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So many packages have to be updated, so there is always the chance of something going wrong, but Linux Mint has a really great upgrade tool. In this video, I’m going to upgrade one of my Linux Mint installations from version 20.3 to the latest version 21. # ⚓ Video ☛ GNOME_43_RELEASED!_10_Incredible_Things_To_Get Excited_about_(NEW!)_–_Invidious⠀⇛ The all new Gnome 43 is out and it is major release that’s bringing stunning design revamps, a host of new features and improvements and gnome 43 also completes the generational leap that started with Gnome 40. # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Hackaday_Podcast_186:_Weighing_Cats,_Slamming_VU Meters,_Slimmer_Skimmers,_And_Clean_Air_On_The_Cheap⠀⇛ Hackaday Editor-in-Chief Elliot Williams took time out from Supercon planning to join Staff Writer Dan Maloney for a look through the hacking week that was. We always try to keep things light, but it’s hard sometimes, especially when we have to talk about wars past and present and the ordnance they leave behind. It’s also not a lot of fun to talk about a continent-wide radio outage thanks to our angry Sun, nor is learning that a wafer-thin card skimmer could be lurking in your ATM machine. # ⚓ Video ☛ The_Digital_Cold_War_–_Invidious⠀⇛ This week in the Privacy News, children in social services had PID info stolen for tax fraud scams, Clearview AI opens up data to another population sector, and monitoring apps collect more information than you think. Also, technology is being used to wage a digital cold ware. We also look at some security news. # ⚓ GrapheneOS;_the_greatest_mobile_OS_of_all_time._Common usability_misconceptions_DEBUNKED!⠀⇛ o § Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ Hubert Figuière ☛ Introducing_Compiano_–_Hubert_Figuière⠀⇛ I previously introduced Minuit. Later I got notified that there was also a music education application for KDE named Minuet. So it was natural to yield the name. It’s relatively easy to do when you haven’t had a release. I decided to rename my application Compiano, a portemanteau word for Computer Piano. Since I talked last about it a lot of time as passed. I ported it to Gtk4, added some libadwaita support to make it more GNOME, reworked some of the UI, and more importantly implemented a mechanism to download the optional “soundbanks” to implement some of the instruments that use the biggest data set. o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾ # ⚓ MJ Fransen ☛ Create_presentation_slides_with_Groff_and mom⠀⇛ Groff provides an excellent and fast way to produce nice documents from a flat text file. # ⚓ NVISO Labs ☛ Cortex_XSOAR_Tips_&_Tricks_–_Creating indicator_relationships_in_integrations⠀⇛ When a Threat Intelligence Management (TIM) license is present in your Cortex XSOAR environment, the feature to create relationships between indicators is available. This allows you to describe how indicators relate to each other and use this relationship in your automated analysis of a security incident. In the previous blog post in this series, we gave a brief overview of the additional features available in Cortex XSOAR when a TIM license is imported. We also showed you how to create relationships between indicators from within automations by using the CommandResults class from CommonServerPython. In this post, we will show you how to create relationships from within a Cortex XSOAR integration. This requires a different approach because there are different features available in an automation and an integration. # ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_Monit_on_Fedora_36_Linux⠀⇛ Monit is an open-source utility program that manages and monitors resources and services on Linux systems. Some services and resources managed by Monit are CPU usage, memory usage, server uptime, network connections, and server application services. It also ensures that all running services are always healthy by restarting services that stop or encounter operating errors such as system downtime, application crashes, or resource spikes. In addition, Monit can also be configured to send alerts to administrators when certain events occur, allowing administrators to take corrective action before problems escalate. As a result, Monit is an essential tool for keeping Linux systems running smoothly. In the following tutorial, you will learn how to install Monit on Fedora 36 Linux using the version direct from Fedora’s repository and configure Monit to be accessible from your browser using the command line terminal. # ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_To_Install_Monit_on_Fedora_36_–_idroot⠀⇛ In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Monit on Fedora 36. For those of you who didn’t know, Monit is an open-source utility for monitoring and managing Unix systems. Monit monitors the server programs to increase service uptime and ensures that they stay online consistently. With Monit, system status can be viewed directly from the command line, or via the native HTTP web server. This article assumes you have at least basic knowledge of Linux, know how to use the shell, and most importantly, you host your site on your own VPS. The installation is quite simple and assumes you are running in the root account, if not you may need to add ‘sudo‘ to the commands to get root privileges. I will show you the step-by-step installation of the Monit monitoring tool on a Fedora 36. # ⚓ TecAdmin ☛ Top_Command_in_Linux_(System_–_Process Monitoring)_–_TecAdmin⠀⇛ The top command is a Linux command that displays real-time information about your computer’s processes. This information includes how much CPU and memory each process is using. The top command is very helpful when you want to troubleshoot problems with your computer or optimize its performance. While there are many different top commands that can be used on Linux, the most common are ps, netstat, lsof, vmstat, and htop. These top commands can be used to view information about your computer’s processes, view information about your computer’s network connections, view information about open files and the processes that are using them, and more. The specific top command that you use will determine what information you can view. # ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ Linux_Rmdir_Command_Examples⠀⇛ in handy when you need to remove directories. Both are part of the GNU core utilities that allow a user to clean their disk space by removing the directories that are no longer needed. While both the utilities allow removing the directories, the rmdir only allows removing “empty directories”. It prevents accidentally removing the non-empty directories. If you try to use the rmdir command to remove a non-empty directory, it will throw the “Directory not empty” error message. If you want to remove a non-empty directory, you can use the rm command.” Another thing to remember is that when a file or directory is removed using either the rm or rmdir, it is immediately removed from the system rather than being sent to the Trash. Hence, you must be very careful while using these commands, as you will not be able to retrieve the removed files and directories without a backup. In this article, we are going to show how you can use the rmdir command to remove directories in Linux, along with some examples. We have demonstrated the examples on Linux Ubuntu. However, these work the same on every Linux distribution. # ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ How_to_Check_the_OS_Version_in_Linux⠀⇛ In this section, we will discuss some command line ways to check the OS version in a Linux OS. These commands work for all Linux distributions. You can open the Terminal by pressing the super key on your keyboard and then search for it using the search box at the top. When the Terminal icon appears, click on it to open. # ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ How_do_I_Check_my_NIC_Speed_in_Linux?⠀⇛ “We all know that a network interface card (NIC) acts as a bridge between a computer system and the network that this system is attached. The NIC has an associated speed which determines the quality of your interaction with the network. Therefore, in this guide, we will try to explore the methods through which we can check the NIC speed in Linux.” # ⚓ Trend Oceans ☛ How_to_Find_and_Delete_Files_Older_than_X Days_in_Linux⠀⇛ Oh boy… there is another use of the find command which helps us to delete files according to access or modification time to remove unused files like a pro! # ⚓ TecMint ☛ Most_Common_Network_Port_Numbers_for_Linux⠀⇛ In computing, and more so, TCP/IP and UDP networks, a port is a logical address that is usually assigned to a specific service or running application on a computer. It is a connection endpoint that channels traffic to a specific service on the operating system. Ports are software-based and are usually associated with the IP address of the host. # ⚓ Linux Made Simple ☛ How_to_install_Pokemon_Revolution Online_on_a_Chromebook⠀⇛ Today we are looking at how to install Pokemon Revolution Online on a Chromebook. Please follow the video/audio guide as a tutorial where we explain the process step by step and use the commands below. # ⚓ FOSSLinux ☛ How_to_install_Fotoxx_on_Ubuntu_22.04_LTS_| FOSS_Linux⠀⇛ Fotoxx is open-source software for basic image editing in Linux. It can be utilized to organize and manage extensive collections of images, optimize photos in several ways, including color brightness adjustment on individual photos’ specifics, and perform effective batch operations at a go! This software is ideally an image management and editing program emphasizing a simple and fast process. Fotoxx also has application menus on the app’s left side, providing options such as pointing out specific files like a dime, viewing all captured media discs, and much more. Professional photographers can use this photo editor to edit the raw images and save the files in different formats like PNG and JPEG. Perspectively, distorted images such as wide-angle views can be corrected with this program. Shadows and red eyes can also be cleared from the pictures. This tool encompasses major photo editor scalability like image resizing, enhancement or reduction of image sharpness, image cropping, and text addition to the photos. Due to its open nature, anyone can freely access the application to edit their images on Linux OS. This article will show how you can install Fotoxx on Ubuntu, specifically on version 22.04 LTS. The tutorial should also work on older Ubuntu versions. # ⚓ CubicleNate ☛ Stacked_Dual_Screen_on_a_Laptop_– CubicleNate’s_Techpad⠀⇛ Once I tasted the sweet goodness of a multiple screen workstation, having a single screen seems almost unusable. Sure, that is a bit of a hyperbole but single screen workstations are far less productive for me and I wanted to improve my mobile laptop set up. This is something I had been thinking about for quite some time and finally decided to do it. # ⚓ UNIX Cop ☛ How_to_Install_Barrier_on_Ubuntu_20.04_|_22.04 LTS⠀⇛ In this guide, we will illustrate how to install Barrier on Ubuntu systems. Barrier is software that mimics the functionality of a KVM switch, which historically would allow you to use a single keyboard and mouse to control multiple computers by physically turning a dial on the box to switch the machine you’re controlling at any given moment. Also, it does this in software, allowing you to tell it which machine to control by moving your mouse to the edge of the screen, or by using a keypress to switch focus to a different system. Barrier was forked from Symless’s Synergy 1.9 codebase. Synergy was a commercialized reimplementation of the original CosmoSynergy written by Chris Schoeneman. # ⚓ UNIX Cop ☛ How_to_take_Docker_Container_Backup_and_Push_to Docker_Hub⠀⇛ Docker containers are much like virtual machines, but they’re lighter and faster. You can run an entire software stack in a single container, and you can replicate that same stack again and again with minimal overhead. It’s an efficient way to package applications for deployment. But what happens when your container goes down? With Docker, you can just rebuild it—but what happens if you want to keep that data around? That’s where a backup comes in. There are two main ways to back up your Docker container: the first is via the Docker command-line interface (CLI), and the second is through third- party tools. # ⚓ UNIX Cop ☛ How_to_install_PeaZip_in_Ubuntu_20.04_|_22.04 LTS⠀⇛ In this guide, we will show you how to install PeaZip on Ubuntu systems. PeaZip is a free and open-sourcefile manager and file archiver for Microsoft Windows, ReactOS, Linux, MacOS and BSD made by Giorgio Tani. It supports its native PEA archive format (featuring compression, multi volume split and flexible authenticated encryption and integrity check schemes) and other mainstream formats, with special focus on handling open formats. It supports 226 file extensions (as of version 8.6.0). o § Games⠀➾ # ⚓ PC Gamer ☛ The_world’s_first_trombone_rhythm_game_is instantly_a_GOTY_contender⠀⇛ Trombone Champ works like other music rhythm games: notes move across the screen from right to left, and you move the mouse up and down to meet them and then click or press a keyboard key to play the note. Accuracy and timing determine how well you play, with little words popping up to tell you how you’re doing. Words like Perfecto! Or Nice! If you’re sucking, as I typically do, you’ll get a Meh or sometimes a Nasty, which is maybe the funniest word to use to describe someone playing a trombone poorly. I doubt many music teachers use it, but maybe they should. # ⚓ Björn Wärmedal ☛ Plainly_Put:_Plane_Power_Play⠀⇛ While it’s normally just me (Player 2) and one other (Player 1) there. We don’t interact much, especially since they play the most when I’m at work. But there’s something special about being the only people on the server. A kind of familiarity forms rather quickly, and because of our play time difference there really isn’t any competition. By the time I enter a new game they’ve already amassed tens or even hundreds of millions of pounds, and for that matter I’m not really a competitive person anyway. The other night something happened there. Relevant to the story is the fact that I’d never tried using planes in the game yet. # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Canadian_customers_seeing_a_temporary_delay for_the_Steam_Deck⠀⇛ While Valve has been able to repeatedly speed up production of the Steam Deck smashing expectations, they’ve hit a snag when it comes to Canada. # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Valve_upgrade_Steam_Deck_when_docked_in_new OS_Beta,_plus_big_Steam_Deck_Client_update⠀⇛ Two big pieces of Steam Deck news for you today, with two major updates now available. First there’s a big Steam Deck Client Stable update and a Steam Deck OS Beta. # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Valve_launches_Steam_Charts_giving_us better_details_on_games⠀⇛ Steam Charts, the name of the new system Valve just launched gives us a better look behind the curtain on how games are doing on Steam overall. This replaces the basic stats page that showed the online count for Steam and the Top 100 most played games with a lot more information. # ⚓ Tedium ☛ Magnavox_Odyssey²_History:_Why_Americans_Never_Got an_Odyssey³⠀⇛ The Magnavox Odyssey is one of the most important video game consoles ever made, mainly because it was a real commercial home video game console. It proved the market—and allowed other companies to jump into the video game market—and Ralph Baer became an icon of the gaming industry as a result. But while it had a significant successor in the form of the Magnavox Odyssey², a successful device that was nonetheless completely overshadowed in the market by Atari, less discussed is the fact that a third Odyssey console was in the works around the time of the video game crash—and actually came out in Europe, where the Odyssey² found an audience under a different name. Today’s Tedium talks about the legacy of the Odyssey², and the sequel that was meant to be, but that few of us actually got to see. o § Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾ # § K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt⠀➾ # ⚓ Nate Graham ☛ This_week_in_KDE:_yo_dawg,_I_heard_you wanted_stability_–_Adventures_in_Linux_and_KDE⠀⇛ People are always saying that they want us to slow down on the features and focus on stability for a while. Well, we’ve heard you and we’re doing just that for Plasma 5.26 in general, and specifically are focusing almost entirely on bug work during the one-month beta period. The results so far have been tremendous! I suspect everyone reading this post should find something in the “Significant Bugfixes” section to be happy about! Possibly multiple things. This is the time to file your beta bugs! They’ll get fixed quickly. Let’s all help to make Plasma 5.26 the most stable release ever! * § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾ o § Canonical/Ubuntu Family⠀➾ # ⚓ Its FOSS ☛ UbuntuDDE_Remix_22.04_LTS_Released!⠀⇛ UbuntuDDE Remix is a distro that integrates the Deepin desktop environment on top of Ubuntu. Users who do not want to try Deepin distribution but like its user interface can try this out. With Ubuntu 22.04 LTS as its base, it is a major upgrade. Let us see what they have to offer. o § Devices/Embedded⠀➾ # ⚓ CNX Software ☛ UP_4000_x86_SBC_review_–_Part_1:_Unboxing and_first_boot_–_CNX_Software⠀⇛ I’ll check the UP 4000 board in more detail with Ubuntu 22.04 in the second part of the review. Since the processor has been around for a while, we’ve already reviewed Chuwi GBOX Pro mini PC with the Intel Atom x7-E3950 using both Windows 10 and Ubuntu 18.04 around 3 years ago. # ⚓ Everything Smart Home ☛ Aqara_Radiator_Thermostat_E1 Review⠀⇛ Aqara seem to be on a roll just now, releasing new product after new product and now, they have finally got stuck into smart home heating with their new Radiator Thermostat E1 – a fully wireless solution to individual zone and room controlled heating, that can be setup in just a matter of minutes and has the potential to save you money on our ever skyrocketing energy bills. Let’s have a look and see if it’s worth the investment! *Full transparency as always, Aqara did provide me with the TRV for me to check out.* # ⚓ Linux Gizmos ☛ Banana_Pi_BPI-PicoW-S3_launched_for_$5.50⠀⇛ SinoVoip Co. launched today a new IoT board based on the ESP-S3 SoC. The BPI-Pico W-S3 is enabled with a 240MHz processor, 2.4GHz Wi-Fi/Bluetooth 5.0, ultra low-power mode and up to 27 GPIOs.  # ⚓ Linux Gizmos ☛ Teensy_4.1_NE_swaps_ethernet_support_for more_I/Os⠀⇛ PJRC recently released a Teensy 4.1 variant without ethernet support but with more I/Os. The new Teensy 4.1_NE comes with the same processor as the Teensy 4.0, in this case a 32-bit ARM Cortex-M7 processor from NXP.  o § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾ # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Add_An_OSHW_Certified_Stopwatch_To_Your Toolkit⠀⇛ [MakingDevices] has created a simple stopwatch that makes for a nice introduction to surface mount electronic design and assembly. The project is open source hardware (OSHW) certified, with Gerbers, KiCAD files, and software all available. # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ For_The_ESP’s_Next_ESP_Trick…⠀⇛ It is a pretty stale dad joke to tell someone you have ESP when you mean you have an ESP8266 or ESP32 in your hand. However, [Naufil Metkar] uses an ESP device to pretend — via a magic trick — that he does have ESP. The trick requires a bit of 3D printing, an MPU6050 gyro sensor, and a lot of showmanship. # ⚓ Jeff Geerling ☛ Homelab_Pi_Rack_upgrade,_just_in_time_for AnsibleFest_2022⠀⇛ AnsibleFest is fast approaching, and this year it’ll finally be back in person, in Chicago. Since that’s a short jaunt from St. Louis, I’ll be headed up to talk about my Homelab this year! More specifically, I’ll be giving a talk titled Ansible for the Homelab, and I’ll walk through how I have at least part of my sprawling homelab environment automated using Ansible. * § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾ o ⚓ UNIX Cop ☛ Top_Open-Source_Blockchain_Platforms⠀⇛ Blockchain technology has developed rapidly in a short space of time. It has become one of the most popular topics among organizations across the globe. There are many reasons for this. Firstly, it may be because of the technological advances, and secondly & most importantly, the introduction of open-source blockchain platforms. Now, more and more people are beginning to understand how this revolutionary tool can change their business. o § SaaS/Back End/Databases⠀➾ # ⚓ OpenSource.com ☛ Drop_your_database_for_PostgreSQL⠀⇛ Databases are tools to store information in an organized but flexible way. A spreadsheet is essentially a database, but the constraints of a graphical application render most spreadsheet applications useless to programmers. With Edge and IoT devices becoming significant target platforms, developers need powerful but lightweight solutions for storing, processing, and querying large amounts of data. One of my favourite combinations is the PostgreSQL database and Lua bindings, but the possibilities are endless. Whatever language you use, Postgres is a great choice for a database, but you need to know some basics before adopting it. o § Education⠀➾ # ⚓ [Old] “I_want_to_start_contributing_to_open_source”:_My_ (Current)_Advice⠀⇛ I’d say: DON’T start by trying to find a bug to fix. Instead, a good way to start is to go through old (like, more than a year old) open issues/bug reports and test whether they are still reproducible in the most recent release and in a build from the most recent commit on the main branch. [...] o § Programming/Development⠀➾ # § Perl / Raku⠀➾ # ⚓ DEV Community ☛ My_Perl_Weekly_Challenge⠀⇛ All this talk about types, objects, and systems, got me to thinking, “what would it take to create a 100% backwards-compatible pure Perl proof-of-concept for optionally typable subroutine signatures”. I mean really, how hard could it be? So I started sketching out some ideas and here’s what I came up with: [...] # § Shell/Bash/Zsh/Ksh⠀➾ # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ A_Spreadsheet_For_The_Python_Hacker⠀⇛ You can write a Python program or use a Jupyter Notebook to do almost anything. But you can also get a lot of things done quickly using a spreadsheet. Grist is a “hacker’s” spreadsheet that merges these worlds. It looks like a spreadsheet, but underneath are SQLite tables and the formula language is Python. o § Standards/Consortia⠀➾ # ⚓ CircleID ☛ Verisign_Domain_Name_Industry_Brief:_351.5 Million_Domain_Name_Registrations_in_Q2_2022⠀⇛ Today, we released the latest issue of The Domain Name Industry Brief, which shows that the second quarter of 2022 closed with 351.5 million domain name registrations across all top-level domains, an increase of 1.0 million domain name registrations, or 0.3%, compared to the first quarter of 2022.1, 2 Domain name registrations have increased by 10.4 million, or 3.0%, year over year.1, 2 * § Leftovers⠀➾ o ⚓ Techdirt ☛ The_Most_Famous_Blunder_Of_Content_Moderation:_Do_NOT Quote_The_Princess_Bride⠀⇛ We’ve written stories about people having difficulty recognizing people joking around quoting movies. Sometimes it ends up ridiculously, like the guy who was arrested for quoting Fight Club and had to spend quite some time convincing people he wasn’t actually looking to shoot up an Apple store. We’ve also talked a lot about the impossibility of doing content moderation well at scale. Here’s a story where the two collide (though in a more amusing way). o ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ The_American_Dream_and_Other_Fairy_Tales⠀⇛ Abigail co-produced/co-directed the latter with Kathleen Hughes, who has also co-won two other Emmys for her work on Bill Moyers’ programs. Hughes has also been a veteran filmmaker for other PBS nonfiction outlets, including Frontline, Independent Lens and Wide Angle. Now, Disney and Hughes have teamed up again to co-make The American Dream and Other Fairy Tales, an 87-minute documentary chronicling Abigail’s critique of the family business gone off the rails in a relentless pursuit of profit, employees be damned. This hard-hitting expose is anything but “Mickey Mouse,” and uses the not-so-Magical Kingdom as a microcosm for what’s wrong with contemporary capitalism. o ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Why_Art_Museums_are_Changing⠀⇛ The man-made world of things . . . becomes a home for mortal men, whose stability will endure and outlast the ever changing movement of their lives and actions, only insofar as it transcends both the sheer functionalism of things produced for consumption and the sheer utility of objects produced for use. o ⚓ NPR ☛ Your_beer_needs_carbon_dioxide,_but_the_price_skyrocketed over_the_summer⠀⇛ Three main factors are behind what Paul Pflieger, communications director of the Compressed Gas Association trade group, calls “CO2 tightness.” Two of them have to do with how carbon dioxide is produced: It’s a byproduct of other processes, such as ammonia and ethanol production. But this fall, ammonia plants are undergoing scheduled maintenance shutdowns that will keep them from producing carbon dioxide, Pflieger said. Similarly, many ethanol plants that went offline during the pandemic haven’t resumed operations. And then there’s the weather: The beverage industry accounts for 14% of U.S. carbon dioxide, but demand soars across the board when it’s hot. o ⚓ Matt Rickard ☛ Infrastructure_Defined_Software⠀⇛ There’s already a start to thinking about modules-as-code rather than simple infrastructure. A collection of well- tested interfaces made of different cloud services (see Interface Decomposition in the Cloud). Will it simply be open-source libraries written in Pulumi or AWS CDKs? Will startups ship their modules for self-hosters? Will these modules bankrupt open-source companies (by making it highly trivial to self-host)? Do cloud providers benefit? Is this the abstraction layer that makes AWS a dumb pipe? o ⚓ Meduza ☛ The_Beet:_A_new_email_dispatch_from_Meduza_—_Meduza⠀⇛ Welcome to The Beet, Meduza’s special newsletter focused on Central and Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, and Central Asia. Every week, we deliver one feature story you won’t find anywhere else. Our job is to cover society, politics, and culture in these often-underreported regions, without centering Moscow, the “West,” or the latest news.  o § Education⠀➾ # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Shy_Raccoons_Are_Better_Learners_Than_Bold Ones,_Study_Finds⠀⇛ Preliminary findings suggest that the most docile animals learned to use the testing devices more easily than bolder, more aggressive ones did, a result that has implications for our relationship with urban wildlife. The study was published on Thursday in the Journal of Experimental Biology. As the planet is increasingly urbanized, the questions of which animals will be able to cope with the sprawl and why are becoming more urgent. The answers could be key to mitigating the conflicts that interspecies proximity brings and may point to better ways to manage animals as they are forced to share more of their habitat with us. # ⚓ YLE ☛ Nearly_everyone_in_Finland_reads_newspapers,_survey finds⠀⇛ Newspaper reading is very evenly distributed across various different demographics with newspaper reach ranging from 90 to 97 percent across age groups, 90 to 98 percent across occupational groups and 94 to 98 percent across different income groups. More than four out of five, or 86 percent, of people in Finland said they consume newspaper content digitally # ⚓ Saudi Arabia ☛ UN_condemns_Taliban’s_‘shameful’_year-long ban_on_Afghan_girls’_education⠀⇛ But within days they began imposing severe restrictions on girls and women to comply with their austere vision of Islam — effectively squeezing them out of public life. Apart from closing high schools for girls, the Taliban have barred women from many government jobs and also ordered them to cover up in public, preferably with an all-encompassing burqa. # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Two_Powerful_Unions_Have_Come_Together_to_Fight the_Right’s_Attack_on_Higher_Ed⠀⇛ o § Hardware⠀➾ # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Big_3D_Printed_BMO_Is_Also_An_OctoPrint_Server⠀⇛ OctoPrint is a useful tool for 3D printers, providing remote access to essentially every 3D printer with a USB port. [Allie Katz] decided to build an OctoPrint server in the shape of a life- sized BMO from Adventure Time, and the results are cute as heck. # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Filament_Cutter_Uses_Unusual_(But_Effective)_3D- Printed_Spring_Design⠀⇛ When one needs a spring, a 3D-printed version is maybe not one’s first choice. It might even be fair to say that printed springs are something one ends up making, rather than something one sets out to use. That might change once you try the spring design in [the_ress]’s 3D-printed filament cutter with printed springs. o § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾ # ⚓ CDC ☛ United_States_confirmed_as_country_with_circulating vaccine-derived_poliovirus⠀⇛ The United States now joins a list of about 30 other countries where cVDPVs have been identified. Circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus occurs when local immunity to poliovirus is low enough to allow prolonged transmission of the original weakened virus in the oral polio vaccine. As the virus circulates and more genetic changes occur, the virus can regain its ability to infect the central nervous system and cause paralysis. It’s important to note that cVDPVs are not caused by a child receiving the polio vaccine. Oral polio vaccine has not been used or licensed in the U.S. since 2000 but continues to be used in some countries. # ⚓ The Dissenter ☛ White_House_Says_Migrants_‘Fleeing Communism’—Plus,_Toxic_Lead_In_Chicago_Water⠀⇛ # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ GOP_Senator_Plans_to_Force_Vote_to_End_COVID National_Emergency_Declaration⠀⇛ # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Cuba_and_China_Exceed_US_in_Life Expectancy,_Send_Message_to_the_World_–_Socialism_is_the Difference⠀⇛ The U.S. National Center for Health Statistics on August 31 set U.S. LEB for 2021 at 76.1 years, the same figure as in 1996. The decline from 77.0 years in 2020 and from 78.8 in 2019 was the greatest continuous U.S. fall in LEB in 100 years. LEB for men in 2021, 73.2 years, represented an unprecedented male-female gap of almost six years (Increased male mortality is routine). # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ FDA_Streisands_NyQuil_Chicken_Into_Being_A_Thing Based_After_Moral_Panic_Press_Release⠀⇛ What is it with government agencies and the media teaming up to Streisand some dumb thing that almost no one has ever done or heard about, and turning it into a thing that everyone knows about? o § Proprietary⠀➾ # ⚓ Everything Smart Home ☛ Build_Your_Own_Local_Controlled Smart_Home_Alarm!⠀⇛ Once downloaded, make sure to head over and restart Home Assistant first for that to take effect, then go to settings, devices and services, add integration and then search for Alarmo. Once Alarmo is added, you will have a button in your sidebar that will take you to the Alarmo settings page. o § Security⠀➾ # ⚓ ZDNet ☛ Jit_and_ZAP:_Improving_programming_security_|_ZDNET [Ed: SJVN now does promotional puff pieces for proprietary software that might be of no practical use]⠀⇛ Jit, a startup programming security company, dreams of being a top security power. To help make those dreams a reality, Jit recently hired Simon Bennetts, the founder of the world’s most popular web app security scanner, Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) Zed Attack Proxy (ZAP). # ⚓ CISA ☛ CISA_Has_Added_One_Known_Exploited_Vulnerability_to Catalog _|_CISA [Ed: Sophos Firewall (proprietary) actively exploited. Instead of enhancing security it adds security holes.]⠀⇛ CISA has added one new vulnerability to its 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. Note: To view the newly added vulnerabilities in the catalog, click on the arrow in the “Date Added to Catalog” column, which will sort by descending dates. # ⚓ IT Wire ☛ Second_lot_of_Optus_data_advertised_for_sale_on Web_forum⠀⇛ A second lot of data claimed to be from Optus has been advertised for sale on a Web forum, with 100 sample records being linked to as proof that it is genuine. Emsisoft security researcher Brett Callow pointed out in a tweet that the account stated, “No sale will be made for 1 week until Optus reply”. He said this implied it could be a case of attempted extortion. iTWire has sought a reaction from Optus about this. The Optus breach was made public on Thursday. # ⚓ Its FOSS ☛ Wolfi_is_a_Linux_Un(distro)_Built_for_Software Supply_Chain_Security⠀⇛ The software supply chain includes everything that goes into developing, building, storing, and running it and its dependencies. As per the State of the Software Supply Chain 2021 report, between 2020 and 2021 alone, attacks on the software supply chain increased by a shocking 650%. [...] To join the efforts, Chainguard, a security firm specializing in open-source software and cloud- native development, has introduced a Linux distro designed to secure the software supply chain. They call it an “Undistro” because it is not a full-fledged Linux distribution to run on bare metal. # ⚓ Krebs On Security ☛ Accused_Russian_RSOCKS_Botmaster Arrested,_Requests_Extradition_to_U.S.⠀⇛ A 36-year-old Russian man recently identified by KrebsOnSecurity as the likely proprietor of the massive RSOCKS botnet has been arrested in Bulgaria at the request of U.S. authorities. At a court hearing in Bulgaria this month, the accused hacker requested and was granted extradition to the United States, reportedly telling the judge, “America is looking for me because I have enormous information and they need it.” # § Integrity/Availability/Authenticity⠀➾ # ⚓ Passkeys⠀⇛ This is an opinionated, “quick-start” guide to using passkeys as a web developer. It’s hopefully broadly applicable, but one size will never fit all authentication needs and this guide ignores everything that’s optional. So take it as a worked example, but not as gospel. It doesn’t use any WebAuthn libraries, it just assumes that you have access to functions for verifying signatures. That mightn’t be optimal—maybe finding a good library is better idea—but passkeys aren’t so complex that it’s unreasonable for people to know what’s going on. # § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾ # ⚓ New York Times ☛ ‘They_Are_Watching’:_Inside_Russia’s Vast_Surveillance_State⠀⇛ Together the documents detail the inner workings of a critical facet of Mr. Putin’s surveillance and censorship system, which his government uses to find and track opponents, squash dissent and suppress independent information even in the country’s furthest reaches. The leak of the agency’s documents “is just like a small keyhole look into the actual scale of the censorship and [Internet] surveillance in Russia,” said Leonid Volkov, who is named in the records and is the chief of staff for the jailed opposition leader Aleksei A. Navalny. # ⚓ [Old] Digital Content Next ☛ Google_Data_Collection [PDF]⠀⇛ Google collects user data in a variety of ways. The most obvious are “active,” with the user directly and consciously communicating information to Google, as for example by signing in to any of its widely used applications such as YouTube, Gmail, Search etc. Less obvious ways for Google to collect data are “passive” means, whereby an application is instrumented to gather information while it’s running, possibly without the user’s knowledge. Google’s passive data gathering methods arise from platforms (e.g. Android and Chrome), applications (e.g. Search, YouTube, Maps), publisher tools (e.g. Google Analytics, AdSense) and advertiser tools (e.g. AdMob, AdWords). The extent and magnitude of Google’s passive data collection has largely been overlooked by past studies on this topic. # ⚓ [Old] Android_Mobile_OS_Snooping_By_Samsung,_Xiaomi, Huawei_and_Realme_Handsets⠀⇛ The privacy of mobile apps has been extensively studied, but much less attention has been paid to the privacy of the mobile OS itself. A mobile OS may communicate with servers to check for updates, send telemetry and so on. We undertake an in-depth analysis of the data sent by six variants of the Android OS, namely those developed by Samsung, Xiaomi, Huawei, Realme, LineageOS and /e/OS. We find that even when minimally configured and the handset is idle these vendor- customized Android variants transmit substantial amounts of information to the OS developer and also to third-parties (Google, Microsoft, LinkedIn, Facebook etc) that have pre-installed system apps. While occasional communication with OS servers is to be expected, the observed data transmission goes well beyond this and raises a number of privacy concerns. There is no opt out from this data collection. # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Entering_the_Resistance_Phase_of_the Surveillance_Education_Cycle:_Finding_Ways_to_Protect Privacy_in_Schools⠀⇛ Digital technologies have followed this trajectory, going from an information super highway that promised individual autonomy to a monopoly of platforms that surveil and exploit users. Indeed, responding to the revelations from whistleblowers and investigations that revealed the ways in which tech companies mislead the public, amplify false information on their platforms, engage in inconsistent content moderation practices, knowingly exacerbate mental health issues for users (particularly young girls), ignore privacy concerns when it comes to sharing user data, and prioritize profits over user safety, users have soured the public on tech companies. Only 34% of the public has a positive view of big-tech companies. # ⚓ EFF ☛ Study_of_Electronic_Monitoring_Smartphone_Apps Confirms_Advocates’_Concerns_of_Privacy_Harms⠀⇛ When an app wants to collect data from your phone, e.g. by taking a picture with your camera or capturing your GPS location, it must first request permission from you to interact with that part of your device. Because of this, knowing which permissions an app requests gives a good idea for what data it can collect. And while denying unnecessary requests for permission is a great way to protect your personal data, people under EM orders often don’t have that luxury, and some EM apps simply won’t function until all permissions are granted. # § Confidentiality⠀➾ # ⚓ Bruce Schneier ☛ Leaking_Screen_Information_on_Zoom Calls_through_Reflections_in_Eyeglasses⠀⇛ Okay, it’s an obscure threat. But people are researching it: [...] # ⚓ The Register UK ☛ [Reposted]_Can_reflections_in eyeglasses_actually_leak_info_from_Zoom_calls?_Here’s_a study_into_it⠀⇛ “The present-day 720p camera’s attack capability often maps to font sizes of 50-60 pixels with average laptops,” explained Yan Long, corresponding author and doctoral candidate at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in an email to The Register. “Such font sizes can mostly be found in slide presentations and the headings/titles of some websites (for example, ‘We saved you a seat in chat’ on https://www.twitch.tv/p/en/about/ ). o § Defence/Aggression⠀➾ # ⚓ Firstpost ☛ Hindus_under_attack_in_UK:_With_chants_of ‘Allahu_Akbar…Takbir’,_Muslim_mob_attacks_temple_in_Smethwick as_cops_look_on⠀⇛ Days after an irate Muslim mob vandalised a Hindu temple and desecrated a saffron flag in Leicester, more than 200 people, mostly Muslims, attacked Durga Bhawan Hindu Centre in Smethwick and shouted ‘Allahu Akbar’ slogans. # ⚓ France24 ☛ Hindu-Muslim_tensions_flare_in_central_England⠀⇛ But the situation took a turn for the worse on September 17 during an undeclared march by young Hindu extremists. # ⚓ India Today ☛ 200-strong_mob_protests_outside_Hindu_temple in_England’s_Smethwick,_‘Allahu_Akbar’_chants_heard⠀⇛ Around 200 people, allegedly belonging to the Muslim community, gathered outside a Hindu temple in Smethwick town in West Midlands, England to stage a planned protest on Tuesday, September 20 (GMT). Videos shared on social media showed a large crowd of people marching towards the Durga Bhawan Hindu Centre on Spon Lane. Many were heard raising slogans along the lines of ‘Allahu Akbar’. # ⚓ The Telegraph UK ☛ Ongoing_clashes_between_Muslims_and Hindus_‘could_spread_all_over_Britain’⠀⇛ Ongoing clashes between Muslims and Hindus threaten to “spread all over Britain”, faith leaders have warned, after 100 protesters descended on a Hindu temple. A crowd of Muslim demonstrators reportedly threw fireworks and missiles in the direction of police in the industrial town of Smethwick on Tuesday night as the disorder seen in Leicester over the weekend appeared to spread across the Midlands. On Wednesday night, faith leaders issued a warning that the current unrest, apparently fuelled by disinformation circulating on social media, “will spread all over Britain”. # ⚓ Metro UK ☛ Clashes_between_Muslim_and_Hindu_men_spread_to Birmingham⠀⇛ Footage show the large group, many masked, approaching the temple, with some people climbing the boundary fence. # ⚓ India ☛ UK:_How_Pak_Anti-Hindu_Groups_Got_3,000_Muslim Protesters_at_Durga_Bhawan_in_Smethwick⠀⇛ The violent demonstration outside the Durga Bhawan temple in the UK’s Smethwick in Birmingham region, which led to fears of the recent Leicester-like violence, was the work of Pakistani anti-Hindu groups, who were fuelled by officials of the Inter- Services Intelligence (ISI) — premier intelligence agency of Pakistan — in Pakistan Embassy in London, sources told CNN-News18. # ⚓ ECHR_judgments_confirmed_that_killing_of_Armenian_in Azerbaijan_is_encouraged_by_authorities_–_Armenia_Ombudsman⠀⇛ During the military event in Baku on the 10th of December, in 2020, the President of Turkey compared the war in Artsakh with the Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire and the massacre of Armenians in Baku in September of 1918. According to him, that day was a day of glorification of the souls of Ahmed Jevat Bey, Nuri Pasha, Enver Pasha, and members of the Caucasus Islamic Army. The ECHR judgments have confirmed that killing of Armenian in Azerbaijan has ethnic motivations and is encouraged by authorities. # ⚓ ITV ☛ Man_charged_after_two_Met_Police_officers_stabbed_in London’s_Leicester_Square⠀⇛ Mohammed Rahman, 24, of Westbourne Park Road in west London, has been charged with attempted murder and grievous bodily harm with intent. # ⚓ France24 ☛ ‘Jihadist_flag_likely_to_fly’_over_Malian_town of_Ménaka,_Niger’s_president_warns⠀⇛ Niger’s President Mohamed Bazoum granted an interview to FRANCE 24′s Marc Perelman and RFI’s Christophe Boisbouvier on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York. Bazoum expressed concern about the worsening security situation in Mali and the jihadist threat hanging over the Malian town of Ménaka in the wake of France’s military withdrawal. He also discussed the case of 46 Ivorian soldiers who are detained in Mali, accused of being mercenaries. Bazoum recalled that Ivorian President Alassane Ouattara had worked hard for the lifting of ECOWAS sanctions against the Malian authorities. “I believe he was betrayed,” Bazoum said. # ⚓ Frontpage Magazine ☛ The_Jihad_on_Armenia_Erupts_Again⠀⇛ Modern hostilities between Armenia, an ancient nation, and Azerbaijan, which was created in 1918, began in late 2020, when war erupted over disputed territory now known as “Nagorno-Karabakh.” Although it was Armenian for thousands of years, known as Artsakh, and remains predominantly Armenian, after the dissolution of the USSR, it was allotted to Azerbaijan, causing problems since and culminating in the recent wars. (See “15 Artsakh War Myths Perpetuated By Mainstream Media.”) # ⚓ Jerusalem Post ☛ Iran_unveils_missile_it_says_can_strike all_of_Middle_East_and_parts_of_Europe⠀⇛ Iran reportedly has around 20 types of ballistic missiles, some of which are replicates of missiles developed in North Korea, or have origins in Russian and Chinese missiles. Iran has sought to improve all of these older varieties of missiles in recent years, to improve their precision. Iran’s media has also mentioned that Iran has improved its Kheibar Shekan missile, which is also supposedly able to fly 1,450km. # ⚓ Pro Publica ☛ USS_Bonhomme_Richard_Failed_on_Fire_Safety, Documents_Show⠀⇛ Unimpeded, the fire gathered force, surging upward, conquering one level of the 844-foot ship and then the next, while the crew — the ship’s critical firefighting force — fled to the pier. There, the captain and his sailors stood by as the Bonhomme Richard burned, in cruel irony of its motto “I have not yet begun to fight.” # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Nazi_Weapons_Of_The_Future⠀⇛ We know. The title sounds like a bad newsreel from 1942. Turns out, though, that the Nazis were really good at pouring money into military research and developing — or trying to develop — what they called “wunderwaffe” — wonder weapons. While we think of rockets and jets today as reasonably commonplace, they were state-of-the-art when Germany deployed them during WWII. While the rockets were reasonably successful, the jets were too few and too late to matter. However, those were just the tip of the iceberg. The German war industry had plenty of plans ranging from giant construction to secret weapons that seem to be out of the pages of a pulp science fiction magazine. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ ‘Referendums_on_joining_the_Russian_Federation’ begin_in_Russian-occupied_territories_of_Ukraine_—_Meduza⠀⇛ “Referendums on joining the Russian Federation” have begun in the Russian-occupied self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk “people’s republics,” as well as in the occupied territories of Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia and Kherson regions, reports TASS. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Russia_to_conscript_1.2_million_people_—_Meduza⠀⇛ Russian authorities plan to conscript 1.2 million people for their “partial mobilization,” Meduza has learned from a source close to one of the country’s federal ministries. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Russian_airline_employees_summoned_less_than_a_day after_mobilization_declared_—_Meduza⠀⇛ According to Kommersant’s sources, employees of at least five Russian airlines (including Aeroflot Group) and more than ten airports received military summons less than a day after mobilization was declared on September 21. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ A_Russian_draft_official_explains:_In_three planned_mobilization_stages,_‘all_the_guys_will_be_there’_— Meduza⠀⇛ TV Rain reports that, according to an audio recording made by one of its readers at the Omsk military draft office, mobilization is to be implemented in three planned stages: Sept. 26 to Oct. 10, Oct. 11–25, and Oct. 26 to Nov. 10. # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ “Trying_to_Avoid_World_War_III”⠀⇛ António Guterres, secretary-general of the United Nations, said in reference to their annual meeting: # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Xi_does_well_in_Central_Asia,_Taiwan_fares well_in_the_US_Senate⠀⇛ Putin acknowledged as much. “We highly appreciate the balanced position of our Chinese friends in connection with the Ukrainian crisis,” Putin said. “We understand your questions and concerns in this regard. During today’s meeting, of course, we will explain in detail our position on this issue, although we have spoken about this before.” # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ How_Weaponizing_Identity_Politics_Ended_the Vietnam_War⠀⇛ These yuppie pricks are fucking hustling us over our few differences but somehow, it’s people like me and my comrades in the ghetto who get the lion’s share of the blame for this travesty. It’s increasingly hip among principled anti-imperialists on both the left and the right to be openly dismissive if not downright derisive towards identity politics and part of me can’t blame them. I get sick and tired of trigger-happy cretins like the Clintons using my people like a rainbow-colored human shield while they carpet bomb the planet in the name of humanitarian interventionism. It’s almost enough to make even me want to bash me. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ ‘A_ritual_with_a_known_outcome’_Behind_the_scenes of_the_Kremlin’s_sham_‘referendums’_—_Meduza⠀⇛ On September 23, just two days after Vladimir Putin’s mobilization announcement, Russia began staging the four-day “referendums” that it intends to use as a step towards annexing Ukraine’s occupied territories. Meduza spoke to a number of sources close to the Putin administration, the Moscow government, and the Kremlin about the “results” they plan to announce, the logistics of the whole production, and what they hope to achieve. According to one source, the Russian authorities have already given up hope that the “votes” will gin up domestic support for the war; they know people are too concerned about mobilization to care. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Moscow_military_commissar_threatens_lawyers_with prosecution_for_assisting_draft_dodgers_—_Meduza⠀⇛ The city of Moscow’s military commissar reportedly sent a letter to the Moscow Bar Association warning lawyers that they could face criminal prosecution for helping citizens illegally evade the draft. In the message, the conscription official notes that Russia’s Criminal Code prohibits serving as an “organizer, accomplice, or abettor” to someone seeking to shirk the draft. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Just_what_dictators_do_Russian-staged ‘referendums’_on_Ukrainian_soil_pursue_an_illusion_of legitimacy_—_Meduza⠀⇛ Today, Russian-organized “referendums” began in several occupied Ukrainian territories. Only a week ago, the once-bruited idea of these “referendums” was officially, and indefinitely, “put on hold.” On Sept. 20, this situation was reversed. The “people’s councils” of the self-proclaimed “DNR” and “LNR,” as well as the “military-civilian administrations” of the occupied Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions, all announced identical decisions to conduct “referendums.” These are generally understood to be mock procedures, meant to justify Russia’s planned annexation of those parts Ukraine. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ ‘Remember_the_gummies’_Pro-Kremlin_bloggers downplay_mobilization_by_comparing_conscripts_to_candy_— Meduza⠀⇛ Using the hashtag #DontPanic, pro-Kremlin bloggers have started comparing conscripted soldiers to french fries and gummies in social media posts about how “small” the scale of the country’s mobilization actually is. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ ‘The_only_good_thing_is_that_they_won’t_grab_me off_the_street’_How_Russia’s_mobilization_affects_women_and transgender_people_—_Meduza⠀⇛ On September 21, Vladimir Putin announced that Russia would officially begin conscripting people to fight in the country’s war against Ukraine. Contrary to what the bulk of media coverage has suggested, cisgender men aren’t the only people at risk of being sent to war. Some cisgender women and transgender people are at risk of being drafted, too — potentially a lot of them, given that the call-up could apply to as many as 1.2 million Russians. The Feminist Anti-War Resistance and the nonprofit Center-T recently spoke to legal experts about what cis women and trans people should know about the mobilization. Meduza summarizes their advice. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Zelensky_calls_on_residents_of_occupied territories_to_go_over_to_Ukrainian_side_—_Meduza⠀⇛ In his evening address on Friday, Ukrainian president Volodymr Zelensky called on residents of territories occupied by Russia to “hide from the Russian occupation by any means.” # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Finland_to_bar_entry_to_Russians_traveling_on Schengen_tourist_visas_—_Meduza⠀⇛ In the next several days Finland will bar entry to Russians traveling with a tourist visa issued by any country in the Schengen zone, according to Pekka Haavisto, Finish minister of foreign affairs. He says the government has already agreed on the decision and that it will be formalized in coming days. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Russia’s_Madonna,_Mariah,_Dolly,_and_Bette, wrapped_in_one_Historian_Victoria_Smolkin_explains_the significance_of_Alla_Pugacheva’s_antiwar_challenge_to_the Kremlin_and_Putin’s_world_—_Meduza⠀⇛ # ⚓ Craig Murray ☛ Diplomacy_Is_Always_an_Option⠀⇛ You are conditioned to believe that killing more people is a better solution than negotiating a compromise. This is despite the fact that it is self-evidently a psychopathic notion. Let me give you a homespun analogy. # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ The_military_to_American_youth:_You_belong to_me⠀⇛ It’s a little more complicated than it used to be, thanks to one of the changes that occurred back in 1973, a year of startling historical significance. That was the year of the Roe v. Wade decision and, oh yeah, the Watergate hearings (remember those?). But there was more. The United States, tangled militarily in the quagmire of Vietnam and increasingly torn apart on the home front by protests, was on the brink of conceding defeat in ‘Nam and getting the hell out of the ravaged country. Before that came about, the military- industrialists made a pragmatic decision. They got rid of the draft. # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Letter_From_Crimea:_Roosevelt’s_Shadow_Over Yalta⠀⇛ Not long after I moved to Europe in the early 1990s, I met Curtis through a friend in the expatriate community. He was then living in Spain but was thinking of moving to France or Switzerland, and when we first met it was to discuss places where it might make sense to buy a house. In the end he settled in Provence, which has milder winters than Switzerland, but we kept in touch, having lunch or dinner whenever our paths crossed. # ⚓ Telex (Hungary) ☛ Szijjártó_met_with_Lavrov_despite_the EU’s_explicit_request_not_to⠀⇛ # ⚓ Telex (Hungary) ☛ Hungarian_Foreign_Ministry_boasts_about Szijjártó_being_the_only_one_to_sit_down_with_Lavrov_at UNGA⠀⇛ # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ “Responsibility_to_Protect”_as_a_Prelude_to Undemocratic_“Regime_Change”_and_Foreign_Imposition_of “Transitional_Justice”⠀⇛ At the same time we recognize that the authority and credibility of the United Nations, the Organization of American States, the European Union, the African Union, depend on their objectivity, coherence and predictability.  People will only trust an institution if they are persuaded that it pursues ethical values and employs ethical methods. # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ With_Lebanon’s_Shi’a:_“One_foot_in_Heaven, One_Foot_in_Resistance”⠀⇛ This was thanks mostly to a Lebanese friend – call him “Rami” – who works when he can as a tourist guide. Business has not been booming lately in the face of Lebanon’s seemingly permanent political crisis and a shattered economy exacerbated by the giant Beirut port explosion in 2020 and the collapse of the country’s Ponzi-scheme banking system. Few foreign tourists are coming to Lebanon these days. The US State Department even sternly warns Americans not to visit the country. # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Some_Historical_Background_for_an_Economic Interpretation_of_the_War_in_Ukraine⠀⇛ Beard also antagonized people, most of all the guiding lights in the Roosevelt administration. He initially had supported the New Deal, but then came to view it as an evasion of the complete reorganization of American economic life necessary for the country’s transformation from oligarchy to democracy. The President, moreover, had implemented a foreign policy that Beard believed would lead to permanent war for empire, the main subject of “Giddy Minds and Foreign Quarrels.” # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ How_Russians_Read_the_Conflict_in_the Caucasus⠀⇛ Complicated Roots # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ The_SKELP_Directives:_U.S._Secret_Financing of_Germ_Warfare_during_the_Korean_War⠀⇛ The General was irritated. It was mid-January 1952, and from accounts subsequently released by China, North Korea, and international investigators, a campaign of aerial bombardment with biological weapons (BW) was taking place over both China and North Korea. # ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Scott_Ritter:_Reaping_the_Whirlwind⠀⇛ Putin’s order to begin partial mobilization of Russian military forces continues a confrontation between Russia and a U.S.-led coalition of Western nations that began at the end of the Cold War. # ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ TODAY:_Will_the_United_Nations_Finally_Deliver Justice_for_Palestine?⠀⇛ Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas will give his anticipated speech at the UN General Assembly with hopes of full recognition from the UN. # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Will_the_United_Nations_Finally_Deliver Justice_for_Palestine?⠀⇛ In some ways, the Resolution proved to be, indeed, symbolic, as it altered nothing on the ground. To the contrary, the Israeli occupation has worsened since then, a convoluted system of apartheid deepened and, in the absence of any political horizon, Israel’s illegal Jewish settlements expanded like never before. Moreover, much of the occupied Palestinian West Bank is being actively annexed to Israel, a process that initiated a slow but systematic campaign of expulsion, which is felt from occupied East Jerusalem to Masafer Yatta in the South Hebron hills. # ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ Report_from_Moscow:_Antiwar_Protests_Grow as_Thousands_Flee_Russia_to_Avoid_Being_Drafted_into_Army⠀⇛ Antiwar protests are flaring up in Russia after President Vladimir Putin announced what he called a partial military mobilization to add 300,000 troops into its armed forces. Over 1,300 protesters have been arrested at antiwar demonstrations, with one prominent rights group saying some protesters are being forced to enlist or face heavy jail time. We go to Moscow for an update with Anna Dobrovolskaya, the former executive director of the Memorial Human Rights Center in Moscow, which was shut down by the government last year. She says some people who are drafted without any military experience are publishing their stories, and thousands more have fled Russia to avoid being forced to enlist. “People will be trying to save their lives with any tools they can,” says Dobrovolskaya. # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Russia_and_NATO_Tried_to_Wage_War_on_the Cheap_in_Ukraine,_But_Could_Now_be_Heading_for_Total_War⠀⇛ The risk is that endless wars have a natural tendency to escalate as opponents try new strategies and tactics to break the deadlock and defeat their enemy. Vicious and destructive though the war in Ukraine has been so far, it is a long way from “total war”, a phrase that became popular to describe the situation in the Second World War as each side used every resource to destroy their opponent. # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ The_Bomb_That_Cracked_an_Island⠀⇛ The aftershocks of those blasts are still being felt. Despite claims by the AEC and the Pentagon that the test sites would safely contain the radiation released by the blasts for thousands of years, independent research by Greenpeace and newly released documents from the Department of Energy (DOE) show that the Amchitka tests began to leak almost immediately. Highly radioactive elements and gasses, such as tritium, americium-241 and plutonium, poured out of the collapsed test shafts, leached into the groundwater and worked their way into ponds, creeks and the Bering Sea. # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Biden,_Ramaphosa_and_Cul-de-Sacs_of Imperial_and_Sub-Imperial_Diplomacy⠀⇛ Well, he was certainly called out on that whopper. So last Friday at the White House, he made fun of himself a bit: “I had been stopped trying to get to uh to visit him and see him in prison. And uh, I had said once, I said I got arrested. It wadn’t arrested. I got stopped and prevented from from from moving.” # ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Brainwashed_for_War_With_Russia⠀⇛ Another war has been sold to the public thanks to the Establishment media and government talking heads. # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Meet_Our_New_“Secretary_Of_State”…Nancy Pelosi⠀⇛ In any event, Pelosi’s travel to the world’s worst trouble spots creates significant confusion regarding official U.S. policies and politics.  In flexing the flabby diplomatic muscles of the U.S. Congress, Pelosi is engaging the international community without any obvious coordination with the White House or the Department of State. The notion that anyone from the House of Representatives could have an impact on U.S. foreign policy or diplomacy is particularly ludicrous.  Unfortunately, her trips seemingly amount to a last hurrah. o § Environment⠀➾ # ⚓ The Nation ☛ Flooding_In_Pakistan⠀⇛ # ⚓ The Nation ☛ Cori_Bush_on_Her_Green_New_Deals_for_Cities⠀⇛ St. Louis is home to a pair of the biggest coal companies on the planet, massive coal ash deposits, asthma that affects Black children far more than white children, and a landfill full of nuclear waste that could catch fire. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Rallies_Across_Africa_Demand_Global_Action, Climate_Justice_Ahead_of_UN_Summit⠀⇛ “The least responsible nations and communities are suffering the most from the impacts of the climate emergency.” # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Young_Activists_Are_Leading_a_Global_Climate Strike_Today⠀⇛ # ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ Climate_Strike:_Mikaela_Loach_on_How Capitalism,_Colonialism_&_Imperialism_Fuel_Climate_Crisis⠀⇛ Climate activists, led by Fridays for Future, are holding a global climate strike today to pressure world leaders to do more to address the crisis. We speak to Mikaela Loach, who has helped lead the fight against developing the Cambo oil field off the coast of Scotland and who describes the importance of seeing antiracism and climate activism as linked. “We’re in this crisis because fossil fuels and nature have been completely extracted and destroyed to make profit and to continue expansion of economies, in the Global North in particular,” says Loach. # ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ How_a_Clean_Energy_Future_is_Colliding_With Mining’s_Dark_Past⠀⇛ “No one wants a mine in their backyard.” # § Energy⠀➾ # ⚓ Horizontal_Axis_Wind_Turbine_VS_Vertical_Axis_Wind Turbine⠀⇛ The comparative parameters: [...] # ⚓ Interesting Engineering ☛ A_1-MW_vertical_axis_wind turbine_could_change_offshore_wind_farms_forever⠀⇛ A Norwegian yards group, Westcon, has put in place an agreement with Sweden-based company SeaTwirl to deploy 1MW vertical axis wind turbines in the North Sea by next year, Recharge News has reported. This commercial scale vertical axis turbine could kick off a new era in offshore wind farms delivering cost competitiveness very soon. # ⚓ [Old] Ban_fossil_fuel_advertising⠀⇛ We know oil, gas and coal fuel war and the climate emergency. Then, why do they continue to have so much power to influence our lives and politics? Thanks to their misleading advertising and sponsorships, fossil fuel companies earn the social acceptance and political access they need to block climate action and continue with business as usual. For peace, for climate and to protect all life on Earth, we need to #BanFossilAds. # ⚓ [Old] Ban_Fossil_Ads,_Sponsoring_and_Marketing_in_The Netherlands_(and_beyond)⠀⇛ Many countries have restrictions on advertising for alcohol and cigarettes as these products have large negative health impacts. Now, several organisations are making a similar argument about advertising for fossil fuel companies and related high- carbon industries, calling for an outright ban on ads for these products. One of them is the global grassroots citizen movement Advertising Fossil Free. # ⚓ DeSmog ☛ How_Climate-Friendly_is_Liz_Truss’s Cabinet?⠀⇛ Her energy secretary Jacob Rees-Mogg this week announced that the UK’s zombie fracking industry would be resurrected, despite a much-awaited report saying that there was still “limited” understanding of the UK’s shale gas reserves and the impacts of extracting them, with earthquake forecasting remaining a “scientific challenge”. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Critics_of_Louisiana_LNG_Project ‘Hopeful’_as_Huge_Sales_Contracts_Canceled⠀⇛ “Our priorities are backwards; we should be putting people first, not big polluters.” # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ ‘Big_Climate_Win’:_California_to_Ban Sale_of_Gas_Heaters_and_Furnaces_by_2030⠀⇛ “We’re really hopeful that this is the beginning of a domino effect and other states will follow California’s lead.” # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Sanders,_Warren_Say_Manchin_Big_Oil_Deal Would_“Steamroll”_Frontline_Communities⠀⇛ # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Passing_Manchin_Deal_Is_the_‘Last Thing_Congress_Should_Do,’_Says_Sanders⠀⇛ “This deal is clearly intended to benefit the fossil fuel industry and will not meaningfully expedite the deployment of renewable energy.” # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Opinion_|_What_You_Need_to_Know_About the_Energy_Crisis⠀⇛ In May I wrote about the emerging energy and food crisis gripping the world due largely to the Russia-Ukraine conflict. The crisis continues to unfold. However, most people are aware of it only via high prices—for gasoline, electricity, natural gas, and food—and through widespread chatter among economists about inflation and what should be done to tame it. Sadly, prices by themselves are not helpful in understanding why the crisis has emerged and how it is likely to develop in coming months. Periodic overviews of the situation that emphasize systemic causal connections and feedbacks may serve that purpose better, so consider this the second in a series of such overviews. I’ll sort information and analysis by region. # § Wildlife/Nature⠀➾ # ⚓ Defence Web ☛ The_future_of_rhino_protection_is_high- tech_–_retired_general⠀⇛ Ahead of the world marking World Rhino Day earlier this week, Jooste, drawing on the knowledge gained in the Kruger National Park as well as his many years in uniform, maintains the future of rhino protection could – and should – see, among others balloons bristling with radar and long range sensors. Supporting this real-time aerial monitoring and observation in what he calls the “vertical dimension” would be UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles); ultra-light, fixed and rotary-winged aircraft and even stents. His thinking is based on the premise that those involved in rhino and other species protection should go after the technology they need rather than what donors and others “want”. # ⚓ The Revelator ☛ 5_Big_Threats_to_Rivers⠀⇛ # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ The_Colorado_River’s_Endangered Watershed⠀⇛ Colorado River water does not originate in Lake Powell or Lake Mead but comes from the mountains and its watershed which receive precipitation in the form of snow and rain. The water flows over the land and infiltrates into the ground becoming groundwater. It feeds the springs, streams, rivers, lakes, and reservoirs. It’s an integrated system of storage and supply. It has balance with runoff buffered by vegetation covering watersheds that slows its speed and erosive forces. This balance supports fish and wildlife dependent on the vegetation growing along these streams and lakes for cover and food. The vegetated areas along streams and rivers slow spring runoff, reduce erosion, and allow the water to be absorbed as groundwater which is then released slowly during the remainder of the year to feed the streams, rivers, lakes, and reservoirs instead of evaporating during the hot summer months. For example, evaporation losses from Lake Mead range from 600,000 to over 800,000 acre feet annually. # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Will_SCOTUS_Undo_Animal_Cruelty Laws?⠀⇛ o § Finance⠀➾ # ⚓ Pro Publica ☛ Michigan_AG_Scrutinizing_DTE’s_Debt Collection_Practices⠀⇛ Critics are both highlighting the financial impact on Detroit-area consumers and drawing attention to other issues affecting local communities, including widespread outages and the company’s treatment of customers who can’t afford to pay their bills. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Opinion_|_After_Expanded_Child_Tax_Credit Slashed_Poverty,_Letting_It_Lapse_Was_Enormous_Mistake⠀⇛ Government policies enacted in the wake of the pandemic have proven critical for reducing child poverty in the United States. Census Bureau data released last week showed that government social programs kept tens of millions of people out of poverty in 2021. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ 80%_of_US_Voters_Want_Congress_to_Enact National_Paid_Family_Leave:_Poll⠀⇛ “It’s time for our lawmakers to deliver what so many people are calling out for: a national paid leave policy.” # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ AOC_Rebukes_Republican_Who_Bragged_About_Staffer Leaving_to_Work_for_Wall_Street⠀⇛ # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ ‘This_Is_Gross’:_Republican_Openly_Brags About_Staffer_Leaving_to_Work_for_Wall_Street⠀⇛ Perhaps free to speak so candidly because he’s not running for reelection, Hollingsworth (Ind.) happily announced that one of his top aides, Sruthi Prabhu, is departing his office next week to join Bank of America, a powerful institution whose CEO testified at Wednesday’s House Financial Services Committee hearing alongside other top industry executives. # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Class_Warfare_Grinds_On⠀⇛ Schultz was the guy who memorably proclaimed back in April that his companies were being “assaulted” by unions. He thus let the management cat out of the bag: oligarchs regard unions as basically criminal enterprises, therefore justifying their scorched earth approach to labor. Fortunately, this view is wildly out of line with most Americans’ sentiments. According to Gallup on August 30, 71 percent of Americans approve of labor unions, the highest approval rate since 1965. Which just goes to prove my personal conviction that oligarchs are a peculiar, insular bunch, wrapped in their cocoons of excess riches and utterly out of touch with the wisdom and decency of most normal, ordinary people. # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ The_Costs_of_Unlimited_Growth:_A_View_from Vietnam⠀⇛ In this system, competition is “the defining characteristic of human relations” and citizens are reduced to consumers “whose democratic choices are best exercised by buying and selling, a process that rewards merit and punishes inefficiency,” in the words of George Monbiot, a British writer known for his environmental and political activism. Inequality is one of its regrettable yet unavoidable features, or so they say. Depending upon the level of government oversight and law enforcement, so is environmental pollution. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Opinion_|_A_Welfare_System_Built_to_Exclude Will_Never_Reduce_Poverty_in_the_US⠀⇛ The facts are clear: well-designed social protection programs slash poverty. And so—with an estimated 37.2 million people experiencing poverty in the U.S.—it defies reason why the country’s welfare system excludes millions of eligible individuals by design, condemning them to destitution and wasting public resources. o § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾ # ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ “Model_America”:_Family_of_Phillip_Pannell, Killed_by_White_NJ_Cop_in_’90,_Still_Struggles_for_Justice⠀⇛ A new series examines how protests that erupted over a police killing three decades ago offer important lessons for the Black Lives Matter movement today. We speak to the family of Phillip Pannell, a 16-year-old Black boy who was fatally shot in the back in 1990 by a white police officer later acquitted for the killing. Pannell is the subject of “Model America,” a new four-part series by MSNBC that looks at the racial divide in the U.S. through the lens of the small town of Teaneck, New Jersey, where the shooting took place. “Here we are 32 years later, and it’s still happening,” says his sister, Natacha Pannell. His mother Thelma Pannell-Dantzler says the police officer, Gary Spath, lied on the stand about the shooting and “should be prosecuted” for perjury. We also speak with the series’s co-director, Dani Goffstein, who was raised in Teaneck and says he became interested in the story after noticing parallels with the police killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, in 2014. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ DHS_Officials_Urge_Biden_to_End_‘Disastrous Leadership’_of_Embattled_IG⠀⇛ “His actions embarrass the entire agency.” # ⚓ Pro Publica ☛ Kushner_Company_to_Pay_$3.25M_to_Settle_MD State_Lawsuit⠀⇛ The agreement represents the settlement of a 2019 lawsuit brought against the subsidiary, Westminster Management, by the Maryland attorney general. The state alleged that the company’s “unfair or deceptive” rental practices violated Maryland’s consumer protection laws and “victimized” people, “many of whom are financially vulnerable, at all stages of offering and leasing.” # ⚓ The Nation ☛ How_Brett_Favre’s_Flaws_Were_Hidden_in_Plain Sight⠀⇛ Living on grift and evading responsibility while being protected by fame, power, and media complicity describes more people than just Donald Trump. It is an apt description for his golf buddy Brett Favre. In the eyes of the sports media, Favre has lived a life less as a person than as an idea: the “gunslinging” NFL quarterback. His play was his persona. He was daring. He was reckless. He was a tough guy who played more consecutive games than anyone in NFL history. His was beloved in his home state of Mississippi and on the frozen tundra of Green Bay’s Lambeau Field. # ⚓ The Nation ☛ Let_Him_Eat_Cake⠀⇛ # ⚓ The Nation ☛ Republicans_Are_Ready_to_Declare_the_United States_a_Christian_Nation⠀⇛ Newport, R.I.—Outside the Truro Synagogue in this historic New England community stand markers that honor the legacy of one of the oldest Jewish congregations in the United States. It was to the Jews of Newport that George Washington, in his capacity as the nation’s first president, confirmed the commitment of the new republic to respect all religions and to maintain the separation of church and state that was outlined in the First Amendment to its new Constitution. # ⚓ The Nation ☛ The_Migrants_Sent_North_Don’t_Have_a_Happy Ending_Yet⠀⇛ The cruelty and absurdity of Republican governors’ scheme to ship asylum seekers to so-called “sanctuary cities” has been evident from the outset. For months now, Texas has bused migrants to Washington, D.C., and, more recently, New York City as part of Governor Greg Abbott’s effort to expose the supposed hypocrisy of jurisdictions that claim to welcome immigrants. Abbott reportedly did not communicate with local officials in either city about when buses would arrive or how many people were on them, causing confusion and chaos in migrants’ new homes—which was the intended effort all along. Not to be outdone, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis recently flew two groups of migrants from Texas to Martha’s Vineyard. A cinematographer was on board one of the planes, DeSantis provided exclusive footage to Fox News, but no one from the governor’s office bothered to give locals a head’s up about the flights. The migrants themselves were misled into getting onto the planes: Some said that a woman named Perla told them they were going to Boston, enticing them with false promises of work, housing, and other assistance once they arrived there. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ 44_House_Democrats_Push_Biden_DOJ_to Investigate_DeSantis_Over_‘Cruel_Migrant_Flights’⠀⇛ “Harrowing interviews and reports reveal officials in Florida intentionally misled the migrants to believe they would be flown to Boston to receive expedited work papers,” the 44 Democratic lawmakers wrote in a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Opinion_|_GOP_Governors_as_Grotesque_Human Traffickers⠀⇛ Several Republican governors have been rounding up migrants and asylum seekers, families in many cases, most if not all in the country legally as they await immigration proceedings, and shipping them by bus and plane to “liberal” cities like New York, Chicago and Washington, DC. This state- sponsored internal displacement, intended to embarrass the Biden administration and inflame the Republican base, is racist, repugnant, and potentially criminal. # ⚓ The Nation ☛ Trump_and_Putin_Threaten_to_Return_the_World to_the_Age_of_Extremes⠀⇛ # ⚓ The Nation ☛ David_Leonhardt’s_Centrist_Nostalgia_Won’t Save_Democracy⠀⇛ The passage of the Presidential Election Reform Act in the House of Representatives on Wednesday highlighted the curious fact that the only Republicans who are willing to take a stand to protect American democracy are the ones who have no political future in their party. The act is designed to close the constitutional loophole that Donald Trump tried to use on January 6 to allow Congress to override the Electoral College. In theory, it should be a reform that enjoys broad bipartisan support, since a repeat of the attempted insurrection would lead to a constitutional crisis.1 # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Opinion_|_How_the_U.S._Supreme_Court Unleashed_a_Corporate_Criminal_Takeover_of_This_Country⠀⇛ Republicans in the Senate yesterday killed legislation passed through the House that would require “dark money” to be publicly disclosed: not a single Republican voted for it, although every Democrat in attendance did. # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Zero_Republicans_Vote_for_Bill_That_Would_Expose Billionaire_Dark_Money_Donors⠀⇛ # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Koch_Network_Showers_Fascist_Election Deniers_With_Campaign_Cash_Ahead_of_Midterms⠀⇛ Citing OpenSecrets figures, The Guardian reported Friday that Koch Industries—an oil and gas giant controlled by billionaire Charles Koch—”boasts a corporate PAC that has donated $607,000 to the campaigns or leadership PACs of 52 election deniers since January 2021, making Koch’s PAC the top corporate funder of members who opposed the election results.” # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ What_If:_Is_a_New_American_Civil_War_the Only_Possible_Future_Insurrection?⠀⇛ # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Georgia_Officials_Grapple_With_Frivolous Challenges_From_Election_Deniers⠀⇛ # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Will_the_Samarkand_Spirit_Revive_the_Word ‘Mutual’_in_World_Affairs?⠀⇛ As if on cue, eyes rolled in the Western press, which either did not give much weight to the meeting in their media coverage or emphasized the divisions between the countries that attended the meeting. Remarks by China’s President Xi Jinping and India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modiabout their views on the Russian war in Ukraine shaped the headlines of the Western media. Certainly, the countries that attended the Samarkand meeting do not see eye to eye on each of the issues discussed, but they have built trust with each other and are interested in increasing their diplomatic and economic ties, particularly related to trade. # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Hymns_and_Her: _The_Queen’s_Funeral⠀⇛ The cameras caught the new, as yet uncrowned monarch’s eyes moistening with tears, though none were so disloyal as to fall. He was rightly moved by his mother’s death surely, but also by this massed act of his subjects singing of him, by him, for him. # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ What_Happens_When_South_Korea’s Political Tourette’s_Syndrome_Meets_the_US’s_Alzheimer’s?⠀⇛ This terse three sentence statement comes across as the typical say-nothing-boilerplate of US meetings with foreign dignitaries.  That is, until you realize the meeting lasted all of 48 seconds: the description of the meeting takes longer to read out loud than the actual meeting. # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Special_Master_Tells_Trump_Lawyers_to_Explain False_“Planted_Evidence”_Claims⠀⇛ # ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Andres_Auraz:_Biden’s_Peace_for_Afghanistan_Is a_Humanitarian_Disaster⠀⇛ On this week’s “Scheer Intelligence,” former Ecuadorian Central Bank director Andres Auraz discusses the Biden Administration’s economic war against Afghanistan. # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Queen_Elizabeth_II_and_the_Weight_of History⠀⇛ It was significant that Adam Hochschild was not an academic historian, because the mainstream historians continued to produce books that showed how colonialism with royal patronage was progressive for the Global South. This scholarship on the ‘high moral purpose’  of the civilizing mission of Europe was especially robust in the analysis of the relationship between Britain and Africa. The Royal Africa Company from 1672 to 1752 had the monopoly over the slave trade. The RAC shipped more enslaved Africans to the Americas than any other company in the history of the Atlantic slave trade and was owned entirely by the British Crown.  It is this history that ensured that the history of the British monarchy in the past 400 years cannot be separated from the Atlantic slave trade and the impact on humanity. # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Clockwork_Orange:_The_Intimately_Related Impunities_of_Fascist_Floridians_Donald_Trump_and_Ron DeSantis⠀⇛ It Still Walks Free # § Misinformation/Disinformation/Propaganda⠀➾ # ⚓ Dawn Media ☛ Tactics_behind_pro-India_Twitter_drive against_Pak_Army_revealed⠀⇛ A pro-Indian army covert Twitter influence operation, suspended earlier this year by the social network, had been spreading propaganda against the Pakistan Army and attempting to highlight the Indian military’s purported successes in India-held Kashmir, a Stanford University study has shown. # ⚓ uni Stanford ☛ My_Heart_Belongs_to_Kashmir⠀⇛ Twitter is not publicly attributing this network to any actor, and the open source evidence did not allow us to make any independent attribution. In the report, however, we highlight some noteworthy articles in the Indian press. These articles show that Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram have previously temporarily suspended the official accounts for the Chinar Corps. The Chinar Corps is a branch of the Indian army that operates in Kashmir. One article, citing Army officials as its source, says that the Facebook and Instagram accounts were suspended for “coordinated inauthentic behavior.” Our report also notes that the content of the Twitter network is consistent with the Chinar Corps’ objectives, praising the work of the Indian Army in India-occupied Kashmir, and that the official Chinar Corps Twitter account is one of the most mentioned or retweeted account in the network. # ⚓ The Nation ☛ Trump’s_Embrace_of_QAnon_Realizes_the Dream_of_the_Religious_Right⠀⇛ After last Saturday’s Trump rally in Youngstown, Ohio, the figurative notion of “the Trump faithful” has taken on an unmistakable literal meaning. That gathering—meant to gin up enthusiasm for Senate candidate J.D. Vance, the hillbilly- branded plaything of Trump-backing tech billionaire Peter Thiel—became, as all Trump events do, a monologue about Trump’s wounded pride and all-but-randomized quest for political vengeance. But the choreography, tone, and substance of Trump’s appearance told an additional story. The proceedings turned solemn as Trump struck a calculatedly sorrowful vocal cadence, so as to play up the rally’s plaint of white nationalist cultural confrontation, delivered in the apocalyptic key of QAnon. Trump delivered a litany of telltale signs of runaway American decline under the Democratic rule of Washington, from inflation to foreign-policy cock-ups to the tragedy of green energy funding, all to the swelling, kitschy accompaniment of a bona fide QAnon theme song, “WWG1WGA,” titled with the acronym for the movement’s slogan, “Where We Go One, We Go All.” (Trump campaign officials insisted that the lachrymose mood music was actually a different composition called “Mirrors,” but if it is, it somehow has the same melody.) # ⚓ Telex (Hungary) ☛ According_to_a_recent_survey, almost_half_of_Hungarian_internet_users_may_be moderately_pro-Russian⠀⇛ o § Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾ # ⚓ Fortune ☛ Iran_shuts_down_Meta’s_Instagram_and_WhatsApp_to stop_people_from_sharing_videos_of_anti-morality_police demonstrations⠀⇛ Meta’s Instagram and WhatsApp—the two last remaining social media platforms running in the country—were disrupted on multiple [Internet] providers as anger over the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini at the hands of the morality police set off large-scale protests across the country. London-based [Internet] watchdog NetBlocks also reported a “nation-scale loss of connectivity” on Iran’s main mobile telephone provider and another company’s network. # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Resolutions_in_Congress_Seek_to_Condemn_Far Right_Book_Bans_Across_US⠀⇛ # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Offense_by_Another_Name:_Suppressing_Anti- Royal_Protest_in_Britain⠀⇛ In addition to that general power available to the police, the Public Order Act 1986 UK also covers public order offences.  Section 5 enumerates instances where a person is guilty of such offences: where “they use threatening or abusive words or behaviour or disorderly behaviour or disorderly behaviour” or display “any writing, sign or visible representation which is threatening or abusive.” # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Did_The_5th_Circuit_Just_Make_It_So_That Wikipedia_Can_No_Longer_Be_Edited_In_Texas?⠀⇛ I wrote up an initial analysis of the 5th Circuit’s batshit crazy ruling re-instating Texas’s social media content moderation law last week. I have another analysis of it coming out shortly in another publication (I’ll then write about it here). A few days ago, Prof. Eric Goldman did his own analysis as well, which is well worth reading. It breaks out a long list of just flat-out errors made by Judge Andy Oldham. It’s kind of embarrassing. o § Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press⠀➾ # ⚓ Michael Geist ☛ Why_the_Online_News_Act_is_a_Bad_Solution to_a_Real_Problem,_Part_One:_The_Risk_to_Free_Flow_of Information⠀⇛ Since its introduction in early April, the Online News Act (Bill C-18) has flown below the public’s radar screen. There have been a few op-eds and considerable coverage on my blog (I’ve posted here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here and released podcasts on the bill with Sue Gardner and independent digital media publishers Farhan Mohamed and Jeff Elgie) but Canadian Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez has largely been content to rush the bill through the parliamentary process with little debate. In fact, after Rodriguez left the CBC’s Vassy Kapelos visibly puzzled, he has said little about it. He has never given a speech on the bill in the House of Commons and the government successfully cut off debate after allocating just two hours to it. Bill C-18 is now headed to the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage with hearings that could start as soon as the end of this week. # ⚓ Michael Geist ☛ Why_the_Online_News_Act_is_a_Bad_Solution to_a_Real_Problem,_Part_Two:_Encouraging_Clickbait_and_Low Quality_Journalism_With_No_“News_Content”_Standards⠀⇛ The first post in this series on Bill C-18, the Online News Act, focused on the problematic approach to what constitutes “making news content available”, as it encompasses everything from indexing to linking to news stories without reproducing the actual text. The approach raises serious risks to the free flow of information online and expands the law far beyond reasonable expectations of what “use” of news articles might mean. But the problems with expansive definitions in the bill are not limited to the “making available” provision. Bill C-18’s definitions for “news content”, “news business”, and “news outlet” are also exceptionally broad, raising their own series of concerns. # ⚓ Michael Geist ☛ Why_the_Online_News_Act_is_a_Bad_Solution to_a_Real_Problem,_Part_Three:_Unprecedented_Government Intervention_into_a_Sector_Where_Independence_is_Essential⠀⇛ The first two posts in the series on why Bill C-18, the Online News Act, is a bad solution in search of a real problem focused on the risk to the free flow of information stemming from mandatory compensation for linking and how the bill encourages clickbait and other low quality news given the absence of standards in the definition of “news content.” The series continues by highlighting the remarkable extent to which the government and its regulator (the CRTC) intervene in the news sector, an approach that creates significant risks to an independent press. # ⚓ FAIR ☛ US_Media_Held_Murdered_Russian_Journalist_to_a Dangerous_Standard⠀⇛ After the August 20 car-bomb assassination of Darya Dugina, the daughter of a Russian ultranationalist political philosopher, US media outlets quickly branded the 29-year-old as an agent in Russia’s “disinformation war.” Rather than treating her as a member of the civilian press, they seemed to downplay her death as a casualty of war. # ⚓ VOA News ☛ Journalists_Arrested_in_Iran,_Warned_About Protest_Coverage⠀⇛ Iran’s record of media repression and arrests is casting a chill over female journalists who want to report on mass protests. Journalists inside Iran are “afraid of speaking openly,” Kiran Nazish, founding director of the Coalition for Women in Journalism, or CFWIJ, told VOA on Friday. Nearly a dozen journalists — at least three of them women — have been detained over coverage of the protests and the death in custody of Mahsa Amini, 22, who was arrested by Iran’s morality police. Additionally, authorities have cut internet access as protests continue, according to rights groups and an Iranian diaspora news website. # ⚓ Video ☛ Creating_a_Signal_Proxy_To_Bypass_Iranian Censorship_–_Invidious⠀⇛ # ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Shireen_Abu_Akleh_Was_Deliberately_Killed_By an_Israeli_Sniper,_Claims_New_Investigation_Report⠀⇛ Forensic Architecture and Al-Haq issued their findings after findings after a new investigation. Abu Akleh’s family has moved the ICC seeking Israeli accountability for her killing. o § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾ # ⚓ Frontpage Magazine ☛ We_Will_Neither_Forgive_Nor_Forget_the Murder_of_Mahsa_Amini⠀⇛ “The clerical regime’s misogyny takes a toll on Iranian women and girls daily. The brutal beating of #MahsaAmini, a young Kurdish girl, by the so- called “moral police” was outrageous and appalling to every human being.” # ⚓ [Old] NBC ☛ Ex-Minneapolis_police_officer_Mohamed_Noor released_from_prison_in_fatal_shooting_of_Justine_Ruszczyk Damond⠀⇛ A former Minneapolis police officer who fatally shot an unarmed woman who called 911 to report a possible sexual assault in the alley behind her home was released from prison on parole Monday, months after his murder conviction was overturned and he was resentenced on a lesser charge. # ⚓ [Old] Sydney Morning Herald ☛ Police_officer_who_shot_dead Justine_Damond_released_from_prison⠀⇛ Mohamed Noor, 36, was freed 18 days shy of the fifth anniversary of the July 15, 2017, fatal shooting of Damond. The dual US-Australian citizen and yoga teacher was 40 and engaged to be married when she was shot dead. # ⚓ [Old] The Guardian UK ☛ Mohamed_Noor:_ex-officer_who_killed unarmed_woman_freed_on_parole⠀⇛ Damond’s stepmother, Maryan Heffernan, said in a phone interview on Friday that the timing of Noor’s release – so close to the anniversary of Damond’s death – was painful. # ⚓ [Old] TwinCities Pioneer Press ☛ Mohamed_Noor,_ex- Minneapolis_officer_who_killed_911_caller_Justine_Ruszczyk Damond,_to_be_released⠀⇛ The former Minneapolis police officer who fatally shot an unarmed woman who called 911 to report a possible sexual assault in the alley behind her home is scheduled to be released from prison, months after his murder conviction was overturned and he was resentenced on a lesser charge. # ⚓ Firstpost ☛ ‘You_killed_her_for_two_strands_of_hair’:_Mahsa Amini’s_father_stops_mullah_from_performing_her_last_rites⠀⇛ “Your Islam denounced her, now you’ve come to pray over her? Aren’t you ashamed of yourself? You killed her for two strands of hair! … Take your Islam and go,” said Mahsa Amini’s father in a viral video. # ⚓ Barrons ☛ Assault_On_‘Courageous’_Iranian_Women_Is_‘Attack On_Humanity’:_Germany⠀⇛ However the Oslo-based non-government group Iran Human Rights said at least 31 civilians had been killed in a crackdown by the Iranian security forces in six nights of violence. Baerbock said Germany would ask the UN Human Rights Council to address the repression as a violation “of women’s rights and thus human rights.” # ⚓ Saudi Arabia ☛ Taliban_shoot_dead_two_Afghan_women_in search_operation:_Officials⠀⇛ # ⚓ FAIR ☛ Alicia_Bell_and_Collette_Watson_on_Media Reparations⠀⇛ # ⚓ The Nation ☛ These_US_Abortion_Restrictions_Threaten Reproductive_Health_Everywhere⠀⇛ The US Supreme Court’s recent decision overturning Roe v. Wade has sparked debate in the United States about how to protect reproductive freedom. President Biden proposed ending the Senate filibuster rule in order for Congress to pass legislation legalizing abortion rights, and he signed an executive order to “protect access to reproductive healthcare services.” In some states, legislators have enacted new laws that expanded abortion rights. However, what is missing in this debate is similar discourse and concrete actions by Democrats to protect reproductive rights not only in the United States but also in less-developed countries, which are directly affected by Republican attacks on US funding for reproductive health around the world. # ⚓ The Nation ☛ How_American_Exceptionalism_Fueled_Global Authoritarian_Nationalism⠀⇛ Here’s a nightmare scenario: Unable to recruit enough soldiers from the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin takes North Korean leader Kim Jong Un up on his recent offer to send 100,000 North Koreans to join the Russian president’s ill-fated attempt to seize Ukraine. Kim has also promised to send North Korean workers to help rebuild that country’s Donbas region, parts of which Russian forces have destroyed in order to “save” it. Consider this an eerie echo of the fraternal aid that Eastern European Communist states provided Pyongyang in the 1950s after the devastation of the Korean War. # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ California_Is_Dependent_on_Prison_Labor_for Fighting_Fires._This_Must_End.⠀⇛ # ⚓ Telex (Hungary) ☛ Iranian_refugee_wins_lawsuit_against Hungary_–_six_years_after_he_tried_to_seek_asylum_at_the border⠀⇛ # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Opinion_|_This_Constitution_Week_Let’s_Stop Using_Brands_That_Support_Prison_Slavery⠀⇛ Constitution Week commemorates the landmark document that underpins our nation’s government and celebrates the rights afforded to us as citizens. But for me and many others, the day is a cruel reminder that there are hundreds of thousands of people behind bars who are excluded from key rights afforded by the US Constitution, including the protection from slavery or involuntary servitude. To the surprise of many, slavery is still permitted by the 13th Amendment when used as criminal punishment. # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Fifth_Circuit_Grants_Immunity_To_Cop_Who_Decided To_Violently_Arrest_Family_That_Called_To_Report_A_Crime⠀⇛ If you want your rights violated, all you need to do is call a cop. If you want your rights upheld, you’ll probably want your rights to be violated in another federal circuit. # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Federal_Court_Says_Warrantless_Seizure_Of Vehicles_Over_Unpaid_Fees_Violates_The_Constitution⠀⇛ A federal court delivers another blow to tireless enforcers of parking violations, ensuring we will soon be at the mercy of parking scofflaws everywhere. o § Internet Policy/Net Neutrality⠀➾ # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Starlink_Service_Starts_To_Slow_Down_As_Limited Capacity_Rears_Its_Head⠀⇛ We’ve noted a few times that Elon Musk’s Starlink broadband service is great if you have no other options. It’s also great if you’ve spent an eternity stuck on an expensive 3 Mbps DSL line straight out of 2003, or a traditional, capped, expensive satellite broadband connection. Being able to get 100 Mbps in the middle of nowhere is a great thing, assuming you can afford it. o § Monopolies⠀➾ # § Patents⠀➾ # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ ‘Blood_On_Your_Hands’_If_Global_Poor Hit_With_Covid_Wave,_WHO_Official_Tells_Rich_Nations⠀⇛ “The best chance to stop this pandemic is to make vaccines available for everyone, everywhere.” # § Copyrights⠀➾ # ⚓ Site36 ☛ Copyright_infringement:_Radio_Dreyeckland issues_a_warning_to_secret_service⠀⇛ Once again, a domestic secret service has used a photo without asking the rights holders for permission. In the Freiburg case, this also discredits journalism. The interference of the agency in the formation of political will is also critical. # ⚓ Torrent Freak ☛ U.S._Wants_to_Know_How_Online_Piracy Impacts_the_Workforce⠀⇛ The U.S. Trade Representative has started collecting input for its annual list of notorious piracy markets. In 2022, there’s a special focus on the impact of online piracy on US workers. This will likely lead to detailed reports on hundreds of thousands of estimated job losses. But will jobs created by piracy get a mention as well? # ⚓ Torrent Freak ☛ Battle_to_Crush_Iconic_‘Ethical’ Torrent_Site_Ends_After_Four_Long_Years⠀⇛ TNTVillage was once the most popular torrent site in Italy. It had an ethics policy that prevented newly released content from being shared but that stood for nothing when the owner’s home was raided in 2018. Despite the site closing down in 2019, legal action continued for another three years as copyright holders attempted to take down a solitary remaining hyperlink. * § Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾ o § Personal⠀➾ # ⚓ Permeating_The_Nocturnal_Threshold⠀⇛ I no longer possess any doubts as to the importance of confidence. My confidence in my ability to play at the lounge last week was so high, the manner in which I carried myself was so self-assured, that my set was an inevitability. I can now say, proudly, that I played live music at Colfax’s premier dive bar. Of course, I was treated like a second-class citizen, and the rigamarole and headache of the event was hardly worth the fleeting ecstasy. I was escorted by the bouncer into a booth near the front, carrying my keyboard, my reliable foldable table, and a purse with assorted equipment, including the power supply and my harmonica. He told me I wouldn’t need to be X’ed, but that I would need to leave immediately after I played. # ⚓ Jazzmaster_–_Rewiring⠀⇛ Finally, after five months, I got around to actually rewiring the thing. I had all the pieces and tools, but ended up putting it off again and again. Without a proper place to do this kind of work in our apartment, the only time I could actually work on something messy and dangerous like this is at night time. It got hot and sticky, and the idea of soldering became less appealing—especially because our full days had really been wiping me out at night. A few weeks ago I had a few days alone to do final preparation for the classes I started teaching at the beginning of this month. It seemed like a good time to get this rewiring taken care of, so that’s what I did. AND IT TOOK FOREVER! I hadn’t soldered since I was a kid, and I never really did any serious soldering, so I was basically starting at square one. I think the whole thing took like 6 to 8 hours. # ⚓ Planned_vs_evolved_behavior⠀⇛ Imagine you have a roommate who one day leaves the fil out on the counter (where it can go bad) instead of putting it back in the fridge (where it can last longer). You notice, and you put it back, saving the day. This goes on for a while, keeps happening. Is this deliberately planned strategy from the roommate? Did she one day go “Heh heh… I know! If Melissa sees the fil on the counter, she’ll put it back in for me, and I’ll do less work!” or did her behavior just sorta… evolve? She might feel bad about it or even be completely oblivious about it. Her brain never got into the habit of reminding her to put the fil back in. # ⚓ A_Second_Brain⠀⇛ I’ve been reading and learning about Building A Second Brain (BASB) after coming across the Zettelkasten note-making method. o § Politics⠀➾ # ⚓ Re:_A_rant_about_politics⠀⇛ Politics arise when a group bigger than a single person needs to make a decision of what to do or how to handle a specific situation or type of situations. [...] I want you to know right now that it’s fine to hate dealing with that stuff, to want to stay out of it, to want to be all “I’ll be in my room, let me know when you’re done”. 100% legit. It’s like on a boat: you have some people wanting to go one way and other people wanting to go the other and if you feel like you just wanna stay out of that conversation, because you don’t care about where we go, that’s fine. There’s this “participation hype” in politics that I don’t get behind. Not everyone needs to be into politics. If you do care about where we end up, but you don’t wanna deal with the people already quibbling about it so you just hunker down, then we as a society has a problem. People are not getting represented or heard. So it’s fine to want to stay out of politics, healthy even, but, the group as a whole does need politics. That’s why a rant against politics doesn’t make sense. There’s a lot of problems with how politics (and economics) are currently being conducted, and we’ll get to that, but we can’t live completely free from politics.Being adrift on a boat without steering is fun and all but there are waterfalls and malströms that we don’t want to fall over. Climate change being the big one. o § Technical⠀➾ # ⚓ The_Humanity_Recorder⠀⇛ The Audio Recorder allowed us to record audio any place in the world. We could rewind, play, speed up, slow down, pick out details that we could never otherwise hear. It was transformational. The Video Recorder allowed us to record video any place in the world. We could rewind, play, pause, watch in slow motion, freeze frame, see details and nuance that we could never otherwise observe. It was transformational. The Humanity Recorder is built from data-centres all over the world and allows us to record humanity in all places around the world. It’s turning out to be transformational. Anyone who’s ever worked with large datasets will know how fascinating it is. Even a million records of ostensibly dull company accounts is fascinating. It’s compelling and slightly addictive. # ⚓ Jazzmaster_–_Pickguard_Replacement_&_Re-shielding⠀⇛ Some time early in college I started playing acoustic instruments almost exclusively. It was just simpler that way. It’s easier to practice and perform if you have simpler needs. Rather than trying to organize a “show” and haul gear around, we took to just busking and playing in outdoor public spaces. I also began wandering the planet at that age. A little ukulele or short scale acoustic guitar makes a much better travel companion than an electric + amp + pedals etc. Anyway, in the summer of 2018 we went to the Pentaport Rock Festival in Incheon. It was the first time I had been to a rock show in years, and I fell in love with electric guitars all over again. I had forgotten what it felt like to plug in and wail, and I wanted back in! Eventually I got my hands on a used Jazzmaster and have been in love ever since. I’d like to talk about this guitar tonight after having done a little work on it this evening. # § Programming⠀➾ # ⚓ How_too_many_cooks_spoiled_the_C++_broth⠀⇛ One of the paradoxes of C++ is that it’s stood the test of time, yet everyone’s trying to change it. It’s heavily used in game development, the financial industry, high performance computing, embedded computing and pretty much any space where performance is mission critical, but correctness is still desired. C++ went through a renaissance with C++11, a huge jump from C++98 and switched to a more rapid development pace. However, those who have not kept up with C++’s development over the years may be surprised at how turmulous the evolution of the language has actually been. =============================================================================== * Gemini_(Primer) links can be opened using Gemini_software. It’s like the World Wide Web but a lot lighter. ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 3547 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐃𝐀𝐈𝐋𝐘 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒 ═════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 09.24.22⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Links_24/09/2022:_pgAdmin_4_v6.14_and_ONLYOFFICE_7.2_Released⠀✐ Posted in News_Roundup at 7:22 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇GNOME bluefish⦈ § Contents⠀➾ * GNU/Linux o Audiocasts/Shows o Applications o Instructionals/Technical o Desktop_Environments/WMs # GNOME_Desktop/GTK * Distributions_and_Operating_Systems o PCLinuxOS/Mageia/Mandriva/OpenMandriva_Family o Fedora_Family_/_IBM o Debian_Family o Devices/Embedded o Mobile_Systems/Mobile_Applications * Free,_Libre,_and_Open_Source_Software o SaaS/Back_End/Databases o Productivity_Software/LibreOffice/Calligra o Web_Frameworks * Leftovers o Security o Finance * Gemini*_and_Gopher o Personal o Technical * § GNU/Linux⠀➾ o ⚓ DebugPoint ☛ DebugPoint_Weekly_Roundup_#22.06:_NVIDIA_Open Sources_CV-CUDA,_Rust-Based_FreeBSD_Kernel_and_More⠀⇛ Welcome to the DebugPoint Weekly roundup #22.06, where you can find all the happenings from this week, mainly from the Linux and open-source space. It’s been an eventful week where many app updates arrive, whereas some significant releases from Distros and desktops. Here’s what happened this week. o § Audiocasts/Shows⠀➾ # ⚓ DragonFly BSD Digest ☛ BSD_Now_472:_Consistent_Exit_Code_– DragonFly_BSD_Digest⠀⇛ This week’s BSD Now is the normal roundup of stories. I won’t point you at anything specific; it’s all good. # ⚓ Video ☛ CPU_X:_The_Greatest_CPU_Z_Clone_For_Linux_– Invidious⠀⇛ One of the tools I missed the most when moving from Windows to Linux is CPU Z but it turns out that there was actually a clone of it for linux called CPU X and it works quite well. # ⚓ Video ☛ WTH_YouTube?_|_Queen_Wiciwici_may_be_after_me again!_–_Invidious⠀⇛ So, today I received an email about a second community strike, but no action appears to have been taken. Am I being hunted by the dogs? Is my time almost up? I am not sure. As of now, I do not have any notice on the channel itself, but just an email so I thought I would get this message out. If I disappear from the YT kingdom, I will be covertly releasing videos here… # ⚓ Full_Circle_Magazine:_Full_Circle_Weekly_News_#280⠀⇛ Continuation of GNOME Shell development for mobile devices: https://blogs.gnome.org/shell-dev/2022/09/09/gnome- shell-on-mobile-an-update/ Performance and Retbleed: https://lkml.org/lkml/2022/9/9/617 Release of GNU Emacs 28.2: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/ 2022-09/msg00730.html Cross-platform Ladybird web-browser: https://awesomekling.github.io/Ladybird-a-new- cross-platform-browser-project/ WD is developing a NVMe driver in Rust: At the #LinuxPlumbers Rust MC: "I'm Matthew Wilcox, I'm one of the authors of the NVMe spec, I'm the one who suggested you make an NVMe driver to demonstrate the value of Rust. You have succeeded beyond my wildest expectations. These performance numbers are phenomenal." — Josh Triplett (@josh_triplett) September_12,_2022 Fedora Linux 37 has moved to beta testing: https://fedoramagazine.org/announcing-fedora-37-beta/ SME Server 10.1 is available: https://forums.koozali.org/index.php/topic,54884.0.html Ubuntu has implemented the ability to dynamically obtain debugging information: https://www.mail-archive.com/ubuntu-devel-announce@lists.ubuntu.com/ msg01081.html Release of EndeavourOS 22.9: https://endeavouros.com/news/artemis-nova-is-here/ Vulnerability in the Enlightenment user environment: https://www.enlightenment.org/news/2022-09-15-enlightenment-0.25.4 KDE Plasma 5.26 desktop testing for TV use: https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/5/5.25.90/ Ubuntu 22.10 intends to provide support for RISC-V Sipeed Lichee RV: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/1989595 Release of WebKitGTK 2.38.0 Epiphany 43: https://webkitgtk.org/2022/09/16/webkitgtk2.38.0-released.html Floorp web browser 10.5.0: https://blog.ablaze.one/2425/2022-09-17/ § Applications⠀➾ * ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ How_to_Take_Notes_in_the_Linux_Terminal_With_tnote⠀⇛ Most people don’t need fancy apps to jot down their ideas. If you’re one of them, consider installing tnote, a CLI-based note-taking app for Linux. You probably fire up a text editor every time you need to save an idea, a code snippet, or a URL. But you don’t always need to use a text editor to store tidbits. If you indulge with the Linux terminal a lot, you should look into integrating a terminal-based note-taking application into your workflow. Let’s learn how you can take notes in the Linux terminal. § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾ * ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_Foxit_PDF_Reader_on_Manjaro_21_Linux⠀⇛ Foxit PDF Reader is a multilingual freemium tool that can create, view, edit, digitally sign, and print PDF files. Fuzhou, the China-based Foxit Software, develops Foxit Reader. Early versions of Foxit Reader were notable for startup performance and small file size. The current version supports more than 20 languages and allows users to annotate PDF documents with notes and create bookmarks from the Table of Contents. Users can also save customized Toolbars, add stamps and watermarks, attach files, highlight text fragments and use other tools to manipulate PDF documents. Some other notable additions to Foxit Reader are that it supports password-protected PDFs and digital signatures and offers enterprise users deployment capabilities through Active Directory or Group Policy. With these features, network administrators can centrally manage the installation of Foxit Reader on their organization’s computers. The following tutorial will teach you how to install Foxit on Manjaro 21 Linux. The tutorial will use the command line terminal with yay AUR helper. Ideally, most users may be using some wrapper for Pacman; for new users, it is essential to install one to keep your packages up-to-date while you learn Arch/Manjaro. * ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ How_to_Install_CodeCombat_on_Ubuntu⠀⇛ For any gamer who wants to learn to program, CodeCombat is a great coding gaming to learn it by playing games. The CodeCombat is a dungeon-delving-type coding game that helps young kids to learn how to code by playing games. You control the movement of the players by writing code in various languages, including Python and JavaScript. CodeCombat is available online without needing to install it. But for someone who loves getting their grip on things, installing the game on your Ubuntu is a good idea. There are various steps to get CodeCombat up and running and this guide covers it. * ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ Disable_Unnecessary_Services_in_Debian_Linux⠀⇛ “By disabling unused services, you can increase your system performance and decrease vulnerability risks. This tutorial explains how to disable services in Debian-based Linux distributions, including Ubuntu. This article is optimized for both users looking for practical instructions for fast implementation and users looking for a deep understanding of services management. Learning how to disable and manage services is mandatory for all Linux users, independently of their current knowledge level. * ⚓ Network World ☛ Using_the_Linux_apropos_command_–_even_if_you_have_to fix_it_first⠀⇛ The apropos command can help you find commands or discover some you don’t yet know, but if you get the response “nothing appropriate”, it might need some help. * ⚓ Network World ☛ Using_‘break’_and_‘continue’_to_exit_loops_in_bash⠀⇛ As nice as looping in Linux scripts can be, you might just want to interrupt it sometimes, and the break and continue commands can do this. * ⚓ HowTo Geek ☛ What’s_the_Difference_Between_.bashrc_and_.profile_on Linux?⠀⇛ Logging onto a Linux machine running Bash causes certain files to be read. They configure your shell environment. But which files are read, and when, can be confusing. Here’s what really happens. * ⚓ SFTP_Secure_file_upload_and_download_using_the_put_and_get_commands_in the_Linux_Terminal ⠀⇛ To begin, open your terminal and create a new text file named test_file.txt on your Desktop. We will use this file to upload (put) and download (get)… * ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_To_Install_Java_on_Fedora_36_–_idroot⠀⇛ In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Java on Fedora 36. For those of you who didn’t know, Java is a general- purpose, class-based, object-oriented multipurpose programming language that is popular due to the design having lesser implementation dependencies. It is used for developing a wide range of applications across a plethora of different platforms. This article assumes you have at least basic knowledge of Linux, know how to use the shell, and most importantly, you host your site on your own VPS. The installation is quite simple and assumes you are running in the root account, if not you may need to add ‘sudo‘ to the commands to get root privileges. I will show you the step-by-step installation of the Java programming language on a Fedora 36. * ⚓ How_to_fix_Suspend/Resume_failures_with_NVMe_drives_on_Linux_(Ubuntu_as an_example)?⠀⇛ I finally made suspend feature work on my Linux laptop with NVME SSD after it gave me a headache the past few days. So how can you do that too? Suspend failures are not specific to a particular distribution but occur across all Linux distributions, as long as you use an NVME SSD. What we’re going to do here is more of a workaround than a fix. To fix the broken suspend and system freeze after the laptop resumes, you should add The IOMMU=soft kernel parameter to your Grub configuration file. * ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_To_Install_Peek_on_Ubuntu_22.04_LTS_–_idroot⠀⇛ In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Peek on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. For those of you who didn’t know, Peek is a software used for screen recording and for creating GIFs in Ubuntu. It is optimized for generating animated GIFs, but you can also directly record to WebM or MP4 if you prefer. This article assumes you have at least basic knowledge of Linux, know how to use the shell, and most importantly, you host your site on your own VPS. The installation is quite simple and assumes you are running in the root account, if not you may need to add ‘sudo‘ to the commands to get root privileges. I will show you the step-by-step installation of the Peek animated Gif screen recorder on Ubuntu 22.04 (Jammy Jellyfish). You can follow the same instructions for Ubuntu 22.04 and any other Debian-based distribution like Linux Mint, Elementary OS, Pop!_OS, and more as well. * ⚓ AddictiveTips ☛ How_to_benchmark_your_disks_on_Linux⠀⇛ Need to test the read and write speed of your hard drives or SSDs on Linux? With Kdiskmark, you can! In this guide, we’ll show you how to use Kdiskmark to measure the speeds of your drives. * ⚓ Linux Handbook ☛ Find_Files_by_Name_in_Linux_[5_Frequent_Use_Cases]⠀⇛ Most often, you are looking for a file on Linux and you do not exactly know its true location on the system disk. There are multiple ways to find files in the Linux command line. Most common and most reliable way is to use the find command. The find command is extremely versatile and has way too many usages but here I’ll focus on finding files by their name. * ⚓ DebugPoint ☛ How_to_Install_Fedora_Linux_in_Oracle_VirtualBox⠀⇛ I will show you in this guide how easy it is to install Fedora Linux (all the latest versions) in Oracle’s VirtualBox. VirtualBox is a popular virtual machine application that helps you try out different operating systems (such as Linux and Windows) without physically installing them into your hardware. This tutorial primarily focuses on how you can install Fedora Linux in Oracle VirtualBox. * ⚓ H2S Media ☛ Commands_to_install_FreeOffice_on_Debian_11_Bullseye⠀⇛ Get the easy steps to install the FreeOffice suite on Debian 11 Bullseye Linux for managing your documents, presentations, and spreadsheets. Using FreeOffice Microsoft documents can usually be opened, edited, and saved under FreeOffice without loss of formatting. Also visually oriented the software is stronger which won’t let you feel that you are using some free office version. This allows you to use a modern ribbon menu, as you are used to from MS Word. FreeOffice also includes a classic menu including Light and Dark Mode. In addition, there is a touchscreen mode, which significantly improves finger operation. * ⚓ H2S Media ☛ 3_ways_to_Install_NetBeans_IDE_on_Ubuntu_22.04_or_20.04 LTS⠀⇛ Learn the steps to install NetBeans IDE on Ubuntu 22.04 Jammy JellyFish or Ubuntu 20.04 Focal Fossa LTS using the command terminal. Apache NetBeans is an open-source IDE to create Java applications and programs. It is a modular IDE that can extend its features with help of plugins. The name NetBeans usually refers to the development environment, the NetBeans IDE. However, it initially refers to a framework for the simplified programming of Java applications that use Swing widgets. This also includes the development environment. As a Java program, the NetBeans IDE can be used on all platforms for which a compatible java virtual machine (JVM) is available. The functionality can be flexibly expanded thanks to end-to-end modularization. Several different packages allow the direct installation of the NetBeans IDE with suitable plug-ins for different applications. For example, the modules can be used to retrofit support for other programming languages, integrate them into existing version control systems, and expand the development environment as desired. * ⚓ How_to_two-boot_Linux_and_Windows_11_–_How_to_boot_the_dual_boot_system –_Game_News_24⠀⇛ The first step toward Linux is scary. We have lots of terminal applications, applications and environments to learn. Thankfully Linux has improved in recent years (from the earliest text-based installs used in the late 1990s to the earliest graphical versions (Debian and Slackware), to the early 2000s (Corel Linux, Mandrake). Since the ’90s, our graph installers improved as they tested Linux. The first steps to Linux are divided into two paths. One computer such as the Raspberry Pi is a board. Or more traditionally a dual boot setup, where Windows and Linux are usually on the same machine, most often on the same boot drive. By adding a custom boot menu, GRUB, you can use the two operating systems to switch between the two of us when we power our PC. We’ll learn how to double boot Linux with Windows, using Ubuntu and Windows 11. The steps are identical with Windows 10 or with Windows 10. * ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_Rust_on_Rocky_Linux_9⠀⇛ Rust is a systems programming language focused on speed, memory safety, and parallelism. Rust is syntactically similar to C++ but can guarantee memory safety by using a borrow checker for validating references. Rust is backed by a large and friendly community of developers committed to improving the language. The Mozilla Foundation supports the Rust team, which ensures that the language remains free and open source. Rust is used in various software applications, such as game engines, operating systems, file systems, browser components, and simulation engines for virtual reality. Thanks to its focus on safety and performance, Rust has quickly become a popular choice among developers for many projects. For some history of Rust programming language’s background, it was initially designed by Graydon Hoare at Mozilla Research. The language was launched in 2010, and its stability and GPU support makes it a popular choice for developers looking to create high-performance applications. Rust is used in various applications, such as game engines, operating systems, file systems, browser components, and simulation engines for virtual reality. In 2016, Rust was voted the “most loved programming language” in the Stack Overflow Developer Survey. For users, especially developers wanting to try out Rust Programming language, you will know how to install Rust on Rocky Linux 9; the tutorial will teach you how to install the latest version with the official bash script. * ⚓ Barry Kauler ☛ Firefox_running_in_container_as_user_spot⠀⇛ That is annoying, as “crippled root” is very secure. § Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾ * § GNOME Desktop/GTK⠀➾ o ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ 10_Reasons_You_Should_Be_Using_the_GNOME_Tweaks Tool_on_Ubuntu_22.04_LTS⠀⇛ GNOME Tweaks is the go-to application to customize Ubuntu’s desktop. Here are the many ways you can personalize your system using GNOME Tweaks. Linux is known for being customizable, and the Ubuntu desktop is no exception. But that doesn’t mean you can adjust everything you want out of the box. That requires the installation of additional software. Fortunately, GNOME Tweaks is a free, one-stop shop for making many of the, well, tweaks you wish to make. Here’s a look at the ways you can use it to configure much of your Ubuntu experience. § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾ * § PCLinuxOS/Mageia/Mandriva/OpenMandriva Family⠀➾ o ⚓ OpenMandriva News ☛ [OpenMandriva]_Need_ROME_users_for_package testing⠀⇛ ROME is the rolling release published by the OpenMandriva Association. ROME is designed for individual users and will have more up to date software. Codename ROME. We need people that use ROME for package testing and for voting to move packages from rolling/testing repos to rolling/release repos. * § Fedora Family / IBM⠀➾ o ⚓ NeuroFedora ☛ The_NeuroFedora_Blog:_Next_Open_NeuroFedora meeting:_26_September_1300_UTC⠀⇛ Please join us at the next regular Open NeuroFedora team meeting on Monday 26 September at 1300 UTC. o ⚓ Help Net Security ☛ Moshe_Bar_joins_AlmaLinux_Board_of_Directors –_Help_Net_Security⠀⇛ Codenotary CEO and chairman, Moshe Bar was elected to the board of the AlmaLinux OS Foundation, which stewards the community owned and governed open source CentOS replacement. Codenotary is a gold sponsor of AlmaLinux and uses the distribution extensively throughout hundreds of cloud instances. AlmaLinux is a free and open source Linux distribution, created originally by CloudLinux to provide a community- supported, production-grade enterprise operating system that is binary-compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). * § Debian Family⠀➾ o ⚓ Diziet ☛ Ian_Jackson:_Please_vote_in_favour_of_the_Debian_Social Contract_change⠀⇛ : Please vote in favour of the Debian Social Contract change, by ranking all of its options above None of the Above. Rank the SC change options above corresponding options that do not change the Social Contract. Vote to change the SC even if you think the change is not necessary for Debian to prominently/officially provide an installer with-nonfree-firmware. * § Devices/Embedded⠀➾ o ⚓ CNX Software ☛ Orange_Pi_800_Keyboard_PC_–_A_Raspberry_Pi_400 alternative_powered_by_Rockchip_RK3399⠀⇛ There’s now a Raspberry Pi 400 alternative with the Orange Pi 800 Keyboard PC that offers a very similar design, but it is powered by a Rockchip RK3399 hexa-core Cortex-A72/A53 processor. Like the Raspberry Pi model, the Orange Pi 800 comes with 4GB RAM, Gigabit Ethernet, dual-band WiFi 5 and Bluetooth 5.0, two USB 3.0 ports, and one USB 2.0 port, but it also adds 64GB on-board flash storage and features one full- size HDMI port capable of 4Kp60 resolution plus a VGA port, instead of two micro HDMI ports. o ⚓ NetBSD ☛ The_Geeks_way_of_checking_what_the_outside_wheather_is like⠀⇛ When I bought my house in 2004 I went shopping for a outside thermometer – and ended up with a full weather- station instead (a WS2300). When I unpacked it I found a serial cable inside… Long story short – I was still in the process of recabling the house (running ethernet to every room) and added a serial cable from the machine room to the WS2300, and then did some pkgsrc work and got misc/open2300 and misc/open2300-mysql. I used those to log the data from the weather-station to a mysql database, and later moved that (via misc/open2300-pgsql) to a postgres database. Now sometime this year the machine running that database had to be replaced (should have done that earlier, it was power hungry and wasteful). The replacement was an aarch64 SoC (a Pine64 Quartz64 model A) – and it had no real com ports (of course) any more. I had experimented with USB serial adapters and the WS2300 before, but for unclear reasons this time I had no luck and couldn’t get it to work. Since some of the outdoor sensors of the old weather-station had started failing, I decided to replace it. o ⚓ peppe8o ☛ Raspberry_PI_Pico_Battery_Checker⠀⇛ Checking old batteries to verify if you can still use them is a good practice to help nature and avoid trashing materials that strongly affect pollution. With Raspberry PI Pico you can check battery status and become aware if they can still work This tutorial will show you how to create a Raspberry PI Pico-based battery checker and test the charge status. It also makes use of an OLED display to show the measurement results. * § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾ o ⚓ 9to5Google ☛ Google_Lens_for_Android_getting_shortcut_to_launch Image_Search⠀⇛ o ⚓ This_New_Android_Trojan_Subscriber_Received_Nearly_5_Million Downloads_/_Digital_Information_World⠀⇛ o ⚓ What_Is_USB_OTG?_5_best_ways_to_use_It_on_Android_devices⠀⇛ o ⚓ Android_File_Transfer_Not_Working?_Try_These_Fixes⠀⇛ o ⚓ Android_PSVita_Emulator_Vita3K_launches_its_first_game_–_Droid Gamers⠀⇛ o ⚓ How_to_find_out_forgotten_Wi-Fi_password_on_an_Android_phone⠀⇛ o ⚓ Android Police ☛ How_to_find_and_retrieve_deleted_text_messages on_Android⠀⇛ o ⚓ CNET ☛ iPhone’s_Always-On_Display_Is_Worse_Than_Android’s,_but This_Trick_Helps_a_Lot_–_CNET⠀⇛ o ⚓ Android Police ☛ The_best_Android_phones_for_gaming_in_2022⠀⇛ o ⚓ Android Police ☛ Best_upcoming_Android_games_launching_in_2022⠀⇛ o ⚓ LifeSavvy Media ☛ 8_Tips_and_Tricks_for_Android_13_–_Review Geek⠀⇛ o ⚓ Android Authority ☛ 5_Android_apps_you_shouldn’t_miss_this_week_– Android_Apps_Weekly⠀⇛ o ⚓ Android Police ☛ The_Android_Police_podcast_is_always_on_about always-on_displays⠀⇛ o ⚓ 9to5Google ☛ Android_Auto_Coolwalk_will_have_a_dual-page_music widget⠀⇛ § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾ * ⚓ Medevel ☛ OfficeLife_is_a_Free_All-in-one_software_to_manage_the employee_lifecycle⠀⇛ OffliceLife is a free open-source project that is released under the BSD 3-Clause License. However, the GitHub default license is set to AGPL-3.0 which may seem as a license conflict. * § SaaS/Back End/Databases⠀➾ o ⚓ PostgreSQL ☛ PostgreSQL:_pgAdmin_4_v6.14_Released⠀⇛ The pgAdmin Development Team is pleased to announce pgAdmin 4 version 6.14. This release of pgAdmin 4 includes 23 bug fixes and new features. For more details please see the release notes. pgAdmin is the leading Open Source graphical management tool for PostgreSQL. For more information, please see the website. * § Productivity Software/LibreOffice/Calligra⠀➾ o ⚓ Linuxiac ☛ ONLYOFFICE_7.2_Is_Out_with_UI_Changes_and_New Functionalities⠀⇛  ONLYOFFICE is a free cross-platform business-class productivity platform designed for internal team collaboration. It is unique because it includes document, spreadsheet, and presentation editors in a single desktop app. This open-source MS Office alternative works with the most popular file formats, including DOCX, ODT, XLSX, ODS, CSV, PPTX, and ODP, and is free to use on Linux, Windows, and macOS platforms. Furthermore, one of ONLYOFFICE’s advantages is that it can be integrated with popular file sync and share applications like Nextcloud or Seafile. * § Web Frameworks⠀➾ o ⚓ Linux Links ☛ 6_Top_Free_and_Open_Source_Swift_Web_Frameworks⠀⇛  Swift is a powerful and intuitive general-purpose programming language for the OS X, iOS, watchOS, and Linux operating systems. It’s friendly to new programmers, feels familiar to Objective-C developers, and the language is optimized for development. Here’s our verdict on the best Swift web frameworks. We only recommend free and open source software here. § Leftovers⠀➾ * § Security⠀➾ o ⚓ Critical_Magento_bug_used_in_fresh_round_of_attacks⠀⇛ Improper input validation vulnerability has a CVSS score of 9.8 out of 10 o ⚓ Computer Weekly ☛ ALPHV/BlackCat_ransomware_family_becoming_more dangerous⠀⇛ The developer or developers behind the ransomware-as-a- service (RaaS) family known variously as ALPHV, BlackCat and Noberus, have been hard at work refining their tactics, techniques and procedures (TTPs) and today are probably more dangerous than ever before, according to intelligence from Symantec. o ⚓ TechTarget ☛ 15-year-old_Python_vulnerability_poses_supply_chain threat [Ed: Misleading: not many projects are affected by this as they don't collect and process random compressed files from hostile sources]⠀⇛ Trellix researchers issued a call for help to patch a vulnerable software module, which was found in more than 300,000 open source GitHub repositories. o ⚓ TechTarget ☛ IT_pros_pan_government_software_supply_chain security_advice⠀⇛ As the prospect of federally mandated SBOM drives up usage of the software supply chain security tech, the government’s documentation so far adds to risky confusion, experts say. o ⚓ Security Week ☛ New_’Wolfi’_Linux_Distro_Focuses_on_Software Supply_Chain_Security_|_SecurityWeek.Com⠀⇛ Chainguard this week announced Wolfi, a stripped-down Linux OS distribution designed to improve the security of the software supply chain. Available on GitHub, the community Linux distribution was created specifically for use with containers and cloud- native applications, and supports Chainguard images, the firm’s collection of curated distroless images. Wolfi (named after star-sucker pygmy octopus, the smallest known octopus), relies on the environment’s kernel (instead of having its own) to be widely adaptable, and brings support for both glibc and musl. According to the software supply chain security firm, Wolfi delivers build-time software bills of material (SBOM) for all packages, has a declarative and reproducible build system, and uses the apk package format. With Wolfi, packages are granular and independent, offering support for minimal images. o ⚓ Vice ☛ Sony_Reintroduced_a_PS4_Bug_on_PS5_Which_Could_Have_Led_to a_Jailbreak [Ed: GNU/Linux on PS5?]⠀⇛ Hackers could have jailbroken the PlayStation 5 thanks to a bug that was already discovered and patched on the PlayStation 4 in 2021, but then reappeared on the new console. o ⚓ Scoop News Group ☛ Researchers_unearth_hacking_group_that’s_been active,_yet_undetected_for_years_–_CyberScoop⠀⇛ During a recent investigation of a series of cyber intrusions into an unnamed high-value target, threat intelligence researchers with SentinelOne’s SentinelLabs team discovered nearly 10 hacking groups associated with China and Iran. This isn’t necessarily new when dealing with significant targets, sometimes referred to as a “magnet of threats” in cybersecurity, as they attract and host multiple hacking efforts simultaneously. But among the cohabitating groups, researchers unearthed a previously unknown group that seems to be operating in alignment with nation-state interests and perhaps as part of a high-end contractor arrangement. * § Finance⠀➾ o ⚓ Vox ☛ The_Fed_raised_interest_rates_again._What_does_that_mean for_the_economy_and_inflation?_–_Vox⠀⇛ The Federal Reserve raised interest rates again on Wednesday. Here’s what that could mean. The Federal Reserve raised interest rates by three- quarters of a percentage point on Wednesday in an attempt to bring the highest inflation in 40 years under control. It was the fifth time the Fed has lifted rates since March, and another unusually large increase for the central bank. Inflation has recently started to slow: In August, prices rose 8.3 percent compared to a year ago, down slightly from July’s 8.5 percent, according to a Consumer Price Index report released last week. Still, higher prices have made it harder for Americans to afford basic essentials like food and housing. When the Fed raises interest rates, the central bank is ultimately hoping to stabilize rapidly rising prices. The effect of this can ripple throughout the economy. Raising interest rates essentially makes borrowing money more expensive. By doing so, the Fed is effectively trying to slow the economy and consumer demand for goods and services. The hope is that eventually, prices will stop growing so quickly if demand falls. § Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾ * § Personal⠀➾ o ⚓ AYIPRTD_Wordo:_KABAB⠀⇛ o ⚓ Wear⠀⇛ In 2019, my wife and I visited Walt Disney World in Florida. While I’ve never been particularly interested in graphic tees or Mickey Mouse ears, we still bought a lot of souvenirs there, including a plain white baseball- style cap with a blue “D” embroidered on the front. I love the hat, and I enjoy wearing it when I’m outdoors, but the snow-white fabric stains very easily. That doesn’t always sit well with me. I’m the type of person who likes when the things I own are either pristine or well-worn, but I have a hard time getting from one point to the other. o ⚓ A_Favourite_Youtube_Channel:_Nuke’s_Top_5⠀⇛ I love ghost videos. I think that’s why I love the Paranormal Activity series of movies so much. I used to scour for videos on Youtube back in the day to find ‘real’ evidence of ghosts or watch shows like Ghosthunter religiously. It had been a while since I delved back into that world, and when I was introduced to Nuke’s Top 5 through another unrelated Youtube channel, I was instantly hooked. There is a massive back catalogue and every video is like 30+ minutes. It’s incredibly edited and the ‘evidence’ is always top-notch. I also really like how he showcases videos from people and channels from across the world and give full credit to every source he can. * § Technical⠀➾ o ⚓ My_NixOS_workflow_after_migrating_from_OpenBSD⠀⇛ After successfully switching my small computer fleet to NixOS, I’d like to share about the journey. =============================================================================== * Gemini_(Primer) links can be opened using Gemini_software. It’s like the World Wide Web but a lot lighter. ╘══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╛ ¶ Lines in total: 4590 ➮ Generation completed at 02:43, i.e. 16 seconds to (re)generate ⟲