𝕿𝖊𝖈𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍𝖙𝖘 Bulletin for Monday, August 15, 2022 ┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅ Generated Tue 16 Aug 02:41:09 BST 2022 Created by Dr. Roy Schestowitz (𝚛𝚘𝚢 (at) 𝚜𝚌𝚑𝚎𝚜𝚝𝚘𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚣 (dot) 𝚌𝚘𝚖) Full hyperlinks for navigation omitted but are fully available in the originals The corresponding HTML versions are at 𝒕𝒆𝒄𝒉𝒓𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒔.𝒐𝒓𝒈 Latest in 𝒉𝒕𝒕𝒑://𝒕𝒆𝒄𝒉𝒓𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒔.𝒐𝒓𝒈/𝒕𝒙𝒕 and older bulletins can be found at 𝒉𝒕𝒕𝒑://𝒕𝒆𝒄𝒉𝒓𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒔.𝒐𝒓𝒈/𝒕𝒙𝒕-𝒂𝒓𝒄𝒉𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒔 Full IPFS index in 𝒉𝒕𝒕𝒑://𝒕𝒆𝒄𝒉𝒓𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒔.𝒐𝒓𝒈/𝒊𝒑𝒇𝒔 and as plain text in 𝒉𝒕𝒕𝒑://𝒕𝒆𝒄𝒉𝒓𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒔.𝒐𝒓𝒈/𝒊𝒑𝒇𝒔/𝒕𝒙𝒕 Gemini index for the day: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2022/08/15/ ╒═══════════════════ 𝐑𝐄𝐂𝐄𝐍𝐓 𝐁𝐔𝐋𝐋𝐄𝐓𝐈𝐍𝐒 ════════════════════════════════════╕ Previous bulletins in IPFS (past 21 days, in chronological order): QmUmo6iUYY6LPz7rMxVJXtYjzryXZaVK76GtZjE3wXnAbk QmTcjQcpQmc33H6tVYxaBQP4SYQnHTEnFzA1HJRmbELhh3 Qmd5sSa6zctA8RcuhbgaMD5PKt4K2aGr7vwBWUT9GrkoLL QmXggz4ZzdoNrnyGD87xZXV7EnECHikMc7N5PUE6qSiZ7Y QmcHk17nfvFbsgxkAzX3fqiG6CVs1EHd6jwajhUb1wWHkg QmfVCS2T3FrMdyAu49nSsRJYhD12dUhVKKQJZAqUMECiet QmYCHDLUuZZxWmEJTbrpvFMNBk7mBbD8uoTPPRsWSqCC2L QmRsfQ3pw4nuArQmWW674K37HTGj3tNeiZgpSYXaAuEhLD QmT23V7rp3Ae5ZxqXsMyaTefUq1s6QBb2oAixwDFJtaTCP QmU5ELpXwLE1ZfJ8H6mSshDjG3x19rMkZWZ8Qx6PKkBWRB QmUReWtcWQ5HsqPCLHEspV2D51CR7gkA9PiDKC7b763DgE QmUZHkoHzitUm38ZMdJ3aeGJsFbcEbrpbxRqLxgvnLFKPL QmRYZ5KjYGZuv3b7JvqAbV4rfX2ZVkMWBfC4aXFKwZjrct QmcPmtYjQ627Bey3DX46YG4WiSgmpF8GB5yDWsvH4ohkxP QmQeorfyCyeAdMaNzuRmrXYgrqiqrzPKP9SHtd6mCKWrFe QmUiMdJ65F7h2Cxy54N5XhhxXLLQwtpgk8b6bvC942r2xY QmNb2ydzs2uqBuBowYxV8oB66PL2Ed3KkRKEaU3DCDTSZ9 QmQe9CSmi7hJdXsrLQALzxjVKn6GwdcmeGuS1KbgZg6DfD QmY8oB1Qg87HBxwHopNxS6LMozLiwmSxad31Ttse73Fh2q QmXt1BammAJUuBrf4QPcungjNg2ePnbbrjoTfCoibP7XTL QmdDSQKaZJPnyDHFjeXTz7ZrVGb39ksdMdmtNhpx75EgdH ╒═══════════════════ 𝐈𝐍𝐃𝐄𝐗 ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⦿ Plasma/Neon, Discover, Flatpak, and Geopard: Close, But No Cigar | Techrights ⦿ IRC Proceedings: Sunday, August 14, 2022 | Techrights ䷼ Bulletin articles (as HTML) to comment on (requires login): http://techrights.org/2022/08/15/geopard-flatpak/#comments http://techrights.org/2022/08/15/irc-log-140822/#comments ䷞ Followed by Daily Links (assorted news picks curated and categorised): http://techrights.org/2022/08/15/easyos-4-3-4/#comments http://techrights.org/2022/08/15/freebsd-13-0-eol/#comments http://techrights.org/2022/08/15/links-15082022-liveslak-1-6-0-and-android-13-is-in-aosp/#comments http://techrights.org/2022/08/15/linux-lite-6-0-reviewed/#comments ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 53 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at http://techrights.org/2022/08/15/geopard-flatpak/#comments Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2022/08/15/geopard-flatpak/ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 08.15.22⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Plasma/Neon,_Discover,_Flatpak,_and_Geopard:_Close,_But_No_Cigar⠀✐ Posted in GNU/Linux, KDE at 2:26 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz Video_download_link | md5sum 68fef03872496a85cdaf516f6247c9c2 Installing the Geopard Gemini Client Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 4.0 http://techrights.org/videos/geopard-in-kde-neon.webm Summary: There are more and more options these days for browsing/navigating Geminispace and there’s even a new Gemini client called Geopard; a Flatpak exists for it THE number of clients for Gemini Protocol keeps increasing. So does the number of such clients (some call them “browsers”) that are prepackaged for GNU/Linux distros. Debian GNU/Linux has several already, so the same goes for Devuan. The state of installers on GNU/Linux improved a lot. AppImage, Snap, Flatpak are bloat, they’re a shortcut that bypasses complexity associated with “proper” packaging, but do they generally work? Sometimes. The above demonstrates that installing Gemini clients in GNU/Linux got simpler (Lagrange for example), but packaging things the IBM/Red Hat way leaves much to be desired, as the author of Geopard notes. In my case, I’ve already installed about 10 different Gemini clients and used more than these. But in the case of Geopard I could not get it to run, only to install. Flatpaks are not just executable that run like ordinary binaries, so debugging this isn’t so simple either. 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It’s a real full lenght course suited to beginners, but also advanced digital painters. It starts from scratch with default set of brushes, preferences and break-down all the process. The repetitive parts while painting were all accelerated and can be skipped easily (a timer in overlay appears on display) Check the Timeline codes under to navigate in the video. Subtitle are unfortunately not available, sorry for my (heavy) French accent and poor vocabulary. It was too long to write them this time. I hope the auto generation will work and you’ll have not a lot of trouble to understand me mumbling sometime. # ⚓ Video ☛ The_Linux_Phone_–_Invidious⠀⇛ It’s been a couple years since the first Linux phone came out and I bought a Pinephone Pro in Jan of this year to follow back up on it. # ⚓ Video ☛ Haskell,_GTK_and_CSS_Theming_(Give_Your_Apps Style!)_–_Invidious⠀⇛ In a two previous videos, I created a very simple GTK app using Haskell. In the first video, I created the app (which I named “byebye”) in 30 minutes and I wrote it in such a way as to be as “gentle” an introduction to Haskell and GTK as I could be. In a second video, I refactored the code so it would be less lines and cleaner code. In this third video, I adding some new functionality to “byebye”, namely the ability to read a config file and the ability to use CSS for theming. # ⚓ Video ☛ Should_you_only_buy_Linux-native_hardware?_Ft._Jay LaCroix_and_Ryan_DasGeek_–_Invidious⠀⇛ What do Ryan DasGeek from @TuxDigital Jay from @Learn Linux TV have to say about buying hardware? “Buy native Linux hardware from vendors that actually ship Linux.” # ⚓ Linux_User_Space:_Episode_3:04:_The_Endeavour_Endeavor⠀⇛ 0:00 Cold Open 1:44 Is EndeavourOS Arch? 11:06 The Intro to the History of EndeavourOS 13:00 2019 27:36 2020 34:09 2021 42:21 2022 50:31 Our Thoughts on EndeavourOS 1:10:52 Community Focus: Linux Saloon 1:14:35 App Focus: trash-cli 1:20:54 Next Time 1:24:16 Stinger o § Kernel Space⠀➾ # ⚓ ZDNet ☛ Linux_6.0_arrives_with_performance_improvements_and more_Rust_coming [Ed: The slant from Microsoft's booster Liam Tung.]⠀⇛ Linux creator Linus Torvalds has announced the first release candidate for the Linux kernel version 6.0, but he says the major number change doesn’t signify anything especially different about this release. While there is nothing fundamentally different about this release compared with 5.19, Torvalds noted that there were over 13,500 non-merge commits and over 800 merged commits, meaning “6.0 looks to be another fairly sizable release.” According to Torvalds, most of the updates are improvements to the GPU, networking and sound. Torvalds stuck to his word after releasing Linux kernel 5.19 last month, when he flagged he would likely call the next release 6.0 because he’s “starting to worry about getting confused by big numbers again”. o § Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ Linux Links ☛ Best_Free_and_Open_Source_Alternatives_to Google_Finance⠀⇛ Google Finance is a website focusing on business news and financial information. It provides real- time market quotes, international exchanges, financial news, and analytics. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives to Google Finance. o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾ # ⚓ OSTechNix ☛ Check_Disk_Space_Usage_In_Linux_Using_Ncdu_– OSTechNix⠀⇛ This guide explains what is Ncdu, how to install Ncdu in various Linux distributions and how to use Ncdu to check disk space usage in Linux and Unix operating systems with examples. # ⚓ DebugPoint ☛ How_to_Install_and_Use_GNOME_Nightly_Apps⠀⇛ These GNOME apps are the development version of the native GNOME applications. They are usually unstable since its being developed and features are added continuously. That means these apps you get to test and report any issues to the developers. Also, you get to experience the new features before it arrives in stable releases. # ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_To_Install_Darktable_on_Linux_Mint_21_– idroot⠀⇛ In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Darktable on Linux Mint 21. For those of you who didn’t know, Darktable is an open source photography workflow application and raw developer. It manages your digital negatives in a database, lets you view them through a zoomable lighttable, and enables you to develop raw images and enhance them. In addition to basic RAW conversion, Darktable is equipped with various tools for basic and advanced image editing. This article assumes you have at least basic knowledge of Linux, know how to use the shell, and most importantly, you host your site on your own VPS. The installation is quite simple and assumes you are running in the root account, if not you may need to add ‘sudo‘ to the commands to get root privileges. I will show you the step-by-step installation of a Darktable on Linux Mint 21 (Vanessa). # ⚓ HowTo Forge ☛ How_to_Setup_SaltStack_Master_and_Minion_on Rocky_Linux⠀⇛ Salt or Saltstack is an open-source IT automation framework that allows administrators to execute commands remotely to multiple machines directly. Salt is mainly written in Python and designed with Master and Minion architecture. SaltStack master is the central controller of Salt configuration management, and Minions are servers managed by SaltStack Master, or you named minions as target servers. SaltStack master is running on Linux OS by default, but minions can be any operating system. Saltstack is revolutionary configuration management for automation deployment, remote task execution, and infrastructure as code. SaltStack also can be used to provision multiple infrastructure servers, this includes physical and virtual servers, and also the cloud. By following this guide, you will install SaltStack Master and Minion on Rocky Linux servers. Also, you will learn how to use Salt for running Arbitrary commands from SaltStack Master against Salt Minions. And at the end, you will also learn how to create a Salt state for installing the basic LEMP Stack (Linux, Nginx, MariaDB, and PHP-FPM). # ⚓ HowTo Forge ☛ Linux_Gunzip_Command_Explained_with Examples⠀⇛ We have already discussed the gzip command in Linux. For starters, the tool is used to compress or expand files. To uncompress, the command offers a command line option -d. However, there’s an entirely different tool that you can use for uncompressing or expanding archives created by gzip. The tool in question is gunzip. In this article, we will discuss the gunzip command using some easy to understand examples. * § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾ o § New Releases⠀➾ # ⚓ Barry Kauler ☛ EasyOS_Dunfell-series_64-bit_version_4.3.4 released⠀⇛ Release notes and download courtesy of ibiblio.org: https://distro.ibiblio.org/easyos/amd64/releases/ dunfell/2022/4.3.4/ If you need help how to write an image file to a USB-stick: https://easyos.org/install/how-to-install-easyos- on-a-new-ssd.html For the first time, the Nim language is available to play with. Click “sfs” icon on the desktop to install the ‘devx-*.sfs’ file. o § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ Digital Trends ☛ The_cool_iQoo_9T_is_what_the_OnePlus_10T should_have_been_|_Digital_Trends⠀⇛ # ⚓ Android Police ☛ Android_13′s_QR_code_scanner_is_on_this phone_even_though_it_runs_Android_12L⠀⇛ # ⚓ Android Police ☛ Samsung_Galaxy_Z_Fold_4′s_Android_12L taskbar_may_come_to_other_Fold_phones⠀⇛ # ⚓ India Today ☛ How_to_add_date/time_stamps_to_photos_on android_–_Information_News⠀⇛ * § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾ o § Programming/Development⠀➾ # ⚓ Status_update,_August_2022_·_emersion⠀⇛ This month I’ve been pondering offline-first apps. The online aspect of modern apps is an important feature for many use-cases: it enables collaboration between multiple people and seamless transition between devices (e.g. I often switch between my personal workstation, my laptop, and my phone). However many modern apps come with a cost: often times they only work with a fixed proprietary server, and only work online. I think that for many use-cases, allowing users to pick their own open- source server instance and designing offline- friendly apps is a good compromise between freedom and ease-of-use/simplicity. Not to say that peer- to-peer or fully distributed apps are always a bad choice, but they come at a significantly higher complexity cost, which makes them more annoying to both build and use. The main hurdle when writing an offline-first app is synchronization. All devices must have a local copy of the database for offline use, and they need to push changes to the server when the device comes online. Of course, it’s perfectly possible that changes were made on multiple devices while offline, so some kind of conflict resolution is necessary. Instead of presenting a “Oops, we’ve got a conflict, which version would you like to keep?” dialog to the user, it’d be much nicer to just Do The Right Thing™. CRDTs are a solution to that problem. They look a bit scary at first because of all of the obscure naming (PN-Counter? LWW-Element- Set? anyone?) and intimidating theory in papers. However I like to think of CRDTs as “use this one easy trick to make synchronization work well”, and not some kind of complicated abstract machinery. In other words, by following some simple rules, it’s not too difficult to write well-behaved synchronization logic. So, long story short, I’ve been experimenting with CRDTs this month. To get some hands-on experience, I’ve started working on a small hacky group expense tracking app, seda. I’ve got the idea for this NPotM while realizing that there’s no existing good open-source user-friendly collaborative offline- capable (!) alternative yet. That said, it’s just a toy for now, nothing serious yet. If you want to play with it, you can have a look at the demo (feel free to toggle offline mode in the dev tools, then make some changes, then go online). There’s still a lot to be done: in particular, things gets a bit hairy when one device deletes a participant and another creates a transaction with that user at the same time. I plan to write some docs and maybe a blog post about my findings. # ⚓ Ruben Schade ☛ Rubenerd:_Too_hard?_Take_more_steps⠀⇛ As my favourite software lecturer used to say, it’s better to be clear than clever. He was talking about code reviews, but it easily applies to tasks you assign yourself. We all think we’re clever, but “do X” in your task manager feels far less intimidating if it has “do A, B, and C” subtasks underneath. # ⚓ Matt Rickard ☛ The_Unreasonable_Effectiveness_of Makefiles⠀⇛ Few tools walk the right line between declarative and imperative like make. # § Perl / Raku⠀➾ # ⚓ Rakulang ☛ 2022.33_2nd_Conf_Succeeded_–_Rakudo_Weekly News⠀⇛ The past weekend contained two full days of the second Raku Conference. # § Python⠀➾ # ⚓ Ubuntu Pit ☛ C++_vs_Python:_Get_The_Right_Tool_in 2022⠀⇛ While C++ is the pioneer of object-oriented languages, Python is one of the newer languages that has hit peak popularity due to its easy-to-understand syntax, among a ton of other benefits. That said, it is valid to draw a comparison between C++ vs Python as they are both high-level programming languages with similar uses. Although one can use both languages to develop real-time dynamic applications, C++ and Python can be seen to go on different paths as most prefer C++ for general applications, and Python users often get a kick out of developing web applications. If this piques your interest or if you are trying to choose which to learn, stick on because that’s why we are here today! o § Standards/Consortia⠀➾ # ⚓ 3_Factors_Why_WebRTC_Will_Succeed_in_2022⠀⇛ Your clients are global, and they expect to have access to the skills of your staff globally as well. Even when workers are collaborating remotely, there must be no interruptions. Even though your organization purchased licenses for everyone to use a video conferencing program, nobody feels as if they are cooperating properly. How can businesses engage remote workers and consumers who want experiences that are given “now here, right now” and without any delays or interruptions? [...] If you’re not aware of WebRTC, it allows for native real-time media connections between devices and browsers, including audio, video, and data transmission. As a result, users may instantaneously interact inside a web browser or app without the need for complicated plug-ins or other applications. * § Leftovers⠀➾ o § Hardware⠀➾ # ⚓ Ruben Schade ☛ Rubenerd:_Q&A_about_my_NW-A55_Walkman⠀⇛ My recent Walkman post generated a ton of email and comments; thanks to most of you for sharing your ideas and questions! I say most, because it seemed to attract more trolls than anything I’ve written in a long time. It’s disheartening to have something you enjoyed (and tried to share with people) immediately shat on by those who don’t even bother to read it. At times it makes me wonder why I even blog in the first place; but then I remember all the rest of you :). # ⚓ CNX Software ☛ Thin_Mini-ITX_networking_board_features_six 2.5GbE_ports,_Celeron_J6412_Elkhart_Lake_SoC_–_CNX_Software⠀⇛ Jetway says the thin mini-ITX networking board support Windows 10, Windows 11, and Linux, and recommends models with the 32GB eMMC flash to boot Windows 10 for some reasons… Looking into the datasheet, we find a longer list of operating systems, even adding some BSD distributions with Win10 64-bit, Win 10 IoT Enterprise 64-bit LTSC 2019, CentOS (Version 9), Debian (Version 11.3), Fedora LXDE, Workstation, or Server (Version 36.1.5), OpenSUSE (Version 15.4), Ubuntu 22.04 Desktop/Server, pfSense (Version 2.6.0), TrueNAS (FreeNAS) (Version 13.0), RedHat Enterprise (Version 9.0), and OPNSense (Version 22.1.2). # ⚓ John Goerzen ☛ John_Goerzen:_The_Joy_of_Easy_Personal_Radio:_FRS,_GMRS,_and Motorola_DLR/DTR⠀⇛ From my own experience, as a person and a family that enjoys visiting wilderness areas, having radio communication is great. I have also heard from others that they’re also very useful on cruise ships (I’ve never been on one so I can’t attest to that). There is also a sheer satisfaction in not needing anybody else’s infrastructure, not paying any sort of monthly fee, and setting up the radios ourselves. o § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾ # ⚓ UW_study_strengthens_evidence_of_link_between_air_pollution and_child_brain_development_|_UW_News⠀⇛ Air pollution is not just a problem for lungs. Increasingly, research suggests air pollution can influence childhood behavioral problems and even IQ. A new study led by the University of Washington has added evidence showing that both prenatal and postnatal exposure to air pollution can harm kids. The study, published in Environmental Health Perspectives, found that children whose mothers experienced higher nitrogen dioxide (NO2) exposure during pregnancy, particularly in the first and second trimester, were more likely to have behavioral problems. o § Proprietary⠀➾ # ⚓ Liam Proven ☛ MS-DOS_was_*not*_an_illegal_clone_of_CP/M⠀⇛ Later on, MS abused that power repeatedly, stole code, copied ideas, unfairly pushed rivals out of business, and generally became a bully and a criminal. MS effectively killed Be, Netscape, and Central Point Software; it crippled Aldus and STAC; and many more. o § Security⠀➾ # ⚓ Security Week ☛ Google_Boosts_Bug_Bounty_Rewards_for_Linux Kernel_Vulnerabilities [Ed: This is the very same Google that put NSA-weakened encryption inside the Linux kernel before it got yanked out months later]⠀⇛ Google is once again boosting the maximum bounty payouts for Linux vulnerabilities reported as part of its open-source Kubernetes-based capture-the- flag (CTF) vulnerability rewards program (VRP). Called kCTF, the program was launched in 2020 to provide security researchers with the means to report vulnerabilities in the Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), for which they receive a flag. “All of GKE and its dependencies are in scope, but every flag caught so far has been a container breakout through a Linux kernel vulnerability. We’ve learned that finding and exploiting heap memory corruption vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel could be made a lot harder,” Google notes. # ⚓ PostgreSQL ☛ PostgreSQL:_PostgreSQL_JDBC_versions_42.4.1/ 42.2.26_Security_Update⠀⇛ The PostgreSQL JDBC team have released 42.2.26 and 42.4.1 to address a security issue: CVE-2022-31197. This is only an issue if you are using ResultSet.refreshRow() Previously, the column names for both key and data columns in the table were copied as-is into the generated SQL. This allowed a malicious table with column names that include statement terminator to be parsed and executed as multiple separate commands. More information about this security advisory is available here Thanks to Sho Kato https://github.com/kato-sho for finding and reporting the issue # ⚓ LWN ☛ Security_updates_for_Monday⠀⇛ Security updates have been issued by Debian (trafficserver), Fedora (freeciv, gnutls, kernel, libldb, mingw-gdk-pixbuf, owncloud-client, rust- ffsend, samba, thunderbird, and zlib), Gentoo (apache, binutils, chromium, glibc, gstreamer, libarchive, libebml, nokogiri, puma, qemu, xen, and xterm), Mageia (golang, libtiff, poppler, python- django, and ruby-sinatra), Red Hat (.NET 6.0 and .NET Core 3.1), SUSE (chromium, cifs-utils, kernel, open-iscsi, and trousers), and Ubuntu (webkit2gtk). # ⚓ Bruce Schneier ☛ $23_Million_YouTube_Royalties_Scam⠀⇛ Scammers were able to convince YouTube that other peoples’ music was their own. They successfully stole $23 million before they were caught. No one knows how common this scam is, and how much money total is being stolen in this way. Presumably this is not an uncommon fraud. # § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾ # ⚓ CoryDoctorow ☛ The_FTC_takes_aim_at_commercial surveillance⠀⇛ The biggest fallacy in the online privacy is that there is a difference between “state surveillance” and “commercial surveillance.” Bizarrely, it’s a fallacy that is widely held by both government snoops and Big Tech snoops. Many’s the time I’ve spoken to a DC audience about privacy, only to have an audience member say, “I’m OK with Uncle Sam spying on me – after all, I’ve already given up every sensitive scrap of information about my personal life to the Office of Personnel Management when I applied for security clearance. But I don’t want my money going to Google – those bastards would sell their mothers out for a nickle.” Meanwhile, in Silicon Valley, I hear, “I don’t care if Google has my data – they just want to show me better ads. But the US government? Hell no! Those govies and their profiteering private contractor pals are all too stupid to get jobs at real tech companies and who knows what they’re going to do with my data?” # ⚓ Public Knowledge ☛ Hiding_OUT:_A_Case_for_Queer Experiences_Informing_Data_Privacy_Laws_–_Public Knowledge⠀⇛ Anti-queer hate crimes are at an all-time high. Murders of transgender and gender- nonconforming people have skyrocketed year over year since 2016. o § Environment⠀➾ # § Energy⠀➾ # ⚓ The_real_value_of_NFTs?_Bringing_hikikomoris_to_the metaverse_|_Stop_at_Zona-M⠀⇛ Considering these facts, NFTs may be just the last Ponzi scheme to part fools from their money, which in too many cases they are just that. Ditto for another buzzword of the moment, the so-called “metaverse”. o § Finance⠀➾ # ⚓ To_tackle_the_cost_of_living_we_need_to_align_banks_with public_purpose_–_Positive_Money⠀⇛ With inflation high, public spending and central bank ‘money printing’ has become the scapegoat, leading to calls for spending cuts and/or higher interest rates to combat it. This not only overlooks how inflation is being driven primarily by supply shocks beyond our immediate control, but also the fact that most of the money in our economy is not ‘printed’ by the state, but created by private banks when they make loans – the vast majority of which goes towards bidding up the price of existing assets (including commodities we rely on) rather than increasing the economy’s productive capacity. # ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ James_Packer’s_email_spray_is_more than_a_falling_out_among_casino_mates_–_Michael_West⠀⇛ Even when the rich and powerful fall out, the house – their wealth – always wins. Michael Sainsbury examines the latest goings on surrounding Sydney’s Crown Casino. The grubby nexus between Australian business, politics and the mainstream media has been laid bare in a leaked series of explosive emails from James Packer to senior Nine Entertainment executives, journalists and chairman Peter Costello. The emails alleged that Costello was paid as a secret Crown lobbyist in 2011 for a year, a claim he denies. Packer said that Costello’s role was to bring Packer “closer” to then Victorian gaming minister Michael O’Brien, his friend and former staffer. The job was undertaken while Costello was on the board of Future Fund and not disclosed on the national lobbyist register. He was elevated to Future Fund chair in 2014 and remains in the position which would also seem at odds with his role at Nine. # ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Scott_Morrison,_pimpernel_PM,_is_the gift_that_keeps_giving_–_Michael_West⠀⇛ Why is Scott Morrison hanging around? The weekend revelations that Morrison swore himself in to multiple portfolios without notifying the nation has sparked cries of outrage, in the political class at least. Morrison had himself sworn in as a spare health minister during the first months of the Covid pandemic and also held the finance and resources portfolios during different periods in 2020 and 2021. * § Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾ o § Personal⠀➾ # ⚓ Ramblings_about_myself_cuz_thats_who_I_know_the_best_ig⠀⇛ I just got back from work after summer vacation. I say work, but it’s really just a paid internship. School starts again in 3 weeks, and I cannot wait. This job is so boring, and I feel so unwelcome. At the same time, I do get paid, so I feel like I can’t be too ungrateful. It’s a big industry, and it always comes down to “Who can take care of the intern” and everyone looks down and avoids eye contact. I feel like I just get in people’s way. Anyhow, It’s good money for someone who hasn’t really made any on their own. I want to go back to school, finish my education and start life for real. It feels like life is in some kind of transition state, just waiting for something real to begin. I have yet to figure out what, but I just yearn for something new, something to take me somewhere I’ve never been before, somewhere interesting. # ⚓ SpellBinding:_GILNUYW_Wordo:_SNOEK⠀⇛ o § Technical⠀➾ # ⚓ Counting_Computers⠀⇛ My newest laptop is a refurbished 2-in-1 I got from a friend. A few of the keys are finicky, and he needed to type reliably for his job. He gave it to me, since I had worked on his other computers before. The work? Installing Linux on every one of his machines. He’s far from tech-savvy; he just got fed up with the eternal update cycle and vows never to return to Windows. Anytime he gets a new computer he calls me up to ask me to install Linux for him: even when I’m on the other side of the world. It’s currently my main laptop. It’s the fastest computer I have, so it’s used for watching videos, compiling software, and playing video games. [...] The desktop was given to me by a relative. I mostly use it for writing when I want to avoid any distractions. It’s disconnected from the Internet most of the time. # § Science⠀➾ # ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ In_“Immense_World,”_Science_Writer_Ed Yong_Shows_“How_Animal_Senses_Reveal_Hidden_Realms Around_Us”⠀⇛ So, this book is about the incredible ways in which other animals sense the world around us. At the core of it is a concept called Umwelt, the idea that each creature has its own sensory bubble… # § Programming⠀➾ # ⚓ Borgmatic_and_snapper,_part_2⠀⇛ In this article, I go over some improvements from our previous venture with borgmatic and snapper. My previous (and rather janky) approach was not only unnecessary but inefficient. As borg caches based on absolute filepaths, having a stable location is superior to changing it everytime. Further, if you are backing up multiple users (even if it’s just root and your own user), it’s probably best to run all the scripts as root. Permissions will be preserved, so you shouldn’t have to worry about that (though you need root to extract the archives obviously). =============================================================================== * Gemini_(Primer) links can be opened using Gemini_software. It’s like the World Wide Web but a lot lighter. ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 1152 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐃𝐀𝐈𝐋𝐘 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒 ═════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 08.15.22⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Links_15/08/2022:_Big_Changes_in_Nautilus_and_FreeBSD_13.0_EOL⠀✐ Posted in News_Roundup at 5:46 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇GNOME bluefish⦈ § Contents⠀➾ * GNU/Linux o Server o Kernel_Space o Applications o Instructionals/Technical o Desktop_Environments/WMs # GNOME_Desktop/GTK * Distributions_and_Operating_Systems o BSD o Fedora_Family_/_IBM o Devices/Embedded o Open_Hardware/Modding o Mobile_Systems/Mobile_Applications * Free,_Libre,_and_Open_Source_Software o Web_Browsers # Mozilla o Standards/Consortia * Leftovers o Education o Hardware o Health/Nutrition/Agriculture o Proprietary o Security # Privacy/Surveillance o Defence/Aggression o Environment # Energy o Finance o AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics o Censorship/Free_Speech o Civil_Rights/Policing o Monopolies # Copyrights * § GNU/Linux⠀➾ o ⚓ 9to5Linux ☛ 9to5Linux_Weekly_Roundup:_August_14th,_2022⠀⇛ Since it’s the holiday season and all that, this week has been a bit slow in Linux news and releases. We only saw the launch of a minor EndeavourOS release, the release of Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS as yet another minor update, and new Kali Linux and KDE Frameworks releases. On top of that, System76 revealed an updated Galago Pro Linux laptop with 12th Gen Intel CPUs, Linus Torvalds kicked off the development cycle of Linux kernel 6.0 and announced the first Release Candidate for public testing, and I show you how to upgrade from Ubuntu 20.04 LTS to Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. o § Server⠀➾ # ⚓ Kubernetes Blog ☛ Kubernetes:_Meet_Our_Contributors_–_APAC_ (China_region)⠀⇛ Welcome back to the third edition of the “Meet Our Contributors” blog post series for APAC. This post features four outstanding contributors from China, who have played diverse leadership and community roles in the upstream Kubernetes project. So, without further ado, let’s get straight to the article. o § Kernel Space⠀➾ # ⚓ 9to5Linux ☛ Linus_Torvalds_Announces_First_Linux_Kernel_6.0 Release_Candidate_–_9to5Linux⠀⇛ Linus Torvalds kicked off the development cycle of the upcoming Linux 6.0 kernel series and announced today the availability of the first Release Candidate (RC) milestone for public testing. Two weeks have passed since the release of Linux kernel 5.19, which is also the last kernel release in the Linux 5.x series, and the opening of the merge window for Linux kernel 6.0. Now, the merge window for Linux 6.0 is now officially closed and the first Release Candidate (RC) milestone is ready for testers and bleeding- edge users who want an early taste of what’s about to be included in the final release, which is expected in early October 2022. # ⚓ WCCF Tech ☛ Intel_Xeon_Platinum_8380_“Ice_Lake”_CPU_Shows Great_Improvement_In_Linux_6.0⠀⇛ o § Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ Linux Links ☛ 9_Best_Free_Linux_Screen_Capture_Tools_ (Updated_2022)_–_LinuxLinks⠀⇛ The phrase “A picture is worth a thousand words” refers to the idea that a solitary still image can provide as much information as a large amount of descriptive text. Essentially, pictures convey information more effectively and efficiently than words can. A screenshot is an image captured by a computer to record the output of a visual device. Screen capture software enable screenshots to be taken on a computer. This type of software has a wide range of uses. As an image can illustrate the operation of computer software so well, screenshots play a crucial role in software development and documentation. Alternatively, if you have a technical problem with your computer, a screenshot allows a technical support department to understand the problems you are facing. Writing computer- related articles, documentation and tutorials is nigh on impossible without a good tool for creating screenshots. Linux has a good selection of versatile open source screenshot programs, both graphical and console based. o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾ # ⚓ LinuxTechi ☛ How_to_Install_VirtualBox_on_RHEL_9_Step-by- Step⠀⇛ # ⚓ Red Hat Official ☛ What’s_your_favorite_way_to_edit_remote files?⠀⇛ As a systems administrator, you probably spend the better part of your day on somebody else’s computer, even when you’re at your own computer. Editing files on a remote machine is one of a sysadmin’s most common tasks, and there are a lot of different ways to complete that task on Linux. # ⚓ markaicode by Mark ☛ How_to_Install_Golang_Compiler_on Fedora_36_Linux⠀⇛ Google developed Golang, an open-source programming language. It is statically typed and generates generated machine code binaries, thus go is a compiled language. This is popular among developers since it eliminates the requirement to compile the source code in order to produce an executable file. When it comes to grammar, developers who use Google’s Go language believe it’s the C for the twenty-first century. The following article will show you how to install and set up Golang on Fedora 36 Linux using the command line terminal and the default repository version from Fedora 36’s appstream. # ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ MariaDB_Basic_Tutorial⠀⇛ Data is the most important part of any type of application. The necessary data for the application is required to store permanently. The database server is used to store the application data permanently. MariaDB is one of the popular database servers that is called the branch of a MySQL server. The different features of MariaDB, the way of installing MariaDB in Ubuntu, creating databases and tables, and performing various types of database-related common tasks are all explained in this tutorial in detail. # ⚓ How_to_install_SaltStack_on_Fedora_36_–_NextGenTips⠀⇛ In this guide, we will walk you through the installation of SaltStack on Fedora 36. SaltStack is a Python-based, open-source for event- driven It automation, remote task execution, and configuration management. Salt was designed to be highly modular and easily extensible, to make it easy to mold to diverse IT enterprise use cases. Salt is capable of maintaining remote nodes in defined states that is it can ensure specific packages are installed and that specific services are running. Salt can query and execute commands either on individual nodes or by using arbitrary selection criteria. # ⚓ markaicode by Mark ☛ How_to Install_&_Configure_Redis_7_on Rocky_Linux_9_|_Mark_Ai_Code⠀⇛ Redis is an in-memory data structure store that may be used as a distributed, in-memory key-value database, cache, and message broker, with the option of configurable durability. Strings, lists, maps, sets, sorted sets, HyperLogLogs, bitmaps, streams, and spatial indices are among the abstract data structures supported by Redis. # ⚓ uni Toronto ☛ My_uncertainty_over_whether_an_URL_format_is actually_legal⠀⇛ I was recently dealing with a program that runs in a configuration that sometimes misbehaves when you ask it to create and display a link to a relative URL like ‘/’. My vague memory suggested an alternative version of the URL that might make the program leave it alone, one with a schema but no host, so I tried ‘https:/’ and it worked. Then I tried to find out if this is actually a proper legal URL format, as opposed to one that browsers just make work, and now I’m confused and uncertain. The first relatively definite thing that I learned is that file URLs don’t need all of those slashes; a URL of ‘file:/tmp’ is perfectly valid and is interpreted the way you’d expect. This is suggestive but not definite, since the “file” URL scheme is a pretty peculiar thing. An absolute URL can leave out the scheme; ‘// mozilla.org/’ is a valid URL that means ‘the root of mozilla.org in whichever of HTTP and HTTPS you’re currently using’ (cf). Wikipedia’s section on the syntax of URLs claims that the authority section is optional. The Whatwg specification’s section on URL writing requires anything starting with ‘http:’ and ‘https:’ to be written with the host (because scheme relative special URL strings require a host). This also matches the MDN description. I think this means that my ‘https:/ path’ trick is not technically legal, even if it works in many browsers. # ⚓ Dan Langille ☛ logcheck_–_egrep:_trailing_backslash_(\)⠀⇛ When updating to FreeBSD 13.1, I started getting these messages from sysutils/logcheck: egrep: trailing backslash (\) This post will document how I tracked down the problem. It is occurring on several hosts. # ⚓ DebugPoint ☛ How_to_Install_Flatpak_Apps_in_Ubuntu_and Other_Linux⠀⇛ Flatpak is the new way of distributing apps across the Linux universe, irrespective of the distribution. This cross-distro application distribution and deployment framework enable developers to Flatpak setup for apps for all major distributions. The major hurdles in any Linux app distribution are dependencies, and Flatpak covers that. Flatpak builds bundles the dependencies for the respective apps, and end-users need not worry about it. With the growing trends, many app developers are now providing the Flatpak builds along with traditional packages, e.g. *.deb, etc. With a quick setup for your distributions, you can be ready to explore the world of Flatpak apps. All the major Flatpak apps are available on flathub.org. You can search and just click a button, you can install the Flatpak apps. Here’s how to set it up for Ubuntu and other Linux distributions. # ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_To_Install_MySQL_on_Rocky_Linux_9_–_idroot⠀⇛ In this tutorial, we will show you how to install MySQL on Rocky Linux 9. For those of you who didn’t know, MySQL is an open-source, cross-platform, and one of the most widely used Relational Database Management Systems (RDMS) and distributed by the Oracle Corporation. MySQL has been in production use for over 20 years and is considered one of the most secure and reliable database systems. This article assumes you have at least basic knowledge of Linux, know how to use the shell, and most importantly, you host your site on your own VPS. The installation is quite simple and assumes you are running in the root account, if not you may need to add ‘sudo‘ to the commands to get root privileges. I will show you the step-by-step installation of MySQL 8 on Rocky Linux. 9. # ⚓ Citizix ☛ How_to_set_up_Kubernetes_Cluster_on_Ubuntu_22.04 with_kubeadm_and_CRI-O⠀⇛ Kubernetes is an open-source container orchestration system for automating software deployment, scaling, and management. Google originally designed Kubernetes, but the Cloud Native Computing Foundation now maintains the project. It groups containers that make up an application into logical units for easy management and discovery. Kubeadm is a tool used to build Kubernetes (K8s) clusters. Kubeadm performs the actions necessary to get a minimum viable cluster up and running quickly. In this guide we will learn how to use kubeadm to set up a kubernetes cluster in Ubuntu 22.04. # ⚓ markaicode by Mark ☛ How_to_Install_cURL_on_Linux_Mint_21 LTS⠀⇛ cURL is a software tool that allows you to transport data between two computers utilizing a number of protocols, including HTTP, FTP, and even email. cURL is frequently used for web development activities such as website testing and obtaining files from a remote server. However, it has considerably more capabilities. With a little imagination, cURL can be used to automate a wide range of activities, making it a very handy tool for both developers and system administrators. cURL’s capacity to execute instructions on a remote machine is one of its most powerful capabilities. This may be used to execute scripts or programs on another machine, which is incredibly handy for automating jobs or executing complicated operations that would be impossible to conduct manually. For example, you might use cURL to automatically download and install updates on a remote server, saving you the time and effort of manually signing in and completing the updates. cURL may, of course, be used for more routine activities, such as moving data between two systems. This is useful if you need to rapidly transmit a file from one system to another without having to set up a full-fledged file transfer protocol like FTP. Furthermore, cURL may be used to download whole websites, which can aid in the creation of offline backups or mirror sites. Overall, cURL is an extremely flexible tool that may save you a significant amount of time and effort when working with data across many platforms. CURL is worth understanding whether you want to automate operations or transfer data. In this guide, you will learn how to install the newest version of the cURL package using the command line interface and a well-known LaunchPAD PPA that supplies the current version for the Linux Mint 21 LTS release series. # ⚓ Red Hat ☛ How_OpenShift_Serverless_Logic_evolved_to_improve workflows_|_Red_Hat_Developer⠀⇛ Serverless is an advanced cloud deployment model that aims to run business services on demand, enabling enterprises to save infrastructure costs tremendously. The benefit of serverless is an application designed and developed as abstract functions regardless of programming languages. This article describes how the serverless and function models have evolved since they were unleashed upon the world with AWS Lambda and what to look forward to with Red Hat OpenShift serverless logic. # ⚓ UNIX Cop ☛ How_to_install_GIT_on_Ubuntu_22.04⠀⇛ In this post for newbies, you will learn how to install GIT on Ubuntu 22.04 Simple? Yes, but for those who just want to give Linux a try, it could be quite useful. # ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_Git_on_Linux_Mint_21_LTS⠀⇛ The most popular of all version control systems is Git. Developed in 2005 by Linus Torvalds, it was created for developers working on the Linux operating system kernel but has since been adopted as an extensively used tool amongst collaborative efforts and often has hundreds of people contributing to these projects with commits happening at any given time making tracking contributions difficult without using something like Google Docs or Dropbox which while useful still doesn’t provide quite what you need when managing changes interactively throughout your local environment. The following tutorial will teach how to install Git on Linux Mint 21 LTS release series with three different methods using the command line terminal and basic Git commands of everyday use. # ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_Redis_on_Rocky_Linux_9⠀⇛ Redis is an open-source database frequently used as a cache or message broker. Unlike other databases, Redis stores data in memory, making it significantly faster. In addition, Redis supports a wide range of data structures, including strings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bitmaps, and streams. This makes Redis an incredibly versatile tool that can be used for various purposes. Redis also provides high availability with its Sentinel software logic, which automatically partitions data across multiple servers, ensuring no single point of failure exists. As a result, Redis is a robust and reliable database that is well-suited for various applications. In the following tutorial, you will learn how to install Redis on Rocky Linux 9 workstation or server using the terminal command line with two methods: appstream or Remi Redis pm, along with basic setup instructions to get you started using the command line terminal. o § Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾ # § GNOME Desktop/GTK⠀➾ # ⚓ OMG Ubuntu ☛ 7_Big_Changes_Coming_to_Nautilus_in GNOME_43_–_OMG!_Ubuntu!⠀⇛ GNOME 43 is creeping up on us and amongst the bevy of brilliant benefits it brings is a brand new version of (arguably) the most famous open source file manager of them all: Nautilus. Now, I’ve had a bit too much coffee (which is to blame for the barrage of words beginning with ‘B’ in this blog post), and, having gone on hands-on with what’s in store, I’m feeling pumped. So here I am, bashing out a few Gutenberg blocks’ worth of brazen brio in honour of the Nautilus 43 beta. So read on for a quick run through of seven (why? 4 + 3 = 7) user-facing changes coming in Nautilus as part of September’s GNOME 43 release (and likely included as part of Ubuntu 22.10 this October). [...] Nautilus 43 now ‘hides’ the sidebar when the window is resized beyond a set point. The sidebar remains accessible as a pop-over sheet bound to a button that only shows in this mode. Then, resize window wide enough for the sidebar to fit, and et voila: it’s back! * § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾ o § BSD⠀➾ # ⚓ DragonFly BSD Digest ☛ In_Other_BSDs_for_2022/08/13⠀⇛ # ⚓ Hack ☛ The_MGR_Window_System⠀⇛ Note well that this is mostly of historic interest. I haven’t done any work on MGR for many years. MGR itself has gone into oblivion for most uses, largely being replaced by the much more feature filled X Window System. I have kept this around because people seem to link to it. # ⚓ Undeadly ☛ sftp-server(8)_gains_support_for_home-directory request⠀⇛ Add support to the sftp-server for the home- directory extension defined in draft-ietf-secsh- filexfer-extensions-00. # ⚓ FreeBSD ☛ FreeBSD_13.0_end-of-life⠀⇛ Dear FreeBSD community, On August 31, 2022, FreeBSD 13.0 will reach end-of- life and will no longer be supported by the FreeBSD Security Team. Users of FreeBSD 13.0 are strongly encouraged to upgrade to a newer release as soon as possible. # ⚓ Ada_development_on_FreeBSD_13.1⠀⇛ The Ada support has been removed from FreeBSD 13.1 ports because it was deprecated. Indeed, the gcc6- aux port was deprecated and expired on 2022-02-28. There is no indication about a replacement solution and using Ada for FreeBSD is a challenge but this is still possible. This article records a number of steps and commands that helped me setup a new Ada compiler based on GCC 12 on a fresh FreeBSD 13.1 installation. Warning: this is full of hacks and I don’t pretend to provide any complete detailed and completely reproducible steps for getting a new Ada compiler. Before proceeding, make sure you have gmake installed because the BSD make uses an old Makefile syntax and is not able to handle GNU specific Makefiles. o § Fedora Family / IBM⠀➾ # ⚓ Enterprisers Project ☛ Edge_computing:_4_pillars_for_CIOs and_IT_leaders_|_The_Enterprisers_Project⠀⇛ If it seems like the IT industry has been talking about edge computing for years now, well, that’s because it has – and the same goes for IoT. But in practice, most organizations are just now translating that talk into action. More and more CIOs and other IT leaders are now taking the reins on developing an edge strategy. In Red Hat’s Global Tech Outlook 2022, 61% of IT leaders reported that they are planning to run IoT, edge, or both technologies in the next 12 months. When combined as a single category, the two outpace AI/ML (53 percent) as the top area for emerging IT workloads this year. For many organizations, edge computing is a natural expansion of their maturing cloud strategy and architecture – especially (but certainly not limited to) hybrid cloud environments. “Edge computing complements what cloud computing does for a company’s compute plans – the two work together,” says Rob Howell, managing enterprise network architect, Capgemini Americas. o § Devices/Embedded⠀➾ # ⚓ Linux Gizmos ☛ Move-X_Cicerone_LoRa/GNSS_board_is compatible_with_Arduino_MKR_form_factor⠀⇛ The Move-X Cicerone is a new low-power board that puts together the Move-X MAMWLE LoRa module and the u-blox MAX-M10S GNSS module. The Move-X Cicerone also integrates a Li-Po charging circuit for portability. The Move-X MAMWLE is a low power radio module based on the STM32WL which is an ARM M4 32-bit RISC core with an operating frequency of 48MHz, 128K of Flash memory and 64K RAM. This module can operate in the band of 868 MHz and 915MHz. There is also a LoRaWAN radio (Semtech SX1261/2) integrated in the same chip. # ⚓ Linux Gizmos ☛ LattePanda_3_Delta_SBC_combines_11th_Gen Celeron_and_ATmega32U4_MCU⠀⇛ DFRobot launched the LattePanda 3 Delta SBC a couple days ago. This latest version comes with a 11th Gen N5105 quad-core processor and Microchip’s ATMEGA32U4 as a coprocessor. The device offers 8GB of RAM, triple displays, one GbE LAN port, Wi-Fi/ BLE support and access to many other peripherals. The LattePanda 3 Delta features Intel’s 11th generation N5105 processor (4C/4T) which has a base frequency of 2.0GHz and a maximum frequency of 2.9GHz. The SBC also accommodates an Arduino compatible ATmega32U4-MU with access to GPIOs via pin headers. o § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾ # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Hackaday_Prize_2022:_Solar-Harvesting_ESP32 Camera_Is_Waterproof,_Repeatable⠀⇛ [alberto nunez] shows off his sleek build of a solar-harvesting ESP32 camera – waterproof, somewhat energy-efficient, and able to be built by more-or-less anyone. For that, he’s chosen fairly jellybean components – an ESP32-CAM module with a matching protoboard, a small solar cell, a LiFePO4 battery, and a waterproofed GoPro shell that all of these parts neatly fit into. # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Starlink_Ground_Stations_Successfully_Hacked⠀⇛ Belgian security researcher [Lennert Wouters] has gotten his own code running on the Starlink “Dishy McFlatface” satellite terminals, and you can too! The hack in question is a “modchip” with an RP2040 and a MOSFET that crowbars the power rails, browning out the main CPU exactly when it’s verifying the firmware’s validity and bypassing that protection entirely. [Lennert] had previously figured out how to dump the Starlink firmware straight from the eMMC, and with the ability to upload it back, the circle of pwnership is closed. This was a talk at DEFCON, and you can check out the slides here. (PDF) # ⚓ SparkFun Electronics ☛ GNSS_Functionality_for_MicroMod⠀⇛ Hello and welcome, everyone! We are back, yet again, with new products that expand our exciting MicroMod, Qwiic, and Artemis ecosystems. We start the week off with two new GNSS/GPS Function Boards for MicroMod! These boards feature a ZED-F9P and NEO-M9N, respectively, offering two levels of accuracy at respectable price expectations. o § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ How_does_Android_Auto_Work?_All_the_new_features_you_will get_in_Android_Auto_2022⠀⇛ # ⚓ Samsung_One_UI_5.0_(Android_13)_update_and_bugs_tracker_ (cont._updated)⠀⇛ # ⚓ Android Police ☛ Android_12_now_on_one_of_every_eight devices,_report_says⠀⇛ # ⚓ CNX Software ☛ OPS-compliant_digital_signage_player features_Amlogic_S905X3_CPU_(Sponsored)_–_CNX_Software⠀⇛ # ⚓ Best_Android_Wii_Emulator:_Play_Wii_Games_on_Android_– Droid_Gamers⠀⇛ # ⚓ 9_Android_Features_You_Should_Be_Using_Every_Day⠀⇛ # ⚓ SlashGear ☛ Why_You_Need_To_Stop_Using_Ad_Personalization On_Your_Android_Phone⠀⇛ * § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾ o § Web Browsers⠀➾ # § Mozilla⠀➾ # ⚓ AI_from_Above_—_The_Internet_Health_Report_2022⠀⇛ An aerial picture can tell a thousand stories. But who gets to tell them? From above the clouds, our world is surveilled and datafied. Those who control the data, control the narratives. We explore the spatial legacy of apartheid in South Africa’s townships, and hear from people around the world who are reclaiming power over their own maps. [...] IRL is an original podcast from Mozilla, the non-profit behind Firefox. In Season 6, host Bridget Todd shares stories of people who make AI more trustworthy in real life. This season doubles as Mozilla’s 2022 Internet Health Report. Go to the report for show notes, transcripts, and more. o § Standards/Consortia⠀➾ # ⚓ OpenSource.com ☛ How_ODT_files_are_structured⠀⇛ Word processing files used to be closed, proprietary formats. In some older word processors, the document file was essentially a memory dump from the word processor. While this made for faster loading of the document into the word processor, it also made the document file format an opaque mess. Around 2005, the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS) group defined an open format for office documents of all types, the Open Document Format for Office Applications (ODF). You may also see ODF referred to as simply “OpenDocument Format” because it is an open standard based on the OpenOffice.org’s XML file specification. ODF includes several file types, including ODT for OpenDocument Text documents. There’s a lot to explore in an ODT file, and it starts with a zip file. # ⚓ OpenSource.com ☛ Try_Asciidoc_instead_of_Markdown⠀⇛ I’m a happy user of the XML-based Docbook markup language. To me, it’s a precise, explicit, and detailed system that allows me to have contextual and domain-specific metadata in what I write. Best of all, though, it can be transformed (that’s what XML users call it when XML is converted into another format) into nearly any format, including HTML, EPUB, FO for PDF, plain text, and more. With great power comes a lot of typing, though, and sometimes Docbook feels like it’s surplus to requirements. Luckily, there’s Asciidoc, a system of writing plain text with the same markup-less feel of Markdown, but that transforms to Docbook to take advantage of its precision and flexibility. # ⚓ Daniel Stenberg ☛ QUIC_and_HTTP/3_with_wolfSSL_| daniel.haxx.se⠀⇛ Back in the summer of 2020 I blogged about QUIC support coming in wolfSSL. That work never actually took off, primarily I believe because the team kept busy with other projects and tasks that had more customer focus and interest and yeah, there was not really any noticeable customer demand for QUIC with wolfSSL. Time passed. On July 21 2022, Stefan Eissing submitted his work on introducing a QUIC API and after reviews and updates, it was merged into the wolfSSL master branch on August 9th. The QUIC API is planned to appear “for real” in a coming wolfSSL release version. Until then, we can play with what is available in git. Let me be clear here: the good people at wolfSSL has not decided to write a full QUIC implementation, because that would be insane when there already exist so many good existing alternatives being made. This is just a set of new functions to allow wolfSSL to be used as TLS component when a QUIC stack is created. Having QUIC support in wolfSSL is just one (but important) step along the way as it makes it possible to use wolfSSL to build a QUIC implementation but there are some more steps needed to turn this baby into full HTTP/3. * § Leftovers⠀➾ o ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Dismantling_the_Lucky_Sperm_Club,_One_Baby_Bond Program_at_a_Time⠀⇛ o § Education⠀➾ # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Schools_Are_Facing_Shortage_of_300,000_Teachers and_Staff,_Major_Union_Says⠀⇛ # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ I_Studied_With_a_Palestinian_“Terrorist” Organization._This_Is_What_I_Learned.⠀⇛ o § Hardware⠀➾ # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ This_Snake_Has_Legs⠀⇛ [Allen Pan] loves snakes. He loves them so much that he’s decided to play god, throwing away millions of years of evolution — just to give snakes back the legs they’ve “lost”. # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Mac_Mini_Mini⠀⇛ The Mac Mini has been roughly the same size and shape for 12 years, as the current design was released in June 2010. However, despite being the same general form factor, the internals has shrunk over the years. [Snazzy Labs] took advantage of this to make a miniaturized Mac Mini. # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ A_Simple_Streaming_Radio_Receiver⠀⇛ For those interested in a career in broadcast radio there aren’t many routes into the business. Student radio, pirate radio, and hospital radio usually feature somewhere near the start of any DJ’s resumé. Hospital radio stations often don’t have a transmission license and have historically relied on wired systems, but since those can’t reach everywhere they are now more likely to look to the Internet. [AllanGallop] has created the Mini Web Radio for the hospital station in the British city of Milton Keynes, a compact battery-powered single station streaming radio receiver that can pick up those tunes anywhere with a wireless network connection. o § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾ # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ The_Privilege_of_Free_Health_Care:_a_View From_Nicaragua⠀⇛ We’re settling in to our daughter Orla’s sixth night in the hospital. Visiting hours are over and only ten of the beds in our 32-bed pediatric ward are occupied tonight, down from 20 a few nights ago. The patients – mostly young teens in our room – are tucked in under mosquito nets. Their carers – mainly grandmas, aunts and moms – are slouched in chairs or curled around their patients on the beds. A few of us stretch out on unoccupied beds to get some rest before the nurse turns on the lights for the next regular blood pressure and temp check. Our 14 year-old was admitted to the pediatric ward with dengue fever on July 19th, Revolution Day in Nicaragua. Poor Orla sobbed in disappointment that she wouldn’t be able to celebrate the holiday. After two days of fever, I had taken her to the emergency room in our local Ciudad Sandino Primary Hospital where the blood work they ordered indicated dengue and showed that her platelet count was low enough to be of concern. “She’ll be staying here with us,” the doctor announced. Since then, either my husband Paul or I have been with her in the hospital, tasked with making sure she’s kept hydrated and informed of her progress via blood test results each day. # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ EPA_Proposal_to_Limit_PFAS_in_Drinking_Water_May Boost_Grassroots_Efforts⠀⇛ o § Proprietary⠀➾ # ⚓ Bleeping Computer ☛ Microsoft_is_showing_ads_for_Microsoft 365_in_Office_2021⠀⇛ Microsoft is showing ads for Microsoft 365 Family subscriptions to its Office 2021 customers, offering them discounts of over $28 to get a 3- month Family plan subscription. o § Security⠀➾ # ⚓ Trail Of Bits ☛ The_road_to_the_apprenticeship_|_Trail_of Bits_Blog⠀⇛ Finding talent is hard, especially in the blockchain security industry. The space is new, so you won’t find engineers with decades of experience with smart contracts. Training is difficult, as the technology evolves constantly, and online content quickly becomes outdated. There are also a lot of misconceptions about blockchain technology that make security engineers hesitant to enter the space. As a result, the pool of people who are able to both master blockchain technology and grasp the mindset of a security engineer is fairly small. We have now been working on blockchain projects for more than half a decade, and we have always struggled to find qualified applicants. Last year, to alleviate this problem, we created an intensive apprenticeship program to give apprentices the equivalent of two years’ experience in only three months. The program has been a huge success, and we have offered full-time positions to all of our apprentices! Read on for more information about the program and the apprentices we’ve hired so far, as well as pointers for future applicants. # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ What’s_That_Scope_Trace_Saying?_UPD_And Wireshark⠀⇛ [Matt Keeter], like many of us, has a lot of network-connected devices and an oscilloscope. He decided he wanted to look into what was on the network. While most of us might reach for Wireshark, he started at the PCB level. In particular, he had — or, rather, had someone — solder an active differential probe soldered into an Ethernet switch. The scope attached is a Textronix, but it didn’t have the analyzer to read network data. However, he was able to capture 190+ MB of data and wrote a simple parser to analyze the network data pulled from the switch. # ⚓ Site36 ☛ Millions_of_US_accounts_affected:_Telecom_group conceals_information_about_hacked_personal_data⠀⇛ Almost half of all T-Mobile customers in the USA were victims of a huge data breach. Deutsche Telekom, as the parent company, has been violating its self-imposed obligations to data protection ever since. # § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾ # ⚓ Reason ☛ Concerned_About_Abortion_Surveillance_and Law_Enforcement?_Time_To_Treat_Encryption_Seriously⠀⇛ If you’re concerned about police and prosecutors in your state tracking abortions in a post-Dobbs world, developments in a case getting national attention should encourage you to learn whether end-to-end encryption is available in the communication tools you use. A Nebraska mom, Jessica Burgess, and her then-teenage daughter, Celeste Burgess, have been charged with several crimes for coordinating and executing a plan in April to purchase medication to induce an abortion at home and illegally dispose of the stillborn fetus. Media coverage suggested that this case is an example of how abortion law enforcement might look after the Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade in the June Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health decision. But to be very clear here, this abortion both preceded the decision and also took place when the daughter was 28 weeks pregnant, running counter to Nebraska’s existing abortion laws, which bans them after 22 weeks unless medically necessary to protect the mother’s life. The Dobbs decision had no bearing on what happened here. o § Defence/Aggression⠀➾ # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ A_Military_Rich_in_Dollars,_Poor_in People⠀⇛ Mind you, it’s not that the military doesn’t have the resources for recruitment drives. Nearly every political figure in Washington, including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, invariably agrees on endlessly adding to the Pentagon’s already staggering budget. In fact, it’s nearly the only thing they seem capable of agreeing on. After all, Congress has already taken nearly a year to pass a social- spending package roughly half the size of this year’s defense budget, even though that bill would mitigate the costs of health care for so many Americans and invest in clean energy for years to come. (Forget about more money for early childhood education.) Nor is the Pentagon shy about spending from its bloated wallet to woo new recruits. It’s even cold- calling possible candidates and offering enlistment bonuses of up to $50,000. # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Police_Lied_to_Get_the_Warrant_to_Search_Breonna Taylor’s_Home⠀⇛ # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Opinion_|_No_Excuse_for_NPR’s_Distorted History_of_US_Invasion_of_Afghanistan⠀⇛ In the first part of a series of reports on Afghanistan, NPR host Steve Inskeep (Morning Edition, 8/5/22) interviewed current Afghan Defense Minister Mohammad Yaqoob Mujahid. In introducing Yaqoob on air, Inskeep referenced Yaqoob’s father, the former head of the Taliban, Mullah Muhammad Omar: “He was the leader who refused to turn over Osama bin Laden in 2001, a refusal that led to the U.S. attack.” # ⚓ Site36 ☛ Sea_rescue_off_Libya:_Flight_bans_by_Tripolis violate_international_law⠀⇛ The Scientific Services of the German Bundestag consider it against two international conventions that Libya prohibits a private rescue organisation from flying over high seas. The Berlin government agrees, but does not change the problem. Therefore, the International Civil Aviation Organisation cannot intervene either. o § Environment⠀➾ # ⚓ Greenpeace ☛ From_climate_denial_to_greenwashing⠀⇛ One of the jobs of the government is to sort out the real climate actions from the greenwashing, to hold industry to account. And of course, one of the jobs of the government is to not engage in greenwashing themselves. The problem with some of the actions of the current government is that rather than holding business to account for its greenwashing, on some vital climate issues the government is actually a proponent of greenwashing. # ⚓ BBC ☛ Climate_activists_fill_golf_holes_with_cement_after water_ban_exemption⠀⇛ The exemption of golf greens has sparked controversy as 100 French villages are short of drinking water. # ⚓ ABC ☛ French_climate_activists_fill_golf_course_holes_with cement,_protesting_against_water_ban_exemption_amid_drought⠀⇛ Despite nationwide water restrictions, and more than 100 French villages suffering drinking water shortages, golf courses can stay green due to a national framework agreement signed between the French Golf Federation and the Ministry of Ecological Transition in 2019. # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ The_Arctic_is_Warming_Nearly_Four_Times Faster_Than_the_Rest_of_the_World⠀⇛ A new study shows that the Arctic has warmed nearly four times faster than the rest of the world over the past 43 years. This means the Arctic is on average around 3℃ warmer than it was in 1980. This is alarming, because the Arctic contains sensitive and delicately balanced climate components that, if pushed too hard, will respond with global consequences. # § Energy⠀➾ # ⚓ on_nft_and_metaverse_|_Stop_at_Zona-M⠀⇛ The NFT boom is not about art or ownership. It is about escape. o § Finance⠀➾ # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Watch_Out_for_Big_Corporations_and Dangerous_Politicians_Breaking_Our_Established_Norms⠀⇛ In our country, voluntarily recognized fundamental norms have been breaking down. The chief impetus for this collapse is the ascending supremacy of commercial power over civic values. The surrender of the latter to the former in sector after sector has spelled the decline of our country as measured by its own promise and pretensions. Compared to seventy years ago, there are almost no commercial- free zones anymore. Almost everything is for sale – or should be in the minds of dogmatic free market fundamentalists and its apologists like Milton Friedman and his disciples. Let’s be specific. When I was a schoolboy in the nineteen forties, the top CEOs of the Fortune 300 largest companies kept their pay at about 12 times the salary of the average worker in their business. If any CEO had sought to increase that ratio to 50 or 300 times, he would be roundly condemned from the pulpits to the boards of directors, to civic and charitable groups. In those days, CEOs also did not want to arouse the anger of their industrial labor unions or encourage workers to demand more pay in response. o § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾ # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ House_Democrats_Request_‘Damage_Assessment’ Following_Recovery_of_Classified_Docs⠀⇛ Democratic Reps. Carolyn Maloney and Adam Schiff on Saturday asked federal intelligence officials to immediately review the top secret documents that FBI agents retrieved during last week’s search of former President Donald Trump’s resort in Florida and to provide a classified briefing on their findings as soon as possible. “Former President Trump’s conduct has potentially put our national security at grave risk,” Maloney (N.Y.), chair of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform, and Schiff (Calif.), chair of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, wrote in a letter to Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Violent_Threats_Against_FBI_Soar_as_Trump Lies_About_Mar-a-Lago_Search⠀⇛ The Federal Bureau of Investigation is looking into an “unprecedented” number of threats against its staff and facilities in the wake of last week’s search of former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a- Lago palace, including some against the pair of agents identified in an unredacted version of the warrant that was leaked before the court officially unsealed redacted records, CNN reported Saturday, citing an unnamed law enforcement source. The FBI and the Department of Homeland Security on Friday issued a joint intelligence bulletin warning that violent threats against federal law enforcement, judicial, and government personnel and property “are occurring primarily online and across multiple platforms, including social media sites, web forums, video sharing platforms, and image boards.” # ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Law_and_Disorder⠀⇛ “Law and Disorder,” a new original cartoon by the inimitable Mr. Fish, anticipates the survival of Donald Trump as a political power player. # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Judge_Restores_Coal_Lease_Moratorium_on_Public Lands_That_Was_Undone_Under_Trump⠀⇛ # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Remembering_Fidel⠀⇛ True, we would reply, revolutions do need masses of people who, amid hardship and oppression, have visions of decent lives and can come together. But revolutions are not spontaneous. There is a place for leaders, someone like Fidel Castro. Just as with Jose Martí, Cuba’s great leader in an earlier era, Fidel Castro communicated goals and hope and offered strategic insight and plans. So it’s OK. Some reflections on this anniversary date make the point. In her article appearing August 13 on cubadebate.org, Daily Sánchez Lemus claims that, “Fidel is a country, is this people, who see in him the architect of their highest dreams.” She asks, “How can we explain what it meant [for him] to be close to the humblest people, to feel them, interpret them and share the same fate?”. # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Crime,_Race_and_Ilhan_Omar⠀⇛ I would contend that there already was a division on police. The main reason Omar didn’t do as well as her past two victories was voter turnout. The heinous murder of George Floyd/at-home voting propelled her in 2020 and the anti-Trump progressive wave galvanized her supporters in 2018. The corporate media has practically been shouting Let’s Go Brandon! in an attempt to make Biden as interesting as Trump to no avail. But for once they did not blame Brandon for something and this was for Omar’s decline. But if we take their forecast that Biden is tanking the Democrats seriously at all we must conclude that he did indeed hurt the turnout in the primary, which in turn hurt Omar. # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ “Sometimes_You_Have_to_Go_Above_the_Law.” Really?⠀⇛ In a panel discussion, I questioned the co-producer Claudia Bluemhuber, about the ending. To me, the concept of a benevolent “rogue” cop was misguided. When I think of rogue policemen, I think of Derek Chauvin, guilty of the death of George Floyd as a typical rogue cop. The job of a policeman is to have people respect the law, not to go above it. When I hear “rogue” cop, I think the worst, not someone being benevolent in the mold of Morgan Freeman. Ms. Bluemhuber’s response to my question was about individual conscience. She insisted that individual conscience should be the final determinant of one’s actions, adding that Freeman did say that he was willing to accept whatever consequences arose from letting the two drive away. Bluemhuber implied that she preferred individual conscience to the rule of law. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Opinion_|_In_Ukraine,_Nuclear_Catastrophe Looms⠀⇛ The United Nations’ top nuclear official this week warned about the “very alarming” military activity surrounding the Zaporizhzhia nuclear facility just across the Dnipro River from the southern city of Nikopol. Russian forces seized control of the site—the largest nuclear plant in Europe—in March and are accused of using it as a shield and a base to launch rocket attacks. # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Ukraine_is_a_Wake-Up_Call_for_Europe⠀⇛ Losers: We do not yet know who will win this war (or if anyone will win it, apart from the arms industry). But we do know who will lose the most: the Ukrainian and European people. Parts of Ukraine are in ruins, millions of people have been displaced, and the euro has fallen; these are signs of defeat. In the seven decades since the destruction caused by World War II, Europe had risen again. Led by high-profile politicians and supported by the United States in its anti- communist crusade, Western Europe managed to establish itself as a region of peace and development (even if, alas, at the expense of colonial and neocolonial violence and appropriation). All it took to put the peace and development at risk was one ghost war: fought in Europe, but not led by Europe, and not even in the interest of Europeans. Energy transition: Carbon dioxide (CO2), which is responsible for global warming, remains in the atmosphere for many thousands of years. It is estimated that 40 percent of the CO2 emitted by humans since 1850 remains in the atmosphere, according to a Deutsche Welle report that cited the 2020 international Global Carbon Budget study. So, although China is the largest emitter of CO2 today, the fact is that, if we look at the CO2 emissions data for 1750 to 2019 (from Deutsche Welle’s analysis of Our World in Data figures), Europe was responsible for 32.6 percent of emissions, the U.S. for 25.5 percent, China for 13.7 percent, Africa for 2.8 percent, and South America for 2.6 percent of the total emissions during that period. Given the cumulative emissions debt that Europe has rung up over the course of 269 years, the story of its recent credit toward balancing the global carbon budget by leading the fight for renewable energy in recent decades is a qualified success—it is the least they can do. We may be critical of an energy transition that is underpinned by the ecology of the (mostly European) rich, but at least it was heading in the right direction. The war in Ukraine and the fossil fuel energy crisis it triggered were enough to make all projects related to this energy transition evaporate. Coal has returned from exile, and oil and nuclear energy are being rehabilitated. Why is perpetuating the war more important than advancing the energy transition? What democratic majority has decided to follow in that direction? # ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Patrick_Lawrence:_All_Disquiet_on_the_Eastern Front⠀⇛ # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Unworthy_Victims?⠀⇛ The reasons for this were quite plain in early coverage of the pain and loss being inflicted on the Ukrainian people: they are Europeans and, as such, are seen as ‘worthy’ victims whose stories are worth telling. Others are not so lucky, even when in the crosshairs of allied nations Western governments should have more influence over than a rival like Russia. One recent example, is an ongoing story in the Middle East that both demonstrates a bias in terms of coverage between the global north and south and shows how the war in Ukraine is having geopolitical ripple effects, creating further tragedies far from its shores. # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ The_Contest_to_Replace_Boris_Johnson_Is_a_Choice Between_Austerity_and_Bigotry⠀⇛ # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Opinion_|_Failure_of_IRA_to_Extend_Child Tax_Credit_a_Tremendous_Missed_Opportunity⠀⇛ Congress’ passage of a reconciliation bill this week marks a tremendous missed opportunity to support families with children and continue one of the most effective programs of the pandemic: the expanded Child Tax Credit (CTC). # § Misinformation/Disinformation⠀➾ # ⚓ New York Times ☛ On_TikTok,_Election_Misinformation Thrives_Ahead_of_Midterms⠀⇛ Ahead of the midterm elections this fall, TikTok is shaping up to be a primary incubator of baseless and misleading information, in many ways as problematic as Facebook and Twitter, say researchers who track online falsehoods. The same qualities that allow TikTok to fuel viral dance fads — the platform’s enormous reach, the short length of its videos, its powerful but poorly understood recommendation algorithm — can also make inaccurate claims difficult to contain. # ⚓ Telex (Hungary) ☛ Old-fashioned_government_media_is being_gobbled_up_by_Facebook_propaganda⠀⇛ # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ The_Fall_Of_A_Great_American Newspaper_…_and_Democracy⠀⇛ It’s a local story that mirrors the decline of daily newspapers nationwide and, along with it, American democracy. As I’ve long lectured to journalism students and anyone who would listen, it’s no coincidence that our democracy and journalism paralleled each other’s descent into the void, into these desperate times. You simply can’t have the former without the latter. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Opinion_|_Will_US_Democracy_Survive the_Right-Wing’s_Fake_News_Industry?⠀⇛ Can a nation survive as a democratic republic without an honest and trusted news ecosystem? Is it an actual fact that truthful and reliable news—combined with the kind of cultural trust people have in both government and each other as the result of a shared reality—are both historic and necessary preconditions for a democracy to work at all? o § Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾ # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Novelist_Rushdie_Gravely_Injured_by_Likely Non-Reading_Zealot_Seeking_Salvation_and_Bounty⠀⇛ The attacker, Hadi Matar, 24, arrested at the scene, is a California-born child of Lebanese immigrant parents whose address is Fairlawn, NJ. He has been charged with attempted murder and assault and, after pleading not guilty, is being held without bail in Chautauqua County, NY according to the local district attorney. The Khomeini fatwah, which offered a reward for the killing, for blasphemy, of Rushdie on account of his book The Satanic Verses. was later disavowed by the Iranian government as it sought more acceptance in the international arena, but many experts on Islamic law noted that a fatwah can normally only be lifted by the one who issues it, and Khomeini, for better or worse, at that point was dead and gone. (A $3.8-million reward is still being offered for his death by a private Iranian organization.) # ⚓ The Atlantic ☛ All_Because_Salman_Rushdie_Wrote_a_Book⠀⇛ Salman Rushdie has had a price on his head for 33 years. He is a writer who has lived with the fear of being killed for his words. Whatever other opinion one might have about Rushdie and his skills as a novelist or his public persona, this much is true: He has understood what it means to be targeted and hated—burned in effigy—forced to hide and, even in recent years, to continue to look over his shoulder. All because he wrote a book. And so it came as a shock, but maybe not as a surprise, that Rushdie was attacked this morning onstage, in Chautauqua, New York, of all places. He was about to speak to an audience at the Chautauqua Institution, a cottage community that was founded in the late 19th century as a place for religious learning, and that has since become an oasis of education and discussion every summer. That it was here that Rushdie was struck repeatedly with a knife is a terrible irony. # ⚓ Engadget ☛ FEC_says_Google_can_let_political_campaigns dodge_Gmail’s_spam_filters⠀⇛ The Federal Elections Commission has rubber stamped a proposal from Google that could make it easier for political campaigns to skirt email spam filters. Commissioners voted 4-1 to approve a Gmail pilot, agreeing with Google that the program wouldn’t run afoul of election rules, as The Washington Post reports. In June, Google asked the FEC to review a plan that would enable emails from “authorized candidate committees, political party committees and leadership political action committees registered with the FEC” to bypass spam filters — as long as they don’t break Gmail rules on illegal content, malware and phishing. The FEC opened the proposal for comment and, as The Verge notes, almost all of the feedback from the public was negative. The Democratic National Committee, for one, claimed the program would benefit Republicans and subject Gmail users to “abusive fundraising tactics.” # ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Hong_Kong_film_dropped_from_festival after_censors_object_to_Umbrella_Movement_scene_lasting_under a_second_–_Hong_Kong_Free_Press_HKFP⠀⇛ The organisers of a film festival have cancelled the upcoming screening of an award-winning short movie after censors demanded the removal of a scene depicting a protest site during the 2014 Umbrella Movement. # ⚓ Wales UK ☛ JK_Rowling_receives_death_threat_on_Twitter after_voicing_support_for_Salman_Rushdie⠀⇛ She took to the social media platform once again on Saturday afternoon, this time tagging Twitter’s support account. She had taken a screenshot of a reply to her initial post about Rushdie from a user, which read: “Don’t worry you are next.” The screenshot also shared a previous post from the same person who hailed Matar for the attack on Rushdie. Incensed by the threat, Rowling wrote to Twitter: “Any chance of some support?” # ⚓ NDTV ☛ Author_JK_Rowling_Receives_Death_Threat_Over_Tweet On_Salman_Rushdie⠀⇛ Warner Bros. Discovery, the media conglomerate which owns Warner Bros, the studio behind the “Harry Potter” film franchise, in a statement to Deadline condemned the threats against Rowling. “Warner Bros. Discovery strongly condemns the threats made against JK Rowling. We stand with her and all the authors, storytellers and creators who bravely express their creativity and opinions. WBD believes in freedom of expression, peaceful discourse and supporting those who offer their views in the public arena. # ⚓ Hindustan Times ☛ Harry_Potter_author_JK_Rowling_told_‘you are_next’_over_her_tweet_on_Rushdie_attack⠀⇛ Rowling later shared a screenshot of Twitter’s feedback after she reported the user, which stated that there were “no violations of the Twitter rules” in the comment. # ⚓ JK_Rowling_says_‘police_are_involved’_after_receiving_death threat_for_Salman_Rushdie_tweet⠀⇛ But her outrage did not stop there. She returned to the social media platform after getting a reply from Twitter which said the death threat had “no violations of the Twitter rules in the content you reported”. Tagging the Twitter support account again, Rowling said: “These are your guidelines, right? Violence: You may not threaten violence against an individual or a group of people. We also prohibit the glorification of violence… Terrorism/violent extremism: You may not threaten or promote terrorism…” o § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾ # ⚓ Internet Freedom Foundation ☛ India_@_75_|_Digital_Rights Ka_Amrit_Mahotsav?⠀⇛ This year we celebrate 75 years of independence and with these celebrations come numerous assessments of the status of civil, political, and economic rights in the country. These assessments allow us to gauge how much we have been able to accomplish and how far we still have to go to fully achieve the ideals enshrined in our Constitution. As an organisation launched on August 15, we seek to ensure that technology respects the fundamental rights of Indian citizens and thus, on the 75th anniversary of Indian independence, we want to provide you with a brief assessment of the status of your digital rights and freedoms. As we move towards the increasing use of technology for governance, we are becoming aware of the harms, such as bias and exclusion, that accompany these measures. For example, linking welfare schemes to Aadhaar and its biometric verification system has caused mass exclusions, and has even led to starvation deaths. Thus, it becomes imperative to ensure that social justice is the cornerstone on which we build our digital governance initiatives. The use of surveillance technology like CCTVs and facial recognition by law enforcement authorities coupled with the introduction of the Criminal Procedure (Identification) Act, 2022 also raises concerns related to 360° profiling and state sponsored mass surveillance. At this juncture, we believe that it is our responsibility to highlight these trends and raise awareness around these issues which may not affect you today but will surely affect all of us eventually. # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Video_Game_and_Tech_Workers_Are_Putting_Unions at_Play_in_Their_Industries⠀⇛ o § Monopolies⠀➾ # § Copyrights⠀➾ # ⚓ Torrent Freak ☛ ‘Pirate’_Spider-Man_Remastered_Steam Keys_Sell_Out_in_Sanctioned_Russia⠀⇛ Spider-Man Remastered launched last Friday to decent reviews but gamers in Russia face problems buying from Steam. A local online store managed to get some Steam activation keys but sold out, despite selling them for close to the most expensive price in the world. Right now, Russians can either wait for new stock or take advantage of the game being cracked on day one. # ⚓ Torrent Freak ☛ Anti-Piracy_Group_Continued_to_Send DMCA_Notices_on_Behalf_of_Indicted_Copyright Swindlers⠀⇛ In addition to offering piracy insights, MUSO also helps copyright holders to take down infringing content from search engines and other online platforms. In most cases, the company represents legitimate rightsholders, but it also sends notices that appear to come from copyright swindlers, who were recently indicted by the US government. =============================================================================== * Gemini_(Primer) links can be opened using Gemini_software. It’s like the World Wide Web but a lot lighter. ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 2978 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐃𝐀𝐈𝐋𝐘 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒 ═════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 08.15.22⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Links_15/08/2022:_liveslak_1.6.0_and_Android_13_is_in_AOSP⠀✐ Posted in News_Roundup at 3:19 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇GNOME bluefish⦈ § Contents⠀➾ * GNU/Linux o Videos/Shows o Kernel_Space o Applications o Instructionals/Technical o Desktop_Environments/WMs # GNOME_Desktop/GTK * Distributions_and_Operating_Systems o New_Releases o Slackware_Family o Fedora_Family_/_IBM o Debian_Family o Canonical/Ubuntu_Family o Open_Hardware/Modding * Free,_Libre,_and_Open_Source_Software o Racism o Web_Browsers # Mozilla o Content_Management_Systems_(CMS) o FSF o Openness/Sharing/Collaboration # Open_Access/Content o Programming/Development # Python # Shell/Bash/Zsh/Ksh * Leftovers o Hardware o Security o Environment # Energy * Gemini*_and_Gopher o Technical # Internet/Gemini # Programming * § GNU/Linux⠀➾ o § Videos/Shows⠀➾ # ⚓ Petros Koutoupis ☛ RapidDisk_Tutorial_–_Episode_4:_Advanced Topics:_The_Ioctls_and_User_Space_Access⠀⇛ RapidDisk is an advanced Linux RAM Disk which consists of a collection of modules and an administration tool. Features include: Dynamically allocate RAM as block device. Use them as stand alone disk drives or even map them as caching nodes to slower local disk drives. Access those drives locally or export those volumes across an NVMe Target network. # ⚓ Tux Digital ☛ 209:_Ubuntu_LTS,_Kali_Linux,_Rescuezilla, GitLab_and_more_Linux_news!_–_This_Week_in_Linux_– TuxDigital⠀⇛ On this episode of This Week in Linux: Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS, Kali Linux 2022.3, Rescuezilla 2.4, GitLab To Delete Dormant Projects?, JingOS & JingPad Discontinued?, CuteFishOS Disappears & Returns, AlmaLinux Community Election, System76 Galago Pro & Pine64 Pinebook Pro, yuzu: Nintendo Switch Emulator for Linux, Humble Resident Evil Bundle, all that and much more on Your Weekly Source for Linux GNews! # ⚓ Video ☛ Nitrux_2.2.1_Quick_overview_#linux_#Nitrux⠀⇛ o § Kernel Space⠀➾ # ⚓ Ice_Lake_Based_Xeon_Platinum_8380_Offers_Massive Performance_Increments_In_Linux_6.0⠀⇛ # ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ Linux_6.0_Release_Candidate_Lands,_but_Linus Insists_Version_Is_Just_a_Number⠀⇛ A release candidate for the Linux kernel 6.0 has arrived, but Linus Torvalds is downplaying the significance of the version change. Despite this, there are some substantial improvements to the kernel. [...] This version is still only a release candidate. Still, expert users can download and compile the kernel themselves. Most users will wait until their distribution packages the final release. Despite Linux kernel development happening at a breakneck pace, Distributions have their own preference for how new their software is. Because Linux kernel improvements often concern security, there is an interest in keeping it up to date. The development team does maintain a number of older “long-term” kernels for applications requiring stability, such as servers. o § Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ Ubuntu Handbook ☛ Raider_–_Stupid_Simple_App_to_Shred_Files in_Linux_Desktop_|_UbuntuHandbook⠀⇛ Looking for a file shredder app for Linux? Raider is the one with a stupid simple user interface. There are already a few good ways to securely delete files in Ubuntu Linux, such as BleachBit and Nautilus wipe extension. But for a large list of files or those do shred files frequently, this app could be more efficient. It’s Raider, also known as File Shredder, a free open-source GTK4 application. With it, you can just drag and drop files into app window, then shred as many files as you want via single mouse click. [...] It by default overwrites file with random data, which however is a clue that the file has been shredded. User can choose to overwrite with zeros instead to hide shredding. And there are options to specify how many times to shred file over, number of bytes to shred, and whether to override the file permissions. # ⚓ scikit-survival_0.18.0_released_|_Sebastian_Pölsterl⠀⇛ I’m pleased to announce the release of scikit- survival 0.18.0, which adds support for scikit- learn 1.1. In addition, this release adds the return_array argument to all models providing predict_survival_function and predict_cumulative_hazard_function. That means you can now choose, whether you want to have the survival (cumulative hazard function) automatically evaluated at the unique event times. [...] For a full list of changes in scikit-survival 0.18.0, please see the release notes. o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾ # ⚓ Linux Cloud VPS ☛ 10_Useful_SSH_Commands_in_Linux_| LinuxCloudVPS_Blog⠀⇛ In this blog post, we will show you the ten most used SSH commands in any Linux distribution. SSH stands for Secure Socket Shell and is one of the main key services in Linux. The default port that SSH is running on is the TCP/IP port 22, but it can be easily changed due to security reasons. System Administrators are using this system to log in to the server and execute commands via the command line. The SSH as the secure shell is a replacement for insecure login programs such as Telnet, rlogin, rsh and etc. In this blog post, we will use the Ubuntu 22.04 OS. You can use any Linux distribution. Let’s get started! # ⚓ RoseHosting ☛ How_to_Install_Bagisto_eCommerce_on_Ubuntu 22.04_–_RoseHosting⠀⇛ In this tutorial, we are going to explain in step- by-step detail how to install the Bagisto eCommerce platform on Ubuntu 22.04 Bagisto is an eCommerce platform written in PHP with a Laravel framework and uses Vue.js as a frontend Javascript framework. This web application is used as an online store on which you can create and manage thousands of products for your business. In this tutorial, we will install the LAMP stack and configure Bagisto eCommerce to be accessible on the domain. Installing Bagisto eCommerce on Ubuntu 22.04 is a straightforward process that can take up to 30 minutes. Let’s get started! # ⚓ Dedoimedo ☛ Firefox,_language_packs_&_how_to_remove⠀⇛ Computer problems are, on both the micro and macro scale, quantum mechanism problems. In other words, unless you take a look, you won’t know whether you have one or not. This happened to me when I, for a reason that currently eludes my conscious memory, decided to check the addons page in Firefox on one of my Linux machines. Casually, I went through the different categories in the sidebar, and then clicked on Languages, and here, lo and behold, I discovered that my Firefox has two extra language packs installed in addition to my default one, English (US). These were English (CA) and English (GB) packs. I wasn’t sure why there were there, but I also knew I wanted them removed, because a) there’s no reason to use more than one dialect of English really, even if you might end up trying to spell things in various different ways b) the only acceptable version of English for computer interfaces is American English. Only, I discovered next, they couldn’t be removed. Hence, this tutorial. # ⚓ Linux Host Support ☛ How_to_install_iRedMail_on_AlmaLinux⠀⇛ In this tutorial, we are going to install iRedMail on AlmaLinux and explain the installation process in step-by-step detail. iRedMail is an open-source email server software that is capable of supporting the latest IMAP, POP3, and SMTP protocols. In this blog post, we are going to install the iRedMail email server with the installation script. In the installation script are included Nginx as a web server, Postfix as a mail transfer agent, Dovecot as IMAP and POP3 server, SpamAssassin as a spam scanner, ClamAV as a virus scanner, OpenLDAP, iRedAPD and etc. Installing iRedMail on AlmaLinux is a straightforward process and may take up to 10 minutes. Let’s get started! # ⚓ Linux Nightly ☛ Bind_Process_to_a_Network_Interface_With Namespaces_–_Linux_Nightly⠀⇛ Network namespaces are a feature baked into the Linux kernel that allows users to virtualize aspects of a system’s networking. This feature comes in handy in many scenarios, one of which is to bind a process to a particular network interface. Normally, the IP routing table is used to determine which interface outbound traffic is sent to. However, in cases where two network adapters are connected to the same network, we would need to create a network namespace in order to manually choose which interface certain processes should utilize. In this tutorial, we will show you the steps to create a new network namespace in Linux, create a new adapter in that namespace, how to assign IP information to the adapter, and finally how to bind processes to this interface. # ⚓ ZDNet ☛ What_are_Flatpak_and_Snap_and_why_are_they_so important_to_Linux?_|_ZDNet⠀⇛ For the longest time, Linux received a bad rap for not just being difficult to use, but for not having the software necessary to be productive. I remember, back in the early days of using Linux (I started in ’97), those issues were very much true. Not only was Linux complicated to get up and running, but installing software generally required a nightmare of dependency installations and manually compiling software. # ⚓ HowTo Geek ☛ How_to_Back_Up_and_Restore_Your_GPG_Keys_on Linux⠀⇛ Privacy is an increasingly hot topic. On Linux, the gpg command lets users encrypt files using public- key cryptography, in which case losing your encryption keys would be catastrophic. Here’s how to back them up. # ⚓ TechRepublic ☛ How_to_resolve_the_Docker_“Timeout_exceeded while_awaiting_headers”_error_|_TechRepublic⠀⇛ Jack Wallen found Docker commands failing to pull down images on various machines. The issue perplexed him, but the solution turned out to be very simple. # ⚓ Its FOSS ☛ [Fixed]_“apt-key_is_deprecated._Manage_keyring files_in_trusted.gpg.d”⠀⇛ But lately, you would notice a message about ‘apt- key being deprecated’ when you try installing packages from third-party repositories. # ⚓ TecAdmin ☛ Simple_Redirects_with_.htaccess_–_TecAdmin⠀⇛ Google Chrome is one of the most widely used web browsers in the world. Unfortunately, that also means that a lot of users will see broken links on your website if you don’t take precautions to prevent it. Re directing or ‘Redirecting’ an old URL to a new one is one such precaution you can take. # ⚓ Vitux ☛ How_to_Install_Fish_Shell_on_Ubuntu_and_Linux Mint⠀⇛ The Fish shell also known as the Friendly Interactive Shell is one of the richest Linux shells in terms of user experience. It comes with a whole bundle of useful features with the help of which users can use the command line interface very easily and conveniently. In this article, we will show you how to install Fish Shell on Ubuntu and Linux Mint. o § Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾ # § GNOME Desktop/GTK⠀➾ # ⚓ GNOME_43.beta_released⠀⇛ GNOME 43.beta is now available. It also marks the start of the UI, feature and API freezes (collectively known as The Freeze). String announcement is also in effect now, in advance of the String freeze which starts 27 August. If you’d like to target the GNOME 43 platform, this is the best time to start testing your apps or extensions. You can use the 43beta branch of the flatpak runtimes, which is now available on Flathub beta. This release moves WebKitGTK to build against libsoup3, which is now the recommended version to use. [...] This is beta quality software. This release is intended for GNOME developers and beta testers. # ⚓ 9to5Linux ☛ GNOME_Celebrates_25th_Anniversary_with Beta_Release_of_Upcoming_GNOME_43_Desktop⠀⇛ As expected, GNOME 43 Beta is packed with lots of goodies, including more improvements to WebExtensions support and a new “Take Screenshot” context menu entry for the Epiphany web browser, the ability for the GNOME Boxes virtual machine manager to fetch recommended operating systems from remote address, WWAN 5G connection support to Control Center’s Cellular page and support for privacy screens in the Display page. # ⚓ New_Alert_Sounds_–_Even_a_Stopped_Clock⠀⇛ Sounds created for GNOME 43 were generated on a mini-computer called Teensy (currently unavailable due to the global chip shortage), running software called Dirtywave Headless written by Timothy Lamb. The software includes other synthesizer engines, but majority of the sounds were made using the 4 operator FM engine. To further complicate things, my favorite algorithm is No.16 where all of the 4 oscillators are carriers, effectively being equivalent to a 4 oscillator analog synth. [...] To form a complete circle, and to my genuine surprise, my old friend Noggin from the Jeskola Buzz days has composed a great track using only samples from the gitlab issue (my involvement with music trackers predates GNOME or Free software in general. An old friend indeed). * § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾ o § New Releases⠀➾ # ⚓ IPFire Official Blog ☛ IPFire_2.27_–_Core_Update_170_is available_for_testing⠀⇛ The next Core Update is available for testing. It features new IP blocklists for the firewall engine, significant improvements to Pakfire, modernizes the default cryptographic algorithm selection for IPsec connections, as well as a new kernel, and a plethora of bug fixes and security improvements under the hood. o § Slackware Family⠀➾ # ⚓ Eric Hameleers ☛ liveslak_1.6.0_feature_release,_plus_a_new set_of_ISOs_for_Slackware_Live_Edition_|_Alien_Pastures⠀⇛ Liveslak is my favorite project, it’s fully under my control, I built it from scratch, I get good improvement ideas from its users and Patrick helps when liveslak needs something new from Slackware. There are times that it gets less attention though, and in the first half of 2022 there was not much activity – some minor updates whenever I needed to release a fresh batch of Live ISO images. Most of that inactivity was caused by burnout. But then someone mentioned Ventoy to me, because liveslak ISOs would not boot from a Ventoy disk and they hoped I would be able to fix that. At first I was like “I don’t care for it, why should I put effort in supporting it” but on second thought and reading through its web pages, my opinion changed in favor of Ventoy. In fact, it is a quite the unique piece of software and I am using it myself now. So what does it do? Ventoy takes a USB stick, formats it and puts a Linux kernel, a Grub bootloader and some smart tools on it. Then you can put as many bootable images (ISOs, IMGs and so on) on its first exfat-formatted partition as there is room. Ventoy will automatically populate the Grub boot selection screen with all bootable images it could find on that partition. You can then boot any ISO straight from that menu. [...] Ventoy is now fully supported. Liveslak 1.6.0 implements the “Ventoy-compatible” guideline. This means, Ventoy won’t apply any “hooks” to liveslak when it boots its ISO image, and liveslak figures out for itself how to boot. You’ll see the message “SLACKWARELIVE: (UEFI) Ventoy ISO boot detected…” (or ‘BIOS’ instead of ‘UEFI’ if you have an older computer). o § Fedora Family / IBM⠀➾ # ⚓ Red Hat Official ☛ Learn,_collaborate_and_innovate_at_Red Hat_Summit:_Connect_2022⠀⇛ If you’re interested in joining us, your first step is to register for the event in the city that’s most convenient. (Each location features nearly the same agenda, so you won’t miss out by picking one over the other.) Once you’re saved your seat, check out all the offerings and activities to make the most of your in-person experience. o § Debian Family⠀➾ # ⚓ Unix Men ☛ Parrot_Security_OS:_How_to_Install_It_and_What to_Expect⠀⇛ The Parrot OS is a security-focused Linux distribution comparable to Kali OS. It is based on Debian Linux and, like many Linux distributions, is open-source and free to use. Parrot is designed to offer privacy, development, and security and is equipped with various digital security and forensics tools and libraries. It also features development tools and privacy protection tools. While it comes with the MATE Desktop Environment by default, users can install other DEs if they prefer. In this post, we briefly discuss Parrot OS’s features and walk you through how to install it on your computer. [...] The Home Edition comes with the full office suite, VLC, GIMP, anonymity tools, full disk encryption, and a range of development tools to supplement the supported programming languages and frameworks. o § Canonical/Ubuntu Family⠀➾ # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ The_first_point-release_for_Ubuntu_22.04 LTS_is_now_available_|_GamingOnLinux⠀⇛ Canonical announced the release of Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS which brings together an updated download with all the bug fixes, updated apps, driver upgrades and more. Users will now also be prompted to update from earlier versions of Ubuntu, or automatically as part of update scheduling. Since this is an LTS release (long term support), it will see updates until April 2027. While not a major new distro release, it’s worth noting since this is the first proper big update since the release of Ubuntu 22.04. A long list of the changes can be seen on their official Discourse forum like NVIDIA driver updates, Mesa driver updates for AMD / Intel, various crash-bug fixes for desktop users, Snap upgrades, kernel and firmware updates and much more. # ⚓ TechRepublic ☛ What’s_new_with_Ubuntu_22.04.1?_| TechRepublic⠀⇛ After a slight delay due to an installer issue, the first point release for Ubuntu 22.04 has been officially released. Although point releases are often overlooked by users, because they aren’t major upgrades, this time around you should certainly run the upgrade immediately. The biggest reason is that this point release combines all of the security fixes and improvements that have been added since the initial release of Jammy Jellyfish. So, if you haven’t bothered to upgrade Ubuntu 22.04 since you first installed it, which you should have been doing all along, this point upgrade will add everything you’ve missed in one fell swoop. o § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾ # ⚓ Arduino ☛ Real_Robot_One_is_a_high-performance_robotic_arm that_you_can_build_yourself_|_Arduino_Blog⠀⇛ Robotic arms are versatile machines and are great for learning about principles of robotics or even doing useful work for hobbyists. That work might be picking and placing components on PCBs, packing boxes, or anything else you can imagine. But to perform that work well, the robotic arm needs more hardware than we tend to see in DIY projects. Pavel Surynek wanted a high-performance robotic arm and the result is RR1: Real Robot One, which features closed-loop feedback for accuracy and repeatability. In an open-loop robotic system, the controller only outputs positioning commands and doesn’t receive any feedback. Because it has no feedback, the controller doesn’t know if the position is accurate and can’t actively compensate for issues like backlash in the motors. Closed-loop feedback provides real-time, real-world position data to the controller, so it can ensure that results match commands. RR1 receives closed-loop feedback data from encoders on each of the six joints, which are driven by stepper motors through 3D-printed planetary gearboxes. * § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾ o ⚓ Android_Developers_Blog:_Android_13_is_in_AOSP!⠀⇛ Today we’re pushing the Android 13 source to the Android Open Source Project (AOSP) and officially releasing the newest version of Android. For developers, Android 13 is focused on our core themes of privacy and security as well as developer productivity, making it easier for you to build great experiences for users. We’ve also continued to make Android an even better OS for tablets and large screens, giving you better tools to take advantage of the 270+ million of these devices in use across the world. You can read more about Android 13 for consumers in our Keyword blog post [...] Now with today’s public release of Android 13 to AOSP, we’re asking all Android developers to finish your compatibility testing and publish your updates as soon as possible, to give your users a smooth transition to Android 13. o ⚓ LWN ☛ Android_13_released_[LWN.net]⠀⇛ Version 13 of the Android system has landed in the Android Open Source Project; the list of changes is long. o § Racism⠀➾ # ⚓ Castes_are_still_castes_in_Silicon_Valley_|_Stop_at_Zona- M⠀⇛ Two years ago I wrote here that “as far as today goes, it is interesting (but sadly unsurprising) to read that as progressive and egalitarian as it is, Silicon Valley seems to ruin Dalit lives just like Trantor, or ancient India“. [...] “[force] Big Tech to confront a millennia-old hierarchy where Indians’ social position has been based on family lineage, from the top Brahmin “priestly” class to the Dalits, shunned as “untouchables” and consigned to menial labor.” We’ll see. For the moment, I can’t help to repeat one of the comments I made in 2020: never, ever confuse “digitally competent” with “rational”. Anywhere. Humans will be humans” o § Web Browsers⠀➾ # § Mozilla⠀➾ # ⚓ Mozilla ☛ Announcing_Steve_Teixeira,_Mozilla’s_new Chief_Product_Officer [Ed: Mozilla hiring_managers_from Facebook_again]⠀⇛ I am pleased to share that Steve Teixeira has joined Mozilla as our Chief Product Officer. During our search for a Chief Product Officer, Steve stood out to us because of his extensive experience at tech and internet companies where he played instrumental roles in shaping products from research, design, security, development, and getting them out to market. [...] Steve comes to us most recently from Twitter, where he spent eight months as a Vice President of Product for their Machine Learning and Data platforms. Prior to that, Steve led Product Management, Design and Research in Facebook’s Infrastructure organization. He also spent almost 14 years at Microsoft where he was responsible for the Windows third-party software ecosystems and held leadership roles in Windows IoT, Visual Studio and the Technical Computing Group. Steve also held a variety of engineering roles at small and medium-sized companies in the Valley in spaces like developer tools, endpoint security, mobile computing, and professional services. o § Content Management Systems (CMS)⠀➾ # ⚓ A_New_WordPress.org_Homepage_and_Download_Page⠀⇛ The WordPress experience has significantly evolved in the past few years. In order to highlight the power of WordPress on WordPress.org, the last few weeks have seen a homepage and download page redesign kickoff and shared mockups. Today, these new designs are going live! Like the News pages before them, these refreshed pages are inspired by the jazzy look & feel WordPress is known for. [...] The new download page greets visitors with a new layout that makes getting started with WordPress even easier by presenting both the download and hosting options right at the top. o § FSF⠀➾ # ⚓ FSF ☛ FSD_meeting_recap_2022-08-12⠀⇛ Check out the great work our volunteers accomplished at today’s Free Software Directory (FSD) IRC meeting. Every week, free software activists from around the world come together in #fsf on Libera.Chat to help improve the (FSD). This recaps the work we accomplished at the Friday, August 12, 2022 meeting, where we saw a couple of new programs added and several entries updated. # ⚓ FSF ☛ Free_Software_Directory_meeting_on_IRC:_Friday, August_26,_starting_at_12:00_EDT_(16:00_UTC)⠀⇛ Help improve the Free Software Directory (FSD) by adding new entries and updating existing ones. Every Friday we meet on IRC in the #fsf channel on Libera.Chat. # ⚓ FSF ☛ Free_Software_Directory_meeting_on_IRC:_Friday, August_19,_starting_at_12:00_EDT_(16:00_UTC)⠀⇛ Help improve the Free Software Directory (FSD) by adding new entries and updating existing ones. Every Friday we meet on IRC in the #fsf channel on Libera.Chat. o § Openness/Sharing/Collaboration⠀➾ # § Open Access/Content⠀➾ # ⚓ LinuxSecurity ☛ Open_Source_OSINT_Tools_and Techniques⠀⇛ Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) is the practice of collecting information from published or publicly available sources for intelligence purposes. The term ‘Open Source’ within OSINT refers to the public nature of the analyzed data; publicly available information includes blogs, forums, social media sites, traditional media (TV, radio, and publications), research papers, government records, and academic journals. The scope of this information is almost infinite, concerning various people, companies, and organizations. Individuals who leverage OSINT can span from IT security professionals and state-sanctioned intelligence operatives with ethical intentions to malicious hackers with unethical intentions. o § Programming/Development⠀➾ # § Python⠀➾ # ⚓ How_to_draw_scatter_plot_using_Plotly_library_in Python.⠀⇛ Plotly is the library using which we can generate the interactive graphs which are good visualisation. Using this visualisation we can draw some conclusion or it will make us easy to conclude something by looking at the chart or graphs. In the normal scenario it becomes really difficult to arrive at the decision simply looking at data values. In this post we are going to learn how to use scatter plot using Plotly library in Python. # § Shell/Bash/Zsh/Ksh⠀➾ # ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ Everything_You_Need_to_Know_to_Start Writing_Bash_Programs⠀⇛ You can use Bash scripts to automate all sorts of tasks. Get to grips with the fundamentals and begin your Bash scripting journey. Bash scripts come in handy for automating tasks, and you’ll find they’re great for building simple command line applications. The Bash shell interprets Bash scripts, so you won’t need to install any dependencies to write and run them. Bash scripts are also portable since most Unix-based operating systems use the same shell interpreter. Knowledge of Bash scripting is a must for every developer, especially if you work with Unix-based systems. * § Leftovers⠀➾ o § Hardware⠀➾ # ⚓ Jonathan_Dowland:_Temperature_monitoring⠀⇛ I’ve been having some temperature problems in my house, so I wanted to set up some thermometers which I could read from a computer, and look at trends. I bought a pack of three cheap Xiaomi IoT thermometers. There’s some official Xiaomi tooling to access them from smartphones and suchlike, but I wanted something more open. The thermometers have some rudimentary security on them to try and ensure you use the official tooling. This is pretty weak, and the open-source Home Assistant (HA) has support for querying them. I wasn’t already running HA and it looked to do more than I needed right now. [...] It’s been long enough since I last looked at something like this that the best in class software was things like multi router traffic grapher, and rrdtool, or things that build on top of them like Munin. The world seems to have moved on (rightly or wrongly) with a cornucopia of options like Prometheus, Grafana, Graphite/Carbon, InfluxDB, statsd, etc. # ⚓ The Next Platform ☛ HPE_Slingshot_Makes_The_GPUs_Do_Control Plane_Compute⠀⇛ o § Security⠀➾ # ⚓ The New Stack ☛ Google_Ups_Its_Linux_Security_Awards [Ed: Company that put NSA back-doored ciphers in Linux kernel tries to reinvent itself (and its reputation) as Linux security champ]⠀⇛ How did they get from Kubernetes to Linux? It was the next logical move. Via kCTF, researchers could use Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) instances. If they could hack it successfully, they got a flag, and potentially some cash. But, while all way back in 1995, the Mozilla Foundation was the first organization to offer bug bounties. Now, everyone’s who anyone offers them. Google, which uses Linux in pretty much everything, is expanding its Kubernetes-based Capture-the-Flag (kCTF) project and kCTF Vulnerability Rewards Program (VRP) to pay more attention to hunting down Linux kernel bugs. # ⚓ InfoSecurity Magazine ☛ Luckymouse_Uses_Compromised_MiMi Chat_App_to_Target_Windows_and_Linux_Systems [Ed: This is not an OS issue, it's about people installing and running malware]⠀⇛ # ⚓ Developer Tech ☛ PyPI_package_installs_cryptominer_on_Linux systems [Ed: This isn’t a “Linux” issue; it’s a “malware got installed on the OS” (in this case Linux) issue; if you install malware on your system, mal (bad) things will happen. Of course Brittany Day LinuxSecurity ☛ helped_promote_this FUD, unscrutinised and unchallenged.]⠀⇛ A malicious PyPI package was used to install a Monero cryptominer on Linux systems. o § Environment⠀➾ # ⚓ Daily Maverick ☛ Small-scale_Western_Cape_fishers_call_for halt_to_gas_and_oil_exploration⠀⇛ # ⚓ Small_scale_fishers_call_for_halt_to_gas_and_oil exploration_|_GroundUp⠀⇛ About 100 small-scale fishers demonstrated along Marine Drive at the Paarden Eiland entrance to Cape Town harbour on Monday. They want government to stop approving permits for oceanic oil and gas exploration. They held placards that read: “Fisher’s rights are human rights” and “Oil and water do not mix”. Many passing motorists hooted in support of the demonstration. Liziwe McDaid, Green Connection Strategic Leader, said frustrated fishers had asked for help with the demonstration. She said the message to government was to “stop drilling the oceans”. # § Energy⠀➾ # ⚓ The_REAL_purpose_of_NFTs:_beam_hikikomoris_up_in_the metaverse_|_Stop_at_Zona-M⠀⇛ NFTs (non-fungible tokens) are files in distributed online databases, that “prove” that someone “owns” some digital file stored somewhere, usually on the Internet. This does not makes the target file any less copiable, of course, but for whatever reason people are going crazy after attaching NFTs to anything digital, and “investing” huge sums to “own” them. [...] NFTs are a metaverse drill. NFTs are training for living in the fully virtual “metaverse”, in which digital selves would become more important for their owners than their actual bodies, and markets for digital assets owned via NFTs would be as large, or larger, than those for physical ones. * § Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾ o § Technical⠀➾ # ⚓ Re:_How_Many_Computers_Do_You_Have?⠀⇛ I am limiting my list to Laptops, Desktops, Raspberry Pis and VMs. # § Internet/Gemini⠀➾ # ⚓ Mirror_of_Drew_Devault’s_capsule_available⠀⇛ Luckily, I was able to reconstruct most of Drew’s capsule using saved content from older crawls from Kennedy, my Gemini search engine. I rewrote the internal hyperlinks to be relative links, so you can read the capsule online or off. # § Programming⠀➾ # ⚓ Petri_Nets_Log_#005⠀⇛ If I understood correctly they still don’t have an actual programming language for people to use. But several people can work on the same document simultaneously like in Overleaf, CoCalc, Google Colab, Google Docs, &c. =============================================================================== * Gemini_(Primer) links can be opened using Gemini_software. It’s like the World Wide Web but a lot lighter. ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 4112 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐃𝐀𝐈𝐋𝐘 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒 ═════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 08.15.22⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Links_15/08/2022:_First_RC_of_Linux_6.x,_Linux_Lite_6.0_Reviewed⠀✐ Posted in News_Roundup at 12:01 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇GNOME bluefish⦈ § Contents⠀➾ * GNU/Linux o Audiocasts/Shows o Kernel_Space o Instructionals/Technical o Games * Distributions_and_Operating_Systems o Reviews o BSD o Debian_Family o Canonical/Ubuntu_Family o Open_Hardware/Modding * Free,_Libre,_and_Open_Source_Software o Programming/Development # SQL * Leftovers o Education o Hardware o Health/Nutrition/Agriculture o Defence/Aggression o Environment # Energy o Finance o AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics o Censorship/Free_Speech o Civil_Rights/Policing * Gemini*_and_Gopher o Personal * § GNU/Linux⠀➾ o ⚓ Linux Made Simple ☛ Linux_Weekly_Roundup_#195⠀⇛ We had another full week in the world of Linux Release with Ubuntu 220.04.1, SparkyLinux 6.4, ExTiX 22.8, Voyager Live 22.04.1.1, EndeavourOS 22.7, and Garuda Linux 220808. o § Audiocasts/Shows⠀➾ # ⚓ The_Cottonwood_Disaster_|_LINUX_Unplugged_471⠀⇛ Our garage Linux server has died, and this time we’re looking at data loss. We attempt to revive our zombie box and reflect on what went wrong. # ⚓ GNU World Order (Audio Show) ☛ GNU_World_Order_473⠀⇛ **sbotools** shasum # ⚓ Open Source Security (Audio Show) ☛ Episode_336_–_We_don’t have_data_data,_we_have_security_biases⠀⇛ Josh and Kurt talk about our lack of security and some of the data bias problems that can emerge. A lot of what we think is security data is really just biased data. This is OK as long as we understand the data is broken and know this is the first step in a longer journey. # ⚓ Video ☛ OBS_28.0_Will_Change_OBS_On_Linux_Forever_– Invidious⠀⇛ I rely on OBS for all of my videos and OBS 28.0 is going to be a massive update to the project swapping over to a new QT 6 UI and finally shipping the websocket plugin as a first party plugin o § Kernel Space⠀➾ # ⚓ LKML:_Linus_Torvalds:_Linux_6.0-rc1⠀⇛ So here we are, two weeks later, and the merge window has closed. People are chasing down one active bug, and I'm sure there are others hiding that just need more people to do testing, but that's kind of the point of rc1: all the big changes have been merged, and now we need to calm it down and chase down any problems. Despite the major number change, there's nothing fundamentally different about this release - I've long eschewed the notion that major numbers are meaningful, and the only reason for a "hierarchical" numbering system is to make the numbers easier to remember and distinguish. Which is why when the minor number gets to around 20 I prefer to just increment the major number instead and reset to something smaller. "Nothing fundamentally different about this release" obviously doesn't mean there aren't lots of changes, though. There's about 13.5k non-merge commits in here (and 800+ merges), so 6.0 looks to be another fairly sizable release. I actually was hoping that we'd get some of the first rust infrastructure, and the multi-gen LRU VM, but neither of them happened this time around. There's always more releases. But there's a lot of continued development pretty much all over the place, with the "shortlog" being much too long to post and thus - as always for rc1 notices - below only contains my "merge log". You can definitely get a kind of high-level overview by just scanning that, but obviously it's worth once again pointing out that the people mentioned in the merge log are just the maintainers I pull from, and there's more than 1700 developers involved when you start looking at the full details in the git tree. And, once again, this is one of those releases where you should not look at the diffstat too closely, because more than half of it is yet another AMD GPU register dump. And the Habanalabs Gaudi2 people want to play in that space too, but they don't reach quite the same lofty results that the AMD GPU people have become so famous for. I'm sure it's just a matter of time. The CPU people also show up in the JSON files that describe the perf events, but they look absolutely tiny compared to the 'asic_reg' auto-generated GPU and AI hardware definitions. So just avert your eyes from those parts if you decide that you actually want to look at the diffs themselves. Once you do that, the stats look pretty normal, with roughly 60% driver updates (all over, but gpu, networking and sound are the big updates - again, that's pretty much par for the course). The rest is a mix of arch updates, filesystems, tooling, and just random changes all over. In all its glory (so all those AMD GPU hardware definitions etc included), it's 13099 files changed, 1280295 insertions(+), 341210 deletions(-) just because I was curious and looked. Oh, and after I had already decided to call this kernel 6.0, a few Chinese developers piped up and pointed out that "5.20" is a more wholesome version of the Western "4.20" internet- famous number. So if you want to call this "Linux 5.20", go right ahead. Because the kernel version numbers really are entirely made up and have no intrinsic meaning. But whatever you call it, please help test this, so that we can get it all in shape for the final release (hopefully early October). Linus # ⚓ LWN ☛ Kernel_prepatch_6.0-rc1⠀⇛ Linus has released 6.0-rc1 and closed the merge window for this release. # ⚓ The Register UK ☛ Linux_6.0_debuts,_missing_some_Rusty_bits •_The_Register⠀⇛ Emperor Penguin Linus Torvalds has released the first release candidate for Linux 6.0, but doesn’t mind what you call it. “After I had already decided to call this kernel 6.0, a few Chinese developers piped up and pointed out that ’5.20′ is a more wholesome version of the Western ’4.20′ internet-famous number,” he wrote in his announcement that Linux 6.0 rc1 has been released. “4.20″ is a reference to a day on which some celebrate marijuana, while “5.20″ does likewise for magic mushrooms. “So if you want to call this ‘Linux 5.20′, go right ahead,” Torvalds wrote. “Because the kernel version numbers really are entirely made up and have no intrinsic meaning.” That this week’s release has the 6.0 label is still nice to know, as discussion on the Linux kernel mailing list in recent weeks used 5.20 and 6.0 interchangeably. As The Register has already reported, the release does not make major changes to the kernel but does include many useful updates – such as more RISC- V support, code to drive Intel’s Gaudi accelerators, and improved ACPI handling. o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾ # ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_To_Install_Docker_on_Rocky_Linux_9_–_idroot⠀⇛ In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Docker on Rocky Linux 9. For those of you who didn’t know, Docker CE is a free and open-source containerization platform. Docker uses the Linux Kernel to create the containers on top of an operating system. Which is used to create, deploy and run the applications. This article assumes you have at least basic knowledge of Linux, know how to use the shell, and most importantly, you host your site on your own VPS. The installation is quite simple and assumes you are running in the root account, if not you may need to add ‘sudo‘ to the commands to get root privileges. I will show you the step-by-step installation of Docker containers on Rocky Linux. 9. # ⚓ Video ☛ How_to_install_Wire_Desktop_on_Pop!_OS_22.04_– Invidious⠀⇛ In this video, we are looking at how to install Wire Desktop on Pop!_OS 22.04. # ⚓ Linux Made Simple ☛ How_to_install_Tecknix_Client_on_a Chromebook⠀⇛ Today we are looking at how to install Tecknix Client on a Chromebook. Please follow the video/ audio guide as a tutorial where we explain the process step by step and use the commands below. # ⚓ FOSSLinux ☛ How_to_list_services_in_Ubuntu_|_FOSS_Linux⠀⇛ In Windows, services, tasks, and processes can be viewed using the task manager application. Similarly, in Ubuntu, you can view all the services using the command line. If you are a beginner or using ubuntu for general or personal use, you may not have felt the need to check the services. # ⚓ Fedora Magazaine ☛ Hibernation_in_Fedora_Workstation [Ed: Article recycled from last Fedora release]⠀⇛ # ⚓ Jamie McClelland ☛ Web_caching_is_hard⠀⇛ # ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_To_Install_Opera_Browser_on_Linux_Mint_21_– idroot⠀⇛ In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Opera Browser on Linux Mint 21. For those of you who didn’t know, Opera is a freeware, cross- platform web browser developed by Opera Software and used web browser based on the Chromium browser project. Some users love Opera for its security features such as an ad blocker, battery saver, and free VPN offering for secure internet access. This article assumes you have at least basic knowledge of Linux, know how to use the shell, and most importantly, you host your site on your own VPS. The installation is quite simple and assumes you are running in the root account, if not you may need to add ‘sudo‘ to the commands to get root privileges. I will show you the step-by-step installation of an Opera Browser on Linux Mint 21 (Vanessa). o § Games⠀➾ # ⚓ Screen Rant ☛ How_Nvidia’s_Open-Source_Drivers_Will_Impact Linux_Gamers⠀⇛ Nvidia’s new R515 driver will provide an open- source driver for the community for the first time, hopefully giving the Linux community a way to more easily use Nvidia graphics cards in their systems, and Nvidia providing more open-source technology standards has many benefits. Unfortunately, open- sourcing software has not been a staple with Nvidia and, as such, has caused a bit of an uproar in their community. But with the new R515 driver, this may be changing for the better. People have been begging Nvidia to be more open with their driver software, similar to companies like Intel and AMD, which provide open-source drivers for their products. But Nvidia has, until now, been closed-source with their drivers, which doesn’t cause too many issues for Windows users, but for the Linux community, it has made using Nvidia GPUs more challenging to optimize. Since Nvidia drivers are not open-sourced, developers are unable to look at the source code of a driver and develop their software with the full knowledge of how the drivers were coded, unlike with an AMD driver, for example, which is open-source, allowing for developers to see how the drivers were coded completely. [...] Overall, the announcement of officially providing open-source Nvidia drivers is a huge boon. This will give developers much more information about the drivers they are developing software and games for, as well as provide the community to help develop new drivers since they are now open-source. The Linux community will also benefit over time as Linux has a good chance of becoming more compatible and reliable with Nvidia GPUs as they are with AMD and Intel, which will help with performance and efficiency, as well as with gaming. With Nvidia going open-source, it may continue to put more pressure on other tech companies to be more open about their technologies which will also help support a more free and open technological future. * § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾ o ⚓ Barry Kauler ☛ Limine_3.16_compiled_in_OE⠀⇛ o § Reviews⠀➾ # ⚓ Distro Watch ☛ Review:_Linux_Lite_6.0⠀⇛ It has been two years since a DistroWatch review of Linux Lite. There are at least 93 distros on DistroWatch that support the Xfce desktop environment, but the out-of-the-box configuration of Linux Lite is pleasing, simple to use, and straightforward to most computer users. Linux Lite describes itself as, “… a ‘gateway operating system’. Your first simple, fast and free stop in the world of Linux.” Does it meet the muster? Can it truly be a strong first stop in the world of Linux? Installation Linux Lite 6.0, code name Fluorite, was released on 31 May 2022 at 16:23 (it’s unclear if that was local time for me or for the server). The installation process is very simple, and it uses one of the most straightforward installation wizards. Even a completely new Linux user could likely click their way through a Linux Lite install. The live environment boots to a Lite Welcome splash screen with such options as Install Updates, Install Drivers, Set a Restore Point, etc. While some of these features may be useful, the most obvious choice is Install Now, thus beginning the installation process. WiFi worked out of the box, which is always good news. The installer then gives the user the option to download updates while installing and we can opt to install third-party software for WiFi and graphics drivers. [...] Out of the box, Linux Lite is an easy step into the world of Linux computing. It has useful features, it is not overly bloated with unnecessary software, it has great defaults that a user coming from another operating system could learn to love. With the help of Internet searching, any specific issues with Linux Lite can be easily solved. Would I recommend Linux Lite to a user coming from a different operating system? Yes, I might. If the user was coming from Windows and was very apprehensive about using unfamiliar interfaces, Linux Lite has a great theme and a very solid base. o § BSD⠀➾ # ⚓ Ruben Schade ☛ Rubenerd:_A_year_of_using_a_FreeBSD_laptop without_a_GUI⠀⇛ I explained that once I’d assembled the VPNs and basic tooling I needed, I realised none of it required a graphical environment at all. I uninstalled Xorg, and since then have been using tmux as my “window manager”. I’ll admit, I left out that I’d eschewed (gesundheit) a desktop environment for my old friend fluxbox first, but even that seemed redundant given I was only using it to spawn a single terminal window with tabs. Removing xorg entirely was the logical next step. [...] It sounds so obvious in retrospect, but not having a wall of distractions in front of your face is fantastic for writing. I’ve made so much more progress in my various silly sci-fi novels, technical writing, and many of the posts I’ve since published here. o § Debian Family⠀➾ # ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ Spiral_Linux:_Making_Debian_Easy_to_Use_for Everyone⠀⇛ Spiral Linux makes it easier for Linux newcomers to adapt to the operating system by providing a stable, Debian-based environment. Debian is one of the most widely used, trusted Linux distros. It wouldn’t be wrong to say that it is a base distribution for many other OSes, making it one of the most in-demand Linux versions. Spiral Linux is one such distribution that owes its roots to Debian. Its focus lies in fostering simplicity and providing out-of-the-box features and functionality to the end users. If you are new to open-source operating systems and want to make an acquaintance with an easy-to-use Linux distro, it’s time to turn to Spiral Linux. [...] Many users are questioning the need for yet another new Debian-based Linux distro, considering plenty are already available in the market. You might find Spiral Linux an easy OS to install and use if you are a new user. In short, Spiral Linux works, and it works well. It gives you everything you might need to ease yourself into the world of Linux. You can easily migrate to another OS to try your newly acquired skills when you are a little more familiar with its various nuances. To make the most out of your Linux usage experiences, you should always keep your requirements in mind and then pick and choose an operating system that suits you best. # ⚓ Linuxiac ☛ SparkyLinux_6.4_Is_Here_as_the_Fourth_Update_in the_6.x_Series⠀⇛ The SparkyLinux team has announced the release of SparkyLinux 6.4, the latest stable update in the project’s 6.x series. Sparky is a fast, lightweight, and fully customizable OS built on Debian that offers a few versions for different users and tasks. One of the distribution’s distinguishing features is that it provides versions based on both the stable (SparkyLinux Stable) and test (SparkyLinux Semi- Rolling) branches of Debian. The SparkyLinux 6.4 ‘Stable’ version features ISOs with three different desktop environments – LXQt, Xfce, and KDE. At the same time, the distro ‘Semi- Rolling’ version, which is based on Debian’s testing branch, features more up-to-date packages and comes with the same desktop environments as their ‘Stable’ version plus MATE desktop environment added. o § Canonical/Ubuntu Family⠀➾ # ⚓ Yet_Another_Me_–_Debuginfod_is_coming_to_Ubuntu⠀⇛ These past couple of months I have been working to bring debuginfod to Ubuntu. I thought it would be a good idea to make this post and explain a little bit about what the service is and how I’m planning to deploy it. [...] With more and more GNU/Linux distributions offering a debuginfod service to their users, I strongly believe that Ubuntu cannot afford to stay out of this “party” anymore. Fortunately, I have a manager who not only agrees with me but also turned the right knobs in order to make this project one of my priorities for this development cycle. The deployment of this service will be made in stages. The first one, whose results are due to be announced in the upcoming weeks, encompasses indexing and serving all of the available debug symbols from the official Ubuntu repository. In other words, the service will serve everything from main, universe and multiverse, from every supported Ubuntu release out there. This initial (a.k.a. “alpha”) stage will also allow us to have an estimate of how much the service is used, so that we can better determine the resources allocated to it. o § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾ # ⚓ Sending_Sensor_Data_Over_WiFi_–_learn.sparkfun.com⠀⇛ We’ve shown you before how to send sensor data over WiFi, but this time we’re taking it a step further. Our newest tutorial shows you how to use this WiFi data connection to then visualize your data in real time on an IoT Dashboard. # ⚓ SparkFun Electronics ☛ Spend_All_Day_With_RTK⠀⇛ If you’re in need of high precision positioning, look no further than utilizing the power of real time kinematics (RTK). We now have a full page of resources for all your RTK questions! Ever wondered what all the hype is with RTK and why your positioning project could use it? Ever wanted to know the specs of our different RTK receiver boards at a glance to see which one is right for your project, or been curious about the applications of our RTK products? * § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾ o § Programming/Development⠀➾ # ⚓ Matt Rickard ☛ Developers_Should_Deploy_Their_Own_Code⠀⇛ This is the platonic ideal. We’re not there yet, but the all signs point to this rather than specialization. Applications and their infrastructure (functions, queues, permissions, runtime) have always been closely intertwined. Fewer handoffs mean quicker deployments and less context loss. # ⚓ Jim Nielsen ☛ Markdown_Sans_Front_Matter⠀⇛ I changed how I format my blog posts. I’ve been testing this new format for a while and I like it so much I retroactively went through previous posts and re-formatted them too. In this way, the purist in me has beat out the practical guy. But hey, it’s an eternal struggle. The practical guy will be back when the purist gets knocked over the head by the complexity of the real world and suddenly realizes the value of the practical guy’s argument. [...] Now when I start a blog post, I have a blank editor staring at me and I just start writing, not worrying about the technical details I’ll have to add later. # ⚓ Chris ☛ Reading_Notes:_Accelerated_Expertise⠀⇛ Specifically, there are some things which we are good at teaching people to do, like calculus or playing the piano. We have well-tested syllabi for these types of things. Then there are some things we just don’t know how to teach people, like software engineering, solving crossword puzzles, flying helicopters, and noticing improvised explosive devices in urban environments. Some people get really good at them, and others don’t. If you ask an expert what they are doing so well, they will shrug and go, “I don’t know, but it felt right at the time.” These are the types of skills Accelerated Expertise deals with. Anyway. These are a few of my notes from the book. These points are, to the best of my recollection, paraphrasing what the authors wrote. Most of it was backed by at least somewhat solid research. My personal experiences don’t always agree with this, but it’s still worth keeping in mind. [...] It is important that training also covers conceptual models and abstractions. Giving the learner the right language, so to speak, helps them communicate with the instructor and gives them tools to reflect on their own. # ⚓ Chris ☛ Default_To_Large_Modules⠀⇛ When you design a system of decent size, whether it’s software or something else, you are going to have to decompose it into subsystems, or modules. # § SQL⠀➾ # ⚓ Guru:_Regular_Expressions,_Part_2_–_IT_Jungle⠀⇛ In the first part of this series, I showed how to replace characters in a string using SQL and regular expressions. This time, I’ll show other regular expressions that are available for us to use. The regular expression functions I’ll show are REGEXP_COUNT and REGEXP_LIKE and the examples come from production programs that I’ve recently implemented. In the first example (Figure 1), I want to get a count of the number of occurrences of a pattern within a string. To make this more interesting, I’m searching for two different patterns within a sting. To accomplish this objective, I used REGEXP_COUNT to get a count of how many times the pattern appears in a string. * § Leftovers⠀➾ o ⚓ Why_Developers_Are_Building_So_Many_Side_Projects_|_Future⠀⇛ From unleashing creativity to mitigating risk, Ben Stokes of Tiny Projects shares some of the main reasons why developers are building so many side projects. o ⚓ Ruben Schade ☛ Moving_forward,_with_@kiriappeee,_@geofftech⠀⇛ I’ve been in a melancholic funk for a couple of years now, as I’m sure we all have been. I’ve felt rudderless, tired, distant, and depressed to tears. Travel has been out of the question, and it’s been difficult to find joy in the things I usually love. Some days are easier than others, but frankly I haven’t felt it this bad since my mum died, bundled with all the regret that I couldn’t save her. o § Education⠀➾ # ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Westacott_joins_academic_gravy_train as_VC_salaries_go_up_and_profits_soar_–_Michael_West⠀⇛ The appointment of a lobbyist to lead a Sydney university only emphasises the tightening grip of business on higher education. And as humanities courses are jettisoned and academics laid off work, the salaries of university chiefs have leapt into the stratosphere, writes Michael Sainsbury. If there was any doubt about the undue influence that the corporate sector has played in the country’s universities it has been put to bed with the appointment of Business Council of Australia chief Jennifer Westacott as Chancellor of Western Sydney University. Westacott will retain her role at the BCA as well as continuing her nine-year-old board tenure at former coal miner and retailer Wesfarmers. At the BCA she has pushed for lower wages and lower company taxes, and in 2014 celebrated the Abbott government’s repeal of the carbon tax which set Australia back almost a decade on climate change action and helped set up the current energy crisis. o § Hardware⠀➾ # ⚓ Power10_Midrange_Machine:_The_Power_E1050_–_IT_Jungle⠀⇛ This is fifth part of our in-depth coverage of the entry and midrange Power10 machines that were announced on July 12. This week, we end the hardware deep dives with a look at the Power E1050 midrange machine. This is one of the best and most capable servers that Big Blue has ever designed, and it is a damned shame that it does not run the IBM i operating system. # ⚓ CNX Software ☛ AAEON_EPIC-TGH7_SBC_supports_up_to_Intel Xeon_W-11865MRE_(Tiger_Lake_H)_processor_–_CNX_Software⠀⇛ It’s not often we come across an Intel Xeon SBC, but that’s just what AAEON EPIC-TGH7 single board computer offers thanks to a choice of Intel Tiger Lake H processors up to the Xeon W-11865MRE octa- core/16-thread processor. # ⚓ IBM_i_PTF_Guide,_Volume_24,_Number_33_–_IT_Jungle⠀⇛ # ⚓ IBM_Puts_The_Finishing_Touches_On_PowerHA_For_IBM_i_7.5_– IT_Jungle⠀⇛ If you have been waiting to use the new release of PowerHA SystemMirror for IBM i 7.5, then we have good news for you: IBM has finally completed the paperwork necessary to enable customers to actually get it. o § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾ # ⚓ CoryDoctorow ☛ A_dark_money_group_is_lying_about_Medicare cuts⠀⇛ The “American Prosperity Alliance” does not exist, except as an anonymously controlled bank account that has paid for the production and dissemination of a slick ad that spreads the falsehood that the Democrats have cut $300b from Medicare: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xCep6NvbhE Let me repeat: this is a lie. What “American Prosperity Alliance” is talking about here is a provision in the bill that allows Medicare to negotiate drug prices, rather than simply paying whatever Big Pharma wants to charge. This practice is why Americans pay more for their drugs than, say, Canadians: https://personalimportation.org/dramatic-drug- price-differences-canada-vs-us/ To be clear: the new bill will curb the eye- watering public price-gouging that Big Pharma enjoys, and halt the transfer of $300b in public money to pharma companies’ shareholders, by allowing Medicare to bargain to get prices similar to those paid by other governments in countries like Australia, Canada, and the UK. There is no universe in which this a $300b cut to Medicare. It’s like the Dems have pledged to halt $300b in fraud and the American Prosperity Alliance went to the country’s elderly and sick and screamed: “They’re cutting your benefits!” In fact, it’s not like that – it is that. o § Defence/Aggression⠀➾ # ⚓ Mark Curtis ☛ Nato_knew_terrorists_would_gain_from_toppling Gadaffi⠀⇛ Britain’s military knew that fighters from an Al Qaeda-linked terrorist organisation were benefiting from the overthrow of Colonel Gaddafi in 2011, but continued to support Nato airstrikes in Libya for another two months. The revelation raises serious questions about British foreign policy and whether the UK’s then prime minister David Cameron misled parliament. In early September 2011, Cameron updated the House of Commons about the situation in Libya, telling MPs: “This revolution was not about extreme Islamism; al-Qaeda played no part in it.” However, the Ministry of Defence (MOD) had assessed the month before that: “The 17 February Brigade is likely to be an enduring player in [the] transition” away from Gaddafi’s regime and had “political linkages” to Libya’s rebel leadership, the National Transitional Council. # ⚓ The Wire ☛ Santhal_Hul_Wasn’t_Just_the_First_Anti-British Revolt,_It_Was_Against_All_Exploitation⠀⇛ The 19th century rebellion actually began as a movement against exploitation by Indian ‘upper’ caste zamindars, moneylenders, merchants and police officials who had come to dominate the economic sphere of Santhal life. [...] One such popular act of ritualised remembering is that of the great Santhal rebellion that took place in mid-19th century in British India. o § Environment⠀➾ # § Energy⠀➾ # ⚓ Ruben Schade ☛ Rubenerd:_Calling_git_a_blockchain_to rebrand_bad_tech⠀⇛ To shore up their crumbling legitimacy in the face of growing and justified scrutiny, blockchain advocates are on a rebranding exercise that’s as cynical as it is transparent! o § Finance⠀➾ # ⚓ Counterpunch_to_Economic_History⠀⇛ Well, most textbooks talk about industrial capitalism as if the function of banks is to make loans to factories to build plants and equipment and hire more labor to produce goods and keep the economy going, and that’s what everybody expected banks to do in the late 19th century # ⚓ Matt Rickard ☛ Growing_the_Pie⠀⇛ Not every negotiation is open to integrative bargaining. For example, in car buying negotiations, the buyer wants to pay as little as possible, the seller wants to charge as much as possible, and it’s often not a repeated transaction. But some are. # ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ All_caretaker,_no_responsibility:_how a_dying_government_slipped_freebies_to_its_mates_–_Michael West⠀⇛ On its way to electoral oblivion, the Morrison government kept the dollars flowing to select beneficiaries, in defiance of the 70-year-old parliamentary “caretaker” convention, writes #Mate. On May 16, five days before the election, the then Minister for Industry, Energy and Emissions Reduction, Angus Taylor, announced a $30 million grant to Boral to “explore the feasibility of developing a carbon capture plant in the Southern Highlands.” Given the energy policies of the Labor and the Coalition were very much at odds, this grant appears to have been a breach of the caretaker conventions. (Curiously, Taylor’s facebook video about it has since been deleted, but the announcement features proudly on the Boral website.) Call them the $600,000 (an hour) men (and women). That’s how much taxpayer money the Morrison government lavished on grants every hour during the six long weeks of the election campaign. # ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ KPMG,_EY_revenues_surge._What’s_the Scam?_–_Michael_West⠀⇛ There’s money in influence peddling and paper shuffling. KPMG just announced a 16% jump in revenue to $2bn in the wake of EY’s recent 18% jump. Top brass at both Big 4 advisory houses are swimming in bonuses. What’s the scam? The scam is the Big 4 are secretive partnerships, not companies, and they don’t have to disclose where their money is coming from, even though they are the most powerful private institutions in the world. Most of the income growth comes from governments. It’s our money, public money, and the Big 4 have shown a lot of flair in recent years getting their hands on it. # ⚓ Interest_Rate_Hikes_Will_Not_Save_Us_from_Inflation_|_WEB OF_DEBT_BLOG⠀⇛ In prescribing cures for inflation, economists rely on the diagnosis of Nobel laureate Milton Friedman: inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon—too much money chasing too few goods. But that equation has three variables: too much money (“demand”) chasing (the “velocity” of spending) too few goods (“supply”). And “orthodox” economists, from Lawrence Summers to the Federal Reserve, seem to be focusing only on the “demand” variable. # ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Childhood:_the_new_frontier_of economic_rationalism_(with_some_help_from_Twiggy)⠀⇛ Governments are backing more preschool places even as the sector grapples with staff shortages and industrial unrest. The plan has been linked to the ambition for massive productivity gains. Are the under-fives of Australia the latest conscripts in our seemingly endless neoliberal push for higher productivity? Mark Sawyer examines the evidence. It’s been touted as a radical revamp of the education systems of Australia’s two biggest states. From 2030, all children in NSW and Victoria will be able to access play-based learning for free in the year before they start kindergarten. “It’s a game changer and it’s exciting and there is big money behind it because we have to do well for our kids,” NSW Education Minister Sarah Mitchell said when the program was announced in June. o § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾ # ⚓ Chris ☛ Group_Decision-Making_and_Debate⠀⇛ I couldn’t write an article on parliamentary procedure without talking about alternatives to majority voting. One of the flaws of majority voting is that in effect, it’s the majority deciding what’s best for the minority, with very little consideration for what the minority thinks. There are two possible reasons majority voting can work. One of them is less sinister: if each participant chooses to selflessly accept the majority opinion regardless of what it is for the greater good of the group, the majority vote will work. The other reason is that the majority outnumbers the minority and can, hypothetically, threaten them with violence if they don’t comply with the majority decision. I suspect this is the historical background behind the idea of the majority vote. 50 % is simply the smallest number you can have while not risking having the vote overturned by force. # ⚓ IT Wire ☛ iTWire_–_Myths_spread_about_news_media_bargaining code_before_review_lands⠀⇛ Former Australian Competition and Consumer Commission chairman, Rod Sims is continuing to try and spin the myth that the News Media Bargaining Code, which was put in place last year, can be used to dictate things to either Google or Facebook. In Sims’ world, the code, which allowed news organisations to negotiate payments with Google and Facebook for content use, was put in place “despite threats, widely publicised around the world, to remove Google Search from Australia and to take all news and more off Facebook”. The quote comes from a piece Sims wrote for The Conversation, coincidentally one of the two eligible sites with which Facebook has refused to negotiate a deal. The other site spurned by Facebook is SBS. But Sims has forgotten to provide the context that the code was only passed after the two technology firms listed a number of conditions, which the government had no choice but to accept. o § Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾ # ⚓ AccessNow ☛ Ooredoo’s_plans_to_leave_Myanmar_hands_military full_control_of_nation’s_telco_sector_—_it_must_mitigate_the human_rights_risks_–_Access_Now⠀⇛ Telecommunications company Ooredoo must put the safety of millions of people in Myanmar first, and not abandon control of the country’s last internationally-owned telco to the junta. The Qatari-owned provider has reportedly informed Myanmar regulators of its plans to exit the country. There are indications that it will likely sell its operations to companies with links to the military and potential ties to sanctioned actors and entities, likely leaving Myanmar with a telco sector entirely dominated by occupying forces. Access Now and four other organizations reached out to the Ooredoo Group’s CEO on August 11, 2022, to push for constructive engagement and dialogue with stakeholders to address and protect against imminent human rights risks of this sale. This was a follow-up to a first letter sent by Access Now to Ooredoo Myanmar’s CEO on July 21, 2022. The company has not responded to, or acknowledged, either communication. “The Myanmar junta’s brazen brutality is evident from its recent and planned executions of pro- democracy activists. The military will ruthlessly track using any technological means it is allowed to access and target people to crush any resistance,” said Raman Jit Singh Chima, Senior International Counsel and Asia Pacific Policy Director at Access Now. “In this environment, all stakeholders, especially businesses, must conduct heightened due diligence to ensure that their actions will not facilitate the junta’s plan to eradicate dissent and destroy every platform for protest.” o § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾ # ⚓ Use_of_App_to_Record_MGNREGA_Attendance_‘Violation’_of Worker_Rights,_Act_|_NewsClick⠀⇛ The Peoples’ Action for Employment Guarantee (PAEG) has opposed the rural development ministry’s May 13 order discontinuing manual attendance at Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) scheme worksites with more than 20 workers and replacing it with the National Mobile Monitoring System (NMMS) app. Terming the decision as a violation of law that will be regressive to the gains made in efforts to strengthen worksite transparency and exclude women, the PAEG—a group of academicians and activists attempting to ensure better implementation of NREGA via research, advocacy and public intervention—said that the move is fraught with technical challenges. * § Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾ o § Personal⠀➾ # ⚓ A_Misuse_of_Terms⠀⇛ =============================================================================== * Gemini_(Primer) links can be opened using Gemini_software. 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