Roy Schestowitz

• 188: Linux From Scratch, openSUSE Leap 15.4, Linux Mint, Armbian, Steam Deck and more Linux news - TuxDigital ⚓ https://tuxdigital.com/podcasts/this-week-in-linux/twil-188/ ䷉ TuxDigital    

posted Sunday, March 06, 2022 at 00:36:23

• Gulag Play playing with cargo cults and cranks, but it bans actual FREE (as in freedom) software https://www.einnews.com/pr_news/564657556/first-swapdex-related-blockchain-monitoring-app-is-available-in-the-google-play-store    

posted Sunday, March 06, 2022 at 00:37:09

• Techrights is a shitcoin trillionaire. We don't give a shit.    

posted Sunday, March 06, 2022 at 00:37:49

• "I'm from Brazil and also unable to access the website, so I installed "Hotspot Shield Free VPN Proxy" on Chrome's web store to access it. I also saw a comment on twitter from someone not being able to access it too. I don't know why they are limiting only for US users..." http://lxer.com/module/forums/t/36789/    

posted Sunday, March 06, 2022 at 00:39:46

• "Linuxiac staff member here. Yes, unfortunately, access to the website is currently unavailable in some countries. The reasons for this are beyond my authority to comment on." Weird. Why can he not just say why it's blocked? http://lxer.com/module/forums/t/36789/    

posted Sunday, March 06, 2022 at 00:40:52

• New graph to be generated shortly (a few minutes), showing 1777 active Gemini capsules gemini://botond.online/en/stats/    

posted Sunday, March 06, 2022 at 00:56:53

• yewtu.be is about to exceed 20k users! https://api.invidious.io/ #gulagtube #googleEvil #surveillance    

posted Sunday, March 06, 2022 at 01:00:45

• "Quite frankly, I found it mostly interesting in a Jerry Springer kind of way. White trash battling it out in public, throwing chairs at each other. SCO crying about IBM's other women. ... Fairly entertaining." gopher://gopher.conman.org:70/    

posted Sunday, March 06, 2022 at 01:13:03

• How to make enemies: upset Steve Jobs fans... on Russian TV https://youtube.076.ne.jp/watch?v=PJu9UkokzkY    

posted Sunday, March 06, 2022 at 01:17:14

• https://diaspora.glasswings.com/posts/ad4b9c307e3b013ae0ff52540086c3e0   

posted Sunday, March 06, 2022 at 01:51:36

• https://blog.irvingwb.com/blog/2022/03/the-new-map-of-life.html   

posted Sunday, March 06, 2022 at 02:32:43

• "C is really giving me headaches" http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-techrights-050322.html#tMar%2005%2020:51:13    

posted Sunday, March 06, 2022 at 02:36:34

• [Meme] Sorry, Your Software Isn’t Supported • Techrights ⚓ http://techrights.org/2022/03/05/pushing-proprietary-software/ | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2022/03/05/pushing-proprietary-software/    

posted Sunday, March 06, 2022 at 03:40:32

• When it comes to Google (Gulag), E-mail messages are merely “content” (to be scanned and indexed) http://techrights.org/2022/03/05/scanned-and-indexed-by-google/    

posted Sunday, March 06, 2022 at 03:41:42

• Nany people are totally unfamiliar with Zoë Kooyman and Greg Farough; with Kooyman having just become the public face of the FSF, converting the above video from MP4 to WebM was likely worthwhile as they cover a lot of ground in an excellent one-hour talk http://techrights.org/2022/03/05/zoe-kooyman-and-greg-farough/    

posted Sunday, March 06, 2022 at 03:42:07

• Reject Decades of Russophobic Propaganda http://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2022/03/06/russophobic-propaganda/    

posted Sunday, March 06, 2022 at 05:21:14

• Total size of Gemini capsule of Techrights is now 1.6GB. Due to page crawling limits (max 10,000), Lupa knows of no Gemini capsule with over 1GB in "content" gemini://gemini.bortzmeyer.org/software/lupa/stats.gmi    

posted Sunday, March 06, 2022 at 05:29:53

• Over the past year or two YouTube became a malicious spying machine that engages in heavy, one-sided, self-serving censorship (sometimes against Free software) while rewarding spam and misinformation; there are simple ways to access YouTube “content” without touching Google • Techrights ⚓ http://techrights.org/2022/03/05/bypassing-google/ ䷉    

posted Sunday, March 06, 2022 at 09:41:32

• Earlier today I helped another person set up a Gemini capsule; this thing is spreading fast, having grown 10% in just over a month • Techrights ⚓ http://techrights.org/2022/03/05/2200-capsules-charted-by-botond/    

posted Sunday, March 06, 2022 at 09:42:13

• Mr. Brin (co)founded Google around his love of GNU/Linux, which had been a priority of the company before greedy shareholders and career-climbing sociopaths from prestigious “business schools” took over • Techrights ⚓ http://techrights.org/2022/03/06/curtailing-founders/    

posted Sunday, March 06, 2022 at 09:43:02

• Replacing Firefox with something better, safer https://www.linuxcapable.com/how-to-install-librewolf-browser-on-debian-11-bullseye/    

posted Sunday, March 06, 2022 at 09:44:25

• "We are coming on two decades since IPv6 became a recognised standard and generally available but it is still not being widely adopted by people and organisations that have easy access to IPv4 address space. Even if you have a native IPv4 address, it will typically be in the form of some CG-NAT or other NAT on your customer premises equipment (CPE)." https://www.tubsta.com/2022/03/native-ipv6-with-openbsd-and-aussie-broadband/    

posted Sunday, March 06, 2022 at 09:47:03

• "Now that 64 bit Raspberry Pi OS is a real thing, I finally got around to updating the pi3hat libraries." https://jpieper.com/2022/03/04/pi3hat-support-for-64-bit-raspberry-pi-os/    

posted Sunday, March 06, 2022 at 09:47:38

• "stopping "anticheat" and DRM malware is going to be more difficult" http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-techrights-050322.html#tMar%2005%2023:17:16    

posted Sunday, March 06, 2022 at 09:50:01

• "Here is a question that you could ask in a certain sort of mood: why is serving static files from a web server so well supported?" https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/web/StaticFilesAndEfficiency    

posted Sunday, March 06, 2022 at 10:18:00

• "It's also designed to make you dip your toes into a lot of commonly used technologies and computer science fundamentals in the process. Namely it makes you deal with these buzzwords" https://christine.website/blog/new-language-blog-backend-2022-03-02    

posted Sunday, March 06, 2022 at 10:18:35

• "Back in 2020, the Qt company decided to start a war against their own users and contributors by withholding the 5.15 code, only releasing them under a closed license, making the offline installers available to paid customers and requiring a Qt account for the online installer" https://raymii.org/s/blog/Qt_5.15.3_OpenSource_released.html    

posted Sunday, March 06, 2022 at 10:19:53

• "First, grab a tape measure, then sit down and and measure the distance between your eyes and the screen. Then, go to the optometrist and get that examination, then go to a good glasses merchant and show them your prescription and tell them the measurement and say you want computer glasses." https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2022/03/04/Get-Computer-Glasses    

posted Sunday, March 06, 2022 at 10:22:18

• Opinion | Hold All Politicians Accountable for Waging War, Not Just Putin https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/03/05/hold-all-politicians-accountable-waging-war-not-just-putin    

posted Sunday, March 06, 2022 at 10:28:54

• "Mozilla released new versions of its Firefox web browser on March 5, 2022. The new browser versions fix two critical security vulnerabilities in the Firefox web browser." https://www.ghacks.net/2022/03/05/firefox-97-0-2-and-firefox-esr-91-6-1-are-out-with-critical-security-fixes/    

posted Sunday, March 06, 2022 at 11:04:07

• The site "itsubuntu" is turning to shit and literally promoting Windows, not "Ubuntu" or GNU/Linux. It ought to rename.    

posted Sunday, March 06, 2022 at 11:06:37

• UP Xtreme i11 mini PC review with Ubuntu 20.04, Edge Insights for Vision https://www.cnx-software.com/2022/03/06/up-xtreme-i11-mini-pc-review-with-ubuntu-20-04-edge-insights-for-vision/    

posted Sunday, March 06, 2022 at 11:13:45

• Tow-Boot introduced today, but it cannot be taken seriously because it outsourced both code and releases to Microsoft proprietary software. No decent developer would resort to such foolishness. https://tow-boot.org/    

posted Sunday, March 06, 2022 at 11:27:53

• "Oh, HELLO THERE. We're a LINUX project. Please open an account with Microsoft to help us. To use proprietary software monopoly to help..... ermmm.... Linux??!"    

posted Sunday, March 06, 2022 at 11:29:41

• The founder of the FSF was in Kiev months ago, back when he spoke for the first time (in person) in years • Techrights ⚓ http://techrights.org/2022/03/06/rms-in-kiev-ukraine/ | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2022/03/06/rms-in-kiev-ukraine/    

posted Sunday, March 06, 2022 at 11:31:28

• "Last month users: 8168." :( #diaspora lost many users in recent years. https://the-federation.info/diaspora    

posted Sunday, March 06, 2022 at 12:18:34

• Notice how in the Federation (decentralised stuff) AGPL or AGPLv3 is very prevalent, dominant https://the-federation.info/    

posted Sunday, March 06, 2022 at 13:17:11

• digiKam 7.6 Released with New Masonry-Based Flow View Plugin, JPEG-XL Support • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162217    

posted Sunday, March 06, 2022 at 13:50:55

• Matrix or Rocket.chat? • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162218    

posted Sunday, March 06, 2022 at 14:23:39

• #PeppermintOS | The PERFECT High-Performance Alternative For Windows! (NEW CHANGES) - Invidious ⚓ https://yewtu.be/watch?v=LJB1fUsZJjE    

posted Sunday, March 06, 2022 at 14:25:14

• v3d: enable texture filtering anisotropic https://cgit.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/commit/?id=5b43075888612d12b7f367a5c32a3e42a9ff0e0a #linux #kernel    

posted Sunday, March 06, 2022 at 14:26:48

• "This is my third blogpost for SoK 2022. If you have been following my earlier blogposts, you would know that I’ve been working on adding the Perspective Ellipse Assistant Tool in Krita." http://srirupa19.github.io/sok/2022/03/06/third_post.html    

posted Sunday, March 06, 2022 at 14:39:35

• What Can You Do With the 64-Bit Version of Raspberry Pi OS? • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162219    

posted Sunday, March 06, 2022 at 14:47:47

• Today’s #HowTos | #UNIX • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162220    

posted Sunday, March 06, 2022 at 14:47:57

• 7 Best Free and Open Source Accountancy Software • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162221    

posted Sunday, March 06, 2022 at 14:51:54

• "There are 2204 capsules. We successfully connected recently to 1778 of them." gemini://gemini.bortzmeyer.org/software/lupa/stats.gmi    

posted Sunday, March 06, 2022 at 15:26:12

• More Microsoft ShitHub instead of real repo https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=FEX-2203-Released    

posted Sunday, March 06, 2022 at 16:15:31

• Steam Deck: 7 Unexpected Things We Discovered https://www.ign.com/articles/steam-deck-7-unexpected-things-you-can-do    

posted Sunday, March 06, 2022 at 16:16:47

• "In this tutorial, I’m going to show you how to install and configure Seafile with Raspberry PI by using Docker, which makes far simpler the installation procedure." https://peppe8o.com/seafile-with-raspberry-pi-self-hosted-and-open-source-filesync-solution/    

posted Sunday, March 06, 2022 at 16:18:46

• Install LibreWolf Browser on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS - Linux Shout ⚓ https://www.how2shout.com/linux/how-to-install-librewolf-browser-on-ubuntu-20-04-lts/    

posted Sunday, March 06, 2022 at 16:20:36

• Mintcast 378.5 - Oh, the Distros You’ll Go! - mintCast ⚓ https://mintcast.org/2022/03/06/378-5-oh-the-distros-youll-go/    

posted Sunday, March 06, 2022 at 16:21:27

• Manchester City is the 'new' Manchester United (of the Fergie years) https://yewtu.be/watch?v=afmcM5jIziQ    

posted Sunday, March 06, 2022 at 20:34:03

• Google #Android Leftovers • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162222    

posted Sunday, March 06, 2022 at 21:01:22

• Corporate media likes to quote famous criminals like Bill Gates talking about the "next" pandemic even though we've not even solved the "last" one. This is about patent cartels trying to sell us more licences and more products, "just in case"...    

posted Sunday, March 06, 2022 at 21:43:33

• All-time low for COVID-19 vaccinations ("boosters" included) this past week in the UK. Poor AstroZeneca (thieves), product "sales" or patent licensing waning? https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/vaccinations?areaType=overview&areaName=United%20Kingdom   

posted Sunday, March 06, 2022 at 21:45:51

• AstraZeneca made a killing. And we've not even solve the crisis, we just pretend it no longer exists. One year ago: http://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2021/04/21/astrazeneca-experiences/   

posted Sunday, March 06, 2022 at 21:46:43

• #gulag search makes it impossible to search for certain things. The "autocorrect" thing, for search, now insists on the correction every time, changes the string for you (you KNOW what you search for! No mistake!), and there appears to be no workaround! This is a gateway to terrible stuff like in China.    

posted Sunday, March 06, 2022 at 22:02:49

• Budgie 10.6 Desktop Environment Improves Theme and Panel, Revamps Notification System • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162223    

posted Sunday, March 06, 2022 at 22:36:00

• Linux 5.17-rc7 • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162224    

posted Sunday, March 06, 2022 at 22:53:16

• Gemini capsule of Techrights now has working XML/RSS gemini://gemini.techrights.org/feed.xml/    

posted Sunday, March 06, 2022 at 23:09:51

• 𝘛𝘦𝘤𝘩𝘳𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵𝘴 #IRC Proceedings: Saturday, March 05, 2022 • Techrights ⚓ http://techrights.org/2022/03/06/irc-log-050322/ ䷉ #Techrights #GNU #Linux #FreeSW | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2022/03/06/irc-log-050322/    

posted Sunday, March 06, 2022 at 23:18:06

• Contrary to what the EPO‘s official (military-grade propaganda, Russia style!) Web site tells visitors as often as possible, in collaboration with the cabal of Alex Ramsay, the UPC is neither legal nor tenable; there’s a long history of such fakery as a lobbying tactic • Techrights ⚓ http://techrights.org/2022/03/06/upc-drunkland/    

posted Sunday, March 06, 2022 at 23:18:43

• The OSI’s latest IRS filing, signed by Josh, confirms what he said years ago; Microsoft takes most of the money of the OSI’s budget and now has a Director at the OSI • Techrights ⚓ http://techrights.org/2022/03/06/microsoft-osi-entryism/    

posted Sunday, March 06, 2022 at 23:19:27

• Our git repo has just exceeded 12k lines of code for Techrights stuff gemini://gemini.techrights.org/git/sloc.gmi    

posted Sunday, March 06, 2022 at 23:45:55

• Today in #Techrights • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162225    

posted Sunday, March 06, 2022 at 23:58:04

• Now I see that LinuxHint is posting webspam using the name "Raspberry Pi", pushing totally unrelated products in Amazon and hoping to feed off some share of revenue. They are Googlebombing. WWW is spam.    

posted Monday, March 07, 2022 at 00:00:02

• The Qt MPD Client ’Cantata’ Finally Discontinued | UbuntuHandbook ⚓ https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2022/03/cantata-discontinued/    

posted Monday, March 07, 2022 at 00:05:03

• "My work centres around alerts in KDE Connect iOS app. As it’s under development, a lot of information is communicated to the user using system alerts. iOS is limited to displaying only one alert at a time and doesn’t have any native system for queuing them." FACEPALM, Microsoft ShitHub https://fixmbr.github.io//kde/sok/2022/03/06/first-month-of-kde-sok.html    

posted Monday, March 07, 2022 at 00:06:05

• Here's #HowTo transfer files from your PC to a Steam Deck | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2022/03/heres-how-to-transfer-files-from-your-pc-to-a-steam-deck    

posted Monday, March 07, 2022 at 00:06:52

• Easily Run Windows Apps On Linux With Bottles - Invidious ⚓ https://yewtu.be/watch?v=ttsGxu1o6pQ ䷉    

posted Monday, March 07, 2022 at 00:07:40

• "The AUR being the Arch User Repository is designed for use around Arch Linux and when you use it on anything else even something Arch based you may face depending on the configuration of that distros repos." https://yewtu.be/watch?v=H1Ri_80eZC0    

posted Monday, March 07, 2022 at 00:08:14