originally published by the The Guardian and is part of “Climate Crimes,” a special series by The Guardian and Covering Climate Now focused on investigating how the fossil fuel industry contributed to the climate crisis and lied to the American public. Accused of misleading the public for decades on the promise of plastic recycling, oil and chemical companies are pushing a new idea: “advanced recycling.” Environmental advocates, however, say it’s more of the same old greenwash and litigators hope holding companies accountable for past lies might prevent the spread of a new one. # § Energy⠀➾ # ⚓ The Economist ☛ The_cryptocurrency_sell-off_has exposed_those_swimming_naked⠀⇛ The [cryptocurrency] slump has been brutal. In November the total market value of cryptocurrencies was almost $3trn. That fell to $2trn by mid-April before plunging by another 35% to just $1.3trn now. Bitcoin has briefly dipped below $29,000, its lowest since late 2020. [Cryptocurrency]’s detractors have long maligned it as useless—unless you are a money-launderer or con-artist—and predicted its demise. The rout raises the question of whether they are right. In fact the picture is rather different: a process of sorting is taking place as the dodgiest parts of the [cryptocurrency] world are exposed, while other parts prove more resilient. # ⚓ New Scientist ☛ Cryptocurrency_mining_is_still_on_the rise_despite_huge_price_drops⠀⇛ Miners of currencies such as bitcoin and Ethereum are rewarded with cryptocurrency which fluctuates in value compared with traditional currencies, so although mining costs may be predictable, income varies. On 8 November last year, the price of bitcoin was above £50,000, while on 15 May this year, it was slightly less than half that at £24,244. Ethereum has dropped from £3567 to £1647 over the same period. # ⚓ The Verge ☛ Why_tech_giants’_cash_is_a_hidden_source of_greenhouse_gas_emissions⠀⇛ While these companies might have taken steps to cut down on pollution within their own operations and supply chains, the financial institutions they bank with still funnel Big Tech’s profits into heavily polluting industries. Emissions associated with that financial activity are so significant that they actually far exceed emissions from each company’s operations, the report finds. That pollution has flown under the radar because it isn’t typically included in companies’ assessments of their emissions. But if emissions associated with the cash holdings for Google, Meta, Microsoft, and Salesforce were taken into account, it would increase their carbon footprints by between 91 and 112 percent, the report says. # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Environmental_Advocates_Decry_Plan_to_Dump Water_From_Fukushima_Into_the_Pacific⠀⇛ # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Green_Groups_Urge_California_Gov. Newsom_to_Close_Aging_Nuclear_Plant_on_Schedule⠀⇛ The head of a leading green group on Wednesday joined a coalition of environmental organizations in opposing the extended operation of an aging California nuclear power plant slated to shut down by 2025 but given a new lease on life this week by the Biden administration. Reuters reports the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced Wednesday that it was extending by 47 days a deadline for two nuclear plants—Entergy Corporation’s Palisades plant in Covert, Michigan and PG&E’s Diablo Canyon plant in San Luis Obispo County, California—to apply for federal funding to keep running. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ ‘Entirely_Reckless’:_Critics_Blast_EU Plan_to_Boost_Gas_Infrastructure⠀⇛ “Woefully inadequate.” “Entirely reckless.” “Frankly unacceptable.” That’s how climate campaigners responded Wednesday to a new plan from the European Commission—the E.U.’s executive arm—to ditch fossil fuels from Russia, which has been waging war on Ukraine for nearly three months. # ⚓ DeSmog ☛ Revealed:_How_Car_and_Airline_Advertising ‘Misleads’_the_Public_and_Threatens_Climate_Action⠀⇛ Major car and airline companies are using adverts that greenwash their business while continuing to push highly polluting products that put the world’s climate goals at risk, DeSmog can reveal. A DeSmog investigation, commissioned by Greenpeace Netherlands, analysed more than a thousand Facebook and Instagram adverts placed by ten well-known European transport brands in the last year # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Opinion_|_The_Energy_and_Food_Crisis Is_Far_Worse_Than_Most_Americans_Realize⠀⇛ Everyone who owns a gasoline-burning car has noticed that fuel prices have shot up in recent weeks. And most of us have read headlines about high energy prices driving inflation. But very few Americans have any inkling just how profound the current energy crisis already is, and is about to become. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Urging_Renewable_Transition,_UN_Chief Says_Humanity_Set_to_‘Incinerate_Our_Only_Home’⠀⇛ The head of the United Nations on Wednesday criticized the “broken” global energy system that’s leading humanity “ever closer to climate catastrophe” and urged world leaders to instead grab onto “the lifeline… right in front of us”—a transition to renewable sources. “We must end fossil fuel pollution and accelerate the renewable energy transition, before we incinerate our only home,” said U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Plan_to_Discharge_Fukushima_Water Into_Pacific_Gets_OK_From_Regulators⠀⇛ Despite outcry from local leaders and the Japanese public and warnings from environmental campaigners, Japan’s Nuclear Regulation Authority on Wednesday gave its approval for a plan to discharge contaminated water from Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant into the Pacific Ocean, a move critics say will pose a major threat to marine life. After spending several months reviewing the plan announced by then-Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga’s administration last spring, the NRA said discharging more than 1.2 million tons of treated wastewater will help the Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) secure space needed to decommission the plant, where three reactors melted down in March 2011 after a tsunami. # § Wildlife/Nature⠀➾ # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Gratitude_for_National_Parks⠀⇛ Standing alongside the road with a hundred other people watching, say, a bear rototilling up the ground in search of roots, voles, or perhaps truffles, I noted that every person was enthralled and excited to see a grizzly in its natural habitat. Yet, all of the folks stood at a respective distance from the bear. When a park ranger came to ask people to move a dozen feet further from the bear, he didn’t order them. Instead, he said politely, “could you please move a bit further away from the bear.” Unfortunately, such civility is seemingly rare today. # ⚓ The Revelator ☛ Bird_Flu_Outbreaks:_When_Will_We Learn_Our_Lesson?⠀⇛ # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Massive_Kootenai_National_Forest Timber_Sale_Challenged_by_Conservation_Groups⠀⇛ Conservation groups sued the U.S. Forest Service today to stop a large timber sale in the Kootenai National Forest that threatens a small and imperiled population of grizzly bears near the Montana-Canada border. The groups notified the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service of their intent to sue it, as well. The Knotty Pine Project authorizes the logging of more than 5,000 acres with massive clearcuts — at least one the size of 170 football fields — and allows for more than 45 miles of roads to be constructed or rebuilt in crucial grizzly bear habitat. In approving the timber sale, the Forest Service failed to disclose the damaging impacts of logging and new roads on the struggling and isolated grizzly bear population. o § Finance⠀➾ # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Opinion_|_The_US_War_Budget_Is_Failing Young_People⠀⇛ “America is at its best when we invest in the backbone of our Nation: the hardworking people in every community who make our Nation run,” states President Biden’s budget request. And yet  the budget, released at the end of March, includes $813 billion dollars on weapons and war. While the country stares down a pandemic, massive educational debt, a stumbling economy, and urgently needed environmental reform, prioritizing fear-based military spending only speaks to the values of special interest groups—not everyday Americans, and especially not young people. # ⚓ Barrons ☛ Amazon_Stock_Plunges_in_Wake_of_Target,_Walmart Debacles._This_Is_Why.⠀⇛ # ⚓ Financial Times ☛ Walmart_shares_suffer_biggest_drop_since 1987_after_guidance_cut ⠀⇛ Walmart shares suffered the biggest one-day drop since the eve of the Black Monday stock market crash after the company, cut its earnings guidance following a quarter in which it was wrongfooted by the rapid pace of inflation in the US. The share price reaction, a particularly severe one by the standards of typically less volatile consumer staple stocks, came after the company revealed profits in its latest quarter had taken an “unexpected” hit owing to higher wages, a jump in fuel costs and softness in general merchandise sales at its US businesses. o § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾ # ⚓ The_European_Accessibility_Act:_What_it_Means_for_Your Business⠀⇛ The pandemic dramatically accelerated digital transformation for companies and consumers, bringing many of the most basic elements of modern life – working, learning and shopping for goods and services – into the digital realm more than ever before. While DEI initiatives have raised the profile of digital accessibility, for the estimated 135 million people in Europe who are living with one or more disabilities, the shift to digital underscored what they’ve known for years: there are still widespread barriers to access in the online world. Despite rising awareness, private sector companies have been making slow progress on accessibility. According to WebAIM, which surveyed the home pages for the top one million websites, “…significant work remains to be done to make the web accessible to everyone.” # ⚓ India Times ☛ New_Google_Cloud_initiative_to_secure_open- source_software_supply_chain⠀⇛ Google said that the packages curated by the Assured OSS service are regularly scanned and analysed for vulnerabilities and are built with Cloud Build including evidence of verifiable SLSA- compliance # ⚓ India Times ☛ The_‘bots’_at_heart_of_Twitter_buyout_row⠀⇛ Elon Musk’s pausing of his bid to buy Twitter due to questions over “bots” has put the artificially- operated accounts at the heart of the proposed deal’s latest controversy. Here’s a closer look at bots: [...] # ⚓ Wrong,_Elon_Musk:_the_big_problem_with_free_speech_on platforms_isn’t_censorship._It’s_the_algorithms⠀⇛ Imagine there is a public speaking square in your city, much like the ancient Greek agora. Here you can freely share your ideas without censorship. But there’s one key difference. Someone decides, for their own economic benefit, who gets to listen to what speech or which speaker. And this isn’t disclosed when you enter, either. You might only get a few listeners when you speak, while someone else with similar ideas has a large audience. Would this truly be free speech? # ⚓ Broadband Breakfast ☛ 34_States_Submit_Letters_of_Intent_to Participate_in_NTIA’s_Main_Broadband_Program⠀⇛ The “Internet for All” moniker is the new umbrella web site of the Commerce Department’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration for its three programs under the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act: the Broadband Digital Equity, Access, and Deployment Program, the Enabling Middle Mile Broadband Infrastructure Program, and the State Digital Equity Act programs. These programs are part of the administration’s goals of bridging the digital divide and achieving universal broadband by 2030. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ ‘A_Slap_in_the_Face_to_Voters’:_Kansas Supreme_Court_Upholds_GOP_Map⠀⇛ Voting rights advocates expressed anger and disappointment Wednesday after the Kansas Supreme Court upheld the state’s new Republican-drawn congressional map despite claims of partisan and racial gerrymandering. “As a result of this decision, minority voters and Democratic voters will have their voices diluted for the next 10 years.” # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Madison_Cawthorn_Loses_GOP_Primary_Election,_Is Out_of_Running_for_2022_Midterms⠀⇛ # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ The_Absence_of_Honor⠀⇛ About 5,600 miles to the west as the jetliners fly, America – the self-advertised beacon of democracy – is breaking apart during an attempt by a minority of the population for more than a year to install an autocracy fueled by lies and the restriction of freedoms to vote, read, learn history, mind your own body and to be who you want to be. At the same time, the separation of church and state, a tenet of American democracy, seems to be threatened. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Opinion_|_Our_Moral_Duty_to_Rethink_‘The Common_Defense’⠀⇛ It is good at times to conduct a reality check on what this country supposedly stands for, and what it actually does. The preamble to the US Constitution, attributed to James Madison (though he refused to take full credit for it and there were other authors and sources) in 1787, reads as follows: # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ The_On-Going_Failures_of_Republican Governance⠀⇛ # ⚓ PIA ☛ How_to_Unblock_Instagram_at_School⠀⇛ The easiest way to browse through Reels without a problem is to disconnect from Wi-Fi and use your mobile data. Because your phone isn’t reaching Instagram through the school network, the firewalls can’t block it. # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Everyone’s_Got_Terrible_Regulations_For_Internet Companies:_Senator_Bennet_Wants_A_‘Digital_Platform Commission’⠀⇛ Everyone these days seems to want to regulate social media. I mean, the reality is that social media is such a powerful tool for expression that everyone wants to regulate that expression. Sure, they can couch it in whatever fancy justifications they want, but at the end of the day, they’re still trying to regulate speech. And this is across the political spectrum. While, generally speaking, the Republican proposals are more unhinged, it’s not like the Democratic proposals are actually any more reasonable or constitutional. # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Democratic_Leadership_Sided_With_Corporatists_to Fight_Progressives_in_Primaries⠀⇛ # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Pennsylvania’s_GOP_Nominee_for_Governor_Is Arguably_the_Scariest_Man_in_Politics⠀⇛ # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ ‘We_Have_to_Flip_This_Seat’:_After_Senate Primary_Win,_Fetterman_Shifts_Focus_to_Beating_GOP⠀⇛ Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John Fetterman handily defeated Rep. Conor Lamb in the Democratic primary for the battleground state’s open U.S. Senate seat on Tuesday, pitting the progressive against whichever right-wing candidate prevails in the deadlocked GOP contest between Mehmet Oz and Dave McCormick. “We’re going to win in November the same way we won tonight—by fighting for every county, and every vote.” # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Opinion_|_Onslaught_of_the_Oily Authoritarians⠀⇛ “I think for me the struggle to defend the truth is a precondition for defending our democracy, and the struggle to defend our democracy is a precondition for taking the effective action that needs to be taken in order to meet the climate crisis in a serious way and turn it around.” —U.S. House member Jamie Raskin of Maryland, a member of the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Progressive_Summer_Lee_Declares_Victory_in Pennsylvania_Primary_With_Slim_Margin⠀⇛ # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Progressive_Summer_Lee_Declares_Victory With_Slim_Margin_in_PA_Primary⠀⇛ Summer Lee declared victory late Tuesday in the Democratic primary race to represent Pennsylvania’s 12th Congressional District in the U.S. House, voicing confidence that the remaining uncounted votes will favor her campaign over corporate attorney Steve Irwin’s. “We built a movement in Western Pennsylvania that took on corporate power.” # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Big_Wins,_Tough_Losses_in_Key_Progressive Primary_Fights⠀⇛ Not every left-leaning candidate was victorious in Tuesday’s primary contests, but on the whole, the Democratic Party’s progressive wing had a successful showing despite the best efforts of the party establishment and millions of dollars in right-wing super PAC money. While progressive candidates came up short in North Carolina, their counterparts in Pennsylvania, Oregon, and Kentucky notched important wins that set them up to take on Republican opponents in the fast-approaching November 8 midterms, with control of Congress on the line. Below is a breakdown of key progressive triumphs, losses, and races that remain too close to call. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ House_Progressives_Urge_Executive_Action From_Biden_on_Baby_Formula_‘Emergency’⠀⇛ A group of progressive House Democrats led by Reps. Jamaal Bowman and Ayanna Pressley sent a letter to President Joe Biden on Tuesday urging the White House to use all available executive authorities to end the nation’s pressing baby formula shortage, which has been driven by corporate monopolization. “President Biden must use every power available to him to end this shortage now and to prevent a near- monopoly such as this one from creating another crisis in the future.” # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ PA_Primary_Is_Too_Close_to_Call,_But_Trump Says_‘Dr._Oz_Should_Declare_Victory’_Anyway⠀⇛ Former President Donald Trump took to his Truth Social platform on Wednesday to encourage far-right U.S. Senate candidate Mehmet Oz to “declare victory” in Pennsylvania’s Republican primary even though the race between Oz and ex-hedge fund manager David McCormick remains too close to call. “Dr. Oz should declare victory,” said Trump, urging his endorsed candidate to emulate what he did during the 2020 presidential contest, when he baselessly claimed while votes were still being counted that “frankly, we did win this election.” # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ ‘Major_Milestone’_as_Rhode_Island_Expands Voting_Rights⠀⇛ Democracy defenders are cheering passage of a bill in Rhode Island that expands access to the ballot—a measure its proponents say is especially notable in light of nationwide attacks on the franchise. “Like an honest and accurate public education, expanded access to voting is foundational to society and critical to our democracy.” # ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ Nina_Turner:_Democrats_Must_Decide_If_They Are_“Party_of_the_Corporatists_or_Party_of_the_People”⠀⇛ We look at the Democratic Party’s opposition to progressive challengers such as Nina Turner, former Ohio state senator who earlier this month lost her congressional primary challenge after facing massive spending and attacks by super PACs. Turner says the corporate wing of the Democratic Party seeks to consolidate the existing leadership’s power while shutting down champions of progressive policies like Medicare for All. “The Democratic Party as a whole has to make a decision: Is it the party of the corporatists, or is it the party of the people?” says Turner. # ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Progressive_Summer_Lee_Wins_Pennsylvania Primary_Despite_AIPAC_Opposition⠀⇛ Jake Johnson reports on a Pennsylvania primary unlike any other. # ⚓ The Nation ☛ Summer_Lee_Shows_Progressive_Ideals_Can Overcome_Corporate_Smears⠀⇛ As a progressive Democrat running for an open congressional seat, Summer Lee faced down a brutal smear campaign that claimed she was not enough of a party loyalist to merit a place on its ballot line. And early Wednesday morning, as she pulled ahead of her opponent in the primary for Pennsylvania’s 12th district, Lee declared, “The people took on the corporations and the people won. We built a movement in Western Pennsylvania that took on corporate power, stood up for working families, and beat back a multimillion-dollar smear campaign.” # ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ David_Sirota:_Progressives_Win_Key_Primary Races_Despite_Millions_Spent_to_Back_Corporate_Democrats⠀⇛ We look at Tuesday’s primary elections across five states, which could set the tone for this year’s midterm elections in November. Progressives won in some primary elections despite opposition from within the Democratic Party, as well as deep- pocketed outside groups. “What you’ve seen is a surprising backlash at the voter level to all of the money that flooded in,” says investigative journalist David Sirota of The Lever. “It’s been a pretty good night for progressive candidates, despite all that money.” # § Misinformation/Disinformation⠀➾ # ⚓ Salon ☛ Joe_Rogan_got_fooled_by_fake_news,_but_didn’t realize_until_after_his_expletive-laden_rant⠀⇛ According to The Guardian, Rogan’s false claims sprung from a Facebook post that suggested that Daniel Andrews, an Australian politician and the 48th Premier of Victoria, was passing a bill prohibiting civilians from growing their own food. # ⚓ Reuters ☛ Fact_Check-Amendments_to_legislation_in Victoria,_Australia,_will_not_prevent_citizens_from growing_their_own_food⠀⇛ One Twitter user (here), whose post has been shared more than 13,000 times, wrote: “Australia is passing a bill that will prevent people from growing their own food. Totally normal.” Similar posts can be seen elsewhere on Twitter (here), Facebook (here, here, here, here and here) and Instagram (here). The claims pertain to the Agriculture Legislation Amendment Bill 2022 (here), a draft piece of legislation drawn up to make changes to 11 separate acts of parliament. Such acts include the Catchment and Land Protection Act 1994, the Dairy Act 2000, and the Drugs, Poisons and Controlled Substances Act 1981. # ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ DHS_‘Disinformation’_Board_Put_on ‘Pause’_After_Backlash⠀⇛ The Biden administration has put plans for a controversial “disinformation” board under the Department of Homeland Security on “pause” after the board’s formation caused a widespread backlash. # ⚓ FAIR ☛ ‘Disinformation’_Label_Serves_to_Marginalize Crucial_Ukraine_Facts⠀⇛ Disinformation has become a central tool in the United States and Russia’s expanding information war. US officials have openly admitted to “using information as a weapon even when the confidence and accuracy of the information wasn’t high,” with corporate media eager to assist Washington in its strategy to “pre-empt and disrupt the Kremlin’s tactics, complicate its military campaign” (NBC, 4/6/22). o § Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾ # ⚓ Bitter Winter ☛ Tibet:_No_Religion_Allowed_in_Social_Media Short_Videos_and_Webcasts⠀⇛ In fact, among innumerable possibilities of illegal use of short videos and webcasts, the regulations single out “undermining national religious policies,” “promoting harmful information about religion,” and “spreading xie jiao and feudal superstitions.” There is a clear reference to the national regulations on religion and the Internet that came into force on March 1, 2022. These regulations declare any reference to religion on the web illegal, unless it comes from bodies connected with the five authorized religions that have obtained an ad hoc license and submit their content to the government for preliminary control. For all the others, even posting the image of a statue of Buddha is now illegal. # ⚓ RTL ☛ Flight_data_shows_China_Eastern_jet_deliberately crashed:_report⠀⇛ In the immediate aftermath of the crash, China’s ruling Communist Party moved quickly to control information, revving up its censorship machine as media outlets and local residents raced to the crash site. It has maintained its tight grip over the narrative, with the preliminary probe leaving key questions unanswered. After the fatal descent near the southern city of Wuzhou, authorities swiftly cordoned off a huge area and China’s internet regulator announced it had scrubbed vast amounts of “illegal information” on the crash from China’s tightly controlled web. # ⚓ The Tribune IN ☛ 2_arrested_in_Pakistan’s_Punjab_province for_committing_blasphemy_on_social_media⠀⇛ Lahore Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) on Monday arrested Muhammad Usama Shafiq and Maisam Abbas on a complaint that they had allegedly insulted the Prophet and defiled the holy Quran on Facebook and WhatsApp groups. # ⚓ [Old] India ☛ Pakistan_Embarrassed_After_Facebook_Refuses To_Remove_URLs_Of_Ahmadiyyas_Under_‘blasphemy’⠀⇛ Pakistan’s intentions to crumble the minority Ahmadiyya community in the country has been intensified as their hatred towards the community continues to grow. In an attempt to step over the ‘inferior sect of Muslims,’ Pakistan Telecast Authority (PTA) on Wednesday urged Facebook to remove over 700 URLs related to the Ahmadiyyas, claiming that it pertains to blasphemy in the country. However, the social media giant denied the request and reminded Pakistan that the action pertains to a human rights violation. Facebook reportedly told PTA that the company has refused their request as it was against the commitments made by the social media platform to the international community and further reminded the Imran Khan-led government that Islamabad is also a signatory to ‘Conventions on International Human Rights,’ and their demand is contradictory to their commitments under the provision. # ⚓ India Times ☛ China’s_[Internet]_censors’_latest_weapon: Location_tags⠀⇛ People criticising the government from coastal provinces near Taiwan and Hong Kong have been called separatists. Those who appear to be getting online from abroad, even if they are using a VPN that cloaks their location in China, are treated as foreign agitators and spies. After being reported by the trolls, some accounts are deleted by the platforms for violating “community regulations”. Blau Wang, a Chinese student living in Germany, said she had held back from posting critical views since the changes, in part out of fear of being reported by trolls as a foreign spy. Away from the online fights, many have expressed alarm at the policy shift. One hashtag calling for the feature to be revoked accumulated 8,000 posts and was viewed over 100 million times before it was censored in April. Despite the pushback, authorities have signalled the changes are likely to last and are necessary to “cut off the black hand manipulating narratives behind the [Internet] cable. ” # ⚓ The Nation ☛ When_Right-Wing_Attacks_on_School_Textbooks Fell_Short⠀⇛ Schoolbooks have embraced Communism, threatening young Americans’ patriotism and sexual morality. And behind it all lies a shadowy cabal of big businessmen, bent on demolishing the very system that enriched them. # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ And_Now_The_Copia_Institute_Tells_The_US_Supreme Court_There’s_A_Big_Problem_With_Texas’s_Social_Media_Law⠀⇛ Last week a bizarre one-line order from the Fifth Circuit lifted the injunction on Texas’s social media law, allowing it to go into effect, despite all the massive problems with it – including the extent to which it violates the First Amendment and Section 230. o § Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press⠀➾ # ⚓ VOA News ☛ Ukraine_‘Still_Dangerous_for_Journalists’⠀⇛ As editor-in-chief of U.S.-based website Slavic Sacramento, Gurzhiy for months has been working from his desk in California to provide news and analysis on the invasion of Ukraine to a large Russian-speaking diaspora. His coverage has not gone unnoticed. Moscow’s media regulator, Roskomnadzor, blocked access to Slavic Sacramento in Russia earlier this year, along with several other news networks, including VOA’s Russian service and the BBC. # ⚓ Don’t Extradite Assange ☛ Members_of_the_European Parliament_call_for_the_immediate_release_of_Julian_Assange⠀⇛ At the initiative of PCP MEPs in the European Parliament (EP), 45 MEPs from various EP political groups call for the immediate release of Julian Assange. The attached text appeals to the UK Secretary of State for Home Affairs, Ms. Priti Patel, to refuse the extradition of Julian Assange to the US and to the US Attorney General, Merrick B. Garland to drop the charges against Julian Assange with a view to his immediate release. # ⚓ Variety ☛ BuzzFeed_Struggles_Signal_Uncertain_Future_for Digital_Media⠀⇛ Many other digital media companies, including Vox Media and Vice Media, were looking to BuzzFeed’s public debut as a sign of whether there was a real appetite among investors for digital media. Following BuzzFeed’s poor post-debut performance, other media companies seem to have decided that sticking to consolidating and gaining scale privately was the better move. # ⚓ The Nation ☛ To_Honor_Shireen_Abu_Akleh’s_Life,_Demand Accountability_for_Her_Death⠀⇛ It was like any other day for Shireen Abu Akleh, Al Jazeera’s veteran correspondent in the occupied West Bank, and our friend and colleague. Early in the morning of May 11, she sent an e-mail to her coworkers letting them know she was going to report in the field. “[Israeli] occupation forces storm Jenin and besiege a house in the Jabriyat neighborhood,” she wrote. “On the way there—I will bring you news as soon as the picture becomes clearer.” But she never had a chance. o § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾ # ⚓ Dawn Media ☛ Taliban_shut_down_Afghan_human_rights_body⠀⇛ The work of the rights commission, which included documenting civilian casualties of Afghanistan’s two-decade war, was halted when the Taliban ousted a US-backed government last year and the body’s top officials fled the country. # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ White_Deputies_Search_Bus_Full_Of_Black_College Students_Just_Because,_Lie_About_It_Later⠀⇛ Will racism ever be over in the United States? Nah. We’re just too damn good at it. # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Black_Feminism_Insists_That_We_Not_Treat_the Attack_on_“Roe”_as_Isolated_Issue⠀⇛ # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Progressive_Charles_Booker_Wins_Primary_to Challenge_Rand_Paul_in_November⠀⇛ # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Making_“Impregnators”_Pay_Their_Fair Share⠀⇛ That question led two Pennsylvania state representatives to begin drafting a law to hold impregnators accountable. Legislation proposed by Rep. Emily Kinkead (D-Pittsburgh), and Rep. Christopher M. Rabb (D-Philadelphia), focuses on “the civil offense of wrongful conception.” If enacted, it would require inseminators to pay half of all costs related to pregnancy. “Making it a civil offense for wrongful conception would allow pregnant people to financially recover 50 percent of all pregnancy-related costs,” Rep. Kinkead said. “Not just medical bills, but also the cost of maternity clothes, increased food expenses, birthing classes, doula care, mileage for travel to medical appointments, nursery furniture and supplies, and many other expenses that occur during pregnancy.” It would also cover other pregnancy- related costs postpartum because, “the costs of pregnancy do not stop after birth,” Rep. Kinkead added. “Postpartum, a new parent can have pregnancy-related costs for up to a year. Impregnators must be held responsible to equally cover all expenses.” # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ From_SCOTUS_to_Shireen:_Same_Extremism. Same_Threat⠀⇛ As thousands marched this Saturday, in opposition to the Supreme Court’s threatened overturn of Roe vs. Wade, the news broke that another young, armed, white man had shot up a grocery store in Buffalo New York, killing 10 and injuring 13, almost all of them African American. The weekend also marked the 74th anniversary of the expulsion of Palestinians from the newly formed state of Israel, an anniversary that took place, this year, amid anger over the killing of Al Jazeera journalist, Shireen Abu Akleh whose last report before being killed by Israeli forces was on one of the more than 500 villages from which Palestinians were expelled in 1948. A Supreme Court assault on reproductive equity, another racist slaughter, and more Palestinian death. It’s a lot. # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ A_Brief_Look_at_Low-Income_Asian_Americans and_Pacific_Islanders⠀⇛ Educational Attainment of AAPI Labor Force Since 1965, US immigration policy has favored immigrants with higher levels of education # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Our_Immigration_Police_State⠀⇛ And now we learn that the immigration police state has added another weapon to its arsenal. According to the Los Angeles Times, “Immigration and Customs Enforcement has crafted a sophisticated surveillance dragnet designed to spy on most people living in the United States, without the need for warrants and many times circumventing state privacy laws, such as those in California, according to a two-year investigation released Tuesday by the Georgetown Law Center on Privacy & Technology.” According to the Georgetown investigation, ICE spent an estimated $2.8 billion between 2008 and 2021 on surveillance. That would be U.S. taxpayer - funded money of course. And that is billions with a “b,” not millions with an “m.” # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Anticipating_End_of_“Roe,”_Michigan_Judge_Blocks 1931_Anti-Abortion_Law⠀⇛ # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ ‘After_Which_Failed_Pregnancy_Should_I_Have Been_Imprisoned?’_Asks_Rep._Lucy_McBath⠀⇛ Congresswoman Lucy McBath on Wednesday shared her own difficult experiences to point out how attacks on abortion rights by right-wing judges and legislators could impact what treatment doctors can provide to patients who, like her, endure miscarriage and stillbirth. The Georgia Democrat’s comments came during a U.S. House Judiciary Committee hearing entitled “Revoking Your Rights: The Ongoing Crisis in Abortion Care Access,” an event held as the country prepares for the Supreme Court to issue a final ruling expected to reverse Roe v. Wade. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Opinion_|_Overturning_Roe_Would_Be_an Economic_Catastrophe_for_Women⠀⇛ A leaked draft of a majority opinion authored by Supreme Court justice Samuel Alito strongly suggests that the court will rule to overturn Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey, the two landmark cases that have upheld the right to an abortion nationwide for the last half century. If the final ruling largely follows what is sketched out in the leaked draft, abortion services will be drastically curtailed, if not outright banned, in over half the country. # ⚓ The Nation ☛ Gleaning_Hope_From_Latin_America’s_Abortion Rights_Revolution⠀⇛ As Americans contemplate a possible future without Roe v. Wade, it is worth taking a close look at the recent abortion rights revolution in Latin America. After centuries of living under some of the most draconian abortion laws imaginable—such as denying victims of rape the right to terminate a pregnancy and sending women to prison under the suspicion that they had an abortion rather than a miscarriage—millions of women in Latin America now have access to legal abortion in countries like Argentina, Colombia, and Mexico. Such a radical transformation in Latin America’s abortion landscape has people thinking what until recently was unthinkable: Women from Texas and other states along the US-Mexico border will be traveling to Mexico to have a legal abortion, rather than the other way around. # ⚓ The Nation ☛ The_Supreme_Court_and_the_Church:_A Conversation_With_Frances_Kissling⠀⇛ Bioethicist Frances Kissling, 78, the president of Washington’s Center for Health, Ethics and Social Policy, has spent most of her professional years thinking about and working on issues of women’s rights and reproductive health. # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Songs_of_Slavery_and_Emancipation_Teaser⠀⇛ # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ The_Northern_Ireland_Protocol_is_in Tatters⠀⇛ Sinn Féin topped the first-preference vote with 29%, and won 27 seats, enabling its deputy leader, Michelle O’Neill, to become the north of Ireland’s first minister-designate. O’Neill is the first nationalist to hold this position in a momentous blow to Protestant-oriented Unionism. o § Internet Policy/Net Neutrality⠀➾ # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ FCC_Wants_To_Put_WiFi_On_School_Busses⠀⇛ The FCC has announced that it would be backing a plan to put WiFi on school busses in an attempt to bridge that pesky rascal ambiguously called the “digital divide.” According to the plan, the proposal would use the dwindling money available in the FCC’s E-Rate program to deploy hotspots on busses, allowing them to aid students and be used as portable hotspots on demand. # ⚓ EFF ☛ We_Finally_Have_a_Federal_Fiber_Broadband_Plan⠀⇛ The NOFO contains a strong emphasis on the deployment of open-access infrastructure designed to facilitate competition and meet the growing needs of communities. Lastly, it promotes affordability key priority outcome of the many projects that will get financed with federal tax dollars. Let’s dive into the details here. Congress was explicit in the bipartisan infrastructure law that it did not want the NTIA to implement a program that built broadband access solutions that would only be good enough for today and unprepared for tomorrow. Learning from past federal policy failures that squandered billions of federal dollars on outdated broadband infrastructure that will need to be replaced entirely, Congress emphasized a priority on projects that can “easily scale speeds over time” while meeting “evolving connectivity needs” and support “deployment of 5G” and “other advanced services” under Section 60102(a)(1)(I) of the bill: In our filing to the NTIA, EFF provided technical analysis explaining how fiber-optic wires meet these objectives laid out by Congress and where alternatives fall short in one or more of the above categories. This wasn’t because of any type of favoritism towards on last-mile transmission medium over another, this was just plain old physics driving these results. In its explanation of the “priority broadband project,” the NTIA agreed and acknowledged that “only end-to-end fiber” (on page 42 of the NOFO) will meet these policy objectives. # ⚓ Selfhosting_Gemini?⠀⇛ # ⚓ RE:_Smol_Data_Centre⠀⇛ My selfhosting setup has evolved over the years but the general trend has been to move to lower power and less complexity. The previous server was a DIY mini-ITX 4 bay NAS machine. It was an x86 machine with a RAID storage configuration but I decided it really was overpowered for my needs. In terms of both processing power and power consumption. My personal trend towards less complexity in my computing in general was also a factor in needing less processing power. My current setup has been in service for I think over 3 years at this point. # ⚓ The_Cyborg_and_the_State⠀⇛ There’s a conversation flowing through geminispace about “sinere conversations”, and it’s reminded me of a thought I’ve been meaning to flesh out. It’s not quite there yet, but I thought I’d offer it up; I’d love your feedback. o § Digital Restrictions (DRM)⠀➾ # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Defeat_Your_Car’s_Autostop_Feature_With_A_Little SwitchBot⠀⇛ These days, many new cars come with some variant of an “auto-stop” feature. This shuts down the car’s engine at stop lights and in other similar situations in order to save fuel and reduce emissions. Not everyone is a fan however, and [CGamer_OS] got sick of having to switch off the feature every time they got in the car. So they employed a little robot to handle the problem instead. # ⚓ Variety ☛ Disney_Expects_Most_Disney+_Subscribers_Will_Take Its_Cheaper_Ad-Based_Plan⠀⇛ “Based on our Hulu experience, we actually have more AVOD [ad-supported video-on-demand] than SVOD [subscription VOD] subscribers,” Disney CFO Christine McCarthy said, speaking Wednesday at the 9th Annual MoffettNathanson Media and Communications Summit. “We expect about the same percentage for both Disney+ and Hulu, just based on the experience curve that we’ve witnessed.” A few years ago, Hulu revealed that 70% of its viewers were on ad-supported plans with the remainder on the pricier ad-free tiers. McCarthy said Disney+ ad inventory will be sold at a premium, which will “enhance” the average revenue per subscriber it expects to generate. “We really feel good about this opportunity,” she said. # ⚓ The Verge ☛ Survey_shows_Netflix_is_losing_more_long-term subscribers⠀⇛ As the number of cancellations overall has grown, The Information reports that new users are accounting for a smaller share of them — another indicator that Netflix is struggling to retain users for longer periods of time. In the second quarter of 2021, people surveyed who subscribed to the platform for less than one year made up 70 percent of cancellations, while long-term subscribers accounted for six percent. 60 percent of cancellations were made by newer subscribers last quarter. # ⚓ NPR ☛ Netflix_lays_off_150_employees_amid_subscriber decline⠀⇛ Streaming giant Netflix is laying off an additional 150 employees as of Tuesday, the company confirmed to NPR. The labor restructuring is the latest signal of a major shift within the company as it reported a decline in subscribers for the first time in a decade. # ⚓ Hollywood Reporter ☛ Netflix_Lays_Off_Estimated_150 Staffers_in_New_Round_of_Layoffs⠀⇛ The layoffs represent 2 percent of the streamer’s total workforce, with most of the cuts happening in the United States. Netflix is also making changes to its animation division, resulting in the elimination of 70 roles in that unit, as well as reducing contractor roles in its social media and publishing channels. # ⚓ The Verge ☛ Netflix_is_laying_off_150_employees_and_cutting dozens_from_its_Tudum_fansite⠀⇛ A source familiar with the situation tells The Verge the cuts include at least 26 contractors working on the company’s fan-focused Tudum website, which serves as a supplement to Netflix’s content. Prior to this recent round of layoffs, Netflix cut around 25 marketing roles, including close to a dozen who worked on Tudum. The 26 workers laid off today were informed of the move in a mass email, which Netflix spokesperson Erika Masonhall said was sent by the contracting company. # ⚓ Variety ☛ Netflix_Lays_Off_About_150_Employees,_2%_of_U.S. Workforce,_Amid_Revenue_Slowdown⠀⇛ Netflix has pink-slipped about 150 staffers, mostly in the U.S., as it works to rein in costs with its top-line growth having slowed down. The cuts come across departments and are driven by the need to reduce expenses rather than the performance of individual employees, according to the company. The layoffs represent roughly 2% of Netflix’s U.S. workforce. # ⚓ [Old] Medium ☛ How_Netflix_protects_its_content_—_Part_1⠀⇛ To prevent such illegal content leakage, Netflix and other OTT services (Ref. #2) protect the contents by using technologies called ‘DRM’ and ‘watermarking’. In this article, we will divide into two parts and discuss what we call ‘Multi-DRM’ and ‘Forensic Watermarking’ respectively. # ⚓ [Old] Medium ☛ How_Netflix_protects_its_content_—_Part_2⠀⇛ But DRM technology alone can not completely protect content from illegal distribution. The authorized user’s device needs to convert the encrypted DRM content to its original form through the decryption process for playback. In this playback process, there are technical limitations that make someone can leak the content. Therefore, ‘forensic watermarking’ technology is needed to keep track of who leaked the content and prevent further leakage. o § Monopolies⠀➾ # ⚓ India Times ☛ Microsoft_moves_to_avert_EU_antitrust_clash over_cloud⠀⇛ European cloud companies complained to the European commission, the EU’s antitrust regulator, accusing Microsoft of limiting customer choice. They also said the user experience was made worse and that there are incompatibilities with certain other Microsoft products when not running on Azure, the company’s own data operating system. # ⚓ IT Wire ☛ Microsoft_cloud_licensing_changes_in_bid_to_head off_EU_anti-trust_plaint⠀⇛ Microsoft president Brad Smith’s statement on Wednesday about the change came in the wake of a complaint filed by German software provider Next Cloud, France’s OVHcloud, Italian cloud service provider Aruba and an association of cloud service providers from Denmark, Reuters reported. The anti-trust suit was filed in December last year against Microsoft for allegedly forcing companies to use its file-hosting service One Drive on Windows. A statement from NextCloud at the time said: “OneDrive is pushed wherever users deal with file storage and Teams is a default part of Windows 11,” the statement said. # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Despite_DC_Sound_And_Fury,_Public_Support_For Regulating_‘Big_Tech’_Is_Actually_Down⠀⇛ For several years now there’s been an endless amount of clamor in DC about how we “need to regulate big tech.” Unfortunately, many of the solutions on this front have ranged from incoherent to performative, failing utterly to actually shore up genuine problems in the sector (catch and kill tactics, mindless consolidation, vast privacy and surveillance issues). # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Progressives_Say_Abbott’s_“Near_Monopoly”_Laid Groundwork_for_Baby_Food_Shortage⠀⇛ # § Copyrights⠀➾ # ⚓ Torrent Freak ☛ Cloudflare:_EU’s_Piracy_Watchlist Should_Focus_on_Illegal_Acts,_Not_Copyright_Advocacy⠀⇛ Cloudflare is urging the EU Commission not to turn its bi-annual piracy watchlist into a summary of copyright holder grievances and extralegal demands. The CDN provider’s letter is a response to various rightsholder groups that called out the company for not doing enough to stop online piracy on its network. # ⚓ Torrent Freak ☛ PrimeStreams_IPTV_Targeted_in_Multi- Million_Dollar_Piracy_Lawsuit⠀⇛ PrimeStreams is one of the most recognizable pirate IPTV brands but after dealing with a hacker attack in 2019, more serious troubles lie on the horizon. The operators of PrimeStreams are now being sued in the United States, with potential damages easily running to tens of millions of dollars. ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 4636 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐃𝐀𝐈𝐋𝐘 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒 ═════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 05.19.22⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Links_19/05/2022:_PostgreSQL_15_Beta_1_and_Plasma_5.25_Beta⠀✐ Posted in News_Roundup at 12:52 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇GNOME bluefish⦈ § Contents⠀➾ * GNU/Linux o Desktop/Laptop o Audiocasts/Shows o Graphics_Stack o Applications o Instructionals/Technical o Desktop_Environments/WMs # K_Desktop_Environment/KDE_SC/Qt # GNOME_Desktop/GTK * Distributions_and_Operating_Systems o SUSE/OpenSUSE o Fedora_Family_/_IBM o EasyOS o Canonical/Ubuntu_Family o Mobile_Systems/Mobile_Applications * Free,_Libre,_and_Open_Source_Software o SaaS/Back_End/Databases o Productivity_Software/LibreOffice/Calligra o Content_Management_Systems_(CMS) o Programming/Development # Rust * Leftovers o Hardware o Linux_Foundation o Entrapment o Security # Privacy/Surveillance o Finance o AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics o Censorship/Free_Speech o Internet_Policy/Net_Neutrality o Monopolies # Software_Patents # Copyrights * § GNU/Linux⠀➾ o § Desktop/Laptop⠀➾ # ⚓ CNX Software ☛ DeskMini_UM350_Manjaro_Edition_is_a_Linux mini_PC_powered_by_an_AMD_Ryzen_5_3550H_SoC⠀⇛ Most mini PCs are offered with Windows 10 or 11 operating systems, but MinisForum DeskMini UM350 Manjaro Edition mini PC ships with Manjaro Linux, making it one of the rare mini PCs pre-loaded with a Linux distribution. The mini PC hardware is pretty standard with a 35W AMD Ryzen 5 3550H quad-core processor, support for up 64GB RAM, 2.5-inch SATA and M.2 2280 SSD storage, and the only real highlights are Linux support, and relatively affordable pricing. o § Audiocasts/Shows⠀➾ # ⚓ Video ☛ Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux_9_overview_|_security functionality_and_performance_for_IT_environments_– Invidious⠀⇛ In this video, I am going to show an overview of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 and some of the applications pre-installed. # ⚓ The_Linux_Link_Tech_Show_Episode_954⠀⇛ # ⚓ Bad_Voltage_3×46:_Srtrerarm_Deck⠀⇛ Stuart Langridge, Jono Bacon, and special guest star Jorge Castro present Bad Voltage, in which those of the team not currently having fun on a beach in Spain dig into the latest tech news, including (but not limited to)… # ⚓ BSD_Now_455:_Ken_Thompson_Singularity⠀⇛ OpenBSD is the Perfect OS post Nuclear Apocalypse, Multiprocess support for LLDB, porting the new Hare compiler to OpenBSD, Writing my first OpenBSD game using Godot, FreeBSD 13 on Thinkpad T460s, and more. o § Graphics Stack⠀➾ # ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ What_NVIDIA’s_Open-Source_Driver_Means_for Linux⠀⇛ NVIDIA has recently open-sourced a Linux GPU driver. Does that change things for the Linux gaming community? What’s the next step? NVIDIA graphics cards are well-known for their performance. In the Linux world, they’re known for something else too—frustration with drivers. So much frustration that you may have come across a video or GIF of Linux founder Linus Torvalds referring to NVIDIA with a middle finger. That’s why it’s big news that NVIDIA has finally released an open-source kernel driver for their GPUs. # ⚓ PC World ☛ [Older]_Nvidia_releases_its_first_open-source Linux_drivers⠀⇛ Linux users are a self-sufficient bunch, but when it comes to hardware, they’re often at the mercy of enormous manufacturers to get working drivers. While Nvidia has offered proprietary drivers similar to its Windows offerings for years, the company is changing tack and will now publish open- source GPU drivers. The initial offerings are now live on Github as well as Nvidia’s self-hosted download pages. o § Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ Medevel ☛ Jive_Search_is_your_private_self-hosted_search engine⠀⇛ Ever wanted your own search engine that you can host, control and make sure your searches are not leaked or recorded?. Then it is time to check Jive Search. Jive Search is a free, open-source search self- hosted search engine that you can run on your machine or server. The app is written using the Go programming language for better performance. # ⚓ Medevel ☛ MinIO_is_an_open-source_multi-cloud_object storage_for_Amazon_S3_for_enterprise⠀⇛ o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾ # ⚓ GNU_Linux_(distro_independent)_–_how_to_set_fixed_ip_(brute force_overwrite)_–_temporarily_(also_possible_for_DNS)⠀⇛ this is a quick bash hack, to set an additional fixed ip to the user’s interface, this will (brute force) OVERWRITE all mess done by network managers of various origins: (there should be only one config file to config network settings and it is: /etc/network/ interfaces, instead of 10x entities inventing it’s own standard, confusing the heck out of users, just keep the standard that is already there?) # ⚓ Ubuntu Handbook ☛ How_to_Enable_More_Multi-Touch_Gestures in_Ubuntu_22.04_GNOME_42_|_UbuntuHandbook⠀⇛ This simple tutorial shows how to enable 3-finger & 4-finger multi-touch gestures in Ubuntu 22.04, Fedora 36 and other Linux with GNOME 40+, while the desktop by default supports only few gestures. # ⚓ How_to_Install_Open_Source_osTicket_on_Ubuntu_20.04⠀⇛ A server can contain many important business applications. These applications can help us to deploy even a support ticket system to better manage the technical service of a company. Today, you will learn how to install osTicket on Ubuntu 20.04. # ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ How_to_Install_and_Use_Bitwarden_on_Linux⠀⇛ A password manager is an application that lets you generate new passwords and store existing ones securely. It eliminates the need to create and remember strong and complex passwords yourself for all your accounts. Depending on the device and operating system you’re using, you can find all kinds of password managers. Bitwarden is a free-to-use password manager that comes with all the essential password management features. Follow along to learn how to install and set up Bitwarden on Linux. # ⚓ TechRepublic ☛ How_to_install_Borgmatic_for_easy_Linux server_backups_|_TechRepublic⠀⇛ Do you have a reliable backup solution running on your Linux servers? If not, what’s your plan for disaster recovery? The word “disaster” alone should be enough to help you realize backups are an absolutely crucial part of your organization. If you’re in the market for a new Linux backup solution, there’s a lesser-known solution that does an outstanding job, and it’s fairly easy to install and configure. That solution is Borgmatic. This simple, configuration-driven backup solution protects your files (and even databases) with client-side encryption and even offers third-party integration for things like monitoring. I want to walk you through the process of installing Borgmatic on Ubuntu Server 22.04. When complete, you should feel confident your important data is regularly being backed up. # ⚓ TechRepublic ☛ How_to_install_the_Caddy_web_server_on Ubuntu_Server_22.04_|_TechRepublic⠀⇛ Caddy is a powerful open-source web server, written in Go, that can be used to host web applications in a production environment. Caddy features built-in automated TLS certificate renewals, OSCP stapling, static file serving, reverse proxy, Kubernetes ingress and much more. Caddy can be run as a stand- alone web server, an app server or even within containers. In this tutorial, I’m going to walk you through the steps of installing Caddy on Ubuntu Server 22.04 and then how to create a simple, static site. # ⚓ Start_XFCE_Terminal_with_a_Different_Shell⠀⇛ I have PowerShell set as the default shell when XFCE Terminal launches. I was not able to update the PowerShell snap package while PowerShell was running. And restarting my Terminal did not cause PowerShell to update. I needed to launch a different shell and trigger an update there. It is possible to launch an application with command-line options directly from XFCE’s Whisker Menu (Start Menu). I needed the command-line name for Terminal. And I needed the command-line option to launch an alternative shell. In my case, I can just use Bash as the alternative shell. # ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_To_Install_Apache_with_Let’s_Encrypt_on Ubuntu_22.04_LTS_–_idroot⠀⇛ In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Apache with Let’s Encrypt on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, as well as some extra requirements by Apache # ⚓ How_To_Install_Wireshark_3.6.5_On_Ubuntu_/_LinuxMint_|_Tips On_UNIX⠀⇛ Wireshark is an open-source Network Protocol analyzer application and the most widely used application across the world. This tutorial will be helpful for beginners to install Wireshark 3.6.5 on Ubuntu 22.04, Ubuntu 20.04, and LinuxMint 20.3. # ⚓ ByteXD ☛ How_to_Install_Discord_on_Fedora_–_ByteXD⠀⇛ Discord is a social-media platform whose users communicate with voice calls, video calls and text messages. Also, they can share media and files on both private chats and servers (Discord’s way of referring to communities), besides screen sharing, which is a good thing to be included in such a platform. Another useful feature of Discord is that you can organize your server with categories and channels, which makes the server very tidy and makes information within it very accessible. In this tutorial we’ll install Discord through a few methods on Fedora. This should work for any other RHEL based Linux distro, such as CentOS, Rocky Linux, AlmaLinux, and others. # ⚓ Red Hat Official ☛ How_to_install_RHEL_9_|_Enable Sysadmin⠀⇛ Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 offers significant new features for hybrid cloud organizations. Here’s how to install it so you can start testing. # ⚓ ByteXD ☛ How_to_Install_VLC_Media_Player_on_Ubuntu_22.04_/ 20.04_–_ByteXD⠀⇛ VLC media player is an open-source, cross-platform media player and streaming server developed and maintained by the VideoLan project. VLC can play most media formats, as well as media CDs. It is available for most operating systems, both desktop and mobile phones. In this article we’re installing it on Ubuntu 20.04, but the mentioned methods work in many versions of Ubuntu, and should work on your Ubuntu 22.04 as well. # ⚓ Enable_Activate_Linux_Watermark_Notification_In_Linux_– OSTechNix⠀⇛ In an attempt to stop piracy of Windows OS, the Microsoft developer team has come up with an idea to place a watermark in the corner until the users legally purchase a license and activate the Windows OS. If you’re running a pirated Windows copy in your system, you should have noticed the “Activate Windows” watermark notification in the lower bottom corner as shown in the below screenshot. # ⚓ Ubuntu Pit ☛ How_To_Change_Root_Password_in_Kali_Linux⠀⇛ The Kali Linux is based on the Debian distribution. This operating system is famous mainly among young users, developers, and hackers. Many ethical hackers use the Kali Linux system for security and stability. The root password is the primary password that you use to install software, do repository updates, and perform other administrative tasks on the system. Usually, if you are the root user, it’s conventional that you will have access to change the root password, but most users, if they are new to Kali, face issues changing the password. There are very simple tips and tricks and methods that you can follow to change the root password in Kali Linux. # ⚓ Install_Inkscape_1.2_On_Ubuntu_/_LinuxMint_/_Debian⠀⇛ Inkscape is a free and Open Source professional vector graphics editor software that runs on Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows desktop computers. This tutorial will be helpful for beginners to install Inkscape 1.2 on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, Ubuntu 18.04, Debian, and LinuxMint 20.3 It is suitable for web designers and it is an alternative to Adobe Illustrator. It supports many SVG features (markers, alpha blending, clones, etc..) and is easy to use. o § Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾ # § K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt⠀➾ # ⚓ 9to5Linux ☛ KDE_Plasma_5.25_Beta_Is_Here_with Floating_Panels,_New_Customization_Options,_and_More⠀⇛  KDE Plasma 5.25 is packed with lots of new features, including full control of the Tablet Mode from both Wayland and X11 sessions, a smooth cross-fade effect when changing between old and new color schemes, a new “Crashed Processes Viewer” app, and new finger-following touchpad gestures for touch- friendly devices. Also new is a configuration window for KRunner, support for configuring all the buttons of Wacom ExpressKey Remote devices, as well as a new floating mode for the panel that detaches it from the bottom of the screen to look more like a dock. # ⚓ Plasma_5.25_Beta⠀⇛ Today we are bringing you the preview version of KDE’s Plasma 5.25 desktop release. Plasma 5.25 Beta is aimed at testers, developers, and bug-hunters. To help KDE developers iron out bugs and solve issues, install Plasma 5.25 Beta and test run the features listed below. Please report bugs to our bug tracker. We will be holding a Plasma 5.25 beta review day on May 26 (details will be published on our social media) and you can join us for a day of bug-hunting, triaging and solving alongside the Plasma devs! # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ KDE_Plasma_5.25_Beta_is_out_now_for testing⠀⇛ Ready for even more improvements to come to the KDE Plasma desktop? I know I am and Plasma 5.25 Beta is now available. This is readying up for a full release for everyone on June 14th, and they will also be holding a special “beta review day” of May 26th where anyone can join in for a day of “bug-hunting, triaging and solving alongside the Plasma devs”. # ⚓ KDE_Plasma_5.25_Beta_Arrives_with_Dynamic_Accent Colour,_Improved_Discover⠀⇛ Details about the KDE Plasma 5.25 beta release with feature highlights, download instructions and bug reporting. # § GNOME Desktop/GTK⠀➾ # ⚓ Caolán_McNamara:_Dark_Style_Preference_with_GTK⠀⇛ Added something to track the org.freedesktop.appearance.color-scheme property as used by the GNOME 42 Dark Style Preference setting. Screencast recorded with the new iteration of GNOME’s screen built-in recorder which is quite snazzy. * § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾ o ⚓ LinuxInsider ☛ Distro_Delights,_New_Release_Mania,_Forking_KDE, Windows_in_a_Bottle⠀⇛ If you are looking for a really cool Linux computing platform with lots of extras and a twist on traditional desktop design, check out Modicia OS Ultimate. Italy-based Modicia Web Design and Development Company recently released its latest upgrade — Modicia O.S. 22. You probably won’t stumble on this gem in hiding if you distro hop or browse through traditional outlets for Linux operating systems; but it is definitely a discovery worth finding. It is one of the easiest Linux offerings I have used. Modicia Ultimate installs without hassles and has no learning curve to get started. It is a great platform for personal and small business use as well. Get it here. The popular CentOS alternative, AlmaLinux, is now available on Oracle Cloud. AlmaLinux OS Foundation on May 5 announced its availability on the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure marketplace, continuing AlmaLinux’s penetration into the cloud. o § SUSE/OpenSUSE⠀➾ # ⚓ seidl_–_display_current_SUSE_publiccloud_images_in_your terminal_–_openQA_bites⠀⇛ seidl is a small pint query utility designed to easily list the current publiccloud images in the terminal. Pint (Public Cloud Information Tracker) is the SUSE service to provide data about the current state of publiccloud images across all supported public cloud service providers. The public-cloud-info-client is an already existing versitale client, however I find its usage a bit bulky if it comes to the task of displaying the current images. This is where seidl complements the existing client. See for yourself: # ⚓ SUSE’s Corporate Blog ☛ SUSE_Manager_4.3_Public_RC_is out!⠀⇛ We are happy to announce our Public Release Candidate for SUSE Manager 4.3! # ⚓ SUSE’s Corporate Blog ☛ Journey_to_the_Edge_at_SUSECON Digital_22⠀⇛ It is just a few short weeks until SUSECON Digital 2022, which goes live June 7-9, and I am thrilled to be delivering the Edge keynote at the show. In support of SUSE’s mission to become the most trusted and secure infrastructure stack in the market I’m going to be discussing why our Edge computing offering stands out in enabling business applications to run where they are best suited. o § Fedora Family / IBM⠀➾ # ⚓ The Register UK ☛ RHEL_8.6_and_cousins_Rocky_and_Alma arrive_•_The_Register⠀⇛ Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6, Alma Linux 8.6 and Rocky Linux 8.6 are all out now, for various platforms. RHEL version 8.6 – codenamed “Ootpa” – arrived on May 11, and is the latest update to 2019′s RHEL 8. RHEL point releases are relatively neat affairs compared to, say, Ubuntu’s short-term support releases. 8.6 is a step up from last November’s RHEL 8.5. It’s still based on Fedora 28 and still uses the same kernel version. In this version, you get kernel 4.18-372, which has another six months’ worth of bugfixes, security updates and so on. # ⚓ Downstream_automation_is_here_|_Packit⠀⇛ As the first step on our way to Fedora users, we need to get the new upstream release to the Fedora dist-git. # ⚓ Enterprisers Project ☛ 5_tips_to_prevent_IT_team_burnout⠀⇛ During the pandemic shutdown, the concept of 24/ 7 employee availability became normalized – especially for IT professionals, many of whom who found themselves within reach of their laptops at all times. This new normal led many IT folks to experience burnout, with stress and frustration negatively impacting the quality of their work, their personal relationships, and even their mental health. As a leader, you can help prevent your IT team from succumbing to burnout. Here are five tips to help ensure that your team stays happy, healthy, and productive. # ⚓ Enterprisers Project ☛ Hybrid_work:_3_technology_questions CIOs_should_be_asking [Ed: More buzzwords (about working from home and centrralised office space)]⠀⇛ Hybrid work is here to stay, as workers around the globe are now insisting on that flexibility. According to a Frost & Sullivan survey of global IT decision-makers, 93 percent of business leaders expect one-quarter or more of their employees to work from home moving forward, with most likely moving between home and the office. As we look to assess the impact of this new way of working, CIOs need to set guidelines for what their hybrid workplace will look like and determine how they can help employees and employers navigate new workflows effectively and productively. Here are some questions to help start that process. # ⚓ OpenSource.com ☛ Use_this_open_source_screen_reader_on Windows [Ed: Red Hat promoting Microsoft Windows stuff]⠀⇛ # ⚓ OpenSource.com ☛ Near_zero_marginal_cost_societies_and_the impact_on_why_we_work⠀⇛ I have read Jeremy Rifkin’s book The Zero Marginal Cost Society: The Internet of Things, the Collaborative Commons, and the Eclipse of Capitalism, which has a strong connection to open organization principles, particularly community building. Rifkin also writes about the future of green energy generation and energy use in logistics. This is the second of three articles in this series. In my previous article, I examined the Collaborative Commons. In this article, I look at its impact on energy production and supply. Within the next 25 years, Rifkin believes most of our energy for home heating, running appliances, powering businesses, driving vehicles, and operating the whole economy will be nearly free with on-site power solar, wind and geothermal energy generation. This is starting already, through both individual and micropower plants. The payback is around two to eight years. # ⚓ Red Hat ☛ Manage_JMX_credentials_on_Kubernetes_with Cryostat_2.1⠀⇛ Cryostat is a tool for managing JDK Flight Recorder data on Kubernetes. If you have Java Management Extensions (JMX) authentication enabled on your containerized Java Virtual Machines (JVMs), Cryostat will prompt you to enter your JMX credentials before it can access the JDK flight recordings on your target JVMs. On the Cryostat console, the Automated Rules, Recordings, and Events tabs will require you to enter your JMX credentials if you want to view existing flight recordings or perform a recording operation on a target with JMX authentication enabled. When monitoring multiple target JVMs with Cryostat features such as automatic rules, you may want Cryostat to remember and reuse your JMX credentials for each target connection. # ⚓ Red Hat ☛ Approaches_to_implementing_multi-tenancy_in_SaaS applications⠀⇛ The SaaS architecture checklist is a series of articles that cover the software and deployment considerations for Software as a Service (SaaS) applications. This article discusses architectural approaches for separating and isolating SaaS tenants to provide multi-tenancy, the provisioning of services to multiple clients in different organizations. For the approaches, the type and level of isolation provided are compared, along with their tradeoffs. The approaches laid out in different sections of the article are not mutually exclusive and can be combined to provide the levels of separation and isolation necessary to satisfy the requirements of your SaaS customers and markets. We’ll also discuss how to incorporate existing single-tenant applications into a SaaS environment. o § EasyOS⠀➾ # ⚓ Barry Kauler ☛ iotop_partly_broken_in_Easy_Dunfell_and Bookworm⠀⇛ Running iotop (from “System” menu), there is a message: CONFIG_TASK_DELAY_ACCT not enabled in kernel, cannot determine SWAPIN and IO This problem arrived with the 5.15 kernel. It is configured with CONFIG_TASK_DELAY_ACCT, but is not activated. It has to be activated with a kernel commandline parameter. Apparently, this change was made because this feature imposes a very slight performance overhead on I/O. # ⚓ Barry Kauler ☛ Zram_with_lz4_compression_in_kernel⠀⇛ Oh man, I recompiled the kernel yet again! Having very recently become enamoured of lz4, I saw that zram only has lzo and lzo-rle compression enabled. So, have also enabled lz4. # ⚓ Barry Kauler ☛ Simpler_labels_for_desktop_icons⠀⇛ # ⚓ Barry Kauler ☛ Using_EasyOS_with_Ventoy⠀⇛ If you want to put EasyOS into Ventoy, it used to work — only just — now doesn’t. The Ventoy website has a tick alongside EasyOS, meaning it works. However, there is this problem… When Easy is on its own on a USB-stick, at first bootup, the ext4 working-partition is expanded to fill the drive, then it is populated. That population includes ‘vmlinuz’, ‘initrd’ and ‘easy.sfs’ copied from the boot-partition to the working-partition. o § Canonical/Ubuntu Family⠀➾ # ⚓ I_ditched_Ubuntu_for_Pop_OS!_and_I_haven’t_looked_back since⠀⇛  After getting comfortable with Ubuntu and getting to a point where I could find my way around and install tools that I used, I felt like I was outgrowing the simplicity. I needed something a little more robust, something more feature-packed. And that led me down the rabbit hole many Linuxers know all too well. There are tons of distros and over the next few years, I hopped from one to another, just trying to have a feel of the developers’ mindset and goals when designing the operating systems. I dailied many of the popular ones from Manjaro, Fedora, PearOS, CutefishOS, Linux Mint, and many more. Linux can be exciting once you nail the basics and know a few tools that cut across these distros. This, aided by the robust community forums out here means that whatever issue you run into, you’re often times mere clicks away from a solution. Also, should you not tinker with the system too much, you might never break it at all. That’s just how stable some of these distros are. # ⚓ Its FOSS ☛ For_the_Love_of_Ubuntu:_Here_are_the_Mascots_of All_Ubuntu_Releases⠀⇛ This is a collection of the mascots of all the Ubuntu releases so far. You may have noticed that every Ubuntu release has a version name and codename. The codename is composed of two words that start with the same letter. The first word is an adjective, and the other one is (usually) an (endangered) species. o § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ CNX Software ☛ Geniatech_launches_OSM_Size-L_modules_with Renesas_RZ/G2L,_Rockchip_RK3566_–_CNX_Software⠀⇛ # ⚓ 9to5Google ☛ Google_now_accepting_Android_13_Beta_2 feedback_–_9to5Google⠀⇛ # ⚓ Android Police ☛ Latest_Lawnchair_Alpha_comes_with_the_new At_a_Glance_widget_from_Android_12⠀⇛ # ⚓ 9to5Google ☛ Small_Android_phones:_Why_they’re_dead,_what you_can_still_get⠀⇛ # ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ Why_Do_Android_Phones_With_the_Same_Processor Have_Different_Benchmark_Scores?⠀⇛ # ⚓ Android Authority ☛ Huawei_AppGallery_flaw_lets_you download_paid_Android_apps_for_free⠀⇛ # ⚓ XDA ☛ The_new_‘Now_in_Android’_app_aims_to_help_developers build_better_apps⠀⇛ # ⚓ Android Police ☛ Google_Photos_finally_lets_you_trash photos_directly_from_albums_on_Android,_but_there’s_a_catch⠀⇛ # ⚓ Android Police ☛ Apple_accused_of_union_busting:_Employees organizing_on_Android_phones⠀⇛ * § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾ o ⚓ Linux Links ☛ 10_Fun_Free_and_Open_Source_Platform_Games⠀⇛  A platform game (sometimes known as platformer or jump ‘n’ run games) is a video game genre and subgenre of action games in which the core objective is to move the player character between points in a rendered environment. Platform games are characterized by their level design featuring uneven terrain and suspended platforms of varying height that requires use of the player character’s abilities, such as jumping and climbing, to navigate the player’s environment and reach their goal. Let’s explore the 10 games. For each game we have compiled its own portal page, a full description with an in-depth analysis of its features, a screen shot of the game in action together with links to relevant resources. o § SaaS/Back End/Databases⠀➾ # ⚓ PostgreSQL ☛ PostgreSQL:_PostgreSQL_15_Beta_1_Released!⠀⇛ The PostgreSQL Global Development Group announces that the first beta release of PostgreSQL 15 is now available for download. This release contains previews of all features that will be available when PostgreSQL 15 is made generally available, though some details of the release can change during the beta period. o § Productivity Software/LibreOffice/Calligra⠀➾ # ⚓ Interacting_with_the_Pootle_Bot_on_Gerrit⠀⇛ Have you received “A polite ping, still working on this bug?” message on one of your Gerrit submissions? You can simply send an arbitrary reply to avoid the patch being abandoned within a month. Here we discuss more about Pootle bot, which is one of the QA (Quality Assurance) tools for the LibreOffice QA team to manage old submissions. o § Content Management Systems (CMS)⠀➾ # ⚓ Testing_Webmentions_on_WordPress⠀⇛ I decided to try installing Webmentions on my WordPress site. Ran into an issue that I set it up while my cache plugin was caching every page on site. Since I am not in a rush, I ran my tests with the pages that had not yet been cached when I was installing everything. o § Programming/Development⠀➾ # ⚓ Qt ☛ Optimizing_your_QML_application_for_compilation_to C++⠀⇛ This is the start of a series of posts where I’m going to share some insights on how to adjust a QML application to get the most out of qmlsc, the QML Script Compiler. In contrast to previous posts, I won’t talk about the abstract architecture or the high level picture. # ⚓ Qt ☛ Compiling_QML_to_C++:_Annotating_JavaScript functions⠀⇛ This is the second installment in the series on how to adjust your QML application to take the maximum advantage of qmlsc. In the first post we’ve set up the environment and taken an initial measurement. I highly recommend reading that one first. # ⚓ PaloAlto_init-cfg.txt_Bootstrap_Config_file_Layout_with Examples⠀⇛ When you install and configure the PaloAlto firewall, when the firewall boots up for the first time, it does the bootstrapping process. PaloAlto uses the settings defined in the bootstrap files, including the init-cfg.txt and bootstrap.xml under the config folder to configure the initial state of the firewall. # ⚓ CNX Software ☛ $30_compact_multi-sensor_board_works_with any_microcontroller_with_I2C_(Crowdfunding)_–_CNX_Software⠀⇛ SENSE is a compact multi-sensor board supporting measurement of air quality, sound, light intensity, temperature, proximity, etc… and designed by Zack Seifert, a seventeen-year-old electronics enthusiast and president of his school’s robotics team. # ⚓ I_will_just_quickly_do_a_blog_post…⠀⇛ I got ”inspired” by my writing of the previous blog post, and wrote in a channel about my experience some time ago. So why not also do a blog post about doing a blog post 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇:)⦈ So… I was planning to use GitLab’s Pages feature via my Hugo fork as usual to push it through. So like, concentrate on writing and do a publish, right, like in good old times? I did so, but all I got both locally and in remote pipeline was stuff like… # § Rust⠀➾ # ⚓ Bunnie Huang ☛ Rust:_A_Critical_Retrospective⠀⇛ Since I was unable to travel for a couple of years during the pandemic, I decided to take my new-found time and really lean into Rust. After writing over 100k lines of Rust code, I think I am starting to get a feel for the language and like every cranky engineer I have developed opinions and because this is the Internet I’m going to share them. The reason I learned Rust was to flesh out parts of the Xous OS written by Xobs. Xous is a microkernel message-passing OS written in pure Rust. Its closest relative is probably QNX. Xous is written for lightweight (IoT/ embedded scale) security-first platforms like Precursor that support an MMU for hardware- enforced, page-level memory protection. In the past year, we’ve managed to add a lot of features to the OS: networking (TCP/UDP/ DNS), middleware graphics abstractions for modals and multi-lingual text, storage (in the form of an encrypted, plausibly deniable database called the PDDB), trusted boot, and a key management library with self- provisioning and sealing properties. One of the reasons why we decided to write our own OS instead of using an existing implementation such as SeL4, Tock, QNX, or Linux, was we wanted to really understand what every line of code was doing in our device. For Linux in particular, its source code base is so huge and so dynamic that even though it is open source, you can’t possibly audit every line in the kernel. Code changes are happening at a pace faster than any individual can audit. Thus, in addition to being home-grown, Xous is also very narrowly scoped to support just our platform, to keep as much unnecessary complexity out of the kernel as possible. # ⚓ LWN ☛ Huang:_Rust:_A_Critical_Retrospective⠀⇛ Andrew ‘bunnie’ Huang has posted an extensive review of the Rust language derived from the experience of writing “over 100k lines” of code. # ⚓ This_Week_In_Rust:_This_Week_in_Rust_443⠀⇛ * § Leftovers⠀➾ o ⚓ Anime_Series_In_Need_of_Sequels⠀⇛ I came across an article on SoraNews24 titled “Japanese netizens vote for the top 20 anime they want an on-air sequel to.” o ⚓ W-Series_is_fun⠀⇛ The cars are identical, so it’s mostly a test of ability. They nominally have teams, but no one takes any notice of that, so again it’s focussed on drivers and what they can do. o § Hardware⠀➾ # ⚓ CNX Software ☛ Geniatech_launches_OSM_Size-L_modules_with Renesas_RZ/G2L,_Rockchip_RK3566⠀⇛ o § Linux Foundation⠀➾ # ⚓ PR Newswire ☛ The_Linux_Foundation_and_Fintech_Open_Source Foundation_Announce_the_Schedule_for_Open_Source_in_Finance Forum_London_2022,_July_13⠀⇛ o § Entrapment⠀➾ # ⚓ Barbara_Marx_Hubbard:_Godmother_of_Transhumanism_and Synthetic_Spirituality⠀⇛ In 2016, the Global Future Councils of the World Economic Forum (WEF) posted a video entitled “8 Predictions for the World in 2030,” which infamously forecasted a technocratic New World Order in which “[y]ou’ll own nothing. And you’ll be happy.” It doesn’t take a stretch of the imagination to ponder how WEF oligarchs plan to roll out “sustainable development” policies which will ration consumer goods in a global “sharing economy” that employs transient “gig” workers who will be rendered into propertyless serfs under a techno-communitarian rendition of neo-feudalism. But how will the globalist technocrats of the WEF sway the virtual peasant class to be happy with their permanent state of digitally indentured servitude? o § Security⠀➾ # ⚓ LWN ☛ Security_updates_for_Thursday_[LWN.net]⠀⇛ Security updates have been issued by Fedora (microcode_ctl, rubygem-nokogiri, and vim), Mageia (htmldoc, python-django, and python-oslo-utils), Red Hat (container-tools:2.0, kernel, kernel-rt, kpatch-patch, and pcs), SUSE (ardana-barbican, grafana, openstack-barbican, openstack-cinder, openstack-heat-gbp, openstack-horizon-plugin-gbp- ui, openstack-ironic, openstack-keystone, openstack-neutron-gbp, python-lxml, release-notes- suse-openstack-cloud, autotrace, curl, firefox, libslirp, php7, poppler, slurm_20_11, and ucode- intel), and Ubuntu (bind9, gnome-control-center, and libxrandr). # ⚓ Forbes ☛ Apple_Safari,_Microsoft_Windows_11_&_Teams,_Hacked During_$800,000_0-Day_Fest [Ed: Microsoft puts back doors in its things, so security is never the goal, nor is it accomplished]⠀⇛ # ⚓ The Register UK ☛ Red_Hat_Kubernetes_security_report_finds people_are_the_problem ⠀⇛ Kubernetes, despite being widely regarded as an important technology by IT leaders, continues to pose problems for those deploying it. And the problem, apparently, is us. The open source container orchestration software, being used or evaluated by 96 per cent of organizations surveyed [PDF] last year by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, has a reputation for complexity. Witness the sarcasm: “Kubernetes is so easy to use that a company devoted solely to troubleshooting issues with it has raised $67 million,” quipped Corey Quinn, chief cloud economist at IT consultancy The Duckbill Group, in a Twitter post on Monday referencing investment in a startup called Komodor. And the consequences of the software’s complication can be seen in the difficulties reported by those using it. # ⚓ CISA ☛ CISA_Releases_Analysis_of_FY21_Risk_and Vulnerability_Assessments_|_CISA⠀⇛ CISA has released an analysis and infographic detailing the findings from the 112 Risk and Vulnerability Assessments (RVAs) conducted across multiple sectors in Fiscal Year 2021 (FY21). # ⚓ USCERT ☛ ISC_Releases_Security_Advisory_for_BIND⠀⇛ The Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) has released a security advisory that addresses a vulnerability affecting version 9.18.0 of ISC Berkeley Internet Name Domain (BIND). A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial-of-service condition. # ⚓ CVE-2022-1183:_Destroying_a_TLS_session_early_causes assertion_failure⠀⇛ An assertion failure can be triggered if a TLS connection to a configured http TLS listener with a defined endpoint is destroyed too early. # § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾ # ⚓ Bruce Schneier ☛ Websites_that_Collect_Your_Data_as You_Type⠀⇛ A surprising number of websites include JavaScript keyloggers that collect everything you type as you type it, not just when you submit a form. # ⚓ Wired ☛ Some_Top_100,000_Websites_Collect_Everything You_Type—Before_You_Hit_Submit_|_WIRED⠀⇛ A surprising number of the top 100,000 websites effectively include keyloggers that covertly snag everything you type into a form. o § Finance⠀➾ # ⚓ New_Job!_How_Was_Unemployment?⠀⇛ I’m starting a new job on June 1st! By that time I’ll have been unemployed for a little less than two months. It’s the longest period I have ever involuntarily gone without a job, but also the first time I’ve been unemployed and only looking for high skill jobs. Aside from the slight hassle with the unemployment agency described earlier it’s been a generally rewarding experience. I’ve had the opportunity to rest, for one. I’ve done a lot of programming, especially in the first couple of weeks. The kind of projects that had been bottled up and waiting for some free time to be realised. # ⚓ Capital_One_decides_in_favor_of_Batteries_Plus_Bulbs_in_my credit_card_dispute._It_isn’t_safe_to_depend_on_the_bank_to rule_correctly._–_BaronHK’s_Rants⠀⇛ Capital One decided in favor of Batteries Plus Bulbs in my credit card dispute. It isn’t safe to depend on the bank to rule correctly. I supplied a mountain of evidence to prove that I was cheated by the owner of the Batteries Plus Bulbs location in Gurnee, Illinois when he sold me a defective car key and deprogrammed my car’s remote control when he failed to fix it, and that he then proceeded to threaten to call the police on me when I asked for my money back, forcing me to spend even more of my money taking my car to a Buick dealer to get the job right. o § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾ # ⚓ Toxic_partisanship_and_failure_of_democracy:_How_political parties_became_threats_to_the_United_States,_and_why democracy’s_days_are_counted⠀⇛ As I observe the results of the 2022 primary elections in several U.S. states, it seems that the Overton Windows continue to move to both extremes. Not long ago, the Overton Window of the Democrats and that of the Republicans largely overlapped. Now it seems that these windows have moved farther apart, with no overlap in the middle. This trend began during the Obama era, with the beginning of the Tea Party movement on one side, and the Occupy Wall Street movement on the other, as they both increasingly demanded more radical solutions. At first, they were laughed off by the establishment politicians as fringe elements. Soon, many of their ideas have become mainstream. Now both sides of the aisle are digging in their heels and refusing to compromise. Those who do, such as Liz Cheney and Joe Manchin, are swiftly condemned as “traitors” — not to their country but to their party. For most of the U.S. history, the politics have been dominated by a bipartisan paradigm. Federalists and Anti-Federalists. Whigs and Democrats. Republicans and Democrats. The modern concept of political parties, however, is thought to have originated in Great Britain. In the Westminster parliamentary systems, the executive branch is chosen from among the majority and the minority party is called the “Queen’s loyal opposition.” In the U.S., the presidency is semi- directly elected by the voters (technically, elected by the electors of state electoral colleges) regardless of the Congressional majority. This sets the government up for confrontational and adversarial relationship with Congress, if the party of the president is not in majority in either chamber of Congress (most of the Obama presidency was marked by the Tea Party Republican obstructionism). # ⚓ older_blog_posts⠀⇛ I might revise and republish some or all of these here, but the problem is that my thoughts and opinions often tend to evolve or shift over time. So for now I am preserving these Tumblr sites for the sake of historicity. o § Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾ # ⚓ Citizen Lab ☛ Bada_Bing,_Bada_Boom⠀⇛ Some companies such as Facebook and Twitter do not presently comply with Chinese regulations, and their platforms are blocked by China’s national firewall. Other companies operate their platforms in China but fragment their user bases. For instance, Chinese tech giant ByteDance operates Douyin inside of China and TikTok outside of China, subjecting Douyin users to Chinese laws and regulations, while TikTok is blocked by the national firewall. Users of one fragment of the platform are not able to interact with users in the other. Finally, companies can combine user bases but only subject some communications to censorship and surveillance. Tencent’s WeChat implements censorship policies only on accounts registered to mainland Chinese phone numbers, and, until 2013, Microsoft’s Skype partnered with Hong Kong-based TOM Group to provide a version of Skype for the Chinese market that included censorship and surveillance of text messages. Platforms with combined user bases often provide users with limited transparency over whether their communications have been subjected to censorship and surveillance due to Chinese regulations. Previous research has demonstrated a growing number of companies that have either accidentally or intentionally enabled censorship and surveillance capacities designed for China-based services on users outside of China. Our analysis of Apple’s filtering of product engravings, for instance, shows that Apple censors political content in mainland China and that this censorship is also present for users in Hong Kong and Taiwan despite there existing no written legal requirement for Apple to do so. While WeChat only implements censorship on mainland Chinese users, we found that communications made on the platform entirely among non-Chinese accounts were subject to content surveillance which was used to train and build up WeChat’s political censorship system in China. TikTok has reportedly censored content posted by American users which was critical of the Chinese government. Zoom (an American-owned company based in California) worked with the Chinese government to terminate the accounts of US-based users and disrupt video calls about the 1989 Tiananmen Square Massacre. # ⚓ Praxics_were_a_mistake⠀⇛ Recently, there has been some discussion among the geminauts about meaningful conversation and technology. I think nomadpenguin (see references) has excellent points in that 1. ‘vapid conversation’ has always been a thing, 2. ‘vapid conversation’ is useful… o § Internet Policy/Net Neutrality⠀➾ # ⚓ ATTENTION:_Planned_Antenna_Downtime_Tonight⠀⇛ I’m going to change some router settings tonight at 18:00-18:30 UTC. It will hopefully take less than that. My domain warmedal.se will be unreachable for a little time. Please bear with me. o § Monopolies⠀➾ # ⚓ Reuters ☛ Microsoft_seeks_to_dodge_EU_cloud_computing_probe with_changes⠀⇛ Microsoft will revise its licensing deals and make it easier for cloud service providers to compete, its president Brad Smith said on Wednesday, as the U.S. software giant sought to dodge a lengthy EU antitrust probe into its cloud computing business. # ⚓ Public Knowledge ☛ Independent,_But_Together:_How_Antitrust and_Regulation_Can_Work_Synergistically_To_Benefit_Consumers [Ed: This leaves out Microsoft, but then against Public Knowledge's Board was infiltrated by a Microsoft employee]⠀⇛ Today, Public Knowledge released my new paper, “A Lesson From the Landmark AT&T Breakup: Both a Sector-specific Regulator and Antitrust Enforcers Were Needed.” The paper traces how antitrust enforcers and a regulatory agency with jurisdiction over telecommunications, each working independently in pursuit of its own defined mission, produced a competitive telecommunications industry with the attendant benefits for competitors and consumers and society – lower priced and higher quality goods and services. A similar dual approach of a regulatory agency with jurisdiction over Big Tech and the vigorous application of existing and enhanced antitrust laws aimed at the industry can do the same for Big Tech. For the past several years, a number of macro-level public policy debates have been swirling around Big Tech. One debate has been about whether the antitrust laws, perhaps with some strengthening or new provisions specifically designed to reach Big Tech, are sufficient to address the dominance of companies such as Facebook (Meta), Google, Amazon, Apple, and some others. Indeed, whether Section 2 of the Sherman Act, antitrust’s main anti- monopolization law, can be effective for at least part of meeting this challenge is currently being tested in antitrust cases against Facebook (Meta) and Google. # ⚓ Public Knowledge ☛ New_Public_Knowledge_Paper_Outlines_How Regulation_and_Antitrust_Law_Can_Work_Synergistically_To_Rein In_Big_Tech [Ed: With Microsoft employee inside Public Knowledge's Board it is now using Microsoft lobbyist talking points like "Big Tech"]⠀⇛ Today, we’re happy to announce our newest white paper, “A Lesson From the Landmark AT&T Breakup: Both a Sector-specific Regulator and Antitrust Enforcers Were Needed,” by Public Knowledge Senior Fellow Al Kramer. The paper discusses how the work of regulators and antitrust enforcers, working independently and with separate mandates, nevertheless complemented each other, to lead to the breakup of the AT&T Bell phone monopoly in 1984—marking a win for consumers and telephone competitors alike. The paper offers a deeper understanding of the history of the breakup, providing a blueprint for how both regulation and antitrust enforcement will be necessary to develop key remedies for curbing the problems Big Tech creates for consumers and innovation today. The paper also demonstrates how antitrust and regulation in the technology sector complement each other and proposes that regulation can lay the groundwork for both more effective antitrust enforcement and the advancement of other public interest benefits. # ⚓ Public Knowledge ☛ Public_Knowledge_Applauds_Welch_Digital Regulator_Bill,_Urges_Commerce_Committee_Hearings⠀⇛ Today, Rep. Peter Welch (D-VT) introduced the “Digital Platform Commission Act.” The bill would create an independent agency to serve as a digital regulator for the technology sector in order to enhance competition, protect consumers, and promote civic discourse and democracy. The bill follows Sen. Michael Bennet’s (D-CO) nearly identical bill of the same name. The bill draws on regulatory concepts first articulated by Public Knowledge Senior Vice President Harold Feld in his 2019 book, “The Case for the Digital Platform Act,” as well as advocacy by Public Knowledge President and CEO Chris Lewis, Public Knowledge Policy Counsel Alex Petros, Competition Policy Director Charlotte Slaiman, and former Public Knowledge President Gene Kimmelman. Public Knowledge commends Rep. Welch for creating a digital regulator to be the “cop on the beat” to serve the public interest and foster a healthier, more competitive digital marketplace. # § Software Patents⠀➾ # ⚓ OSI_to_the_European_Commission:_make_space_for patent-free_standards_too⠀⇛ One of the biggest hidden challenges facing the software and technology world is the evolving conflict between old electronics vendors and the new software-defined universe. It’s arising because of patents embedded within international standards. We think it needs fixing because it especially affects Open Source. It may come as a surprise to find that some supposedly “open“ standards – including those ratified by standards development organizations (SDOs) like ISO, CEN and ETSI – can’t be implemented without going cap-in- hand to the world’s largest companies to buy a license. This is because both the SDOs and regulators allow so-called SEPs – “standard- essential patents” – to be tolerated due to the legacy approach of standards in hardware contexts. # § Copyrights⠀➾ # ⚓ Public Domain Review ☛ Of_Angel_and_Puppet:_Klee, Rilke,_and_the_Test_of_Innocence_–_The_Public_Domain Review⠀⇛ Built for his son from the scraps of daily life — matchboxes, beef bones, nutshells, and plaster — Paul Klee’s hand puppets harbour ghosts of human feelings, fragile communications from a world most adults have left behind. Kenneth Gross compares these enchanted objects to angelic figures, in Klee’s artworks and the poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke, helping us dance as well as wrestle with their visions of innocence. ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 6258 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐃𝐀𝐈𝐋𝐘 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒 ═════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 05.19.22⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Links_19/05/2022:_Rust_1.61.0_and_Lots_of_Security_FUD⠀✐ Posted in News_Roundup at 7:05 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇GNOME bluefish⦈ § Contents⠀➾ * GNU/Linux o Desktop/Laptop o Audiocasts/Shows o Kernel_Space o Applications o Instructionals/Technical * Distributions_and_Operating_Systems o Fedora_Family_/_IBM o Open_Hardware/Modding o Mobile_Systems/Mobile_Applications * Free,_Libre,_and_Open_Source_Software o Programming/Development # Perl_/_Raku # Rust * Leftovers o Pseudo-Open_Source # Openwashing o Security o Finance o AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics o Internet_Policy/Net_Neutrality * § GNU/Linux⠀➾ o § Desktop/Laptop⠀➾ # ⚓ OMG Ubuntu ☛ You_Can_Upgrade_Framework,_the_Modular_Laptop, with_12th_Gen_Intel_CPUs⠀⇛ So when I heard they’d announced an upgraded Framework laptop I was intrigued. Given the nature of the product, I wondered if the upgraded components provided would be backwards-compatible with the first generation device? To quench any intrigue you may have the answer is a big fat yes. o § Audiocasts/Shows⠀➾ # ⚓ Video ☛ Building_a_GTK_App_With_Haskell_(In_Under_An_Hour) –_Invidious⠀⇛ A couple of months back, I did a video on creating my very first GTK app using Haskell. And it was a lot of fun! So let’s continue along on this journey. Today, I’m creating a GTK app in less than an hour from start to finish using Haskell. You can do this too! You won’t need to really know much about GTK or Haskell to follow along with me for this one. # ⚓ Video ☛ Please_Stop_Trolling_Nvidia_Open_Source_Driver_– Invidious⠀⇛ Nvidia has been receiving a lot of positive responses on there open source driver project but they’ve also had plenty of people trolling the repo and if you’re one of the people doing this please stop, you’re not helping anyone. # ⚓ Video ☛ PSA:_You_(probably)_don’t_want_this_SD_card_for your_Steam_Deck._–_Invidious⠀⇛ # ⚓ Jupiter Broadcasting ☛ Linux_Action_News_241⠀⇛ Why Google’s new open-source security effort might fall a bit short, the Arch snag this week, a big win for Right to Repair, and why you might soon have a new favorite filesystem. # ⚓ Video ☛ Microsoft’s_distros,_Budgie_on_Fedora,_Rocky_Linux funding_–_Linux_and_open_source_news_–_Invidious⠀⇛ o § Kernel Space⠀➾ # ⚓ LWN ☛ LWN.net_Weekly_Edition_for_May_12,_2022⠀⇛ o § Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ ByteXD ☛ What_Is_Inkscape_and_What_Can_You_Do_With_It?⠀⇛ The first time I heard the word Inkscape, I thought it was Ink-escape, alluding to the ease of use of the software, just like an imaginary ink escaping from your mind to the software to bring forth the magnificent design ideas from your imagination. I was disappointed to know it wasn’t the idea behind the name, but fortunately the software is as easy to use as I imagined. And the name is combined from two words “ink” and “scape”; ink is used for final products in design, so suggesting the practical aspect of the software that it is used for creating ready-for-use illustrations and designs, and scape denoting a scene of a large number of objects, thus alludes to the object-oriented nature to vector graphics. Inkscape is an open-source vector graphics editor. What are vector graphics? Vector graphics, opposing to raster graphics, use mathematical equations to describe paths and objects instead of pixels, which leads to unlimited resolution, yes! No matter how you zoom in; these don’t pixelate. Inkscape is free of charge, meaning that you don’t pay a dime to download and use Inkscape. Now you may think that most open-source applications are counter-productive; because they don’t have enough features. But I am telling you, that is not the case with Inkscape. # ⚓ Medevel ☛ Docspell_is_a_machine_learning_powered_document management_system_(DMS)⠀⇛ Docspell is a personal document organizer. Or sometimes called a “Document Management System” (DMS). You’ll need a scanner to convert your papers into files. Docspell can then assist in organizing the resulting mess . It can unify your files from scanners, emails and other sources. It is targeted for home use, i.e. families, households and also for smaller groups/ companies. To summarize, Docspell assists you in organizing your piles of documents, resulting from scanners, e-mails and other sources with miminal effort. [...] Docspell is free software, distributed under the AGPLv3 or later. # ⚓ Medevel ☛ Organize_is_an_open-source_file_management automation_tool⠀⇛ Organize is a unique and amazing software package that helps you organize your messy desktop, downloads, documents, and keep track of all of your important files. It is built with the Python programming language and runs smoothly on Windows, Linux, and macOS. Organize allows you to setup automated rules that works to copy and organize your files in a snap. As an example, let’s say you are taking many screenshots by day, Organize will copy and mark the screenshots in certain directly according to the rule you set. Organize is created by Thomas Feldmann a software engineer from Germany. o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾ # ⚓ Install_VeraCrypt_on_Debian_11_–_kifarunix.com⠀⇛ In this guide, we are going to learn how to install VeraCrypt on Debian 11. VeraCrypt, a fork of TrueCrypt, is a free and open source on-the-fly disk encryption (OTFE) tool. # ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ Understanding_Linux_System_Calls_With_the strace_Command⠀⇛ Every process running on your desktop uses system calls to communicate with the OS. Using strace, you can track such system calls easily. # ⚓ GNU_Linux_(Debian)_–_how_to_shrink-resize_lvm2_luks encrypted_root_partition_–_how_to_enlarge_SWAP_space⠀⇛ # ⚓ Linux Made Simple ☛ How_to_install_FL_Studio_20.9.2.2907_on a_Chromebook⠀⇛ Today we are looking at how to install FL Studio 20.9.2.2907 on a Chromebook. Please follow the video/audio guide as a tutorial where we explain the process step by step and use the commands below. # ⚓ How_to_install_WineHQ_on_Ubuntu_22.04_|_Mark_Ai_Code⠀⇛ Learn how to install WineHQ on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS using the steps below. JellyFish Jammy If you’re unfamiliar with Wine, it stands for Wine Is Not an Emulator and is a tool that enables us to utilize Windows applications on Linux. Wine does not need a Windows installation on your computer to run applications written for Windows. # ⚓ AddictiveTips ☛ How_to_play_The_Long_Dark_on_Linux⠀⇛ The Long Dark is an FPS survival video game developed and published by Hinterland Studios. The game was released on Linux, Windows, MacOS, Xbox One, PS4, and Nintendo Switch. Here’s how to play it on your Linux desktop or laptop. # ⚓ AddictiveTips ☛ How_to_manage_your_Debian_install_with Smxi⠀⇛ The Smxi script is an excellent tool for Debian users. Users can automatically install GPU drivers (and patches), install desktop environments, software, system-clean up, and more with ease. If you’re looking to simplify the maintenance on your Debian Linux workstation, personal computer, or home server, this app is for you. Follow this guide to learn how to manage your Debian install with Smxi. # ⚓ GNU_Linux_(Debian_11)_–_Brother_HL-5450DN_reliable_Black and_White_Laser_printer_–_that_works_out_of_the_box_with_cups –_filter_those_laser_printers⠀⇛ # ⚓ AddictiveTips ☛ How_to_play_Don’t_Starve_Together_on Linux⠀⇛ Don’t Starve Together is a free multiplayer expansion to the survival game “Don’t Starve.” Players work together to survive in the game so they “don’t starve.” Here’s how to play Don’t Starve Together on your Linux PC. # ⚓ How_to_Add_Comments_to_IPTables_Rules⠀⇛ Most distro’s have made firewalld, UFW, or some other fancy program their default firewalls. However, in my opinion IPTables/Netfilter still reigns supreme. I find it to be the best tool for the job on 90% of systems I work on. Although a firewall configuration with a lot of rules can still be difficult to read. Just like a long script, it is helpful to put comments. These comments allow others to easily identify what the rules do, especially if you are using specific source IP addresses. So in this Linux quick tip we will show you how to easily add comments to IPTables rules. If you are unfamiliar with IPTables, you can read “Basics of IPTables”. # ⚓ Install_and_Setup_VeraCrypt_on_Rocky_Linux⠀⇛ In this guide, we are going to learn how to install and setup VeraCrypt on Rocky Linux. VeraCrypt, a fork of TrueCrypt, is a free and open source on- the-fly disk encryption (OTFE) tool. # ⚓ Linuxiac ☛ How_to_Install_Google_Chrome_on_AlmaLinux_/ Rocky_Linux⠀⇛ This tutorial will cover installing the Google Chrome web browser on AlmaLinux / Rocky Linux in a few easy-to-follow steps. Google Chrome is a modern web browser that is fast, simple, and safe. However, because it is not an open-source browser, it is rarely included by default on any Linux distribution and is usually not available for installation from official repositories. This is also true for AlmaLinux and Rocky Linux. If you have either distribution installed, you will not find the Google Chrome browser in their official repositories. # ⚓ ByteXD ☛ Linux_Tail_Command_(With_Examples)_–_ByteXD⠀⇛ The tail command is native to Unix-like operating systems, BSD and FreeDOS. It is even now ported to Windows as a part of the unxutils package. In Linux, it is shipped as a part of the package GNU coreutils. The tail command outputs the “tail” (end) of a file or piped data. By default, it prints out the last ten lines of what gets passed to it. You can use other options instead of the default behavior. This article will explain how to use tail command, both the default behavior of tail and the options. Why tail in the first place? Many programs write their recent status at the end of what’s called a log file, so it is great to have a shortcut to view the end of the file instead of scrolling down a huge file. * § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾ o § Fedora Family / IBM⠀➾ # ⚓ Red Hat Official ☛ Red_Hat’s_The_State_of_Enterprise_Open Source_report:_Highlights_from_the_government_sector [Ed: Red Hat_does_not_lead_by_example]⠀⇛ Red Hat’s fourth annual The State of Enterprise Open Source report highlights how organizations have adapted to new ways of operating — whether due to external forces or proactive choices — and are selecting methods that provide better competitive advantage. The report is based on interviews of 1,296 information technology (IT) leaders from 14 countries, presenting an unbiased view of the use of enterprise open source. Respondents stated they have influence over the purchasing decisions within their organization (in app development, app infrastructure, cloud, storage, middleware, server OS or virtualization), and were not informed that Red Hat was the sponsor of the survey. Respondents also needed to be familiar with enterprise open source, and have at least 1% Linux installed at their organizations. # ⚓ Red Hat Official ☛ Red_Hat_Boosts_Performance_and_Scale_for Cloud-Native_Application_Development_with_Latest_Portfolio Updates⠀⇛ # ⚓ TechCrunch ☛ Red_Hat_open_sources_StackRox,_the_Kubernetes security_platform_it_acquired_last_year⠀⇛ # ⚓ CRN ☛ Red_Hat_CEO:_‘Open_Hybrid_Cloud_Will_Be_Defined_By Hardware_Innovation_At_The_Edge’ [Ed: Is this journalism or a commercial?]⠀⇛ ‘Red Hat partners like Arm, Nvidia, Intel and more are creating technologies that are more than just smart servers at the edge. These solutions, with the right strategy and software, they can function as clouds that extend way beyond the confines of the traditional data center,’ Red Hat CEO Paul Cormier says in his Red Hat Summit keynote. # ⚓ TechTarget ☛ Red_Hat_CEO_on_IBM,_VMware_and_hybrid_cloud coopetition⠀⇛ Red Hat President and CEO Paul Cormier has a unique perspective on how his company has evolved from an enterprise Linux vendor to a hybrid cloud purveyor — he’s been with the company for 21 years. o § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾ # ⚓ Arduino ☛ Meander_Coil++_enables_safe,_wireless_power transmission_|_Arduino_Blog⠀⇛ Modern wearable devices have allowed for a wide array of smart technologies to become mobile, including health tracking, receiving notifications, and much more. But due to their small battery size, they often run out of charge within a day or two, thus requiring frequent charging. This problem is what inspired a group of students from the University of Tokyo to create the Meander Coil++ project with the goal of enabling watt-scale wireless power transmission while also remaining safe. o § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ How_to_block_spam_calls_on_your_Android_smartphone⠀⇛ # ⚓ Hindustan Times ☛ Android_tips_and_tricks:_How_to_empty Trash_on_Android_smartphone_to_make_it_run_stunningly_fast_| How-to⠀⇛ # ⚓ 9to5Google ☛ Visible_adds_eSIM_support_on_Pixel_and_Samsung phones_–_9to5Google⠀⇛ # ⚓ Kim Kommando ☛ Some_of_the_best_Android_13_features_to expect_when_you_update⠀⇛ # ⚓ The Verge ☛ Pebble_founder:_it’s_your_‘last_chance’_to_make a_small_Android_phone_happen_–_The_Verge⠀⇛ * § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾ o § Programming/Development⠀➾ # ⚓ Daniel Stenberg ☛ case_insensitive_string_comparisons_in C⠀⇛ Back in 2008, I had a revelation when it dawned on me that the POSIX function called strcasecmp() compares strings case insensitively, but locale dependent. Because of this, “file” and “FILE” is not actually a case insensitive match in Turkish but is a match in most other locales. curl would sometimes fail in mysterious ways due to this. Mysterious to the users, now we know why. Of course this behavior was no secret. The knowledge about this problem was widespread already then. It was just me who hadn’t realized this yet. # § Perl / Raku⠀➾ # ⚓ Perl ☛ Perl_Weekly_Challenge_165:_Line_of_Best_Fit⠀⇛ # ⚓ Perl ☛ My_Favorite_Modules:_Time::Piece_|_Tom_Wyant_ [blogs.perl.org]⠀⇛ Time::Piece is a date/time module that replaces the built-in functions gmtime() and localtime(). The replaced functions return a Time::Piece object, with accessors for the compontents of the time. Time::Piece also provides formatting, parsing, and arithmetic. This module has been in core since Perl 5.9.5. I was able to get it to pass tests as far back as 5.8.1, though not 5.8.0 or 5.6.2. # § Rust⠀➾ # ⚓ Joerg_Jaspert:_Rust?_Munin?_munin-plugin…⠀⇛ Sooo, some time ago I had to rewrite a munin plugin from Shell to Rust, due to the shell version going crazy after some runtime and using up a CPU all for its own. Sure, it only did that on Systems with Oracle Database installed, so that monster seems to be bad (who would have guessed?), but somehow I had to fixup this plugin and wasn’t allowed to drop that wannabe-database. A while later I wrote a plugin to graph Fibre Channel Host data, and then Network interface statistics, all with a one-second resolution for the graphs, to allow one to zoom in and see every spike. Not have RRD round of the interesting parts. As one can imagine, that turns out to be a lot of very similar code – after all, most of the difference is in the graph config statements and actual data gathering, but the rest of code is just the same. # ⚓ The_Rust_Programming_Language_Blog:_Announcing_Rust 1.61.0⠀⇛ The Rust team is happy to announce a new version of Rust, 1.61.0. Rust is a programming language empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software. # ⚓ LWN ☛ Rust_1.61.0_released_[LWN.net]⠀⇛ Version 1.61.0 of the Rust language has been released. Changes this time around include more flexibility in main-program exit codes, a number of new features for const functions, a number of newly stabilized APIs, and more. * § Leftovers⠀➾ o § Pseudo-Open Source⠀➾ # § Openwashing⠀➾ # ⚓ Google ☛ Shared_success_in_building_a_safer_open source_community⠀⇛ Today we joined the Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF), Linux Foundation and industry leaders for a meeting to continue progressing the open source software security initiatives discussed during January’s White House Summit on Open Source Security. During this meeting, Google announced the creation of its new “Open Source Maintenance Crew” — a dedicated staff of Google engineers who will work closely with upstream maintainers on improving the security of critical open source projects. In addition to this initiative, we contributed ideas and participated in discussions on improving the security and trustworthiness of open source software. # ⚓ Phoronix ☛ Google_Makes_Public_Their_Open-Source_PSP Security_Protocol⠀⇛ # ⚓ Announcing_PSP’s_cryptographic_hardware_offload_at scale_is_now_open_source⠀⇛ o § Security⠀➾ # ⚓ eSecurity Planet ☛ Log4j_Vulnerability_Puts_Enterprise_Data Lakes_and_AI_at_Risk_|_eSecurityPlanet [Ed: Still harping about last year's news while Windows is actively hijacked, even remotely, and there are np patches]⠀⇛ The Apache Log4j Log4Shell bug is one of the most critical vulnerabilities in the history of cybersecurity. # ⚓ Bleeping Computer ☛ Microsoft_detects_massive_surge_in Linux_XorDDoS_malware_activity [Ed: Microsoft-connected sites amplifying Microsoft's own anti-Linux FUD, which distracts from the worst threats and culprits]⠀⇛ # ⚓ CrowdStrike_Cloud_Security_Extends_to_Red_Hat_Enterprise Linux_Versions [Ed: Microsofters selling proprietary snake- oil for "Linux"]⠀⇛ # ⚓ TechRadar ☛ Surfshark_VPN_for_Linux_gets_a_breakthrough_new feature [Ed: Promotional VPN webspam disguised as 'article']⠀⇛ Linux users in need of a proper VPN service, rejoice! Surfshark has just launched its very own Linux VPN with a full-blown graphic user interface (GUI). Now, for the first time ever, Linux users can enjoy the same level of user-friendliness, functionalities, and benefits, as VPN users on other operating systems do. # ⚓ Linux Foundation’s Site/Blog ☛ Open_Source_Software Security:_Turning_Sand_into_Concrete [Ed: The 'Linux' Foundation lets proprietary software companies which attack security and sometimes attack Linux... speak 'for' it]⠀⇛ o § Finance⠀➾ # ⚓ CNN_stops_bothering_to_hide_that_the_economy_has_turned sour._–_BaronHK’s_Rants⠀⇛ CNN was one of the last few holdouts insisting that we were in a “strong economy” with “robust growth” and “record job creation levels” and that high inflation would be “transitory” in America. Sometime around yesterday, they changed their minds and finally started reporting what investment magazines and CEOs were saying for months, that a dire recession is coming. (It’s already here, though.) I’ve said over the last few years, repeatedly, that we were in a “second tech bubble”, with the first big one of course being the Dotcom Bubble of the late 1990s and early 2000s where investors were willing to throw at and lose money on anything vaguely tech related that sounded like it might have a business plan, no matter how insane. But even I didn’t see what’s happening now coming. We’re in uncharted territory on gasoline prices (for the United States….Europe has always had very decadent and corrupt politicians who subscribed to this green new deal insanity, but it’s a pretty new concept here). There’s a shortage of baby formula, and the president of the United States refuses to do what current law authorizes him to, in order to get it under control. Because he doesn’t want to go too hard on the oligopoly that produces it all. [...] And streaming companies like Netflix are seeing record cancellations and the end to subscriber growth, and admit it will accelerate. Walmart has had its worst trading days since the 1980s this week, losing 19% of its share price in three days. Target and Amazon got hammered much worse. The whole thing is an epic disaster. And where is the news? Trying to tell people that “this millennial in their 20s just bought a $700,000 house….so why don’t you have one?”. (CNBC bullshit) I’m just so sick and tired and goddamned disgusted by it all. I’ve tuned out advertising completely. I don’t have any streaming disservices in my house. I watch movies and stuff on discs. Usually ones I borrowed at the library, which I have to pay taxes for whether I use it or not. I’ve blocked advertisements from appearing in my Web browser since 1998, when I got on the Web and found out there were ads and that they were slowing my browsing down a lot (images on a 56k modem….and now videos on my cable that I didn’t consent to watching). [...] The Democrat Party and the Republican Party that let laissez-faire Crapitalism dictate trade policy, who bankrupted us as a nation, who convinced us all we could “just go shopping” to cure what ails you, have no answers for how to fix anything, because they’re the ones who don’t really want to fix it. [...] I believe that economists will eventually call this the “app” or “smartphone” bubble, because it seems like everything involving those is shit hitting the fan, but there are lots of other bubbles too, like “cryptocurrencies”. o § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾ # ⚓ Re:_The_Disappearence_of_Sincere_Conversations⠀⇛ Trust, however, will not just appear out of the blue. Trust needs to be achieved somehow. Can algorithm suggested “friends” a la Linkedin, Xing, facebook etc. be trusted? Nope. Can members of smaller groups like the mailing list of a project be trusted? Maybe. o § Internet Policy/Net Neutrality⠀➾ # ⚓ Re:_A_Call_for_a_Gemini_Without_TLS⠀⇛ Occasionally there have been arguments along the lines that tranport layer security (TLS) is too complicated and should be removed from gemini (and other sites, too). I disagree. One can definitely build a gemini server, which does not deal with TLS, like vger for example. However, vger is a filter: it accepts input on stdin and produces a response on stdout. It has no notion of the network. In order to make a running vger instance accessible from the network, one must add inetd to it, and configure it to route network requests to vger and back. This works nicely as I have detailed elsewhere, thanks to Solene for this interesting approach. If you need just that, by all means, use it. # ⚓ This_and_That⠀⇛ There is chit chat on gemini on several topics, so I’ll try to comment on the ones I find interesting. While writing it so happened that these fragments grew enough to deserve their own post. 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