𝕿𝖊𝖈𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍𝖙𝖘 Bulletin for Tuesday, September 05, 2023 ┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅┅ Generated Wed 6 Sep 02:51:10 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/2023/09/05/ ╒═══════════════════ 𝐑𝐄𝐂𝐄𝐍𝐓 𝐁𝐔𝐋𝐋𝐄𝐓𝐈𝐍𝐒 ════════════════════════════════════╕ Previous bulletins in IPFS (past 21 days, in chronological order): QmZnEb1NMj8vNm5EXH9jb8unPV3bTrZKvHcvsEczvMfMYS QmPrM5Hu5PNR7zjUmtsvqm8xkZsrE96qx4CaEuQrKFfjFd QmfR8XxBEMVs1Mue6wS1NKXYG8optDVxN7EFcGCzvD1Q9z QmbqCQ6R4NusTRm9E3YjVzj9c1FxCfEvrfqShjAZLaCyQS QmeZFBVX9fk1V5VBuSsZpDpx2dnJBatXxASzUtAm4wrZ26 QmR8687kGyLT5rdVV9a5wwcd599wytXYh8CbSBUtHMqNx6 QmVL6ny5v6haHeg8eGHJrcSY343AUa4deXjfvCw1ZDmDz6 QmWKPms4oLgJhFJZPgySVW8kBSCBHkHuEbpSJ9Hu8w899a QmYRNEXfEKgCkNrxSJTkmHBQSawGzsT7jTG9zeGBgLZpYW QmXuNJQvwQEw7vxCEMaH6S2XP6CJWxyQPwQ5XwEnWrbwNY QmU8r9irxybJVwzTWsCaejmJ4dDWJ8vAHAHHAKEkyeufpQ QmeryNavwPZxt2XqRC8WzQsxzm8Q2aJpPrHDJjt4MVx7j9 QmV1aDkYP6Y7Yv8Eg5mojpfKfRqGkjzLoJiut9uECHzXbF QmNRJcNP3MBmn7dGr91i3qjc8AouAjwSZWUmroRDLJDj2W QmR3skFpi5NU2DwodXGtVWF1yWK1pJNg7U4BHJZ26DXmJr QmNyZCmQoHYnCZYzsD7hZtwEa43PmCo6mPJQSvxSE2bjMR QmbHjgPAAcGNUG9Sej4vSKhK8DfUYokfFkXLdKwr1JtGJG QmdLsuRLzrwb58dZaSmJah6oCmNNZ6cW4ick4chqJmHjmY QmTNR3uqcbMYjPAbbHjBqyNJb3ib8kytQvdFnATzkBFVvo QmfCHrqMLfMsHXYnQeAvVuNYt91Zw2AmMJ5mx4RqsrWy3b QmR2rr1yXDANjQBEz2oGtd2UMgy9U37FHdjpUhPfAk7h5z ╒═══════════════════ 𝐈𝐍𝐃𝐄𝐗 ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⦿ It’s Autumn Already! | Techrights ⦿ Using Free Software, Preferably Locally-Hosted, to Control and Secure Communications | Techrights ⦿ IRC Proceedings: Monday, September 04, 2023 | Techrights ⦿ Back on the Saddle, Still Readjusting (New Microphone, New Setup) | Techrights ⦿ OpenIndiana Hipster Frustrations. (Revisiting Solaris, Non-Linux Systems, CentOS Stream) | Techrights ⦿ The Tor Network Becomes Less of a Nuisance to Us (After Complaints of Misuse Connected to Tor Staff) | Techrights ⦿ With UEFI, TPM, Pluton Etc. Microsoft and Intel/AMD Trashed an Entire Generation of Computers, Made Security a Lot Worse in Order to Curtail GNU/Linux and BSD Adoption | Techrights ⦿ [Meme] Package Management on Windows | Techrights ⦿ Yuzu Nintendo Switch Emulator for Linux is on Flathub. Debian 12 with ZRam Helps Keep the System Running Smoothly. | Techrights ䷼ Bulletin articles (as HTML) to comment on (requires login): http://techrights.org/2023/09/05/autumn-and-news/#comments http://techrights.org/2023/09/05/control-and-secure-your-communications/#comments http://techrights.org/2023/09/05/irc-log-040923/#comments http://techrights.org/2023/09/05/new-microphone/#comments http://techrights.org/2023/09/05/openindiana-hipster-frustrations/#comments http://techrights.org/2023/09/05/the-tor-network-becomes-less-of-a-nuisance-to-us-after-complaints-of-misuse-connected-to-tor-staff/#comments http://techrights.org/2023/09/05/trashing-an-entire-generation-of-computers/#comments http://techrights.org/2023/09/05/windows-package-manager/#comments http://techrights.org/2023/09/05/yuzu-nintendo-switch-emulator-for-linux/#comments ䷞ Followed by Daily Links (assorted news picks curated and categorised): http://techrights.org/2023/09/05/end-of-wordpad/#comments http://techrights.org/2023/09/05/mageia-9/#comments ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 72 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at http://techrights.org/2023/09/05/autumn-and-news/#comments Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2023/09/05/autumn-and-news/ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 09.05.23⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ It’s_Autumn_Already!⠀✐ Posted in Site_News at 1:32 am by Guest Editorial Team Video_download_link | md5sum cf34d4abc289195cd9126b5a7a69d415 Milestones and Plans for Autumn Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 4.0 http://techrights.org/videos/20k-loc-techrights.webm Summary: We’re back to making new videos and aside from an outline of what’s coming next today we happily mark a code milestone THIS is the first video in quite some time (there was only_one_video_this_past week). I think I’ve finally figured out near-optimal settings for the new microphone. Then there’s the weather getting in the way. It’s probably this year’s warmest week here, even though we’re approaching the middle of September, i.e. early autumn. The Tux Machines codecase continues to expand (site and OS migration ongoing; there are still_routine_changes) and Techrights’_Git_repository is just_a_couple_hundreds_of_lines_short_of_20,000. We’ve been very productive lately (aside from output in the video and text sense) and the video above talks about several series that we have in store, as well as those we leave in “small fire” for the time being. The next three videos will focus on more pertinent issues; the above is general “site news” (for the most part). █ ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 123 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at http://techrights.org/2023/09/05/control-and-secure-your-communications/#comments Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2023/09/05/control-and-secure-your-communications/ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 09.05.23⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Using_Free_Software,_Preferably_Locally-Hosted,_to_Control_and_Secure Communications⠀✐ Posted in Antitrust, Deception, Europe, Free/Libre_Software, Google, Microsoft at 4:43 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz Video_download_link | md5sum 87be50e1f3e9adcff624e7400d421f20 Outsourcing Communications Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 4.0 http://techrights.org/videos/chatting-with-freesw.webm Summary: Communications are being outsourced to notorious surveillance companies (in_bed_with_the_NSA_et_al) and censorship platforms such as Social Control Media; we need to collectively (network effect) walk away from these horrendous traps THE missed opportunity that the mainstream media never speaks about is migration to self-hosted communication platforms, both for personal and for business use. People and companies needn’t outsource their communications to companies like Google and Zoom. Heck, they needn’t license any locally-hosted (but proprietary) stuff like Cisco. I myself fell in love with Mumble (family and friends are now avid users), which can be hosted locally at home. There’s also Jitsi, which is privacy-respecting. To quote the site: “What are the meet.jit.si terms of service? Discover our terms & conditions here, and learn more about using our services and tools.” [1] “There’s also Jitsi, which is privacy-respecting.”The Free Software Foundation uses both Jitsi and BigBlueButton (BBB), which is rather old but very reliable. By extension, there are many other SIP-based communication tools and the Free software community boasts Jami, set aside textual chatting tools built around Jabber/XMPP and IRC. GNU has some great_projects, they just don’t get publicised by the advertisers-controlled media. The subject of this video was suggested by a reader of ours. “Microsoft is forced to unbundle “Teams” from its productivity suite,” the reader said. “Yet it is used. There is not just the problem of the sunk cost fallacy, but mainly no-one reads the licenses for the software which they use. Thus even Zoom is in use.” “Mumble is fantastic and easy-to-use software that can be locally hosted and ensure end-to-end-encrypted voice communication with multiple participants.”We need to explain to companies that building their own communication platforms isn’t hard and will pay off in the long run. I spent years talking about this where I used to work (up until weeks before my resignation). Towards the end almost everything was outsourced, from Jabber and Asterisk to Slack, Google and Zoom (spyware [2] and worse [3]). What an embarrassment for a company called Sirius_‘Open_Source’. In recent years it went out of its way to replace its own Free software-based instrastructure with proprietary software that it doesn’t even control (not locally hosted). As our reader put it: “The push should be to at least read and compare the licenses for Zoom, Teams, BigBlueButton [4], and Jisti-Meet. And there should be a push to at least evaluate BigBlueButton and Jitsi-Meet before making any decisions. If they were skipped during the initial evaluation, then they should be examined anyway to avoid the sunk cost fallacy.” People ought to inform and persuade peers and family to adopt Free software for chat (textual, voice, and video). Here’s my_old_video_about_Mumble. Mumble is fantastic and easy-to-use software that can be locally hosted and ensure end- to-end-encrypted voice communication with multiple participants. By all means avoid Microsoft — it’s by far the worst [5]. █ Related/contextual items from the news: 1. ⚓ Terms_–_Conditions_|_meet.jit.si_Terms_of_Service⠀⇛ 2. ⚓ Zoom_Terms_of_Service_|_Zoom⠀⇛ 3. ⚓ How_Zoom’s_terms_of_service_and_practices_apply_to_AI_features_|_Zoom Blog⠀⇛ 4. ⚓ Privacy_Policy_|_Open_Source_Project_|_BigBlueButton⠀⇛ 5. ⚓ Microsoft_Teams_(free)_Online_Subscription_Agreement_–_Microsoft Support⠀⇛ ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 231 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at http://techrights.org/2023/09/05/irc-log-040923/#comments Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2023/09/05/irc-log-040923/ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 09.05.23⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ IRC_Proceedings:_Monday,_September_04,_2023⠀✐ Posted in IRC_Logs at 3:28 am by Needs Sunlight Also available via the Gemini protocol at: * gemini://gemini.techrights.org/irc-gmi/irc-log-techrights-040923.gmi * gemini://gemini.techrights.org/irc-gmi/irc-log-040923.gmi * gemini://gemini.techrights.org/irc-gmi/irc-log-social-040923.gmi * gemini://gemini.techrights.org/irc-gmi/irc-log-techbytes-040923.gmi Over HTTP: 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇H 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇HTML5_logs⦈_ #techrights_log_as_HTML5 #boycottnovell_log_as_HTML5 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇H 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇HTML5_logs⦈_ #boycottnovell-social_log_as_HTML5 #techbytes_log_as_HTML5 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇t 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇text_logs⦈_ #techrights_log_as_text #boycottnovell_log_as_text 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇t 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇text_logs⦈_ #boycottnovell-social_log_as_text #techbytes_log_as_text Enter_the_IRC_channels_now =============================================================================== § IPFS Mirrors⠀➾ CID Description Object type IRC log for  QmXDbez2jfSZJ4qZZZy1VMLRfKzuZxbLfDp2dmXhJSBpTM #boycottnovell 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇HTML5 logs⦈ (full IRC log as HTML) IRC log for #boycottnovell  QmZF56ZtwQ5TpFt388caAupVXSJZkViaivM5swQpG2HhWp (full IRC log 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇text logs⦈ as plain/ASCII text) IRC log for #boycottnovell-  QmUNSqcJoVQ2QvmTWsNV6kLV8gEmrsCXo3QQ7sjRuUwKZb social 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇HTML5 logs⦈ (full IRC log as HTML) IRC log for #boycottnovell-  QmSzkySFM3ze5ViirUtH7sFEgWMBYzCRChzk4MhZByN2w5 social 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇text logs⦈ (full IRC log as plain/ASCII text) IRC log for  QmebZ1iuG5fAWcubnGeK8WVa72uyPZVE1TX1wpu3H6FwLP #techbytes 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇HTML5 logs⦈ (full IRC log as HTML) IRC log for #techbytes  QmZU8mg55jLxd2sgSr5stGofrsaztTwL8y6bNGLZEmqqgT (full IRC log 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇text logs⦈ as plain/ASCII text) IRC log for  QmanLd2YVTQXMNQKpbWN3JtwmhxFzr2NnWj6TcyrhyWYwz #techrights 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇HTML5 logs⦈ (full IRC log as HTML) IRC log for #techrights  QmZT7VLPH42gvsqmQdtdFSjdVzAVhCRhrDqCm5F3K2smMv (full IRC log 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇text logs⦈ as plain/ASCII text) 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇IPFS logo⦈ § Bulletin for Yesterday⠀➾ Local_copy | CID (IPFS): QmR2rr1yXDANjQBEz2oGtd2UMgy9U37FHdjpUhPfAk7h5z ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 358 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at http://techrights.org/2023/09/05/new-microphone/#comments Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2023/09/05/new-microphone/ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 09.05.23⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Back_on_the_Saddle,_Still_Readjusting_(New_Microphone,_New_Setup)⠀✐ Posted in Hardware, Site_News at 2:54 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz Video_download_link | md5sum ed54164a5d10dcf88f3eb28cf974b4f9 New Microphone Weeks Later Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 4.0 http://techrights.org/videos/microphone-check-1-2-1-2.webm Summary: As an external microphones ‘n00b’ (absolutely no prior experience) I explain some of the things — e.g. widgets and features — that I now have on the new microphone; it’s a nice peripheral device which will hopefully serve for many years to come (it uses very standard sockets, which should be beneficial to compatibility) THE past week was exceptional. This past week I spent time doing some ‘housekeeping’ as we prepare to produce a lot more stories (the IRC abuse has been mostly brought under control by now). I rearranged my desk, adjusted the microphone settings, and last night I finally got back to making videos. We’ll strive to make it a daily routine again. “It has its own power supply and it can become temperamental if not used correctly.”The microphone shown in the video is my very first “true” external microphone (the other, prior ones were always utter crap) and it has some built in effects/filters. To me, however, the learning curve was steep. I’m not even used to the idea of having to charge the microphone. It has its own power supply and it can become temperamental if not used correctly. █ ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 408 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at http://techrights.org/2023/09/05/openindiana-hipster-frustrations/#comments Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2023/09/05/openindiana-hipster-frustrations/ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 09.05.23⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ OpenIndiana_Hipster_Frustrations._(Revisiting_Solaris,_Non-Linux_Systems, CentOS_Stream)⠀✐ Posted in Red_Hat, Servers, UNIX at 8:37 pm by Guest Editorial Team Reprinted with permission from Ryan_Farmer. OpenIndiana Hipster Frustrations. (Revisiting Solaris) I finally downloaded OpenIndiana_Hipster, which is a forked continuation of OpenSolaris, from before Oracle shut it down after buying Sun Microsystems. After reading that they still kept Solaris going, and had packaged an assortment of modern desktop software (and even SeaMonkey!), and had the ZFS file system and (very pretty) Nimbus GTK theme on Mate Desktop, I simply had to try it. I was hoping for a longer post, but something happened as I was booting it on my older laptop and it bailed to “Single User Mode” and you can’t really do anything with it that way, so that was a let down. As far as I know, if you get dropped to Single User Mode by SMF (the init system), it means something very bad has happened, and it happened quite fast. So pretty much, that laptop works in an “emergency recovery mode”, as root, on a console. 😛 I may try booting it in VirtualBox and see if it’ll run on that. (KDE doesn’t have GNOME Boxes, but GNOME Boxes is so awful I always ended up with VirtualBox anyway.) (If not, then they’ve made the UNIX answer to ReactOS.) I actually had two OpenSolaris machines running at once when Sun had Ian Murdock, who founded the Debian project, working for them as Vice President of Emerging Platforms. He resigned when Oracle took over the company. They probably could have found him a new role at Oracle, but it wouldn’t have been working on anything open source, probably. So I don’t know if they pushed him out or if he decided to leave. But Solaris was becoming very usable on the desktop while he was at Sun. It’s a huge shame what happened to him later. Driven to suicide due to police misconduct. He deserves to be remembered better than that way, but unfortunately, that’s how the police operate. They probably did such a number on the poor fellow that there’s no telling what he was thinking. Solaris was as far as I’ve ever gotten in using a non-Linux *nix system for a daily driver. At the time, thanks to his work (which was wasted by Oracle), it worked really well on PCs and it looked like it may have been a rival to Linux eventually. Most of the non-Linux *nix systems really don’t really prioritize desktop/ laptop computer users as a “use case”, although they may “have X11 and some desktop environments”, few people would ever want to use them as such. It’s not like I’ve ever been married to the idea of sticking to Linux, but I don’t think any other OS really even cares what the desktop experience is like on a PC. I’ve never even found working network drivers on FreeBSD on any computer I’ve tried using it on. There was a desktop-focused FreeBSD called PC-BSD that I tried a long time ago, but while it detected and configured most of my hardware, no network drivers. And, they’ve just sort of “spackled” in “support” for PC users throughout the years if your idea of “support” is “buy an Nvidia card, use the proprietary driver, and find some Windows driver to stick in the BSD kernel for networking”. They had a name for Windows (NDIS) networking support. Project_Evil. Today I_also_ran_into_this, by “Bill Paul”, who worked on Project Evil. I think a humorous rant like this would definitely violate some stupid Code of Censorship in “Linux” projects today, so I don’t know if the “F*** ’em if they can’t take a joke.” mentality is still around at FreeBSD, but that’s definitely a point in their column. The main problem with sticking proprietary modules and Windows drivers in your OS is that now you have security vulnerabilities, bugs, and workarounds for bugs, and the OS vendor can’t even help you if they wanted to. So it just rapidly devolves into this big shitpile that nobody can fix. The “pragmatism” of telling users to use blobs is that you’re offloading lack of development resources onto the user, where it becomes their problem. I ran into a post by a Google “engineer” about why CentOS Stream is more appropriate for enterprise use than CentOS was and how everyone that doesn’t like it is a “cargo cult” for wanting the same binaries that Red Hat’s customers get. Almost like they’re making a case that CentOS Stream is “enterprise” ready, they point out that Twitter (X) is using it. Twitter (X) hasn’t been noted for being highly reliable after Musk bought it. Elon Musk has been closing down data centers on not paying his landlords or Web hosting though, so to be fair, it’s hard to tell how much of this is really the fault of CentOS Stream. I have not noticed anyone from NASA talking about internal usage of Stream. They were using CentOS previously, at NASA. CentOS Stream is, unreliable in the sense that you aren’t getting the same binaries that RHEL customers get (or at least something very, very close), like you were with CentOS. If you absolutely need something RHEL-like, you should look into Rocky or Alma, but if you don’t, you should get a distribution like Debian where they show you their code and everyone gets the same binaries. Red Hat engineers go on and on about making their system “valuable” by adding FIPS-compliance crap to get federal contracts. I’m not really impressed by “security” standards that the NSA has been caught backdooring, and which Windows can meet, so they too can get contracts. One of the first things OpenBSD did when they forked OpenSSL after countless security disasters and tons of bad code in OpenSSL made it impractical to rely on, is, they deleted the FIPS crap. (Also, things like DOS support and a big-endian_x86…LOL) Musk can’t afford to pay any of their vendors. He’s lost so much money on Twitter (X) already that he’s daring people to actually do anything about not paying his bills. He’s a deadbeat. A fraud and a deadbeat. If your landlord is suing you and you’re daring the city to do something about the unlawful building modifications and zoning issues, then maybe your risk appetite for something like CentOS Stream is high. This doesn’t really change anything about the issue that IBM is very much opposed to the GNU GPL and comes as close to violating it as their lawyers think they can get away with. For a while I had a PC running Scientific_Linux because the High Energy Physics Labs were cloning RHEL themselves and decided to make it available to everyone. It was very stable and well-polished. They ended up telling their users to go run CentOS. Well, I sure hope they’re happy trying to get any actual work done with this “rolling release” nonsense. Hey, if it’s good enough for Twitter (X)! █ ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 621 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at http://techrights.org/2023/09/05/the-tor-network-becomes-less-of-a-nuisance-to-us-after-complaints-of-misuse-connected-to-tor-staff/#comments Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2023/09/05/the-tor-network-becomes-less-of-a-nuisance-to-us-after-complaints-of-misuse-connected-to-tor-staff/ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 09.05.23⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ The_Tor_Network_Becomes_Less_of_a_Nuisance_to_Us_(After_Complaints_of_Misuse Connected_to_Tor_Staff)⠀✐ Posted in Free/Libre_Software, Site_News at 3:20 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz Video_download_link | md5sum 237fcdc542b6557cb3089fa0b84b00f5 IRC Abuse and Violence Over Tor Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 4.0 http://techrights.org/videos/tor-project-grudge-over.webm Summary: The Tor Project (which we’ve already adopted for the future site of Techrights) was contacted about a fortnight ago; things in general have since then improved and today we report progress TWO weeks ago I spoke about abuse we had received through the Tor network from Matthew_Garrett and his_militant_flunkies. The situation has improved a lot since then, so the grudge against Tor is mostly a thing of the past. “It seems like contacting the project had the intended effect.”Tor is imperfect like everything else, but it creates enough obfuscation to make unmasking very expensive and time-consuming a task (we’ll cover this in the future and reveal what the authorities here say). For the time being the threats and the hate crimes have stopped and we have no intention of badmouthing Tor. It seems like contacting the project had the intended effect. █ ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 668 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at http://techrights.org/2023/09/05/trashing-an-entire-generation-of-computers/#comments Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2023/09/05/trashing-an-entire-generation-of-computers/ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 09.05.23⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ With_UEFI,_TPM,_Pluton_Etc._Microsoft_and_Intel/AMD_Trashed_an_Entire Generation_of_Computers,_Made_Security_a_Lot_Worse_in_Order_to_Curtail_GNU/ Linux_and_BSD_Adoption⠀✐ Posted in Deception, DRM, Free/Libre_Software, GNU/Linux, Hardware, Lenovo, Microsoft, Security at 1:49 am by Guest Editorial Team Reprinted with permission from Ryan_Farmer. UEFI is Trash: Part 2 “Destroy the Computer to Continue Using Windows 11!” This is a follow-up to_my_last_post about System76 getting rid of UEFI and putting in Coreboot for their laptops. UEFI is a security disaster. Lenovo has patched my UEFI over 30 times and there are still releases like this month’s. Modified: 1.  Enhancement to address security vulnerability CVE-2022-44611, CVE-2023-22616, CVE-2023-22615, CVE-2023-22612, CVE-2021-38578,                                                   CVE-2022-24350, CVE-2023-22613, CVE-2021-38575 2.  Enhancement to address security vulnerability CVE-2022-46897, CVE-2023-27373, CVE-2023-26090, CVE-2023-27471, CVE-2022-24351,                                                   CVE-2023-0286, CVE- 2022-4304, CVE-2023-0215, CVE-2022-4450, CVE-2023-28468 3.  Enhancement to address security vulnerability CVE-2022-40982 4.  Enhancement to address security vulnerability CVE-2022-36392, CVE-2022-38102, CVE-2022-29871 -Lenovo That’s TWENTY-TWO security vulnerabilities with a CVE that they’ve patched in one update (out of over thirty since this laptop was released in November 2020). They’ve all been about like this. “Security Expert” Matthew Garrett shows up to many debates about firmware, talking UEFI up as if it were possible to secure, if they even knew what they were doing with it. Which they obviously, demonstrably, do not. The recent Windows 11 “Unsupported Processor” error, had Microsoft say they were “working with OEMs” to provide “firmware updates”. You’d need Windows to install the update, and Windows is already hosed if you got the update this month (you are making backups, right?), because it caused the system to Blue Screen of Death before the desktop is available to run any programs. And even if you do install UEFI updates, which most users do not ever do, even once, you run the risk of bricking the entire computer to get Windows to behave itself enough to even do anything after you install the August Update. (That’s if it doesn’t install the August Update and try to reboot itself while you’re trying to update the firmware. Does it still do things like this? Windows 10 was forcibly restarting for updates while people were live streaming games and had Microsoft Office open.) Every time you update your firmware, any one of a million things can go wrong and leave the computer’s main board (which in a laptop has the CPU, RAM, and SSD soldered in sometimes, so kiss everything goodbye) utterly ruined. That could be a Windows program (or virus) messing up the update process, Windows itself malfunctioning and freezing the computer before the update goes all the way in, the power going out, etc. Of course you’re going to play Russian Roulette with your Lenovo laptop three dozen times, right? Right? And even if it appears to update the UEFI, I have actually lost a motherboard (from Acer) while updating the correct firmware revision, and then had Acer refuse to do anything about it, so I had to find another motherboard that fit the case, and rebuild the entire desktop computer. (Which I’m sure all of you know how to do.) So if you’re affected by Windows refusing to let you continue until you update the UEFI, it’s safer to just remove Windows and install Linux instead, because Linux doesn’t have fake errors like this. It’s also worth mentioning that when I started tinkering with Windows 98 as a child and gutting the operating system of Internet Explorer, the Trident engine, the Windows 98 Shell Update (installing the Windows 95 B Shell), Outlook Express, and the several dozen useless components of Windows, using RoM II, I rebooted. I said, “This is cool! Without all that Internet Explorer junk around, my games run 10% faster!”. It was like a free graphics card, RAM, CPU, and hard disk update! Even back then things were, relatively speaking, as bad as they are now, with the bloat. You had a 4 GB hard disk and here comes Microsoft to spew at least 300 MB of useless trash all over it, you had a PC that came from the factory with 32 MB of RAM, or 64 if you were lucky, uh oh, here’s a bloated shell with IE stuff in it that takes up 11 MB more than it should! They’ve always considered everything in your PC pretty much theirs to waste. You have an expensive PC? They’re wasting it on things you don’t even want to run. But today, 25 years later, I say, “Let’s remove all this Windows junk so my games can go wheeeeeeee!”. But for the adult in you, the average Linux distribution includes tons of Free and Open Source Software (as in freedom and price), including an entire Microsoft-compatible_office_suite that doesn’t go into “read-only” mode if your subscription to “Microsoft 365” lapses, saying “Pay Up, Chump!”. Windows 11 treats its users like they’re running some kind of awful browser game with in-app purchases. It’s not even really an operating system. And you’re supposed to risk damaging a $1,500 laptop to continue running it because Microsoft is too incompetent to fix bugs? █ ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 838 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at http://techrights.org/2023/09/05/windows-package-manager/#comments Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2023/09/05/windows-package-manager/ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 09.05.23⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ [Meme]_Package_Management_on_Windows⠀✐ Posted in Deception, DRM, Microsoft, Windows at 8:43 pm by Guest Editorial Team Reprinted with permission from Ryan_Farmer. So I was told Windows has a “package manager”. I couldn’t resist. Most people don’t really understand what makes a software repository different from a software “store”. We should avoid using the term “software store” to refer to software repositories (or “repos”) in GNU/Linux distributions, because it implies that there will be artificial limitations like Windows and Mac. (How many times you can install it, DRM garbage, fake apps, viruses, nobody reviewing what’s actually in the code before it goes in, etc.) █ 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇A_windows_package_manager⦈_ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠐⠖⠾⢾⣿⡶⠦⠤⠀⠀⠀⣀⣀⣀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠠⠤⣤⣤⣤⣴⣶⣾⣿⡖⠒⠋⠉⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⣀⣀⣀⣤⣴⣾⣿⠿⡿⠿⠿⠟⠛⠉⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣀⣀⣀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣀⢤⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⡛⠿⢿⣿⠿⠏⠉⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢠⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣥⣤⣀⣠⣶⣶⡄⣶⣿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⢿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⢚⣛⣛⣿⣿⣖⣂⠠⣿⣿⠶⠶⢤⣄⠀⠀⣀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⣿⠿⠧⡟⣱⣿⣟⢽⣾⣿⣿⣿⣷⣶⣼⣏⣽⣿⣿⠿⠟⣿⠀⠘⠟⠃⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠾⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠠⣿⡇⠸⠇⡺⢸⠀⠐⣀⡀⠈⡶⣉⢰⣁⣎⡆⡇⣍⡎⡇⣎⡊⣴⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠉⠁⠀⢀⡀⡀⠋⢩⣿⣿⣷⣟⡏⡎⠈⠙⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠨⠍⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⣀⠀⠀⠈⠈⠙⠛⠐⣿⣷⣶⣾⣿⣿⢰⠀⠀⠐⠀⠂⠀⠀⠀⠀⠂⠀⠀⠀⠀⠐⠀⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⠄⠀⠐⠒⠻⠿⠷⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⡿⣶⣷⠀⠰⠿⢿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠧⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣤⣥⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣬⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⡄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣾⣿⣿⡍⠀⣿⣿⡙⠁⠀⠘⣷⣶⣾⣿⣿⠃⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ 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Yuzu Nintendo Switch Emulator for Linux is on Flathub. I’ve been playing around with the Yuzu Nintendo Switch emulator from Flathub. I was glad to see that they’re packaging the latest version of this. By itself, the emulator does nothing except complain that it has no firmware or decryption keys for the game, but they do tell you how to dump those out from a console that you own. So after spending a significant portion of last night updating my switch to the latest firmware and dumping everything I was able to get Yuzu to load some games I own. When I was reading the release notes for Switch system firmware updates (I had skipped several because it usually has no net access), I noticed that some of them were really just Nintendo adding_more_“banned_words” if you go online. Probably the best part about using an IRC server or something to talk to other gamers is that Nintendo and Microsoft can’t sit in the middle, listening, and censoring. I have to say I’m fairly impressed that Yuzu can emulate the Switch, which is a current console that’s for sale, with games on the shelf. Debian has an older version of Yuzu in Debian package format, but since the upstream pushed updates that makes games work (or work better) as time goes on, you do care what version you get. That makes this an example of “I don’t usually run Flatpaks, but when I do, it’s normally a video game platform.” Yuzu itself, which is licensed under the GNU GPLv3, doesn’t do anything except complain that you don’t have the firmware or decryption keys. Nintendo can’t shut something down when they’re just emulating hardware, and can’t even do that without software. Overall, I’d say that Yuzu does a good job at figuring out what your system can deal with and setting things like accuracy and graphics settings automatically. Many games that were not developed for the Switch are ports of things that were on the XBOX 360 and PS3, but even then they have had graphics settings turned down. Which is understandable, because the Switch is meant to undock and run on a battery, with its own screen, as a portable console. I’ve noticed that it plays Red Dead Redemption (one of the SD cards I had on the stack of games over by the switch) at between 26-30 fps on my computer. It should be interesting to see how Yuzu deals with Skyrim. I have the SD card over in the pile of Switch games and it’s actually a very unstable game on the Switch itself. That being said, the constant updates to the Windows binaries in Steam are very aggravating in Proton and Wine. Haven’t moved on to anything else yet. The emulator seems stable. It’s a bit of a RAM hog though. I’ve seen it using about 5+ GB sometimes just for itself. This laptop has 16 GB, plus I use ZRam (compressed RAM device) swap, and the system was hitting 9+ GB used altogether with Yuzu running RDR, the operating system (Debian 12 KDE), Brave with a bunch of tabs and Memory Saver, and then dropping back down to 3.5-4 when I closed Yuzu. At least I know ZRam on Debian 12 works. It got up to where it was using 3 GB of the swap at one point this morning, which translates to about 5.5-6 GB of RAM that would have been used instead if it wasn’t moved over to the compressed RAM device, which uses ZStd Compression. I was watching the system monitor in KDE, and looking at ZRam working, and it was reducing the memory consumption of loaded programs, sometimes by up to 2/ 3rds. I’d say based on what I’ve seen, that running Yuzu on a 16 GB RAM laptop under Windows 11 would probably make the computer turn into a slideshow and drive the swap file nuts. Yuzu also seems to have a “chatrooms” feature, some of the rooms are locked, but I haven’t attempted to use this part of the program other than to glance at it. According to Wikipedia, some new games may eventually have Denuvo DRM on them. The Switch is getting pretty old in its lifecycle anyway, so the vast majority of games are already going to work on Yuzu at some point, regardless. One more thing of note. Yuzu supports my Xbox 360 wired controller. I had to remap the buttons. The Switch controller has XYAB buttons too, but they’re on different places. Putting them to align with the Xbox controlled makes it easier to hit the right button when the game says “Press A” or something, but if you have good muscle memory of the Switch controller, it might be easier to leave it alone. I’ve been into emulation since I found Gens for the Sega Genesis in the 1990s. It was one reason why I kept a Windows 98 (gutted of IE+ trash with RoM II) so long. At the time, the emulator could only work so well on the lowly hardware available then because of limited accuracy and a lot of optimized x86 assembly. So, today I use Gens-GS for this on Linux. In the mid 2000s I compiled Gens for (32-bit) Linux and packaged it for (broadly) RPM and DEB (static-linked libraries, all going under /opt). The -GS fork hasn’t seen significant development in years but did a bunch of code cleanup and porting away from assembly to C++. The older consoles are “just a pile of processors” and didn’t need any proprietary software dumps from the console itself, so they were a lot easier to get going. █ ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 1124 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐃𝐀𝐈𝐋𝐘 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒 ═════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 09.05.23⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Gemini_Links_05/09/2023:_End_of_Wordpad⠀✐ Posted in News_Roundup at 12:05 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇GNOME bluefish⦈ § Contents⠀➾ * Gemini*_and_Gopher o Personal/Opinions o Technology_and_Free_Software # Programming * § Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾ o § Personal/Opinions⠀➾ # ⚓ 🔤SpellBinding:_AMNWSTR_Wordo:_SCUDI⠀⇛ # ⚓ Long_shift⠀⇛ I left for work at 0620 this morning, got home at 0115. In between I worked 17 hours with no lunch break, a 10 minute break to step outside to kiss Evy and first daughter who were in the area on their way home from Evy’s parents’ house, and I peed twice. It was my third day of what we call 12-hour shifts, but never end up being less than 13. When I’m charge nurse I have to stay til my required paperwork is done. # ⚓ ROOPHLOCH_2023⠀⇛ I’m writing this in the morning of Sept. 5th, with pen and paper, on the top of a big boulder next to the house I’m staying at. On top of me is a small and sparse vine. I’d rather be writing this in the woords, but I’ve come unprepared for this weather. The boulder is wet, it was rainging not long ago, I’m in natural squatting position. I’m on vacations in a remote-ish village (there are 3 neighboring houses still occupied; the rest is deserted and derelict) with my family. Yesterday, Sept. 4th, the power went out intermittently between 17h and 17h30, at which time it went out completely. I didn’t notice it until around 19h, as I was watching a movie on my laptop. o § Technology and Free Software⠀➾ # ⚓ FLOSS_Equivalent_of_Wordpad?⠀⇛ Microsoft is sunsetting Wordpad, which I have to say only surprises me in the sense that I assumed they’d done it years ago already. I never really used Wordpad. Back in the day it almost seemed like a handicapped version of Word. I’ve never had a look at the rtf file format and don’t know how it compares to, say, odt or Abiwords own format. Or markdown for that matter. These days I use LibreOffice for all my writing that needs a bit of formatting. It is, however, heavy. It takes time to open even on a rather fast computer. # § Programming⠀➾ # ⚓ Fast_Thoughts_on_a_Fast_Language⠀⇛ I’ve spent the holiday weekend diving into Ada, a language I tried out many years ago but have since put on the backburner. I figured that, since that time, I’ve become much more well-versed in C and Rust, and also you know graduated from college with a CS degree so maybe I can make more sense of Ada’s idioms and whatnot. In this post I’ll collect some initial thoughts from this weekend project. # ⚓ AI_artist_statement_/_art_and_image_synthesis⠀⇛ why do i work with AI? first of all, because i can. but what made me keep at it, and keep reading about it? GAN-generated images hold a sense of wonder, as if you were to wander into the library of babel and find a floor where all the books made some simulacrum of cohesion, rather than being mere linguistic white noise. =============================================================================== * Gemini_(Primer) links can be opened using Gemini_software. It’s like the World Wide Web but a lot lighter. ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 1262 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐃𝐀𝐈𝐋𝐘 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒 ═════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 09.05.23⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Links_05/09/2023:_Starfield_on_GNU/Linux_and_Mageia_9⠀✐ Posted in News_Roundup at 12:14 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇GNOME bluefish⦈ § Contents⠀➾ * GNU/Linux o Graphics_Stack o Applications o Instructionals/Technical o Games o Desktop_Environments/WMs * Distributions_and_Operating_Systems o New_Releases o Open_Hardware/Modding o Mobile_Systems/Mobile_Applications * Free,_Libre,_and_Open_Source_Software o Web_Browsers/Web_Servers o Productivity_Software/LibreOffice/Calligra o Education o 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 Transparency/Investigative_Reporting 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 Internet_Policy/Net_Neutrality o Digital_Restrictions_(DRM) o Monopolies # Copyrights * § GNU/Linux⠀➾ o § Graphics Stack⠀➾ # ⚓ Dev Class ☛ JetBrains_promises_Wayland_support_for_its IntelliJ_IDEs_on_Linux_–_eventually [Ed: Microsoft propaganda agent Tim Anderson can happily gloat that Wayland leaves "Linux" back]⠀⇛ JetBrains will add support for the Wayland Linux graphics API to its IDE family based on IntelliJ – though the effort is “ongoing” and depends on Project Wakefield, an OpenJDK project to add Wayland support to Java. # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ NVIDIA_Vulkan_Beta_535.43.09_and_stable 535.104.05_drivers_out_now⠀⇛ NVIDIA recently released two fresh driver upgrades for Linux, although one of them we have no idea what they actually changed. Here’s what’s up. Firstly, NVIDIA launched the stable driver update 535.104.05 on August 22nd. However, for the second time recently, they seem to have copy-pasted the driver changelog from the previous release. This driver has the same changelog as 535.98, and when 535.98 released it had the same changelog as 535.86.05 but they later corrected it. I tried to contact NVIDIA this time but here we are nearly two weeks later and they haven’t fixed it. So what did they change in 535.104.05? No idea. o § Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ 13_Best_Free_Linux_DICOM_Viewers_for_Doctors_in_2023⠀⇛ DICOM stands for Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine and it is the international open image format for handling, storing, printing, and transmitting information… # ⚓ The_10_Best_Free_and_Open_Source_Lab_Management_Systems_for 2023⠀⇛ A Lab Information Management System aka LIMS is software used in laboratory and/or hospital settings for managing medical records, client data, inventory, etc. o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾ # ⚓ University of Toronto ☛ An_(Open)SSH_Certificate_Authority is_sort_of_unlimited_and_sort_of_not⠀⇛ One critical difference between OpenSSH cert- authorities and TLS CAs is what you trust. In TLS, you trust a specific self-signed X.509 certificate, and the certificate is identified by its X.509 Subject Name plus (in effect) its public key. As covered in sshd(8)’s section on the authorized keys file format and the known-hosts format, OpenSSH cert-authorities are identified by their public key, and this is all of the cert-authority provided information that you have to use. So unlike TLS CAs, an OpenSSH cert-authority can’t generate a ‘CA’ that can intrinsically only be used to sign things under a certain domain. # ⚓ University of Toronto ☛ TLS_CA_root_certificate_name constraints_for_internal_CAs⠀⇛ For a long time, one of the pieces of advice for dealing with various TLS certificate problems is that you should establish your own internal Certificate Authority with its own CA root certificate, have your systems trust it, and then issue certificates from your internal CA with whatever names and other qualities you needed. My reaction to this suggestion has traditionally been that it was extremely dangerous. If your internal CA was compromised in some way you had given an attacker the ability to impersonate anything, and generally properly operating a truly secure internal CA is within neither the skills nor the budget of a typical organization or group (it’s certainly not within ours). Fortunately, this issue was obvious to a lot of people for a long time, so as part of RFC 5280 we got name constraints, which restricted the names (in most contexts, the DNS names) that the CA could sign certificates for. You could include only some (sub)domains, or exclude some. # § idroot⠀➾ # ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_To_Install_Next.js_on_AlmaLinux_9⠀⇛ In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Next.js on AlmaLinux 9. Next.js, a popular React framework, offers a powerful toolkit for building web applications. AlmaLinux 9, known for its security and reliability, is an excellent choice for hosting your Next.js projects. # ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_To_Install_Kotlin_on_Ubuntu_22.04_LTS⠀⇛ In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Kotlin on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. Kotlin has swiftly risen to prominence as a modern programming language that offers enhanced expressiveness, conciseness, and safety, making it a popular choice for various software projects. o § Games⠀➾ # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Building_a_Retro_Linux_Gaming_Computer_Part 32:_Two_Steps_Forward,_One_Step_Back⠀⇛ # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Here’s_the_most_popular_Steam_Deck_games for_August_2023⠀⇛ Another fresh month and Valve has revealed what were the most played games on Steam Deck. Plenty of them are of course quite obvious based on what released recently. # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Here’s_how_Starfield_runs_on_Steam_Deck_and desktop_Linux_|_GamingOnLinux⠀⇛ Want to know how Starfield runs on Steam Deck? Or desktop Linux? Well, I’ve given it a run to see what I think of it and here’s some early info for you. For Steam Deck, Valve released two Steam Deck OS upgrades to solve some issues, so you’ll want to make sure you check for system updates first to get Steam Deck OS 3.4.10 to fix a GPU driver crash and a black screen problem. Once you update, Starfield will run on Steam Deck with Proton Experimental but the performance is an issue. Additionally, weirdly, the Start / Select buttons on Steam Deck with Proton Experimental are swapped – but you can change them over in Steam Input (noted in video 2 below). o § Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾ # ⚓ [Repeat] Jamie Zawinski ☛ Wayland_and_screen_savers⠀⇛ Adding screen savers to Wayland is not simply a matter of “port the XScreenSaver daemon”, because under the Wayland model, screen blanking and locking should not be a third-party user-space app; much of the logic must be embedded into the display manager itself. This is a good thing! It is a better model than what we have under X11. But that means that accomplishing that task means not just writing code, but engaging with whatever passes for a standards body or design committee in the Wayland world, and that is… how shall I put this… not something that I personally feel highly motivated to do. However, as I am the world’s foremost expert on screen savers on Unix-like operating systems, here are a few simple admonitions for young and old. * § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾ o § New Releases⠀➾ # ⚓ Mageia_9_has_been_released⠀⇛ Mageia 9 has been released and a lot of people are already using it. You can find the release notes here and the errata here A huge big thank you to everyone who contributed to this great new Mageia version. Even though almost not contributing myself, I have been using Mageia 9 without problems from when it started to be developed until now and I really like it. o § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾ # ⚓ Raspberry Pi ☛ Badgercam_|_#MagPiMonday⠀⇛ “Originally the project was created – and I generally referred to it as – ‘Badgercam’, but the current iteration is not at the badger location, so now it’s just Solar and Wind-powered sound recorder (with image capture),” Philip tells us. We think Badgercam rolls off the tongue a bit better though. “[This was] to address the problem and help with identifying the species or source of sounds; making sure it was the badger I recorded; and also to keep my footprint at the setts low by having a discreet recorder, and a way to see into the life of badgers without walking through their environment. They are very sensitive animals and I wanted to only visit once, or a limited amount of times!” # ⚓ Arduino ☛ Tiny_Tesla_go-kart_gains_self-driving_autopilot⠀⇛ Tesla’s autopilot and full self-driving features don’t allow for 100% autonomous driving, but they get pretty close. Blake’s autopilot is much more limited, but still impressive. It can steer the go- kart around a known track while Blake handles the throttle and brakes. However, it can only follow the course it was trained on and can’t deviate from that without issues. It also can’t account for unusual events, like a pedestrian in the “road.” # ⚓ DaemonFC (Ryan Farmer) ☛ System76_Ditches_UEFI_Firmware Trash,_Ships_Coreboot_Firmware_on_Linux_Laptops.⠀⇛ Coreboot is the firmware that people deserve to have. It’s actually designed to “Just boot the computer and get the Hell out of there.”, which is what Linus Torvalds said he missed about “PC BIOS”. It’s up to the user, really, what they want to run and so I congratulate System76 for taking strong and decisive action on behalf of their customers and recommend that people who need an x86 PC with Linux take their business to System76 as I will do next time I need a laptop. # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ 3D_Printed_—_Um_—_Hook_And_Loop_Fasteners⠀⇛ [Teaching Tech’s] latest video discusses “3D printed Velcro.” But as even he admits, Velcro is a trademark, so we think it is more appropriate to talk about hook and loop fasteners. In fact, you can see the good-natured official video about the trademark below [Teaching Tech’s] video. Regardless, his experiments with several 3D-printed Vel… fastener designs are worth watching. o § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾ # ⚓ Deccan Herald ☛ OnePlus_may_bring_affordable_‘Pad_Go’ Android_tablet_soon⠀⇛ # ⚓ Gadget Bridge ☛ 3_Easy_Methods_to_Enable_Sound_on_Reddit Videos_on_Android_and_iOS⠀⇛ # ⚓ Android Police ☛ The_Samsung_Galaxy_Watch_4_is_getting_its upgrade_to_Wear_OS_4⠀⇛ # ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ How_to_Check_for_Spyware_on_Your_Android Device⠀⇛ # ⚓ How_to_Compress_Video_on_Android_Fast⠀⇛ # ⚓ All_the_Ways_to_Take_Screenshots_on_Android⠀⇛ # ⚓ Helsinki Times ☛ YouTube’s_new_hum-to-search_feature:_A harmonious_solution_for_song_identification_on_Android⠀⇛ Android users, get ready to hum your way to discovering your favorite songs as YouTube introduces a new search feature that listens to your tunes. In a move that blends technology with musical expression, YouTube is currently testing a “search-by-song” capability on its Android app, allowing users to identify songs by humming, singing, or recording a snippet. * § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾ o ⚓ Ubuntu ☛ Empowering_government_innovation:_a_secure_path_to_open source_excellence_|_Ubuntu⠀⇛ The Australian Federal Government is not alone in dealing with challenges like natural disasters, global pandemics and economic uncertainty. Like many governments, they are looking for new and innovative ways to tackle these challenges. FST Government 2023 is an exciting conference that brings over 200 government leaders together to explore how the latest advances in digital technology can help support better policy outcomes and citizen service delivery. Canonical participated in the 2022 edition and is thrilled to join the conference again this year. o § Web Browsers/Web Servers⠀➾ # ⚓ Daniel Stenberg ☛ The_curl-wget_Venn_diagram⠀⇛ I have contributed code to wget. Several wget maintainers have contributed to curl. We are all friends. If you think there is a problem or omission in the diagram, let me know and I can do updates. o § Productivity Software/LibreOffice/Calligra⠀➾ # ⚓ Big_events_coming_up_in_the_LibreOffice_community!⠀⇛ Join us in Indonesia, Bucharest and Mexico, for talks, workshops and lots of fun 😊 Click the image below to find out more… # ⚓ Björn Wärmedal ☛ FLOSS_Equivalent_of_Wordpad?⠀⇛ These days I use LibreOffice for all my writing that needs a bit of formatting. It is, however, heavy. It takes time to open even on a rather fast computer. What kind of formatting can Wordpad do? And which FLOSS editor available for Linux would be equivalent to it? o § Education⠀➾ # ⚓ Phil Eaton ☛ Eight_years_of_organizing_tech_meetups⠀⇛ This is a collection of random personal experiences. So if you don’t want to read everything, feel free to skip to the end for takeaways. I write because I’d like to see more high-quality meetups. And maybe my little bit of experience will help someone out. o § Programming/Development⠀➾ # ⚓ Arjen Wiersma ☛ Embarking_on_a_Journey_to_Revolutionize Code_Editing:_The_Birth_of_“BiDE”⠀⇛ As the warm haze of summer gives way to the crisp air of autumn, the season marks a pivotal moment in my academic journey: the commencement of my Master’s thesis project. Having successfully had my research proposal accepted earlier this year, I now face the last leg of this marathon—bringing my theoretical framework to life. # ⚓ Daniel Miessler ☛ Defensive_Security_is_a_Glacier,_and That’s_Ok⠀⇛ First, everything here was inevitable. Second, everything here could only happen when it happened, and not a moment before. When a new technology gets invented, like SSL, that was the moment for it. And if that person/group hadn’t done it, someone else would have. # ⚓ Buttondown ☛ Time_zones_are_hard_because_people_are_hard⠀⇛ Timezones are annoying enough for regular people, but us software engineers have to deal with the fallout. Then you add in the political aspects and, well, you can’t always store all data in UTC. So what makes time zones so bad? # ⚓ James G ☛ Ensure_all_subpath_layers_resolve_in_URLs⠀⇛ I was just skimming the W3C “Style Guide for online hypertext” this morning and came across the “Cool URIs don’t change” document. If you haven’t read that post already, please take a moment to do so. My biggest takeaway from the document is that you should spend time thinking about how you want to structure URLs before you make a new site, or during a rearchitecture. # ⚓ Jim Nielsen ☛ Out_of_the_Software_Crisis:_Gardening⠀⇛ Stuff in the garden grows at its own pace, revealing itself along the way, and it’s the gardener who must notice and respond in kind. This growing happens together — the plants, the gardener, the ecosystem — and drop-in replacements are risky. The constitution of a garden is the realization of the gardener’s experience. Software is quite similar. * § Leftovers⠀➾ o ⚓ Omicron Limited ☛ New_study_uncovers_the_causes_of_the_Qing Dynasty’s_collapse⠀⇛ In 1912, after over 250 years in power, the Qing Dynasty collapsed despite being considerably wealthier at the time than modern-day China. “This clearly demonstrates that any economy must be vigilant as circumstances can change, and sometimes rather rapidly,” emphasizes Georg Orlandi, the study’s first author. The study “Structural- demographic analysis of the Qing Dynasty (1644–1912) collapse in China” was published in PLOS ONE. o ⚓ Idiomdrottning ☛ What_was_Inbox_Zero?⠀⇛ Inbox Zero was the philosophy that there should be super clear edges between “email you’ve never even seen before”, “email you still need to reply to but you don’t need to do anything else first”, “email that’s waiting for you or someone else to do something external”, and “email you’re done with but might wanna look up things in later”, and using folders to do that. I’m not sure if people are still using folders and stuff to organize email, but yeah, in general, fishing out “I need to do something” things from your notes or emails or RSS or socials or phone calls or meetings, and then making yourself aware of what are the practical and concrete actions I need to take and what context I need to be in, practicing that is pretty clutch. o ⚓ Ruben Schade ☛ Combatting_RSS_overload⠀⇛ I love RSS… perhaps a little too much. My feeds are full of great stuff that I’ve curated since high school in the 2000s. It outlasted any social network, and I suspect will continue to do so. But there’s a lot there. There are three problems: [...] o ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Hong_Kong_to_see_first_fireworks_show since_2019_as_pyrotechnics_display_planned_for_National_Day⠀⇛ Fireworks will light up Hong Kong’s skies on National Day for the first time since 2019, after the city’s pyrotechnics displays were cancelled due to protests and the Covid-19 pandemic. Chief Executive John Lee made the announcement at his weekly press conference on Tuesday. o § Science⠀➾ # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ This_Model_Mimics_The_International_Space Station⠀⇛ It’s not an overstatement to say that the International Space Station (ISS for short) is an amazing feat of engineering, especially considering that it has been going for over two decades. The international collaboration isn’t just for the governments, either, as many images, collected data and even some telemetry have been made available to the public. This telemetry inspired [Bryan Murphy] and his team to create the ISS MIMIC, a 1:100 scale model of the ISS that reflects its space counterpart. o § Education⠀➾ # ⚓ Futurism ☛ Oh_God…_Kids_Are_About_to_Start_Writing_College Essays_Using_ChatGPT⠀⇛ To ban or not to ban is the question, though as NYT education writer Natasha Singer reports, very few colleges or universities have thus far put rules on the books about using generative AI on applicant essays. Those who have acknowledged the technology, which in its current iteration is still so new that it was barely breaking through last year’s application season, have taken stances as varied as the schools themselves. # ⚓ The Register UK ☛ IT_needs_more_brains,_so_why_is_it_being such_a_zombie_about_getting_them?⠀⇛ So let’s move onto our own turf. What are IT qualifications for in 2023? They can certainly save time and effort for recruiters. If you set an automatic filter on submissions searching for an appropriate degree, or a suite of industry-recognized letters, you’ll have fewer resumes to read. You will also miss out on a ton of talent, and if that seems a reasonable compromise then that talent will certainly be better off elsewhere. # ⚓ Eric Bailey ☛ Equivalent_experience_can_cut_both_ways⠀⇛ To recontextualize this in more familiar terms: a person who uses a cursor to heavily make use of an interface gets used to anticipating where and what to click. A sudden visual update forces them to re- learn where to anticipate where UI will show up. An important takeaway here is the value of consistency and predictability—this change was not an impossible barrier to overcome. It is instead more an annoyance that requires retraining some reflexive behaviors. o § Hardware⠀➾ # ⚓ MaskRay ☛ Toolchain_notes_on_MIPS⠀⇛ In the llvm-project project, I sometimes find myself assigned as a reviewer for MIPS patches. I want to be transparent that I have no interest in MIPS, but my concern lies with the specific components that are impacted (Clang driver, ld.lld, MC, compiler-rt, etc.). Therefore, regrettably, I have to spend some time studying MIPS. # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Minimalist_LED_Lamp_Is_Circular_Beauty Incarnate⠀⇛ Lamps used to be things built to provide light with specific purpose, whether as reading lamps, desk lamps, or bedside table lamps. Now we just build them for the vibes, as with this minimalist LED lamp from [andrei.erdei]. # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ The_‘Scope_Of_This_Kickstarter?_Ten_Years.⠀⇛ It may have taken ten years to come through on this particular Kickstarter, but a promise is a promise. In late August 2023, backers who had since likely forgotten all about the project started receiving their oscilloscope watches from creator [Gabriel Anzziani]. Whatever the reason(s) for the delay, the watch looks great, and is miles ahead of the prototype pictures. # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Hands-Free_Compass_Uses_Haptic_Feedback⠀⇛ If you’ve never experienced it before, getting turned around on a cloudy day in the woods or getting lost during an event like a snowstorm can be extremely disorienting and stressful — not to mention dangerous. In situations where travel goes outside the beaten path, it’s a good idea to have some survival gear around, including a good compass. But if you need your hands for other things, or simply don’t want to have to stop often to check a compass, you might want to try out something like this belt-mounted haptic feedback compass. o § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾ # ⚓ Just_because_medical_consensus_evolves_does_not_justify your_quackery⠀⇛ If there’s one thing that I came to understand over my two-plus decades of critically evaluating the claims of “brave maverick doctors,” the vast majority of whom are really just quacks, it’s that quacks hate the very concept of scientific and medical consensus. Indeed, long ago I pointed out that hostility towards the very concept of scientific consensus is a red flag, a very good indicator that the person expressing such hostility is a science denier (or quack, if it’s a physician). Moreover, although I concede that anyone has the “right” to “challenge” a scientific consensus, the bigger problem in the age of social media is recognizing when someone doing the challenging has the necessary expertise to make a scientifically robust challenge, compared to the vast majority of such “challenges,” which are made by pseudoexperts in different fields who think they have the necessary expertise but do not or by lay people who don’t even have the basic expertise necessary. Unsurprisingly, we have seen this phenomenon play out in a world stage since COVID-19 was first declared a pandemic three and a half years ago. However, even though seeing pseudoexperts about COVID-19 and mRNA vaccines flourish during the pandemic did not surprise me, I will admit, though, that even I was somewhat surprised at the sheer scale and influence of the phenomenon and how much it bled into mainstream politics and culture this time. # ⚓ Science Alert ☛ COVID-19_Virus_Evolving_Rapidly_in_White- Tailed_Deer,_Study_Finds⠀⇛ “It’s probably not a one-way pipeline.” o § Proprietary/Artificial Intelligence (AI)⠀➾ # ⚓ Terence Eden ☛ Can_the_iPhone_do_that_yet?⠀⇛ So, what did St Stephen of Fry wish for? And can 2023 iPhones and Android match His expectations? # ⚓ Locus Magazine ☛ Commentary_by_Cory_Doctorow:_Plausible Sentence_Generators⠀⇛ ChatGPT can take over a lot of tasks that, broadly speaking, boil down to “bullshitting.” It can write legal threats. If you need 2,000 words about “the first time I ate an egg” to go over your omelette recipe in order to make a search engine surface it, a chatbot’s got you. Looking to flood a review site with praise about your business, or complaints about your competitors? Easy. Letters of reference? No problem. Bullshit begets bullshit, because no one wants to be bullshitted. In the bullshit wars, chatbots are weapons of mass destruction. None of this prose is good, none of it is really socially useful, but there’s demand for it. Ironically, the more bullshit there is, the more bullshit filters there are, and this requires still more bullshit to overcome it. # ⚓ The Register UK ☛ X_[Twitter]_may_train_its_AI_models_on your_social_media_posts⠀⇛ The new policy is expected to come into effect on 29 September. “We may use the information we collect and publicly available information to help train our machine learning or artificial intelligence models,” the company said. Owner and former CEO Elon Musk said that private data, such as text in direct messages, however, will not be used to train its models. The change should come as no surprise, Musk previously said that he planned to use data from the microblogging site to help researchers and engineers from his latest startup, xAI, to build new products. # ⚓ DaemonFC (Ryan Farmer) ☛ UEFI_is_Trash:_Part_2_“Destroy_the Computer_to_Continue_Using_Windows_11!”⠀⇛ UEFI is a security disaster. Lenovo has patched my UEFI over 30 times and there are still releases like this month’s. o § Security⠀➾ # ⚓ OSI Blog ☛ Diverse_Open_Source_uses_highlight_need_for precision_in_Cyber_Resilience_Act [Ed: When OSI still publishes something sane rather than paid-for Microsoft propaganda it is clearly Simon Phipps]⠀⇛ The final legislative phase of the Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) is starting and the drafts still have issues arising from bad framing by the Commission or Parliament. Read OSI’s recommendations to frame the trialogue. # § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾ # ⚓ LRT ☛ Lithuanian_mobile_operators_slam_mandatory registration_of_prepaid_SIM_cards⠀⇛ With the Lithuanian government considering mandatory registration of prepaid SIM cards from 2024, mobile operators are sceptical about the measure, saying it could cause chaos in socially vulnerable groups and give rise to a black market in SIM cards. # ⚓ [Repeat] OpenRightsGroup ☛ UK_Online_Safety_Bill_will mandate_dangerous_age_verification_for_much_of_the web⠀⇛ This will result in an enormous shift in the availability of information online, and pose a serious threat to the privacy of UK [Internet] users. It will make it much more difficult for all users to access content privately and anonymously, and it will make many of the most popular websites and platforms liable if they do not block, or heavily filter, content for anyone who does not verify their age. This is in addition to the dangers the Bill poses to encryption. The details of the law’s implementation have been left to the UK’s regulation agency, the Office of Communications (Ofcom), but the Bill is vague on the details of this. Social media and other sites, where users regularly engage with each other’s content, will have to determine the risk of minors using their site, and block their access to any content that the government has described as ‘harmful’. Platforms like Facebook and TikTok, and even community-based sites like Wikipedia, will have to choose between conducting age checks on all users – a potentially expensive, and privacy-invasive process – or sanitising their entire sites. That’s why Wikimedia has come out strongly against the Bill, writing that in its “attempt to weed out the worst parts of the [Internet], the Online Safety Bill actually jeopardises the best parts of the [Internet]”. o § Defence/Aggression⠀➾ # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Wagner_Group_fighter_reportedly_beaten_and_shot with_air_pistol_in_Russia’s_Rostov_region_—_Meduza⠀⇛ # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Financial_Times:_China’s_biggest_banks_have quadrupled_their_investments_in_Russia_since_start_of_full- scale_war_—_Meduza⠀⇛ # ⚓ RFA ☛ INTERVIEW:_‘All_we_see_is_an_increase_in_violence’⠀⇛ The head of a UN investigative unit sees a trend in the Myanmar junta’s willingness to disobey international law. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ E.U._Official_From_Sweden_Imprisoned_in Iran_for_Over_500_Days⠀⇛ A Swedish citizen working for the European Union diplomatic corps has been imprisoned in Iran for more than 500 days, making him an important bargaining chip for Tehran as it tries to wring concessions from the West. The arrest, which has been kept under wraps for over a year by the Swedish and European Union authorities, appears to be part of an expanding pattern of what has become known as Iran’s “hostage diplomacy.” # ⚓ NYPost ☛ Pakistani_militants_using_US_military_gear abandoned_in_Afghanistan,_prime_minister_says⠀⇛ US military equipment left behind during the chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan has made its way into the hands of Pakistani militants, the country’s prime minister claimed Monday. The high-tech gear, which may include firearms with laser and thermal sighting systems, is reportedly being used by the Pakistani Taliban, a militant group also known as Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan, in clashes that have intensified in recent months with Pakistan’s security forces. # ⚓ Associated Press ☛ Pakistani_premier_claims_US_military equipment_left_behind_in_Afghanistan_is_now_in_militant hands⠀⇛ The equipment — which includes a wide variety of items, from night vision goggles to firearms — is now “emerging as a new challenge” for Islamabad as it has enhanced the fighting capabilities of the Pakistani Taliban, Prime Minister Anwaar-ul-Haq Kakar said. The Pakistani Taliban, known as Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan or TTP, have over the past months intensified attacks on Pakistan’s security forces. They are a separate militant group but an ally of the Afghan Taliban. # ⚓ Site36 ☛ Significantly_more_suicides_in_German_prisons: Intelligent_video_surveillance_to_detect_“suicide_plans”⠀⇛ # § Russia, Belarus, and War in Ukraine⠀➾ # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Moldova’s_Future_Is_In_The_EU,_President Proclaims,_As_Country_Celebrates_Independence_Day⠀⇛ Moldovan President Maia Sandu marked her country’s Independence Day by recalling the effort of Moldovans to “win freedom” 32 years ago and by saying that Moldovan authorities now “have the chance and the duty” to take the country into the European Union. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Putin_and_Erdoğan_fail_to_reach_agreement_on resuming_Black_Sea_grain_deal_—_Meduza⠀⇛ # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Reznikov’s_out_Zelensky_replaces_Ukraine’s defense_minister_in_biggest_government_shake-up_since Russia’s_full-scale_invasion_—_Meduza⠀⇛ # ⚓ Meduza ☛ ‘Maybe_the_most_dangerous_period’:_Russian opposition_politician_Vladimir_Kara-Murza_transferred out_of_Moscow_detention_center_—_Meduza⠀⇛ # ⚓ Meduza ☛ ‘There_aren’t_any_Nazis_here’_Ukrainian intelligence_shares_video_of_Russian_pilot_who_defected by_flying_helicopter_over_border_—_Meduza⠀⇛ # ⚓ France24 ☛ 🔴_Live:_Russia_downed_three_drones_en route_to_Moscow,_says_mayor⠀⇛ Russian defences shot down three drones in the western regions of Moscow, Kaluga and Tver, authorities said on Tuesday morning. Meanwhile, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un is planning to meet this month with Russian President Vladimir Putin. He is likely to head by armored train to Vladivostok to discuss the possibility of Pyongyang supplying Moscow with weapons. # ⚓ France24 ☛ No_new_grain_deal_until_West_meets Russia’s_demands,_says_Putin⠀⇛ Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Monday that the deal that allowed Ukraine to export grain safely through the Black Sea won’t be restored until the West meets Moscow’s demands to facilitate Russian agricultural exports. Putin made the statement after talks with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in the Russian port city of Sochi. # ⚓ RFA ☛ North_Korea’s_Kim_Jong_Un_set_to_meet_Putin this_month,_officials_say⠀⇛ The focal point of the meeting is expected to be arms trading. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Russia’s_‘General_Armaggedon,’_Not_Seen_Since Wagner_Mutiny,_Reappears_In_Telegram_Photo⠀⇛ General Sergei Surovikin, who has not been seen publicly since the June mutiny by Wagner Group mercenaries, has reappeared in a new photograph online, adding further mystery to the fate of the Russian commander. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ U.S._Says_North_Korea’s_Kim_Expects_Arms Meeting_With_Putin⠀⇛ The White House says arms negotiations between Russia and North Korea “are actively advancing,” and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un expects to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Kosovo’s_President_Accuses_Serbia_Of Following_‘Putin’s_Plan’_By_Destabilizing_Balkans⠀⇛ Kosovar President Vjosa Osmani has accused Serbia of trying to destabilize the Western Balkans in a similar fashion to how she said Russia acted against Ukraine in 2014. # ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ Why_North_Korea’s_Kim_Jong_Un_may meet_Putin_in_Russia⠀⇛ The North Korean leader plans to travel to Russia in September to meet the Russian President. # ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ Kim_Jong_Un_to_meet_Putin_as Russia_seeks_closer_military_ties_with_North_Korea: Report⠀⇛ Mr Kim will discuss the possibility of supplying Moscow with weapons for the war in Ukraine. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Kim_Jong-un_and_Putin_Plan_to_Meet in_Russia_to_Discuss_Weapons⠀⇛ Russia seeks more weaponry for its war in Ukraine, and a North Korean delegation recently traveled to Russia by train to plan for Mr. Kim’s visit this month, officials say. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Putin_Meets_Erdogan_to_Discuss_Grain Deal⠀⇛ Any notion that President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey might be shifting away from his friendly ties with the Kremlin appeared to evaporate on Monday. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Kamianka,_Ukraine,_Bears_Legacy_and Detritus_of_WWII_and_Putin’s_War⠀⇛ The legacy of World War II lingers in the Ukrainian town of Kamianka, where tractors spit out shell casings, old and new. Now it has been destroyed by a new conflict. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Tuesday_Briefing:_Kim_and_Putin_Plan to_Meet_in_Russia⠀⇛ Also, Xi Jinping might skip the Group of 20 summit. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Sergei_Surovikin,_Russian_General Detained_After_Wagner_Mutiny,_Is_Released⠀⇛ Gen. Sergei Surovikin, who was seen as an ally of the mercenary leader Yevgeny V. Prigozhin, has re-emerged in public. # ⚓ Latvia ☛ Former_Rīga_councilor_could_go_to_prison_for Russian_war_support⠀⇛ After a call to donate funds to Russian occupation forces in Ukraine, the prosecutor’s office is seeking a two-year prison sentence for former Rīga City Council deputy Igors Kuzmuks. The trial is still ongoing, Latvian Television reported on September 4. # ⚓ Atlantic Council ☛ Jewish_president_picks_Muslim defense_minister:_Ukraine’s_diverse_leadership_debunks Russia’s_“Nazi”_slurs⠀⇛ Ukraine now has a Jewish president and a Muslim minister of defense, underlining the diversity of the country’s leadership while exposing the absurdity of Russia’s “Nazi Ukraine” propaganda, writes Peter Dickinson. # ⚓ France24 ☛ Another_Russian_mercenary_group_shows discontent_with_the_Kremlin:_‘A_sign_of_more_to_come’⠀⇛ At the end of August, Ukraine declared it had finally managed to pierce Russia’s first line of defence after retaking the small village of Robotyne in Ukraine’s south. This key advance coincided with a Russian mercenary group’s threat to stop fighting on Russia’s behalf on the front lines of the village and could be a sign of more anti-Kremlin sentiment brewing among those fighting for Moscow. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Ukrainian_Forces_Reportedly_Advance_Past Russia’s_‘Dragon’s_Teeth’_Defenses_In_Zaporizhzhya⠀⇛ Ukrainian forces in the southeastern Zaporizhzhya region have breached formidable Russian defensive obstacles, according to a U.S.-based research group. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Russia_Says_It_Downed_Ukraine-Launched_Drones Targeting_Moscow⠀⇛ Russia shot down at least three Ukraine- launched drones early on September 5 that were targeting the country’s capital, the Russian Defense Ministry said. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Ukrainian_Military_Staff_Will_Hear_Issues Raised_By_Soldiers,_Zelenskiy_Says⠀⇛ Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy says issues raised during his meetings with soldiers who have battled on the front line will be considered by top Ukrainian military officials. # ⚓ Latvia ☛ Majority_of_Russians_fail_Latvian_language test_on_first_try⠀⇛ During the period from April 11 to August 29, the Latvian language test was passed by 39% of Russian citizens who had taken it for the first time, while 61% of Russian citizens did not pass the test on the first try, the State Educational Content Center (VISC) reported on September 5. # ⚓ Latvia ☛ Fate_of_many_Russian_citizens_in_Latvia still_unclear⠀⇛ According to the law currently in force, a number of citizens of the Russian Federation who have not shown an initiative to pass the Latvian language check lose their permanent residence permit in September. Meanwhile, additional proposals are coming in and there is no complete clarity on what’s awaiting these people yet, Latvian Television reported on September 4. # ⚓ Latvia ☛ Over_80_Russians_denied_residency_by_Latvian State_Security_Service⠀⇛ About 80 Russian citizens who have applied for residence permits in Latvia in connection with the amendments to the Immigration Law have received a negative opinion from the State Security Service (VDD), reports the Latvian Television broadcast “Forbidden Method” (Aizliegtais paņēmiens) on September 4. # ⚓ LRT ☛ Mother_of_abducted_girl_goes_to_Russia_to_meet with_her_daughter_–_Lithuanian_body⠀⇛ The mother of a nine-month-old girl unlawfully taken to Russia by her father has left for the neighbouring country to meet with her daughter, the National Crisis Management Centre (NKVC) has confirmed to BNS. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Russians,_Belarusians_Given_Green_Light_To Compete_As_Neutrals_By_World_Aquatics⠀⇛ Russian and Belarusian athletes will be allowed to compete as neutrals in World Aquatics events, the sport’s governing body said on September 4. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Russia_Confirms_It_Won’t_Hold_Zapad_Military Exercises_This_Year⠀⇛ Russia will not conduct the major military exercises known as Zapad (West) this year, Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu has said. # ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ Kremlin_rejects_Armenian_PM’s suggestion_that_Russia_is_quitting_South_Caucasus⠀⇛ The Kremlin on Tuesday rejected a suggestion by Armenia’s prime minister that Russia had failed to ensure Armenia’s security amid its standoff with neighbouring Azerbaijan and was winding down its role in the wider region. # ⚓ YLE ☛ Finland_not_planning_limits_on_Russia-based taxi_firm_Yango⠀⇛ Finland’s Data Protection Ombudsman has temporarily ordered Yango to stop the transfer and processing of personal data of customer data from Finland to Russia. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ UN_commission_says_it_does_not_yet_have sufficient_evidence_to_conclude_genocide_is_taking place_in_Ukraine_—_Meduza⠀⇛ # ⚓ Meduza ☛ ‘Alive,_healthy,_and_home’:_Russian_General Sergey_Surovikin_seen_in_first_photo_since_Wagner_Group rebellion_—_Meduza⠀⇛ o § Transparency/Investigative Reporting⠀➾ # ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ How_we_report_on_a_warming_world⠀⇛ There’s also the fact that, with what we’ve already put in the atmosphere, some warming is inevitable. Is it helpful to describe a nonending situation as a crisis? Does that take away crucial nuance – removing our ability to effectively distinguish more acute and serious climate challenges? o § Environment⠀➾ # § Energy/Transportation⠀➾ # ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ New_LRT_system_launched_to_ease traffic_and_pollution_in_Jakarta⠀⇛ The driverless, 41.2km system connects central Jakarta and its satellite cities in West Java, Bekasi and Depok. # ⚓ H2 View ☛ European_copper_producer_launches investigation_as_metal_inventory_goes_missing⠀⇛ Although saying the exact amount of the damages could not be assessed, the company has said it cannot be ruled out that the damages might be in the low three-digit million-euro range. # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Developing_A_4,500_RPM_Twin-Cylinder_Air Engine⠀⇛ Compressed air isn’t really a practical form of energy storage for headline uses like transport or heating, but it’s a fun thing to tinker with at the small scale. [Tom Stanton] is plenty experienced in that area, having built a series of compressed air engines over the years. His latest effort is capable of running at up to 4,500 RPM, and delivering a full 0.05 horsepower. # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Heat_Pump_Control_That_Works⠀⇛ Heat pumps are taking the world by storm, and for good reason. Not only are they many times more efficient than electric heaters, but they can also be used to provide cooling in the summer. Efficiency aside, though, they’re not perfectly designed devices, largely with respect to their climate control abilities especially for split-unit setups. Many of them don’t have remotely located thermostats to monitor temperature in an area, and rely on crude infrared remote controls as the only user interface. Looking to make some improvements to this setup, [Danilo] built a setup more reminiscent of a central HVAC system to control his. # ⚓ JURIST ☛ Kazakhstan_dispatch:_President_Tokayev announces_nuclear_power_plant_proposal_will_be_decided in_a_national_referendum⠀⇛ Aidana Tastanova is a Kazakhstan national and a 4th year law student attending the Moscow State Institute of International Relations under a Kazakh government scholarship.  o § Finance⠀➾ # ⚓ New Yorker ☛ How_a_Man_in_Prison_Stole_Millions_from Billionaires⠀⇛ With smuggled cell phones and a handful of accomplices, Arthur Lee Cofield, Jr., took money from large bank accounts and bought houses, cars, clothes, and gold. # ⚓ Redundancies_set_to_start_at_Wilko_offices_on_Monday_as hopes_remain_for_shops⠀⇛ he first round of potentially thousands of layoffs at failed retailer Wilko is expected to start on Monday even as hopes of a rescue deal for parts of the business remain. Administrators confirmed last week that 269 people in the company’s Worksop support centre would be having their last day with the business. Redundancies at the company’s Worksop and Newport warehouses are also due to start early this week. The administrators did not confirm how many warehouse staff would lose their jobs, but around 1,296 people are thought to work there. # ⚓ TechCabal_Daily_-mPharma_lays_off_150_staff⠀⇛ mPharma, the Ghanaian startup that manages prescription drug inventory for pharmacies and their suppliers, has laid off 150 employees. According to the company’s CEO, Gregory Rockson, the layoffs are in light of the current macroeconomic conditions driven by the naira devaluation. # ⚓ More_tech_sector_layoffs_coming:_AlixPartners⠀⇛ Further job cuts are expected in the technology sector as a growing number of industry CFOs and other C-suite executives prioritize profitability over growth, according to a survey by AlixPartners, a consulting firm. The survey found that many executives are relying on headcount reduction as a tool to boost their profitability, with nearly half (46%) of those whose companies have already trimmed their workforce by more than 5% planning future job cuts over the next 12 months. “Unfortunately, we expect more pain to come for the tech industry,” Giuseppe Gasparro, a partner and managing director at the firm, said in a press release. o § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾ # ⚓ Digital Music News ☛ Are_YouTube_Shorts_Cannibalizing_Long Form_Content?_—_Yeah,_Here’s_Proof⠀⇛ YouTube Shorts have amassed billions of views since 2021, but some staff are worried the platform is losing focus. Here’s the latest. According to a new report from the Financial Times citing senior staff, many are worried that Shorts are cannibalizing its core business. o § Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾ # ⚓ CNN ☛ Retired_teacher_sentenced_to_death_in_Saudi_Arabia after_tweeting_criticism⠀⇛ The death sentence comes amid an “escalating crackdown” on free speech in the country, said Lina Alhathloul, ALQST head of monitoring and advocacy and sister of released Saudi political prisoner Loujain al-Hathloul. “They are sending a clear and sinister message – that nobody is safe, and even a tweet can get you killed,” she said. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Nobel_Prize-winning_journalist_Dmitry_Muratov_to step_down_as_Novaya_Gazeta_editor-in-chief_while_appealing ‘foreign_agent’_designation⠀⇛ The newspaper also said Muratov will temporarily suspend his duties as editor-in-chief while the legal proceedings are underway. Sergei Sokolov will serve as acting editor-in-chief. “We don’t want to get used to putting idiotic notices on our website,” its journalists said, referring to the 24-word disclaimer that Russian law requires be posted on all content authored by “foreign agents.” o § Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press⠀➾ # ⚓ JURIST ☛ Russia_labels_Nobel_Prize-winning_journalist_a ‘foreign_agent’⠀⇛ Critics argue that this maneuver by the Kremlin represents a broader strategy aimed at stifling dissent and suppressing independent journalism. Of significance, Muratov also holds the position of Editor at Independent Novaya Gazeta, which temporarily halted its publication in response to Russia’s military actions in Ukraine. Nevertheless, many of its journalists have regrouped to establish a new publication, Novaya Gazeta Europe, now headquartered in Latvia. Novaya Gazeta, founded in 1993 by former Soviet leader and fellow Nobel Peace laureate Mikhail Gorbachev, is one of the rare media outlets in Russia openly critical of President Vladimir Putin’s policies. # ⚓ Latvia ☛ Media,_journalists,_and_migrants⠀⇛ The current events in the border area of Latvia–Belarus are a reason to create daily news centered on migrants, border crossing, fence, breaking through it, deterring migrants, or allowing migrants into Latvia. The process is justifiably described in the context of the hybrid war by the Belarusian regime. How to write about all this in the media professionally and ethically? o § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾ # ⚓ RFA ☛ Prominent_Uyghur_activist_learns_about_father’s_death in_Xinjiang_months_after_demise⠀⇛ Hearing about a relative’s death months or years later is not unusual for Uyghurs abroad. # ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ ‘Our_hearts_are_broken:’_Jacksonville_grieves 3_killed_in_shooting⠀⇛ As thousands gathered in Washington Saturday to commemorate the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, a racist gunman killed three people in a historically Black Florida neighborhood. # ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ Chinese_paper_Global_Times_demands British_Museum_return_‘stolen’_artefacts⠀⇛ The newspaper said the museum had 23,000 Chinese items. # ⚓ The Nation ☛ Top_10_Labor_Day_Songs⠀⇛ In honor of Labor Day, I’ve revised a previous attempt at the impossible task of naming the best songs ever written about working people. The list is highly debatable; songs about work and working people cut across genres and generations. I know it’s a travesty to neglect “Which Side Are You On?” and Johnny Paycheck’s classic “Take This Job and Shove It.” It also seems impossible that I’ve excluded Bruce Springsteen, Billy Bragg, Nina Simone, and John Mellencamp, and given such short shrift to the rich history of punk rock odes to the insanity of wage slavery. Hopefully, these songs will get people thinking about their own favorite musical celebrations of the working condition. # ⚓ International Business Times ☛ Pakistani_woman_stoned_to death_for_alleged_adultery⠀⇛ A woman in Pakistan was allegedly stoned to death by her own family members, including her husband, for committing adultery. The incident took place in Rajanpur district of Punjab, some 500 km from Lahore, on Friday. According to local media reports, the woman’s husband tied her to a tree with the help of her brother-in-law and one more accomplice. # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Labor_Built_This_Republic⠀⇛ Given the relative universe that is organized labor’s long, hard, hurdle-strewn history, this is “a good year to have a Labor Day,” with a string of organizing wins, a pro-union president, soaring jobs and even rising support from a public long immune to acting in its own best interests. Still, in a ceaseless, shifting fight between those with the overweening power of “a rich men’s club” and those seeking a sliver of it, the bottom line stays constant: “The only effective answer to organized greed is organized labor.” # ⚓ Jacobin Magazine ☛ Martin_Luther_King_Jr’s_Forgotten_1962 Speech_on_Civil_Rights_Unionism⠀⇛ MLK regarded progressive unions as bulwarks of the civil rights movement. In this rousing 1962 speech to the National Maritime Union, he linked the democratic struggles of workers and black people and ended by quoting the “beautiful words” of Eugene Debs. # ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ “The_Great_Escape”:_Saket_Soni_on_Forced Immigrant_Labor_Used_to_Clean_Up_Climate_Disasters_in_U.S.⠀⇛ As extreme weather disasters intensify, the workers who are hired by corporations to clean up after hurricanes, floods, blizzards and wildfires are increasingly on the frontlines of the climate crisis. # ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ Salvadoran_Writer_Javier_Zamora_on_Coping with_Trauma_from_Being_Detained_&_Undocumented_in_U.S.⠀⇛ Salvadoran poet and writer Javier Zamora discusses the roots of his memoir Solito, which details his odyssey as an unaccompanied 9-year-old child through Guatemala and Mexico to reunite with family in Arizona. “After surviving that nine-week journey, surviving the United States as an undocumented person was perhaps the main reason why I became a writer,” Zamora says. He describes how he works to cope with trauma from his experiences, and how he was inspired to become a writer when he was exposed to the Chilean poet Pablo Neruda as a high school student in California. o § Internet Policy/Net Neutrality⠀➾ # ⚓ [Repeat] APNIC ☛ The_Internet_Landscape_of_Japan⠀⇛ Japan is widely regarded as one of the most advanced economies for Internet penetration. Japan’s Internet usage rate (individuals) is 82.9% and the development rate of optical fibre is 99.3%. The number of broadband subscribers is 43.8M, which includes 36.6M FTTH subscribers and 6.5M CATV Internet subscribers, while the number of mobile broadband subscribers (4G and 5G) is 184M. o § Digital Restrictions (DRM)⠀➾ # ⚓ Eric Rescorla ☛ Private_Access_Tokens,_also_not_great⠀⇛ Stepping back, I worry about the equilibrium steady state: the more that people are able to authenticate these technologies the more attractive it is for sites to basically require them, to increase the level of scrutiny (as in WEI), and provide a massively inferior experience to those who can’t. Ironically, this is actually a direct consequence of Privacy Pass being well-designed so that it’s seamless and provides a good level of privacy, because that makes it seem less objectionable to require, as opposed to (say) making everyone log in with a Google account.[6] At the end of the day, though, the risk is further entrenching the existing big players. o § Monopolies⠀➾ # § Copyrights⠀➾ # ⚓ Torrent Freak ☛ TV_Museum_Will_Die_in_48_Hours_Unless Sony_Retracts_YouTube_Copyright_Strikes⠀⇛ No matter whether takedowns are justified, unjustified (Markscan hit Sony’s own website with a DMCA takedown recently), or simply disputed, getting Markscan’s attention is a lottery at best, impossible at worst. In MCCTv’s short experience, nothing has changed. “Our YouTube channel with 150k subscribers is in danger of being terminated by September 6th if I don’t find a way to resolve these copyright claims that Markscan made,” Klein told TorrentFreak on Friday. “At this point, I don’t even care if they were issued under authorization by Sony or not – I just need to reach a live human being to try to resolve this without copyright strikes. I am willing to remove the material manually to get the strikes reversed.” # ⚓ Torrent Freak ☛ ‘News_Media_are_a_Useful_Tool_to Educate_the_Public_on_Piracy_Risks_and_Threats’⠀⇛ Tackling online piracy isn’t an easy task. In addition to dismantling illicit sites and services, the public at large should be made aware of the associated risks and threats. According to the Premier League, news media can be helpful to spread these messages. 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