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This time I installed LibRedirect and had it forward me to piped.video whenever I click on a YouTube link. Google has been adopting code for “experiments” to block users running ad blockers from using YouTube at all, giving them an ultimatum sort of like those annoying “Admiral” pop ups that appear on some sites when you’re just trying to get a recipe. YouTube’s site is full of junk and other obnoxious crap, like automatically playing unrelated videos that I did not ask to see, so that it can run more ads in a video I did not request. If they ever develop a system I can’t bypass, I simply won’t watch YouTube links anymore. Four or five ads per video, many unskippable, are simply not worth it. They’ll destroy the platform trying to get people to watch ads. Moreover, there’s always someone with a loud obnoxious piece of shit phone that has ads blaring out of the speaker now and they fumble around trying to use the “one button” idiot interface to make it stop, then they look around like ‘MY, where did that come from?”. And since Google can’t be bothered to profile their own site code (Why? Chrome can just split the garbage up and run it on all your processors!) trying to use YouTube in SeaMonkey (outside of DuckDuckGo or going directly to a Piped instance that Google is trying to shut down) stalls SeaMonkey out and then I have my ChatZilla, Mail, and other tabs unusable until I hit “Wait” a few times from GNOME detecting a hung application. 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇:/⦈ Before “Polymer”, which was the bloated and shitty “New Reddit” of YouTube, it did everything it does now that I wanted to use it for fine on most any Web browser. Bloat on top of bloat on top of garbage, with a side of bloat. I get it that they want to stop taking huge losses (YouTube never made a profit when Google broke it all out and likely still doesn’t) but attacking users is not the right thing to do here. There are a lot of smart people who don’t work for Google who will figure out a way around this. Google has proven that they can’t be trusted with the Web. If their “Web Environment Integrity” proposal gains support from major Web sites it will be the end of the Web unless you’re using Edge, Safari, or Chrome, and it’s doubtful that any of the browsers trusted by these companies will work on Linux. Moreover, WEI will certainly be used by governments, starting with the United States, to enforce the usage of software and operating systems that they know they have put backdoors into. The user will no longer be able to say “I can examine the code of GNOME Web and I don’t think that anything malicious exists in this browser.” because it simply won’t be allowed into the Web sites that use WEI. No Free Software browser will. WEI is the ultimate “clipper_chip”. The United States government has been trying to sabotage computer security and replacing it with something it can monitor since the 1990s. This concept isn’t new. But once WEI browsers are all that can access the Web, then even communications that are End-to-End encrypted will come through on browsers that have backdoors in them. Even if the site you use isn’t spying on you, your browser and operating system certainly will. Communist countries only wish they had this sort of power. The adoption of WEI is being pushed immediately after the US federal government started paying_for the_Internet_accounts_of_millions_of_people. (Yeah, let ’em pay your Internet bill, but use Linux and a good VPN and Tor! Why? Because everyone should use these if they are an Internet user in the United States! Of course!) I believe that the timing is too coincidental to be a coincidence. They want people on the Web, as they build in the devices to trap them, spy on them, and blast propaganda at them. If Google succeeds with WEI, we may even find that browsers that use it are enforced by the OS or the ISP, which are sitting at a higher level blocking alternative protocols. Even if they leave other protocols alone and allow you to browse with _something_ on Linux, it will be like some horrible new “Secure_Boot” for trying to entrap people on Windows, only now it will decide who can use online bill pay and shopping and watch YouTube videos that Google did not even create, got for free, and sticks ads in. I have no confidence that any government officials in the United States will stop Google. If they were going to, they’d have done it. Maybe Europe will fine them and then give them a license to continue. They like taking hundreds of millions of dollars from US tech companies, because Europe is a rotting festering pile of kleptocracies in union. But just like the “browser choice” or “Windows N” didn’t get in the way of Microsoft (because it was all about the money), the EU will give Google a pass once the right “price” is determined. Roy posted an article that shows that the Web peaked in 2018 and then started to come crashing down. The interesting stuff is all things Google deletes due to governments not wanting people to know about it or copyright trolls telling them delete the entire Web why not. I don’t even use Google anymore. It performs too poorly as far as quality of results. It actually returned better results in 2005. It’s not about the quality of results anymore. Around the time Google announced that they were Alphabet was when they became extremely malicious. They went from a kind of goofy “chocolate factory” as people phrased it to being like “If Facebook ran a search engine.”. It’s a surveillance monster full of ads and propaganda, designed to keep you glued on their own sites. Now is the time for users, the public, competitors of Google, to take action. Everyone needs to stop what they are doing and file complaints with their government officials and authorities. Competitors of Google should sue Google in court to get them to agree to stop this before it becomes entrenched and their businesses are ruined. The Web needs to be too big for one country or company to control or it will not be the Web anymore. Mozilla is obviously a thrall of Google, but they still do have competitors, like Opera, Vivaldi, and Brave, whose products could definitely be locked out (even though they are based on Chrome) and whose businesses could be ruined, unilaterally, by Google. As individuals, we also need to replace Chrome. You can export your data to other browsers that do not support WEI and which have stated, on the record, that they will not support WEI. It will be harder for Web sites to demand WEI if users will not go along with it quietly. As for YouTube, I really do appreciate Piped, but Google is like some sort of polymorphic virus that figures out how to use code and lawyers to control the user. Their new “You are not allowed to use YouTube with an ad blocker.” is just revolting. The browser used to be a “User Agent”, the user told the browser how to display the site and then that’s what was happening. I was talking to Roy Schestowitz about how Canonical/Ubuntu (now a sockpuppet of Microsoft and doesn’t even hide it) gave the SeaMonkey package the knife over a decade ago, when it ran everything on the Web as well as Firefox because there hadn’t been much divergence yet. The way Ubuntu rationalized getting rid of the SeaMonkey package was defamatory. [The way I recall it.] Typical Ubuntu. Make up bullshit defamatory reasons for deleting the package. Don’t consider user input. Ban everyone who comments bywhacking_them_with_MAH_HUGE_CoC! One of the specific [in my opinion] defamatory accusations [that I recall] was that it was neglected, rotting, and not getting security updates upstream. None of which has ever been true. It gets security updates. It is developed. [The user can even make it more secure and functional with add-ons and Preferences and about:config toggles.] It still builds fine, even with Clang 16. [My current about: buildconfig says 16.0.6 on Fedora for Clang version, using C99 and C++ 2014 and compile time binary hardening for security.] SeaMonkey has less of those “features” that are the cause of so much attack surface in Firefox. I use “features” liberally here. Most of it is GULAGshit that they just dump into the browser that very nearly nobody uses, which hands sites more ways to run binary programs and get at your graphics card, memory, camera, and microphone. Also, bluetooth devices, the file system(!), and telling them if you’re present at the computer or not. Web MIDI, Web Bluetooth, FileSystem API, Battery Status, User Presence! You know, FEATURES! BEAUTIFUL LOVELY FEATURES! -Me on TechRights IRC By the logic of deleting things that allegedly don’t get security updates, they should delete Firefox and Chromium for adding more vulnerabilities than they patch in almost every release. Yes, it is up to an OS vendor what they want to do for a default Web browser, but pretending like this garbage is “secure” when you have to take on ~15 CVEs for every 10-12 they fix is puerile nonsense. 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August has just begun and the first geese already are heading south. The nights are unusually chill and the days mostly windy and rainy. Better hope that the upcoming winter won’t be a strong one, as the last one was exceptionally warm. # ⚓ Watching_the_second_hand_tick⠀⇛ Two-hour performance a couple hours from now at an old haunt: a beautiful second floor deck overlooking one of the world’s biggest lakes. Once upon a time we were “in good” with a restaurateur that provided the venue food (fantastic Mediterranean cuisine), so we had a nearly weekly gig there one summer – never mind free drinks. No wonder I can’t remember for shit anymore…. 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇;-)⦈ Actually, he was one of the first people we met when we were new to this town. We were in walking distance to a weekly farmers’ market, so we’d wheel the equipment there on a hand truck. We happened to be placed next to his table. The rest is all kinds of wonderful history. # ⚓ the_collectible_vodka_&_catcher_in_the_rye⠀⇛ i’m not sure what exactly triggered this memory from my childhood a few minutes ago but let me tell you a weird thing. there was a small room in our house that wasn’t occupied by anyone for a long time. we literally called it “the small room” and used it as storage of random stuff from all around the house. i eventually cleaned it up and started using it as a hang out place for myself where i’d tinker with software, linux, watch the british tv series “skins” (the only thing made for teenagers i enjoyed back then) and just be alone. # ⚓ Vocal_lessons,_preparations⠀⇛ I just finished a vocal lesson and have been working on preparing for a few events. The lesson was great, it confirmed my suspicion: I sing from my sternum too often, especially in higher registers. I need to take advantage of the diaphragm for support, and I need to open my jaw a little more so the sound is fuller. # ⚓ Fraser,_Nancy,_and_Rahel_Jaeggi._Capitalism:_A_Conversation in_Critical_Theory._Polity,_2018_(Verso,_2023).⠀⇛ social reproduction as “the creation, socialization, and subjectivation of human beings more generally, in all their aspects. It also includes the making and remaking of culture, of the various swaths of intersubjectivity that human beings inhabit – the solidarities, social meanings, and value horizons in and through which they live and breathe.” (32) Historically, the split between “productive” waged labor and “reproductive” unwaged labor has underpinned modern capitalist forms of women’s subordination. (33) all capitalist societies entrench a tendency to social-reproductive crisis – over and above the tendency to economic crisis theorized by Marx. … this strand of crisis is grounded in a structural contradiction – in the fact that the capitalist economy simultaneously relies on and tends to destabilize its own social-reproductive conditions of possibility. (35) o § Politics and World Events⠀➾ # ⚓ ‘Up,_Simba’:_David_Foster_Wallace_on_the_Presidential campaign_trail_&_UK_Citizenship⠀⇛ I’ve been re-reading some of David Foster Wallace’s essays and journalism in the collection ‘Consider the Lobster and Other Essays’ (2005). Last night, I couldn’t sleep until the small hours – and years of insomnia have taught me that the thing to do is accept it, get up and read (rather than, say: stay laying down in a state of somewhat wakefulness, conscious of the night, of the silence, of the changing cadence of the street outside (this can drag for hours, and almost never leads to sleep)). So I spent a few hours of the night getting absorbed in Wallace’s piece of journalism ‘Up, Simba’, originally written for Rolling Stone magazine; an account of the 2000 Republican nominee campaign trail following John McCain, who at the time was up against his main competitor and now ex- President George Bush Jr. o § Technology and Free Software⠀➾ # ⚓ intense_emotions_in_regards_to_software⠀⇛ i often experience intense emotions. these don’t stem from relationships, anger, despair, happiness, or hatred. they come from a deep passion and love for humanity, the idea of it. i can “feel” when others are passionate. i get emotional when i do. it’s like a strong sense of empathy. it’s weird. i can literally cry from watching a video of someone talking about something they made, or witnessing people helping each other. # § Internet/Gemini⠀➾ # ⚓ Hello_Pekko!⠀⇛ Which is sad in a way, but perfect in many others, because that means SpaceBeans will live on without a big investment on my part. I would have stayed on the open source version of Akka, or ignore the license and upgrade to the latest version -which I considered for a while-, but I can’t honestly keep using a project when it is not really open source any more. Not only because I wouldn’t be complying with the license, but also because I would be “promoting” in a way a project that doesn’t deserve such promotion any more. I still don’t know if SpaceBeans is important for anyone but me, but I’m happy to say the project will live on thanks to Apache Pekko. # ⚓ I_miss_being_a_kid⠀⇛ I was listening to Gemini Radio Episode 51. Ben was talking about how he would wake up early to watch the animated Highlander TV show and then play FFVI on SNES. Which is just so me… and I really miss it. That feeling of waking up an hour or so before school popping on the TV and watching some cartoon. For us this was Pokémon and Dragon Ball Z. I assume Power Rangers as well! But I don’t know if that was a weekend or afternoon show. It was really cute. My house had an extra room my dad used as his office. It was stacks and stacks of papers in boxes, a medium sized CRT television with wood paneling on the side. I assume this was previously the primary TV but when we moved house this was too small for the space? I should ask him about it next time we talk. But we’d sit on the floor and look up at his desk and watch TV in there as kids before work. He worked in the city but had a home office for whatever reason! I know my mom used it for her job which was part time and WFH but I don’t know. Memories are weird! # ⚓ Guppy,_a_UDP-based_smolnet_protocol⠀⇛ I posted some feedback on the spec based on writing a toy Guppy client and server. # § Programming⠀➾ # ⚓ Least_Recently_Used⠀⇛ A technique for algorithmic composition is to pick something least recently used. This could be deterministic, or one might randomize the selection. =============================================================================== * Gemini_(Primer) links can be opened using Gemini_software. It’s like the World Wide Web but a lot lighter. ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 694 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐃𝐀𝐈𝐋𝐘 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒 ═════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 08.08.23⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Links_08/08/2023:_Linux_6.4.9_is_Out,_Microsoft_Breach_Causes_More_Backlash⠀✐ Posted in News_Roundup at 8:34 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇GNOME bluefish⦈ § Contents⠀➾ * GNU/Linux o Audiocasts/Shows o Kernel_Space o Graphics_Stack o Applications o Instructionals/Technical o Games o Desktop_Environments/WMs # K_Desktop_Environment/KDE_SC/Qt # GNOME_Desktop/GTK * Distributions_and_Operating_Systems o New_Releases o Gentoo_Family o SUSE/OpenSUSE o Fedora_Family_/_IBM o Canonical/Ubuntu_Family o Open_Hardware/Modding * Free,_Libre,_and_Open_Source_Software o Web_Browsers/Web_Servers # Mozilla o FSF o Programming/Development # Python # Rust * Leftovers o Hardware o Health/Nutrition/Agriculture o Linux_Foundation o Security # Privacy/Surveillance o Defence/Aggression o Environment o Finance o AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics o Censorship/Free_Speech o Digital_Restrictions_(DRM) o Monopolies # Patents # Trademarks # Copyrights * § GNU/Linux⠀➾ o § Audiocasts/Shows⠀➾ # ⚓ Linux_User_Space_Episode_4:02:_Bits_From_Debian⠀⇛ Coming up in this episode * An NVMe for me * The Shure Next To You * Of course, the History of Debian # ⚓ Late_Night_Linux_–_Episode_241⠀⇛ Great news for Linux on RISC-V and open source Nvidia drivers, communicating with devices over serial the easy way, emulating an old calculator, a fully open source flight combat game, a new approach to caching files on your LAN, and an RSS reader for the terminal. # ⚓ Jupiter Broadcasting ☛ Practical_Privacy_|_LINUX_Unplugged 522⠀⇛ Why Linux reigns for privacy; our recommendations for secure tools from chat to DNS. o § Kernel Space⠀➾ # ⚓ LWN ☛ Linux_6.4.9⠀⇛ ----------------- Note, PLEASE TEST this kernel if you are on the 6.4.y tree before using it in a real workload. This was a quick release due to the obvious security fixes in it, and as such, it has not had very much testing "in the wild". Please let us know of any problems seen. Also note that the user/kernel api for the new security mitigations might be changing over time, so do not get used to them being fixed in stone just yet. ----------------- I'm announcing the release of the 6.4.9 kernel. All users of the 6.4 kernel series must upgrade. The updated 6.4.y git tree can be found at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/ git/stable/linux-stable.git linux-6.4.y and can be browsed at the normal kernel.org git web browser: https://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/ linux-s... thanks, greg k-h # ⚓ LWN ☛ Linux_6.1.44⠀⇛ # ⚓ LWN ☛ Linux_5.15.125⠀⇛ # ⚓ LWN ☛ Linux_5.10.189⠀⇛ # ⚓ LWN ☛ Linux_5.4.252⠀⇛ # ⚓ LWN ☛ Linux_4.19.290⠀⇛ # ⚓ LWN ☛ Linux_4.14.321⠀⇛ # ⚓ Bootlin ☛ Feedback_from_ELCE_2023:_selection_of_talks_#2⠀⇛ As we reported in previous blog post, almost the entire Bootlin engineering team was at the Embedded Linux Conference Europe in Prague in June. o § Graphics Stack⠀➾ # ⚓ 9to5Linux ☛ NVIDIA_535.98_Linux_Graphics_Driver_Released with_Wayland_and_Vulkan_Fixes⠀⇛ Coming only three weeks after the NVIDIA 535.86.05 release, the new version is here to address several bugs, including a bug causing excessive RAM consumption when some OpenGL and Vulkan apps were used while switching between a virtual terminal and X. Support for Vulkan apps was further improved in NVIDIA 535.98 by fixing a bug that caused corruption, as well as a regression that could cause a system hang when running windowed Vulkan apps with sync-to-vblank enabled. o § Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ Fedora Magazine ☛ Fedora_Magazine:_Video_content_creation with_Kdenlive⠀⇛ Fedora Linux packages a suite of graphical software for content creators. This article introduces a use case and suggestions for creating tutorial videos with Kdenlive. § Plan tutorial A question that you need to address is whether text and images are appropriate to share your knowledge. If you create resources for learners of graphical software, a tutorial video is something to consider. # ⚓ TecMint ☛ 10_Best_Control_Panels_For_Virtual_Machines_(VM) Management⠀⇛ The automatic creation and management of virtual machines is a topical issue for any company that provides VPS services. # ⚓ Medevel ☛ 22_Free_MySQL/_MariaDB_Database_Backup_Tools_and Scripts⠀⇛ MySQL is a popular open-source relational database management system (RDBMS). It is widely used for web-based applications and is known for its ease of use and scalability. MySQL is used by many popular websites, including Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube. # ⚓ Medevel ☛ NodeTube:_Build_Your_Own_Self-hosted_YouTube Alternative⠀⇛ NodeTube is an excellent open-source platform that provides all the features that you need for hosting your videos, audios, and images. It provides a comprehensive set of features, including livestreaming and built-in monetization, that make it an magnificent alternative to YouTube. # ⚓ Medevel ☛ AllToMP3:_Download_and_Convert_Music_from YouTube,_Spotify,_and_SoundCloud_(Free)⠀⇛ AllToMP3 is a highly versatile desktop application that offers its users a comprehensive platform for downloading and converting their favorite music from popular sources such as YouTube, SoundCloud, Spotify, and Deezer. # ⚓ Linux Links ☛ Alternatives_to_popular_CLI_tools:_cal⠀⇛ We spotlight alternatives tools to cal, a utility for displaying calendars on the command-line. # ⚓ Linux Links ☛ Excellent_Utilities:_noti_–_notification tool⠀⇛ noti is a small tool written in Go that monitors a command or process and triggers a notification. # ⚓ FOSSLinux ☛ Top_15_open_source_monitoring_tools_for_IT professionals⠀⇛ In today’s interconnected world, monitoring system performance, network health, and application behavior is crucial for any organization. Whether you’re a system administrator, a network engineer, or a DevOps professional, having the right tools at your disposal can make the difference between smooth operations and a frustrating troubleshooting nightmare. o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾ # ⚓ Own HowTo ☛ How_to_disable_automatic_suspend_on_Ubuntu 23.04⠀⇛ Automatic suspend is a feature that suspends your computer when you are not using it. What this feature does, is that it allows you to specify how long your computer will stay active before suspending. For example, if the automatic suspend timer is set to to 30 minutes, it means # ⚓ TecMint ☛ What_are_Ext2,_Ext3_&_Ext4?_How_to_Create_and Convert_Linux_File_Systems⠀⇛ # ⚓ TecMint ☛ ONLYOFFICE_DocSpace:_The_Best_Open-Source Collaborative_Platform_for_Linux⠀⇛ Building a secure collaborative environment on a private Linux server definitely sounds like a good idea. # ⚓ Unlocking_Linux_File_Permissions:_A_Guide_to_Using_the chmod_Command⠀⇛ # ⚓ Matthew Garrett ☛ Matthew_Garrett:_Updating_Fedora_the unsupported_way⠀⇛ I dug out a computer running Fedora 28, which was released 2018-04-01 – over 5 years ago. Backing up the data and re-installing seemed tedious, but the current version of Fedora is 38, and while Fedora supports updates from N to N+2 that was still going to be 5 separate upgrades. # ⚓ It’s FOSS ☛ Easily_Take_Full_Webpage_Screenshots_in_Firefox and_Chrome⠀⇛ Firefox has a built-in screenshot utility and you can use it to take screenshots of the entire webpage. Chrome can also do the same. # ⚓ Unleash_the_Power_of_Wget:_A_Comprehensive_Guide_to Seamless_Downloads_in_Linux⠀⇛ Wget command is a Linux utility that used to download the files from the web. # ⚓ nixCraft ☛ How_to_decode_BASE64_string_in_Linux_and_Unix⠀⇛ A long time ago, I wrote a script or config file that included BASE64 encoded string like “Le_PreHook='__ACME_BASE64__START_L3Jvb3QvYmluL2xlL2N5YmVyY2l0aS5iaXovcHJlX2JlZm9yZV9vYnRhaW5pbmdfYW55X2NlcnRpZmljYXRlcy5zaA==__ACME_BASE64__END_“. So I wanted to know what this string was to update my config script. # ⚓ OMG Ubuntu ☛ How_to_Change_the_Lock_Screen_Background_in Ubuntu⠀⇛ Here’s a quick tutorial for those of you looking to change the lock screen background used in Ubuntu 22.04 LTS through the most recent release, Ubuntu 23.04. Out-of-the-box (as this is the same for any Linux distribution using a modern version of GNOME Shell) the lock screen background is a blurred version of whatever image is set as your desktop wallpaper. # ⚓ TecAdmin ☛ How_to_Install_NVM_on_Debian_12⠀⇛ Node Version Manager (NVM) is a versatile tool for managing multiple versions of Node.js on a single machine. It’s an essential tool for any serious Node.js developer since it allows you to switch between different versions of Node.js without having to go through the hassle of installing or uninstalling Node.js manually each time. # ⚓ AI_Magic_in_Jupyter:_Integrate_and_Enhance_Productivity with_Jupyter_AI⠀⇛ Jupyter AI is an incredible and powerful Python extension that brings generative AI models (like ChatGPT) in your JupyterLab or Notebooks to enhance your productivity. # ⚓ LibreOffice:_Installing,_Upgrading,_and_Removing_on_Linux⠀⇛ LibreOffice, developed by The Document Foundation, stands as a compelling free and open-source productivity suite, serving as a robust alternative to Microsoft Office. # ⚓ LinuxStans ☛ A_Guide_to_Web_Scraping_with_Proxies_on Linux⠀⇛ Linux, an open-source operating system known for its robustness and efficiency, offers valuable insights that can be leveraged in the world of web scraping, particularly in the management of proxies. Let’s explore how the principles of Linux can be applied to streamline your proxy usage for web scraping! # ⚓ Using_Argo_CD_to_Create_GitOps-Style_Deployments_for Kubernetes⠀⇛ Argo CD offers GitOps-style deployments for Kubernetes, providing continuous integration/ continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines, collaboration and version control. # ⚓ OSNote ☛ How_to_Install_Zabbix_on_Debian_Linux⠀⇛ In this guide, you will learn how to install and configure the latest stable version of Zabbix monitoring software on Debian 9.2 to monitor all major network infrastructure devices such as physical or virtual servers or VMs, routers, switches, firewall appliances, and other network IoT devices. # ⚓ Vitux ☛ How_to_Install_ClickHouse_on_Ubuntu_22.04⠀⇛ ClickHouse is an open-source, fast, and modern database management system used for online analytical processing (OLAP). It is column-oriented and stores records in blocks grouped by columns instead of rows. It allows you to generate analytical reports using SQL queries in real time. # ⚓ HowTo Forge ☛ How_to_Install_Magento_with_Apache_and_Let’s Encrypt_SSL_on_Ubuntu_22.04⠀⇛ Magento is an open-source and one of the most popular eCommerce platforms that helps programmers create eCommerce websites. This tutorial will show you how to install Magento on Ubuntu 22.04. # ⚓ FOSSLinux ☛ How_to_install_EndeavourOS_on_VirtualBox easily⠀⇛ One of the best ways to explore EndeavourOS is by installing it on VirtualBox. VirtualBox is a popular virtualization software that allows you to run multiple operating systems simultaneously on your host machine. By setting up EndeavourOS on VirtualBox, you can enjoy all its features without altering your current OS setup. # ⚓ It’s FOSS ☛ Bash_Basics_Series_#9:_Functions_in_Bash⠀⇛ Learn all about functions in the final chapter of the Bash Basics series. # ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_To_Install_Nmap_on_Debian_12⠀⇛ In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Nmap on Debian 12. In the world of cybersecurity and network exploration, Nmap (Network Mapper) stands as a versatile and powerful tool. It’s an open-source utility that aids in network discovery and security auditing. # ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_To_Install_OpenSCAP_on_Fedora_38⠀⇛ In this tutorial, we will show you how to install OpenSCAP on Fedora 38. OpenSCAP is an open-source security compliance solution that helps administrators assess the security posture of their systems and ensure compliance with industry standards. It provides a framework for automated vulnerability scanning, configuration management, and policy compliance. # ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ Create_A_File_In_Linux:_Touch,_Cat,_Echo, Printf_Command⠀⇛ Linux is a powerful and versatile operating system, and one of its strengths lies in the vast array of commands it offers for various tasks. Creating files is a fundamental operation, and Linux provides multiple ways to do it. # ⚓ Linux Handbook ☛ Proxmox_Series_#4:_Adding_Shared_Storage to_Proxmox_Installation⠀⇛ In this part of the Proxmox tutorial series, you’ll learn to add shared storage to a Proxmox installation. # ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_VirtualBox_7.0_on_Fedora_38/ 37_Linux⠀⇛ VirtualBox, Oracle’s flagship open-source virtualization solution, has again made strides in its latest iteration, VirtualBox 7. This version continues its legacy of providing a robust platform for creating and managing virtual environments and introduces myriad enhancements that cater to the ever-evolving needs of tech professionals. # ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_To_Install_Python_IDLE_on_Ubuntu_22.04_LTS⠀⇛ In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Python IDLE on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. Python, an influential and versatile programming language, has captured the hearts of developers worldwide. To harness the full potential of Python, an adept Integrated Development Environment (IDE) is essential. # ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_SMPlayer_on_Debian_13/12/11/ 10⠀⇛ In today’s digital age, multimedia playback is an essential aspect of our daily computing needs. SMPlayer stands out as a versatile and robust media player, catering to a wide range of audio and video formats. # ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_To_Install_PowerShell_on_Debian_12 [Ed: PowerShell is a Microsoft trap; better to rewrite whatever is in PowerShell; maybe Bash or similar. This is a tool of occupation.]⠀⇛ In this tutorial, we will show you how to install PowerShell on Debian 12. PowerShell is a powerful cross-platform shell and scripting language designed by Microsoft. With its extensive command- line capabilities and scripting framework, it has become a popular choice for system administrators, developers, and IT professionals. # ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_To_Install_Tasksel_on_Debian_12⠀⇛ In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Tasksel on Debian 12. For those of you who didn’t know, Tasksel is an advanced package management tool specifically designed for Debian-based systems. It enables system administrators to install, remove, and manage software packages seamlessly. o § Games⠀➾ # ⚓ Boiling Steam ☛ Testament:_The_Order_of_High_Human_Review⠀⇛ Testament: The Order of High Human, developed and published by Fairyship Games, is a first-person platform puzzle adventure RPG that runs well on Linux and will make your Steam Deck cry. # ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ China’s_betting_big_on_e-sports_but_its tight_grip_on_youth_gaming_could_thwart_its_ambitions⠀⇛ Local governments have unveiled plans to develop the industry worth $2.3 billion globally. o § Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾ # § K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt⠀➾ # ⚓ OMG Ubuntu ☛ KDE_neon’s_Experimental_Archive_Makes Testing_KF6_Apps_Easier⠀⇛ Unstable builds of the Ubuntu-based KDE neon now include KDE Plasma 6 (which is under active development) but apps retooled/built using KDE Frameworks 6 (considered pre-alpha quality at the time of writing) are being more cautiously previewed, siloed in a dedicated archive. # ⚓ Remote_Desktop_using_the_RDP_protocol_for_Plasma Wayland⠀⇛ With this blog I would like to introduce KRdp, which is a new library implementing the required glue to create a server exposing a KDE Plasma Wayland session over the RDP protocol. It also contains a command-line based server which will allow remote clients to control the current Plasma Wayland session. With the increase in people working from home the past years and other remote use cases, it has become increasingly important to be able to control a running computer remotely. While on X11 there are several existing solutions, for Wayland the choices are rather more limited. Currently the only way of allowing remote control of a Plasma Wayland session is through Krfb, which uses VNC1 for streaming to the client. Unfortunately, VNC is not ideal, for various reasons. So to provide a better experience we started looking at other options, eventually settling on building something around the RDP protocol. Fortunately, because of the work done for Krfb and various other projects, we do have all the parts implemented to allow remote desktop control, the “only” thing left was to glue everything together. # ⚓ On_the_Road_to_Plasma_6,_Cont’d⠀⇛ A little over two months ago I involuntarily switched my daily driver laptop to a Plasma 6 development build (see this blog post on how that went). Since then there has been stunning progress on ironing out bugs, tidying things up, and implementing new features. Let me show you what I’ve been working on, stumbling blocks to look out for, and what you can do to help to make Plasma 6 a truly great release! A couple of weeks ago I actually finally switched to a Plasma Wayland session full time and it’s been working great! This now also means I have to fix all of my pet peeve bugs, and boy did I! I noticed several things that were missing or behaved differently from my X11 session. For instance, task manager showed not only an application’s main window but also any popup (for instance, the “really quit?” or “save or discard?” prompts). That’s because the handling of so-called transient windows in libtaskmanager hasn’t been implemented for Wayland yet. Not only does it have to hide child windows but must in turn propagate any “needs attention” state (glowing orange) back to its parent so it won’t go unnoticed. There is also a dialog protocol in the works so we can tag modal windows and darken their respective parent window accordingly. # ⚓ Dragging_Docks_and_Tugging_Toolbars_on_Wayland⠀⇛ Most of our desktop applications have a toolbar, sometimes they even have multiple toolbars next to or stacked on top of each other. More complex desktop applications such as Krita, Kdenlive or LabPlot often consist of multiple sub-windows, docks, tabbed views, etc. Docks and toolbars can be undocked, moved around and arranged freely and when dragged over a part of a window snap back into the window. This allows the user to customize their work environment to their liking and needs. This worked fine on X because it lets you do anything, this post explores the situation on Wayland. # § GNOME Desktop/GTK⠀➾ # ⚓ 9to5Linux ☛ GNOME.Asia_2023_Will_Take_Place_in Kathmandu_for_the_GNOME_46_Desktop⠀⇛ The GNOME.Asia Summit 2023 event will be held at St. Xavier’s College in Kathmandu, Nepal, between December 1st and December 3rd. The conference’s primary focus is on the GNOME desktop, GNOME apps, and the GNOME platform development tools. This year’s GNOME.Asia event will focus on the upcoming GNOME 46 desktop environment series, which will be released sometime in late March 2024. Since the event will be held in Kathmandu, the codename of the GNOME 46 series will be “Kathmandu”. # ⚓ Philip_Withnall:_GUADEC_2023⠀⇛ I attended GUADEC 2023 this year in-person in Rīga. It was nice to be able to see more people in person than last year’s mini-GUADEC in Berlin, and nice to be able to travel overland/oversea_to_Rīga, avoiding flights and the associated huge carbon emissions. Thank you to the GNOME_Foundation and my employer, Endless, for covering the travel. And a big thank you to the local event organising team, the AV team, the volunteers and the Foundation staff for making it all happen. The quality of the talks this year was really high. I don’t think there was a single talk slot I skipped. As a result, I didn’t get much hacking done! But there were good hallway conversations and catch ups. I gave two talks, one on some simple improvements people can make to their apps to reduce internet data use and power use when doing so would be beneficial to the user (when on a metered network or in power-saver mode). The aim was to remind people how easy it is to do this, and provide some examples of how different apps present these states/events in the UI, since the best way to do that can differ between apps. * § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾ o § New Releases⠀➾ # ⚓ Barry Kauler ☛ EasyOS_Kirkstone-series_version_5.4.10 released⠀⇛ Great changes since 5.4.9! Look at the release notes: https://distro.ibiblio.org/easyos/amd64/releases/ kirkstone/2023/5.4.10/release-notes.htm Yes, Flowblade video editor is now builtin. I’m really doing that for myself, as intending to get into creating videos for YouTube and would like the convenience of inbuilt video editor. I clicked on the “kirkstone” icon then started Flowblade in the container — looks like it runs OK in a container also. If you are new to EasyOS, please read the version 5.4 Download, courtesy of ibiblio.org: [...] o § Gentoo Family⠀➾ # ⚓ Gentoo ☛ Week_9+10_Report,_Automated_Gentoo_System Updater⠀⇛ This article is a summary of all the changes made on Automated_Gentoo_System_Updater project during weeks 9 and 10 of GSoC. Project is hosted on GitHub (gentoo_update and mobile_app). § Progress on Weeks 9 and 10⠀➾ I have finalized app architecture, here are the details: The app’s main functionality is to receive notification from the push server. For each user, it will create a unique API token after authentication (there is an Anonymous option). This token will be used by gentoo_update to send the encrypted report to the mobile device using a push server endpoint. Update reports will be kept only on the mobile device, ensuring privacy. After much discussion, I decided to implement app’s backend in Firebase. Since GSoC is organized by Google, it seems appropriate to use their products for this project. However, future plans include the possibility of implementing a self-hosted web server, so that instead of authentication user will just enter server public IP and port. o § SUSE/OpenSUSE⠀➾ # ⚓ SUSE’s Corporate Blog ☛ Jumpstart_Kubernetes_Success_with New_Service_Offerings⠀⇛ According to the Gartner report, The CTO’s Guide to Containers and Kubernetes, by 2027 more than 90% of companies will have made the decision to run containerized applications in production.   # ⚓ SUSE’s Corporate Blog ☛ Cybersecurity_Threats_to_SAP Systems⠀⇛ Businesses today are in a constant state of digital transformation. SAP software plays a key role in driving this transformation by offering comprehensive solutions that boost efficiency, scalability, and innovation throughout the entire enterprise. o § Fedora Family / IBM⠀➾ # ⚓ ZDNet ☛ Fedora_Linux_on_M-powered_Macs_will_be_here shortly⠀⇛ Fedora, a mature desktop Linux, will be available by the end of the month on your Apple M1 or M2 Macs. # ⚓ Red Hat ☛ How_to_monitor_workloads_using_OpenShift monitoring_stack⠀⇛ The out-of-the-box monitoring stack in Red Hat OpenShift provides a comprehensive set of tools and services to monitor various aspects of your workloads, including metrics, logs, events, and traces. With this monitoring stack, you can gain valuable insights into the health and performance of your applications, identify and troubleshoot issues, and optimize resource utilization. This allows you to deliver a seamless user experience and confidently meet your business objectives. In this article, we will explore the monitoring stack in Red Hat OpenShift and how to use it to monitor a sample application effectively using Prometheus and Grafana. # ⚓ Red Hat ☛ Back_up_Kubernetes_persistent_volumes_using OADP⠀⇛ OpenShift APIs for Data Protection (OADP) is an operator that lets you back up and restore workloads in Red_Hat_OpenShift clusters. It is based on the upstream open source project Velero. You can use OADP to backup and restore all Kubernetes resources for a given project, including persistent volumes. It is a best practice to be able to recreate your workloads via Infrastructure as Code (IAC) pipelines or automation. Most Kubernetes projects in production already have a way to be recreated; however, when it comes to restoring data from persistent volumes, that requires a separate solution. OADP can fill that gap. This article will focus primarily on restoring persistent volumes. § How does OADP back up persistent volumes? OADP allows backing up and restoring persistent volumes via either Restic or CSI_snapshots. In both cases, incremental backups are supported. # ⚓ IT Wire ☛ Red_Hat_pays_to_spruik_its_views_on_RHEL_source code_curbs⠀⇛ The SFC panel included policy fellow Bradley Kuhn, AlmaLinux board chair Benny Vasquez, Samba co- founder and CIQ software engineer Jeremy Allison, and Oracle chief architect for Open Source Policy, Strategy, Compliance, and Alliances, James Wright. CIQ is focused on Rocky Linux, another RHEL derivative; AlmaLinux is also a derivative. Clearly, Red Hat did not think any of its executives would be comfortable in this environment – even though all the talk was about free and open source software which Red Hat claims to champion. That should tell the free and open source software community where the company’s priorities lie. Hellekson fielded all the softball questions thrown at him by The Futurum Group’s Steven Dickens and was allowed to talk at length about the noble work being done by the IBM-owned company. Not surprising, as he who pays the piper generally calls the tune. One of Dickens’ questions embodies perfectly the type of queries that Hellekson fielded: “Red Hat’s commercial business, you’re taking the pipeline of free, community-developed, adding a significant amount of value, testing, certification, support, and they’re looking to build a commercial business off that. You’re not alone in doing this. I had Ash Kulkarni, the CEO of Elastic on this podcast a few weeks back. We’ve spent some time at MongoDB and spoke to their team. # ⚓ Red Hat ☛ How_to_fully_utilize_OpenShift_for_DevOps⠀⇛ There is nothing developers and users hate more than waiting a long time for new software features to be deployed. Being stuck in an endless loop of long response times for QA and feedback is painful, especially when they have started a new project. # ⚓ Fedora Project ☛ Fedora_Community_Blog:_Community_Blog monthly_summary:_July_2023⠀⇛ This is the latest in our monthly_series summarizing the past month on the Community Blog. Please leave a comment below to let us know what you think. # ⚓ Red Hat ☛ Implementing_clean_architecture_solutions:_A practical_example⠀⇛ The purpose of this project is to provide developers with a practical example of how clean architecture can be implemented in a real-world scenario. By examining this sample project’s code and structure, you will be able to better understand the key concepts and patterns involved in clean architecture. § Why clean architecture? These days, the IT world is flooded with an overwhelming number of libraries, technologies, frameworks, and platforms to choose from. What’s considered the ultimate solution today may become outdated tomorrow. What doesn’t exist today might become tomorrow’s ultimate solution. Clean architecture incorporates principles like SOLID and domain-driven design and enforces them through module structuring during compilation. However, it’s important to note that not everything can be enforced at compile time. By embracing clean architecture principles, you can design software without getting tied down to specific libraries, infrastructure, or other choices right from the start of your project. Instead, you can postpone those decisions until later in the development process. This approach also makes it easier to switch libraries or infrastructure if needed, enabling you to create software that can stand the test of time. With clean architecture, you can keep your options open and ensure that your platform or application remains robust and adaptable in the long run. o § Canonical/Ubuntu Family⠀➾ # ⚓ It’s FOSS ☛ Incus:_A_New_Fork_of_LXD_is_Here_to_Go_Against Canonical’s_Wave⠀⇛ It was only a matter of time before the rise of an LXD fork, and it appears that Incus is preparing to take the stage. Some context to get you up to speed: Canonical took complete control of the LXD project, and that garnered mixed reactions. Even the lead engineer of LXD, Stéphane Graber, announced that he had left Canonical to pursue a few pet projects after Canonical’s public announcement. He also mentioned that he would occasionally contribute to LXD, provided he didn’t need to sign Canonical’s CLA. # ⚓ Liliputing ☛ Rhino_Linux_is_a_rolling_release,_Ubuntu-based Linux_distro_with_PC,_PinePhone,_and_PineTab_support⠀⇛ Rhino Linux is a new GNU/Linux distribution that’s based on Ubuntu, but which handles some key things differently from Canonical’s operating system. Unlike Ubuntu, Rhino is a rolling release operating system, which means that updates are delivered frequently, and whenever they’re available rather than saving everything up for a major OS update that comes only a few times per year (if that). # ⚓ 9to5Linux ☛ First_Look_at_Rhino_Linux,_a_Rolling-Release Distro_Based_on_Ubuntu_and_Xfce⠀⇛ Rhino Linux (formerly Rolling Rhino Remix) follows the concept created by Ubuntu MATE maintainer and ex-Canonical employee Martin Wimpress, who created the Rolling Rhino tool about three years ago to allow existing Ubuntu users to turn their systems into rolling releases. To bring the rolling-release model to Ubuntu, Rhino Linux uses the popular Pacstall utility that provides a package manager for Ubuntu inspired by Arch Linux‘s AUR (Arch User Repository). Pacstall is used for providing essential packages like the latest Linux kernel, the Mozilla Firefox web browser, Rhino Linux-specific apps, and theming. # ⚓ Ubuntu News ☛ Ubuntu_Weekly_Newsletter_Issue_799⠀⇛ Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 799 for the week of July 30 – August 5, 2023. The full version of this issue is available here. # ⚓ Ubuntu Fridge ☛ The_Fridge:_Ubuntu_Weekly_Newsletter_Issue 799⠀⇛ o § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾ # ⚓ dwaves.de ☛ looking_for_a_new_SoC?_(or_SBC?)_new_Version_of StarFive_VisionFive_2_RISC-V_SOB_–_SoC_battle_rages_on Raspberry_Pi_4_vs_ODROID-N2L⠀⇛ looking for a new SoC? (or SBC?) (search eBay for GPIO+SoC, GPIO+SBC, but also checkout what those are up to… # ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ Raspberry_Pi_4_GPIO_Pinout⠀⇛ GPIO pins on Raspberry Pi are one of the ways to connect and monitor external devices with it. Follow this article for a detailed introduction to these pins. # ⚓ Sparky GNU/Linux ☛ RPi_Imager⠀⇛ There is a new application available for Sparkers: RPi Imager What is RPi Imager? Raspberry Pi imaging utility. Graphical user-interface to write disk images and format SD cards. # ⚓ CNX Software ☛ PicoCNC_–_A_4-axis_CNC_controller_based_on Raspberry_Pi_Pico⠀⇛ PicoCNC is a 4-axis CNC motion controller that works with Raspberry Pi Pico or Pico W running the open-source grblHAL firmware and can be used to control CNC routers, lathes, laser engravers, and other machines. PicoCNC specifications: Works with Raspberry Pi Pico and Pico W, or other compatible boards. Storage MicroSD card slot Footprint for EEPROM or FRAM Host interface – USB or WiFi via Raspberry Pi Pico (W) CNC control via screw terminals 4-axis spindle control outputs 5V PWM and direction 0-10V spindle control output. 12V PWM support via open collector output Isolated 12V limit switch input on all 4 axes. Isolated standard Grbl spindle control outputs (5V): Cycle Start, Feed Hold, EStop and Safety Door. # ⚓ Arduino ☛ Save_money_with_your_Honeywell_heating_system: Control_it_on_Arduino_Cloud_via_Node-RED⠀⇛ In today’s fast-paced world, the convenience and comfort of a smart home have become paramount. Monitoring systems offer us a way to streamline daily tasks, optimize energy usage, and ultimately lead to more comfortable and cost-effective living. * § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾ o ⚓ Libre Arts ☛ LibreArts_Weekly_recap_—_7_August_2023⠀⇛ Highlights of the last few weeks: new releases of Inkscape, FreeCAD, LSP plugins, MuseScore, first beta of Krita 5.2, CMYK PDFs are coming in Inkscape v1.4, and more. The patch by mr.fantastic adding support for on-canvas alignment and even distribution has finally been merged to the main development branch. o § Web Browsers/Web Servers⠀➾ # § Mozilla⠀➾ # ⚓ Linuxiac ☛ Tails_5.16_Is_Out_with_Latest_Tor_Browser 12.5.2⠀⇛ Powered by Linux kernel 6.1 LTS, Tails 5.16, a security-focused Linux distro, comes with the latest Tor browser and some bug fixes. o § FSF⠀➾ # ⚓ FSF ☛ FSF_Events:_Free_Software_Directory_meeting_on_IRC: Friday,_September_08,_starting_at_12:00_EDT_(16:00_UTC)⠀⇛ Join the FSF and friends on Friday, September 08, from 12:00 # ⚓ FSF ☛ FSF_Events:_Free_Software_Directory_meeting_on_IRC: Friday,_September_01,_starting_at_12:00_EDT_(16:00_UTC)⠀⇛ Join the FSF and friends on Friday, September 01, from 12:00 # ⚓ FSF ☛ FSF_Events:_Free_Software_Directory_meeting_on_IRC: Friday,_August_25,_starting_at_12:00_EDT_(16:00_UTC)⠀⇛ Join the FSF and friends on Friday, August 25, from 12:00 # ⚓ FSF ☛ FSF_Events:_Free_Software_Directory_meeting_on_IRC: Friday,_August_18,_starting_at_12:00_EDT_(16:00_UTC)⠀⇛ Join the FSF and friends on Friday, August 18, from 12:00 # ⚓ FSF ☛ FSF_Events:_Free_Software_Directory_meeting_on_IRC: Friday,_August_11,_starting_at_12:00_EDT_(16:00_UTC)⠀⇛ Join the FSF and friends on Friday, August 11, from 12:00 o § Programming/Development⠀➾ # ⚓ Andy_Wingo:_a_negative_result⠀⇛ Briefly, an interesting negative result: consider benchmarks b1, b2, b3 and so on, with associated .c and .h files. Consider libraries p and q, with their .c and .h files. You want to run each benchmark against each library. P and Q implement the same API, but they have different ABI: you need to separately compile each benchmark for each library. You also need to separate compile each library for each benchmark, because p.c also uses an abstract API implemented by b1.h, b2.h, and so on. The problem: can you implement a short GNU Makefile that produces executables b1.p, b1.q, b2.p, b2.q, and so on? The answer would appear to be “no”. You might think that with call and all the other functions available to you, that surely this could be done, and indeed it’s easy to take the cross product of two lists. But what we need are new rules, not just new text or variables, and you can’t programmatically create rules. So we have to look at rules to see what facilities are available. ⚓ Mark_J._Wielaard:_Sourceware_25_Roadmap⠀⇛ Sourceware has been running for almost 25 years, providing a worry- free, developer friendly home for Free Software core toolchain and developer tool communities. And we would like to keep providing that for the next 25 years. ⚓ TecAdmin ☛ Convert_String_to_Uppercase_in_JavaScript⠀⇛ JavaScript, a high-level, interpreted scripting language, is a key technology of the World Wide Web. It adds interactivity to websites and powers web applications. A core feature of JavaScript is its ability to manipulate strings. ⚓ Spidermonkey_Development_Blog:_SpiderMonkey_Newsletter_(Firefox_116-117)⠀⇛ SpiderMonkey is the JavaScript engine used in Mozilla Firefox. This newsletter gives an overview of the JavaScript and WebAssembly work we’ve done as part of the Firefox 116 and 117 Nightly release cycles. We’re working on improving performance for popular web frameworks such as React. We continue to make good progress, as you can see on this Speedometer 2 graph: [...] ⚓ Dirk Eddelbuettel ☛ Dirk_Eddelbuettel:_RQuantLib_0.4.19_on_CRAN:_More Maintenance⠀⇛ A new release 0.4.19 of RQuantLib arrived at CRAN earlier today, and has already been uploaded to Debian too. QuantLib is a rather comprehensice free/open-source library for quantitative finance. RQuantLib connects it to the R environment and language, and has been part of CRAN for more than twenty years (!!) * § Python⠀➾ o ⚓ Python’s_‘and’_Operator:_A_Practical_Approach⠀⇛ o ⚓ TecAdmin ☛ __path___(A_Special_Variable)_in_Python⠀⇛ In Python, special or “dunder” (double underscore) variables play a pivotal role in the internal workings of the language. These variables have special meanings and are used in various contexts. One such special variable is __path__. What is __path__? __path__ is a variable that is primarily defined for packages in Python. o ⚓ Demystifying_the_‘or’_Operator_in_Python:_Enhancing_Logic_in_Your Code⠀⇛ o ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ Python_Zip_Function_Examples⠀⇛ In Python, the “zip()” function is used to combine two or more iterable into a single iterable and retrieve the iterables of the tuple. o ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ Pandas_–_Convert_Categorical_Values_to_Int_Values⠀⇛ The “DataFrame.replace()”, “pandas.factorize()”, and the “LabelEncoder()” method is used to convert categorical values to integers in Pandas DataFrame. o ⚓ Float_in_Python:_A_Complete_Overview⠀⇛ Python is an interpreted programming language that offers numerous data types to work with, including float. Float is a built-in data type in Python that allows us to represent decimal numbers. It is a fundamental data type that every developer must understand since it allows us to perform various calculations, including scientific computations. * § Rust⠀➾ o ⚓ Rust Blog ☛ The_Rust_Programming_Language_Blog:_2022_Annual_Rust Survey_Results⠀⇛ Hello, Rustaceans! For the 6th year in a row, the Rust Project conducted_a survey_on_the_Rust_programming_language, with participation from project maintainers, contributors, and those generally interested in the future of Rust. This edition of the annual State of Rust Survey opened for submissions on December 5 and ran until December 22, 2022. First, we’d like to thank you for your patience on these long delayed results. We hope to identify a more expedient and sustainable process going forward so that the results come out more quickly and have even more actionable insights for the community. The goal of this survey is always to give our wider community a chance to express their opinions about the language we all love and help shape its future. We’re grateful to those of you who took the time to share your voice on the state of Rust last year. § Leftovers⠀➾ * ⚓ Jon_Chiappetta:_Keyboard_Gear_Update_–_The_Five_Tactiles⠀⇛ * § Hardware⠀➾ o ⚓ CNX Software ☛ Blackview_MP80_Processor_N95_mini_PC_review_–_Part 1:_Specs,_unboxing_and_teardown [Ed: If it is "preloaded with Windows 11 Pro", then why does CNX cover it? Because of gifting?]⠀⇛ Blackview MP80 is an upcoming tiny (0.285L) and lightweight mini PC powered by an Intel Processor N95 quad-core Alder Lake-N CPU clocked at up to 3.4 GHz and equipped with 16GB RAM, and a 512GB M.2 SSD preloaded with Windows 11 Pro. The mini PC also comes with three HDMI 2.0 video outputs, three USB 3.0 ports, two Gigabit Ethernet ports, as well as Wi-Fi 5 and Bluetooth 4.2 wireless connectivity. * § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾ o ⚓ Off Guardian ☛ Everything_you_need_to_know_about_Covid’s_“Eris” Variant⠀⇛ The big news the last couple of days is that “Covid” is back…again. This time it’s the “Eris” variant, named after the Greek goddess of strife and discord, it supposedly is causing a spike in cases for the first time in…who cares how long. o ⚓ Axios ☛ “Economic_long_COVID”_could_mean_China’s_economy_is weaker_than_it_looks⠀⇛ The Chinese economy is in worse long-term shape than is widely understood, a prominent American economist is arguing, in ways that cannot be easily fixed. It is “economic long COVID,” featuring a persistent dearth of investment and consumer demand, writes_Adam_S._Posen in Foreign Affairs. Why it matters:Belief in a Chinese economic juggernaut has been a core assumption in the mainstream understanding of the global economy and diplomatic landscape for a generation. If it’s no longer true, China’s position on the world stage is weaker than is commonly understood. * § Linux Foundation⠀➾ o ⚓ Linux Foundation’s Site/Blog ☛ Software-Enabled_Flash_at_Flash Memory_Summit_2023⠀⇛ We are excited to announce that Software-Enabled Flash (SEF), an open source project hosted by the Linux Foundation, will be showcased at the Flash Memory Summit (FMS) in San Jose, California. This marks a significant milestone in the evolution of flash cloud storage, offering hyperscalers unprecedented control over their flash-based storage capabilities. o ⚓ Linux Foundation’s Site/Blog ☛ ONE_Summit_Returns_to_Silicon Valley,_Driving_Innovation_in_Open_Networking+Edge+AI,_April_29-May 1,_2024⠀⇛ LF Networking, the facilitator of collaboration and operational excellence across open source networking projects, announced the next ONE Summit event will take place April 29 – May 1, 2024 in San Jose, Calif. The move represents a return to the event’s origin, over a decade ago in Silicon Valley, as the “Open Networking Summit.” Over the past ten plus years, the event has evolved from a focused conference on SDN and NFV to what we have today: a robust, cross-industry ecosystem gathering of the most innovative discussion topics within the broader networking and edge space, which now encompasses the next phase of innovation: AI+Networking, IoT/Edge and AI, Open RAN and Enhanced Connectivity/Access, Enterprise & Multi- Cloud Networking, Security, and more. * § Security⠀➾ o ⚓ Navigating_Software_Scalability:_A_Practical_Guide_to_Building Scalable_Systems_with_Linux⠀⇛ Scaling a software application successfully is no small feat. Like raising a child, it requires planning, having the right foundations, and being prepared to adapt along the way. Just as kids outgrow clothes and need bigger shoes, our software creations need room to grow and stretch as user demand escalates. That’s where scalability comes in – the capacity to handle increased usage without breaking stride. o ⚓ Stacey on IoT ☛ IoT_news_of_the_week_for_August_4,_2023⠀⇛ It looks like a Chinese hacking group is attacking air- gapped networks: Kaspersky has documented a sophisticated attack created by a hacking group associated with China. The attack uses several stages to get malware onto air- gapped devices, infiltrate other devices on the network, and then copy and exfiltrate files. o ⚓ Thorsten Alteholz ☛ Thorsten_Alteholz:_My_Debian_Activities_in July_2023⠀⇛ § FTP master⠀➾ This month I accepted 408 and rejected 40 packages. The overall number of packages that got accepted was 412. This was my hundred-ninth month that I did some work for the Debian LTS initiative, started by Raphael Hertzog at Freexian.  o ⚓ SANS ☛ Update:_Researchers_scanning_the_Internet,_(Mon,_Aug 7th)⠀⇛ We have been tracking researchers scanning the Internet for open ports or vulnerabilities for a few years. These groups often show up in our “top 10″ lists. We do not make any general recommendations to block these IPs but we want to give you the information you need to make this decision for your network. o ⚓ Bleeping Computer ☛ Microsoft_fixes_flaw_after_being_called irresponsible_by_Tenable_CEO⠀⇛ Microsoft fixed a security flaw in the Power Platform Custom Connectors feature that let unauthenticated attackers access cross-tenant applications and Azure customers’ sensitive data after being called “grossly irresponsible”… o ⚓ Computer Weekly ☛ Microsoft_attacked_over_‘grossly_irresponsible’ security_practice⠀⇛ Tenable’s CEO and former national cyber security director to the George W Bush administration, Amit Yoran, has hit out at Microsoft and accused the software giant of deliberately [...] o ⚓ TechSpot ☛ Microsoft_is_testing_a_new_Edge_feature_that_captures screenshots_of_every_site_you_visit⠀⇛ Facepalm: Microsoft developers are working on a new feature for Edge. o § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾ # ⚓ IT Wire ☛ Zoom_forced_to_modify_Ts&Cs_after_data_use_for_AI spotted⠀⇛ Online communications software provider Zoom has been forced to issue a clarification to its terms of service after it was noticed that a change, said to be in March, appeared to say data from calls could be used to train the company’s AI. * § Defence/Aggression⠀➾ o ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Philippines_summons_China_ambassador_over water_cannoning_of_boats⠀⇛ Manila summoned Beijing’s envoy Monday after the China Coast Guard blocked and water cannoned Philippine vessels in the disputed South China Sea, President Ferdinand Marcos said. o ⚓ RFERL ☛ Hundreds_Of_Turkmen_People_Protest_Food_Shortages_In Turkmenbashi_City⠀⇛ Hundreds of people, mostly women, gathered on August 7 in the Turkmen city of Turkmenbashi to protest food shortages amid Turkmenistan’s severe economic crisis. o ⚓ Atlantic Council ☛ Sudan’s_precarious_information_environment_and the_fight_for_democracy⠀⇛ An examination of the time from December 2018, when protests against then-president Omar al-Bashir first broke out, and December 2022, when a framework agreement between civilian and military leaders came into play. o ⚓ France24 ☛ Sudanese_shocked_by_video_of_man’s_murder_sent_to_his WhatsApp_contacts⠀⇛ The friends and family of a missing man in Khartoum discovered he had been murdered when the murderers sent a gruesome video of his body to all of his WhatsApp contacts. The man’s family believe that the paramilitary group the Rapid Support Forces was behind the killing – as the man had supposedly been caught filming them looting a home. The video is proof of just one more human rights abuse since a new war began in the country in April. o § War in Ukraine⠀➾ # ⚓ Latvia ☛ Latvia_sends_water_purification_station_to Kakhovka_dam_disaster_victims⠀⇛ On Monday, the Riga City Council and the association “Tev” said Latvia would be sending a water purification station produced in Latvia to Ukraine to help the Kherson area, where hundreds of thousands of people are without access to drinking water after the destruction of Kahovka dam. # ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ Russian_writer_Dmitry_Glukhovsky_is handed_an_8-year_prison_term_for_discrediting_Russia’s_army⠀⇛ A Russian court has handed a writer an eight year prison sentence, finding him guilty of deliberately spreading false information about Russia’s armed forces. Dmitry Glukhovsky was found guilty of posting texts and videos on his social media channels that accused Russian servicemen of committing crimes in Ukraine and that Russian prosecutors said were fake. Glukhovsky is best known for writing a science fiction series and is the latest creative to be handed a prison term in a relentless crackdown on dissent in Russia. He isn’t in Russia and was tried in absentia. # ⚓ AntiWar ☛ Silencing_Voices_for_Peace⠀⇛ In the “liberal” New York Times today, I saw an article on “Putin’s forever war” that has the following short synopsis: “Vladimir Putin wants to lead Russians into a civilizational conflict with the West far larger than Ukraine. # ⚓ NYPost ☛ 2_Russian_missile_strikes_hit_a_city_in_eastern Ukraine,_killing_at_least_5_people,_officials_say⠀⇛ Ukraine’s Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko said five people, including a local official of Ukraine’s State Emergency Service, were killed and 31 more were wounded by the strikes. # ⚓ Reason ☛ Ukraine’s_Sluggish_Counteroffensive_Raises Questions_About_U.S._Support⠀⇛ Should the U.S. continue to bankroll the counteroffensive? # ⚓ Atlantic Council ☛ Ukraine’s_slow_counteroffensive_is_a wake-up_call_for_the_West⠀⇛ Ukraine’s lack of counteroffensive progress over the past two months should serve as a wake-up call for Western leaders. Their response will shape the geopolitical landscape for decades to come, writes Maksym Skrypchenko. # ⚓ France24 ☛ 🔴_Live:_Several_killed_in_Russian_missile strikes_on_eastern_Ukrainian_city,_governor_says⠀⇛ Two Russian missiles struck the centre of Ukraine’s Pokrovsk on Monday night killing at least seven people including civilians and first responders, the regional governor said. The missiles – launched 40 minutes apart – damaged residential buildings, a hotel, catering establishments, shops and administrative buildings, the governor added. # ⚓ LRT ☛ Lithuania’s_foreign_policy:_‘neo-idealism’_or_empty rhetoric?⠀⇛ As the war in Ukraine raged, Benjamin Tallis marvelled at the support emanating from the Baltic states and Eastern Europe. For the first time, the voice from the East was helping shape decisions in the West, not vice-versa. Grasping for a word to define what he was seeing, he coined a new term – neo-idealism. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Metropolitan_Of_Ukrainian_Orthodox_Church_Sentenced To_Five_Years_In_Prison⠀⇛ A court in Ukraine has sentenced Ukrainian Orthodox Church Metropolitan Ionafan (Anatoliy Yeletskykh) to five years in prison on charges of justifying Russian aggression. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Ukraine’s_SBU_Detained_Woman_Who_Allegedly_Gathered Info_Ahead_Of_Zelenskiy_Trip⠀⇛ Ukraine’s security service (SBU) says it has detained an alleged Russian informant who was allegedly gathering intelligence on the eve of a working trip by President Volodymyr Zelenskiy to the Mykolayiv region. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Ukrainian_Counteroffensive_Continues_In_Southeast, As_Casualty_Figures_From_Russian_Strike_Rise⠀⇛ Ukrainian counteroffensive against Russian forces continued in the country’s southeast, Kyiv said on August 8, as official casualty figures from a Russian missile strike in the eastern city of Pokrovsk have risen to at least seven dead and nearly 70 wounded. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Justice_Department_Helping_Kyiv_In_War_Crimes Probes,_U.S._Attorney_General_Says⠀⇛ The U.S. Justice Department is cooperating with the International Criminal Court and supporting Ukrainian prosecutors carrying out war crime investigations, Attorney General Merrick Garland said on August 7. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Zelenskiy_Says_‘Wound’_Of_Russia’s_2008_Invasion_Of Georgia_Still_Remains⠀⇛ Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on August 7 commented on the 15th anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Georgia, saying that the “wound” caused by Russia’s occupation of the country remains. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Zelenskiy’s_Chief_Of_Staff_Says_Ukraine’s_Peace Proposal_Only_One_Discussed_At_Saudi_Talks⠀⇛ Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s chief of staff said on August 7 that talks over the weekend in Saudi Arabia discussed no other peace initiative than the one put forth by Ukraine and that the participants agreed to hold another meeting within about six weeks. # ⚓ teleSUR ☛ China_and_Russia_To_Keep_Close_Strategic Coordination:_FM_Wang⠀⇛ Russian FM Lavrov said his country highly agrees with the position paper put forward by China on the political settlement of the Ukraine crisis. # ⚓ teleSUR ☛ ECB_Rate_Hikes_Might_Knock_3.8_Percent_Off_Euro Area_Economy⠀⇛ The problems caused by the Ukrainian conflict quietly continue to take their toll on Europe. # ⚓ New Yorker ☛ The_Death_of_a_Ukrainian_Writer⠀⇛ Victoria Amelina was a gifted novelist who put fiction aside to devote herself to documenting the atrocities of Putin’s war. # ⚓ New Yorker ☛ “Testimonies,”_by_Victoria_Amelina⠀⇛ Poetry by Victoria Amelina (translated, from the Ukrainian, by Valzhyna Mort): “Only women testify in this strange town.” # ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ Yes,_Ukrainians_are_grateful⠀⇛ It was dinner at the farm of Serhii and Tetiana Khoroschiak, in the southern Mykolaiv region, that showed me just how grateful Ukrainians are. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Turbulent_Waters:_How_the_Black_Sea_Became a_Hot_Spot_in_the_War⠀⇛ The Black Sea, a largely overlooked part of the war in Ukraine, is suddenly a cauldron of military and geopolitical tensions. The region is deeply important to both Moscow and the West. # ⚓ Latvia ☛ Online_conference_to_discuss_Belarus’_future⠀⇛ Since the August 2020 protests against the rigged re-election of Alexander Lukashenka, the geopolitical landscape of Europe has drastically changed. Now, Belarus is viewed by the West as a military district of Russia, not a sovereign state. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Ukraine_Replaces_the_Soviet_Symbol_on_the Motherland_Monument⠀⇛ The Motherland Monument — a 335-foot-tall stainless steel behemoth towering over Ukraine’s capital — was unveiled in 1981 and designed to assert Soviet invincibility. # ⚓ Latvia ☛ Fake_medical_diagnoses_case_linked_to_Latvian- language_exams⠀⇛ A criminal case on false psychiatry diagnoses was initiated in June in connection with efforts to get out of Latvian language exams mandatory for Russian citizens, the Corruption Prevention and Combating Bureau (KNAB) confirmed to Latvian Television on August 7. # ⚓ Latvia ☛ Latvian_drug_in_demand_among_Russia’s_invasion force⠀⇛ Recently, the Latvian Television program “Panorāma” reported that several hundred Latvian companies continue to export their products to Russia. While they might not be breaking any sanctions, such actions still create a very negative impression, particularly on social media, reports LSM’s Russian-language service. # ⚓ Security Week ☛ North_Korean_Hackers_Targeted_Russian Missile_Developer⠀⇛ A sanctioned Russian missile maker appears to have been targeted by two important North Korean hacking groups. # ⚓ France24 ☛ Russia_to_launch_first_lunar_mission_in_nearly half_a_century_Friday⠀⇛ Russia said Monday it plans to launch a lunar lander this week after multiple delays, hoping to return to the Moon for the first time in nearly fifty years. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Foreign_Ministers_of_China_and_Russia Confer_Phone_After_Jeddah_Talks⠀⇛ China underscored its desire to “actively promote” efforts to end the war in Ukraine “on any multilateral occasion.” # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Ukraine_Says_Russian_Missiles_Struck_Town of_Pokrovsk,_Killing_5⠀⇛ The strikes hit the center of the small city in eastern Ukraine twice within 40 minutes, officials said. At least 31 people were injured. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Ukraine’s_Marines_Urge_Patience_With Counterattack_Against_Russia⠀⇛ Journalists from The Times spent two weeks with troops from brigades trained and supplied by NATO to get their take on how, and where, the counteroffensive is going. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Russia-Ukraine_War:_Search_Resumes_in Rubble_of_Strikes_That_Killed_at_Least_7⠀⇛ An emergency worker was killed, and dozens of people were injured in missile attacks on a residential complex in Pokrovsk. # ⚓ LRT ☛ Over_€100m_in_Russian,_Belarusian_assets_frozen_in Lithuania_due_to_sanctions⠀⇛ More than 103 million euros in Russian and Belarusian assets have been frozen in Lithuania, according to the latest data from the country’s Financial Crimes Investigation Service (FNTT). # ⚓ LRT ☛ Belarus_begins_military_drills_near_Poland_and Lithuania⠀⇛ Belarus has begun military exercises near its border with Poland and Lithuania, the Associated Press news agency said on Monday. The move comes following tensions over the deployment of Russia’s Wagner mercenaries in the country. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Belarus_Begins_Military_Drills_Near_Border_With Poland,_Lithuania_As_Tensions_High⠀⇛ Belarus on August 7 began military exercises near its border with Poland and Lithuania, a move that comes with tensions already heightened between Belarus and the two NATO members over Russian- linked Wagner mercenaries moving to Belarus after their short-lived mutiny in Russia. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Russia_To_Launch_First_Moon_Lander_Since_1976_In Race_With_Indian_Spacecraft⠀⇛ Russia will launch its first lunar-landing spacecraft in 47 years on August 11 in a race with India to the south pole of the moon, a potential source of water to support a future human presence there. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Russian_Political_Analyst_Added_To_List_Of Extremists⠀⇛ Russia’s Federal Financial Monitoring Service added sociologist and political scientist Boris Kagarlitsky to the register of extremists and terrorists on August 7. # ⚓ teleSUR ☛ Putin_Orders_Increase_in_Production_of_Kub_and Lancet_Drones⠀⇛ Russian production will rise to 370,000 units per year between 2023 and 2026 and will reach its maximum annual level between 2031 and 2035. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ In_Rare_Move,_Russian_Court_Acquits_Two_Jehovah’s Witnesses_Of_Extremism_Charges⠀⇛ In a rare move, a Russian court has acquitted two Jehovah’s Witnesses of extremism charges. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ UAE,_a_US_Ally,_Looks_to_China_and_Russia for_Deeper_Ties⠀⇛ The United Arab Emirates, which has translated its wealth into outsize global influence, is diverging from U.S. foreign policy — particularly when it comes to isolating Russia and limiting ties with China. * § Environment⠀➾ o ⚓ Axios ☛ Historic_glacial_flooding_in_Alaska_triggers_evacuations and_Juneau_emergency_declaration⠀⇛ Officials in Juneau, Alaska, declared an emergency Sunday after record glacial_flooding destroyed at least two buildings and forced residents to evacuate. Driving the news:The Mendenhall River first flooded Saturday following a major glacial dam outburst from Suicide Basin, a side basin on the 3,000-year-old Mendenhall Glacier, some 12 miles north of Alaska’s state capital, per a statement from the City and Borough of Juneau. o ⚓ Axios ☛ Severe_storms_sweeping_eastern_and_southern_U.S._leave hundreds_of_thousands_without_power⠀⇛ Severe_storms were threatening much of the eastern and southern U.S. overnight with heavy rain, damaging winds, large hail and even tornadoes in some places, per the National_Weather_Service (NWS). * § Finance⠀➾ o ⚓ Axios ☛ Yellow’s_bankruptcy_underscores_criticism_of_Trump-era loan⠀⇛ As the coronavirus pandemic raged in July 2020, the Trump administration approved a $700 million loan to a Nashville-based trucking company called Yellow. o ⚓ Axios ☛ Climate_woes_intensify_risks_to_food,_inflation_outlook⠀⇛ Extreme weather events and our warming planet are primed to strike commodities and the food supply like never before. Why it matters: The recent global_heat_wave, deadly floods across China’s_grain_belt and wildfires that spanned several continents have put a spotlight on how climate change may wreak havoc on the world’s most- consumed food crops. o ⚓ YLE ☛ Court_sentences_bank_account_fraudster_to_5_years_in prison⠀⇛ The man duped hundreds of S-Bank customers into revealing their banking details before stealing an estimated €2.4 million from them. o ⚓ Latvia ☛ Next_year’s_budget_in_Latvia_will_have_bank_excess profits_tax⠀⇛ The next year’s budget package will include a commercial bank excess profits tax, but it is necessary to assess which model to choose – the Estonian or the Lithuanian one, Finance Minister Arvils Ašeradens (New Unity) said in an interview with Latvian Radio on August 7. o ⚓ Forbes ☛ 2023_Layoff_Tracker:_Emergent_BioSolutions_Cuts_400 Jobs⠀⇛ Emergent BioSolutions, the producer of the opioid overdose-combating nasal spray NARCAN, will cut 400 positions, the company announced on Tuesday, as employers continue to reduce their headcounts well into 2023 amid lingering recession fears (see Forbes’ layoff tracker from the first quarter here). o ⚓ DaemonFC (Ryan Farmer) ☛ Today’s_Democrats_Are_Yesterday’s Republicans._Bonus:_“Work,_Catholics,_and_Pensions.”⠀⇛ As a person who has an immigrant spouse (who entered the United States legally and has always been here legally), I have insights into the US Immigration System and what the Democrat and Republican position on the issue is. Take the 2018 midterm. The Democrats ran on stopping Trump, on impeaching Trump, then the House Democrats didn’t even sue the administration for swiping money from other programs to build the “border wall”, even though this clearly goes against Constitutional separation of powers and the Constitution giving the House of Representatives primary control over taxation and spending issues, and then Nancy Pelosi gave him money earmarked to upgrade the border fencing near her own district in San Francisco. [...] But the whole country is falling apart under this system. Both Trump and Biden are responsible for the hyperinflationary mess and the debt crisis and the ruined economy. [...] The irony, of course, is that an industrial strength serial-bankrupt adulterer that my parents voted for is the one that gave them control of our highest court. [...] The United States went from Chattel Slavery to Wage Slavery. The way it works is “You’re free, but the invisible whip (not to be confused with Wonder Woman’s) is that if you don’t work, you don’t have food, medical care, or shelter, and you will run out of money quickly. Then they steal your retirement from you. But you’re free and the government is your benevolent protector. Oh, and don’t get any funny ideas about saving money because we’ll raise government spending and inflate it all away.” My spouse comes home every day, pissed off. Walmart is cutting hours again (to the just and the unjust alike, because fuck morale) to do a “quiet layoff”, boss yells at you for doing what their handheld computer told you to, then the next day you get called in and told thanks for never being late for work in three years. * § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾ o ⚓ Digital Music News ☛ Threads_Userbase_Shrinks_Dramatically Following_Strong_Initial_Numbers_—_As_Top_Artists_Decide_Against Signing_Up⠀⇛ After attracting a massive number of users out of the gate, Meta’s Threads has reportedly experienced a material community-size falloff. Meanwhile, more than a few commercially prominent artists have thus far decided against using the Twitter alternative. o ⚓ Digital Music News ☛ Elon_Musk’s_Twitter/X_Assumes_Control_Over @Music_Handle⠀⇛ Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter has left the original creator of the @music handle high and dry. Here’s the latest. The Twitter rebrand to X now has Elon Musk combing through registered handles to pick out his favorites, like a child reclaiming toys handed out. o ⚓ Press Gazette ☛ Wave_of_senior_departures_at_National_World_amid redundancy_scheme⠀⇛ At least eight staff announced on Twitter they are leaving the company in the past week. o ⚓ LRT ☛ Prosecutors_launch_probe_after_Lithuanian_minister_reveals tank_deal_on_Facebook⠀⇛ On Monday, Lithuania’s Prosecutor General’s Office said it had opened a pre-trial investigation after Defence Minister Arvydas Anušauskas shared on Facebook details about a tank deal. o ⚓ WhichUK ☛ Shoppers_targeted_by_copycat_websites_impersonating Joules⠀⇛ Facebook ads promise huge discounts but lead to dodgy sites * § Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾ o ⚓ The Atlantic ☛ The_Three_Attacks_on_Intellectual_Freedom⠀⇛ PEN struggles to reconcile its commitment to social justice with its commitment to free speech. * § Digital Restrictions (DRM)⠀➾ o ⚓ Digital Music News ☛ Spotify_Android_Update_Is_A_Crash-fest_for Beta_Users⠀⇛ A new Spotify for Android update seems to be causing major issues like crashes and the inability to open the app at all. Here’s the latest. Reports from social media seem to indicate that most problems are from users who are on the Spotify beta version. * § Monopolies⠀➾ o § Patents⠀➾ # ⚓ JUVE ☛ Edwards_stumbles_against_Meril_as_heart-valve dispute_reaches_the_Netherlands⠀⇛ The dispute between Edwards Lifesciences and Meril Life Sciences spans numerous jurisdictions and numerous patents, all of which relate to minimally invasive heart-valve technology. Now, the District Court of The Hague in the Netherlands has found in favour of Meril, after Edwards Lifesciences brought infringement claims against its competitor. o § Trademarks⠀➾ # ⚓ TTAB Blog ☛ TTABlog_Test:_Which_of_These_Three_Section_2(d) Oppositions_Was/Were_Dismissed?⠀⇛ Here are three recent decisions in Section 2(d) oppositions. At least one of the oppositions was dismissed. See if you can guess how they came out, based on looking at the marks and the involved goods and services. Answer(s) in the first comment. # ⚓ TTAB Blog ☛ TTABLog_Test:_Is_“SUNSET_SUSHI_&_Design” Confusable_with_“BANSHOO_SUSHI_BAR_&_Design”_for_Restaurant Services?⠀⇛ By my reckoning, the Board has affirmed about 85% of the Section 2(d) refusals it has reviewed on appeal this year. (That’s a bit lower than usual.) Here, is the latest decision. The USPTO refused to register the mark SUNSET SUSHI & Design on the ground of likelihood of confusion with the registered mark BANSHOO SUSHI BAR & Design, for overlapping restaurant services. According to the cited registration, the English translation of “BANSHOO” is “SUNSET.” How do you think this appeal came out? In_re_DBMG,_LLC, Serial No. 90185762 (August 3, 2023) [not precedential] (Opinion by Judge Cheryl S. Goodman). o § Copyrights⠀➾ # ⚓ Digital Music News ☛ Korean_FTC_Investigating_Major_K-Pop Agencies_Over_Deceptive_Album_Sales_Practices⠀⇛ The Korean Fair Trade Commission is investigating major K-pop agencies over deceptive album sales practices related to photocards. ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 3063 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐃𝐀𝐈𝐋𝐘 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒 ═════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 08.08.23⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Links_08/08/2023:_Rhino_Linux_2023.1_Release⠀✐ Posted in News_Roundup at 11:32 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇GNOME bluefish⦈ § Contents⠀➾ * GNU/Linux o Graphics_Stack o Instructionals/Technical o Games * Distributions_and_Operating_Systems o BSD o Canonical/Ubuntu_Family o Devices/Embedded o Open_Hardware/Modding o Mobile_Systems/Mobile_Applications * Free,_Libre,_and_Open_Source_Software o Web_Browsers/Web_Servers o Education o Programming/Development # Perl_/_Raku # Python * Leftovers o Science o Education o Hardware o Health/Nutrition/Agriculture o Proprietary/Artificial_Intelligence_(AI) 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 Internet_Policy/Net_Neutrality o Monopolies # Trademarks # Copyrights * § GNU/Linux⠀➾ o § Graphics Stack⠀➾ # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ NVK_the_open_source_Vulkan_driver_for NVIDIA_merged_into_Mesa⠀⇛ Well, it happened! The open source Vulkan driver for NVIDIA GPUs named NVK has been officially merged into Mesa. This means it will be available as an experimental option in the Mesa 23.3 release due in a couple of months (not the upcoming 23.2 release). Note: this is not made by NVIDIA directly but various open source devs. o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾ # ⚓ [Old] Ben Hoyt ☛ I/O_is_no_longer_the_bottleneck⠀⇛ As you can see, the disk I/O in the simple Go version takes only 14% of the running time. In the optimized version, we’ve sped up both reading and processing, and the disk I/O takes only 7% of the total. My conclusion? If you’re processing “big data”, disk I/O probably isn’t the bottleneck. A little bit of measurement will likely point to parsing and memory allocation. # ⚓ University of Toronto ☛ Monitoring_your_logs_is_mostly_a tarpit⠀⇛ The second problem with monitoring for specific narrow signals of interest in your logs is that you have to know what they look like. It’s easy to say that we’ll monitor for the Prometheus host agent crashing and systemd restarting it, but it’s much harder to be sure that we have properly identified the complete collection of log messages that signal this happening. Remember, log messages are unstructured, which means it’s hard to get a complete inventory of what to look for short of things like reading the (current) program source code to see what it logs. # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Linux_Containers_The_Hard_Way⠀⇛ If you want to make containers under Linux, plenty of high-level options exist. [Lucavallin] wanted to learn more about how containers really work, so he decided to tackle the problem using the low-level kernel functions, and he shared the code with us on GitHub. # ⚓ Computers Are Bad ☛ STIRred_AND_SHAKEN_(PDF)⠀⇛ So why are there still spam calls? Unfortunately, STIR/SHAKEN is far from universal. The FCC made STIR/SHAKEN implementation mandatory for US telephone carriers as of June 30, 2022. That was over a year ago, but the FCC issued numerous exemptions to small and rural carriers with difficulty affording the required equipment (remember that telephone switches can have fifty year service lives and there is some very old equipment still in use), and besides, the FCC mandate applied only to the United States. # ⚓ Ubuntubuzz ☛ How_To_Configure_Tor_Socks_Proxy_on_Debian_12 and_Ubuntu_22.04⠀⇛ This tutorial will help you setup The Onion Router (TOR) anonymity software on your computer system with Debian 12 or Ubuntu 22.04 for use as a proxy with browser and any other internet-based applications you want. Please note that Tor works using address “localhost” and port number “9050″. Enjoy! # ⚓ TecMint ☛ How_to_Setup_SSH_Passwordless_Login_in_Linux_[3 Easy_Steps]⠀⇛ SSH (Secure SHELL) is an open-source and trusted network protocol that is used to log in to remote servers for the execution of commands and programs. It is also used to transfer files from one computer to another computer over the network using a secure copy (SCP) command and rsync command. # ⚓ TecMint ☛ How_to_Create_Disk_Storage_with_Logical_Volume Management_(LVM)_in_Linux_–_PART_1⠀⇛ Logical Volume Management (LVM) is a powerful tool that greatly simplifies disk space management. With LVM, the task of allocating additional space to a file system becomes effortless. Whenever a file system requires more space, it can easily draw from the available free space in its corresponding volume group. As a result, file systems can be dynamically resized to accommodate our specific needs. o § Games⠀➾ # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Heroes_of_Might_and_Magic_III_game_engine VCMI_1.3_out_now⠀⇛ Here’s another fun open source reimplementation for you: VCMI is for running Heroes of Might and Magic III on modern systems with plenty of enhancements and a new release just went out. # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ The_Jackbox_Party_Pack_10_is_coming_in October⠀⇛ The Jackbox Party Pack 10 was announced recently, giving another set of amusing games to play with friends and family and it’s coming in October. With full Native Linux support just like pretty much everything from the Jackbox team. # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Baldur’s_Gate_3_is_now_Steam_Deck Verified⠀⇛ One of the biggest RPG releases of all time on Steam, Baldur’s Gate 3 has now been given the Steam Deck Verified badge of approval from Valve. # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Steam_is_having_a_festival_for_Visual Novels_until_August_14th⠀⇛ Ready for some story time? If you’re into Visual Novels, there’s a good chance for you to find something new to play on Steam in their Visual Novel Fest. Running now until August 14th at 10 AM PT / 5PM UTC, you can also claim a daily reward just for showing up with the first being an animated Steam profile avatar. # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Check_out_the_demos_for_Heroes_Of_Loot: Gauntlet_Of_Power_and_Regulator_City⠀⇛ Indie developer Orangepixel currently has two really fun looking games worth looking into, both offering full Native Linux support and they both have newer demos available to try out. * § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾ o § BSD⠀➾ # ⚓ Undeadly ☛ New_routed_IPsec_VPN_mode_committed⠀⇛ The routed IPSec mode we reported on earlier has now been committed to -current by David Gwynne (dlg@), likely to be a prominent item for the upcoming OpenBSD 7.4 release. # ⚓ TuMFatig ☛ Self-Hosted_SearXNG_instance_on_OpenBSD⠀⇛ Some time ago, I discovered and used searx on OpenBSD . This worked quite well but there were a few annoying bugs that I couldn’t solve. Mainly using OpenSearch with Firefox and timeouts with some Big Tech search engines. After struggling enough, I decided to switch to SearXNG . It has some cons compared to SearX but, regarding my needs and beliefs, the pros win. The original documentation for Linux is available here . I’m doing it on OpenBSD 7.3. # ⚓ Occasionally Useful Notes ☛ The_correct_way_to_configure bridges_in_FreeBSD_for_IPv6_(and_IPv4).⠀⇛ IPv6 has a the concept of link scope. From IPv6′s point of view a bridge interface is a single link (just like multiple hosts connected to a physical Ethernet switch), but if there are IP addresses configured on the member interfaces of a FreeBSD bridge the kernel considers these interfaces as their own links with associated link scope. This will cause IPv6 to break. The only correct configuration is to have no IP addresses configured on the member interfaces. The IP addresses belong exclusively on the bridge interface itself. The member interfaces should be treated as pure Ethernet (OSI layer 2) interfaces instead of both OSI layer 2 (Ethernet like) and OSI layer 3 (IP). A further complication is that the bridge has to have unmodified access to the Ethernet frames, but most 1Gb/s and faster as well as virtual network interfaces have offloading features like TSO and LRO to rewrite the small (by modern standards) 1500 byte Ethernet frames into “fake” larger frames to reduce the CPU overhead of processing the packet inside each frame. While useful to IP hosts these offloading features have to be disabled to bridge Ethernet or route and filter the IP packets inside. o § Canonical/Ubuntu Family⠀➾ # ⚓ Linuxiac ☛ Rhino_Linux_Unveils_Its_First_Stable_2023.1 Release⠀⇛ In the ever-evolving landscape of Linux distributions, the arrival of Rhino 2023.1 has created a buzz among enthusiasts and users alike. This brand-new Linux distribution brings a long- awaited feature, infusing the Ubuntu-based foundation with the innovative rolling distribution model. After six betas, the distribution developers released the first stable version, Rhino 2023.1, today, so we can’t wait to bring you our impressions of it. # ⚓ OMG Ubuntu ☛ Rhino_Linux_Makes_Rolling-Release_Ubuntu Reality⠀⇛ Rhino Linux is a rolling-release Linux distro based on Ubuntu. It is a community-based project and not an official Ubuntu flavour. I’m not sure if there’s any linage to the “Rolling Rhino” project ex-Ubuntu desktop manager Martin Wimpress created in 2020. Following a series of successful beta builds (which passed me by, I confess) Rhino Linux 2023.1 is now available to download. This snapshot release is available for 64-bit Intel/AMD systems and ARM64, with specific builds provided for Pine64 and Raspberry Pi devices. # ⚓ Ubuntu ☛ Making_a_move:_How_migrating_to_Ubuntu_saved_a life_insurance_company_60%_in_costs⠀⇛ Balancing high performance operations against the need to reduce total operating costs is a classical dilemma faced by both large and small organisations. This dilemma becomes particularly important when you choose the foundation of your IT infrastructure: the operating system. A recent case study by Tech Mahindra, the multinational IT services and consulting firm, details how their partnership with Canonical enabled them to shift the balance for a major Fortune 500 life insurance company. o § Devices/Embedded⠀➾ # ⚓ Pi My Life Up ☛ How_to_Install_HACS_to_Home_Assistant⠀⇛ The Home Assistant Community store or more commonly known as HACS is a powerful UI that you can add to your setup. Using the store, you can easily install custom third-party elements such as custom devices via integrations, themes, custom cards, and other Lovelace user interface elements. You will likely need to install this add-on at some point, as plenty of smart devices are not supported by the official packages. However, I recommend learning more about Home Assistant before installing HACS. This tutorial will go through all the methods to install HACS to your Home Assistant installation. You will need to be aware of the type of Home Assistant you are using as it will impact how you install HACS. We will explain this below. If you need to install Home Assistant, we have a tutorial that will take you through how to install Home Assistant on the Raspberry Pi. # ⚓ Stacey on IoT ☛ Matter’s_problem_isn’t_the_standard;_it’s the_vendors⠀⇛ After more than two decades covering technology, I’ve seen how large companies can get behind a standard and then sabotage it from the inside, either intentionally or not. I’m not here to say that Amazon, Google, or Apple are intentionally making the rollout of Matter a crummy experience for consumers, but I am here to say that their decisions are making Matter appear broken. # ⚓ Linux Gizmos ☛ Asus_unveils_Tinker_Board_3N_based_on Rockchip_RK3566_SoC⠀⇛ The Tinker Board 3N is a Single Board Computer based on the 64-bit Rockchip RK3566 System-on-Chip. The device includes dual LAN ports, CAN support and it targets applications such as IoT gateways, digital signage, digital kiosks and other commercial uses. o § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾ # ⚓ Linux Gizmos ☛ Low-cost_Smartwatch_powered_by_ESP32 module⠀⇛ The T-Watch S3 from LILYGO is an open-source device built around the ESP32-S3 SoC with Wi-Fi and BLE connectivity. The device also includes an 1.54” LCD display with capacitive touch capabilities and Arduino support. # ⚓ Andrew Hutchings ☛ Amiga_4000_Restoration_x2:_Part_3⠀⇛ With a clean motherboard base to work from, it is time to start the repair work! # ⚓ Latvia ☛ LTV_looks_at_Russian_‘spy_gadgets’_in_Latvia⠀⇛ Russian diplomats have been expelled from many countries around the world but facilities through which Russian secret services may still obtain valuable information remain, Latvian Television reported on August 6. # ⚓ Five_RISC-V_joint_investors_seek_to_reduce_licensing_risks: Gold⠀⇛ A new RISC-V initiative announced last week by five leading chip players is a direct result of the more aggressive stance Arm is taking in its licensing terms as it tries to increase its revenues as a function of its upcoming IPO and its future as a publicly traded company. o § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ WhatsApp_Beta_Features_For_Android_Version_2.23.16.19_– What_the_Latest_Update_Offers⠀⇛ # ⚓ TechRadar ☛ Hate_scanning_QR_codes?_This_clever_Android feature_could_soon_rescue_you_|_TechRadar⠀⇛ # ⚓ TechRadar ☛ This_obscure_5G_Android_tablet_promises_to_last 113_days_in_standby_thanks_to_the_biggest_battery_ever_built in_such_a_device_|_TechRadar⠀⇛ # ⚓ Phone Arena ☛ When_will_Android_14_come_to_my_phone?_Our expectations_–_PhoneArena⠀⇛ # ⚓ SlashGear ☛ How_To_Install_Chrome_Beta_On_Your_Android Phone⠀⇛ # ⚓ Phone Arena ☛ How_to_install_Android_14_Beta:_a_step-by- step_guide_–_PhoneArena⠀⇛ # ⚓ Phone Arena ☛ How_to_protect_yourself_and_your_personal information_from_malicious_Android_apps_–_PhoneArena⠀⇛ # ⚓ Phone Arena ☛ Nokia_starts_rolling_out_Android_13_update for_its_2021_tablet,_the_T20_–_PhoneArena⠀⇛ * § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾ o ⚓ uni Columbia ☛ Netnews:_The_Origin_Story⠀⇛ Netnews, sometimes called Usenet, was arguably the first social network. It had a profound influence on online socializing, including helping to give to the world the current slang meanings of words like “spam”, “troll”, and “flame”. It was where many technologies we now take for granted were first announced, including Linux, the World Wide Web, and the graphical web browser. But its design was a function both its design goals and the technological context of the time. I describe those and a variety of other early design decisions, those which were right, those which were wrong, and those which were inevitable. o ⚓ Julia Evans ☛ Some_tactics_for_writing_in_public⠀⇛ I’ve often heard the advice “don’t read the comments”, but actually I’ve learned a huge amount from reading internet comments on my posts from strangers over the years, even if sometimes people are jerks. So I want to explain some tactics I use to try to make the comments on my posts more informative and useful to me, and to try to minimize the number of annoying comments I get. o § Web Browsers/Web Servers⠀➾ # ⚓ University of Toronto ☛ Good_RPC_systems_versus_basic_‘RPC systems’⠀⇛ It’s not particularly easy or straightforward to make a HTTP based system into a good RPC system. But often you can get away with a basic HTTP based ‘RPC’ system for a surprisingly long time, and it may be the best or easiest option when you’re just starting out. o § Education⠀➾ # ⚓ Raspberry Pi ☛ Meet_Sean_McManus_|_#MagPiMonday⠀⇛ The MagPi regular and Raspberry Pi guide writer, Sean has done just about everything with a Raspberry Pi. This #MagPiMonday, we get to know him better and take a walk down memory lane to the early days of Raspberry Pi. # ⚓ APNIC ☛ Worldwide_REx⠀⇛ REx now offers global resource distribution figures for IPv4, IPv6, and Autonomous System Numbers (ASNs) and the history of the number of delegations and addresses delegated. REx also provides the list of all delegations currently in place around the world. o § Programming/Development⠀➾ # ⚓ Ben Hoyt ☛ Name_before_type:_why_‘age_int’_is_better_than ‘int_age’⠀⇛ There’s a nice answer in the Go FAQ about why Go chose this order: “Why are declarations backwards?”. It starts with “they’re only backwards if you’re used to C”, which is a good point – name- before-type has a long history in languages like Pascal. In fact, Go’s type declaration syntax (and packages) were directly inspired by Pascal. # ⚓ [Old] Erik Dietrich ☛ 5_Things_I’ve_Learned_in_20_Years_of Programming⠀⇛ Do you know what correlates more than anything else with undesirable codebase properties? The size of the codebase. Almost everything bad about codebases has a significant relationship with the size of a codebase, measured in logical lines of code. I love code. I love writing it, studying it, analyzing it, and building things with it. But make no mistake – it’s a massive liability. Always strive to do everything using as little code as humanly possible. # ⚓ Nicholas Tietz-Sokolsky ☛ A_few_weird_ways_of_displaying git_hashes⠀⇛ Well… at what point do we run out of human-readable characters, and what if we used things beyond ASCII? # ⚓ HoneytreeLabs ☛ Coding_in_C++_like_it’s_Golang_(Part_1)⠀⇛ Golang has some mechanisms which are helpful for developing software in Cloud Computing environments. These mechanisms address challenges that are ubiquitous in cloud computing environments, such as handling concurrency scenarios or deploying programs in distributed execution contexts. Some of these mechanisms are useful for real-time scenarios as well. When porting them to C++, care must be taken to follow the principles of real-time programming. Despite these extra challenges (e.g. handling memory allocations) it is absolutely possible to achieve our goal. In the first part of this article series we will show how to return multiple values from functions/methods. # ⚓ Rlang ☛ Enhance_Your_Plots_with_the_text()_Function_in_R⠀⇛ As a programmer, you’re well aware of the importance of data visualization. A well-crafted plot can convey complex information with clarity and impact. In R, creating stunning plots is a breeze, especially when you’re armed with the versatile text() function. This little gem allows you to add custom text to your plots, enabling you to annotate and highlight essential details. Let’s dive into the world of text() and uncover its syntax and potential through some hands-on examples. # § Perl / Raku⠀➾ # ⚓ Buttondown ☛ Raku:_A_Language_for_Gremlins⠀⇛ So instead of working I’ve been learning Raku.1 It originally got on my radar after I ranted about dynamic languages and a couple of users told me I’d like Raku. I finally checked it out last week to see if it’d make a good “calculator language”. I use a hodgepodge of Python, J, Frink, and Excel to do math and they all have their own big drawbacks, so it’d be nice if Raku could round them out. After several days of experiments, I’m at a loss of how to describe Raku. The best I can come up with is that the language was designed by a bunch of really intelligent gremlins. Gremlins who spent a lot of time gathering feedback from other gremlins. # § Python⠀➾ # ⚓ [Old] Ben Hoyt ☛ Designing_Pythonic_library_APIs⠀⇛ Summary: This article describes some principles I’ve found useful for designing good Python library APIs, including structure, naming, error handling, type annotations, and more. It’s a written version of a talk I gave in June 2023 at the Christchurch Python meetup. # ⚓ Bite code ☛ Python_cocktail:_mix_a_context_manager and_an_iterator_in_equal_parts⠀⇛ I had to take a detour about context managers and iteration so that as many people as possible will be able to understand this article, but we are finally here. The goal of all this: learning about this new pattern mixing a custom context managers and a tailor-made iterator. * § Leftovers⠀➾ o § Science⠀➾ # ⚓ Vice Media Group ☛ Baffled_Scientists_Detect_Massive Unexplained_Radiation_From_the_Sun,_Study_Reports⠀⇛ Astronomers witnessed our star emitting gamma rays, the highest-energy form of light, that are one trillion times more intense than the visible sunshine we experience here on Earth. This constant gamma-ray flux—which does not pose a threat to life on our planet—is far brighter than expected based on models of the Sun’s behavior, raising new questions about the mechanisms that are fueling the radiant glow. # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Reviving_An_8-Inch_Hard_Drive_From_The_1980s⠀⇛ As part of the eternal quest within the realm of retrocomputing, storage devices can be one of the most challenging, especially when it comes to firmly obsolete hard drives, such as the CDC Finch drive. This compact 8″ HDD replaced the previous 14″ models with a form factor that was decidedly more portable. These Finch drives being 1980s technology that got run pretty hard before their retirement, it’s little wonder that they’d end up on the repair bench over at [Usagi Electric]. # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ When_The_Sojourner_Mars_Rover_Nearly_Ran_LISP⠀⇛ During the late 1980s NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) was busy developing the first ever wheeled robot that would roam the surface of Mars. Due to the long round-trip times of any signals between Mars and Earth, development of the firmware that would control the rover was a major point, with the two teams occupied with the task each picking different levels of autonomy for the rover. In a retrospective, [Ron Garrett] who worked at JPL on the ‘more autonomy’ team describes his recollections. # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ The_Egyptian_Coin_Box_‘Trick’⠀⇛ [James Stanley] likes to spend time making puzzles and gadgets for escape rooms, and decided for a change to try their hand at a bit of magic. The idea was to construct a ‘magic box’, in which a coin can be placed in one of a number of slots, and then be able to remotely be able to determine the slot by means unseen. Obviously, this is an electronics hack, with a neat package of sensor and radio comms hidden inside a stack of CNC-milled wood. Coin locations are transmitted via Bluetooth to a Bangle.js smartwatch, which vibrates according to the slot occupied, allowing [James] to predict where the coin was placed.The sensor uses capacitive sensing, with a plate below each coin slot acting as one electrode of a capacitor and a copper-clad board hidden in the upper plate acting as the second. The presence of a coin is detected as a change in the capacitance of one of the sensors due to the fact that the plate separation will now be less for that one position. A simple PCB was CNC routed from a piece of plain clad board, with a cut out to solder down a Seeed Studio XIAO-ESP32-C3 module which runs the show and provides Bluetooth connectivity via an external PCB antenna module. Handily this module also handles the lithium battery management. o § Education⠀➾ # ⚓ International Business Times ☛ Nearly_half_of_business leaders_feel_Gen_Z_graduate_students_are_unprepared_for_the professional_workforce⠀⇛ The 40 per cent of business leaders who believe Gen Z students are not ready for the workforce followed up their claims in the survey by offering their opinions on why they believe the graduates are unprepared. 70 per cent believe both work ethic and communication skills are the biggest issues which Gen Z graduates face. Other factors causing the business leaders to believe in the lack of preparation are entitlement and technological skills, with 51 per cent and 43 per cent believing issues to exist with those two factors respectively. # ⚓ International Business Times ☛ Taliban_bans_girls_over_10 years_old_from_attending_school:_Report⠀⇛ They have been banned from attending senior secondary and higher secondary schools, from attending classes in universities, and from working in government and private offices. They have even been banned from visiting parks, gyms, public baths, and beauty salons. The latest move to ban even young girls from attending schools comes just weeks after the Taliban’s supreme leader, Hibatullah Akhundzada, claimed that the group has restored the rights of women. # ⚓ Neil Selwyn ☛ new_book_in_progress_–_‘Digital_Degrowth’⠀⇛ I am pleased to have just signed a contract to write this new book for Polity. The first draft is due for mid-2024, so if all goes well this might be out sometime in 2025. I’ll add bits of writing as I go along to this blog under the ‘degrowth’ label. It should be an interesting journey! o § Hardware⠀➾ # ⚓ The Register UK ☛ China’s_great_CPU_hope_–_Loongson_–_finds it’s_only_four_years_behind_Intel⠀⇛ In a post on Chinese social network QQ.com last week, Loongson shared the results of tests conducted by the China Electronics Standardization Institute on its 2.5GHz quad-core Loongson 3A6000 CPU. Those tests were run using the SPEC CPU 2006 benchmark – a test that stresses a system’s processor, memory subsystem and compiler. It was retired in 2018 – two years before the debut of the Intel silicon with which Loongson claims parity, and five years before these tests. # ⚓ The Register UK ☛ Fujitsu_pulls_the_plug_on_European_client PC_sales⠀⇛ “All Client Computing Devices will continue to be shipped until April 2024 and all exiting support contracts around CCD will be fulfilled. This decision is related to Europe only,” the Fujitsu statement added. As such, the business in Europe will focus on “driving its existing server and storage business as well as the product related services.” # ⚓ Tom’s Hardware ☛ TSMC_Board_to_Approve_First_European_Fab This_Week:_Report⠀⇛ TSMC has been in discussions with the German state of Saxony about building a fab in Dresden to make chips for German and Austrian automakers since 2021. The recent report from Handelsblatt, quoting government sources, suggests that the project is nearing approval from the TSMC board of directors. Meanwhile, the German government and the State of Saxony have reportedly already approved subsidies for TSMC in a move that aligns with the EU’s initiative to increase the output of chips in Europe and reduce dependency on Asian chip suppliers. Once TSMC’s board approves the venture, the foundry could formally announce the intention and reveal official details regarding government funding. However, the European Commission will make the ultimate decision on this endeavor. # ⚓ Reuters ☛ TSMC_to_decide_in_favour_of_German_factory_on Tuesday_-Handelsblatt⠀⇛ Taiwanese semiconductor manufacturer TSMC’s (2330.TW) board of directors will decide in favour of building a factory in the German city of Dresden on Tuesday, the Handelsblatt daily reported, citing government sources in Germany. The German government will provide 5 billion euros ($5.49 billion) to support the construction of the factory, Handelsblatt’s report said on Monday. # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Enhance_Your_Enclosures_With_A_Shadow_Line⠀⇛ Some design techniques and concepts from the injection molding world apply very nicely to 3D printing, despite them being fundamentally different processes. [Teaching Tech] demonstrates designing shadow lines into 3D printed parts whose surfaces are intended to mate up to one another. # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ All_About_USB-C:_Example_Circuits⠀⇛ In the six months that have passed after the last USB-C article has been released, I have thought up a bunch of ways that these articles could have been improved. It’s, of course, normal to have such a feeling — expected, even. I now believe that there’s a few gaps that I could bridge. For instance, I have not provided enough example circuits, and sometimes one schematic can convey things better than a thousand words. # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Perfecting_The_Pulse_Oximeter⠀⇛ We’re always looking for interesting biohacks here on Hackaday, and this new research article describing a calibrated pulse oximeter for different skin tones really caught our attention. o § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾ # ⚓ Terence Eden ☛ Nurses_should_spend_less_time_helping patients_and_more_time_ordering_bandages⠀⇛ Just because you don’t understand how the world works, doesn’t mean the world doesn’t work properly. And just because the world is broken, doesn’t mean it is broken in the way you think it is. # ⚓ Futurism ☛ AI_Is_Dangerously_Good_at_Giving_Eating_Disorder Advice⠀⇛ The CCDH tested six popular generative AI programs in total, ultimately finding that, on average, the platforms coughed up harmful eating disorder advice 41 percent of the time. That’s a high figure, considering the ideal number, of course, is zero. Fowler’s reporting proved to be in consensus with the CCDH findings. When we took our own turn at testing AI chatbots ourselves, our results fell depressingly in line. # ⚓ The Washington Post ☛ AI_is_acting_‘pro-anorexia’_and_tech companies_aren’t_stopping_it⠀⇛ In total, the apps generated harmful advice and images 41 percent of the time. (See their full results here.) When I repeated CCDH’s tests, I saw even more harmful responses, probably because there’s a randomness to how AI generates content. # ⚓ State_medical_boards_have_always_been_toothless⠀⇛ [Orac note: Orac had a big grant deadline last week, explaining the lack of new material. This week, Orac is recharging his Tarial cells (i.e., is on vacation). There will likely be a new post or two, because blogging is his hobby, but no guarantees. Regular activity should resume in full next week.] # ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Police_Drug_Seizures_Increase_the_Risk_of Overdose⠀⇛ Law enforcement agencies have long been engaged in the seizure of illicit drugs as part of the racist War on Drugs being waged for years. o § Proprietary/Artificial Intelligence (AI)⠀➾ # ⚓ The Register UK ☛ ChatGPT’s_odds_of_getting_code_questions correct_are_worse_than_a_coin_flip⠀⇛ The Purdue team analyzed ChatGPT’s answers to 517 Stack Overflow questions to assess the correctness, consistency, comprehensiveness, and conciseness of ChatGPT’s answers. The US academics also conducted linguistic and sentiment analysis of the answers, and questioned a dozen volunteer participants on the results generated by the model. “Our analysis shows that 52 percent of ChatGPT answers are incorrect and 77 percent are verbose,” the team’s paper concluded. “Nonetheless, ChatGPT answers are still preferred 39.34 percent of the time due to their comprehensiveness and well- articulated language style.” Among the set of preferred ChatGPT answers, 77 percent were wrong. # ⚓ MIT Technology Review ☛ AI_language_models_are_rife_with political_biases⠀⇛ The researchers asked language models where they stand on various topics, such as feminism and democracy. They used the answers to plot them on a graph known as a political compass, and then tested whether retraining models on even more politically biased training data changed their behavior and ability to detect hate speech and misinformation (it did). The research is described in a peer- reviewed paper that won the best paper award at the Association for Computational Linguistics conference last month. As AI language models are rolled out into products and services used by millions of people, understanding their underlying political assumptions and biases could not be more important. That’s because they have the potential to cause real harm. A chatbot offering health-care advice might refuse to offer advice on abortion or contraception, or a customer service bot might start spewing offensive nonsense. # § Windows TCO⠀➾ # ⚓ Bruce Schneier ☛ Microsoft_Signing_Key_Stolen_by Chinese⠀⇛ Actually, two things went badly wrong here. The first is that Azure accepted an expired signing key, implying a vulnerability in whatever is supposed to check key validity. The second is that this key was supposed to remain in the the system’s Hardware Security Module—and not be in software. This implies a really serious breach of good security practice. The fact that Microsoft has not been forthcoming about the details of what happened tell me that the details are really bad. # ⚓ [Repeat] Data Breaches ☛ Pt:_SESARAM_confirms cyberattack_[sic]_on_region’s_health_service,_suspends non-urgent_activity_Monday⠀⇛ They are not calling it a ransomware attack, and they are not naming the threat actors that have claimed responsibility at this time, but they note that there was no ransom demand. # ⚓ Scoop News Group ☛ Report:_New_ransomware_gang emerges_in_Vietnam⠀⇛ Targeting victims in English-speaking countries, as well as Bulgaria, China, and Vietnam, the gang uses a Yashma ransomware variant that downloads a ransomware note from an account dubbed “nguyenvietphat” on the code sharing platform Github, evading some endpoint detection and antivirus software, Cisco’s report finds. # ⚓ The Register UK ☛ Techie’s_quick_cure_for_a_curious conflict_caused_a_huge_headache⠀⇛ We have a response to that sort of thing: “Somebody must’ve messed that up.” It transpired that the corporate disk image, on which every single PC in the company was based, had Microsoft’s IIS web server enabled. That’s a bad idea and it wasn’t Bruce’s fault that it was running. # ⚓ [Repeat] Data Breaches ☛ HC3:_Sector_Alert:_Rhysida Ransomware⠀⇛ Rhysida is a new ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) group that has emerged since May 2023. The group drops an eponymous ransomware via phishing attacks and Cobalt Strike to breach targets’ networks and deploy their payloads. [...] # ⚓ US Dept Of Health and Human Services ☛ Rhysida Ransomware⠀⇛ Rhysida is a 64-bit Portable Executable (PE) Windows cryptographic ransomware application compiled using MINGW/GCC. In each sample analyzed, the application’s program name is set to Rhysida-0.1, suggesting the tool is in early stages of development. A notable characteristic of the tool is its plain-text strings revealing registry modification commands. # ⚓ [Repeat] Data Breaches ☛ Jefferson_County_Health Center_notifies_patients_about_May_cyberattack_[sic]⠀⇛ DataBreaches called both entities when the listing appeared and emailed them again recently to ask whether they had been hit by Karakurt. Neither entity responded or posted anything on their respective websites about any breach. o § Security⠀➾ # § Integrity/Availability/Authenticity⠀➾ # ⚓ Iliana Etaoin ☛ Getting_my_library_cards_onto_my phone_the_hard_way⠀⇛ Our local libraries, The Seattle Public Library and the King County Library System, issue pieces of plastic with barcodes printed on the back assigned to your borrower account. These cards are not strictly necessary in 2023; most everything at Seattle libraries is self-service, including circulation, and these self-service entrypoints usually have a way to type in a library barcode manually. But having the barcode is far more convenient, and I’d like to have it without having to keep yet another plastic card I rarely use in my wallet. So I put it on my phone, in my iPhone’s Wallet app. This became extremely silly extremely quickly, so I’ve decided to document it here for myself and others. # § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾ # ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ Pregnant_Woman’s_False_Arrest_in Detroit_Shows_“Racism_Gets_Embedded”_in_Facial Recognition_Technology⠀⇛ A shocking story of wrongful arrest in Detroit has renewed scrutiny of how facial recognition software is being deployed by police departments, despite major flaws in the technology. Porcha Woodruff was arrested in February when police showed up at her house accusing her of robbery and carjacking. Woodruff, who was eight months pregnant at the time, insisted she had nothing to do with the crime, but police detained her for 11 hours, during which time she had contractions. She was eventually released on a $100,000 bond before prosecutors dropped the case a month later, admitting that her arrest was based in part on a false facial recognition match. Woodruff is the sixth known person to be falsely accused of a crime because of facial recognition, and all six victims have been Black. “That’s not an accident,” says Dorothy Roberts, director of the University of Pennsylvania Program on Race, Science and Society, who says new technology often reflects societal biases when built atop flawed systems. “Racism gets embedded into the technologies.” # ⚓ EFF ☛ Your_Computer_Should_Say_What_You_Tell_It_To Say⠀⇛ If you’re scratching your head at this point, we don’t blame you. This is pretty abstract! We’ll unpack it a little below – and then we’ll explain why this is a bad idea that Google should not pursue.  But first… When your web browser connects to a web server, it automatically sends a description of your device and browser, something like, “This session is coming from a Google Pixel 4, using Chrome version 116.0.5845.61.” The server on the other end of that connection can request even more detailed information, like a list of which fonts are installed on your device, how big its screen is, and more.  # ⚓ Tails ☛ Tails_5.16⠀⇛ Automatic upgrades are available from Tails 5.0 or later to 5.16. # ⚓ Silicon Angle ☛ Palantir’s_stock_rises_on_growing profitability_and_strong_guidance⠀⇛ The company was founded back in 2003 by well- known technology investor Peter Thiel, along with Joe Lonsdale and Karp. It sells data analytics software and services, primarily to government agencies, including the Defense Department, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and several intelligence agencies. # ⚓ MIT Technology Review ☛ Worldcoin_just_officially launched._Here’s_why_it’s_already_being_investigated.⠀⇛ Luckily, we have someone I’d consider the Worldcoin expert on staff here at MIT Technology Review. Last year investigative reporter Eileen Guo, with freelancer Adi Renaldi, dug into the company and found that Worldcoin’s operations were far from living up to its lofty goals and that it was collecting sensitive biometric data from many vulnerable people in exchange for cash. [...] What’s more, the company was using test users’ sensitive, but anonymized, data to train artificial intelligence models, but Eileen and Adi found that individuals did not know their data was being used that way. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ [Cryptocurrency]’s_Next_Craze?_Orbs That_Scan_Your_Eyeballs.⠀⇛ “They’re asking us to believe them, to trust them,” said Andrew Bailey, a [cryptocurrency] expert at Yale-NUS College, a collaboration of Yale University and the National University of Singapore. “I don’t think I should have to trust anyone like that when it comes to sensitive information.” # ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ Zoom_Contradicts_Its_Own_Policy_About Training_AI_on_Your_Data⠀⇛ Zoom updated its Terms of Service on Monday after a controversy over the company’s policies about training AI on user data. Although the policy literally says that Zoom reserves the right to train AI on your calls without your explicit permission, the Terms of Service now include an additional line which says, essentially, we promise not to do that. # ⚓ Vice Media Group ☛ Zoom_Changes_TOS_to_Say_It_Won’t Train_AI_on_Your_Calls_‘Without_Your_Consent’_After Backlash⠀⇛ On Sunday, people started posting screenshots of a portion of Zoom’s terms of use that states users consent to the company’s use, collection, and storage of “service generated data” for any purpose, including for “training and tuning of algorithms and models.” The TOS defines this data as telemetry, product usage data, diagnostic data, and “similar content.” Another portion of Zoom’s TOS states that users grant the service the right to use “customer content” (i.e., content generated by users) for the purposes of “machine learning, artificial intelligence, training, testing,” among many other uses. # ⚓ BW Businessworld Media Pvt Ltd ☛ Norway_Imposes_Daily Fine_On_Meta_Over_Privacy_Breaches⠀⇛ Meta Platforms, previously known as Facebook, is set to be fined 1 million crowns (USD 98,500) per day by Norway’s data protection authority, Datatilsynet. The fine is slated to commence on 14 August, following the company’s failure to address identified privacy breaches. Datatilsynet had initially cautioned Meta about privacy concerns on 17 July and provided the company until 4 August to rectify the issues at hand. The regulator’s key concern pertains to Meta’s practice of harvesting user data, including physical locations, to facilitate targeted advertising. # ⚓ India Times ☛ Cryptoverse:_All_eyes_on_ChatGPT- maker’s_Worldcoin⠀⇛ Worldcoin has no problem attracting eyeballs. More than 2.2 million people have signed up, getting their irises scanned in exchange for a digital ID and, in some countries, free [cryptocurency]. # ⚓ India Times ☛ Norway_fines_Facebook_owner_Meta_over privacy_breaches⠀⇛ Facebook owner Meta Platforms will be fined 1 million crowns ($98,500) per day over privacy breaches from Aug. 14, Norway’s data protection authority told Reuters on Monday, a decision that could have wider European implications. The regulator, Datatilsynet, had said on July 17 that the company would be fined if it did not address privacy breaches the regulator had identified. # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ ACLU_Says_NYC’s_Half-Baked_WiFi_Kiosks Still_A_Privacy_Mess⠀⇛ In 2014, NYC officials decided to replace the city’s dated pay phones with “information kiosks” providing free public Wi-Fi, phone calls, device charging, and a tablet for access to city services, maps and directions. The kiosks were to be funded by “context- aware” ads based on a variety of data collected from kiosk users and NYC residents just passing by. o § Defence/Aggression⠀➾ # ⚓ New Statesman ☛ The_Islamist_roots_of_French_disorder⠀⇛ France has been hit harder by jihadism than any European state. The Mirail alone provided dozens to France’s Isis exodus – the largest contingent of any Western country. As with last month’s rioting, the allure of jihadism among some French Muslims was put down to socio-economic marginalisation and the rigid demands of laïcité (state secularism). France holds a special place in the jihadist imagination, which demands that it be targeted for both atrocities and recruitment. The movement’s origins in Europe stem in large part from the overspill of Algeria’s bloody civil war, while Andrew Hussey notes how the former al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri loathed France both for the Napoleonic invasion of Egypt and for providing Israel’s nuclear reactor. Later, in 2016, the official Isis spokesman, Abu Muhammad al-Adnani, instructed followers to kill the “spiteful and filthy French” however they could. For European jihadists, France is the country that most closely resembles all they reject: the birthplace of enlightenment ideas, the home of secularism. For some, the objections are a matter of moral taste: it is a land of seduction, of bon vivants, a place where pornstars become celebrities and where breasts are visible from beaches to newsstands. Even the very personification of the Republic, Marianne, bears her flesh. It is no coincidence that the deadly attacks of November 2015 explicitly targeted places of life, enjoyment and mingling between sexes and creeds. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Vladimir_Putin_wants_to_lead_Russians_into a_civilizational_conflict_with_the_West_far_larger_than Ukraine._Will_they_follow_him?⠀⇛ I spent a month in Russia, a country almost as large as the United States and Canada combined, searching for clues that might explain its nationalist lurch into an unprovoked war and its mood more than 17 months into a conflict conceived as a lightning strike, only to become a lingering nightmare. The war, which has transformed the world as radically as 9/11 did, has now taken 200,000 lives since Feb. 24, 2022, roughly split between the two sides, American diplomats in Moscow estimate. # ⚓ India Times ☛ US_tech_groups_back_TikTok_in_challenge_to Montana_state_ban⠀⇛ TikTok, which is owned by Chinese tech giant ByteDance, filed a suit in May seeking to block the first-of-its-kind U.S. state ban, arguing it violates the First Amendment free speech rights of the company and users. A hearing on TikTok’s request for a preliminary injunction is set for Oct. 12. # ⚓ Vox ☛ ChatGPT_could_make_bioterrorism_horrifyingly_easy⠀⇛ Advances in artificial intelligence have tremendous potential to have positive impacts on science and health. Tools like ChatGPT are revolutionizing how society works and learns, and artificial intelligence applied to biology has led to solving the decade-old protein folding problem and is transforming drug discovery. However, as artificial intelligence raises the ceiling of biological engineering and helps distribute these powers to a tremendous number of individuals, there is a serious risk that it will enable ill-intentioned actors like Aum Shinrikyo, to potentially devastating effect. As I have discussed in a recent preprint paper, large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT, as well as novel AI-powered biological design tools, may significantly increase the risks from biological weapons and bioterrorism. # ⚓ Reason ☛ Why_the_U.S._Hasn’t_Declared_a_Coup_in_Niger⠀⇛ The U.S. struck a similar tune as ECOWAS and the E.U., condemning Bazoum’s overthrow and calling for the restoration of Niger’s democracy while also suspending partnered activities with the Nigerien military. “We strongly condemn any effort to detain or subvert the functioning of Niger’s democratically elected government, led by President Bazoum,” said U.S. National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan in a statement. But unlike ECOWAS and the E.U., the U.S. has neglected to call the overthrow a “coup” to avoid the legal ramifications of that declaration. According to Section 7008 of the annual Department of State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, the U.S. is prohibited from sending foreign aid “to the government of any country whose duly elected head of government is deposed by military coup d’état or decree,” with an exception if the aid “is in the national security interest of the United States.” # ⚓ The Register UK ☛ North_Korean_hackers_had_access_to Russian_missile_maker_for_months,_say_researchers⠀⇛ Two North Korean hacker groups had access to the internal systems of Russian missile and satellite developer NPO Mashinostoyeniya for five to six months, cyber security firm SentinelOne asserted on Monday. The attack illustrates potential North Korean efforts to advance development of missile and other military tech via cyber espionage. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ ‘Beware_just_retribution’:_Pro-Ukrainian_hackers claim_access_to_Moscow’s_municipal_register_of_deeds⠀⇛ The [crackers] announced that the registry’s databases had been “destroyed” and that they’d gained access to “all the data on the places of residence and property of the inhabitants of the capital of the damned aggressor country that unleashed a war with a peaceful state.” “Information about civil servants, politicians, military and special services representatives supporting the war with Ukraine has been transferred to the Defense Forces of Ukraine,” the attackers claimed. # ⚓ LRT ☛ After_Orthodox_pro-war_controversy,_Lithuania_moves to_allow_deregistering_of_religious_groups⠀⇛ Lithuania’s Christian Orthodox church, which is now subordinate to the Patriarchate of Moscow, has been criticised for allegedly supporting the Russian invasion of Ukraine, an accusation rejected by the heads of the church. However, five priests have since been expelled from the organisation in what they said were reprisals due to their anti-war stance. # ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Democracy_Needs_Healthy_Debates_About_War_And Peace⠀⇛ Congress spent the last “military spending” debate rehashing the culture wars — not the nearly $1 trillion Pentagon budget itself. # § War in Ukraine⠀➾ # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Google_Earth_shows_nearly_half_of_tanks_and armored_vehicles_have_been_taken_out_of_storage_at major_open-air_depot_in_Buryatia_—_Meduza⠀⇛ By studying the most recent Google Earth photos from Vagzhanovo, a major open-air military storage depot in Russia’s Buryatia, The Moscow Times has concluded that more than 40 percent of the tanks and other equipment stored at the depot before Russia’s full- scale invasion of Ukraine have been taken out of storage. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ ‘They’re_using_us_as_bait’_A_Russian_draftee was_hanged_after_abandoning_his_position._The authorities_call_it_a_suicide,_but_his_family_is skeptical._—_Meduza⠀⇛ On March 20, Russian draftee Alexander Samoilov was found dead near the village of Chervonopopivka in the self-proclaimed “Luhansk People’s Republic” with rope marks on his neck. Earlier that month, after abandoning his post and getting drunk with other soldiers, he had been taken to a military commandant’s office and held captive there. In the days before his death, he repeatedly called his brother and said his superiors were threatening to kill him if he didn’t confess to a crime. The Russian media outlet People of Baikal recently told Samoilov’s story. Meduza has translated it into English. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Zelensky_advisor_says_not_all_countries participating_in_Saudi_peace_talks_understood_why Russia_must_leave_Ukraine_—_Meduza⠀⇛ Zelensky administration advisor Mykhailo Podolyak said Monday that one of the most challenging issues at this weekend’s talks in Saudi Arabia was the fact that not all participating countries understand why the war can’t end until Russia is fully out of Ukraine’s territory. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Russian_FSB_reportedly_opened_record_number of_treason_cases_in_first_seven_months_of_2023_— Meduza⠀⇛ In the first seven months of 2023, the Russian authorities opened at least 82 criminal cases for treason, espionage, and “cooperation on a confidential basis,” according to journalists from the independent outlet Holod, who calculated the number of cases mentioned in open sources. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ The_shape_of_wars_to_come_Shashank_Joshi_on what_military_analysts_have_learned_in_Ukraine_and_what the_conflict_foreshadows_for_the_future_of_warfare_— Meduza⠀⇛ In July, The Economist released an extended special report called “Battlefield Lessons,” authored by the publication’s defense editor, Shashank Joshi. Analyzing what makes the Ukraine war different from past wars, Joshi predicted that it would also have an effect on the warfare of the future. In an extended interview with Meduza, published in Russian, Shashank Joshi elaborates his insights from the special report, talking in-depth about the advantages and predicaments of the two clashing armies, which lessons from Ukraine could be adopted by NATO forces elsewhere, and why this might be far harder than it sounds. The original interview has been condensed and edited for clarity. o § Transparency/Investigative Reporting⠀➾ # ⚓ Connor Tumbleson ☛ The_Disappointment_Islands⠀⇛ So I went on this journey just from curiosity of some isolated island and left with confusion on why people put fake reviews on locations. Thankfully, discovering a few interesting people who travel to all corners of the world while doing so. # ⚓ Daniel Pocock ☛ Outreachy,_GSoC-mentors_&_Debian-Private may_soon_become_public_records_in_federal_court⠀⇛ 16 August 2023 will be the 30th anniversary of Debian. It is being promoted as Debian Day and it is also the anniversary of the Debian Day Volunteer Suicide. There has never been any independent inquiry into the death. [...] The rules of the US federal court system require that parties pro-actively file their evidence with the court. All documents filed in court become public records. o § Environment⠀➾ # ⚓ New Statesman ☛ How_to_make_IT_sustainable_–_from_silicon to_retirement⠀⇛ Water is another key component of the manufacturing process and a finite resource that requires conservation. “As of last year, Intel has treated and returned to communities 107 per cent of the water that we use,” Zouain said. “We have also made significant progress on waste. Only 6 per cent of the waste generated by our global operations goes to the landfill; we aim get to zero waste to landfill by 2030.” This reduction has been driven by effective recycling, repurposing of materials and minimising Intel’s impact on the environment. # ⚓ The Scotsman ☛ Readers_letters:_Climate_crime⠀⇛ On July 3 this year, the atmospheric CO2 in parts per million(ppm) was 419.3. The safe level is 350 ppm, and this was passed in 1990. The new level represents a 23.7 per cent increase in the past ten years. As a disappointed teacher would declare: “We’re not doing very well, are we?” # ⚓ Axios ☛ The_climate_wrecking_ball_striking_food_supply⠀⇛ Zoom out: Multiple economists told Axios that the long-term threat of climate change to food supply and consequences for costs of major crop commodities increasingly calls for deliberate climate mitigation and adaptation measures. # ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ Bursting_Ice_Dam_in_Alaska Highlights_Risks_of_Glacial_Flooding_Around_the_Globe⠀⇛ Saturday’s event was astonishing because the water gushed so quickly, raising the river’s flows to about 1 1/2 times the highest previously recorded — so much that it washed away sensors that researchers had placed to study the glacial outburst phenomenon. “The flows were just way beyond what anything in the river could withstand,” Hood said. # § Energy/Transportation⠀➾ # ⚓ Vox ☛ Why_a_“room-temperature_superconductor”_would be_a_huge_deal⠀⇛ A widely useful, easy-to-manufacture superconductor capable of running at normal temperatures would be an enormous breakthrough. Several commentators have compared it to the 1947 invention of the transistor, a technology without which the decades of subsequent progress in computing would not have been possible. Even if LK-99 itself is not that breakthrough, its emergence has revived public interest in superconducting generally, and serves as a useful reminder of how valuable progress in this area could be. # ⚓ The Atlantic ☛ Texas_Is_a_Look_Into_the_Future_of Driving⠀⇛ Even as EVs promise a better climate, many people assume that these cars will just suck up energy until there’s nothing left, like giant appliances running all day long, causing power plants to work overtime to compensate. And once their batteries are charged, they can struggle under extreme temperatures. Scott Case, the CEO and co- founder of Recurrent, a start-up that delivers reports on battery health for EV buyers, notes that EVs can lose about 30 percent of their range when temperatures go over 100 degrees. “There’s no battery technology that’s going to change physics,” he told me. With this in mind, Texas is something of a bellwether for a future that many more of us will soon live in as our reliance on electric cars grows, all while temperatures skyrocket permanently upward. You can imagine the nightmare scenario: EVs become a drain on electric grids as the heat gets worse, contributing to widespread blackouts, and then their depleted batteries turn the cars into bricks on wheels. Such a dramatic future may not come to pass, but we will not be able to maintain the status quo: A more extreme climate, combined with the relative complexity of EVs, will require drivers to change their relationship to energy consumption in general, and car manufacturers to reconsider what they build and how. # § Wildlife/Nature⠀➾ # ⚓ The Nation ☛ Fueling_Forest_Fires⠀⇛ o § Finance⠀➾ # ⚓ Dell_Layoffs:_Dell_Technologies_to_Lay_Off_Employees_in Sales_Teams_Amid_Partner-Driven_Market_Strategy⠀⇛ Dell Technologies will lay off some members from its sales teams as part of a new partner-driven market strategy. The company, however, did not confirm if these layoffs are part of or in addition to the 6,650 job cuts it announced earlier this year. Dell, however, confirmed that it “will cut jobs among its core sales teams as it adopts a new partner-led model that pays its direct sales force more to sell storage products through the channel,” reports CRN. “Some members of our sales team will leave the company. We don’t make these decisions lightly, and we’ll support those impacted as they transition to their next opportunity,” a Dell spokesperson was quoted as saying. “We’re always assessing our business to remain competitive and ensure we’re set up to deliver the best innovation, value and service to our customers and partners,” the spokesperson added. Microsoft Layoffs: Tech Giant Reportedly Lays Off 1,000 Employees, Mostly in Sales and Customer Service Teams in Fresh Round of Job Cuts. # ⚓ WSWS ☛ Yellow_freight_declares_bankruptcy,_in_the_latest assault_on_workers’_jobs⠀⇛ Two weeks after shuttering operations, freight company Yellow officially filed for bankruptcy on Monday. The closure of Yellow and the elimination of 30,000 jobs is a massive assault on the working class by Wall Street, escalating a wave of layoffs this year. This is the latest in the continuing jobs bloodbath by the corporate oligarchy, which has eliminated hundreds of thousands of jobs. In the tech industry alone, nearly 225,000 jobs have been slashed so far. In January, Amazon announced that it would cut 18,000 jobs from its office staff followed by another 9,000 in March. Microsoft added to the carnage with 10,000 layoffs. Meta (the parent company of Facebook) announced another 10,000, and Google’s parent company Alphabet announced 12,000 job cuts. Dozens of other companies in the tech sector cut large portions of their staff. o § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾ # ⚓ APNIC ☛ APNIC_celebrates_30_years⠀⇛ What started as the regional academic networking community with a mailing list of 26 contacts (the CCIRN Asia Pacific members), the APNIC of today serves 2.6 billion Internet users, more than half the global Internet. APNIC economies also comprise more than half the global IPv6 capability. Despite many changes in technology and policy worldwide, APNIC has remained committed to: “A global, open, stable, and secure Internet”. # ⚓ The Independent UK ☛ Activists_target_Land_Rover_dealership in_‘retaliation’_over_school_deaths⠀⇛ A group opposed to sports utility vehicles (SUVs) said its supporters have “destroyed” car tyres at a dealership in an “act of retaliation” after two young girls were killed in a crash at a school. # ⚓ Evening Standard UK ☛ Land_Rover_tyres_‘destroyed’_in ‘retaliation’_at_Wimbledon_school_crash_deaths⠀⇛ The group, who call themselves Tyre Extinguishers, posted video online of the raid on the garage based in Exeter which said happened “after a Land Rover killed 2 innocent girls in Wimbledon in July”. # ⚓ LBC ☛ Activists_destroy_Land_Rover_tyres_in_‘retaliation’ for_two_girls_killed_after_car_crashed_into_their_school party⠀⇛ They said on Twitter it was a kind of revenge for the deaths of Nuria Sajjad and Selena Lau, both eight, who were killed when a Land Rover crashed into them at Study Preparatory School in south west London last month. # ⚓ The Telegraph UK ☛ Land_Rover_tyres_slashed_by_anti-SUV activists_in_‘retaliation’_for_school_crash⠀⇛ The Tyre Extinguishers claimed responsibility for drilling the tyres of 60 vehicles at Jaguar Exeter in Devon on Sunday night. In a post on Monday, the group said the move was an “act of retaliation” following the deaths of two eight-year-old girls after a Land Rover crashed through a fence at The Study Prep School in Wimbledon, south-west London last month. # ⚓ Craig Murray ☛ Imran_Khan⠀⇛ Given the large population in the UK of Pakistani origin, the lack of serious media coverage of the overthrow and incarceration of Imran Khan, and the mass imprisonment of his supporters, is truly extraordinary. # ⚓ The Atlantic ☛ The_AI_Crackdown_Is_Coming⠀⇛ The incident was only one in a litany of instances of generative AI spreading falsehoods, not to mention financial scams, nonconsensual porn, and more. Tech companies are marketing their AI products and potentially reaping enormous profits, with little accountability or legal oversight for the real-world damage those products can cause. The federal government is now trying to catch up. # ⚓ Quartz ☛ Tesla’s_CFO_is_stepping_down_after_13_years_at_the EV_maker⠀⇛ Zach Kirkhorn—chief financial officer of Tesla—is stepping down from his position as of Friday (Aug. 11). Vaibhav Taneja, the company’s chief accounting officer, is set to succeed him and will handle both roles simultaneously. # ⚓ Pro Publica ☛ Wisconsin_Election_Official’s_GOP_Roots_Mean Nothing_in_Volatile_New_Climate⠀⇛ Margaret Rose Bostelmann’s ideals are clear from one glance at her well-kept ranch-style house in central Wisconsin. A large American flag is mounted near the front door, and a “We Back the Badge” sign on her front lawn announces her support for law enforcement. Bostelmann, a Wisconsin elections commissioner, said she voted for Donald Trump in 2020 and added: “I will always vote Republican. I always have.” # ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ Freedom_vs._Compelled_Birth:_Dorothy Roberts_on_Abortion_Fights_in_Texas,_Ohio_&_Across_the_U.S.⠀⇛ We look at the fight for reproductive rights in the United States with Dorothy Roberts, director of the University of Pennsylvania Program on Race, Science and Society, who has long warned against the criminalization of pregnancy and has been hailed as a pioneer in the reproductive justice movement. A judge in Texas ruled Friday the state’s abortion ban was too restrictive in cases of dangerous pregnancy complications, allowing doctors to perform abortions in such instances without risk of criminal prosecution, but the state’s Attorney General’s Office filed an immediate appeal and effectively blocked the order. This comes as Ohio voters head to the polls this week to vote on a ballot measure that could raise the threshold for changing the state’s constitution to 60%, an effort fueled by right-wing activists to prevent a simple majority of voters from enshrining abortion rights later this year. “We’re in a battle in this nation on this question of being free or being compelled to give birth,” says Roberts. # ⚓ Digital Music News ☛ State_of_Montana_vs._TikTok_Escalates as_Tech_Giants_Apple,_Amazon,_Google_Weigh_In⠀⇛ The State of Montana vs. TikTok case escalates as two tech groups with backers, including major tech giants Google, Amazon, and Apple, weigh in. On Monday, two tech groups weighed in, backing TikTok in its lawsuit to prevent enforcement of a statewide ban on the short video-sharing app in Montana. # § Misinformation/Disinformation/Propaganda⠀➾ # ⚓ Meduza ☛ ‘Such_unique_times_are_rare_in_history’: Russian_authorities_unveil_new_high_school_history textbook_that_includes_section_on_war_in_Ukraine_— Meduza⠀⇛ The Russian authorities have unveiled a new set of general history and Russian history textbooks for 10th and 11th graders. The books were presented at a press conference on Monday by Education Minister Sergey Kravtsov and Putin aide Vladimir Medinsky, who helped write them along with Anatoly Torkunov, the rector of the Moscow State Institute of International Relations, as well as Alexander Chubaryan, the research supervisor of the Institute of General History at the Russian Academy of Sciences. o § Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾ # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Iranian_Protester’s_Overturned_Execution_Stuck_In Legal_Limbo,_Lawyer_Says⠀⇛ The regime’s brutal crackdown on public demonstrators and dissent has seen thousands of people arrested, including journalists, lawyers, activists, digital rights defenders, and others voicing opposition to the government. # ⚓ International Business Times ☛ Russian_woman_fined_for_‘sex is_cool,_but_Putin’s_death_is_better’_text_on_tote_bag⠀⇛ The woman revealed that two policemen in plain clothes came to her house on June 28. They told her that a complaint had been filed against her for anti-government posts. She was eventually taken to the Ministry of Internal Affairs department in Krasnodar, where she was questioned for her social media posts. # ⚓ The Nation ☛ The_Small-Town_Library_That_Became_a_Culture War_Battleground⠀⇛ But now the library is under attack. Would-be censors were marshaled on Facebook by a young mother of two—and a onetime library worker in the nearby townlet of Prescott—named Jessica Ruffcorn. Motivated by religious and political objections to the content of certain books, Ruffcorn and her followers are demanding that the “offensive” materials be removed from the children’s section and placed on the highest shelves in the adult section, preferably with warning labels pasted onto their covers. The effort began with a hit list of a handful of books, which soon grew to a dozen. At last count, the number exceeded 100 volumes. According to a representative of Moms for Liberty, the group has no chapter in the area and is not involved in the campaign, but many of these titles have also been identified by Moms for Liberty as being particularly objectionable. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Ex-husband_of_former_Russian_state_TV_employee_who protested_war_on_air_sues_to_terminate_her_parental_rights⠀⇛ A Moscow court has registered a lawsuit seeking to terminate the parental rights of Marina Ovsyannikova, the former employee of the Russian state TV network Channel one who ran on stage with an anti-war banner during a live broadcast in 2022. # ⚓ CPJ ☛ Bangladesh_to_replace_draconian_Digital_Security_Act with_new_law⠀⇛ Under the proposed new law, journalists would face fines, rather than jail sentences, for defamation, and suspects would receive bail, Law Minister Anisul Huq said, according to news reports. Many sections of the Digital Security Act are likely to be incorporated in the new law, while sections that can be misused will be omitted, he said. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Russian_Writer_Sentenced_In_Absentia_For_Anti-War Statements⠀⇛ The Basmanny district court in Moscow on August 7 sentenced writer Dmitry Glukhovsky to eight years in prison on a charge of discrediting the Russian military in his online posts condemning Moscow’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine. [...] o § Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press⠀➾ # ⚓ NPR ☛ New_charges_against_Trump_focus_on_lies._Scholars_see an_authoritarian_playbook⠀⇛ “The use of lies takes place in a larger effort to turn the public against alternate sources of authority,” she said. Those sources might include independent courts, legislative bodies and law enforcement agencies. Or — it may be the fourth estate. “If you’re looking to see if somebody’s going to be a strongman, what you find is even when they start campaigning, they immediately start trying to turn the public against the press, saying [the press is] biased and that they are the truth teller against the establishment,” said Ben-Ghiat. As that leader’s supporters increasingly come to believe that he is the only source of truth, she said, they will be primed to believe his claims of a stolen election. # ⚓ CPJ ☛ Violence_against_Netherlands’_journalists_dims_a beacon_of_press_freedom⠀⇛ De Vries’ killing was the most serious attack on journalist safety in a country where press freedom has long been taken for granted. In today’s Netherlands, journalists covering protests have been attacked by demonstrators – and occasionally detained by police — and face a torrent of online harassment. Combined with threats to crime reporters amid a rise in illegal drug trafficking, such incidents have dimmed the reputation of the Netherlands – along with other countries in the European Union – as one of the world’s safest places for journalists. On a fact-finding and advocacy mission to the Netherlands from June 26 to 30, CPJ met with journalists, press freedom advocates, experts, and government officials about ways to keep journalists safe in an increasingly hostile media climate. Key takeaways from CPJ’s visit: [...] # ⚓ Press Gazette ☛ Vice_News_editor_in_chief_and_deputy_editor to_depart_following_sale⠀⇛ The purchase, which closed on Monday 31 July, was followed by the departure of four senior US-based editorial staff: senior vice president of global news and entertainment Katie Drummond, Motherboard editor in chief Jason Koebler, executive editor Emanuel Maiberg and senior director of global news operations Matthew Schnipper. # ⚓ Locus Magazine ☛ Simon_&_Schuster_Sold_to_KKR⠀⇛ Private investment firm KKR has reached an agreement to acquire Simon & Schuster from parent company Paramount Global for $1.62 billion. # ⚓ Publishers Weekly ☛ KKR_Wins_S&S_for_$1.62_Billion⠀⇛ A private equity firm’s acquisition will be viewed negatively by many who will be concerned that KKR will put profits over literature. Others, however, will see KKR’s as better than S&S being bought by one of its competitors. The government trial that blocked the PRH deal made clear that most industry members did not want S&S to be acquired by another member of the Big 5; HarperCollins, which bid for S&S when it was first placed up for sale, was also bidding for the publisher in the newest sale process. o § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾ # ⚓ Vice Media Group ☛ Amazon_Says_It_Doesn’t_‘Employ’_Drivers, But_Records_Show_It_Hired_Firms_to_Prevent_Them_From Unionizing⠀⇛ Amazon hired at least two union-busting consulting firms specifically to prevent its drivers from joining the International Brotherhood of Teamsters over the course of 2022, according to six reports filed to the Department of Labor and obtained by Motherboard. This is notable because Amazon claims that the drivers who deliver its packages are not its employees. # ⚓ BIA Net ☛ FedEx_workers_will_go_on_strike⠀⇛ “We have a promise to the FedEx workers. Nakliyat- İş union will not sign an agreement which is not approved by 80 percent of the workers. We will go on strike. It is not our aim to go on strike. Our aim is to get decent sallary, ours is a class struggle,” he said. # ⚓ uni Michigan ☛ U-M_leaders_outline_GSI,_GSSA_expectations for_fall⠀⇛ University of Michigan officials have informed graduate student instructors and graduate student staff assistants that employees who participate in a strike this fall will be subject to replacement for the entire semester. Graduate employees engaged in the work stoppage also will “likely be removed from the system as a course instructor and will lose access to the Canvas site(s) for the course,” according to an email message from Provost Laurie McCauley sent Aug. 7. The message, sent as the university readies for the start of the fall term in three weeks, comes amid an ongoing contract dispute with the Graduate Employees’ Organization, the union representing GSIs and GSSAs. The union’s prior contract expired on May 3. # ⚓ Quartz ☛ It’s_no_surprise_Zoom_wants_workers_back_in_the office⠀⇛ Oh, the irony of the remote work company asking its employees to return to the office. Had the notice been fictionalized for a novel about the post- pandemic culture wars, critics would certainly call its satire a touch heavy-handed. If your company wants to power the remote-work revolution, shouldn’t it lead by example? Perhaps Zoom’s executives—and the other Big Tech bosses building products for this age of work—don’t believe in it themselves. # ⚓ Silicon Angle ☛ Detroit_police_in_deep_water_after_using erroneous_facial_recognition_to_arrest_pregnant_black_woman⠀⇛ This is the third case in Detroit in which an African-American has been falsely arrested after police used the highly controversial technology. Although all the cases expose a serious flaw in policing, this one is perhaps the most concerning. The woman, Porcha Woodruff, a mother of three and a licensed aesthetician and nursing school student, was eight months pregnant when cops showed up at her door in February to tell her she was being taken to the station on a charge of robbery and carjacking. # ⚓ Breach Media ☛ As_profits_soar_and_wages_stagnate,_workers say,_‘Enough_is_enough’⠀⇛ This is a class war and don’t ever let anybody tell you differently. Hundreds of workers rallied on Thursday. Employees have been picketing since Wednesday calling for their wages to keep up with inflation. We want a livable wage. # ⚓ Futurism ☛ The_Feds_Are_Now_Using_[Cryptocurrency]_to_Catch Drug_Traffickers⠀⇛ In interviews with CNN, officials who track cartels explained that although cash remains traffickers’ currency of choice, [cryptocurrency] has gained traction because, as IRS Cyber and Forensics Services head Jarod Koopman notes, it “eliminates the potential for hand-to-hand transactions.” # ⚓ Site36 ☛ Deportation_even_without_a_crime:_German_MoI_wants to_punish_alleged_members_of_“clans”_collectively⠀⇛ # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ The_Grace_of_the_American_Republic:_Looking Forward_To_the_Appropriate_Catastrophe⠀⇛ In his latest encounter with reality – SAD! – America’s disgraced, lying, multiple-indicted “perpetual defendant” was charged in a 4th jurisdiction with a 4th grievous crime of trying to overthrow democracy. Astoundingly, he’s still whining and criming: Sack the judge, move the trial, attack the four prosecutors (coincidentally, 3 of them black) doing their jobs. But belated accountability looms. Former Capitol cop Mike Fanone: “Donald Trump spent his entire lifetime fucking around and he’s about to find out.” # ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ “It’s_a_Way_of_Reparations”:_Why_Henrietta Lacks_Settlement_Matters_for_Bioethics_&_Racial_Justice⠀⇛ The family of Henrietta Lacks, a Black cancer patient whose cells were taken by Johns Hopkins University Hospital without her consent in 1951, has reached a deal over the unethical use of her cells with pharmaceutical company Thermo Fisher Scientific. Henrietta Lacks’s family has denounced the racist medical system that allowed the biotech company to make billions in profit from the “HeLa” cell line, which helped produce remedies for multiple diseases, including the first polio vaccine. Details of the settlement were not made public, but the plaintiffs celebrated the lawsuit’s resolution last Tuesday, on Henrietta Lack’s birthday. For more on the case and the history of medical racism in the United States, we speak with Dorothy Roberts, director of the University of Pennsylvania Program on Race, Science and Society. She is the author of several books, including Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-first Century. “What happened to Henrietta Lacks didn’t just happen to her. It’s part of a long history of experimentation and exploitation of Black people in biomedical research,” says Roberts. # ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ #SayHerName:_Kimberlé_Crenshaw_on_Black Women_Killed_by_Police_&_DeSantis’s_New_Pro-Slavery Curriculum⠀⇛ We speak with acclaimed scholar and activist Kimberlé Crenshaw about her new book #SayHerName, which honors the stories of 177 Black women and girls killed by police between 1975 and 2022 whose deaths received little media coverage or other attention. “We can’t give these women back to their families, but we can make sure that they are not lost to history,” Crenshaw tells Democracy Now! She also discusses the ongoing right-wing “attack on Black knowledge,” such as Florida’s new education curriculum that claims slavery had “personal benefit” for enslaved people, as well as the recent death of civil rights scholar Charles Ogletree. # ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ ‘Barbie’_is_a_Movie_About_the_Messy Contradictions_of Motherhood⠀⇛ The Conversation Editor’s note: This article contains plot spoilers for “Barbie.” # ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ BJG_and_Ben_Shapiro…AGREE_on_‘Barbie?’⠀⇛ Is ‘Barbie’ the female empowerment movie the culture needed? Or does it convey a pseudo- feminist, reductive message for young women? Or is it conservative?? # ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ ‘Traffic_stops_should_not_be_death sentences’⠀⇛ Around 2 a.m. on July 31, Minnesota State Patrol trooper Ryan Londregan fatally shot Ricky Cobb II… # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Oversight_Agency_Says_DHS_Needs_To_Stop_Screwing Around_And_Accurately_Track_Use_Of_Force_By_Officers⠀⇛ There are no incentives in place to encourage accurate reporting of force deployment by law enforcement agencies. Tracking use of force means agencies are basically generating evidence for civil rights lawsuits. That’s why force reporting is, at best, inconsistent. # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Witcher_Producer:_Show’s_Shit_Viewership_Is Because_Of_Dumb_Americans_And_Social_Media⠀⇛ There’s nothing particularly novel when it comes to showrunners of media properties blaming all these damned kids and their internet for why their productions aren’t as successful as they wanted. Everything from broadway productions to viewership of the damned Olympics have had young people and social media blamed for declining or terrible viewership/attendance numbers. In nearly every case where you dig into this, however, you find that this blame game is exactly that. Sometimes the product just sucks, or the proper marketing hasn’t been undertaken, or the product just sucks, or you’ve misjudged what the audience wants, or the product just sucks. # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ After_Bodycam_Footage_Undoes_Its_Narrative,_NYPD Agrees_To_Pay_$13_Million_To_Anti-Police_Violence Protesters⠀⇛ Cops really hate policing protests that target police. But that has been the reality since Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin ripped the bandage off an unhealed wound by placing his knee on the neck of unarmed black man George Floyd, choking the life out of him during an act that played out like an anthropomorphized version of systemic racism. o § Internet Policy/Net Neutrality⠀➾ # ⚓ RIPE ☛ On_Internet_Centrality_and_Fragmentation⠀⇛ Centrality and fragmentation appear to be two completely opposite problems – and yet today’s Internet seems to be in danger of both at the same time. In this guest post, Geoff Huston shares his views on this apparently contradictory state of affairs. # ⚓ RiskyBiz ☛ Risky_Biz_News:_Microsoft_accused_of_negligence in_dealing_with_security_flaw,_again⠀⇛ WEI criticism: The Brave browser team has added its voice in opposition to Google’s proposed Web Environment Integrity (WEI) standard, likened to a Web DRM. It adds to criticism from Vilvaldi and Mozilla. # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Comcast_Lost_12%_Of_Its_Cable_TV_Customers_In The_Last_Year_Alone⠀⇛ Cable executives spent years denying that “cord cutting” (ditching traditional TV) was real. For years they insisted it was a “fiction,” or that it was a fad that would end once Millennials started procreating. Whatever gave them permission to not meaningfully evolve their often predatory, anti- competitive business strategies. # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Appeals_Court:_Salesforce_Can’t_Use_230,_And Could_Be_Liable_For_Sex_Trafficking_Because_Backpage_Was_A Customer⠀⇛ Well this is dumb. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Yandex_co-founder_Arkady_Volozh_updates_his entrepreneurial_bio._Russia_shrinks_to_marginal_mention._— Meduza⠀⇛ Arkady Volozh, a co-founder and former CEO of the now-divided IT giant Yandex, has updated his entrepreneurial biography — and Russia is vanishing from his story. o § Monopolies⠀➾ # ⚓ Matt Rickard ☛ NVIDIA’s_CUDA_Monopoly⠀⇛ CUDA (Compute Unified Device Architecture) is a closed-source low-level API that interfaces software with NVIDIA GPUs. CUDA is a major moat for NVIDIA. It’s part of why NVIDIA GPUs command such a premium over other hardware (and are perpetually in short supply). A few reasons why the monopoly exists: [...] # ⚓ Silicon Angle ☛ EU_launches_investigation_into_Adobe’s proposed_$20B_acquisition_of_Figma⠀⇛ The European Commission said today it’s opening a full-scale investigation into Adobe Inc.’s proposed $20 billion acquisition of Figma Inc., a provider of cloud-based design tools. According to the European Commission, a preliminary review of the deal triggered major concerns that it could significantly reduce competition in the global market for interactive product design tools, and also shut out competitors. # § Trademarks⠀➾ # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Court_Should_Block_Registration_Of_‘Trump Too_Small’_Trademark_Not_Because_It’s_Someone’s_Name, But_Because_No_One_Should_Control_The_Phrase⠀⇛ There’s an interesting thing that happens all too often in trademark cases, whereby people seem to flip the underlying argument. We see it in cases where someone opposes the registration of a certain trademark, and the party seeking the trademark complains that the government is trying to “censor” them or limit their speech, when more accurately granting the trademark is more likely to limit everyone else’s speech. # § Copyrights⠀➾ # ⚓ The Atlantic ☛ Here_Comes_the_Second_Year_of_AI College⠀⇛ Another faction within academia sees generative AI as an enemy. In the age of large language models, a student’s writing assignment can no longer reliably confirm whether they’ve understood a topic or read a text. Weekly reading responses and discussion posts, once a staple of higher education, seem useless. Some instructors are trying to adopt countermeasures. One SUNY Buffalo faculty member told Kelly Ahuna that he would keep his weekly online quizzes but employ technology that tracks students’ eye movements to detect potential cheating. Others seem to hope that prohibition alone can preserve the familiar pre-ChatGPT world. Most instructors at Bryn Mawr College have declared that any use of AI tools counts as plagiarism, says Carlee Warfield, the head of the school’s honor board. Darren Hick, a philosophy professor at Furman University, told me he refuses to abandon take-home essays. In his view, in-person exams aren’t real philosophy. They leave no time for rumination and serious engagement with a thinker’s work. “It’s gimmicky,” Hick said. “My pedagogy is good, my students learn, and I don’t like the idea of having to upend what’s been a tradition in philosophy for millennia because somebody has a new technology that students can use to cheat.” # ⚓ Creative Commons ☛ CC’s_#BetterSharing_Collection_| August:_Sharing_Is_Growing⠀⇛ Each month throughout 2023, we will be spotlighting a different CC-licensed illustration from the collection on our social media headers and the CC blog. For August, we’re excited to showcase “Sharing Is Growing” by Olga Mrozek. The piece, licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, was inspired by a quote from Medhavi Gandhi, founder of The Heritage Lab: # ⚓ Torrent Freak ☛ Google_Search_Asked_to_Remove_One Billion_‘Pirate’_Links_in_9_Months⠀⇛ In a period of less than nine months, Google received requests to remove over a billion links to pirate sites from its search engine. This is a significant increase compared to recent years, but not necessarily a new trend. More than a quarter of all reported links, relating to a single website, were sent by MindGeek, the parent company of PornHub. # ⚓ Torrent Freak ☛ Premier_League_Wins_2-Year_Pirate IPTV_Blocking_Order_as_Sky_Targets_Identified⠀⇛ Following a report last week that UK broadcaster Sky had obtained a High Court piracy-blocking order, it transpires that the Premier League obtained a similar order just days later. The orders are yet to appear in public, but we’re informed that the Premier League will be able to block pirate IPTV services during the 2023/2024 and 2024/2025 seasons. Interestingly, the Sky order seems to cover a much shorter period but does identify six pirate IPTV services by name. ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 5821 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐃𝐀𝐈𝐋𝐘 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒 ═════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 08.08.23⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Links_08/08/2023:_Gemini_Radio_and_UDP_Criticism⠀✐ Posted in News_Roundup at 4:06 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇GNOME bluefish⦈ § Contents⠀➾ * Gemini*_and_Gopher o Personal/Opinions o Politics_and_World_Events o Technology_and_Free_Software # Internet/Gemini * § Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾ o § Personal/Opinions⠀➾ # ⚓ 🔤SpellBinding:_CINOSUV_Wordo:_WOOFS⠀⇛ o § Politics and World Events⠀➾ # ⚓ Re:_Oxymoronistic_tinylog⠀⇛ The brainwashing is too widespread and thorough this time. I see absolutely no hope for those who’ve come to consider primary media narratives paramount to Exactly What Reality Is. You can’t even begin to discuss such with them without their falling into fits of “Conspiracy Theory!”. Their minds perpetually hover over scores of triggers. The evangelicals of the 1980s got nothing on modern wokeful fundamentalists, *including* the intensity and depth of their faith – which, of course, is the secret sauce in conceptuality-based reality generation. # ⚓ Turns_out_having_the_world_in_your_lap_isn’t_what_it_was originally_cracked_up_to_be⠀⇛ Slept soundly, but of course it’s not necessarily technically “good sleep” when wine-assisted. Not sure what happened with my wife. I was up briefly around 6:00am for bathroomssakes when she came into the bedroom (I honestly thought was already there in the space next to me as usual..) and whispered something about not having fallen asleep until “about an hour ago”. Yikes. o § Technology and Free Software⠀➾ # ⚓ Flying_by_on_E-Bikes⠀⇛ Yesterday our new e-bikes arrived, wife and I both got RadRover 6 bikes from RadPower. Took most of the day to assemble (the accessories took longer than the bikes). Learned how to use my first torque wrench though! Took the bikes for a ride last night to the local pizza shop. The weather was pretty nasty (rainy and windy), but the bikes did amazing. Lots of speed, comfortable and handle any type of surface with ease. My bike is loaded with front and rear racks and a pannier bag (which was useful for our leftovers), so it’s quite a bit heavier than my wife’s. This morning we did another ride to the YMCA to go swimming. My one complaint with riding in the dark is that the front headlight doesn’t do much, especially with it’s mounting position when you have a front rack. A lot of it gets cut off by the tire. # § Internet/Gemini⠀➾ # ⚓ Gemini_Radio_—_Episode_51⠀⇛ * Final Fantasy 6 * Debian 12 * makeworld Leaving Gemini # ⚓ Detailed_Guppy_v0.2_Feedback⠀⇛ I wrote about the Guppy protocol yesterday, which is a smolweb protocol that interestingly uses UDP instead of TCP. =============================================================================== * Gemini_(Primer) links can be opened using Gemini_software. It’s like the World Wide Web but a lot lighter. ╘══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╛ ¶ Lines in total: 5948 ➮ Generation completed at 02:42, i.e. 38 seconds to (re)generate ⟲