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🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇Your_IT_boss_at_Sirius_Open_Source⦈_ Summary: Ethical development jobs may not be easy to find; some ethical jobs can turn_immoral_after_many_years and then it’s time to leave (there’s no turnaround when HR gravitates_towards_immoral_business and chronically relies on deceit) ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⡆⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⣟⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡫⣁⠇⡖⢆⡇⣳⢧⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣼⣢⣵⣯⣾⣶⣿⣿⡿⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡛⡻⡭⣽⡸⡽⡍⡎⢢⣓⡣⠭⢗⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠟⠛⠉⠉⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢹⢠⢳⣿⣧⣗⣫⣭⣵⣷⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠋⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠿⠿⠟⠛⢉⣉⢹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠋⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠍⣷⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠹⣿⣍⣤⣄⣀⡄⣿⣔⣶⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠛⠛⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ 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Sirius_Open_Source_is_No_Longer_Open_Source_and_It’s_Simply_Unethical_to_Stay There⠀✐ Posted in Deception, Free/Libre_Software at 11:08 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz Article crossposted (from_my_personal_site) 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇Sirius_Open_Source⦈_ 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇2011-2022: thank you and goodbye⦈ Summary: The company where I’ve worked since my twenties is going under; now it’s trying to find excuses to deny compensation to staff while failing to pay very basic bills and liabilities; there are many other issues that deserve the light of day SO IT finally_happened. I’m liberated. Liberated to speak out and liberated to work around the clock as best suits me. So what exactly happened? My employer is going under, and in my informed assessment it is going under partly due to its own incompetence. It’s basically its own fault. I did what I could to prevent it. I spent years cautioning against decisions that would make staff recruitment — and retention — very difficult. I even studied documents and laws, hoping to make a case for my stances/positions. But they would not listen. The managers put in charge were clueless; heck, “clueless” is an understatement. “It is important for me to state upfront and very frankly that the company I leave is not the company I joined.”The way things stand at the moment, the employer is too broke to pay the salaries or pay compensation in case of staff cuts. We know that. We can see the statements from the company; its finances make it quite a miracle that it’s still running at all, based perhaps on prospects of netting some very major client in the imminent future. But that won’t happen. In fact, the staff still left in the company is incapable of dealing with major clients; lies and cover-up from management won’t keep such clients around; no major client would fall for it. ‘Our’ company cannot even find someone skilled at GNU mailman and ninja-style management with “tweets” instead of job advertisements are a symptom or a hallmark of severe weaknesses. The company was trying to convince people to leave voluntarily (it’s all on record) while treating people poorly, in effect treating them as disposables. To quote an E-mail that my wife Rianne sent to the “Office Manager” earlier this year (failing to do the most basic job!): Hi ██████, The same issue (as before) is happening again and I’m really baffled as to why the same mistake would keep repeating itself over and over again. I guess I deserve to have an explanation regarding this matter, because if the NOC shifts wiki page is the only source or basis for your accounting, why can’t you count the number of shifts correctly? I’m starting to look at it as if you are neglecting your responsibility. I have had 13 shifts in total for the month of February, 8 were regular shifts and 5 more are the extra shifts. I got paid for the regular shifts but not for the additional shifts. If you could add the additional shifts to my account, I would be grateful. Best, Of course it fell on deaf ears, as usual. We might do a separate series about Gates Foundation and its sneaky moves, apparently trying to sneak in a bribe at a very critical time (as if it needed a British company to do a simple task thousands of American firms can do). That merits a lot more discussion. As later posts will explain (in greater depth), the company I joined almost 12 years ago was very, very different. It was run by knowledgeable and compassionate people; not the company run by reviled, unqualified and demotivational people (since 2018 or thereabouts). So why not leave earlier? Well, a pandemic is not a good time to seek alternative employment, especially when already working from home (many advantages during lock-downs and a lingering epidemic-turned-pandemic), though times are now changing and the clock is ticking. The company is simply running out of time and sinking deeper and deeper into debt (the ‘overdraft’ is like $100,000 per permanent member of staff). “From supporting and advancing Free software it turned into using proprietary “clown” disservices to help other companies run their proprietary “clown” disservices.”It is important for me to state upfront and very frankly that the company I leave is not the company I joined. I worked alongside some very skilled individuals in 2011 and now it’s just a drag. Turning the job into “bullshit job” is the legacy of years of failing managerial style. It’s akin to the way this_blog_post_described_it_a_few_weeks_ago: “This was my introduction to busy work: work to be done for no other reason than to keep yourself looking busy. It fits into a larger category of bullshit work: work that the worker must do despite having no purpose.” That’s basically what much of the job became. From supporting and advancing Free software it turned into using proprietary “clown” disservices to help other companies run their proprietary “clown” disservices. Sometimes not even for a profit but a loss! Yes, imagine taking clients onboard only to lose money on them! That happened again very recently and it was not the first time bosses decided to underwrite, in effect undercharging, just to get a “client”. About 8 years ago, at the instructions of the boss, I tried to get the client to pay for the time we spent; eventually the company was so frustrated with the contacts that it tried to block them from moving to another provider (or to hold the work ‘hostage’), using technical means. What an embarrassment. Those proprietary “clown” disservices aside, imagine stuff like Microsoft/Azure and various proxies of Microsoft, for whom we were meant to act like clerical staff, reading from scripts and then writing into GUIs (for staff to relay), in essence cheapening the workforce and wrongly assigning roles/tasks — all this in a pathetic pursuit of business. Not to mention several unethical clients, which won’t be named as the rants aren’t about any particular company except the one I know best (it is unfair to pick on pertinent clients as it’s not about them). “Looking at the current staff page, it’s fair to say that half or perhaps a majority of those listed aren’t in fact in the company.”Having said that, here’s a recent example, which intentionally omits any names; some months ago the company’s founder asked me to look into Web/Apache logs of some ‘Christian’ fundamentalist (anti-abortion) site, trying to reaffirm it had come under DDOS attack (barely!) after Roe getting overturned. Well, at that point I knew already it was time to leave. I think it was around March that the decision had been finalised, at least in my mind. The issue isn’t a monetary one; it’s just that we don’t filter potential clients, we’re even desperate to get some that yield losses rather than profit, or don’t involve any actual projects. If there’s no filtering, you risk letting staff do unethical stuff in a company that has “Open Source” in its name; in the above example, the supposedly ‘Christian’ fundamentalists were trying to demonise those “Evil” and “Extreme” people who support a woman’s right to choose whether to bear a child. Why would I want to help them? No way! There were other unethical clients (one was even a loan shark) and highly unprofitable contracts that ended up losing the company 4 times more than the actual revenue. Imagine working for a desperate company that’s under-selling itself, telling the staff to study stuff like Kafka (in a hurry) just to claim to potential clients that we possess such skills as if a few days messing about with some software is the same as proper experience. This was about getting business based on false claims of skills possessed by the workforce. Looking at the current staff page, it’s fair to say that half or perhaps a majority of those listed aren’t in fact in the company. Some left about 3 years ago. They’re in no way associated with the company: 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇Not_in_the_company_for_years;_Dr_Roy_Schestowitz/Support Engineer/Roy_is_a_10-year_veteran_at_the_company,_having_joined_Sirius_after completing_a_doctoral_degree_in_Medical_Biophysics_and_worked_in_postdoctoral positions_studying_medical_applications_of_computing._Roy_also_runs_the_site Techrights,_which_was_founded_in_2006_to_advocate_ethics_in_the_context_of technology._He_participated_in_various_fitness_competitions_in_the_more_distant past_and_still_goes_to_the_gym_routinely._At_work,_Roy_leverages_Free-as-in- Freedom_software_to_accomplish_various_tasks_for_clients_and_in_his_spare_time he_is_researching_and_analysing_news._Rianne_Schestowitz/Support_Engineer/ Rianne_has_a_Bachelor's_Degree_in_Computer_Science_and_has_been_with_Sirius since_2013_working_as_a_support_engineer._She_works_during_weekends_and sometimes_covering_weekday_shifts_for_the_colleagues._During_weekdays_and_after the_shifts_of_the_weekend_she_co-edits_Tux_Machines,_the_website_that_covers Linux,_Android_and_Open_Source-related_news._Rianne_is_environment-conscious, an_animal_lover_and_her_most_loved_animal_is_the_panda_bear_(you_can_read_some of_her_blog_posts_in_Tux_Machines)._As_much_as_she_loves_learning_about different_cultures,_she_likes_to_learn_different_languages_too._As_of_this_date she_speaks_five!⦈_ In terms of communications, an abyss widened too. Replies weren’t being sent (or selectively sent), not even a reply to message about aggressive cancer of a loved one (little sympathy is a sign of sociopathy) in addition to lying about not receiving important E-mail. Sometimes clients would not receive replies for months; it was a failure at the very top! More recently, we witnessed a manager probably lying about a client making a complaint (I could ask the client directly to prove this too was a lie, but it’s not fair to the client) and misrepresenting/distorting what I actually said. Suffice to say, pointing out a lie or a pattern of lying is not the offense; the offence, or even repeated offence, is repeatedly lying to people. In the business context, lying has financial and sometimes legal consequences. When I actually said flattering things about a client, without any names, that was used against me. How dare I praise someone? When attempting to weaponise anything against someone, even flattery is used negatively. “Of course spending all day spying on staff (activity outside of work) instead of actually running the company is also not a sanctionable offence. There are some rules that are only applicable to those who aren’t enforcing them.”Lies often go hand in hand with cover-up, so of course an inappropriate romantic relationship was becoming a taboo; you cannot even ask, “is there a relationship or not?” That in itself is considered a problem, but not the nepotism. In fact, pointing out a potential conflict of interest (that is rather obvious to everyone inside the company) is not abusive, it’s the relationship itself, which doesn’t predate the hiring, that seems inappropriate to say the least. Of course spending all day spying on staff (activity outside of work) instead of actually running the company is also not a sanctionable offence. There are some rules that are only applicable to those who aren’t enforcing them. A rush to finger-point is instinctive and convenient; it’s not unprecedented, either. A professional company with a thick enough skin would ask questions first; they should be “chilling” and finding composure again (maybe get a lawyer, ask for an actual lawful action; it’s harder to mess about when instructed based on legal grounds). But “I suspect there is no involvement of HR here,” one person advised me, as “they don’t have money or they don’t have HR as they would find out it’s just a fishing venture or expedition” (causing embarrassment to the company, obsessing over chats where there’s no actual damage done, except ‘damage’ to one man’s ego). I’ve had enough. 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it’s critical to check not only what employer one works for but who the upstream and downstream entities are (their nature can change for the worse when the employer becomes desperate and neglects ethics in pursuit of money) IN INDUSTRY, there is a chain of suppliers and providers. Microsoft, for instance, gives “products” and provides “services” to companies, governments, militaries and so on. In the case of the company where I worked (until today), we had provided services for companies in the private sector and many in the public sector too. “What about the morality of those whom you provide for?”For software development firms, there are typically “users” or firms/people who purchase the software, license it etc. What about the morality of those whom you provide for? Never mind suppliers, though that’s an important but separate subject (for firms that resell things and fund potentially unethical suppliers). When Microsoft bought GitHub many employees left as they refused to work for Microsoft. Not too long afterwards many left GitHub (both users and employees) because of the ICE controversies (Microsoft insisted that GitHub should supply “services” to ICE). It quickly became a major crisis of brain drain (one colleague followed another, leaving GitHub with a lack of geeks, sort of like in Twitter last month) and Microsoft resorted to planted/seeded distractions in the media (“Arctic Vault”) in order to change the news cycle. “For instance, do people walk into a job interview and ask who the suppliers/ providers are? Or who the buyers/users are? Maybe they should.”Today, a Friday, I officially_left_my_job. The video above explains some of the background but future videos will delve into the lessons learned, not just based on personal experience. Many of the underlying issues seem rather common and they’re worth explaining in a genralised way that many people can relate to and study when assessing potential employers. For instance, do people walk into a job interview and ask who the suppliers/ providers are? Or who the buyers/users are? Maybe they should. Also check if management actually understands the products/services offered. If not, that’s a big red warning sign. In my personal case, the chain has changed profoundly. Instead of spreading Free software there was a bunch of stuff like AWS being promoted. Instead of working for public sector clients (very ethical and moral agencies whose functions service to protect the vulnerable people) we started to accept business from objectionable groups. Merely pointing out such problems was framed as the real problem. That transition led to tensions and confrontations, culminating in resignation. It had been planned for months. █ “He does not possess wealth; it possesses him.” –Benjamin Franklin ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 696 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐃𝐀𝐈𝐋𝐘 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒 ═════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 12.02.22⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Links_02/12/2022:_Fedora_Gets_Sway_Spin;_Samsung,_LG,_Mediatek_Certificates Compromised⠀✐ Posted in News_Roundup at 12:05 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇GNOME bluefish⦈ § Contents⠀➾ * GNU/Linux o Audiocasts/Shows o Instructionals/Technical * Distributions_and_Operating_Systems o Reviews o Fedora_Family_/_IBM o Debian_Family o Devices/Embedded o Mobile_Systems/Mobile_Applications * Free,_Libre,_and_Open_Source_Software o Web_Browsers/Web_Servers o Productivity_Software/LibreOffice/Calligra o Programming/Development * Leftovers o Education o Hardware o Health/Nutrition/Agriculture o Proprietary o Security # Confidentiality o Defence/Aggression o Environment # Energy # Wildlife/Nature # Overpopulation/Overheating 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 Digital_Restrictions_(DRM) o Monopolies # Copyrights * Gemini*_and_Gopher o Personal o Technical * § GNU/Linux⠀➾ o § Audiocasts/Shows⠀➾ # ⚓ Video ☛ The_ULTIMATE_Steam_Deck_streaming_experience._– Invidious⠀⇛ Moonlight is just reflecting Sunshine. There are many solutions for streaming games to and from the Steam Deck. The one built into Steam is a good option. # ⚓ Video ☛ Egee_gets_a_new_laptop_//_Asus_ROG_Strix_G15_| Ryzen_7_4800H_w/RTX_3060_–_Invidious⠀⇛ It’s simple to set the CPU governor to powersaving but there’s also a way to work the fans and leds from Linux now too # ⚓ Video ☛ My_Tier_List_For_Linux_Desktop_Environments_– Invidious⠀⇛ It’s time for another one of my tier list rankings. This time, I’m going to give my tier list ranking for desktop environments available on Linux. Two things to note are (1) I’m not a desktop environment user myself, and (2) these kinds of tier list videos are all subjective opinion. # ⚓ Video ☛ Offline_Twitter_–_Invidious⠀⇛ Leaving Twitter? Why not download all your tweets from archive and store it yourself before deleting your account! o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾ # ⚓ HowTo Forge ☛ Linux_pwd_Command_Tutorial_for_Beginners_ (with_Examples)⠀⇛ The pwd command, like ls and cd, is one of most frequently used Linux utilities. # ⚓ Performance_Analysis_Using_PCP⠀⇛ # ⚓ [Old]_Data-centric_tracing⠀⇛ Here we continue our series of BPF blog entries by looking at observability improvements the Oracle Linux team have worked on with the upstream BPF community. In particular, we will discuss how BPF – and libbpf in particular – can facilitate observability of kernel function execution, showing arguments and return values in a similar way to that supported in debuggers. # ⚓ DebugPoint ☛ How_to_Find_Free_Disk_Space_in_Ubuntu_and Other_Linux_[Beginner’s_Guide]⠀⇛ A simple tutorial demonstrates how to find free disk space in Ubuntu and other Linux distros using the command line and GUI tools. Every day we create data, knowingly or unknowingly. And that directly costs disk space. A few commands in the terminal can give you a better idea about the storage situation in your Linux desktop or server. Here are some of the ways how you can find free disk space in Ubuntu and similar distributions. # ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_To_Install_Erlang_on_Ubuntu_22.04_LTS_– idroot⠀⇛ In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Erlang on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. For those of you who didn’t know, Erlang is a programming language used to build massively scalable soft real-time systems with requirements on high availability. Erlang was originally developed to be used in several large telecommunication systems. But it has now slowly made its foray into diverse sectors like eCommerce, computer telephony, and banking sectors as well. 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 Erlang programming language 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. # ⚓ Red Hat Official ☛ How_we_designed_a_long-lasting_web- hosting_service_on_Linux:_3_lessons_learned_|_Enable Sysadmin⠀⇛ The decisions we made in designing our Linux web- hosting service (and the tips we gathered along the way) kept it up and running for 16 years. # ⚓ LinuxConfig ☛ How_to_install_OnlyOffice_Desktop_Editors_on Linux⠀⇛ OnlyOffice is an open source office suite compatible with both open and proprietary documents formats. The suite includes applications to create and edit text documents, spreadsheets and presentations. The “community” version of OnlyOffice is cost-free and can be installed both as a service, or in the form of classic desktop editors. In this article we see how to install the OnlyOffice Desktop Editors suite on the major Linux distributions. # ⚓ NextGenTips ☛ How_to_use_PostgreSQL_to_perform_CRUD operations_in_FastAPI_–_NextGenTips⠀⇛ In the previous tutorial, we saw how to perform CRUD operations using dummy data inside your project, but that can’t help us in real-world issues. Today I will take you through using the PostgreSQL database to perform CRUD operations in FastAPI RESTful services. FastAPI really works well with both SQL and NoSQL databases, you can use SQL databases with the help of SQLAlchemy which is the Python SQL toolkit and Object Relational Mapper. It gives developers the full power and flexibility of SQL. To start our project create a folder where you will install the dependencies and create a virtual environment. I will still be using the song API I created in the previous tutorial. # ⚓ Fedora Magazine ☛ Working_with_Btrfs_–_Subvolumes_–_Fedora Magazine⠀⇛ This article is part of a series of articles that takes a closer look at Btrfs, the default filesystem for Fedora Workstation and Fedora Silverblue since Fedora Linux 33. [...] Subvolumes allow for the partitioning of a Btrfs filesystem into separate sub-filesystems. This means that you can mount subvolumes from a Btrfs filesystem as if they were independent filesystems. In addition, you can, for example, define the maximum space a subvolume may take up via qgroups (We’ll talk about this in another article in this series), or use subvolumes to specifically include or exclude files from snapshots (We’ll talk about this, too, in another article in this series). Every default Fedora Workstation and Fedora Silverblue installation since Fedora Linux 33 makes use of subvolumes. In this article we will explore how it works. * § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾ o ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ The_7_Best_Independent_Linux_Distros_You_Can’t_Miss Out_On⠀⇛ While the large majority of Linux distros are based on Debian, Fedora, or Arch Linux, there are several independent Linux distros that lead a new way. Ubuntu, Fedora, Arch Linux, and many others have continued to spawn other Linux distros. But plenty of independent distributions have no dependency on either of these base Linux distributions. Each distribution has its own set of features, which make them different from some of the other familiar names in the Linux ecosystem. But does their independent structure make them better than the rest? Here’s a list of the top seven independent Linux distros you can consider. Depending on your requirements, you can choose the one that tickles your fancy. o § Reviews⠀➾ # ⚓ DebugPoint ☛ Pop_OS_22.04_LTS_–_New_Features_and_Release Updates⠀⇛ System76 released the Pop OS 22.04 LTS on April 25, 2022. We unwrap the new features and updates in this post. System76’s POP OS is based on Ubuntu releases, and the Ubuntu 22.04 LTS release is just released. Following the release schedule, the Pop OS 22.04 is now available for download and upgrade. You can now do some hands-on and find out the new features. o § Fedora Family / IBM⠀➾ # ⚓ Red Hat Official ☛ How_we_designed_a_long-lasting_web- hosting_service_on_Linux:_3_lessons_learned_|_Enable Sysadmin⠀⇛ The decisions we made in designing our Linux web- hosting service (and the tips we gathered along the way) kept it up and running for 16 years. # ⚓ Fedora Project ☛ Fedora_Sway_Spin⠀⇛ Create an official Fedora Spin shipping the up-and- coming Sway window manager. Following the footsteps of the recently shipped i3 spin. # ⚓ Enterprisers Project ☛ 4_ways_remote_work_has_improved company_culture_|_The_Enterprisers_Project⠀⇛ Few companies were prepared for the magnitude of change brought about by the pandemic, from employees forced to work from home and new technologies urgently needed to enable this to organizations struggling to adapt to doing business online. But one thing’s for sure – the shift has shown us that there are better ways of doing things. In terms of company culture, the curse of COVID-19 brought some positive changes o § Debian Family⠀➾ # ⚓ Sparky GNU/Linux ☛ Sparky_news_2022/11_–_SparkyLinux⠀⇛ The 11th monthly Sparky project and donate report of 2022: – Linux kernel updated up to 6.0.10 & 5.15.80-LTS & 4.9.334-LTS49 – Added to repos: Blisk, SC Controller – Sparky oldoldstable “Tyche” repositories deleted for good – the US1 mirror is down, swith to DE2 or the main one – Sparky 6.5 “Po Tolo” of the stable line released The good news is we already have, thanks to all of YOU, ~53% donations to cover the VPS bill for the next year. The bad news is, we still need ~47% from the 510 E amount, and 44 days left to the deadline (until January 15, 2023). And, we still strong believe you We can do it! o § Devices/Embedded⠀➾ # ⚓ Jupiter Broadcasting ☛ Wendell’s_Hot_Pi_|_Self-Hosted_85⠀⇛ Wendell from Level One Techs joins us to catch up on low-power hardware, his home automation setup, and thoughts on so much more. # ⚓ CNX Software ☛ PineBuds_Pro_ANC_–_TWS_Bluetooth_earbuds with_open-source_firmware_launched_for_$70_–_CNX_Software⠀⇛ Pine64 has just started taking orders for the PineBuds Pro ANC (Active Noise Cancellation) & TWS (True Wireless Sound) earbuds based on the Bestechnic BES2300-YP dual-core Arm Cortex-M4F Bluetooth audio microcontroller found in the PineSound development board. There are plenty of TWS earbuds on the market, but the PineBuds Pro earbuds are hackable thanks to an open-source firmware that could pave the way to interesting features, and potentially the development of open-source firmware transforming the earbuds into hearing aids. o § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ Express ☛ Motorola_reveals_colourful_update,_expect_its Android_rivals_to_follow_|_Express.co.uk⠀⇛ # ⚓ GSM Arena ☛ Google_announces_new_Android_and_Wear_OS features_–_GSMArena.com_news⠀⇛ # ⚓ The Verge ☛ OnePlus_says_select_2023_phones_will_get_four major_Android_updates_–_The_Verge⠀⇛ # ⚓ SamMobile ☛ Carrier-locked_Galaxy_Tab_S8_gets_Android_13 update_in_the_US_–_SamMobile⠀⇛ # ⚓ GSM Arena ☛ OnePlus_announces_Android_13_Open_Beta_for_Nord 2T_–_GSMArena.com_news⠀⇛ # ⚓ GSM Arena ☛ Nokia_confirms_Android_13_is_coming_to_five more_phones_–_GSMArena.com_news⠀⇛ # ⚓ Android Headlines ☛ Samsung’s_Galaxy_A51_5G,_Xcover_5_– more_get_Android_13⠀⇛ # ⚓ Android Police ☛ Vendor_certificate_leak_could_give_malware full_control_over_Android_phones⠀⇛ # ⚓ The Sun ☛ Millions_of_Android_phone_owners_are_getting amazing_free_upgrade_from_Google_|_The_US_Sun⠀⇛ # ⚓ Android Police ☛ How_to_check_if_your_text_was_read_on Android⠀⇛ # ⚓ NDTV ☛ android_updates_features_reader_mode_car_key_sharing messages_youtube⠀⇛ * § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾ o ⚓ The Register UK ☛ Google_frees_nifty_ML_image-compression_model_• The_Register⠀⇛ A new application of machine learning looks both clever and handy, as opposed to the more normal properties of being somewhere between privacy-, copyright-, or life- endangering. But before you get too excited, you can’t have it. The true cost of ML applications varies. Many are free to use, which means they endanger the paid income of someone somewhere. Speech recognition puts poor people in call centers out of work. “AI” image generators deprive creative artists of their income, and “AI” text generators threaten writers – in those few jobs which survived the web destroying print journalism, anyway. Applying ML to image compression and decompression seems like a relatively safe use. Adding more smarts to image compression has felt like it was an inspired idea waiting for its moment ever since Michael Barnsley invented fractal image compression in 1987. o § Web Browsers/Web Servers⠀➾ # ⚓ It’s FOSS ☛ Privacy-Preserving_Ads_Make_a_Debut_on_Brave Search⠀⇛ Brave Search is an independent search engine that claims not to track its users and provides a safe and secure search experience. It aims to be a privacy-friendly alternative to the extensive tech services from Microsoft and Google. With a recent announcement, they introduced a new feature to Brave Search. The search will now show ‘privacy-preserving’ ads as part of a global beta program. o § Productivity Software/LibreOffice/Calligra⠀➾ # ⚓ Document Foundation ☛ Winners_in_the_Month_of_LibreOffice, November_2022!_–_The_Document_Foundation_Blog⠀⇛ At the start of November, we began a new Month of LibreOffice, celebrating community contributions all across the project. We do these every six months – so how many people got sticker packs this time? o § Programming/Development⠀➾ # ⚓ Qt ☛ Looking_for_our_2022_Qt_Champions!⠀⇛ It’s that time of the year again, and we present the usual end-of-year question. Who from your peers should be recognised as a Qt Champion? Look back at 2022, and think about someone who helped you and the Community in general during this past year. * § Leftovers⠀➾ o ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Can_We_Say_“Hallelujah”_About_the_New_Leonard Cohen_Documentary?⠀⇛ Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, A Song, A Journey. Dirs. Dan Geller, Dana Goldfine, Sony Pictures Classics, 2022. Now Available on Streaming and Blu Ray/DVD. Could there be any other way to make a musical documentary about Leonard Cohen’s life and work than one focused upon “Hallelujah,” a song which took on a life of its own due in no small part to [*CHECKS NOTES*] the movie Shrek?! While Martin Scorsese’s career-long dalliances with a certain Mr. Zimmerman obviate the positive response to such a query, I likewise admit that I found myself utterly astonished by this picture. o ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Amtraks_Across_America:_the_Myths_of_the_Pacific War_in_New_Orleans⠀⇛ Against my better judgement, I went to the National World War II Museum in New Orleans, which many friends, knowing my interest in the Pacific and European wars, had encouraged me to visit. I had been before, when it was just the D-Day Museum, but since that time the accumulation of all those $30 entrance fees has allowed the museum to acquire the rest of the war and enlarge “the campus” to include all sorts of exhibition halls, including one that has the Solomon (as in the Solomon Islands) Theater. o ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Ply_Your_Craft_With_Tubular_Origami⠀⇛ Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have just published a paper on creating modular tubular origami machines which they call “Kinegami”, a portmanteau of “kinematic” and “origami”. o ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Grandfathers_of_a_Just_Transition⠀⇛ Fifty years ago engineers working in the military- industrial complex used their skills to transition from building machines of war to developing socially useful products They designed solar panels, wind turbines, heat pumps, hybrid electric vehicles, and even an improved kidney dialysis machine. Their vision, informed by their skills, was incredible. They published their designs as The Lucas Plan and took it around to government leaders to secure funding to manufacture their inventions. Here was a chance for the government to divert funds from armaments to socially useful goods. While they were praised for their imagination and creativity, they never got the funding that they needed. o ⚓ Meduza ☛ Aeroflot,_no_longer_offering_streaming_services, suggests_passengers_use_flights_for_‘digital_detox’_—_Meduza⠀⇛ The Russian airline Aeroflot is no longer providing streaming services for passengers to watch films or listen to music during flights. o § Education⠀➾ # ⚓ Telex (Hungary) ☛ Ministry_of_Interior_decided_its_time_to ask_Hungarian_parents_for_their_opinion_on_the_public education_system⠀⇛ # ⚓ Telex (Hungary) ☛ Almost_five_hundred_teachers_start indefinite_civil_disobedience,_students_in_several_high schools_hold_sit-ins⠀⇛ o § Hardware⠀➾ # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Throwback:_USB_Hotplate_Used_30_Whole_Ports⠀⇛ Once upon a time, USB was still hip, cool, and easy to understand. You could get up to 500 mA out of a port, which wasn’t much, but some companies produced USB cup warmers anyway which were a bit of a joke. However, one enterprising hacker took things further back in 2004, whipping up a potent USB hot plate powered by a cavalcade of ports. # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Simple_ATX_Bench_Power_Supply_Adds_Variable Output⠀⇛ A benchtop power supply is a key thing to have for any aspiring electronics hacker. While you can always buy one, plenty of us have old computer PSUs lying around that could do a fine job themselves. [Frugha] decided to whip up a neat 3D-printed design for converting any ATX PSU into a usable bench unit. o § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾ # ⚓ Antivax_nonsense_about_“PureBloods”_endangers_the_lives_of children⠀⇛ As hard as it is to believe, it’s been over a year since I first wrote about a particularly pernicious phenomenon in the antivaccine movement, the concept of “purebloods,” more specifically the concept that those unvaccinated with one of the COVID-19 vaccines have “pure blood” and that the vaccines somehow “contaminate” the blood. As I pointed out at the time, there is nothing new about “purebloods” other than “new school” antivaxxers having chosen a name based seemingly on disturbingly fascist concepts about “purity,” sparking an obvious comparison to a character from one of my favorite movies of all time, Brigadier General Jack D. Ripper from one of my favorite movies of all time, Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb. Specifically, the concept reminds me of how Gen. Ripper would seemingly reasonably rant about how fluoridation is a Communist plot to “sap and impurify” the “precious bodily fluids” of real Americans, noting that anti-fluoridation, antivaccine, and anti-GMO pseudoscience all tap into the alternative medicine fear of “contamination” as a cause of ill health and “purity of essence” (again, from Dr. Strangelove) as key to good health. # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Video_Game_Addiction_Is_Over,_Says_Chinese_Video Game_Addiction_Regulator⠀⇛ We should always be wary when a government entity charged with ending [insert issue here] declares said issue ended. We should be doubly wary when a Chinese government agency says anything about anything. o § Proprietary⠀➾ # ⚓ Computer Weekly ☛ Microsoft_365_banned_in_German_schools over_privacy_concerns_|_TechTarget⠀⇛ Federal German data protection authorities have banned the use of Microsoft Office 365 in schools due to privacy concerns around the use of US cloud providers. The German Data Protection Conference (DSK) – which consists of the German Federal Data Protection Authority and 16 state regulators – said that, given the lack of transparency around how Microsoft collects and processes personal data, as well as the potential for third-party access to it, the use of O365 is not legally compliant with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). “Microsoft does not fully disclose which processing operations take place in detail. In addition, Microsoft does not fully disclose which processing operations are carried out on behalf of the customer or which are carried out for its own purposes,” said a report by the DSK working group looking at the issue. “The contractual documents are not precise in this regard and do not allow for conclusive evaluation of processing, which may even be extensive, including for the company’s own purposes,” the report continued. o § Security⠀➾ # ⚓ Diffoscope ☛ Reproducible_Builds:_diffoscope_228_released⠀⇛ The diffoscope maintainers are pleased to announce the release of diffoscope version 228. This version includes the following changes: [ FC Stegerman ] * As an optimisation, don't run apktool if no differences are detected before the signing block. (Closes: reproducible-builds/ diffoscope!105) [ Chris Lamb ] * Support both the python3-progressbar and python3- progressbar2 Debian packages, two modules providing the "progressbar" Python module. (Closes: reproducible-builds/diffoscope#323) * Ensure we recommend apksigcopier. (Re: reproducible-builds/diffoscope!105) * Make the code clearer around generating the Debian substvars and tidy generation of os_list. * Update copyright years. ⚓ Pen Test Partners ☛ Consumer_advice_for_buying_smart_IoT_devices_this Christmas_|_Pen_Test_Partners⠀⇛ Rightly or wrongly there’s plenty of fear, uncertainty, and downright doom associated with the IoT and devices. So, is it safe to buy these things as gifts or even as a treat for yourself this year? In our opinion it probably is, as long as you follow some basic advice. ⚓ LWN ☛ Security_updates_for_Friday_[LWN.net]⠀⇛ Security updates have been issued by Debian (snapd), Fedora (firefox, libetpan, ntfs-3g, samba, thunderbird, and xen), SUSE (busybox, emacs, and virt-v2v), and Ubuntu (linux, linux-aws, linux-aws-5.15, linux-gcp, linux-gkeop, linux-hwe-5.15, linux-ibm, linux-intel-iotg, linux-kvm, linux-lowlatency, linux-lowlatency-hwe-5.15, linux-oracle, linux-oracle-5.15, linux-raspi, linux, linux-aws, linux-aws-5.4, linux-gcp, linux-gcp-5.4, linux-gkeop, linux-hwe-5.4, linux-ibm, linux-ibm-5.4, linux-kvm, linux-oracle, linux-oracle-5.4, linux- raspi, linux-raspi-5.4, linux, linux-aws, linux-dell300x, linux-gcp- 4.15, linux-kvm, linux-oracle, linux-raspi2, linux-snapdragon, linux, linux-aws, linux-gcp, linux-ibm, linux-kvm, linux-lowlatency, linux- oracle, linux-raspi, linux, linux-aws, linux-kvm, linux-lts-xenial, linux-aws-hwe, linux-gcp, linux-hwe, linux-oracle, and tiff). ⚓ The Register UK ☛ Intruders_gain_access_to_user_data_in_LastPass_incident_• The_Register⠀⇛ Intruders broke into a third-party cloud storage service LastPass shares with affiliate company GoTo and gained access to “certain elements” of customers’ information, the pair have confirmed. LastPass did not define what it meant by “certain elements,” saying it was unsure what data was looked at: “We are working diligently to understand the scope of the incident and identify what specific information has been accessed this morning.” Last night’s statement also confirmed the attackers obtained the information to carry out the current intrusion using information stolen in an August attack, which we covered here. ⚓ Bruce Schneier ☛ LastPass_Security_Breach_–_Schneier_on_Security⠀⇛ The company was hacked, and customer information accessed. No passwords were compromised. * § Confidentiality⠀➾ o ⚓ LWN ☛ Samsung,_LG,_Mediatek_certificates_compromised_to_sign Android_malware_(Bleeping_Computer)_[LWN.net]⠀⇛ Bleeping Computer reports that the Android platform signing certificates for several manufacturers have leaked and been used to sign malware. § Defence/Aggression⠀➾ * ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Opinion_|_8_Reasons_Why_Now_Is_a_Good_Time_for_a Ukraine_Ceasefire_and_Peace_Talks⠀⇛ As the war in Ukraine has dragged on for nine months and a cold winter is setting in, people all over the world are calling for a Christmas truce, harkening back to the inspirational Christmas Truce of 1914. In the midst of World War I, warring soldiers put down their guns and celebrated the holiday together in the no-man’s land between their trenches. This spontaneous reconciliation and fraternization has been, over the years, a symbol of hope and courage. * ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Eight_Reasons_Why_Now_is_a_Good_Time_for_a_Ukraine Ceasefire_and_Peace_Talks⠀⇛ As the war in Ukraine has dragged on for nine months and a cold winter is setting in, people all over the world are calling for a Christmas truce, harkening back to the inspirational Christmas Truce of 1914. In the midst of World War I, warring soldiers put down their guns and celebrated the holiday together in the no-man’s land between their trenches.This spontaneous reconciliation and fraternization has been, over the years, a symbol of hope and courage. Here are eight reasons why this holiday season too offers the potential for peace and a chance to move the conflict in Ukraine from the battlefield to the negotiating table. * ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ “I_am_Vanessa_Guillen”,_New_Film_Recounts_Latina-Led Fight_Over_Military_Sexual_Abuse⠀⇛ Two years ago, city hall plaza in our hometown, Richmond, CA., was the scene of a protest vigil organized by Estefany Sanchez and her two sisters. Estefany is a Richmond resident and an Army veteran whose experience of sexual harassment in the military led her to identify strongly with the tragic case of Vanessa Guillen, a 20-year old soldier at Fort Hood in Killeen, Texas. Guillen was sexually harassed by fellow soldiers, at a base with one of the highest rates of sexual assault, sexual trafficking, suicide, and murder anywhere in the military.  Her complaints to superior officers were repeatedly ignored before she was killed while at work in an armory on the base. Guillen’s assailant, Aaron Robinson, then secretly moved, dismembered, and buried her body, with the help of a civilian accomplice still awaiting trial. After escaping from military custody, Robinson became one of more than 70 suicides at Fort Hood since 2016. § Environment⠀➾ * ⚓ Project Censored ☛ Community-Based,_Cross-National_Responses_to_Climate Change_–_Validated_Independent_News⠀⇛ As Jena Brooker reported for Nexus Media News in October 2022, community activists in Detroit have long sought solutions to their city’s waste management problems. In 2019, Brooker reported, Breathe Free Detroit and other community groups succeeded in a campaign to shut down the city’s waste incinerator, which was one of the largest in the United States. * § Energy⠀➾ o ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Car_Batteries:_More_Than_Just_Wet_Lead⠀⇛ Working on car electrical systems used to be easy. The battery simply provided power for the car’s starter motor when starting or to run the small number of accessories when the engine wasn’t running. The rest of the time, the alternator charged the battery and provided power for the rest of the vehicle and the ignition system. While very early cars didn’t have batteries, and some old cars had 6 V positive ground systems, most of us have lived our entire lives where car batteries come in several sizes (controlled by Battery Council International) and cars have a 12 V, negative ground system. o ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Three_UK_Universities_Ban_Fossil_Fuel_Industry Recruiters_From_Campus⠀⇛ University students campaigning for climate justice in the United Kingdom celebrated a victory Thursday as three institutions announced they will no longer welcome fossil fuel company recruiters to seek new employees through their career services, with one university official noting the decision will support “the development of a sustainable workforce for the future.” Under pressure from groups including People & Planet, the University of the Arts London, University of Bedfordshire, and Wrexham Glyndwr University have all adopted new policies barring fossil fuel companies from working with their student recruitment services. * § Wildlife/Nature⠀➾ o ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ There_Won’t_be_Much_Left_of_Our_Public_Forests After_the_Forest_Service_Gets_Done_“Restoring”_Them⠀⇛ o ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Experts_Warn_‘Doomsday_Scenario’_for_Colorado River_Basin_Possible_in_2023⠀⇛ The catastrophic chain of events that water and power authorities are working to prepare for amid the desertification of the Colorado River basin would amount to a “complete doomsday scenario,” harming water and electricity supplies for millions, according to new reporting from The Washington Post. While the Biden administration earlier this year ordered water use cuts in Arizona, Nevada, and parts of Mexico that use water from the rapidly shrinking Colorado River, officials in the region are examining how they can keep Lake Powell and Lake Mead—the largest human-made reservoirs in the U.S.—from reaching dangerous “dead pool” status, in which water levels would drop so low that water no longer flows downstream. o ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ The_Eerie_Silence_of_Elder_Trees⠀⇛ Well, that’s not entirely true; some years ago I visited Muir Woods with friends, but was distracted from any sense of awe by a combination of infinite tourists and the trail barriers that forbid any aimless wandering. Recently my housemate told me about Montgomery Woods state park up north in Ukiah, home to redwood elders. We decided to make the trek. One of the many unfortunate ironies of our mechanical dystopia is that you need a car to get to places where you don’t have to be around cars… or other humans. It took us nearly three hours to drive from Oakland up highway 101 and then negotiate the winding, narrow road out to the park. It was worth every second. * § Overpopulation/Overheating⠀➾ o ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Paying_for_an_Overheating_Earth⠀⇛ Having endured 19 years of suffering inflicted by the brute force of imperialism during America’s “Global War on Terror,” Paracha, along with all of Pakistan, will now suffer through the climatic devastation wrought by the invisible hand of economic imperialism. Indeed, even as his family members were embracing him for the first time since that fateful day in 2003 when he was seized in an FBI sting operation in Thailand, governments and corporations throughout the Global North were sharpening their knives, preparing to reassert their dominance as they do at every year’s U.N. climate conference — this one being COP27 in Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt. But delegates from climate-vulnerable, cash-poor countries like Pakistan and Egypt, along with members of climate-justice movements from across the planet, were also there. Tired of being pushed around, they had other plans. § Finance⠀➾ * ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Merkley_Bill_Aims_to_Dismantle_Hedge_Fund_Stranglehold on_Housing_Market⠀⇛ As millions of Americans struggle to afford rent and mortgage rates, U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley on Wednesday unveiled legislation intended to stop major Wall Street investors and hedge fund predators from continuing to exacerbate the nation’s housing crisis. “Everyone should have a safe, affordable place to call home.” * ⚓ Telex (Hungary) ☛ Hungarian_economy_slowing_down,_fresh_GDP_data reveals⠀⇛ * ⚓ Meduza ☛ Russian_government_raises_housing_and_utility_tariffs_for third_time_in_2022_—_Meduza⠀⇛ On December 1, tariffs on housing and utility services in Russia increased. The marginal price increase in all of the country’s regions for gas, electricity, water, and heat supplies was 9 percent, in accordance with a resolution adopted by the government in November. § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾ * ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ The_Defrocking_of_St._Ron_DeSantis⠀⇛ Like Donald Trump and a gaggle of other GOP governors, DeSantis has used the phony bugaboo of an illegal voting epidemic as a political ploy to keep true believers believing. They spend millions of taxpayer dollars on partisan wild goose chases — DeSantis even created a new police bureaucracy, the “Office of Election Crimes,” to snoop on voters. It was all just silly political nastiness, but then Ron’s dragnet scooped up 20 of the diabolical culprits — about one 10,000th of a percent of the state’s over 14 million registered voters. Vindication! * ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Right_or_Wrong_Polls_Aren’t_Good⠀⇛ The vast majority of political journalists were suckered, swayed, and misled by “an extraordinary profusion of bad partisan polling,” wrote Milbank. He wasn’t. He had doubts about a “red wave” early on, of course. It’s not that he’s wrong, or so self-congratulatory, that makes this exasperating. The media’s misplaced predictions of a Democratic rout have been the subject of solipsistic discussion for dreary weeks now. * ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ 10_Suggestions_for_Lula,_New_President_of_Brazil⠀⇛ When I visited you (Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva) in prison on August 30, 2018, in the brief time that the visit lasted, I experienced a whirlwind of ideas and emotions that remain as vivid today as they were then. A short time before, we had been together at the World Social Forum in Salvador da Bahia. In the penthouse of the hotel where you were staying, we exchanged ideas with Brazilian politician Jacques Wagner about your imprisonment. You still had some hope that the judicial system would suspend the persecutory vertigo that had descended upon you. I, perhaps because I am a legal sociologist, was convinced that this would not happen, but I did not insist. At one point, I had the feeling that you and I were actually thinking and fearing the same thing. A short time later, they were arresting you with the same arrogant and compulsive indifference with which they had been treating you up to that point. Judge Sergio Moro, who had linkswith the U.S. (it is too late to be naive), had accomplished the first part of his mission by putting you behind bars. The second part would be to keep you locked up and isolated until “his” candidate (Jair Bolsonaro) was elected, one who would give Moro a platform to get to the presidency of the republic later on. This is the third phase of the mission, still underway. When I entered the premises of Brazil’s federal police, I felt a chill when I read the plaque marking that President Lula da Silva had inaugurated those facilities 11 years earlier as part of his vast program to upgrade the federal police and criminal investigation system in the country. A whirlwind of questions assaulted me. Had the plaque remained there out of oblivion? Out of cruelty? Or to show that the spell had turned against the sorcerer? That a bona fide president had handed the gold to the bandit? * ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Lula_Aims_to_Create_New_Federal_Police_Unit_to_Curb Environmental_Crimes_in_Brazil⠀⇛ The administration of leftist Brazilian President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva wants to establish a new Federal Police unit focused on deterring environmental crimes, Reuters reported Wednesday. “The crimes that happened during the current government will now be combated.” * ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Speaker_Pelosi_and_Majority_Leader_Schumer_–_Use_the Lame-duck_Session_for_the_People⠀⇛ On July 23, 2022, twenty-four prominent civic advocates and leaders, many of whom you know, made a Zoom presentation for congressional candidates and staff about how to readily defeat the worst GOP – by numerous measures – in history. These presenters were brought together by Mark Green and I. It was not easy to get through the screen of corporate-conflicted political/media consultants to reach candidates. This is a problem the Democratic Party has to confront as it looks back and to see why winnable congressional contests were lost or just narrowly won. Visit winningamerica.net and judge for yourselves how effective these policies, strategies, tactics, messaging, rebuttals, slogans and techniques for GOTV would have been if they were applied before the election on November 8, 2022. * ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Opinion_|_Message_to_Chuck_and_Nancy:_Use_the_Lame_Duck for_People!⠀⇛ Dear Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, * ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ There_is_Nothing_Left_in_the_Democrats⠀⇛ * ⚓ Meduza ☛ Alexey_Navalny_back_in_penal_cell,_this_time_for_‘violating dress_code’_—_Meduza⠀⇛ Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny is once again in a penal cell (the so-called “ShIZO”). This is the eighth of the politician’s back-to-back stays in penal confinement, which brings his total time in the ShIZO to 73 days. The maximal legal length of penal confinement is 15 days. § Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾ * ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Elon_Musk_Continues_Along_The_Content_Moderation_Learning Curve,_But_Doesn’t_Seem_To_Be_Learning_A_Damn_Thing⠀⇛ You know, it was just a few weeks ago that we posted an open letter to Elon Musk laying out just some of the basics of speedrunning the content moderation learning curve. And, as people keep reminding me, he seems to be doing all the levels all at once. * ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Court_Again_Tells_Cops_That_A_Councilwoman_Referring_To_Them As_Murderers_Isn’t_Defamation⠀⇛ In March 2019, we reported that a Washington federal court has tossed (definitively) a lawsuit brought by two Seattle police officers who believed being called murderers gave them a cause of action. § Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press⠀➾ * ⚓ Project Censored ☛ Citizen_Journalists_in_Cambodia,_Thailand,_and Myanmar_at_Risk_–_Validated_Independent_News⠀⇛ As Palatino noted, citizen journalists are often crucial sources of credible information, “especially in communities where local conflicts and protests are not consistently covered by mainstream media.” § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾ * ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Starbucks_Violated_Law_and_Must_Bargain_With_Union_in Seattle:_NLRB⠀⇛ After months of lawbreaking, Starbucks must swiftly begin negotiating with a union formed at one of its locations in Seattle, the federal agency that enforces labor law reaffirmed Wednesday. The unanimous decision from three members of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) comes after employees of the Starbucks Reserve Roastery at 1124 Pike St. in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood voted 38-27 in April to form a union—which the company has been fighting against since. * ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Opinion_|_FDR,_Georgia,_and_Social_Security:_A Relationship_Worth_Protecting⠀⇛ The name Franklin D. Roosevelt and the town of Warm Springs, Georgia, are forever linked in history. He spent so much time there between 1924 and 1945 that it became known as the “Little White House.” * ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Opinion_|_The_Racists_Return_to_Kindergarten⠀⇛ Damn those Marxists! * ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Putting_‘Profits_Over_People’,_Senate_Rejects_Paid_Sick Leave_for_Rail_Workers⠀⇛ Speaking on the U.S. Senate floor Thursday before votes on a trio of bills affecting the nation’s freight rail employees, Sen. Bernie Sanders said he had one “simple question” to ask: “Are any Republicans prepared to stand with rail workers who have zero paid sick days or are they instead going to back the outrageous greed of the rail industry?” Sanders (I-Vt.) got his answer a short time later when 42 Republicans—and serial Democratic obstructionist Joe Manchin of West Virginia—voted down Rep. Jamaal Bowman’s (D-N.Y.) proposal to include seven paid sick days in the tentative contract being foisted upon rail workers by Congress and the Biden administration under the terms of the Railway Labor Act of 1926 in order to avoid a strike that experts say could cost the nation’s economy $2 billion per day. The White House-brokered tentative contract was previously rejected by more than half of the nation’s unionized freight rail employees. * ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ US_Tax_Dollars_at_Work:_Neocolonial_Dictatorship, Paramilitary_and_Police_Terror_in_Haiti_Today⠀⇛ The Biden Administration argues that such foreign intervention is a “humanitarian” necessity given the weakness of the Hatian police force to effectively deal with the “gangs,” more accurately described as highly weaponized paramilitaries indispensable to maintenance of the PHTK regime and the US/UN occupation of Haiti. The Biden Administration calls for both strengthening this police force, through enhanced US aid and training, alongside the deployment of foreign troops to Haiti in order to allegedly restore “law and order” and alleviate the humanitarian crisis in Haiti. This argument reproduces the racist stereotype that the Haitian people are incapable of governing themselves, that they will devolve into “gangs’” without proper supervision by a foreign-funded and trained police force buttressed by foreign occupation troops. Some liberal critics of the Biden Administration’s position, such as former Special Envoy to Haiti Daniel Foote, disagree with the call to send in more foreign troops, but agree with the Administration’s policy prescription to strengthen the Haitian police. US funding of the Haitian police continues to be accepted and legislated by the US Congress at the behest of the Biden Administration. * ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Citing_‘Unprecedented_Crisis,’_House_Dems_Push_Biden_to Protect_Haitians_From_Deportation⠀⇛ The Biden administration faced fresh pressure Thursday to protect Haitians who are in the United States from being deported to a country that has endured increasing economic and political turmoil since a presidential assassination and devastating extreme weather last year. “Given the deteriorating situation in Haiti, this administration should prioritize humanitarian relief.” * ⚓ Meduza ☛ ‘Critical_but_stable’:_Jailed_Belarusian_opposition_leader Maria_Kalesnikava_is_in_the_ICU._Here’s_what_we_know._—_Meduza⠀⇛ Maria Kalesnikava, the Belarusian opposition figure who was sentenced to 11 years in prison for her role in the country’s 2020 anti-government protests, is in intensive care. The press service of the opposition politician and banker Viktar Babaryka, who is also in prison, reported Kalesnikava’s hospitalization on November 29, citing her lawyer. According to Babaryka’s Telegram channel, on November 28, Kalesnikava was transported by ambulance from a women’s penal colony in Gomel to the city hospital. After undergoing surgery, she was reportedly moved to the hospital’s ICU. “She’s currently in a critical but stable condition and improving,” the channel reported on November 29. * ⚓ Meduza ☛ Russian_authorities_add_former_Memorial_lawyer_Ilya_Novikov_to federal_wanted_list_—_Meduza⠀⇛ The Russian Interior Ministry has put a federal warrant out for lawyer Ilya Novikov’s arrest. According to the wanted list on the agency’s official website, the lawyer is the target of a criminal case. * ⚓ Meduza ☛ Russian_Justice_Ministry_publishes_unified_‘foreign_agent’ roster_—_Meduza⠀⇛ The Russian Ministry of Justice has published a unified roster of individuals and organizations designated as “foreign agents.” The new roster merges four different “foreign agent” lists that existed earlier. * ⚓ Meduza ☛ ‘Three_years_down_the_drain’:_Artist_Yulia_Tsvetkova,_who_fled Russia_after_being_acquitted_of_felony_charges_over_her_art,_reflects_on her_case_—_Meduza⠀⇛ * ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ New_Portland_Police_Oversight_Board,_Could_be_Strongest in_the_Nation_and_Create_a_National_Model⠀⇛ Through the protests, Portland police engaged protesters with batons, rubber bullets, other impact weapons and tear gas. Over 6,000 excessive force complaints were filed with the city. The visible brutality against largely peaceful demonstrators inflamed public opinion against the cops. Advocates for police accountability, long frustrated in their efforts by a oversight process that almost uniformly cleared police of brutality complaints, knew this was their moment. They rapidly assembled an effort to place a measure for a police oversight board with real teeth on the November ballot. Former City Commissioner Jo Ann Hardesty, spearheaded the effort. Hardesty has long been concerned about horrifying and unpunished incidents of police brutality in her African- American community. She took the proposed measure to City Council, which unanimously put it on the ballot.  With broad community backing from political leaders, citizen groups and local media, Measure 26-217 secured an overwhelming victory with 82% of the vote. What they passed is seen as what could be the strongest police oversight system in the nation, and a model for other jurisdictions. * ⚓ Meduza ☛ Summa_Group_chairman_Ziyavudin_Magomedov_convicted_of_fraud, sentenced_to_19_years_—_Meduza⠀⇛ Moscow’s Meschansky District Court sentenced Summa Group founder and chairman Ziyavudin Magomedov to 19 years in a penal colony. The former billionaire and his brother, Magomed Magomedov, were found guilty of embezzling 11 billion rubles ($180 million) through land, real estate, and other transactions. § Internet Policy/Net Neutrality⠀➾ * ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Comcast’s_Bullshit_‘Broadcast_TV_Fee’_Surges_To_$27_A Month⠀⇛ Back in 2014, Comcast introduced a new $1.50 per month surcharge on cable bills it called its “Broadcast TV Fee.” Said fee was really just a portion of the cost of doing business for Comcast (programming costs), busted out of the full bill and hidden below the line — designed specifically to let the company falsely advertise a lower price. § Digital Restrictions (DRM)⠀➾ * ⚓ Techdirt ☛ ‘Deus_Ex_Go’_To_Be_Completely_Disappeared_With_Studio Shutdown⠀⇛ It’s a lesson that apparently keeps needing to be re-learned over and over again: for far too many types of digital purchases, you simply don’t own the thing you bought. The arena for this perma-lesson are varied: movies, books, music. And, of course, video games. The earliest lesson in that space may have been when Sony removed a useful feature on its PlayStation 3 console after the public had already begun buying it, which is downright insane. But while that was an entire console being impacted, the lesson has been repeated in instances where games and mobile apps simply stop working when the maker decides to shut their servers down, or purchased DLC disappearing for the same reason. * ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Ubisoft_Runs_Away_From_Epic_Store_And_Back_To_Steam⠀⇛ It’s been a long while since we last discussed the platform war that started between Steam and Epic several years back. The crux of the situation was that Epic began offering a far better revenue split for game publishers compared with Steam, with something like a 10-20% delta in how much of the revenue Epic takes versus Steam. This led to all kinds of public reactions, particularly as Epic began gobbling up game and publisher exclusives as part of that revenue split offering. In general, the public sentiment was essentially: yes, pay publishers more, but to hell with your exclusives. § Monopolies⠀➾ * § Copyrights⠀➾ o ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Congress_Trying_To_Sneak_Through_Internet_Link_Tax_To Funnel_Cash_To_Private_Equity_Firms_That_Are_Destroying_Local Journalism⠀⇛ Congress has a bad habit. They have stopped passing substantive legislation through normal procedure, debate and votes. The legislative process as designed by our Founders is not happening. Instead, Congress is saving most of its actual policy-making legislation for large end-of-the-year bills that can combine hundreds of separate pieces of legislation. And if reports are accurate, we could be shaping up for the granddaddy of them all this December. This process must change, particularly for bills as highly controversial and constitutionally concerning as the misleadingly named Journalism Competition and Preservation Act (JCPA). o ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Published_Author_Decries_Feds_Seizing_Online_Site_Full Of_Unauthorized_Digital_Books⠀⇛ A few weeks ago the FBI and DOJ seized a bunch of domain names associated with Z-Library, an online repository of millions of unauthorized copies of ebooks. The DOJ also issued an indictment of the two Russian nationals (who were arrested in Argentina), who were accused of running the site. I still have significant reservations about the constitutionality of seizing domain names over copyright infringement claims, but if you’re going to run a site like that, it shouldn’t be much of a surprise that eventually the US government is going to go after it. § Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾ * § Personal⠀➾ o ⚓ 🔤SpellBinding:_DILNOUT_Wordo:_ARUMS⠀⇛ o ⚓ Cider_making⠀⇛ This is a record of the cider we made in 2022. We picked and pressed the apples on the 1st October. We collected 3 wheelbarrows full of apples. 1 Lady Sudeley [1] from the West Farm Orchard. 1 green eating apple and 1 green cooking apple from a neighbour’s garden. o ⚓ just_when_you_thought_it_was_safe:_the_pillow_protector⠀⇛ i made a pillow protector using the same pillow case process that i used to make the case. well why not? the point was to practice the pillow case process and also protect the pillow better. * § Technical⠀➾ o ⚓ Large_fonts_for_terminals⠀⇛ I created a program called `termfont` to display strings with large characters like below in terminals, it is similar to `figlet`. =============================================================================== * Gemini_(Primer) links can be opened using Gemini_software. It’s like the World Wide Web but a lot lighter. ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 2264 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐃𝐀𝐈𝐋𝐘 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒 ═════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 12.02.22⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Links_02/12/2022:_Linux_Mint_21.1_Beta_Imminent_and_Linux_(SUID-root)_Has Bugs⠀✐ Posted in News_Roundup at 9:40 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇GNOME bluefish⦈ § Contents⠀➾ * GNU/Linux o Desktop/Laptop o Audiocasts/Shows o Kernel_Space o Applications o Instructionals/Technical o Desktop_Environments/WMs # K_Desktop_Environment/KDE_SC/Qt # GNOME_Desktop/GTK * Distributions_and_Operating_Systems 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 Events o Web_Browsers/Web_Servers # Chromium # Mozilla o GNU_Projects o Programming/Development # Perl_/_Raku # Rust * Leftovers o Security * Gemini*_and_Gopher o Personal o Technical * § GNU/Linux⠀➾ o § Desktop/Laptop⠀➾ # ⚓ EIN Presswire ☛ The_Kubuntu_Focus_Team_Announces_kfocus- source_–_EIN_Presswire⠀⇛ The Kubuntu Focus team today announced the immediate availability of kfocus-source, a unified GitHub repository containing the Kubuntu Focus Suite. This software has always been published under the GPLv2 license, but now with kfocus- source, it’s easier to review and contribute within the standard GitHub interface. The kfocus-source repository provides the Kubuntu Focus Suite of tools, configurations, and hardware optimizations that work in harmony with standard Kubuntu 22.04 LTS. It is carefully designed to avoid reinventing the wheel and does not, for example, contain a variation of an entire operating system, or a shell on top of it. This adds unique value to an already vibrant and broadly supported ecosystem and community. o § Audiocasts/Shows⠀➾ # ⚓ Video ☛ GTOP_Utility_|_System_Monitoring_Dashboard_for Linux_Terminal_–_Invidious⠀⇛ What’s up, Linux Community!!! In this video, I cover Gtop, which is an alternative to top and htop. These tools are used to monitor system resources and processes within the Linux terminal. # ⚓ Linux in the Ham Shack ☛ LHS_Episode_#491:_Beginner_Hams Deep_Dive_|_Linux_in_the_Ham_Shack⠀⇛ Welcome to the 491st installment of Linux in the Ham Shack. In this deep dive episode, the hosts expand on their topic from the previous episode, focusing on new radio amateurs getting into the hobby. This episode focuses on tips, tricks, insights, recommendations and resources for people new to the hobby. We hope you find this episode entertaining and informative. Have a great week. # ⚓ Video ☛ Linux_Lite_6.2_Quick_overview_#shorts_–_Invidious⠀⇛ A Quick Overview of Linux Lite 6.2. # ⚓ Video ☛ Iffy_Eufy_Cameras [Ed: Will be live soon]⠀⇛ This week in the Weekly News Roundup, Privacy- focused cameras Eufy are not as private as advertised. We see Windows malware scaning phones and other attached devices for anything interesting, and Linus is being hard on the developers before the holiday festivities sets in. o § Kernel Space⠀➾ # ⚓ PCLOS Official ☛ Kernel_6.0.11_and_Kernel_5.15.81_Available –_PCLinuxOS⠀⇛ Kernels 6.0.11 and 5.15.81 are now available in the PCLinuxOS Software Repository. # ⚓ Linux mailing lists ☛ Linux_6.0.11⠀⇛ # ⚓ Linux mailing lists ☛ Linux_5.15.81⠀⇛ # ⚓ Linux mailing lists ☛ Linux_5.10.157⠀⇛ # ⚓ Collabora ☛ Tracing_stateless_video_hardware_decoding_in V4L2⠀⇛ Earlier this year, I joined Collabora for a six- month internship to learn how V4L2 (Video4Linux2) supports stateless video hardware decoding. My project was to build a utility that traced and replayed stateless decoding from a userspace perspective. The utility, called the v4l2-tracer, is intended to be part of v4l-utils, a collection of utilities and libraries to handle media devices. The code is currently under review on the mailing list: [PATCH v4] utils: add v4l2-tracer utility. Although there are many excellent tracing tools, such as strace, the v4l2-tracer traces V4L2 stateless decoding more comprehensively. It adds the ability to replay (i.e. “retrace”) the traced activity, portably, between different userspace environments. The project was inspired by another tool, apitrace, which provides the same tracing and retracing functionality for certain graphics APIs. o § Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ Linux Links ☛ Best_Free_and_Open_Source_Alternatives_to Google_Sites⠀⇛ Google has a firm grip on the desktop. Their products and services are ubiquitous. Don’t get us wrong, we’re long-standing admirers of many of Google’s products and services. They are often high quality, easy to use, and ‘free’, but there can be downsides of over-reliance on a specific company. For example, there are concerns about their privacy policies, business practices, and an almost insatiable desire to control all of our data, all of the time. What if you are looking to move away from Google and embark on a new world of online freedom, where you are not constantly tracked, monetised and attached to Google’s ecosystem. In this series we explore how you can migrate from Google without missing out on anything. We recommend open source solutions. o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾ # ⚓ Beebom ☛ How_to_Install_Drivers_in_Ubuntu_(4_Easy_Methods) |_Beebom⠀⇛ If you recently moved to Ubuntu from Windows or macOS and are looking for a way to install drivers in Ubuntu, you have come to the right place. We have added 4 detailed methods to update drivers in Ubuntu, right from downloading additional drivers to installing Nvidia’s latest graphical drivers. Apart from that, we have written separate articles on how to switch between Wayland and Xorg in Ubuntu and have compiled the best screen recording tools on Ubuntu for new users on Linux. On that note, let’s go ahead and learn how to manually install drivers in Ubuntu. # ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_To_Install_FFmpeg_on_Fedora_37_–_idroot⠀⇛ In this tutorial, we will show you how to install FFmpeg on Fedora 37. For those of you who didn’t know, FFmpeg is a collection of free software that can record, convert and stream audio and video. With FFmpeg, you can easily convert your files into the format you need without worrying about compatibility issues. FFmpeg is developed on GNU/ Linux but can be compiled on most operating systems, including Windows. 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 FFmpeg on a Fedora 37. # ⚓ Linux Made Simple ☛ How_to_install_Google_Earth_Pro_on_a Chromebook⠀⇛ Today we are looking at how to install Google Earth Pro on a Chromebook. If you have any questions, please contact us via a Rumble comment and we would be happy to assist you! # ⚓ RoseHosting ☛ How_to_Setup_vsftpd_for_a_User’s_Directory_on Ubuntu_22.04_–_RoseHosting⠀⇛ In this tutorial, we are going to install vsftpd and set it up for a user’s directory on Ubuntu 22.04 VSFTPD is a shortcut of a very secure FTP daemon and is an FTP server for Unix systems, including Linux. Vsftpd is the default FTP server in the Ubuntu, CentOS, and RHEL distributions. System administrators, daily, are adding new users to the systems and configuring the vsftpd to allow the user to upload files or folders only in their directories on the server. This scenario is mostly for resellers who want their users to have limited access. Installing and configuring the vsftpd for a user’s directory on Ubuntu 22.04 is a straightforward process. Let’s get started! # ⚓ RoseHosting ☛ How_to_Install_Varnish_on_Ubuntu_22.04_– RoseHosting⠀⇛ In this tutorial, we are going to show you how to install Varnish on Ubuntu 22.04. Varnish cache is a web application accelerator that is used as caching HTTP reverse proxy. The varnish case has many advantages against other caching software and can speed up delivery up to 1000 times. Varnish offers many features such as private CDN, Gzip compression and decompression, HTTP streaming pass & fetch, etc. In this blog post for the installation, we are going to configure it with the Apache web server. This process is very easy and may take up to 20 minutes. Let’s get started! o § Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾ # ⚓ OMG Ubuntu ☛ This_New_Icon_Theme_Offers_Adwaita-Style_Icons for_3rd_Party_Apps⠀⇛  The new ‘MoreWaita‘ icon set does just that. This community-based icon pack seeks to faithfully craft Adwaita-style icons icons for third-party apps, tools, and services, bringing them into the visual fold to effect a more consistent, unified look across the system. Or to let the folks behind MoreWaita explain: “The purpose of MoreWaita is to add to Adwaita, not modify it, and to do roughly what Breeze does for KDE. This theme does not override any Adwaita icons, nor any Gnome Circle apps icons, nor icons that generally fit into the Adwaita paradigm (like Transmission GTK).” # § K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt⠀➾ # ⚓ KDE Official ☛ KDE’s_End_of_Year_Fundraiser_is_Live_| KDE.news⠀⇛ KDE’s End of Year Fundraiser is officially live! Your donations will help us reach our goals, support our community, fund our events, and show the world how everybody can benefit from KDE software. Today we have the ambitious goal of raising 20,000€ for the KDE. Your donation allows KDE to continue developing the spectacular Plasma desktop and all the apps you need for education, productivity, and creative work. # § GNOME Desktop/GTK⠀➾ # ⚓ This Week in GNOME ☛ #72_Automated_Testing_–_This Week_in_GNOME⠀⇛ Update on what happened across the GNOME project in the week from November 25 to December 02. # ⚓ Hubert Figuière ☛ Niepce_November_2022_updates_– Hubert_Figuière⠀⇛ Before implementing drag and drop between list widgets (the grid view or thumbnail strip and the workspace), we’d better stop using the now deprecated widgets. This mean it is time to remove GtkIconView and GktTreeView as I would hate having to implement drag and drop twice. Now, the grid view / thumbnail strip no longer uses GtkIconView. There are still a few visual adjustments to perform, notably how to get square cells, or rethink the layout. This also got rid of the last leftovers from cbindgen. The workspace (the treeview that list the content of the catalog) is a bit more tricky as the API for tree view with GtkListView has a few limitations and complexities, but it’s mostly done as to have the functionality. It’s the last big patch in November. # ⚓ GNOME ☛ Automated_testing_of_GNOME_Shell_–_GNOME Shell_–_Mutter⠀⇛ Automated testing is important to ensure software continues to behave as it is intended and it’s part of more or less all modern software projects, including GNOME Shell and many of the dependencies it builds upon. However, as with most testing, we can always do better to get more complete testing. In this post, we’ll dive into how we recently improved testing in GNOME Shell, and what this unlocks in terms of future testability. # ⚓ halting_problem_:_On PyGObject⠀⇛ PyGObject is currently undermaintained, even after the heroic efforts of Christoph Reiter to keep the fires burning through the long night. The Python community needs more people to work on the bindings, if we want Python to be a first class citizen of the ecosystem. There’s a lot to do, and not nearly enough people left to do it. * § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾ o § SUSE/OpenSUSE⠀➾ # ⚓ Dominique Leuenberger ☛ openSUSE_Tumbleweed_–_Review_of_the week_2022/48_–_Dominique_a.k.a._DimStar_(Dim*)/Dominique Leuenberger⠀⇛ Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers, There seems to be no stopping Tumbleweed. It has again been rolling at full speed, with 7 snapshots (1125…1201) released this week. As usual, some smaller, some larger ones. o § Fedora Family / IBM⠀➾ # ⚓ Fedora Project ☛ Friday’s_Fedora_Facts:_2022-48_–_Fedora Community_Blog⠀⇛ Here’s your weekly Fedora report. Read what happened this week and what’s coming up. Your contributions are welcome (see the end of the post)! Fedora Linux 35 will reach end of life on 2022-12- 13. I have weekly office hours on Wednesdays in the morning and afternoon (US/Eastern time) in #fedora- meeting-1. Drop by if you have any questions or comments about the schedule, Changes, elections, or anything else. See the upcoming meetings for more information. o § Canonical/Ubuntu Family⠀➾ # ⚓ Neowin ☛ The_Linux_Mint_21.1_Beta_ISOs_are_now_going through_final_checks_–_Neowin⠀⇛ Testing has begun of the Linux Mint 21.1 Beta ISO images, according to the Linux Mint website. The list shows that the Cinnamon, MATE, and Xfce editions are being tested at the time of writing, and they will either be approved for Beta release or rejected. If they fail the tests and get rejected, new images will have to be tested instead, delaying the release of the Beta by an extra day or two. In September, Clem Lefebvre, head of the Linux Mint project, stated that Linux Mint 21.1 codenamed Vera, will launch around Christmas. The project usually has a two-week period before this where it asks the community to try out a Beta release so that any last minute issues can be sorted out before the final release comes out. Once the next version of Linux Mint does arrive around Christmas, people on Linux Mint 21 will be able to easily upgrade their system through the update manager, but it’s not required if you’re happy with Linux Mint 21. Over its lifetime, Linux Mint 21 will receive three point releases, taking it to Linux Mint 21.3. Each of these versions will be supported until the first half of 2027, by which time, Linux Mint 23 should be available, so you’ll probably have upgraded by then anyway. o § Devices/Embedded⠀➾ # ⚓ Linux Gizmos ☛ ARMedONE_Cluster_board_supports_up_to_28x Popular_Computer_Modules⠀⇛ The ARMedOne is a carrier board in E-ATX form- factor that can handle popular SO-DIMM computer modules like the Raspberry Pi CM3/CM4, Jetson Nano/ Xavier/TX2 NX, NXP iMX8, etc. The product is expected to be released around mid-December 2022 on Kickstarter. The ARMedOne is a PC/Server mainboard capable of housing up to 28 computer modules from Raspberry Pi, NVIDIA or any other as long as it’s SO-DIMM compatible (3.3V, 5V or 12V). The mainboard is featured in a E-ATX form-factor (~305 × 330mm) so it’s expected to fit in most E-ATX PC cases or even in Rack-server to deliver high-computing performance within constrained dimensions. o § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ HowTo Geek ☛ 25_Gifts_for_the_Android_User_in_Your_Life⠀⇛ # ⚓ The Sun ☛ Major_warning_for_2million_Android_owners_– someone_may_be_watching_everything_you_type_|_The_US_Sun⠀⇛ # ⚓ Wired ☛ Android_Phone_Makers’_Encryption_Keys_Stolen_and Used_in_Malware_|_WIRED⠀⇛ # ⚓ PC Mag ☛ Google_Messages_Gets_End-to-End_Encryption_for Group_Chats_on_Android_|_PCMag⠀⇛ # ⚓ Digital Trends ☛ Android_13_is_now_available_for_Android_TV |_Digital_Trends⠀⇛ # ⚓ Notebook Check ☛ Google_delivers_Android_13_December_2022 update_for_Pixel_7_and_Pixel_7_Pro_–_NotebookCheck.net_News⠀⇛ # ⚓ Pocket Lint ☛ How_to_take_a_screenshot_on_an_Android smartphone⠀⇛ # ⚓ GO Media ☛ How_to_Share_Your_Location_With_Android Friends⠀⇛ # ⚓ XDA ☛ Can_you_use_the_Google_Pixel_Watch_with_any_Android phone?⠀⇛ * § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾ o ⚓ Venture Beat ☛ PyTorch_2.0_release_accelerates_open-source machine_learning⠀⇛ w known as Meta) in 2016 with the 1.0 release debuting in 2018. In September 2022, Meta moved the PyTorch project to the new PyTorch Foundation, which is operated by the Linux Foundation. o ⚓ Help Net Security ☛ Open-source_tool_puts_machine_learning dataset_analysis_at_data_scientists’_fingertips⠀⇛ Comet released Kangas, an open-source smart data exploration, analysis and model debugging tool for machine learning. [...] Kangas was designed for the entire community, to be embraced by students, researchers and the enterprise. As individuals and teams work to further their ML initiatives, they will be able to leverage the full benefits of Kangas. Being open source, all are able to contribute and further enhance it as well. o ⚓ TechSpot ☛ Open-source_antivirus_ClamAV_finally_goes_1.0,_some_20 years_after_launch_|_TechSpot⠀⇛ Why it matters: ClamAV describes itself as an open-source antivirus engine for detecting trojans, viruses, malware & other malicious threats. Detection levels are pretty low compared to Windows antimalware programs, yet the development has been going on for decades. The tool is available on all platforms, even though it’s targeted primarily at Linux. ClamAV recently released its latest version, an update that can be considered historically significant despite its lackluster changelog. The milestone is ClamAV finally reaching version 1.0.0. It’s the first major release as versioning conventions go, and it came only six months after celebrating its 20th birthday. o § Events⠀➾ # ⚓ Purism ☛ Purism_at_“Le_Capitole_du_Libre”_in_France_– Purism⠀⇛ On the 16th and 20th of November, Adrien Plazas and I had a booth at the French Free Software event “Le Capitole du Libre” in the city of Toulouse. It was the first time the event was taking place since 2019. As for the previous years, this edition was a success and we have met a lot of people during the two days. In this blog post, I will give a short summary of the most frequently asked questions. o § Web Browsers/Web Servers⠀➾ # ⚓ Ubuntu Handbook ☛ The_Lightweight_Midori_Browser_Revived_ [official_AppImage/Deb]_|_UbuntuHandbook⠀⇛ Remember Midori? The lightweight web browser that was default in Elementary OS and Bodhi Linux revived! Midori was a popular lightweight web browser used the WebKitGTK rendering engine and GTK UI toolkit. The development of the project was however discontinued more than 3 years ago. And, Ubuntu even removed it from system repository since Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. According to the Wikipedia, the Midori project has been merged with the Astian Foundation in 2019. And, Astian announced a week ago that Midori browser is still alive! It’s now Chromium based web browser that using Electron and React with both desktop edition for Linux, macOS, and Windows, and mobile edition for Android. The browser still aims to be lightweight, fast and free. It’s still an open-source app, with the source code host in gitlab project page. # § Chromium⠀➾ # ⚓ Google ☛ Chrome_Releases:_Chrome_for_Android_Update⠀⇛ We’ve just released Chrome 108 (108.0.5359.79) for Android: it’ll become available on Google Play over the next few days. This release includes stability and performance improvements. You can see a full list of the changes in the Git log. If you find a new issue, please let us know by filing a bug. # ⚓ Google ☛ Chrome_Releases:_Stable_Channel_Update_for Desktop⠀⇛ The Stable channel has been updated to 108.0.5359.94 for Mac and Linux and 108.0.5359.94/.95 for Windows, which will roll out over the coming days/weeks. A full list of changes in this build is available in the log. # § Mozilla⠀➾ # ⚓ Firefox_Nightly:_WebExtensions_Mv3,_WebMIDI, OpenSearch,_PiP_updates_and_more!_–_These_Weeks_in Firefox:_Issue_128⠀⇛ o § GNU Projects⠀➾ # ⚓ GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP) ☛ GIMP_2.10.32_on Apple Silicon_–_GIMP⠀⇛ It is a bit of an early Christmas for people using Apple Silicon machines (Apple M1, M2…) as we release for the first time ever a stable version of GIMP for this architecture! It is a revision package for GIMP 2.10.32, already released a few months ago, re-built with our new MacPorts-based infrastructure on both x86_64 (“macOS on Intel” architecture) and AArch64 (“macOS on Apple Silicon”). Note that we provide 2 DMG packages now, one for each architecture, not a single universal package. The website will try and detect which architecture you are on, but if it fails to detect properly (detection is not as easy on some browsers), be careful to choose the version for the correct hardware (“for Intel” or “for Apple Silicon“). o § Programming/Development⠀➾ # ⚓ gbuild:_LibreOffice_build_system_–_part_1_–_LibreOffice Development_Blog⠀⇛ LibreOffice uses a build system that has the name gbuild which works on the top of GNU Make. Migrating from the old build system to gbuild is started in the OpenOffice days, but the migration took a while, and a lot of efforts, and finished around LibreOffice 4.1. This LibreOffice build system uses GNU Make, Perl and Python, so you need to have these prerequisites in order to be able to build LibreOffice. # ⚓ The Register UK ☛ .NET_open_source_is_‘heavily_under- funded’_says_AWS [Ed: Microsoft media operative Tim Anderson is back to promoting Microsoft stuff at The Register]⠀⇛ Amazon web arm investing in Microsoft’s platform to help customers escape Windows # ⚓ Falsehoods_programmers_believe_about_undefined_behavior⠀⇛ Undefined behavior (UB) is a tricky concept in programming languages and compilers. Over the many years I’ve been an industry mentor for MIT’s 6.172 Performance Engineering course, An excellent class that I highly recommend. It’s very thorough and hands-on, at the expense of also requiring a lot of work at a very fast pace. When I took it as an undergrad, that was a great tradeoff, but YMMV. I’ve heard many misconceptions about what the compiler guarantees in the presence of UB. This is unfortunate but not surprising! For a primer on undefined behavior and why we can’t just “define all the behaviors,” I highly recommend Chandler Carruth’s talk “Garbage In, Garbage Out: Arguing about Undefined Behavior with Nasal Demons.” You might also be familiar with my Compiler Adventures blog series on how compiler optimizations work. An upcoming episode is about implementing optimizations that take advantage of undefined behavior like dividing by zero, where we’ll see UB “from the other side.” # ⚓ Lorin Hochstein ☛ Cache_invalidation_really_is_one_of_the hardest_problems_in_computer_science_–_Surfing_Complexity⠀⇛ My colleagues recently wrote a great post on the Netflix tech blog about a tough performance issue they wrestled with. They ultimately diagnosed the problem as false sharing, which is a performance problem that involves caching. I’m going to take that post and write a simplified version of part of it here, as an exercise to help me understand what happened. After all, the best way to understand something is to try to explain it to someone else. But note that the topic I’m writing about here is outside of my personal area of expertise, so caveat lector! # ⚓ Tim Misiak ☛ Recognizing_patterns_in_memory_//_TimDbg⠀⇛ Something I find frustrating is how hard it is to teach debugging skills. I think the biggest reason is because there are many things that can only be learned through experience. This is true for anything that requires pattern recognition. Our brains are great at recognizing patterns, but it often takes a large amount of practice to be able to identify useful patterns in data. I can’t instantly give you pattern recognition skills with a short blog post, but I can tell you about some of the patterns that I look for so you can start to train your brain to see these as well. Recognizing patterns in memory can be useful as it can give you a hint for things like memory corruption, which are often some of the hardest errors to debug from a postmortem analysis. Getting a rough idea of what type data is ovewriting other data in a process can tell you where to look next for the source of memory corruption. It can help narrow down where an issue might be because the bug is usually near the code that wrote this data. # ⚓ Simon Willison ☛ Coping_strategies_for_the_serial_project hoarder⠀⇛ I gave a talk at DjangoCon US 2022 in San Diego last month about productivity on personal projects, titled “Massively increase your productivity on personal projects with comprehensive documentation and automated tests”. The alternative title for the talk was Coping strategies for the serial project hoarder. I’m maintaining a lot of different projects at the moment. Somewhat unintuitively, the way I’m handling this is by scaling down techniques that I’ve seen working for large engineering teams spread out across multiple continents. The key trick is to ensure that every project has comprehensive documentation and automated tests. This scales my productivity horizontally, by freeing me up from needing to remember all of the details of all of the different projects I’m working on at the same time. # ⚓ Stack Overflow ☛ Why_writing_by_hand_is_still_the_best_way to_retain_information⠀⇛ Picture this: it’s a work day at an enterprise payments processing company, and there is a critical data engineering task that needs to be completed. In this case, I’m the data engineer who needs to finish the task, but I am missing information necessary for my data model to be finished. I heard the information in a meeting. It was discussed in the daily standup. I have some vague typed notes, but I can’t recall the technical details I need to finish my work. No one is available to answer my question. It’s then that it hits me: I should have written down notes by hand during the meeting. Writing notes by hand would have given me several different tangible resources that could help me find the critical missing information: a stronger memory of the meeting I was in, the gaps in the details of the discussion that occurred, and the notes themselves that would help me trigger a stronger recall of the events just by reviewing them on paper. Detailed typed notes would not help my recall and retention of the information in the meetings in the same way that notes written by hand would, though they would have been helpful. # ⚓ Ben Hoyt ☛ I/O_is_no_longer_the_bottleneck⠀⇛ When interviewing programmers, I often ask them to code a simple program to count word frequencies in a text file. It’s a good problem that tests a bunch of skills, and with some follow-up questions, allows you to go surprisingly deep. One of the follow-up questions I ask is, “What’s the performance bottleneck in your program?” Most people say something like “reading from the input file”. In fact, I was inspired to write this article after responding to someone on Gopher Slack, who said, “I also note there’s a lot of extra work happening here in splitting the entire line, etc, it’s just that typically this is all so much faster than I/ O that we don’t care.” I’m not picking on him … before I analyzed the performance of the count-words problem, I thought the same. It’s what we’ve all been taught, right? “I/O is slow.” Not anymore! Disk I/O may have been slow 10 or 20 years ago, but in 2022, reading a file sequentially from disk is very fast. # ⚓ Tyler Cipriani ☛ Git_Notes:_Git’s_Coolest,_Most_Unloved­ Feature_–_Tyler_Cipriani⠀⇛ the short of it is: they’re cool for appending notes from automated systems (like ticket or build systems) but not really for having interactive conversations with other developers (at least not yet) # § Perl / Raku⠀➾ # ⚓ Rakulang ☛ Day_3:_Santa_and_the_Rakupod_Wranglers_– Raku_Advent_Calendar⠀⇛ Santa’s world was increasingly going high- tech, and his IT department was polishing off its new process that could take the millions of letters received from boys and girls around the world, scan them into digital form with state-of-the-art optical character recognition hardware, and produce outputs that could greatly streamline the Santa Corporation’s production for Christmas delivery. One problem had initially stymied them, but consultants from the Raku community came to their aid. (As you may recall, IT had become primarily a Raku shop because of the power of the language for all their programming needs ranging from shop management to long-range planning.) The problem was converting the digital output from the OCR hardware to final PDF products for the factories and toy makers. The growing influence of Github and its Github-flavored Markdown format had resulted in IT’s post-OCR software converting the text into that format. That was fine for initial use for production planning, but for archival purposes it lacked the capability to provide textual hints to create beautiful digital documents for permanent storage. The Raku consultants suggested converting the Markdown to Rakupod which has as much potential expressive, typesetting power as Donald Knuth’s TeX and its descendants (e.g., Leslie Lamport’s LaTex, ConTeXt, and XeTeX). As opposed to those formats, the Rakupod product is much easier to scan visually and, although current Raku products are in the early stages of development, the existing Rakupod-to-PDF process can be retroactively improved by modifying the existing Rakupod when future products are improved. # ⚓ Perl ☛ This_Week_in_PSC_(089)_|_Perl_Steering_Council [blogs.perl.org]⠀⇛ Back to the full three of us. Not much needed looking at this week. # § Rust⠀➾ # ⚓ Matt Welsh ☛ Using_Rust_at_a_startup:_A_cautionary tale_|_by_Matt_Welsh_|_Nov,_2022_|_Medium⠀⇛ Rust is awesome, for certain things. But think twice before picking it up for a startup that needs to move fast. # ⚓ WebAssembly:_Go_vs_Rust_vs_AssemblyScript_::_Ecostack —_a_developer_blog⠀⇛ Imagine you are working on the next big thing that runs in the browser, and it requires some heavy-duty code, which need to run fast and efficient. You remember that your friend Jack told you about WebAssembly (Wasm), which supposedly runs faster than JavaScript (JS), so you decide to check it out. * § Leftovers⠀➾ o § Security⠀➾ # ⚓ Security Week ☛ Three_Innocuous_Linux_Vulnerabilities Chained_to_Obtain_Full_Root_Privileges_|_SecurityWeek.Com⠀⇛ Qualys’ Threat Research Unit has shown how a new Linux vulnerability could be chained with two other apparently harmless flaws to gain full root privileges on an affected system. # ⚓ Security Affairs ☛ A_new_Linux_flaw_can_be_chained_with other_two_bugs_to_gain_full_root_privileges⠀⇛ Qualys researchers demonstrated how to chain a new Linux flaw with two other two issues to gain full root privileges on an impacted system. Researchers at the Qualys’ Threat Research Unit demonstrated how to chain a new Linux vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-3328, with two other flaws to gain full root privileges on an affected system. The vulnerability resides in the snap-confine function on Linux operating systems, a SUID-root program installed by default on Ubuntu. # ⚓ Employees_Don’t_Care_About_the_Data_Breach_Pandemic⠀⇛ Throughout the last decade, data breaches have exploded in numbers, regularity, and severity. Consumer concerns around safety have similarly reached new highs, as they continue to bear the brunt of leaky databases and illicit cybercriminals. The security fabric of organizations is being stretched thinner than ever, but a worrying report has found that a concerning number of US employees simply don’t care. # ⚓ DNA India ☛ Government_issues_‘high’_severity_security alert_for_THESE_Google_users⠀⇛ As per the latest CERT-In security alert, multiple vulnerabilities have been reported in the Linux- based operating system designed by Google. # ⚓ Bleeping Computer ☛ NVIDIA_releases_GPU_driver_update_to fix_29_security_flaws⠀⇛ NVIDIA has released a security update for its GPU display driver for Windows, containing a fix for a high-severity flaw that threat actors can exploit to perform, among other things, code execution and privilege escalation. The latest security update addresses 25 vulnerabilities on the Windows and Linux GPU drivers, while seven flaws are categorized as high- severity. * § Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾ o § Personal⠀➾ # ⚓ You_don’t_need_to_keep_the_fire_on_to_cook_pasta⠀⇛ Our landlord, who lives just next door and turned 100 this year (!), told us that to cook pasta, she doesn’t keep the water boiling during the approximate ten minutes required to obtain al dente pasta. Instead, once the water is boiling, simply add the pasta, wait for the water to start boiling again, then cut the fire, cover with a lid and a towel so that the heat is kept inside the pot. It takes maybe one or two minutes longer to cook. o § Technical⠀➾ # ⚓ How_I_use_the_Internet_Today⠀⇛ Today’s internet is a nightmare to use and navigate, in my opinion. I have little knowledge about the old internet. So, I don’t have much to say about it, but from what I have experienced in the old internet is that it was actually decentralized. Firstly, our internet is occupied by the tech giants. When I talk about the internet, a normal person would think that it’s something that makes Facebook work or something that helps us to chat with people in WhatsApp. The concept of internet being a social, decentralized hub where people can express themselves in their own way has been shadowed by the famous monopoly, i.e. meta(in my opinion, but there’s google as well), and now it is seen as the place where we play by the rules of a company and express ourselves in short microblogs with limited number of words and a single UI where everyone is forced to be in the same place because they will be alone if they want to try something new. # ⚓ Protocol_Specification⠀⇛ “String as hex” is rather vague, and computers can be mighty picky about such details. Humans who have dealt with computers can also be picky, especially if they expect to have to support, fix, or write the code involved, and where they suspect moving goalposts as the details of what exactly a “string” is are revealed, and what exactly “as hex” means. =============================================================================== * Gemini_(Primer) links can be opened using Gemini_software. It’s like the World Wide Web but a lot lighter. ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 3464 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐃𝐀𝐈𝐋𝐘 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒 ═════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 12.02.22⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Links_02/12/2022:_RawTherapee_5.9_and_Camerctrls⠀✐ Posted in News_Roundup at 12:11 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇GNOME bluefish⦈ § Contents⠀➾ * GNU/Linux o Server o Audiocasts/Shows 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 BSD o SUSE/OpenSUSE o Fedora_Family_/_IBM o Debian_Family o Canonical/Ubuntu_Family o Devices/Embedded o Open_Hardware/Modding o Mobile_Systems/Mobile_Applications * Free,_Libre,_and_Open_Source_Software o Web_Browsers/Web_Servers # Chromium # Mozilla o Content_Management_Systems_(CMS) o GNU_Projects o Programming/Development # Perl_/_Raku * Leftovers o Proprietary o Linux_Foundation o Security # Privacy/Surveillance o Environment # Energy # Wildlife/Nature o AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics o Freedom_of_Information_/_Freedom_of_the_Press o Digital_Restrictions_(DRM) * Gemini*_and_Gopher o Personal o Technical # Science # Programming * § GNU/Linux⠀➾ o § Server⠀➾ # ⚓ Kubernetes Blog ☛ Finding_suspicious_syscalls_with_the seccomp_notifier_|_Kubernetes⠀⇛ Debugging software in production is one of the biggest challenges we have to face in our containerized environments. Being able to understand the impact of the available security options, especially when it comes to configuring our deployments, is one of the key aspects to make the default security in Kubernetes stronger. We have all those logging, tracing and metrics data already at hand, but how do we assemble the information they provide into something human readable and actionable? Seccomp is one of the standard mechanisms to protect a Linux based Kubernetes application from malicious actions by interfering with its system calls. This allows us to restrict the application to a defined set of actionable items, like modifying files or responding to HTTP requests. Linking the knowledge of which set of syscalls is required to, for example, modify a local file, to the actual source code is in the same way non- trivial. o § Audiocasts/Shows⠀➾ # ⚓ Video ☛ Rusticl_Brings_A_Massive_New_Feature_To_Mesa_– Invidious⠀⇛ OpenCL is kind of a nightmare on Linux but it’s now getting a whole lot better with the new Rusticl available in Mesa, bringing OpenCL support to AMD, Nouveau and even Intel’s driver stack. # ⚓ Video ☛ How_to_use_APPLE_and_iCloud_apps_and_services_on LINUX_–_Invidious⠀⇛ # ⚓ Jupiter Broadcasting ☛ 269:_Linux_Action_News⠀⇛ Old school Ubuntu has a new cool, Google calls out Google, and some IoT news you can use. o § Graphics Stack⠀➾ # ⚓ Liliputing ☛ Lilbits:_Kindle_Scribe_reviews,_the_NUC_Pro’s new_look,_and_Linux_graphics_on_Apple_Silicon⠀⇛ o § Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ OMG Ubuntu ☛ Camerctrls_is_a_Neat_Webcam_Settings_App_for Linux⠀⇛ This free, open source utility puts a comprehensive suite of webcam controls at your control. The app is accessible though a clean GTK GUI or, if you roll that way, from a command line interface instead. Something of simpler alternative to Guvcview (the ‘gold standard’ in open source webcam tools, imo), Cameratrls lets you configure almost every aspect of a webcam’s picture output, be it from a built-in potato cam or something fancier connected through USB. # ⚓ OMG Ubuntu ☛ Open_Source_Photography_App_’RawTherapee’_Gets Big_Update_–_OMG!_Ubuntu!⠀⇛ Xmas has come early for open-source photography enthusiasts as a brand-new version of Rawtherapee – the first update in two years — is now available to download. RawTherapee 5.9 introduces a new Spot Removal tool, ideal for removing dust specks and small imperfections from images, a new Local Adjustments tool, and a new Perspective Correction tool that includes a handy automated perceptive correction option. Alongside a new automatic white balance method in the White Balance tool there’s a new Preprocess White Balance tool (in the ‘Raw’ tab). This lets you specify if channels should be balanced automatically or if a white balance value recorded by the camera should be used instead. # ⚓ Ubuntu Handbook ☛ RawTherapee_5.9_is_out!_How_to_Install_in Ubuntu_22.04_|_20.04_|_UbuntuHandbook⠀⇛ RawTherapee, the free open-source raw image converter and digital photo processor, released version 5.9 recently after more than 2 years of development. RawTherapee 5.9 features new “Spot Removing Tool” under Details tab for removing dust specks and small objects; Local Adjustments tool under Local tab for performing a wide range of operations on an area of the image determined by its geometry or color; Preprocess White Balance tool under Raw tab to specify whether channels should be balanced automatically or whether the white balance values recorded by the camera should be used instead; and a new Perspective Correction tool which includes an automated perspective correction feature. # ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ The_9_Best_Linux_Cloud_Storage_Solutions_for 2023⠀⇛ Need to sync to the cloud on your Linux PC? Here are the best Linux-compatible cloud services available today. Cloud storage is arguably the best way to back up you personal data. It takes the physical action of backing up out of your hands and leaves you with an accessible archive of data. But cloud storage can be expensive with the wrong provider. If you’re looking for cloud storage for your Linux PC, finding the right service can take a while. To help you out, we’ve collected the best Linux cloud storage providers for you to consider. o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾ # ⚓ Learn Ubuntu ☛ How_to_Check_Firewall_Logs_in_Ubuntu⠀⇛ UFW logs allow users to check for incoming and outgoing packets which also include origin, destination, used protocol, and many other critical details that are crucial for network security. # ⚓ UNIX Cop ☛ How_to_control_when_daily_automatic_Ubuntu updates_happens⠀⇛ In this post, you will learn how to control when daily Ubuntu updates happens. This post although simple is quite useful if you have home test servers. As we know, Ubuntu 22.04 integrates several important options to automate system updates. This saves sysadmin time and effort. But not everything is happiness, there are also times when we need to modify some parameters of those updates to avoid some problems that may arise. Let’s start. # ⚓ UNIX Cop ☛ How_To_Install_TinyCP_on_Ubuntu_20.04_|_22.04 LTS⠀⇛ This post is about install TinyCP on Ubuntu. TinyCP is web based control panel for managing linux like systems. It’s is a most popular lightweight control panel, that provides a wide range of features on a Linux system. # ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ How_to_Visualize_Ping_Responses_on_Linux_With gping⠀⇛ If you don’t fancy the text-based output of the ping command, consider installing gping, a CLI utility that visualizes ping responses on Linux. ping is a simple yet essential tool for diagnosing network issues on Linux. It can help you check your network connection, see if a remote machine is online, and play a vital part in analyzing connectivity issues, such as dropped packages or high latency. But as important as the ping command is, it’s not the most interesting to look at, and interpreting its output in a useful way can be difficult. gping is a graphical command-line utility with additional features which make it easy to visualize ping responses from multiple targets. # ⚓ Citizix ☛ How_to_install_and_use_linkerd_in_kubernetes⠀⇛ In this guide, we’ll walk you through how to install Linkerd into your Kubernetes cluster. Then we’ll deploy a sample application to show off what Linkerd can do. A service mesh is an infrastructure layer that allows you to manage communication between your application’s microservices. # ⚓ Vitux ☛ Getting_Started_with_LaTeX_on_Debian_11_–_VITUX⠀⇛ This tutorial will show the step-by-step installation process of the LaTeX package, editor, and compiler on Debian 10 and Debian 11. # ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_To_Install_PHP_8_on_Fedora_37_–_idroot⠀⇛ In this tutorial, we will show you how to install PHP 8 on Fedora 37. For those of you who didn’t know, PHP is an open-source, general-purpose scripting language mainly used in web development but has also been used as a general-purpose programming language. The new PHP 8.1 brings enums, fibers, never return type, final class constants, intersection types, and read-only properties among new features and changes. 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 PHP 8 on a Fedora 37. # ⚓ Linux Made Simple ☛ How_to_install_Karlson_on_a Chromebook⠀⇛ Today we are looking at how to install Karlson on a Chromebook. If you have any questions, please contact us via a Rumble 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. # ⚓ Ubuntubuzz ☛ Beginner’s_Guide_to_Run_Windows_Apps_and_Games via_Wine_on_Ubuntu⠀⇛ This tutorial will help you to use Microsoft Windows programs and games on Ubuntu using Wine software. You will start by examples we provide (FOSS only) and getting familiar to installing, running, managing and removing programs. We also supply further references for you to learn more. Enjoy! # ⚓ Linux Cloud VPS ☛ 10_Useful_tar_Commands_in_Linux_With Examples_|_LinuxCloudVPS_Blog⠀⇛ This blog post will show you the ten most used tar commands in Linux with examples. The tar command in Linux provides archiving functionality for compressing or decompressing archive files and modifying and maintaining them. With the tar command, we can create tar, gz, bz2 and gzip archives. Administrators use these commands when they want to save some disk space on the servers or when they are migrating files over two host machines. In this tutorial, we are going to execute the tar commands on Ubuntu 22.04 OS, but you can choose any Linux distro. Let’s get started! # ⚓ Creating_a_modifiable_gzipped_disk_image_|_Richard_WM Jones⠀⇛ Dusty Mabe set me a challenge yesterday. He wants to create several compressed disk images that have slightly different content, but are otherwise mostly the same. The disk images are large and compressing them takes a long time (30 minutes each, apparently), so ideally what we’d want to do is compress the disk image just the once and then do the updates on the gzipped image. Modifying a file which has already been compressed is not usually possible. However if we make some relatively uncontroversial assumptions and accept a few limitations then we can create a compressed disk image which is modifiable in this way, certainly for gzip and xz (I need to investigate zstd). # ⚓ Linux Host Support ☛ Improve_Website_Performance_Using_gzip and_Nginx_on_Ubuntu_22.04_|_LinuxHostSupport⠀⇛ A website’s performance depends on many factors, and choosing a suitable web server is one of them. You can choose from many web servers, like Apache, LiteSpeed, Nginx, etc. Nginx is an open-source web server, it was initially developed by Igor Sysoev and released in October 2004. In Nginx, gzip compression can significantly reduce the size of transmitted data to website visitors. Modern web browsers support GZIP compression by default. However, we need to configure our server to serve the compressed resources to our website visitors properly. Without a proper configuration, it could make your server load higher and even slower. This article will show you how to improve website performance using GZIP and Nginx on Ubuntu 22.04. o § Games⠀➾ # ⚓ Godot Engine ☛ Godot_Engine_–_Dev_snapshot:_Godot_4.0_beta 7⠀⇛ Godot 4.0 has been in beta for over two months, and the overall feature completeness, stability and usability have improved a lot during that time. We’ve had beta snapshots every other week, and now we’ve decided to accelerate the cadence to release a new snapshot every week, to get even faster feedback on our bugfixes, and the potential regressions they may introduce. # ⚓ 9to5Linux ☛ Latest_Steam_Client_Update_Improves_New_Big Picture_Mode,_Fixes_Borderlands_2_Crash⠀⇛ The new Steam Client update is here only two weeks after the previous update that introduced the new Big Picture mode that resembles the Steam Deck UI. This update further improves the new Big Picture mode by adding confirmation dialogs for the power menu when shutting down or restarting your PC and fixing several bugs. These bug fixes improve displaying of the new Big Picture Mode window with GPU accelerated rendering disabled, improve the on-screen keyboard to show when it’s requested by a game or Proton, improve the “show password” toggle to show or hide the password, and improve the new Big Picture Mode overlay when switching Virtual Menus with an action set, layer, or modeshift. o § Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾ # ⚓ Xfce_4.18_Pre2_Released⠀⇛ Dear Xfce community, I am happy to announce the release of Xfce4.18 pre2. This platform pre-release consists of the Xfce core components and will be followed by the final Xfce4.18 release soon. We fixed some quirks which were found in Xfce4.18 pre1, did some further polishing and the result is now released as Xfce4.18 pre2. Early adopters are invited to give it a try and to check for compatibility before the final release, which is planned for 15. December. # ⚓ Wallpaper_Contest_for_Xfce_4.18_–_End_of_submissions⠀⇛ The submission deadline for the Xfce 4.18 wallpaper contest just ended, and I am happy to see that many submissions! # § K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt⠀➾ # ⚓ Adriaan de Groot ☛ KDE_e.V._board_sprint,_Berlin_|_ [bobulate]⠀⇛ In two weeks, the board of KDE e.V. – and take note that photo of me is before 3 years of COVID-hair – will convene in Berlin for one of our board sprints. The board meets weekly online, using the Big Blue Button infrastructure that KDE has for meetings, online get-togethers, virtual sprints and hybrid conferences. In an hour or two we get through the week’s “needs doing now” and “approve this request from the membership or community” items. But some things are not very well suited for online discussion. Sometimes we need to physically sign papers (Germany, old-fashioned, etc.). And of course, drinking tea together is what really makes a team. * § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾ o ⚓ Updates_for_November,_2022_⋅_elementary_Blog⠀⇛ Folks running OS 6.1 rejoice, because a new version of Files is here with a long-asked-for new feature! You can now choose to have a single-click select folders instead of open them, Windows style. Secondary-click anywhere in a folder view and select “Select Folders with Single Click” to switch to the new file selection mode. We now also only show the overlay bar with more info when a selection is made, so no more fiddly hover behavior. There are also fixes for several reported possible crashes, so make sure to grab this update! o § New Releases⠀➾ # ⚓ Linuxiac ☛ NixOS_22.11_“Raccoon”_Released_with_Security_in Mind⠀⇛ One of the most software-rich Linux distributions, NixOS, has released v22.11 with a strong focus on security and updated software versions. Many of you are probably thinking, “Yet another new version of one of the many Linux distros.” However, the story is different because we are dealing with a one-of-a-kind beast. So, before we go into the dry and dull “statistics” of Linux kernel versions, desktop environments, and software in this NixOS release, we’d like to explain why this Linux distro is exceptional and deserves your attention. NixOS is a unique Linux distro due to the concept upon which it is built. However, to avoid further confusion, two key terms should be first defined: Nix, which is a cross-distro package system, and NixOS, which is the Linux distribution itself. # ⚓ IPFire Official Blog ☛ IPFire_2.27_–_Core_Update_172_is available_for_testing⠀⇛ Despite being currently busy with an IPFire 3 hackathon, we found the time to release the next Core Update for testing: IPFire 2.27 – Core Update 172. It comes with cryptography improvement for IPsec and OpenVPN, as well as security improvements under the hood, a plethora of package updates and various bugs fixed across the place. o § BSD⠀➾ # ⚓ JRG_Systems_–_Migrating_to_Vultr_from_Oracle_Cloud⠀⇛ After a bit of “soul searching” and annoyances from Oracle Cloud that began to pile up (the traffic management layer is very Oracle-ish), I migrated away from the free tier of Oracle Cloud’s offering to a small VM from Vultr. This time I installed OpenBSD. Running a small webserver with OpenBSD is a breeze! I always knew this in an abstract sense but never deployed one myself. Basically, all it took was spinning up the instance on vultr.com, installing a couple packages, setting up the webserver httpd in base, and using acme-client (also in base) to pull down a certificate for the website. # ⚓ TuMFatig ☛ GoToSocial_on_OpenBSD,_a_Fediverse_adventure⠀⇛ In early 2019, I got fed up with Twitter Ads and recommendations etc. So I started looking for alternatives and read about Mastodon. As I was especially looking for OpenBSD news, tricks etc, I finally landed on bsd.network. It turned out to be a really nice place to hang out ; and not BSD- centric at all. People there are great. And MastoAdmins are kind and caring people. A couple of years later, I decided that I would host my own instance on the Fediverse. And the journey began. There were no particular reasons to host my on instance server. And as one say: only because you can does not mean you should. But this is how I learn things. So I created a bunch of accounts in various Fediverse instances using Mastodon, Friendica, PixelFed, Misskey, GNUsocial, Pleroma. I also installed Honk and GoToSocial. Then I started testing how they all worked together. And I finally decided to go with GoToSocial . o § SUSE/OpenSUSE⠀➾ # ⚓ Post-mortem:_Downtime_on_November_30,_2022_–_Open_Build Service⠀⇛ After yesterday’s deployment, we faced a downtime on our reference server. We want to share with you a detailed explanation of what happened. o § Fedora Family / IBM⠀➾ # ⚓ IBM Old Timer ☛ Irving_Wladawsky-Berger:_The_Current_State of_Service_Science⠀⇛ On October 17, the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) conducted an online forum on Service Systems Engineering in the Era of Human-Centered AI. “With AI advances poised to drive service system productivity and quality – similar to the way previous generations of technology revolutionized agriculture and manufacturing productivity and quality – it is time to take stock for industry- academic-and-government stakeholders on this important topic,” wrote the NAE in its website. The agenda included an opening keynote by retired IBM executive Nick Donofrio. It was followed by four panels on various aspects of service systems, and concluded with an open discussion of the way forward. I was a member of the panel on Evolving Engineering Education. In my prepared remarks, I reflected on the current state of service science and related sociotechnical systems. Let me share my remarks, slightly edited for clarity. Service Science, Management and Engineering (SSME) is an initiative launched in IBM’s Almaden Research Lab in the early 2000s in partnership with a number of universities as an interdisciplinary field of study aimed at applying science, technology and innovation to the service sector of the economy. The service sector is the largest in most economies around the world. At the time, services already accounted for over 70% of GDP and jobs in advanced economies, as well as an increasing portion of the revenues of many companies, including close to 60% of IBM’s revenues. o § Debian Family⠀➾ # ⚓ Paul_Wise:_FLOSS_Activities_November_2022⠀⇛ This month I didn’t have any particular focus. I just worked on issues in my info bubble. o § Canonical/Ubuntu Family⠀➾ # ⚓ 9to5Linux ☛ Ubuntu_Users_Get_New_Linux_Kernel_Security Updates,_10_Vulnerabilities_Patched⠀⇛ The new Ubuntu Linux kernel security update is here after the previous one, which addressed up to 16 vulnerabilities, and it’s available for Ubuntu 22.10 (Kinetic Kudu), Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish), Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa), Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver), as well as the Ubuntu 16.04 and 14.04 ESM releases. The biggest threat patched in this release is CVE- 2022-43945, a security flaw discovered in Linux kernel’s NFSD implementation leading to a buffer overflow that could allow a remote attacker to cause a denial of service (system crash) or execute arbitrary code. This vulnerability affects Ubuntu 22.10 systems running Linux kernel 5.19, as well as Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and 20.04 LTS systems running Linux kernel 5.15 LTS. o § Devices/Embedded⠀➾ # ⚓ Hackster ☛ Edge_Impulse_on_Kria_KR260_–_Hackster.io⠀⇛ This project walks through how to install Edge Impulse on the Ubuntu 22.04 image of the Kria KR260 and the development of a basic ML model. # ⚓ Siemens_streamlines_medical_standards_compliance_for_Linux OS_based_systems⠀⇛ Siemens Digital Industries Software today introduced the first software documentation package developed to help original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) streamline compliance with stringent standards for medical device manufacturers deploying either of Siemens’ embedded Linux distributions, Sokol™ Flex OS software or Sokol™ Omni OS software. o § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾ # ⚓ CNX Software ☛ $6_Pine64_Ox64_SBC_features_BL808_64-bit/32- bit_RISC-V_multi-protocol_WiSoC_with_64MB_RAM_–_CNX Software⠀⇛ Pine64 Ox64 is a single board computer powered by Bouffalo Lab BL808 dual-core 64-bit/32-bit RISC- V processor with up to 64MB embedded RAM, multiple radios for WiFi 4, Bluetooth 5.0, and 802.15.4 (Zigbee), as well as an AI accelerator. The board also features up to 16MB XSPI NOR flash, a MicroSD card socket, a USB 2.0 OTG port with support for a 2-lane MIPI CSI camera module, and two 20-pin GPIO headers for expansion. It measures just 51 x 21mm, or in other words, is about the size of a Raspberry Pi Pico W. # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Using_I²C_Sensors_With_Any_Linux_Via_USB_And_IIO |_Hackaday⠀⇛ Hooking up I2C sensors is something which is generally associated with microcontrollers and SBCs, yet it’s very easy to use such I2C sensors from basically any system that runs Linux. After all, I2C (that is, SMBus) is one of the interfaces that is highly likely to be used on your PC’s mainboard as well as peripherals. This means that running our own devices like the well-known BME280 temperature, pressure and humidity sensor, or Si1145 light sensor should be a piece of cake. In a blog post from a few years ago, [Peter Molnar] explains in detail how to wire up a physical adapter to add a USB-connected I2C interface to a system. At its core is the ATtiny85 AVR-based MCU, which provides a built-in USB interface, running the I2C-Tiny-USB firmware. # ⚓ Arduino ☛ Detect_vandalism_using_audio_classification_on the_Nano_33_BLE_Sense_|_Arduino_Blog⠀⇛ Having something broken into and/or destroyed is an act that most people hope to avoid altogether or at least catch the perpetrator in the act when it does occur. And as Nekhil R. notes in his project write- up, traditional deterrence/detection methods often fail, meaning that a newer type of solution was necessary. Unlike other glass breaking sensors, Nekhil’s project relies on a single, inexpensive Arduino Nano 33 BLE Sense and its onboard digital microphone to record audio, classify it, and then alert a property owner over WiFi via an ESP8266-01 board. The dataset used to train the machine learning model came from two sources: the Microsoft Scalable Noisy Speech Dataset for background noise, and breaking glass recorded on the device itself. Both of these were added to an Edge Impulse project via the Studio and split into two-second samples before being processed by a Mel-filterbank Energy (MFE) algorithm. # ⚓ CNX Software ☛ Arducam_OCam_AI_camera_adds_context_to_video streams_in_real-time_with_the_PhysicO_platform_–_CNX Software⠀⇛ Arducam OCam, whose name stands for Object Camera, is an AI camera with 3 TOPS of AI performance and designed to work with OStream‘s PhysicO Edge AI media platform that adds context to MP4 video streams in real-time. # ⚓ Arduino ☛ Binbot_9000_moves_to_where_the_trash_is_|_Arduino Blog⠀⇛ Our modern societies create a lot of garbage, which we can fortunately remove from our homes thanks to local waste management services. But the garbage people won’t come sift through your house for refuse, which forces you to utilize trash bins. Those bins never seem to be nearby when you need them, which is why James Bruton built the Binbot 9000. The Binbot 9000 is exactly what it sounds like: a robotic trash can. No longer must the bin remain stationed in some out-of-the-way location. Instead, Binbot 9000 can drive around a home in search of people who need to throw things away. o § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ Android Police ☛ Best_new_Android_games_of_November_2022⠀⇛ # ⚓ Android Police ☛ How_to_make_your_favorite_song_a_ringtone on_Android⠀⇛ # ⚓ Gadgets Now ☛ android_13:_How_to_enable_Android_13_themed icons:_A_step-by-step_guide⠀⇛ # ⚓ GSM Arena ☛ Samsung_Galaxy_F42_received_Android_13,_it’s the_end_of_the_road_for_the_midranger_–_GSMArena.com_news⠀⇛ # ⚓ SamMobile ☛ Android_13_One_UI_5.0_update_now_rolling_out for_the_Galaxy_M42_5G_–_SamMobile⠀⇛ # ⚓ 9to5Google ☛ Android_13_comes_to_the_unclocked_Galaxy_S21 and_more_devices⠀⇛ # ⚓ Android Police ☛ Synology_Photos_makes_its_way_to_Android TV⠀⇛ # ⚓ The Sun ☛ All_Android_owners_warned_over_sinister_‘app danger’_that_you_must_avoid_|_The_US_Sun⠀⇛ # ⚓ The Sun ☛ Change_your_Android_settings_now_to_stop_your smartphone_leaking_too_much_personal_information_|_The_US Sun⠀⇛ # ⚓ The Sun ☛ Major_changes_coming_to_important_Android messaging_app_including_new_icons_and_sounds_|_The_US_Sun⠀⇛ # ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ Android’s_Latest_Update_Lets_You_Share_Digital Cars_Key⠀⇛ # ⚓ 9to5Google ☛ Android_memory_safety_vulnerabilities_declined as_Rust_usage_grew⠀⇛ * § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾ o ⚓ Linux Links ☛ Best_Free_and_Open_Source_Software_–_November_2022 Updates_–_LinuxLinks⠀⇛ Here are the latest updates to our compilation of recommended software. For November, we have updated a few existing articles and expanded our collection. Given the fallout of Twitter and the increasing popularity of Mastodon, we’ve recommended both the best text-based and graphical clients. We’ve also published a few new articles in the fields of utilities, video, web apps, and graphics. As always, we love receiving your suggestions for new articles or additional open source software to feature. Let us know in the Comments box below or drop us an email. o § Web Browsers/Web Servers⠀➾ # § Chromium⠀➾ # ⚓ Google ☛ Chrome_Releases:_Stable_Channel_Update_for ChromeOS_/_ChromeOS_Flex⠀⇛ The Stable channel is being updated to 108.0.5359.75 (Platform version: 15183.59.0) for most ChromeOS devices and will be rolled out over the next few days. # ⚓ Google ☛ Chrome_Releases:_Dev_Channel_Update_for ChromeOS_/_ChromeOS_Flex⠀⇛ The Dev channel is being updated to 109.0.5414.21 (Platform version: 15236.21.0) for most ChromeOS devices. This build contains a number of bug fixes and security updates. # ⚓ Google ☛ Chrome_Releases:_Beta_Channel_Update_for ChromeOS_/_ChromeOS_Flex⠀⇛ The Beta channel is being updated to 109.0.5414.21 (Platform version: 15236.21.0) for most ChromeOS devices. This build contains a number of bug fixes and security updates. # ⚓ Google ☛ Dev_Channel_Update_for_Desktop⠀⇛ # ⚓ Google ☛ Beta_Channel_Update_for_Desktop⠀⇛ # ⚓ Google ☛ Chrome_Dev_for_Android_Update⠀⇛ # § Mozilla⠀➾ # ⚓ Mozilla ☛ Support.Mozilla.Org:_Hubs_transition⠀⇛ I’m delighted to share this news with you. The Hubs team has recently transitioned into a new phase of a product. If in the past, you needed to figure out the hosting and deployment on your own with Hubs Cloud, you now have the option to simply subscribe to unlock more capabilities to customize your Hubs room. To learn more about this transformation, you can read their blog post. Along with this relaunch, Mozilla has also just acquired Active Replica, a team that shares Mozilla’s passion for 3D development. To learn more about this acquisition, you can read this announcement. o § Content Management Systems (CMS)⠀➾ # ⚓ WordPress ☛ Share_Your_Experience:_The_2022_WordPress Survey_is_Open_–_WordPress_News⠀⇛ Each year, members of the WordPress community (users, site builders, extenders, and contributors) provide valuable feedback through an annual survey. Key takeaways and trends that emerge from this survey often find their way into the annual State of the Word address, are shared in the public project blogs, and can influence the direction and strategy for the WordPress project. Simply put: this survey helps those who build WordPress understand more about how the software is used, and by whom. The survey also helps leaders in the WordPress open source project learn more about our contributors’ experiences. o § GNU Projects⠀➾ # ⚓ FSF ☛ FSF_Blogs:_November_GNU_Spotlight_with_Amin_Bandali: Fifteen_new_GNU_releases!⠀⇛ A number of GNU packages, as well as the GNU operating system as a whole, are looking for maintainers and other assistance. # ⚓ FSF ☛ Free_Software_Directory_meeting_on_IRC:_Friday, December_02,_starting_at_12:00_EST_(17:00_UTC)⠀⇛ # ⚓ FSF ☛ Free_Software_Directory_meeting_on_IRC:_Friday, December_09,_starting_at_12:00_EST_(17:00_UTC)⠀⇛ # ⚓ FSF ☛ Free_Software_Directory_meeting_on_IRC:_Friday, December_16,_starting_at_12:00_EST_(17:00_UTC)⠀⇛ # ⚓ FSF ☛ Free_Software_Directory_meeting_on_IRC:_Friday, December_23,_starting_at_12:00_EST_(17:00_UTC)⠀⇛ # ⚓ FSF ☛ Free_Software_Directory_meeting_on_IRC:_Friday, December_30,_starting_at_12:00_EST_(17:00_UTC)⠀⇛ o § Programming/Development⠀➾ # ⚓ Mandiant ☛ Recognizing_and_Avoiding_Disassembled_Junk_| Mandiant⠀⇛ There is a common annoyance that seems to plague every reverse engineer and incident responder at some point in their career: wasting time or energy looking at junk code. Junk code is a sequence of bytes that you have disassembled that are not actual instructions executed as part of a program. In addition to wasting time, I’ve seen people get alarmed and excited by the junk code they’ve found. In these cases, it is because they found executable code in a place they weren’t expecting, which led them to believe they had found an exploit or an advanced malware specimen. # ⚓ Getting_coordinates_(lon,lat)_from_road_name_and_kilometer in_Spain⠀⇛ # ⚓ Bayes_Factors_for_Forensic_Decision_Analyses_with_R_[book review]_|_Xi’an’s_Og⠀⇛ My friend EJ Wagenmaker pointed me towards an entire book on the BF by Bozza (from Ca’Foscari, Venezia), Taroni and Biederman. It is providing a sort of blueprint for using Bayes factors in forensics for both investigative and evaluative purposes. With R code and free access. I am of course unable to judge of the relevance of the approach for forensic science (I was under the impression that Bayesian arguments were usually not well-received in the courtroom) but find that overall the approach is rather one of repositioning the standard Bayesian tools within a forensic framework. # ⚓ How_Stable_is_China?⠀⇛ The current protests in China make many people wonder whether the situation will escalate further. # § Perl / Raku⠀➾ # ⚓ Rakulang ☛ Day_2:_Less_Variable_Wattage_=_More_Flow_– Raku_Advent_Calendar⠀⇛ Finding flow while coding is sometimes tricky to do – it’s even trickier when encountering ‘someone else’s code’. We’ve all had the experience of reading code and crying, “WAT?!”. Working with high ‘wattage’ code is not just unpleasant, it costs time and money. The more WATs a program contains, the scarier it is, and sadly, fear is a flow stopper. By contrast, writing low wattage code can facilitate flow by keeping things cognitively comfortable for yourself and other programmers. Let’s start with some high wattage code and Raku-ify it. * § Leftovers⠀➾ o ⚓ Sabine Hossenfelder ☛ Sabine_Hossenfelder:_Backreaction:_Science News_Nov_30⠀⇛ Today we’ll talk about Trouble at ITER, robots that build robots, air pollution, AI that classifies supernovae, a small asteroid that hit Canada, Super GPS, a new supercomputer simulation of the sun, a quantum thermometer. And of course, the telephone will ring. o § Proprietary⠀➾ # ⚓ The Register UK ☛ Microsoft_365_faces_more_GDPR_headwinds in_Germany_•_The_Register⠀⇛ Germany’s federal and state data protection authorities (DSK) have raised concerns about the compatibility of Microsoft 365 with data protection laws in Germany and the wider European Union. According to the German watchdog’s report [PDF], which was written after two years of negotiations with Microsoft, the body says that the product “remains in breach” of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The 2020 working group was put together to bring the cloud service into line with the Schrems II decision of the European Court of Justice – and relates to ongoing European concerns about cloud data sovereignty, competition, and privacy rules. Under the GDPR, children below the age of 13 are incapable of consenting to their data being collected, while consent may be given by those with parental responsibility for those under 16 but not younger than 13. When platforms do store data on adults, those customers are meant to be able to request the deletion of their records. The report adds (translated from the German): “Many of the services included in Microsoft 365 require Microsoft to access the unencrypted, non- pseudonymized data.” o § Linux Foundation⠀➾ # ⚓ PR Newswire ☛ Introducing_the_Linux_Foundation_Certified Cloud_Technician_(LFCT)⠀⇛ # ⚓ PR Newswire ☛ Linux_Foundation_Certifications_Included_in Guide_for_National_and_Foreign_Workers_Seeking_Employment_in Beijing⠀⇛ # ⚓ PR Newswire ☛ The_Linux_Foundation_Training_&_Certification Launches_SkillCreds_to_Demonstrate_Specific_Technical Competencies⠀⇛ o § Security⠀➾ # ⚓ USCERT ☛ #StopRansomware:_Cuba_Ransomware [Ed: The problem is Microsoft Windows, not "Cuba"]⠀⇛ Today, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and CISA released a joint Cybersecurity Advisory (CSA) #StopRansomware: Cuba Ransomware to provide network defenders tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) and indicators of compromise (IOCs) associated with Cuba ransomware. FBI investigations identified these TTPs and IOCs as recently as August 2022. # ⚓ CISA ☛ CISA_Releases_Three_Industrial_Control_Systems Advisories_|_CISA⠀⇛ CISA has released three (3) Industrial Control Systems (ICS) advisories on December 1, 2022. These advisories provide timely information about current security issues, vulnerabilities, and exploits surrounding ICS. # ⚓ Google ☛ Google_Online_Security_Blog:_Memory_Safe_Languages in_Android_13⠀⇛ For more than a decade, memory safety vulnerabilities have consistently represented more than 65% of vulnerabilities across products, and across the industry. On Android, we’re now seeing something different – a significant drop in memory safety vulnerabilities and an associated drop in the severity of our vulnerabilities. # ⚓ LWN ☛ Memory_Safe_Languages_in_Android_13_(Google_security blog)_[LWN.net]⠀⇛ Over on the Google security blog, Jeffrey Vander Stoep writes about the impact of focusing on using memory-safe languages for new code in Android. # § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾ # ⚓ Video ☛ Chinese_Credit_Scores:_A_Warning_to_the_West –_Invidious⠀⇛ Today we talk about more emerging details about the Chinese credit score system and see how this relates to what we observe in the rest of the world # ⚓ Video ☛ GeoFence_Dragnet_|_FBI’s_Investigation_of_the Jan_6_Capital_Attack_–_Invidious⠀⇛ Google provided investigators with location data for more than 5,000 devices as part of the federal investigation into the attack on the US Capitol. # ⚓ Patrick Breyer ☛ Political_advertising:_EU_Parliament disagrees_on_personalised_targeting_of_political messages_–_Patrick_Breyer⠀⇛ The EU Parliament’s Civil Liberties Committee (LIBE) will vote tomorrow at 12:00 to restrict the use of personal data to target online political advertisements to data explicitly provided for this purpose by citizens with their consent, excluding the use of behavioural and inferred intelligence on citizens. Due to a lack of political agreement there will be a separate vote (“COMP12a”) on whether the use of personal data to target political messages at large scale via direct letters, e-mail and text messages will be restricted or not. o § Environment⠀➾ # § Energy⠀➾ # ⚓ Coin Desk ☛ FTX’s_Collapse_Was_a_Crime,_Not_an Accident⠀⇛ Perhaps most perniciously, many outlets have described what happened to FTX as a “bank run” or a “run on deposits,” while Bankman- Fried has repeatedly insisted the company was simply overleveraged and disorganized. Both of these attempts to frame the fallout obfuscate the core issue: the misuse of customer funds. Banks can be hit by “bank runs” because they are explicitly in the business of lending customer funds out to generate returns. They can experience a short-term cash crunch if everyone withdraws at the same time, without there being any long-term problem. But FTX and other crypto exchanges are not banks. They do not (or should not) do bank- style lending, so even a very acute surge of withdrawals should not create a liquidity strain. FTX had specifically promised customers it would never lend out or otherwise use the crypto they entrusted to the exchange. In reality, the funds were sent to the intimately linked trading firm Alameda Research, where they were, it seems, simply gambled away. This is, in the simplest terms, theft at a nearly unprecedented scale. While the total losses have yet to be quantified, up to one million customers could be impacted, according to a bankruptcy document. # ⚓ John Gruber ☛ ‘FTX’s_Collapse_Was_a_Crime,_Not_an Accident’⠀⇛ So in a sense FTX’s implosion had nothing to do with cryptocurrency directly, beyond the fact that no one would have given FTX a nickel if not for the vague belief that “something something crypto” would lead to a windfall. # § Wildlife/Nature⠀➾ # ⚓ Mark Dominus ☛ The_Universe_of_Discourse_:_Wombat coprolites⠀⇛ I was delighted to learn some time ago that there used to be giant wombats, six feet high at the shoulders, unfortunately long extinct. It’s also well known (and a minor mystery of Nature) that wombats have cubical poop. o § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾ # ⚓ John Gruber ☛ Today,_in_Twitter-Apple_Drama⠀⇛ I heard from a source who spent time working in Twitter’s ad products organization that Apple, until recently, was not just a big advertiser on Twitter, but the largest. The @apple account never posts regular tweets but frequently posts promoted tweets, and Apple heretofore had been a big spender on things like hashflags and custom like buttons, to promote major product introduction events. # ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Is_Murdoch_–_commercial_media_losing their_influence?_–_Michael_West⠀⇛ After years of running straight vitriol and opinion masked as news, Dan Andrews was returned as the Premier of Victoria leaving us to ask if Murdoch and the commercial media is losing their influence on swaying elections. o § Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press⠀➾ # ⚓ Declassified UK ☛ Four_British_ministries_refuse_to_say_if they’ve_discussed_Assange_with_U.S.⠀⇛ Four of Britain’s most powerful government ministries are refusing to say if their officials have met with US authorities to discuss the case of Julian Assange. The Home Office, Cabinet Office, Foreign Office, and Ministry of Justice all recently failed to tell parliament about any potential contact with their US counterparts on the issue of the WikiLeaks founder. The refusals raise further suspicions about the politicisation of Assange’s legal case. Britain is part of the US-dominated “Five Eyes” intelligence alliance and very close to the American government, which is demanding Assange’s extradition. o § Digital Restrictions (DRM)⠀➾ # ⚓ Bryan Lunduke ☛ Sideloading_is_the_most_important_feature of_any_SmartPhone⠀⇛ I’ve written serious articles about the issue. I’ve written satire mocking Apple’s undeniable fear of “Sideloading”. I’ve joined with the Free Software Foundation Europe in signing an open letter about it. Now, let me be crystal clear: “Sideloading” is the most critical and valuable feature of any smartphone or computer. Period. Full stop. [...] Sideloading is the act of installing software, whatever software you want, on a real computer (which includes pocket computers, like smartphones). Seems simple and obvious, right? If you own a computer (or a smartphone), you should be able to install software on it. Apple and Google both (strongly) disagree with that. While Google has allowed “sideloading” on Android since the beginning, they have recently begun taking steps to limit that in the future. * § Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾ o § Personal⠀➾ # ⚓ I_cast_“Cleave”⠀⇛ One of the optional rules we’ve been using since the DMG first came out in 2014 has been cleave. Sometimes we go long stretches of not remembering it, other times it is used a lot. # ⚓ Advent_jam_🕯️⠀⇛ When I was a child, opening a door on an advent calendar didn’t get you any loot. It just revealed a seasonal picture: some holly, perhaps, or an angel. By the time I was an adult, chocolate was expected. When I had children, we got them one with Lego. More recently I was given one with whisky miniatures (and so drank far more whiskey in a month than I ordinarily would do in a year). # ⚓ Bonus-action_potion_quaffing⠀⇛ Some people use a house rule that potions of healing only take a bonus action to quaff. Don’t they know how painful it is to get healed by such drinks? It hurts like a mother as your body relives the injuries backwards and digs you up, yanks out the coffin nails, knits you up, stitches you up, burns you up like a modern swindler. Brewing the potions from the petals of blood viola flowers is a time-consuming process, too, and expensive. You need twenty-five petals for a single small bottle. But then it glints like dawn gold over the red seas of a mothworld. A sickly-sweet taste of root celery, jasmine, cardamom-thrice- steeped, and above all a lingering red viola aftertaste that takes days to go away. o § Technical⠀➾ # ⚓ Authentication_gateway_with_SSH_on_OpenBSD⠀⇛ A neat feature in OpenBSD is the program authpf, an authenticating gateway using SSH. Basically, it allows to dynamically configure the local firewall PF by connecting/disconnecting into a user account over SSH, either to toggle an IP into a table or rules through a PF anchor. # § Science⠀➾ # ⚓ The_pandemic_is_over [Ed: The pandemic is not over because of massive excess deaths that governments don't even want to explain (instead testing levels are reduced; a self-fulfilling prophecy)]⠀⇛ I got a french press a few weeks after the start of the pandemic. I loved the thing, but since it takes quite a bit of time to brew with it and it’s extremely manual for each step, I worried when life got back to normal I wouldn’t be able to replace my pour-over with it for my morning coffee. Little did I know the pandemic was going to last a couple more years. # § Programming⠀➾ # ⚓ Run_Hurl_tests_against_a_Node.js_server⠀⇛ =============================================================================== * Gemini_(Primer) links can be opened using Gemini_software. It’s like the World Wide Web but a lot lighter. ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 5071 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐃𝐀𝐈𝐋𝐘 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒 ═════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 12.02.22⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Links_02/12/2022:_GNU/Linux_Growing_Fast_in_Steam,_Twitter_Crumbling⠀✐ Posted in News_Roundup at 6:36 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇GNOME bluefish⦈ § Contents⠀➾ * GNU/Linux o Audiocasts/Shows 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 BSD o Open_Hardware/Modding o Mobile_Systems/Mobile_Applications * Free,_Libre,_and_Open_Source_Software o Web_Browsers/Web_Servers # Mozilla o Programming/Development # Java # Rust * Leftovers o Education o Hardware o Health/Nutrition/Agriculture o Proprietary o Security # Integrity/Availability/Authenticity # Privacy/Surveillance # Confidentiality o Defence/Aggression o Transparency/Investigative_Reporting o Environment # Energy 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 * § GNU/Linux⠀➾ o § Audiocasts/Shows⠀➾ # ⚓ Open Source Startup Podcast ☛ E65:_Bringing_Designers_– Developers_Together_with_Open_Source_Penpot_by_Open_Source Startup_Podcast⠀⇛ Penpot received a lot of attention from the spike in growth following the Figma / Adobe acquisition announcement. They’ve since announced an $8M fundraise led by Decibel Partners. In this episode, we discuss the importance of open standards in getting developers excited about design, why Figma users have been excited about Penpot, building a community with design and developer personas & more! o § Graphics Stack⠀➾ # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Mesa_22.3_open_source_graphics_drivers released⠀⇛ Mesa 22.3 is the latest and greatest the open source community has to offer for graphics drivers, and it’s now available with lots of improvements. Announced yesterday, the open source drivers cover the likes of AMD, Intel, ARM and more on Linux. o § Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ TecMint ☛ 22_Best_Slack_Alternatives_for_Team_Chat_[Free_& Paid] [Ed: Lousy list for a "Linux" blog, starting with proprietary spyware like Microsoft and Google and nothing like IRC]⠀⇛ Developed and maintained by Slack Technologies, Slack is an instant messaging platform that ranks among the best communication platforms for organizations and companies. It offers a plethora of features to allow users to easily communicate and work as a unified team on various projects. o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾ # ⚓ TecMint ☛ 11_Linux_Chown_Command_Examples_to_Change_File Ownership⠀⇛ In this beginner’s guide, we will discuss some practical examples of the chown command. After following this guide, users will be able to manage file ownership effectively in Linux. In Linux, everything is a file, which means, all input/output resources, such as files, directories, disk drives, printers, etc are exposed as files through the file system namespace. In addition to this, there is ownership associated with each and every file in Linux. The ownership is represented by two entities – user and group. The combination of access permissions and ownership allows Linux to implement an access control mechanism in an effective way. In this guide, we will learn about the chown command. As the name suggests, the chown command is used to change the ownership of the files. After following this guide, beginners will be able to use the chown command effectively while working with Linux systems. # ⚓ Austin Gil ☛ PX_or_REM_in_CSS?_Just_Use_REM⠀⇛ CSS has a lot of different units that you can choose from. In many cases, there is one unit that’s clearly better than any others. However, one question that seems to come up throughout my career is whether you should use pixels or rems on certain properties where it doesn’t seem to make a clear difference. Today I’m going to answer that question. # ⚓ Matt Rickard ☛ Do_Cold_Starts_Matter?⠀⇛ But how much do cold starts matter? For the heaviest use cases, there are probably optimizations that you can make directly in the serverless runtime (see AWS’s newly announced Lambda SnapStart for Java Functions that reduces startup time for Spring apps from 6 seconds down to 200ms). # ⚓ James G ☛ The_IndieWeb_(according_to_ChatGPT)⠀⇛ Earlier today, I was playing around with OpenAI’s new ChatGPT model. I have thus far asked ChatGPT what coffee is, how to boil a kettle, what microformats is, and what the IndieWeb is. I thought I’d share the result I got for the prompt “What is the IndieWeb?”: [...] # ⚓ University of Toronto ☛ Using_Dovecot_2.3′s_‘events’_system to_generate_log_messages⠀⇛ Dovecot 2.1 and 2.2 had a relatively straightforward statistics system (which I believe may still be supported in 2.3 for now, although you have to rename settings in your configuration). In v2.3, Dovecot introduced a new, more flexible system based around the idea of events, which can be used to generate either or both of statistics or log messages. Today I’m going to talk about log messages, because they’re simpler. # ⚓ EFF ☛ How_to_Make_a_Mastodon_Account_and_Join_the Fediverse⠀⇛ The recent chaos at Twitter is a reminder that when you rely on a social media platform, you’re putting your voice, your privacy, and your safety in the hands of the people who run that system. Many people are looking to Mastodon as a backup or replacement for Twitter, and this guide will walk you through making that switch. Note this guide is current as of December 2022, and the software and services discussed are going through rapid changes. What even is the fediverse? Well, we’ve written a more detailed and technical introduction, but put simply it is a large network of independently operated social media websites speaking to each other in a shared language. That means your fediverse social media account is more like email, where you pick the service you like and can still communicate with people who chose a different service. EFF is excited and optimistic about the potential of this new way of doing things, but to be clear, the fediverse is still improving and may not be a suitable replacement for your old social media accounts just yet. That said, if you’re worried about relying on the stability of sites like Twitter, now is a good time to “backup” your social media presence in the fediverse. o § Games⠀➾ # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Godot_Engine_4.0_is_approaching_release, future_plans_detailed⠀⇛ Godot Engine 4.0 is so close now, with an overhauled and powerful Vulkan rendering system and now their developers have a new blog post up detailing some plans. # ⚓ Raspberry Pi ☛ Make_a_Monkey_Island-style_adventure_game_| Wireframe_#69⠀⇛ Our scripting system is straightforward in concept, but it’s flexible enough to allow us to add extra options as we go along. The script is held in a text file, data.txt. In it, we’ll have commands such as Background:clifftop, which we’ll interpret as meaning, “set the scene background to be the image called clifftop”. We’ll have one command per line, each separated from its action with a colon. We may need to vary the format depending on what the command is. To start our scene, we load in our data file, set our default background image to be a title screen, and then start reading lines from the script list. Our processScriptLine() function breaks up each line of the script into commands and action data. For example, our first line of script is Pause:8 – Pause is a command and 8 is the data. This sets a countdown lasting eight seconds before the next line of script is read. Then we can set the background image with a Background command, and in this scene, we’ve set a foreground image of a wall so that our characters can move behind it. # ⚓ Herman Õunapuu ☛ HoloISO:_the_unofficial_Steam_Deck experience_on_your_PC⠀⇛ Although I’ve thought about buying a Steam Deck myself for tinkering and testing purposes, I could not justify that purchase. But thanks to videos from the ETAPRIME YouTube channel I learned about the existence of HoloISO, an unofficial SteamOS 3 installer. # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ The_Jingle_Jam_2022_Games_Collection_is live_and_another_awesome_deal⠀⇛ Help spread a little cheer this holiday season, with The Jingle Jam 2022 Games Collection live now. # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ The_best_Linux_distribution_for_gaming_in 2023⠀⇛ Back in 2020 I pointed out what were the best Linux distributions for gaming, so here’s the current state and what you should go for in 2023. # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Victoria_3_is_another_clear_hit_for_Paradox hitting_half_a_million_sales⠀⇛ Paradox Interactive sure know their strategy games and their audience, as Victoria 3 has already sold over half a million in the space of a month. Victoria 3 is a sandbox simulation of the world between 1836 and 1936, a century of rapid technological innovation, social transformation and political revolution ICYMI: read our review. o § Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾ # § K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt⠀➾ # ⚓ Nate Graham ☛ Help_KDE_hire_more_people!_–_Adventures in_Linux_and_KDE⠀⇛ KDE’s 2022 year-end fundraiser is now live! Please go donate if you can. It’s been several years since we did a fundraiser at the end of the year, and we’re going to be more on the ball about this going forward, given how much the KDE e.V. is expanding hiring. This year’s fundraiser sets the fairly modest goal of 20k €, which will help offset the cost of some of that hiring. But of course… there’s no reason not to exceed the goal! The more money raised, the more contributors the KDE e.V. can hire directly, effecting the kind of professionalization needed to take KDE to the next level! We have big plans and we can’t do it without your help! * § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾ o § BSD⠀➾ # ⚓ FreeBSD ☛ The_Foundation_and_the_FreeBSD_Desktop_|_FreeBSD Foundation⠀⇛ The Desktop experience can be formative. I got my first PC in 1990 as an 8th Grade graduation gift. (Thanks Dad!) It helped instill my interest in computers and it got me through high school. I used it mostly for playing Zork, Jeopardy and, of course, writing papers on Word Perfect. The interface was rather clunky, but for the purposes of a small town high school student in the 90s, it worked quite well. Once college came about, a new machine came my way and a GUI that made things work so much better. Using a computer became part of everyday life. In fact one of the selling points of my university was that every dorm had its own desktop. Fast forward 20+ years and the standards for a usable desktop are quite high. Intuitive, fast, pretty graphics, and speedy wi-fi are all expected. FreeBSD’s desktop experience over the years definitely has had its ups and downs. Twenty or so years ago FreeBSD and Linux were mostly neck and neck in terms of desktop usability. Unfortunately, as time went on, FreeBSD did fall behind. The desktop experience became a lower priority. However, catch up eventually ensued and within the last 10 or so years, focusing on the desktop has increasingly become of greater importance for many members in the community. To help understand more about the Foundation’s work on the desktop experience, we sat down with Ed Maste, Senior Director of Technology. Unsurprisingly, one question the Foundation often gets is where does the desktop experience fall in our list of priorities. The answer: Well, it varies. Because the Foundation’s main goal is to support the Project in technical areas that aren’t being fully addressed by the community, the desktop sponsored work ebbs and flows. When work stagnated about 10 years ago and the Project began to fall behind in terms of hardware support, the Foundation funded Kostik Belousov to work on Intel Graphics Drivers. More recently though, the Project has moved to using the Linux Kernel Interface (KPI) to help keep drivers up-to-date. The Foundation funded Bjorn Zeeb to work on the wireless side and about 2 years ago, they funded Emmanual Vadot to work on graphics drivers. # ⚓ FreeBSD ☛ Invest_in_FreeBSD_on_Giving_Tuesday⠀⇛ Tomorrow, November 29 is #GivingTuesday. Now in its 11th year, #GivingTuesday is a global day of giving that brings together diverse communities to foster generosity. # ⚓ Mailing list ARChives ☛ OpenIKED_7.2_released⠀⇛ OpenIKED is known to compile and run on OpenBSD, FreeBSD, NetBSD, macOS and the Linux distributions Arch, Debian, Fedora and Ubuntu. It is our hope that packagers take interest and help adapt OpenIKED to more distributions. # ⚓ Undeadly ☛ Help_the_OpenBSD_Foundation_Reach_Its_2022 Funding_Goal⠀⇛ The OpenBSD Foundation, which is central to funding the OpenBSD project, needs your help to reach its 2022 Fundraising Goal of $300,000. o § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾ # ⚓ Tom’s Hardware ☛ Radxa_Taco_Turns_a_Raspberry_Pi_Compute Module_4_Into_a_NAS_|_Tom’s_Hardware⠀⇛ Building a NAS box is one of the most popular things to do with a single-board computer, and this newly available carrier board from Radxa – known as the Taco (opens in new tab) – features plenty of SATA ports for you to connect hard drives too. Powered by a Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4 (opens in new tab) or a compatible board such as the Radxa CM3 (opens in new tab), it just needs a suitable case to make a fine storage device. # ⚓ Tom’s Hardware ☛ Raspberry_Pi_Pico_LoRa_Module_Used_for Underwater_Communication_|_Tom’s_Hardware⠀⇛ Maker and Developer Abdullah Yıldırım, also known as Ronin, has created a custom LoRa module that works with one of our favorite microcontrollers, the Raspberry Pi Pico. This custom module also integrates with Arduino and introduces Wi-Fi connectivity with the help of an ESP8266. If you’re unfamiliar with LoRa (Long Range) devices, this is a type of wireless frequency that can be used for a variety of applications, including underwater communication. There are two different LoRa modules used in this project. Yıldırım designed one to use an RFM95 LoRa module and the other uses an RA-01 module. A Pico is connected to one along with a screen to display details about the communication status with the other LoRa setup. # ⚓ Tom’s Hardware ☛ Raspberry_Pi_Christmas_Village_Brings Winter_Wonderland_to_Life_|_Tom’s_Hardware⠀⇛ We’re well into the holiday season, and makers in the Raspberry Pi community are already making some beautiful holiday projects. Today we’ve got an amazing project to share from maker and developer Omantn. Using our favorite SBC, the Raspberry Pi, he’s created a way to automate his wife’s model Christmas village. According to Omantn, his wife has collected models for this Christmas village for a long time but never had a dedicated place to display them. So instead of fighting with cables and leaving them on a shelf, Omantn went the extra mile and created a Pi-powered solution. The project is built around a custom table with a system underneath that controls the lighting for the model’s LEDs. # ⚓ Andrew Hutchings ☛ Acorn_RiscPC:_Restoration_Part 4_– LinuxJedi’s_/dev/null⠀⇛ Now that we have things running properly in part 3, I figured I should work on the casing a bit. Especially since the current postal strikes in the UK mean that parts I have ordered are getting heavily delayed. [...] There are still a couple of minor issues to solve. The first is the IDE cable is a bit sensitive. If it gets knocked slightly the drives no longer exist. So I’m going to replace the cable. Also the CD-ROM drive is an old single-speed affair, it really struggles with some CDs that have even the slightest scratch on them. I therefore intend to upgrade this to a faster, more reliable drive. I have not dared try to clean the keyboard yet, I’m saving that for a few hours one weekend in the future due just how dirty it is. I have a simple PS/2 keyboard connected for now which works just fine with it. o § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ 9to5Google ☛ Google_Play_lists_best_Android_apps_and_games of_2022⠀⇛ # ⚓ 9to5Google ☛ Google_Keep_dual-pane_redesign_for_Android tablets_rolling_out⠀⇛ # ⚓ TechCrunch ☛ Android’s_December_update_features_include accessible_reading_mode_and_sharable_car_keys_•_TechCrunch⠀⇛ # ⚓ The Sun ☛ People_are_only_just_realizing_that_there’s_an Android_trick_that_lets_you_use_your_favorite_apps_at_the same_time_|_The_US_Sun⠀⇛ # ⚓ 9to5Google ☛ Major_security_leak_left_Samsung_–_Android phones_vulnerable⠀⇛ # ⚓ SamMobile ☛ Galaxy_A51_5G_gets_the_Android_13_One_UI_5.0 update_in_the_US_–_SamMobile⠀⇛ # ⚓ Giz China ☛ Nokia_confirms_five_new_models_to_get_the Android_13_update⠀⇛ # ⚓ When_will_Twitter_Blue_subscription_for_Android_–_Web_be available?⠀⇛ * § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾ o ⚓ It’s FOSS ☛ Monica:_An_Open-Source_App_for_Personal_Relationship Management⠀⇛ You probably know what CRM stands for – Customer Relationship Management. We already have a list of open- source CRM software that helps small businesses. Here, I talk about an interesting open-source web application that takes the same concept for personal relationships. Sounds unique, right? Monica is an application that enables you to organize and record your interactions with loved ones. It is free if you self-host it and needs a subscription if you need the hosted version. o ⚓ Linux Handbook ☛ 🐧LHB_Linux_Digest_#22.13:_Classic_AWK_and_SED Tools,_Docker_Alternatives,_Linux_Certification_and_More⠀⇛ o ⚓ It’s FOSS ☛ FOSS_Weekly_#22.45:_Midori_Browser,_Microsoft_Gets Booted_in_Germany,_Terminator_and_More⠀⇛ Microsoft kicked in Germany, Midori Browser makes a comeback are the highlight of this edition of FOSS Weekly. o ⚓ OpenSource.com ☛ 8_ideas_for_measuring_your_open_source_software usage⠀⇛ Those of us who support open source project communities are often asked about usage metrics — a lot. The goal of these metrics is usually to demonstrate the software’s importance as measured by its user base and awareness. We typically want to know: how many people use the software, how many installations are there, and how many lives are being touched. To make a long story short: We cannot answer these questions directly. Sorry to disappoint you if you were hoping for a definitive solution. No one has the perfect answers to questions about usage metrics. At least, no precise answers. The good news is that there are approximations and alternative metrics that can satisfy your thirst for knowledge about the software’s usage, at least partially. This article explores these alternatives including their benefits and shortcomings. o § Web Browsers/Web Servers⠀➾ # § Mozilla⠀➾ # ⚓ Tor ☛ New_Alpha_Release:_Tor_Browser_12.0a5_(Android, Windows,_macOS,_Linux)_|_The_Tor_Project⠀⇛ Tor Browser 12.0a5 is now available from the Tor Browser download page and also from our distribution directory. Tor Browser 12.0a5 updates Firefox on Android, Windows, macOS, and Linux to 102.5.0esr. This version includes important security updates to Firefox and GeckoView. [...] As of Tor Browser 12.0a4, all supported languages are now included in a single bundle, and can be changed without requiring additional downloads via the Language menu in General settings on the about:preferences page. What to test: Tor Browser Alpha should default to your system language on first launch if it matches a language we support. Alpha testers are also encouraged to test changing language within about: preferences#general, and to report any new bugs with localization in general (in particular instances of ‘Firefox’ appearing instead of ‘Tor Browser’ or other similar branding issues). We would also appreciate if users on all our Desktop platforms attempted a build-to-build upgrade from an older version of Tor Browser Alpha to help us validate the update path. o § Programming/Development⠀➾ # ⚓ Raspberry Pi ☛ Observing_trees_through_the_seasons_with ForestryPi⠀⇛ Ed returned to university to study aquaculture and fisheries, where he was struck by the number of examples of academic papers detailing “really cheap bits of computer equipment to monitor XYZ” in poor parts of the world. “I was always really interested in those papers, and how little, cheap computers really can democratise science and give everyone the chance to do fairly complicated stuff that would have, a few years ago, required thousands of pounds worth of kit.” Having read a paper last year about monitoring a forest canopy, Ed decided he could do something similar, despite being “no expert coder.” A Raspberry Pi Zero, Witty Pi 3 real-time clock, fish-eye lens, 20,000 mAh battery pack, and a 32GB SD card, plus a plastic casing, formed the basis of the ForestryPi setup. # ⚓ JMP ☛ Writing_a_Chat_Client_from_Scratch⠀⇛ There are a lot of things that go into building a chat system, such as client, server, and protocol. Even for only making a client there are lots of areas of focus, such as user experience, features, and performance. To keep this post a manageable size, we will just be building a client and will use an existing server and protocol (accessing Jabber network services using the XMPP protocol). We’ll make a practical GUI so we can test things, but not spend too much time on polish, and look at getting to a useful baseline of features. You can find all the code for this post in git. All code licensed AGPL3+. # ⚓ Frank Delporte ☛ Schedule_your_holiday_for_2038⠀⇛ The end of the year is approaching, so it’s time to start scheduling your holidays for the next year. But I decided to go a step further and already planned those for 2038! Why? Well, a few weeks ago I gave a presentation to students, when I realized they had no idea what I was talking about when mentioning the Y2K-problem. Most of them weren’t even born yet in the year 2000! I also realized at that moment that I’m probably becoming a grumpy old man, but that’s a subject for another post… 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇;-)⦈ But I also found out a new similar problem is approaching in … 2038! # ⚓ Nicholas Tietz-Sokolsky ☛ Tech_systems_amplify_variety_and that’s_a_problem⠀⇛ I recently read “Designing Freedom” by Stafford Beer. It has me thinking a lot about the systems we have in place and something clicked for why they feel so wrong despite being so prevalent. I’m not sure what any solutions look like yet, but outlining a problem is the first step, so let’s go. # ⚓ Rlang ☛ Our_First_Peer-Reviewed_Statistical_R_Packages!⠀⇛ These packages were peer-reviewed by statisticians and developers to conform to a set of standards we’ve developed with community input. These standards cover areas such as documentation, testing, algorithm design and interoperability. As part of the review process, authors have also annotated their source code to document how and where they comply with these standards. # § Java⠀➾ # ⚓ OpenSource.com ☛ Try_this_Java_file_manager_on Linux⠀⇛ Computers are fancy filing cabinets, full of virtual folders and files waiting to be referenced, cross-referenced, edited, updated, saved, copied, moved, renamed, and organized. In this article, we’re taking a look at a file manager for your Linux system. At the tail end of the Sun Microsystem days, there was something called the Java Desktop System, which was strangely not written in Java. Instead, it was a (according to sun.com at the time) “judicious selection of integrated and tuned desktop software, most based on open source and open standards.” It was based on GNOME, with an office suite, email and calendaring apps, instant messaging, “and Java technology.” I found myself musing about what it would take to create a desktop in Java. Objectively, a desktop doesn’t actually consist of all that much. The general consensus seems to be that a desktop is made up of a panel, a system tray, an application menu, and a file manager. It’s an interesting thought exercise to imagine an actual Java desktop. Not enough to start an open source project with that as its aim, but enough for a quick web search for the necessary components. And as it turns out, someone has written and maintains a file manager in Java. # § Rust⠀➾ # ⚓ Armin Ronacher ☛ A_Better_Way_to_Borrow_in_Rust: Stack_Tokens_|_Armin_Ronacher’s_Thoughts_and_Writings⠀⇛ As a Rust programmer you are probably quite familiar with how references work in Rust. If you have a value of type T you can generally get various references to it by using the ampersand (&) operator on it. In the most trivial case &T gives you just that: a reference to T. There are however cases where you can get something else. [...] I maintain a crate called fragile. The purpose of this crate is allow you to do something that Rust doesn’t want you to do: to send a non Send-able type safely to other threads. That sounds like a terrible idea, but there are legitimate reasons for doing this and there are benefits to it. There are lots of interfaces that through abstractions require that your types are Send and Sync which means that it needs to be send-able to another thread and self synchronized. In that case you are required to provide a type that fulfills this purpose. But what if the type does not actually cross a thread boundary or not in all cases? * § Leftovers⠀➾ o ⚓ Terence Eden ☛ Other_pixel-level_meta_data_you_could_put_in_an image_format⠀⇛ Different layers could have different resolution (Infrared is typically lower res than the image it is overlayed on). Different layers might be compressed more efficiently by different algorithms. We’re used to layered images in formats like PSD and XCF – so why not in a future version of JPEG or AVIF? o ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ What’s_the_Manhattan_Institute_Doing_In_San Francisco?⠀⇛ In San Francisco, the far right used minority props to do their dirty work. Siva Raj, an Indian immigrant and non- citizen, began the recall effort. He headed an astroturf group called Neighbors for a Better San Francisco, which was funded by Republican billionaire William Oberndorf. The San Francisco Examiner reported Oberndorf gave $600,000 to a political action committee (PAC) that is largely funding both the school board recall and the Chesa Boudin recall attempt. The San Francisco Examiner reported they’ve put up two-thirds of Boudin recall money: “Our own look at SF Ethics department filings show that Neighbors for a Better San Francisco is also responsible for nearly 25% of the school board recall contributions.” Another minority prop is Diane Yap. Collins writes: Friends of Lowell Foundation leader, Diane Yap, is a “policy analyst” for Manhattan. Institute, a billionaire- backed right-wing think tank in New York City. This same organization also employs Chris Rufo as their senior fellow. He is credited with the anti-CRT panic sweeping the nation. The same panic is responsible for efforts to remove Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. from the Virginia curriculum and books on Ruby Bridges from Texas classrooms. o ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ The_Permanent_Disaster_Economy⠀⇛ Order a copy of Atomic Days: The Untold Story of the Most Toxic Place in America from the CounterPunch Book Shop. o ⚓ TruthOut ☛ We_Need_Harm_Reduction_With_a_Liberatory_Vision⠀⇛ o § Education⠀➾ # ⚓ [Old] Sourcehut ☛ Mailing_list_etiquette⠀⇛ Some email clients have popularized email usage patterns which are considered poor form on many mailing lists, including sr.ht. Please review some of our suggestions for participating more smoothly in discussions on the platform. This advice will likely serve you well outside of sr.ht as well. Thank you for taking the time to adjust your habits! Plain text Please make sure that your email client is configured to use plain text emails. By default, many email clients compose emails with HTML, so you can use rich text formatting. Rich text is not desirable for development-oriented email conversations, so you should disable this feature and send your email as “plain text”. Every email client is different, you should research the options for your specific client. HTML emails are rejected by all sr.ht services. [...] # ⚓ [Old] Use plaintext email ☛ Use_plaintext_email⠀⇛ There are two main types of emails on the [Internet]: plaintext and HTML. The former is strongly preferred, but often isn’t set up by default. We’ll get you set up right. # ⚓ Eesti Rahvusringhääling ☛ Gallery:_Jõhvi_coding_school’s new_facility_formally_opens⠀⇛ Karin Künnapas, co-head of Kood/Jõhvi, said: “We have come to realize that this teaching methodology, which doesn’t use teachers as such, is highly suitable for some people; it constitutes self-learning, plus there is a lot of teamwork.” o § Hardware⠀➾ # ⚓ Linux Gizmos ☛ AXE300_is_a_Quad-Band_16-Stream_Wi-Fi6 Router_with_2x_10G_ports⠀⇛ The Archer AXE300 from TP-LINK is a Quad-band Wi- Fi6/6E router supporting up to 15.6Gbps, OFDMA and MU-MIMO technology to provide fast connectivity to several devices at the same time. The device is also equipped with 4x GbE LAN ports, 1x 2.5Gbps WAN/LAN port and 2x 10Gbps WAN/LAN ports. # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Taking_(Good)_Pictures_Of_PCBs⠀⇛ Snapping pictures is not technically difficult with modern technology, but taking good photographs is another matter. There are a number of things that a photographer needs to account for in order to get the best possible results, and if the subject matter isn’t particularly photogenic to start with it makes the task just a little more difficult. As anyone who’s posted something for sale online can attest, taking pictures of everyday objects can present its own challenges even to seasoned photographers. [Martijn Braam] has a few tricks up his sleeve for pictures like this in his efforts to photograph various circuit boards. o § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾ # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Fracking_Firm_Agrees_to_Pay_a_Small_Town’s_Water Bills_for_75_Years⠀⇛ # ⚓ Project Censored ☛ Proximity_to_Oil_and_Gas_Drilling_Sites Linked_to_Pregnancy_Complications_and_Other_Maternal_Health Risks_–_Validated_Independent_News⠀⇛ Infants born close to drilling sites are more likely to be born prematurely with lower birth rates, which can contribute to developmental problems. Mothers are more likely to develop complications during pregnancy that have long term consequences, including chronic high blood pressure, heart disease, and stroke. # ⚓ The Nation ☛ A_“Prevention_Revolution”_Offers_Hope_in_the World’s_Largest_HIV_Epidemic⠀⇛ In South Africa’s Umlazi township, HIV is a part of life, even for those who don’t have it. Reporting for this story was supported by the Pulitzer Center. Twenty-two-year-old Pamella Jili has seen its impact up close. She grew up in the township, a hot spot in the worst-hit province in South Africa, where more people live with HIV than anywhere else in the world. She has watched others struggle with the virus. When dating, she has always worried about her partner’s status. # ⚓ The Nation ☛ Cities_and_States_Are_Acting_Fast_to_Blunt_the Impact_of_Dobbs⠀⇛ Just hours after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, Nashville Metropolitan Council member Delishia Porterfield got to work. She knew abortion would soon be illegal under Tennessee’s trigger ban. But Porterfield was determined to blunt the law’s impact. She started with a resolution asking police to make investigating abortions their lowest priority. # ⚓ The Nation ☛ Pandemic_Year_3:_Who’s_Got_the_Power?⠀⇛ Here comes our third year of living and dying with Covid-19. o § Proprietary⠀➾ # ⚓ Krebs On Security ☛ ConnectWise_Quietly_Patches_Flaw_That Helps_Phishers⠀⇛ ConnectWise, which offers a self-hosted, remote desktop software application that is widely used by Managed Service Providers (MSPs), is warning about an unusually sophisticated phishing attack that can let attackers take remote control over user systems when recipients click the included link. The warning comes just weeks after the company quietly patched a vulnerability that makes it easier for phishers to launch these attacks. # ⚓ NPR ☛ Major_password_manager_LastPass_suffered_a_breach_— again⠀⇛ LastPass, a major password manager, says it has suffered its second breach in three months by the same unauthorized party. # ⚓ IT Wire ☛ Red_Hat_lowers_barriers_to_hybrid_cloud_adoption with_expanded_AWS_Marketplace_offerings⠀⇛ Red Hat has announced an expansion of its open solutions that are publicly available in the AWS Marketplace, including Red Hat OpenShift Data Science and Red Hat OpenShift Streams for Apache Kafka. AWS customers can now use committed AWS spend to purchase and run Red Hat offerings directly through the AWS Marketplace. # ⚓ Canva Engineering Blog ☛ From_Zero_to_50_Million_Uploads per_Day:_Scaling_Media_at_Canva⠀⇛ In designing the migration process, we needed to migrate all old, newly created, and updated media to DynamoDB. But we also sought to shed load from the MySQL cluster as soon as possible. We considered numerous options for replicating data from MySQL to DynamoDB, including: [...] o § Security⠀➾ # § Integrity/Availability/Authenticity⠀➾ # ⚓ Ayer ☛ Checking_if_a_Certificate_is_Revoked:_How_Hard Can_It_Be?⠀⇛ This simple-sounding feature was obnoxious to implement, and required dealing with some amazingly creative screwups by certificate authorities, and a clunky system called the Common CA Database that’s built on Salesforce. Just how dysfunctional is the WebPKI? Buckle up and find out! # § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾ # ⚓ VOA News ☛ El_Salvador_Journalists_Sue_NSO_Group_in US_Over_Alleged_Pegasus_Surveillance⠀⇛ Salvadoran digital newspaper El Faro’s employees filed a lawsuit in a U.S. federal court on Wednesday against NSO Group, alleging the Israeli firm’s controversial Pegasus software was used to spy on them. The lawsuit was filed in California by 13 El Faro journalists and two administrative staff, represented by lawyers from the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University. Pegasus was used to breach the phones of at least 22 people associated with El Faro, including the plaintiffs, compromising their communications and data, according to the complaint — a copy of which was released by the Knight Institute. # ⚓ New Yorker ☛ A_[Cracked]_Newsroom_Brings_a_Spyware Maker_to_U.S._Court⠀⇛ Gressier is one of at least thirty-five journalists and civil-society members [breached] with Pegasus in El Salvador between July, 2020, and November, 2021, according to the analysis by Citizen Lab, which was verified by Amnesty International. The [cracking] campaign comprised at least two hundred and sixty Pegasus attacks. Because it is more difficult to confirm Pegasus infections on Android phones, which predominate in El Salvador, experts said that the true number was likely far higher. “Their [breach] was not only extensive but also intensive,” Paolo Nigro Herrero, of Access Now, a nonprofit group focussed on digital rights, told me. “Normally, people get [cracked] once or twice or three times in rare situations. But, in this case, we saw a really intensive use.” Many of the targeted individuals—including Gressier, who now lives elsewhere in Central America—have been forced to flee El Salvador. In interviews conducted in the United States and Central America, more than a dozen members of the El Faro newsroom told me that the Pegasus hackings had impaired their ability to work as journalists and maintain sources’ trust. “It’s a shitty feeling,” Óscar Martínez, El Faro’s executive editor, whose phone was infected with Pegasus forty- two times between July, 2020, and October, 2021, told me. “Sources, they were very upset with me. And they have the right to be. They just trusted me. And I failed them.” # ⚓ Patrick Breyer ☛ Political_advertising:_EU_lawmakers to_reign_in_on_surveillance-based_targeting_of political_advertising⠀⇛ Today, the European Parliament’s LIBE committee voted to restrict the use of personal data to target online political advertisements to data explicitly provided for this purpose by citizens with their consent, excluding the use of behavioral and inferred intelligence on citizens. LIBE has the exclusive competence on the articles dealing with data protection (the targeting). However, the position will be subject to trilogue negotiations with EU governments. [...] If a data protection authority such as the Irish DPA fails to enforce the rules against large online platforms, the European Data Protection Board would be able to take over. In cases of illegal political ads targeting it will not only be able to impose financial sanctions but can also temporarily suspend the targeting of ads by advertisers who seriously and systematically violated the rules. This ensures that more affluent sponsors are not able to factor-in the price of financial sanctions in their budget. # ⚓ The Washington Post ☛ Musk_claims_Apple_threatens_to remove_Twitter_from_App_Store_–_The_Washington_Post⠀⇛ Elon Musk on Monday went on a tear against Apple, Twitter’s top advertiser, after he said the company threatened to block the social network from its App Store without explanation and mostly had stopped advertising on Twitter. # ⚓ John Gruber ☛ Apple’s_Ad_Spend_on_Twitter:_$48M_in Q1⠀⇛ How many marketing departments are having meetings today along the lines of “If Apple pulled its ad spending on Twitter, why shouldn’t we?” # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Number_of_Immigrants_Under_Punitive Surveillance_Quadrupled_on_Biden’s_Watc⠀⇛ # § Confidentiality⠀➾ # ⚓ Ghacks ☛ Microsoft_Office_in_trouble_in_Germany_due to_GDPR⠀⇛ Microsoft’s suite of productivity apps, Microsoft 365, is in hot water with German authorities due to an alleged incompatibility with the data protection laws of Germany and the rest of the European Union. Microsoft has been in negotiations with Germany’s state and federal data protection authorities since 2020 about the compatibility of its 365 utility with the EU’s data protection laws. According to a report written by the Datenschutzkonferenz (DSK), Microsoft is still in breach of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). o § Defence/Aggression⠀➾ # ⚓ Mandiant ☛ Always_Another_Secret:_Lifting_the_Haze_on China-nexus_Espionage_in_Southeast_Asia⠀⇛ Following initial infection via USB devices, the threat actor leveraged legitimately signed binaries to side-load malware, including three new families we refer to as MISTCLOAK, DARKDEW, and BLUEHAZE. Successful compromise led to the deployment of a renamed NCAT binary and execution of a reverse shell on the victim’s system, providing backdoor access to the threat actor. The malware self- replicates by infecting new removable drives that are plugged into a compromised system, allowing the malicious payloads to propagate to additional systems and potentially collect data from air- gapped systems. # ⚓ Declassified UK ☛ Britain_stole_their_land_to_plant_tea. Now_they_want_it_back⠀⇛ Wilson Kiget’s mother Lydia was just 13 years old when she was first raped by a white farmer in Kenya. The assault came during British colonial rule in the 1930s, after the settler helped himself to the family’s fertile land. “My mother worked on his tea plantation for ten years,” Wilson explains nervously. “She was raped continuously. Three of us were conceived by him. But when he wanted to marry a European woman, we were chased away and had to live in an abandoned hut. “The horrible thing was whenever she went out with my siblings, who were lighter skinned than me, other children would run away because they were scared of their appearance. My mother died a miserable death.” Wilson’s family languished in poverty for decades, while the tea planted on their land made a fortune for its British growers, Brooke Bond. The company would be acquired by UK food giant Unilever in 1984, who marketed the tea to millions of customers under the brands PG Tips and Lipton. # ⚓ Newsquest Media Group Ltd ☛ Channel_crossings_top_43,000 for_the_year_so_far⠀⇛ The latest crossings take the provisional total for 2022 to date to 43,500, according to PA news agency analysis of Government figures. # ⚓ NPR ☛ They_ran_a_voter_suppression_scheme._Now_they’re sentenced_to_register_voters⠀⇛ The robocaller, who claimed to be with a non- existent group called “the 1599 project,” falsely said that voters’ information would go into a database accessible to police, debt collectors and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which would use the information to impose vaccine mandates. The caller cited no evidence to support these claims. [...] On Tuesday, Ohio’s Cuyahoga County Common Pleas court sentenced them to two years of probation, six months of monitoring with a GPS ankle bracelet, $2,500 each in fines and 500 hours of registering voters in Washington, D.C. # ⚓ Hollywood Reporter ☛ Elon_Musk_Confirms_Kanye_West’s Twitter_Account_Suspended_After_Posting_Swastika⠀⇛ After a chaotic day that saw Ye appear on Alex Jones’ Infowars show and repeatedly say he liked Adolf Hitler, the rapper posted a series of controversial tweets, including supposed text messages between himself and Twitter CEO Elon Musk. Among the tweets, which included praise and support for Balenciaga following the recent backlash against the company, Ye posted a picture of a swastika merged with a Star of David. Twitter deleted the offending post and Ye’s tweet storm came to an abrupt end. # ⚓ BBC ☛ Elon_Musk_suspends_Kanye_West_from_Twitter_for inciting_violence⠀⇛ Kanye West has been banned from Twitter again and accused of “inciting violence” over offensive tweets – a month after his account was reinstated. # ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Cops_Are_Asking_To_Kill_People_With_Robots. What_Could_Go_Wrong?⠀⇛ The Appeal The U.S. military has been killing people with robots for decades now, and the nation’s local police now seem eager to get in on the action. Drone strikes abroad have become so commonplace that the mainstream news media barely bothers to cover them anymore. For years, the military has […] # ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ House,_Senate_Agree_to_Add_$45_Billion_to Biden’s_2023_Military_Budget_Request⠀⇛ Congress is still finalizing the 2023 National Defense Authorization Act. # ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Ukraine’s_Nurses_Face_Brutal_Winter_as_Health Austerity_Collides_With_War⠀⇛ Key workers told openDemocracy they are being paid months late or not in full due to a controversial healthcare reform. # ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ Oath_Keepers_Founder_Guilty_of_Seditious Conspiracy_for_Plotting_to_Violently_Overthrow_U.S._Gov’t⠀⇛ Jurors in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday found Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes guilty of seditious conspiracy for plotting to keep Donald Trump in power after the 2020 election, resulting in the deadly January 6 insurrection at the Capitol. Kelly Meggs, who led the Florida chapter of the Oath Keepers, was also convicted of seditious conspiracy, and three other insurrectionists were found guilty of other felonies. The case marks the first time in nearly three decades that a federal jury has convicted defendants of seditious conspiracy, the crime of conspiring to overthrow, put down or destroy by force the government of the United States. “It’s a win for the Justice Department, and it also sends a message that illegal actions against the government will not go unpunished,” says Kristen Doerer, managing editor of Right Wing Watch. Doerer also discusses other upcoming trials for insurrectionists and how extremist groups have infiltrated military and law enforcement circles. # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Zapatistas_Versus_the_“Neoliberal_War Against_Humanity”⠀⇛ This specter of destitution loomed over the Zapatistas, and indeed millions of indigenous people because of NAFTA. After a 12-day war against the Mexican state in 1994, Zapatistas agreed to a ceasefire, maintaining control of their lands in Chiapas. Thus the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) is always ready for combat. Its soldiers may spend their days planting corn and beans, but at a moment’s notice they drop their hoes and grab their rifles. That’s because government paramilitaries could reappear at any time, and with them, the threat of reinstituting the near slavery of the abominable finca plantations. These fincas were the Zapatistas’ original target in 1994. The revolutionaries overran the fincas, expelled the owners and empowered the indigenous peons, thus ending the systematic rape of indigenous women and girls and the hanging of indigenous men who refused to hand over their daughters. The practice of whipping these serfs for the slightest infraction also stopped. In every way, life improved for these peons, who had previously been treated like dirt. Women constitute a third of the Zapatista army, according to the introduction to a new book, Zapatista Stories for Dreaming An-Other World, by Subcomandante Marcos, their leader, if they could be said to have one. And women became pivotal to the Zapatista effort to create a new social- political-economic arrangement on their lands. “The proclamation of the Women’s Revolutionary Law before the 1994 uprising was an insistence that women’s rights cannot wait until after the revolution; they are part of the revolutions.” The Women’s Revolutionary Law included, for example, the right to drive; thus it enables women better to participate in what the Zapatistas accurately call “the neoliberal war against humanity.” # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ War_is_the_Greatest_Evil,_An_Interview_with Chris_Hedges⠀⇛ Steve Skrovan: Welcome to the Ralph Nader Radio Hour. My name is Steve Skrovan, along with my co- host, David Feldman. Hello, David, how are you? David Feldman: Very good. Hello. # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Notes_on_Ukraine⠀⇛ For this, one cannot fail to appreciate the joy on the part of the Ukrainian inhabitants of that city, many of whom had been forced to live without running water, electricity and a good few basic food staples.  When the Russians withdrew, Ukrainian citizens took to the streets of Kherson in a spontaneous outbreak of joy; for someone like myself, who has known neither war, torture nor starvation, it is hard to imagine what the people in Kherson had gone through. Seeing those images in real-time of people weeping with happiness, however, it was easy to understand their relief at having secured some measure of freedom again.  Even if it is possible that such freedom will only be enjoyed for a preciously short period of time. Most people, I think, share this sensibility.   They understand we are dealing with a vastly powerful country and a tyrannical dictator at its head, reigning down fire on a smaller country in a violent attempt to occupy and annex it.  In England, where I live, it is quite common to see images of the Ukrainian flag adorning cars or houses as an expression of solidarity.  I appreciate that some of this will inevitably be an expression of anti-Russian prejudice channelled through bellicose British patriotism.  There are deep seams of that to be mined here in a post- Brexit, post-empire UK, for sure.  Russia is a country that our politicians are forever urging us to revile while allowing the financial wares of its billionaire oligarchy and those connected with it to fill the coffers of the Conservative and Labour parties alike.  Not to mention the grip that Russian finance has on London and the elite property market there. # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ The_Silent_Failure_of_the_International Committee_of_the_Red_Cross_in_Ukraine⠀⇛ Zelensky finished this part of his speech with a most powerful indictment against the institution legally and morally responsible for assuring respect for international humanitarian law (IHL): “And such self-elimination is the self-destruction of the Red Cross as an organization that was once respected.” “Self-destruction” of the “once respected” ICRC? Zelensky’s accusations conflated Russia’s violations of humanitarian law with the role of the ICRC as the guarantor of IHL. The ICRC’s silence in the face of egregious violations has once more called into question the institution’s insistence on discretion and confidentiality. # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Jan._6_Committee_Will_Likely_Decide_on_Criminal Referrals_to_DOJ_This_Friday⠀⇛ # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ House_Ways_and_Means_Committee_Obtains_Trump’s Tax_Records⠀⇛ # ⚓ The Nation ☛ American_Authoritarianism_Isn’t_Going_Away⠀⇛ Just in case you didn’t notice, authoritarianism was on the ballot in the 2022 midterm elections. An unprecedented majority of candidates from one of the nation’s two major political parties were committed to undemocratic policies and outcomes. You would have to go back to the Democratic Party–dominated segregationist South of the 1950s to find such a sweeping array of authoritarian proclivities in an American election. While voters did stop some of the highest-profile election deniers, conspiracy theorists, and pro-Trump true believers from taking office, all too many won seats at the congressional, state, and local levels. # ⚓ FAIR ☛ NATO_Narratives_and_Corporate_Media_Are_Leading_to ‘Doorstep_of_Doom’⠀⇛ A popular cartoon aptly expresses the political angst provoked by media pundits today as they chatter on about nuclear war: Two people, both a little hunched over, burdened with the world, are walking down a city street. The woman says to the man, “My desire to be well-informed is currently at odds with my desire to remain sane.” # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Ukrainian_General_Staff:_Individual_Russian military_units_are_leaving_Zaporizhzhia_—_Meduza⠀⇛ Certain units of the Russian army are leaving their positions in several locales in the annexed part of Zaporizhzhia. This was reported by the Ukrainian General Staff in its evening digest on December 1. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Two_Ukrainian_embassies_receive_threatening letters_following_Madrid_letter-bomb_incident_—_Meduza⠀⇛ Following the letter-bomb delivery to the Ukrainian embassy in Madrid, two other Ukrainian embassies received letters with “highly specific threats.” The Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said this to the Ukrinform news agency, at the meeting of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), which took place today in Lodz, Poland. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Pentagon_Fails_Another_Audit,_Yet_Congress Poised_to_Approve_$847_Billion_Budget⠀⇛ Anti-war advocates blasted U.S. lawmakers on Thursday, one day after it was reported that Congress is expected to pass an $847 billion military budget for the coming fiscal year even though the Pentagon recently failed its fifth consecutive annual audit and nearly 40 million people nationwide are living in poverty. Last month, “the Pentagon once again failed to pass a basic audit showing that it knows where its money goes,” the National Priorities Project at the Institute for Policy Studies said in a statement. “And instead of holding out for any kind of accountability, Congress stands ready to give a big raise to an agency that failed to account for more than 60% of its assets.” o § Transparency/Investigative Reporting⠀➾ # ⚓ Quillette ☛ Islamist_Terror;_Journalistic_Error⠀⇛ In Can “The Whole World” Be Wrong?, Richard Landes, a historian of apocalyptic movements in medieval Europe, re-examines the reporting of Palestinian attacks on Israel, starting with the Second Intifada that began in September 2000. Principally, he looks at the ways in which postcolonial ideology and the intimidation of journalists have been used to obscure the links between Islamist ideology and terrorist practice, and how this process disfigures public discourse and understanding. o § Environment⠀➾ # ⚓ NPR ☛ 3_tribes_dealing_with_the_toll_of_climate_change_get $75_million_to_relocate⠀⇛ Three Tribal communities in Alaska and Washington that have been severely impacted by the effects of climate change on their homes are getting $75 million from the Biden administration to help relocate to higher ground. The Quinault Indian Nation, located on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington; the Newtok Village, located on the Ninglick River in Alaska; and the Native Village of Napakiak, located on Alaska’s Kuskokwim River will each receive $25 million, the Interior Department announced on Wednesday. In addition to those funds, FEMA is also awarding approximately $17.7 million to help these three communities buy, demolish and build new infrastructure. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Campaigners_Demand_Deep_Cuts_to_Plastic Production_as_Global_Treaty_Negotiations_Ramp_Up⠀⇛ Climate campaigners attending the first negotiations for a global plastics treaty in Punta Del Este, Uruguay this week are reporting that discussions have had a strong emphasis on protecting the rights of communities that are severely impacted by plastic pollution, but they warned that policymakers must avoid producing a “Paris agreement for plastics.” The international movement Break Free From Plastic said Wednesday night that several of the more than 150 assembled countries have expressed support for an agreement which would allow individual governments to “establish their own standards rather than global control measures.” # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Life_Beyond_1.5C⠀⇛ At issue, nation-state commitments to reduce CO2 emissions routinely fail. It’s been over 30 years. As a result of inaction, the impact of global warming at only 1.2°C above pre-industrial is already disrupting ecosystems. Meantime at COP27 the rallying cry was “Keep 1.5 Alive” with the delegates all voicing the same slogan, smiling, joining hands, thumbs up. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has already informed the world that it’s necessary to hold global temps below 1.5°C pre- industrial or all hell will break lose. Moreover, the IPCC, does not yet see a clear pathway out of the morass. In fact, based upon several analyses, it’s starting to look like 1.5C is in the cards. So, get used to it… it’s coming this decade! # § Energy⠀➾ # ⚓ New York Times ☛ How_the_Collapse_of_Sam_Bankman- Fried’s_Crypto_Empire_Has_Disrupted_A.I.⠀⇛ Their investment was part of a quiet and quixotic effort to explore and mitigate the dangers of artificial intelligence, which many in Mr. Bankman-Fried’s circle believed could eventually destroy the world and damage humanity. Over the past two years, the 30- year-old entrepreneur and his FTX colleagues funneled more than $530 million — through either grants or investments — into more than 70 A.I.-related companies, academic labs, think tanks, independent projects and individual researchers to address concerns over the technology, according to a tally by The New York Times. Now some of these organizations and individuals are unsure whether they can continue to spend that money, said four people close to the A.I. efforts who were not authorized to speak publicly. They said they were worried that Mr. Bankman-Fried’s fall could cast doubt over their research and undermine their reputations. And some of the A.I. start-ups and organizations may eventually find themselves embroiled in FTX’s bankruptcy proceedings, with their grants potentially clawed back in court, they said. # ⚓ Broadband Breakfast ☛ Senators_Join_CFTB’s_Chairman in_Calling_for_[Cryptocurrency]_Regulation_in_Light_of FTX_Implosion⠀⇛ Rostin Behnam, chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, told the Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry committee his agency needs further statutory authority to protect consumers from harms in the digital assets space. The continued solvency of LedgerX, the only FTX affiliate subject to CFTC scrutiny, testifies to the efficacy of regulatory oversight, Behnam argued. o § Finance⠀➾ # ⚓ A_Deficit_Spending_Scam_Destroyed_UK’s_Prime_Minister—Who’s Next?_–_RDWolff⠀⇛ With its disguises as “high finance” for the mystified and “Keynesian fiscal policy” for those “in the know,” deficit spending by the government was quite a successful scam for a long while. When the UK’s ex-prime minister opened her new government in September, Liz Truss followed tradition by trying to run the oft-used scam again. But this time it did not work. Eventually, even successful scams stop working. Its failure became hers but also her party’s, the Conservatives.’ Neither of them understood the scam’s limits. Perhaps its disguises had worked best on those who repeated them most in thought and word. In its UK version, the deficit spending scam entailed the Conservative (but also some Labor) governments repeatedly cutting taxes on corporations and the rich. Serving their donors explains most of this. Without this scam, such behavior would have forced governments to act in traditional ways they now sought to avoid. One way would be to raise taxes on others to offset tax cuts for corporations and the rich. Governments only dared to do that partially, never enough to compensate for revenues lost from the tax cuts benefiting corporations and the rich. The other way would be to cut government spending. Governments did that also, especially when the Conservatives recast public services as unnecessary, wasteful, counterproductive, or in short, “socialistic.” But doing so angers the masses and risks losing votes for the government. Even when the masses could be distracted by campaigning against select foreigners (via Brexit against Europe and via Ukraine against Russia), public service cuts never compensated for what corporations and the rich were saving by having their taxes cut. # ⚓ Pro Publica ☛ Fintechs_Made_“Massive_Profits”_on_PPP_Loans and_Sometimes_Engaged_in_Fraud,_House_Committee_Report Finds⠀⇛ Financial technology firms at the front lines of approving loans through the Paycheck Protection Program — intended to help small businesses survive during the pandemic — lacked fraud controls, chased high fees to the detriment of some borrowers and sometimes exploited their business relationships to arrange suspect loans for the companies’ own executives. One such executive falsely claimed in loan documents to be a Black veteran and received loans through multiple business entities. These are among the findings in a report released Thursday by the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis, which investigated the role financial technology firms, known as fintech companies, played in propagating PPP loan fraud. The committee referred its findings to the Department of Justice and to the Small Business Administration’s Office of Inspector General. # ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ David_Dayen_on_Rail_Contract_Bill,_Respect for_Marriage_Act,_Debt_Ceiling_&_What_a_GOP_Congress_Means⠀⇛ With a new Congress being sworn in next month, Democratic lawmakers have a busy lame-duck session during which they will try to pass as many bills as possible before losing their majority in the House of Representatives. The Senate has just passed the historic Respect for Marriage Act in a 61-36 vote that protects marriage equality, and lawmakers are also moving to impose a controversial contract on the freight rail industry to avert a possible strike by thousands of rail workers who are demanding sick days and other improvements. Meanwhile, a fight is looming over a funding bill to avoid a government shutdown. For more, we speak with journalist David Dayen, whose recent piece for The American Prospect is headlined “Reconciliation Is Available to End Debt Limit Hostage-Taking.” # ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ Rights_Advocates_to_NYC_Mayor_Adams:_You Can’t_Arrest_Your_Way_Out_of_Housing_&_Mental_Health_Crisis⠀⇛ New York Mayor Eric Adams announced this week that police and emergency medical workers will start hospitalizing people with mental illness against their will, even if they pose no threat to others. Rights groups and community organizations have slammed the move as inhumane and are demanding better access to housing and other support for people struggling with mental illness and homelessness. “That does require funding. That does require investment. Unfortunately, we don’t get that,” says Jumaane Williams, New York City’s public advocate, who says officials are too quick to use policing as a solution to social inequality. We also speak with Jawanza Williams of social justice group VOCAL-NY, who says Mayor Adams and his administration are intent on obscuring issues of homelessness and mental illness rather than solving them. “Hiding, disappearing people experiencing homelessness, dismantling encampments, preventing people from taking photographs inside of the shelters will not prevent the truth from coming out,” he says. # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Critics_Slam_NYC_Plan_to_Involuntarily Hospitalize_Those_With_Mental_Illness⠀⇛ # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ New_Bill_Targets_Hedge_Fund_Stranglehold_on Housing_Market⠀⇛ # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ ‘We_Must_Cancel_Student_Debt,’_Activists Argue_as_SCOTUS_Agrees_to_Hear_Case_in_February⠀⇛ Student debt cancellation advocates renewed calls for relief Thursday after the right-wing U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear oral arguments for a case challenging President Joe Biden’s forgiveness plan in February. “It is up to SCOTUS to grant borrowers the greater opportunity for upward mobility that is so often out of reach for those burdened with student debt.” # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Pakistan_Demands_Debt_Cancellation_and Climate_Justice⠀⇛ The scale of the destruction in Pakistan was still making itself apparent as the world headed to the United Nations climate conference COP27 in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, in November. Pakistan was one of two countries invited to co-chair the summit. It also served as chair of the Group of 77 (G77) and China for 2022, playing a critical role in ensuring that the establishment of a loss and damage fund was finally on the summit’s agenda, after decades of resistance by the Global North. “The dystopia has already come to our doorstep,” Pakistan’s Minister for Climate Change Sherry Rehman told Reuters. # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ US_Capitalism’s_Bully_Boys⠀⇛ Fortunately for those who aren’t comfortable with the so-called great man theory of history, recent years have seen a few books published providing a more rounded view of the so-called industrial revolution in the United States. In other words, they dismiss the idea that only great men make history. Instead, they argue that the role of the regular folks is at least as important as those few who control the wealth. The authors of these books consider the role of labor organizers and unions, the roles of farmers and indigenous peoples, women, and the land itself. Of course, given the power of the exploiter class, much of this history is a history of resistance to that class. As historian Chad Pearson’s latest book Capitalist’s Terrorists: Klansmen, Lawmen, and Employers in the Long Nineteenth Century makes clear in is the latest book, the employer class was (and is) not afraid of using brutal violence to get its way. From tame-sounding organizations like employers’ associations to less tame groups like the so-called Concerned Citizens Alliances composed of employers, vigilantes, off-duty police officers, and hired thugs, the history Pearson relates is one of conspiracies and violence. Both of these phenomena were directed at working people fighting for a living wage. These groups’ intention was to keep the people working for them in poverty and fear; poverty because lower wages increased employers’ profits and fear because that kept workers from organizing to get their fair share. The tactics of fear included everything from blacklisting workers associated with organizing their fellows or agitating for better working conditions and pay to beatings, threats of beatings, running workers out of town, and even murder. o § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾ # ⚓ Robert Reich ☛ Does_Elon_Musk_Have_a_Right_to_Destroy Twitter?⠀⇛ # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Elon_Musk_Says_‘Misunderstanding’_With Apple_Is_Resolved⠀⇛ Apple declined to comment. Mr. Musk did not respond to a request for comment. The meeting appeared to sidestep what had threatened to become a big spat between two of tech’s titans. Mr. Musk had taken aim at Apple’s power over the App Store, which is the only distributor of apps on more than one billion iPhones worldwide. His complaints — about Apple’s policies for approving apps and its practice of taking a cut of the sale of apps — resurrected an issue that had been raised by other companies, such as Spotify and Epic Games. Lawmakers and regulators around the world have been scrutinizing Apple’s power over software distribution. # ⚓ India Times ☛ Telecom_companies_vs_OTT_companies:_The ‘letter_war’⠀⇛ According to the COAI, telecom service providers have contributed an amount of nearly Rs 17,627 crore towards licence fee and Rs 7,073 crore towards spectrum usage charge (SUC) for FY 2021-22 alone. This is besides the mammoth amounts invested towards spectrum acquisition and network infrastructure. # ⚓ The Economist ☛ Elon_Musk_is_showing_what_a_waste_of_time Twitter_can_be⠀⇛ Yet Twitter has also proved to be a lousy medium for discussing important news and big ideas. It disdains nuance, amplifies misstatement and rewards conflict, cruelty and trolling. These are reasons Twitter’s most adept user was probably Donald Trump. (In “Confidence Man”, Maggie Haberman reports that an aide compared the moment Mr Trump first pecked out his own Tweet, rather than dictating it, to the scene in “Jurassic Park” when dinosaurs discover they can open doors themselves.) # ⚓ RTL ☛ Twitter_could_be_banned_in_Europe_and_fines_will follow_if_rules_are_not_respected⠀⇛ The possibility of banning Twitter in Europe was raised during a video conference, with European Commissioner Thierry Breton, calling on Elon Musk to comply with EU rules on content management. Meanwhile, US Treasury secretary Janet Yellen indicated that Washington was reviewing his purchase of the social network. # ⚓ American University Radio ☛ Elon,_Twitter_And_The_Decline Of_The_Social_Media_Era⠀⇛ Diane spoke with Ian Bogost, director of the film and media studies program at Washington University in St. Louis and a contributing writer at The Atlantic. In a recent essay Bogost asks if the age of social media is ending, and explains why he thinks that might not be such a bad thing. # ⚓ The Atlantic ☛ Twitter’s_Slow_and_Painful_End⠀⇛ In recent days, I’ve had conversations with three former Twitter employees, all with varying knowledge of the platform’s infrastructure. They each argued that Musk appears to know very little about how the company he purchased actually works—that Twitter has its own, custom-built and self-hosted infrastructure, which runs out of multiple data centers, for example. And they were uncertain whether those crucial and complex parts of the company were still adequately staffed: Thousands of people have been laid off from Twitter in recent days, and remaining employees were offered buyouts yesterday. (“We will need to be extremely hardcore,” Musk reportedly wrote to staffers. “This will mean working long hours at high intensity. Only exceptional performance will constitute a passing grade.” If that promise somehow fails to entice, workers can opt for three months’ severance instead.) # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Roaming_Charges:_Railroaded,_Again⠀⇛ The DLC was founded by the likes of Al Gore, Bill Clinton and Joe Biden, after Mondale’s loss. The DLC cynically titled their “think tank” the Progressive Policy Institute, although the only thing “progressive” about it was how it progressively moved away from the New Deal political programs which had come to define the modern Democratic Party. Justified as a reformation of the party to attract white working class voters (the so-called Reagan Democrats), the “free” trade policies of the DLC and the Clinton/Gore administration hit the working class harder than almost any policies of the Reagan/Bush era. As the job losses from NAFTA took hold, Clinton (with Biden’s support) slashed the social safety net that would have cushioned the blows. # ⚓ VOA News ☛ US_Senators_Warn_China_Against_Violent_Crackdown on_Protests⠀⇛ The 42 senators, led by Democrat Jeff Merkley and Republicans Mitch McConnell, Dan Sullivan and Todd Young, said in a letter to China’s Washington Ambassador Qin Gang that they were following the protests in China very carefully. # ⚓ Hollywood Reporter ☛ Kanye_West_Will_No_Longer_Buy_Social Media_App_Parler⠀⇛ The announcement comes the same day that West appeared on Alex Jones’ Infowars, in a segment which West continued to make antisemitic statements and expressed an admiration for Adolf Hitler. # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Trump_Might_be_Done:_So_What?⠀⇛ Yes, Donald Trump’s chances of being the Republicans’ 2024 presidential candidate have taken a hit. On top of and related to all his, um, legal problems, there’s the defeats suffered by numerous candidates he backed in the 2022 mid-term elections. Even before that, the open QAnon fan Trump had lost the support of some key far-right billionaires, including no less of an ideological force than FOX News owner Rupert Murdoch. Then came Trump’s post-midterms and pre-Thanksgiving Mar a Lago dinner with the notorious anti-Semite “Ye” (the far-right narcissist formerly known as Kanye West) and Ye’s pal the revolting white supremacist and Holocaust-denier Nick Fuentes. # ⚓ The Nation ☛ How_Did_Arizona_Turn_Purple—and_What’s_Next?⠀⇛ Arizona has officially become America’s newest battleground state. With Democrats winning the statewide contests for governor, senator, and secretary of state this year, a state that was once solidly red is now decidedly purple, if not trending blue. How did it happen? What lessons can we learn, and how do we hasten the journey toward the promised land of progressive politics? # ⚓ The Nation ☛ Beverly_Gage_on_J._Edgar_Hoover,_Plus_Erwin Chemerinsky_on_Originalism⠀⇛ We know a lot about the bad things J. Edgar Hoover did, but it it turns out there’s a lot we didn’t know. Historian Beverly Gage joins the podcast to explain. her new book is G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover & the Making of the American Century. Powered by RedCircle # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Walker-Warnock_Race_Most_Expensive_in_2022_Cycle as_Runoff_Intensifies⠀⇛ # ⚓ The Nation ☛ The_Polycrisis_at_the_Border⠀⇛ In a 2019 article, Mexican sociologist Amarela Varela Huerta wrote that Mexico is no longer simply a vertical border but a bottleneck in which a multitude of migrants are geographically and bureaucratically stuck. Whether in journalistic or academic discourses, it’s rare to see Central American asylum seekers, Mexican nationals displaced by drug war violence, and deportees from the US considered alongside one another. But Varela Huerta argues that these discrete groups are all part of a single system of forced displacement in the Americas, one that is creating new “legal, semi-legal, and illegal forms of managing human movement,” along with various intersecting humanitarian crises. # ⚓ The Nation ☛ Trump_Cube⠀⇛ # ⚓ Insight Hungary ☛ Russian_spy_allegedly_tried_to_smuggle_a flash_drive_containing_classified_data_to_Budapest⠀⇛ A  Russian spy allegedly took a flash drive containing sensitive military data to Hungary hidden in his anus, Balkan Insight reports. The Russian man suspected of espionage was arrested on the Ukrainian-Hungarian border. According to the  SBU’s statement, the man planned to personally take the flash drive to the Russian embassy in Budapest. According to the report, the incident illustrates how Hungary has become a hub for Russian intelligence. The data on the flash drive was partly personal information on SBU and GUR officers, leaders of the Azov movement, and military personnel of the 72nd mechanized brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. I also contained sensitive military information on Ukrainian army bases, arsenals, warehouses, and their locations. Hungary 🇭🇺has been supporting Ukraine 🇺🇦 on bilateral level. Today I announced in #Kyiv that we financially support the #GrainFromUkraine initiative, because we #Hungarians have a strong affiliation to life and survival, know perfectly the importance of being in #solidarity. pic.twitter.com/7ZjTJl2yiB # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Polarization_and_Paralysis⠀⇛ Most of the Democrats that won were centrists, not “progressives,” and certainly not “democratic socialists.” However, the outcome of referenda on abortion rights, increased minimum wages, union rights, and marijuana legalization demonstrate that there is significant support for policies that benefit working-class and oppressed people. After all the votes were counted, the election essentially ended in a draw, splitting the government right down the middle and denying both parties any mandate. The Republicans, despite their less than stellar performance, remain determined to roll back every progressive reform of the last century, including Social Security pensions and Medicare. # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ America’s_Moral_Neo-Imperialism⠀⇛ We’ve been here before. In 1917 Democratic president Woodrow Wilson took his country into the first world war, a conflict which was all about imperial rivalries, claiming he wanted to ‘make the world safe for democracy’. This did not stop him being a Ku Klux Klan sympathiser. Later, during the cold war, Republican and Democratic presidents took turns defending the ‘free world’ against the ‘evil empire’ of atheist communism. With the Soviet Union gone, along came the ‘war on terror’, which President George W Bush promised would end ‘tyranny in the world’. The democratic crusades in Afghanistan and Iraq, and before that Korea and Vietnam, claimed millions of victims, curtailed public freedoms (with McCarthyism and the persecution of whistleblowers), and associated Washington with a succession of big- time criminals who had little regard for checks and balances. But as long as they belonged to the American camp, none of them — not General Suharto in Indonesia nor the apartheid regime in South Africa nor Augusto Pinochet in Chile — lost their power (or their lives) as a result of Western military intervention. # ⚓ Project Censored ☛ The_Sordid_Past_of_Ron_DeSantis_Revealed /_The_Delicate_Topic_of_Zionism_and_Apartheid_–_The_Project Censored_Show⠀⇛ # § Misinformation/Disinformation/Propaganda⠀➾ # ⚓ NPR ☛ School_principals_say_culture_wars_made_last year_‘rough_as_hell’⠀⇛ In many places, according to the survey, misinformation sparked fires of conflict. “We had a group of parents that went bananas on us on the masking, and believed that we were encouraging kids to get a shot that surely had a microchip in it because the government wanted to control their brains,” remembers one Nevada principal. This same principal, who says he is a registered Republican in a predominantly conservative district, worries that parents’ belief in misinformation has had a chilling effect on schools’ ability to talk about current events and even recent history. “You can’t [use newspapers] anymore. You can’t use CNN because the parents will go nuts on you. You can’t use Fox because it’s so out there. It’s hard to teach kids about what’s going on in any kind of context, because there is no context anymore.” # ⚓ VOA News ☛ China_Blames_Foreigners_for_Inciting Protests⠀⇛ China’s rulers are accusing “hostile forces,” including foreigners, of inciting street demonstrations in more than three dozen Chinese cities and many more universities in the biggest domestic political challenge for Beijing since 1989′s Tiananmen Square protests. o § Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾ # ⚓ Crickey ☛ White_paper_and_‘Good,_good,_good’:_how_China’s protesters_are_evading_Beijing’s_censorship_on_social_media⠀⇛ The country’s top social media platforms, WeChat, an all-in-one app with messaging and semi-public posting options, and Weibo, a microblogging website, are tightly controlled by the government and posts can be pulled down in a matter of seconds. # ⚓ The Nation ☛ The_Social_Explosion_of_China’s_Pent-up_Pain⠀⇛ It is not that urban wealthy classes have been quiescent in the decades since the last urban upheaval in 1989. Rather, it is that the mode of voicing discontent among urban wealthy classes is different from the labor and peasant unrest of recent decades. As first-tier cities and their legal residents have seen their own fortunes skyrocket in absolute terms and in comparison to the rest of the country, competitive access to desired services and goods has provoked much grumbling and many makeshift individualized protests, yielding, to be sure, exceptionally creative adaptations of language and expression that proliferate on the Internet so as to evade censors. Yet, what we see today is an extension of and different from these forms. The shared iconography of the white A4 paper, blank or with some sort of commemorative writing, has spread through the protests, giving them a sense of unity that they almost certainly lack in reality. There are efforts now to name the protests “the White Paper Movement” (白纸运动) or “the A4 Revolution” (A4 革命). It is unclear if those efforts at defining and naming are coming from within China or from the diaspora abroad. # ⚓ The Economist ☛ What_happened_to_the_man_who_led_the_chants against_Xi_Jinping?⠀⇛ Wang (a pseudonym) didn’t even know that he’d been waiting for this moment. Like most young Chinese out on the street in Shanghai, this was his first protest, aged 27. After completing his shift at a cocktail bar, it had been a quick bike ride to join the gathering. People were laying flowers and lighting candles. Many held up blank sheets of paper, a silent protest against covid lockdowns, to represent all that they wanted to say but felt they couldn’t. “We don’t need to write anything,” one person said. “It’s a symbol of the people’s revolution.” (“Blank sheet of paper” and “white paper” were soon among the many terms censored online.) # ⚓ 9NEWS ☛ How_protesters_dodge_China’s_massive_censorship machine⠀⇛ Others posted sarcastic messages like “Good good good sure sure sure right right right yes yes yes,” or used Chinese homonyms to evoke calls for President Xi Jinping to resign, such as “shrimp moss,” which sounds like the words for “step down,” and “banana peel,” which has the same initials as Xi’s name. But within days, censors moved to contain images of white paper. They would have used a range of tools, said Chauncey Jung, a policy analyst who previously worked for several Chinese internet companies based in Beijing. Most content censorship is not done by the state, Jung said, but outsourced to content moderation operations at private social media platforms, who use a mix of humans and AI. # ⚓ PBS ☛ Chinese_users_work_to_save_protest_content_against massive_censorship⠀⇛ Chinese authorities maintain a tight grip on the country’s internet via a complex, multi-layered censorship operation that blocks access to almost all foreign news and social media, and blocks topics and keywords considered politically sensitive or detrimental to the Chinese Communist Party’s rule. Videos of or calls to protest are usually deleted immediately. # ⚓ The Economist ☛ The_Chinese_government_exercises_control through_local_busybodies,_explains_Lynette_H._Ong⠀⇛ Mobilising the masses to control society—which I call “outsourcing repression” in my research—has imperial roots. In the baojia system, introduced in the Song dynasty and perfected in the Ming and Qing dynasties, the government would bundle together a few households into a group and make them spy on each other. Mutual surveillance also entailed collective punishment: deviant or subversive behaviour of any individual would implicate all the other families. Mao Zedong found this kind of grassroots spying useful, too. He used the so- called Red Guards in the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s and 1970s to defeat supporters of his enemies. Outsourcing repression works because it draws on dense social relations. Anyone who refuses to comply risks becoming an outcast. Social reprimand is arguably worse than fines or formal punishment as China runs on guanxi, or connections. o § Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press⠀➾ # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Gannett_Starts_Another_Round_of_Staff Cuts⠀⇛ The largest newspaper chain is cutting roughly 6 percent of its 3,440-person U.S. media division. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Layoffs_Hit_CNN_as_Cost-Cutting_Pressure Mounts⠀⇛ In a memo to employees, the network’s chairman, Chris Licht, said some people, primarily paid contributors, would be notified of the cuts on Wednesday. Others will be notified on Thursday, he wrote, with additional details to follow that day. # ⚓ The Washington Times ☛ CNN_begins_layoffs_for_paid contributors,_employees⠀⇛ Much of the job cuts are driven by a sharp drop in advertising revenue, according to the network. CNN isn’t alone in experiencing layoffs. Disney, AMC Networks and tech giant Meta all announced recently that either layoffs or restructurings were coming to their corporations. # ⚓ The Washington Post ☛ The_Washington_Post_will_end_its Sunday_magazine,_eliminate_positions⠀⇛ The Washington Post will stop publishing its stand- alone print magazine, one of the last of its kind in the country and which has been published under different names for more than six decades, the newspaper’s executive editor, Sally Buzbee, announced Wednesday. The Sunday magazine has 10 staff members, who were told in a meeting that their positions have been eliminated, according to Shani George, The Post’s vice president for communications. # ⚓ The Hill ☛ Washington_Post_to_end_Sunday_magazine⠀⇛ Several of the 10 magazine staffers who were informed in a Wednesday meeting their positions would be eliminated told the newspaper that Buzbee said the decision was “no reflection on the quality of your work,” but rather a result of “economic headwinds.” # ⚓ Boston Globe ☛ Yes,_hyperlocal_newspapers_are_dying._But here’s_what’s_rising_up_to_fill_the_void.⠀⇛ Rumbling press plants and the vibrant orchestra of ringing phones, incessant keyboards, and the booming voices of nosey characters have long faded to silence in many of the local newsrooms that once brought word of the essential and eccentric to the people of Massachusetts. The story of how it happened, for those reporters left to write it, is well known: The Internet killed advertising revenues for traditional print media. And that’s true. But there’s always more to the story. # ⚓ VOA News ☛ Taliban_Defend_Ban_on_VOA,_RFE/RL_Broadcasts_in Afghanistan⠀⇛ The ban on VOA and Azadi Radio, an Afghan extension of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, or RFE/RL, went into effect Thursday, a day after the Taliban’s ministry of information and culture said it had received complaints about programing content but shared no specifics. It is unclear whether the ban will apply to other international broadcasters that have used the same system for FM broadcasts in Afghanistan. # ⚓ Reason ☛ Prosecuting_Julian_Assange_Poses_a_Grave_Threat_to Freedom_of_the_Press⠀⇛ “Publishing is not a crime,” the editors and publishers of The New York Times and four leading European news outlets say in an open letter released on Monday. While that statement might seem uncontroversial, the U.S. Department of Justice disagrees, as evidenced by its prosecution of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange for obtaining and disseminating classified material. In urging the Justice Department to drop that case, the Times, The Guardian, Le Monde, Der Spiegel, and El País implicitly acknowledge that freedom of the press is meaningless when the government decides who is allowed to exercise it. Although that point also might seem obvious, journalists who take a dim view of Assange have long argued that attempting to imprison him for divulging government secrets poses no threat to their work because he does not qualify as a member of their profession. That position is profoundly ahistorical. As scholars such as UCLA law professor Eugene Volokh have shown, the “freedom…of the press” guaranteed by the First Amendment protects your right to communicate with the public through the printed word and other tools of mass communication, regardless of whether you do that for a living or work for a mainstream news organization. The Assange exception to the First Amendment is also dangerously shortsighted. As the Times et al. emphasize, the conduct at the center of the case against him is indistinguishable from what professional journalists do every day when they reveal information that the government wants to conceal. # ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ Australian_PM_Albanese_Raises Assange’s_Detention_With_U.S._Officials⠀⇛ Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has raised the issue of the continued detention of Julian Assange in meetings with United States officials and seeks to bring the matter to a close, he said on Wednesday. In June, Britain approved the extradition to the United States of the Wikileaks founder, who is an Australian citizen, to face criminal charges on the release of confidential U.S. military records and diplomatic cables. Albanese said he would continue to advocate for Assange’s release, even though he disagreed with him on “a whole range of matters”. o § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾ # ⚓ International Business Times ☛ Family_finally_reunites_with woman_who_was_kidnapped_as_a_baby_51_years_ago [Ed: Puff piece to sell DNA surveillance?]⠀⇛ A woman who disappeared when she was just a 21- month-old baby has finally been reunited with her family. Melissa Highsmith was allegedly kidnapped by her babysitter 51 years ago in August 1971 from her home in Fort Worth, Texas. Her mother, Alta Apantenco, reportedly came under suspicion by the police who accused her of killing her daughter. However, the family maintained that the baby was taken by a babysitter who had answered their newspaper advertisement seeking help. Apantenco asked her roommate to hand over the baby to the babysitter as she had to leave for work, and that was the last time she saw Highsmith. The babysitter and the baby were nowhere to be found when she came back. It would be 51 years before the woman could be reunited with her daughter. # ⚓ Pro Publica ☛ St._Louis_Can_Banish_People_From_Entire Neighborhoods⠀⇛ Inside the Enterprise Center, the St. Louis Blues hockey team was losing a home game to the Edmonton Oilers. Outside, a man named Alvin Cooper was lying on a venting grate on a 38-degree night. A St. Louis police sergeant asked him to move, according to an officer’s December 2018 report. Cooper refused. The sergeant and the officer pointed to signs that said “No Trespassing” and “No Panhandling.” Cooper said, “I ain’t going nowhere.” The officers tried to handcuff Cooper, one of them using “nerve pressure points on his jaw and behind his ear,” the other delivering “several knee thrusts” to Cooper’s right leg. # ⚓ NPR ☛ Medical_bills_remain_inaccessible_for_many_visually impaired_Americans⠀⇛ But some blind patients told KHN that the letters they receive can be impossible to read. Some websites contain coding that is incompatible with screen reader technology, which reads text aloud. Some health care systems and insurers fail to mail documents in Braille, which some blind people read by touch. And others who are visually impaired can read large print, with the possible aid of glasses or magnifying lenses, but the small-print medical bills they get are indecipherable. # ⚓ The Hill ☛ Senate_rejects_proposal_to_give_rail_workers seven_days_of_paid_sick_leave⠀⇛ The proposal to give workers seven days of sick leave, which was championed by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and other liberal lawmakers, failed to pick up enough Republican support to overcome a 60-vote threshold set for adopting the measure and fell in a 52-43 vote. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Biden_Urged_to_Sign_Executive_Order Guaranteeing_Rail_Workers_Paid_Sick_Leave⠀⇛ As the U.S. Senate on Thursday passed legislation brokered by President Joe Biden denying freight rail employees any compensated sick leave, labor advocates implored the president—who called himself the “most pro-labor” president ever—to sign an executive order guaranteeing at least seven days of paid days off for illness to railroad and other workers. The upper chamber voted 52-43 Thursday—eight votes short of the 60 needed for passage—for a House- approved proposal by Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-N.Y.) to give rail workers seven paid sick days as part of a tentative contract being forced upon rail workers by Congress and the Biden administration under the terms of the Railway Labor Act of 1926 in order to avoid a crippling strike. # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Fascism:_Israeli_Style⠀⇛ The new minister for national security (formerly internal security) will be Itamar Ben Gvir, who will control the Border Patrol units in the West Bank that have participated in numerous violent acts against innocent Palestinians.  Ben Gvir is an acolyte of Meir Kahane, a fascist who committed numerous crimes against Israelis before he was assassinated.  Ben Gvir’s party, Jewish Power, will control the Ministry for Development of the Negev and the Galilee.  His party’s new Ministry of Heritage will be responsible for historical and archeological sites in the West Bank. The new minister for finance will be Bezalel Smotrich, who will try to control the West Bank Civil Administration that is currently directed by the Defense Ministry.  Smotrich and Ben Gvir will do their best to limit the powers of the Defense Ministry, particularly on the West Bank.  Their policies will undermine Israeli relations with those Arab states that recognize Israel, particularly the UAE, Bahrain, and Morocco.  According to Yossi Alpher, a distinguished Israeli security analyst, they may even try to annex the West Bank while the global community is concentrating on Ukraine, Russia, and Iran. # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ ‘Deliberate_Ambiguity’:_Israel’s_Nuclear Weapons_Are_Greatest_Threat_to_Middle_East⠀⇛ ‘The Conference on the Establishment of a Middle East Zone Free of Nuclear Weapons and Other Weapons of Mass Destruction’ was held between November 14- 18, with the sole purpose of creating new standards of accountability that, as should have always been the case, be applied equally to all Middle Eastern countries. The debate regarding nuclear weapons in the Middle East could not possibly be any more pertinent or urgent. International observers rightly note that the period following the Russia-Ukraine war is likely to accelerate the quest for nuclear weapons throughout the world. Considering the seemingly perpetual state of conflict in the Middle East, the region is likely to witness nuclear rivalry as well. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Opinion_|_‘Deliberate_Ambiguity’:_Israel’s Nuclear_Weapons_Are_Greatest_Threat_to_Middle_East⠀⇛ As western countries are floating the theory that Russia could escalate its conflict with Ukraine to a nuclear war, many western governments continue to turn a blind eye to Israel’s own nuclear weapons capabilities. Luckily, many countries around the world do not subscribe to this endemic western hypocrisy.  # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Starbucks_Must_Bargain_With_Hometown_Union_After Breaking_Law,_Labor_Board_Rules⠀⇛ # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ A_Labor_Revolt_Is_Brewing…_Inside_the National_Labor_Relations_Board⠀⇛ Workers at the federal agency tasked with enforcing U.S. labor law are directing their ire at their own bosses and members of Congress. “Fund the NLRB. Support our staff. Protect the agency’s mission.” # ⚓ The Nation ☛ Should_a_Single_Trump_Judge_Have_the_Power_to Void_Biden’s_Policies?⠀⇛ I don’t know if lower-court judges should be able to vacate executive agency rules on their sole authority—and then be able to apply those legal rulings to the whole nation. I think the issue is legitimately complicated, and it makes me sit on the fence while staring at quicksand and scorpions on either side. The judiciary is supposed to check the Congress or the Executive Branch when they stray too far from established laws or constitutional principles. But allowing one random, unelected district court judge to void federal policy enacted by the people’s representatives also seems deeply wrong, antidemocratic, and even corrupt. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Opinion_|_The_Poorest_Still_Paying_the Biggest_Price_on_a_Burning_Planet⠀⇛ On October 29th, 75-year-old Saifullah Paracha, Guantánamo Bay’s oldest detainee, was finally released by U.S. authorities and flown home to his family in Karachi, Pakistan. He had been incarcerated for nearly two decades without either charges or a trial. His plane touched down in a land still reeling from this year’s cataclysmic monsoon floods that, in July, had covered an unparalleled one-third of that country. Even his own family’s neighborhood, the well-heeled Defense Housing Authority complex, had been thoroughly inundated with, as a reporter wrote at the time, “water gushing into houses.” # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Opinion_|_It’s_Time_to_Rethink_Our_Reliance on_the_Supreme_Court⠀⇛ The U.S. Supreme Court went after reproductive autonomy in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, and based on recent oral arguments affirmative action could be next on the chopping block. But there’s another landmark case being heard this month that also deserves our attention for its potential to not only roll back anti- discrimination protections for millions of LGBTQ+ Americans but also gut civil rights laws nationwide. # ⚓ Project Censored ☛ Sin_una_Casa:_Venezuela’s_Humanitarian Crisis_Worsened_by_US_Immigration_Policy_–_Validated Independent_News⠀⇛ Although the Biden administration’s extension of Title 42 allowed for the acceptance of as many 24,000 Venezuelans, this only applied to migrants entering through US airports who could meet stringent requirements. Beyond that exception, the result of the administration’s decision to extend Title 42 was “havoc at the US-Mexico border,” the breakup of migrant families, and “a ripple effect in the region,” Venezuelanalysis reported. # ⚓ Project Censored ☛ Overcrowded_Atlanta_Jail_Raises_Justice Concerns_–_Validated_Independent_News⠀⇛ As Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg reported for The Appeal, the ACLU study found that 45 percent of the inmates at Fulton County Jail had not been formally charged. Georgia law states: “Any person who is arrested for a crime and who is refused bail shall, within 90 days after the date of confinement, be entitled to have the charge against him or her heard by a grand jury having jurisdiction over the accused person.” Most of the inmates being held were arrested for misdemeanor cases, according to the ACLU, which also found that 90 percent of those held at the Fulton County jail were Black. o § Internet Policy/Net Neutrality⠀➾ # ⚓ EFF ☛ International_Coalition_of_Rights_Groups_Call_on Internet_Infrastructure_Providers_to_Avoid_Content_Policing⠀⇛ o § Monopolies⠀➾ # ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Top_Antitrust_Expert:_We_Need_a_New_Approach to_Giant_Tech_Firms_Like_Google⠀⇛ Economist Cristina Caffarra, a leader in competition and antitrust, warns that ever- expanding tech giants raise concerns about the extent of their power. # § Copyrights⠀➾ # ⚓ Torrent Freak ☛ Bungie’s_Relentless_Pursuit_of Destiny_2_Cheaters_Now_Spans_Three_Continents⠀⇛ Game developer Bungie is showing patience and determination in its pursuit of cheat creators and distributors. A lawsuit targeting people behind the ‘Wallhax’ operation has already produced a $13.5m settlement and in an amended complaint filed this week, Bungie identifies several people who previously enjoyed relative anonymity. It’s a chase that now spans three continents. # ⚓ Torrent Freak ☛ Popular_File-Sharing_Service_Refuses to_‘Filter’_Content_as_it_Fears_Overblocking⠀⇛ Czech file-sharing and hosting platform Ulož.to refuses to deploy a ‘dumb’ upload filter. The company reiterates this stance after rival platforms Hellshare and Hellspy signed piracy filtering agreements with local rightsholders. According to Uloz, these measures will likely result in overblocking, something that should be avoided according to EU law. * § Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾ o § Personal⠀➾ # ⚓ Minimum_support_for_webmentions⠀⇛ I just now realized I’ve released a version of `mod_blog [8]` during the holiday season going back as far as 2016. With that in mind, and with the fact that I finally received my first webmention [9] on my blog couple of days ago, I have just released the latest version for this Christmas season. The big change this release is that I now show webmentions per post, even though I’ve only so far received one. Hey, it’s a start with the webmentions. You can also see from the sidebar list I have, that I changed versioning schemes a few years back. I used to use semantic versioning [10] but upon reflection, I didn’t feel it’s not really fit for applications and instead switched to a monotonic version number. While the code has changed dramatically over the past 23 years (come this Debtember 4^th) the data format has not changed one bit. 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