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A Code Thief Assigns IBM Software Patents. | Techrights ⦿ DuckDuckGo Privacy Browser Isn’t Private | Techrights ⦿ IBM’s Fedora 40 Dropping X11 as an Option for KDE Users, in Effect Forcing Those Users to Adopt a Broken Wayland | Techrights ⦿ IRC Proceedings: Saturday, September 16, 2023 | Techrights ⦿ [Meme] Attacking Your Colleagues and Calling Them ’Rape Apologists’ (They’re Not) Gives You ‘Sadness’ and an ‘Emotional Rollercoaster’ | Techrights ⦿ Operation Mole — Part IX — Hobby or Personal Gain Foreseen (Reward for Attacking Free Software)? | Techrights ⦿ Another Record Month and an Outlook (Positive Future, Promising Topics to Explore) | Techrights ⦿ Reddit and the ’Modern’ Web Are Spying and Profiling (Plus Censorship) Engines | Techrights ⦿ Google Tricking Users Into Downloading WebP Images While WebP Format is Legally Hazardous and Also a Hazard for Computer Security | Techrights ䷼ Bulletin articles (as HTML) to comment on (requires login): http://techrights.org/2023/09/17/alex-oliva-on-rms/#comments http://techrights.org/2023/09/17/copyright-plagiarism-and-ibm-swpats/#comments http://techrights.org/2023/09/17/ddg-privacy-browser/#comments http://techrights.org/2023/09/17/fedora-40-dropping-x11/#comments http://techrights.org/2023/09/17/irc-log-160923/#comments http://techrights.org/2023/09/17/meme-attacking-your-colleagues/#comments http://techrights.org/2023/09/17/observations-re-trolls/#comments http://techrights.org/2023/09/17/promising-topics-to-explore/#comments http://techrights.org/2023/09/17/spying-and-profiling/#comments http://techrights.org/2023/09/17/webp-images-and-webp-swpats/#comments ䷞ Followed by Daily Links (assorted news picks curated and categorised): http://techrights.org/2023/09/17/auragem-music-bugfix/#comments http://techrights.org/2023/09/17/kraft-1-1/#comments http://techrights.org/2023/09/17/strikes-persist/#comments http://techrights.org/2023/09/17/sympathy-for-the-copyright-devil/#comments ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 77 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at http://techrights.org/2023/09/17/alex-oliva-on-rms/#comments Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2023/09/17/alex-oliva-on-rms/ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 09.17.23⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Alex_Oliva_(FSF)_on_Major_Injustice_to_Richard_Stallman⠀✐ Posted in Deception, Free/Libre_Software, GNU/Linux at 10:25 am by Guest Editorial Team Original, Major_Injustices, is licensed under the Creative Commons License BY- SA (Attribution ShareAlike) 3.0 Unported. =============================================================================== Another 9/11 went by. Some people remembered the US-supported coup in Chile. Some remembered the twin towers in NYC. Me, I remembered the assassination of the city mayor the night before. I’m sorry for all these victims of violence. But even closer to my heart, I remembered an MIT student and blogger, legitimately angry at institutional misogyny, who got fed a package of disinformation that triggered her into writing a hate letter that brought great injustice onto a long-time feminist. I’m sorry for the misogyny she faced, and I’m sorry that she was misled and fell for it. “The false rumor got that professor falsely accused of sexual assault, and the furious mob reaction would have got him sacked–like others, guilty or not, were–unjustly, in his case, if he hadn’t already passed away.”At the time, MIT was in the middle of the Jeffrey Epstein scandal, a rich and influential sex trafficker who had donated money and invited researchers to parties. He died in prison before trial, in very suspicious circumstances. He could have exposed a lot of other rich and influential people who had used his sex slave’s services, and I’m sorry he didn’t live long enough to tell on them. People at MIT were angry over suspicions that a late professor had had sex with a teen sex slave at a party at Epstein’s private offshore island. It later transpired that the professor had actually declined her offer, that she was not too young to give lawful consent, and that he had no reason to as much as suspect her to be under duress. It’s unclear whether he even had any reasons to mistake her for a sex worker. In hindsight, however, we know she was a slave, and I’m very sorry for her and all the misery Epstein imposed on her. The false rumor got that professor falsely accused of sexual assault, and the furious mob reaction would have got him sacked–like others, guilty or not, were–unjustly, in his case, if he hadn’t already passed away. I’m sorry for his memory. A friend of mine dared stand (figuratively) before the angry mob and try to bring it to reason. He argued the term assault suggested the use of force by the professor, while no evidence of that was present; that the professor likely had no reason to suspect her to be underage, which she wasn’t, or a slave, which she was, but it was presumably concealed at the time. I’m sorry for my friend’s neurodivergent status, that often gets him mocked, misunderstood, criticized, and rejected, and that prevented him from stopping short of entering such a dialectic minefield. That made him a target of the MIT mob, for allegedly defending the innocent but presumed-guilty professor. Then the blogger twisted his words, and suggested that he denied her condition of slavery. Then she sent on the disinformation package to a reporter, who was just as misled by it, and, without verification, wrote and published a fake news article. “That made him a target of the MIT mob, for allegedly defending the innocent but presumed-guilty professor.”The next day, the same fake news site published another version of that story, written by someone else, who misrepresented it to the point of stating my friend had defended trafficker Epstein! By then, opportunists in various dissident factions of the wider free software communities were coordinating to cancel my friend, founder and leader of the Free Software Movement, of the Free Software Foundation, of the GNU Project, and collector of corporate opponents who had long resorted to various kinds of attacks to weaken the movement that threatened their profits and influence. Some wanted to bring him down, some wanted to take his positions, most just believed the lies, proclaimed him guilty and demanded justice, without realizing they were the ones committing an injustice. The fake news reports multiplied (suspiciously associating him with Free Software, which he normally has to implore reporters to write; this time, for some reason, they were determined not to label him as the father of Open Source Software), the angry cancellation mob grew, corporations, organizations and projects ganged up on Dr Stallman (though really on Mr Strawman, given that it was all made up) with threatening letters full of presumption of guilt, to the point that my friend was advised to resign from his post at the FSF, to protect the organization from the hatred directed at him, and had to vacate the guest office at MIT, where he’d started the Free Software Movement and the GNU Project. Accusations were investigated, pursued, and invariably led nowhere. They were clearly no more than hearsay, fabrications, and unfounded rumors started and repeated ad nauseum by political opponents, a dirty but hardly original or surprising trick. “Alas, their hope was not unfounded. A number of people who didn’t get the memo that he was innocent rushed to sign the letter and to renew their disposition against the Mr Strawman the shills had made up, condemning him over fabricated accusations of misogyny, transphobia, paedophilia, and even eugenics, while the real person has long defended and fought for the freedom, the rights and the well-being of not only software users and developers, which he’s most famous for, but also of women, of trans people, of teens and children, not in a leading or pioneering role, but long before these struggles gained enough public support as to be integrated into and then captured by corporate culture.”A little over a year went by before we elected him back to the FSF board. Corporate shills coordinated the writing of another hate letter, threading a gish-gallop of doubled-down false accusations into a truly repugnant strawman. They even added links to sources next to their word- twisting leaps, to try to make them more credible, in the hope people wouldn’t verify the facts, wouldn’t look at the sources. Alas, their hope was not unfounded. A number of people who didn’t get the memo that he was innocent rushed to sign the letter and to renew their disposition against the Mr Strawman the shills had made up, condemning him over fabricated accusations of misogyny, transphobia, paedophilia, and even eugenics, while the real person has long defended and fought for the freedom, the rights and the well-being of not only software users and developers, which he’s most famous for, but also of women, of trans people, of teens and children, not in a leading or pioneering role, but long before these struggles gained enough public support as to be integrated into and then captured by corporate culture. Even defending the rights of the unborn to not be forced to develop into a life of assured misery, a nearly-universal consensus, was turned into a reason to condemn him! Without influence of corporate shills, another open letter came out in support of the movement leader, got over twice as many signatures from individuals from many more countries, got more widely translated, and it just kept growing, while the hate letter shrunk slowly, as people struggled to get their regrettable signatures revoked once they learned they had been fooled and manipulated. Still, far too many people remain stuck with those false beliefs. Most didn’t even try to check the facts; some mistook it for running a web search that finds the same lies repeated thousands of times; some even reason that where there’s smoke there must have been fire, missing entirely the political and economic motivations for the groundless defamation campaign. In their determined but disinformed pursuit of justice, they aim at a fabricated strawman, and end up hitting an innocent human being, becoming themselves an instrument of injustice. “The Brazilian remake of 2015′s movie Virus of Fear (El virus de la por), 2018′s Liquid Truth (Aos Teus Olhos) depicts how repugnant made-up and twisted accusations escalate on social media, and end up reversing the roles of offenders and victims.”Such repugnant accusations seem to have that effect of making enough people leap to guilty verdicts with little to no evidence. The Brazilian remake of 2015′s movie Virus of Fear (El virus de la por), 2018′s Liquid Truth (Aos Teus Olhos) depicts how repugnant made-up and twisted accusations escalate on social media, and end up reversing the roles of offenders and victims. Public opinion manipulators know of this vulnerability in human minds, and exploit it. If we care about justice, about fighting injustice, we need to be alert to avoid being fooled by them and carrying out their injustice. I’m sorry if you fell for it, and I hope you know better by now. Thanks for fighting injustice, even injustice that you unintentionally committed yourself. https://stallmansupport.org/ So blong, █ ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 272 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at http://techrights.org/2023/09/17/copyright-plagiarism-and-ibm-swpats/#comments Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2023/09/17/copyright-plagiarism-and-ibm-swpats/ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 09.17.23⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Copyright_Plagiarism_of_XScreenSaver_by_IBM/Red_Hat_Employee._A_Code_Thief Assigns_IBM_Software_Patents.⠀✐ Posted in Deception, Free/Libre_Software, GNU/Linux, IBM, Patents, Red_Hat at 8:25 pm by Guest Editorial Team Reprinted with permission from Ryan_Farmer. Copyright Plagiarism of XScreenSaver and IBM Red Hat Software Patents. On Jamie Zawinski’s blog post about people taking his work, XScreenSaver, and putting security holes into it, he also commented that these_forks_have_been plagiarized. Just to add insult to injury, it has recently come to my attention that not only are Gnome-screensaver, Mate-screensaver and Cinnamon- screensaver buggy and insecure dumpster fires, but they are also in violation of my license and infringing my copyright. XScreenSaver was released under the BSD license, one of the oldest and most permissive of the free software licenses. It turns out, the Gnome-screensaver authors copied large parts of XScreenSaver into their program, removed the BSD license and slapped a GPL license on my code instead — and also removed my name. Rude. If they had asked me, “can you dual-license this code”, I might have said yes. If they had asked, “can we strip your name off and credit your work as (C) William Jon McCann instead”… probably not. Mate-screensaver and Cinnamon-screensaver, being forks and descendants of Gnome-screensaver, have inherited this license violation and continue to perpetuate it. Every Linux distro is shipping this copyright- and license-infringing code. I eagerly await hearing how they’re going to make this right. -Jamie Zawinski When I did a Web search for “William Jon McCann”, a blog that went inactive in 2013 showed he was, in fact, a GNOME developer at some point. But another site shows that “William Jon McCann” is (or at least was) a Red Hat employee who_took_out_tons_of_software_patents_and_assigned_them_to_Red_Hat, which is now owned by IBM. Software patents are one of the most horrible aspects of computing. They are typically used to attack competitors, and in many cases, the goal of getting the patent is to make it unclear what the invention allegedly is. In many cases, the patents are bogus, but you come after the victims with so many that they settle figuring that at least some of them will hurt if they go to court and lose. The Free Software Foundation (1) doesn’t take a strong position on software patents anymore, and (2) has this incestuous relationship with Red Hat (and now IBM) to take code and money. Which may explain why they haven’t strongly come out in opposition to things like this. It is interesting to know, however, that IBM Red Hat funded plagiarism of source code when they wanted it in GNOME, and that everything that forked GNOME since then is also committing plagiarism. For what it’s worth, I don’t believe you need to have BSD-licensed code “dual licensed” to wrap it in the GPL. Proprietary software companies wrap it in proprietary licenses all the time and give people no source code at all. “It is interesting to know, however, that IBM Red Hat funded plagiarism of source code when they wanted it in GNOME, and that everything that forked GNOME since then is also committing plagiarism.”What is absolutely NOT alright is to strip the original author’s name and copyright header off the work and claim that someone else wrote the code. This is, so unbelievably disgusting. Like, they could have used it without plagiarizing the work, but didn’t. One wonders what other stolen code is lurking around in GNOME, copyright “William Jon McCann”, or others, and for the benefit of IBM Red Hat. Also, is it really that hard to do screen locking that you have to copy and paste code you don’t understand, and if it is, then why do you want the same company designing Wayland? “The decent thing would be to at least add his name back to the copyright headers”I don’t think any distribution shipping GNOME, MATE, or Cinnamon Desktops, have contacted JWZ and asked him what he wants to do about this, nor have the desktop projects themselves, nor has IBM. IBM has managed to violate the freaking BSD license by doing basically the only thing it does not allow. Falsely attributing the work to someone else and then the others have followed along and not done anything to bring themselves out of violation. The decent thing would be to at least add his name back to the copyright headers. █ ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 404 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at http://techrights.org/2023/09/17/ddg-privacy-browser/#comments Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2023/09/17/ddg-privacy-browser/ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 09.17.23⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ DuckDuckGo_Privacy_Browser_Isn’t_Private⠀✐ Posted in Deception, Microsoft at 8:35 pm by Guest Editorial Team Reprinted with permission from Ryan_Farmer. It’s been a while since I’ve blogged about DuckDuckGo, the “branding condom” for Microsoft Bing. The company is basically “fake”. It has a tiny_little_office, very few employees, almost all of the results are from Microsoft Bing, and it transmits the search parameters to Microsoft to get those results. “About the only good thing about DuckDuckGo and Microsoft is, they did stop censoring my blog.”About the only good thing about DuckDuckGo and Microsoft is, they did stop censoring_my_blog. I see traffic coming in from them now. I think Microsoft changed their search index and DuckDuckGo changed because Bing did. The company has been caught_exempting_Microsoft_trackers, then claimed that “Oh yeah, it turns out we had that deal with Microsoft to not block THEIR trackers in our ‘Privacy’ Browser.” Later, Microsoft_let_them_change_the_agreement, but the fact that they were dishonest with their users and allowed one of the biggest surveillance monsters through, quietly, shows how much you can trust DuckDuckGo [1] [2] and Gabriel Weinberg. And it’s even hosted in Microsoft Azure, where Microsoft can take a look at everything that’s going on inside the “DuckDuckGo” server. So they have the technical capabilities to look at who is making the searches, and what the searches are. 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇DuckDuckGo_processing⦈_ 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇DuckDuckGo_processing⦈_ As if this wasn’t enough, DuckDuckGo has tracking scripts and a tracking pixel of their own that follow you around on their site, if you don’t block this, called “Improving DuckDuckGo”. “Also notice all the Social Media crap it got and something called “bing_market”.”Adguard Tracking Protection, one of the ad blocking lists for trackers, includes the tracking pixel and the Improving DuckDuckGo script, so you get warnings from your ad blocker that DuckDuckGo is tracking you. Also notice all the Social Media crap it got and something called “bing_market”. LOL But lately, they have themselves a new “scam”. DuckDuckGo “Privacy Browser”. “Plain old Mozilla Firefox browsing around with no privacy extensions at all is actually more private than DuckDuckGo on Android.”One reason this is a “scam”, so to speak, is that it doesn’t_actually_block_much_tracking_on_Android. Plain old Mozilla Firefox browsing around with no privacy extensions at all is actually more private than DuckDuckGo on Android. On iOS, where all browsers inherit whatever Apple has done to WebKit, DuckDuckGo’s browser is better than Android, but_still_not_great. These are not platform limitations. DuckDuckGo actually just doesn’t block very much tracking. On Privacy Tests, by far, Brave had the most green checkmarks for blocking Web tracking. Another reason you know something is “not right” with DuckDuckGo’s “Privacy” Browser, is that the desktop version only supports the least private, least secure operating systems on the market. Windows, and Mac. It has completely left out Linux distributions, where for the most part the OS is just an OS, and doesn’t send your keystrokes, application launches, crash data, or hard drive contents to anyone, whereas Windows and Mac do, automatically, behind-the-scenes, without asking the user. Even if DuckDuckGo’s “Privacy Browser” wasn’t questionable, prima facie, they do encourage insecure and non-private operating systems, thus ensuring their users will be spied on by the OS vendors. “DuckDuckGo actually just doesn’t block very much tracking.”The reason why DuckDuckGo can “block Web trackers” and have that hardly matter at all, is because the threat landscape of the Web is constantly growing. Many years ago, it was sufficient to just block certain ad and tracking servers, and browse with JavaScript turned off. Today, led by Google, Microsoft, and Mozilla, the Web platform is becoming more menacing. You can block specific “content”, but the threat actors are operating at a higher scale than ever, leveraging “questionable” Web technologies. Unless your browser is doing something to partition, sandbox, and disable these technologies, and either most of them or all of them, to confuse these “higher level attacks” and fingerprinting attempts, you’re really not being protected by anything “just blacklisting some resources”. “It has completely left out Linux distributions, where for the most part the OS is just an OS, and doesn’t send your keystrokes, application launches, crash data, or hard drive contents to anyone, whereas Windows and Mac do, automatically, behind-the-scenes, without asking the user.”That’s certainly better than nothing, but it’s not enough. The most sophisticated thing about Chromium-based Web browsers is how many ways they give the Web site to attack and profile the user. Chrome and Edge are the worst, Brave is fixing a lot of it. At least they try to help the user. Brave_and_LibreWolf are the only two desktop browsers left to recommend. I firmly believe that the only purpose of DuckDuckGo’s Browser is to route traffic to DuckDuckGo (captive audience), and perhaps screw up everyone else’s ad network, but this is the same behavior that you see Microsoft Edge engaging in. █ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⢀⣂⣂⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣂⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⡀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⢸⣿⣽⣯⣿⣿⣿⣯⣽⣽⣭⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⣾⣿⣿⣧⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⢸⣽⣿⣿⣯⣿⣍⣿⣿⣹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣡⣿⣩⡇⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⢸⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠿⠿⢿⣿⡿⢿⢿⣿⠿⣿⣿⣿⠿⡷⣿⡿⢿⣿⡿⢿⢿⡿⠿⢿⣿⣿⢿⠿⡿⠿⢿⢿⣿⡿⠿⣿⠿⡿⣿⠿⢿⣿⡇⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣯⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣯⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⢸⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣗⣶⣶⣾⣿⣗⣾⣾⣿⣶⣿⣿⣿⣶⣗⣿⣷⣾⣿⣷⣾⣾⣷⣶⣖⣿⣿⣾⣖⣖⣾⣾⣾⣞⣷⣖⣾⣶⣷⣗⣷⣻⣾⡇⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⢸⡭⡯⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡯⣭⡭⣽⣿⡯⢽⣽⣿⣭⣿⣿⣿⣭⡿⣿⣯⣿⣿⣯⣽⣽⣯⣭⡽⣿⡽⣽⡭⡯⣭⡽⢽⠽⣯⡭⣽⣭⡯⡯⡿⣭⢿⡇⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⢸⣟⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣟⣛⣛⣻⣿⣟⣻⣻⣿⣛⣿⣿⣿⣛⣿⣿⣛⣿⣿⣟⣻⣻⣟⣛⣻⣿⣻⣻⣛⣟⣛⣻⣻⣻⣟⣛⣻⣛⣟⣿⣿⣟⣟⡇⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⢸⠷⣷⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡷⠾⠿⢿⣿⡷⢾⢿⣿⠿⣿⣿⣿⠿⣷⣿⠿⣿⣿⡿⢿⢿⡿⠿⢶⣿⣿⢾⠷⣷⠿⢿⢾⣶⡿⠷⢿⠿⡷⡿⡿⢷⠾⡇⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⢸⣭⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣯⣽⣯⣿⣿⣯⣽⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣽⣯⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣯⣯⣭⣿⣿⣽⣭⣯⣽⣿⣽⣭⣿⣯⣿⣿⣯⣯⣽⣽⣿⡇⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⢸⣓⣿⣗⣚⣿⣞⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣗⣖⣺⣖⣓⣿⣿⣗⣿⣲⣗⣿⣿⣒⣗⣒⣒⣒⣒⣒⣒⣒⣺⣳⣛⣻⣟⣻⣚⣻⣟⣻⣒⣒⣾⣓⣒⣲⣛⣳⣞⣲⣖⡇⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⢸⠯⣿⡯⠽⣿⡽⣿⣿⣽⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡯⠭⢽⡭⠯⣿⣿⡯⣿⠽⡯⣿⣿⠽⡯⠭⠭⠭⠭⠭⠭⠭⢽⢿⣯⡿⢯⢿⠭⢿⢯⢿⡯⠯⠯⢽⢽⢿⡿⡯⡽⣭⡿⡇⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣻⣿⣻⣿⣿⣻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣟⣟⣿⣻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣻⣿⣿⣿⣻⣟⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣻⣻⣿⣿⣿⣻⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⢸⣶⣿⣷⣶⣶⢶⣶⣿⢾⣷⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣶⣶⢶⣶⣿⣿⣶⣿⣶⣶⣿⣷⢶⡷⠶⠶⠶⠶⠶⠶⠶⢾⣶⣷⣶⣷⣾⣾⣶⣷⡶⣶⣾⣶⣶⣾⠿⣶⡶⣾⣷⣿⡇⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⢸⣭⣿⣯⣭⣭⣭⣭⣿⣭⣯⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣯⣭⣭⣭⣭⣿⣿⣭⣿⣭⣭⣿⣯⣭⣯⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣽⣭⣭⣭⣯⣽⣯⣭⣭⣯⣯⣭⣯⣭⣯⣽⣽⣭⣯⣯⣽⡇⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⢸⣛⣿⣟⣛⣛⣚⣛⣿⣚⣟⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣟⣛⣛⣚⣛⣿⣿⣛⣿⣛⣛⣿⣟⣚⣗⣒⣒⣒⣒⣒⣒⣒⣺⣿⣻⣟⣿⣟⣛⣛⣛⣳⣿⣛⣻⣛⣟⣛⣗⣛⣛⣟⣛⡇⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⢸⠿⣿⡿⠿⢿⠿⠿⣿⠿⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠿⠿⠿⠿⣿⣿⠿⣿⠿⠿⣿⡿⠿⡿⠽⠿⠥⠽⠭⠭⠽⢽⢿⡿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⢿⠿⢿⠿⠿⠽⣿⠿⠿⢿⡇⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣻⣿⣿⣻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣻⣿⣫⣿⣿⣻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣽⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⢸⣷⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣶⣾⣷⣷⣿⣿⣾⣿⣶⣾⣿⣿⣾⣷⣷⣾⣾⣾⣿⣾⣷⣿⣷⣾⣿⣾⣿⣾⣿⣿⣾⣿⣷⣾⣾⣿⣿⣷⣿⣷⣿⣶⡇⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠘⠋⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠋⠉⠙⠋⠋⠛⠛⠙⠛⠉⠙⠛⠛⠉⠋⠋⠙⠛⠙⠛⠙⠛⠛⠋⠛⠛⠙⠛⠙⠛⠛⠙⠛⠋⠙⠙⠛⠛⠋⠋⠋⠛⠛⠃⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⢀⣂⣂⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣂⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⡀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⢸⣿⣽⣯⣿⣿⣿⣭⣭⣽⣭⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⣾⣿⣿⣧⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⢸⣽⣿⣿⣯⣿⣍⣿⣿⣹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣡⣿⣩⡇⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⢸⣷⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⡷⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢾⣿⣿⣿⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⢸⣯⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣯⣯⣽⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣽⣿⣿⣿⣽⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⢸⣛⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣟⣟⣻⣿⣟⣿⣿⣻⣿⣿⣾⣿⣿⣺⣿⣻⣿⣿⣟⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⢸⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⢿⣿⣿⣿⢿⢿⣿⢿⣿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⡿⢿⣿⡿⣿⣿⢿⣿⢿⢿⣿⣿⢿⣿⢿⢿⣿⡿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣿⢿⣿⣿⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⢿⡿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣟⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣻⣿⣿⣻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⢸⣷⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣶⣾⣷⣷⣿⣿⣾⣿⣾⣾⣿⣿⢶⣿⣾⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣷⣾⣿⣿⣶⣿⣶⣾⣾⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣾⡿⣿⣷⣿⣿⣾⡇⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⢸⣯⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣯⣭⣽⣯⣯⣿⣿⣽⣿⣽⣽⣿⣿⣭⣿⣭⣽⣿⣯⣿⣿⣿⣽⣯⣽⣿⣽⣽⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⢸⣟⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣟⣛⣻⣟⣟⣿⣿⣿⣿⣻⣻⣿⣿⣻⣿⣛⣻⣿⣟⣟⣿⣟⣛⣟⣿⣿⣿⣛⣛⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⢸⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠿⢿⡿⡿⣿⣿⢿⣿⢿⢿⣿⣿⠿⣿⠿⢿⣿⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⢸⣷⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣶⣾⣷⣷⣿⣿⣾⣿⣾⣾⣿⣿⣶⣿⣶⣾⣿⣷⣿⣿⣷⣾⣿⣿⣿⣷⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⢸⣯⣿⣯⣽⣯⣽⣿⣿⣿⣭⣯⣯⣭⣭⣭⣽⣽⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣯⣭⣭⣭⣭⣿⣿⣽⣿⣽⣽⣿⣿⣭⣯⣽⣿⣽⣿⣿⣯⣯⣿⣽⣽⣯⣯⣿⣽⣯⣿⣯⣽⣭⣿⣽⣿⣭⣽⣯⣯⣽⣯⡇⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣟⣟⣻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣻⣿⣻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣟⣻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⢸⡷⣿⡿⢿⢿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠷⢿⠿⠿⣿⣿⡿⣿⠾⡿⣿⣿⠿⡿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠾⢿⡾⢿⡿⣷⣾⡿⡿⣿⢿⣿⣿⣿⡿⡿⢿⢿⢿⢿⣿⠿⡇⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⢨⣭⣯⣯⣿⣿⣯⣿⣿⣿⣿⣽⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣯⣯⣽⣿⣿⣿⣿⣯⣿⣽⣿⣿⣿⣽⣯⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣽⣯⣯⣭⣯⣯⣭⣯⣭⣭⣯⣽⣽⣽⣿⣯⣿⣿⣯⣽⣿⡇⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⢸⣗⣿⣿⣶⣾⣷⣿⣿⣿⣾⣾⣷⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣗⣖⣺⣶⣷⣿⣿⣿⣿⣺⣾⣷⣿⣺⣷⣶⣶⣶⣶⣾⣶⣶⣾⣷⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠐⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 608 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at http://techrights.org/2023/09/17/fedora-40-dropping-x11/#comments Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2023/09/17/fedora-40-dropping-x11/ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 09.17.23⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ IBM’s_Fedora_40_Dropping_X11_as_an_Option_for_KDE_Users,_in_Effect_Forcing Those_Users_to_Adopt_a_Broken_Wayland⠀✐ Posted in GNU/Linux, IBM, Red_Hat at 5:07 am by Guest Editorial Team Reprinted with permission from Ryan_Farmer. Fedora 40 Dropping X11 Option for KDE, Forcing Users to Broken Wayland. I’ve written about Wayland and the many problems it has before. I will incorporate those by reference here. Will_Wayland_Even_Survive_the_Collapse_of_IBM?_X11_Likely_Will. foobar2000_on_Wine,_Wayland,_and_GNOME_Equals_Trouble. Reasons_Why_Debian_12_KDE_Should_Not_Default_to_Wayland._More_Flatpak Observations._(Hiding_Proprietary_Software) Wayland is a “replacement” for the X.org X11 server (Xorg). Wayland doesn’t work right. Wayland is causing IBM themselves to do more work on “XWayland”, the compatibility layer, than they would have to do to continue supporting Xorg Server itself! Hardly anything actually runs on Wayland natively. Other than the KDE and GNOME applications, with glitches, maybe Firefox and a couple of other things. Most people will need XWayland forever, because application developers just don’t have any incentive to leave X, and in some cases, their application isn’t even possible on Wayland. None of this has made IBM reconsider the last 15 years, where the reception has been tepid, at best, so now they want to go balls-to-the-wall and force_KDE users_on_Fedora_to_use_Wayland, even though Plasma 6 will support X11 itself. This means that the users are being prevented from using functionality that KDE will continue supporting indefinitely. That’s good, considering that there are dozens_of_KDE/Wayland_bugs and Plasma 6 and Qt6 fix less than half. My advice is to just get rid of Fedora and use another distribution. Same as it has been for a while now, especially if you want to run KDE. IBM threw KDE out of RHEL years ago and doesn’t care if it works right or not, and the people maintaining KDE in Fedora are Windows and Mac fanboys, using Microsoft Edge and Apple Safari. When I tried Fedora with KDE and couldn’t get it to log out and log back in, one of them told me that they only used it on Parallels Mac, which is a PC emulator. Not actual hardware. 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇SG-1⦈_ When these people say they have “full confidence” in Wayland’s ability to replace X11 on Fedora 40 KDE, you need to take it for exactly what that’s worth. My advice is just install a distribution where it supports X11 now, the next few releases almost certainly will, and every release is supported for quite a while. It’s possible that Wayland will be “inevitable”, but based on what I’ve seen you want as many trouble-free years with X11 as you can get, so that maybe some of these Wayland problems actually get fixed before X11 is removed from the software itself. Fedora 40 doesn’t have to be the future of “Linux” distributions. If they’re getting this annoyed by having to have an X11 session that the users know to use if they don’t want their desktop to crash and burn all the time, consider that they might just give up and drop all the desktop environments that haven’t been ported to Wayland at all. At some point, I would say, they’re going to give up and only have two desktops left in Fedora. Then maybe just GNOME after that. After all, with IBM “getting_tired_of_compiling_Webkit“, and LibreOffice, and dozens_of_other_small_packages that desktop users need, in general, why should entire desktop environments be spared? Fedora is being “cleaned out” to only the rafters. 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═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at http://techrights.org/2023/09/17/meme-attacking-your-colleagues/#comments Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2023/09/17/meme-attacking-your-colleagues/ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 09.17.23⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ [Meme]_Attacking_Your_Colleagues_and_Calling_Them_‘Rape_Apologists’_(They’re Not)_Gives_You_‘Sadness’_and_an_‘Emotional_Rollercoaster’⠀✐ Posted in Deception, Free/Libre_Software, Google, Kernel at 1:33 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇Bad_Matthew_J_Garrett_Axe_Throwing:_I_attack_my_colleagues at_Google,_slandering_them_online;_Then_I_wonder_why_my_career_is_over⦈_ 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇Matthew_J_Garrett's_Ted_Tso_slander⦈_ Summary: Matthew_J_Garrett, who attacked_BSD_and_GNU/Linux_users, also attacked his colleagues at Google (among many other people); that basically ended his professional life 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 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Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Operation_Mole_—_Part_IX_—_Hobby_or_Personal_Gain_Foreseen_(Reward_for Attacking_Free_Software)?⠀✐ Posted in Deception, Free/Libre_Software, Microsoft at 1:13 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz Series parts: 1. Operation_Mole_—_Part_I_—_The_Person_Working_to_Kill_GNU_and_to_Kill Linux_From_the_Inside 2. Operation_Mole_—_Part_II_—_The_Evolution_of_Matthew_J_Garrett’s_Vast_Army of_Online_Sockpuppets,_Hiding_Criminal_Activities_Behind_the_Tor_Network 3. Operation_Mole_—_Part_III_—_Sabotaging_Communities_and_Defaming_People, Just_Like_the_Sabotage_of_Linux_and_Deliberate_Distortion_of_‘Security’_ (Giving_Control_to_Microsoft) 4. Operation_Mole_—_Part_IV_—_Does_Matthew_J._Garrett’s_Antisemitism_Tell_Us Anything_About_His_Motivation_in_Trying_to_Cancel_Richard_Stallman? 5. Operation_Mole_—_Part_V_—_The_Fall_of_a_Man_is_a_Woman_(Matthew_J_Garrett Foolishly_Unmasks_Himself,_Tying_Himself_to_Crimes) 6. Operation_Mole_—_Part_VI_—_The_Same_Criminals_Who_Have_Abused_Techrights Also_Admit_Doing_This_to_Richard_Stallman_and_the_FSF_(Even_Right_Now); There_Are_Connections_to_Microsoft,_Too 7. Operation_Mole_—_Part_VII_—_From_‘Be_Nice!’_to_Threats_of_Violence 8. Operation_Mole_—_Part_VIII_—_Even_Libera.Chat_Has_Gotten_Sick_of_the Illegal_Behaviour_of_‘Team_Axe’_(Microsoft_Boosters_K-Lined_Last_Night) 9. YOU ARE HERE ☞ Hobby or Personal Gain Foreseen (Reward for Attacking Free Software)? Video_download_link | md5sum c2b1d177beccd6f6b4d09654bcd94922 Dissecting Online Abuse Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 4.0 http://techrights.org/videos/troll-army-online.webm Summary: The symptomatic attacks on the Free software community reveal a much broader pattern of bottom-feeding, fabrication, impersonation, and slander (typically piggybacking the rogue, fact-free nature of social control media for brigading, blackmailing, and lynch-mobs/’cancel mobs’); if it’s done for personal gain at some company, then the company too can be held legally accountable (but the connections are intentionally blurred) TODAY we release another new video in a series that we started_back_in_July. A lot has happened since then. The series will last until next year and will not be limited to Matthew_J_Garrett and his flunkies, who attack_BSD_and_GNU/Linux users from the inside. Garrett is doing this even today. He is attacking RMS again, so Mr._Oliva_must_have_struck_a_nerve. To Garrett, every man is a rapist. If not rapist, rape apologist. If not that, “justifying” rape. The mind of a sick, perverted, horny man. Projecting, as usual. But the toadies_or flunkies of Garrett are even more rude and crude. They literally create entire blogs that are 100% fabrications by which to demonise people, yours truly included. I speak about this in the video above. Those trolling_tactics (it’s an understatement to call them “trolling”) will be further elaborated upon by my wife when she publishes her next part. We’ve seen those in their corporate-led form in the past, e.g. in the Linux_Foundation (LF). “They literally create entire blogs that are 100% fabrications by which to demonise people, yours truly included.”As one reader of ours recently noted, a lot of new or casual readers might not realise that the LF does not promote Linux but instead promotes its members’ corporate interests within the kernel as a project. Reminders of that are needed at intervals. We’ll casually cover LF affairs. It is symptomatic. People forget (or wish to ignore) the fact that much of Microsoft’s boosting and attacks on FOSS are done by shills and AstroTurfers, our reader noted. “Microsoft no longer hires them directly but maintains enough distance for plausible deniability.” “The really disturbing (or disturbed) ones work for Microsoft and pay out of their own pockets,” the reader concluded, alluding to Garrett, Miguel_de_Icaza and others. Actually, Miguel de Icaza became a millionaire two decades ago by attacking the Free software community and, unlike Garrett, he does not live in some forest without running water. Well, they profited or gained financially from serving Microsoft, but those attacks on the community took their toll on the mind (de Icaza disappeared after we had exposed a scandal implicating two close friends of his and Garrett keeps taunting us while admitting publicly that he has suffered burnout for 3 years already). Being vehemently disliked by a community of volunteers (who do all this for altruism, not 6-figure salaries) is no badge of honour. It begets guilt. Garrett already ponders going back to Ireland and ponders aloud what would have happened if he just stayed in biology, mutilating the bodies of pregnant animals (as he admits he did). You know what authorities say: based on public records, mass murderers typically precede the killing sprees by torturing (sometimes to death) animals. It’s a psychological thing. Don’t take the "axe" and "knife" references as mere jokes. We certainly don’t. “You know what authorities say: based on public records, mass murderers typically precede the killing sprees by torturing (sometimes to death) animals.”On a more positive note, since the doxing by the Microsofters this site has_grown_a_lot and the attacks on the site are backfiring_or_hitting_back like_a_boomerang. This morning I assessed the now-offline defamation against me, based on copies I had saved (backups made to disk) in case I take legal action. Thankfully it seems like almost every harassment account or blog used against me got terminated (even without me asking). From what we can gather, the moderators apparently have a pretty good understanding of what’s going on and are sympathetic towards me. They call that a campaign of harassment and remove the offending (fabrications) pages. The offenders also get_banned completely_(for_impersonation_and_extremism). █ ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 1123 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at http://techrights.org/2023/09/17/promising-topics-to-explore/#comments Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2023/09/17/promising-topics-to-explore/ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 09.17.23⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Another_Record_Month_and_an_Outlook_(Positive_Future,_Promising_Topics_to Explore)⠀✐ Posted in Site_News at 4:11 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz Video_download_link | md5sum 3517eaad2c9c06d137a299083637a5c2 Not Just the Web Anymore Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 4.0 http://techrights.org/videos/techrights-scope-and-protocols.webm Summary: For the coming decade (or longer) we envision the site branching out to more protocols where is can reach more people; we’ve been laying the ground for this since 2020 and we’re reaping the benefits THE video above speaks of what we’ve accomplished over the past year. Productivity shot up, morale improved, and we now have more authors in the site, which is a lot more than a site. As I noted in my personal site, “this past week in Techrights 4 million requests (hits) were served over HTTP/S and since the start of this month almost 400,000 requests were served over Gemini. IPFS does about 40 GB of traffic per day, circulating Techrights content in a peer-to-peer fashion.” While the EPO_articles have been exceptionally popular (we’re told almost everyone at the EPO reads them, not counting people who interact with the EPO or are stakeholders in the outcome) we’ve mostly reverted back to the topics of GNU/Linux and Software Freedom. We still write about patents, but less frequently (this month we caught some good news from Canada, which in effect ‘banned’ software patents). “We still write about patents, but less frequently (this month we caught some good news from Canada, which in effect ‘banned’ software patents).”This month we expect to post around 400 blog posts for the third month in a row. Those posts are then mirrored across to P2P and hosted-from-home Gemini. I still sleep as little as I did before I left my job and I use the time available to research stories, write posts, and record videos (usually in batches because it’s more efficient this way). This month I got ‘military cut’ (buzz cut) and while it’s practical (saves time) I don’t like the looks of it and I’ll let it grow back. I hate it as much as I did 14 years ago when I last tried it, but it’s pragmatic if efficiency is the goal. A lot of the above (video) may be rather personal, but by extension there’s a lot to be said about the site, which will turn 17 in less than a couple of months. As I put it in my personal site, “Techrights has grown not only on the Web. It is growing outside the Web and this is very important because this means the site’s relevance isn’t tried to the relevance of the Web itself.” █ ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 1193 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at http://techrights.org/2023/09/17/spying-and-profiling/#comments Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2023/09/17/spying-and-profiling/ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 09.17.23⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Reddit_and_the_‘Modern’_Web_Are_Spying_and_Profiling_(Plus_Censorship) Engines⠀✐ Posted in Deception at 12:15 am by Guest Editorial Team Reprinted with permission from Ryan_Farmer. Reddit Implements a Social Credit Score Which Only Administrators Can See. Reddit_has_implemented_a_new_Social_Credit_Score. It is being lampooned on Lemmy, a “federated” Reddit clone that is only truly improved in the sense that it is not a Chrome App that spies on the user. When I was banned from most of Reddit, I had a “karma” of over 20,000 which means most users found me incredibly insightful. The people doing the banning are toxic, and in the case of /r/Linux, they are puppets of Microsoft. I wonder how long the Social Credit Score has actually been around before they admitted to it. There’s almost no actual discussion on Reddit anymore because they’ve terrified people into this self policing or banned or driven off all the normal people with punishment for the moderators just not liking them. Now all they have left are subreddits filled with pornography. Apparently this is fine. People spreading their bare ass cheeks in an entire subreddit is fine, but making a joke about Microsoft isn’t. If you’re still using this thing, why? I’ve been lurking on Lemmy and it strikes me that while it has many of the same problems, it does not appear quite as utterly toxic as Reddit. Although you’d have to try hard. They’ve turned Reddit into something that’s not even the Web anymore. It’s a Chrome Appthat pops up QR codes so you can “anonymously” browse pornography, you see, only with their official appthatcontacts dozens of ad companies and spyware servers. Since Infinity, a Free Software program, stopped working due to the API changes, whenever I go to look at something on Reddit it’s in a Gopher proxy. (gopher://gopherddit.com/) If I want to view an image, it goes directly to a jpeg file instead of popping up this Chrome app garbage on Reddit’s site. Chrome is being built to destroy the Web and force people into surveillance Capitalism. It’s watching you. Every single site you load. You’d have to be nuts to use Chrome. Of course a lot of people are not capable of thinking about it in this sense because they’ve been taught to value convenience instead of Freedom and what’s best for them in the long run. But Reddit’s app is the same thing. Most phone apps that are not from F-Droid are doing a lot of bad things to you. According to Privacy_Tests, the two worst desktop Web browsers to use are Chrome and Edge, which is just a version of Chrome from Microsoft. The two best are Brave and LibreWolf. While this only counts the level of protection from Web sites, Chrome and Edge have a lot of spyware at the application level, and so does Firefox. Using adtech browsers like Chrome, Edge, and Firefox, is not a great idea. When you go and look at Private Mode, Chrome and Edge don’t get much better than they are in the normal mode. When you look at Android browsers, DuckDuckGo is actually much worse than Google Chrome for Android. 😛 DuckDuckGo is a “branding condom” for Microsoft Bing. I was reading Jamie Zawinski’s blog because I was bored out of my mind today. One of his commenters was defending that DuckDuckGo used “hundreds and hundreds of sources”. Curiously, if you do a search on DuckDuckGo and the same search on Bing, basically they’re 100% identical. Hundreds and hundreds of Bing. 😉 But Social Credit Scores. Yeah, that thing you’re always hearing about those “Nasty Red Chinese” having? Yeah, the US has them and just outsourced this to Big Tech companies. You have Social Credit Scores, and they just won’t tell YOU what it is, or how they’re using it to discriminate against you. You have, probably as many of them as products that track you. Reddit is just a very small turd in this punch bowl. Google is a bigger one, so is Microsoft. Every time you slide your credit card. Every time you transmit a fast food order with an app or save 10 cents a gallon on gas. █ ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 1363 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐋𝐄 ═════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ (ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at http://techrights.org/2023/09/17/webp-images-and-webp-swpats/#comments Gemini version at gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2023/09/17/webp-images-and-webp-swpats/ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 09.17.23⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Google_Tricking_Users_Into_Downloading_WebP_Images_While_WebP_Format_is Legally_Hazardous_and_Also_a_Hazard_for_Computer_Security⠀✐ Posted in Deception, Google, Law, Microsoft, Patents, Security at 4:56 am by Guest Editorial Team Reprinted with permission from Ryan_Farmer. 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴_🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽_⦇Standards_joke⦈_ (Credit: xkcd) Google Tricking Users to Download WebP Images. WebP is Hazardous Legally and for Computer Security. Some months back, Reddit handed me some WebP files, and I didn’t realize it at the time. Months later, the problem has grown much worse and has apparently been spreading to other sites, due to caching servers. This is worth mentioning since this week, Google’s WebP library had an emergency_zero_day_vulnerability that enabled malicious code execution. How serious was this emergency? Even Microsoft patched_Edge_on_Windows_7. This library is in Web browsers, photo manipulation tools, all sorts of things, and would not be contained even by the best sandbox, or even disabling active content in the Web browsers! But wait, there’s more. WebP is not widely used, and there are many articles like_this_one_from LifeHacker which call WebP a pesky annoyance and show people how to convert them back to a legitimate image format. WebP isn’t “better” enough in a compression efficacy sense to replace 1992 JPEG files. So almost everyone uses the 1992 JPEG standard to create image files. They work everywhere, they’re fine. Why not? Even though JPEG was finalized as a standard in 1992, and most of the patents went back to 1986, there were still patent lawsuits involving it in the courts, until 2013! In just one example I found on Wikipedia, a patent troll claiming to have just one patent that JPEG infringed on extracted $104 million from nearly three dozen companies it shook down, before the patent was invalidated by victims who refused to pay and counter-sued, with the assistance of the JPEG Committee. If the legal nightmare from software patents can go on for that long, and people who didn’t even invent the standard can sue you, why is WebM or AVIF (which is newer yet, and based off the AV1 video codec), “really safe” in the legal sense? When you ask how Google or the “Alliance for Open Media” can guarantee that their redundant formats really are royalty-free, they just stop answering questions and disappear. So now, thanks to Google and AOM, we have the proliferation of not just one, but two new formats that are not clearly “better” in the sense that anyone is using them willingly, and are dangerous in the legal and computer security sense of the word, and will be for decades. Potentially, the patent lawsuits for AVIF will be finished in the 2040s, but by then, Google (if they’re still around) will have released at least five more pointless replacements for JPEG files. Since Chrome will put it in and Google will deal with the lawsuits later, it will become a “standard” in the sense that everyone else with Web browsing software has to put it in to be compatible with Chrome and also risk being sued. Then everyone hosting the files on their Web site too. Nothing has replaced JPEG for the same reason people still make new MP3 files. Are they ideal? No. But they were the first thing that were good enough to do the job, they’re legally safe, and the code has been around long enough to have been debugged and made predictable. And they occupy a lot of mindshare. Modern optimized JPEG encoders are quite good. It is, basically the image format of the Web and a lot of work has been put into giving people good encoders and working the bugs out of the decoders and making the decoders incredibly fast! On basically any hardware! If I make a new JPEG using an optimized encoder on my laptop right now, you could open it on Windows 3.1. If you wanted to. That’s an amazing amount of backward compatibility. It’s in all software that handles images! And, I don’t have to explain to mother what to do with one. So what does Google do to force people to use it? They TRICK them! When you use Chrome to download an image file, caching servers will send it a WebP because it’s faster and Chrome advertises compatibility with it. Usually, these are transcoded from JPEGs that someone uploaded to the server, which is not a lossless process, into an even worse-looking WebM file that less software is compatible with. I’ve caught Reddit doing this when I’m using a Chromium browser, but when I’m using SeaMonkey it sends me the JPEG. Firefox, it varies. Probably the long term goal is that there will be so many of the damned things from people re-uploading the WebP that it will put pressure on anyone holding out on supporting the format. Another possibility is that they don’t think you should be saving the images in the first place, so they’ll spit on you by handing you a degraded copy of the JPEG in some weird format. It’s likely to happen with AVIF too. Google can’t make a standard because, apparently, they can’t even decide what covers their own use case. The anti-trust case against Google should be looking at this. Impressively, thanks to the fact that you could embed a WebP on Gemini as an object, if you could trick the user into displaying it, you could have Web-like vulnerability over Gemini thanks to Google’s stupid image format. Codecs are very dangerous and having all of these codecs being added when they all basically do the same thing is making computing more hazardous. Google has a long history of breaking the law and basically daring people to sue them. It happened with their non-conformant Apache “Harmony” Java implementation, due to their rabid hatred of the GNU GPL (which is ironically now PROTECTING GOOGLE from further aggression from Oracle!) They did it again with the original AAC encoder for Android. They paid a vendor to “steal” 3GPP source code and compile it, and FhG came knocking, which is why we have fdk-aac. Google’s method of break the law and dare people to sue risks bringing modern computing down on top of us sometimes, like when Oracle sued and claimed APIs (in this case, Java), cold be copyrighted. Well, say goodbye to almost anything you could write a computer program in if that argument flew. All so Google could use a bug-riddled and abandoned Apache “Java”. And it’s happening all over again with video and image codecs. There is, of course, another cost to having multiple codecs that do the same thing. Bloat. Good old fashioned software bloat. Google has the resources to sit there and compile Chrome as many times as they want to. Compiling Chromium is beyond the capability of the average computer user at this point. There’s so much junk and garbage in there that the process takes forever and uses more memory than most computers even come with, ideally. Just 10 years ago, you could compile most rendering engines on a laptop. Today, Webkit is about the only one left where you can do it, or where it’s even all written in the same computer language. Strangely, I recently wrote an article mocking_IBM_for_claiming_that_compiling Webkit_is_hard. They compile all the junk in Firefox and Chromium multiple times a day and nobody bats an eyelash. Whether Google uses “open” media codecs or not doesn’t actually help you. With Widevine and WEI, it’s clear that at some point even YouTube videos will be digitally encumbered. All of them. We face a future of the entire Web going “dark” and then it won’t really matter to the user what video “format” it’s in unless it’s “pirated”. At some point, Web images might be like this too. What did Mozilla get for selling us out? Is thirty pieces of silver still the going rate? Netflix runs tests on codecs for the same reason Google does. It wants to keep its own bandwidth costs down, and nothing else. Since users don’t get a copy of anything they watch on Netflix, the format it is in on the server is wholly irrelevant. Basically what these formats are promoted as, is a way for caching servers to spew files at you cheaply, and it hardly matters if the quality is good or not, or what the licensing of the codec is. How will a BSD license help you on the codec if it’s wrapped in DRM? What does matter at the codec level, for you, is that when it comes through on your end, you now have dozens of times as many software vulnerabilities. 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They became roommates, the story goes, when our friend answered a classified ad for a roommate that ended, “must like beer.” He responded back with, “Hey, I’m looking for a place to live, and I like to drink beer.” And this is how he became roommates with the guy that became known as Spaghetti Pete. Spaghetti Pete is the sort of guy who likes to have a good time: when he’s not working, he’s either at a party, or throwing a party. You’ll always be offered a beer. And every now and then Spaghetti Pete gets ideas about something that sounds like fun. # ⚓ where’s_bartender⠀⇛ I’ve ordered a tea 6 months ago and still didn’t get it. Have you seen ~bartender recently? Is he doing okay? If he’s on a vacation, then we need to urgently find a replacement. What kind of pub is it without the most important person, without whom people cannot get drunk? # ⚓ TV_Showcase:_The_Rehearsal⠀⇛ The “mockumentary” has held a place in my heart since “Borat” (2006). A mockumentary is a humorous production in the style of a documentary; “real life” participants interact with, usually, a very smart comedian playing a character. As a format it goes places nobody else can go, gently—or sometimes not so gently—poking fun at life with deadpan humour that I find immensely entertaining. More recently the UK series “Cunk on Earth” took a few episodes for me to get into, but left me convinced that the production is a work of genius. It’s worth watching the whole thing just for one scene about nuclear weapons—and ABBA. o § Politics and World Events⠀➾ # ⚓ Beangate⠀⇛ The trick here is to make something old sound like a modern political scandal. Anyways, the foundation of modern Western mathematics is (or was) wrapped up with a number of, uh, strange views. The rational mind may put these rules down as “woo” or “humbug”, but here we are. Here’s a sample. o § Science⠀➾ # ⚓ stream_5⠀⇛ i think there is something important even though it seems like there’s not. it seems like everything is either important or unimportant, but if everything is equally important, then it also feels like every thing must be unimportant. I think there is a lot of beauty in the subtlety of sometimes adding line breaks and capital letters at interesting times and places to tweets and like that things. I think it matters to every character. every char. characters as people as letters and numbers and symbols inside of strings. what beauty what love what mystery is encoded in the strings of us our DNA or our actions logged in coordinate maps through all time through all places. o § Technology and Free Software⠀➾ # ⚓ Ennui_Institute⠀⇛ I’ve been thinking about smol.pub all day so figured I’d give it a go. “For the price of a cup of coffee,” and cetera. I’ve spent the bulk of my life, adult and otherwise, On Line and sweet peaches does it suck for the most part these days, a few small circles of community notwithstanding (1). I’m enamored with the idea of a simple posting platform, and have experimented a little bit with markdown-generated static sites (2) for accessible text-first tabletop role play adventure writing, which I’ve enjoyed, but I want to go simpler. This dovetails with a vague plan to Raspberry Pi Zero myself a markdown editor hobby PC, one which should really sputter under modern web conditions by design. # ⚓ ChatGPT_Writing_Gamebooks_and_Pangamebook_1.6.0⠀⇛ The new algorithm for shuffling gamebooks that I implemented yesterday caused all sorts of bugs in Pangamebook. It also revealed one or two old bugs I just had not noticed before. # ⚓ Kvetching_–_Tech_–_The_Machine_Stops⠀⇛ Once a month or three I do Fediverse. Tried to-day. Within 7 minutes, I was physically ill, my gut contorted, my shoulders tense. And this, not from reading bad news or uncouth disagreement. No, sick just from the biotic effect of the technology, even with pleasant pictures of pixelated kittens and amiable company. Within 20, I was writing irate re- replies to autie reply guys. 25 minutes later, I shut it all down with a sigh of relief. # ⚓ Nothing_much_…⠀⇛ … to say today. It’s been a great weekend after a couple of quite crunchy weeks, but now I’m staring down the barrel of another few weeks of serious knuckle-down. All good, can’t complain, I love my job! But I’m looking forward to things easing off a bit at some point. In the spirit of directionless rambling, I noticed just this afternoon that I’d received an email from the FSF advertising the upcoming 40th birthday of the GNU project. Amazing that it’s been that long! Amazing also, that one of the two events they’re hosting will be in Switzerland, and just a bit over an hour’s train journey from where I live. There’s even to be an RMS keynote! # § Internet/Gemini⠀➾ # ⚓ AuraGem_Music_Bugfix⠀⇛ The bandwidth throttling of music files was on a global basis by accident, which meant that it was throttling bandwidth for the sum of the bandwidth of all connections. Now bandwidth throttling happens per connection, which means there can be concurrent connections of 320 kbps streams running. # ⚓ Language_log_no_word_for_x_archive⠀⇛ A list of articles documenting claims that some language has some amount of words for some concept. # ⚓ slow_updates⠀⇛ I’ve been thinking it’s painful to update the main page and I’m pretty slow to push updates. I’m imagining I can solve this with a new tag, that when present, will automatically get added to the index and I can grab all the files that match this year. Or maybe the last N posts… I’ll try for the current year to begin with. =============================================================================== * Gemini_(Primer) links can be opened using Gemini_software. It’s like the World Wide Web but a lot lighter. ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 1894 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐃𝐀𝐈𝐋𝐘 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒 ═════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 09.17.23⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Links_17/09/2023:_Kraft_1.1_Released,_Nextcloud_Taking_on_Microsoft⠀✐ Posted in News_Roundup at 11:07 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇GNOME bluefish⦈ § Contents⠀➾ * GNU/Linux o Server o Audiocasts/Shows o Instructionals/Technical o Games o Desktop_Environments/WMs # K_Desktop_Environment/KDE_SC/Qt * Distributions_and_Operating_Systems o BSD o Debian_Family o Canonical/Ubuntu_Family o Devices/Embedded o Open_Hardware/Modding o Mobile_Systems/Mobile_Applications * Free,_Libre,_and_Open_Source_Software o Events o Web_Browsers/Web_Servers o Education o Programming/Development # Python # Shell/Bash/Zsh/Ksh * § GNU/Linux⠀➾ o ⚓ Dedoimedo ☛ Slimbook_Executive,_long-term_usage_report_1⠀⇛ I am very happy with the laptop. Buying a new machine is always a gamble, even more so if you go with Linux as your operating system of choice. But the Executive does a fantastic job. Yes, there were some problems and niggles, mostly on the software side. I hope they will remain in the past, and will not resurface at some point in the future. My productivity is high, the keyboard is excellent (even with the weird power button), the heating can be a little annoying, but it’s nothing major, and the battery delivers a mighty punch. The Plasma desktop is a joy of sleek elegance and extreme yet understated customization, which never gets in your face if you don’t want it to, a common (pet) peeve voiced by people who don’t really use Plasma as their daily driver. Anyway, all in all, pretty jolly for the first month, the first report. Coincidentally, the results with this machine also give me extra confidence that I can fully and totally ditch Windows in the next year or so, save perhaps an odd, locked-down ’10 box used purely for gaming. Well, see you around for more Linux fun! [...] Yo yo yo, here we are. It’s now been roughly a month and change since I first got me hands on the lovely and sleek Slimbook Executive, my new productivity laptop running Kubuntu 22.04 LTS. The initial impression has been amazing, on all fronts. But using a machine for a day or two ain’t the same as using it fo r a month or two. Well, in much the same fashion I did with the previous productivity machine, the Slimbook Pro2, we’re gonna have a series of “combat” reports, which document the everyday usage, the niggles, the problems, all the grueling details of a super-long-term hardware & software review. Over roughly five years of non-stop usage, I wrote some fourteen articles about the Pro2, the unexpected but successful battery replacement, and we shall yet continue that saga, as the laptop lives on. Now, let us focus on the Executive and see what it does for us. Begin. o ⚓ Geeky Gadgets ☛ ClockworkPi_uConsole_Linux_handheld_PC_from $139⠀⇛ The uConsole is the latest offering from ClockworkPi, a company known for their innovative game shell and dev term handheld gaming uConsoles. This new kit provides everything necessary to assemble the device, with the exception of the 18650 batteries. The uConsole is powered by a Raspberry Pi CM4, a choice made for its compatibility with ongoing community development. This compatibility ensures that the uConsole remains up-to- date and relevant in the fast-paced world of gaming technology. This do-it-yourself (DIY) Linux-powered handheld device doubles as a PC, game console, development unit, terminal emulator, and much more. It’s a fascinating piece of technology that has caught the attention of gaming enthusiasts and tech aficionados alike. The ClockworkPi uConsole is a unique and versatile handheld device that offers a range of features and capabilities. Its high build quality, easy assembly, and compatibility with various operating systems make it a standout in the world of handheld gaming technology. Whether you’re a Linux enthusiast or developer, the uConsole handheld PC is worth exploring over on the official website. o § Server⠀➾ # ⚓ Oracle_CloudWorld_Session_Preview_Video:_LRN2540_–_Linux internals_for_developers!⠀⇛ Quick anticipation of the Oracle Cloud World session going to cover “Linux Internals for Developers: Tips and Tricks to Make Your Systems Run Better”. # ⚓ SJVN ☛ Docker:_The_software_development_revolution continued⠀⇛ A decade ago, Solomon Hykes founded Docker. The container revolution this sparked is still burning bright to this day. Its trilogy of a long-running daemon process server, dockerd; application programming interfaces (API); and command line interface (CLI) client, docker, would prove the foundation for the evolution of a comprehensive set of developer tools. Today, Docker’s container- oriented development tools form a comprehensive foundation for building, packaging, shipping, and securing code. While Docker’s foundations come from container development, it offers much more than that. Docker provides a comprehensive container development stack to help teams collaborate and innovate better. Indeed, the entire cloud-native revolution couldn’t have happened without Docker. It’s the wellspring of modern cloud computing. Read on to learn how to make the most out of Docker’s developer tools by leveraging its full ecosystem of software development tools. o § Audiocasts/Shows⠀➾ # ⚓ Linux in the Ham Shack ☛ LHS_Episode_#516:_RTL-SDR_Deep Dive⠀⇛ Hello and welcome to Episode 516 of Linux in the Ham Shack. In this deep dive episode, the hosts interview Aaron, the creator and maintainer of DragonOS about software-defined radios: … [...] o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾ # ⚓ TechTarget ☛ How_to_write_an_SELinux_policy⠀⇛ The NSA created the SELinux policy to provide security to applications. SELinux policies best suit an app under specific conditions, which can be found in this tutorial. # ⚓ Niels Provos ☛ Producing_Activ8te’s_Netrunner_music_video in_Unreal_Engine⠀⇛ For Activ8te’s latest track, Netrunner, I am producing a music video that tells the story of Lucy, a netrunner who uses social engineering to extract secrets from a Militech corporate hacker. The music video is produced completely in Unreal and makes use of Unreal’s metahuman technology. Unfortunately, during the production of the video, I ran into a large number of challenges. For many of them, it was difficult to find solutions just via searching on the web or the unreal forum. I’ll explain how I solved one of the challenges: Running a cloth simulation in Houdini and bringing it back into Unreal. # § idroot⠀➾ # ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_To_Install_HandBrake_on_AlmaLinux_9⠀⇛ In this tutorial, we will show you how to install HandBrake on AlmaLinux 9. Video content has become an integral part of our digital lives, from entertainment to educational materials. However, working with video files often requires converting them to different formats. HandBrake, a versatile and open-source video transcoder, simplifies this process. # ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_To_Install_Minikube_on_AlmaLinux_9⠀⇛ In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Minikube on AlmaLinux 9. Kubernetes is a powerful container orchestration platform, and Minikube is the perfect tool to set up a local Kubernetes cluster for development and testing purposes. AlmaLinux, a community-driven Linux distribution, provides a solid foundation for this endeavor. # ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_To_Blocking_and_Unblocking_IP_Addresses on_Linux_Using_UFW⠀⇛ In today’s digitally connected world, security is paramount. Ensuring the safety of your Linux system is crucial, and one of the fundamental aspects of security is managing incoming and outgoing network traffic effectively. # ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_To_Install_Seafile_on_Debian_12⠀⇛ In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Seafile on Debian 12. Seafile is a versatile, self-hosted file synchronization and sharing solution that empowers individuals and organizations to manage their files and data efficiently. # ⚓ Own HowTo ☛ How_to_install_Raspberry_Pi_OS_with_Raspberry Pi_Imager_on_Ubuntu⠀⇛ Raspberry Pi imager is an app that allows you to install an operating system on your Raspberry PI device. # ⚓ Slurm_–_A_Free_Job_Scheduler_for_Clusters_and Supercomputers⠀⇛ Slurm which stands for (Simple Linux Utility For Resource Management) is a great, powerful, modular, and open-source workload manager and job scheduler built for Linux, # ⚓ Download_Video_&_extract_only_a_specific_Time_of_it⠀⇛ $ yt-dlp --external-downloader ffmpeg --external- downloader-args "-ss 00:05:00 -t 00:01:00" "https:/ /www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6DGABIcB3w" Because this does not download more of the video than necessary, it is faster (especially with long videos). ⚓ Installing_NASM_and_Writing_Your_First_Assembly_Program_on_Linux⠀⇛ Assembly language is one of the most popular topics in the coding community as it offers you the ability to work at a low level that is closely tied to a computer’s architecture and hardware. ⚓ HowTo Geek ☛ How_to_Run_a_Linux_Program_at_Startup_with_systemd⠀⇛ It beats launching everything manually every time your PC restarts. ⚓ HowTo Geek ☛ How_to_Use_the_xargs_Command_on_Linux⠀⇛ xargs lets you use data from one Linux command as parameters in another. ⚓ HowTo Geek ☛ How_to_Check_Which_GPU_Is_Installed_on_Linux⠀⇛ If you’re troubleshooting a Linux computer and need to identify the graphics card, you’ve come to the right place! ⚓ HowTo Geek ☛ How_to_Use_netstat_on_Linux⠀⇛ Netstat might be a little old, but it gets the job done. ⚓ HowTo Geek ☛ How_to_Use_the_find_Command_in_Linux⠀⇛ Use find with xargs and exec to take your Linux file searches to the next level. ⚓ HowTo Geek ☛ How_to_Use_the_grep_Command_on_Linux ⠀⇛ More information than you can shake a stick at. ⚓ HowTo Geek ☛ How_to_Determine_the_Current_User_Account_in_Linux⠀⇛ Finding the current user account from the Linux terminal is simple § Games⠀➾ * ⚓ Tom’s Hardware ☛ How_to_Play_AAA_Games_on_Your_Raspberry_Pi⠀⇛ Using Sunshine and Moonlight you can stream AAA games from your gaming PC to a Raspberry Pi. * ⚓ Gridloch ☛ 21st_Century_Roguelike_Pac-Man_by_Gridloch⠀⇛ Pac-Man was great in the 80s, but it doesn’t quite match up to today’s standards, so I added a couple of features that every modern game needs to have. * ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Steam_Deck_OS_3.5_now_in_Preview_with_HDR,_VRR_and display_colour_settings⠀⇛ For those who wish to test out the very latest improvements to the Steam Deck, Valve has put up Steam Deck OS 3.5 into Preview now. In the official announcement Valve go over a big list of new features and fixes, so here’s some of what’s included. * ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Grab_some_Bethesda_Favourites_from_this_Fanatical bundle⠀⇛ Fanatical continues their Bundle Fest, with even more game bundles live so you can fill up your backlog some more. Here’s a run over what they’ve added recently with the Bethesda Favourites Bundle and how they run on Steam Deck and desktop Linux. § Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾ * § K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt⠀➾ o ⚓ Kraft_Version_1.1⠀⇛ Kraft (Github) is a desktop utility making it easy to create offers and invoices quickly and beautifully in small companies. Today we are releasing Kraft Version_1.1 with significant improvements for users and the Krafts integration with latest software such as cmake and KDE. § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾ * ⚓ Barry Kauler ☛ First_experiment_creating_a_Void_rootfs⠀⇛ This is fascinating! Previously, I haven’t paid much attention to forum member’s wiak and rockedge work with KLV/FirstRib projects. That’s because I my attention was all on my own project. Then, very recently, I started to get interested in Void Linux — really like it. So, wondered about building EasyOS with Void Linux packages, and found that forum member peebee had already done a lot of work with VoidPup, with help from jamesbond, wiak and rockedge. Some scripts from VoidPup were very helpful and I soon had an EasyOS desktop running built from Void .xbps packages, and codenamed it “easyVoid”. Created a forum thread to discuss this: [...] * ⚓ Barry Kauler ☛ openssl_binary_compiled_linked_statically⠀⇛ I have a need for ‘openssl’ binary executable standalone without needing any shared libraries. Why, will be explained later. In OpenEmbedded/Yocto, took the normal openssl build recipe and hacked on it to build the statically-linked ‘openssl’ binary, compiled with musl. Wasn’t easy, took 4-5 hours, but got there. Here is the recipe, file ‘openssl-bin-static_3.0.10.bb’: [...] * ⚓ Gergely Nagy ☛ A_fork_in_the_road⠀⇛ About a month ago, I did something I haven’t done in over two decades. Something I previously thought unthinkable. After about twenty four years with Debian, I switched distributions. This is the second time in my entire life that I changed my distribution: first in 1999 from SuSE to Debian, then now, in 2023, from Debian to NixOS. A month later, it still feels weird. Not NixOS, I’m pretty comfortable with it by now. The thought. I spent more than two decades with Debian. At some point, I considered them my second family – and I still think fondly of those times. We’ve grown apart since, I hung up my hat a couple of years ago, but remained a faithful, happy user. * § BSD⠀➾ o ⚓ Wesley Moore ☛ Fixing_OpenBSD_panic_dc_atapi_start:_not_ready_in KVM⠀⇛ I tried creating an OpenBSD 7.3 virtual machine on my new computer (Arch Linux host) and the installed kept crashing with the error: [...] * § Debian Family⠀➾ o ⚓ Daniel Pocock ☛ Daniel_Pocock:_Abraham_Raji_&_Debian,_DebConf kayak_death:_search_abandoned,_evading_liability⠀⇛ News has appeared about the death of a volunteer, Abraham Raji, at DebConf23 in Kochi, India. There is a more complete report_published_by_The_Hindu. The key point to note is that the official search was abandoned and it was local residents who found the body. The report doesn’t mention whether anybody from Debian stayed to help the local people search after the fire and rescue teams went home at sunset. The location was the Nihara_Resort_&_Spa in Pizhala. * § Canonical/Ubuntu Family⠀➾ o ⚓ Alan Pope ☛ Alan_Pope:_Outdated_snap_packages⠀⇛ Canonical is planning an ‘All Snap’ desktop next year. It will likely be available side-by-side with the traditional deb-based installation we’ve been used to since 2004. If the “All Snap” or “immutable” platform is to be a success, Canonical needs to get a grip on the broken, uninstallable, insecure, and outdated snaps provided in the snap store. This is a long post, so feel free to skip to the ‘Solutions’ section for my positive thoughts. § Featured snaps The snap store has an “Editor’s Picks” section which is used to promote applications. Featured applications generally get a ton of eyeballs, and thus installs. Many people may be surprised to hear that ’normies’ often use the graphical software storefront to install applications on Ubuntu (and other distros). Not everyone uses apt or synaptic as their software store frontend. Some of those featured lists aren’t kept up to date much anymore, though. Meaning that some high-profile applications are missing out on promotion. Worse, outdated applications are being promoted. o ⚓ [Old] Ubuntu ☛ About_`apt_upgrade`_and_phased_updates⠀⇛ Phased updates are software updates that are rolled out in stages, rather than being provided to everyone at the same time. Initially, the update is provided only to a small subset of Ubuntu machines. As the update proves to be stable, it is provided to an ever-increasing number of users until everyone has received it (i.e., when the update is “fully phased”). The good news is, you don’t need to do anything about the “packages kept back” message – you can safely ignore it. Once the update has been deemed safe for release, you will receive the update automatically. * § Devices/Embedded⠀➾ o ⚓ Linux Gizmos ☛ Armbian_September_news_&_DietPi_late_August_news⠀⇛ Earlier this month, Armbian OS 23.08 (codename Colobus) was announced with support for various new devices including the Khadas VIM1S, VIM4, TI AM26, and Lichee Pi 4A. Similarly, DietPi announced support for the Orange Pi 5 Plus and enhancements for other boards. Armbian is an open-source OS based on Linux designed specifically for ARM-based single-board computers (SBCs). It provides a lightweight and customizable environment for SBCs, allowing users to run various applications and services on devices such as the Raspberry Pi, Orange Pi, etc. Refer to the Armbian GitHub to see what devices are supported. In their latest announcement, Armbian is expanding device support to include Khadas VIM1S, Khadas VIM4, TI AM26, and Lichee Pi 4A, making their platform even more versatile. o ⚓ Linux Gizmos ☛ Fanless_embedded_system_leverages_Hailo-8_AI engine⠀⇛ * § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾ o ⚓ CNX Software ☛ Review_of_CM4_XGO_Lite_–_A_Raspberry_Pi_CM4_based smart_robot_dog_with_a_robotic_arm⠀⇛ The CM4 XGO Lite is a smart robot dog based on Raspberry Pi CM4 system-on-module and designed to learn to program using Blockly, Python, and ROS. This four-legged robot also happens to feature a 3-joint robot arm and a robot gripper installed on the back that can pick up light objects. The Raspberry Pi CM4 module drives the LCD screen and camera and performs AI and computer vision processing, while each joint is controlled with a servo motor, and a 6-axis tilt sensor ensures stable walking and movement. o ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Open_Source_Rover_Gets_An_Update_For_Easier_Building⠀⇛ Once upon a time, NASA-JPL put out a design for an open- source rocker-bogie rover. It was an impressive and capable thing, albeit a little expensive and difficult to build. Now, the open source community has dived in and refreshed the design, making it cheaper and more accessible than ever before. o ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Multi-Year_Doorbell_Project⠀⇛ Camera modules for the Raspberry Pi became available shortly after its release in the early ’10s. Since then there has been about a decade of projects eschewing traditional USB webcams in favor of this more affordable, versatile option. Despite the amount of time available there are still some hurdles to overcome, and [Esser50k] has some supporting software to drive a smart doorbell which helps to solve some of them. o ⚓ Old VCR ☛ The_Fossil_Wrist_PDA_becomes_a_tiny_Gopher_client_(with Overbite_Palm_0.3)⠀⇛ It turns out there’s a reason for that, and we’re going to patch the operating system so we can make the Fossil Wrist PDA into what may be the smallest (and first wrist- mounted) Gopher client. That also required an update to the Overbite Palm Gopher client (which you’ll want for your 68K Palm anyway), and then there’s the matter of the battery refusing to charge as well. And finally, we want to make all of this portable! But let’s start with the history first … o ⚓ Arduino ☛ Lab-on-a-drone_detects_and_analyzes_pollutants_from_the sky⠀⇛ Air quality concerns encompass several different pollutants and irritants. Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) were, for example, a major concern in the 20th century due to the damage they cause to the ozone layer. But not all pollutants are easy to monitor. Hydrogen sulfide, which causes irritation of the eyes, nose, and throat at low levels and much more serious symptoms at high levels, can collect in pockets. To find them, researchers from Brazil have a developed a low-cost lab-on-a-drone. o ⚓ Tom’s Hardware ☛ Raspberry_Pi_Pico_Air_Quality_Monitor_Integrates Telegram⠀⇛ There are three main aspects of air quality that the sensor is able to register. The sensor reports total volatile organic compounds (TVOC), equivalent CO2 (eCO2), and air quality index (AQI). According to Karabudak, the idea behind this project was to both monitor the air quality and raise awareness about air quality in general and how it impacts public health. o ⚓ peppe8o ☛ Hashcat_and_Raspberry_PI:_Check_your_Password_Strength or_Recover_it⠀⇛ Last Updated on 16th September 2023 by peppe8o This tutorial will show you how to install and use Hashcat with Raspberry PI computer boards. * § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾ o ⚓ Phone Arena ☛ One_of_Android_14′s_anticipated_features_is disabled_in_the_beta_builds;_you_can_enable_it_now_–_PhoneArena⠀⇛ o ⚓ Android Police ☛ It’s_time_for_Android_to_add_dyslexia-focused accessibility_options⠀⇛ o ⚓ SlashGear ☛ How_To_Invert_The_Screen_Colors_On_Your_Android Phone⠀⇛ o ⚓ Android Police ☛ How_to_change_your_text_bubble_color_on Android⠀⇛ o ⚓ Android Authority ☛ Using_microSD_cards_on_Android:_More_storage for_apps,_games,_media⠀⇛ § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾ * ⚓ Computing UK ☛ Open_source_can’t_win:_Complacency_has_its_price⠀⇛ Companies are pulling the rug out from under the communities that helped them gain popularity Red Hat, famously, had a quote attributed to Mahatma Gandhi on the walls of its offices about the fight to drive Linux and open source adoption. “First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.” While inspirational, it’s a little misleading. * ⚓ Marcin Juszkiewicz ☛ SBSA_Reference_Platform_update⠀⇛ SBSA Reference Platform (“sbsa-ref” in short) is now at version 0.3 one. Note that this is internal number. Machine name is still the same. * ⚓ Terence Eden ☛ This_blog_is_now_on_the_Fediverse!⠀⇛ This blog runs on WordPress. Thanks to the tireless work of Matthias Pfefferle, there’s now an official WordPress ActivityPub plugin. * ⚓ Linux Links ☛ Best_Free_and_Open_Source_Alternatives_to_Google_Docs Editors⠀⇛ Google Docs Editors is a freeware web-based productivity office suite within Google Drive service. What are the best open source alternatives? * ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Unity’s_New_Pricing_Plan_Unites_Everyone_Against_Unity⠀⇛ Hoo-boy, if you pay even mild attention to the video game industry, you’re already going to be aware of the complete shitshow famed game-engine Unity has on its hands right now. By way of throat-clearing, you need to know how Unity got to where it is to understand what’s happening now. * ⚓ Medevel ☛ 20_Open-source_FTP_File_Sync_and_FTP_Back_Tools⠀⇛ FTP file Sync and FTP Back Tools are software tools that enable users to synchronize and back up files using the FTP (File Transfer Protocol) protocol. * § Events⠀➾ o ⚓ Unicorn Media ☛ Nextcloud_Unveils_Hub_6:_More_than_a_FOSS Replacement_for_Microsoft_365_Business_Standard⠀⇛ New features in Nextcloud Hub 6 include optional AI features, with Nextcloud’s Ethical AI ratings which provide information on the privacy and data sovereignty implications of the various options. [...] Saturday morning at the Nextcloud Conference in Berlin, Nextcloud announced the release of Nextcloud Hub 6, which is the latest and greatest version of the company’s collaboration platform that was first released in January 2020. At the time of that first release, Hub’s distinguishing feature was its integration of the OnlyOffice productivity suite, which allowed it to compete with Office 365 and Google Docs. Since then, its capabilities have expanded greatly enough that Office 365 and Docs are now eating its proverbial dust, and with this release Hub is looking a lot like I imagine Microsoft’s SaaS platform would look if it were on steroids. o ⚓ GStreamer:_GStreamer_Conference_2023:_Full_Schedule,_Talk Abstracts_and_Speakers_Biographies_now_available⠀⇛ The GStreamer Conference team is pleased to announce that the full conference schedule including talk abstracts and speaker biographies is now available for this year’s lineup of talks and speakers, covering again an exciting range of topics! * § Web Browsers/Web Servers⠀➾ o ⚓ University of Toronto ☛ Apache’s_HTTP_Basic_Authentication_could do_with_more_logging⠀⇛ There is one useful (or even critical) piece of information that Apache does log in the standard log format, and that is whether or not the HTTP 401 was because of a lack of authorization. Both normally get HTTP 401 responses (although you can change that with AuthzSendForbiddenOnFailure and perhaps should), but they appear differently in the normal access log. If there was a successful authentication but the user was not authorized, you will see their name in the log file: [...] * § Education⠀➾ o ⚓ Rlang ☛ Introduction_to_Topic_Modelling_in_R_and_Python workshop⠀⇛ Join our workshop on Introduction to Topic Modelling in R and Python, which is a part of our workshops for Ukraine series!  [...] Description: This workshop offers an in-depth exploration of topic models, which allow extracting meaningful insights from extensive text corpora while minimizing the reliance on prior assumptions or annotated data. The workshop will start with the basics of text data preprocessing and progress to a general understanding of the underlying principles of topic modeling. It will cover a range of topic modeling techniques, such as Structural Topic Models, BiTerm, and Keyword Assisted Topic Models in R, and BERTopic in Python. We will explore the cases where each model is particularly promising. Participants will learn about the practical considerations when choosing a topic modeling algorithm, and how to apply these techniques to their own data. The lecture will be of interest to researchers and practitioners who are interested in extracting insights from large volumes of textual data, such as social media, news articles, or scientific publications. * § Programming/Development⠀➾ o ⚓ Linux Hint ☛ Tkinter_Change_Label_Text⠀⇛ The “config()” function can be applied on the label to change its text, while the “set()” is used on the StringVar variable to change Tkinter Label text. o ⚓ Zig ☛ Bounties_Damage_Open_Source_Projects⠀⇛ Please don’t use bounties to incentivize Zig development. This blog post is inspired by this GitHub issue from three days ago: Support WASIX (see also) Here are some reasons why we believe bounties are a poor form of sponsorship when it comes to software development: • Bounties foster competition at the expense of cooperation. • Bounties are an utterly simplistic way of dealing with the business management side of creating software:[...] o ⚓ [Old] PerlMonks ☛ The_SSCCE:_Short,_Self-Contained,_Correct_ (Compilable)_Example⠀⇛ If you are having a problem with some code and seeking help, preparing a Short, Self-Contained, Correct Example (SSCCE) is very useful. But what is an SSCCE? It is all in the name, really. Take a look at each part. The version prepared for others to see should be: Short (Small) – Minimise bandwidth for the example, do not bore the audience. Self-Contained – Ensure everything is included, ready to go. Correct – Copy, paste, (compile,) see is the aim. Example – Displays the problem we are trying to solve. o § Python⠀➾ # ⚓ Abhinav Upadhyay ☛ How_CPython_Implements_and_Uses_Bloom Filters_for_String_Processing⠀⇛ In our last discussion we learned all about bloom filters. It’s a unique data structure that provides membership queries in constant time while using a minimal quantity of memory. Primarily, you will find them being used in large scale and streaming applications where it is infeasible to keep all the data in memory. Examples include NoSQL databases, CDNs, load balancers, etc. However, it also has uses in some unexpected places. For instance, Python uses them in some of its string processing APIs. As string processing is one of the most common tasks in real-world code, it has to be fast. Therefore, the situations in which Python has used bloom filters and the way it has implemented them makes for an excellent case study. In this article we will examine in detail the places where CPython has used bloom filters. We will also cover the specific implementation detail of the bloom filter inside the string data structure of CPython and analyze how it works. So let’s get going! o § Shell/Bash/Zsh/Ksh⠀➾ # ⚓ Linux.org ☛ Process_Management_in_a_Terminal⠀⇛ Within a terminal you can start a process, such as updating your system packages. But what if you want to perform more tasks rather than wait for the update to finish? We can place processes in the background and let them continue to run while we run other processes in the foreground. It is possible to cancel paused processes. If needed, we can put the process back in the foreground. ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 2864 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐃𝐀𝐈𝐋𝐘 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒 ═════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 09.17.23⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Leftover_Links_17/09/2023:_Strikes_Persist⠀✐ Posted in News_Roundup at 11:04 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇GNOME bluefish⦈ § Contents⠀➾ * Leftovers o Science o Education o Hardware o Health/Nutrition/Agriculture o Proprietary/Artificial_Intelligence_(AI) o Security # Privacy/Surveillance # Confidentiality 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 Strikes o Monopolies # Patents # Copyrights * § Leftovers⠀➾ o ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Inspiration⠀⇛ While we were debating about whether it even makes any sense to reboot RadioShack, or indeed any brick-and- mortar electronics store in the modern era, Dan Maloney and I stumbled on what probably is the real source of all of our greybeard nostalgia for the store chain: inspiration. o ⚓ Hackaday ☛ [Dalibor_Farný]’s_Enormous_Nixies_Light_Up Contemporary_Art_Museum⠀⇛ Nixie tubes come in many shapes and sizes, but in only one color: the warm orange glow that makes them so desirable. They don’t usually come in large numbers, either: a typical clock has four or six; a frequency counter perhaps eight or nine. But some projects go bigger – a lot bigger in [Dalibor Farný]’s case. He built an art installation featuring more than a hundred jumbo- sized nixie tubes that make an entire wall glow orange. o ⚓ Vox ☛ Take_the_visitor’s_approach_to_exploring_your_own_city⠀⇛ Tourists often get a bad rap, but, in a broad sense, they have the right idea when it comes to venturing into new places. Given the limited nature of vacations, tourists often are urgent in their exploration. Armed with lists and tagged locations on Google Maps, travelers usually have some semblance of a plan. When it comes to our own cities and towns, we have our preferences and go-tos; we’re always on the go without room for spontaneity. Moving through our hometowns with a renewed sense of wonder and curiosity can be just as restorative as traveling to another destination — that is, if we’re able to detach for a moment from our routines. o ⚓ NYPost ☛ Missing_Van_Gogh_painting_worth_millions_returned_to museum_in_Ikea_bag⠀⇛ The return of the painting also raises a quirk in the ownership since an insurance company had already paid out for the loss and now owns the work. The Groninger Museum insisted that it would have the right of first purchase for the work. o ⚓ Thorsten Ball ☛ You_don’t_need_an_opinion⠀⇛ Turns out: no, you don’t need to have an opinion. Nobody forces you to put things into Like and Don’t-Like columns. If someone asks what you think of something you can always say you don’t know. It wasn’t long ago that I started to understand this and ever since then I have been trying to remind myself and others of it. The conversation this week made me realize that I’ve actually made some progress. o ⚓ Truthdig ☛ Short-Term_Rentals_Are_Still_Destroying Neighborhoods⠀⇛ What had once been a way for visitors to find charming, off-the-beaten-path lodgings—and a way for local property owners to make extra money with little neighborhood disruption—has become a global business dominated by corporate investors that in many places threaten the safety and character of residential neighborhoods. How short-term rentals (or STRs) fit into the local landscape varies, but it’s becoming universally accepted that, left uncontrolled, their impact can be immense. In some places, they are making rental housing so lucrative as tourist lodging that it is becoming unavailable and unaffordable to local workers, students, and other residents. Selling for higher prices, they drive up property values and neighborhood tax bills and replace families with a steady stream of strangers—whom locals see as producing more crime and less accountability than traditional renters. o ⚓ Digital Music News ☛ UK_Consumers_Affected_by_Cost_of_Living Crisis_Twice_as_Likely_to_Cut_Back_on_Food_as_Entertainment⠀⇛ A new study from research specialists Luminate shows that consumers in the UK affected by the cost of living crisis are twice as likely to cut back on food as entertainment. The study is based on a sample size of 2,000 participants and was presented at the Entertainment Retailers Association (ERA) annual conference. o § Science⠀➾ # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ The_Science_Behind_The_Majesty_Of_Dancing Raisins⠀⇛ Have you ever thrown a handful of raisins into a tub of sparkling water? Or peanuts into beer? It seems like an altogether strange thing to do, but if you’ve tried it, you’ll have seen the way the raisins dance and tumble in the fluid. As it turns out, there’s some really interesting science at play when you dive into the mechanics of it all. [Saverio Spagnolie] did just that, and even went as far as publishing a paper on the topic. # ⚓ Science Alert ☛ Neutrinos:_‘Ghost_Particles’_Can_Interact With_Light_After_All⠀⇛ When the conditions are just right. # ⚓ Reason ☛ In_South_Korea,_Robots_Are_Taking_Robots’_Jobs⠀⇛ Our robo-worker future won’t put an end to this annoying labor-policy debate. o § Education⠀➾ # ⚓ New Yorker ☛ Alumni_Success_Stories_of_Art-School Graduates⠀⇛ The sculptor Tyler Banks (’12) is getting ready for his first solo show, made possible by four years of unpaid labor at a gallery in SoHo. o § Hardware⠀➾ # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ A_Die-Cast_Car_Subframe,_Pushing_The_Limit_Too Far?⠀⇛ A piece of manufacturing news from Tesla Motors caught our eye, that Elon Musk’s car company plans to die-cast major underbody structures — in effect the chassis — for its cars. All the ingredients beloved of the popular tech press are there, a crazy new manufacturing technology coupled with the Musk pixie dust. It’s undeniably a very cool process involving a set of huge presses and advanced 3D-printing for the sand components of the mould, but is it really the breakthrough it’s depicted as? Or has the California company simply scored another PR hit? # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Spinning_CRT_Makes_A_360_Degree_Audio Oscilloscope⠀⇛ A question for you: if the cathode ray tube had never been invented, what would an oscilloscope look like? We’re not sure ourselves, but it seems like something similar to this mechanical tachyscope display might worked, at least up to a point. # ⚓ Tom’s Hardware ☛ Huawei_Says_China-Made_Chips_Must_Be_Used, Even_if_Inferior⠀⇛ Huawei’s rotating chairman defends Chinese chip production, says company has to use them no matter what. # ⚓ RFA ☛ US_House_leaders_decry_Huawei’s_new_phone⠀⇛ The chairs of four committees are among 10 lawmakers asking how Huawei and SMIC developed advanced chips. # ⚓ Tom’s Hardware ☛ China_May_Have_Unmatched_Supercomputer Abilities,_Third_Exascale_Machine_Apparently_Online⠀⇛ TOP500 Co-Founder Jack Dongarra recently commented on the sensitive geopolitical environment around the supercomputer listing and benchmarking organisation, drawing attention to potential missing data. # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Kinetic_Sculpture_Intermittently_Lights_Up_The Night⠀⇛ We absolutely love the impetus of this project, as it definitely sounds like something a Hackaday reader would go through. After finally deciding between a CNC router and a laser cutter, [Eirik Brandal] was planning to “Hello, World” the CNC with something quick and simple, like maybe a few acrylic plates with curves and some electronics. Instead, feature creep took over, “things escalated out of control”, and [Eirik] came up with this intriguing and complicated kinetic sculpture. # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Supercon_2022:_[Alex_Whittemore]_On_Treating Your_Sensor_Data_Well⠀⇛ If you build your own devices or hack on devices that someone else has built, you know the feeling of opening a serial terminal and seeing a stream of sensor data coming from your device. However, looking at scrolling numbers gets old fast, and you will soon want to visualize them and store them – which is why experienced makers tend to have a few graph-drawing and data-collecting tools handy, ready to be plugged in and launched at a moment’s notice. Well, if you don’t yet have such a tool in your arsenal, listen to this 16-minute talk by [Alex Whittemore] to learn about a whole bunch of options you might not even know you had! # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Infinite_Z-Axis_Printer_Aims_To_Print_Itself Someday⠀⇛ “The lathe is the only machine tool that can make copies of itself,” or so the saying goes. The reality is more like, “A skilled machinist can use a lathe to make many of the parts needed to assemble another lathe,” which is still saying quite a lot by is pretty far off the implication that lathes are self-replicating machines. But what about a 3D printer? Could a printer print a copy of itself? # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Backyard_LED_Sculpture_Inspired_By_Las_Vegas Sphere⠀⇛ The Las Vegas Sphere is a large building. It stands 112 meters high and 157 meters wide, and is covered in a full 54,000 square meters of LED displays. That’s a little difficult to recreate at home for the typical maker. A scaled-down version is altogether more achievable though, as demonstrated by [DrZzs & GrZzs]. o § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾ # ⚓ Malevolence_and_intent:_Two_defining_characteristics_of conspiracy_theories⠀⇛ This post is a day late because late Thursday afternoon I had an eye exam. Unfortunately, I should have thought of how painful having my pupils dilated for several hours would make trying to stare at a screen and bang out some Insolence on Thursday evening for the edification of my readers, which is why I gave up. Still, waiting for my eyes to return to normal gave me an extra day to ponder a post on Substack—where else?— that I had come across earlier in the week as a result of another post on Substack—because of course that’s where I saw it—by Dr. Paul “We Want Them Infected” Alexander entitled using his usual rambling word salad, The PLAN revealed: They are Social Darwinists: they say we deserve their digi- tatorship because we, the unfittest, are stupid enough to let them, the fittest. Solutions? I like this substack & wanted“to share; support; the way I approach other people’s work is that I find the nuggets, the truths in them, same for mine when you read my work; we sift the wheat from the chaff.” (See what I mean.) Reading Alexander’s rant and the post that inspired it, entitled The Plan Revealed, led me to contemplate just how essential the attribution of malevolence to the enemy is to a conspiracy theory. Even though the post is nearly a year old, I just had to discuss it. # ⚓ Science Alert ☛ Hormone-Disrupting_Chemical_Detected_in_90% of_Europeans,_Research_Shows⠀⇛ “A recent Horizon 2020 research initiative, HBM4EU, measured chemicals in people’s bodies in Europe and detected BPA in the urine of 92 percent of adult participants from 11 European countries,” the agency wrote in a new report. The Copenhagen-based EEA said the share of adults exceeding the recommended maximum levels ranged from 71 to 100 percent in the 11 countries studied, referring to levels outlined by the European Food Safety Agency (EFSA) in an April review. # ⚓ RFA ☛ Storm_in_a_teapot:_Climate_change_hits_ancient_art_of tea-growing⠀⇛ Drought, storms leave high-end crops parched and yellow as yields plunge. o § Proprietary/Artificial Intelligence (AI)⠀➾ # ⚓ Sam_Hartman:_AI_Safety_is_in_the_Context⠀⇛ This is part of my series exploring the connection between AI and connection_and_intimacy. This is a post about the emotional impact of our work. Sometimes being told no—being judged by our AIs—is as harmful as any toxic content. I’ll get to that in a moment. My previous work had been dealing with the smaller Llama2 models (7b and 13b). I decided to explore two things. First, how much better the creative ability of the large Llama2 70b model is. Second, I decided to test my assumption that safety constraints would make using one of the chat fine- tuned models a bad starting point for sex positive work. Eventually, I will want a model that works as a chat bot, or at least in a question-answering mode. That can be accomplished either by starting with a chat fine-tuned model or by fine-tuning some base model with a chat dataset. Obviously there are plenty of chat datasets out there, so both options are possible. # ⚓ Matt Rickard ☛ The_Age-old_Resistance_to_Generated_Code⠀⇛ Developers are right. AI-generated code isn’t as good as something you or I could write. It has bugs, often hard to find because we are giving up some of our control. Even if it’s the correct implementation, it’s one of the slower implementations. But it’s important to remember: these were the same arguments made in the 1950s through 1970s about compilers vs. assemblers. # ⚓ Futurism ☛ Elon_Musk_Stormed_Into_the_Tesla_Office_Furious That_Autopilot_Tried_to_Kill_Him⠀⇛ The scoop comes from Walter Isaacson’s new biography of the tech magnate, simply titled “Elon Musk.” Per its chapter on the launch of the driver assistance tech, Musk would learn firsthand that a curve on Interstate 405 caused Autopilot, thrown off by the road’s faded lane lines, to steer into and “almost hit” oncoming traffic. # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Coning_Cars_For_Fun_And_Non-Profit⠀⇛ Self-driving cars are being heralded as the wave of the future, but there have been many hiccups along the way. The newest is activists showing how autonomous vehicles are easy to hack with a simple traffic cone. # § Windows TCO⠀➾ # ⚓ NYPost ☛ Las_Vegas_strip_club_offers_free_lap_dances to_customers_affected_by_MGM_Resorts_cyberattack⠀⇛ One strip club in Las Vegas is offering free lap dances to customers who are impacted by a cyberattack at MGM Resorts. Larry Flynt’s Hustler Club in Las Vegas says it’s offering free luggage storage and airport pickup for people who experience delays in check-in, as well as a complimentary $1,200 platinum VIP membership and lap dances, according to TMZ. # ⚓ [Repeat] Security Week ☛ Extradited_Russian_Hacker Behind_‘NLBrute’_Malware_Pleads_Guilty⠀⇛ According to the Justice Department, Pankov made at least $350,000 from cybercrime activities between 2016 and 2019. He is believed to have developed and sold NLBrute, a tool that has been widely used by cybercriminals to obtain credentials. Pankov was charged with using NLBrute to obtain the login credentials of tens of thousands of computers located all over the world. # ⚓ [Repeat] Security Week ☛ MGM_[Crackers]_Broadening Targets,_Monetization_Strategies⠀⇛ In addition to smishing and social engineering, the group was also observed using a credential harvesting tool, thoroughly searching through a victim’s internal systems to identify valid login information, using publicly available tools to harvest credentials from internal GitHub repositories, and the open source tool MicroBurst to identify Azure credentials and secrets. o § Security⠀➾ # ⚓ Computer Weekly ☛ GitHub_fixes_race_condition_that_could have_led_to_‘repojacking’⠀⇛ A subtle flaw in how GitHub handled repository creation and user renaming could have had serious consequences for the open source community, but has now been fixed. Learn more about how it worked # ⚓ TechTarget ☛ Browser_companies_patch_critical_zero-day vulnerability⠀⇛ While attack details remain unknown, Chrome, Edge and Firefox users are being urged to update their browsers as an exploit for CVE-2023-4863 lurks in the wild. # ⚓ Computer Weekly ☛ Google,_Microsoft_and_Mozilla_push browser_updates_to_foil_zero-day⠀⇛ Google, Microsoft and Mozilla have all moved to patch a critical zero-day flaw affecting their browsers and potentially linked to the dissemination of malicious commercial spyware. # ⚓ Computing UK ☛ Zero-day_affecting_Chrome,_Firefox_and Thunderbird_patched⠀⇛ Mozilla on Tuesday patched an actively exploited zero-day bug affecting the Firefox browser and Thunderbird email client. # ⚓ The New Stack ☛ Harden_Ubuntu_Server_to_Secure_Your Container_and_Other_Deployments⠀⇛ Ubuntu Server is one of the more popular operating systems used for container deployments. # § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾ # ⚓ DaemonFC (Ryan Farmer) ☛ Reddit_Implements_a_Social Credit_Score_Which_Only_Administrators_Can_See.⠀⇛ When I was banned from most of Reddit, I had a “karma” of over 20,000 which means most users found me incredibly insightful. The people doing the banning are toxic, and in the case of /r/Linux, they are puppets of Microsoft. I wonder how long the Social Credit Score has actually been around before they admitted to it. # ⚓ Silicon Angle ☛ Ireland’s_privacy_regulator_fines TikTok_€345M_for_breaching_GDPR⠀⇛ Ireland’s privacy regulator today issued a fine of €345 million, or $367 million, to TikTok after finding that the company had breached the European Union’s GDPR regulation. TikTok has more than 130 million users in the EU. Ireland’s Data Protection Commission, or DPC, leads oversight of the company’s privacy practices within the bloc. The reason is TikTok’s EU subsidiary, TikTok Technology Ltd., is incorporated in Ireland. # ⚓ CBC ☛ TikTok_hit_with_$500M_fine_in_Europe_for_past failings_safeguarding_youth_privacy⠀⇛ News broke on Friday that Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) — the lead privacy regulator for Big Tech companies whose European headquarters are largely in Dublin — was handing TikTok a fine of 345 million euros (roughly $500 million Cdn), following a two-year investigation into its compliance with privacy rules in the latter half of 2020. # ⚓ Privacy International ☛ The_‘Identity_Crisis’_around the_world⠀⇛ On International Identity Day, we are highlighting that the technology-driven ID systems being implemented around the world are leading to new forms of surveillance and exclusion. Last September, PI and its global network of partners launched Identity Crisis – a campaign to change the narrative on identity systems. Around the world PI and our partners have seen ID systems creating and facilitating exclusion, insecurity, and surveillance. # ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Spies,_hackers,_informants: how_China_snoops_on_the_West⠀⇛ British authorities have arrested a man who reportedly spied for China at the heart of the government in London, sparking fresh fears over how Beijing gathers intelligence. # § Confidentiality⠀➾ # ⚓ Silicon Angle ☛ When_data_becomes_dangerous,_and_what to_do_about_it⠀⇛ Casmer spoke with theCUBE industry analyst Lisa Martin at the “Cybersecurity” AWS Startup Showcase event, during an exclusive broadcast on theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio. They dove deep into how data becomes dangerous and discussed how to ensure data is safe to use. (* Disclosure below.) o § Defence/Aggression⠀➾ # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Iran_Withdraws_Designation_Of_Three_IAEA_Nuclear Inspectors_In_Move_Condemned_By_Watchdog⠀⇛ The statement demanded that Tehran disclose the current location of nuclear materials from former secret facilities and sought clarification on other ambiguities about Iran’s uranium stockpile. # ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ UN_nuclear_agency_slams_Iran_for barring_‘several’_inspectors_from_monitoring_its_program⠀⇛ The U.N. nuclear watchdog has harshly criticized Iran for effectively barring several of its most experienced inspectors from monitoring the country’s disputed program. The International Atomic Energy Agency is tasked with monitoring a nuclear program that Western nations have long suspected is aimed at eventually developing a nuclear weapon. Iran insists the program is peaceful. Rafael Mariano Grossi, the head of the IAEA, said Iran had “effectively removed about one third of the core group of the Agency’s most experienced inspectors.” Iran linked the move to what it said was an attempt by the United States and three European countries to misuse the body “for their own political purposes.” # ⚓ Meduza ☛ U.S._provides_Ukraine_with_3D_printers_to_generate spare_parts_for_military_equipment_on_battlefield⠀⇛ According to him, each printer is the size of a truck. He noted that Ukrainians were trained how to use the printers last week. # ⚓ Reason ☛ Why_President_Trump_is_an_“Officer”_who_Can_be Disqualified_From_Holding_Public_Office_Under_Section_3_of the_14th_Amendment_[Updated]⠀⇛ The absurdity is clear. If the presidency is not covered by Section 3, that means a president who engaged in insurrection or aided the “enemies of the United States” is not disqualified from future office-holding even though almost any other federal official who did the same thing would be. Surely an insurrectionist who held the highest office in the land is much more of a menace to the republic than one who was merely a low-level federal bureaucrat. It makes no sense to disqualify the latter, but not the former. Indeed, it might be more logical to penalize insurrectionists who held high office more severely than those who held lower ones. # ⚓ The North Lines IN ☛ Militancy_reviving_in_Kashmir:_JKPCC chief⠀⇛ The JKPCC president said the ground situation in the valley was different from what the BJP was projecting in the rest of the country. “They use it in other states, to make speeches, when the ground situation is different. When Article 370 was abrogated, they made it sound like Jammu and Kashmir was previously an area under Pakistan, which is totally wrong. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Pakistani_Taliban_Attempts_Land_Grab_To_Boost Insurgency_Against_Islamabad⠀⇛ Chitral, now divided into Upper and Lower Chitral districts, consists of high-altitude valleys in the Hindu Kush Mountains. It borders the eastern Afghan provinces of Kunar, Nuristan, and Badakhshan. A narrow strip of Afghan territory separates it from China and Tajikistan, which gives the region great strategic significance. # ⚓ France24 ☛ G77+China_summit_in_Cuba_calls_on_Global_South to_‘change_the_rules_of_the_game’⠀⇛ The G77+China, a group of developing and emerging countries representing 80 percent of the world’s population, kicked off a summit in Cuba Friday with a call to “change the rules of the game” of the global order. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ U.S._Military_Orders_New_Interviews_On_Deadly_2021 Afghan_Airport_Attack_As_Criticism_Persists⠀⇛ The Pentagon’s Central Command has ordered interviews of roughly two dozen more service members who were at the Kabul airport when suicide bombers attacked during U.S. forces’ chaotic Afghanistan withdrawal, as criticism persists that the deadly assault could have been stopped. # § Russia, Belarus, and War in Ukraine⠀➾ # ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ North_Korean_arms_for_Russia probably_wouldn’t_make_a_big_difference_in_the_Ukraine war,_Milley_says⠀⇛ The top American military officer says North Korea may be able to boost Russia’s supply of artillery munitions for the war in Ukraine. But Army Gen. Mark Milley says that’s not likely to make a big difference. He made the comments as he arrived in Norway for NATO meetings that began Saturday and will focus in part on the conflict. Milley said the recent meeting in Russia between North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and Russian President Vladimir Putin will probably lead North Korea to provide Soviet-era 152 mm artillery rounds to Moscow. Milley said that while he doesn’t want to play down the weapons assistance too much, “I doubt that it would be decisive.” # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Putin_reiterates_openness_to_negotiations_on Ukraine,_telling_Ukrainian_side_it_must_say_it’s_ready —_Meduza⠀⇛ # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Poland_bans_entry_for_cars_with_Russian license_plates_—_Meduza⠀⇛ # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Ukrainian_media_posts_image_which_appears_to show_Russian_missile_carrier_being_towed_in_Black_Sea following_naval_drone_attack_—_Meduza⠀⇛ # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Russian-appointed_authorities_in_annexed Crimea_auction_off_nationalized_Ukrainian_properties_— Meduza⠀⇛ # ⚓ RFERL ☛ North_Korea’s_Kim_Looks_At_Nuclear-Capable Bombers_And_Hypersonic_Missiles_In_Russia⠀⇛ North Korean leader Kim Jong Un inspected Russian nuclear-capable strategic bombers and hypersonic Kinzhal missiles on September 16, accompanied by President Vladimir Putin’s defense minister. # ⚓ France24 ☛ First_cargo_ships_sail_to_Ukraine_after grain_deal_collapse,_Kyiv_says⠀⇛ The first cargo ships have sailed to Ukraine to load grain following the collapse of a deal with Russia, Ukrainian deputy PM said on Saturday. Earlier, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un inspected Russian nuclear-capable bombers and other warplanes in Russia’s Far East. Follow our live blog for all the latest developments on the war in Ukraine. Read our live blog to see how all the day’s events unfolded. All times are Paris time (GMT+2). # ⚓ LRT ☛ Is_Armenia_turning_to_the_West?⠀⇛ For centuries, Armenians have had a tight relationship with Russia. But those ties have come under strain over the past year and a half as Russia, bogged down in Ukraine, has largely stood aside as its Armenian ally faces ever increasing pressure from Azerbaijan. Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL), partners of LRT English, report. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Romanian_Farmers_Ask_Government_To_Continue Ban_On_Ukrainian_Grain_Products⠀⇛ A farmers’ association in Romania has asked the government to continue a ban on Ukrainian grain and related products following a decision by the European Commission to lift restrictions, a move that would mirror actions announced by Poland, Slovakia, and Hungary. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ North_Macedonia_Expels_Three_Additional Russian_Diplomats_In_Third_Such_Move_Since_Ukraine Invasion⠀⇛ North Macedonia’s Foreign Ministry has ordered the expulsion of three Russian diplomats, the third such move since Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Two_Ships_Headed_To_Ukraine’s_Black_Sea_Ports To_Load_Grain,_Says_Official⠀⇛ Two cargo vessels were headed to Ukrainian ports on September 16, the first to use a temporary corridor to sail into Black Sea ports and load grain for African and Asian markets, Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Oleksandr Kubrakov told Reuters. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Kyiv_Presses_Offensive_In_South,_East_As Zelenskiy_Thanks_Allies_Latest_‘Support_Packages’⠀⇛ Kyiv said it was continuing offensive operations against Russian forces in the east and south as alarms sounded throughout Ukraine on September 16, while Russia said it shot down two drones outside Moscow overnight as its full-scale invasion of Ukraine approached its 20th month. # ⚓ Spiegel ☛ Ukraine:_Visiting_with_Sappers_–_A_Sea_of Explosives_1,000_Kilometers_Long⠀⇛ Russian troops have transformed the fighting front into what is likely the largest minefield in the world. Ukrainian sappers are making but slow progress through this sea of death. But they haven’t lost their optimism. # ⚓ Spiegel ☛ Ukraine:_U.S._Military_Analyst_–_“Russia Doesn’t_Have_a_Good_Strategy_for_Winning_the_War”⠀⇛ In an interview, American military analyst Michael Kofman says he believes Ukrainian troops have a realistic chance of a breakthrough in their counteroffensive, assuming they don’t run out of ammunition. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Poland,_Hungary_and_Slovakia_Ban Ukrainian_Grain_Exports⠀⇛ The bars against sales in Poland, Hungary and Slovakia were in place early Saturday, reviving an issue that has threatened European Union solidarity on Ukraine. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Russian_lawmaker_says_draftees_won’t_be rotated_out_of_Ukraine_until_war_is_done_—_Meduza⠀⇛ # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Ukraine’s_General_Staff_confirms_reclaiming Andriivka,_village_just_south_of_Russian-occupied Bakhmut_—_Meduza⠀⇛ # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Ukrainian_naval_drone_reportedly_strikes Russian_missile_carrier_in_Black_Sea,_causing ‘significant_damage’_—_Meduza⠀⇛ # ⚓ JURIST ☛ Slovakia_expels_Russian_diplomat_over suspected_Vienna_Convention_breach⠀⇛ The Slovakian foreign ministry announced on Thursday that it had expelled a Russian diplomat suspected of violating the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, which delineates the rights and responsibilities of diplomats. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ More_Than_100_Kyrgyz_NGOs_Urge_Rejection_Of Russian-Style_‘Foreign_Representative’_Law⠀⇛ Some 120 nongovernmental groups have publicly appealed to lawmakers in the Kyrgyz parliament, the Supreme Council, to reject adoption of a law that would allow authorities to register organizations as “foreign representatives” in a style that critics say mirrors repressive Russian legislation. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ One_American,_Two_Russians_Blast_Off_In Russian_Spacecraft_To_International_Space_Station⠀⇛ One American and two Russian space crew members have blasted off aboard a Russian spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on a mission to the International Space Station. # ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ North_Korean_leader_Kim_discusses stronger_ties_with_Russia_in_a_new_heyday:_KCNA⠀⇛ September 17, 2023 5:44 AM He inspected Russian nuclear-capable strategic bombers, hypersonic missiles and warships on his visit. # ⚓ YLE ☛ Border_Guard_reports_calm_after_Finland_bans Russian_cars⠀⇛ According to Finnish customs only about 11 cars with Russian licence plates tried to cross the border on Saturday compared to a daily average of 250. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Finland_bans_entry_for_cars_with_Russian license_plates_—_Meduza⠀⇛ # ⚓ New York Times ☛ In_Moscow,_the_War_Is_Background Noise,_but_Ever-Present⠀⇛ Muscovites go about their daily lives with little major disruption. But the war’s effects are evident — in the stores, at the movies and in the increasingly repressive environment. # ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ Kim_Jong_Un_to_visit_several Russian_food_enterprises,_RIA_reports⠀⇛ September 17, 2023 8:57 AM North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un will visit several food enterprises as part of his ongoing visit to Russia, Russia’s RIA news agency reported on Sunday. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Belarus’s_Tsikhanouskaya_To_Meet_With_U.S., Other_Officials_In_New_York_During_UN_General Assembly⠀⇛ Exiled Belarusian opposition leader Svyatlana Tsikhanouskaya has said she will be in New York this week for high-level meetings with officials from the United States and other countries as delegations converge for the UN General Assembly. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Kim_Jong-un_Visits_More_Russian Military_Sites⠀⇛ The North Korean leader was shown key elements of the Russian nuclear force as fears grew that the two nations were expanding their military ties. # ⚓ Meduza ☛ ‘Bogrukinog’_Boris_Grebenshchikov’s_new album_is_available_free_on_Bandcamp._In_four allegorical_songs,_the_exiled_master_songwriter_blends sorrow_and_hope_for_today’s_Russia._—_Meduza⠀⇛ # ⚓ Meduza ☛ General_Sergey_Surovikin_reportedly_in Algiers_with_Russian_Defense_Ministry_delegation_— Meduza⠀⇛ o § Transparency/Investigative Reporting⠀➾ # ⚓ Associated Press ☛ Arkansas_Gov._Sarah_Huckabee_Sanders signs_law_restricting_release_of_her_travel,_security records⠀⇛ Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders signed a law Thursday restricting release of her travel and security records after the Legislature wrapped up a special session marked by a fight to more broadly scale back the state Freedom of Information Act. The law, which took effect immediately, allows the state to wall off details about the security provided the GOP governor and other constitutional officers, including who travels on the State Police airplane and the cost of individual trips. Proposed changes to the 1967 law protecting the public’s access to government records were among several items Sanders had placed on the agenda for a session that met this week. o § Environment⠀➾ # ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ Enormous_storm_Lee_lashes_New England_and_Canada_with_wind,_heavy_rain,_pounding_surf⠀⇛ Post-tropical Cyclone Lee is toppling trees and cutting power to tens of thousands as it lashes New England and eastern Canada. The storm is expected to make landfall Saturday at near hurricane strength in Atlantic Canada and then move farther into the region. It is expected to bring high winds, dangerous storm surge and torrential rains across an enormous swath of territory. Forecasters say it is still dangerous even after being downgraded from a hurricane. In touristy Bar Harbor, Maine, officials closed a parking lot at a pier as high tide moved in and waves crashed against seawalls. # ⚓ CoryDoctorow ☛ Pluralistic:_Greenwashing_set_Canada_on_fire (16_Sept_2023)⠀⇛ Today’s links Greenwashing set Canada on fire: A generation of idealistic Canadian kids broke their backs every summer “planting thousands of blowtorches a day.” Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2008, 2013, 2018, 2022 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading Greenwashing set Canada on fire (permalink) As a teenager growing up in Ontario, I always envied the kids who spent their summers tree planting; they’d come back from the bush in September, insect-chewed and leathery, with new muscle, incredible stories, thousands of dollars, and a glow imparted by the knowledge that they’d made a new forest with their own blistered hands. # ⚓ DeSmog ☛ California_Joins_States_Suing_Big_Oil_for_Its_Role in_the_Climate_Crisis⠀⇛ The state of California has jumped into the ring in the fight to hold some of the world’s biggest fossil fuel producers accountable for their role in driving the worsening climate crisis. On Friday, California Attorney General Rob Bonta filed a lawsuit against five oil and gas majors including ExxonMobil, Chevron, BP, Shell, and ConocoPhillips as well as their chief lobby group the American Petroleum Institute. The lawsuit alleges these entities deliberately deceived the public about the dangers of fossil fuels and their impact on the climate system, and effectively engineered a delayed societal response to addressing the climate problem. California’s filing adds to a growing wave of climate lawsuits brought by cities, counties and states across the country against Exxon and its industry peers. A handful of the state’s coastal communities led the way in this wave of litigation by filing some of the first cases against fossil fuel companies in 2017 and 2018. Now more than three dozen states and municipalities are taking corporate climate polluters to court. # ⚓ RFA ☛ Storm_in_a_teapot:_Climate_change_hits_ancient_art_of tea-growing⠀⇛ Yet extreme weather that swings between drought and floods is creating hardships for the region’s tea- growers, who have a similar appreciation for the different kinds of leaf and the environments in which they’re grown to connoisseurs of fine wines. # ⚓ VOA News ☛ Experts_Worry_New_England_Dams_Can’t_Handle Climate_Change_Floods⠀⇛ There are thousands of dams across New England and many were built decades if not centuries ago, often to help power textile mills, store water or supply irrigation to farms. The concern is they have outlived their usefulness and climate change could bring storms they were never built to withstand. “When they were built, the climate was different. The design storms were different,” said Robert Kearns, a climate resilience specialist with the Charles River Watershed Association. # ⚓ CoryDoctorow ☛ Greenwashing_set_Canada_on_fire⠀⇛ The logging industry committed a triple crime. First, they stole our old-growth forests. Next, they (literally) planted a time-bomb across Ontario’s north. Finally, they stole the idealism of people who genuinely cared about the environment. They taught a generation that resistance is futile, that anything you do to make a better future is a scam, and you’re a sucker for falling for it. They planted nihilism with every tree. # ⚓ Futurism ☛ It’s_Too_Late_for_Geoengineering_Alone_to_Save Antarctica,_Scientists_Find⠀⇛ Basically, the finding is that there’s no easy way out of the climate change hell hole we dug ourselves into as a species, and that rapid decarbonization is still the best path to preventing the worst impacts of global warming. # § Energy/Transportation⠀➾ # ⚓ NPR ☛ How_to_launder_$600_million_on_the_[Internet]⠀⇛ Erin Plante is a private detective who specializes in chasing down stolen cryptocurrency. In March of 2022, she got the biggest assignment of her career: Hackers had broken into an online game called Axie Infinity and made off with over $600 million worth of digital money. It was the largest [cryptocurrency] heist in history. And now it was Erin’s job to find that money and get it back. Erin’s investigation would lead her to face off against some of the world’s most formidable digital money launderers, whose actions would soon raise alarms at the highest levels of government — even threaten the nuclear security of the entire planet. # ⚓ IMF ☛ Cryptocarbon:_How_Much_Is_the_Corrective_Tax? [PDF]⠀⇛ With increasing awareness of past environmental damage from [cryptocurrency] mining, questions arise as to how persistent the problem will be in the future and how taxation can help in addressing this negative externality. We estimate that the global demand for electricity by [cryptocurrency] miners reached that of Australia or Spain, resulting in 0.33% of global CO2 emissions in 2022. Projections suggest sustained future electricity demand and indicate further increases in CO2 emissions if [cryptocurrency] prices significantly increase and the energy efficiency of mining hardware is low. To address global warming, we estimate the corrective excise on the electricity used by [cryptocurrency] miners to be USD 0.045 per kWh, on average. Considering also air pollution costs raises the tax to USD 0.087 per kWh. Country- specific estimates vary depending on their electricity sources. # ⚓ [Old] Cointelegraph ☛ Laos_pulls_the_plug_on_crypto mining_electricity_supply_after_drought⠀⇛ Laos state-owned electricity distribution company Électricité du Laos (EDL) has announced that it will suspend electricity supply to [cryptocurrrency] mining operations in the country, citing various reasons such as the struggle to generate enough power amid drought conditions. According to the announcement, Laos experienced drought in the first half of 2023. The extreme heat resulted in higher demand for electricity and caused hydropower plants to struggle to generate enough power. # ⚓ Houston Chronicle ☛ One_bitcoin_company_received_$32 million_in_August_to_reduce_electricity_use⠀⇛ It’s the latest instance of bitcoin mines, which consume large amounts of electricity to power arrays of computers that spit out sequences of numbers that can unlock bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, profiting off of strain on power grids. Amid the ongoing heat wave, the amount Riot received from ERCOT and TXU when it powered down its mining operation in Rockdale, midway between College Station and Austin, in August was more than it took in so-called power and demand response credits in all of 2022, according to a company statement. # ⚓ Remy Van Elst ☛ YouLessQt,_helps_you_align_the YouLess_to_an_analog_electricity_meter⠀⇛ The YouLess is a device that can help you monitor energy usage. It works on so called smart meters using a P1 port, it can monitor solar panels but it also works with regular old analog meters. I have an old style analog meter but I like gadgets and monitoring / reducing my energy usage just as much as the next guy so I bought one. It has an optical sensor that you paste (with tape) on your meter and that detects a little black bar on the rotor disc and using a rpm factor on your meter it calculates the electricity used. I has some trouble with the device when I set it up, it turned out to be aligned wrongly. It sometimes missed the black bar, so the numbers were incorrect. I wrote a little application using Qt and QML to show the raw light sensor values in a line graph to help me align the YouLess correctly. This post tells you more about the application, which of course is open source. o § Finance⠀➾ # ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ The_auto_workers_strike_will_drive up_car_prices,_but_not_right_away_—_unless_consumers_panic⠀⇛ If the United Auto Workers strike isn’t settled soon, consumers will see higher prices for new cars — and not just the ones from Detroit. On Friday, union members picketed outside a Ford plant, a General Motors plant, and a Stellantis factory. Right now, the automakers have big inventories, so most analysts say there shouldn’t be an immediate shortage of cars. # ⚓ Airtable_Layoffs:_Low-Code_Software_Platform_To_Lay_Off_27% of_Workforce_in_Second_Round_of_Job_Cuts⠀⇛ Airtable, a low-code platform for building collaborative apps, has announced to lay off about 27 per cent of the workforce, or 237 employees, in the second round of job cuts. According to Forbes, the cuts are part of a strategy to focus the company on winning large enterprise clients while also controlling spending. “The market has tipped towards favouring efficient growth over growth at all costs. We must operate the business in a more mature way that puts us on a path to become a public company and to have durability and efficiency in how we grow,” Howie Liu, Airtable’s founder and CEO, was quoted as saying. # ⚓ The Spectator UK ☛ The_decline_of_the_West:_America’s Pacific_cities_face_a_bleak_future⠀⇛ As recently as the early Nineties, when the great cities of the Midwest and East Coast were careening toward what seemed like an inevitable downturn, the urban agglomerations along the Pacific coast offered a demonstrably brighter urban future. From San Diego to the Puget Sound, urban centres along America’s western edge continued to thrive and expand as migrants from other parts of the country, and the world, crowded in. In the process, the Pacific cities seized the economic initiative. The West Coast became home to the country’s premier trade entrepôt and its dominant entertainment and technology centres, and home to five of the world’s six most valuable companies. Yet now these same cities — despite differing histories and industrial mixes — face a precipitous decline. Never before have all the burgeoning cities of the future, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Oakland, started to shrink. This is, at least in part, a reaction to high prices, relentless property crime, homelessness — San Francisco’s rate of homelessness, for example, is twelve times the national average — and diminished economic opportunity, particularly for the middle and working classes. o § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾ # ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ US_believes_China’s_‘missing’ defence_chief_under_investigation_by_Beijing_–_report⠀⇛ The US government believes China’s Defense Minister Li Shangfu is the subject of an investigation by Beijing and has been relieved of his duties, the Financial Times reported late Thursday citing American officials. # ⚓ RFA ☛ China_‘investigating’_missing_Defense_Minister_Li Shangfu:_reports⠀⇛ Reports say the probe is linked to military procurement and will likely see him removed. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Lauren_Boebert_Apologizes_for_Vaping_in_a Denver_Theater⠀⇛ The Colorado congresswoman previously denied vaping during the performance, but could be seen doing so on surveillance video. # ⚓ New Yorker ☛ A_Week_of_Chaos_in_Kevin_McCarthy’s Washington⠀⇛ This week in Congress: a Biden impeachment inquiry, a frozen House of Representatives, and a looming government shutdown. # ⚓ CS Monitor ☛ Can_India’s_Eurasian_trade_corridor_give_China a_run_for_its_money?⠀⇛ The India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor (IMEC) is also a clear challenge, experts say, to China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), a massive infrastructure corridor that has granted China considerable influence throughout Asia, Africa, and Latin America since 2013. But now, amid growing accusations of predatory lending, some BRI partners are demanding to renegotiate the terms of their loans. Italy is poised to pull out of the BRI altogether. # ⚓ France24 ☛ Questions_swirl_around_Xi’s_motives_after_a second_top_minister_disappears_in_China⠀⇛ Chinese Defence Minister Li Shangfu has not been seen in public for more than two weeks. The disappearance of this top official close to President Xi Jinping comes two months after that of now-former foreign affairs minister Qin Gang, and follows the dismissal of a pair of influential military generals. For some observers, Li’s vanishing is likely linked to corruption, while others see it as a sign of intense political battles hidden from outside eyes. # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ DHS_Continues_To_Violate_Facebook_Policies_By Allowing_CBP,_ICE_Officers_To_Create_Fake_Social_Media Profiles⠀⇛ The US government may try to prosecute you for violating sites’ terms of service. But it won’t be handling its own actions the same way. # ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ Malaysia_PM_Anwar’s_reform_agenda_in doubt_as_allies_freed_from_graft_charges⠀⇛ A string of dropped corruption cases in Malaysia has raised questions over Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim’s commitment to fighting graft, with lawmakers and analysts warning it could risk alienating voters, deepen divisions within the ruling coalition, and jeopardise his reform agenda. # ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Hong_Kong_to_see_HK$18m_fireworks display_on_National_Day,_first_since_2018⠀⇛ Hong Kong’s sky will light up with more than 30,000 fireworks on October 1, as the city puts on a HK$18 million fireworks display to celebrate China’s National Day for the first time since 2018. The Culture, Sports and Tourism Bureau will coordinate a 23-minute pyrotechnics show, sponsored by Hong Kong Telecom and FWD Insurance [...] # ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ US_believes_Chinese_defence_minister Li_Shangfu_has_been_stripped_of_duties_–_report⠀⇛ The US government believes China’s Defense Minister Li Shangfu is the subject of an investigation by Beijing and has been relieved of his duties, The Financial Times reported late Thursday citing American officials. # ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ Upheavals_in_Xi’s_world_spread_concern about_China’s_diplomacy⠀⇛ They stoke uncertainty about his rule as an internal security clampdown trumps international engagement. # ⚓ The Straits Times ☛ Iran_Guards_detain_dual_national_for ‘organising_unrest_and_sabotage’_-Tasnim⠀⇛ Iran’s Revolutionary Guards on Saturday detained a dual national suspected of “trying to organise unrest and sabotage”, the semi-official Tasnim news agency reported, amid heightened security to thwart planned protests a year after a young woman’s death in police custody. # § Misinformation/Disinformation/Propaganda⠀➾ # ⚓ India Times ☛ Facebook_failed_to_control_Covid misinformation_due_to_its_design,_reveals_study⠀⇛ The Covid-19 vaccine misinformation policies of Facebook, the world’s largest social media platform, were not effective in combating misinformation and its overall design is more to blame for this rather than just algorithms, a new study has revealed. The study, led by researchers at the George Washington University in the US and published in the journal Science Advances, found that Facebook’s efforts were undermined by the core design features of the platform itself. # ⚓ Vox ☛ How_Covid_misinformation_stayed_one_step_ahead of_Facebook⠀⇛ The work of trying to minimize the influence of harmful misinformation is both exhausting and essential. Big pushes, like the one Meta undertook in late 2020 to begin removing more misinformation about Covid-19 vaccines while promoting content from authoritative public health and scientific sources, always seem too late and undertaken in response to public or institutional pressure. And they require a sustained effort that platforms don’t always seem willing to maintain. A question has always lingered in the background of these big public moments where major platforms get tough on online harms: Did these efforts actually work? A new study, published this week in Science Advances, argues that Meta’s Covid-19 policies may not have been effective. Though Meta’s decision to remove more content did result in the overall volume of anti-vaccine content on Facebook decreasing, the study found that engagement may have “shifted, rather than decreased” outright. o § Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾ # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Supreme_Court_Puts_5th_Circuit_Ruling_On_Biden Admin_Jawboning_Of_Social_Media_Companies_On_Hold_For_Shadow Docket_Review⠀⇛ So, last Friday, the 5th Circuit released its opinion in the appeal of an absolutely ridiculous Louisiana federal court ruling that insisted large parts of the federal government were engaged in some widespread censorial conspiracy with social media, and barred large parts of the government from talking to social media companies and even academic researchers. # ⚓ The Markup ☛ Twitter_is_Still_Throttling_Competitors’ Links—Check_for_Yourself⠀⇛ Users of the social platform, now officially known as X, are made to wait on average about two and a half seconds after clicking on links to Bluesky, Facebook, Instagram, and Substack, the analysis found. That’s more than 60 times longer than the average wait for links to other sites. While not included in our full tests, the delay appears to also include links to the new Threads platform, which like Facebook and Instagram is owned by Meta. # ⚓ The Washington Post ☛ Elon_Musk’s_X_is_throttling_traffic to_websites_he_dislikes⠀⇛ Users who clicked a link on Musk’s website, now called X, for one of the targeted websites were made to wait about five seconds before seeing the page, according to tests conducted Tuesday by The Washington Post. The delayed websites included X’s online rivals Facebook, Instagram, Bluesky and Substack, as well as the Reuters wire service and the Times. All of them have previously been singled out by Musk for ridicule or attack. # ⚓ Vintage Everyday ☛ Thou_Shalt_Not,_Photograph_Created_by Whitey_Schafer_in_1940_to_Protest_the_Hays_Code⠀⇛ In 1934, Hollywood photographer A.L. “Whitey” Schafer took this staged photo which mocked the Motion Picture Production Code (aka Hays Code), a set of moral guidelines that were applied to American films that were released from 1934 to 1968. The photo attempted to violate as many rules as possible in one image. # ⚓ Reason ☛ Court_Allows_Religious_Discrimination_Claim_to_Go Forward_in_Ex-Hamline_Prof’s_Mohammed_Images_/_Islamic_Art Controversy⠀⇛ On the other hand, requiring that an employee engage in specifically religious practices (e.g., attend religious services) is indeed generally treated as religious discrimination. I take it that López Prater’s “non-conformance” argument (as opposed to her “Hamline would not have labeled the act of showing the images ‘Islamophobic’ if she were Muslim” argument) is that requiring that an employee avoid what some religious people see as blasphemy should be treated similarly to a requirement that an employee affirmatively engage in religious worship or similar behavior. The court didn’t specifically deal with this question, and I take it that it remains open, perhaps on a motion for summary judgment or on an eventual appeal. # ⚓ Futurism ☛ Free_Speech_Fundamentalist_Elon_Musk_Mass_Fired Staff_for_Saying_Mean_Things_About_Him⠀⇛ In the SpaceX and Tesla CEO’s world, “unfettered free speech,” as Isaacson wrote, “does not extend to the workplace.” # ⚓ JURIST ☛ UN_experts_call_on_Saudi_Arabia_to_revoke_death sentence_imposed_for_social_media_dissent⠀⇛ On Friday, UN experts issued a formal appeal to Saudi Arabia, urging the revocation of the death sentence imposed on Mohammad Al Ghamdi, who stands accused of engaging in social media dissent. Saudi security services took Ghamdi into custody on June 11, facing a series of criminal allegations related to his social media commentary. o § Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press⠀➾ # ⚓ Craig Murray ☛ The_Slow_Motion_Execution_of_Julian Assange⠀⇛ Thanks entirely to the brilliance of Chris Hedges in leading me through the material, I think this is the most clear outline of the Assange case which I have ever given. # ⚓ VOA News ☛ Though_Marginalized_and_Exiled,_Iranian Journalists_Still_Report⠀⇛ Kiran Nazish, founding director of the Coalition For Women In Journalism, a nonprofit that assists women and nonbinary journalists, said such online campaigns are a serious threat for those in Iran and in exile. The threat of arrest and online harassment has increased since the mass protests in 2022 over the death of a young Kurdish woman in police custody. # ⚓ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ HKFP_joins_Patreon_–_support independent,_non-profit_media_and_help_power_our_newsroom⠀⇛ The Hong Kong Free Press newsroom is powered by monthly contributors who help keep our content paywall-free for all readers. Now, there are over 15 ways to support our team, including Patreon. # ⚓ CBC ☛ Toronto_Star_owner_cutting_600_jobs_at_regional papers,_seeking_bankruptcy_protection_for_unit⠀⇛ Nordstar says it is putting its Metroland Media Group division into creditor protection under the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act as part of a restructuring plan. The Metroland business owns dozens of community newspapers delivered alongside advertising flyers. Nordstar says it is getting out of the flyer business entirely and converting the newspapers to a digital-only format. o § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾ # ⚓ VOA News ☛ Afghan_Taliban_Detain_18,_Including_American,_on Charges_of_Preaching_Christianity⠀⇛ The IAM says on its website that the nonprofit group has been working in Afghanistan only to improve lives and build local health, community development and education capacity. “We are a partnership between the people of Afghanistan and international Christian volunteers, and we have been working together since 1966.” The Taliban have imposed their harsh interpretation of Islamic law, or Shariah, since seizing power from a U.S.-backed Afghan government in Kabul two years ago. They have barred teenage girls from schools beyond the sixth grade nationwide and ordered most female government employees to stay home. # ⚓ RFERL ☛ Taliban_Said_To_Suspect_Detained_NGO_Workers_Of Promoting_Christianity⠀⇛ The fundamentalist Taliban, who retook control of Afghanistan as U.S.-led international forces withdrew in 2021, have imposed a particularly harsh form of Shari’a law on the country when they have been in power at various points in the past four decades. The internationally unrecognized Taliban-led government in Afghanistan has been accused by UN and other international officials of grave human rights offenses against non-Muslims, women, and minorities. # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Eighth_Circuit_Says_Cops_Can_Come_With_Probable Cause_For_An_Arrest_AFTER_They’ve_Already_Arrested_Someone⠀⇛ Well, this is a bit of a doozy. This case — via the Institute for Justice — involves a possible First Amendment violation but v # ⚓ Meduza ☛ More_than_a_name_Why_the_battle_for_matronymics_in Kyrgyzstan_matters_—_Meduza⠀⇛ # ⚓ Federal News Network ☛ Activists_in_Europe_mark_the anniversary_of_Mahsa_Amini’s_death_in_police_custody_in Iran⠀⇛ Hundreds of people have gathered in central London to mark the anniversary of the death of Mahsa Amini. The 22-year-old Kurdish-Iranian woman died in police custody last year on Sept. 16, 2022. Her death sparked worldwide protests against Iran’s conservative Islamic theocracy. The crowds Saturday held her portrait and rallied around the memory of a young woman who died after she was arrested for allegedly violating Iran’s mandatory headscarf law. Similar protests took place in Rome and Berlin. Authorities in Iran sought to prevent the anniversary from reigniting the protests that gripped the country last year. A Kurdish rights group reported a widespread general strike in Kurdish areas on Saturday, circulating video and photos of largely empty streets and shuttered shops. # ⚓ The Kent Stater ☛ Strikes_make_a_comeback_in_America⠀⇛ CNN — The United Auto Workers strike isn’t happening in a vacuum. It’s part of a growing movement of US workers walking off the job. From Hollywood writers to nurses, factory workers, and Starbucks baristas, thousands of workers have gone on strike in recent months to demand higher pay and improved benefits and working conditions…. # ⚓ Rosie_O’Donnell_slams_Drew_Barrymore_for_resuming_talk_show amid_strike:_‘Stop_taping_the_show’⠀⇛ In an Instagram post, the “A League of Their Own” star shared “advice” for the “Charlie’s Angel” actress regarding the return of her talk show. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ UAW_Union_and_Ford,_General_Motors_and Stellantis_Resume_Talks⠀⇛ The United Auto Workers said it had “reasonably productive conversations with Ford” but did not mention G.M. or Stellantis. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Tech_Fears_Are_Showing_Up_on_Picket Lines⠀⇛ What’s being called the “summer of strikes” comes at a time when workers increasingly fear new technologies will threaten their jobs. # ⚓ New York Times ☛ Battle_Over_Electric_Vehicles_Is_Central to_Auto_Strike⠀⇛ Carmakers are anxious to keep costs down as they ramp up electric vehicle manufacturing, while striking workers want to preserve jobs as the industry shifts to batteries. [...] The established carmakers — General Motors, Ford Motor and Stellantis, which owns Chrysler, Jeep and Ram — are trying to defend their profits and their place in the market in the face of stiff competition from Tesla and foreign automakers. Some executives and analysts have characterized what is happening in the industry as the biggest technological transformation since Henry Ford’s moving assembly line started up at the beginning of the 20th century. o § Internet Policy/Net Neutrality⠀➾ # ⚓ Computer Weekly ☛ Nokia_claims_to_‘redefine’_IP_access, aggregation_and_edge_cloud_with_next-gen_routers⠀⇛ Leading comms tech provider launches 7730 Service Interconnect router platforms boasting ‘revolutionary’ approach to delivering the power and benefits of service routing into IP access and aggregation networks # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Starlink_Has_A_Small_Fraction_Of_The_Customers It_Originally_Promised_Investors⠀⇛ To be clear: SpaceX’s Starlink service is a game changer for those out of range of broadband access. Getting several hundred megabits per second in the middle of nowhere is a decidedly good thing, assuming you can afford the $600 hardware and $110 a month subscription cost. o § Strikes⠀➾ # ⚓ US News And World Report ☛ New_York_Employers_Must_Include Pay_Rates_in_Job_Ads_Under_New_State_Law⠀⇛ Employers with at least four workers will be required to disclose salary ranges for any job advertised externally to the public or internally to workers interested in a promotion or transfer. Pay transparency, supporters say, will prevent employers from offering some job candidates less or more money based on age, gender, race or other factors not related to their skills. # ⚓ Jacobin Magazine ☛ Big_Three_Autoworkers_Are_Striking Against_Concessions_While_Shareholders_Reap_a_Bonanza⠀⇛ This morning, the United Auto Workers launched a landmark strike against the Big Three automakers for their refusal to provide adequate pay and job security. Meanwhile, over the last year, the automakers have authorized $5 billion in stock buybacks. o § Monopolies⠀➾ # § Patents⠀➾ # ⚓ Dennis Crouch/Patently-O ☛ Federal_Circuit_Narrows Scope_of_Egyptian_Goddess⠀⇛ The Federal Circuit recently vacated a jury verdict of non-infringement in the long- running design patent dispute between outdoor apparel companies Columbia Sportswear and Seirus Innovative Accessories. Columbia Sportswear North America, Inc. v. Seirus Innovative Accessories, Inc., No. 2021-2299, — F.4th — (Fed. Cir. Sept. 15, 2023). The Federal Circuit held that “comparison prior art” used for infringement analysis must be tied to the same article of manufacture as that claimed.  The lower court thus erred by permitting the jury to consider additional references. The decision benefits design patent holders – making it easier to prove infringement and also places more weight on skillful decisions made during prosecution to define the article of manufacture. Columbia owns U.S. Design Patent No. D657,093, which claims an ornamental design for a heat reflective material featuring contrasting wavy lines. Seirus sells gloves and other products incorporating its HeatWave material, which features similar wavy lines. Columbia sued Seirus for infringing the ‘D’093 patent in Oregon federal court. # § Copyrights⠀➾ # ⚓ Torrent Freak ☛ BREIN_Tracks_Down_and_Settles_with Usenet_Uploaders⠀⇛ Dutch anti-piracy outfit BREIN is well aware of the latest piracy trends and the group knows its classics too. This week, BREIN reports that several Usenet uploaders have settled for thousands of euros after being tracked down. In recent weeks, four people associated with a NZB community were caught and all agreed to a private deal instead of going to court. # ⚓ Digital Music News ☛ IMPALA_Responds_to_Deezer_& UMG’s_Machinations_for_‘Artist-Centric’_Streaming:_‘The Deezer_Proposal_Has_Been_Developed_In_a_Vacuum’⠀⇛ IMPALA responds to Deezer and UMG’s proposal on streaming — and points to its own plan to boost diversity and improve revenues for all artists. ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 4918 ╒═══════════════════ 𝐃𝐀𝐈𝐋𝐘 𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐒 ═════════════════════════════════════════════╕ ⠀⌧ █▇▆▅▄▃▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ 09.17.23⠀▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ ⌧ Gemini_version_available_♊︎ ✐ Gemini_Links_17/09/2023:_PineTime_Six_Months_Later_and_Sympathy_for_the Copyright_Devil⠀✐ Posted in News_Roundup at 10:37 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇GNOME bluefish⦈ § Contents⠀➾ * Gemini*_and_Gopher o Personal/Opinions o Games o The_States o Technology_and_Free_Software # Programming * § Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾ o § Personal/Opinions⠀➾ # ⚓ The_term_is_almost_here⠀⇛ Ten days till my first full-time faculty term starts. I’m not going to lie I’m scared shitless that I’m going to fuck all of this up. I mean that’s a normal feeling, right, when you’ve got a new job that’s potentially a Big Career, right? Like I can get tenure in just a couple of years if I’m not terribly bad at my job, at which point I’m going to have stability for the first time, well, ever. # ⚓ September_16:_Fall⠀⇛ Tastes of fall: orange custardy persimmons, sweet slick muscadine grapes plucked from among pine needles where they fell in the Georgia hills, rich meaty pecans from my aunt’s house in the North Carolina piedmont. Soon persimmons will fall here, too, in Kentucky. Sound of fall: rain that fell in puffs of cool in Georgia, rain falling steady outside my window. Turkeys are getting bigger and bolder. On a social ride last week I spotted four of them by the unfinished bypass road, still used only by bicycles. I thought they were deer in tall grass til we got closer. # ⚓ 7_🔤SpellBinding:_ACDFHUN_Wordo:_TEMPI⠀⇛ o § Games⠀➾ # ⚓ Rules-light,_prep-heavy⠀⇛ Often we see rules-light RPGs (like Fudge, Risus, the Window, Everway, or Cthulhu Dark) coupled with an improv-heavy, “hold your ideas loosely”, “build on your players ideas” super quantum-y GMing style. # ⚓ How_to_Shuffle_a_Gamebook⠀⇛ Most people say CYOA when they mean gamebook. Some say solo adventures (hello fans of Tunnels & Trolls). Swedes call them soloäventyr. Numbered sections that you read and then follow references to other sections. A game in the shape of a book. If they are digital only they are often referred to as choice-based interactive fiction (hello Twine fans) and usually do away with the section numbers. # ⚓ Thank_you,_Wizardry⠀⇛ I didn’t know there was a remake, so thank you for both the posts on the original and for letting us know about the new one. I never got very far in these games (I’m like three floors into a game inspired by it, The Dark Spire, but my DS is broken) but they’ve had a huge impact on tabletop RPGs. D&D 5e’s spell casting system goes away from the Dying Earth “vancian” mechanics and instead uses a system 100 isomorphic with Wizardry’s spell points, confusingly renamed “spell slots”. Maybe the exact distribution of slots per level is changed but it’s the same mechanic where the different point levels aren’t exactly interchangable—wizards can’t use two level 1 slots to make one level 2 slot. o § The States⠀➾ # ⚓ The_Land_of_the_Free,_the_Home_of_the_Brave⠀⇛ I am now back in The States, for the first time in three years. It is currently 42 minutes past 1 in the morning and I woke up a little over an hour ago. I see lights slowing blinking on top of the tall buildings in the distance, and the city is silent. The flight was very unpleasant, for reasons I will explain another time. o § Technology and Free Software⠀➾ # ⚓ PineTime_Six_Months_Later⠀⇛ Figured I’d write a quick update about my PineTime since I still refer people to my older posts about it and there are some things that have changed since then. [...] At first I was worried that getting phone notifications on my wrist would be a distraction, but over time I’ve actually noticed that it helps me get distracted by my phone less often. A quick glance at my wrist is all it takes to see if a notification is worth unlocking my phone for. When it isn’t, it saves me a phone unlock and the potential to get distracted by something I see on it. [...] I’ve been wearing my PineTime every day since I got it over six months ago. It’s a really neat gadget that’s frankly a steal at the price it’s sold at. The fact that it’s open source and so easy to tinker on is just a cherry on top. # ⚓ Sympathy_for_the_Copyright_Devil⠀⇛ Someone replied railing against the movement (or “brigade”) of artists opposed to ML art, as if they were the only problem, ignoring both the two problems I had just brought up, so I elaborated and it got a li’l long: As a writer and painter, I’ve long been opposed to copyright and have been releasing stuff under Creative Commons licenses for over a decade. So don’t misinterpret me as agreeing with the brigade. Livelyhood for artists is important but so is a livelyhood for everyone, and I’ve been arguing against the flawed “copyright is good for artists” position for decades—we’ve been having this exact same fight against copyright since Napster or even the cassette era. Gates’ infamous “Open letter to hobbyists” was in 1976, and that hasn’t changed. # ⚓ Hardware_accelerated_playback_on_PineTab_2_(RK3566)⠀⇛ Want to quickly document how I got my PineTab 2 to play 1080p videos smooth(-ish) with hardware acceleration. § Enabling hardware acceleration With the defaul DanctNIX image, it was quite easy. Simply install `mpv` and ` ffmpeg-v4l2-request-git` from the AUR. Then, pass pass `–hwdec=drm` to `mpv` and you’re good to go. This will replace replace the system’s `ffmpeg` with your custom build. If you run into ABI issues (random crashes), you can try building MPV from source. # § Programming⠀➾ # ⚓ Consistent_Handling_of_Git_Repositories_With Different_Default_Branches⠀⇛ Typically, I develop on a feature branch, and when the feature is ready, there is an obvious branch into which I want to merge the branch. This branch is often called `master’,`main’ or `develop’. During development, I will occasionally rebase my feature branch on top of this branch, to reduce future merge conflicts, and to avoid falling behind on changes merged by other developers. I will call this branch the default branch from here on. To make common operations consistent across repositories, I want to use a `git default- branch’ command that returns the name of the default branch, so that I can use commands like =============================================================================== * Gemini_(Primer) links can be opened using Gemini_software. It’s like the World Wide Web but a lot lighter. ╘══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╛ ¶ Lines in total: 5181 ➮ Generation completed at 02:55, i.e. 160 seconds to (re)generate ⟲