Roy Schestowitz

• Just delete Windows. Ransomware almost always impacts Windows. https://www.maketecheasier.com/enable-ransomware-protection-windows-defender/    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 00:05:46

• Today’s #HowTos | #UNIX • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/163213    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 00:19:42

• #Techrights Bulletin for Thursday, March 31, 2022 http://techrights.org/txt full archive: http://techrights.org/txt-archives #gnu #linux #freesw #plaintext    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 06:29:49

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

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 06:29:54

• "More and more people are migrating from Windows to Linux for very valid reasons such as better privacy, better security" ttps://unixsheikh.com/articles/my-70-year-old-mother-has-been-using-linux-on-the-desktop-for-the-past-21-years.html    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 06:34:35

• "One of the things that goes wrong in shutdown on systemd based systems" https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/linux/ShutdownDelayProblem    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 06:35:15

• "If you’d like to better understand ray tracing and its impact on games and a computer system" https://www.pcworld.com/article/620165/whats-ray-tracing-heres-everything-you-need-to-know.html    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 06:35:48

• "Regarding the major Linux distributions and BSD variants, such as e.g. Debian Linux, Arch Linux, Artix Linux, OpenBSD, and FreeBSD, generally speaking, a package maintainer or ports maintainer is not a programmer and as such he or she cannot do any coding." https://unixsheikh.com/articles/how-security-is-handled-by-package-maintainers.html    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 06:37:10

• "Stop saying that you focus on security. Stop saying that you provide long term support. Stop lying to your users, because it is a lie." https://unixsheikh.com/articles/the-delusions-of-debian.html    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 06:37:39

• "Chen Ruihua has no aeronautic or engineering qualifications, but has so far built three home-made helicopters, he says" https://www.scmp.com/news/people-culture/trending-china/article/3172171/chinese-villager-no-engineering-expertise    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 06:38:17

• "A year ago I published an offer to review the README of free and open source projects" https://blog.liw.fi/posts/2022/03/31/readmes/    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 06:40:19

• "This blog post does not take sides in that debate, or advise where and when to use Generics in Go." https://planetscale.com/blog/generics-can-make-your-go-code-slower    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 06:40:38

• "We’ll be using Git::Helpers::CPAN to look up the Git repository for a CPAN module (or distribution)." https://www.olafalders.com/2022/03/30/making-dynamically-required-package-names-more-discoverable-in-perl/    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 06:41:19

• "She is choosy in large part because many of her followers rely on @depthsofwikipedia for unearthing the hidden gems of the [Internet]" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/31/style/wikipedia-instagram-depths-annie-rauwerda.html    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 06:41:59

• "In the late 1970s, as a young researcher at Argonne National Laboratory outside Chicago, Jack Dongarra helped write computer code called Linpack" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/30/technology/turing-award-jack-dongarra.html    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 06:42:33

• "The past few days have been spent giving Manjaro on Raspberry Pi a go. I have had a Raspberry Pi 4 kicking around mostly acting as a noiseless bridge between my PC and Icom IC-705 for digi-modes." gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/stug/phlog/20220331.txt    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 06:48:10

• "I'm first-generation college graduate. I'm not sure I would have been accepted if it weren't for my test scores." https://matt-rickard.com/on-standardized-tests/    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 06:50:28

• "Exploitation could allow an attacker to read kernel memory and this could the enabling of apps to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges" https://itwire.com/business-it-news/security/apple-forced-to-issue-emergency-fixes-for-two-zero-days.html    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 06:51:35

• "Apple wants to take this instalment thing even further and are reported to be working on a hardware subscription service." https://www.techzim.co.zw/2022/03/pay-monthly-fee-to-use-phone-youll-never-own-apple-thinks-that-could-work/    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 06:51:59

• "Other signatories include academics, security engineers, and security researchers in the US, Canada, UK, France, and Germany." https://portswigger.net/daily-swig/dangerous-eu-web-authentication-plan-threatens-to-undercut-browser-led-certification-system-detractors-claim    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 06:52:48

• Gulagtube and terrorism https://www.thejc.com/news/news/youtube-whistleblower-my-warnings-over-terror-videos-were-ignored-4VlKq2VbvkvSoeNoByrcvz    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 06:54:18

• "Algorithms, data tools, sensors, Internet of Things (IoT) devices, machine learning, and data mining approaches have all advanced dramatically" "https://moderndiplomacy.eu/2022/03/30/the-impact-of-data-science-on-the-energy-industry/    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 06:54:53

• Social control media is toxic. FB a class of its own. https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/31/23004326/facebook-news-feed-downranking-integrity-bug    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 06:55:53

• "Theranos, Uber, and maybe WeWork could be described as technology companies, but insofar as they represent “tech” to the viewing public" https://www.thenation.com/article/society/uber-theranos-wework-tv/    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 06:56:20

• "Internal emails, apparently seen by the Washington Post, allegedly suggested Targeted Victory's campaign aimed to show TikTok" https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-60943142    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 06:56:40

• Facebook needs to cease to even exist https://siliconangle.com/2022/03/30/meta-embraces-dirty-tactics-paying-republican-firm-nationwide-anti-tiktok-smear-campaign/    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 06:57:05

• “But they want to do more than just cancel them. They want alternatives.” https://variety.com/2022/digital/news/daily-wire-100-million-kids-entertainment-disney-1235219678/    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 06:57:49

• "The campaign reportedly includes placing letters in major US news outlets and promoting negative stories about TikTok" https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/facebooks-meta-funded-attack-campaign-against-tiktok-report-1699165    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 06:58:46

• "it turns out that Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s behemoth company was so jealous of TikTok’s success" https://futurism.com/the-byte/facebook-paid-firm-tiktok    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 06:59:08

• "It is for the consumption of a Chinese audience otherwise fed a limited diet of broadly pro-Russian news on the invasion of Ukraine" https://hongkongfp.com/2022/03/30/i-wont-stop-talking-ukrainians-in-china-fight-disinformation-trolls-and-censorship/    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 07:00:59

• "Named as defendants were the department's acting commissioner and a second official with decision-making authority regarding censorship determinations." https://www.kob.com/news/historian-sues-ny-prisons-over-ban-of-attica-uprising-book/6434343/    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 07:02:13

• "According to the minister, the use of these symbols would first and foremost be a misdemeanor." https://news.err.ee/1608550159/estonian-government-to-leave-symbols-of-aggression-undefined    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 07:02:40

• "Partitioning the Internet closes off that traffic and loses us the opportunity to hear common voices." https://www.internetsociety.org/blog/2022/03/closing-off-the-internet-wont-silence-governments-but-it-will-silence-everyone-else/    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 07:03:11

• "Over the past five years, American Oversight has filed FOIA requests with more than 75 federal agencies or offices and has been forced to go to court dozens of times to compel the release of records after those agencies failed to comply with the law." https://www.americanoversight.org/eight-steps-to-strengthen-foia    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 07:04:29

• "Thirty years later, the Soviet Union endures in the imagination of a former KGB officer now in the Kremlin" https://www.wired.com/story/soviet-union-domain-ukraine/    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 07:06:19

• "The fabless processor designer SiFive has another feather in its cap." https://fossforce.com/2022/03/sifive-becomes-open-source-risc-vs-first-unicorn-company/    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 07:06:56

• the secret weapon of online smear campaigns https://telex.hu/english/2022/03/31/introducing-the-secret-weapon-of-online-smear-campaigns    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 07:07:38

• No job at EFF is "Dream Job" https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/03/dream-job-alert-eff-seeks-lawyer-patent-and-copyright-experience EFF is not what it used to be; http://techrights.org/2021/04/16/eff-rogue/    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 07:11:51

• EFF talking about Colombia while ignoring entirely EPO corruption. Their focus depends on what vicious oligarchs like Mark Cuban pay them to change. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/03/colombian-isps-show-steady-commitments-user-privacy-key-transparency-gaps-remain    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 07:15:34

• "The EU Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market contains two spectacularly bad ideas. One is the upload filter of Article 17" https://www.techdirt.com/2022/03/31/why-the-snippet-tax-in-the-eu-copyright-directive-is-pointless-and-doomed-to-fail/    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 07:16:44

• "Musk companies routinely hoover up billions in government assistance" https://www.techdirt.com/2022/03/31/satellite-broadband-options-like-starlink-shouldnt-be-getting-precious-broadband-subsidies/    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 07:17:14

• “My 11-year-old was extremely frightened yesterday and asked whether there was going to be war soon” https://www.projectcensored.org/scared-straight-tiktok-teens-and-children-battling-war-anxiety/    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 07:19:03

• microsoft windows tco https://portswigger.net/daily-swig/ukrainian-isp-used-by-military-disrupted-by-powerful-cyber-attack    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 07:19:56

• april 1st https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/energy-crisis-sparks-frackademia-frenzy-campus-drilling    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 07:20:21

• "execs from Dell, JP Morgan, Metlife, and Philip Morris International have been checking out my info." https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/phishing-smishing-vishing-what-you-need-to-know-how-to-protect-yourself/    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 07:21:15

• Crackers "increasingly are using compromised government and police department email accounts to obtain sensitive customer data from mobile providers, ISPs and social media companies. Today, one of the U.S. Senate’s most tech-savvy lawmakers said he was troubled by the report and is now asking technology companies and federal agencies for information about the frequency of such schemes." https://krebsonsecurity.com/2022/03/fake-emergency-search-warrants-draw-scrutiny-from-capitol-hill/    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 07:22:57

• This is no currency https://www.desmog.com/2022/03/31/exxon-conocophillips-bitcoin-mining-flare-gas-cryptocurrency-climate-change/    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 07:24:13

• "BREIN has obtained a new blocking order in the Netherlands targeting 1337x, LimeTorrents, YTS, RARBG, Kickasstorrents and EZTV." https://torrentfreak.com/dutch-pirate-site-blocklist-expand-with-rarbg-yts-eztv-220331/    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 07:25:10

• "Russia's site-blocking systems aimed at restricting access to copyrighted content and anything else deemed undesirable are not performing to the standards" https://torrentfreak.com/russias-site-blocking-system-isnt-performing-could-even-collapse-220331/    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 07:25:33

• Patent monopolies https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/03/31/covid-19-vaccine-equity-index-reveals-failure-historic-proportions    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 07:29:02

• "Zero-Emission Vehicles" are a myth; the pollution typically happens where they get energy from https://truthout.org/articles/transition-to-zero-emission-vehicles-would-save-110000-lives-report-finds/    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 07:32:30

• Facebook, along with Microsoft, should ceases to exist. https://www.techdirt.com/2022/03/31/facebook-hired-pr-firm-coordinated-anti-tiktok-campaign-to-spread-bogus-moral-panics/    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 07:33:22

• Bribe, corrupt politicians. They get paid to sell laws. https://www.techdirt.com/2022/03/31/basically-everyone-tells-senators-tillis-leahy-that-the-smart-copyright-act-is-an-incredibly-dumb-copyright-act/    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 07:38:39

• Biden isn't left. He's the corporations' puppet. https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/03/31/body-blow-working-people-right-wing-democrats-reject-biden-labor-nominee    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 07:40:37

• Don't say "Covid-19 vaccine intellectual property rights"; you use the propaganda terms of the blood-thirsty cartel https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/03/31/civil-society-groups-reject-legally-unsound-and-problematic-trips-waiver-proposal    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 07:43:54

• MangoPi new hardware is smaller than an SD Card • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/163214    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 07:45:20

• "Disable JavaScript in your Browser" is a good tip at ALL times. https://www.maketecheasier.com/copy-paste-on-sites/    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 07:47:38

• Minnesota lawmakers need to pump the brakes before they break the internet - Disruptive Competition Project ⚓ https://www.project-disco.org/competition/033122-minnesota-lawmakers-need-to-pump-the-brakes-before-they-break-the-internet/ ䷉ Source: project disco    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 08:05:12

• Despite warnings, Republicans poised to stick Peach State with steep legal tab for political stunt - Disruptive Competition Project ⚓ https://www.project-disco.org/competition/033122-despite-warnings-republicans-poised-to-stick-peach-state-with-steep-legal-tab-for-political-stunt/ ䷉ Source: project disco    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 08:05:56

• howtoforge has not been inaccessible for weeks due to clownflare, even the RSS feed. This is suicide. I hope sites will learn their lessons this way about outsourcing to clownflare...    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 08:13:32

• Clownflare isn't means for keeping sites online but for taking them offline (usually without even realising it)    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 08:15:08

• Proprietary software. "Exploitable remotely" https://www.cisa.gov/uscert/ics/advisories/icsa-22-090-04    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 08:16:32

• Tristan Miller was very prolific in USENET back when I was there until a decade ago (I had posted about 100,000 posts there), so it’s not shocking to see that he gave a talk about the subject a couple of weeks ago. http://techrights.org/2022/04/01/tristan-miller-usenet-talk/    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 08:17:01

• Today’s #HowTos | #UNIX • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/163215    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 08:29:33

• Today’s Leftovers and Proprietary Software Addenda • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/163216    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 08:29:44

• Snal GNU/Linux 1.16 is out https://sourceforge.net/projects/snallinux/    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 08:32:21

• deepin 20.5 Release! http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/163206#comment-33251   

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 08:33:50

• FreeBSD 13.1-RC1 Now Available • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/163217    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 08:43:22

• HYPERCHARGE: Unboxed gets a Native Linux version, also Steam Deck Verified | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2022/03/hypercharge-unboxed-gets-a-native-linux-version-also-steam-deck-verified/ ䷉ Source: Gaming On Linux | GNU | Linux | Games    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 08:43:55

• ScummVM jumps the shark by embracing an elaborate scam and legitimising it https://www.scummvm.org/news/20220401/    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 08:45:48

• No, you "must" not add any proprietary censorware like Discord https://www.maketecheasier.com/best-discord-gaming-bots/    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 08:46:47

• 'Ransomware Protection' in Windows doesn’t stop Ransomware, but does break old games, LibreOffice, and random applications. - BaronHK’s Rants ⚓ https://baronhk.wordpress.com/2022/04/01/ransomware-protection-in-windows-doesnt-stop-ransomware-but-does-break-old-games-libreoffice-and-random-applications/ ䷉ Source: baronhk    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 08:47:37

• Godot Engine - Turn an Android App into a Godot Quest VR App in 3 Steps ⚓ https://godotengine.org/article/turn-android-app-quest-vr-app-3-steps ䷉ Source: godotengine    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 08:48:53

• Playing Elden Ring with a TV remote | Arduino Blog ⚓ https://blog.arduino.cc/2022/04/01/playing-elden-ring-with-a-tv-remote/ ䷉ Source: Arduino | Hardware | OpenHardware | Hacking    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 08:49:32

• Weird "plug" for Microsoft here, citing a Microsoft booster site https://koutoupis.com/2022/04/01/weekly-roundup-1-april-2022/    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 08:50:49

• The beneficiaries of surveillance capitalism https://blocksandfiles.com/2022/03/28/seagate-launches-10-platter-20tb-video-surveillance-disk-drive/    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 08:52:24

• Chinese brands leapfrog the Japanese and EU/US ones https://www.enterprisestorageforum.com/news/kioxia-develops-24g-sas-ssd/    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 08:53:25

• "WordPress offers something to everyone. For Juan Aldasoro, a developer and project manager for a large distributed company, it provides an opportunity to combine his different interests and skills to live the type of life he wanted." https://wordpress.org/news/2022/03/people-of-wordpress-juanfra-aldasoro/    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 08:54:50

• Digital Transparency: A Right to Information Report for March 2022 ⚓ https://internetfreedom.in/transparency-report-mar-2022-2/ ䷉ Source: internet freedom    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 08:56:32

• 𝘛𝘦𝘤𝘩𝘳𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵𝘴 IRC Proceedings: Thursday, March 31, 2022 • Techrights ⚓ http://techrights.org/2022/04/01/irc-log-310322/ ䷉ Source: Techrights | GNU | Linux | FreeSW | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2022/04/01/irc-log-310322/    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 08:58:21

• The Web is dying a little more each time Gulag 'extends' it like this https://blog.chromium.org/2022/03/chrome-101-federated-credential.html    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 09:48:50

• "orrg is an rss/atom feed reader. You can view random feeds, recent feeds or popular feeds. Hit the view feed link to paste in any feed of your choice and view it over gemini. The software making this possible is also open source and available to be used on your own capsule." gemini://gemini.cyberbot.space/smolzine/smolzine-issue-23.gmi    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 09:50:19

• The omission here is that Rust is in disarray as many people leave and the aggressive corporations control the project, censoring the community https://blog.rust-lang.org/inside-rust/2022/03/31/cargo-team-changes.html    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 09:54:03

• Games: HYPERCHARGE: Unboxed, ScummVM, Godot Engine, and Arduino • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/163218    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 10:11:45

• Cockpit Project: Cockpit 266 https://cockpit-project.org//blog/cockpit-266.html    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 10:16:07

• Axiomtek always fancies no chipsets other than the NSA back-doored ones https://linuxgizmos.com/compact-elkhart-lake-system-features-hailo-8-npu/    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 10:17:20

• Deepin 20.5 Released With New Features http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/163206#comment-33252   

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 10:20:59

• Proprietary does not mean security. It means hiding how bad the code truly is. And you WILL pay for it, sooner or later... https://us-cert.cisa.gov/ncas/current-activity/2022/03/31/cisa-releases-security-advisories-rockwell-automation-products    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 10:33:46

• Lots of Microsoft -> "Although BOD 22-01 only applies to FCEB agencies, CISA strongly urges all organizations to reduce their exposure to cyberattacks by prioritizing timely remediation of Catalog vulnerabilities as part of their vulnerability management practice." https://us-cert.cisa.gov/ncas/current-activity/2022/03/31/cisa-adds-eight-known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 10:35:20

• "Exploitable remotely/low attack complexity [...] A CVSS v3 base score of 10.0 has been calculated" (10!!!!!) https://www.cisa.gov/uscert/ics/advisories/icsa-22-090-06    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 10:40:23

• FreeType 2.12.0 https://freetype.org/index.html#news "The main new feature of this release is support for OpenType fonts with an ‘SVG’ table, using an external SVG rendering library."    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 10:43:29

• Today in #Techrights • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/163219    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 11:01:02

• Kernel 5.17: Solid & steady http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162775#comment-33253   

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 11:07:11

• Proprietary crap and Node. "Exploitable remotely/low attack complexity ... CVSS v3 7.5" https://www.cisa.gov/uscert/ics/advisories/icsa-22-090-02    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 11:10:50

• You can count on the fingers how many times per day/week media tells us "open source" it "not secure"; they NEVER says the same about proprietary! Ever! No need for fingers. This is because such corrupt is pushing agenda, not reporting news.    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 11:12:30

• Has Microsoft ZDNet said ANYTHING about Microsoft's mass bribery scandals? None that I can see. They keep producing propaganda for the criminals.    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 11:13:52

• "Kaspersky’s software is proprietary, it would be incredibly challenging to audit the software and all future updates for backdoors." https://puri.sm/posts/freedom-from-coercion/    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 11:16:17

• If Germany blacklists Kaspersky for security reasons, it should do the same regarding Windows and other Microsoft malware    

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

• Better yet, Germany should prosecute the criminals from Microsoft (not put Microsoft malware inside courtrooms and patent offices) http://techrights.org/2021/03/22/epoleaks-report-march-2021-finale/    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 11:18:24

• "Awarded 1 time." https://badges.fedoraproject.org/badge/fedora-mentor-summit-2022 ICBM/Red Hat is running out of slaves... they're fleeing Fedora.    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 11:38:07

• I've not checked, but 90% or 95% of the time it's Microsoft Windows https://us-cert.cisa.gov/ncas/current-activity/2022/03/31/fbi-releases-pin-ransomware-straining-local-governments-and-public see http://techrights.org/2021/05/02/ransomware-task-force/    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 11:39:50

• Security and Proprietary Issues • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/163220    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 11:40:22

• GNU/Linux Bluestar 5.17.1 is out https://sourceforge.net/projects/bluestarlinux/    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 11:42:17

• ICBM LAYING OFF a TON of staff while FORCING them all to get EXPERIMENTAL vaccines even if they WORK FROM HOME EXCLUSIVELY -> "In recent months, many IT leaders have felt pressure to prepare for uncertain events in the workplace" https://enterprisersproject.com/article/2022/4/leadership-tips-surviving-workplace-uncertainty    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 11:44:00

• Microsoft is spreading malware https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/t/770433/i-clicked-a-onedrive-link/    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 11:45:21

• Unlike Jitsi or BBB, GNU Jami is a P2P/decentralised chat-centric GNU project, which is less widely known, and Lori Nagel gave this talk a couple of weeks ago. http://techrights.org/2022/04/01/gnu-jami-talk/    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 11:46:56

• Ubuntu rebranding sysadmins for hype's sake https://ubuntu.com//blog/operator-day-hosted-by-canonical-2022 see http://techrights.org/2019/07/17/we-are-the-windows-powered-linux-foundation/    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 11:52:42

• Canonical a week ago: WE NEED INCLUSIVE LANGUAGE!!! Yesterday: MASTER in their headline: https://ubuntu.com//blog/masterclass-concept-design also see http://techrights.org/2022/03/26/canonical-self-censorship/    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 11:56:54

• IBM to us: we need to be more inclusive!! IBM to Hitler: OK, now let's go back to gassing gypsies, Jews, and trans people...    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 11:57:47

• "The Ubuntu Studio team is pleased to announce the beta release of Ubuntu Studio 22.04 LTS, codenamed “Jammy Jellyfish”." https://ubuntustudio.org/2022/03/ubuntu-studio-22-04-lts-beta-released/    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 12:02:21

• Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Adobe After Effects • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/163221    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 12:11:13

• Peergos: Open-Source Google Drive Alternative for Self-Hosting • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/163222    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 12:16:11

• "I’ve just been playing with Intel’s Active Management Technology (AMT) [1] which is also known as Management Engine Bios Extension (MEBX)." It's playing with YOU. https://etbe.coker.com.au/2022/03/31/amt-mebx-debian/    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 12:26:02

• Canonical Masters and Buzzwords • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/163223    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 12:26:09

• How to protect privacy online with tor and free vpn firmware for routers – how to setup tor node https://dwaves.de/2022/03/31/wie-privatsphare-online-verbessern-mit-tor-und-kostenloser-vpn-firmware-fur-router-how-to-protect-privacy-online-with-tor-and-free-vpn-firmware-for-routers-how-to-setup-tor-node-ка/    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 12:27:37

• Every person is "interesting" to the state. Some more than others. Privacy is important. Don't give away things you wrongly believe haven't value (because you've not seen evidence of it... yet).    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 12:29:08

• Google #Android Leftovers • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/163224    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 12:29:36

• MangoPi To Bring A SD-Card-Sized Linux Module http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/163214#comment-33256   

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 12:31:22

• "trustworthy"... like trusting Microsoft, the criminals who bribe officials and now want to decide for me if my distro is "OK" to boot? https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/59079.html    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 12:41:18

• "If a hardware random number generator passes a sufficiently large chunk of entropy to random.c during early boot, we now skip the "fast_init" business and let it initialize the RNG." ⚓ https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=478f74a3d8085076dfcb481aa9361b808a6aae94 ䷉ Source: git    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 12:42:31

• Software Releases: XWayland 22.1.1, FreeType 2.12.0, and Cockpit 266 • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/163225    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 12:42:43

• Qt has two tiers. This isn't software freedom, it's Qt trying to 'cash in' on a past goodwill gesture. By locking/shutting many people out. https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Qt-5.15-LTS-Extended-Support    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 12:47:16

• Input updates for v5.18-rc0 https://lkml.org/lkml/2022/4/1/3    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 12:48:47

• [PATCH 0/9] Apple M1 (Pro/Max) NVMe driver - Sven Peter ⚓ https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20220321165049.35985-1-sven@svenpeter.dev/ ䷉ Source: svenpeter | linux | kernel    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 12:49:24

• Deepin OS 20.5 Released with Face Recognition, can we trust? http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/163206#comment-33257   

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 12:52:41

• How To Save an Old Laptop by Installing Chrome OS Flex ⚓ https://gizmodo.com/how-to-save-old-laptop-install-chrome-os-flex-chromeboo-1848714108 ䷉ Source: gizmodo    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 12:53:47

• Why not just use email??? gemini://warmedal.se/~bjorn/posts/2022-04-01-ask-me-literally-anything.gmi    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 12:58:52

• Today’s #HowTos | #UNIX • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/163226    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 12:59:09

• "The chromium-ungoogled packages are still waiting for the source code to be released. I expect that to happen any time and then I’ll build and upload those packages too." https://alien.slackbook.org/blog/chromium-100-available/    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 13:10:05

• "FIDO2 multi-factor authentication systems are not susceptible to these attacks, because they are tied to a physical computer." IF you can trust it an IF you can afford one, Bruce. https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2022/04/bypassing-two-factor-authentication.html http://techrights.org/2020/10/15/fido-false-sense-of-security/    

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

• Security -- like love -- is NOT some product you buy off a shelf. If you do, then it's fake. Conditions aren't products.    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 13:12:54

• Apple based its whole business on the delusion or the false assumption that the more you pay for something, the better it is. Or that things are necessarily priced based on their real value rather than perceived status.    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 13:14:27

• GameMaker on Linux gets big improvements and Steam Deck support | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2022/04/gamemaker-on-linux-gets-big-improvements-and-steam-deck-support/ ䷉ Source: Gaming On Linux | GNU | Linux | Games    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 13:15:13

• Valve, not Disney? Comedy imitates reality? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4DpL1o_gXs    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 13:18:08

• That's not about "Linux" at all. I hope GamingOnLinux isn't becoming just GamingOnSteam (DRM) https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2022/04/ai-powered-map-creator-dungeon-alchemist-is-now-on-steam/    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 13:20:13

• "Excited" != most clicked. You can also post trash for Microsoft and some clickbait, which would not beget excitement. https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Q1-2022-Recap    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 13:29:28

• Games: GamingOnLinux Devoted to Valve Today • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/163227    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 13:30:05

• How to peacefully object/stick it to a corrupt system: lower or halt consumerism, minimise consumption (energy also), and where consumption is necessary (food) always get discounted. This can force systemic changes. But only if many do it all at once.    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 13:32:54

• When a system runs out of people to rob it starts eating its own. Which is where we are now... look what Putin does to Russians. Or how Wall Street has been scamming the middle class to empty its savings accounts with the next massive bubble.    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 13:35:24

• ysterious new Raspberry Pi alternative is the size of an SD card http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/163214#comment-33259   

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 13:37:57

• "I am more used to Rust. I can do simple string processing faster in Rust than say Python. It has enough things to make it more pleasant to work with than C++." But C++ will stay here for decades to come unlike Microsoft GitHub. http://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer/diary/daily/2022-Apr-1.html.en#2022-Apr-1-19:27:48    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 13:54:18

• We sold out to Microsoft. Now pay us for advice. :-) https://www.suse.com/c/introducing-suse-premium-technical-advisory-services/    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 13:57:03

• "An FFP-2 mask and social distancing may be required." Good. https://news.opensuse.org/2022/03/30/know-visa-health-requirements-osc/ the most effective measure against COVID-19 is, do not get it    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 13:58:57

• This CEO is doing sales/marketing, Eg Reg treats that as "expert advice" https://www.theregister.com/2022/03/31/extrahop_russian_sanctions/ as if Russia never vandalised systems before??    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 14:01:56

• Expect retaliation from cornered dog for the kicks, says ExtraHop CEO. Clue: the dog was biting all along.    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 14:03:25

• US: we protest. China hacks. Russia attacks. "Protestware" seems like the ludicrous new spin for malware served by Microsoft, which it then blames on "open source"...    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 14:04:33

• C++23 Will Be Really Awesome https://www.kdab.com/cpp23-will-be-really-awesome/    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 14:08:15

• Escalating cyber attacks on Ukraine’s communications infrastructure violate international law https://www.accessnow.org/digital-rights-ukraine-russia-conflict/    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 14:33:09

• PROPRIETARY software (so the corporate media will NOT mention it: "CVSS v3 10.0 [!!!] Exploitable remotely/low attack complexity" https://www.cisa.gov/uscert/ics/advisories/icsa-22-090-05    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 14:34:07

• Corporate media: "open source" means not secure because all day long we ourselves mention how "open source" means not secure; it's a circular web of lies. A circle-jerk of fake 'journalists' who haven't a clue what they're assigned to write about. They get requests from sponsors/advertisers like Microsoft.    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 14:35:41

• Severity 7.7. PROPRIETARY software. AGAIN. https://www.cisa.gov/uscert/ics/advisories/icsa-22-090-07    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 14:36:40

• OSI is so defunct that now they're celebrating merely managing to do an election without yet another blunder/incident https://opensource.org/six-lessons-learned-from-2022-osi-elections see http://techrights.org/2021/07/29/osi-privacy-issues/    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 14:53:25

• Dead Michael, don't forget to meet the quota of AMD content. Love, your sponsors. https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Radeon-Software-22.10-Coming https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Radeon-ROCm-5.1    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 14:55:16

• Intel is trolling us. "Sound Open Firmware"... outsourced to proprietary software controlled by criminals. Nice troll Intel. Now we know what "Open" stands for.    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 15:05:29

• SUSE/OpenSUSE: Installer, Event, and Corporate Fluff • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/163228    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 15:22:12

• WHY would you RE-run an article from EIGHT years ago with today's date? https://www.tecmint.com/zorin-os-lite/    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 15:24:14

• "Once Trump (or someone like him, or an obstructionist Republican opposition in Congress) happens again, they can go right back to business as usual. With the added perk that they still don’t have to lower gas prices." https://baronhk.wordpress.com/2022/04/01/why-gas-prices-wont-go-down-anytime-soon/    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 15:26:15

• ICBM's IWB props up buzzwords and hype now https://blog.irvingwb.com/blog/2022/04/what-is-web3.html    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 15:31:25

• What is Web3? Pure bullshit. http://techrights.org/2022/01/29/web3-is-bullshit/    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 15:31:59

• When this broken economic system fails so many people it should be expected that many people will rush to embrace a fake, fictional, scammy phantom economies like "NFTs"... for the same reason many in the US turn to narcotics (antidepressants... 'novocaine' for the unwashed masses)    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 15:34:00

• IBM, which perpetuates the mass layoffs, also perpetuate this big lie about lots of workers willfully resigning (nor proactively ahead of a collapse) https://enterprisersproject.com/article/2022/4/it-leadership-manager-vs-coach    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 16:01:31

• ICBM: THE ECONOMY IS FINE!!! IT'S the DARN workers' fault that it doesn't look that way!    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 16:02:12

• ICBM loves to lie about the economy while it's GRIFTING off of American taxpayers. Because it knows where the first few Molotov cocktails will land before the pitchforks platoon. The US already had a civil war last year. It has not ended. It's "on hold", like the Korean DMZ.    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 16:04:20

• "Lately I've been getting into BASIC. I was a kid in the 80s and 90s and I remember those computers that would boot into a BASIC interpreter." gemini://gemini.ctrl-c.club/~lettuce/tinybasic.gmi    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 16:59:26

• Arch Linux’s First ISO Snapshot Powered by Linux Kernel 5.17 Is Now Available for Download • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/163229    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 16:59:34

• Today’s 𝘛𝘶𝘹 𝘔𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴 Leftovers • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/163230    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 17:28:44

• "Nightmare Reaper, a retro-inspired FPS that blends together elements of a looter-shooter and a sprinkle of RPG mechanics, recently left Early Access and it works great on Linux and Steam Deck. With Steam Play Proton, it's a perfect experience. Note: key provided for me by Evolve PR." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2022/04/nightmare-reaper-is-a-quality-retro-themed-fps-out-now/    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 17:32:15

• Deepin OS 20.5 Released with Face Recognition, can we trust? • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/163231    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 17:32:22

• "A rather slow week, it took a while between the 1900 games milestone and the 2000 games mark. Overall it took Valve a bit more than 3 months to move from zero games validated to 2000." https://boilingsteam.com/2000-games-on-the-steam-deck/    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 17:33:56

• Point and click adventure Pants Quest gets a GNU/Linux release | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2022/04/point-and-click-adventure-pants-quest-gets-a-linux-release/ ䷉ Source: Gaming On Linux | GNU | Linux | Games    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 17:34:55

• Games: Nightmare Reaper, Steam Deck, and More • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/163232    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 17:48:03

• "In this video, I am going to show how to install Parrot 5.0 Home Edition." https://yewtu.be/watch?v=VmXJEWph38s    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 17:48:59

• If you list your company in Microsoft LinkedIn and link to that, does that mean you associate your company, proudly, with Microsoft crimes?    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 17:49:56

• You know GulagTube is fake if you look at subscriber and view counts to spot discrepancies; like Spamnil claiming to have over 20k "subscribers" but 10 days after uploading a video that video gets just 10 views (including Spamnil watching his own video)    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 17:55:05

• Highest Number of COVID-19 Hospitalisations in 2022 http://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2022/04/01/hospitalisations-soar/    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 18:45:14

• "When developing an application or a library, it is very common to want to run it without installing it, or to install it into a custom prefix rather than on the system (i.e. /usr or /usr/local)." https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/blog/2022/03/30/spotlight-on-meson-full-featured-developer-environment/    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 18:54:11

• My Nokia X10 upgraded to Android 12 - And we check • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/163233    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 19:36:39

• Must be a very "smart" camera https://www.maketecheasier.com/wyze-camera-security-flaw/    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 19:37:52

• Microsoft trying to make "Linux" look bad. REAL fix: delete Windows, install REAL GNU/Linux. https://windowsreport.com/windows-11-wsl-error/    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 19:40:34

• Stallman to Deliver ’State of Free Software’ Online April 13 • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/163234    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 19:41:23

• The software operator design pattern — part 2 | Ubuntu ⚓ https://ubuntu.com//blog/software-operator-design-pattern-part-2 ䷉ Source: ubuntu    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 19:43:27

• Design patterns and the software operator — part 1 | Ubuntu ⚓ https://ubuntu.com//blog/software-operator-design-pattern-part-1 ䷉ Source: ubuntu    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 19:45:02

• Success at Apache: My experience with the Apache Way —a perfect society? : The Apache Software Foundation Blog ⚓ https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/entry/success-at-apache-my-experience ䷉ Source: apache    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 19:47:42

• "This is my fifth status update for Season of KDE 2022. This time, I have updates on the automation side of things. I got a preliminary version of the required GitLab pipelines working." https://snehit.dev/posts/kde/sok-2022/adding-ci-on-gitlab/    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 19:49:18

• Shell Extensions in Qt Wayland 6.3 ⚓ https://www.qt.io/blog/shell-extensions-in-qt-wayland-6.3 ䷉ qt and Wayland?    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 19:50:19

• "For the entire history of LearnLinuxTV, countless distributions have been reviewed. After all this time, the best distribution of Linux has FINALLY been found! In this review, we'll take a look at the great DJL!" https://yewtu.be/watch?v=aFQHNPyNGw8    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 19:53:10

• New syslog-ng parser: flip-parser() https://www.syslog-ng.com/community/b/blog/posts/new-syslog-ng-parser-flip-parser    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 19:56:27

• Openwashing nonsense and cheesy PR stunts from proprietary firms https://dev.to/floord/what-even-is-an-open-source-program-office-with-spotify-aiven-wipro-3o50    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 19:58:05

• if the opnewashing PR jesters were doing in society what they do to image of corporations, they'd "resolve" racism by insisting that we refer to blacks as "white people"    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 20:00:17

• New Video by Ramon: The Recorder Docker | Krita https://krita.org/en/item/new-video-by-ramon-the-recorder-docker/    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 20:01:51

• "Git can do everything—except make your coffee. But what if it could? Like most people, I already have a dedicated coffee brewing device listening to HTCPCP requests. All that is left is to hook Git up to it." https://opensource.com/article/22/4/brew-coffee-git-command    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 20:03:19

• How I customize my Linux window decorations | ⚓ https://opensource.com/article/22/3/customize-linux-window-decorations ䷉ Source: FreeSW | RedHat | IBM | GNU | Linux    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 20:06:16

• "Git can do everything—except make your coffee. But what if it could? Like most people, I already have a dedicated coffee brewing device listening to HTCPCP requests. All that is left is to hook Git up to it." https://opensource.com/article/22/4/brew-coffee-git-command    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 20:06:28

• Quit calling everything "Hey hi" and stop helping Gulag (and Microsoft) steal medical data. This is espionage and there should be severe criminal punishments for it. https://www.theregister.com/2022/03/31/google_tpu_ai/    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 20:08:02

• IPFire: Incomplete Backups since Core Update 164 http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/163210#comment-33261   

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 20:10:54

• "The Fedora Community can now search their universe of open source code—currently over 34,000 repositories and counting." https://fedoramagazine.org/using-sourcegraph-to-search-34000-fedora-repositories/    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 20:12:20

• What's left of ICBM Fedora mhttps://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/cpe-weekly-update-week-of-march-28th-april-1st/    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 20:13:15

• "Are they Smart?" No, quit calling everything "smart". https://heathermeeker.com/2022/03/29/crypto-for-the-rest-of-us-part-iii-smart-contracts/    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 20:15:01

• Dumb ideas are repeatedly being paints "smart" or even Smart(R) for the same reason Trump needed to repeatedly say -- yes, HE said -- he was totally not racist    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 20:16:59

• "Much of the security “dirt,” Chainguard states, comes from an image’s clutter. That is those extraneous and unnecessary packages along for the ride in a base image. If your container doesn’t need a function, don’t include its package." https://thenewstack.io/chainguard-its-all-about-that-base-image/    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 20:18:12

• Antoine Beaupré: Salvaged my first Debian package https://anarc.at/blog/2022-03-31-first-package-salvaged/    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 20:19:00

• "After my friend kline (a staffer at Libera Chat) came up with this idea, I actually did write a lot of the code!" https://drewdevault.com/2022/04/01/git-snail-mail.html    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 20:20:06

• CrunchBang++ Linux - The Ultimate Lightweight and Stable Linux Distribution • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/163235    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 20:21:43

• ICBM following a hype wave like a skirt-chasing maniac https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/5g-edge-and-security-deployment-evolution-trends-and-insights    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 20:22:19

• ICBM Red Hat does "openwashing" + "clownwashing" all-in-one "https://opensource.com/article/22/3/cloud-services-providers    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 20:23:27

• Does the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon support Linux? http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/152035#comment-33260    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 20:30:06

• Microsoft has new excuses for Vista 11 ‘growth’ (Windows cannibalisation) basically stopping; they and their spinners would say TPM (yes. they themselves imposed restrictions and later relaxed them) is at fault http://techrights.org/2022/04/01/a-fail-of-windows/    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 20:30:53

• Microbell Announces things for AMD https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=AMD-Orochi    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 20:32:56

• thefuck: Automatically Correct Previous Incorrect Command - TREND OCEANS ⚓ https://trendoceans.com/thefuck-with-examples/ ䷉ Source: trendoceans    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 20:35:50

• Stop giving sensitive keys to the NSA and their tandem criminals at Microsoft. This enables espionage. https://tecadmin.net/adding-a-new-ssh-key-in-github/    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 20:36:38

• Bizarre framing as 'Chrome'books are just locked-down laptops, but sometimes they can still be redeemed from Google's grip https://www.ubuntupit.com/chromebook-vs-laptop-which-one-is-suitable-for-you/    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 20:38:37

• "metaverse" = way for abusive company to rebrand and bombard the media to distract from what it really is, breaking a news cycle centered around a whistleblower https://anchor.fm/tic-tek-toe/episodes/The-Metaverse-Is-Boring-e1gj621    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 20:39:57

• "Prague PostgreSQL Developer Day 2022 (P2D2 2022) will be held on June 1-2 in Prague, Czech Republic. The conference focuses on topics for PostgreSQL users and developers." https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/postgresql-developer-day-2022-dates-call-for-papers-sponsors-etc-2425/    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 20:43:42

• LF lost all the events revenue due to COVID-19; it's trying to rebuild as a diploma mill, still https://linuxfoundation.org/featured/apply-for-a-linux-foundation-training-scholarship-by-april-30/    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 20:44:56

• "An array is a data structure to store multiple elements of similar data types. Similar to other programming languages Java also supports Arrays. Which are stored in a contiguous location on memory. In this tutorial, you’ll learn different techniques to print the elements of a given array in Java." https://tecadmin.net/methods-to-print-array-in-java/    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 20:45:44

• openSUSE Tumbleweed – Review of the week 2022/13 https://dominique.leuenberger.net/blog/2022/04/opensuse-tumbleweed-review-of-the-week-2022-13/    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 20:46:37

• Will SUSE teach them to deploy proprietary software like SAP? https://www.suse.com/c/new-suse-certified-deployment-specialist-program/    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 20:47:32

• Valve "influencers" https://yewtu.be/watch?v=tMA3Q2tl39E    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 20:51:26

• "Attackers can exploit the vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-0778, to trigger a denial of service state and remotely crash unpatched devices." https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/qnap-warns-severe-openssl-bug-affects-most-of-its-nas-devices/    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 20:51:59

• Mozilla died, got baked by Baker. "She PROBABLY has a secret deal with Google, as soon as Mozilla has died, She can switch to Google in the executive floor" https://dwaves.de/2022/03/31/google-says-thank-you-mrs-baker-you-successfully-destroyed-the-firefox-browser-alternatives-to-chrome-and-firefox/    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 20:53:35

• "the answer should: MRS BAKER, PLEASE RESIGN & LET SOMEONE ELSE DO THE JOB, SO YOU CAN FINALLY GO SOMEWHERE ELSE AND EARN 5x MORE MONEY WITHOUT DESTROYING THE INTERNET & MOZILLA FOUNDATION! THANK YOU!" https://dwaves.de/2022/03/31/google-says-thank-you-mrs-baker-you-successfully-destroyed-the-firefox-browser-alternatives-to-chrome-and-firefox/    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 20:54:14

• "This year’s GSoC is coming; and this year, I suggest that we handle one big problem plaguing LibreOffice: deadlocks." https://mikekaganski.wordpress.com/2022/04/01/new-libreoffice-gsoc-project-resolve-deadlocks-using-robust-and-efficient-implementation-of-ostrich-algorithm/    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 20:57:03

• Mozilla is a cautionary tale. What happens when your project depends on Pentagon//GAFAM/Gulag money. Never takes that money. Next in line: 'Linux' Foundation. Leave now, Linus, if it's not too late already....    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 20:59:11

• Coming up from David REVOY https://www.davidrevoy.com/article905/product-placement    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 21:01:54

• Security Leftovers • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/163236    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 21:03:50

• Videos: Steam Deck, Krita, DJL, and More • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/163237    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 21:09:24

• Today’s #HowTos | #UNIX • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/163238    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 21:09:31

• Prank day for prank calls https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/entry/your-call-is-important-to    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 21:16:23

• "Posted at 01:34PM Apr 01, 2022 by Joe Brockmeier" one of many who quit Red Hat after ICBM was destroying it    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 21:17:35

• Making Dynamically Required Package Names More Discoverable in Perl https://www.olafalders.com/2022/03/30/making-dynamically-required-package-names-more-discoverable-in-perl/    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 21:19:01

• "This one's interesting. At first I was hesitant to use some web-based IRC client, but the layout and perma-connectivity is really nice. I might just shell out the $50 for a yearly subscription." gemini://november.smol.pub/tech-thoughts    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 21:27:15

• "As I feel the need for a more minimalist and more coherent system, I downloaded OpenBSD and FreeBSD to install on a spare laptop (a Starlabs Star-lite MKII). I was baffled by the very pleasant OpenBSD installer. Clean, efficient" gemini://rawtext.club/~ploum/2022-04-01-openbsd.gmi    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 21:27:56

• Jetson powered edge AI system has eight PoE ports • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/163239    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 21:28:11

• Chinese distro Deepin hits 20.5, complete with browser called Browser http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/163206#comment-33263   

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 21:31:12

• 5 Reasons to Use a Rolling-Release Linux Distribution • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/163240    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 21:36:58

• Oh, here we go again with very old hype waves. "Daddy, are we there yet?" "No, son, maybe in 20 years. Maybe..." https://www.theregister.com/2022/03/31/fujitsu_claims_worlds_fastest_36/    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 21:37:57

• Making another laughable bubble from a company that cannot even make money https://www.theregister.com/2022/03/31/docker_funding_unicorn/    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 21:39:54

• LOL. "As recent as mid-2021, the outfit was still having trouble finding its footing and a successful business model." But claims to be worth over $2,100,000,000?????? https://www.theregister.com/2022/03/31/docker_funding_unicorn/    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 21:41:20

• The 'Murican way: you don't need to actually make MONEY!!!!!!! Just make sure the US taxpayers (through the corrupt government) will BAIL YOU OUT! (Terrible for the economy, but ask Elon 'pedo guy' Musk how he's doing...)    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 21:43:43

• Internet at breaking point. Security an afterthought at best (see JS crapola) https://www.theregister.com/2022/03/30/viasat_spills_on_russian_attack/    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 21:45:33

• CLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOWWN "resources" https://www.theregister.com/2022/03/31/cryptomining_cloud_trend/ "crypto"... a word stolen by charlatans and cranks    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 21:47:14

• "Way back in December of 2020, Kubernetes announced the deprecation of Dockershim. In Kubernetes, dockershim is a software shim that allows you to use the entire Docker engine as your container runtime within Kubernetes" https://kubernetes.io/blog/2022/03/31/ready-for-dockershim-removal/    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 21:48:14

• Rust = outsourcing to proprietary software controlled by criminals (Microsoft) https://lwn.net/Articles/889989/    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 21:49:48

• Buying "Mac" PCs just to put GNU/Linux on them https://cdanielaam.medium.com/my-first-trimester-tech-updates-earbuds-laptop-and-robot-fe554965c7ee    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 21:52:17

• "I am running one instance in public http://verybad.kushaldas.in:8000/, and then I asked twitter to see if anyone can get access. Only difference is that this service has some of the latest security mitigation from systemd on a Fedora 35 box." https://kushaldas.in/posts/securing-verybad-web-application-with-only-systemd.html    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 21:54:59

• A lot of GAFAM "outreach" projects perpetuate the patronising assumption that rich people should control, 'tutor', 'mentor' even boss poor people (slaves?), often men controlling women    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 21:56:18

• Digesting these books like they're a bible https://fale.io/blog/2022/03/31/psm-i-and-pspo-i    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 21:58:36

• Kubernetes 1.24 and Another Docket Bubble • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/163241    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 22:01:11

• Red Hat Handing Over Commercial Business to Partners ⚓ https://www.channelfutures.com/new-changing-channel-programs/red-hat-handing-over-commercial-business-to-partners ICBM is killing Red Hat. ䷉ Source: channelfutures    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 22:05:22

• ICBM dancing to the tune of buzzwords and "HEY HI" https://www.nextplatform.com/2022/03/22/red-hat-stacks-up-software-to-contain-ai-on-nvidia-platforms/    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 22:06:16

• "GitOps"... Red Hat is just a buzzwords vendor/peddler now https://yewtu.be/watch?v=v5dREYMj7U4    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 22:07:24

• IBM/Red Hat/Fedora Leftovers • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/163242    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 22:23:33

• A look at some 5.17 development statistics [LWN] ⚓ https://lwn.net/Articles/887559/ ䷉ Source: LWN | Kernel | Linux    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 22:25:56

• Three candidates vying for Debian project leader [LWN.net] https://lwn.net/Articles/888752/    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 22:30:28

• CoC is a tool for socially-engineering projects and communities on behalf of wealthy and hostile corporations    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 22:31:04

• LWN’s New Articles on Linux Kernel • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/163243    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 22:31:11

• Debian: DPL Race, Development Reports, and Antoine Beaupré’s Nostalgia • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/163244    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 22:41:49

• Paradox: Vista 11 and power. Microsoft has all the power over you. https://www.maketecheasier.com/hidden-windows-features/    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 22:44:35

• RMS cracking a couple of decet jokes at 22:30-23:30 in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2jmUNkvvjM    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 22:50:53

• Programming Leftovers • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/163245    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 23:12:56

• Free, Libre Software Leftovers • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/163246    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 23:13:07

• Canonical/Ubuntu Leftovers • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/163247    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 23:13:13

• Today’s 𝘛𝘶𝘹 𝘔𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴 Leftovers • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/163248    

posted Friday, April 01, 2022 at 23:13:21

• Lutris Game Manager Adds Steam Deck Support, EA Origin and Ubisoft Connect Integration • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/163249    

posted Saturday, April 02, 2022 at 02:19:41

• Kitty Terminal Emulator: #HowTo Install, Configure, and Use It • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/163250 activelow will love it. Terminal that needs a GPU!!   

posted Saturday, April 02, 2022 at 02:29:08

• xkcd: Instructions ⚓ https://xkcd.com/2601/ ䷉ Source: xkcd    

posted Saturday, April 02, 2022 at 02:29:37

• Apple "attacker could exploit one of these vulnerabilities to take control of an affected device. These vulnerabilities have been detected in exploits in the wild." https://us-cert.cisa.gov/ncas/current-activity/2022/04/01/apple-releases-security-updates-0    

posted Saturday, April 02, 2022 at 02:30:40

• "The answer raises more questions about the potential impacts on other species and ecosystems, according to a news release from Stanford News Service issued early Monday." https://www.hmbreview.com/news/squid-migrates-due-to-climate-change/article_46a83e3a-9fce-11ec-9190-df9c9b136027.html    

posted Saturday, April 02, 2022 at 02:31:29

• "In this video, we are looking at Deepin 20.5." https://yewtu.be/watch?v=EeexYCaS7B4    

posted Saturday, April 02, 2022 at 02:33:54

• "In this video, we are looking at Ubuntu 22.04 Beta." https://yewtu.be/watch?v=CZ555kHBNJ0    

posted Saturday, April 02, 2022 at 02:34:38

• How to install Haiku OS https://unixcop.com/how-to-install-haiku/    

posted Saturday, April 02, 2022 at 02:38:56

• LKML: Namjae Jeon: [GIT PULL] exfat update for 5.18-rc1 ⚓ https://lkml.org/lkml/2022/4/1/403 Linux kernel getting stuffed with Microsoft crap. Those who oppose have been silenced.    

posted Saturday, April 02, 2022 at 02:41:44

• Screencasts of Ubuntu 22.04 Beta and Deepin 20.5 • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/163251    

posted Saturday, April 02, 2022 at 02:41:52

• [GIT PULL] Second batch of KVM changes for Linux 5.18 - Paolo Bonzini ⚓ https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20220401153256.103938-1-pbonzini@redhat.com/ ䷉ Source: Red Hat | ICBM | GNU | Linux    

posted Saturday, April 02, 2022 at 02:42:16

• What Is Fedora Linux? • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/163252    

posted Saturday, April 02, 2022 at 02:42:53

• "What do Windows user think about Linux and other Linux-related topics, such as the terminal, tiling window managers and the GNU project? Let's ask a few average windows users." https://yewtu.be/watch?v=xkwxOUwbB0s    

posted Saturday, April 02, 2022 at 02:49:58

• Microsoft crime. "Wow… that’s a lot of bribery and sloppy behavior. Almost surprising it slipped through, at such a scale it’s a matter of time before it gets noticed." Sloppy? Where are the prosecutions and arrests???? https://ervin.ipsquad.net/blog/2022/04/01/web-review-week-2022-13/    

posted Saturday, April 02, 2022 at 02:52:54

• They probably demand you open a Microsoft account to participate (also, you cannot criticise Microsoft for its crimes; Rust policy) https://www.zdnet.com/article/rust-foundation-opens-up-rust-community-grants-program/    

posted Saturday, April 02, 2022 at 02:53:40

• "This is our bi-weekly departure into the world of amateur radio contests, Free software conventions, special events, listener challenges, hedonism and just plain fun." https://lhspodcast.info/2022/04/lhs-episode-461-the-weekender-lxxxix-2/    

posted Saturday, April 02, 2022 at 02:56:41

• Today’s #HowTos | #UNIX • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/163253    

posted Saturday, April 02, 2022 at 02:56:49

• "The team worked on this version for over a year and introduced the new platform as a tech preview after CodeReady Workspaces 2.10. The official name of this release is Red Hat OpenShift Dev Spaces 3.0." https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2022/04/01/codeready-workspaces-scales-now-red-hat-openshift-dev-spaces    

posted Saturday, April 02, 2022 at 02:59:04

• "It’s no joke: 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-2022-13/    

posted Saturday, April 02, 2022 at 03:01:06

• Nibble Stew: The C++ best practices game jam sample project Meson conversion ⚓ https://nibblestew.blogspot.com/2022/04/the-c-best-practices-game-jam-sample.html ䷉ Source: nibblestew    

posted Saturday, April 02, 2022 at 03:03:54

• "Update on what happened across the GNOME project in the week from March 25 to April 01." https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2022/04/twig-37/    

posted Saturday, April 02, 2022 at 03:04:54

• Life off social media, six months in - Silvia Maggi ⚓ https://silviamaggidesign.com/personal/life-off-social-media/ ䷉ Source: silviamaggi "I tell you what happened when I quit social media six months ago, and why I don't want to come back."    

posted Saturday, April 02, 2022 at 03:05:55