𝕿𝖊𝖈𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍𝖙𝖘 Bulletin for Monday, August 28, 2023 ┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅ Generated Tue 29 Aug 02:51:05 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/2023/08/28/ ╒═══════════════════ 𝐑𝐄𝐂𝐄𝐍𝐓 𝐁𝐔𝐋𝐋𝐄𝐓𝐈𝐍𝐒 ════════════════════════════════════╕ Previous bulletins in IPFS (past 21 days, in chronological order): QmZ8HUFLDLxvBHLKutyBuQ6a4TTR6hb3ZAFg3gf5MsGv4Z QmdW1PZqQK5LjoM41V2gKL2KqnHaEqwHdd4G1YYxa7JTEz QmYYePurSm8yAKEwRv17i1k4Q7ju7m4SQByFQcLC8HtY7x QmaRubG8aC9J2F4D9dmkGvjTspm5HdnsTMqDuVHGcPc8k5 QmQRTBqrhT8MUXdVEwJShtA9dbvEtZNFjWkf2QjuuactPS QmRvPmuQj51W76zvbu8EJVsufNdff2k6sLwDW4kU1Umw72 QmVsL5SjB4i4sLymC3HBZkhwBhNY5MXy27LZs9QBCDgtZo QmNdfSVvGLKtGutRooKPbAq57B9AZoPeYGGSjhD1a2fVET QmZnEb1NMj8vNm5EXH9jb8unPV3bTrZKvHcvsEczvMfMYS QmPrM5Hu5PNR7zjUmtsvqm8xkZsrE96qx4CaEuQrKFfjFd QmfR8XxBEMVs1Mue6wS1NKXYG8optDVxN7EFcGCzvD1Q9z QmbqCQ6R4NusTRm9E3YjVzj9c1FxCfEvrfqShjAZLaCyQS QmeZFBVX9fk1V5VBuSsZpDpx2dnJBatXxASzUtAm4wrZ26 QmR8687kGyLT5rdVV9a5wwcd599wytXYh8CbSBUtHMqNx6 QmVL6ny5v6haHeg8eGHJrcSY343AUa4deXjfvCw1ZDmDz6 QmWKPms4oLgJhFJZPgySVW8kBSCBHkHuEbpSJ9Hu8w899a QmYRNEXfEKgCkNrxSJTkmHBQSawGzsT7jTG9zeGBgLZpYW QmXuNJQvwQEw7vxCEMaH6S2XP6CJWxyQPwQ5XwEnWrbwNY QmU8r9irxybJVwzTWsCaejmJ4dDWJ8vAHAHHAKEkyeufpQ QmeryNavwPZxt2XqRC8WzQsxzm8Q2aJpPrHDJjt4MVx7j9 QmV1aDkYP6Y7Yv8Eg5mojpfKfRqGkjzLoJiut9uECHzXbF ╒═══════════════════ 𝐈𝐍𝐃𝐄𝐗 ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⦿ Oligarchs’ Quest to Erase Information and Rewrite History Starts by Burning Digital Libraries | Techrights ⦿ In the Month of August GNU/Linux Continued Growing on Desktops/Laptops | Techrights ⦿ IRC Proceedings: Sunday, August 27, 2023 | Techrights ⦿ The Downfall of Microsoft (and Also the World Wide Web’s) | Techrights ⦿ White Tech Oligarchs, Including Bill Gates, Load Up on Farm Land Near Military Bases and Fuel Anti-Chinese Sentiment Through Oligarch-Owned News Channels/Sites | Techrights ䷼ Bulletin articles (as HTML) to comment on (requires login): http://techrights.org/2023/08/28/burning-of-digital-libraries/#comments http://techrights.org/2023/08/28/gnu-linux-growing-on-desktop/#comments http://techrights.org/2023/08/28/irc-log-270823/#comments http://techrights.org/2023/08/28/the-downfall-of-microsoft/#comments http://techrights.org/2023/08/28/vertical-xenophobia-tactics/#comments ䷞ Followed by Daily Links (assorted news picks curated and categorised): http://techrights.org/2023/08/28/brute-forcing-cheat-codes/#comments http://techrights.org/2023/08/28/linux-6-5/#comments http://techrights.org/2023/08/28/mozilla-firefox-117-released/#comments http://techrights.org/2023/08/28/synapse-room-cleaner/#comments ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 62 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at http://techrights.org/2023/08/28/burning-of-digital-libraries/#comments Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2023/08/28/burning-of-digital-libraries/ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 08.28.23⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Oligarchs’_Quest_to_Erase_Information_and_Rewrite_History_Starts_by_Burning Digital_Libraries⠀✐ Posted in Courtroom, Deception, Intellectual_Monopoly, Law at 7:23 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz Video_download_link | md5sum 3ff2fed4a4e8f1970e5f95605b0d3bb5 Attack on the Commons Online Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 4.0 http://techrights.org/videos/internet-archive-legal-risk.webm Summary: The world’s culture and historical data (information belonging in the public domain) is being purged or under constant attacks by litigation; consolidation of power and wealth puts at risk even the Internet Archive (IA), probably the Web’s biggest and by far most important site WE first did a video about the Internet Archive (IA) and Wayback_Machine early on in 2021 (months after we had started making these videos) because we_have some_archives_there and we make extensive use of the archives. In order to avoid repetition today we revisit the topic and emphasise that the Internet Archive is a highly important site that makes available material in the public domain (without access to it, does it exist?). The copyright cartel does not give, so we must take what’s ours to have (it’s akin to patent evergreening). “CNET started published computer-generated garbage and in addition to that it started removing many old articles, including decades-old archives and detailed articles about Microsoft.”The IA has long been a convenient way to fight disinformation, especially revisionism (people who burn the past and try to rewrite history, lying about what actually happened). The above video mentions the history of UNIX, BSD, GNU and Linux, taking note of Groklaw. “Groklaw got squeezed via attacks on PJ [Pamela Jones, the editor] upfront,” one associate recalls, whereas the “IA is being attacked over copyright, but I suspect that those attackers really are going after the commons. I also suspect that there is an additional layer underneath that one which wants to completely remove all traces of old magazines and newspapers. Note that some sites have started to go out of their way to delete selected older material.” CNET started published computer-generated garbage and in addition to that it started removing many old articles, including decades-old archives and detailed articles about Microsoft. We covered_this_earlier_this_month. “Google and its allies already put more and more DRM in the Web, gradually denying access to it.”“There are several overlapping interests which really try to eliminate the public’s awareness of the public domain as well as the public domain commons itself,” the associate adds. What would the Web be like without the Wayback Machine? What would culture be like without Commons or the public domain? What if Fair Use doctrine did not exist at all? The public needs to constantly push back, as time might be running out. Google and its allies already put more and more DRM in the Web, gradually denying access to it. WEI means doom [1, 2, 3, 4] and hopefully a boon/opportunity_for_alternatives. We cannot win in information warfare if our information (or our stories) gets deleted all the time. █ ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 146 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at http://techrights.org/2023/08/28/gnu-linux-growing-on-desktop/#comments Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2023/08/28/gnu-linux-growing-on-desktop/ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 08.28.23⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ In_the_Month_of_August_GNU/Linux_Continued_Growing_on_Desktops/Laptops⠀✐ Posted in GNU/Linux at 8:11 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz GNU/Linux share (in %) over time: 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇Desktop_Operating_System_Market_Share_Worldwide⦈_ Source_data_and_chart_as_OpenDocument_Format_(ODF) Summary: According to these_latest_numbers, the world is moving away from Windows and many adopt GNU/Linux; In India, for instance, GNU/Linux has more than four times the market share of Apple, according to 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(ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at http://techrights.org/2023/08/28/the-downfall-of-microsoft/#comments Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2023/08/28/the-downfall-of-microsoft/ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 08.28.23⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ The_Downfall_of_Microsoft_(and_Also_the_World_Wide_Web’s)⠀✐ Posted in Microsoft, Servers, Windows at 1:15 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz Video_download_link | md5sum 0c07685513eaa426f181c5a3807351e2 Down Goes Microsoft Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 4.0 http://techrights.org/videos/netcraft-and-microsoft-2023.webm Summary: The number of hostnames on the Web fell from nearly 2 billion to just over 1 billion in a matter of 5 years; moreover, Microsoft’s relative share has collapsed by about an order of magnitude (in some cases it’s more than 10 times smaller than it used to be) THE month of August is nearly over and many people return from vacation. We wrote a great deal about Microsoft’s_layoffs_last_month (it was one_heck_of_a bloodbath, lots of ‘Quiet_Cutting’ as explained in this_video_about_‘Quiet Layoffs’). “Putting aside the Web’s slow demise, watch what happened to Microsoft.” The latest_Web_server_survey that’s released every month came out hours ago. It shows rather appalling performance in the market by Microsoft. The numbers did not just go down, they collapsed! Putting aside the Web’s slow demise, watch what happened to Microsoft. Microsoft’s numbers at the client side and the server side are both decreasing in absolute terms and relative terms. But on the server side it’s getting to the point where it just makes sense for Microsoft to throw in the towel and quit the market altogether. “Losing 10% in just one month is very significant.”Recent reports (press/media) said that GNU/Linux now commands about 80% or 90% of servers (soon_this_won't be_mentioned_anymore), so the “Microsoft loves Linux” PR lying campaign was part of an effort to hijack and control the competition which was winning, mostly through Azure, which is failing and cheating_shareholders (while hiding the endless layoffs and other significant cuts). To quote the latest report from Netcraft (already in our Daily Links): Microsoft saw the largest loss this month, losing 3.1 million sites (-9.52%), 123,295 domains (-1.74%) and 10,571 computers (-0.89%). Microsoft now accounts for 2.73% of sites seen by Netcraft, down by 0.27pp. Losing 10% in just one month is very significant. Is there a story behind that? Netcraft does not tell. █ ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 408 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at http://techrights.org/2023/08/28/vertical-xenophobia-tactics/#comments Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2023/08/28/vertical-xenophobia-tactics/ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 08.28.23⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ White_Tech_Oligarchs,_Including_Bill_Gates,_Load_Up_on_Farm_Land_Near Military_Bases_and_Fuel_Anti-Chinese_Sentiment_Through_Oligarch-Owned_News Channels/Sites⠀✐ Posted in Bill_Gates, Free/Libre_Software, Microsoft at 12:15 am by Guest Editorial Team Reprinted with permission from Ryan_Farmer. Also available_in_Gemini. White tech oligarchs, including Bill Gates, are loading_up_on_farm_land near military bases and fueling anti-Chinese sentiment through oligarch-owned news. The oligarch media, which mostly lies to and gaslights Americans, who are vulnerable to repetitions_of_false_statements which even use identical wording over and over again, has been spewing a narrative about Chinese people buying farm land near American military bases, as a front for the Communist Party to spy on us. That hysteria has led to dozens_of_American_states_to_pass_racist_anti-Asian laws_stopping_foreign_citizens_from_owning_property. In some cases, these laws are flat-out illegal, since Lawful Permanent Residents (Green Card holders) can have as much land as they can buy. Even my father, a man who spent his life working as an educated man. An engineer, with 9 US patents on television components, who has recently suffered two heart attacks and may not be around very much longer, is wasting what time he has left, ranting about the “Chinese farm land” issue. It’s a fiction being given to us as a distraction, with very real and gruesome consequences which I will get to. Now state legislators have embraceda novel, locally focused tactic aimed at China’s domestic investments: restrictions on Chinese land ownership. […] Lawmakers in 33 states have introduced 81 bills this yearthat would prohibit the Chinese government, some China-based businesses and many Chinese citizens from buying agricultural land or property near military bases, according to a Washington Post analysis of data compiled by Asian Pacific American Justice, an advocacy group. A dozen of the bills are now law in states such as Alabama, Idaho and Virginia. The Washington Post In the case out of California, where_a_“shadowy”_and_“even_possibly_Chinese” acquisition of all of the farm land around Travis Air Force Base, it turned out that Flannery Associates was actually a group of White tech oligarchs, and the media has been foaming at the mouth with anti-Asian sentiment for weeks, sparking a federal investigation which turned up nothing, except an actual problem, which I will return to in a moment. A mysterious investment company is buying up large tracts of land around a California Air Force base, raising questions about who is behind the firm — and its intentions — amid growing fears about Chinese businesses acquiring land near American military sites. The investment firm Flannery Associates has bought around $800 million worth of land around Travis Air Force Base in northern California’s Solano County, which is midway between Sacramento and San Francisco. […] Garamendi, a House Armed Services Committee member, told The Hill that he has been investigating the land acquisitions for nearly two years and has come up with few answers to his questions. “We have no idea who they are,” Garamendi said. “Flannery Associates is opaque. We have no idea where the nearly $900 million dollars has come from. They bought well over 55,000 acres of land in the area and [the purchase] raises a major concern.” The Hill could not immediately contact Flannery Associates for comment. The firm claims that 97 percent of its investors are U.S.- based, but Garamendi said there is no way to verify that claim. -The Hill Well, in the end, it turned out to be mostly backed by these people. The project was spearheaded by Jan Sramek, a 36-year-old former trader for the investment banking firm Goldman Sachs, and is backed by prominent Silicon Valley investors including Michael Moritz, a venture capitalist; Reid Hoffman, the co-founder of Linkedin; Laurene Powell Jobs, the founder of the philanthropic group Emerson Collective and wife of Steve Jobs; Marc Andreessen, an investor and software developer; Patrick and John Collison, the sibling co- founders of the payment processor Stripe; and the entrepreneurs Daniel Gross and Nat Friedman, the Times reported. -The Guardian Yes, Marc Andreeson, who made his money in the DotCom Bubble, largely from Netscape Communications, and a bunch of other rich White people, are definitely “invaders from China”. Most of the rest of these people are affiliated with Microsoft (Nat Friedman, GitHub, Reid Hoffman, LinkedIn, and of course there’s someone from Goldman Sachs, a megabank that got bailed out by your tax money in 2008 and pretty much continuously since then while you lost your jobs). After months of stirring up racist anti-Asian, and particularly anti-Chinese sentiment among Americans, many of whom are so stupid at this point that they don’t even know there’s a difference, the media admits it was a bunch of rich White dudes. But the damage is already done. These anti-Asian laws are now on the books in many states, and the Republican Party in particular isn’t going to let the revelation that it’s not even Chinese people who are a threat stop them from passing more. What is a threat is that “Creepy Uncle” Bill_Gates_has_been_“investing”_in_farm land. A lot of it, and now his rich buddies are joining him. Why? Are they going to get some tractors and start milking cows and harvesting the corn? I’m so glad you asked. Nope. They’re basically planning to just own it and sponge off of tenant farmers and drive up your grocery and fast food bills while they get you hopping mad at Asian people. Sam_Waterston who played Prosecutor Jack_McCoy, a favorite of mine on Law & Order, gave one of his best lines ever in one episode, which bears repeating here. “Today’s ‘philanthropists’ are yesterday’s robber-barons.” -Jack McCoy, Law & Order Only he was wrong. Bill Gates never “retired” from being a robber-baron, none of them really do. They figure out a way to rape and exploit hard-working every day Americans with more Gordon_Gekko business tactics. “I create nothing. I own.” -Gordon Gekko, Wall Street If you thought that Creepy Uncle did most of the damage he would ever do to humanity while he was aggressively and illegally hawking terrible software at Microsoft, you need to guess again. This farm land thing really is a problem. Maybe states can ban rich White people from buying so much of it. Then after that, they can make the news apologize for the anti-Chinese lies they’ve been spreading so much of, which_are_getting_people_killed. It’s not just a reckless and racist disregard for the truth, it’s deliberate and it is vile! An 18-year-old Indiana University student was stabbed multiple times in the head while riding a local bus in Bloomington, Ind., this past week. The suspect told police she stabbed the victim because the victim was “Chinese,” adding that it “would be one less person to blow up our country,” according to an affidavit shared with NPR. Indiana University in Bloomington confirmed that the victim was a student enrolled there and said it was an incident of “anti-Asian hate.” Police did not provide details about the victim except that she was from Carmel, a city north of Indianapolis. […] The suspect, Billie R. Davis, 56, has been charged with attempted murder, aggravated battery and battery with a deadly weapon, according to court documents. Since the attack, Asian American students and staff at Indiana University have been grappling with grief, anger, anxiety, and fear, according to Melanie Castillo-Cullather, the director of the school’s Asian Culture Center. […] Local police said surveillance footage from the Bloomington Transit bus showed that the suspect and the victim had no interactions prior to the assault. The victim appeared to be getting off the bus when another passenger struck her repeatedly in the head with a knife, according to the affidavit. The attacker then left the bus and walked away. -NPR I am aware that I’ve quoted at least three oligarch-affiliated media sources along the way, because if you read closely and monitor them enough, some truth permeates for those who can follow what they are doing, and the real story starts to emerge. There is a national crisis involving farm land, and the unprovoked and murderous attacks on Asian people in America are simply a byproduct of a revolting distraction. The crisis is….Bill Gates and his rich criminal buddies, and the farm land they buy. █ ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 674 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐃𝐀𝐈𝐋𝐘 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒 ═════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 08.28.23⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Gemini_Links_28/08/2023:_Sometimes_Everything_Goes_Wrong_and_Brute_Forcing Cheat_Codes⠀✐ Posted in News_Roundup at 7:44 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇GNOME bluefish⦈ § Contents⠀➾ * Gemini*_and_Gopher o Personal/Opinions o Technology_and_Free_Software # Internet/Gemini * § Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾ o § Personal/Opinions⠀➾ # ⚓ 1970′ish⠀⇛ I felt very confident and competent that day. I made my way across the long, dark hallway with impossibly-high ceiling. Past the scary round cast- iron ash cleanout door on the wall, large, rusty locking handle taunting me to turn it and release the horror insided. Hugging the far wall to keep away from it, I got past, without waking up the scary abandoned-furnace-demon, fear pooling in my feet like a liquid. My destination: Unkle Kostya’s room at the end of the hallway. I considered him a friend — he had talked to me on several occasions, and I really liked his looks (resembling a mustachio’ed old- timey circus strongman from one of my books, but really, really old, maybe 50 or 76). I stood against the door in total silence, wondering if he had died in his sleep, like my grandpa. # ⚓ 2023_Week_34:_Status_and_Photos⠀⇛ The weather has been extremely hot in the American Midwest this past week. Beginning in the previous weekend, temperatures have regularly reached 100 F (38 C) or higher. Our front lawn was due to be mowed in the middle of the week, and I went cycling the evening after; these. combined with my air show visit last weekend, meant that I began adjusting to the heat. My wife, however, was absolutely miserable. We wanted to put a couch in our basement den, but both of the sectionals we brought from our previous house were too big to fit through the 29-inch basement door. We had to buy a new couch with a modular design and removable legs in order to get it downstairs. After three months of waiting, the couch finally arrived on Monday. # ⚓ Straw_bales⠀⇛ Part of our long-term plan is to get some land and build our own house(s) on it, in a manner that’s suitable for self-sustainable living. Building houses is hard work, of course, and the modern building industry is rather problematic, so I’ve been looking into “alternative” methods of building for a few years. The Centre for Alternative Technology is a bit of a hub for that in the UK, and I was signed up to both their “Natural Housebuilding” short course and “Green Building” MSc pre-pandemic and pre-baby. This year, things felt stable enough for me to get back to it, so a friend and I went on their “Building with Straw Bales” course last week. Five rather intensive days of theory and practice that left me feeling quite capable of. I’ll detail the main things I learned day by day, but there’s a canonical book if you want a reference manual, which I shall link to here as well. # ⚓ Caterpillar_(publ._2023-08-28)⠀⇛ At one point I put a stick close to him, and then he retracted his head inside his body and puffed out his fake head, and after that remained stiff and motionless in that position. Unfortunately, I didn’t think to get a photo of that. I captured these recordings as well. Warning, large file size (49MB and 120MB). I made a brief effort to convert them to some more compact format but was losing a lot of image quality in the process. The first video is kind of blurry, but it gives a better exhibition of the interesting “walking” motion. # ⚓ Impatient,_Ascetic,_Awesome⠀⇛ I’m moving from a one bedroom apartment to a three bedroom apartment barely a kilometre away. I was supposed to get the keys to the new apartment on Friday 1/9 (that’s the first of September — stop putting the month first; you’re doing it wrong), and since I have my kids this weekend I’ve planned the move for Saturday 9/9 (the day is still before the month, even if you can’t tell). I’ve booked a truck and organised a few friends to help me. But as luck would have it I got the keys today at 15:30. And I just can’t wait for two weeks before starting. That’s just too long. I packed the car full and drove over. Then did that two more times. Then I parked the car at my old (current?) home and took my bike to the new flat and unpacked the few boxes I’d moved over there and re-assembled the furniture. And in just three hours I had moved a third of my belongings by myself. Because I don’t own much, and I don’t own a single thing that I can’t fit into my car and haven’t carried alone before. # ⚓ Sometimes_Everything_Goes_Wrong⠀⇛ On Thursday I knew I’d be done the next day at the plant. So I changed my flight to leaving Friday at 1600. Well, before we were supposed to board, the pilot called maintenance. Maintenance never showed up so I missed my connecting flight in Houston. I had United buy me a ticket on American Airlines. I left the secure area of the Lubbock Airport, go my checked luggage, and rechecked in at the American Airlines counter. I had to pay $130 for my checked bags since I do not have status on that airline. I went back through security and waited. # ⚓ 28th_August_2023_–_A_Week_Away⠀⇛ Today is the August bank holiday Monday for Wales, England and possibly Northern Ireland. Scotland has a bank holiday earlier in the month due to schools starting earlier in the year. This is why I think Northern Ireland might do the same as Scotland as their schools have similar term times. It is often a recipe for disaster thanks to rubbish weather and SO MUCH TRAFFIC. However, I decided to brave it this time and had the past week off work too. The first part involved being in Plymouth to see my parents and rest of the family. My parents were holding a party to celebrate their 40th Wedding Anniversary. That was fun in many a strange way and I did spend most of the night in the garage with the drinks. It was cooler and had fewer people hanging around. Always makes for a better time. Then it was my neice’s first birthday. She passed the ‘not a hulk’ test by not smashing her cake. Instead, she daubed herself in the cream and licked away. There was a bit of a face smashing into the cake but I think she just toppled over while trying to lick in fairness. o § Technology and Free Software⠀➾ # ⚓ Brute_Forcing_Cheat_Codes⠀⇛ Tony Hawk’s Underground 2 sent me down a pretty unexpected rabbit hole this last weekend. I had just beaten the main game on PSP and unlocked a bunch of stuff, including one of the levels from Pro Skater 3 I had really enjoyed as a kid. But there were a lot more levels still locked and I realized that the game expected me to complete all the other difficulties to fully unlock everything. I didn’t think this was much of a problem, I’d just look up cheat codes (remember those?) and check out all the locked levels that way. But for reasons that only the game devs will ever know, it wouldn’t be that simple. # ⚓ Adding_a_fan_to_my_OrangePi_5+⠀⇛ I wasn’t expecting this to be so hard. I ordered an RK3588 based Orange Pi 5+ a while back as a development platform. It’s great. A good combination CPU and GPU power. As well as a very competitive price to performance ratio. I also bought a large heat sink for it. However it kept hitting thermal limit under heavy use. Yet, I wasn’t able to find a 5V fan that would fit on top of the heat sink. Even more so, I can’t find any documentation about the GPIO pins. # § Internet/Gemini⠀➾ # ⚓ TIL_Bad_Habits_Can_Create_Unforeseen_Insights⠀⇛ I have the bad habit to many tabs open in my browsers, on the Web and on Gemini. And by many I mean hundreds. Yes, seriously. I think I started this habit in the late 1990s while still being on dial-up. Pages loaded slowly and I rather clicked one promising link after the other on a SERP to load in a new tab in the background than to follow a link, navigate back, and follow another link. For various reasons, every once in a while I have to save all those tabs in bookmark folders to be able to close them and open them later again. Sometimes I forget to delete those bookmark folders and save the tabs again after a couple of weeks or months, depending on the circumstances. =============================================================================== * Gemini_(Primer) links can be opened using Gemini_software. It’s like the World Wide Web but a lot lighter. ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 955 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐃𝐀𝐈𝐋𝐘 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒 ═════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 08.28.23⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Links_28/08/2023:_Linux_6.5⠀✐ Posted in News_Roundup at 4:21 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇GNOME bluefish⦈ § Contents⠀➾ * GNU/Linux o Kernel_Space o Applications o Instructionals/Technical o Desktop_Environments/WMs # GNOME_Desktop/GTK * Distributions_and_Operating_Systems o Reviews o New_Releases o PCLinuxOS/Mageia/Mandriva/OpenMandriva_Family o Fedora_Family_/_IBM o Canonical/Ubuntu_Family o Devices/Embedded o Mobile_Systems/Mobile_Applications * Free,_Libre,_and_Open_Source_Software o FSFE o Programming/Development # Perl_/_Raku * Leftovers o Science o Health/Nutrition/Agriculture o Proprietary/Artificial_Intelligence_(AI) o Security # Privacy/Surveillance o Defence/Aggression o Environment # Energy/Transportation o Finance o AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics o Censorship/Free_Speech o Civil_Rights/Policing o Digital_Restrictions_(DRM) o Monopolies # Patents o Copyrights * § GNU/Linux⠀➾ o ⚓ 9to5Linux ☛ 9to5Linux_Weekly_Roundup:_August_27th,_2023⠀⇛ This week was Linux 32nd’s birthday and many of you celebrated it in style with some very nice releases like the LibreOffice 7.6 office suite, QEMU 8.1 virtualization software, and Linux kernel 6.5. Several distros were also released this week, including Bodhi Linux 7.0, Kali Linux 2023.3, and Mageia 9. Below, you can read this week’s hottest news and access all the distro and package downloads in 9to5Linux’s Linux weekly roundup for August 27th, 2023. o ⚓ 2023-08-21_[Older]_Linux_Love_Affair:_Discovering_the_Top_10_Best Linux_Distros_of_All_Time⠀⇛ o ⚓ Linux Made Simple ☛ 2023-08-20_[Older]_Linux_Weekly_Roundup #249⠀⇛ o ⚓ Linux On Mobile ☛ 2023-08-21_[Older]_Weekly_GNU-like_Mobile_Linux Update_(33/2023):_Maemo_Leste_turns_5_and_a_new_tablet⠀⇛ o ⚓ 2023-08-22_[Older]_Linux_vs._macOS:_Choosing_the_Best_OS_for_Your Needs⠀⇛ o § Kernel Space⠀➾ # ⚓ LWN ☛ Linux_6.5⠀⇛ So nothing particularly odd or scary happened this last week, so there is no excuse to delay the 6.5 release. I still have this nagging feeling that a lot of people are on vacation and that things have been quiet partly due to that. But this release has been going smoothly, so that's probably just me being paranoid. The biggest patches this last week were literally just to our selftests. The shortlog below is obviously not the 6.5 release log, it's purely just the last week since rc7. Anyway, this obviously means that the merge window for 6.6 starts tomorrow. I already have ~20 pull requests pending and ready to go, but before we start the next merge frenzy, please give this final release one last round of testing, ok? Linus # ⚓ LWN ☛ The_6.5_kernel_has_been_released⠀⇛ Headline features in 6.5 include faster booting on large x86 systems, Arm Permission Indirection Extension support, Rust 1.68.2 support, unaccepted memory handling, “mount beneath” support for filesystems, the cachestat() system call, the ability to pass a pidfd via a SCM_CREDENTIALS control message, scope-based resource management for internal kernel code, the deprecation of the SLAB allocator, and more. See the LWN merge-window summaries (part 1, part 2) and the (in-progress) KernelNewbies 6.5 page for details. # ⚓ 9to5Linux ☛ Linux_Kernel_6.5_Officially_Released,_This_Is What’s_New⠀⇛ After seven weeks of RCs, Linux kernel 6.5 is here with new features like MIDI 2.0 support in ALSA, ACPI support for the RISC-V architecture, Landlock support for UML (User-Mode Linux), better support for AMD “Zen” systems, as well as user-space support for the ARMv8.8 memcpy/memset instructions. Also new in Linux 6.5 is Intel TPMI (Topology Aware Register and PM Capsule Interface) support for the power capping subsystem and a TPMI interface driver for Intel RAPL, and the “runnable boosting” feature in the EAS balancer to improve CPU utilization for specific workloads. # ⚓ LWN ☛ Three_stable_kernels [Ed: Updated below]⠀⇛ Update: 6.1.49 has also been released. “”This upgrade is only for all users of the 6.1 series that use the x86 platform OR the F2FS file system. If that’s not you, feel free to ignore this release.”” # ⚓ It’s FOSS ☛ Linux_Kernel_6.5_Released_With_Initial_Support for_Wi-Fi_7_and_USB4⠀⇛ Linux 6.5 kernel is here and builds upon the work of the previous Linux 6.4 kernel, along with some notable changes and additions. Linus Torvalds mentioned that this was a smooth release overall… # ⚓ CNX Software ☛ Linux_6.5_release_–_Notable_changes,_Arm, RISC-V_and_MIPS_architectures⠀⇛ Linus Torvalds has just announced the release of Linux 6.5 on the Linux Kernel Mailing List (LKML)… The earlier Linux 6.4 release was outed about 2 months ago bringing us x86 linear address masking, support for Apple M2 Arm SoC, new ptrace() operations, the ability for unprivileged processes to poll for pressure-stall information, a detailed tutorial explaining how to build a trimmed kernel, among many other changes. # ⚓ The Register UK ☛ Linus_Torvalds_couldn’t_find_an_excuse_to hold_back_Linux_6.5,_so_here_it_is [Ed: The Register still coming up with negative-sounding clickbait about Linux releases]⠀⇛ Whatever the reason for this release appearing on schedule, with no notable ructions, it has produced a version of the kernel unlikely to be regarded as particularly significant. Perhaps the most notable inclusion is default enablement of P-State on some AMD CPUs – meaning the kernel can manage cores more efficiently to balance performance and power consumption. # ⚓ 9to5Linux ☛ GNU_Linux_Libre_6.5_Kernel_Released_for_Those Seeking_100%_Freedom_for_Their_PCs⠀⇛ Based on the just-released Linux 6.5 kernel series, the GNU Linux-libre 6.5 kernel is here to rework the cleaning up of the iwlwifi driver to reflect the revamp of blob names in it and adjust the cleaning scripts to account for cleaned-up ARM dts files that were moved in the “source” tree. The GNU Linux-libre 6.5 kernel also cleans up the usual assortment of new dts files that declare dependencies on binary blobs, updates the cleaning up of the amdgpu, adreno, rtl8xxxu, and x86 touchscreen drivers, as well as of the atomisp docs, and cleans up new drivers for rtw8851b and the TAS2781 speaker. o § Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ The_Top_10_Note-Taking_Apps_for_Linux⠀⇛ In this digital age, where ideas flow like a river, note-taking has evolved from scribbled scraps of paper to fantastic applications that help you to add and organize notes. From the simplest tools for quick reminders to comprehensive platforms designed for collaborative projects, you can use note-taking apps as per your preferences. We will discuss the top 10 note-taking apps that can transform the art of jotting down thoughts on your Linux system. # ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ The_5_Best_Linux_Package_Managers⠀⇛ As a new Linux user, you may be completely overwhelmed with the sheer number of choices you have regarding distributions you can install on your computer. What is the difference between Ubuntu, Fedora, openSUSE, and Arch? Ultimately, the short answer is package management. Each Linux distro offers users a unique method of installing and maintaining their system, with varying degrees of user-friendliness and usability. This guide will serve as a short primer on performing basic tasks in each package management system, so you can decide which is right for you. o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾ # ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ How_to_Change_gedit_Color_Schemes_on_Linux⠀⇛ Want to change gedit’s default color scheme on your Linux PC? There are plenty of ways to do so, including creating your own color scheme. # ⚓ 2023-08-23_[Older]_Linux_User_Privileges:_Adding_Users_to sudoers_Group_in_CentOS,_Debian,_and_Ubuntu⠀⇛ # ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ 2023-08-22_[Older]_How_to_Configure_a Firewall_on_Debian_With_UFW⠀⇛ # ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ How_to_Access_Linux_Files_on_iOS_and_Android With_Network_Share⠀⇛ Set up a network-shared folder using Samba but don’t know how to access it from your Android or iOS smartphone? Here’s how to get started. # ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ How_to_Change_Desktop_Wallpaper_on_a Chromebook⠀⇛ If you’re fed up with the default wallpaper on your Chromebook, consider changing it to something you fancy. # ⚓ APNIC ☛ Behavioural_differences_of_IPv6_subnet-router anycast_address_implementations⠀⇛ The subnet-router anycast address is a unique IPv6 address that is autoconfigured on a device that is a router (meaning net.ipv6.conf.all.forwarding=1 in Linux context) when the subnet prefix length is shorter than a /127. In theory, when a host on the subnet/local link sends a packet to this address, it reaches the closest router in the subnet from the host; this can mean the host itself if IPv6 forwarding is enabled. This implies the initial leading zero address of an IPv6 subnet (::) is going to be auto-injected into the host’s (router) local routing table as an address of type, anycast. So, for example, if 2001:db8::/64 is your subnet, then 2001:db8:: is the subnet-router anycast address. # ⚓ Dan Langille ☛ Adding_two_more_12TB_drives_to_the_mirror⠀⇛ As mentioned in several previous posts, I’m moving a server from one chassis to another. None of the hardware is coming over. Just the jails and data. Recently, I’ve been trying out two new 12TB drives. I’m looking forward to the reduced noise level, as well as the reduced power consumption and heat. # ⚓ Nicolas Fränkel ☛ Send_your_logs_to_Loki⠀⇛ Loki provides a RESTful API to store and read logs. Let’s push a log from a Java app. Loki expects the following payload structure: [...] # ⚓ 2023-08-22_[Older]_How_to_Install_Sketchup_on_Ubuntu_for_3D Modeling⠀⇛ # ⚓ HoneytreeLabs ☛ 2023-08-25_[Older]⠀⇛ # ⚓ Linux Made Simple ☛ 2023-08-24_[Older]_How_to_disconnect and_connect_your_Google_Drive_on_a_Chromebook⠀⇛ # ⚓ Linux Made Simple ☛ 2023-08-24_[Older]_How_to_install_Wire Desktop_on_Debian_12⠀⇛ # ⚓ Linux Made Simple ☛ 2023-08-23_[Older]_How_to_install_the Brave_browser_on_Debian_12⠀⇛ # ⚓ Linux Made Simple ☛ 2023-08-23_[Older]_How_to_install Intellij_Idea_Community_on_a_Chromebook_in_2023⠀⇛ # ⚓ Linux Made Simple ☛ 2023-08-22_[Older]_How_to_install CrossCraft_SurvivalTest_on_a_Chromebook⠀⇛ # ⚓ Linux Made Simple ☛ 2023-08-21_[Older]_How_to_install_the Opera_browser_on_Debian_12⠀⇛ # ⚓ Linux Made Simple ☛ 2023-08-21_[Older]_How_to_install RStudio_on_a_Chromebook⠀⇛ # ⚓ Linux Made Simple ☛ 2023-08-20_[Older]_How_to_install_the Cemu_emulator_on_a_Chromebook⠀⇛ # ⚓ Linux Made Simple ☛ 2023-08-20_[Older]_How_to_install Google_Chrome_on_Debian_12⠀⇛ # ⚓ Linux Made Simple ☛ 2023-08-20_[Older]_Linux_Weekly_Roundup #249⠀⇛ # ⚓ Linux Made Simple ☛ 2023-08-18_[Older]_How_to_install_the itch.io_app_on_a_Chromebook⠀⇛ # ⚓ 2023-08-23_[Older]_Changing_Hostname_in_Ubuntu:_A_Step-by- Step_Guide_for_Beginners⠀⇛ # ⚓ HoneytreeLabs ☛ Fast-lane_to_Real-Time_Linux:_How_to_Set_Up Your_System⠀⇛ After that, reboot the system. Make sure to enter the BIOS (typically, using the F2, F8, F10, or F12 keys). As someone who cares about low power consumption (reduced carbon footprint), I never thought I’d share this tip: turn off all power management or energy saving options. Typical keywords for this are “ACPI”, “APM” or anything that has “power” in its name. This is important to make sure the system is ready to execute all commands at the right time (literally). o § Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾ # § GNOME Desktop/GTK⠀➾ # ⚓ 9to5Linux ☛ GNOME_45’s_Nautilus_File_Manager_Gets_a Modern_Full-Height_Sidebar_Layout⠀⇛ Nautilus in GNOME 45 already received a search performance boost, support for dropping images directly from web pages, an improved Grid View that now indicates starred files too, the ability to display bytes size as a tooltip for folder properties, and a more adaptive design for the sidebar. But there’s room for more new features as Nautilus now received new “Search Everywhere” buttons to expand the search scope and a modern full-height sidebar layout, along with refined sidebar sizing and folding threshold. This is what Nautilus looks like in GNOME 45. * § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾ o ⚓ Ghana ☛ Pioneering_a_New_Era:_Groundbreaking_cybersecurity_Linux Distribution_unveiled_in_West_Africa⠀⇛ In a remarkable stride towards technological advancement in West Africa, the ingenious collaboration between Professor Dr. Edward Danso Ansong and research assistant, Dominic Damoah has birthed an epoch-making breakthrough – Trend OS… o § Reviews⠀➾ # ⚓ Distro Watch ☛ Review:_Void_20230628⠀⇛ Void certainly stands out in the Linux community. In a world with dozens of spins of Arch Linux and Ubuntu, Void is a rare gem, trying different approaches and offering an unusually clean and capable experience. The project is light on resources, blazingly fast, and (in my experience) stable. Since the last time I tried Void, the developers have fixed the sound issues I experienced in the past and managed to keep everything else running well without introducing any new problems. In fact, Void seems to be error-free. I can’t recall running into any error messages, glitches, or crashes during my trial and that’s quite unusual. Void is a capable distribution and, while it uses some lighter, custom tools, it provides a great deal of functionality. I am a fan of what Void is doing and how it is accomplishing its goals. The distribution is light, fast, clean, stable, and well documented. If I had any concerns it would be just two things. First, the distribution requires a degree of familiarity with Linux. This is not a beginner-friendly project. People using Void need to be comfortable with the command line, documentation, and text menus. In this way, Void shares some style elements with Arch or OpenBSD. The other warning I would share is Void has a smaller repository of software. All the basics are there, but there are some niche tools, alternative web browsers, and such which are missing. These can often be supplied through other means, such as Flatpak or a container. In short, for people with a bit of Linux experience who want a clean, efficient distribution and who don’t mind using the command line, Void is one of the best options I’ve encountered in recent years. o § New Releases⠀➾ # ⚓ Bodhi Linux ☛ Introducing_Bodhi_Linux_7.0:_A_Landmark Release⠀⇛ The Bodhi team is thrilled to announce the long- awaited release of Bodhi Linux 7.0. Built on the Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish) base, Bodhi 7.0 is a momentous step forward. With a strong commitment to improving user experience, performance, and adhering to its core values of minimalism and customization, this release marks a significant milestone in the evolution of Bodhi Linux. o § PCLinuxOS/Mageia/Mandriva/OpenMandriva Family⠀➾ # ⚓ Linuxiac ☛ Mageia_9_Is_Here,_Get_Ready_to_Be_Impressed⠀⇛ Mageia is a user-friendly, stable, and versatile Linux distribution, originally forked from the Mandriva Linux in 2010, focusing on ease of use for new users. It is a community-driven project offering a choice of several desktop environments, including KDE Plasma, GNOME, Xfce, and LXQt, which uses RPM for software packaging and distribution. With roots traced back to Mandrake Linux, Mageia and OpenMandriva, who just recently released ROME 23.08, are the two modern successors to this once- legendary distribution. # ⚓ Beta News ☛ Mageia_9_offers_a_fresh_Linux_alternative_for Microsoft_Windows_11_users⠀⇛ Today, Mageia 9 (which comes with Linux kernel 6.4) is finally released. The operating system stands as a comprehensive update, catering to both the everyday user and the technically savvy. Whether you’re into productivity, creativity, or just exploring, Mageia 9 has something for you. In fact, this Linux distribution should be an excellent choice for those wanting to switch from Microsoft’s Windows 11. Firstly, Mageia has poured meticulous care into the installation process. Those upgrading from Mageia 8 will appreciate the seamless transition, with the RPM database shifting from Berkeley DB to SQLite. Installation geeks might appreciate being able to utilize different ports with an HTTP server and the myriad of bug fixes. o § Fedora Family / IBM⠀➾ # ⚓ IBM Old Timer ☛ 2023-08-24_[Older]_What_Small_Children_Can Do_that_AI_Doesn’t_Know_How_to_Do_(Yet)⠀⇛ # ⚓ Red Hat Official ☛ 2023-08-23_[Older]_YAML_explained_for Red_Hat_OpenShift_Service_on_AWS_(ROSA)_users⠀⇛ # ⚓ Red Hat Official ☛ 2023-08-22_[Older]_BPF_Type_Format support_in_libabigail_2.3⠀⇛ o § Canonical/Ubuntu Family⠀➾ # ⚓ Alan Pope ☛ i386_in_Ubuntu_won’t_die⠀⇛ tl;dr In a recent thread on Mastodon, it was revealed that Ubuntu 23.04 users can’t install the Steam deb package from the Ubuntu archive without jumping through some technical hoops. It turns out this was a mistake, a bug was filed, and future builds shouldn’t have this problem. It’s not immediately apparent whether the (currently ‘broken’) ISO images for Ubuntu 23.04 will be rebuilt (unlikely) or if this will stay broken in 23.04, and users will need to ‘cope’. To check if you’re affected in Ubuntu 23.04 on a 64-bit (x86_64) installation, run this command… o § Devices/Embedded⠀➾ # ⚓ Linux Gizmos ☛ Banana_Pi_board_equipped_with_Quad-core Rockchip_RK3308B-S⠀⇛ This Banana Pi device doesn’t have a dedicated GPU, but it includes diverse audio interfaces including a built-in audio Codec, 1x I2S, 8x ADC, 2x DAC, 1x 3.5mm audio jack and various MIC pins via the 40- pin expansion header. The company suggests that this device can be used for speech-recognition or IoT applications. The 40-pin expansion header provides support for GPIOs, I2S, MIC, Line-in, Line-out and ADC. Similarly, the 12-pin header offers support for GPIOs, UART, I2C, SPI, PWM and JTAG. The Banana Pi wiki provides instructions to get started with this board in addition to Buildroot and Debian images. o § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ 7_Linux_Smartphone_Operating_Systems_to Install_on_Your_Device⠀⇛ Sick of Android? Don’t want to be locked to a proprietary ecosystem? Security and privacy are becoming increasingly important for smartphone users, but what is the answer? Is it possible to abandon Android and iOS for another mobile operating system? When you want an alternative operating system, Linux is usually the answer. But which Linux phone OSes are available to install today? When you want to replace Android with Linux, here are the Linux mobile distros you should try. * § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾ o § FSFE⠀➾ # ⚓ FSFE ☛ 2023-08-24_[Older]_Liability,_Interoperability_& Free_Software_in_EU:_what_we_are_expecting⠀⇛ o § Programming/Development⠀➾ # § Perl / Raku⠀➾ # ⚓ Perl ☛ 2023-08-24_[Older]_Komodo_IDE_is_now_Open Source⠀⇛ # ⚓ Perl ☛ 2023-08-24_[Older]_This_week_in_PSC_(113)⠀⇛ # ⚓ Perl ☛ 2023-08-23_[Older]_Perl_Weekly_Challenge_#231 –_Not_Going_to_Extremes_but_Accepting_Senior_Citizens⠀⇛ # ⚓ Perl ☛ 2023-08-22_[Older]_Perl_Weekly_Challenge_231: Min_Max⠀⇛ # ⚓ Perl ☛ 2023-08-22_[Older]_Perl_Weekly_Challenge_231: Senior_Citizens⠀⇛ # ⚓ Perl ☛ 2023-08-20_[Older]_Next_stable_DBD::SQLite will_be_released_in_the_middle_of_September⠀⇛ # ⚓ Perl ☛ 2023-08-20_[Older]_Perl_Weekly_Challenge_#230 –_Turning_Numbers_into_Characters_and_Words_into Numbers⠀⇛ * § Leftovers⠀➾ o ⚓ The Conversation ☛ 2023-08-23_[Older]_How_to_be_a_good_listener_– and_how_to_know_when_you’re_doing_it_right⠀⇛ o § Science⠀➾ # ⚓ Vox ☛ 2023-08-24_[Older]_How_the_moon_may_become_our_cosmic junkyard⠀⇛ # ⚓ The Conversation ☛ 2023-08-24_[Older]_New_research_reveals that_Ötzi_the_iceman_was_bald_and_probably_from_a_farming family_–_what_else_can_DNA_uncover?⠀⇛ # ⚓ The Conversation ☛ 2023-08-23_[Older]_We’re_talking_about AI_a_lot_right_now_–_and_it’s_not_a_moment_too_soon⠀⇛ o § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾ # ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-08-22_[Older]_How_the_COVID_pandemic changed_the_travel_industry⠀⇛ o § Proprietary/Artificial Intelligence (AI)⠀➾ # ⚓ India Today ☛ Ex-Meta_employee_says_many_talented_workers were_fired,_calls_layoffs_a_challenging_phase⠀⇛ A recent report by IANS revealed that on an average, around 3,000 techies were being fired every day in January. Major tech giants like Meta, Google and Microsoft announced large-scale layoffs at the beginning of this year, causing panic amongst tech workers across the globe. As a result, thousands lost their jobs and many families were affected. Even though reports now say that the pace of tech layoffs has slowed down, those people who lost their jobs earlier this year continue looking for new opportunities. One such Meta employee, who was notified of his layoff along with 10,000 others earlier this year, shared his layoff story on LinkedIn. Saying that he lost his job as part of Mark Zuckerberg’s ‘year of efficiency’, the former Meta employee said that layoffs have been a challenging phase of his life. # ⚓ Vox ☛ 2023-08-19_[Older]_Is_the_AI_boom_already_over? [Ed: It was not a boom. It was a dump-and-dump-driven hype, manipulated (bribed) media campaign.]⠀⇛ o § Security⠀➾ # ⚓ CISA ☛ 2023-08-24_[Older]_CISA_Adds_Two_Known_Exploited Vulnerabilities_to_Catalog⠀⇛ # ⚓ CISA ☛ 2023-08-24_[Older]_CISA_Releases_Six_Industrial Control_Systems_Advisories⠀⇛ # ⚓ CISA ☛ 2023-08-24_[Older]_KNX_Protocol⠀⇛ # ⚓ CISA ☛ 2023-08-24_[Older]_​OPTO_22_SNAP_PAC_S1⠀⇛ # ⚓ CISA ☛ 2023-08-24_[Older]_​CODESYS_Development_System⠀⇛ # ⚓ CISA ☛ 2023-08-24_[Older]_CODESYS_Development_System⠀⇛ # ⚓ CISA ☛ 2023-08-24_[Older]_CODESYS_Development_System⠀⇛ # ⚓ CISA ☛ 2023-08-24_[Older]_​Rockwell_Automation_Input/Output Modules⠀⇛ # ⚓ CISA ☛ 2023-08-22_[Older]_CISA_Adds_Two_Known_Exploited Vulnerabilities_to_Catalog⠀⇛ # ⚓ CISA ☛ 2023-08-22_[Older]_CISA_Releases_Four_Industrial Control_Systems_Advisories⠀⇛ # ⚓ CISA ☛ 2023-08-22_[Older]_​Hitachi_Energy_AFF66x⠀⇛ # ⚓ CISA ☛ 2023-08-22_[Older]_​Trane_Thermostats⠀⇛ # ⚓ CISA ☛ 2023-08-22_[Older]_Rockwell_Automation_ThinManager ThinServer⠀⇛ # ⚓ CISA ☛ 2023-08-21_[Older]_CISA_Adds_One_Known_Exploited Vulnerability_to_Catalog⠀⇛ # ⚓ CISA ☛ 2023-08-21_[Older]_CISA,_NSA,_and_NIST_Publish Factsheet_on_Quantum_Readiness⠀⇛ # ⚓ International Business Times ☛ 2023-08-23_[Older]_Schools are_being_urged_to_prioritise_cybersecurity_learning_with_the industry_expanding⠀⇛ # ⚓ International Business Times ☛ 2023-08-22_[Older]_NCSC launches_expanded_Cyber_Incident_Response_Scheme_to_enhance cybersecurity_support⠀⇛ # ⚓ RIPE ☛ 2023-08-21_[Older]_Route_Origin_Authorisation: Enhancing_Network_Security_and_Unveiling_Critical_Insights⠀⇛ # ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ 2023-08-23_[Older]_Court_Finds_That_Teenage Hackers_Were_Central_to_Data_Breaches_of_Uber,_Nvidia,_and Rockstar_Games⠀⇛ # § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾ # ⚓ Engadget ☛ 2023-08-24_[Older]_Discord’s_March_data breach_only_affected_180_users,_but_it’s_worth_a security_checkup⠀⇛ o § Defence/Aggression⠀➾ # ⚓ HRW ☛ 2023-08-21_[Older]_Saudi_Arabia:_Mass_Killings_of Migrants_at_Yemen_Border⠀⇛ # ⚓ The Age AU ☛ 2023-08-22_[Older]_Report_alleges_Saudi_Arabia migrant_killings⠀⇛ # ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-08-21_[Older]_China Investigates_Citizen_Accused_of_Spying_for_CIA_-Security Ministry⠀⇛ # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ 2023-08-23_[Older]_On_Military_Coups_and Starvation:_Is_Western_Media’s_Perception_of_Africa_Racist?⠀⇛ # § Russia, Belarus, and War in Ukraine⠀➾ # ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-08-23_[Older]_US_Says It_Does_Not_Support_Ukrainian_Strikes_Inside_Russia⠀⇛ # ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-08-23_[Older]_Embraer Jet_That_Crashed,_Reportedly_Carrying_Prigozhin,_Had Good_Safety_Record⠀⇛ # ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-08-23_[Older]_Russian Mercenary_Boss_Yevgeny_Prigozhin_Challenged_the_Kremlin in_a_Brief_Mutiny⠀⇛ # ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-08-23_[Older]_Russian Mercenary_Chief_Prigozhin_Dead,_Channel_Affiliated_With Wagner_Says⠀⇛ # ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-08-23_[Older]_Wagner Mercenary_Leader,_Russian_Mutineer,_‘Putin’s_Chef’:_the Many_Sides_of_Yevgeny_Prigozhin⠀⇛ # ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ 2023-08-22_[Older]_Putin’s_War_Against Ukraine_Is_Slaughtering_Dolphins_in_the_Black_Sea⠀⇛ # ⚓ NL Times ☛ 2023-08-22_[Older]_Russia_warns_F-16s delivered_by_the_Netherlands_and_Denmark_will_escalate the_war⠀⇛ # ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-08-22_[Older]_Brazil_looks_to gain_from_Russia’s_war_in_Ukraine⠀⇛ # ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-08-21_[Older] Ukraine’s_Anti-Graft_Police_Zero_in_on_Major_Wartime Corruption⠀⇛ # ⚓ CBC ☛ 2023-08-20_[Older]_Netherlands,_Denmark_commit to_giving_F-16_fighter_jets_to_Ukraine⠀⇛ # ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-08-20_[Older]_Ukraine_updates: F-16_training_has_begun,_Kyiv_says⠀⇛ # ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-08-20_[Older]_Ukraine_updates: Netherlands,_Denmark_to_send_F-16s_to_Kyiv⠀⇛ # ⚓ Modern Diplomacy ☛ 2023-08-19_[Older]_Egypt_resists U.S._calls_to_arm_Ukraine⠀⇛ # ⚓ CBC ☛ 2023-08-24_[Older]_Trudeau_‘disappointed’ Ukraine_not_invited_to_G20,_vows_to_bring_Kyiv’s concerns_to_the_table⠀⇛ # ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-08-24_[Older]_German_accused_of selling_to_Russian_weapons_firm⠀⇛ # ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-08-24_[Older]_Russia_extends detention_of_WSJ_reporter_Gershkovich⠀⇛ # ⚓ International Business Times ☛ 2023-08-24_[Older] Russia_continues_to_charge_Ukrainian_Prisoners_of_War in_unofficial_courts⠀⇛ # ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-08-24_[Older]_Russian Geneticist_Gets_Probation_for_DNA_Smuggling._Discovery of_Vials_Prompted_Alarm_at_Airport⠀⇛ # ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-08-25_[Older]_US Sanctions_11_Russians_and_2_Re-Education_Facilities Involved_in_Forced_Transfer_of_Ukrainian_Kids⠀⇛ # ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-08-24_[Older]_Russian Mercenary_Yevgeny_Prigozhin’s_Plane_Appeared_Fine_on Radar_Until_Last_30_Seconds⠀⇛ o § Environment⠀➾ # ⚓ CPJ ☛ 2023-08-23_[Older]_Peru’s_Manuel_Calloquispe_faces threats_and_assaults_to_expose_environmental_damage_from illegal_Amazon_mining⠀⇛ # ⚓ The Age AU ☛ 2023-08-25_[Older]_Violence_restraining_orders issued_against_Woodside_climate_protesters⠀⇛ # ⚓ Jacobin Magazine ☛ 2023-08-24_[Older]_Disaster_Capitalists Are_Circling_Maui_Like_Buzzards⠀⇛ # ⚓ Modern Diplomacy ☛ 2023-08-24_[Older]_Down_the_drain_lies_a promising_climate_and_nature_solution_–_UN_report⠀⇛ # ⚓ 2023-08-24_[Older]_CLIMATE_CRISIS:_Report:_Extreme temperatures_now_five_times_more_likely_in_most_of_Europe, including_Turkey⠀⇛ # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ 2023-08-24_[Older]_Cutting_Climate_Change Research⠀⇛ # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ 2023-08-24_[Older]_The_Dangerous Contrivance_of_“Climate_Change”⠀⇛ # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ 2023-08-24_[Older]_The_US_and_China_Must Unite_to_Fight_the_Climate_Crisis⠀⇛ # ⚓ NL Times ☛ 2023-08-23_[Older]_Warning_letters_sent_to people_who_claim_they_did_not_attend_Schiphol_climate protest⠀⇛ # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ 2023-08-23_[Older]_Climate_Change Litigation:_The_Montana_Precedent⠀⇛ # ⚓ Jacobin Magazine ☛ 2023-08-20_[Older]_Technocrats_Won’t Solve_the_Climate_Crisis⠀⇛ # ⚓ Vox ☛ 2023-08-22_[Older]_Hurricane_Hilary_soaked_an_already wet_California._Is_the_drought_over?⠀⇛ # ⚓ CBC ☛ 2023-08-22_[Older]_Climate_change_made_weather conditions_that_powered_Quebec_fires_twice_as_likely, scientists_say⠀⇛ # ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-08-22_[Older]_Canadian_wildfires fueled_by_climate_change,_study_shows⠀⇛ # ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-08-22_[Older]_Climate-fueled wildfires_lead_to_rethink_on_fire_tactics⠀⇛ # ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-08-22_[Older]_Germany’s_climate policy_insufficient,_expert_group_says⠀⇛ # ⚓ Modern Diplomacy ☛ 2023-08-20_[Older]_The_push_to_turn climate_culprit_CO2_into_a_green_force⠀⇛ # § Energy/Transportation⠀➾ # ⚓ HRW ☛ 2023-08-23_[Older]_Ecuadorians_Vote_to_“Keep the_Oil_in_the_Soil”_in_the_Amazon⠀⇛ # ⚓ The Age AU ☛ 2023-08-21_[Older]_Coalition’s_campaign for_nuclear_energy_implausible,_experts_say⠀⇛ # ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-08-18_[Older]_What_on_Earth_is dark_energy?⠀⇛ # ⚓ Truthdig ☛ 2023-08-22_[Older]_To_Adapt_to_Climate Change,_California_Pays_the_Banks_That_Are_Part_of_the Problem⠀⇛ # ⚓ The Age AU ☛ 2023-08-23_[Older]_Energy_giant_feels chill_of_falling_prices_after_war_boost_wears_off⠀⇛ # ⚓ International Business Times ☛ 2023-08-25_[Older] What_does_‘renewable_energy’_truly_mean_in_2023?⠀⇛ # ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-08-24_[Older]_Geothermal energy:_Are_we_entering_a_golden_age?⠀⇛ # ⚓ CBC ☛ 2023-08-22_[Older]_Renewable_energy_pause welcome_in_parts_of_rural_Alberta_as_some_say_review long_overdue⠀⇛ o § Finance⠀➾ # ⚓ Jacobin Magazine ☛ 2023-08-20_[Older]_Canada’s Housing_Crisis_Demands_Action,_Not_Words⠀⇛ o § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾ # ⚓ Green Party UK ☛ 2023-08-24_[Older]_GCSE_results:_a_day_to congratulate_students_and_teachers_but_also_to_address attainment_gap⠀⇛ # ⚓ Green Party UK ☛ 2023-08-22_[Older]_Greens_repeat_call_for 10:1_pay_ratio_to_help_create_fairer_greener_country⠀⇛ # ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-08-21_[Older]_Meta_Putting Profit_Ahead_of_Safety_by_Blocking_Wildfire_News,_Says Trudeau⠀⇛ # ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-08-21_[Older]_Prime Minister_Justin_Trudeau_Slams_Facebook_for_Blocking_Canada Wildfire_News⠀⇛ # ⚓ Engadget ☛ 2023-08-22_[Older]_Facebook_and_Instagram_will offer_chronological_Stories_and_Reels_to_comply_with_EU_law⠀⇛ # ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-08-21_[Older]_Thailand Threatens_Facebook_With_Legal_Action_Over_Alleged_Scams⠀⇛ o § Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾ # ⚓ Engadget ☛ 2023-08-23_[Older]_Facebook’s_‘state-controlled media’_labels_appear_to_reduce_engagement⠀⇛ # ⚓ The Verge ☛ 2023-08-20_[Older]_Little_Musk_Who_Cries_‘Wolf’ Daily_Claims_X_Will_‘Delete’_the_Block_Feature,_But_No_One Knows_What_That_Even_Means⠀⇛ # ⚓ Engadget ☛ 2023-08-21_[Older]_X_is_fixing_a_‘bug’_that wiped_out_Twitter_images_from_before_2014⠀⇛ # ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ 2023-08-22_[Older]_Twitter_Promises_It_Fixed_the Bug_That_Wiped_Photos_From_Before_2014⠀⇛ # ⚓ International Business Times ☛ 2023-08-22_[Older]_Elon Musk’s_X_is_fixing_a_bug_that_deleted_photos,_links_shared_on Twitter_before_2014⠀⇛ # ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ 2023-08-21_[Older]_Elon_Musk’s_X_is_Testing_User Verification_That_Requires_Government_ID⠀⇛ # ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ 2023-08-22_[Older]_Musk_Plans_to_Kill_Link Headlines_on_Twitter⠀⇛ # ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ 2023-08-22_[Older]_Even_Twitter_Can’t_Kill Twitter_|_Letter_From_the_Editor⠀⇛ # ⚓ Vox ☛ 2023-08-24_[Older]_Even_Elon Musk_can’t_fully_wreck Twitter’s_one_great_superpower⠀⇛ o § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾ # ⚓ DaemonFC (Ryan Farmer) ☛ In_America,_Can_You_Purchase_a Clean_Record?⠀⇛ Buying your record clean only works if you aren’t that bad to begin with. Lefty lunatics only have the luxury of believing in what they say either because they can afford to live somewhere else and not look at the problem or because they live with their parents and don’t have to want for things. They certainly don’t need to buy a gun, because they can hire a private security army to guard the gate of their housing addition after they move behind a wall. So your Second Amendment Rights can go right in the garbage as far as they’re concerned. These people are too dangerous to give power to. That’s why I always vote to “impeach and remove the judges”. I think the judges have all grown too comfortable where they are based on what I see unfolding in the real world, where I live. Many people blame the bad economy for crime. # ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-08-22_[Older]_2023_Campus_Project features_musicians_from_Afghanistan_and_Iran⠀⇛ # ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-08-25_[Older]_Canada_probes_Walmart, Hugo_Boss_over_forced_labor_concerns⠀⇛ # ⚓ Jacobin Magazine ☛ 2023-08-21_[Older]_Amazon_Is_Investing in_AI-Assisted_Apartheid_in_Palestine⠀⇛ # ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-08-22_[Older]_McDonald’s, CEO_Must_Face_Ex-Security_Executive’s_Race_Bias_Claims⠀⇛ o § Digital Restrictions (DRM)⠀➾ # ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ 2023-08-24_[Older]_Apple_Has_Finally_Found_a Right_to_Repair_Bill_That_It_Likes⠀⇛ # ⚓ TechCrunch ☛ 2023-08-25_[Older]_Apple_Lends_Support_to California_‘Right_to_Repair’_Bill [Ed: PR stunt like Apple "fighting" for privacy (while actually fighting against it at every turn)]⠀⇛ # ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-08-23_[Older]_Apple Endorses_California_Bill_on_‘Right_to_Repair’⠀⇛ o § Monopolies⠀➾ # ⚓ Florian Müller ☛ 2023-08-21_[Older]_UK_Competition_& Markets_Authority_rightly_declines_to_support_Apple,_auto industry_efforts_to_devalue_standard-essential_patents_and legitimize_collective_holdout_through_licensing_negotiation groups⠀⇛ # ⚓ Florian Müller ☛ 2023-08-23_[Older]_Competition_Appeal Tribunal’s_role_in_keeping_UK_open_for_business_is_vastly underestimated:_Microsoft’s_acquisition_of_Activision Blizzard_may_now_be_cleared_on_modified_basis [Ed: Does Microsoft Florian intend to disclose that Microsoft paid him for lobbying (lying)?]⠀⇛ # ⚓ Engadget ☛ 2023-08-22_[Older]_Amazon,_Meta_and_others_face scrutiny_for_allowing_sellers_to_list_recalled_products⠀⇛ # § Patents⠀➾ # ⚓ Florian Müller ☛ 2023-08-19_[Older]_Big_Law-sponsored conference_on_standard-essential_patents_attracts first-rate_speakers_to_Poland_in_September: underexploited_non-UPC_enforcement_opportunity [Ed: UPC is illegal. Even those pushing it know that UPC is unlawful, but they don't care about the law, it's a massive cartel of corruption sweeping across EU courts now.]⠀⇛ # ⚓ Florian Müller ☛ 2023-08-20_[Older]_Not_a_single patent_injunction_has_been_denied_or_tailored_by_German courts_based_on_two-year-old_‘reform’_statute,_but plaintiffs_need_to_adjust_to_new_reality_of_preliminary invalidity_opinions [Ed: German government breaking laws and constitutions in an effort to become the "Eastern District of Texas" in EU]⠀⇛ # ⚓ 2023-08-21_[Older]_USPTO_Shares_Data_on_Multiple_IPR Challenges [Ed: USPTO, run by Microsoft and pressuring everybody to use OOXML (because that's how corrupt it has become)]⠀⇛ # ⚓ 2023-08-24_[Older]_Guest_Post_by_Professors_Aneja, Subramani,_and_Reshef:_Why_Do_Women_Face_Challenges_in the_Patent_Process? [Ed: Patents are monopolies, not a gender issue. The robber barons try to muddy the water by misframing the core issue.]⠀⇛ # ⚓ IP Kat ☛ 2023-08-24_[Older]_Keeping_up_with_Belgian patent_litigation:_Year_case_law_review_2022⠀⇛ o § Copyrights⠀➾ # ⚓ Engadget ☛ 2023-08-21_[Older]_Judge_rules_that_AI-generated art_isn’t_copyrightable,_since_it_lacks_human_authorship⠀⇛ # ⚓ Engadget ☛ 2023-08-21_[Older]_YouTube_wants_to_benefit_from AI-generated_music_without_the_copyright_headaches⠀⇛ # ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ 2023-08-21_[Older]_AI-Generated Art_Cannot_Receive_Copyrights,_US_Court_Says⠀⇛ # ⚓ IP Kat ☛ 2023-08-22_[Older]_[Book_Review]_Implied_licences in_copyright_law⠀⇛ # ⚓ IP Kat ☛ 2023-08-20_[Older]_When_is_an_artist_entitled_to refuse_attribution_of_an_artwork?_Italian_Supreme_Court provides_(final)_guidance_in_long-running_dispute_over_Jeff Koons’s_The_Serpents⠀⇛ ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 2286 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐃𝐀𝐈𝐋𝐘 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒 ═════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 08.28.23⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Links_28/08/2023:_Microsoft_Collapsing_in_Web_Servers_and_Mozilla_Firefox_117 Released⠀✐ Posted in News_Roundup at 10:02 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇GNOME bluefish⦈ § Contents⠀➾ * GNU/Linux o Desktop/Laptop o Server o Audiocasts/Shows o Kernel_Space o Applications o Instructionals/Technical * Distributions_and_Operating_Systems o Gentoo_Family o Fedora_Family_/_IBM o Debian_Family o Devices/Embedded o Open_Hardware/Modding o Mobile_Systems/Mobile_Applications * Free,_Libre,_and_Open_Source_Software o Web_Browsers/Web_Servers # Mozilla o Content_Management_Systems_(CMS) o Programming/Development # Rust * Leftovers o Science o Education o Hardware o Health/Nutrition/Agriculture o Proprietary/Artificial_Intelligence_(AI) o Security # Privacy/Surveillance o Defence/Aggression o Environment # Energy/Transportation # Wildlife/Nature o Finance o AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics o Censorship/Free_Speech o Civil_Rights/Policing o Internet_Policy/Net_Neutrality o Monopolies # Patents # Trademarks # Copyrights * Gemini*_and_Gopher o Photography o Technology_and_Free_Software # Internet/Gemini * § GNU/Linux⠀➾ o § Desktop/Laptop⠀➾ # ⚓ HowTo Geek ☛ You_Don’t_Have_to_Leave_Windows:_8_Ways_to Start_Using_Linux⠀⇛ If the technical work or fiddly nature of all the previous options doesn’t appeal to you, you can always just buy a computer with a Linux distribution reinstalled. These let you forget about the nonsense of installation media and virtualization layers and just get to work. You buy it like you would any computer, only when you power it on, instead of Windows or macOS, you get Linux. Linux computers are a niche market, so it may not seem obvious where to start looking for one. Small retailers like System76 and Star Labs design and sell laptops and desktop PCs specifically with Linux in mind. We’ve reviewed some of them, in fact, like the System76 Gazelle and the Kubuntu Focus Ir14. Some manufacturers you’re probably familiar with also let you configure one of their models with Linux pre-installed, like our favorite Linux laptop, the Dell XPS 13 Plus. o § Server⠀➾ # ⚓ Kubernetes Blog ☛ Kubernetes_1.28:_A_New_(alpha)_Mechanism For_Safer_Cluster_Upgrades⠀⇛ This blog describes the mixed version proxy, a new alpha feature in Kubernetes 1.28. The mixed version proxy enables an HTTP request for a resource to be served by the correct API server in cases where there are multiple API servers at varied versions in a cluster. For example, this is useful during a cluster upgrade, or when you’re rolling out the runtime configuration of the cluster’s control plane. # ⚓ August_2023_Web_Server_Survey⠀⇛ Microsoft saw the largest loss this month, losing 3.1 million sites (-9.52%), 123,295 domains (- 1.74%) and 10,571 computers (-0.89%). Microsoft now accounts for 2.73% of sites seen by Netcraft, down by 0.27pp. o § Audiocasts/Shows⠀➾ # ⚓ Tux Digital ☛ This_Week_in_Linux_231:_Bodhi_Linux,_Kali Linux,_LibreOffice,_GNOME,_KDE_&_more_Linux_news!⠀⇛ On This Week in Linux (231), we’ve got a jam-packed show for you. Libre Office 7.6 and Bodhi Linux 7.0 have been announced. Hold onto your hats, whatever color they may be, because Kali Linux 2023.3 is out. # ⚓ Open Source Security (Audio Show) ☛ Free_Software_Security Podcast_Episode_390_–_Rust_shipping_binaries_doesn’t matter⠀⇛ Josh and Kurt talk about a blog post that explains how C and C++ compilers prioritize performance over correctness. This is the class story of security vs usability. Security is never the primary goal. If a security requirement doesn’t also enable other business goals it will fail. We also touch on the news of a Rust package containing binary files. It doesn’t really have anything to do with security, it’s all about convenience. # ⚓ Jupiter Broadcasting ☛ Beating_Apple_to_the_Sauce_|_LINUX Unplugged_525⠀⇛ We daily drive Asahi Linux on a MacBook, chat about how the team beat Apple to a major GPU milestone, and an easy way to self-host open-source ChatGPT alternatives. Special Guest: Neal Gompa. # ⚓ GNU World Order (Audio Show) ☛ GNU_World_Order_527⠀⇛ **gsl** , **gstreamer** and plugins, a bunch of **gtk** libs, and **gvfs** from the **l** software series of Slackware. shasum - a256=7ca272717d660a768d3bbcba6249e3e6fb4f3675e361e96185774e2574010659 o § Kernel Space⠀➾ # ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ Linux_Kernel_6.5:_Deep_Dive_into_Features_& Enhancements⠀⇛ The Linux community is abuzz with excitement and for a good reason. Just days after celebrating its 32nd anniversary, the much-anticipated Linux Kernel 6.5 has been unveiled. # ⚓ Bootlin ☛ Linux_6.5_released,_Bootlin_contributions⠀⇛ Linux 6.5 was released yesterday, with as usual over 10,000 commits from a large number of contributors. We recommend reading LWN.net articles on the merge window (part 1, part 2), but also the CNX Software page that focuses on embedded-related improvements. o § Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ Linux Links ☛ 7_Best_Free_and_Open_Source_Graphical_Linux Diff_Tools⠀⇛ Linux has many good GUI tools that enable you to clearly see the difference between two files or two versions of the same file. These utilities are an essential software development tool, as they visualize the differences between files or directories, merge files with differences, resolve conflicts and save output to a new file or patch, and assist file changes reviewing and comment production (e.g. approving source code changes before they get merged into a source tree). They help developers work on a file, passing it back and forth between each other. The diff tools are not only useful for showing differences in source code files; they can be used on many text-based file types as well. The visualizations make it easier to compare files. Here’s our ratings chart capturing our verdict. Only free and open source software is eligible for inclusion. DiffPDF is different from the other tools, as it compares two PDF files. # ⚓ Linux Links ☛ Awesome_Linux_Game_Tools:_noise-suppression- for-voice⠀⇛ noise-suppression-for-voice is a noise suppression plugin based on RNNoise, a noise suppression library based on a recurrent neural network. # ⚓ Medevel ☛ diskover:_Open-source_File_Search_and_Indexer Tool_For_Data_Engineers⠀⇛ Diskover is an open source file system indexer that uses Elasticsearch to index and manage data across different storage systems. This means that Diskover is a powerful tool for system administrators to manage their storage infrastructure and make informed decisions about new infrastructure purchases. # ⚓ Medevel ☛ 35_Free_Open-source_Data_and_Files_Recovery_and Forensic_Apps,_and_Scripts⠀⇛ Data recovery is the process of retrieving lost, corrupted, or deleted data from a storage device such as a hard drive, USB drive, or memory card. Data recovery is often used to restore important files that have been accidentally deleted or lost due to hardware failure or other issues. # ⚓ OMG! Linux ☛ KDE_Video_App_Haruna_Adds_Some_Neat_New Features⠀⇛ When I watch videos on KDE Plasma I do so using Haruna, a Qt-based media app with a pleasant UI and a potent feature set. # ⚓ OMG! Linux ☛ Nautilus_Has_a_New_Look_in_GNOME_45⠀⇛ The latest nightly builds of the Nautilus file manager sport a split header-bar look. # ⚓ Linux Links ☛ Best_Free_and_Open_Source_Alternatives_to Corel_WinZip⠀⇛ WinZip is a file archiver and compressor. What are the best free and open source alternatives? o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾ # ⚓ Linux Handbook ☛ Using_Finger_Command_in_Linux⠀⇛ The finger command is a user information lookup utility that allows users (mostly system admins) to list logged-in users including login time, terminal type, and more. # ⚓ Own HowTo ☛ Manage_multiple_social_media_accounts_with Rambox_on_Linux_Mint⠀⇛ Rambox is a an app that allows you to connect multiple social media sites into one application. # ⚓ Red Hat ☛ How_Ansible_lint_improves_playbook_debugging⠀⇛ Ansible lint is a command line tool that checks Ansible Playbooks for errors and suggests improvements for the code written in the playbooks. This helps the users adhere to certain standards to follow while writing the playbooks to maintain the integrity of their code. This article demonstrates how to install Ansible lint. We will also explore use cases and how to prevent errors during execution of playbooks and save debugging time. # ⚓ How_to_Install_MySQL_Workbench_on_Linux⠀⇛ MySQL Workbench is a GUI front-end (or IDE) tool that integrates SQL development, enabling developers to easily design, model, and manage MySQL databases in a visual and efficient manner. # ⚓ nixCraft ☛ How_to_install_vim_in_Alpine_Linux⠀⇛ Learn how to install Vim, the most popular text editor for server-based environments, on Alpine Linux using the command “apk_add_vim” command and Docker or LXD (Linux container) image. # ⚓ How_to_Configure_Network_Bonding_or_Teaming_on_RHEL⠀⇛ Bonding is a Linux kernel feature that allows multiple network interfaces (such as ens192, ens224) to be aggregated into a single virtual network interface called channel bonding (bond0). # ⚓ It’s FOSS ☛ Using_Your_Phone_as_Camera_and_Mic_in_Ubuntu Linux⠀⇛ You can use your smartphone if you don’t have a webcam and dedicated mic with your desktop system. Here’s how to do that in Ubuntu Linux. # ⚓ ID Root ☛ What_You_Need_to_Know_About_HTTP_Requests⠀⇛ Welcome to the comprehensive guide to HTTP Requests! As a web developer, understanding how HTTP Requests work is crucial for building efficient and secure web applications. In this article, we will delve deep into the world of HTTP Requests, exploring their structure, functionality, and best practices. # ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_To_Install_Redis_on_Fedora_38⠀⇛ In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Redis on Fedora 38. For those of you who didn’t know, Redis is more than just a database; it’s an efficient and versatile in-memory data structure store. # ⚓ It’s Ubuntu ☛ How_To_Install_Canon_Printer_Driver_In_Ubuntu 22.04_LTS⠀⇛ Canon Printer is one of the most widely used printers right now. Due to its increasing usage, Canon started to provide support for Linux users too. # ⚓ It’s Ubuntu ☛ How_To_Install_Grub_Customizer_On_Ubuntu 22.04_LTS_And_Linux_Distros⠀⇛ Grub Customizer is a software package that allows the user to customize the Grub boot menu. # ⚓ It’s Ubuntu ☛ How_to_Fix_the_“sudo:_command_not_found” Error_on_Linux⠀⇛ \sudo is installed by default in most of the Linux but this might not be the case on all distros. # ⚓ LinuxConfig ☛ How_to_create_and_manage_snippets_in_Vim_with Ultisnips⠀⇛ * § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾ o § Gentoo Family⠀➾ # ⚓ Gentoo ☛ Final_Report,_Automated_Gentoo_System_Updater⠀⇛ ✐ Project Goals⠀✐ Main goal of the project was to write an app that will automatically handle updates on Gentoo Linux systems and send notifications with update summaries. More specifically, I wanted to: [...] # ⚓ Gentoo ☛ gentoo_update_User_Guide⠀⇛ § Introduction This article will go through the basic usage of gentoo_update CLI tool and the mobile app. But before that, here is a demo of this project: [...] o § Fedora Family / IBM⠀➾ # ⚓ Anaconda_F39′s_Advanced_Partioner_(Bivet-GUI)_vs_Calamares 3.2.61⠀⇛  Sequence of snapshots down here demostrates F39WKS KVM Guest setup via Fedora-39-20230827.n.0  (netinst-everything boot ISO image). [...] In my very personal opinion Anaconda F39′s Advanced Partioner (Blivet-GUI) behaves pretty much the same way as the most recent versions of Calamares on SparkyLinux 7, Manjaro 22.1, Ubuntu 23.04 DDE Remix . However , at the moment I was forced to perform manual inputs of names of filesystems like /boot/ efi in Anaconda Blivet-GUI environment versus picking them up from drop-down Calamares’s menu and setting to partitions required flags. ` § Debian Family⠀➾ * ⚓ Jonathan_McDowell:_OMGWTFBBQ_2023⠀⇛ As is traditional for the UK August Bank Holiday weekend I made my way to Cambridge for the Debian UK BBQ. As was pointed out we’ve been doing this for more than 20 years now, and it’s always good to catch up with old friends and meet new folk. * ⚓ Steve McIntyre ☛ Steve_McIntyre:_We’re_back!⠀⇛ It’s August Bank Holiday Weekend, we’re in Cambridge. It must be the Debian UK OMGWTFBBQ!. We’re about halfway through, and we’ve already polished off lots and lots of good food and beer. Lars is making pancakes as I write this, 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇:-)⦈ We had an awesome game of Mao last night. People are having fun! * ⚓ Andrew_Cater:_20230826_–_OMGWTFBBQ_–_Breakfast_is_happening_more_or less⠀⇛  And nothing changes: rediscovered from past Andrew at his first Cambridge BBQ and almost the first blog post here: “Thirty second rule on sofa space – if you left for more than about 30 seconds you had to sit on the floor when you got back (I jammed myself onto a corner of the sofa once I realised I’d barely get through the crush 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇:)⦈ ) [Forget students in a mini / UK telephone box - how many DDs can you fit into a very narrow kitchen 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇:)⦈ ] It’s a huge, dysfunctional family with its own rules, geeky humour and in-jokes but it’s MINE – it’s the people I want to hang out with and, as perverse as it sounds, just being there gave me a whole new reaffirmed sense of identity and a large amount of determination to carry on “wasting my time with Linux” and Debian” The *frightening* thing – this is from August 31st 2009 … where have the years gone in between. * ⚓ Debian_12_templates_available⠀⇛ The following new templates are now available: Qube OS 4.1 [...] § Devices/Embedded⠀➾ * ⚓ CNX Software ☛ Sipeed_unveils_RISC-V_tablet,_portable_Linux_console, and_cluster⠀⇛ Sipeed has unveiled three new hardware platforms based on the LM4A RISC-V system-on-module found in their LicheePi 4A SBC, namely the Lichee Cluster 4A cluster for native RISC- V compilation, the Lichee Pad 4A 10.1-inch tablet running Android 13 or Debian, and the Lichee Console 4A a portable Linux console with a small 7-inch display and a built-in keyboard. As a quick reminder, the Sipeed LM4A SoM is based on the Alibaba T-Head TH1520 quad-core RISC-V processor @ 1.8 to 2.5 GHz that has just gotten some support in Linux 6.5, comes with up to 16GB RAM and up to 64 GB eMMC flash, integrates two Gigabit Ethernet PHY, and exposes all I/Os through a 260-pin SO-DIMM connector. We’ve previously noticed the TH1520 module delivers performance similar to the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4 and even more when using a customized toolchain. § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾ * ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Card/IO_Is_A_Credit_Card-Sized,_Open_Source_ECG_Monitor⠀⇛ Of all the electrical signals generated by the human body, those coming from the heart are probably the most familiar to the average person. And because it’s also quite simple to implement the required sensors, it makes sense that electrocardiogram (ECG) machines are a popular choice among introductory medical electronics projects. [Dániel Buga], for instance, designed a compact ECG system the size of a credit card, cleverly dubbed Card/IO, that clearly demonstrates how to implement a single-lead ECG. * ⚓ Tom’s Hardware ☛ How_to_Send_Alerts_From_Raspberry_Pi_Pico_W_to_a_Phone or_Tablet⠀⇛ Want to send notifications, messages, files without the hard work? With a Raspberry Pi Pico W and ntfy.sh we can do that, and more. * ⚓ Tom’s Hardware ☛ Tasty_Raspberry_Pi_Project_Cooks_Up_Actual_Raspberry Pie⠀⇛ Steve Kasuya is using a Raspberry Pi to bake an actual Raspberry Pie with his Pi-powered temperature-controlled oven. § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾ * ⚓ Network 18 Media and Investments Ltd ☛ InMobi’s_Glance_Launches_In Japan,_Aims_For_40_Percent_Of_Android_Market_–_Forbes_India⠀⇛ * ⚓ Hindustan Times ☛ Android’s_Find_My_Device_likely_to_get_a_major upgrade_soon:_Track_anything,_anywhere,_safely_|_Tech_News⠀⇛ * ⚓ Tom’s Guide ☛ Android_14_brings_a_feature_that_iPhones_have_had_for ages_—_here’s_how_to_turn_it_on_|_Tom’s_Guide⠀⇛ * ⚓ Android Police ☛ How_to_bookmark_all_Chrome_tabs_on_Android⠀⇛ * ⚓ Gadget Bridge ☛ How_to_Change_Instagram_Privacy_Settings_on_Android?⠀⇛ * ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ How_to_Create_More_Helpful_Notes_in_Google_Keep_on Android⠀⇛ * ⚓ Hindustan Times ☛ YouTube_tests_a_new_hum-to-search_feature_on_Android |_Tech_News⠀⇛ § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾ * ⚓ Terence Eden ☛ Mosh_supports_.ssh/config⠀⇛ I’ve recently started using Mosh. It’s a clever bit of software that keeps your SSH sessions running, even if your client goes offline or changes IP address. * ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Explore_FFmpeg_From_The_Comfort_Of_Your_Browser⠀⇛ If you’re looking to manipulate video, FFmpeg is one of the most powerful tools out there. But with this power comes a considerable degree of complexity, and a learning curve that looks suspiciously like a brick wall. To try and make this incredible tool a bit less obtuse, [Sam Lavigne] has developed a web interface that lets you play around with FFmpeg’s vast collection of audio and video filters. * § Web Browsers/Web Servers⠀➾ o § Mozilla⠀➾ # ⚓ 9to5Linux ☛ Mozilla_Firefox_117_Is_Now_Available_for Download,_Here’s_What’s_New⠀⇛ During the beta phase, Firefox 117 offered an awesome new feature that other browsers already have, namely a built-in and automatic translation engine for websites, but that’s privacy-aware as it does all the translation locally in your web browser. Unfortunately, the final release doesn’t ship with this long-anticipated feature! For Linux users, the Mozilla Firefox 117 release appears to remove the screen-sharing indicator on Wayland systems. According to Mozilla, the screen sharing indicator never worked well on other platforms, including Wayland. * § Content Management Systems (CMS)⠀➾ o ⚓ Medevel ☛ AuroraCMS:_Open-source_CMS_for_Australian_Businesses That_can_Manage_Farms⠀⇛ AuroraCMS is an exceptional and completely free Australian open source content management system that is specifically designed to cater to the needs of businesses. The CMS is built using PHP, jQuery, and iCONS. * § Programming/Development⠀➾ o ⚓ Rlang ☛ How_to_make_Data_Visualizations_THAT_GO_VIRAL_(with ggplot2_in_R)⠀⇛ Quit “storytelling with data”. There’s a reason your data visualizations aren’t working. Hear me out. o ⚓ Xe’s Blog ☛ How_to_use_Tailwind_CSS_in_your_Go_programs⠀⇛ When I work on some of my smaller projects, I end up hitting a point where I need more than minimal_CSS configuration. I don’t want to totally change my development flow to bring in a bunch of complicated toolkits or totally rewrite my frontend in React or something, I just want to make things not look like garbage. Working with CSS by itself can be annoying. o ⚓ Xe’s Blog ☛ Reaching_the_Unix_Philosophy’s_Logical_Extreme_with Webassembly⠀⇛ Good morning Berlin! How’re you doing this fine morning? I’m Xe and today I’m gonna talk about something that I’m really excited about: WebAssembly. WebAssembly is a compiler target for an imaginary CPU that your phones, tablets, laptops, gaming towers and even watches can run. It’s intended to be a level below JavaScript to allow us to ship code in maintainable languages. Today I’m gonna be talking about fun ways you can take advantage of WebAssembly, but first we need to talk about the other main part of this subject: [...] o ⚓ Akshay_Warrier:_GSoC_2023_Final_Project_Report⠀⇛ § Project Title⠀➾ Make GNOME Platform demos and create offline documentation viewer for Workbench § Mentors⠀➾ Sonny Piers, Andy Holmes § About The Project⠀➾ Workbench is an application that lets you experiment and tinker with GNOME technologies. It’s aimed at beginners who want to get into GTK development or developers who want to prototype a feature for their apps. o ⚓ Felipe_Borges:_An_update_on_GNOME_Settings⠀⇛ There’s no question that GNOME_Settings is important to the overall GNOME experience and I feel flattered to share the responsibility of being one of its maintainers. I have been involved with Settings for almost a decade now but only in the last few months I have  started to wear the general maintainer hat “officially”. o § Rust⠀➾ # ⚓ Dave_Patrick_Caberto:_GSoC_2023:_Rust_and_GTK_4_Bustle Rewrite_(Final_Overview)⠀⇛ Over the summer, I worked on rewriting Bustle in Rust and GTK 4 as part of the Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 2023 program. This post is an overview of the work done and the future plans for the project. # ⚓ From_tui-rs_to_Ratatui:_6_Months_of_Cooking_Up_Rust_TUIs⠀⇛ Let’s take a look at what is new in the new version of “Ratatui” and how it became the successor of tui-rs. § Leftovers⠀➾ * ⚓ India Times ☛ Steve_Jobs’_handwritten_ad_sells_for_over_Rs_1.4_crores⠀⇛ A handwritten advertisement penned by Steve Jobs has recently fetched a remarkable sum of over $175,000 (Rs 1.4 crores) in a notable sale. This document offers a revealing glimpse into Jobs’ visionary creativity and unparalleled attention to detail, qualities that set him apart from others in the industry at that time. The item, auctioned by Boston RR Auction, holds significant historical value as an original piece written by Steve Jobs himself specifically for the Apple 1 computer. Through this artefact, the embryonic stages of Apple’s genesis within Jobs’ garage, as well as his entrepreneurial zeal and meticulous nature, come to light. * ⚓ Ruben Schade ☛ Using_what_you_have_is_better_than_not!⠀⇛ I’ve caught myself making another logical mistake over, and over, and over again, and thought I’d share it. I was trying to figure out why I’m able to work through and resolve technical issues for clients at work so quickly, yet things I have at home languish for weeks, months, or even years. We’ve all heard the phrase that the cobbler’s children walk barefoot, but I wanted to know why. * ⚓ Shirish_Agarwal:_FSCKing_/home⠀⇛ There is a bit of context that needs to be shared before I get to this and would be a long one. For reasons known and unknown, I have a lot of sudden electricity outages. Not just me, all those who are on my line. A discussion with a lineman revealed that around 200+ families and businesses are on the same line and when for whatever reason the electricity goes for all. Even some of the traffic lights don’t work. This affects hardware more than hardware. And more specifically HDD’s are vulnerable. * ⚓ Ruben Schade ☛ The_pushback_against_productivity_hacks⠀⇛ Remember the early 2010s when it seemed everyone was getting into #productivity? The idea that all these emergent tools could be used to unlock a new, more productive, and happier you? Heck, maybe even more handsome or beautiful, because you’d be disruptively synergising all those nuanced paradigms with such orthogonal elegance. More than a decade on, and most people are still living out of text editors and glorified #TODO lists. In the words of moral philosopher Curtis Stigers, I wonder why? * § Science⠀➾ o ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Text_Compression_Gets_Weirdly_Efficient_With_LLMs⠀⇛ It used to be that memory and storage space were so precious and so limited of a resource that handling nontrivial amounts of text was a serious problem. Text compression was a highly practical application of computing power. o ⚓ Science Alert ☛ Physicists_Visualize_Quantum_Yin-Yang_in Entangled_Light_Experiment⠀⇛ A new way of measuring quantum states. * § Education⠀➾ o ⚓ uni Michigan ☛ Massive_Wi-Fi_outage_at_UMich_affects_all_three campuses⠀⇛ With the fall semester beginning tomorrow, the University is working toward restoration this evening. In an email to The Michigan Daily, a university spokesperson encouraged students to stay updated via the U-M ITS X account. * § Hardware⠀➾ o ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Turning_Soviet_Electronics_Into_A_Nixie_Tube_Clock⠀⇛ Sometimes you find something that looks really cool but doesn’t work, but that’s an opportunity to give it a new life. That was the case when [Davis DeWitt] got his hands on a weird Soviet-era box with four original Nixie tubes inside. He tears the unit down, shows off the engineering that went into it and explains what it took to give the unit a new life as a clock. o ⚓ Ruben Schade ☛ Configuring_Adaptec_SCSI_CD-ROMs_on_DOS⠀⇛ I’ve been experimenting with various CD-ROMs in my Am386’s cute but weird AT case. The vertical orientation makes traditional tray loading drives difficult to use, even ones sporting those special clips. I found a slot- loading SCSI Pioneer drive that might do the trick, so this weekend I set about configuring it. o ⚓ Hackaday ☛ When_Does_Impedance_Matching_A_PCB_Trace_Become Unavoidable?⠀⇛ A common joke in electronics is that every piece of wire and PCB trace is an antenna, with the only difference being whether this was intentional or not. In practical terms, low-frequency wiring is generally considered to be ‘safe’, while higher frequency circuits require special considerations, including impedance (Z) matching.  Where the cut-off is between these two types of circuits is not entirely clear, however, with various rules-of-thumb in existence, as [Sebastian] over at Baltic Lab explains. * § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾ o ⚓ Kansas Reflector ☛ Screen_time_contributes_to_sleep_deprivation in_tweens,_teens._Rest_is_critical_to_mental_health.⠀⇛ A growing body of research is finding strong links between sleep, mental health and screen time in teens and tweens — the term for pre-adolescent children around the ages of 10 to 12. Amid an unprecedented mental health crisis in which some 42% of adolescents in the U.S. are suffering from mental health issues, teens are also getting too little sleep. And it is a vicious cycle: Both a lack of sleep and the heightened activity involved in the consumption of social media and video games before bedtime can exacerbate or even trigger anxiety and depression that warrant intervention. o ⚓ New York Times ☛ Covid_Closed_the_Nation’s_Schools._Cleaner_Air Can_Keep_Them_Open.⠀⇛ Scientists and educators are searching for ways to improve air quality in the nation’s often dilapidated school buildings. o ⚓ New York Times ☛ Not_Over_Yet:_Late-Summer_Covid_Wave_Brings Warning_of_More_to_Come⠀⇛ Hospitalizations are still low but are on the rise in recent weeks, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. * § Proprietary/Artificial Intelligence (AI)⠀➾ o ⚓ Simon Willison ☛ Making_Large_Language_Models_work_for_you⠀⇛ I gave an invited keynote at WordCamp 2023 in National Harbor, Maryland on Friday. I was invited to provide a practical take on Large Language Models: what they are, how they work, what you can do with them and what kind of things you can build with them that could not be built before. o ⚓ Axios ☛ AI_could_choke_on_its_own_exhaust_as_it_fills_the_web⠀⇛ The internet is beginning to fill up with more and more content generated by artificial intelligence rather than human beings, posing weird new dangers both to human society and to the AI programs themselves. o § Windows TCO⠀➾ # ⚓ Texas Public Radio ☛ System_outage_crashes_Texas’_vehicle inspection_system⠀⇛ DPS said in a release the outage was ongoing and did not allow stations in “safety-only” counties to conduct proper inspections. # ⚓ SANS ☛ Analysis_of_RAR_Exploit_Files_(CVE-2023-38831),_ (Mon,_Aug_28th)⠀⇛ My tool zipdump.py can be used to analyse the latest exploits of vulnerability CVE-2023-38831 in WinRAR. # ⚓ Security Week ☛ 3_Malware_Loaders_Detected_in_80%_of Attacks:_Security_Firm⠀⇛ QakBot, SocGholish, and Raspberry Robin are the three most popular malware loaders, accounting for 80% of the observed incidents. * § Security⠀➾ o § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾ # ⚓ Jacobin Magazine ☛ Juggalos_Are_the_Targets_of_Clownish Discrimination_and_Police_Harassment⠀⇛ The SACB was abolished in 1972, but the damage was already done — Congress had set the standard for military and federal law enforcement agencies, who continue to use the act, officially known as Security Act 50 U.S.C. § 797, as a framework for group surveillance to this day. And if state investigations of the Left were a farce, the investigation into Juggalos was a clown show. In recent years, a large dossier on the now- abandoned investigation has been unclassified. The ultimately fruitless 2011 National Gang Threat Assessment linked Juggalos to a number of nonviolent crimes such as narcotics possession and graffiti. Almost half the dossier is dedicated to reports of “Juggalo gang action” perpetrated by groups as small as three — though most alleged gang crime was carried out by a lone actor. Perpetrators become “button men” based on loose associations, while Juggalo friends become “shot callers.” Those Juggalos who have engaged in physical violence are mostly those who are also members of actual gangs, like the Crips or the Aryan Brotherhood. * § Defence/Aggression⠀➾ o ⚓ Jacobin Magazine ☛ It’s_Never_a_Bad_Time_to_Remind_Ourselves_That Henry_Kissinger_Is_a_Murderous_War_Criminal⠀⇛ Unlike other war criminals from Richard Nixon to George W. Bush, Henry Kissinger’s reputation has never received public rehabilitation. He hasn’t needed it — despite his murderous rap sheet, the media and political establishment has always fawned over him. o ⚓ CBS ☛ Kentucky_high_school_teens_charged_with_“terroristic threats”_after_TikTok_challenge⠀⇛ Investigators said that three separate incidents at Oldham County High School on Aug. 14, 15, and 17 were related to the TikTok challenge, which encourages students to record a video of themselves telling a teacher there was a bomb or gun in their backpack as a “joke.” o ⚓ Vice Media Group ☛ Kias_and_Hyundais_Keep_Getting_Stolen_by_the Thousands_and_Cities_Are_Suing⠀⇛ A viral Tiktok trend that began in 2021 demonstrated how the companies failed to install a basic anti-theft technology that made them trivially easy to steal. o ⚓ VOA News ☛ US_Airstrike_Kills_13_Al-Shabab_Militants⠀⇛ Meanwhile, al-Shabab militants raided the recently liberated village of Cowsweyne in the central Galmudug state, killing government soldiers early Saturday, security sources told VOA. o ⚓ NPR ☛ Islamic_State_group_almost_doubled_its_territory_in_Mali_in under_a_year,_U.N._says⠀⇛ Islamic State extremists have almost doubled the territory they control in Mali in less than a year, and their al-Qaida-linked rivals are capitalizing on the deadlock and perceived weakness of armed groups that signed a 2015 peace agreement, United Nations experts said in a new report. o ⚓ VOA News ☛ Iran_Says_Uranium_Enrichment_Continues_Based_on Domestic_Law⠀⇛ In 2020, Iran’s hardline parliament passed a law requiring the government to take measures such as stepping up uranium enrichment beyond the limit set under Tehran’s 2015 nuclear deal if other parties did not fully comply with the deal. o ⚓ India Times ☛ France_to_ban_wearing_Islamic_abayas_in_schools⠀⇛ “When you walk into a classroom, you shouldn’t be able to identify the pupils’ religion just by looking at them,” the minister said. France, which has enforced a strict ban on religious signs in state schools since 19th century laws removed any traditional Catholic influence from public education, has struggled to update guidelines to deal with a growing Muslim minority. o ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ France_to_ban_Muslim_abaya_dresses_in_schools⠀⇛ The Education Ministry at the time issued a circular including the abaya in a group of items of clothing which could be banned should they be donned “in a manner as to openly display a religious affiliation.” The circular also singled out bandanas and long skirts. The controversy surrounding the abaya intensified in 2020, when a radicalized Chechen Muslim beheaded a teacher. The teacher had shown students caricatures of Muslim prophet Mohammed. o ⚓ New York Times ☛ U.S._Knew_Saudis_Were_Killing_African_Migrants⠀⇛ Last fall, American diplomats received grim news that border guards in Saudi Arabia, a close U.S. partner in the Middle East, were using lethal force against African migrants who were trying to enter the kingdom from Yemen. o ⚓ Site36 ☛ What_is_Frontex_doing_in_Senegal?_Secret_services_also participate_in_their_network_of_“Risk_Analysis_Cells”⠀⇛ o ⚓ Site36 ☛ Second_Frontex_drone_crashed_near_Crete:_Airbus_was allowed_to_fly_the_“Heron_1”_alongside_civilian_aircraft⠀⇛ o ⚓ Reports_of_torture,_ill-treatment_rise_in_2022,_says_rights group⠀⇛ The Human Rights Foundation of Turkey has released its annual report on torture and ill-treatment based on the submissions received by the organization. o ⚓ France24 ☛ Aleppo_airport_out_of_service_after_Israeli_strike, says_Syrian_media⠀⇛ An Israeli airstrike hit the international airport in the city of Aleppo in northern Syria early on Monday, damaging a runway and putting it out of service, Syrian state media said. o ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ French_ambassador_stays_in_Niger,_defying junta,_as_Macron_defends_French_policy⠀⇛ French President Emmanuel Macron says France’s ambassador is staying at his post in Niger despite being asked to leave by the ruling junta. Macron spoke out firmly against the coup leaders while insisting Monday that France is not Niger’s enemy. The junta has been exploiting grievances among the population toward former colonial ruler France, and has turned to Russian mercenary group Wagner for help. Macron dismissed concerns that standing up to the junta could be dangerous. French Ambassador Sylvain Itte was asked to leave Niger within 48 hours in a letter Friday from the Nigerien Foreign Ministry. France has consistently acknowledged only the authority of Bazoum.. o § Russia, Belarus, and War in Ukraine⠀➾ # ⚓ Latvia ☛ Baltics_and_Poland_demand_Wagner_mercenaries_leave Belarus⠀⇛ Interior Ministers from Poland and the Baltic States met in Warsaw August 28 to discuss further coordination of their border security efforts in view of the Belarusian regime’s hybrid warfare people-smuggling operation and the threat posed by aggressor state Russia # ⚓ Bruce Schneier ☛ Remotely_Stopping_Polish_Trains⠀⇛ Turns out that it’s easy to broadcast radio commands that force Polish trains to stop: …the saboteurs appear to have sent simple so-called “radio-stop” commands via radio frequency to the trains they targeted. Because the trains use a radio system that lacks encryption or authentication for those commands, Olejnik says, anyone with as little as $30 of off-the-shelf radio equipment can broadcast the command to a Polish train­—sending a series of three acoustic tones at a 150.100 megahertz frequency­—and trigger their emergency stop function… # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Poland,_Baltics_Warn_Of_Further_Border_Closures Over_Wagner_Fears⠀⇛ Poland and the Baltic states of Lithuania and Latvia say they will completely seal off their borders with Belarus if a “critical incident” involving Wagner mercenaries occurs. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Two_Russian_Soldiers_Incarcerated_For_Refusing_To Return_To_War_In_Ukraine⠀⇛ A military court in the Russian city of Sochi has sentenced two soldiers to terms of at least two years in penal colonies for refusing to return to the war in Ukraine. # ⚓ YLE ☛ Finland_starts_training_drone_pilots⠀⇛ Finland has been closely monitoring the use of unmanned drones in Ukraine, according to the Finnish Defence Forces. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Russia_Charges_Former_U.S._Consulate Employee_for_Collecting_Information_About_the_War⠀⇛ Robert Shonov, a Russian national, faces up to eight years in prison. The U.S. has said the allegations against him are “wholly without merit.” # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Sweden_Charges_Man_Arrested_Last_Year_In_Predawn Raid_With_Spying_For_Russia⠀⇛ A Russian-born Swedish citizen was charged August 28 with collecting information for the Russian military intelligence service GRU for almost a decade. # ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ Sweden_charges_man_arrested_last year_in_predawn_raid_with_spying_for_Russia⠀⇛ A Russian-born Swedish citizen has been charged with collecting information for Russia’s military intelligence service GRU for almost a decade. Sweden’s Prosecution Authority said Monday that 60- year-old Sergey Skvortsov is accused of “gross illegal intelligence activities against Sweden and against a foreign power.” Prosecutor Henrik Olin later said the other foreign power was the United States. Skvortsov and his wife were arrested in November in a predawn operation in Nacka, outside Stockholm. Swedish media earlier reported that elite police rappelled from two Black Hawk helicopters to arrest the couple. Skvortsov has been held in custody since his arrest and denies any wrongdoing. The trial is to start Sept. 4. # ⚓ Latvia ☛ Thousands_of_Russians_may_be_asked_to_leave_Latvia from_September⠀⇛ It is possible that several thousands of Russian citizens living in Latvia may have to leave Latvia in the near future because they have not done anything to extend their residence permit status, as is required by law. # ⚓ LRT ☛ Lithuania_plans_to_close_two_more_border_checkpoints with_Belarus_–_minister⠀⇛ Lithuania is planning to close two more checkpoints on the border with Belarus, Interior Minister Agnė Bilotaitė said on Monday. # ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ An_evacuation_order_finds_few followers_in_northeastern_Ukraine_despite_Russia’s_push_in the_region⠀⇛ Neighborhood children frolic in a playground in the village of Kupyansk-Vuzlovyi, seemingly immune to the war unfolding a short distance away on a front line where Russia has assembled combat troops. The mother of a 5-year-old says the thunder of mortar fire that punctuates the monotony of daily life is normal, but Ukrainian authorities have advised residents of 37 villages and towns in Kharkiv province to evacuate. Most people near the renewed hostilities are ignoring calls to leave as the battle inches closer to their backyards. Some are paralyzed by indecision, while others say they can’t bring themselves to face the hardships of displacement. # ⚓ NYPost ☛ Ukraine_says_it_has_liberated_strategic southeastern_settlement_Robotyne⠀⇛ Ukraine said on Monday its troops had liberated the southeastern settlement of Robotyne and were trying to push further south in their counteroffensive against Russian forces. # ⚓ France24 ☛ 🔴_Live:_Second_civilian_cargo_ship_from Ukrainian_port_reaches_Istanbul⠀⇛ A second civilian cargo ship to sail from Ukraine since Russia withdrew from a UN-backed Black Sea grain export agreement safely reached Istanbul on Monday, marine traffic monitors said. The news came after Ukraine said its troops had liberated the southeastern village of Robotyne and were trying to advance further south in their counteroffensive against Russian forces. Follow our liveblog for all the latest developments on the war in Ukraine.. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ ‘Even_the_establishment_is_in_shock’:_Meduza examines_the_rise_and_fall_of_Grigory_Melkonyants,_Russia’s leading_electoral_observer_—_Meduza⠀⇛ Grigory Melkonyants, co-chairman of the independent voter protection movement Golos and one of the foremost figures in Russian electoral monitoring, has been arrested in Moscow. The case is far from credible. The Russian authorities brought criminal charges on the grounds that Golos has ties to the “undesirable” European Network of Election Monitoring Organizations (ENEMO), despite that relationship having been severed a few years ago. Meduza how Melkoyants, who long maintained a consistent dialogue with the Kremlin, dared to stay in Russia following the start of the full-scale war, despite the obvious danger, and what could become of him now. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Russia’s_Investigative_Committee_confirms Prigozhin’s_death_—_Meduza⠀⇛ Russia’s Investigative Committee announced that it has established the identities of the 10 people who died in an August 23 plane crash in the Tver region, saying the identities correspond to the flight’s passenger list. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Margarita_Simonyan,_editor-in-chief_of_RT,_says two_drones_have_come_down_near_her_house_this_week_—_Meduza⠀⇛ Propagandist and Editor-in-chief of RT Margarita Simonyan told Russian state news agency RIA Novosti that a second drone this week came down near her house outside of Moscow. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Source_in_Ukraine_intelligence_reports_drone attack_on_military_airfield_in_Russia’s_Kursk_region_— Meduza⠀⇛ Ukrainian counterintelligence launched a drone attack on a military airfield in Russia’s Kursk region, a source in Ukraine’s special services told the publication RBC Ukraine. # ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ Ukraine’s_best_high_jumper_wins_gold for_her_country_at_world_championships⠀⇛ Ukrainian high jumper Yaroslava Mahuchikh won a gold medal to bring an emotional close to the track and field world championships. The very last person competing in the final event of the nine-day meet, Mahuchikh cleared 2.01 meters to win her first major outdoor title and set herself up as a favorite at the Olympics next year. Her evening came to a close moments after Femke Bol of the Netherlands, whose fall cost her team a medal in the mixed 4×400 relay on opening night, made up some 20 meters down the homestretch to win the women’s version of the race. # ⚓ Atlantic Council ☛ Ukraine_upgrades_digital_education efforts⠀⇛ The full-scale Russian invasion has thrust Ukraine’s vibrant tech sector into the limelight and led to an upgrade of the country’s flagship digital education and training initiative, writes Valeriya Ionan. # ⚓ Reason ☛ The_Wind⠀⇛ He founded what is apparently the oldest continuing Russian rock band, Time Machine, in 1969, and has continued to record and perform to this day. # ⚓ France24 ☛ 🔴_Live:_Ukraine_has_‘liberated’_Robotyne_village in_Zaporizhzhia_region,_says_official⠀⇛ Ukraine on Monday said its troops had liberated the southeastern village of Robotyne and were trying to advance further south in their counteroffensive against Russian forces. The announcement came hours after Russia said it destroyed a drone approaching Moscow and two others in the Bryansk region bordering Ukraine. # ⚓ LRT ☛ Corruption_and_‘wild_mobilisation’:_Ukraine_vows_to shake_up_military_enlistment_system⠀⇛ For months following Russia’s full-scale invasion, the phrase “volunteered to fight” kept coming up in casual conversations and in the media as hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians joined the war effort to resist the unprovoked aggression despite the uncertain future and immense risks. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Migrants_Reportedly_Being_Forced_To_Sign_Contracts With_Defense_Ministry_To_Obtain_Russian_Citizenship⠀⇛ Rights activists says migrants from Central Asian countries are being pressured into signing contracts with Russia’s Defense Ministry as the Kremlin tries to bolster the pool of recruits to help fight its war against Ukraine. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Russia-Ukraine_War:_Ukraine_Claims_to Retake_a_Small_Southern_Village⠀⇛ Reclaiming the village of Robotyne would suggest Ukrainian forces have pushed through initial Russian defenses, but tougher terrain lies ahead. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Zelenskiy_Predicts_‘Powerful_September’_As_Ukraine Fends_Off_Latest_Russian_Air_Attacks⠀⇛ Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said he expects “a powerful September for Ukraine,” including key decisions from Western allies regarding the provision of important weapons and equipment. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ World_Athletics_President:_No_Change_In_Ban_On Russian_Athletes_‘Anytime_Soon’⠀⇛ World Athletics President Sebastian Coe said he would not be changing his views “anytime soon” when it comes to welcoming Russia back into the fold. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Zelenskiy_To_Propose_Legislation_Equating Corruption_With_Treason_During_War⠀⇛ Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy says corruption can be equated with treason and he will ask parliament to increase penalties for people found guilty of corruption during wartime. # ⚓ Latvia ☛ LTV’s_De_Facto_looks_at_businesses_continuing exports_to_Russia⠀⇛ Despite sanctions and other risks related to business with Russia, many Latvian companies still export to this country. Recently, the Central Statistical Bureau (CSB) published a list of businesses continuing exports to Russia after the war began, and Latvian Television’s De Facto attempted to take a closer look at it on August 28. # ⚓ The Strategist ☛ For_whom_the_BRICS_toll⠀⇛ Last week’s BRICS summit—bringing together the leaders of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa—was touted as a pivotal event that could change the contours of international relations. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Russian_Who_Worked_At_U.S._Consulate_In_Vladivostok Accused_Of_Spying_For_Washington⠀⇛ Russia’s top domestic security agency said a detained former employee of the U.S. Consulate in Vladivostok is accused of collecting information about Russia’s action in Ukraine and related issues for U.S. diplomats. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Dead,_Wounded_In_Russian_Attack_On_Poltava_As_Kyiv Confirms_Liberation_Of_Robotyne⠀⇛ Russia struck Ukraine’s eastern region of Poltava overnight, causing deaths and damage, regional authorities reported on August 28, as Russia reported more drone attacks on its territory. # ⚓ JURIST ☛ US_journalist_detained_in_Russia_appeals_latest extension_of_pre-trial_detention⠀⇛ US journalist Evan Gershkovich appealed the latest extension of his pre-trial detention in Russia on espionage charges Saturday, according to Russian state media. This is Gershkovich’s third appeal, having appealed his previous extension of pre-trial detention and his original arrest and detention in April. # ⚓ LRT ☛ Interior_minister_asks_president_to_strip_Russian businessman_Kudimov_of_Lithuanian_citizenship⠀⇛ Interior Minister Agnė Bilotaitė has formally asked President Gitanas Nausėda to strip Yuri Kudimov, a Russian businessman, of his Lithuanian citizenship granted to him by way of exception. # ⚓ LRT ☛ Father_takes_child_from_mother,_flees_Lithuania_for Russia⠀⇛ A father with restricted custody took his child from the mother and crossed to Russia by boat, the Lithuanian Police reported on Monday. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Former_Head_Of_Yeltsin_Administration_Dies_Aged 87⠀⇛ The former head of the administration of Russian President Boris Yeltsin, Sergei Filatov, has died at the age of 87. # ⚓ LRT ☛ Probe_finds_Indian_national_died_of_hypothermia_on Lithuania-Belarus_border⠀⇛ A migrant found dead earlier this year in Lithuania’s Ignalina District bordering Belarus died of hypothermia, a law enforcement forensic examination showed. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ With_Prigozhin_Dead,_Russia’s_Wagner_Faces an_Uncertain_Future⠀⇛ It could be hard for the Kremlin to find a way to neutralize the mercenary group after Yevgeny Prigozhin’s death while retaining its fighting power and geopolitical links. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ After_Prigozhin’s_Death,_Mourners_Gather at_Wagner_Memorial_in_Moscow⠀⇛ Visitors, some tearful, left flowers and other tributes to Yevgeny Prigozhin, the founder of the Wagner private military company, at a sidewalk memorial. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Man_Arrested_In_Russia_After_Al-Jazeera_Journalist Beaten_While_Reporting_On_Wagner⠀⇛ Igor Berdov, a 36-year-old resident of Russia’s Karelia region, was arrested on August 28 for allegedly assaulting Al-Jazeera journalist Rania Dridi near the building where the Wagner mercenary group has offices in St. Petersburg. # ⚓ France24 ☛ Wagner_chief_Prigozhin’s_death_in_plane_crash confirmed_by_genetic_tests,_Russian_inquiry_says⠀⇛ Russian investigators said on Sunday that genetic tests had confirmed that Yevgeny Prigozhin, chief of the Wagner mercenary group, was among the 10 people killed in a plane crash last week. # ⚓ AntiWar ☛ Who_Killed_Yevgeny_Prigozhin?⠀⇛ Although Wagner leader Yevgeni Prigozhin had reportedly been banished to Belarus after his brief and spectacularly unsuccessful rebellion, he seemingly enjoyed a surprising freedom of movement. He apparently traveled between Belarus and Africa and traveled frequently between St. Petersburg and Moscow. # ⚓ YLE ☛ PM_Orpo:_Russian_instability_poses_threat_to Finland⠀⇛ Finland’s Prime Minister said that various forces within Russia are engaged in an ongoing power struggle and that Russian President Vladimir Putin no longer has full control over the situation. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Russian_Authorities_Confirm_Death_Of_Wagner_Leader Prigozhin⠀⇛ Russia’s Investigative Committee has confirmed the death of Wagner mercenary group head Yevgeny Prigozhin in a private-jet crash north of Moscow on August 23. # ⚓ JURIST ☛ Putin_orders_members_of_Wagner_Group_to_swear_oath of_allegiance_to_Russia⠀⇛ Russian President Vladimir Putin issued an executive order on Friday ordering military units to swear an oath of allegiance to the Russian state. * § Environment⠀➾ o ⚓ Local World ☛ Activists_deflate_tyres_on_more_than_80_‘gas guzzlers’_in_Falmouth_and_St_Mawes⠀⇛ The poster reads: “We have deflated one or more of your tyres. You’ll be angry, but don’t take it personally. It’s not you. It’s your car. We did this because driving around urban areas in your massive vehicle has consequences for others.” It goes on to state that urgent action is needed to reduce emissions and that SUVs are likely to cause more pollution than smaller cars. o ⚓ The Telegraph UK ☛ Cornwall_holidaymakers_warned_over_tyre slashing_attacks_by_eco-activists⠀⇛ According to the post, flyers left on cars read: “Attention – Your gas guzzler kills… We did this because driving around urban areas in your massive vehicle has consequences for others. SUVs cause more air pollution than smaller cars. SUVs are more likely to kill people than normal cars in collisions. SUVs are unnecessary and pure vanity.” o ⚓ Express ☛ Cornwall_tourists_warned_after_tyres_left_with_‘gaping holes’_after_being_slashed⠀⇛ The group said in a statement: “SUVs are a danger for the climate, safety and our health, all so that a privileged few can flaunt their wealth in their shiny status symbols. This is an act of retaliation, and is intended as a peaceful and non-violent demonstration to draw attention to the presence of grossly inappropriate private vehicles in our town.” o ⚓ Wales UK ☛ Climate_activists_deflate_tyres_on_more_than_80_‘gas guzzler’_SUVs_in_rampage⠀⇛ “SUVs are a climate disaster: If SUV drivers were a country, they would be the sixth largest emitter on the planet, International Energy Agency researchers were shocked in 2019 to find that SUVs are the second-largest cause of the global rise in carbon dioxide emissions over the past decade – more than shipping, aviation or heavy industry. o ⚓ Associated Press ☛ Maui’s_fire_became_deadly_fast._Climate change,_flash_drought,_invasive_grass_and_more_fueled_it⠀⇛ Flash droughts are so dry and hot that the air literally sucks moisture out of the ground and plants in a vicious cycle of hotter-and-drier that often leads to wildfires. And Hawaii’s situation is a textbook case, two scientists told The Associated Press. o ⚓ Indian Express ☛ Wildfires_ravage_Hawaii’s_Maui_island:_How climate_change_has_a_link_to_the_fires⠀⇛ “Over the past few decades, wildfire has been increasing in Hawaii as a result of changing climate, as a result of increases in invasive species, and a lot of our active agriculture going out… and becoming fallow. And so we have invasive species, we have fuels on the ground, we have all the conditions that make for a ripe wildfire environment…,” Elizabeth Pickett, co-executive director of the Hawaii Wildfire Management Organization, told Sky News in an interview. o ⚓ CNN ☛ Why_did_the_Maui_fire_spread_so_fast?_Drought,_nonnative species_and_climate_change_among_possible_reasons⠀⇛ While scientists are still trying to fully understand how the climate crisis will affect Hawaii, they have noted that drought will get worse as global temperature increases. As heat sets in, the dried-out land and vegetation can provide fuel for wildfires, which can swiftly turn deadly if strong winds fan the flames into communities. Maui has moderate drought covering more than one-third of the island, with some areas seeing severe drought, according to the US Drought Monitor. And the areas in drought coincide with some of the fires. o ⚓ VOA News ☛ Scientists_Report_Mass_Antarctic_Penguin_Die-Off⠀⇛ Warming seas prematurely melted the ocean ice, killing baby penguins before they were mature enough to survive. Scientists say when the ice breaks up too soon because of global warming, the chicks fall into the water and drown or freeze. The study by the British Antarctic Survey, the national polar research institute, was published Friday in the journal Communications Earth & Environment. o ⚓ Omicron Limited ☛ oxygen⠀⇛ “As the temperature in the water increases, the amount of oxygen available decreases. And too little oxygen spells trouble for fish. It’s hard to imagine, but a fish can drown,” explained Martin Grosell, professor and chair of the Department of Marine Biology and Ecology at the University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science. o ⚓ Omicron Limited ☛ How_dangerous_is_extreme_heat_to_humans?⠀⇛ Perhaps more alarmingly, “the UK may become too hot to endure within three decades”, which would surely be a concern to the 97% of humanity who live in places with hotter summers than the UK. The good news: Britons won’t have to move to Sweden by 2050. The bad news: deadly heat is already here, is getting worse, and soon may become a vastly bigger problem than it is even now in nearly every part of the world. o § Energy/Transportation⠀➾ # ⚓ Vermont Journalism Trust Ltd ☛ Letter_to_the_editor:_Public light-rail_system_would_be_helpful⠀⇛ That said, we are strongly of the opinion that the long-term sustainable solution for everyone to travel is actually European-style light-rail networks across city, state and region. The origins of light-rail transit systems were electric trolleys. I think Vermont’s late Marty Jezer wrote the best history of how General Motors systematically purchased and destroyed the electric trolley systems of cities across the U.S., beginning almost a century ago. (His book is “The Dark Ages: Life in the United States 1945-1960.”) # ⚓ [Old] Internet Archive ☛ The_dark_ages,_life_in_the_United States,_1945-1960⠀⇛ o § Wildlife/Nature⠀➾ # ⚓ Irish Times ☛ Healthy_hedgerows_are_nature’s_kitchen larder,_bedroom,_livingroom,_secret_chamber_and_funeral parlour⠀⇛ It’s hard to overstate the importance of diverse, flowering hedgerows to wildlife – they are where species nest, breed, feed, hide, hibernate and die. For birds of prey such as the sparrowhawk and the barn owl, vibrant hedgerows are like a restaurant. When allowed to thrive, they are nature’s kitchen larder, bedroom, livingroom, secret chamber and funeral parlour all in one. * § Finance⠀➾ o ⚓ Latvia ☛ Nearly_900_ATMs_operating_across_Latvia⠀⇛ Nearly 400 million non-cash payments were processed by banks in Latvia during the first six months of the year, according to latest data from the Latvian central bank (Latvijas Banka, LB) o ⚓ Reason ☛ Did_Banks_Hand_Private_Financial_Data_to_the_FBI_Without Legal_Process?⠀⇛ Banks routinely snitch on customers and even deny services to people politicians don’t like. * § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾ o ⚓ YLE ☛ Finnish_firm_Stora_Enso_bans_Tiktok_from_company_phones⠀⇛ A growing number of companies and organisations have banned the social media platform from their devices due to cybersecurity concerns. o ⚓ Daniel Pocock ☛ Daniel_Pocock:_Will_Fowles,_the_ALP,_women_& Parliament_culture_scandal⠀⇛ Victorians have been scratching their heads for the last few weeks wondering what is really behind the mysterious resignation of Will_Fowles. The premier, Daniel Andrews, told us he was personally notified of an accusation late on Friday, 4 August. The following day, Saturday, 5 August, Dan asked Will to resign from the parliamentary caucus. Furthermore, Dan’s public statements suggest he is taking sides with an anonymous accuser. Will’s_Wikipedia_page gives some basic facts about Will’s career up to this point but I felt it would be useful to fill in some gaps, going right back to student politics, while simultaneously looking at the problems of the Victorian parliament. Let’s not forget where_the_name Victoria_comes_from. To put it in perspective, here are some photos I took in Canberra. The man speaking to the group is the_highly distinguished_leader_of_the_party_at_that_time,_Kim Beazley. In the second photo, Will is the student holding a coffee cup and Mr Beazley appears to be looking directly at him. The student on Will’s left, not visible in the photos, would become one of the Premier’s most trusted advisors before moving into the private sector. As noted in a previous blog, I was fortunate enough to receive_my_first_reference_letter_from_Mr_Beazley_after creating_a_web_site_about_Native_Title. Mr Beazley has no connection with the current problems in Victoria. These pictures show us how Australian political parties have opened their doors to young people and given people opportunities, for better or for worse. o ⚓ France24 ☛ Zimbabwe’s_opposition_leader_Chamisa_alleges_‘gigantic fraud’_in_presidential_vote⠀⇛ Zimbabwe’s main opposition leader Nelson Chamisa on Sunday alleged “blatant and gigantic fraud” after the country’s electoral commission said President Emmerson Mnangagwa had won a second term. International observers reported an atmosphere of intimidation against voters. FRANCE 24′s Erin Bates reports from South Africa. o ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ Zimbabwe’s_opposition_alleges_‘gigantic fraud’_in_vote_that_extends_the_ZANU-PF_party’s_43-year_rule⠀⇛ Zimbabwe’s main opposition leader has alleged “blatant and gigantic fraud” after President Emmerson Mnangagwa was declared the winner of another troubled election in the southern African nation. Returns were announced Saturday night, two days earlier than expected. International observers reported an atmosphere of intimidation against voters. Opposition leader Nelson Chamisa’s Citizens Coalition for Change party said it would challenge the election results as “hastily assembled without proper verification.” The announced outcome of the voting on Wednesday and Thursday extends the ruling ZANU-PF party’s 43-year hold on power in Zimbabwe. o ⚓ Digital Music News ☛ TikTok_Shop_Isn’t_Profitable—Will_Outside_E- Commerce_Links_Be_Banned?⠀⇛ TikTok Shop isn’t profitable and is on track to lose $500 million this year. Will the social media giant ban outside e-commerce links to create a walled shopping garden? o ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Billionaire_Foxconn_founder_Terry_Gou announces_Taiwan_presidential_bid_as_independent⠀⇛ Foxconn’s billionaire founder Terry Gou announced Monday that he will run for president of Taiwan as an independent candidate. Gou made his fortune turning Foxconn into the world’s largest contract producer of electronics, including for Apple’s iPhones. o ⚓ RFERL ☛ Pakistan_Court_Drops_Sedition_Charges_Against_Former_PM Imran_Khan⠀⇛ A court in Pakistan on August 28 dismissed a sedition case against former Prime Minister Imran Khan, his lawyer said on the messaging platform X, formerly known as Twitter. * § Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾ o ⚓ JURIST ☛ Burmese_hip-hop_artist_sentenced_to_20_years_for criticizing_Myanmar_military_leadership⠀⇛ On Thursday, 38-year-old Burmese hip-hop artist Byu Har was sentenced to 20 years in prison for purportedly critiquing the present military-administered state.  A family member of Har shared the verdict details with the Associated Press (AP). o ⚓ The Washington Post ☛ In_some_schools,_dread_over_the_new_year: ‘We’re_scared_to_teach’⠀⇛ Across the country, teachers are reporting to their unions and principals what they describe as a list of accruing traumas from their classrooms. From disruptions to hallway melees to pushy parents to anxieties around censorship and the increasingly political nature of their jobs, many educators say they are starting this school year on edge. The concerns differ, in kind and degree, from district to district. But the growing disrespect some teachers feel is a unifying theme. o ⚓ Book Riot ☛ Library_Bomb_Threats_Continue_to_Increase:_Book Censorship_News,_August_25,_2023⠀⇛ It’s not just the Chicago area dealing with an increase in library bomb threats, but it makes for an important point about what’s happening that needs to be emphasized again and again. Bad actors aren’t just in states that folks like to malign; they’re even in “good” states where there are new laws protecting libraries from book bans. The belief that we should only care about “good” states plays right into the very systems that the christian nationalist book censors create. They’ve done enough gerrymandering and disenfranchised voters so deeply that saying “this is what Florida/Texas/fill-in-the-blank” state voted for only adds fuel to their fire. It also deeply harms those living in those states who, through no choice of their own, have had their voting power stolen from them. o ⚓ VOA News ☛ Iran_Files_Legal_Case_Against_Singer_Urging_Veil Removal⠀⇛ Authorities in Iran have begun legal proceedings against a prominent pop singer over his latest song urging women to take off their mandatory headscarves, the judiciary said Sunday. The action against Mehdi Yarrahi comes almost a year after the death in custody of Iranian Kurd Mahsa Amini, 22, triggered months of protests around the country. o ⚓ New York Times ☛ How_Free_Speech_and_Willful_Blindness_Will_Play Out_in_the_Trump_Prosecution⠀⇛ The First Amendment and the former president’s claim he that believed he won won’t help him. o ⚓ France24 ☛ Biden_and_Harris_to_meet_King’s_family_on_‘I_Have_a Dream’_speech_anniversary⠀⇛ President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris will meet with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s family to mark Monday’s 60th anniversary of the March on Washington, where King delivered his famous “I Have a Dream” speech at the Lincoln Memorial. * § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾ o ⚓ JURIST ☛ US_sanctions_China_officials_over_Tibetan_assimilation policies⠀⇛ The US Department of State announced visa restrictions on Chinese officials linked to the alleged systematic assimilation of over a million Tibetan children in state- operated boarding schools. This decision is part of a broader strategy by the Biden administration to address China’s treatment of its ethnic minorities, with a particular focus on the Tibetan and Xinjiang Uighur regions. o ⚓ India Times ☛ The_Taliban_say_security_forces_will_stop_women from_visiting_Afghan_national_park⠀⇛ The Taliban will use security forces to stop women from visiting one of Afghanistan’s most popular national parks, according to information shared by a spokesman for the Vice and Virtue Ministry. The ministry alleges that women have not been observing the proper way to wear the hijab, or Islamic headscarf, when going to Band-e-Amir in the central Bamiyan province. This comes a week after the minister, Mohammad Khalid Hanafi, visited the province and told officials and religious clerics that women haven’t been adhering to the correct way of wearing the hijab, asking security personnel to stop women from visiting the tourist hotspot. o ⚓ RFERL ☛ Taliban_Says_Security_Forces_Will_Stop_Women_From Visiting_Afghan_National_Park⠀⇛ [...] The ministry alleges that women have not been observing the proper way to wear the hijab, or Islamic head scarf, at Band-e-Amir in Bamiyan Province. [...] * § Internet Policy/Net Neutrality⠀➾ o ⚓ !_Avi_Alkalay_¡:_Handling_Inbox_spam⠀⇛ I’m a serial unsubscriber — absolutely ruthless when it comes to keeping my inbox in order. If I get a new ad or newsletter on my inbox I immediately scroll to the end of it to click on the tiny “unsubscribe” link. I admit I have great pleasure doing this without even seeing the ad. I also never ever give my personal e-mail address in account registrations. Instead, if an e-mail address is absolutely necessary, I have my own mail relay service that creates a unique address for each account registration. If you think about it, real people do not communicate through e-mail anymore, only chat nowadays. You keep your e-mail address to communicate mostly with companies only, not friends and family. o ⚓ Adriaan de Groot ☛ Message_media_(IRC)⠀⇛ Because I wanted to change some messaging settings for Calamares, I needed to connect to IRC again. [..] Given the available emotional energy (e.g. lack of desire to monitor two chat applications), it is really likely that IRC is going to fall by the wayside. o ⚓ Jeff Geerling ☛ A_Pigeon_is_still_faster_than_the_Internet⠀⇛ In 2009, a company in South Africa proved_a_homing_pigeon was_faster_than_an_ADSL_connection, flying a 4 GB USB flash drive to prove it. Besides IEEE’s_speculative_work, nobody’s actually re-run the ‘bird vs. Internet’ race in over a decade. * § Monopolies⠀➾ o § Patents⠀➾ # ⚓ Dennis Crouch/Patently-O ☛ 9th_Circuit_Revives_False_Claims Act_Action_for_Fraud_on_the_Patent_Office⠀⇛ The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit recently issued a pair of decisions in the qui tam case Silbersher v. Valeant Pharmaceuticals concerning the False Claims Act’s (FCA) public disclosure bar.  The case sets significant precedent in linking FCA claims to patent prosecution and fraud upon the patent office.  The case can be contrasted with Silbersher v. Allergan, Inc., 21-15420, — F.4th — (9th Cir. Aug. 25, 2022) [21-15420], that Silbersher lost. o § Trademarks⠀➾ # ⚓ TTAB Blog ☛ TTABlog_Test:_Which_of_These_Section_2(d) Refusals_Was/Were_Reversed?⠀⇛ Here are three recent appeals from Section 2(d) refusals. At least one of the refusals was reversed. How do you think these came out? Answers will be found in the first comment. In_re_Neptune_Eyewear_Pty._Ltd., Serial No. 90544913 (August 22, 2023) [not precedential] (Opinion by Judge Christopher C. Larkin). [Section 2(d) refusal of the mark AVANTI for “Frames for spectacles and sunglasses, excluding frames for protective eyeglasses,” in view of the registered mark AVANTÉ for “protective eyeglasses.”] o § Copyrights⠀➾ # ⚓ 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. Now, with the decision having been upheld by a federal court, the Big Three have officially moved to assure that the internet service provider (ISP) will in fact cough up the sizable sum if its ongoing appeal falls short. # ⚓ Torrent Freak ☛ Selling_‘Handmade’_USB_Drives_with_Pirated Movies_is_a_Thing⠀⇛ A quarter century ago, computer aficionados had to spend a lot of time and effort to get the latest warez. That’s no longer the case today. Pirates can get nearly everything they want on demand. And for those who prefer something tangible, there are opportunistic online sellers of ‘handmade’ USB drives or hard drives, preloaded with pirated films and TV shows. § Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾ * § Photography⠀➾ o ⚓ Billsmugs’s_Photography:_Photos_(14)⠀⇛ * § Technology and Free Software⠀➾ o § Internet/Gemini⠀➾ # ⚓ the_web_revival_space_as_a_refuge_for_harmful_ideas:_part II⠀⇛ I’ve recently written a bit about how the web revival scene (used as an umbrella term for the indie web, the small web, the retro web and so on) can be used as a refuge by some who have harmful and dehumanizing views. =============================================================================== * Gemini_(Primer) links can be opened using Gemini_software. It’s like the World Wide Web but a lot lighter. ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 4638 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐃𝐀𝐈𝐋𝐘 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒 ═════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 08.28.23⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Gemini_Links_28/08/2023:_Manipulating_PDFs_and_Synapse_Room_Cleaner⠀✐ Posted in News_Roundup at 4:08 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇GNOME bluefish⦈ § Contents⠀➾ * Gemini*_and_Gopher o Personal/Opinions o Politics_and_World_Events o Technology_and_Free_Software # Internet/Gemini * § Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾ o § Personal/Opinions⠀➾ # ⚓ Sunday,_Complicated⠀⇛ We’ve been playing Yahtzee with the in-laws for well over three years, now: a pandemic activity that became just a standard weekly thing. Two more games today (two Ls for me), but a neat little surprise as well. During the pandemic, meetings for free accounts didn’t have limits; then a limit of 40 minutes was added, forcing us to split things up and do two calls. Now, today, another surprise: free accounts now have to wait ten minutes between meetings. So we got around it by jumping between accounts and doing it that way, but whew, what a pain in the butt. And I get it, they want to convert some of the endless free accounts people are using, but it’s a no from me. So I’m going to look at other options. Needs to be easy enough to be launched from a tablet by a cou # ⚓ Billsmugs’s_Photography:_Photos_(38)⠀⇛ # ⚓ 🔤SpellBinding:_CLMOSUY_Wordo:_DUFUS⠀⇛ o § Politics and World Events⠀➾ # ⚓ History_Of_The_World_Part_III⠀⇛ So the lion and the dolphin had come to opposite views (across the channel, for one); the French had the placid sediments of Paris (where else?) and the aqueous dominated. The British had been at the highlands (these sometimes more unicorn than lion) and Italian volcanoes, probably for a change of weather. This account simplifies or distorts; Neptunism actually originated in Germany. And some Neptunists did end up in Edinburgh. Moreover, it was an Italian studying volcanoes in Italy who booted Plutonism—but see how easy it is to cast this as English versus the French? There was a notable political contrast at the time; certain ideas in France had proven too radical (the reign of terror, the calendar system, etc) so a more conservative approach was supported in England, which bled into the sciences. This was Burkean conservatism, not the modern things that happen to have the same name. Radical change also found support in Catastrophism, assisted by various stories of floods, or to solve the Neptunist problem of where did the magic water go? What happened to that process? Not all flood myths are negative, by the way. Consider Egypt and the Nile. # ⚓ The_state_will_not_save_us_from_climate_catastrophe⠀⇛ CW: Bad vibes about the future in here. Go ahead and skip this one if you’re looking for hopefulness. I don’t understand why smart people keep fooling themselves about what the state is, and what it’s capable of. The state is a tool for imposing minority rule on a majority. Full stop. Well-meaning people have been deluding themselves about using the state to achieve benevolent ends since the 18th century. It will never happen. It can never happen. That’s just not what states are for. o § Technology and Free Software⠀➾ # ⚓ Manipulate_PDF_files_easily_with_pdftk⠀⇛ I often need to work with PDF, sometimes I need to extract a single page, or add a page, too often I need to rotate pages. Fortunately, there is a pretty awesome tool to do all of these tasks, it’s called PDFtk. # ⚓ Some_explanations_about_OpenBSD_memory_usage⠀⇛ I regularly see people reporting high memory usage on OpenBSD when looking at some monitoring program output. Those programs may be not reporting what you think. The memory usage can be accounted in different ways. Most of the time, the file system cache stored in- memory is added to memory usage, which lead to think about a high memory consumption. # ⚓ Synapse_Room_Cleaner⠀⇛ After running my Matrix Synapse server for several years, joining and leaving several large rooms, and playing around with bridges, my server accumulated quite a few orphaned, empty, and broken rooms. Software developer wisdom says: “Why spend 10 minutes doing something if you can automate in 10 hours?”. Thus, I built a small web-based tool that lets you get and/or delete rooms from your Synapse server. # § Internet/Gemini⠀➾ # ⚓ Re:_The_Devil’s_Advocate⠀⇛ Slondr just about summed up exactly how I feel about Gemini and how it should move forward. In short, this is working. Warts and all, it’s working. Maybe there are some things to fix. Maybe we’ll eventually fix them, and maybe we’ll just continue. But I can’t help but feel like Gemini is a roaring success by the only measure that really counts – there actually is a community here that is growing, vibrant and (mostly) healthy. # ⚓ Fire_Update⠀⇛ There’s been more smoke again for the last few days, but rain is in the forecast for Tuesday and Wednesday. The 12mm of rain we had last Tuesday was the most we’d had all year. Some parts of the Bush Creek fire got over 20mm, so that was good. On the other hand, a typical summer used to bring 3 or 4 really hard rainfalls, which doesn’t seem to be happening any more. Solderpunk mentioned in his latest phlog post that he has started worrying about summer in advance. =============================================================================== * Gemini_(Primer) links can be opened using Gemini_software. 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