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𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 178 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at http://techrights.org/2022/09/22/netcraft-microsoft/#comments Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2022/09/22/netcraft-microsoft/ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 09.22.22⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Microsoft_Will_Soon_be_Unlisted_in_Netcraft’s_Web_Survey_(Due_to_Minuscule, Negligible_Market_Share)⠀✐ Posted in Microsoft, Servers, Windows at 4:15 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz Released_this_past_evening: 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇September_2022_Web_Server_Survey⦈_ Summary: A few hours ago this was released by Netcraft; it seems clear that Netcraft’s tables already omit Microsoft in all except 2, where Microsoft is placed last and rapidly loses share (it'll_fall_out_of_sight_soon) ⠀⣿⢿⢿⣿⡿⢿⣿⢿⢿⡿⣿⡿⣿⣿⡿⣿⡿⣿⡿⣿⢿⢿⡿⡿⢿⣿⡿⡿⣿⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ 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⠀⣿⡏⣭⠙⡛⢻⠟⢙⠉⠟⠛⡛⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡯⢙⠍⣋⢽⡏⣏⠹⡍⣿⡯⡉⡍⣏⣹⡝⡉⠙⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡭⡉⡝⢍⣟⡉⢉⠭⣹⣿⠍⢫⢹⡭⡉⡹⠙⡹⣿⣿⣿⣿⢫⢹⡭⣉⡹⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⠀⠋⣉⣀⣀⣈⣀⣁⣈⣀⣀⣀⣁⣈⣉⣉⣉⣉⣉⣁⣈⣀⣀⣁⣁⣁⣈⣀⣉⣁⣈⣈⣀⣈⣉⣁⣁⣉⣉⣉⣉⣉⣉⣉⣉⣉⣉⣀⣀⣈⣈⣀⣀⣀⣁⣈⣉⣀⣁⣀⣁⣁⣈⣈⣈⣉⣉⣉⣉⣁⣀⣀⣀⣈⣉⡉⢻⣿ ⠀⠀⡏⠛⠉⢛⡛⢛⢛⠻⡛⣋⢹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡉⣏⢽⢋⠯⢹⡉⣿⣿⣏⡹⣏⡹⠉⡉⠛⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣏⢹⡉⣯⡉⢩⠫⢹⣿⣿⣏⢹⣉⢭⡙⠝⡹⣿⣿⣿⡿⢫⢹⢫⢩⡹⣿⡇⢸⣿ ⠀⠀⠷⠿⠶⠷⠶⠷⠶⠾⠶⠿⠾⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠶⠶⠶⠷⠷⠾⠶⠿⠿⠷⠾⠶⠾⠶⠷⠷⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠷⠾⠶⠶⠶⠶⠷⠿⠿⠿⠷⠶⠶⠶⠾⠾⠾⠿⠿⠿⠿⠷⠶⠷⠶⠾⠿⠇⢸⣿ ⠀⣷⡐⠐⠖⠂⡒⡖⠒⠒⢒⠒⠒⠒⣲⢒⡒⠒⡖⡂⠒⠒⢰⡖⠂⣲⠒⢒⠒⢶⢀⠒⢒⡶⣒⢒⠖⢒⠒⡒⢶⡒⠒⠒⡒⢲⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣿⣿ ⠀⣿⣷⣷⣷⣶⣾⣷⣾⣶⣾⣾⣶⣶⣿⣾⣷⣶⣷⣷⣶⣾⣾⣷⣶⣿⣶⣾⣷⣿⣾⣶⣿⣿⣶⣶⣷⣾⣦⣾⣶⣷⣷⣶⣷⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⠀⣿⡏⣙⠟⠛⠟⠛⠹⡻⢛⠟⠛⢻⡿⢻⢻⠟⠛⡟⠟⡛⣟⠙⢋⢋⢛⠙⣿⠙⠟⠟⡛⡛⠻⠛⠛⣿⠉⠟⠟⠛⠻⠻⠛⠛⢙⠟⠻⢛⣏⠛⡙⡋⡋⢻⡏⠙⠛⢛⢟⠟⠟⡻⢛⡟⣙⠙⠟⠛⠛⢟⠛⠻⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⠀⣿⣷⣶⣦⣶⣶⣴⣶⣴⣠⣶⣴⣿⣷⣶⣶⣆⣰⣴⣦⣦⣷⣴⣦⣦⣴⣴⣿⣿⣦⣶⣷⣴⣼⣶⣦⣿⣴⣦⣆⣴⣴⣴⣶⣦⣦⣶⣼⣾⣧⣴⣴⣤⣦⣼⣷⣿⣤⣾⣦⣦⣶⣷⣼⣷⣴⣾⣦⣶⣧⣄⣴⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⠀⣿⡿⡻⠿⠟⠟⡿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⢻⣟⢛⡛⢛⢻⡛⡟⠛⡛⣿⡛⠛⢻⡟⢻⠛⠛⠻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠟⣿⡛⡛⢛⠛⣟⠛⠛⡟⣿⣿⠛⠛⢻⢛⢛⠛⠛⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢛⢻⠛⠟⡻⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⠀⣿⣧⣷⣀⣶⣼⣷⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣶⣧⣿⣼⣮⣦⣧⣯⣶⣵⣿⣯⣶⣽⣭⣴⣵⣷⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣶⣦⣷⣧⣼⣾⣤⣬⣥⣷⣿⣿⣥⣯⣦⣮⣦⣾⣴⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⣮⣦⣭⣶⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⠀⣿⡿⢻⠟⡿⢿⢻⠻⡿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡟⢻⡿⢻⡛⡛⣿⠛⠟⢛⢛⣿⣛⢛⢻⡟⠻⠛⠛⠻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡛⢻⠟⡟⢛⠛⡟⠛⡛⡟⢻⣿⡛⡛⢻⠛⣛⠛⠛⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢛⢻⡛⡿⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⠀⠛⠓⠂⠈⠂⠐⠙⠒⠃⠙⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠋⠘⠓⠐⠈⠉⠊⠊⠋⠚⠚⠛⠁⠙⠚⠑⠘⠑⠓⠂⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠉⠂⠒⠂⠐⠑⠐⠑⠑⠒⠘⠛⠈⠃⠃⠊⠂⠙⠐⠘⠛⠛⠛⠛⠊⠂⠃⠓⠐⠛⠛⢻⣿ 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Debian_Family o Canonical/Ubuntu_Family o Open_Hardware/Modding o Mobile_Systems/Mobile_Applications * Free,_Libre,_and_Open_Source_Software o Web_Browsers_and_Fonts o Productivity_Software/LibreOffice/Calligra o Education o FSF o GNU_Projects o Programming/Development # Perl_/_Raku # Python # Java # Rust o Standards/Consortia * Leftovers o Science o Health/Nutrition/Agriculture o Security # Fear,_Uncertainty,_Doubt/Fear-mongering/Dramatisation # Privacy/Surveillance o Censorship/Free_Speech o Freedom_of_Information_/_Freedom_of_the_Press o Monopolies # Trademarks * Gemini*_and_Gopher o Politics o Technical * § GNU/Linux⠀➾ o ⚓ Unix Men ☛ Linux_Vs_Windows_10_Key_Differences_That_One_Should Know⠀⇛ Choosing the right kind of operating system is important. However, each user has their own preferences. While 76% of the overall users operate Windows, there are over 32 million Linux users around the globe too. However, what is the key difference between the two that make each of them stand out on their own? We’ve seen a lot of movies and references where most hackers seem to operate Kali Linux for launching hacks. It makes us wonder if it’s that good, then why isn’t it mainstream just like Windows? Well, that’s what we’re here to check. We’ll be focusing on some key differences between the two so that you can get a better idea. So, without further ado, let’s get started… o ⚓ Linux Links ☛ Linux_Around_The_World:_Romania_–_LinuxLinks⠀⇛ We cover events and user groups that are running in Romania. This article forms part of our Linux Around The World series. o § Server⠀➾ # ⚓ Netcraft ☛ September_2022_Web_Server_Survey [Ed: Microsoft Will_Soon_be_Unlisted_in_Netcraft’s_Web_Survey_(Due_to Minuscule,_Negligible_Market]⠀⇛ In the September 2022 survey we received responses from 1,129,251,133 sites across 271,625,260 unique domains, and 12,252,171 web-facing computers. This month all three metrics have decreased since August, with a loss of 5.82 million sites, 115,512 unique domains and 113,356 web-facing computers. nginx had the largest increase in web-facing computers, gaining 28,887 (+0.56%) this month. OpenResty had the second largest increase, gaining 6,008 (+3.54%) web-facing computers, along with a gain of 339,813 (+0.86%) domains and 149,893 (+2.35%) active sites. Google showed strong growth in all metrics, with an increase of 5,127 web- facing computers, 211,135 (+8.83%) domains, and 895,225 (+4.71%) active sites. Within the top million busiest sites, Apache lost 0.21pp of its market share. Despite this, it continues to be the most commonly used web server in the top million. nginx also continued its long- term downward trend, but lost only 0.14pp, further closing the gap between Apache and nginx. The gap now stands at 4,499 sites, a decrease of 13.8% since last month. Meanwhile, Cloudflare’s growth continues, with its market share in the top million increasing by 0.25pp. Apache also experienced a loss in overall market share, losing 414,684 (-0.94%) active sites and 18,156 computers (-0.49%). The only other developers to lose active sites were Microsoft and nginx, with losses of 58,443 (-1.01%) and (-0.10%) respectively. LiteSpeed’s market share continues to increase at a steady rate, with it gaining 92,704 (+1.14%) domains and 70,146 (+0.73%) active sites this month. o § Audiocasts/Shows⠀➾ # ⚓ Video ☛ EndeavourOS_22.9_overview_|_A_terminal-centric distro_with_a_vibrant_and_friendly_community._–_Invidious⠀⇛ In this video, I am going to show an overview of EndeavourOS 22.9 Artemis and some of the applications pre-installed. # ⚓ Video ☛ Will_Automation_Replace_Tech_Jobs?_@John_Hammond_– Invidious⠀⇛ # ⚓ Video ☛ Enterprise_Linux_Security_Episode_43_–_Grand_Theft Data_–_Invidious⠀⇛ In this episode, Jay and Joao discuss a handful of cybersecurity events in the news. While none of these stories are super exciting from a technical standpoint, there’s definitely some lessons to be learned. # ⚓ The TLLTS Podcast ☛ The_Linux_Link_Tech_Show_Episode_972⠀⇛ Joel welcomes Allan. # ⚓ Video ☛ Should_You_Run_Anti-Virus_On_Linux?_–_Invidious⠀⇛ For many years, the Linux community has claimed that running anti-virus programs is not necessary on Linux. But as Linux gains more popularity, and as more viruses start targeting Linux, is it time that we reconsider the need for AV on Linux? o § Kernel Space⠀➾ # ⚓ LWN ☛ The_transparent_huge_page_shrinker_[LWN.net]⠀⇛ Huge pages are a mechanism implemented by the CPU that allows the management of memory in larger chunks. Use of huge pages can increase performance significantly, which is why the kernel has a “transparent huge page” mechanism to try to create them when possible. But a huge page will only be helpful if most of the memory contained within it is actually in use; otherwise it is just an expensive waste of memory. This patch set from Alexander Zhu implements a mechanism to detect underutilized huge pages and recover that wasted memory for other uses. The base page size on most systems running Linux is 4,096 bytes, a number which has remained unchanged for many years even as the amount of memory installed in those systems has grown. By grouping (typically) 512 physically contiguous base pages into a huge page, it is possible to reduce the overhead of managing those pages. More importantly, though, huge pages take far fewer of the processor’s scarce translation lookaside buffer (TLB) slots, which cache the results of virtual-to- physical address translations. TLB misses can be quite expensive, so expanding the amount of memory that can be covered by the TLB (as huge pages do) can improve performance significantly. The downside of huge pages (as with larger page sizes in general) is internal fragmentation. If only part of a huge page is actually being used, the rest is wasted memory that cannot be used for any other purpose. Since such a page contains little useful memory, the hoped-for TLB-related performance improvements will not be realized. In the worst cases, it would clearly make sense to break a poorly utilized huge page back into base pages and only keep those that are clearly in use. The kernel’s memory-management subsystem can break up huge pages to, among other things, facilitate reclaim, but it is not equipped to focus its attention specifically on underutilized huge pages. o § Graphics Stack⠀➾ # ⚓ Free Desktop ☛ weston_11.0.0⠀⇛ This is the official release for Weston 11.0.0. Highlights for this release: - Continued work on color management infrastructure: In Weston 11, if you enable the tentative, experimental and WIP color management option, Weston will not only blend in linear light, but you can also set up a monitor ICC profile and Weston will do some kind of color mapping from sRGB to that profile. Furthermore, you can configure a monitor into HDR mode and deliver HDR characteristics from weston.ini to the monitor, but Weston will *not* produce proper HDR content yet, meaning the display is incorrect. - Various RDP improvements. - Performance improvements in the DRM backend. - Support for the wp_single_pixel_buffer_v1 protocol. - weston_buffer refactoring. - Groundwork for running multiple backends at the same time (e.g. KMS + RDP) and for multi-GPU support in the DRM backend. This is not supported yet, but may be in a future release. Breaking changes for users: - The cms-static and cms-colord plugins are now deprecated. - A number of features have been removed from desktop-shell: multiple workspaces, zoom, exposay. - wl_shell support has been removed (superseded by xdg-shell). - The fbdev backend has been removed (superseded by KMS). - weston-launch and launcher-direct have been removed (superseded by libseat). - The weston-info and weston-gears clients have been removed (weston-info is superseded by wayland-info). - The KMS max-bpc property is now set by default. If you experience black screens with (faulty) monitors, try lowering it in weston.ini. - Weston will now abort when running out of memory. Weston is not suitable for memory constrained environments. Simon Ser (1): build: bump to version 11.0.0 for the official release git tag: 11.0.0 # ⚓ 9to5Linux ☛ Mesa_22.2_Graphics_Stack_Brings_Improvements for_Halo_Infinite,_Minecraft,_and_Other_Games⠀⇛ Major highlights of the Mesa 22.2 graphics stack series include the ARB_robust_buffer_access_behavior extension for the D3D12 Gallium driver, GL_EXT_memory_object_win32 and GL_EXT_semaphore_win32 support for the D3D12 and Zink drivers, variablePointers and vertexAttributeInstanceRateZeroDivisor support for the lavapipe software Vulkan rasterizer, and Valhall support for Collabora’s Panfrost driver for Mali GPUs. # ⚓ Video ☛ Without_FreeDesktop_There_Is_No_Linux_Desktop!_– Invidious⠀⇛ FreeDesktop is one of the most important groups in the linux desktop space without them many of the crucial projects we rely on today wouldn’t have any reasonable level of development or funding. # ⚓ Boiling Steam ☛ Nvidia_Racer_RTX:_Imagine_what_a_Next-Gen Version_of_Re-Volt_Would_Look_Like,_And_More_on_DLSS3_– Boiling_Steam⠀⇛ Nvidia is released its new RTX 40 series, and while they have been ridiculed for their (extreme) pricing, they are certainly betting on the current strengths of the brand with more ray-tracing, a new version of DLSS, and upgraded PhysX. There’s a bunch of games (35) that are now being adapted to demonstrate how to best exploit such effects, and there’s also this very nice technical demo, called Nvidia Racer RTX, showing a Re-Volt like game that’s extremely well made… # ⚓ :tada:_Turnip_now_exposes_Vulkan_1.3_:tada:_–_Danylo’s blog⠀⇛ VK_KHR_dynamic_rendering was an especially nasty extension to implement on tiling GPUs because dynamic rendering allows splitting a render pass between several command buffers. For desktop GPUs there are no issues with this. They could just record and execute commands in the same order they are submitted without any additional post-processing. Desktop GPUs don’t have render passes internally, they are just a sequence of commands for them. On the other hand, tiling GPUs have the internal concept of a render pass: they do binning of the whole render pass geometry first, load part of the framebuffer into the tile memory, execute all render pass commands, store framebuffer contents into the main memory, then repeat load_framebufer - > execute_renderpass -> store_framebuffer for all tiles. In Turnip the required glue code is created at the end of a render pass, while the whole render pass contents (when the render pass is split across several command buffers) are known only at the submit time. Therefore we have to stitch the final render pass right there. o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾ # ⚓ HowTo Forge ☛ Getting_Started_with_Podman:_Manage_Images, Containers_and_Volumes⠀⇛ Podman is a container runtime that provides features similar to Docker. It’s part of the libpod library and can be used to manage pods, containers, container images, and container volumes. # ⚓ Ubuntu ☛ ROS_orchestration_with_snaps_|_Ubuntu⠀⇛ Application orchestration is the process of integrating applications together to automate and synchronise processes. In robotics, this is essential, especially on complex systems that involve a lot of different processes working together. But, ROS applications are usually launched all at once from one top-level launch file. With orchestration, smaller launch files could be launched and synchronised to start one after the other to make sure everything is in the right state. Orchestration can also hold processes and insert some process logic. This is what ROS orchestration should be about. This way, for instance, you could make your localisation node start only once your map_server made the map available. Snaps offer orchestration features that might come handy for your ROS orchestration. In this post, we will demonstrate how to start a snap automatically at boot and how to monitor it. Then, through some examples, we will explore the different orchestration features that snaps offer. We thus assume that you are familiar with snaps for ROS; if you aren’t, or need a refresher, head over to the documentation page. # ⚓ DebugPoint ☛ 4_Simple_Steps_to_Clean_Your_Ubuntu_System⠀⇛ You can try these four simple steps right now to clean up your Ubuntu installation. This quick tutorial would help you to clean up old Ubuntu installations and free up some disk space. If you have been running an Ubuntu system for more than a year, you might feel that your system is slow and lagging despite your being up-to-date. Over time, there are many apps which you might have installed just to experiment or after reading a great review, but you did not remove them. These are some ways to help you find out some hidden disk spaces that you can free up. # ⚓ Deploying_Angular_Apps_to_a_Kubernetes_Cluster_–_Container Journal⠀⇛ Angular is a component-based framework for building single-page client-side applications. It is based on HTML and TypeScript. Angular is written in TypeScript and provides TypeScript libraries you can import into your applications, with functionality such as routing, form management and client/server communication. Web application frameworks like Angular improve development efficiency by providing a consistent structure so that developers do not have to rewrite their code from scratch. A framework also provides useful infrastructure and features that can be added to the software without extra effort. Angular also provides developer tools to support initial development, builds, file uploads, code testing and updates. Kubernetes is the world’s most popular container orchestration platform. It is being used to run workloads of all shapes and sizes, and web applications are no exception. Kubernetes can be an excellent option to run large-scale web apps composed of multiple services, potentially with multiple instances for each service. I’ll cover the basics of Angular and show how to use Kubernetes to deploy and scale Angular applications. # ⚓ Make Tech Easier ☛ How_to_Transcode_FLAC_Files_With flac2all_in_Linux_–_Make_Tech_Easier⠀⇛ flac2all is a simple utility that allows you to convert high-quality FLAC files to almost any modern audio format. Unlike ffmpeg, this utility automates the process of sorting, tagging and encoding your FLAC audio. flac2all is easy to install and use. Learn how to use this highly versatile program that can act as a front end for all your audio transcoding needs. # ⚓ HowTo Geek ☛ How_to_Fix_the_Linux_Boots_Into_the_BIOS Error⠀⇛ GRUB updates have been known to result in Linux computers booting into the BIOS or UEFI settings. The fix for this takes advantage of a useful system recovery trick you really ought to know about. # ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_To_Install_Django_on_Rocky_Linux_9_–_idroot⠀⇛ In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Django on Rocky Linux 9. For those of you who didn’t know, Django is a free and open-source web application framework written in Python. It comes with a set of tools to help one build scalable web applications. Django’s primary goals are simplicity, re-usability, rapid development, and scalability. 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 Django on Rocky Linux. 9. # ⚓ UNIX Cop ☛ How_to_run_a_VM_headless_in_QEMU-KVM⠀⇛ A client asked me to find a way to keep running an ancient system (from 10+ years ago) in a new server. The old binary packages didn’t work. I couldn’t even compile those packages for our linux in the new server. Then I though in create a Virtual Machine. So this is how to run a VM headless in QEMU-KVM-libvirt-etc. # ⚓ Upgrading_Homelab_Kubernetes_Cluster_from_1.23_to_1.24⠀⇛ The most time-consuming Kubernetes upgrade to date because of dockershim. # ⚓ HowTo Forge ☛ How_to_Install_Podman_on_Ubuntu_22.04⠀⇛ Podman also called “Pod Manager” is an open-source tool used for creating and managing containers. It is part of the libpod library that doesn’t rely on the Docker daemon and is compatible with Docker. In this tutorial, I will show you how to install and use Podman on Ubuntu 22.04 server. # ⚓ AddictiveTips ☛ How_to_backup_directly_to_Mega_on_Linux⠀⇛ Mega is an excellent cloud storage option. With the free tier of the service, you get 20 GB of storage. This amount of storage, while not much, is an excellent place to store your Linux backups. This guide will show you how to utilize Mega on Linux as the backend for backups using Duplicati. To get started, ensure you have a Mega account at Mega.nz. # ⚓ OSTechNix ☛ Ansible_Register_Variable_–_OSTechNix⠀⇛ This guide explains what is Ansible register and how to capture a task output in Ansible using the register variables in Linux. # ⚓ H2S Media ☛ How_to_configure_Unattended_Upgrades_in_Ubuntu 20.04⠀⇛ Install Unattended upgrades on Ubuntu 20.04 Focal Fossa to update and upgrade it automatically without manually running any command. Keep your Ubuntu 20.04 server or desktop updated with the help of a tool called Unattended-Upgrades. It allows users to easily download and install security updates and upgrades automatically after a set interval of time without any human interaction. However, we recommend it only to automate the security updates installation because sometimes you may not want to upgrade every package of the system. # ⚓ H2S Media ☛ How_to_install_free_Qcad_2D_on_Ubuntu_22.04_LTS –_Linux_Shout⠀⇛ Start creating two-dimensional technical drawings by installing open source QCAD on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Jammy Jelly Fish using the command terminal. Looking for a free and open source CAD application on Linux to draw various 2D drawings for interior, machine parts, building structural plans, diagrams, and more, then try QCAD. It is available in both community and professional editions for computer- aided drafting (CAD) in two dimensions (2D). Apart from Linux, we can use it on Windows and macOS as well. It offers Blocks (grouping); 35 CAD fonts; DXF and DWG input and output (in professional version only); Over 40 construction and 20 modification tools; Measuring tools; Command line tools (dwg2pdf, dwg2svg, dwg2bmp, etc.) and more… As of Ubuntu 12.04, QCAD is no longer included in the sources. Instead, the QCAD package installs the LibreCAD program. LibreCAD uses the same code base as QCAD, but the graphical user interface is ported to Qt4. # ⚓ TechRepublic ☛ How_to_deploy_a_container_with_containerd and_nerdctl_|_TechRepublic⠀⇛ Containerd is yet another container runtime engine you can freely install on most Linux distributions and is often considered more efficient and secure than Docker. # ⚓ TecAdmin ☛ Bash_–_How_to_Get_Future_Date_and_Time_– TecAdmin⠀⇛ The Linux date command displays the current date and time of the system. While writing the shell scripts, I realise that sometimes we are required to find future dates—for example, dates after 10 days, 2 months, or 1 year, etc. o § Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾ # § K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt⠀➾ # ⚓ 9to5Linux ☛ Kdenlive_Devs_Need_Your_Help_to_Implement Nested_Timelines,_New_Effects_Panel⠀⇛ I use Kdenlive when I edit my videos, so I know it’s powerful software, and, best of all, it’s completely free. I bet many of you out there are using it as well, but it looks like it could get better with the help of the community. If the fundraiser proves to be successful, and I have no doubt that it won’t, Kdenlive will get some cool new features like nested timelines, which lets you open several timeline tabs that each contain a separate timeline where you can insert (or “nest”) one timeline within another to act as a single clip. # § GNOME Desktop/GTK⠀➾ # ⚓ The Register UK ☛ GNOME_43_here_at_last,_soon_to_be followed_by_KDE_5.26_•_The_Register⠀⇛ Love it or loathe it? Plus: KDE 5.26 here soon, and both desktops still working on mobile support The third release of GNOME since the big shift of GNOME 40 is coming together – but KDE isn’t getting left behind. # ⚓ Jakub Steiner ☛ Came_Full_Circle_–_Even_a_Stopped Clock⠀⇛ As mentioned in the previous post I’ve been creating these short pixel art animations for twitter and mastodon to promote the lovely apps that sprung up under the umbrella of the GNOME Circle project. * § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾ o § New Releases⠀➾ # ⚓ ExTiX_22.9_KDE_Plasma_together_with_Anbox_(‘Android_in_a Box’_with_Google_Play_Store_pre-installed)_::_Build_220922 |⠀⇛ I have made a new version of ExTiX – The Ultimate Linux System. I call it ExTiX 22.9 KDE Anbox Live DVD. (The previous KDE/Anbox version was 21.10 from 211007). I have now included Anbox (Android in a Box – Anbox puts the Android operating system into a container, abstracts hardware access and integrates core system services into a GNU/Linux system. Every Android application will be integrated with your operating system like any other native application). So now you can run Android apps in ExTiX. GAPPS (Google Play Services and Google Play Store) are pre-installed in ExTiX 22.9. The second best thing with ExTiX 22.9 is that while running the system live (from DVD/USB) or from hard drive you can use Refracta Snapshot (pre- installed) to create your own live installable Ubuntu/Anbox system. So easy that a ten year child can do it! ExTiX 22.9 KDE Plasma DVD 64 bit is based on Debian and Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS. The original system includes the Desktop Environment Gnome. After removing Gnome I have installed KDE Frameworks 5.92.0 with KDE Plasma 5.24.6. KDE Frameworks are 60 addon libraries to Qt which provide a wide variety of commonly needed functionality in mature, peer reviewed and well tested libraries with friendly licensing terms. o § SUSE/OpenSUSE⠀➾ # ⚓ YaST_Development_Report_–_Chapter_9_of_2022⠀⇛ The YaST Team keeps working on the already known three fronts: improving the installation experience in the traditional (open)SUSE systems, polishing and extending the containerized version of YaST and smoothing Cockpit as the main 1:1 system management tool for the upcoming ALP (Adaptable Linux Platform). o § Arch Family⠀➾ # ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ What_Is_Crystal_Linux?_Everything_You_Need_to Know⠀⇛ Crystal Linux is the newest Arch-based distribution on the block, and it hopes to offer a new set of features to the end-users. But how is it different from other Arch distributions, like Xero Linux, Garuda Linux, EndeavourOS, and many others available in the market? Since the distribution market is already saturated, the need of the hour is to try and provide a fresh angle to the available technologies, to make the most out of the current user needs. Here’s everything you need to know about Crystal Linux. o § Fedora / Red Hat / IBM⠀➾ # ⚓ Red Hat Official ☛ Role-based_access_control_for_Red_Hat Hybrid_Cloud_Console⠀⇛ Red Hat Hybrid Cloud Console uses role-based access controls (RBAC) to restrict network access to services and resources based on user roles. Role permissions are either assigned or inherited through a role hierarchy and can be as broad—or granular—as needed, based on your requirements. # ⚓ Red Hat Official ☛ Connecting_to_the_RHEL_web_console,_part 1:_SSH_access_methods⠀⇛ There are two primary methods available to remotely manage and administer a Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) system: the command line interface over an SSH connection and the RHEL web console. The web console provides a web-based graphical interface for managing and monitoring systems that can be used to complete a wide variety of tasks, such as managing storage, users and the firewall, monitoring performance metrics, reviewing log files, installing system updates and more. For more information about the web console, see the Managing systems using the RHEL 9 web console documentation. If you are using the web console in your environment, it is important that you properly configure it to meet your organization’s security requirements. The RHEL web console is based on the upstream Cockpit project. Within RHEL, the RPM packages and other components use the Cockpit name, so you will see the names web console and Cockpit used interchangeably. # ⚓ Cockpit_277⠀⇛ The HTML of the login page has been adjusted to be more compatible with password managers in popular browsers. Usernames and passwords are more likely to be prefilled or selectable, depending on the password manager and browser. # ⚓ Codenotary_CEO_Moshe_Bar_Named_to_AlmaLinux_Board_of Directors⠀⇛ # ⚓ Red Hat Official ☛ 19_AnsibleFest_2022_presentations_for sysadmins_|_Enable_Sysadmin⠀⇛ AnsibleFest is back as an in-person event. Check out some of the event’s top presentations to help sysadmins automate better. # ⚓ CentOS ☛ CentOS_Community_Newsletter,_September_2022_– Blog.CentOS.org⠀⇛ Tru Huynh has decided to step down from the Board of Directors. We thank him for his many years of hard work on the Board and across the entire CentOS project. [...] The CentOS Brand v2 is the new visual identity of the CentOS Project. We encorage you to use it abundantly. It was recently approved, and is where we will be transitioning to. # ⚓ TechRepublic ☛ An_intimate_but_disconnected_pairing,_Red Hat_on_edge_complexity⠀⇛ Edge is complex. Once we get past the shuddering enormity and shattering reality of understanding this basic statement, we can perhaps start to build frameworks, architectures and services around the task in front of us. Last year’s State Of The Edge report from The Linux Foundation said it succinctly: “The edge, with all of its complexities, has become a fast-moving, forceful and demanding industry in its own right.” # ⚓ Red Hat Official ☛ How_open_source_can_jumpstart_the_next wave_of_software-defined_vehicles⠀⇛ The automotive industry’s pendulum of innovation continues to swing towards open source. Historically speaking, it has been challenging to accelerate innovation within the automotive space due to lengthy development cycles, stringent safety certifications, and proprietary software. To combat this, automotive leaders are working to modernize and standardize practices in order to bring customers the latest and greatest in features and services while designing for functional safety. As a result, automakers are shifting into high gear as they engage open source communities and organizations like Red Hat to bring greater flexibility, customer engagement and increased innovation to their vehicle designs. Adopting universal open source software, such as Red Hat In- Vehicle Operating System, can help automakers integrate software defined vehicles technologies into their line up more quickly than ever before. # ⚓ Video ☛ In_the_Clouds_(E28)_|_Public_Sector_Hybrid_cloud_– Invidious⠀⇛ # ⚓ CRN ☛ Dell-Red_Hat_Team_Lifts_‘Barriers_To_Entry’_For Kubernetes_Environments⠀⇛ ‘We’ve been partners with Red Hat in a number of different areas for a long time. Really this announcement is focused on OpenShift. And how do we help our customers simplify the deployment of, the management of, the integration of an OpenShift environment on Dell infrastructure,’ says Caitlin Gordon, vice president of product management at Dell Technologies. o § Debian Family⠀➾ # ⚓ Bruce_Perens_&_Debian:_swiping_the_Open_Source_trademark⠀⇛ When Bruce Perens, Ian Murdock, Tim Sailer and Eric Raymond founded the Open Source Initiative, they decided to take the Open Source trademark away from the Debian community. Perens initially asked Ian Jackson to transfer it privately. Jackson raised the subject with the rest of the volunteers on the debian-private mailing list. Thanks to the latest leaks from the Debian-Private (leaked) gossip list, you can now read the thread about how OSI snatched a trademark that was born out of and paid for by the work of the Debian community. o § Canonical/Ubuntu Family⠀➾ # ⚓ LWN ☛ LXC_and_LXD:_a_different_container_story_[LWN.net]⠀⇛ LXC was initially developed by IBM, and was part of a collaboration between several parties looking to add namespaces to the kernel. Eventually, Canonical took over stewardship of the project, and now hosts its infrastructure and employs many of its maintainers. The project includes a C library called liblxc and a collection of command-line tools built on top of it that can be used to create, interact with, and destroy containers. LXC does not provide or require a daemon to manage containers; the tools it includes act directly on container processes. LXC was the first container implementation to be built entirely on capabilities found in the mainline kernel; predecessors required out-of-tree patches to work. Like Docker, LXC containers are created using a combination of control groups and namespaces. Because LXC was developed in parallel with the effort to add namespaces to the kernel, it could be considered a sort of reference implementation of using namespaces for containers on Linux. Unlike Docker, LXC does not presume to espouse an opinion about what kinds of processes should run in a container. By default, it will try to launch an init system inside of the container, which can then launch other processes — something that is notoriously hard to do in a Docker container. With the correct configuration, though, it is even possible to run LXC containers nested within another LXC container, or to run the Docker daemon inside of an LXC container. LXC containers are defined using a configuration file, which offers a great deal of control over how the container is constructed. The lxc-create utility is used to create containers. LXC does not bundle container configurations and images together; instead, the container configuration specifies a directory or block device to use for the container’s root filesystem. LXC can use an existing root filesystem, or lxc-create can construct one on the fly using a template. # ⚓ Ubuntu ☛ Ubuntu_Blog:_Public_cloud_for_telco_–_Part_2: Google_Cloud_Platform⠀⇛ This is the second blog in a series focusing on how telecom operators can leverage public clouds to meet their business demands. In a previous blog, we talked about Amazon Web Services (AWS) and how its services made it possible for telcos to shift towards public clouds. In this blog, you’ll get to know about Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and its role in enabling the telecommunications industry to leverage the cloud’s capabilities. Telcos are evolving each day as per the need of the era, especially with the arrival of 5G. Communication Service Providers (CSPs) rely on traditional network infrastructures and face challenges both in growth and reliability. The question is, how can telcos effectively transform and meet scalability and performance demands? The answer lies in the adoption of digitisation and cloud-native trends. GCP provides an on-demand platform that can scale as requirements grow. It facilitates high service availability to meet disruptions. It also ensures improved performance with enhanced platform awareness capabilities. o § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾ # ⚓ The Next Platform ☛ Arm_Is_The_New_RISC/Unix,_RISC-V_Is_The New_Arm⠀⇛ When computer architectures change in the datacenter, the attack always comes from the bottom. And after more than a decade of sustained struggle, Arm Ltd and its platoons of licensees have finally stormed the glass house – well, more of a data warehouse (literally) than a cathedral with windows to show off technological prowess as early mainframe datacenters were – and are firmly encamped on the no longer tiled, but concrete, floors. For modern corporate computing, Day One of the Big Data Bang comes in April 1964 with the launch of the System/360 mainframe. Yes, people were farting around with punch cards and tabulating machines for 75 years and had electro-mechanical computation, and even true electronic computation, before then. But the System/360 showed us all what a computer architecture with hardware and software co-design, with breadth and depth and binary compatibility across a wide range of distinct processors, really looks like. And by and large, excepting a change in character formatting from EBCDIC to ASCII, a modern computer (including the smartphone in your hand) conceptually looks like a System/360 designed by Gene Amdahl that had a love child with a Cray- 1 designed by Seymour Cray. # ⚓ Arduino ☛ Mokey_is_an_affordable_DIY_laser_engraver_| Arduino_Blog⠀⇛ All makers love lasers and they make great shop tools. Even low-power lasers can engrave a variety of materials. Cutting material requires more power, with the most popular cutting lasers being CO2 with power between 10W-100W. But the small, affordable solid state laser modules can cut some materials, like acrylic, if you get a powerful enough model. If you want an affordable way to use one of those, then the Mokey Laser v1.0 is worth looking at. Lasers like these can engrave and cut material, which means they can absolutely hurt you — your eyes are especially vulnerable. If you’re going to build something like this, make sure you understand how to operate it safely. It isn’t shown in the video, but you should absolutely use some kind of shielded enclosure that can handle the wavelength and power of the laser you use. Even with such an enclosure, you should wear the appropriate safety goggles. # ⚓ Arduino ☛ Shop_fan_automatically_activates_when_airborne particulates_are_present_|_Arduino_Blog⠀⇛ Even if you’re one of the few people in the world who is consistent about wearing a respirator in the shop, it’s a good idea to run a filtration fan. Not only is that good for your own health and comfort, it can help keep your equipment running well — the last thing you want is something overheating and catching fire because its cooling ducts are clogged. To avoid running a fan when it isn’t needed, Brandon of the YouTube channel Honest Brothers built a system to automatically activate his filtration fan when airborne particulates are present. The first half of this video provides detail on building the fan itself, including an explanation of filtration fundamentals and what particulates different standards can handle. If you don’t have an interest in building a fan from scratch and would prefer to buy something off the shelf, you can skip ahead. The important thing to take away before Brandon gets to the low-voltage section is that the fan receives AC mains voltage and you’ll switch it on via a relay. # ⚓ Arduino ☛ Art_class_stinks!_Learn_with_smell_in_art_class using_this_olfactory_display_|_Arduino_Blog⠀⇛ Smelling is crucial to our everyday living. But how well do we really understand the role that smells play in our day-to-day? Ask someone who temporarily lost their sense of smell because of COVID-19. They’ll probably tell you about how incredibly boring eating became all of a sudden, and how their roomies saved them from eating a foul-smelling, spoiled block of cheese that had zero mold on it. # ⚓ CNX Software ☛ T-Watch-Keyboard-C3_with_ESP32_“watch”, ESP32-C3_keyboard_looks_like_a_miniature_PC_replica_–_CNX Software⠀⇛ T-Watch-Keyboard-C3 is a device that looks like a miniature PC replica comprised of an ESP32-C3 powered keyboard, and the TTGO T-Watch ESP32 programmable device with a 1.54-inch touchscreen display. # ⚓ Purism ☛ How_We_Fixed_Reboot_Loops_on_the_Librem_Mini_– Purism⠀⇛ Firmware debugging is uniquely challenging, because most conventional software debugging tools aren’t available. With coreboot’s specialized tooling, support from the amazing community, and a little bit of creativity, we fixed a regression in coreboot 4.17 that caused reboot loops on the Librem Mini. o § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ Dallas News ☛ Fast-charging_OnePlus_10T_is_a_good_midrange Android_option⠀⇛ # ⚓ 7_simple_methods_to_Fix_Instagram_Crashing_on_Android_ (2022)⠀⇛ # ⚓ Business Insider ☛ How_to_Set_up_a_Screensaver_on_Your Android⠀⇛ # ⚓ 9to5Google ☛ Samsung_adds_Android_13_themed_icons_in_latest beta⠀⇛ # ⚓ 9to5Google ☛ Pixel_6a_cases:_7_of_the_best_for_your_Android [Video]_–_9to5Google⠀⇛ * § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾ o § Web Browsers and Fonts⠀➾ # ⚓ Eric Hameleers ☛ Slackware:_Chromium_105.0.5195.125 packages_available_(also_ungoogled)_|_Alien_Pastures⠀⇛ I was on vacation for a while, then after my return I mainly focused on getting the new Audacity packages successfully built. In the meantime, Google was not idling and released version 105.0.5195.125 of the Chromium sourcecode. There’s 11 vulnerability fixes in this release, some of them rated high enough that it is again recommended to upgrade your browser as soon as possible. I did not forget the un-googled variant of course for which the same recommendation is valid. # ⚓ Rajeesh_K_Nambiar:_FontForge_gains_ability_to_reuse OpenType_rules_for_different_fonts⠀⇛ FontForge is the long standing libre font development tool: it can be used to design glyphs, import glyphs of many formats (svg, ps, pdf, …), write OpenType lookups or integrate Adobe feature files, and produce binary fonts (OTF, TTF, WOFF, …). It has excellent scripting abilities, especially Python library to manipulate fonts; which I extensively use in producing & testing fonts. [...] The merge request has landed in FontForge master branch this morning. There’s a follow up pull request to update the Python scripting documentation as well. I want to thank Fredrick Brennan and Jeremy Tan for the code reviews and suggestions, and KH Hussain and CVR for sharing the excitement. This functionality added to FontForge helps immensely in reusing the definitive Malayalam OpenType shaping rules without any modification for all the fonts! 🎉 # ⚓ Daniel Stenberg ☛ Taking_curl_documentation_quality_up_one more_notch_|_daniel.haxx.se⠀⇛ I’m a sloppy typist. When I write several words in a row, like for example when creating complete sentences for something like a blog post, one or two of the words end up slightly misspelled. Sure, many editors and systems have runtime spellchecks these days and they make it easy to quickly fix typos, but not all systems are like that and there are also situations where there are many false positives due to formatting or just the range of “special” words. They also rarely yell at me when I overuse the word “very” or start sentences with “But”. o § Productivity Software/LibreOffice/Calligra⠀➾ # ⚓ Document Foundation ☛ Crowdfund_audio_recording_and playback_in_LibreOffice_presentations!_–_The_Document Foundation_Blog⠀⇛ LibreOffice’s presentation tool, Impress, includes a bunch of features for home and office use. But one thing that’s missing is recording and playback for audio comments in presentations. # ⚓ Document Foundation ☛ Video_tutorials_for_LibreOffice Writer,_Calc_and_Impress_–_The_Document_Foundation_Blog⠀⇛ On the LibreOffice subreddit, we became aware of some useful tutorial videos created by Steven Davids. These cover various components of the suite, and show how to achieve common tasks. o § Education⠀➾ # ⚓ FSF ☛ Interview_with_Martin_Dougiamas_of_Moodle⠀⇛  We are excited to put a spotlight on Moodle for this interview. Moodle Learning Management System (LMS) is a learning platform designed to provide educators, administrators, and learners with a single robust, secure, and integrated system to create personalized learning environments. Moodle LMS is written in the PHP programming language. Licensed under the GNU GPLv3, Moodle LMS is free software. Moodle is being used as a platform to manage online learning by hundreds of thousands of organizations, in every education sector, across nearly every country globally, and in over 140 languages. o § FSF⠀➾ # ⚓ FSF ☛ FSF_Blogs:_FSD_meeting_recap_2022-09-16⠀⇛ # ⚓ FSF ☛ FSF_Events:_LibrePlanet_2022_CFS_office_hours_(2022- 10-27)⠀⇛ # ⚓ FSF ☛ FSF_Events:_LibrePlanet_2022_CFS_office_hours_(2022- 10-20)⠀⇛ # ⚓ FSF ☛ FSF_Events:_LibrePlanet_2022_CFS_office_hours_(2022- 10-13)⠀⇛ # ⚓ FSF ☛ FSF_Events:_LibrePlanet_2022_CFS_office_hours_(2022- 09-29)⠀⇛ o § GNU Projects⠀➾ # ⚓ GNU ☛ GNU_Parallel_–_News:_GNU_Parallel_20220922_(- #039;Elizabeth')_released_[Savannah]⠀⇛ GNU Parallel 20220922 (‘Elizabeth’) has been released. [...] If you like GNU Parallel record a video testimonial: Say who you are, what you use GNU Parallel for, how it helps you, and what you like most about it. Include a command that uses GNU Parallel if you feel like it. o § Programming/Development⠀➾ # § Perl / Raku⠀➾ # ⚓ Perl ☛ Casting_Perls_before_Splines_|_Saif_ [blogs.perl.org]⠀⇛ As I sit pondering my peas at the dinner table, my thoughts are unnaturally drawn to the similarity between these pulses and Perl. A famous poet once said that “For a hungry man, green peas are more shiny than gleaming pearls”. From these green orbs on my plate, the mind drifts to a recent virtual conversation regarding logos, branding, rebirth and innovation in Perl. One wonders whether such heated debates are important, relevant and what it might mean for Perl in the future. The Camel (from the O’Reilly Book on Perl) has long been the image associated with the language, along with the Onion (Origin perhaps from Larry Walls’ “state of the onion” presentation). Personally it is not something that I feel passionately about. “Perl, with any other logo would be just as quirky” as Will Shakespeare is reported to have said. But The Camel is the popular, recognisable standard “logo” with some, as yet to be tested, copyright and trademark “issues” Any way I took it myself to analyse the situation and have finally come to the conclusion that we may be looking at the “problem” the wrong way. Perhaps we are looking at the bigger picture when we should seeing the picture bigger. Maybe, just maybe, that picture of a camel doesn’t symbolise Perl, but in fact IS Perl…Perl code, that is. I know it is possible to make pictures that aren’t valid perl code. But perhaps over the decades of use we have come to accept an illusion as a reality. When one gives such an illusion a “True” value, one also blurs the distinction between the Virtual Image and a Real Image.. You see a Virtual Image is an image that APPEARS to represent something, but only a Real Image can be projected. # § Python⠀➾ # ⚓ eSecurity Planet ☛ Unpatched_Python_Library_Affects More_Than_300,000_Open_Source_Projects_| eSecurityPlanet [Ed: Unless you allow dodgy people to pass you files and then process these files, without login or input being sanitised, this does not affect you and does not impact many projects. Dodgy compressed files have LONG been a problem. Like executables, you should be selective which ones you retrieve and process.]⠀⇛ # ⚓ The Register UK ☛ Alert:_15-year-old_Python_tarfile flaw_lurks_in_‘over_350,000′_code_projects [Ed: Alarmist garbage from The Register; to exploit this you need to feed it rogue files]⠀⇛ At least 350,000 open source projects are believed to be potentially vulnerable to exploitation via a Python module flaw that has remained unfixed for 15 years. On Tuesday, security firm Trellix said its threat researchers had encountered a vulnerability in Python’s tarfile module, which provides a way to read and write compressed bundles of files known as tar archives. Initially, the bug hunters thought they’d chanced upon a zero-day. # § Java⠀➾ # ⚓ FOSSLife ☛ Java_19_Released⠀⇛ Oracle has announced the general availability of Java 19, an incremental release that will be supported for six months, reports Sean Michael Kerner. The latest Java Development Kit (JDK) provides updates with seven JDK Enhancement Proposals (JEPs), Kerner explains, which mainly advance three projects… # § Rust⠀➾ # ⚓ LWN ☛ Compiling_Rust_with_GCC:_an_update_[LWN.net]⠀⇛ While the Rust language has appeal for kernel development, many developers are concerned by the fact that there is only one compiler available; there are many reasons why a second implementation would be desirable. At the 2022 Kangrejos gathering, three developers described projects to build Rust programs with GCC in two different ways. A fully featured, GCC-based Rust implementation is still going to take some time, but rapid progress is being made. # ⚓ LWN ☛ A_pair_of_Rust_kernel_modules_[LWN.net]⠀⇛ The idea of being able to write kernel code in the Rust language has a certain appeal, but it is hard to judge how well that would actually work in the absence of examples to look at. Those examples, especially for modules beyond the “hello world” level of complexity, have been somewhat scarce, but that is beginning to change. At the 2022 Kangrejos gathering in Oviedo, Spain, two developers presented the modules they have developed and some lessons that have been learned from this exercise. # ⚓ Niko_Matsakis:_Dyn_async_traits,_part_9:_call-site selection⠀⇛ After my last post on dyn async traits, some folks pointed out that I was overlooking a seemingly obvious possibility. Why not have the choice of how to manage the future be made at the call site? It’s true, I had largely dismissed that alternative, but it’s worth consideration. This post is going to explore what it would take to get call-site- based dispatch working, and what the ergonomics might look like. I think it’s actually fairly appealing, though it has some limitations. # ⚓ Rust Blog ☛ Announcing_Rust_1.64.0⠀⇛ The Rust team is happy to announce a new version of Rust, 1.64.0. Rust is a programming language empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software. [...] Rust 1.64 stabilizes the IntoFuture trait. IntoFuture is a trait similar to IntoIterator, but rather than supporting for … in … loops, IntoFuture changes how .await works. With IntoFuture, the .await keyword can await more than just futures; it can await anything which can be converted into a Future via IntoFuture – which can help make your APIs more user-friendly! # ⚓ LWN ☛ Rust_1.64.0_released⠀⇛ Version 1.64.0 of the Rust language has been released. Changes include the stabilization of the IntoFuture trait, easier access to C- compatible types, the availability of rust- analyzer via rustup, and more. o § Standards/Consortia⠀➾ # ⚓ OpenCL_3.0.12_Released_With_Command_Buffers_Mutable Dispatch_Extension_and_Enhanced_Layers_Support⠀⇛ The OpenCL 3.0 specification and SDK for heterogeneous parallel computation are regularly updated with bug fixes, improved documentation, and functional enhancements. The OpenCL 3.0.12 maintenance release on 15 September 2022, included significant new functionality. * § Leftovers⠀➾ o § Science⠀➾ # ⚓ IBM Old Timer ☛ Irving_Wladawsky-Berger:_The_2022_State_of AI_in_the_Enterprise⠀⇛ “Rapidly transforming, but not fully transformed – this is our overarching conclusion on the market, based on the fourth edition of our State of AI in the Enterprise global survey,” said Becoming an AI- fueled organization, the fourth survey conducted by Deloitte since 2017 to assess the adoption of AI across enterprises. “Very few organizations can claim to be completely AI-fueled, but a significant and growing percentage are starting to display the behaviors that can get them there.” AI is increasingly viewed by workers as a trusted assistant. “Within just the last 18 months, AI capabilities have advanced considerably, maturing from what was often experienced as a bothersome critic – telling workers what to do or pointing out their mistakes – to more frequently serving as a copilot, independently executing on insights and trends surfaced through the power and speed of cloud- based data hosting and computation.” These conclusions are similar to those of Stanford’s 2022 AI Index report, which found that AI was becoming more affordable and higher performing, with lower training costs and faster training times across a number of AI tasks including recommendation engines, image classification, object detection, and language processing. This has led to the widespread commercial adoption and increased real-world impact of AI systems. o § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾ # ⚓ Mental_health’s_racial_gap⠀⇛ Sharkisha Cummins found herself struggling simultaneously with depression and the difficulty of communicating with her white therapist. “There were just too many ways that I just wasn’t (being) heard or seen or validated,” says Cummins, the married Black mother of two small children. “She was a nice lady, (but) she just didn’t understand.” o § Security⠀➾ # ⚓ LWN ☛ Security_updates_for_Thursday_[LWN.net]⠀⇛ Security updates have been issued by Debian (e17, fish, mako, and tinygltf), Fedora (mingw-poppler), Mageia (firefox, google-gson, libxslt, open-vm- tools, redis, and sofia-sip), Oracle (dbus-broker, kernel, kernel-container, mysql, and nodejs and nodejs-nodemon), Slackware (bind), SUSE (cdi- apiserver-container, cdi-cloner-container, cdi- controller-container, cdi-importer-container, cdi- operator-container, cdi-uploadproxy-container, cdi- uploadserver-container, containerized-data- importer, go1.18, go1.19, kubevirt, virt-api- container, virt-controller-container, virt-handler- container, virt-launcher-container, virt- libguestfs-tools-container, virt-operator- container, libconfuse0, and oniguruma), and Ubuntu (bind9 and pcre2). # ⚓ Beta News ☛ Wolfi_Linux_is_designed_to_safeguard_the software_supply_chain⠀⇛ The desire for software supply chain integrity and transparency has left many organizations struggling to build in software security measures like signatures, provenance, and SBOMs to legacy systems and existing Linux distributions. This has prompted Chainguard to produce Wolfi, a new Linux ‘(un)distribution’ and build toolchain, that’s been designed from the ground up to produce container images that meet the requirements of a secure software supply chain. It’s called an (un)distribution because it isn’t a full Linux distro designed to run on bare-metal, but a stripped-down one designed for the cloud- native era. # ⚓ Help Net Security ☛ Wolfi:_A_Linux_undistro_with_security measures_for_the_software_supply_chain_–_Help_Net_Security⠀⇛ Software supply chain security is unique – you’ve got a whole lot of different types of attacks that can target a lot of different points in the software lifecycle. You can’t just take one piece of security software, turn it on, and get protected from everything. The ecosystem’s push for software supply chain integrity and transparency has left organizations struggling to build software security measures like signatures, provenance, and SBOMs into legacy systems and existing Linux distributions. Recently, the U.S.’s most prestigious security agencies (NSA, CISA, and ODNI) tried to add to the conversation and released a 60+ page recommended practice guide, Securing the Software Supply Chain for Developers. # ⚓ ZDNet ☛ Chainguard_releases_Wolfi,_a_Linux_‘undistribution’ |_ZDNET⠀⇛ There are many Linux distributions designed expressly for containers. Even Microsoft has one, Common Base Linux (CBL)-Mariner. Others include Alpine Linux, Flatcar Container Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Linux CoreOS (RHCOS), and RancherOS. Now Chainguard, a cloud-native software security company, has a new take on this popular cloud- friendly kind of Linux: Wolfi, an “undistribution.” I asked Chainguard CEO and founder Dan Lorenc at Open Source Summit Europe in Dublin what he meant by an “undistrbution.” He explained, “We call it an undistribution because that’s technically correct. Inside of a container, you have everything but Linux, right? So, even though it’s based on Linux, it’s not really correct to call it a Linux distribution.” # ⚓ Wired ☛ A_New_Linux_Tool_Aims_to_Guard_Against_Supply_Chain Attacks_|_WIRED⠀⇛ IN THE WAKE of alarming incidents like Russia’s massive 2017 NotPetya malware attack and the Kremlin’s 2020 SolarWinds cyberespionage campaign—both pulled off by poisoning wells for software distribution—organizations around the world have been scrambling to get a handle on software supply chain security. In general, and for open source software in particular, stronger defense rests in knowing what software you’re actually running, with a crucial focus on enumerating all the little pieces that make up the whole and validating that they are what they should be. That way, when you pack a box of software heirlooms and store it on a shelf, you know there isn’t a live microphone or a Tupperware full of deviled eggs sitting in the box for years. Creating a system to generate a manifest of what’s inside every box in every basement and garage is a massive effort, but a new tool from security firm Chainguard aims to do just that for the software “containers” that underly almost all digital services today. On Thursday, Chainguard launched a Linux distribution called Wolfi that is designed specifically for how digital systems are actually built today in the cloud. Most consumers don’t use Linux, the famed open source operating system, on their personal computers. (If they do, they don’t necessarily know it, as is the case with Android, which is built on a modified version of Linux.) But the open source operating system is widely used in servers and cloud infrastructure around the world, partly because it can be deployed in such flexible ways. Unlike operating systems from Microsoft and Apple, where your only choice is whatever ice cream flavor they release, the open nature of Linux allows developers to create all sorts of flavors—known as “distributions”—to suit specific cravings and needs. But the developers at Chainguard, who have all been working in open source software for years, including on other Linux distributions, felt that a key flavor was missing. # ⚓ TechRepublic ☛ Software_supply_chain_security_gets_first Linux_distro,_Wolfi_|_TechRepublic⠀⇛ From software signing, to container images, to a new Linux distro, an emerging OSS stack is giving developers guardrails for managing the integrity of build systems and software artifacts. # ⚓ Docker,_Inc._to_Integrate_Free_SBOM_Generation_Tool_– Container_Journal⠀⇛ Docker, Inc. plans to embed the ability to dynamically generate a software bill of materials (SBOM) using the Docker Build command that developers use to build Docker images from a Dockerfile. Company CEO Scott Johnston says when it comes to building cloud-native applications, existing SBOM tools can’t keep pace with the rate at which developers are ripping and replacing containers. Docker, Inc. will address the need to provide more visibility into what components are being used to construct an application for no additional cost, he adds. # ⚓ LWN ☛ A_Python_security_fix_breaks_(some)_bignums_ [LWN.net]⠀⇛ Typically, an urgent security release of a project is not for a two-year-old CVE, but such is the case for a recent Python release of four versions of the language. The bug is a denial of service (DoS) that can be caused by converting enormous numbers to strings—or vice versa—but it was not deemed serious enough to fix when it was first reported. Evidently more recent reports, including a remote exploit of the bug, have raised its importance—causing a rushed-out fix. But the fix breaks some existing Python code, and the process of handling the incident has left something to be desired, leading the project to look at ways to improve its processes. Python integers can have an arbitrary size; once they are larger than can be stored in a native integer, they are stored as arbitrary-length “bignum” values. So Python can generally handle much larger integer values than some other languages. Up until recently, Python would happily output a one followed by 10,000 zeroes for print (10**10000). But as a GitHub issue describes, that behavior has been changed to address CVE-2020- 10735, which can be triggered by converting large values to and from strings in bases other than those that are a power of two—the default is base 10, of course. The fix is to restrict the number of digits in strings that are being converted to integers (or that can result from the conversion of integers) to 4300 digits for those bases. If the limit is exceeded, a ValueError is raised. There are mechanisms that can be used to change the limit, as described in the documentation for the Python standard types. The value for the maximum allowable digits can be set with an environment variable (PYTHONINTMAXSTRDIGITS), a command-line argument (- X int_max_str_digits), or from within code using sys.set_int_max_str_digits(). It can be set to zero, meaning there is no limit, or any number greater than or equal to a lower-limit threshold value, which is set to 640. # ⚓ USCERT ☛ CISA_Has_Added_One_Known_Exploited_Vulnerability to_Catalog⠀⇛ CISA has added one new vulnerability to it’s Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation. These types of vulnerabilities are a frequent attack vector for malicious cyber actors and pose significant risk to the federal enterprise. # ⚓ USCERT ☛ CISA_and_NSA_Publish_Joint_Cybersecurity_Advisory on_Control_System_Defense⠀⇛ CISA and the National Security Agency (NSA) have published a joint cybersecurity advisory about control system defense for operational technology (OT) and industrial control systems (ICSs). Control System Defense: Know the Opponent is intended to provide critical infrastructure owners and operators with an understanding of the tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) used by malicious cyber actors. This advisory builds on NSA and CISA 2021 guidance provided to stop malicious ICS activity against connect OT, and 2020 guidance to reduce OT exposure. # ⚓ USCERT ☛ ISC_Releases_Security_Advisories_for_Multiple Versions_of_BIND_9⠀⇛ The Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) has released security advisories that address vulnerabilities affecting multiple versions of the ISC’s Berkeley Internet Name Domain (BIND) 9. A remote attacker could exploit these vulnerabilities to potentially cause denial-of-service conditions. For advisories addressing lower severity vulnerabilities, see the BIND 9 Security Vulnerability Matrix. # ⚓ USCERT ☛ CISA_Releases_Three_Industrial_Control_Systems Advisories⠀⇛ CISA has released three Industrial Control Systems (ICS) advisories on September 22, 2022. These advisories provide timely information about current security issues, vulnerabilities, and exploits surrounding ICS. # § Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt/Fear-mongering/Dramatisation⠀➾ # ⚓ Help Net Security ☛ Open-source_software_usage slowing_down_for_fear_of_vulnerabilities,_exposures,_or risks [Ed: You mean due to lies and FUD?]⠀⇛ In this Help Net Security video, Igal Lytzki, Incident Response Analyst at Perception Point, discusses a recent Remcos RAT malware campaign and more broadly, the threat that email-based threats and phishing pose to organizations. # § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾ # ⚓ AccessNow ☛ India’s_Draft_Telecommunication_Bill_must be_revamped_to_protect_human_rights_–_Access_Now⠀⇛ India’s Department of Telecommunications (DoT) is jeopardising two crucial aspects of a safe and open internet — encrypted communications, and unhampered access — as outlined in the Draft Telecommunication Bill published yesterday, September 21, 2022. The DoT must immediately review and amend all provisions that risk the rights of people in India. Through the Bill, the government seeks to consolidate and replace the existing framework governing the telecommunications sector in India, including the Indian Telegraph Act, 1885. In addition to conventional phone calls and SMS services, the Bill also seeks to regulate over-the-top (OTT) applications, including WhatsApp, Signal, and Facetime. These OTT platforms offer end-to-end encryption (E2EE) for calls and messages, and enable privacy and security. “India’s Draft Telecommunication Bill is yet another attack on end-to-end encryption, and people’s fundamental rights and freedoms, following the invasive IT Rules, 2021,” said Namrata Maheshwari, Asia Pacific Policy Counsel at Access Now. “E2EE is crucial not only for people’s privacy, free expression, and safety, but also to protect democratic principles. The Bill, and any framework impacting encrypted communications services, must categorically prevent measures to break, weaken, or circumvent encryption.” # ⚓ Internet Freedom Foundation ☛ The_draft_Indian Telecommunication_Bill,_2022_retains_its_colonial roots⠀⇛ The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) under the Ministry of Communications (MoC) has released for public consultation the draft of the Indian Telecommunication Bill, 2022. According to the accompanying explanatory note, the Bill aims to create a comprehensive framework for the regulation of telecommunications in India. In doing so, it repeals the Indian Telegraph Act, 1885, Indian Wireless Telegraphy Act, 1933, and The Telegraph Wire (Unlawful Protection) Act,1950. Comments on the draft from relevant stakeholders have been invited till October 20, 2022. The comments can be sent to naveen.kumar71@gov.in. o § Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾ # ⚓ AccessNow ☛ Stop_suppressing_the_population:_authorities_in Iran_must_#KeepItOn_–_Access_Now⠀⇛ Access Now is outraged by the brutal death in police custody of 22 year-old Mahsa Amini, and subsequent violent — and lethal — crackdown on protests and protesters including escalating internet shutdowns across the country. Read the #KeepItOn coalition’s joint statement. Citing arbitrary “national security” reasons, and following the uproar around the death of Mahsa Amini who was detained by the so-called “morality police” for allegedly breaking hijab rules, authorities have systematically disconnected people from social media platforms, and now from internet access entirely. “Iran’s go-to move is to block internet access,” said Felicia Anthonio, #KeepItOn Campaign Manager at Access Now. “But history has shown us over and over that cutting people off when they need a platform for expression most only causes more harm. Authorities in Iran must reinstate full internet access across the country.” o § Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press⠀➾ # ⚓ Public Knowledge ☛ Public_Knowledge_Warns_Congress_Against Adopting_Controversial_Journalism_Competition_and Preservation_Act_–_Public_Knowledge⠀⇛ Today, the Senate Judiciary Committee marked up the “Journalism Competition and Preservation Act.” The bill proposes creating a “safe harbor” from antitrust law, allowing news companies to band together to negotiate compensation terms for their content with the largest digital platforms. The bill also allows publishers to restrict Google and Facebook from linking to their news stories, ultimately limiting the public’s access to credible information online. Public Knowledge, along with dozens of other organizations, warns that the JCPA will do nothing to help preserve local journalism and, in fact, will likely compound some of the biggest problems in our information landscape today: consolidation and declining quality of information. The markup follows a letter sent by 21 organizations warning Senate lawmakers against adopting the bill. o § Monopolies⠀➾ # § Trademarks⠀➾ # ⚓ Public Domain Review ☛ The_Kumatologist:_Vaughan Cornish’s_Wave_Studies_(1910–14)_–_The_Public_Domain Review⠀⇛ Walking along the Devon coast at low tide in the autumn of 1895, geographer Vaughan Cornish (1862–1948) watched two sets of waves interact on the shore. As one set rippled across the flat strand, the other rounded a shoal and broke onto the beach. After colliding, each set then continued on its separate path, which brought to his mind how waves of light can pass through each other unaffected. Cornish’s casual association, between the behavior of light and water, speaks to how immersed he and his contemporaries were in a world of invisible waves. British and continental science in the 1890s was wrangling with gravitational waves, magnetic waves, sound waves, and mysterious new emanations — cathode rays, x-rays, and uranium radiation. And yet, the common ocean wave possessed its own secrets, having undergone only the barest scientific scrutiny in the two centuries since Newton’s Opticks. * § Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾ o § Politics⠀➾ # ⚓ Right_wing_politics_on_Gemini⠀⇛ The right is engaging with a straw doll of what the left is. This is how right-wingers genuinely see the world: Climate change is a hoax, representation is pandering, the owner class are role models. I couldn’t fault anyone who bought into that worldview for going right wing. It doesn’t surprise me. It just breaks my heart. # ⚓ Re:_Right_wing_politics_on_Gemini⠀⇛ It feels like this is inevitable on any open platform. Reactionaries love to be heard. This has inspired me to set up my own feed aggregator, and abandon non-curated content sources. Such open platforms (like Antenna) inevitably attract reactionaries and grifters. I give it a year before Antenna begins to develop its very own Nazi problem like the rest of the “Free Marketplaces of Ideas”. # ⚓ Siddhartha_by_Herman_Hesse⠀⇛ This is a book I’ve been wanting to read for a while. It’s one that if briefly described to someone who has never heard of it, they might raise a confused eyebrow. This is a story written by a German missionary that takes place in India during the time of the Buddha with a main character named Siddhartha but he isn’t the Buddha (his name was also Siddhartha before ascending to Buddha-dom). At it’s heart, though, this is the story of a man and his search for wisdom. # ⚓ Re:_Right_wing_politics_on_Gemini⠀⇛ I think ew0k killed his own idea by releasing Antenna. Antenna is great, especially since you can filter out specific feeds fairly easily, but if someday the community is willing to put collective effort into something less centralized, we could start with the above. o § Technical⠀➾ # ⚓ So_when_did_POP_and_IMAP_become_a_“legacy_protocol?”⠀⇛ On one level, this doesn’t bother me. I’m using the web version of Lookout (I assume that’s the Lookout 365 for The Enterprise tenant they mention, at least, I hope so). I also don’t check work email on my phone—never have, and I don’t have plans on starting that any time soon either. But on another level, this is concerning. Even though Microsoft announced this three years ago, it comes across as locking email down into a more centalized, proprietary system. I do have to wonder how long until Google decides that only certain clients can connect with Gmail? You know, for “enhanced security” or a “better experience.” I don’t use Gmail, but I do have concerns about my ability to run my own email server and general interoperability with the large email providers like Google and Microsoft. # ⚓ Il_solito_brutto_Vizio…⠀⇛ I recently had to replace a 32″ Vizio SmartTV, and the only 32″ TV I found at Cosco was another Vizio. I didn’t have any expectations against these Vizio TVs, as a matter of fact I have been using other Vizio TVs so far simply because the price and the sizes we needed at the given moments. However something different there was and not only for the Vizio brand but, apparently, the newest Smart TVs are becoming smarter with more sophisticated, android like, interfaces; just to make your life worsen — assuming that any fellow Geminaut thinks those web-spy-interfaces atrocious nevertheless. =============================================================================== * Gemini_(Primer) links can be opened using Gemini_software. It’s like the World Wide Web but a lot lighter. ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 2538 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐃𝐀𝐈𝐋𝐘 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒 ═════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 09.22.22⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Links_22/09/2022:_GNOME_Builder_43.0_and_Hype_Over_Ubuntu_Wallpaper⠀✐ Posted in News_Roundup at 10:03 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇GNOME bluefish⦈ § Contents⠀➾ * GNU/Linux o Desktop/Laptop o Audiocasts/Shows o Applications o Instructionals/Technical o Games o Desktop_Environments/WMs # GNOME_Desktop/GTK * Distributions_and_Operating_Systems o Slackware_Family o Fedora_/_Red_Hat_/_IBM o Debian_Family o Canonical/Ubuntu_Family o Devices/Embedded o Mobile_Systems/Mobile_Applications * Free,_Libre,_and_Open_Source_Software o Web_Browsers # Mozilla o SaaS/Back_End/Databases o FSF o Licensing_/_Legal o Programming/Development # Perl_/_Raku # Python # Java # Rust * Leftovers * Hardware * Health/Nutrition/Agriculture * Proprietary * Security o Integrity/Availability/Authenticity o Privacy/Surveillance * Defence/Aggression * Transparency/Investigative_Reporting * Environment o Energy o Wildlife/Nature o Overpopulation * Finance * AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics * Censorship/Free_Speech * Freedom_of_Information_/_Freedom_of_the_Press * Civil_Rights/Policing * Internet_Policy/Net_Neutrality * Digital_Restrictions_(DRM) * Monopolies o Copyrights * Gemini*_and_Gopher o Personal o Politics o Technical # Science # Internet/Gemini * § GNU/Linux⠀➾ o ⚓ Neowin ☛ Google_and_Framework_launch_a_Chromebook_with customizable_ports_and_more_–_Neowin⠀⇛ Today, Framework announced its partnership with Google to create a new modular Chromebook that brings together the sustainable nature of Framework’s laptops and Google’s ChromeOS. The Framework Laptop Chromebook Edition will be available for pre-order in batches and shipped out towards the end of 2022. o ⚓ Tom’s Hardware ☛ Framework_Embraces_ChromeOS_with_Chromebook Edition_Laptop_|_Tom’s_Hardware⠀⇛ Framework, which makes the ultra-customizable Framework Laptop with a completely replaceable mainboard and expansion modules for different ports, is moving to a new type of laptop: the Chromebook. Starting today, Framework is accepting pre-orders for the Framework Laptop Chromebook Edition, which still starts at $999 and will ship in early December. In a release, Framework said that the laptop will run on a 12th Gen Intel Core i5-1240P with 30 watts of sustained performance. The prebuilt version comes with 8GB of DDR4 RAM and 256GB of NVMe storage and can be upgraded to up to 64GB of RAM and 1TB of storage. The company hasn’t said what kinds of upgrades may be available in the future, but a representative said that all of the current expansion cards are cross-compatible between the Framework Laptop and the Chromebook Edition. o § Desktop/Laptop⠀➾ # ⚓ Linux Magazine ☛ System76_Refreshes_its_Thelio_Desktop Computer_–_Linux_Magazine⠀⇛ System76 has given their already stellar Thelio desktop computer a redesign by way of the chassis accent panel. Carl Richell, CEO of System76 had an epiphany. He says, “I was waiting in line for a COVID test and I was staring at the wood trim in my car, wondering how long it would all take. I stared hard enough to the point where I started thinking about the wood- to-metal ratio, and how modern the design felt with only a little bit of wood.” This inspiration led Richell to cutting down on the wood veneer not only for a sleeker, more modern look, but also to make the build process of the chassis more efficient. With a slimer piece of wood veneer, the process takes much less precision to accomplish, which results in greater consistency and reduces the number of extrusions from 4 to 2. The wood (as well as other materials) is sourced within the US and for every Thelio purchased, System76 plants a tree through the National Forest Foundation. o § Audiocasts/Shows⠀➾ # ⚓ FLOSS_Weekly_699:_Content_Authenticity_–_Andy_Parsons_on Open_Source_and_Content_Authenticity_Online [Ed: FLOSS Weekly jumped the shark entirely. After openwashing Bill Gates, Microsoft, and de Icaza now it does Adobe.]⠀⇛ Andy Parsons, director of the Content Authenticity Initiative at Adobe gives Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman a lot of confidence that we really can change the Web and the world for the better. If you care about eliminating dis- and mis-information, you want authentic content and clear provenance. Parsons explains on FLOSS Weekly. # ⚓ Video ☛ A_Complete_Guide_to_Offgrid_Computers_–_Invidious⠀⇛ I have been living off grid for over a year now and I am still able to run all my tech videos from my van. This video is a guide to help you setup an offgrid setup, whether you are planing on vanlife or if you just need to make sure you have power when our electric grid is struggling. # ⚓ Video ☛ Microsoft_Teams_|_Authentication_Token_Flaw_– Invidious⠀⇛ What’s up, guys!!! In this video, we cover an article that covers how Microsoft Teams stores authentication tokens in plaintext. This flaw could allow attackers to potentially control communications within an organization, according to the security firm Vectra. # ⚓ Video ☛ PolKit_Is_Broken_On_Window_Managers:_How_To_Fix It!!_–_Invidious⠀⇛ Using Polkit under a window manager isn’t as easy as it should be, you’d think that even though you don’t have a GUI because of the fallback tty agent, turns out that agent is completely so let’s fix the problem another way. # ⚓ If Not True Then False ☛ Fedora_37_Workstation_Installation Guide_/_GNOME_43_New_Features_–_If_Not_True_Then_False⠀⇛ This is guide howto install Fedora 37 Workstation. I use here Beta image, but final version is released soon. I show quickly also just released GNOME 43 new features, like fresh Files and quick toggles. # ⚓ Video ☛ Me,_Myself_–_Pi_–_It’s_Electrifying!_–_Invidious⠀⇛ In these times of rising power costs, I have decided to use my Raspberry Pi 400 as my daily driver, only using the power-hungry HP Z600 to edit and render videos…. this video aims to show you a few tweaks to speed things along 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇:-)⦈ # ⚓ Video ☛ Linux_Mint_21_“Vanessa”_Xfce_Quick_overview_#linux #linuxmint_–_Invidious⠀⇛ A Quick Overview of Linux Mint 21 “Vanessa” o § Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ DebugPoint ☛ ONVIFViewer_–_Internet_Camera_Viewer_for Linux⠀⇛ ONVIF (Open Network Video Interface Forum) is a protocol established by Bosch, Sony and other partner to standardize the network cameras and its interfaces. All the software programs available today to access internet cameras, security cameras are proprietary and nothing was available for Linux systems. ONVIFViewer is being developed to bridge the gap with the help of the Qt5 and Kirigami UI framework. As part of this project, new C++ libraries are being developed from scratch to communicate with IP cameras. These libraries can be later converted to independent modules for re-usability. # ⚓ 9to5Linux ☛ Fwupd_1.8.5_Adds_New_Plugin_to_Display_SMU Firmware_Version_on_AMD_APU/CPUs⠀⇛ Fwupd 1.8.5 comes about three weeks after fwupd 1.8.4 and introduces a new plugin to display SMU firmware version on AMD APU/CPUs, a new android- boot plugin to update specific block devices, support for platform capability descriptors to allow devices to set quirks, and a new plugin that contains the generic Intel Goshen Ridge code. o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾ # ⚓ Bozhidar Batsov ☛ Resetting_CircleCI_Checkout_SSH_Keys⠀⇛ Lately I’ve been having some weird problems with CircleCI and some of my OSS projects (most recently CIDER) – the SSH checkout keys that CircleCI uses to fetch the code from GitHub started to disappear which resulted in the following obscure error messages: [...] # ⚓ uni Toronto ☛ Why_the_ZFS_ZIL’s_“in-place”_direct_writes_of large_data_are_safe⠀⇛ Taken by itself, this means that ZFS does synchronous writes twice, once to the ZIL as part of making them durable and then a second time as part of a regular transaction group. As an optimization, under the right circumstances (which are complicated, especially with a separate log device) ZFS will send those synchronous writes directly to their final destination in your ZFS pool, instead of to the ZIL, and then simply record a pointer to the destination in the ZIL. This sounds dangerous, since you’re writing data directly into the filesystem (well, the pool) instead of into a separate log, and in a different filesystem it might be. What makes it safe in ZFS is that in ZFS, all writes go to unused (free) disk space because ZFS is what we generally call a copy- on-write system. Even if you’re rewriting bits of an existing file, ZFS writes the new data to free space, not over the existing file contents (and it does this whether or not you’re doing a synchronous write). # ⚓ Linux Handbook ☛ How_to_Know_if_You_Are_Using_Systemd_or Some_Other_Init_in_Linux⠀⇛ When you start a Linux system, it starts with only one process, a program called init. # ⚓ FOSSLinux ☛ How_to_install_vnStat_on_Ubuntu_22.04_|_FOSS Linux⠀⇛ VnStat is a command line-based network traffic monitor for BSD and Linux that maintains a network traffic log for the selected interfaces(s). The monitor utilizes the network interface statistics given by the kernel as an information source. To engender logs, vnStat uses the info provided by the kernel. It also ensures light utilization of system resources regardless of network traffic rate. Besides the network statistics provided by this command line utility, vnStat provides summaries on various network interfaces like “eth0” for wired connections and “wlan0” for wireless connections. In most cases, network admins use vnStat to monitor hourly, daily, weekly, and monthly glimpses of network statistics in a detailed table or a terminal statistical view. # ⚓ Linux Made Simple ☛ How_to_install_Universal_Pokemon_Game Randomizer_on_a_Chromebook⠀⇛ Today we are looking at how to install Universal Pokemon Game Randomizer 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. # ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ How_to_Find_and_Fix_Broken_Packages_on Linux⠀⇛ Package managers on Linux allow you to control the installation and removal of packages. In addition to that, package managers also help you find broken packages on your system and reinstall them to fix various issues associated with Linux packages. # ⚓ LinuxTechi ☛ How_To_Install_VMware_Workstation_On_Ubuntu 22.04_|_20.04⠀⇛ In this guide, we will focus on how to install VMware Work Station Pro on Ubuntu 22.04 | 20.04. VMware Workstation is a type 2 hypervisor designed for Windows and Linux systems. It allows you to create and manage virtual machines in either Windows or Linux environments. Vmware Workstation is broadly categorized into two products: VMware Workstation Player and VMware Workstation Pro. VMware Workstation Player is free for personal use whereas VMware Workstation Pro requires a license. The former is a non-commercial tool and provides just basic functionalities whereas Workstation Pro is a professional and more advanced virtualization solution. Both run on Linux and Windows systems and have virtually the same installation requirements. In addition, both run on x86-based architecture with 64-bit Intel and AMD CPUs. # ⚓ OSTechNix ☛ How_To_Find_Which_Service_Is_Listening_On_A Particular_Port_–_OSTechNix [Ed: Newly updated]⠀⇛ This guide explains a few different ways to find which service is listening on a particular port in Linux. Most of you know the default port of popular services or processes. For example, the default port of Apache is 80, FTP default port is 21 and SSH default port is 22. You can find the port names and numbers in Linux as described in this guide. The default port numbers can also be changed to any custom ports to secure a Linux server. For instance, the following guides describes how to change the defaults port of Apache, FTP and SSH to different port. # ⚓ IT Pro Today ☛ How_to_Configure_Dovecot_IMAP/POP3_Server_on Ubuntu⠀⇛ Find out how to install and configure Dovecot email server on Ubuntu. This tutorial also explains how to extend Dovecot with modules. # ⚓ RoseHosting ☛ How_to_Install_FileRun_on_Ubuntu_22.04_with Apache_–_RoseHosting⠀⇛ In this tutorial, we are going to install FileRun on Ubuntu 22.04 OS. FileRun is a storage platform system that allows managing, sharing, and syncing files. FileRun can be an alternative to Google Drive and NextCloud and offers many features like virtual drive support, native mobile apps, metadata support, etc. In this installation, we are going to install the LAMP stack since the tutorial is installing FileRun on Ubuntu 22.04 Installing FileRun is a very easy process that can take up to 20 minutes. Let’s get started! # ⚓ Linux Shell Tips ☛ How_to_Install_and_Use_WP-CLI_on_Linux_ [Beginners’_Guide]⠀⇛ WordPress has created a reputation for itself as one of the world’s most sort-after open-source CMS (Content Management System) software. The growing popularity of WordPress CMS is due to the fact a non-coder can easily download, install, set up, and start running an enterprise-driven CMS platform. WordPress design consideration of non-coders does not exclude the need for useful developer tools and documents. One such tool is WP-CLI. WP-CLI tool provides a command-line interface for the WordPress CMS software, which makes it possible to install, manage, and update WordPress CMS software if need be. Additionally, if you are handling multiple CMS sites, this tool will help with their configuration and the update of the WordPress backend server’s cores and plugins. Also, when trying to troubleshoot and restore an irresponsive WordPress frontend, WP-CLI is the go-to tool. # ⚓ UNIX Cop ☛ How_to_determine_which_theme_is_currently enabled_using_the_terminal?_(GNOME)⠀⇛ This post although simple to use and explain can help us more than once. Especially in scripting and customization settings. Today, you will learn how to determine which theme is currently enabled using the terminal on Ubuntu | Linux Mint # ⚓ H2S Media ☛ How_to_install_Qcad_on_Debian_11_Bullseye_– Linux_Shout⠀⇛ Learn the commands to install the open source QCAD 2D program on Debian 11 Bullseye using the command line terminal. QCAD is an open-source CAD program for two- dimensional drawings. It is a very powerful, free CAD program, but it cannot be compared to commercial programs. With QCAD you can create technical drawings such as plans for buildings, facilities, or mechanical parts as well as schemes and diagrams. It offers Construction and modification of points, lines, arcs, circles, ellipses, splines, polylines, texts, dimensions, hatches, fills, and raster images. However, you have to resort to additional programs for the three-dimensional viewing of your drawings. Newer, paid versions can be purchased from the developer’s website. # ⚓ Trend Oceans ☛ How_to_Find_User_Account_with_Empty_Password on_Linux⠀⇛ In Linux computing, system security is the highest priority. Standard users or system administrators always take certain precautions to ensure the safety of the system and its users. # ⚓ Trend Oceans ☛ Find_Whether_your_USB_Devices_are_Connected to_Your_Linux_System_using_CLI_&_GUI_Tools⠀⇛ There are a handful of commands available in Linux to find whether your USB devices are connected to your Linux system. o § Games⠀➾ # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Steam_Beta_lets_you_create_a_collection filtered_by_games_you_and_friends_own⠀⇛ Here’s a rather useful feature Valve just added to a recent release of the Steam Beta Client. You can now filter your Steam Library based on what you and your Steam Friends own. # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Minigalaxy,_a_simple_open_source_GOG_client for_Linux_adds_lots_of_new_features⠀⇛ While plenty of people use apps like Lutris, Heroic and Bottles there’s also Minigalaxy which is a dedicated launcher just for GOG on Linux. The community doing what GOG don’t huh? A new release went up recently with some pretty big new features. Still managing to keep it all simple though, with a pretty good looking way to download your games and DLC. # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Isometric_fantasy_RPG_Zoria:_Age_of Shattering_gets_a_new_demo_and_Kickstarter⠀⇛ Zoria: Age of Shattering from Tiny Trinket Games is not a name I’ve mentioned for a while but the developer is back with an updated demo and a Kickstarter campaign to finish it up. # ⚓ Boiling Steam ☛ Potion_Permit_–_Chill_Life_Sim_Begging_for some_Polish._–_Boiling_Steam⠀⇛ Potion Permit, developed my MassHive Media and published by pQube, is a chill pixel art life management sim with great ideas begging for some polish. Runs great on Linux with Proton. o § Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾ # § GNOME Desktop/GTK⠀➾ # ⚓ Linuxiac ☛ GNOME_43_Desktop_Is_a_Step_Forward_but Still_Far_from_Perfection⠀⇛ The GNOME 43 “Guadalajara” desktop environment was released, improving the appearance and adding some new features. # ⚓ LWN ☛ GNOME_43_released_[LWN.net]⠀⇛ Version 43 of the GNOME desktop environment has been released; see the release notes for details. # ⚓ GNOME_Builder_43.0⠀⇛  This is the truly the largest release of Builder yet, with nearly every aspect of the application improved. It’s pretty neat to see all this come together after having spent the past couple years doing a lot more things outside of Builder like modernizing GTKs OpenGL renderer, writing the new macOS GDK backend, shipping a new Text Editor for GNOME, and somehow getting married during all that. The most noticeable change, of course, is the port to GTK 4. Builder now uses WebKit, VTE, libadwaita, libpanel, GtkSourceView, and many other libraries recently updated to support GTK 4. * § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾ o ⚓ Hacking_anything_with_GNU_Guix⠀⇛ If you are a software developer, system administrator, or anything in between, you have probably experienced a situation where you want to patch some piece of software that you did not write. Either to fix a bug, try an idea you had in the shower, or just have fun. Then you discover that it needs a mountain of dependencies to build, and that the versions provided by your operating system are too old, or only available on a mixture of PyPI, CPAN, and random repositories. Even if your preferred package manager has all dependencies available, you may not want to install all that just to scratch that itch. Enter guix shell. If you are lucky, that project you want to hack on is one of the 21000+ packages available in Guix. Then you can simply clone the repository, navigate to the project in a terminal, and run: [...] o § Slackware Family⠀➾ # ⚓ Eric Hameleers ☛ Audacity_3.1.3_for_Slackware_(don’t_forget to_install_all_the_new_dependencies!)_|_Alien_Pastures⠀⇛ Two years ago I added version 2.4.1 of the Audacity multi-track audio recorder to my ‘Digital Audio Workstation’ (DAW) software collection in celebration of its 20th birthday. A lot happened in between then and now. Not just new releases of Audacity, but also a couple of forks of the code happened. Which gave us projects like Audacium, as well as Tenacity, which was superseded again by Saucedacity. The reason for these forks was the addition of telemetry (i.e. background-sending of application performance data to the developers) to the Audacity source code after the project was acquired by the Muse Group who are responsible for developing MuseScore among others. The same telemetry functionality was already present in MuseScore. Note that in both Audacity and MuseScore you have to manually and explicitly enable telemetry! It is disabled by default. o § Fedora / Red Hat / IBM⠀➾ # ⚓ Its FOSS ☛ EuroLinux_Desktop_is_an_RHEL-based_Distro_With Enterprise_Perks⠀⇛  EuroLinux Desktop is a Linux distro that aims to provide a well-rounded package for Windows and macOS users. You might be aware that EuroLinux is a Polish company focused on providing server-based distro since 2013 meant to cater to enterprises. But looks like they are introducing a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9-based desktop-focused distribution. # ⚓ Red Hat Official ☛ Explore_OpenShift_APIs_from_the_command line_|_Enable_Sysadmin⠀⇛ Get key details about routes, buildconfigs, deploymentconfigs, and other OpenShift-specific APIs. # ⚓ Copr:_Migrate_to_APIv3_queries [Ed: Fedora is blogging on Microsoft proprietary software; sad and ironic..]⠀⇛ We had planned the APIv2 drop for a very long time, and we started with that quite some time ago (api_2 dropped from our Python API lib). The team was so much familiar with this ongoing change, and was kind of bored from announcements so we forgot about analyzing the ongoing api_2 Apache access_log entries. The change has already happened, api_2 is gone. So here comes at least a small helper post that should make the migration from api_2 to api_3 trivial. Only the routes that are being accessed (and are 404) are covered here. # ⚓ Enterprisers Project ☛ Data_science_engineer:_A_day_in_the life⠀⇛ A common narrative for a day in the life of a data scientist is that we’re building the next cutting- edge machine learning (ML) model, showcasing it at conferences, and soaking in the applause. However, this is far from the daily reality for most data scientists. # ⚓ Red Hat ☛ Learn_about_the_new_BGP_capabilities_in_Red_Hat OpenStack_17_|_Red_Hat_Developer⠀⇛ The Red Hat OpenStack Platform is an Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) offering from Red Hat. Version 17.0 of the platform includes dynamic routing for both the control and data planes. This lets you deploy a cluster in a pure layer-3 (L3) data center, overcoming the scaling issues of traditional layer-2 (L2) infrastructures such as large failure domains, large broadcast traffic, or long convergence times in the event of failures. This article will illustrate this new feature by outlining a simple three-rack spine and leaf topology, where the layer-2 boundaries are within each rack on the Red Hat OpenStack Platform. The control plane spans the three racks, and each rack also hosts a compute node. Figure 1 illustrates our topology. # ⚓ Network World ☛ Linux_Foundation_to_blaze_a_path_forward for_mainframes⠀⇛ Open-source software development will be a key component to keeping the mainframe a vibrant part of current and future enterprise architectures. With that in mind the Open Mainframe Project, part of the Linux Foundation, this week said at its Open Mainframe Summit that it was forming a working group to promote mainframe-modernization efforts and that it had acqured its own Big Iron to spur future development. o § Debian Family⠀➾ # ⚓ 9to5Linux ☛ Debian_GNU/Linux_12_“Bookworm”_Installer_Adds Windows_11_Detection,_New_ARM_Devices⠀⇛ Work on Debian GNU/Linux 12 “Bookworm” kicked off a few months ago, but now there’s also an official installer for early adopters and Linux/Debian enthusiasts who want a taste of the new features and improvements. The Debian GNU/Linux 12 “Bookworm” installer comes with support for the latest Linux 5.19 kernel series and introduces various hardware improvements, starting with the detection of the Windows 11 operating system if you plan on dual booting Debian GNU/Linux and Windows on the same machine. # ⚓ Debian ☛ Debian_Installer_Bookworm_Alpha_1_release⠀⇛ The Debian Installer team[1] is pleased to announce the first alpha release of the installer for Debian 12 "Bookworm". A number of changes were submitted by Debian Janitor and merged into the many components that the installer is assembled out of, and they're not documented individually since they're usually about catching up with debhelper and other build-time best practices. Special thanks to first-time contributors to the main debian-installer source package: - Youngtaek Yoon - Sophie Brun - Roland Clobus o § Canonical/Ubuntu Family⠀➾ # ⚓ OMG Ubuntu ☛ Ubuntu_22.10’s_New_Wallpaper_is_an_Absolute Knock-Out⠀⇛ The new background image will grace the desktop of users who install or upgrade to Ubuntu 22.10 in October. Per tradition, all new versions of Ubuntu come with a custom-designed background image that carries a carefully-rendered character based on the codename mascot, which in this case is an African kudu. # ⚓ XDA ☛ The_Windows_Subsystem_for_Linux_now_supports_systemd [Ed: Canonical_is_acting_EXACTLY_like_it_is_a_de_facto DIVISION_of_Microsoft]⠀⇛ o § Devices/Embedded⠀➾ # ⚓ CNX Software ☛ OnLogic_IGN800_Industrial_Raspberry_Pi_Edge Gateway_runs_Ignition_Edge_software⠀⇛  OnLogic IGN800 is an industrial edge gateway based on the Raspberry Pi CM4 module pre-loaded with the Ignition Edge HMI, SCADA (Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition), MES, and IIoT software platform from Inductive Automation. The hardware is not exactly new, as the Onlogic IGN800 is simply the OnLogic Factor 201 industrial PC introduced earlier this year, but that ships with Ignition Edge in order to provide a cost- effective solution for automation projects. # ⚓ CNX Software ☛ AAEON_ARES-500AI_embedded_box_PC_features_22 TOPS_Huawei_Atlas_200_AI_accelerator_module⠀⇛  ARES-500AI is another embedded box PC from AAEON, but instead of the usual Intel or NVIDIA Jetson accelerators, it integrates a Huawei Atlas 200 AI accelerator module based on the Ascent 310 chip delivering up to 22 TOPS of AI performance and is designed for the Chinese market. The Linux computer supports up to 8GB RAM, SSD and MicroSD storage, and is equipped with four Gigabit Ethernet ports, some USB 3.0 ports, but somehow no video output port. Designed for industrial computer vision applications, the system supports a wide 9V to 36V power input. # ⚓ The DIY Life ☛ Taking_My_Workshop_Offgrid_Using_EcoFlow Power_Kits_–_The_DIY_Life⠀⇛ EcoFlow are a popular name amongst campers and adventurers for their portable power stations and solar generators. These allow you to store power in a portable unit to take with you to charge devices, run small appliances and provide lighting. They’re now taking it a step further with their launch of EcoFlow Power Kits. This is a modular system designed specifically for RVs, camper vans and trailers and small off-grid installations. The idea being that the system eliminates the complexity of traditional setups, being plug and play, compact and efficient, and allowing modern monitoring and control. # ⚓ Linux Gizmos ☛ Sony_Starvis_based_GigE_camera_supports PoE⠀⇛ The e-RouteCAM_CU20 is a 2MP PoE (Power-over- Ethernet) GigE camera developed by e-con Systems. Additionally, the device integrates a high performance ISP to target low light applications.   # ⚓ Engadget ☛ NVIDIA_reveals_its_next-gen_chipset_for autonomous_vehicles⠀⇛ Vehicles with the chipset will be able to run Linux, QNX and Android simultaneously. # ⚓ Silicon Angle ☛ Delivering_2,000_teraflops,_Nvidia_Drive Thor_unifies_intelligent_auto_functions_–_SiliconANGLE⠀⇛ With multidomain computing, Drive Thor divides autonomous driving and in-vehicle infotainment all on one computer, allowing vehicles to run Linux, QNX and Android simultaneously. o § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ SamMobile ☛ Samsung_just_lost_the_Android_13_update_race_to OnePlus_–_SamMobile⠀⇛ # ⚓ TechRadar ☛ Android_phone_updates_could_get_much_easier_– iOS_should_learn_a_thing_or_two_|_TechRadar⠀⇛ # ⚓ 9to5Google ☛ Chromecast_with_Google_TV_is_getting_Android 12⠀⇛ # ⚓ This_app_brings_Apple-style_Dynamic_Island_to_Android_| NextPit⠀⇛ # ⚓ 9to5Google ☛ Android_13_may_finally_force_Seamless_Updates support⠀⇛ # ⚓ GO Media ☛ What_Android_13_Apps_Support_Material_You Icons?⠀⇛ # ⚓ OnePlus_10_Pro_Gets_Huge_Android_13_Update_With_Tons_of_New Features⠀⇛ # ⚓ Logitech_builds_Android-powered_Steam_Deck_clone_for portable_cloud_gaming_|_Ars_Technica⠀⇛ # ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ How_to_Fix_the_Google_App_Crashing_on Android⠀⇛ # ⚓ Android Police ☛ How_to_block_text_messages_on_Android⠀⇛ # ⚓ Phone Arena ☛ Google’s_privacy-focused_“Results_about_you” tool_is_rolling_out_on_Android_–_PhoneArena⠀⇛ # ⚓ PR Newswire ☛ OpenSynergy_Enhances_Virtual_Platform_to Fully_Support_Android_Automotive_OS⠀⇛ # ⚓ Android Police ☛ Google_Chrome_for_Android_has_a_snazzy_new address_bar_in_the_works⠀⇛ * § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾ o ⚓ Entitlement_in_Open_Source⠀⇛ Let’s start with a few definitions of terms I’ll use in this article so we’re all on the same page: open source project: a software project where the source code is freely released under an open source license (e.g. MIT, Apache, GPL). Often on GitHub, GitLab or a similar hosting platform. user: someone who uses open source software but has not yet been or become a contributor or maintainer contributor: someone who has submitted code to an open source project which was accepted and merged into this project but does not have write access to merge their own changes maintainer: someone with write access to an open source project who is able to merge changes from contributors, other maintainers or themselves o ⚓ Joinup ☛ Germany’s_opencode.de_goes_into_production_use⠀⇛ The idea for a central repository was launched in 2020 and was worked on by Open Source Business Alliance (OSBA) together with the IT departments of local administrations. Interestingly, the stated advantages of Open Source focus on the flexibility and speed of adding new functionality. Many years ago, the focus was on cost saving, but this has changed in recent years. Also interesting is the idea of creating a community. The aim is that local administrations can see that particular pieces of software are already in use in similar administrations—a form of to peer-review or recommendation—and they also know they can turn to those colleagues if they have questions. Tasks such as licence verification and security audits can also be done just once. o ⚓ Betterbird._Simply_better.⠀⇛ Betterbird is a fine-tuned version of Mozilla Thunderbird, Thunderbird on steroids, if you will. Betterbird is better than Thunderbird in three ways: It contains new features exclusive to Betterbird, it contains bug fixes exclusive to Betterbird and it contains fixes that Thunderbird may ship at a later stage. Please refer to this feature table for examples. This should give you an impression of where the project is headed. More information on why we’re doing the project can be found at the FAQ. Or just see our ilustrator’s impression: Betterbird 91.13.1 released on 13th September 2022 o § Web Browsers⠀➾ # ⚓ uni Toronto ☛ Tangled_issues_with_what_status_we_should_use for_our_HTTP_redirects⠀⇛ When we set up any HTTP redirection, we have historically tended to initially make them ‘temporary’ redirections (ie, HTTP status 302). Partly this is because it’s usually the Apache default, and partly this is because we’re concerned that we may have made a mistake (either in configuration or intentions) and historically permanent redirects could be cached in browsers, although I’m not sure how much that happens today. Our most recent version of redirections for people’s old home pages were set up this way, and so they’ve stayed for four years. # ⚓ Simon Josefsson ☛ Privilege_separation_of_GSS-API credentials_for_Apache⠀⇛ The gssproxy project makes it possible to introduce privilege separation to reduce the attack surface. There is a tutorial for RPM-based distributions (Fedora, RHEL, AlmaLinux, etc), but I wanted to get this to work on a DPKG-based distribution (Debian, Ubuntu, Trisquel, PureOS, etc) and found it worthwhile to document the process. I’m using Ubuntu 22.04 below, but have tested it on Debian 11 as well. I have adopted the gssproxy package in Debian, and testing this setup is part of the scripted autopkgtest/debci regression testing. # ⚓ Will_Serving_Real_HTML_Content_Make_A_Website_Faster?_Let’s Experiment!⠀⇛ Many of the most common performance problems in websites and applications today are caused by how they load and rely upon JavaScript, and the difficulty involved in solving those problems often depends on the degree of that reliance. When JS reliance is minimal, fixing poor delivery performance can be as simple as instructing the browser to load certain scripts at a lower priority and allow HTML content to render sooner. But when a site is dependent on JavaScript for generating its HTML content in the first place, those sorts of optimizations can’t help, and in those cases fixing the problem may require deep and time-consuming architectural changes. While it has been around longer, the pattern of using JavaScript to generate a page’s content after delivery became particularly popular within the last 5-10 years. The approach was initially intended for web applications that have highly dynamic, personalized, real-time content, but nowadays frameworks such as React have made these practices commonplace among sites that don’t share those specialized qualities as well. # § Mozilla⠀➾ # ⚓ Firefox_Nightly:_These_Weeks_In_Firefox:_Issue_124⠀⇛ # ⚓ DaemonFC (Ryan Farmer) ☛ Pale_Moon_scares_people_away from_the_NoScript_extension_to_protect_‘MoonChild’s’ profits._Bonus:_Corrosive_people_(boosted_by_Microsoft) in_“FOSS”_“Communities”._|_BaronHK’s_Rants⠀⇛ Recently, Matthew J. Garrett, or Matt GULAG as I call him on #Techrights IRC has been petitioning Roy to cancel me over some personal beliefs that I have expressed that aren’t even that unusual. Roy hasn’t acted on that. Matt GULAG’s career in software development is on a jack stand provided by Microsoft and other companies that are hostile to software freedom. Unfortunately, when Freenode turned into The Pretender’s “Freenode Autonomous Zone”, people who are bad in other ways, like Matt GULAG and “MoonChild” (*cough* M.C. Hitler) (which MinceR refers to as “ManChild”) forked it and created Libera.Chat. Libera.Chat is awful because it’s been politicized by the cancel mob. Freenode, before The Pretender took it over, had almost 100,000 users and was _the_ place to discuss Free Software. Libera.Chat only has about 49,000 users at peak hours, and it’s because they cancel anyone who isn’t some total leftist freak-of- nature or a Microsoft toady that supports their sabotage efforts of GNU/Linux. Libera.Chat has banned me like 7 times (sort of like Matrix.org has), but K-Lines don’t mean much of anything to me like they did in the days of dial-up or direct connect over my real IP which only changed every several months or so. I change IP addresses and VPN providers every so often so good luck making any of that stick. I’m on Libera.Chat in several different ways all at once right now. Eventually the bans don’t happen as often because you know which rooms (such as #linux and #libera) which have asshole moderators in them. Microsoft has virtually succeeded in planting moles in every high profile place where “Linux” is up for discussion, and they’ve made sure that people who don’t like Microsoft and say why get banned. Even if it’s like, a one-liner and you’re not up on a soap box. Or you make a joke about something that really happened. (Like the time Microsoft did the BIG BOOBIES debacle with the Linux kernel in their HyperV driver and then says all the perverts are in open source.) The bans happened to me on Reddit and Libera, and whether the ban itself sticks or not, they know that you know that if you come back and criticize them again, the ban will just happen again. o § SaaS/Back End/Databases⠀➾ # ⚓ PostgreSQL ☛ PostgreSQL:_Announcing:_Citus_11.1_open_source release⠀⇛ New in the Citus 11.1 database, you can now distribute Postgres tables, split shards, and isolate tenants—without interruption, which means without blocking writes. Also included in 11.1 is PostgreSQL 15 beta 4 support, plus shard rebalancing in the background. Read Marco’s blog post for the full story. Or if you’re more interested in the code you can check out the Citus GitHub repo (feel free to give the project a star to show support 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇:)⦈ ). # ⚓ PostgreSQL ☛ PostgreSQL:_Announcing_the_release_of pg_stat_monitor_1.1.0⠀⇛ Percona is happy to announce the 1.1.0 release of pg_stat_monitor. You can install it from the Percona repositories following the installation instructions. pg_stat_monitor is a Query Performance Monitoring tool for PostgreSQL. It attempts to provide a more holistic picture by providing much-needed query performance insights in a single view. pg_stat_monitor provides improved insights that allow database users to understand query origins, execution, planning statistics and details, query information, and metadata. This significantly improves observability, enabling users to debug and tune query performance. pg_stat_monitor is developed on the basis of pg_stat_statements as its more advanced replacement. o § FSF⠀➾ # ⚓ FSF ☛ Free_Software_Awards:_Nominate_those_who_have_charted a_course_to_freedom_by_November_30⠀⇛ Announcement of Free Software Awards announcement. Read more about how to nominate individuals who have made an impact in free software. The dedication and determination of its contributors has helped the free software movement chart a course to a freer digital tomorrow. Whether you realize it or not, simply using free software makes you a part of our collective journey to freedom. On the way to our destination, there are those inspiring individuals and projects who go above and beyond in their dedication to the movement and its principles. Now, it’s time for us to show these community members and projects that we appreciate their vital work. o § Licensing / Legal⠀➾ # ⚓ Alexandru Nedelcu ☛ Akka_Fork_FUD⠀⇛ Lightbend made Akka proprietary from version 2.7.x onward. This left the community wondering about the possibility of a fork, and unfortunately, I see some FUD that needs to be addressed. o § Programming/Development⠀➾ # ⚓ Jim Nielsen ☛ My_Contribution_to_Launching_React_Router 6.4⠀⇛ I’m not going to cover what’s in the release (you can visit the blog post for that). Instead, I want to document a my involement in the new site design for reactrouter.com. # ⚓ OpenSource.com ☛ 5_Git_configurations_I_make_on_Linux⠀⇛ Setting up Git on Linux is simple, but here are the five things I do to get the perfect configuration: I manage my code, shell scripts, and documentation versioning using Git. This means that for each new project I start, the first step is to create a directory for its content and make it into a Git repository: There are certain general settings that I always want. Not many, but enough that I don’t want to have to repeat the configuration each time. I like to take advantage of the global configuration capability of Git. # § Perl / Raku⠀➾ # ⚓ Perl ☛ London_Perl_Workshop:_Status_Update_&_2023_| lpw_[blogs.perl.org]⠀⇛ Hello all. It’s been a while. As you may have guessed there will not be a workshop this year. We spoke about organising one but the uncertainty around restrictions, along with other organisational constraints, resulted in our decision not to. # § Python⠀➾ # ⚓ Carl Svensson ☛ TTX_–_Swedish_Teletext_reader⠀⇛ TTX is a Python script for reading the teletext pages published by SVT, Sweden’s public service television company. # § Java⠀➾ # ⚓ IT Wire ☛ Java_19_arrives⠀⇛ The new release includes a substantial number of bug fixes and minor improvements. More than two-thirds were contributed by Oracle. Red Hat, independent developers, Tencent, Amazon and Arm were the next most significant contributors. In addition to the six-monthly Java releases, Oracle provides free quarterly security updates for the current main version. Security fixes are also available to subscribers for to all applicable previous releases. # ⚓ IT Pro Today ☛ Java_19_Continues_Evolution_of_Open Source_Programming_Language⠀⇛ Java continues to move forward with features that improve performance and extend the capabilities of the open source programming language project led by Oracle. # § Rust⠀➾ # ⚓ Rust Weekly Updates ☛ This_Week_In_Rust:_This_Week_in Rust_461⠀⇛ * § Leftovers⠀➾ o ⚓ The Nation ☛ Days_of_Their_Lives:_Steve_Brodner’s_Living_&_Dying in_America⠀⇛ Back in 1960, A.J. Liebling reminded his fellow citizens that “freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.” As Steve Brodner knows only too well: Although he is considered by many (including me) to be the most brilliant caricaturist working today, the decline of print and the rise of editorial caution have meant fewer outlets for Brodner’s no-holds-barred graphic commentary. When, in the spring of 2020, Brodner felt compelled to chronicle the pandemic that was ravaging New York City and the world, he started publishing an illustrated newsletter, The Greater Quiet. He wasn’t the first to document the devastation brought on by a plague. In the 17th century, Samuel Pepys recorded the effects that the bubonic plague was having on London. In Pepys’s diary we learn that one of the ways Londoners protected themselves was by drinking cognac with cow urine. (Trump’s miracle cure, hydroxychloroquine, was still centuries in the future.)1 o ⚓ The Nation ☛ Remembering_Ying_Lee⠀⇛ When the pandemic started, I took a walk with Ying Lee, who died this week at the age of 90. I took some photographs of her, and she talked about her memories of her childhood in China. Then we laughed at how we defied the Berkeley School Board. o ⚓ Hackaday ☛ A_3D_Printed_Marble_Run_Features_Neat_Elevator Linkage⠀⇛ There’s seldom anything as joyful and relaxing to watch as a simple marble run. Of course, the thing about letting marbles fall under gravity is that you eventually need to lift them back up again. The Marblevator has a mechanism that does just that. o ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Wow!_You_Could_Have_A_(Tiny)_V8!⠀⇛ If you grew up before high gas prices and strict emission control regulations, you probably had — or wanted — a car with a V8 engine. An engineering masterpiece created in France, it would define automotive power for the best part of a century. Of course, you can still get them, but the realities of our day make them a luxury. [Vlad] shows us his latest Christmas list addition: a fully- functioning but tiny V8 — the Toyan FS-V800 that has a displacement of two centiliters. o § Education⠀➾ # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Know_Audio:_Stereo⠀⇛ In our occasional series charting audio and Hi-Fi technology we have passed at a technical level the main components of a home audio set-up. In our last outing when we looked at cabling we left you with a promise of covering instrumentation, but now it’s time instead for a short digression into another topic: stereo. It’s a word so tied-in with Hi-Fi that “a stereo” is an alternative word for almost any music system, but what does it really mean? What makes a stereo recording, and how does it arrive at your ears? o ⚓ Medforth ☛ Paris:_Teacher_threatened_for_asking_a_pupil_to_take off_her_Islamic_headscarf⠀⇛ In detail: On Friday September 16, students of the Simone Weil High School spent the afternoon inside the historic library of the city of Paris, located in the Rue Pavée near the school. Suddenly, one of the two teachers present spotted that a female high school student had put on her headscarf as she was leaving the school building. “She asked her to take off her headscarf and explained to her that wearing it was not allowed in the school rules of the high school and especially during school trips,” a person close to the investigating authority told the newspaper. * § Hardware⠀➾ o ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Old_Barcode_Scanner_Motherboards_Live_Again⠀⇛ Sometimes, hacking is just for the pleasure of diving into the secrets of old hardware. That was very much the case when [glitch] and a friend started hacking on some old Intel 8080 boards that had been living in the junk pile for too long. o ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Cutting_Metals_With_A_Diode_Laser?⠀⇛ Hobbyist-grade laser cutters can be a little restrictive as to the types and thicknesses of materials that they can cut. We’re usually talking about CO2 and diode-based machines here, and if you want to cut non-plastic sheets, you’re usually going to be looking towards natural materials such as leather, fabrics, and thin wood. o ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Metric_And_Inch_Threads_Fight_It_Out_For_Ultra-Precise Positioning⠀⇛ When you’re a machinist, your stock in trade is precision, with measurements in the thousandths of your preferred unit being common. But when you’re a diemaker, your precision game needs to be even finer, and being able to position tools and material with seemingly impossibly granularity becomes really important. o ⚓ Tom’s Hardware ☛ Floppy_Disk_Kingpin_Says_Business_Has_About_Four Years_Before_Hitting_Eject_Button⠀⇛ You might be curious who still needs floppy disks in 2022. The answer is wide-ranging, with a diverse clientele still eating up these computer consumables regularly. Some of the biggest floppy disk orders come from industrial firms, as well as avionics, healthcare, and embroidery. All these customers have something in common; they use serviceable, good working order machinery that is perhaps 20+ years old and use a floppy drive to save and load data. Incidentally, the Japanese government has only just decided to phase out the required filing of certain official documents on floppies and CDs. * § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾ o ⚓ India Times ☛ FDA_warns_of_cybersecurity_risk_with_certain Medtronic_insulin_pumps⠀⇛ The agency issued a cybersecurity risk alert for the Medtronic MiniMed 600 Series insulin pump system, which has several components including an insulin pump and a blood glucose meter that communicate wirelessly. The FDA said an unauthorized person could gain access to a pump while it was pairing with other system components, but so far, it was not aware of any reports related to this cybersecurity vulnerability. o ⚓ RFA ☛ Three_Tibetans_reported_dead_from_COVID_as_virus_spreads⠀⇛ Three Tibetans have recently died from COVID-19 as the virus continues to spread across China’s Tibet Autonomous Region and local netizens complain of harsh and unsanitary quarantine procedures, RFA has learned. o ⚓ New York Times ☛ We’re_Losing_the_Luxury_of_a_Summer_Spent Outdoors⠀⇛ I looked down at my phone to check the air quality index: AQI 122. Above 50 is considered “acceptable.” Above 100 is considered “unhealthy for sensitive groups” like children and the elderly. But there is no amount of wildfire smoke that is safe to breathe. Smoke is made up of tiny particles that burrow deep into your lungs and pass into your bloodstream. Scientists don’t know what will happen to our children, who are growing up exposed to wildfire smoke summer after summer after summer, for weeks at a time. o ⚓ Rolling Stone ☛ Five_Years_Since_the_Route_91_Massacre_No_One Knows_a_Damn_Thing⠀⇛ Yet five years since the massacre at Route 91, little else has, when it comes to mass shootings in the U.S. The suspect, a 64-year-old white man who took his own life by the time authorities entered his room, was identified, yet no motive was ever determined. A ban on bump stocks, the device the shooter used to transform his weapons from semi-automatic to automatic, was enacted via executive order by President Trump in 2018, but seemingly did little to curb future mass shootings using assault rifles. And the survivors, traumatized and struggling to heal — an estimated 22,000 people attended the festival’s third day — find it hard to agree upon anything. Even the official death toll is a point of fierce debate. o ⚓ Rolling Stone ☛ Björk_Says_‘Violence’_in_the_U.S._Contributed_to Move_Back_to_Iceland:_‘Too_Much_for_Me’⠀⇛ Speaking to Pitchfork ahead of her new album Fossora, Björk revealed that — after decades split living in New York and Iceland — the singer moved back to the latter for good in part because of the Covid-19 pandemic and the rash of violence — from mass shootings to incidents of police brutality — that were a constant in the U.S. o ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Colombian_President_Calls_for_an_End_to_the_War_on Drugs_in_Historic_UN_Address⠀⇛ In his speech to the UN General Assembly, the Colombian president highlighted the necessity of ending the war on drugs and saving the environment. * § Proprietary⠀➾ o ⚓ You_can’t_stop_me._MS_Teams_session_hijacking_and_bypass_|_Pen Test_Partners⠀⇛ Microsoft Teams stores unencrypted session tokens and cached conversations in users’ roaming AppData, which can be used by an attacker to gain access to the victim’s Teams account without having to authenticate or contend with potential conditional access policies. This is a design choice by Microsoft as the folder is located in \AppData\Roaming\, which is a folder designed to be synchronised with folder redirection and similar technologies for user convenience. Imagine the frustration IT departments would be faced with if their Citrix users had to log into Teams every single morning. You can almost hear the angry mob with torches and pitchforks. We leveraged this on a client engagement when I compromised a central file server, which held users’ roaming AppData. o ⚓ Ghacks ☛ Microsoft_Teams_is_storing_authentication_tokens_in cleartext⠀⇛ The vulnerability is present in the desktop versions of Teams for Windows, macOS and Linux. Threat actors who have local (physical) or remote access to a victim’s system, can access the credentials of users who are signed in, without requiring administrator privileges. Hackers could bypass 2-factor authentication requirements even if it was enabled in the account, and access other related apps such as Skype and Outlook. This could potentially be exploited to impersonate other users, tamper with data, or to engineer targeted phishing attacks. o ⚓ Computing UK ☛ Microsoft_Teams_stores_authentication_tokens_in plaintext⠀⇛ Microsoft’s workplace-oriented messaging app, Teams, saves authentication tokens in an unencrypted plaintext format – potentially allowing attackers to control conversations and move laterally inside a network. Security firm Vectra Protect claims the weakness affects the desktop app for Windows, Mac, and Linux, which was developed using the Microsoft Electron framework. o ⚓ Scoop News Group ☛ Twitter,_Mudge_and_survival_of_the_quittest⠀⇛ The affair also raises suspicions of performative tokenism on the part of some tech giants, who sometimes appear to keep some of their security and ethics personnel on staff merely for window-dressing. Just recently, Meta disbanded its Responsible Innovation Team just about a year after touting them, while Patreon, which suffered a massive data breach in 2015, laid off its entire security staff. * § Security⠀➾ o ⚓ CISA ☛ Mozilla_Releases_Security_Updates_for_Firefox,_Firefox ESR,_and_Thunderbird_|_CISA⠀⇛ Mozilla has released security updates to address vulnerabilities in Firefox, Firefox ESR, and Thunderbird. An attacker could exploit some of these vulnerabilities to take control of an affected system. CISA encourages users and administrators to review the Mozilla security advisories for Firefox 105, Firefox ESR 102.3, and ThunderBird 91.13.1 and apply the necessary updates. o ⚓ USCERT ☛ Microsoft_Releases_Out-of-Band_Security_Update_for Microsoft_Endpoint_Configuration_Manager [Ed: Microsoft_the_back doors_company]⠀⇛ Microsoft has released a security update to address a vulnerability in Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager, versions 2103-2207. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to obtain sensitive information. o ⚓ Krebs On Security ☛ SIM_Swapper_Abducted,_Beaten,_Held_for_$200k Ransom⠀⇛ A Florida teenager who served as a lackey for a cybercriminal group that specializes in cryptocurrency thefts was beaten and kidnapped last week by a rival cybercrime gang. The teen’s captives held guns to his head while forcing him to record a video message pleading with his crew to fork over a $200,000 ransom in exchange for his life. The youth is now reportedly cooperating with U.S. federal investigators, who are responding to an alarming number of reports of physical violence tied to certain online crime communities. o ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Trojans_Can_Lurk_Inside_AVR_Bootloaders⠀⇛ If there’s one thing we’ve learned over the years, it’s that if it’s got a silicon chip inside, it could be carrying a virus. Research by one group focused on hiding a trojan inside an AVR Arduino bootloader, proving even our little hobbyist microcontrollers aren’t safe. o ⚓ IT Wire ☛ iTWire_–_Optus_hit_by_huge_data_breach,_up_to_9m customers_claimed_affected⠀⇛ Australia’s second largest telecommunications provider Singtel Optus has revealed its customers’ data has been possibly accessed in a network attack. The Australian claimed the data breach affected up to nine million customers. Optus said in a statement that information which may have been exposed included customers’ names, dates of birth, phone numbers, email addresses, and, for a subset of customers, addresses, ID document numbers such as driver’s licence or passport numbers. o ⚓ Bruce Schneier ☛ Prompt_Injection/Extraction_Attacks_against_AI Systems_–_Schneier_on_Security⠀⇛ This is an interesting attack I had not previously considered. The variants are interesting, and I think we’re just starting to understand their implications. o ⚓ Simon Willison ☛ I_don’t_know_how_to_solve_prompt_injection⠀⇛ Some extended thoughts about prompt injection attacks against software built on top of AI language models such a GPT-3. This post started as a Twitter thread but I’m promoting it to a full blog entry here. The more I think about these prompt injection attacks against GPT-3, the more my amusement turns to genuine concern. I know how to beat XSS, and SQL injection, and so many other exploits. I have no idea how to reliably beat prompt injection! o § Integrity/Availability/Authenticity⠀➾ # ⚓ Le Monde ☛ No_more_passwords?_Passkeys_explained_in_three questions⠀⇛ When signing up for a service, application or site (an online store, for example) with a passkey you will have to use a device that belongs to you: a smartphone, computer or a tablet. During registration, the smartphone will create two encrypted keys, which are unique and specific for each service. There is the private key, which remains on the smartphone, and the public key, held by the site or application in question. Then, each time a connection is attempted, the service will pose a sort of riddle to the smartphone, a “challenge” that only the user will be able to solve thanks to its private key. Once this “challenge” is solved the user will then have to give their approval and prove that they are the owner of the smartphone, for example by putting their finger on the fingerprint reader, presenting their face, typing in a PIN or by drawing a pattern on the screen in order to finalize the connection. # ⚓ Trolling_forum_Kiwi_Farms_admits_being_hacked⠀⇛ Kevin Beaumont, a cyber-pundit who also goes by his Twitter handle @GossiTheDog, said the hack had probably been augmented by a remote-code execution script called Troonshine that gathered data and credentials from users of the extremist forum and sent it to a website named after coded offensive language used by Kiwi Farms. o § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾ # ⚓ Patrick Breyer ☛ Data_retention_ruling:_Let’s_free_Europe from_mass_surveillance_and_general_suspicion!⠀⇛ In a ruling delivered today, the EU Court of Justice dismissed German legislation on general and indiscriminate retention of call data records and mobile phone location data of the entire population. It warns that bulk retention may reveal “habits of everyday life, permanent or temporary places of residence, daily or other movements, the activities carried out, the social relationships of those persons and the social environments frequented by them”. However, the Court did not object to the bulk retention of Internet traffic data (IP addresses), which can be used to trace online activity. The so-called quick freeze procedure has also been permitted for the prosecution of serious crimes. # ⚓ Gannett ☛ Customs_is_collecting_data_at_the_border._This_is what_it_means_for_Michiganders⠀⇛ The U.S. government is collecting and storing data from up to 10,000 electronic devices each year from travelers at international borders, the Washington Post reported last week. The database is accessible by thousands of agents, CBP told congressional staff. That means CBP agents could theoretically see photos of your honeymoon, who you’re texting and where you’ve been. The data is maintained for 15 years, the Post said. Officials declined to say how long the practice has gone on. # ⚓ The Washington Post ☛ Customs_officials_have_copied Americans’_phone_data_at_massive_scale⠀⇛ The rapid expansion of the database and the ability of 2,700 CBP officers to access it without a warrant — two details not previously known about the database — have raised alarms in Congress about what use the government has made of the information, much of which is captured from people not suspected of any crime. CBP officials told congressional staff the data is maintained for 15 years. Details of the database were revealed Thursday in a letter to CBP Commissioner Chris Magnus from Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), who criticized the agency for “allowing indiscriminate rifling through Americans’ private records” and called for stronger privacy protections. # ⚓ Stacey on IoT ☛ Everything_I_could_find_out_about_Amazon’s Sidewalk_Network⠀⇛ Since Amazon announced its Sidewalk Network in 2019, I’ve been eagerly awaiting the Low-Power Wide-Area Network (LPWAN) for the internet of things. But since Amazon turned on the network in mid-2021, an influx of Sidewalk devices and widespread use hasn’t occurred. Instead Amazon is slowly adding new customers on a case-by-case basis. # ⚓ Internet Freedom Foundation ☛ #5Questions_to_ask_before installing_an_app⠀⇛ Ever worried about your data and its privacy while installing a new application (app) on your phone? As part of our new series #5Questions, here are 5 questions that will help you make an informed decision. # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ No,_The_Solution_For_Criminal_Defendants_Is_Not More_Clearview_AI⠀⇛ The problems with Clearview AI’s facial recognition system, particularly in the hands of police, are myriad and serious. That the technology exists as it does at all raises significant ethical concerns, and how it has been used to feed people into the criminal justice system raises significant due process ones as well. But an article in the New York Times the other day might seem to suggest that it perhaps also has a cuddly side, one that might actually help criminal defendants, instead of just hurting them. * § Defence/Aggression⠀➾ o ⚓ NBC ☛ Capitol_Police_Officer_Eugene_Goodman_offers_new_Jan._6 details_at_trial_of_QAnon_believer⠀⇛ Goodman testified at the jury trial of Doug Jensen, an Iowa man in a “QAnon” shirt who was one of the first 10 people who went into the Capitol through a broken window on Jan. 6, according to video and the Justice Department. Jensen is charged with numerous offenses, including felony charges of civil disorder, obstruction of an official proceeding and assaulting, resisting or impeding officers. o ⚓ VOA News ☛ US_Slams_Iran_for_‘Brazen’_Attacks_on_American_People, Infrastructure⠀⇛ Just last week, the U.S. Justice Department indicted three Iranian nationals, charging them in a plot to attack and extort money from hundreds of victims across the U.S., including police departments, transportation companies, local governments and a children’s hospital. At the time, the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Christopher Wray, called the activity “just the tip of the iceberg.” o ⚓ TRT World ☛ Over_ten_farmers_‘executed’_by_suspected_Boko_Haram militants_in_Niger⠀⇛ The incident took place in a town in the Diffa region close to the Lake Chad basin, a strategic area where the borders of four countries converge – Cameroon, Chad, Niger and Nigeria. o ⚓ Atlantic Council ☛ Weaponizing_education:_Russia_targets schoolchildren_in_occupied_Ukraine⠀⇛ Ukraine began a new academic year on September 1 with the country still engaged in a fight for survival against Russia’s ongoing invasion. For millions of Ukrainian schoolchildren, this meant a return to the classroom with the prospect of lessons being regularly interrupted by air raid sirens. Schools without adequate air raid shelters were unable to open at all. For those living in Russian-occupied regions of Ukraine, the situation is far worse. Schools under Russian control are being forced to adopt a Kremlin-curated curriculum designed to demonize Ukraine while convincing kids to welcome the takeover of their country and embrace a Russian national identity. Teachers and parents who dare to object face potentially dire consequences. o ⚓ Digital First Media ☛ Oxford’s_unionized_teachers,_officials advised_not_to_talk_to_investigators⠀⇛ Educators and administrators at Oxford Community Schools were advised not to participate in interviews for a third-party investigation into the Nov. 30 school massacre at Oxford High School, according to an email obtained by The Detroit News. o ⚓ Jacobin Magazine ☛ “Disinformation”_Didn’t_Bring_Us_Donald Trump⠀⇛ We can do better than to align ourselves with this kind of reheated anti-communism. In the field of disinformation studies, it’s practically taboo to acknowledge a crisis of democracy that is structural, material, and predates QAnon clout chasers. As the critical disinfo scholars at the University of North Carolina’s Center for Information, Technology, and Public Life identify, there is a retreat into fantasies of an epistemically consistent past that allows technocrats to treat political challenges from the left as part of the attack on “our way of life.” This is manifest in the key strategic interventions of disinfo warriors in previous electoral cycles in the UK and United States. DFRLab’s Foreign Interference Attribution Tracker used anonymous intelligence reports to assert that the George Floyd protests and the Bernie Sanders campaign where the two most impactful foreign interference attempts of 2020. Similarly, Ben Nimmo, formerly of DFRLab and now head of Facebook’s influence operations intelligence, was able to reframe Jeremy Corbyn’s use in the campaign of a factually accurate, leaked draft trade deal as principally an issue of hybrid war. o ⚓ Futurism ☛ US_Military_Annoyed_When_Facebook_And_Twitter_Removed Its_PSYOP_Bots:_“‘Guys,_You_Got_Caught._That’s_A_Problem.’”⠀⇛ While the details about the specific content that Facebook and Twitter chose to remove from their platforms are relatively scarce, officials confirmed to WaPo that most of the take-downs occurred within the last two to three years. One particularly egregious case of disinformation was a fake story involving organ theft, apparently designed to encourage a rift between Afghans and Iranians. Importantly, sourced alleged to WaPo that the social platforms in question weren’t taking US military content down for the sake of, you know, truth. Rather, execs like David Agranovich, Facebook’s director for global threat disruption, were flagging the issue as a military failure, essentially warning the DoD that if they can snuff out the fake accounts, so can international rivals. o ⚓ Frontpage Magazine ☛ Islamist_at_the_White_House⠀⇛ Photos from the Eid celebration depict Subedar posing with a number of fellow Islamist leaders. They include: Emgage National Chairman and attorney for high-profile convicted terrorists, Khurrum Wahid, who reportedly spent time on a terrorist watch list, himself; former President and current board member of the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), former Senior National Director of Islamic Relief USA, and current CEO of Muslim Aid USA Azhar Azeez; and former Secretary General of ISNA Sayyid M. Syeed. ISNA’s early relationship to the Holy Land Foundation (HLF), led the group to be named an “unindicted co-conspirator” to Hamas funding. o ⚓ Birmingham Live ☛ Plea_for_peace_after_protest_at_Durga_Bhawan Hindu_temple_in_Smethwick⠀⇛ At one point some in the group attempted to climb the fence into the venue, triggering intervention by police in riot gear, who then formed a protective line to hold back the crowd. Some protestors, many in balaclavas, gestured aggressively and shouted slogans, while fireworks and missiles were thrown towards officers. There was one arrest. o ⚓ Express And Star ☛ Fireworks_and_missiles_thrown_at_police_as hundreds_protest_outside_Smethwick_temple⠀⇛ It is believed the disorder was sparked by violence in Leicester over the previous days, which has seen tension between the city’s Muslim and Hindu communities. West Midlands Police said: “Following a protest gathering in Smethwick last night (20 September), there was some minor disorder and one person was arrested. “We had a pre-planned police presence near the temple in Spon Lane where fireworks and missiles were thrown towards some of our officers. Thankfully no-one was injured. “We’re also looking into reports of a small number of cars being damaged. o ⚓ India Times ☛ Protests_outside_Hindu_temple_in_UK’s_Smethwick⠀⇛ Sandwell police had earlier tweeted, “We’re aware of a planned protest in West Bromwich later today (20 September). We understand this is in relation to concerns around a speaker at the Temple in Spon Lane, but we’re informed the event has been cancelled and this person is not staying in the UK.” This incident comes after recent social media reports about Pakistani organised gangs were seen vandalising and terrorising Hindus in the UK’s Leicester City. The incident follows a spate of violence and disorder in the eastern part of the city. The Indian high commission in London on Monday condemned the violence perpetrated against the Indian community in Leicester and sought immediate action against those involved in the attacks. o ⚓ Hindu Post ☛ Anti-Hindu_violence_spreads_in_UK,_Durga_Bhawan temple_attacked_in_Birmingham⠀⇛ On September 20, a mob of around 200 masked Islamists circled Durga Bhawan temple located on Spon Lane in Smethwick town near to Birmingham, after a call for “peaceful protests” was made on social media. The mob shouting the Islamic war cry ‘Nar-e-Takbeer, Allah-o- Akbar’ came right up to the fence of the Hindu temple, with a couple of them climbing on the fence and making obscene gestures and hurling abuses at Hindus inside. A Sky News reporter said a bottle was thrown, and one video clip shows what seems like a round being fired by the police to control the unruly mob. o ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Rights_Group_Says_Over_1,100_Russians_Arrested for_Protesting_Putin’s_War_Escalation⠀⇛ “Thousands of Russian men… will be thrown into the meat grinder of the war. What will they be dying for?” o ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ ‘Nuclear_Deterrence_Is_Always_a_Bluff._Until_It Isn’t’:_Putin_Threat_Sparks_Alarm⠀⇛ In a televised address—a full transcript of which can be read here—Putin warned that if his nation’s “territorial integrity” is threatened as Moscow continues its assault on Ukraine and attempts to seize large swaths of the nation’s land, “we will certainly use all the means at our disposal to protect Russia.” o ⚓ Meduza ☛ Moscow_trades_225_prisoners_of_war_to_Kyiv_in_exchange for_56_men,_including_Putin’s_close_friend,_Viktor_Medvedchuk_— Meduza⠀⇛ Pro-Kremlin Ukrainian opposition politician Viktor Medvedchuk (whose youngest daughter is Vladimir Putin’s goddaughter) has been freed from captivity along with 55 Russian soldiers. The men were traded to Moscow on September 21, and all it cost the Kremlin was the release of four times as many prisoners: 215 Ukrainian POWs (including members of the Azov Regiment and defenders of the Azovstal iron and steel works), plus 10 foreign combatants captured while fighting for Ukraine. Following the prisoner exchange, Ukraine’s armed forces said in a statement that Medvedchuk can still be prosecuted in absentia for treason and the attempted looting of national resources in Crimea. o ⚓ Meduza ☛ ‘A_guarantee_of_the_country’s_destruction’_Russian political_scientists_on_Putin’s_mobilization_announcement_— Meduza⠀⇛ On the morning of September 21, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced what he referred to as a “partial mobilization.” Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu later reported that approximately 300,000 people will be conscripted. What exactly “partial mobilization” entails, how it will look in practice, and whether it will help Russia turn things around on the battlefield is anybody’s guess, but it’s undeniable that Russian society is in for some major changes. To get a better idea of what to expect, Meduza spoke to a number of leading Russian political scientists and sociologists. o ⚓ Meduza ☛ ‘It’s_whatever_the_Defense_Ministry_says’_300,000_to_be drafted_into_Russia’s_army._Warned_not_to_leave_the_country, reservists_rush_to_buy_their_tickets_to_escape._—_Meduza⠀⇛ President Vladimir Putin has announced a “partial mobilization” in Russia. In his national address on Wednesday, he assured Russians that “only people currently in the army reserve” will be subject to the draft, which begins immediately. This applies, first of all, to people with previous military and combat experience. The president promised that new troops drafted under the mobilization order will receive the same “status, pay, and all the social guarantees” that contract soldiers already have. Here’s a point-by-point breakdown of the upcoming mobilization and what it will mean for Russians. o ⚓ Meduza ☛ Casualty_data_reported_by_Russian_defense_minister contradicts_ministry’s_previous_reports_—_Meduza⠀⇛ Between February and 24 and September 20, Russian Defense Ministry representative Igor Konashenkov reported a total of at least 83,000 Ukrainian troop losses in his daily reports, according to the investigative outlet Agentstvo. o ⚓ Meduza ☛ ‘Anyone_who’s_upset_can_still_leave_—_for_now’:_The logistics_of_the_Kremlin’s_mobilization_plan_—_Meduza⠀⇛ o ⚓ Meduza ☛ Moscow_authorities_threaten_protesters_with_up_to_15 years_in_prison_—_Meduza⠀⇛ The Moscow Prosecutor’s Office released an official warning of responsibility after calls for people to participate in unauthorized public protests in the city, as well as to commit “otherwise unlawful acts,” as the agency put it, appeared on social media. o ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Watchdog_Says_Use_14th_Amendment_Against Lawmakers_Who_Betrayed_Oaths_on_January_6⠀⇛ “We believe there are other current and former office holders throughout the country who… should be disqualified.” o ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Putin_Has_Issued_His_Most_Explicit_Nuclear_Threat Yet⠀⇛ o ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Opinion_|_Ukraine_War:_Still_a_Cuban_Missile Crisis_in_Slow_Motion⠀⇛ During the first days of the Ukraine war, former  Senator Sam Nunn warned that the Ukraine War was a Cuban Missile Crisis in slow motion. That warning was recently reiterated by  senior analysts in Moscow during an off the record conversation. The war is about Ukraine and much more: power, privileges, the security disorder in Europe; the future of Putin’s rule; and Biden/Blinken efforts to reinforce U.S. hegemony in the face of pressures for a bipolar or multi-polar world disorder. o ⚓ Meduza ☛ No_to_mobilization_Russians_take_to_the_streets countrywide_after_Putin_announces_call-up_—_Meduza⠀⇛ On September 21, Vladimir Putin announced that Russia would officially mobilize for war. He claimed the step is necessary because the Russian military is facing “not only neo-Nazi formations, but what is effectively the entire military machine of the collective West.” The authorities claim they plan to conscript 300,000 people. In the hours since the announcement, protesters have taken to the streets throughout Russia. o ⚓ Meduza ☛ ‘No_to_mo-kill-ization.’_Vesna_movement_announces protests_against_mobilization._—_Meduza⠀⇛ The Vesna (Spring) movement called for an all-Russian protest against mobilization, which was announced on September 21 by Russian president Vladimir Putin. o ⚓ Meduza ☛ ‘There_will_be_five_million_draft_dodgers_running_around the_country.’_Navalny_on_mobilization._—_Meduza⠀⇛ According to Mediazona, during a court hearing in Kovrov where his lawsuit against Penal Colony No. 6 in the Vladimir region is being heard, politician Alexey Navalny commented on reports that mobilization has been announced in Russia. o ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Opinion_|_Is_the_US_at_War_with_Moscow_in Ukraine?⠀⇛ Though Washington insists that it is not interested in a direct military conflict with Moscow, the latter claims that the US is, in fact, directly involved. But who is telling the truth? o ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ White_House_Official_Says_Biden’s_Comments_on Defending_Taiwan_‘Speak_for_Themselves’⠀⇛ Kurt Campbell, the top Asia official on the NSC, says the White House didn’t walk back Biden’s comments. o ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ From_NATO_to_AUKUS:_The_West_Has_Nukes_Everywhere⠀⇛ A loophole opens the door for Australia to be supplied with submarines capable of using nuclear weapons and China doesn’t like it. o ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Opinion_|_Media_Offers_Little_Critique_Over Biden’s_Seizure_of_Afghan_Funds⠀⇛ More than a year after it froze $7 billion of Afghanistan’s central bank reserves in the wake of the Taliban’s military victory, the US has announced it will use half the money to establish a fund at a Swiss bank to help stabilize the cratering Afghan economy. * § Transparency/Investigative Reporting⠀➾ o ⚓ IT Wire ☛ iTWire_–_Audit_office_releases_scathing_report_on_DTA’s ignoring_of_procurement_rules⠀⇛ The Australian National Audit Office has released a scathing report about the Digital Transformation Agency’s handling of nine selected procurements, saying it “did not conduct the procurements effectively and its approach fell short of ethical requirements”. In the review, released on Wednesday, the ANAO also said for these nine procurements the DTA failed to manage contracts effectively and, while it had a procurement framework, the implementation and oversight of it were weak. The original value of seven of these procurements was $25.4 million, but the amount blew out to $55.7 million by July 2022. The review said of one direct-approach procurement that the contract value had increased 40 times from $121,000 to close to $5 million over two years. This procurement involved a direct approach to a company known as Nous Group for myGov funding case support. Initially, Services Australia told DTA in March 2020 that some Nous contractors were available for hire. o ⚓ The Dissenter ☛ Biogen_Whistleblower_Lawsuit_Against_Massive Kickback_Scheme_Ends_In_Huge_Settlement⠀⇛ * § Environment⠀➾ o ⚓ DeSmog ☛ Climate_Lawyers_Take_Aim_at_‘Green’_Heating_Scheme_Fed by_Incinerator⠀⇛ The law firm Leigh Day has written to the government and Haringey Council seeking information on whether recently appointed Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng may have ignored official climate-related guidance when he approved the project as business secretary. o ⚓ CBC ☛ Patagonia_founder_to_give_apparel_company_to_trust,_direct profits_toward_climate_crisis_fight⠀⇛ Instead of selling the company or taking it public, Chouinard, who became famous for alpine climbs in Yosemite National Park and has a net worth of $1.2 billion US, is transferring his family’s ownership of the company to a trust and a non-profit organization. o ⚓ CBS ☛ Scientists_warn_South_Florida_coastal_cities_will_be affected_by_sea_level_rise⠀⇛ Scientists say a few decades from now, downtown Miami will be underwater. The tide is coming in and eventually it’s not going to go back out,” says Dr. Harold Wanless, a Geologist and Professor of Geography and Sustainable Development at University of Miami o ⚓ IDA ☛ Q&A_with_IDA_Delegate_Michelle_Wooten⠀⇛ We recently spoke with Assistant Professor of Astronomy Education at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, Dr. Michelle Wooten, about her work as an educator in Astronomy whose passion for the night sky goes beyond studying it. She wants to protect it. As the president of the new IDA Starry Skies South chapter, she works to spread awareness of the harm light pollution is doing to the Southeastern United States. o ⚓ Axios ☛ Climate_change_drives_record_North_Atlantic_marine_heat wave⠀⇛ By the numbers: “The North Atlantic is currently something like four degrees Celsius warmer than normal, or at least parts of it are. And you end up seeing similar numbers for the North Pacific as well, it’s for about four degrees Celsius warmer than normal,” Amaya says. State of play: Heat wave conditions in both the North Pacific and the North Atlantic have lasted for some three months. “For these parts of the world, these temperatures are unprecedented,” Amaya says. o ⚓ Pro Publica ☛ Generator_Makers_Can_Do_More_to_Stop_Carbon Monoxide_Deaths,_CPSC_Says⠀⇛ Johnson’s brand-new generator — equipped with a safety mechanism that manufacturers have said prevents “more than 99%” of carbon monoxide poisoning deaths — hummed into the night, inches from her family’s back door on Sept. 1, 2021, powering an air conditioner and a refrigerator. o ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ ‘Who_Will_Be_Next?’_Denmark_Becomes_First_UN Member_to_Pledge_‘Loss_and_Damage’_Funds⠀⇛ “It is grossly unfair that the world’s poorest should suffer the most from the consequences of climate change, to which they have contributed the least.” o ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Al_Gore_Calls_It_‘Ridiculous’_to_Have_‘Climate Denier’_Lead_the_World_Bank⠀⇛ “Since almost 90% of the increased emissions going forward are coming from developing countries, we have to take the top layers of risk off the access to capital in these developing countries,” Gore said at a climate policy summit hosted by the New York Times. o § Energy⠀➾ # ⚓ David Rosenthal ☛ White_House_Statement_On_Cryptocurrency Regulation⠀⇛ Regulation of cryptocurrencies in the US is coming, albeit too slowly. Much of the progress reported here is worthy, especially considering the vast resources lobbying to defeat or water it down. # ⚓ CBC ☛ Ethereum_network_completes_merge_that_could_cut_its electricity_use_by_99%⠀⇛ With the change enacted late Wednesday, ethereum — the world’s second most valuable cryptocurrency after bitcoin — has effectively eliminated the energy-intensive task of “mining” new coins on its blockchain. Mining requires enormous computing power, which translates to huge energy consumption and, in many areas, greater greenhouse gas emissions at older power plants. By itself, however, the ethereum change won’t eliminate crypto’s expected environmental impact, although it’s expected to help a great deal. The backers of bitcoin have so far shown little interest in doing away with mining. # ⚓ RTL ☛ War_fears_at_another_Ukraine_nuclear_site⠀⇛ A few dozen metres from the gaping hole, a building that AFP was not permitted to visit during a media visit organised by the Ukrainian nuclear energy agency Energoatom appeared to have had its doors and windows blown out. “That’s where the blast of the explosion went towards,” said Ivan Zhebet, security chief at the Pivdennoukrainsk plant in the southern Mykolaiv region. # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Liz_Truss’s_Overturn_of_Fracking_Ban_in_the_UK Is_Sparking_Grassroots_Resistance⠀⇛ # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Manchin_Unveils_Full_Text_of_‘Shameless Handout_to_the_Fossil_Fuel_Industry’⠀⇛ “It should come as no surprise that a corporate coal baron like Joe Manchin would push a fossil fuel bonanza under the guise of bureaucratic reform.” o § Wildlife/Nature⠀➾ # ⚓ NPR ☛ The_number_of_ants_on_Earth_has_a_mass_greater_than all_birds_and_mammals_combined⠀⇛ A new study published by researchers at both the University of Hong Kong and University of Würzburg in Germany attempts to count the total number of ground-dwelling and tree-dwelling ants. The final figure is equal to 1 trillion times 20, and the insects’ total mass exceeds that of all birds and mammals combined, and makes up about a fifth of humans’ total biomass. And that’s just a conservative estimate. # ⚓ The Revelator ☛ Back_the_Frack_Off,_‘We_Can’t_Advertise_the Meats’_and_Other_Links_From_the_Brink⠀⇛ o § Overpopulation⠀➾ # ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ COVID,_Climate_&_Conflict_Fueling_Global Hunger_as_World_Leaders_at_U.N._Urged_to_Take_Action⠀⇛ An open letter signed by over 200 humanitarian groups calls on world leaders at the United Nations General Assembly to urgently take action on world hunger, citing that one person dies of hunger every four seconds. We speak with Abby Maxman, president and CEO of Oxfam America, one of the letter’s signatories, who just returned from Somaliland, where a famine may be declared as early as next month. Climate change, COVID and conflicts such as the war in Ukraine are largely to blame for rising hunger, she says, and “those who are the least responsible are suffering its worst impacts.” * § Finance⠀➾ o ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ After_64-Day_Strike,_Boston_Starbucks_Workers Declare_Victory⠀⇛ “This is the power of the picket line and the power of the people.” o ⚓ Pro Publica ☛ A_Land_Deal_Benefiting_a_Billionaire’s_Soccer_Team Is_Muscled_Through_Despite_Objections⠀⇛ That was on Tuesday. Less than a day later, allies of the mayor called a do-over and reversed the vote. o ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Ignoring_Pain_for_Workers,_Bloomberg_Editorial Openly_Endorses_Fed-Induced_Recession⠀⇛ Critics were quick to note that the Wednesday editorial, which claims “wage growth will need to slow” and unemployment will need to rise for inflation to come down, doesn’t grapple with the severe damage a recession would inflict on workers who would face job losses, pay cuts, and other consequences in the case of a Fed-induced downturn. o ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Philadelphia_Home_Depot_Workers_File_to_Form_Company’s First_Ever_Retail_Union⠀⇛ o ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Sanders_Says_GOP_Plot_to_Tank_Student_Debt_Relief Will_‘Hurt_Them_Politically’⠀⇛ “If you do what the people want, and not what the corporate world wants or billionaire campaign contributors want, you win elections.” o ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Number_of_Ultrarich_Hits_All-Time_High_as_Someone Dies_From_Hunger_Every_4_Seconds⠀⇛ Brett Wilkins reports on responses to a new analysis that revealed that the global ranks of the superrich soared to a record number. o ⚓ TruthOut ☛ 1_Person_Dies_of_Hunger_Every_4_Seconds⠀⇛ o ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Opinion_|_Data_Reveals_Poverty_Is_a_Political Choice⠀⇛ Even as inflation remains high and COVID stubbornly persists, economic indicators show a potential for remarkable resiliency when the political will exists.  o ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Opinion_|_Who_Will_Liberate_Our_Tweens_From_These Corporate_Tentacles?⠀⇛ Consider the harmful, grasping tentacles by corporations around the bodies and minds of youngsters through relentless direct marketing that bypasses parental authority. Now comes my sister Claire Nader’s new book You Are Your Own Best Teacher! Sparking the Curiosity, Imagination and Intellect of Tweens. o ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ “The_American_Dream_&_Other_Fairy_Tales”:_Disney Heiress_Tackles_Inequality,_Family_Legacy_in_New_Film⠀⇛ Half of full-time workers in the United States cannot make ends meet. Thousands of them work for the Walt Disney Company. One of them reached out to the dissident heiress Abigail Disney, whose grandfather Roy Disney built what is often called the “happiest place on Earth.” Now she’s made a documentary about how the family business exploits its workers: “The American Dream and Other Fairy Tales.” The film follows workers who have difficulty making ends meet despite the lofty claims of the Disney conglomerate. “This is a phenomenon that’s happening across this country in corporations and even around the world,” says Disney, who co-directed the film with Kathleen Hughes. Employees who agreed to be filmed “had a hope that if they could change Disney from within, Disney could lead the way for other corporations,” notes Hughes. o ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Fed_in_‘Full_Recession-Creating_Mode’_Comes_Under Fire_for_Another_Interest_Rate_Hike⠀⇛ “Corporate profits must be the target, not workers.” o ⚓ DaemonFC (Ryan Farmer) ☛ Buick_Anti-Lock_Brake_Module_costs_$790 to_replace_and_reprogram._Also,_Richard_Stallman_is_not_an economist,_and_the_Post-“COVID”_American_dystopia.⠀⇛ So the Anti-Lock Brake computer/pump (module) in my Buick has been glitching out and apparently needs replacing. Of course, it wasn’t kind enough to just fail, disable itself, and light up the ABS/Traction lights. Instead, it’s been going in and out, occasionally realizing it has a problem, disabling itself, and then forgetting there was a problem and re-enabling itself the next time I turn on the car. I started having similar problems with the 2003 Impala in 2019 before I gave it back to mom 4 years later. I went through a number of issues, just like with the Buick. Bad wheel hub bearing (not spinning freely), then the module, then the hub bearing on the other side a couple of years later. When I got the Buick, it needed a hub bearing replaced, so I just had them both replaced as it was getting a full brake overhaul done anyway and the shop said if I wanted to just replace the one on the passenger front as well as the driver front, they’d just charge me for the hub, which isn’t expensive on these cars. Anyway, the module…. The module on the Impala cost under $500 to replace and reprogram with a new one. * § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾ o ⚓ The Hill ☛ TikTok_updating_policies_for_political_accounts_after report_of_rampant_misinformation⠀⇛ TikTok will also prohibit campaign fundraising on the app and will seek to further limit the monetization of political accounts by barring them from accessing financial features such as gifting, tipping and e- commerce. o ⚓ Futurism ☛ Mark_Zuckerberg_Is_In_Big,_Big_Trouble:_He’s_Lost_A Staggering_Amount_Of_Money_So_Far_This_Year.⠀⇛ It’s no secret that Meta-formerly-Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s metaverse pivot isn’t exactly paying off yet. The billionaire’s fortune has dropped by a whopping $71 billion — leaving him with a piddling $55.9 billion left over — this year, Bloomberg reports, rendering him only the 20th richest person in the world. Sure, that’s still plenty of pocket money. But it’s the lowest spot he’s occupied in eight years, in a sign of how far he’s fallen. Just two years ago, he was the third person in the world, with almost twice the net worth, according to the report. o ⚓ Securing_the_Supply_Chain_of_Nothing⠀⇛ The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the National Security Agency (NSA), and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) recently released a document entitled, “Securing the Software Supply Chain – Recommended Practices Guide for Developers.” I hoped the document might shed light on practical, perhaps even novel, ways for the private sector to increase systems resilience to supply chain attacks. The authors are respected authorities, and the topic is salient to the public. Instead, the document’s guidance contains a mixture of impractical, confusing, confused, and even dangerous recommendations. o ⚓ Nigeria ☛ Negative_reactions_as_Mohamed_Salah_pays_tribute_to Queen_Elizabeth_II⠀⇛ The message by Salah sparked negative reactions on social media. There was serious disagreement in the comments which rose to the top of the trends. Salah and Egyptians received heavy criticism from his compatriots for celebrating the life of Queen Elizabeth II. o ⚓ The Nation ☛ A_Nation_Within_a_Nation⠀⇛ In a 1971 issue of Ebony magazine dedicated to exploring “The South Today,” its publisher, John H. Johnson, wrote: “Long before there was a United States of America, there was a Southland.” For many in his generation who had participated in the civil rights movement, the South was a zone of both oppression and liberation—it was the country they knew even if they lived in the North. For many Black Americans, the South was an ancestral home as well as a place of present warning and future promise. It was where the historic struggles against inequality and discrimination had taken place, but it was also a region that had cast an ominous shadow over the rest of the country. o ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Bush_and_Obama_Set_the_Stage_for_Donald_Trump’s Document_Grab⠀⇛ Karen J. Greenberg argues that By the time Donald Trump entered the Oval Office, the stage had long been set for removing information from the public record in an alarmingly broad fashion, a pattern that he would take to new levels. o ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Techdirt_Podcast_Episode_330:_Elon_Musk_Takes_His Chances_In_The_Court_Of_Chancery⠀⇛ When the Elon Musk/Twitter drama landed in the Delaware Court Of Chancery, it thrust specialist publication The Chancery Daily into the spotlight, and they began offering up excellent explainers on this important court that most people knew very little about. The people behind the publication have decided to remain anonymous amidst the influx of attention, but today one of them joins us on the podcast to discuss just what’s going on as Elon Musk takes his chances in a court that seems pretty immune to his reality distortion field. o ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Sanders_to_Democrats:_If_You_Support_Progressive Policies,_“You_Win_Elections”⠀⇛ o ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ NY_AG_Sues_Trump_and_Children_Over_‘Staggering’ Criminal_Fraud⠀⇛ New York Attorney General Letitia James on Wednesday announced that following a three-year investigation into former President Donald Trump and his real estate empire, the state is filing a civil lawsuit against the ex- president, accusing him and his family members of “staggering” fraud. o ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Opinion_|_Fascist_Fingers_in_the_Air:_Terrifying American_Nightmare_Unfolds_at_Trump_Rally⠀⇛ If you are a political fanatic, you’ve surely heard the old saying that when fascism comes to America, it will come wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross. That’s been proven true in this fraught year of 2022 as Christian nationalism rises to our extreme right, but no one predicted this: o ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Opinion_|_Don’t_Be_Fooled_by_Republicans._The Inflation_Reduction_Act_Is_a_Big_Win_for_Tax_Fairness_in_America⠀⇛ President Joe Biden recently signed the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) into law, making it the Democrats’ signature healthcare, climate, and tax reform package. This historic achievement will likely be remembered as one of Biden’s most significant legislative victories. Many aspects of the IRA make it a big win for tax fairness, but by far the most notable is the 15% minimum tax that the bill levies on America’s biggest and most profitable corporations. o ⚓ TruthOut ☛ 61_Percent_of_Republicans_Think_US_Should_Be_Declared a_Christian_Nation⠀⇛ o ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Majority_of_Republican_Voters_Say_US_Should_Be Declared_a_‘Christian_Nation’⠀⇛ As Professors Stella Rouse and Shibley Telhami of the University of Maryland wrote at Politico, the school’s critical issues poll found that while a majority of Republican voters agree that such a declaration would be unconstitutional, most also believe that the U.S. should be officially known as Christian. o ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ ‘Siding_With_Insurrectionists,’_203_House Republicans_Vote_No_on_Coup_Prevention_Bill⠀⇛ “It comes as no surprise that only nine Republicans voted to ensure the integrity of the electoral vote count.” o ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Letitia_James’s_Lawsuit_Against_Trump_Says_He_Obtained $250_Million_Fraudulently⠀⇛ o § Misinformation/Disinformation⠀➾ # ⚓ New York Times ☛ YouTube’s_Dislike_Button_Rarely_Shifts Recommendations,_Researchers_Say⠀⇛ Researchers found that YouTube’s “dislike” button reduced similar, unwanted recommendations only 12 percent, according to their report, titled “Does This Button Work?” Pressing “Don’t recommend channel” was 43 percent effective in reducing unwanted recommendations, pressing “not interested” was 11 percent effective and removing a video from one’s watch history was 29 percent effective. # ⚓ NBC ☛ TikTok_sets_new_verification_rules_for_politicians and_political_parties⠀⇛ TikTok said Wednesday that it will require the accounts of politicians and political parties to be verified and that it is making it harder for them to use the platform’s advertising and fundraising systems. # ⚓ NBC ☛ QAnon_videos_are_getting_millions_of_views_on_TikTok as_Trump_embraces_conspiracy_theory⠀⇛ In a review conducted by NBC News, users were found posting videos with emojis and slight wording variations in hashtags to evade QAnon hashtag bans, bringing attention to the conspiracy theory that helped fuel the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. # ⚓ FAIR ☛ John_Miller_‘Chose_to_Lie_About_Something_That’s Well-Documented’⠀⇛ Janine Jackson interviewed Muslim Advocates’ Sumayyah Waheed about CNN‘s John Miller for the September 16, 2022, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript. # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Pentagon’s_Information_Warfare_Review Should_Cover_the_Domestic_Side,_Too⠀⇛ Among supposed American constitutional values are separation of the military from politics, and its subservience to civilian government. While those values have always proven more noticeable in the breach than in the observance in wartime, the post- World-War-Two national security state has turned that breach into a well-funded, 24/7/365, campaign of political influence. * § Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾ o ⚓ Netblocks ☛ Internet_disrupted_in_Iran_amid_protests_over_death of_Mahsa_Amini⠀⇛ Network data from NetBlocks confirm a near-total disruption disruption to internet service in parts of Kurdistan province in west Iran from the evening of Monday 19 September 2022. The regional telecommunications blackout in and around Sanandaj follows a partial disruption to internet service in Tehran and other parts of the country on Friday when protests first broke out. Access to Instagram was subsequently restricted nationally on Wednesday 21 September. o ⚓ NBC ☛ 1,300_arrested_for_protesting_Putin’s_mobilization_as others_scramble_for_flights_out_of_Russia⠀⇛ By the time Putin’s recorded announcement was done playing on TV on Wednesday, Russians were scrambling to buy the last available flights out of the country and opposition groups were calling for protests as his order bred a sense of unease at home, just as his nuclear threats sought to do abroad. By late evening, more than 1,300 people had been detained at protests denouncing the move, a rights group said. o ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Censorship:_From_Book_Burning_to_Racist_Babies⠀⇛ For the 40th Anniversary of Banned Book Week, Jim Mamer examines the censorship imposed by banned books, and how that has grown over time. * § Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press⠀➾ o ⚓ ANF News ☛ Journalists_commemorate_Musa_Anter_at_the_scene_of_his murder⠀⇛ The Dicle Fırat Journalists Association (DFG) organized a commemoration event for Kurdish intellectual Musa Anter (Apê Musa) who was murdered in Amed’s Seyrantepe district on September 20, 1992. Dicle Anter, son of Musa Anter, the DFG, the Mesopotamia Women Journalists Platform (MKGP), the Democratic Regions Party (DBP), the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), deputies Imam Taşçıer and Gülistan Kılıç Koçyiğit, relatives of sick prisoners, the Association for Solidarity with Families of Detainees and Convicted (TUHAY-DER), the Diyarbakır 78′ers Initiative, journalist Hüseyin Aykol and many others attended the commemoration event. o ⚓ BIA Net ☛ Kurdish_author_Musa_Anter_commemorated_on_30th anniversary_of_assassination⠀⇛ State actors that perpetrated thousands of extrajudicial killings in the country’s mostly Kurdish-populated regions during the conflict in the 1990s are widely believed to be behind the murder of Anter. o ⚓ Jacobin Magazine ☛ Secret_Documents_Have_Exposed_the_CIA’s_Julian Assange_Obsession⠀⇛ Claims of constitutional violations can only be brought by US citizens, but the lawsuit draws attention more broadly to how the victims of this surveillance extended beyond Assange. UC Global ensnared not just the WikiLeaks publisher but his legal team, his doctors, his visitors, and the embassy itself. Assange had a wide array of visitors at the embassy, including everyone from celebrities like Pamela Anderson to political figures like Yanis Varoufakis. With certain visitors, UC Global has created profiles and kept dossiers. And UC Global, it is alleged, passed on this information to the CIA. o ⚓ Laura_Poitras_Slams_Hilary_Clinton’s_Presence_at_TIFF,_Defends Julian_Assange⠀⇛ Poitras still vehemently defends Assange, saying “nothing more serious that threatens the First Amendment,” because what the U.S. was trying to do was charge Assange for “publishing, for literally revealing war crimes in the U.S. occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan.” o ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Probe_Shows_Israeli_Killing_of_Journalist ‘Deliberate’_as_Family_Turns_to_ICC⠀⇛ “There is no mystery regarding what happened to Shireen except for the actual name and identity of her killer.” o ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ PEN_Oakland_announces_the_Winners_of_the_33rd Annual_Josephine_Miles_Awards_for_Excellence⠀⇛ o ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Florida_Courts_Agree_To_Respect_First_Amendment,_Allow Journalists_Immediate_Access_To_Filings⠀⇛ Courthouse News Service takes home another win in the ongoing fight for the respect of the First Amendment. * § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾ o ⚓ ANF News ☛ Skull_CT_scan_proves_Mahsa_Amini_was_tortured_to death⠀⇛ Mahsa Amini died after being arrested by Islamic religious police. While the officials alleged that her death was caused by previous health conditions, the skull CT scan shows bone fracture, hemorrhage and brain edema. o ⚓ Why_Iranian_women_are_burning_their_hijabs_after_the_death_of Mahsa_Amini⠀⇛ Iranian women are burning their hijabs and cutting their hair short in protests over the death of Mahsa Amini, a young woman who died after being arrested in Tehran by Iran’s notorious “morality police,” who enforce the country’s rules on hijabs and other conservative Islamic modes of dress and behavior. Here’s what we know so far about Amini’s death and the public furor it ignited, and the questions that remain: [...] o ⚓ France24 ☛ ‘I_will_never_wear_a_headscarf_again’:_Outrage_in_Iran after_woman_dies_in_custody⠀⇛ The death of young woman Mahsa Amini while in the custody of Iran’s so-called “morality police” in September has enraged people across the country, leading to three days of protests, strikes and sit-ins in the capital Tehran and in Iran’s Kurdish region. Security forces have responded with force, beating and arresting demonstrators, shooting live bullets, and limiting internet connection in the Kurdish areas of Iran. o ⚓ RTL ☛ Woman_cuts_hair_at_Istanbul_protest_for_Iran’s_Amini⠀⇛ Nasibe Samsaei, the Iranian woman who cut her hair outside the consulate, was following the example of other women who have joined protests across Iran, in which at least eight have died, according to official figures and human rights groups. o ⚓ Patrick Breyer ☛ UN_Human_Rights_Commissioner_warns_against_chat control⠀⇛ Specifically, the Human Rights Commissioner criticises the enisioned message screening on private smartphones (so-called “client-side scanning”) for undermining secure message encryption: “Client-side scanning also opens up new security challenges, making security breaches more likely. The screening process can also be manipulated, making it possible to artificially create false positive or false negative profiles. Even if, for current purposes, client-side screening is narrowly tailored, opening up devices for Government-mandated screening is likely to lead to future attempts to widen the scope of content that is the target of such measures. In particular, where the rule of law is weak and human rights are under threat, the impact of client-side screening could be much broader, for example it could be used to suppress political debate or to target opposition figures, journalists and human rights defenders. “ o ⚓ RFERL ☛ UN_‘Alarmed’_At_Iranian_Detainee’s_Death,_Pressure_On Tehran_Mounts_Amid_Protests⠀⇛ “Acting UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Nada Al- Nashif today expressed alarm at the death in custody of Mahsa Amini…and the violent response by security forces to ensuing protests,” Al-Nashif’s office said in a statement on September 20. o ⚓ Scoop News Group ☛ Anonymous_[cracker],_who_bragged_about exploits_on_TikTok,_says_he_was_raided_by_Canadian_police⠀⇛ Cottle told CyberScoop in an online chat that the Ontario Provincial Police on Aug. 30 “took all my equipment (multiple pcs, storage devices, phones, servers, NAS) and bagged my guy fawkes mask as evidence.” He was evicted a few days later — for unrelated reasons, he said — and is now living out of his car. o ⚓ India Dot Com Pvt Ltd ☛ ‘We’re_an_Islamic_country,_why_are_girls wearing_shorts?’,_PAK_journo_slammed_for_comment_on_footballers’ clothing⠀⇛ Comments like these should be confronted and criticised as such views are not welcomed for women in any field, not just in sports. Women, or for that matter anyone, have every right to choose the uniform. Sometimes, because some athletes want to follow religious protocols, they wear hijab, turban etc and the world bodies do allow them. This is exactly what Rizki said. When he said , we don’t control the clothing, he meant that the individual has every right to choose what they want to wear and that the Pakistan football body has control over their choice. o ⚓ Frontpage Magazine ☛ City_University_of_New_York_Tabs_Anti-Semite to_Investigate_Anti-Semitism⠀⇛ The real pandemic today is not COVID or monkeypox, as beloved as both are among fearmongers and hysterics everywhere. The real pandemic is absurdity, as the City University of New York (CUNY) has just reminded us. In its infinite wokeness, CUNY has assigned a former official of the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) to investigate an anti-Semitism complaint. This would be like assigning a former Klansman to investigate a racism complaint, but no one minds. After all, to note the incongruity would be “Islamophobic.” o ⚓ The Nation ☛ Sanctuary_City⠀⇛ o ⚓ TruthOut ☛ New_York_Prisons_Are_Blatantly_Violating_State_Law Limiting_Solitary_Confinement⠀⇛ o ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Mark_Fiore:_Sending_Migrants_Around_the_Country: Cruelty_Travel⠀⇛ DeSantis’ latest stunt sheds light on the treatment of migrants by the country’s top politicians. o ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Migrants_Tricked_Into_Martha’s_Vineyard_Flight_Sue DeSantis_and_Other_Officials⠀⇛ o ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Right-Wing_Hypocrisy_on_DeSantis’s_Clownish Thuggery⠀⇛ Don’t believe me? o ⚓ Techdirt ☛ DC_Court_Shuts_Down_Common_Law_Access_End-Around,_Says Congress_Doesn’t_Need_To_Release_Full_CIA_Torture_Report⠀⇛ Legal battles have been fought for most of a decade now over access to the full CIA Torture Report. A limited release at the tail end of 2014 — the 525-page, heavily redacted “Executive Summary” — is all the general public has been given access to. o ⚓ Telex (Hungary) ☛ New_anti-corruption_measures_reach_as_far_as the_Prime_Minister’s_Office⠀⇛ On Sunday, the European Commission decided not to close the rule of law procedure – also known as the conditionality procedure – against Hungary, but to refer the case to the Council of the European Union. o ⚓ Telex (Hungary) ☛ You_don’t_have_to_be_fleeing_war_to_become_a victim_of_child_labour_in_Hungary⠀⇛ o ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ Adnan_Syed_Freed_After_23_Years_in_Prison._Same Flaws_in_His_Murder_Case_Plague_Thousands_of_Others⠀⇛ Adnan Syed, the subject of the popular podcast “Serial,” was released Monday after a Maryland judge vacated his murder conviction due to evidence withheld during the trial that might have helped exonerate him. Syed spent 23 years in prison after being convicted of murdering his ex-girlfriend Hae Min Lee as a teenager in 1999. He has not been declared legally innocent, and prosecutors could decide to retry the case, but that appears unlikely. We speak with Syed’s first attorney, Doug Colbert, who says Brady violations, in which prosecutors fail to disclose evidence to the defense, happen “much too often.” He argues, “There are many other people innocent of their crimes who should not have been convicted.” o ⚓ Shadowproof ☛ Protest_Song_Of_The_Week:_‘The_Money’_By_Rain Perry⠀⇛ Solutions to systemic ills will only come from awkward conversations. This includes white people acknowledging their privilege and the role that they play. Rain Perry is doing her best to add her voice to the discussion. o ⚓ TruthOut ☛ States_Need_Constitutional_Amendments_to_Protect Abortion_From_Right-Wing_Judges⠀⇛ o ⚓ Wired ☛ Telegram_Has_a_Serious_Doxing_Problem⠀⇛ The encrypted messaging app is a haven for politically motivated vitriol, but users are increasingly bringing threats to targets’ doorsteps. * § Internet Policy/Net Neutrality⠀➾ o ⚓ RIPE ☛ Is_It_Possible_for_Encryption_to_Harm_Cybersecurity?⠀⇛ A second notable development has been the rise of cloud- based public resolvers, with examples being those operated by companies such as Google, Cloudflare and Quad9. Traditionally DNS services have mainly been provided by ISPs to their customers, but these cloud- based resolvers have offered an alternative option, one that seems primarily to have attracted the attention of more technically knowledgeable users rather than being a mass-market option. Some have welcomed the emergence of these independent resolvers as it provides greater choice and enables them to overcome what they regard as the restrictive filtering policies adopted by their ISPs (NB these are often driven by the need to comply with regulatory requirements). A downside to these resolvers being used is that network operators may lose visibility of the characteristics of network traffic, affecting their ability to manage security risks and quality of service. o ⚓ BIA Net ☛ Number_of_broadband_internet_users_in_Türkiye_rose_by over_41_percent_in_six_years⠀⇛ With this rise, the total number of broadband internet subscribers nationwide has reached 88.2 million. o ⚓ Techdirt ☛ There_Have_Been_Decades_Of_Broadband_Policy_And Subsidies_And_We’re_Only_Just_Now_Accurately_Measuring_Their Impact⠀⇛ This FCC this week formally announced it had finally started gathering more accurate broadband mapping data from U.S. ISPs after more than a decade of complaints about mapping accuracy. o ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Warner_Brothers_Discovery_Merger_Continues_To_Be_A Shitshow_For_The_Ages⠀⇛ Remember when AT&T spent more than $200 billion to acquire Time Warner and DirecTV in the belief it would help the telecom dominate video advertising? Then remember when company leadership was so monumentally incompetent they had to run to the exits in terror? Good times. * § Digital Restrictions (DRM)⠀➾ o ⚓ The_Subscription_Economy_Comes_For_Your_Shoes⠀⇛ The Cyclon program work like this: You sign up for the Cyclon subscription service and get a pair of shoes in the mail. You then send them back when you’ve run them into the ground and get a new pair in the mail. (Repeat ad infinitum.) * § Monopolies⠀➾ o § Copyrights⠀➾ # ⚓ Torrent Freak ☛ Teen_Sued_By_Bungie_Over_Cheats_&_Threats Comes_Out_Fighting⠀⇛ During the summer Bungie sued a Destiny 2 cheater who allegedly evaded multiple bans and harassed Bungie’s staff. The developer’s claims include copyright infringement, but nothing in its complaint is going unchallenged. It transpires that Bungie’s target is a teenager, one that in typical fashion has an answer for everything, with help from his lawyer, of course. # ⚓ Torrent Freak ☛ Earthlink_Reaches_‘Tentative’_Settlement with_Filmmakers_to_End_Piracy_Liability_Lawsuit⠀⇛ Internet provider Earthlink has reached a tentative settlement with several filmmakers, to end an ongoing piracy liability lawsuit. The rightsholders accused the company of turning a blind eye to piracy and demanded far-reaching measures, which included handing over the identities of alleged pirates. The terms of the settlement remain private but may include a damages component. * § Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾ o § Personal⠀➾ # ⚓ Get_thee_behind_me,_Satan,_part_II⠀⇛ Woo hoo! I just received the shipping label to return Satan, the useless Windows Laptop [1]! o § Politics⠀➾ # ⚓ Integration⠀⇛ The far right has changed many words and phrases. I’m in Sweden so I’ll be using the Swedish far right as an example but I’m sure the same is going on all over Europe and MAGA-land. Once innocent phrases like “demographics”, “migration”, “justice system” have become their polite way to rephrase what this same group in the eighties used racial slurs to express. [...] You’ve had to flee Sweden (you’d die if you had to stay) and you arrived tired and soaking wet to the shores of Frobnicia. And they’re like “Everyone must wear these special tall cone-shaped hats, that’s traditional Frobnician headwear. And you can burn those jeans, it’s illegal to wear pants here. It’s shameful to try to cover your genitals in public. If you wear jeans we’ll break up your home. Of course our traditional Frobnician food include rat-tails and lamb brains. If you’ve got any problems with eating that, you’re failing integration.” And you’re like “No, no, that’s all fine, I love Frobnicia, I want to be a Frobnician.” And they go “You absolutely need to work, here’s a bucket and a mop and an illustrated book about birds” and you’re like “yes, ma’am, I’m happy to put my hands to use” and they go “You can never become a true Frobnician. You’ll always be under surveillance, police and courts and even sentencing will be different and harsher for you” and they’re like “You need to learn Frobnician language, and need to teach your kids that language, and the grammar is VOS word order except on Wednesdays, with 49 cases and 812 prepositions, and only 10000 people worldwide speak that language, and every native Frobician speaks passable Frotz, a regional language with 750 million speakers worldwide, but you and your family need to learn Frobnician” and they put you in a neighborhood with only other Swedes but blame you for it and then every single day on the media (not from everyone, but, every day) you’ll hear “the Swedes steal our jobs” and “kick them out” and “the Swedes are criminals” and “the Swedes lie about their ages” and “the Swedes are rapists” and “the Swedes are prudes” and “the Swedes are stealing your pensions” and people spit after you on the street. o § Technical⠀➾ # ⚓ Sharing_some_statistics_about_BTRFS_compression⠀⇛ As I’m moving to Linux more and more, I took the opportunity to explore the BTRFS file system which was mostly unknown to me. Let me share some data about compression ratio with BTRFS (ZFS should give similar results). # ⚓ Transport_Tycoon_Deluxe⠀⇛ Many years ago I played Transport Tycoon Deluxe. The game with an isometric view, where a player can organize road, train, plane, or sea transport. I hadn’t had any idea how to play this game then. So I was playing again and again. I’ve been discovering more and more game mechanics. I’ve learned also to like jazz music, because the original TTD has jazz like playlist, with the characteristic Moanin’ by Art Blakey-like song. So TTD changed my life. # ⚓ Just_how_much_telemetry_does_The_Enterprise_need_from_my work_laptop?⠀⇛ I couldn’t get rid of Satan, the useless Windows Laptop [1] fast enough [2]. At the end, just turning on Satan swamped the network connection here at Chez Boca to be near useless. Good riddance. Today, I turn on Satan’s replacement, Belial, the annoying Mac Laptop [3]. I’m not sure what The Enterprise is doing to it, because as soon as I turned on Belial, the network connection here at Chez Boca dropped to near zero. At first, I thought it might have something to do with the weather, but on a hunch, I turn Belial off and the network becomes stable and usable. I turn Belial back on, and the network goes crazy again. # ⚓ SSH_Notes⠀⇛ # § Science⠀➾ # ⚓ On_scientific_“arrogance”⠀⇛ And… it’s just funny. Because science is just a big guessing game, really. You look at the evidence, try to come up with an explanation for what may have happened, and explore the consequences of that explanation. You don’t get mad if your explanation turns out to be false; in fact, you’re generally EXCITED because that means you now have more evidence pointing to what ACTUALLY happened! And on the other hand, we have… people who think the Earth was created in seven literal days by a being we have no evidence exists. People who think all the evidence that the universe is much older than 5000 years was planted there by the devil to deceive us, or by their god to “test our faith”. (You know what it’s called when someone who claims to love you tries to make you think something false happened? That’s GASLIGHTING, my dudes.) These people have no right to preach about “arrogance”. # ⚓ The_AI_takeover_is_near?⠀⇛ That same day, a heated debate started on Twitter (as if that weren’t the norm there). That’s because the winner of this art contest used Midjourney, a popular AI image generator, to create his entry. [...] He created this because he saw _art as a relic of the artist_. Any object or even person can become an art piece if an artist puts his sign on it. But how do you become an artist? By making something that makes people discuss, something new and innovative that nobody ever thought about doing before. That’s what Mr. Allen did and that’s why I think he deserves his price. Before photography was invented, artists generally strove to make their painting as realistic as possible. As soon as people were able to cheaply make perfect copies of reality, artists began experimenting with new techniques, things that a camera could never do. Allen showed everyone how technology just reached a new milestone, introducing a new need for artists to innovate and create something exclusive to their abilities. Something an AI can’t reproduce. Yet. # § Internet/Gemini⠀➾ # ⚓ CDG_one_week_later:_categorical_musings⠀⇛ Dividing Geminispace, and hence in particular human endeavour, into disjoint categories is of course a fool’s game. But it seems I decided to play it anyway. Any categorisation will be arbitrary and unsatisfying, and there will always be cases which resist unique classification. Borges imagined a classification of animals into those “(a) Belonging to the emperor, (b) embalmed, (c) tame, … (g) stray dogs, … (l) et cetera, … (n) that from a long way off look like flies”, and I’m not sure that the classification of Geminispace I’ve arrived at so far is much better justified. But let me try to justify it. # ⚓ Re:_CDG_one_week_later:_categorical_musings⠀⇛ Editorial opinions, sure, but not the original sites themselves. My reaonsing is this: if I want to see Reddit, I can go to the Reddit site. I think it actually clutters up Geminispace, and I want Geminispace to have as much “signal” as possible. =============================================================================== * Gemini_(Primer) links can be opened using Gemini_software. It’s like the World Wide Web but a lot lighter. ╘══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╛ ¶ Lines in total: 6290 ➮ Generation completed at 02:44, i.e. 25 seconds to (re)generate ⟲