𝕿𝖊𝖈𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍𝖙𝖘 Bulletin for Saturday, August 26, 2023 ┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅ Generated Sun 27 Aug 02:51:29 BST 2023 Created by Dr. Roy Schestowitz (𝚛𝚘𝚢 (at) 𝚜𝚌𝚑𝚎𝚜𝚝𝚘𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚣 (dot) 𝚌𝚘𝚖) Full hyperlinks for navigation omitted but are fully available in the originals The corresponding HTML versions are at 𝒕𝒆𝒄𝒉𝒓𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒔.𝒐𝒓𝒈 Latest in 𝒉𝒕𝒕𝒑://𝒕𝒆𝒄𝒉𝒓𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒔.𝒐𝒓𝒈/𝒕𝒙𝒕 and older bulletins can be found at 𝒉𝒕𝒕𝒑://𝒕𝒆𝒄𝒉𝒓𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒔.𝒐𝒓𝒈/𝒕𝒙𝒕-𝒂𝒓𝒄𝒉𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒔 Full IPFS index in 𝒉𝒕𝒕𝒑://𝒕𝒆𝒄𝒉𝒓𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒔.𝒐𝒓𝒈/𝒊𝒑𝒇𝒔 and as plain text in 𝒉𝒕𝒕𝒑://𝒕𝒆𝒄𝒉𝒓𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒔.𝒐𝒓𝒈/𝒊𝒑𝒇𝒔/𝒕𝒙𝒕 Gemini index for the day: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2023/08/26/ ╒═══════════════════ 𝐑𝐄𝐂𝐄𝐍𝐓 𝐁𝐔𝐋𝐋𝐄𝐓𝐈𝐍𝐒 ════════════════════════════════════╕ Previous bulletins in IPFS (past 21 days, in chronological order): QmfXKhYcGYHZGufpdVU71ZTTo1cCovxR9GpF1HuxR4f1VH QmdoTZo8Mevtx6RZCctMfwQ2Y4ffZS4ZQ6SjUZEWNm5pRa QmZ8HUFLDLxvBHLKutyBuQ6a4TTR6hb3ZAFg3gf5MsGv4Z QmdW1PZqQK5LjoM41V2gKL2KqnHaEqwHdd4G1YYxa7JTEz QmYYePurSm8yAKEwRv17i1k4Q7ju7m4SQByFQcLC8HtY7x QmaRubG8aC9J2F4D9dmkGvjTspm5HdnsTMqDuVHGcPc8k5 QmQRTBqrhT8MUXdVEwJShtA9dbvEtZNFjWkf2QjuuactPS QmRvPmuQj51W76zvbu8EJVsufNdff2k6sLwDW4kU1Umw72 QmVsL5SjB4i4sLymC3HBZkhwBhNY5MXy27LZs9QBCDgtZo QmNdfSVvGLKtGutRooKPbAq57B9AZoPeYGGSjhD1a2fVET QmZnEb1NMj8vNm5EXH9jb8unPV3bTrZKvHcvsEczvMfMYS QmPrM5Hu5PNR7zjUmtsvqm8xkZsrE96qx4CaEuQrKFfjFd QmfR8XxBEMVs1Mue6wS1NKXYG8optDVxN7EFcGCzvD1Q9z QmbqCQ6R4NusTRm9E3YjVzj9c1FxCfEvrfqShjAZLaCyQS QmeZFBVX9fk1V5VBuSsZpDpx2dnJBatXxASzUtAm4wrZ26 QmR8687kGyLT5rdVV9a5wwcd599wytXYh8CbSBUtHMqNx6 QmVL6ny5v6haHeg8eGHJrcSY343AUa4deXjfvCw1ZDmDz6 QmWKPms4oLgJhFJZPgySVW8kBSCBHkHuEbpSJ9Hu8w899a QmYRNEXfEKgCkNrxSJTkmHBQSawGzsT7jTG9zeGBgLZpYW QmXuNJQvwQEw7vxCEMaH6S2XP6CJWxyQPwQ5XwEnWrbwNY QmU8r9irxybJVwzTWsCaejmJ4dDWJ8vAHAHHAKEkyeufpQ ╒═══════════════════ 𝐈𝐍𝐃𝐄𝐗 ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⦿ ChaffBot Spew Gaslighting the Impoverished Masses | Techrights ⦿ Malware-Addled Chrome Web Store to “Warn About Malware” | Techrights ⦿ Bytedance/TikTok is a Threat to Freedom, Including Free Speech | Techrights ⦿ Paywalls, Copyrights, and Google WEI in the ’New Normal’ | Techrights ⦿ Sane People Don’t Write Homepages Like These | Techrights ⦿ The Latest “Monthly Deterioration” of Microsoft’s Vista 11 and Blue Screens For “Unsupported Processor” | Techrights ⦿ The Next Ugly Phase May be Web Censorship Built Into the Web Browser (Under the Guise of Safety From Alleged ’Misinformation’ and Supposedly ‘Illegal’ Things) | Techrights ⦿ How Secure Boot Could Have Ruined My First Linux Experience And Why IBM Is Making Things Worse. | Techrights ⦿ Techrights is Still Growing | Techrights ⦿ When You Install or Use WordPress and Drupal They Will Control You. If You Use Something Much Simpler and Lighter, You’ll be in Charge. | Techrights ⦿ The ’Modern’ Web and Fake Authorities | Techrights ䷼ Bulletin articles (as HTML) to comment on (requires login): http://techrights.org/2023/08/26/chaffbot-spew/#comments http://techrights.org/2023/08/26/chrome-web-store/#comments http://techrights.org/2023/08/26/fentanylware-threat-to-freedom/#comments http://techrights.org/2023/08/26/gaslighting-as-new-normal/#comments http://techrights.org/2023/08/26/homepages-like-mjg/#comments http://techrights.org/2023/08/26/rotting-vista-11/#comments http://techrights.org/2023/08/26/safety-from-misinformation/#comments http://techrights.org/2023/08/26/secure-boot-ruining-everything/#comments http://techrights.org/2023/08/26/techrights-growing-2/#comments http://techrights.org/2023/08/26/the-baronhk-blog-on-wordpress/#comments http://techrights.org/2023/08/26/the-modern-web-issues/#comments ䷞ Followed by Daily Links (assorted news picks curated and categorised): http://techrights.org/2023/08/26/fork-of-terraform/#comments http://techrights.org/2023/08/26/libinput-1-24-0/#comments http://techrights.org/2023/08/26/patents-abused-against-rocky-linux/#comments http://techrights.org/2023/08/26/politics-and-benchmarking/#comments http://techrights.org/2023/08/26/two-years-on-gemini/#comments ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 81 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at http://techrights.org/2023/08/26/chaffbot-spew/#comments Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2023/08/26/chaffbot-spew/ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 08.26.23⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ ChaffBot_Spew_Gaslighting_the_Impoverished_Masses⠀✐ Posted in Deception at 7:33 pm by Guest Editorial Team Reprinted with permission from Ryan_Farmer. Also available_in_Gemini. Stephen King’s character, Andrew Linoge (Legion) in “Storm of the Century”, said, “Hell is Repitition.”. I’ve been considering that a lot lately as the “news” uses the same terminology and phrases, over and over again, to convince people of The Big Lie. That America is okay and the economy is “robust”, and Biden has an “Economic Miracle”. This is Soviet-style propaganda. Nazi-style propaganda. As the Nazis lost the war, they kept the public swimming in bad information about how things were progressing right up until the moment there was urban warfare in their streets and the Nazi Party was reduced to using child soldiers and giving them whatever weapons they could find laying around to make the Soviets fight for every block of Berlin. I feel the same sort of thing is happening in America today with the state of the economy, the situation involving our social programs, and the War in Ukraine. Hell is repetition. You repeat the “Big Lie” and eventually they come to accept it as gospel truth. I’ve started referring to Paul Krugman in particular as “KrugmanBot3000” because his articles are all the same. “Government debt doesn’t matter. Everything is fine.” “ is basically FDR.” “Don’t worry about Social Security and Medicare. They’ll wave a magic wand and fix the trillions of dollars they stole from it with fairy dust and unicorn farts during the Biden Economic Miracle” “Workers are doing great. Especially the poor ones. They had raises.” (The raise has been reversed by a factor of 2 by inflation, and Walmart closes stores and cuts hours.) And it’s so formulaic it’s like listening to decades worth of ChaffBot Spew, but you know it’s probably Paul Krugman (or at least was up until a point where they licensed his name and asked ChatGPT how to recycle garbage and verbiage) because he was writing things before ChaffBots. At this point, really, who cares if the Google WEI Attestation stops Paywall Busters from working? You get this crap from the New York Times after you tear it down and go “My God, people pay to read this? This is CNN without ads for Amazon products and luxury vacations during the Economic Crisis most people are living through! How are they in business?” It’s one of life’s great mysteries. When we went to Indiana recently for a convention, we sat down and ate dinner at one of the wholesome fixtures, MCL Cafeteria. They’re still pretty good, and have a predictable menu, although they are closing locations due to the fact that most Americans living in the “Biden Miracle” can’t afford to shop at malls anymore, so the mall where they were shut down. There are some freestanding MCLs that are doing better, but the population that frequents them and likes good food is, about 20 years older than my husband and me. As I went through the line, selecting my liver and onions, mashed potatoes and gravy, Brussels sprouts, whole wheat roll with honey butter, and iced tea (unsweet with a lemon), I noticed that one of the other patrons had an actual print copy of the New York Times on his tray. I wonder what the future prospects are considering younger people don’t get print news and can’t pay for news, and only eat “What in the name of the Devil’s asshole is quinoa?”. Not good, I suspect. I was born to the wrong generation. They had it so good, I have it so terrible. I will never own a house, I will never drive a new car. The Democrats are making it $5 a gallon to fill up the one I own while they make my husband marginally employed and dump the State prisons out on top of us. What is the future of a country such as this? █ ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 200 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at http://techrights.org/2023/08/26/chrome-web-store/#comments Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2023/08/26/chrome-web-store/ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 08.26.23⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Malware-Addled_Chrome_Web_Store_to_“Warn_About_Malware”⠀✐ Posted in Google at 4:36 am by Guest Editorial Team Reprinted with permission from Ryan_Farmer. Also available_in_Gemini. Malware-Addled Chrome Web Store to “Warn_About_Malware”. Chrome’s extension store crawls with malware. If you install any significant number of extensions from the store, then you will eventually have malware. One of the more common ways to get malware from Chrome’s extension store is when a “good extension goes bad”. Extensions with many users are worth a lot of money to hijackers. Quite often they’ll pay the developer off, push out an update to the users, quietly, with the malicious payload, and then sit pretty on a fat stack of dirty money before Google gives them the boot. Since it’s not difficult to push malicious extensions, hijack existing ones, and make new developer accounts (for five whole dollars), the malware problem with Chrome extensions probably won’t subside any time soon. But Google claims that they’re going to run “malware scans” or something, which have never cleaned up Windows, so good luck with that I guess. This “we’ll just keep an eye on it for you with a scanner while you do loads of stupid things” “Windows-style” “security” has literally never worked, at least not reliably. I don’t typically install extensions, and when I do they’re usually more established and open source, into my Gecko browsers (SeaMonkey, LibreWolf, Firefox ESR), and when it’s open source you can have eyes on the extension. Google’s Chrome extension store STILL won’t even tell you which license you are agreeing to, so you are giving the author a blank check each time you install one. Meanwhile, Google is putting much effort into crippling the extensions platform so that ad blockers and NoScript don’t work well or can’t even be made to work at all, or their own ads get a pass. Chrome is a malicious program. It’s basically a Trojan horse (something that appears desirable, but in fact comes packed with things you wouldn’t accept if you knew it was being done). It’s a disaster for your privacy and security. If you’re smart, you’ll never put it on your computer. █ ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 277 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at http://techrights.org/2023/08/26/fentanylware-threat-to-freedom/#comments Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2023/08/26/fentanylware-threat-to-freedom/ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 08.26.23⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Bytedance/TikTok_is_a_Threat_to_Freedom,_Including_Free_Speech⠀✐ Posted in Asia, Deception at 7:07 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇Fentanylware:_Who's_there?⦈_ Summary: Fentanylware (TikTok) is very harmful, but some sites insist that the threat should be ignored, citing an amendment that China (controlller of Bytedance) neither has nor recognises; this has nothing to do with free speech and Bytedance/TikTok actually pose a threat to it “Montana passed a law earlier this year to ban TikTok (and ban mobile app stores from offering TikTok for download). The bill has lots of problems,” Mike Masnick wrote_yesterday. This is the latest among many articles of his (and his site) which conveniently overlook the harms of social control media (the site downplays those, too). “We’re going to keep an eye on the situation.”“TechDirt turns a blind eye to the weapon nature of TikTok,” one reader told us today, “perhaps out of wishful thinking or perhaps out of addiction to social control media.” Another theory is that reason.com and TechDirt shill TikTok’s side because both are funded by Koch (deregulation extremists) and “the Koch connection can be explored there,” to quote the reader. “It’s not just about deregulation but by allowing TikTok Koch is promoting cultural genocide. Look up what TikTok has done to DJs and dancefloor “music” already, in the few months it has been operating.” Well, delegitimising regulation is important for Big Oil, but they currently receive more subsidies than ever so they like government interventions of a certain kind. As the reader explained this, “the petrochemical industry gets 100s of billions in subsidies each year. Pay but don’t ask where the money goes…” “Fentanylware (TikTok) was designed to manipulate society in favour of docility in the controlling country and chaos in “foreign” countries.”Looking at the past week’s news, TikTok’s image is being “reformed” as there are many puff pieces about it [1-2], there will be more ads [3], and evasions [4]. There is also an effort to leverage TikTok’s (Bytedance) spying [5] and the last time bans were mentioned was around 5 days ago [6-10]. We’re going to keep an eye on the situation. There’s hope that the_severity_of_Fentanylware_(TikTok) will be recognised and proportional reaction/action be taken. Fentanylware (TikTok) was designed to manipulate society in favour of docility in the controlling country and chaos in “foreign” countries. █ Related/contextual items from the news: 1. ⚓ 2023-08-24_Love_or_hate_TikTok’s_viral_bottle-smashing_trend?_A neuroscientist_explains_what_that_says_about_your_brain⠀⇛ 2. ⚓ 2023-08-23_[Older]_How_TikTok_helped_this_Indigenous_beader_learn_the craft_and_connect_with_her_culture⠀⇛ 3. ⚓ 2023-08-22_[Older]_TikTok_search_results_are_about_to_get_infested_with ads⠀⇛ 4. ⚓ 2023-08-23_[Older]_Interview:_„TikTok’s_power_to_say_no_is_shrinking_by the_day“⠀⇛ 5. ⚓ 2023-08-21_[Older]_The_Feds_Asked_TikTok_for_Lots_of_Domestic_Spying Features⠀⇛ 6. ⚓ 2023-08-21_[Older]_336:_TikTok’s_Last_Dance_in_Montana:_What_This_Means For_Social_Media⠀⇛ 7. ⚓ 2023-08-21_[Older]_Montana_Compares_TikTok_to_‘Cancer-Causing_Radio’_in Defense_of_State’s_Ban⠀⇛ 8. ⚓ 2023-08-21_[Older]_336:_TikTok’s_Last_Dance_in_Montana:_What_This_Means For_Social_Media⠀⇛ 9. ⚓ 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Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Paywalls,_Copyrights,_and_Google_WEI_in_the_‘New_Normal’⠀✐ Posted in Google, Intellectual_Monopoly at 7:28 pm by Guest Editorial Team Reprinted with permission from Ryan_Farmer. Also available_in_Gemini. My Cat Is Sick… Hyperthyroidism And A Tumor. Our black and white “tuxedo” cat is sick with hyperthyroidism and a tumor. The vet figures the tumor is probably benign, but we’re not going to wait and find out. We’re going to have it surgically removed. She also did the labs and found hyperthyroidism starting to develop. She informed me that my cat was probably older than I guessed (~9 or ~10) and that most cats don’t develop this until they’re around 12. She said that for the hyperthyroidism we can do pills, which are cheap, or surgery to remove a different growth (which is almost exclusively benign), which is expensive. Like $3,000, which is a LOT of pills. More than the cat will ever need. Fortunately, I bought a handy dandy secret weapon. A pill giver you load and then push into the cat’s mouth and pop the pill in with a plunger so you’re not getting bitten twice a day trying to keep the cat alive. Twice a day, come pill time, it’s like the opening of Ghostbusters. “GRAB HER!” Things are going in a bad direction economically due to the “Economic Miracle of Biden”, as told by “KrugmanBot3000” (with a Volvo) in the NY Times. I too am sick, of being told of this “Miracle” that is unfolding, as people lose jobs, get their hours cut, and have to wonder how long they can even afford to take care of their pet cat or fill up the tank of their car. It makes me depressed to read it even though I know it’s propaganda that would make Goebbels or Stalin blush. The other day, they went so far as to blame people with low interest fixed-rate mortgages for still being able to spend a lot of money while the Fed bangs the poor into bankruptcy due to the wealthy panicking about inflation. This situation with the American media has never been worse. What level of Freedom and Capitalism are we in where the media gleefully shouts “HAHAHAHAHA!!! It’s all working as planned. The Central Bank is killing American families with rigged interest rates. They can’t afford to buy a can of beans and they are losing their jobs! This will bring inflation to a very manageable 3% eventually!” A troll in IRC told me he believed copyright should be abolished. (If it was to be, then Microsoft can commit more code theft using Plagiarism as a Service, AKA CoPilot.) Then another sockpuppet in IRC shamed me for reading the Times via Links or the Newswaffle. I mentioned that their paywall is pretty much just there so that people on a Mac with Safari, or on an iPhone, can’t do anything about it. It was never going to stop smart people who can just drop to the terminal and type “links nytimes.com”. The WEI “attestation” of Chrome is there to stop people from doing this. There will be two or three Web browsers that are “trusted”, and they will be “trusted” to prevent the user from doing anything at all to alter the display of “content”, on the client-side. So in layman’s terms, no more “KrugmanBot3000” and “Miracles” because the browser has to attest that you have not done anything clever. The only benefit is that these sites tend to be so bogus that nobody should pay for them anyway which is why they’re really dying. Let me be frank, that considering that these places only ever post propaganda that benefits the wealthy elite and the American government’s gaslighting, you’d think taxpayers would be on the hook to directly subsidize all of them and not just NPR. They could have packed it into the “Inflation Production Act” or something. █ ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 550 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at http://techrights.org/2023/08/26/homepages-like-mjg/#comments Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2023/08/26/homepages-like-mjg/ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 08.26.23⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Sane_People_Don’t_Write_Homepages_Like_These⠀✐ Posted in Deception, Free/Libre_Software at 8:35 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇kids_in_the_hall_ax_murderer⦈_ Summary: Matthew_J._Garrett, the Coke_Fly doing bios, is a lot creepier than most people care to understand [1, 2]; we’ll resume our series shortly (this coming week) ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣟⣋⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⠛⠛⠛⠻⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ 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⣿⣿⡇⠈⠛⠈⠁⠒⠓⢙⡊⣁⠈⠀⠉⢁⠀⠀⠀⢀⠀⢠⠀⣀⢀⢀⠀⢰⢠⢴⢠⣀⢄⡄⠀⡔⡔⡇⠀⡶⡀⡒⡐⡜⢈⡱⣉⠁⠇⠅⠀⠳⠳⠐⠝⠘⠘⠐⠚⠘⠘⠨⠾⠀⠈⠉⠈⠀⠀⢀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⣿⣿⡇⠘⣗⡶⡖⡖⣳⣋⣏⡏⡗⣛⠺⠸⠀⠰⠼⠰⠀⠘⠀⠂⠊⠐⠀⠘⠈⠚⠈⠈⠉⠁⠀⠉⠀⢁⠀⢀⠀⠀⠀⠁⠀⠀⣀⡀⢀⡄⠀⡀⡀⢐⢀⠄⠢⠄⣄⡄⣀⠀⢰⡐⡔⠂⡆⡆⠡⣀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⣿⣿⡇⠀⡉⠈⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⡀⣀⡀⡀⡀⠀⡆⡀⡆⡤⡄⠄⡄⠀⠠⢸⠒⣠⢲⢰⢰⢸⡀⢸⢱⢸⠸⠹⠹⠀⠰⠤⠤⠤⠃⠃⠀⠑⠘⠐⠒⠊⠒⠂⠁⠁⠉⠀⣀⠁⠈⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⣿⣿⣇⠀⣷⣍⣏⣗⣏⠏⠞⠎⠀⠠⠥⠅⠇⡱⠀⠒⠃⠃⠃⠃⠃⠥⠃⠀⠉⠉⠉⠀⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⡀⠀⠀⢀⡀⣄⠀⡀⠀⢀⠂⡄⡄⡤⡄⠀⡆⡄⡄⡔⡔⡄⠀⠀⡗⢲⢠⡐⠁⣋⠄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⡄⡄⠀⣀⡀⡀⡀⠀⢀⢠⢠⠠⢀⡄⡄⠄⢀⢠⢰⢲⢰⢺⠀⠠⡄⣇⢎⡀⡏⠇⠀⠇⠇⠤⠃⠄⠇⠇⠋⠂⠀⠒⠒⠂⠱⠇⠀⠁⠁⠁⠁⠁⠁⠀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⣿⣿⣿⠀⢿⠷⠧⠧⠀⣧⡇⠃⠃⠀⠛⠂⠃⠃⠁⠁⠜⠀⠀⠉⠈⠈⢀⠀⢀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢁⣀⣀⢠⠀⡀⡀⠀⢀⠀⢰⢤⠠⢠⡀⢀⡇⡂⠀⡶⡔⢒⣘⣤⣆⣇⡇⢟⠇⠍⠇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⣿⣿⣿⠀⢀⣀⣀⣠⡤⣠⢄⠂⠄⡄⠀⡆⡄⠄⡖⡔⡔⡒⡌⠀⣆⣲⡁⣀⠘⠁⠅⠆⠨⠎⠦⠜⠀⠀⠀⠻⠷⠾⠚⠂⠈⠈⠈⠈⠉⠉⠉⠁⠀⢀⢀⢀⠀⠂⠀⠄⠀⠀⠀⢀⡀⣀⢀⢂⠀⠀⡤⠄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⣿⣿⣿⣤⠼⠵⠧⠷⠷⠞⠚⠒⠾⠐⠀⠉⠁⠁⠁⣀⣠⠦⠖⠋⠉⠁⠀⠀⢀⠀⣀⢀⡀⢀⡀⠠⠢⠠⠠⠤⡀⢠⣠⢠⢠⠐⢺⠀⢐⢰⢐⠰⣀⢸⢙⡸⠀⠀⠀⠣⠡⠥⠀⠣⠃⠃⠐⠘⠑⠂⠓⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⣿⣿⣿⡇⠰⠶⣰⣆⢤⡄⡄⠄⡐⡖⡖⡴⣶⣞⡟⣮⣗⢟⡋⠏⠸⠸⠸⠠⢼⠀⠰⠐⠘⠀⠀⠀⠂⠒⠂⠓⠃⠈⠈⠈⠈⠈⠉⠀⠘⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡀⠀⣀⢀⢀⢀⠀⡠⢄⠀⠀⡄⡄⡄⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⣿⣿⣿⣇⣀⣀⣛⣙⣚⣁⠁⠁⠀⠉⠉⠁⠉⠁⠀⠀⢀⠀⢀⠀⡀⢠⡂⢲⡒⡶⡒⡒⡬⠉⢹⢭⢉⡍⠇⢀⠖⠂⡦⡆⡆⡄⢤⠀⢹⢸⠀⠘⠄⠇⠇⠧⠇⠀⠢⠘⠙⠘⠀⠃⠨⠁⠀⠁⠁⠁⠁⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⣿⣿⣿⡏⠙⡟⡝⣧⠀⡶⡆⡖⣖⢴⢰⣱⢹⠑⠛⠀⠸⠀⠇⠔⠼⠜⢄⠘⠓⠓⠓⠃⠚⠀⠈⠈⠈⠉⠈⠁⠀⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⣿⣿⣿⣇⣀⣉⣈⣁⣀⡉⠀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢰⢿⡧⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠃⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣦⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 641 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at http://techrights.org/2023/08/26/rotting-vista-11/#comments Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2023/08/26/rotting-vista-11/ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 08.26.23⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ The_Latest_“Monthly_Deterioration”_of_Microsoft’s_Vista_11_and_Blue_Screens For_“Unsupported_Processor”⠀✐ Posted in Hardware, Microsoft, Windows at 5:46 pm by Guest Editorial Team Reprinted with permission from Ryan_Farmer. Also available_in_Gemini. The Latest “Monthly Deterioration” of Windows 11. Blue Screens For “Unsupported Processor”. According to Bleeping Computer, the latest monthly preview update for Windows 11 is causing_a_Blue_Screen_of_Death_for_“Unsupported_Processor”. That sounds rough. While Windows users with 2018 PCs are being Blue Screen of Unsupported Processor’d by Windows 11, X11_on_Linux_and_BSD_recently_got_new_updates_for graphics_cards_from_1997. I am currently using openSUSE Leap KDE 15.5 on an 11th gen Core i7 laptop from late 2020. Also on a 2016 6th gen i7 laptop. On the 2016, it’s still very fast with Linux. I installed Windows 11 on it for the lulz (quickly to be removed again). I had to Regedit my way past the fake security features and the unsupported processor (from 2016!) and when I did, it ran very slow and very hot. Sort of like one of those “Vista Capable” laptops did with a Sempron, and the stupid thing is an i7 from 7 years ago. Microsoft pointlessly adds inefficiency to Windows to make old hardware so unbearable that you buy new computers, and put the old one in a dump somewhere. Pretty much all Windows ever does is get slower and want twice as much RAM as last time, so you can do the same stuff. It’s pretty bad if you’re dealing with that plus contention for resources from “Modern” Web browsers. They get you at both ends, and really, is 16 GB of RAM even enough for Windows anymore? They fill it full of God only knows what, because I’m not seeing any useful improvements here. I joke frequently about an old Windows 98 system I still use on the Internet. It creaks and it clanks and it can’t do everything. Extended and pushed as far as it can go, it can run SeaMonkey 2.49.5 with updated TLS backports. But the funny thing is, it’s got good games, it’s got *a* browser that can still do a lot of things, an email program you can trick out to grab your GMail. It can play MP3s and Opus files. Anyway, be sure to get the latest monthly deterioration from Microsoft. It_can_open_gzip_files_now, unless you get the Blue Screen of Unsupported 2018 Processors. It’s amazing how it takes Microsoft like 20 years to add things like ZIP and FLAC support. By then everyone is used to adding adware and hacked codec packs and stuff. Lately, whenever there’s an improvement, an actual improvement, to Windows, Microsoft simply grabbed an open source library and threw it in. There’s no actual investment, they just gain capabilities by grabbing open source libraries. It’s the level of support you can expect on a rotting OS from a company that’s firing everyone. █ ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 741 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at http://techrights.org/2023/08/26/safety-from-misinformation/#comments Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2023/08/26/safety-from-misinformation/ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 08.26.23⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ The_Next_Ugly_Phase_May_be_Web_Censorship_Built_Into_the_Web_Browser_(Under the_Guise_of_Safety_From_Alleged_‘Misinformation’_and_Supposedly_‘Illegal’ Things)⠀✐ Posted in Deception, Security at 6:28 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz Video_download_link | md5sum 35e680dcc5c1dae2ea2729b054cf86ff They Have Agenda in Store Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 4.0 http://techrights.org/videos/social-control-by-centralised-stores.webm Summary: Censorship on the World Wide Web is expanding and it seems plausible that the client side (browser) will facilitate a lot of this, quite likely in the name of “security” LESS than a day ago Ryan a lot of posts. Among the many topics covered Ryan wrote_about_so-called_'stores'. The Web is becoming filled with “stores” and many things offline are also becoming “stores”. Who controls these? Not the users. Each store is like a bundle of restrictions and censorship. That’s just… the “trend”. In China, for instance, they try to police which files you have, what songs you listen to, what characters you can type… “Expect further restrictions on access to information.”Users are becoming severely disadvantaged and computers are rapidly becoming portable cages. As for access to information, that too is getting quietly monopolised. “I suspect that one small reason ads are less viable now is that there are much fewer relevant small businesses,” one person noted yesterday. “Another, probably larger reason, is that control of online ads is held by a tiny handful of companies.” What comes next? Expect further restrictions on access to information. See the following news: 1. ⚓ How_long_before_all_browsers_are_required_by_law_to_prevent_users_from opening_allegedly_infringing_sites?_–_Walled_Culture⠀⇛ 2. ⚓ Will_Browsers_Be_Required_By_Law_To_Stop_You_From_Visiting_Infringing Sites?_|_Techdirt⠀⇛ 3. ⚓ France:_Proposed_internet_bill_threatens_online_speech_–_ARTICLE_19⠀⇛ 4. ⚓ France:_Article_19_warns_of_threats_to_privacy_–_freedom_of_expression posed_by_proposed_Internet_bill_–_Business_&_Human_Rights_Resource Centre⠀⇛ The ultimate goal is to control everything people do online. What’s at stake here is a lot bigger than software freedom although Free software can allow people to bypass such restrictions. Based on recent years in the Mozilla blog, Firefox is not on our side because it keeps pushing the censorship agenda rather than the free expression agenda. █ ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 820 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at http://techrights.org/2023/08/26/secure-boot-ruining-everything/#comments Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2023/08/26/secure-boot-ruining-everything/ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 08.26.23⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ How_Secure_Boot_Could_Have_Ruined_My_First_Linux_Experience_And_Why_IBM_Is Making_Things_Worse.⠀✐ Posted in Free/Libre_Software, GNU/Linux, IBM at 4:28 am by Guest Editorial Team Reprinted with permission from Ryan_Farmer. Also available_in_Gemini Historically, using Free and Open Source Software has been a “license to tinker”, and Linux was no exception. If it didn’t do something you needed it to do, you could patch it with “something I found”. If that hadn’t been the case, I would have never been able to start using Mandrake Linux in the 1990s. You see, the family computer had this horrible piece of hardware in it called a “Winmodem”. And let me tell you about those. Pretty much as the name implies, the manufacturer dropped a Windows driver, which essentially was the modem. Theoretically, this had benefits, like the modem could be updated by simply installing a new driver, since most of the logic for the thing is in the software, which runs on the computer, in the Windows 98 kernel in my case. But that benefit hardly ever materialized. If any manufacturer actually sold you a modem and then later updated you to v.90 or v.92 or something, I’m not aware of it. They left me at K56Flex and x2, two competing specifications written by rival companies, that predated the ITU standard for v.90 and v.92 56k dial up modems. Fortunately, most ISPs supported one, the other, or both, in which case it would go ahead and work, but the modem itself was STILL a problem. Because you only had the Windows driver, and because it implemented the entire modem, without Windows, the modem did nothing. You had no Internet access at all. Dead hardware. Fortunately, I found the source code to a module that I could compile and add to Linux, and it made the modem work well enough, that I could at least get by until I had saved enough to buy a Zoom 56k modem that supported the actual ITU standards. The Winmodem was a parasite. Even under Windows, the damn thing made the entire system hang whenever it picked up or hung up the phone line, and then while it was running, it stole CPU time for the driver. So, this is basically my “Richard Stallman and the Printer” story. Eventually I was able to remove the Winmodem and the (somewhat unstable) out- of-tree driver, but when I needed to patch the kernel, nothing stopped me. Nothing could have stopped me because nobody had lost their mind and thought Microsoft was a security company. We didn’t have these ridiculous “Security” charades by the purveyor of the least secure software on the planet. (“Secure” Boot offers no advantages and the GNOME Desktop has even been tarred and feathered by a “Security” Theater screen by people at IBM Red Hat…… I use KDE now.) While it is much less common now to encounter the need to run unsigned modules, everyone should be allowed to, without Microsoft in their way. Or in the way of even booting the computer. Unfortunately with IBM Red Hat’s assistance, crazier things than “Secure” Boot are happening. This includes the outlandish notion that most of the file system should be read-only (“immutable”) and shouldn’t be within the user’s reach because Apple does this with a toy OS. How is the user supposed to edit flat configuration files to make systemd (their other disaster) behave differently? How is the user supposed to take software they want in /opt and put it in /opt? I don’t think you can. And the “Transactional Upgrade” system sounds horrible. An “everything or nothing” upgrade of every package on the system, even if some are broken, and the only thing you can do if some are is roll the entire thing back? I will never install a distribution with an immutable file system. These distributions are worse than useless. Even IBM Fedora, which has been banging this drum the loudest, has had an immutable “spin” forever, says they’ll make it “Workstation” someday, and well, that hasn’t happened. There’s just no way to make it actually work. Not if you want to configure the system at all, or do something like dnf update –security. Don’t even get me started on “kernel lockdown”, where even root is somehow not allowed to change kernel variables. If a user has so seriously misconfigured their system that a vulnerability exists, let them live with that. But this really has nothing to do with Security. It’s about walling the user off from their own computer to enforce Windows, or at the very least, make Digital Restrictions Malware (DRM) more effective on Linux. Quit screwing up my laptop. █ ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 975 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at http://techrights.org/2023/08/26/techrights-growing-2/#comments Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2023/08/26/techrights-growing-2/ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 08.26.23⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Techrights_is_Still_Growing⠀✐ Posted in Site_News at 8:50 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz Summary: Some stats of interest for Techrights (this month and in general) Gemini requests since start of month: 524,329 in total HTTP/S hits per second this month: 5 per second Bandwidth per second (HTTP/S): 1.5 MB Bandwidth per day in IPFS: 40 GB Total pages in Gemini capsule: 48,123 Gemini server uptime: 6 months since last outage WordPress blog posts: 37,578 WordPress blog posts since start of this month: 313 ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 1008 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at http://techrights.org/2023/08/26/the-baronhk-blog-on-wordpress/#comments Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2023/08/26/the-baronhk-blog-on-wordpress/ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 08.26.23⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ When_You_Install_or_Use_WordPress_and_Drupal_They_Will_Control_You._If_You Use_Something_Much_Simpler_and_Lighter,_You’ll_be_in_Charge.⠀✐ Posted in Free/Libre_Software, Servers at 5:25 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz Video_download_link | md5sum b45311802e80eeabcf20091bcb404a44 WordPress Bloat Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 4.0 http://techrights.org/videos/wordpress-ui-and-ux.webm Summary: ‘Feature_churn’ impacts content management systems such as WordPress or Drupal (to name two of the very popular ones for blogs or general Web sites); for those who want to be in control of their platform rather than entrapped in an “upgrade_treadmill” there’s lighter, safer, and versatile stuff (that more people can tinker with as a hobby) such as Gemini THE DIRECTION the Web has taken is as disturbing as the direction Web browsers have taken because they’re closely intertwined; the servers and users exchange information based upon some standards or non-standards. The more complex browsers become, the more cruft will get sent by the servers and standards will cease to matter when one codebase dominates about 99% of Web browsers. 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇The baronhk blog⦈ WordPress is an example of widely-deployed server-side software that gets more complicated and more bloated all the time, basically an anathema or an ‘antithesis’ to things like Gemini. I started using and deploying WordPress several times in 2004, i.e. one year after it started. So I saw how it was getting more and more bloated (or complex) over time when I was more closely involved in the project. There’s nothing inherently wrong with WordPress for those who wish to build complex sites. Drupal too is highly extensible. Bub there are many problems as outlined in the videos above and there’s growing technical debt. Gemini provides an escape from all that and Ryan has therefore_adopted_it_some_days ago. 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This subject has struck a nerve because in the age of centralised social control networks we’ve been seeing lots of this and the agenda unravels while more people flock outwards, perhaps because they belatedly realise that their efforts were simply “farmed” by somebody else. To use the “means of production” analogy, people need to seize control over their data, their sites (or capsules or some other online presence), and digital life in general. █ ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 1154 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐃𝐀𝐈𝐋𝐘 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒 ═════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 08.26.23⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Links_26/08/2023:_OpenTF’s_Fork_of_Terraform⠀✐ Posted in News_Roundup at 8:55 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇GNOME bluefish⦈ § Contents⠀➾ * GNU/Linux o Graphics_Stack o Applications o Instructionals/Technical o Games o Desktop_Environments/WMs # K_Desktop_Environment/KDE_SC/Qt * Distributions_and_Operating_Systems o New_Releases o Fedora_Family_/_IBM o Canonical/Ubuntu_Family o Devices/Embedded o Open_Hardware/Modding * Free,_Libre,_and_Open_Source_Software o Web_Browsers/Web_Servers o SaaS/Back_End/Databases o Productivity_Software/LibreOffice/Calligra o Education o Programming/Development # Python # Shell/Bash/Zsh/Ksh * § GNU/Linux⠀➾ o § Graphics Stack⠀➾ # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ NVIDIA_posts_NVAPI_core_software development_kit_on_GitHub⠀⇛ Without any additional commit messages except the repository description, Nvidia posted the source code for its Developer Kit tool on Github under the NVIDIA Corporation organization umbrella. # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Radeon_RX_7800_XT_and_RX_7700_XT_revealed, plus_more_details_on_FSR_3⠀⇛ AMD just announced the Radeon RX 7800 XT and Radeon RX 7700 XT Graphics Cards, and they’re giving out more details on FidelityFX Super Resolution 3 (FSR 3). # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Nvidia_Embraces_Modding_Community_For_‘Half_Life 2’_Project,_Valve_Apparently_Cool_With_It⠀⇛ It’s always nice when you get several stories in a row that contrast with one another in order to make a point. We were just discussing Rockstar’s decision to scoop up a roleplaying and modding community in order to build in new and interesting ways to play GTA and Red Dead Redemption games. What I had hoped out loud would be a sign that Rockstar was turning over a new leaf on modding communities was dashed almost immediately as the company then went after another group of mod-makers for the crime of being fans of its games and trying to make them more interesting and playable. Game companies don’t have to do this sort of thing. o § Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ Linux Links ☛ Best_Free_and_Open_Source_Alternatives_to Apple_Launchpad⠀⇛ macOS is Apple’s proprietary operating system for its line of Macintosh computers. Its interface, known as Aqua, is highly polished and built on top of a BSD derivative (Darwin). There’s a whole raft of proprietary applications that are developed by Apple for their operating software. This software is not available for Linux and there’s no prospect of that position changing. In 2020, Apple began the Apple silicon transition, using self-designed, 64-bit ARM-based Apple M1 processors on new Mac computers. Maybe it’s the perfect time to move away from the proprietary world of Apple, and embrace the open source Linux scene. Apple Launchpad is a central location where you can view all your apps and easily open them. Launchpad is proprietary software and not available for Linux. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives. o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾ # ⚓ Effortless_Email_Sending_on_Linux:_A_Step-by-Step_Project Guide⠀⇛ Emails have been an essential part of communication. Today in this blog we are going to know how to send emails without ever going to your browser or Gmail app by just using some cool command lines on Linux. you may ask But why to do all this for now I will say maybe just to look like a hacker. # ⚓ Network World ☛ There’s_more_to_more_than_meets_the_eye⠀⇛ The more command on Linux may have a lot more options than you know and use. # ⚓ TechTarget ☛ A_quick_breakdown_of_Postman_vs._Insomnia⠀⇛ Does your organization need the fully loaded capabilities of Postman or the lightweight implementation style offered by Insomnia? Read this quick breakdown to get the picture. # ⚓ Pi My Life Up ☛ Running_Plausible_Analytics_on_the Raspberry_Pi⠀⇛ Plausible Analytics on the Raspberry Pi is a relatively straightforward process thanks to being installed through a Docker container. We will, however, need to make adjustments to get it running on our ARM based system. # ⚓ Linux Handbook ☛ How_to_Save_cURL_Output_to_a_File?⠀⇛ While the curl command was created to make things work without any human interaction, you can still use it to save output to a file. o § Games⠀➾ # ⚓ Positech Games ☛ Making_a_hobby_game!⠀⇛ I have to say though… its already very very fun. There is something very adrenaline-rushy about playing it on the harder levels, where everything gets a bit hectic. In these days of F2P, monetization, competitive e-sports, multi gigabyte patches, and achievements and so on… there is something very pleasurable about a simple game where you move left and right and hit the fire button! # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Factorio:_Space_Age_revealed_giving_you_a fleet_and_multiple_planets⠀⇛ We knew an expansion was coming as it was confirmed some time ago, but now Wube Software have revealed much more about what’s now called Factorio: Space Age. # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ ARMORED_CORE_VI_FIRES_OF_RUBICON_runs_well on_Steam_Deck_and_desktop_Linux⠀⇛ ARMORED CORE VI FIRES OF RUBICON is the big new release developed by FromSoftware Inc, the same team from ELDEN RING and it does seem to run quite well on Steam Deck and desktop Linux. # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Over_11,000_games_now_rated_Steam_Deck Playable⠀⇛ There’s currently somewhere around 92,000 games on Steam and so it’s going to take a long time for Valve to check them all on Steam Deck but here’s some recent picks. # ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ Best_Free_Linux_Mint_Games⠀⇛ Gaming on PC has historically been the domain of the Windows operating system. That’s true even to this day. While there are some awesome Linux games on the market, most modern games are primarily developed with Windows in mind. However, Linux gaming has come a long way since then. Long gone are the days when you had to tinker with numerous packages, scripts, and whatnot to make even the simplest game run consistently. Thanks to the relentless community effort, Linux gaming is something one can seriously consider. However, not everything is sunshine and rainbows. There are a couple of hiccups that you should know when deciding a game on Linux… o § Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾ # § K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt⠀➾ # ⚓ Nate Graham ☛ This_week_in_KDE:_tap-to-click_by default⠀⇛ This week we weren’t done improving input device defaults; for Plasma 6, touchpad tap- to-click is now enabled by default! If you’re curious about the reasons, click that link. In addition, convergence is starting to happen. You might notice that the number of open Plasma 6 issues is lower this week than it was last week! A good sign for sure. * § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾ o § New Releases⠀➾ # ⚓ Help Net Security ☛ Kali_Linux_2023.3_released:_Kali NetHunter_app_redesign,_9_new_tools,_and_more!⠀⇛ Besides updates to current tools, new versions of Kali typically introduce fresh tools. o § Fedora Family / IBM⠀➾ # ⚓ Network World ☛ OpenELA_group_pushes_for_bug_compatibility with_RHEL⠀⇛ A dramatic disagreement in the enterprise Linux community has some distributions scrambling to keep their code compatible with Red Hat, as the acknowledged biggest player in the space cracks down on source code distribution. The core issue is the existence of several “downstream” Linux distributions based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Those distributions were historically based on CentOS, a free RHEL clone developed originally for the purposes of testing and development. The downstream distributions in question, however, are supported by companies like CIQ and Oracle – which sell support services for their “clones” of RHEL. This has led to a long- running tension between those companies and Red Hat, whose supporters argue that the downstream companies are simply repackaging Red Hat’s work for profit, while detractors say that Red Hat is violating the sprit – if not, technically, the law – of open source. o § Canonical/Ubuntu Family⠀➾ # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Canonical_give_some_thoughts_on_the_future of_Ubuntu_Desktop⠀⇛ Ubuntu is one of the top most used Linux distributions on the desktop and Canonical, the company behind it, has a new blog post up giving some thoughts on the future of Ubuntu Desktop. # ⚓ Ubuntu ☛ Ubuntu_Desktop:_charting_a_course_for_the_future⠀⇛ It has been a little while since we shared our vision for Ubuntu Desktop, and explained how our current roadmap fits into our long term strategic thinking. Recently, we embarked on an internal exercise to consolidate and bring structure to our values and goals for how we plan to evolve the desktop experience over the next few years. This post is designed to share the output of those discussions and give insight into the direction we’re going. These values form the framework by which we determine our priorities and measure our progress, and hopefully inspire those that want to contribute to this experience to focus their energies in ways that are aligned with our longer term ambitions. o § Devices/Embedded⠀➾ # ⚓ Automotive World Ltd ☛ Wind_River_Linux_is_selected_by ZEEKR_for_future_EEA_development⠀⇛ Wind River®, a global leader in delivering software for mission-critical intelligent systems, today announced that Wind River Linux has been selected by global electric mobility technology brand ZEEKR to power its future electronic and electrical architecture for software-defined vehicles. o § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾ # ⚓ Raspberry Pi ☛ Using_an_aircraft’s_altimeter_to_replay mountain_bike_journeys⠀⇛ Maker Glen Akins wanted to relive his best mountain bike ascents and descents, so he hacked a vintage aircraft altitude indicator (also called an ‘altimeter’) using Raspberry Pi Pico and a little digital data conversion wizardry. # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Patching_Together_Logic_Gates⠀⇛ The digital world offers many advantages over its analog relatives, the use of boolean logic among them. Some of the functions, like NOT, OR, and AND are fairly straightforward and line up nicely with their linguistic counterparts. Others are more elusive, like XOR and NAND. For those just getting their start in digital logic, this teaching tool allows different logic gates to be wired together with patch cables. * § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾ o ⚓ OpenTF_Announces_Fork_of_Terraform⠀⇛ Two weeks ago, HashiCorp announced they are changing the license to all their core products, including Terraform, to the Business Source License (BSL). In an attempt to keep Terraform open source, we published the OpenTF manifesto, and the community response was huge! Over 100 companies, 10 projects, and 400 individuals pledged their time and resources to keep Terraform open-source. The GitHub repository for the manifesto already has over 2.5k stars, and the number is growing quickly! The manifesto outlined the intent of the OpenTF initiative in two steps — the first was to appeal to HashiCorp to return Terraform to the community and revert the license change they were making for this project. The second, in case the license was not reverted, was to fork the Terraform project as OpenTF. o ⚓ LWN ☛ OpenTF_Announces_Fork_of_Terraform⠀⇛ The OpenTF Foundation has announced that it is moving forward with its eponymous fork of HashiCorp Terraform, which was recently changed to a non-FOSS license by the company. The organization has applied to become part of the Linux Foundation, “”with the end goal of having OpenTF as part of Cloud Native Computing Foundation””. There is a GitHub repository for its manifesto, but the code repository for OpenTF is private for now, with plans to open it up in the next week or two. Work has been going on for the last week and more developers are coming on board… o ⚓ TechTarget ☛ OpenTF_begins_HashiCorp_Terraform_fork,_pledges donation [Ed: HashiCorp is a Microsoft shill, so let's hope the fork succeeds]⠀⇛ The vendor-led group says it wants to donate a fork based on the latest open source version of the infrastructure as code tool to a foundation, ideally the Linux Foundation or CNCF. o ⚓ Unicorn Media ☛ FOSS_Week_in_Review:_Kali_Cleans_House,_Kalendar Becomes_Merkuro,_Brave’s_Unfree_Assistant,_&_More…⠀⇛ Well, ya might have noticed that I somehow missed last week’s FWIR. Busy, busy, busy, which unfortunately means that forces other than FOSS Force are vying for my time. I’ll be writing about that next week…maybe. Look for it, it’ll be an interesting read if I do, a tale filled with cancer surgery (not me but in my home), followed by emergency brain surgery (also, not me but in my home), all in the midst of losing the home we’ve been renting for 30 years (just when rentals are either not available or priced so high that my retirement savings be gone in a few years). Oy vey. o ⚓ Jean-François Fortin Tam ☛ Jean-François_Fortin_Tam:_Why_I_picked the_biggest_furry_elephant_as_my_microblogging_platform_(and_refuse to_self-host_a_Mastodon_server)⠀⇛ This article will require between 1 and 2 minutes of your attention if you read only the first half; obviously double that if you also feel like reading the second (more philosophical & strategic) half. As you may know, in addition to this blog here, I have also been microblogging very actively for years (whether on_Twitter or on_LinkedIn), particularly the day-to-day / work-in-progress of my Free & Open Source software contributions across GNOME and the FreeDesktop, and that habit shall outlive Twitter’s 2022-2023 chaotic hostile takeover and sabotage by its new majority shareholder/ owner. I have (reluctantly) found refuge in the shire that is the fediverse, a quirky platform filled with countless technical & usability challenges, but eh, what else have we got left? Tis the last bastion we have (we’ll see what happens when Meta/Facebook “enters the chat”, will it be like what_happened_with_XMPP? 🤷)… o ⚓ Computer Weekly ☛ What_to_expect_from_Open_Source_Summit_Europe 2023 [Ed: Adrian Bridgwater still running ads/puff pieces for LF]⠀⇛ Just for a (welcome) change, the Computer Weekly Open Source Insider team is not off to San Francisco, Las Vegas, Barcelona, Boston or London’s glittering ExCeL centre, this time it’s Bilbao. o ⚓ TechTarget ☛ 6_open_source_GRC_tools_compliance_professionals should_know⠀⇛ Organizations must meet a variety of regulatory compliance requirements today. Here’s a look at six open source GRC tools and related resources that might help. o § Web Browsers/Web Servers⠀➾ # ⚓ Daniel Stenberg ☛ CVE-2020-19909_is_everything_that_is wrong_with_CVEs⠀⇛ The new CVE has an ID containing 2020 and that is weird. When you register a CVE you typically get it with the year you request it. Unless you get an ID for an old problem of the past. Is that what they did? Sources seem to indicate that this was published just days ago. o § SaaS/Back End/Databases⠀➾ # ⚓ Balthazar Rouberol ☛ Pinning_your_SQLite_version_across environments⠀⇛ The project I’m currently working on only has a single external dependency: SQLite, with full text search enabled. As a result, the application is extremely easy to package and run. However, I found out that ensuring that you have the exact same SQLite version and feature set in all your environments (development machines running macOS and linux, CI and production) is trickier than I expected. # ⚓ The Register UK ☛ MariaDB’s_revenue_grows_as_new_CEO settles_in,_but_bank_loan_discussions_continue⠀⇛ MariaDB reported $13.0 million total revenue for the third quarter of fiscal 2023 and annual recurring revenue of $55.0 million, an increase of 14 percent year-on-year. Operational losses narrowed to $12.2 million for the quarter, down from $13.1 million in the same period last year. o § Productivity Software/LibreOffice/Calligra⠀➾ # ⚓ The Register UK ☛ LibreOffice_7.6_arrives:_Open_source stalwart_is_showing_its_maturity⠀⇛ LibreOffice, formerly known as OpenOffice, before that called StarOffice, and which evolved from a German CP/M word processor called StarWriter, is the leading open source desktop office suite. StarWriter was released in 1985, so the product family is now nearly 40 years old – considerably older than Linux itself. Its history is so long that when The Reg reported that Sun was acquiring Star Division and making the product free last century, this was still a young publication, newly moved from email newsletter to website. (You can tell by how short those stories are.) o § Education⠀➾ # ⚓ FreeBSD ☛ Save_the_Date:_November_2023_FreeBSD_Vendor Summit⠀⇛ Mark your calendars! The November 2023 FreeBSD Vendor Summit will take place November 2-3, 2023 at the NetApp Campus in San Jose, CA. The Vendor Summit will feature a single track of talks on both days. o § Programming/Development⠀➾ # ⚓ Kurt McKee ☛ Revitalizing_stalled_open_source_projects⠀⇛ This post is a response to this very common refrain. It provides strategies for contributing to an open source project whose development has stalled by triaging pull requests and issues. I’m writing this post as someone who has been on both sides of this over the last ~20 years of contributing to, and maintaining, open source software projects. I’ve encountered stalled projects and helped revitalize them, and — as the long-time maintainer of a popular project — I’ve benefited from others injecting energy into a project. # ⚓ [Old] Martin Fowler ☛ On_Pair_Programming⠀⇛ Many people who work in software development today have heard of the practice of pair programming, yet it still only has patchy adoption in the industry. One reason for its varying acceptance is that its benefits are not immediately obvious, it pays off more in the medium- and long-term. And it’s also not as simple as “two people working at a single computer”, so many dismiss it quickly when it feels uncomfortable. However, in our experience, pair programming is vital for collaborative teamwork and high quality software. # ⚓ Rlang ☛ rOpenSci_News_Digest,_August_2023⠀⇛ You can read this post on our blog. Now let’s dive into the activity at and around rOpenSci! # § Python⠀➾ # ⚓ Seth Michael Larson ☛ Python_vulnerability_disclosure end-to-end⠀⇛ The advisory for CVE-2023-40217 was published this week which affects Python versions before 3.11.5, 3.10.13, 3.9.18, and 3.8.18. This was my first end-to-end vulnerability disclosure for Python which included handling of embargoed info (ie non-public), a coordinated release of fixed Python versions, and publishing of the advisory to the security-announce@python.org mailing list and to the PSF Advisory Database. Now that I’ve experienced the flow from end- to-end and I can start to think about where there is potential for improvement and what items need to be on our “checklist” to reduce stress and guesswork from remediation developers, release managers, and coordinators. This process is pretty opaque (for obvious reasons) so I also wanted to share the experience with everyone to know what’s happening in the background to keep Python users safe. # § Shell/Bash/Zsh/Ksh⠀➾ # ⚓ DJ Adams ☛ Bash_shell_expansion_inside_double quotes⠀⇛ In the context of this month’s SAP Developer Challenge on APIs, some participants working through today’s task have tripped up on a Bash feature, a feature which is one of a family of features relating to “expansion” of information. In this short post I dig into what that feature is, and how to ensure you don’t trip yourseves up with it. ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 1837 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐃𝐀𝐈𝐋𝐘 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒 ═════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 08.26.23⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Links_26/08/2023:_Libinput_1.24.0_and_Canonical’s_Snap_Woes⠀✐ Posted in News_Roundup at 8:22 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇GNOME bluefish⦈ § Contents⠀➾ * GNU/Linux o Server o Audiocasts/Shows o Graphics_Stack o Applications o Instructionals/Technical o Desktop_Environments/WMs # GNOME_Desktop/GTK * Distributions_and_Operating_Systems o SUSE/OpenSUSE o Fedora_Family_/_IBM o Debian_Family o Canonical/Ubuntu_Family o Devices/Embedded o Mobile_Systems/Mobile_Applications * Free,_Libre,_and_Open_Source_Software o Programming/Development # Python o Standards/Consortia * Leftovers o Hardware o Health/Nutrition/Agriculture o Security # Integrity/Availability/Authenticity # Privacy/Surveillance o Defence/Aggression o Environment # Energy/Transportation o Finance o AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics o Censorship/Free_Speech o Freedom_of_Information_/_Freedom_of_the_Press o Civil_Rights/Policing o Monopolies # Patents * § GNU/Linux⠀➾ o § Server⠀➾ # ⚓ Linux Gizmos ☛ The_Zimablade_is_an_upcoming_low-cost_x86 personal_server⠀⇛ CrowdSupply recently featured the ZimaBlade which is a single-board x86  device geared for personal servers, media streaming, retro gaming and many other applications. This card sized platform offers PCIe support, dual SATA connectors, Gigabit ethernet and support for the Open-Source CasaOS. The product page indicates that the ZimaBlade will be available in two configurations. # ⚓ [Older]_Mirantis_Launches_Open_Source_Kubernetes_Control Plane_Project⠀⇛ Mirantis launched an open source k0smotron control plane project for Kubernetes that makes it simpler to centrally manage multiple clusters. # ⚓ Dan Langille ☛ How_much_noise_will_I_lose_when_I_power_off this_server?⠀⇛ This morning I pondered how much will noise reduce when I power off that server? From the comfort of my living room, directly above the rack in the basement, I powered it off. At first, I was disappointed. I could still hear that repetitive whine. o § Audiocasts/Shows⠀➾ # ⚓ Montana Linux ☛ Video:_MiSTer_FPGA_Nintendo_64_devel_core looking_great⠀⇛ # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Hackaday_Podcast_Ep_232:_Chaos_Communications Camp_Placeholder_Edition⠀⇛ Editor-in-Chief Elliot Williams is off at Chaos Communications Camp, and Assistant Editor Tom Nardi is off on vacation, so there’s no real podcast this week. # ⚓ 2023-08-23_[Older]_FLOSS_Weekly_746:_Don’t_Hesitate, Enculturate!_–_Claude_Warren_Jr,_Open_Source_Culture⠀⇛ # ⚓ 2023-08-24_Enterprise_Linux_Security_Episode_72_– Surveillance_Facepalm⠀⇛ # ⚓ 2023-08-24_How_to_install_Devuan_GNU+Linux_5.0.0⠀⇛ # ⚓ 2023-08-24_UbuntuDDE_Remix_23.04_overview_|_Your_Beautiful Ubuntu_Linux_Distribution⠀⇛ # ⚓ 2023-08-24_Window_Maker_A_Window_Manager_Ahead_Of_Its Time⠀⇛ # ⚓ 2023-08-24_How_to_install_Wire_Desktop_on_Debian_12⠀⇛ # ⚓ 2023-08-24_Some_Interesting_Built_in_Features_in_Qtile⠀⇛ # ⚓ 2023-08-24Mainline_Linux_Kernels_for_Ubuntu_–_Easily_Change Your_Kernel!⠀⇛ # ⚓ 2023-08-23_[Older]_How_to_install_the_Brave_browser_on Debian_12⠀⇛ # ⚓ 2023-08-23_[Older]_SUSE_Goes_Private_Again_To_Make_More MONEY⠀⇛ # ⚓ 2023-08-23_[Older]_All_the_OPEN_SOURCE_SOFTWARE_I_use_on_my servers,_laptop_&_desktop⠀⇛ # ⚓ 2023-08-22_[Older]_KDE_Plasma_6_Changes_Its_Most Controversial_Feature⠀⇛ # ⚓ 2023-08-22_[Older]_Rhino_Linux:_A_NEW_Trailblazing_Linux Distro_with_NEXT-GEN_Features!_(NEW_DISTRO_ALERT)⠀⇛ # ⚓ 2023-08-22_[Older]_Installation_and_First_Look_at_Crystal Linux⠀⇛ # ⚓ 2023-08-22_[Older]_Devuan_GNU+Linux_5.0.0_“Daedalus” overview_|_software_freedom,_your_way⠀⇛ # ⚓ 2023-08-21_[Older]_How_to_install_the_Opera_browser_on Debian_12⠀⇛ # ⚓ 2023-08-21_[Older]_Very_Brief_History_Of_LibreOffice_& OpenOffice⠀⇛ # ⚓ 2023-08-21_[Older]_Kumander_Linux_1.0_Overview_#shorts⠀⇛ # ⚓ 2023-08-21_[Older]_Setting_up_a_“Cloud_Desktop”_on_Linux⠀⇛ # ⚓ 2023-08-20_[Older]_This_Is_The_Greatest_Image_Editor_On Linux⠀⇛ # ⚓ 2023-08-20_[Older]_New_Linux_tablet,_GNOME_45_beta,_COSMIC theming,_SUSE_goes_private:_Linux_&_Open_Source_News⠀⇛ # ⚓ 2023-08-20_[Older]_DTOS_GNU/Linux_–_The_Distro_I_Was_Forced To_Make_–_DT_LIVE!⠀⇛ # ⚓ 2023-08-20_[Older]_How_to_install_Google_Chrome_on_Debian 12⠀⇛ # ⚓ 2023-08-19_[Older]_Boost_Your_Linux_Productivity_with_tmux! #linux⠀⇛ # ⚓ 2023-08-19_[Older]_Learn_tmux_(Part_2)_–_How_to_use_Splits and_Panes_for_the_Ultimate_Linux_Workflow!⠀⇛ # ⚓ 2023-08-19_[Older]_Learn_tmux_(Part_3)_–_A_Simple_and Straight-Forward_Look_at_Managing_Windows⠀⇛ # ⚓ 2023-08-19_[Older]_Learn_tmux_(Part_4)_–_Discover_how_to manage_Sessions_within_tmux⠀⇛ # ⚓ 2023-08-19_[Older]_Learn_tmux_(Part_5)_–_How_to_Customize tmux_and_Make_It_Your_Own!⠀⇛ # ⚓ 2023-08-19_[Older]_Weirdest_“Open_Source”_Software Licences⠀⇛ o § Graphics Stack⠀➾ # ⚓ Free Desktop ☛ libinput_1.24.0⠀⇛ libinput 1.24.0 is now available. It's been a while since the last release so let's flush out what's on our branch. Only three notable topics: On Apple touchpads, natural scrolling is now enabled by default and palm detection is disabled - the touchpads are good enough that they don't need our help. Built-in tablet devices now always have touch arbitration enabled, so we no longer need to add a quirk for each of them. And speaking of tablets: the pressure offset limit for worn-out devices is now at 50% of the range. Modern pens have a precise enough range that even worn out pen can still provide satisfactory pressure sensitivity. This pressure offset is now detected on worn-out pens that do not support distance. Finally, where a relative device's rotation is 180 degrees (e.g. a trackball used upside-down) we now flip the scroll wheel direction as well. The rest of the changes is the usual mix of janitorial patches and device-specific quirks. As usual, the git shortlog is below. o § Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ Linux Links ☛ 5_Best_Free_and_Open_Source_Linux Partitioning_Tools⠀⇛ To provide an insight into the quality of software that is available, we have compiled a list of 5 high quality open source partition tools that offer an excellent way to create, destroy, resize, move, check and copy partitions. Our recommendations are captured in this legendary LinuxLinks-style ratings chart. All software featured is free and open source. # ⚓ Linux Links ☛ Best_Free_and_Open_Source_Alternatives_to Apple_Script_Editor⠀⇛ In 2020, Apple began the Apple silicon transition, using self-designed, 64-bit ARM-based Apple M1 processors on new Mac computers. Maybe it’s the perfect time to move away from the proprietary world of Apple, and embrace the open source Linux scene. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives. # ⚓ Linux Links ☛ Machine_Learning_in_Linux:_GodMode_–_ [buzzword]_Chat_Browser⠀⇛ # ⚓ Scarlett_Gately_Moore:_KDE_Snaps_Weekly_report,_Debian recommenced!⠀⇛ EXTREMELY IMPORTANT: I am still looking for a super awesome team lead for a super amazing project involving KDE and Snaps. Time is running out and well the KDE world will be a better a better place if this project goes through! I would like to clarify, this is a paid position! A current KDE developer would be ideal as it is a small team so your time will be split managing and coding alike. If you or anyone you know might be interested please contact me ASAP! Lots of news on the snap front 23.04.3 is now complete with new snaps! I know, just in time for 23.08.0. I have fixed some major issues in this release, 23.08 should go much quicker. Even quicker if my per repo snapcraft files gets approved! # ⚓ Medevel ☛ WiFile:_Share_Files_Over_the_Network⠀⇛ A file explorer to share files over a network based on Flask server framework. # ⚓ Medevel ☛ Pydio_Cells:_Open-source_Free_Self-hosted_Dropbox Alternative⠀⇛ Pydio Cells is a fully-featured, robust, and user- friendly web-based file sharing and synchronization platform designed to cater to the needs of businesses. The platform offers an extensive range of features and functionalities that make it an ideal alternative to popular cloud-based file sharing services like Dropbox and Box. # ⚓ Diffoscope ☛ Reproducible_Builds_(diffoscope):_diffoscope 248_released⠀⇛ The diffoscope maintainers are pleased to announce the release of diffoscope version 248. This version includes the following changes: [...] # ⚓ Medevel ☛ 38_Open-source_Free_Duplicate_File_Finder_and Removal_Tools⠀⇛ Duplicate file removal is the process of identifying and removing duplicate files from your computer. Duplicate files are identical files that occupy unnecessary disk space and can slow down your computer. # ⚓ Medevel ☛ WebHarvest:_Open-source_Free_Web_Data_Extraction Tool⠀⇛ Web data extraction (also known as web data mining or web scraping) is an incredibly useful tool for extracting valuable information from arbitrary web pages. # ⚓ Medevel ☛ Swiss_File_Knife:_The_Must-have_File_Management Tool_For_Every_Desktop⠀⇛ Swiss File Knife is a highly useful, free and open- source tool that can be used for a variety of purposes. Not only is it easy to use, but it is also portable, allowing users to take it with them wherever they go on a USB stick. The program combines many o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾ # ⚓ Own HowTo ☛ How_to_install_Opera_browser_on_Arch_Linux⠀⇛ Opera is a free web browser based on Chromium. Opera browser comes with a lot of useful features that can make your browsing experience better. # ⚓ Linuxiac ☛ How_to_Install_Fonts_on_Linux:_A_Comprehensive Guide⠀⇛ This guide walks you through installing fonts on Linux, using the command line, or utilizing the dedicated GNOME and KDE’s GUI apps. # ⚓ FOSSLinux ☛ How_to_backup_and_restore_data_on_Pop!_OS_using TimeShift⠀⇛ In our digital age, data integrity and security are paramount. Pop!_OS, revered for its user-centric design, offers tools like TimeShift that empower users to safeguard their data. # ⚓ TechRepublic ☛ How_to_Fix_Apache_2_Not_Executing_PHP Files⠀⇛ Learn how to troubleshoot Apache 2 when it’s not executing PHP files with this easy-to-follow, step- by-step tutorial. # ⚓ Ubuntu Handbook ☛ Install_Latest_Kernel_6.4_in_Ubuntu 22.04|20.04_[New_Repository]⠀⇛ For those who want to install the latest Linux Kernel (6.4.x so far), there’s a new apt repository made for Ubuntu 20.04, Ubuntu 22.04, and Debian 12 Bookworm. # ⚓ Installing_Figma_on_Linux:_Unofficial_Desktop_Clients_and Workarounds⠀⇛ Figma is a popular cloud-based design and collaboration tool used for creating user interfaces (UIs), user experience (UX) designs, web designs, app designs, and more. It’s popular among designers, product managers, and developers for its collaborative features, real-time editing capabilities, and ease of use. # ⚓ HowTo Forge ☛ How_to_Install_Webmin_on_Debian_12⠀⇛ Managing and administering Linux servers from the command line is difficult for beginner Linux users. In this case, you can use Webmin to manage your Linux server from the web-based interface. In this article, I will show you how to install Webmin on Debian 12. # ⚓ FOSSLinux ☛ Pop!_OS_&_Docker:_A_ultimate_guide_to_container deployment⠀⇛ Pop!_OS, with its developer-friendly interface, harmoniously marries the robust capabilities of Docker, offering an efficient environment to run containers. Whether you’re a seasoned developer or someone venturing into the containerized world, understanding the nuances of running Docker containers on Pop!_OS can redefine your developmental workflow. # ⚓ LinuxTechi ☛ How_to_Connect_Remote_Windows_System_from Linux_Command_Line⠀⇛ In a world where cross-platform connectivity is key, the ability to connect to a remote Windows system from a Linux command line can be a game- changer. Thanks to powerful tools like xfreerdp, this process has become seamless and efficient. # ⚓ Nagios_Configuration_Best_Practices_for_Smooth_Operations⠀⇛ # ⚓ Troubleshooting_Nagios:_Debugging_Host_and_Service_Checks⠀⇛ # ⚓ Hands-On_Lab:_Setting_Up_Host_and_Service_Checks_in Nagios⠀⇛ # ⚓ Efficient_Monitoring_with_Host_and_Service_Groups_in Nagios⠀⇛ # ⚓ Smart_Monitoring:_Handling_Host_and_Service_Dependencies_in Nagios⠀⇛ # ⚓ Creating_Custom_Plugins_for_Nagios_Monitoring⠀⇛ # ⚓ Nagios_Plugins:_Extending_Monitoring_Capabilities⠀⇛ # ⚓ Passive_Checks_Demystified:_Integrating_External_Data_in Nagios⠀⇛ # ⚓ Active_Checks_in_Nagios:_Best_Practices_and_Configuration⠀⇛ # ⚓ Configuring_Nagios_Services:_A_Comprehensive_Guide⠀⇛ o § Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾ # § GNOME Desktop/GTK⠀➾ # ⚓ This Week in GNOME ☛ This_Week_in_GNOME/Felix_Häcker: #110_Nailing_Down_Perfomance_Issues⠀⇛ Update on what happened across the GNOME project in the week from August 18 to August 25. # ⚓ Sriyansh_Shivam:_My_first_conference:_GUADEC_2023⠀⇛ ============================================= In this blog, I’ll be sharing my experience attending GUADEC 2023 in person held in Riga, Latvia from 26th July 2023 to 31st July 2023. § 24th July 2023 Last month, when I woke up on this date, I was still unsure whether I’d be able to attend GUADEC in person because of the visa process, I was supposed to have my visa received on July 24th, but I wanted to attend GUADEC because it would be my first conference I’d ever attended. So I decided to go to my courier’s office to pick up my visa, which was already at a local courier depot. When I opened it, I was overjoyed to see that my visa had been approved. Following this, I began contacting Melissa; she was so supportive that I received my flight tickets and accommodation details the same day, even though she was traveling herself. I flew from Pune to Delhi at midnight, then from Delhi to Helsinki and then from Helsinki to Riga. To be honest, I was also looking forward to the travel experience as well because it was my first international journey. I had a great time taking pictures on the way and arrived in Riga on the evening of July 25th. Melissa if you’re reading this thank you again 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇:)⦈ # ⚓ Adrian Plazas ☛ Adrien_Plazas:_One_Device_to_Do_it All⠀⇛ In this article I’ll present how I used to organize myself, mainly using my smartphone for that, and why and how I started changing this. § Dependency On January 1st 2023 at 00:30, my Android smartphone died, and it made me realize how dependent on that device I was. I used it for many aspects of my life: to stay organized, to be informed, to be entertained, or to move around. Luckily, at that time I was working for Purism and I had a Librem 5, that was the perfect opportunity to try it out in real conditions, as the device I depend on. I started by listing all I used my previous smartphone for, and tried to fulfill the same needs with the Librem 5. It didn’t go well. The device has some great upsides and interesting features, for sure, but the Linux smartphone ecosystem was very far from something I can depend on, especially given how much I was asking from my smartphone. I ordered a new smartphone in mid-February 2023, and being back on Android after 1½ months not using it helped me discover things I wasn’t expecting. # ⚓ It’s FOSS ☛ 7_Things_You_Never_Knew_You_Could_Do_in GNOME’s_Activity_Search⠀⇛ You are missing out on lots of built-in search features in the GNOME desktop environment. Learn something new. * § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾ o § SUSE/OpenSUSE⠀➾ # ⚓ Dominique Leuenberger ☛ openSUSE_Tumbleweed_–_Review_of_the week_2023/34⠀⇛ Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers, As announced on various channels, OBS services have been moved to a new location on new hardware. So the last check-in we could do was on Wednesday, building, and QA done before the move yesterday and then publishing it. As we managed to get the timing pretty right (which was more based on luck than anything else; timings for build and QA are only very rough estimates) we managed to publish 6 snapshots since the last review. At the moment, we do not yet have a new snapshot building, as the service migration seems to have left a few services in limbo – e.g. openQA is, up to the moment of this writing, not able to sync snapshots from OBS. So we rather slow down than risk sending out untested stuff. The six snapshots (0817, 0818, 0819, 0821, 0822, and 0823) delivered during the last week brought you these changes: [...] o § Fedora Family / IBM⠀➾ # ⚓ Debarshi_Ray:_Fedora_meets_RHEL:_upgrading_UBI_to_RHEL [Ed: Helping IBM entrap developers, making them depending on the quasi-proprietary RHEL (Red Bait)]⠀⇛ As part of our efforts to make Fedora_Workstation more attractive for developers, particularly those building applications that would be deployed on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, we had made_it_easy to create gratis,_self-supported Red Hat Enterprise Linux virtual machines inside GNOME_Boxes. You had to join the Red_Hat_Developer_Program by creating an account on developers.redhat.com and with that you not only had gratis, self-supported access to RHEL, but also a series of other products like Red Hat JBoss Middleware, Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform and so on. # ⚓ Fedora Magazine ☛ Fedora_Magazine:_Contribute_at_the_Test Week_for_the_Anaconda_WebUI_Installer_for_Fedora Workstation⠀⇛ The Workstation team is working on the final integration of Anaconda_WebUI_Installer for Fedora Linux Workstation. As a result, the Fedora Workstation Working Group and QA teams have organized a test week from Monday, Aug 28, 2023 to Monday, Sept 04, 2023. The wiki page in this article contains links to the test images you’ll need to participate. Please continue reading for details. # ⚓ Fedora Magazine ☛ Fedora_Magazine:_Docs_workshop:_Virtually writing_together⠀⇛ At the Fedora Linux 38 release party, the Docs team suggested that we take advantage of a virtual meetup to bring teamwork into documentation writing. Documentation writing shouldn’t be a solitary pursuit. An interactive session at Flock_2023 helped exchange ideas on a collaborative way to run meetings and invite more contributions for documentation. After months of waiting for ideas to be finalized, the Docs team is pleased to announce the workshop will begin September 2023. If you fancy coming along, just let us know your preferred timeslot in the When-is-good_scheduler by September 15 2023. # ⚓ Fedora Project ☛ Fedora_Community_Blog:_CPE_Weekly_update_– Week_34_2023⠀⇛ This is a weekly report from the CPE (Community Platform Engineering) Team. If you have any questions or feedback, please respond to this report or contact us on #redhat-cpe channel on libera.chat. # ⚓ Pablo_Iranzo_Gómez:_No_matching_key_found⠀⇛ As you might have experienced… using a recent system to connect to a legacy one could be complicated as some insecure protocols have been disabled, with a message like: Unable to negotiate with 192.168.2.82 port 22: no matching host key type found. Their offer: ssh- rsa,ssh-dss Create an entry like this in your .ssh/ config file, so that insecure methods can be used to connect to a specific host: Host 192.168.2.82 HostKeyAlgorithms=+ssh-rsa KexAlgorithms=+diffie-hellman-group1-sha1 PubkeyAcceptedKeyTypes=+ssh-rsa User root or alternatively on the command line: [...] o § Debian Family⠀➾ # ⚓ Debian_Brasil:_Debian_Day_30_years_online_in_Brazil⠀⇛ In 2023 the traditional Debian_Day is being celebrated in a special way, after all on August 16th Debian turned 30 years old! To celebrate this special milestone in the Debian’s life, the Debian_Brasil_community organized a week with talks online from August 14th to 18th. The event was named Debian_30_years. o § Canonical/Ubuntu Family⠀➾ # ⚓ OMG Ubuntu ☛ Ubuntu_23.10_Won’t_Use_Snap_Printing_Stack After_All [Ed: MS Canonical (Mark Shuttleworth's Canonical) trying to snooker everything for vendor lock-in]⠀⇛ Ubuntu was planning to ship the CUPS printing stack as a Snap in 23.10 — but after several months of testing, its changed its mind. Accordingly, a DEB- based printing stack will feature in Ubuntu 23.10 “Mantic Minotaur” and in Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. Switching to the CUPS Snap will now aim to take place during the Ubuntu 24.10 development cycle. # ⚓ Alan Pope ☛ Alan_Pope:_It’s_not_working_from_home⠀⇛ I’ve worked from home since November 2011, when I started working for Canonical. I’ve had enough though, and have chosen to go back to working in an office on a regular basis. No, I don’t have investments in city-centre office spaces, and I’m not a Zoom paid shill. I just think it’s better for me, and here’s why. Commuter hell Before 2011, all my roles were all on-site, commuting between six and sixty miles a day, each way. # ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ 11_Best_Linux_Mint_Themes⠀⇛ Practical guide on some of the finest themes that you can use on Linux Mint using a list of a handful of popular themes and how to install them on Linux Mint. o § Devices/Embedded⠀➾ # ⚓ 13_Best_Operating_Systems_for_the_Internet_of_Things_ (IoT)⠀⇛ An Internet of Things OS is any Operating System specifically designed to work within the constraints that are particular to IoT devices which are typically limited in memory size, processing power, capacity, and built to enable swift data transfer over the Internet. There are several (mostly Linux-based) Operating Systems that you can use for IoT but they wouldn’t allow you to get the best out of your setup and that’s the reason why IoT-focused distros exist. Here are the list of top Operating Systems you can use for your Internet of Things projects. # ⚓ Linux Foundation’s Site/Blog ☛ Joint_Development_Foundation to_co-host_first_CHIPS_R&D_Standards_Summit_with_industry leaders⠀⇛ The summit will bring together industry leaders in the semiconductor and microelectronics space to discuss opportunities for standards-driven innovation, incubating and accelerating ideas across industry, academia, and government, providing training and education, and enabling a standards-capable workforce. The summit signifies a strong commitment to excellence and collaboration in the semiconductor and microelectronics industry and a community-driven approach to exploring its future. o § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ SlashGear ☛ Android_Auto_Not_Connecting_Via_USB:_Why_It Happens,_And_How_To_Fix_It⠀⇛ # ⚓ Notebook Check ☛ iQOO_Z8_officially_set_to_launch_as_mid- range_Android_smartphone_with_flagship_charging_– NotebookCheck.net_News⠀⇛ # ⚓ TechRadar ☛ Android_Find_My_Device:_what_is_Google’s_new tracking_network_and_how_does_it_work?_|_TechRadar⠀⇛ # ⚓ Android Authority ☛ 5_Android_apps_you_shouldn’t_miss_this week_–_Android_Apps_Weekly⠀⇛ # ⚓ Android Authority ☛ The_best_Android_apps_to_check_Android battery_health⠀⇛ # ⚓ SlashGear ☛ 15_Tips_&_Tricks_To_Get_The_Most_Out_Of_Your Android_Phone⠀⇛ # ⚓ SlashGear ☛ How_To_Change_App_Permissions_On_Your_Android Phone_(And_Why_You_Might_Want_To)⠀⇛ # ⚓ Ghacks ☛ How_to_disable_Android’s_new_Ads_Privacy features⠀⇛ # ⚓ Giz China ☛ Link_Your_Devices:_How_Google_is_improving_the Android_ecosystem⠀⇛ # ⚓ Indian Express ☛ Google_Keep_finally_gets_text_formatting options_on_Android_|_Technology_News_–_The_Indian_Express⠀⇛ # ⚓ Forbes ☛ Android_Circuit:_New_Samsung_Galaxy_S24_Leak,_Oppo Launch_Reno_105G,_European_Debut_For_Razer_Edge⠀⇛ * § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾ o § Programming/Development⠀➾ # ⚓ Rlang ☛ How_to_Plot_Multiple_Histograms_with_Base_R_and ggplot2⠀⇛ Histograms are a powerful tool for visualizing the distribution of numerical data. They allow us to quickly understand the frequency distribution of values within a dataset. # ⚓ Jainil_Patel:_Pitivi_GSOC_Final_Report⠀⇛ # ⚓ GSoC’23_Final_Blog_Post_|_Summarising_GSoC_and_future_plans #6⠀⇛ In this blog post I will be summarizing my experience and learnings during the amazing 12 week of the Google Summer of Code with KDE. So this week GSoC finally comes to an end; it almost feels like yesterday when my project proposal finally got selected. I still remember how happy I was to receive the opportunity to work on projects which will be used by thousands of people. I would like to thank my mentor Carl_Schwan for being so patient throughout this journey. A special thanks also goes to Joshua_Goins for providing detailed reviews to my Merge Requests and assisting me in resolving several of my bugs. # ⚓ Volker Krause ☛ Help_with_retiring_Jenkins⠀⇛ In my post_about_Akademy_2023 I had mentioned the efforts to retire KDE’s Jenkins_installation (“Binary Factory”) in favor of Gitlab on invent.kde.org. One remaining issue has meanwhile been resolved, the migration of the Craft cache jobs. And for migrating the packaging jobs there’s an easy way how you can help. # § Python⠀➾ # ⚓ CNX Software ☛ Modular_Mojo_claims_to_be_over_36,000 times_faster_than_Python_for_AI_workloads⠀⇛ Modular Mojo is a new programming language designed for AI developers that is said to combine the usability of Python with the performance of C with over 36,000 times the performance of Python on a matrix multiplication workload. Modular Mojo programming language was not in the initial plan of the company but came about when the company’s founders – who focused on building a platform to unify the world’s ML/AI infrastructure – realized that programming across the entire stack was too complicated and also ended up writing a lot of MLIR (Multi-Level Intermediate Representation) by hand. The “over 36,000 times speedup” claim comes with the matmul.py script performing a 128×128 matrix multiplication in Python with a throughput of 0.00215 GFLOP/s and another script doing 512×512 vectorized + parallelized matrix multiplication in Mojo at 79.636 GFLOP/s. o § Standards/Consortia⠀➾ # ⚓ Tedium ☛ Pretty_Darn_Fascinating⠀⇛ The story of the PDF, the portable document format that’s become one of the internet’s defining information formats. It’ll be with us after we’re long gone. * § Leftovers⠀➾ o ⚓ Ruben Schade ☛ An_comp-sci_anime_fig_citation?⠀⇛ According_to_the_academic_paper_search_engine_Oa.mg MAG: 2913484807 Aizu Project’s Ayanami Rei Ruben Schade Computer science 2016 Correct me if I’m wrong, but that means someone in 2016 cited the below post of mine, for… computer science? Classifying Evangelion in this way might be a bit meta even for me, but maybe there’s some profound relationship between the two I’m missing. Was it about the software required to interface a plugsuit with a human operator? Some other NERV research project? o ⚓ The_Lego_Head⠀⇛ As it’s weekend, it is time for something more light hearted. This is how my son and I packed his Lego when going to the summer house. A yellow head staring you down from inside the yellow car! o § Hardware⠀➾ # ⚓ CNX Software ☛ Khadas_Mind_Premium_review_–_Part_3:_Ubuntu 22.04_tested_on_an_Intel_Core_i7-1360P_mini_PC [Ed: bribed- for "review" of a Windows product... under the guise of "Linux"]⠀⇛ Khadas Mind Premium is an ultra-thin mini PC powered by an Intel Core i7-1360P Raptor Lake processor and supports various docks through the Khadas Link connector. We reviewed the mini PC with the Mind Dock in Windows 11 a few weeks ago, and we’ve now had time to install Ubuntu 22.04 to check out the mini PC with Linux. Installing Ubuntu 22.04 on Khadad Mind Premium We decided to install Ubuntu 22.04 alongside Windows 11, so we shrank the Windows partition by about half before inserting a Ubuntu 22.04.3 USB drive to install the Linux distribution. # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ An_Odd_Home_Computer_From_The_1980s⠀⇛ If you were around when the Altair 8800 was king, you might remember the name Cromemco. They were an early vendor of add-ons for the Altair, along with companies like Godbout and Morrow. The company was mostly famous for a very crude digital camera for the Altair and a similarly-crude graphics interface card. They graduated into building S-100 bus computers. Like many similar companies, they could taste the upcoming home PC market, and they wanted a piece of it. Their answer? The $1,800 C-10 Cromemco Personal Computer, and you can see [Vintage Geek’s] thoughts on the odd machine in the video below. # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ A_6502_Overlay_Debugger⠀⇛ Retired hardware engineer [Plasmode] recently took on the challenge of building a debugger for the 6502 designed to sit atop the microprocessor while seated in a solder less breadboard. The result is the Diagnostic Overlay for W65C02 Breadboard, consisting of 128 kB SRAM and a 1250-gate CPLD. Except being 0.8 in wide, the overlay debugger is otherwise the same size as the 6502’s 40-pin DIP package, so it doesn’t overhang other portions of your circuit. o § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾ # ⚓ Vaccines_and_SIDS:_Steve_Kirsch_amps_up_the_stupid⠀⇛ I have an annoying propensity to keep repeating how, in narratives of antivax conspiracy theories, everything old is new again. I was reminded of this again when I encountered a particularly stupid invocation of the old antivax claim that vaccines cause sudden infant death syndrome invoked by tech bro turned antivaxxer Steve Kirsch, as epitomized by two posts on his Substack…. o § Security⠀➾ # ⚓ Security Week ☛ Chinese-Backed_APT_‘Flax_Typhoon’_Hacks Taiwan_With_Minimal_Malware_Footprint [Ed: Microsoft Windows TCO]⠀⇛ Microsoft warns that Chinese spies are hacking into Taiwanese organizations with minimal use of malware and by abusing legitimate software. # ⚓ Linux Foundation’s Site/Blog ☛ What_You_Need_to_Know_About the_US_Federal_Government’s_RFI_on_Open_Source_Software Security [Ed: LF pushing "sigstore" and other terrible idea which simply restrict and inhibit, all in the name of fake "security"]⠀⇛ The US Federal Government’s recent Request for Information (RFI) on Open Source Software Security (announced by the US White House) is a noteworthy development for open source software (OSS). This RFI originated from the Open-Source Software Security Initiative (OS3I) interagency working group created to improve OSS security. This blog post aims to provide a brief overview of the RFI. # ⚓ Beta News ☛ A_holistic_approach_to_closing_the_container security_gap_[Q&A]⠀⇛ So, what’s the best way to secure Kubernetes systems? Alex Jones, engineering director Kubernetes at Canonical, suggests a need to look beyond containers with a holistic approach to security that spans all layers of the system. We talked to him to discover more. # ⚓ Linux_Vulnerabilities:_The_Antidote_to_This_Linux_Security Poison [Ed: "linuxsecurity" uses the anniversaty of Linux to throw in some mud and FUD]⠀⇛ Fast forward 30 years later and what was once started as a hobby is now one of the most powerful operating systems, powering billions of devices worldwide. This operating system, named Linux, now makes up almost 3.08% of all the operating systems used worldwide. However, with great power comes even greater responsibilities. And Linux is no exception to this rule. As the backbone to a multitude of servers, workstations, kiosks, and other front-line devices throughout the globe, it is imperative for organizations to keep their Linux environments secure and up and running at all times. # § Integrity/Availability/Authenticity⠀➾ # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Social_Engineering_Meets_Hacking_With Prompt_Hacking⠀⇛ XKCD has multiple comics about how hacking isn’t quite the way they make it out to be in movies: [...] # § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾ # ⚓ DaemonFC (Ryan Farmer) ☛ Exasperated_With_Government Inaction_At_Illinois_Department_of_Insurance,_I’m_Going Public_From_Now_On._More_GEICO_and_Liberty_Mutual stuff.⠀⇛ To summarize, I have other beef with the IDOI. I’ve complained to them about three other problems, one of which I’ve blogged about before. Here are the summaries and the current state of the complaint. GEICO: During my April-October policy, they emailed me a “survey link” to update my annual mileage, under threat to increase it to 12,000, the “State average”, and bill me for it if I didn’t reply. I replied and said something like 5,000-6,999, which is true. GEICO raised my bill by about 10% and set my mileage at 12,000 anyway. I only caught it because I checked my policy (how many people do?) and found this. When I called to complain, GEICO acted like it was a mistake and refunded the difference. # ⚓ Reason ☛ No_Pseudonymity_or_Sealing_for_Japanese_User Seeking_to_Use_American_Courts_to_Subpoena_Twitter Critics’_Names⠀⇛ “Applicant’s warning of a prima facie violation of Japanese law’s privacy protections fails to constitute a harm severe enough” to justify pseudonymity. o § Defence/Aggression⠀➾ # ⚓ Police_officer,_suspect_killed_in_shootout_during_İstanbul drug_raid⠀⇛ When police teams acting on a tip-off attempted to raid an apartment in Kağıthane, the incident turned violent. # ⚓ RFA ☛ US_jet_fuel_sanctions_welcomed_as_tool_to_curb_junta air_strikes⠀⇛ Move will reduce attacks that have killed thousands of civilians, Myanmar’s shadow government says. # ⚓ France24 ☛ Niger_junta_authorises_Burkina_Faso,_Mali_armies to_intervene_‘in_the_event_of_aggression’⠀⇛ The officers who took power in Niger last month said Thursday they would authorise the armies of neighbouring Burkina Faso and Mali intervene in the country “in the event of aggression”. # ⚓ RFA ☛ ‘Self-help’_schools_thrive_in_Myanmar’s_Chin_state despite_military_attacks⠀⇛ Anti-junta community schools function under threat of airstrikes and ground offensives. # § Torture⠀➾ # ⚓ New York Times ☛ How_a_Judge’s_Ruling_on_Torture Imperils_a_Guantánamo_Prosecution_Strategy⠀⇛ In dismissing a confession in the bombing of the U.S.S. Cole, Col. Lanny J. Acosta Jr. has shaken a foundation of U.S. government cases at the post-9/11 court. # ⚓ JURIST ☛ German_prosecutors_announce_arrest_of_Syria pro-government_militia_member_for_war_crimes_and_crimes against_humanity⠀⇛ German prosecutors announced Thursday that a Syrian national accused of crimes against humanity and war crimes through torture and enslavement between 2012 and 2015 has been arrested. The investigating judge presiding over the matter ordered the man detained pending trial. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Judge_Throws_Out_Confession_of Bombing_Suspect_as_Derived_From_Torture⠀⇛ The Saudi defendant, accused of orchestrating the attack on the U.S.S. Cole in 2000, was waterboarded and subjected to other forms of torture by the C.I.A. in 2002 in a secret prison network. # ⚓ MEETINGS_WITH_RIGHTS_ORGANİZATİONS:_‘Everywhere_has turned_into_a_place_of_torture’⠀⇛ “Lately, even journalists have shown decreased interest in human rights-related issues,” says Ümit Efe, an executive of the Human Rights Foundation of Turkey. # ⚓ TwinCities Pioneer Press ☛ Six_former_Mississippi officers_plead_guilty_to_state_charges_for_torturing two_Black_men⠀⇛ Prosecutors say some of the officers nicknamed themselves the “Goon Squad” because of their willingness to use excessive force and cover up attacks including the assault that ended with a deputy shooting one victim in the mouth. # ⚓ Elyas’s_family_calls_for_help:_Lawyers_will_object_to the_deportation_order_for_the_activist_from_Iran⠀⇛ A deportation order was made for Elyas Torabibaeskendari from Iran, one of those detained following the 21st Pride March in İstanbul. Elyas’s family says that Elyas may face anything, starting with torture, if sent back to Iran. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Taliban_Members_Are_Accused_of Targeting_Afghan_Ex-Officials⠀⇛ A U.N. mission in Afghanistan reported summary killings, arbitrary detentions and torture of hundreds of onetime soldiers, police officers and others in the old government. # ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ UN_investigator_says_Eritreans experienced_torture_and_sexual_violence_during_national service⠀⇛ A U.N. independent investigator on human rights says Eritrean refugees and asylum- seekers report that during compulsory national service they experienced torture, inhumane or degrading treatment, sexual and gender-based violence, forced labor and abusive conditions. Mohamed Babiker says Eritrea has a policy of indefinite national service and has ignored numerous calls from human rights bodies to ensure legal limits for the duration of such service and to protect the human rights of all participants. Eritrea maintains its national service is “unfairly judged.” But Babiker says in a report circulated Monday that he continues to receive “numerous and credible reports of grave human rights violation in the context of forced national/military service.” # ⚓ Mint Press News ☛ How_a_Notorious_Georgia_Army_School Became_America’s_Training_Ground_for_Global_Torture⠀⇛ In spite of undergoing several name changes and employing shrewd repackaging strategies under the pretext of human rights advocacy, the notorious School of the Americas remains actively committed to training foreign fighters, steadfastly advancing the cause of the American empire. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Five_Ex-Officials_At_Siberian_Penitentiary Handed_Prison_Terms_In_Torture_Case⠀⇛ Five former officials at a Siberian penitentiary have been handed prison terms in a high-profile case involving the torture and rape of an inmate from the Republic of Tyva. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Uzbek_Blogger_Claims_He_Was_Tortured_In Pretrial_Detention⠀⇛ A well-known Uzbek investigative journalist and blogger, Abdulqodir Mominov, says he was tortured by three law enforcement officials while in pretrial detention. # ⚓ RFA ☛ Myanmar_prison_guards_torture_inmates_marking Martyrs’_Day⠀⇛ They beat 31 political prisoners and locked them in narrow, dark cells. # ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ Guantanamo_detainees_tell first_independent_visitor_about_scars_from_torture_and hopes_to_leave⠀⇛ At the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay, the aging men known by their serial numbers arrived at the meeting shackled. For the first time since it had opened in 2002, a U.S. president was allowing them to meet with a U.N. independent investigator. They told the investigator, Fionnuala Ní Aoláin, about the scant contacts with their families, the psychological and physical scars of the torture and abuse they experienced, and their hopes of leaving. They also told her she had come too late. In an interview with The Associated Press, Ní Aoláin agreed, because a total of 780 Muslim men were detained there following the 9/11 terrorist attack and today there are just 30. # ⚓ JURIST ☛ UN_Committee_against_Torture_releases findings_on_four_member_states⠀⇛ The UN Committee against Torture issued findings on New Zealand, Romania, Spain and Switzerland on Friday in its latest session. o § Environment⠀➾ # § Energy/Transportation⠀➾ # ⚓ Driving_Electric⠀⇛ So, let’s get the range question out of the way. My last car was a fairly lean diesel (a BMW E61 with the 2.0L diesel) and my personal record was 1350km on one tank of diesel, but I could do 1000km easily. The MG claims to do 380km. On a nice spring day on the smaller roads (so doing ~70-80kph) I can do 400km without too much effort. On a day with heavy rain trying to do 100kph, I’m happy if I can do 300km. It will be interesting to see how this car fares in winter conditions (cold + thick slush covering the road). Given that the charging speed is a variable thing, it took a couple of weeks getting used to it, but now I do longer trips quite comfortably. I consume ~16-17kWh/100km. If I want to do highway speeds (in Sweden that means 100 – 135kph) I need to calculate ~25kWh/100km. The battery pack carries 61kWh of charge. You do the math. o § Finance⠀➾ # ⚓ uni Michigan ☛ GEO_accepts_UMich_contract_offer,_ends_five- month_strike⠀⇛ As of midnight on Friday, the bargaining team of the University of Michigan’s Graduate Employees’ Organization has officially ratified the University’s final contract offer, ending more than nine months of negotiations, including a five- month-long strike. # ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ How_Indonesia’s_viral_housewives’_band freed_a_village_from_the_loan_sharks⠀⇛ A couple, moved by the plight of the debt-ridden villagers, have offered them interest-free loans… with a catch. # ⚓ Axios ☛ The_UAW_has_authorized_a_strike_if_talks_fail_to reach_deal⠀⇛ The United Auto Workers said Friday that its members have authorized a strike if the union can’t reach new contracts with the Detroit Three automakers: General Motors, Ford and Stellantis. # ⚓ DaemonFC (Ryan Farmer) ☛ My_Cat_Is_Sick_With Hyperthyroidism_And_A_Tumor._Also:_Economic_Gaslighting. Paywalls._Copyrights._Google_WEI.⠀⇛ Things are going in a bad direction economically due to the “Economic Miracle of Biden”, as told by “KrugmanBot3000” (with a Volvo) in the NY Times. I too am sick, of being told of this “Miracle” that is unfolding, as people lose jobs, get their hours cut, and have to wonder how long they can even afford to take care of their pet cat or fill up the tank of their car. It makes me depressed to read it even though I know it’s propaganda that would make Goebbels or Stalin blush. The other day, they went so far as to blame people with low interest fixed-rate mortgages for still being able to spend a lot of money while the Fed bangs the poor into bankruptcy due to the wealthy panicking about inflation. This situation with the American media has never been worse. What level of Freedom and Capitalism are we in where the media gleefully shouts “HAHAHAHAHA!!! It’s all working as planned. The Central Bank is killing American families with rigged interest rates. They can’t afford to buy a can of beans and they are losing their jobs! This will bring inflation to a very manageable 3% eventually!” A troll in IRC told me he believed copyright should be abolished. (If it was to be, then Microsoft can commit more code theft using Plagiarism as a Service, AKA CoPilot.) Then another sockpuppet in IRC shamed me for reading the Times via Links or the Newswaffle. I mentioned that their paywall is pretty much just there so that people on a Mac with Safari, or on an iPhone, can’t do anything about it. It was never going to stop smart people who can just drop to the terminal and type “links nytimes.com”. The WEI “attestation” of Chrome is there to stop people from doing this. There will be two or three Web browsers that are “trusted”, and they will be “trusted” to prevent the user from doing anything at all to alter the display of “content”, on the client-side. So in layman’s terms, no more “KrugmanBot3000” and “Miracles” because the browser has to attest that you have not done anything clever. The only benefit is that these sites tend to be so bogus that nobody should pay for them anyway which is why they’re really dying. Let me be frank, that considering that these places only ever post propaganda that benefits the wealthy elite and the American government’s gaslighting, you’d think taxpayers would be on the hook to directly subsidize all of them and not just NPR. They could have packed it into the “Inflation Production Act” or something. # ⚓ Axios ☛ Powell_warns_inflation_remains_too_high,_Fed_may need_to_hike_again⠀⇛ Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell on Friday warned_that_inflation was still far too high, and suggested the central bank may need to raise interest_rates_further in coming months. Why it matters: Despite recent data that shows inflation receding, the Fed is not declaring victory with signs that price pressures could reemerge. o § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾ # ⚓ RFA ☛ Observers_question_US_commitment_to_Southeast_Asia_as Biden_to_skip_regional_summit⠀⇛ The American president instead may go to Vietnam, a most useful ally to counter China in Southeast Asia. # ⚓ France24 ☛ Zimbabwe’s_tense_election_‘falls_short’_of democratic_standards,_observers_say⠀⇛ Poll observers from a regional southern African bloc SADC on Friday said certain aspects of Zimbabwe’s tense presidential and legislative elections did not conform to democratic principles. o § Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾ # ⚓ Reason ☛ Court_Rejects_RNC’s_Lawsuit_Claiming_Google Discriminatorily_Treated_RNC’s_Email_as_Spam⠀⇛ Section 230, the court says, immunizes good-faith attempts to block spam—and RNC didn’t introduce enough evidence of bad faith. # ⚓ Reason ☛ The_Washington_Post_Says_Democracy_Demands_Less Freedom_of_Speech⠀⇛ The paper worries that “social media companies are receding from their role as watchdogs against political misinformation.” o § Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press⠀➾ # ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Press_freedom_NGO_denounces_HK$500k legal_bill_for_journalist_cleared_of_disorder_charge⠀⇛ A free expression NGO has criticised the Hong Kong authorities after a journalist was faced with HK$500,000 in legal costs despite being cleared of a public disorder charge. o § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾ # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Appeals_Court_Says_Woman_Can_Continue_To_Sue Over_$8,000_Civil_Forfeiture⠀⇛ Just fucking weird. Seems illegal. How do we get away with this in a constitutional republic? Rights exist. And et cetera. # ⚓ EFF ☛ Media_Briefing:_As_UN_Cybercrime_Treaty_Negotiations Enter_Final_Phase,_Time_is_Running_Short_to_Bolster_Human Rights_Protections⠀⇛ # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Fugitive_Bulgarian_Businessman_Returns,_Immediately Detained_By_Sofia_Authorities⠀⇛ Gaming czar Vassil Bozhkov, 67, was detained upon his return to Bulgaria from self-imposed exile, the Sofia prosecutor’s office said on August 25. o § Monopolies⠀➾ # ⚓ Web_giants_subject_to_unprecedented_rules⠀⇛ The Digital Services Act (DSA) now applies to the 19 largest social networks, marketplaces and search engines, including Google, YouTube, Amazon, Facebook, Instagram, X (ex- Twitter) or TikTok. # ⚓ Quartz ☛ How_Europe’s_new_digital_privacy_act_will_change Big_Tech_regulation⠀⇛ The European Union’s (EU) wide-ranging new digital privacy protection law went_into_effect_on_Friday (Aug. 25), ushering in a new era for Big Tech in Europe. # § Patents⠀➾ # ⚓ JUVE ☛ Huawei_and_Ericsson_renew_global_5G_patent licensing_deal [Ed: JUVE, a bribed propaganda outlet of illegal 'courts', on two companies colluding to monopolise something using patents]⠀⇛ Friday’s agreement between Chinese telecommunication company Huawei and Swedish electronics manufacturer Ericsson is long- term and covers access to each company’s 3GPP, ITU, IEEE, and IETF standards for 3G, 4G, and 5G cellular technologies. # ⚓ JUVE ☛ The_UPC_confirms_it_has_52_cases,_almost_three months_after_launch [Ed: The UPC is illegal. JUVE is being bribed to try to legitimise this illegal 'court' though.]⠀⇛ Since launching on 1 June 2023, the UPC has had problems showing proceedings on its registry. However, now users and observers can view all 35 infringement proceedings on its case management system. # ⚓ Kluwer Patent Blog ☛ Patent_case:_Shamoon_v._Resideo Technologies,_Inc.,_USA⠀⇛ There was no error in an inter partes review decision finding obviousness in a communication system patent because the board properly relied on materials in the record in its claim construction and obviousness analysis. # ⚓ Dennis Crouch/Patently-O ☛ Third_Circuit_Allows Deduction_of_Generic_Hatch-Waxman_Defense_Costs⠀⇛ Mylan had deducted over $100 million in litigation expenses for the periods of 2012- 2014 it occurred in defending patent infringement lawsuits brought against the generic manufacturer after it submitted abbreviated new drug applications (ANDAs) with paragraph IV certifications challenging the respective patents.  The IRS disallowed the deductions and issued notices of deficiency to the company — concluding that instead the litigation costs should be capitalized under I.R.C. § 263 (and associated regulations) as costs to acquire intangible assets (the FDA drug approvals). ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 3640 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐃𝐀𝐈𝐋𝐘 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒 ═════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 08.26.23⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Leftover_Links_26/08/2023:_Software_Patents_Threat_as_Sylabs_‘IP’_Abused Against_Rocky_Linux⠀✐ Posted in News_Roundup at 8:47 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇GNOME bluefish⦈ § Contents⠀➾ * Leftovers o Education o Hardware o Health/Nutrition/Agriculture o Proprietary/Artificial_Intelligence_(AI) o Pseudo-Open_Source # Openwashing o Security # Integrity/Availability/Authenticity # Privacy/Surveillance # Confidentiality 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 # Patents # Software_Patents # Copyrights * § Leftovers⠀➾ o ⚓ The Nation ☛ Spreading_Love⠀⇛ o ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Hackaday_Podcast_233:_Chandrayaan_On_The_Moon, Cyberdecks,_Hackerspaces_Born_At_A_German_Computer_Camp⠀⇛ This week, Editor-in-Chief Elliot Williams and Kristina Panos experimented with the old adage that brevity is the soul of wit. That’s right; this week, they’re all Quick Hacks, and that’s to make room for a special series of interviews that Elliot recorded at CCCamp with the pillars of US hackerspace creation. This one’s really special, do have a listen. o ⚓ Dan Langille ☛ How_much_noise_will_I_lose_when_I_power_off_this server?⠀⇛ This morning I pondered how much will noise reduce when I power off that server? From the comfort of my living room, directly above the rack in the basement, I powered it off. At first, I was disappointed. I could still hear that repetitive whine. After considering powering off one of the other hosts, I realized the noise I heard was the ceiling fan. After switching that off, I could no longer hear the rack. I thought I could hear a wee bit of fan noise, but the noise from the main host was definitely gone. The window, 6ft to the right, was cracked open a bit. Cars going past on the street were louder than what I could hear. o ⚓ Ruben Schade ☛ Finding_myself_in_a_video_rendering_studio⠀⇛ It’s also so much fun talking with people who are using GPUs not for bullshit, but to… render things! As in, making movies! The rest of the industry is slurping up entropy and electricity to generate rubbish and chain together tulip blocks, but these people actually put smiles on faces. o ⚓ New York Times ☛ Escape_China_by_Jet_Ski?_A_Dissident_Is_Said_to Have_Planned_It_for_Years⠀⇛ He had set off from the Shandong Peninsula with a helmet, a life jacket, a telescope and a compass, according to the Coast Guard. He also had five containers of fuel, which he’d tied to the watercraft and used to keep the tank filled during the 14-hour journey, the Coast Guard said. o ⚓ RFA ☛ Voting_with_his_jet_ski⠀⇛ A 35-year-old dissident who served jail time for wearing T-shirts likening Chinese leader Xi Jinping to Hitler fled to South Korea in a daring 300-kilometer (185-mile) escape over the sea by jet ski. [...] o ⚓ [Repeat] Tedium ☛ The_New_Chart_Game⠀⇛ These days, the modern way to game the pop charts for maximum impact is not to set up a thousand streams on your laptop to play all at once. Instead, it involves getting people to pay money for a song on iTunes as a way to emphasize status. You don’t need many to make an impact. o ⚓ Hackaday ☛ QSPICE_Picks_Up_Where_LTSpice_Left_Us⠀⇛ [Mike Engelhardt] is a name that should be very familiar to the hardcore electronics nerd. [Mike] is the developer responsible for LTSpice, which is quite likely the most widely used spice-compatible simulator in the free software domain. When you move away from digital electronics and the comfort of software with its helpful IDEs and toolchains, and dip a wary toe into the murky grey waters of analog or power electronics, LTSpice is your best friend. And, like all best friends, it’s a bit quirky, but it always has your back. Sadly, LTSpice development seems to have stalled some years ago, but luckily for us [Mike] has been busy on the successor, QSpice, under the watchful eye of Qorvo. o § Education⠀➾ # ⚓ The Independent UK ☛ The_Taliban_has_destroyed_education for_women_–_but_an_underground_‘University_of_the_People’_is fighting_back⠀⇛ After the Taliban shut down women’s colleges and universities in December last year – at gunpoint in some places – this online classroom has become the only place for women like Ferhana to meet and study literature, business administration and computer science, among other courses. o § Hardware⠀➾ # ⚓ [Repeat] Dan Langille ☛ They’re_here!_2x_(new-to-me_12TB HDD)⠀⇛ Today, the 2x (new-to-me 12TB HDD) arrived. They are already mounted in their drive cages and installed. # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Wireless_Data_Connections_Through_Light⠀⇛ When wired networking or data connections can’t be made, for reasons of distance or practicality, various wireless protocols are available to us. Wi- Fi is among the most common, at least as far as networking personal computers is concerned, but other methods such as LoRa or Zigbee are available when data rates are low and distances great. All of these methods share one thing in common, though: their use of radio waves to send data. Using other parts of the electromagnetic spectrum is not out of the question, though, and [mircemk] demonstrates using light as the medium instead of radio. o § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾ # ⚓ France24 ☛ Japan’s_Fukushima_nuclear_plant_begins_releasing treated_wastewater_into_Pacific⠀⇛ Japan began releasing wastewater from the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant into the Pacific Ocean on Thursday despite angry opposition from China and local fishermen. # ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Nuclear_wastewater_released_from Fukushima_nuclear_plant,_as_China_bans_all_Japanese_seafood imports⠀⇛ Japan began releasing wastewater from the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant into the Pacific Ocean on Thursday, prompting a furious China to ban all seafood imports from its neighbour. # ⚓ RFA ☛ Japan_releases_Fukushima_nuclear_wastewater_despite concerns⠀⇛ China is among the lead critics of the decision. # ⚓ Chris ☛ Forecasting_Covid-19_Variants⠀⇛ I dug up a somewhat sloppily produced pdf published by the who that purports to be a changelog of variant classifications. The list seems incomplete, because there are variants that change classification before being assigned a classification, and some variants are assigned a classification but then don’t get mentioned in the rest of the document, which spans more than two years. Here is a brief summary of the relevant variant changes listed in the document. # ⚓ Futurism ☛ Kids_Who_Are_Always_on_iPads_Missing Developmental_Goals,_Scientists_Find⠀⇛ Parents who limit their kids’ screen time, it seems, may be doing them a service: a new study has found that babies who spend a lot of time looking at iPads and other screens experience developmental delays. Published this week in the Journal of the American Medical Association of Pediatrics, this new research out of Japan suggests that watching screens may limit infants’ practicing of real-life motor skills that they glean from mimicking the people near them. # ⚓ Pierre_Kory:_“Poor_poor_pitiful_me!_(And_ABIM_is corrupt!)”⠀⇛ Three weeks ago, we learned that the Credentials and Certification Committee of the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) had voted strip two COVID-19 quacks, Drs. Pierre Kory and Paul Marik, of their board certifications. In my discussion a couple of weeks ago I noted that there appeared to be less than met the eye to this decision; first, because this decision was announced not by the ABIM but rather by the antivax quack organization founded by Kory and Marik, the  the ivermectin- promoting Frontline Covid-19 Critical Care Alliance, or FLCC (apparently after the two quacks had received letters from the ABIM) and, second, because a perusal of the ABIM website demonstrated that Dr. Kory was still board-certified in internal medicine and pulmonary and critical care medicine (which he still is as of early this morning), while Dr. Marik’s certification status was listed as “inactive” (which it also still is as of early this morning). As a reminder, the reason that Dr. Marik’s status was listed as “inactive” is because you need a valid state medical license to be board- certified, and Dr. Marik had let his license lapse in 2022, leading to his inactive status. o § Proprietary/Artificial Intelligence (AI)⠀➾ # ⚓ Daniel Miessler ☛ Thoughts_on_the_Eliezer_vs._Hotz_AI Safety_Debate⠀⇛ The debate was quite fun to watch, but also frustrating. What irked me about the debate—and all similar debates—is that they fail to isolate the disagreements. 90% of the discussion ends up being heat instead of light because they’re not being disciplined about: [...] o § Pseudo-Open Source⠀➾ # § Openwashing⠀➾ # ⚓ The Register UK ☛ Meta_lets_Code_Llama_run_riot_under almost-open_terms⠀⇛ Users however are directed to address Code Llama in English as the model hasn’t been put through safety testing in other languages and might just say something awful if queried in an out-of-scope language. o § Security⠀➾ # ⚓ LWN ☛ Security_updates_for_Friday⠀⇛ Security updates have been issued by Debian (tryton-server), Fedora (youtube-dl), SUSE (clamav and krb5), and Ubuntu (cjose and fastdds). # ⚓ Hearst Communications ☛ Rackspace’s_costs_to_deal_with ransomware_attack_top_$10_million⠀⇛ Rackspace Technology Inc. spent $10.8 million on expenses related to a ransomware attack in December that blocked thousands of customers from accessing their emails and related data, according to regulatory filings. The San Antonio-based cloud computing company paid for costs to “investigate and remediate, legal and other professional services, and supplemental staff resources that were deployed to provide support to customers,” according to filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. # ⚓ Bleeping Computer ☛ Data_breach_at_French_govt_agency exposes_info_of_10_million_people⠀⇛ Pôle emploi, France’s governmental unemployment registration and financial aid agency, is informing of a data breach that exposed data belonging to 10 million individuals. # ⚓ The Record ☛ Thousands_have_SSNs_leaked_after_ransomware attack_on_Ohio_state_archive_org⠀⇛ One of the oldest historical societies in the state of Ohio was hit with a ransomware attack that leaked the sensitive information of thousands, according to a statement the organization released this week. The Ohio History Connection is a statewide history nonprofit chartered in 1885 that manages more than 50 sites and museums across the state. It houses the State Historic Preservation Office as well as the official state archives. # ⚓ CPO Mag ☛ What_the_SEC’s_Investigation_of_SolarWinds_Means for_CISOs_and_Cybersecurity_Disclosures⠀⇛ In sending a Wells Notice to SolarWinds’s CISO, the SEC has put CISOs generally on high alert that the agency is focused on how such professionals may be involved in company missteps concerning cybersecurity issues. Managing cybersecurity at a large company often involves multiple layers of personnel involved in different aspects of complex processes, and the SEC may face challenges in investigating, and possibly charging, future CISOs. CISOs and their companies—working with counsel—should take care to design processes to detect cyber incidents and have appropriate governance around evaluating and escalating them, so that the people who are responsible for making disclosure decisions can receive timely and accurate information. # § Integrity/Availability/Authenticity⠀➾ # ⚓ Andrew Stiefel ☛ Thoughts_on_Information_Fidelity_and Transmission⠀⇛ There is a useful axiom to keep in mind whenever you are crafting a message for someone else, whether writing a book, filming a video, or drafting an email. Simple ideas travel farther than complex ones Most of us intuitively understand this. But sometimes we forget as we get into the details of whatever we are doing. That’s why I like to keep the idea of fidelity vs transmission in mind. # § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾ # ⚓ New York Times ☛ YouTube_Improperly_Used_Targeted_Ads on_Children’s_Videos,_Watchdogs_Say⠀⇛ These types of personalized ads, which use data to tailor marketing to users’ online activities and interests, can be effective for finding the right consumers. Under a federal privacy law, however, children’s online services must obtain parental consent before collecting personal information from users under 13 to target them with ads — a commitment YouTube extended to anyone watching a children’s video. Now Fairplay, a prominent children’s group, is challenging the company’s privacy statements. The group said it had used advertising placement tools from YouTube’s parent company, Google, to run a $10 ad campaign this month targeted at different groups of adults, exclusively on children’s video channels. # ⚓ France24 ☛ EU_crackdown_on_Big_Tech_comes_into_effect with_changes_for_users⠀⇛ That’s because Big Tech companies, most headquartered in the U.S., are now subject to a pioneering new set of EU digital regulations. The Digital Services Act aims to protect European users when it comes to privacy, transparency and removal of harmful or illegal content. Here are five things that will change when you sign on: [...] # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Just_23%_Of_Americans_Know_The_U.S._Has Failed_To_Pass_An_Internet-Era_Privacy_Law⠀⇛ We’ve noted repeatedly how the hyperventilation about TikTok privacy is largely just a distraction from the U.S.’ ongoing failure to pass even a basic privacy law or meaningfully regulate data brokers. # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Fifth_Circuit_Says_Law_Enforcement_Doesn’t Need_Warrants_To_Search_Phones_At_The_Border⠀⇛ In 2014, the Supreme Court made it clear: phone searches require warrants. While it did note the case involved a search “incident to an arrest,” the precedent was undeniable. If a phone search attached to an arrest requires a warrant, it would logically follow that any phone search by law enforcement — even those not subsequent to an arrest — requires a warrant. # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Privacy_And_Photography,_We_Need_To_Talk⠀⇛ One of the fun aspects of our global community is that there are plenty of events at which we can meet up, hang out, and do cool stuff together. They may be in a Las Vegas convention center, a slightly muddy field in England, or a bar in Berlin, but those of us with a consuming interest in technology and making things have a habit of finding each other. Our events all have their own cultures which make each one slightly different from others. # § Confidentiality⠀➾ # ⚓ Cendyne Naga ☛ An_introduction_to_Decentralized Identity⠀⇛ I attended a presentation at Crypto and Privacy village about Decentralized Identity, its goals, and current weaknesses. We cover verifiable credentials, where information is signed by an issuer, held by a person or thing with identity, and given to verifiers which can trust that verifier. Governments are interested in decentralized identities. I feel that without deep government support, decentralized identities will not succeed. Lastly, we cover mitigations, such as a smart agent. It is like a smart wallet, but more general. We have a long way to go before this technology is ready for the everyday person. This talk summary is part of my DEF CON 31 series. The talks this year have sufficient depth to be shared independently and are separated for easier consumption. o § Defence/Aggression⠀➾ # ⚓ RFA ☛ Philippine_officials_release_footage_of_sea_standoff, as_senator_pushes_for_inquiry⠀⇛ Videos show China Coast Guard ships trying to cordon off boats in a Philippine resupply convoy. # ⚓ RFA ☛ Riding_jet_ski,_activist_jailed_over_anti-Xi_Jinping T-shirt_flees_to_South_Korea⠀⇛ After daring sea escape, ethnic Korean Kwon Pyong turns himself in to Incheon authorities # ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ “Shameful”:_Reelected_Tenn._State_Rep. Justin_Jones_on_GOP_Silencing_of_Critics_on_Gun_Control⠀⇛ Tennessee’s Republican-dominated state Legislature is still facing public outcry over the state’s permissive gun laws in the wake of Nashville’s Covenant School shooting, which killed three 9- year-old children and three adult staff members in March. Since then, the state House, under the control of Republican House Speaker Cameron Sexton, has censured its own representatives and deployed state troopers to crack down on public participation. Earlier this week, Republicans imposed new penalties on lawmakers believed to be too disruptive and banned visitors from carrying signs — a ban that has since been challenged by the ACLU for violating the First Amendment. Amid the new rules, visitors can still carry guns into the building. For more, we’re joined by Tennessee state Representative Justin Jones, one of three Democratic representatives expelled by the state Legislature earlier this year for joining gun violence protests on the House floor. We speak to him about his return to the Legislature after being reinstated in a special election last month, and his continued struggle in “the people’s house” against what he describes as “authoritarian” rule. # ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ Inmate_P01135809:_Trump_Surrenders_to_Jail in_Georgia,_Booked_on_13_Felony_Counts⠀⇛ Former President Donald Trump was booked Thursday at Atlanta’s Fulton County Jail on 13 felony charges for attempting to overturn the 2020 election. He paid $20,000, or 10% of his $200,000 bond, through a local bail bondsman, allowing him to be released after about 20 minutes at the jail. He is expected to face trial as early as October. In Atlanta, we speak with two guests: Carol Anderson, a professor of African American studies at Emory University and the author of One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy, among other books on race and civil rights in American politics, and Hugo Lowell, a reporter for The Guardian who has closely covered Trump’s criminal case in Georgia. Anderson discusses the Trump campaign’s use of a long legacy of racism and voter suppression in an attempt to “overthrow democracy” via an “assault on Black humanity,” while Lowell shares what’s next for Trump and his 18 other co-defendants, including former Chief of Staff Mark Meadows and lawyer Kenneth Cheseboro, who first suggested the plot to create fake electors. # ⚓ RFA ☛ China_mum_on_Xi_Jinping’s_absence_from_BRICS_business forum⠀⇛ Xi’s absence sparks speculation about his health, or that he needs to confront crisis back home # ⚓ teleSUR ☛ BRICS_Summit:_China_Calls_for_More_Equitable World_Order⠀⇛ “Should we work together to maintain peace and stability, or just sleepwalk into the abyss of a new Cold War?” President XI Jinping asked. # ⚓ The Age AU ☛ 2023-08-25_[Older]_Rival_to_the_G7:_Russia, China_invite_rich_Islamic_nations_to_join_BRICS⠀⇛ # ⚓ New York Times ☛ With_BRICS_Invite,_Iran_Shrugs_Off_Outcast Status_in_the_West⠀⇛ The invitation came after a tumultuous year of domestic unrest and economic gloom, and follows a pivot by the country toward Russia and China. # ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ Asean_must_stay_united,_neutral_and build_resilient_growth:_Indonesian_finance_minister⠀⇛ The bloc must not become a battleground for influence amid the great power rivalry between the US, China and Russia, Dr Sri Mulyani Indrawati said. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Tsikhanouskaya_Says_Independence_Of_Belarus_‘Under Greatest_Threat’⠀⇛ Exiled Belarusian opposition leader Svyatlana Tsikhanouskaya said her country’s independence has come under its “greatest threat” ever because of the rule of authoritarian leader Alyaksandr Lukashenka. # ⚓ ANF News ☛ 2023-08-23_[Older]_Civilians_among_15 causalities_in_Russian_airstrikes_in_Idlib⠀⇛ # ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-08-25_[Older]_Pro-Kyiv Russians_Urge_Wagner_Group_to_Revenge_Prigozhin’s_Death⠀⇛ # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Russian_investigators_recover_flight_records_and 10_bodies_from_Prigozhin’s_crashed_jet_—_Meduza⠀⇛ The Russian Investigative Committee said on Friday that it had recovered 10 bodies from the scene of the plane crash that presumably killed Wagner Group founder Yevgeny Prigozhin. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ With_Yevgeny_Prigozhin’s_Death,_Putin Projects_a_Message_of_Power⠀⇛ The Kremlin appears to be sending the signal that no degree of effectiveness can protect someone from punishment for disloyalty. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Russia_Denies_Killing_Prigozhin,_Calling the_Idea_Anti-Putin_Propaganda⠀⇛ The Kremlin and its proxies rebuffed suggestions that it was responsible for destroying a plane that reportedly carried the chief of the Wagner mercenary group. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Putin_Has_His_Revenge_on_Prigozhin⠀⇛ Russia’s president had ample reason to wish for Yevgeny Prigozhin’s demise. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Yevgeny_Prigozhin,_Renegade_Mercenary Chief_Who_Rattled_Kremlin⠀⇛ A tycoon and a Putin ally, he built a paramilitary force that fought by Russia’s side even as he castigated its military leaders. He is believed to have died at 62 in a plane crash. # ⚓ Axios ☛ What’s_next_for_Wagner_after_presumed_death_of_boss Yevgeny_Prigozhin⠀⇛ The apparent deaths of Russian mercenary boss Yevgeny_Prigozhin and other high-ranking officials of the Wagner_Private_Military_Company in a plane crash this week leaves the Kremlin-funded group’s future in question. Why it matters: Without its founder and other top commanders, it is difficult to predict how Wagner will operate going forward, but it is likely that the group is the weakest it has ever been since first emerging nearly a decade ago, analysts told Axios. # ⚓ LRT ☛ Wagner_troops_are_leaving_Belarus,_says_Lithuanian defence_minister⠀⇛ Lithuanian defence minister Arvydas Anušauskas says there are signs of “fragmentation” of Wagner mercenary group after the purported death of its founder Yevgeny Prigozhin, and its troops are leaving Belarus. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Lukashenka_Says_‘Core’_Of_Wagner_Fighters_Will Remain_In_Belarus⠀⇛ Belarus’s authoritarian leader Alyaksandr Lukashenka said the “core” of the Wagner mercenary group — about 10,000 fighters — will remain in his country in his first comments since the presumed death of the organization’s leader, Yevgeny Prigozhin, in a suspicious plane crash in Russia. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ What_to_Know_About_the_Plane_Crash Believed_to_Have_Killed_Prigozhin⠀⇛ The Wagner mercenary group leader, who staged a short-lived mutiny against Russia’s military leadership in June, was presumed dead after a jet went down northwest of Moscow on Wednesday. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Presumed_Death_of_Wagner_Leader_Puts_In Doubt_Group’s_Future_in_Africa⠀⇛ Yevgeny Prigozhin, the leader of the Wagner paramilitary group, had visited the Central African Republic in the days before his jet crashed, a top adviser to the country’s president said. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ ‘He_Has_Blood_on_His_Hands’⠀⇛ In a Ukraine village, there are no tears for Yevgeny V. Prigozhin, the leader of the Wagner private militia, whose presumed death in a plane crash was reported this week. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ ‘How_could_you_not_worship_a_hero?’_In_St. Petersburg,_mourners_gathered_by_a_makeshift_memorial_to Wagner_Group_founder_Yevgeny_Prigozhin._Here’s_what_they_had to_say_about_the_mercenary_leader_and_what_he_meant_to_them. —_Meduza⠀⇛ The day after the plane crash that apparently killed both Yevgeny Prigozhin and his right-hand man Dmitry Utkin (who gave his nom-de-guerre “Wagner” to the entire Wagner Group), local residents and leaderless mercenaries gathered by the former PMC Wagner Center in St. Petersburg. The flowers, candles, and other offerings they brought heaped up into a sprawling memorial to a man who had gained immense notoriety, both in Russia and abroad, for his private military company’s role in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Ekaterina Barkalova, a reporter writing for the independent Russian outlet Bumaga, visited the memorial and spoke to the people who came to honor Prigozhin. With the publication’s permission, Meduza is publishing an abridged translation of her reportage on why many Russians admired Prigozhin, despite his criminal biography and Wagner Group’s reputation for grotesque violence and colossal losses of mercenaries’ lives. # ⚓ ME Forum ☛ Jihad_in_Austria:_‘Christians_Must_Die’⠀⇛ The boys, aged 15 and 16, were put on trial at the Leoben Regional Court on July 16, 2023. They had made plans to massacre as many people as possible during an attack on the middle school attended by the 15-year-old, in Bruck an der Mur, where they both lived. When confronted in court, the boys — who both have a history of violence and criminality— admitted that “We wanted to shoot all the Christians in the class!” Asked how they would have responded if police had intervened, they said, “We would have surrendered” — adding that “Allah would have forgiven” them in prison, since “Killing Christians takes us to paradise.” # ⚓ Medforth ☛ Italy:_Muslim_vandalizes_church_but_police_do not_intervene⠀⇛ Once again, a video from our partner website “Radio Genoa” reaches us from the multi-culti hell of Italy. There, a Muslim (apparently from North Africa) went berserk in broad daylight and attacked a church in the city of Turin. Again and again, the migrant tries to break open the entrance door with a stone. Passers-by videotape the scene, but no one is willing to intervene and stop the desecration of the church. Even the police are far and wide nowhere to be spotted: [...] # ⚓ Medforth ☛ Muslims_turn_French_social_housing_into madrasas⠀⇛ The authorities were apparently alerted by a report from the neighbourhood. Not much could be seen from the balcony of a flat in the Saint-Eutrope housing complex, which is part of Erilia’s social housing stock, as planks were used as screens to hide the activities inside. These were Arabic language and religious lessons given on Sunday mornings by residents of the neighbourhood – according to initial investigations, mothers from the residence acted as teachers, allegedly receiving some small change in return. It is not known how many children attended the classes. One source estimates that there were between 10 and 15 children, but hardly more, as the flat was very small. How old were they? Between 5 and 14 years. # ⚓ NBC ☛ 17-year-old_alleged_supporter_of_Islamic_extremism arrested_in_Philadelphia_terrorism_case⠀⇛ The suspect, whom the two officials declined to name, was in communication with Katibat al Tawhid wal Jihad, an Al Qaeda-affiliated group the U.S. designated as a foreign terrorist organization last year, they said. He was arrested Friday, they said. # ⚓ The Atlantic ☛ Iran_Will_Keep_Taking_Hostages_If_the_Money Keeps_Flowing⠀⇛ From my chats with low-level IRGC functionaries, I understood there to be a ranking of sorts as to which foreign prisoners fetch the highest price. Complete foreigners are generally more valuable than dual-nationals. Western Europe is better than Eastern Europe is better than Japan. The Chinese whisk their citizens away in a matter of months; detainees from the developing world can expect to serve their sentences in full. Americans and Israelis are the most expensive hostages to extract, and are therefore the most coveted. # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Montana’s_Response_To_Lawsuits_Over_Laughably Unconstitutional_TikTok_Ban_Is_To_Say_That_TikTok_Is_The Equivalent_Of_‘Cancer-Causing_Radio’⠀⇛ As you’ll recall, Montana passed a law earlier this year to ban TikTok (and ban mobile app stores from offering TikTok for download). The bill has lots of problems, not the least of which was that Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen flat out told the NY Times that the purpose of the bill was to censor speech that parents were complaining about: # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Rocket_Range_Australia,_1950s_Style⠀⇛ The Film and Sound Archive (NFSA) of Australia just released a digitized version of a 1957 film documentary on Australia’s rocket research back in the day ( see video below the break ). The Woomera test range is an isolated place about 500 km northwest of Adelaide ( 2021 population 132 ) and hosts a small village, an airstrip, and launch facilities. In the Salisbury suburb of Adelaide, a former WW2 munitions factory complex was repurposed as a research center for rockets and long range weapons. # ⚓ Atlantic Council ☛ The_BRICS_come_to_the_Middle_East_and North_Africa⠀⇛ For Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE in particular, joining BRICS is a statement that while they cooperate with the United States and the West, they also cooperate with Russia and China… # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Putin_Will_Not_Travel_To_India_For_G20_Summit_Next Month⠀⇛ Russian President Vladimir Putin won’t travel to India for the G20 summit on September 9-10, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on August 25. # ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ BRICS_hails_‘historic’_entry_of_new members_amid_bloc_rivalry,_as_US_plays_down_expansion⠀⇛ BRICS leaders announced on Thursday the “historic” admission of six new countries, as the bloc seeks to reshape the Western-led global order and expand its influence in an era of strategic competition. BRICS — Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa — agreed at their annual summit to make Argentina, Ethiopia, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Egypt… # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Russian,_Japanese,_Danish,_And_U.S._Crew_Members Blast_Off_For_Space_Station⠀⇛ Four crew members from four countries rocketed toward the International Space Station on August 26. # § Russia, Belarus, and War in Ukraine⠀➾ # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Western_intelligence_officials_say_Putin likely_ordered_downing_of_Prigozhin’s_jet_—_Meduza⠀⇛ The plane believed to have been carrying Wagner Group founder Yevgeny Prigozhin “crashed as the result of an assassination plot,” reported the Wall Street Journal, referencing U.S. officials. According to the U.S. authorities’ preliminary findings, either a bomb exploded aboard the plane or a different form of sabotage caused the crash. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Ramzan_Kadyrov_calls_Prigozhin’s_death_‘a great_loss_for_the_entire_state’_—_Meduza⠀⇛ The head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov expressed his condolences to the family and friends of Wagner Group founder Yevgeny Prigozhin. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Russian_Volunteer_Corps_invites_Wagner mercenaries_to_avenge_‘founding_father’_Prigozhin_by fighting_on_Ukraine’s_side_and_then_marching_on_Moscow —_Meduza⠀⇛ In the wake of the plane crash that likely killed the paramilitary Wagner Group’s founder Yevgeny Prigozhin, Russian Volunteer Corps (RVC), an armed formation fighting on the side of Ukraine in the war with Russia, has released a video addressed to Wagner mercenaries. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Kremlin_spokesman_says_accusations_of Putin’s_involvement_in_downing_of_Prigozhin’s_jet_‘an absolute_lie’_—_Meduza⠀⇛ Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has rejected accusations from Western countries claiming that the Kremlin ordered Wagner Group founder Yevgeny Prigozhin’s to be assassinated. A recording of his answer was posted by the radio station Mayak. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Lukashenko_says_Prigozhin_never_asked_for security_guarantees,_was_previously_warned_of_impending assassination_attempt_—_Meduza⠀⇛ Autocratic leader of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko told journalists that Wagner Group founder Yevgeny Prigozhin never asked him for security guarantees, reports Belarusian state-run news agency Belta. # ⚓ The Nation ☛ Ukrainian_Shelter⠀⇛ # ⚓ Latvia ☛ Latvia_sends_another_helicopter_to_Ukraine⠀⇛ Latvia has sent another helicopter to Ukraine to help in that country’s brave defense against Russian aggression. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Estonia_PM_Under_Pressure_To_Quit_Over Husband’s_Russia_Ties⠀⇛ Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas on August 25 faced pressure to resign amid reports that her husband has part ownership in a company that has kept operations in Russia since Moscow invaded Ukraine. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Russian_Ultra-Nationalist_Detained_In_Finland On_Ukraine’s_Request⠀⇛ Finnish media reports on August 25 said police have detained Yan Petrovsky, a Russian ultra-nationalist and former commander of the Rusich saboteur group that fights alongside of Russia’s armed forces against Ukraine. # ⚓ teleSUR ☛ US_To_Host_Ukrainian_Pilots_for_Training_on F-16s_in_September⠀⇛ The training, which will include several pilots and dozens of maintainers, will start in September at Lackland Air Force Base in Texas. # ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ New_Zealand_offers_residency_to Ukrainians_fleeing_war⠀⇛ August 26, 2023 12:15 PM Permanent residency will be available to people who travel to New Zealand on the temporary Special Ukraine Visa before March 15 next year. # ⚓ YLE ☛ Finland_sends_latest_materiel_aid_package_to Ukraine⠀⇛ The latest package is the 18th sent by Finland to Ukraine since Russia’s invasion in February 2022, with their combined value coming in at about 1.3 billion euros. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Russia_Conducts_Navy_Exercises_In_The_Barents Sea⠀⇛ Russia’s Northern Fleet conducted navy exercises in the Barents Sea this month aimed at preventing the passage of unauthorized and foreign ships, the Interfax news agency reported on August 26. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Six_Crimean_Tatars_Detained_By_De_Facto Authorities_In_Russian-Annexed_Crimea⠀⇛ Russian-imposed police in Ukraine’s Moscow- annexed Crimea on August 24 detained six Crimean Tatars on charges of organizing a terrorist group and participating in its activities. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Dmitri_Utkin,_a_Leader_of_the_Wagner Mercenaries,_Presumed_Dead⠀⇛ Mr. Utkin, a prominent commander in the private Russian military company, was a longtime lieutenant to Yevgeny V. Prigozhin. He is believed dead at 53 in a plane crash. # ⚓ Atlantic Council ☛ Here’s_what_F-16s_will_(and_will not)_mean_for_Ukraine’s_fight_against_Russia⠀⇛ The Netherlands and Denmark have announced they will send F-16s to Ukraine as soon as training is complete, and the United States has unveiled new plans to train Ukrainian pilots and ground crew. # ⚓ France24 ☛ 🔴_Live:_Drones_shot_down_near_Moscow_and over_Belgorod,_Russia_says⠀⇛ Russian air defences shot down a drone near Moscow, the city’s mayor said on Saturday. Russia’s defence ministry said it also downed a drone over the Belgorod region bordering Ukraine. # ⚓ France24 ☛ These_photos_do_not_show_that_Ukrainian children_are_being_sent_to_the_front⠀⇛ Since the start of the war in Ukraine, some have claimed that “children” are being recruited into the Ukrainian army. Three viral photos, purporting to show graves of very young soldiers, have been shared since mid-August as evidence of this phenomenon. However, two of these three photos have been manipulated, and actually show the burial sites of adult men. # ⚓ LRT ☛ Vilnius_marks_Ukraine’s_independence_day_–_in photos⠀⇛ People in Vilnius celebrated the Ukrainian Independence Day on Thursday. To mark the 32nd anniversary, an event called “For Your Freedom and Ours!” was held in Vilnius Town Hall Square. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ All_Major_Moscow_Airports_Temporarily_Shut_As Another_Drone_Attack_Reported_In_Russian_Capital⠀⇛ Russia reported a new drone attack on Moscow early on August 26, prompting authorities to temporarily suspend operations at all three major airports in the Russian capital. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Turkish_Foreign_Minister_Says_‘No Alternative’_To_Ukraine-Russia_Grain_Deal_During_Kyiv Visit⠀⇛ Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said during a visit to Kyiv that there is “no alternative” to the original Ukraine-Russia grain deal that was brokered by his country and the United Nations but which collapsed after Moscow pulled out of the agreement last month. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Russian_Ministry_of_Defense:_one_Ukrainian missile_and_42_UAVs_downed_overnight_in_Moscow-adjacent Kaluga_region_and_in_Crimea_—_Meduza⠀⇛ The Russian Ministry of Defense reported that a Ukrainian S-200 missile was downed in Russia’s Moscow-adjacent Kaluga region the night of August 25. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Finland_arrests_Russian_ultra-nationalist wanted_in_Ukraine_for_war_crimes_—_Meduza⠀⇛ Finnish police have arrested Russian ultra- nationalist Yan Petrovsky, the Finnish television channel MTV3 reported on Friday. # ⚓ NYPost ☛ Putin_orders_Wagner_fighters_to_sign_oath_of allegiance_after_Prigozhin’s_demise⠀⇛ Putin signed the decree bringing in the change with immediate effect on Friday. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Putin_Signs_Decree_Obliging_Paramilitary Fighters_To_Swear_Oath_To_Russian_Flag⠀⇛ Two days after the presumed death of Wagner mercenary group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin, Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree obliging paramilitary troops to swear an oath to Russia’s national flag. # ⚓ teleSUR ☛ All_Kinds_of_Military_to_Swear_Oath_to_the Russian_Flag:_Putin⠀⇛ The rule would also apply to mercenaries fighting in the framework of the special operation in Ukraine. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ EU_Parliament_Member_Urges_Kyrgyz_Compliance With_Sanctions_Against_Russia⠀⇛ The European Parliament’s Foreign Committee chair David McAllister has urged Kyrgyzstan to ensure compliance with international sanctions against Russia amid growing concerns countries in Central Asia are being used to bypass the measures. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Russian_Pensioner_Arrested_For_Carrying_A Blue_And_Yellow_Bouquet⠀⇛ Moscow police arrested a pensioner with a yellow-and-blue flower bouquet on August 24, saying he violated an order on holding rallies, Telegram channel Ostorojno Moskva (Caution Moscow) said. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Four_Latvians_Detained_For_Allegedly_Spying For_Russia⠀⇛ Latvia’s State Security Service (VDD) said on August 25 that it had detained four Latvian nationals on suspicion of spying for Russia’s Federal Security Service. # ⚓ LRT ☛ Belarus’_Lukashenko_slams_Baltics_for_closing borders:_‘They’re_only_hurting_themselves’⠀⇛ Responding to new border restrictions imposed by its neighbours, Belarus’ leader Alexander Lukashenko has said Lithuania, Latvia, and Poland are making things worse for their own people. # ⚓ LRT ☛ Belarusian_activist_Karach_challenges Lithuania’s_asylum_decision_in_court⠀⇛ Belarusian activist Olga Karach has appealed against the Lithuanian Migration Department’s decision not to grant her asylum, her lawyer confirmed on Friday. Lithuania’s intelligence claims Karach is a threat to national security due to links with Russian intelligence. # ⚓ Latvia ☛ You_shall_not_pass:_military_runs_‘anti- mobility’_training_in_Latgale⠀⇛ From August 26 to 28, military exercises will be held in Latvia’s eastern Latgale region, which borders Russia and Belarus, to improve the anti-mobility capability of the National Armed Forces (NBS) and the readiness to deploy engineering obstacles, according to an army press release. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Russia_Says_Ukraine_Targeted_Crimea With_Dozens_of_Drones⠀⇛ The attacks came the day after Ukraine claimed that its special forces had staged a brief raid into the occupied Crimean Peninsula and fought with Russian forces. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Heineken_Sells_Its_Business_in Russia_for_1_Euro⠀⇛ After Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, hundreds of Western companies announced they would quit operating in Russia. But actually selling their assets and withdrawing has taken time. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Russia_Pushes_Long-Term_Influence Operations_Aimed_at_the_U.S._and_Europe⠀⇛ A newly declassified American intelligence analysis says Russian spy agencies are using influence laundering techniques to hide the Kremlin’s involvement in cultivating pro- Russia and anti-Ukraine messages. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ An_Orchestra’s_‘Ode_to_Joy’_Calls for_Ukrainian_Freedom⠀⇛ As war in Ukraine continues, so does the Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra, with a version of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony tailored to the moment. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Ukraine_Is_Still_Grappling_With_the Battlefield_Prigozhin_Left_Behind⠀⇛ He shored up Russian forces at their most vulnerable and drew Ukraine into a costly fight for Bakhmut, giving Moscow time to build defenses that are slowing Ukraine’s counteroffensive. # ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ Turning_pain_to_progress:_Alliance imagines_a_new,_better_Ukraine⠀⇛ War destroys lives and erodes nations. Yet it also paves the way for rebirth. As Ukrainians plan for the reconstruction of their country, they are also discussing the values needed to create a better society. # ⚓ YLE ☛ Finland_apprehends_Russian_man_suspected_of Ukraine_terrorism⠀⇛ Finnish police want to keep the suspect remanded in custody, according to Finnish news agency STT. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Ukraine’s_Drone_Strikes_Against Russia_Are_a_Message_for_Its_Own_People⠀⇛ U.S. officials say they expect Ukraine to continue its attacks because they send a strong message: Kyiv can still strike back. o § Transparency/Investigative Reporting⠀➾ # ⚓ New York Times ☛ British_Museum_Was_Warned_Gems_Were_Being Sold_on_eBay,_Emails_Show⠀⇛ The thief must have been someone inside the institution, Mr. Gradel said in an email to the British Museum that has been obtained by The New York Times. He was concerned, he added, that the three gems were “only the tip of a much larger iceberg.” # ⚓ Art Media LLC ☛ British_Museum_Officials_Were_Warned_of Thefts_in_2021,_Emails_Reveal⠀⇛ Gradel’s email, which was reviewed by the Telegraph, included a detailed description of how he had identified the seller, allegedly Higgs. Gradel said if Higgs was not the thief, it was someone else with access to the museum’s archives who was stealing items and impersonating the senior curator online. While Williams told Gradel on March 2 that the matter would be investigated, Gradel had not received a respond by the end of June, prompting the art dealer to write a follow-up email to William and send a copy of his original email to Fischer, the museum’s director. # ⚓ The Telegraph UK ☛ Antiquities_dealer_who_uncovered_British Museum_theft_was_treated_like_‘village_idiot’⠀⇛ Speaking exclusively to the Telegraph, Dr Gradel explained how he uncovered the theft of the decade with years of detective work and said that he had “suffered horribly” as the British Museum “refused to listen” to his warnings for two years. Had it not been for Dr Gradel’s refusal to take no for an answer, resulting in him directly contacting George Osborne, the museum’s chairman, after being “fobbed off” by its managers, the theft of more than 1,500 objects might still have remained unknown. But rather than thanking him for discovering the thefts, Dr Fischer has gone on the attack, effectively blaming Dr Gradel for the two-year delay in confirming the treasures were missing. # ⚓ The Art Newspaper ☛ The_inside_job:_what_the_thefts_mean for_the_British_Museum’s_future_plans_for_the_collection⠀⇛ All this comes at the worst possible moment, since the museum is preparing to launch its masterplan for the complete refurbishment of its building and a full redisplay of its collection. This much- needed project will cost many hundreds of millions of pounds and is unlikely to be completed until after 2050. Publication of the masterplan has been delayed on several occasions, and until Fischer’s replacement arrives—perhaps next summer—the museum will in practice have a leadership lacking full authority. Fischer’s exit also comes at a time when restitution issues are highly controversial, particularly over the Parthenon Marbles and the Benin Bronzes. # ⚓ HyperAllergic ☛ British_Museum_Director_Resigns_Amid_Theft Scandal⠀⇛ Although the thefts have only recently entered the public eye, the museum has been aware of them for at least two years, according to emails reviewed by the New York Times. In 2021, Dutch-Danish scholar and gems dealer Ittai Gradel alerted the museum that three gems from the collection were listed on the online marketplace eBay. Gradel had purchased one of those objects plus another 69 works from the same seller. He told the institution at the time that he believed the thief was working from within the museum and leadership opened an investigation. Deputy Director Williams reported back to Gradel that no objects were missing and no staff members were at fault. Now Williams, who has served as deputy director since 2012, will step back as the museum conducts its review, according to a British Museum statement shared with Hyperallergic. # ⚓ The Dissenter ☛ Unauthorized_Disclosure:_Andy_Worthington⠀⇛ # ⚓ Project Censored ☛ The_Project_Censored_Newsletter—August 2023_–_Newsletters⠀⇛ These and other recent Validated Independent News stories (VINs) report information and perspective that the public has a right and need to know, but to which it has limited access. Posted VINs are candidates for inclusion among the top 25 stories in Project Censored’s annual book. o § Environment⠀➾ # ⚓ Quartz ☛ Oil_giants_are_lawyering_up_against_an_endangered whale⠀⇛ Major players in the oil and gas industry are suing the US government for protecting 6 million acres in the Gulf of Mexico from an upcoming auction of drilling rights on federally owned land. # ⚓ Science Alert ☛ It_Took_Just_One_Wolf_to_Revive_An_Entire Forest_Ecosystem⠀⇛ M93 was unrelated to the existing population, and also had the advantage of being unusually large – a big benefit when defending turf from rivals or taking down 800 pound ungulates. He quickly became the breeding male in one of the island’s three wolf packs and went on to sire 34 pups, greatly improving the genetic health of the population and the kill rate of its prey. # § Energy/Transportation⠀➾ # ⚓ Low Tech Mag ☛ Direct_Solar_Power:_Off-Grid_Without Batteries⠀⇛ Although grid-connected solar panels can reduce the fossil fuel consumption of thermal power plants, these savings are at least partly offset by the additional fossil fuels required to build and maintain what is essentially a dual energy infrastructure. Combining solar and wind power can further increase the share of renewable energy in the power grid, but this requires further infrastructure development. Apart from energy, this also demands a lot of money and time. Replacing fossil-fuel-fired power plants with energy storage, so that surplus electricity generated on sunny days can be stored for when there is no or insufficient sun, encounters the same problem. Energy storage, whether integrated into a power grid or located at individual households (off-grid systems), is very expensive and carbon- intensive to build and maintain. # ⚓ Krebs On Security ☛ Kroll_Employee_SIM-Swapped_for Crypto_Investor_Data⠀⇛ Security consulting giant Kroll disclosed today that a SIM-swapping attack against one of its employees led to the theft of user information for multiple cryptocurrency platforms that are relying on Kroll services in their ongoing bankruptcy proceedings. And there are indications that fraudsters may already be exploiting the stolen data in phishing attacks. # ⚓ Pro Publica ☛ How_Norfolk_Southern_Is_Addressing Blocked_Train_Crossings_in_Hammond,_Indiana⠀⇛ Since the school year began this month, there have been no reports of what was once a common sight in Hammond, Indiana: children, climbing over or under idling trains, risking their lives to get to class. Local officials say this is thanks to reforms enacted in response to an investigation by ProPublica and InvestigateTV. Norfolk Southern, whose trains routinely stretched across multiple intersections, halting traffic and preventing pedestrians from crossing, committed to stopping its trains east of the Chicago suburb and splitting any that blocked crossings for more than 40 minutes. It also pledged to issue email alerts to help school, fire and police officials work around disruptions. # § Wildlife/Nature⠀➾ # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Atop_an_Underwater_Hot_Spring,_an ‘Octopus_Garden’_Thrives⠀⇛ Dr. Barry assembled a team of ecologists, biologists, geologists and engineers who, for the next three years, studied what they dubbed the “Octopus Garden” — the world’s largest known aggregation of these eight- legged creatures. It turned out that the sheen of the water was a clue: The nursery sat atop a hydrothermal spring; the shimmering was caused by heat emanating from the seabed. The team’s findings, detailed in a new paper published Wednesday in Science Advances, suggest that this hot spot makes the octopuses’ eggs hatch faster, which improves reproductive success. o § Finance⠀➾ # ⚓ Axios ☛ Honey,_I_shrunk_the_house:_High_mortgage_rates_are making_American_homes_smaller⠀⇛ High mortgage_rates and lifestyle_changes are shrinking the American house. Think smaller living rooms and fewer bedrooms. Why it matters:People are holding onto their homes longer, and newly constructed abodes are getting smaller to compensate for rising costs, experts told Axios. # ⚓ Business Today ☛ Better.com’s_CEO_who_fired_900_employees via_Zoom_call_undergoes_leadership_training_to_win_staff trust⠀⇛ The CEO known for firing 900 employees through a Zoom call in December 2021, revealed in a recent interview that he’s “worked really, really hard” to be a kinder boss. o § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾ # ⚓ The Strategist ☛ Australia’s_deterrence_strategy_and_the question_of_targeting_China⠀⇛ Paul Dibb’s Strategist post, in response to Sam Roggeveen’s recent Australian Foreign Affairs article, was on target. # ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Hongkonger_jailed_by_China_for_3 years_over_speedboat_escape_bid_faces_protest_charge_upon return_to_city⠀⇛ The last of 12 Hongkongers caught by mainland Chinese coastguards over a failed bid to flee to Taiwan has been officially rearrested and remanded into custody in the city pending trial on charges linked to the 2019 extradition bill protests. # ⚓ DeSmog ☛ In_Brazil,_Right-Wing_Think_Tanks_Align_with Agribusiness_to_Seek_a_Path_Back_to_Power⠀⇛ “I even took off my farm boots and wore high heels to come here today,” Camila Telles told the audience of political activists, business executives, and students at April’s Liberty Forum, an annual conservative gathering in Brazil sponsored by the Atlas Network. Telles is an agribusiness influencer – her clients include the major Brazilian meat producers Seara and Friboi – with more than 300,000 followers on Instagram and a talent for taking her pro-big farmer messages viral. From the dimly-lit stage, she opened the event’s first-ever panel on agribusiness with familiar talking points, mocking leftists for blaming climate change on cows.  # ⚓ Quartz ☛ Popeyes_is_reviving_its_2020_dream_of_opening thousands_of_stores_in_China⠀⇛ TH International (Tims China), the exclusive operator of Tim Hortons coffee shops in China, plans to get the country hooked on Popeyes’ iconic chicken sandwich in a big way. Over the next decade, at least 1,700 new Popeyes outlets will open across China, if things go to plan. / blockquote> # ⚓ [Repeat] Ruben Schade ☛ Accepting_New_Zealand_as_an Australian_state⠀⇛ As an Australian citizen, my only request would be to cede Australian sovereignty to Wellington, instead of the reverse. I for one would welcome our new Kiwi overlords, even if I were compelled to pronounce it fush and chups. # ⚓ The Guardian UK ☛ New_Zealand_should_consider_joining Australia,_MP_urges_in_valedictory_speech⠀⇛ In the final sitting block of the New Zealand parliamentary term this month, legislators have been offering free and frank advice to their colleagues during their valedictory speeches. # ⚓ Hindustan Times ☛ All_about_Eugene_V._Debs,_who_once_fought US_presidential_election_from_prison⠀⇛ Eugene V. Debs was a US politician and a member of the Socialist Party and ran for President five times since 1900. He fought the presidential election in 1920 while being imprisoned in the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary. “I thank the capitalist masters for putting me here. They know where I belong under their criminal and corrupting system. It is the only compliment they could pay me,” Debs wrote in a statement. Debs opposed America’s participation in World War I as he believed that it was only for the advantage of arms manufactures and similar business people. # ⚓ Michael Geist ☛ What_Urgency?:_CRTC_Says_It_Will_Take_Years For_Bill_C-18_Media_Bargaining_to_Begin⠀⇛ The Bill C-18 legislative process was marked by repeated warnings from the government that this was an urgent issue that justified its repeated efforts to cut off debate in order to fast track the bill into law before the summer break. In fact, in a late change, the bill was amended to provide that it would take effect with 180 days of royal assent, rather than the previously envisioned staged approach that would have resulted in a gradual development of regulations and implementation. That change has had enormous implications as the law can now take effect at any time but no later than December 19, 2023, which in turn led Meta to move to comply with the law immediately by blocking news links in Canada. # ⚓ Frontpage Magazine ☛ Indonesia_Wants_to_Export_‘Moderate Islam’⠀⇛ Western dialogue invariably serves the cause of Islamic expansion, while causing the West to lose more of its freedoms, all because of its naiveté. [...] Note how Nahdlatul Ulama leaders claim that the Sharia is being manipulated as they completely ignore the texts of the Qur’an and Hadith which call for violence, the texts followed by the Islamic State and Al Qaeda. # ⚓ The Economist ☛ Indonesia_wants_to_export_moderate_Islam⠀⇛ The group said Muslims should instead accept the reality of the nation state. It previously called on Muslims to reject the concept of a kafir, or infidel, and accept non-Muslims as fellow citizens. Modest as this reality-check might sound, coming from the world’s largest Muslim civil-society organisation it was significant, suggests James Dorsey, a scholar at RSIS, a think-tank in Singapore. # ⚓ TechCrunch ☛ Apple_lends_support_to_California_State_Right to_Repair_bill⠀⇛ SB 244 is fairly expansive; it includes consumer electronics (phones, laptops, etc.) and appliances (microwaves, washing machines, etc.), though a few exceptions have been carved out, including game consoles and alarm systems. The rational for those appear to be piracy and security, respectively. It shares a good deal (including the proposed name) with the Right to Repair Act, which went into effect in Minnesota this May. # ⚓ David Rosenthal ☛ Techno-feudalism⠀⇛ “Under capitalism, capital is the prime mover. The people who own and mobilize capital – the capitalists – organize the economy and take the lion’s share of its returns. But it wasn’t always this way: for hundreds of years, European civilization was dominated by rents, not markets. “ Below the fold some discussion of this idea. # ⚓ The Kent Stater ☛ Kent_State_fashion_students_get_creative on_social_media [Ed: TikTok is very bad for them. Why is this celebrated?]⠀⇛ Kent State fashion students are using platforms like Instagram and TikTok to cultivate creativity and make their mark on the digital stratosphere. # ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ Are_“Mugshots”_Unethical?_How_Jailhouse Photos_Undermine_Defendants_&_Reinforce_Systemic_Bias⠀⇛ While being booked for attempting to overturn the 2020 presidential election, Donald Trump made history as the first former president to have his mugshot taken and released to the public. Shortly after the image of Trump scowling at a police camera started to circulate, the embattled real estate mogul and politician began using it to raise money for his 2024 presidential campaign. “Mugshots have these various ways of being deployed … to craft a narrative, or to reinforce a narrative,” says Emory University professor Carol Anderson, who contrasts the novelty of Trump’s mugshot with the usage of mugshots by the media and the state to convey an image of Black criminality. As L.A. Times reporter Keri Blakinger explains, “the widespread distribution of mugshots undermines the presumption of innocence” and exacerbates racial bias. Blakinger is also the author of the memoir Corrections in Ink, which details her experience serving time in prison in upstate New York. “If he were treated like any other defendant, [Trump] would have been given a bail amount he couldn’t afford and left to die in a filthy cell,” she notes, cautioning that “the more that we celebrate some of these broken features of the system, the more ingrained they become.” # § Misinformation/Disinformation/Propaganda⠀➾ # ⚓ Zimbabwe ☛ Lies_and_deceit_on_social_media, fabricated_quotes_by_international_media_and_more during_the_2023_elections⠀⇛ We can’t possibly go through all the lies and half-truths but here are a few we saw. You will notice that the goal for many of the authors was to discourage people from voting. Some of it came from overzealous ZEC and government critics who saw election tampering even where it did not exist. o § Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾ # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Denmark_Moves_to_Ban_Quran_Burnings_After Muslim_Outrage⠀⇛ Both Denmark and neighboring Sweden have struggled to balance respect for free expression with the diplomatic fallout of the desecrations. Governments in many Muslim-majority countries have issued withering condemnations, and authorities in both countries have said that the risk of terrorist attacks has risen in recent months, posing a threat to national security. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ The_Azadi_Briefing:_Mysterious_Death_Of_Popular Female_YouTuber_Prompts_Anger⠀⇛ Hora Sadat, a prominent female Afghan YouTuber, mysteriously died in Kabul on August 21. Reports suggested the 25-year-old was poisoned after attending a public event. # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ ‘Free_Speech_Absolutist’_Elon_Musk_Suggests_He’s Going_To_Sue_George_Soros…_For_His_Free_Speech_Advocating_For Certain_Laws⠀⇛ There is no space for nuanced discussion about reality any more, as it seems that nonsense floods the zone. So, please try to follow along here as there needs to be some nuance to finally get down to the details of this issue. It’s nonsense, piled on top of nonsense, piled on top of nonsense, which ends with Elon Musk suggesting he’s going to sue George Soros for… advocating for laws that Elon doesn’t like (for what it’s worth, I’m pretty sure the laws being talked about are problematic, but the details aren’t clear, and there’s no law against advocating for bad laws). # ⚓ Reason ☛ Joke_“We_Need_You_Brad_Pitt”_Post_at_Start_of COVID_Pandemic_Protected_by_First_Amendment⠀⇛ The post led to the author being arrested for “terrorizing”; so clearly unconstitutional that the police officer lacks qualified immunity, says the Fifth Circuit. o § Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press⠀➾ # ⚓ Don’t Extradite Assange ☛ Assange_campaign_launches_first ever_virtual_political_rally⠀⇛ The event will be staged in a virtual auditorium looking like the Royal Courts of Justice in London where Assange is set to face his final appeal in the UK court system. The rally aims to build for a real life protest at the same venue when the court date is announced. # ⚓ The Kent Stater ☛ Local_journalism_matters,_and_we_need your_support:_a_letter_from_the_editor_and_managing_editor⠀⇛ Our coverage revolves around a commitment to illuminating diverse voices and a key principle of the Society of Professional Journalists’ Code of Ethics, one that has been ingrained in us by each of our dedicated and talented journalism professors: Seek truth and report it. # ⚓ CPJ ☛ Driver_killed,_journalist_severely_injured_by suspected_Turkish_drone_strike_in_Syria⠀⇛ Turkish authorities should immediately and thoroughly investigate a recent drone attack in Syria that killed a driver and injured a journalist, determine if they were targeted for their work, and bring the perpetrators to justice, the Committee to Protect Journalists said Friday. o § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾ # ⚓ Frontpage Magazine ☛ Should_Countries_that_Repress_Women_Be Barred_from_the_Paris_Olympics?⠀⇛ By taking such a strong stance against Russian athletes, the international community has demonstrated that they care to punish Russia for the crimes against humanity that they have committed in the Ukraine. These crimes include rape and other forms of violence against women. Ukraine’s ombudswoman for human rights, Lyudmyla Denisova, told the BBC that in one case, “about 25 girls and women aged 14 to 24 were systematically raped during the occupation in the basement of one house in Bucha. Nine of them are pregnant.” However, one must ponder, why should the International Olympic Committee only take punitive measures against Russian athletes, when there are so many other countries out there who have committed crimes just as grave against women? In recent days, it was reported that Iran has decided to force women who refuse to don a veil into psychiatric treatment and to bar them other kinds of medical treatment. This comes after Amnesty International reported, “Official announcements reveal that since 15 April 2023, more than a million women have received text messages warning that their vehicles could be confiscated after they were captured on camera without their headscarves. Additionally, countless women have been suspended or expelled from universities, barred from sitting final exams, and denied access to banking services and public transport. Hundreds of businesses have been forcibly closed for not enforcing compulsory veiling.” # ⚓ The Telegraph UK ☛ ‘The_Taliban_sends_me_daily_death threats_–_I_fear_for_women_who_couldn’t_escape’⠀⇛ On the two-year anniversary of the fall of Kabul, Zarifa Ghafari told the Telegraph: “I receive dozens of threats every day. Even yesterday the Taliban said to me: ‘Just wait, we are coming after you’. “It means nowhere is safe. My husband has to accompany me everywhere. People have guns in Europe, the US or Asia. I don’t feel safe anywhere.” # ⚓ Asia News ☛ Iran_targets_minorities_one_year_after_Mahsa Amini’s_death,_69_Christians_arrested⠀⇛ Iran arrested scores of Christians, mostly converts from Islam but also some Assyrian-Chaldeans baptised as children, over a seven-week period in June and July in 11 different cities of the country, this according to Article18, a human rights organisation that advocates on behalf of Iranian Christians and religious freedom. In an early report, the NGO had reported 50 arrests by mid-July in five cities, but its latest update indicates that at least 69 people were taken into custody, 10 of which – four men and six women – are still held by the authorities. # ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ A_motorcyclist_died_in_a_crash_after a_New_York_City_police_sergeant_threw_a_cooler_at_his_head⠀⇛ Eric Duprey, 30, who had three young children and worked as a delivery driver, was pronounced dead within minutes of being struck on a Bronx sidewalk. The sergeant, Erik Duran, was suspended without pay just hours later, an unusually quick disciplinary move by the NYPD. New York Attorney General Letitia James, who has jurisdiction to probe deaths involving police, is investigating. # ⚓ BIA Net ☛ Sputnik_Turkey_journalists_continue_strike_on ninth_day⠀⇛ Currently, journalists at the İstanbul office of the Russian state media outlet Sputnik are in the midst of a strike. These journalists have been staging their protest outside Süzer Plaza in İstanbul’s Dolmabahçe area for nine days. What sets this strike apart is Sputnik’s decision to terminate the employment of 24 unionized journalists on the very day the strike commenced. # ⚓ Lawyer:_‘Mazlum_has_been_made_the_scapegoat_of_the_Kobani case’⠀⇛ “In the Kobanî trial, Demirtaş and his colleagues are being tried for inciting the murder of Yasin Börü and other crimes. The perpetrators of these murders must be identified, and their guilt must be confirmed by a court ruling in order to hold those who incited them accountable. Interference occurred in this trial as part of the preparation to sentence politicians in the Kobanî trial, and these decisions were upheld,” said Mazlum İçli’s lawyer. # ⚓ EFF ☛ Tornado_Cash_Civil_Decision_Limits_the_Reach_of_the Treasury_Department’s_Actions_while_Skirting_a_Full_First Amendment_Analysis⠀⇛ In the case, Van Loon v Department of the Treasury, EFF argued in an amicus brief that the government needed to do more to ensure that coders’ First Amendment rights were protected when it took the unprecedented step of placing an open-source project on the Specially Designated Nationals (SDN) sanctions list.  That led Github to temporarily take down the project and essentially halt all additional work on it.  While the government later clarified in an FAQ— issued after EFF and others had publicly complained— that it did not intend to prohibit “discussing, teaching about or including open source code in publications,” we argued that this didn’t go far enough to protect coders. We urged the Court to require the Treasury Department to follow the strict limits of the First Amendment and to be more clear and careful in its actions. The District Court did not agree with us that the government overstepped the First Amendment here, and dismissed the case overall.  But, in interpreting the government’s actions, it did make even more clear that the scope of the sanction did not include coders developing the code. The Court said:    While we are disappointed that the Court did not conduct a full First Amendment analysis and directly require the Treasury Department to take more care, both here and in any future situations where open source projects interact with federal sanctions laws, the Court’s analysis should give anxious coders some relief.  The Court clearly draws a sharp line between actually using the code to conduct transactions and the role of coders in developing and using the code outside of actual transactions. EFF will continue to monitor this case and others where coders are put at risk. o § Internet Policy/Net Neutrality⠀➾ # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Ting_Disrupting_Mediocre_U.S._Broadband_By Partnering_With_Annoyed_Cities_Like_Colorado_Springs⠀⇛ Back in 2015 domain registrar Tucows announced it would hope to modestly kickstart stagnant broadband competition by buying a small Virginia ISP by the name of Blue Ridge InternetWorks (BRI). Operating under the Ting brand name, the company said the goal was to bring a “shockingly human experience and fair, honest pricing” to a broken broadband market dominated by a handful of monopolies. o § Monopolies⠀➾ # § Patents⠀➾ # ⚓ Unified Patents ☛ GEVC_patent_in_SISVEL_AV1_pool appears_not_essential⠀⇛ As part of an ongoing series examining the patent holders and pools erroneously designating patents as essential, we highlight U.S._Patent_10,460,344 titled “Region merging and coding parameter reuse via merging.” This patent is owned by GE Video Compression (GEVC). GEVC has designated the ’344 patent as essential to the AV1 standard as a part of SISVEL’s_AV1_Patent Pool. SeeAV1 Patent List, AV1 Family AV1-040, available at https://www.sisvel.com/images/ documents/Video-Coding-Platform/ PatentList_AV1.pdf. # § Software Patents⠀➾ # ⚓ The Register UK ☛ [Repeat]_Rocky_Linux_backer_CIQ rejects_lawsuit’s_claims_it_was_founded_on_stolen_IP⠀⇛ A recently unsealed lawsuit filed in the US by HPC software provider Sylabs accuses rival outfit Ctrl IQ (CIQ) and its founder Greg Kurtzer of violating Sylab’s trade secrets in order to start its business, and of filing its own patents based on that technology. The federal civil case was filed in the District Court for the Northern District of California under case number 5:23-cv-00849 in February, with the judge unsealing the complaint in July. The accusations are being rejected by CIQ and Kurtzer. # ⚓ The Register UK ☛ We’ll_show_you_our_patents_if_you show_us_yours,_say_Huawei_and_Ericsson⠀⇛ This agreement, finalized earlier this month, covers the respective sales of network infrastructure and endpoint devices by the two companies, and includes patents covering a broad range of standards including the 3GPP, ITU, IEEE, and IETF standards for 3G, 4G, and 5G networks. According to Huawei, the deal provides greater certainty, not just for itself and Ericsson, but for their customers and other companies around the world, that there will not be disruptive patent disputes between the two over products implementing widely used network standards. In a statement, Alan Fan, head of Huawei’s Intellectual [sic] Property [sic] Department, said: “As major contributors of standard essential patents (SEPs) for mobile communication, the companies recognize the value of each other’s intellectual property, and this agreement creates a stronger patent environment. # § Copyrights⠀➾ # ⚓ [Repeat] Ruben Schade ☛ Archiving_from_The_Internet Archive⠀⇛ I’ve had regular monthly donations set up for the Internet Archive for years, and have been an advocate for the invaluable service they’ve offered the web over the past decades. There isn’t anywhere else online like it, whether it be their forward-thinking Wayback Machine, or their online library of materials. # ⚓ Digital Music News ☛ Major_Labels_Demand_$46.8 Million_Payment_—_Plus_Interest_—_from_ISP_Grande Communications⠀⇛ Back in November of 2022, a jury awarded the major labels over $46.76 million in damages as part of their copyright infringement lawsuit against Grande Communications Networks. # ⚓ Torrent Freak ☛ Telecoms_Regulator_Gives_Google_a Week_to_Join_IPTV_Piracy_Fight⠀⇛ As local pay TV companies complain that pirate IPTV providers are using VPNs and public DNS services to evade blocking measures, Brazil’s telecoms regulator wants cooperation from Big Tech. Referencing a one- week deadline and potential legal action to force compliance, an Anatel advisor spoke of “giants” being notified, one with a name that begins with a ‘G’. # ⚓ Torrent Freak ☛ Rightsholders_Urge_U.S._Govt_to_Pave the_Way_for_Pirate_Site_Blocking⠀⇛ Responding to an inquiry on future anti- piracy strategies, Creative Future CEO Ruth Vitale calls on U.S. lawmakers to consider site blocking as a much-needed solution. Blocking foreign pirate sites could be a “game changer”, she argues. The Association of American Publishers also sees site blocking as an ideal tool to fight piracy more effectively and efficiently. ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 6011 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐃𝐀𝐈𝐋𝐘 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒 ═════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 08.26.23⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Gemini_Links_26/08/2023:_Politics_and_Benchmarking⠀✐ Posted in News_Roundup at 8:40 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇GNOME bluefish⦈ § Contents⠀➾ * Gemini*_and_Gopher o Personal/Opinions o Politics_and_World_Events o Technology_and_Free_Software * § Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾ o § Personal/Opinions⠀➾ # ⚓ 🔤SpellBinding:_UEGMRSB_Wordo:_PYGM⠀⇛ # ⚓ Work_Slopped_into_the_Water⠀⇛ We extracted cases and cases of jars from the *dispensa* and from the two storage units on the other side of the *finca*. Some had been placed there nearly two decades ago. They were cherries and figs and myriad other comestibles preserved for an unknown future in this realm by a person who no longer lingers in said realm. She was a product of another time, of a generation and a mentality that never accustomed itself to an abundance now taken for granted. We forced each jar open with tines of forks and now cracked blades of cheap dinnerware. Contents were poured into buckets. One by one, I lugged these buckets to the stream that flows beside the house, that flows to river Tirón and finally is lost forever to the Cantabrian Sea. I tipped the buckets and hours and days and weeks and months of work slopped into the water. # ⚓ Re:_Dresses⠀⇛ Wokeness has reared its ugly head on Gemini yet again. I seem to remember someone, in reply to an earlier post of mine, not grasping my definition of wokeness. o § Politics and World Events⠀➾ # ⚓ ELP,_The_Only_Way⠀⇛ lol funny and sad not gonna bother about good writing apostrophes wtv there is no god neither me nor you nor anyone else has ever seen heard tasted felt smelled experienced this superhero o § Technology and Free Software⠀➾ # ⚓ Benchmarking_RK3588_NPU_matrix_multiplication_performance⠀⇛ My goal with my RK3588 dev board is to eventually run a large language model on it. For now, it seems the RWKV model is the easiest to get running. At least I don’t need to somehow get MultiHeadAttention to work on the NPU. However, during experimenting with rwkv.cpp, which uses pure CPU for inference on the RK3588, I noticed that quantization makes a huge difference in inference speed. So much so that INT4 about 4x faster then FP16. Not a good sign. It indicates to me that memory bandwidth is the bottleneck. If so, the NPU may not make much of a difference. ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 6120 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐃𝐀𝐈𝐋𝐘 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒 ═════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 08.26.23⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Gemini_Links_26/08/2023:_Game_Showcase_of_Black_Mesa_and_Two_Years_on Gemini⠀✐ Posted in News_Roundup at 5:38 pm 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 # Programming * § Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾ o § Personal/Opinions⠀➾ # ⚓ Edan’s_Capsule_–_Why_I_Don’t_Like_My_Parents:_Part_One⠀⇛ I feel like my parents are being a bit overbearing at the minute. A while ago, I said I was interested in anthropology, and that I might like to study it in university; but they immediately put it down and told me it would not be useful to me. Yeaterday, I ate my roast dinner one component at a time (i.e. veg first, then the potatoes, and then the meat and stuffing); then my dad started talking about how I would become obsessive, like someone he used to know. # ⚓ the_web_revival_space_as_a_refuge_for_harmful_ideas⠀⇛ Recently, it seems like the web revival/indie web/ retro web/personalized web sphere has had a huge influx of members. Probably a mix of dissatisfaction with the bigger social media sites like Twitter/X, Instagram, Reddit, and maybe even Tumblr, as well as troubles to find spaces you’re content with in the fediverse. I know some people have trouble with Lemmy and Mastodon, from choosing an instance to their instance closing down or the instance owner being involved in drama, being defederated, or having trouble finding content all in one place. I’ve also seen people who fled from Reddit fleeing from Squabbles (I think it is Squabblr now?) because of severe disagreements with the admin, and delete Cohost over allowing or not allowing the sharing of sexualized drawings of underage fictional characters. # ⚓ Re:_refuge_for_harmful_ideas⠀⇛ Although I am not sure BBS is the right place for this discussion, I am still sharing it here. Some people like me do not have capsules and may want to comment or ask questions. I thought it would be good to open a thread about it here. Perhaps as a way of collecting blog post replies about this. # ⚓ re:_Crying_“woke”⠀⇛ I have a bone to pick with WOKENESS, one of my least favorite newspeak words. WOKE is one of those: when I hear it, I know that any chance of a productive or even remotely interesting or satisfying conversation -out the window. There will be no deviations from the party line from here on – left or right one. Note that it is simply mentioning this word as an adjective¹ (except in the context of linguistic misuse or perhaps quoting some fool), is enough to indicate to me that the person using it is likely a rabid, brainwashed simpleton, or possibly feeble- minded idiot. You just know what follows. There is simply no point continuing the conversation — just not politely nod and back away! # ⚓ Talking_about_the_weather⠀⇛ Remember when “talking about the weather” was a clique for jokes, a device to indicate that desperation to avoid awkward silence had reached the point where even the most fundamentally uninteresting subjects were suddenly a viable topic of conversation? Those days sure are gone. I wonder if old media will cause confusion for future generations, in this regard. Anyway, I’m writing this, or at least have started writing it, during a very sudden, very intense, rainy squall. These are not uncommon in the summer time where I live these days. I actually really enjoy them. This one slammed shut many of the windows in this room which we’ve kept slightly ajar to help ventilate the place (Europe has crazily advanced windows which are hinged on multiple axes simultaneously, somehow. Australia has never seen the likes of it, even double-glazing remains an exotic novelty. At least we’ve figured flyscreen out – looking squarely at you, NZ), and has blown some (thankfully non-fragile) decorations off the wall adjacent to the last one still open. o § Politics and World Events⠀➾ # ⚓ Marx_and_Bakunin⠀⇛ … I think that we are now in a mood, determined by the present conditions produced by social development, to look more objectively, without taking sides, at that contest between two great revolutionaries that dominated the rev. movement in the 19th century; to appreciate that we have both of them, and to understand their difference and opposition. Both they took part in the revolution of 1848, as militants; but then their ways parted; they were indeed products of entirely diverse social milieus. B. [Bakunin] came from Russia w [h]ere Czarist absolutism kept down all social and spiritual progress; Marx was formed by the rising Western industrial capitalism. For Bakunin therefore liberty was the great idea; he saw in … State power the basis of the slavery and poverty of the masses. Marx saw in capitalist exploitation the cause of misery and slavery; political freedom he saw present in England, where, however the competing small business, unorganized, he considered organization as the chief demand, which could only be ascertained by a central dominating power, democratic state power, dominated by the working class. So their basic ideas stood against one another; M.[Marx] saw that Bakunin’s political freedom was not sufficient (vide England); B. saw that Marx’s organized state power would bring worst slavery. Bakunin had studied and assimilated, as many Russians, Western science and knowledge, and, different from other Russians, applied them to take part in the struggle of the exploited masses in Western Europe, thinking that their grievances were the same as his. Marx revolutionized Western science and put in this way, by his Historical Materialism and his Economic theory of Capitalism, a new basis to all further class struggle. # ⚓ A_Wall_Is_Just_a_Wall,_It_Can_Be_Destroyed⠀⇛ We know that throughout history, various prisons around the world have experienced riots and uprisings. But this is an almost rare occurrence. Prisoners had to live for years in the same gloomy room and were thus considered passive subjects. How do we define a resistance where we can almost only rely on ourselves, in a space that is almost isolated and full of pressure, which offers almost no opportunity to organize, such as a prison? o § Technology and Free Software⠀➾ # ⚓ CircaDian:_Games_Showcase:_Black_Mesa⠀⇛ What if you could relive a favourite childhood memory—but with everything upgraded so it’s as awesome as you remember? I’ve just finished playing Black Mesa, and … well, that’s what it is for me. It’s a remake of the original Half Life. Dedicated fans—particularly, I think, movie fans—wince at the word “remake”, because remakes are often awful: missing the point of the original, adding nothing. Black Mesa on the other hand truly captures the spirit of the original while not being shy about making changes. Weirdly, it ends up closer to how I remember Half Life than the actual game. # § Internet/Gemini⠀➾ # ⚓ Two_years_on_gemini⠀⇛ In the summer of 2021 there was a discussion on an email list where someone mentioned the tendency to invent technically advanced solutions to engineering problems instead of simpler, more robust ones. Of course, engineers need to make themselves needed! Someone linked to Cheapskate’s guide to computers and the internet, and there I found a mention of this new gemini protocoll. I took a look through a web proxy and became fascinated. There were already many gemini browsers available, but only one that I managed to install. It was amfora, and I’ve stuck with it since then. Although amfora may lack some features, the experience is so dissimilar to browsing the web that you can’t forget for a second that this is not just a stripped down html homepage but something quite different. # § Programming⠀➾ # ⚓ Program_your_computer⠀⇛ From this point of view, anything that you can’t easily program yourself is effectively not a computer. Effectively, it’s an appliance (at best). But why the pedantry? Why would you program anything for yourself? After all, there’s a veritable army of professional programmers out there, clambering over themselves to get you to run software that they’ve written! And their programs are *polished*; way better than you or I could accomplish on our own. # ⚓ Autodiff⠀⇛ Automatic differentiation is a method by Seppo Linnainmaa for quickly computing the partial derivatives of a function defined by a straight line program. 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