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  • Join the #KDE e.V. - Ignorance is bliss... ⇨ https://cullmann.io/posts/join-the-kde-ev/ •●• #cullmann | more in http://schestowitz.com/2021/02/21/#latest          ☞

posted Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 00:10:06


  • #mesa 21.0.0-rc5 • 𝗧𝘂𝘅 𝗠𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀 ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/147921 •●• #Ggraphics #Linux #TuxMachines          ☞

posted Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 00:13:50


  • #Security Leftovers • 𝗧𝘂𝘅 𝗠𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀 ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/147920 •●• #GNU #Linux #TuxMachines          ☞

posted Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 00:14:01


  • "A couple of weeks ago I noticed one of our newer #IndieWeb community participants found an example on the IndieWeb wiki that no longer worked, and it was from someone who hasn’t been around for a while." https://tantek.com/2021/051/b1/life-happens          ☞

posted Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 00:17:08


  • When #ibm senior lad cites and quotes #microsoft liars I merely lose interest in whatever IBM has to ffer https://blog.irvingwb.com/blog/2021/02/new-directions-for-government-in-the-digital-age.html          ☞

posted Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 00:18:53


  • "Heise published an article titled "The public administration's dependency on Microsoft & Co is 'gigantic'" (in German)" So why did you take #microsoft bribes, Matthias Kirschner? https://k7r.eu/panel-free-software-development-for-the-public-administration/         ☞

posted Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 00:21:03


  • #HP #Linux Imaging and Printing (HPLIP) Drivers Now Support #Fedora 33 and #Manjaro 20.2 http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/147913#comment-28351          ☞

posted Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 00:23:23


  • #KDE : #FreeBSD CI, KDE e.V., and Season of KDE 2021 • 𝗧𝘂𝘅 𝗠𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀 ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/147922 •●• #GNU #Linux #TuxMachines          ☞

posted Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 00:23:52


  • #Techrights Bulletin for Saturday, February 20, 2021 http://techrights.org/txt full archive: http://techrights.org/txt-archives #gnu #linux #freesw #plaintext          ☞

posted Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 05:41:29


  • #Techrights full #IPFS index updated just now http://techrights.org/ipfs available as plain text @ http://techrights.org/ipfs/txt #dweb #sharing          ☞

posted Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 05:41:46


  • Netrunner OS 21.01 Released with Linux 5.9, Based on Debian GNU/Linux 10.7 • 𝗧𝘂𝘅 𝗠𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀 #GNU #Linux #TuxMachines          ☞

posted Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 05:42:45


  • #Netrunner OS 21.01 Released with Linux 5.9, Based on #Debian GNU/Linux 10.7 http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/147923 #gnu #linux          ☞

posted Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 05:43:30


  • EPO Crisis Under António Campinos – Part 5: Quo Usque Tandem? http://techrights.org/2021/02/21/campinos-patience-gambit/ #epo #corruption #europe #patents #unionbusting          ☞

posted Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 05:49:43


  • For the Record: SUEPO’s Correspondence With ‘King’ #AntónioCampinos http://techrights.org/2021/02/21/king-antonio-unmasked/ #suepo #epo #corruption #unionbusting          ☞

posted Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 06:12:23


  • Series Index: How #AntónioCampinos Resorted to #UnionBusting http://techrights.org/2021/02/21/campinos-union-busting/ #epo #corruption #europe          ☞

posted Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 06:29:53


  • How to trick or cheat #patent examiners to receive #fakepatents just by means of deception. Some "skill", eh? https://www.patentdocs.org/2021/02/program-on-drafting-us-applications.html          ☞

posted Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 06:44:35


  • Combining two buzzwords, one that's used to push #fakepatents like #swpats (as "HEY HI") and another for #patents on life/nature (calling what always existed "sciences") https://www.patentdocs.org/2021/02/webinar-on-ai-in-life-sciences.html          ☞

posted Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 06:45:41


  • #ibm front group IPO (which pushes for #swpats still, in effect undermining #freesw progress) is painting #monopolies as "Diversity & Inclusion" https://www.patentdocs.org/2021/02/ipo-webinar-on-diversity-inclusion-in-the-ip-legal-profession-part-2.html          ☞

posted Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 06:46:48


  • This #ibm front group, IPO, continues to do much damage to #freesw and of course they'd rather disguise all this monopolistic agenda as "Diversity" https://www.patentdocs.org/2021/02/ipo-ptab-bar-association-panel-discussion-on-diversity.html          ☞

posted Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 06:47:39


  • How to claim that you "own" life and nature, basically seeking #patent #monopolies (disguised using BS terms like "life science"), then taking someone else's products off the market https://www.patentdocs.org/2021/02/webinar-on-preliminary-injunctions-in-life-sciences.html see http://techrights.org/2018/07/08/life-science-patents/          ☞

posted Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 06:49:04


  • The #patent extremists' front group IAM doesn't care about #patents and their quality, so of course they go out of their way to avoid legal scrutiny of these https://www.patentdocs.org/2021/02/webinar-on-avoiding-oppositions-in-india.html see http://techrights.org/wiki/index.php/IAM          ☞

posted Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 06:50:26


  • “For how much longer, António, will you abuse our patience?” #epo #corruption #europe #patents • 𝐓𝐞𝐜𝐡𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬 ⇨ http://techrights.org/2021/02/21/campinos-patience-gambit/ •●• #Techrights Gemini: gemini.techrights.org/2021/02/21/campinos-patience-gambit/          ☞

posted Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 06:50:38


  • Contrary to what “Orange Man” says, the staff union told staff the truth and does not need to apologise to anyone (let alone retract any statements) #epo #corruption #europe #patents • 𝐓𝐞𝐜𝐡𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬 ⇨ http://techrights.org/2021/02/21/king-antonio-unmasked/ •●• #Techrights Gemini: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2021/02/21/king-antonio-unmasked/          ☞

posted Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 06:50:55


  • An overview of this month’s events inside the #EPO • #epoorg #corruption #europe #patents • 𝐓𝐞𝐜𝐡𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬 ⇨ http://techrights.org/2021/02/21/campinos-union-busting/ •●• Gemini: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2021/02/21/campinos-union-busting/         ☞

posted Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 06:51:23


  • KITE Brings out New FOSS Based Operating System • 𝗧𝘂𝘅 𝗠𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀 ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/147924 •●• #GNU #Linux #TuxMachines #india          ☞

posted Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 07:05:42


  • Today in #Techrights • 𝗧𝘂𝘅 𝗠𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀 ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/147925 •●• #GNU #Linux #TuxMachines          ☞

posted Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 07:05:55


  • Billionaires-owned media: let's not talk about hunger and unemployment, let's talk about other planets and focus on various fantasies. Or: go back to playing computer games, 'coz your life sucks and few hundreds of men plundered all the capital/political power          ☞

posted Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 07:27:05


  • To think that there's a conspiracy to make software suck and more over time, in order to serve parties other than the end users, isn't "conspiracy theory". It's a business model thing. #clowncomputing #AppHype #UX          ☞

posted Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 07:28:59


  • Computer users oughtn't even be called "users". The other context in which people, human beings, are referred to as "users" is illegal substance abuse (drugs). We need to improve terminology, and not in the way large corporations tell us we should (to serve THEIR agenda).          ☞

posted Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 07:30:51


  • #bbc in 2021 is a #marketing agency disguised as a news site and by leeching off the taxpayers (TV Licensing) it pretends to be "objective" and "for the public". While taking bribes from foreign oligarchs for marketing, reputation laundering.          ☞

posted Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 07:33:28


  • I've been very impressed when/since I saw (earlier this year) how much customisation is possible within #xfce (inc. translucency efforts, shall one require them). They're come a long way! #gnu #linux #freesw #freedom          ☞

posted Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 07:35:50


  • #mozilla seems to have hobbled #firefox .. I've just gone through all the command-line options and it seems to be less expressive than before.          ☞

posted Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 07:55:11


  • #Android Leftovers • 𝗧𝘂𝘅 𝗠𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀 ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/147927 •●• #Google #Linux #TuxMachines          ☞

posted Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 08:26:46


  • #openSUSE Breeze Dark Plasma Color Scheme Published • 𝗧𝘂𝘅 𝗠𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀 ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/147926 •●• #GNU #Linux #TuxMachines #SUSE          ☞

posted Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 08:26:55


  • #IRC Proceedings: Saturday, February 20, 2021 • 𝐓𝐞𝐜𝐡𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬 ⇨ http://techrights.org/2021/02/21/irc-log-200221/ •●• #Techrights #GNU #Linux #FreeSW gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2021/02/21/irc-log-200221/          ☞

posted Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 08:29:36


  • ● NEWS ● #uniToronto ☞ #ZFS pool partial (selective) feature upgrades are coming in #OpenZFS https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/solaris/ZFSPartialUpgradeOption          ☞

posted Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 08:30:41


  • ● NEWS ● #TheGrayZone ☞ #Reuters , #BBC , and #Bellingcat participated in covert #UK Foreign Office-funded programs to “weaken Russia,” leaked docs reveal https://thegrayzone.com/2021/02/20/reuters-bbc-uk-foreign-office-russian-media/          ☞

posted Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 08:31:40


  • ● NEWS ● #DontExtraditeAssange #wikileaks ☞ #Assange Case — What next https://dontextraditeassange.com/events/assange-case-what-next/          ☞

posted Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 08:32:20


  • ● NEWS ● #Olimex #OpenHardware ☞ New Open Source Hardware #OSHW board with ESP32-S2 have native USB-OTG allowing USB host and device functionality with ESP32-S2 low power modes down to 20uA are possible https://olimex.wordpress.com/2021/02/18/new-open-source-hardware-oshw-board-with-esp32-s2-have-native-usb-otg-allowing-usb-host-and-device-functionality-with-esp32-s2-low-power-modes-down-to-20ua-are-possible/          ☞

posted Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 08:38:39


  • ● NEWS ● #IdiomDrottning #Programming ☞ My #XML sunk cost https://idiomdrottning.org/my-xml-sunk-cost          ☞

posted Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 08:39:10


  • ● NEWS ● #IdiomDrottning #Programming ☞ A fold is a map https://idiomdrottning.org/fold-maps          ☞

posted Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 08:39:22


  • ● NEWS ● #GitLab #Programming #geminispace #geminiprotocol ☞ Lupa~ https://framagit.org/bortzmeyer/lupa          ☞

posted Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 08:39:39


  • ● NEWS ● #GitLab #geminispace #geminiprotocol ☞ #Gemini stats https://gitlab.com/nervuri/gemini-stats #internet          ☞

posted Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 08:43:17


  • ● NEWS ● #rachelbythebay ☞ Unfortunate things about performance reviews https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2021/02/19/perf/          ☞

posted Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 08:48:55


  • ● NEWS ● #Quillette #Education ☞ Thinking Critically About #CriticalThinking https://quillette.com/2021/02/20/thinking-critically-about-critical-thinking/          ☞

posted Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 08:49:20


  • ● NEWS ● #ACM #Hardware ☞ #ENIAC Turns 75 https://cacm.acm.org/news/250485-eniac-turns-75/fulltext          ☞

posted Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 09:09:22


  • ● NEWS ● #PCMag #Hardware ☞ #GNU #Linux Is Now on Mars, Thanks to NASA's Perseverance Rover https://uk.pcmag.com/drones/131849/linux-is-now-on-mars-thanks-to-nasas-perseverance-rover          ☞

posted Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 09:09:51


  • ● NEWS ● #TheEconomist #Health ☞ Little is known about the effects of puberty blockers https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2021/02/20/little-is-known-about-the-effects-of-puberty-blockers          ☞

posted Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 09:33:31


  • ● NEWS ● #NBC #Health #india #climate ☞ Disha Ravi: Indian climate activist becomes symbol of crackdown on dissent https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/disha-ravi-indian-climate-activist-becomes-symbol-crackdown-dissent-n1258337          ☞

posted Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 09:33:57


  • ● NEWS ● #Vox #Health ☞ #India jails #climate activist for supporting farmers’ protests https://www.vox.com/2021/2/16/22285458/india-climate-activist-farmers-protest-jail-disha-ravi          ☞

posted Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 09:34:17


  • ● NEWS ● #USNewsAndWorldReport #Health ☞ Disha Ravi: the Indian Climate and Animal Defender Accused of #Sedition https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2021-02-16/disha-ravi-the-indian-climate-and-animal-defender-accused-of-sedition the regime that #billgates is boosting for his Monsanto/Bayer investments          ☞

posted Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 09:34:48


  • ● NEWS ● #CNN #Health ☞ #Climate activist Disha Ravi arrested in #India over farmers' protest 'toolkit' https://edition.cnn.com/2021/02/15/asia/india-farmers-protest-activist-disha-ravi-intl-hnk/index.html          ☞

posted Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 09:36:01


  • ● NEWS ● #Reuters #Health ☞ RPT-Disha Ravi: The #India #climate and animal defender accused of sedition https://www.reuters.com/article/india-farms-protests-disharavi/rpt-disha-ravi-the-indian-climate-and-animal-defender-accused-of-sedition-idUSL4N2KN128          ☞

posted Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 09:38:49


  • ● NEWS ● #TeenVogue #Health ☞ Indian #Climate Activist Disha Ravi Arrested, Caught in #India 's #Sedition Dragnet https://www.teenvogue.com/story/disha-ravi-indian-climate-activist-arrested-india-sedition-dragnet          ☞

posted Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 09:39:06


  • ● NEWS ● #Gizmodo #Health ☞ #Norway to Decriminalize Personal Purchase, Possession, and Use Of All Drugs In Small Quantities https://gizmodo.com/norway-to-decriminalize-personal-purchase-possession-1846309869          ☞

posted Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 09:40:10


  • ● NEWS ● #Axios #Health ☞ #Water crisis expands beyond Texas https://www.axios.com/water-crisis-texas-south-winter-storm-e8fcf266-1d02-4584-b9f2-fafe6488d11b.html          ☞

posted Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 09:40:24


  • We've just implemented linking to #GeminiSpace in #techrights daily bulletins http://techrights.org/txt/ the Gemini:// links will appear starting tomorrow (unless there are severe bugs)          ☞

posted Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 09:42:07


  • ● NEWS ● #Bloomberg #ProprietarySoftware ☞ #Google Fires Researcher Meg Mitchell, Escalating AI Saga https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-02-19/google-fires-researcher-meg-mitchell-escalating-ai-saga          ☞

posted Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 10:09:05


  • ● NEWS ● #MakeUseOf #ProprietarySoftware ☞ Raspberry Pi OS Faces User Pushback After Inclusion of Microsoft Repo After Update https://www.makeuseof.com/raspberry-pi-os-faces-pushback-microsoft-repo-update/          ☞

posted Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 10:09:26


  • ● NEWS ● #JeffGeerling #ProprietarySoftware ☞ Microsoft repo and key are automatically added to Raspberry Pis https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2021/microsoft-repo-and-key-are-automatically-added-raspberry-pis          ☞

posted Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 10:09:37


  • ● NEWS ● #Vice #ProprietarySoftware #Security ☞ How the #Internet Has Turned Into the Modern-Day Battlefield https://www.vice.com/en/article/xgzpea/internet-modern-day-battlefield-cyberwar          ☞

posted Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 10:15:08


  • #Microsoft #Windows TCO: #ProprietarySoftware #Security ☞ #Ransomware Gang Says It's Selling Data from Cyberattack That California DMV Warned About https://gizmodo.com/ransomware-gang-says-its-selling-data-from-cyberattack-1846307574          ☞

posted Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 10:15:19


  • FOSS Patents: #Ericsson 's escalation strategy against Samsung may provoke another presidential veto against SEP-based U.S. import ban--5G at stake ⇨ http://www.fosspatents.com/2021/02/ericssons-escalation-strategy-against.html •●• #fosspatents | more in http://schestowitz.com/2021/02/21/#latest          ☞

posted Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 10:19:23


  • Video: #AlmaLinux Beta Release Webinar https://www.montanalinux.org/video-almalinux-beta-release-webinar.html #gnu #linux #ibm          ☞

posted Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 10:26:32


  • #twitter has been increasingly censoring accounts that are not friendly towards advertisers (corporate sponsors, the real clients and Twitter). When they banned people on the far right we cheered, did we not? Unintended consequences.          ☞

posted Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 10:28:17


  • Jack Dorsey+Shareholders: "sure, we'd like to do sponsored tweets from you (ads); OK, sure, we can look into all those "misinformation" accounts that harm your sales..." #twitter #socialcontrolmedia #marketing #spam          ☞

posted Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 10:30:57


  • #Perl Programming: Inline::F2003, WebSockets, and Gzip::Libdeflate • 𝗧𝘂𝘅 𝗠𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀 ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/147928 •●• #GNU #Linux #TuxMachines          ☞

posted Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 10:34:23


  • Top 3 #Internet #DownloadManagers for Ubuntu Linux • 𝗧𝘂𝘅 𝗠𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀 ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/147929 •●• #GNU #Linux #TuxMachines          ☞

posted Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 10:34:46


  • "Neither are standalone boards, and instead, they are meant to be connected to the #Arduino Zero board – the HMCU board – as a shield." More fodder for #listeningDevices and #espionage operations of Mr. #bezos and co. https://www.cnx-software.com/2021/02/21/esp32-pico-v3-zero-devkit-targets-amazon-alexa-connect-kit-ack-development/          ☞

posted Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 10:36:20


  • #PipeWire 0.3.22 Released With Many Improvements • 𝗧𝘂𝘅 𝗠𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀 ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/147930 •●• #GNU #Linux #TuxMachines          ☞

posted Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 10:39:18


  • 15 Quick GNU #Wget Command Examples in Linux ⇨ https://www.linuxbuzz.com/wget-command-examples-in-linux/ •●• #linuxbuzz | more in http://schestowitz.com/2021/02/21/#latest          ☞

posted Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 10:43:18


  • #XFS File-System With Linux 5.12 Has "A Lot Going On This Time" - Phoronix ⇨ https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-5.12-XFS •●• #Phoronix #Kernel #Linux 🐧 | more in http://schestowitz.com/2021/02/21/#latest          ☞

posted Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 10:43:51


  • #Internet Communication without Phone Number or #Email • 𝗧𝘂𝘅 𝗠𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀 ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/147931 •●• #GNU #Linux #TuxMachines          ☞

posted Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 10:47:23


  • ● NEWS ● #GadgetsNow #Privacy #Surveillance ☞ Google sacks senior scientist as dispute over research grows https://www.gadgetsnow.com/tech-news/google-fires-second-ai-ethics-leader-as-dispute-over-research-diversity-grows/articleshow/81121707.cms          ☞

posted Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 10:48:31


  • ● NEWS ● #RobertHeaton #Privacy #Surveillance ☞ #DeletingFacebook https://robertheaton.com/deleting-facebook/ also #deletetwitter -- it's just an ADVERTISING company now, after 12 years of consecutive losses          ☞

posted Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 10:48:42


  • #Kernel : Linux Lockdown and #XFS File-System • 𝗧𝘂𝘅 𝗠𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀 ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/147932 •●• #GNU #Linux #TuxMachines          ☞

posted Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 10:48:52


  • ● NEWS ● #Ramble #Confidentiality ☞ @Brave Browser leaks your #Tor / Onion service requests through #DNS https://ramble.pw/f/privacy/2387/brave-browser-leaks-your-tor-onion-service-requests-through          ☞

posted Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 10:49:26


  • ● NEWS ● #PortSwigger #Confidentiality ☞ @Brave browser’s #Tor feature found to leak .onion queries to ISPs https://portswigger.net/daily-swig/brave-browsers-tor-feature-found-to-leak-onion-queries-to-isps          ☞

posted Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 10:49:47


  • Mocha tests in #CollaboraOnline https://dennisfrancis.wordpress.com/2021/02/21/mocha-tests-in-collabora-online/ #libreoffice          ☞

posted Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 10:52:37


  • ● NEWS ● #RTL ☞ Luxembourgish presumed jihadist Steve Duarte to remain imprisoned in #Syria https://today.rtl.lu/news/luxembourg/a/1675572.html          ☞

posted Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 11:05:11


  • ● NEWS ● #USNewsAndWorldReport #ksa ☞ #SaudiArabia to Invest More Than $20 Billion in Its Military Industry Over Next Decade https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2021-02-20/saudi-arabia-to-invest-more-than-20-billion-in-its-military-industry-over-next-decade          ☞

posted Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 11:05:21


  • #CitizenLab Response to the U. N. Working Group on the Use of #Mercenaries https://citizenlab.ca/2021/02/citizen-lab-response-to-the-u-n-working-group-on-the-use-of-mercenaries/          ☞

posted Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 11:05:47


  • ● NEWS ● #TheTelegraphUK #Transparency ☞ #Finland ’s secret weapon in the fight against fake news: its kindergarten children https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/climate-and-people/finlands-secret-weapon-fight-against-fake-news-kindergarten/          ☞

posted Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 11:10:25


  • ● NEWS ● #Vox #Energy ☞ #Windturbines can handle the cold just fine. Just look at #Iowa . https://www.vox.com/2021/2/19/22290512/texas-winter-storm-wind-energy-power-outage-grid-fox-news          ☞

posted Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 11:11:34


  • Today I am trying on an ARM laptop the whole #rustlang stack to better understand it. They need to #deletegithub but that won't happen anymore because they're bossed by #microsoft now (the Board).          ☞

posted Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 11:13:00


  • ● NEWS ● #JacobinMag #Energy ☞ The Energy Policy Culture War Is an Absurd Fantasy https://jacobinmag.com/2021/02/green-new-deal-texas-winter-weather-storm/          ☞

posted Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 11:13:13


  • ● NEWS ● #Futurism #Energy ☞ 'Pedo Guy', Who Moved to TX For Less Regulation, Is Furious That the Power Went Down https://futurism.com/elon-musk-tx-regulation-power-down          ☞

posted Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 11:13:28


  • ● NEWS ● #Newsweek #Energy ☞ #Texas Power Grid Came Within Seconds of Catastrophic Failure, ERCOT Officials Say https://www.newsweek.com/texas-power-grid-ercot-outage-storm-bill-magness-1570466          ☞

posted Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 11:13:44


  • #rustlang reminds me of #flatpak bloat. For a framework you end up installing a CD-ROM's worth of stuff. We used to have whole OSes on a CD-ROM. We still do.          ☞

posted Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 11:17:41


  • #flakpak is not a solution is search of a problem; it tackles a real IBM problem; the problem is that #ibm does not yet have monopoly on #gnu #linux          ☞

posted Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 11:23:05


  • If you think the problem with your program is that it does not have enough of something, you may be missing the point. In computing there is such a thing as too much, e.g. sites with 30 cookies and 5MB of JS. Sometimes people want LESS.          ☞

posted Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 11:25:26


  • Of course working with #rustlang on ARM failed spectacularly. After wasting about a gigabyte of disk space!!          ☞

posted Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 11:26:36


  • The more complicated a program is to build/assemble/compile (e.g. more dependencies), the less likely it is to still work on the future. A big digital graveyard of obsolete code ahead of us.          ☞

posted Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 11:28:53


  • #mozilla used to be run and managed by geeks, but now it's run by a non-practicing grifting lawyer. I know it sounds rude, but this is how companies and projects typically collapse. They don't know WTH they're doing.          ☞

posted Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 11:31:19


  • #mozilla CEO "among the 2005 Top 100 by Time, in the "Scientists & Thinkers" section," but never studied science or practiced it. I think they need a reorg rather than layoffs. Brendan Eich ousting was beginning of the end for them. He knew his stuff.          ☞

posted Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 11:33:54


  • "By 2020 her salary had risen to over $3 million, while in the same year the #Mozilla Corporation had to lay off approximately 250 employees due to shrinking revenues. Baker blamed this on the #Coronavirus pandemic" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitchell_Baker          ☞

posted Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 11:35:25


  • Notice how corporations and their chiefs just love accusing their critics of being "toxic", "negative" etc. while they themselves do vastly worse things, inc. killings of projects, companies and sometimes people          ☞

posted Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 11:38:05


  • Tantek Çelik (the actual star at #mozilla ... they've been firing many of them): "Many projects (especially open source software) often talk about their “bus factor” (or more positively worded “lottery factor”)." https://tantek.com/2021/051/b1/life-happens          ☞

posted Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 11:39:08


  • 2021: wanna run my 100 LOC program? Or 10KB program? No, problem, just go download 100MB worth of "frameworks" (you name which one) and pray it supports your hardware, OS, version (and will still work when those change). Let's go back. We're moving in a bad direction.          ☞

posted Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 11:41:06


  • "readability-cli takes any HTML page and strips out unnecessary bloat by using Mozilla's Readability library. As a result, you get a web page which contains only the core content and nothing more" https://gitlab.com/gardenappl/readability-cli          ☞

posted Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 11:42:08


  • ● NEWS ● #NLTimes #Censorship ☞ Ten years' prison for threatening #farright #Wilders over #Mohammed cartoons https://nltimes.nl/2021/02/19/ten-years-prison-threatening-far-right-wilders-mohammed-cartoons          ☞

posted Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 11:46:25


  • Today’s #HowTos | #UNIX • 𝗧𝘂𝘅 𝗠𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀 ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/147933 •●• #GNU #Linux #TuxMachines          ☞

posted Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 11:47:34


  • ● NEWS ● #JacobinMag #PressFreedom ☞ Capitalist Finance Is Incompatible With a Free Press https://jacobinmag.com/2021/02/tribune-publishing-free-press-hedge-fund-alden-capital/          ☞

posted Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 11:47:57


  • ● NEWS ● #France24 #PressFreedom ☞ #Algeria frees prominent journalist, dozens of activists after presidential pardons https://www.france24.com/en/africa/20210219-algeria-frees-dozens-of-activists-following-presidential-pardons          ☞

posted Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 11:48:40


  • #pakistan https://www.ugchristiannews.com/pakistan-detains-2-for-reading-the-bible-in-public/          ☞

posted Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 11:49:30


  • "A few thoughts on the meaning and importance of death, dying, and grieving in times of pandemic." https://today.rtl.lu/your-luxembourg/opinion/a/1672794.html          ☞

posted Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 11:50:23


  • "DoD paid #LockheedMartin over $400 BILLION for the F-35, a fighter jet so bad they have to rig the field tests in its favor. "https://glaceon.social/@DissonantEevee/105754606762713995 #grifting #corruption #imperialism #feudalism          ☞

posted Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 11:51:40


  • "Is paper really the only archival format?" https://retro.social/@ajroach42/105753064100162462 #curation #archiving #plannedobsolescence          ☞

posted Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 11:53:28


  • "Gov'ts and civil society cannot afford to be dependent (as they have very foolishly allowed themselves to become, worldwide) on a handful of US multinational tech corporations." #imperialism #gafam #oustsourcing #clowncomputing #socialcontrolmedia https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/@lightweight/105754958812629620          ☞

posted Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 11:54:42


  • "New research agency must not be exempt from FOI" https://joindiaspora.com/posts/20126636 later they wonder why people distrust not only what corporations are telling but governments too (perceived to be in bed with those corporations)          ☞

posted Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 11:55:54


  • "It is the users and the media who upload content to the platform. Therefore, Facebook does not think it should pay." #socialcontrolmedia #censorship #outsourcing #monopoly #espionage https://translate.google.com/translate?depth=1&hl=en&prev=search&rurl=translate.google.co.uk&sl=da&u=https://politiken.dk/kultur/medier/art8109330/Vi-skylder-ikke-Danmark-en-rød-reje          ☞

posted Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 11:56:46


  • old: "The #koch #oligarchy #thinkTank #CatoInstitute will host a panel discussion about the book and Section 230." https://www.jeffkosseff.com/blog/2018/10/24/test-post-1          ☞

posted Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 11:57:48


  • Saudi supremacists. No better than the #goldenDawnald folks? https://moderndiplomacy.eu/2021/02/19/saudi-schoolbooks-what-does-it-take-to-recontextualize-islam/          ☞

posted Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 11:58:49


  • Dependency confusion attack mounted via PyPi repo exposes flawed package installer behavior https://portswigger.net/daily-swig/dependency-confusion-attack-mounted-via-pypi-repo-exposes-flawed-package-installer-behavior "note that attack works against "Microsoft repository ..." -iophk          ☞

posted Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 11:59:59


  • #ibtimes now posting #microsoft #spam and signalling that it is #corruptMedia that does marketing instead of news (what most readers might be led to believe)          ☞

posted Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 12:01:07


  • #debian #gnu #linux #space #mars https://toot.liw.fi/@liw/105762824289123603          ☞

posted Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 12:02:04


  • #cbs and #cnn now posting pure spam for #billgates but would not do an actual investigative piece about his ties to Epstein and worse http://techrights.org/wiki/index.php/Gates_Foundation_Critique#2020          ☞

posted Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 12:03:41


  • #RaspberryPi self-nuked. Sales will certainly collapse. https://hardforum.com/threads/microsoft-repo-secretly-installed-on-all-raspberry-pis-linux-os.2007764/ #raspi #microsoft          ☞

posted Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 12:05:00


  • ### Most common capsules by number of working URLs . . . • gemini.techrights.org: 8538 URLs . . . ### Most common capsules by number of bytes in working URLs . . . • gemini.techrights.org: 161.1 megabytes . . . gemini://gemini.bortzmeyer.org/software/lupa/stats.gmi         ☞

posted Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 12:05:53


  • "sourcehut pages is a tool which allows you to publish static #Gemini capsules. Every #sourcehut user receives the "username.srht.site" capsule, and you can bring your own domain as well." gemini://srht.site          ☞

posted Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 12:08:24


  • #microsoft #windows #tco https://yle.fi/uutiset/osasto/news/police_receive_25000_crime_reports_over_vastaamo_hacking/11801245 #fi #finland          ☞

posted Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 12:08:42


  • They're not "riots" but an act of #sedition and violent insurrection https://www.salon.com/2021/02/20/wild-myths-i-believed-about-white-people-notes-on-race-american-ignorance-and-the-capitol-riots/          ☞

posted Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 12:08:57


  • ● NEWS ● #CyberScoop ☞ Allegations of planted evidence raise questions about [cracking] ecosystem in #India https://www.cyberscoop.com/india-rana-wilson-planted-evidence-malware-netwalker/          ☞

posted Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 12:10:48


  • ● NEWS ● #CoryDoctorow ☞ Complicity, incompetence, leadership and Capitol #Police https://pluralistic.net/2021/02/19/texas-lysenko/#gibson-snowden          ☞

posted Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 12:11:43


  • ● NEWS ● #SparrowMedia ☞ Indigenous Water Protector Jailed In #NorthDakota For Refusing To Cooperate With Secret Grand Jury https://sparrowmedia.net/2021/02/indigenous-water-protector-jailed-in-north-dakota-for-refusing-to-cooperate-with-secret-grand-jury/          ☞

posted Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 12:11:57


  • ● NEWS ● #Vice #DRM ☞ #JohnDeere Promised Farmers It Would Make Tractors Easy to Repair. It Lied. https://www.vice.com/en/article/v7m8mx/john-deere-promised-farmers-it-would-make-tractors-easy-to-repair-it-lied          ☞

posted Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 12:12:30


  • ● NEWS ● #TheVerge #Copyrights #Copyright ☞ Some viewers of Metallica’s BlizzCon performance heard the least metal music imaginable https://www.theverge.com/2021/2/20/22292790/metallica-blizzcon-2021-performance-dmca-for-whom-the-bell-tolls          ☞

posted Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 12:13:11


  • ● NEWS ● #TorrentFreak #copyright #copyrights ☞ #Hollywood & #Netflix Win New Streaming Piracy Blocking Order at UK High Court https://torrentfreak.com/hollywood-netflix-win-new-streaming-piracy-blocking-order-at-uk-high-court-210220/          ☞

posted Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 12:13:36


  • ● NEWS ● #TorrentFreak #copyright #copyrights ☞ University Runs Massive #BitTorrent Seedbox to Showcase Music Streaming App https://torrentfreak.com/university-runs-massive-bittorrent-seedbox-to-showcase-music-streaming-app-210220/          ☞

posted Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 12:13:51


  • ● NEWS ● #CommonDreams #ErikPrince ☞ Report of Illegal $80 Million Arms Transfer by Erik Prince to Libyan Warlord Raises Question of Who's Backing Former Blackwater CEO https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/02/20/report-illegal-80-million-arms-transfer-erik-prince-libyan-warlord-raises-question          ☞

posted Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 12:17:38


  • ● NEWS ● #CommonDreams ☞ Opinion | Why Didn't Speaker #Pelosi Want Witnesses? https://www.commondreams.org/views/2021/02/20/why-didnt-speaker-pelosi-want-witnesses          ☞

posted Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 12:18:05


  • ● NEWS ● #DeSmog #ClimateA ☞ Why the US Rejoining the #Paris #ClimateAccord Matters at Home and Abroad — 5 Scholars Explain https://www.desmogblog.com/2021/02/20/why-united-states-rejoining-paris-climate-accord-matters          ☞

posted Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 12:19:55


  • ● NEWS ● #TheNation ☞ A Tale of Two Bookcases https://www.thenation.com/article/society/a-tale-of-two-bookcases/          ☞

posted Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 12:21:20


  • ● NEWS ● #CommonDreams ☞ #Sanders 'Confident' $15 Minimum Wage Possible Through Senate Reconciliation https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/02/20/sanders-confident-15-minimum-wage-possible-through-senate-reconciliation          ☞

posted Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 12:28:33


  • ● NEWS ● #CommonDreams ☞ Opinion | #Texas Freeze Illustrates a Failed Economic System https://www.commondreams.org/views/2021/02/20/texas-freeze-illustrates-failed-economic-system          ☞

posted Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 12:44:47


  • ● NEWS ● #TheNation #culture ☞ Ephemera https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/ephemera/          ☞

posted Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 12:45:15


  • Links 21/2/2021: #Netrunner OS 21.01, #Mesa 21.0 RC5 and #PipeWire 0.3.22 Released • 𝐓𝐞𝐜𝐡𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬 ⇨ http://techrights.org/2021/02/21/pipewire-0-3-22-released/ •●• #Techrights #GNU #Linux #FreeSW gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2021/02/21/pipewire-0-3-22-released/ | more in http://schestowitz.com/2021/02/21/#latest          ☞

posted Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 12:59:33


  • Today’s 𝐓𝐮𝐱 𝐌𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬 Leftovers • 𝗧𝘂𝘅 𝗠𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀 ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/147937 •●• #Google #Linux #TuxMachines          ☞

posted Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 13:11:23


  • Hardware/Modding and #Microsoft Intrusion • 𝗧𝘂𝘅 𝗠𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀 ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/147936 •●• #GNU #Linux #TuxMachines          ☞

posted Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 13:11:33


  • #Programming Leftovers • 𝗧𝘂𝘅 𝗠𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀 ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/147935 •●• #GNU #Linux #TuxMachines          ☞

posted Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 13:11:45


  • #Security and #DRM • 𝗧𝘂𝘅 𝗠𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀 ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/147934 •●• #GNU #Linux #TuxMachines          ☞

posted Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 13:11:56


  • #Microsoft Inside - Part I: Don’t Get Close to Microsoft, It’s Not a Love Story • 𝐓𝐞𝐜𝐡𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬 ⇨ http://techrights.org/2021/02/21/not-a-love-story/ •●• #Techrights #GNU #Linux #FreeSW gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2021/02/21/not-a-love-story/          ☞

posted Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 14:09:26


  • #Android Leftovers • 𝗧𝘂𝘅 𝗠𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀 ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/147938 •●• #Google #Linux #TuxMachines          ☞

posted Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 14:10:00


  • #GeminiSpace is Growing and Techrights is Growing in That Space • 𝐓𝐞𝐜𝐡𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬 ⇨ http://techrights.org/2021/02/21/lighter-sites/ •●• #Techrights #GNU #Linux #FreeSW gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2021/02/21/lighter-sites/          ☞

posted Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 14:39:55


  • We Need to Keep the Word ’Master’ to Explain What Large Corporations Have Become to Society (Same Corporations Trying to Abolish This Word) • 𝐓𝐞𝐜𝐡𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬 ⇨ http://techrights.org/2021/02/21/masters-of-the-universe/ •●• #Techrights #IBM #RedHat #Microsoft gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2021/02/21/masters-of-the-universe/          ☞

posted Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 15:16:41


  • Linux 5.11 Supports Syscall User Dispatch Which Could Allow More Windows Games With DRM To Run Under Wine In The Future - LinuxReviews ⇨ https://linuxreviews.org/Linux_5.11_Supports_Syscall_User_Dispatch_Which_Could_Allow_More_Windows_Games_With_DRM_To_Run_Under_Wine_In_The_Future •●• #LinuxReviews #Kernel #Linux          ☞

posted Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 15:19:41


  • Linux 5.12 #Git Seeing New Code Land Following Winter Storm - Phoronix ⇨ https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-Git-Activity-Resumes •●• #Phoronix #Kernel #Linux          ☞

posted Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 15:20:22


  • #Intel eASIC N5X, Snapdragon 888 Support Land In Linux 5.12 - Phoronix ⇨ https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-5.12-ARM-DT-Pulls •●• #Phoronix #Kernel #Linux 🐧 Intel is a lost cause for Linux: http://techrights.org/wiki/Intel_leaks          ☞

posted Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 15:21:44


  • More #patent #propaganda from #IBM et al, massive patent holders of #softwarepatents and lobbyists for those. https://tech.hindustantimes.com/tech/news/barclays-and-td-bank-group-join-linux-patent-defence-network-report-71613905567078.html see http://techrights.org/2021/02/15/the-oin-delusion/          ☞

posted Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 15:24:37


  • rt.cpan.org to remain online http://blogs.perl.org/users/martin_mcgrath/2021/02/rtcpanorg-to-remain-online.html #perl #programming          ☞

posted Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 15:25:13


  • Today we start a mini series about how #Microsoft plans to ‘deal’ with #GNU / #Linux (of course while pretending to “love • 𝐓𝐞𝐜𝐡𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬 ⇨ http://techrights.org/2021/02/21/not-a-love-story/ •●• #gemini URL: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2021/02/21/not-a-love-story/ | more in http://schestowitz.com/2021/02/21/#latest          ☞

posted Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 15:27:23


  • Completely uninstall #MySQL -server in #Ubuntu 20.04 • 𝗧𝘂𝘅 𝗠𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀 ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/147940 •●• #GNU #Linux #TuxMachines          ☞

posted Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 15:28:26


  • #Kernel : New in Linux 5.12 and Linux 5.11 • 𝗧𝘂𝘅 𝗠𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀 ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/147939 •●• #GPL #Linux #TuxMachines          ☞

posted Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 15:28:35


  • The momentum is building behind the Gemini protocol; we’re just early adopters of something that’s growing in terms of demand • 𝐓𝐞𝐜𝐡𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬 ⇨ http://techrights.org/2021/02/21/lighter-sites/ •●• #Techrights @ gemini: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2021/02/21/lighter-sites/ | more in http://schestowitz.com/2021/02/21/#latest          ☞

posted Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 15:29:56


  • There are corporate consortia and a media obsession with supposedly offensive language; little attention is being paid to the blood spilled by those same corporations • 𝐓𝐞𝐜𝐡𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬 ⇨ http://techrights.org/2021/02/21/masters-of-the-universe/ •●• #Techrights #GNU #Linux #FreeSW gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2021/02/21/masters-of-the-universe/          ☞

posted Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 15:31:11


  • Mesa Lands New Single File Cache To Help Steam's Pre-Compiled Shaders, Space Savings          ☞

posted Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 15:34:22


  • #Mesa Lands New Single File Cache To Help Steam's Pre-Compiled Shaders, Space Savings https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Mesa-Single-File-Cache #graphics #linux          ☞

posted Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 15:34:40


  • "The system supports #ACLinux 4.0 (compatible with #Debian 10). The compact box measures 175.8 x 100.0 x 39.0mm." http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/147870#comment-28352 #gnu #linux          ☞

posted Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 15:37:05


  • For those who still want to waste their money on #raspi (several times over) in spite of the sellout to #microsoft http://linuxgizmos.com/pi-hat-with-16-opto-isolated-inputs-can-stack-for-up-to-128/          ☞

posted Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 15:38:12


  • It is probably noteworthy that the World Wide Web started as a European project (Switzerland, British guy) before US monopolies hijacked it almost completely          ☞

posted Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 15:47:52


  • The #techrights #gemini capsule now has all but two years of articles in it. So just over 25,000 blog posts/articles.          ☞

posted Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 17:32:44


  • #CoreELEC 9.2.6 Released with ZRAM Support, Bluetooth Improvements • 𝗧𝘂𝘅 𝗠𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀 ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/147941 •●• #GNU #Linux #TuxMachines          ☞

posted Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 17:33:18


  • So quiet in the stadiums these days https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ob1U6X8v8w          ☞

posted Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 18:20:53


  • #GNU #Linux lands on #Mars – A victory for open-source http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/147873#comment-28354          ☞

posted Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 18:36:04


  • #Debian -based #Netrunner 21.01 'XOXO' is the perfect Linux alternative to #vista10 http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/147917#comment-28353          ☞

posted Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 18:37:19


  • Technology Will Become More Inclusive When We Identify and Tackle the Root Causes, and Choice of Words Ain’t That http://techrights.org/2021/02/21/focus-on-words/ #ibm #redhat #linux #racism          ☞

posted Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 22:31:27


  • #Lubuntu Review • 𝗧𝘂𝘅 𝗠𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀 ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/147943 •●• #GNU #Linux #TuxMachines #ubuntu          ☞

posted Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 22:33:07


  • #Lubuntu vs. #Linuxlite • 𝗧𝘂𝘅 𝗠𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀 ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/147944 •●• #GNU #Linux #TuxMachines          ☞

posted Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 22:33:32


  • #Android Leftovers • 𝗧𝘂𝘅 𝗠𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀 ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/147945 •●• #Google #Linux #TuxMachines          ☞

posted Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 22:33:43


  • Best Wallpapers for #Lubuntu Desktop • 𝗧𝘂𝘅 𝗠𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀 ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/147946 •●• #GNU #Linux #TuxMachines          ☞

posted Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 22:34:36


  • #Android Leftovers http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/147942 #google #linux          ☞

posted Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 22:36:18


  • #cat https://i.imgur.com/Wj1MQzK.mp4          ☞

posted Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 22:41:50


  • The troublesome misdirection from real issues (such as imperialism and #racism that beget social apartheid) means that #mainstreammedia hails corporations as the solution to the very problem they contribute to (for profit) http://techrights.org/2021/02/21/focus-on-words/          ☞

posted Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 22:43:50


  • Working to better automate our #gemini or #geminispace (or capsule) at #techrights whilst also saving disk space where possible. It's like 10 times lighter than our WWW site.          ☞

posted Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 22:45:07


  • Great job from Rashford https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=636qVsBXyb0          ☞

posted Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 22:47:31


  • #PCLinuxOS : #KDE installation ISOs have been updated 2021.0215 http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/147392#comment-28355 #gnu #linux          ☞

posted Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 22:55:29


  • #Cineencoder 3.1 Is Released • 𝗧𝘂𝘅 𝗠𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀 ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/147947 •●• #GNU #Linux #TuxMachines          ☞

posted Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 22:59:29


  • Please do not put IP addresses into DNS MX records https://blog.hboeck.de/archives/904-Please-do-not-put-IP-addresses-into-DNS-MX-records.html          ☞

posted Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 23:05:10


  • The State Of #ROCm For HPC In Early 2021 With #CUDA Porting Via HIP, Rewriting With OpenMP - Phoronix ⇨ https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=LUMI-Preparing-For-AMD-HPC •●• #Phoronix #Kernel #Linux 🐧 | more in http://schestowitz.com/2021/02/21/#latest          ☞

posted Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 23:07:21


  • Why #Rhythmbox ’s Much-Needed Makeover Might Not Be Happening • 𝗧𝘂𝘅 𝗠𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀 ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/147950 •●• #GNU #Linux #TuxMachines          ☞

posted Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 23:10:03


  • Today’s #HowTos | #UNIX • 𝗧𝘂𝘅 𝗠𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀 ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/147949 •●• #GNU #Linux #TuxMachines          ☞

posted Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 23:10:11


  • Announcing #Oracle #Solaris 11.4 SRU30 • 𝗧𝘂𝘅 𝗠𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀 ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/147948 •●• #GNU #Linux #TuxMachines          ☞

posted Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 23:10:21


  • #thisweekinlinux 139: Linux 5.11, Linux On Mars!, KDE Plasma 5.21, Linux Mint, Fedora, Kodi | This Week in Linux - TuxDigital ⇨ https://tuxdigital.com/2021/02/thisweekinlinux-139/ •●• #TuxDigital #GNU #Linux          ☞

posted Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 23:10:58


  • Reading stdin with #Emacs Client ⇨ https://mina86.com/2021/emacs-stdin/ •●• #mina86 #freesw #programming | more in http://schestowitz.com/2021/02/21/#latest          ☞

posted Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 23:15:31


  • #ipkat promoting #ceipi spam even though it is run by a criminal http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2021/02/sunday-surprises_21.html see http://techrights.org/wiki/index.php/CEIPI and http://techrights.org/wiki/Beno%C3%AEt_Battistelli          ☞

posted Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 23:16:42


  • #Ericsson does not need to make anything when it just sends out lawyers and gives #patents to #patentTrolls that do "assertion" for them... https://patentlyo.com/patent/2021/02/appealing-judgment-subsequent.html see http://techrights.org/2018/01/14/ericsson-avanci-and-unwired-planet/ and http://techrights.org/2017/12/23/crushing-companies-that-make-phones-with-linux/          ☞

posted Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 23:19:42


  • Dmitry Shachnev: #ReText turns 10 years • 𝗧𝘂𝘅 𝗠𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀 ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/147951 #deletegithub #Microsoft #ProprietarySoftware          ☞

posted Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 23:20:24


  • This article did NOT age well. If you take advice from #patent lawyers you are listening to liars. https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=aaa7f711-42a9-4e62-942c-9d9f57c53f6b see http://techrights.org/wiki/Unitary_Patent and http://techrights.org/wiki/index.php/UPC          ☞

posted Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 23:22:02


  • Customize Lubuntu Themes http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/147946#comment-28356         ☞

posted Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 23:54:54


  • "We share some exclusive details about the Linux-powered gear that just landed on Mars, and the open-source frameworks that make it possible." https://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/144287/linux-action-news-177/          ☞

posted Monday, February 22, 2021 at 00:03:30


  • "Creating bootable USB media to enable you to install #GNU #Linux has changed since we last talked about it on the show" https://goinglinux.com/shownotes.html#glp404          ☞

posted Monday, February 22, 2021 at 00:04:09


  • Read Manpages With Less, Bat, #Vim or #Neovim - YouTube ⇨ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ab3rY0X5kD4 •●• #Video #GNU #Linux          ☞

posted Monday, February 22, 2021 at 00:10:32


  • #Graphics : #NVidia , ROCm, and #Mesa • 𝗧𝘂𝘅 𝗠𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀 ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/147952 •●• #Linux #TuxMachines          ☞

posted Monday, February 22, 2021 at 00:11:55


  • Audiocasts/Shows: #GoingLinux , Linux Action News, GNU World Order and #TWIL • 𝗧𝘂𝘅 𝗠𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀 ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/147953 •●• #GNU #Linux #TuxMachines          ☞

posted Monday, February 22, 2021 at 00:12:03


  • #SGTK Menu: Who Wants A Graphical Launcher https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K72VxbEPDgk #GNU #Linux          ☞

posted Monday, February 22, 2021 at 00:17:23


  • Faster IO_uring, BFQ + BLK-MQ Improvements Among The I/O Fun For Linux 5.12 http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/147939#comment-28357 #kernel #linux          ☞

posted Monday, February 22, 2021 at 00:20:41


  • Today’s #HowTos | #UNIX • 𝗧𝘂𝘅 𝗠𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀 ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/147954 •●• #GNU #Linux #TuxMachines          ☞

posted Monday, February 22, 2021 at 00:21:02


  • #GNUParallel 20210222 ('Ang Sang Su Kyi') released http://savannah.gnu.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=9943 #gnu #freesw          ☞

posted Monday, February 22, 2021 at 00:21:53


  • Don't talk about "Open Source" (mostly #openwashing of #ProprietarySoftware traps), speak of #freesw https://opensourcesecurity.io/2021/02/21/episode-259-what-even-is-open-source-anymore/          ☞

posted Monday, February 22, 2021 at 00:27:29


  • #OpenHardware : #Arduino and Pi Extensions • 𝗧𝘂𝘅 𝗠𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀 ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/147956 •●• #GNU #Linux #TuxMachines          ☞

posted Monday, February 22, 2021 at 00:30:18


  • Review: #Septor 2021 • 𝗧𝘂𝘅 𝗠𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀 ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/147955 •●• #GNU #Linux #TuxMachines          ☞

posted Monday, February 22, 2021 at 00:30:28


  • Links 22/2/2021: #Oracle #Solaris 11.4 SRU30 and #Lubuntu in Focus • 𝐓𝐞𝐜𝐡𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬 ⇨ http://techrights.org/2021/02/21/lubuntu-in-focus/ •●• #Techrights #GNU #Linux #FreeSW gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2021/02/21/lubuntu-in-focus/ | more in http://schestowitz.com/2021/02/22/#latest          ☞

posted Monday, February 22, 2021 at 00:38:11


  • #Programming Leftovers • 𝗧𝘂𝘅 𝗠𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀 ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/147957 •●• #GNU #Linux #TuxMachines          ☞

posted Monday, February 22, 2021 at 00:39:59



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