𝕿𝖊𝖈𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍𝖙𝖘 Bulletin for Saturday, September 02, 2023 ┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅ Generated Sun 3 Sep 02:51:42 BST 2023 Created by Dr. Roy Schestowitz (𝚛𝚘𝚢 (at) 𝚜𝚌𝚑𝚎𝚜𝚝𝚘𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚣 (dot) 𝚌𝚘𝚖) Full hyperlinks for navigation omitted but are fully available in the originals The corresponding HTML versions are at 𝒕𝒆𝒄𝒉𝒓𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒔.𝒐𝒓𝒈 Latest in 𝒉𝒕𝒕𝒑://𝒕𝒆𝒄𝒉𝒓𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒔.𝒐𝒓𝒈/𝒕𝒙𝒕 and older bulletins can be found at 𝒉𝒕𝒕𝒑://𝒕𝒆𝒄𝒉𝒓𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒔.𝒐𝒓𝒈/𝒕𝒙𝒕-𝒂𝒓𝒄𝒉𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒔 Full IPFS index in 𝒉𝒕𝒕𝒑://𝒕𝒆𝒄𝒉𝒓𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒔.𝒐𝒓𝒈/𝒊𝒑𝒇𝒔 and as plain text in 𝒉𝒕𝒕𝒑://𝒕𝒆𝒄𝒉𝒓𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒔.𝒐𝒓𝒈/𝒊𝒑𝒇𝒔/𝒕𝒙𝒕 Gemini index for the day: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2023/09/02/ ╒═══════════════════ 𝐑𝐄𝐂𝐄𝐍𝐓 𝐁𝐔𝐋𝐋𝐄𝐓𝐈𝐍𝐒 ════════════════════════════════════╕ Previous bulletins in IPFS (past 21 days, in chronological order): QmRvPmuQj51W76zvbu8EJVsufNdff2k6sLwDW4kU1Umw72 QmVsL5SjB4i4sLymC3HBZkhwBhNY5MXy27LZs9QBCDgtZo QmNdfSVvGLKtGutRooKPbAq57B9AZoPeYGGSjhD1a2fVET QmZnEb1NMj8vNm5EXH9jb8unPV3bTrZKvHcvsEczvMfMYS QmPrM5Hu5PNR7zjUmtsvqm8xkZsrE96qx4CaEuQrKFfjFd QmfR8XxBEMVs1Mue6wS1NKXYG8optDVxN7EFcGCzvD1Q9z QmbqCQ6R4NusTRm9E3YjVzj9c1FxCfEvrfqShjAZLaCyQS QmeZFBVX9fk1V5VBuSsZpDpx2dnJBatXxASzUtAm4wrZ26 QmR8687kGyLT5rdVV9a5wwcd599wytXYh8CbSBUtHMqNx6 QmVL6ny5v6haHeg8eGHJrcSY343AUa4deXjfvCw1ZDmDz6 QmWKPms4oLgJhFJZPgySVW8kBSCBHkHuEbpSJ9Hu8w899a QmYRNEXfEKgCkNrxSJTkmHBQSawGzsT7jTG9zeGBgLZpYW QmXuNJQvwQEw7vxCEMaH6S2XP6CJWxyQPwQ5XwEnWrbwNY QmU8r9irxybJVwzTWsCaejmJ4dDWJ8vAHAHHAKEkyeufpQ QmeryNavwPZxt2XqRC8WzQsxzm8Q2aJpPrHDJjt4MVx7j9 QmV1aDkYP6Y7Yv8Eg5mojpfKfRqGkjzLoJiut9uECHzXbF QmNRJcNP3MBmn7dGr91i3qjc8AouAjwSZWUmroRDLJDj2W QmR3skFpi5NU2DwodXGtVWF1yWK1pJNg7U4BHJZ26DXmJr QmNyZCmQoHYnCZYzsD7hZtwEa43PmCo6mPJQSvxSE2bjMR QmbHjgPAAcGNUG9Sej4vSKhK8DfUYokfFkXLdKwr1JtGJG QmdLsuRLzrwb58dZaSmJah6oCmNNZ6cW4ick4chqJmHjmY ╒═══════════════════ 𝐈𝐍𝐃𝐄𝐗 ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⦿ Chrome OS + GNU/Linux Reach 7% Market Share in September 2023 | Techrights ⦿ Andy, Helen and Ed (Cyber|Show) Explain What the UK ’Online Safety Bill’ Actually Does | Techrights ⦿ In Asia, Almost 60% of the Total World Population, GNU/Linux Climbs to 6%, Windows Majority Becomes Rare | Techrights ⦿ Reasons Why Debian 12 KDE Should Not Default to Wayland | Techrights ⦿ GNU/Linux ’Proper’ (Not Chrome OS) Surges to 4% in Africa, 7% in Nigeria (by Far the Largest Population) | Techrights ⦿ IRC Proceedings: Friday, September 01, 2023 | Techrights ⦿ Azure Stagnating, Partners Have Layoffs | Techrights ⦿ I Installed Microsoft Edge for Linux So You Wouldn’t Have to and Alan Pope is Basically Using ‘MSN Explorer with Chromium’ | Techrights ⦿ Mastodon: A Community So Vile They Even Eat Their Own. More Thoughts On Reddit. | Techrights ⦿ Lenovo Profits Down 66% in Q1 on 24% Lower Revenue, Vista 11 Hasn’t Picked Up Net Users Since April | Techrights ䷼ Bulletin articles (as HTML) to comment on (requires login): http://techrights.org/2023/09/02/7-percent-gnu-linux/#comments http://techrights.org/2023/09/02/andy-helen-and-ed-cybershow-explain-what-the-uk-online-safety-bill-actually-does/#comments http://techrights.org/2023/09/02/asia-gnu-linux/#comments http://techrights.org/2023/09/02/do-not-default-to-wayland/#comments http://techrights.org/2023/09/02/gnu-linux-proper-africa/#comments http://techrights.org/2023/09/02/irc-log-010923/#comments http://techrights.org/2023/09/02/microsoft-partners-layoffs/#comments http://techrights.org/2023/09/02/msn-explorer-for-linux/#comments http://techrights.org/2023/09/02/thoughts-on-mastodon-and-reddit/#comments http://techrights.org/2023/09/02/vista-11-rotting/#comments ䷞ Followed by Daily Links (assorted news picks curated and categorised): http://techrights.org/2023/09/02/bad-uspto-policies/#comments http://techrights.org/2023/09/02/fediverse-and-feeds/#comments http://techrights.org/2023/09/02/fediverse-issues/#comments http://techrights.org/2023/09/02/nitrux-3-0-is-out/#comments http://techrights.org/2023/09/02/postgresql-16-rc1-released/#comments http://techrights.org/2023/09/02/power-kde-copyrights/#comments ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 79 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at http://techrights.org/2023/09/02/7-percent-gnu-linux/#comments Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2023/09/02/7-percent-gnu-linux/ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 09.02.23⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Chrome_OS_+_GNU/Linux_Reach_7%_Market_Share_in_September_2023⠀✐ Posted in GNU/Linux, Google, Microsoft, Windows at 4:45 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz About an hour ago statCounter finally released August_and_September_data (I’ve been checking every hour for 2 days already) and the preliminary observations are positive: 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇Chrome_OS_+_GNU/Linux_market_share_growing_over_time⦈_ Chrome OS + GNU/Linux market share (in percent) growing over time. As graphed here. 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🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇Andy Farnell and friends⦈ Summary (by Cyber|Show): On this feature length special episode marking the start of Season 2, join Andy, Helen and Ed, special guest Dr Kate Brown, our in-house tenacious investigative apprentice reporter and various members of the public as they tear apart (and lovingly put back together) the UK Online Safety Bill, currently progressing through our parliament. After countless revisions, modifications and additions, is the premise of the bill still what it was originally intended to be? Related: Recommendation_of_The_Cyber_Show | Discussion_About_The_Cyber_Show, New_Programme_by_Helen_Plews,_Andy_Farnell,_and_Edward_Nevard ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣀⣠⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⠀⠀⠀⠀⠄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⢀⣴⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣦⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢖⣀⣀⣀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢿⣿⣟⣛⣛⣁⣽⣿⣷⣄⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⢰⣿⣿⣿⣛⣛⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡭⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣰⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠗⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣤⣴⣶⣦⣤⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⠀⠀ ⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠞⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣿⣖⣺⣟⣛⣋⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢰⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠃⠀⠢⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⡿⢿⠿⠿⠿⠿⢿⣿⣯⡆⠀ ⠀⣿⣿⡟⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣓⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⢘⣿⢏⣟⡛⣛⡿⠃⡰⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢄⣤⣤⣤⡄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⠯⢛⡟⠉⠍⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣾⣿⡇⠀ ⠀⣿⣿⣷⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⠯⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢻⣿⣿⣧⣾⠏⠀⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠆⠉⠉⣹⠇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢿⣿⣿⡿⠟⠻⣷⠏⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣾⣿⡇⠀ ⠀⣿⣿⣿⣷⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⡏⠉⠉⠀⠀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡃⠀⢀⡟⠀⠈⡀⠀⠀⠀⠺⣿⣿⢻⣀⠀⣹⠄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠂⠀⠀⢠⣤⣦⣶⣶⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡅⠀ ⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣟⣻⣿⣿⣻⡛⢀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣠⡆⣿⡦⣤⣶⠞⡀⠀⠾⣶⣄⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡄⠀⢈⣴⣿⣿⣦⠀⠀⠀⠀⠹⣿⣿⣮⣤⡊⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢘⣻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⣿⡇⠀ ⠀⣿⣿⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣟⣶⣾⣿⢽⠻⠃⠀⠀⣰⣾⣏⣷⠀⠻⠟⠋⢅⠊⢀⣸⣧⣀⣼⣿⣇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠇⢠⣭⣿⠟⢻⢿⠂⠀⠀⠀⠀⢹⠻⢿⠛⠁⠀⠀⣠⣀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣤⣿⣾⣯⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⢼⣽⡅⠀ ⠀⣾⣿⣿⣷⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣽⡏⠁⠀⢀⣼⣿⠿⢿⡟⠀⠀⠔⢠⢽⣿⣶⢿⢟⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣦⠀⠀⠀⢿⣿⢿⣿⣶⣵⠚⠀⠀⣀⣤⣾⣿⣆⣀⠀⣰⣾⣿⣿⣿⣶⣤⡀⠀⣯⣿⣿⣯⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢸⣿⡇⠀ 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http://techrights.org/2023/09/02/asia-gnu-linux/#comments Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2023/09/02/asia-gnu-linux/ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 09.02.23⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ In_Asia,_Almost_60%_of_the_Total_World_Population,_GNU/Linux_Climbs_to_6%, Windows_Majority_Becomes_Rare⠀✐ Posted in Asia, GNU/Linux, Microsoft, Windows at 8:49 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇In_Asia,_GNU/Linux_Climbs_to_6%⦈_ 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇Operating_System_Market_Share_Asia⦈_ Summary: Assuming these_new_numbers bear resemblance to reality (very doubtful iOS has high share in North Korea), the migration to GNU/Linux picked up pace in Asia, just like in_Africa ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⣀⢠⣠⠠⠤⢀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢄⠄⠠⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠠⡄⠀⡄⠀⠄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡄⠀⢠⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⠀⠀⣤⣄⠄⢄⢀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢠⠀⠀⢠⠀⢀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⠀⠀⢀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⢀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ 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I have been using Debian 12 with KDE for a couple of days and decided to give Wayland another chance since they made it the default session for Plasma. I ran into troubles with it on openSUSE Leap 15.5 with KDE and switched to Plasma on X11 (Xorg) to make the problems stop. Here’s what Plasma on Wayland suffers from in Debian 12 KDE. On first login you get messages that ibus and fcitx don’t work with Wayland. The message only happens once, but the ibus program runs even though it doesn’t work. This appears to cause applications to sometimes refuse to accept input from the keyboard until you restart the program. (Also, probably inconvenient for people who use non-Latin alphabets for their native language.) The Plasma shell randomly crashes. Seems like maybe once every 7-8 hours. It comes right back up without any programs dying, but my….how very Windows of them. “This appears to cause applications to sometimes refuse to accept input from the keyboard until you restart the program.”X11 programs (including Windows applications in Wine) look weird when scaled by the system in Wayland, but also don’t scale themselves correctly if you use that option, so you end up with really tiny GUI widgets or really smudgy text. Your choice. To fix all of this, log out and select “Plasma on X11” and log back in. Wayland_simply_isn’t_ready_and_it_isn’t_clear_it_ever_will_be. My opinion of it has not improved. It still strikes me as beta software that has now become the default in Long Term Support distributions and, of course, Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Brought to you by the IBM, GNOME, GTK people who close bug reports with: “You need to justify your use case.” Also, *ignores use case*. “This feature isn’t important enough to most users.” “That’s broken because something something Security.” “We are divesting from the Linux desktop to try to get Wayland to work and do things X11 already does. So enjoy us pulling resources away from Bluetooth and GNOME.” “You’re not being very nice. Being very nice is mandated by the Code of Conduct, unless someone in the Fedora project that’s immune from the CoC says you’re_on_meth,_and_crazy,_then_the_CoC_doesn’t_apply. Also, we’re deleting your bug report comments because you weren’t nice. Nice is a registered trademark of IBM.” “It still strikes me as beta software that has now become the default in Long Term Support distributions and, of course, Red Hat Enterprise Linux.”More Flatpak Observations. (Hiding Proprietary Software) Maybe you’re like me and don’t like seeing proprietary software in your Package Manager or having it made available at all. It turns out you can force it to show only Free Software in Plasma Discover and on the console! But they did not make it easy and nobody on Flathub seems to have documented this command. flatpak remote-modify –subset=floss flathub Technically, the possible values for the subset are “floss” for Free Software, “verified_floss” for Free Software and only Free Software that’s been packaged by the developer themselves, and “verified”, which would list both Proprietary and Free Software, but only if they are packaged by the developer themselves. It seems like they just don’t want to make it widely known you can do this. There are so many commands in Flatpak that are undocumented, badly documented, and barely documented, that when I tried this out and logged out and back in, all I could see in Plasma Discover were Free Software Flatpaks, which is what I asked for, but… How to undo it if you want to? I was unable to find a specific command. I figured “Delete the flathub repo and install it again.” but was told I couldn’t uninstall it with Flatpaks from Flathub. When I told it –force, it removed it, then I added the Flathub repo again and waited for it to refresh, and sure enough proprietary software reappeared in my Plasma Discover. Specifically, the commands I used to remove and reinstall the Flathub remote were: sudo flatpak remote-delete flathub –force && sudo flatpak remote-add –if-not- exists flathub https://dl.flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo It seems sort of dumb that there’s no obvious way to reset Flathub to the defaults if you want to short of doing this. Probably, nobody documented the process to put it back because they figure everyone uses GNOME_Software anyway. Literally the only thing that makes this “better” is that there is a toggle to hide and unhide proprietary software from Flathub. “It turns out you can force it to show only Free Software in Plasma Discover and on the console! But they did not make it easy and nobody on Flathub seems to have documented this command.”Now I know I’ll look at the license and if it says Proprietary, I’m almost certainly not going to install it, because frankly a lot of it is useless junk that has alternatives with all of the same features anyway. Like Microsoft Edge is crappy spyware full of garbage, and all of the features that Alan Pope recently praised it for are in Brave anyway, and he just apparently didn’t look at Brave. (Including Vertical Tabs, the Memory Saver). A lot of the rest of the proprietary garbage are things I could open in a Web browser tab, but they’ve packaged them in Electron (Chromium) as a “desktop” app full of baloney. (And who knows what they’ve put in it?). It is frightening that Flathub has managed to put almost 600 pieces of proprietary software in there. So maybe you should just give it an enema and not look back. “It is frightening that Flathub has managed to put almost 600 pieces of proprietary software in there. So maybe you should just give it an enema and not look back.”Having looked it over, I’ll almost certainly just set the subset of “floss” back anyway, I just wanted to make sure “something” would reset it for this blog post. I don’t like having to stop and read licenses, and Flathub has a lot of good Free Software programs, but it feels like they really want proprietary software in your face by default, and don’t want to document a way out. According to the bug reports I was reading, this filter wasn’t even an option until maybe a year or a year and a half ago. I guess it’s something they “put out there” to silence critics. █ ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 517 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at http://techrights.org/2023/09/02/gnu-linux-proper-africa/#comments Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2023/09/02/gnu-linux-proper-africa/ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 09.02.23⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ GNU/Linux_‘Proper’_(Not_Chrome_OS)_Surges_to_4%_in_Africa,_7%_in_Nigeria_(by Far_the_Largest_Population)⠀✐ Posted in Africa, GNU/Linux at 5:06 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 2 days ago: Microsoft_Windows_Desktop_Operating_System_Market_Share_in_Nigeria: Down_From_99%_to_47%_in_13_Years 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇GNU/Linux_surges_in_Africa⦈_ Source: Africa_laptop/desktop_breakdown 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇GNU/Linux_surges_in_Nigeria⦈_ Source: Nigeria_laptop/desktop_breakdown Summary: In Africa, GNU/Linux grows rapidly on desktops and laptops; if one counts 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we_saw_weeks_ago TODAY we’re seeing the third_article about Microsoft-connected_layoffs at SkyKick (the rest are in Daily Links). The first article came from a_Microsoft- bribed_site, which issues distractions and fake news. This does not bode well for Azure and clown computing in general: SkyKick, whose products include tools to migrate to and backup for Microsoft 365, has confirmed to CRN that the vendor is laying off more than 100 employees worldwide. In a statement to CRN, Todd Schwartz – co-CEO of Seattle-based SkyKick – said that the layoff was a “tough decision” and due to “current market conditions.” “We are well positioned and remain steadfastly committed to ensuring our partners’ success in the cloud over the long-term,” Schwartz said. Well, merely mentioning this tends to rile up Microsoft-connected_militants. 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🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇MSN_Explorer⦈_ (Meanwhile, on_Alan_Pope’s_computer…MSN Explorer rides again. Now with Chromium) I Installed Microsoft Edge for Linux So You Wouldn’t Have To. Alan Pope recently wrote a post about problems with Web browsers. Rather than to sit down and realize that all the features he claims Microsoft Edge has are in Brave, or part of Chromium and in all Chromium-based Web browsers, he chose to use “MSN Explorer with Chromium”. Microsoft Edge for Linux. Windows users who were around more than 20 years ago probably got a glimpse of MSN Explorer. It was horrid. It was a platform for steering people to the MSN portal, and it looked cartoonish, cheesy, and tacky. (And_it_still_exists, apparently.) When I installed Microsoft Edge on my other laptop through Flatpak for a moment, I noticed it had gotten even worse than the last time I saw it, on Windows. There are ads, “features” which basically do little more than route you to more ads, as well as “online shopping crap”, and “Bing Chat” which is a boring lobotomized chat bot that people are losing interest in quickly, so Microsoft stapled it to Edge in a sidebar. The whole thing just screams “Consumertard” or “Someone’s feeble old grandmother that doesn’t know what a good browser is”. Brave, on the other hand, gets cooler the deeper you dive into it. Brave has actual features that protect your privacy. Unlike Edge, which is designed to violate it and shove trash in your face. Microsoft Edge’s usability is quite low, due to all of the useless visual clutter, to the point that even opening a new tab feels pretty heavy. It was fairly clear to me every time I opened this program on any computer that the only real goal Microsoft seems to have for it is to rename features that are going into other browsers anyway, or make noise about minor features which end up in other browsers. This includes vertical tabs. But also what Microsoft calls “Sleeping Tabs”. Essentially, “Sleeping Tabs”, as Microsoft Edge calls them, or the “Memory Saver” as Brave calls it, is designed to keep memory usage lower by suspending older tabs you haven’t used in a while. Firefox based browsers have this too. Before the browsers had it, you could get extensions that did it. In Brave you can simply search the Settings for “memory”, and flip “memory saver” to “on”. In Firefox, you can go to about:config and search “browser.tabs.unloadOnLowMemory” and double-click it to “true”. You can also exempt some domains from being suspended in case you run off and leave form data in them you’re worried about, or have a browser application running in them. Firefox-type browsers have a different strategy for older tabs. They don’t unload any until the system starts to run low on memory, and then they move idling tabs out of the way to help keep your computer running. Don’t get me wrong, this is a handy feature, but other browsers do it too. So to imply that other browsers don’t have it when they all do is disingenous. Opera has it, Vivaldi has it, I think Chrome does too. On Windows in particular, Microsoft_has_done_some_questionable_things_to_save memory that have been rejected by Google for Chromium, because they slow down the browser’s performance and increase its CPU usage, and Google moved to other methods that apply more generically to all operating systems. On Microsoft’s SegmentHeap patch, Google engineers had this to say: “The CPU cost (10% slowdown on speedometer 2.0, 13% increase in CPU/ power consumption) is too great for us too keep” Brue concluded.” If you look at the memory usage of Edge and Brave, the two are really quite comparable, with Brave coming in slightly under Edge. At least that’s how it looked on one of my Debian systems. It’s pretty obvious that memory optimization work has been a much more serious undertaking on Chromium browser than on Firefox, but I still remain skeptical of non-Brave Chromium browsers because Google is sabotaging the privacy extensions. Microsoft Edge has “features” that violate your privacy. So many that in 2020, it_was_shown_to_be_the_least_private_browser most Americans are likely to come into contact with. It sends everything to Microsoft down to your keystrokes and what sites you visit and which files you download, ostensibly for “safety” reasons. (They disguise this as “features”, like typo corrections that require contacting a remote server.) The only browser that was worse was “Yandex Browser”, where a_data_leak_from Yandex shows that the Russian Government has backdoors into practically everything the company makes. The Russian government is so despotic that they don’t even try to respond to it or deny it because they don’t have to. Naturally, Yandex Browser has also been packaged by Flathub. Other browsers, such as Firefox, and to a greater extent, LibreWolf, typically disable this or offer some way to use “Google Safe Browsing” to inspect this data using a local cache of hashed values which limits or totally eliminates data being sent to Google, and Brave proxies any such network requests so that you never interact with Google to stay safe online. Whereas, Microsoft Edge can only fairly be described as a “Keylogging Trojan Horse” that tells Microsoft about all your Web activity, including those naughty or embarrassing sites, and stores them on a Microsoft server, to be picked over to sell ads, and for purposes that can only be guessed at. Using Microsoft Edge is therefore sort of like being an inmate at Stateville Correctional Facility in Illinois, where the guard house can look into any particular cell whenever it wants to. Only, Edge goes further and records this so that a machine can analyze your browsing data, to sell creepy ads that follow you around, and share it with the government and “partners”, whoever those are. I put it in a Flatpak temporarily on a tertiary machine specifically so that I could remove some Microsoft Account data. (I have an Outlook Mail account, which I only give out to sites that want to spam me later with newsletters and crap. Let Microsoft store the garbage.) I don’t believe I ever did much in Edge, but when I briefly used Windows on this machine while Linux support was coming along, it may have grabbed something, because Edge_is_also_a_password_stealer (Bruce Schneier) from other Web browsers. Schneier also pointed out that Windows and Edge display “smartphone app” behavior, where they constantly ask to do the same bad thing until the user accidentally, or in frustration, ends up allowing it. On some occasions, Edge has grabbed people’s history and passwords out of other browsers while they were setting up Windows, even if they told it not to do that. When I was done with it, I deleted the Flatpak and erased its configuration folder under .var/app. Microsoft makes it a process to wipe your data from their sync server if you want to stop using Edge. To accomplish this, you basically have to trick it. There’s a button called “Reset Sync”, but they hide it behind something you have to click on in the Sync page under Settings. It’s really meant to be used to reset your Sync system if there’s an error on Microsoft’s server and it’s not syncing with other copies of Microsoft Edge. Classic Microsoft, instead of even trying to fix the bug, they have something that whacks the thing that’s malfunctioning and then tries to upload all of your data out of the local program. So what you do is, you go down about 15 toggles for syncing certain types of data, and turn them all off, then you click “Reset Sync” and once the server is cleared, it will update with all the types of data you want to sync, which is now hopefully nothing, and the server should therefore have nothing on it (but who knows what they keep). To test this, I wiped .var/app’s subfolder for Microsoft Edge with the browser closed, reopened it, signed in, and verified that logging into Sync pulled in nothing. On top of all of the spyware, ads, and visual clutter in Microsoft Edge, I generally find that the browser is just so “noisy” in its constant efforts to get your attention on something that makes money for Microsoft, or screens “bribing you” with Microsoft points and “free” access to some of their products only if you use Edge and sign into it, that it makes it flat-out impossible to even focus on the Web pages you’re trying to visit. Even attempting to turn this stuff off is difficult to document, and Microsoft leaves “breadcrumbs” for it everywhere so it is likely to be accidentally turned back on later. I can’t imagine a person with a condition that makes it difficult to focus trying to use Edge, or how a person with disabilities is supposed to use it when it has stuff that pops up everywhere shouting that you need to use “Office 365” and “Xbox” and “Microsoft Points”. The New Tab page is bad enough. By default, it’s MSN junk “curated” and written by chat robots. In summary, Microsoft Edge is so unpleasant to use that a person that’s become accustomed to another Web browser that makes it easy to focus, like LibreWolf, Brave, GNOME Web, or even proprietary ones like Vivaldi, would have a hard time legitimately defending why they would use Edge. It’s basically designed not only to steal your private data, but also to steal your attention away from Web sites and towards Microsoft. Its page rendering is maybe on par with other Chromium browsers, aside from the fact that everything Microsoft has written is just garbage riding on top of Chromium. Edge also heavily leans on the user to go to Bing, which is Microsoft’s search engine that can’t ever seem to grow its market share much past the Microsoft browsers that default to it. Edge, like Bing, is so lousy, they bribe people with company scrip, and it’s still not widely used. Brave is actually pretty cool. It just gets more cool as you discover more of the program. Brave was ranked as the most private commercially-available Web browser by the same academic study I cited earlier. Since the study, Microsoft Edge has only continued getting worse, while Brave has done more to defend your privacy than it did three years ago. Brave Software blogs about it quite frequently and even have a_list_of_malicious Chromium_features_they_patch_and_compile_out while creating their fork. So not only is Microsoft Edge nasty spyware with junk, it’s riding atop a platform that’s “open core” and pretty nasty all by itself. Designed that way by Google with Microsoft’s help. I have always browsed around in Brave with ad blocking and fingerprinting protection set to Aggressive, and while there are some things to shut off (the “Web 3 stuff, Brave Rewards, Brave News, Sponsored Wallpapers in New Tab”) and buttons to turn off in the GUI (related to those things), it’s not difficult and when they’re off the browser is not visually cluttered at all. And yes, I find it kind of lulzy, to be honest, the amount of “tech bruh” stuff in Brave, but turning it off and using the browser actually works pretty well. Brave isn’t really making money on you at this point and you can simply use the browser in peace. In the Shields setting, you can add content blocker subscriptions, including the ones to block “annoyances” and “cookies”, which are maintained by “Fanboy”, aka “ryanbr” who works at Brave now. The built-in content blocker is fast, and written in Rust, and like the rest of Brave’s code, is available under the Mozilla Public License 2.0, not some crummy Microsoft EULA that goes on forever. Unlike most browsers, Brave has a real “private mode” that can keep you safe from your ISP or library/public WiFi following you around, called “Private Mode with Tor Tabs”. Don’t ever expect this in Microsoft Edge. Like Google, it sits there watching everything. In most proprietary browsers, the only thing “Private Mode” actually does differently is that it does not log a local history while you’re using that tab, but Google has been caught spying on “Incognito” tabs in Google Chrome. It makes exceptions for itself. Brave is possibly the only commercial browser with a business model that I would say is “not unethical”, because the business model doesn’t spy on you and you can turn it offnever to be heard from again and just use this really neat and fast browser program (under the MPL, a Free Software license), without visual clutter or wondering who is “peering over your shoulder”. You shouldn’t have to feel like you’re being watched while you browse, and Microsoft Edge never lets you forget that you are being watched (and exploited). In the Soviet Union, they used to have armed guards watching all of the copying machines. In North Korea, they actually have a fork of Firefox that spies on people’s usage of their national “Internet” and submits them for punishment by the regime. This sort of behavior that you get with Microsoft Edge is the stuff that people in Communist countries have to put up with…but even THEY didn’t get ads from Microsoft’s commercial cesspit in the process. People who browse with Microsoft Edge are doing themselves a disservice, and people like Alan Pope should be ashamed for recommending it to Linux users. Microsoft used to port Internet Explorer to all kinds of platforms, and they dropped it without warning and left people without updates when they finished killing Netscape. When Microsoft gets done “faking their ratings” by buying glowing reviews, and determines that no self-respecting *nix user would touch this as a daily driver, they’ll abandon it. They lay tens of thousands of people off now, including people working on Edge. How important will the Linux port be? Linux users don’t really strike me as the type to like to be spied on and have a browser opening MSN and offering them “online shopping coupons” that don’t even work. There’s no “I’m a Web developer.” use case either. You can check your sites in Chromium. Nothing in Edge screamed “I’m a computer expert. I use Debian.”, no, it was just a straight up copy of this utterly garbage Windows browser. Would you let a garbage truck driver borrow your Rolls-Royce? -The Cat, Red Dwarf I think that the only reason anyone would open this thing, on Windows, is that this is where Microsoft has put the rotting guts of Internet Explorer’s Trident engine. They may need this to get at an ActiveX control that never got updated. Microsoft is pushing “Internet Explorer Mode” as a feature, on Windows 11. The entire Internet Explorer 11 browser is there and can be “manipulated” into opening up despite Microsoft’s efforts to force you to interact with Edge to use Trident. In Linux, there’s no IE Trident to deal with corporate Intranet apps that some asshole wrote 20 years ago, so Microsoft’s only leverage to use it doesn’t exist anyway. Frankly, it’s amazing that Microsoft’s star feature, Internet Explorer Mode, relies on a browser so dangerous that the US Department of Homeland Security warned people in 2004 that they needed to use another browser because Microsoft wasn’t interested in securing theirs. I have a “browsing appliance” set up where I’ve created this rigged icon to open Internet Explorer directly anyway to deal with one ActiveX control on an Intranet set, in a Virtual Machine, and then the entire VM gets shut down. Thankfully, mercifully, like a fever dream, Microsoft is gone. Nothing else can run these things so Microsoft still continues to benefit from antitrust crimes it committed 25 years ago. I did the “rigged icon” deliberately so I don’t have Edge screaming at me about “Microsoft Points” and “Xboxes” and “Free Office Trials” every time I’m trying to get at an ActiveX control that should have been replaced years ago. There are some corporations out there, like Walmart, that will spend gobs of money trying to be cheap. █ “Back off man, I’m a scientist!” -Peter Venkman (Ghostbusters) ⡟⠿⣿⣿⣻⣿⣛⢻⣿⣿⠟⡟⠿⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣻⣿⡿⣿⣿⡟⢿⣿⢻⣿⣿⣿⣟⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⡿⣛⣛⣿⣿⣿⣟⢿⣿⣿⣿⠿⣿⠟⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⢿⠿⢻⣿⣿⣿⡿⢿⣿⣿⣿⠿⠻⣿⣿⣿⠿⡟⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣟⠧⠿⣸⣿⠧⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⡤⠷⣾⣿⣿⠿⠿⠿⣿⣿⣿⡏⡩⢵⣿⣿⣿⣟⠲⠈⠉⣿⣿⣿⣑⢱⠆⣈⣿⣿⡏⠁⠴⢻⣿⣿⡿⣿⢸⣿⣿⣖⡻⠖⣢⣿⣿⡻⡭⢛⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣟⣟⣛⣿⣿⣿⣿⣛⣻⣿⣿⣟⣻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣛⣿⣓⣖⣻⣿⣟⣛⣻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣟⣛⣛⣿⣿⣿⣿⣛⣟⣿⣿⣿⣛⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣚⣻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⡿⣛⣽⣷⣶⣶⠶⠂⠀⠀⠀⠀⢰⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣖⣲⣶⣶⣶⣖⣶⣲⣶⣶⣶⣒⣲⣖⣶⣒⣶⣖⣖⣲⣶⣶⣦⠀⠀⠀⠀⠄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠤⠠⠤⠠⢠⡆⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸ ⡏⠉⠉⣉⣁⣀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢰⣾ ⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿ ⡇⠀⠂⠉⠁⠚⠃⠀⠀⠇⠆⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢰⡖⣶⢲⣶⣖⡆⣶⢲⡖⠌⠧⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿ ⡇⠀⠄⠄⠄⠤⠀⠀⢸⡛⢗⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠘⠃⠋⠛⠘⠚⠛⠋⠚⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿ ⡇⢀⠀⢀⠀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿ ⡇⠀⠁⠀⠈⠁⠀⠀⠀⠐⠀⠀⠀⠀⢰⣠⡦⢖⡴⡖⠴⠀⡆⣆⢴⡄⠀⡄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⢀⡀⠀⣀⣠⠀⢀⢀⣀⣀⡀⠀⠀⣀⡀⡀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡀⠀⡀⠀⢸⣿ ⡇⠀⠂⠐⠒⠒⠒⠂⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡀⠀⣀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⠀⢀⡀⠀⡀⠀⣼⣿ ⡇⠠⡄⠤⠤⠤⠀⠀⠀⢀⢦⠀⢰⣶⡶⠶⢿⡾⣿⢿⡿⠶⢶⡶⡶⣶⡶⣶⡶⡶⣶⣶⣶⡶⣶⢶⠶⠶⠶⠶⣶⡶⠶⢶⢶⣶⠶⠶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣾⣾⣷⣷⣷⣿⣿⣿ ⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠉⠉⠀⢸⣷⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠿⠿⠿⡿⣿⣿⣿⢿⡿⡿⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣿⠋⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⣿⣿ ⡇⠠⠠⠤⠄⠠⠠⠤⠄⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣻⣻⣻⣟⣟⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣿⢿⢿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠤⣤⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿ ⡇⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⢰⣒⠀⢸⡟⣿⣿⣿⡟⢿⢿⣿⣿⣻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⢿⣿⣟⢿⡿⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠳⠶⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿ ⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣽⣽⣭⣿⣭⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠊⠁⠑⠑⠑⢂⡂⠀⡒⠀⠀⣿⣿ ⡇⠀⠀⢀⣀⣀⡄⣀⢠⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣶⠾⠿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠀⠀⠀⠁⠀⣿⣿ ⡇⠀⠀⠈⠈⠉⠉⠈⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣻⣛⣻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿ ⡇⠀⠀⠠⠄⠁⢈⠈⠥⡀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣽⣽⢽⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⣤⣀⠄⠤⠤⠤⢄⠤⠤⣤⣤⣤⣿⣿ ⡇⠀⣠⣀⢒⡐⣖⢀⡔⠂⠀⠀⢸⣿⣺⣶⣻⣿⣳⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⠒⣺⠶⠾⡾⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⡇⠀⠀⣀⣀⡓⡓⡂⣀⡀⠀⠀⢸⣯⣯⣭⣿⣭⣽⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣶⣷⣷⣶⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢙⠛⣿⣻⣛⡻⣛⣻⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣏⣽⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⡇⠀⣴⣶⣶⣖⣶⣶⣶⣶⣤⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠏⠰⠦⠀⠹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⡇⠀⠓⠛⠐⠂⠈⠊⠛⠙⠋⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡀⢐⣃⡀⠀⣽⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 1331 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at http://techrights.org/2023/09/02/thoughts-on-mastodon-and-reddit/#comments Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2023/09/02/thoughts-on-mastodon-and-reddit/ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 09.02.23⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Mastodon:_A_Community_So_Vile_They_Even_Eat_Their_Own._More_Thoughts_On Reddit.⠀✐ Posted in Site_News at 7:05 pm by Guest Editorial Team Reprinted with permission from Ryan_Farmer. Mastodon: A Community So Vile They Even Eat Their Own. Today in Techrights IRC, Roy Schestowitz posted a_link_to_a_Gemini_Pod. For those without a Gemini client (emphasis mine): Why I don’t use the Fediverse 1. The technology sucks. Activity Pub is half baked, and was rolled out prematurely to create Mastadon. 2. Mastadon is a Twitter clone and Lemmy is a Reddit clone. I hate the originals. Why would the clones be better? 3. Mastadon doesn’t work at all without Javascript. Lemmy barely works without it. Puke! 4. The people there are not nicer than Twitter or Reddit. Their mobs just have different political motivations. Never forget how Wil Wheaton fled Mastadon after getting bullied. 5. No account freedom. You are stuck on your instance, and if they boot you, you have to start over.In this limited respect Nostr is superior. 6. AIDS doesn’t cure cancer. => /s/Fediverse Posted in: s/Fediverse => /u/LittlePrince 🚀 LittlePrince I agree with this author completely. It’s hard to find a more outspoken tree hugging liberal hippie than Wil Wheaton and_the_Cancel_Mob_even_came_after_him,_apparently. Like most tree hugging liberal hippies, Wheaton is sufficiently vile, that he attacks_his_own_mother_and_father,_in_public, which is something that in decent cultures, like Japan, you would NEVER do. (Parents suffer and sacrifice for their children, only to be publicly impugned by the little snot as soon as they’re old enough to get on the Web.) Wil Wheaton is vile. It’s basically, “Mah parents abused me! They’re the only reason people know who I am and I have money now!”, “Did you knowmy Dad is such an evil man he saved millions of infants with ECMO?” (Including my brother, btw.) “But he watches Bill O’Reilly!”. I mean, Wheaton is an idiot. A vile idiot. So vile that he should have fit right in with the rest of the leftist troll mob on Mastodon. Humorously, The Verge quoted Eugen Rochko, the creator of Mastodon and the Admin of Mastodon dot social which_banned_me, as saying he was unhappy with how the situation regarding Wil Wheaton was handled. Fundamentally, these “Social Control Networks” are just infuriating. On the off chance they have information you sought, you need to back it up, LOCALLY, in case it ever gets deleted. In fact, when I was looking for a source about the Wil Wheaton Incident, one link was to Reddit. I clicked on it, and the entire post had been removed. Reddit is one of those platforms for censorship. You post something informative that mods or Reddit doesn’t like, it vanishes. Unfortunately, search engines are starting to index and prioritize Reddit, and then you click on more posts that aren’t there. The Wayback Machine at the Internet Archive doesn’t always have them either. Sometimes, some bot went scraping photos on Reddit or something, and they still exist in some spamfarm’s cache. Is this really the Web we want and deserve? I say it isn’t. It’s very much not only mob rule, but it’s rule by idiots that are in charge because they own the place, or registered the subreddit before someone else could. So a lot of the time, it’s random malicious idiots. Which are worse than garden variety idiots. It would be useful if something scrapes Reddit in real time, ignores robots.txt restrictions and retains it indefinitely. If there’s something like that though, I don’t know what it is. The “New Reddit” even recently got a makeover that makes it heavier and less compatible than ever. Brave can handle it because it’s written in Web Bundles and other Chrome-ism junk. SeaMonkey just renders it like Reddit went through a Cuisinart. In most of my browsers, I have an extension that forces everything to load on Old Reddit and removes the “Get New Reddit” button and suppresses their cookies prompts, but SeaMonkey’s extensions platform is too old for Old Reddit Redirect to work. Luckily, the Searx.be search defaults to Old Reddit. (Which looks better in all browsers anyway.) I learned to lurk and backup any information I find that’s useful in text or something locally. Because it has a habit of disappearing later. Bookmarking Reddit and thinking you’ll just come back and refer to it later is bad. There’s a lot of Web rot, but Reddit is worse than Web rot. Did I mention I hate Reddit? █ ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 1491 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at http://techrights.org/2023/09/02/vista-11-rotting/#comments Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2023/09/02/vista-11-rotting/ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 09.02.23⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Lenovo_Profits_Down_66%_in_Q1_on_24%_Lower_Revenue,_Vista_11_Hasn’t_Picked_Up Net_Users_Since_April⠀✐ Posted in Asia, Hardware, Microsoft, Windows at 8:17 pm by Guest Editorial Team Reprinted with permission from Ryan_Farmer. Lenovo Profits Down 66% in Q2 on 24% Lower Revenue. Windows 11 Hasn’t Picked Up Net Users Since April. Lenovo_Group’s_First-Quarter_Profit_Declined_66% (in Q1 as revenue fell 24%) - Morningstar Rejection of Windows 11 and a dour economy have forced consumers to run their PCs until the wheels fall off. I looked at Lenovo’s Web site, and they’re boasting that you can “downgrade” to Windows 10, even on PCs as cheap as $249. Despite major price cuts on all their models, they can’t move inventory well. Windows 11 has failed to gain any net users between April and August 2023, according_to_BetaNews, citing StatCounter. 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇statCounter_Aug_2023_Windows⦈_ This is a graph just showing Windows versions by market share in the Windows world. But all versions of Windows counted together, are down to just_69.27%_of desktop_operating_systems according to StatCounter in August 2023. If you count all devices with an OS, Windows_is_30.12%. Microsoft really screwed the pooch with Windows 11. It’s so bad that even after all this time, it has yet to actually cut into its predecessor. Most new users are just replacing Windows XP and 7 machines that finally died while Windows as a whole bleeds desktop users to (mostly), Mac, Linux, Chrome OS (which is also Linux and runs applications through Debian). Their blind devotion to Microsoft, which is now laying off tens of thousands, is not paying off well at Lenovo. It’s basically the same story at other OEMs. I have some advice for Lenovo. Get out while you still have a company, quit sucking up to Microsoft, and give your customers what they want. Every time I buy a laptop from you, killing Windows and replacing it with Linux gets harder. If you don’t shape up, you’ll lose your next sale to System76 (where I know it runs Linux and can deploy the OS of my choice) or leave x86 entirely to use Linux, and you have no products in that market at all. You have some Linux choices, but perhaps working with Microsoft, you keep the specs limited to where it’s “better” to just buy something with Windows and more RAM and replace it with Linux right away, however System76 has lots of nice systems that are price-competitive with you. Maybe some people reading this didn’t know that. Viewing me as a “single pesky customer” is a bad idea. I shouldn’t have had to file an antitrust complaint against you with Illinois to get you to settle to fix your systems so that Linux could boot. Giving your customers what they want is the foundation of a successful business that wants to be around for a long run. You lose money because nobody wants this ridiculous Windows 11. Even Microsoft ends up competing with its own products, which users cling to years, sometimes decades after they become unsupported. When looking at StatCounter, you still see that over 0.3% of Windows users are still on XP and using it on the Internet. There’s a lot of people out there who simply can’t upgrade to something newer (from Microsoft, although Linux has a habit of running indefintely), because every time Microsoft releases something it can take up to double the RAM and CPU cycles, and in Windows 11, they’ve hidden the bloat by setting baseline requirements for a really fast computer to run it at all or they fake error screens to prevent you from seeing how bad it really is. █ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠛⠟⠻⠟⠛⠻⠛⠻⠃⠤⠀⠄⠀⠀⠤⠀⠠⠀⠀⠀⠠⠿⠻⠟⠛⠟⠻⠟⠛⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣤⡄⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⡆⣿⣿ ⣿⡇⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠿⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠿⠿⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⢿⣿ ⣿⡇⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣤⣤⣤⣤⣭⣭⣉⣉⣛⣛⠛⠛⠿⠿⠿⠿⠟⠛⠛⠛⣋⣩⣤⣶⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣶⣶⣦⣤⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣴⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣴⣶⣶⣶⡆⣾⣿ ⠛⠃⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣶⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⣿⣿ ⣿⡇⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⣿⣿ ⣿⡇⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⣿⣿ ⠿⠇⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⣿⣿ ⣤⡄⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⡆⣿⣿ ⣿⡇⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠛⠁⠀⠈⠙⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⣿⣿ ⣿⡇⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡏⠀⠀⢀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡿⠛⠛⠿⠛⠛⠿⠛⠟⠻⢟⠟⠛⠛⠻⠛⠟⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⣿⣿ ⣉⡁⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⡃⠀⠀⠛⠋⠀⠀⣀⣃⣀⣀⣁⣀⣀⣁⣈⣀⣀⣈⣀⣘⣀⣈⣀⣀⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⡃⣿⣿ ⣿⡇⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣄⡀⠀⠀⢠⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⣿⣿ ⣿⡇⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⠿⠿⠟⠛⢛⣋⣉⣉⣉⣉⣉⣉⣉⣉⣉⣉⣩⣭⣥⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣉⣉⣉⣉⡁⣹⣿ ⠿⠇⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠟⠟⠛⠛⠛⡛⣉⣋⣉⣉⣉⣉⣩⣭⣤⣤⣴⣶⣶⣶⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⣿⣿ ⣶⡆⠒⠒⢒⣒⣒⣂⣀⣀⣠⣤⣤⣤⣤⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⡶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⡆⣿⣿ ⣿⡇⣶⣤⣤⣤⣴⣦⣤⣤⣬⣭⣭⣍⣉⣩⣩⣭⣭⣭⣤⣤⣤⣶⣤⣴⣶⣤⣤⣤⣭⣉⣉⡙⠛⠛⠻⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⣿⣿ ⣿⡇⠿⠿⠿⠛⠟⠻⠻⠿⠿⠛⠛⠟⠻⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠻⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠛⠛⠿⠿⠿⠿⠛⠿⠿⣷⡶⣤⠤⢌⣍⣀⣙⠋⠉⠙⠛⠛⠛⠛⠋⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠉⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠋⠋⠉⠙⠛⠙⠛⠛⠃⢹⣿ ⣁⣀⣀⣀⣁⣀⣀⠀⢀⣀⣀⣀⣀⠀⢀⣀⣀⣀⣀⡀⠀⣀⣀⣀⣀⡀⠀⣀⣀⣀⣀⡀⠀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⠀⢀⣀⣀⣀⣀⠀⢀⣀⣀⣀⣀⠀⢀⣁⣀⣀⣀⡀⠀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⠀⣀⣀⣁⣀⡀⠀⣀⣁⣀⣈⣀⠀⢸⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡟⢀⣼⣿⣿⣿⠇⢀⣾⣿⣿⣿⡟⢀⣴⣿⣿⣿⡿⠃⣠⣿⣿⣿⡿⠃⣰⣿⣿⣿⣿⠃⢠⣾⣿⣿⣿⠟⢀⣼⣿⣿⣿⠏⢀⣾⣿⣿⣿⡟⠀⣴⣿⣿⣿⣿⠃⣠⣿⣿⣿⣿⠇⣰⣿⣿⣿⣿⠃⢠⣾⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣄⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣤⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣤⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⢧⠴⡿⢿⡿⡿⡷⢼⡿⠿⠿⠿⡿⠴⠿⠿⢿⡿⡿⢤⢾⡿⠿⠿⠿⣤⡾⠿⣿⠿⡿⢤⢴⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⣰⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣴⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣤⣾⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⣠⣀⣀⣸⣤⣄⣄⣀⣤⣄⣄⣠⣇⣄⣀⣀⣸⣄⣄⣀⣸⣄⣤⣄⣤⣶⣦⣀⣤⣀⣀⣀⣸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 1640 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐃𝐀𝐈𝐋𝐘 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒 ═════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 09.02.23⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Leftover_Links_02/09/2023:_Bad_USPTO_Policies⠀✐ Posted in News_Roundup at 2:55 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇GNOME bluefish⦈ § Contents⠀➾ * Leftovers o Hardware o Proprietary/Artificial_Intelligence_(AI) o Security # Privacy/Surveillance o Defence/Aggression o Environment # Energy/Transportation o Finance o AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics o Censorship/Free_Speech o Civil_Rights/Policing o Monopolies # Patents * § Leftovers⠀➾ o ⚓ Ruben Schade ☛ The_POPCAKE_airport_lounge_pancake_maker⠀⇛ Welcome to September, a month representing an absurd amount of progress through 2023. Isn’t it supposed to still be May? I find myself in Melbourne for work and related matters, which gives me an opportunity to discuss a topic that’s been near and dear to my heart for many years. o ⚓ JURIST ☛ UN:_Organized_crime_in_Southeast_Asia_coerces_thousands into_online_fraud⠀⇛ The United Nations Human Rights Office said in a new report on Tuesday that criminal syndicates in Southeast Asia are forcing hundreds of thousands of individuals into online criminal activity, including operating fraudulent investment schemes and facilitating unlawful gambling.  o § Hardware⠀➾ # ⚓ Andrew Hutchings ☛ Amiga_1200_Restoration⠀⇛ Someone recently sent me their Amiga 1200, which used to be their pride and joy, for free, to look after. They no longer had a use for it. It needed a bit of work, so I decided to document it. This Amiga This machine came with a case that was not in great condition. # ⚓ The Next Platform ☛ Arm_Gets_Closer_To_Creating_Full-Blown Server_CPU_Designs⠀⇛ It takes too long to get a new compute engine in the field, and everybody complains about it. # ⚓ IT Wire ☛ Australian_smartphone_market_follows_the_global trend_down⠀⇛ On the plus side, the sales of devices priced above US$1000 (A$1541) continued to grow, IDC said without providing a specific figure. sales of mid- range phones showed a downward trend, while the lower end saw sales rise. The average selling price of a smartphone in Australia rose by 5% year-on-year in the quarter but saw a 10% drop from the previous quarter, going down to US$755. o § Proprietary/Artificial Intelligence (AI)⠀➾ # ⚓ CRN ☛ Microsoft_Cloud_Tools_Vendor_SkyKick_Confirms_Layoff Of_140_Employees⠀⇛ SkyKick, whose products include tools to migrate to and backup for Microsoft 365, has confirmed to CRN that the vendor is laying off more than 100 employees worldwide. In a statement to CRN, Todd Schwartz – co-CEO of Seattle-based SkyKick – said that the layoff was a “tough decision” and due to “current market conditions.” “We are well positioned and remain steadfastly committed to ensuring our partners’ success in the cloud over the long-term,” Schwartz said. # ⚓ CRA_fires_120_employees,_staff_‘inappropriately_claimed’ CERB⠀⇛ The Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) has fired dozens of employees who “inappropriately claimed the Canada Emergency Response Benefit (CERB)” during the COVID-19 pandemic. According to news outlets, including CTV News, the agency said in a statement on Sept. 1 that “120 individuals are not longer with the CRA.” “The CRA takes any form of wrongdoing very seriously, and is strongly committed to protecting the integrity of Canada’s tax and benefit systems and demonstrating to Canadians that [we are] a trusted and fair organization,” the statement reads. o § Security⠀➾ # ⚓ Mitigations_for_Important_Vim_Code_Execution,_DoS_Vulns Released⠀⇛ Several denial of service (DoS) and code execution vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Vim enhanced vi editor. # ⚓ SANS ☛ Potential_Weaponizing_of_Honeypot_Logs_[Guest Diary],_(Thu,_Aug_31st)⠀⇛ [This is a Guest Diary by James Turner, an ISC intern as part of the SANS.edu BACS program] # ⚓ SANS ☛ The_low,_low_cost_of_(committing)_cybercrime,_(Thu, Aug_31st)⠀⇛ # ⚓ LWN ☛ Security_updates_for_Friday⠀⇛ Security updates have been issued by Debian (chromium, firefox-esr, and gst-plugins-ugly1.0), Fedora (firefox, libeconf, libwebsockets, mosquitto, and rust-rustls-webpki), SUSE (amazon- ssm-agent, open-vm-tools, and terraform-provider- helm), and Ubuntu (linux-azure, linux-azure, linux- azure-5.15, linux-azure-fde, linux-gcp-5.15, linux- gcp-5.4, linux-oracle-5.4, linux-gkeop, linux- gkeop-5.15, linux-intel-iotg, linux-kvm, linux- oracle, and python-git). # ⚓ TFS ☛ Za:_Enforcement_Notice_Issued_To_Dis-Chem_For Violating_POPIA⠀⇛ On the 31st of August 2023, the Information Regulator took action by issuing an Enforcement Notice against Dis-Chem, due to their non- compliance with several provisions of the Protection of Personal Information Act (POPIA). In the timeline of events, it was revealed that during the months of April and May in 2022, a brute force attack was launched against Grapevine, a third-party service provider engaged by Dis-Chem. A brute force attack involves repeated attempts to guess a password until the correct combination is discovered. It wasn’t until the 1st of May 2022 that Dis-Chem became aware of this security breach when certain employees received SMS notifications. # ⚓ Yahoo News ☛ NPS_tells_media,_families_it_will_strive_to communicate_better⠀⇛ In August’s board meeting, Norman Public Schools announced it would improve its relationship with media outlets and parents. “We are always wanting to make sure we have ongoing transparent easily-accessible communication, not only internally, but externally as well,” said Holly Nevels, the associate superintendent and chief human resource officer, at the meeting. “We want our internal staff, teachers, and students to feel informed, and we certainly want our community to feel informed and connect to our schools,” she added. The district has adjusted language in its 2022-2027 Strategic Plan to bolster its commitment to open communication, said Chelsey Kraft, the director of communications, public relations, and public information officer for the district, in an interview with The Transcript. # ⚓ Data Breaches ☛ Norman_Public_Schools_tells_media,_families it_will_strive_to_communicate_better⠀⇛ Well, it seems one school district has seen the light and will try to be more transparent and timely in the event of security incidents. Norman Public Schools in Oklahoma experienced a ransomware attack in November 2022. At the time, DataBreaches was revealing more details about the breach by the Hive ransomware gang and the leaked data than the district had revealed and noted the district had not responded to this site’s inquiries. # ⚓ Education_Sector_Heavily_Targeted_as_the_School_Year Begins⠀⇛ As the 2023 school year begins, threat actors are poised to launch various types of cyberattacks ranging from direct deposit scams to ransomware. The education sector is often targeted during holiday breaks. Threat actors take advantage of this pastime when staff is away or just prior to busy seasons, such as the beginning of the school year, long weekends, or before the end of a marking period when final grades are due. Within the last few weeks, publicly announced ransomware attacks sharply increased and included Cleveland City Schools in Tennessee, the Prince George’s County Public Schools – one of the largest US school districts with approximately 130,000 students in the Washington D.C. area – and the University of Michigan, just three weeks after the MOVEit data theft attack impacted Michigan State University. # ⚓ Data Breaches ☛ At_some_point,_SNAtch_Team_stopped_being the_Snatch_ransomware_gang._Were_journalists_the_last_to know?⠀⇛ In December 2019, Sophos published an analysis of Snatch ransomware. In June 2020, DFIR Report provided a case study, and in July 2020, LIFARS wrote an article about Snatch ransomware having been detected in attacks in June. Since then, the Snatch leak site has continued to add victims and the media (including DataBreaches) has continued to report on their attacks, but somehow, none of us reporting on Snatch seemed to know that there had been a seismic shift in their operations. On some date unknown to DataBreaches, the gang that took its name as fans of the movie “Snatch” was no longer a ransomware gang. To say that DataBreaches was surprised to realize that we might have been misreporting them as a ransomware gang would be an understatement. # ⚓ USDOJ ☛ United_States_v_Alexander_Pakhtusov⠀⇛ Alexander Pakhtusov was a seller on both Slilpp and Paysell (now called Blackpass) using the moniker “Mrtikov.” His overall involvement spanned from at least April 2016 through September 2019 and included listing for sale over 17 million economically valuable accounts of individuals held at various companies and banks. He actually sold over 14,000 sets of login credentials. The people who purchased those login credentials used those credentials to steal money from victim accounts. # ⚓ Security Week ☛ Sourcegraph_Discloses_Data_Breach_Following Access_Token_Leak⠀⇛ Sourcegraph says customer information was breached after an engineer accidentally leaked an admin access token. # ⚓ Security Week ☛ Over_$1_Million_Offered_at_New_Pwn2Own Automotive_Hacking_Contest⠀⇛ ZDI is offering more than $1 million at the Pwn2Own Automotive hacking contest, hosted in January at the Automotive World conference in Tokyo. # ⚓ Security Week ☛ Energy_Department_Offering_$9M_in Cybersecurity_Competition_for_Small_Electric_Utilities⠀⇛ Small electric utilities in the US offered $9 million as part of a competition whose goal is to help them boost their cybersecurity posture. # ⚓ Security Week ☛ Vulnerability_in_WordPress_Migration_Plugin Exposes_Websites_to_Attacks⠀⇛ A vulnerability in the All-in-One WP Migration plugin’s extensions exposes WordPress websites to attacks leading to sensitive information disclosure. # ⚓ Security Week ☛ Splunk_Patches_High-Severity_Flaws_in Enterprise,_IT_Service_Intelligence⠀⇛ Splunk has released patches for multiple high- severity vulnerabilities impacting Splunk Enterprise and IT Service Intelligence. # ⚓ Security Week ☛ Dangling_DNS_Used_to_Hijack_Subdomains_of Major_Organizations⠀⇛ Dangling DNS records were abused by researchers to hijack subdomains belonging to major organizations, warning that thousands of entities are impacted. # ⚓ Security Week ☛ 500k_Impacted_by_Data_Breach_at_Fashion Retailer_Forever_21⠀⇛ Fashion retailer Forever 21 says that the personal information of more than 500,000 individuals was compromised in a data breach. # ⚓ IT Wire ☛ Optus_says_it_will_not_release_Deloitte_report into_data_breach⠀⇛ Telco Singtel Optus will not release a report into the data breach it suffered last year, which it commissioned professional services firm Deloitte to carry out, the company has confirmed. Asked about the report on Thursday, an Optus spokesperson said: “Optus can confirm that Deloitte has completed its report. The report is confidential and the subject of a legal professional privilege claim.” No details were given as to the “legal professional privilege claim”. # ⚓ Security Week ☛ Lawsuit_Accuses_University_of_Minnesota_of Not_Doing_Enough_to_Prevent_Data_Breach⠀⇛ A lawsuit filed on behalf of a former student and former employee at the University of Minnesota accuses the university of not doing enough to protect personal information from a recent data breach. # § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾ # ⚓ Bruce Schneier ☛ Own_Your_Own_Government_Surveillance Van⠀⇛ A used government surveillance van is for sale in Chicago: So how was this van turned into a mobile spying center? Well, let’s start with how it has more LCD monitors than a Counterstrike LAN party. They can be used to monitor any of six different video inputs including a videoscope camera. A videoscope and a borescope are very similar as they’re both cameras on the ends of optical fibers, so the same tech you’d use to inspect cylinder walls is also useful for surveillance. Kind of cool, right? Multiple Sony DVD-based video recorders store footage captured by cameras, audio recorders by high- end equipment brand Marantz capture sounds, and time and date generators sync gathered media up for accurate analysis. Circling back around to audio, this van features seven different audio inputs including a body wire channel… o § Defence/Aggression⠀➾ # ⚓ Increase_in_torture_complaints_brought_to_the_attention_of the_Parliament⠀⇛ DEVA Party Istanbul MP Yeneroğlu stated that there was a 22 percent increase in the submissions received by the Human Rights Foundation in 2022 related to torture compared to the previous year. # ⚓ RFA ☛ Chinese_Coast_Guard_water_cannon_attack_on_Vietnamese fishing_boat_leaves_2_injured⠀⇛ Move reflects Beijing’s strategy of ‘rocking the tree to threaten the monkey,’ an observer says. # ⚓ Defence Web ☛ Niger’s_coup_weakens_regional_fight_against Boko_Haram:_four_reasons_why⠀⇛ Niger’s President Mohamed Bazoum was detained and deposed on 26 July by his military guard under the command of General Abdourahamane Tchiani. The unconstitutional change of government has been widely condemned internationally. Ecowas, the regional group, also issued sanctions and threatened military intervention. # ⚓ France24 ☛ Ecuador_rocked_by_gang-related_violence_as_law enforcement_officers_taken_hostage_in_prisons⠀⇛ Ecuador’s fragile security situation was underscored Thursday by a series of car bombings and the hostage-taking of more than 50 law enforcement officers inside various prisons, just weeks after the country was shaken by the assassination of a presidential candidate. # ⚓ France24 ☛ African_Union_to_‘immediately_suspend’_Gabon after_military_coup_ousts_Bongo⠀⇛ The African Union’s Peace and Security Council said Thursday it had decided to “immediately suspend” Gabon following a coup that ousted President Ali Bongo. The decision came as the junta that took power announced it would respect Gabon’s commitments at home and abroad in a bid to reassure the international community. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Suicide_Bomber_Attacks_Security_Convoy_In Northwestern_Pakistan,_Killing_Nine_Soldiers⠀⇛ At least nine Pakistani soldiers have been killed and 20 more injured in a suicide attack that targeted a security convoy in northwestern Pakistan. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ U.S._Lauds_Kyrgyz_Repatriation_Of_95_People_From Camps_In_Northeast_Syria⠀⇛ The United States has lauded Kyrgyzstan for its repatriation of 95 women and children from northeast Syria, calling it “important towards resolving the humanitarian and security challenges in the region.” # ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ China’s_Chongqing_first_to_roll_out local_anti-espionage_rules⠀⇛ Chongqing, a Chinese megacity of more than 32 million people, has pioneered a local version of the country’s expanded counter-espionage law, requiring institutions to go through security screening when organising overseas trips. # ⚓ France24 ☛ UN_renews_Lebanon_peacekeeping_mission_after dispute_over_troop_movement⠀⇛ The United Nations Security Council on Thursday renewed the mandate for its peacekeeping force in Lebanon for another year after tense debate around the troops’ freedom of movement. o § Environment⠀➾ # § Energy/Transportation⠀➾ # ⚓ Home_Charging⠀⇛ I recently wrote about my experiences in driving_a_fully_electric_car. Today, the electrician dropped by and installed a charging box in my garage. Finally I can do 11kW charging from home, at the lowest possible price. o § Finance⠀➾ # ⚓ Sputnik_Strike:_Court_rejects_request_by_management_to suspend_the_strike⠀⇛ Sputnik Turkey management, which has fired 24 journalists after the strike action at the news outlet was announced, went to court against the strike, but the 4th Labor Court of Istanbul rejected taking a “precautionary measure” against the strike. # ⚓ Quartz ☛ Muhammad_Yunus,_the_father_of_microfinance,_is facing_a_prison_sentence⠀⇛ Among foreign economists and civil society activists, the Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus is an icon for extending microloans to those too poor to access conventional banks. o § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾ # ⚓ Axios ☛ AG_Merrick_Garland_denounces_election_worker threats_as_DOJ_charges_over_a_dozen_people⠀⇛ The DOJ announced Thursday that two men in two separate cases in Arizona and Georgia had pleaded guilty to threatening election officials in the respective states in separate cases, brought by the the Justice Department’s Election Threats Task Force — which has now brought charges in 14 cases. o § Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾ # ⚓ RFA ☛ China_jails_economics_professor_who_highlighted government’s_personnel_costs⠀⇛ Yang Shaozheng’s sentence comes amid allegations of torture from his legal defense team. # ⚓ Latvia ☛ Latvian_citizen_detained_for_suspected_terrorism glorification⠀⇛ The State Security Service (VDD) has detained a citizen of Latvia of Islamic faith in relation to suspected public glorification and justification of terrorism, as well as the distribution of materials glorifying, justifying, and appealing to terrorism, the VDD said August 31. o § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾ # ⚓ AccessNow ☛ An_open_letter_to_the_RightsCon_community_about RightsCon_Costa_Rica_and_what_comes_next⠀⇛ We explain the challenges and exclusion some participants faced, apologize and take accountability for our role, and share thoughts on the road ahead. # ⚓ ACLU ☛ Together,_We’re_Changing_the_Face_of_Crisis_Response in_D.C.⠀⇛ Ezenwa Oruh was a creative spirit who loved storytelling and was pursuing his dream of being an actor. He was a wonderful uncle to his sister Chioma Oruh’s two children, who are both autistic. Ezenwa also had schizophrenia, and would sometimes become dysregulated and disoriented. Sometimes, his family would have to call 911 for help. They knew the responders would be police, but they had no other option. “When the police come on site oftentimes — whether it’s for my brother, or the children that I birthed, or other children in the community that go through these crises — the last thing on the mind of a first responder is that these children are brilliant, that they’re loved, that they have gifts, that they offer things to the community,” said Chioma. “The problem is not their family or their condition, but it’s about how the system responds to them and their condition and their loved ones who only seek and want help.” # ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ ‘Walking_Dead’_spinoffs,_‘Interview With_the_Vampire’_can_resume_with_actors’_union_approval⠀⇛ Two spinoffs of “The Walking Dead” and the next season of “Interview With the Vampire” will be resuming production despite the Hollywood strikes after reaching a deal with the actors’ union. The union granted what’s known as an interim agreement to the three shows on cable channel AMC. The agreements, which have been granted to hundreds of films and TV shows, allow productions outside the alliance of major studios to resume, so long as they grant actors what they were asking for before the strike broke out. The shows are the highest profile series yet to get the deals, which some actors say are undermining their strike. # ⚓ Reason ☛ Court_Also_Strikes_Down_“Public_Health_Warning” for_Porn_Sites⠀⇛ From today’s long decision in Free Speech Coalition, Inc. v. Colmenero, by Judge David Alan Ezra (W.D. Tex.) (see here for excerpts from the part of the decision that strikes down the separate age-verification requirement): [...] # ⚓ LRT ☛ Plans_for_teachers’_strike_mar_start_of_new_school year_in_Lithuania⠀⇛ The new school year is kicking off in Lithuania on Friday amid tensions over teachers’ plans to go on strike if the government fails to raise their salaries. # ⚓ University of Michigan ☛ What_happened_with_the_GEO_strike over_the_summer⠀⇛ In November 2022, the Graduate Employees’ Organization and the University of Michigan began negotiating a new contract for Graduate Student Instructors and Graduate Student Staff Assistants. Negotiations continued through the school year with no resolution, eventually leading GEO to go on strike March 27. o § Monopolies⠀➾ # ⚓ Public Knowledge ☛ What_the_Landmark_U.S._v._Google Antitrust_Suit_Means_for_Search_—_And_for_You⠀⇛ The case could have widespread effects on the internet as we know it. # ⚓ Computing UK ☛ Microsoft_backs_down_to_Europe_over_Teams and_Edge⠀⇛ Tech giant will unbundle Teams from Office 365 and stop links opening in Edge by default – but only for European customers. # ⚓ IT Wire ☛ Microsoft_says_Teams_to_be_unbundled_from_Office in_EU_from_1_Oct⠀⇛ Linde said Microsoft would enhance existing resources on inter-operability with Microsoft 365 and Office 365. “…we have heard feedback that, given the broad capabilities of Microsoft 365, Microsoft could do more in terms of providing support and making development easier,” she said. “To help address these concerns, we will create new support resources to better organise and point application developers to the existing and publicly available APIs and extensibility in Microsoft 365 and Office 365 apps and services that connect with Teams.” Linde added that, additionally, new mechanisms would be created to enable third-party solutions to host Office Web applications. The North American-based Coalition for Fair Software Licensing welcomed Microsoft’s move, but said it was not enough. The group’s executive director, Ryan Triplette, said in a statement: ““This announcement proves that Microsoft is capable of doing the right thing for its customers, but chooses not to unless compelled by regulatory scrutiny. As we noted in our comment to the US Federal Trade Commission, the tying of Teams to the Office Suite is not a regional or product-specific issue. “Microsoft has the power to flip a switch and offer its products separately, at any time and in any location it wants. However, unless the software giant’s entire restrictive licensing regime is unwound by regulators, it won’t. # § Patents⠀➾ # ⚓ Unified Patents ☛ Patent_Trolls_Will_Prey_on_SMEs_if USPTO_Proposals_Proceed⠀⇛ USPTO’s proposed restrictions on validity review would hurt SMEs by limiting independent third parties interested in deterring patent trolls’ use of invalid patents. Unified’s Shawn Ambwani provides third-party examples that have successfully challenged especially egregious patent trolls which would no longer be allowed if ANPRM proposals or the PREVAIL Act are enacted. Patent trolls will be more aggressive, more profitable, and more rampant, imposing what amounts to a legal tax on economic growth and innovation, especially against SMEs who do not have the financial resources to fight. # ⚓ Follow_the_Founders_and_Insist_on_Review_of_Unjust Monopolies_Created_by_Invalid_Patents⠀⇛ This post draws from and summarizes a forthcoming law review article from the author. The full article is available on SSRN. A patent is a monopoly, for a certain time, on the sale of something for profit. # ⚓ Dennis Crouch/Patently-O ☛ Venue_Transfer_Games Continue:_Rafqa_Star_v._Google⠀⇛ Google is one of the largest companies in the US with extensive ties not just to every state, but virtually every household in the entire country.  Still, the company regularly argues that it would be too unfair and inconvenient to litigate patent cases in states such as Texas. In a recent decision, Judge Alan Albright (W.D.Tex.) denied Google’s motion to transfer venue. In his 40- page order, Judge Albright provided an in- depth analysis of the private and public interest factors that, based upon prior precedent, govern transfer under 28 U.S.C. § 1404(a).  The relevant statute reads as follows: For the convenience of parties and witnesses, in the interest of justice, a district court may transfer any civil action to any other district or division where it might have been brought or to any district or division to which all parties have consented. Id.  Before analyzing this case, I want to step back and recognize that the current legal test for patent venue transfer has departed significantly from the statutory language declaring the goals of convenience and justice. ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 2507 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐃𝐀𝐈𝐋𝐘 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒 ═════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 09.02.23⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Gemini_Links_02/09/2023:_Fediverse_and_Feeds⠀✐ Posted in News_Roundup at 7:47 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇GNOME bluefish⦈ § Contents⠀➾ * Gemini*_and_Gopher o Personal/Opinions o Technology_and_Free_Software # Internet/Gemini * § Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾ o § Personal/Opinions⠀➾ # ⚓ Limiting_improvisation⠀⇛ I was asked why I suggest limiting improvisation in the blorb playing style. Great question! Here’s my answer. I’ll first clarify one thing and then explain why there’s this limitation.♥ Ah, for “wallpaper” stuff you can make up stuff as much as you want! They’re like “what color is her towel” and you go “it’s a light yellow”. Maybe your notes say “The desk is full of uninportant papers. Hidden under the rug is a key” and the players start looking at papers and you can start making up geneologies and transaction accounts to your hearts contempt. That stuff happens all the time, room descriptions should be short & sweet knowing that you can make this sort of thing up. It’s only for “salient” things—the core main things the players and their characters are interacting with—that there’s a limit. For example, the other day I ran a module that said “the desk is full of important documents. GM’s choice”. That violated this principle. If the documents are so important, they shoulda been specified before the session began. (It’d had been OK if the module had said upfront that “DMs, you need to specify the documents on page 277″ but it did not.) # ⚓ 🔤SpellBinding:_CEMNOYP_Wordo:_OASES⠀⇛ # ⚓ Across_The_Spider-verse⠀⇛ The amazing visual style of the first movie is back—and even a little improved. The story hops between “dimensions”, giving the artists a chance to play; and in some segments they are spectacularly successful. The one criticism I have in this department is that the device of dropping incidental text into the frame—comic book style—is not used as much as in the first movie. That’s a shame; I like it. It still works well when it is used. o § Technology and Free Software⠀➾ # ⚓ listing_data_with_TableDb⠀⇛ These two things will cause it to dump… something or another. I kind of expected them to be the IDs of the locally stored DHT keys. but they aren’t. unless they’re encoded in some other way. on my computer they all started with VkxEM that VkxEM seems to be the start of a base64′d binary blob that starts out with “VLD0″ I guess the key names are stored pretty packed. # § Internet/Gemini⠀➾ # ⚓ Issue_using_ZNC_with_multiple_accounts_and_SASL⠀⇛ I have been using different bouncers on different IRC networks since I got more into IRC again (with SDF and Tildechat) in the beginning of this year and switched between a ZNC and a Soju-based bouncer and I am actually using both right now since I don’t want to change the configs that are working, both are working quite well, so I am not sure if I am preferring one over the other. When configuring ZNC I had a rather random issue that caused the nickserv or SASL authentication to fail on some irc accounts and I couldn’t really figure out why and when manually authenticating via Nickserv it always worked, also using cert auth usually works. Since most bouncers and irc networks are up for a long time, this is not really an issue and I simply thought, it is an intermittend issue that happens every Blue Moon (which was actually last week). # ⚓ Fedi_is_like_email⠀⇛ I love email. Email has a lot of the same problems fedi has. It’s used by some very bad people, there’s not a lot of moderators, there’s spam and bad faith servers that you need to block on the instance level, if you get kicked off a server or a server operator folds you need to migrate your address and that’s a 🐝, the protocol is also really complicated these days with many layers and spec addons, it’s difficult to find a place and crowd that’s good for you etc. Fedi also has some of the same advantages as email: no-one owns it, it can be used for all kinds of things, it’s free etc. # ⚓ Re:_Why_I_don’t_use_the_Fediverse⠀⇛ Yeah, the clones do have a lot of the same problems. Mastodon is akin to tinylogs, and Lemmy is like a discussion site or Usenet type thing. (Although with more bugs.) For example, there is a currently defunct app that makes Lemmy look and feel like a phpBB site (except you get access to all of Lemmy). I guess my typical approach to this stuff is trying to think back at what worked? Email, discussion sites, mailing lists. If something works like it did in that era it might be fine, if it works differently then there might be some risks. # ⚓ Re:_Creating_a_atom_feed_file_to_submit_to_antenna⠀⇛ I also use Atom for Antenna (because then I can have time stamps, not just dates), and Alex’s guide above is good, go check it out if you do wanna use Atom, but just know you can also just make a gmisub file and only use it for Antenna. That is much easier, for people who don’t wanna have to fiddle with the Atom format. =============================================================================== * Gemini_(Primer) links can be opened using Gemini_software. It’s like the World Wide Web but a lot lighter. ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 2708 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐃𝐀𝐈𝐋𝐘 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒 ═════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 09.02.23⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Gemini_Links_02/09/2023:_Fediverse_Issues_and_Back_to_Agate⠀✐ Posted in News_Roundup at 8:25 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇GNOME bluefish⦈ § Contents⠀➾ * Gemini*_and_Gopher o Personal/Opinions o Politics_and_World_Events o Technology_and_Free_Software # Internet/Gemini * § Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾ o § Personal/Opinions⠀➾ # ⚓ Monks_in_Swords_&_Wizardry_Complete_Revised⠀⇛ I got my print copy of the Swords & Wizardry Complete Revised Rulebook from the recent Kickstarter a little while ago, and I was reading it and noticed that they made some of the most unbalancing monk abilities available only if the monk has has 15+ DEX or 15+ WIS, depending on which ability is in question. I was amused, because the Original D&D monk had to have a 15 in DEX and WIS just to be a monk. And the AD&D 1E monk had to have a 15 in STR, DEX, and WIS! The result is that in S&WCR you don’t have attribute requirements to be a monk, but you DO have attribute requirements for Weapon Damage Bonus, Multiple Attacks, Alertness, Deflect Missles, and Slow Falling; in other words, the fun stuff. So if your DEX and WIS are less than 15 you can still play a monk, but you’re nowhere near as powerful as the classic monk. # ⚓ Adorable_Children⠀⇛ Earlier today, my brother sent me a video of my niece. She was running along with a stroller thing in the garden as his dogs were chasing her. She is laughing the whole time until she stops and sort of sounds like she is crying. Turns out she is so happy she cannot make a reasonable sound other than a cry. Then the one dog goes in for a lick attack and she is giggling away while trying to avoid the licking. The video ends at this point. This is the sort of video which makes me a teary laughing mess. I am always glad of my brother sending this sort of silly video through. Precious moments which are all that much easier to record with phones while not recording every moment. o § Politics and World Events⠀➾ # ⚓ Hello_Pub⠀⇛ I’m tired of pure rationalism. Recently, I’ve had the urge to learn aphorisms, riddles, and powerful stories to use in life. Any good collections or books? o § Technology and Free Software⠀➾ # ⚓ Macintosh_Classic_II_Repair_—_Part_1⠀⇛ In which I discuss the progress so far in my quest to repair a Macintosh Classic II I’ve been given. Written on a MacBook Pro while listening to Blondie’s Autoamerican. # ⚓ Vaseline_your_balls⠀⇛ While it still worked, it did not feel smooth to roll the ball around. After some investigating I came across a faq, by trackball manufacturer Kensington, describing the process of maintaining your trackball. I was really surprised to read that they recommend slathering your ball with a bit of vaseline. # ⚓ Benchmarking_RK3588_NPU_matrix_multiplication_performance EP2⠀⇛ Not long after my last benchmarking attempt. Rockchip releases a SDK update that fixes the crashing matrix multiplication API. Now I’m no longer restricted to using ONNX. Now I can directly do matrix multiplication from C! And now I can do an apple to apple comparison with OpenBLAS. That’s benchmarking. Actually, I knew the SDK update days before writing this post. But I held on because I’m working on something more exiting – porting Large Language Models to run on RK3588 NPU. The result is.. well, you’ll see. I also got an oppertunity to speak at Skymizer’s interal tech forum because of my work. I’ll share the side deck after I gave the talk. # ⚓ A_Practical_Use_for_NNCP⠀⇛ I’ve used AWS for quite some time before moving my capsule into EC2: my primary use case for it is off-site archival by backing up my files to S3. Using a shell script and the AWS CLI, I encrypt the files in my NAS, tag them with a checksum to detect file changes, and upload them in bulk, storing them in the Glacier Flexible Retrieval tier to save on storage costs. I recently rewrote my backup script to be able to exclude directories from archival. The mechanism by which I do this is including a “.noupload” dotfile in any directory I want to exclude. When the script sees this file, it archives a list of the directory’s contents rather than the directory itself, and it ignores all of its subdirectories. This allows me to save even more by excluding files that are easy to replace or don’t mean much if I lose them. # ⚓ Re:_Creating_an_atom_feed_file_to_submit_to_antenna⠀⇛ While I like the idea of gemlog format and could submit my index page to Antenna, I thought the cgi route would be fun. I’ve posted about it in the past but seeing as others are looking at generating the same type of file I thought I might as well toss it back out there for inspiration. The script is fairly simple, written in python3. Reads through a directory, scrapes a few attributes to put in publish times and tags, title from the first heading, etc. Nothing too crazy but very helpful in automating the process. # ⚓ Mirror_Story⠀⇛ I dug out the following old text of mine from the Story Games archive and edited it for grammar and punctuation: Not sure what writeup is the best but I had been playing & running RPGs for 20 years and then somewhere in 2012, 2013 I found an OSR group (so I was kinda late to the party, Grognardia had been up for years at that point) and I played with them once, thought “ok that was kinda fun, but kinda scripted”, went home, looked at the module and thought “huh…. that could’ve gone all kinda different ways”, and then played with them again and we find this room. There’s an object behind a curtain. I walk up to it and put my hand under. Feels like glass. “It’s a cursed mirror?” we all think. We take it down from the wall without looking at it or removing the curtain. Attach it to our cart. # § Internet/Gemini⠀➾ # ⚓ Why_I_don’t_use_the_Fediverse⠀⇛ 1. The technology sucks. Activity Pub is half baked, and was rolled out prematurely to create Mastadon. 2. Mastadon is a Twitter clone and Lemmy is a Reddit clone. I hate the originals. Why would the clones be better? # ⚓ Four_short-term_wishes_for_fedi⠀⇛ The Fediverse, a.k.a. fedi, is a name for mostly-compatible implementations of a protocol that started as ActivityPub. Mastodon is probably the most well known. [...] * Keep trying to fight the rando weird harasso instances that plague our mentions. Maybe use tech from email? The nightmare scenario for fedi would be an app that can churn out new, uniquely named, one-off harassing instances. Maybe we need to think of something preemptive for that scenario. # ⚓ Re:_Why_would_students_use_Gemini_♊️?⠀⇛ My answer is: as a toy protocol to understand the basics of networking and as a model for very simple and fast software. I think of my syntax classes, which introduced us to the structure of a complex sentence by adding more complexity as the class went on. Initially, all of our syntax trees (sentence diagrams) were simple and pretty imprecise. They didn’t need to be complex because we hadn’t learned about the possible consequences of such rigid simplicity. As the class progressed and as we learned more, we were able to understand abbreviated trees and recognize why certain things are complex, as well as different positions on complexity (e.g. I think there are some Scandinavian maximalists who give every morpheme a discrete marker; some minimalists argue that a top level S phrase marker is ok iirc). # ⚓ Back_to_Agate⠀⇛ Satellite always irritated me with how it treated foo.com/bar/ as its own entity separate from foo.com/bar/index.gmi. It would serve content incorrectly if you used the “parent up” command that’s present in so many Gemini browsers. So now my capsules are back on Agate. =============================================================================== * Gemini_(Primer) links can be opened using Gemini_software. It’s like the World Wide Web but a lot lighter. ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 2992 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐃𝐀𝐈𝐋𝐘 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒 ═════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 09.02.23⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Links_02/09/2023:_Release_of_Linux_From_Scratch_and_Nitrux_3.0_is_Out⠀✐ Posted in News_Roundup at 2:14 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇GNOME bluefish⦈ § Contents⠀➾ * GNU/Linux o Kernel_Space o Applications o Instructionals/Technical o WINE_or_Emulation o Desktop_Environments/WMs # K_Desktop_Environment/KDE_SC/Qt # GNOME_Desktop/GTK * Distributions_and_Operating_Systems o Reviews o BSD o PCLinuxOS/Mageia/Mandriva/OpenMandriva_Family o SUSE/OpenSUSE o Fedora_Family_/_IBM o Debian_Family o Canonical/Ubuntu_Family o Devices/Embedded o Mobile_Systems/Mobile_Applications * Free,_Libre,_and_Open_Source_Software o Events o Web_Browsers/Web_Servers # Chromium o GNU_Projects o Programming/Development * Leftovers o Science o Hardware o Health/Nutrition/Agriculture o Proprietary/Artificial_Intelligence_(AI) o Security # Privacy/Surveillance o Defence/Aggression o Environment # Energy/Transportation o Finance o AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics # Misinformation/Disinformation/Propaganda o Censorship/Free_Speech o Freedom_of_Information_/_Freedom_of_the_Press o Civil_Rights/Policing o Digital_Restrictions_(DRM) o Monopolies # Patents # Trademarks # Copyrights * Gemini*_and_Gopher o Science * § GNU/Linux⠀➾ o ⚓ dwaves.de ☛ Has_mankind_lost_it’s_ability_to_learn?⠀⇛ Let me be frank. Once upon the time, was a Windows user. Then was happy to have to use OSX for a transition to GNU Linux. o § Kernel Space⠀➾ # ⚓ LWN ☛ Linux_6.5.1⠀⇛ All users of the 6.5 kernel series must upgrade. The updated 6.5.y git tree can be found at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/ git/stable/linux-stable.git linux-6.5.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_6.4.14⠀⇛ # ⚓ LWN ☛ Linux_6.1.51⠀⇛ # ⚓ LWN ☛ Linux_5.15.130⠀⇛ # ⚓ LWN ☛ Linux_5.10.194⠀⇛ # ⚓ LWN ☛ Linux_5.4.256⠀⇛ # ⚓ LWN ☛ Linux_4.19.294⠀⇛ # ⚓ LWN ☛ Linux_4.14.325⠀⇛ o § Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ Jussi Pakkanen ☛ Jussi_Pakkanen:_CapyPDF_0.5_is_out⠀⇛ There are no actual release notes, but a bunch of stuff got added. Code is here. Many of these were things needed by Inkscape for its new CMYK PDF exporter. More info about that can be found on DoctorMo’s_YouTube_channel. # ⚓ Linux Links ☛ RustPlayer_is_a_local_audio_player_and_m3u8 radio_player⠀⇛ RustPlayer is an audio player that plays locally hosted files. It’s also a radio player. # ⚓ Linux Links ☛ 10_Best_Free_and_Open_Source_Linux_Family History_Software⠀⇛ This article highlights the best genealogy software that runs under Linux. o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾ # § idroot⠀➾ # ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_To_Install_Kodi_Media_Server_on AlmaLinux_9⠀⇛ In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Kodi Media Server on AlmaLinux 9. Kodi, a versatile and highly acclaimed media center software, has gained a dedicated following due to its capability to transform your computer into a multimedia powerhouse. # ⚓ ID Root ☛ SQL_vs_NoSQL:_What’s_the_Difference?⠀⇛ In today’s data-driven world, databases serve as the backbone of countless applications, from e-commerce platforms to social media networks. Among the diverse array of databases available, SQL and NoSQL stand out as the two primary categories, each with distinct characteristics and benefits. # ⚓ Ubuntu Handbook ☛ How_to_Transfer_file_between_VirtualBox VM_Activities_Host_without_Shared_Folders⠀⇛ In the recent update of Ubuntu 23.10 daily build, the GNOME desktop has been updated to v45 beta. And, here are some visual changes. The default wallpaper now has a dark variant. Meaning changing Ubuntu Desktop to dark style will also change to dark style wallpaper. Though, the final wallpaper is not revealed yet! # ⚓ Ubuntu Handbook ☛ How_to_Transfer_file_between_VirtualBox VM_Activities_Shared_Folders⠀⇛ Shared Folders feature does not work for your OS in VirtualBox Virtual Machine? Here’s a quick workaround to transfer files between host and VMs. VirtualBox has port forwarding feature that allows to access a service or an app running in VM from the host or even the internet. # ⚓ Linux Handbook ☛ Sort_du_Command_Output_by_Size⠀⇛ Learn to use the du command with sorted output based on size. # ⚓ Linux Handbook ☛ Deploying_Convolutional_and_Transformer- based_Generative_Models_as_Microservices_on_Kubernetes⠀⇛ Here are some tips on deploying generative models as microservices with Kubernetes. # ⚓ Adam_Young:_How_to_optimize_a_flipit_solve⠀⇛ # ⚓ Own HowTo ☛ How_to_change_screen_resolution_on_Ubuntu⠀⇛ There are cases when screen resolution doesn’t get adjusted automatically after installing a new monitor on your computer. This happens mostly because of faulty drivers, or when wrong drivers are in use. However, sometimes you need to adjust screen resolution manually in order to make the monitor usable. o § WINE or Emulation⠀➾ # ⚓ WINE Project (Official) ☛ WineHQ_–_Wine_Announcement_–_The Wine_development_release_8.15_is_now_available.⠀⇛ The Wine development release 8.15 is now available. What's new in this release: - Support for TEXT print processor. - Cycle Collection support in MSHTML. - Cross-process memory notifications in Wow64. - Various bug fixes. The source is available at: https://dl.winehq.org/wine/source/8.x/wine- 8.15.tar.xz Binary packages for various distributions will be available from: https://www.winehq.org/download You will find documentation on https:// www.winehq.org/documentation You can also get the current source directly from the git repository. Check https://www.winehq.org/git for details. Wine is available thanks to the work of many people. See the file AUTHORS in the distribution for the complete list. o § Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾ # § K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt⠀➾ # ⚓ KDE:_Weekly_report_and_News,_23.08.0_Snaps_call_for testing!⠀⇛ Another busy week in the KDE snap world. Most of the release-service apps are in –candidate channel waiting to be tested. Testing is the bottle neck in the process, so I am trying something new and calling for help! Please test your favorite apps and report on https:/ /discuss.kde.org/t/all-things-snaps- questions-concerns-praise/ any issues and which apps tested. Thanks! I believe I have a solution for our PIM applications by creating an Akondai dbus provider snap and setting all the PIM applications as consumers. I am waiting for manual review to pass. # ⚓ Write.as ☛ Profiling_&_Optimizing_KRunner⠀⇛ One central topic of this year’s Akademy was energy efficiency and performance of software. I took this occasion to give KRunner another look in regard to profiling, because the multithreading refactor simplified lots of plugin code and allowed for more optimizations. When I did some benchmarking around two years ago, one of my major performance surprises was the windowed widgets runner. This runner queried all available applets for each letter typed. # § GNOME Desktop/GTK⠀➾ # ⚓ GNOME ☛ Extensions_in_GNOME_45⠀⇛ By now it is probably no longer news to many: GNOME Shell moved from GJS’ own custom imports system to standard JavaScript modules (ESM). JavaScript originated in web browsers to add a bit of interactivity to otherwise static pages. There was no need to split up small code snippets into multiple files, so the language did not provide a mechanism for that. This did become an issue when people started writing bigger programs in JavaScript, so environments like node.js and GJS added their own import systems to organize code into multiple files. As a consequence, developers and tooling had a hard time transitioning from one environment to another. That changed in 2015 when ECMAScript 6 standardized modules, resulting in a well- defined, widely-supported syntax supported by all major JavaScript engines. GJS has supported ESModules since 2021, but porting GNOME Shell was a much bigger task that had to be done all at once. * § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾ o ⚓ LFS_and_BLFS_12.0_are_released.⠀⇛ The Linux From Scratch community is pleased to announce the release of LFS Version 12.0, LFS Version 12.0 (systemd), BLFS Version 12.0, and BLFS Version 12.0 (systemd). o ⚓ 9to5Linux ☛ Nitrux_3.0_Arrives_with_Improvements_to_Boot, Installation,_and_Upgrade⠀⇛ Powered by the Liquorix-flavored Linux 6.4.12 kernel, Nitrux 3.0 is here with the latest KDE Plasma 5.27.7 LTS desktop environment on top of Wayland and using a Git snapshot of the upcoming Mesa 23.3 open-source graphics stack for hardcore Linux gamers. As the headline suggests, Nitrux 3.0 brings improvements to the boot process to improve hardware support by implementing a check in the Kernel Boot tool to verify the presence of the NVIDIA proprietary driver and restrict it from being used on computers with NVIDIA hardware. o ⚓ HaikuOS ☛ [GSoC_2023]_VPN_Support_Project_Update_#7⠀⇛ § Where We Last Left Off Last post, I left off on the problem where the select functionality was working but there are some problems as it works but not well as the average latency is above 2000ms and when using ping it drops more than 60% of packets on average. For two weeks I was working on this issue but I couldn’t figure out what was wrong with select and given that I was coming up on the deadline of my project, I decided to go with a condition variable approach when reading data from the driver for both the application and interface side. For the application side, it does have a timeout on it so that write can also take place since OpenVPN uses select/poll which will check if both read and write can happen at the same time, and since I am blocking one of them, it would just infinitely block both operations until read was fine. While select functionality is something that should be implemented with the driver, timing was not on my side with this issue so for those who want to take more of a crack at finding out what the problem is, here was how I tested it: [...] o § Reviews⠀➾ # ⚓ Slimbook_Pro_X_14_first_impressions⠀⇛ First impressions start with the outside look and while I was concerned about that the silver colour would get on my nerves – it is OK really. What is not just OK, but abso-bloody-lutely amazing is the custom engraving on the laptop lid Slimbook did for me. It is a Conan_Gasket_fractal and I have to thank María Hornos at Slimbook for both patience and perseverance in making this engraving a reality. o § BSD⠀➾ # ⚓ Ruben Schade ☛ The_version_of_vi_shipped_with_the_BSDs⠀⇛ Hackaday ran a story about Vim with some interesting history. I knew the late Bram Moolenaar had started the project on the Amiga, though I didn’t know the history of the original code going back to Tim Thompson’s Stevie on the Atari ST, and the ports made by Tony Andrews. I swear the world is conspiring to get me into buying a 520 or 1040ST. On_Vim,_Modal_Interfaces_And_The_Way_We_Interact With_Computers o § PCLinuxOS/Mageia/Mandriva/OpenMandriva Family⠀➾ # ⚓ PCLOS Official ☛ August_Edition_of_PCLinuxOS_KDE available.⠀⇛ The August Edition of PCLinuxOS KDE is now available. o § SUSE/OpenSUSE⠀➾ # ⚓ Dominique Leuenberger ☛ openSUSE_Tumbleweed_–_Review_of_the week_2023/35⠀⇛ Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers, The move of OBS to the new data center has been completed and issues we had seen as a consequence of this are mostly fixed (all in working order, some performance not exactly where it used to be, but in a workable state). Yet, we only managed to release a single, small snapshot during this week: 20230828. Two more made it to QA but had to be discarded for bugs identified which slipped Staging. Snapshot 0828 was, as mentioned small, and only brought you those changes over 0823: [...] # ⚓ SUSE’s Corporate Blog ☛ saptune_3.1_on_the_Horizon [Ed: SUSE is still promoting SAP and proprietary software, first and foremost]⠀⇛ In a few weeks saptune 3.1 will reach the public repositories of SLES for SAP Applications. Time to talk about the changes and new features. o § Fedora Family / IBM⠀➾ # ⚓ Silicon Angle ☛ Red_Hat_and_Google_partnership_targets streamlining_transition_from_on-premises_to_cloud [Ed: So this publisher takes bribes from both Google and Red Hat to promote puff pieces like these; this harms journalism in general]⠀⇛ Red Hat Inc. and Google Cloud have been collaborating for more than 11 years in migrating customers to the cloud platform. At the heart of this partnership is Red Hat Enterprise Linux, or RHEL, which provides an operating system backbone to streamline operations from datacenter to cloud and out to the edge. o § Debian Family⠀➾ # ⚓ Sparky GNU/Linux ☛ Sparky_news_2023/08⠀⇛ The 8th monthly Sparky project and donate report of the 2023: – Linux kernel updated up to 6.5.0, 6.1.50-LTS, 5.15.129-LTS – Sparky packages of Linux kernel moved from ‘unstable’ repo to ‘core’; the ‘unstable’ repo made misunderstanding of many users thinking that the packages of Debian unstable repo are available to all Sparky branches [...] # ⚓ Linuxiac ☛ Armbian_Wallpaper_Contest:_Showcase_Your_Talent and_Win_SBC⠀⇛ Designers, don’t miss the Armbian Desktop Wallpaper Contest – an excellent opportunity for anyone to have their work featured on Armbian. o § Canonical/Ubuntu Family⠀➾ # ⚓ Linux Mint ☛ Linux_Mint_Monthly_News_–_August_2023⠀⇛ Hi everyone, We received 474 donations in July. I’m always amazed when I see these numbers. It’s both humbling and highly motivating to picture that many people enjoying what we do and wanting to help us. I really appreciate it. Many thanks for your support and these donations! o § Devices/Embedded⠀➾ # ⚓ peppe8o ☛ How_to_Install_CasaOS_in_Raspberry_PI:_a_One- Click_Services_Hub⠀⇛ Last Updated on 1st September 2023 by peppe8o This tutorial will show you how to install CasaOS on Raspberry PI computer boards. o § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ The Sun ☛ Android_owners_are_just_realizing_little-known button_stops_vampire_apps_draining_your_battery_life instantly_|_The_US_Sun⠀⇛ # ⚓ Lifewire ☛ How_to_See_Blocked_Numbers_on_Android⠀⇛ # ⚓ Geeky Gadgets ☛ How_to_Force_Restart_an_Android_Phone_– Geeky_Gadgets⠀⇛ # ⚓ SlashGear ☛ 5_Free_Android_Apps_You_Need_In_The_Kitchen⠀⇛ # ⚓ Android Authority ☛ 5_Android_apps_you_shouldn’t_miss_this week_–_Android_Apps_Weekly⠀⇛ # ⚓ Android Police ☛ New_Android_games:_The_best_from_August 2023⠀⇛ # ⚓ 9to5Google ☛ Galaxy_Watch_5_gets_‘Watch_Unlock’_for_Android on_Wear_OS_4⠀⇛ # ⚓ Forbes ☛ Android_Circuit:_Galaxy_S24_Problems,_OnePlus’ OxygenOS_14_Confirmed,_How_Android_Lost_America⠀⇛ # ⚓ Pocket Lint ☛ This_Android_Auto_dongle_will_make_your_daily commute_easier:_Temporarily_15%_off⠀⇛ * § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾ o ⚓ Medevel ☛ 22_Open-source_Free_Date,_Clock,_Date_Picker_and Calendar_JavaScript_Libraries_for_React⠀⇛ Datepicker and calendar JavaScript libraries are open- source tools that developers can use to add date and time selection functionality to their web applications. These libraries provide pre-built components that can be easily integrated into a project, saving time and effort. o ⚓ Medevel ☛ 15_Open-source_Free_Disk_Data_Recovery_Tool⠀⇛ Data recovery is the process of salvaging and restoring data that has been lost, corrupted, or made inaccessible. This can be done through a variety of means, including software-based recovery tools, hardware repair, and forensic recovery techniques. o ⚓ Medevel ☛ 14_Open-source_Free_Google_Map_Scrapping_Tools_and Scripts⠀⇛ Google Maps is a web mapping service developed by Google. It offers satellite imagery, street maps, panoramic views of streets, real-time traffic conditions, and route planning for traveling by foot, car, bicycle or public transportation. o § Events⠀➾ # ⚓ Dave Airlie ☛ Dave_Airlie_(blogspot):_Talk_about_compute and_community_and_where_things_are_at.⠀⇛  Sriram invited me to the oneAPI meetup, and I felt I hadn’t summed up the state of compute and community development in a while. Enjoy 45 minutes of opinions! o § Web Browsers/Web Servers⠀➾ # § Chromium⠀➾ # ⚓ Eric Hameleers ☛ Some_recent_package_updates: chromium_(-ungoogled),_ffmpeg,_handbrake,_pipewire- jack⠀⇛ Chromium, regular and un-googled. Google is speeding up its Chromium release cycle. Let’s see if I can keep up since I also build the - ungoogled variant. The latest update is 116.0.5845.140 and addresses a vulnerability. You can now upgrade to my latest chromium and chromium-ungoogled packages. o § GNU Projects⠀➾ # ⚓ FSF ☛ FSF_Events:_GNU40⠀⇛ The GNU System is turning forty. In honor of this event, the Free Software Foundation (FSF) is organizing a hackday for families, students, and anyone interested in hacking. Come and celebrate with us with kith and kin! o § Programming/Development⠀➾ # ⚓ Barry Kauler ☛ woofQ_support_to_build_with_Void_.xbps packages⠀⇛ Had better report on this, as rapid changes. Already posted about mime handling for .xbps packages: https://bkhome.org/news/202308/mime-handling-for- void-linux-xbps-packages.html The target is to build EasyOS from Void Linux .xbps packages. The great thing is that heaps of work has been done for this in Woof-CE. * § Leftovers⠀➾ o ⚓ Tom MacWright ☛ Recently⠀⇛ Early this month I arrived at work to see a Concorde parked in the Brooklyn_Navy_Yard. It’s been fun to identify the ships docked there, but an airplane was new, especially such a rare one. I guess a lot of airplane knowledge from my childhood has stayed with me, and being greeted by this Concorde, and watching the new Top Gun has brought it back. o § Science⠀➾ # ⚓ Science Alert ☛ NASA_Spots_a_New_Moon_Crater:_Likely_The Gravesite_of_Russia’s_Crashed_Lunar_Probe⠀⇛ o § Hardware⠀➾ # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ RGB_Graphics_On_A_DEC_Rainbow_With_Reverse- Engineered_Monitor⠀⇛ One of the delights of the boring pre-VGA era is that you get to express your creativity when it comes to making a random color CRT work with an equally exciting dual CPU computer like the DEC Rainbow 100. This is the situation that the folk over at Usagi Electric found themselves in with a recent project. The Rainbow 100 is an interesting computer in that it can boot not only DOS with its 8088 processor, but also CP/M on the Z80 processor. Although generally used in monochrome mode, it supports a color graphic card to output RGB signals via its male DB15 connector. # ⚓ CNX Software ☛ Review_of_CrowView_14-inch_portable_monitor with_laptops_and_mini_PCs⠀⇛ I received an early sample of the CrowView 14-inch laptop monitor for review a few weeks ago, and regular readers may have seen me already use it in some mini PC reviews, but I’ve yet to review the monitor itself, so I’ll report my experience using both laptops and mini PCs running Windows 11 and Ubuntu 22.04. CrowView laptop monitor unboxing The display ships in a retail package highlighting the main features of the display such as its Full HD resolution, compatibility with 13 to 16.5-inch laptop displays, 160° viewing angle, and its mechanical clamping mechanism. The CrowView display ships with a 12V/2A power supply, USB-A to USB- C and USB-C to USB-C cables, an HDMI to mini HDMI cable, a velcro tie, some stickers, and a user manual in English. o § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾ # ⚓ Growing_Lemons⠀⇛ I’ve extended the house with a large glassed area. We call it the orangeri, which is a lie, since what grows there are lemons. So how do you grow lemons in Sweden? First of all, you have a hole straight through the construction of your house all the way down to the soil underneath. # ⚓ Science Alert ☛ An_Expert_Explains_How_to_Fall_Asleep_on Long-Haul_Flights⠀⇛ Don’t try to force it. o § Proprietary/Artificial Intelligence (AI)⠀➾ # ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ ‘Talk_about_something_else’:_Chinese AI_chatbot_toes_party_line⠀⇛ Chinese tech giant Baidu rolled out its ChatGPT- like ERNIE Bot to the public on Thursday. But the app is highly censored, offering state-approved answers to taboo questions and sometimes refusing to process them altogether when AFP tested the service. o § Security⠀➾ # ⚓ Diffoscope ☛ Reproducible_Builds_(diffoscope):_diffoscope 249_released⠀⇛ The diffoscope maintainers are pleased to announce the release of diffoscope version 249. This version includes the following changes: [...] # ⚓ Bruce Schneier ☛ Spyware_Vendor_Hacked⠀⇛ A Brazilian spyware app vendor was hacked by activists: In an undated note seen by TechCrunch, the unnamed hackers described how they found and exploited several security vulnerabilities that allowed them to compromise WebDetetive’s servers and access its user databases. By exploiting other flaws in the spyware maker’s web dashboard—used by abusers to access the stolen phone data of their victims—the hackers said they enumerated and downloaded every dashboard record, including every customer’s email address. The hackers said that dashboard access also allowed them to delete victim devices from the spyware network altogether, effectively severing the connection at the server level to prevent the device from uploading new data. “Which we definitely did. Because we could. Because #fuckstalkerware,” the hackers wrote in the note… # ⚓ Security Week ☛ In_Other_News:_Hacking_Encrypted_Linux Computers,_Android_Fuzzing,_Skype_Leaking_IPs⠀⇛ Weekly cybersecurity news roundup providing a summary of noteworthy stories that might have slipped under the radar. # ⚓ Security Week ☛ Exploit_Code_Published_for_Critical- Severity_VMware_Security_Defect⠀⇛ Exploit code and root-cause analysis released by SinSinology documents the problem as a case where VMWare “forgot to regenerate” SSH keys. # ⚓ SANS ☛ What_is_the_origin_of_passwords_submitted_to honeypots?,_(Sat,_Sep_2nd)⠀⇛ DShield honeypots collect a variety of data, including passwords, that are submitted from SSH and telnet attacks. # ⚓ Security Week ☛ Free_Decryptor_Available_for_‘Key_Group’ Ransomware⠀⇛ EclecticIQ has released a free decryption tool to help victims of the Key Group ransomware recover their data without paying a ransom. # ⚓ Security Week ☛ Industry_Reactions_to_Qakbot_Botnet Disruption:_Feedback_Friday⠀⇛ Industry professionals comment on the law enforcement operation targeting the Qakbot botnet and its implications. # ⚓ Security Week ☛ Threat_Actors_Adopt,_Modify_Open_Source ‘SapphireStealer’_Information_Stealer⠀⇛ Cisco has observed multiple threat actors adopting the SapphireStealer information stealer after its source code was released on GitHub. # ⚓ TechRepublic ☛ UK’s_NCSC_Warns_Against_Cybersecurity Attacks_on_AI⠀⇛ The National Cyber Security Centre provides details on prompt injection and data poisoning attacks so organizations using machine-learning models can mitigate the risks. # § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾ # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Meta_May_Offer_Ad-Free_Subscriptions for_Instagram_and_Facebook_in_the_E.U.⠀⇛ The subscription plan is a response to European Union policies and court rulings to restrict Meta’s data-collection practices. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ In_Monitoring_Child_Sex_Abuse,_Apple Is_Caught_Between_Safety_and_Privacy [Ed: No, Apple is a surveillance company and it uses the typical straw man for propaganda rags like Wall Street Times to pretend this is OK]⠀⇛ An advocacy group is starting a $2 million campaign calling for the company to better police materials on its products and services. # ⚓ Security Week ☛ Elon_Musk_Says_X,_Formerly_Twitter, Will_Have_Voice_and_Video_Calls,_Updates_Privacy Policy⠀⇛ Twitter has updated its privacy policies, which will allow for the collection of biometric data and employment history, among other information. o § Defence/Aggression⠀➾ # ⚓ France24 ☛ French_security_officers_cleared_over_black man’s_death_in_custody⠀⇛ French investigating magistrates have dropped their case against three gendarmes over the 2016 death of a young black man in custody that sparked violent protests, lawyers said Friday. # ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Explainer:_Hong_Kong’s_national security_crackdown_–_month_38⠀⇛ Hong Kong authorities continued their campaign against those with links to eight wanted overseas activists, with their family members and associates “taken” from their homes for offices for questioning. Additionally, 12 people with connections to a defunct 2019 protester relief fund were arrested almost two years after it ceased operations. # ⚓ teleSUR ☛ Niger:_UN_Agencies,_NGOs_Banned_From_Working_in Operation_Zones⠀⇛ In recent years, a new center of insecurity has emerged in the extreme southwest of Niger, a region known as the “three borders” (Niger-Mali-Burkina Faso) where terrorist groups often carry out deadly attacks targeting both military and civilian population. # ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ Australian_police_to_stay_in_Solomon Islands_until_2024_election⠀⇛ They will provide security for a regional sporting event in November and national elections in 2024. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Video_Released_of_Officer_Fatally_Shooting Ta’Kiya_Young_in_Ohio⠀⇛ The family of Ta’Kiya Young said that her death outside a supermarket in Ohio was “not only avoidable, but also a gross misuse of power and authority.” # ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ Australian_delegation_heading_to Beijing_for_dialogue,_government_says⠀⇛ Trade, investment, regional and international security will be discussed during the dialogue. # ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ Biden_Administration_Sued_as_Thousands_of Afghan_Evacuees_Are_Detained_Overseas_Waiting_for_U.S. Entry⠀⇛ More than two years after the Taliban took control of Afghanistan, thousands of Afghan evacuees seeking to come to the United States remain arbitrarily detained in other countries like Qatar, Kosovo and the United Arab Emirates. Many of the Afghans are living in camps that are largely coordinated, facilitated or under the control of the U.S. government. The Center for Constitutional Rights and the civil rights group Muslim Advocates recently sued the Pentagon, State Department and the Department of Homeland Security seeking governmental records about the relocation and detention of Afghan evacuees. “What this lawsuit hopes to achieve is to provide more information to humanitarian, human rights and civil society organizations … to intervene and prevent the continued detention of these Afghan civilians,” says CCR attorney Sadaf Doost. # § Russia, Belarus, and War in Ukraine⠀➾ # ⚓ France24 ☛ 🔴_Live:_Russia_says_it_thwarted_Ukrainian drone_attack_on_Crimea_bridge⠀⇛ Russia said its forces destroyed Ukrainian naval drones that were attempting to target the Crimea bridge early on Saturday. Kyiv has repeatedly targeted the strategic bridge that connects the Russian mainland to the peninsula annexed by Moscow in 2014. # ⚓ France24 ☛ Under_sirens,_threats,_Ukraine’s_children go_back_to_school⠀⇛ Ukrainian children on Friday began their second school year since Russia launched its full-scale invasion, forcing classes online and in underground bomb shelters in several parts of the country. More than 1,300 Ukrainian schools were destroyed over the past 18 months, but the dangers will not stop Ukrainian children from going back to school again. # ⚓ France24 ☛ Russia_says_it_shot_down_281_Ukrainian drones_over_the_past_week⠀⇛ Russia’s defence ministry on Friday said it had destroyed a total of 281 Ukrainian drones over the past week. Also on Friday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky told a business forum in Italy that there can be no “sustainable peace” in Ukraine unless the country regains control of Crimea, Donbas and other territories occupied by Russia. # ⚓ RFA ☛ Led_by_US,_Rohingya_aid_nosedives_as_donors focus_on_Ukraine,_experts_say⠀⇛ But that’s no excuse to overlook declining physical and mental health of over a million refugees, they add. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ White_House_Discusses_Anti-Corruption_Efforts With_Ukrainian_Delegation⠀⇛ U.S. national-security adviser Jake Sullivan met on September 1 with the heads of Ukrainian anti-corruption institutions and reiterated American support for anti- corruption reforms in Ukraine, the White House said in a statement. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Russia_Claims_Crimean_Bridge_Attacks_Thwarted As_Ukraine_Continues_Push_Toward_Melitopol⠀⇛ Russia has said that its forces thwarted three sea drone attacks on the strategic Crimean Bridge linking Ukraine’s occupied Crimean Peninsula to the Russian mainland, as Ukraine’s military said it was continuing its push toward the southeastern city of Melitopol. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Ukraine’s_Zelenskiy_Expected_At_UN_This Month⠀⇛ Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy is expected to attend the annual gathering of world leaders at the United Nations in New York this month and take part in a UN Security Council meeting on Ukraine. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Russian_Sentenced_To_15_Years_For_Allegedly Preparing_Attack_In_Kursk⠀⇛ Russia’s Second Western District Military Court has sentenced Ramazan Murtuzov to 15 years in prison for allegedly preparing an explosion in a shopping center or train station in the city of Kursk, near the border with Ukraine. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Schools_In_Kyiv_Targeted_By_Bomb_Threats_As Kids_Return_To_Classrooms⠀⇛ Police in Kyiv said bomb threats to the city’s schools were registered on September 1, the first day of the new school year. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Two_More_Ships_Leave_Ukrainian_Black_Sea_Port Under_Temporary_Corridor⠀⇛ Two cargo vessels have left a port near Odesa, Ukraine’s deputy prime minister said on September 1 — the third and fourth to transit from deep-water Ukrainian ports through the Black Sea since Russia withdrew from a safe-passage deal for grain ships. # ⚓ Spiegel ☛ An_Oasis_in_the_Middle_of_the_Ukraine_War: The_Pike_–_and_the_Drones_–_Come_at_Night⠀⇛ Sometimes the noise is distant artillery, at others it’s the lawnmower next door: In the far east of Ukraine, on a river meandering its way through the forests, there is a village where people can take a break from war. But it is never far away. # ⚓ Spiegel ☛ Spying_and_Sabotage_at_the_OSCE:_How_Russia Is_Paralyzing_Europe’s_Peace_Organization⠀⇛ The long-established Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe is threatening to disintegrate because of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Critics claim Moscow is infiltrating the organization and sabotaging its work in ensuring European peace and stability. # ⚓ YLE ☛ Antti_Lindtman_confirmed_as_SDP_leader⠀⇛ In her farewell speech, Sanna Marin thanked Finland for its unanimous support of Ukraine. # ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ Europe’s_big_influencer_on_Ukraine⠀⇛ The Dutch have played an outsize role in aiding Ukraine. Now they might set an example against Russian-style ethnic nationalism. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Ukraine’s_Counteroffensive_Pushes Forward,_Village_by_Village⠀⇛ As Ukraine pushes slowly forward in its counteroffensive, it’s relying heavily on the effort of hundreds of small-scale assault groups, each tasked with attacking a single trench, tree line or house. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ As_Ukraine’s_Fight_Grinds_On,_Talk of_Negotiations_Becomes_Nearly_Taboo⠀⇛ Discussion of a Plan B, should Ukraine fail to win a total victory, has become more fraught than ever, say those who have tried. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Promising_unwavering_support_for Ukraine,_the_U.K._replaces_its_ex-soldier_defense secretary_with_a_savvy_politician.⠀⇛ # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Ukrainian_Defense_Ministry_says_drone_attack on_Pskov_airport_launched_from_inside_Russia_—_Meduza⠀⇛ # ⚓ Latvia ☛ Around_4,500_Russians_could_be_asked_to leave_Latvia⠀⇛ More than 25 thousand Russian citizens living in Latvia have their permanent residence permits expire on September 1. About 19 thousand people have applied for the status renewal or are planning to do so. A little over 800 people have applied for a temporary permit. The others have done nothing to get a residence permit, Latvian Radio reported. # ⚓ LRT ☛ Lithuanian_court_issues_arrest_warrant_for_man who_fled_to_Russia_with_child⠀⇛ A court in western Lithuania has issued an arrest warrant for a man who is suspected of abducting his child and illegally crossing the Lithuanian-Russian state border. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Russian_Taxi_Law_Requiring_Companies_To_Share Data_With_FSB_Goes_Into_Effect⠀⇛ A law requiring taxi companies to provide the Federal Security Service (FSB) with data on riders’ trips has come into force. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Protesters_Back_Indicted_Pro-Russian_Bosnian Serb_Leader⠀⇛ Protests in support of the pro-Russian leader of the mostly Serb-populated entity of Bosnia-Herzegovina, who has been indicted for disrespecting the decisions of the Office of the High Representative (OHR), took place on September 1 in several locations across Bosnia. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Anger_In_Sweden_As_Nobel_Prize_Organizers Invite_Officials_From_Russia,_Belarus,_Iran_To Ceremony⠀⇛ Several Swedish lawmakers said on September 1 they will boycott this year’s Nobel Prize award ceremonies on December 10 after the private foundation that administers the prestigious awards changed its position from a year earlier and invited representatives of Russia, Belarus, and Iran to attend. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Denmark_Orders_Russia_To_Reduce_Embassy_Staff To_Same_Number_That_Copenhagen_Has_In_Moscow⠀⇛ Denmark on September 1 informed Russia’s ambassador in Copenhagen that it must reduce its embassy staff to the same number that Denmark has in Moscow because talks to increase numbers have foundered. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Russian-Led_Military_Alliance_Holds_Drills_In Belarus⠀⇛ An estimated 2,500 troops from the Russian- led Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) have opened military exercises in parts of Belarus that border NATO members Poland and Lithuania. # ⚓ teleSUR ☛ Russia_Agrees_With_OPEC+_a_New_Reduction_in Oil_Exports⠀⇛ In March, Russia began a voluntary reduction in oil production by 500,000 barrels per day. # ⚓ teleSUR ☛ Russia_and_Türkiye_Discuss_Future_of_Grain Deal⠀⇛ FM Lavrov and Fidan discussed the initiative to supply up to one million tons of Russian grain to Turkey at a discounted price for it to be further sent to countries in need. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Russia,_Belarus_and_Iran_Are_Invited to_2023_Nobel_Prize_Ceremony⠀⇛ The executive director of the Nobel Foundation said it was reversing course from a year ago in an effort lower tensions at a time of growing geopolitical divisions. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Russia_removes_air_defense_system_from_Kuril Islands_—_Meduza⠀⇛ # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Russia’s_space_agency_Roskosmos_reports Sarmat_nuclear-capable_intercontinental_missile_system set_to_combat_mode_—_Meduza⠀⇛ # ⚓ LRT ☛ Family_that_tried_to_flee_to_Belarus_released from_custody⠀⇛ The mother and father who took their children from a care home and were detained when attempting to flee to Belarus were released from detention on Friday. # ⚓ teleSUR ☛ Grand_Skate_Tour_Attracts_Young_People_in Moscow⠀⇛ Representatives from the Americas, Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and Asia are taking part in the competitions. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Drone_strikes_Kurchatov,_town_near_the_Kursk Nuclear_Power_Plant_—_Meduza⠀⇛ o § Environment⠀➾ # ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ HKFP_Lens:_Hong_Kong_prepares_for Super_Typhoon_Saola_as_China_warns_of_‘strongest’_storm_in decades⠀⇛ Hongkongers on Friday hunkered down for Super Typhoon Saola, as the Observatory announced the T9 storm signal at 6.20 pm, saying that the storm was expected to skirt within 40 kilometres of the city. A Government Flying Service aircraft captured meteorological data near Super Typhoon Saola on Friday morning. # § Energy/Transportation⠀➾ # ⚓ Axios ☛ White_House_launches_billion-dollar_effort_to speed_EV_production⠀⇛ The White House has launched a fresh attempt to speed domestic electric vehicle production while allaying labor fears about the transition from gasoline to plugs. o § Finance⠀➾ # ⚓ LRT ☛ Lithuanian_banks_pay_€56m_in_solidarity_levy⠀⇛ Commercial banks and other credit institutions operating in Lithuania have paid 56 million euros in the so-called temporary solidarity contributions for the second quarter of 2023, preliminary figures from the Finance Ministry showed on Friday. # ⚓ Axios ☛ U.S._labor_market_adds_187,000_jobs_in_August⠀⇛ The U.S._economy added 187,000 jobs in August, while the unemployment rate rose to 3.8%, the Labor Department said on Friday. Why it matters: Employers added jobs at a slighter quicker pace than economists expected, while the unemployment_rate jumped as more workers joined the labor force. =================================================== Where it stands: The number is a bit more than the 170,000 payrolls forecasters anticipated. # ⚓ Silicon Angle ☛ Malwarebytes_lays_off_100+_workers_ahead_of planned_company_split⠀⇛ Cybersecurity provider Malwarebytes Inc. has laid off more than 100 workers amid a restructuring initiative that will see it split into two companies. TechCrunch first reported the move on Thursday, citing a former Malwarebytes employee. Marcin Kleczynski, the company’s chief executive, confirmed the layoffs to the publication. o § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾ # § Misinformation/Disinformation/Propaganda⠀➾ # ⚓ Meduza ☛ ‘Genocide’_with_seventh_graders_Moscow schoolteachers_describe_how_they_navigate_the_Russian state’s_new_‘patriotic’_curriculum_—_Meduza⠀⇛ # ⚓ France24 ☛ Women_being_‘sold’_at_a_market_in Ethiopia?_Not_so_fast⠀⇛ In a tweet that has gone viral, a far-right Dutch politician known for his anti-Islam stance has claimed there is a “market” in Ethiopia where Muslim women are being sold, with a video to back it up. In the images, a crowd can be seen surrounding people kneeling on the ground and covered in white cloth. However, the video has been taken out of context: it actually shows young Senegalese boys taking part in an initiation rite, and has nothing to do with slavery. o § Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾ # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Russian_government_unveils_online_form_for_users to_report_LGBT_content_—_Meduza⠀⇛ # ⚓ Reason ☛ Organization_Serving_Disabled_People_Claims Newspaper_Discriminatorily_Targeted_It_for_Criticism⠀⇛ A N.J. judge has thrown out the lawsuit, on the narrow grounds that, even if the newspaper deliberately discouraged people from attending the group’s charity gala, the N.J. Law Against Discrimination doesn’t apply to charity galas. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Russian_Justice_Ministry_adds_Nobel_Prize-winning journalist_Dmitry_Muratov_to_‘foreign_agents’_list_—_Meduza⠀⇛ # ⚓ New York Times ☛ A_Crackdown_on_Free_Speech_in_Jordan⠀⇛ A satirical Arabic website, much like The Onion, poked fun at a royal wedding in Jordan in June. Not long after, it was blocked. “We’re totally backsliding,” said one cartoonist in the kingdom. # ⚓ Reason ☛ That_School_Is_Still_Treading_on_Jaiden Rodriguez’s_Free_Speech_Rights⠀⇛ The district is still censoring the Gadsden flag patch as well as Second Amendment advocacy, according to FIRE. # ⚓ Reason ☛ FIRE_on_the_School_Restricting_“Dont_Tread_on_Me” and_Firearms_Policy_Coalition_Patches⠀⇛ From FIRE’s letter sent yesterday to the Superintendent of Harrison School District Two in Colorado; I generally trust FIRE’s factual accounts in such matters, and I think its legal analysis here is spot on: The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE), a nonpartisan nonprofit dedicated to defending freedom of speech, is concerned by The… # ⚓ Quartz ☛ A_federal_judge_strikes_down_a_Texas_law_requiring age_verification_to_view_pornographic_websites⠀⇛ A federal judge has struck down a Texas law requiring age verification and health warnings to view pornographic websites and blocked the state attorney general’s office from enforcing it. o § Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press⠀➾ # ⚓ Sputnik_strike:_Court_rejects_request_by_management_to suspend_the_strike⠀⇛ Sputnik Turkey management, which has fired 24 journalists after the strike action at the news outlet was announced, went to court against the strike, but the 4th Labor Court of Istanbul rejected taking a “precautionary measure” against the strike. o § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾ # ⚓ YLE ☛ Helsinki_police_prepare_for_anti-racism,_anti- government_demonstration_on_Sunday⠀⇛ As of Friday afternoon, a Facebook event created for the protest had over 3,000 people listed as attending and nearly 8,000 expressing interest. # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Florida_Prison_Confiscates_Newspapers_After Deciding_Puzzle_Game_Might_Be_A_Way_To_Send_‘Coded Messages’⠀⇛ Censorship is a priority for prison systems. Despite publicly claiming to be instrumental in the act of “rehabilitation,” correctional facilities generally engage in the sort of non-productive paranoia that ensures the only resources prisoners have are… other prisoners. And we’re all supposed to act like it’s a surprise when people re-offend. Or worse, exit this “rehabilitation” process more criminally-minded than when they were remanded to the custody of the state. # ⚓ Uzun’s_body_remains_handed_over_to_his_family_in_a_box⠀⇛ Father İbrahim Uzun who received the body remains of his son three years later in a box said that he provided a blood sample back in 2020 in order for his son to be identified among the five people who were killed in an airstrike but the family was not informed although the results were completed. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Impact_of_Hollywood_Strikes_on_Jobs_Goes Beyond_the_Strikers⠀⇛ Walkouts by screenwriters and actors have meant less work in fields that cater to the TV and film industry. # ⚓ Press Gazette ☛ National_World_journalists_vote_to_strike over_pay⠀⇛ Three days of strike action have been announced, as well as a work to rule period. # ⚓ JURIST ☛ 98%_of_UK_junior_doctors_vote_to_stage_first_ever joint_strike_with_consultants⠀⇛ The British Medical Association (BMA) announced Thursday that in a recent re-ballot for continued junior doctor strike action, 98 percent of junior doctors in the UK voted in favor of continuing their planned strikes for the upcoming months. # ⚓ Reason ☛ Court_Strikes_Down_W._Va._Law_Restricting_Property Owners_from_Asking_Visitors_About_Whether_They_Have_Guns_in Their_Parked_Cars⠀⇛ From yesterday’s decision by Judge John T. Copenhaver, Jr. (S.D. W. Va.) in W. Va. Coalition Against Domestic Violence, Inc. v. Morrisey (some formatting changed); note that the court upheld some other provisions of the law, which I discuss in a separate post: In March 2018, the West Virginia Legislature enacted House Bill 4817 [...] # ⚓ France24 ☛ French_lawyers_file_complaint_against ‘arbitrary’_detention_of_Bongo’s_wife_in_Gabon⠀⇛ Lawyers for Sylvia Bongo, the wife of Gabon’s President Ali Bongo, on Friday said they filed a lawsuit in Paris over her “arbitrary detention” and that of her son Jalil. Sylvia Bongo and her children are dual Franco-Gabonese nationals. “Because they’re French nationals, France has jurisdiction,” Catalina de la Sota, a lawyer at Zimeray and Finelle Advocates, told FRANCE 24. # ⚓ JURIST ☛ Alabama_AG_argues_state_can_prosecute_people_who help_others_obtain_abortion_care⠀⇛ Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall filed a motion Monday arguing that the state can prosecute those who assist people with accessing out-of-state abortion care. In doing so, he asked the court to dismiss a lawsuit brought by an abortion assistance fund contending that such prosecutions are unconstitutional. o § Digital Restrictions (DRM)⠀➾ # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ L._Ron_Hubbard’s_Estate_Is_Against_Right_To Repair_For_Scientology’s_E-Meters⠀⇛ For years we’ve covered the silly triennial review process associated with Section 1201 of the DMCA. If you don’t know, Section 1201 is the part that makes circumvention of any “technological measures” a form of infringement, even if bypassing those technological measures is not for copyright infringing reasons. It’s actually even worse than that, because it’s not just the actual circumvention that could violate the rules, but any attempt to “manufacture, import, offer to the public, provide, or otherwise traffic in…” anything that can be used for circumventing. o § Monopolies⠀➾ # § Patents⠀➾ # ⚓ Kluwer Patent Blog ☛ ‘Current_level_of_transparency at_the_Unified_Patent_Court_is_far_below_standard’ [Ed: UPC is illegal and unconstitutional. They are trying to hide it. This is a major fiasco for the EU and it implicates the corrupt EPO.]⠀⇛ The level of transparency at the Unified Patent Court is far below what would normally be considered acceptable in civil court proceedings in most of the EU member states, says UK, Dutch and European patent attorney Joeri Beetz of law firm Keltie. # ⚓ JUVE ☛ Amgen_and_Sanofi’s_race_to_file_UPC_actions ignites_bifurcation_question [Ed: UPC is an illegal kangaroo court, but JUVE is being bribed to legitimise this crime; nothing has improved]⠀⇛ For years, Amgen and Sanofi have battled it out across various European patent courts over cholesterol-lowering medication Praluent. Now the case’s latest twist has played out at the Unified Patent Court, where the two parties were in a race to file infringement and revocation actions via hard copy. # ⚓ Unified Patents ☛ $2,000_for_Songbird_Tech_audio patent_prior_art⠀⇛ A new PATROLL contest, with a $2,000 cash prize, was added seeking prior art on at least claim 10 of U.S._Patent_8,825,787, owned by Songbird Tech, LLC, an NPE. The ‘787 patent relates to an audio message-driven customer interaction queuing system for any public web page to allow web page visitors to utter questions into a browser-resident recorder application. # ⚓ Unified Patents ☛ $3,000_for_Jeffrey_M._Gross_entity Context_Directions_detection_patent_prior_art⠀⇛ A new PATROLL contest, with a $3,000 cash prize, was added seeking prior art on at least claim 3 of U.S._Patent_9,807,564, owned by Context Directions LLC, a Jeffrey M. Gross entity. The ‘564 patent generally relates to a method for detecting context of a mobile device, and to a mobile device having a context detection module, especially to detect that the mobile device is located in a moving vehicle. # ⚓ Unified Patents ☛ B.S.D_Crown_streaming_video_patent challenged⠀⇛ On September 1, 2023, Unified Patents filed an ex parte reexamination proceeding against U.S._Patent_6,389,473, owned and asserted by B.S.D Crown Ltd. (f/k/a Emblaze Ltd.), an NPE. The ‘473 patent relates to streaming video over the Internet. # § Trademarks⠀➾ # ⚓ Dennis Crouch/Patently-O ☛ USPTO_Downsizes_HQ; Building_Owner_Faces_Financial_Troubles⠀⇛ The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has called their 2.4 million square foot headquarters in Alexandria, Virginia home since 2005. But the agency does not actually own the cutting-edge facility located in the Carlyle neighborhood near the Potomac riverfront. Instead, the USPTO has leased the complex from New York-based real estate owner LCOR. Several months ago, the USPTO announced it would be downsizing and relinquishing 800,000 square feet of space. The renewed 5-year lease covers 1.6 million square feet.  Still a big footprint, but one reflective of how the USPTO’s workplace and workforce have evolved over the past two decades. # § Copyrights⠀➾ # ⚓ Reason ☛ Short_Circuit:_A_Roundup_of_Recent_Federal Court_Decisions⠀⇛ Detroit’s forfeiture machine, major nuclear questions, and copyrightable materials. # ⚓ Michael Geist ☛ A_4%_Link_Tax:_Why_the_Government’s Draft_Bill_C-18_Regulations_Just_Increased_the_Chances of_No_News_on_Meta_and_Google_in_Canada⠀⇛ The government is releasing its draft regulations_for_Bill_C-18_today and the chances that both Google and Meta will stop linking to news in Canada just increased significantly. # ⚓ Dennis Crouch/Patently-O ☛ US_Copyright_Office Generative_AI_Inquiry:_Where_are_the_Thresholds?⠀⇛ Generative Artificial intelligence (GenAI) systems like MidJourney and ChatGPT that can generate creative works have brought a wave of new questions and complexities to copyright law. On the heels of a recent court decision denying registrability of AI created work, the U.S. Copyright Office recently issued a formal notice of inquiry seeking public comments to help analyze AI’s copyright implications and form policy recommendations for both the Office and for Congress. The notice is quite extensive and raises fundamental questions that many have been discussing for several years about copyrightability of AI outputs, use of copyrighted material to train AI systems, infringement liability, labeling AI content, and more. The Copyright Office’s inquiry is an attempt to respond to AI’s rapidly growing impact on creative industries. [Link to the Notice] * § Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾ o § Science⠀➾ # ⚓ Excluded_Middle⠀⇛ So this turned into a little rabbit hole of digressionary research. At least the logic part, not any UI library or linking. So one thing that Aristotle is said to have said is that every claim must be either true or false with no other options. This tidbit got hard boiled into Western logic for a long while. Another thing that Aristotle is said to have said is that there are statements that are neither true, nor false. Whoops, is that a third choice? An example would be “the first cat born in the 22nd century will be named Socrates” which is (at this time) indeterminate, neither true nor false. Worse, you can have statements that are both true and false. Various paradoxes such as the old “this statement is false” apply here. =============================================================================== * Gemini_(Primer) links can be opened using Gemini_software. It’s like the World Wide Web but a lot lighter. ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 4883 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐃𝐀𝐈𝐋𝐘 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒 ═════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 09.02.23⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Links_02/09/2023:_PostgreSQL_16_RC1_Released⠀✐ Posted in News_Roundup at 3:00 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇GNOME bluefish⦈ § Contents⠀➾ * GNU/Linux o Server o Audiocasts/Shows o Kernel_Space o Applications o Instructionals/Technical * Distributions_and_Operating_Systems o Gentoo_Family o Fedora_Family_/_IBM o Debian_Family o Canonical/Ubuntu_Family o Devices/Embedded * Free,_Libre,_and_Open_Source_Software o Web_Browsers/Web_Servers # Mozilla o SaaS/Back_End/Databases o Programming/Development * § GNU/Linux⠀➾ o § Server⠀➾ # ⚓ What_to_Know_About_Deploying_Docker⠀⇛ # ⚓ Google_Unfurls_Managed_Kubernetes_Service_for_the Enterprise⠀⇛ # ⚓ How_CD_and_GitOps_Help_You_Build_a_Successful_K8s Platform⠀⇛ o § Audiocasts/Shows⠀➾ # ⚓ Video ☛ NEW_Linux_Tablet,_GNOME_45,_LibreOffice_7.6_and more!⠀⇛ # ⚓ Video ☛ Bodhi_Linux_7.0_|_Installation_|_Detailed_Review_| Moksha_Desktop⠀⇛ o § Kernel Space⠀➾ # ⚓ Linux Plumbers Conference (LPC) ☛ Linux_Plumbers Conference:_Power_Management_and_Thermal_Control_MC_CFP⠀⇛ The Power Management and Thermal Control microconference focuses on power management and thermal control infrastructure, CPU and device power-management mechanisms, and thermal control methods. In particular, we are interested in improving the thermal control infrastructure in the kernel to cover more use cases and utilizing energy-saving opportunities offered by modern hardware in new ways. The goal is to facilitate cross-framework and cross-platform discussions that can help improve energy-awareness and thermal control in Linux. The current list of topics proposed so far includes the following: o § Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ Medevel ☛ ligoogle:_Google_For_Linux_Users⠀⇛ Ligoogle is a search engine designed specifically for Linux users, providing them with a simple, fast, clean, and user-friendly interface. It’s a highly efficient search tool that allows users to find the information they need quickly and easily. # ⚓ Linux Links ☛ Best_Free_and_Open_Source_Software_August 2023_Updates⠀⇛ August 2023 updates to the largest compilation of recommended free and open source software available for Linux. # ⚓ Linux Links ☛ 8_Best_Free_and_Open_Source_Functions-as-a- Service⠀⇛ Here are the best Functions-as-a-Service (FaaS) solutions, sometimes known as serverless. Free and open source goodness. # ⚓ Medevel ☛ LockKnife:_Unlock_Old_Android_Passwords⠀⇛ LockKnife is a command-line tool written in Bash that helps you recover Android lock screen passwords of an Android device. It is a convenient terminal-based tool that is easy to use with interactive prompts. LockKnife supports Android devices with USB debugging enabled and automatically connects to the device using ADB. # ⚓ Medevel ☛ Easyspider_is_a_Free_Open-source_Self-hosted Distributed_Web_Crawler⠀⇛ Easy Spider is a fascinating project that was created in 2006 to facilitate distributed web crawling. o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾ # ⚓ COBOL_Programming_on_Linux:_Installation_Guide_&_First Program⠀⇛ COBOL (also known as “Common Business-Oriented Language“) is a high-level programming language that first appeared in 1959 to meet the business data processing needs of companies and organizations. It was particularly designed for business applications and handling large-scale data processing, and despite its declining popularity, # ⚓ FOSSLinux ☛ The_ultimate_Pop!_OS_home_server_setup_guide⠀⇛ In an age where digital autonomy and personal data control have become paramount, setting up a home server stands out as a wise decision. Leveraging the power and user-friendliness of Pop!_OS for this purpose ensures a smoother journey. Whether you’re looking to centralize your files, run web services, or delve into other server-related activities, Pop!_OS offers a versatile foundation. # ⚓ Barry Kauler ☛ Mysterious_inaccessible_folder⠀⇛ Posting about this here, in case anyone else stumbles upon it and wonders what is going on. Forum member caramel reported this: [...] # ⚓ Barry Kauler ☛ Mime_handling_for_Void_Linux_.xbps packages⠀⇛ Making a start to support Void Linux .xbps packages in Easy. The *.xbps package file will be recognised, displaying in the file manager with an appropriate icon and action when left-click or right-click offer to install. Here are the commits: # ⚓ Vitux ☛ CentOS_8_Initial_Setup_and_Basic_Configuration⠀⇛ In this guide, we will show you the CentOS 8 Server initial setup and Basic Configuration after its installation. There are some basic primary configurations that you need to do to ensure the new CentOS 8 server is ready to host your applications and services. # ⚓ APNIC ☛ Monitoring_my_home_network⠀⇛ Guest Post: Setting up a home network monitoring stack built with Telegraf, Grafana and Raspberry Pi. # ⚓ Red Hat ☛ How_we_ensure_statically_linked_applications_stay that_way⠀⇛ While glibc’s highly configurable name resolution and character set handling features offer an advantage when it comes to system configuration and installed content, there are limitations when it comes to statically linked applications. This article summarizes the current state, recent improvements, and plans for moving toward truly statically linked applications. Although dynamic linking has advantages, making it the default choice for situations where binary compatibility is guaranteed (i.e., many Red_Hat Enterprise_Linux components), static linking is still useful in many situations such as: [...] # ⚓ DaemonFC (Ryan Farmer) ☛ Theme_Windows_Application_in_Wine With_.msstyle_Files._foobar2000_Looks_Better._Spek_Accoustic Analysis_Tool_is_in_Debian_Again._|_BaronHK’s_Rants⠀⇛ Theme Windows Application in Wine With .msstyle Files. While I was playing around with foobar2000 2.1 Preview builds on Wine in Debian 12 with KDE, I ran into the usual issue trying to display the media library. # ⚓ How_To_Install_PHP_Ubuntu⠀⇛ Welcome to our guide on how to install PHP on Ubuntu. PHP is a popular server-side scripting language that is used to create dynamic and interactive web pages. It is widely supported and compatible with various operating systems, including Ubuntu. PHP works in conjunction with a web server to process PHP code and generate HTML content, which is then displayed on the user’s web browser. By installing PHP on your Ubuntu system, you’ll be able to run PHP scripts and build dynamic websites or web applications. # ⚓ How_To_Install_PHP_8_On_Ubuntu⠀⇛ PHP is a popular scripting language used for web development. With the release of PHP 8, developers can take advantage of its numerous improvements in performance and features. In this article, we will guide you through the process of installing PHP 8 on Ubuntu. Ubuntu is a widely used operating system for both servers and desktops. By following this tutorial, you will be able to install PHP 8 on your Ubuntu system, enabling you to leverage the latest enhancements in PHP development. # ⚓ Using_Raspberry_Pi_Pico_W_For_a_Bluetooth_Low-Energy Application⠀⇛ With the advent of version 1.5.1, the Raspberry Pi Pico SDK now supports Bluetooth Classic and Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) on the Raspberry Pi Pico W development platform. As expected, following the announcement of Bluetooth support, a number of Pico Bluetooth examples based on a port of BlueKitchen’s BTstack became available. The Raspberry Pi Pico SDK ported example code retains the original BTstack C language format. However, most of the BTstack-based Pico Bluetooth examples that can be found in the public domain have been realized in MicroPython or Arduino. With that, the object of this discussion will be to produce a working C-language Pico Bluetooth Low-Energy example developed under Ubuntu 22.04 LTS using Visual Studio Code and the latest Raspberry Pi Pico SDK toolchain. You can obtain the example project source code from the EDTP Electronics download site. # ⚓ How_to_Mine_Bitcoin_on_Linux⠀⇛ Bitcoin is a digital currency that has taken the world by storm. Many tech-savvy users are interested in Bitcoin mining, which is the process of earning Bitcoin as a reward for contributing computing power to the Bitcoin network. Bitcoin mining on Linux is possible, but it takes some technical know-how to get started. This comprehensive guide will walk you through everything you need to know to start mining Bitcoin on Linux. # ⚓ How_To_Install_PHP_In_Linux⠀⇛ Installing PHP on a Linux system is a fundamental step to enable web development and server-side scripting capabilities. PHP, which stands for Hypertext Preprocessor, is a popular scripting language used for creating dynamic web pages and applications. With PHP, you can seamlessly integrate server-side code with HTML, enabling you to build robust and interactive websites. * § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾ o ⚓ The Register UK ☛ antiX_23:_Anarchic_for_sure,_but_‘design_by committee’_isn’t_always_the_best_for_Linux⠀⇛ The latest release of antiX is Linux how it used to be, in the good way. It’s not the friendliest, but it does everything – and, wow, it’s fast. The “proudly antifascist” antiX project has released its latest edition, based on Debian 12. This release is codenamed Arditi del Popolo – “the People’s Daring Ones” – after a 1920s Italian antifascist group formed to oppose Mussolini’s regime. antiX is not, as the name might imply, opposed to the X window system: its main editions are graphical, with a choice of environments (although there is a super-minimal, text-only edition if that’s what you want). o § Gentoo Family⠀➾ # ⚓ Genpatches_Supported_Kernel_Versions⠀⇛ As part of a an effort to streamline developer capacity, the maintainers of gentoo-sources and genpatches have decided to limit past kernel versions to a maximum of 3 years post initial release. o § Fedora Family / IBM⠀➾ # ⚓ Linuxiac ☛ Rocky_Linux_Confirmed_to_Remain_1:1_Fully Compatible_with_RHEL⠀⇛ In a statement about OpenELA, Rocky Linux confirmed its commitment to remaining a 1:1 fully compatible drop-in replacement to RHEL. # ⚓ Fabio_Alessandro_Locati:_Red_Hat_Certified_Specialist_in Managing_Automation_with_Ansible_Automation_Platform⠀⇛ A few weeks ago, I passed the Red Hat EX467 exam, which allowed me to become Red Hat Certified Specialist in Managing Automation with Ansible Automation Platform. As of today, this is the newest Red Hat exam on Ansible. You can notice this from the version of Ansible Automated Platform that this exam uses: 2.2. An aspect that is already clear by looking at the objective is that this exam is completely complementary to the EX294 exam. # ⚓ Remi Collet ☛ Remi_Collet:_PHP_on_the_road_to_the_8.3.0 release⠀⇛ Version 8.3.0_Release_Candidate_1 is released. It’s now enter the stabilisation phase for the developers, and the test phase for the users. RPMs are available in the php:remi-8.3 stream or in the remi-php83 repository for Enterprise Linux 7 (RHEL, CentOS) and as Software Collection in the remi-safe repository (or remi for Fedora) The repository provides development versions which are not suitable for production usage. # ⚓ Remi Collet ☛ Remi_Collet:_PHP_version_8.1.23_and_8.2.10⠀⇛ RPMs of PHP version 8.2.10 are available in remi- modular repository for Fedora ≥ 36 and Enterprise Linux ≥ 8 (RHEL, Alma, CentOS, Rocky…) and in remi- php82 repository for EL 7. RPMs of PHP version 8.1.23 are available in remi- modular repository for Fedora ≥ 36 and Enterprise Linux ≥ 8 (RHEL, Alma, CentOS, Rocky…) and in remi- php81 repository for EL 7. # ⚓ Fedora Magazine ☛ Fedora_Magazine:_Fedora_Linux_Flatpak cool_apps_to_try_for_September⠀⇛ Flatseal is a graphical utility to review and modify permissions from your Flatpak applications. This is one of the most used apps in the flatpak world, it allows you to improve security on flatpak applications. However, it needs to be used with caution because you can make your permissions be too open. It’s very simple to use: Simply launch Flatseal, select an application, and modify its permissions. Restart the application after making the changes. If anything goes wrong just press the reset button. # ⚓ Red Hat ☛ Automate_message_queue_deployment_on_JBoss_EAP⠀⇛ For decades now, software projects have relied on messaging APIs to exchange data. In the Java/Java EE ecosystem, this method of asynchronous communication has been standardized by the JMS specification. In many cases, individuals and organizations leverage Red_Hat_JBoss_Enterprise Application_Platform (JBoss EAP) to act as message- oriented middleware (MOM), which facilitates the management of message queues and topics. Messaging ensures that no messages are lost as they are transmitted from the client and delivered to interested parties. On top of that, JBoss EAP provides authentication and other security-focused capabilities on top of the management functions. o § Debian Family⠀➾ # ⚓ Paul_Wise:_FLOSS_Activities_August_2023⠀⇛ o § Canonical/Ubuntu Family⠀➾ # ⚓ OMG Ubuntu ☛ I_Think_Ubuntu_23.10_is_Making_a_Mistake⠀⇛ Current daily builds of Ubuntu 23.10 only includes a handful of apps by default. These cover only the most basic of basic computing needs. This is the same install everyone gets. For anything else the idea is that we, the user, fire up the Software Store (though the new one isn’t included yet) and install what we want ourselves. As an idea, it’s not without merit. But in practice, I think it’s a potential misstep. # ⚓ Top_10_Best_Themes_for_Ubuntu_in_2023⠀⇛ Ubuntu themes are one of the most popular ways to customize and enhance the look and feel of your Ubuntu desktop. Themes can change the appearance of various elements, such as windows, icons, fonts, colors, sounds, and more. Themes can also improve your user experience by making your desktop more attractive, comfortable, and productive. There are many themes available for Ubuntu users, ranging from simple and elegant to colorful and flashy. Some themes are designed to mimic the style of other operating systems, such as Windows or Mac. Some themes are created to offer a unique and original design that reflects your personality and preferences. In this article, we will show you the top 10 best themes for Ubuntu in 2023. We have selected these themes based on their popularity, quality, compatibility, and features. We will also provide you with the installation instructions and download links for each theme. So, without further ado, let’s get started! # ⚓ 10_Best_Dark_Themes_for_Ubuntu_Linux_–_Asiana_Times⠀⇛ o § Devices/Embedded⠀➾ # ⚓ Notebook Check ☛ ArmSoM-p2_pro:_Banana_Pi_subsidiary releases_tiny_Rockchip_RK3308B-S_powered_single-board computer⠀⇛ ArmSoM has released the p2 pro, stylised as the ArmSoM-p2 pro on its website. Please note that ArmSoM is a Banana Pi subsidiary that produces single-board computers (SBCs) like the BPI-6202 and BPI-CM2. As CNX Software notes, the ArmSoM-p2 pro appears to be a re-branded BPI-P2 Pro, which Banana Pi introduced in March. Thus, the ArmSoM-p2 pro is a tiny single-board computer that is only just wide enough to contain a 40-pin GPIO header. Additionally, the board’s GPIO header supports ADC, I2C, SPI, UART, twin line out connections and a single SPDIF out. Moreover, the 40-pin header can handle eight microphone inputs or one PDM/I2S input. For reference, the ArmSoM-p2 pro measures 65 x 52.5 mm and weighs 30 g, in part thanks to the following ports… # ⚓ CNX Software ☛ ESP32-S3-BOX-3_devkit_comes_with_2.4-inch display,_dual_microphone,_PCIe_expansion_connector⠀⇛ Espressif Systems has launched an update to their ESP32-S3-Box development kit for online and offline voice assistants with the ESP32-S3-BOX-3 devkit that still features a 2.4-inch capacitive touchscreen display with 320×240 resolution, two microphones, a built-in speaker, and a USB-C port, but replaces the PMOD connector by a PCIe connector for various expansion modules. The open-source ESP32-S3 development kit is powered by the ESP32-S3 SoC with AI extensions and can be used to implement all sorts of solutions using the company’s ESP-SR, ESP RainMaker, and Matter solutions such as an offline voice assistant, a chatbot powered by ChatGPT, a handheld gaming console, a tiny robot, a Matter-compatible Smart Home hub, and more. # ⚓ Arduino ☛ Arduino_and_AWS_team_up_to_bridge_hardware_and cloud_for_business⠀⇛ Today, Arduino officially announced its partnership with Amazon Web Services (AWS), offering a new path for the future of edge hardware and cloud services. The new partnership will provide Arduino products and Arduino Cloud customers more options to integrate AWS into IoT projects. # ⚓ Tom’s Hardware ☛ Raspberry_Pi_Pico_Powers_Handcrafted Wooden_Fight_Stick⠀⇛ RealHowl has created a handcrafted case for a custom fightstick that uses a Raspberry Pi Pico as its main controller. * § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾ o § Web Browsers/Web Servers⠀➾ # § Mozilla⠀➾ # ⚓ The Register UK ☛ From_browser_brat_to_backend_boss: Will_WASM_win_the_web_wars?⠀⇛ Beginning in 1995 and for decades after, JavaScript was the only game worth playing when it came to web-based scripting. While incredibly versatile, JavaScript had its limitations, especially regarding performance-intensive tasks. As the web evolved, so did the demand for more power, speed, and flexibility in web applications. Enter WebAssembly (WASM). # ⚓ Mozilla ☛ Mozilla_Localization_(L10N):_Localizer Spotlight:_Victor_Ibragimov_(Tajik_locale)⠀⇛ Hello World! My name is Victor Ibragimov, and I am from Dushanbe, Tajikistan (One of Five Central Asia Countries). On September 3, 2023, I celebrate my third year as a member of the Mozilla community, starting from September 3, 2020! # ⚓ Ten Four Fox ☛ Cameron_Kaiser:_August_patch_set_for TenFourFox⠀⇛ The next patch set has landed, bringing the TenFourFox security base up to 115ESR. This includes the usual new certificate roots and updates to pins, HSTS and TLDs, as well as applicable security updates such as a full pull-up to the browser’s SCTP support (not that this is frequently used in TenFourFox but rather to make future patches a little more tractable). On the bug fix side there is an update to the ATSUI font blocklist (thanks Chris T) and a wallpaper for a JavaScript- related crash on apple.com (thanks roytam1). Finally, basic adblock has been made stricter and is now also targetting invasive fingerprinting scripts. This adds a bit more overhead to checking the origin but that all runs at native C++ speed, and ensures we’re less likely to get bogged down running JavaScript that we’d really rather not. o § SaaS/Back End/Databases⠀➾ # ⚓ PostgreSQL ☛ PostgreSQL_16_RC1_Released!⠀⇛ The PostgreSQL Global Development Group announces that the first release candidate of PostgreSQL 16 is now available for download. As a release candidate, PostgreSQL 16 RC 1 will be mostly identical to the initial release of PostgreSQL 16, though some more fixes may be applied prior to the general availability of PostgreSQL 16. The planned date for the general availability of PostgreSQL 16 is September 14, 2023. Please see the “Release Schedule” section for more details. § Upgrading to PostgreSQL 16 RC 1 To upgrade to PostgreSQL 16 RC 1 from earlier versions of PostgreSQL, you will need to use a major version upgrade strategy, e.g. pg_upgrade or pg_dump / pg_restore. For more information, please visit the documentation section on upgrading: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/16/upgrading.html o § Programming/Development⠀➾ # ⚓ PHP_8.1.23_Released!⠀⇛ The PHP development team announces the immediate availability of PHP 8.1.23. This is a bug fix release. All PHP 8.1 users are encouraged to upgrade to this version. For source downloads of PHP 8.1.23 please visit our downloads page, Windows source and binaries can be found on windows.php.net/download/. The list of changes is recorded in the ChangeLog. # ⚓ PHP_8.3.0_RC_1_available_for_testing⠀⇛ The PHP team is pleased to announce the release of PHP 8.3.0, RC 1. This is the first release candidate, continuing the PHP 8.3 release cycle, the rough outline of which is specified in the PHP Wiki. ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 5633 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐃𝐀𝐈𝐋𝐘 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒 ═════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 09.02.23⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Links_02/09/2023:_POWER,_KDE,_Copyrights⠀✐ Posted in News_Roundup at 8:00 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇GNOME bluefish⦈ § Contents⠀➾ * GNU/Linux o Kernel_Space o Instructionals/Technical o Games o Desktop_Environments/WMs # K_Desktop_Environment/KDE_SC/Qt * Distributions_and_Operating_Systems o Fedora_Family_/_IBM o Canonical/Ubuntu_Family * Devices/Embedded * Free,_Libre,_and_Open_Source_Software o Web_Browsers/Web_Servers # Mozilla o Content_Management_Systems_(CMS) * Openness/Sharing/Collaboration o Open_Data * Programming/Development * Leftovers o Science o Education o Hardware o Health/Nutrition/Agriculture o Proprietary/Artificial_Intelligence_(AI) o Security # Privacy/Surveillance o Defence/Aggression o Environment # Energy/Transportation 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 * § GNU/Linux⠀➾ o § Kernel Space⠀➾ # ⚓ 9to5Linux ☛ You_Can_Now_Install_Linux_Kernel_6.5_on_Ubuntu, Here’s_How⠀⇛ Released by Linus Torvalds last Sunday, Linux kernel 6.5 brings new features like Wi-Fi 7 support, MIDI 2.0 support, ACPI support for the RISC-V architecture, Landlock support for UML (User-Mode Linux), better support for AMD “Zen” systems, and much more. Linux kernel 6.5 is now available for installation on Ubuntu systems from their official Ubuntu Mainline Kernel Archive and it’s supported on amd64 (x86_64), AArch64 (ARM64), ARMhf, PowerPC 64-bit Little Endian (ppc64el), and IBM System z (s390x) architectures. # ⚓ Talospace ☛ Linux_6.5⠀⇛ [...] There’s not a lot notable for Power ISA, though ELFv2 is now the default for 64-bit big- endian kernel builds, and if you’re running Power10 this release adds support for the DEXCR SPR (Dynamic Execution Control Register) which helps to reduce speculative execution risk. [...] o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾ # ⚓ Pi My Life Up ☛ Using_apcupsd_on_the_Raspberry_Pi⠀⇛ Apcupsd is short for APC UPS daemon and is used to interact with and monitor APC UPSes. While initially designed for the APC, it can also talk with some other brands of UPS, including some by Cyberpower. One of the advantages of using Apcupsd over something like NUT on your Raspberry Pi is that it can be considerably simpler to get up and running. The downside is that it doesn’t support nearly as many UPSes and lacks other functionality that the NUT server supports. By the end of the following sections, you will have APCUPSD running on your Raspberry Pi and have it monitoring the status of your attached UPS. o § Games⠀➾ # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Crusader_Kings_III_hits_3_million_sales after_3_years⠀⇛ Paradox Interactive announced today that following the recent released of Wards & Wardens for Crusader Kings III, that on the 3 year mark they’ve now hit 3 million sales. Crusader Kings III has Native Linux support, and it is rated Steam Deck Playable by Valve. # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ War_Thunder’s_next_major_update_is_‘Sons_of Attila’,_plus_easier_vehicle_unlocks_coming⠀⇛ Gaijin Entertainment have teased the next big update for War Thunder, named Sons of Attila and they continue to work through their roadmap to improve other parts of the game. War Thunder has Native Linux support and it is Steam Deck Verified. # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Creature-collecting_life-sim_Moonstone Island_launches_September_20th⠀⇛ Studio Supersoft and publisher Raw Fury have announced the cute creature-collecting life-sim Moonstone Island launches September 20th. As far as I know, it’s launching with Native Linux support too which was confirmed some time ago and Steam still shows this. Looks like it will be a delightful game to take with you on Steam Deck too. o § Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾ # ⚓ University of Toronto ☛ The_technical_merits_of_Wayland_are mostly_irrelevant⠀⇛ Today I read Wayland breaks your bad software (via), which is in large part an inventory of how Wayland is technically superior to X. I don’t particularly disagree with Wayland’s general technical merits and improvements, but at this point I think that they are mostly irrelevant. As such, I don’t think that talking about them will do much to shift more people to Wayland. # § K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt⠀➾ # ⚓ Nate Graham ☛ This_week_in_KDE:_Custom_ordering_for KRunner_search_results⠀⇛ This was a big week for KRunner! In addition, the number of open Plasma 6 issues continues to tick down. Thanks to everyone who’s been making this happen! You can now manually configure certain types of search results in KRunner to be high priority and hence always appear first in the results list! KRunner has also received a lot of performance work Landed some nice performance work for KWin as well, including making it do less unnecessary work by avoiding repainting layers of the screen that haven’t changed at all * § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾ o § Fedora Family / IBM⠀➾ # ⚓ Red Hat Official ☛ Season_2:_Adjusting_To_Automation⠀⇛ Automation is a game-changer. It promises to decrease time to deploy, reduce errors, and increase reliability and efficiency. But you can’t automate change. What does it take for teams to actually reach that finish line? And how does it affect how they actually work? Season 2 of Code Comments goes beyond the sales pitch and features teams who’ve tackled automation. Because there’s no script for adjusting to automation. # ⚓ 7_project_priority_checks_for_overloaded_IT_agendas⠀⇛ Jim Palermo, VP and CIO at software company Red Hat, agrees. # ⚓ Red Hat Official ☛ Next-generation_network_management: Event_streaming_with_a_service-oriented_approach⠀⇛ BlueAlly is a Red Hat Advanced Build (AB) partner focusing on network and cloud automation using Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform. In May of 2023, the BlueAlly Consulting team was invited to the Cisco Federal Innovation Challenge (CFIC) hosted at the GSA Workplace Innovation Lab 1 in Washington, DC. The goal of the CFIC is to bring together ideas to accelerate modernization across the federal and defense landscape. The focus is NetDevOps, IT modernization, telemetry and visualization. # ⚓ Introducing_Kepler:_Efficient_power_monitoring_for Kubernetes⠀⇛ Monitoring and optimizing power consumption is crucial for efficient resource management in Kubernetes environments. To address this need, a powerful tool called Kepler (Kubernetes-based Efficient Power Level Exporter) has emerged. Leveraging software counters, custom machine learning (ML) models, and the Cloud Native benchmark suite, Kepler offers accurate energy estimates and detailed reporting of power consumption at the pod level. o § Canonical/Ubuntu Family⠀➾ # ⚓ Simon Josefsson ☛ Trisquel_on_ppc64el:_Talos_II⠀⇛ The release notes for Trisquel 11.0 “Aramo” mention support for POWER and ARM architectures, however the download area only contains links for x86, and forum posts suggest there is a lack of instructions how to run Trisquel on non-x86. [...] One of my production machines is running Debian_11 “bullseye” on a Talos_II_Lite machine from Raptor Computing_Systems, and migrating the virtual machines running on that host (including the VM that serves this blog) to a x86 machine running Trisquel felt unsatisfying to me. I want to migrate my computing towards hardware that harmonize with FSF’s_Respects_Your_Freedom and not away from it. Here I had to chose between using the non-free software present in newer Debian or the non-free software implied by most x86 systems: not an easy chose. So I have ignored the dilemma for some time. After all, the machine was running Debian 11 “bullseye”, which was released before Debian started to require use of non-free software. With the end-of-life date for bullseye approaching, it seems that this isn’t a sustainable choice. * § Devices/Embedded⠀➾ o ⚓ Linux Gizmos ☛ New_SBC_powered_by_Allwinner_T507-H_processor⠀⇛ * § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾ o ⚓ FSF ☛ August_GNU_Spotlight_with_Amin_Bandali:_Seventeen_new_GNU releases!⠀⇛ Seventeen new GNU releases in the last month (as of August 29, 2023): [...] o § Web Browsers/Web Servers⠀➾ # § Mozilla⠀➾ # ⚓ Talospace ☛ Firefox_117_on_POWER⠀⇛ Now that the Talos II is upgraded and tuned up, it’s back to development work, starting with (after a TenFourFox patch dump) Firefox 117. [...] o § Content Management Systems (CMS)⠀➾ # ⚓ Alan Pope ☛ Alan_Pope:_Full_text_content_in_Hugo⠀⇛ tl;dr I’ve enabled full content text rather than summaries in the RSS feed for this blog. The irony that I am then summarising the entire post in one line here at the top, is not lost on me. § History I’ve used various tools for my blog over the years. Initially in the late 1990’s it was hand-crafted HTML and some FrontPage_extensions. Later I used Polarblog through the mid 2000’s then dropped that in 2006 for Drupal and subsequently WordPress. Most recently I tried Nikola before “finally” settling on Hugo. Originally my blog was hosted on some free webspace I got from my ISP. Later I self- hosted at home on a Linux server in my garage. Eventually I moved it onto a VPS form Bitfolk. Most of the “modern” (HAH!) blogging platforms have had the ability to present content via RSS (Really Simple Syndication). I used to avidly view news in an RSS reader, but like many others, these have fallen out of favour. * § Openness/Sharing/Collaboration⠀➾ o § Open Data⠀➾ # ⚓ Digital First Media ☛ Fans_fear_art_of_keeping_score_at baseball_games_is_going,_going_gone⠀⇛ Used to be, so many people did it. Just look at the old, grainy black-and-white photos. You went to a baseball game; you kept score. But not anymore. Keelean and the hearty bunch just like him are part of a small, dedicated breed these days. Fewer and farther between. * § Programming/Development⠀➾ o ⚓ Rlang ☛ Grants_For_R_Language_Infrastructure_Projects_Available Now!⠀⇛ Round two is here! The R Consortium Infrastructure Steering Committee (ISC) orchestrates two rounds of proposal calls and grant awards per year to fortify the R ecosystem’s technical infrastructure. We have one key goal: to make meaningful infrastructure improvements that serve the R community. o ⚓ Evan Hahn ☛ Short_C_program_that_repeats_a_string_forever⠀⇛ I recently wanted a command that would endlessly repeat a string at the command line. Like the yes command, but without newlines. o ⚓ Jim Nielsen ☛ “Out_of_the_Software_Crisis”:_Dependencies⠀⇛ As Baldur notes, “Low variability opens up its own possibilities.” Dependencies are a definite point of variability, so lowering your dependence on other software opens up its own possibilities, e.g. less risk and more stability. It’s kind of interesting to think about how adding dependencies can give you more velocity, but taking them away can too. It’s trade-offs all the way down. * § Leftovers⠀➾ o ⚓ Ruben Schade ☛ Back_at_the_data_centre_in_Melbourne⠀⇛ I’m sitting here late on a Friday night at the breakroom of Equinix’s fancy facilities in Port Melbourne, chewing on a delightful cookie from the vending machine and having a decaf nightcap, of sorts! This is going to sound weird, but this work trip means a lot. It was Febuary 2020 when I was last sitting here, right when we all started getting an inkling that something dreadfully serious was brewing. I don’t think any of us knew when we’d be back. Covid is still everywhere, and is an evolving threat I think too many have become lax about, but in my own weird way it feels like I’ve taken another step being here. o § Science⠀➾ # ⚓ The Nation ☛ Rescuing_Native_Remains_From_the_Traditions_of Golden_State_Plunder⠀⇛ Jack Potter Jr. was on the University of California at Berkeley campus to pick up the bones of a grandmother and five of her grandchildren. He said he could hear noises: “like white noises, but even stronger.” He stared at a structure in the distance when a representative of the university asked him, “What do you keep looking at over there?” o § Education⠀➾ # ⚓ Reason ☛ It’s_Not_Surprising_That_Federal_Funding_Didn’t Stop_Pandemic_Learning_Loss⠀⇛ Giving schools more money doesn’t make them better. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ We_Used_A.I._to_Write_Essays_for_Harvard, Yale_and_Princeton._Here’s_How_It_Went.⠀⇛ While the chatbots are not yet great at simulating long-form personal essays with authentic student voices, I wondered how the A.I. tools would do on some of the shorter essay questions that elite schools like Harvard, Yale, Princeton and Dartmouth are requiring high school applicants to answer this year. So I used several free tools to generate short essays for some Ivy League applications. The A.I. chatbots’ answers have been edited for brevity and clarity. # ⚓ India Times ☛ Ban_or_embrace?_Colleges_wrestle_with_AI- generated_admissions_essays⠀⇛ “Students on some level are going to have access to and use AI,” Clark said. “The big question is: How do we want to direct them, knowing that it’s out there and available to them?” “Students on some level are going to have access to and use AI,” Clark said. “The big question is: How do we want to direct them, knowing that it’s out there and available to them?” # ⚓ Tom’s Hardware ☛ Raspberry_Pi_Robotic_Dog_Teaches_Spanish To_Deaf_Children⠀⇛ Robins is fitted with two OAK-D cameras that rely on artificial intelligence. One interprets sign language while the other monitors the user’s face for various emotions while completing the activities. The robotic dog can also respond to the user’s progress in real-time with expressions by moving its mouth, eyes, and eyebrows. o § Hardware⠀➾ # ⚓ Tedium ☛ Dead-End_Hardware⠀⇛ Today in Tedium: The great thing about a lot of technology is that even if its ideas fail, they often re-emerge elsewhere, influencing the thinking of others in the field to come up with something better and more interesting. But often isn’t always, and sometimes ideas just die on the vine, with no innovator coming up behind to make it better. It was an idea that deserved to fail, but that nobody thought might be worthy of giving a proper follow-up for whatever reason. Tedium is a place where failure deserves to live forever, where we embrace it, so with that in mind, today’s Tedium brings you a list of 10 examples of hardware features, devices, and gadgets that did not change the world, or really even influence it much. They mostly just ended in disappointment for everyone involved. — Ernie @ Tedium # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Make_Better_3D_Printed_Molds,_For_Thermoforming Plastics⠀⇛ Thermoforming — which includes vacuum-forming — has its place in a well-rounded workshop, and Mayku (makers of desktop thermoforming machines) have a short list of tips for getting the best results when 3D printing molds on filament-based printers. # ⚓ The Next Platform ☛ What_Would_You_Do_With_A_16.8_Million Core_Graph_Processing_Beast?⠀⇛ If you look back at it now, especially with the advent of massively parallel computing on GPUs, maybe the techies at Tera Computing and then Cray had the right idea with their “ThreadStorm” massively threaded processors and high bandwidth interconnects. o § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾ # ⚓ Axios ☛ Nikki_Haley_calls_Senate_“most_privileged_nursing home”_in_U.S._after_McConnell_freeze-up⠀⇛ Republican presidential candidate Nikki_Haley called Senate Minority Leader Mitch_McConnell’s (R- Ky.) second_apparent_freeze-up during a news conference this week “sad,” but added: “you have to know when to leave.” # ⚓ Quartz ☛ Judge_blocks_Arkansas_law_requiring_parental_OK for_minors_to_create_social_media_accounts⠀⇛ A federal judge on Thursday temporarily blocked Arkansas from enforcing a new law that would have required parental consent for minors to create new social media accounts, preventing the state from becoming the first to impose such a restriction. U.S. District Judge Timothy L. Brooks granted a preliminary injunction that NetChoice — a tech industry trade group whose members include TikTok, Facebook parent Meta, and X, formerly known as Twitter — had requested against the law. The measure, which Republican Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders signed into law in April, was set to take effect Friday. # ⚓ Reason ☛ Arkansas_Social_Media_Age_Verification_Law_Likely Violates_First_Amendment⠀⇛ From Judge Timothy Brooks’ opinion yesterday in Netchoice, LLC v. Griffin (W.D. Ark.): [...] # ⚓ Riccardo Mori ☛ Layers_of_exhaustion⠀⇛ As for tech exhaustion… it’s ultimately just a phase — which is lasting longer than in previous periods of time when innovation felt like an unstoppable force. In photography and music, there seems to be a trend where people are appreciating more and more a return to more ‘analogue’ habits, mindsets, and æsthetics. I’ve been doing the same even before it was cool, because I basically never stopped listening and buying vinyl records, CDs, and MiniDiscs. And I never really stopped engaging in film photography with 40–50-year-old equipment. With writing, I’m trying to go back to using pen & paper even more than before, as I found many many times that this really improves my creative process. # ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ Phase_II_Study_Finds_That_Psilocybin_Plus_Therapy Can_Help_Treat_Depression_Symptoms⠀⇛ The study was published Thursday in the journal JAMA. It involved 104 adults diagnosed with at least moderate clinical depression. The volunteers were randomly assigned to either receive a single 25 milligram dose of psilocybin or niacin, in conjunction with several sessions of therapy. Niacin was chosen as a placebo since it can induce temporary physical sensations like flushed skin, making it harder for volunteers to know which group they belonged to. The therapy included a session on the day of dosing as well as “postdose integration sessions” where people were encouraged to talk about their experiences. # ⚓ “Innovation.”_You_keep_using_that_word._I_do_not_think_it means_what_you_think_it_means.⠀⇛ A week ago, I wrote about the reaction of COVID-19 vaccine quack Dr. Pierre Kory to learning that the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) had informed him that its Credentials and Certification Committee had voted to strip him of his board certifications in internal medicine, critical care, and pulmonary medicine. Unsurprisingly, Dr. Kory’s reaction was to weaponize legitimate complaints about the ABIM that a number of physicians enrolled in its maintenance of certification program have made regarding its onerous expense and time commitment in order to portray the organization and its president as utterly corrupt and in the thrall of the powers that he views as forcing harmful vaccines and public health mandates in response to the pandemic in order to control the population. He also portrayed himself and his fellow quacks from the Frontline COVID-19 Critical Care Alliance (FLCCC) as brave maverick “innovators” whose “innovation” frightened the powers that be, such as the Federation of State Medical Boards (FSMB) and the ABIM. # ⚓ Axios ☛ A_late_summer_COVID_wave_is_here,_but_it’s_trickier than_ever_to_track⠀⇛ The anticipated late_summer_COVID_wave is here – but it’s tougher than ever to measure. The big picture: With the end of federal COVID_case tracking and the prevalence of rapid at-home testing, virus-related hospitalization rates and wastewater_analyses are the best bet for monitoring spread. # ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ Pandemic_leads_to_decline_of_‘daigou’ era_in_Australia⠀⇛ One of the reasons for the daigou slump is that Chinese consumers are increasingly buying local products. o § Proprietary/Artificial Intelligence (AI)⠀➾ # ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ No_Google_AI_Search,_I_Don’t_Need_to_Learn_About the_“Benefits_of_Slavery”⠀⇛ # ⚓ Security Week ☛ Exploit_Code_Published_for_Critical- Severity_VMware_Security_Defect⠀⇛ He pointed to VMWare’s CVE-2023-34039 advisory (CVSS severity score of 9.8 out of 10) that describes the bug as a network authentication bypass and warns that the issue is being mischaracterized. “Interestingly, VMware has named this issue “Networks Authentication Bypass”, but in my opinion, nothing is getting bypassed. There is SSH authentication in place; however, VMware forgot to regenerate the keys,” Kheirkha said. o § Security⠀➾ # ⚓ Krebs On Security ☛ Why_is_.US_Being_Used_to_Phish_So_Many of_Us?⠀⇛ Domain names ending in “.US” — the top-level domain for the United States — are among the most prevalent in phishing scams, new research shows. This is noteworthy because .US is overseen by the U.S. government, which is frequently the target of phishing domains ending in .US. Also, .US domains are only supposed to be available to U.S. citizens and to those who can demonstrate that they have a physical presence in the United States. # § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾ # ⚓ Variety ☛ Court_Rules_in_Pornhub’s_Favor_in_Finding Texas_Age-Verification_Law_Violates_First_Amendment⠀⇛ Under the Texas law, which was set to go into effect Sept. 1, 2023, porn sites would have been required to use “reasonable age verification methods” to “verify that an individual attempting to access the material is 18 years of age or older.” In addition, pornography sites would have been forced to display a “Texas Health and Human Services Warning” in at least 14-point font — one such warning was specified to read, “Pornography increases the demand for prostitution, child exploitation, and child pornography” — along with a national toll-free number for people with mental health disorders. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signed H.B. 1181 into law on June 12. In the Aug. 31 ruling, Senior U.S. District Judge David A. Ezra of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas wrote, “The Court finds that H.B. 1181 is unconstitutional on its face.” The ruling enjoined Angela Colmenero, acting attorney general of Texas, from taking any enforcement action under H.B. 1181 “pending further order or final judgment.” # ⚓ India Times ☛ Scrutiny_of_Sam_Altman’s_iris-scanning_ [cryptocurrency]_project_Worldcoin_grows⠀⇛ Almost 2.3 million people globally have signed up to have their irises scanned by Worldcoin’s “orb” devices in exchange for a digital ID and free cryptocurrency. # ⚓ India Times ☛ Meta_may_allow_Instagram,_Facebook users_in_Europe_to_pay_and_avoid_ads⠀⇛ Those who pay for Facebook and Instagram subscriptions would not see ads in the apps, said the people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the plans are confidential. That may help Meta fend off privacy concerns and other scrutiny from EU regulators by giving users an alternative to the company’s ad-based services, which rely on analyzing people’s data, the people said. o § Defence/Aggression⠀➾ # ⚓ The Strategist ☛ ‘Defending_democracy’_a_losing_strategy against_authoritarian_narratives⠀⇛ Not so long ago, the consensus around defending democracy on the internet was nearly a settled matter. A sort of de facto understanding held that to fight disinformation and defend democracy, we should resist the impulse to try to control information or the behaviour of authoritarians we oppose. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ ‘There_isn’t_a_rational_explanation_for_torture’ Oleksandra_Matviichuk,_who_founded_Ukraine’s_Center_for_Civil Liberties,_speaks_about_tracking_Russian_war_crimes_in Ukraine_and_sharing_a_Nobel_Peace_Prize_with_peers_from Russia_and_Belarus_—_Meduza⠀⇛ # ⚓ New York Times ☛ How_Montana’s_Attorney_General_Made Banning_TikTok_a_Top_Priority⠀⇛ How one of Montana’s top elected officials made banning the app a top priority, putting the state at the center of a geopolitical storm. # § Russia, Belarus, and War in Ukraine⠀➾ # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Belarus_says_Polish_helicopter_violated_its airspace,_demands_explanation_from_Warsaw_—_Meduza⠀⇛ o § Environment⠀➾ # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ In_a_Historic_Vote,_the_State_of_California Becomes_the_Largest_Economy_in_the_World_to_Endorse_the_Call for_a_Fossil_Fuel_Non-Proliferation_Treaty⠀⇛ The SJR 2 resolution was introduced by California Senate Majority Whip Senator Lena A. Gonzalez, and co-sponsored by Indigenous Environmental Network, Stand.earth, and SAFE Cities. The resolution calls on President Biden to support Pacific nations moving ahead with seeking a negotiating mandate for a Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty. # ⚓ Modern Diplomacy ☛ Preventing_outer_space_from_becoming_a hazardous_junkyard⠀⇛ The number of satellites in space may exceed 100 000 by 2030, according to forecasts. Small satellites are increasingly being sent into low orbits 500 to 1 000 kilometres above Earth to do everything from improve remote communications to guide driverless cars. # ⚓ The Nation ☛ Facing_Climate_Change⠀⇛ # § Energy/Transportation⠀➾ # ⚓ Quartz ☛ With_Democratic_control,_Michigan’s_governor pushes_for_health_care_and_climate_change_laws⠀⇛ Paid family and medical leave, a 100% clean energy standard and codifying protections ensured by the Affordable Care Act are among the issues that Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is directing Democrats to tackle in the final months of the year. # ⚓ Terence Eden ☛ One_month_with_a_solar_battery_–_real statistics⠀⇛ August is meant to be full of gloriously hot days. An endless parade of sunshine and drinks in the park. This year it seemed mostly grey, miserable, and prone to pissing it down at a moment’s notice. # ⚓ Pro Publica ☛ EPA_Proposes_Regulations_to_Curb Cancer-Causing_Emissions_From_Coke_Plants⠀⇛ The ultrawealthy family of West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice is looking to reopen a shuttered industrial plant that for decades emitted chemicals that have harmed historically Black neighborhoods in Birmingham, Alabama. But the family faces a series of new regulatory and financial hurdles — including a push by local regulators to throw the governor’s son in jail over thousands of dollars in unpaid penalties connected to the plant’s pollution. The century-old facility, which burns coal to make coke, a key ingredient for manufacturing steel, was the subject of a 2022 ProPublica investigation that showed how the family’s company and the plant’s past owners repeatedly failed to make necessary repairs. Without timely maintenance, Bluestone Coke released more cancer-causing chemicals into the air breathed by residents of three surrounding communities on Birmingham’s north side. In 2021, local regulators declined to renew Bluestone’s permit because of its repeated violations of air pollution regulations, but the plant kept operating as Bluestone appealed the decision. Months later, the company idled its coke ovens because of major equipment problems. o § Finance⠀➾ # ⚓ Axios ☛ What_Supreme_Court_Justice_Clarence_Thomas_reported on_his_new_financial_disclosure⠀⇛ Supreme Court Justice Clarence_Thomas reported three reimbursements for travel and meals from Dallas billionaire Harlan Crow in 2022, according to his newly released annual financial disclosure. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Airline_Sold_Tickets_for_Already_Canceled Flights,_Watchdog_Group_Says⠀⇛ Australia’s consumer commission said in legal proceedings that Qantas, the country’s national carrier, had sold tickets for routes it never intended to fly. # ⚓ Axios ☛ Americans_sound_miserable,_but_are_buying_lots_of boats⠀⇛ Data: U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, FactSet; Chart: Axios Visuals Spending on pleasure boats continues to hover near remarkable highs. Why it matters: You don’t buy a boat unless you’re fairly confident the economic wind is at your back, so this is a good sign that Americans — despite what they tell pollsters — are actually feeling pretty good. ⚓ T-Mobile’s_upcoming_layoffs_to_impact_over_400_Bellevue_employees⠀⇛ Over 400 employees in Bellevue will be impacted by T-Mobile’s recently announced layoff plans, according to the U.S. Labor Department and Washington’s Employment Security Department. The Labor Department’s Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) reported last week 401 employees in Bellevue will be impacted. The department reports the “layoff start date” as Oct. 24. The information comes as the company recently announced it will lay off 5,000 employees, about 7% of its workforce. ⚓ Remote_Work_Is_Harder_To_Come_By_As_Companies_Push_For_Return_To_Office⠀⇛ Back in 2020, when schools were still virtual and city dwellers were living their lives in masks, Jamie Dimon emerged as one of the earliest critics of remote work. “There’s a huge value to working together in terms of collaboration and creativity and training the younger people,” the CEO of JPMorgan Chase told MSNBC in August that year. Three years later, Dimon’s message is unchanged. The difference now is that the sentiment has gone mainstream. Today, even Zoom’s leadership is extolling the benefits of in-person work. ⚓ Yahoo News ☛ Internal_email:_Expedia_Group_lays_off_some_tech_workers_in latest_move_to_reshape_its_workforce⠀⇛ Expedia Group informed an unspecified number of workers in its technology organization Thursday that it’s eliminating their positions, the latest in a series of moves by the Seattle-based travel giant to overhaul its workforce. Those impacted by the cutbacks include employees in Expedia Group’s Traveler Products team, which is part of Expedia Group Chief Technology Officer Rathi Murthy’s larger Product & Technology organization. ⚓ Games ☛ Starfield_review_controversy_traces_game_journalism’s_orbital_decay_| This_Week_in_Business⠀⇛ More concerning than Bethesda’s decision to withhold early review codes from certain outlets is how heavily some sites are relying on the game to drive their business § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾ * ⚓ India Times ☛ US-based_software_company_Pegasystems_to_lay_off_nearly 240_employees⠀⇛ US-based Pegasystems (Pega) said in public filings that it plans to cut approximately 4% of its employees across various geographies, citing a reorganisation of its customer success roles, reports Boston Business Journal. * ⚓ Quartz ☛ Food_ads_are_in_the_crosshairs_as_Burger_King,_others_face lawsuits_for_false_advertising⠀⇛ Food ads have long made their subjects look bigger, juicier and crispier than they are in real life. But some consumers say those mouthwatering ads can cross the line into deception, and that’s leading to a growing number of lawsuits. * ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ A_look_inside_Donald_Trump’s_deposition: Defiance,_deflection_and_the_‘hottest_brand_in_the_world’⠀⇛ In newly public testimony, Donald Trump boasts about building a multibillion-dollar brand and saving “millions of lives” as president. He spars with the New York attorney general suing him for fraud, telling Letitia James “the whole case is crazy” and accusing her staff of trying to trip him up like old-time TV lawyer Perry Mason did to witnesses. Trump’s lawyers posted a transcript of his April deposition in a flurry of court filings Wednesday related to James’ lawsuit. A video recording of his testimony could be played when the lawsuit goes to trial Oct. 2. * ⚓ Reason ☛ Firing_Based_on_Employee’s_Pre-Employment_Social_Media_Posts Leads_to_Discrimination_Lawsuit;⠀⇛ federal court allows the case to go forward. * ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ UN_says_its_still_pushing_for_action_on_abuses in_China’s_Xinjiang,_following_criticism_from_rights_groups⠀⇛ The United Nations insisted Thursday it was still pushing for accountability for abuses in China’s Xinjiang region, after rights groups accused it of inaction. * ⚓ JURIST ☛ UK_Government_to_force_criminals_to_attend_sentencing hearings⠀⇛ UK Justice Secretary Alex Chalk announced Wednesday that the UK will enact new laws to force criminals to attend their sentencings in court, with offenders potentially being subject to longer sentences. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak commented saying “Criminals shouldn’t be allowed to take the coward’s way out by refusing to face their victims in court. * ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ Trump_dismissive_as_New_York_attorney_general accuses_him_of_inflating_his_net_worth_by_$2_billion⠀⇛ Newly released testimony shows Donald Trump defending his real estate empire and his presidency in a face-to-face clash with the New York attorney general suing him for fraud. Testifying at a closed-door session in April, he said his company is flush with cash and claimed he saved “millions of lives” by deterring nuclear war when he was president. Trump said it was a “terrible thing” that Attorney General Letitia James was suing him over claims he made on annual financial statements. James says evidence shows Trump fraudulently inflated his net worth by more than $2 billion in some years. Trump’s testimony was made public Wednesday. * ⚓ University of Michigan ☛ Governor_Whitmer,_please_run_for_president⠀⇛ The 2024 presidential race is looking less like a function of democracy than it is a Greek tragedy. Complete with huge egos and fatal flaws, you know from the beginning that it ends poorly for everyone. * ⚓ Insight Hungary ☛ Trump_thanks_Viktor_Orban_for_endorsing_him_for president⠀⇛ Viktor Orbán urged Americans. to “call back Trump,” in an interview with former Fox News host Tucker Carlson. According to Hungary’s far-right prime minister, “Trump is the man who can save the Western world and probably human beings”. After the interview was published the four-times indicted, twice- impeached former president took to Truth Social to thank Orban for the gesture. The interview was focused on the relationship between the US and Hungary and the war in Ukraine. Carlson presented the interview as a way for American viewers to understand what is happening in Ukraine. The conservative commentator began by saying that everyone in the United States is convinced that Ukraine will win this war: * ⚓ Meduza ☛ Putin_and_Erdoğan_set_for_talks_in_Sochi_on_September_4_— Meduza⠀⇛ * ⚓ RFERL ☛ Putin,_Erdogan_To_Meet_Next_Week_After_Ukraine_Grain_Deal Unraveled⠀⇛ Russian President Vladimir Putin will host Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan for talks in the Black Sea resort of Sochi on September 4. * § Misinformation/Disinformation/Propaganda⠀➾ o ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ Did_a_Right-Wing_Network_Interview_a_Fake_AI_Trump?⠀⇛ The Daily Beast itself got caught up in the hall of mirrors surrounding Trump’s nasally and awkward audio. The outlet first claimed it spoke to Robert Sigg, the owner of Performance One Media, the parent company of Real America’s Voice. Sigg supposedly said that Trump sounded like “ChatGOP” and the network is launching an internal investigation. But later, the Beast updated the story saying a reporter had texted a number that had once belonged to Sigg according to public records, and the network has subsequently contacted the publication to inform them they were never communicating with the real Sigg. o ⚓ Meduza ☛ Director_of_Russian_U.S._and_Canada_Studies_Institute debunks_anti-Western_propaganda_and_quickly_loses_his_job⠀⇛ Shortly before he was removed from his position, Garbuzov published a column in the publication Nezavisimaya Gazeta, in which he debunked myths about the West favored by Russian propagandists and described Russia’s place in the world. In the article, which appeared on August 29, the scholar wrote that Russia has not left behind “the charge of foreign policy expansionism.” First, he argued, the country’s leaders constructed the myth of world communism, and then invented several others, including about American imperialism. Garbuzov suggests that the myths propagated by the current Russian authorities are spread via a state propaganda machine composed of “well paid professional political manipulators and participants in a number of televised talk shows.” The myths include the supposed crisis of globalization and the “Anglo-Saxon” world, anticolonial revolutions, the loss of American dominance, a global anti-American revolution, and the collapse of the West. o ⚓ RFERL ☛ Putin_Opens_School_Year_In_Russia_But_New_History Textbook_Given_Failing_Grade⠀⇛ Russian students began the first day of a new school year with words of encouragement from President Vladimir Putin and a revised history textbook that critics say is intended to “incite anger toward Ukrainians” and explain to future conscripts “why they are putting on uniforms and boots.” § Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾ * ⚓ NPR ☛ Saudi_man_sentenced_to_death_for_tweets_in_harshest_verdict_yet for_online_critics⠀⇛ A retired teacher in Saudi Arabia was recently sentenced to death for his tweets criticizing the country’s leadership to his handful of followers, according to rights advocates and his family. The sentencing of Mohammad Alghamdi, who is in his mid-50s, is the latest in an escalating crackdown on social media users in Saudi Arabia. While others are serving prison terms ranging from 20 to 45 years for their tweets and online criticism of the government, Alghamdi appears to be the first person to be sentenced to death based solely on his posts on X, formerly called Twitter, and YouTube activity. * ⚓ [Old] Associated Press ☛ Saudi_case_against_Twitter_user_may_have_its roots_in_US⠀⇛ But the story may have roots in an elaborate ploy that began in Silicon Valley and sparked a federal case against two Twitter employees accused of spying for the kingdom. * ⚓ RFERL ☛ Russia_Brands_Nobel_Winner_Muratov_‘Foreign_Agent’⠀⇛ Russia has added journalist and Nobel Prize laureate Dmitry Muratov to its list of “foreign agents.” [...] * ⚓ RFERL ☛ Iranian_Protester_Dies_In_Prison_Under_What_Rights_Groups_Call ‘Suspicious’_Circumstances⠀⇛ After receiving a death sentence from the court, Kaveh — who was not allowed to be present at the trial — said he was finally allowed access to the case. He said after reviewing the materials that there was no concrete evidence supporting the crimes for which Rohi was sentenced to death and the ruling was overturned by the Supreme Court in June. § Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press⠀➾ * ⚓ Kansas Reflector ☛ Marion’s_is_national_news,_but_Kansas_is_rich_with small-town_papers._Meet_the_Lucas-Sylvan_News.⠀⇛ On Aug. 11, when the Marion County Record was raided by local police, the strobe light of national attention swung toward Kansas journalism. An outpouring of support for the newspaper and the press’s preservation of First Amendment freedoms brought more than 4,000 new subscriptions, doubling the Marion County Record’s previous reach. Of course it’s our responsibility to champion publisher Eric Meyer’s determination to cover cops, courts and city and county without fear or favor. I encourage us to remember, once the attention drifts from Marion, that many small and smaller newspapers in Kansas also deserve our support. * ⚓ RFA ☛ After_years_of_hunger_strikes,_jailed_Chinese_citizen_journalist is_in_hospital⠀⇛ Zhang Zhan, who reported from the emerging COVID-19 pandemic in Wuhan, weighs just 37 kilograms. § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾ * ⚓ CBS ☛ LAPD_officer_arrested_for_allegedly_stealing_resident’s_debit card⠀⇛ Following his arrest, Babaians was stripped of his police powers and “assigned home” as he waits for the department to finish their administrative and criminal investigation. * ⚓ The Atlantic ☛ The_Other_Work_Remote_Workers_Get_Done⠀⇛ The appeal of remote work is all too often glossed over as a matter of “quality of life” or “work-life balance.” Those are, of course, important. But that framing also ignores the uncompensated caregiving that Vigil and millions of others provide for America’s young, sick, elderly, and disabled. Their efforts are not just a quality-of-life issue; they’re an enormously important and overlooked part of our economy. For a lot of caregivers, telecommuting allows them to manage a workload that is, if anything, way too big. Remote work, then, isn’t just a question of work-life balance; it’s a question of work-work balance. The traditional conception of “productivity” doesn’t account for this. * ⚓ [Repeat] University of Michigan ☛ What_happened_with_the_GEO_strike over_the_summer⠀⇛ In November 2022, the Graduate Employees’ Organization and the University of Michigan began negotiating a new contract for Graduate Student Instructors and Graduate Student Staff Assistants. Negotiations continued through the school year with no resolution, eventually leading GEO to go on strike March 27. The strike continued throughout the majority of summer before coming to an end on Aug. 25 when the union finally reached an agreement on a new three-year contract with the University. Though a lot happened between March 27 and Aug. 25, The Michigan Daily is here to catch Wolverines up on all the labor negotiation details. Here’s what the campus community might have missed from the GEO strike this summer. * ⚓ Vice Media Group ☛ 45,000_USPS_Workers_Aren’t_Getting_Paid_This_Week Amidst_Union_Decertification_Push⠀⇛ The USPS missed payroll for more than 45,000 rural postal workers this week due what their union called “an egregious payroll error.” Workers will instead have the option of effectively taking out a loan via money order. The timing is not the most auspicious as it comes during a push by some rural carriers to decertify their union, which is seen by many workers as not doing enough to protect their interests after more than two-thirds of them took a pay cut determined by an algorithm earlier this year. § Monopolies⠀➾ * ⚓ [Repeat] The Verge ☛ Microsoft_is_using_malware-like_pop-ups_in_Windows 11_to_get_people_to_ditch_Google⠀⇛ I have no idea why Microsoft thinks it’s ok to fire off these pop-ups to Windows 11 users in the first place. I wasn’t alone in thinking it was malware, with posts dating back three months showing Reddit users trying to figure out why they were seeing the pop-up. I’m sure Microsoft is legally covered by the myriad of license agreements that nobody reads, but in reality I never knowingly consented to Microsoft abusing its ability to analyze my PC usage to show me a Bing pop-up just because I use Chrome with Google search. * § Copyrights⠀➾ o ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ A_New_Facebook_Setting_Tells_Meta_Not_to_Use_Your_Data for_AI⠀⇛ Buried in the nether regions of Facebook’s Privacy Center—a part of the website most people probably never visit—you’ll find an entry called Generative AI Data Subject Rights. “This form is where you can submit requests related to your third party information being used for generative AI model training,” Facebook tells the weary travelers who’ve managed to stumble onto the page. o ⚓ Torrent Freak ☛ RARBG’s_Demise_Gave_These_Torrent_Sites_a_Huge Boost_in_Traffic⠀⇛ After an extraordinary run, torrent site RARBG shut itself down in May with no advance warning. With no time to prepare for the site’s disappearance and no obvious ability to proactively take up the slack, users would simply have to stand by and let nature take its course. Three months later it appears that numerous well-known torrent sites have turned RARBG’s loss into healthy wins. o ⚓ Torrent Freak ☛ YouTube_Defeats_Mexican_Movie_Tycoon’s_Piracy Lawsuit⠀⇛ YouTube has landed a major legal victory after defeating a copyright infringement lawsuit filed by movie tycoon Carlos Vasallo. According to a Florida federal court, Google’s video platform complies with the DMCA and has no legal obligation to use its piracy filtering tools to remove all potentially pirated videos. ╘══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╛ ¶ Lines in total: 7073 ➮ Generation completed at 02:53, i.e. 135 seconds to (re)generate ⟲