Roy Schestowitz

• "One of the oldest issues on the Gemini specification's gitlab is about the semantics of fragments in Gemtext (if fragments should have semantics at all). I know I personally find myself wishing for fragments probably the most." gemini://nytpu.com/gemlog/2021-12-11.gmi    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 23:27:46

• "fact that “like and comment” systems are now pretty universally ostracized by the Gemini community. In fact, I strongly agree with the widespread discussion I've seen so far about liking systems and social media and all that jazz." gemini://nytpu.com/gemlog/2021-08-22.gmi    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 23:28:47

• "What made me like Gemini is that it leans more towards small personal spaces than what the current web has to offer. I have to be honest, I would have loved at least an inline image support as well as *some* minor text decorations but I'll make it work." gemini://cap.swan.quest/p/entry220226172834.gmi    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 23:29:40

• GNU Jitter and GCC: the fun of playing with fire http://ageinghacker.net/blog/posts/26/    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 23:32:55

• Kids should not carry tracking devices. I blame corporate governments for normalising this. https://www.maketecheasier.com/enable-parental-control-on-android-devices/    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 23:33:49

• "Almost all software developed today includes substantial open source components. The open source brand is very strong, and there are many interests who would like to leverage that brand without meeting its obligations." That's called #openwashing -- a term I coined 14 years ago gemini://drewdevault.com/2022/03/01/Open-source-is-defined-by-the-OSD.gmi    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 23:35:28

• Aaron Swartz: "I think following the news is a waste of time." Depends where from. Genuine sources do exist. But they're not mainstream. gemini://thelambdalab.xyz/phlog/2019-08-26-Aaron-Swartz-on-The-News.txt    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 23:37:09

• "I once experienced the "challenging individual to get along with" part in person, when I met with him at an event back in 2018. I was 14 years old at that time, and I didn't know too much about the free software movement or GNU." gemini://avalos.me/gemlog/2021-04-01-thoughts-on-richard-stallman.gmi    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 23:38:10

• "the instant I try to join a zoom call, wireless networking breaks irrepairably until a restart. Even after I close zoom, it stays broken. I can't figure out why, but I upgraded the zoom app yesterday and all of a sudden this started happening, so it's definitely a bug in zoom." gemini://nytpu.com/gemlog/2020-11-11.gmi    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 23:40:10

• "Overall I am very happy replacing debian sid with arch, and I don't regret anything about it." gemini://gemini.lottalinuxlinks.com/posts/2021-10-13-sid-to-arch.gmi    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 23:44:34

• "Gemini is a new privacy-respecting internet protocol that seeks to fill the space between the web and gopher. It is still new to me, so I am just getting into it" gemini://gemini.lottalinuxlinks.com/posts/2021-02-07-my-gemini-capsule-has-launched.gmi    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 23:45:29

• "Once you have sent several windows to the scratchpad, you can bring them back with a mod+minus; this will bring them back one (and only one) at a time in a cycling sequence based on the order that they were sent to the scratchpad." gemini://gemini.lottalinuxlinks.com/posts/2021-01-20-i3-scratchpad-and-vim-like-marks.gmi    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 23:46:55

• "However, unlike on something like Gemini, you still do have markup. So you can provide markup that gives an extra special little enhancement to the text, but it'll still degrade to plaintext in some instances. This specific sitation has gotten me into thinking about the concept of “gracefully degrading” markup." gemini://nytpu.com/gemlog/2021-09-16.gmi    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 23:47:56

• Managing MiniDisc Devices From the Command Line gemini://nytpu.com/gemlog/2022-02-25.gmi    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 23:50:13

• Russia creates its own TLS certificate authority to bypass sanctions gemini://station.martinrue.com/ fake security strikes again.... CAs = monopolistic shite, imperialistic plot    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 23:52:31

• World's Biggest Social Control Media Company Does More Anti-Social Things gemini://galaxyhub.uk/articles/social-media.gmi "collect its own data on the site's political advertising."    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 23:55:30

• Fortnite isn't a game, it's a lecherous advertising platform gemini://galaxyhub.uk/articles/fortnite.gmi "In 2019 one Canadian lawyer filed a legal notice against Epic Games, accusing it of using psychological techniques in order to hook players to Fortnite."    

posted Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 23:58:34

• "I learned about the Gemini protocol last week. I don't know why, but the idea seemed very appealing to me. I like the idea of a simpler network where you don't feel like you're being tracked and monitored all of the time." gemini://jfh.me/posts/2020-11-01-melchior.gmi    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 00:04:59

• "For my eleventh birthday my parents gave me a Raspberry Pi. I liked Scratch and was interested in computers previously so it was a great present. I remember it took me a few minutes to figure out what this circuit board thing really was." gemini://calcuode.com/gemlog/2020-11-21_how-i-found-out-about-foss.gmi    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 00:11:55

• As Inkscape continues to grow, the responsibilities of the Inkscape team increase in tandem. To keep up with the current pace, the Project Leadership Committee are looking for a Project Coordinator. See the job posting for more details...

     

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 00:14:34

• The 'other' GPL suffers from Russia's invasion of Ukraine https://demerarawaves.com/2022/03/07/russia-ukraine-war-spirals-gpls-fuel-bill-causing-extremely-challenging-and-unsustainable-position/    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 00:17:36

• This is not improving the Web, it's making it worse; they're colluding to control it (and they already control it; see the past fortnight's events) https://www.ghacks.net/2022/03/07/interop-2022-apple-google-microsoft-and-mozilla-collaboration/    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 00:19:17

• The criminals from Microsoft targets the kids in Nigeria, pushing malware to them https://techbuild.africa/elev8-microsoft-nigerias-software-development/    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 00:20:01

• MSP = Microsoft Scheme Pyramid    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 00:20:39

• Old: "we'd all be running FreeBSD, maybe even on our desktops" LOL, nope... (also: it's called GNU, and it predates "modern" Windows) https://www.infoworld.com/article/2616083/a-world-without-linux--where-would-apache--microsoft----even-apple-be-today-.html    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 00:22:14

• I'm hearing from more and more people who quit Twitter and Facebook. Excellent! It's easier than these companies lead you to believe...    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 00:23:06

• 175126 page requests in gemini capsule of techrights in past 10 days. That's 17,5k a day. Over gemini:// alone. This isn't a niche anymore.    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 00:35:51

• Kali Unkaputtbar Brings File System Snapshots to Btrfs-Based Kali Linux Systems • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162412    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 00:39:21

• why use gemini? gemini://nytpu.com/why-gemini.gmi "If Gemini had no benefits other than being private it would have very few users indeed."    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 00:41:35

• "Gemini pages are just raw text with no styling to them at all (other than semantic elements like quotes, headers, bullets), they leave all the styling up to the user. Want all your pages to look exactly the same, with a flat black background and white text? Definitely!" gemini://nytpu.com/why-gemini.gmi    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 00:42:29

• "People that say “Gemini doesn’t have images” strike me as people that don’t understand how the internet works, but I’ll humor them and explain it here. No internet protocol today has images native in it’s format (discounting base64-encoded stuff shoved into the page), not HTML, not discord, not ActivityPub." gemini://nytpu.com/why-gemini.gmi    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 00:47:30

• Roof over one's head... in "developed" country https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/gentoo-easington-lane-repairs-storm-23185150    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 00:58:36

• "I said we are DEVELOPED... I did NOT say were we also DEBUGGED and TESTED"    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 00:59:25

• EARN-IT threatens encryption and therefore user freedom • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162413    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 01:11:06

• GNU Jitter and GCC: the fun of playing with fire • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162414    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 01:11:13

• "Nothing ever really becomes "obsolete", just increasingly niche. Vinyl records are a great example of this. In terms of practicality, there's no reason for vinyl to exist anymore. But that hasn't stopped the people who have helped it make a comeback in recent years." gemini://moddedbear.xyz/logs/2021-10-29-re-compact-discs-is-obsolete-technology-obsolete.gmi    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 01:13:30

• IBM/Red Hat Leftovers • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162415    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 01:13:47

• "There's not much to explain here but the main idea is that a majority of the internet activity you see is driven by bots. This one I think is to some extent one of the more believable ones on the list. One recent report I found estimates that bots are responsible for around 40% of all web traffic." gemini://moddedbear.xyz/logs/2021-12-23-conspiracy-theories.gmi    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 01:15:19

• UK "Registered corporations are what we now call companies. One act of Parliament, since roughly the 1850s, has allowed a government official to create new companies. The current law on this is the Companies Act 2006." gemini://gemini.ucant.org/gemlog/2021-08-30_uk_legal_forms.gmi    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 01:18:13

• "South African influencer"... that term, 'influencer', is becoming obnoxious nonsense https://www.kossyderrickent.com/2022/03/photos-rapper-zola-7-dlamini-visits-and.html    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 01:21:04

• Buying the Zorin OS 16.1 Pro Linux-based operating system can help Ukraine http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162392#comment-33027   

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 01:22:48

• A couple of weeks from now it'll be 2 YEARS since lockdowns began. And the UK has a new COVID SURGE: http://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/category/health/    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 01:25:19

• "First they came for the right-wingers But I did not speak up, for I was not a right-winger Then they came for the left-wingers As everyone had predicted" gemini://gemini.ucant.org/gemlog/2020-12-28_niemoeller.gmi   

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 01:26:31

• The Gemini mailing list is fully archived, but why are they not bringing that back? gemini://nytpu.com/gemlog/2021-12-31.gmi    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 01:29:13

• Gemini is for photographs too, e.g. (cats) for MinceR gemini://nytpu.com/sneps/    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 01:30:19

• This headline is a lie and this report is a face https://www.zdnet.com/article/the-top-1000-open-source-libraries/ Microsoft propaganda, brought to you by 'Linux' Foundation http://techrights.org/2022/03/07/marketing-with-microsoft-npm/    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 01:32:15

• ‘Texas v. Meta’: Collection of Biometric Information Targeted in Suit https://www.law.com/newyorklawjournal/2022/03/07/texas-v-meta-collection-of-biometric-information-targeted-in-suit/    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 01:33:56

• Borisnaro was born in New York, writes for New York Times. And he governs another country. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/06/opinion/boris-johnson-russia-putin-ukraine-war.html    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 01:35:59

• "Cloudflare uses lava lamps, aka LavaRand, to generate random numbers for its encryption." But clownflare is a surveillance company. Surely some marketing gimmick of theirs. https://thenewstack.io/silkworm-encryption/    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 01:38:59

• Has Jason Evangelho been brought back just to issue DRM marketing spam for Valve? https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho/    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 01:41:13

• Typical openwashing garbage and FUD from VMware; "VMware Tanzu sponsored this article for The New Stack." https://thenewstack.io/how-an-ospo-can-help-secure-your-software-supply-chain/ see http://techrights.org/wiki/VMware#2020    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 01:50:23

• #openwashing of a DRM villain https://www.protocol.com/enterprise/how-netflix-and-uber-helped-create-the-data-lakehouse-by-preserving-an-open-source-tradition    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 01:51:10

• "A standard XII boy from Bengaluru has been chosen to be a part of a climate change expedition to Antarctica. The Climate Force Antarctic Expedition is scheduled for March 17-28. Organisers said the expedition will be more than just carbon neutral but in fact ‘carbon negative’." https://bangaloremirror.indiatimes.com/bangalore/others/journey-to-save-planet/articleshow/90109133.cms    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 01:52:04

• eBay is excessively hostile to VPN users. Customer disservice hangs up on me. - BaronHK’s Rants ⚓ https://baronhk.wordpress.com/2022/03/11/ebay-is-excessively-hostile-to-vpn-users-customer-service-hangs-up-on-me/    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 02:15:46

• It Smells Like Marketing - Not Journalism - When Almost 100% of the ’Articles’ From Jason Evangelho, Senior Contributor at Forbes, Are About the Same Topic | Techrights ⚓ http://techrights.org/2022/03/10/jason-evangelho-influencer/ | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2022/03/10/jason-evangelho-influencer/   

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 02:17:57

• today’s hjowtos • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162416    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 02:18:06

• Games: Mostly Steam Deck Fluff • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162417    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 02:18:27

• FreeBSD Quarterly Status Report 4th Quarter 2021 • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162418    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 02:18:37

• "an hour ot 2 ago I went to freebsd site ... they have discord advertised x-|" http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-techrights-100322.html#tMar%2010%2023:05:30   

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 02:36:50

• Fake Security and Openwashing Fluf (Linux Foundation) • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162419    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 02:38:43

• Today’s 𝘛𝘶𝘹 𝘔𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴 Leftovers • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162420    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 02:38:52

• #Techrights Bulletin for Thursday, March 10, 2022 http://techrights.org/txt full archive: http://techrights.org/txt-archives #gnu #linux #freesw #plaintext    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 08:02:11

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

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 08:02:21

• #HowTo Install the latest qBittorrent on Linux • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162421    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 08:14:12

• Jason Evangelho, who used to cover GNU/Linux at Forbes and then vanished, has made a comeback. But pay attention to this publication pattern. http://techrights.org/2022/03/10/jason-evangelho-influencer/    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 08:15:54

• A terse, crude lie from Mr. Breton does not actually tackle this question; it reaffirms the widespread perception that Mr. Breton is covering up/hiding EPO corruption for his mate Benoît Battistelli and the UPC lobby (or ‘Team UPC’, looking to rewrite the rules that govern them) http://techrights.org/2022/03/10/breton-lies-again/    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 08:16:10

• Zorin OS 16.1 is Now Available to Download http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162392#comment-33028   

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 08:21:38

• "It’s a fucked up and dying country. We knew that." https://baronhk.wordpress.com/2022/03/11/disney-scrubs-lgbt-people-out-of-any-movie-they-publish/    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 08:23:01

• “You realize you’re recommending that I help put you out of a job with an app that barely works, right?” https://baronhk.wordpress.com/2022/03/11/the-dumbest-feature-of-walmart-and-a-banking-app-joke/    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 08:24:30

• WordPress 5.9.2 Security & Maintenance Release https://wordpress.org/news/2022/03/wordpress-5-9-2-security-maintenance-release/    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 08:27:41

• OpenZFS 2.1.3 is out but needs to delete GitHub. Relying on Microsoft proprietary software can cause all sorts of issues for this project. It does not even make practical sense.    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 08:29:13

• Dirk Eddelbuettel: dtts 0.1.0 on CRAN: New Package http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2022/03/10#dtts_0.1.0    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 08:29:39

• Gulag gives millions of machines with Gentoo on them, but adds tons of spyware to those https://www.gentoo.org/news/2022/03/10/Gentoo-GSoC-2022.html    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 08:30:34

• "Roger (radky in the forum) is working on JWMDesk 3.5, with new features and compatibility with EasyOS 3.4.1+. Roger has designed JWMDesk to work in most pup derivatives, which is a formidable task, and I take my hat off to him for doing it." https://bkhome.org/news/202203/jwmdesk-35-coming-soon.html    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 08:32:10

• Zorin OS 16.1 Brings Much Needed Stability and Improvements http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162392#comment-33029   

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 08:40:03

• Zorin OS 16.1 Brings Much Needed Stability and Improvements • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162422    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 08:40:52

• Updates: Digital rights in the Ukraine-Russia conflict https://www.accessnow.org/digital-rights-ukraine-russia-conflict/ "Civil society to U.S. government: Do not disrupt internet access in Russia or Belarus"    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 08:43:38

• "Over 700 creators have joined in support to donate their work. All proceeds from this bundle will be split between the following charities" https://itch.io/b/1316/bundle-for-ukraine    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 08:45:20

• "Having run FreeBSD on TigerLake on-and-off since December 2020 on two laptops, there are a few things to keep in mind." https://www.neelc.org/posts/optimize-freebsd-for-intel-tigerlake/    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 08:46:14

• "The firmware is available via fw_update(8)." "https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20220310135156    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 08:46:50

• "This patch adds initial 11ac support to the iwx(4) driver. This means that 80MHz channels can be used. No other 11ac features are enabled yet." https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=164682778604627&w=2    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 08:47:22

• "I’ve published release 0.1 of v-i, my installer for Debian based on vmdb2." https://blog.liw.fi/posts/2022/03/06/v-i/    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 08:48:13

• Linux and Open Source Companies Stopping Their Services in Russia • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162423    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 08:49:16

• Elive 3.8.26 beta released • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162424    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 08:49:36

• Pockit modular Linux computer gets a Raspberry Pi CM4 upgrade • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162425    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 08:49:46

• Google #Android Leftovers • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162426    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 08:54:13

• Open Source Initiative’s definition is quite clear: there must be “no discrimination against persons or groups” https://thenewstack.io/where-does-open-source-fit-into-russias-war-with-ukraine/ see http://techrights.org/2022/03/10/oss-and-equality/    

POSTED fRIDAY, mARCH 11, 2022 AT 08:59:01

• "Two years ago, I wrote a post with a handful of grievances about Rust, a language that I then (and still) consider my favorite compiled language" https://blog.yossarian.net/2022/03/10/Things-I-hate-about-Rust-redux    

POSTED fRIDAY, mARCH 11, 2022 AT 09:00:03

• SecureDrop 2.2.1 Released • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162427    

POSTED fRIDAY, mARCH 11, 2022 AT 09:00:55

• "News in Russian in RSS format" https://www.dn.se/om/news-in-russian/    

POSTED fRIDAY, mARCH 11, 2022 AT 09:01:37

• iophk: "the problem of broken links at the BBC continues to persist after many years"    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 09:01:59

• You can murder people, then buy a football club in England https://fair.org/home/saudi-pr-pays-off-at-the-atlantic/    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 09:04:50

• EU parliament looking at rules on replaceable batteries ⚓ https://odysee.com/@rossmanngroup:a/eu-parliament-looking-at-rules-on:1    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 09:05:40

• Tor still works better than nothing at all https://odysee.com/@BrodieRobertson:5/become-a-tor-snowflake-and-fight:7    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 09:05:59

• VLOG: New Computer for this Inkscape Developer - Invidious ⚓ https://yewtu.be/dGmCt8UHHB4    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 09:06:40

• "The Zettelkasten Method is an amplifier of your endeavors in the realm of knowledge work. It is highly effective, and many people report they have more fun, one even comparing it to the addictive nature of games like World of Warcraft" https://zettelkasten.de/introduction/    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 09:07:57

• Microsoft Windows TCO https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/28/us/politics/ukraine-russia-microsoft.html http://techrights.org/2021/07/19/microsoft-national-security/    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 09:09:50

• Microsoft Windows TCO https://www.ft.com/content/1fb2f592-4806-42fd-a6d5-735578651471 http://techrights.org/2021/07/19/microsoft-national-security/    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 09:09:57

• Microsoft Windows TCO https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/big-techs-support-for-ukraine-recasts-industrys-global-role/ http://techrights.org/2021/07/19/microsoft-national-security/    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 09:11:18

• Proprietary junk from Apple https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/10/22967995/apple-mac-studio-usb-a-ports-display-macbook-pro-imac-2022-connectivity    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 09:14:45

• This is obviously a product for dumb people, not smart people: "lets the vacuum learn your home’s floor plan" https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/10/22967391/irobot-roomba-i3-update-smart-mapping    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 09:15:53

• "On Thursday, just eight months after the measure took effect, lawmakers approved a bill to lift the blanket ban." https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/virginia-lawmakers-lifting-ban-facial-technology-83372991    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 09:16:19

• Oh, do not say "Big Tech" https://pluralistic.net/2022/03/08/three-freedoms/#alphabet-soup "Big Tech" is a lobbying term of Microsoft: http://techrights.org/2021/06/29/microsoft-behind-big-tech-narrative/    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 09:17:13

• Starbucks should be bust https://truthout.org/articles/three-more-starbucks-stores-in-buffalo-area-vote-to-form-union/    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 09:22:05

• Lead Exposure in Last Century Shrank IQ Scores of Half of Americans, Study Finds - SoylentNews ⚓ https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=22/03/08/1520231    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 09:27:42

• Russia under attack from Putin https://www.economist.com/briefing/2022/03/12/vladimir-putin-is-pushing-russia-into-the-past    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 09:28:19

• raspberrypi 'shilling' Microsoft (Mono) crap again https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/unity-introduction-livestream/    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 09:35:22

• "The basic claim in these lawsuits is broadly the same: that portions of songs by the famous musicians are similar to those of pre-existing works" https://walledculture.org/a-further-spate-of-lawsuits-demonstrate-how-copyright-is-antithetical-to-creativity/    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 09:36:10

• The same Massie who is fronting for litigious fanatics from the patent extortion cartel https://thegrayzone.com/2022/03/10/thomas-massie-ukraine-resolution/    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 09:37:10

• DRM won't help artists, it's about the cartel milking them https://variety.com/2022/digital/news/tiktok-soundon-launch-direct-upload-1235200346/    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 09:37:52

• When your system/economy is collapsing, provoke and start wars https://thegrayzone.com/2022/03/10/congress-american-workers-war-russia/    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 09:43:37

• Cops acting like vigilantes https://www.mlive.com/news/ann-arbor/2022/03/ann-arbor-human-rights-group-calls-for-transparency-in-police-traffic-stops.html    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 09:44:23

• "Flipkart has apologised for a marketing misfire which saw the e-commerce platform promoting kitchen appliances on Women's Day" https://www.ndtv.com/offbeat/flipkart-apologises-for-womens-day-message-promoting-kitchen-appliances-2812045    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 09:44:44

• "However, while we’ve left the country, we do not want to, and will not, stop working. We want to make sure that people can still read about what is actually taking place. Working from outside Russia is the only thing that makes sense." https://cpj.org/2022/03/censor-yourself-or-dont-work-at-all-why-squeezed-russian-journalists-are-fleeing-in-droves/    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 09:45:47

• "Weibo and Tencent Holdings, which owns WeChat, did not respond to requests for comment on why such material had been removed or accounts suspended." https://financialpost.com/pmn/business-pmn/china-censors-online-ukraine-debate-bars-calls-for-peace-2    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 09:46:26

• Censoring UN: "The United Nations’ Department of Global Communications instructed staff of the international organisation not to refer to the situation in Ukraine as a “war” or “invasion”, in a move to balance political sensitivities" https://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/united-nations-advises-staff-against-using-war-or-invasion-regarding-ukraine-1.4821438    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 09:47:12

• "The blocking of VOA’s VK page was preceded by Russian efforts to block Voice of America’s website in Russian" https://www.insidevoa.com/a/6479745.html    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 09:47:38

• Boycott Twitter. It's just a propaganda and hate site. https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/10/22971307/twitter-home-timeline-algorithmic-reverse-chronological-feed    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 09:51:17

• Twitter is acting more like a military operation, not an online platform. https://thehill.com/policy/technology/597758-twitter-removes-russian-embassy-tweets-over-mariupol-hospital-bombing    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 09:51:52

• The World Wide Web has become a weapon of war https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/10/technology/disinformation-russia-ukraine.html    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 09:52:20

• "he war in Ukraine is being fought not only with tanks and missiles, but also with propaganda and censorship" https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/03/10/zelensky-is-going-viral-but-putin-is-winning-the-information-war/    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 09:52:46

• Great stuff! "Spotify Sees 1.5M Subscriber Cancelations" https://variety.com/2022/digital/news/spotify-russia-subscriber-cancel-joe-rogan-1235200533/    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 09:54:22

• "This was pretty much business as usual in the twilight of the fossil-fuel age." https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/putin-russia-ukraine-fossil-fuels-climate-change-1319417/    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 09:57:42

• "Ukraine’s foreign minister, Dmytro Kuleba, warned in a tweet that reserve diesel generators will operate for only 48 hours." https://www.newscientist.com/article/2311591-chernobyl-power-cut-sparks-fears-of-potential-for-radiation-leaks/    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 09:57:48

• "MEPs are in favour of overhauling the current legislation to take into account technological developments." https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20220304IPR24805/new-rules-on-batteries-meps-want-more-environmental-and-social-ambition    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 09:58:33

• “If I go home, they will try me as a traitor and put me behind bars for 15 years.” https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/sergei-loiko-russian-journalist-ukraine-fighting-putin-1319166/    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 09:59:31

• Hungary erects another "strong" leader https://telex.hu/english/2022/03/10/novak-katalin-to-be-next-president-of-hungary MinceR    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 10:14:27

• Only the copyright cartel was profiting https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/covid-touring-musicians-aid/    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 10:15:13

• "Unworthy" victims? "https://www.thenation.com/article/society/jorge-nieto-interview/    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 10:16:07

• How NOT to solve a crisis https://www.thenation.com/article/society/covid-biden-policy-abdandonment/    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 10:17:45

• Then patents that kill millions of people https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/03/10/two-years-pandemic-die-ins-will-demand-end-big-pharmas-grip-vaccine-patents    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 10:18:26

• Way to milk COVID-19 vaccine patents for several more years. They have no financial incentive to solve it. https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/03/10/choice-extend-pandemic-experts-slam-congress-dropping-covid-aid    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 10:19:16

• So what if it kills a million Americans, right?    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 10:20:04

• "With Open Culture VOICES, we’re thrilled to bring you various perspectives from dozens of experts speaking in many different languages on what it’s like to open up heritage content online." https://creativecommons.org/2022/03/10/episode-11-open-culture-voices-alwaleed-alkhaja/    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 10:22:24

• "In this episode, we’re joined by Maja Drabczyk, Head of Policy and Advocacy at Centrum Cyfrowe in Poland." https://creativecommons.org/2022/03/10/episode-12-open-culture-voices-maja-drabczyk/    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 10:22:56

• What sanctions do more harm than good: https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/03/10/why-sanctions-could-deal-a-fatal-blow-to-russias-already-weak-domestic-opposition/ also see http://techrights.org/2022/03/10/donetsk-and-gulag-or-google-now-bans-parts-of-ukraine-for-being-invaded-by-russia/    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 10:24:17

• "The demand is that everyone not only “condemn” Russian president Vladimir Putin for invading Ukraine, but do so without qualification." https://www.mintpressnews.com/wests-hands-ukraine-bloody-putins/279897/ https://www.mintpressnews.com/us-admits-funding-biological-laboratories-ukraine-dilyana-gaytandzhieva/279904/    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 10:26:18

• "Hungary’s government issued a decree on Monday allowing NATO troops to be deployed in western Hungary and weapons shipments to cross its territory by land or by air to other NATO member states." https://insighthungary.444.hu/2022/03/10/nato-troops-in-hungary-opposition-protests-against-public-media-madame-president-and-400-hufeur MinceR    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 10:28:01

• It's good that Western media blasts Russian for bombing hospitals. Just don't forget to remind audiences that the US bombs hospitals too. Worse yet, it then uses machine guns on survivors.    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 10:30:22

• Aaron Swartz on The News gemini://thelambdalab.xyz/phlog/2019-08-26-Aaron-Swartz-on-The-News.txt    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 10:31:36

• "None of these stories have relevance to my life. Reading them may be enjoyable, but it’s an enjoyable waste of time. They will have no impact on my actions one way or another." gemini://thelambdalab.xyz/phlog/2019-08-26-Aaron-Swartz-on-The-News.txt    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 10:34:10

• Fumik: An Arduino Wall Drawing Robot Jellyfish http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162402#comment-33030   

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 10:35:57

• Stop saying "Big Tech", EFF. You are helping Microsoft lobbyists. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/03/big-tech-pay-outs-european-isps-would-just-concentrate-their-power see http://techrights.org/2021/06/29/microsoft-behind-big-tech-narrative/    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 10:37:21

• Valdolf Putler bombs civilians. Joseph 'Stalin' Biden starves them. https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/03/10/bidens-sanctions-afghanistan-could-kill-more-civilians-two-decades-war    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 10:40:56

• Fukushima disaster is not over https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/03/10/the-fukushima-disaster-ruined-their-lives/    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 10:42:12

• Proprietary software should be shunned. Look what it did. https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/03/10/the-great-british-post-office-scandal/    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 10:42:55

• Work towards reducing the spying, not increasing the connectivity, EFF https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/03/how-ntia-can-fund-future-proof-open-access-fiber    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 10:47:31

• OK, well... EFF also wrote about privacy yesterday https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/03/heres-how-ice-illegally-obtained-bulk-financial-records-western-union https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/03/utah-urge-governor-cox-veto-weak-data-privacy-bill    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 10:48:29

• "The police issued the warrant to Gulag seeking information" https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/03/federal-court-virginia-holds-geofence-warrant-violates-constitution    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 10:48:56

• If the US carries on borrowing money (debt, inflation, borrowing based on collaterals that don't exist) at this current page, it'll be 60 trillion dollars in debt in 5 years.    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 10:53:47

• "It seems like the price of everything from used cars to ground beef is up these days, and right-wing politicos and pundits are all over President Joe Biden for failing to stop the pain." https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/03/10/republicans-dont-want-talk-about-real-culprit-inflation-corporate-greed    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 10:53:54

• USA, Inc. is a credit card of a country. Max up.    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 10:54:26

• OILigarchs of oil oligarchs have no sense of shame. It is becoming like a price-fixing cartel that should be smashed to piece and those ringleaders (in the cartels) prosecuted, arrested. https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/03/10/progressives-denounce-big-oil-shamelessly-price-gouging-amid-ukraine-war    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 11:00:03

• Israel's "tolerance" https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/03/10/racist-new-israeli-law-bars-naturalization-palestinian-spouses    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 11:04:29

• Ukraine being bombed, but UEFA acting more like a copyright cartel or a bunch of pirates https://torrentfreak.com/eufa-wants-ukraine-to-increase-anti-piracy-protection-after-the-war-220310/    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 11:05:44

• Yes, copyright cartel is mostly lying. Truth doesn't matter to cartels. https://torrentfreak.com/ace-says-it-shut-down-two-pirate-sites-but-thats-not-the-full-story-220310/    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 11:06:15

• Treating animals like a live museum for humans' amusement while doing nothing to tackle human overpopulation https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/03/10/conservationists-say-congress-underfunding-species-protection-hundreds-millions    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 11:07:43

• Speaking of cartels... https://www.techdirt.com/2022/03/10/comcasts-and-charters-broadband-monopoly-continues-to-grow/    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 11:08:33

• "All his priorities – social safety net protections, rebuilding community infrastructure or public works, more aggressive action against climate crises, and paying for these programs by repealing the Trump tax escapes for the large corporations and the super-rich, are being blocked" https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/03/10/biden-neglects-to-make-the-crucial-request-to-the-citizenry-for-his-program/    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 11:09:42

• SLAPP https://www.techdirt.com/2022/03/10/appeals-court-smacks-down-unconstitutional-injunction-obtained-by-a-lawyer-to-silence-someone-who-left-a-negative-review/    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 11:10:36

• Oil cartels https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/03/10/dems-introduce-windfall-tax-big-oil-so-companies-pay-price-when-they-price-gouge    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 11:11:43

• Clownflare being in the loop in the first place is politicising the Internet https://www.techdirt.com/2022/03/10/cloudflare-says-shutting-down-in-russia-would-give-putin-what-he-wants/    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 11:13:22

• The people who plundered the United States are drunk on greed, take it up another notch https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/03/10/us-corporations-boost-profits-crushing-price-hikes-blamed-inflation    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 11:14:24

• "Qualified immunity has been heavily criticized for what it allows law enforcement officers to get away with" https://www.techdirt.com/2022/03/10/first-amendment-group-tells-appeals-court-university-officials-shouldnt-have-access-to-qualified-immunity/    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 11:15:57

• As Feared, 2020 Census Significantly Undercounted Minorities

     

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 11:16:35

• Census faked https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/03/10/feared-2020-census-significantly-undercounted-minorities Misinformation/Disinformation formalised    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 11:16:55

• Privacy protects you when you are innocent. Lack of privacy ruins your life even when when you are innocent. https://www.techdirt.com/2022/03/10/how-tracking-someones-movements-can-make-them-look-guilty-even-when-theyre-not/    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 11:18:13

• Life imitates art, US imitates Vladimir Putler https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/03/10/critics-warn-florida-gop-bill-designed-criminalize-voting-process   

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 11:20:04

• The bestest democracy in the bestest world https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/03/10/texas-mail-ballot-rejection-rate-skyrockets-under-gop-voter-suppression-law    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 11:20:42

• What "SHOP SAFE" really us https://www.techdirt.com/2022/03/10/academics-civil-society-internet-companies-all-explain-just-how-ridiculously-dangerous-shop-safe-is/    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 11:21:49

• "They point out that newspapers are a key part of our democracy, that by exposing wrong-doing to the people, they force the wrong-doers to stop. This seems to be true, but the curious thing is that I’m never involved." gemini://thelambdalab.xyz/phlog/2019-08-26-Aaron-Swartz-on-The-News.txt   

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 11:22:47

• "but you notice how it never involves me? It seems like the whole thing would work just as well even if nobody ever read the Times or watched the cable chat shows. It’s a closed system." gemini://thelambdalab.xyz/phlog/2019-08-26-Aaron-Swartz-on-The-News.txt   

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 11:23:43

• "Most people’s major life changes don’t come from reading an article in the newspaper; they come from reading longer-form essays or thoughtful books, which are much more convincing and detailed." gemini://thelambdalab.xyz/phlog/2019-08-26-Aaron-Swartz-on-The-News.txt   

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 11:24:24

• "But finally, I’d like to argue that following the news isn’t just a waste of time, it’s actively unhealthy. Edward Tufte notes that when he used to read the New York Times in the morning, it scrambled his brain with so many different topics that he couldn’t get any real intellectual work done the rest of the day." gemini://thelambdalab.xyz/phlog/2019-08-26-Aaron-Swartz-on-The-News.txt   

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 11:25:36

• "‘www2’ or any numbered ‘www’ has not posed any potential harm when used as a pointer to a website or subdomain. Just like ‘www’, it simply indicates that what you are accessing is a website." https://linuxhint.com/www2-guide/    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 11:29:13

• Microsoft moving in to attack Linux again http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162417#comment-33031   

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 11:32:10

• Microsoft Windows rapidly being made obsolete. Only Microsoft bribes, moles and corruption keep some momentum in tact. https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2022/03/proton-experimental-fixes-apex-legends-xbox-login-and-more-for-linux-and-steam-deck/    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 11:33:16

• If Microsoft loves Linux, it would PRELOAD it on PCs and/or improve WINE, not infiltrate the projects (Linux, Mesa etc.) to promote proprietary garbage like DirectX    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 11:36:44

• DietPi Released a New Version 8.2 https://dietpi.com/docs/releases/v8_2/    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 11:37:42

• mintBackup – A Simple Backup and Restore Tool for Linux Mint • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162428    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 11:38:23

• Misinformation/Disinformation from Trump https://baronhk.wordpress.com/2022/03/11/trumps-crooked-census-deliberately-missed-19-million-americans/    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 11:39:33

• More outsourcing of data to the NSA https://www.hpcwire.com/2022/03/07/nvidia-acquires-software-defined-storage-provider-excelero/    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 11:45:46

• Important cautionary take about outsourcing https://blocksandfiles.com/2022/03/07/storage-suppliers-begin-pull-out-from-russia/    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 11:46:28

• Seems like a theoretic, not a practical, problem https://blocksandfiles.com/2022/03/10/infinifs-solves-the-100-billion-file-metadata-problem/    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 11:48:14

• WWW as bloated garbage nobody can implement support for anymore. Just clone. https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/html-meter-segment-boundaries.html    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 11:57:42

• Today’s #HowTos | #UNIX • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162429    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 12:01:40

• How I run my blog on a Raspberry Pi • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162430    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 12:04:54

• BSD: FreeBSD and OpenBSD Latest • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162431    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 12:05:07

• Red Hat: let's just outsource to Microsoft proprietary software again https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2022/03/11/easier-way-generate-pdfs-html-templates    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 12:06:33

• HTML and Web/cURL • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162432    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 12:18:29

• Proprietary Traps/Risk/Software Leftovers• Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162433    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 12:26:02

• Programming Leftovers • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162434    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 12:32:30

• Today’s 𝘛𝘶𝘹 𝘔𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴 Leftovers • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162435    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 12:36:03

• FFS, quit promoting Microsoft proprietary software to GNU/Linux users. Yet WORSE, they tell GNU/Linux users to give Microsoft (and NSA) ROOT access! https://idroot.us/how-to-install-vs-code-server-almalinux-8/    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 14:47:40

• Or teaching people to use Microsoft proprietary sofwtare (and an ATTACK on Git) instead of Git, the real thing https://tecadmin.net/running-github-actions-in-another-directory/    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 14:48:16

• The pandemic has given birth to many sellouts, defectors and corporate shills on the WWW    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 14:48:55

• Gardiner Bryant is no longer "The Linux Gamer" (channel got rebranded), he's just a Valve SHILL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HoLbdx_TyKs see http://techrights.org/2022/03/09/influencers-ruin-the-www/    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 14:51:00

• Channel "Linux For Everyone": "So I installed Windows 10 on it." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=greMmdW9Yr8 see http://techrights.org/2022/02/15/youtube-spam-rewarding-junk/    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 14:52:00

• Marketing brochure (webspam) disguised as 'article' https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/best-gaming-keyboards,6024.html see http://techrights.org/2020/10/18/news-as-spam/    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 14:53:32

• "FOSSlife" linking to webspam which is not Linux, not FOSS, not even a legit article. What is this??? https://www.fosslife.org/16-great-gaming-keyboards    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 14:54:17

• #Internxt = paid-for webspam. #linuxtoday should not be linking to spam. Heck, unlike #itsfoss it doesn't even get paid to spam. https://www.linuxtoday.com/developer/internxt-is-an-open-source-encrypted-cloud-service-with-native-linux-client/    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 14:57:54

• Steamy mind: not pushing Microsoft proprietary crap that demands a Microsoft account... in a "Linux" site https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2022/03/getting-minecraft-and-mods-on-steam-deck-is-nice-and-simple    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 14:58:28

• The WWW has rapidly become a paid-for noise machines, pollutes by DRM budget, Pentagon interests, and lenders    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 14:59:08

• 5 Best Adventure Games for Linux Desktop: Try When You Are Bored • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162436    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 15:05:32

• The most wonderful discovery: GB Studio • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162437    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 15:11:58

• "Mondealy: Day One from developer uglycoal seems pretty quirky and it's also free, although something of a prologue / demo for an upcoming bigger game." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2022/03/thoroughly-odd-sounding-free-adventure-mondealy-day-one-arrives-on-linux    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 15:14:41

• "now available as a Flatpak on Flathub making it even easier to install and setup on Linux and Steam Deck." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2022/03/heroic-games-launcher-now-on-flathub-even-easier-to-run-epic-games-on-steam-deck/    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 15:15:51

• Today’s #HowTos | #UNIX • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162438    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 15:17:27

• Fedora Community Blog: CPE Weekly Update – Week of March 07th – 11th https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/cpe-weekly-update-week-of-march-07th-11th/ Community?? Don't kid me, IBM. You kills the community Red Hat once fostered. Now you ARE SUING THE COMMUNITY!!!    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 15:21:44

• IBM Red Hat citing Gartner as if they're experts https://enterprisersproject.com/article/2022/3/it-talent-mistakes-avoid Gartner Group = corrupt liars with glorified brand http://techrights.org/wiki/index.php/Gartner_Group    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 15:23:43

• When the target audience of IBM Red Hat isn't engineers but psychopaths https://enterprisersproject.com/article/2022/3/boost-emotional-intelligence    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 15:24:45

• Games: Some New Titles and YouTube ’Shills’ Doing Valve 'Content' • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162439    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 15:24:54

• Maps and GNOME 42 • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162440    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 15:25:16

• Gemini space based on Lupa: "We successfully connected recently to 1784 of them." 16 more to 1,800. WOW! gemini://gemini.bortzmeyer.org/software/lupa/stats.gmi    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 15:57:46

• Today in #Techrights • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162441    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 16:01:09

• "You can also help us create awareness by sharing on: Hacker News" LOL, no... they're the enemy. Neither hacker nor news. Just corporate noise and shills. https://www.fsf.org/share?u=[some address]    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 16:12:02

• That's some expensive gift right there, Michael... https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-5.18-Early-Features    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 16:47:17

• Linux Torvalds: "there are similar other turds if a.out goes away, ie on alpha it's OSF4_COMPAT, and it enables support for a couple of legacy OSF/1 system calls. I think that was also discussed in the (old) a.out deprecation thread back in 2019.." https://lkml.org/lkml/2022/3/10/1395    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 16:48:18

• FreeBSD 13.1-BETA1 Now Available • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162442    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 16:51:33

• Kali Linux on bare-metal gets snapshotting functionality • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162443    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 16:59:22

• 5 Linux Alternatives for Windows PowerToys • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162444    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 17:09:58

• The flailing 'Linux' Foundation is corrupting the Web and paying so-called publishers to write puff pieces: "The Linux Foundation is a sponsor of The New Stack." https://thenewstack.io/the-linux-foundations-open-source-stack-for-ev-charging-infrastructure/    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 17:11:11

• WWW = the world's largest pool of spam, started by a British scientists in Switzerland    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 17:11:39

• Linux Foundation killed Linux.com. Next it'll kill Linux. It's still "at it"...    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 17:12:40

• KeeWeb is a multiplatform password manager with a full KeePass database support • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162445    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 17:15:26

• Emulate the MSX home computer with Linux • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162446    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 17:19:18

• My expectations have been exceeded; there are no regrets about leaving social control media and in fact the only regret is not doing that a lot sooner because life becomes a lot more productive (exposure to abuse and misinformation is also significantly lowered) http://techrights.org/2022/03/11/a-week-without-social-control-media/    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 17:22:27

• Violations of the foundational document of the EPO have become so prevalent that one has to gasp and wonder if EPOnia is basically the EU’s Kremlin (the dictators do anything they want, even in clear violation of the constitutions, with post hoc justifications and cover-up) http://techrights.org/2022/03/11/epc-just-a-piece-of-paper-and-now-paperless/    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 17:22:41

• When the EPO is run by unscientific and arguably anti-scientific officials [1, 2] in the pockets of the patent litigation industry [sic] (or parasitic sector) we should not be too shocked by the sad state of the EPO http://techrights.org/2022/03/11/meme-when-corrupt-politicians-run-europes-largest-patent-office/    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 17:23:01

• The FSF shared the above video about 18 months ago http://techrights.org/2022/03/11/fsf-rewind/    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 17:23:24

• Free Software Foundation (FSF) executive director (ED) Zoë Kooyman gave this closing talk almost a couple of years ago http://techrights.org/2022/03/11/zoe-kooyman-libreplanet-speech/    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 17:23:41

• xkcd: False Dichotomy ⚓ https://xkcd.com/2592/    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 17:24:11

• "I created accounts for my family, so we can talk using our own hardware, free from surveillance capitalism and garbage. I believe one of the most important things for modern IM clients are push notifications." gemini://avalos.me/gemlog/2021-04-25-xmpp-adventures.gmi    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 17:40:29

• "tar is a shell utility for making archives, often called "tarballs", which store several files. tar is a Unix-native file format, and includes information about file ownership and modes. This makes it very useful for moving groups files around on Unix systems." gemini://drewdevault.com/2022/02/17/tar-is-good-actually.gmi    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 17:41:17

• Everything you thought you know about the Internet was wrong https://bitport.hu/kozossegi-internetrendorseget-javasolnak-oroszorszag-ellen-egyes-szakertok see http://techrights.org/2022/03/09/breaking-internet/    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 17:47:46

• Joseph 'Stalin' Biden, do not PURGE the Internet https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-03-10/biden-needs-to-protect-russian-internet-access-groups-warn http://techrights.org/2022/03/09/breaking-internet/    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 17:49:19

• The OSI can do elections, at long last? https://opensource.org/how-members-will-vote-for-osi-directors see http://techrights.org/2021/07/29/osi-privacy-issues/ http://techrights.org/wiki/Open_Source_Initiative    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 17:51:16

• #HowTo install XeroLinux 2022.03.06 - Invidious ⚓ https://yewtu.be/watch?v=AWU0SjeaxBY    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 17:51:52

• Zorin OS 16.1 Released with Better Hardware Compatibility http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162392#comment-33033   

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 17:56:49

• Chris Titus Tech [sic]: "Live - Optimizing Windows for Gaming"... back to his Microsoft shilling I see... :/ http://techrights.org/2022/02/15/youtube-spam-rewarding-junk/    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 17:57:54

• Desktop Cube GNOME Extension Now Supports Background Panoramas • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162447    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 20:13:33

• Linux Virtual Consoles Explained: What They Are and #HowTo Access Them • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162448    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 20:20:12

• Google #Android Leftovers • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162449    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 20:20:21

• Stable Kernels: 5.16.14, 5.15.28, 5.10.105, 5.4.184, 4.19.234, 4.14.271, and 4.9.306 • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162450    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 20:20:29

• Cluster-focused SBC features octa-core RK3588 http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162411#comment-33034   

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 20:20:58

• 'Clown' computing is itself a security breach; you're lost control of your data https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/improve-your-hybrid-cloud-security-these-3-tips    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 20:29:13

• Greg Guice To Testify Before FCC on Broadband Consumer Labels - Public Knowledge ⚓ https://publicknowledge.org/greg-guice-to-testify-before-fcc-on-broadband-consumer-labels/    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 20:30:42

• openSUSE Tumbleweed – Review of the week 2022/10 https://dominique.leuenberger.net/blog/2022/03/opensuse-tumbleweed-review-of-the-week-2022-10/    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 20:31:15

• Xfce accepted to Google Summer of Code 2022 https://alexxcons.github.io/blogpost_4.html    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 20:33:13

• QuatBot 0.3 released https://euroquis.nl//blabla/2022/03/11/quatbot.html it needs to be removed from Microsoft proprietary software prison (GitHub) and into KDE instead. Its home is hostile.    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 20:34:39

• New Commodore 64 Keycaps https://cubiclenate.com/2022/03/11/new-commodore-64-keycaps/    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 20:35:56

• "or a while someone has been trying hard to discredit SparkyLinux on Distrowatch, writing (user’s review) that there is a problem with the EFI and so, making Sparky useless in his opinion. I understand that not everyone likes SparkyLinux" https://sparkylinux.org/having-trouble-with-sparky-go-to-our-forums/    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 20:37:26

• "I hope to see a decline in extremism in general. Most people are rational and are willing to build on common ground. That's easy to forget online where extremism drives engagement." gemini://moddedbear.xyz/logs/2021-12-10-re-five-questions.gmi    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 20:38:59

• Today’s #HowTos | #UNIX • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162451    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 20:47:16

• "nytpu’s criterion for determining whether a language is worth it to use or not and also a measure of whether the language designers care about the developers that use it" gemini://nytpu.com/gemlog/2021-02-18.gmi    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 20:48:18

• There British media is not talking about it buut the number of people in hospital with COVID-19 climbed back to the level of last month https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/healthcare?areaType=overview&areaName=United%20Kingdom more in http://schestowitz.com/Weblog/    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 20:58:49

• Krita. "Work in progress comic page on future episode 37 (and the opening of season 5) of Pepper&Carrot." https://www.davidrevoy.com/article899/work-in-progress-screenshot-ep-37    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 21:00:44

• Estimation of the number of "Decks" (KDE and Arch Linux) out there https://boilingsteam.com/so-how-smooth-was-the-steam-deck-launch/ and games https://boilingsteam.com/1300-games-on-the-steam-deck-including-hitman-2-as-verified/    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 21:03:08

• Gulag and Stadia ⚓ https://gizmodo.com/google-is-teaching-developers-to-port-windows-games-to-1848637025 this is misleading because the games run on GNU/Linux with something like WINE    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 21:04:53

• Robolinux 12.04 is out http://www.robolinux.org/    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 21:06:46

• "You can find the source code at my Github." No, it's not yours. It is Microsoft's and the NSA's. Consider moving. https://mathtodata.medium.com/data-science-learning-trajectory-52a5f4391bf9    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 21:10:45

• Rust outsourced its calendars, not just meeting minutes and code, to Microsoft proprietary software prison. https://blog.rust-lang.org/inside-rust/2022/03/11/mar-steering-cycle.html    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 21:12:10

• "SpiderMonkey is the JavaScript engine used in Mozilla Firefox. This newsletter gives an overview of the JavaScript and WebAssembly work we’ve done as part of the Firefox 98 and 99 Nightly release cycles." https://spidermonkey.dev/blog/2022/03/11/newsletter-firefox-98-99.html    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 21:13:04

• Firefox Nightly: These Weeks In Firefox: Issue 111 https://blog.nightly.mozilla.org/2022/03/11/these-weeks-in-firefox-issue-111/    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 21:13:29

• "Update on what happened across the GNOME project in the week from March 04 to March 11." https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2022/03/twig-34/    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 21:13:50

• Apparently Microsoft Windows TCO strikes again https://www.engadget.com/samsung-hack-galaxy-source-code-131034416.html    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 21:17:04

• Security Leftovers • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162452    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 21:20:48

• Today’s #HowTos | #UNIX • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162453    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 21:39:24

• Links 11/3/2022: FreeBSD 13.1 Beta and QuatBot 0.3 | Techrights ⚓ http://techrights.org/2022/03/11/quatbot-0-3/ | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2022/03/11/quatbot-0-3/   

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 21:54:39

• Programming Leftovers • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162454    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 21:55:03

• Debian: Sparky Forums and Some Debian Activites • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162455    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 21:55:12

• Today’s 𝘛𝘶𝘹 𝘔𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴 Leftovers • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162456    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 21:55:23

• LOL. Get rid of it and get a machine WITHOUT NSA back doors. https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/guides/practical-guide-to-securing-your-mac/    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 21:56:34

• A Penguin Faces Death by Leopard Seal in Jaw-Dropping Grand Prize Image https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/leopard-seal-hunting-gentoo-penguin-also-snags-first-place-in-world-nature-photography-awards-180979715/ https://www.sciencefocus.com/nature/world-nature-photography-award-winners/    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 21:57:51

• What a truly awful article. BS. https://www.cdotrends.com/story/16254/kinder-gentler-cyberwar    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 22:01:25

• 5 years ago GNU/Linux was already better than the other OSes on the desktop/laptop https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2017/1/26/14399948/kde-slimbook-neon-laptop-linux-os-announced-price    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 22:02:18

• Clown = delusion, hype, and deception https://finance.yahoo.com/news/68-members-join-cloud-native-170000745.html    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 22:03:06

• Outsourcing to Microsoft proprietary software https://www.awn.com/news/open-source-entertainment-how-academy-software-foundation-creates-shared-value-research-paper    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 22:03:27

• "HEY HI" is buzzwords and nonsense, so femmewashing won't benefit from the association with mindless hype https://www.forbes.com/sites/markminevich/2022/03/10/the-9-inspirational-women-leaders-in-ai-shaping-the-21st-century/    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 22:05:19

• Wait a second. Gulag PAID MILLIONS to its manager, Andy Rubin, for getting blow jobs from subordinates (yes, he got PAID just to leave). How on Earth does Gulag have the audacity to claim that it protests women???? https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-03-08/google-twitter-try-to-clamp-down-on-online-harassment-of-women?utm_source=google&utm_medium=bd&cmpId=google    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 22:06:36

• "I cannot possibly understand why anyone would think that flatpak, snaps, appimages, or docker is the way to go." gemini://nytpu.com/gemlog/2021-09-01.gmi    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 22:12:21

• "These proclamations celebrate the contributions of women and recognize achievements women have made in a variety of fields over the course of American history." https://bsd405.org/2022/03/celebrating-womens-history-month/    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 22:16:12

• "On a technical level, vita2hos is not unlike WINE, which enables POSIX-compliant operating systems such as Linux, Mac OS, and BSD to run Windows programs so long as they use the same processor architecture." https://hackaday.com/2022/03/06/nintendo-switch-runs-vita-software-with-vita2hos/    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 22:17:15

• "Another problem seems to be how heavily the Lisp ecosystem is tied to Emacs. If the first thing I'm told when trying to learn a new programming language is "the only way you'll be able to write it easily and good is if you uproot your entire system setup and replace it with Emacs" it feels very offputting." gemini://nytpu.com/gemlog/2021-09-29.gmi    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 22:18:26

• "My basic server was very easygoing when it came to the format of the requests. The only thing I was really doing was making sure directory traversal was not possible. My error codes weren't quite right and I wasn't enforcing checks on the hostname, port numbers, and scheme." gemini://jfh.me/posts/2020-11-02-gemini-dianostics.gmi    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 22:20:38

• Reading ebooks with Gemini gemini://calcuode.com/gemlog/2021-06-05_ereader.gmi    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 22:23:47

• "In 2013, I had my first contact with GNU/Linux. I was 10 years old back then. Before that year, the only operating system I knew about was Windows. But then, my dad told me something about how "Linux" was a free operating system developed by people around the world. He never used it, but he probably heard about it at some point." gemini://avalos.me/gemlog/2021-05-28-new-computer-new-age.gmi    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 22:25:04

• "Here’s your weekly Fedora report. Read what happened this week and what’s coming up. Your contributions are welcome (see the end of the post)!" https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/fridays-fedora-facts-2022-10/    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 22:27:30

• But we drive more and more animals into complete extinction quicker than we make such 'token' discoveries https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/08/science/vampire-squid-biden.html    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 22:28:47

• Summary of developers around GNU/Linux in mobile, preceded by exaggeration and FUD, citing Microsoft sources https://linmob.net/weekly-update-10-2022/    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 22:30:59

• "COVID-19 cases are on the rise. It's tough to think about much else as I sit shoulder-to-shoulder on a bus, which I will do for at least an hour every day this week, bringing my kids to a school that does not mandate masks or trace contacts or require COVID-19 tests." gemini://sixohthree.com/log/packt-like-sardines.gmi    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 22:32:53

• In the UK, COVID-19 is not a solved issue but a GROWING issue: http://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/category/health/ the policy of "let's ignore and pretend it went away" will kill tens of thousands additional people, allow the virus to mutate    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 22:34:09

• Published yesterday for England: Weekly all-cause mortality surveillance https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1059960/Weekly_report_mortality__W10.pdf    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 22:36:34

• Clarence Thomas wants Supreme Court to tackle #Sec230 - Protocol ⚓ https://www.protocol.com/bulletins/clarence-thomas-230-meta    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 22:37:34

• US media: LOOK AT RUSSIA!! Their inflation is terrible. Ours? Haha, not much better. But look at RUSHA!! https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/10/business/economy/cpi-inflation-february-2022.html    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 22:38:42

• "With the increase of more developers working in the next Linux kernel 5.17, many AMD-based features will see some significant improvements and mark the beginning of new advances in terms of AMD compatibility and processing in GNU/Linux and other systems with Linux kernel." https://appuals.com/linux-kernel-5-17-brings-important-performance-improvements-for-cpu-and-apu-amd-ryzen/    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 22:39:39

• WTF? Twitter is all about surveillance. Just like Facebook, it now targets fools who wrongly believe it can be used anonymously. Use Nitter instead. https://www.ghacks.net/2022/03/09/twitter-launches-its-tor-project-onion-address/    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 22:41:11

• Twitter does NOT care about your privacy. It's only looking to broaden the reach of the propaganda in it, bypassing blocks.    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 22:42:05

• UEFI is not a feature but a defect. Tachyum should know better. But in computing the users have long been abandoned, they're presumed malicious https://www.hpcwire.com/off-the-wire/tachyum-advances-system-software-to-pre-production-state/    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 22:45:46

• Leave those places alone. This is what the Bezos military-grade propaganda rag is advertising to people, while Bezos the insecure sociopath flies rockets to do a little "showoff" 'spacewalk' https://www.washingtonpost.com/travel/2022/03/03/antarctica-polar-sailing-wildlife/    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 22:48:57

• Why does "POPULAR SCIENCE" publish THIS? Seems like paid-for WEBSPAM https://www.popsci.com/reviews/best-website-builders/    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 22:50:47

• Microsoft spamming/googlebombing this product, seeding confusion https://hothardware.com/news/windows-video-drivers-for-steam-deck-are-out    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 22:54:09

• Shoveling up FUD to distract from Microsoft's back doors http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162251#comment-33038 see http://techrights.org/2022/03/08/a-media-of-masturbating-monkeys/   

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 22:57:00

• "I needed to spend some time today updating the DTOS repos, and I also wanted to test installing DTOS on Manjaro." https://yewtu.be/watch?v=ZMyWOVGx2c4    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 23:07:24

• Wine 7.4 changes the default theme and more PE conversion work • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162457    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 23:12:04

• BIVROST from Poland has chosen a processor with US back doors https://linuxgizmos.com/coffee-lake-machine-vision-system-features-eight-usb-3-2-gen2-and-five-m-2/    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 23:13:25

• Tesco Meal Deal Price Increase: Inflation, Up Close ⚓ https://tedium.co/2022/03/11/tesco-meal-deal-price-increase-analysis/    

posted Friday, March 11, 2022 at 23:47:32