Roy Schestowitz

• #Krita 5.0 Released! Much Faster Now while Less Memory Usage http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/159460#comment-32262 #kde    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 00:41:26

• #GIMP 2.10.30 improves support for PSD and various image formats http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/159378#comment-32263 #gnu #freesw    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 00:41:42

• Neptune 7.0 “Faye” Released with Zswap, Based on #Debian GNU/Linux 11 “Bullseye” • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/159475 #GNU #Linux #TuxMachines    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 00:41:56

• Best Linux File Managers • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/159476 #GNU #Linux #TuxMachines    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 00:54:12

• #Audacity 3.1.3 Open-Source Audio Editor Makes Project Loading Up to 50x Faster • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/159477 #GNU #Linux #TuxMachines    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 00:54:40

• 23 Best Free Internet Radio Software • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/159478 #GNU #Linux #TuxMachines    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 00:54:56

• My Top 5 Linux Distro Releases of 2021 • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/159479 #GNU #Linux #TuxMachines    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 01:00:10

• #Google #Android Leftovers • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/159480 #Linux #TuxMachines    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 01:00:22

• Today’s #HowTos | #UNIX • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/159481 #GNU #Linux #TuxMachines    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 01:00:36

• Web #Programming and Frameworks • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/159482 #GNU #Linux #TuxMachines    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 01:08:34

• Videos/Audiocasts/Shows: "Who REALLY OWNS Linux", elementary OS 6.1 Jólnir Overview, and More • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/159483 #GNU #Linux #TuxMachines    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 01:08:45

• Top alternatives of #Microsoft #Outlook for GNU/Linux • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/159484 #GNU #Linux #TuxMachines    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 01:08:58

• Update Regarding Slovenia and #VojkoToman • Techrights ⚓ http://techrights.org/2021/12/23/update-re-slovenia/ ䷉ #Techrights #europe #slovenia | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2021/12/23/update-re-slovenia/ @jrepin    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 01:10:21

• End of Year Posts • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/159485 #GNU #Linux #TuxMachines    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 01:11:37

• #Fedora and #IBM / #RedHat Leftovers • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/159486 #Linux #TuxMachines    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 01:11:54

• Sustainable creativity in a world without #copyright • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/159487 #GNU #Linux #TuxMachines #programming    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 01:12:52

• Mike Gabriel: MATE 1.26 has finally landed in #Debian testing • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/159488 #GNU #Linux #TuxMachines #freesw    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 01:14:04

• #Proprietary and #Security Leftovers • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/159489 #TuxMachines    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 01:14:59

• #OpenHardware /Modding: Retro, Linux, Arduino, and More • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/159490 #GNU #Linux #TuxMachines    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 01:16:18

• Today in #Techrights • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/159491 #GNU #Linux #TuxMachines    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 01:17:20

• #Audacity Delivers an Early Xmas Present: 50x Faster Project Loading http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/159477#comment-32266 #freesw #spyware    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 01:18:05

• Links 24/12/2021: Neptune 7.0 “Faye” Released, Another Massive Security Hole in #Azure • Techrights ⚓ http://techrights.org/2021/12/23/neptune-7-0-faye-released/ ䷉ #Techrights #GNU #Linux #FreeSW | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2021/12/23/neptune-7-0-faye-released/    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 01:18:53

• Arduino IoT Cloud Scheduler Enhances Automation for Your Projects ⚓ https://blog.arduino.cc/2021/12/23/arduino-iot-cloud-scheduler-brings-enhanced-automation-to-your-projects/ ䷉ #Arduino #Hardware #OpenHardware #Hacking    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 01:41:25

• Retrofit your light switch with this remote-controlled device | Arduino Blog ⚓ https://blog.arduino.cc/2021/12/23/retrofit-your-light-switch-with-this-remote-controlled-device/ ䷉ #Arduino #Hardware #OpenHardware #Hacking    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 01:41:37

• "There’s no information about software, but we can assume the system runs a #Linux OS based on #Qualcomm SDK or #OpenWrt ." https://www.cnx-software.com/2021/12/23/dual-10gbe-router-supports-wifi-6-ax3600/    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 01:42:00

• "The stepper motor is driven by an #Arduino Nano" https://hackaday.com/2021/12/23/a-simple-3d-printed-gear-clock-shows-off-how-it-works/    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 01:48:22

• This is, in effect, a back doors in #AMD processor, akin to M.E. in all #Intel processors https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-AMD-i2c-PSP-Sharing #x86    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 01:48:45

• #proprietarySoftware "Exploitable remotely/low attack complexity" https://www.cisa.gov/uscert/ics/advisories/icsa-21-357-02    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 01:55:42

• Another one: #proprietarySoftware "Exploitable remotely/low attack complexity" https://www.cisa.gov/uscert/ics/advisories/icsa-21-357-01    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 01:55:56

• Lovely, #microsoft , just lovely https://thehackernews.com/2021/12/4-year-old-bug-in-azure-app-service.html no wonder #azure staff is being laid off. Dying platform... http://techrights.org/2021/07/31/azure-stagnating/    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 02:02:23

• "Almost three years ago, we moved the existing Ask #Fedora site from an engine which attempted to replicate Stack Exchange to a new system (the current Ask Fedora) based on Discourse, a modern open source web forum platform. We had some frustrations with the software" https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/upcoming-downtime-for-fedora-discussion/    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 02:02:31

• What. Da. Fark. "FOSS Life" promoting #adobe #proprietarySoftware and there's not even remotely a rationale for this. Why not GIMP or Krita? https://www.fosslife.org/adobe-launches-free-graphics-tool    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 02:16:23

• 2021: The Year the #LibreOffice Documentation Team Shined https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2021/12/23/2021-the-year-documentation-team-shined/ #freesw    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 02:39:02

• "In this video, I am going to show an overview of #elementaryOS 6.1 Odin and some of the applications pre-installed." https://yewtu.be/watch?v=djDnD1gUhVg #gnu #;omix    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 02:39:11

• Why linking #Aadhaar with voter IDs could end up excluding voters - Times of India ⚓ https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/why-linking-aadhaar-with-voter-ids-could-end-up-excluding-voters/articleshow/88437603.cms ䷉ #timesofindia #india    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 02:39:19

• Steaks https://i.redd.it/jytktgdjjx381.png    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 02:39:41

• Greek https://i.redd.it/0s3qml5xf1581.jpg    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 02:39:59

• #cat #kitty #kitten https://ircz.de/p/21122044    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 02:40:10

• The EPO’s Overseer/Overseen #Collusion — Part XXXX: The Idiosyncratic Italians • Techrights ⚓ http://techrights.org/2021/12/23/italy-epo/ ䷉ #Techrights #EPO #corruption #italy | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2021/12/23/italy-epo/    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 02:41:18

• "Younger people generally don't trust anyone and if you live where I do, you're always looking out for a knife in the back, quite literally." http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-social-231221.html#tDec%2023%2006:07:53   

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 02:59:55

• "features are good, a lack of features is bad; that's the law of the web" http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-techrights-231221.html#tDec%2023%2013:07:34   

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 03:00:40

• Man bites dog https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/health/wellbeing/newcastle-church-of-ubuntu-sacked-woman-for-getting-covid19-vaccine/news-story/c0c9f6315bb431f1dc460adbb811e0b7    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 03:02:36

• #nft = #scam and over-valuing bkuhn https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2021/dec/23/nft-faces-of-open-source/    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 03:06:15

• #Systemd 250 released • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/159492 #GNU #Linux #TuxMachines   

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 03:06:38

• he EPO-friendly #VojkoToman, who also protected #AntónioCampinos , was the subject of recent media coverage in #Slovenia • Techrights ⚓ http://techrights.org/2021/12/23/update-re-slovenia/ ䷉ #Techrights #corruption | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2021/12/23/update-re-slovenia/    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 03:09:42

• At last, #Techrights takes a look at the person who represented #Italy in the #EPO for over 15 years • Techrights ⚓ http://techrights.org/2021/12/23/italy-epo/ ䷉ #europe #corruption | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2021/12/23/italy-epo/    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 03:10:29

• "On behalf of the Rakudo development team, I’m very happy to announce the December 2021 release of Rakudo #152. #Rakudo is an implementation of the Raku1 language." https://rakudo.org/post/announce-rakudo-release-2021.12 #rakulang #programming    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 03:15:56

• #OpenCV Knows Where Your Hand Is | Hackaday ⚓ https://hackaday.com/2021/12/23/opencv-knows-where-your-hand-is/ ䷉ #hackaday | more in http://schestowitz.com/2021/12/24/#latest    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 03:16:44

• Last minute gift ideas: give an FSF membership and other free software gifts ⚓ https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/last-minute-gift-ideas-give-an-fsf-membership-and-other-free-software-gifts ䷉ #FSF #GNU #FreeSW #SoftwareFreedom c    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 03:18:27

• Fixing A #Freezer Design Flaw With A Little Bit Of Heat | Hackaday ⚓ https://hackaday.com/2021/12/23/fixing-a-freezer-design-flaw-with-a-little-bit-of-heat/ ䷉ #hackaday    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 03:19:23

• Xsnow: Brings Snow To A Poor Aussie #GNULinux User - Invidious ⚓ https://yewtu.be/watch?v=XOyid9J9Cug ䷉ #video #invidious #gnu #linux    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 03:20:17

• Unleashing Accelerated Speeds with RAM Drives https://www.admin-magazine.com/Archive/2021/64/Unleashing-Accelerated-Speeds-with-RAM-Drives    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 03:21:07

• "The #PostgreSQL Core Team has published its activity report for the period between June 2019 through December 2021" https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/postgresql-core-team-report-june-2019-december-2021-2381/ #psql #freesw #db    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 03:24:42

• " #Firebird Project is happy to announce general availability of Firebird 4.0.1 — the first point release in the Firebird 4.0 series." https://mapopa.blogspot.com/2021/12/firebird-project-is-happy-to-announce.html    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 03:25:28

• What #Kubernetes taught me about development | ⚓ https://opensource.com/article/21/12/kubernetes-developer ䷉ #FreeSW #RedHat #GNU #Linux    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 03:26:32

• #Polychromatic should #deletegithub ⚓ https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Polychromatic-0.7.3 ䷉ #microsoft #ProprietarySoftware http://techrights.org/wiki/index.php/Delete_Github    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 03:28:05

• "... computer language design is just like a stroll in the park. Jurassic Park, that is." -- Larry Wall http://blogs.perl.org/users/tom_wyant/2021/12/my-favorite-warnings-ambiguous.html #perl #programming    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 03:30:56

• Fake progress. PalmOS could do it 20 years ago. https://www.addictivetips.com/ios/how-to-use-google-maps-while-music-is-playing-on-your-phone/    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 03:41:59

• "Apps" are about removing functionality you used to have. #clowncomputing is about removing #privacy or #dataprotection you've long enjoyed. "Smart" means the opposite of that word.    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 03:43:44

• Today’s #HowTos | #UNIX • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/159493 #GNU #Linux #TuxMachines   

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 03:52:13

• #RakuAdvent Calendar: Day 24 – Packaging and unpackaging real good https://raku-advent.blog/2021/12/24/packaging-and-unpackaging-real-good/ #programming #rakulang    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 03:53:01

• "You would assume that any #programming language available back in the 1960s would be small enough to easily implement on today’s computers. That’s not always true though, since old languages sometimes used multiple passes." https://hackaday.com/2021/12/23/lisp-in-436-bytes/    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 03:56:34

• "Being ubiquitous, Google Analytics raises privacy concerns. When someone visits a website that uses Google Analytics, Google uses your IP address to track who you visit in order to determine your approximate geographic location." #malware from #gulag -- please do not add it to sites! https://linuxhint.com/google-analytics/    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 03:57:53

• #freesw Unlocks the World’s Potential • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/159494 #GNU #Linux #TuxMachines   

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 04:00:42

• #freesw is dangerous, says company that puts #backdoors in everything for #nsa et al. #microsoft http://techrights.org/wiki/index.php/Microsoft_and_the_NSA    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 04:01:24

• Don't use #skype or #microsoft #teams ... tools of #imperialism http://techrights.org/2012/06/20/skype-and-nsa/    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 04:02:42

• #Programming Leftovers • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/159495 #GNU #Linux #TuxMachines   

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 04:02:58

• Fake progress: copycats of #irc like #slack and other crap, with 10-100 more RAM consumption and no #privacy at all. We're being sold a pile of s- and then told it tastes lovely.    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 04:04:06

• How can you take Sway seriously if it does not #deletegithub ? Do you really want to adopt projects that trust #microsoft #ProprietarySoftware for coding?    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 04:05:16

• #Techrights Bulletin for Thursday, December 23, 2021 http://techrights.org/txt full archive: http://techrights.org/txt-archives #gnu #linux #freesw #plaintext    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 04:05:55

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

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 04:06:03

• ● NEWS ● #DJAdams ☞ Truncation and neat terminal output https://qmacro.org/autodidactics/2021/12/23/truncation-and-neat-terminal-output/    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 04:09:40

• ● NEWS ● #ChenHuiJing ☞ The many methods for using #SVG icons https://chenhuijing.com/blog/the-many-methods-for-using-svg-icons/    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 04:09:50

• ● NEWS ● #MakeUseOf #BSD ☞ What Is #DragonFlyBSD? The Advanced BSD Variant Explained https://www.makeuseof.com/what-is-dragonfly-bsd/    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 04:10:31

• ● NEWS ● #JeffGeerling #OpenHardware ☞ #RaspberryPi holds its own against low-cost ARM NAS https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2021/raspberry-pi-holds-its-own-against-low-cost-arm-nas    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 04:12:03

• ● NEWS ● #CSSTricks #Programming ☞ Test Your Product on a Crappy Laptop https://css-tricks.com/test-your-product-on-a-crappy-laptop/    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 04:16:06

• ● NEWS ● #Programming ☞ Hunting Bugs with Bisect https://matt-rickard.com/git-bisect/    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 04:16:28

• ● NEWS ● #taiwannews #taiwan #tw #Science ☞ Tea contest in central #Taiwan uses #DNA sequencing to oust fraudsters https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/4382652    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 04:18:18

• ● NEWS ● #RollingStone #Health ☞ Vaccinated Isn’t Enough: MEGATRON Carries the Risk of Long Covid https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-commentary/covid-omicron-long-covid-risk-1274717/ http://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2021/07/20/mass-infection/    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 04:19:04

• ● NEWS ● #ProprietarySoftware ☞ MS Teams: 1 feature, 4 vulnerabilities https://positive.security/blog/ms-teams-1-feature-4-vulns    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 04:21:47

• #Microsoft #Windows TCO: ● #TheHill #ProprietarySoftware ☞ Harris calls for 'cyber doctrine' to address increasing attacks https://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/586995-harris-calls-for-cyber-doctrine-to-address-increasing-attacks http://techrights.org/2021/10/29/microsoft-national-security-threat/    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 04:22:18

• "Regardless of how passionate and dedicated they may be, #Microsoft employees, unlike Sr. leadership, have little to no influence on environmental variables such as headcount, workload, schedules, resources, morale, management, standards, or ideologies being leveraged" http://techrights.org/2021/12/21/the-microsoft-shuffle-making-ones-own-products-intentionally-defective/    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 04:23:07

• ● NEWS ● #PCWorld ☞ Don’t trust hotel Wi-Fi during holiday travel. Here’s how to keep your info safe https://www.pcworld.com/article/561262/how-to-use-safe-wi-fi-connections-when-youre-traveling.html    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 04:30:08

• ● NEWS ● #TheSundayTimesUK #Privacy #Surveillance ☞ Detective #Tesla videos itself being keyed https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/detective-tesla-videos-itself-being-keyed-cpfq2xgqf    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 04:31:27

• ● NEWS ● #Privacy #Surveillance ☞ #Tesla on-board cameras show woman keying car https://www.dorsetecho.co.uk/news/19801139.tesla-on-board-cameras-show-woman-keying-car-poole/    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 04:31:42

• ● NEWS ● #NYOB #Privacy #Surveillance ☞ 4th Advent Reading: #Facebook fully ignores #Schrems rulings by Court of Justice https://noyb.eu/en/4th-advent-reading-facebook-fully-ignores-schrems-rulings-court-justice    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 04:34:02

• ● NEWS ● #NYOB #Privacy #Surveillance ☞ Third noyb "Advent Reading" from #Facebook / #DPC Documents https://noyb.eu/en/third-noyb-advent-reading-facebookdpc-documents also see http://techrights.org/2021/03/16/formal-report-microsoft-violations/    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 04:34:24

• ● NEWS ● #TorrentFreak #copyright #copyrights ☞ Court: Ad Agency Must Pay Damages For Placing Adverts on Pirate Manga Site https://torrentfreak.com/court-agencies-must-pay-damages-for-placing-adverts-on-pirate-manga-site-211223/    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 04:35:32

• ● NEWS ● #TorrentFreak #copyright #copyrights ☞ Pirate Party Fills Three Ministerial Positions in New Czech Government https://torrentfreak.com/pirate-party-fills-three-ministerial-positions-in-new-czech-government-211223/    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 04:35:41

• ● NEWS ● #ProPublica ☞ The Low-and-Slow Approach to Food Safety Reform Keeps Going Up in Smoke https://www.propublica.org/article/the-low-and-slow-approach-to-food-safety-reform-keeps-going-up-in-smoke    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 04:40:18

• ● NEWS ● #ProPublica #Finance ☞ A Mother Needed Welfare. Instead, the State Used Welfare Funds to Take Her Son. https://www.propublica.org/article/a-mother-needed-welfare-instead-the-state-used-welfare-funds-to-take-her-son    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 04:40:34

• ● NEWS ● #meduza #ru #russia #Ukraine ☞ ‘Let’s turn this page’ #Putin talks tensions over Ukraine, prison torture, and Santa Claus in annual marathon press conference https://meduza.io/en/feature/2021/12/23/let-s-turn-this-page    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 04:42:07

• ● NEWS ● #meduza #ru #russia #Belarus ☞ Belarusian prosecutors seek 11-year prison sentence for Russian national #YegorDudnikov https://meduza.io/en/news/2021/12/23/belarusian-prosecutors-seek-11-year-prison-sentence-for-russian-national-yegor-dudnikov    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 04:42:32

• ● NEWS ● #SequoiaPGP #Confidentiality ☞ #OpenPGP Card Support In Sequoia https://sequoia-pgp.org/blog/2021/12/20/202112-openpgp-card-ci/    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 04:43:07

• ● NEWS ● #NBC ☞ #Trump ally and #Pennsylvania Republican Scott Perry's House committee collision course https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/trump-ally-pennsylvania-republican-scott-perry-s-house-committee-collision-ncna1286535    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 04:43:26

• ● NEWS ● #DeutscheWelle #Energy ☞ #Belgium to close all existing nuclear power plants https://www.dw.com/en/belgium-to-close-all-existing-nuclear-power-plants/a-60236059    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 04:43:59

• ● NEWS ● #Axios #Energy ☞ SUVs conquer Earth https://www.axios.com/suvs-45-global-car-sales-2021-1107dea8-5c3f-4855-8d89-5e2b4317a0ba.html    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 04:44:09

• ● NEWS ● #ABC #Overpopulation ☞ Forecasters: #NewMexico should brace for worsening #drought https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/forecasters-mexico-brace-worsening-drought-81917300    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 04:45:55

• ● NEWS ● #TimesHigherEducation #hk ☞ University of #HongKong removes #Tiananmen ‘Pillar of Shame’ statue https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/university-hong-kong-removes-tiananmen-pillar-shame-statue    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 04:58:10

• ● NEWS ● #RFERL #Belarus ☞ Jailed Belarusian Journalist Kuznechyk Faces Criminal Charges https://www.rferl.org/a/belarus-journalist-kuznechyk-criminal-charges/31622896.html    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 04:58:30

• ● NEWS ● #RSF #Belarus ☞ Belarus – “We cannot give up our struggle for freedom of the press” https://rsf.org/en/news/belarus-we-cannot-give-our-struggle-freedom-press    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 04:58:39

• ● NEWS ● #NBC #CivilRights ☞ Kim Potter, ex-Minnesota officer, found guilty of manslaughter in death of Daunte Wright https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/outcome-reached-trial-kim-potter-ex-officer-charged-daunte-wrights-dea-rcna9408    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 05:00:54

• ● NEWS ● #BBC #CivilRights ☞ #Tiananmen Square: What happened in the protests of 1989? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-48445934    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 05:08:25

• ● NEWS ● #NYOB #CivilRights ☞ Complaint filed: Help! My recruiter is an algorithm! https://noyb.eu/en/complaint-filed-help-my-recruiter-algorithm    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 05:08:35

• ● NEWS ● #RFA #CivilRights ☞ Tibetan political prisoners denied family visits over ‘COVID concerns’ https://www.rfa.org/english/news/tibet/visits-12222021153058.html    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 05:16:42

• ● NEWS ● #CBC #CivilRights ☞ #Toronto #police used #Clearview AI facial recognition software in 84 investigations https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/toronto-police-report-clearview-ai-1.6295295    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 05:17:03

• Dialing up fear of the plague (e.g. "MEGATRON") as an instrument of scuttling public assembly and crushing dissent isn't a novel concept. Disbanding rights associated with collaboration with one's own neighbours/family.    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 05:19:32

• ● NEWS ● #CitizenLab #CivilRights ☞ Submission to the #Toronto #Police Services Board’s Use of New HEY HI Technologies Policy https://citizenlab.ca/2021/12/submission-to-the-toronto-police-services-boards-use-of-new-artificial-intelligence-technologies-policy/    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 05:20:26

• ● NEWS ● #IndiaTimes #CivilRights #wikileaks ☞ Explained: Who Is Julian #Assange And What Is The Case Against Him https://www.indiatimes.com/explainers/news/julian-assange-wikileaks-founder-case-557448.html    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 05:20:40

• ● NEWS ● #DrewDeVault #Copyrights ☞ Sustainable creativity in a world without copyright https://drewdevault.com/2021/12/23/Sustainable-creativity-post-copyright.html    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 05:42:05

• ● NEWS ● #TheRevelator ☞ What’s Working: The Revelator’s 12 Favorite Solutions Stories of 2021 https://therevelator.org/2021-solutions-stories/    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 05:42:28

• The #Car Drives You - Part III - The Very Concept of a Car Has Changed • Techrights ⚓ http://techrights.org/2021/12/24/on-car-owners/ ䷉ #Techrights #DRM #FreeSW | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2021/12/24/on-car-owners/    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 05:56:02

• ● NEWS ● #EFF ☞ 2021 Year in Review https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/12/2021-year-review    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 08:31:42

• ● NEWS ● #EFF ☞ Electronic Frontier Alliance Defending Local Communities: 2021 in Review https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/12/electronic-frontier-alliance-defending-local-communities-2021-review    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 08:31:51

• ● NEWS ● #DontExtraditeAssange #wikileaks #assange ☞ Stella Moris statement on Julian Assange’s Supreme Court appeal https://dontextraditeassange.com/press-release/stella-moris-statement-on-julian-assanges-supreme-court-appeal/    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 08:32:14

• Manufacturing samples of Xassette-Asterisk open-source hardware board • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/159496 #GNU #Linux #TuxMachines    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 08:33:04

• #Google #Android Leftovers • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/159497 #Linux #TuxMachines    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 08:33:16

• 𝘛𝘦𝘤𝘩𝘳𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵𝘴 #IRC Proceedings: Thursday, December 23, 2021 • Techrights ⚓ http://techrights.org/2021/12/24/irc-log-231221/ ䷉ #Techrights #GNU #Linux #FreeSW | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2021/12/24/irc-log-231221/    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 08:34:12

• ● NEWS ● #meduza #ru #russia #microsoft ☞ Russia fines GitHub for failing to delete Navalny’s ‘Smart Vote’ endorsements https://meduza.io/en/news/2021/12/23/russia-fines-github-for-failing-to-delete-navalny-s-smart-vote-endorsements    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 08:35:16

• ● NEWS ● #meduza #ru #russia ☞ ‘It’s even good for your health’ Why were journalists attending Vladimir Putin’s annual press conference sprayed with silver particles? https://meduza.io/en/feature/2021/12/24/it-s-even-good-for-your-health    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 08:35:51

• ● NEWS ● #Techdirt ☞ Another Report Shows U.S. 5G Isn't Living Up To The Hype https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20211222/07165348163/another-report-shows-us-5g-isnt-living-up-to-hype.shtml    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 08:37:12

• ● NEWS ● #CommonDreams #patent #patents #monopolies ☞ WHO Chief Says Vaccine Inequity Is 'Giving the Virus More Opportunity to Spread and Mutate' https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/12/23/who-chief-says-vaccine-inequity-giving-virus-more-opportunity-spread-and-mutate WHO took bribes from the self-serving patent pusher, #billgates    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 08:39:30

• ● NEWS ● #Techdirt #Tanzania ☞ Tanzania's Abuse Of US #Copyright Law To Silence Critics On Twitter Should Be A Warning For Regulators Looking To Mess With Content Moderation https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20211209/22513048090/tanzanias-abuse-us-copyright-law-to-silence-critics-twitter-should-be-warning-regulators-looking-to-mess-with-content-moderation.shtml    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 08:40:06

• ● NEWS ● #CommonDreams #Police ☞ 'Small Win for Police Accountability' as Kim Potter Found Guilty of Manslaughter in Daunte Wright Killing https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/12/23/small-win-police-accountability-kim-potter-found-guilty-manslaughter-daunte-wright    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 08:40:27

• ● NEWS ● #CommonDreams #gerrymandering ☞ 'Pressure Works': Senate Told to Act on Voting Rights Bills After Biden Backs Filibuster Exception https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/12/23/pressure-works-senate-told-act-voting-rights-bills-after-biden-backs-filibuster    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 08:42:34

• ● NEWS ● #CommonDreams ☞ 800+ Faith Leaders Tell Biden, Dems Voting Rights Must Be 'Number One Priority' in 2022 https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/12/23/800-faith-leaders-tell-biden-dems-voting-rights-must-be-number-one-priority-2022    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 08:42:52

• ● NEWS ● #CommonDreams ☞ 21 Million+ Going Hungry in US as #Manchin Tanks Expanded Child Tax Credit https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/12/23/21-million-going-hungry-us-manchin-tanks-expanded-child-tax-credit    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 08:43:11

• ● NEWS ● #Techdirt ☞ State Department Report Repeats Talking Points From Group Who Wants To Ban All Porn https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20211219/23251348152/state-department-report-repeats-talking-points-group-who-wants-to-ban-all-porn.shtml    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 08:43:42

• ● NEWS ● #CommonDreams ☞ Opinion | Tornados Can Kill. So Does Amazon's Business Model https://www.commondreams.org/views/2021/12/23/tornados-can-kill-so-does-amazons-business-model    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 08:44:10

• ● NEWS ● #Hungary ☞ Telex's third #transparency report https://telex.hu/english/2021/12/23/telexs-third-transparency-report    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 08:48:32

• ● NEWS ● #TheNation ☞ West Virginians Give #Manchin a Lump of #Coal for Christmas https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/wva-miners-manchin/    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 08:48:56

• ● NEWS ● #DemocracyNow ☞ #Pentagon Clamps Down on Extremism & White Supremacy After Dozens of Jan. 6 Rioters Had Military Ties https://www.democracynow.org/2021/12/23/pentagon_white_supremacy_extremism_military    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 08:49:30

• ● NEWS ● #DemocracyNow ☞ No One Is Safe Until Everyone Is Safe: #Oxfam on Vaccine Equity & Taking On #Moderna https://www.democracynow.org/2021/12/23/oxfam_moderna_vaccine_patent_rights #patent #patents    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 08:50:05

• ● NEWS ● #Shadowproof ☞ Ten Of The Best Protest Albums Of 2021 https://shadowproof.com/2021/12/23/ten-top-protest-albums-of-2021/    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 08:50:28

• ● NEWS ● #CommonDreams ☞ Opinion | A $778 Billion #Pentagon Budget Is Our Lump of Coal https://www.commondreams.org/views/2021/12/23/778-billion-pentagon-budget-our-lump-coal    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 08:51:00

• ● NEWS ● #DemocracyNow #Kelloggs #Kellogg ☞ “It’s a Win for Us”: Striking Kellogg’s Workers Get Raises, Improved Benefits & Avoid Two-Tier System https://www.democracynow.org/2021/12/23/kelloggs_workers_strike_victory_union    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 08:51:58

• ● NEWS ● #TheNation #Climate ☞ The Trap of Climate Optimism https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/dan-sherrell-warmth-qa/    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 08:52:16

• ● NEWS ● #CounterPunch ☞ America's Foreign Policy Death Spiral https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/12/23/americas-foreign-policy-death-spiral/    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 08:52:37

• The debate or the conversation about what it means to be car “owners” relates to issues discussed since the 1980s in the context of software (or code-sharing/code-altering practices) • Techrights ⚓ http://techrights.org/2021/12/24/on-car-owners/ ䷉ #Techrights #freesw #toyota #drm | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2021/12/24/on-car-owners/    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 08:53:56

• #fedra magazine is shilling #microsoft #ProprietarySoftware on #xmas eve https://fedoramagazine.org/how-to-publish-your-content-using-github-pages-and-jekyll/    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 08:59:08

• #Games: Polychromatic, Controllers, and Ogre 2.3 • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/159498 #GNU #Linux #TuxMachines   

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 09:00:19

• "The lights are sequenced to music using Falcon Player running on a #BeagleBone Black with the Kulp Lights F8-B Cape and a Pixel2AC board. The sequence was programmed using xLights on openSUSE Tumbleweed." https://cubiclenate.com/2021/12/24/christmas-light-display-2021/    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 09:02:06

• Today’s #HowTos | #UNIX • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/159499 #GNU #Linux #TuxMachines   

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 09:02:23

• ● NEWS ● #DemocracyNow ☞ #TeaParty Redux: How the #Koch Network Funds and Fuels the Anti-Lockdown Movement https://www.democracynow.org/2021/12/23/koch_hijacked_war_on_covid    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 09:04:30

• #Databases: Firebird, PostgreSQL, and #SQLite • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/159500 #GNU #Linux #TuxMachines   

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 09:07:03

• ● NEWS ● #CounterPunch ☞ Facing the Winter of the Soul https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/12/23/facing-the-winter-of-the-soul/    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 09:11:09

• ● NEWS ● #Techdirt ☞ Video Game 'Hades' Makes History As First Video Game To Win A Hugo Award https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20211221/09190548161/video-game-hades-makes-history-as-first-video-game-to-win-hugo-award.shtml    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 09:11:58

• ● NEWS ● #TruthOut #Chomsky #ukraine #russia ☞ Chomsky: Outdated US #ColdWar Policy Worsens Ongoing Russia-Ukraine Conflict https://truthout.org/articles/chomsky-outdated-us-cold-war-policy-worsens-ongoing-russia-ukraine-conflict/    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 09:12:41

• ● NEWS ● #TruthOut ☞ Sanders Urges Biden to Demand DeJoy's Resignation Over USPS "Sabotage" https://truthout.org/articles/sanders-urges-biden-to-demand-dejoys-resignation-over-usps-sabotage/    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 09:12:57

• ● NEWS ● #TheNation ☞ Start the Steal https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/start-the-steal/    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 09:13:18

• Release Notes for #siduction 2021.3.0 »Wintersky« • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/159501 #GNU #Linux #TuxMachines #debian   

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 09:13:42

• ● NEWS ● #TheNation #Health ☞ The #Pandemic Shows Why We Need Universal Health Care https://www.thenation.com/article/society/covid-pandemic-universal-healthcare/    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 09:17:50

• ● NEWS ● #Techdirt ☞ Another #Illinois Appeals Court Handles Compelled Password Production, Says There's No #FifthAmendment Issue Here https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20211127/16284248014/another-illinois-appeals-court-handles-compelled-password-production-says-theres-no-fifth-amendment-issue-here.shtml    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 09:18:24

• ● NEWS ● #CommonDreams ☞ #Sanders Urges Donald Biden to Demand DeJoy's Resignation Over Postal Service 'Sabotage' https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/12/23/sanders-urges-biden-demand-dejoys-resignation-over-postal-service-sabotage    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 09:18:47

• ● NEWS ● #TruthOut #insurrection ☞ January 6 Committee Requests That Jim Jordan Speak With Them https://truthout.org/articles/january-6-committee-requests-that-jim-jordan-speak-with-them/    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 09:19:13

• ● NEWS ● #TruthOut #patent #monopolies #patents ☞ Oxfam Takes On #Moderna in Fight for Vaccine Equity https://truthout.org/video/oxfam-takes-on-moderna-in-fight-for-vaccine-equity/    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 09:19:42

• #OpenHardware /Modding: Newt, #BeagleBone Black, and Raspberry Pi • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/159502 #GNU #Linux #TuxMachines   

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 09:20:40

• ● NEWS ● #TruthOut ☞ As Patients Caught #COVID19 Inside Hospitals, Government Oversight Fell Short https://truthout.org/articles/as-patients-caught-covid-inside-hospitals-government-oversight-fell-short/    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 09:21:27

• ● NEWS ● #TheNation ☞ What #Columbia Student Workers Are Asking For https://www.thenation.com/article/activism/columbia-graduate-workers-strike/ "university administration’s continued failure to bargain over the workers’ contract"    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 09:22:41

• ● NEWS ● #TruthOut ☞ All They Want for the Holidays Is for Their Loved Ones to Come Home From Prison https://truthout.org/articles/all-they-want-for-the-holidays-is-for-their-loved-ones-to-come-home-from-prison/    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 09:22:59

• ● NEWS ● #TheNation ☞ The Black Core of the Culture War https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/black-discourse-culture-racism/    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 09:23:12

• ● NEWS ● #CounterPunch ☞ How Awesome is 'Awesome,' America's Underperforming Military https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/12/23/how-awesome-is-awesome-americas-underperforming-military/    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 09:23:34

• ● NEWS ● #TheNation ☞ When Whiny, Incompetent Nazis Lost Big https://www.thenation.com/article/society/charlottesville-trial-white-supremacists/    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 09:23:45

• ● NEWS ● #TruthOut ☞ #Biden Says He's Running for Reelection in 2024, With a Big "If" Added https://truthout.org/articles/biden-says-hes-running-for-reelection-in-2024-with-a-big-if-added/ 4 more years of #oligarchy (playing "lesser evil" games)    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 09:24:36

• ● NEWS ● #TruthOut ☞ Trump’s 2024 Campaign Will Likely Be: “I Did the Vaccines All by Myself!” https://truthout.org/articles/trumps-2024-campaign-will-likely-be-i-did-the-vaccines-all-by-myself/    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 09:24:55

• ● NEWS ● #CounterPunch ☞ Stop Blaming Progressives For Right Wing Corporatism https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/12/23/stop-blaming-progressives-for-right-wing-corporatism/    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 09:25:18

• ● NEWS ● #CounterPunch #Pandemic ☞ Getting Ready for the Next Pandemic https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/12/23/getting-ready-for-the-next-pandemic/    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 09:25:35

• ● NEWS ● #CounterPunch #Climate ☞ 2021’s Climate Disasters Revealed an East-West Weather Divide, With One Side of the Country Too Wet, the Other Dangerously Dry https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/12/23/2021s-climate-disasters-revealed-an-east-west-weather-divide-with-one-side-of-the-country-too-wet-the-other-dangerously-dry/    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 09:25:51

• ● NEWS ● #CounterPunch #Chile ☞ The Meaning of Boric's Victory in Chile https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/12/23/the-meaning-of-borics-victory-in-chile/    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 09:26:07

• ● NEWS ● #CommonDreams #Amazon ☞ 'This Is a Big Deal': Amazon Settlement With #NLRB Could Ease Worker Unionization Efforts https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/12/23/big-deal-amazon-settlement-nlrb-could-ease-worker-unionization-efforts    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 09:26:25

• ● NEWS ● #CommonDreams ☞ Opinion | A Few Astounding Wins That People-Powered Movements Won in 2021 https://www.commondreams.org/views/2021/12/23/few-astounding-wins-people-powered-movements-won-2021    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 09:26:55

• ● NEWS ● #Techdirt #energy ☞ Texas Regulators Learned Nothing From February's Carnage, Prepare To Repeat The Cycle https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20211220/07321648154/texas-regulators-learned-nothing-februarys-carnage-prepare-to-repeat-cycle.shtml    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 09:27:22

• ● NEWS ● #CommonDreams ☞ Opinion | Who Saw MEGATRON Coming? Many, in Fact https://www.commondreams.org/views/2021/12/23/who-saw-omicron-coming-many-fact    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 09:27:43

• ● NEWS ● #CounterPunch ☞ The Fear of Those Still-Secret #CIA Records on the #JFK #Assassination https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/12/23/the-fear-of-those-still-secret-cia-records-on-the-jfk-assassination/    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 09:28:04

• ● NEWS ● #TheNation ☞ A Million Afghan Children Could Starve This Winter. Are US Sanctions to Blame? https://www.thenation.com/article/world/afghanistan-sanctions-hunger/ US destroyed the country, even worse than before    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 09:28:39

• ● NEWS ● #TruthOut ☞ Trump Asks Supreme Court to Block Presidential Records From Jan. 6 Committee https://truthout.org/articles/trump-asks-supreme-court-to-block-presidential-records-from-jan-6-committee/    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 09:28:59

• ● NEWS ● #CommonDreams ☞ Opinion | 3 Reasons to Be Hopeful as This Pretty Shitty Year Comes to an End https://www.commondreams.org/views/2021/12/23/3-reasons-be-hopeful-pretty-shitty-year-comes-end    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 09:31:45

• ● NEWS ● #CommonDreams ☞ Opinion | Do We Dare Stop Being Afraid of Ourselves? https://www.commondreams.org/views/2021/12/23/do-we-dare-stop-being-afraid-ourselves    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 09:32:36

• ● NEWS ● #CommonDreams ☞ Opinion | A Look Back on a Not So Happy Year https://www.commondreams.org/views/2021/12/23/look-back-not-so-happy-year    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 09:33:56

• ● NEWS ● #CounterPunch ☞ Resolution for 2022: Dare to Build Your Own Opinions and Then Defend Them! https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/12/23/resolution-for-2022-dare-to-build-your-own-opinions-and-then-defend-them/    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 09:34:31

• ● NEWS ● #TheNation ☞ This Holiday Season, Give the Gift of a Habitable Planet https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/consumerism-holidays-target/    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 09:36:02

• ● NEWS ● #TheNation ☞ Founding Godfathers https://www.thenation.com/article/economy/organized-crime-politics/    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 09:36:48

• 10 reasons to love Linux in 2021 | ⚓ https://opensource.com/article/21/12/reasons-love-linux ䷉ #FreeSW #RedHat #IBM #GNU #Linux    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 09:38:09

• #redhat on #ibm on "emotional intelligence (EQ)"??? https://enterprisersproject.com/article/2021/12/leadership-how-show-hybrid-teams-empathy    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 09:39:21

• "For the last three Sunday's some of us have gone there because it would soon be gone. On the first two Sunday's my wife and I went. Wore masks. Social distance. Etc." https://soylentnews.org/comments.pl?sid=46759    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 09:42:16

• "Wearing a mask is to protect other people more than yourself. Social distancing protects you both." https://soylentnews.org/comments.pl?sid=46759    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 09:44:24

• "I'm advocating for a free, open internet. When all the main browsers are captured by corporate interests, is it really free and open? Can't governments fund foundations that are fighting for public good?" https://indieweb.social/@obsolete29/107456557319016748    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 09:45:06

• "Just reminded of what #Microsoft is willing to do to protect its #monopolies (in this case corrupting the entire global ISO process to protect its Office monopoly)" https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/@lightweight/107487616811301776    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 09:47:09

• "I haven't read that for about 8 years... and I'd forgotten the details... yeah, very confronting and pretty devastating. She is a great figure in our open community." https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/@lightweight/107487536994505917 #groklaw    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 09:48:45

• #TikTok is accused of violating GPL with new livestreaming software https://www.protocol.com/bulletins/tiktok-obs-gpl-violation https://qoto.org/@lupyuen/107482557218000970 http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/159286#comment-32267    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 09:52:12

• "Is there any #debian developer out there interested in packaging the portable release of #gameoftrees?" https://bsd.network/@stsp/107481323406277970    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 09:53:38

• So-called 'Smart' Home... no longer your home, just a place for you within which to be spied on https://mastodon.social/@glynmoody/107491812114885699    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 09:54:53

• The control state is a threat to civil society https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&u=https://femtejuli.se/2021/12/21/kontrollstaten-ar-ett-hot-mot-civilsamhallet/    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 09:55:22

• How an N.B. man's teen prank led to a 63-year exchange of Christmas cards https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/new-brunswick-prank-christmas-1.6294366    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 09:55:50

• #Iran , #SaudiArabia FMs hold brief meeting in #Pakistan https://moderndiplomacy.eu/2021/12/21/iran-saudi-arabia-fms-hold-brief-meeting-in-pakistan/    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 09:56:29

• "Democrats are going beyond refusing to give Americans an affirmative reason to vote for them: in sabotaging their own purported agenda around Biden’s Build Back Better bill, they seem to be trying to lose to the authoritarians in the GOP they claim to oppose." https://jacobinmag.com/2021/12/the-democrats-are-trying-to-lose/    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 09:57:15

• Jaromil: "Today we finished the migration of core infrastructure servers at dyne.org including the ones running this mailinglist and serving #devuan developers with the video conference and crypto pad web applications." https://lists.dyne.org/lurker/message/20211223.170207.6afcad6d.en.html #gnu #linux    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 09:58:10

• #southsudan https://abcnews.go.com/Health/investigating-mysterious-illness-south-sudan-killed-100-people/story?id=81913388    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 09:58:27

• How #Trump just "snitched" on himself in New York #fraud case | Salon.com ⚓ https://www.salon.com/2021/12/16/how-just-snitched-on-himself-in-new-york-fraud-case-_partner/ ䷉ #salon    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 09:58:49

• #Beebom posting anti-Linux spam for #microsoft on #xmas Eve    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 10:01:29

• Best Wishes from TDF - The Document Foundation http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/159485#comment-32268   

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 10:02:58

• Ring In The New Year With #DIY #Bagpipes | Hackaday ⚓ https://hackaday.com/2021/12/23/ring-in-the-new-year-with-diy-bagpipes/ ䷉ #hackaday | more in http://schestowitz.com/2021/12/24/#latest    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 10:04:37

• "If it’s always been your dream to tinker with a little fruit fly’s brain, you can do so yourself using the open source FlyBrainLab tool provided, along with the freely available data sources. " https://hackaday.com/2021/12/24/flybrainlab-google-earth-but-for-a-drosophila-flys-brain/    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 10:09:30

• $35 Orange Pi 3 LTS SBC comes with 2GB RAM, 8GB flash, AW859A WiFi 5 and Bluetooth 5.0 module • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/159503 #GNU #Linux #TuxMachines   

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 10:09:44

• Links 24/12/2021: Sway 1.7 RC, #Systemd 250 • Techrights ⚓ http://techrights.org/2021/12/24/sway-1-7-rc/ ䷉ #Techrights #GNU #Linux #FreeSW | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2021/12/24/sway-1-7-rc/   

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 10:24:16

• #Microsoft Leftovers • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/159504 #GNU #Linux #TuxMachines    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 10:25:02

• #FreeSoftware Leftovers • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/159505 #GNU #Linux #TuxMachines    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 10:25:55

• Today’s 𝘛𝘶𝘹 𝘔𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴 Leftovers • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/159506 #GNU #Linux #TuxMachines    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 10:26:04

• openSUSE Tumbleweed – Review of the week 2021/50 & 51 https://dominique.leuenberger.net/blog/2021/12/opensuse-tumbleweed-review-of-the-week-2021-50-51/ #opensuse #suse #gnu #linux    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 10:29:26

• We take action against Hack-for-Hire firm Belltrox #SaveOurPrivacy ⚓ https://internetfreedom.in/meta-belltrox-hack-for-hire/ ䷉ #internetfreedom #india #in #privacy    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 10:33:08

• #darktable 3.8: Winter Release 2021 • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/159507 #GNU #Linux #TuxMachines   

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 10:33:37

• #ticker - terminal stock ticker • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/159508 #GNU #Linux #TuxMachines   

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 10:36:59

• 7 Linux Distros Released This Christmas Season • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/159509 #GNU #Linux #TuxMachines   

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 10:41:40

• 9 Hot Free and Open Source Java Application Servers • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/159510 #GNU #Linux #TuxMachines   

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 10:41:54

• #openSUSE Tumbleweed – Review of the week 2021/50 & 51 • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/159511 #GNU #Linux #TuxMachines #suse    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 10:45:37

• #[Video] GNOME 42 Demo in Nightly GNOME OS • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/159512 #GNU #Linux #TuxMachines   

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 13:21:43

• #Darktable 3.8 Open-Source RAW Image Editor Released as a Massive Update • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/159513 #GNU #Linux #TuxMachines   

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 13:22:04

• "I feel that the majority of people say "forget!. We'll stay as we are" ;-)" https://lists.orbitalfox.eu/archives/gemini/2021/007730.html #geminispace #geminiprotocol    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 13:25:58

• I know #coreboot is not about freedom -- which is what #libreboot exists for -- but hosting on #microsoft #ProprietarySoftware is a slap on the face to anyone who expected #security and decency. #deletegithub http://techrights.org/wiki/index.php/Delete_Github    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 13:29:58

• Oh, WAIT. My bad. It looks like #coreboot uses #microsoft #ProprietarySoftware only as a mirror. TBH, I see no point to such mirrors as they help Microsoft #monopoly and other abuses.    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 13:31:15

• Town very empty today; good for food shopping considering the plague that's raging and #tories want us to think isn't a big deal (as they've lost control of it)    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 13:33:19

• People who say #covid19 isn't political are intentionally overlooking the fact that mitigation policies are decided by politicians and their oligarchic handlers. Moreover, their surrender to a #patent #cartel on PRE-paid #vaccines is totally unacceptable. Taxpayers shouldered the R&D costs.    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 13:35:02

• The amount of corporate profits made from vaccines should be zero. Yes, zero. #patents #patent #monopoly #grifting #privatisation    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 13:35:56

• Today we saved over 150 pounds on the food bill. You only need to know where to go and when.    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 13:37:07

• Jussi Pakkanen: This year receive the gift of a free Meson manual https://nibblestew.blogspot.com/2021/12/this-year-receive-gift-of-free-meson.html #meson #programming #coding #freesw    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 13:38:05

• Irving Wladawsky-Berger (the man who brought #gnu #linux to #ibm decades ago): New Ways of Understanding Human Behavior ⚓ https://blog.irvingwb.com/blog/2021/12/new-ways-of-understanding-human-behavior.html ䷉ #irvingwb    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 13:44:58

• Krita 5.0 Is Out as a New Major Release With a Lot of Changes http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/159460#comment-32269   

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 13:50:00

• "he vaguely smelled of alcohol, maybe even piss (which is normal for old people) and didn't bother me at all. enter 4 (four!) security guys to escort him out. where's the social conscience of these people?" https://dt.iki.fi/forum-posts-collection    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 13:52:24

• #Taranis, a major release of Jami • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/159514 #GNU #Linux #TuxMachines   

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 13:52:40

• #Debian -Based #siduction 2021.3 Distro Released with Linux Kernel 5.15 LTS, PipeWire • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/159515 #GNU #Linux #TuxMachines   

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 13:56:57

• 4 Tools / Extensions to Add Falling Snow Effect on Ubuntu 20.04 /21.10 Desktop • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/159516 #GNU #Linux #TuxMachines   

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 13:58:07

• At long last I've managed to entirely scrub off the #windows logo from my keyboard, which has nothing to do with #microsoft except this worthless print    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 14:00:27

• Alexandre Oliva’s Open Letter on #RichardStallman • Techrights ⚓ http://techrights.org/2021/12/24/lxo-rms/ ䷉ #Techrights #GNU #Linux #FreeSW | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2021/12/24/lxo-rms/   

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 14:22:24

• Darktable 3.8 Released with Huge Set of Changes, New Modules + More http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/159507#comment-32270   

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 14:32:28

• 2021 #KDE Eco Sprint • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/159517 #GNU #Linux #TuxMachines #programming    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 14:34:10

• #perl Monthly Report - November http://blogs.perl.org/users/mohammad_s_anwar/2021/12/monthly-report---november-3.html #programming    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 14:35:02

• Becky Stern’s machine brings the NYC hot dog experience to you | Arduino Blog ⚓ https://blog.arduino.cc/2021/12/24/becky-sterns-machine-brings-the-nyc-hot-dog-experience-anywhere/ ䷉ #Arduino #Hardware #OpenHardware #Hacking    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 14:59:35

• FreeAptitude - Playing with DBus and KDE applications (Part 2) ⚓ https://freeaptitude.altervista.org/articles/playing-with-dbus-and-kde-applications-part-2.html ䷉ #freeaptitude #kde #freesw    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 15:00:43

• #MedicLog : The personal health logger that everyone needs https://medevel.com/mediclog/ "The application and source code is licensed under GPL-3.0 License."    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 15:10:33

• Jrnl: Create your personal journals with style https://medevel.com/jrnl/ "Jrnl is released as free and open-source software under GPL-3.0 License."    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 15:11:42

• The person whom many consider to be the ‘heir’ of #RMS responds to common accusations, which are sadly not based on actual facts • Techrights ⚓ http://techrights.org/2021/12/24/lxo-rms/ ䷉ #Techrights #GNU #Linux #FreeSW | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2021/12/24/lxo-rms/    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 15:13:01

• The Most Excellent Non- #Programming Books for Coders https://medevel.com/the-most-excellent-non-programming-books-for-coders/    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 15:24:40

• Top 20 free, Open-source Icon packs for your project https://medevel.com/os-20-icon-fonts/ #sharing    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 15:26:40

• #Darktable 3.8.0 released http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/159507#comment-32271   

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 15:33:34

• Jami "Taranis" released http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/159514#comment-32272   

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 15:34:51

• #FOSSlife promotes hype, buzzwords and even the misnomer/fiction that is #serverless https://www.fosslife.org/introduction-serverless-computing see http://techrights.org/2019/07/13/buzzwords-confronted.../    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 15:40:42

• "This means that your Debian 11 system will regularly fail to boot." https://the-blogger-spotter.blogspot.com/2021/11/debian-11-is-broken.html?m=1 "P.S.: can you imagine a Microsoft Windows person who would find it conceivable that the system drive, aka (C:), would change its drive letter on each boot? Debian can!"    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 15:48:44

• "Creating a tenant and adding a first device is the next step once you installed ThingsBoard on Raspberry PI. A simple monitoring task is by checking internal CPU temperature" https://peppe8o.com/thingsboard-and-raspberry-pi-part-2-add-device-telemetry-by-mttq-and-python/    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 15:49:55

• #tories : don't panic. 'Only' 122,000+ new #covid19 cases on Xmas Eve! Nothing to worry about. Page updated 5 mins ago: https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 16:07:25

• [Meme] The Most Inclusive Greeting We Can Think of • Techrights ⚓ http://techrights.org/2021/12/24/inclusive-greetings/ ䷉ #Techrights #GNU #Linux #FreeSW | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2021/12/24/inclusive-greetings/    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 16:19:28

• Today’s #HowTos | #UNIX • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/159518 #GNU #Linux #TuxMachines   

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 16:23:39

• #tories (spinmeisters): don't worry!!! Not many people get hospitalised with #covid19 anyway. Funny that... today, Xmas Eve, highest number of hospitalisations since 19-02-2021. #nhs data affirms.    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 16:37:18

• #Programming Leftovers • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/159519 #GNU #Linux #TuxMachines    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 16:49:10

• Today’s 𝘛𝘶𝘹 𝘔𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴 Leftovers • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/159520 #GNU #Linux #TuxMachines    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 16:49:26

• #Google #Android Leftovers • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/159521 #Linux #TuxMachines    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 16:49:54

• Links 24/12/2021: #Darktable 3.8 and Jami “Taranis” • Techrights ⚓ http://techrights.org/2021/12/24/jami-taranis/ ䷉ #Techrights #GNU #Linux #FreeSW | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2021/12/24/jami-taranis/   

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 16:52:18

• 17 #freesw Bullet Journal apps to boost your productivity https://medevel.com/17-bullet-journal-apps-to-boost-your-productivity/    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 16:54:25

• "AMIDE is a feature-rich free, open-source program for viewing, analyzing, and registering volumetric medical imaging data sets. It is one of the oldest open-source, free #DICOM software. It provided aid to doctors, and researchers on platforms like #Linux and macOS since 2003." https://medevel.com/amide/    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 16:55:13

• #Techrights will be posting as usual after dinner http://techrights.org/2021/12/24/inclusive-greetings/ #xmas #businessAsUsual #epo #corruption (videos coming soon)    

posted Friday, December 24, 2021 at 16:56:56