𝕿𝖊𝖈𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍𝖙𝖘 Bulletin for Wednesday, August 30, 2023
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⦿ IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, August 29, 2023 | Techrights
⦿ [Meme] Brute With an Axe Making Tacit Threats (and Fails to Understand the Rule of Law, As Usual) | Techrights
⦿ Microsoft Blames Windows 11 “Unsupported Processor” Error Screens on Hardware Makers; Interferes With Full Screen Apps Demanding You Use Edge | Techrights
⦿ Intel and AMD Power Management is a Stinking Mess as Intel Makes Death Rattles | Techrights
⦿ Xenophobia and Misinformation in New York Times | Techrights
䷼ Bulletin articles (as HTML) to comment on (requires login):
http://techrights.org/2023/08/30/irc-log-290823/#comments
http://techrights.org/2023/08/30/mjg59-slapp/#comments
http://techrights.org/2023/08/30/unsupported-processor-facade/#comments
http://techrights.org/2023/08/30/x86-power-management/#comments
http://techrights.org/2023/08/30/xenophobia-nytimes/#comments
䷞ Followed by Daily Links (assorted news picks curated and categorised):
http://techrights.org/2023/08/30/back-in-a-tui-world/#comments
http://techrights.org/2023/08/30/portfolio-1-0-0/#comments
http://techrights.org/2023/08/30/sleuthing-an-old-phone/#comments
http://techrights.org/2023/08/30/sync-is-spyware/#comments
http://techrights.org/2023/08/30/ueda-san/#comments
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* gemini://gemini.techrights.org/irc-gmi/irc-log-290823.gmi
* gemini://gemini.techrights.org/irc-gmi/irc-log-social-290823.gmi
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Posted in GNU/Linux, Law at 3:48 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇Ima_come_and_SMASH_your_server!!!_Oh,_wait,_the_sites_are_in
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Summary: Matthew_J_Garrett, a serial_(and_now_full-time)_defamer who attacked
BSD_and_GNU/Linux_users, continues making empty and legally-invalid_threats
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Microsoft blames the recent Windows 11 updates that results in an “Unsupported
Processor” Blue Screen of Death on hardware makers.
I’m not really sure that much needs to be said about this.
Linux computers don’t do this suddenly after an update. But if you use Windows
11, your “supported computer” (which are only really most of them build after
2018) could_become_“unsupported” as quickly as you install the mandatory patch
update that month.
You can’t ever really be sure of what’s in the updates.
There’s one of them, it’s really huge, and you can’t assess the risks or pick
it apart. One day, it could just kill your operating system and Microsoft will
tell you to go talk to someone who cares. They’re not going to fix it.
I keep hearing Windows is “supported”. By whom?
They could fix this bug, by removing the almost totally fake “processor check”,
but they won’t.
Wow, that’s such an amazing operating system!
And if that’s not bad enough, let’s just make this a double-feature.
Microsoft really doesn’t want you to use another Web browser.
It will harass you even for searching for one. It will harass you while you are
on another browser maker’s Web site trying to download one.
Then after you install it and go to 27 different places making it the default,
it will sometimes ignore it, and try to steal the defaults back, forcing you to
start over.
But then if you manage to set the default browser, you_will_start_getting
notifications,_on_your_desktop, from Microsoft, that you’ve made “a bad choice”
and “you need to reconsider” (essentially).
This is the kind of thing the US v. Microsoft trial was about, they’ve even
gotten in trouble in Europe, but they won’t stop.
These notifications are appearing even when you have a full screen application
or video game running.
Why use Windows? Did you sign up to be harassed and heckled? Do you like this?
Using openSUSE Leap doesn’t feel like I’m at a huge risk of waking up to a
broken computer.
They give me security patches here and there when they need to, an updated
kernel now and then. But the churn is minimal. People don’t actually need all
these updates, or shouldn’t, to just run a computer.
So why does Windows get hundreds of MB of broken updates every month and then
forcibly install them on you, and then make you play Reboot Russian Roulette
where you get to pray it comes back up and hasn’t hosed anything?
Have you ever wondered what’s in them? █
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Reprinted with permission from Ryan_Farmer.
There’s simply no other way to describe it.
Even if you turn on all of the power management the hardware is capable of,
it’s not terrific.
The x86 processors are known for being brute force energy hogs.
Buying x86 processors and expecting good power management is like trying to
hypermile a Chevy Suburban.
(As big as a house and half as aerodynamic.)
There’s just so far you can take it.
The other architectures usually have better power management because people are
using them on cell phones where they’re going to be really mad if the thing
kills out 5 times a day.
This is essentially why Intel had no luck with mobile processors. The things
that it makes are simply too broken and full of bugs to actually work properly
if you’re going to run out of power at some point.
Sure, x86 has power management. Really, really terrible power management. It’s
almost like an afterthought.
And thanks to Intel’s incompetence you risk data corruption and system crashes
if you turn the wrong part of it on, and thanks to the “design” of modern Intel
chips being more like SoCs, you need all or basically all of it on or else the
one thing that isn’t powering down does a horrific amount of damage to the
overall consumption of the system.
Intel and AMD power management and ACPI (which is full of Microsoft-isms and is
the x86 power management and device description system of the PC) are so bad
that Microsoft doesn’t even stop to figure them out on Windows.
It just turns parts off and you have to live with 3-4 hour battery life on a
computer that could theoretically get 6-8 hours.
To get any decent amount of runtime you pretty much have to run Linux, and
override it all to turn on and figure out if it actually corrupts anything or
causes the system to become unstable.
I’ve been lucky with my two Lenovo laptops that turning it all on at boot with
the powertop –autotune systemd service on Linux just happens to work and
doesn’t appear to screw anything up.
Nevertheless, I think it should be embarrassing that Microsoft and Intel and
AMD talk about “designing chips for Windows” where something as basic as good
power management doesn’t even work on Windows, and rather than investigating
it, they declared that you bought it and they’re not going to make more money
off you soon, so have fun with broken power management, on the chip designed
for Windows, under Windows.
Hell, you’re lucky if this thing even continues booting at all and doesn’t
suddenly start_crashing_and_saying_“Unsupported_Processor” because you
installed a Windows update.
The recent Windows “Unsupported Processor” incident actually does happen once
in a while, and Microsoft expects users to install newer UEFI firmware that may
never come to keep getting Windows updates.
I never update my system firmware unless it’s doing something horrific because
Linux doesn’t block you from installing operating system updates and throw
bizarre panic errors if it worked okay to begin with, and system firmware
updates gone wrong can mean a working computer becomes a dead one. So throwing
it in the user’s lap just means that they risk a broken computer, trying to
make Windows operable again.
Microsoft absolutely should be responsible and work around whatever the error
is, because Windows worked on these systems before the update. So what the hell
did they put in there, and why does it make a previously working computer
“Unsupported”?
The owner of the machine didn’t do something wrong. Microsoft, Intel, and their
OEM screwed up and now the user gets to suffer.
As for Intel, oh Intel…. Bailout Biden gave them billions_of_dollars_to_expand
production in America with the “Chips and Science Act”, which is totally not at
all like Communism.
No sir, not one bit.
If it was Communism, then perhaps the government officials would expect to see
new factories going up instead of thousands of layoffs [1] [2] [3]….(and a
cafeteria_stabbing).
Oh, and since they lost the Apple contract, because their chips are too bad for
even Apple (who dabbled with AMD chips internally and then called it on x86 and
moved to ARM), the_cuts_affected_Intel’s_GPU_division_too, so expect
performance of integrated GPUs to flatline after anything they already have in
the pipeline.
Recently, Biden signed an executive order to limit Chinese access to all this
Intel junk.
Last year, Intel said that the Chinese didn’t currently (in 2022) have anything
that overtook the raw performance of the Intel chips, but they_almost_certainly
will_within_4_years.
As another disaster at Intel recently unfolded, Chinese regulators blocked
Intel’s $5.4 billion dollar acquisition of Tower Semiconductor, causing Intel
to_have_to_pay_$353_million_for_breach_of_contract_and_walk_away_with_nothing.
Intel is a comically badly managed company and they and Microsoft deserve to
die on the same hill.
(The Microsoft layoffs and hiring freezes continue, but Roy Schestowitz has
covered this angle well enough, I think.)
You add all this up, and I mean, it’s not an emergency but I do want off x86
and onto something that runs Linux on ARM eventually.
Raspberry_Pi Imager seems to have_a_Flatpak for non-Ubuntu users to create SD
cards with various OS software and game emulators for the thing, and I think I
could tolerate deploying this to crank out some OS images if I decide to pick
one up. █
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Entire Front Page of New York Times Nonsense About “China Failing”.
The entire front page of the New York Times as of August 29, 2023 is about
“China failing.” This is called projection.
“She Rose From Poverty as China Prospered. Then It Made Her Poor Again.” -New
York Times Headline
The United States was prospering, at one point. Most people living in it today
would say they miss how things were 20 years ago.
I’ve been personally wiped out by “recessions”, hyperinflation, and “enemy
action” (the government, directly) and I don’t personally feel like I’ll ever
truly recover. My country has abandoned me.
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saying in Chicago: ‘Once is happenstance. Twice is
coincidence. The third time it’s enemy
action’.”⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧
-Goldfinger (James Bond)
There’s also another one from a Sean Connery movie, which many suspect was an
“unofficial James Bond”.
General Hummel (Ed Harris):
“The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the
blood of patriots and tyrants.” Thomas Jefferson.
John Mason (Sean Connery):
“Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious,” according to Oscar Wilde.
*Hummel punches Mason*
John Mason:
Thank you for making my point.
-The Rock, 1996
“U.S. Commerce Secretary Meets With China’s Economic Czar Amid Tensions”
-NY Times Headline
America crumbles while it likes to pretend it can tell China what to do. I
believe the British found themselves at this point in the 1980s when Margaret
Thatcher traveled to China to tell them how they would be “extending the lease”
on Hong Kong.
There was a point where the New York Times was a legitimate publication, hard-
hitting, journalistic integrity, publishing even leaked US Government
classified documents and standing up to authoritarians.
These days? It’s just CNN with a paywall. Also, a KrugmanBot3000. Very reliable
for spitting out anti-Chinese propaganda.
I guess the government is still working on Liberty_Prime.
All this “China failing, China failing, no trouble in America, no siree Bob!”
stuff would go down easier except…
America is failed. Its own military recruits, young ones, die of drugs.
After a failed cover-up attempt by the US government, word got out that the US
Naval Station Great Lakes in Illinois has been having soldiers drop dead like
flies due to fentanyl and other crap.
“Fentanyl_takes_lives_at_the_Navy’s_boot_camp_base”, reads the Yahoo! News
article, from Navy Times.
Original_article.
Archive.org_Mirror.
Archive_Today_Mirror.
As America grapples with a fentanyl crisis, multiple junior sailors
have died from the drug aboard the base that houses the Navy’s boot
camp in recent years, and investigators have been probing efforts to
smuggle drugs onto the installation, including through the U.S. mail
system, since at least 2020, according to records obtained by Navy
Times.
Two other sailors are facing criminal charges in connection to one of
those deaths, records show.
[…]
Those substances include fentanyl, cocaine and the opioids
hydrocodone and oxycodone, as well as the hallucinogen LSD, Xanax and
THC, the psychoactive component in marijuana.
These incidents and sailor deaths, which the Navy has not publicized
and which have not been reported before, raise questions about how
young sailors have been able to use and distribute drugs there.
-Navy Times
This is obviously the stuff of the very robust America, not the very obviously
“failing” ZOMGCOMMUNIST RED China. 😛
The media narrative of China’s situation is very much exaggerated, and our own
dirty laundry is always either not talked about, or squirreled away with their
henchmen at the modern New York Times and similar “mainstream” sources.
Look, people say the mass media in the US isn’t credible, because it isn’t. The
people running these psyop campaigns made “fake news” a “Trumpism” so they can
always have a red herring.
Most people in the US join the military because of lack of social mobility.
It’s that, a job at McDonalds (at least until they can work with IBM to
automate the place, albeit IBM_is_so_incompetent_they_haven’t_had_much_luck_so
far), or prison.
The Republicans sued to stop Biden’s student loan forgiveness because they
ADMIT that the GI Bill is one of the few reasons people go into the military.
When the only way to go to college free is to join a gang of war criminals, and
perhaps be ordered to murder people and blow up their home, that’s certainly
some country, isn’t it?
Who has China done this to? It wasn’t China that attacked Vietnam. It wasn’t
China that invaded Iraq.
The fact that the American military is getting people to join up who are in
their teenage years and already so done with everything they’re dabbling in
hard drugs and killing themselves shows the state of rot going on.
Past generations had the world by the balls when they were 18.
Now it’s over before it begins thanks to crooks and liars having been in charge
of America for so long.
Maybe old Bonehead Joe can have Kamala set up a commission to study this or
something. █
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# ⚓ Education⠀⇛
This is not a new practice; the Prussian education
system has been widely imitated. When done right it
offers free schooling for poor citizens. The
“curriculum inculcates a strong national identity”
which could yield civic pride, or may promote
exciting world wars against terrible and/or
inferior foreigners, or exciting problems with
internal outgroups (those with the wrong skin
color, wrong orientation, wrong age, wrong wealth,
…). The schooling is efficient and does reduce
illiteracy. And if the population is going up,
lots, you may need to stack ‘em deep and teach ‘em
cheap.
“Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of
Compulsory Schooling” by John Taylor Gatto (1992)
points out problems of the Prussian model as
implemented in some parts of America, and one can
probably find other critiques. I probably need to
re-read it, as it’s been a few years.
# ⚓ Birch_Shrubs_(publ._2023-08-30)⠀⇛
I believe this is the same thing as what I had
identified earlier as Resin Birch (Betula
glandulosa) but am doubting this identification
now. Looking again at the sketches in my book
(“Alaska Trees and Shrubs”, 2nd ed., Viereck et al,
pg. 150.), the leaves do not look the same. I’m
thinking it must be some kind of birch, though.
The double-toothed featured of the leaves looks
similar to the sketches of Western Paper Birch
(Betula papyrifera), but that does not grow in the
interior, and is not a shrub. The leaf is similar
to the sketches of Sitka Alder (Alnus sinuata)
which is a shrub, but it is not supposed to be
growing in Fairbanks, and also the twig description
doesn’t match. As to the twigs, there appears to be
some similarity with Siberia Alder (“Hairless,
smooth, dark brownish-red, with many light dots”)
but the leaves are very different.
# ⚓ 🎵_Spincare_Vinyl_Cleaner⠀⇛
We moved house, again, last month. Hopefully for
the last time as we’re now “proud” home-owners…
which also means we’re skint, staring down the
barrel of a never ending list of DIY jobs, and all
our boxes are out of storage. Including my Vinyl.
It’s been a long time since I’ve had my Vinyl out.
They’ve been in storage for at least 6 years, and
it’s closer to 10 since I regularly mixed with
them. To make it up to them, I decided to show them
the love; I’m going to replace any knackered
inners, get some proper plastic outer sleeves, and
give them all a damn good clean.
o § Technology and Free Software⠀➾
# ⚓ Switching_to_Iceraven⠀⇛
I’m switching my default Android browser from
Chrome to Iceraven. I appreciate how snappy the UI
and add-on features are (thanks to Firefox Fenix),
and the security features are impressive.
# ⚓ Back_in_a_TUI_world⠀⇛
In my desire to simplify and lighten my internet,
I’m looking at some of the lesser known ‘corners’
of the web like sdf.org and all the tilde sites.
It’s also a non-commercial approach to the
internet, a place where sharing is more important
than making money. But for someone like me, a
former Apple fan and Graphical User Interface (GUI)
user, it’s not easy because it uses SSH, Unix
command lines and Text-based User Interface (TUI).
I’m not completely stupid and I have memories of
command lines, especially in bash (I sometimes
write some scripts for myself or for work), but in
the era of mouse and keyboard it seems very
anachronistic to me.
I had old (bad??) souvenirs from VI and Man, but
for my first trip into this world I had to use PiCo
(Pine Composer) or Nano. Not very powerful, but I
managed to do what I wanted. I’m just thinking
about the fans of the touch user interface (not
another TUI ??!) with just a keyboard and that
black and white window, ha ha. And I’m also
thinking of fans of CLI who just want to work with
a keyboard. I’m open-minded, so I’m always thinking
of the different users, trying my site with Lynx (a
text browser) or with Firefox or Opera mobile. I
discovered the SDF.og bulletin board, which reminds
me of the old BBS or the French Minitel. It’s quite
easy to learn. But when I had to use Mutt as a mail
client, it was not so easy for the first few
minutes. After a few aborted attempts, I managed to
send an email to the poor sdf users who were trying
to help me discover this “dark” world.
===============================================================================
* Gemini_(Primer) links can be opened using Gemini_software. It’s like the
World Wide Web but a lot lighter.
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§ Contents⠀➾
* GNU/Linux
o Audiocasts/Shows
o Kernel_Space
o Applications
o Instructionals/Technical
o Desktop_Environments/WMs
# K_Desktop_Environment/KDE_SC/Qt
# GNOME_Desktop/GTK
* Distributions_and_Operating_Systems
o New_Releases
o BSD
o Debian_Family
o Canonical/Ubuntu_Family
o Mobile_Systems/Mobile_Applications
* Free,_Libre,_and_Open_Source_Software
o Events
o Web_Browsers/Web_Servers
# Mozilla
o Productivity_Software/LibreOffice/Calligra
o GNU_Projects
o Programming/Development
# Python
* Leftovers
* Censorship/Free_Speech
* Civil_Rights/Policing
* Monopolies
o Trademarks
o Copyrights
* § GNU/Linux⠀➾
o § Audiocasts/Shows⠀➾
# ⚓ Destination_Linux_337:_Birthday_Presents_and_Bad
Transitions⠀⇛
SHOW NOTES ►► https://tuxdigital.com/podcasts/
destination-linux/dl-337/
# ⚓ Tux Digital ☛ Destination_Linux_337:_Birthday_Presents_and
Bad_Transitions⠀⇛
On this episode of Destination Linux (337), we
discuss a piece of Linux hardware that’s got all of
us drooling. Then we’re going to discuss some
changes coming to KDE that will finally make
Michael happy. And we have a special birthday to
celebrate.
o § Kernel Space⠀➾
# ⚓ LWN ☛ Linux_6.4.13⠀⇛
I'm announcing the release of the 6.4.13 kernel.
All users of the 6.4 kernel series must upgrade.
The updated 6.4.y git tree can be found at:
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/
git/stable/linux-stable.git linux-6.4.y
and can be browsed at the normal kernel.org git web
browser:
https://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/
linux-s...
thanks,
greg k-h
# ⚓ LWN ☛ Linux_6.1.50⠀⇛
# ⚓ LWN ☛ Linux_5.15.129⠀⇛
# ⚓ LWN ☛ Linux_5.10.193⠀⇛
# ⚓ LWN ☛ Linux_5.4.255⠀⇛
# ⚓ LWN ☛ Linux_4.19.293⠀⇛
# ⚓ LWN ☛ Linux_4.14.324⠀⇛
o § Applications⠀➾
# ⚓ Linux Links ☛ Machine_Learning_in_Linux:_ImaginAIry_–
Pythonic_generation_of_images⠀⇛
Our Machine Learning in Linux series focuses on
apps that make it easy to experiment with machine
learning. All the apps covered in the series can be
self-hosted.
ImaginAIry is Python-based software for generating
Stable Diffusion images. It’s primarily designed
for the command-line but there’s a web frontend in
development.
This is free and open source software.
# ⚓ Linux Links ☛ 6_Best_Free_and_Open_Source_GUI_Command
Schedulers⠀⇛
The software utility cron also known as cron job is
a time-based job scheduler in Unix-like computer
operating systems.
# ⚓ Tor ☛ New_Release:_Tor_Browser_12.5.3⠀⇛
Tor Browser 12.5.3 is now available from the Tor
Browser download page and also from our
distribution directory.
This release updates Firefox to 102.15.0esr,
including bug fixes, stability improvements and
important security updates. We also backported the
Android-specific security updates from Firefox 117.
# ⚓ ScummVM ☛ ScummVM_announces_affiliate_program_with_ZOOM-
Platform.com⠀⇛
We are pleased to announce an affiliate partnership
with ZOOM-Platform, a supplier of DRM-free games.
If you use a link from this website (or from our
Wiki), the ScummVM project will receive a small
amount of money to be used for web hosting and
other expenses.
o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾
# ⚓ It’s FOSS ☛ Create_Live_Linux_Mint_USB⠀⇛
Seamlessly create a live USB with Linux Mint on
Windows and Linux by following this guide.
# ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_To_Install_Power_Tab_Editor_on_Ubuntu_22.04
LTS⠀⇛
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install
Power Tab Editor on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. Power Tab
Editor is a music notation software specialized in
creating guitar and bass tablatures, as well as
sheet music with detailed playback capabilities.
# ⚓ Peter ‘CzP’ Czanik ☛ Developing_a_syslog-ng_configuration⠀⇛
This year I started publishing a syslog-ng tutorial
series both on my blog and on YouTube: https://
peter.czanik.hu/posts/syslog-ng-tutorial-toc/ And
while the series was praised as the best possible
introduction to syslog-ng, viewers also mentioned
that one interesting element is missing from it:
namely, it does not tell users how to develop a
syslog-ng configuration.
# ⚓ Peter_Czanik:_Developing_a_syslog-ng_configuration⠀⇛
This year I started publishing a syslog-ng tutorial
series both on my blog and on YouTube: https://
peter.czanik.hu/posts/syslog-ng-tutorial-toc/ And
while the series was praised as the best possible
introduction to syslog-ng, viewers also mentioned
that one interesting element is missing from it:
namely, it does not tell users how to develop a
syslog-ng configuration.
# ⚓ Own HowTo ☛ How_to_make_Linux_terminal_transparent⠀⇛
Like everything else on Linux, terminal can also be
customized to fit your preferences.
To change the design of terminal, you don’t have to
download an extension or theme to do it.
# ⚓ OSNote ☛ Oracle_Linux_7_Minimal_Server_installieren⠀⇛
In this tutorial, we show you how to install the
latest version of Oracle Linux 7 on a dedicated
hardware server or on a private virtual machine by
using the DVD ISO image or a bootable Oracle Linux
USB.
# ⚓ OSNote ☛ Install_Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux_Desktop⠀⇛
In this tutorial, we will learn how to install the
latest graphical version of Red Hat Enterprise
Linux 7 on a dedicated hardware server or on a
virtual machine in a private or public cloud using
the DVD ISO image or a bootable RHEL USB.
# ⚓ Vitux ☛ How_to_Install_Apache_Guacamole_via_Docker_on
Ubuntu_22.04⠀⇛
Apache Guacamole is a free and open-source remote
desktop gateway that allows you to connect to your
computer/server remotely using different protocols
such as SSH, RDP, and VNC. Apache Guacamole is
maintained by Apache Software Foundation, and
licensed with Apache License 2.0.
# ⚓ Fixing_Mirror_List_Error_in_Arch_and_Manjaro⠀⇛
If you’re in a rush and want to fix this problem
quickly, just run the below command: However, I
recommend you read the entire article to understand
the main reason for this issue and become an
informed Linux user.
# ⚓ A_Beginner’s_Guide_to_Using_the_Shutdown_Command_in_Linux⠀⇛
Don’t you want to see the screen of your Linux
machine? Either you don’t work anymore?
# ⚓ Linux Journal ☛ How_to_Set_or_Modify_the_Path_Variable_in
Linux⠀⇛
The Linux command line is a powerful tool that
gives you complete control over your system. But to
unleash its full potential, you must understand the
environment in which it operates. One crucial
component of this environment is the PATH variable.
It’s like a guide that directs the system to where
it can find the programs you’re asking it to run.
In this article, we will delve into what the PATH
variable is, why it’s important, and how to modify
it to suit your needs.
# ⚓ Reverse_Engineering_UndefinedBehaviorSanitizer_(UBScan)⠀⇛
While working on the Oracle Ksplice team, we have
to adapt our code base to handle new features
either in the Linux Kernel or user space programs
so that we can continue to provide live patching to
our customers. One of those features was UBSan
(UndefinedBehaviorSanitizer) and the idea of this
blog post is to share the investigation work that
has been done as part of adding support for it in
Ksplice for the Linux kernel.
o § Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾
# § K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt⠀➾
# ⚓ Adriaan de Groot ☛ Calamares_Releases_(3.2.62_and
3.3.0-alpha3)⠀⇛
After a long pause, there are two new
Calamares releases. Calamares is a Linux
System Installer, and I was the maintainer
for five years before resigning that role.
Nobody has stepped up to take the role over,
although Anke and Evan contribute regularly
helping users and adding bits and pieces. So,
I got some prodding to do new releases and
did so.
§ Translation Updates
There is a 3.2.62 release, dating back to
april 2023. That was the very last 3.2 series
release, and just picked up translations from
Transifex. After that, translations were
switched to the 3.3 branch. Since there are
no real 3.3 releases yet, there is little
testing of the translation workflow yet.
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ KDE_Plasma_6_gets_double-click_to
open_by_default_and_other_improvements⠀⇛
Something that has proven to be quite
divisive in the Linux community for KDE
Plasma users is single or double-click to
open something, as Plasma 6 will default to
double-click.
# § GNOME Desktop/GTK⠀➾
# ⚓ GNOME ☛ Martín_Abente_Lahaye:_Portfolio_1.0.0⠀⇛
I am happy to announce the release of
Portfolio 1.0.0! This new release is the
first step in the modernization process to
GTK 4 and Libadwaita. It’s also a
continuation to my efforts of bringing a
minimalist file manager to the mobile Linux
community, with a few important bug fixes.
As a starting point for the modernization
process, this new version of Portfolio
preserves the exact same design, in a GTK 4
flavor. A few reasons for that.
First, although I wish everyone was
distributing applications using Flatpak, I
want to reduce friction for the mobile Linux
distributions, by sticking to currently
available APIs. Second, I want to spend more
time experimenting with newer Libadwaita
widgets, specially with the ones from the
upcoming 1.4 release, as these could require
redesigning a few aspects of Portfolio’s
graphical interface.
* § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾
o § New Releases⠀➾
# ⚓ Linuxiac ☛ antiX_23_Systemd-Free_Linux_Distro_Released
Based_on_Debian_12⠀⇛
AntiX Linux is a lightweight, Debian-based
distribution that is fast and suitable for older
hardware and modern systems. It is known for its
minimal resource usage and ability to run on
computers with limited RAM and processing power.
Relying on the lightweight IceWM for its flagship
desktop environment, antiX is an excellent choice
for all advanced Linux users looking for a systemd-
free Linux distribution to tailor to their needs.
Released ten months after the previous 22 version,
antiX 23 brings some exciting changes, so let’s
look at them.
# ⚓ Beta News ☛ Debian-based_antiX-23_(Arditi_del_Popolo)_is
the_Systemd-free_Linux_experience_of_your_dreams⠀⇛
If you’re one to favor choice, versatility, and
independence from the systemd behemoth, then you’re
in for a treat. Say hello to antiX-23 (Arditi del
Popolo), a new release based on Debian Bookworm
that stands as a powerful testament to the open-
source community’s flexibility.
With its myriad flavors and options, this Linux
distro invites you to experience computing on your
own terms. The new release adds some in-house
spices like zzzFM/IceWM as the default desktop and
the IceWM Control Centre. Plus, the Onboard virtual
keyboard and magnus screen magnifier are now
standard.
o § BSD⠀➾
# ⚓ FreeBSD ☛ Meet_the_2023_FreeBSD_Google_Summer_of_Code
Students:_Aymeric_Wibo⠀⇛
The FreeBSD Project is proud to have participated
in the Google Summer of Code program since its
inception in 2005. As we near the completion of the
2023 season, the Foundation asked a few of our GSoC
students to share more about themselves and their
experience working with the Project.
# ⚓ FreeBSD ☛ Meet_the_2023_FreeBSD_Google_Summer_of_Code
Students:_Sudhanshu_Mohan_Kashyap⠀⇛
The FreeBSD Project is proud to have participated
in the Google Summer of Code program since its
inception in 2005.
o § Debian Family⠀➾
# ⚓ Andrew_Cater:_20230828_–_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: [...]
# ⚓ Andrew_Cater:_Building_a_mirror_of_various_Red_Hat_oriented
“stuff”⠀⇛
§ Building a mirror for rpm-based distributions.
I’ve already described in brief how I built a
mirror that currently mirrors Debian and Ubuntu on
a daily basis. That was relatively straightforward
given that I know how to install Debian and
configure a basic system without a GUI and the
ftpsync scripts are well maintained, I can pull
some archives and get one pushed to me such that
I’ve always got up to date copies of Debian and
Ubuntu.
I wanted to do something similar using Rocky Linux
to pull in archives for Almalinux, Rocky Linux,
CentOS, CentOS Stream and (optionally) Fedora.
o § Canonical/Ubuntu Family⠀➾
# ⚓ Ubuntu ☛ Ubuntu_Blog:_Closing_the_Gap:_Ubuntu_Pro_in_the
AWS_Shared_Responsibility_Model⠀⇛
Explore Ubuntu Pro’s role in the AWS Shared
Responsibility Model plus walk through a real-world
example to install your own Mastodon server on
Ubuntu Pro
Deploying your application on a public cloud offers
numerous benefits, including improved time to
market, elastic capacity, and improved baseline
security compared to on-premises solutions.
However, this does not guarantee better security
coverage for your application and data. For this
reason, the major cloud providers provide a Shared
Responsibility Model, which outlines the
distribution of security responsibilities between
the cloud service provider and its customers.
In this blog post we will examine the synergy
between Ubuntu Pro and the AWS Shared
Responsibility Model. We will then present a
practical example by installing a Mastodon Server
to illustrate how Ubuntu Pro’s features effectively
safeguard your application.
# ⚓ Alan Pope ☛ Alan_Pope:_Why_use_Microsoft_Edge_on_Linux [Ed:
From Canonical Snap to shilling proprietary spyware and
password stealer of Microsoft/NSA]⠀⇛
Yesterday, I wrote a little about the applications
I’ve seen crash on my Ubuntu Linux laptop over the
last six months.
Some people questioned why I use Microsoft Edge as
my primary web browser on Ubuntu. I thought I’d
write up why, and how a couple of the built-in
features are appealing to me.
# ⚓ Step-by-Step_Guide:_How_to_Install_Chrome_in_Ubuntu⠀⇛
Google Chrome is a web browser, most used widely in
the world.
# ⚓ Ubuntu ☛ Ubuntu_Blog:_How_New_Mexico_State_University
accelerates_compliant_federal_research_with_Ubuntu⠀⇛
When the stakes are high and national security is
on the line, every decision matters. Just ask the
team at New Mexico State University’s Physical
Science Laboratory (PSL).
Founded back in 1946 to support the United States’
space and rocket programs, PSL has been on the
leading edge of defence-oriented applied science
for over seven decades. But when the Department of
Defense (DoD) rolled out new cybersecurity
guidelines, PSL found itself at a crossroads.
o § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾
# ⚓ Android_Auto_10.3_Stable_Version_is_Now_Available⠀⇛
# ⚓ CNX Software ☛ Ugoos_AM8_–_A_true_8K_TV_box_powered_by
Amlogic_S928X-J_processor_–_CNX_Software⠀⇛
# ⚓ Hacker News ☛ China-Linked_BadBazaar_Android_Spyware
Targeting_Signal_and_Telegram_Users⠀⇛
# ⚓ Giz China ☛ First_Samsung_Galaxy_Devices_to_Receive_One_UI
6_–_Gizchina.com⠀⇛
# ⚓ Android Authority ☛ Wallpaper_Wednesday:_Android_wallpapers
2023-08-30_–_Android_Authority⠀⇛
* § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾
o § Events⠀➾
# ⚓ Bootlin ☛ Feedback_from_ELCE_2023:_selection_of_talks_#3⠀⇛
As we reported in a previous blog post, almost the
entire Bootlin engineering team was at the Embedded
Linux Conference Europe in Prague in June.
o § Web Browsers/Web Servers⠀➾
# § Mozilla⠀➾
# ⚓ Mike_Hommey:_Hacking_the_ELF_format_for_Firefox,_12
years_later_;_doing_better_with_less⠀⇛
(I haven’t posted a lot in the past couple
years, except for git-cinnabar announcements.
This is going to be a long one, hold tight)
This is quite the cryptic title, isn’t it?
What is this all about? ELF (Executable and
Linkable Format) is a file format used for
binary files (e.g. executables, shared
libraries, object files, and even core dumps)
on some Unix systems (Linux, Solaris, BSD,
etc.). A little over 12 years ago, I wrote a
blog post about improving_libxul_startup_I/
O_by_hacking_the_ELF_format. For context,
libxul is the shared library, shipped with
Firefox, that contains most of its code.
o § Productivity Software/LibreOffice/Calligra⠀➾
# ⚓ Announcing_the_Fourth_Edition_of_the_LibreOffice_Latin
America_Conference⠀⇛
Latin America is a growing area for free and open
source software. The Latin American LibreOffice
community announces the Fourth LibreOffice Latin
America Congress, to be held at the Faculty of
Engineering of the UNAM, Mexico City, on November
9th (Thursday) and 10th (Friday).
o § GNU Projects⠀➾
# ⚓ GNU ☛ coreutils_@_Savannah:_coreutils-9.4_released_
[stable]⠀⇛
This is to announce coreutils-9.4, a stable
release.
This is a stabilization release coming about 19
weeks after the 9.3 release.
See the NEWS below for a summary of changes.
There have been 162 commits by 10 people in the 19
weeks since 9.3.
Andreas Schwab (1) Jim Meyering (1)
Bernhard Voelker (3) Paul Eggert (60)
Bruno Haible (11) Pádraig Brady (80)
Dragan Simic (3) Sylvestre Ledru (2)
Jaroslav Skarvada (1) Ville Skyttä (1)
Pádraig [on behalf of the coreutils maintainers]
Here is the GNU coreutils home page:
http://gnu.org/s/coreutils/
http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/
?p=coreutils.git;a=shortlog;h=v9.4
or run this command from a git-cloned coreutils
directory:
git shortlog v9.3..v9.4
https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-
9.4.tar.gz (15MB)
https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-
9.4.tar.xz (5.8MB)
https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-
9.4.tar.gz.sig
https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-
9.4.tar.xz.sig
7dce42b8657e333ce38971d4ee512c4313b8f633
coreutils-9.4.tar.gz
X2ANkJOXOwr+JTk9m8GMRPIjJlf0yg2V6jHHAutmtzk=
coreutils-9.4.tar.gz
7effa305c3f4bc0d40d79f1854515ebf5f688a18
coreutils-9.4.tar.xz
6mE6TPRGEjJukXIBu7zfvTAd4h/8O1m25cB+BAsnXlI=
coreutils-9.4.tar.xz
from coreutils-9.2 or OpenBSD’s cksum since 2007.
gpg –verify coreutils-9.4.tar.gz.sig
pub rsa4096/0xDF6FD971306037D9 2011-09-23 [SC]
Key fingerprint = 6C37 DC12 121A 5006 BC1D
B804 DF6F D971 3060 37D9
uid [ unknown] Pádraig Brady
uid [ unknown] Pádraig Brady
gpg –locate-external-key P@draigBrady.com
gpg –recv-keys DF6FD971306037D9
wget -q -O- ‘https://savannah.gnu.org/project/
release-gpgkeys.php?group=coreutils&download=1′ |
gpg –import -
gpg –keyring gnu-keyring.gpg –verify coreutils-
9.4.tar.gz.sig
Automake 1.16.5
Gnulib v0.1-6658-gbb5bb43a1e
Bison 3.8.2
* Noteworthy changes in release 9.4 (2023-08-29)
[stable]
On GNU/Linux s390x and alpha, programs like ‘cp’
and ‘ls’ no longer
fail on files with inode numbers that do not fit
into 32 bits.
[This bug was present in "the beginning".]
‘b2sum –check’ will no longer read unallocated
memory when
presented with malformed checksum lines.
[bug introduced in coreutils-9.2]
‘cp –parents’ again succeeds when preserving mode
for absolute directories.
Previously it would have failed with a “No such
file or directory” error.
[bug introduced in coreutils-9.1]
‘cp –sparse=never’ will avoid copy-on-write
(reflinking) and copy offloading,
to ensure no holes present in the destination
copy.
[bug introduced in coreutils-9.0]
cksum again diagnoses read errors in its default
CRC32 mode.
‘cksum –check’ now ensures filenames with a
leading backslash character
are escaped appropriately in the status output.
This also applies to the standalone checksumming
utilities.
[bug introduced in coreutils-8.25]
dd again supports more than two multipliers for
numbers.
Previously numbers of the form ’1024x1024x32′
gave “invalid number” errors.
factor, numfmt, and tsort now diagnose read
errors on the input.
‘install –strip’ now supports installing to files
with a leading hyphen.
Previously such file names would have caused the
strip process to fail.
ls now shows symlinks specified on the command
line that can’t be traversed.
Previously a “Too many levels of symbolic links”
diagnostic was given.
pinky, uptime, users, and who no longer misbehave
on 32-bit GNU/Linux
platforms like x86 and ARM where time_t was
historically 32 bits.
Also see the new –enable-systemd option mentioned
below.
‘pr –length=1 –double-space’ no longer enters an
infinite loop.
shred again operates on Solaris when built for 64
bits.
Previously it would have exited with a
“getrandom: Invalid argument” error.
tac now handles short reads on its input.
Previously it may have exited
erroneously, especially with large input files
with no separators.
‘uptime’ no longer incorrectly prints “0 users”
on OpenBSD,
and is being built again on FreeBSD and Haiku.
[bugs introduced in coreutils-9.2]
‘wc -l’ and ‘cksum’ no longer crash with an
“Illegal instruction” error
on x86 Linux kernels that disable XSAVE YMM.
This was seen on Xen VMs.
‘cp -v’ and ‘mv -v’ will no longer output a
message for each file skipped
due to -i, or -u. Instead they only output this
information with –debug.
I.e., ‘cp -u -v’ etc. will have the same
verbosity as before coreutils-9.3.
‘cksum -b’ no longer prints base64-encoded
checksums. Rather that
short option is reserved to better support
emulation of the standalone
checksum utilities with cksum.
‘mv dir x’ now complains differently if x/dir is
a nonempty directory.
Previously it said “mv: cannot move ‘dir’ to ‘x/
dir’: Directory not empty”,
where it was unclear whether ‘dir’ or ‘x/dir’ was
the problem.
Now it says “mv: cannot overwrite ‘x/dir’:
Directory not empty”.
Similarly for other renames where the destination
must be the problem.
[problem introduced in coreutils-6.0]
** Improvements
cp, mv, and install now avoid copy_file_range on
linux kernels before 5.3
irrespective of which kernel version coreutils is
built against,
reinstating that behavior from coreutils-9.0.
comm, cut, join, od, and uniq will now exit
immediately upon receiving a
write error, which is significant when reading
large / unbounded inputs.
split now uses more tuned access patterns for its
potentially large input.
This was seen to improve throughput by 5% when
reading from SSD.
split now supports a configurable $TMPDIR for
handling any temporary files.
tac now falls back to ‘/tmp’ if a configured
$TMPDIR is unavailable.
‘who -a’ now displays the boot time on Alpine
Linux, OpenBSD,
Cygwin, Haiku, and some Android distributions
‘uptime’ now succeeds on some Android
distributions, and now counts
VM saved/sleep time on GNU (Linux, Hurd,
kFreeBSD), NetBSD, OpenBSD,
Minix, and Cygwin.
On GNU/Linux platforms where utmp-format files
have 32-bit timestamps,
pinky, uptime, and who can now work for times
after the year 2038,
so long as systemd is installed, you configure
with a new, experimental
option –enable-systemd, and you use the programs
without file arguments.
(For example, with systemd ‘who /var/log/wtmp’
does not work because
systemd does not support the equivalent of /var/
log/wtmp.)
o § Programming/Development⠀➾
# § Python⠀➾
# ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ SciPy_T-Test⠀⇛
The “ttest_ind()”, “ttest_1samp()”, and
“ttest_rel()” methods of the “scipy.stats”
module perform one sample, two samples or
paired sample t-test in Python.
# ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ Python_String_oct()_Function⠀⇛
The “oct()” function is used in Python to
convert/transform the decimal, binary and
hexadecimal values into octal values.
* § Leftovers⠀➾
o ⚓ Ruben Schade ☛ The_“Bring_Me_a_Rock”_phenomenon⠀⇛
Jonathan_Becher
This phenomenon happens when a manager cannot or will not
communicate their goals clearly and succinctly.
Subordinates repeatedly try to fulfill their manager’s
expectations through multiple attempts of bringing them a
rock (i.e., proposal, product, process, etc.). Each time,
the rock isn’t quite right – with the manager producing
another requirement. Eventually, the manager becomes
satisfied or the subordinates wearily give up.
o § Education⠀➾
# ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ How_can_schools_dig_out_from_a_generation’s
worth_of_lost_math_progress?⠀⇛
Sluggish growth in math scores for U.S. students
began long before the pandemic, but the problem has
snowballed into an education crisis.
# ⚓ LRT ☛ More_Lithuanian_teachers_mull_joining_strike_action⠀⇛
Five years ago, striking teachers occupied parts of
the Education Ministry building and stayed there
for several weeks. With the start of the new school
year fast approaching, the teachers are again
looking at industrial action to address staffing
issues and low wages.
# ⚓ teleSUR ☛ Germany_Averts_Train_Strikes_as_Union_Accepts
Arbitration⠀⇛
After more than half a year of wage disputes, the
parties have agreed on the proposal submitted by
independent arbitrators at the end of July.
o § Hardware⠀➾
# ⚓ MIT Technology Review ☛ Unlocking_the_value_of_supply_chain
data_across_industries [Ed: The issue is a lack of demand,
not supply chain faff; the media controlled by the likes of
Microsoft recalls COVID-19 to blame a rotting economy.]⠀⇛
The product shortages and supply-chain delays of
the global covid-19 pandemic are still fresh
memories. Consumers and industry are concerned that
the next geopolitical climate event may have a
similar impact. Against a backdrop of evolving
regulations, these conditions mean manufacturers
want to be prepared against short supplies,
concerned customers, and weakened margins.
o § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾
# ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ ‘Like_Snoop_Dogg’s_living_room’:
Smell_of_pot_wafts_over_notorious_U.S._Open_court⠀⇛
It’s legal in New York for adults 21 and older to
possess cannabis, and they can smoke or vape it
wherever smoking tobacco is allowed.
# ⚓ Reason ☛ Don’t_Bring_Back_COVID_Authoritarianism⠀⇛
People should be free to choose how cautious to be.
Mask mandates, lockdowns, and closing schools won’t
stop the virus.
# ⚓ Reason ☛ A_Ruling_Against_a_Man_Arrested_for_a_COVID-19
Joke_Highlights_the_Influence_of_a_Pernicious_Analogy⠀⇛
A federal judge compared Waylon Bailey’s Facebook
jest to “falsely shouting fire in a theatre.”
# ⚓ Reason ☛ Study:_Sweden’s_‘Laissez_Faire’_Pandemic_Policies
Paid_Off [Ed: Misses the point that Sweden became a burden on
neighbouring countries' hospitals]⠀⇛
The Scandinavian country suffered fewer excess
deaths and far less economic and social damage than
other rich countries that had more restrictive
pandemic policies.
o § Security⠀➾
# ⚓ Scoop News Group ☛ Microsoft_joins_a_growing_chorus_of
organizations_criticizing_a_UN_cybercrime_treaty [Ed:
Microsoft_itself_is_by_far_the_biggest_security_abuser/
culprit,_enabler_of_breaches]⠀⇛
Critics say the draft version of the global treaty
backed by China and Russia could be used to
persecute security researchers and activists.
# ⚓ Multiple_Severe,_Remotely_Exploitable_Chromium_Vulns
Fixed⠀⇛
Multiple severe, remotely exploitable security
vulnerabilities have been found in Chromium,
including out-of-bounds memory access in V8, CSS,
and Fonts ( CVE-2023-4427 , CVE-2023-4428 , and
CVE-2023-4431 ), and use after frees in Loader and
Vulkan ( CVE-2023-4429 and CVE-2023-4430 ). Because
of the serious threat these bugs pose to the
confidentiality, integrity, and availability of
impacted systems and their ease of exploitation,
they have all received a National Vulnerability
Database severity rating of ”High”.
# ⚓ Critical_PHP_Info_Disclosure,_Code_Execution_Bugs_Fixed⠀⇛
Two major security vulnerabilities were recently
discovered in PHP. It was discovered that PHP
incorrectly handled certain XML files ( CVE-2023-
3823 ) and certain PHAR files ( CVE-2023-3824 ).
Due to their ease of exploitation and the severe
threat that these issues pose to impacted systems,
these vulnerabilities have been rated by the
National Vulnerability Database as High-Severity
and Critical, respectively.
# ⚓ Security Week ☛ New_‘MMRat’_Android_Trojan_Targeting_Users
in_Southeast_Asia⠀⇛
The newly identified MMRat Android trojan has been
targeting users in Southeast Asia to remotely
control devices and perform bank fraud.
# ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ FBI_and_European_partners_seize
major_malware_network_in_blow_to_global_cybercrime⠀⇛
U.S. officials say the FBI and its partners in
Europe infiltrated and seized control of a major
malware network that was used for more than 15
years to commit a gamut of online crimes including
crippling ransomware attacks. They then remotely
removed its malicious software agent — known as
Qakbot — from thousands of infected computers. The
operation was announced Tuesday in Los Angeles,
where U.S. Attorney Martin Estrada said the
criminal network had facilitated about 40
ransomware attacks alone over 18 months that
officials said Qakbot administrators about $58
million. “Nearly ever sector of the economy has
been victimized by Qakbot,” he said.
# ⚓ Security Week ☛ Qakbot_Botnet_Disrupted_in_Operation_‘Duck
Hunt’⠀⇛
U.S. law enforcement announce the disruption of the
notorious Qakbot cybercrime operation and the
release of an auto-disinfection tool to 700,000
infected machines.
# ⚓ Krebs On Security ☛ U.S._Hacks_QakBot,_Quietly_Removes
Botnet_Infections⠀⇛
The U.S. government today announced a coordinated
crackdown against QakBot, a complex malware family
used by multiple cybercrime groups to lay the
groundwork for ransomware infections. The
international law enforcement operation involved
seizing control over the botnet’s online
infrastructure, and quietly removing the Qakbot
malware from tens of thousands of infected
Microsoft Windows computer systems.
# ⚓ Silicon Angle ☛ Multinational_task_force_takes_down
prolific_Qakbot_malware_and_botnet_operation⠀⇛
A multinational task force headed by the U.S.
Federal Bureau of Investigation and Dutch Police
has taken down Qakbot, a prolific malware and
botnet operation that was named in May the most
successful malware family reaching inboxes.
# ⚓ Silicon Angle ☛ North_Korea_Lazarus_Group_beefs_up_its
malware_attacks_once_again⠀⇛
A group of North Korean hackers group continues to
threaten networks and businesses around the world,
now with ever more sophisticated new attacks.
# ⚓ Scoop News Group ☛ FBI,_DOJ_disrupt_massive_Qakbot_botnet
connected_to_millions_of_dollars_in_ransomware_losses⠀⇛
“Operation Duck Hunt” also included authorities in
France, Germany, the Netherlands, Romania, Latvia
and the U.K.
o § Defence/Aggression⠀➾
# ⚓ New Yorker ☛ How_to_Treat_Right-Wing_Violence_in_the_U.S.⠀⇛
Does the far-right extremism of the Trump era
represent an eternal pattern in American politics
or a new one?
# § Russia, Belarus, and War in Ukraine⠀➾
# ⚓ AntiWar ☛ Was_Putin_Really_Serious_About_the_Minsk
Accords?⠀⇛
The trouble started in 2014. A US supported
coup took out the democratically elected
Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych, with
his eastern base, and replaced him with a
West leaning president who was handpicked by
the US.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Moscow_Court_Rejects_Pretrial_Release_For
Putin_Critic_Igor_Girkin⠀⇛
A Moscow court rejected a bid for the
pretrial release of Igor Girkin, the former
leader of Russia-backed separatists in
Ukraine and the latest one-time Kremlin
favorite finding himself in peril after
criticizing President Vladimir Putin’s
sputtering war effort in Ukraine.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ ‘It’s_Very_Clear_What_Happened’:_White_House
Suggests_Kremlin_Behind_Prigozhin’s_Death⠀⇛
The White House on August 29 came close to
declaring that the Kremlin was responsible
for the death of Wagner mercenary group chief
Yevgeny Prigozhin, who was killed in a
mysterious plane crash last week.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Vatican_Tries_to_Clarify_Pope
Francis’_Remarks_on_Russia⠀⇛
The Holy See sought to calm an outcry over
comments that some critics said were too
close to President Vladimir Putin’s
justifications for invading Ukraine.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Kremlin_spokesman_says_Putin_will_not_attend
Prigozhin’s_funeral_—_Meduza⠀⇛
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ BBC’s_Russian_service:_Putin’s_secret_decree
awarded_state_Order_of_Merit_to_Yevgeny_Prigozhin_for
serving_dinner_at_G8_summit_—_Meduza⠀⇛
# ⚓ France24 ☛ Private_funeral_held_for_Wagner’s
Prigozhin_in_St_Petersburg⠀⇛
The funeral of Russian mercenary chief
Yevgeny Prigozhin, who was killed in a plane
crash last week, was held privately on
Tuesday at a cemetery on the outskirts of his
hometown St Petersburg, his press service
said. The farewell to Prigozhin came as
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba
meets French Minister for Europe and Foreign
Affairs Catherine Colonna in Paris.
# ⚓ LRT ☛ Poland,_Baltics_demand_that_Wagner_leave
Belarus,_plan_for_full_border_closure⠀⇛
Poland and two Baltic states will close their
borders with Belarus entirely if a “critical
incident” involving Wagner mercenaries takes
place, the Polish interior minister said on
Monday (28 August), amid rising tensions on
NATO’s eastern flank.
# ⚓ teleSUR ☛ Prigozhin_is_Buried_Behind_Closed_Doors_in
Saint_Petersburg⠀⇛
The Wagner Group Commander’s funeral took
place in great secrecy and without the
journalists knowing the exact place of
burial.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Rumors_and_Misdirection_Keep_Crowds
Away_From_Prigozhin_Burial⠀⇛
The burial of the Wagner mercenary group
boss, two months after his mutiny, was
shrouded in misinformation, preventing a
public display of support the Kremlin did not
want to see.
# ⚓ ADF ☛ U.N.:_Wagner_Group_Systematically_Targets
Malian_Women_to_Spread_Terror⠀⇛
A woman who lives in Moura, a town in central
Mali’s restive Mopti region, recalled the
horrors inflicted on her when Malian soldiers
and Russian Wagner Group mercenaries launched
a five-day assault in March 2022. After days
of slaughtering men, the Malian troops and
Wagner fighters turned their attention to
Moura’s women.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ A_‘special_funeral_operation’_How_St.
Petersburg_officials,_police,_and_Wagner_mercenaries
kept_the_media’s_eyes_off_Yevgeny_Prigozhin’s_funeral_—
Meduza⠀⇛
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Kyiv_Targeted_By_Massive,_Deadly_Attack_As
Ukraine_Launches_Drone_Strikes_On_Russia⠀⇛
Kyiv was targeted overnight by one of the
most powerful Russian drone and missile
strike in months, which killed and wounded
civilians, as regional officials in Russia
reported what they said was the largest
Ukrainian drone attack since the start of the
war.
# ⚓ France24 ☛ 🔴_Live:_Ukraine_says_air_defences_repelled
most_‘powerful_attack_since_spring’_on_Kyiv⠀⇛
Two people were killed and two others wounded
in an attack on Kyiv on Wednesday morning,
Mayor Vitali Klitschko wrote on Telegram, as
debris from targets destroyed by air defences
fell on several buildings in the Ukrainian
capital. The news comes after Russian
officials said Ukrainian drones swept across
Russia in overnight attacks that destroyed
military aircraft and disrupted air traffic.
Follow our liveblog for all the latest
developments. All times are Paris time
(GMT+2).
# ⚓ LRT ☛ Russia-ties_scandal_rocks_Estonia⠀⇛
The husband of Estonian Prime Minister Kaja
Kallas has continued doing business in
Russia. With the country being one of the
loudest Ukraine supporters, critics say the
scandal damages not only the reputation of
Kallas, but also of Estonia as a whole.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Finland_Counted_Its_Bomb_Shelters_And_Found
50,500_Of_Them⠀⇛
Finland has finished inventorying its
existing bomb shelters in a government effort
prompted by neighboring Russia’s invasion of
Ukraine last year and found it has 50,500 of
them, its Interior Ministry said on August
29.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Ukraine_Says_It_Receives_Bodies_Of_84_Fallen
Soldiers_From_Russian_Authorities⠀⇛
Ukrainian authorities on August 29 said that
Russia has handed over the bodies of 84
Ukrainian soldiers killed in action.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Russia’s_Embassy_In_South_Africa_Posts,_Then
Deletes_Map_Showing_Crimea_As_Part_Of_Ukraine⠀⇛
Russia’s embassy in South Africa shared a map
in a social media post that shows Crimea as
part of Ukraine.
# ⚓ teleSUR ☛ US_Sends_a_$250_Million_Military_Aid
Package_to_Ukraine⠀⇛
The package includes AIM-9M missiles for air
defense, mine detection systems, and Javelin
missiles.
# ⚓ New Yorker ☛ The_Case_for_Negotiating_with_Russia⠀⇛
Samuel Charap is asking Ukraine and its
allies to consider how much worse the war
could get.
# ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ For_this_Ukrainian_veteran,_why_Russians
fight_is_still_a_puzzle⠀⇛
Resilience or stubbornness? It’s a matter of
perspective. We talk to a Ukrainian artillery
commander, a veteran of the yearslong
conflict between Russia and Ukraine, during a
break from the war.
# ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ Isolated_from_West,_Russia_looks_to
Africa_as_land_of_opportunity⠀⇛
Shunned by the West over its war in Ukraine,
Russia is looking to Africa to find new
international partners. And, lacking colonial
history on the continent, Moscow is finding a
more welcoming audience.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Russia-Ukraine_War:_Ukraine_Steps_Up
Evacuation_Calls_as_Russia_Attacks_in_Northeast⠀⇛
Only 1,400 people out of 11,000 have left the
Kupiansk area since regional authorities
issued evacuation orders this month,
Ukrainian officials say.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ A_Merchant_Ship’s_Perilous_Black_Sea
Passage_in_Ukraine⠀⇛
Ukraine’s Danube River ports have become key
arteries for grain exports. But threats from
Russia and costly delays have made some
shippers rethink their operations in the
Black Sea.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ With_Multiple_Battles,_Russia_and
Ukraine_Puzzle_Over_Where_to_Put_Troops⠀⇛
Russians are advancing in the Northeast,
toward Kupiansk, while Ukraine presses its
offensive in the South, each hoping to force
the other to redeploy its forces.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Kiss_the_cook_Financial_records_show_that
the_war_in_Ukraine_has_meant_great_business_for_the
Russian_military’s_clothing_and_food_suppliers_—
Meduza⠀⇛
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ More_than_400_miles_away_Major_fire_and
damaged_warplanes_reported_at_Russian_airfield_in
Pskov,_far_from_Ukrainian_border_—_Meduza⠀⇛
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Russian_authorities_impose_new_rules_for
small_aircraft_in_Moscow_suburbs_after_local_residents
repeatedly_mistake_planes_for_Ukrainian_drones_—
Meduza⠀⇛
# ⚓ JURIST ☛ Russia_charges_former_US_consulate
contractor_with_high_treason⠀⇛
The Federal Security Service (FSB) of the
Russian Federation announced a high treason
charge on Monday against Robert Shonov, a
former US consulate contract employee in
Moscow. High treason carries a possible
sentence of 12 to 20 years’ imprisonment. The
charge falls under Article 275 of Russia’s
Criminal Code.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Helicopter_belonging_to_FSB_crashes_in
Russia’s_Chelyabinsk_region,_killing_all_onboard_—
Meduza⠀⇛
# ⚓ LRT ☛ German_parts_for_Russian_military_drones
transit_Lithuania_–_media⠀⇛
A dual German-Russian national has been
arrested for shipping parts to be used in
Russian Orlan-10 military drones, the Spiegel
magazine reported on Tuesday. Some of the
equipment worth 750,000 euros was shipped via
Dubai and Lithuania.
# ⚓ LRT ☛ Lithuania_makes_every_effort_to_return_baby
‘abducted’_by_father_from_Russia⠀⇛
Lithuania’s authorities are making every
effort to bring back home a baby girl who was
taken by her father to Russia’s Kaliningrad,
according to the prime minister.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Putin_Will_Not_Attend_the_Funeral
for_Yevgeny_Prigozhin,_the_Wagner_Chief⠀⇛
Details about the funeral for Yevgeny
Prigozhin, who died in a plane crash last
week along with nine other people, were
murky.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Three_Dead_After_FSB_Helicopter_Crashes_In
Russia⠀⇛
At least three people died when a helicopter
from Russia’s Federal Security Service
crashed on August 29 in the Chelyabinsk
region in the Far East of the country.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Video_Of_Jailed_U.S._Citizen_Paul_Whelan_Is
‘Reassuring,’_White_House_Says⠀⇛
The White House on August 29 said it was
reassuring to see video footage of U.S.
citizen Paul Whelan, a former U.S. Marine
jailed in Russia over what the United States
calls bogus espionage charges, and called on
Moscow to release him immediately.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Czech_Republic_Investigating_Raiffeisen
Bank’s_Continued_Russia_Activities⠀⇛
The Czech Republic has launched an
investigation against Raiffeisen Bank
International due to its activities in
Russia, Czech TV reported on August 29.
# ⚓ YLE ☛ Wednesday’s_papers:_Racism_debate,_Russian
visas_and_basketball_woe⠀⇛
The government is expected to publish a
statement on racism this autumn. But does it
agree what racism is?
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Russian_Investigative_Journalists_Sentenced
To_11_Years_In_Prison_In_Absentia⠀⇛
The Basmanny district court in Moscow has
sentenced Ruslan Leviyev, the founder of the
Conflict Intelligence Team (CIT), and
journalist Maikl Naki to 11 years in prison
each in absentia.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Paul_Whelan,_American_Imprisoned_in
Russia,_Is_Seen_in_a_New_Video⠀⇛
In footage posted by the state-owned network
RT, he is shown in several settings,
including in a cafeteria. Mr. Whelan has been
largely out of sight since he was convicted
by a Russian court in 2020.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Russia_Extends_Pretrial_Detention_For_Former
Worker_At_U.S._Consulate⠀⇛
A Moscow court has extended for three months
the pretrial detention of a former employee
of a U.S. consulate in Russia who is being
held on charges of illegally collaborating
with foreigners in an action condemned by the
United States.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Germany_Arrests_Man_Accused_Of_Exporting
Electronic_Components_For_Drones_To_Russia⠀⇛
A German-Russian dual citizen has been
arrested in Germany on allegations of
violating the country’s foreign trade law
multiple times by exporting electronic
components to a company in Russia involved in
the production of military materiel and
accessories/
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ ‘It_wasn’t_written_by_Navalny!’_Russian
opposition_politician_Alexey_Navalny_responds_to_those
skeptical_he_writes_his_own_posts_—_Meduza⠀⇛
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Shelling_in_Russia’s_Bryansk_region_leaves
several_civilians_dead_—_Meduza⠀⇛
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Russia_adds_Chechen_human_rights_lawyer
Abubakar_Yangulbayev_to_‘terrorists_and_extremists’
list_—_Meduza⠀⇛
# ⚓ Latvia ☛ Latvia-Belarus_border_fence_construction_to
be_accelerated⠀⇛
On Tuesday, 29 August, the government tasked
the responsible parties with speeding up
infrastructure building on the Latvia–Belarus
border, Latvian Television reports.
o § Environment⠀➾
# ⚓ Axios ☛ Major_Hurricane_Idalia_set_to_hit_Florida’s_Big
Bend_coast_as_Category_4_storm⠀⇛
Idalia rapidly intensified into a Category 3 major
hurricane Wednesday as it moved over record-warm
waters in the Gulf of Mexico as conditions
continued to deteriorate across Florida.
Threat level:“SHELTER IN PLACE!” said the National
Weather Service’s Tampa Bay office online early
Wednesday, noting the hurricane was strengthening
ahead of its expected landfall as an “extremely
dangerous” Category 4 storm on Florida’s Big Bend
coast Wednesday morning.
# ⚓ LRT ☛ Storms_in_Lithuania:_10,000_lightning_strikes
overnight,_new_storm_expected_on_Wednesday⠀⇛
The first wave of gusty winds and thunderstorms
struck Lithuania last night, with clouds and
intense thunderstorms moving across the country
from the south. Forecasters expect a second round
of storms on Wednesday, with the first heavy
precipitation after midday.
o § Finance⠀➾
# ⚓ Axios ☛ China’s_post-reform_era_has_arrived_— and_its
future_is_unclear [Ed: Wall Street propaganda rag deflecting
from its domestic crisis]⠀⇛
The period of economic and political opening that
transformed China over the past 50 years is now
over, a growing number of experts say. What the
next 50 years will look like isn’t yet clear.
# ⚓ Axios ☛ Soaring_global_debt_unlikely_to_reverse⠀⇛
Staggeringly high_government_debt_levels around the
globe may stick — a huge shift from previous years
that could come despite the warnings of economic
damage this dynamic may cause.
o § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ TikTok’s_U.S._Future_Still_in_Limbo_as
Raimondo_Visits_China⠀⇛
Gina Raimondo, who is in China this week, has said
banning TikTok could “lose every voter under 35,
forever.”
o ⚓ RFA ☛ North_Korea_brings_home_around_700_of_its_workers_from
China_and_Russia⠀⇛
They are the first to return since the start of the
pandemic three years ago.
* § Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾
o ⚓ EFF ☛ ISPs_Should_Not_Police_Online_Speech—No_Matter_How_Awful_It
Is.⠀⇛
Tier 1 ISPs play a unique role in the internet “stack,”
because numerous other service providers depend on Tier 1
companies to serve their customers. As a result, Tier 1
providers can be especially powerful chokepoints—given
their reach, their content policies can affect large
swaths of the web. At the same time given their distant
relationship to speakers, Tier 1 ISPs have little if any
context to make good decisions about their speech.
At EFF, we have long represented and assisted people from
around the world—and across various political
spectrums—facing censorship. That experience tells us
that one of the most dangerous types of censorship
happens at the site of a unique imbalance of power in the
structures of the internet: when an internet service is
both necessary for the web to function and simultaneously
has no meaningful alternatives. That’s why EFF has long
argued that we must “protect the stack” by saying no to
infrastructure providers policing internet content. We’ve
warned that endorsing censorship in one context can (and
does) come back to bite us all when, inevitably, that
same approach is used in another context. Pressure on
basic infrastructure, as a tactic, will be re-used,
inevitably, against unjustly marginalized speakers and
forums. It already is.
So we were concerned when we started hearing from
multiple sources that Hurricane Electric, a Tier 1 ISP,
is interfering with traffic. Confirmation of the details
has been difficult, in part because Hurricane itself has
refused to respond to our queries, but it appears that
the company is partially denying service to a direct
customer, a provider called Crunchbits, in order to
disrupt traffic to a site that is several steps away in
the stack. And it is justifying that action because
activity on the site reportedly violates Hurricane’s
“acceptable use policy”—even though Hurricane has no
direct relationship with that site. Hurricane argues that
the policy requires its direct customers to police their
customers as well as themselves.
* § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾
o ⚓ Axios ☛ Scoop:_NYT_unions_file_cease-and-desist_letters_to
management_over_return-to-office_policies⠀⇛
Two of the New York Times’ unions have sent cease-and-
desist letters to management over its new_policies that
will see the Times monitoring its workers’ return to
office via badge swipes, sources told Axios.
Why it matters: Despite reaching a historic_contract
agreement with the union that represents most of its
editorial workers in May, the company’s management
continues to face a slew of contentious labor issues.
* § Monopolies⠀➾
o § Trademarks⠀➾
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ ‘The_Day_Before’_To_Become_‘Dayworld’_After
Trademark_Opposition_From_Calendar_App_Maker⠀⇛
I swear, with some of the trademark stories we
cover, it ends up feeling like we should have
Yakety Sax playing on loop in the background for
the readers. That’s certainly my sense when it
comes to The Day Before‘s trademark struggles as of
late.
o § Copyrights⠀➾
# ⚓ Public Knowledge ☛ Public_Knowledge_Petitions_Copyright
Office_for_DMCA_Exemption_for_Ice_Cream_Machines⠀⇛
Public Knowledge, iFixit ask the Copyright Office
to allow people to repair commercial equipment,
including soft serve ice cream machines like
McDonald’s.
# ⚓ Digital Music News ☛ Nine_Months_Later,_Freeplay_Music_and
CNN_Have_Settled_Their_Multimillion-Dollar_Copyright
Infringement_Showdown⠀⇛
In late November of 2022, Freeplay Music filed an
over $17 million copyright infringement lawsuit
against CNN, alleging the unauthorized use of about
115 works in some 280 of the network’s segments.
# ⚓ Tedium ☛ Not_All_Music⠀⇛
Trying to determine exactly why Bryan Adams no
longer has a presence in the all-encompassing music
industry database AllMusic.
# ⚓ Creative Commons ☛ Rina_Pantalony_—_Open_Culture_VOICES,
Season_2_Episode_22⠀⇛
Open Culture VOICES is a series of short videos
that highlight the benefits and barriers of open
culture as well as inspiration and advice on the
subject of opening up cultural heritage. Rina
Pantalony is the Dirctor of Copyright Services at
Columbia University and is also on the advisory
board of OCEAN, the Open Copyright Education
Advisory Netowrk which advocates for open licensing
around the world.
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ How_The_Lack_Of_Copyright_For_AI-Generated_Works
Actually_Works_To_Writers/Actors_Advantage_In_Strike
Negotiations⠀⇛
We’ve talked a lot about questions regarding AI and
copyright over the last few years, highlighting
repeatedly that AI-created works cannot be covered
by copyrights. No matter how many times we’ve
pointed this out, some are still trying, and it was
nice to see yet another court (not the first) again
say that AI-created works get no copyright at all
just recently.
# ⚓ Creative Commons ☛ How_CC_Will_Advance_Open_Licensing
Understanding_Within_25_California_Community_Colleges⠀⇛
“Creative Commons likes to say we put the open in
open educational resources,” Jennryn Wetzler,
Creative Commons Director of Learning and Training
shared. “We have six different licenses and two
public domain tools that enable creators to legally
share their copyrighted content much more flexibly
than traditional, ‘all rights reserved’ copyright.
They’re applied to over 2.5 billion works online
and enable sharing, enable adaptation, and remix —
and so much innovation and learning.”
# ⚓ Digital Music News ☛ Copyright_Office_Declines_To_Revisit
the_Section_115_Compulsory_License_—_‘It_Would_Be_Premature
at_This_Time_To_Engage_in_a_New_Study’⠀⇛
In late June, singer-songwriter and copyright-
reform activist George Johnson urged the Copyright
Office to initiate a study concerning the repeal of
the Section 115 compulsory license. Now, the
Office, citing changes already implemented under
the MMA, has expressed the belief that a new
inquiry would be “premature.”
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§ Contents⠀➾
* Gemini*_and_Gopher
o Personal/Opinions
o Politics_and_World_Events
o Technology_and_Free_Software
# Programming
* § Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾
o § Personal/Opinions⠀➾
# ⚓ Invega_withdrawal_and_other_things⠀⇛
It has been 24 days that I’ve been on 4.5 mg of
Invega. No noticeable withdrawal effects today.
Other than the “benign” paranoia that is constantly
present in my mind and which I don’t think will
ever go away, I haven’t had any episodes of the
panicky paranoia aside from that one day last week.
My cognition feels basically the same as it did on
the higher dose. I had panicky paranoia episodes on
that too.
My mood seems stable today.
I have been feeling sad and lonely/socially
alienated intermittently. This seems to be an
outcome of social anxiety and rejection
sensitivity. The other day I made a minor mistake
on a public GitHub repository and felt stupid/
terrible about it, and my brain probably made a
bigger deal out of it than it actually was
(catastrophizing).
# ⚓ Biggest_Fear_(breadcrumbs)⠀⇛
> And my biggest fear is that we’re going to just
continue with business as usual until we have a
collapse of biodiversity and life on this planet.
And actually, my biggest, biggest fear is that
we’re going to do that and we’re going to continue
living and we’re going to live in this dead world.
We’re going to find some way to engineer ourselves
to the point that we can live — survive, but we’re
going to survive without all of the beauty and all
of the life around us.
# ⚓ The_hypocrisy_of_Australia’s_Net_Zero_policy_
(breadcrumbs)⠀⇛
An unbroken canopy of ancient eucalypts rides over
the ridges of the Atherton Tablelands and
disappears into the horizon. Queensland’s wet,
tropical ecosystem is like nowhere else on Earth,
the sacred remnants of the ancient Gondwanan forest
that covered Australia before it separated from
Antarctica 100 million years ago. Chalumbin Forest
survived the axes of Queensland’s early settlers
with its ancient ecosystem virtually intact. Yet a
brutal reckoning with modernity could be just
months away.
“They’re going to put the windmills in there,
aren’t they?” said Tommy, my Aboriginal guide, as
we looked down at the forest from a secluded bluff.
“They want to really rip this whole country up.”
# ⚓ 🔤SpellBinding:_EJNOYUR_Wordo:_MEDIC⠀⇛
# ⚓ Hot_Dogs_and_Découpé⠀⇛
Had a great time out last night with my partner and
a couple of friends. We went to a little brew pub,
its interior done up sort of kitschy island/beach
style. Games stacked up in the corner. Had a couple
of drinks, a couple of fancy hot dogs. Chatted and
played a couple of games of 31. I was out first the
first time, almost won the second.
Received a really nice handmade mug from our
friends as my birthday present, which I’ll cherish:
she made it in her pottery class, and it’s a
smaller one, maybe roughly teacup sized? A little
larger? Meant for smaller drinks. Seems like it’ll
be perfect for my little Moka pot.
This morning I woke up and it’s downright cool. The
kitchen window covered completely in dew; I was
just wearing a t-shirt and was shivering when I let
the dogs out to pee. It feels like a fall morning.
We were supposed to have a hot week, and that’s
just sort of vanished.
o § Politics and World Events⠀➾
# ⚓ 90′s_Kids_Trackball_(Microsoft_EasyBall)⠀⇛
This was a trackball aimed at kids, it’s very easy
to use and only has one button. The ball itself is
a bit squeaky but I’ll open it up and have a look
if we can grease it up a bit.
Seller just wanted to get rid of it, only cost me
€2. Which is a steal in my book!
In my last post I wrote about getting my Win95
desktop back up and running to test this trackball
on, while I did get it up and running, I ran into a
problem with the PCI VGA card (S3 Trio64v+) where
lines would appear on-screen when attempting to use
resolutions above 640×480 (all I wanted was
800×600).
So that one has been moved to the ‘fix-it’ pile.
o § Technology and Free Software⠀➾
# ⚓ Sleuthing_an_Old_Phone⠀⇛
I’ve owned and used nine different mobile phones in
my life so far. I remember every one of them too; I
even maintain a list of them here on my capsule.
That list contains some supplementary information
as well, specifically when I began using each
phone, when I stopped using them, and what carrier
I used them with. I was able to find date
information well after the fact by using various
clues, such as when a photo was taken with the
device.
That supplementary list, however, is incomplete.
There is one phone I owned for which I don’t have a
started-using date–indeed, I have very little
evidence that I ever owned it at all. That phone is
the second phone I owned: the LG CU515.
The CU515 was a major upgrade from the Nokia 6030 I
started out with. It was my first flip phone; it
had a camera; it had expandable storage; it could
set custom ringtones and SMS tones. everyone in my
family had owned a camera flip phone by then except
me, and I was thrilled to join the camera phone
club.
# § Programming⠀➾
# ⚓ LLMs_for_research⠀⇛
Pretty much everyone has dabbled with LLMs by
now, and most have found it nigh-unusable. My
own experience of it is like working with a
very, very dumb and lazy research assistant
who’s only saving grace is that they can
justify any of their half-assed answers. It’s
a profoundly frustrating contact.
But if you need an idiot, it might be the
right thing.
In research, we tend to outsource tasks to
strangers. Typically, this is either
annotation—we get people to read some text
and extract some information—or participation
in studies—the tasks are part of an
experimental protocol to illuminate
something. Strangers are pretty much anyone.
We don’t expect any special skill or
knowledge, except basic linguistic
habilities. Want to know if people are
talking about covid-19? If the text in your
corpus are about a conspiracy or another?
Some LLMs can do just fine.
# ⚓ CGI_scripts:_simple_vs_easy⠀⇛
This post is a follow-up on the previous
announcement of gmid 2.0 dropping CGI script
support. I felt that I had to explain more
accurately why I decided to drop that feature
and what are the options available and what I
can try to do before finalizing the release.
# ⚓ Go-C_interop_memory_leak⠀⇛
Wrote a program at $JOB that, for each frame
obtained from a camera, tries to scan
barcodes. The purpose was to replace a
handful of libraries not compatible with
Node.js v18[^0]. The Node.js controller
program spawns this other program (camera-
streamer), passing some static parameters as
program arguments, and otherwise
communicating through stdin/stdout. It’s a
simple solution and I’m pretty happy with it
[^1].
We wanted something compiled and relatively
fast (though almost anything would be better
than JS), and with good C interop because of
the libs we used underneath. We chose Go.
It’s an annoying language, but I can’t say it
was a bad choice in the end. Message passing
in Go is (almost) a gift from Joe Armstrong
himself (if it wasn’t so dumbbed down), and
makes concurrency super easy (though not
reliable)!
# ⚓ gmid_and_CGI⠀⇛
So the next version of gmid will drop CGI
support. This caused a complaint on the
#gemini IRC channel. The problem is that CGI
support is pretty trivial to add, something
like…
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§ Contents⠀➾
* GNU/Linux
o Audiocasts/Shows
o Kernel_Space
o Applications
o Instructionals/Technical
o Games
o Desktop_Environments/WMs
# K_Desktop_Environment/KDE_SC/Qt
* Distributions_and_Operating_Systems
o BSD
o PCLinuxOS/Mageia/Mandriva/OpenMandriva_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
# Chromium
# Mozilla
o Licensing_/_Legal
o Programming/Development
o Standards/Consortia
* § GNU/Linux⠀➾
o § Audiocasts/Shows⠀➾
# ⚓ TecMint ☛ 12_Best_Media_Server_Software_for_Linux_in_2023⠀⇛
A media server is simply a specialized file server
or computer system for storing media (digital
videos/movies, audio/music, and images) that can be
accessed over a network.
In order to set up a media server, you need
computer hardware (or perhaps a cloud server) as
well as software that enables you to organize your
media files and makes it easier to stream and/or
share them with friends and family.
o § Kernel Space⠀➾
# ⚓ Techstrong Group ☛ ‘Scrum_==_Cancer’_¦_Plus:_Linux_6.5
Ships⠀⇛
Many of the changes in 6.5 are enabling performance
and throughput improvements. While there’s not much
that’s huge and flashy this time around, the perf
gains might make 6.5 worth looking into.
# ⚓ Fudzilla ☛ Torvalds_releases_Linux_6.5_kernel_series⠀⇛
Linus Torvalds announced today the release of the
Linux 6.5 kernel series as a major update with
several new features, better hardware support, and
other changes.
The Linux kernel 6.5 has 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.
Linux 6.5 supports Intel TPMI (Topology Aware
Register and PM Capsule Interface) 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.
# ⚓ ZDNet ☛ Linux_6.5_kernel_arrives_with_exciting_new
features⠀⇛
Back in July, Linus Torvalds was worried the next
update of the Linux kernel might be “one of those
releases that may drag out” because most of Europe
goes on vacation during August.
It turns out that his worries were for nothing —
and the new release has arrived: “Nothing
particularly odd or scary happened this last week,
so there is no excuse to delay the 6.5 release,”
announced Torvalds on 27 August.
[...]
To that end, he encourages developers to give “this
final release one last round of testing.” So,
before you get too wrapped up in building new
releases on top of Linux 6.5, developers would be
wise to check out the new kernel carefully before
deploying it.
Some of the developers who are likely to be eager
to build on the new release include those working
on Linux distros, such as Arch, who often leap at
the latest releases, and those working on the
upcoming Ubuntu 23.10, whose developers plan on
using Linux 6.5.
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Linux_kernel_6.5_released⠀⇛
Here it is, on August 27th the latest work by a
great many developers was released with Linus
Torvalds announcing the Linux kernel 6.5. From the
release announcement:
o § Applications⠀➾
# ⚓ Neowin ☛ qBittorrent_4.5.5_/_4.6.0_RC2⠀⇛
The qBittorrent project aims to provide a Free
Software alternative to µtorrent. qBittorrent is an
advanced and multi-platform BitTorrent client with
a nice user interface as well as a Web UI for
remote control and an integrated search engine.
qBittorrent aims to meet the needs of most users
while using as little CPU and memory as possible.
qBittorrent is a truly Open Source project, and as
such, anyone can and should contribute to it.
o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾
# ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ How_to_Install_and_Run_Linux_on_an_Apple
Silicon_Mac⠀⇛
Many developers and security experts love using
Linux for various reasons. It’s free and open
source, and the customizability is extensive.
However, modern Macs have transitioned to Apple
silicon chips, and you may want to install and run
Linux on them.
We’ll show you the two ways of installing Linux on
your Apple silicon Mac using Parallels Desktop and
UTM.
# ⚓ Pi My Life Up ☛ Setting_up_Firefly_3_on_a_Raspberry_Pi⠀⇛
Firefly 3 is an open-source and free personal
finance manager that can be installed on your
Raspberry Pi.
This software lets you track your expenses and
income without relying on a cloud service.
# ⚓ ZDNet ☛ How_to_kill_a_process_in_Linux⠀⇛
Sometimes a process or application can cause
problems on a Linux machine. When that happens,
you’ll need to know how to kill the wayward
process.
# ⚓ Linux Buzz ☛ How_to_Install_PHP_8_on_Debian_12_Step-by-
Step⠀⇛
This guide explores various ways of installing PHP
8 on Debian 12, codenamed Bookworm, which is the
latest Debian release.
# ⚓ OSTechNix ☛ How_To_Find_Linux_Desktop_Screen_Resolution
From_Command_Line⠀⇛
Curious about your Linux desktop’s screen
resolution? Wondering how to find it using simple
commands? Look no further! In this guide, we’ll
walk you through the easy steps to find your Linux
desktop screen resolution right from the command
line.
# ⚓ TecMint ☛ How_to_Install_Universal_Media_Server_to_Stream
Media_to_Any_Devices⠀⇛
Universal Media Server (UMS) is a cross-platform
and free DLNA-compliant, HTTP(s) PnP Media server,
which provides a number of capabilities such as
sharing multimedia files such as images, videos,
and audio between modern devices such as game
consoles, smart TVs, Blu-ray players, Roku devices,
and smartphones.
UMS was originally based on a PS3 Media Server in
order to ensure greater stability and file
compatibility.
o § Games⠀➾
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Patch_2_for_Baldur’s_Gate_3_coming_with
‘major_performance_improvements’⠀⇛
Larian only just released a MASSIVE patch for
Baldur’s Gate 3, and another is being planned out
to come with some “major performance improvements”
which sounds exciting – especially for Steam Deck
players.
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Schizollama_from_Chaosmonger_Studio_is_a
blazing-fast_run_and_gun_game⠀⇛
Chaosmonger Studio sure are busy. After releasing
ENCODYA and Clunky Hero, then announcing Soul
Tolerance and Three Minutes To Eight they’ve now
announced a fifth game. It’s called Schizollama and
it looks ridiculous.
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Check_out_the_demo_for_upcoming_action_RPG
Drova_–_Forsaken_Kin⠀⇛
Drova – Forsaken Kin is an upcoming action RPG from
Just2D and Deck13, inspired by the allure of Celtic
mythology. There’s also a fresh demo out to try.
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Dev_of_Shadow_Tactics,_Desperados_III,
Shadow_Gambit:_The_Cursed_Crew_shutting_down⠀⇛
Well this is certainly unexpected. Mimimi Games
developer of games including Shadow Tactics: Blades
of the Shogun, Desperados III and the recently
launched Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew will be
closing up.
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Steam_Deck_OS_3.4.9_Beta_gets_a_GPU_fix_for
an_upcoming_game⠀⇛
Here’s something interesting for you. Valve
released a fresh upgrade for the Steam Deck OS now
in Beta, including a fix for an upcoming game.
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Daggerfall_Unity_adds_exclusive_in-game
books_by_the_original_lead_designer⠀⇛
The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall continues living
on with Daggerfall Unity, an open source recreation
of Daggerfall in the Unity engine and a new release
just rolled out with Daggerfall Unity 0.15.4 Beta.
o § Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾
# § K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt⠀➾
# ⚓ ZDNet ☛ KDE_Plasma’s_KRunner_is_a_handy_tool:_How_and
why_you_should_be_using_it⠀⇛
KDE Plasma is exactly what you would expect
from a desktop. It contains all the pieces
and parts any Windows user has come to know
and depend on.
It includes a taskbar, system tray, clickable
desktop icons, a desktop menu, and all of the
usual items that help make interacting with
your computer a breeze.
Of course, KDE Plasma has a few more tricks
up its sleeve than Windows. One such trick is
called KRunner.
# ⚓ Neowin ☛ Kdenlive_23.08.0⠀⇛
Kdenlive is an acronym for KDE Non-Linear
Video Editor. It works on GNU/Linux, Windows
and BSD. Through the MLT framework, Kdenlive
integrates many plugin effects for video and
sound processing or creation. Furthermore
Kdenlive brings a powerful titling tool, a
DVD authoring (menus) solution, and can then
be used as a complete studio for video
creation.
* § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾
o ⚓ XDA ☛ What_is_Kali_Linux?_Everything_to_know_about_the_popular
Linux_distro⠀⇛
If you’re disillusioned with Windows, Linux is probably
the top alternative. While it has been around since the
90s, you might not have used any of its implementations
or distributions (distros). Kali Linux is one such
popular distro used primarily for cybersecurity. It might
not be geared toward the average Linux user, but if
you’re a professional penetration tester or studying
cybersecurity with an aim to get certified, Kali Linux is
one of the best tools available.
People are attracted to Linux thanks to its stability,
security, and open-source nature. Unlike mainstream
operating systems like Windows, Linux is much faster,
too, simply because it’s more lightweight. However, you
don’t access Linux with just “Linux.” Distros are
specific implementations of the Linux kernel, and these
are what people use when they talk about installing
Linux.
Kali Linux itself is derived from Debian, one of the
oldest and most popular Linux distros. It was initially
designed in 2013 for penetration testing and security
analysis. Like most distros, it’s an open-source project.
It’s developed and maintained by Offensive Security, and
for the purposes of keeping it secure, only the packages
signed off by the development team are officially
approved. This is partly the reason the average Linux
user might prefer Ubuntu, Linux Mint, or other distros
instead.
o ⚓ Linuxiac ☛ Rhino_Linux_2023.2_Brings_Fully_Functional_LUKS_Disk
Encryption⠀⇛
Rhino Linux is a new distribution based on the Ubuntu
development branch but, unlike it, relies on the rolling
release model. The developers have worked hard on its
first releases to fix issues with the distribution to
make it as attractive and seamless as possible for new
Linux users.
In this light, just three weeks after its first stable
release, Rhino Linux 2023.1, we already have the second
one released, so let’s see what improvements it brings
us.
Powered by the latest and greatest Linux kernel, 6.5,
this release focuses mainly on improving the desktop
environment’s performance and providing reliable disk
encryption.
One main issue in the distribution’s initial stable
release was that LUKS did not work as expected.
Fortunately, this is now in the past, as Rhino Linux
2023.2 comes with fixes for this, and you can now install
your system with disk encryption.
o ⚓ OMG Ubuntu ☛ Regolith_Desktop_3.0_Released_with_Initial_Wayland
Support⠀⇛
This update to the keyboard-driven, tiling desktop
environment also introduces an alpha-quality Wayland-
based session based on the Sway compositor (though this
is only available if using the DE on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and
above, or Debian Bookworm).
An assortment of other bug fixes, code cleanups, and
performance optimizations are included in Regolith
Desktop 3.0 too, so read through the full release notes
if you need more information.
Upgrading from an earlier version of Regolith? There are
a few changes to be aware if. The directory for config
files has changed, as have Xresrouce key names. Refer to
the Regolith 3.0 migration guide for more information.
o ⚓ Hari Rana ☛ Misconceptions_About_Immutable_Distributions⠀⇛
I find that many Linux users have a misconception about
immutable distributions without knowing what it actually
is. There is a lot of misinformation and generalization
in the Internet about immutable distributions being
“locked down”, “inflexible”, etc., when we could argue
the same with many traditional distributions.
In this article, we’ll look at what makes an immutable
distribution, the concept of an immutable distribution
versus implementations, misconceptions about immutable
distributions (both pro and con), and why they exist in
the first place.
o § BSD⠀➾
# ⚓ The Register UK ☛ FreeBSD_can_now_boot_in_25_milliseconds⠀⇛
Replacing a sort algorithm in the FreeBSD kernel
has improved its boot speed by a factor of 100 or
more… and although it’s aimed at a micro-VM, the
gains should benefit everyone.
o § PCLinuxOS/Mageia/Mandriva/OpenMandriva Family⠀➾
# ⚓ It’s FOSS ☛ Mageia_9_Released_With_Linux_Kernel_6.4_and
PulseAudio_Support⠀⇛
What started as a fork of Mandriva Linux, now has
grown into a fully-fledged independent Linux
distro.
Started back in 2010, Mageia has come a long way
since. It is now a stable and secure operating
system for desktop/server use that gets regular
updates.
With a recent announcement, Mageia 9 was introduced
with plenty of key improvements.
Allow me to take you through those.
o § Fedora Family / IBM⠀➾
# ⚓ XDA ☛ What_is_Fedora_Everything_you_need_to_know_about_this
popular_Linux_Distro⠀⇛
Although Linux is often considered Windows’
greatest rival, there’s not a single definitive
Linux operating system. Rather, there is a complex
environment of several Linux-based OSes to choose
from. For Linux users who prioritize professional
software with the latest features, Fedora is the
premiere Linux OS, and it’s primarily used for
workstations, servers, and more. Here’s everything
you need to know about Fedora.
If you’re not super familiar with Linux, you might
think it’s just like Windows except open source,
but that’s not exactly correct. Instead, there are
lots of Linux-based operating systems out there,
and they can be completely different from each
other. Linux-based operating systems are
distributions, or distros, of Linux. And they
distribute the Linux kernel, which is what defines
a Linux OS as a Linux OS. The kernel is essentially
the core of the operating system, but it’s mostly
under the hood and not something you interact with
directly. It’s the job of the distribution to add a
front-end on top of the kernel so that users have
something to actually use besides a basic command
line terminal.
Ever since its initial release two decades ago,
Fedora has been maintained by the Fedora Project,
which has received open-source contributions from
both the community as a whole as well as Red Hat,
one of IBM’s subsidiaries. There are five editions
of Fedora: Workstation, Silverblue, Server, IoT
(Internet of Things), and CoreOS. Plus, there are
some purpose-specific versions via the Fedora Labs
bundles. Fedora is also an upstream distro, or a
distro that other Linux OSes take and use as a
foundation. Notably, Fedora is the upstream distro
of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
# ⚓ Linuxiac ☛ AlmaLinux_Goes_Its_Way,_Adds_Two_New
Repositories⠀⇛
At the end of June, the announcement regarding
limiting access to RHEL’s source code shocked the
enterprise Linux niche to its core, putting the
industry’s leading names in a delicate situation.
While CIQ, Oracle, and SUSE joined forces in the
recently formed Open Enterprise Linux Association
(OpenELA) to guarantee Enterprise Linux’s safe and
predictable future, AlmaLinux chose a different
course.
The distro has decided to shift its focus from this
to being 1:1 compatible with Red Hat Enterprise
Linux in favor of achieving Application Binary
Interface (ABI) compatibility.
In this regard, AlmaLinux has announced the
addition of two new repositories, Testing and
Synergy, which mark a significant milestone in
AlmaLinux’s goal to stay only ABI compatible with
RHEL.
# ⚓ IT Pro ☛ AlmaLinux_chair_confirms_foundation_was_never
approached_to_be_a_part_of_the_OpenELA⠀⇛
# ⚓ Red Hat Official ☛ Persistent_volume_support_with_peer-
pods:_A_technical_deep_dive⠀⇛
Our previous blog discussed the persistent volume
challenges with peer-pods and how to resolve them.
It also introduced using the CSI wrapper as a
potential solution to the persistent volume usage
challenges with peer-pods.
This post dives deeper into the various components
that make up the persistent volume solution in
peer-pods.
# ⚓ Red Hat Official ☛ Red_Hat_Satellite_6.12.5_has_been
released⠀⇛
We are pleased to announce that Red Hat Satellite
6.12.5 is generally available as of August 28th,
2023.
Red Hat Satellite is an infrastructure management
solution designed to provision and maintain any Red
Hat Enterprise Linux infrastructure – physical,
virtual, cloud, and edge environments. Satellite
streamlines provisioning, patching, and other
repetitive system management tasks to increase
efficiency while keeping systems more secure,
available, and compliant.
o § Debian Family⠀➾
# ⚓ 9to5Linux ☛ Emmabuntüs_Debian_Edition_5_Is_Here_Based_on
Debian_GNU/Linux_12.1⠀⇛
Coming almost two years after Emmabuntüs Debian
Edition 4, the Emmabuntüs Debian Edition 5 release
is based on the Debian GNU/Linux 12.1 “Bookworm”
operating system and it’s powered by the long-term
supported Linux 6.1 LTS kernel series, which is a
major bump from Linux 5.10 LTS used in the previous
release.
Emmabuntüs DE 5 sticks to using a dual desktop
setup with Xfce being the primary graphical
environment for the live session and LXQt remaining
the alternative for those who want even a lighter
desktop environment. This release ships with Xfce
4.18.1 and LXQt 1.2.0 by default.
o § Devices/Embedded⠀➾
# ⚓ Hackster ☛ The_Commodore_Is_Keeping_Up_with_Linux,_as_a
Clever_RISC-V_Hack_Brings_Support_to_the_Commodore_64⠀⇛
Developer Onno Kortmann has brought Linux to a
device few would have imagined capable of running
it: the eight-bit Commodore 64, released nearly a
decade before Linus Torvalds’ groundbreaking
kernel.
“‘But does it run Linux?’ can now be finally and
affirmatively answered for the Commodore C64,”
Kortmann writes of his work. “There is a catch
(rather: a couple) of course: it runs extremely
slowly and it needs a RAM Expansion Unit (REU), as
there is no chance to fit it all into just 64KiB.”
# ⚓ 10_IoT_Operating_Systems_You_Should_Know_About_in_2023⠀⇛
IoT operating systems are software platforms that
run on internet-connected devices, enabling them to
communicate, process, and store data. IoT operating
systems are different from traditional operating
systems in that they are designed to be
lightweight, scalable, secure, and compatible with
various hardware and protocols. This article will
introduce you to 10 IoT operating systems you
should know about in 2023.
[...]
Tizen is an open-source, Linux-based operating
system that supports various devices, such as
smartphones, smart TVs, wearables, smart home
appliances, and automotive systems. Tizen offers
rich features and services, such as web and native
application development frameworks, security
modules, device management tools, and cloud
integration. The Tizen Association, a consortium of
industry leaders such as Samsung, Intel, Huawei,
and LG, backs Tizen.
o § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾
# ⚓ Vice Media Group ☛ Right-to-Repair_Advocates_Tore_Down_a
McFlurry_Machine_to_Show_it’s_Actually_Easy_to_Fix⠀⇛
If you want a McFlurry, there’s about a one-in-four
chance that the machine making it is broken. The
problem is so common that there’s a website that
tracks it and an FTC investigation asking hard
questions about ice cream. To find out what the
hell is going on, repair website and right-to-
repair advocates iFixit got hold of one of the
McFlurry machines and tore it down to figure out
what makes the ice cream machine so difficult to
repair.
“This smells like a right-to-repair issue, and it
turns out it is,” iFixit Teardown Tech Shahram
Mokhtari said in the video. So what’s wrong with
the machines? The short answer is Software. “This
ice cream machine is not a complicated piece of
equipment, but the downtime that it suffers is well
in excess of what’s acceptable for industrial
equipment.”
# ⚓ DaemonFC (Ryan Farmer) ☛ Raspberry_Pi_400_Personal
Computer?⠀⇛
Anyway, my point is, that with less software bloat,
you can get away with running a small computer.
# ⚓ Raspberry Pi ☛ PiBoy_Mini:_just_add_a_Raspberry_Pi_and
you’ve_got_a_handheld_retro_gaming_system⠀⇛
Retro gaming is a massively popular Raspberry Pi
application, and while loading your favourite old
video games onto an SD card is pretty
straightforward, building the physical shell of a
gaming system can be daunting for those of us
without 3D printers or design skills of any kind.
PiBoy Mini bridges that gap by providing partially-
assembled devices to their customers. The rest is
BYORP: bring your own Raspberry Pi.
# ⚓ Raspberry Pi ☛ Get_ready_for_Moonhack_2023:_Bringing_space
down_to_Earth⠀⇛
Registration for Moonhack 2023 is open. In this
free, global coding event, young people can create
projects focused on space and innovation.
o § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾
# ⚓ XDA ☛ Why_this_Android_Auto_dongle_is_a_must-have_when
going_back_to_work⠀⇛
# ⚓ Ars Technica ☛ Fairphone_5_sets_a_new_standard_with_8-10
years_of_Android_support_|_Ars_Technica⠀⇛
# ⚓ Digital Trends ☛ This_is_one_of_the_most_important_new
Android_phones_of_2023_|_Digital_Trends⠀⇛
# ⚓ The Sun ☛ Millions_of_Android_owners_receive_huge_free
‘tracker’_upgrade_that_instantly_makes_devices_safer_from
thieves_|_The_US_Sun⠀⇛
# ⚓ Android Police ☛ How_to_organize_your_Android_apps⠀⇛
# ⚓ 7NEWS ☛ Meta_announces_the_end_of_Messenger_Lite_for
Android_users_|_7NEWS⠀⇛
# ⚓ How_to_Install_the_Android_14_Beta_on_Your_Samsung_Galaxy_|
nextpit⠀⇛
# ⚓ SlashGear ☛ The_10_Best_Android_Phones_Of_2023⠀⇛
# ⚓ Lifewire ☛ TCL’s_Latest_Android_Phones_Boast_Paper-Like
Screens_That_Go_Easy_on_Your_Eyes⠀⇛
# ⚓ Indian Express ☛ How_to_automatically_get_new_wallpapers
from_Bing_on_your_Android_phone_|_Technology_News_–_The
Indian_Express⠀⇛
# ⚓ The Verge ☛ How_to_set_up_multiple_users_on_your_Android
device_–_The_Verge⠀⇛
# ⚓ Android Central ☛ Nothing’s_first_wearable_may_have_your
favorite_cheap_Android_smartwatch_in_its_sights_|_Android
Central⠀⇛
# ⚓ TechRadar ☛ Google’s_Pixels_could_soon_have_best-in-class
Android_updates_again_|_TechRadar⠀⇛
# ⚓ Ghacks ☛ Why_did_Android_Auto_disappeared_all_of_a
sudden?⠀⇛
* § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾
o ⚓ Undeadly ☛ Keystroke_timing_obfuscation_added_to_ssh(1)⠀⇛
This utilises a pair of new extensions to the SSH
protocol: [...]
o ⚓ Buttondown ☛ My_painful,_futile_quest_for_programmable_slideshow
animations⠀⇛
I wanted a slideshow software with programmable
animations. I got suffering instead.
o ⚓ OMG! Linux ☛ Speech_Note_Transcribes_Voice_to_Text_on_Linux⠀⇛
Speech Note use OpenAI’s Whisper and a stack of other
open-source libraries, voice engines, and other
doohickeys to perform its transliterative magic.
It supports Speech to Text (i.e you speak, it types),
Text to Speech (i.e. you type, it speaks), and machine
translation to translate text/speech from one language to
another.
o § Web Browsers/Web Servers⠀➾
# § Chromium⠀➾
# ⚓ Wladimir Palant ☛ Chrome_Sync_privacy_is_still_very
bad⠀⇛
Five years ago I wrote an article about the
shortcomings of Chrome Sync (as well as a
minor issue with Firefox Sync). Now Chrome
Sync has seen many improvements since then.
So time seems right for me to revisit it and
to see whether it respects your privacy now.
Spoiler: No, it doesn’t. It improved, but
that’s an improvement from outright horrible
to merely very bad. The good news: today you
can use Chrome Sync in a way that preserves
your privacy. Google however isn’t interested
in helping you figure out how to do it.
# § Mozilla⠀➾
# ⚓ OMG Ubuntu ☛ Firefox_117_Released_With_Minor_(And_I
Mean_Minor)_Changes⠀⇛
But don’t get excited about its arrival,
okay?
Given the rapid release cadence this browser
uses the days of blockbuster, feature-packed
Firefox updates are long gone. We still get
ace new features, but we get them in dribs
and drabs, spread out over the course of a
year, rather than in a single blockbuster
update.
Which is why updates like Firefox 117 seem
unexciting (though to be clear: I’m not
saying unexciting is a bad thing, lest anyone
jumps me down in the comments).
Case in point?
# ⚓ Mozilla ☛ Protect_your_information_with_email_masks
now_available_in_Firefox⠀⇛
Earlier this year, we announced that we were
testing a new way for Firefox Relay users to
access their email masks directly from
Firefox. Today, we’re taking it to the next
level and rolling this feature over the next
couple of weeks out to millions of Firefox
Account users in Firefox. Signing up for a
Firefox Account is free and has its
advantages, and it now includes access to
email protection with Firefox Relay.
o § Licensing / Legal⠀➾
# ⚓ Peter Eisentraut ☛ All_kinds_of_licenses⠀⇛
After the recent news that HashiCorp has changed
the licenses of its hitherto-open-source products,
I thought it would be a good time to take a look at
the licenses that have sprung up around PostgreSQL
and adjacent and related communities, since quite a
bit has changed there recently, and it’s hard to
keep track.
# ⚓ Tom MacWright ☛ Open_charter_companies_and_relicensing⠀⇛
But what sparked this particular bit of thinking
was Sid Sijbrandij’s response: “HashiCorp switching
to BSL shows a need for open charter companies”.
Now, Sijbrandij is the cofounder of GitLab, which
is at the time of this writing a 7 billion dollar
market cap public company which is built on MIT-
licensed open source software. He knows what he’s
talking about.
I, on the other hand, am not a lawyer like Kyle or
a billionaire like Sij. But I’ve been interested in
the business of open source since high school (fun
fact, I wrote my International Baccalaureate thesis
on the subject), and have seen the lifecycle of one
of the open core companies, and I would like to
roll the idea around for a little bit.
o § Programming/Development⠀➾
# ⚓ Undeadly ☛ Game_of_Trees_0.92_released⠀⇛
Version 0.92 of Game of Trees has been released
(and the port updated): [...]
# ⚓ University of Toronto ☛ Go_1.22′s_(likely)_new
reflect.TypeFor()_generic_function⠀⇛
I’m always interested to see what the Go developers
are doing with generic types in the standard
library. One such development I’ve noticed recently
is a new generic function in the ‘reflect’ package,
reflect.TypeFor(); this will likely appear as part
of Go 1.22. What TypeFor() does is relatively
straightforward; it returns the reflect.Type of its
type, which you can then use either for further
reflection or to compare it to some other type
(which you will likely have obtained through
reflection).
# ⚓ James G ☛ Brainstorming_a_syntax_for_a_word_usage_query
language⠀⇛
This weekend I experimented with using word
surprisals — given a corpus of text, how
“surprising” is it that a given word appears — for
text prediction. I ended up with a neat context-
aware autocomplete tool that, given a blog post,
will recommend how to complete a word. I made a
user interface that lets you press the tab key to
accept a suggestion.
o § Standards/Consortia⠀➾
# ⚓ Wi-Fi_7_Support_Limited_to_Windows_11,_Linux,_and_ChromeOS:
Windows_10_will_be_Incompatible⠀⇛
A recently disclosed Intel document has provided
insights regarding the compatibility of the IEEE
802.11be standard, commonly referred to as Wi-Fi 7.
According to this document, Windows 11, Linux, and
ChromeOS are the only operating systems that will
support Wi-Fi 7.
Windows 10 is notably absent from this
compatibility list, and this absence is
corroborated by information from the source,
chi11eddog, who confirmed the lack of a certified
driver for Wi-Fi 7 on Windows 10. This suggests
that users of older systems may encounter
challenges if they plan to adopt the new WLAN
standard.
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* Leftovers
o Science
o Education
o Health/Nutrition/Agriculture
o Proprietary/Artificial_Intelligence_(AI)
o Linux_Foundation
o Security
# Integrity/Availability/Authenticity
# Privacy/Surveillance
# Confidentiality
o Defence/Aggression
o Transparency/Investigative_Reporting
o Environment
# Energy/Transportation
# Overpopulation
o Finance
o AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics
o Censorship/Free_Speech
o Freedom_of_Information_/_Freedom_of_the_Press
o Civil_Rights/Policing
o Monopolies
# Copyrights
* § Leftovers⠀➾
o ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ Zip_it_up:_The_zipper’s_130-year_history⠀⇛
When serial production of the mechanism started, the US
military became one of its first bulk buyers, integrating
zippers into the troops’ clothing and gear during World
War I.
It wasn’t until the late 1930s that the invention finally
revolutionized fashion.
o ⚓ El País ☛ Netflix_is_giving_DVDs_away_to_its_last_mail_delivery
customers⠀⇛
Netflix is getting ready to end its DVD home delivery
service in the United States, 25 years after it started.
This line of business generated $145.7 million in revenue
last year, with just over a million DVD-by-mail
subscribers. As a final gesture of appreciation, those
customers can keep the latest DVDs they rented and enter
for a chance to win another 10 free DVDs.
o ⚓ Herman Õunapuu ☛ Why_you_might_not_want_to_publicly_self-host_a
Wikipedia_clone⠀⇛
I have a specific e-mail address set up so that readers
of my blog can reach out to me no matter where they see
my post. I knew about the risk of spam, but receiving
genuine feedback and questions is something I appreciate
a lot and I’m willing to mark everything else as spam if
needed.
What I did not expect was the amount of spam that
originates from my self-hosted copy of Wikipedia, or that
they’d use the e-mail that is present on the main
ounapuu.ee domain.
o ⚓ The Age AU ☛ Website_linked_to_contract_cheating_enlists_TikTok
influencers⠀⇛
University of NSW said that three in four cases of
contract cheating in 2021 were linked to the website,
while the University of Sydney says it was facing
increased reports of cheating through the website.
o ⚓ The Nation ☛ Where_Did_Our_Public_Toilets_Go?⠀⇛
You may not expect it, with video titles like “Come Pee
With Me in Bloomingdale’s,” but Siegel is performing a
vital public service. There are currently just over 1,000
public toilets in New York City—and per one report, only
two of those are open 24/7. And while New York is the
most notoriously bathroom-deficient city in America, it’s
hardly unrepresentative. A 2021 report found the United
States has only eight public toilets per 100,000 people.
Iceland has 56.
The lack of public restrooms in the United States isn’t
just an inconvenience. It’s a sign of America’s failure
to invest in communal necessities for the collective
good. But progressive leaders at the local level have the
power to change that.
o § Science⠀➾
# ⚓ Vice Media Group ☛ Scientists_Discovered_Something_We’ve
Never_Seen_on_the_Sun,_and_It_Could_Explain_a_Lot⠀⇛
Newly-discovered “picoflares” could solve
longstanding mysteries about solar winds.
o § Education⠀➾
# ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ South_Korea’s_teachers_to_be_allowed_to
remove_disruptive_students,_ban_phones⠀⇛
New class policy set to take effect on Sept 1 was
adopted in the wake of a teacher who committed
suicide.
# ⚓ University of Michigan ☛ Temporary_[Internet]_outage_on_all
U-M_campuses⠀⇛
Sunday afternoon, after careful evaluation of a
significant security concern, we made the
intentional decision to sever our ties to the
internet. We took this action to provide our
information technology teams the space required to
address the issue in the safest possible manner.
# ⚓ Bridge Michigan ☛ University_of_Michigan_[Internet]_still
out,_no_details_on_security_concern⠀⇛
University of Michigan continues to restore online
access after it shut down school [Internet]
services Sunday afternoon
U-M has said little about the nature of the
“significant security concern” that prompted the
[Internet] shut off
# ⚓ Digital First Media ☛ With_[Internet]_still_out,_UM
investigates_what_one_Regent_describes_as_‘targeted_attack’⠀⇛
The University of Michigan was grappling with a
second day without internet on Tuesday, a situation
that an expert called “highly unusual” as UM and
federal officials continued to investigate a
cybersecurity threat that led to the disruption.
# ⚓ Gannett ☛ University_of_Michigan_[Internet]_outage_now
under_investigation,_president_confirms⠀⇛
The disruption, in its third day, directly affects
nearly 120,000 people at all three campuses,
including about 65,000 students and 54,000 faculty
and staff, and indirectly affects even more people
as U-M seeks to solve the problem.
# ⚓ University of Michigan ☛ Starting_college_in_the_dark:
UMich_campus_gets_through_first_day_of_class_with_no_
[Internet]⠀⇛
U-M students and faculty on all three campuses
began the fall 2023 semester without access to any
of the University’s Wi-Fi networks or online
resources linked to the University such as Canvas,
Google Workspace and Wolverine Access. The outage
was first reported Sunday afternoon by Information
and Technology Services at 1:43 p.m. and is not
expected to be completely restored for several
days. Though the specific cause of the outage has
not been announced, an ITS update sent to the
campus community at 1:50 p.m. said the University
made the decision to intentionally take U-
M services offline in response to a “significant
security concern.”
“The team is working around the clock and already
has restored access to some systems,” the update
said. “That said, it may be several days before all
online services return to their normal levels.”
# ⚓ University of Michigan ☛ Important_IT_outage_update⠀⇛
Our Information and Technology Services teams,
working together with leading cybersecurity service
providers, are working tirelessly to resolve this
disruption and I want to personally thank them for
their dedication to this critical effort. Already
they have restored an impressive array of online
tools that are accessible and functional through
off-campus internet connections.
The investigative work into the security issue
continues. As noted in Monday’s message to the
community, our U-M Division of Public Safety and
Security and federal law enforcement partners are
involved in this investigation.
# ⚓ Society for Scholarly Publshing ☛ Guest_Post_—_The_Paradox
of_Hyperspecialization_and_Interdisciplinary_Research⠀⇛
Earlier this month I wrote about academia’s
versatility demand and the pressure on researchers
to master diverse skills. In that post, I examined
the changes taking place and the need to adapt and
put innovation before anything else. A pivotal
aspect of these transformations that has emerged —
the rise of interdisciplinary research, has created
something of a paradox. We are now in an age where
interdisciplinary research is key, but also an age
of hyperspecialization. Tasks that were previously
handled by one person are now broken down into more
distinct specialized components done by several
people. How does the shift to interdisciplinary
research reshape the very foundation of how
knowledge is generated and applied across various
fields and what do the different stakeholders in
academia need to do to balance the depth of
specialized knowledge with the breadth of
interdisciplinary understanding?
o § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾
# ⚓ teleSUR ☛ South_Koreans_Rally_Against_Japan’s_Nuclear
Wastewater_Dumping⠀⇛
The protest came after Japan started discharging
the first batch of radioactive wastewater from the
Fukushima nuclear power plant on Thursday.
# ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ North_Korea_says_Japan_should
immediately_halt_Fukushima_water_release_-KCNA⠀⇛
North Korea said on Thursday Japan should
immediately halt the release of wastewater from the
wrecked Fukushima nuclear power plant, state media
reported, hours after Japan began releasing treated
water into the Pacific Ocean.
# ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ South_Korea’s_‘sea_women’_fear
Fukushima_discharge_will_end_marine_trade⠀⇛
The ocean is like a “mother’s embrace”, says Kim
Jung-ja, a South Korean who free-dives without
oxygen, wearing a black wet suit, mask and fins to
pick by hand abalone, sea cucumber and other marine
life that she takes to market.
# ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ Treated_water_is_complicating_Japan_and
South_Korea’s_new_friendship⠀⇛
Japan’s plan has triggered some backlash in the
region.
# ⚓ JURIST ☛ Protesters_arrested_outside_Japan_embassy_in_South
Korea_over_nuclear_waste_dumping⠀⇛
South Korean police on Thursday arrested a large
number of protesters demonstrating outside the
Japanese embassy against the Japanese government’s
dumping of treated radioactive water into the
ocean. Japan has faced harsh criticism from many
neighboring countries over this decision despite
the International Atomic Energy Agency’s (IAEA)
support.
# ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ Seoul_ropes_in_catering_firms_to
promote_seafood_consumption,_amid_fears_over_Fukushima_water
release⠀⇛
More Korean seafood will be served at South Korean
companies.
# ⚓ NYPost ☛ South_Korea_police_arrest_14_Fukushima_protesters
seeking_to_enter_Japan_embassy⠀⇛
The protest came the day Japan began releasing
treated radioactive water from the wrecked power
plant into the Pacific Ocean, a polarising move
that prompted fresh, fierce criticism from around
the region.
# ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ South_Korean_police_arrest_16_Fukushima
protesters_seeking_to_enter_Japan_embassy⠀⇛
The group reached the eighth floor of the embassy
and hung banners condemning the release.
# ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ South_Korea_President_Yoon_has_seafood
lunch_amid_concerns_over_Japan’s_Fukushima_water_release⠀⇛
The presidential office cafeteria also had raw fish
on the lunch menu for its staff.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Air_Pollution_Now_A_Major_Risk_To_Life_Expectancy
In_South_Asia,_Says_Study⠀⇛
Rising air pollution can cut life expectancy by
more than five years per person in South Asia, one
of the world’s most polluted regions, according to
a report published on August 29 which flagged the
growing burden of hazardous air on health. [...]
# ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ Why_is_fentanyl_so_deadly?⠀⇛
More than 70,000 people died in 2021 alone as a
result of fentanyl use in the USA. It is highly
addictive.
o § Proprietary/Artificial Intelligence (AI)⠀➾
# ⚓ Dedoimedo ☛ Microsoft_Edge_is_starting_to_annoy_me_big
time⠀⇛
This is another example of the “modern” Web, the
scourge of intelligence and good experience. Thus,
there be a question. What am I going to do? The
choice is not easy. Whatever Chromium-based browser
I pick for my secondary option, there will be a
compromise. Google will not annoy or prompt you,
they will simply introduce features into Chrome
without even asking. But at least you will have a
quieter workflow. I am not keen on some of the
other options, because I find them too busy for my
taste, and it seems that Edge is heading that way.
I could use Chromium, as is, and perhaps that will
be my next option. But it seems I ought to stop
using Edge altogether, and uninstall it from my
Linux machines, the same way I do on my Windows
boxen. But I’m sure I will find something new and
fresh to annoy me soon, because that’s what the Web
is all about since around 2013 or so. Well, I
should be grateful to have been there at the
beginning, when the net was still somewhat chaotic
and pristine, and it wasn’t the lowest common
denominator of corporate greed. Bye bye.
# ⚓ The Atlantic ☛ A_Robotaxi_Experiment⠀⇛
Driverless taxis have arrived on the streets of San
Francisco. The self-driving car companies Cruise
and Waymo got the green light to expand their
robotaxi fleets in the city earlier this month. The
cars’ arrival was met with creative protests,
curiosity, and long waitlists to take a ride. I
spoke with Caroline Mimbs Nyce, an Atlantic writer
covering technology, about her trip to San
Francisco to give the robotaxis a try.
# ⚓ Drew DeVault ☛ AI_crap⠀⇛
What will happen to AI is boring old capitalism.
Its staying power will come in the form of
replacing competent, expensive humans with crappy,
cheap robots. LLMs are a pretty good advance over
Markov chains, and stable diffusion can generate
images which are only somewhat uncanny with
sufficient manipulation of the prompt. Mediocre
programmers will use GitHub Copilot to write
trivial code and boilerplate for them (trivial code
is tautologically uninteresting), and ML will
probably remain useful for writing cover letters
for you. Self-driving cars might show up Any Day
Now™, which is going to be great for sci-fi
enthusiasts and technocrats, but much worse in
every respect than, say, building more trains.
# ⚓ Teleport ☛ How_we_improved_SSH_connection_times_by_up_to
40%⠀⇛
SSH was designed to provide secure remote access to
machines, not for service-to-service communication.
The protocol was designed to ensure that the
connection is secured, that both parties are
verified and the user is authenticated before any
data is exchanged. This helps achieve two of the
fundamental pillars of security: confidentiality
and integrity. However, these security guarantees
come at the expense of initial connection latency.
Each SSH connection is required to complete the SSH
handshake before the connection is available.
# ⚓ Matt Rickard ☛ The_Contrarian_Strategy_of_OpenAI⠀⇛
So, what exactly has OpenAI done differently?
Expanding on Altman’s comments and adding a few
others.
# ⚓ International Business Times ☛ Airlines_urged_to_assist
stranded_passengers_amid_UK_Air_Traffic_Control_failure
fallout⠀⇛
Approximately a quarter of a million passengers
were ensnared in the chaos that unfolded during the
bank holiday, when a technical malfunction at
National Air Traffic Services (Nats), the
organisation responsible for overseeing UK air
traffic control systems, severely curtailed both
take-offs and landings for a duration of around
four hours.
The disruption manifested as almost 1,600 flights
across various UK airports were cancelled on
Monday.
o § Linux Foundation⠀➾
# ⚓ In_Memory_Of_Ueda_San⠀⇛
The funeral of Ueda San of Sony took place
yesterday. Many of us have known him for many
years. Some of us have known him for a little
while. Others, perhaps, have only recently heard of
him.
One important thing to know about Ueda San is that
he built the open source community in Japan
alongside others such as Hashimoto San, Eto San,
Shibata San and the rest of the “old guard.”
Building the open source community in Japan was not
easy. Previously, companies operated in silos, and
it was a radical idea to throw open the doors and
allow engineers to mix and mingle. There was risk,
there was fear, and there was the stubborn tide of
habit.
It takes an iron will to change an entire industry.
Ueda San was extremely kind and gentle, but he
would not yield on the importance of open
collaboration. He knew the value it gave to people,
to business and to society. Ueda San really
believed in community and collaboration. He was
tireless in promoting it, and he insisted that more
and more people should be educated in its value.
# ⚓ LWN ☛ Rest_in_peace_Satoru_Ueda⠀⇛
[Satoru Ueda] The OpenChain site carries the sad
news of the passing of Satoru Ueda. Your editor
first met Ueda San at the 2007 Linux Foundation
Japan Symposium, where a small group of dedicated
developers and managers was working hard to bring
open-source development practices to the country.
Ueda San was always a strong advocate for this
cause and deserves much credit for the success of
Linux and open source in Japan. He was also always
a warm and welcoming person; he will be much
missed.
o § Security⠀➾
# ⚓ LWN ☛ Security_updates_for_Tuesday⠀⇛
Security updates have been issued by Debian (flask-
security and opendmarc), Fedora (qemu), Oracle
(rust and rust-toolset:ol8), Red Hat (cups and
libxml2), Scientific Linux (cups), SUSE (ca-
certificates-mozilla, chromium, clamav, freetype2,
haproxy, nodejs12, procps, and vim), and Ubuntu
(faad2, json-c, libqb, linux, linux-aws, linux-lts-
xenial, linux-gcp-5.15, linux-gke, linux-gke-5.15,
linux-gkeop, linux-gkeop-5.15, and linux-gke,
linux-ibm-5.4).
# ⚓ How_hacker_stole_R600K_from_Eastern_Cape_schools⠀⇛
Last week, the Specialised Commercial Crime Court
of East London, Eastern Cape, handed down a prison
sentence of three years to a hacker who stole just
under R600 000 from the province’s education
department.
The crime took place in 2013, when Bruce Owen, in
his thirties at the time, broke into the inner
workings of the Eastern Cape Department of
Education’s Basic Accounting System and used it to
make payments into his own bank accounts.
# ⚓ Data Breaches ☛ Developing:_Hospital_Sisters_Health_System
and_Prevea_Health_hit_by_cyberattack⠀⇛
Yesterday, DataBreaches received a phone call from
an employee at St. Vincent Hospital in Green Bay,
Wisconsin. The employee was asking if we knew
anything about a cyberattack on Hospital Sisters
Health System (HSHS) and stated that everything had
been down for two days but the employees were not
really being given information other than some
assurance by the hospital that no personal
information had been compromised.
# § Integrity/Availability/Authenticity⠀➾
# ⚓ Ben Jojo ☛ Grave_flaws_in_BGP_Error_handling⠀⇛
This attack is not even a one-off “hit-and-
run”, as the “bad” route is still stored in
the peer router; when the session restarts
the victim router will reset again the moment
the route with the crafted payload is
transmitted again. This has the potential to
cause prolonged internet or peering outages.
# § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾
# ⚓ EDRI ☛ Is_this_the_most_criticised_draft_EU_law_of
all_time?⠀⇛
The proposed EU ‘Regulation laying down rules
to prevent and combat child sexual abuse‘
(2022) (CSA Regulation, or CSAR) has raised
concerns that it is incompatible with EU
fundamental rights and case law – perhaps
more so than any other EU law in recent
memory.
Whilst all stakeholders agree on the
importance of the aim to protect children,
all formal legal and technical assessments
have concluded that the proposed measures
could amount to disproportionate violations
of everyone’s privacy, personal data and free
expression online, and rely on technically
infeasible or dangerous measures.
Read on to see how a wide range of
stakeholders, including child protection
experts, survivors of CSA, police, national
governments, UN officials, companies, NGOs
and others have warned that the proposed
measures are misguided and could do more harm
than good.
# ⚓ EDRI ☛ CSA_Regulation_Document_Pool⠀⇛
In this document pool we list articles,
documents, updates and news about the
proposed EU ‘Regulation laying down rules to
prevent and combat child sexual abuse‘ (2022/
0155(COD)) (2022), which we refer to as the
‘CSA Regulation’ or ‘CSAR’. We approach this
legislative proposal from a digital human
rights perspective, including by analysing
issues of mass surveillance, upload filters &
online anonymity.
# ⚓ New Statesman ☛ You_can_thank_Boris_Johnson_for
Ulez⠀⇛
Try as Johnson might (and he definitely
tries) to draw a distinction between his
original central London Ulez plan and Khan’s
outer-city expansion, it is unclear how
making a poor Londoner “pay £12.50 just to
drive their car a few hundred yards in one
direction rather than another” for the sake
of cleaner air for all was fine when he
suggested it in 2015, but morally
reprehensible in 2023. The concept hasn’t
changed, just the boundaries.
# § Confidentiality⠀➾
# ⚓ The Register UK ☛ More_UK_cops’_names_and_photos
exposed_in_supplier_breach⠀⇛
According to The Sun, which first reported on
the breach, all 47,000 staff members and
police officers – including senior officials,
undercover and counter-terrorism cops, and
officers assigned to guard the royal family –
were exposed.
# ⚓ Cendyne Naga ☛ Privacy_of_Web_PKI_Revocation⠀⇛
I attended a presentation at the Crypto and
Privacy Village, where Matthew McPherrin
presents on the various mechanisms
Certificate Authorities expose to clients to
clarify whether a certificate is revoked or
not, and the privacy implications of those
mechanisms. Matthew elaborated on Certificate
Revocation Lists, Online Certificate Status
Protocol (OCSP), OCSP stapling, and a
superior alternative: short lived
certificates. The privacy implications center
around feeding the Certificate Authority
unnecessary data on client behaviors as they
verify whether a certificate is revoked or
not.
This talk summary is part of my DEF CON 31
series. The talks this year have sufficient
depth to be shared independently and are
separated for easier consumption.
# ⚓ APNIC ☛ Certifiably_vulnerable:_Using_Certificate
Transparency_logs_for_target_reconnaissance⠀⇛
While being able to monitor maliciously-
issued certificates is a good thing, publicly
logging all certificates unfortunately
exposes more data than one might like. Since
each certificate is pushed again to the log
upon every renewal, an adversary can gauge
whether a website is being actively
maintained, and hence whether it has been
kept up-to-date with the latest security
patches.
This inspires the question — can CT logs be
used for target reconnaissance?
o § Defence/Aggression⠀➾
# ⚓ RFA ☛ Cyber_scams_keep_North_Korean_missiles_flying⠀⇛
A team of hackers enables Kim Jong Un’s strategic
ambitions, despite international sanctions.
# ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ North_Korea’s_frantic_space_launch_pace
brings_advances_–_and_setbacks⠀⇛
North Korea appears to have made progress in its
space program, despite a second rocket failure on
Thursday, but its unusually quick launch pace may
be causing problems, analysts said.
# ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ South_Korea,_US_and_Japan_‘strongly
condemn’_North_Korea_launch⠀⇛
South Korea Foreign Minister Park Jin and his U.S.
and Japan counterparts on Thursday “strongly
condemned” a North Korean rocket launch which they
said was a ballistic missile disguised as a space
rocket, South Korea’s foreign ministry said on
Thursday.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ North_Korea’s_2nd_Satellite_Launch_Fails
to_Reach_Orbit⠀⇛
The rocket failure was an embarrassment for the
country’s leader, Kim Jong-un, who badly needed a
morale booster for his people.
# ⚓ RFA ☛ Violent_crime_is_rising_in_North_Korea_amid_food
shortages⠀⇛
Police seem unable to stem increase, and residents
say underlying causes are not addressed.
# ⚓ teleSUR ☛ South_Koreans_Rally_Against_Joint_Military_Drill
With_US⠀⇛
The Ulchi Freedom Shield exercise was scheduled to
continue until August 31.
# ⚓ France24 ☛ North_Korea_says_second_attempt_to_launch_spy
satellite_failed⠀⇛
North Korea said its second attempt to put a spy
satellite into orbit failed on Thursday, three
months after the first one crashed into the ocean.
# ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ Over_200_suspects_arrested_for_writing
online_murder_threats_in_South_Korea,_govt_to_seek_damages⠀⇛
This comes amid the increasing violent crimes
targeting random people in the country.
# ⚓ India Times ☛ TikTok’s_US_future_still_in_limbo_as_commerce
secretary_visits_China⠀⇛
The administration has been stymied by how to deal
with TikTok even as intelligence officials have
warned that it poses a national security threat.
The app has been barred on government devices
federally and in more than two dozen states, its
CEO was grilled before Congress in March and
lawmakers have proposed legislation that would make
it easier for the White House to ban tech companies
owned by “foreign adversaries” such as China.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ France_to_Ban_Full-Length_Muslim_Robes_in
Public_Schools⠀⇛
Mr. Attal said attacks on the principle of laïcité
— France’s version of secularism, which guarantees
freedom of conscience but also the neutrality of
the state and of some public spaces — had
“increased considerably” in French schools.
“When you enter a classroom, you should not be able
to distinguish or identify the students’ religion
by looking at them,” Mr. Attal told the TF1
television channel on Sunday.
# ⚓ NYPost ☛ Migrants_entered_US_with_help_of_smuggler_who_has
ties_to_ISIS:_report⠀⇛
It was only later that the FBI learned of a
smuggling network helping Uzbeks into the US —
which involved at least one individual with ties to
ISIS.
# ⚓ CNN ☛ Exclusive:_Smuggler_with_ties_to_ISIS_helped_migrants
enter_US_from_Mexico,_raising_alarm_bells_across_government⠀⇛
The incident kicked off a flurry of urgent meetings
among top national security and administration
officials at a time when Republicans have hammered
Biden on the security of the southern border
heading into the 2024 campaign. Staff on key
congressional committees have been informed of the
incident, according to two sources familiar with
the matter.
# ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ Trump_trials:_What_counts_as_protected_free
speech?⠀⇛
Many legal analysts are skeptical this approach
will work in a courtroom. There is no First
Amendment right to engage in a conspiracy to break
the law, and Mr. Trump has been charged with urging
others to take illegal actions.
# ⚓ The Atlantic ☛ The_Fourteenth_Amendment_Fantasy⠀⇛
Consider the scenario in which Section 3 is invoked
against Trump in 2024. Although he has won the
Republican nomination, Democratic secretaries of
state in key states refuse to place his name on
their ballots, as a person who engaged in
insurrection against the United States. With
Trump’s name deleted from some swing-state ballots,
President Joe Biden is easily reelected.
But only kind of reelected. How in the world are
Republicans likely to react to such an outcome?
Will any of them regard such a victory as
legitimate? The rage and chaos that would follow
are beyond imagining.
# ⚓ International Business Times ☛ France_move_to_ban_abaya
robes_from_state_schools⠀⇛
“Schools of the Republic are built on very strong
values and principles, especially laïcité… I have
decided that the abaya could no longer be worn in
schools,” he declared.
The Education Minister ignored those who contested
the ban, as he continued to express his beliefs,
saying: “Secularism means the freedom to emancipate
oneself through school.”
He further describes the abaya as “a religious
gesture, aimed at testing the resistance of the
republic toward the secular sanctuary that school
must be”.
# ⚓ El País ☛ Conservatives_are_on_a_mission_to_dismantle_the
US_government_and_replace_it_with_Trump’s_vision⠀⇛
The unprecedented effort is being orchestrated with
dozens of right-flank organizations, many new to
Washington, and represents a changed approach from
conservatives, who traditionally have sought to
limit the federal government by cutting federal
taxes and slashing federal spending.
Instead, Trump-era conservatives want to gut the
“administrative state” from within, by ousting
federal employees they believe are standing in the
way of the president’s agenda and replacing them
with like-minded officials more eager to fulfill a
new executive’s approach to governing.
o § Transparency/Investigative Reporting⠀➾
# ⚓ American Oversight ☛ Co-Defendants_and_Unindicted_Co-
Conspirators:_What_Public_Records_Reveal_About_Trump_Allies’
Election_Denial_Activities⠀⇛
While those five co-conspirators were not charged
in the Justice Department’s indictment, they were
among the 19 charged in Georgia. The Georgia
indictment also mentions 30 unindicted, unnamed co-
conspirators. Outlets such as CNN and the
Washington Post have closely reviewed clues in the
indictment to determine some of their identities.
Several of Trump’s allies who were active in his
schemes to overturn the election — including those
named as well as those speculated to have been
mentioned — didn’t cease their efforts to undermine
democracy after the fake-electors plot failed or
even after President Joe Biden took office.
American Oversight has been investigating the
ongoing election denial movement and its threats to
democracy, and has uncovered thousands of pages of
public records that shed light on the movement’s
activities after the 2020 election. Below, we take
a look at a number of those allies and the records
we have obtained that provide details about their
work, from the immediate post-election hunt for
evidence of widespread fraud to partisan election
investigations, alleged voting machine breaches,
and ongoing efforts to erode trust in democracy.
o § Environment⠀➾
# ⚓ France24 ☛ Climate_change_set_to_worsen_snow_shortages_on
Europe’s_ski_slopes,_says_study⠀⇛
Even if the world caps global heating at the Paris
climate treaty target of 1.5 degrees Celsius — a
very big if — a third of the continent’s 2,234
resorts would still be highly vulnerable to snow
scarcity, they reported in the journal Nature
Climate Change.
# ⚓ Associated Press ☛ Study_suggests_global_warming_set_to
worsen_snow_shortages_on_Europe’s_ski_slopes⠀⇛
With the rise in global temperatures already
flirting with the target limit of 1.5 degrees under
the 2015 Paris climate accord, and a higher climb
seemingly inevitable, the researchers analyzed the
impact on more than 2,200 ski resorts across 28
European countries.
The research evaluated changes in snow cover across
a range of increases in temperature: 53% of ski
resorts in Europe would face “very high risk of
insufficient snow” at a rise of 2 degree Celsius.
Nearly all — 98% — would face that level of risk if
the 4-degree bar is surpassed.
# ⚓ RFI ☛ Climate_poses_‘high_risk’_for_Europe’s_ski_resorts⠀⇛
The study looked at how resorts across Europe —
from the British Isles to Turkey, and from
Scandinavia to the Mediterranean basin — would be
affected by different levels of global heating:
1.5C, 2C, 3C and 4C.
Earth’s surface has, on average, already warmed
1.2C, amplifying extreme weather across the globe.
From the Rocky Mountains to the Alps, ski resorts —
especially those at or below 1,500 metres (5,000
feet) — already experience foreshortening skiing
seasons and declining ski conditions, with snow
sometimes replaced by rain.
# ⚓ ABC ☛ More_than_half_of_European_ski_resorts_facing_‘very
high_risk’_from_climate_change,_study_finds⠀⇛
Global temperatures sit at 1.2C above pre-
industrial levels and an analysis from Carbon Brief
shows the world will reach 2C of warming between
2038 and 2072 if emissions remain close to current
levels.
The study’s lead author, Samuel Morin from France’s
National Centre for Meteorological Research, said
the modelling accounted for geography, elevation
and regional differences.
# ⚓ Bert Hubert ☛ Atmospheric_absorption,_spectra,_units_and
code:_companion_page_to_the_global_warming_explanation_post⠀⇛
On this page we’ll delve into the exciting subject
of atmospheric absorption, spectra and the units
used. We’ll also look at the code and databases
behind the many graphs on the other page.
# ⚓ Jacobin Magazine ☛ Capitalist_Greed_Fueled_the_Catastrophic
Hawaii_Wildfires⠀⇛
The fires are typical of the increasingly extreme
weather events being driven by climate change. But
climate is only part of the story — the long
history of business-driven destruction of Maui’s
historic wetlands and public utilities’ refusal to
invest in safe energy infrastructure is also to
blame. The Lever’s news editor, Lucy Dean Stockton,
spoke with Kaniela Ing, a former Hawaii state
representative and now national director of the
Green New Deal Network, about how capitalists have
destroyed Hawaii’s natural environment from the
early twentieth century on, helping fuel the
disastrous wildfires we’re seeing now.
# ⚓ Truthdig ☛ What_Climate_Democracy_Looks_Like⠀⇛
By a vote of six-to-four, Ecuador voted “Yes” and
became the first oil producing country to keep a
large field untapped by popular vote. The state oil
company now has one year to decommission and remove
all infrastructure in the famous bioreserve. The
50,000-odd daily barrels currently pumped out of
Yasuní may be a drop in the global oil bucket —
Saudi Arabia produces 12 million barrels a day —
but staunching the flow is not purely symbolic.
Production at Yasuní represents more than 10% of
tiny Ecuador’s total oil production; ending it will
impact the country’s foreign reserves and degrade
the country’s once-stellar reputation within the
rapacious global oil industry. In choosing this,
Ecuadoreans have declared other things supreme.
Deconstructing the derricks protects a 50,000-acre
ecosystem in the western Amazon watershed that is
known as “the most biodiverse place on Earth.” At
the equatorial borderland of the Andean foothills
and the Amazon basin, Yasuní contains 10% of the
rapidly declining number of species on Earth. It is
also home to two of the largest remaining
“uncontacted” tribes living in voluntary isolation.
Locking its oil beneath the soil will stop an
estimated 345 million tons of CO2 from releasing
into an already carbon-clogged atmosphere.
# § Energy/Transportation⠀➾
# ⚓ Idiomdrottning ☛ Energy_rationing⠀⇛
Here’s what I would’ve wanted:
Energy is rationed. Everyone gets the same
amount. You can’t sell it (it’s cap without
trade) but you can work together in
collectives and coops to pool your allotment.
The rations are separate for fossil-derived
energy and renewable energy, with an
awareness that renewable doesn’t mean
infinite since there’s a bandwidth issue. The
fossil rations rapidly decrease.
# § Overpopulation⠀➾
# ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ Seoul_to_subsidise_egg_freezing
for_Korean_women⠀⇛
This will be for 300 women between 20 and 49
years old, and have resided in Seoul for over
six months.
# ⚓ [Repeat] Scoop News Group ☛ Presidential_council
recommends_launching_a_Department_of_Water_to_confront
cyberthreats,_climate_change⠀⇛
The National Infrastructure Advisory Council,
a group of 30 executives and leaders from the
public and private sector that advises the
president on infrastructure risks, approved
the draft document that aimed at helping the
largely publicly owned water sector.
# ⚓ Overpopulation ☛ What_you_should_know_–_but_didn’t
know_to_ask_–_about_overshoot_and_the_‘population
question’⠀⇛
A rather unsettling premise of the piece is
that the human eco-predicament is, in many
respects, wholly ‘natural’, the product of
human evolutionary success gone awry. Innate
expansionist behaviours that were
advantageous in Paleolithic (pre-
agricultural) environments have become
maladaptive in today’s globalized
industrialized environment. Why is this
significant? Because society seems unwilling
to recognize that H. sapiens is a still-
evolving species subject to the same natural
laws and forces affecting the evolution of
all living organisms. It is entirely
conceivable for modern civilization to be
‘selected out’ by an increasingly hostile
environment of our own making. Policies and
programs that attempt to ‘fix’ overshoot
without attempting to override humanity’s now
destructive expansionist tendencies are
doomed to fail.
o § Finance⠀➾
# ⚓ RFA ☛ China_cuts_interest_rates,_pledges_credit_support_for
small_companies⠀⇛
Moves to boost sagging economy unlikely to fuel
genuine recovery, analysts say.
# ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ Tipping_culture_sparks_controversy
among_South_Koreans⠀⇛
Some businesses’ requests for tips have led to
complaints from people unfamiliar with the
practice.
# ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ 1.26m_South_Korean_young_people
unemployed,_over_half_hold_college_degrees⠀⇛
The number of young people not attending school or
college with employment experience is 3.94 million.
# ⚓ RFA ☛ To_make_extra_money,_North_Koreans_pay_big_bribes_for
gold_refinery_jobs⠀⇛
Stolen gold and other metals are sold to donju,
entrepreneurs engaged in smuggling.
# ⚓ RFERL ☛ Frozen_Iranian_Assets_Reportedly_Transferred_To
Swiss_Central_Bank⠀⇛
Iranian assets that had been frozen in South Korea
were transferred to Switzerland’s central bank last
week for exchange and transfer to Iran, South
Korean media reported on August 21.
# ⚓ RFA ☛ Laos_to_send_another_2,000_workers_to_South_Korean
factories_or_higher-paying_jobs⠀⇛
Several thousand Laotians already do seasonal
agricultural work in the country.
# ⚓ Layoffs_Are_Out,_‘Reassignment’_Is_In:_A_New_Trend? [Ed:
No, it is an HR trick, one step away from "redundancies";
same with forcing people back into the office in defiance of
common sense]⠀⇛
o § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾
# ⚓ teleSUR ☛ Xi_Arrives_in_South_Africa_for_BRICS_Summit_and
State_Visit⠀⇛
During his time in South Africa, Xi will also co-
chair the China-Africa Leaders’ Dialogue with the
South African President.
# ⚓ teleSUR ☛ German_Business_Leaders_Against_Decoupling_From
China⠀⇛
“China has been Germany’s largest trading partner
for seven years,” said the manager of the German-
Chinese Business Association.
# ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ South_Korean_coastguard_arrests_man_who
arrived_by_jet_ski_from_China⠀⇛
The Chinese man was wearing a helmet and life vest,
and was travelling on a 1800-cc jet ski.
# ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Case_involving_man_jailed_in
mainland_China_over_role_in_speedboat_escape_bid_set_to_be
heard_in_Hong_Kong_court⠀⇛
A case involving a Hong Kong protester jailed in
mainland China has been scheduled to be mentioned
in the city’s District Court on Wednesday, three
years after he was caught while allegedly
attempting to flee to Taiwan.
# ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ Biden’s_‘historic’_Asia_summit_confronts_an
old_foe:_History⠀⇛
A summit between the U.S., Japan, and South Korea
sought to institutionalize the trilateral
relationship. But it’s battling several sources of
distrust: in Asia of U.S. staying power, in China
of the three allies, and in South Korea of Japan.
# ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ China_fines_US_firm_Mintz_$2m_for
‘unapproved’_work,_after_raiding_its_Beijing_office⠀⇛
China said firm had carried out “foreign-related
statistical investigations” without approvals.
# ⚓ RFA ☛ Xi_heads_to_Johannesburg_to_rally_the_Global_South⠀⇛
More than 40 country representatives to attend
BRICS in the shadow of Japan-Korea show of unity
with U.S.
# ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ Shadowy_Tech_Goons_Want_to_Build_a_New_City_in
California._What_Could_Go_Wrong?⠀⇛
The New York Times reports that a mysterious
company called Flannery Associates has spent over
$800 million hoovering up massive amounts of farm
land in the Solano County region. The company has
been procuring Bay Area land parcels for close to
five years and has now amassed some 52,000 acres
(or 22,000 hectares). The land grabs, which stretch
from Fairfield to Rio Vista, have understandably
worried locals and government officials, who—for
years—were kept in the dark about who exactly was
buying up this land or what the buyers planned to
do with it.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Where_Tech_Investors_Are_Buying_Up_Land,
Locals_Are_Worried⠀⇛
Solano County’s rural roots are still front and
center in an area where a company backed by tech
industry billionaires has been buying up land to
create what they imagine to be a city of the
future. That company, Flannery Associates, has
committed roughly $900 million to secure thousands
of acres of farmland, court documents show.
# ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ Facebook_Rejects_Its_Own_Supreme_Court’s_Order_to
Ban_Cambodia’s_Ex-Prime_Minister⠀⇛
Meta has rejected its own Oversight Board’s
recommendation to immediately suspend the Facebook
and Instagram accounts of Cambodia’s former Prime
Minister Hun Sen, an authoritarian dictator who
refers to political dissidents as dogs and has been
accused of using Meta’s platforms to incite
violence. The decision marks a stark divergence
from the Oversight Board, which was created in 2018
as a Meta-funded, independent check on the
company’s most sensitive politically fraught
content moderation decision. Recommendations aside,
the Cambodia case proves that the buck for
political content on Facebook and Instagram
ultimately still stops with Meta and CEO Mark
Zuckerberg.
# § Misinformation/Disinformation/Propaganda⠀➾
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Meta’s_‘Biggest_Single_Takedown’
Removes_Chinese_Influence_Campaign⠀⇛
The posts were part of a Chinese influence
campaign that stands out as the largest such
operation to date, researchers at Meta said
in a report on Tuesday. The effort, which the
company said had started with Chinese law
enforcement and was discovered in 2019, was
aimed at advancing China’s interests and
discrediting its adversaries, such as the
United States, Meta said.
# ⚓ Silicon Angle ☛ Meta_removes_thousands_of_accounts
linked_to_Chinese_government_propaganda_campaign⠀⇛
The company said that not only Facebook and
Instagram had been infiltrated, but so was
Twitter –now X – Reddit, TikTok, YouTube,
Medium, Substack and Tumblr. In total, the
campaign covered at least 50 different apps.
The articles and information appeared mostly
in English but were also translated into
Greek, German, Russian, Italian, Turkish and
many more languages. The campaign could be
linked to an older campaign Meta named
Spamouflage, as well as to Chinese law
enforcement.
# ⚓ BW Businessworld Media Pvt Ltd ☛ X_Reverses_Policy_On
Political_Advertising_Ahead_Of_2024_Presidential
Election⠀⇛
Despite these efforts, X continues to face
criticism similar to other social media
platforms for its handling of misleading or
false content during significant elections.
This has sparked discussions about the
company’s readiness for the US presidential
election.
One notable concern arises from X’s prior
workforce reduction, which included employees
who had worked on trust and safety. The
company’s ability to ensure a secure and
accurate platform for the upcoming election
has raised questions among critics.
# ⚓ France24 ☛ Twitter_lifts_ban_on_political_ads,
reversing_policy_to_stop_misinformation⠀⇛
Musk slashed staffing after buying Twitter,
raising concerns about its ability to
moderate content and reliably function.
# ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ Twitter_Removes_Its_‘No_Political_Ads’
Policy_Ahead_of_the_2024_Election⠀⇛
After cutting the majority of employees whose
responsibility it was to remove and moderate
false or misleading information, Gita Johar,
a Columbia University business professor who
studied misinformation on Twitter, told NBC
News that Twitter’s decision risks turning
the site into a “free-for-all with rumors,
conspiracy theories and falsehoods taking
hold on the platform and in people’s
imagination.”
# ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ The_New_York_Times_Tries_to_Lie_About
Ukraine_Without_Lying⠀⇛
My concern is not that there aren’t actually
lots of people who do sympathize with Putin
and — in perfect agreement with the Times’
with-us-or-against-us attitude — believe they
must take his side against that of the United
States. My concern is that basic facts about
the war should not be banned by yelling
“Putin!” and that a preference for peace,
compromise, and avoidance of nuclear
apocalypse should not be twisted into
supposed support for whichever side of a war
a newspaper opposes.
# ⚓ Quartz ☛ Toyota_blamed_a_glitch_for_a_stoppage
affecting_a_third_of_global_production⠀⇛
Toyota apologized for the problem and said it
was investigating the cause, though it ruled
out a cyberattack.
# ⚓ Reuters ☛ Toyota_to_restart_Japan_production_on
Wednesday_after_system_failure⠀⇛
Toyota will resume operations at 25
production lines of a dozen plants in its
home market from Wednesday morning and add
the final two plants from the afternoon, it
said.
The company continues to investigate the
cause of the glitch [sic], which it said was
not due to a cyberattack and prevented it
from ordering components.
o § Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾
# ⚓ ACLU ☛ Meet_Mary_Wood,_a_Teacher_Resisting_Censorship⠀⇛
In the past year, Mary Wood has gone through an
ordeal that’s increasingly familiar to teachers,
librarians, and school administrators across the
country: She is being targeted by activists who
want to censor what books are in libraries and what
discussions happen in classrooms.
Mary is an English teacher at Chapin High School in
Chapin, South Carolina. As originally reported in
The State, she assigned Ta-Nehisi Coates’ “Between
the World and Me,” a nonfiction book about the
Black experience in the United States, as part of a
lesson plan on research and argumentation in her
advanced placement class. District officials
ordered her to stop teaching the book. They alleged
that it violated a state budget proviso that
forbids a broad range of subject matter involving
race and history.
# ⚓ International Business Times ☛ Anti-war_activists_in_Russia
could_spend_15_years_in_prison⠀⇛
The human rights experts revealed: “The law has no
other objective than silencing critical expression
in relation to the war in Ukraine. The legislation
is a drastic step in a long string of measures over
the years restricting freedom of expression and
media freedom, and further shrinking civic space in
the Russian Federation.”
Shortly after Russia’s full-scale invasion of
Ukraine in February, the law that criminalised
those speaking against the Russian Army was put in
place in an attempt to unite the country.
# ⚓ Jacobin Magazine ☛ Thailand’s_Conservative_Old_Guard_Has
Snuffed_Out_the_Popular_Demand_for_Change⠀⇛
This turn of events raises a fundamental question:
Can Thailand’s progressive movement genuinely place
its trust in the idea of working through the
existing political system? While developments in
Thai politics will continue to unfold, it is now
natural to suspect that conservative groups may
have strategically shaped the election process in
order to portray the results as a reflection of
public desires. In reality, however, the outcome,
which is now slipping from the grasp of the MFP,
has ended up serving as an endorsement of the
party’s preconceived agenda.
o § Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press⠀➾
# ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ A_judge_told_Kansas_authorities_to
destroy_electronic_copies_of_newspaper’s_files_taken_during
raid⠀⇛
Kansas authorities must destroy all electronic
copies they made of a small newspaper’s files when
police raided its office this month, a judge
ordered Tuesday, nearly two weeks after computers
and cellphones seized in the search were returned.
The Aug. 11 searches of the Marion County Record’s
office and the homes of its publisher and a City
Council member have been sharply criticized,
putting Marion, a central Kansas town of about
1,900 people, at the center of a debate over the
press protections offered by the First Amendment to
the U.S. Constitution.
o § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾
# ⚓ RFA ☛ Hong_Kong_delays_Jimmy_Lai_trial_as_police_question
woman_linked_to_exiled_lawmaker⠀⇛
Democrats say there is now scant difference between
Hong Kong’s judicial system and that of mainland
China
# ⚓ RFA ☛ Family_celebrates_as_Lao_man_who_lost_contact_while
working_in_Malaysia_returns_home⠀⇛
Relatives feared he had died, but a rubber
plantation co-worker and the Lao embassy put them
back in touch.
# ⚓ Kansas Reflector ☛ Kaw_Nation_reclaims_prayer_rock
exhibited_for_nearly_100_years_in_honor_of_white_settlers⠀⇛
A bronze plaque affixed to the stone in 1929 at
Robinson Park paid tribute to immigrants of the
1850s who professed a dedication to freedom while
venturing “into a wilderness, suffered hardships
and faced dangers and death to found this state in
righteousness.” The monument celebrating the city’s
founders, including abolitionists, but neglected to
acknowledge eradication and removal of the Kaw
Nation from land upon which the Sacred Red Rock was
located nor did the text recognize spiritual harm
done when the stone was uprooted from confluence of
the Shunganunga Creek and Kansas River near
Tecumseh.
On Tuesday, Pepper Henry marked unconditional
return of the 24-ton boulder to the Kaw Nation and
preparations to transport Iⁿ‘zhúje‘waxóbe to a
memorial park in Council Grove. The prayer stone,
which could be equated to a church structure, was
recently removed from its base in a Lawrence park
ahead of the journey. The stone was scheduled to be
moved Wednesday to land owned by the tribe since
2002.
# ⚓ Quartz ☛ The_abrupt_shutdown_of_a_34-year-old_furniture
company_left_more_than_500_workers_jobless⠀⇛
“Mitchell Gold + Bob Williams has recently and
unexpectedly learned that we are unable to continue
business operations,” read a sign taped on the
factory gate in Taylorsville, North Carolina, as
Taylorsville Times reported on Saturday (Aug. 26).
Workers were asked not to report to work from
Monday (Aug. 28) onwards.
# ⚓ Jacobin Magazine ☛ In_Michigan,_Progressives_Are_Finally
Rolling_Back_Right-Wing_Anti-Labor_Laws⠀⇛
Earlier this year, Democrats in Michigan’s state
legislature broke with Democratic Party norms by
actually using their elected offices to push
through a suite of significant pro-worker
legislation. This included rolling back the right-
to-work law that Michigan passed in 2012, making
Michigan the first state in more than fifty years
to do so.
Joey Andrews, elected to the state house in 2022 to
represent District 38 in southwestern Michigan,
championed the repeal of right to work and other
pro-union policies, like restoring teachers’
bargaining rights. Jacobin’s Nick French spoke with
Andrews about Michigan Democrats’ recent
legislative record, the relationship between labor
and the Democratic Party, and the current moment in
working-class politics more broadly.
o § Monopolies⠀➾
# ⚓ DaemonFC (Ryan Farmer) ☛ Microsoft_Blames_Windows_11
“Unsupported_Processor”_Error_Screens_on_Hardware_Makers;
Interferes_With_Full_Screen_Apps_Demanding_You_Use_Edge.⠀⇛
It will harass you even for searching for one. It
will harass you while you are on another browser
maker’s Web site trying to download one.
Then after you install it and go to 27 different
places making it the default, it will sometimes
ignore it, and try to steal the defaults back,
forcing you to start over.
But then if you manage to set the default browser,
you will start getting notifications, on your
desktop, from Microsoft, that you’ve made “a bad
choice” and “you need to reconsider” (essentially).
This is the kind of thing the US v. Microsoft trial
was about, they’ve even gotten in trouble in
Europe, but they won’t stop.
# § Copyrights⠀➾
# ⚓ Torrent Freak ☛ Putin’s_Cinema_Fund_Rejects_Movie
Piracy,_Fuming_Cinema_Boss_Demands_Barbie⠀⇛
In Russia, where various factions are in
disagreement over the best way to permit
piracy of Hollywood movies, new wildcards
have entered the equation. The government-
backed Cinema Fund says piracy carries
“reputational risks” and that would be
“inappropriate” right now. A furious cinema
chief has accused the fund and government of
protecting Western copyright holders. He says
that Russia needs pirated copies of Barbie in
cinemas, sooner rather than later.
# ⚓ Torrent Freak ☛ OpenAI_Asks_Court_to_Dismiss_Authors’
Copyright_Infringement_Claims⠀⇛
Several authors including comedian Sarah
Silverman are suing OpenAI for using pirated
copies of their books to train language
models. This unauthorized use gives rise to
several copyright infringement claims and
also violates the DMCA, they argue. OpenAI
disagrees and this week asked the California
federal court to dismiss all claims but one.
# ⚓ Torrent Freak ☛ Premier_League_Declares_War_on_IPTV
Piracy_From_Behind_a_Paywall⠀⇛
Expense and restricted access to live matches
drive some Premier League fans towards
piracy. Optimists believe this can be fixed;
get rid of the 3pm blackout and be realistic
on what regular fans can afford. By
announcing its plan to crack down even harder
on piracy, via a paywalled article published
in the Financial Times, the Premier League’s
messaging could hardly be more symbolic.
# ⚓ Gannett ☛ Eminem_tells_GOP_candidate_Vivek_Ramaswamy
to_stop_using_his_music_on_the_campaign_trail⠀⇛
Music licenser BMI sent a letter to a
Ramaswamy campaign lawyer that says Eminem’s
works are no longer part of a music licensing
agreement following a request from Eminem,
according to the Daily Mail.
# ⚓ Rlang ☛ TidyTuesday_35:_Exploring_Fair_Use_Cases⠀⇛
Today’s TidyTuesday concerns US copyright
law. Fair use is the right to use copyrighted
materials in some instances. Fair use law
isn’t always clear, and there is often
litigation to decide whether something is
fair use. This week’s TidyTuesday uses a data
set created by web scraping to get
information about federal court cases on fair
use. This week’s data comes with the
following warning: [...]
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