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This article forms part of our Linux Around The World series. o § Desktop/Laptop⠀➾ # ⚓ Hacker Noon ☛ “Together_We_Can_Do_So_Much”:_A_Beginner’s Tribute_to_Linux_Community_|_HackerNoon⠀⇛ For a long time, like most people, I used Windows, the most ubiquitous operating system in the world. My interest in Linux began when I first got into programming, and even then, inertia made switching difficult. It did not help that Mac computers, the mainstream alternative to Windows, were prohibitively expensive. Over time, I found myself increasingly disappointed with my Windows experience. I wanted a computer I had more control over, one that offered more than just utility. The more I researched, the more apparent it became that Linux was my best option. I loved that it was free and open-source, a cause I passionately admired, which meant there would be little buyer’s remorse should it not work out. It was also lightweight and, depending on the configuration, would have been perfect on my old machine. Its modular nature stood out as well, and I could choose from multiple distributions for a relatively secure and custom experience. o § Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ Newsboat:_The_Best_Terminal-Based_RSS_Feed Reader_for_Linux⠀⇛ If you’re used to using the Linux terminal for everything, you’d already be familiar with Newsboat, a simple RSS feed reader for the Linux terminal. An RSS feed reader is an indispensable tool for most of us. It aggregates feeds from various websites to make it easy for you to keep track of their latest updates. Depending on how you like these updates served, you may choose a graphical or CLI-based feed reader. While the former offers convenience and a ton of features, the latter brings speed and provides a seamless experience to those who work from the terminal. Newsboat is one such CLI-based feed aggregator for Linux. Let’s jump in to explore it in more detail. # ⚓ OMG Ubuntu ☛ Want_to_Watch_Blu-rays_in_VLC_on_Ubuntu?_You NEED_MakeMKV_–_OMG!_Ubuntu!⠀⇛ I picked up a cheap external USB Blu-ray drive recently with the aim of watching my Doctor Who ‘The Collection’ Blu-rays — WhoRays, if you will— in bed, on my laptop1 (which runs Ubuntu, obviously). Thing is you can’t just stick in an official Blu- ray disc and watch what’s on it, not in Linux, not on macOS, and not even on Windows. You need additional software, usually paid, that provides the license required to ‘decrypt’ Blu-ray content and throughput it to yo’ eyes. Truth be told: Blu-ray is awkward, it’s obtuse and, to my mind, it’s a text-book example of how not to design a media format. However, I did manage to get everything working — smoothly — and I didn’t have to pay for anything. I figured I’d pass on the knowledge so that anyone else out there who wants to watch Blu-rays in Ubuntu (or on another Ubuntu-based Linux distro) can follow my steps to satisfy their content- craving. [...] MakeMKV is proprietary, paid-for software — and it’s at this point some of you will nope-out. Personally, I reason that BluRay is a proprietary format to start with, and since I already use lots of closed-source software for entertainment purposes, e.g., Steam, Netflix, Spotify, etc… Why not!? But while MakeKMKV is technically software you have to buy all of its features (including the stuff that lets you play BluRays WITH menus in VLC) is “free” while the app is in beta. o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾ # ⚓ FOSSLinux ☛ How_to_set_up_WireGuard_server_on_Debian_|_FOSS Linux⠀⇛ WireGuard is an open-source, free, ultra-modern, and quick VPN server with cutting-edge encryption. It is often quicker, easier to deploy, and has a lower footprint than other popular VPN options, including IPsec and OpenVPN. It was initially published for the Linux kernel. However, WireGuard is gaining cross-platform support for FreeBSD and other major operating systems such as macOS, Android, and Windows. This guide details the installation and configuration of WireGuard VPN on a Debian 11 Bullseye Linux server. WireGuard is a peer-to-peer VPN that does not operate on a client-server basis. Depending on the setup, a peer can function as a typical server or client. It operates by establishing a network interface on every peer device that serves as a tunnel. In the SSH paradigm, peers authorize each other by sharing and verifying public keys. The public keys are associated with a list of IP addresses permitted in the tunnel. UDP is used to encapsulate VPN communication. This article guide tutorial will demonstrate how to configure your own WireGuard VPN server on Debian 11 Bullseye. WireGuard was designed exclusively for the Linux kernel. It operates within the Linux kernel and enables the creation of a quick, contemporary, and secure VPN connection. # ⚓ FOSSLinux ☛ How_to_install_Go_on_Ubuntu_22.04_|_FOSS Linux⠀⇛ Golang, alias Go is a cross-platform and open- source programming language that can be set up on several operating systems like Linux, Windows, and macOS. The language is well-built to be used by professionals for application development purposes. Go is simple to build and manage, making it an ideal programming language for creating efficient software. It is reliable, builds fast, and has efficient software that scales fast. Go code syntax resembles C’s, but the language provides enhanced features, including memory safety, structural typing, garbage college, and much more. This open-source language was designed by Google’s engineers, Robert Griesemer, Ken Thompson, and Rob Pike. Go is statistically typed and produces compiled machine code binaries, making it well-known among developers because they don’t need source code compilation to create an executable file. Another great thing about Go is the concurrency mechanisms that make writing programs that fully capitalize on multicore and networked PCs stress- free. At the same time, its novel-typed systems allow flexible and modular program constructions. # ⚓ AddictiveTips ☛ How_to_play_Volcanoids_on_Linux⠀⇛ Volcanoids is a base-building open-world survival game developed and published by Volcanoid. It was released for Windows. However, it is possible to play on Linux with some tweaks. Here’s how you can play Volcanoids on your Linux PC. # ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ How_to_Replace_GRUB_With_Windows_Boot_Manager [Ed: How to Replace GRUB With Windows Boot Manager]⠀⇛ When you dual-boot a Linux distro alongside Windows, the installer sets up a bootloader, generally GRUB, to ensure there are no conflicts between the two operating systems during the boot- up processes. While GRUB is a versatile and easy-to-use bootloader, you might want to switch to using the Windows Boot Manager as your default. Let’s learn how you can use Windows Boot Manager instead of GRUB. # ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_Waterfox_Browser_on_Linux Mint_21_LTS⠀⇛ Waterfox is a web browser that is designed for privacy and security. It is made for 64-bit processors but runs on ARM devices like smartphones or tablets. It can be found across multiple platforms, including classic desktop systems and recent ones such as Mac OS X/ Linux interfaces. Waterfox provides features that are not available in other browsers, such as private browsing, security settings, and ad blocking. It also has an interface similar to Firefox, making it easy to use. Waterfox is an excellent choice for those who want to maintain their privacy and security online. In the following tutorial, you will learn how to install Waterfox Browser on Linux Mint 21 LTS series using the command line terminal with tips about maintaining and removing the browser versions. # ⚓ Its FOSS ☛ Find_Your_MAC_address_in_Ubuntu_and_Other_Linux_ [CLI_&_GUI]⠀⇛ When you are learning networking or troubleshooting it, you would need to know the MAC address. A computer can have more than one MAC address. It is because the MAC address is a core part of networking, and each networking peripheral device has its own MAC address. So, your WiFi card has a MAC address, and so does the Ethernet (LAN) port. Even the Bluetooth has one. The MAC address, also known as the physical address, is a 12-digit hexadecimal code (48-bits) and is represented as MM:MM:MM:SS:SS:SS In this tutorial, I’ll share the steps for finding the MAC address of your desired networking interface in Linux. I’ll show both command line and GUI methods. # ⚓ uni Toronto ☛ Two_example_Grafana_Loki_log_queries_to_get things_from_ntpdate_logs⠀⇛ Recently I wanted to estimate how much the clocks on our servers drift over time (to give me a quick comparison to how BMC clocks drift). [...] These days we have a Grafana Loki installation in addition to our long standing central syslog server, so rather than write some awk I decided to use Loki’s LogQL query language to answer my question, and then mentioned it on the fediverse with the final query. Today I want to run down how this query is put together, along with a less obvious version that tells me how frequently our different NTP servers are used as a time source by ntpdate. # ⚓ uni Toronto ☛ Ubuntu_22.04_with_multiple_disks_and_(U)EFI booting⠀⇛ One of the traditional and old problems with UEFI booting on servers is that it had a bad story if you wanted to be able to boot off multiple disks. Each disk needed its own EFI System Partition (ESP) and you either manually kept them in synchronization (perhaps via rsync in a cron job) or put them in a Linux software RAID mirror with the RAID superblock at the end and hope hard that nothing ever went wrong. To my surprise, the state of things seems to be rather better in Ubuntu 22.04, although there are still traps. Modern Linuxes don’t put much in the ESP, and in particular even Fedora no longer puts frequently changing things there. In Ubuntu 22.04, what’s there in the EFI/ubuntu subdirectory is a few GRUB binaries and a stub grub.cfg that tells GRUB where to find your real /boot/grub/grub.cfg, which normally lives in your root filesystem. All of these are installed into /boot/efi by running ‘grub-install’, or into some other location by running ‘grub-install –efi-directory=/some/where’. # ⚓ Its FOSS ☛ Record_Audio_in_Linux_With_Audacity_(and_Reduce Noise)⠀⇛ Audacity is a free and open source cross-platform audio editor. Professionals use it for the tone of features it provides in such a small package. You don’t have to be a professional and use all of its features. You can use it to record audio from your microphone and do some basics like background noise removal. I will show you how to do that in this tutorial. # ⚓ HowTo Forge ☛ How_to_Install_Apache_Cassandra_NoSQL Database_on_a_Single-Node_Ubuntu_22.04_Cluster⠀⇛ Apache Cassandra is an open-source NoSQL distributed database management system. Cassandra can be scaled horizontally by adding more nodes across which data is replicated automatically. Nodes can be added or removed without any downtime. The nodes can be organized logically as a cluster or a ring and set up across multiple data centers to improve speed and reliability for high- performance applications. In this tutorial, we will learn how to install Apache Cassandra on a Single-node Ubuntu 22.04 Cluster. # ⚓ HowTo Forge ☛ Linux_pmap_Command_Tutorial_for_Beginners_(5 Examples)⠀⇛ Linux command line offers a lot of tools that help you know more about processes that are currently active in your system. One such utility is pmap, which reports the process memory map. In this tutorial, we will discuss the basics of pmap using some easy-to-understand examples. But before we do that, it’s worth mentioning all examples here have been tested on an Ubuntu 22.04 LTS machine. # ⚓ How_to_Install_Vaultwarden_with_Docker_on_Ubuntu_22.04⠀⇛ Vaultwarden is an unofficial port of Bitwarden server written in Rust language. It is compatible with the official Bitwarden clients and is less resource-heavy than Bitwarden. It implements almost all features of Bitwarden barring a few. It uses the Bitwarden API to provide features like organization support, attachments, authenticator, U2F, Yubikey, Duo support, and support for email alias services. In this tutorial, you will learn how to set up your copy of Vaultwarden on a Ubuntu 22.04 server. # ⚓ HowTo Forge ☛ Configure_Networking_on_AlmaLinux_8,_CentOS_8 or_Rocky_Linux_8_with_nmcli_Command_(20_Examples)⠀⇛ The nmcli is a command-line tool that can be used for controlling NetworkManager. This tool will help you to display network device status, create, edit, activate/deactivate, delete network connections and also troubleshoot networking in your Linux system. It is very useful for servers and headless machines to control system-wide connections. In this tutorial, we will show you how to use the nmcli command to control network connections with examples. # ⚓ HowTo Forge ☛ How_to_Install_Grafana_Linux_Monitoring Software_on_Ubuntu_22.04⠀⇛ Grafana is a free, open-source, and feature-rich metrics dashboard and data visualizing tool. It is designed for Graphite, Elasticsearch, OpenTSDB, Prometheus, and InfluxDB to monitor metrics from a web-based interface. It is a multi-platform and has over 100 plugins for data collection, storage, visualization, and sharing. It allows you to create alerts and notifications for your data and make collaboration with your teammates easier via sharing features. This tutorial will explain how to install Grafana 8 on Ubuntu 22.04. # ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_Darktable_on_Linux_Mint_21 LTS⠀⇛ Darktable is a free and open-source photography application program and raw developer. Rather than being a raster graphics editor like Adobe Photoshop or GIMP, it comprises a subset of image editing operations specifically aimed at non-destructive raw image post-production. In addition to basic RAW conversion, Darktable is equipped with various tools for basic and advanced image editing. These include adjustment of white balance, exposure, tone curve, color management, luminance, and saturation levels, cropping and straightening, retouching (including clone tool and heal Selection tools), and the ability to merge multiple images into a single composite photo. Darktable also offers a wide range of filters that can be applied to individual and group photos. These filters can mimic the look of traditional film photography effects, or they can create entirely new and unique looks. Whether you’re a seasoned pro or just getting started in photography, Darktable has something to offer everyone. The following tutorial will teach you how to install Darktable on Linux Mint 21 LTS release series desktop using the command line terminal using three methods: the default apt repository, flatpak, or a launchpad ppa. # ⚓ How_to_use_Angelfish_as_touch-friendly_web_browser_in_Steam Deck’s_Game_Mode_–_My_Little_Blog⠀⇛ For whatever reason Steam Deck pretty much has two default browsers: Google Chrome in Game Mode and Firefox in Plasma aka. Desktop Mode. Firefox is absolutely unusable in Game Mode. Chrome (probably most other Chromium variants as well, I’ve only tried a handful) work okay-ish – at least they don’t go ballistic on touch events but they are not a truly nice experience either. Readers of Planet KDE probably already know that some KDE applications have convergent GUIs thanks to Plasma Mobile, including the Angelfish web browser. It took some fiddling but after a while I managed to get it into a shape that’s very usable in Game Mode. Without any tweaks Angelfish defaults to use its desktop GUI and thereby runs just fine in Plasma Desktop, perhaps docked to a monitor. # ⚓ DebugPoint ☛ How_to_Install_Latest_LibreOffice_in_Ubuntu and_other_Linux⠀⇛ Here’s a quick guide on how to install the latest LibreOffice version in Ubuntu and other Linux. The free and open-source office suite LibreOffice comes with two versions. The Community and Enterprise version. The “community” version is for early adopters who want the latest bleeding-edge software tech. And the “enterprise” version is more stable, and it may not include all the latest features but is ideal for the production environment and professional work. # ⚓ markaicode by Mark ☛ How_to_Install_Timeshift_on_Ubuntu 22.04⠀⇛ Timeshift is a potent open-source program that may assist you with data security. It enables incremental snapshots of your filesystem, which may be seen using a file manager. In BTRFS mode, snapshots are taken using the built-in characteristics of the BTRFS filesystem if you’re searching for a dependable method to back up your data. Timeshift should be considered by all users since it is useful when you need to restore, which occurs often while learning Linux, amongst other situations. You will learn how to install TimeShift on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Jammy Jellyfish using the command line terminal in the following guide. # ⚓ DebugPoint ☛ How_to_Install_Xfce_Desktop_in_Arch_Linux_ [Complete_Guide]⠀⇛ This guide explains how you can install the latest Xfce desktop in Arch Linux. The guide explains the steps for the latest Xfce 4.16 release. However, it works for any Xfce version as well. The first part of the guide explains the steps for installing the base Arch system. The second part is installing the complete Xfce desktop on Arch Linux. # ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_VLC_Media_Player_on_Linux Mint_21_LTS⠀⇛ The VLC media player is a powerful, open-source, cross-platform software that can play almost any type of multimedia file. It can also be a streaming media server, providing access to video and audio content across various devices. In addition, VLC can be extended and customized with a wide range of plugins. As a result, it is an incredibly versatile tool for both consumers and professionals. Whether you’re looking to watch a movie on your laptop or stream audio to your home theater system, VLC is an excellent choice. In the following tutorial, you will learn how to install VLC Media Player on Linux Mint 21 LTS release series with multiple installation methods available with APT or Flatpak package manager using the command line terminal. # ⚓ markaicode by Mark ☛ How_To_Install_FFmpeg_on_Rocky_Linux_9 &_AlmaLinux_9_|_Mark_Ai_Code⠀⇛ FFmpeg is a popular tool among those who work with videos on a regular basis. If you haven’t used it before, FFmpeg is a free and open-source program that includes a collection of libraries for transcoding music, video, and other multimedia files/streams. It supports a variety of audio/video codecs, including H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9, AAC, OPUS, and others, as well as MP4, FLV, MKV, TS, WEBM, and MP3 file formats and HTTP/HTTPS, TCP, UDP, RTMP, RTSP, and HLS streaming protocols. # ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_Linux_Kernel_5.19_on_Ubuntu 20.04_LTS⠀⇛ The Kernel 5.19 release contains several features and improvements, one of the most notable being support for Run-Time Average Power Limiting (RAPL) on Intel’s Raptor and Alder Lake processors. RAPL is a power management technology that allows processors to throttle their performance to limit power consumption. This can be useful in several scenarios, such as when running on battery power or when thermal limits are reached. The new Intel IFS driver support included in this release brings a useful feature that helps to detect hardware issues such as CPU faults at the circuit level at an early stage of deployment of the processors. This can save a lot of time and money for businesses and organizations that use these processors in their servers and other equipment. Overall, the Kernel 5.19 release provides significant improvements and additions that users of all types will welcome. # ⚓ DebugPoint ☛ Upgrade_to_Latest_LibreOffice_in_Ubuntu,_Linux Mint_and_Windows⠀⇛ LibreOffice, used by millions of users worldwide, is the most popular free office suite today. It consists of a spreadsheet program (Calc), document processor (Writer), presentation (Impress), drawing (Draw), and Math module to help you with most of the office, business, academic, and day-to-day work. LibreOffice can act as an excellent replacement for paid Microsoft Office suite due to its compatibility with proprietary file formats such as DOCX, PPTX, and XLSX. It is a fork of the Apache OpenOffice productivity suite and is actively developed by thousands of global contributors. o § Games⠀➾ # ⚓ Boiling Steam ☛ Steam_Deck_–_Full_Overview:_Beta_Updates, the_Upcoming_SteamOS_Rebase,_Market_Share_and_New_Games_– Boiling_Steam⠀⇛ The Steam Deck continues to get a lot of attention from Valve, in the form of firmware updates and more validated games. We will touch upon the estimated market share and number of units on the market too, for good measure. [...] So we also have some indication of how many Steam Decks may be out there at the moment – SteamOS Holo which is probably only used by the Steam Deck and maybe a few other hobbyists who test the same image on other AMD hardware, is at about 7.60% of the share of Linux gamers on Steam. o § Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾ # ⚓ Bryan Lunduke ☛ Make_Linux_look_like_Star_Trek_LCARS⠀⇛ “Star Trek: The Next Generation” introduced a custom user interface for their computer systems known as LCARS — the “Library Computer Access/ Retrieval System”. Originally designed by Michael Okuda — It was a somewhat bizarre system, with a unique style, workflow, and color theme that became almost instantly iconic. It looked almost nothing like traditional computer window managers and desktops. [...] Now: The LCARS DE is not perfect. It doesn’t perfectly recreate an LCARS system… but it gets very, very close and does a surprisingly good job of finding ways of making traditional desktop components (like the status bar display) look like it would fit on the bridge of the Enterprise next to Mr Data. Also worth noting… LCARS DE can be a little finicky to install. I’ve found the installation instructions do work. But not always consistently on all systems. I’ve hit scenarios where I’ve really borked up my install and needed to start over. Functional. But… like I said. Finicky. That finicky-ness has not been, in my experience, consistent. Which is funky. Funky finicky. For sure. # § K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt⠀➾ # ⚓ Ubuntu Handbook ☛ Krita_Lime_PPA_Abandoned!_Here’re other_choices_to_install_it_in_Ubuntu_| UbuntuHandbook⠀⇛ For users of Krita digital painting software, there’s a bad news that the Krita Lime PPA is abandoned. The repository page is even removed! Krita Lime PPA was the ‘official’ (definitely not, but maintained by volunteer) package source in Krita’s website until the app switching to AppImage. It maintained the most recent packages for Ubuntu users who are sticking to the native .deb package. The PPA recently announced the deprecation note: “The Krita Lime PPA has been deprecated. Please use official AppImage packages from the official Krita site instead“, and completely removed the PPA page. # ⚓ David Revoy ☛ Kiki_–_David_Revoy⠀⇛ Kiki (the Krita’s mascot), but in my style. It’s the topic of the contest of the monthly Krita-Artist art contest. That’s also for my future mega tutorial for this summer. I recorded it this week; commenting everything and I’m right now derushing 6h of talk and screenrecord to crush that to a “smaller” 1h40 video. It will be my second “from A to Z” big video friendly for beginners. The artwork was done for the needs of the video with a Krita without preferences, from stock install and with only default brushes. I’m back at video editing it! I hope Kdenlive will be able to render this huge monster. # ⚓ 9to5Linux ☛ KDE_Frameworks_5.97_Adds_Support_for_3rd- Party_Credential_Storage_Methods_to_KDE_Apps⠀⇛ The monthly KDE Frameworks release cycle continues and KDE Frameworks 5.97 is here to add more new features and enhancements, such as the implementation of support in KWallet for the org.freedesktop.secrets standard, which enables compatibility with third-party credential storage methods in most KDE apps. # ⚓ KDE_Ships_Frameworks_5.97.0_–_KDE_Community⠀⇛ KDE today announces the release of KDE Frameworks 5.97.0. KDE Frameworks are 83 addon libraries to Qt which provide a wide variety of commonly needed functionality in mature, peer reviewed and well tested libraries with friendly licensing terms. For an introduction see the KDE Frameworks release announcement. This release is part of a series of planned monthly releases making improvements available to developers in a quick and predictable manner. # ⚓ Separating_Space_Hierarchy_Cache_to_New_Class_– GSoC’22_post_#11⠀⇛ While testing my merge request, Tobias spotted that NeoChat was making multiple requests to the /hierarchy API endpoint. The requests were actually being spammed to the server. So I was suggested to separate the Space hierarchy caching functionality to a separate class itself. The work was mostly about refactoring. Code was already existing in a different class. I moved it to the new SpaceHierarchyCache class and edited it to glue in properly. getRoomListForSpace() in SpaceHierarchyCache accepts a space id, and returns a list of rooms id that belong to the space. This function is exposed in QML and used to populate SortFilterRoomListModel:: m_activeSpaceRooms whenever user clicks a Space icon. # ⚓ Polishing_Spaces_Horizontal_Bar_–_GSoC’22_post_#12⠀⇛ Tobias texted that the SpaceHierarchyCache class worked as expected. So I added that to the open merge requst. # ⚓ Linux On Mobile ☛ LINMOB.net_–_Manjaro_Plasma_on_the Microsoft_Surface_Go_2⠀⇛ After years of using tablets with Android based operating systems such as LineageOS, I got tired of not receiving updates after some time. Why should I throw away working hardware just because there is no software support anymore? So I went looking and finally got me a Microsoft Surface Go 2 to install Manjaro Linux with KDE Plasma on. A Microsoft device for Linux? It’s a better match than you might expect. So here’s what I’ve found. # § GNOME Desktop/GTK⠀➾ # ⚓ DebugPoint ☛ New_GNOME_Text_Editor_–_Everything_You Need_to_Know⠀⇛ We give you details about GNOME’s new default text editor – the Gnome Text Editor. A text editor is an essential tool for any Linux distribution or desktop. You use it almost daily for small to complex tasks while working, studying, etc. Most mainstream Linux desktops have a text editor that integrates well. For example, KDE has Kate or KWrite, and GNOME has Gedit. ⚓ So, Why a new Text Editor for GNOME?⠀⇛ GNOME 42 version onwards, Gedit is replaced with a new editor – Gnome Text Editor. So the distributions which are based on GNOME should not have the new editor. The old Gedit may co-exist with this new editor until users are comfortable. You might ask why. # ⚓ DebugPoint ☛ Create_Your_Own_Custom_Light_and_Dark Wallpaper_for_GNOME⠀⇛ An easy guide on creating your custom light and dark wallpaper for the GNOME desktop. GNOME 42 introduces the much-awaited light and dark theme to GNOME Desktop. It also brings the light and dark version of wallpaper, which automatically changes when you switch between light and dark themes. So, by default, GNOME gives you a few sets of pre-configured light and dark wallpapers. But what if you want a different wallpaper that changes automatically when the theme changes? Here’s how to configure and create your custom wallpaper for light and dark themes in GNOME. * § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾ o § New Releases⠀➾ # ⚓ Help Net Security ☛ Kali_Linux_2022.3_released:_Packages for_test_labs,_new_tools,_and_a_community_Discord_server⠀⇛ Offensive Security has released Kali Linux 2022.3, the latest version of its popular penetration testing and digital forensics platform. # ⚓ ExTiX_22.8_–_“The_Ultimate_Linux_System”_–_based_on_Ubuntu 22.04.1_LTS_with_LXQt_0.17,_Refracta_Snapshot_and_kernel 5.19.0-amd64-exton_::_Build_220814_|⠀⇛ ExTiX 22.8 LXQt – Build 220814 I have made a new version of ExTiX – The Ultimate Linux System. I call it ExTiX 22.8 LXQt Live DVD. (The previous LXQt version was 21.11 from 211030). ExTiX 22.8 is based on Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish)! Ubuntu 22.04 will be supported until 2027. The best thing with ExTiX 22.8 is that while running the system live (from DVD/USB) or from hard drive you can use Refracta Snapshot (pre-installed) to create your own live installable Ubuntu system. So easy that a ten year child can do it! One other very good thing with this version of ExTiX is that it is quite light. The ISO file is of only 1820 MB, which means that you can run the system super fast from RAM. When the boot process is ready you can eject the DVD or USB stick. Use Boot alternative 3 or Advanced options… >> load to RAM. o § BSD⠀➾ # ⚓ Ruben Schade ☛ svnlite(1)_removed_from_FreeBSD_base⠀⇛ FreeBSD moved to git starting in 2019. I miss and prefer svn, but I empathise why it was necessary. In some alternate universe, Linus moved to it instead of building git, just as he adopted BSD instead of writing the Linux kernel. One can dream. o § Debian Family⠀➾ # ⚓ Daniel Pocock ☛ Remembering_Frans_Pop_on_Debian.Day_(yes, Debian_dot_Day)⠀⇛ Censors, funded by Debian, have recently shut down one web site with critical information about Debian itself. Personally, I found some of the things on the former site very disturbing and I would never host such content myself. On the other hand, the suicide of Frans Pop was a critical piece of information that can’t be ignored. 16 August is Debian Day, the anniversary of the Debian operating system. Frans Pop resigned from Debian the night before Debian Day. I can’t shake the feeling that Debian worked this volunteer to death. In fact, that is what he wrote in many emails that are yet to emerge from debian-private. # ⚓ LXQt_1.1.0⠀⇛ The LXQt desktop has been updated up to version 1.1.0. Make sure, it was tested on Sparky testing (7) / Debian testing “Bookworm” amd64 only. o § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ Linux On Mobile ☛ LINMOB.net_–_Weekly_GNU-like_Mobile_Linux Update_(32/2022):_Summer_breeze_and_travel_reports⠀⇛ A new Sailfish OS Community Update, a PINE64 Community Q&A, and a look back at the JingPad. * § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾ o § Programming/Development⠀➾ # ⚓ uni Toronto ☛ Some_notes_(to_myself)_about_formatting_text in_jq⠀⇛ These days I’m having to deal with a steadily increasing number of commands that either output JSON only or where JSON is their best output option, and I want to reformat some of that JSON to a more useful or more readable text-based format. The obvious tool to do this with is jq, at least for simple reformatting (I think there’s some things that are too tangled for jq). However, every time I need to do this, I keep having to look up how to format text in jq. Jq has a very big manual and a lot of features, so here’s some notes to my future self about this. # ⚓ Rlang ☛ Kernel_SHAP⠀⇛ Our last posts were on SHAP, one of the major ways to shed light into black-box Machine Learning models. SHAP values decompose predictions in a fair way into additive contributions from each feature. Decomposing many predictions and then analyzing the SHAP values gives a relatively quick and informative picture of the fitted model at hand. In their 2017 paper on SHAP, Scott Lundberg and Su- In Lee presented Kernel SHAP, an algorithm to calculate SHAP values for any model with numeric predictions. Compared to Monte-Carlo sampling (e.g. implemented in R package “fastshap”), Kernel SHAP is much more efficient. # ⚓ Rlang ☛ Bring_Your_Own_Binary_Packages_with_RSPM⠀⇛ Installing R packages from source can be a slow process. This is compounded by the challenge of making sure you have all the right system libraries and compilers installed. CRAN eases the burden on most desktop R users by providing pre-built binary packages for both Windows and MacOS, but Linux users (or anyone using a Linux-based environment like Docker) are still expected to build from source. # ⚓ Rlang ☛ Highlights_from_rstudio::conf(2022)⠀⇛ July 25 – 28 2022 saw thousands of people attend rstudio::conf(2022) both in-person in Washington D.C. and virtually from all over the world, including a few of us from Jumping Rivers. Here’s a recap of the big news, and a few of our personal highlights from the conference! # ⚓ Dirk Eddelbuettel ☛ Dirk_Eddelbuettel:_RcppArmadillo_used by_1001_CRAN_Packages⠀⇛ It is with a mix of pride and joy, but also some genuine astonishment and amazement, that we can share that the counter of reverse dependencies at CRAN for our RcppArmadillo package for R just crossed 1000 packages [1]: Conrad actually posted this a few weeks ago, by my count we were then still a few packages shy. In any event, having crossed this marker this summer, either then or now, and after more than a dozen years of working on the package is a really nice moment. Google Scholar counts nearly 500 citations for our CSDA paper (also this vignette), and that ratio of nearly a citation for every two packages used is certainly impressive. We have had the pleasure of working with so many other researchers and scientists using RcppArmadillo. Its combination of performance (C++, after all, and heavily tuned) and ease-of-use (inspired by ‘another popular flavour for matrix computing’ that is however mostly interpreted) makes for a powerful package, and we are delighted to see it used so widely. # § Puppy Linux’s Barry Kauler on Programming With V, Nim, and BaCon⠀➾ # ⚓ Barry Kauler ☛ Nim_compiled_in_OpenEmbedded⠀⇛ Nim is a systems programming language, introduced a few days ago… # ⚓ Barry Kauler ☛ The_return_of_BaCon⠀⇛ Well, that was a short retirement! It was only a few days ago, announced that utilities written in the BaCon language are no longer in EasyOS… # ⚓ Barry Kauler ☛ Quick_Hello_World_size_comparison⠀⇛ This is fun, just wanted to see the size of binary executable generated by V, Nim and BaCon. In all three, it is a one-line program. Firstly, the results, stripped by “strip –strip-unneeded”… # § Python⠀➾ # ⚓ Geeks For Geeks ☛ Top_7_Python_Developer_Tools⠀⇛ Believe it or not, today python is considered one of the most powerful programming languages, and it’s spreading at a mass level. We have witnessed a surge of Python developers in the past couple of years at a whopping rate of 27% YoY (Year on Year). Last year python marked 30 years of success and it is clearly a sign that it is going to disrupt the market in the upcoming few years. # § Raku⠀➾ # ⚓ p6steve:_TRC_Slides⠀⇛ # ⚓ Symbolism_|_Playing_Perl_6␛b6xA_Raku⠀⇛ On IRC deoac wished to know how to print the name of a variable. This question is ambiguous. To get the name of the container is easy. * § Leftovers⠀➾ o ⚓ Business Insider ☛ Meta’s_AI_chatbot_has_some_election-denying, antisemitic_bugs_to_work_out_after_the_company_asked_users_to_help train_it [Ed: Facebook fluff that distracts from the real scandals of the company]⠀⇛ Just two days after Meta released its most advanced AI chatbot to date, BlenderBot 3 is repeating election- denying claims and antisemitic stereotypes to users who interact with it. The machine learning technology — launched to the public on Friday — crafts responses by searching the internet for information and learns from conversations it has with human users. o ⚓ uni Michigan ☛ ‘Fake’_data_helps_robots_learn_the_ropes_faster⠀⇛ A way to expand training data sets for manipulation tasks improves the performance of robots by 40% or more o ⚓ CoryDoctorow ☛ Podcasting_“So_You’ve_Decided_to_Unfollow_Me”⠀⇛ Podcasting “So You’ve Decided to Unfollow Me”: On the joys of writing to find your people, rather than pleasing a hypothetical audience. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2007, 2012, 2017, 2021 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading A double exit-door, open to reveal a Matrix-style code waterfall. Over the door is a green exit sign with a green halo. Podcasting “So You’ve Decided to Unfollow Me” (permalink) This week on my podcast, I read “So You’ve Decided to Unfollow Me,” my Medium describing the joys of writing to attract the audience of people who want to read what you want to write. https://doctorow.medium.com/so-youve-decided-to-unfollow- me-7452c96b4772 I’ve been blogging for more than 20 years, but I’ve been writing for publication for even longer than that, so I can remember the emergence of blogging and what it meant for magazine writers. The point of magazines, broadly, was to identify a demographic that advertisers wanted to reach and hire writers who’d produce material to entice those people to become readers. By contrast, the point of blogging was to produce the idiosyncratic, personal mix of topics, formats and styles that the writer enjoyed, in hopes of attracting readers whose preferences overlapped with the writer’s. Blogging wasn’t just about becoming widely read – it was about finding your people. When advertising came to blogging, it was grounded in this ethos: “Here is a writer who has attracted an audience who share a sensibility and a collection of interests that are otherwise hard to reach; if that’s who you want to reach, you can buy ads on this publication.” The promise back then was that the “long tail” of interests and publications enabled by blogging would be matched with a long tail of advertisers who – like pre- blogging writers – had been hamstrung by the difficulty of reaching their own niche audiences. o § Science⠀➾ # ⚓ New_method_can_improve_explosion_detection⠀⇛ Computers can be trained to better detect distant nuclear detonations, chemical blasts and volcano eruptions by learning from artificial explosion signals, according to a new method devised by a University of Alaska Fairbanks scientist. The work, led by UAF Geophysical Institute postdoctoral researcher Alex Witsil, was published recently in the journal Geophysical Research Letters. Witsil, at the Geophysical Institute’s Wilson Alaska Technical Center, and colleagues created a library of synthetic infrasound explosion signals to train computers in recognizing the source of an infrasound signal. Infrasound is at a frequency too low to be heard by humans and travels farther than high-frequency audible waves. # ⚓ EuroNews ☛ New_AR_glasses_allow_deaf_people_to_‘see’ conversations_by_turning_audio_into_subtitles⠀⇛ Dan Scarfe, the founder of a new company that has found a way to unlock conversation for deaf and hard of hearing people, says the idea dawned on him over Christmas with his family last year. Scarfe witnessed his 97-year-old hearing impaired grandfather struggling to engage with the rest of his family, and was inspired to find a solution so that he could participate in conversations in real- time. “It’s just so difficult when there are so many people around you and you’re trying to keep track of the different conversations which are going on,” Scarfe told Euronews Next. “It’s got to the point now where he literally just sits in silence. And I thought, well, hang on a second. He watches TV all the time with subtitles. Why can’t we subtitle the world?” # ⚓ New Scientist ☛ Ultrasound_stickers_could_continuously image_internal_organs_for_days⠀⇛ Patches the size of a postage stamp stuck to your skin can provide continuous ultrasound imaging of internal organs for 48 hours. This can reveal details such as the human heart changing shape during exercise, or the stomach expanding and shrinking when a person eats or drinks. “Welcome to the era of ‘wearable imaging’,” says Xuanhe Zhao at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Many researchers have been trying to develop wearable ultrasound devices made of flexible materials. But they have found it challenging to create flexible devices that remain stuck to the skin for more than a few hours while also enabling high-resolution ultrasound imaging. # ⚓ CNET ☛ This_’90s-Era_Quantum_Computing_Idea_Could_Lead_to_a Massive_Breakthrough⠀⇛ Quantinuum, a leader in the nascent field of quantum computing, said Thursday it advanced a key technique for correcting errors in calculations done by the advanced machines, a development essential for them to fulfill their revolutionary potential. A Broomfield, Colorado-based team improved its handling of qubits, the machines’ fundamental data storage and processing elements. Last year, they linked multiple ordinary qubits into a group called a logical qubit that’s more reliable. This year, they got a pair of logical qubits to perform calculations, said David Hayes, leader of the company’s theory group. The work was notable because Quantinuum’s error correction technology keeps logical qubits stable longer than conventional qubits, and that’s key to coaxing useful work out of quantum computers. # ⚓ ACM ☛ Found_in_Space⠀⇛ The July 12 release of the images from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has captivated and excited everyone from schoolchildren to space buffs, thanks to the vivid colors and crisp captures of the distant reaches of space. The images from the telescope, which is the largest, most complex and powerful space telescope ever constructed, brought into focus thousands of galaxies, both known and unknown, as well as so- called “cosmic cliffs” of dust and gas, and even a dying star. The telescope detects near-infrared and mid- infrared wavelengths, the light beyond the red end of the visible spectrum, which allows otherwise hidden regions of space to be captured. Infrared light can uncover and reveal new details in images, based on the object. For example, bodies of matter such as young planets that are cool and do not emit much energy or visible brightness, still radiate in the infrared. Similarly, visible light’s short wavelengths often can be obscured by space dust or a dense nebula (a group of interstellar clouds), keeping their images from being captured by telescopes that only detect visible light, such as the Hubble telescope. Infrared light, with its longer wavelengths, can penetrate through dust more easily, and infrared-based telescopes can detect lower-energy objects that often form within nebulae, such as brown dwarf stars and newly forming stars. Thus, the JWST can reveal objects that previously were hidden from view. o § Hardware⠀➾ # ⚓ Jeff Geerling ☛ Much-needed_upgrades_to_my_PC⠀⇛ Earlier this year, when I built my all-AMD gaming PC, I decided to stick with AMD’s stock CPU cooler. After all, if they include a particular cooler with the Ryzen 5 5600x, I should assume that cooler is adequate, right? # ⚓ Bryan Lunduke ☛ The_History_of_Ctrl-Alt-Delete⠀⇛ Ctrl-Alt-Del — also known as “The Three Fingered Salute” — is among the most recognizable key commands in the entire computer world. Restarting, or logging into, countless computers since the 1980s. But how did it come to be? Let’s take a tour through this history of this loved / hated / mocked key combination. # ⚓ uni Toronto ☛ Our_BMCs_are_not_great_at_keeping_accurate time⠀⇛ A BMC is an extra embedded computer on your server motherboard (as opposed to the extra CPU that’s embedded in your CPU or chipset). As separate computers running a separate operating system, BMCs keep time independently from your server’s time (the host time, reusing terminology from virtualization), and this time is visible in places like the IPMI event log (as well as just asking what time the BMC has via IPMI). # ⚓ Watch:_World-Class_Supply_Chains_Create_Value ⠀⇛ The unprecedented challenges of the last couple of years have presented opportunity for supply chain organizations to create value, Kalidindi says. # ⚓ Andrew Hutchings ☛ Amiga_1000_Restoration:_Covering_Holes⠀⇛ It has been a couple of months since I’ve worked on my Amiga 1000. In that time I had an interesting conversation with Darren Gurney on Discord who generously offered to 3D print the missing covers for my Amiga 1000. This week they arrived! The two sections that needed covering were the front RAM panel and the side slot. It is clear from the motherboard edge connector wear that this Amiga had some kind of side expansion and that is why that panel was missing. I’m also guessing the front panel breaks off easily as I see many Amiga 1000s with that part missing. Luckily there are 3D printable parts available for both holes to cover them. Darren has a 3D printing filament called “Jessie” which is a colour-match to an Amiga 500. This is good because the Amiga 1000 and 500 are the same colour. o § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾ # ⚓ VegSense_makes_sense_for_forest_studies⠀⇛ Rice bioscientists use mixed-reality headset, custom software to measure vegetation in the field o § Security⠀➾ # § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾ # ⚓ DaemonFC (Ryan Farmer) ☛ Major_“adtech”_layoffs. Newspapers_continue_dying_off._American_economy continues_to_the_scene_of_the_crash.⠀⇛ In another sign of Dotcom Bubble 2.0, adtechs are laying off, according to layoffs.fyi and the New York Times. We’re definitely seeing echos of the Dotcom Bubble collapse, even though most consumer- facing news is trying to spin things to suggest the lowest unemployment rates ever. A lie that Vice-President Kamala Harris repeated only the other day. Most Americans are terribly concerned with inflation and losing their jobs, but the CNNs and CNBCs still project denial. What rags! Burying your head in the sand hasn’t ever helped anyone solve a problem. These folks want you to subscribe to the religion that as long as “consumer confidence” remains high, it does not matter how much toxic sludge is swirling around in the system. There’s a lot of toxic sludge, that’s for sure. When is the last time anyone asked how confident YOU were as a consumer? Yeah, me neither. In the New York Times article I just linked to, Marc Andreeson, one of the early Web pioneers (Netscape, Sun, etc.) and an active “Venture Capitalist” today, says that “good big tech companies” are overstaffed by 200% and “bad big tech companies” are overstaffed by 400%. (By good and bad, he means as investments, of course. And, relatively speaking.) So it falls somewhere in-between with Microsoft, Apple, Facebook, Google, and Uber where in the 200-400% range they actually are. # ⚓ Nieman Lab ☛ Unimaginable_abortion_stories_will become_more_common._Is_American_journalism_ready?_| Nieman_Journalism_Lab⠀⇛ In America after the end of Roe v. Wade, one brave source, on the record, is often the best we are going to get. Countless other stories will never be told. # ⚓ Stacy on IoT ☛ Here’s_a_new,_inexpensive_smart_dryer solution [Ed: Utter nonsense and gimmick that does no drying at all and probably won't last long]⠀⇛ On our recent IoT Podcast, we took a question that Andrew left on our IoT Voicemail Hotline. Andrew had been using a device from SmartDry to know when his laundry was dry. Unfortunately, SmartDry announced earlier in June that it would be shutting down. So Andrew wants to know what that means for his device. # ⚓ John Gruber ☛ The_Financial_Times_on_the_Effects_of App_Tracking_Transparency_on_Small_Businesses [Ed: Paywalls are also one form of surveillance (you give an ID to pay)]⠀⇛ The FT’s paywall confuses me — I can read this article but I’m not sure if you’ll be able to. # ⚓ John Gruber ☛ Daring_Fireball:_Is_App_Tracking Transparency_Actually_Doing_Anything_Truly Significant?⠀⇛ Heer raises too many good points and includes too much research to summarize. Just read it. It’s so thoughtful, and it gets to a point I tried, but I think largely failed, to make on Dithering two weeks ago regarding Facebook’s declining numbers. To wit, that maybe Facebook’s problem isn’t really ATT, but rather that Facebook’s entire business, from when it first started selling ads through today, has been about offering the hot new thing to the ever-desirable “young demographic”. Let’s call them “20- somethings”, or, if you prefer, “18-to-34- year-olds”. That product, at one point, was Facebook itself — a.k.a. the blue app. If you’re old enough, you will remember that it was, originally, hard to get a Facebook account. It was like an exclusive club. You had to be a student at Harvard. Then you had to be a student at any Ivy League college. Then you just needed a .edu email address. Eventually, of course, you just had to be breathing. But make no mistake, the Facebook of Aaron Sorkin’s 2010 movie The Social Network was the hot new thing for the 20- something demographic. For the last decade — the 2010s — that hot new thing for the 20-something demographic was Instagram, which Mark Zuckerberg had the remarkable prescience to acquire in 2012 — such early days for Instagram that the acquisition came just weeks after Instagram had launched its Android app. # ⚓ IEEE ☛ iRobot_CEO_Colin_Angle_on_Data_Privacy_and Robots_in_the_Home [Ed: Do you trust this guy not to sell your data when shareholders demand profitability?]⠀⇛ About a month ago, iRobot CEO Colin Angle mentioned something about sharing Roomba mapping data in an interview with Reuters. It got turned into a data privacy kerfuffle in a way that iRobot did not intend and (probably) did not deserve, as evidenced by their immediate clarification that iRobot will not sell your data or share it without your consent. Data privacy is important, of course, especially for devices that live in your home with you. But as robots get more capable, the amount of data that they collect will increase, and sharing that data in a useful, thoughtful, and considerate way could make smart homes way smarter. To understand how iRobot is going to make this happen, we spoke with Angle about keeping your data safe, integrating robots with the future smart home, and robots that can get you a beer. # § Confidentiality⠀➾ # ⚓ Daniel Miessler ☛ Why_I’m_OK_With_Amazon_Buying_One Medical⠀⇛ First, I agree that Amazon sharing footage without permission is sketch. And I expect them to fix that. Soon. But when I hear something new is bad, I don’t just jump on with everyone else. First I ask how things are currently going. So how about it? # ⚓ Stacy on IoT ☛ Podcast:_Here’s_why_Amazon_really bought_iRobot⠀⇛ This week’s show kicks off with our discussion of Amazon’s planned acquisition of iRobot, the maker of Roomba robotic vacuums for $1.7 billion. We then talk about a survey from Parks Associates that indicates almost a third of people using AirTag-style trackers to track people without their knowing and why users and companies must focus on consent. Then we hit on another ethics issue associated with a connected Epson printer that stops working after a set period of time, also unbeknownst to the user. In non- ethics news, Feit has purchased LIFX assets, Energous got FCC approval for sending up to 15 watts of power over the air for wireless charging and Qualcomm signed a deal with Global Foundries to ensure its chip supply through 2028. While on the topic of chips, we talk about software that runs on existing ESP32 that uses Wi-Fi for person detection and sensing, and future Apple products for the smart home. We end with a listener question about whether he should buy a new DIY hub and devices, or wait for Matter gear. o § Defence/Aggression⠀➾ # ⚓ The_Big_Context_|_Michael_Hudson⠀⇛ Well I think in what you just wrote today you made it all clear. There’s really no practical effect of what she did, so why should China have actually done something military and then something provocative. What Pelosi did is a public relations ploy, she wanted to get more votes in California, and one third of California are Chinese and she thought that that would help. So why should China react materially to something that is just a stunt, and I think you’re quite right, best to wait and see what the outcome of this is. We have no idea … midnight there, so we don’t know what is happening or will be happening. We don’t know what the Chinese will do, especially seeing that the downward direction of US relations with the rest of the world is, it’s bungling everything clumsily so you don’t want to interrupt it while it’s doing that. Let’s see where it goes. o § Environment⠀➾ # § Energy⠀➾ # ⚓ Matt Rickard ☛ The_Ethereum_Merge⠀⇛ Ethereum is planning to move from proof-of- work to proof-of-stake next month. As someone who has participated in large open-source projects before, it’s impressive that the developers were able to make such a drastic shift to the network. Here’s what you need to know. # ⚓ Matt Rickard ☛ Sanctioning_a_Smart_Contract⠀⇛ The SEC released a list of sanctioned Ethereum addresses and the smart contract Tornado Cash, a program that allows users to mix (i.e., launder) crypto. Blockchains make all transactions public (see tradeoffs), so mixers obfuscate the sender, recipient, and values of transactions. There are legitimate users of these services that value privacy, but there are also bad actors – state-sponsored hackers like the Lazarus Group (North Korea) and other hackers. o § Finance⠀➾ # ⚓ Ruben Schade ☛ Guess_who_paid_off_their_student_debt!⠀⇛ Australia has a government loan system where the Commonwealth pays for your tertiary education, and you pay it back once you reach an income threshold. You either pay it as part of tax, or you can have it withheld from your salary. It’s a flawed system; education should be free. Even the fiscally conservative acknowledge that qualified people tend to earn more and pay more tax, even if they don’t buy altruistic arguments that everyone should be given an opportunity. Lower-income earners are also far more likely to spend whatever extra money they receive, so it’s better for the economy not to be garnishing this. # ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ National_Press_Club:_The_Lucky_Laundry @Canberra_Writers_Festival_–_Michael_West⠀⇛ Australia is awash with dirty money. Go undercover with financial crime expert Nathan Lynch as he delves deep inside this hidden world to explain how dark money has infected the lives of ordinary people and tainted Australian democracy. # ⚓ DaemonFC (Ryan Farmer) ☛ Biden’s_America:_Rent_soaring,_no apartments_available._“Inflation_Reduction_Act”_price_hikes on_Electric_Vehicles,_and_a_meaner_nastier_IRS.⠀⇛ In my neck of the woods, in Illinois, the rent is soaring. In much of the country, it’s the same story. It’s soaring because there are no apartments available. As soon as they’re listed, they’re gone . I’ve been watching in horror as our landlord keeps jacking up the prices of all of his units across town. They’re not exactly the most upscale units, and the price has gone up roughly 11% in the past 8 or 9 months. It seems like the worse things get, the worse things get. I figure he’ll probably hike ours at least this much and it’s just going to have to be another winter without heat. # ⚓ DaemonFC (Ryan Farmer) ☛ LabCorp_spends_6_months threatening_to_send_us_to_collections_over_a_bill_our insurance_should_have_paid,_and_then_refunds_my_payment._Blue Cross_Blue_Shield_of_Illinois_is_a_bunch_of_pirates.⠀⇛ LabCorp spends 6 months threatening to send us to collections over a bill our insurance should have paid, and then refunds my payment. I’d like to give a shout-out to LabCorp for being up there with Quest Diagnostics.. I think that Satan himself runs both of their billing departments. When I had to file bankruptcy back in 2020, Quest Diagnostics kept trying to collect on my lab debts. Every time I sent them proof that I had filed bankruptcy and that those bills had been discharged, they claimed they never received the paperwork and that I was supposed to send it to another address, until I got ahold of the Illinois Attorney General. When they got a letter on state letterhead with a copy of my discharge letter, the next thing I got from Quest was a notice that they were “setting my account balance to $0. My spouse has Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois health and dental. Every time we go to his dentist, they say there’s something wrong with the claim. I have to spend hours on the phone, and eventually they pay it. Sometimes it happens with lab bills too. Unfortunately, Quest and LabCorp don’t care what your insurance company is up to. They attempt to bill it once and if it gets kicked back, they start threatening you. Quest Diagnostics sent some of my spouse’s bills to collections while I was still arguing with Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois about payment. I eventually had to spend dozens of hours on the phone and then with credit reporting bills disputing them as “insurance has paid this” to get them to come off, but they finally did. o § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾ # § Misinformation/Disinformation⠀➾ # ⚓ Pew Reseach Center ☛ Teens,_Social_Media_and Technology_2022_|_Pew_Research_Center⠀⇛ TikTok has established itself as one of the top online platforms for U.S. teens, while the share of teens who use Facebook has fallen sharply * § Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾ o § Personal⠀➾ # ⚓ I’d_Like_to_Play_This_Weird_Role⠀⇛ If you could play any part you wanted in any film or series of your choice, what would you play? I wouldn’t go for any sort of main character. No. My goal would be different, and might be described as more ambitious. I’d wanna play an innocent murder suspect in a as many crime series as possible. Specifically the same character in all of them. Just a random dude who happens to be suspected of a murder but is ultimately not guilty. Over and over again. # ⚓ A_Dive_Into_Esperanto⠀⇛ I was never much of a foreign language person. In school I excelled in literally every subject but the various foreign languages I was forced to take (german and spanish). Frankly, learning different languages never came naturally to me and I considered it a waste of my time. Just one of those things that never meshed that well with me. I first discovered esperanto proper about a month ago. It had gently floated into my subconcious through @martin’s subtle indoctrination tactics of mentioning it every once in awhile on station. A few gemnaught-esperantist made a buzz a bit ago on various aggregation feeds which helped too. # ⚓ SpellBinding:_CDKYOUL_Wordo:_HULK⠀⇛ o § Technical⠀➾ # ⚓ How_Many_Computers_Do_You_Have?⠀⇛ And is pretty conservative, as I see it. All modern remotes, fridges, ovens, wireless keyboards, etc. are very likely to contain a microprocessor. My air conditioner has at least two – one in the remote and one in the main unit. I know because I could connect it to WiFi — if I was insane! Headphones that do bluetooth and USB, especially noise-cancelling kind, are very likely to have a CPU. Those with google or alexa, definitely. A USB memory stick is very likely to have at least one ARM core on it. Decades ago manufacturers found it cheaper than running exhaustive memory tests on each device and locking out broken parts. The ARM chip manages the memory array, hiding defects and wear leveling and whatnot. Also, any memory devices – microSD, whatever is in your camera or tablet or phone… # ⚓ This_week’s_mistakes⠀⇛ As mentioned previously, defrag breaks up reflinks. On a system with little to no reflinks, this will result in neglible space increase. However, recently I started using snapshots and noticed significant space increase with defrag. At first, I was confused. defrag should not descend into subvolumes and find -mount can further be used to avoid descending into mountpoints. I knew that subvolumes save space by shared extents, yet it didn’t click into my brain until later that defragging completely broke those shared extents. With a lot of snapshots..you can see where this is going. # § Internet/Gemini⠀➾ # ⚓ 2022-08-14_AuraGem_Ask_Activity⠀⇛ # § Programming⠀➾ # ⚓ Using_`any()`_with_`ifelse()`_and_`group_by()`⠀⇛ I am doing some more work to update the SEOSAW database[1]. When we measure the growth and mortality of trees to monitor biomass dynamics, it is important to have a consistent way of recording mortality. For trees, especially trees with multiple stems, the concept of “death” is not as simple as for animals. We generally classify a tree as dead if all the above-ground tissue on the tree appears to be dead, i.e. has no living leaves or buds, and no sap below the bark. Sometimes though, a single stem on a multi- stemmed tree will die, but the rest of the tree continues to live. Sometimes a stem or tree may appear dead, but comes back to life later. In savanna systems especially, it’s fairly common for trees to partially die, or to resurrect after a disturbance event like a drought or a fire. =============================================================================== * Gemini_(Primer) links can be opened using Gemini_software. It’s like the World Wide Web but a lot lighter. ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 2242 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐃𝐀𝐈𝐋𝐘 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒 ═════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 08.14.22⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Links_14/08/2022:_Wine_7.15_and_Haiku_Activity_Report⠀✐ Posted in News_Roundup at 2:20 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇GNOME bluefish⦈ § Contents⠀➾ * GNU/Linux o Desktop/Laptop o Server o Audiocasts/Shows o Kernel_Space o Instructionals/Technical o WINE_or_Emulation o Games o Desktop_Environments/WMs # GNOME_Desktop/GTK * Distributions_and_Operating_Systems o Open_Hardware/Modding * Leftovers o Education o Hardware o Health/Nutrition/Agriculture o Proprietary o Security # Integrity/Availability/Authenticity # Privacy/Surveillance # Confidentiality 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 Digital_Restrictions_(DRM) o Monopolies # Copyrights * Gemini*_and_Gopher o Technical # Science # Internet/Gemini # Programming * § GNU/Linux⠀➾ o § Desktop/Laptop⠀➾ # ⚓ CNX Software ☛ BITBLAZE_Titan_BM15_Arm_Linux_laptop features_Baikal-M1_processor_–_CNX_Software⠀⇛ Russian company Prombit has unveiled the BITBLAZE Titan BM15 Arm Linux Laptop equipped with Baikal-M1 octa-core Arm Cortex-A57 processor manufactured by TSMC, up to 128GB RAM, SSD storage, and a 15.6-inch Full HD display. Baikal-M1, also called Baikal-M, was already found in desktop PCs and All-in-One Arm Linux computers launched last year for the Russian government and businesses, but I think it’s the first time it shows up in a laptop. o § Server⠀➾ # ⚓ Silicon Angle ☛ Open_hybrid_cloud_and_quantum_computing shape_future_for_Red_Hat_thought_leaders [Ed: Disclosure is missing here; Red Hat openly pays this publishers for puff pieces]⠀⇛ This year’s Red Hat Summit gathering in early May provided an opportunity to step back from the enterprise computing treadmill and assess the long- term implications of where network innovation is headed. Along with news surrounding an edge platform opportunity with General Motors Corp. and the latest release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, this year’s gathering in Boston offered a glimpse into the computing future. # ⚓ TechTarget ☛ Kubernetes_training,_tech_can_tackle orchestration_pain⠀⇛ DevOps can force developers to work outside their comfort zone and create frustration, but the right Kubernetes training and tools can ease the burden. o § Audiocasts/Shows⠀➾ # ⚓ Tux Digital ☛ 66:_From_Star_Trek_To_Reality_:_Microbots That_Can_Heal_–_Hardware_Addicts_–_TuxDigital⠀⇛ Welcome to Hardware Addicts, a proud member of the TuxDigital Network. Hardware Addicts is the podcast that focuses on the physical components that powers our technology world. In this episode, we’re going to be talking nanotechnology and how little robot armies can be used in the future to extend all of our lives. Then we head to Camera Corner where Wendy will discuss anti-forgery signatures on a camera. # ⚓ Video ☛ Need_A_FOSS_Job,_Linux_Foundation_Has_Good_News_– Invidious⠀⇛ Are you in the market for job in FOSS well the Linux Foundation does a yearly report on this field and it seems as though it should be getting much easier this year and going forward o § Kernel Space⠀➾ # ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ What_Is_Virtual_Memory_on_Linux?_How_to Manage_It⠀⇛ Virtual memory is a way of representing your memory that’s abstracted from the physical memory on your machine. It makes use of both your RAM and your storage space, whether that’s on a traditional hard drive or an SSD. In Linux, this is done at the kernel and hardware levels. The CPU has a piece of hardware called a Memory Management Unit (MMU) that translates physical memory addresses into virtual ones. These addresses are independent of where they physically reside on the machine. These address spaces are known as “pages” and they could be in RAM or on your hard drive or SSD. The OS sees these addresses as one big pool of memory, known as an “address space.” Virtual memory takes advantage of the fact that not all of the memory that’s being used in theory is being used all of the time. Programs in memory are broken down into pages and the parts that the kernel deems as unnecessary are “swapped out,” or moved to the hard drive. When they’re needed, they can be “swapped in,” or brought back into RAM. The space used for virtual memory on a drive is known as “backing store,” or “swap space.” In the Windows world, it’s usually implemented as a file, known as a “swap file.” It’s also possible to do this in Linux, but it’s much more common to use a dedicated disk partition. # ⚓ nbdkit_for_macOS_|_Richard_WM_Jones⠀⇛ However one larger problem remains (for performance) which is the lack of atomic CLOEXEC when opening pipes or sockets. Linux has pipe2 and accept4. I wasn’t able to find any good equivalent on macOS, and hence most of the time we are limited to serializing some requests that could otherwise run in parallel. o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾ # ⚓ LinuxOpSys ☛ How_to_Change_Comment_Color_in_Vim_–_Fix Unreadable_Blue_Color⠀⇛ Are you annoyed about the comment color in vim? The dark blue color of the comment is often hard to read. In this tutorial, we learn how to change the comment color in Vim. There are few methods we can use to look vim comment very readable. # ⚓ LinuxOpSys ☛ How_to_Add_Repository_to_Debian⠀⇛ APT checks the health of all the packages, and dependencies of the package before installing it. APT fetches packages from one or more repositories. A repository (package source) is basically a network server. The term “package” refers to an individual file with a .deb extension that contains either all or part of an application. The normal installation comes with default repositories configured, but these contain only a few packages out of an ocean of free software available. In this tutorial, we learn how to add the package repository to Debian. # ⚓ Lawrence Tratt ☛ Making_a_Video_of_a_Single_Window⠀⇛ I recently wanted to send someone a video of a program doing some interesting things in a single X11 window. Recording the whole desktop is easy (some readers may remember my post on Aeschylus which does just that) but it will include irrelevant (and possibly unwanted) parts of the screen, leading to unnecessarily large files. I couldn’t immediately find a tool which did what I wanted on OpenBSD [1] but through a combination of xwininfo, FFmpeg, and hk I was able to put together exactly what I needed in short order. Even better, I was able to easily post-process the video to shrink its file size, speed it up, and contort it to the dimension requirements of various platforms. Here’s a video straight out of the little script I put together: [...] # ⚓ Jim Nielsen ☛ Things_You_Can_And_Can’t_Do⠀⇛ And it got me thinking about what you can and can’t do — what you do and don’t have control over. # ⚓ Jan Piet Mens ☛ allow-new-zones_in_BIND_9.16_on_CentOS_8 Stream_under_SELinux⠀⇛ We run these training systems with SELinux enabled (I wouldn’t, but my colleague likes it :-), and that’s the reason I aborted the lab: I couldn’t tell students how to solve the cause other than by disabling SELinux entirely, but there wasn’t enough time for that. # ⚓ Kev Quirk ☛ Will_the_IndieWeb_Ever_Become_Mainstream?⠀⇛ This is an interesting question, thanks for asking it, Jeremy. I do have some history with the IndieWeb, and some opinions, so let’s dive in. The short answer to the question is a resounding no, and it all boils down to the fact that the IndieWeb is really complicated to implement, so it will only ever appeal to developers. # ⚓ LinuxOpSys ☛ How_to_Install_CUPS_Print_Server_on_Ubuntu 22.04⠀⇛ If your business has multiple personal computers in the network which need to print, then we need a device called a print server. Print server act intermediate between PC and printers which accept print jobs from PC and send them to respective printers. CUPS is the primary mechanism in the Unix-like operating system for printing and print services. It can allow a computer to act as a Print server. In this tutorial, we learn how to set up CUPS print server on Ubuntu 22.04. o § WINE or Emulation⠀➾ # ⚓ WINE Project (Official) ☛ WineHQ_–_Wine_Announcement_–_The Wine_development_release_7.15_is_now_available.⠀⇛ The Wine development release 7.15 is now available. What's new in this release: - Command lists in Direct2D. - RSA encryption. - Initial Wow64 thunking in WIN32U. - Optional support for colors in test output. - Various bug fixes. The source is available at: https://dl.winehq.org/wine/source/7.x/wine- 7.15.tar.xz Binary packages for various distributions will be available from: https://www.winehq.org/download You will find documentation on https:// www.winehq.org/documentation You can also get the current source directly from the git repository. Check https://www.winehq.org/git for details. Wine is available thanks to the work of many people. See the file AUTHORS in the distribution for the complete list. # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Windows_compatibility_layer_Wine_version 7.15_out_now⠀⇛ Wine is a compatibility layer that aims to let you run games and applications designed for Windows on Linux and a new release version 7.15 is out now. This is the compatibility layer that allows you to run various Windows applications and games on Linux (and forms part of Steam Play Proton). Once a year or so, a new stable release is made but the development versions are usually fine to use. o § Games⠀➾ # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Spider-Man_Remastered_is_awesome_on_Steam Deck⠀⇛ With Spider-Man Remastered now available on Steam after previously being PlayStation exclusive, I took it for a spin on Steam Deck and Linux desktop. # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Humble_Bundle_have_another_interesting_set of_games_in_the_Tactical_Combat_Bundle⠀⇛ Need more games to fill up your library? Humble Bundle have put up another one that looks pretty good with the Tactical Combat Bundle. So here’s what to expect on Linux desktop and Steam Deck. o § Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾ # § GNOME Desktop/GTK⠀➾ # ⚓ HowTo Geek ☛ What’s_New_in_GNOME_43?⠀⇛ GNOME is one of the most popular graphical desktop environments on Linux. Practically every distribution has a release featuring GNOME. Imagine the impact then, when the GNOME developers shook things up—to put it mildly—with GNOME 40. It changed the desktop paradigm from a vertical one to a horizontal one and changed the look, feel, and functionality of, amongst other things, the dock, the activities view, and workplaces. Releases 41 and 42 were much smaller in impact, concentrating on polishing the interface and ironing out wrinkles that remained after the iconoclastic changes to GNOME 40. GNOME 43 is more of the same. Don’t expect major changes this time round. That’s not to say it is inconsequential. There are the expected subtle cosmetic touches, with more applications adopting a deeper integration with the libadwaita theming engine. But there’s also new functionality, including the Files file browser being enhanced. It is now adaptive and will give a better user experience on mobile devices. Although GNOME 43 beta is available, it won’t be rolled out to the public until its actual launch date of September 21, 2022. Fedora 37 is slated to use GNOME 43. Ubuntu 22.10 probably won’t. Rolling distributions based on Arch such as Garuda Linux, Manjaro Linux, and EndeavourOS will pick it up shortly after its release date. Although this isn’t the finished product, looking at the beta is still worthwhile. Even if small changes may still be made between now and the launch date, all the big elements are already in place. The release candidate build is the one when the portcullis drops and no more changes can be made. This is slated for September 3, 2022. * § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾ o ⚓ HaikuOS ☛ Haiku_Activity_&_Contract_Report,_July_2022⠀⇛ As is now the usual way of things, the monthly Activity Report is hereby combined with my Contract Report. This report covers hrev56236 to hrev56320. o § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾ # ⚓ SusamPal ☛ From_XON/XOFF_to_Forward_Incremental_Search⠀⇛ In the olden days of computing, software flow control with control codes XON and XOFF was a necessary feature that dumb terminals needed to support. When a terminal received more data than it could display, there needed to be a way for the terminal to tell the remote host to pause sending more data. The control code 19 was chosen for this. The control code 17 was chosen to tell the remote host to resume transmission of data. # ⚓ Tom’s Hardware ☛ Raspberry_Pi_Pico_Used_in_Plug_and_Play System_Monitor_|_Tom’s_Hardware⠀⇛ Dmytro Panin is at it again, creating a teeny system monitor for his MacBook from scratch with help from our favorite microcontroller, the Raspberry Pi Pico. This plug-and-play system monitor (opens in new tab) lets him keep a close eye on resource usage without having to close any windows or launch any third-party programs. The device is Pico-powered and plugs right into the MacBook to function. It has a display screen that showcases a custom GUI featuring four bar graphs that update in real-time to show the performance of different components, including the CPU, GPU, memory, and SSD usage. It makes it possible to see how hard your PC is running at a glance. * § Leftovers⠀➾ o ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Remember_DAB_Radio?_The_Psion_WaveFinder_Gets_A Teardown⠀⇛ With digital music making a clean sweep in the 1990s over almost all listening media, it’s a surprise to find that there’s one area in which an analog hold-out is still very much alive and kicking. We’re talking not of a vinyl resurgence here but of FM radio, which has managed to effectively hold off its digital competition for a few decades now. Twenty years ago its days seemed numbered though, and in Europe the first generation of DAB digital radios looked ready to conquer the airwaves. Among them was a true oddity and one of Psion’s last significant consumer products, the WaveFinder USB DAB radio receiver. [Backofficeshow] has one, and has given it a teardown for our entertainment. He describes it as the first consumer SDR product which may be a little hyperbolic, but nevertheless, it’s an interesting look at what would become one of computing’s backwaters. o ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Opinion_|_Beware_the_Corporations_and_Lawmakers Trampling_On_Our_Established_Norms⠀⇛ Norms, in a society or culture, are the accepted ways of behavior we grow up observing and learning in our everyday lives. Norms are rarely backed up by laws, though when norms are grossly violated, calls for legislation may ensue. o ⚓ Soylent News ☛ Status_Report_For_Jul_2022⠀⇛ I thought that Elon Musk’s ventures would collapse around the privately held SpaceX but it now seems more likely to collapse around the publicly held Tesla – which remains unable to achieve volume and is losing money on every vehicle manufactured. This is especially true when electric vehicles get less eco subsidy and the cost of electricity has increased. Now that the astro-turfing has failed, Elon Musk is trying to peg Tesla’s worthless stock to other Silicon Valley turds, like Twitter which lost 15% of its value when it banned Donald Trump. Elon Musk – who requires adult supervision when using Twitter – may try to escape a $1 billion exit clause after establishing that the majority of Twitter accounts and Tweets are astro-turfed. You can’t scam an honest man. However, some scams look really obvious to other scammers. Jeff Bezos – who self-identifies as an astronaut – is diversifying out of Amazon. You should do the same because Amazon is going out of business. Amazon is running out of staff to exploit – staff who are violent or urinate in bottles to achieve unrealistic deadlines. Amazon has fired more than 20 million staff; mostly for performance which is acceptable in similar roles at other companies. If you’re stupid enough sell on Amazon, you don’t want to be too good or too bad. If you’re drop- shipping from China and using Amazon hosting then expect to be cut out of the loop by Amazon’s full time Chinese negotiators. Likewise, if you’ve been banned from selling on Amazon then expect to pay a quasi-para-legal more than $1000 to file your appeal – which will be read by a member of staff who is paid less than $15 to read your appeal in less than four minutes. o ⚓ Teen Vogue ☛ Why_The_FBI_Searched_Trump’s_Mar-a-Lago_Home:_To Find_Classified_Documents⠀⇛ More information is trickling out about why the FBI searched Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home in Florida this week. According to a Thursday night report in the Washington Post, agents were searching for “classified documents related to nuclear weapons,” among other highly-sensitive materials. o ⚓ VOA News ☛ Trump’s_Mar-a-Lago_Resort_Posed_Rare_Security Challenges,_Experts_Say⠀⇛ Trump is under federal investigation for possible violations of the Espionage Act, which makes it unlawful to spy for another country or mishandle U.S. defense information, including sharing it with people not authorized to receive it, a search warrant shows. As president, Trump sometimes shared information, regardless of its sensitivity. Early in his presidency, he spontaneously gave highly classified information to Russia’s foreign minister about a planned Islamic State operation while he was in the Oval Office, U.S. officials said at the time. o ⚓ New York Times ☛ Trump_Search_Said_to_Be_Part_of_Effort_to_Find Highly_Classified_Material⠀⇛ Mr. Garland said he had personally approved the search after the failure of “less intrusive” attempts to retrieve material taken from the White House by Mr. Trump. Mr. Garland provided no details. But the person briefed on the matter said investigators had been concerned about material from what the government calls “special access programs,” a designation that is typically reserved for extremely sensitive operations carried out by the United States abroad or for closely held technologies and capabilities. o ⚓ NBC ☛ ‘It_worried_people_all_the_time’:_How_Trump’s_handling_of secret_documents_led_to_the_FBI’s_Mar-a-Lago_search⠀⇛ “It was a chaotic exit,” this source said. “Everyone piled everything — staff, the White House movers — into the moving trucks. When they got to Mar-a-Lago, they piled everything there in this storage room, except for things like the first lady’s clothes. Everything in a box went there.” o § Education⠀➾ # ⚓ VOA News ☛ Ukraine_Cyber_Chief_Visits_‘Black_Hat’_Hacker Meeting_in_Las_Vegas [iophk: Windows TCO]⠀⇛ Zhora told Reuters in an interview that Microsoft, Amazon and Google had offered pro bono cloud computing services to the Ukrainian government as it moves its data out of the country, away from the destruction wreaked by Russian bombs and missiles. Some of Ukraine’s data archives are being held within data centers across “multiple [European] countries,” he added, without elaborating. # ⚓ Times Higher Education ☛ South_Asian_students_show ‘limited’_understanding_of_plagiarism⠀⇛ Barring intervention, continued lack of clarity around plagiarism will make it more difficult for south Asian students and researchers – who are already underrepresented in global publications – to participate more in cross-border collaborations, Professor McCulloch warned. o § Hardware⠀➾ # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ The_286_Gives_Up_One_Of_Its_Final_Secrets⠀⇛ Though it is largely forgotten today, the Intel 80286 was for a while in the 1980s the processor of choice and designated successor to the 8086 in the world of PCs. It brought a new mode that could address up to 16 Mb of memory, and a welcome speed boost over machines using an 8086 or 8088. As with many microprocessors, it has a few undocumented features, and it’s a couple of these that [rep lodsb] takes a look at. Along the way we learn a bit about the 286, and about why Intel had some of these undocumented instructions in the first place. # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Testing_A_Laser_Cut_Wrench_VS_A_Forged_Wrench⠀⇛ It is easy to not think much about common tools like screwdrivers and wrenches. But not for [Torque Test Channel]. The channel does a lot of testing of tools and in the video, below, they test a new wrench that is, oddly enough, laser cut instead of forged like the usual wrench. # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ How_Do_You_Build_A_Tradition?⠀⇛ I was struck by reading our writeup of the Zenit in Electronics contest – an annual event in the Slovak Republic – that it’s kind of like a decathlon for electronic engineers and/or hardware hackers. It’s a contest, in which students compete presumably initially on a local level, and then up to 32 at the national level. There’s a straight-up knowledge test, a complex problem to solve, and then a practical component where the students must actually fabricate a working device themselves, given a schematic and maybe some help. Reading through the past writeups, you get the feeling that it’s both a showcase for the best of the best, but also an encouragement for those new to the art. It’s full-stack hardware hacking, and it looks like a combination of hard work and a lot of fun. # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ An_Amstrad_NC100_Has_A_New_Purpose_In_Life⠀⇛ We’re used to laptop computers featuring flip-up screens; this article is being written on one and it’s probable you’re reading it on another one. But there’s another laptop form factor that has gained legions of fans ever since the days of the TRS-80 Model 100, the flat slab with no hinge and both keyboard and display on its upper surface. It’s surfaced most recently in the DevTerm, which inspired [0x17] to have a go at building his own. Instead of starting from scratch though, he’s chosen to use the shell of an Amstrad NC100 from the 1990s. o § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾ # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Monkeypox_Is_Yet_Another_Global_Health_Crisis Fueled_by_Governmental_Neglect⠀⇛ # ⚓ MIT Technology Review ☛ Social_media_is_polluting_society. Moderation_alone_won’t_fix_the_problem⠀⇛ The approach clearly has problems: harassment, misinformation about topics like public health, and false descriptions of legitimate elections run rampant. But even if content moderation were implemented perfectly, it would still miss a whole host of issues that are often portrayed as moderation problems but really are not. To address those non-speech issues, we need a new strategy: treat social media companies as potential polluters of the social fabric, and directly measure and mitigate the effects their choices have on human populations. That means establishing a policy framework—perhaps through something akin to an Environmental Protection Agency or Food and Drug Administration for social media—that can be used to identify and evaluate the societal harms generated by these platforms. If those harms persist, that group could be endowed with the ability to enforce those policies. But to transcend the limitations of content moderation, such regulation would have to be motivated by clear evidence and be able to have a demonstrable impact on the problems it purports to solve. o § Proprietary⠀➾ # ⚓ DaemonFC (Ryan Farmer) ☛ Microsoft_Death_Spiral:_Microsoft fires_200_employees_“working_to_win_back_customers”.⠀⇛ More people are on to this scheme than ever. Wondering why they should throw out a computer that’s plenty fast, during a dead economy where they could be the next layoff (and even if they aren’t, their landlord, utility companies, and the grocery store want ~11% more money this year), just so that Microsoft and Intel can stick it to them again. # ⚓ The Verge ☛ The_Zoom_installer_let_a_researcher_hack_his way_to_root_access_on_macOS⠀⇛ When Zoom issued an update, the updater function would install the new package after checking that it had been cryptographically signed by Zoom. But a bug in how the checking method was implemented meant that giving the updater any file with the same name as Zoom’s signing certificate would be enough to pass the test — so an attacker could substitute any kind of malware program and have it be run by the updater with elevated privilege. The result is a privilege escalation attack, which assumes an attacker has already gained initial access to the target system and then employs an exploit to gain a higher level of access. In this case, the attacker begins with a restricted user account but escalates into the most powerful user type — known as a “superuser” or “root” — allowing them to add, remove, or modify any files on the machine. o § Security⠀➾ # ⚓ TechTarget ☛ Eclypsium_calls_out_Microsoft_over_bootloader security_woes⠀⇛ Eclypsium researchers criticized Microsoft for its response to the discovery of three new bootloader vulnerabilities that could be exploited to gain control of systems during the boot process. During a DEF CON 30 session Friday, security platform provider Eclypsium’s researchers delved into the vulnerabilities, which were disclosed in Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday release this week. The three vulnerabilities exist in third-party bootloaders: Eurosoft Ltd. (CVE-2022-34301); New Horizon Datasys, Inc. (CVE-2022-34302); and Kidan’s CryptoPro Secure Disk for BitLocker (CVE-2022- 34303). If exploited, threat actors could bypass Secure Boot, a security protocol used by OEMs and operating system vendors to ensure bootloaders and Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) drivers are authenticated through valid digital signatures. Bypassing the Secure Boot checks would allow threat actors to commit attacks, such as modifying the OS, disabling security controls and installing backdoors. # ⚓ TechTarget ☛ SentinelOne_discusses_the_rise_of_data-wiping malware⠀⇛ During a Black Hat 2022 session, researchers showed how expectations of cyber war may differ from the reality. # ⚓ TechTarget ☛ Researchers_reveal_Kubernetes_security_holes, prevention⠀⇛ Researchers with Palo Alto Networks took the stage at Black Hat to explain how configurations and system privileges in Kubernetes clusters can allow container escape and takeover. # ⚓ TechTarget ☛ Google_researchers_dissect_Android_spyware, zero_days⠀⇛ Researchers with Google’s Threat Analysis Group say the ecosystem of surveillance vendors is far larger than just NSO Group, and some vendors are sharing or trading exploits. # ⚓ TechTarget ☛ Docker’s_rootless_mode_a_welcome_security update⠀⇛ Docker containers have root privileges by default — a known security issue for several years. Now Docker’s rootless mode separates containers from underlying infrastructure. # ⚓ Data Breaches ☛ New_GwisinLocker_ransomware_encrypts Windows_and_Linux_ESXi_servers⠀⇛ This site generally doesn’t cover or announce new types of ransomware, but this one targets the healthcare sector, so…. # ⚓ Security Week ☛ Zero-Day_Vulnerability_Exploited_to_Hack Over_1,000_Zimbra_Email_Servers_|_SecurityWeek.Com⠀⇛ A new zero-day vulnerability tracked as CVE-2022- 37042 has been exploited since at least June to hack over 1,000 Zimbra email servers. # § Integrity/Availability/Authenticity⠀➾ # ⚓ Unix Sheikh ☛ “Zero_trust”_is_being_hijacked_by_the big_corporate_hype_machine⠀⇛ The term zero trust is a security model, also known as “perimeterless security” that has been known for a long time and that was e.g. implemented internally at Google in 2009 in a project called BeyondCorp. In recent years, mainly due to the high amount of IT security problems we all are facing, the term gained renewed focus and popularity when cybersecurity researchers at National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) released their Zero Trust Architecture publication (PDF). Zero trust is a valuable model that provides many improvements and benefits to the security model of both small and large companies. However, as with so many other terms and concepts, the big corporate hype machine is in the process of hijacking the concept by rebranding their services and turning zero trust into something that it is not. # § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾ # ⚓ NYOB ☛ 226_complaints_lodged_against_deceptive_cookie banners⠀⇛ Today, noyb lodged 226 GDPR complaints with 18 authorities against websites that use the popular cookie banner software (“OneTrust”) with deceptive settings. Following a first batch of complaints in May 2021 many websites using OneTrust have adapted their settings and added “reject” buttons. OneTrust also changed the standard settings to be more GDPR compliant. However, there are still many websites that do not comply. # ⚓ NPR ☛ Nebraska_cops_used_Facebook_messages_to investigate_an_alleged_illegal_abortion⠀⇛ A 41-year-old woman is facing felony charges in Nebraska for allegedly helping her teenage daughter illegally abort a pregnancy, and the case highlights how law enforcement can make use of online communications in the post-Roe v. Wade era. # ⚓ iOS_Privacy:_Instagram_and_Facebook_can_track anything_you_do_on_any_website_in_their_in-app browser⠀⇛ The iOS Instagram and Facebook app render all third party links and ads within their app using a custom in-app browser. This causes various risks for the user, with the host app being able to track every single interaction with external websites, from all form inputs like passwords and addresses, to every single tap. [...] In the mean-time, everything published in this post is correct: the Instagram app is executing and injecting JavaScript code into third party websites, rendered inside their in-app browser, which exposes a big risk for the user. Also, there is no way to opt-out of the custom in-app browser. # ⚓ NPR ☛ Does_your_rewards_card_know_if_you’re_pregnant? Privacy_experts_sound_the_alarm⠀⇛ Nicole did not respond to NPR’s request for comment. But several others responded to the original tweet with their own experiences of targeted marketing after purchases at other large chain stores. Some shared stories of receiving these types of packages in the wake of miscarriages. # ⚓ India Times ☛ Apple,_Meta_once_planned_to_build businesses_together:_Report⠀⇛ According to a report in The Wall Street Journal, Apple and Facebook discussed “revenue-sharing arrangements, including a potential ad-free, subscription version of Facebook”. # § Confidentiality⠀➾ # ⚓ Undeadly ☛ RAID_1C_boot_support_added⠀⇛ Stefan Sperling (stsp@) has committed support for RAID 1C [mirroring and encryption] boot to -current on the amd64 platform: [...] o § Defence/Aggression⠀➾ # ⚓ The Economist ☛ How_al-Qaeda_and_Islamic_State_are_digging into_Africa⠀⇛ The Sahel, a vast, poorly governed stretch to the south of the Sahara desert, is now the world’s terrorism hotspot, accounting for more than a third of all terrorism deaths in 2021. It is home to Jama’at Nasr al-Islam wal Muslimin (the Support Group for Islam and Muslims, or jnim), a coalition affiliated to al-Qaeda. Last year it was the world’s fastest-growing jihadist organisation, measured by the increase in the tally of attacks and deaths. # ⚓ Modern Diplomacy ☛ Da’esh,_affiliates_remain_‘global_and evolving’_threat⠀⇛ In charting the of the expansion of Da’esh expansion across Iraq, Syria and through areas of Africa that until recently had been largely spared from attacks, Mr. Voronkov attributed their success in part to a decentralized structure focused around a “general directorate of provinces” and associated “offices”. These operate in both Iraq and Syria, as well as outside the core conflict zone – notably in Afghanistan, Somalia and the Lake Chad Basin. Better understanding and monitoring, including through global and regional cooperation, are vital to counter the threat. # ⚓ NPR ☛ An_attempted_attack_on_an_FBI_office_raises_concerns about_violent_far-right_rhetoric⠀⇛ Since the FBI search of former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate on Monday, researchers who track extremism have sounded the alarm about an escalation of violent rhetoric from the far-right, including talk of another “civil war” and threats against federal law enforcement. By Thursday, an attempted attack on an FBI field office in Cincinnati appeared to underscore the real danger behind those threats, particularly given a digital trail of ominous posts that were left under the name of the suspect. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Shelling_at_the_Zaporizhzhia_Nuclear_Power Plant_Is_Raising_Fears_of_an_Accident._Here’s_a_Look_at_the Risks.⠀⇛ Now, five months later, repeated shelling inside the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant complex over the past seven days has stirred new concerns, with Ukrainian and Western officials warning that the attacks heighten the risk of a nuclear accident. o § Transparency/Investigative Reporting⠀➾ # ⚓ Atlantic Council ☛ Flawed_Amnesty_report_risks_enabling more_Russian_war_crimes_in_Ukraine⠀⇛ Pokalchuk took to Facebook on August 4 to disavow the report, explaining that Amnesty’s global branch had effectively sidelined the Amnesty Ukraine team and proceeded with publication without their input or consent. She resigned the following day, writing, “Although unwillingly, the organization created material that sounds like support for Russian narratives. Seeking to protect civilians, the study has instead become a tool of Russian propaganda.” o § Environment⠀➾ # ⚓ Bridge Michigan ☛ Huron_River_chromium_spill_prompts_call for_stricter_Michigan_pollution_law⠀⇛ After a Wixom chrome plater released hexavalent chromium into sewers that lead to the Huron River, locals and activists are calling for tighter regulation to prevent future spills, if not an outright ban on nonessential uses of the toxic metal. # ⚓ CNN ☛ The_Rhine_is_shrinking,_endangering_Europe’s_top economy⠀⇛ Water in the river has dropped to “exceptionally low” levels in some areas, disrupting shipping on the country’s most important inland waterway, German officials told CNN on Friday. A lack of rainfall in recent months means that cargo ships are now carrying lighter loads, transport costs are soaring, and economic and power supply risks are worsening. # ⚓ NBC ☛ Arctic_warming_is_happening_significantly_faster_than previously_thought,_study_finds⠀⇛ Climate researchers often use the situation in the Arctic as a bellwether for the impacts of global warming because the region is particularly sensitive to even small shifts in global surface temperatures. As a result, changes there typically play out more rapidly compared to elsewhere on Earth. What happens in the Arctic also has enormous implications for the rest of the globe, since melting ice sheets contribute to rising sea levels. In the new study, the researchers focused on the area inside the Arctic Circle, an imaginary demarcation approximately 66 degrees north of the equator. The scientists used data from the past 43 years to observe changes within this region, which includes parts of Russia, Norway, Sweden and Finland, most of Greenland and the northernmost reaches of Canada and Alaska. # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Activists_Stress_Need_for_Much_More_Climate Action_After_IRA_Passes_in_the_House⠀⇛ # § Energy⠀➾ # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Opinion_|_Scorching_Big_Oil_Profits on_a_Burning_Planet⠀⇛ In the second quarter, Exxon made US$18 billion, Shell and Chevron close to $12 billion each and BP $8.5 billion—much higher than their record first-quarter profits. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Opinion_|_This_LNG_Giant’s Greenwashing_Reveals_Gas_Export_Industry’s_Dangerous Intentions⠀⇛ In war there are winners and losers. One U.S. gas company profiteering off the back of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is America’s largest Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) exporter, Cheniere Energy. # ⚓ RTL ☛ Where_does_Luxembourg’s_electricity_come from?⠀⇛ But where does Luxembourg’s electricity actually come from? This article draws a distinction between, firstly, the electricity produced in Luxembourg, and, secondly, what is consumed in Luxembourg. The latter includes energy imported from other countries such as Germany and Belgium. # ⚓ RTL ☛ Electricity_costs_estimated_to_go_up_by_35%⠀⇛ The country is yet to face another rise in energy costs. After gas suppliers announced potential increases of up to 80% in autumn, electricity may go up by 35%. # ⚓ David Rosenthal ☛ The_Exchange_You_Can_Trust⠀⇛ One of the many ironies about “decentralized, trustless” cryptocurrencies is that they are neither decentralized nor trustless. Since in practice you can neither buy nor sell real goods using them, you need to trust an exchange to convert fiat to cryptocurrency and vice versa. Exchanges range from those you definitely shouldn’t trust, such as Binance, through somewhat less sketchy ones such as Kraken (now being investigated for sanctions busting) to Coinbase, which presents itself as a properly regulated, US based exchange that is totally trustworthy. # ⚓ Cal Paterson ☛ There_aren’t_that_many_uses_for blockchains⠀⇛ A common saying among those who are into their crypto is that “the real innovation isn’t Bitcoin, but the Blockchain”. Blockchains are increasingly popular. At some point using a blockchain stopped being called just ‘blockchain technology’ and started to be called “web3″. The implication being that blockchains have such wide applicability that they will come to displace the existing web as we know it now. # ⚓ NBC ☛ The_cost_of_green_energy:_The_nation’s_biggest lithium_mine_may_be_going_up_on_a_site_sacred_to_Native Americans⠀⇛ Industry experts expect demand for lithium from U.S. car manufacturers to increase tenfold by 2030. By then, they predict the U.S. will need 300,000 metric tons of lithium per year to make green vehicles and a wealth of electronic appliances. Currently, however, the U.S. has just one active lithium mine. Earlier this year, the Energy Department authorized $2.9 billion to boost battery production and President Joe Biden invoked the Defense Production Act to encourage U.S. production of lithium and other minerals like nickel and cobalt used in batteries and solar panels. # § Wildlife/Nature⠀➾ # ⚓ NPR ☛ Dogs_are_sniffing_out_disease_in_animals_vital to_traditions_of_the_Blackfeet_tribe⠀⇛ Chronic wasting disease has been detected in just one white-tailed deer on the Blackfeet reservation, but once it’s present, it’s impossible to eradicate, according to wildlife managers. The disease is already forcing tribal members to alter or abandon traditional practices like brain tanning, said Souta Calling Last, a Blackfeet researcher and executive director of the nonprofit cultural and educational organization Indigenous Vision. Calling Last also worries the spread of chronic wasting disease will prevent tribal members from eating wild game. Some families depend on meat from the deer, elk or moose they can hunt several months out of the year. That’s where the dogs come in. Calling Last received a $75,000 federal grant to run a yearlong study to train dogs to sniff out chronic wasting disease and toxic waste that might otherwise be ingested by people who hunt wild game and gather traditional plants. The project aims to protect tribal members’ health by letting them know where the disease has been detected and where toxic waste has been found in order to preserve safe spaces to conduct traditional practices. o § Finance⠀➾ # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ ‘Biggest_Win_for_Tax_Fairness’_in_Decades: Progressives_Cheer_Reforms_in_IRA,_Demand_More⠀⇛ Following House Democrats’ passage of the Inflation Reduction Act on Friday, progressives applauded the most significant changes to the federal tax code since 2017, when Republicans’ highly regressive and deeply unpopular Tax Cuts and Jobs Act was enthusiastically welcomed by corporations and the wealthy. “We should use this win as an opportunity to revitalize the fight for economic justice and equality, and continue demanding more.” # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ ‘Care_Can’t_Wait’:_IRA_a_Good_Start, Progressives_Say,_But_More_Is_Needed⠀⇛ While welcoming House Democrats’ passage of the Inflation Reduction Act on Friday, advocates for universal healthcare, child care, paid family leave, and home and community-based services stressed that greater investments in care infrastructure are needed to improve working households’ economic wellbeing. “The work to lift up struggling families is unfinished as our care infrastructure remains in crisis.” # ⚓ PIA ☛ What_Is_the_US_Economic_System:_A_(Brief)_History⠀⇛ It’s estimated that the US sees a recession every 6-10 years. Additionally, our national deficit is around $2.2 trillion and the last major decrease it saw was when President Bill Clinton was in office.  # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Many_States_Have_Created_or_Expanded_Tax_Credits to_Help_Families_Get_By⠀⇛ # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Opinion_|_Big_Donors,_Small_Donors,_and_the Fight_for_Democracy⠀⇛ Notably, the Inflation Reduction Act didn’t attract a single Republican vote in the Senate. (And at least one Democratic senator—Kyrsten Sinema—made sure its tax provisions wouldn’t raise tax rates on rich individuals.) Why? o § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾ # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Nonwhite_Voters_Face_High_Risk_of_Being_Dropped From_Arizona’s_Mail_Ballot_List⠀⇛ # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ ‘I’m_Back’:_Fetterman_Returns_to_Campaign Trail_Following_May_Stroke⠀⇛ “I’m back.” That’s what Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John Fetterman, the Democratic nominee for the crucial battleground state’s open U.S. Senate seat, said immediately after Friday night’s rally in Erie—his first major campaign event since suffering a stroke in May. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Opinion_|_Partisan_Gerrymandering_Is Carving_Up_US_Democracy⠀⇛ One of the most consequen­tial outcomes of this redis­trict­ing cycle has been the continu­ing decrease in the number of compet­it­ive congres­sional districts. Under new maps, there are just 30 districts that Joe Biden won by less than eight percent­age points in 2020 and, like­wise, just 30 districts that Donald Trump won by less than eight points. # ⚓ Insight Hungary ☛ State_Secretary_of_Hungarian_Foreign Ministry:_“One_China”⠀⇛ Tamas Menczer, state secretary at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs raised an important issue on his social media page after Taiwan rejected China’s ‘one country, two systems’ plan for the island. The state secretary implied that Hungary does not recognize two, but only ‘one China’. “Peace has been the focus of Hungarian foreign policy for many months. Peace is the only solution to the war next door and the suffering and economic issues it causes. We are concerned that security crises and tensions are also occurring in other parts of the world. In the current situation, we do not want to see two of the world’s major powers in conflict with each other, even if the conflict is geographically far away from us. We sincerely hope that the situation around Taiwan will not escalate and that the world’s major powers will return to cooperation based on mutual respect and trust as soon as possible. Hungarian foreign policy will remain consistent with the “one China” principle,”- the state secretary posted on Facebook. # ⚓ The Verge ☛ Elon_Musk_pitches_lofty_goals_in_a_magazine_run by_China’s_[Internet]_censorship_agency⠀⇛ Formed in 2013, the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) is in charge of creating and enforcing policies surrounding online content, user data, and digital security. The CAC later created a magazine that, according to China Media Project senior researcher, Stella Chen, typically includes regulatory announcements and research on [Internet] policy. The magazine was initially called New Media before it was rebranded as China Cyberspace earlier this year. # ⚓ Variety ☛ Recording_Academy_Co-President_Valeisha Butterfield_Jones_Steps_Down_for_VP_Role_at_Google⠀⇛ In a surprise move, Recording Academy co-president Valeisha Butterfield Jones will leave the organization to return to Google, taking a new vice president role on the [Internet] giant’s diversity team. # ⚓ Futurism ☛ OnlyFans_Accused_of_Paying_Bribes_to_Put_Enemies on_Terrorist_Watchlist⠀⇛ According to the suit filed earlier this year by Evans and fellow porn content creator Kelly Pierce, OnlyFans reportedly bribed Facebook employees to wrongfully place the actresses — who used OnlyFans competitor sites to sell their content — on a terrorism watchlist run by a consortium of internet companies, resulting in them being “shadowbanned” on Instagram and other social networks integral to the promotion of their content. # ⚓ NYPost ☛ OnlyFans_bribed_Meta_to_put_thousands_of_porn stars_on_terror_watchlist,_suits_claim⠀⇛ OnlyFans squashed competitors in the online porn industry with the help of a bizarre scheme that bribed Meta employees to throw thousands of porn stars onto a terrorist watchlist, according to a group of explosive lawsuits. Adult performers who sold X-rated photos and videos on rival sites saw their Instagram accounts falsely tagged as containing terrorist content — crippling their ability to promote their business and devastating their incomes, according to the suits. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Kenya_on_Edge_as_Media’s_Election_Tally Suddenly_Stops⠀⇛ The commission began posting online results from over 46,000 polling stations within hours of the polls closing on Tuesday, a move of radical transparency intended to ward off fears of potential vote rigging. But in the counting, things haven’t gone entirely to plan. The election commission’s decision to post the results online — allowing the news media to do the first, unofficial tally of the results — has proved to be problematic. Media organizations tallied in different sequences, leading to conflicting reports of who was ahead. # ⚓ NPR ☛ The_reason_why_presidents_can’t_keep_their_White House_records_dates_back_to_Nixon⠀⇛ For the first two centuries of U.S. history, outgoing presidents simply took their documents with them when they left the White House. The materials were considered their personal property. But for the past four decades, every presidential document — from notebook doodles to top-secret security plans — is supposed to go directly to the National Archives as the material is considered the property of the American people. # § Misinformation/Disinformation⠀➾ # ⚓ Axios ☛ National_Archives_rejects_Trump’s_claim_that Obama_took_classified_documents⠀⇛ The big picture: After the FBI searched Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home on Monday — finding 11 sets of classified documents — the former president made unsubstantiated claims that Obama also took records. o § Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾ # ⚓ Netblocks ☛ Internet_disrupted_in_Sierra_Leone_amid_anti- government_protests⠀⇛ NetBlocks metrics confirm a nationwide disruption to internet service on multiple providers across Sierra Leone from the morning of Wednesday 10 August 2022. Internet was cut for two hours at noon, and then again overnight, amid reports of protests and clashes between the police and protesters in capital city Freetown and other areas. Authorities subsequently denounced an attempt to ‘overthrow’ the government and imposed a nationwide curfew. # ⚓ India Today ☛ VLC_Media_Player_banned_in_India,_website_and VLC_download_link_blocked⠀⇛ One of the most popular media player software and streaming media server VLC media player, developed by VideoLAN project, is banned in India. As per a report by MediaNama, VLC Media Player has been banned in India, but this happened nearly 2 months ago. However, if you have the software installed on your device, it should still be working. Meanwhile, neither the company nor the Indian government revealed any details about the ban. # ⚓ The Independent UK ☛ JK_Rowling_says_‘police_are_involved’ after_receiving_death_threat_following_Salman_Rushdie_tweet⠀⇛ Shortly after posting the message, Rowling shared an image of a reply she had received, which read: “Don’t worry you are next.” The author initially tagged in Twitter’s support account, writing: “Any chance of some support?” # ⚓ The Times Of Israel ☛ J.K._Rowling_gets_death_threat_by person_who_hailed_Rushdie’s_stabbing⠀⇛ Aziz responded to her post saying the stabber, Hadi Matar, was a “revolutionary Shia fighter.” He went on to threaten Rowling, saying: “Don’t worry you are next.” # ⚓ JK_Rowling_working_with_police_after_receiving_threat following_Rushdie_tweet⠀⇛ JK Rowling has said she is working with the police after receiving a potential threat from a Twitter user following her reaction tweet to Sir Salman Rushdie’s attack in New York. # ⚓ BBC ☛ Horrifying,_ghastly:_Authors_condemn_attack_on_Salman Rushdie⠀⇛ Booker-prize winning author, Ian McEwan, called it an “appalling attack” that “represents an assault on freedom of thought and speech”. “Salman has been an inspirational defender of persecuted writers and journalists across the world. He is a fiery and generous spirit, a man of immense talent and courage and he will not be deterred,” he added. # ⚓ RTL ☛ Activists_accuse_Iran_of_responsibility_for_Rushdie attack⠀⇛ Iran’s rulers bear responsibility for the attack against the British writer Salman Rushdie as the Islamic republic never repudiated a 1989 order issued by its founder calling for the novelist to be killed, activists and opponents charged Saturday. # ⚓ VOA News ☛ Salman_Rushdie_Off_Ventilator,_Talking_Day_After Attack,_Agent_Says⠀⇛ Earlier in the day, the man accused of attacking him Friday at the Chautauqua Institution, a nonprofit education and retreat center, pleaded not guilty to attempted murder and assault charges. An attorney for Hadi Matar entered the plea on his behalf during an arraignment in western New York. # ⚓ BBC ☛ Who_is_Salman_Rushdie?_The_writer_who_emerged_from hiding⠀⇛ Over a literary career spanning five decades, Sir Salman Rushdie has been no stranger to death threats arising due to the nature of his work. The novelist is one of the most celebrated and successful British authors of all time, with his second novel, Midnight’s Children, winning the illustrious Booker Prize in 1981. o § Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press⠀➾ # ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ Julian_Assange:_WikiLeaks_founder′s_case endangers_press_freedom,_his_wife_tells_DW_|_News_|_DW_| 11.08.2022⠀⇛ Stella Assange, wife of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, has accused the US of targeting a foreign journalist for exposing war crimes. She told DW that Assange’s life depends on his extradition order being dropped. # ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ Legal_options_running_out_for_WikiLeaks founder_Julian_Assange⠀⇛ The tug of war over the extradition of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to the US is entering its final stages, with London’s High Court set to make a final decision in September. His family is worried about his health. # ⚓ Reason ☛ There’s_Nothing_Legacy-Defining_About_the Inflation_Reduction_Act⠀⇛ America seems to be significantly less free than the other countries in, for example, mass incarceration, excessive punitive punishments, criminalization of drugs, excessive power concentrated in the executive or the presidency, a militarized police, the prosecution of Assange and Snowden, and, of course, the death penalty. o § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾ # ⚓ EFF ☛ Playing_for_All_the_Jelly_Beans_at_the_EFF_Benefit Poker_Tournament_at_DEF_CON⠀⇛ Thirty-five EFF supporters and their friends played in the charity tournament on Friday, August 12 at Bally’s Poker Room. The tournament was kicked off by emcee Jen Easterly and EFF Deputy Executive Director and General Counsel Kurt Opsahl. Before the tournament, Tarah and her father, professional poker player Mike Wheeler, hosted a poker clinic to teach Poker 101 to those new to the game. In a video promoting the event, Tarah describes how her father taught her the game as a child by using jelly beans as the currency of choice. The jelly bean-filled championship trophy pays homage to the spirit of teaching and the humble beginnings of a great player. # ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Off_with_Their_Legs!⠀⇛ “Off With Their Legs!,” a new original cartoon by the inimitable Mr. Fish, wonders if sycophancy will be enough to save Donald Trump this time. # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ The_Lessons_of_the_Kansas_Primary_Go_Far_Beyond Abortion_Rights⠀⇛ # ⚓ Securepairs ☛ SecuRepairs_is_at_DEF_CON!⠀⇛ And this August, the right to repair is on the agenda DEF CON. On Saturday, August 13 at 10:00 AM, I will lead a panel of leading repair, legal and cybersecurity experts: Brazil Redux: Short Circuiting Tech-Enabled Dystopia with the Right to Repair. Joining me on the panel are: [...] # ⚓ VOA News ☛ Taliban_Fire_Shots,_Beat_Protesters_as_Women Rally_in_Kabul⠀⇛ Heavy gunfire could be heard in social media video of the rally, with Taliban men assaulting female protesters. They also violently prevented Afghan journalists from covering the rally. # ⚓ Axios ☛ Taliban_beat_women_protesting_in_Afghanistan_as anniversary_nears⠀⇛ Taliban fighters chased protesters and beat them with the butts of their rifles. The big picture: Since the calamitous U.S. withdrawal from the country last year, the Taliban have wiped away rights women gained during the two decades the U.S. occupied the country. # ⚓ Le Monde ☛ Taliban_violently_disperses_rare_women’s_protest in_Kabul⠀⇛ Taliban fighters beat women protesters and fired rounds into the air on Saturday, August 13 as they violently dispersed a rare rally in the Afghan capital, days ahead of the first anniversary of the hardline Islamists’ return to power in the country. Since seizing control on August 15 last year, the Taliban have rolled back the marginal gains made by women during two decades of US intervention in Afghanistan. # ⚓ NPR ☛ Women_march_in_a_rare_protest_in_Kabul’s_streets_— and_face_violence_from_the_Taliban⠀⇛ “It was important because it’s nearly the first anniversary of the Taliban rule and we wanted to say that we don’t consent to this government,” said one young woman who spoke to NPR after the protest. She requested anonymity so she couldn’t be identified by Taliban authorities. “After a year of this government, there is no change in the situation. We are showing that we won’t stay silent,” she said. “It’s important to show the world that Afghans don’t accept this. We will stand against injustice.” As the women marched, Taliban security forces began grabbing the phones and cameras of Afghan journalists and male international correspondents. They grabbed the phone of a boy on a bicycle who tried to take a photo. o § Digital Restrictions (DRM)⠀➾ # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Air_Filter_DRM?_Hacker_Opts_Out_With_NFC Sticker⠀⇛ [Flamingo-tech]’s Xiaomi air purifier has a neat safety feature: it will refuse to run if a filter needs replacement. Of course, by “neat” we mean “annoying”. Especially when the purifier sure seems to judge a filter to be useless much earlier than it should. Is your environment relatively clean, and the filter still has legs? Are you using a secondary pre-filter to extend the actual filter’s life? Tough! Time’s up. Not only is this inefficient, but it’s wasteful. o § Monopolies⠀➾ # § Copyrights⠀➾ # ⚓ Torrent Freak ☛ Bungie_Uses_Hague_Convention_to Pursue_Cheat_Seller_Evidence_Overseas⠀⇛ Bungie has been permitted to seek overseas cooperation under the Hague Convention to obtain evidence on a Destiny 2 cheat seller. The developer filed a copyright lawsuit against the alleged operator of Lavicheats in 2021 but almost a year later progress is slow. In addition to conducting discovery in the US, Bungie has an eye on the UK but whether that will bear fruit is another question. * § Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾ o § Technical⠀➾ # ⚓ Sunbeam_F1_Daisy⠀⇛ It is clear that the maker is catering to those who don’t want phones that vie for their attention. The frugalmatic review linked above notes that they have found a market in Jewish and Amish Americans who take unusual care in managing their relationship with communication technologies. The makers of this phone clearly paid a great deal of attention to small details of the user experience. For example, there are dedicated LEDs on the front of the phone that indicate from a distance when you have unread text messages (green light), when the phone is charging (blinking red light), or fully charged (solid red light). The T9 predictive text dictionary is very large. Emoji are easy to access. # ⚓ Years-Late_Thoughts_on_Untitled_Goose_Game⠀⇛ So I just beat Untitled Goose Game. Actually beat it this time, when I last played (when it came out) I did the regular “New Game+” tasks but didn’t do the timed tasks because a few of them are insanely difficult and annoying. This time, the back garden timed tasks were still a real bitch but I actually persevered! # ⚓ How_Many_Computers_Do_You_Have?⠀⇛ I did a little inventory for myself. I don’t have a solid definition of what constitutes a computer here, but I assume that all of these contain some part that works as a von Neumann machine. # § Science⠀➾ # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Opinion_|_Could_‘Something’_Exist Beyond_the_Brain?_If_So,_What?⠀⇛ On a shrugged-off afternoon of YouTube wandering, I came upon this: “Is There Life After Death?” # § Internet/Gemini⠀➾ # ⚓ selected_works⠀⇛ as much as i love the text-first culture of gemini, i’m a visual artist and there’s absolutely no reason not to put my work in my personal space. so here are some of my favorite works from the past two years, compressed into very reasonable sizes. fullsize images and more of my work can be seen on my tumblr, and zines on itch.io # § Programming⠀➾ # ⚓ MacOS_ZSH_wildcards⠀⇛ Now ZSH has been the default shell in MacOS for a while now but I’ve only recently started to switch, call me old fashioned. # ⚓ Earthly ☛ How_to_validate_and_clean_your_YAML_files using_Kubeval_and_ValidKube⠀⇛ Kubeval is an important tool if you are writing YAML files on a daily basis. You should use it to validate your files before applying them to your cluster. In this tutorial, you will learn how to validate your YAML files using Kubeval and ValidKube which is a web tool that cleans YAML files. =============================================================================== * Gemini_(Primer) links can be opened using Gemini_software. It’s like the World Wide Web but a lot lighter. ╘══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╛ ¶ Lines in total: 4241 ➮ Generation completed at 02:43, i.e. 15 seconds to (re)generate ⟲