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  • Ymuse - A Cantata Alternative MPD Client for Ubuntu / Fedora Linux | UbuntuHandbook ⚓ https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2022/03/ymuse-cantata-alternative-linux/    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 00:41:35

  • PureBoot 101 | First Boot, First Update, and Detecting Software Tampering ⚓ https://puri.sm/posts/pureboot-101-first-boot-first-update-and-detecting-software-tampering/    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 00:42:47

  • Defective "modern" chips https://lwn.net/Articles/887326/    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 00:45:12

  • Introducing Blender 3.1. Create anything, faster. http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162339#comment-33011   

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 00:45:24

  • "If you’ve been worried about whether you’d be able to play Apex Legends on your Steam Deck, you no longer need to worry, as the game has officially been verified to work on Valve’s Linux-based handheld gaming PC." https://www.howtogeek.com/790667/apex-legends-is-coming-to-linux-thanks-to-the-steam-deck/    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 00:45:58

  • Fluorescent Multilayer Disc History: Innovation You Could See Through ⚓ https://tedium.co/2022/03/09/fluorescent-optical-disc-vaporware-history "We don’t talk enough about vaporware over here, so let’s discuss two attempts to make optical discs fluorescent … both of which went absolutely nowhere."    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 00:47:09

  • Should Algorithms Be Regulated? Part 2: Cataloging the Harms of Algorithmic Decision Making - Public Knowledge ⚓ https://publicknowledge.org/should-algorithms-be-regulated-part-2-cataloging-the-harms-of-algorithmic-decision-making/ At least they say algorithms, not "HEY HI"!    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 00:51:10

  • The EPO is making the services worse (whilst increasing the fees); to compensate for the removal of traditional processes that don't require a computer or electric sockets the EPO resorts to Public Relations and doublespeak http://techrights.org/2022/03/09/faking-green/    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 00:51:58

  • Charlatans with channels in GulagTube (YouTube) are selling their audiences and discarding their principles in the process; the net effect is misinformation, usually with no disclosure added anywhere inside videos or near videos http://techrights.org/2022/03/09/influencers-ruin-the-www/    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 00:52:13

  • The benefits of change, from an amateur's objective perspective. | Saif [blogs.perl.org] ⚓ http://blogs.perl.org/users/saif/2022/03/the-benefits-of-change-from-an-amateurs-objective-perspective.html    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 00:53:21

  • Creating a Modern Website with Ghost | Linux Journal ⚓ https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/creating-modern-website-ghost    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 00:54:24

  • Coreboot, PureBoot, and Tow-Boot • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162352    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 00:54:33

  • Firefox Add-on Reviews: The pandemic changed everything — even the way we use browser extensions https://addons.mozilla.org/blog/the-pandemic-changed-everything-even-the-way-we-use-browser-extensions/    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 00:55:28

  • FLOSS Weekly 671: WordPress Evolutions - Matt Mullenweg, WordPress https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly/episodes/671    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 00:58:06

  • Mozilla proudly spying on Firefox users, then looking for ways to justify that https://blog.mozilla.org/data/2022/03/09/mozilla-opens-access-to-dataset-on-network-outages/    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 01:01:28

  • Secure [sic] is not about security but about control over computer users https://mivehind.net/2022/03/09/secure-boot-statements/    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 01:02:58

  • Spreading falsehoods for the anti-Linux media operatives http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162251#comment-33012 see http://techrights.org/2022/03/08/a-media-of-masturbating-monkeys/   

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 01:06:03

  • IBM is still calling products after racist Watson https://developer.ibm.com/blogs/ibm-previews-developer-technology-sandbox-to-help-developers-explore-new-technologies/    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 01:08:10

  • Red Hat Satellite 6.10.3 has been released ⚓ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/red-hat-satellite-6103-has-been-released ䷉    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 01:08:37

  • "They said they are aware of it and it should eventually go away, but to “keep using the VPN app” to get Google Play to work until it’s fixed." https://baronhk.wordpress.com/2022/03/10/t-mobile-google-play-problems-part-3/    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 01:10:10

  • New guide: surveillance technology investors face significant risks if human rights are ignored - Access Now ⚓ https://www.accessnow.org/surveillance-tech-investor-guide/    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 01:11:05

  • Gulag hints at Windows games running on Stadia - The Verge ⚓ https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/9/22969081/google-windows-games-stadia-emulator    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 01:11:40

  • MicroLarabel spamming for his sponsors again https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=steam-deck-cpu&num=1 see http://techrights.org/2022/02/03/phoronix-went-too-far/    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 01:12:34

  • Games: Stadia, Steam, and Perl/Pong • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162353    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 01:14:36

  • Apache Software Foundation releases NetBeans 13 - #ElReg ⚓ https://www.theregister.com/2022/03/08/netbeans_13_arrives/    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 01:19:31

  • "StormOS is a beginner friendly distribution based on Arch Linux, which offers an easy installation process, a full suite of software, and a few custom shell scripts to help new Arch users. StormOS offers two desktop editions: Xfce and KDE. Today, I'm taking a first look at their Xfce edition." https://yewtu.be/watch?v=_15nViWuMLo    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 01:20:22

  • Microsoft Windows TCO https://us-cert.cisa.gov/ncas/current-activity/2022/03/09/updated-conti-ransomware see http://techrights.org/2021/07/19/microsoft-national-security/    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 01:22:00

  • Walmart closes the stores at night because the prices go up so fast and they don’t want you to see them do it. - BaronHK’s Rants ⚓ https://baronhk.wordpress.com/2022/03/09/walmart-closes-the-stores-at-night-because-the-prices-go-up-so-fast-and-they-dont-want-you-to-see-them-do-it/    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 01:24:47

  • mesa 22.0.0 http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162350#comment-33013   

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 01:27:14

  • Raspberry Pi And The Story Of SD Card Corruption • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162354    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 01:27:20

  • ArcoLinux 22.03.08 is out https://arcolinux.info/ https://arcolinux.com/    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 01:27:46

  • Building containers by hand using namespaces: The net namespace | Enable Sysadmin ⚓ https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/net-namespaces    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 01:28:26

  • How to hype up local privilege escalation How to hype up local privilege scalation http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162251#comment-33014 see http://techrights.org/2021/07/19/microsoft-national-security/   

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 01:32:15

  • IBM/Red Hat Leftovers • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162355    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 01:32:27

  • "Since 2020, Walmart has raised the price of Coca Cola by 35%." https://baronhk.wordpress.com/2022/03/09/walmart-closes-the-stores-at-night-because-the-prices-go-up-so-fast-and-they-dont-want-you-to-see-them-do-it/    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 01:33:28

  • More complexity in the stack = more holes https://istio.io/latest/news/security/istio-security-2022-004/    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 01:34:14

  • Absolute rubbish. A lot of the time you get a job owing to connections, not a buzzwords-filled piece of paper. https://www.fosslife.org/create-strong-cv-or-resume-10-tips    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 01:38:48

  • PDF is till junk. https://fortintam.com/blog/please-adapt-pdfjs-xfa-forms-for-linux-pdf-readers/    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 01:39:44

  • Security Leftovers • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162356    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 01:40:07

  • Today’s #HowTos | #UNIX • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162357    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 01:40:14

  • Rust sucks so badly that even meeting minutes are still being outsourced to Microsoft proprietary software prison. This project censors Microsoft critics, doesn't get freedom. Rejecting reality. No wonder many core developers have quit. https://blog.rust-lang.org/inside-rust/2022/03/09/lang-team-mar-update.html    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 01:42:06

  • Web3=cranks, bullshit https://cointelegraph.com/press-releases/gauss-lab-announces-the-launch-of-aurora-filesystem    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 01:52:48

  • LOL. "AuroraFS is an application that is already operational on Ubuntu and Microsoft OS."    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 01:53:17

  • This is more bullshit. Make your systems secure instead of focusing on geography. :-) https://medevel.com/13-cyber-threats-live-maps/    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 01:55:24

  • CNX, stop taking payments to post crap https://www.cnx-software.com/2022/03/09/ai-thinker-hi-series-wifi-modules-support-harmonyos/ see http://techrights.org/2022/02/17/cnxsoftware-partly-compromised/    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 01:56:12

  • Mozilla: PDF Code, Spying, Extensions, and Rust • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162358    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 01:56:17

  • Oh, FFS. Can we quit accepting nonsensical buzzwords like "data science"? They're euphemisms that justify unjust data collection, in effect surveillance or exploitation of spying https://www.fosslife.org/5-key-data-science-skills    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 01:57:57

  • Some discouraging anecdotes on how services handle account deletions ⚓ https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/account-deletions-2021.html    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 01:59:23

  • Updated firmware for 5.15 kernel in EasyOS http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/161733#comment-33015   

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 02:01:47

  • "Just a quick note, #jwm window manager has been bumped from 2.4.0 to 2.4.1." https://bkhome.org/news/202203/jwm-241-compiled-in-oe.html    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 02:02:23

  • Ultrasonic Sensor with Arduino: HC-SR04 wiring and setup ⚓ https://peppe8o.com/ultraosnic-sensor-hc-sr04-interfaced-with-arduino/    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 02:03:38

  • SparkFun Raspberry Pi RP2040 & MicroMod boards take mikroBUS Click expansion boards - CNX Software ⚓ https://www.cnx-software.com/2022/03/09/sparkfun-raspberry-pi-rp2040-micromod-boards-take-mikrobus-click-expansion-boards/    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 02:04:05

  • Arduino Nicla Vision - A tiny STM32H7 board with 2MP camera, WiFi & Bluetooth LE, sensors - CNX Software ⚓ https://www.cnx-software.com/2022/03/09/arduino-nicla-vision-tiny-stm32h7-board-with-2mp-camera-wifi-bluetooth-le-sensors/    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 02:04:38

  • "You’ll need to be comfortable with data collection" ... or SPYING, surveillance, intrusion https://www.kdnuggets.com/2022/03/5-data-science-projects-learn-5-critical-data-science-skills.html stop euphemising bad things and raising the acceptability of things that ought not be done    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 02:09:11

  • Open Hardware/Modding: Sparkfun and Arduino • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162359    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 02:09:50

  • Making RockPro64 a NetBSD Server • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162360    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 02:14:26

  • Software: ClamAV, Ymuse, and RGB-TUI • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162361    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 02:18:57

  • https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/98/Apache_NetBeans_Logo.svg/55px-Apache_NetBeans_Logo.svg.png   

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 02:22:51

  • Videos/Audiocasts/Shows: StormOS, FLOSS Weekly, and More • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162362    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 02:23:03

  • Apache Software Foundation releases NetBeans 13 • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162363    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 02:24:21

  • Corrupt EUIPO with its courts run by a corrupt official https://www.worldipreview.com/news/euipo-loses-dispute-over-genuine-use-at-eu-court-22152 see http://techrights.org/2021/09/11/jobs-as-bribes/    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 02:26:14

  • The w3 validator has been EXTREEEEEMELY unreliable for weeks. I've used it for over 15 years! Will they shut the whole thing down? It's having such many technical issues, on and off so to speak. w3c has been far too busy shilling for Pentagon contractors, e.g. their DRM agenda.    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 02:37:43

  • Techrights will be working on Planet Gemini overnight. Prototype: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/planet/    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 02:38:49

  • "We're happy to announce Kiwi TCMS version 11.2." https://kiwitcms.org/blog/kiwi-tcms-team/2022/03/09/kiwi-tcms-112/    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 02:40:22

  • Fraud Is Flourishing on Zelle. The Banks Say It’s Not Their Problem. - The New York Times ⚓ https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/06/business/payments-fraud-zelle-banks.html ain't dis de murican dream?    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 02:41:25

  • FAA vs. Wireless Carriers: Lessons Learned from the 5G C-Band Launch - Public Knowledge ⚓ https://publicknowledge.org/faa-vs-wireless-carriers-lessons-learned-from-the-5g-c-band-launch/    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 02:41:56

  • GNU Taler 2022-3: "Central Bank Accounts are Dangerous and Unnecessary" published ⚓ https://taler.net/en/news/2022-03.html ䷉ #taler | more in http://schestowitz.com/2022/03/10/#latest    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 02:43:31

  • GNU poke: "The Binary Tools Summit 2022 online event was held last weekend, and we had lots of fun. We also learned a lot." http://savannah.gnu.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=10135    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 02:44:31

  • EXACTLY: "So Red Hat, SuSE, and Docker are about to learn what being open source actually means. You'd think they would already know, but apparently not." http://lxer.com/module/forums/t/36793/    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 02:47:34

  • PostgreSQL: Call for Papers - PGDay Austria 2022 ⚓ https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/call-for-papers-pgday-austria-2022-2407/    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 02:49:48

  • PostgreSQL: SQLreduce: Reduce verbose SQL queries to minimal examples ⚓ https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/sqlreduce-reduce-verbose-sql-queries-to-minimal-examples-2418/    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 02:50:14

  • "I have decided to try Linux Mint 20.3 as my desktop OS. Although it is unlikely that Linux will completely replace my macOS environment, I’ve been pleasantly suprised that Linux and available software have evolved in the recent couple of years" https://www.unixtutorial.org/linux-mint-as-desktop-os/    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 02:50:53

  • QA/Dev Report: February 2022 - LibreOffice QA Blog ⚓ https://qa.blog.documentfoundation.org/2022/03/09/qa-dev-report-february-2022/ ䷉    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 02:51:31

  • A New Type of Convergence Control Intrinsic? ⚓ http://nhaehnle.blogspot.com/2022/03/a-new-type-of-convergence-control.html "LLVM does not define how the set of communicating threads in convergent operations"    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 02:52:24

  • "The latest iso images of Sparky rolling 2022.03 have an issue withe DNS configuration via ‘systemd-resolved’." systemd in debian... oh, joy! Ask IBM for help. Open support ticket. Become a customer. https://sparkylinux.org/dns-problem-on-sparky-7-still-exist/    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 02:53:26

  • SUSE shilling "clown" and SAP #ProprietarySoftware again https://www.suse.com/c/suse-manager-update-good-news-if-you-are-a-payg-sles-for-sap-customer-in-the-cloud/ see http://techrights.org/2011/09/16/linux-tax-at-sap/    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 02:54:06

  • "Of all the glimpses you get into these characters lives, I found the last the most satisfying. I could see myself putting the soundtrack into rotation in my music player." gemini://gemini.stop.wtf/log/the-longest-road-on-earth.gmi    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 03:00:03

  • "the number of negative comments and blog posts that seem to base their criticism of Gemini's perceived limitations on the mistaken assumption that Gemini aims to provide a stripped-down web experience." gemini://thelambdalab.xyz/phlog/2021-10-07-Gemini-roots.txt    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 03:02:22

  • "I've had the privilege of being very isolated during the 19-ish months of this pandemic. Between working remotely (and the ongoing office closure after my move) and homeschooling the kids, there was really very little necessity to leave the house and expose ourselves." gemini://sixohthree.com/log/covid-positive.gmi    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 03:14:35

  • "Don't catch COVID-19. But if you do, may you have a swift recovery, and not spread it to anyone else." gemini://sixohthree.com/log/covid-positive.gmi    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 03:16:21

  • "finally getting off of reddit ... Fuck it I'm done with reddit once and for all. Since 2014 and before they've made a steady stream of decisions and changes that I ethically and ideologically disagree with." gemini://nytpu.com/gemlog/2021-11-12.gmi    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 03:18:06

  • "The 1995-ish law extending copyright is one of the very few EU laws which has been subjected to rigorous economic analyses; mostly this is impossible because disentangling the effects of complex laws is infeasible, but retrospective copyright extension is a pure rent grant affecting a well-identified aftermarket" gemini://gemini.ucant.org/gemlog/2021-01-01_irony_orwell.gmi    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 03:24:07

  • "I’m still just a spectator from the US. To me it seems that Russia thinks it’s their job to fix problems they see in Ukraine. Or maybe it’s paranoia fueling the invasion." gemini://moddedbear.xyz/logs/2022-03-01-observations-and-musings.gmi    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 03:31:14

  • recordMyDesktop 0.5.1 compiled in OpenEmbedded https://bkhome.org/news/202203/recordmydesktop-051-compiled-in-openembedded.html good program. Got it installed, have used if for over a decade already....    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 03:32:17

  • "Software is immaterial, but it determines the energy consumption of hardware. The ICT sector is reported to contribute as much C02 as the aviation industry, and the numbers continue to rise. Making software efficient is crucial." https://dot.kde.org/2022/03/10/lets-make-energy-efficient-software-reality    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 03:33:21

  • A Debian GR on secret voting—and more https://lwn.net/Articles/886403/    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 03:38:17

  • CPython, C standards, and IEEE 754 [LWN] ⚓ https://lwn.net/Articles/886516/    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 03:39:31

  • F-Droid Spotlight: AirGuard (See devices that track you, like AirTags.) - BaronHK’s Rants ⚓ https://baronhk.wordpress.com/2022/03/10/f-droid-spotlight-airguard-see-devices-that-track-you-like-airtags/ ䷉ Orwell had a name for these...    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 03:42:54

  • "I’m coming out of a stressful week, thanks in no small part to my catching of that virus that’s been going around. I haven’t been able to leave home until today not only because of my quarantine period but also because this thing just sucks. Aches, cough, big fatigue, loss of taste and smell." gemini://moddedbear.xyz/logs/2021-11-04-post-covid.gmi    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 03:43:38

  • LibreELEC (Matrix) 10.0.2 - LibreELEC • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162364    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 03:43:51

  • LWN Articles on Kernel Developments • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162365    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 03:43:58

  • Migration to Sway gemini://moddedbear.xyz/logs/2022-02-21-migration-to-sway.gmi "so I’ve been using a tiling kwin script called Bismuth to bring a little bit of that workflow to KDE." #gnu #linux    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 03:45:23

  • "I'm off twitter other than a few people I follow via my BirdsiteLIVE instance, and I've never even been on any of the other cancerous social media sites." gemini://nytpu.com/gemlog/2021-11-12.gmi    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 03:47:28

  • "As I've kept using it I've continued to find cool little ways to improve my setup, but I've also uncovered a few pain points for Wayland." gemini://moddedbear.xyz/logs/2022-03-07-sway-log-pt-2.gmi    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 03:49:20

  • 109,725 more COVID-19 infections in the UK today, despite the government redefining everything to make the numbers seem smaller https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/ UK having another COVID SURGE: http://schestowitz.com/Weblog/    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 04:02:55

  • #Techrights Bulletin for Wednesday, March 09, 2022 http://techrights.org/txt full archive: http://techrights.org/txt-archives #gnu #linux #freesw #plaintext    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 04:05:46

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

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 04:05:50

  • One Year After Mass Vaccination in the UK the COVID-19 Hospitalisations Have Risen http://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2022/03/10/one-year-after-mass-vaccination-in-the-uk-the-covid-19-hospitalisations-have-risen/    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 04:22:53

  • Borisnaro's Mass Infection Strategy http://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2022/03/10/mass-infection-strategy/    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 04:42:29

  • Migration of Diaspora Account • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162366    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 05:09:19

  • Unlike FSF, OSI does not respect the Four Freedoms and does not understand how these licences even work https://opensource.org/newsletter/OSI-mar-2022    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 05:14:59

  • ECS Liva Z3 Celeron N4500 Jasper Lake mini PC becomes available for $195 - CNX Software ⚓ https://www.cnx-software.com/2022/03/10/ecs-liva-z3-celeron-n4500-jasper-lake-mini-pc/    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 05:16:09

  • Who or what is OSI anyway? http://techrights.org/2022/03/06/microsoft-osi-entryism/    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 05:17:57

  • "When talking to people in the RISC-V community, there are two words that are repeated often — free and freedom." https://semiengineering.com/why-risc-v-is-succeeding/    

POSTED tHURSDAY, mARCH 10, 2022 AT 09:29:40

  • "Liblouis has features to support screen-reading programs. This has led to its use in numerous open-source and proprietary screenreaders such as NVDA, Orca" http://liblouis.org/    

POSTED tHURSDAY, mARCH 10, 2022 AT 09:30:52

  • “The open source community is making rapid advancements in setting technology trends and addressing problems that are too massive for one organisation to solve" https://www.channelasia.tech/article/696054/ingram-micro-commits-channel-excellence-open-source/    

POSTED tHURSDAY, mARCH 10, 2022 AT 09:31:23

  • "The point I hope to make clear is that if you’ve never checked, your RSS readership is likely larger than you realise." https://kn100.me/rss-perils/    

POSTED tHURSDAY, mARCH 10, 2022 AT 09:32:22

  • "In Relational pipes v0.18 we got a new powerful language for filtering and transformations: XPath." https://relational-pipes.globalcode.info/v_0/examples-xpath-filtering-transforming.xhtml    

POSTED tHURSDAY, mARCH 10, 2022 AT 09:32:59

  • "faux-intellectualism unleashed by Trumpism" https://www.salon.com/2022/03/06/how-joe-rogan-does-what-he-does-my-day-with-americas-most-famous-podcaster/    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 09:35:29

  • Should have left that heart with the pig that owned it https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/man-got-heart-transplant-pig-dies-2-months-later-rcna19315    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 09:36:20

  • "Although all these actions have broad support, they are also raising fundamental questions about international research collaboration, academic freedom and the flow of knowledge that always come alongside the prospect of scientific sanctions, although perhaps never against the backdrop of a war of this scale and type." https://www.timeshighereducation.com/depth/do-academic-boycotts-work    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 09:37:16

  • Defective "modern" hardware https://www.techtarget.com/searchsecurity/news/252514427/Researchers-disclose-new-Spectre-V2-vulnerabilities    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 09:38:55

  • Microsoft Windows TCO https://cio.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/digital-security/zero-trust-security-imperative-of-the-hour/90115036    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 09:40:13

  • Apple greed https://itwire.com/open-sauce/apple-has-one-aim-with-new-iphone-se-make-as-much-money-as-possible.html    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 09:40:21

  • Surveillance and Apple https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/9/22969632/apple-watch-peloton-fitness-wearables    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 09:41:16

  • And tinder is malware https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/9/22969346/tinder-background-check-swiping-match-garbo-safety-dating    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 09:41:41

  • #swpats #swpatents https://www.theregister.com/2022/03/08/russia_software_piracy/    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 09:42:59

  • Patents? Copyrights? This Bill Gates-Bribed site says "intellectual [sic] property [sic] piracy [sic]"    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 09:45:06

  • But not for Iraq? https://cphpost.dk/?p=131979    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 09:46:57

  • The West does the same, but to a lesser degree https://www.economist.com/europe/2022/03/08/vladimir-putin-has-brutally-muzzled-russian-media    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 09:47:31

  • Gulag (NSA) says "Belarusian hacking group, has conducted phishing campaigns" https://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/597353-belarus-targeted-ukraine-poland-in-phishing-campaigns-google    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 09:48:28

  • "Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said the plant, which was occupied by Russian forces earlier in the Feb. 24 invasion" https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/explainer-latest-scare-chernobyl-plant-83347925    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 09:49:35

  • Who does this actually hurt and how? https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/9/22969600/sony-interactive-entertainment-playstation-suspending-hardware-software-shipments-russia-store    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 09:50:37

  • Brain drain https://cio.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/corporate-news/ukraine-crisis-may-shift-some-it-work-to-india/90116616    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 09:51:17

  • "Butina is so deep in Putin’s propaganda hole that she’s suggesting it’s Ukraine itself, not Russia, laying waste to Ukraine." https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/maria-butina-russian-agent-says-ukraine-bombing-itself-1318782/    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 09:52:29

  • "Approximately 3,000 workers in the U.S. and India, who make up almost half of the company's 8000 employees, are being made redundant." https://thehill.com/policy/technology/597500-company-that-laid-off-900-in-zoom-call-notifies-employees-of-layoffs-via    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 09:53:49

  • "The Texas court ruled in Jane Doe. V. Facebook that the company was shielded from any liability as it was “afforded publisher immunity”" https://broadbandbreakfast.com/2022/03/section-230-reexamination-tech-continues-russia-retaliation-4-9-ghz-centralization/    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 09:54:17

  • "Amazon also allegedly lied to Congress about manipulating consumers' search results, according to the committee." https://abcnews.go.com/Business/house-committee-makes-allegations-potential-criminal-conduct-amazon/story?id=83343183    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 09:54:58

  • Media as government parrot https://fair.org/home/western-media-took-gold-in-evidence-free-allegations-of-chinese-olympic-spying/    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 09:55:47

  • Patents kill https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/03/09/shocking-report-warns-us-likely-miss-modest-vaccine-donation-goal artificial scarcity    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 09:56:40

  • "Tor Browser 11.5a7 is now available from the Tor Browser download page and also from our distribution directory." https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-115a7/    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 09:57:52

  • DRM is self harm https://torrentfreak.com/court-itunes-drm-removal-is-irrelevant-for-piracy-liability-lawsuit-220309/    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 09:59:18

  • Putin wants Gulag to become its Russian gulag https://torrentfreak.com/vpns-russia-forces-google-to-delete-masses-of-links-amid-ukraine-invasion-220309/    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 10:00:02

  • You should not carry one at all. Billions of people carrying these mass surveillance devices is the crisis. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/03/using-your-phone-times-crisis    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 10:01:20

  • The latest NSA back doors are available to install https://krebsonsecurity.com/2022/03/microsoft-patch-tuesday-march-2022-edition/ see http://techrights.org/wiki/index.php/Microsoft_and_the_NSA    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 10:02:10

  • "Welcome to the March edition of the monthly Fortran newsletter" https://fortran-lang.org/newsletter/2022/03/09/Fortran-Newsletter-March-2022/    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 10:03:20

  • Trump used as a straw man to paint terrible companies are victims https://truthout.org/articles/judge-says-smartmatic-can-pursue-defamation-claims-against-giuliani-fox-news/    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 10:05:54

  • 5G as patent evergreening and hype https://www.techdirt.com/2022/03/09/the-race-to-5g-was-more-of-a-waddle-to-nowhere/    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 10:06:32

  • Stop sticking everything in the Web, it's a security risk and liability https://hackaday.com/2022/03/09/webgpu-better-than-webgl/    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 10:08:55

  • Geofence https://www.techdirt.com/2022/03/09/virginia-court-blocks-geofence-warrant-as-unconstitutionally-vague/    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 10:11:13

  • US should also ban US oil https://www.desmog.com/2022/03/09/us-bans-russian-oil-ukraine-fossil-fuels/    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 10:12:56

  • GDPR “right to erasure” https://www.techdirt.com/2022/03/09/once-again-thomas-goolnik-gets-google-to-forget-our-tag-about-thomas-goolnik/    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 10:14:55

  • "DNA’s three billion genetic “letters” are the literal program that built us" https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/the-ultimate-privacy-betrayal-personal-dna-used-for-undisclosed-purposes-without-permission/    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 10:15:37

  • "Police authorities are increasingly requesting biometric data, more and more often with success" https://digit.site36.net/2022/03/09/dna-facial-images-and-fingerprints-german-biometric-police-systems-contain-ten-million-people/    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 10:16:05

  • You should boycott everything of Facebook https://www.propublica.org/article/using-facebooks-own-data-to-understand-the-platforms-role-in-jan-6    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 10:16:44

  • Stop paying the patent cartel. Mass-produce the thing cheaply. https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/03/09/holy-hell-dem-leadership-pulls-covid-relief-spending-bill    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 10:17:57

  • Cancel the patents if you want to have a chance at progress. But that won't happen when WHO takes bribes from famous criminal Bill Gates. ttps://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/03/09/after-2-years-who-chief-says-pandemic-not-over-anywhere-until-its-over-everywhere    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 10:19:35

  • COVID-19 surge in the UK this month http://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2022/03/10/mass-infection-strategy /http://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2022/03/10/one-year-after-mass-vaccination-in-the-uk-the-covid-19-hospitalisations-have-risen/    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 10:20:21

  • Stop making this about wings. It is not. https://www.thenation.com/article/society/cuomo-camp-canceled-not/    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 10:23:12

  • "Cancel culture" is NOT about wings. http://techrights.org/2020/06/08/twitter-cancel-culture/    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 10:23:41

  • "In late January, as Russia kept amassing its military along Ukraine’s borders, Jiang Libo, a 50-year-old Chinese programmer living in Kyiv, surveyed his acquaintances to see if they were worried." https://www.thenation.com/article/world/china-ukraine-russia/    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 10:31:41

  • Russia can just move to Free software, which is better https://www.techdirt.com/2022/03/09/russia-is-considering-legalizing-software-piracy-due-to-the-world-punishing-it-over-ukraine-aggression/    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 10:34:25

  • Germany is attacking social control media https://www.techdirt.com/2022/03/09/court-correctly-says-germanys-social-media-censorship-law-goes-too-far/ it impacts also people outside Germany: http://techrights.org/2022/01/18/ibm-censorship/ http://techrights.org/2021/12/22/fsfe-censorship/    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 10:36:14

  • “Further escalation, further armaments, pouring in weapons is going to make conditions worse, principally for people of Ukraine" https://www.democracynow.org/2022/3/9/tariq_ali_how_russian_invasion_backfired    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 10:38:04

  • Variscite Subverts Component Crises with Launch of Additional Production Line • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162368    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 10:38:45

  • "“Southwest Islands” means mainly the Ryukyu Archipelago, also known as Okinawa　Prefecture. “Taiwan contingency” presumably means an attempt by China to regain control of Taiwan by military force." https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/03/09/japan-declares-okinawa-a-combat-zone/    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 10:43:25

  • And now we see the Internet failing, contrary to assumptions wrongly made https://www.thenation.com/article/world/putin-russian-media/    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 10:44:29

  • Growing perception Biden ignores his voters https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/03/09/biden-must-do-better-inspire-and-mobilize-us-citizenry https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/greg-casar-texas-latinos/    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 10:48:58

  • Are you trying to get assassinated, Mrs. Warren? https://truthout.org/articles/warren-says-democrats-are-working-on-a-bill-to-tax-big-oils-windfall-profits/   

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 10:50:39

  • Bezos might one day become a criminal as big as Bill Gates https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/03/09/house-panel-calls-doj-probe-amazon-over-alleged-obstruction-congress   

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 10:52:43

  • You still buy things on Amazon? https://truthout.org/articles/house-lawmakers-say-amazon-may-have-illegally-impeded-antitrust-investigation/    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 10:53:04

  • "In the nearly two years since the murder of George Floyd, our country has seen a renaissance of writing and organizing around the abolition of police and prisons." https://www.thenation.com/article/society/derecka-purnell-becoming-abolitionists/    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 10:53:58

  • "What happened before the Industrial Revolution—generally dated from 1760 to 1840—was profoundly and irrevocably altered by what happened after it." Overpopulation is another factor added by it. https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/03/09/before-and-after    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 10:55:11

  • Reddit "are stationing themselves to somehow be even worse than the other major social media sites, and at the very least it's filled with even more spam somehow." gemini://nytpu.com/gemlog/2021-11-12.gmi    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 10:57:35

  • Proprietary Software and DRM • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162369    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 11:13:51

  • Programming Leftovers • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162370    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 11:13:58

  • Web Browsers: Tor Browser and More • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162371    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 11:14:04

  • Free, Libre Software Leftovers • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162372    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 11:18:28

  • Today’s 𝘛𝘶𝘹 𝘔𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴 Leftovers • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162373    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 11:25:27

  • Since COVID-19 started over 10 TRILLION dollars PUMPED into the economy in the form of debt the US population cannot repay. The oligarchs bagged most of that money. https://yewtu.be/watch?v=gzXs3EdlbzY    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 12:29:50

  • 17 Best KDE Multimedia Applications for Linux • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162374    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 12:30:20

  • Best Brute Force Tools for Penetration Test • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162375    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 12:31:20

  • How I use Drupal as an advanced blogging platform • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162376    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 12:31:28

  • The Five Reasons Why Techies Are Obsessed With Linux • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162377    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 12:31:37

  • Announcement of LibreOffice 7.2.6 Community • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162378    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 12:33:21

  • 22:20 "If the government says something enough times, people believe it" (talks about war on cash and surveillance on one's purchases, e.g. through 'phones', for social control) https://yewtu.be/watch?v=gzXs3EdlbzY    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 12:42:35

  • Google #Android Leftovers • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162379    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 12:59:33

  • How Linux Has Changed The Business Landscape & what The Future Holds For Linux • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162380    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 13:40:12

  • LibreOffice Writer: Inserting Al Qur'an Verses and Translations http://www.ubuntubuzz.com/2022/03/libreoffice-writer-inserting-al-quran-verses-and-translations.html    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 13:42:45

  • Daiki Ueno: On command-line argument parsing https://blogs.gnome.org/dueno/on-command-line-argument-parsing/    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 13:49:04

  • Deprecating things in curl | daniel.haxx.se ⚓ https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2022/03/10/deprecating-things-in-curl/    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 13:51:55

  • Sudo 1.9.10: using regular expressions in the sudoers file | Sudo ⚓ https://www.sudo.ws/posts/2022/03/sudo-1.9.10-using-regular-expressions-in-the-sudoers-file/ ䷉    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 13:52:41

  • Bash Keyboard Shortcuts for the pro! • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162381    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 14:02:14

  • Today’s #HowTos | #UNIX • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162382    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 14:04:31

  • Turning applications into browsers? Maybe that's not what we need, Qt. https://www.qt.io/blog/qt-webengine-in-qt-6    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 14:20:08

  • Blender 3.1.0 Released with Metal GPU backend, Multi-thread Support for Geometry Nodes http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162339#comment-33017   

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 14:22:16

  • Why does a site called "Ubuntu" not mention GNU/Linux?? https://www.ubuntupit.com/mac-vs-pc-which-is-better-for-your-needs/    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 14:22:55

  • Today in #Techrights • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162383    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 14:28:28

  • Coming up next: 2222 Gemini capsules. Maybe today or tomorrow.    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 14:37:41

  • "Idiot's guide to OpenBSD on the Pinebook Pro, FreeBSD Periodic Scripts, history of service management in Unix, journey from macOS to FreeBSD, Unix processes “infecting” each other, navidrom music server on FreeBSD, and more." https://www.bsdnow.tv/445    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 14:38:26

  • "I Love Free Software Day": Free Software games and a SharePic generator https://fsfe.org/news/2022/news-20220310-01.en.html FSFE does not value freedom though; it just stole the FSF's rhetoric to raise money for its staff http://techrights.org/2021/12/22/fsfe-censorship/    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 14:39:49

  • "Another guide for you today. For those of you who want to use the EA App on the Steam Deck (or a Linux desktop!), here's one of the possible ways to do it using Bottles." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2022/03/heres-how-to-get-the-ea-app-on-steam-deck-with-bottles    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 14:40:26

  • Blender 3.1 is out with better performance, new advanced features http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162339#comment-33018   

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 14:41:53

  • "Stadia is something we don't really talk about here too much now, as Google has let it slide considerably from the original aim but it's still going and it seems Google still has some interesting plans for it." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2022/03/google-plans-their-own-version-of-wine-to-run-windows-games-on-stadia    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 14:42:42

  • Mesa drivers version 22.0 out now http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162350#comment-33019   

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 14:44:46

  • A Microsoft-infiltrated OSI (Microsoft has in fact helped Vladimir Putin) flexes its muscles by basically watering down the Open Source Definition (OSD) and giving a platform to known trolls, whose goal is to undermine the Freedom of Free software (to impose their worldviews on others) https://fsfe.org/news/2022/news-20220310-01.en.html    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 14:46:04

  • Clown Savvy pushing Microsoft proprietary software :/ https://www.cloudsavvyit.com/15585/how-to-setup-vs-code-to-be-portable/    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 14:51:31

  • There's no need for Firefox anymore. LibreWolf is better. Distros should replace Mozilla with this, by default... https://www.linuxcapable.com/how-to-install-librewolf-browser-on-fedora-36-linux    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 14:52:32

  • DigitalOcean can be a bit of a SPAM machine. Someone invites you to it, supplies your email address, and soon they bombard you with marketing junk you never opted IN to.    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 14:54:04

  • KDE Plasma 5.24 Review. A Crafted Desktop to Dominate the Linux World • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162384    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 14:56:21

  • Games: I Love Free Software Day, Bottles, and Stadia • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162385    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 14:56:31

  • Bruce Schneier promotes attention-shifting Microsoft propaganda now; Microsoft is the culprit, not the solution solver https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2022/03/wheres-the-russia-ukraine-cyberwar.html    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 14:59:01

  • Bezos-owned propaganda rag suggests blocking propaganda rags of Russian oligarchs and Putin. Spot the irony. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/03/10/internet-russia-sanctions-proposal/    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 15:03:10

  • Bangladesh: Draft BTRC regulations to restrict freedom of expression: 45 int’l orgs https://www.newagebd.net/article/164868/draft-btrc-regulations-to-restrict-freedom-of-expression-45-intl-orgs    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 15:04:16

  • Today’s #HowTos | #UNIX • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162386    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 15:04:45

  • IP67-protected panel PCs run Linux on i.MX8M Mini • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162387    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 15:25:08

  • Google #Android Leftovers • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162388    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 15:25:25

  • Red Hat Summit 2022 registration is now open https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/red-hat-summit-2022-registration-now-open but will IBM Red Hat actually USE "open source"??? http://techrights.org/2022/03/03/state-of-proprietary-software/    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 15:31:11

  • "Prioritize constant upskilling" = abandon what generally works in favour of buzzwords, hype, and complexity that gets abandoned within a few years or less than a year https://enterprisersproject.com/article/2022/3/employee-development-programs    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 15:32:38

  • ...Like Red Hat boosting Microsoft stuff... https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2022/03/10/kafka-monthly-digest-february-2022    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 15:33:25

  • No, you do not need RHEL for Perl and SPAN. IBM Red Hat is upselling commodities https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2022/03/10/modular-perl-red-hat-enterprise-linux-8    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 15:34:26

  • "Are you ready to experiment with Kafka? Get started in minutes with a no-cost Kafka service trial." Same vocabulary as proprietary software vendors. https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2022/03/10/which-better-single-kafka-cluster-rule-them-all-or-many    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 15:36:20

  • After incompetent IBM managers, who know nothing about the community, managed to drive away almost all the Fedora volunteers along with users... https://www.theregister.com/2022/03/10/fedora_inches_closer_to_dropping/    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 15:37:30

  • More GNU than Linux, but the media trained people to just call everything "Linux" if it's not Microsoft https://medium.com/techtofreedom/3-ways-to-save-terminal-output-to-files-in-linux-650ae0dde3da?    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 15:38:49

  • Solaris-based SmartOS 20220310 is out http://smartos.org/    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 15:39:31

  • Beyond sanctions: what the tech sector can do to respect human rights ⚓ https://www.accessnow.org/russia-ukraine-sanctions/ what NOT to do: collective punishment http://techrights.org/2022/03/03/state-of-proprietary-software/    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 15:41:19

  • "Collective punishment is a punishment or sanction imposed on a group for acts allegedly perpetrated by a member of that group, which could be an ethnic or political group, or just the family, friends and neighbors of the perpetrator." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective_punishment    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 15:42:11

  • Civil society to U.S. government: Do not disrupt internet access in Russia or Belarus - Access Now ⚓ https://www.accessnow.org/us-government-internet-access-russia-ukraine-war-sanctions/ Should be obvious. Sad that it needs to even be said. http://techrights.org/2022/03/09/breaking-internet/    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 15:42:55

  • Michael Larabel gift gallery on display https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-5.17-Features see also http://techrights.org/2022/02/03/phoronix-went-too-far/    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 15:43:50

  • Beer glasses beneath the gifts https://www.phoronix.com/image-viewer.php?id=2022&image=linux_517_lrg    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 15:44:52

  • India: Calcutta HC stays internet shutdown issued by West Bengal ⚓ https://internetfreedom.in/calcutta-hc-stays-internet-shutdown-issued-by-west-bengal-government/    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 15:46:33

  • "Browser maker Brave has developed a new way to ground "bounce tracking," a sneaky technique for bypassing privacy defenses in order to track people across different websites." https://www.theregister.com/2022/03/09/brave_bounce_tracking/    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 15:53:04

  • Hard not to feel like LF money for this project has led him to shill other (bad stuff) from LF https://blogs.gnome.org/hughsie/2022/03/10/firmware-software-bill-of-materials/    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 15:54:30

  • Michael Larabel "influence" from AMD, brochure for "public use" https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=AMD-Linux-UAI-Zen-4-Tagging    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 15:55:36

  • IBM/Red Hat/Fedora Leftovers • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162389    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 15:59:25

  • 8 serious vulnerabilities n Siemens stuff reported today by CISA. But it's not "LINUX", so don't expect media to mention these...    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 17:24:45

  • Ubuntu-Based Zorin OS 16.1 Released with LibreOffice 7.3 and Linux Kernel 5.13 • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162390    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 17:25:22

  • "Bash is the default shell in the majority of Linux distributions, and it has countless features and tricks to make you more efficient. Bash keeps a history of the commands you've typed at the prompt, but most people aren't aware of additional functionality that the history provides you." https://yewtu.be/watch?v=Odo6leOY5Fw    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 17:32:12

  • You know Twitter jumped the shark when... https://www.maketecheasier.com/shopping-social-with-twitter-shops/    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 17:35:43

  • 379 - There Can Be Only One - mintCast ⚓ https://mintcast.org/2022/03/10/379-there-can-be-only-one/    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 17:36:51

  • "In this video, I am going to show an overview of XeroLinux 2022.03.06 and some of the applications pre-installed." https://yewtu.be/watch?v=8QUjc2TldoY    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 17:38:16

  • "explosive adoption of Linux at AMD" https://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/147857/linux-action-news-231/    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 17:39:14

  • Videos/Audiocasts/Shows: Linux Action News, mintCast, BSD Now, and More • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162391    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 17:47:21

  • Latest Firefox Relay includes bigger attachment size and filters for promotional emails ⚓ https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/latest-firefox-relay-includes-bigger-attachment-size-and-filters-for-promotional-emails/    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 17:49:01

  • "As a debut game from Latvia-based solo dev Jagit Games it's good." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2022/03/crown-of-pain-could-turn-into-the-next-great-match-3-rpg/    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 17:51:36

  • Zorin OS 16.1 is Here, Creators to Donate All Profits from Zorin OS Pro to Aid Ukraine • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162392    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 17:53:47

  • Ubuntu-Based Zorin OS 16.1 Released with LibreOffice 7.3 and Linux Kernel 5.13 • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162390    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 17:56:02

  • Games: Netherguild, Crown of Pain, and Atmospheric • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162393    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 17:57:22

  • Zorin OS 16.1 Released http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162392#comment-33020   

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 17:59:04

  • Today’s #HowTos | #UNIX • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162394    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 18:03:37

  • Russia’s digital iron curtain will fail https://www.ft.com/content/26e88a2b-c7ba-46c7-8191-490188f4757b says Western oligarchs-funded publisher    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 18:04:18

  • Notice in Lumen reveals that EU mandated removal of Russian state-sponsored news from Google's search engine https://www.lumendatabase.org/blog_entries/notice-in-lumen-reveals-that-eu-mandated-removal-of-russian-state-sponsored-news-from-googles-search-engine disinformation is a monopoly now    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 18:05:14

  • Bezos-owned disinformation rag https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/03/10/human-rights-groups-warn-that-more-sanctions-could-hurt-russian-internet-access/    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 18:05:47

  • Joseph Stalin Biden warned https://www.politico.com/newsletters/morning-tech/2022/03/10/biden-warned-against-blocking-internet-in-russia-00015994    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 18:06:29

  • Politico was sold to German oligarchy months ago    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 18:07:08

  • The Internet is another casualty of the war in Ukraine http://techrights.org/2022/03/09/breaking-internet/    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 18:07:38

  • Dr. Klaus Schwab or: How the CFR Taught Me to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb ⚓ https://unlimitedhangout.com/2022/03/investigative-reports/dr-klaus-schwab-or-how-the-cfr-taught-me-to-stop-worrying-and-love-the-bomb/    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 18:08:39

  • UK based GNU/Linux distro KDE neon 20220310 is out https://neon.kde.org/    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 18:09:19

  • Excellent Free Books to Master Programming - LinuxLinks ⚓ https://www.linuxlinks.com/excellent-free-programming-books/    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 18:20:38

  • But such literally will make you enslaved by proprietary software :/ https://www.linuxlinks.com/excellent-free-books-learn-qml/    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 18:21:16

  • Worthless diploma mills https://www.fosslife.org/tech-certifications-surge-popularity see http://techrights.org/2021/09/23/lf-diploma-mill-and-narrative-control-by-fake-research/    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 18:25:03

  • Taking it step by step: An update on the Fairphone True Wireless Earbuds • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162396    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 18:25:15

  • "Hello! A couple of days I wrote about tiny personal programs, and I mentioned that it can be fun to use “secret” undocumented APIs where you need to copy your cookies out of the browser to get access to them." https://jvns.ca/blog/2022/03/10/how-to-use-undocumented-web-apis/    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 18:26:44

  • TOP 5 Linux OS For Old Computers • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162397    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 18:27:42

  • Simon Sharwood shilling bad, malicious, lying, scummy actors from VMware https://www.theregister.com/2022/03/09/vmware_home_lab_specifications/ see http://techrights.org/wiki/VMware#2022 and http://techrights.org/wiki/VMware#2020    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 18:28:38

  • All-In-One Indoor Air Quality Monitor With CO2 Sensor - The DIY Life ⚓ https://www.the-diy-life.com/all-in-one-indoor-air-quality-monitor-with-co2-sensor/    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 18:29:44

  • "Linux Ubuntu PC"... sounds... strange https://www.geeky-gadgets.com/qnap-quad-port-sata-6gbs-expansion-card-10-03-2022/    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 18:30:54

  • "Fix/clean up the DRRS code sufficiently that I feel comfortable enabling it on all ilk+ CPU eDP ports. PCH ports still need a bit of work." https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/intel-gfx/2022-March/292211.html    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 18:34:40

  • Microsoft Windows TCO https://www.cisa.gov/uscert/ics/advisories/icsa-22-067-01 "ATTENTION: Exploitable remotely/low attack complexity... Axeda Desktop Server for Windows: All versions" http://techrights.org/2021/07/19/microsoft-national-security/    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 18:36:05

  • "As explained in my previous post, we do have some features already in mind for syslog-ng 4, even though the work on creating a long term set of objectives for the syslog-ng project is not finished yet. One of the themes I that I have working code for already, is typing." https://syslog-ng-future.blog/syslog-ng-4-theme-typing/    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 18:37:24

  • Use std::hypot for Pythagorean Addition – EasyHack https://dev.blog.documentfoundation.org/2022/03/10/use-stdhypot-for-pythagorean-addition-easyhack/    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 18:38:42

  • MorphOS 3.16 - Public Release • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162398    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 18:38:49

  • "There seems to be a technical problem, that is not possible to make SATA controllers NVMe compatible." https://dwaves.de/2022/03/10/the-late-revenge-of-sas-only-sas-controllers-can-be-upgraded-with-kingstons-nvme-ssds-nvme-upgrading-old-severs/    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 18:41:09

  • "This is my fourth status update for Season of KDE 2022." Flirting with Microsoft proprietary software... not good https://snehit.dev/posts/kde/sok-2022/fedc-and-update-automation/    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 18:42:15

  • 'Newbs' bring a new cost to projects by adding Microsoft dependencies to them. This should be kept under control. It can do more damage than actually help projects.    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 18:44:02

  • "'Newbs' bring a new cost to projects by adding Microsoft dependencies to them. This should be kept under control. It can do more damage than actually help projects." Did you CEO mention he flew to space with the Russians? https://ubuntu.com//blog/deep-work-in-interesting-times    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 18:44:59

  • "The affected product is vulnerable to improper restriction of authentication attempts, which may allow an unauthenticated threat actor to efficiently brute force passwords in certain situations." Proprietary crap. https://www.cisa.gov/uscert/ics/advisories/icsa-22-069-04    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 18:54:10

  • CISA does not mention Windows when it's Microsoft Windows but rushes to name "Linux" to darken its name if there's something bad to say http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162251#comment-33021 see http://techrights.org/2022/03/08/a-media-of-masturbating-monkeys/   

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 18:57:29

  • Zorin OS 16.1 Released & Support for Ukraine http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162392#comment-33022   

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 18:59:21

  • How to Use the Nessus Vulnerability Scanner on GNU/Linux https://www.maketecheasier.com/use-nessus-vulnerability-scanner-linux/    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 19:05:14

  • Security Leftovers • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162399    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 19:14:17

  • Long live multicursors - Kate • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162400    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 19:14:46

  • TIMI-130 - A breadboard color display with hundreds of pre-designed user interfaces - CNX Software ⚓ https://www.cnx-software.com/2022/03/10/timi-130-a-breadboard-color-display-with-hundreds-of-pre-designed-user-interfaces/    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 19:16:31

  • TIMI-130 - A breadboard color display with hundreds of pre-designed user interfaces - CNX Software ⚓ https://www.cnx-software.com/2022/03/10/timi-130-a-breadboard-color-display-with-hundreds-of-pre-designed-user-interfaces/    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 19:16:48

  • "Leopard is an on-device speech-to-text engine, while Cheetah is an on-device streaming speech-to-text engine, and both are cross-platform with support for Linux x86_64, macOS (x86_64, arm64)" https://www.cnx-software.com/2022/03/10/picovoice-on-device-speech-to-text-engines-slash-the-requirements-and-cost-of-transcription/    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 19:18:35

  • Programming Leftovers • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162401    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 19:28:49

  • IBM/Red Hat acting like a Pariah company, telling people to outsource to surveillance giants instead of actually managing their own systems. This makes one wonder who or what Red Hat even stands for. https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/why-use-cloud-services    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 19:31:02

  • Open Hardware/Modding: Fumik/Arduino, Picovoice, and More • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162402    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 19:50:58

  • ’Clown’ Computing, Web APIs, and Web Browsers • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162403    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 20:09:34

  • Yes, the criminals from Microsoft still hate and cannot tolerate Linux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2022/03/windows-drivers-roll-out-for-steam-deck-but-valve-wont-support-it    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 20:12:59

  • "The Linux Experiment" is shilling surveillance trap Startpage while attacking RMS and the FSF https://yewtu.be/watch?v=sykj6gxdGxw the shilling experiment http://techrights.org/wiki/Startpage    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 20:15:26

  • #gulag has become a "get rich fast" scheme/delusion to millions. And it shows... http://techrights.org/2022/02/15/youtube-spam-rewarding-junk/    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 20:16:50

  • Holger Levsen: 20220310-Debian-Reunion-Hamburg-2022 http://layer-acht.org/thinking/blog/20220310-Debian-Reunion-Hamburg-2022/    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 20:17:45

  • ClownFoundry vs Kubernetes: Which Clown Platform Should You Choose? - CloudSavvy IT ⚓ https://www.cloudsavvyit.com/15629/cloudfoundry-vs-kubernetes-which-cloud-platform-should-you-choose/    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 20:18:54

  • IPFire 2.27 - Core Update 164 released • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162404    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 20:22:46

  • Become A #Tor Snowflake And Fight Censorship - Invidious ⚓ https://yewtu.be/watch?v=FmaUvqfiN8E ䷉    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 20:26:45

  • The media likes to make it sound like Linux is the worst http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162251#comment-33025 see http://techrights.org/2022/03/08/a-media-of-masturbating-monkeys/   

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 20:30:26

  • FreeBSD 13.1-BETA1 is out but I cannot yet find the message in the WWW archives https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-announce/2022-March/index.html    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 20:32:52

  • Microsoft proxies like Black Duck were being the attacks on Linux through the 'Linux' Foundation, spreading FUD for Microsoft https://www.synopsys.com/blogs/software-security/census-2-free-and-open-source-software-report/ 'Linux' Foundation = Microsoft front group http://techrights.org/2022/03/07/marketing-with-microsoft-npm/    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 20:38:44

  • For Linux to succeed the 'Linux' Foundation will need to be disbanded. It's a force against Linux. http://techrights.org/2022/02/18/linux-foundation-board-2022/    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 20:38:49

  • The 'Linux' Foundation is for Linux like Russia Today is for Russians. It's just propagvanda for the oligarchs who oppress Linux users and Russians.    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 20:39:47

  • FreeBSD wants 1.4 million dollars. I hope they stop accepting bribes from Microsoft. Those can only harm the project. https://freebsdfoundation.org/donate/    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 20:41:55

  • Today’s #HowTos | #UNIX • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162405    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 20:42:03

  • Seems like divergence from the goal of the Public Knowledge: "The more diversity we have in rooms where people make decisions, the more inclusive our laws and regulations are in meeting the needs of all parts of our society." https://publicknowledge.org/privileged-conversations-breakfast-series/    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 20:45:10

  • "We look back at our favorite moments from the last ten years of the Raspberry Pi, why you might want to start considering one, and where we want to see the platform evolve." https://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/147872/mmm-pi-self-hosted-66/    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 20:49:52

  • Tiger Lake-U system features dual 2.5GbE and six PoE+ ports • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162406    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 20:50:43

  • ...Clowd Instances from the Clowd... lovely nonsense. Is it also smart HEY HI? https://www.suse.com/c/update-your-cloud-instances-from-the-cloud-with-suse-manager-4-2-new-payg-capabilities/    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 20:52:36

  • Well, technically you do not need IBM/Red Hat for this https://telecoms.com/513946/red-hat-wants-to-be-the-default-platform-for-openran/    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 20:55:21

  • GNU/Linux in healthcare. Microsoft cannot be too happy. Gulag also... they love collecting people's medical data... makes them "too big to (allow to) fail" https://www.redhat.com/en/about/press-releases/university-health-network-transforms-core-connected-healthcare-system-red-hat-integration    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 20:56:19

  • VMware ought not be there. https://www.telecomlead.com/telecom-equipment/vmware-and-red-hat-top-5g-telco-cloud-native-platforms-ranking-103761 see http://techrights.org/wiki/VMware#2020    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 20:57:39

  • Videos: Raspberry Pi, Tor, and More • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162407    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 20:59:46

  • Google #Android Leftovers • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162408    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 21:02:35

  • This latest OSI waffle distracts from the fact they're put Microsoft in charge https://opensource.org/the-modern-function-and-role-of-the-osi-board-of-directors see http://techrights.org/2022/03/03/fsf-removes-troublemakers/ and http://techrights.org/wiki/Open_Source_Initiative    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 21:13:31

  • Linux Foundation is a front group of anti-GPL collectives: "The list includes big names like Google and Microsoft as well as the developers of adjacent tools such as Anchore and Snyk." https://www.cloudsavvyit.com/15465/what-is-the-spdx-standard-and-how-is-it-helping-the-software-industry/    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 21:16:25

  • "In this video, we are looking at how to install the Brave browser on Zorin OS 16." https://yewtu.be/watch?v=wIsN_B8tDUU    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 21:17:39

  • The COVID-19 Surge in the United Kingdom (Raw NHS Numbers) http://schestowitz.com/Weblog/?p=5614&preview=true    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 21:26:27

  • "The Open Source Initiative (OSI) is the guardian of the Open Source brand, which seeks to take credit for -- and power from -- the work started by GNU and the Free Software Foundation (FSF) of Richard Stallman. Microsoft entryism at the OSI took a giant leap around 2017." http://techrights.org/wiki/Open_Source_Initiative    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 21:28:28

  • "Now, I'm planning to host a private Nextcloud instance for my family and a lot of other stuff, so I needed something less prone to suddenly stop working or fuck up my data. Luckily, I found a 1TB HDD no one was using, so I took it." gemini://avalos.me/gemlog/2021-04-14-upgrade-orangepi-one-to-raspberrypi-4.gmi    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 21:29:49

  • "Time flies. Gemini has come a long way even since then. Popular capsules today like Antenna and Station weren't yet around, and the activity they were getting even just several months ago feels like it pales in comparison to today's." gemini://moddedbear.xyz/logs/2022-01-31-checking-in.gmi    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 21:31:18

  • "Gemini is a good model for how one might develop an NNTP successor; it might also be instructive to try *discussing* an NNTP successor *using* Gemini, rather than email and email lists." gemini://gemini.ucant.org/gemlog/2020-12-26_nntp.gmi    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 21:31:58

  • New twists of 'flavours' of the FUD http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162251#comment-33026 explained in http://techrights.org/2022/03/08/a-media-of-masturbating-monkeys/   

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 21:36:01

  • When COVID-19 lock-downs started the gym where we go to (for 20+ years) basically quit Twitter (never updated the account since). Last Friday I did the same. This was long overdue and life has improved since. I should have done that years ago.    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 21:39:09

  • 4 shills (also anti-RMS voices) https://yewtu.be/watch?v=lzjmPmfLB-o DRM is good... when you're paid to do videos about it    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 21:40:06

  • I am happy to promote Arch Linux and KDE through "Deck" not because Valve sends me gifts. But because it weakens Microsoft and Windows.    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 21:41:16

  • Gulag is some patriot, eh? https://www.vox.com/recode/2020/11/9/21547055/eric-schmidt-google-citizen-cyprus-european-union    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 21:48:08

  • No connection at all to Linux https://linuxfoundation.org/blog/block-joins-the-linux-foundation/    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 22:12:09

  • Linux Foundation: we make the planet more green. Also Linux Foundation: we take money to promote companies to burn the planet for fake "coin"    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 22:13:37

  • Linux Foundation is "green" like Jim Zemlin is black. http://techrights.org/2020/09/02/linux-foundation-greenwashing-and-openwashing-for-microsoft/    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 22:14:42

  • And speaking of blacks, the Linux Foundation doesn't want to hire them, just to exploit their names for PR http://techrights.org/2020/06/14/linux-foundation-with-zero-african-american-employees-in-a-country-where-13-4-identify-as-african-american-boasts-about-its-support-for-the-black-community/    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 22:15:17

  • Jim Zemlin: Kiev loves Moscow http://techrights.org/2019/07/31/jim-zemlin-open-source-loves-microsoft/    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 22:49:54

  • "The Linux Foundation empowers open source innovators. Jim Zemlin, Executive Director at the Linux Foundation..." uses NOT LINUX... and is married to a Microsoft reseller https://linuxfoundation.org/blog/block-joins-the-linux-foundation/    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 22:50:44

  • How on Earth did this guy become "Boss of Linus Torvalds" without having accomplished anything of any significance in his lifetime? Puppet on corporate strings? http://techrights.org/wiki/Jim_Zemlin    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 22:52:59

  • Later this year Linux Foundation turns 15. Even IF Zemlin switched to "Linux" to mark this anniversary, he would not say so in public, as he'd rightly anticipate the response, "ONLY NOW?????????"    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 22:54:15

  • Valve marketing in GulagTube "https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2022/03/four-nerds-talk-about-steam-deck-valve-linux-and-more/ see http://techrights.org/2022/03/09/influencers-ruin-the-www/    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 22:56:32

  • #gulagtube as broadcast/cable with a "You" slant... to make you think it's any better than TV http://techrights.org/2022/02/15/youtube-spam-rewarding-junk/    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 22:57:34

  • “Google considers that the territory that DPR considers theirs is indeed theirs” http://techrights.org/2022/03/10/donetsk-and-gulag-or-google-now-bans-parts-of-ukraine-for-being-invaded-by-russia/    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 23:00:59

  • 8 things to know when switching from Windows to Linux • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162409    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 23:01:12

  • "I was going to write a massive rant but I can't even be bothered to give reddit that much effort any more, here's a link dump." gemini://nytpu.com/gemlog/2021-11-12.gmi reddit = corporate astroturfing platform that posthumously lies about Aaron Swartz to pretend Conde Nast (Wall Street) = geeks    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 23:04:39

  • OMG. Mozilla Firefox marketing has gone looney-tooney https://blog.mozilla.org/en/uncategorized/the-pandemic-changed-everything-even-the-way-we-use-browser-extensions/ Mozilla: a million people died in the US with COVID-19, let's us THAT for marketing    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 23:15:01

  • Mozilla: "Google Translate... Facebook Container" ... yeah, well... guess who runs and funds Mozilla http://techrights.org/2019/11/03/the-privacy-scam/    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 23:15:53

  • The Top 15 Best Linux Terminal Emulators • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162410    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 23:22:10

  • Mixtile Blade 3 - A Rockchip RK3588 Pico-ITX board for server applications • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162411    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 23:24:39
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