𝕿𝖊𝖈𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍𝖙𝖘 Bulletin for Sunday, October 23, 2022 ┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅ Generated Mon 24 Oct 02:43:46 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/2022/10/23/ ╒═══════════════════ 𝐑𝐄𝐂𝐄𝐍𝐓 𝐁𝐔𝐋𝐋𝐄𝐓𝐈𝐍𝐒 ════════════════════════════════════╕ Previous bulletins in IPFS (past 21 days, in chronological order): QmQQSCUTAMNTrxToyg9EZTr3n4PdA5SSHFH5pZzst2ZETe QmY3hPf5WuZiFd6LH7kZWe1SBQLGYp3DzB3DvDwHxtAxpX Qmem9pBYyW9sJYffppf7bdghegoTHn1RzdbF1Q1wjVzuGt QmaiE9iDuXMZhkHdQ8sJYqT3PNn8BWc5agK74EKN1FFgVy QmQGHw3z4ajT5x6NnbyGQJY26ZEzJFXRTaYxZMQjss3typ Qmb95NfQvZvbiG3UrtcZ61z7v8dG2fT8Xta1dM4tpptx3Q QmUWAGmBBXwstayLUmSY9GEzyUBGwmk4zqtUacYeqFcfHh QmYL4QpoDXAuMDYpijo6ixymXcLVY36699bQ4n638FyYYW QmWagM6RUv8w3PGimQk2Jw6kAYSZ68kiHJh6JX3FpLMDLJ QmeujuDVZ2c9H9rLtDft62WqQQuPXjH3uNgNd1mb6hN4Z4 QmWNRczB6EwJrhHTYT8mrC5NnQ2JiW5AnotNG26HncgbeS QmWUqtTJ5A915BjiikNX4tcP5UqeaYwu2pTVfqCwtSdmX1 QmanWSwdWKoBnEEpdQYF8hRpxJXaJXHrA8matdZ7p2g7Ui QmNmKK6D23Ute87ocKh4uQTutC8tKr57v4KaYevBmU77dB QmV2MXBi3SZKoVRsy5rrvEwJJ2S9T5pKs5B6Ravu4xXApS QmSZzkk2vvg7T5pLZayi713tGeNgvw8o1pX2K38PrthWaz QmXiY6pc7Wic9TMGYJRv1DHHFXZi8qAmMS1GDp97S7KkZL QmQpbKVNQYKS8GikXcbjhn6Pd8QBKST3j18Pt4SWqQ77uE QmesBe7gFXumwSLqLnvSqdg4VAYdzac9DHiRXiAcvcSCZK QmaZv73scaiaGKET5VdShbnpu1zenP4KSVUwadYczfDVij QmQ29vXrWLRDAzS3ysBUAaio1dJbbxePxsMDnMojXN65BA ╒═══════════════════ 𝐈𝐍𝐃𝐄𝐗 ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⦿ Reading Gemini the Practical Way With Lagrange | Techrights ⦿ Gemini Protocol is a First-Class Citizen in Techrights | Techrights ⦿ IRC Proceedings: Saturday, October 22, 2022 | Techrights ䷼ Bulletin articles (as HTML) to comment on (requires login): http://techrights.org/2022/10/23/browse-information-faster-with-gemini/#comments http://techrights.org/2022/10/23/gemini-first-class/#comments http://techrights.org/2022/10/23/irc-log-221022/#comments ䷞ Followed by Daily Links (assorted news picks curated and categorised): http://techrights.org/2022/10/23/devhelp/#comments http://techrights.org/2022/10/23/kirigami-addons-0-5/#comments ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 54 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at http://techrights.org/2022/10/23/browse-information-faster-with-gemini/#comments Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2022/10/23/browse-information-faster-with-gemini/ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 10.23.22⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Reading_Gemini_the_Practical_Way_With_Lagrange⠀✐ Posted in Free/Libre_Software at 3:43 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz Video_download_link | md5sum 97fbb2c00de63852f6ef6e206fa4e6cd Reading Gemini With Extra Panes Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 4.0 http://techrights.org/videos/lagrange-multi-pane.webm Summary: People who wish to browse information quickly and easily ought to take a_look_at_Gemini; the video above shows one way to use it for news, photos, Git/coding, and more THE recent (but not most recent) version of Lagrange is shown in the video above. I’ve decided to demonstrate how I use it as a ‘daily driver’ for high signal/noise ratio. Lagrange is compatible with KWin translucency and all sorts of effects, but those aren’t demonstrated in this video, which shows an October release of KDE Neon. “Gemini is a response to many of the issues associated with today’s “modern” (hostile) Web.”The key thing shown this time around (unlike previous Lagrange videos) is multiple panes for navigation, not just the typical left and right panes. Web browsers don’t typically offer this level of versatility; “modern” sites are very inflexible with their “webapps”, which never put the needs of the visitor first. For some recent articles in Geminispace we recommend exploring Planet_Gemini. It gets updated every hour. For those who don’t know what Gemini is, start in this_page. Gemini is a response to many of the issues associated with today’s “modern” (hostile) Web. Usability comes first, the user comes first, and information is sent to the user rather than about the user. █ ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 109 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at http://techrights.org/2022/10/23/gemini-first-class/#comments Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2022/10/23/gemini-first-class/ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 10.23.22⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Gemini_Protocol_is_a_First-Class_Citizen_in_Techrights⠀✐ Posted in Free/Libre_Software, Protocol, Site_News at 3:56 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz Video_download_link | md5sum 1459b798ea0830a3e2ba993eb9964b1a Using Kristall to Browse Techrights Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 4.0 http://techrights.org/videos/kristall-techrights.webm Summary: Techrights_is_at_Gemini, where it has over_43,000_pages and serves millions of requests each year; it gets updated all the time EARLIER today we showed how to use Lagrange for Gemini browsing. Following some suggestions we’ve decided to remind again that very many Gemini clients exist; they’re listed_along_with_Gemini_servers and there’s plenty of choice. There’s no optimal choice. It depends on the person. 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇Lupa stats⦈ One very decent Gemini client that uses Qt is Kristall, which was demonstrated_last_month, earlier_this_year on numerous occasions, and even compared_side-to-side_to_other_clients. Geminis is still growing. Geminispace is expanding. “There are 2839 capsules,” Lupa_said_this_evening*. “We successfully connected recently to 2178 of them.” Those are being organised_better_over_time, making capsules easier to find based on interests and requirements. There are also several search engines already. Those wishing to access Techrights over Gemini protocol have access to almost everything, including the Wiki, all the blog posts, Git, IRC logs, and videos. Some of the pages are demonstrated using Kristall in the video above. 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What’s new in this release? And is it worth it to upgrade if you are running 22.04? # ⚓ Video ☛ E89:_Tech_Talk:_Secure_Your_Linux_Server_– Invidious⠀⇛ # ⚓ GNU World Order (Audio Show) ☛ GNU_World_Order_483⠀⇛ **kmime** , **kmines** , **kmix** , **kmousetool** , **kmouth** from the KDE software series of Slackware. o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾ # ⚓ Manuel Matuzovic ☛ Day_20:_the_scrollbar-gutter_property⠀⇛ It’s time to get me up to 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. # ⚓ Bradley Taunt ☛ Dogfooding_Vanilla_CSS⠀⇛ The last changes I made to my classless CSS framework, Vanilla CSS, was in November of 2021. It feels like I just pushed out that small project last weekend, yet here we are almost a full year later. So I decided to circle-back on the project to see if there were any improvements I should make or features that could add. Overall, I was impressed that I covered most web UI elements fairly well on the initial release. Good job, past Brad. # ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_To_Install_Mastodon_on_Ubuntu_22.04_LTS_– idroot⠀⇛ In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Mastodon on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. For those of you who didn’t know, Mastodon is an open-source decentralized social network. It offers microblogging features that allow you to follow other users and post messages and images with Mastodon. Its is written in Ruby and JavaScript and its open-source nature makes sure that it remains open for anyone to use privately and securely. Anyone can create a Mastodon server and build their own communities with friends. Additionally, Mastodon is supported by and available through multiple apps for iOS, Android, and other platforms This article assumes you have at least basic knowledge of Linux, know how to use the shell, and most importantly, you host your site on your own VPS. The installation is quite simple and assumes you are running in the root account, if not you may need to add ‘sudo‘ to the commands to get root privileges. I will show you the step-by-step installation of the Mastodon social networking on Ubuntu 22.04 (Jammy Jellyfish). You can follow the same instructions for Ubuntu 22.04 and any other Debian-based distribution like Linux Mint, Elementary OS, Pop!_OS, and more as well. # ⚓ Linux Nightly ☛ How_to_Install_LibreOffice_on_Ubuntu_– Linux_Nightly⠀⇛ LibreOffice is a suite of applications for creating documents, spreadsheets, presentations, and other things. It can be easily installed on Ubuntu from the official repositories, either as the entire suite or just individual apps. In this tutorial, you will learn how to install LibreOffice on Ubuntu Linux via command line and GUI. # ⚓ Send_warning_email_when_your_drive_is_dying_–_Lukáš Zapletal⠀⇛ My Samsung 870 EVO 2TB SDD is dying after 13 months of basic workstation operation. Looks like some problem with a large batch because I found many other users complaining on forums. I am going for RMA. Fortunately, I restored from my backup. Lesson learned: SMART needs to be monitored on my home servers, this is not the first time and I was lucky enough to see the errors in the system journal in advance. How to do that? There are multiple options, there is a shell script which ships with the smartmontools package, but I could not get it working. # ⚓ Linux Nightly ☛ How_to_Install_DEB_File_in_Ubuntu_and Debian_–_Linux_Nightly⠀⇛ A DEB file is a Debian software package and it can be used to install an application or system program. All Linux distributions based on Debian can install software from a DEB file. This includes distributions like Ubuntu and Linux Mint. In this tutorial, you will learn several ways to install a .deb file on Debian, Ubuntu, Linux Mint, and other Debian-based distros. # ⚓ Ubuntu Pit ☛ How_To_Install_Software_in_Ubuntu_Linux:_A Complete_Guide_for_Newbie⠀⇛ Ten years ago, when I was new to the world of Ubuntu Linux, I was so confused about many things about how to do this and that. Among all those, how to install the software in Ubuntu Linux is one of them. As a beginner, you also face this sort of problem, especially when many more options are available for installing and removing software in Ubuntu Linux. In this roundup, I will show you some of the popular ways to install the software in Ubuntu Linux. I will also try to cover how to remove the Ubuntu application from the system. # ⚓ LinuxTechLab ☛ How_to_get_started_with_MariaDB_commands_for DB_administration_Git_lib_ted_tmp_–_LinuxTechLab⠀⇛ In this Beginner’s friendly tutorial, we are going to discuss some MariaDB administration commands. # ⚓ Linux.org ☛ Linux_Terminal_Server_|_Linux.org⠀⇛ A Terminal Server is a server that can provide the Operating System to the workstations. In most cases, the workstations are diskless and have no means to install an Operating System (OS). Basically, on the Linux Terminal Server, there are images created that are used by the client systems. You can create an image with all installed applications, wallpaper, etc. Each system will then use this image as if it were a live-CD image. The image is read-only and you must update the image when you need another program or an Operating System update. o § Games⠀➾ # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Valve_starts_roll-out_of_the_Steam_Deck controller_configurator_to_desktop_Steam⠀⇛ The latest Steam Client Beta replaces the old Big Picture Configurator for individual games, with the one from the Steam Deck and it’s quite an improvement. # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Valve_put_up_a_few_more_fixes_in_the_new Steam_Deck_Beta⠀⇛ Another Beta update is available for the Steam Deck, with Valve adding in just a few more “Friday fixes”. It’s available in the Beta and Preview channels. You can opt into this in: Settings >System >Steam Update Channel. o § Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾ # § GNOME Desktop/GTK⠀➾ # ⚓ Devhelp⠀⇛ Tobias Bernard has recently published this article on the Planet GNOME and mentions Devhelp. Since I did a fair amount of development contributions to Devhelp more or less recently (compared to the whole GNOME history), I would like to talk a bit more about it. Devhelp has always been a Local-First app, not requiring an internet connection to work. It hasn’t been created by me, it existed long before I started developing with GTK, so the original authors and past contributors need to be thanked. The first commits were done by Johan Dahlin in 2001. In comparison my first commit to Devhelp was in 2015. * § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾ o § BSD⠀➾ # ⚓ [Old] Corey Stephan ☛ My_FreeBSD_Friday_Lecture:_The Writing_Scholar’s_Guide_to_FreeBSD⠀⇛ I wrote much of the script for this lecture by merging my January/February 2021 FreeBSD Journal article “FreeBSD for the Writing Scholar” with my FOSDEM 2021 talk “FOSS for the Professional Historian.” In keeping with my stated wishes, the words that I spoke during my FreeBSD Friday lecture are available under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY). Thus, anyone is free to share and/or adapt them for any purpose, as long as I receive appropriate credit. The video recording itself belongs to the FreeBSD Foundation. Here I share both the video recording of the presentation as it is housed permanently on Youtube and my original script. I deviated (often significantly) from the prepared script during the actual lecture. Since most of my deviations were expansions on already present themes, however, everything that matters remains present in the text. I have added several hyperlinks to assist the reader who is eager to learn more about the many software projects that I discuss. # ⚓ [Old] Corey Stephan ☛ Raspberry_Pi_4_with_FreeBSD_13- RELEASE:_A_Perfect_Miniature_Homelab⠀⇛ I have used the Pi 4 with FreeBSD 13-RELEASE for a range of tasks. Most commonly, I use it for Mumble voice communication (as a Murmur server) and for 24/7 continuous access to my favorite IRC channels on Libera.chat (including #freebsd, #freebsd- desktop, and #freebsd-wiki) by way of a Weechat session in tmux. o § Canonical/Ubuntu Family⠀➾ # ⚓ OS News ☛ Ubuntu_22.10_released_–_OSnews⠀⇛ While I’m personally not really using Ubuntu itself anymore, my gaming PC is still running Linux Mint, meaning I will still benefit from this new release. Ubuntu is still massively popular despite stumbles over the years, and countless popular distributions are all based on it. o § Devices/Embedded⠀➾ # ⚓ [Old] PC Mag ☛ Is_Your_Car_Autonomous?_The_6_Levels_of Self-Driving_Explained⠀⇛ Autonomous cars are sharing the road with drivers in select cities, but what counts as self-driving? In the US, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has recognized standards developed by SAE International since 2016(Opens in a new window), which outline six levels(Opens in a new window) of driving automation. These levels identify how autonomous a vehicle can be; does the car need a human behind the wheel or can it navigate the streets solo, for example? Here’s what each level means. # ⚓ [Old] Valnet Inc ☛ Here’s_When_We’ll_See_Driverless_Cars With_Level_5_Autonomy⠀⇛ Well, to figure out the best course of action, let’s take a closer look at level 5 autonomy and, ultimately, when it may arrive. # ⚓ Linux Gizmos ☛ SoM_board_features_Allwinner_H616 processor⠀⇛ BIGTREETECH has unveiled a compact board equipped with a 64-bit Allwinner H616 processor. Additionally, the company is offering a compatible PI4B adapter which gives access to one LAN port, dual Micro HDMI ports, one USB Type-C and other standard peripherals. # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Building_A_Local_Network_With_LoRaWAN⠀⇛ At its core, the Internet is really just a bunch of computers networked together. There’s no reason that there can’t be other separate networks of computers, or that we all have to tie every computer we have to The One Internet To Rule Them All. In fact, for a lot of embedded systems, it doesn’t make much sense to give them a full network stack and Cat6e Ethernet just to report a few details about themselves. Enter LoRaWAN, a wireless LAN that uses extremely low power for Internet-of- Things devices, and an implementation of one of these networks in an urban environment. # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ The_Commodordion_Turns_Two_C64s_Into_A_Single Instrument⠀⇛ One of the main reasons the Commodore 64 became an icon of the 1980s was its MOS 6581 “SID” sound chip that gave it audio capabilities well beyond those of other microcomputers of the 8-bit era. The SID became something of a legend by itself among chiptune enthusiasts, and several electronic instruments have been designed that generate their sound through a SID chip. Not many of those look anything like traditional musical instruments however, so we’re delighted to see [Linus Åkesson]’s new project: two Commodore 64s joined back-to-back using a bellows to form a wonderful new instrument called the Commodordion. It can be played in a similar way one plays a traditional accordion: melodies are played with the right hand, chords with the left, and volume is adjusted by varying the pressure in the bellows. o § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾ # ⚓ Jeff Geerling ☛ An_easier_way_to_find_an_ASUSTOR_NAS_to_set it_up⠀⇛ I have a few ASUSTOR NASes at my house, and I don’t like installing a custom application just to identify the NAS so I can visit it’s web UI the first time. The official ASUSTOR getting started guide recommends installing ASUSTOR Control Center, which does a good job of identifying ASUSTOR devices on your network. And that’s about it. But behind the scenes, it’s likely just scanning your network and matching any MAC addresses in Asustek’s range. Which is easy to do without a third party app. # ⚓ Old VCR ☛ Refurb_weekend:_PowerBook_1400⠀⇛ The original motherboard eventually got flaky, so I transferred everything over to a 1400c/166 motherboard which also gave me an extra 4MB of RAM headroom and a lovely active matrix display. Even after I got the iBook G4 I still used it as a classic Mac portable, and upgraded the G3 to 466MHz (the last and greatest of the Sonnet 1400 upgrades) and installed a replacement 2.5″ IDE hard disk with more space. I’ve even got a metric butt-ton of batteries that still vaguely hold a charge along with a VST dual battery charger to charge ‘em. Short of putting an SSD or CF drive in it, I challenge you to find a 1400 that’s more pimped out than this one. Nowadays its most important tasks are running classic Mac OS 9 software with a smaller footprint than my TiBook G4, as well as serving as a serial console using ZTerm and a Mac printer cable. # ⚓ YLE ☛ Police:_Drone_threat_is_“here_to_stay”⠀⇛ “However, as a matter of principle, we do not shoot down drones, and the police do not recommend it to anyone else either,” Hätönen said. # ⚓ Raspberry Pi ☛ A_Raspberry_Pi_Pico_conducts_this_lo-fi orchestra⠀⇛ This lo-fi orchestra found modest fame on Twitter playing an 8-bit synthesised rendition of Mike Oldfield’s Tubular Bells. It was created by Kevin (aka @diyelectromusic). We are trained to ignite when we see a herd of boards and wires, so we dove a little deeper and saw that Raspberry Pi had indeed weaselled its way into the band. # ⚓ Raspberry Pi ☛ AuraLock_automatic_door_opener⠀⇛ The pair also faced problems when implementing OpenCV to recognise faces. “The library is vast and difficult to install easily,” Dillon says. “Once OpenCV was installed, I realised it was not designed to accept new face encodings dynamically – all registered images were generally hard-coded on bootup.” To overcome this, Dillon implemented a dynamically updating dictionary, and he refreshed the OpenCV code to reflect the changes. The pair also used a Google Firebase database that allowed for communication between Raspberry Pi and the Android app. “Having to communicate with other devices through Firebase added a level of difficulty that wasn’t anticipated at first,” Erin says. # ⚓ CNX Software ☛ Innodisk_releases_USB_camera_modules_for_AI applications_–_CNX_Software⠀⇛ Innodisk, better known for its industrial storage solutions and embedded peripherals, has recently announced a shift towards the AI industry, and the first products for this market are three USB 2.0 camera modules with 1920×1080 resolution. # ⚓ ine64_Announces_‘Sub-$10,_Linux-Capable’_SBC_–_the_Ox64⠀⇛ * § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾ o § Web Browsers/Web Servers⠀➾ # ⚓ uni Toronto ☛ The_programming_challenge_that_is_a_modern browser⠀⇛ Browsers cover so much ground and are so large that they effectively contain multiple substantial projects as subsystems. You have a Javascript execution system (and now a WebAssembly one too), HTML and CSS parsing, web page DOM rendering (including complex text rendering in a wide variety of languages and fonts), a complex TLS system, a networking system that handles multiple protocols, an asynchronous DNS resolver, image, audio, and video format decoders and players, database and cache layers, and so on. All of these subsystems are complicated by security concerns and many of them interconnect with each other at various levels. Some browsers also have to be cross- platform on top of this. o § SaaS/Back End/Databases⠀➾ # ⚓ Alexandru Nedelcu ☛ Building_a_Queue_for_Delayed_Messages via_a_RDBMS_(1):_Design⠀⇛ Ever had the need to deliver messages on your queue at a certain timestamp in the future? Look no further, because your RDBMS can do it. This is part 1 of a series that builds a solution from scratch. In our $work project we had the need to push messages on a queue, but delayed, for delivery at a certain timestamp in the future. Our existing MQ servers aren’t adequate for that, and we can’t introduce more technology in our stack. Turns out, a relational database is perfectly adequate (such as MySQL or PostgreSQL). Here’s how… o § Education⠀➾ # ⚓ [Old] Corey Stephan ☛ My_FOSDEM_2021_presentation_on_how_to optimize_multisource_historical_research_with_tiling_window managers⠀⇛ For historical research and writing, the use of a dedicated tiling window manager and other customizable FOSS tools improves efficiency. With a bit of work, manuscript facsimiles, database query tools, and other items that a historian might need to have opened simultaneously can be sorted exactly how he/she wishes, freeing crucial time from organization for proper analysis. In this presentation, I explain how to optimize a multisource historical research workflow inside a tiling window manager with an entirely libre software toolkit. # ⚓ Raspberry Pi ☛ Meet_Debra_Ansell:_Geek_Mom_Projects_| HackSpace_#60⠀⇛ You may have seen Debra Ansell’s sound-reactive LED embroidered party dress. Or her internet-connected, intelligent edge-lit acrylic light paintings. Or you may have recreated one of her builds yourself – following the instructions she generously puts up on her site geekmomprojects.com. Alternatively, you may recognise the name because almost everyone we speak to nowadays cites her as an influence on their work. We spent an hour with her talking about everything from manufacturing, creativity, and how you get from a physics PhD program to teaching kids electronics. o § Programming/Development⠀➾ # ⚓ Finnstats ☛ Difference_Between_a_Histogram_and_a_Bar Graph⠀⇛ Difference Between a Histogram and a Bar Graph, The Bar graph is a graphical representation of data that uses bars to compare different categories of data, whereas the Histogram is a graphical representation of data that uses bars to exhibit data by way of bars to illustrate the frequency of numerical data. The distribution of non-discrete variables is represented by a histogram, but the comparison of discrete variables is represented by a bar graph. # ⚓ Jim Nielsen ☛ Seeing_vs._Using⠀⇛ The critique of a set of static mocks is often an exercise of indirectly-impacted technologists imagining the needs and goals of directly-impacted humans with a dynamic piece of software against a static screen of UI. Looking at static mocks, imagining a set of goals, and saying “yeah that looks good” is one thing. A whole other is completing a task with interactive software and saying “yeah that works good”. # ⚓ Dirk Eddelbuettel ☛ digest_0.6.30_on_CRAN:_More_Package Maintenance⠀⇛ Release 0.6.30 of the digest package arrived at CRAN earlier today, and was just uploaded to Debian as well. digest creates hash digests of arbitrary R objects (using the md5, sha-1, sha-256, sha-512, crc32, xxhash32, xxhash64, murmur32, spookyhash, and blake3 algorithms) permitting easy comparison of R language objects. It is a mature and widely-used as many tasks may involve caching of objects for which it provides convenient general-purpose hash key generation to quickly identify the various objects. # ⚓ ROS Industrial ☛ A_turn_in_the_welding_robotics_community⠀⇛ In early October in Denver, Colorado, the American Welding Society (AWS) held the first Automated Welding & Sensors Conference. This is a follow up to the prior National Robotic Arc Welding Conference, which last took place in 2019, but was not an official AWS conference. Since then, a lot has changed. One change is a pivot to acknowledging there is a lot going on in robotics, sensors, human robot interaction, and emerging trends in workforce education and sustainment, that it makes sense to have a conference on automation in welding. [...] Some of the key takeaways from my perspective is there is a hunger for intelligent yet easy to use solutions. There is an inherent high mix, and, at times, harsh environment. It is now at the point where collaborative robots – power and force limited manipulators – are now appearing in several job shops, and large manufacturers around the world. Caterpillar shared their experience in taking advantage of leveraging collaborative hardware-based systems to realize flexible and agile welding capability. # ⚓ Manage_Dependencies_with_the_deps_R_Package_for_Docker Containers⠀⇛ The deps package gives you a lightweight option to manage package dependencies and you can install these inside containers. When building Docker images for your R-based applications, the biggest hurdle is knowing exactly which packages and system libraries your package depends on. Luckily, the tools have evolved quite a bit over the past few years. In this post, I show you where the deps package fits in and how this can be a great choice for dependency management for Docker-based workflows. # ⚓ Jussi Pakkanen ☛ Jussi_Pakkanen:_Making_Visual_Studio compilers_directly_runnable_from_any_shell_(yes,_even_plain cmd.exe) [Ed: VS Code is proprietary ]⠀⇛ To anyone who has used unixy toolchains, this is maddening. The classic Unix approach is to have compiler binaries with unique names like a hypothetical armhf-linux-gcc-11 from any shell. Sadly this VS setup has been the status quo for decades now and it is unlikely to change. In fact, some times ago I had a discussion with a person from Microsoft where I told them about this problem and the response I got back was, effectively: “I don’t understand what the problem is” followed by “just run the compiles from the correct shell”. # ⚓ Bert Hubert ☛ Big_Data_Storage⠀⇛ This is a page about some of the mechanics of ‘big data’, specifically how to store, transfer and process perhaps 100s of millions or billions of rows/events. [...] Sqlite3 turns out to have been the most suggested solution, so I gave it a spin. We want to retain the CSV goals, like low overhead, universal accessibility, robustness. Sqlite delivers on all these fronts. It for example has built in tooling for dealing with corrupted files. Modern Sqlite can be type safe, so it will not allow you to insert a string in a floating point field. Its support for prepared statements means we don’t have to worry about escaping. # § Python⠀➾ # ⚓ Rlang ☛ MLOps_with_vetiver_in_Python_and_R:_Answering your_questions⠀⇛ As a follow-up to last month’s MLOps with vetiver in Python and R webinar, we’d like to highlight and answer some of the great audience questions asked during the session. You can also check out the demo and slides on the webinar’s website. # ⚓ James G ☛ Send_a_Webmention_in_10_(or_fewer)_lines_of Python_code⠀⇛ Webmentions enable distributed social interactions over the web. Using webmentions, you can send replies, likes, and other interactions that were published on your site to respond to another web page. For example, I send Webmentions for all of the bookmarks I create on my website. If a site can receive Webmentions, they will be notified that I bookmarked their post for later. Webmentions work by sending a notification to a special server on a site called a Webmention endpoint. The endpoint will process the mention, make sure it is valid, then keep track of the mention for the site author to see. For a Webmention to be valid, there must be a link between the source (the page that mentions a page), and the target (the page that is going to receive the mention). # § Rust⠀➾ # ⚓ Hubert Figuière ☛ Hubert_Figuière:_Fall_of_releases⠀⇛ A couple of Rust crate releases. Now that the new glib-rs (and gtk-rs) are out, it’s time for an update of gudev Rust bindings using the newer version of glib-rs. * § Leftovers⠀➾ o ⚓ Metro UK ☛ Deepfake_porn_wrecks_lives_–_but,_as_one_woman discovered,_it_takes_just_8_seconds_to_make_an_image⠀⇛ After her initial shock, Kate began to realise something even more disturbing – while it was her face in the video, the body it was attached to wasn’t her own. The 30-year-old campaigner had become a victim of deepfake pornography. o § Education⠀➾ # ⚓ Terence Eden ☛ MSc:_“So,_You_Have_to_Write_a_Literature Review”⠀⇛ The end-game of my MSc is almost in sight! I’ve written up 6 assignments. Now all I need to do is write a 10,000 word dissertation in the form of a Major Project Report. Oh, and go through an End-Point-Assessment with my portfolio to make sure I actually know what I’m talking about. But, back to the report. I need to write a 1,000 word literature review. The only problem is… I’ve never done one of those before! Sadly, my MSc provider aren’t particularly proactive in providing resources to students – so I started looking for something to help me. I stumbled across the book “So, You Have to Write a Literature Review: A Guided Workbook for Engineers” by Berdanier & Lenart. o § Hardware⠀➾ # ⚓ Didier Stevens ☛ Quickpost:_Testing_A_Lemon_Battery⠀⇛ In a chat with my colleagues, we were joking about charging smartphones with a lemon battery. And I actually wanted to know what magnitude of electrical energy we were talking about. [...] The electronic load dissipated 0,034 Wh of electrical energy over that period. Hence, we can assume that the lemon battery delivered 0,034 Wh. I’m sure the lemon battery could deliver more energy, by “resetting” it: cleaning the electrodes, inserting them in another place in the lemon, … After a bit of searching through the web, I’m going to assume that a typical smartphone nowadays has a battery of 10 Wh. So we would need 294 times (10 Wh / 0,034 Wh) the electrical energy delivered by my lemon battery to charge a smartphone. Except that, the 0,9 V that the lemon battery does deliver, is by far not enough to be able to charge via the USB interface. We need 5V, so, 5,555… lemon batteries connected in series. On the screenshot above, you can also see that 37 mAh was measured. Notice that you can not compare this to the mAh rating of a (smartphone) battery, because both values involve different voltages. # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Trying_To_Build_The_World’s_Fastest_Roomba⠀⇛ A lot of people complain that Roombas are unreliable, poor at their job, or just plain annoying. Few people complain they’re not fast enough in a straight line. Regardless, [electrosync] set about building the world’s fastest Roomba for his own personal satisfaction. # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Retrofitting_Robots⠀⇛ Al Williams wrote up a neat thought piece on why we are so fascinated with robots that come in the shape of people, rather than robots that come in the shape of whatever it is that they’re supposed to be doing. Al is partly convinced that sci-fi is partly responsible, and that it shapes people’s expectations of what robots look like. o § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾ # ⚓ San Fancisco ☛ Is_there_really_a_COVID_‘nightmare_variant’ spreading?_Here’s_what_experts_say⠀⇛ BQ.1 and XBB — both descendants of the omicron BA.2 subvariant — appear to have similar growth advantages. But they are surging in different geographic regions, with the former mostly affecting North America, Europe and Africa while the latter has been detected in Asia. In the few countries where they overlap, the two strains appear to be co-circulating rather than out-competing each other. # ⚓ Breach Media ☛ Busting_Myths_About_Privatized_Healthcare⠀⇛ In a private system, there’s an additional cost: profits. The first step towards a private system is channelling public money to private institutions. Patients have a similar experience, but the system is drained of resources to pay for profits… o § Proprietary⠀➾ # ⚓ DaemonFC (Ryan Farmer) ☛ Microsoft_Edge_for_“Linux”_uses outdated_GPG_and_then_configures_it_to_silence_your distribution’s_package_security_checks.⠀⇛ As you can see, Microsoft has essentially bypassed the GPG check by enabling the check, and then instead of installing a package signing key into the RPM database, like well behaved software does, they point it at a Public Key hosted on their server. The gist of this is that it shuts up the “package is unsigned” warning that prevents tampering, but then provides no assurances that Microsoft Edge updates are actually not tampered with. # ⚓ Privacy International ☛ We_looked_into_the_software_support practices_for_5_of_the_most_popular_smart_devices_(and_the results_may_disappoint_you)⠀⇛ As EU policymakers are about to adopt new laws to empower consumers and increase cyber-resilience, PI’s research shows that the existing practices of device manufacturers around software and security updates fail to meet the expectations of the vast majority of consumers. o § Security⠀➾ # ⚓ Hacker News ☛ Microsoft_Confirms_Server_Misconfiguration Led_to_65,000+_Companies’_Data_Leak⠀⇛ Microsoft this week confirmed that it inadvertently exposed information related to thousands of customers following a security lapse that left an endpoint publicly accessible over the internet sans any authentication. # ⚓ Hacker News ☛ Researchers_Say_Microsoft_Office_365_Uses Broken_Email_Encryption_to_Secure_Messages [Ed: Microsoft puts_back_doors_in_everything_for_the_FBI_and_NSA]⠀⇛ New research has disclosed what’s being called a security vulnerability in Microsoft 365 that could be exploited to infer message contents due to the use of a broken cryptographic algorithm. # ⚓ Hacker News ☛ Emotet_Botnet_Distributing_Self-Unlocking Password-Protected_RAR_Files_to_Drop_[Windows]_Malware [Ed: NET-based. Windows TCO.]⠀⇛ The one-click attack technique is also notable in that it effectively jumps past the password barrier, enabling malicious actors to carry out a wide range of actions such as cryptojacking, data exfiltration, and ransomware. # ⚓ Hacker News ☛ Multiple_Campaigns_Exploit_VMware Vulnerability_to_Deploy_Crypto_Miners_and_Ransomware⠀⇛ The issue, tracked as CVE-2022-22954 (CVSS score: 9.8), concerns a remote code execution vulnerability that stems from a case of server-side template injection. Although the shortcoming was addressed by the virtualization services provider in April 2022, it has since come under active exploitation in the wild. # ⚓ Mandiant ☛ From_RM3_to_LDR4:_URSNIF_Leaves_Banking_Fraud Behind [Ed: Microsoft Windows TCO]⠀⇛ The unpacked core for the analyzed URSNIF LDR4 sample has the internal name LOADER.dll. # § Integrity/Availability/Authenticity⠀➾ # ⚓ Computers Are Bad ☛ wireless_burglary⠀⇛ Like most consumer tech products, they are also heavily cost-engineered, emphasize the appearance of features over good design, and are sometimes downright poorly thought out. Obviously I am rather critical of this generation of products, but I should make it clear that the news is not all bad: they are very cheap. There is an important trade-off here between cost and performance, and a low- cost option isn’t necessarily bad. To twist a common expression, the best burglar alarm is the one you have, and the high installation price of conventional systems has long been a deterrent. Let’s take a look at some of the design decisions of these consumerized alarm systems and how they relate to security properties. # ⚓ The Washington Post ☛ Kakao_outage_in_South_Korea prompts_security,_monopoly_concerns_–_The_Washington Post⠀⇛ In South Korea, Kakao is ubiquitous. Nearly everyone, from schoolchildren to the elderly, uses the Korean tech company’s apps for messaging, taxis, navigation and payments. It’s Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, Uber, Google Maps and Venmo wrapped into one. # ⚓ John Gruber ☛ Kakao,_Korea’s_Everything_App,_Suffers Serious_Outage⠀⇛ It makes no sense to me why ride-hailing, payments, and messaging would fit together in a single app, but once these things get entrenched, it’s easy to see how they stay entrenched thanks to network effects. With Kakao in particular, there’s a concept of “multi-profiles”, where a single user can have different profiles for different groups within the platform. But as part of a data leak that resulted from their clumsy recovery from the outage, many of these heretofore private profiles were revealed, with predictably disastrous results. # § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾ # ⚓ NYOB ☛ Two_are_better_than_one?!_Profil.at_strikes back_with_forced_banner,_when_users_make_the_“wrong” choice.⠀⇛ Today, noyb.eu filed a GDPR complaint against the Austrian news magazine Profil. If you want to visit profil.at, you can reject all cookies in the first step. If one does so, however, a second banner pops up where one must agree to Google and other tracking cookies. Such forced consent is clearly prohibited under the GDPR. # ⚓ MIT Technology Review ☛ Starlink_signals_can_be reverse-engineered_to_work_like_GPS—whether_SpaceX likes_it_or_not⠀⇛ But Humphreys wouldn’t take no for an answer. For the past two years, his team at UT Austin’s Radionavigation Lab has been reverse-engineering signals sent from thousands of Starlink internet satellites in low Earth orbit to ground-based receivers. Now Humphreys says his team has cracked the problem, and he believes that regular beacon signals from the constellation, designed to help receivers connect with the satellites, could form the basis of a useful navigation system. Crucially, this could be done without any help from SpaceX at all. In a non peer-reviewed paper that he has posted on his lab’s website, Humphreys claims to have provided the most complete characterization of Starlink’s signals to date. This information, he says, is the first step toward developing a new global navigation technology that would operate independently of GPS or its European, Russian, and Chinese equivalents. # ⚓ uni Texas ☛ Signal_Structure_of_the_Starlink_Ku-Band Downlink [PDF]⠀⇛ We have developed and applied a blind signal identification technique to uncover the frequency- and time-domain structure of the Starlink Ku-band downlink signal. We further identified four synchronization sequences that can be used to passively exploit Starlink signals for pseudorange-based positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT), and explicitly evaluated two of these. The results in this paper illuminate the path to use of Starlink signals as a backup to traditional GNSS for PNT. o § Defence/Aggression⠀➾ # ⚓ Jacobin Magazine ☛ Bernie_Is_Right:_Extreme_Wealth Concentration_Has_Turned_America_Into_an_Oligarchy⠀⇛ A new congressional report commissioned by Bernie Sanders finds that the 1 percent now own one-third of all wealth, while the bottom half of Americans hold only 2 percent. It’s another sign of the slide into oligarchy that Sanders has warned about for years. # ⚓ The Express Tribune ☛ Pakistani_couple_arrested_in_Spain over_daughter’s_‘honour_killing’⠀⇛ Pakistani authorities issued an international arrest warrant for the couple after the killing committed in April 2020, Spain’s National Police said in a statement. Investigators believe the couple “kidnapped and then murdered in Pakistan their own daughter because she married a person they did not like,” the statement added. # ⚓ Axios ☛ New_York_attorney_accused_of_attacking_police_at Capitol_[insurrection]⠀⇛ Driving the news: John O’Kelly, of East Williston, Long Island, allegedly illegally made his way to the West front of the Capitol grounds where [insurrectionists] were fighting with law enforcement officers attempting to maintain a police barrier on Jan. 6 2021, per court documents filed in the U.S. District court in D.C. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ ISW:_Russian_retreat_from_Kherson_has_begun_— Meduza⠀⇛ The Russian Army has started to withdraw its forces from the southern part of the Kherson region, writes the Institute for the Study of War in its October 21 assessment. The US think tank has been analyzing the situation at the front since the beginning of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Administration_of_annexed_Kherson_requires residents_to_leave_the_city_‘immediately’_—_Meduza⠀⇛ Russian-appointed authorities of the Kherson region called on residents the city of Kherson to leave “immediately” and relocate to the left (eastern) bank of the Dnipro “because of the tense situation at the front, the increased danger of massive strikes on the city, and the threat of terrorist attacks.” # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Millions_without_power_across_Ukraine:_Russia_has been_attacking_Ukraine’s_energy_system_for_two_weeks_— Meduza⠀⇛ On October 22, Russia again attacked a number of energy infrastructure targets throughout Ukraine, leaving at least 1.5 million without power. Ukrenergo, the state energy company, says today’s attacks caused damaged comparable to, and possibly exceeding, the damage from Russian attacks in the days after the explosion on the Crimean Bridge. Russian strikes on the Ukrainian energy system have been ongoing since the explosion # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Construction_begins_on_‘Prigozhin_Line’_in Belgorod_—_Meduza⠀⇛ Defensive structures made of concrete blocks are being installed in the Belgorod region, says regional governor Vyacheslav Gladkov. o § Environment⠀➾ # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Puerto_Rico_and_Jackson,_Mississippi_Share Climate_Injustices_—_and_Solutions⠀⇛ # § Energy⠀➾ # ⚓ Verdict Media Strategies ☛ RB_Rail_signs_grant agreement_with_CINEA_for_Rail_Baltica_project⠀⇛ Claimed to be the largest Baltic-region infrastructure project, the Rail Baltica project will cover a length of 870km in Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. # ⚓ RT Publishing s r o ☛ Rail_Baltica_completes_another stage_of_the_railway_spatial_planning._Here’s_all_you need_to_know⠀⇛ Another stage of the Rail Baltica railway spatial planning has been completed – the specific territories, plots of land and their parts through which the Rail Baltica railway line will pass on the Kaunas-Vilnius section have been determined. All interested parties have the opportunity within two months to familiarise themselves with the prepared draft of the special territorial planning document and submit reasoned proposals. # ⚓ The Atlantic ☛ [Cryptocurrency]’s_Political_Megadonor Has_Shut_His_Wallet⠀⇛ Sam Bankman-Fried, a 30-year-old co-founder of the cryptocurrency exchange FTX, is a $15 billion enigma. As one of the richest and most powerful men in crypto, “SBF” is already a political megadonor in the vein of Peter Thiel and George Soros: He spent millions in support of Joe Biden’s presidential campaign, and was one of the biggest Democratic donors in the country in the lead-up to this year’s midterm elections. Among his PAC’s expenditures was a whopping $10 million donation to a virtually unknown Oregon House candidate who lost his primary badly. Still, his political ambitions have had Democrats salivating: In a podcast interview earlier this year, SBF suggested that he would be willing to spend up to $1 billion on political donations before 2024. # ⚓ Idiomdrottning ☛ Fusion_vs_the_doomsday_clock⠀⇛ Both are mistakes. Let’s keep trying to fix the climate crisis and end fossils.♥ # ⚓ CNET ☛ Why_You_Need_Home_Batteries_(No,_It’s_Not_All About_Blackouts)⠀⇛ The idea is simple: Store excess free energy from your rooftop in your batteries rather than selling it back to a utility that doesn’t like the idea and offers a pittance. Instead, use that stored energy later in the day during peak times to avoid the highest electricity rates while also doing your part to take strain off the grid. It’s the missing piece that makes residential rooftop solar a more comprehensive proposition. Some of that elegance will depend on you having a large enough solar system to charge your batteries at a healthy clip, living in a home that has plenty of sun and being a customer of a utility that forces your hand with controversial time-of-use electricity rates. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Opinion_|_Systemic_Grid_Failure_Is Killing_People_in_Louisiana._Voting_Can_Save_Their Lives⠀⇛ Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards recently announced a milestone emissions reduction project. And yet, there is still no plan to mitigate the systemic grid failure that results in avoidable deaths and continues to threaten the lives of Louisianians every year. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Utility_CEOs_See_Soaring_Pay_as Families_Struggle_to_Afford_Energy_Bills⠀⇛ An analysis of Securities and Exchange Commission filings by Utility Dive found that the CEO of California-based Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E)—the largest utility firm in the U.S.—received $51.2 million in total compensation in 2021, an increase of 640% compared to her previous year’s pay. # § Wildlife/Nature⠀➾ # ⚓ Overpopulation ☛ More_like_a_dying_planet_report⠀⇛ Earth continues to hemorrhage biodiversity, according to the latest Living Planet Report. Unfortunately, its authors cannot manage a clear statement of how to stop the bleeding. o § Finance⠀➾ # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Railroad_Workers_Threaten_to_Strike_and_Call_for Public_Takeover_of_the_Rails⠀⇛ # ⚓ Pro Publica ☛ Court_Drops_Landlord’s_Latest_Effort_to_Force Tenants_to_Move⠀⇛ The news organizations were looking at Scanlon’s properties as part of an investigation into a New Jersey agency that paid him more than $1.1 million for three Atlantic City rooming houses, forcing out the residents who lived in them. # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Appeals_Court_Temporarily_Blocks_Student_Debt Cancellation⠀⇛ # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Opinion_|_To_Fight_Inflation,_Tax_the_Rich and_Corporate_Profiteers⠀⇛ The world’s central bankers, almost without exception, are now busy swinging sledgehammers. Only whopping interest-rate hikes, they’re preaching, can pound down inflation’s rising prices. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Opinion_|_Here’s_the_Status_of_Student_Debt Relief_as_Applications_Open⠀⇛ Is the Biden administration doing an about-face on its student debt cancellation program? Some sensationalist headlines might lead you to believe that it is, but we believe that characterization is unfair. o § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾ # ⚓ Terence Eden ☛ Why_can’t_Twitter_stop_the_“Twoo_Fun_/_Ask For_Me”_spam?⠀⇛ Back in June, I noticed a pretty insidious piece of Twitter spam. The “twoo.fun” website was claiming that it could tell you who visited your Twitter profile. That’s pretty enticing! It’s what LinkedIn uses to drive its premium product. Perhaps it would tell me if a potential employer was looking at my profile? Or if my crush kept visiting it!??!?!? So people visited the website and signed in with their Twitter account. Whereupon the app started posting spam. [...] I keep reporting this to Twitter. And they keep shutting it down. And it keeps popping back up! I don’t have access to Twitter’s systems – but it seems to me like there are some easy ways to curtail this scam. At the very least blocking those two domains would force the spammers to keep moving to new hosts. Perhaps Twitter could look for new apps which suddenly start posting messages which are quickly marked as spam. Or they could do some fancy machine-learning to identify similarly scammy images. At the moment, we don’t know what the end-game is for this spam. Maybe is it “just” a worm and someone is having a giggle seeing how many people they can infect. Perhaps it is harvesting accounts hoping to sell them to other spammers. Or it could be slurping down the social graph for other nefarious purposes. Either way, this has been going on for at least five months! I think I’ve done what I can to inform Twitter. In the meantime, I urge you to warn your followers about this spam. # ⚓ Citizen Lab ☛ Cybersecurity_Will_Not_Thrive_in_Darkness:_A Critical_Analysis_of_Proposed_Amendments_in_Bill_C-26_to theTelecommunications_Act⠀⇛ As drafted at time of writing, Bill C-26 would empower the Minister of Industry to compel telecommunications providers to do or refrain from doing anything in the service of securing Canadian telecommunications networks against the threats of interference, manipulation, or disruption. The legislation would authorize the Minister to compel providers to disclose confidential information and then enable the Minister to circulate it widely within the federal government; this information could potentially include either identifiable or de-identified personal information. Moreover, the Minister could share non-confidential information internationally even when doing so could result in regulatory processes or private right of actions against an individual or organization. Should the Minister or other party to whom the Minister shares information unintentionally lose control of the information, there would be no liability attached to the government for the accident. # ⚓ [Old] Gannett ☛ At_80,_John_Sinclair_is_achy,_feisty_and stoned⠀⇛ “It was the best day of my life,” Sinclair said of the rally. “I think I’m crazy for doing this event but you get to 50 years once in a lifetime. It’s a big deal to me. Personally, this was the biggest day of my life. So, I want to honor it.” # ⚓ [Old] Gannett ☛ The_wild_night_John_Lennon_showed_up_to free_marijuana_martyr_John_Sinclair⠀⇛ They could have dreamed such farfetched things on Dec. 10, 1971, when former Beatle John Lennon visited Ann Arbor to perform at the successful “John Sinclair Freedom Rally” in Crisler Arena at the University of Michigan. The event was a peculiar and historic musical confluence of protest, pot and politics that resonates even today in Michigan’s progressive cannabis laws. # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Trump_Subpoenaed_for_“Central_Role”_in_Effort_to Overturn_Election⠀⇛ # ⚓ Pro Publica ☛ Capturing_the_2022_Wisconsin_Election_Climate in_Photos⠀⇛ Our excursion together began at a Constitution Day celebration at a community park in New Berlin, Wisconsin. The next day we were in Waukesha for a “meat-and-greet” event of food and politics at the county’s Republican Party headquarters. o § Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾ # ⚓ 2600 ☛ 2600_Kicked_Off_Of_Youtube_For_Sarcastic_Remark⠀⇛ We were as surprised as anyone could have been. The notice arrived in the inbox of our Channel2600 YouTube channel and it read as follows: [...] # ⚓ Canberra Times ☛ Julian_Assange_lawyer_Jennifer_Robinson asks_‘what_happens_when_the_law_that_is_meant_to_protect_us, silences_us?’⠀⇛ # ⚓ The Dissenter ☛ The_Parts_Of_Chelsea_Manning’s_Book Censored_By_The_US_Government⠀⇛ o § Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press⠀➾ # ⚓ Sahara Reporters ☛ Over_40_Journalists_Detained_In_Iran_For Covering_Anti-Hijab_Protests⠀⇛ According to VOA, the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists has documented that as of Wednesday, 41 journalists have been detained. A handful of them were later released on bail. Most are accused of taking part in the protests they were covering. But CPJ and other journalists’ rights organizations remain concerned for those behind bars, including journalists detained in Tehran’s Evin Prison. # ⚓ WSWS ☛ Free_Julian_Assange!⠀⇛ 3. Assange has committed no crime. He has, instead, been hounded, vilified and persecuted by the imperialist powers for exposing their war crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan, their global diplomatic conspiracies and spying operations directed against the world’s population. This has entailed unprecedented attacks on democratic rights, including the plots of the Trump administration and the US Central Intelligence Agency to kidnap or assassinate Assange when he was a political refugee in London in 2017. o § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾ # ⚓ [Old]_FBI_Still_Targets_Black_People_for_Entrapment⠀⇛ The COINTELPRO era never ended, as Black people bear the brunt of FBI surveillance. The war on terror gave a new rationale for using paid informants to entrap Black people. Romeo Langhorne is the latest victim of a government created crime. # ⚓ The Express Tribune ☛ Twitter_comes_to_Sana_Mir’s_defence after_she_was_trolled_for_sharing_pictures_with_male cricketers⠀⇛ While it should have been a moment of pride for the Pakistani cricket fans to see our athlete representing the nation and sharing the same stage as these big names in men’s cricket, unfortunately, all social media users could comment on was how she was the only woman in a pool of men. # ⚓ Eesti Rahvusringhääling ☛ Saturday_is_Finno-Ugric_tribal day,_flags_raised⠀⇛ The tradition dates back to 1931, when the third week in October was set aside to look at the culture and society of all Finno-Ugric peoples, which includes not only Estonians but also Finns, Hungarians and many other national groups, whose homelands are predominantly located across the present-day northwestern Russian Federation and northern Scandinavia, and their diaspora populations in North America and elsewhere. # ⚓ France24 ☛ Iran_schoolgirl_dies_after_being_beaten_by security_forces,_teachers’_union_says⠀⇛ A 15-year-old Iranian girl died last week after being beaten during a raid by the security forces on her school, a teachers’ union said, urging the authorities to stop killing “innocent” protesters. # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Being_Pregnant_in_Prison_Is_a_Nightmare_That Won’t_Be_Ended_by_One_Bill_Alone⠀⇛ o § Internet Policy/Net Neutrality⠀➾ # ⚓ RIPE ☛ Reflections_on_the_ITU_Plenipotentiary_Conference 2022⠀⇛ The ITU’s most important meeting, the Plenipotentiary Conference, just wrapped up in Bucharest after three weeks of ceremony, intense negotiations, and elections for an all-new leadership team. Read on for some of the key takeaways for the Internet community. o § Monopolies⠀➾ # § Copyrights⠀➾ # ⚓ Torrent Freak ☛ Department_of_Piracy:_Punish_Russia’s Enemies,_Boost_Morale,_Hurt_Pirates⠀⇛ A new proposal emerging from the Russian parliament’s Committee on Economic Policy could have global implications for the entertainment industries, movies in particular. The scenario envisions a state- sanctioned ‘Department of Piracy’ that would obtain copyrighted content unavailable by legal means, so that the state can sell it to the public. # ⚓ Walled Culture ☛ A_concept_that_should_not_exist_at all_is_already_implemented:_the_“paying”_public domain⠀⇛ couple of weeks ago, Walled Culture reported on a terrible idea in France: requiring companies to pay for the use of public domain material. As the post explained, this is a subversion of what it means for something to enter the public domain, and a betrayal of the implicit bargain of copyright. Fortunately, the plan was dropped, partly as a result of the outrage it generated. Naively, I assumed that this was a lucky escape, but that the idea would be back unless we were on our guard. I was wrong: the idea won’t be back, because it has already been implemented in a number of other countries. For example, Jorge Gemetto pointed out on Twitter that something called the “paying” public domain has existed in Uruguay and Argentina for many years. He linked to an interesting article on the topic by Maximiliano Marzetti, who lists even more countries blighted by this copyright perversion: Algeria, Kenya, Ruanda, Senegal, Republic of the Congo, Côte d’Ivoire, and Paraguay. Marzetti refers to a 2010 report from WIPO, which explore the idea of the “paying” public domain further. # ⚓ Music Business Worldwide ☛ Record_industry_clamps down_on_AI-based_music_extractors_that_infringe_on copyrights⠀⇛ The files that these services produce are either unauthorized copies or unauthorized derivative works of the labels’ copyrighted music, the organization says as it identified three websites that allegedly serve as music extractors. They include Acapella-extractor, which amassed 3.2 million site visits in the last 12 months; Remove-Vocals, which had 2.6 million visits in the past year; and Songmastr, which recorded 32,000 visits in the last six months since its launch. All three sites are registered by Toronto, Canada-based Contact Privacy Inc. # ⚓ Digital Music News ☛ Major_Labels_Now_Targeting_‘AI- Based_Extractors/Mixers’_for_Copyright_Infringement⠀⇛ The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has submitted its most recent overview of notorious markets to the U.S. Trade Representative. Most of the well-known culprits are present, from torrenting to cyberlockers. A new addition in this report is ‘AI-based’ music mixers and extractors as something to watch as an emerging threat to the industry. # ⚓ Vice Media Group ☛ Record_Labels_Say_AI_Music Generators_Threaten_Music_Industry⠀⇛ Artists working within all kinds of media have raised concerns in recent years—and increasingly, with the rising popularity of text-to-image generators like DALL-E—about whether AI-generated art infringes on individuals’ copyright. Most AI content generators depend on datasets that are filled with original artworks, texts, or audio, and use those original works without the owners’ permission. # ⚓ Michael Geist ☛ Why_the_Real_Bill_C-18_Threat_is_Bill C-18⠀⇛ Facebook is a hard company to support. Earlier this week, I attended an excellent talk with Frances Haugen, the well-known Facebook whistleblower, who delivered a compelling case that the social media giant, driven by profit maximization, consistently errs on the side of technical choices that keeps users engaged, angry, and on the platform, often at an enormous societal cost. Haugen identified numerous harms associated with the company’s practices – privacy, the impact on children, misinformation, and algorithmic settings that often inflame rather than educate – and emphasized that there was a need to address these concerns through better regulation (notably transparency and privacy rules). Haugen’s talk came to mind yesterday as Facebook released a blog post confirming that it had not been invited to appear before the Canadian Heritage committee studying Bill C- 18, outlining its concerns, and making it clear that it was starting to think about the prospect of blocking news sharing in Canada: faced with adverse legislation that is based on false assumptions that defy the logic of how Facebook works, we feel it is important to be transparent about the possibility that we may be forced to consider whether we continue to allow the sharing of news content in Canada. # ⚓ Michael Geist ☛ Government_Moves_to_Block_Dozens_of Potential_Witnesses_as_it_Shuts_Down_Bill_C-18 Hearings⠀⇛ Earlier this year, the government deployed disturbing anti-democratic tactics by repeatedly cutting off debate on Bill C-11 in both the House of Commons and during clause- by-clause review of the bill. As a result, MPs rushed to vote on over 150 amendments, most without public disclosure of what was even being voted on. That approach rightly sparked anger and has even led supporters of Bill C-11 to ask the Senate to remedy unexpected amendments that were not subject to any public debate. As bad as that was, later today the government will arguably engage in an even more problematic tactic, as it moves to block dozens of potential witnesses from presenting their views on the Online News Act (Bill C-18). Minutes after Canadian Heritage Pablo Rodriguez answers committee questions on the bill for the very first time this afternoon, the government – backed by the NDP – is expected to shut down further witnesses at the Bill C-18 hearings and move directly to clause-by-clause review. As a result, dozens of stakeholders and experts will be blocked from giving testimony to the Heritage committee. For a government that once prided itself on consultation, the decision to block further committee testimony is a remarkable abdication of the principles of a consultative, inclusive approach to legislative development. The decision to shut down witnesses at the Bill C-18 hearing is particularly problematic given the importance of the bill (it has major implications for the free flow of information online and an independent press), the myriad of concerns (payments for links, risk to increased clickbait and misinformation, government intervention), and the Parliamentary Budget Officer’s estimate that the majority of revenues will go to the CBC and broadcast giants such as Bell. # ⚓ Michael Geist ☛ Small_Business_Weak:_Why_Bills_C-11 and_C-18_Undermine_the_Government’s_Claims_of_Small Business_Support⠀⇛ As anyone watching the House of Commons this week knows, it is Small Business Week. Each day, Liberal MPs have stood in the House to proclaim their support for small business. The speeches are supplemented by tweets, such as this one by Canadian Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez. The professed admiration for small business came to mind last night during a spectacular Senate hearing on Bill C-11 featuring Jennifer Valentyne, Stewart Reynolds (aka Brittlestar), and Darcy Michael. The three witnesses, who were bursting with energy and confidence, came with simple message: fix Bill C-11 by keeping the government and CRTC away from the platform algorithms. It is a message that Rodriguez has ignored for months, despite the fact that these are precisely the creators one would think the Minister of Canadian Heritage would want to support. The panel provided a reminder that these are more than just supremely talented creators who have parlayed Internet platforms and global audiences into great success, however. They are also small businesses. Working alone, with a partner, or a small team, each is a small business that generates employment, brings new revenues into Canada, and – to use Rodriguez’s language – bring dynamism and ingenuity. * § Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾ o § Personal⠀➾ # ⚓ taking_in_a_merino_top⠀⇛ i am tall but not wide person. to get the length in clothes that i need i often go up a size; this will then be too wide on me:-( i have put up with this for my life so far. one of my motivations for starting to sew (machine) was to have better fitting clothes that i had either modified or made myself. # ⚓ Job_Woes⠀⇛ The car is fairly messed up. The accelerator just intermittently stops working, which is not great! When it is working, I can be cruising at a consistent speed and the RPMs suddenly go up to 5000 just to maintain. Yikes-a-roni. [...] I really do need to find work that’s not gig economy bullshit, but I’m so fundamentally unsuited for employment. I have no patience, I can’t stand up for hours on end, I can’t do heavy labor… I thought maybe I might apply at a local cafe, but the questions on their application include “What is your favorite TV show” (haven’t watched one in years) and “What is the best concert you’ve ever been to?” (have literally only ever been to random classical orchestra concerts, and not even very many of those). o § Politics⠀➾ # ⚓ I_Don’t_Understand_What_I’m_Reading⠀⇛ The Guardian informs me that Suella Braverman has resigned, stating…. o § Technical⠀➾ # ⚓ How_I_feel_after_getting_‘let_go’_by_my_former_employer⠀⇛ Honestly, after the dressing-down I received, I should have refused to work with N. P.; I should have spit on his shoes and driven home. I hope the board will get in touch with me. I have some things I’d like to say. Finally, here’s a sample of the feedback I received from N. P. when he was my supervisor. I have lightly edited it to remove personal information, but otherwise have kept it as I received it. Please note that I’m not a prescriptivist, but what he sent me was the worst attempt I have ever seen at communication in a professional context. # ⚓ My_new_used_ThinkPad_T460s⠀⇛ Finally I got my hands on a used and refurbished ThinkPad T460s. I got it for ~350€ from an Amazon Seller. After some troubles involving sending the first package back (the laptop was completely broken), I got a fully functional and as good as new T460s. I was long thinking about getting a new laptop for experimenting and testing purposes, so I don’t need to use my daily driver/gaming laptop for this. An older ThinkPad is the ideal device to tinker around in my opinion. What I mainly want the T460s for is checking out all kinds of free operating systems on bare metal. That will be a better experience than using VMs I believe. =============================================================================== * Gemini_(Primer) links can be opened using Gemini_software. It’s like the World Wide Web but a lot lighter. ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 2428 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐃𝐀𝐈𝐋𝐘 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒 ═════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 10.23.22⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Links_23/10/2022:_4MLinux_40.1_and_Kirigami_Addons_0.5⠀✐ Posted in News_Roundup at 2:31 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇GNOME bluefish⦈ § Contents⠀➾ * GNU/Linux o Audiocasts/Shows o Applications o Instructionals/Technical o Games o Desktop_Environments/WMs # K_Desktop_Environment/KDE_SC/Qt # GNOME_Desktop/GTK * Distributions_and_Operating_Systems o New_Releases o Slackware_Family o Arch_Family o Open_Hardware/Modding o Mobile_Systems/Mobile_Applications * Free,_Libre,_and_Open_Source_Software o Programming/Development # R # Python * Leftovers o Science o Education o Hardware o Health/Nutrition/Agriculture o Proprietary o Privatisation/Privateering o Security # Integrity/Availability/Authenticity # Privacy/Surveillance o Defence/Aggression o Environment # Energy o Finance o AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics o Censorship/Free_Speech o Civil_Rights/Policing o Digital_Restrictions_(DRM) o Monopolies # Copyrights * Gemini*_and_Gopher o Personal o Politics o Technical # Internet/Gemini # Programming * § GNU/Linux⠀➾ o ⚓ Linux Links ☛ Linux_Around_The_World:_Luxembourg_–_LinuxLinks⠀⇛ We cover events and user groups that are running in Luxembourg. This article forms part of our Linux Around The World series. o § Audiocasts/Shows⠀➾ # ⚓ Video ☛ Ubuntu_Vs_Zorin_OS_|_Which_is_the_Best_Linux Distro?_(For_2022)_–_Invidious⠀⇛ I wanted to find out if Zorin OS is really that good and even better than Ubuntu as some say. So I installed both Ubuntu and Zorin OS on the same machine and started using them both for all my day to day tasks. # ⚓ Tux Digital ☛ 215:_Linux_6.0,_Ubuntu_22.10,_GNOME_43,_KDE Plasma_5.26,_Fedora,_System76_and_more_Linux_news!_–_This Week_in_Linux_–_TuxDigital⠀⇛ On this episode of This Week in Linux: we talk about the latest kernel release with Linux 6.0, also new releases from Ubuntu, GNOME, and KDE. As well as some news from Fedora, System76, all that and much more on Your Weekly Source for Linux GNews! o § Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ Ubuntu Pit ☛ 5_Free_and_Open-source_School_Management Software_for_Linux⠀⇛  Managing an educational institution is quite a difficult task, which can be made simpler with the help of school management software. School management software helps educational institutions to manage student data, staff payroll, fee payments, and other tasks. There are many school management software available, both paid and free. In this article, we’ll explore some of the most popular free and open-source school management software available for Linux. While many commercial options are available, open- source software offers some compelling advantages. Here are five school management software programs that won’t cost you a dime and work on Linux. # ⚓ Carl Schwan ☛ Kirigami_Addons_0.5_release⠀⇛ Just a small note that Kirigami Addons 0.5 was released yesterday. This update only contains some small cleanups here and there (e.g. moving some implementation details from the public api to the private one). o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾ # ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_To_Install_Anaconda_on_Rocky_Linux_9_– idroot⠀⇛ In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Anaconda on Rocky Linux 9. For those of you who didn’t know, Anaconda is an open-source package manager and distribution of Python. It is used for scientific computing, data science, machine learning, and statistical analysis. The Anaconda environment includes over 250 data science packages automatically installed, and over 7,500 additional open-source packages that are compatible with Windows, macOS, and Linux. This article assumes you have at least basic knowledge of Linux, know how to use the shell, and most importantly, you host your site on your own VPS. The installation is quite simple and assumes you are running in the root account, if not you may need to add ‘sudo‘ to the commands to get root privileges. I will show you the step-by-step installation of Anaconda Python on Rocky Linux. 9. # ⚓ Ubuntu Handbook ☛ Replace_Manufacturer_Logo_in_Ubuntu_22.04 |_22.10_Startup_Screen_|_UbuntuHandbook⠀⇛ Ubuntu shows your computer manufacturer logo in the startup animation screen since 20.04 LTS. User can however replace it with system logo. And, this simple tutorial will show you how. Most Linux’s boot animation screen is handled by Plymouth with specific theme. By editing the theme configuration file can do the trick to disable the Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) logo, and changing the background image to use system logo instead. # ⚓ Citizix ☛ How_to_Setup_Central_Logging_Server_with_Rsyslog in_Ubuntu_22.04⠀⇛ Rsyslog is an open-source software utility used on UNIX and Unix-like computer systems for forwarding log messages in an IP network. It is an open-source utility for log processing. It permits the logging of data from different types of systems in a central repository. Rsyslog is a Syslog protocol with more extensions, features, and benefits. # ⚓ Barry Kauler ☛ First_baby_steps_to_running_as_user_zeus⠀⇛ I posted about giving a non-root user administration privileges… # ⚓ Data Swamp ☛ Search_in_OpenBSD_packages_with_openports.pl⠀⇛ This blog post aims to be a quick clarification about the website openports.pl: an online database that could be used to search for OpenBSD packages and ports available in -current. o § Games⠀➾ # ⚓ Boiling Steam ☛ Best_Steam_Deck_Games_Released_in_the_Past Week_–_2022-10-23_Edition_–_Boiling_Steam⠀⇛ Between 2022-10-16 and 2022-10-23 there were 87 new games validated for the Steam Deck. We use several variables such as popularity, ratings and a few more to make our selection of the best Steam Deck games. o § Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾ # § K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt⠀➾ # ⚓ OMG Ubuntu ☛ KDE_neon_is_Now_Based_on_Ubuntu_22.04 ‘Jammy_Jellyfish’⠀⇛ KDE neon (it’s stylised with a lowercase ‘n’) has rebased on top of Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, bringing many of the LTS’ foundations new features to users of this ‘not a distro’. The developers beavering away on the KDE- centric Linux project announce they have successfully rebased KDE neon atop Ubuntu 22.04 LTS ‘Jammy Jellyfish’, the first version of which was released back in April. With the bump to Jammy, KDE neon users unlock access to a newer set of packages, third- party tools, and hardware drivers. A more recent Linux kernel is also offered, providing improved hardware support. # § GNOME Desktop/GTK⠀➾ # ⚓ OMG Ubuntu ☛ New_App_Lets_You_Save_Clipboard_Content as_a_New_File_on_Ubuntu_–_OMG!_Ubuntu!⠀⇛ Every copied a block of text to your clipboard and wished you could quickly save it as a file? Well, open source developer Marcos Costales (of Folder Color fame) has released a new app that does precisely that. When you have the ‘Clipboard to File’ tool installed you get a new right-click context- menu entry in Nautilus file manager (or the Nemo and Caja file managers, which are also supported). When you select it, it saves your clipboard content as a new text file or, if you copied an image, saves the image as a PNG file. I often copy a chunk of text to my clipboard, launch Gedit (or another Linux text editor), paste the clipboard content in, hit ‘save’, pick a filename, choose a location, etc. It’s not hard but it is a minor hassle given there is, now, a much faster workaround. * § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾ o § New Releases⠀➾ # ⚓ 4MLinux Blog ☛ 4MLinux_40.1_STABLE_released.⠀⇛ This is a minor (point) release in the 4MLinux STABLE channel, which comes with the Linux kernel 5.18.19. The 4MLinux Server now includes Apache 2.4.54, MariaDB 10.8.5, and PHP 7.4.30 (see this post for more details). You can update your 4MLinux by executing the “zk update” command in your terminal (fully automatic process). o § Slackware Family⠀➾ # ⚓ Eric Hameleers ☛ Flatpak_on_Slackware_|_Alien_Pastures⠀⇛ A while ago, someone e-mailed me with a request to add Flatpak to my repository. At the time, I had no interest in Flatpak, had not actually bothered to investigate it, so I said “sorry, no” and dismissed it. Still, my curiosity was piqued, because I have been having long-time struggles getting our company version of MS Teams up and running on my Slackware desktop, and Flatpak could offer resolution. I am an advocate of running natively compiled code on your Slackware OS, and the software that I am using regularly is all available in my repository as packages that have been compiled on Slackware from source. But Open Source is all about choice, and more power to you, right? I am realistic enough to see how self-contained binary software distributions can have an appeal to people. These days, more and more new software releases are made available as AppImages, Snaps or Flatpaks. The developers won’t have to worry about maintaining friendly relationships with distro packagers who may or may not do the packaging work for them every release. In fact, distribution mechanisms like Flatpak finally place niche distros like Slackware on the same level as their more widely used brethren like Ubuntu or Mint. The Flatpak app will run on all of them, unmodified. The downside of course, is that this bundling of a program plus all its dependencies will increase the size of the on-disk installation. A natively- compiled package relies on dynamic linking to the libraries which are provided by the OS, but the Flatpak needs to bundle its own compatible copies of all those libraries. Lean versus bloat. Convenience has its own sacrifices. For me as a Slackware packager and coreteam member, it is more important to offer options than to be a zealot. If a tool like Flatpak brings you more joy using Slackware on your computer, who am I to deny it to you? o § Arch Family⠀➾ # ⚓ Linuxiac ☛ Arch_Linux_vs._Manjaro:_Differences_Between_Them Explained⠀⇛ One of the most significant advantages, but at the same time confusing for novice Linux users, is its vast diversity. There are hundreds of distributions to choose from, and it might be challenging to choose one. However, some Linux distros stand out from the crowd. Because of their proven reliability, they have gained popularity and many supporters and are often used to compare which one is better. This is precisely the case with Arch vs. Manjaro – two leading Linux distros with undeniable qualities, each with its advantages and disadvantages. o § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾ # ⚓ SparkFun Electronics ☛ Meet_the_Person_Sensor_from_Useful Sensors!⠀⇛ # ⚓ SparkFun Electronics ☛ Missing_The_AVC?⠀⇛ If you’re feeling nostalgic for SparkFun’s Autonomous Vehicle Competition, we might have something that will help. When Tawn Kramer’s friends competed in the AVC and he couldn’t make it, he wrote a simulator so that he could feel like a part of the action. The best part? It’s open source and you can use it too! o § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ Top_9_Ways_to_Fix_Android_Not_Sending_Video_Messages_– Guiding_Tech⠀⇛ # ⚓ Android Police ☛ 8_fantastic_cozy_Android_games_to_curl_up with_this_winter⠀⇛ # ⚓ Android Police ☛ Best_business_apps_for_Android_in_2022⠀⇛ # ⚓ HowTo Geek ☛ 5_Android_Screenshot_Tricks_You_Should_Know⠀⇛ # ⚓ 9to5Google ☛ Every_Google_app_with_an_Android_tablet_UI_[U: Gboard,_Chrome]⠀⇛ # ⚓ Online Tech Tips ☛ Do_AirTags_Work_With_Android_and_Other Non-Apple_Devices?⠀⇛ # ⚓ Android Authority ☛ What_is_Android_digital_car_key_and_how does_it_work?_–_Android_Authority⠀⇛ # ⚓ Android Authority ☛ Material_You_one_year_later:_Has Google’s_Android_UI_overhaul_caught_on?⠀⇛ * § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾ o § Programming/Development⠀➾ # § R⠀➾ # ⚓ Hillshade,_colors_and_marginal_plots_with_tidyterra_ (I)_|_One_world⠀⇛ This is the first post of a series of two, showing how to overlay a SpatRaster on top of a Hillshade background. Next post would show how to add marginal plots including information of the values of the raster by longitude and latitude. See more posts on tidyterra # ⚓ rOpenSci_|_Maintain_or_Co-Maintain_an_rOpenSci Package!⠀⇛ The rOpenSci suite of packages is mainly composed of packages contributed by the community through peer-review, but also includes some packages maintained by staff. Over time, the commitments and availability of the original developers of a package can change. This leads to some maintainers stepping down from their maintainer role, or other maintainers looking to lower their workload through more teamwork and therefore looking for co-maintainers. We’re so grateful for all our community maintainers and want to make sure that they feel good about the work they do and not burdened by the responsibility. This is why we started conducting annual maintainer surveys, to ensure that maintainers feel supported and feel free to say when they need help, or are ready to move on. Following our recent annual maintainer survey, we have projects looking for both new maintainers and co-maintainers. Therefore, we say thank you! to our maintainers looking to move on, and in this blog post we will explain why you might want to help, and we’ll list the packages currently up for adoption or collaboration. # ⚓ How_to_keep_yourself_updated_with_the_latest_R news?⠀⇛ It is true that R, being open source (meaning that everyone can contribute), is evolving rapidly. This means that even if I am using R for several years and on a daily basis, I like to stay informed in order to stay up to date with the program and the latest coding practices. # ⚓ Understanding_the_Basics_of_Package_Writing_in_R⠀⇛ Writing a package sounds big – and it can for sure be. But in its simplest form, it’s not that much more than putting a function in a package structure. The R community is great and came up with multiple great helpers that make your life easier! # ⚓ Efficiency_comparison_of_dplyr_and_tidyr_functions_vs base_R_|_R_with_White_Dwarf⠀⇛ A couple of years ago I was interested in the efficiency of R when it comes to time processing and management of memory and I read a few blog posts about this topic, particularly pointing at the fact that R hasn’t been designed to be a very efficient language, especially when it comes to big data processing, and this could be its doom at some point in the future. By that time I also read a great article or blog post regarding the complexity of using the tidyverse family of packages in R, especially with the task of teaching R to beginners. The text made excellent points discussing how the syntax of tidyverse packages is so different from the base R functions that it might confuse the people trying to learn R from scratch. Thus, the narration continued towards the use of the packages data.table instead, which maintains a syntax closer to that of base R. And from there, the author also took the opportunity to discuss efficiency of both packages. I apologize for the lack of sources but I could not find the link to the post(s) I’m referring to, if any of you knows the post I’m talking about please, share the link with me, I’d be greatly thankful. # ⚓ How_to_create_Radar_Plot_in_R-ggradar⠀⇛ How to create Radar Plot in R, The same-named function in the package requires a data frame as input, with the first column containing the names of the groups and each subsequent column containing a variable. # ⚓ Little_useless-useful_R_functions_–_R_Solution_with_O (n)_Time_and_O(n)_Space_complexity_for_CanSum()_problem |_TomazTsql⠀⇛ CanSum problem is a problem where a given array of integers (nums) and a target integer (target), return boolean (TRUE \ FALSE) indicating, that the target integer can be calculated using two or more numbers in array nums. You may assume that each integer from the array can be used multiple times. You can also assume, that any integer (in nums or in target) is from 0 to +1e9 and the length of the nums array is from 2 to 1000 elements. # ⚓ Medium ☛ Splitting_Text_in_R⠀⇛ If you’ve worked in a spreadsheet application before, you’re likely familiar with the “text-to-columns” tool. This tool allows you to split one column of data into multiple columns based on a delimiter. This same functionality is also achievable in R through functions such as the “separate” function from the “tidyr” library. # ⚓ Interesting_Uses_of_censo2017_a_Year_After Publishing⠀⇛ This post is about the surprising uses I’ve noticed and the questions about the censo2017 R package, a tool for accessing the Chilean census 2017 data, I’ve gotten since it was peer-reviewed through rOpenSci one year ago. The original post about the package one year ago didn’t cover the different examples I present here, including a Python port of the R package. # ⚓ New_Repositories_Working_Group_–_R_Consortium⠀⇛ The R Validation Hub is happy to announce the Regulatory R Repository Working Group, which will be tasked with designing and prototyping the tools to support a cross-pharma, collaborative repository of regulated use case suitable R packages – You can imagine the end result as being a CRAN-like service for systematically vetting packages for regulated use and providing access to high- quality packages. For this, we are looking for new contributors and expertise. # ⚓ How_to_create_a_Sankey_plot_in_R?_–_Data_Science Tutorials⠀⇛ How to create a Sankey plot in R?, You must install the ggsankey library and modify your dataset using the package’s make_long function in order to produce a Sankey diagram in ggplot2. # § Python⠀➾ # ⚓ James G ☛ Announcing_IndieWeb_Utils_v0.4.0_(with reflections_on_the_library)_|_James’_Coffee_Blog⠀⇛ The goal of IndieWeb Utils is to make it easier for you to add IndieWeb features to your application in Python. In v0.3.0, released earlier this week, we added a lot of new features to the library. * § Leftovers⠀➾ o ⚓ Hackaday ☛ 2022_Cyberdeck_Contest:_QAZ_Personal_Terminal⠀⇛ The slabtop form factor has had a resurgence in the cyberdeck community, and [Greg Leo] has designed the QAZ Personal Terminal to be about as small as a slabtop could be while still having full-sized keys. o ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Velomobile_Gets_Electric_Assist⠀⇛ What do you get when you throw all accepted bicycle designs out the window and start fresh? Well, it might look a bit like [Saukki’s] velomobile. o ⚓ Tim Bray ☛ Online_Shopping,_But…⠀⇛ Now, late in my adult life, I’ve become convinced that perhaps the central pathology of our time is the relentless pursuit of efficiency, which has overshot its mark and become oppressive. o ⚓ CoryDoctorow ☛ Backdooring_a_summarizerbot_to_shape_opinion⠀⇛ What’s worse than a tool that doesn’t work? One that does work, nearly perfectly, except when it fails in unpredictable and subtle ways. Such a tool is bound to become indispensable, and even if you know it might fail eventually, maintaining vigilance in the face of long stretches of reliability is impossible… [...] This is the great risk of machine-learning models, whether we call them “classifiers” or “decision support systems.” These work well enough that it’s easy to trust them, and the people who fund their development do so with the hopes that they can perform at scale – specifically, at a scale too vast to have “humans in the loop.” There’s no market for a machine-learning autopilot, or content moderation algorithm, or loan officer, if all it does is cough up a recommendation for a human to evaluate. Either that system will work so poorly that it gets thrown away, or it works so well that the inattentive human just button-mashes “OK” every time a dialog box appears. o ⚓ Barry Hess ☛ They_Might_Be_Giants_Flood_Tour_::_Barry_Hess_:: bjhess.com⠀⇛ This past Saturday my family all had plans, so I took the opportunity to try something I’ve been meaning to try for a while: attend a concert alone. The advantage of loner concert attendance is that you can often get last-minute tickets in good seats for a great price. My friend, Patrick, also suggests that going alone can be quite fun as you aren’t concerned with making sure your friends are having a good time; you can just enjoy your experience. o ⚓ Financial Times ☛ Volvo_plans_to_install_laser_sensors_on_all_new cars_to_increase_safety [Ed: Just making cars vastly more expensive to maintain and repair for almost no practical benefit]⠀⇛ o ⚓ No_More_Butts_in_Seats?_Measuring_Productivity_in_a_Hybrid-Work Environment⠀⇛ o § Science⠀➾ # ⚓ The Register UK ☛ Arecibo_telescope_to_be_replaced_by education_center_•_The_Register⠀⇛ The US National Science Foundation (NSF) has decided not to rebuild Puerto Rico’s Arecibo Observatory, shut down in August 2020 due to damage accrued three years earlier. In its place, the NSF has solicited bids to create “a new multidisciplinary, world-class educational center” for science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). The Arecibo Center for STEM Education and Research (ACSER), as center is being called, “would serve as a hub for STEM discovery and exploration by building upon existing programs and opportunities currently in place at the Arecibo Observatory site, while also creating and implementing new STEM education, research, and outreach programs and initiatives,” the solicitation says. # ⚓ NIST ☛ A_Machine_Learning-Based_Solution_Could_Help Firefighters_Circumvent_Deadly_Backdrafts⠀⇛ A lack of oxygen can reduce even the most furious flame to smoldering ash. But when fresh air rushes in, say after a firefighter opens a window or door to a room, the blaze may be suddenly and violently resurrected. This explosive phenomenon, called backdraft, can be lethal and has been challenging for firefighters to anticipate. Now, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have hatched a plan for informing firefighters of what dangers lie behind closed doors. The team obtained data from hundreds of backdrafts in the lab to use as a basis for a model that can predict backdrafts. The results of a new study, described at the 2022 Suppression, Detection and Signaling Research and Applications Conference, suggest that the model offers a viable solution to make predictions based on particular measurements. In the future, the team seeks to implement the technology into small-scale devices that firefighters could deploy in the field to avoid or adapt to dangerous conditions. # ⚓ TechXplore ☛ Hydrogels_pave_the_way_for_the_future_of_soft robotics⠀⇛ Researchers in Carnegie Mellon University’s College of Engineering have created an open-source, commercially available fiber extruder to benefit future research with hydrogels and soft robotics. As their name suggests, hydrogels begin in liquid form as monomers. This viscous liquid, which can be made of synthetic or natural materials from polyester to sodium alginate, can be used as ink for 3D printing. The ink is first loaded into a syringe, then pumped through the needle as a thin filament and solidified following 3D printing to form a multidimensional structure, in the same way that Jell-O is mixed up first as a liquid before turning into a soft, bendable dessert. When hydrogels are placed in the right environment, the monomers in the liquid crosslink to form polymers, which gives shape to the hydrogel and lets it trap water. o § Education⠀➾ # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Opinion_|_Why_Voting_and_Celebration_Should Go_Hand-in-Hand_on_College_Campuses⠀⇛ I’ve dedicated much of the past decade to growing and empowering civic engagement at Miami Dade College—the largest community college in Florida and home to one of the most racially, ethnically, culturally, and socioeconomically diverse student populations in the country. o § Hardware⠀➾ # ⚓ Andrew Helwer ☛ What’s_the_difference_between_a_computer and_a_rock?⠀⇛ We are trying to define the essence of a computer, in terms of necessary and sufficient conditions. Once we have found these conditions, we can use them to decide whether any given physical object is a computer. We want our definition to exclude things which are obviously not computers - like rocks - while including things which obviously are computers - like CPUs. We’d also like the definition to be “nice” - simple, precise, unambiguous, and avoiding arbitrary or disagreeable conditions. [...] Computers are artifacts humans use to speed up calculations. Are the brains of nonhuman animals not computers? Does a cell not compute when it reads a string of DNA to assemble a protein? # ⚓ John Gruber ☛ Monica_Chin_Reviews_the_New_Lenovo_ThinkPad X1_Yoga⠀⇛ Intel’s chip offerings are clearly to blame, but that very much is a Lenovo problem. A huge problem, really. ThinkPads are supposed to be top-tier industry-leading laptops. It’s a proud brand with a great history. But now they’ve released a $2,400 notebook that gets crap battery life and only stays cool and quiet when you stick to basic productivity tasks. # ⚓ The Verge ☛ Lenovo_ThinkPad_X1_Yoga_Gen_7_review:_we’ve seen_this_all_before⠀⇛ Lenovo did its part, but Intel dropped the ball o § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾ # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Opinion_|_Medicare_for_All_Remains_Best Cure_for_Sick_Healthcare_System⠀⇛ Early voting in the 2022 midterm elections has begun in many states, and inflation, the economy, and recession are top concerns for most voters, according to polls. Democratic political consultant James Carville’s 1992 presidential campaign quip, “It’s the economy, stupid,” has been getting lots of use lately. If true, it’s odd that healthcare has hardly been raised as a campaign issue, even though it accounts for 20% of the U.S. economy. U.S. healthcare is a complex patchwork of public and private entities and programs, resulting in the most expensive per capita healthcare in the world. Yet, the health of people in this country, on average, is worse than in other wealthy nations. # ⚓ Sabine Hossenfelder ☛ Sabine_Hossenfelder:_Backreaction: Why_are_we_getting_fatter?⠀⇛ Today I want to talk about personal energy storage. I don’t mean that drawer we all have that’s full of batteries in the wrong size, I mean our expanding waistlines that store energy in form of fat. What are the main causes of obesity, how much of a problem is it, and what are you to make of the recent claims that obesity is caused by plastic? That’s what we’ll talk about today. Obesity is common and becoming more common, so common in fact that the World Health Organization says “the issue has grown to epidemic proportions.” The proportions of the issue are, I guess, approaching that of a sphere, and the word “epidemic” just means it’s a widely spread health problem. Though, interestingly enough, obesity is in some sense infectious. Not because it’s spread by a virus, but because eating habits spread in social networks. If your friends are obese, you’re more likely to be obese too. # ⚓ Xe’s Blog ☛ 10_years_of_Barkley_Pie’s_Slam_Jam_Slam_Song_– Xe⠀⇛ 10 years ago I was a vastly different person than who I am today. I had just gotten out of a high school experience that I don’t look back on fondly. I was a ball of depression and I was sent out to college because that’s what I was supposed to do. Needless to say, I ended up getting a PhD in dropping out. Depression is not something I usually like talking about on this blog. It’s usually a very personal thing that I have been societally trained into not talking about out of the ideas of “austerity” or “being tough”. I want to work on breaking those stigmas, and one of the ways that I feel I can do that is to talk about this openly. Depression sucks and if you are struggling with it please don’t give up hope that things can get better. They can get better. I was very depressed in college and one of the few things that started to turn things around was stumbling across the show My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic and the community of college aged and adult fans around it. Most of the online communities I had been in before the brony fandom had been places filled with hatred, toxicity, and ego. This was different. It was full of passionate, kind people that wanted to get away from the hate. o § Proprietary⠀➾ # ⚓ MacRumors ☛ HP_Accidentally_Uses_macOS_Screenshot_in_Ad_for Windows_Laptop⠀⇛ Windows PC maker HP appears to believe that “the perfect laptop” is one that runs macOS — at least according to an ad the company promoted on Reddit. The ad shows an HP laptop with a macOS screenshot in what is clearly a Photoshop job gone wrong. o § Privatisation/Privateering⠀➾ # ⚓ This_multi-billion_dollar_corporation_exacerbated_the_water crisis_in_Jackson,_Mississippi⠀⇛ The City of Jackson, the capital of Mississippi, is in crisis. Its 150,000 residents lack access to safe drinking water. Many have not had enough water to bathe or flush their toilets. Those with enough water pressure are being instructed to shower with their mouths closed. Public schools have been closed. The immediate crisis was brought about by severe flooding, which caused a water treatment plant to fail. But the problems with Jackson’s water supply date back decades. o § Security⠀➾ # ⚓ Franz Dill ☛ Encountered_and_Reported_Security_Issues_in_MS Office⠀⇛ In the most recent ‘ Security Now ‘Podcast #893′ by Steve Gibson, he discussed the fact that Microsoft has chosen not to fix a well understood security vulnerability currently in their OME (Office Method Encryption), that has existed for years, a commonly used system, which claims to have a means to encrypt text in Office, say before sending it or storing it. BUT they use ECB ‘Electronic Code book’ as a ‘secure’ method, which is well known to leak information. ECB is well known to be insecure. Microsoft has refused to fix or patch the Windows Office method. I have personally examined ECB in the past, and its problems are obvious and well known. Especially for cases like stolen or diverted data. (Ransomware?) A major issue for assumed security in MS Office. # ⚓ Mandiant ☛ The_Defender’s_Advantage_Cyber_Snapshot_Issue_2 —_More_Insights_From_the_Frontlines_|_Mandiant⠀⇛ In the latter half of this year we’ve reported on a number of threats from information operations campaigns to widespread campaigns targeting Microsoft 365, Duo Authentication, and cryptocurrency platforms, and our continued tracking of activity from advanced state-sponsored threat actor groups. # ⚓ Stacey on IoT ☛ How_Matter_is_a_key_step_forward_for_cybersecurity [Ed: Equating surveillance with "cybersecurity"?]⠀⇛ One of my favorite things about the Matter home interoperability protocol is that even if it doesn’t make it easy to manage my crazy complex smart home right from the beginning — or ultimately, ever — it does mandate some basic security requirements for connected devices. This is a big deal! # § Integrity/Availability/Authenticity⠀➾ # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ When_[Elon]_Says_No,_Just_Reverse_Engineer The_Starlink_Signal⠀⇛ We all know that it’s sometimes better to beg forgiveness than ask permission to do something, and we’ll venture a guess that more than a few of us have taken that advice to heart on occasion. But [Todd Humphreys] got the order of operations a bit mixed up with his attempt to leverage the Starlink network as a backup to the Global Positioning System, and ended up doing some interesting reverse engineering work as a result. # ⚓ uni Toronto ☛ What_it_means_to_see_a_‘bad’ certificate_in_TLS_Certificate_Transparency_logs ⠀⇛ I don’t have an answer to this, but we can ask a related question: what does it mean if your CT log monitoring turns up a TLS certificate for your domain that you don’t know about? I think that there are four things that it could mean, which I’ll order from the least likely to the most likely. First, the Certificate Authority could be compromised and the attacker has chosen to burn that compromise (and probably the entire CA) in order to get a TLS certificate for your host or domain. This is probably the least likely option but the most valuable thing for the overall TLS ecology to detect. (‘Compromised’ here includes the government of the CA’s jurisdiction turning up with an order for it to issue some TLS certificates.) Second, the CA’s processes for issuing TLS certificates could have problems that have been exploited (deliberately or accidentally), what’s sometimes called a ‘mis-issuance’. Historically mis-issuance has come in all sorts of forms, including trying to trick the CA about your identity (corporate or otherwise). Mis-issuance is a CA issue that the CA is going to have to fix right away once it’s detected, complete with officially revoking the mis-issued TLS certificates (for all the good that will or won’t do). Mis-issuance is tragically still not completely stamped out. # § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾ # ⚓ Bloomberg ☛ South_Korea_Aims_to_Boost_Economy_with Digital_IDs_on_Blockchain [Ed: Big Bropther Surveillance with some "blockchain" thrown in for hype's sake]⠀⇛ South Korea intends to offer its citizens a blockchain-secured digital identity in order to improve economic growth. The nation will launch digital IDs in 2024, expecting 45 million citizens to be using them within two years. The IDs will be embedded into mobile devices like smartphones. Suh Bo Ram, director-general of South Korea’s digital- government bureau, said a decentralized identity framework will prevent the government from accessing data on individual phones, including whose digital IDs are used, how they are used, and where. Hwang Seogwon at South Korea’s Science and Technology Policy Institute said although digital IDs can be highly beneficial economically, “there has to be more risk assessment technologically to make sure the danger doesn’t outweigh the benefits. # ⚓ Stacey on IoT ☛ Why_the_new_Roku_Smart_Home_is_a_safe bet_for_the_company [Ed: Surveillance, not "smart"]⠀⇛ Add another smart home company to your list: Roku, the digital media streaming brand today introduced Roku Smart Home. The platform initially supports seven types of connected devices with relatively low prices and subscription options. It achieves this through a partnership with Wyze, a maker of capable but inexpensive connected cameras, locks, a video doorbell, and lighting. The new Roku Smart Home products are available online today and exclusively in 3,500 Walmart stores starting on October 17. # ⚓ The Texas Tribune ☛ Texas_Attorney_General_Ken_Paxton sues_Google_for_compiling_Texans’_biometric_data⠀⇛ The lawsuit, filed Thursday, claims Google illegally collects and indefinitely stores information about Texans’ facial geometry and voiceprints without their consent, even if they’re not the ones using Google devices. o § Defence/Aggression⠀➾ # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Two_killed_and_12_injured_in_strikes_on_the Russian_border_town_of_Shebekino_—_Meduza⠀⇛ Two people were killed by shelling in the border town of Shebekino, reports Vyacheslav Gladkov, governor of Russia’s Belgorod region. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ In_the_month_since_Russia_announced_‘partial mobilization,’_41_conscripts_have_died_—_Meduza⠀⇛ Journalists from Mediazona and the BBC’s Russian service, along with a team of volunteers, established based on open-source research that at least 7,822 Russian soldiers have been killed in Russia’s war on Ukraine. o § Environment⠀➾ # § Energy⠀➾ # ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Patrick_Lawrence:_Europe’s_Self Destruction⠀⇛ Despite the economically disastrous impact the Nord Stream pipeline sabotage will have on Europe, Western media still holds its tongue about it. # ⚓ David Rosenthal ☛ DSHR’s_Blog:_The_Power_Of Ethereum’s_Merge⠀⇛ The laudable goal of Ethereum’s “Merge”, the long-awaited transition from Proof-of-Work to Proof-of-Stake, was to eliminate more than 99% of the massive environmental damage caused by Ethereum’s consuming about half as much power as Bitcoin. There are many reasons to criticize Proof-of-Stake, but the Merge definitely achieved this goal. We can no longer point the finger at Ethereum and its users and claim they are wrecking the climate half as much as Bitcoin. However, as usual when cryptocurrency advocates tout claims like “more than 99%” it is necessary to apply skepticism. From the planet’s point of view the issue is not whether the Merge reduced Ethereum’s carbon emissions, but whether the Merge reduced the carbon emissions of cryptocurrencies as a whole. The answer is “not so much”. Below the fold I discuss the details and estimate the real reduction to be ~35%, because most of the power has been diverted to mining Bitcoin. o § Finance⠀➾ # ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Judgement_day_is_coming_for_Sports Rorts,_other_Coalition_grants_schemes_–_Michael_West⠀⇛ “Sports Rorts” and assorted grants schemes manipulated for political gains by the former Coalition government are not merely corrupt but probably illegal too, writes Vince O’Grady. O’Grady found the political bias persisted not only in Sports allocations but throughout the more than $7bn in grants programs. And that is before even analysing the almost half a trillion in government contracts since 2013. We all know about the colour coded spreadsheets. They were leaked to the ABC following the damming report on the Sports infrastructure scheme. But that is where the majority of the media left it. # ⚓ [Old]_‘We_are_slaves_to_the_company’⠀⇛ Maize seed farmers in Krishna district of Andhra Pradesh have been waiting for their dues from a faraway seed company for over a year. Such delays are common, and the farmers’ loans and losses are growing # ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ How_Corporations_‘Get_Away_With_Murder’_To Inflate_Prices_on_Rent,_Food_and_Electricity⠀⇛ Antitrust expert Hal Singer shows how big businesses in certain industries are taking advantage of inflation worries to jack up prices far beyond their cost increases, all the while raking in robber-baron profits. # ⚓ George ☛ Book_Review_–_Safe_Haven:_Investing_for_Financial Storms⠀⇛ The issue here is that the author, understandably so, equates wealth with money. # ⚓ John Gruber ☛ Daring_Fireball:_More_on_Twitter’s_Absurd Headcount⠀⇛ Another angle of pushback is that Twitter needs thousands of employees because their business model is different from WhatsApp’s. Twitter’s business model sucks. I mean it doesn’t just suck, it infamously sucks. Twitter arguably has the worst ratio of user attention to revenue of any media company in history. And again, even if I concede that Twitter needs a massive ad sales staff — and I won’t concede that point — that’s irrelevant to their massive engineering and design headcount. # ⚓ John Gruber ☛ DHH_(and_Fred_Brooks)_on_Twitter’s Headcount⠀⇛ WhatsApp circa 2014 — with 50 employees and 500 million users — is a good counterpoint. # ⚓ 37signals LLC ☛ Need_it_take_7,500_people_to_run_Twitter?⠀⇛ When WhatsApp was sold to Facebook in 2014, it had almost half a billion monthly users, but a team of just 50 people running everything. Compare this to Twitter, which today has a staff of 7,500 to manage half the number of users. Yet Musk is the crazy one here for suggesting that maybe Twitter could operate with a mere TWO THOUSAND employees? Please. # ⚓ IEEE ☛ Inflation-Adjusted_Income_for_U.S._Engineers_Drops⠀⇛ HOW MUCH DOES a tech professional in the United States earn? In 2021, the median income of U.S. engineers and other tech professionals who were IEEE members hit US $160,097, up from $154,443 in 2020. That bump in pay is revealed in the IEEE-USA 2022 Salary & Benefits Survey. This apparent increase turns into a nearly $3,500 dip, however, when converted to real dollars [see chart, below]. It’s the first significant dip in median tech salary in terms of spending power recorded by IEEE-USA since 2013. o § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾ # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Opinion_|_If_Tulsi_Gabbard_Falls_in_the Woods,_Should_It_Make_a_Sound?⠀⇛ The announcement by former Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard that she was leaving a Democratic Party driven by “cowardly wokeness,” under the “control of an elitist cabal” which is stoking “anti-white racism,” was met with mixed media enthusiasm. While the New York Times and Washington Post passed on the story, other major centrist media (NPR, 10/12/ 22; CNN, 10/11/22; USA Today, 10/11/22; Guardian, 10/11/22; LA Times, 10/11/22) thought it worth a headline. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Armed_‘Poll_Watchers’_in_Arizona_Heighten Alarm_Over_Right-Wing_Voter_Intimidation⠀⇛ The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office told a local ABC affiliate that it is investigating several individuals who were watching a Mesa voting location on Friday. The department confirmed that two individuals at the site were armed. # ⚓ Antipope ☛ Strong_and_Stable!_–_Charlie’s_Diary⠀⇛ So, La Trussterfuck’s career is approximately over. At 45 days, she’s the shortest-serving Prime Minister in British parliamentary history; she’s been in and out of office so fast there hasn’t even been time for an episode of Doctor Who to air during her tenure (caveat: there’s a Doctor Who special due this Sunday and she’s not out-out until they elect a new leader, but this is very much a transitional period: she has definitely resigned). There is now going to be a leadership run-off in the 1922 Committee. My original belief that it was going to be a rigged one-horse race has apparently been quashed: mooted contestants so far include Penny Mordaunt, Rishi Sunak, and … Cthulhu save us … Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson, the latter undeterred by the fact that he’s still under investigation by the Parliamentary Standards Committee for lying to Parliament which means he technically can’t hold office (in other news: the PSC is also investigating whether bears shit in sylvanian settings, Popes are Catholic, and the sun rises in the east). Reader: if they select Clownshoes Churchill again, the Conservative Party is dead. Arguably it’s a dead party walking anyway, but that’d be an classic symptom of denial-of-reality. # ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Gaming_the_Machine:_pokies_bosses_to sign_up_politicians_Perrottet_and_Minns_for_another_4_years_– Michael_West⠀⇛ Security guards for the powerful pokies lobby threw reporter Callum Foote out of the ClubsNSW annual meeting Friday afternoon but not before members were told Clubs would be signing up both Premier Dominic Perrottet and Opposition leader Chris Minns to another favourable deal on poker machine regulations. Callum reports. o § Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾ # ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Chelsea_Manning’s_Book_Further_Complicates_US Government’s_Case_Against_Julian_Assange⠀⇛ A deeper examination into Chelsea Manning’s communications with WikiLeaks weakens the US Gov’s theory that Manning was recruited to WikiLeaks by Assange. o § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾ # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ This_Holiday_Season_Could_Be_Watershed_Moment for_Amazon_Organizers⠀⇛ # ⚓ Business Insider ☛ This_chart_shows_how_union_membership has_declined_over_the_years⠀⇛ President Joe Biden said in a Labor Day speech on Monday at Laborfest in Milwaukee that he is encouraging unions, adding he has been doing this “from day one.” “The labor movement represents workers in America, and this administration is very pro-worker,” Marty Walsh, US secretary of labor, told Insider’s Juliana Kaplan. “When the labor movement calls on something where the president can be helpful, he is.” With September 5 being Labor Day, Insider looked back at how the union membership rate has changed over the past few decades. o § Digital Restrictions (DRM)⠀➾ # ⚓ Jeff Geerling ☛ Streaming_services_lost_the_plot⠀⇛ Physical media was still the preferred way to consume media. Besides sports content, and some TV shows that were cable-exclusive for a time, most people would run by Blockbuster and pick up a movie. o § Monopolies⠀➾ # § Copyrights⠀➾ # ⚓ Daniel Miessler ☛ [CG]_Art_Will_Push_the_Top_1%_to Human_Artists⠀⇛ One effect I think we’ll see from all this AI-generated art is magnified status for those who insist on the opposite, i.e., manual, human art. The more manual the better. The more human the better. Ideally there’d only be one of whatever you have, and it’d only be yours. Why is this? It’s because when we talk about people making art for things, there are really two games being played. The first is the base need for an image of some sort. Like for a blog post, or an article. It’s something visual to complement the text. But the second axis is the most important one, which is status. * § Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾ o § Personal⠀➾ # ⚓ 🔤SpellBinding:_DGILNUV_Wordo:_MASER⠀⇛ o § Politics⠀➾ # ⚓ Turning_Legitimate_Criticism_into_“Alternative_Facts”⠀⇛ I was reading through /r/Canada on Reddit this morning and stumbled across a thread on a story about Danielle Smith in the National Post newspaper. I don’t have a Reddit account, so I thought I’d respond here. I know, I know. I’m shouting into the void. Smith is the new premier of the province of Alberta. She was chosen by her party after the previous premier, Jason Kenney, stepped down. His departure followed a leadership review in which he gained the support of just over 50% of party members. He stepped down voluntarily given the low level of support within his own party. o § Technical⠀➾ # § Internet/Gemini⠀➾ # ⚓ enabling-gemlog-comments-over-email⠀⇛ From what I gather, the most common ways to enable easy replies/comments on gemini is by encoding the reply in a url and making a request, or using http. The space in a url is very limited; something like 1024 characters, and using http works, but it sort of defeats the point. So I was thinking about a solution. Gemini is mostly a write-only medium, but a little more interaction when so desired would be nice. # § Programming⠀➾ # ⚓ Octo_progress,_burning_out…⠀⇛ I feel a bit burnt out. I had a good month of relatively clear thinking, but feel a bit brainfogged again. Things that were obvious a couple of weeks ago strain my abilities. A lot of chores are piling up and I will have to travel shortly. So I am trying to wrap up the loose ends in order to avoid losing the thread of this project. I have a dozen (or more?) directories with projects like this sitting abandoned. [...] Sometimes I wonder why I do this. But then I look at this amazing machine chugging away, constructing these tables and indirecting through them without missing a beat, and it makes me feel good. I miss Lisp, however. I wish I could figure out a way to apply this tech to a Lisp interpreter, but that seems like a much larger project. Or is it? A simple Lisp metacircular interpreter is only a handful of functions, really. And function application is not that different, I suppose, than what I am doing. Hmm.. # ⚓ About_mandating_tools_to_developers⠀⇛ The point I am trying to make is this: for me, computer screens are 80×24 characters, monospace font, shell interface (I’m using the i3/sway window managers on Linux systems). That’s how I got raised. That’s how my pattern recognition works. I can find interesting things in logfiles, just by scrolling through them. Of course I rely on “search” a lot. By the way: “less” got me to change from “more” literally in seconds, because it could move “backwards”. I understand, that people socalized in another epoch find other things normal. But please leave me alone, if you would please be so kind as to. I do learn new tools if I need them, e.g. git wasn’t always there. Someone remember RCS? It was quite capable at its time. To explain, what I’m doing at dayjob: I’m not a computer science major, but one of physics. I work in a role as a systems integrator. I receive hardware, I use serial interfaces and very awkward things to build a first stage boot loader, I use C and make to build a second stage boot loader (u-boot) matching the board. I build a linux kernel and a minimal userland. In other words: I write shell scripts to automate all this. Emacs shell-mode and flycheck work faster and further than my brain does. If I did a good job, then copying “the image” onto said hardware will make it boot up, come to live, talk to it’s hardware environment and do its job. Hardware does not have a screen, so no GUI! 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇:)⦈ [...] Another long time ago in some psycho team booting whatever bullshit event, I found a nice gem. The lady running the event asked us to find a profession, the connotations of which would describe, how we actually worked. I chose a seaman/skipper. Why? I want to understand the operation to be carried out. I want to choose the tools, resources and if possible people to run the operation. Then we would set sail. And I do not want to be bothered until we return. Especially, I don’t want to learn, that the thing was canceled, or that the goal is moved every week. If we run into trouble exceeding our capacities or knowledge, I’m going to ask for help. Guess what. It never works like this. But it has helped me understand, why I would quit on the spot. Never forget that the super fancy white collar manager can not make a release or fix a bug. Literally. They are totally dependant on all the other people, not only the developers. If I am not making the release, because I know, it is not ready for primetime, there is no release. This might cost your job, so use it wisely. # ⚓ Modern_Wonders_6:_Programming_Microcontrollers_at Home⠀⇛ Isn’t “Programming Microcontrollers at Home” a modern wonder of our time as well, that many just take for granted? Especially after the appearance of the Arduino hw/sw system, seemingly out of the blue? [...] I would like to get the point across, how unbelievably high this pile of individual wonders is to create another, greater wonder. And I would like to encourage anyone, who has not travelled this road, to feel a bit more humble about all the technological wonders we move through our hands maybe daily, and without paying much attention. I would like get the point across, that the CPU in your smart phone is a very big brother of the humble microcontroller mentioned, and the magic incantations are a lot more involved to get this big brother to life. I tend to understand “paying by credit card” as an experiment, and I tend to cheer at the cashier, when the experiment works. I don’t take it for granted. =============================================================================== * Gemini_(Primer) links can be opened using Gemini_software. It’s like the World Wide Web but a lot lighter. ╘══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╛ ¶ Lines in total: 4205 ➮ Generation completed at 02:44, i.e. 31 seconds to (re)generate ⟲