𝕿𝖊𝖈𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍𝖙𝖘 Bulletin for Saturday, October 08, 2022 ┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅ Generated Sun 9 Oct 02:42:52 BST 2022 Created by Dr. Roy Schestowitz (𝚛𝚘𝚢 (at) 𝚜𝚌𝚑𝚎𝚜𝚝𝚘𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚣 (dot) 𝚌𝚘𝚖) Full hyperlinks for navigation omitted but are fully available in the originals The corresponding HTML versions are at 𝒕𝒆𝒄𝒉𝒓𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒔.𝒐𝒓𝒈 Latest in 𝒉𝒕𝒕𝒑://𝒕𝒆𝒄𝒉𝒓𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒔.𝒐𝒓𝒈/𝒕𝒙𝒕 and older bulletins can be found at 𝒉𝒕𝒕𝒑://𝒕𝒆𝒄𝒉𝒓𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒔.𝒐𝒓𝒈/𝒕𝒙𝒕-𝒂𝒓𝒄𝒉𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒔 Full IPFS index in 𝒉𝒕𝒕𝒑://𝒕𝒆𝒄𝒉𝒓𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒔.𝒐𝒓𝒈/𝒊𝒑𝒇𝒔 and as plain text in 𝒉𝒕𝒕𝒑://𝒕𝒆𝒄𝒉𝒓𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒔.𝒐𝒓𝒈/𝒊𝒑𝒇𝒔/𝒕𝒙𝒕 Gemini index for the day: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2022/10/08/ ╒═══════════════════ 𝐑𝐄𝐂𝐄𝐍𝐓 𝐁𝐔𝐋𝐋𝐄𝐓𝐈𝐍𝐒 ════════════════════════════════════╕ Previous bulletins in IPFS (past 21 days, in chronological order): QmQCpGVvMV5EduUzKqAToqKEmsDN4YWubH4KwPsA11BkFL Qmac6ycg4HgCXK32zmYm12JDmDQfL8BtJPF89Q129UbkCn QmTscUZbUfSgcCFNAKKV4rEvAsHABZ2Ct9K7RCSGGzRRDT QmcB3PmzUDz4gMMbVfzAbgcnKwRGZjhaY7foe2B7ox9dZW QmPRWZzVkej6AaPT8ApKxMdBRNbW94Cun6NRXmgn86A4C6 Qmey3FmUxZfMChKk9iWk1mHUB4Ymv2HgjzsQvr46EWDcdK QmesUFpQsQz19kHzMA7tU1y4kQBAYsznybzsWwLBxiEGvf QmUNJbX6AjW7qRrRLEqvkvgYaXD8vF7JZ7MVUdUWWqFEWb QmaxL9evVXo6gdQbWEnxs6y6kbCqGpRDiMGpi9NzXpjWN6 QmWVv1HPWfKNdq4B1hsdKRUksjQbdu793jr8mx3togTQqd QmPKM7UPv2eUYm1VWHrWhpB7k57bm5wSRaYyKhQ6Ck6Pfj QmenFrYXbGBu2iTqkM1ZVF7uotUuiMKBWQgMwjKRxvNmog QmYa74Gwhe1CXD1aRApxCZPiNvwqHtoaRNRJYUXXzTAzcC QmR2u26QZwYsd8Gmx2PtKEkxWiRY7DBNoBnQ9eCG6wYxoB QmVLjiRjCRwAgqnB8rLKTYXEMmL6cgQMvDGgKZemCXwyc4 QmQQSCUTAMNTrxToyg9EZTr3n4PdA5SSHFH5pZzst2ZETe QmY3hPf5WuZiFd6LH7kZWe1SBQLGYp3DzB3DvDwHxtAxpX Qmem9pBYyW9sJYffppf7bdghegoTHn1RzdbF1Q1wjVzuGt QmaiE9iDuXMZhkHdQ8sJYqT3PNn8BWc5agK74EKN1FFgVy QmQGHw3z4ajT5x6NnbyGQJY26ZEzJFXRTaYxZMQjss3typ Qmb95NfQvZvbiG3UrtcZ61z7v8dG2fT8Xta1dM4tpptx3Q ╒═══════════════════ 𝐈𝐍𝐃𝐄𝐗 ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⦿ Matthew Garrett’s Employer, Aurora, is Nearly Valueless and Looking to be Acquired by Microsoft | Techrights ⦿ Hostile Microsoft-backed Media Blames “Linux” for Hardware-destroying Intel Driver Bug | Techrights ⦿ Bruce Perens Quits Twitter Over Sale to Musk | Techrights ⦿ Beware the Distortion of Terms Like ’Supply Chain’, ‘Zero Day’, and ‘Back Door’ (New FUD Patterns Against Free Software, a Distraction From the Real Culprits) | Techrights ⦿ Stopping GNU/Linux (and the GPL) May Be Mission Impossible | Techrights ⦿ IRC Proceedings: Friday, October 07, 2022 | Techrights ⦿ New Linus Torvalds Talk Published Minutes Ago | Techrights ䷼ Bulletin articles (as HTML) to comment on (requires login): http://techrights.org/2022/10/08/aurora-collapses/#comments http://techrights.org/2022/10/08/blaming-linux-again/#comments http://techrights.org/2022/10/08/bruce-perens-has-quit-twitter/#comments http://techrights.org/2022/10/08/distraction-by-distortion/#comments http://techrights.org/2022/10/08/gpl-hard-to-stop/#comments http://techrights.org/2022/10/08/irc-log-071022/#comments http://techrights.org/2022/10/08/linus-torvalds-2022/#comments ䷞ Followed by Daily Links (assorted news picks curated and categorised): http://techrights.org/2022/10/08/gajim-1-5-2/#comments http://techrights.org/2022/10/08/tiktok-tracking-everyone/#comments ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 66 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at http://techrights.org/2022/10/08/aurora-collapses/#comments Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2022/10/08/aurora-collapses/ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 10.08.22⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Matthew_Garrett’s_Employer,_Aurora,_is_Nearly_Valueless_and_Looking_to_be Acquired_by_Microsoft⠀✐ Posted in Microsoft at 2:26 am by Guest Editorial Team Matthew Garrett’s employer, Aurora, is nearly valueless and looking to be acquired by Microsoft. 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇Matthew_Garrett⦈_ 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇Matthew_Garrett⦈_ 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇Aurora⦈_ 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇Aurora⦈_ Reprinted with permission from Ryan Matthew Garrett is the person who put Microsoft’s “Secure Boot” into GNU/Linux (which is designed to give Microsoft control over whether you can use a different OS on YOUR PC). Almost like something from the Terran Empire Universe of Star Trek, the Free Software Foundation gave him an award for promoting Microsoft’s PC sabotage. Garrett is a person who spends a lot of his free time essentially harassing Techrights, both in the IRC channel, and spouting what I feel is misleading information, outright lies, and negative propaganda about us on his Twitter account. He works for a “self-driving” car company called Aurora Innovation, Inc. We’re led to believe, according to Garrett, that he left Google (a stable company that makes money) to work at Aurora of his own volition. Today I learned that Aurora is in deep shit. This is what happened to their stock this year. Down nearly 80%. I’d have to say it’s probably due to the recession and the rising interest rates at the Fed that investors are not in the mood to keep throwing money at this. Money that is getting a lot more expensive to borrow. I noticed this when I came across a_Bloomberg_article_about_the_bottom_falling out_of_the_self-driving_car_bubble. “It’s a scam,” says George Hotz, whose company Comma.ai Inc. makes a driver-assistance system similar to Tesla Inc.’s Autopilot. “These companies have squandered tens of billions of dollars.” […] Aurora Innovation Inc., a startup co-founded by Chris Urmson, Google’s former autonomous-vehicle chief, has lost more than 85% since last year and is now worth less than $3 billion. This September a leaked memo_from_Urmson summed up Aurora’s cash-flow struggles and suggested it might have to sell out to a larger company. -Bloomberg Article When I went to look up the share price to take a picture, the related news had the following, which appears to corroborate the Bloomberg story about the leaked memo, and says that Aurora is seeking a takeover from “Microsoft or Apple”. Report:_Aurora_ponders_possible_sale_to_Microsoft_or_Apple_amid_other_options A few months ago, I laughed and called self-driving cars a pipe dream. I also said anyone working in this field should be keeping their résumé updated because nobody wants it and it doesn’t actually work. Earlier in the Bloomberg story, it spoke of a woman in San Francisco that had to go to CBS news because Google’s Waymo cars kept breaking the law and using her driveway as a turnaround dozens of times a day. Other “self-driving” car companies have had to pay out money for running over pedestrians and saying the software thought they were a shopping bag, and in many cases the owner of the car is held liable for doing stupid things like riding in the back seat while the Tesla runs into a parked police car. 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═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at http://techrights.org/2022/10/08/blaming-linux-again/#comments Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2022/10/08/blaming-linux-again/ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 10.08.22⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Hostile_Microsoft-backed_Media_Blames_“Linux”_for_Hardware-destroying_Intel Driver_Bug⠀✐ Posted in Deception, FUD, GNU/Linux, Hardware, Microsoft at 12:41 am by Guest Editorial Team Reprinted with permission from Ryan The hostile Microsoft-backed tech media has been blaming “Linux” for trouble that_Intel_caused_which_could_destroy_Intel_hardware. It all started last week when Intel asked Greg KH, the stable Linux kernel series branch maintainer, to bring in a patch series to better handle display power saving. The problem was that they only marked part of the patch series for backport and what ended up in Linux 5.19.12 was a half-broken mess that was entirely the fault of Intel. Users on bleeding edge GNU/Linux distributions, which included this author, brought in Linux 5.19.12 thinking nothing of it. Fortunately, the problem (flickering display that may cause hardware damage) did not appear to happen to my Gen11 Tiger Lake laptop with Intel IRIS Xe graphics. I did start experiencing some weird glitches across the system though which freaked me out wondering if they were hardware failure. My left Ctrl key started working intermittently and my laptop kept forgetting it was plugged in and running on the battery. Bringing in Linux 5.19.13, which reverted the changes, seems to have resolved whatever the hell was going on. So perhaps Intel caused other problems too. Not like they’re ever going to admit that. Intel’s products are fairly buggy. My other system is a “Skylake” laptop, and that was the buggiest damned thing ever. My favorite moment on that system was when I had to version lock myself to an outdated kernel in Fedora because Intel decided to turn off the power management to the GPU to try to fix a low impact security hole, and then after leaving it broken for months, gave up trying to fix the hole and turned power management back on. Whatever Intel wants, Intel gets. Then they get the “tech media” to “Just Blame Linux” after Intel’s “engineers” screw everything up. In a way, they are kind of right. -drivers subsystem people, I say “people” but it’s mostly hardware companies and Microsoft, get away with murder, and it’s been like that for a while. Linus takes the view of giving them a wide berth because if they screw up they just make a big damned problem for their users. While that may be sort of true, it just ends up giving “Linux” more PR damage when all of the barely informed “press”, who mostly just know how to take Microsoft money to slander Free Software (where everything is also “Linux” you know, even if it isn’t), run the story. The environment Linus created by allowing hardware companies to do whatever they want in the -drivers tree to get more drivers and marketshare is creating a quality control disaster. OpenBSD insists on code quality audits, and that slows things down and results in missing drivers. Then people don’t use it, because “Linux has drivers”. Then shit like this happens, with the drivers. If you’re wondering how Intel can be so clumsy and stupid that they stopped halfway into their patch series and told Greg KH to backport it, so am I. Maybe their buddies at Microsoft needed a fresh anti-Linux kerfuffle. That’s just conjecture, though. Maybe they really are that stupid. Most of their product bugs affect Windows too, not that you’d notice. Windows is already such a piece of shit you’d be hard pressed to tell where the software problems end and hardware problems begin. Unlike Windows, GNU/Linux is generally so reliable that you notice when there’s a hardware problem and it really grabs your attention. Basically the only reason I bought Intel again is extreme cost cutting to try to make up for their customers fleeing to AMD. But is that a longterm strategy? I don’t think that it is. And it’s not like you can trust AMD doesn’t have bugs. They do. They’re just not as severe. Before Apple switched to ARM processors, they started putting enablement code in MacOS for a potential switch to AMD x86, which would have been far less painful for their users, but you know Apple….. █ ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 403 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at http://techrights.org/2022/10/08/bruce-perens-has-quit-twitter/#comments Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2022/10/08/bruce-perens-has-quit-twitter/ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 10.08.22⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Bruce_Perens_Quits_Twitter_Over_Sale_to_Musk⠀✐ Posted in Free/Libre_Software, OSI at 1:21 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz Hopefully many more people will follow… 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇Signed off Twitter⦈ Summary: Bruce_Perens_has_quit_Twitter ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡀⠀⡄⠀⢰⡄⠀⠉⢩⡌⡈⡁⠉⣷⠀⡁⠉⡇⠁⠉ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣠⣴⣶⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣠⣴⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣠⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣴⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠠⢾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣰⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⡄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⠶⠶⠀⠷⠲⠾⠶⠒⠖⠶⠶⠦⠆⠢⠰⠶⠶⠶⠶⠀⠶⠶⠶⠴⠷⠷⠶⠶⠶⠶⠾⠶⠶⠷⡶⠶⠾⠶⠶⠻⠸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⠛⣛⡻⡛⣛⣛⠛⡀⣀⣀⢀⣀⢀⣀⣀⠀⣀⡀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⠀⢀⣀⣀⣀⢀⣀⣀⣀⢀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⢀⣀⣹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣬⡻⢭⠥⢈⢩⡡⢍⠙⠋⠙⠉⠈⠉⠈⠀⠉⠁⠈⠉⠁⠋⠘⠁⠁⠀⠈⠙⠋⠈⠉⠙⠉⠈⠉⠉⠉⠉⠁⠈⠙⠋⠹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⠉⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠻⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣠⣀⡀⣀⡄⢀⣀⢀⣀⣀⣀⣀⡀⣀⣀⣀⡀⡀⢀⣀⣀⡀⢀⣀⣀⣀⡀⣀⣀⣀⣀⡀⣀⡀⣀⣀⢀⡀⣀⡀⣀⣀⣀⣀⢀⣀⣀⢀⣉⣛⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 460 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at http://techrights.org/2022/10/08/distraction-by-distortion/#comments Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2022/10/08/distraction-by-distortion/ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 10.08.22⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Beware_the_Distortion_of_Terms_Like_‘Supply_Chain’,_‘Zero_Day’,_and_‘Back Door’_(New_FUD_Patterns_Against_Free_Software,_a_Distraction_From_the_Real Culprits)⠀✐ Posted in Deception, Free/Libre_Software, FUD, Microsoft, Security at 11:45 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz Proprietary software is being protected by ‘googlebombing’ tactics; the biggest weaknesses of proprietary software are being spun as a key problem with “Open Source” and proprietary_software's_shortcomings_are_being_blamed_on_the alternative_to_it 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇Linux Foundation: repeat what Microsoft says⦈ Summary: Microsofters spread misinformation/disinformation about Free software and security thereof; the corruption (bribery) of organisations such as the so- called ‘Linux’ Foundation means that Microsoft’s misinformation/disinformation now comes out of the mouths of the supposed opposition, too THE Daily Links in this site habitually add some “Ed”(itorial) comments to highlight FUD (Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt/fear-mongering) and offer some quick response to it. How much can publishers lie for the likes of Microsoft or VMware before those publishers perish due to a lack of credibility and, in turn, a lack of audience? Earlier today we posted some more examples of this kind in Daily Links. Not a day goes by without several such ‘incidents’ (misinformation/disinformation). “The real “supply chain” trouble is Microsoft and proprietary software…”In this post we highlight 3 recent patterns we’ve noticed. They are semantic lies. Recently, a Microsoft_front_group called “Linux_Foundation” kept using terms like “supply chain”. Years ago nobody used this term in relation to Free software and then Microsoft bought a lot of the so-called ‘supply chain’, in the form of GitHub and then NPM. Would anyone trust the integrity of code and binaries from a platform controlled by Microsoft_and_the_NSA, whose CSO is a decades-long NSA veteran? The real “supply chain” trouble is Microsoft and proprietary software; you can’t audit what you’re getting and it might be intentionally back-doored, taking advantage of this opacity. So why pretend this is a “FOSS” issue? “If something was fixed or was already patched upstream before disclosure, then it is not a 0-day.”Speaking of back-doored code or executables, “backdoor” means not a backdoor anymore. Microsoft-controlled media distorted the term and kept mentioning it in false contexts. Nowadays it just means a server got compromised and then the person who took control of it installed some more stuff. But that’s malware and it says nothing about how the malware got on the system in the first place (unless there was an actual back door). Many would say that servers can be hijacked using critical and remotely- exploitable flaws, set aside bad passwords (those are typically a human failure). But that leads us to the distortion of the definition of “zero day” (or 0-day). If something was fixed or was already patched upstream before disclosure, then it is not a 0-day. If it starts getting exploited the moment it is disclosed, then it’s a “1-day”. But looking around the Web today, we found several examples of lies to that effect. The media keeps badmouthing Zimbra, but this seems to be a way to distract from several critical Microsoft flaws, including those affecting Exchange. Those are actively being exploited, according to a very recent report. the Zimbra issue is old news (about a month old) and servers have already been patched by responsible administrators, such as my colleagues. Although it seems like the Zimbra hole might be a new one, the last patch partly addresses it. Do not forget that CISA released a list with three Microsoft holes that are actively exploited, including in Exchange, so why shift/divert to talking about Zimbra rather than Exchange? Are they trying to reinforce some false perception that moving away from Exchange would mean equally bad or even worse security? “The scenario, as per Dan Goodin et al (even sued for defamation already, for utterly poor reporting on security), is nowhere as grim as the Microsoft Exchange situation.”What’s bothersome here is the repeated distortion of the term “zero day”. An associate told us that “‘they’ must be really worried about the advance of FOSS to spread so much dated FUD about Zimbra and other projects. One giveaway is the use of the marketing phrase “zero-day”. That used to mean an exploit that was in active use before the vendor admitted to it existing. Now it just means bug with an exploit.” The scenario, as per Dan Goodin et al (even sued for defamation already, for utterly poor reporting on security), is nowhere as grim as the Microsoft Exchange situation. We already saw that Microsoft goes on for months and months without patching known Exchange flaws, even when it is fully informed that such flaws are actively being exploited already. Zimbra does E-mail, so that helps distract from what Microsoft is doing, with the real zero days, the real back doors, and the real supply chain crisis. Microsoft monopolises this chain (it’s proprietary) and refuses to fix it, leaving the victims helpless. This must be intentional. Or as out associate put it, “paid-for back doors on behalf of those that pay enough, or more specifically bug doors. Those are exploitable bugs about which the payers are informed long in advance of Microsoft getting around to patching them.” “Zimbra does E-mail, so that helps distract from what Microsoft is doing, with the real zero days, the real back doors, and the real supply chain crisis.”It’s the Windows [sic] of opportunity… Edward Snowden has already provided ample evidence of this. Microsoft keeps giving the NSA and FBI enough time to install a RAT or bootkit before the patches get deployed (too late). “And the FSB and just about any similar agency in all the other Internet-connected countries in the world,” our associate noted. So we’re meant to think that the real crisis is Free software and Microsoft lobbyists then push for new,_discriminatory_laws_that_stigmatise_"Open_Source". New zero-day in Microsoft products? Unpatched for months while exploits circulate for months? So the Microsoft shills focus on the something that is “open source”… and repeat endlessly the terms which aren’t even applicable to it. “CISA is a Microsoft reseller working out of the DHS offices,” our associated concluded, “which itself is a fraud.” █ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⡇⠀⠀⠈⡇⢸⠳⡀⢸⠀⡇⠀⠀⡇⠀⠳⣠⠊⠀⠀⠀⡏⠉⠉⢠⠎⠁⠉⢧⠈⡇⠀⠀⡇⢸⢣⡀⢸⠀⡏⠉⠉⣦⠀⢰⠹⡄⠉⢹⡏⠁⢸⠀⡼⠉⠈⠱⡄⣿⢢⠀⢸⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⡻⢟⣿⡇⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⣇⠀⠀⠀⡇⢸⠀⠱⣼⠀⢧⡀⢀⡇⠀⡴⠙⢆⠀⠀⠀⡏⠉⠉⠘⣆⠀⢀⡜⠐⣇⠀⣠⠇⢸⠀⠱⣼⠀⡇⠀⣀⠟⢠⠓⠒⢳⡀⢸⡇⠀⢸⠀⢳⡀⠀⣰⠃⣿⠀⠳⣸⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣵⣮⣻⡇⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠈⠉⠉⠀⠁⠈⠀⠀⠈⠀⠀⠉⠁⠀⠈⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠉⠁⠀⠀⠀⠉⠀⠀⠈⠀⠀⠈⠀⠉⠉⠀⠀⠈⠀⠀⠀⠁⠀⠀⠀⠈⠀⠀⠈⠉⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠁⠀⠀ ⢰⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⠀ ⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀ ⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀ ⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣛⣛⣛⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡟⡟⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀ ⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣟⣿⣿⣿⡿⢛⢿⣿⡝⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⣇⣒⣂⠇⢫⠒⢲⡉⡦⣒⢮⢫⠖⠲⡝⠱⠒⢮⠑⡗⣽⣏⣎⢏⢮⢏⡆⡧⡒⣎⡫⠖⢲⡁⣾⣪⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀ ⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣯⣷⣿⣿⣿⡷⠘⣿⣿⣿⡇⡇⣶⡱⡜⡸⣉⣩⠁⡧⣛⡼⡸⣍⣉⢅⢎⣉⢽⡀⣇⢿⣿⡸⡜⡜⡼⡀⡇⣿⣿⢰⣉⡹⣇⢿⡻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀ ⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⢻⣿⣿⣿⡻⣿⡟⠁⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣾⣿⣿⣶⣿⠶⣶⣇⣇⣶⣾⣿⣶⣶⣿⣷⣶⣷⣾⣶⣾⣿⣷⠾⣿⣶⣿⣶⣿⣶⣷⣶⣶⣶⣷⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀ ⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣇⠀⠉⣴⣿⠟⠙⠿⣿⡆⠀⠀⢀⣿⣿⣿⡇⡷⡹⡟⣼⡾⣈⠿⡛⣛⠟⣛⡛⣛⢛⡻⢟⡛⣛⠿⣛⢛⡛⣹⡁⣰⡻⣿⡟⡛⢛⠿⣛⢛⡻⢛⢿⢟⢛⡛⣛⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀ ⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⡀⠈⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠀⠀⣠⣾⣿⣿⣿⡇⡇⢣⡹⢹⡇⣿⢸⢰⢾⠆⡇⡇⡇⡷⣹⠘⢲⢤⢸⡱⡇⡇⢸⢰⣿⢾⣿⡎⢒⢤⡒⡔⡒⡇⡜⡎⡞⡌⢒⢤⣺⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀ ⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣶⣤⣀⣀⣀⣀⣤⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⣧⣯⣧⣯⣵⣭⣦⣵⣮⣦⣧⣷⣭⣶⣵⣮⣖⣮⣶⣵⣪⣵⣼⣼⣼⣦⣿⣮⣕⣮⣤⣵⣮⣵⢜⡼⣸⣮⣕⣮⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀ ⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣶⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀ ⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀ ⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀ ⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀ ⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢰⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⡖⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀ ⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡟⣉⣉⠻⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀ ⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⣿⣿⠀⢈⠰⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀ ⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣶⣶⣾⣾⣷⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀ ⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣘⣉⣉⣉⣉⣉⣉⣉⣉⣉⣉⣉⣉⣉⣉⣉⣉⣉⣉⣉⣉⣉⣁⣸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀ ⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀ ⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀ ⠸⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠀ ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 627 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at http://techrights.org/2022/10/08/gpl-hard-to-stop/#comments Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2022/10/08/gpl-hard-to-stop/ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 10.08.22⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Stopping_GNU/Linux_(and_the_GPL)_May_Be_Mission_Impossible⠀✐ Posted in Free/Libre_Software, GNU/Linux, GPL, Microsoft at 10:32 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz GNU/Linux up to ~10% in India as PC_sales_plunge 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇India’s_PC_shipments_drop_below_5_million_for_the_first_time in_four_quarters:_report⦈_ Summary: Low-budget and low-energy computing will favour GNU/Linux; Microsoft Windows is far too bloated to remain competitive as prices of energy soar and supply chain woes translate into low sales TWENTY hours ago we_mentioned_how_Vista_11_had_gained_only_2.61%_market_share in_15_months, according to one survey. To put things in perspective, 15 months after it arrived at the scene (summer) and after billions of dollars spent on “marketing” (fake articles), plus bundling/preinstalls on new PCs, the market share of Vista 11 is similar to that of GNU/Linux, not even counting ChromeOS. The world’s dominant operating system is now Android and Linux is running inside it. In Africa, Android is the dominant operating system in almost every country [1, 2]. And also in Africa, GNU/Linux_has_grown_on_the_desktop/laptop_this_month (and in recent months). Android is the dominant platform there, but Windows is waning even in its form factor of ‘choice’ (it could simply not capture other markets). 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇GNU/Linux in Africa⦈ Africa’s significance here is that it illuminates the impact on poverty at a time when more and more country enter a crisis of poverty, which means no more $1000 laptops with the latest Vista or whatever Apple markets to insecure people with a new credit card. “Africa’s significance here is that it illuminates the impact on poverty at a time when more and more country enter a crisis of poverty, which means no more $1000 laptops with the latest Vista or whatever Apple markets to insecure people with a new credit card.”It seems like a safe prediction that GNU/Linux will continue to grow and the Linux_Foundation‘s role will be attacking the community while handing over GNU/Linux to monopolistic corporations. Not many people noticed it, but the licence of the code connecting Linux to Rust is not GPL. This highlights some_of_the_potential_dangers_of_adding_Rust to_Linux. There are many such dangers. A reader recently suggested an article that might praise the benefits the GPLv2 and GPLv3 have provided and that they were adaptations to changing situations; now with the tsunami of Microsoft lobbyists the situation is moving yet again and GitHub is basically a massive attack on the GPL. One associate noted that “[t]he GPL in and of itself is a clever hack of copyright law and has provided great benefit. Linus Torvalds himself has mentioned many times that very thing and once, right before he got abused, even stated in a video that it was his best decision ever to use the GPLv2.” Microsoft hates the GPL so much that its CEO publicly compared it to a cancer and went out of his way to lie about it, to demonise it, and to attack people who had come up with it. Entire_companies_were_set_up_by_Microsofters_for_the sole_purpose_of_attacking_the_GPL. So what is the GPL? It’s a legal ‘hack’ that ensures people don’t turn Free software into proprietary software. They need to give back changes that are made and delivered. GPL is a key thing. The media barely mentions it, but it is the cornerstone of the movement. Aside from the lawsuits, it’s one of the reasons why GNU/Linux grew so popular so fast, whereas the BSDs remained smaller (in relative terms; BSD is also a success story). “Entryism has long been on the cards.”Right about now Microsoft is trying to use secure_[sic]_boot as a GPL evasion tool. It’s already using it to prevent GNU/Linux_from_even_booting. Microsoft_is_trying_to_hire the man who did this and his_current_employer_wishes_to_be_acquired_by_Microsoft. There should have been an antitrust complaint, but instead we got sold cheaply to the abuser. Around the same time Microsoft made a plan to use GitHub as an anti-GPL weapon (that was in 2014) and “UEFI / restricted boot is a means of license evasion / violation,” an associate explains. You may modify your operating system, but then it might not boot on your computer. It’s a bit like TiVoization, which GPLv3 sought to tackle. Either way, expect Microsoft to play “hardball” and do anything it can to sabotage GNU/Linux, including bribing_the_Linux_Foundation_to_lie_to_us like Jim_Zemlin_constantly_does. 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https://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2022/10/ msg00000.html # ⚓ Video ☛ Creepy_bear,_Steam_Deck,_Eggs_and_more_–_A_Trendy Talk._–_Invidious⠀⇛ # ⚓ Video ☛ Students_Refuse_To_Give_Up_Phones_In_School_– Invidious⠀⇛ This morning I read a news story that absolutely horrified me. A high school in my area had all of their students walkout in protest of the school’s new ban on mobile phones during class. Apparently, this is going on in many schools all over the world… # ⚓ E56:_Add_GraphQL_APIs_to_Your_Data_with_Hasura⠀⇛ Rajoshi Ghosh & Tanmai Gopal are the Co-founders of Hasura, the platform to create GraphQL APIs with your data. # ⚓ E55:_Backend-as-a-Service_with_ChiselStrike⠀⇛ Glauber Costa is Founder & CEO of ChiselStrike, the backend-as-a-service platform. Their core technology is open source – and also called ChiselStrike. o § Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ Medevel ☛ WriteFreely:_Clutter-free_Self-hosted_Blogging Platform_for_Writers⠀⇛ Written in the Go programming language to offer the best performance, WriteFreely is a lightweight blogging system aimed for hobby and professional writers. WriteFreely supports Markdown syntax out-of-box, and offers a distraction-free interface with a limited clutter. # ⚓ Gajim_1.5.2_–_Gajim⠀⇛ Gajim 1.5.2 brings another performance boost, better emojis, improvements for group chat moderators, and many bug fixes. Thank you for all your contributions! o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾ # ⚓ The New Stack ☛ How_to_Deploy_Containers_with_nerdctl_–_The New_Stack⠀⇛ How many ways can you deploy a container? Shall we count them? Seriously, we don’t have all day. Really, there are more ways to deploy containers than I can count on my hands. For some, that might be a bit of an overkill situation. For those who like options, however, the idea that there are so many deployment methods is a big plus. To those who fall into that category, let me add yet another method to your ever-growing pile of possibilities. Said method is by way of nerdctl. How can you resist that name? You can’t, that’s how. # ⚓ Ubuntubuzz ☛ LibreOffice_Calc:_Pivot_Table_Made_Easy⠀⇛ This tutorial will show you how to create Pivot Table using LibreOffice Calc — the complete, free spreadsheet program for everyone. We will learn with examples and pictures by using a simple sales table to create sales report with multiple pivot tables we want. Now let’s exercise! # ⚓ Real Linux User ☛ Available_now_–_my_book_–_Linux_for_the rest_of_us_–_Real_Linux_User⠀⇛ In my previous blog post, I already shared that my first book would almost be available for sale. This week I received my proof print for a final review and now it’s finally here. As of today, my book “Linux for the rest of us” is available worldwide through Amazon in both physical and digital formats. # ⚓ Data Swamp ☛ Linux_NILFS_file_system:_automatic_continuous snapshots⠀⇛ Today, I’ll share about a special Linux file system that I really enjoy. It’s called NILFS and has been imported into Linux in 2009, so it’s not really a new player, despite being stable and used in production it never got popular. In this file system, there is a unique system of continuous checkpoint creation. A checkpoint is a snapshot of your system at a given point in time, but it can be deleted automatically if some disk space must be reclaimed. A checkpoint can be transformed into a snapshot that will never be removed. This mechanism works very well for workstations or file servers on which redundancy is nonexistent, and on which backups are done every day/weeks which give room for unrecoverable mistakes. # ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_To_Install_VSCodium_on_Debian_11 [Ed: Bad idea to use this because it helps Microsoft's proprietary userbase]⠀⇛ o § Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾ # § K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt⠀➾ # ⚓ Akademy_2022_|_espidev⠀⇛ This year, I had the amazing opportunity to attend Akademy in person (@ Barcelona) for the first time! For context, I first started contributing to Plasma Mobile in 2020, right around when easily testable hardware (ex. PinePhone) was taking shape. I originally started with some contributions to some applications to learn Qt and C++, but have since then taken more responsibility with tasks from all around the software stack. # ⚓ Linuxiac ☛ KaOS_2022.10_Released,_Dracut_Replaces Mkinitcpio⠀⇛ KaOS 2022.10 comes with an improved Calamares installer and has moved to Dracut as the new initramfs infrastructure. KaOS is an independent rolling-release distribution inspired by Arch Linux and entirely focused on the KDE Plasma Desktop and related Qt Toolkit-based software. It uses Pacman as its package manager but does not rely on software repositories developed and maintained by Arch Linux. Instead, the software is available from in- house repositories and is built exclusively for 64-bit machines. KaOS 2022.10 is the sixth update in this year’s 2022 series for this Linux distro. So, let’s have a look at what’s new. # ⚓ Physical_Akademy_2022_in_Barcelona_–_Kai_Uwe’s_Blog⠀⇛ I just returned from this year’s KDE Akademy in Barcelona. After two years of only virtual sprints it has been great to finally meet up with many fellow KDE friends, most of which I haven’t seen since 2019, and also get to know some of the faces of people that have joined in-between. Whenever I’m using the public WiFi somewhere, I feel like there should be a hint in the network Plasmoid about logging into the captive portal. There is a persistent notification when connecting but once you close it, you can’t get it back. For implementing this, I wanted to use the NetworkConnectivity enum from our networkmanager-qt Framework. In the early days of QtQuick, however, we typically created a wrapper class for exposing enums to QML, which meant having to sync up two separate implementations. Qt’s tooling has evolved a lot since and nowadays it’s possible to register namespaces, too. To do so, you need to add the Q_NAMESPACE macro and annotate the enums using Q_ENUM_NS. In the networkmanager-qt case, there was a catch, though: the namespace’s meta object had to be exported since plasma-nm is a separate project. That’s what the Q_NAMESPACE_EXPORT macro is for: once added, I could just register the enum to the QML engine and use it directly from the Plasmoid UI. # ⚓ Linuxiac ☛ Control_Centre_Is_a_New_KDE_Widget Inspired_by_macOS⠀⇛ The Control Centre widget for the KDE desktop lets you quickly toggle among settings such as Network, Bluetooth, Media Playback, and more. KDE Plasma is a desktop environment that stands out for its nearly limitless customization options. Combined with its sleek and modern user interface, these characteristics have made it a popular choice among Linux users. Plasma widgets are UI elements, little pieces of software, that provide a variety of features and boost user productivity. Control Centre, the new kid on the block among KDE widgets, is something Plasma desktop users have been waiting for for some time. Well, now it’s a fact. So, let’s see what it has to offer. # ⚓ Planck_and_QMK_–_Ignorance_is_bliss…⠀⇛ Over the past two years I tried out a few different keyboards for fun. I started with common form factors like TKL boards, went over 75% boards like the Q1 and then to a 60% HHKB. For typing feel, the HHKB is really amazing, but unfortunately the programmable features of a stock HHKB board are very limited. # ⚓ Translations_available_for_KDE_unstable_packages_| dennogumi.org⠀⇛ As many readers of this blog are aware, openSUSE has been offering packages of git snapshots from KDE since quite a while. They are quite useful for those wiling to test, report bugs, and / or hack on the code, but also for those who want to see what’s brewing in KDE land (without touching their existing systems). However, a major drawback for non English speakers was the lack of translations. [...] KDE translations are not hosted on the community’s git repositories, but are instead stored in KDE’s SVN server. The main reason they were not moved to git was to preserve the existing workflows of the translation teams (who might not be as technical as the actual hackers). Translations are then placed in tarballs at the times of betas / RCs / releases. This unfortunately means that having a git checkout, like what the OBS does when building the unstable packages, will not carry any translations whatsoever. Worse, existing -lang packages for stable versions will raise dependency problems if present (because they require the exact same version of their corresponding binary paclage). # § GNOME Desktop/GTK⠀➾ # ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ Manage_GNOME_Extensions_Like_a_Pro_With Extension_Manager⠀⇛  The free and open-source GNOME desktop environment has long supported extensions, which expand on what the interface can do. But for years, GNOME didn’t do a great job of helping you find and install these extensions. The process involved going to a website, installing a Firefox extension, and crossing your fingers. Now there’s an app that takes all the pain out of the process. Extension Manager vastly simplifies the experience of discovering, installing, and managing GNOME extensions. This one app can make using GNOME extensions a joyful experience. * § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾ o ⚓ Liam Proven ☛ I’ve_been_playing_with_OS/2_again_—_more_on_that soon_—_but_it_was_doomed_from_a_young_age⠀⇛ OS/2 2.0 came out in April 1992. Windows 3.0 came out in May 1990, 2 whole years earlier. It already had established an ecosystem before 32-bit OS/ 2 appeared. Secondly, OS/2 2 really wanted a 386DX and 4MB of RAM, and a quality PC with quality name-brand parts. I owned it. I ran it on clones. I had to buy a driver for my mouse. From another CONTINENT. Windows 3.0 ran on any old random junk PC, even on a PC XT class box with EGA. At first only high-end users of high-end executive-class workstations got the fun of 386 Enhanced Mode, but that was all OS/2 2.0 could run on at all. OS/2 died when OS/2 1.x was a high-end OS with low-end features, and a cheapo low-end 386SX PC with 1 or 2MB of RAM, with MS-DOS and DESQview (not DESQview/X, just plain old text-mode DESQview) could outperform it. (Remember the 386SX came out in 1988 and was common by the time Windows 3.0 shipped.) But as soon as OS/2 1.x was a flop, MS turned its attention back to Windows, and before even the first betas of Windows 3.0, there were rumours in the tech press that MS was going to abandon the project. This was widely discussed in the media at the time. In my then-job, around 1989, my boss sent me on a training course for 3Com’s new NOS, 3+Open, which was based on OS/2 1.0. o § Fedora Family / IBM⠀➾ # ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ EuroLinux:_An_Enterprise-Grade_Linux_Distro Based_on_RHEL⠀⇛ EuroLinux is a free-to-use RHEL-based Linux distribution, similar to CentOS and AlmaLinux, specifically geared toward businesses. Linux distributions are widely known to cater to every type of user out there. EuroLinux is no surprise, as it supports enterprise-wide usage, making it ideal for offices, companies, public institutions, and private users. Based on the RHEL source code, EuroLinux has often been on top of its game since its launch in 2013. If you are an avid user of Windows or macOS, you will feel right at home with EuroLinux. o § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾ # ⚓ The Register UK ☛ RISC-V’s_greatest_ally_in_the_datacenter might_be_China⠀⇛ # ⚓ SparkFun Electronics ☛ On_The_Shoulders_of_Giants⠀⇛ This week, Sparkfun launched our 2022 special edition board – the Constellation MicroMod Kit. It makes for a fun backdrop or might remind you of the night sky, but humanity has a long history of scientific discovery that started just by looking up, and that spirit has continued to live on in those of you out there who use our products to discover things about the world around you. # ⚓ SparkFun Electronics ☛ What’s_Your_Favorite Constellation?⠀⇛ # ⚓ SparkFun Electronics ☛ Kit_Up_with_Machinechat⠀⇛ o § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ Google_Play_Store_32.6.15_version_is_up_for_Android_– Huawei_Central⠀⇛ # ⚓ Android Central ☛ Google_is_keeping_some_of_Android’s_best features_behind_a_Pixel_paywall_|_Android_Central⠀⇛ # ⚓ Android Police ☛ Tackle_food_waste_with_these environmentally-friendly_Android_apps⠀⇛ # ⚓ SlashGear ☛ Here’s_How_To_Find_Your_Downloaded_Files_On Android_Phones⠀⇛ # ⚓ Android Authority ☛ 5_Android_apps_you_shouldn’t_miss_this week_–_Android_Apps_Weekly⠀⇛ # ⚓ Linux Phone Apps ☛ New_apps_of_LinuxPhoneApps.org,_Q3/2022 –_400!_🎉_|_LinuxPhoneApps⠀⇛ It’s October, its time for another quarterly update! Let’s get started with some good news: LinuxPhoneApps.org now lists over 400 apps, and hit the 400 apps milestone before the end of the quarter. Now how did we get there? [...] Overall, maintenance could be better. Sadly my personal life has changed in ways that I (linmob) have a lot less time to maintain the listings – and at the same time, with more and more listings, there are more projects to watch and maintain. This requires better tooling (e.g., a checker for dead links, or a simple way to follow project releases / commits on “unreleased” projects via RSS/ATOM feeds), that’s almost impossible to build for me in the few scraps of time I have in an average work week. Sadly, due to spammers, framagit has enabled account moderation – signing up for a new account is not instantaneous and may take days. But you can of still contribute quickly: Just clone the repo, create a patch and send it to our devel mailing list! * § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾ o ⚓ PowerDNS ☛ First_Beta_Release_of_PowerDNS_Recursor_4.8.0_| PowerDNS_Blog⠀⇛ We are proud to announce the first beta release of PowerDNS Recursor 4.8.0. o ⚓ PowerDNS ☛ First_release_candidate_for_Authoritative_Server_4.7.0 |_PowerDNS_Blog⠀⇛ This is the first release candidate for Authoritative Server 4.7.0. We hope it will also be the last 4.7.0 brings support for Catalog Zones, developed by Kees Monshouwer. As part of that development, the freshness checks in the Primary code were reworked, reducing them from doing potentially thousands of SQL queries (if you have thousands of domains) to only a few. Installations with lots of domains will benefit greatly from this, even without using catalog zones. 4.7.0 also brings back GSS-TSIG support, previously removed for quality reasons, now reworked with many stability improvements. o § Productivity Software/LibreOffice/Calligra⠀➾ # ⚓ Windows_High_Contrast_Improvements⠀⇛ Spent a little time this week to explore our Windows accessibility High Contrast support because I was working on a GTK High Contrast issue by coincidence when xisco mentioned the Windows one in the regular ESC. o § Programming/Development⠀➾ # ⚓ Jamie Brandon ☛ 0028:_HYTRADBOI_jam,_sqllogictest_in_a week,_how_safe_is_zig_again,_rr_on_alder_lake,_google_maps jank,_links⠀⇛ Typing is still a bottleneck. I make a lot of errors. Correcting the errors sometimes breaks my concentration, and then take a while to recover what I was doing. I’m particularly bad around special characters. Some of this is caused by my new laptop having a slightly different keyboard layout. It might be worth spending a few minutes a day working on typing exercises, focused on the keys that are in different places or have different shapes on my new keyboard. # ⚓ D Lang ☛ DIP1000:_Memory_Safety_in_a_Modern_Systems Programming_Language_Part_2⠀⇛ The previous entry in this series shows how to use the new DIP1000 rules to have slices and pointers refer to the stack, all while being memory safe. But D can refer to the stack in other ways, too, and that’s the topic of this article. # ⚓ Francesco Mazzoli ☛ Lánczos_interpolation_explained⠀⇛ When you resize, rotate, or in any way transform an image; or more generally when you resample some discrete signal, the software you are using must _interpolate_ between the discrete points to produce a result. # ⚓ Mastering_Debugging_in_R⠀⇛ One major thing that I learned throughout the years is the power of debugging. Irrespective of the programming language I use, debugging is for me key when it comes to understanding the functionality of code (also for code written by someone else). One of the very first steps when digging into a new coding basis is always turning the debugging mode on – it guides you so nicely through the functions that were written (and that show you how they are connected) # ⚓ Just_commit_more!⠀⇛ Over new years this past year I made dura. It’s like auto-backup for Git. It tries to stay out of the way until you’re in a panic, trying to figure out how to rescue your repository from a thoughtless git reset –hard. It makes background commits, real Git commits that you don’t normally have to see in the log, by committing to a different branch than the one you have checked out. Overall, it’s been a blast. I’ve learned a lot from the contributors, like how to write well-formed Rust as well as a bit about Nix. One recurring quesion has been, “why don’t you just commit more”? # ⚓ choroplethr_3.7.1_is_now_on_CRAN_–_AriLamstein.com⠀⇛ When I took my first software engineering job at Electronic Arts 20 years ago someone told me “More time is spent maintaining old software than writing new software.” Since my project at the time (“Spore”) was brand new, and I was writing brand new code for it, I found that hard to believe. My experience with my R package choroplethr, however, has proven that saying to be correct. A few weeks ago CRAN emailed me saying they detected minor problems in an HTML file in the package, and asked me to fix them. Since I had not touched the package in over two years, and the error seemed minor, I ignored the message. I also ignored their followup message. They then sent me an email saying that if I did not fix the issue they would archive the package. That got my attention. # ⚓ rstudio::glimpse()_Newsletter_–_RStudio⠀⇛ So many new learning resources have been created this month! There’s information on tools, deploying models, Quarto presentations and blogs, neat tables and so much more. I love how these show so many different types of things you can do, because with code, so much is possible. That combination of learning what you can do, and the ‘how-tos’ of creation, give us the ability to use data to answer the questions we have. I’m so excited to see everyone continue to explore what’s possible. # ⚓ Do_you_need_a_Strong_Leader?⠀⇛ “Strong” is often used as a metaphor for capable, competent, effective leadership. Strength is not always the most helpful metaphor for leadership skills. Listen to how people describe strong leaders, sometimes there are connotations at odds with effective leadership. Sometimes even hints of toxic masculinity. What does it say about our gender biases that we so often use strength as a metaphor for leadership effectiveness? If you stopped pouring petrol onto the fires, maybe you would not need such experienced firefighters. [...] “We need a strong leader” implies “we need a different leader”. What is causing the current leadership (whether vested in a single person explicitly or distributed) to be inadequate? Changing or adding one person with authority can be a quick fix, but isn’t guaranteed to work; especially if you don’t have a diagnosis that explains the need for a new leader. Do you really need a superhero to save you? What are your best hopes for what a new leader will do? What stops you doing those without them? # ⚓ Gentoo ☛ Clang_in_Gentoo_now_sets_default_runtimes_via config_file_–_Michał_Górny⠀⇛ The upcoming clang 16 release features substantial improvements to configuration file support. Notably, it adds support for specifying multiple files and better default locations. This enabled Gentoo to finally replace the default-* flags used on sys-devel/clang, effectively empowering our users with the ability to change defaults without rebuilding whole clang. This change has also been partially backported to clang 15.0.2 in Gentoo, and (unless major problems are reported) will be part of the stable clang 15.x release (currently planned for upcoming 15.0.3). In this post, I’d like to shortly describe the new configuration file features, how much of them have been backported to 15.x in Gentoo and how defaults are going to be selected from now on. # ⚓ Linux On Mobile ☛ LINMOB.net_–_Contributing_for_(advanced?) Dummies⠀⇛ I vaguely recalled that Tokodon had had one bug that really annoyed me when I had last tried it a few weeks or months ago, and when using it I noticed that it was still there – unsurprisingly since I never had reported it: When composing a toot, the text would not wrap when reaching the end of the text field, but go on and on unless you would add a manual line break, which then would look bad in the resulting toot unless I would remove them. Since I keep hitting any character limit a service has, I, unsurprisingly, was more likely to run into this than others. I was annoyed, but when I first encountered it while briefly trying out Plasma Mobile on the Pocophone F1 on a release that wasn’t the latest, I just lazy-searched the project, did not find any issue or merge request on the topic and went “well, surely this is fixed in the latest release, I don’t want to annoy people”. I then later discovered that this wasn’t the case when re-evaluating Tokodon after Tootle’s archival. So I figured: Ok, time to file an issue – but how do I describe this? I could not find the word, was stuck in my native German, thinking “Was heißt Zeilenumbruch auf Englisch?” # ⚓ Steve Kemp ☛ Steve_Kemp:_Trivial_benchmarks_of_toy languages⠀⇛ In the real world? It just doesn’t matter. For me. But I was curious, so I hacked up a simple benchmark of calculating 12! (i.e. The factorial of 12). The specific timings will vary based on the system which runs the test(s), but there’s no threading involved so the relative performance is probably comparable. Anyway the benchmark is simple, and I did it “fairly”. By that I mean that I didn’t try to optimize any particular test-implementation, I just wrote it in a way that felt natural. # § Perl / Raku⠀➾ # ⚓ Eagle’s_Path:_Tie::ShadowHash_2.01_(2022-10-08)⠀⇛ Tie::ShadowHash is a small Perl module that allows one to stack an in-memory modifiable hash on top of a read-only hash obtained from anywhere you can get a hash in Perl (including a tied hash), functioning much like an overlay file system with the same benefits. # § Rust⠀➾ # ⚓ Linux Links ☛ 9_Top_Free_and_Open_Source_Rust Frontend_Web_Frameworks_–_LinuxLinks⠀⇛ “We need a strong leader” implies “we need a different leader”. What is causing the current leadership (whether vested in a single person explicitly or distributed) to be inadequate? Changing or adding one person with authority can be a quick fix, but isn’t guaranteed to work; especially if you don’t have a diagnosis that explains the need for a new leader. Do you really need a superhero to save you? What are your best hopes for what a new leader will do? What stops you doing those without them? o § Standards/Consortia⠀➾ # ⚓ Patrick Breyer ☛ Pirates:_Common_charger_a_win_for_users and_the_environment⠀⇛ Today, Members of the European Parliament approved the outcome of the trilogue negotiations on the Common Charger directive. A strong position of the European Parliament warrants that in addition to mobile phones, the USB Type-C cable will become the common charging port for other small and medium- sized portable electronic devices by autumn 2024, and by spring 2026 for larger ones, as well. * § Leftovers⠀➾ o ⚓ Tedium ☛ Getting_A-head_of_The_Season⠀⇛ Most of us probably don’t remember too many of our middle school reading assignments. Among that pile of forgotten homework and pristine storybooks probably resides an old short story called The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (sometimes erroneously referred to as The Headless Horseman). Whether you read it or not, you may have at least seen the old cartoon version or otherwise discovered it another way—even if it was via that bizarre Tim Burton film. One way or another, the Headless Horseman myth has perpetuated itself into the pop culture of the twenty- first century. The hideous supernatural creature that so terrified poor Ichabod Crane is rooted in reality. The Headless Horseman story continues to live in our collective memories even today. But Washington Irving’s macabre tale—or at least the creature playing the titular role—has its origins in folklore. In today’s Tedium, we’re dissecting an ancient legend, and some of the pop culture it helped to create. So hang on to your hats (if you’ve got ‘em) because today we’re exploring the real story of The Headless Horseman o § Security⠀➾ # ⚓ Hacker News ☛ Hackers_Exploiting_Unpatched_RCE_Flaw_in Zimbra_Collaboration_Suite⠀⇛ A severe remote code execution vulnerability in Zimbra’s enterprise collaboration software and email platform is being actively exploited, with no patch currently available to remediate the issue. [...] Zimbra said it expects the vulnerability to be addressed in the next Zimbra patch, which will remove the dependency on cpio and instead make pax a requirement. However, it has not offered a specific timeframe by when the fix will be available. o § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾ # ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Will_a_body_with_teeth_bite_off_more than_we_can_chew?_–_Michael_West⠀⇛ A bit of sunlight to disinfect our politics. Or the star chamber in friendly garb? While the pros of adding another layer to the oversight of our MPs seem obvious, Mark Sawyer sees a few cons, particularly the demise of deal-making. The wait is over. The federal integrity watchdog is coming. Three decades after the Independent Commission Against Corruption in NSW introduced the concept to Australia, the NACC (National Anti- Corruption Commission) is finally coming to Canberra. The body has long been advocated by the growing numbers of cross-bench MPs (Greens and independents). It was backed by the Labor opposition, so it became inevitable once Anthony Albanese’s ALP unseated the Coalition government on May 21. o § Monopolies⠀➾ # § Copyrights⠀➾ # ⚓ Michael Geist ☛ The_Law_Bytes_Podcast,_Episode_141: Why_the_Online_News_Act_is_a_Bad_Solution_to_a_Real Problem,_Part_Five_–_My_Appearance_Before_the_Standing Committee_on_Canadian_Heritage⠀⇛ The Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage launched its hearings on the Online News Act (Bill C-18) with a pair of hearings late last month. At this stage, it remains unclear whether the committee will undertake the extensive study the bill deserves. I appeared in the very first hearing, using my opening statement to touch on four key concerns: the definition of “use”, government intervention, the risk of increased misinformation, and the breaches of Canada’s trade and treaty obligations. Coinciding with National Newspaper Week, this week’s Law Bytes podcast features an introduction to the bill and audio clips from the appearance. The podcast can be downloaded here, accessed on YouTube, and is embedded below. Subscribe to the podcast via Apple Podcast, Google Play, Spotify or the RSS feed. Updates on the podcast on Twitter at @Lawbytespod. # ⚓ Michael Geist ☛ Why_the_Online_News_Act_is_a_Bad Solution_to_a_Real_Problem,_Part_Six:_CBC_Eligibility Harms_News_Competition_and_Its_Public_Interest Mandate⠀⇛ The blog series on why Bill C-18, the Online News Act, is a bad solution to a real problem continues with the first of several posts on the eligibility rules, starting with the decision to make the CBC eligible for the system that could lead to mandated payments. The inclusion of the public broadcaster should be opposed by its critics and supporters since it harms both competition and the public interest role of the public broadcaster. Indeed, critics will rightly note the market distortion it creates for private entities who stand to lose further advertising-related revenues to the CBC, while supporters should be concerned that the bill undermines the CBC’s claim to a public interest role and makes an ad-free version of the service even less likely. [Previous posts in the series: the risk to the free flow of information stemming from mandatory compensation for linking, how the bill encourages clickbait and other low quality news given the absence of standards in the definition of “news content”, the unprecedented government intervention in a sector where independence is essential, how the bill undermines Canadian copyright law and Canada’s international copyright law obligations, and a Law Bytes podcast episode based on my appearance before the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage.] # ⚓ Walled Culture ☛ Interview_|_Glyn_Moody:_Walled Culture_–_A_Journey_Behind_the_Copyright_Bricks_– Walled_Culture⠀⇛ Glyn Moody has been writing about copyright, digital rights, and the Internet for 30 years. He is the editor of the Walled Culture project and author of Walled Culture – the Book (freely available as ebook). He previously wrote ‘Rebel Code: Linux and the Open Source Revolution’. He explains how the Walled Culture project is a reflection on digital copyright going wrong, and how copyright and the Internet have shown to be fundamentally incompatible. Glyn highlights how there’s no escaping copyright in an online world. He shares some copyright absurdities, with big content fighting the visually impaired and initiatives like Project Gutenberg and Google Books. He talks about how Big Content put on shackles on libraries thanks to Digital Rights Management (DRM), and reflects on the injustice of the Big Publishers’ suing the Internet Archive. Glyn points out how Big Academic Publishers hijacked the shift towards open access to benefit their bottom line, while pointing out that diamond open access shows that we can move away from the academic publishing business. He recalls how Big Record Labels went on a rampage, suing grandmothers and children, neglecting the opportunity to give consumers what they wanted. Glyn describes Big Content’s push for copyright enforcement, from the French three strikes mechanism to the SOPA and ACTA battles, while emphasising how copyright laws got skewed towards Big Content. He talks about the failures surrounding the EU Copyright Directive and the looming dangers of upload filters. He further highlights how copyright no longer promotes culture but harms it, and how it’s about protecting Big Content, not creators. Glyn concludes by reflecting on a possible way forward: building on creators’ true fans. # ⚓ Walled Culture ☛ Ed_Sheeran_must_face_yet_another music_copyright_trial,_even_more_outrageous_than_the others⠀⇛ Back in April, Walled Culture wrote about Ed Sheeran’s victory in a case alleging copyright infringement. Unfortunately, the copyright world’s obsession with ownership means that Sheeran can’t simply relax now. In fact, he has already been hit with another lawsuit. What makes this case worse is that it is alleged he copied his hit song “Thinking out loud” not from a living artist, but from “Let’s get it on”, by Marvin Gaye, who died in 1984. # ⚓ Walled Culture ☛ Coming_soon:_the_next_phase_of copyright_maximalism_–_destroying_the_public_domain⠀⇛ The public domain is the natural state of creative material. It’s where creations end up once copyright’s monopoly has expired. Crucially, it is the quid pro quo for that monopoly. The deal is that the creator of a work is granted a government-enforced intellectual monopoly for a limited period, after which the work enters the public domain for anyone to use for any purpose, including commercial ones. That’s the bargain, but it seems that the copyright maximalists in the French Parliament want to renege on it. * § Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾ o § Politics⠀➾ # ⚓ UN_2050⠀⇛ I see that the UN is setting goals for 2050 💁🏻‍♀️ How cute ♥ In this case it’s a zero greenhouse goal for all world-wide air travel by 2050 (somehow also gonna fix the issue that releasing stuff at that altitude, even if it would’ve normally been released at ground level, such as decomposing or burning plants, is extra warming. They’re also betting on tech that doesn’t exist yet to come save us. Why not, then, hold off on their flights until that mythical tech exists? This is something I see again and again and again: “In the future there will be a safe way to do it so let’s do it now 😜” “Oh, I see potato chips are gonna be on sale next Saturday so let’s buy some bags now!” It’s beyond wrong. Of course, it’s wrong like a fox because they don’t really believe that the tech is gonna come. They’re just kidding themselves (and the public) so they can keep flying. All this 2030, 2050 stuff is cheaper than cheap since it’s all talk. I wanna see “OK, starting next month, we will…” I wanna see changes in our present time. o § Technical⠀➾ # ⚓ Simpler_Linux_self-hosting_with_tmux_and_bubblewrap⠀⇛ Let’s say you want to self-host a Gemini capsule and a weblog. Maybe you’ll use a Raspberry Pi or VPS server. Typically, you’d install (or get a pre- installed) operating system, like Debian/Ubuntu. You might then `apt install` a webserver like nginx, and `pip3 install` a Gemini server like JetForce. # ⚓ Why_it’s_OK_that_PGP_sucks⠀⇛ Don’t get me wrong; if you’re in a position to make email encryption work better, please keep up the good work. It’s just that if you’ve heard the cool kids say “I have such-and-such super supreme secure cipher app, that’s what people should use for communication, and email shall be insecure”, I’m like… what I hear is someone saying “I’ve got locks on my house so I don’t need to wear pants in public”. It’s kind of a non-sequiteur. Of course we want secure email. A couple of really good things have happened since the era of PGP. Remember, PGP preceded SSL and TSL (and with them HTTPS). It was released in 1991 when an email was less secure than a postcard. Everyone could read everything, and spoof as anyone. # § Science⠀➾ # ⚓ Re:_Pocket_Calculator⠀⇛ evenfire likes calculators And so do I. In high school I had a math teacher, Mr Anderson, who no one liked. He looked like he was right out of IBM or NASA wearing dress slacks, a white button down short sleeve shirt and a pocket protector. He had been a math teacher for so long he actually taught my dad. While most people hated his class, he was one of the reasons I love math and spent half my time in college in math classes. # § Announcements⠀➾ # ⚓ Finally_Solving_TLGS_Socket_Descriptor_Leak⠀⇛ After months of on and off work, I finally figured out what’s causing TLGS’ crawler to experience socket leak. I’ve a gemlog 4 months ago[1] detailing how I solved it. Well, kinda. I found a misuse of `shared_ptr` and timers causing references to TCP connections not released properly. Solving that drastically reduces how fast open socket count grows – that still makes no sense, but good enough for the time. Sockets should not be growing as I limit the crawler to 16 or 24 concurrent connections at a time in production. # § Programming⠀➾ # ⚓ The_stupid_socket_file_descriptor_leak_in_Dremini⠀⇛ TLGS’[1] crawler has had a crashing issue from the very beginning. The crawler tries to open too many sockets at the same time with the error message “sockets:: createNonblockingOrDie: too many open sockets”. The crawl dispatcher already limited how many concurrent craws can happen at any time. First I thought it was because I make the dispatcher lock free and I screwed up, but no edge cases were discovered after days of simulation and testing. So I made a compermise, the crawler would count open sockets periondically and wait for some to close before continuing asynchronously. Just so I can still claim everything is still lock free. That solves the crawler crashing, but in return the crawler hangs after some time. It’s apparent this is due to some sockets not closing, thus it never drop below the threshold to continue crawling. It’s much less often so I took it and just restart the crawler every time it hangs. # ⚓ Security_bug_in_diohsc_versions_earlier_than_0.1.12⠀⇛ Today I noticed a very stupid security bug in my Gemini client, diohsc, which could potentially be used to circumvent TOFU and run a MitM attack. If you use diohsc, please upgrade to the latest version (0.1.12); typically you can do this by running “cabal update && cabal install diohsc”. =============================================================================== * Gemini_(Primer) links can be opened using Gemini_software. It’s like the World Wide Web but a lot lighter. ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 2364 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐃𝐀𝐈𝐋𝐘 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒 ═════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 10.08.22⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Links_08/10/2022:_TikTok_Tracking_Everyone,_CounterPunch_Appeals_for_Help⠀✐ Posted in News_Roundup at 7:11 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇GNOME bluefish⦈ § Contents⠀➾ * GNU/Linux o Audiocasts/Shows o Graphics_Stack o Instructionals/Technical o Games o Desktop_Environments/WMs # K_Desktop_Environment/KDE_SC/Qt * Distributions_and_Operating_Systems o Mobile_Systems/Mobile_Applications * Free,_Libre,_and_Open_Source_Software o Education o Programming/Development # Python o Standards/Consortia * Leftovers o Science o Education o Hardware o Health/Nutrition/Agriculture o Proprietary o Security # Integrity/Availability/Authenticity # Privacy/Surveillance # Confidentiality o Defence/Aggression o Environment # Energy # Wildlife/Nature o Finance o AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics o Censorship/Free_Speech o Freedom_of_Information_/_Freedom_of_the_Press o Civil_Rights/Policing o Internet_Policy/Net_Neutrality o Monopolies # Patents # Copyrights * Gemini*_and_Gopher o Personal o Politics o Technical # Internet/Gemini # Programming * § GNU/Linux⠀➾ o § Audiocasts/Shows⠀➾ # ⚓ Video ☛ Because_of_Steam_Deck,_I_Sold_My_Desktop_– Invidious⠀⇛ Would someone really honestly sell their desktop PC because of the Steam Deck? Well, lets hope this person has some good reasons! # ⚓ mintCast Pocast ☛ 396.5_–_Newschool_Ransomware_–_mintCast [Ed: Microsoft Windows TCO]⠀⇛ BleepingComputer publishes a series titled “This Week in Ransomware” each week as a news summary on this topic. In early September they covered multiple times schools being increasingly targeted by ransomware and we decided to cover it in the innards. # ⚓ mintCast Pocast ☛ 397_–_Bye_Bye_Stadia_–_mintCast⠀⇛ First up in the news, Monthly Mintyness, Gnome gnarliness, and KDE K-ness, Ubuntu 22.10 gets fresh, Ubuntu now on AWS, Brave blocks consent, Google kills another app, GNU Toolchain moves, Matrix patches holes, new Shotcut, new Audacity, and more… In security and privacy, a new virus for Windows and Linux; Then in our Wanderings, Joe is fixing bikes on his audiobookshelf, Moss has more classes, and Bill gets Nextcloud running; # ⚓ Video ☛ TikTok_Tracking_Non-Users_–_Invidious⠀⇛ This week in Privacy News, we look at the cost of living life online, governments considering centralizing ID to safeguard it, and the CLOUDAct is now online. # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Hackaday_Podcast_188:_Zapping_Cockroaches, Tricking_AIs,_Antique_3D_Scanning,_And_Grinding_Chips_To QFN⠀⇛ It’s déjà vu all over again as Hackaday Editor-in- Chief Elliot Williams gets together with Staff Writer Dan Maloney to look over the best hacks from the past week. If you’ve got a fear of giant cockroaches, don’t worry; we’ll only mention the regular ones when we talk about zapping them with lasers. What do you need to shrinkify an NES? Just a little sandpaper and a lot of finesse. o § Graphics Stack⠀➾ # ⚓ Talospace ☛ More_Cores_For_Mesa_llvmpipe⠀⇛ While various alternatives like Libre-SoC continue development, the only 3D solution right now for a system that wants to run entirely open is a software rasterizer like llvmpipe, and even though it supports ppc64le its performance has not been great historically on our systems — see my poor struggling 4-core Blackbird running Xonotic at 1080p on the right. Fortunately, a modest but noticeable improvement is landing which should help. Apparently there’s a hard cap of 16 threads, meaning all but the smallest 4-core Blackbird and T2 Lite machines were going underutilized, so now the cap is raised to 32. o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾ # ⚓ Its FOSS ☛ How_to_Use_Raspberry_Pi_via_VNC_–_It’s_FOSS⠀⇛ Building a project where you need to access the Raspberry Pi remotely? You can enable SSH on the Pi and access it remotely via a terminal from another system. However, not everyone is comfortable with the terminal and commands. An alternative is to access the Raspberry Pi via VNC. This way, you create a remote connection to the Pi and use it graphically like it was connected to your monitor and keyboard. # ⚓ nixCraft ☛ How_to_install_dig,_delv,_host_commands_on FreeBSD⠀⇛ FreeBSD default comes with a drill command to see information about DNS. The userspace tools for FreeBSD come from the latest version of the BIND- TOOLs package. It includes delv, dig, host, nslookup, and nsupdate. Let us see how to search and install dig, delv, and host commands on FreeBSD using the pkg command. # ⚓ LinuxTechi ☛ How_to_Create_LVM_Partition_Step-by-Step_in Linux⠀⇛ In this guide, we will cover how to create lvm partition step-by-step in Linux. LVM stands for Logical Volume Management, it is the recommended way to manage disk or storage on Linux systems specially for servers. One of the main advantages of LVM partition is that we can extend its size online without any downtime. LVM partition can also be reduced but it is not recommended. For the demo purpose, I have attached 15GB disk to my Ubuntu 22.04 system, we will create LVM partition on this disk from the command line. # ⚓ Linux Handbook ☛ Using_tcpdump_Command_in_Linux_to_Analyze Network⠀⇛ Tcpdump is a great tool for analyzing networks and hunting down associated network problems. It captures packets as they go by and shows you what’s going on and coming in on your network. The output from the command displays on the STDOUT and can also be stored in a file. # ⚓ FOSSLinux ☛ How_to_install_Budgie_Desktop_in_Ubuntu_|_FOSS Linux⠀⇛ Budgie desktop is an elegant-looking desktop environment developed by the Solus project. This GNOME-based desktop is simple, fast, and easy to use. Also, it is one of the few desktop environments designed explicitly for the Solus OS. Budgies’ philosophy is to offer an easy-to-use desktop environment that is visually appealing and user-friendly. It was first developed in 2013 by Joshua Strobl, Ikey Doherty, and Solus’s project team as a project to succeed in the GNOME 2 desktop environment. Initially designed for the Solus version of the Linux distro, Budgie can now be incorporated into any Linux distro. The name “Budgie” was taken from the famous Budgie bird. For those looking for a desktop that is akin to GNOME but with boosted functionality, a few extra features, and a modern look and feel, then Budgie is worth giving a shot at. # ⚓ Linux Nightly ☛ How_to_View_IP_Address_on_Linux_–_Linux Nightly⠀⇛ There are several ways to view your system’s IP address in Linux. In this tutorial, you will learn how to see your IP address from command line and GUI. # ⚓ Trend Oceans ☛ How_to_Remove_and_Disable_an_Individual_PPA in_Ubuntu_22.04_–_TREND_OCEANS⠀⇛ In three simple steps, you will be able to disable PPA from your Ubuntu system, and later, you will also learn how to remove any additional PPA from Ubuntu in the following subsection. # ⚓ H2S Media ☛ How_to_install_Tilda_Terminal_in_Ubuntu_22.04 LTS⠀⇛ Tutorial to learn the steps to install Tilda Terminal in Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Linux Jammy JellyFish to replace the default Gnome one. Tilda is another best free and open-source terminal applications to install and use in Ubuntu Linux. It is available to install using the default APT package manager and repository of Ubuntu. Tilda offers a terminal that can be accessed by pressing a keyboard shortcut (default: Q1 ) open from the top of the screen to the bottom or disappear again. You have a command line ready in seconds, which never stands in the way and also looks good – and that is meant objectively because it is customizable in terms of layout. For that, you will have a long list of options. Furthermore, tabs are also supported, so that despite many open terminal sessions, everything remains relatively clear. Unfortunately, it is not possible to provide the tabs with their labels. # ⚓ Klara ☛ Building_Your_Own_FreeBSD-based_NAS_with_ZFS:_Part 3:_NAS_Sharing_Using_NFS,_Samba_and_iSCSI_Shares⠀⇛ Today, we’ll concentrate on exposing the data on your NAS to the network using NFS, Samba, and iSCSI shares. We’ll provide an overview of each type of share to help guide you in deciding which is most suited to the clients that will be accessing the NAS. We’ll also point out configuration parameters which are unique to FreeBSD or OpenZFS, as well as any resources for more information. # ⚓ [Old] OSTechNix ☛ Execute_Commands_On_Remote_Linux_Systems Via_SSH:_Invoking_Commands_Or_Programs_On_Remote_Machines Over_A_Secure_Network_Connection⠀⇛ The other day I was testing how to keep file permissions intact while copying files or directories to multiple locations and systems. When I wanted to check the file permissions on a remote system, I had to login to that system over SSH and check the attributes. The process of login and log- out from the remote system multiple times was bit annoying to me. I thought it would be better if I could execute commands on remote Linux systems via SSH. Fortunately, I found a workaround to invoke commands and programs on a remote machine over a secure network connection after skimming through the man pages of ssh command. # ⚓ Manuel Matuzovic ☛ Day_9:_the_inset_shorthand_property⠀⇛ It’s time to get me up on speed with modern CSS. There’s so much new in CSS that I know too little about. To change that I’ve started #100DaysOfMoreOrLessModernCSS. Why more or less modern CSS? Because some topics will be about cutting-edge features, while other stuff has been around for quite a while already, but I just have little to no experience with it. # ⚓ Manuel Matuzovic ☛ Day_10:_global_styles_and_web components⠀⇛ I was wondering what happens with HTML elements in web components when I add styles to the document. Under which circumstances do global styles defined in a style element or external stylesheet apply to these elements? As it turns out, it depends on how you create and use the components. In my test setup I have an HTML document, a stylesheet and three different components. # ⚓ uni Toronto ☛ My_performance_intuitions_and_the complexities_of_SSD_performance⠀⇛ Back in the old days of mechanical hard drives (HDDs, aka ‘spinning rust’), it was possible to feel that you had a reasonable general understanding of their performance because they were physical objects with relatively straightforward general operating principles. For example, they read your data by moving ‘the’ drive head to the track and then listening to the track as it spun past underneath the head to read either the individual sectors you wanted or (toward the end) the entire track (and then extracting what you wanted). You could almost always assume that these physical actions were the limiting factor on IO performance, and for a long time they didn’t change very fast (especially the time it took to move the head to a track). # ⚓ Jeff Geerling ☛ Monitoring_my_ASUS_RT-AX86U_Router_with Prometheus_and_Grafana⠀⇛ Sometimes having the raw data from the router that’s on the edge of the network can tell a different story than measuring things behind the router. So I want to grab this data and put it into Prometheus. With the stock ASUS firmware, this isn’t really possible. But after reading a blog post about someone else monitoring an RT-AC86U with Prometheus, I decided to give it a shot on mine. I already run the ASUSWRT-Merlin firmware on my router, since I like having SSH access to it and can install some network utilities on it via a USB stick. # ⚓ Jan Piet Mens ☛ Ansible_module_defaults_and_a_lookup plugin⠀⇛ When calling Ansible modules frequently with similar parameters, module_defaults can save on typing and, almost more importantly, improve on clarity by defining default values for modules I use in a play. Let’s look at a small example in which I want to clear records for a host from a dynamic DNS server and then add it in again. In all invocations of the nsupdate module I would need to specify key name, algorithm, server, etc., but through the use of module_defaults I can set default values and no longer have to specify these repetitively on individual tasks. # ⚓ [Old] TuMFatig ☛ Ads_blocking_with_OpenBSD_unbound(8)⠀⇛ The Internet is full of Ads and Trackers. And a way to avoid those is to simply not reach the stinky servers. This can be partially done using a local DNS resolver. This article is a reboot of both the 2019 Blocking Ads using unbound on OpenBSD and Storing unbound logs into InfluxDB posts ; hopefully improved. # ⚓ Nicholas Tietz-Sokolsky ☛ Starting_my_(overkill)_homelab⠀⇛ I’ve set up a homelab finally! This is something I’ve wanted for a while and finally the timing was right. The right project came along to justify it, so I took the plunge. Naturally, that leads to a few questions: What’s a home lab? Why do you want one? And what is the shiny hardware? (That last one is the dessert if you get through the rest 😉.) # ⚓ Red Hat ☛ How_does_RPM_package_discovery_work?_|_Red_Hat Developer⠀⇛ Learn how dnf works under the covers to find and install packages on Linux. # ⚓ UNIX Cop ☛ How_to_install_WordPress_using_WP-CLI_on_Ubuntu 22.04⠀⇛ In this post, you will learn how to install WordPress using WP-CLI on Ubuntu 22.04 The process is simple, so let’s go for it. As we all know, WordPress is a CMS tool that allows you to quickly deploy dynamic websites without too much effort. Although it mostly works on blogs, also with certain plugins you can do anything with it. It is in the plugins and the large number of themes that WordPress excels. Making with a few clicks your site entirely different from the previous one. Today, we will install it, but using a tool that will help us to make the process even easier. o § Games⠀➾ # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ The_Undead_are_invading_Prison_Architect_in the_next_expansion⠀⇛ Prison Architect – Undead is the next expansion to the building and management sim, with things about to get spooky. # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Facepunch_put_out_a_fresh_statement_on_Rust for_Steam_Deck_/_Linux⠀⇛ I recently wrote about how it’s looking pretty unlikely that Rust will actually be supported on Steam Deck / Linux with Proton, and it’s not looking any better right now. # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ The_latest_Godot_Engine_showreel_is_an impressive_look_at_upcoming_games⠀⇛ Every now and then the developers of Godot Engine, a cross-platform free and open source game engine, put together a showreel of what’s made with it. # ⚓ Vice Media Group ☛ Magic:_The_Gathering_Celebrates_30_Year Anniversary_by_Selling_$1,000_Boosters⠀⇛ Popular collectible card game Magic: The Gathering is celebrating its 30th anniversary by releasing packs of cards that cost $999. It’s called Magic: The Gathering 30th Anniversary Edition and will contain some cards that haven’t been reprinted in decades, all with their original art. o § Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾ # § K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt⠀➾ # ⚓ DebugPoint ☛ Make_KDE_Control_Centre_Look_Like_macOS with_this_Widget⠀⇛ In the KDE Plasma desktop, the default system tray menu may not feel appealing from a look standpoint. Although it is rich in functionalities such as you can get access to all necessary system features and tweaks from here. However, thanks to KDE’s customization capabilities, a new desktop widget is available now to give a macOS-like system tray menu. # ⚓ Nate Graham ☛ These_weeks_in_KDE:_Akademy_and_Plasma 5.26_–_Adventures_in_Linux_and_KDE⠀⇛ Over the past two weeks, the KDE community has largely been preparing for and attending Akademy, the big annual in-person conference. It’s a great time to bond socially and discuss important topics face-to-face, and more on that later! Meanwhile we’ve also been getting Plasma 5.26 ready, which has benefited from a major focus on stability. Expect that to ramp up now that Akademy is finished. More on that later as well! * § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾ o § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ The_AGM_H5_Combines_Android_with_a_Rugged_Design_– Phandroid⠀⇛ # ⚓ CNET ☛ Google_Pixel_Watch_Hands-On:_Fitbit_Debuts_on_an Android_Watch_–_CNET⠀⇛ # ⚓ TechRadar ☛ New_Android_13_beta_makes_it_easier_to_track battery_usage_on_Pixel_phones_|_TechRadar⠀⇛ # ⚓ GSM Arena ☛ OnePlus_7,_7_Pro,_7T,_and_7T_Pro_finally receive_Android_12_update_–_GSMArena.com_news⠀⇛ # ⚓ Forbes ☛ Android_Circuit:_Pixel_7_Pro_Excitement,_OnePlus’ Trees,_Xiaomi_12T_Pro_Reviews⠀⇛ # ⚓ Android Police ☛ Google_is_already_scaling_back_Assistant Driving_Mode,_marking_the_true_death_of_Android_Auto_on_your phone⠀⇛ # ⚓ Hindustan Times ☛ Do_NOT_download_GB_WhatsApp!_It_can_spy on_your_Android_phone_|_Mobile_News⠀⇛ * § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾ o ⚓ IT Pro Today ☛ OpenStack_Zed_Updates_Open_Source_Cloud_IaaS⠀⇛ After 12 years and 26 releases, the open source OpenStack cloud project continues to add incremental features and new projects to help cloud operators. o ⚓ Mailing list ARChives ☛ OpenBGPD_7.7_released⠀⇛ This release includes the following changes to the previous release: [...] o § Education⠀➾ # ⚓ Raspberry Pi ☛ Retro_education⠀⇛ Our big theme in this edition of The MagPi has been retro computing. I remember getting into computers when I was little. One day, a BBC Micro turned up at school and I was hooked. My dad took some persuading, but eventually I sweet-talked him into buying the family a ZX Spectrum 48K. Neither of my two older sisters was interested, so I got it all to myself. # ⚓ October_2022_FreeBSD_Hackathon⠀⇛ A FreeBSD Hackathon will take place in Aberdeen, Scotland from the 5th of October to the 8th of October 2022. The hackathon will be hosted by 57 North Hacklab. o § Programming/Development⠀➾ # ⚓ Francesco Mazzoli ☛ Lánczos_interpolation_explained⠀⇛ Lánczos interpolation is one of the most popular methods to resize images, together with linear and cubic interpolation. I’ve spent a lot of time staring at images resampled with Lánczos, and a few years ago, I wondered where it came from. While many sources evaluate interpolation filters visually, I couldn’t find a good explanation of how Lánczos interpolation is derived. So here it is! In this post I do not attempt to explain what a Fourier transform does, so if you do not know that already you might find the mathematical details unclear. However, I do try to visualize and explain the intuition behind all the ideas.1 # ⚓ [Old] So_you’re_using_a_weird_language⠀⇛ Looking through Bozhidar Batsov notate his first impressions of OCaml and him previously asking its users about their workflows after finding its REPL/ interactivity story more limited than Clojure, I realised I have some experience with the statement “I’m gonna write a program using a weird language,” I thought I’d write a few narratives and strategies. # ⚓ Haki Benita ☛ Future_Proofing_SQL_with_Carefully_Placed Errors⠀⇛ Backward compatibility is straightforward. You have full control over new code and you have full knowledge of past data and APIs. Forward compatibility is more challenging. You have full control over new code, but you don’t know how data is going to change in the future, and what types of API you’re going to have to support. There are many best practices for maintaining backward and forward compatibility in application code, but it’s not very commonly mentioned in relation to SQL. SQL is used to produce critical business information for applications and decision- making, so there’s no reason it shouldn’t benefit from similar practices. In this article, I present one simple way to future-proof SQL. # § Python⠀➾ # ⚓ Refactoring_Russian_Doll_Code⠀⇛ Jane inherited a mess of code, and had to get it working as quickly as possible. She tidied up it as best as she could in the time, but now that the company depended on it, it needed some attention. We referred to it as her “Russian Doll code” because it had many nested functions, each passing the same giant nested lists back and forth. I could see that it frustrated her every time she had to touch it as she knew there was a better way to structure the code. We booked in some 1:1 support sessions and sat down together with the aim of making the code easier to work with. # ⚓ Lee Yingtong Li ☛ SciPy_distribution_for_the_odds ratio_of_independent_beta_variables⠀⇛ In biostatistics, a common effect measure when considering dichotomous exposures and outcomes is the odds ratio. With two proportions $π_0$ and $π_1$, the odds ratio is $ψ = \frac{π_1 / (1 – π_1)}{π_0 / (1 – π_0)}$, as compared to the risk ratio, $ρ = \frac{π_1}{π_0}$. Compared to the risk ratio, the odds ratio has the advantage that it is symmetric with respect to the exposure and outcome, and so can be computed from a case- control study where the population incidence of the outcome is not measured. # ⚓ Lee Yingtong Li ☛ Directly_computing_HDIs_from_PDFs in_SciPy⠀⇛ In Bayesian inference, it is often desired to calculate credible intervals for model parameters. The 2 common choices are the highest posterior density interval (HPD/HDI), and the equal-tailed interval. In many cases, the posterior density must be estimated by simulation, but in some cases the posterior density has a known closed-form expression, which enables these intervals to be directly computed. # ⚓ Rlang ☛ R_Shiny_vs_Shiny_for_Python:_What_are_the_Key Differences⠀⇛ If you haven’t been living under a rock for the past couple of weeks, you’ve likely noticed some groundbreaking news in the Shiny department. Yes, it’s finally available for Python! But how is the current Shiny for Python version? How does R Shiny compare vs Shiny for Python (PyShiny)? We have the answers, so continue reading. o § Standards/Consortia⠀➾ # ⚓ Jim Nielsen ☛ Patching⠀⇛ He outlines the ways he commonly opens the developer tools and tweaks websites to do what he wants or needs — an empowering feeling! I find myself doing this a lot, so I figured I’d document a couple recent examples where I empowered myself with a little devtools magic — all due to the open nature of the web, an attribute where native apps fall woefully short. * § Leftovers⠀➾ o ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Popeye_Knows_When_It’s_Time_For_the_Spinach_–_Do We?⠀⇛ Popeye knows when it’s time to reach for that can of detestable spinach. But real-life people who are brought “to their knees” by impossibility and must either “let go or die” have, too, gone as far as they can on their own power. The alcoholic who admits her powerlessness opens a door to the possible; she gains a spiritual (super)power which can change her life. Does it seem, now, as the horizon of the collective global future sinks lower and lower, that any way a white liberal like me can learn from impossibility – the lessons historically left for those at society’s bottom – ought to be taken up, now? Ought we not now put ourselves voluntarily into situations and circumstances that limit the “freedom” we know isn’t free, the unacceptable cost being limitations it places on the possibilities for others so we can keep ours? Ought we not now to choose local living as means to the revolution of values? Ought we solemnly vow to stay face-to-face in this community, this particular place, among these imperfect friends and relatives, this damaged and ailing butt end of the economy, this society that has at best half its attention here, the rest on travel, building the new home, the continuously fascinating world available via screens – so we can learn at last the transformative secrets of impossibility? o ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ United_We_Suck⠀⇛ o ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Passing_the_Bucks_and_the_Baton⠀⇛ Orchestral musicians were commanded by a conductor who kept the regiments under him (strings, brass, winds) in strict sonic formation trained to follow his commands. o ⚓ EFF ☛ Digital_Rights_Updates_with_EFFector_34.5⠀⇛ Make sure you never miss an issue by signing up by email to receive EFFector as soon as it’s posted! Since 1990 EFF has published EFFector to help keep readers on the bleeding edge of their digital rights. We know that the intersection of technology, civil liberties, human rights, and the law can be complicated, so EFFector is a great way to stay on top of things. The newsletter is chock full of links to updates, announcements, blog posts, and other stories to help keep readers—and listeners—up to date on the movement to protect online privacy and free expression.  o ⚓ Bruce Perens ☛ Utility_Forgets_It’s_Mitigation_Obligations⠀⇛ Over the years, EBMUD forgot its mitigation obligation and built its own infrastructure into the basketball court space. Finally, they sent a rather nasty sounding memo to the property owners in the neighborhood demanding that we remove the basketball stand that we illegally left on their property, or they would eject it on to our street (which is private property, not city-maintained). And stating that their reservoir was a “secure facility” and that we may not be there to play basketball. o ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ What_You_Don’t_Have_and_Why⠀⇛ No facilities for that. o ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Eduardo_Arroyo_With_James_Joyce_in_New_York⠀⇛ Before leaving the exhibition I say goodbye to the painter’s widow and in her small group I discover Eduardo Lago, a Spanish writer based in New York. We talk about the novel ‘Ulysses’ by James Joyce, which Eduardo Arroyo accompanied with his illustrations, which have been published in an English and a Spanish edition, and will soon be published in a Chinese one. We also talk about ‘Ulysses’ in another context: the writer has published a reading guide in his most recent book ‘We All Are Leopold Bloom’ (in Galaxia Gutenberg, like the Spanish edition illustrated by Arroyo) and he recommends that I go to see the exhibition that the Morgan Library in New York is holding to commemorate the centenary of the publication of ‘Ulysses’. o § Science⠀➾ # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Cosmonaut_Anna_Kikina_becomes_first_Russian_woman to_fly_to_the_International_Space_Station_It’s_hard_to believe,_but_Russia_and_the_US_are_still_cooperating_in_space —_Meduza⠀⇛ On October 5, Russian cosmonaut Anna Kikina became the first Russian woman to fly to the International Space Station. She flew on spacecraft Dragon, which was launched in Florida as part of a joint program between Elon Musk’s company SpaceX and NASA. Her flight almost didn’t happen because of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, which caused Western countries to back out of many joint projects with Russia in the realm of space exploration. However, a crew exchange program between Russia and the US has continued despite the war and subsequent sanctions. In coming years, three Russian cosmonauts will fly with NASA crews on American spacecraft, and three American astronauts will fly with Russian crews on Russian ships. # ⚓ [Old] Hven:_Landskrona,_Sweden⠀⇛ Named after Urania, the Muse of Astronomy, Uraniborg took the form of a stately Dutch-inspired castle. With astronomical observations as the chief design criteria, Uraniborg is considered the first custom-built observatory (it also holds the distinction of being the last observatory to be built without a telescope as its major instrument). The primary instruments were housed in several towers with outdoor observing decks, providing maximum coverage of the sky. Meanwhile, the building’s strict north-south layout simplified the alignment of the great mural quadrant. This instrument is used to measure the angle of an object in the sky, and Tycho’s happened to be one of the largest astronomical instruments of its time (and part of the reason for the observer’s reputation for unrivaled accuracy). # ⚓ [Old] Category_of_Astronomical_Heritage:_tangible immovable:_Uraniborg_and_Stellaeburgum,_Sweden⠀⇛ Tycho’s observatories, Uraniborg and Stellaeburgum (Stjerneborg), on the Danish Island of Hven in the Øresund between Zealand and Scania (today Ven, Swedish). # ⚓ [Old] Uraniborg_Observatory_Ruins⠀⇛ The main building of Uraniborg was square, about 15 meters on a side, and built mostly of red brick. Two semi-circular towers, one each on the north and south sides of the main building, giving the building a somewhat rectangular shape overall. The observatory had a large mural quadrant affixed to a north-south wall, used to measure the altitude of stars as they passed the meridian. This, along with many other instruments of the observatory, was depicted and described in detail in Brahe’s 1598 book Astronomiae instauratae mechanica. # ⚓ [Old] The_island_Hven⠀⇛ The Swedish island Hven is located 4.3 kilometres off the coast of Sweden, in the Öresund. The island belonged to Denmark in the 16th century and was given to Tycho Brahe by the Danish king Frederik II for research purposes. The monarch guaranteed the astronomer two percent of his household for installing and equipping his observatories Uraniborg and Stjerneborg. # ⚓ NPR ☛ Stripped_to_the_bones:_Why_a_new_NYC_concert_hall sounds_so_much_better⠀⇛ “There’s an analogy that I think explains it very well,” said the Philharmonic’s Borda, “which is the hall is like an instrument, and the New York Philharmonic is learning to play its new instrument.” # ⚓ Quillette ☛ Robert_Trivers_and_the_Riddle_of_Evolved Altruism⠀⇛ Altruistic behavior toward one’s offspring or other kin is not terribly puzzling since they are genetically related. More puzzling was the development of altruistic behavior toward unrelated others, which does appear to be antithetical to the basic, self-serving fitness interest that underlies evolutionary theory. However, Robert Trivers, in what quickly came to be considered a classic paper, developed the concept of “reciprocal altruism” which sought to explain the adaptive advantage of altruistic behavior toward unrelated others. He was even able to explain altruistic acts between members of different species which, of course, is an extreme example of a lack of genetic relatedness. Trivers’s concept of reciprocal altruism is based on the notion that an altruistic act can at some point be returned. For example, Trivers described the relationship between certain host fish and unrelated cleaner fish. The cleaner’s diet consists of parasites removed from the host, which can often involve entering the host’s mouth. Cleaner fish are not common so host fish often return to the same cleaner who stays in one location. o § Education⠀➾ # ⚓ Sean Conner ☛ Thus_spake_the_master_programmer:_“time_for you_to_leave.”⠀⇛ It was time for me to leave. There were a few red flags indicating that perhaps I should have left earlier (such as the rest of my team leaving the company at the same time) but after twelve years, it was probably time. # ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Jim_Mamer:_Fake_Journalism_Is_Only_the_First Draft_of_Fake_History⠀⇛ 35 year teaching veteran Jim Mamer explores the areas of history many schools fail to teach and what it means about the state of the world today, on this week’s “Scheer Intelligence.” # ⚓ The Nation ☛ For_Undergrads,_the_Best_Extracurricular_Is_a Labor_Union⠀⇛ In 2019, the National Labor Relations Board proposed shrinking the definition of “employee” to exclude college students working for their university in connection with their studies. In their eyes, the relationship between a private university and a student worker engaged in teaching or research was primarily educational, not financial. # ⚓ Telex (Hungary) ☛ Close_to_a_thousand_people_show_up_to support_Budapest_teachers_warned_for_protesting⠀⇛ # ⚓ Telex (Hungary) ☛ Teachers’_Unions_send_open_letter_to Orbán_demanding_immediate_convening_of_strike_committee⠀⇛ o § Hardware⠀➾ # ⚓ Open_Letter:_General_Purpose_Robots_Should_Not_Be Weaponized⠀⇛ We pledge that we will not weaponize our advanced- mobility general-purpose robots or the software we develop that enables advanced robotics and we will not support others to do so. When possible, we will carefully review our customers’ intended applications to avoid potential weaponization. We also pledge to explore the development of technological features that could mitigate or reduce these risks. To be clear, we are not taking issue with existing technologies that nations and their government agencies use to defend themselves and uphold their laws. # ⚓ Liam Proven ☛ How_to_tell_a_mainframe_from_a_minicomputer from_a_micro⠀⇛ Microcomputer: the simplest category. The entire processor is implemented on a single silicon chip, a microprocessor. Early machines very small and simple, driven by 1 terminal with 1 user. No multitasking, no file or other resource sharing, no networking, no communications except typically 1 terminal and maybe a printer. Instead of 1 computer per department, 1 computer per person. Facilities added by standardised expansion cards. This is the era of standardisation and commoditisation. Due largely to microcomputers, things like the size of bytes, their encoding and so on were fixed. 8 bits to a byte, ASCII coding, etc. # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ A_CRT_Monitor_From_An_Obsolete_Logic_Analyzer⠀⇛ The designers of older equipment that contained a CRT monitor rarely made the effort to design their own driver and deflection circuitry. Instead they were more likely to buy an off  the shelf assembly from a monitor manufacturer, and simply supply it with their video. [TomV] has an old HP 16500A logic analyzer, and in it he found a Sony monitor chassis. With a quest for a microfiche service manual and a bit of reverse engineering, he was able to hook it up to a VGA port and use it as an extension monitor for his laptop. # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Ceiling_Fan_Adds_CO2_Sensor⠀⇛ Ceiling fans seem to be an oft-misunderstood or overlooked household appliance. As such, they seem to have missed a lot of the IoT wave. Sure, you can get smart controllers for them to plug into your home automation system of choice, but these mostly rely on temperature sensors, simple timers, or voice commands. There’s a lot more to a ceiling fan than maintaining a comfortable temperature, as [EJ] demonstrates with this smarter ceiling fan build. # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Flux:_A_Forty_Foot_Long_Kinetic_Art_Piece⠀⇛ No office space is complete without some eye- catching art piece to gawp at whilst you mull over your latest problem. But LED-based displays are common enough to be boring these days. Kinetic art pieces are where it’s at, and this piece called Flux is a perfect example. # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ 3D_Printing_Hard-To-Find_Vintage_Vehicle_Parts⠀⇛ When I was growing up, my dad and I restored classic cars. Combing junkyards for the pieces we needed was a mixture of interesting and frustrating since there was always something you couldn’t find no matter how long you looked. [Emily Velasco] was frustrated by the high price of parts even when she was able to find them, so she decided to print them herself. She wrote an excellent tutorial about designing and 3D printing replica parts if you find yourself in a similar situation. # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ PCB-Filled_Dream_Desk_Will_Only_Get_Cooler_With Age⠀⇛ We all have one. Maybe you’re sitting at it now, or just wishing you were — that perfect desk. You know the one — a place for everything and everything in its place, ample acreage, specialized storage, and top-notch looks. Oh, and blinkenlights. Can’t forget those. o § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾ # ⚓ VOA News ☛ Mixed_Reactions_Over_Kenya’s_Move_to_Lift_Ban_on Genetically_Modified_Crops⠀⇛ At a press conference in Nairobi, more than 10 civil society organizations asked the government to reinstate the ban and look for alternative solutions to the challenges of food security in the country. Ann Maina is national coordinator of one of the groups, the Biodiversity and Biosafety Association of Kenya. # ⚓ Gannett ☛ Many_Americans_arrested_for_marijuana_won’t_find relief_under_Biden’s_pardon_plan⠀⇛ # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Advocates_Lament_‘Extremely_Disappointing’ Exclusion_of_Noncitizens_From_Biden_Marijuana_Pardons⠀⇛ “Federal immigration authorities regularly deny green card and citizenship applications due to marijuana possession convictions.” # ⚓ Reason ☛ Biden_Is_Still_Seeking_Potential_Life_Sentences for_Distributing_Weed,_Even_As_He_Pardons_for_Possession⠀⇛ Consider, for example, that just months ago, Biden’s Department of Justice successfully prosecuted a man named Jonathan Wall and sought 10 years to life in prison for the crime of conspiracy to distribute cannabis. While Biden deserves praise for pardoning people no longer imprisoned, it is important to remember that he is extending that olive branch while insisting that the people who sold them marijuana should be caged for decades. # ⚓ The Nation ☛ Biden_Just_Made_Marijuana_Reform_a_Major_2022 Issue._Democrats_Should_Run_With_It.⠀⇛ Because marijuana’s federal classification as a Schedule 1 drug, like heroin, has led to unwarranted criminal prosecutions and criminal records for those who are convicted, the president is asking Attorney General Merrick Garland and Secretary of Health and Human Services Xavier Becerra to “review expeditiously how marijuana is scheduled under federal law.” While that’s a long way from endorsing legalization, it’s a vital step in the direction of decriminalization at the federal level. # ⚓ Teen Vogue ☛ Justin_Jones,_Tennessee_State_Representative, Urges_Young_People_to_Get_Into_Good_Trouble⠀⇛ In the summer of 2020, I faced 14 charges for organizing protests for racial justice and police accountability during a 62-day sit-in outside the state capitol. I experienced firsthand how calls for ending police violence are met with more police violence, mass arrests, and state surveillance. This system needs to be radically changed. More policing does not lead to community safety. We need to create and fund emergency services that are not driven by police response, and we need to recognize the roots of policing in this nation. That is what I heard in the grassroots call to “defund the police” — a parallel mandate to allocate more funding to social workers, public education, ending poverty, and true policies of community safety. # ⚓ VOA News ☛ Artist_Turns_Iran_Fountains_Red_to_Reflect Bloody_Crackdown⠀⇛ Despite the security forces’ use of lethal force in a bid to crush them, the protests have continued for 20 consecutive days and nights, according to online videos verified by AFP. Images of the blood red fountains were shared online by the 1500tasvir social media channel that monitors violations in the Islamic republic. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Covid_Inaction_Leaves_US_Facing_‘Major Storm_Without_Even_an_Umbrella_in_Hand,’_Experts_Warn⠀⇛ “Pandemics do not end with a flip of a switch.” # ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ Decriminalize_&_Deschedule:_Advocates Welcome_Biden_Pardons_But_Demand_Deeper_Reform_of_Cannabis Laws⠀⇛ President Joe Biden announced Thursday that he is pardoning everyone convicted of simple marijuana possession under federal law, and said the classification of the drug would undergo review. The move will remove many legal barriers for thousands of people to gain jobs, housing, college admission and federal benefits, and fulfills a campaign pledge made by Biden. However, the pardons will only affect about 6,500 people, as the vast majority of drug charges are at the state level and are disproportionately affecting communities of color. “We are demanding that the president actually deschedule and decriminalize cannabis,” says Kassandra Frederique, executive director of the Drug Policy Alliance. # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ How_Cuba_is_Dealing_With_the_Devastation_of Hurricane_Ian⠀⇛ Prepare and Relieve o § Proprietary⠀➾ # ⚓ India Times ☛ Your_smart_watches_may_be_vulnerable_to hacking⠀⇛ Apart from the rapidly increasing usage of smart phones and watches, augmented reality headsets, ingestible and implantable smart devices like pacemakers and automated insulin patches are pouring into the market faster than any laws for their usage. India currently does not have any law for these devices falling in the category of Internet of Bodies (IoB). The term IoB, which was coined in 2016, describes connected devices that monitor the human body, collect physiological, biometric, or behavioral data, and exchange information over a wireless or hybrid network. # ⚓ Vice Media Group ☛ These_Developers_Fixed_Instagram. Facebook_Banned_Their_Accounts.⠀⇛ Developers of an app that clones Instagram without the ads claim that Facebook and Instagram banned the personal accounts of their staff, in retaliation for making a better version of Instagram. A spokesperson for The OG App told Motherboard that since the team’s personal accounts were not linked to the app, they believe that a Meta employee searched their identities on Google to carry out the bans. “This is a gross misuse of their power and this is clearly extralegal retaliation simply because we made Instagram into something people actually want to use,” The OG App said in an email to Motherboard. # ⚓ Apple’s_New_AirPods_Are_Telling_Users_to_Replace_the Batteries_Already._Too_Bad_That’s_Impossible⠀⇛ Just a week after the launch of Apple’s AirPod Pro 2, new owners started receiving an unusual alert: It was, apparently, time to replace their batteries soon. This is unusual, of course, both because the AirPod Pros are brand new—and because it is, for all intents and purposes, impossible to replace said battery. In fact, the AirPods have a reputation as being one of the most famously unfixable pieces of consumer electronics of the modern era. Which is precisely why we were eager to get our hands onto these, “the world’s most popular headphones”—the second generation AirPods Pro. We wanted to see if, as with the iPhone 4, anything had changed. Well, we’re sorry to say the irony of Apple’s device telling you to replace a battery that cannot physically be replaced will live on: The AirPods are as unrepairable as ever. o § Security⠀➾ # ⚓ Krebs On Security ☛ Report:_Big_U.S._Banks_Are_Stiffing Account_Takeover_Victims⠀⇛ # ⚓ Ongoing_0-day_attacks_backdoor_Zimbra_servers_by_sending_a malicious_email [Ed: This was already patched upstream; the Zimbra issue is old news (about a month old) and servers have already been patched by responsible administrators]⠀⇛ # ⚓ What_We_Know_About_the_Zero-Day_Vulnerability_Affecting Zimbra_Collaboration_and_cpio_|_Flashpoint [Ed: Well, this seems to be a way to distract from several critical Microsoft flaws, including those affecting Exchange in a critical fashion]⠀⇛ A zero-day vulnerability was reported in the Zimbra forums by a threat actor. Reports state that the 0day is actively being exploited. # ⚓ Reproducible_Builds_in_September_2022⠀⇛ David A. Wheeler reported to us that the US National Security Agency (NSA), Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) have released a document called Securing the Software Supply Chain: Recommended Practices Guide for Developers (PDF). # § Integrity/Availability/Authenticity⠀➾ # ⚓ Matt Rickard ☛ Reentrancy_Attacks⠀⇛ Reentrancy is a bit different in smart contract execution. For one, all state is global state. On the other hand, for most EVM implementations, there is no concurrency. However, reentrancy is fairly common, as contracts can arbitrarily call and execute code in other contracts. The attack goes something like this: [...] # § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾ # ⚓ Computer World ☛ Coming_soon_—_a_resume-validating blockchain_network_for_job_seekers⠀⇛ “There’s literally no easy way of verifying records today other than making phone calls and procuring information from various sources,” he said. “And that drives a $17 billion screening services market made up by professional third-party providers. Organizations spend millions of dollars on this. But it’s not the cost that’s the issue. It’s the time it takes; it’s a ball of friction that is the blocker for most of the innovation we need in the job market.” # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Rights_Groups_Call_Biden_Order_for Spying,_Data_Sharing_Deal_With_EU_‘Insufficient’⠀⇛ “This is a partial fix to a substantial problem.” # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ DOJ_Inspector_General_Finds_FBI_Is_Playing By_Its_Own_FISA_Rules⠀⇛ The FBI has always played it fast and loose with FISA (Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act) requirements. It tries to get away with it by shifting its self-perception as needed. When asked why it’s bypassing limitations on backdoor searches, it will plead ignorance, gesturing with its massive hairy hands thoughtfully and saying it’s nothing more than a lowly law enforcement agency that can’t possibly fully understand the complexity of national security laws. # ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ FBI_Crime_Data_Is_Out._Here’s_What_You Need_To_Know⠀⇛ Lies, damned lies, and crime statistics. # ⚓ Computer World ☛ Online_privacy:_Best_browsers, settings,_and_tips⠀⇛ The technology to monitor everything you do has only gotten better. And there are many new ways to monitor you that didn’t exist in 1999: always-listening agents like Amazon Alexa and Apple Siri, Bluetooth beacons in smartphones, cross-device syncing of browsers to provide a full picture of your activities from every device you use, and of course social media platforms like Facebook that thrive because they are designed for you to share everything about yourself and your connections so you can be monetized. Trackers are the latest silent way to spy on you in your browser. CNN, for example, had 36 running when I checked recently. # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ ‘Matter’_Standard_Hopes_To_Clean_Up_The Messy_Smart_Home_Space⠀⇛ If you’ve ever tried to build a “smart home” you’ve probably run face first into no shortage of problems. # ⚓ EFF ☛ Derechos_Digitales_Raises_the_Bar_for_Chilean ISPs’_Privacy_Commitments_in_New_Report⠀⇛ There’s plenty of good news in the report. Even with stricter criteria, Claro, WOM, and VTR received higher scores compared to last year, with Claro earning full credit in all categories and WOM earning full credit in three out of five categories. Another highlight: all companies evaluated received at least partial credit in all categories except for  user notification—an improvement over 2021 results. Nonetheless, user notification remains a challenging category.  Entel, GDT Manquehue, Movistar and VTR failed to take concrete steps to enable a notification system to their users. While many of them reserve the possibility or right to notify users in their policies, they didn’t take more concrete actions or commitments in that direction. As such, Derechos Digitales didn’t give them credit in that category. # § Confidentiality⠀➾ # ⚓ Gregory Hammond ☛ Ways_to_protect_yourself_when_a data_breach_happens⠀⇛ While these suggestions may not completely help if you do appear in a data breach, they are best to do from the start, and may stop someone from getting into another account you have. o § Defence/Aggression⠀➾ # ⚓ Copenhagen Post ☛ Odense_authorities_report_‘crazy’_imam over_Sharia_Law_document⠀⇛ Divorce of this kind is in accordance with Sharia Law, but not Danish divorce law. The document seen by the media outlet had been signed by both the woman involved and imam Abu Bashar. # ⚓ Jihad Watch ☛ South_Africa:_Islamic_State_jihadis_murdered British_botanists_and_fed_them_to_crocodiles⠀⇛ Around two percent of the population in South African is Muslin [sic], and it has never suffered a major Islamist attack. However, it has become a hot-bed of dirty money financing terrorism in southern and east Africa, the Times reports. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Opinion_|_Biden_Should_Not_Fall_for_MBS’s Attempt_to_Dodge_Accountability_for_Khashoggi_Murder⠀⇛ # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Americans_Need_a_Say_in_How_Far_the_US_is Goes_in_Backing_Ukraine⠀⇛ These unidentified “intelligence” officials are claiming Putin would not likely use such nukes, which as in the US nuclear arsenal, can be ‘dialed down’ to as small as 0.5 kiloton or as large as 100 kilotons (the “Fat Man” plutonium bomb that leveled Nagasaki on Aug. 9, 1945 was measured at 21 kilotons, for reference), based on the assumption that global pariah status, further sanctions, and the likelihood that such small nukes would lead to a major NATO response, even if it were non-nuclear, would deter him, not mention increased domestic opposition to nuclear war and opposition from the Russian military. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Decrying_‘Horrible_Madness_of_War,’_Irish MEPs_Call_for_Diplomacy_in_Ukraine⠀⇛ In a fiery floor speech ahead of Thursday’s vote on the resolution—which ultimately passed by an overwhelming margin of 504 to 26, with 36 abstentions—Irish MEP Clare Daly lamented that “practically nobody in this chamber is doing anything to prevent” the war in Ukraine from “quickly escalating into a wider horror,” a nod at the growing risk of nuclear catastrophe as Russian President Vladimir Putin ramps up his threatening rhetoric. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Russian,_Belarusian,_and_Ukrainian_Rights Activists_Awarded_Nobel_Peace_Prize⠀⇛ “By awarding the Nobel Peace Prize for 2022 to Ales Bialiatski, Memorial, and the Center for Civil Liberties, the Norwegian Nobel Committee wishes to honor three outstanding champions of human rights, democracy, and peaceful co-existence in the neighbor countries Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine,” the Norwegian Nobel Committee said in a statement. # ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ In_Rebuke_to_Putin,_Nobel_Peace_Prize_Goes to_Human_Rights_Campaigners_in_Ukraine,_Belarus_&_Russia⠀⇛ The 2022 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded Friday to two human rights groups, the Center for Civil Liberties in Ukraine and Memorial in Russia, as well as imprisoned Belarusian activist Ales Bialiatski. The Norwegian Nobel Committee praised their work criticizing power and protecting fundamental human rights in neighboring countries torn apart by war. We speak to Anna Dobrovolskaya, who served as executive director of Memorial Human Rights Center in Moscow, part of the Nobel-winning group Memorial, before it was shut down by the Russian government. “People can see this as a common victory for civil society, not just in Russia,” says Dobrovolskaya. We also speak with Ole von Uexküll, executive director of the Stockholm- based Right Livelihood Award Foundation; all of Friday’s Nobel winners are also previous Right Livelihood laureates, known informally as the “alternative Nobel Peace Prize.” The hope of these international awards is that Belarus will “immediately release Ales Bialiatski” and that Russia will stop their legal persecution of human rights organizations, says von Uexküll. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ ‘I_was_around_my_own_people._This_matters_to_me.’ Ales_Bialiatski’s_sixth_Nobel_nomination_finally_brought_him the_Peace_Prize._What_makes_his_work_in_Belarus_important?_— Meduza⠀⇛ On October 7, the Nobel Committee announced the 2022 winners of the Nobel Peace Prize. This year, the award is divided between representatives of three countries now involved in a devastating war: Ukraine’s Center for Civil Liberties; Russia’s human rights organization Memorial; and the Belarusian human rights advocate Ales Bialiatski, currently imprisoned by Alexander Lukashenko’s regime. For Bialiatski, the award comes after his sixth nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize, and fifteen months into his current prison term. This article is based on a profile of Bialiatski published earlier today by the Belarusian media project Zerkalo, with its editors’ permission. # ⚓ The Nation ☛ Is_There_Any_Honor_In_War?⠀⇛ As a military professor for six years at the US Air Force Academy in the 1990s, I often walked past the honor code prominently displayed for all cadets to see. Its message was simple and clear: They were not to tolerate lying, cheating, stealing, or similar dishonorable acts. Yet that’s exactly what the US military and many of America’s senior civilian leaders have been doing from the Vietnam War era to this very day: lying and cooking the books, while cheating and stealing from the American people. And yet the most remarkable thing may be that no honor code turns out to apply to them, so they’ve suffered no consequences for their mendacity and malfeasance. # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Uvalde_World?⠀⇛ In such a state, civilization is shown to have devolved into its antithesis: “devil-ization.” Where civilization supposedly promotes the best and brightest of humanity, the advance of science, medicine, agriculture, feeding the billions, providing health care to the mass of humanity, and driving forward and upward with the benefits of education, devilization is the triumph of mass death, poverty of those who survive, and the descent back into the darkness from which humankind has only recently partially emerged. # ⚓ The Gray Zone ☛ PHOTOS:_Ethically_challenged_OAS_Chief Almagro_canoodles_aide_following_Venezuela_regime-change junket⠀⇛ # ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Report:_US_Special_Operations_Forces_Are_on the_Ground_in_Ukraine⠀⇛ The presence is part of a broad clandestine operation that includes the CIA. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ ‘People_are_scared_shitless_around_him_—_but_it’s fear_without_respect’:_Putin_is_70._Meduza’s_sources_say_his ‘power_vertical’_is_‘collapsing.’_—_Meduza⠀⇛ # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Second_recruit_in_five_days_found_dead_at Novosibirsk_military_academy_—_Meduza⠀⇛ The body of a man who recently enlisted in the Russian army was found at the Novosibirsk Higher Military Command School, regional human rights commissioner Nina Shalabayeva said on Friday. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ UN_agency_appoints_Special_Rapporteur_to investigate_human_rights_violations_in_Russia_—_Meduza⠀⇛ The UN Human Rights Council has voted to establish a Special Rapporteur to monitor and assess human rights abuses in Russia. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ In_direct_appeal_to_Russian_soldiers,_Ukraine’s defense_minister_says_they’re_‘paying_in_blood_for_someone’s fantasies’_—_Meduza⠀⇛ In a video address to the Russian military posted on October 7, Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov called on Russian officers and commanders to “save Russia from tragedy and the Russian army from destruction.” # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Nobel_Peace_Prize_awarded_to_Memorial,_Center_for Civil_Liberties,_and_Ales_Bialiatski_—_Meduza⠀⇛ The Nobel Committee announced on October 7 that the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize was being awarded to Russian human rights organization Memorial. Formally, Memorial was liquidated by the Russian Supreme Court in April 2022, but it has since continued to operate. # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Nobel_Peace_Prize_Goes_to_Human_Rights Campaigners_in_Ukraine,_Belarus,_Russia⠀⇛ # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Peace_Groups_Urge_Biden_to_Pursue_Diplomatic “Off-Ramp”_to_Avert_Nuclear_War⠀⇛ # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Further_changes_in_Russia’s_military:_Rustam Muradov,_who_made_his_name_in_Syria_and_Chechnya,_appointed commander_of_Eastern_military_district_—_Meduza⠀⇛ General Rustam Muradov was appointed commander of Russia’s Eastern military district. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ A_dictator_turns_seventy_Historian_Juliane_Fürst recalls_Joseph_Stalin’s_twilight_years_—_Meduza⠀⇛ # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Penza_regional_prosecutor’s_office_declares_first criminal_draft_evasion_case_since_start_of_mobilization unlawful_—_Meduza⠀⇛ The Penza regional prosecutor’s office has ruled that the first criminal charges filed for draft evasion since the start of Russia’s mobilization effort are unlawful, according to Pavel Chikov, head of the rights group Agora. # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Lessons_From_the_Cuban_Missile_Crisis⠀⇛ Several decades after the crisis in October 1962, we learned how close we were to the actual firing of nuclear weapons.  In early October, the Soviets deployed four diesel submarines, each of which carried one nuclear-armed torpedo, as part of the logistics in deploying Soviet missiles in Cuba.  One of these submarines surfaced on October 27 only to confront U.S. antisubmarine warfare ships and planes.  The sub’s captain, believing that he was under attack, ordered an emergency dive and the launch of the sub’s nuclear torpedo.  Fortunately, a Soviet naval officer convinced the sub’s captain that the U.S. ships were signaling and not attacking.  As a result, the captain’s decision to fire the nuclear torpedo was never transmitted, and the Soviet submarine signaled back to the Americans the importance of avoiding provocative actions. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ ‘Representatives_of_two_countries_that_attacked_a third’:_advisor_to_Zelensky’s_Chief_of_Staff_on_this_year’s Nobel_Peace_Prize_winners_—_Meduza⠀⇛ Mykhailo Podolyak, an advisor to President Zelensky’s Chief of Staff, criticized the Nobel Committee’s decision to award the Nobel Peace Prize to “representatives,” as he put it, “of two countries that attacked a third.” “The Nobel Committee clearly has an interesting understanding of the word ‘peace’,” Podolyak tweeted. # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Letter_From_Crimea:_Yalta_to_Simferopol⠀⇛ When I was planning my travels and imagining my time in Yalta, beyond Livadia and the Yalta conference I wanted to see Chekhov’s house and some of the other palaces around town, and I wanted to take the waters of the Black Sea, as if some guest at a Soviet sanitarium. But as I made my way back to Yalta and my hotel, the city streets were filled with rivulets of mud that had washed down from the hills and army trucks dispensing water to residents who appeared with armloads of plastic jugs. What if the rains returned and I found myself trapped in Yalta? I would miss my outbound Crimean train and then my flight home. # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Nuclearism:_Converging_Disasters⠀⇛ When do you know that too many people have died? # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ How_US_War_Coverage_Fails_to_Further_the Necessity_of_Peace⠀⇛ But the mainstream Western media, especially in the U.S., are not too invested in the idea of peace. Much of their reporting entails tallying the losses on both sides and cheerleading approved shipments of materiel. o § Environment⠀➾ # ⚓ The Revelator ☛ Where_the_Environment_Is_on_the_Ballot_— And_Where_It’s_Not⠀⇛ # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Naomi_Klein_Spotlights_Perils_of_UN_Climate Summit_Hosted_by_Despotic_Egyptian_Regime⠀⇛ “This summit is going well beyond greenwashing a polluting state; it’s greenwashing a police state.” # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Opinion_|_Manchin’s_Dirty_Deal_Goes Down—Now_What?⠀⇛ We first heard about the Dirty Deal on the way from North Carolina to the Sundance Ceremony in Minnesota. Right then and there, we decided to fight it with everything we had. Why? # ⚓ The Nation ☛ Climate_Tipping_Points⠀⇛ # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ 600_Million_Metric_Tons_of_Plastic_May_Fill Oceans_by_2036_If_We_Don’t_Act_Now⠀⇛ # § Energy⠀➾ # ⚓ SCMP ☛ China’s_top_weapons_scientist_says_nuclear fusion_power_is_6_years_away⠀⇛ No country has so far managed to build a facility that generates more power than it uses in the fission process # ⚓ David Rosenthal ☛ Piercing_The_Veil⠀⇛ In other words, it is a means for the system’s insiders to evade responsibility for their actions. If the system were truly decentralized, with a large number of insiders none of whom had significantly more power over it than any other, this veil might be effective. But this is never the case in the real world. As I described in Are Bloockchains Decentralized?, based on Prof. Walch’s work, the report from Trail of Bits and Kwon et al’s Impossibility of Full Decentralization in Permissionless Blockchains, there are always loci of control behind the veil for regulators to address. Below the fold I discuss recent moves by US regulators that indicate they agree. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ UK_Accused_of_Giving_‘Two_Fingers_Up’ to_Climate_With_New_Oil_and_Gas_Licenses⠀⇛ Claiming new oil and gas drilling will not undermine the country’s stated plan to cut its carbon emissions to net-zero by 2050, the North Sea Transition Authority (NSTA) said it will issue up to 100 licenses for nearly 900 exploration areas, including several that are known to contain hydrocarbons. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Opinion_|_Powell,_Putin,_and_MBS_Are on_the_Verge_of_Throwing_the_Entire_World_Into_a Massive_Depression⠀⇛ Did the Republican “October Surprise” arrive today? Will $7/gallon oil throw the election in November to Republicans? And how will a severe recession on Biden’s watch play out? # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Opinion_|_After_OPEC’s_‘Hostile_Act,’ Dems_Urge_Full_Break_From_Saudi_Arabia,_UAE⠀⇛ # ⚓ The Nation ☛ Will_Gas_Prices_Tank_Electoral_Prospects for_Democrats?⠀⇛ # ⚓ DeSmog ☛ How_Fossil_Fuel_Corporations_Are_Trying_to Sue_Their_Critics_Into_Silence⠀⇛ In 2018, Krystal Two Bulls received notice that she was being sued for criminal conspiracy. # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Is_the_Energy_Transition_Taking Off…or_Hitting_a_Wall?⠀⇛ Emissions modelers have estimated that the IRA will reduce U.S.emissions by 40 percent by 2030. But, as Benjamin Storrow at Scientific American has pointed out, the modelers fail to take real-world constraints into account. For one thing, building out massive new renewable energy infrastructure will require new long-distance transmission lines, and entirely foreseeable problems with permitting, materials, and local politics cast doubt on whether those lines can be built. # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Engineers:_Be_Subversive_To_Be_Green⠀⇛ The caterers for the volunteer workforce behind the summer’s MCH hacker camp in the Netherlands served all-vegan food. This wasn’t the bean sprouts and lentils that maybe some of the more meat-eating readers might imagine when confronted with vegan food, nor was it a half-as-good array of substitutes with leathery soy hamburgers and rubbery fake cheese smelling suspiciously of feet. # § Wildlife/Nature⠀➾ # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ ‘Dangerous_Moment’:_Record Deforestation_in_Amazon_Shows_Stakes_of_Brazil Election⠀⇛ “The Bolsonaro government is a forest- destroying machine.” # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Montana’s_AG:_All_Hat,_No_Cows⠀⇛ More to the point, this exact sort of election scheme—and that’s exactly what it is—was determined to be unconstitutional in Reichert v. State, 2012 MT 111, just 10 years ago.  While the Attorney General and legislature may not understand, much less respect, the legal doctrine of stare decisis—the doctrine that courts will adhere to precedent in making their decisions—the Court certainly understands that doctrine to be part of the rule of law.  Of course, the Attorney General and legislature are not high on that concept either. o § Finance⠀➾ # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Opinion_|_Why_the_Corporate_Media’s Coverage_of_the_Latest_Jobs_Report_Is_So_Awful⠀⇛ # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Opinion_|_Raise_Corporate_Taxes—Not Interest_Rates—to_Protect_Working_Families⠀⇛ The New York Times recently pointed to car dealerships as an example of a trend that has defined the pandemic era. With high demand and new cars in short supply, dealerships have gotten used to charging higher prices and making record profits at the expense of consumers—and they are unlikely to bring prices down on their own. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Progressives_Warn_Fed-Induced_Recession Will_‘Throw_Millions_of_Americans_Out_of_Work’⠀⇛ According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), employers added 263,000 jobs in September—less than the 315,000 added the month before and slightly below analyst expectations. The unemployment rate, meanwhile, fell to a historically low level of 3.5% as labor force participation declined slightly. # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Why_Real_Artists_Don’t_Like_Capitalism_Or Identity_Politics,_And_Other_Things_You’ll_Never_Hear_On NPR⠀⇛ In another segment we’ll hear an interview with a BIPOC playwright who has gotten a play on Broadway for the first time. There will be questions about the play itself, perhaps, but the questions will largely focus on the disadvantaged background of the playwright. What’s it like to write a play when you know the majority of your audience (like the majority of the US population) will likely be white? What’s it like to write for the White Gaze? What’s it like to work in an industry dominated by white people? Do you think you’ll ever get another play on Broadway, or is this a 2020-influenced one- off? # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Safe_Tap_Water_Should_be_a_Human_Right⠀⇛ Over 2 million people in the United States live without running water. # ⚓ Pro Publica ☛ DOJ_Probes_Competition_In_New_England_Fishing Industry⠀⇛ Representatives of two fishing industry groups said that two DOJ lawyers interviewed them in September. “We focused on how this level of consolidation is a regulatory failure,” said Mark DeCristoforo, executive director of the Massachusetts Seafood Collaborative, who was interviewed. His organization represents a diverse coalition of fishermen and related businesses, all of whom he said have been impacted by regulations that favor only the largest companies. # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Wage_Growth_Slows_Even_as_Unemployment_Ticks Back_Down_to_3.5_Percent⠀⇛ # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Universal_Tipping_Points:_Change_is Coming⠀⇛ Signs that we are living through such a time have been evident for a while – decades, longer probably, and have year on year become more and more widespread and diverse. The momentum for change, and with it resistance (which is intense) from those wedded to the status quo, appears to be reaching a point of crisis. Battle lines are exposed delineating the choices before humanity, alternative values and modes of living that are becoming more defined, and more opposed all the time. # ⚓ Pro Publica ☛ NM_Teens_in_Crisis_Are_Being_Housed_in Homeless_Shelters⠀⇛ Platero winced whenever he turned his head, a sharp jolt of pain emanating from the stab wounds he’d left in his neck during a mental breakdown. o § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾ # ⚓ Bruce Perens ☛ Signed_off_Twitter⠀⇛ I’ve signed off of Twitter. They seem determined to sell themselves to Elon Musk, whom I will listen to about rockets and cars, but he’s quite the asshole regarding politics and many other topics. # ⚓ [Old] L’Enigme⠀⇛ Of these three paintings, The Enigma is undeniably the most tragic. At the top of a hill, strewn with bodies, there stands a sphinx, a mythical monster with the body of a lion and the head of a human. In the distance, plumes of smoke rise up from a Paris set ablaze by enemy cannon. Under the dark sky, a winged woman, perhaps the embodiment of France seems to be asking the sphinx for answers. The sphinx appears to be compassionate, closer to the sphinx of Egyptian religion, guardian of the underworld, rather than the monster Oedipus came across in Greek mythology. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Opinion_|_Empowered_GOP_Election_Deniers Are_a_Direct_Threat_to_US_Democracy⠀⇛ With less than five weeks to go, we are heading into dangerous and uncharted waters for the midterm elections. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Democracy_Defenders_Plan_70+_Actions_to Protect_‘Our_Freedoms_and_Our_Vote’_From_GOP_Assault⠀⇛ “Trump and MAGA Republicans… have shown they will break the law and engage in violence in order to gain and stay in power.” # ⚓ The Nation ☛ Kennedy_Komedy_Klub⠀⇛ # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ A_Guide_to_“Tactical”_Nuclear_Weapons_and Why_Putin_is_Unlikely_to_Use_Them_in_Ukraine⠀⇛ I am an international security scholar who has worked on and researched nuclear restraint, nonproliferation and costly signaling theory applied to international relations for two decades. Russia’s large arsenal of tactical nuclear weapons, which are not governed by international treaties, and Putin’s doctrine of threatening their use have raised tensions, but tactical nuclear weapons are not simply another type of battlefield weapon. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Large_explosion_reported_at_bridge_connecting Russia_to_Crimea_—_Meduza⠀⇛ Russia’s state news agency RIA Novosti reported that all traffic across the Crimean Bridge was suspended on Saturday morning after a fuel tanker allegedly caught fire. Oleg Kryuchkov, an advisor to the head of Russia’s government in Crimea, said in a post on Telegram that the fire was caused by an exploded fuel tanker. He stressed that the bridge’s support arches are reportedly undamaged. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Memorial,_Nobel-winning_human_rights_organization, loses_Moscow_office_—_Meduza⠀⇛ Moscow’s Tverskoy District Court annulled the contract by which the International Memorial, an international human rights organization, had donated its office to its conjugal entity, Memorial, a human-rights research organization headquartered in Moscow. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Zelensky_clarifies_his_words_on_a_‘preventive strike’_on_Russia_—_Meduza⠀⇛ Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky claims that his recent remarks about a “preventive strike” on Russia referred to sanctions, not military measures. He discussed the remarks in an interview on BBC. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Demands_for_Peace_Talks_Intensify_as_Biden Says_Putin_Nuclear_Threats_Risk_‘Armageddon’⠀⇛ During a speech at a fundraiser for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, Biden said that Russian President Vladimir Putin is “not joking when he talks about the use of tactical nuclear weapons or biological or chemical weapons.” # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Defending_the_Use_of_Nuclear_Weapons:_The Dubious_Cases_of_Putin,_Kissinger_and_Clinton_and_the Ambiguous_Opinion_of_the_International_Court_of_Justice⠀⇛ But there are significant differences between the two. Kissinger’s advocacy of limited nuclear war was his attempt to set out a U.S. strategy to avoid a major, direct confrontation between NATO and the Warsaw Pact. He was trying to elaborate a United States military policy for the nuclear age after Hiroshima and Nagasaki, hoping any confrontation between the two belligerents could avoid massive retaliation and mutual assured destruction.  Putin’s strategy is to use the nuclear threat to gain bargaining chips in an eventual settlement over Ukraine’s borders. Stymied in an immediate takeover of Ukraine and witnessing continued Ukraine successes as the fighting continues, Putin alluded to using nuclear weapons to hasten advantages in an eventual solution. # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ The_Big_Fools_Say_to_Push_On⠀⇛ The hypocrisy of the west, especially the media regarding the referendum going on in the eastern territories claimed by Ukraine is something to watch. The NY times labels the vote as staged, ignoring similar scenarios sponsored by the US in Korea, Vietnam, El Salvador, Iraq, Afghanistan, ad infinitum. Washington is the original architect of staged elections. In fact, the current referendum in the affected provinces probably has more validity than every one of the elections Washington staged in those and other countries, including many where US intelligence agencies co-sponsored and organized so-called color revolutions. One of these latter countries was Ukraine. In 2014, Washington most recently clearly interfered in the electoral process there. The ultimate result was a pro- Washington government aligned with right-wing formations that championed Ukraine’s history as written by fascists. The election of Zelensky was the latest step in Washington’s plans to make Kyiv dependent on Washington and assume it into Washington’s axis. In other words, Washington has annexed Ukraine in everything but name only. I write this not to justify Moscow’s annexation of Ukraine’s eastern provinces, but to show that the only real difference between Moscow’s annexations and Washington’s incorporation of Kyiv is in the sophistication of their approaches. Given the geography and history, Russia certainly has more of a claim on the eastern provinces of Ukraine than Washington has on any part of that nation. # ⚓ The Nation ☛ The_Real_Reason_Herschel_Walker’s_Abortion Scandal_Hurts_the_GOP⠀⇛ The Daily Beast report alleging—with substantial documentary evidence—that Herschel Walker, the Republican candidate for the Senate in Georgia, paid for a girlfriend’s abortion is already having an impact on polls. There’s nothing wrong, of course, with paying for an abortion. But Walker has repeatedly called abortion “murder.” Last month, Insider Advantage had Walker leading his Democratic rival Raphael Warnock by three points, 47 percent to 44 percent. In the new poll, conducted in part after the scandal broke, the numbers have flipped. Warnock now stands at 47.2 percent, with Walker trailing at 43.6. The same trend line can be seen in the model of Decision Desk, a right-wing polling aggregator, which has a model showing the Georgia race moving from leaning Democratic to likely Democratic. # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Abortion_Bans_Are_Making_It_Harder_for_Some Cancer_Patients_to_Get_Chemotherapy⠀⇛ # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Fascism:_Hello,_Goodbye?⠀⇛ As I wrote here in December 2021… # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ After_All_the_Pomp_and_Pageantry_for_Queen Elizabeth_II:_The_Apology_That_Never_Came⠀⇛ According to western legends of the European Age of Discovery, co-terminus with Enlightenment, was what started it all in the 16th century. Explorers such as Vasco de Gama, Columbus, and Magellan went across the world, discovering new lands. The Enlightenment led to the development of reason and science, the basis of the industrial revolution in England. The Industrial Revolution then reached Europe and the United States, creating the difference between the wealthy West and the poverty-stricken rest. Slavery, genocide, land expropriation from “natives” and colonial loot do not enter this sanitized picture of the development of capitalism. Or, if mentioned, only as marginal to the larger story of the rise of the west. # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Even_Democrats_and_Republicans_Agree, Democracy_is_in_Crisis⠀⇛ As Democrats see it, GOP candidates are mouthing Donald Trump’s “big lie” that the 2020 election was stolen and supporting the January 6 rioters at the Capitol as “patriots.” Democrats see Republican legislatures attacking the right to vote based on phony claims of election fraud — and they see GOP plans to steal elections if they lose. # ⚓ The Nation ☛ Jessa_Crispin_Speaks_From_the_Heartland⠀⇛ Despite rejecting her childhood upbringing decades ago, Jessa Crispin has found herself needing to confront some old ghosts. As far as she may have run from her Kansas hometown—to New York City and Berlin—she suspected that to understand the genealogy of America’s present moment, she’d have to return to its heartland. Crispin started out as an early Internet book reviewer, founding the literary blog Bookslut and making a name for herself as a snarky feminist writer. Her latest book, My Three Dads: Patriarchy on the Great Plains, blends personal memoir with cultural criticism to explore the ghosts that haunt not only her rental house, but also her head, the city streets, American classrooms, and presidential debates. Since no amount of sage burning could expel their presence, she wrote a book instead. # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ The_Planet-Sized_Blind_Spot_of_the_Left⠀⇛ At some point in our conversation he was expressing to me his concern over the “increasing right-wing extremism” here in America. This prompted an epic rant from me on the subject. My rant, like so many I’ve enjoyed at the ol’ Heart & Dagger, climaxed with me standing on the table’s bench, splashing pale ale out of a pint glass, and hollering into the general vicinity of the clueless gentrifiers who were also on the patio—Look at these motherfuckers, with their pastel clothes and their goddamn spacephones! Braindead yuppie cyborgs! They don’t give a FUCK! # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Bad_Republicans,_Invisible_Democrats⠀⇛ Going back to the rise of Republican House Speaker Newt Gingrich in 1994, Milbank reminds us that Republicans undermined elections, suppressed votes, gerrymandered districts, embraced conspiracy theories, and made common cause with eliminationist white supremacism and militia movements long before America vomited the orange-hued monster Trump on to center stage. # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ A_Superstition_Called_the_Presidency⠀⇛ Then things slid even further downhill as the white house, following in Trump’s sanctions-happy footsteps (vide, most egregiously, Venezuela), mulls sanctions on China for threatening Taiwan. Even for Biden, this move would be colossally reckless and provocative. And that’s saying something. He’s the guy whose lousy sanctions on Russia weakened the American economy to the point of recession and crippled the European one. That’s because the west utterly depends on Russia’s raw materials and commodities. If Russia refused to export to the west everything from metals to uranium to fertilizer to wheat, we’d be looking at some pretty grim times, though maybe not as bad as Europe facing winter without Russian energy.  Meanwhile, U.S. reliance on China’s economy is even greater, because the U.S. economy deeply intertwines with its chief trading partner, who happens to be, you guessed it, China! The west as a whole would do well not to forget that China is the manufacturing workshop of the world. Can you even begin to imagine how sanctions will boomerang when Biden slaps them on China? Hello? Ever hear of inflation?  You thought it was bad last summer due to sanctions on Russia? With sanctions on China, the price of well, just about everything, will undoubtedly zoom into the stratosphere. # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Biden’s_Action_on_Weed_Convictions_Is_a_First Step_—_Let’s_Push_for_Much_More⠀⇛ # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Sanders:_Biden’s_Marijuana_Pardons_Are_Good_— Legalization_Would_Be_Even_Better⠀⇛ # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Biden_Announces_Mass_Pardons_for_Those_Convicted of_Simple_Marijuana_Possession⠀⇛ # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Union_Filings_Grew_By_53_Percent_This_Fiscal Year,_Marking_Growing_Union_Wave⠀⇛ # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ DOJ_to_Trump’s_Lawyers:_We_Believe_He’s_Still Hiding_White_House_Docs⠀⇛ # ⚓ Telex (Hungary) ☛ Hungarian_PM_Orbán_booed_by_protesters_in Prague⠀⇛ # § Misinformation/Disinformation/Propaganda⠀➾ # ⚓ Building_Resiliency:_Media_Literacy_as_a_Strategic Defense_Strategy_for_the_Transatlantic [PDF]⠀⇛ This report is intended to give an overview of the state of media literacy and media literacy education in an era where the field is finally coming out of the shadows and taking its place as an important global discipline. Because media literacy addresses cognitive processing, including decision making and the resulting expressions or actions that follow such thinking and feeling, it is a difficult arena to describe easily. Media literacy processes – the abilities to access, analyze, evaluate, create and participate through media — apply to all content, anytime, anywhere – which can be an elusive idea in a world where more concrete subject matter is typically the focus of study. Technology, too, plays a major role in the field, since it is through technology that most media messages today are channeled, affecting all who engage with it. Although the media literacy field is more than 50 years old, it is very new to most people. For that reason, this report provides a bit of history on the development of media literacy, as well as where media literacy currently stands and where it seems to be going at present. Snapshots of current activity, and resources for the field, are also included. # ⚓ NPR ☛ False_calls_about_active_school_shooters_are rising._Behind_them_is_a_strange_pattern⠀⇛ But as the number of these reports swelled over time, Conley said she began to discern some very strange patterns — including the possibility that the calls may have come from overseas, and perhaps specifically from Africa. “The scale and the timeline of the events is highly, highly unusual,” she said. “The calls are consistent. They are coordinated. They are grouped state-by-state and district-by- district, and they’re also sustained. So somebody is putting significant effort to keep these going.” # ⚓ Hollywood Reporter ☛ Bethenny_Frankel_Sues_TikTok Over_Scam_Ads_Hijacking_Her_Likeness⠀⇛ In a class action filed Thursday in New York federal court, Frankel accuses the platform of illegally profiting off of failing to snuff out advertising partners who misappropriate the images and voices of influencers to peddle bogus goods. She’s pushing for policy changes to enhance protections around the likeness of creators. “Unscrupulous companies and individuals have purloined the images, voices, and content of Ms. Frankel and Class Members to sell counterfeit items through the use of TikTok’s platform,” reads the complaint. “Despite demands on TikTok to remove and police this corrupt conduct, TikTok has ignored such demands, and even taken countervailing positions.” o § Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾ # ⚓ Christian_Woman_on_Trial_for_Blasphemy_in_Northeast Nigeria⠀⇛ Rhoda Ya’u Jatau, 45, was arrested in Bauchi state in May after receiving a WhatsApp message from Ghana condemning the gruesome killing of Deborah Emmanuel Yakubu, a university student in Sokoto state also falsely accused of blaspheming Islam. # ⚓ Times Higher Education ☛ Iranian_dissident:_rectors_should speak_up_for_threatened_staff⠀⇛ He received his first death threats in 2002, when he wrote a column explaining the distinction between Islam as a personal religion and a political ideology. In the decades since, he has been threatened through letters and emails, on social media and by messages passed through friends and acquaintances. The most intense period was between 2004 and 2012, which began with the assassination of Dutch film director Theodoor van Gogh and ended with the outbreak of the Syrian civil war, when it became public knowledge that Dutch security services were monitoring communications and making arrests over threats. # ⚓ The Quint ☛ The_Booming_‘Boycott_Bollywood’_Trend:_Who_Are the_Players_Behind_It?⠀⇛ We found that right-wing groups and people supporting SSR are constantly amplifying the ‘Boycott Bollywood’ trend. # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Vietnamese_Government_Pushes_Plan_To_Restrict Dissemination_Of_News_Stories_By_Social_Media_Platforms⠀⇛ Every unhappy populace is unhappy in its own way, but every autocratic regime is the same. Vietnam may have embraced a form of capitalism that made it inviting to foreigners, but the government’s embrace has always been a bit on the strangulation side. Sure, Vietnam citizens may have more opportunities for earning money than running a rice paddy mostly free of Agent Orange, but the government is no more willing to tolerate criticism than it was back in the good old days of post-war Vietnam. # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Arizona_GOP_Secretary_Of_State_Candidate_Insists ‘Deep_State’_Google_Is_Blocking_His_Website;_Turns_Out_He Requested_It_Not_Be_Indexed⠀⇛ These days, the conspiracy-minded GOP candidates (who seem to be an increasing majority of the party right now) seem to believe that there needs to be a conspiracy against them or they’re just not that important. It can be the deep state, big tech, or the “woke banks” or whatever, but someone must be coming to get them. It’s all nonsense. Mark Finchem is the GOP candidate in Arizona for Secretary of State. If he wins, he’ll be one of a distressingly high number of politicians in charge of future elections who believes — against all facts and evidence — that the 2020 election was fraudulent. Such people can do an awful lot of damage. # ⚓ FAIR ☛ Katie_Halper_Violated_Media_Taboo_Against_Israel Criticism⠀⇛ After turning in the draft of an op-ed monologue critical of Israel, journalist Katie Halper was fired from her new post at the Hill TV’s political commentary show Rising (Daily Beast, 10/4/22).  The monologue, known as a “Radar” on Rising, was called “Israel IS an Apartheid State.” # ⚓ FAIR ☛ US_Media’s_Intellectual_No-Fly-Zone_on_US Culpability_in_Nord_Stream_Attack⠀⇛ Multiple explosions last week off the coast of Poland damaged both the Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2 pipelines, shutting down one and preventing the other from going online. The pipelines, intended to carry natural gas from Russia to Germany, are critical infrastructure for Europe’s energy markets. o § Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press⠀➾ # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Oxxxymiron_and_Dmitry_Glukhovsky_declared_foreign agents_—_Meduza⠀⇛ The Russian Ministry of Justice included writer Dmitry Glukhovsky, journalist Evgenia Baltarova, and sociologist Iskendar Yasaveyev on its register of media “foreign agents.” # ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Watch:_Assange_Protests_at_UK_Parliament_& DOJ⠀⇛ Protestors will march around Parliament in London and around the Dept. of Justice in Washington on Saturday to support press freedom and to oppose Julian Assange’s extradition. Consortium News will bring you both events. # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ The_Devil_is_Knocking⠀⇛ It’s interesting the things you will do when your back is against a wall, and that’s exactly the position CounterPunch finds itself in. We are in a financial pickle. In our case, we are talking about survival, and what the future of our modest, independent media operation will look like. # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Roaming_Charges:_Up_in_Smoke,_Down_in Mirrors⠀⇛ CounterPunch needs your help and without it in generous measure in the next three weeks we will not survive. We make this appeal  every year and please empty your mind of the sort of cynicism one develops after meeting for the fourth time in one day the same mendicant trying to raise “bus money” to get home.  We are mendicants year-after-year because we have no safety net. # ⚓ The Nation ☛ The_Decline_of_Progressive_Publishing_Houses Is_a_Loss_for_Everyone⠀⇛ No one listened better than Studs. For those of you old enough to remember, that’s Studs Terkel, of course. The most notable thing about him in person, though, was this: The greatest interviewer of his moment, perhaps of any moment, never stopped talking, except, of course, when he was listening to produce one of his memorable bestselling oral histories—he essentially created the form—ranging from Working and Hard Times to The Good War. o § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾ # ⚓ San Antonio ☛ San_Antonio_police_officer_fired_after shooting_teen_in_McDonald’s_parking_lot⠀⇛ Brennand initially said in an incident report that he fired at the vehicle after he was struck by the driver who was trying to evade capture, the news site reports. However, raw body cam footage released by SAPD on Wednesday appears to contradict those claims. As seen in the footage, the rookie officer approaches the car and opens the driver’s side door, where he finds a teenager eating a burger. Brennand orders the youth out of the vehicle. The teenager puts his hands on the steering wheel and responds to the officer’s request by asking, “Why?” # ⚓ New York Times ☛ So_You_Want_to_Work_Remotely:_A_Guide⠀⇛ More than 20 countries across the globe offer specialized visas that let foreigners live and work remotely within their borders, including the European nations of Portugal, Norway, Georgia and Malta. Spain is working on a new Start-ups Law that’s expected to pass by the end of the year, making it easier for professionals and their families to relocate there. The bill proposes 12- month visas for remote workers with the option to apply for a three-year residence permit that’s conditionally renewable for another two years. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Wegmans_Discontinues_Self-Checkout_App, Citing_Losses⠀⇛ The app, known as SCAN, was introduced early in the pandemic to provide a contactless option for grocery shopping, the company said. Customers could scan each grocery item they picked up as they moved through a store. To pay, they would scan a bar code at the self-checkout register, which would pull the total from the app. # ⚓ Frontpage Magazine ☛ A_Look_at_True_‘Systemic_Racism’⠀⇛ Although the Copts—Egypt’s most indigenous, Christian, people—make up anywhere from 10-20% of its population, notable among these new Cairo University hires is that not a one of them is Christian. All are Muslim. The significance of this news is not so much that discrimination against Christians in Egypt exists—which should be beyond obvious by now—but rather that it seems to permeate every single facet of Egyptian society. # ⚓ [Old] Institutionalized_Discrimination_against_Copts_in Egypt:_The_Case_of_Diplomatic_Corps⠀⇛ Nor is such discrimination limited to diplomatic corps; it permeates every state institution. As one recent example, on March 3, 98 female judges took the legal oath in preparation for assuming judicial roles in Egypt’s State Council. This was considered a major and unprecedented development; since its inception 75 years earlier, not a single woman had sat on the podium of the State Council court—and now 98 will. And yet, not one of them is a Christian—again, despite the fact that the Copts account for at least 10 percent of the nation’s population, suggesting that at least 10 of the 98 should have, for proper representation, been Copts. # ⚓ Vice Media Group ☛ There’s_a_New,_Massive_Database_of_NYPD Misconduct_With_450,000_Records⠀⇛ The Law Enforcement Look Up is relatively simple to use: You can input an officer’s name, checking for pings in lawsuit records, Civilian Complaint Review Board records of allegations, internal misconduct records, District Attorney and Judicial records, media reports, and payroll documents, as well as some Department of Corrections staff discipline records. # ⚓ Vice Media Group ☛ Apple_Accused_of_‘Interrogating’_Pro- Union_Employees_by_National_Labor_Review_Board_In_Complaint⠀⇛ This complaint traces back to charges filed back in May, when the Communication Workers of America (CWA) union, along with organizers at Apple locations in New York, Atlanta, and Oklahoma, alleged the company had violated multiple labor laws as part of a union-busting effort targeting staff at the World Trade Center location. CWA and labor organizers alleged that the company “interrogated its employees about their support for the Union” and selectively barred workers from distributing union fliers. The complaint alleges that Apple has been “interfering with, restraining and coercing employees” in the exercise of their labor rights. # ⚓ For_Women_Scotland⠀⇛ # ⚓ New York Times ☛ ‘Geniuses’_Versus_the_Guns:_A_Campus Crackdown_Shocks_Iran⠀⇛ The scenes that unfolded at Sharif University on Sunday afternoon were some of the most shocking in the three weeks of protests led by women calling for an end to the Islamic Republic’s rule that have convulsed Iran since a 22-year-old woman, Mahsa Amini, died in the custody of the morality police. Security forces have cracked down violently on the protests but they continue. # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Doshman_and_the_Massive_Protests_in_Iran⠀⇛ The Iranian society continues to witness a deep rift between the state and its citizens. The median age of the population is 32, close to 80% of Iranians were born after the revolution and have no recollection of life before the revolution of 1979. The Supreme Leader’s rhetoric that the protesters were “families of SAVAK agents” (the Shah’s secret police) falls flat on this generation’s face. It is instead an implicit admission that the Islamic Republic has failed to grow and accommodate the needs and demands of its population. The laws and restrictions that were instituted more than forty years ago failed to shape the worldview and desires of a generation that grew up under this system as intended. The Supreme Leader needs to acknowledge the Islamic Republic’s failure to invent a narrowly conceived homo islamicus, receptive and accommodating to the ethos and values propagated by a clerical establishment. # ⚓ Outlook India ☛ Bollywood_Actresses,_Who_Were_Once_The Reigning_Queens_Of_Negative_Roles⠀⇛ The portrayal of women in Hindi cinema has undergone a sea change compared to an era gone by. The digital age has rendered more substance to the female characters with even the female protagonists having grey shades but there was a time when Bollywood had stereotypical portrayal of women. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ At_Least_13_Migrant_Justice_Activists Arrested_Protesting_Court’s_Anti-DACA_Ruling⠀⇛ “We are here to stay and will keep fighting as we have been for so long.” # ⚓ Robert Reich ☛ Organizing_a_Key_Battleground_State_with_New Georgia_Project_Action_Fund⠀⇛ # ⚓ Pro Publica ☛ New_Mexico_Struggles_With_Reforming_Child Welfare_System⠀⇛ A lawsuit brought by 14 foster children in 2018 claimed the state was “locking New Mexico’s foster children into a vicious cycle of declining physical, mental and behavioral health.” The state settled the case in February 2020 and committed to reforms. # ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Despite_Three_Botched_Executions,_Alabama Plans_to_Kill_a_Fourth_Man_Next_Month⠀⇛ Despite multiple botched executions, the Alabama Corrections Department appears to be determined to continue its barbaric torture. # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Protest_in_Iran:_Historical_and International_Contexts⠀⇛ Falk remarks that “the political significance and staying power of the protests in Iran are essentially impossible to assess at this stage, but based on historical analysis, some patterns and historical parallels have emerged thus far. Context is often decisive in such interactions between an enraged opposition and the political leadership and orientation that finds itself under fire from its own public,” Falk argues. # ⚓ FAIR ☛ John_Logan_on_Amazon_&_Starbucks_Organizing⠀⇛ # ⚓ FAIR ☛ ‘The_Moment_Black_People_Showed_Up,_We_Responded With_Violence’⠀⇛ Janine Jackson interviewed Haitian Bridge Alliance’s Guerline Jozef about Haitian refugee abuse for the September 30, 2022, episode  of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Advocates_Tell_Canada’s_High_Court_to_End Asylum_Deal_With_US_Over_Safety_Concerns⠀⇛ Since 2004 Canada and the U.S. have observed the Safe Third Country Agreement (STCA) over the objections of rights groups. The pact states that asylum seekers who enter Canada from the U.S. at official border crossings will be sent back to the U.S., and vice versa, with both countries presumed to follow international refugee laws. # ⚓ Pro Publica ☛ Thousands_of_Immigrant_Children_Wait_in Government_Shelters⠀⇛ But the shelter system remains in place under President Joe Biden. The numbers can fluctuate but, as of earlier this week, more than 9,000 unaccompanied immigrant children were in custody, according to data from the federal Office of Refugee Resettlement, which oversees the privately run shelters. o § Internet Policy/Net Neutrality⠀➾ # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ FCC_Finally_Gets_Around_To_Cracking_Down_On Annoying_Robotexts⠀⇛ After an inexplicable year-plus delay, the FCC is finally circulating a new order that should help dramatically reduce the number of illegal, annoying, and scam robotexts received by wireless subscribers. # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Before_The_Supreme_Court_Destroys_The_Internet, It_Might_First_Destroy_Art⠀⇛ So, we were just talking about the Supreme Court agreeing to take some cases that could determine the future of the internet (as in, potentially ruining it), but before that it may be on the path to could destroy some of the basics of art. Next week, the Supreme Court will be hearing oral arguments in the Andy Warhol Foundation v. Lynn Goldsmith case. We’ve been writing about this case for a few years now, and it’s so important that we filed an amicus brief with the Supreme Court in the case to highlight some of our concerns regarding what will happen if they get this wrong (we don’t do that very often). o § Monopolies⠀➾ # § Patents⠀➾ # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Dems_Say_Bill_to_Kill_Price_Controls Shows_GOP_‘Wants_You…_to_Spend_More’_on_Meds⠀⇛ “Their new bill is a giveaway to Big Pharma at the expense of seniors.” # § Copyrights⠀➾ # ⚓ Torrent Freak ☛ ACE_Shuts_Down_‘Pirate’_CDN_Service and_YMovies⠀⇛ The world’s leading anti-piracy coalition ACE has booked another major success in Latin America. The group shut down the popular movie streaming site Ymovies.to through a suspect in Columbia. Around the same time, a Brazil-based pirate video CDN was pulled offline, blacking out dozens of other sites in the process. # ⚓ Torrent Freak ☛ Bungie_Ask_Court_to_Dismiss AimJunkies’_‘False’_Hacking_Claims⠀⇛ Bungie has responded to the “hacking” claim submitted to the court last month by cheat developer AimJunkies. According to the game developer, these allegations are patently false and not properly pleaded either. Bungie asks the court to dismiss all counterclaims, arguing that the cheaters throw around untrue claims to see if they stick. # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Take-Two_Loses_In_Copyright_Case_Involving Faithfully_Depicting_Randy_Orton’s_Tattoos⠀⇛ Why won’t this tattoo copyright thing die? We’ve talked about several instances over the past few years involving someone famous having their likeness faithfully reproduced, in an authorized fashion, in video game media. Take-Two has been involved in more than one of these disputes, which tend to amount to a tattoo artist or company claiming copyright on a tattoo design and arguing that their reproduction in video games constitutes copyright infringement. In the past, courts have managed to rule at the summary judgement phase that these claims are nonsense, that the depictions constitute fair use for a variety of reasons mostly dealing with the de minimis nature of the depictions in the overall game, and have found for Take-Two. # ⚓ EFF ☛ Copyright_Trolls_Target_Users_in_Brazil, Threatening_Due_Process_and_Data_Protection_Rights. Civil_Society_Groups_Are_There_to_Help⠀⇛ Now armed with names and addresses, copyright trolls send notifications accusing those people of copyright infringement and demanding they pay a settlement to avoid costly lawsuits. Users who aren’t aware of their rights and don’t know how to defend themselves against such threats will pay—the troll profits and moves on to the next set of victims. * § Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾ o § Personal⠀➾ # ⚓ Baby_blues⠀⇛ I’ve been a parent for a long time, but the arrival of the new baby has alienated me from my friends. Especially (but not exclusively) the childless ones¹. Others have said it — I’ve said it myself, here — but being a parent in this culture is an isolating experience. I exchange messages with a few friends who also have small children now and then. We’re all going through similar things, but it doesn’t feel like we’re in it together. That’s because we’re not, really — these folks live hundreds, often thousands of miles away from us. We can’t watch each other’s kids, have big potluck dinners, or relax together at sunset while the kids chase fireflies. That’s because we all moved to wherever we could get jobs, and now we’re spread out all over. [...] [1] I am 1000% supportive of anybody who — whether by deliberate choice or other circumstances — does not have a kid. This isn’t one of those “oh, parenthood is so special and unique and magical” spiels. In a healthy culture, there wouldn’t even be such a gulf between folks with and without kids. But we don’t have a healthy culture, so here we are. o § Politics⠀➾ # ⚓ Tribal_Parenting⠀⇛ I wrote this as a response to Degrowther back in July. I left it as a draft, because it’s a bit incendiary and might upset somebody’s apple cart, but I stumbled across it today and realized it was worth saying. o § Technical⠀➾ # ⚓ Linux_BTRFS_continuous_snapshots⠀⇛ As shown in my previous article about the NILFS file system, continuous snapshots are great and practical as they can save you losing data accidentally between two backups jobs. Today, I’ll demonstrate how to do something quite similar using BTRFS and regular snapshots. In the configuration, I’ll show the code for NixOS using the tool `btrbk` to handle snapshots retention correctly. # ⚓ GPG_WKD⠀⇛ I know that for Proton Mail users, you can just gpg –locate-keys their address and you’ll get their keys. I wanted to set up something similar for my own email and it was a headache and a half. This is more of a li’l diary entry and causerie than reliable and complete documentation. # § Internet/Gemini⠀➾ # ⚓ Gemini_Radio:_Episode_46⠀⇛ # § Programming⠀➾ # ⚓ More_dabbling_in_CGI:_Site_Statistics⠀⇛ I decided to quickly write up a script for processing the access logs for my server and output some useful data. Simple python script, clone it, config it and drop it in cgi-bin. =============================================================================== * Gemini_(Primer) links can be opened using Gemini_software. 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