𝕿𝖊𝖈𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍𝖙𝖘 Bulletin for Thursday, October 27, 2022 ┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅ Generated Fri 28 Oct 02:42:07 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/2022/10/27/ ╒═══════════════════ 𝐑𝐄𝐂𝐄𝐍𝐓 𝐁𝐔𝐋𝐋𝐄𝐓𝐈𝐍𝐒 ════════════════════════════════════╕ Previous bulletins in IPFS (past 21 days, in chronological order): QmQGHw3z4ajT5x6NnbyGQJY26ZEzJFXRTaYxZMQjss3typ Qmb95NfQvZvbiG3UrtcZ61z7v8dG2fT8Xta1dM4tpptx3Q QmUWAGmBBXwstayLUmSY9GEzyUBGwmk4zqtUacYeqFcfHh QmYL4QpoDXAuMDYpijo6ixymXcLVY36699bQ4n638FyYYW QmWagM6RUv8w3PGimQk2Jw6kAYSZ68kiHJh6JX3FpLMDLJ QmeujuDVZ2c9H9rLtDft62WqQQuPXjH3uNgNd1mb6hN4Z4 QmWNRczB6EwJrhHTYT8mrC5NnQ2JiW5AnotNG26HncgbeS QmWUqtTJ5A915BjiikNX4tcP5UqeaYwu2pTVfqCwtSdmX1 QmanWSwdWKoBnEEpdQYF8hRpxJXaJXHrA8matdZ7p2g7Ui QmNmKK6D23Ute87ocKh4uQTutC8tKr57v4KaYevBmU77dB QmV2MXBi3SZKoVRsy5rrvEwJJ2S9T5pKs5B6Ravu4xXApS QmSZzkk2vvg7T5pLZayi713tGeNgvw8o1pX2K38PrthWaz QmXiY6pc7Wic9TMGYJRv1DHHFXZi8qAmMS1GDp97S7KkZL QmQpbKVNQYKS8GikXcbjhn6Pd8QBKST3j18Pt4SWqQ77uE QmesBe7gFXumwSLqLnvSqdg4VAYdzac9DHiRXiAcvcSCZK QmaZv73scaiaGKET5VdShbnpu1zenP4KSVUwadYczfDVij QmQ29vXrWLRDAzS3ysBUAaio1dJbbxePxsMDnMojXN65BA QmY7HSwPRRe62SqGxBAAXyMxx7KYNp4bpVP5fbabA4nPWW Qmam1d2RF5tBzhN6dRgHGAQ4qtLayQtpQHjio6cRSPKrcq QmWQuEaedqKfnCvC3TTkjk1W11rJx9Jry8Tg1zmmSe22LV QmbZfgGTWEFktrixtKA1f8HwPDiqFSbSCmugQfJB3KsFx3 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐈𝐍𝐃𝐄𝐗 ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⦿ Elon Musk is Buying a Dying Train Wreck Tomorrow (Twitter) | Techrights ⦿ Critics of Voting Machines (Proprietary With Back Doors) Aren’t Nazis | Techrights ⦿ DRM is ’Protected’ by Phoronix | Techrights ⦿ Let’s Put an End to Software Patents by Contacting Our Representatives (Politicians) | Techrights ⦿ More Problems With Google’s “Insecure Apps” Alert and SeaMonkey Mail | Techrights ⦿ IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, October 26, 2022 | Techrights ⦿ E-mail is Simple, Secure and Robust If Decentralised and Treated as Text, Not as Web Pages (Also, Webmail is Regressive) | Techrights ⦿ Mozilla Keeps Changing Users’ Settings to Blast Misinformation (or Present Dishonest Ads) at Them in New Tabs | Techrights ⦿ Red Hat is Bragging, Knowing That It’s Killing People for Profit With Raytheon and Lockheed Martin (That’s Not Freedom, It’s Death) | Techrights ⦿ There’s No Future for Investigative Journalism on the World Wide Web | Techrights ䷼ Bulletin articles (as HTML) to comment on (requires login): http://techrights.org/2022/10/27/buying-a-dying-train-wreck/#comments http://techrights.org/2022/10/27/calling-everyone-nazis/#comments http://techrights.org/2022/10/27/drm-is-protected-by-phoronix/#comments http://techrights.org/2022/10/27/eu-swpats-action-needed/#comments http://techrights.org/2022/10/27/google-fake-security/#comments http://techrights.org/2022/10/27/irc-log-261022/#comments http://techrights.org/2022/10/27/keep-email-simple/#comments http://techrights.org/2022/10/27/mozilla-adware/#comments http://techrights.org/2022/10/27/red-hat-lockheed-martin-raytheon/#comments http://techrights.org/2022/10/27/world-wide-web-news-killer/#comments ䷞ Followed by Daily Links (assorted news picks curated and categorised): http://techrights.org/2022/10/27/bugfixes-in-linux-and-tor/#comments http://techrights.org/2022/10/27/gnunet-0-18-0/#comments http://techrights.org/2022/10/27/openssl-patch-coming/#comments ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 76 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at http://techrights.org/2022/10/27/buying-a-dying-train-wreck/#comments Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2022/10/27/buying-a-dying-train-wreck/ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 10.27.22⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Elon_Musk_is_Buying_a_Dying_Train_Wreck_Tomorrow_(Twitter)⠀✐ Posted in Deception at 8:17 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz Video_download_link | md5sum 261359f77eb56782bd80069121b82f96 Twitter is in Trouble and Mass Layoffs Loom: Twitter_is_Concerned_That_Its_Most Valuable_Users_Quit_in_Droves Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 4.0 http://techrights.org/videos/twitter-lose-key-users.webm Summary: The disingenuous takeover by Elon Musk and associates (including the Saudi ‘royal’ family, in dire need of reputation laundering) is a disaster in the making; Twitter is going to die even faster than before THE thing every lawyer can understand is how contracts work. When Mr. Musk decided to buy Twitter he actually committed to buying it. He would have to find very exceptional and valid circumstances to bail out of the legal committal (“buyer’s remorse” isn’t a legally valid reason). Twitter knows it. That’s why Twitter sued. He is now compelled to buy something he knows to be worthless (even a Twitter whistleblower has since then confirmed it) and he plans to lay off about 75% of the staff after the transaction completes! Tomorrow apparently (based on report). No wonder Twitter staff is in a state of panic and this will certainly impact morale, hence operations. Twitter is a dead man walking or a zombie site. After losing money year after year for like a decade it still cannot find a way to sustain itself. Musk won’t change this. Musk is a master of grifting, not business. He_knows_how_to_steal_ (or_pocket)_taxpayers'_money. “Musk is a master of grifting, not business. He knows how to steal (or pocket) taxpayers’ money.”If press reports are correct, Musk and the Saudis still want a dying platform, or maybe they just have no choice (because of a legal commitment made previously on_the_SEC_record, not verbally/orally). Why would anyone want to buy such a company? It’s a liability, not an asset. Crazy Kanye West (buying Parler) has no clue what to do with his money, Musk is trying to become a cult leader, and logic is thrown out the window! Impulsive behaviour. Facebook’s shares fell to about 100 dollars this week (down from almost 400), so the_bubble_of_social_control_media_is_clearly_imploding. Musk et al are overpaying and they know it. Too late, they have no choice… “Why would anyone want to buy such a company?”As for Facebook, it’s trying to cling onto Microsoft for survival, just like Netflix. There seems to be not much of a future there (“metaverse” is pure hype, not a business plan). Shown and discussed in the video above are two articles [1, 2]. “Twitter was all along some temporary home. It’s certainly not a place for journalism and the Library of Congress dumped it (no more archiving) quite a few years ago.”“Heavy tweeters have been in “absolute decline” since the pandemic began, a Twitter researcher wrote in an internal document titled “Where did the Tweeters Go?”,” says the more authoritative and “Exclusive” report. After posting 951,000+ tweets I quit Twitter, so I must be one of those “heavy tweeters” that they lost. In the golden days of Twitter I could get about 25 million impressions in a month, but now (after leaving) all my old tweets combined are just north of 10 thousand views per month. That’s the thing about social control media; it only gives visibility to new stuff while old stuff ages poorly. Let’s hope Twitter will be gone in the next 5 or 10 years. Many of these so- called “heavy tweeters” probably won’t miss it and won’t shed a tear when all their past writings go offline. Twitter was all along some temporary home. It’s certainly not a place for journalism and the Library of Congress dumped it (no more archiving) quite a few years ago. █ ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 172 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at http://techrights.org/2022/10/27/calling-everyone-nazis/#comments Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2022/10/27/calling-everyone-nazis/ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 10.27.22⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Critics_of_Voting_Machines_(Proprietary_With_Back_Doors)_Aren’t_Nazis⠀✐ Posted in Deception, Microsoft, Windows at 6:48 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz Video_download_link | md5sum 8ce838182e81955c17494536dfb68aa1 Stop Equating Rejection of Electronic Voting With Nazism Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 4.0 http://techrights.org/videos/deniers-of-paper-ballots.webm Summary: The general security of the voting process (freedom from meddling, tampering, outside intervention) has gotten worse due to digitisation/ digitalisation, which makes the process more easily accessible to foreign and hostile countries; the accessibility, availability, and accuracy of the voting process (and the integrity of counting) is of utmost importance to a functioning democracy, but somehow it has become a partisan issue that involves unnecessary name-calling with various new factors like fashionable distractions in a growingly-divisive society (further divided due to a_lack_of_investigative journalism and news vacuums filled by ‘disinformation farms’, notably social control media) THE VIDEO above will be harder to take out of context (than text), so I prefer to let it speak for itself. It follows many rants about this misleading narrative (as mentioned in IRC over the years) wherein people who reject bad voting machines are like Holocaust deniers. It got a lot worse this past year. “This is unfair. This is disingenuous.”Over the years we wrote numerous articles about the_problem_with_proprietary,_usually_Windows-based,_voting machines. But it seems risky to talk about this subject in 2022 because of the stigma spread by the media. “Election Denial” [1] is what the Bill Gates-bribed Pro Publica has just collectively called rejection of back-doored Windows-based voting machines. On the same day (yesterday) we saw “Electoral Denialism” and “Big Lie Conspiracy” in headlines [2,3]. Those are sites that are not “MSM”. This is unfair. This is disingenuous. I explain some of the context in the video above. “Our associate notes that “unfortunately that topic is one which is banned from Twitter and other social control media and only pits cover it — so far” (because now the safety of voting machines is considered a partisan issue).”An associate has suggested adding this_reference_to_“The_Cyber_War_on_America’s Elections,“ noting that the “US is ignoring the ‘long’ game”. There are already some old lessons_from_Estonia (facing Russian aggression, still) and some recent_stories. “Man buys Michigan voting machine off EBay. The Secretary of State has questions,” says this one headline. Our associate notes that “unfortunately that topic is one which is banned from Twitter and other social control media and only pits cover it — so far” (because now the safety of voting machines is considered a partisan issue). What’s very frustrating to me personally is seeing left-leaning sites (that I generally do trust) trying to associate hand-counting votes (which is the right thing to do) with “Big Lie Conspiracy”. What have we sunk to? █ References: (this week’s news alone) 1. ⚓ Cardboard_Box_Tycoons_Are_Bankrolling_Election_Denial (original)⠀⇛ 2. ⚓ Electoral_Denialism_Cuts_Across_Party_Lines:_Despite_What_the_Corporate Media_Would_Have_Us_Believe,_Both_Parties_Engage_in_the_‘Big_Lie,’_and the_Rest_of_Lose_Because_of_It_–_Censored_Notebook,_Dispatches_from Project_Censored:_On_Media_and_Politics⠀⇛ 3. ⚓ Fueled_by_Big_Lie_Conspiracy,_GOP_Officials_Move_to_Hand_Counts_in Arizona,_Nevada⠀⇛ ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 265 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at http://techrights.org/2022/10/27/drm-is-protected-by-phoronix/#comments Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2022/10/27/drm-is-protected-by-phoronix/ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 10.27.22⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ DRM_is_‘Protected’_by_Phoronix⠀✐ Posted in DRM, Hardware at 7:37 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz Video_download_link | md5sum 2905be7b0686697c888bc869935fee7c Protected From Scrutiny Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 4.0 http://techrights.org/videos/drm-phoronix.webm Summary: x86 stronghold (rather weak lately due to the inflation and Windows failing_users) is pushing DRM into kernel space, typically_along_with_Microsoft and_Google; Phoronix, which is funded_or_bossed_by_the_x86_giants, is being far too weak or too “soft” (like_it_is_on_Microsoft), insisting that corporations treating clients like they’re criminals is in fact “protected content” (that isn’t independent, honest and courageous journalism, its’s docile cowardice) THE comments (Forums) in Phoronix sadly remain a lot more_informative_than_the 'articles' because Phoronix self-censors (based on a sixth sense of who pays the bills and/or will pay them in the future). So the video above dives straight into the_comments on the article after a quick introduction. The short story is that Intel is promoting DRM in Linux, once again (not the first time), even though (to quote one comment) “4k streaming works just fine on sites that don’t insist on using DRM. “piracy” is always the technically and morally superior option over complying with corporate copyright bullshit.” There are many other comments to that effect. The readers aren’t tolerating DRM. Shown below is now Phoronix fancies describing DRM (the term “DRM” is not even mentioned in the page, just the euphemisms). █ 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇Intel's Open-Source OpenGL Driver Adds Support For 'Protected Content'⦈ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⢛⣛⠟⠋⡙⢻⡟⡝⣟⠛⠻⠛⠿⠫⠟⢻⡟⢛⢛⠟⢻⢏⣹⢛⠟⠛⡻⢫⢹⣿⡏⡝⣟⢙⠟⠛⠟⣿⠋⣟⠹⡋⠛⣿⠩⢿⢻⡛⢛⠟⠻⡛⣻⠫⣝⠛⣻⣏⠋⠙⠛⠛⡛⠻⢛⢙⠛⣟⢹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⡿⢺⠷⠶⡶⠷⢾⢷⠶⢷⣶⣾⣾⣿⣶⣶⣾⣶⣾⣶⣶⣾⣷⣾⣴⣷⣶⣷⣶⣾⣶⣷⣶⣿⣾⣾⣶⣿⣿⣿⣶⣾⣶⣶⣿⣶⣷⣾⣶⣴⣶⣾⣷⣾⣾⣷⣶⣿⣿⣶⣷⣷⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣷⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣯⣭⣤⣼⣤⣥⣤⣧⣬⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⡟⠛⠙⠛⠛⣿⢛⢻⢋⠙⢛⠛⢻⡟⠟⢛⢻⠛⢻⡟⢻⣟⠛⠋⡟⢛⡿⠫⣿⠝⠛⠛⠙⠛⣻⠙⠩⠫⣿⠛⡿⠯⢻⠹⢹⢙⠋⡏⠩⠋⢽⠻⢻⡯⠛⠛⢛⣻⠛⠛⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⡆⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣏⣉⣉⡉⣉⣹⣏⣍⣙⣯⣍⣩⣉⣩⡉⣿⣭⣉⣏⣙⣉⣋⣏⣉⣿⣹⣉⣉⣏⣉⣹⣉⣉⣉⣿⣍⣍⣩⣏⣉⣉⣉⣩⣝⣉⣹⣋⣉⣉⣉⣽⣉⣯⢉⣉⣉⣉⣉⣙⣹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡀⠀⣏⣉⣩⣉⣉⣉⣽⣉⡋⡉⣉⣩⣹⣉⣏⣉⣉⢙⣩⣉⣉⣉⣹⣉⣈⣈⣏⣍⣹⣁⣉⡙⢇⣉⣇⠏⣉⣉⣉⣉⣉⣉⡸⢏⣹⣭⣉⣉⣹⣉⣉⣉⣉⣁⣹⣽⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⡇⢰⠀⡄⠂⠂⠂⡇⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ 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misleading ‘our’ politicians LAST night we said we’d start releasing more information about patents, especially European_software_patents and the EPO, which wants to grant far more of them (we've_shown_leaked_documents_to_that_effect). At the moment we need help from readers who are based in the EU and can contact their representatives, many of whom don’t know much or don’t talk — let alone comment — on these issues (or merely pretend to know and to care). This post will be one of several as we prefer not to compromise still-ongoing engagements with politicians. One person has asked: “If the Unified Patent Court (UPC) is illegal because a) it strictly requires the UK to be within the EU to sign and b) there are various constitutional issues confirmed by courts, then which source for (a) and (b)?” As a first step, what is at stake? We’ve attempted to put this clearly and concisely. This is what we came up with: § What are the key points?⠀➾ 1) Unified Patent Court (UPC) is illegal because: 1a) it strictly requires the UK signing (but it cannot because it left the EU) 1b) it causes various constitutional issues, some of which confirmed by courts already 1c) there was no legitimate economic analysis; it was fabricated a long time ago and those who perpetrated this fraud even said they refuse to allow any further analyses (as that would help their opponents) Which one or two constitutional issues are more problematic? The European Parliament has a committee dedicated specifically to constitutional matters so this might be relevant to bring to them. Hungary took this to court. It was ruled unconstitutional. We covered this many times, including_4_years_ago (both 1a and 1b). Don’t let this be forgotten. Other points to bring up 2) The European Patent Convention of 1973 protects software from patents 3) Software is managed via copyright 4) Software patents kill innovation [citation needed, e.g. Prof. Bessen, Boston University; Prof. Mark Lemley, Stanford University] What else? A lot more, but one must be very concise. At least try to get the politicians interested in the matter without overwhelming them (or it can become a perceived chore to them). Who to explain these points to? Here is the list of people, some of whom you may recognise as coming from your country. Party affiliations are not listed below, but names and contact details are included in the corresponding ‘pages’ (JavaScript): IMCO https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/197475/CHRISTINE_ANDERSON/home ECON https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/197448/RASMUS_ANDRESEN/home (sub ITRE) ECON https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/132191/GUNNAR_BECK/home (sub AFCO) ITRE https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/197437/NICOLA_BEER/home (sub ECON) ITRE https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/197408/HILDEGARD_BENTELE/home ECON https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/197410/STEFAN_BERGER/home ITRE https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/197449/MICHAEL_BLOSS/home INTA https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/4267/UDO_BULLMANN/home ITRE https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/197434/MARTIN_BUSCHMANN/home AFET https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/96739/REINHARD_BUTIKOFER/home (sub INTA) INTA https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/28219/DANIEL_CASPARY/home IMCO https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/86793/ANNA_CAVAZZINI/home sub AFCO https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/197473/CHRISTIAN_DOLESCHAL/ home ITRE https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/28226/CHRISTIAN_EHLER/home sub ITRE https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/96852/CORNELIA_ERNST/home ECON https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/197430/ENGIN_EROGLU/home sub ITRE https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/96842/ISMAIL_ERTUG/home ECON https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/1917/MARKUS_FERBER/home ECON https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/197480/NICOLAUS_FEST/home AFCO https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/106936/DANIEL_FREUND/home sub IMCO https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/229352/MALTE_GALLEE/home IMCO https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/183916/ALEXANDRA_GEESE/home ITRE https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/96833/JENS_GEIER/home sub ITRE https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/124807/JENS_GIESEKE/home sub ITRE https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/197443/ANDREAS_GLUCK/home IMCO https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/197444/SVENJA_HAHN/home (sub INTA) ITRE https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/197457/HENRIKE_HAHN/home INTA https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/197481/MAXIMILIAN_KRAH/home (sub ECON) INTA https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/197481/MAXIMILIAN_KRAH/home INTA https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/1909/BERND_LANGE/home sub ITRE https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/197483/SYLVIA_LIMMER/home sub INTA https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/124806/DAVID_MCALLISTER/home ITRE https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/4289/ANGELIKA_NIEBLER/home ITRE https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/197465/NIKLAS_NIENAS/home (sub AFCO) sub ITRE https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/197466/JUTTA_PAULUS/home ITRE https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/28224/MARKUS_PIEPER/home sub ITRE https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/188945/DENNIS_RADTKE/home sub ITRE https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/197488/GUIDO_REIL/home IMCO https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/229839/RENE_REPASI/home (sub ECON) ITRE https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/206158/MANUELA_RIPA/home (sub INTA) sub ECON https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/190517/MARTIN_SCHIRDEWAN/home INTA, AFCO https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/96646/HELMUT_SCHOLZ/home ECON https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/124837/JOACHIM_SCHUSTER/home IMCO https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/28223/ANDREAS_SCHWAB/home ECON https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/197425/RALF_SEEKATZ/home (sub INTA) INTA https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/197426/SVEN_SIMON/home (sub AFET, sub ECON) sub AFCO https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/124834/MARTIN_SONNEBORN/home AFET https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/197451/VIOLA_VON+CRAMON- TAUBADEL/home IMCO https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/197429/MARION_WALSMANN/home AFET https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/197489/BERNHARD_ZIMNIOK/home ITRE, IMCO, sub INTA https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/128483/MARKUS_BUCHHEIT/home AFCO https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/197439/DAMIAN_BOESELAGER/home (sub ECON, sub ITRE) If you contact them, please try to keep it short, amicable, exceedingly polite, and straight to the point. They always claim they’re very busy, so they need to be ‘spoon-fed’ information. Many people, myself included, are cynical about how politicians ‘represent’ us, but it’s better to try than not to try (I already started days ago). Yours truly is thankful that here in Europe we still have multiple political parties and people we can all contact to scrutinise power, unlike in China for instance. If you need further information on what to tell them (or respond with), come and chat with us in IRC. We can give references aplenty. █ ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 817 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at http://techrights.org/2022/10/27/google-fake-security/#comments Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2022/10/27/google-fake-security/ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 10.27.22⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ More_Problems_With_Google’s_“Insecure_Apps”_Alert_and_SeaMonkey_Mail⠀✐ Posted in Google, Protocol, Security at 3:44 pm by Guest Editorial Team Reprinted with permission from Ryan Iwent to get my email yesterday using SeaMonkey Mail over IMAP. Google logged me out of OAuth and then SeaMonkey said it failed to fetch my mail. So I tried to log back in and it said I had an “insecure app” and to try again with another “app”. After playing around with the User Agent again, I noticed that Firefox 106’s would work, but since Mozilla releases Firefox versions every 6 weeks, and Google is obviously making it impossible to continue logging in using the older version after another week or so, I decided to play around with User Agents until I found something that worked. It turns out Firefox 102’s user agent doesn’t work for OAuth even though it’s an ESR. So I decided to fake a Thunderbird “102.12” on “Windows 10” UA. Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/ 102.12.0 I don’t know if Google logs you out and pops up an “insecure app” alert over minor revisions to Thunderbird, but it’s likely. The current release is actually 102.4 according to the Web site. This 102.12 bogus UA would therefore probably buy me about 8-9 months before I have to come back and bump it again. You can use this value for these “new string”s in about:config general.useragent.override.google.com and general.useragent.override.google.com And that should be the last you hear about Google for a while. You will obviously have to come back and bump it again sometime next year. My guess is that when the next major version is out, use that followed by “.12.0 at the end of the Thunderbird part at the end, but not on the Gecko version. OAuth is turning into a major usability disaster and there’s not any guarantee that simple UA hacks will keep SeaMonkey working. 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Think of Gmail as an attack on E-mail, much in the same way that GitHub is an attack on Git. Gmail is not E-mail. Protocols and obstacles (for relays to please) are added all the time and when it comes to reading E- mail, nowadays people are expected to use “apps” that can’t even cope with plain-text E-mail (which is how Git is traditionally managed; Bugzilla can be the same). There’s an effort to herd people into sites like Googlemail/Gmail and Microsoft/GitHub, presenting them with JavaScript (typically proprietary) disguised as pages instead of simple text. This is bad for usability, security, and all sorts of other basic ‘fitness-for-purpose’ criteria. Ask a blind person about accessibility of GitLab, which became very little but a big pile of JavaScript. The video above concerns this_article about webmail problems. It offers “many reasons not to use “webmail” in place of e-mail — a case for commodity services, open standards, and free choice of client software” as our associate put it this morning. E-mail is a simple protocol that predates the Web. Let’s not impose HTML and the Web on E-mail users. We’re ruining things. █ References: 1. Military_Intelligence?_DoD_finally_(FINALLY)_bans_HTML_e-mail_| TechRepublic 2. Why_NOT_to_use_HTML_in_e-mail 3. HTML_e-mail_not_worth_the_risk_|_Network_World 4. Why_HTML_in_E-Mail_is_a_Bad_Idea 5. The_Ascii_Ribbon_Campaign_official_homepage 6. 7_reasons_why_HTML_email_is_a_bad_thing ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 1100 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at http://techrights.org/2022/10/27/mozilla-adware/#comments Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2022/10/27/mozilla-adware/ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 10.27.22⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Mozilla_Keeps_Changing_Users’_Settings_to_Blast_Misinformation_(or_Present Dishonest_Ads)_at_Them_in_New_Tabs⠀✐ Posted in Deception at 9:59 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz Just showed up in a new tab after a Firefox (ESR) update (linking to https:// www.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/welcome/14/): 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇Mozilla spam⦈ Summary: The misinformation company Mozilla is promoting fake_privacy (rebranded VPN operated by a surveillance company) to GNU/Linux users (Debian in my case) by ‘hijacking’ new tabs for ads’ sake; six days ago Ryan published "Mozilla_Changes_Firefox_Settings/Themes_Without_Asking" (it seems to be what just happened to me) ⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤ ⣿⣟⠉⣿⣏⠙⡛⠙⣛⡏⢙⡻⣛⡋⡛⣻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣷⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠟⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠉⢀⠈⠝⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣐⣸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⠿⢿⣿⢻⣿⣿⡿⠿⢿⣿⣿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠻⢿⣿⣿⣿⢿⡿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⣿⢰⠀⢸⠀⣺⣇⠛⢳⠈⣼⠐⢨⠀⢸⢰⠀⢈⠀⣌⠐⡆⠃⡇⣶⢠⢰⡜⣸⣿⢠⡀⢀⠒⡀⣴⢰⢸⢰⢸⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠻⠟⢿⠹⢻⠟⢿⣟⡉⠚⢉⢻⠉⢏⣿⡿⠻⠟⠹⠉⣿⠙⡟⢹⠟⢿⠛⠆⡏⡏⡟⠻⣿⠙⡏⡍⡉⠋⠹⠉⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣬⣤⣼⣴⣽⣤⣼⣯⣤⣵⣬⣼⣧⣤⣼⣧⣭⣤⣼⣼⣿⣴⣴⣴⣬⣼⣤⣥⣧⣧⣤⣤⣿⣧⣴⣧⣶⣧⣴⣤⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⣴⣤⣤⣼⣾⣦⣼⣧⣴⡬⡤⣷⣤⣤⣶⣼⡶⣤⣶⣤⡦⣧⣤⣶⣤⣦⣧⣦⣥⣧⣤⣤⢼⣴⢤⣦⣤⣼⣤⣶⡶⢤⣤⠤⢧⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⣶⣶⣿⣶⣶⣶⣶⣾⣷⣶⣶⣾⣷⣶⠿⠶⠾⡶⢾⢿⡷⡷⠶⢶⢷⡷⠾⠾⡶⢾⣷⣾⣾⣾⣾⣷⣷⣶⣷⣶⣾⣾⣷⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣶⣿⣶⣶⣷⣶⣷⣶⣶⣾⣴⣶⣷⣶⣶⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 1163 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at http://techrights.org/2022/10/27/red-hat-lockheed-martin-raytheon/#comments Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2022/10/27/red-hat-lockheed-martin-raytheon/ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 10.27.22⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Red_Hat_is_Bragging,_Knowing_That_It’s_Killing_People_for_Profit_With Raytheon_and_Lockheed_Martin_(That’s_Not_Freedom,_It’s_Death)⠀✐ Posted in IBM, Red_Hat at 6:24 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz The latest white-washing spin/slant is “Hey Hi” (like Maven) Summary: Red Hat, which pretends_to_have_moral_high_ground_over_the_Free software_community, has Red Blood on its hands; today was a reminder of that THE “ETHICS” of wars — and of militarism in general — are relative; for instance, if another nation invades yours, then you could argue to be defending your home and family. But Raytheon and Lockheed Martin aren’t defending their homeland; they occupy and colonise for the (still most dominant) global empire. How does Red Hat fit into this? Well, 2 days ago the video_above_was_published and merely 8 hours ago there_was_another_with_Red_Hat_and_Lockheed_Martin. Those might seem like some friendly reconnaissance drones, but don’t be mistaken. See this_keynote_from_3_years_ago. In Red Hat Summit 2019, Lockheed Martin bragged about war planes. Audience excited by militarism? Of course! Lots of ovations. Also see “Lockheed_Martin_taps_Red_Hat_for_F_22_Raptor”. Bombers, fighters, you name it… Red Hat! And no less than 40% of today’s Weekly Roundup from Red Hat was about Lockheed Martin [1, 2]. So Red Hat boasts about killing people with a big client, which must be pocketing a lot of money right now because of the war in Ukraine. And later on they lecture the FSF on ethics? A few hours ago Red Hat linked to its own paid-for puff piece, which says: “The Lockheed Martin use case was about providing direct control to drones that had already been deployed but might need to have their mission altered in flight.” Not just drones; also planes that drop very heavy bombs. It’s not just Lockheed Martin, either. As we noted a few years ago, Red_Hat_had_rewarded_Raytheon (special honours) and it was headed_by_military_generals. It’s like Red Hat is an extension of the Department of War (now euphemistically known as Department of Defence or DoD). Biggest client by far? Here’s a series of videos where Raytheon reciprocates with Red Hat endorsements [1, 2, 3, 4]. This whole thing is no laughing matter. People are dying. Women and children dismembered by bombs will certainly not be happy to know the missiles were backed by Red Hat(TM) OpenShift(R) at the back end. They will not die happily because of the openwashing. Earlier today we posted a story about yet another large company that abandons Red Hat. In fact, Red Hat must be running out of high-profile clients and cases studies to boast/brag about. Quite a few dumped the company, seeing what IBM does to the products (formerly “projects”; there used to be an actual community), seeing how many managers leave the company, and spotting the rapid exodus of engineers. █ ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 1247 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at http://techrights.org/2022/10/27/world-wide-web-news-killer/#comments Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2022/10/27/world-wide-web-news-killer/ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 10.27.22⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ There’s_No_Future_for_Investigative_Journalism_on_the_World_Wide_Web⠀✐ Posted in Deception at 5:27 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz Video_download_link | md5sum 4af087c0138d12aa814f31c6577076d6 What About Journalism Disappearing? Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 4.0 http://techrights.org/videos/what-if-journalism-disappeared.webm Summary: On the World_Wide_Web*, journalism is perishing; there are several reasons for this, but it’s simply a reality we’ve come to accept ON a couple of occasions so far this week we linked to an article, which was reposted_later under a similar/identical headline: “What if Journalism Disappeared?” The framing as a question with “what if” suggests that it is only hypothetical or a possibility even though it is already happening and has happened for years. These profound changes are measurable numerically, by the way, having even been assessed in the recent past: 1. U.S._newsroom_employment_has_fallen_26%_since_2008_|_Pew_Research_Center 2. The_Decline_of_Journalism_since_1945_|_Making_News:_The_Political_Economy of_Journalism_in_Britain_and_America_from_the_Glorious_Revolution_to_the Internet_|_Oxford_Academic 3. How_we_end_local_news_deserts_–_Poynter Here in Techrights we find ourselves having to dig a lot deep and look far wider in order to post Daily Links. That’s because many news sites perish, either becoming inactive or going offline completely (usually the first happens, then the latter… but nobody notices by then because all the articles/ archives are “old” already). █ ______ * Many newsrooms have put all their eggs in this one basket. Yet worse, some have replaced articles with “tweets” as if the latter is a substitute and compatible with principles of journalism. As streaming and DRM are a bubble (no viable business model) and it doesn’t seem like public broadcast on television has much of a future (many so-called ‘cord cutters’) there’s a legitimate reason for concern. Is journalism in general dying? ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 1314 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐃𝐀𝐈𝐋𝐘 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒 ═════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 10.27.22⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Links_27/10/2022:_Important_Bugfixes_in_Linux_and_Tor⠀✐ Posted in News_Roundup at 3:36 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇GNOME bluefish⦈ § Contents⠀➾ * GNU/Linux o Audiocasts/Shows o Kernel_Space o Graphics_Stack o Applications o Instructionals/Technical o Games o Desktop_Environments/WMs # K_Desktop_Environment/KDE_SC/Qt * Distributions_and_Operating_Systems o New_Releases o Fedora_Family_/_IBM o Canonical/Ubuntu_Family o Open_Hardware/Modding o Mobile_Systems/Mobile_Applications * Free,_Libre,_and_Open_Source_Software o Events o Web_Browsers/Web_Servers # Mozilla o Programming/Development # Rust * Leftovers o Education o Hardware o Health/Nutrition/Agriculture o Security # Privacy/Surveillance o Defence/Aggression o Environment # Energy # Wildlife/Nature o Finance o AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics o Censorship/Free_Speech o Freedom_of_Information_/_Freedom_of_the_Press o Civil_Rights/Policing o Internet_Policy/Net_Neutrality o Monopolies # Copyrights * Gemini*_and_Gopher o Personal o Technical # Internet/Gemini * § GNU/Linux⠀➾ o § Audiocasts/Shows⠀➾ # ⚓ Video ☛ Linux_Gaming_Is_Powered_By_Weeb_Developers_– Invidious⠀⇛ Never stand between a weeb and his video games, I was very excited to play Persona 5 Royal but the game was completely borked on linux on launch day but luckily the open source community came together and fixed it in a matter of days # ⚓ Full Circle Magazine ☛ Full_Circle_Magazine:_Full_Circle Weekly_News_#285⠀⇛ Link to media Release of Ardour 7.0: https://ardour.org/whatsnew.html Updating Void Linux installation builds: https://voidlinux.org/news/2022/10/new-images.html Rhino Linux, a rolling distribution based on Ubuntu: https://rhinolinux.org/more.html Release of Tails 5.5: https://tails.boum.org/news/version_5.5/ index.en.html Release of the Open 3D Engine 22.10: https://www.o3de.org/blog/posts/o3de-22-10-release/ Release of ErgoFramework 2.2: https://github.com/ergo-services/ergo Release of Stratis 3.3: https://github.com/stratis-storage/stratisd/ releases/tag/v3.3.0 Release of antiX 22: https://antixlinux.com/antix-22-released/ Coreboot 4.18: https://blogs.coreboot.org/blog/2022/10/18/ announcing-coreboot-4-18/ Release of Asterisk 20: https://github.com/asterisk/asterisk/ Release of Ubuntu 22.10: https://ubuntu.com/download/desktop Release of OpenBSD 7.2: https://www.mail-archive.com/announce@openbsd.org/ msg00449.html # ⚓ Video ☛ A_Microsoft_Office_365_ramble_(I’m_annoyed_by_it!) –_Invidious⠀⇛ # ⚓ FLOSS_Weekly_704:_Distributed_Data,_Decentralized_Trust_– Hart_Montgomery,_Distributed_Data⠀⇛ Doc Searls and Simon Phipps talk with Hart Montgomery of the Hyperledger Foundation about distributed data (not just the blockchain kind), decentralized trust, how the Foundation is fostering code useful to everyone in the world, what open digital wallets are—or should be—all about, the essential nature of cryptography, and much more. # ⚓ Video ☛ macOS_Ventura,_Ubuntu_22.10,_and…_Linux_dropping 486_support?_–_Invidious⠀⇛ o § Kernel Space⠀➾ # ⚓ LWN ☛ Linux_6.0.4⠀⇛ I'm announcing the release of the 6.0.4 kernel. All users of the 6.0 kernel series must upgrade. The updated 6.0.y git tree can be found at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/ git/stable/linux-stable.git linux-6.0.y and can be browsed at the normal kernel.org git web browser: https://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/ linux-s... thanks, greg k-h # ⚓ LWN ☛ Linux_5.15.75⠀⇛ # ⚓ LWN ☛ Linux_5.10.150⠀⇛ # ⚓ LWN ☛ Linux_5.4.220⠀⇛ # ⚓ LWN ☛ Linux_4.19.262⠀⇛ # ⚓ LWN ☛ Linux_4.14.296⠀⇛ # ⚓ LWN ☛ Linux_4.9.331⠀⇛ # ⚓ AMD_Ryzen_7000_CPUs_are_Mostly_Faster_than_Intel’s_13th_Gen Raptor_Lake_Chips_in_Linux_Gaming_|_Hardware_Times⠀⇛ o § Graphics Stack⠀➾ # ⚓ Mike_Blumenkrantz:_Closure⠀⇛ It was only a matter of time before he cornered me at XDC for a quick “talk”. It was completely normal the way he had no fewer than four laptops physically harnessed to his person as he strutted around in search of hapless driver maintainers upon whom he could foist his latest and least sane project. I wasn’t at all afraid for my life when he told me that, by the time he let me leave the conference hall that day, rusticl would be working on zink. I’m here blogging about it now, so obviously everything is fine and I’m not still trapped in his basement, but let’s take a look at some of the challenges I faced over that grueling, interminable period of CL bring-up besides lack of water and food. o § Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ Paul Schaub ☛ Implementing_Packet_Sequence_Validation_using Pushdown_Automata_–_vanitasvitae’s_blog⠀⇛ In the previous blog post I discussed how a formal grammar can be transformed into a pushdown automaton in order to check if a sequence of packets or tokens is part of the language described by the grammar. In this post I will discuss how I implemented said automaton in Java in order to validate OpenPGP messages in PGPainless. # ⚓ Medevel ☛ Foodies:_Open-Source_Self-hosted_Sharing_App_for Delicious_Food.⠀⇛ Foodies is a free open-source full stack JavaScript web application for foodies who want to share and view photos of delicious food. # ⚓ Medevel ☛ Photon_Flutter_photo_sharing⠀⇛ Photon is a cross-platform file-transfer application built using flutter. It uses http to transfer files between devices.You can transfer files between devices that run Photon.(No Wi-Fi router is required, you can use hotspot) [...] The project is released under the GPL-v3 License. o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾ # ⚓ Manuel Matuzovic ☛ Day_23:_the_lab()_color_function⠀⇛ 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. # ⚓ uni Toronto ☛ An_email_phish_attempt_using_attachment_file type_confusion⠀⇛ I don’t get much spam email in general and I get even less that has malware payloads, so in one sense it’s always interesting when one makes it through our various anti-spam measures and I get to actually look at a sample for myself. Today I received what looked like a malware attack using a PDF: [...] # ⚓ Ubuntubuzz ☛ After_Install_Guide_for_Ubuntu_22.10_with_Apps and_Games_Recommendations⠀⇛ # ⚓ Linux Made Simple ☛ How_to_install_ClassiCube_on_a Chromebook⠀⇛ This tutorial will only work on Chromebooks with an Intel or AMD CPU (with Linux Apps Support) and not those with an ARM64 architecture CPU. # ⚓ Video ☛ How_to_install_Atom_text_editor_on_Linux_Mint_21_– Invidious [Ed: Atom has been abandoned by Microsoft, it's bloated junk, and there's no good reason to help GNU/Linux install it at this stage (it's abandonware)]⠀⇛ # ⚓ Linuxiac ☛ Set_Up_Tomcat,_Nginx,_and_SSL_on_AlmaLinux/Rocky Linux_9⠀⇛ Here’s how to install and configure Tomcat 10.1 with Nginx for reverse proxy and Let’s Encrypt SSL certificate on AlmaLinux/Rocky Linux 9. Apache Tomcat is a long-lived open-source web server and servlet container that implements Jakarta Enterprise Edition specifications. Its latest version, Tomcat 10.1, supports Servlet 6.0, JavaServer Pages 3.1, WebSocket 2.1, and JASPIC 3.0 specifications, as well as many other features that make it a handy platform for developing and deploying Java-based web applications and services. # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Cat9_And_LASH_Want_To_Change_Your_Linux_Command Line_|_Hackaday⠀⇛ It is no secret that to be a true Linux power user you have to deal with the command line. Many people actually prefer to use the command line. However, the shell — the program that provides that command line — is mired in a back history which means it has to work with existing things no matter how modern it tries to be. However, a new set of projects wants to replace most of your user interface stack starting with the shell. At the top of that stack is Cat9 which is technically a shell, but not in the way you probably imagine a shell. # ⚓ Make Tech Easier ☛ How_to_Add_Users_to_a_Group_in_Linux_– Make_Tech_Easier⠀⇛ Groups are the bread and butter of a Linux system. These are special lists that allow you to group multiple users into different categories. Along with securing your system’s application privileges, it allows you to finely control how each account in the system can access and share its files and folders. This article shows how you can use the groups utility to add and modify existing groups in Linux. Further, it will also highlight how the Linux permissions system works in conjunction with the groups system. # ⚓ Kifarunix ☛ How_to_Recover_Deleted_Data_on_a_Linux_System_– kifarunix.com⠀⇛ # ⚓ Barry Kauler ☛ Problem_with_mount_utility_when_non-root⠀⇛ Posting about this, in case anyone else is puzzled by the behaviour of the ‘mount’ utility. I am working on running EasyOS as user “zeus”, where zeus has administrator rights. That means you don’t have to prepend “sudo” to do stuff, such as mount a partition. No problem with ‘mount’ in busybox, mounting and unmounting work when running as user zeus. Busybox in Easy is currently version 1.32.0. # ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ How_to_Play_Windows_Games_on_Linux⠀⇛ With so many recent advancements in the Linux gaming world, it’s now possible to play Windows games on Linux with minimal tweaks. Playing Windows games on Linux is becoming easier thanks to the Linux community, Valve, and Proton GE. Most games on your Steam library now need no, or very little, tweaking to get running smoothly. But what if you didn’t purchase the game through the Steam ecosystem? What then? There are alternative ways to take advantage of the improvements that Linux gamers are experiencing through applications that are getting easier to use every day. Let’s review the apps and tools you can use to take advantage of playing Windows games on Linux. # ⚓ RoseHosting ☛ How_to_Install_Dokuwiki_on_Ubuntu_22.04_– RoseHosting⠀⇛ Dokuwiki is an open-source wiki software written in PHP, and it doesn’t require a database. It was developed by Andreas Gohr in 2004. Dokuwiki works on plain text files, and its syntax is similar to the one used by MediaWiki. With its simple yet powerful syntax, users can create structured texts easily, and it ensures the data files remain readable outside the wiki. In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Dokuwiki on Ubuntu 22.04. # ⚓ Network World ☛ Finding_and_fixing_typos_on_Linux⠀⇛ The Linux aspell and enchant tools can both ID typos in text files and suggest replacements. # ⚓ Network World ☛ Counting_individual_characters_on_Linux_| Network_World⠀⇛ If you need to count how many of each character is included in a file or phrase, there are some handy commands you can string together to accomplish this along with scripts and aliases that can make the job easy. # ⚓ TechRepublic ☛ Create_and_Manage_Container_Volumes_with Podman_|_TechRepublic⠀⇛ For anyone who’s made the switch from a Ubuntu- based to an RHEL-based Linux distribution for container deployments, you’ve probably realized that Docker isn’t the easiest or best option for your new platform. Thankfully, Podman is installed by default on most RHEL-based distributions, so you can skip directly to working with your containers. But why would you want to learn an entirely new tool? Fortunately, Podman is almost a direct 1: 1 replacement for Docker, so if you know one you can use the other. I’ve already helped you take your first steps with Podman and this time around we’re going to extend that a bit by creating and managing volumes. Why are volumes important? Simple — persistent storage. Say, for example, you deploy a container that uses data. Everything is going great until disaster strikes. The container fails and takes your data down with it. You don’t want that. # ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_To_Install_Firefox_Browser_on_Ubuntu_22.04 LTS_–_idroot⠀⇛ In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Firefox browser on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. For those of you who didn’t know, Firefox is a free and open- source web browser developed by the Mozilla Foundation and its subsidiary, the Mozilla Corporation. It is available on Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, and iOS. 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 Firefox browser 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. o § Games⠀➾ # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ CD_PROJEKT_RED_announce_The_Witcher_Remake in_Unreal_Engine_5⠀⇛ If you’re a big fan of The Witcher series you will probably love this: CD PROJEKT RED have announced The Witcher Remake. Working together with developer Fool’s Theory, it will be developed in Unreal Engine 5. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Russian_Economic_Development_Ministry_drafts_bill to_extend_existing_content_bans_to_video_games_—_Meduza⠀⇛ Russia’s Economic Development Ministry has prepared a new draft bill that, if passed, would prohibit the release of video games containing “information whose distribution is banned,” according to Kommersant. The bill has been sent to the necessary government agencies for review. # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Volkswagen_begins_funding_Blender development⠀⇛ Here’s one from earlier in the month that was missed: Volkswagen Group has now formally pledged funding towards Blender, helping this powerful FOSS software continue improving. # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ JSAUX_cancels_current_Steam_Deck_Dock_with RGB,_after_competitor_pinched_it⠀⇛ JSAUX were getting close to release another (yes, another) Steam Deck Docking Station, this time with RGB lighting around the bottom but due to a “leak” and a competitor “copying” it they have cancelled it and will re-do it. # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ GE-Proton_7-38_is_out_now_fixing_up Uncharted:_Legacy_of_Thieves⠀⇛ Want to play Uncharted: Legacy of Thieves on Linux desktop? It works out of the box on Steam Deck, but on Linux desktop it needed some launch options which GE-Proton now works around. Reminder: GE- Proton is a community made version of the Windows compatibility layer Proton and not endorsed by Valve. # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Steam_Deck_hits_over_6,000_games_marked Verified_or_Playable⠀⇛ Just short of two months after hitting 5,000 — Valve has now marked over 6,000 games as formally Verified or Playable for the Steam Deck. A big milestone for still pretty early days of the system, that you can now grab without the reservation queue (along with the official Docking Station). # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Yuppie_Psycho:_Executive_Edition_upgraded with_full_Linux_/_Steam_Deck_compatibility⠀⇛ Even though it was Steam Deck Verified by Valve back in July, the developer of Yuppie Psycho: Executive Edition have put out a big game engine upgrade to make it even better. # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ EA_begins_swapping_out_Origin_for_EA_app_on Steam⠀⇛ It seems the time has come, EA has begun the process of swapping from Origin to the EA app on Steam, which could cause a few issues for Linux and Steam Deck with Proton. Multiple titles on Steam got updates within the last day, with no patch notes or announcements from EA that I can see. The only difference seems to be introducing the EA App. o § Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾ # § K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt⠀➾ # ⚓ KDE_Gear_snaps_round_3!_–_Scarlett_Gately_Moore⠀⇛ While trying to stay warm in our first snow of the year, I got several apps tested and released in round 3 of https:// www.scarlettgatelymoore.dev/kde-gear-snaps- round-2/ ! All of these are being ( re ) tested on both arm64 and amd64. Hence, the release is going slower than it will in the future. Thank you for your patience. * § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾ o ⚓ Unix Sheikh ☛ My_choice_of_operating_system⠀⇛ Since my article The flaws of distro hopping and asking other people about their OS of choice I have had a number of people writing to me asking for my specific advice regarding their choice of operating system, both for personal usage and for business usage. Last night I received yet another email from someone in the US who wrote to me about a difficult situation they where facing in the choice of operating system for their business usage. So I have decided to write a little bit about it. However, this article is not my professional advice. I don’t know you and I don’t know your situation and as such, I cannot advice you. Rather, this article is about what I do and why I do it. o ⚓ Systemd Free ☛ Status_and_brief_review_|_systemd-free_linux community⠀⇛ We are currently reviewing the distros on the strict list, verifying they are still actively being developed, whether they still meet our strict criteria and anything that has changed since they were first admitted to the list. o § New Releases⠀➾ # ⚓ Traveling_22.10⠀⇛ I introduce you Voyager 22.10in final version. A 2 in 1 version with for the first time, the Gnome and Xfce desktops unified in a single distributionVoyager, à sélectionner à votre session. Le tout dans a completely redesigned style for this duo. The Gnome 43 desktop coupled with the Xfce 4.16 desktop and a part in version 4.17, still in preparation. With the promise finally realized, to have 2 unified systems Gnome and Xfce, light, fast, modern, fluid, secure and efficient in a hybrid environment for PC and Tablet. The 2 offices are quite distinct and their respective applications are for the most part invisible, for one or the other environment. This release is based on Linux kernel 5.19 and Ubuntu distribution“Kinetic Kudu” with its novelties. 22.10 is an intermediate release with a 9-month update that prepares the future 5-year LTS – Long- term support – release that will arrive shortly for Gnome and Xfce. With integrated, options grouped in the BoxVoyagerlike Conky Control , Effects , Repair ,Screencast, Switch Ubuntu , Wine development and Steam Gaming and Gnome extensions selected according to PC needs. A Special Gaming type GS profile has been created in xfce. With numerous Themes and Wallpapers and essential software . This release contains Software – Gnome Software, which was preferred over Ubuntu’s, to manage Deb, Snap and Flatpack packages together . Firefox has been installed in deb for better compatibility with gnome extensions and many other new features to discover. o § Fedora Family / IBM⠀➾ # ⚓ Red Hat Official ☛ Customer_success_stories:_How_Red_Hat’s products_and_services_provide_solutions_for_financial,_non- profit_and_professional_certification_organizations⠀⇛ In this month’s customer success highlights, learn how FIWARE, Electrical Training Alliance and SVA employed several Red Hat products to help build eco-smart city solutions, develop reusable microservices-based applications and construct a robust modern platform that meets strict compliance requirements. # ⚓ Red Hat Official ☛ Cryptographic_signatures_for_zip distributions⠀⇛ Red Hat’s products are distributed through numerous methods, including RPMs, ISOs and zip files. Over the past several months, we have been working across the organization to design and implement a plan to provide signatures for all zip file types so that our customers have greater assurance that Red Hat actually creates the products they receive. This work is essential to our customers’ trust in Red Hat and our products. Released on October 4th, 2022, Red Hat Single Sign- On patch 7.5.3 is the first Red Hat zip distribution to include cryptographic signatures. More product releases will come with this vital security metadata in the coming months. o § Canonical/Ubuntu Family⠀➾ # ⚓ Ubuntu ☛ Kubeflow_just_applied_to_join_CNCF_–_what_does_it mean_for_you?_|_Ubuntu⠀⇛ Google just announced that they have submitted an application for Kubeflow to become an incubating project in the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). It is an initiative supported by the Kubeflow Project Steering group. The request is visible to everyone and it represents a game changer for the rhythm which Kubeflow will develop. It makes community growth a strategic objective and puts Kubeflow on a development fast track. # ⚓ Ubuntu ☛ Charmed_Kubernetes_and_Huawei_OceanStor_Dorado All-Flash_storage_integration_verification_reports_|_Ubuntu⠀⇛ Huawei OceanStor Dorado V6 all-flash storage systems are designed for enterprises’ mission- critical services. The SmartMatrix full-mesh architecture ensures hardware redundancy and fast service switchover without interruption in the event of faults. The fully symmetric active-active architecture balances service loads on the entire storage system, simplifying service planning and scaling. FlashLink®designed for all-flash storage guarantees consistent low latency. The gateway-free HyperMetro feature provides an end-to-end active-active data center solution, which can smoothly evolve to the geo-redundant disaster recovery (DR) solution to achieve 99.9999% solution-level reliability. Variable-length deduplication and compression maximize the available capacity and reduce the operating expense (OPEX). OceanStor Dorado V6 meets the requirements of enterprise applications such as databases, virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI), virtual server infrastructure (VSI), and file sharing, helping the financial, manufacturing, and carrier industries evolve smoothly to all-flash storage. # ⚓ Ubuntu Fridge ☛ Call_for_nomination_for_the_Ubuntu Membership_board⠀⇛ # ⚓ Ubuntu News ☛ Ubuntu_Fridge_|_Call_for_nomination_for_the Ubuntu_Membership_board⠀⇛ As you may know, Ubuntu Membership is a recognition of a significant and sustained contribution to Ubuntu and the Ubuntu community. To this end, the Community Council recruits from our current member community for the valuable role of reviewing and evaluating the contributions of potential members to bring them on board or assist with having them achieve this goal. Our board members terms will soon end, and we are looking to restaff our 12:00 and 20:00/22:00 UTC Membership Boards with seven new members for each board. o § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾ # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Flashing_Booby-Trapped_Cisco_AP_With_OpenWRT, The_Hard_Way⠀⇛ Certain manufacturers seriously dislike open-source firmware for their devices, and this particular hack deals with quite extreme anti-hobbyist measures. The Meraki MR33, made by Cisco, is a nice access point hardware-wise, and running OpenWRT on it is wonderful – if not for the Cisco’s malicious decision to permanently brick the CPU as soon as you enter Uboot through the serial port. This AP seems to be part of a “hardware as a service” offering, and the booby-trapped Uboot was rolled out by an OTA update some time after the OpenWRT port got published. # ⚓ Arduino ☛ Control_six_separate_RGB_LED_strips_with_a_single Arduino_Nano_|_Arduino_Blog⠀⇛ If you’re used to working with individually addressable RGB LEDs, then that title probably has you scratching your head — controlling six NeoPixel strips is easy with an Arduino, since each strip only needs a single I/O pin for data. But we aren’t talking about individually addressable LEDs; we’re talking about conventional common-anode RGB LED strips and Trevor Makes recently uploaded a video demonstrating how to control six of them with one Arduino Nano. A common-anode RGB LED has four leads: one anode, and one cathode for each color. The anode always connects to the positive side of the circuit and connecting each cathode to the negative side of the circuit allows current to flow through that specific LED. A common-anode RGB LED strip expands on this concept, with all of the cathodes chained together by color channel. The operation is the same: connecting a color channel cathode to the negative side of the circuit causes all of the LEDs to light up in that color. o § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ 10_best_apps_compatible_with_Android_Auto_(2022)⠀⇛ # ⚓ Giz China ☛ Android_smartphones_will_be_more_powerful_than iPhone_in_2023⠀⇛ # ⚓ Android Central ☛ How_to_use_Game_Dashboard_in_Android_13_| Android_Central⠀⇛ # ⚓ 9to5Google ☛ Pixel_owners_can_now_leave_Android_13_QPR1 Beta_3_feedback⠀⇛ # ⚓ Android Authority ☛ Wallpaper_Wednesday:_Android_wallpapers 2022-10-26_–_Android_Authority⠀⇛ # ⚓ Hacker News ☛ Kimsuky_Hackers_Spotted_Using_3_New_Android Malware_to_Target_South_Koreans⠀⇛ # ⚓ 9to5Google ☛ YouTube_for_Android_adds_a_navigation_drawer for_Explore⠀⇛ # ⚓ HowTo Geek ☛ Samsung’s_Budget_Android_Tablet_Has_Never_Been Cheaper,_Plus_More_Deals⠀⇛ # ⚓ 9to5Google ☛ Google_Duo_icon_is_gone_on_Android_as_web_app gets_Meet⠀⇛ * § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾ o § Events⠀➾ # ⚓ LWN ☛ A_Netfilter_Workshop_2022_summary⠀⇛ Arturo Borrero González has posted a detailed summary of the Netfilter workshop that was recently held in Seville. o § Web Browsers/Web Servers⠀➾ # § Mozilla⠀➾ # ⚓ Tor ☛ New_Release:_Tor_Browser_11.5.6_(Android, Windows,_macOS,_Linux)⠀⇛ This is an emergency release resolving an issue with Tor Browser 11.5.5′s integration of the Snowflake pluggable transport. Users of 11.5.5 will be unable to connect to the Tor Network via the built-in Snowflake bridge until they update to 11.5.6. o § Programming/Development⠀➾ # ⚓ Loris Cro ☛ Zig_Is_Self-Hosted_Now,_What’s_Next?⠀⇛ With the upcoming 0.10.0 release of Zig on November 1st, we are going to ship the new self-hosted compiler. This is the result of a huge amount of work that brings a lot of benefits, some obvious, some others less so. Even though the self-hosted compiler is now shipped, there’s still more work to do on it but, at the same time, now the door has opened to more exciting features, like Zig’s official package manager. Let’s take a look at what’s next for the Zig project. # § Rust⠀➾ # ⚓ CyberRisk Alliance LLC ☛ Linux_Rust_–_Retro_–_Charles Shirer_–_PSW_#761_|_SC_Media⠀⇛ In this segment, we are going to discuss linux security and using the Rust programming language with an Offensive MindSet, and our guest Charles Shirer! * § Leftovers⠀➾ o ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Mr._Fish:_What’s_the_Alternative?⠀⇛ Cartoonist and author Mr. Fish considers how a distracting burlesque of inarticulate clowns are juggling our common fate like raw eggs. o ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Tim_Robbins_and_the_Lost_Art_of_Finding_Common Ground⠀⇛ The star of films like The Producer and Bull Durham opens up about two tough years of pandemic politics, and worries society is purposefully phasing out the common meeting space. o ⚓ The Nation ☛ Schjeldahl’s_Art⠀⇛ We were stuck in traffic on the way to Alex Katz’s opening at the Guggenheim when my wife started riffling through her phone. “Does Peter Schjeldahl have a new book out?” She asked. “His picture is all over Instagram.” My heart sank. No, I knew there was no new book. I knew all those pictures were saying goodbye. o ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Physical_Mail_Was_My_Lifeline_to_the_Outside_World_— and_Now_It’s_Gone⠀⇛ o ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Skull_Lamp_Illuminates_The_Cyberpunk_Future⠀⇛ Cyberpunk is full of characters with cool body mods, and [bsmachinist] has made a prosthetic eye flashlight (TikTok) that is both useful and looks futuristic. [via Reddit] o ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Digital_Hourglass_Counts_Down_The_Seconds⠀⇛ If someone asked you to build a digital hourglass, what would your design look like? [BitBlt_Korry] took on that challenge, creating a functional art piece that hits it right on the nose: an hourglass with a digital display.  o § Education⠀➾ # ⚓ The Nation ☛ Republicans_Have_Spent_Millions_on_Youth Outreach._And_It’s_Working.⠀⇛ For conservatives, the most frightening place in the country has always been a college campus. By 1964, Students for a Democratic Society had formed chapters at hundreds of universities with tens of thousands of supporters, protesting racism, inequality, and the Vietnam War. After Barry Goldwater’s loss in the presidential election that same year, his young crusaders were worried—and inspired. They began building out conservative political infrastructure independent of the Republican Party to compete for America’s youth. o § Hardware⠀➾ # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Kinetic_Cyclic_Scissors⠀⇛ [Henry Segerman] and [Kyle VanDeventer] merge math and mechanics to create a kinetic cyclic scissors sculpture out of 3D printed bars adjoined together with M3 bolts and nuts. o § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾ # ⚓ HyperAllergic ☛ A_Better_Museum_Experience_for_Color-Blind Visitors⠀⇛ The technology, which alleviates red-green CVD for about four out of five users with the condition, was developed by EnChroma, an independent company based in Berkeley, California. Usually genetic, red-green CVD is caused by an overlap in the red and green color receptor cones within the eye, causing the hues to become practically indistinguishable. The lenses now provided by the DMA increase the contrast between red and green color signals for users with the cone overlap, enabling them to view the world with a more enriched color field. # ⚓ Reuters ☛ Germany_to_legalize_cannabis_use_for_recreational purposes⠀⇛ Germany on Wednesday set out plans to legalise cannabis, in a move promised by Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s government that would make it one of the first countries in Europe to make weed legal. Health Minister Karl Lauterbach presented a cornerstone paper on planned legislation to regulate the controlled distribution and consumption of cannabis for recreational purposes among adults. Acquiring and possessing up to 20 to 30 grams of recreational cannabis for personal consumption would also be made legal. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Opinion_|_Green_Schools_Start_With_Greener Lunches:_NYC_Public_Schools_Are_Plant-Based_Leaders⠀⇛ New York City public schools led the way on Meatless Monday—now it’s time for other districts to follow. o § Security⠀➾ # ⚓ InfoQ ☛ Docker_Introduces_Hardened_Desktop_for_Business Users⠀⇛ Enhanced Container Isolation aims to harden container isolation by applying a number of techniques, including running all containers unprivileged through the Linux user-namespace, isolating critical system call to prevent containers escapes, and preventing console access to the Docker Desktop VM. # ⚓ Lemonduck_Cryptojacking_Botnet_Reveals_Ongoing_API⠀⇛ It takes advantage of Docker, a mainstream platform used for building, running and managing containerized workloads. Since Docker runs container workloads in the cloud, a misconfigured cloud instance can expose a Docker API to the internet. Attackers can then exploit this API to run a hidden crypto miner inside an attacker- controlled container. # ⚓ FOSSLife ☛ How_to_Avoid_Software_Supply_Chain Vulnerabilities [Ed: [‘FOSSlife Team’ is parroting Microsoft talking_points_and_FUD_again]]⠀⇛ # ⚓ syslog-ng_Store_Box_federated_single_sign-on_support_via OpenID_Connect_–_Blog_–_syslog-ng_Community_–_syslog-ng Community⠀⇛ The syslog-ng Store Box (SSB) appliance is built upon syslog-ng Premium Edition (PE). SSB inherits most of syslog-ng PE’s features and makes them available with an easy-to-use graphical user interface. There are multiple ways how users can authenticate when using SSB. Recent versions also introduced federated single sign-on (SSO) via OpenID Connect (OIDC). The SSB appliance can collect log messages from many different log sources, in many formats. These include UNIX / Linux / Windows system logs, firewall and router logs, various application logs, and now SQL sources as well. SSB can parse, rewrite, filter, and store log messages. In addition to the traditional syslog-ng features, the SSB appliance provides an interface to search log messages, and does complete log life cycle management, including archiving and backup. Finally, it can also forward events to various on- premises and cloud destinations. It allows you to optimize your SIEM installations both for resources and licensing, as you can collect log messages in a single step, store them on SSB, and only forward a reduced subset of logs to various analytics tools. # ⚓ CISA ☛ Apple_Releases_Security_Updates_for_Multiple Products _|_CISA⠀⇛ Apple has released security updates to address vulnerabilities in multiple products. An attacker could exploit some of these vulnerabilities to take control of an affected device. # ⚓ IT Wire ☛ iTWire_–_Phishing_has_been_around_long_enough_for Westpac_to_know⠀⇛ In the midst of a spate of data breaches — there have been eight reported in Australia since Optus led the way — the last thing one would expect is for any company to send out digital communications asking people to verify their identity. But Westpac, one of the big four banks in this country, seems to think this is fine. Last week, I received an SMS and an email, couched in roughly the same language, asking me to “verify your details to better protect your account and identity”. Receiving such communications at other times from any source tends to make me suspicious. At this time, the degree of suspicion is ten times worse. I called up the Westpac support line and was told that the SMS was not genuine but the email was. Which left me scratching my head. # § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾ # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Signal_Says_It_Will_Exit_India_Rather_Than Compromise_Its_Encryption⠀⇛ Signal ensures its users’ security and privacy by encrypting their messages and refusing to collect a bunch of data governments or malicious hackers might find useful or interesting. That hasn’t made it many friends in governments (except with government officials who utilize the service to dodge public records requests). o § Defence/Aggression⠀➾ # ⚓ ABC ☛ 3_men_convicted_of_supporting_plot_to_kidnap_Gov. Whitmer⠀⇛ The trial in state court was an offshoot of the main case in federal court, which produced mixed results: conspiracy convictions for Fox and three others but also two acquittals. # ⚓ Birmingham Live ☛ Extremist_found_in_Birmingham_mosque_and jailed_for_plotting_to_fight_with_ISIS_‘could_be_freed’⠀⇛ Ismail received an 18-month prison term for failing to disclose information about acts of terrorism. Azeez was jailed for three years for preparing for acts of terrorism. # ⚓ Jerusalem Post ☛ WATCH:_Iranian_school_girls_rip_up_regime textbooks,_join_protests⠀⇛ Iranian schoolchildren, girls in particular, have brought the nation’s widespread protests into the classrooms according to a late-October report from Israeli non-profit IMPACT-se, the Institute for Monitoring Peace and Cultural Tolerance in School Education. # ⚓ The Nation ☛ Prophecy_Foretold⠀⇛ Created by an Iranian artist who requested to be anonymous, but gave us this statement: In Iranian culture there are many stories about heroes who fought for the glory of their nation against all kinds of demons and beasts.Today we are rewriting history in Iran.We are showing the world that those stories were never just legends and myths. We Iranians have it in our blood, we can never stand injustice, we will fight until we restore our freedom.We want the world to hear us and be our voice: “Woman, Life, Freedom!” # ⚓ The Sun ☛ ISIS_terror_fantastic_lined_up_for_release_from prison_and_could_be_walking_the_streets_again_in_WEEKS⠀⇛ He was a dangerous extremist when jailed for seven years in 2017 for terrorism offences. # ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Who_Is_This_‘Haiti’_That’s_Appealing_for Intervention?⠀⇛ The media calls for military intervention in Haiti, Jane Regan breaks down the reality of the situation. # ⚓ The Nation ☛ Dr._Oz’s_Appalling_Position_on_Abortion Rights⠀⇛ Midway through a combative Pennsylvania US Senate debate, as Democrat John Fetterman and Republican Mehmet Oz expounded on policy matters ranging from fracking to the minimum wage and Social Security, former Obama White House speechwriter Pat Cunnane weighed in with an observation about the issue that everyone was focused on: the status of Fetterman’s recovery from a serious stroke in May. “Put the analysis to the side for a second: What John Fetterman is doing right now in the midst of his recovery—so publicly, on the same stage as a smirking TV doctor—is remarkably brave.” # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Two_Years_After_Barrett’s_Confirmation,_Let’s_Be Blunt:_The_Point_Was_to_End_Roe⠀⇛ # ⚓ Telex (Hungary) ☛ Ministry_promises_corrections_in_Ukraine chapter_of_school_textbooks_–_Ukrainian_NGO_in_Hungary_says⠀⇛ # ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Congressional_Progressive_Caucus_Withdraws Letter_That_Tepidly_Called_for_Diplomacy_in_Ukraine⠀⇛ The move comes after the mild and carefully worded letter sparked furious backlash from pundits and at least one Democratic leader. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Every_Nuclear_Plant_Is_a_‘Dirty_Bomb’_in Waiting,_Warns_Watchdog_Group⠀⇛ “Nuclear power plants—and their mounting inventory of high-level nuclear waste—are inherently dangerous.” # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Opinion_|_This_Is_No_Time_for_Nuclear_War Games⠀⇛ This month, United States President Joe Biden warned that the world could face armageddon if his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, were to use a tactical nuclear weapon in Ukraine. You would imagine that such a prognosis would lead to urgent action to dial down the confrontation. Yet no effort is being made to move us back from that risk. # ⚓ IT Wire ☛ Seagate_accused_of_breaking_US_export_rules_by shipping_drives_to_Huawei⠀⇛ Storage vendor Seagate Technologies says in a filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission that the US Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security has accused the company of violating export regulations by shipping hard drives to an unidentified vendor on the BIS Entity List. That vendor was identified as Chinese telecommunications equipment vendor Huawei Technologies in a report issued in October 2021 by Republican members of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation. Seagate said it had received the proposed charging letter on 29 August. It said it had responded, setting out its position that it had not committed any such act, especially as its disk drives were not subject to the export regulations. “Seagate believes it has complied with all relevant export control laws and regulations,” the company filing said. # ⚓ IT Wire ☛ iTWire_–_Chinese_influence_group_claims_by Mandiant_played_down_by_TAG_head⠀⇛ The Google-owned security outfit Mandiant Intelligence claims it has discovered a pro-China actor, which it has named DRAGONBRIDGE, trying to influence voting intentions in the forthcoming US mid-term elections. # ⚓ IT Wire ☛ iTWire_–_Briton_indicted_in_US_for_allegedly running_dark_web_trading_site⠀⇛ A British citizen has been charged in the US with allegedly operating a trading site on the dark web which was used to sell attack tools and stolen credentials. A statement from the US Department of Justice said Daniel Kaye was charged with device fraud and money laundering. He allegedly operated a website known as The Real Deal. “While living overseas, this defendant allegedly operated an illegal website that made hacking tools and login credentials available for purchase, including those for US Government agencies,” said US Attorney Ryan Buchanan. “This case is a timely reminder, during National Cybersecurity Awareness Month, that federal law enforcement will make those accused of breaking US laws face their day in court, regardless of where they reside in the world.” # ⚓ The Nation ☛ What’s_the_US_Military_Doing_in_Africa?⠀⇛ What’s the US military doing in Africa? It’s an enigma, wrapped in a riddle, straitjacketed in secrecy, and hogtied by red tape. Or at least it would be if it were up to the Pentagon. # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Is_Armageddon_a_Crime?⠀⇛ One nun I represented in another nuclear resistance case, the heroic Jackie Hudson, asked me what she should wear to court. Being an atheist myself, I suggested it might help get sympathy if she would wear her habit, as we would be going to the “temple of justice.” So ignorant was I of her order, I did not know they did not wear habits, rather they fed the hungry, clothed the naked, housed the homeless, while wearing “ordinary” clothing. Admittedly, my ignorance was boundless, in those naïve days of my innocence and faith in the law. # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ The_Political_System_in_the_US_is_a_Train Wreck⠀⇛ I was surprised by the Analysis News segment (“Rising Fascism and the Elections,” October 12, 2022) when icons, and justifiably so on the left, Noam Chomsky and Daniel Ellsberg, make their argument for the importance of supporting Democrats to prevent the ultimate evil from taking place this November. The stakes are the possibility of moving the US inextricably close to fascism, they argue. They argue that while Republicans and Democrats are on the same page in regard to foreign policy, they have different positions on domestic policies. # ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ In_Nauseating_Netanyahu_Interview,_Bill_Maher Whitewashes_a_War_Criminal⠀⇛ Miko Peled provides a distinctive critique on Netanyahu’s appearance on Bill Maher’s show, having personally known the former Israeli prime minister. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ President_of_Guinea-Bissau_tells_Zelensky_Putin_is ready_for_talks._Zelensky_suggests_stopping_the_shelling_and unblocking_the_ports._—_Meduza⠀⇛ Umaro Sissoca Embalo, the president of Guinea- Bissau, announced that Russian president Vladimir Putin is ready to negotiate with Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky. Embalo spoke about it during a joint briefing with Zelensky. The Office of the President of Ukraine published a video recording of the meeting. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ General_Alexander_Lapin_personally_threatened retreating_conscripts_with_a_pistol_—_Meduza⠀⇛ Colonel General Alexander Lapin, commander of the Russian army group Center in Ukraine, used a pistol to personally threaten the commander of a mobilized unit, which retreated from the front lines without orders. One conscript from Moscow spoke about it as part of an official complaint, reports outlet Sota. The publication didn’t name the man but writes that they know his name, and that they have copies of his complaint and his call-up papers, which he sent the outlet. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Head_of_annexed_Kherson_region:_70,000_cross_to east_bank_of_Dnipro_—_Meduza⠀⇛ More than 70,000 people have crossed from the right (western) bank of the Dnipro to the left, said Vladimir Saldo, Russian-appointed head of the annexed region, on air on the Crimea-24 channel.  # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Russia_conducts_massive_nuclear_strike_drill_under Putin’s_command_—_Meduza⠀⇛ The Russian military, led by President Vladimir Putin as Commander-in-Chief, conducted a training exercise for a massive nuclear strike in response to an enemy nuclear attack. This was reported on the Kremlin’s official website and, separately, by Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Opinion_|_The_Cuban_Missile_Crisis:_Déjà_Vu All_Over_Again?⠀⇛ Sixty years ago, the world was on the doorstep of a nuclear confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union. The resort to nuclear weapons in the Cuban Missile Crisis would have led to a nuclear holocaust from which humanity as a species would not have recovered. Though there were over three billion people on the planet, the peaceful resolution of the conflict stemmed from the decisions of just two individuals, the leaders of the United States and the Soviet Union.  # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Written_off_in_advance_How_an_untrained_and unarmed_‘platoon’_of_new_conscripts_from_Moscow_was_decimated near_Svatove_—_Meduza⠀⇛ On October 8, a group of new conscripts from the Moscow region recorded an understated but still urgent video, in which they hoped to tell the civilian audience about their circumstances. Their platoon of 30 was about to be sent to Lyman, to take part in a Russian offensive there. The soldiers, dressed in rag-tag uniforms each of them had to put together around retail shops, said that they were going to the front without any training, and with weapons that were “rusty, stuck, or jammed.” With only a day’s worth of firing practice, and no acquaintance at all with the vehicles some of them would have to drive, they felt completely unprepared to be sent to a war “hot spot.” The day after recording the video, the platoon of 30 was sent to the Luhansk region. By October 17, when the video was first published on YouTube, only 13 men were left in the unit. The rest of them were either dead or missing. Here’s what happened to the platoon, based on an extended investigation published recently by Mediazona and the videos recorded by the soldiers — one of them still unpublished. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Russia_notifies_US_of_its_annual_nuclear_exercise, Grom_—_Meduza⠀⇛ Russia has notified the Pentagon of its intent to conduct its annual strategic nuclear exercise, Grom (“Thunder”). Pentagon Press Secretary Pat Ryder said this in his daily briefing on October 25. “Yes,” he said, “the U.S. was notified.” # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Mark_Meadows_Ordered_to_Comply_with_Georgia Subpoena⠀⇛ # ⚓ Meduza ☛ State_Duma_legalizes_conscripting_convicted_felons into_Russian_military_—_Meduza⠀⇛ Russia’s State Duma has passed a series of amendments to the law that governs mobilization, lifting the prior ban on conscripting persons with unexpunged felony records. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Russian_’Internet_safety’_advocacy_group_denounces rapper_Oxxxymiron_for_lyrics_allegedly_calling_for_St. Petersburg’s_secession_—_Meduza⠀⇛ Ekaterina Mizulina, head of the Russian Internet Safety League, said Wednesday that the organization will submit a request to the Russian Attorney General’s Office for Russian rapper Oxxxymiron’s song Oida (“Oh yeah”) to be declared extremist. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ ‘Like_bats_out_of_hell’_Many_of_the_draft_evaders fleeing_Russia_for_Central_Asia_have_been_government_workers —_Meduza⠀⇛ In the five weeks since Russia’s mobilization drive began, hundreds of thousands of draft-eligible people have fled the country. While the authorities have vowed to grant draft deferments for certain people such as select government officials and IT workers, these promises have not always been enough to keep people in those groups from getting conscripted. According to the independent media outlet Verstka, many government employees have decided not to take their chances: numerous people who work for both the Moscow city government and Russia’s federal ministries have fled the country in recent weeks. The majority of them have been fired soon after leaving, but some have flown under the radar and remain on the payroll. In English, Meduza summaries Verstka’s findings. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ First_criminal_complaint_for_insulting_Ukrainians on_basis_of_nationality_filed_in_Russia_since_start_of_full- scale_war_—_Meduza⠀⇛ For the first time since the start of the full- scale war in Ukraine, a criminal complaint has been filed against someone in Russia for insulting Ukrainians on the basis of nationality. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Russian_Defense_Minister_Sergey_Shoigu_repeats ‘dirty_bomb’_allegations_to_India_and_China_—_Meduza⠀⇛ Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu reached out to his counterparts in India and China on Wednesday to express his “concern regarding a possible false flag attack involving the use of a ‘dirty bomb’” by Ukraine. o § Environment⠀➾ # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Climate_Pledges_Are_Falling_Short,_and_a Chaotic_Future_Looks_More_Like_Reality⠀⇛ Just 26 of 193 countries that agreed last year to step up their climate actions have followed through with more ambitious plans. The world’s top two polluters, China and the United States, have taken some action but have not pledged more this year, and climate negotiations between the two have been frozen for months. Without drastic reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, the report said, the planet is on track to warm by an average of 2.1 to 2.9 degrees Celsius, compared with preindustrial levels, by 2100. That’s far higher than the goal of 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) set by the landmark Paris agreement in 2015, and it crosses the threshold beyond which scientists say the likelihood of catastrophic climate impacts significantly increases. # ⚓ [Old] uni Yale ☛ Redrawing_the_Map:_How_the_World’s_Climate Zones_Are_Shifting⠀⇛ Here we summarize some of the littler-known features that have shifted in the face of climate change and pulled the map out from under the people living on the edges. Everything about global warming is changing how people grow their food, access their drinking water, and live in places that are increasingly being flooded, dried out, or blasted with heat waves. Seeing these changes literally drawn on a map helps to hammer these impacts home. # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ New_UN_Report_Predicts_Catastrophic_Rise_in Global_Temperatures_by_2100⠀⇛ # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Healthy_Human_Future_Still_Possible_If World_Ditches_Fossil_Fuels:_Lancet_Study⠀⇛ “The climate crisis is killing us.” # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ ‘A_Sobering_Moment’:_UN_Warns_Planet_Could See_Cataclysmic_2.9°C_of_Heating_by_2100⠀⇛ The analysis by the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) examines the climate commitments of the 193 national parties to the Paris climate accord, which sets out to limit warming to 1.5°C above preindustrial levels—an amount of heating that would still have devastating impacts across the world, particularly in poor and low-lying nations. # § Energy⠀➾ # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ In_Oz-Fetterman_Debate,_Candidates_Clash on_Abortion_But_Agree_on_Fracking⠀⇛ # ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ We_Can_Still_Make_Solar_Panels_Even Better_and_Cheaper⠀⇛ Renate Egan explains why with less than 5% of the world’s electricity delivered by solar, we are just at the start. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Biden’s_LNG_Export_Goal_‘Would_Spell Climate_Disaster,’_Analysis_Warns⠀⇛ The proposal, which the Biden administration claims “is consistent with our shared net- zero goals,” would generate fossil fuel emissions equivalent to 400 million metric tons of carbon each year, according to the analysis by Food & Water Watch, which warned the plan “would spell climate disaster.” # § Wildlife/Nature⠀➾ # ⚓ The Revelator ☛ Horror_Writers_Reveal_Their Environmental_Fears⠀⇛ o § Finance⠀➾ # ⚓ The Nation ☛ Rebuilding_The_Homestead⠀⇛ Piney Woods, N.C., is one of those small, quiet, rural communities you might pass on a drive up North. Blocks of lush grass, farmland, and forests are bisected by a single asphalt road; it’s not uncommon to find a tortoise or two lazing on the empty street, unafraid of potential traffic.1 # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ New_Survey_Suggests_Populist_Economic Message_Can_Help_Dems_Prevail_in_Midterms⠀⇛ Conducted by longtime Democratic pollster Stan Greenberg, the survey tests a number of sample messages, including one that notes “working people haven’t seen a real pay increase in years,” spotlights Democrats’ efforts to combat corporate price-gouging, and hammers the GOP for getting “their money from Big Oil and big pharmaceutical special interests”—two major culprits behind recent price hikes. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Citing_‘Aggressive_Profiteering,’_Sanders and_Warren_Urge_FTC_to_Stop_Kroger-Albertsons_Merger⠀⇛ “The new Kroger could increase its monopoly power and further disenfranchise its own workers and consumers.” # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ AFL-CIO_Economist_Warns_Fed_Is_Using_‘Flat Wrong’_Analysis_to_Inflict_Pain_on_Workers⠀⇛ “The Federal Reserve is doing the greatest harm I could ever imagine,” William Spriggs, chief economist of the AFL-CIO, told The Hill. “I consider what they’re doing right now politics, and they are making a political statement about the economy, and they are wrong. Their analysis is flat wrong.” # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Opinion_|_The_US_Oligarchy_Is_Getting Exactly_the_Kind_of_Election_It_Paid_For⠀⇛ The polls are tightening up right now, and the media is treating it like it’s some mystical force of nature causing people to shift their concerns from abortion, guns, climate, democracy, and the survival of Social Security over to gas prices, Black crime, banning books, and trans kids playing sports. o § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾ # ⚓ Reuters ☛ Exclusive:_Twitter_is_losing_its_most_active users,_internal_documents_show⠀⇛ These “heavy tweeters” account for less than 10% of monthly overall users but generate 90% of all tweets and half of global revenue. Heavy tweeters have been in “absolute decline” since the pandemic began, a Twitter researcher wrote in an internal document titled “Where did the Tweeters Go?” A “heavy tweeter” is defined as someone who logs in to Twitter six or seven days a week and tweets about three to four times a week, the document said. # ⚓ IT Wire ☛ Elon_Musk_Twitter_bid_likely_to_go_through_by weekend⠀⇛ Tesla and SpaceX chief executive Elon Musk’s bid for Twitter appears likely to go through by Friday US time, a deadline set for the proposal to take effect. A court case was filed by the company against Musk to force him to go through with his bid, made initially in April. # ⚓ FAIR ☛ ‘It’s_Extra_Problematic_When_the_Implications_Are the_End_of_Democracy’⠀⇛ Janine Jackson: Independent, challenging, far- ranging and fearless coverage of elections and the electoral process is one of journalists’ core jobs at the best of times, and these are not the best of times.  # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Beto_O’Rourke_Pulls_Within_2_Points_Against Abbott_Among_Texas’s_Likely_Voters⠀⇛ # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Sanders_Slams_Republicans’_Plans_to_Cut_Social Security_and_Medicare_in_Op-Ed⠀⇛ # ⚓ Project Censored ☛ Electoral_Denialism_Cuts_Across_Party Lines:_Despite_What_the_Corporate_Media_Would_Have_Us Believe,_Both_Parties_Engage_in_the_‘Big_Lie,’_and_the_Rest of_Lose_Because_of_It_–_Censored_Notebook,_Dispatches_from Project_Censored:_On_Media_and_Politics⠀⇛ U.S. news media have consistently made analogies to this historical big lie strategy with former President Donald Trump’s efforts to spread doubt about the legitimacy of the 2020 election in hopes of overturning its results. They contend that this threatens the viability of American democracy. It does at some level, but to focus on Trump is to miss the forest for the trees. An even greater threat to democracy has long been hyper- partisanship– when people choose party loyalty and wishful thinking over empirical data and election results. Cognitive biases, like confirmation bias, play a huge role in supporting such a fallacious thought process to detrimental ends. As we pointed out in our book, United States of Distraction, Trump is a symptom of this much larger problem. # ⚓ Pro Publica ☛ How_the_Uline_Box_Empire_Has_Fueled_Election Denial⠀⇛ Dick and Liz Uihlein of Illinois are the largest contributors to Pennsylvania gubernatorial candidate Doug Mastriano, who attended the Jan. 6 rally and was linked to a prominent antisemite, and have given to Jim Marchant, the Nevada Secretary of State nominee who says he opposed the certification of Joe Biden’s election victory in 2020. They are major funders to groups spreading election falsehoods, including Restoration of America, which, according to an internal document obtained by ProPublica, aims to “get on God’s side of the issues and stay there” and “punish leftists.” # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Republican_Policies_Are_Killing_Americans: Study⠀⇛ Working-age mortality rates have been rising for decades across the United States, but premature deaths are more pronounced in states where “conservative” policies predominate and less common in states that have adopted more “liberal” policies, according to peer-reviewed research published in PLOS ONE. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Republican_Governors_Association_Accused_of Illegal_Coordination_With_Super_PAC_in_Michigan⠀⇛ “Desperation to save a floundering campaign has led to potential violations of campaign finance law and potential illegal coordination.” # ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ Not_an_Air_War,_A_Ground_War:_Dems_Should Redirect_Election_Funds_to_Organizing_if_Black_Votes_Matter⠀⇛ As Republican-led states clamp down on voting rights, we look at how Black voters are helping to organize unprecedented voter turnout ahead of midterms. “We are literally fighting for democracy,” says LaTosha Brown, co-founder of the Black Voters Matter Fund, who says organizing voters is “the winning strategy” despite the resolve of the “consulting class” to invest campaign funds primarily in TV ads.Georgia’s special election Senate races in early 2021 were “not a fluke, “says Brown. “We need to recognize that it is going to be community-led efforts, grassroots democracy groups that are literally our best defense on the frontlines from protecting us against facism.” This comes as President Biden announces he has authorized the transfer of $10 million from the Democratic National Committee to House and Senate Democratic campaign committees. # ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ Will_Racist_Ads_on_Immigration_&_Crime_Help GOP_Regain_Control_of_Congress?⠀⇛ As the midterms draw closer, we speak with journalist Will Bunch about how extremist Republican candidates increasingly look like they could win. In Pennsylvania, the Republican gubernatorial candidate is Doug Mastriano who attended the January 6th “Stop the Steal” rally and helped arrange buses for pro-Trump protesters to come as well. He later worked with former President Trump’s legal team to overturn the 2020 election results. This comes as racist campaign ads sponsored by a new group called Citizens for Sanity continue to fill the airwaves. “The Democrats are running out of time but I hope they find a way to counter this Republican message on crime because I’m really worried that it’s proven to be very effective so far,” says Bunch. # ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ “Fascism_Has_No_Place_Here”:_Penn_State Students_Maced_While_Protesting_Violent_Proud_Boys_Event⠀⇛ Hundreds of Penn State students protesting a speaking event with Proud Boys founder Gavin McInnes on Monday night were showered with pepper spray by men who appeared to be with the hate group. Penn State, which abruptly called off the talk on Monday, had resisted earlier calls from students, faculty and community members to cancel the event, citing free-speech rights. We speak with one of those students, Sam Ajah, president of the Penn State College Democrats club. “Fascism doesn’t have a place on our campus,” says Ajah, who describes being “disappointed and disgusted” by the university, which attempted to pin the violence on the peaceful protestors. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ ‘I_dreamed_of_Mariupol_every_night’:_Why_Ukrainian refugees_return_to_their_uninhabitable_city_—_Meduza⠀⇛ Lake Ivan is a scenic lake surrounded by pine forests some 240 kilometers from the northern Russian city of Pskov. Over the lake stands a small village called Opukhliki. Yulia, whose parents have an old house in Opukhliki (we’ve changed her name at her request), calls the village a “dying ghetto”: she says that there’s no life in it, apart from Blue Lakes — a lakeside resort where visitors come to stay in the summer. Last May, Yulia realized that Blue Lakes had been designated a “temporary housing facility” for Ukrainian refugees, and that people from Mariupol were living there, side-by-side with Russians taking an ordinary vacation. Without any money of their own, and subsisting on a daily allowance of about $15, paid by the local Department of Social Services, the refugees lacked even the basic necessities like medications and detergent. Yulia and her friends began to collect and deliver aid to these people — but, to their astonishment, within a few months the refugees suddenly left for Mariupol, on buses provided by the local government. The volunteers believe that Russian authorities manipulate the refugees, enticing them back to Mariupol and other uninhabitable places with free transportation and promises of “compensation” for their demolished homes. But the Ukrainians’ real motives in returning to Mariupol might be more complicated. # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ 43_Percent_of_Americans_Are_Worried_About Threats_of_Violence_at_the_Polls⠀⇛ # ⚓ Telex (Hungary) ☛ Inside_Viktor_Orbán’s_response_to_the_war in_Ukraine⠀⇛ # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Cardboard_Box_Tycoons_Are_Bankrolling_Election Denial⠀⇛ # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Fueled_by_Big_Lie_Conspiracy,_GOP_Officials Move_to_Hand_Counts_in_Arizona,_Nevada⠀⇛ The interim county clerk in Nye County, Nevada directed six teams of five people each to begin a hand count on Wednesday after the Nevada Supreme Court gave approval for the plan last week. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Opinion_|_The_DOJ_Under_Trump_Resisted Efforts_to_Join_the_‘Big_Lie’—We_Might_Not_Be_So_Lucky_Next Time⠀⇛ # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Opinion_|_In_Face_of_GOP_Threats,_Democrats Should_Raise,_Suspend,_or_Abolish_Debt_Ceiling⠀⇛ o § Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾ # ⚓ Ahval ☛ Turkish_top_doctor_arrested_for_proposing_chemical weapons_investigation⠀⇛ The 63-year-old, a forensic expert, has spent much of her career documenting torture and ill- treatment, and is a leading human rights activist in Turkey. She has served also as president of the Human Rights Foundation of Turkey. Turkish newspaper Birgun and other media reported that she was detained in Istanbul following an early-morning raid on her home and was being taken to Ankara, where the chief public prosecutor’s office has launched a probe against her last week. # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Brazil’s_Governments_Amps_Up_Anti-Free_Speech Tactics_Ahead_Of_National_Election⠀⇛ The Brazilian government — under the “leadership” of Donald Trump Mutual Admiration Society member Jair Bolsonaro — has been steadily cracking down on free speech under the guise of saving the public from “fake news” and other misinformation. # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Reddit_Wins_Against_FOSTA_Lawsuit:_9th_Circuit Says_FOSTA_Requires_Knowledge_Of_Violation⠀⇛ There’s this weird thing that people who hate Section 230 continue to ignore: that if you just take away Section 230, it doesn’t magically make companies liable for the actions of their users. If you studied the history of Section 230 (i.e., read Jeff Kosseff’s excellent book on the topic) or just had a passing familiarity with the nature of concepts such as scienter and mens rea, you might understand these things. But most people, falsely, assume that without Section 230, websites automatically become liable for the things their users do, even if the websites are totally unaware of the details. o § Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press⠀➾ # ⚓ The Dissenter ☛ Chelsea_Manning:_US_Military_Pressured_Me To_Plead_Guilty_To_‘Aiding_The_Enemy’⠀⇛ o § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾ # ⚓ Firstpost ☛ Iran:_Another_female_student_killed_during protests_against_hijab_law⠀⇛ The victim, Negin Abdulmaleki, who was a medical engineering student at the Hamadan University of Technology, hailed from Qorveh city in Sanandaj province of Iran. She was killed two weeks ago, but the incident was hidden from the media # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Iran_Forces_Fire_on_Protesters_Marking_40 Days_Since_Mahsa_Amini’s_Death⠀⇛ Wednesday’s demonstrations, which reportedly took place in around 30 Iranian cities, were a continuation of nationwide and international protests sparked by the September 16 death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish-Iranian woman arrested by so-called morality police three days earlier and reportedly beaten for violating the fundamentalist theocracy’s strict Islamic dress code. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Tens_of_Thousands_in_Iran_Mourn_Mahsa Amini,_Whose_Death_Set_Off_Protests⠀⇛ By evening, demonstrations had spread across the country to many cities and university campuses with large crowds in the streets clapping and defiantly chanting the mantras of the protests: “Women, Life, Freedom” and “We will fight and take Iran back,” according to videos on social media. In the capital, Tehran, women tossed their head scarves onto bonfires in the street, shouting “Freedom, freedom,” videos showed. In many places, the protesters targeted Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and chanted for his death and removal. Some crowds in the city fought back, chasing security forces and setting fire to their motorcycles. Security forces attacked protesters with tear gas, beat them with batons and in some places, like Tehran, Qazvin and Saghez, even opened fire on them, videos showed. # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ In_Iran,_the_Revolution_is_Being Feminized⠀⇛ As the young woman’s father explained to a reporter soon after, “My son begged them not to take her, but he was beaten too, his clothes were ripped off.” # ⚓ FAIR ☛ Framing_Disability_as_Disqualification_in_Fetterman/ Oz_Debate⠀⇛ # ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ Fetterman_&_Oz_Spar_on_Abortion,_Student Debt_&_Economy_in_Closely_Watched_Senate_Debate_In_Penn.⠀⇛ The candidates for U.S. Senate in Pennsylvania met Tuesday for their first and only debate in a race being closely watched across the country as a possible bellwether for the midterm elections. Trump-backed Republican nominee and TV personality Mehmet Oz, better known as Dr. Oz, sparred with Lieutenant Governor John Fetterman about crime, inflation, abortion and more. The night was a major test for Fetterman, who used a closed captioning device as he recovers from a major stroke that has resulted in auditory processing difficulties. “No matter where you come down politically, it was a very hard night for John Fetterman in terms of where he was at with his stroke recovery and trying to deal with a format like this,” says journalist Will Bunch, who called the debate “one of the most make-or-break nights I’ve seen in my lifetime of covering politics.” # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ ‘Belongs_Nowhere_Near_the_US_Senate’:_Oz Says_Local_Politicians_Should_Play_a_Role_in_Abortion Decisions⠀⇛ “There should not be involvement from the federal government in how states decide their abortion decisions,” Oz said when asked about his position on abortion, which has become a central midterm issue following the U.S. Supreme Court’s June decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. # ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Building_“Feminist_Jails”_Ignores_a_Larger Problem⠀⇛ A reformist approach to women’s incarceration places the responsibility of reform on the individual, not the institution. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Moscow_police_make_arrests_in_extortion_case involving_associates_of_2018_presidential_candidate_Ksenia Sobchak,_who_promptly_fled_abroad_—_Meduza⠀⇛ On Wednesday, a Moscow judge jailed Kirill Sukhanov, the commercial director of journalist and socialite Ksenia Sobchak, on charges of trying to extort 11 million rubles ($178,650) from Rostec head Sergey Chemezov and at least one other victim in exchange for burying negative news coverage on the Telegram channel Tushite Svet (Lights Out!). # ⚓ Shadowproof ☛ Protest_Song_Of_The_Week:_‘Man_With_No_Name’ By_Fantastic_Negrito⠀⇛ In Virginia, back in 1759, a white Scottish servant named Elizabeth Gallimore fell in love with a black slave whose name had been lost over time. Their great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandson, Xavier Amin Dphrepaulezz, who performs under the pseudonym Fantastic Negrito, has released a compelling concept album, “White Jesus Black Problems,” based on his recently discovered lineage. The ambitious multimedia project includes a companion film, and Fantastic Negrito says the project was produced to challenge a popular narrative around polarization.“There’s a feeling out there right now that we can’t get anything done because we’re so polarized, soentrenched in our ideologies and unmoved by facts or logic, but I wanted to share this story because Ithink it smashes that narrative to pieces,” Fantastic Negrito declared. “I stand on the shoulders of my ancestors, both Black and white, who showed me that anything is possible. There was a lot of ugliness in their story, but there was a lot of beauty, too, because in the end, perseverance overcame.”“Man with No Name,” which appears on the album, is a painful reminder that often the identity and experiences of the oppressed are erased. With the song (and album), the stories of the courageous forgotten are reclaimed and finally told. The message, “I keep moving on,” encourages perseverance even when it is difficult to be hopeful. # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Investigation:_Child_Protective_Services Agencies_Nearly_Always_Blow_Off_Warrant_Requirements_To_Enter Homes⠀⇛ Governments set up rules governing how they govern. Then they ignore them. So, what’s the point? Is it a nod to decorum before the proverbial government party guest throws up in the bathtub and hits on your mom? o § Internet Policy/Net Neutrality⠀➾ # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Comcast_Forces_Users_To_Buy_Comcast_Hardware_If They_Want_Faster_Upload_Speeds⠀⇛ For decades, consumers have mostly wanted one thing from their ISP: a semi-affordable dumb pipe connection for the Internet. For just as long, US ISPs have bucked this demand, routinely trying to saddle users with higher costs and additional services consumer never asked for, while finding strange new ways to make an additional buck on the back of what are usually captive customers. # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Why_Embedding_Content_Matters⠀⇛ Imagine waking up in the morning, grabbing your hot cup of coffee, and scrolling your favorite blog post or website, only to find it looking like this… o § Monopolies⠀➾ # § Copyrights⠀➾ # ⚓ AIM ☛ GitHub_Copilot:_The_Latest_in_the_List_of_AI Generative_Models_Facing_Copyright_Allegations⠀⇛ GitHub is trained upon billions of lines of public code. But, there is no surety over whether the training data comes as fair use under copyright law. In presenting the case, Butterick writes that Microsoft characterises Copilot’s output code as only a series of “suggestions” and does not claim any rights over it. Additionally, he also cites a passage from GitHub’s website showing how Microsoft plays safe by pushing the blame onto the end user: [...] # ⚓ MWL ☛ My_Inevitable(?)_Amazon_Tech_Ebook_Exit⠀⇛ If I price an ebook at $9.99, I make about $7 at any distributor. If I price that same ebook at $14.99, I make about $10 everywhere but Amazon, and $4.50 at Amazon. In short, ebook prices of $10-$19.99 are a “dead zone” that benefits nobody but Amazon. I must price my book over $20 to make more per sale than I would by pricing at $9.99. # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Unfortunately,_Paying_For_The_Public Domain_Already_Exists_In_Many_Countries⠀⇛ A couple of weeks ago, we 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. # ⚓ Torrent Freak ☛ ‘AI-Powered’_Music_Mixer_Responds_to RIAA_Copyright_Infringement_Claims⠀⇛ The operator of several “AI” powered music mixer and extractor sites has responded to the RIAA’s copyright infringement allegations. The rebuttal admits that using popular artists to showcase its technology wasn’t smart so the references have been removed. However, the services themselves are not infringing. In fact, one of the core algorithms is created and publicly shared by Deezer. # ⚓ Torrent Freak ☛ France:_15%_of_Blocked_Live_Sports Pirates_Go_Legal,_46%_Pirate_Elsewhere⠀⇛ Amid claims that live sports piracy in France was recently cut in half, anti-piracy agency Arcom says that 40% of illegal stream viewers observed at least one website block in 2022. In response, an impressive 15% decided to go legal, but others weren’t so readily converted. Close to half migrated to other pirate sites, with around 12% of blocked pirates deploying VPNs or modified DNS settings. * § Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾ o § Personal⠀➾ # ⚓ If_health_isn’t_there⠀⇛ … then nothing is there. Health is the most important aspect of your life! # ⚓ how_did_you_start_dev_(for_those_who_do)?⠀⇛ I am curious about the tech savvy patrons of The Midnight (which is likely many of us, though no trouble if one is not) about how they got into (web) development, computers, in general? # ⚓ Exteme_mazes,_Brevard_NC_edition⠀⇛ # ⚓ Dusting_out_the_box⠀⇛ I realized it’s been awhile since I posted. This is mainly due to painting myself into a corner; I was trying way too hard to make this particular online identity the one I use for Deep or Controversial thoughts. But I find that coming up with something worth writing about in this (imagined) context was exceedingly difficult, and I didn’t want to just have a blog where I complain about day-to-day life. There’s also the fact that many of these issues or questions haven’t changed or been resolved especially. Change is typically incremental. # ⚓ Star_Log_2022-10-24_(Fairbanks,_Alaska,_US)⠀⇛ Stargazing is still a struggle with overcast skies every night. But the sky cleared up just enough late this morning that I could do a few minutes of stargazing right before clocking in for work. Once again, I only had my 4×30 binoculars on hand, which made it harder. [...] Something that stuck out to me this morning was Vega, off to the North: It seemed to me like it’s color was sparkling brightly and dramatically, like some distant police car with the emergency lights all turned on. I thought I saw the color red and some other colors. Stellarium has it categorized as a “pulsating variable star, double star”, so maybe that explains it. But perhaps there was also some effect from the atmosphere, being as it was fairly low on the horizon at the time. This was about 6: 20am AKDT. o § Technical⠀➾ # § Internet/Gemini⠀➾ # ⚓ Bringing_Back_my_Blog⠀⇛ There are 715 posts going back to January 2003 just sitting there, in an archived git repository. Many are not very good, and I don’t want to bring them back from the graveyard, but there are some good ones too. Especially I want to bring back the very first blog post I made, for reasons of vanity, mainly, so I can say I have been having a blog since 2003, back when blogs were just starting to take off, and you kind of had to get your hands dirty with a bit of code, or at least HTML, to start doing anything on the web. =============================================================================== * Gemini_(Primer) links can be opened using Gemini_software. It’s like the World Wide Web but a lot lighter. ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 3885 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐃𝐀𝐈𝐋𝐘 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒 ═════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 10.27.22⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Links_27/10/2022:_Zorin_OS_16.2_and_GNUnet_0.18.0⠀✐ Posted in News_Roundup at 3:15 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇GNOME bluefish⦈ § Contents⠀➾ * GNU/Linux o Audiocasts/Shows o Kernel_Space o Applications o Instructionals/Technical o Games o Desktop_Environments/WMs # GNOME_Desktop/GTK * Distributions_and_Operating_Systems o Reviews o New_Release_of_Zorin o PCLinuxOS/Mageia/Mandriva/OpenMandriva_Family o SUSE/OpenSUSE o Fedora_Family_/_IBM o Canonical/Ubuntu_Family o Devices/Embedded o Mobile_Systems/Mobile_Applications * Free,_Libre,_and_Open_Source_Software o Web_Browsers/Web_Servers # Mozilla o GNU_Projects o Programming/Development # Raku # Kernel # PHP # Java # Rust o Standards/Consortia * Leftovers o Hardware o Security # Privacy/Surveillance o Censorship/Free_Speech o Internet_Policy/Net_Neutrality o Monopolies # Software_Patents # Copyrights * Gemini*_and_Gopher o Personal o Technical # Internet/Gemini # Programming * § GNU/Linux⠀➾ o § Audiocasts/Shows⠀➾ # ⚓ Video ☛ MANJARO_has_a_BIG_PROBLEM_–_Invidious⠀⇛ # ⚓ Video ☛ How_to_install_Lubuntu_22.10._–_Invidious⠀⇛ In this video, I am going to show how to install Lubuntu 22.10. # ⚓ Video ☛ TUXEDO_OS_1_Quick_overview_#linux_#tuxedoos_– Invidious⠀⇛ A Quick Overview of TUXEDO OS 1 # ⚓ FSFE ☛ SFP#17:_Citizen_participation_through_Free_Software with_Petter_Joelson_–_FSFE⠀⇛ In this 17th episode of the Software Freedom Podcast Matthias Kirschner and Petter Joelson uncover how Free Software can be a tool for citizens to actively participate in their local community. Petter invites you into the world of Decidim and explains what citizen participation should look like. # ⚓ The BSD Now Podcast ☛ BSD_Now_478:_Debunking_sudo_myths⠀⇛ Open Source in Enterprise Environments, Your Comprehensive Guide to rc(8): FreeBSD Services and Automation, How Rob Pike got hired by Dennis Richie, what FreeBSD machines rubenerd uses, new debugbreak command, 7 sudo myths debunked o § Kernel Space⠀➾ # ⚓ LWN ☛ The_search_for_the_correct_amount_of_split-lock misery_[LWN.net]⠀⇛ Unlike many other architectures, x86 systems support atomic operations that affect more than one cache line. This support comes at a cost, though, in terms of overall system performance and, even, security. Over the last few years, kernel developers have worked to discourage the use of this sort of “split-lock” operation. Now, though, one group of users is feeling a little too discouraged, leading to a discussion of how much misery can appropriately be inflicted upon users who use problematic but architecturally legal operations. The problem with atomic operations that cross cache-line boundaries is that the system bus must take special measures to ensure that both cache lines are simultaneously protected from concurrent access. In practice, that means locking the bus for the duration of the operation, which can stall every other processor in the system. A malicious program executing a tight loop with a split-lock operation can destroy the performance of the system as a whole. For this reason, split-lock operations have long been frowned upon. Unfortunately, software that is malicious (or just poorly written) turns out to be remarkably indifferent to even the most severe of frowns. So, starting in 2019, kernel developers sought more persuasive ways to get their point across. The initial work was done by Fenghua Yu but, in the end, this patch by Peter Zijlstra was merged in January 2020 for the 5.7 kernel release. # ⚓ LWN ☛ The_rest_of_the_6.1_merge_window⠀⇛ Linus Torvalds released 6.1-rc1 and closed the 6.1 merge window on October 16; at that point, 11,537 non-merge changesets had been pulled into the mainline repository. That is considerably less than the 13,543 changesets pulled during the 6.0 merge window, but quantity is not everything: there were quite a few significant changes brought in this time around. Many of those were part of the nearly 5,800 changesets pulled since our first 6.1 merge window summary; read on for a look at some of the work done in the latter part of this merge window. # ⚓ LWN ☛ Identity_management_for_WireGuard⠀⇛ Since its inclusion in the Linux kernel, the WireGuard VPN tunnel has become increasingly popular. In general, WireGuard is simpler to configure than other VPNs, but the approach that it takes to authentication can present some challenges. Each node in a WireGuard network has a cryptographic key that serves as the node’s identity; nodes that do not know each other’s keys cannot directly communicate. Keeping track of these keys and distributing them to the other nodes in a mesh network quickly becomes a chore as the network grows. Fortunately, there are now several open- source tools that can automate the management of these keys and make using WireGuard easier for both administrators and end users. Key management can be particularly challenging for non-technical end users, who are used to logging into services with a username and password. Thus, the main feature that all of these tools have in common is that they allow a user to log into a WireGuard network using a username and password (and possibly a second factor, such as a one-time password). This is usually accomplished by integrating with an identity provider that implements the OpenID Connect (OIDC) standard. OIDC is built on top of the OAuth 2.0 protocol and can be used to implement the ubiquitous “Sign in with Some Big Company” functionality seen on many web sites. Some of the software discussed in this article requires an OIDC provider; there are several open- source options for people who aren’t already running their own and don’t want to farm the task out to some big company. Keycloak is one of the most mature and popular choices and Authelia is an up-and-coming alternative. # ⚓ LWN ☛ A_first_look_at_Rust_in_the_6.1_kernel_[LWN.net]⠀⇛ October 13, 2022 There have been a lot of significant changes merged into the mainline for the 6.1 release, but one of the changes that has received the most attention will also have the least short-term effect for users of the kernel: the introduction of support for the Rust programming language. No system with a production 6.1 kernel will be running any Rust code, but this change does give kernel developers a chance to play with the language in the kernel context and get a sense for how Rust development feels. Perhaps the most likely conclusion for most developers, though, will be that there isn’t yet enough Rust in the kernel to do much of anything interesting. Work on Rust for the Linux kernel has been going on for a few years, and it has resulted in the creation of a lot of support code and some interesting drivers to look at. There are other initiatives underway, including the writing of an Apple graphics driver in the Rust language. For the initial merge into the mainline kernel, though, Linus Torvalds made it clear that as little functionality as possible should be included. So those drivers and their support code were trimmed out and must wait for a future kernel release. What is there is the support needed to build a module that can be loaded into the kernel, along with a small sample module. o § Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ Medevel ☛ SFTPGo:_Open_Source_SFTP_Server_with_WebDAV Support⠀⇛ SFTPGo is a feature-rich open source SFTP server that offers HTTP/S, FTP, FTPS, and WebDAV support. It also supports several storage backends as local filesystem, encrypted local filesystem, S3 (compatible) Object Storage, Google Cloud Storage, Azure Blob Storage, SFTP. The project is written in the Go programming language. It is an ideal solution for enterprise companies and creative team which require something fast and efficient. # ⚓ Medevel ☛ 15_Open_Source_WebDAV_Servers⠀⇛ WebDAV is an extension protocol to HTTP that allows users to create, move and edit remote documents on the server. WebDAV is widely used for file sharing, file collaboration between teams and groups. It is widely used in many enterprise apps as groupware, and ERP solutions. o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾ # ⚓ Barry Kauler ☛ Problem_with_mount_utility_when_non-root⠀⇛ Posting about this, in case anyone else is puzzled by the behaviour of the ‘mount’ utility. I am working on running EasyOS as user “zeus”, where zeus has administrator rights. That means you don’t have to prepend “sudo” to do stuff, such as mount a partition. No problem with ‘mount’ in busybox, mounting and unmounting work when running as user zeus. Busybox in Easy is currently version 1.32.0. The ‘util-linux’ package is version 2.35.1, and it has the “full” ‘mount’ utility, currently named / bin/mount-FULL I do intend to get rid of that weird name, just have the one /bin/mount. Busybox mount does almost everything the “full” mount does, except “mount - t ext4 -o offset= imagefile mntpt” does not work — that “offset” parameter isn’t recognized. However, I looked at the source for version 1.35.0 and it looks like that parameter is now supported. # ⚓ Barry Kauler ☛ Busybox_1.34.1_compiled_in_OE⠀⇛ # ⚓ DebugPoint ☛ Customize_GNOME_42_with_A_Polished_Look⠀⇛ A tutorial on how you can give your favourite GNOME desktop a polished look, in 5 minutes. There are many ways you can customize your favourite GNOME desktop with icons, themes, cursors and wallpapers. This article shows you how to give the GNOME 42 desktop a more polished look. The GNOME 42 desktop environment is available with the recently released Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and Fedora 36. Before you read further, here’s how it looks with a side by side comparison (before and after). # ⚓ Citizix ☛ How_to_run_Kafdrop_the_Kafka_Web_UI_in_Docker_and Docker_compose⠀⇛ Kafdrop is a web UI for viewing Kafka topics and browsing consumer groups. The tool displays information such as brokers, topics, partitions, consumers, and lets you view messages. Apache Kafka is an open-source platform. Kafka was originally developed by Linkedin and was later incubated as the Apache Project. # ⚓ Citizix ☛ How_to_run_Apache_Kafka_in_Docker_and_Docker Compose⠀⇛ Apache Kafka is a distributed event store and stream-processing platform. It is an open-source system developed by the Apache Software Foundation written in Java and Scala. # ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ How_to_Install_and_Use_Proton_GE_on_SteamOS and_Linux⠀⇛ Proton GE is a bleeding-edge version of Steam’s Proton. It adds many patches and fixes ahead of main Proton releases. Proton GE even has a counterpart for non-Steam games called Wine GE. Many Linux gamers consider Proton GE and Wine GE to be essential software for Linux gaming. Proton GE and Wine GE are also easy to install. You can either install them manually or through an app. Linux gamers can use this guide to get Proton GE and Wine GE in a breeze. This tutorial will work for Steam Deck users, as well as any desktop running a Linux distribution. # ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ How_to_Download_YouTube_Videos_on_Linux_Using yt-dlp⠀⇛ yt-dlp is a command-line tool that lets you download YouTube videos and playlists to save them offline for later. Here’s how to use it on Linux. # ⚓ TechRepublic ☛ How_to_install_the_new_GNOME_Console terminal_emulator_on_Ubuntu-based_distributions_| TechRepublic⠀⇛ If you’ve been following along with the latest GNOME desktop news, you’re probably aware that there’s a new terminal emulator around. Say goodbye to GNOME Terminal and say hello to GNOME Console. This new app is a part of the new GNOME direction which aims to clean up and simplify the user interfaces such that any would feel instantly familiar with the UI. I’m here to tell you that the developers have done a remarkable job with the new console tool. To be fair to GNOME Terminal, I will say that GNOME Console does feel like a stripped-down version. It doesn’t offer nearly the customizations of Terminal, so for some it might seem a bit barebones, but it is clean looking and makes using the command line much simpler. # ⚓ H2S Media ☛ How_to_Install_Docker_Desktop_GUI_on_Ubuntu 22.04_LTS_Linux⠀⇛ Tutorial to install Docker Desktop GUI on Ubuntu 22.04 Linux LTS Jammy JellyFish and manage containers using a Graphical user interface. The general way to manage Docker containers is by using the command line interface. However, those who are beginners or just want a Graphical use interface to manage their Docker images and containers can go for “Docker Desktop” for Linux. It is an easy-to-install free application provided by the developers of Docker. We can install it on Mac, Linux, and Windows operating systems. However, larger enterprises with more than 250 employees need to purchase a paid subscription. The benefit of using Docker Desktop is, it offers a simple interface that let users manage containers, applications, and images on their local PC without touching the command line. # ⚓ Port Swigger ☛ Installing_Burp’s_CA_certificate_in_Chrome_– Linux⠀⇛ # ⚓ LinuxTuto ☛ How_to_Install_phpBB_on_AlmaLinux_9_– LinuxTuto⠀⇛ phpBB is an acronym for PHP Bulletin Board. It is a fully scalable and customizable open-source forum written in PHP. It can be used to to create forums, start topics and share ideas. # ⚓ HowTo Forge ☛ How_to_run_Python_Scripts_with_Apache_and mod_wsgi_on_Ubuntu_22.04⠀⇛ The Apache module mod_wsgi provides an interface for hosting Python-based web applications. # ⚓ HowTo Forge ☛ Implementing_SSL_Perfect_Forward_Secrecy_in NGINX_Web-Server⠀⇛ This HOW-TO describes the process of implementing Perfect Forward Secrecy with the NGINX web-server on Debian and Ubuntu systems. # ⚓ Video ☛ How_To_Execute_a_Bash_Script_Without_./_– Invidious⠀⇛ Since Bash looks in the default locations for commands to execute at the CLI, we need to add the “./” proceeding the command. # ⚓ Windows Central ☛ How_to_run_any_Linux_distro_alongside Windows_11_|_Windows_Central [Ed: Misleading. The Microsofters suggest running fake 'Linux' which is in fact Windows spyware crippled by design to make GNU/Linux looks bad]⠀⇛ or 21H2, if you are a developer, network administrator, or advanced user who needs to use Linux tools, you don’t need a second computer since the system offers different solutions to run Linux alongside Windows, including the Windows Subsystem for Linux and Hyper-V. # ⚓ HowTo Forge ☛ How_to_Setup_APT_Proxy_on_Ubuntu_22.04_LTS⠀⇛ A proxy server is an intermediate server that sits between the client computer and the internet. In this tutorial, we will show you how to set up proxy settings and apt-proxy in Ubuntu 22.04 Server and Desktop system. # ⚓ Red Hat Official ☛ 7_Linux_commands_to_gather_information about_your_system_|_Enable_Sysadmin⠀⇛ Get information about your CPU, storage, RAM, BIOS, and more without leaving the terminal. # ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ SMTP_Commands:_Essential_SMTP_Commands_and Response_Codes⠀⇛ The ASCII Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) comes with an array of commands and response codes. It functions on a client-server interface and uses TCP port 25. Since SMTP sessions are conversations between SMTP clients and SMTP servers, SMTP commands are often sent from the client machine to the server device. Every command should consist of the keyword for the command and zero or more arguments. So, while some keywords contain one or more arguments, the keywords for several commands will not have any accompanying arguments. The commands can either be supported by SMTP, CSSMTP, or both. Notably, a client sends commands in alphabetical characters while the server responds using numerical codes. # ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ Referential_Integrity⠀⇛ Referential Integrity is discussed in this tutorial in the relational database context. Referential integrity is a data property, stating that all its references are valid. Two tables are concerned here. One is called the referenced or parent table. This referenced table has a primary key, which may be made up of one or more columns. The other table has a foreign key whose values are the same as those of the primary key of the referenced table. The other table is referred to as a child table to the parent table. The number of columns that make up the foreign key in the child table is the same as those that make up the primary key in the referenced (parent) table. All the foreign key values are found in the column of the primary key. However, the values in the foreign key column may repeat in the child table. # ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ Boyce–Codd,_Fourth_and_Fifth_Normal_Forms⠀⇛ # ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ Install_Mate_Desktop_on_Debian_11⠀⇛ As time passes, one can get bored with the same interface, which can be frustrating because we all need something new at some point in our lives, and the same goes with Debian 11, in which the default theme isn’t good enough for most of the users. So, today we will help you change the appearance of your Debian 11 desktop environment by installing Mate Desktop, which has a new, exciting, and beautiful look. This article will cover all aspects of Installing Mate Desktop on Debian 11. # ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ Installing_Google_Chrome_in_openSUSE⠀⇛ “Developed and maintained by Google, Google Chrome is one of the most popular web browsers. At the time of writing, Chrome has around 70% of the browser market share across all devices. It’s a cross-platform web browser that’s free of charge.” This guide will teach us how to install Google Chrome in openSUSE. # ⚓ DebugPoint ☛ How_to_Fix_–_Failed_to_Start_Light_Display Manager_Error_[Solved]⠀⇛ This post guides you on fixing the error – Failed to Start Light Display Manager Error in Linux systems. I know it’s not a good feeling when you expect something to come up on the screen and suddenly face this particular error. It is uncomfortable because you are lost in a terminal and unsure of what to do. If you follow some steps, it’s easier to fix. So, let’s try to fix it. # ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ How_to_Fetch_Cluster_Information_in Cassandra⠀⇛ # ⚓ DebugPoint ☛ [Tutorial]_How_to_Install_Oracle_VirtualBox_in Ubuntu_and_Linux_Mint⠀⇛ Oracle’s VirtualBox is a virtualization application which brings several advanced features. It can dynamically allocate virtual machine storage, USB, networking, NVMe support and so on. However, other free and open-source virtual machine apps are available such as virt-manager, GNOME Boxes, etc. They have their own benefits and features. However, VirtualBox is a little advanced, hence ideal for experienced users. Here’s how you can install it in Ubuntu and Linux Mint (latest versions). And these steps also should work in Debian and other Debian & ubuntu-based distros. o § Games⠀➾ # ⚓ It’s FOSS ☛ Canonical’s_Adding_a_Neat_Ability_to_the_Steam Snap_App_for_Gamers⠀⇛ Gaming on Linux is getting popular and evolving every year, with Valve and the Steam Deck playing a significant part. According to the Steam Hardware and Software survey, Ubuntu remains one of the most popular Linux distros for gaming. o § Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾ # ⚓ DebugPoint ☛ 10_Lightweight_Linux_Distributions_for_your Old_Hardware_in_2022⠀⇛ We highlight a list of 10 lightweight Linux Distributions ideal for your older PC in 2022. We give you their features and what makes them perfect for reviving older hardware. We believe that you should not throw away any hardware, especially PC and its components. Ideally, well-designed software should always run on any hardware. There are many Linux Distributions specifically designed for older hardware and PCs. And you can quickly revive them with the help of these Linux operating systems. In this post, we highlight ten such Linux Distributions which are lightweight and old hardware friendly in 2022. # § GNOME Desktop/GTK⠀➾ # ⚓ The Register UK ☛ The_GNOME_Project_is_closing_all its_mailing_lists_•_The_Register⠀⇛ The GNOME Project is preparing to shut down its mailing lists due to problems maintaining the project’s GNU Mailman instance – which relies on Python 2 – and a lack of moderators. The community’s leaders maintain a substantial selection of mailing lists, hosted via the GNU Project’s Mailman tool. It also hosts its own instance of the Discourse web forum tool, notably also used by Canonical to host the official Ubuntu forums. That’s going to change, and very soon: at the end of this month. Announcements on several of the lists, such as here on the list for the Evolution email client, state that the lists are closing down, and discussions must move to Discourse. * § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾ o § Reviews⠀➾ # ⚓ DebugPoint ☛ Mabox_Linux_–_Beautiful_Arch_Linux_with Openbox_[Review]⠀⇛ Mabox Linux is a Manjaro Linux re-spin with a lightweight Openbox window manager, ready to use with pre-configured themes and utilities. We review the distribution in this post. If you love window manager, rolling-release-based Arch Linux and are looking for a ready-made Linux distribution with this combination, try Mabox Linux. The Mabox Linux is built on top of the great Manjaro Linux with Openbox Window manager and several native utilities. Thanks to the Openbox, this Linux distribution is super-lightweight in resource consumption while being a beautiful desktop for everyone to use. The Mabox Linux tools adapted from BunsenLabs and inspired by Crunchbang brings some of their applications. Let’s do a deep dive on this awesome Linux Distribution. o § New Release of Zorin⠀➾ # ⚓ 9to5Linux ☛ Zorin_OS_16.2_Arrives_as_a_Friendly_and Accessible_Alternative_to_Windows_11⠀⇛ Coming about seven and a half months after Zorin OS 16.1 and still based on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa), the Zorin OS 16.2 release is here to introduce various refinements that promise to make your Zorin OS desktop experience better and more enjoyable. Zorin OS 16.2 adds a new “Windows App Support” menu item in the Applications menu’s System Tools section to make it easier for users to install Windows apps and games with just a few clicks. It also supports detecting more Windows installer files for popular apps and games and provides alternatives to Windows apps. # ⚓ Zorin_OS_16.2_Has_Landed_–_Zorin⠀⇛ Just over a year after we released Zorin OS 16 in August 2021, we’re thrilled to say that it’s been downloaded over 3.5 million times. We’ve been overwhelmed by the terrific feedback we’ve heard from users around the world. Thank you all for helping to make this the biggest release of Zorin OS ever! Today, we’re excited to announce Zorin OS 16.2. It introduces refinements that elevate the desktop experience even further. Read on to learn about what’s new since Zorin OS 16.1. # ⚓ OMG Ubuntu ☛ Zorin_OS_16.2_is_Now_Available_to_Download_– OMG!_Ubuntu!⠀⇛ This is the second point release of the Ubuntu- based distribution since Zorin OS 16 made its debut back in in August of last year, and is still based on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. Zorin OS 16.2 is said to “introduce refinements that elevate the desktop experience even further”. Let’s take a closer look. # ⚓ Real Linux User ☛ Zorin_OS_16.2_is_available_now_–_Real Linux_User⠀⇛ On this website, I actually write relatively few news-related Linux and Open Source articles. My goal for this website is mainly to write articles that hold their value for a longer time, such as individual tutorials and complete tutorial series. But sometimes there is news that makes my heart beat a little bit faster. If you are a regular reader of this website, you probably know I have a soft spot for Zorin OS. So if a new Zorin OS release has landed, you understand that I like to try it out and write a review for it. And today is the day that the new Zorin OS 16.2 is available for all of us. So let’s have a look. # ⚓ Beta News ☛ Zorin_OS_16.2_makes_it_even_easier_to_switch from_Microsoft_Windows_11_to_Linux⠀⇛ Want to know a secret? If you don’t like Windows 11, then you don’t have to use it. Look, in 2022, there are plenty of legitimate alternatives. For instance, you can buy a Mac or a Chromebook. If you want to use your existing comouter, however, you can just install a traditional Linux distribution such as Ubuntu. One of the best Linux-based operating systems for Windows-switchers these days is Zorin OS. This distribution is based on Ubuntu, but improves upon that distro by offering a more user-focused experience — particularly for current Windows users. Today, Zorin OS 16.2 becomes available, and the newest version of the operating system makes it even easier to ditch Windows 11. You see, with Zorin OS 16.2, you can run Windows programs with ease. “For those who wish to use Windows apps and games in Zorin OS, we’ve made it even easier to find and install Windows App Support. You can now simply open the Zorin Menu, navigate to the ‘System Tools’ section, and open ‘Windows App Support’ to activate it in one click,” explains the developers. o § PCLinuxOS/Mageia/Mandriva/OpenMandriva Family⠀➾ # ⚓ PCLOS Official ☛ Ventoy_1.0.81_–_PCLinuxOS⠀⇛ Ventoy is an open source tool to create bootable USB drive for ISO files.With ventoy, you don’t need to format the disk again and again, you just need to copy the iso file to the USB drive and boot it. You can copy many iso files at a time and ventoy will give you a boot menu. # ⚓ PCLOS Official ☛ Thunderbird_102.4.1_–_PCLinuxOS⠀⇛ Mozilla Thunderbird is a standalone mail and newsgroup client. Thunderbird has been updated 102.4.1 and shipped to the PCLinuxOS software repository. # ⚓ PCLOS Official ☛ Firefox_106.0.2_–_PCLinuxOS⠀⇛ Mozilla Firefox is a free and open source web browser descended from the Mozilla Application Suite and managed by Mozilla Corporation. o § SUSE/OpenSUSE⠀➾ # ⚓ OpenSUSE ☛ Call_for_Testing_Next_Generation_Installer_– openSUSE_News⠀⇛ Members of the openSUSE Project’s release team are asking community to help the YaST team with early testing of the installer images. The installer is progressing its way to openSUSE Factory and will arrive in an Adaptable Linux Platform prototype at a later date. The installer, which is reffered to as the D- Installer by the YaST team, has installer images for testing and is seeking input/feedback through a feedback guide. o § Fedora Family / IBM⠀➾ # ⚓ Red Hat Official ☛ Post-quantum_cryptography:_Hash-based signatures⠀⇛ Last quarter, I introduced the issue where our existing public key cryptography algorithms are vulnerable to a potentially new form of computers called quantum computers. In this article I introduce one of the better understood potential replacements: Hash-based signatures. # ⚓ Techstrong Group ☛ Meta_Income_Down_by_Half_|_Will_Apple Make_it_Worse?_|_Linux_Secure_Boot_Fix_–_DevOps.com⠀⇛ ⚓ 3. Linux Secure Boot Shenanigans⠀⇛ Big changes are proposed to systemd. Lennart Poettering’s goals are to provide a signed and measured execution path from firmware to userspace, with rollback protection and remote attestation, atop TPM 2.0. Analysis: Good luck with that There’s already enough loud grumbling about systemd and Poettering—for example, code bloat and uncomfortable ties to IBM and Microsoft. And now he’s proposing using a proprietary Microsoft file format (PE). This move will only amplify the critics. Is it time for someone like Google to offer an alternative init system? # ⚓ Rakuten_dumps_Red_Hat,_turns_to_“true”_open-source_Linux OS,_Digital_Platforms_–_Services_|_TelecomTV⠀⇛ Rakuten Mobile has dealt a major blow to Red Hat by deciding to remove the vendor’s software from its mobile network platform in Japan following some product support and business relationship decisions that, according to Rakuten Mobile CEO Tareq Amin (pictured above), “killed my business model”. Talking to reporters and analysts on the side of the Fyuz event in Madrid, Amin provided updates on a number of developments related to the Open RAN sector, Rakuten Mobile and the operator’s network software offshoot Rakuten Symphony, which is selling applications, network functions and systems integration and support services to other operators around the world. # ⚓ Fedora Project ☛ You’re_invited_to_the_Fedora_Linux_37 Release_Party!⠀⇛ As we work our way through the Fedora Linux 37 Schedule, I am excited to announce that we will celebrate the final release of Fedora Linux 37 with a virtual Release Party. Please register on Hopin and join us on November 4th & 5th for a short program of informational sessions and social activities. Make sure to save the dates, share the registration, and show up to celebrate with Fedora Friends, old and new! # ⚓ Enterprisers Project ☛ Digital_transformation:_4_questions to_help_drive_momentum [Ed: ICBM selling extra complexity (vendor lockin) under the auspices of "digital transformation" or "modernisation"]⠀⇛ Nowadays, conversations around digital transformation involve countless definitions, strategies, and implementations. But when all is said and done, success stories are not as common as we might hope. In fact, according to our survey, less than 27 percent of organizations succeed in their digital transformation efforts. Enterprises often find themselves stuck at some stage of their digital transformation journey. Some find it challenging to move beyond the pilot phase; others struggle to scale beyond the “start small” phase. Here are four questions to help your digital transformation initiative move forward. o § Canonical/Ubuntu Family⠀➾ # ⚓ EIN Presswire ☛ TNSR®_vRouter_Software_Release_22.10_is Here_–_EIN_Presswire⠀⇛ As mentioned previously, Netgate has moved the underlying OS base from CentOS to Ubuntu – driven by Red Hat’s shift from CentOS Linux to CentOS Stream # ⚓ Ubuntu ☛ Understanding_AWS_pricing [Ed: Canonical as clown computing reseller for Pentagon firms (GAFAM)]⠀⇛ # ⚓ PR Newswire ☛ Elektrobit_partners_with_Canonical_to_pave the_way_to_a_new_era_of_software-defined_vehicles⠀⇛ # ⚓ Ubuntu ☛ Elektrobit_partners_with_Canonical_to_pave_the_way to_a_new_era_of_software-defined_vehicles_|_Ubuntu⠀⇛ Elektrobit and Canonical today announced a partnership to bring the benefits of Canonical’s Ubuntu operating system to automotive software. As the industry transitions towards software- defined vehicles, the new partnership will make it easier than ever before for car makers, suppliers, and developers to create the next generation of vehicle applications, while meeting stringent automotive standards. Combining Canonical’s leading open-source Linux operating system with Elektrobit’s expertise in automotive-grade embedded software will enable long-term maintenance, over-the-air updates and functional vehicle safety innovation, all underpinned by Ubuntu’s unparalleled developer community. o § Devices/Embedded⠀➾ # ⚓ CNX Software ☛ WiFi_HaLow_IoT_gateway_is_based_on_Morse Micro_MM6108_802.11ah_chip⠀⇛ The gateway is based on the AsiaRF MM610X-001 WiFi HaLow module based on the Morse Micro MM6108 and mesuring just 22 x 17mm. WiFi HaLow supports access point, station, and bridge modes. The company does not list the operating system, but there should be a Linux distribution, most probably OpenWrt, running on the MIPS processor. The data rate of WiFi HaLow will depend on the range, and the further away you go the lower the bandwidth and/or link rate. Four bandwidths are available each with several link rates to choose from… o § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ Indian Express ☛ Five_common_Android_problems_and_how_you can_fix_them_|_Technology_News,The_Indian_Express⠀⇛ # ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ The_9_Best_Ad-Free_Health_and_Fitness_Apps for_Android⠀⇛ # ⚓ Android Authority ☛ Android_updates_are_boring,_and_that’s okay_–_Android_Authority⠀⇛ # ⚓ Digital Trends ☛ How_to_get_earthquake_alerts_on_your Android_phone_|_Digital_Trends⠀⇛ # ⚓ 9to5Google ☛ Google_allows_Android_partners_to_make_Amazon Fire_TV_models⠀⇛ # ⚓ 9to5Google ☛ OnePlus_shows_off_Android_13_beta_schedule⠀⇛ # ⚓ Android Authority ☛ OnePlus_offers_vague_timeline_for_its Android_13_beta_rollout_–_Android_Authority⠀⇛ # ⚓ Liliputing ☛ Onyx_BOOX_Tab_Ultra_is_a_10.3_inch_Android tablet_with_an_E_Ink_display,_16MP_camera_and_pen_and keyboard_support_–_Liliputing⠀⇛ # ⚓ Reuters ☛ Google_Play_in_EU_antitrust_sights_as_Android fine_appeal_pending_|_Reuters⠀⇛ # ⚓ Deccan Herald ☛ Google_Pixel_7_Pro_review:_Pure_Android_joy with_magical_camera_|_Deccan_Herald⠀⇛ # ⚓ New_Android_Games:_Best_New_Android_Games_This_Week⠀⇛ # ⚓ Android Headlines ☛ Getting_Help_With_Unscrambling_A_Word For_Your_Android_Games⠀⇛ # ⚓ Android Police ☛ Best_house_and_home_apps_on_Android_in 2022⠀⇛ # ⚓ Express ☛ Google_bans_16_popular_Android_apps!_Millions need_to_delete_them_now_|_Express.co.uk⠀⇛ # ⚓ 9to5Google ☛ Google_Camera_8.6:_Android_13,_Pixel_6_speech, .7x_[New_update]⠀⇛ # ⚓ Android Headlines ☛ Android_13_Starts_Rolling_Out_To_Vivo X80_Pro_Flagship⠀⇛ # Gizmo China ☛ # ⚓ Phone Arena ☛ Android_12_finally_making_its_way_to_the Nokia_G21_–_PhoneArena⠀⇛ # ⚓ Gizmo China ☛ Samsung_ends_Android_updates_for_first_Galaxy Fold_model⠀⇛ # ⚓ Android Authority ☛ How_to_edit_a_PDF_on_Android_(for_free) –_Android_Authority⠀⇛ # ⚓ Android Police ☛ How_to_update_Google_Play_Services_on_your Android_phone_or_tablet⠀⇛ # ⚓ Android Authority ☛ We_asked,_you_told_us:_Your_Android phone_definitely_isn’t_rooted⠀⇛ # ⚓ Android Police ☛ iPadOS’s_bloat_is_an_opportunity_for Google_to_revitalize_Android_on_tablets⠀⇛ * § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾ o § Web Browsers/Web Servers⠀➾ # § Mozilla⠀➾ # ⚓ Chris_H-C:_This_Week_in_Glean:_Page_Load_Data,_Three Ways_(Or,_How_Expensive_Are_Events?)⠀⇛ At Mozilla we make, among other things, Web Browsers which we tend to call Firefox. The central activity in a Web Browser like Firefox is loading a web page. It gets done a lot by each and every one of our users, and so you can imagine that data about pageloads is of important business interest to us. But exactly because this is done a lot and by every one of our users, this inspires concerns of scale and cost. How much does it cost us to learn more about pageloads?[0] As with all things in Data, the answer is the same: “Well, it depends.” In this case it depends on how you record the data. How you record the data depends on what questions you hope to answer with it. We’re going to stick to the simplest of questions to make this (highly-suspect) comparison even remotely comparable. o § GNU Projects⠀➾ # ⚓ GNUnet ☛ GNUnet_0.18.0_released⠀⇛ We are pleased to announce the release of GNUnet 0.18.0. GNUnet is an alternative network stack for building secure, decentralized and privacy-preserving distributed applications. Our goal is to replace the old insecure Internet protocol stack. Starting from an application for secure publication of files, it has grown to include all kinds of basic protocol components and applications towards the creation of a GNU internet. This is a new major release. It breaks protocol compatibility with the 0.17.x versions. Please be aware that Git master is thus henceforth (and has been for a while) INCOMPATIBLE with the 0.17.x GNUnet network, and interactions between old and new peers will result in issues. 0.17.x peers will be able to communicate with Git master or 0.18.x peers, but some services – in particular the DHT – will not be compatible. In terms of usability, users should be aware that there are still a number of known open issues in particular with respect to ease of use, but also some critical privacy issues especially for mobile users. Also, the nascent network is tiny and thus unlikely to provide good anonymity or extensive amounts of interesting information. As a result, the 0.18.0 release is still only suitable for early adopters with some reasonable pain tolerance. o § Programming/Development⠀➾ # ⚓ Collabora ☛ From_Lua_to_JSON:_refactoring_WirePlumber’s configuration_system⠀⇛ Refactoring WirePlumber’s configuration system is the first big feature I took up since I joined the PipeWire/WirePlumber team a year back. It’s a year well spent in my professional life, hanging around with caring people and truly open source technology. With what I have seen in the multimedia stacks, I honestly believe PipeWire is the next generation multimedia server and WirePlumber playing the role of enhancing its utility and appeal. Let me cut back to the subject at hand. # ⚓ OpenSource.com ☛ Trick_Lua_into_becoming_an_object-oriented language_|_Opensource.com⠀⇛ Lua isn’t an object-oriented programming language, but a scripting language utilizing C functions and a C-like syntax. However, there’s a cool hack you can use within Lua code to make Lua act like an object-oriented language when you need it to be. The key is in the Lua table construct, and this article demonstrates how to use a Lua table as a stand-in for an object-oriented class. [...] The term “object-oriented” is a fancy way of describing, essentially, a templating system. Imagine you’re programming an application to help users spot and log zombies during a zombie apocalypse. You’re using an object-oriented language like C++, Java, or Python. You need to create code objects that represent different types of zombies so the user can drag them around and arrange them on a map of the city. Of course a zombie can be any number of things: dormant, slow, fast, hungry, ravenous, and so on. That’s just textual data, which computers are good at tracking, and based on that data you could even assign the virtual “object” a graphic so your user can identify which general type of zombie each widget represents. # ⚓ Qt ☛ Qt_for_Python:_the_6.4.0.1_release,_what?⠀⇛ We regret to inform you that during the 6.4.0 release, we were attacked by release goblins. # § Raku⠀➾ # ⚓ DEV Community ☛ Don’t_fear_the_grepper!_(4)_–_DEV Community⠀⇛ The grep method allows one to filter a list of values: either a value gets through, or it does not. In this way, the functionality of grep is rather limited. What if you would not only like to filter out unwanted values, but also would like to adapt an acceptable value on the fly? Or turn a single value into multiple values? With the map method, you can! The map method provides a superset of the functionality of grep. But you can also use it as grep with a block to do the filtering (instead of using something to smart-match against). In many ways, understanding map well, will make understanding a lot of aspects of the Raku Programming Language a lot easier! So let’s focus on that a bit. [...] This concludes the fourth part of the series, this time introducing the map method. And also introducing the concept of Empty, and Slip in general. And also showing that you can have a statement modifier version of if if you don’t need an else or an elsif.! Questions and comments are always welcome. You can also drop into the #raku-beginner channel on Libera.chat, or on Discord if you’d like to have more immediate feedback. # § Kernel⠀➾ # ⚓ “Old/weird_laptops”_sought_to_help_test_Linux_kernel backlight_drivers_|_Ars_Technica⠀⇛ Do you have a laptop that’s either “pretty old” or “weird in some other way”? Did it ship without Windows from the factory, or did you flash its firmware with coreboot? You could help the Linux kernel move its backlight code forward without abandoning quirky gear like yours. Hans de Goede, a longtime Linux developer and principal engineer at Red Hat, writes on his Livejournal about the need to test “a special group of laptops” to prevent their backlight controls from disappearing in Linux kernel 6.1. Old laptop tests are needed because de Goede is initiating some major changes to user- space backlight controls, something he has been working on since 2014. As detailed at Linux blog Phoronix, there are multiple issues with how Linux tries to address the wide variety of backlight schemes in displays, which de Goede laid out at the recent Linux Plumbers Conference. There can be multiple backlight devices operating a single display, leaving high-level controls to “guess which one will work.” Brightness control requires root permissions at the moment. And “0″ passed along as a backlight value remains a conundrum, as the engineer pointed out in 2014: Is that entirely off, or as low as the display can be lit? # ⚓ Kernel_6.1-rc#_might_break_backlight_control_on_old/ weird_laptops,_please_test:_hansdegoede_—_LiveJournal⠀⇛ I have landed a large(ish) refactor of the ACPI/x86 backlight detection code in the kernel for 6.1. I have been very careful to try and not break things but there is a special group of laptops where the ability to control the backlight brightness may disappear because of this. The most likely laptops to be hit by this are laptops which are either pretty old and or which are weird in some other way (e.g. flashed with coreboot, did not ship with Windows as factory os, …). Note Chromebooks are affected by this too, but that special category has already been fixed. You can check if your laptop is affected by this by running “ls /sys/class/backlight” if this shows only 1 entry and that entry is named “intel_backlight”, “nouveau_bl”, “amdgpu_bl0″ or “radeon_bl0″ then your laptop might be affected. # ⚓ Drew DeVault ☛ Notes_from_kernel_hacking_in_Hare, part_3:_serial_driver⠀⇛ Today I would like to show you the implementation of the first userspace driver for Helios: a simple serial driver. All of the code we’re going to look at today runs in userspace, not in the kernel, so strictly speaking this should be “notes from OS hacking in Hare”, but I won’t snitch if you don’t. Note: In the previous entry to this series, I promised to cover the userspace threading API in this post. I felt like covering this instead. Sorry! A serial port provides a simple protocol for transferring data between two systems. It generalizes a bit, but for our purposes we can just think of this as a terminal which you can use over a simple cable and a simple protocol. It’s a standard x86_64 feature (though one which has been out of style for a couple of decades now), and its simple design (and high utility) makes it a good choice for the first driver to write for Helios. # § PHP⠀➾ # ⚓ Modern_PHP_features_explained_–_PHP_8.0_and_8.1_| Laravel_News⠀⇛ Since its release in late 2020, PHP 8 has been a game changer. In this tutorial, I will walk through all the latest features with real-world examples of when I might choose to use them. # ⚓ LWN ☛ Modern_PHP_features_explained_–_PHP_8.0_and_8.1 (Laravel_News)_[LWN.net]⠀⇛ Since its release, PHP 8 has been a game changer. In this tutorial, let’s walk through all the latest features with real-world examples of when to use them. # § Java⠀➾ # ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ Java_Substring⠀⇛ “The java substring is a part of the java main string. As the java strings are immutable, the initial string is left unchanged, and a new string is returned by this function. The new string is the substring from the string. To extract the desired substring using the substring method, we must provide the starting index and ending index as input. The substring returned from this method depends on the index value assigned to it.” # § Rust⠀➾ # ⚓ LWN ☛ Bos:_Do_we_need_a_“Rust_Standard”?_[LWN.net]⠀⇛ Mara Bos has written a lengthy blog post on whether the Rust language needs to be standardized. The answer is “no” — but she draws a distinction between a “standard” (maintained by some distant standards body) and a “specification”. # ⚓ Do_we_need_a_“Rust_Standard”?⠀⇛ Languages like C and C++ are standardized. They are fully specified in an internationally recognized standards document. Languages like Python, Swift and Rust do not have such a standards document. Should Rust be standardized? Why, or why not? In this blog post, I try to explain why I do think we need an accurate specification, why I do not think we need “standardization” (depending on your definition), and give an overview of the current state of Rust’s stability and specification efforts. # ⚓ Rust Weekly Updates ☛ This_Week_In_Rust:_This_Week_in Rust_466⠀⇛ Hello and welcome to another issue of This Week in Rust! Rust is a programming language empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software. This is a weekly summary of its progress and community. Want something mentioned? Tweet us at @ThisWeekInRust or send us a pull request. Want to get involved? We love contributions. o § Standards/Consortia⠀➾ # ⚓ A_Vulkanised_Webinar:_Exploring_the_Latest_Updates_to_the Vulkan_API_and_Ecosystem⠀⇛ # ⚓ Updates_from_OpenCL_Tooling_Task_Sub_Group:_Recently Upstreamed_SPIR-V_Backend_Ready_for_Discussion_at_2022_LLVM Developers’_Meeting⠀⇛ OpenCL™ Tooling Task Sub Group (TSG) is actively contributing to the LLVM compiler infrastructure project and is determined to bring first-class support for OpenCL and SPIR-V™ to LLVM. While the latest release of Clang brought the long- awaited support for the OpenCL 3.0 standard, C++ for OpenCL 2021 kernel language, and the SPIR- V generation interface utilizing an external tool llvm-spirv from the SPIRV-LLVM-Translator repository, the work on the native GlobalISel-based SPIR-V backend continues at full speed. * § Leftovers⠀➾ o ⚓ Peter ‘CzP’ Czanik ☛ Lake_Naplás:_giving_time-lapse_photography another_try_|_Random_thoughts_of_Peter_‘CzP’_Czanik⠀⇛ This time I was storing photos in JPEG format (instead of RAW), and I did no post-processing. I turned the photos into a movie using OpenShot on Linux. o § Hardware⠀➾ # ⚓ CNX Software ☛ WBZ451_Curiosity_Board_features_Microchip PIC32CX-BZ2_BLE_and_Zigbee_3.0_microcontroller_–_CNX Software⠀⇛ Microchip WBZ451 Curiosity Board features the company’s Microchip’s WBZ451PE Bluetooth Low Energy 5.2 and Zigbee 3.0 RF module based on the new Microchip PIC32CX-BZ2 32-bit Arm Cortex-M4F wireless microcontroller. # ⚓ CNX Software ☛ Easily_add_face_detection_to_your_project with_the_Person_Sensor_module_–_CNX_Software⠀⇛ It’s now much easier to AI features to your project thanks to better tools, but as we’ve experienced when trying out Edge Impulse machine learning platform on the XIAO BLE Sense board, it still requires some effort and the learning curve may be higher than some expect. But for common tasks like face detection, there’s no reason for the solution to be hard-to-use or expensive, and Pete Warden (Useful Sensors) has designed the $10 Person Sensor fitted with a camera module pre-programmed with algorithms that detect nearby faces and reports the results over an I2C interface. [...] The module will also return identity information, or in other words, try to detect up to 8 different users, but this is not shown in the example above, and it’s not clear how well that works. You’ll find documentation and code samples in different languages including Arduino, CircuitPython, and Python on GitHub. o § Security⠀➾ # ⚓ IT Wire ☛ Australian_firms_hit_by_industrial_ransomware_in 3Q,_sec_firm_Dragos_claims⠀⇛ Australia experienced two industrial ransomware attacks in the third quarter of the year, the industrial security firm Dragos says in an analysis of such attacks that occurred globally. There was no indication of the organisations involved; Dragos does not provide such information, nor does it tie a particular malicious actor to any country. The company said on Wednesday there had been 128 ransomware attacks on industries, just three more than in the second quarter, which matched an assessment it had made. The African continent also experienced two attacks. But it added that it was unaware of any significant industrial disruptions during 3Q. # ⚓ IT Wire ☛ iTWire_–_Medibank_says_My_Home_Hospital_also_hit, PII_and_health_data_accessed⠀⇛ The next instalment of the Medibank Group data breach has arrived, with the company confessing on Thursday that patient information from My Home Hospital had also been accessed by an attacker. My Home Hospital is a joint venture between Calvary and Medibank implemented on behalf of Wellbeing SA and the South Australian Government. Medibank said in a statement that personal information and some health data had been accessed. No further details were provided, but given the current trend there may be more to come on Friday. # ⚓ IT Wire ☛ iTWire_–_Pathology_practice_Medlab_reveals_data breach_after_nine_months⠀⇛ Almost nine months after it experienced what it terms a “cyber incident”, private pathology practice Medlab Pathology has issued a statement about the incident in which Medicare details and credit card numbers of staff and patients were stolen. The “cyber incident” appears to have been a Windows ransomware attack. The statement was made in the name of chief executive Melinda McGrath. Medlab is owned by Australian Clinical Labs which acquired the former in December 2021; it has operations in NSW and Queensland. The breach occurred in February 2022. The statement said it had begun notifying those affected on Thursday. # ⚓ Hacker News ☛ Australian_Health_Insurer_Medibank_Suffers Breach_Exposing_3.9_Million_Customers’_Data⠀⇛ Australian health insurance firm Medibank on Wednesday disclosed that the personal information of all of its customers had been unauthorizedly accessed following a recent ransomware attack. In an update to its ongoing investigation into the incident, the firm said the attackers had access to “significant amounts of health claims data” as well as personal data belonging to its ahm health insurance subsidiary and international students. Medibank, which is one of the largest Australian private health insurance providers, serves about 3.9 million customers across the country. # ⚓ Hacker News ☛ Apple_iOS_and_macOS_Flaw_Could’ve_Let_Apps Eavesdrop_on_Your_Conversations_with_Siri⠀⇛ A now-patched security flaw in Apple’s iOS and macOS operating systems could have potentially enabled apps with Bluetooth access to eavesdrop on conversations with Siri. Apple said “an app may be able to record audio using a pair of connected AirPods,” adding it addressed the Core Bluetooth issue in iOS 16.1 with improved entitlements. Credited with discovering and reporting the bug in August 2022 is app developer Guilherme Rambo. The bug, dubbed SiriSpy, has been assigned the identifier CVE-2022-32946. # ⚓ Hacker News ☛ New_Cryptojacking_Campaign_Targeting Vulnerable_Docker_and_Kubernetes_Instances⠀⇛ A new cryptojacking campaign has been uncovered targeting vulnerable Docker and Kubernetes infrastructures as part of opportunistic attacks designed to illicitly mine cryptocurrency. # ⚓ Sudo ☛ Running_sudo_without_updating_cached_credentials_| Sudo⠀⇛ One of the recurring questions at conferences was whether there is a way to check cached sudo credentials without updating them. Version 1.9.12 of sudo introduces the -N option which makes this possible, and also allows running any commands without updating the cached credentials. # ⚓ LWN ☛ Security_updates_for_Thursday⠀⇛ Security updates have been issued by CentOS (389- ds-base, bind, expat, java-1.8.0-openjdk, java-11- openjdk, libksba, and squid), Debian (chromium, libdatetime-timezone-perl, tzdata, and wordpress), Fedora (dbus, dhcp, dotnet3.1, jhead, samba, and strongswan), Mageia (virtualbox), Oracle (device- mapper-multipath), Scientific Linux (device-mapper- multipath and thunderbird), Slackware (curl), SUSE (container-suseconnect, curl, kernel, libmad, libtasn1, libtirpc, qemu, rubygem-puppet, SUSE Manager Client Tools, and telnet), and Ubuntu (curl, linux-intel-iotg, and mysql-5.7). # ⚓ Hacker News ☛ Ransomware:_Open_Source_to_the_Rescue [Ed: Microsoft Windows TCO]⠀⇛ In the US, Colonial pipeline is seeking tax reductions from the loss incurred by the 2021 ransomware campaign they were victims of. But wait… to what extent is the government (and, by extension, every taxpayer) is then indirectly sponsoring cybercrime? # ⚓ Hacker News ☛ Researchers_Expose_Over_80_ShadowPad_Malware C2_Servers[Ed: Microsoft Windows TCO]⠀⇛ # ⚓ Hacker News ☛ British_Hacker_Charged_for_Operating_“The Real_Deal”_Dark_Web_Marketplace⠀⇛ Furthermore, the indictment accuses Kaye of conniving with one or more persons going by the name “thedarkoverlord” to sell Social Security numbers, not to mention launder the cryptocurrency proceeds of the sale through mixing services like Bitmixer.io to obscure the money trails. # ⚓ USCERT ☛ CISA_Releases_Four_Industrial_Control_Systems Advisories_|_CISA⠀⇛ CISA has released four (4) Industrial Control Systems (ICS) advisories on October 27, 2022. These advisories provide timely information about current security issues, vulnerabilities, and exploits surrounding ICS. # § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾ # ⚓ AccessNow ☛ International_coalition_calls_for withdrawal_of_Draft_Indian_Telco_Bill:_provisions threaten_end-to-end_encryption_–_Access_Now⠀⇛ Note: Access Now co-signed this letter along with Electronic Frontier Foundation, Software Freedom Law Center, India, and other organisations and expert individuals. o § Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾ # ⚓ Internet Freedom Foundation ☛ Karnataka_HC_dismisses_Aakar Patel’s_application⠀⇛ Mr. Aakar Patel, a human rights activist and author, approached the Karnataka High Court seeking permission to intervene in an ongoing petition filed by Twitter challenging blocking orders issued by Union of India under S.69A of the Information Technology Act, 2000 (‘IT Act, 2000). Mr. Patel, whose Twitter Account was blocked in June 2020, approached the Court to highlight how the Government of India is censoring Twitter accounts without even hearing affected users or providing them copies of blocking orders. The Karnataka High Court declined to permit Mr. Patel to intervene because other users would also approach the Court in a dispute which is between Twitter and the Union of India. Senior Advocate V Srinivasa Raghavan appeared on behalf of Mr. Patel and Keystone Partners, and IFF provided legal support. o § Internet Policy/Net Neutrality⠀➾ # ⚓ Ariadne Conill ☛ The_internet_is_broken_due_to_structural injustice_|_Ariadne’s_Space⠀⇛ Over the past few years, I’ve come to realize that the Internet as we know it is utterly broken. Lately, I’ve also been pondering how participants in the modern Internet have enabled and perpetuated harm to society at large. Repeatedly, we have seen the independence of the commons chipped away by powerful men who wish for participants to serve their own whims, while those who raise concerns with these developments are either shunned, banned or doxed. On Friday, October 28th, we will see another demonstration of these structural injustices where the commons takes another loss to the whims of a powerful man. Last time, it was freenode’s takeover by Andrew Lee, and this time it will be Twitter’s takeover by Elon Musk. No, really, the deal is already concluded: TWTR will be delisted from NASDAQ on Friday. Will this be the end of Twitter? Probably not, but it will be the end of the current relationship the commons shares with Twitter. Instead of acting as a self-described “public square,” it will further evolve into a chaotic cacophony of trolling and counter-trolling driven in the name of algorithmic engagement. Some will move to other microblogging services and networks, and will likely discover that everything which made Twitter horrible likely applies in some way to the replacement. # ⚓ AccessNow ☛ Internet_shutdowns_shroud_and_facilitate brutality_of_Myanmar_junta’s_airstrike_in_Hpakant_township_– Access_Now⠀⇛ Access Now condemns the ongoing war crimes committed by the military junta in Myanmar, and its use of internet shutdowns to conceal the atrocities. More than 80 people are dead and a hundred more injured after the military dropped four bombs at a gathering of the Kachin Independence Organisation (KIO) at approximately 20:30 local time on 23 October. The deliberate communication blackout meant local media were only able to report on the disaster hours later on 24 October. People on the ground still struggle to get updated information on the number of casualties and their conditions because of ongoing shutdowns. “Mobile internet in Hpakant has been shut down for over 430 days. Since last week, curfew-style blocking of wifi is cutting off the region for approximately 17 hours every day, starting at 17: 00, and only reconnecting at 10:00 the next day,” said Wai Phyo Myint, Asia Pacific Policy Analyst at Access Now. “When the bombs dropped on Sunday evening, the mostly-civilian crowd was left isolated, unable to contact friends and family to seek help and urgent medical attention. It was a targeted and brutal massacre, and shutting down the internet was a deliberate assurance that the extent of the military’s atrocities would be buried.” Access Now documents internet shutdowns globally — recognizing that in recent years, shutdowns have become more sophisticated, lasting longer, harming more people, and targeting vulnerable groups. In 2021, Myanmar ranked 2nd in the world in terms of the number of shutdowns that year. # ⚓ Internet Freedom Foundation ☛ Return_to_Sender_:_IFF’s submission_to_the_draft_Telecom_Bill,_2022⠀⇛ The draft Indian Telecommunication Bill, 2022 was released for public consultation on September 21, 2022. It follows the consultation paper on the “Need for a new legal framework governing Telecommunication in India” which was published on July 23, 2022. Read our brief, which forms a part of our consultation response, where we identify and analyse specific issues with the Telecom Bill, 2022. Our main recommendation is that the Telecom Bill, 2022 should be recalled and a fresh consultation process commensurate with the stated goal of “​​restructur(ing) the legal and regulatory framework for the telecommunications sector.” [...] It consolidates the laws governing provision, development, expansion & operation of telecom services, telecom networks & telecom infrastructure and assignment of spectrum. In doing so, it repeals the Indian Telegraph Act, 1885, the Indian Wireless Telegraphy Act, 1933, & the Telegraph Wire (Unlawful Protection) Act,1950, while amending certain provisions of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India Act (“TRAI”), 1997. However, any rules made under these legislations will continue to be in force. It purportedly takes into account the comments received from stakeholders & industry associations on the consultation paper on the “Need for a new legal framework governing Telecommunication in India” which was published on July 23, 2022 (Read IFF’s comments on the paper here). The deadline for submitting comments on the paper was August 25, 2022 which was further extended to September 1, 2022. The Telecom Bill was released three weeks after the completion of this deadline. # ⚓ AccessNow ☛ India’s_Draft_Telecommunication_Bill_empowers gov’t_to_impose_internet_shutdowns_–_Access_Now⠀⇛ Note: Access Now signed this letter and joins the call of other organisations for the Indian government to withdraw the Draft Telecommunication Bill, 2022 because its authorizes government to order internet shutdowns in violation of human rights. # ⚓ Public Knowledge ☛ FCC_Votes_To_Strengthen_Network Resiliency_in_Puerto_Rico,_U.S._Virgin_Islands_–_Public Knowledge⠀⇛ Today, the Federal Communications Commission voted to approve a Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to support mobile carriers and broadband providers operating in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands to strengthen their networks’ resiliency in the face of natural disasters. Public Knowledge applauds the Commission for taking action to keep consumers connected even during disasters and other emergencies, but urges the agency to locate funds for improving network resiliency across the nation. The following can be attributed to Harold Feld, Senior Vice President at Public Knowledge: “As today’s FCC action makes clear, although carriers have made progress toward hardening their networks in Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands to withstand increasingly violent hurricane seasons, more work remains. We applaud Chairwoman Rosenworcel and her fellow Commissioners for seeing this through rather than walking away with the job half finished. # ⚓ Public Knowledge ☛ FCC_Moves_To_Leverage_12_GHz_Band_To Further_Close_Digital_Divide_–_Public_Knowledge⠀⇛ Today, the Federal Communications Commission voted to approve a Notice of Inquiry seeking comment on the current use of the 12.7-13.25 GHz band as well as ways to encourage more efficient use of the band and whether it’s suitable for mobile broadband services. Public Knowledge applauds the Commission for moving to leverage the 12 GHz band to further close the digital divide. The following can be attributed to Kathleen Burke, Policy Counsel at Public Knowledge: “We applaud Chairwoman Rosenworcel for her continued leadership in looking for new ways to share access to spectrum for vital telecommunications services like mobile broadband and Wi-Fi. Limited spectrum access is a clear barrier to closing the digital divide and ensuring that all Americans have access to the crucial telecommunications services we rely on to function in our society. Finding creative ways to provide more spectrum access is an important goal that we applaud the FCC for continuing to pursue. “Because of the urgency in promoting competition in mobile broadband and increasing unlicensed spectrum access generally, we urge the Commission to issue an Order authorizing shared use in the ‘lower’ 12 GHz band. Opening the lower 12 GHz in addition to the upper 12 GHz would potentially make over 1,000 MHz of spectrum available for advanced services. o § Monopolies⠀➾ # § Software Patents⠀➾ # ⚓ LWN ☛ The_disabling_of_hardware_codecs_in_community distributions_[LWN.net]⠀⇛ Software patents affect our systems in many ways, but perhaps most strongly in the area of codecs — code that creates or plays back audio or video that has been compressed using covered algorithms. For this reason, certain formats have simply been unplayable on many Linux distributions — especially those backed by companies that are big enough to be worth suing — without installing add-on software from third-party repositories. One might think that this problem could be worked around by purchasing hardware that implements the patented algorithms, but recent activity in the Fedora and openSUSE communities shows that life is not so simple. In September, the Fedora project changed how it builds the Mesa graphics library, disabling support for the H.264 and H.265 codecs. These formats are heavily encrusted with software patents and have long been difficult to support on Linux systems, though the existence of OpenH264 has improved the situation for many users. In this case, though, the patented algorithms are not being executed on the CPU running Linux; instead, they are run (and accelerated) on a peripheral processor like the GPU. With the change, Fedora users (only of the upcoming Fedora 37 release for now, though that will likely change) have lost access to the acceleration provided by their hardware. The problem was promptly brought to the Fedora development list, where a number of users expressed their unhappiness at the change. But there was also a certain amount of surprise that Red Hat would not allow code that enables hardware functionality to be shipped; Chris Adams, for example, asked: “But isn’t this just providing for hardware decoding, where (presumably) the hardware vendor arranged for whatever needed licenses?”. The “presumably”, in this case, turns out to be wrong. # § Copyrights⠀➾ # ⚓ Walled Culture ☛ Why_the_‘true_fans’_model_is_great not_only_for_creators,_but_for_entrepreneurs_too_– Walled_Culture⠀⇛ The “true fans” idea has appeared in many posts on this blog, and also makes an appearance in the last chapter of Walled Culture the book, as a viable alternative to copyright and its manifest ills. Kevin Kelly first articulated the true fans idea in 2008, and it was surprisingly soon after that companies started popping up to provide some of the infrastructure needed to facilitate the idea. For example, Kickstarter was launched in 2009, while Patreon began in 2013, and both have gone on to become hugely successful examples of the true fans approach. Simon Owens has an interesting post on his Substack newsletter entitled “Why Patreon is struggling“. He identities a number of what he calls “key weaknesses in the platform’s core offerings”. One is that “a creator’s ability to distribute free content via Patreon is limited”. That’s a problem, because many people (rightly) want to see an example of a creator’s work before sending off money. It also prevents creators from distributing their work freely on Patreon as a matter of course, in order to reach as wide an audience as possible, and to locate the true fans among them. Another issue according to Owens is that Patreon doesn’t have a recommendation tool that helps creators find new audiences. The lack of basic tools for distributing and analysing content is another clear gap in Patreon’s offerings according to Owens. * § Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾ o § Personal⠀➾ # ⚓ 🔤SpellBinding:_AGOLRPH_Wordo:_DUCHY⠀⇛ o § Technical⠀➾ # § Internet/Gemini⠀➾ # ⚓ Browsing_Gemini_Offline⠀⇛ I’m now browsing Gemini completely offline. It works. I managed to make AV-98 a totally offline gemini client which works well enough for my own needs and it’s a very interesting experience. # § Programming⠀➾ # ⚓ Carbon_Dating_HTML⠀⇛ One of the more common feature requests I’ve gotten for Marginalia Search is the ability to search by date. I’ve been a bit reluctant because this has the smell of a a surprisingly hard problem. Or rather, a surprisingly large number of easy problems. =============================================================================== * Gemini_(Primer) links can be opened using Gemini_software. It’s like the World Wide Web but a lot lighter. ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 6153 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐃𝐀𝐈𝐋𝐘 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒 ═════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 10.27.22⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Links_27/10/2022:_Ubuntu_23.04_is_Lucently_Likeable,_OpenSSL_Patch_Coming⠀✐ Posted in News_Roundup at 5:07 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇GNOME bluefish⦈ § Contents⠀➾ * GNU/Linux o Desktop/Laptop o Server o Audiocasts/Shows o Kernel_Space o Applications o Instructionals/Technical o Games o Desktop_Environments/WMs # K_Desktop_Environment/KDE_SC/Qt * Distributions_and_Operating_Systems o New_Releases o Fedora_Family_/_IBM o Canonical/Ubuntu_Family * Free,_Libre,_and_Open_Source_Software o Events o Productivity_Software/LibreOffice/Calligra o Programming/Development * Leftovers o Science o Hardware o Security o Monopolies # Patents * Gemini*_and_Gopher o Personal * § GNU/Linux⠀➾ o ⚓ TiVo_Goes_Back_To_The_(Linux)_Well⠀⇛ The only item here that really piques my interest is the technological approach. While the current TiVo Stream 4K dongle runs Android TV, the new television platform is described as Linux-based… like their original line of DVRs. o § Desktop/Laptop⠀➾ # ⚓ Linux Gizmos ☛ TUXEDO_Computers_releases_InfinityBook_Pro 16_Gen7_Laptop⠀⇛ This week, TUXEDO launched two variations of their latest InfinityBook Pro 16 laptop built around the i7-12700H Intel core processor. TUXEDO’s high-end laptop supports up to 64GB RAM, 2x M.2 2280 slots, Wi-Fi 6, 80Wh battery and other optional features. The Max Performance and the Workstation edition feature the same 12th Gen processor from Intel… o § Server⠀➾ # ⚓ Why_K8s_deployments_need_`matchLabels`_keyword⠀⇛ To create a Kubernetes deployment, we must specify the matchLabels field, even though its value must match the one we specify in the template. But why? Cannot Kubernetes be smart enough to figure it out without us being explicit? o § Audiocasts/Shows⠀➾ # ⚓ Video ☛ Arch_Linux_Has_A_Problem_And_Git_Is_To_Blame_– Invidious⠀⇛ Recently a new Git update was pushed and it suddenly broke a bunch of AUR packages but it broke them for good reason, they were unknowingly using a feature with a big exploit # ⚓ Red Hat Official ☛ Code_Comments_–_An_original_podcast_from Red_Hat⠀⇛ There’s a lot involved in building technology. None of us can do it alone. Join Burr Sutter and seasoned technologists as they share their experiences. # ⚓ JupiterMedia ☛ Linux_Action_News_264⠀⇛ The focus of the new Ubuntu release, Gitea’s surprising announcement, and Linux prepares to drop another architecture. o § Kernel Space⠀➾ # ⚓ ZDNet ☛ Linus_Torvalds_bids_486_Linux_adieu_|_ZDNET⠀⇛ You can famously run Linux on anything. And, when I say anything, I mean anything, e.g. a Nintendo Wii, an iPod, DeLaval’s robotic system for milking cows, and possibly even a dead badger. Only Doom may have been ported to more devices. But, for practical purposes, all good things must come to an end, so Linus Torvalds is giving serious thought to discontinuing support for the 486 architecture. # ⚓ Slashdot ☛ ‘Old/Weird_Laptops’_Sought_To_Help_Test_Linux Kernel_Backlight_Drivers⠀⇛ o § Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ Linux Links ☛ 4_Best_Free_and_Open_Source_GUI_Spotify Clients_–_LinuxLinks⠀⇛ First launched in 2008, Spotify is a digital music streaming service with a freemium business model. You can listen to a huge library of music and podcasts for no charge if you are prepared to have shuffle play (with limited skips), interrupted listening and lower audio bitrate. Alternatively, there’s the option of Spotify Premium. In the UK, a subscription costs £9.99 per month for an individual account. This gives you streaming music at 320 kbps, the ability to download music, and full functionality. Spotify provide a semi-official app for the service which uses Chromium Embedded Framework (think bloated memory footprint). But third-party clients are available for Spotify Premium users. Spotify blocks API access to their audio for non-premium members. This article recommends our favourite GUI Spotify clients. Here’s our verdict summarized in a legendary Linuxlinks-style chart. o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾ # ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ How_to_Run_ChromeOS_Flex_From_a_USB_Drive⠀⇛ Google launched ChromeOS along with Chromebooks in 2011. The idea was to deliver an economical laptop that could handle basic productivity tasks with ease. It was a fairly lightweight operating system that didn’t need many underlying hardware resources to work. After a few years, Google decided to not confine it to Chromebooks and released a lightweight OS that everyone could run on average systems. # ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_To_Install_ModSecurity_with_Nginx_on_Ubuntu 22.04_LTS_–_idroot⠀⇛ In this tutorial, we will show you how to install ModSecurity with Nginx on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. For those of you who didn’t know, ModSecurity is a free and open-source Web Application Firewall (WAF) that protects your website from several types of attacks, including cross-site scripting (XSS), SQL injection, session hijacking, and many more. It also allows for HTTP traffic monitoring, logging, and real-time analysis. ModSecurity was created as a module for the Apache HTTP Server. However, since its early days, the WAF has grown and now covers an array of HyperText Transfer Protocol request and response filtering capabilities for various platforms such as Microsoft IIS, Nginx, and Apache. 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 ModSecurity 3 with Nginx 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. # ⚓ Kifarunix ☛ Install_TheHive_on_Ubuntu_22.04/Ubuntu_20.04_– kifarunix.com⠀⇛ Follow through this tutorial to learn how to install TheHive on Ubuntu 22.04/Ubuntu 20.04 server. # ⚓ SUSE’s Corporate Blog ☛ The_success_continues_–_6th_edition of_‘Getting_started_with_Linux’_available⠀⇛ In the editorial, Hans-Georg Eßer, Editor in Chief, highlights that “installing and using Linux has become so easy that there’s no good reason to stick with Windows”. We who live in a Linux world for many years know for quite a while that Linux is ‘the better Windows’. But still – there are people out there who somehow do not dare to touch Linux in their private environment, on their laptops and desktops. Fortunately, the Linux Magazine remains defiant in fighting ignorance with education. The 2022 edition of “Getting Started with Linux” features the latest version of openSUSE Leap, 15.4, and it comes with a DVD containing the software so you can simply check it out yourself. # ⚓ SUSE’s Corporate Blog ☛ Get_fresh_SLE_Micro_5.3_docs_–_all you_need_to_be_productive_|_SUSE_Communities⠀⇛ SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro (SLE Micro) is a lightweight and secure OS platform purpose built for containerized and virtualized workloads. It leverages the enterprise-hardened technology components of SUSE Linux Enterprise and merges that with what developers want from a modern, immutable OS platform. As a result, you get an ultra-reliable infrastructure platform that is also simple to use and comes out-of-the-box with best-in-class compliance. SLE Micro is well suited for any decentralized computing environment such as edge, embedded or IoT deployment without vendor lock-in. Using SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro, you can build and scale differentiating edge systems across a wide range of industries including aerospace, telecom, automotive, defense, healthcare, hospitality, and manufacturing. With the recent release of SLE Micro 5.3, we have also published fresh and shiny new documentation – once again, my colleagues Jana Halackova (for the docs) and Lukáš Kucharczyk (for the release notes) did a fantastic job here! # ⚓ Linux Made Simple ☛ How_to_install_Wire_Desktop_on_Linux Mint_21⠀⇛ Today we are going to look at how to install Wire Desktop on Linux Mint 21. Firstly, we download the application, and then open and install it with the built-in installer. # ⚓ Linux Made Simple ☛ How_to_install_MultiMC_on_a Chromebook⠀⇛ Today we are looking at how to install MultiMC on a Chromebook. If you have any questions, please contact us via a YouTube comment and we would be happy to assist you! This tutorial will only work on Chromebooks with an Intel or AMD CPU (with Linux Apps Support) and not those with an ARM64 architecture CPU. # ⚓ Linux Handbook ☛ Dir_Command_in_Linux_[Examples]⠀⇛ How do you see the contents of a folder in the Linux terminal? You use the ls command. In fact, the ls command is so popular that many Linux users don’t even know about dir. Yes, there exists a dir command with the sole purpose of showing you the directory contents. And in this tutorial, I’ll show you how to use it. # ⚓ TechRepublic ☛ How_to_fix_the_VirtualBox_USB_enumeration error_and_extension_pack_installation_|_TechRepublic⠀⇛ Jack Wallen experienced several errors upon installing VirtualBox 7.0 and he has the fixes for them. Recently, I upgraded to VirtualBox 7.0, and it’s been a stellar release for the virtual machine management tool. While some VirtualBox upgrade experiences were less than ideal, the march from 6.x to 7.x was, for the most part, pretty painless. However, there are two issues you will probably encounter, both of which require different fixes. # ⚓ Build_a_Tailscale_exit_node_with_firewalld_–_Major_Hayden⠀⇛ Once upon a time, I spent hours and hours fumbling through openvpn configurations, certificates, and firewalls to get VPNs working between servers. One small configuration error led to lots of debugging. Adding new servers meant wallowing through this process all over again. A friend told me about Tailscale and it makes private networking incredibly simple. Tailscale makes it easy to add nodes to a private network called a tailnet where they can communicate. In short, it’s a dead simple mesh network (with advanced capabilities if you’re interested). This post covers how to create an exit node for your Tailscale network using firewalld Fedora, CentOS Stream, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). # ⚓ Reload_Prometheus_ConfigMap_without_Restarting_the Kubernetes_Pod_|_Lisenet.com_::_Linux_|_Security_| Networking⠀⇛ We run Prometheus on Kubernetes. Every time we make changes to Prometheus ConfigMap, we end up restarting the pod so that the new configuration would be picked up. While Prometheus configuration does not change very often, we would prefer to have a way to do this without downtime. # ⚓ Convert_a_root_filesystem_to_a_bootable_disk_image_– formicapunk⠀⇛ The year is 2022, and it is still that complicated to install GRUB2 externally onto a disk image. But using the wonders of libguestfs, you can create a bootable diskimage using a qemu VM abstraction very easily. The steps here imply we want to create a disk with a single partition containing the root filesystem. o § Games⠀➾ # ⚓ fun_with_pygame_–_Michael_Ablassmeier_–_..⠀⇛ Next year my son will turn 4. I have quit playing computer games for a pretty long time now, but recently i questioned myself: what will be the first computer game hes going to play? Why not create a simple game by myself? Living on the landside, his attention has been drawn to farming machines for quite some time now and that topic never grows old for him, which makes for a perfect game setting. The game logic should be pretty simple: A tiling 2d jump game where you have to make an tractor jump over appearing objects. Different vehicles and backgrounds to choose and a set of “lives” with randomly generated “coins” which you have to catch to undo happened failures. o § Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾ # § K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt⠀➾ # ⚓ The Register UK ☛ KDE_5.26_gets_a_second_point release_(yes,_already)_•_The_Register⠀⇛ KDE 5.26.2 is out with an emergency fix for a memory leak – so if you already have the new version, you should update. If you don’t have 5.26, we’re here to tell you how. The version first appeared on October 11 with a bunch of new features that we described when we looked at the beta in September. Version 5.26.1 followed a week later with some relatively minor bug fixes. Another week after that, version 5.26.2 is here, and sadly, the developers had to disable one of the fun new bits: animated wallpapers. If you use Wayland, it’s fine, but on X11 this leaks memory, and 5.26.2 turns the feature off. We suspect it will reappear in version 5.26.3 if the team can trace the leak. * § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾ o § New Releases⠀➾ # ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ Zorin_OS_16.2_Lands_With_Enhanced_Windows_App Support⠀⇛ Zorin OS also comes with new fonts and a spruced-up LibreOffice, but will it make people want to switch from Windows? The Zorin Group has announced the availability of Zorin OS 16.2. The Ubuntu-based distribution offers a greater ability to run Windows applications on the system. # ⚓ Linuxiac ☛ Zorin_OS_16.2_Is_Here_as_the_Best_Linux_Distro for_Windows_Users⠀⇛ Zorin OS 16.2 includes an updated app base, an improved office experience, and enhanced support for Windows apps. Zorin OS is a Ubuntu-based Linux distribution that aims to make life easier for new users, especially those from Windows. The distribution has a beautiful user interface with which Windows 11 users will feel comfortable. Moreover, Zorin includes many well-known productivity tools. Today, seven months after the previous 16.1 release, Zorin OS 16.2 is available for download. So, without further ado, let’s see what’s new. o § Fedora Family / IBM⠀➾ # ⚓ SDx Central ☛ Red_Hat_Shrinks_OpenShift_for_Device_Edge⠀⇛ The Lockheed Martin use case was about providing direct control to drones that had already been deployed but might need to have their mission altered in flight. # ⚓ Red Hat Official ☛ Lockheed_Martin,_Red_Hat_Collaborate_to Advance_Artificial_Intelligence_for_Military_Missions⠀⇛ Lockheed Martin and Red Hat today announced a collaboration to advance artificial intelligence (AI) innovation at the edge on Lockheed Martin military platforms. Adopting the newly announced Red Hat Device Edge will enable Lockheed Martin to support U.S. national security missions by applying and standardizing AI technologies in geographically constrained environments. o § Canonical/Ubuntu Family⠀➾ # ⚓ OMG Ubuntu ☛ Ubuntu_23.04_Codename_Revealed_–_And_It’s_a Lucently_Likeable_Label_–_OMG!_Ubuntu!⠀⇛ The codename for next year’s Ubuntu 23.04 release has been revealed. According to Launchpad, home of Ubuntu development, and a cryptic tweet from the official Ubuntu Twitter account, it appears that Ubuntu 23.04 will be labelled “Lunar Lobster”. Rather a lively combination with which to liken the next interim release of the much-loved desktop Linux distribution, isn’t it — but what does it mean? * § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾ o § Events⠀➾ # ⚓ OSI Blog ☛ All_Things_Open_post_event_blog_–_Voices_of_Open Source [Ed: “Director of Sustainability” [sic] in a Microsoft front_group_called_OSI. Greenwashing complements openwashing.]⠀⇛ Contact Betsy Waliszewski, Director of Sustainability, if you’d like to schedule a time to get together or if you are interested in volunteering to help in our booth. We look forward to seeing everyone. o § Productivity Software/LibreOffice/Calligra⠀➾ # ⚓ Document Foundation ☛ LibreOffice_Conference_2022_videos: Localisation,_Writer,_Calc,_Sparklines,_Web_Assembly_and_more –_The_Document_Foundation_Blog⠀⇛ State of Korea in LibreOffice and promoting future plans, with DaeHyun Sung o § Programming/Development⠀➾ # ⚓ Alberto_Mardegan:_Performance_reviews_|_Mardy⠀⇛ It happened a few times during my career, that I found myself in a team with a colleague whose productivity was close to zero. In most of these cases it was simply a matter of people who hadn’t the skills and happened to choose the wrong career path, and in one case it was actually an excellent developer, but just slacking off. Regardless of the case, in many of these occasions it looked like the team manager hadn’t noticed the poor performance of the individual in question, whereas this was rather obvious to the rest of the team. I’m not sure why the managers didn’t notice the black sheep, but the point is that none of the other developers did raise the issue either: why would I report a fellow colleague, who might risk losing his job because of my evil tongue? So, Scrum to the rescue? Not quite. As a matter of fact, while it is true that an underperformer could be easily spotted by seeing how often he fails to complete his stories in the timeframe suggested by the story points, this information is generally accessible to the product owner, whereas the line manager might not attend the Scrum meetings at all (as was the case in a previous project of mine, where the line manager was completely detached from the project); and even if the line manager had this information, it’s not a given that he’d make use of it — as a matter of fact, I cannot say with certainty that the line managers did not notice those underperforming colleagues of mine; maybe they noticed, but failed to intervene for some reason? * § Leftovers⠀➾ o ⚓ IBM Old Timer ☛ Irving_Wladawsky-Berger:_The_Latest_Trends_in Work_from_Home_(WFH)⠀⇛ For years, companies and governments found all kinds of reasons for not embracing work from home, virtual meetings, telemedicine, online learning, and other online applications. But, the pandemic forced us to accelerate the digital transformation of the economy and society to help us cope with the crisis. And, not only have these digital applications worked remarkably well, but they offer a number of important benefits, like not waiting for a straightforward doctor diagnosis in a room full of sick people, and not having to travel for hours to participate in a 60 minute meeting. For example, about a year ago I participated in an online panel. To start with, the moderator asked each panelist to introduce ourselves and to briefly say something positive about our lives over the past year despite the obvious challenges of coping with Covid. I truly struggled to find something positive to say about the highly frustrating pandemic-induced limitations of the previous year. But finally, I did find something positive to say. I’ve been able to attend a number of meetings, including weekly lunch seminars, that pre-pandemic required me to drive for a few hours or catch a plane. In response to the pandemic, these meeting first changed from physical to online, and more recently to hybrid. In other words, my ability to attend such meetings from home was my one pandemic-induced benefit, a major one the more I thought about it. Work from home (WFH) has been around for decades, modestly growing in the 1990s with the rise of the internet. The share of WFH three or more days per week was under 1% in 1980, 2.4% in 2010, and 4.0% in 2018. Then came Covid-19, forcing tens of millions around the world to work from home and triggering a mass workplace experiment that broke through the technological and cultural barriers that had prevented its adoption in the past. o § Science⠀➾ # ⚓ I Cringely ☛ Paul_Graham’s_Legacy_|_I,_Cringely⠀⇛ Last week there was a press release you might easily have missed. A Distributed Autonomous Organization (DAO) called OrangeDAO is cooperating with a small seed venture fund called Press Start Capital to establish the OrangeDAO X Press Start Cap Fellowship Program for new Web3 entrepreneurs. Successful applicants get $25,000 each plus 10 weeks of structured mentorship plus continued access to the more than 1200-member OrangeDAO network. In exchange, OrangeDAO and Press Start get to invest in the resulting companies, if any, produced by the class. Big deal, it’s Y Combinator Junior, right? Wrong. It’s Y Combinator on steroids. This second-generation YC has been released in the wild where it will replicate and grow unconstrained. Expect to see more deals like this one. A Distributed Autonomous Organization is a financial partnership that leverages blockchain technology to help multiple users make decisions as a single entity. There are many DAOs around and hardly anybody understands them or knows what they are good for. Mainly they have seemed to be involved in the NFT market. But OrangeDAO is different. It has 1200+ members and every one of those members is a graduate of the Y Combinator startup accelerator. They are verified Y Combinator company founders, so they’ve all had similar entrepreneurial experiences and see business much the same way as a result. OrangeDAO seems to have big plans and to make those plans happen in August the DAO, itself, raised $80 million in venture capital, with their first use of that capital being these Fellowships. o § Hardware⠀➾ # ⚓ IT Wire ☛ China_3Q_smartphone_shipments_better_than_2Q,_but down_on_2021⠀⇛ Smartphone shipments in China during the third quarter of 2022 increased marginally over the previous three months but, at 70.0 million units, represented a 11% year-on-year fall. The technology analyst company Canalys said in a statement that local manufacturers vivo and Oppo – both part of B.B.K Electronics – took the first and second spots, shipping 14.1 million units and 12.1 million units respectively. OnePlus shipments are now reported as part of Oppo’s figures. Honor, the low-budget seller formerly owned by Huawei, was third with 12.0 million units, while Apple (11.3 million units) and Xiaomi (9.0 million units) made up the top five. o § Security⠀➾ # ⚓ Google ☛ RC4_Is_Still_Considered_Harmful⠀⇛ I’ve been spending a lot of time researching Windows authentication implementations, specifically Kerberos. In June 2022 I found an interesting issue number 2310 with the handling of RC4 encryption that allowed you to authenticate as another user if you could either interpose on the Kerberos network traffic to and from the KDC or directly if the user was configured to disable typical pre-authentication requirements. This blog post goes into more detail on how this vulnerability works and how I was able to exploit it with only a bare minimum of brute forcing required. Note, I’m not going to spend time fully explaining how Kerberos authentication works, there’s plenty of resources online. For example this blog post by Steve Syfuhs who works at Microsoft is a good first start. # ⚓ Dark Reading ☛ 4_Reasons_Open_Source_Matters_for_Cloud Security⠀⇛ When we depend on an open commons as our computing foundation, we need it to be secure, and the most effective way to do that is through open solutions. # ⚓ ZDNet ☛ OpenSSL_warns_of_critical_security_vulnerability with_upcoming_patch_|_ZDNET⠀⇛ We don’t have the details yet, but we can safely say that come Nov. 1, everyone — and I mean everyone — will need to patch OpenSSL 3.x. o § Monopolies⠀➾ # § Patents⠀➾ # ⚓ The_USPTO_Must_Restore_America_Invents_Act Proceedings_–_Patent_Progress⠀⇛ Over the past decade, the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act of 2011 has been discussed and debated extensively in intellectual property circles. Given the potential for new USPTO rulemaking on the horizon, however, it is worth revisiting why it has become necessary for the Patent Office to restore key AIA proceedings to function as Congress originally intended. I worked hard for the reforms contained in the America Invents Act (AIA), and applauded its passage as “the kind of reform that is necessary to set America back on track toward a prosperous future” and as a key step to “promote progress and innovation.” The AIA was a critical update to a patent system that was stuck in the past, placing a renewed focus on patent quality and reining in litigation abuses. Our Founding Fathers considered intellectual property rights essential, going so far as to include them in Congress’s enumerated powers. By passing the AIA, Congress upheld our end of the bargain to promote progress. Analysis has shown that from 2014 to 2019, the AIA resulted in an increase of $2.95 billion in U.S. gross product and $1.41 billion in personal income. Among the largest beneficiaries was the manufacturing industry, which accounted for almost half of the gross product gains. These numbers do not lie. When we make improvements to our patent system, we are also supporting economic growth. [...] I will be watching closely in the coming months for formal rulemaking regarding the Fintiv factors and IPR more generally. Reforms that restore AIA proceedings to their original promise would encourage greater innovation and “promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts.” * § Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾ o § Personal⠀➾ # ⚓ Extreme_lizards,_Brevard_NC_edition⠀⇛ “Ah yeah. Ooh ahh. That’s how it always starts. Then later there’s the running and the screaming.” # ⚓ Gotta_find_something_to_do_next⠀⇛ Now that I’ve been released from that garbagefire of an organization, I need to find something to do. It’s been about a week since I was let go, so I think I’d like to have some travel plans set by this time next week. I’d love to go by train somewhere, perhaps Canada. I’ve heard that VIA Rail is great. # ⚓ Enoying_the_Big_Blue_Room⠀⇛ The sun is out, there’s not a cloud in the sky, and the temperature is cool but not unbearibly so (for a Floridian) and I’m sitting out in, I guess for lack of a better term, the garden of The Bromfield Inn [1]. [...] A nearby church is giving an improptude concert with the church bells. I wasn’t aware that American churches even had bells anymore. How neat! =============================================================================== * Gemini_(Primer) links can be opened using Gemini_software. It’s like the World Wide Web but a lot lighter. ╘══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╛ ¶ Lines in total: 7070 ➮ Generation completed at 02:43, i.e. 92 seconds to (re)generate ⟲