𝕿𝖊𝖈𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍𝖙𝖘 Bulletin for Sunday, January 22, 2023 ┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅ Generated Mon 23 Jan 02:41:23 GMT 2023 Created by Dr. Roy Schestowitz (𝚛𝚘𝚢 (at) 𝚜𝚌𝚑𝚎𝚜𝚝𝚘𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚣 (dot) 𝚌𝚘𝚖) Full hyperlinks for navigation omitted but are fully available in the originals The corresponding HTML versions are at 𝒕𝒆𝒄𝒉𝒓𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒔.𝒐𝒓𝒈 Latest in 𝒉𝒕𝒕𝒑://𝒕𝒆𝒄𝒉𝒓𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒔.𝒐𝒓𝒈/𝒕𝒙𝒕 and older bulletins can be found at 𝒉𝒕𝒕𝒑://𝒕𝒆𝒄𝒉𝒓𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒔.𝒐𝒓𝒈/𝒕𝒙𝒕-𝒂𝒓𝒄𝒉𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒔 Full IPFS index in 𝒉𝒕𝒕𝒑://𝒕𝒆𝒄𝒉𝒓𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒔.𝒐𝒓𝒈/𝒊𝒑𝒇𝒔 and as plain text in 𝒉𝒕𝒕𝒑://𝒕𝒆𝒄𝒉𝒓𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒔.𝒐𝒓𝒈/𝒊𝒑𝒇𝒔/𝒕𝒙𝒕 Gemini index for the day: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2023/01/22/ ╒═══════════════════ 𝐑𝐄𝐂𝐄𝐍𝐓 𝐁𝐔𝐋𝐋𝐄𝐓𝐈𝐍𝐒 ════════════════════════════════════╕ Previous bulletins in IPFS (past 21 days, in chronological order): QmSqRoGuWGzGPiMq2GgcCee22CrF6E8w7JYJncWSZqw4yj QmfK4VviyZTAsVrucs7LLyQVXy6qvWzpZkkW319Z93v9HU QmZzEXJ11q9di9Z977tWHwaZ9JZJs1RZgjoJHMsusRGmV2 QmesnmZC36VoBa2cbiPr4WTsugVzAno8XpmHxv5Mdg3EEz QmbftyTUbhe1c8tUhW1gQj174B33LCBa5qKpaFpGAqDDQW 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Ill! | Techrights ⦿ IRC Proceedings: Saturday, January 21, 2023 | Techrights ⦿ The ISO Delusion: How Sirius Picked Collaboration/Communication Tools That Harm Staff, Harm the Company, and Harm Its Clients | Techrights ⦿ Sirius ’Open Source’ a Victim of Mismanagement and Sellout | Techrights ䷼ Bulletin articles (as HTML) to comment on (requires login): http://techrights.org/2023/01/22/clients-deceived/#comments http://techrights.org/2023/01/22/gdpr-and-iso-facade/#comments http://techrights.org/2023/01/22/getting-ill-sirius/#comments http://techrights.org/2023/01/22/irc-log-210123/#comments http://techrights.org/2023/01/22/iso-delusion-at-sirius/#comments http://techrights.org/2023/01/22/nda-as-bribe-video/#comments ䷞ Followed by Daily Links (assorted news picks curated and categorised): http://techrights.org/2023/01/22/hellosystem-0-8-released/#comments http://techrights.org/2023/01/22/rss-guard-4-3-0/#comments ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 63 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at http://techrights.org/2023/01/22/clients-deceived/#comments Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2023/01/22/clients-deceived/ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 01.22.23⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ When_Sirius_Misleads_Its_Clients_About_Who_Works_at_Sirius_the_Lies_Propagate Further⠀✐ Posted in Deception, Free/Libre_Software at 1:54 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz They also present us as their own staff, which is technically and legally untrue 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇Most_of_these_people_do_not_work_in_the_company_anymore_and some_left_more_than_4_years_ago!_Left_already;_Left_years_ago;_Left_already...⦈ Summary: In order to look big Sirius_deceives_clients and they, in turn, deceive theirs too (see screenshot above, with annotation) ⡶⠒⠒⠒⠒⠂⠐⠒⠒⠒⠒⠒⠒⠒⠒⠒⠶⠶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⠶⠶⠶⠶⠶⠶⠶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⠶⠶⠶⠶⠶⠶⠶⠶⠶⠶⠶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶ 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Free/Libre_Software, ISO at 12:50 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇Fat_Whale:_But_ISO!⦈_ Summary: Sirius_‘Open_Source’ and its bullying of staff piggybacked a bunch of nonsense about “GDPR” and “ISO” (where inapplicable); details will be shown soon ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣀⣤⣶⣶⣾⣿⣶⣶⣶⣤⣄⣀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢠⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣶⣤⣀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣠⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣄⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣦⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠉⠀⠀⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⡄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⠀⣀⣀⣠⣤⢒⡈⣇⣹⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣆⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣀⣀⡈⡉⣉⡁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠘⠿⠖⠀⠀⠀ ⣀⣀⡒⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠉⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠻⠟⠛⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣦⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ 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Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ [Meme]_Stop_Getting_Ill!⠀✐ Posted in Free/Libre_Software at 12:17 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇Innocent_Koala:_I_was_ill_while_on_shift⦈_ Summary: When your employer not only fails_to_understand_that_you_work_in_spite of_an_illness_but_is_moreover_causing_that_illness (stress or depression leads to a significantly weakened immune system) it’s time to move on ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡟⣉⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣯⣽⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣍⠉⣉⣩⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡉⣽⣿⣿⣿⡿⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⢏⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣇⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠉⠛⠻⠟⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⣿⣿⡟⢡⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣧⡀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⣿⢏⣴⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣟⢻⡀⠃⠈⠙⠙⠻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠟⠙⠙⠉⠿⣿⡟⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⠀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⣻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡄⠓⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣯⣼⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠻⣹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠃⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣆⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠙⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢠⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣶⣴⣀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡏⠂⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡏⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ 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═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at http://techrights.org/2023/01/22/iso-delusion-at-sirius/#comments Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2023/01/22/iso-delusion-at-sirius/ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 01.22.23⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ The_ISO_Delusion:_How_Sirius_Picked_Collaboration/Communication_Tools_That Harm_Staff,_Harm_the_Company,_and_Harm_Its_Clients⠀✐ Posted in Deception, Free/Libre_Software, ISO at 9:13 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇International_Organization_for_Standardization_(ISO)_brag⦈_ Summary: Sirius_‘Open_Source’ has long misused_"ISO" to do all sorts of dubious things, including cover-up and frustration of staff; the time has come to explain what happened and maybe eventually report the matter to ISO itself THOSE who have followed this series carefully enough know that pretty much all the communication tools of Sirius ‘Open Source’ had been outsourced to proprietary vendors (voice, text etc.) without bothering to ask staff, which complained only after the fact. Too late. It’s a decree, not a proposal. Instead of self-hosting Asterisk and relying on Jabber (among other things) the company was sending its workflow to Google, Zoom, Slack (Saleforce) and even Skype (Microsoft) while publicly floating ISO logos. Over the coming week or so we’ll show this ugly façade of a company that still uses the term “Open Source” — a thing that it is rejecting internally. It’s not about doing what clients require; this is about what the company chooses for itself, as it’s headed by managers who neither use nor support Open Source. It’s a façade. The Office Manager will be a recurring theme here, as she was part of this façade. What is an Office Manager anyway when the company does_not_have_an actual_office? David_Graeber’s_thesis would classify it as a ‘bullshit job’ [1, 2], probably the “box tickers” kind. To quote Wikipedia, we deal here with “box tickers, who create the appearance that something useful is being done when it is not, e.g., survey administrators, in-house magazine journalists, corporate compliance officers, quality service managers” As noted here right from the start (a day after resignation), the company was hardly compliant with anything sensible, including security and ethics. Last year I was asked to study logs for some anti-abortion group (without telling me where those logs had come from). What next? Would I be getting assigned jobs like checking logs for Oath Keepers or Proud Boys, seeing that anti-abortion groups were starting paying for “services” last year? (Off the record) Anyway, yesterday this_good_article mentioned LastPass, another company that the stubborn new management decided to hand over to not only our own passwords but clients’ too (even private keys!!!), insisting that according_to_LastPass the LastPass breach wasn’t a big deal. Sirius did not even bother resetting passwords after I had repeatedly urged for this to be done (and, as a possible bonus, to dump LastPass altogether). In yesterday’s article the author says: “I’d like to talk about some of my experiences with this topic, as well as recent events in the security community.” “Before I describe my experience,” he says, “I need to set the stage. My LastPass fun took place around the same time as the infamous Bugcrowd incident with JSBN.” Watch how LastPass handled things: “My first step in esclating was security.txt. No dice. There was no clear security officer or contact information that I could discern from my social network either, so I chose the path of last resort: I contacted their support team.” So it’s more or less like Sirius. No wonder a client said the company was “incompetent”. The client said this to a highly incompetent ‘manager’ who was never supposed to be there in the first place: No clue about technology or about management, just some associate from a former organisation in which a Sirius ‘founder’ had spent a few years. Hiring friends and relatives instead of qualified people leads to disaster. Very basic security practices were often disregarded and staff was ignored in spite of technical background. It was like talking to the wall. At first we had Asterisk internally; then someone decided it would be better to use some outside firm as a supplier and pay the fees. That was still a lot better than a move to a defective “service” and then purchase “phones” that are a security threat, in the hope (likely false hope) that it would ‘fix’ the issue. We’ll come to that another day. The management kept covering up for repeated failure/s, blaming the staff (victims) instead, never the decision-makers who introduced a faulty/defective alternative but are too vain to admit it, take the blame, and finally undo. The company’s obscene disregard for security would not end there. We’ve already covered cognition reports being stored on personal machines, then uploaded to AWS (not the client’s servers). There was no longer any security protocol in place; no file server for them or for us (GDPR would be screaming!), set aside the fact that the company is no longer “open source” and is basically lying about it. It’s more like bragging about ISO while gaslighting people who actually value security. Not only did the company ignore the warnings from me, it didn’t even change passwords, alter providers, or self-host an actual “Open Source” alternative. It kept saying it would (or merely consider this), but those were lies. As we mentioned here before, this wasn’t a matter of practicality of cost-savings either; Sirius was getting huge bills for “clown computing” (idle almost all the time but the bills kept growing and growing). Any suggestion of self- hosting, i.e. like before, was dismissed as “hobbyist” by the CEO. So what is to be sold as a service by Sirius? Outsourcing? Well, the company’s latest incarnation in LinkedIn does say that. Tomorrow we’ll show some examples of misuse of the company’s pretences (ISO, GDPR etc.) for cover-up, censorship etc. In the meantime, however, consider this E-mail from July 2019 (when the company was setting up a shell in the US, covertly, when signing an NDA with the Gates Foundation): xxxx wrote on 17/07/2019 17:20: > Hello Roy, > > As you are aware we’re currently going through the process of > implementing ISO 27001 (information security management system). It’s > been brought to our attention that you using xxxxx Slack is > unacceptable due to the security of password sharing amongst yourselves. > > During your meeting at the training workshop – I had asked for you to > reconsider as this is a company requirement. > > Moving forward and with the advice from the ISO company this is now > something which needs to be completed by the end of your shift this > evening. Slack is an essential communication tool used by everyone > within the company. > > Would you please confirm the receipt of this email and a reply to this > request. Hi, Currently, all our sensitive communications end up on the server of a large corporation in another country, where this data can get sold. It included NHS stuff. This too is a problem as we need to be Open Source not only in name and I’ve been waiting for xxxxx to set up Matrix or similar for me to join. It has been months and I think it’s essential for our company to demonstrate it takes security seriously. I can set up an Open Source alternative myself if that helps. Regards, Of course I only received more threats for this, rather than be listened to. Of course “information security” and Slack are incompatible concepts. As we shall revisit shortly, let’s just say Slack suffered yet another data breach shortly thereafter, vindicating me. Did the management listen? Did it react? Of course not. After some more threats I was compelled to give up, at least temporarily: xxxx wrote: > Hello Roy, > > As I have expressed in my previous email and in all communication that > Slack is an essential communication tool used by everyone within the > company at the moment. We all should be there. > > This is a direct management requirement and instruction and it needs to > be implemented immediately. I have just created the Slack account. It would still be useful to know the timeline for moving to an Open Source alternatives. Slack has no business model other than spying at the moment, as media repeatedly points out. Regards, Regarding “I’ve been waiting for xxxxx to set up Matrix or similar for me to join,” I was receiving false promises from the CEO, naming two people who would set up a Free software alternative like Riot/Mattermost. One of them left the company (as I had previously warned the manager) and another never implemented the change. Sirius management was just lying all along. We’ll revisit Slack another day and we shall deal with each of these blunders in turn. ISO is a joke if it grants certification to companies which behave in this way, set aside how superficial the requirements are. 15 years ago Microsoft bribed a lot of firms and organisations to rig ISO; and ISO, in turn, was OK with it. Now, after so many years, Sirius is another disgrace or a black eye to ISO. No wonder clients suffered security breaches. 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Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Sirius_‘Open_Source’_a_Victim_of_Mismanagement_and_Sellout⠀✐ Posted in Bill_Gates, Deception, Free/Libre_Software at 12:34 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz Video_download_link | md5sum 1207d847e412d9c458be0b408d43f29c Sirius Bullying the Geeks, Driving Away Core Staff Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 4.0 http://techrights.org/videos/sirius-self-harming-managers.webm Summary: The managers at Sirius_‘Open_Source’ have been bullying staff since 2019, even more so after the Gates_Foundation passed money to the CEO under an NDA (while the_company_created_a_new_shell_in_Washington); today we examine why the NDA was, in effect, very much like a bribe (or two bribes, depending on the kind of NDA) and then examine one memorable example of management abusing depressed and ill geeks FOR a number of years already we’ve discussed NDAs as a form of bribery. NDAs should probably not be legal at all; people who use NDAs extensively cause harm; they typically engage in criminal business activities, which they’re desperate to hide (from the public, authorities etc.), so they pay ‘hush money’ in advance). “White-collar criminals love NDAs.”The video above discusses this_post_from_3 hours_ago and explains why I’ve generally come to the conclusion that many types of NDA are indistinguishable from bribes. Had there been no strings attached, I’d be able to give more concrete evidence of what happened in 2019. I got a hint of it only once and Rianne was a witness too. She heard what the CEO told us. I did not record it, but in hindsight I ought to have recorded it (had I known in advance). This was never mentioned in writing after that (or before that). I suppose that verbal mention was itself a violation of the NDA, but maybe the CEO hoped nobody would notice. White-collar criminals love NDAs. 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇Yes! I still remember⦈ Either way, the main topic of the above video is how a colleague of mine, a highly technical person, was persistently bullied by vicious ‘managers’ without any relevant training. We never forgot this. We’ll always remember. If you work in a company governed by trolls and managed by their cronies, get out for your own sake. It only goes downhill from there. Companies cannot recover from this and sellouts worsen things. They’re a final act of desperation, milking what’s left of the brand’s past reputation. █ “Pearly Gates and Em-Ballmer One promises you heaven and the other prepares you for the grave.” –Ray Noorda, Novell CEO and Chairman ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⠀⠀⠈⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣇⡀⠀⠀⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣶⣤⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠋⠻⣿⣿⣷⡀⠀⠈⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣤⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡟⠁⠀⠀⠘⢿⣿⣷⣄⡀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢻⣿⣿⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡄ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣆⠀⠀⠀⠀⣽⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠉⢉⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣦⣤⣴⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡅⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⠀⠈⠉⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⠛⠻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠏⠁⠁⠈⢘⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠛⠋⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠈⠀⠀⠈⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⠏⠁⠀⢽⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⠛⢋⣉⣩⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣬⣍⣙⡛⠿⠿⣿⣿⣿⡥⠀⠀⠀⣸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣻⣿⡿⠟⣿⠅⠀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣀⡴⣿⣿⣿⡟⠋⠀⠀⢠⣼⣟⣟⡋⠉⣙⡻⠛⠁⠀ ⣿⣿⣿⡾⠛⣉⣤⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣦⣄⡉⠫⡅⠀⠀⣰⣶⡛⣁⣿⣿⣿⣷⣉⠀⡀⠀⠘⠉⠈⠠⠄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡃⠀⠀⠀⠀⠘⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⡀⠀⠀ ⣿⡿⠋⣠⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡟⢻⢛⠛⣛⡿⡛⢿⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣦⡀⠰⣾⣿⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣿⣿⣤⡤⠄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠴⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣯⣽⢿⡆⠀⠀⠘⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣯⣴⣶ ⡿⠁⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡈⣼⠀⣛⣧⡙⢾⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣦⠹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⣗⣦⡄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣀⣛⠛⢾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠘⠛⠛⠋⠀⣿⣿⣿ ⠇⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣇⣿⣀⣛⣇⣃⣸⣺⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡆⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⢍⠱⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠳⣶⣴⣾⣿⣿⠿⣿⠿⢿⣿⣷⠖⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢰⣿⣿⣿ ⡄⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⣸⢿⣟⡟⢿⣿⠿⠋⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢘⠿⣿⣿⣿⣧⣦⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⡆⠀⠀⠀⣀⣠⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣄⠈⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⣿⣶⣷⣾⢸⣿⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡟⢠⣿⣿⣷⣴⡆⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⠀⠀⠀⠠⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠛⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣆⠀⠀⣾⣷⣄⠀⣶⣿⣿⠿⠿⠿⢿ ⣿⢧⡈⠻⣿⣿⣿⣿⡟⣻⡟⣛⡿⣿⢿⣛⡿⣿⢿⣟⣻⣟⣻⣛⣿⣿⣿⠋⠀⠞⣿⠋⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠙⠻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣶⣿⠛⠋⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈ ⠁⠀⠀⠀⠈⠛⠿⣿⣧⣧⣧⣿⣿⣿⣼⣾⣧⣯⣿⣿⣯⣿⣿⣾⣼⢋⣠⡆⠀⠀⣇⣶⣿⠆⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠐⠂⠈⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣦⣤⣉⠙⠛⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠟⠛⠻⣿⣿⣿⡄⢻⣇⠀⠀⣿⠟⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⡾⢘⣿⡞⠿⣿⣿⣷⣤⣄⣠⣴⣿⣷⡀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠻⣿⣿⠋⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠁⠀⢀⣙⠻⣿⡄⢿⠅⢀⡟⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⢵⡒⣻⣇⢲⣯⠻⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠛⠋⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣾⣿⠷⢦⣉⠈⢇⣾⠃⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠃⠈⣿⣿⣯⣀⠈⡙⣻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⠀⠀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣄⠀⠙⠋⢀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣙⡢⡽⣿⣿⣿ ⠀⢤⣷⡄⠀⠀⠀⠈⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣏⣿⣿⣿⣯⣿⠀⠀⣸⣿⣿⠟⠙⣿⣿⣟⣅⢶⣤⣤⣤⣤⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣠⣤⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠠⠸⠿⠿⢿⣿⣿⣿⢿⣧⣼⣿⣿ ⠀⠈⠛⠃⠀⠀⠀⠀⢹⡉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⣿⡆⢀⣿⡿⠁⠀⠀⠉⣿⣿⣶⠺⠻⠿⢿⣿⣿⡟⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣀⣴⣾⣿⣿⣷⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠀⠈⠡⠀⣀⣹⣻⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠠⠀⡛⢧⢸⣷⣸⡟⠀⠀⠀⠀⠊⠈⣿⣿⣿⣦⣤⣤⣈⣿⣷⣤⣤⣄⣀⣀⣀⣤⣶⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠁⢈⠉⠻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢻⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠐⠈⠚⣻⡚⣿⡿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠊⠙⣫⢛⡻⢿ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠸⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠋⣿⣷⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠈⠙⠒⡿⡊ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠘⢿⡄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠁⠀⠁⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠘⡆⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⢻⡇⠀⠀⢀⣀⣠⣴⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡏⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢷⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡠⠁⠘⣿⠀⠀⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡯⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡟⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠸⡄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢿⡆⠀⢻⣿⡿⢋⢴⣿⣿⡟⡫⡽⠛⠉⠁⠀⠈⠀⠛⠛⠋⠉⠈⠀⠈⠛⢻⠛⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 771 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐃𝐀𝐈𝐋𝐘 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒 ═════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 01.22.23⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Links_22/01/2023:_helloSystem_0.8_Released⠀✐ Posted in News_Roundup at 8:08 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 # GNOME_Desktop/GTK * Distributions_and_Operating_Systems o Reviews o Arch_Family 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 # Mozilla o GNU_Projects o Programming/Development # R # Python # Rust o Standards/Consortia * Leftovers o Health/Nutrition/Agriculture o Security # Privacy/Surveillance o Defence/Aggression o Environment # Energy/Transportation o Finance * Gemini*_and_Gopher o Personal o Technical # Internet/Gemini * § GNU/Linux⠀➾ o § Desktop/Laptop⠀➾ # ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ 6_Reasons_Why_Developers_Prefer_MacBooks_Over Windows_or_Linux_Laptops [Ed: Loaded_and_likely_false headline,_unsupported_by_actual_evidence. Borderline Apple spam.]⠀⇛ A computer is a little more than just another device to a developer. It’s more like their companion because they spend long hours solving problems on it to bring some of their best ideas to life. And naturally, when it comes to picking the right one, there are some non-negotiables: power, speed, and reliability. o § Audiocasts/Shows⠀➾ # ⚓ Video ☛ Fedora_Ships_A_Filtered_Flathub_–_Custom_Repo??_– Invidious⠀⇛ If you use Fedora you probably know about it’s weird flatpak situation but for the rest of us did you know Fedora filters flathub and even has it’s own custom flatpak repo. # ⚓ Video ☛ Open_Source_Metaverse?_–_Invidious⠀⇛ This week in Business News, Google will update Stadia controllers to prevent e-waste, Windows breaks itself with multiple updates, and the self- driving Tesla video was apparently staged. We also see the Linux Foundation creating an open source metaverse. We also visit sillyville. # ⚓ Video ☛ Linux_Distro_Identical_To_Macos_–_Invidious⠀⇛ In This Video We Are Looking At helloSystem is a desktop system for creators with focus on simplicity, elegance, and usability. Based on FreeBSD. # ⚓ Video ☛ Netrunner_23_“Vaporwave”_–_New_version_based_on Debian_11_Bullseye_–_Invidious⠀⇛ In This Video We Are Looking At Netrunner 23 “Vaporwave” Developed by Blue Systems , which is also developing the Kubuntu and linuxmint KDE version ; offering multimedia codecs, Flash and Java plug-ins along with a highly customized KDE desktop environment; 23 version of Debian-based Netrunner codenamed “Vaporwave” has been announced. o § Kernel Space⠀➾ # ⚓ LWN ☛ Kernel_prepatch_6.2-rc5_[LWN.net]⠀⇛ The 6.2-rc5 kernel prepatch is out. o § Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ Linux Links ☛ 12_Best_Free_and_Open_Source_Console_Email Clients_–_LinuxLinks⠀⇛ For the traditionalists, emails remains a fundamental part of the operating system. Fortunately, there is a wide selection of free email software available on the Linux platform which is stable, feature laden, and ideal for personal and business environments. The vast majority of Linux users would never be satisfied without access to a graphical user interface. However, even in 2021 there remain many reasons why console based applications can be extremely desirable. Although console applications are very useful for updating, configuring, and repairing a system, their benefits are not only confined to system administration. Console based applications are light on system resources (very useful on low spec machines), can be faster and more efficient than their graphical counterparts, they do not stop working when X/Wayland needs to be restarted, and they are great for scripting purposes. # ⚓ Linux Links ☛ 10_Best_Free_and_Open_Source_Shells_– LinuxLinks⠀⇛ The shell is a program that takes commands from the keyboard and gives them to the operating system to perform. This environment lets users run commands, programs, and shell scripts. The shell is both an interactive command language and a scripting language, and is used by the operating system to control the execution of the system using shell scripts. The first Unix shell was the Thompson shell, sh, written by Ken Thompson at Bell Labs back in the early 1970s. Nowadays, on many Linux systems, bash (which stands for Bourne Again SHell) acts as the shell program. It was first released in 1989, and implements the POSIX standard plus many extensions. But there are lots of other free and open source shells available for Linux. We spotlight our recommended free and open source shells. # ⚓ Linuxiac ☛ RSS_Guard_4.3.0_Brings_Massive_Performance Improvements⠀⇛ RSS Guard 4.3.0 open source cross-platform RSS feed reader brings users a considerable performance boost for the feed fetching mechanism. RSS feed readers are valuable tools for staying connected to the world around you while focusing on the digital content that is important to you. They allow you to subscribe to RSS feeds from your favorite websites, blogs, and news outlets, making it easy to keep track of new content as it becomes available. One such tool is RSS Guard, which has just released its brand new 4.3.0 version, promising significant improvements over previous ones. So, let’s see what has changed. # ⚓ OMG Ubuntu ☛ ’Damask’_is_a_New_Wallpaper_App_for_Linux Desktops_–_OMG!_Ubuntu!⠀⇛ Scores of wallpaper downloader apps exist for Linux, with most able to fetch high-quality backgrounds from a myriad of online sources and set them as your desktop wallpaper. Damask is another such app making its debut on Flathub this weekend. Built using GTK4 and following the GNOME HIG, Damask fits in perfectly on the modern Ubuntu desktop. o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾ # ⚓ Video ☛ How_to_install_Krita_on_KDE_Neon_–_Invidious⠀⇛ In this video, we are looking at how to install Krita on KDE Neon. # ⚓ Linux Made Simple ☛ How_to_install_the_Waterfox_browser_on a_Chromebook⠀⇛ Today we are looking at how to install the Waterfox browser on a Chromebook. # ⚓ Linux Made Simple ☛ How_to_install_FL_Studio_21_on_a Chromebook⠀⇛ Today we are looking at how to install FL Studio 21 on a Chromebook with Wine, an application layer that allows us to install some Windows applications on Linux. Please follow the video/audio guide as a tutorial where we explain the process step by step and use the commands below. # ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_To_Install_UVdesk_Helpdesk_System_on_Ubuntu 22.04_LTS_–_idroot⠀⇛ In this tutorial, we will show you how to install UVdesk Helpdesk System on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. For those of you who didn’t know, UVdesk is a powerful helpdesk system that can help businesses manage customer support and communication. It offers a variety of tools for handling customer inquiries, such as email and ticket management, an integrated knowledge base, and a customer self-service portal. Additionally, UVdesk is fully customizable and offers integrations with other popular business software. 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 UVdesk Helpdesk System 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. # ⚓ H2S Media ☛ How_to_Install_Stress_or_Stress-ng_on_AWS Amazon_linux_2⠀⇛ Analyze your server’s performance by installing the Stress workload generator tool on Amazon Linux to test the system’s stability and ability to handle the workload. To measure the ability of the systems, testers generally use stress tools, and in Linux, we have that free of cost to use. We can define the amount of stress we want to put on our Amazon Linux 2 server to test the system’s stability and performance. # ⚓ How_to_install_Docker_on_Rocky_Linux_–_Darryl_Dias⠀⇛ Docker is a platform for developers and system administrators to develop, ship, and run applications in containers. Containers are lightweight, portable, and self-sufficient environments that allow applications to run consistently across different environments. It allows developers to package their applications and dependencies into a container, which can then be easily deployed and run on any host with Docker installed. This helps to ensure that the application will run the same way in the development, testing, and production environments. # ⚓ Video ☛ How_to_Nvidia_Prime_Render_Offload_for_Better Performance_on_Debian_Linux_–_Invidious⠀⇛ Debian supports Nvidia Optimus via the Prime Render Offload environment variables out of the box when using the closed-source Nvidia drivers. Using the closed-source drivers isn’t desirable but it’s required if you want to do any 3D gaming on Linux. The latest drivers integrate with the iGPU via Nvidia Optimus so you can switch between GPUs and get better performance and better battery life. # ⚓ Ubuntu Handbook ☛ Stupid_Easy_Way_to_Transfer_Small_Files to_or_from_Ubuntu_22.04_|_UbuntuHandbook⠀⇛ There are quite a few ways to transfer files between different machines. For Ubuntu and most other Linux, here’s an easy way for choice. Usually, I use a USB cable or a messenger app for transferring photo images between my personal PC and mobile devices. However, my USB cable is always NOT near at hand and I hate to scan QR code again and again on PC for logging 3rd app. In this case, creating a temporary http file server with Python is an easy and good choice. # ⚓ Install_the_sf_package_on_Ubuntu_20.04_–_Pachá⠀⇛ I was unable to install the sf package on a clean Ubuntu 20.04 setup, and the problem is attributed to incompatible software versions. My workaround, instead of installing the package from source, was to install a precompiled binary package, but that depends on configuring a PPA for GDAL. # ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ Commonly_Used_DNS_with_Example_Usage⠀⇛ DNS servers are how the internet exists. It’s through DNS that the hostnames and domain names are resolved to get their IP addresses. Each system has default tools to troubleshoot the DNS errors. For system administrators, resolving the DNS issues is a common task. This post highlights the different tools that you can use to troubleshoot and check your DNS. We will mention the tool and give an example of its usage. # ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ How_to_Check_the_Disk_Space_in_Linux_from_the Command_Line⠀⇛ When working with Linux, you must quickly check the available space on your system. That way, you can keep a tab on your drives to ensure that you don’t run out of space. Checking the disk space is straightforward, depending on your GUI desktop. However, when you have a headless server, you need a way to check your disk space using the command line. This guide focuses on checking the disk space in Linux via the command line. # ⚓ TecAdmin ☛ How_To_Set_Up_Nginx_Reverse_Proxy:_A_Step-By- Step_Tutorial⠀⇛ A reverse proxy is a type of server that sits between a client and a server, acting as an intermediary between the two. It accepts the requests from clients, forwards those requests to the appropriate server, and then returns the server’s response to the client. # ⚓ Learn Ubuntu ☛ Find_Apt_Packages_that_Consume_the_Most Space_on_Ubuntu⠀⇛ If you are running out of space on the system, the most basic thing to do is check what is taking up how much space. There will be several factors behind that. From logs to cache, it could be anything. But have you ever wondered which application is taking more space? Yes, this is possible for apt packages at least. And this guide is focused on how you can check the APT packages that consume the most space on Ubuntu. o § Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾ # § GNOME Desktop/GTK⠀➾ # ⚓ OMG! Linux ☛ Wow,_GNOME_44’s_New_Backgrounds_Are Stunning_–_OMG!_Linux⠀⇛ A fresh set of supplemental wallpapers will accompany the GNOME 44 release this spring, and no lie: they’re stunning. I care about desktop wallpapers more than most. On my desktop (with a 4K screen) I rarely run any app maximised, thus I see more of my desktop than the average person does. But even if you don’t, it’s not a bad thing to want something pleasing to look at when all apps are closed or minimized out of the way. And in GNOME 44 you won’t have to look far to find something that suits. * § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾ o ⚓ OMG! Linux ☛ helloSystem_0.8_Released_(FreeBSD-Based_OS_Inspired by_macOS)_–_OMG!_Linux⠀⇛ Before you say it, I know: this site is titled omg! linux and not omg! BSD – despite this I’m gonna ask you to waive this post through. See, I’m kinda hard-wired to be interested in alternative operating systems. I’ve been that way ever since I discovered Linux in 2007. The fact you could run something OTHER than Windows on a PC? It was BIG news to me. o § Reviews⠀➾ # ⚓ Simon Josefsson ☛ Understanding_Trisquel_–_Simon Josefsson’s_blog⠀⇛ The scripts to convert an Ubuntu archive into a Trisquel archive are available in the ubuntu-purge repository. The easy to read purge-focal script lists the packages to remove from Ubuntu 20.04 Focal when it is imported into Trisquel 10.0 Nabia. The purge-jammy script provides the same for Ubuntu 22.04 Jammy and (the not yet released) Trisquel 11.0 Aramo. The list of packages is interesting, and by researching the reasons for each exclusion you can learn a lot about different attitudes towards free software and understand the desire to improve matters. I wish there were a wiki-page that for each removed package summarized relevant links to earlier discussions. At the end of the script there is a bunch of packages that are removed for branding purposes that are less interesting to review. Trisquel adds a couple of Trisquel-specific packages. The source code for these packages are in the trisquel-packages repository, with sub- directories for each release: see 10.0/ for Nabia and 11.0/ for Aramo. These packages appears to be mostly for branding purposes. o § Arch Family⠀➾ # ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ 5_Key_Differences_Between_SteamOS_and_Arch Linux⠀⇛ You may have heard that the Steam Deck uses Arch Linux. This is technically true. Valve’s SteamOS is based on Arch Linux. But the experience on the Deck is very different from what you would encounter if you installed Arch Linux on a PC. Here are some ways SteamOS is different from its parent distribution. o § Fedora Family / IBM⠀➾ # ⚓ Red Hat Official ☛ Four_benefits_from_Red_Hat_and_Microsoft for_Azure_Red_Hat_OpenShift_customers [Ed: Red Hat works with Microsoft instead of competing with Microsoft]⠀⇛ o § Debian Family⠀➾ # ⚓ Petter Reinholdtsen ☛ Petter_Reinholdtsen:_Opensnitch,_the application_level_interactive_firewall,_heading_into_the Debian_archive⠀⇛ While reading a blog post claiming MacOS X recently started scanning local files and reporting information about them to Apple, even on a machine where all such callback features had been disabled, I came across a description of the Little Snitch application for MacOS X. It seemed like a very nice tool to have in the tool box, and I decided to see if something similar was available for Linux. It did not took long to find the OpenSnitch package, which has been in development since 2017, and now is in version 1.5.0. It has had a request for Debian packaging since 2018, but no-one completed the job so far. Just for fun, I decided to see if I could help, and I was very happy to discover that upstream want a Debian package too. o § Devices/Embedded⠀➾ # ⚓ Adafruit ☛ RP2040_Feather_‘bones’_for_a_few_different varieties⠀⇛ # ⚓ TechCrunch ☛ As_it_shifts_focus_from_DIY_computer_kits, Kano_spins_out_its_creative_software_suite_as_a_standalone business_•_TechCrunch⠀⇛ Founded out of London in 2013, Kano has brought various products to market through the years designed to teach the building blocks of computing to children. This includes its flagship Raspberry Pi-based modular PCs, as well as accessories such as the Harry Potter Coding Kit, replete with a physical magic wand that works across most platforms. # ⚓ Reverse_Engineering_Yaesu_FT-70D_Firmware_Encryption_| lander’s_posts⠀⇛ Ham radios are a fun way of learning how the radio spectrum works, and more importantly: they’re embedded devices that may run weird chips/firmware! I got curious how easy it’d be to hack my Yaesu FT- 70D, so I started doing some research. The only existing resource I could find for Yaesu radios was someone who posted about custom firmware for their Yaesu FT1DR. # ⚓ Adafruit ☛ The_Ham_Radio_all-in-one_cable⠀⇛ The Ham Radio All-in-one-Cable (AIOC) is a small adapter with a USB-C connector that enumerates itself as a sound-card (e.g. for APRS purposes) and a virtual tty (“COM Port”) for programming and asserting the PTT (Push-To-Talk). o § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ Indian Express ☛ Meet_BharOS,_India’s_rival_mobile_OS_to Google’s_Android⠀⇛ # ⚓ Notebook Check ☛ MIUI_14:_Xiaomi_12_starts_receiving Android_13_update_through_Mi_Pilot_program_– NotebookCheck.net_News⠀⇛ # ⚓ GSM Arena ☛ Samsung_Galaxy_Tab_S6_Lite’s_Wi-Fi_model_is receiving_Android_13-based_One_UI_5.0_update_–_GSMArena.com news⠀⇛ # ⚓ Android Police ☛ The_best_visual_novels_on_Android_in 2023⠀⇛ * § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾ o ⚓ Libre Arts ☛ Libre_Arts_–_Weekly_recap_—_22_January_2022⠀⇛ There have been many interesting updates in the last 3 weeks, I’ve picked the ones I can realistically handle. Highlights: OBS Studio 29, Pinta 2.1, HDRView 1.7.1, Synfig 1.4.4, Ossia Score 3.1.6, and more. o ⚓ FOSS Weekly ☛ FOSS_Weekly_#32_–_KDE_Plasma_5.27,_Kernel vulnerability,_DNEG’s_tool,_and_more_|_FOSS_Weekly⠀⇛ Welcome to this week’s edition of FOSS Weekly! This week, DNEG released their open source tool as promised a while back, Apple open sourced their 40-year-old Apple Lisa’s source code, and we also have lots of interesting releases from distros and other projects. o ⚓ John Gruber ☛ App_Store_Rejection_of_the_Week:_Ice_Cubes,_a Splendid_New_Mastodon_Client⠀⇛ Today, Mastodon’s explosive growth in the face of Twitter’s collapse has made it a new UI playground, especially so on iOS. I’m following — and using — at least half a dozen excellent new iOS Mastodon clients, each of them distinctive. o § Web Browsers/Web Servers⠀➾ # § Mozilla⠀➾ # ⚓ Ruben Schade ☛ Desktop_email,_and_from_Alpine_to Thunderbird⠀⇛ In my experience, fewer phrases elicit as much surprise in technical circles as desktop email client. Even among those who still use them at work—by choice or otherwise—fewer do at home. It’s akin to admitting you still use floppy disks or, perhaps a more adjacent analogy, Lotus Notes. Web email is good enough for most people, and probably has been for a long time. You run it in most browsers and devices, you don’t need to worry about syncing, and it’s one fewer application to configure, upgrade, and maintain. That first one is key; email autoconfiguration just works sometimes, but there are enough edge cases to keep it from being as foolproof as logging into a website like Hotmail. Is that still a thing? I’d also guess that most people don’t know how email works under the hood, such as the protocols (or the fact its sent and stored in plaintext, but that’s a separate issue). To them, email is another glorified social network, which also lends itself to being loaded in a browser like their social media data harvester of choice. [...] I’ve used a mix of Thunderbird and Alpine for years, but I made the fateful decision last weekend to merge everything into Thunderbird and call it a day. I’ll continue to recommend Alpine for those who want to live out of a terminal, but I find a high-resolution, bitmapped display with a mouse is an easier, denser interface for email tasks. o § GNU Projects⠀➾ # ⚓ GNU ☛ GNU_Parallel_20230122_(‘Bolsonaristas’)_released_ [stable]_[Savannah]⠀⇛ GNU Parallel 20230122 (‘Bolsanaristas’) has been released. It is available for download at: lbry:// @GnuParallel:4 o § Programming/Development⠀➾ # ⚓ Dirk Eddelbuettel ☛ Dirk_Eddelbuettel:_Rcpp_1.0.10_on_CRAN: Regular_Update⠀⇛ The Rcpp team is thrilled to announce the newest release 1.0.10 of the Rcpp package which is hitting CRAN now and will go to Debian shortly. Windows and macOS builds should appear at CRAN in the next few days, as will builds in different Linux distribution and of course at r2u. The release was prepared a few days ago, but given the widespread use at CRAN it took a few days to be processed. As always, our sincere thanks to the CRAN maintainers Uwe Ligges and Kurt Hornik. This release continues with the six-months cycle started with release 1.0.5 in July 2020. As a reminder, we do of course make interim snapshot ‘dev’ or ‘rc’ releases available via the Rcpp drat repo and strongly encourage their use and testing—I run my systems with these versions which tend to work just as well, and are also fully tested against all reverse-dependencies. Rcpp has become the most popular way of enhancing R with C or C++ code. Right now, around 2623 packages on CRAN depend on Rcpp for making analytical code go faster and further, along with 252 in BioConductor. On CRAN, 13.7% of all packages depend (directly) on CRAN, and 58.7% of all compiled packages do. From the cloud mirror of CRAN (which is but a subset of all CRAN downloads), Rcpp has been downloaded 67.1 million times. # ⚓ Dirk Eddelbuettel ☛ BH_1.81.0-1_oon_CRAN:_New_Upstream,_New Library,_sprintf_Change⠀⇛ Boost is a very large and comprehensive set of (peer-reviewed) libraries for the C++ programming language, containing well over one hundred individual libraries. The BH package provides a sizeable subset of header-only libraries for (easier, no linking required) use by R. It is fairly widely used: the (partial) CRAN mirror logs (aggregated from the cloud mirrors) show over 32.6 million package downloads. Version 1.81.0 of Boost was released in December following the regular Boost release schedule of April, August and December releases. As the commits and changelog show, we packaged it almost immediately and started testing following our annual update cycle which strives to balance being close enough to upstream and not stressing CRAN and the user base too much. The reverse depends check revealed about a handful of packages requiring changes or adjustments which is a pretty good outcome given the over three hundred direct reverse dependencies. So we opened issue #88 to coordinate the issue over the winter break during which CRAN also closes (just as we did before), and also send a wider ‘PSA’ tweet as a heads-up. Our sincere thanks to the two packages that already updated, and the four that likely will soon. Our thanks also to CRAN for reviewing the package impact over the last few days since I uploaded the package earlier this week. # ⚓ Drew DeVault ☛ Setting_a_new_focus_for_my_blog⠀⇛ Since writing this, I have been considering what exactly the essential subject of my dissatisfaction with my writing has been. I may have found the answer: I lost sight of my goals. I got so used to writing that I would often think to myself, “I want to write a blog post!”, then dig a topic out of my backlog (which is 264 items long) and write something about it. This is not the way; much of the effort expended on writing in this manner is not spent on the subjects I care about most, or those which most urgently demand an expenditure of words. The consequences of this misalignment of perspective are that my writing has often felt dull and rote. It encourages shallower takes and lends itself to the rants or unthoughtful criticisms that my writings are, unfortunately, (in)famous for. When I take an idea off of the shelf, or am struck by an idea that, in the moment, seemingly demands to be spake of, I often end up with a disappointing result when the fruit of this inspiration is published a few hours later. Over the long term, these issues manifest as demerits to my reputation, and deservedly so. What’s more, when a critical tone is well- justified, the posts which utilize it are often overlooked by readers due to the normalization of this tone throughout less important posts. Take for instance my recent post on Rust in Linux. Though this article could have been written with greater nuance, I still find its points about the value of conservatism in software decision-making accurate and salient. However, the message is weakened riding on the coat-tails of my long history of less poignant critiques of Rust. As I resume my writing, I will have to take a more critical examination of myself and the broader context of my writing before reaching for a negative tone as a writing tool. # ⚓ uni California ☛ Fully_Autonomous_Real-World_Reinforcement Learning_with_Applications_to_Mobile_Manipulation_–_The Berkeley_Artificial_Intelligence_Research_Blog⠀⇛ Training this multi-level policy was not only more efficient than learning both skills at the same time but it allowed for the grasping controller to inform the navigation policy. Having a model that estimates the uncertainty in its grasp success (Ours above) can be used to improve navigation exploration by skipping areas without graspable objects, in contrast to No Uncertainty Bonus which does not use this information. The model can also be used to relabel data during training so that in the unlucky case when the grasping model was unsuccessful trying to grasp an object within its reach, the grasping policy can still provide some signal by indicating that an object was there but the grasping policy has not yet learned how to grasp it. Moreover, learning modular models has engineering benefits. Modular training allows for reusing skills that are easier to learn and can enable building intelligent systems one piece at a time. This is beneficial for many reasons, including safety evaluation and understanding. # ⚓ ACM ☛ The_Premature_Obituary_of_Programming [Ed: Confronting Microsoft "HEY HI" propaganda and plagiarism in new clothing]⠀⇛ Deep learning (DL) has arrived, not only for natural language, speech, and image processing but also for coding, which I refer to as deep programming (DP). DP is used to detect similar programs, find relevant code, translate programs from one language to another, discover software defects, and to synthesize programs from a natural language description. The advent of large transformer language models10 is now being applied to programs with encouraging results. Just like DL is enabled by the enormous amount of textual and image data available on the Internet, DP is enabled by the vast amount of code available in open source repositories such as GitHub, as well as the ability to reuse libraries via modern package managers such as npm and pip. Two trail-blazing transformer-based DP systems are OpenAI’s Codex8 and Deepmind’s AlphaCode.18 The former is used in the Github Copilot project14 and integrates with development environments to automatically suggest code to developers. The latter generates code to solve problems presented at coding competitions. Both achieve amazing results. Multiple efforts are under way to establish code repositories for benchmarking DP, such as CodeXGLUE19 and CodeNET.20 # ⚓ ShinyProxy_vs_Posit_Connect:_Benchmark_Test_for_Scaling Shiny_Apps_–_R_programming,_Shiny_for_Python⠀⇛ Shiny is a web framework for R (and now Python) users. With it, you can build a working dashboard for your analytics in a relatively short time. While it is easy to start developing dashboards without programming experience, the challenge comes with scaling. The quality and interactive method of data delivery will mean greater adoption and more users. There are many solutions to optimize dashboard performance for a single user. This includes examples like promises for non-blocking access and profvis to identify bottlenecks. However, to scale a Shiny application for a large number of users, the deployment environment plays a significant role. # ⚓ Data Science Tutorials ☛ Learn_Hadoop_for_Data_Science_– Data_Science_Tutorials⠀⇛ Learn Hadoop for Data Science, Are you wondering why learning Hadoop is necessary for data science? You are on the appropriate page. You can read more about why Hadoop is essential for data scientists here. This article’s conclusion will include a case study showing how Marks & Spencer Company uses Hadoop to meet its data science needs. # ⚓ Andrew Healey ☛ Profiling_and_Optimizing_an_Interpreter_— Andrew_Healey⠀⇛ In my last post, I added for loops to my interpreter for the nodots programming language. Today, I’m profiling and optimizing the same interpreter. # ⚓ Junichi_Uekawa:_Working_through_crosvm_dependencies_in Debian.⠀⇛ Working through crosvm dependencies in Debian. intrusive-collections Debian package went in. Next up is argh. I think most of them is there now and the next challenge is getting crosvm to build with the newer dependencies. # ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ O_RDONLY,_O_WRONLY_and_O_RDWR_Flags_in_C Language⠀⇛ In programming, file management allows us to store and access any type of information whether in user- created databases, system files for running programs, executable files, and so on. The C language provides, among other things, the open() function to create or open files. This function opens or creates a file specified in the input arguments by its absolute or relative path. When we use this function, we have the possibility to specify via flags the attributes that the file to be opened or created must have, for example. whether it should be read-only, read-write or both. In this Linux Hint article, you will learn how to specify the read and write attributes of files using the O_RDONLY, O_WRONLY, and O_RDWR flags. We will look at a theoretical description of these flags and then implement their use in examples that include code snippets and images where we set read and write attributes with these flags. # § R⠀➾ # ⚓ parallelly_1.34.0:_Support_for_CGroups_v2,_Killing Parallel_Workers,_and_more⠀⇛ With the recent releases of parallelly 1.33.0 (2022-12-13) and 1.34.0 (2023-01-13), availableCores() and availableWorkers() gained better support for Linux CGroups, options for avoiding running out of R connections when setting up parallel-style clusters, and killNode() for forcefully terminating one or more parallel workers. # ⚓ {reactable}_Podium_–_How_to_Build_a_Leaderboard_in_R Shiny_–_R_programming⠀⇛ {reactable} is pretty powerful in itself given just how many features are available in it. But its real power is in how we can tinker with it. In one of our R Shiny projects, we needed a leaderboard of sorts. So, we figured, why not make things interesting and add a podium on top? This blog post walks you through a similar example using the same technique. # ⚓ Kaggle_January_Playground_Series_–_Tidymodels_–_Sport Data_Science⠀⇛ Hello, hope you have your Yorkshire tea ready this is going to be a new series on the blog in which each month I am going to be tackling Kaggles monthly playground series. # § Python⠀➾ # ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ Pandas_Weighted_Average⠀⇛ The weighted average is the average of the data that identifies the specific numbers that are more important than the other numbers in the DataFrame. We will be implementing all possible ways in which the Pandas weighted average can be calculated with the help of several examples. # ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ Pandas_Case_When⠀⇛ In this tutorial, we will perform different operations by using case statements and if- else statements. A case statement makes it possible to compare the value of a variable to a range of potential values. When the set of values is referred to or passed in the case statement, each value inside the set is checked by the cases or conditions inside the statement. Case statement in the Pandas DataFrame provides an output or returns a value if the condition is satisfied. # ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ Pandas_–_Convert_Categorical_Values_to Int_Values⠀⇛ The datasets for machine learning execution include both numerical and categorical variables. Categorical variables are string- type data that humans easily comprehend. Machines, on the other hand, cannot understand categorical inputs directly. Consequently, categorical content must be transformed into numerical values that machines can interpret. # ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ Get_the_Pandas_DataFrame_Rows_Based_on Index⠀⇛ Basically, a Pandas DataFrame has two indices. These indices are distinguished by their axis. The row index is an index that is located along axis 0 (horizontal), whereas the column index is an index that is located along axis 1 (vertical). In this article, we will use iloc[] and loc[] functions to get the rows from the DataFrame. We need to specify the row and column ranges (start and end locations along the columns or rows). The location-based indexing can be used to query the Pandas DataFrames. # ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ Pandas_Json_Normalize⠀⇛ The “JSON” basically stands for the “JavaScript Object Notation”. Pandas has the most popular “data processing framework” in Python, which is the “JSON” normalize” feature. It is a built-in feature of Pandas. It is the simplest way to do the Pandas JSON normalization() using the “Python” request modules. In this article, we will see different levels of normalization. # ⚓ Video ☛ Do_You_Know_About_Pythons_Keyword_Only Arguments?_–_Invidious⠀⇛ Did you know about pythons keyword only arguments? # ⚓ Video ☛ This_Python_Trick_Will_Take_Your_List_Game_To The_Next_Level_–_Invidious⠀⇛ # ⚓ Video ☛ Python_Added_A_New_Way_To_Assign_With Walruses_–_Invidious⠀⇛ Pythons new assignment expression is an interesting way to assign values # § Rust⠀➾ # ⚓ Hubert Figuière ☛ i18n-format_for_Rust_–_Hubert Figuière⠀⇛ A quick announcement for i18n-format, a Rust crate to help with string localization. While it’s not GNOME specific as it is only about gettext, I wrote it for GNOME applications. The goal is to allow the use of gettext! and ngettext! while xgettext can still extract the strings. o § Standards/Consortia⠀➾ # ⚓ Ruben Schade ☛ Rubenerd:_Comments_on_FeedLand_roadmap⠀⇛ I see it as natural a thing to do as hosting WordPress, MediaWiki, and the static-generated site you’re reading now. [...] I’ll be interested to see what the technical requirements are. I briefly ran a Node.js and MariaDB stack on FreeBSD (my preferred server OS) for Ghost, so I’d expect the toolchain to be similar. # ⚓ Manuel Matuzovic ☛ CSS_color_functions_and_custom properties_–_Manuel_Matuzović⠀⇛ I know I’m really late to the party, but I finally understood why people find color functions like hsl (), hwb(), or lab() so appealing. There are many reasons, but one of them is that in combination with custom properties, working with color functions is so much easier, cleaner, and understandable compared to working with hex colors or rbg(). * § Leftovers⠀➾ o ⚓ Jim Nielsen ☛ The_Art_of_Knowing_When_to_Quit⠀⇛ It feels like there’s a hesitancy to bring closure to any creative endeavor because what if it becomes successful? Sorry, you already brought it to an end so no more $$$. It feels like our culture’s impulse is to wring every last cent possible out of any creative endeavor — or at least leave open the possibility for more from the outset. [...] It reminds me of an interview I saw between Charlie Rose and Jerry Seinfeld. Jerry talks about how the incredible success of their sitcom Seinfeld could’ve allowed them to continue creating season after season. But he felt ending the show when they did (two years after co-creator Larry David had already left) was doing the audience a favor… [...] I think this goes for lots of creative endeavors, including software. There’s an art to knowing when — and how — to bring something to an end. o § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾ # ⚓ Affordable_device_for_fixing_broken_bones_piloted_in_Gaza, Sri_Lanka_and_Ukraine⠀⇛ When soft tissue is severely damaged together with bone, external fixators are the first step in keeping fractures in legs and arms in place before an operation to definitively fix the bones can be carried out. However, their cost and low availability in many regions mean people resort to homemade or low- quality fixators that may lead to serious complications or improper healing. The Imperial external fixator is currently being tested in Gaza and Sri Lanka, and since the invasion of Ukraine, more than 500 fixators have been manufactured in Poland to help with the crisis. # ⚓ Video ☛ Mortality_by_vaccination_status_ONS_critique⠀⇛ In Nov 2022 we (Professor Fenon and team) made a formal complaint to the Statistic Regulator about the multiple anomalies in the ONS mortality by vaccination status reports. On 20 Jan 2023 they final responded and they agreed with our major concern that 1) the ONS data was based on a biased sample that under-represented the proportion of unvaccinated in England; and 2) the ONS data could not be used to make any assertions about vaccine efficacy or safety. o § Security⠀➾ # ⚓ TechRadar ☛ Linux_malware_hit_a_new_high_in_2022 [Ed: Microsofters at TechRadar [1, 2] continue to spread anti- Linux messages for Microsoft. Companies that sell fake “security” (like VPN) realise that trash-talking Linux might put them in headlines of anti-Linux sites, giving them a “platform”.]⠀⇛ # ⚓ Neowin ☛ Ubuntu_18.04_LTS_and_Linux_Mint_19.x_users_should upgrade_as_support_ends_this_April_–_Neowin⠀⇛ For any Ubuntu or Linux Mint users out there still running Ubuntu 18.04 LTS or Linux Mint 19.x, it’s time to start upgrading to a newer version. This warning also goes out to users of other Ubuntu 18.04 LTS-based distributions, of which, there are many. Luckily, if your system runs Ubuntu 18.04 or distros based on this release, your system should also handle Ubuntu 22.04 LTS just fine and you’ll get newer packages. # ⚓ Open Source Security (Audio Show) ☛ Episode_359_–_The_NOTAM outage_and_other_legacy_technology⠀⇛ Josh and Kurt talk about the recent FAA NOTAM outage. Keeping legacy things running for long periods of time is really hard to do, this system is no different. It’s also really hard to upgrade many of these due to corner cases and institutional knowledge. There aren’t any great answers here, but we do ask a lot of questions about long running tech. # § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾ # ⚓ New York Times ☛ How_the_Netherlands_Is_Taming_Big Tech⠀⇛ Dutch government and educational organizations have had remarkable success in compelling Big Tech companies to make major privacy changes. Their carrot-and-stick approach engages high-level Silicon Valley executives in months of highly technical discussions and then makes it worth their while by negotiating collective agreements allowing firms to sell their vetted tools to different government ministries and the nation’s schools. And the Dutch efforts to prod change could provide a playbook for other small nations wrangling with tech superpowers. o § Defence/Aggression⠀➾ # ⚓ ‘Canada’s_Indo-Pacific_Strategy’:_From_UN_Peacekeeper_to U.S._Sentinel_State⠀⇛ In a recent article in the Ottawa Hill-Times, journalist David Crane asked an important question: “Is Canada trying to match or outdo American hostility to China?” Canada’s Indo-Pacific Strategy (CIPS), announced in Vancouver recently by Liberal foreign affairs minister Mélanie Joly and other ministers, answers that question unequivocally: “China is an increasingly disruptive global power” begins the CIPS assessment of China. True enough if taken in isolation. Insidious, however, in the way it is used in this report. “We are not just going to engage the Indo-Pacific, we are going to lead,” stated Joly in her opening remarks. In this case, leadership seems to imply being tougher on China than anyone else. In its two-page assessment, the CIPS lists a litany of China’s alleged misdeeds and that, it would seem, is all there is to say. Not a word about its impressive economic achievements; nor that China is Canada’s second largest trading partner; nor about lifting 800 million people out of poverty, as recognized by the UN; not a peep about its development of solar power generation, documented in a Lancet study. Frankly, any teacher would be compelled to give a failing grade to the Canadian government’s assessment of China because of the obvious bias. # ⚓ California’s_Lost_History_of_Lynching_Latinos_in_L.A._More Than_100_Years_Ago_–_Copyright_L.A._TACO⠀⇛ Not far from Union Station in downtown Los Angeles, a crowded line of cars take turns crossing. In front of the Metropolitan Detention Center, many sit in their cars, oblivious that Francisco Cota, a 15-year-old Latino accused of murdering a local shopkeeper, was dragged up the street, repeatedly stabbed, and lynched above the intersection over 160 years ago in the heart of El Pueblo de Los Angeles. A few blocks away at Temple and N Spring Street, at least eight more men were lynched from 1855 to 1863 in broad daylight among a large armed crowd. These lynchings took place where L.A.’s first courthouse and jail used to stand, now replaced with City Hall. Further down Temple at its intersection with Broadway, Miguel Lachenal was lynched by a violent mob in 1870—and historians believe over a dozen more lynchings occurred at this site. Not far is the Fort More Pioneer Memorial, which doesn’t mention the murders that happened at that exact place, with all but one of them lynchings of Latinos. There were also many other lynchings sites across Southern California in El Monte, Santa Ana, San Gabriel, San Pedro, Ventura, and San Luis Obispo, as well as in Northern California. # ⚓ The_Democrats_are_Now_the_War_Party⠀⇛ The Democratic Party has become the party of permanent war, fueling massive military spending which is hollowing out the country from the inside and flirting with with nuclear war. o § Environment⠀➾ # § Energy/Transportation⠀➾ # ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Australia:_high_industry concentration,_high_profit_margins,_says_UBS_–_Michael West⠀⇛ Competition regulator the ACCC has to sign off on ANZ’s takeover of Suncorp and and Brookfield’s bid for Origin Energy. What’s the scam? The scam is, as shown in the graphic above by investment bank UBS, Australia is a land of high prices – oligopolies with high industry concentration – yet both deals, if approved, will only deliver further monopoly power: one less bank and one bigger, more vertically integrated energy company. UBS analysis highlights four reasons Australia is good for foreign investors: fast population growth, high dividends, relative detachment from global economic cycle and a concentrated industry structure: “For consumers the outcome of this is bad, i.e. less choice and expensive prices. But for the businesses that are already here, this is great, i.e. less competition and higher margins”. # ⚓ This_government_school_in_Himachal_Pradesh_runs completely_on_solar_energy⠀⇛ Government Model Boys Senior Secondary School in Nalagarh was established in 1856. Currently, there are about 800 students studying in this school, which includes boys from class 6-12. Jitender Kumar, a former physics teacher, is presently the principal of the school. Himachal Pradesh Council for Science Technology and Environment or HIMCOSTE supported the school in installing three solar units of 6 kilowatts capacity each. The total 18kW solar plant was installed in 40 days and cost about Rs 9.18 lakh. It was completely executed and funded by HIMCOSTE. o § Finance⠀➾ # ⚓ BBC ☛ Google_parent_Alphabet_to_cut_12,000_jobs⠀⇛ Google’s parent company Alphabet will cut 12,000 jobs, in the latest staff redundancies to hit the tech industry. Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai said he took “full responsibility” for the cuts, in an internal email. # ⚓ Bryan Lunduke ☛ The_Big_Tech_layoffs_are_just_beginning_– by_Bryan_Lunduke⠀⇛ Earlier today, Microsoft announced that they will be laying off roughly 10,000 full time staff — which amounts to nearly 5% of all Microsoft employees. And this isn’t the first big layoff of the year… despite the year only being roughly 2 weeks old. Coinbase. Amazon. Cisco. Salesforce. It seems like almost every major Tech firm is starting 2023 by announcing layoffs (or had already announced staff cuts in the final days of 2022). # ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ $1_Hospital_Sell_Off?_–_Michael_West⠀⇛ Forking out $1.2bn to build a hospital then flogging it for a dollar must surely make the NSW government the most hopeless dealmaker in Australian history. Then letting the buyers sell it – along with another 41 hospitals to the Cayman Islands – puts the federal government in a nearby league. # ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Byron_Bay_blue_between_“Airbnb_mafia” and_grassroots_groups_highlights_costly_housing_crisis_– Michael_West⠀⇛ Pandemic lockdowns crushed Airbnb, Stayz and other short-term rental operators but the market has bounced back sharply, creating tensions in popular tourist destinations between councils, community groups and well-heeled property owners. Callum Foote reports on the case of ritzy Byron Bay. A powerful lobby group for short-term rental providers, whose politically connected members oversee hundreds of properties, has nixed local council legislation and led to a community backlash and claims of profiteering at the expense of a housing supply and cost of living crisis. Short-term rentals offered by platforms such as Airbnb and Stayz spread quickly throughout Australia. They delivered easy choice and competition for accomodation for tourists but councils are now grappling with a backlash from residents who say they are in part responsible for a housing supply crisis and rising living costs in the regions. # ⚓ Banks_Recover_only_13%_of_Rs_10_Lakh_Crore_Loans_Written off_in_Last_5_Years⠀⇛ Banks have recovered only 13% of a staggering amount of loans worth more than Rs 10 lakh crore loans written off in the last five years. # ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Four_Pillars_to_Four_Punters?_Will_ANZ “do_a_Richard_Branson”,_licence_its_brand_like_Virgin?_– Michael_West⠀⇛ ANZ is now free to pull a Richard Branson and licence its brand to sell ANZ-branded financial products through its non-banking and non- financially regulated wing after regulators approved its restructuring, reports Callum Foote. * § Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾ o § Personal⠀➾ # ⚓ Advice_for_running_a_long_campaign⠀⇛ This might be another short three page section in the rules for Knives, a simple 2d6 rule system that I’d like to use at my table. The OGL mess is making me angry and I don’t think I want to invest too much energy into D&D-like games. Wizards of the Coast, shame on you. # ⚓ Physics_vs_Crime⠀⇛ Assistant: “Captain, we don’t know until we’ve done dusting tests whether the culprit is the neighbor coming through the window, or the butler coming from the hall.” Captain MW: “OMG! This is a remarkable paradox! The culprit is the neighbor and the butler at the same time!” Assistant: “Not really… but until the prints come back, we won’t know which it is; until then we can rule out people who weren’t even in town that day. So there’s still a lot of progress we can make on the case with what we’ve got so far, we can sta–” Captain MW: “You’re saying that those prints will collapse the wave function! Impossible! But don’t worry, Captain Many Worlds to the rescue! It’s clear that we are living in a field of overlapping simultaneous worlds and in one world the neighbor is a cruel and disgusting killer, and in the other the butler is a callous and brutal murderer. Both worlds obviously equally true! These people disgust me, assistant, they truly disgust me!” Assistant: “Uh, no, it’s one world, it’s just that we haven’t done the tests yet, once we–” Captain MW: “Truly a superposition of murder, assistant. Yes, yes. We’ve got two murderers on our hands. And I am a hero in every world!” # ⚓ Experiment⠀⇛ Hello, Midnight Pub. I’m a hacker!!! # ⚓ Do_you_even_compute,_bro?⠀⇛ # ⚓ Do_you_even_compute,_bro?⠀⇛ Personal computing, broadly construed in such a way that it includes smartphones and tablets and whatnot – basically, computing done on a single- user device which is the personal property of the person doing the computing – has never been bigger than it is today. The average person owns more personal computers, buys personal computers more frequently, and spends more time using a personal computer than even a lot of hardened computing enthusiasts would have ten years ago. This is not just more common and more socially accepted than it used to be, it is, in a weird and quite rapid reversal of social norms, socially *expected*, to the extent that now you’re a social misfit weirdo if you *aren’t* on a computing device all the time. # ⚓ Realizing_you_already_live_pretty_tiny⠀⇛ I’ll peel back the curtain a bit and say I’ve never owned a home. I’m not sure I ever really _want_ to in this kind of economy. I am leery of going into that much debt (because that’s all a mortgage is and until yours is paid off that house is _not_ yours); however, I’m even more sensitive to the implication that I’m tied to that spot and am stuck with that commitment until I get it sold or paid off. Considering that for the last 4 or 5 years my wife and I have moved pretty regularly, seemingly at least once a year.. the absence of a sense of permanence has led me to have a mentality of “well does it matter if we do X modification to the dwelling or get Y appliance? We’re only here for (probably a year).” Not only that, it’s resulted in our used living space being pretty small. o § Technical⠀➾ # ⚓ A_response_to_Solderpunk’s_“Orphans_of_Netscape_Part_II”⠀⇛ I discovered the smolnet sometime in either late 2019 or 2020; I frankly don’t remember when I first got my account at the Soviet at Circumlunar.Space. And, joke intended with the name, I kinda figured what I was getting into would wind up being a technically interesting but politically rotten orgy of people screaming about capitalism, as if sitting on a pubnix in the dark corners of the internet and yelling about change would actually enact it. # ⚓ I_still_prefer_email⠀⇛ Although instant messaging has overtaken most of the communication with my friends and family, I still prefer plaintext email. I refused to use things like Whatsapp and so they contacted me through SMS. A few weeks ago I installed Signal on my phone, because this is the only messenger that I think can be trusted and is way more secure than SMS. Now I need to tediously convince them to use that instead. But I really like emails over all forms of digital communication. # ⚓ Configuring_Networking_in_rc.local⠀⇛ Much of my Linux setup is totally bespoke and manual. GRUB config? I write it by hand, or I generate it from a template using a tiny program I wrote in CHICKEN Scheme named bootconf-update. The underlying principle is that if some part of the system shits the bed, I am better able to debug things because I can reason about my setup. Today I’m writing about how I do static network configuration. # § Internet/Gemini⠀➾ # ⚓ Track_the_Voyager_Mission_Status_from_Gemini⠀⇛ With this app you can track the Voyager probes telemetry from your Gemini browser. Telemetry data is not 100% accurate but it does the job as you can view the distance from Earth or from the Sun. # ⚓ Capsule_of_the_day_–_2023-01⠀⇛ NOTA: Links are selected randomly from a list of known host from the lupa crawler[1]. The links are not manually curated and I’m not responsible of the content of these capsules. If some offensive capsules are listed here automatically, please alert me so I can manually remove them. # ⚓ Capsule_of_the_day_–_2023-01-22⠀⇛ =============================================================================== * Gemini_(Primer) links can be opened using Gemini_software. It’s like the World Wide Web but a lot lighter. ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 2587 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐃𝐀𝐈𝐋𝐘 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒 ═════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 01.22.23⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Links_22/01/2023:_RSS_Guard_4.3.0⠀✐ Posted in News_Roundup at 7:40 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇GNOME bluefish⦈ § Contents⠀➾ * GNU/Linux o Desktop/Laptop o Audiocasts/Shows o Kernel_Space o Applications o Instructionals/Technical o Games * 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 Education o Openness/Sharing/Collaboration # Open_Data o Programming/Development # Perl_/_Raku # Python o Standards/Consortia * Leftovers o Science o Education o Hardware o Health/Nutrition/Agriculture o Proprietary o Pseudo-Open_Source # Openwashing o Security # Integrity/Availability/Authenticity # Privacy/Surveillance o Defence/Aggression o Transparency/Investigative_Reporting o Environment # Energy/Transportation # Wildlife/Nature o Finance o AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics o Censorship/Free_Speech o Freedom_of_Information_/_Freedom_of_the_Press o Civil_Rights/Policing o Digital_Restrictions_(DRM) o Monopolies # Copyrights * Gemini*_and_Gopher o Personal o Technical # Internet/Gemini * § GNU/Linux⠀➾ o § Desktop/Laptop⠀➾ # ⚓ OpenSource.com ☛ How_Linux_rescued_precious_audio_files with_FFmpeg_|_Opensource.com⠀⇛ Recently I was asked by a customer to create compact discs of priceless family recordings. My client insisted that the media be delivered as compact discs and not as digital files in an MP3 player or other similar device. One of the source recordings was on a compact disc and in AIFF format. As such my client could not play this media that contained her husband’s voice. I was able to convert it using Audacity, and then was able to burn it to a compact disc with Brasero, which has been my go to CD creation tool. The balance of the audio files were in MP3 format. I was able to create compact discs with Brasero very quickly. There was, however, one file that was so large that it exceeded the capacity of the compact disc medium. This large file contained nearly two hours of audio. The capacity of compact discs is 72 minutes. This presented a problem. How could I split the large file into smaller segments that would allow me to create media and fit on media that my client could use? I decided to use a DVD instead of a compact disc. Using a DVD provided me with a much larger capacity disc, but how could I convert the MP3 files to a format that would allow me to create a DVD? I tried using HandBrake, but was unable to convert MP3 to MP4 format because MP4 expected a video stream, and I had no video. Then I discovered that I could use FFmpeg to convert the files. o § Audiocasts/Shows⠀➾ # ⚓ Video ☛ Netrunner_OS_23_–_Quick_Tour_–_Invidious⠀⇛ Netrunner OS 23 GNU/Linux distribution is now available for download. This release is based on Debian GNU/Linux 11 “Bullseye” and features the KDE Plasma 5.20 desktop environment. # ⚓ Video ☛ First_Look:_Cinnamon_5.6_Desktop_Environment_– Invidious⠀⇛ A first look at the new features and improvements of the latest Cinnamon 5.6 desktop environment on the Arch Linux distribution # ⚓ Video ☛ exgent_gentoo_lxqt_230109⠀⇛ In This Video We Are Looking At exGENT version 230109 Linux Live DVD is – as the name suggest – based on Gentoo Linux. # ⚓ Video ☛ MX_Respin-mate-20230113_0131⠀⇛ In This Video We Are Looking At This Linux distribution runs completely from DVD or Flash disk and installable on a fixed disk, based on Debian and MX Linux. # ⚓ Video ☛ Amarok_23_Cinnamon_Released:_What’s_New?_– Invidious⠀⇛ In This Video We Are Looking At 23 Cinnamon versions of Amarok Linux , available as a GNU / Linux desktop distribution based on Debian GNU/ Linux, have been announced. # ⚓ Video ☛ First_Look:_Parrot_OS_5.2_Beta_1⠀⇛ In This Video We Are Looking At Parrot 5.2 b1 Forensics & Anonymous Surfing, Parrot 5.2: Parrot Security OS (or ParrotSec ) is a GNU/Linux distribution based on Debian. # ⚓ Video ☛ Is_Gnoppix_23.1_IMPROVED_Than_MacOS?⠀⇛ In This Video We Are Looking At The version 23.1 of Gnoppix , which started its journey based on Debian GNU/Linux, continued on Ubuntu-based after 2004 after a Kali Linux experience , and came with the GNOME desktop environment from the very beginning, has been released. # ⚓ Video ☛ Best_Linux_Distro_for_the_Desktop_in_2023⠀⇛ # ⚓ Video ☛ Best_Linux_distro_for_2023_–_What_to_look_for⠀⇛ # ⚓ Kernel_Podcast:_S2E1_–_2023/01/21⠀⇛ This is the pilot episode for what will become season 2 of the Linux Kernel Podcast. Back in 2008- 2009 I recorded a daily “kernel podcast” that summarized the happenings of the Linux Kernel Mailing List (LKML). Eventually, daily became a little too much, and the podcast went weekly, followed by…not. This time around, I’m not committing to any specific cadence – let’s call it “periodic” (every few weeks). In each episode, I will aim to broadly summarize the latest happenings in the “plumbing” of the Linux kernel, and occasionally related bits of userspace “plumbing” (glibc, systemd, etc.), as well as impactful toolchain changes that enable new features or rebaseline requirements. I welcome your feedback. Please let me know what you think about the format, as well as what you would like to see covered in future episodes. I’m going to play with some ideas over time. These may include “deep diving” into topics of interest to a broader audience. Keep in mind that this podcast is not intended to editorialize, but only to report on what is happening. Both this author, and others, have their own personal opinions, but this podcast aims to focus only on the facts, regardless of who is involved, or their motives.” o § Kernel Space⠀➾ # ⚓ University of Toronto ☛ An_instruction_oddity_in_the_ppc64_ (PowerPC_64-bit)_architecture⠀⇛ The answer is kind of interesting and shows how intricate things can get in modern code. Go, like a lot of modern languages, wants to support stack tracebacks from right within its compiled code, without the aid of an external debugger. In order to do that, the Go runtime needs to be able to unwind the stack. Unwinding the stack is a very intricate thing on modern CPUs, and you can’t necessarily do it past arbitrary code. Go has a special annotation for ‘you can’t unwind past here’, which is automatically applied when the Go toolchain detects that some code (including assembly code) is manipulating the stack pointer in a way that it doesn’t understand: [...] o § Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ Neowin ☛ RSS_Guard_4.3.0⠀⇛ RSS Guard is a simple (yet powerful) feed reader. It is able to fetch the most known feed formats, including RSS/RDF and ATOM. It’s free, it’s open- source. RSS Guard currently supports Czech, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian. RSS Guard will never depend on other services – this includes online news aggregators like Feedly, The Old Reader and others. o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾ # ⚓ Earthly ☛ Distributed_Tracing_in_Kubernetes_With_SigNoz_– Earthly_Blog⠀⇛ Debugging an application can be stressful, especially when your application runs on a large distributed system with multiple separate components. Some of these components are written in different languages and use different frameworks with different logging mechanisms. This makes it hard to debug when something goes wrong. You have to jump between different tools, run each component in separate terminals, check their logs, and try to put everything together to understand what went wrong. This can be made easier with distributed tracing. Distributed tracing allows you to see the flow of data between the different components in your application and understand how they interact with each other. It provides insight into where things are going wrong and allows you to debug problems on a whole new level. In this article, you will learn what distributed tracing is, how it works, and how you can set it up in your kubernetes cluster. # ⚓ Earthly ☛ Understanding_and_Using_Makefile_Variables_– Earthly_Blog⠀⇛ Since its appearance in 1976, Make has been helping developers automate complex processes for compiling code, building executables, and generating documentation. Like other programming languages, Make lets you define and use variables that facilitate reusability of values. Have you found yourself using the same value in multiple places? This is both repetitive and prone to errors. If you’d like to change this value, you’ll have to change it everywhere. This process is tedious, but it can be solved with variables, and Make offers powerful variable manipulation techniques that can make your life easier. In this article, you’ll learn all about make variables and how to use them. # ⚓ Citizix ☛ How_to_Install_and_Configure_Kibana_on_Debian 11⠀⇛ Kibana is a proprietary data visualization dashboard software for Elasticsearch, whose open source successor in OpenSearch is OpenSearch Dashboards. It is a data visualization and exploration tool used for log and time-series analytics, application monitoring, and operational intelligence use cases. # ⚓ Raspberry Pi ☛ Build_your_own_Raspberry_Pi_flight_tracker with_our_tutorial⠀⇛ Trainspotters enjoy the comfortably achievable task of standing on a platform waiting for various makes and models to chug past to pursue their hobby. But if plane spotting is your bag, it gets a bit more technical. They’re very big, and very far away, and airports aren’t keen on random people wandering onto runways, so much of a plane spotter’s enjoyment comes from digitally tracking aircraft all over the world. You need some specialist equipment and software to do that, so we’ve made you a tutorial to show you how to build your own flight tracker. # ⚓ Trend Oceans ☛ How_to_Enable_Matrix_effect_and_Custom_Image Screensaver_on_Ubuntu/Linux_Mint_–_TREND_OCEANS⠀⇛ Are you interested in seeing the matrix effect in which text (glyphs) is raining on the screen? If so, you should definitely install Xscreensaver on your Linux computer. # ⚓ Linux Nightly ☛ Install_Firefox_as_Normal_Package_on_Ubuntu 22.04_–_Linux_Nightly⠀⇛ Learn how to remove the Firefox Snap package and install the normal Firefox via Mozilla PPA or official web download on Ubuntu 22.04. # ⚓ Linux Nightly ☛ How_to_Disable_(or_Enable)_Wayland_on Ubuntu_22.04⠀⇛ Learn how to disable or enable the Wayland display server and use Xorg as an alternative on Ubuntu 22.04. # ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_Vivaldi_Browser_on_Fedora Linux⠀⇛ Vivaldi is a web browser designed for power users and built on the Chromium engine. It offers a wide range of features and customizations that greatly enhance your browsing experience on Fedora Linux. # ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_PHP_8.2,_8.1,_8.0,_or_7.4_on Ubuntu_22.04_or_20.04_–_LinuxCapable⠀⇛ PHP is a powerful server-side programming language widely used to create dynamic websites, web applications, and content management systems (CMS). It can seamlessly integrate with a Ubuntu server to build cutting-edge web solutions. PHP is a go-to choice for web developers as it allows for easy integration with various databases and frameworks, enabling the creation of robust and dynamic web applications. # ⚓ TecAdmin ☛ Setting_up_CodeIgniter_on_Ubuntu:_A_guide_for web_developers_–_TecAdmin⠀⇛ CodeIgniter is a popular PHP framework for web development that provides a simple and elegant toolkit for creating dynamic web applications. This guide will provide a step-by-step introduction to how to set up CodeIgniter on Ubuntu and other Debian-based systems. # ⚓ TecAdmin ☛ Managing_Dependencies_with_Composer:_A Beginner’s_Guide_–_TecAdmin⠀⇛ Managing dependencies is an essential part of any software development project, and Composer is a popular tool that simplifies the process of managing dependencies in PHP. This guide will provide a deep dive into how to use Composer to manage dependencies in a PHP project. # ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ Using_the_“awk”_Command_to_Print_the_Last Column_from_a_File⠀⇛ Sometimes there comes a situation when we do not need to read the complete file, we just need some part of the file to be displayed. In this situation, we try to find some efficient ways to get them without going through the whole file content. The “awk” command is the one. The “AWK” command is a command line utility used in Linux to conduct searches with different patterns and for processing. It is a command that allows a coder to code small but efficient lines of code in the form of statements that initiate patterns of text that are used for conducting searches in every part of a document. So, it is also a vastly used command for text processing. With the help of the “awk” command, a programmer can pick up data, and pieces of a specific text based on the pattern provided to the command. AWK command can scan and search files line by line, distribute and partition each line passed as input into fields, compare and match fields with input lines, and perform instructions specified by the programmer on matched lines. AWK commands can be used for the production of reports in specific formats and for changing data inside the files. # ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ How_to_Check_if_a_Filesystem_is_Mounted_in Linux⠀⇛ The OS(operating system) employs the file system which is known as the file system in a computer language that is commonly abbreviated to “fs”. The “fs” is a technique that regulates how well the piece of information is protected and accessed. Without a file system, the content of the file in a memory device would not distinguish between one type of information. The information can be easily extracted and recognized by making the groups and assigning each group a name. Each group of information is referred to as a “file,” which is a terminology derived from a paper-based data management system. A “file system” is the term referring to both the organizational framework and logical principles that are used to handle the names and groupings of information. # ⚓ Linux Buzz ☛ How_to_Install_Cockpit_Web_Console_on_RHEL_9⠀⇛ Cockpit is a web-based interface or GUI for managing Linux servers. It provides a simple and intuitive interface that allows admins to easily perform various system administration tasks, such as managing services, monitoring resource usage, and configuring network settings. In this post, we will cover how to install Cockpit Web Console on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 9. # ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ How_to_Wait_for_a_Specific_Process_to_Complete in_Linux?⠀⇛ We have a wait command of Linux to wait for one or more than one processes to complete in the system. The versatile wait command of Linux allows us to find out when a specific process is completed. The termination status will be returned as a result, allowing us to identify if the process is successful in terminating or failed for some other reason. The wait command continues to run as it waits for specific background tasks to be completed. The Linux wait command is used in the use cases below to show how it functions. # ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ Ufw_Firewall_Allow_SSH⠀⇛ A firewall is only an additional layer of security that can be used to secure cloud servers. By obstructing harmful or unnecessary data transmission, firewalls protect our computers or network from outside cyberattacks. Furthermore, firewalls can prevent malicious software from logging onto a network or system via the Internet. UFW firewall essentially grants access to manage a simple firewall for network security. Their main objective is to simplify firewall control through the use of an intuitive Graphical user interface. # ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_Linux_Kernel_6.1_on_Ubuntu 22.04_or_20.04_–_LinuxCapable⠀⇛ This guide will walk you through installing Linux Kernel 6.1 on your Ubuntu 22.04 or 20.04 desktop or server using the TuxInvader Launchpad PPA. The PPA contains the latest generic kernels, and the guide will show you how to use the command line terminal to import the PPA and install the latest Linux Kernel. # ⚓ Linux Nightly ☛ How_to_Take_a_Screenshot_in_Manjaro_Linux_– Linux_Nightly⠀⇛ Learn how to take a screenshot in Manjaro Linux using the default screenshot manager and extra applications like Flameshot, Kazam, Spectacle. o § Games⠀➾ # ⚓ Joe Brockmeier ☛ Absolute_silliness:_Hampster_Invaders_: Dissociated_Press⠀⇛ The main site, vole.wtf, has a number of web games and even “Voleflix” featuring a bunch of public domain movies. This is what the Internet is truly for, just weird fun mashups that let people demonstrate their creativity and fun hacks. # ⚓ Aurélien Gâteau ☛ Pixel_Wheels_0.24.1⠀⇛ Last month I shipped Pixel Wheels 0.24.1, which fixed a few annoying bugs found in 0.24.0 * § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾ o § BSD⠀➾ # ⚓ Undeadly ☛ amd64_execute-only_committed_to_-current⠀⇛ Support for execute-only (xonly) code (on which we reported earlier) has been committed to -current by Theo de Raadt (deraadt@). o § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾ # ⚓ CNX Software ☛ Radxa_ROCK_5A_SBC_–_A_Raspberry_Pi_4 lookalike_with_up_to_16GB_RAM,_Rockchip_RK3588S_SoC_–_CNX Software⠀⇛ Radxa has just unveiled the ROCK 5A single board computer (SBC) following Raspberry Pi 4 form factor and powered by a Rockchip RK3588S octa-core Cortex- A76/A55 processor coupled with up to 16GB of RAM as a way to celebrate Chinese New Year 2023. The Radxa ROCK 5A (aka ROCK5 Model A) closely follows the Raspberry Pi 4 layout, including two micro HDMI ports, a 3.5mm AV port, a microSD card, a 40-pin GPIO header, four USB ports, and a Gigabit Ethernet port. The MIPI DSI connector is there too, and so is the MIPI CSI camera connector, but in a different location. Radxa also added some features such as an M.2 socket for a wireless module (since there’s none on board) and eMMC flash module connectors, among other smaller changes (e.g. Power button!). # ⚓ Linux Gizmos ☛ Radxa_launches_ROCK_5_Model_A_SBC⠀⇛ Radxa announced today the Rock5 Model A embedded board based on the Rockchip RK3588S Octa-core processor. Radxa’s new SBC is equipped with up to 16GB LPDDR4x, 1x GbE RJ45 port, 1x M.2 slot for storage and multiple displays support. # ⚓ Tom’s Hardware ☛ Chinese_Chipmaker_Loongson_Enters_GPU_Biz with_New_iGPUs⠀⇛ What grabbed our attention was the phrase that the LS2K2000 features the LG120 GPU ‘core independently developed by Loongson, further optimizing the graphics algorithm and performance.’ Given the applications that the LS2K2000 is aimed at, it is unlikely that we are dealing with something very advanced in terms of performance. In fact, we believe it would be pretty much underwhelming when it comes to power consumption. Yet, a basic GPU from a CPU-centric company looks curious, and these types of foundations can be built upon. # ⚓ Raspberry Pi ☛ Control_your_mouse_by_playing_the_trombone_| HackSpace_#63⠀⇛ Figure 3 shows a finished controller. The handle on the left-hand side contains a sensor which measures the distance to the target on the handle on the right. The target is connected to a piece of pipe which slides over one connected to the handle. This means that the balance of the controller will change during play, just like a real trombone. It also means that the handle will fall off the end of the trombone if you move it too far, which is just like a real trombone too. # ⚓ Ken Shirriff ☛ Inside_the_Globus_INK:_a_mechanical navigation_computer_for_Soviet_spaceflight⠀⇛ We recently received a Globus from a collector and opened it up for repair and reverse engineering. In this blog post, I explain how it operated, show its internal mechanisms, and describe what I’ve learned so far from reverse engineering. The photo below gives an idea of the mechanical complexity of this device, which also has a few relays, solenoids, and other electrical components. # ⚓ Arduino ☛ Arduino_Open_Source_Report_2022 [PDF]⠀⇛ Another busy year has passed in the Arduino world, and it’s about time to publish our annual retrospective on the Arduino open source ecosystem. In this report you’ll learn about the activities of the Arduino team from the past year, as well as the contributions from our passionate and vibrant community. This report is a snapshot of the ecosystem as of December 31st, 2022. # ⚓ Linux Gizmos ☛ reComputer_J4102_powered_by_NVIDIA_Jetson Orin_NX_16GB_SoM⠀⇛ The SeeedStudio’s blog recently featured the reComputer J4012 built around the NVIDIA Jetson Orin NX SoM with up to 100 TOPS AI performance. This embedded system comes in an aluminum case and is equipped with 1x Gigabit RJ45 port, 1x HDMI 2.1 ports, expansion slots and multiple I/Os interfaces. # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ An_Open_Hardware_Automatic_Spinning_Machine⠀⇛ The team at the Berlin-based Studio HILO has been working on ideas and tools around developing a more open approach to small-scale textile production environments. Leveraging open-source platforms and tools, the team has come up with a simple open hardware spinning machine that can be used for interactive yarn production, right on the desktop. The frame is built with 3030 profile aluminium extrusions, with a handful of 3D printed, and a smidge of laser cut parts. Motion is thanks to, you guessed it, NEMA 17 stepper motors and the once ubiquitous Arduino Mega 2560 plus RAMPS 1.4 combination that many people will be very familiar with. o § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ Top_8_Ways_to_Fix_Proximity_Sensor_Not_Working_During_Calls on_Android_–_Guiding_Tech⠀⇛ # ⚓ GSM Arena ☛ BharOS_is_a_new_Android_fork_with_a_focus_on security_developed_in_India_–_GSMArena.com_news⠀⇛ # ⚓ How_to_View_Saved_WiFi_Passwords_on_Android_[2023]_– TechPP⠀⇛ # ⚓ Giz China ☛ Android_14_will_measure_the_distance_between two_devices_via_Bluetooth_–_Gizchina.com⠀⇛ # ⚓ Giz China ☛ iPhone_15_Ultra:_A_Design_Evolution_or_a Copycat_of_Android?_–_Gizchina.com⠀⇛ # ⚓ Phone Arena ☛ iPhone_15_will_have_a_beautiful,_Android-like design,_leaker_implies_–_PhoneArena⠀⇛ * § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾ o ⚓ Jon Udell ☛ Working_with_Mastodon_lists⠀⇛ Since the early days of the blogosphere I have cherished the ability to view the world through the eyes of people more qualified than me to understand and explain what happens in particular domains. Although Twitter lists were a great way to collect people who provide those perspectives, I made little use of them. Prompted by Martin Fowler’s frustration with lists I described my first steps toward reviving the technique in Lists and people on Mastodon. First I encapsulated the relevant APIs in a pair of tables provided by the Steampipe plugin for Mastodon: mastodon_list and mastodon_list_account. Then I used those tables to enhance the Mastodon dashboard in a couple of ways. The followers and following tabs now show me who is or isn’t on a list. o ⚓ Unix Sheikh ☛ Two_simple_ways_to_version_control_your_MariaDB schema_changes⠀⇛ Version controlling your database data is pretty easy as long as you don’t have any binary content stored in the database, you just commit your SQL dump to the version control software, it’s just SQL in plain text. But what about database schema changes? In this small tutorial I’ll address two simple ways you can version control your MariaDB schema changes without using any third party tools. o § Web Browsers/Web Servers⠀➾ # § Mozilla⠀➾ # ⚓ 9to5Linux ☛ Firefox_110_Will_Finally_Let_You_Import Data_from_Opera_and_Vivaldi⠀⇛ With Firefox 109 already hitting the repos of various GNU/Linux distributions, it’s time to take a closer look at the new features coming to Firefox 110, which is currently available for public beta testing on all supported platforms, including Linux. The coolest new feature in Firefox 110 appears to be the ability of the open-source web browser to detect and let you import data like bookmarks, cookies, history, and passwords, from web browsers like Opera, Opera GX, and Vivaldi. o § Education⠀➾ # ⚓ Dhole Moments ☛ How_You_Respond_to_Security_Researchers Says_Everything_About_You⠀⇛ Why am I stating all this? Because I firmly believe that the best lens through which to judge a company’s culture is to examine how they respond to security researchers. I’d like to talk about some of my experiences with this topic, as well as recent events in the security community. o § Openness/Sharing/Collaboration⠀➾ # § Open Data⠀➾ # ⚓ AAAS ☛ Light_pollution_is_skyrocketing⠀⇛ The study of Kyba et al. is biased in that most of the data from citizen scientists are from Europe and North America. This does not subtract value from the findings; on the contrary, they are reinforced because these continents show a constant or slightly decreasing light pollution trend, as determined by satellites (2). The other continents show an increasing light pollution trend with satellites, so a greater increase would be expected for those continents when citizen science data become available. o § Programming/Development⠀➾ # ⚓ Undeadly ☛ Game_of_Trees_milestone⠀⇛ #gameoftrees has reached another milestone […] We now offer public anonymous access to our Git repository via SSH, using our own server implementation (available in the ports tree of #OpenBSD -current). # ⚓ [Old] Association for Logic Programming ☛ 2022:_The_Year_of Prolog⠀⇛ In the summer of 1972, Alain Colmerauer and his team in Marseille developed and implemented the first version of the logic programming language Prolog. Together with both earlier and later collaborations with Robert Kowalski and his colleagues in Edinburgh, this work laid the practical and theoretical foundations for the Prolog and logic programming of today. Prolog and its related technologies soon became key tools of symbolic programming and Artificial Intelligence. # ⚓ Rachel ☛ Who_needs_main()_anyway?⠀⇛ Instead, tonight, I present a far simpler version. Usual disclaimers apply: may summon Ancient Ones who will haunt your soul. Probably won’t work on all systems or compilers. It didn’t work for me until I gave it -O2, and even then, it still gives a magnificent segfault. # ⚓ Austin Gil ☛ Promises,_Thenables,_–_Lazy-evaluation:_What, Why,_How⠀⇛ It’s the start of a new year, and while lots of folks are promising to be more active, I’m going to show you how to make Promises to be more lazy…JavaScript Promises, that is. # ⚓ Some_R_Conferences_for_2023⠀⇛ # ⚓ SparkFun Electronics ☛ Join_us_for_our_Arm_Tech_Talk!⠀⇛ Arm is hosting a Tech Talk on January 24th with SparkFun and Silicon Labs. This Tech Talk will give you an overview of Matter’s history, use cases, benefits and overall ecosystem. # ⚓ Data Science Tutorials ☛ How_Do_Online_Criminals_Acquire Sensitive_Data⠀⇛ How Do Online Criminals Acquire Sensitive Data, Companies today gather and store vast amounts of user data. A large portion of it is about private data that was previously solely retained by financial and medical institutions. # ⚓ Designing_Accessible_Research_with_R/Shiny_UI_–_Part_2_–_R programming⠀⇛ As part of our Data for Good (D4G) initiative, we collaborated with the Institute of Dendrology of the Polish Academy of Sciences to build a Shiny application with an enhanced UI. This application – Future Forests – shows how different climate scenarios will affect European forests. It provides a sobering look into the future, where our forests and other ecosystems will face drastic changes. # ⚓ Robert C Martin ☛ Functional_Classes_in_Clojure⠀⇛ To all the adherents of the Statically Typed Functional Programming religion: I know that you believe that Static Typing is an essential aspect of Functional Programming and that no mere dynamically typed language could ever begin to approach the heights and glory of The One True and Holy TYPED Functional Apotheotic Paradigm. But we lowly programmers quivering down here at the base of Orthanc can only hope to meekly subsist on the dregs that fall from on high. [...] My previous blog seemed only to continue the confusion regarding classes in Functional Programming. Indeed, many people got quite irate. So perhaps a bit of code will help. Trigger Warning: Object Oriented Terminology. Dynamically Typed Language. Mixed Metaphors. Distracting Animations. # ⚓ Data Science Tutorials ☛ Linear_Interpolation_in_R-approx_– Data_Science_Tutorials⠀⇛ Linear Interpolation in R, You will discover how to use the approx and approxfun interpolation functions in this R tutorial. Two examples of how to use the approx and approxfun functions for interpolation are provided on this page. # ⚓ Finnstats ☛ How_to_Rename_Files_in_R_–_finnstats⠀⇛ The examples that follow demonstrate each technique in action. # ⚓ Data Science Tutorials ☛ Top_Reasons_To_Learn_R_in_2023_– Data_Science_Tutorials⠀⇛ Top Reasons To Learn R in 2023, R and Python are two of the best programming languages for beginners. Both programming languages are quite user-friendly for beginners, but today we’ll concentrate on R. R has amassed a sizable fan base over time, not just in the IT and data science communities, but also in the commercial world. # ⚓ A_GAM_for_time_trends_in_a_stepped-wedge_trial_with_a binary_outcome_–_ouR_data_generation⠀⇛ In a previous post, I described some ways one might go about analyzing data from a stepped-wedge, cluster-randomized trial using a generalized additive model (a GAM), focusing on continuous outcomes. I have spent the past few weeks developing a similar model for a binary outcome, and have started to explore model comparison and methods to evaluate goodness-of-fit. The following describes some of my thought process. # ⚓ Finnstats ☛ Test_if_two_objects_are_nearly_equal_in_R_– finnstats⠀⇛ Test if two objects are nearly equal in R, Learn how to use them all.equal function to determine whether two items are nearly equal in this R programming tutorial. # ⚓ Web_scraping_in_R_–_Stats_and_R⠀⇛ Almost anyone is familiar with web pages (otherwise you would not be here), but what if we tell you that how you see a site is different from how Google or your browser does? In fact, when you type any site address in your browser, your browser will download and render the page for you, but for rendering the page it needs some instructions. # ⚓ Barry Kauler ☛ gui_engine_project_put_on-hold⠀⇛ Have been posting about the gui_engine GUI toolkit, for building statically-linked standalone executables that will run in the initramfs (initrd) and render to the Linux framebuffer. # ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ The_sockaddr_in_Structure⠀⇛ Socket programming in the C language uses a variety of functions, many of them are used to resolve, convert, and determine the address of the server we want to connect to. Undoubtedly, the IP address is the most important information we need when we open a socket. And dealing with these addresses requires that we know the structures in which they are stored, the type of data of each of their members, etc. # § Perl / Raku⠀➾ # ⚓ Perl ☛ Using_Perl_to_prepare_sequencing_files_to submit_to_NCBI’s_GEO_|_chrisarg_[blogs.perl.org]⠀⇛ In the middle of a manuscript submission that requires sequencing data to be uploaded to NCBI’s Gene Expression Omnibus. This is a fairly standardized and (painful!) process that requires one to assemble their sequencing data (a collection of hundreds or thousands of files in the FASTQ format), put them in a single (very large) folder, compress them, generate md5 hashes and then upload them to GEO’s FTP site. There are a couple of tutorials available e.g. here and there that mostly cover the use case of one having assembled the files into a single fastq. # § Python⠀➾ # ⚓ Python Speed ☛ Some_reasons_to_avoid_Cython⠀⇛ If you need to speed up Python, Cython is a very useful tool. It lets you seamlessly merge Python syntax with calls into C or C++ code, making it easy to write high- performance extensions with rich Python interfaces. That being said, Cython is not the best tool in all circumstances. So in this article I’ll go over some of the limitations and problems with Cython, and suggest some alternatives. # ⚓ Earthly ☛ Introduction_to_the_Context_Managers_and the_with_Keyword_in_Python?⠀⇛ The with keyword in python is used for exception handling when working with certain resources like files or database connections. These resources may need to have additional actions performed if an exception is raised. For example, if there is an error reading from a file, we’d like to be certain the file gets closed before the program exits and raises the error. The with statement is not limited to files or database connections, it can also be used with locks, sockets, sub- processes, telnet, and other types of connections. In this article, we’ll take a deeper look at the with keyword. We’ll look at how it works, when you should use it, and how you can create your own classes and functions that support with. # ⚓ Video ☛ Python_Is_A_STRANGE_Language_Boolean_Tips_– Invidious⠀⇛ Python is a strange language True and False are treated like numbers o § Standards/Consortia⠀➾ # ⚓ IT Tavern ☛ Difference_between_RSS_and_Atom⠀⇛ I was curious about what the difference between RSS and Atom was. This blog post is a small primer to RSS and Atom feeds and describes the differences between both. I’ve linked links to the technical specification at the end of this post. * § Leftovers⠀➾ o ⚓ Pete Warden ☛ Go_see_Proxistant_Vision_at_SFMCD_–_Pete_Warden’s blog⠀⇛ When I think of a museum with “craft” in its name, I usually imagine an institution focused on the past. San Francisco’s Museum of Craft and Design is different. Their mission is to “bring you the work of the hand, mind and heart“, and Bull.Miletic’s Proxistant Vision exhibition is a wonderful example of how their open definition of craft helps them find and promote startling new kinds of art. When I first walked into the gallery space I was underwhelmed. There were three rooms with projectors, but the footage they were showing was nearly monochrome and I didn’t feel much to connect with. I was intrigued by some of the rigs for the projectors though, with polyhedral mirrors and a cart that whirred strangely. I’m glad I had a little patience, because all of the works turned out to have their own life and animation beyond anything I’d seen before. o ⚓ Gabriel Sieben ☛ Font_analysis_suggests_Steven_Crowder’s_“media giant”_is_the_Daily_Wire⠀⇛ My bet is that there is a 90%+ chance it is DW, but I could be surprised. Maybe it isn’t DW, but two letters that it could also be, will be found. o ⚓ Positech Games ☛ Bad_news_for_consumerism:_Everything’s_good enough.⠀⇛ I am well aware of the history of the term ‘640k is enough for everyone’, so hold your horses in your excitement to post it as a ‘gotcha’ response. I would like to lay out a case for a big slowdown in consumer spending, and put it to you, the reader, that although often we are wrong when we predict such things, this is not always the case. We have not all rushed out and bought 3D TVs, as predicted. We did not all buy VR headsets. I have still only seen a single folding phone in the wild… I’m in the economically enviable position of having some spare cash which, in previous years I would probably have put towards buying some new thing that I coveted. Maybe a new TV, or phone, or gaming PC or laptop, or whatever. However, I am definitely noticing that this is slowing down, at least for me. Maybe this is an age thing? but maybe not… o ⚓ SICP ☛ Your_reminder_that_‘British_English’_and_“American English”_are_fictional_constructs_|_Structure_and_Interpretation_of Computer_Programmers⠀⇛ Low-stakes conspiracy theory: they were invented by word processing marketers to justify spell-check features that weren’t necessary. Evidence: the Oxford English Dictionary (Oxford being in Britain) entry for “-ise” suffix’s first sense is “A frequent spelling of -ize suffix, suffix forming verbs, which see.” So in a British dictionary, -ize is preferred. But in a computer, I have to change my whole hecking country to be able to write that! o § Science⠀➾ # ⚓ Sabine Hossenfelder ☛ Science_News_Jan_18⠀⇛ Today we’ll talk about climate engineering, quantum computers, how to tell a nuclear bomb from TNT, what an atom really looks like, random keys from cosmic rays, who is filing the most patents and on what, climate labels for food, a tractor beam that didn’t quite live up to my expectations. And of course, the telephone will ring. # ⚓ Sabine Hossenfelder ☛ The_Trouble(s)_With_Hydrogen⠀⇛ # ⚓ PC Mag ☛ Cambridge_University_Researchers_Develop_VR_Tool for_Cancer_Treatment_|_PCMag⠀⇛ Virtual reality software has become an unlikely tool in the fight against cancer. In a bid to help doctors better understand how to treat cancer, video game designers and cancer researchers have teamed up at the University of Cambridge, England, to turn spreadsheet data into highly detailed VR imagery of cancer cells, ITV reports(Opens in a new window). The university’s IMAXT Laboratory has transformed brain-crunching numbers and data into an interactive 3D picture of a tumor that makes it easy for researchers to differentiate between cancer cells, as each type of cell is colored or shaped differently. o § Education⠀➾ # ⚓ Netblocks ☛ Iran_disrupts_mobile_internet_access_during university_entrance_exams⠀⇛ Real-time NetBlocks metrics show that mobile networks have been disrupted for three hours on Thursday morning, while fixed-line services have remained largely unaffected. This class of disruption cannot be readily worked around using VPN services. The incident is consistent with a measure recently proposed by authorities to limit cheating in university entrance exams. Iran has frequently restricted access to online platforms during protests and has one of the most heavily censored networks globally. However, Iranian officials recently proposed the use of similar network disruptions to prevent cheating during university entrance exams, which are scheduled on 19 to 20 January. o § Hardware⠀➾ # ⚓ Tom’s Hardware ☛ AI-Generated_PC_Cases_Could_Give_Human Designers_Stiff_Competition⠀⇛ Our sample gallery of the AI-generated Mini ITX PCs embedded above features quite a few designs that are rather rotund. This isn’t a bias of the AI; instead, Hybective admits he has a fondness for Wheatley (the AI robot from the Portal franchise) and has wanted a spherical PC ever since casting eyes on the Games Sphere (a GameCube parody) in teen sitcom Drake & Josh. InWin showcased a very cool spherical PC a few years ago, showing that there are options, but admittedly not very many. # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Wii_Turned_Expansion_Card_For_Broadcast Monitor⠀⇛ For the proper retro gaming aesthetic, plenty of gamers look to old CRT displays. Older games can look better on these displays because the original programmers took their visual characteristics into account. Finding a CRT from the 90s or early 2000s is one option, but an even better option is a broadcast video monitor (BVM) which were extremely high quality CRTs with some other features, like the ability to install a Wii straight to an expansion port on the monitor itself (Nitter). # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ An_Unexpected_Amiga_Network_Interface⠀⇛ The retrocomputer enthusiast has increasingly to grapple with not only runaway computer prices but the astronomical cost of vintage peripherals. A welcome solution in some cases comes from the Raspberry Pi, which has proved itself fast enough to emulate those add-ons for a lot less outlay. A good one comes from [Niklas Ekström], who’s made a Pi-based network adapter for the Commodore Amiga 1200. Better still it doesn’t hog the main expansion port or the PCMCIA slot, instead it sits on the 1200’s rarely-used real-time-clock port. Software wise it uses an updated version of his earlier project for the Amiga 500. It provides access to the Pi command prompt, as well as a SANA driver and a mounted filesystem. # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Floppy_Photog:_Making_An_IR_Filter_From_A_3.5″ Disk⠀⇛ Sony used to sell digital cameras that recorded on actual floppy disks. We’ve come a long way, but [Mathieu] put a floppy in a digital camera recently for an entirely different reason. First, though, he had to modify the camera to work on the full spectrum, something he covered in an earlier video. You can see both videos, below. # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Robot_Collects_Ping_Pong_Balls_For_You⠀⇛ If you’ve ever played ping pong, table tennis, or beer pong, you know that it’s a struggle to hang on to the balls. [MaximeMonsieur] has designed a robot to handle picking them up so you don’t have to. # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Irreproducible,_Accumulative_Hacks⠀⇛ Last weekend, I made an incredibly accurate CNC pen-plotter bot in just 20 minutes, for a total expenditure of $0. How did I pull this off? Hacks accumulate. o § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾ # ⚓ Adafruit ☛ Why_Are_So_Many_People_Switching_On_Subtitles?⠀⇛ But, it turns out, lots of people with normal hearing are turning to CC just because they feel they’re missing too much dialog. In this Vox video, they talk to Austin Olivia Kendrick, a dialogue editor, to find out why modern movie/TV dialog can sometimes be hard to hear. # ⚓ [Old] Audubon Society ☛ A_New_App_Brings_Birdsong_Back_to People_With_High-Frequency_Hearing_Loss⠀⇛ A test revealed Elliott, then 27, had high- frequency hearing loss, a condition caused by loud sounds or aging that one study found may affect nearly a third of U.S. adults under 70. “I was missing this huge part of the world of birdsong, not to mention insects,” he says, a crushing realization for the budding wildlife ecologist. The severity of his hearing loss above a certain frequency—due to a childhood accident with firecrackers, he realized—meant conventional hearing aids, which amplify sounds, wouldn’t help. Frustrated by his options, Elliott turned his dismay into a decades-long journey of developing tools that help birders reclaim avian soundscapes. # ⚓ Copenhagen Post ☛ Fluorescence,_thy_name_is_woman!_Men_more likely_to_cycle_without_lights⠀⇛ According to the latest Kantar Public report for the Rådet for Sikker Trafik safety council, only a quarter of women have cycled without lights when it’s dark in the last year, compared to a third of men. # ⚓ NBC ☛ CDC_is_talking_to_airlines_about_wastewater_testing in_planes._New_reports_support_that_strategy.⠀⇛ A study published Thursday in the journal PLOS Global Public Health shows how this approach could be useful: A team of researchers from Bangor University in Wales found that the coronavirus circulated widely in wastewater from airports and planes in the U.K., even while Covid testing was required for unvaccinated passengers. # ⚓ Sign_up_for_a_virtual_screening_of_“Virulent:_The_Vaccine War”⠀⇛ Before I get back to a regular schedule of blogging here on my personal blog, I’d like to take a moment to promote something going on at a different blog that is near and dear to my heart. Regular readers know that I’m a prominent regular at a not-so- super-secret other blog. Basically, I’m referring to its hosting a virtual screening of Virulent: The Vaccine War a new documentary about vaccines, vaccine hesitancy, and the antivaccine movement. After this virtual screening, which will last from today to January 29, Steve Novella and I will be hosting a virtual Q&A, along with filmmakers director/producer Tjardus Greidanus and producer Laura Davis. The screening is also dedicated to the late Dr. Hall, whom we lost unexpectedly last week (and whose deaths antivaxxers have falsely targeted for their “died suddenly” conspiracy narrative). The details will follow at the end of this post, but first let me give a bit of background and tell you about the film. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ EPA_Plan_for_Forever_Chemical_Discharges ‘Lacks_the_Urgency’_Needed,_Watchdog_Says⠀⇛ The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s newly released plan for regulating wastewater pollution, including discharges of toxic “forever chemicals,” is far too muted and sluggish, a progressive advocacy group warned Friday. # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Report_Shows_“Vicious_Cycle”_Between_Pesticide Dependence_and_Climate_Crisis⠀⇛ o § Proprietary⠀➾ # ⚓ CoryDoctorow ☛ The_learned_helplessness_of_Pete_Buttigieg⠀⇛ The apocalyptic airline meltdown over the Christmas break stranded thousands of Americans, ruining their vacations and costing them a fortune in unexpected fees. It wasn’t just Southwest Airlines’ meltdown, either – as stranded fliers sought alternatives, airlines like AA raised the price of some domestic coach tickets to over $10,000. [...] But successive administrations have failed to act on those warnings. Under Obama and Trump, the DoT was content to let “the market” discipline the monopoly carriers, though both administrations were happy to wave through anticompetitive mergers that weakened the power of markets to provide that discipline. Obama waved through the United/ Continental merger and the Southwest/AirTran merger, while Trump waved through Virgin/Alaska. While these firms were allowed to privatize their gains, Uncle Sucker paid for their losses. Trump handed the airlines $54 billion in Covid relief, which the airlines squandered on stock buybacks and executive bonuses, while gutting their own employee rosters with early retirement buyouts… # ⚓ India Times ☛ 85%_of_organizations_attacked_by_ransomware at_least_once_in_the_last_12_months:_Report [iophk: Windows TCO]⠀⇛ According to the Veeam Data Protection Trends 2023 survey, businesses are confronted with more complex hybrid IT environments and are increasing budgets to combat cyberattacks and keep up as production environments diversify across various clouds. As a result, IT executives believe they are not adequately protected. # ⚓ Positech Games ☛ My_2_month_review_of_a_Tesla_model_Y performance_in_the_UK⠀⇛ I picked up my car about 2 months ago, so I’ve put some actual miles into it now, and can assess what I think of it. Previously I owned a Tesla model S 85D, which I had for about 7 years. That was an ‘autopilot v1’ car, so not as advanced technically. It also had radar (apparently) and ultrasonic parking sensors. Eventually, the software for the main screen started to glitch and bug me, so I upgraded it to a new screen, at my expense. I think it was £2k? it was definitely an upgrade worth doing. Anyway, I got sick of the length of that car, and wanted the latest autopilot tech and better range, so sold my model S privately and bought the model Y performance. I had to wait a year! but it arrived at the end of November. # ⚓ DaemonFC (Ryan Farmer) ☛ PornHub_Insights_for_2022_show Microsoft’s_Consumer_Division_in_Shambles.⠀⇛ Desktop PC usage is down 6% from 2021 to 2022, and Windows is only 64.7% of that. # ⚓ Roberto Frenna ☛ Using_a_custom_player_with_the_Cast Receiver_Framework⠀⇛ All of this clearly wasn’t enough to stop me and my intention to use hls.js. After a lot of trial and error, here’s my definitive manual on “How to circumvent the restrictions of the Cast Receiver Framework and use your own player”! # ⚓ Michał Woźniak ☛ I_want_a_fridge_that_won’t_join_a_botnet⠀⇛ I just want to be able to buy a damn refrigerator without worrying about it joining a botnet. Is that too much to ask? o § Pseudo-Open Source⠀➾ # § Openwashing⠀➾ # ⚓ Ars Technica ☛ Pioneering_Apple_Lisa_goes_“open source”_thanks_to_Computer_History_Museum_|_Ars Technica⠀⇛ As part of the Apple Lisa’s 40th birthday celebrations, the Computer History Museum has released the source code for Lisa OS version 3.1 under an Apple Academic License Agreement. With Apple’s blessing, the Pascal source code is available for download from the CHM website after filling out a form. o § Security⠀➾ # § Integrity/Availability/Authenticity⠀➾ # ⚓ SANS ☛ SPF_and_DMARC_use_on_100k_most_popular domains⠀⇛ In any case, the overall situation for the world’s most popular domains was, as I have hoped, significantly more optimistic than for the governmental domains we discussed in the aforementioned diary. Of the 100k most popular domains, almost 64.7% had valid and “reasonable” SPF records, which is not bad. On the other hand, 40 of these domains had a “+all” directive included in their SPF records, which basically means that their owners explicitly stated that any server is allowed to send e-mail on behalf of their domains… Which is somewhat unfortunate. # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ All_Your_Keys_Are_Belong_To_KeyDecoder⠀⇛ Physical security is often considered simpler than digital security since safes are heavy and physical keys take more effort to duplicate than those of the digital persuasion. [Maxime Beasse and Quentin Clement] have developed a smartphone app that can duplicate a key from a photo making key copying much easier. # § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾ # ⚓ Wesley Moore ☛ Hide_Sign_in_With_Google_Pop_Up⠀⇛ Inspired by Rach Smith’s post on using userstyles to hide YouTube shorts I came up with some CSS to hide those annoying Sign in with Google pop-ups. I never want to sign in with Google and use Firefox Multi-Account Containers to ensure that the bulk of my browsing is done without ever being signed in to a Google account. This means that I see a lot of these pop ups encouraging me to sign in, so Google can track me more. # ⚓ MWL ☛ Shipping_OMF⠀⇛ Data is like medical radioactives in the oncology ward; necessary, but I want as little of it as possible and must dispose of it safely. I have no desire for phone numbers. For some destinations, however, I must provide the carrier a recipient phone number before they’ll sell me postage. I have no way to tell if I’ll need a phone number until I try to buy postage. # ⚓ NYOB ☛ Just_€_5,5_Million_on_WhatsApp._DPC_finally gives_the_finger_to_EDPB.⠀⇛ As confirmed by the Irish DPC today, the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) has decided that Meta cannot force WhatsApp users to agree to the use of their data for “service improvements” and “security”. The core matter of data use for “the purposes of behavioural advertising, for marketing purposes, as well as for the provision of metrics to third parties and the exchange of data with affiliated companies ” were not dealt with by the Irish DPC – despite a binding decision of the EDPB that these matters must be investigated. The decision comes 4,5 years after the original complaints were filed by noyb, on Meta’s bypass of the GDPR via a clause in the terms and conditions. # ⚓ NYOB ☛ Irish_Data_Protection_Authority_gives_€_3.97 billion_present_to_Meta._Authority_allegedly_unable_to assess_financial_benefit_from_Meta’s_GDPR_violations.⠀⇛ On 04.01.2023, the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) announced a fine of € 390 million against Meta due to unlawful personalized advertising on Facebook and Instagram. A first analysis of the decisions now reveals that the DPC has turned a blind eye on the revenue generated from violating the GDPR when calculating its fine. This was despite a 2/3 majority vote of all EU authorities (the EDPB) having directed the Irish DPC to factor in Meta’s billions of Euro of ill-gotten revenue. The DPC’s maneuver saved Meta almost € 4 billion. # ⚓ Privacy International ☛ “MI5_data-management_system akin_to_the_‘wild_west’”⠀⇛ We argued that, based on MI5’s own disclosures, the agency had breached UK surveillance laws since at least 2010 and provided false information to unlawfully obtain bulk surveillance warrants against the public. Additionally, despite knowing of the breaches since at least 2016 at the highest levels, we argued that MI5 failed to report its breaches to the Home Office or other oversight bodies. In the course of our case against MI5, we even saw internal MI5 documents which referred to some of their internal data systems as “akin to the wild west places”. o § Defence/Aggression⠀➾ # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Defense_Ministry_announces_air_defense_drills_in the_Moscow_region._ISW_suspects_an_‘information_operation.’_— Meduza⠀⇛ Drills of Russia’s air defense systems took place in the Moscow region, according to the country’s Ministry of Defense. Crews of S-300 surface-to-air missile systems learned “to repel air attacks on important military, industrial, and administrative targets,” the ministry said. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Patriarch_Kirill_urges_priests_to_help_the_Russian military_more_—_Meduza⠀⇛ Patriarch Kirill of Moscow believes that the Russian Orthodox Church should do more to help the military, calling on congregations to “mobilize all their parishioners” in a speech published by the Moscow Patriarchate. o § Transparency/Investigative Reporting⠀➾ # ⚓ The Sleep Judge ☛ Crimes_that_Happen_While_You_Sleep⠀⇛ The unfortunate truth is that crime occurs all day, every day in the United States. But how safe are we really during the day versus the night? We analyzed reports to police during daylight (7 a.m. to 6:59 p.m.) and at night (7 p.m. to 6:59 a.m.) to find out. o § Environment⠀➾ # ⚓ RTL ☛ ‘Aquaman’_warns_Sundance_of_deep-sea_mining_peril⠀⇛ He is best known as hunky, sea-dwelling superhero “Aquaman,” but actor Jason Momoa brought a stark and sober warning about the perils of deep-sea mining to the Sundance film festival on Friday. The Hawaiian-born A-lister narrates “Deep Rising,” a new documentary about the frenzied efforts by resource-hungry corporations to scrape valuable metals from vast swathes of the Pacific floor. # § Energy/Transportation⠀➾ # ⚓ Securepairs ☛ With_eye_on_sustainability,_EU_agrees to_battery_regs_–_Week_in_Repair⠀⇛ As we put batteries in more products from consumer electronics to vehicles, battery regulations are crucial for slowing the emissions and extending device life spans. The new rules attempt to account for the true costs of battery production, including emissions from the extraction and processing of raw materials, the manufacturing of the battery, the transportation of the finished product, and the disposal or recycling of the battery at the end of its life. # ⚓ Zimbabwe ☛ US_signs_MOU_with_DRC_and_Zambia_for Cobalt_and_Copper_mining_and_processing_for_Electric Vehicle_batteries⠀⇛ DRC currently holds a majority of the world’s cobalt reserves at around 70% with Zambia coming in second in Africa. Zambia is also the world’s 6th largest copper producer. The MOU is stated to be entrusting the 2 African countries to work on a value chain that covers mining all the way to assembly. # ⚓ Science News ☛ Rare_earth_elements_could_be_pulled from_coal_waste⠀⇛ Rare earths are a valuable set of 17 elements needed to make everything from smartphones and electric vehicles to fluorescent bulbs and lasers. With global demand skyrocketing and China having a near-monopoly on rare earth production — the United States has only one active mine — there’s a lot of interest in finding alternative sources, such as ramping up recycling. Pulling rare earths from coal waste offers a two-for-one deal: By retrieving the metals, you also help clean up the pollution. # ⚓ Mexico News Daily ☛ US_$200_million_investment_in lithium-ion_battery_production_in_Nuevo_León⠀⇛ Cenntro Automotive México, an importer and distributor for the New Jersey-based electric vehicle manufacturer Cenntro Electric Group, will make lithium-ion batteries at a plant in the OMA VYNMSA Aeroindustrial Park at the Monterrey International Airport. # § Wildlife/Nature⠀➾ # ⚓ Futurism ☛ Dolphins_Are_Screaming_Because_of Underwater_Drilling_Noise,_Scientists_Say⠀⇛ Published recently in the journal Current Biology, a new paper out of the Dolphin Research Center in the Florida Keys studied a pair of dolphins named Delta and Reese, who the marine biologists outfitted with recording tags to determine how their communication changed in response to different loud sounds that they piped into their pool via speakers. In the wild and in captivity, dolphins communicate with each other through a variety of sonic tricks including echolocation and those adorable clicks and whistles humans love so much. When introduced to noises akin to the kind of loud drilling done by the military, oil, and shipping industries in the experiment, the pair would lengthen their calls and make them louder to try to be heard over the noise. In short: they were shouting, or screaming, to be heard by one another — and often, they weren’t successful. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Dolphins_Can_Shout_Underwater,_but It’s_Never_Loud_Enough⠀⇛ Researchers in the past have observed wild dolphins changing their behavior when boats are around. For instance, scientists in Australian waters observed fewer dolphins, as the number of dolphin-watching tourist boats increased. But no one had yet investigated how anthropogenic sounds can muck up animals’ ability to cooperate. “It’s usually really hard to do these kinds of studies in the wild,” said Mauricio Cantor, a behavioral ecologist at Oregon State University in Newport who wasn’t part of the study. But the experimental setup used by Ms. Sørensen’s team provided “clear evidence for the effect of noise,” he said, because the researchers could control for most everything that could interfere with their results. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Outrage_as_Biden_Admin_Refuses_to Shield_Right_Whales_From_Lethal_Vessel_Strikes⠀⇛ The Biden administration on Friday denied an emergency petition aimed at protecting critically endangered North Atlantic right whales from being struck and killed by ships in their calving grounds off the southeastern coast of the United States. o § Finance⠀➾ # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Can_a_Discharge_Petition_Save_Economy_From GOP_Hostage-Taking_Over_Debt_Ceiling?⠀⇛ We knew this was coming. # ⚓ John Gruber ☛ Google_Is_Laying_of_12,000_Employees_(6 Percent_of_Workforce)⠀⇛ There are numerous reasons the tech industry wound up at this layoffpalooza, but I think the main reason is that the biggest companies got caught up in a game where they tried to hire everyone, whether they needed them or not, to keep talent away from competitors and keep talent away from small upstarts (or from founding their own small upstarts). These big companies were just hiring to hire, and now the jig is up. # ⚓ Google ☛ A_difficult_decision_to_set_us_up_for_the_future⠀⇛ I have some difficult news to share. We’ve decided to reduce our workforce by approximately 12,000 roles. We’ve already sent a separate email to employees in the US who are affected. In other countries, this process will take longer due to local laws and practices. # ⚓ Major_Layoffs_Reported_At_Amazon_And_ComiXology⠀⇛ Today, there are significant redundancies and firing occurring at Amazon, with executives sending statements to staff. This included staff members at the digital comic book publisher and distributor ComiXology, acquired by Amazon and later integrated into the main Amazon site, with reports of up to 50% layoffs. Former ComiXology CEO and co-founder David Steinberger, who sold ComiXology to Amazon, tweeted, “Feeling for the @comiXology and @amazon folks being cut today. Super talented folks that will land on their feet, for sure, but today it just sucks. Reach out if I can be useful.” The other ComiXology co-founder, John D. Roberts, added, “Saddened to hear of all the cuts at @comiXology and @amazon. The crew at comiXology are some of the best people I ever worked with, this is truly a loss. Happy to help if I can so please, feel free to reach out” # ⚓ CNBC ☛ Google,_Microsoft,_Amazon_and_other_tech_companies have_laid_off_more_than_70,000_employees_in_the_last_year⠀⇛ CEO Elon Musk wrote in an email to all employees that the company was cutting 10% of salaried workers. The Wall Street Journal estimated the reductions would affect about 6,000 employees, based on public filings. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Kenneth_Rogoff,_former_Chief_Economist_of_the_IMF: Russia_faces_‘incredible_poverty’_from_international sanctions_—_Meduza⠀⇛ Harvard professor and former Chief Economist of the International Monetary Fund Kenneth Rogoff spoke about international sanctions against Russia at the World Economic Forum in Davos, where he said he believes sanctions have already had a significant effect on the Russian economy. Furthermore, he believes that in the future Russians will face “incredible poverty, compared to what [they’ve] become accustomed to.”  # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ As_the_Public_Focuses_on_Book_Bans,_the_Right_Is Quietly_Defunding_Libraries⠀⇛ # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Iowa_GOP_Pushes_“Profoundly_Cruel_and_Petty” Food_Benefit_Restrictions⠀⇛ o § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾ # ⚓ Computer World ☛ Google’s_parent_company_Alphabet_to_cut 12,000_jobs⠀⇛ In the email, which has since been uploaded as a blog post, Pichai said the company will be paying affected employees at least 16 weeks of severance and six months of health benefits in the US, with other regions receiving packages based on local laws and practices. # ⚓ CBC ☛ Tech_layoffs_mount_—_but_skilled_workers_are_still hard_to_find⠀⇛ Nadella took the company “from 60,000 employees to 220,000. So, they are cutting back on 10,000, which is not too surprising,” said Zukin. # ⚓ Hearst Communications ☛ Commentary:_New_York_got_it_wrong on_cybersecurity_and_the_right_to_repair⠀⇛ As they have done on the road to burying more than 100 proposed pieces of repair legislation in 40 states since 2014, anti-repair groups argued – without evidence – that such information, if made available to owners and independent repair providers, would lead to cyberattacks and the theft of consumer data. Had the governor and her staff had no other information to guide them in making their decision, we might forgive them for erring on the side of caution. But the governor and her staff knew that the manufacturers’ arguments were bogus. I should know: My group told them. I am the founder of SecuRepairs, an organization of more than 300 IT and cybersecurity professionals who support the right to repair. In written communications and in a face-to-face briefing with the governor’s staff in October, SecuRepairs informed the governor’s staff that the proposed language preventing the disabling of software locks that prevent repair would have no bearing on the cybersecurity of covered devices. Instead, it masked efforts by manufacturers to put themselves in the position of deciding who can and cannot service and repair their products. # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Texas_GOP_Seeks_to_Override_Local_Prosecutors Who_Oppose_“Voter_Fraud”_Agenda⠀⇛ # ⚓ Engadget ☛ Twitter’s_new_developer_terms_ban_third-party clients⠀⇛ In case there was any doubt about Twitter’s intentions in cutting off the developers of third- party apps, the company has quietly updated its developer agreement to make clear that app makers are no longer permitted to create their own clients. The “restrictions” section of Twitter’s developer agreement was updated Thursday with a clause banning “use or access the Licensed Materials to create or attempt to create a substitute or similar service or product to the Twitter Applications.” The addition is the only substantive change to the 5,000-word agreement. The change confirms what the makers of many popular Twitter clients have suspected in recent days: that third-party Twitter services are no longer permitted under Elon Musk’s leadership. Twitter previously said it was “enforcing long- standing API rules,” but hadn’t cited which rules developers were violating. The company no longer has a communications team, and most staffers working on its developer platform were also cut during the company’s mass layoffs last year. # ⚓ Iconfactory ☛ Twitterrific:_End_of_an_Era_•_The_Breakroom⠀⇛ Twitterrific has been discontinued. A sentence that none of us wanted to write, but have long felt would need to be written someday. We didn’t expect to be writing it so soon, though, and certainly not without having had time to notify you that it was coming. We are sorry to say that the app’s sudden and undignified demise is due to an unannounced and undocumented policy change by an increasingly capricious Twitter – a Twitter that we no longer recognize as trustworthy nor want to work with any longer. Since 2007, Twitterrific helped define the shape of the Twitter experience. It was the first desktop client, the first mobile client, one of the very first apps in the App Store, an Apple Design award winner, and it even helped redefine the word “tweet” in the dictionary. Ollie, Twitterrific’s bluebird mascot, was so popular it even prompted Twitter themselves to later adopt a bluebird logo of their very own. Our little app made a big dent on the world! # ⚓ John Gruber ☛ There’s_Weak_Sauce,_and_Then_There’s_Weak Sauce⠀⇛ That’s the entirety of the tweet, and that tweet is the only comment the company has made. Give them a point for brevity, I suppose, but there’s literally no one on the planet who believes a word of this. Third-party clients weren’t violating any existing rules, and there’s no “may” about the fact that they stopped working because Twitter revoked their authorization credentials. If there was some way they could show even less respect for third-party client developers and users, they found it. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Manchin-Romney_Attack_on_Social_Security_Is ‘Last_Thing_We_Need’:_Sanders⠀⇛ Progressive Sen. Bernie Sanders on Saturday slammed right-wing Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin’s widely panned proposal to explore slashing Social Security benefits as part of a debt ceiling pact with Republicans. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Freedom_for_Navalny,_the_Hague_for_Putin_Rallies in_support_of_Alexey_Navalny_and_other_political_prisoners took_place_in_cities_all_over_the_world_—_Meduza⠀⇛ In January 2023, Alexey Navalny’s associates announced the launch of a #FreeNavalny campaign, with the goal of uniting “the efforts of people around the world” to secure his release. January 20 and January 21 saw rallies in various countries in support of the imprisoned politician and other Russian political prisoners. Demonstrators also protested against the war in Ukraine. # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Activists_Call_for_Mass_Rallies_on_Sunday_to Protest_Abortion_Bans⠀⇛ # § Misinformation/Disinformation/Propaganda⠀➾ # ⚓ Digital Music News ☛ TikTok_Uses_a_Secret_‘Heating Button’_to_Drive_Viral_Trends,_Investigative_Report Finds⠀⇛ Both members of the music community and content creators have long sought to ignite viral trends on TikTok. But the impact of these efforts – and the idea that virality is dependent entirely upon content and timing – has now come into question, as the platform allegedly uses a secret “heating” button to inflate certain videos’ view counts. # ⚓ The Conversation ☛ How_to_talk_to_someone_about conspiracy_theories_in_five_simple_steps⠀⇛ But research into how to talk with conspiracy believers is beginning to show returns. We’ve developed some conversation prompts to use with people you know or only meet in passing. But first, if you want to address someone’s conspiracy beliefs you need to consider the root causes. People are attracted to conspiracy theories in an attempt to satisfy three psychological needs. They want more certainty, to feel in control, and maintain a positive image of their self and group. During times of crisis, such as the COVID pandemic, these needs are more frustrated and people’s desire to make sense of the world becomes more urgent. o § Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾ # ⚓ Jerusalem Post ☛ India_censors_BBC_documentary_that ‘questioned_Narendra_Modi’s_leadership’⠀⇛ India has blocked the airing of a BBC documentary that questioned Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s leadership during the 2002 Gujarat riots, saying that even sharing of any clips via social media is barred. Directions to block the clips from being shared have been issued using emergency powers available to the government under the country’s information technology rules, said Kanchan Gupta, an adviser to the government, on his Twitter handle on Saturday. # ⚓ Futurism ☛ Journalist_Critical_of_Elon_Musk_Allegedly Shadowbanned_on_Twitter⠀⇛ In other words, by Monacelli’s count, it appears that the Elon Musk-owned Twitter intentionally throttled Klippenstein’s account, likely in response to Klippenstein’s criticism of the Musk- owned Tesla. If true: yikes. # ⚓ Democracy for the Arab World Now ☛ Bahrain:_Free_Academic Dr._Abduljalil_Al-Singace_on_61st_Birthday_After_12_Years_in Detention⠀⇛ 15 January 2023 marked Dr. Abduljalil Al-Singace’s 61st birthday, and his twelfth year spent in detention. DAWN joins rights groups calling on the King, Crown Prince and Prime Minister of Bahrain to release Al-Singace, alongside other prisoners detained and sentenced for exercising their right to freedom of expression. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Belarus_Repatriates_Russian_Rights_Activist_To Moscow_After_Two-Week_Jail_Sentence⠀⇛ She was taken into custody in a courtroom in Minsk on January 6 and sentenced to 15 days in jail on administrative charges of petty hooliganism for allegedly streaming and taking photos of the proceedings against four Vyasna (Spring) activists, including Nobel Peace Prize laureate Ales Byalyatski. # ⚓ Open Democracy ☛ Reporting_on_Kazakhstan’s_chaos_amid_ [Internet]_shutdowns_and_violence⠀⇛ Upon the announcement, on 5 January, of a state of emergency across the country, Kazakhstan’s [Internet] connection, which had been interrupted at times also in the previous days, was switched off. At this point, most websites, including news outlets, went offline. Reporting from the ground became almost impossible, because emails and messages could not get through – and telephone service became sporadic. o § Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press⠀➾ # ⚓ RFERL ☛ West_Concerned_Over_Recent_Attacks_Against Journalists_In_Kazakhstan⠀⇛ In a joint statement on January 20, the embassies of the two countries and the 27-nation bloc expressed solidarity with journalists who were either attacked or intimidated and called on the Kazakh government to thoroughly investigate each incident and bring all responsible individuals to justice. o § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾ # ⚓ Teen Vogue ☛ Noncompete_Clauses:_What_Are_They_and_How_Is the_FTC_Trying_to_Ban_Them?⠀⇛ The FTC’s proposal is urgently needed. Noncompetes — employment contract provisions that prohibit workers from getting a job with competitors or those deemed to be competitors for a certain period — are terribly harmful to workers and the economy as a whole. Once upon a time, they were used sparingly in contracts for high-level executives. Still, increasingly, they’re imposed as a non- negotiable condition of employment on a far wider range of workers, including sandwich makers, baristas, journalists, janitors, and sometimes even interns. The FTC’s explanation for the proposed rule describes in excruciating detail just how harmful noncompetes are: For starters, they decrease workers’ job mobility, suppress wages, and hinder entrepreneurialism and the creation of new businesses. # ⚓ Spiegel ☛ A_Look_at_Iran’s_Protest_Movement_Four_Months On⠀⇛ All of the death sentences against demonstrators have been handed down without even a hint of due process, with some resting on confessions extracted under torture. Some verdicts have been changed just as arbitrarily. Iran’s regime-loyal judiciary grants both death and resurrection. Their motto seems to be: Be afraid and you may hope. # ⚓ [Old] Night Gallery ☛ “Hatred_is_Not_the_Norm”:_For_a_1964 Multi-Faith_Civil_Rights_Rally,_Serling_Pens_“A_Most_Non- Political_Speech”⠀⇛ Hatred is not the norm. Prejudice is not the norm. Suspicion, dislike, jealousy, and scapegoating — none of these things is the transcendent facet of the human personality. They are the diseases. They are the cancers of the soul. They are the infectious and contagious viruses that have bled humanity over the years. But because they have been and are, is it necessary that they shall be?xs [...] Horace Mann said, “Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.” Let’s paraphrase that tonight. Let us be ashamed to live without that victory. # ⚓ CBC ☛ Goodbye,_dark_sky._The_stars_are_rapidly_disappearing from_our_night_sky⠀⇛ To put it in perspective, the authors noted that someone born in an area where 250 stars could be seen would see fewer than 100 in the same place 18 years later. # ⚓ Variety ☛ Sundance_Jury_Walks_Out_of_‘Magazine_Dreams’ Premiere_After_Festival_Fails_to_Provide_Captioning_for_Juror Marlee_Matlin_(EXCLUSIVE)⠀⇛ According to multiple sources, the jury has repeatedly expressed concerns to both Sundance and filmmakers that movies playing at this year’s festival should come with open captions. At other international festivals, including Cannes and Venice, movies are captioned in multiple languages on the screen. This year’s application for credentials to Sundance asked attendees if they needed access to captioning. However, multiple sources state that several filmmakers have declined the request to provide open captions onscreen, citing the costs and time associated with making another print. Sources say that some buyers even suggested that including captions onscreen could somehow hurt the film’s asking prices on the market as they try to land distribution. # ⚓ FAIR ☛ ‘We_Live_in_a_New_World_Where_Accountability_Barely Exists’⠀⇛ Janine Jackson interviewed the Lever‘s David Sirota about accountability journalism for the January 13, 2023, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript. o § Digital Restrictions (DRM)⠀➾ # ⚓ Hollywood Reporter ☛ Netflix_to_Crack_Down_on_Account Sharing_“More_Broadly”_in_the_First_Quarter⠀⇛ “Part of it is what we call casual sharing, which is people could pay, but they don’t need to and so they’re borrowing somebody’s account. So our job is to give them a little bit of a nudge and to create features that make transitioning to their own account easy and simple,” he said. o § Monopolies⠀➾ # ⚓ IT Wire ☛ Top_Indian_court_rebuffs_Google_attempt_to_get Android_ruling_changed⠀⇛ The CCI has told Google that it should not link the licensing of Play Store to the installation of apps like Chrome and YouTube. # ⚓ India Times ☛ Google_vows_to_cooperate_with_India_antitrust authority_after_Android_ruling⠀⇛ The Competition Commission of India (CCI) ruled in October that Google, owned by Alphabet Inc, exploited its dominant position in Android and told it to remove restrictions on device makers, including those related to pre-installation of apps and ensuring exclusivity of its search. It also fined Google $161 million. On Thursday, Google lost a challenge in the Supreme Court to block the directives, getting seven days to comply. # ⚓ Computer World ☛ Apple_appeals_UK_probe,_but_is_it_just buying_time?⠀⇛ The iPhone maker’s legal team argues that the probe should be reviewed, arguiing it missed timing requirements to launch an investigation, Reuters explains. Then UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) will continue to look into the matter while defending its decision. The CMA argues that the investigation aims to give UK consumers more choice while providing developers with more opportunity to innovate. It also notes that 97% of all UK mobile web browsing relies on either Apple’s or Google’s browser engines. # § Copyrights⠀➾ # ⚓ LIBER ☛ The_Fundamental_Right_to_Education_and Science:_Constitutional_Law_vs_Copyright_Law⠀⇛ This is of particular significance given that the right to science, unlike EU copyright law, is a right that extends to all forms of scientific activity – both commercial and non-commercial. Compared to other regions where copyright regulation of research and scientific progress is agnostic to its source, copyright laws to support digital and data-driven innovation in Europe often seems to equate innovation only with the private sector. Despite many cutting-edge technologies and biomedical discoveries originating in universities (e.g., the internet, human genome project, artificial intelligence, etc.), when looking at the recent set of EU digital legislation, universities and other public sector bodies are either entirely forgotten from an innovation perspective or treated, at best, as an after-thought. Thus, it appears that all too often the European legislator believes innovation is something exclusive to the private sector. The European University Association highlights this in response to the European Commission’s New Innovation Agenda: “This stems from a conceptualisation of innovation which is far too conventional to truly capture what Europe does best as an innovator and to legitimise the most appropriate measures for improving its performance.” >In this context, the rejection by the Finnish Parliament’s Constitutional Law Committee (Perustuslakivaliokunta) of the government CDSM draft on the grounds that aspects of the transposition conflicted with the Finnish Constitution is hugely significant. Not only in its findings did the Committee reference freedom of expression, but in its negative evaluation of the draft education and data mining exceptions, particularly §16 of the Finnish Constitution “Educational Rights” (Sivistykselliset oikeudet) was cited. We believe this ruling matters and has national and international significance. The right to access scientific knowledge and to participate in its development (also called “the right to science”) is enshrined in Article 27.1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Further, Article 13 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union protects the freedom of the sciences, and Article 14 protects the right to education. # ⚓ [Old] Creative Commons ☛ European_Court_Renders Judgment_in_Polish_Challenge_to_Art_17⠀⇛ Today, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) delivered its long-awaited and highly anticipated judgment in Case C-401/19. The case addresses the Polish challenge regarding compliance of Article 17 of the 2019 Directive on copyright and related rights in the Digital Single Market 2019/790 (CDSM) with fundamental rights. In short, the court ruled that Article 17 is valid and compatible with fundamental rights (see official press release and judgment). In this blog post, we offer an overview of Article 17, briefly analyze the CJEU judgment, and provide general comments. # ⚓ [Old] Louder Than War ☛ Tommy_James:_“The_Soul_of_the Sixties”⠀⇛ “We still have the fans and God bless them. The country music used to do that. They had this multi-generational fan base. I get asked so many times by young bands,, “what do we do?” You can set your hair on fire and not get any attention. I am amazed how difficult it is to make any noise today. Nobody’s paying attention. I tell them to forget record companies for right now and to go to publishing companies. I tell them to write their own music, record about 10 of their songs, and do them well, and go to a publisher.” # ⚓ CBC ☛ The_original_Bambi_isn’t_kid’s_stuff_—_and_it carries_significant_lessons_for_today⠀⇛ Salten sold the film rights for the book to American director Sidney Franklin in 1933 for $1,000, who then sold it to Disney. Salten “did not gain much” from Disney’s animated adaptation, Zipes writes, though he did live “comfortably” until his death in 1945. Zipes doesn’t mince words about what he thinks of Disney’s version supplanting the public awareness of Salten’s work — which was incredibly popular in its own right, selling more than 650,000 copies before the film’s release in 1942. “I was ashamed for the Disney corporation to have made such an idyllic, stupid film out of a very serious novel that children could have understood,” he told The Sunday Magazine. “The ideology is so, let us say reactionary, that this film should be banned from the world.” # ⚓ Digital Music News ☛ IFPI_Touts_‘The_First_Successful Blocking_Action_Targeting_Stream_Ripping_Sites_In India’_—_20_Platforms_Blocked⠀⇛ Bearing in mind the stat and the steps that each major label took in 2022 to broaden its reach in India, the IFPI and Mumbai’s IMI said today that the Delhi High Court had ordered internet service providers (ISPs) “to block access to 20 stream ripping sites.” These 20 websites racked up a cumulative 500 million or so visits from India-based individuals last year, per the IFPI, with a total of 73 percent of the country’s internet users having utilized “unlicensed or illegal ways to listen to music.” # ⚓ Torrent Freak ☛ Report_Urges_Cloudflare_to_Terminate Accounts_of_Pirate_Sites⠀⇛ A new whitepaper released by brand protection company Corsearch shows that half of all the pirate sites it flagged use Cloudflare’s services. The Internet infrastructure company clearly stands out and should do more to address the issue, the report suggests. Banning domains that are removed or demoted by Google could be a good start, Corsearch notes. # ⚓ Ruben Schade ☛ AI,_music,_and_valuing_art⠀⇛ What message does that send to artists? Are we okay with that? I’m not. * § Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾ o § Personal⠀➾ # ⚓ 🔤SpellBinding:_ACDPYSR_Wordo:_RUSSE⠀⇛ # ⚓ Realizing_you_already_live_pretty_tiny⠀⇛ I’ll peel back the curtain a bit and say I’ve never owned a home. I’m not sure I ever really _want_ to in this kind of economy. I am leery of going into that much debt (because that’s all a mortgage is and until yours is paid off that house is _not_ yours); however, I’m even more sensitive to the implication that I’m tied to that spot and am stuck with that commitment until I get it sold or paid off. Considering that for the last 4 or 5 years my wife and I have moved pretty regularly, seemingly at least once a year.. the absence of a sense of permanence has led me to have a mentality of “well does it matter if we do X modification to the dwelling or get Y appliance? We’re only here for (probably a year).” Not only that, it’s resulted in our used living space being pretty small. # ⚓ Bad_Movie_Night⠀⇛ Everyone loves watching movies with their friends and family, right? Well imagine what those nights would be like if you picked the worst of the worst! Those B movies where you can see the fishing line in every space ship scene. The classic sci-fi flicks with plot holes so big you can drive an SUV through them. Sound terrible? o § Technical⠀➾ # ⚓ tl;dr_the_redo_build_system⠀⇛ I really like using `redo` as my build script for all my non-work projects. Its simple, flexible and works well. # ⚓ Unix_Is_Spawning_Programs_Weirdly⠀⇛ Since standard input has been read from, and is a pipe not connected to a terminal, what we want is some way to connect our program with a terminal. This may not be possible, e.g. after setsid(2) and a “double fork” but here we will assume that some terminal is available if only we could get to it. At least two methods are possible; the newterm(3x) call could be used instead of initscr(3x), or we could close standard input, open the terminal, and then call initscr as per usual. open(2) uses the lowest available file descriptor number, and if we close standard input, the terminal should be where initscr(3x) wants it to be. # ⚓ A_build_system_for_those_who_hate_build_systems⠀⇛ I’m a developer by trade. A developer with a focus on getting the most work done with the least amount of effort possible (lazy much?). My goal at any job is to get to the point where a good portion of my daily mundane work is automated which leaves me time to focus more on the tasks that require my actual attention and skills. Depending on the role and the type of work, I’ve been able to streamline this process. I will setup a system where all of the prep work is done by someone else, Marketing for example, and the deliverable they provide slides right into the automation and out pops the solution. To me the development of these types of systems is time well spent. An added benefit of focusing on automation is that I can use the same skill in other aspects of my life. # § Internet/Gemini⠀➾ # ⚓ Ruario’s_Journal⠀⇛ Well… it worked! If you look at Antenna right now, my link is there =============================================================================== * Gemini_(Primer) links can be opened using Gemini_software. 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