Roy Schestowitz

• Building Emacs 28.1 gemini://alexschroeder.ch/page/2022-04-05%20Building%20Emacs%2028.1    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 04:16:58

• "america [sic] is definitely the worst developed country [sic] and the only reason people find it compelling is that it's the richest and most powerful" gemini://alex.flounder.online/journal.gmi    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 04:18:16

• STEAM DECK Gameplay | LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga - Invidious ⚓ https://yewtu.be/watch?v=ili1B46Pg7A ䷉ Source: Video | Invidious | Multimedia    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 04:29:51

• CVSS v3 8.4 https://www.cisa.gov/uscert/ics/advisories/icsa-22-095-02    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 04:31:16

• Funny how Microsoft-funded corporate media never covers HIGHLY CRITICAL AND SEVERE flaws in PROPRIETARY software.    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 04:32:00

• Today’s #HowTos | #UNIX • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/163397    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 04:32:14

• "In this video, we are looking at Xubuntu 22.04 Beta." https://yewtu.be/watch?v=vT78T95Daz8    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 04:34:10

• Ubuntu Budgie 22.04 Beta Run Through - Invidious ⚓ https://yewtu.be/watch?v=DZKmzV_0RBY ䷉ Source: Video | Invidious | Multimedia    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 04:35:10

• 3D printing a bunch of community-made Steam Deck models. Any you’d recommend? - Invidious ⚓ https://yewtu.be/watch?v=Ag36Hwpycr0 ䷉ Source: Video | Invidious | Multimedia    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 04:35:31

• "So a gitlab dev made a pretty big mistake and pushed a hardcoded password into production code, the results are as you'd expect." https://yewtu.be/watch?v=EE_RfwQcDuE    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 04:36:29

• "Hey, DT! What’s Your Thoughts On Elementary OS?" (And Other Questions) - Invidious ⚓ https://yewtu.be/watch?v=jGXTWwIYhY8 ䷉ Source: Video | Invidious | Multimedia    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 04:37:05

• Knowledge by the Pound: *The Renowned History of Giles Gingerbread* (1768) – The Public Domain Review ⚓ https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/giles-gingerbread/ ䷉ Source: publicdomainreview    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 04:38:28

• Istio / Announcing Istio 1.12.6 • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/163398    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 04:42:32

• "WordPress 5.9.3 is now available! This maintenance release features 9 bug fixes in Core and 10 bug fixes in the block editor. WordPress 5.9.3 is a short-cycle maintenance release. The next major release will be version 6.0." https://wordpress.org/news/2022/04/wordpress-5-9-3-maintenance-release/    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 04:43:24

• Apple is failing its own so-called 'customers' https://9to5mac.com/2022/03/28/cider-is-an-alternative-apple-music-desktop-client-with-features-missing-in-itunes/    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 04:44:19

• kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git - x86/speculation: Restore speculation related MSRs during S3 resume ⚓ https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=e2a1256b17b16f9b9adf1b6fea56819e7b68e463 ䷉ Source: git    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 04:45:10

• You should upgrade. But to GNU/Linux. Vista 11 is a DOWNGRADE. More bugs. https://www.windowslatest.com/2022/04/03/should-you-upgrade-to-windows-11-heres-a-list-of-missing-features/    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 04:45:51

• Latest Videos About GNU/Linux (via Invidious) • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/163399    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 04:45:57

• In January 2022, the European Parliament voted in favor of the Digital Services Act (DSA), a horizontal legislation for the EU’s digital single market that seeks to define platforms’ responsibility regarding user content https://www.lumendatabase.org/blog_entries/transparency-initiatives-in-the-dsa-an-exciting-step-forward-in-transparency-reporting    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 04:50:05

• Party for a corporate distro??? https://ubuntu-mm.net/loco-news/the-call-for-participation-is-now-open-for-ubuntu-22-04-release-party/    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 04:51:00

• "free Libre"?? On Apple MacOS only?? https://medevel.com/stats/    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 04:53:06

• Shaarli is a free open-source, self-hosted Bookmarking solution • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/163400    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 04:56:21

• My guide to understanding Git rebase -i | ⚓ https://opensource.com/article/22/4/manage-git-commits-rebase-i-command ䷉ Source: FreeSW | RedHat | IBM | GNU | Linux    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 04:57:08

• Funny how corporate media does not call git a "Linux command". As THAT might actually upset Linus, unlike RMS (calling GNU programs "Linux").    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 04:58:04

• "I recorded a ~20-minute video tutorial demonstrating how to work with mesh gradients in Inkscape, importing them into Scribus and producing print-ready CMYK artwork. You can watch it above embedded from YouTube or on my personal LinuxRocks PeerTube channel." https://blog.linuxgrrl.com/2022/04/05/working-with-gradient-meshes-in-inkscape-scribus-to-produce-print-ready-artwork/    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 04:59:43

• "All system admins should be lazy. Not as in not doing their job, but as in doing it as efficiently as possible. Why do you have to do things manually when you can automate them?" https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/automating-red-hat-identity-management-installation    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 05:00:53

• "The kernel team is working on final integration for Linux kernel 5.17. This version was just recently released, and will arrive soon in Fedora. As a result, the Fedora kernel and QA teams have organized a test week now through Sunday, April 10, 2022." https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/contribute-at-the-fedora-linux-36-test-week-for-kernel-5-17/    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 05:01:16

• No, you do not want "relationship" with suits https://enterprisersproject.com/article/2022/4/want-impress-your-cio-5-donts    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 05:04:01

• "In the last post I explained how I built a base map of Tasmania (coastline plus main roads) with a lat/lon grid using gnuplot. Here I describe how the base map was used to generate GIF animations." https://www.datafix.com.au/BASHing/2022-04-06.html    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 05:06:58

• This DIY coop controller makes caring for chickens a much easier task | Arduino Blog ⚓ https://blog.arduino.cc/2022/04/05/this-diy-coop-controller-makes-caring-for-chickens-a-much-easier-task/ ䷉ Source: Arduino | Hardware | OpenHardware | Hacking    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 05:07:47

• The Arduipiano is an Arduino-powered floor piano that lets you play music with your feet | Arduino Blog ⚓ https://blog.arduino.cc/2022/04/05/the-arduipiano-is-an-arduino-powered-floor-piano-that-lets-you-play-music-with-your-feet/ ䷉ Source: Arduino | Hardware | OpenHardware | Hacking    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 05:08:23

• "Hans Andersson decided to make his own version that integrates both RGB LEDs and fiber optics to show the current time in a far more entertaining manner." https://blog.arduino.cc/2022/04/06/the-o-clock-is-a-fun-way-to-check-the-current-time/    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 05:09:01

• Mobile 'phones' or 'smart' crap has become mostly about the surveillance https://blog.mozilla.org/netpolicy/2022/04/05/philippines-sim-card-registration-act-will-expose-users-to-greater-privacy-and-security-risks-online/    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 05:11:06

• IBM/Red Hat/Fedora Leftovers • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/163401    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 05:11:21

• "Clutter can consume us in digital form, too — from an overabundance of browser bookmarks and open tabs to navigating a world wide web that’s littered with junk. The right browser extension, however, can really help clean things up…" https://addons.mozilla.org/blog/extensions-for-cleaning-up-a-chaotic-desktop/    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 05:11:57

• Latest Showcases of Arduino Projects • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/163402    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 05:12:53

• What does this have to do with security? When "Senior Product Manager" with "a wide breadth of technical marketing expertise" writes stuff... https://www.suse.com/c/open-source-security-for-ibm-z16/    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 05:15:50

• Samsung devices incorrectly handle CSS @media hover queries https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/css-media-hover-samsung.html bug reports become blog posts?    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 05:16:45

• Openwashing https://opensource.com/open-organization/22/4/essence-of-openness-norberg-review    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 05:18:17

• After being ousted from his own company https://techcrunch-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/techcrunch.com/2022/03/30/docker-founder-launches-dagger-a-new-devops-platform/amp/    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 05:22:52

• Security Leftovers • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/163403    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 05:23:02

• They should ban Microsoft and Windows if they're true to their mission https://www.fosslife.org/us-bureau-cyberspace-and-digital-policy-launched see http://techrights.org/2021/07/19/microsoft-national-security/    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 05:24:09

• "Designed by Smart Bee Designs, the tiny Bee Motion Mini combines an ESP32-C3 wireless RISC-V SoC with a PIR sensor for motion detection reporting over WiFi, Bluetooth LE, or Bluetooh Mesh." https://www.cnx-software.com/2022/04/05/bee-motion-mini-esp32-c3-pir-sensor-board/    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 05:25:07

• Social control media -- no matter if federated, or decentralised, or peer to peer, or "open source", or free/libre -- is generally a waste of time. Hard to maintain, distracting, and totally not worth it. Set up blogs, use RSS feeds. Vastly better.    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 05:41:30

• Today’s #HowTos | #UNIX • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/163404    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 05:41:38

• Atletico put in "bunker mode" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYpurKYFM90   

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 05:50:58

• Shilling Microsoft spying on Gemini? Not good optics :/ "linkedin is my favorite social network right now." gemini://alex.flounder.online/journal.gmi    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 06:30:04

• There are now about 2,300 known Gemini capsules gemini://gemini.bortzmeyer.org/software/lupa/stats.gmi    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 06:32:32

• According to statcounter, GNU/Linux is now over 5% on desktops/laptops    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 07:01:02

• Of course the share of GNU/Linux is greater than Apple's in many countries, e.g. https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/poland/#monthly-200901-202204    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 07:02:38

• Ghostscript 9.56.1 Released with Apple Raster Support • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/163405    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 07:49:14

• Ghostscript 9.56.1 Released with Apple Raster Support • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/163405    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 07:51:15

• Firefox 99 Brings New ReaderMode Feature and Security Fixes • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/163406    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 07:51:25

• 𝘛𝘦𝘤𝘩𝘳𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵𝘴 IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, April 05, 2022 • Techrights ⚓ http://techrights.org/2022/04/06/irc-log-050422/ ䷉ Source: Techrights | GNU | Linux | FreeSW | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2022/04/06/irc-log-050422/    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 08:39:08

• Still no mention from RMS of his upcoming FSF talk https://stallman.org/talks.html    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 08:41:01

• Today in #Techrights • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/163407    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 08:48:07

• Privacy-focused Linux distro Tails 5 Beta now available for download with many critical security bug fixes http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/163379#comment-33284   

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 08:54:12

• NuTyX 22.04.1 available with cards 2.5.0 • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/163408    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 09:05:10

• New Raspberry Pi: Compute Module 4S • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/163409    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 09:13:42

• "How do you prove that you know something secret without revealing the secret?" https://matt-rickard.com/zero-knowledge-proofs/    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 09:34:54

• "The new audio confirms that the speed of sound is slower on Mars than on Earth, a result that was expected since the motion of acoustic waves" https://www.vice.com/en/article/dyp9pa/sound-on-mars-has-a-unique-and-extremely-trippy-property-recordings-reveal    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 09:35:39

• "digitized test result certificate which can be used as proof" https://www.who.int/news/item/31-03-2022-who-launches-guidance-on-digitally-documenting-sars-cov-2-test-results    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 09:40:46

• Microsoft Windows TCO https://itwire.com/business-it-news/security/google-blames-microsoft-monoculture-for-govt-security-problems.html    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 09:41:30

• "Have a look at our roadmap to see where we are heading to" https://tails.boum.org/news/version_4.29/index.en.html    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 09:42:39

• "Australia's news media bargaining code is being reviewed after its first year of operation, but the Federal Government has signalled that it will not force any company that has not adhered to the requirements of the code to do so." https://itwire.com/opinion-and-analysis-sp-481/open-sauce/news-media-code-review-will-go-easy-on-facebook-again.html    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 09:42:54

• "As WikiLeaks founder and publisher Julian Assange remains in the UK's Belmarsh Prison, waiting for the next move in the US bid to extradite him" https://itwire.com/it-industry-news/strategy/wikileaks-marks-12-years-since-release-of-collateral-murder-video.html    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 09:44:33

• Rocannon's World by Ursula K. Le Guin gemini://calcuode.com/gemlog/2021-01-19_rocannons-world.gmi    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 09:46:13

• Major lifestyle changes are required to stop global warming https://today.rtl.lu/news/luxembourg/a/1893347.html    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 09:47:02

• "Ministers said last year that privatization would help secure Channel 4's future as a public service broadcaster" https://edition.cnn.com/2022/04/05/media/channel-4-uk-privatization/index.html    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 09:49:06

• "Last week, the EU reached an agreement on a core piece of platform regulation, the Digital Markets Act." https://felixreda.eu/2022/04/digital-markets-act-publishers-ancillary-copyright/    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 09:49:24

• Oligarch "Bloomberg opinion suggested we give Amazon and Facebook a seat at the United Nations as commercial superpowers" https://alirezahayati.com/2022/04/04/give-amazon-and-facebook-more-power-human-idiocy-has-no-limit-whatsoever/    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 09:50:04

• Misinformation/Disinformation thrives online https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/04/russian-propaganda-zelensky-information-war/629475/    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 09:53:14

• Boycott Twitter https://www.theverge.com/2022/4/5/23011810/elon-musk-twitter-sec-board-member-moderation    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 09:53:45

• Boycott Twitter https://www.salon.com/2022/04/05/elon-musk-blows-up-twitter-with-board-of-directors-announcement/    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 09:54:00

• Twitter is worthless. Graft scammers make a bubble, as usual. https://itwire.com/it-industry-news/market/twitter-shares-soar-after-elon-musk-9-2-stake-revealed.html    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 09:54:53

• "Twitter is shifting the way it does business, moving away from ad-generated revenue and into the crypto and NFT" (IOW a SCAM) https://screenrant.com/elon-musk-twitter-investment-crypto-project/    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 09:55:22

• ">The focus this time is about the practicalities of the user facing ‘shell’ — the cancerous and confused mass that hides behind the seemingly harmless command-line prompt." https://arcan-fe.com/2022/04/02/the-day-of-a-new-command-line-interface-shell    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 09:56:58

• "Often these are journalists already established in their home country. But some like Zubova are new to the profession — and learning on the job" https://www.voanews.com/a/from-exporting-goods-to-the-news-ukrainians-swap-day-jobs-for-journalism/6514865.html    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 09:58:38

• And if you sue and the police loses, you (the taxpayer) will pay https://text.npr.org/1090857790    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 09:59:34

• "[...] Because the human organ market is an underground market, it is difficult to make any definitive estimates of its value." https://www.michigandaily.com/opinion/organ-trafficking-is-not-getting-the-attention-it-deserves-heres-why/    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 10:00:01

• Patents are again killing millions of people to increase profit https://www.democracynow.org/2022/4/5/poor_peoples_campaign_2022_pandemic_report    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 10:02:19

• Purism: A Vision in Focus • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/163410    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 10:02:47

• "International music industry group IFPI has submitted its recommendations for the EU's upcoming 'Counterfeit and Piracy Watch List’." https://torrentfreak.com/music-industry-flags-discord-and-reddit-as-primary-piracy-threats-220405/    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 10:13:35

• Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Apple Logic Pro • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/163411    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 10:21:49

• Today’s 𝘛𝘶𝘹 𝘔𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴 Leftovers • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/163412    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 10:23:31

• Programming Leftovers • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/163413    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 10:23:46

• Mozilla Firefox 99.0: here is what is new http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/163382#comment-33285   

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 10:24:41

• Social control media is generally a waste of time; no president (or state leader) was ousted because of the number of “likes” (they’re not even a currency) and all Social Control Media Web sites are short-lived bubbles of disorganised (mis)information http://techrights.org/2022/04/06/social-control-media-is-junk/    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 10:29:19

• Twitter isn’t means of communication; Twitter looks like a dying platform desperate for attention; the above is an annotated screenshot of my notifications bar this morning (there’s more noise than signal) http://techrights.org/2022/04/06/twitter-is-spam/    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 10:29:52

• “This talk is about the IPv4 Unicast Extensions Project, which is proposing software and standards changes to eventually make reserved addresses usable." http://techrights.org/2022/04/06/ipv4-limits/    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 10:30:13

• Google #Android Leftovers • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/163414    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 10:30:19

• The ‘free’ platforms one can sign up for online (GitHub, Twitter, YouTube and so on) aren’t free at all; their true cost is becoming more apparent over time http://techrights.org/2022/04/06/no-free-lunch/    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 10:31:35

• “antitrust reform” https://www.techdirt.com/2022/04/05/senator-ken-buck-threatens-to-use-antitrust-to-attack-woke-apple/ Apple is NOT "woke". Apple is aggressive, oppressive, militaristic.    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 10:35:12

• Quit calling tech companies "liberal"; you clearly know nothing about liberalism. http://techrights.org/2020/06/13/bill-gates-not-a-liberal/    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 10:36:11

• "We’ve already talked about how Georgia looks to be moving forward with its clearly unconstitutional content moderation bill." https://www.techdirt.com/2022/04/05/florida-has-already-wasted-over-700k-of-taxpayer-funds-defending-its-unconstitutional-content-moderation-bill/    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 10:36:47

• "Obituaries for Albright in the mainstream media described the expansion of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization as her “greatest diplomatic achievement.”" https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/04/05/albright-and-clinton-two-peas-in-the-pod-of-liberal-interventionism/    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 10:37:20

• "At its origins, we were promised the entry to The Golden Age of Computer Networks. Instead, what emerged under capitalism was the Internet becoming [...] gold mine for a handful of corporations." https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/04/05/three-internet-creating-ideologies/    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 10:38:56

• Has Bezos Post commented on it yet? https://truthout.org/articles/amazon-will-ban-words-like-union-living-wage-in-worker-app-documents-find/ https://truthout.org/articles/bernie-sanders-hails-growing-union-movement-as-an-antidote-to-oligarchy/    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 10:40:33

• More on SweatshopZone ttps://truthout.org/articles/amazon-workers-at-over-50-buildings-have-contacted-the-union-about-organizing/    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 10:41:10

• "Sen. Bernie Sanders delivered a floor speech on Monday hailing the growing wave of union victories across the United States" https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/04/05/sanders-hails-growing-union-movement-threat-oligarchy-and-corporate-greed    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 10:41:49

• "SweatshopZone spent over $4 million in trying to defeat the union drive." https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/04/05/the-growing-union-movement/    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 10:42:30

• "The first step is to see if you’re already technically buzzword compliant. Do you have an existing system or product that fits that buzzword?" https://mwl.io/archives/15562    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 10:43:57

• "I use a very custom desktop which requires me to do a lot of stuff by hand that's probably covered automatically (or with a general setting) by more standard desktops. With that said, the three big areas that I had to change were font selections, window sizes, and window positions." https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/linux/HiDPIMyXSettingsII    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 10:44:11

• "My answer was easy: HTML. And I wasn’t being sarcastic or mocking in the least. Sure, I pretty much know which tags to use in which instances and how to keep my HTML mostly semantic and accessible" https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2022/03/html-attributes-you-never-use/    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 10:44:25

• “He would just completely disengage, lie on the floor, start playing with the toys, literally turn his back to the computer, try to close it,” said mother Julia Toof of her son, who, at the time, was just shy of 3-years-old. “It just didn’t work.” https://www.projectcensored.org/how-mask-wearing-to-prevent-spread-of-covid-19-impacts-children-in-speech-therapy/    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 10:47:32

• Elementary OS Faces Uncertain Future After Co-Founder Split http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162346#comment-33286   

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 10:48:48

• EFF wrote this WHILE TAKING MONEY FROM GULAG https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/04/google-fights-dragnet-warrant-users-search-histories-overseas-while-continuing    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 10:49:27

• CAIR or Cairo? https://www.jns.org/opinion/the-hate-that-cair-loves-to-defend/    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 10:50:04

• Revisionism https://www.jewishpress.com/news/israel/isis-weekly-motive-for-hadera-attack-was-purely-islamic-not-nationalistic/2022/04/01/    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 10:50:18

• flintfox has just killed itself https://itwire.com/it-people-news/people-moves/flintfox-appoints-microsoft-veteran-chris-dieringer-as-chief-customer-officer.html    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 10:50:53

• Charging Putin for potential war crimes is difficult, and any penalty hard to enforce ⚓ https://text.npr.org/1090837686 ䷉ Source: text    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 10:51:07

• RTL Today - President issues challenge: Zelensky tells UN to 'act immediately' on Russia or close ⚓ https://today.rtl.lu/news/world/a/1893483.html ䷉ Source: today    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 10:51:21

• The guitarist who saved hundreds of people on a sinking cruise liner - BBC News ⚓ https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-60841291 ䷉ Source: bbc   

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 10:51:44

• "On March 9th, we covered a Virginia court’s decision to reject a geofence/”reverse” warrant as unconstitutional." https://www.techdirt.com/2022/04/05/law-prof-suggests-geofence-warrants-are-a-net-gain-for-the-public-even-if-they-invert-the-probable-cause-standard/    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 10:55:59

• "Women had a good pandemic the last time around—something actually came of it!—compared with this one, which is total shit." https://www.thenation.com/article/society/motherhood-salary-babies-bargaining/    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 10:58:09

• Only money for war? https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/04/05/global-food-crisis-looms-groups-blast-proposed-165-billion-usda-cut    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 10:59:32

• "Inflation is at a 40-year peak." https://www.thenation.com/article/economy/as-prices-soar-we-need-action-not-spin/    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 11:02:01

• Boycott Starbucks https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/04/05/ceo-howard-schultz-ripped-saying-starbucks-being-assaulted-unionization    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 11:02:42

• Stop saying "Big Tech"; you help the lobbying of Microsoft criminals https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/big-tech-congress/    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 11:05:20

• "Normally when discussing a company that has appeared on our pages before for being a trademark bully" https://www.techdirt.com/2022/04/05/monster-energy-suing-a-fishing-gear-company-claiming-customer-confusion/    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 11:06:04

• israel exports malware https://www.techdirt.com/2022/04/05/clearview-ai-walks-back-earlier-claims-is-now-willing-to-sell-its-sketchy-product-to-anyone-with-money-and-a-pulse/    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 11:06:51

• Dirty futures https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/04/05/court-strikes-down-montana-coal-mine-expansion/    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 11:07:30

• GOP = Censorship https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/04/05/library-group-launches-anti-censorship-campaign-combat-gop-book-banning-wave    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 11:08:24

• No money for life, just for killing people, or for war (also, more patents to kill more people for profit) https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/04/05/aid-groups-warn-more-variants-will-emerge-if-congress-kills-global-covid-funds    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 11:09:13

• "According to the state of Georgia's Standards of Excellence for teaching the Reconstruction era to eighth-graders, students ought to "compare and contrast the goals and outcomes of the Freedmen's Bureau and the Ku Klux Klan." https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/04/05/why-gop-very-afraid-students-learning-real-history-reconstruction    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 11:11:08

• What GOP and Taliban have in common https://truthout.org/articles/tennessee-republicans-push-a-bill-that-would-circumvent-marriage-age-limits/    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 11:12:04

• Talibanism https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/04/05/reproductive-rights-advocates-brace-oklahomas-near-total-abortion-ban    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 11:13:14

• Gee, LXer knows just what GNU/Linux people want to hear about: WSL. Making the same mistake other sites made (until they perished). WSL/2/g is a progressive attack on GNU/Linux, which never succeeded. They're just gnawing away at their won budget. Even Canonical stopped mentioning it!    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 11:49:19

• LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga runs on Steam Deck and GNU/Linux with GE-Proton | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2022/04/lego-star-wars-the-skywalker-saga-runs-on-steam-deck-and-linux-with-ge-proton/ ䷉ Source: Gaming On Linux | GNU | Linux | Games    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 11:51:42

• It's bad that Liam uses Discord and encourages others to do the same https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2022/04/steam-deck-improves-offline-mode-switching-looks-like-a-lock-screen-is-coming/    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 11:52:50

• French Debian-based SELKS 7 is out https://www.stamus-networks.com/open-source/#selks    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 11:55:19

• CloudReady 9.4.36 is out https://www.neverware.com/    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 11:56:12

• Opensource.com community members share their favorite Git tips for saving time or preventing mistakes.   

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 11:57:02

• I've used SVN and even CVS (way before Git). To say bullshit like Git is "the one to stay" is foolish. Of course something will replace Git; the question is what and when. Microsoft (read: criminals) GitHub already viciously attacks Git, turning it into proprietary crap. Maybe by intention, too (sabotaging the whole standard).    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 11:58:59

• "Git tips are a dime a dozen, and it's a good thing because you can never get enough of them. If you use Git every day, then every tip, trick, and shortcut you can find is potentially time and effort saved." https://opensource.com/article/22/4/git-tips    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 11:59:18

• "Git is pretty famous for having lots of subcommands, like clone, init, add, mv, restore, bisect, blame, show, rebase, and many more." https://opensource.com/article/22/4/customize-git-subcommands I keep some aliases and scripts to speed things up    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 12:00:21

• Either Clownflare will be eradicated or the Web will be eradicated. We cannot have both. They cannot coexist.    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 12:01:31

• AMD has outsourced far too much code to Microsoft (criminals) GitHub, which is proprietary software. When "AMD" says "Open" (r combines these words, or "OpenGPU") read as "Microsoft junk"...    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 12:20:50

• wp-surface-scale-v1: New protocol for fractional scaling (!143) · Merge requests · wayland / wayland-protocols · GitLab ⚓ https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland-protocols/-/merge_requests/143 ䷉ Source: gitlab | wayland | linux | graphics    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 12:22:19

• 7 Uses of grep Commands in GNU [Linux] https://medium.com/techtofreedom/7-uses-of-grep-commands-in-linux-cde98eb30eba    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 12:25:00

• This spring there will be 2,000 active Gemini capsules gemini://gemini.bortzmeyer.org/software/lupa/stats.gmi    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 12:26:40

• "A few years ago I found a record player on the street. I took it home and, after a while of it getting in the way, it ended up in storage under the sofa, forgotten. A bit over three years ago I finally decided to get it out and make it work." gemini://calcuode.com/gemlog/2020-12-30_record-player.gmi    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 12:27:04

• ICBM thinks people "update your LinkedIn profile" (still boosting Microsoft; ICBM does this routinely) https://enterprisersproject.com/article/2022/4/3-tips-transition-new-role    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 12:30:39

• LinkedIn is oppression http://techrights.org/2020/06/28/linkedin-censorship/    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 12:30:59

• ICBM: you need to suck up to the suits instead of doing your job properly https://enterprisersproject.com/article/2022/4/it-collaboration-ceo    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 12:31:53

• Ex-Snap Advocate at Ubuntu Creates a Tool to Help You Migrate from Snap to Flatpak http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/163392#comment-33287    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 12:36:45

• Launch Your First Jenkins Server in a Single Command | by Vladimir Mukhin | Apr, 2022 | Medium ⚓ https://vladimir-mukhin.medium.com/launch-your-first-jenkins-server-in-a-single-command-37f9e4d3407 ䷉ Source: vladimir mukhin    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 12:42:13

• Today’s #HowTos | #UNIX • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/163415    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 12:45:45

• Visual-inertial tracking for Monado ⚓ https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/blog/2022/04/05/visual-inertial-tracking-support-for-monado-openxr/ ䷉ Source: collabora    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 12:49:50

• Lilbits: Another AMD handheld gaming PC, Volla Phone 22 (with Android or Ubuntu) ⚓ https://liliputing.com/2022/04/lilbits-another-amd-handheld-gaming-pc-volla-phone-22-with-android-or-ubuntu-and-asus-tinker-edge-r-single-board-computer.html ䷉ Source: liliputing    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 12:51:41

• ...it's bad enough that Twitter (pure shit) denies you access unless you run some dodgy proprietary code; now it does the same to links, like t.co (in effect making those sites unreachable unless you run dodgy proprietary code from Twitter, not from those sites)    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 12:53:29

• Twitter is starting to resemble malware more and more each month. Even if you do not use their (cr)app.    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 12:54:02

• Years ago: Dangerous psychopath and serial thief Elon Musk uses Twitter to call innocent people "pedo guy" to 'settle scores' (Musk was sued for defamation!). Now: Musk is taking over Twitter. He wants his very own defamation machine. How much will we let oligarchs get away with? Gates and Bezos also buy the media. Zuckerberg wants us to think Facebook IS the media.    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 12:56:06

• The EFF's site has a tracker in all pages. It has its own subdomain. Sheesh!!!    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 12:57:37

• "RoenDi is a rotary encoder with an integrated round color display. Based on an STM32L4 MCU, it can be programmed with the STM32CubeIDE or the Arduino IDE, and be used as an information display, an IoT controller, a locking mechanism, as well as in audio applications." https://www.cnx-software.com/2022/04/06/roendi-rotary-encoder-color-display/    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 12:57:42

• Gilmore, Barlow et al: let's make an advocacy group for digital issues. Cohn: let's oust Gilmore now that Barlow is dead and turn EFF into a political advocacy group, behaving like a company/business with lobbying as "services" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gilmore_(activist)    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 13:00:04

• The Month in WordPress - March 2022 - WordPress News ⚓ https://wordpress.org/news/2022/04/the-month-in-wordpress-march-2022/ ䷉ Source: wordpress    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 13:01:06

• Thoughts dereferenced from the scratchpad noise. | ASUS KGPE-D16 Dasharo testing update ⚓ https://blog.3mdeb.com/2022/2022-03-23-kgpe-d16-testing-update/ "Unlike software testing, firmware testing does not only verify whether the code behaves as it is supposed to"    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 13:02:03

• Sigh; medevel posting webspam or seo spam. Come on, stop turning otherwise-good site into pure trash. This is KILLING the WWW. https://medevel.com/4-tips-to-boost-emr-efficiency/    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 13:03:34

• I reckon the proportion of the WWW which is Webspam in disguise is already above 80%    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 13:04:33

• "The Postgres.ai team is happy to announce the release of version 3.1 of Database Lab Engine (DLE), the most advanced open-source software ever released that empowers development, testing, and troubleshooting environments for fast-growing projects." https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/database-lab-engine-31-pgbackrest-timezones-for-cli-dle-community-2432/    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 13:07:18

• Burn plane fuel and pretend COVID doesn't exist anymore? https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/pgconf-nyc-2022-sep-22-23-call-for-papers-now-open-2431/    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 13:08:41

• Games: LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga, Steam Deck ’Offline Mode’, and More • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/163416    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 13:08:47

• Automating my home network with Salt - Federico's Blog ⚓ https://viruta.org/automating-home-network-with-salt.html "My colleague Richard Brown has been talking about the Salt Project for a few years. It is similar to tools for provisioning and configuration management like Ansible or Puppet."    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 13:12:54

• For a change, Linux Foundation does something related to Linux https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/cip-expands-work-on-slts-kernel-maintenance-301518053.html    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 13:14:35

• ICBM looking for slaves... I mean, testers https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/contribute-at-the-fedora-36-coreos-test-week/    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 13:20:33

• Latest Changes in EasyOS 3.4.4 http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/163326#comment-33288   

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 13:23:28

• GNU/Linux is already killing Windows in games... in some sense https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2022/04/gpd-are-getting-quite-desperate-against-the-steam-deck/    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 13:41:25

• "it's now fully Verified with the Native GNU/Linux build" https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2022/04/space-haven-adds-gamepad-support-gets-steam-deck-verified/    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 13:43:05

• Games: Steam Deck and Humble Choice • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/163417    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 13:50:17

• Using the regexp-parser of syslog-ng - Blog - syslog-ng Community - syslog-ng Community ⚓ https://www.syslog-ng.com/community/b/blog/posts/using-the-regexp-parser-of-syslog-ng ䷉ Source: syslog-ng    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 14:08:32

• Kosovo https://bits.debian.org/2022/04/debconf22-infomaniak-platinum.html see https://danielpocock.com/how-kosovo-won-debconf21/    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 14:09:53

• [PATCH 00/12] Introducing AMD x2APIC Virtualization (x2AVIC) support. - Suravee Suthikulpanit ⚓ https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20220405230855.15376-1-suravee.suthikulpanit@amd.com/    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 14:11:18

• Lots of Ponzi schemes out there. Some more "legit" and "honourable" than others. https://medevel.com/corporations-that-have-created-their-own-cryptocurrency/ NFTs is the funniest of all; too many people took "schrooms"?    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 14:17:34

• Arducam Pi Hawk-eye is a 64MP camera for Raspberry Pi 4/CM4 - CNX Software ⚓ https://www.cnx-software.com/2022/04/06/arducam-pi-hawk-eye-64mp-camera-raspberry-pi-4-cm4/ ䷉ Source: Linux | GNU | Hardware | cnxsoftware    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 14:18:24

• 100%!!!! 100%!!!! 100%!!!! 100%!!!! 100%!!!! Just like PFIZER! https://www.itweb.co.za/content/Olx4zMkndbL756km    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 14:21:16

• Company: our company 'research' shows 100% success! Verified by company!    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 14:22:02

• Borat trojan https://www.itworldcanada.com/article/cyber-security-today-april-6-2022-patch-linux-fast-secure-your-totolink-routers-news-on-the-new-borat-trojan-and-more-russia-ukraine-cyberwar/479456    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 14:26:35

• Borat trojan. Is nice?    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 14:27:06

• Grub4dosconfig startup fixed http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/163326#comment-33289   

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 14:29:08

• Tachyum Successfully Runs FreeBSD in Prodigy Ecosystem; Expands Open-Source OS Support | Tachyum ⚓ https://www.tachyum.com/media/press-releases/2022/04/05/tachyum-successfully-runs-freebsd-in-prodigy-ecosystem-expands-open-source-os-support/ ䷉ Source: tachyum    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 14:30:19

• Deployd: The REST-API toolkit is not active anymore. https://medevel.com/deployd-rest-api/ Microsoft shithub.    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 14:32:06

• "Arch Linux is a Linux distribution, that offers binary packages in software repositories (aka. repos). To achieve this, packages are built from source files using tooling that is developed by the distribution and various volunteers" https://sleepmap.de/2022/packaging-for-arch-linux/    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 14:45:24

• Today’s #HowTos | #UNIX • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/163418    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 15:28:40

• Programming Leftovers • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/163419    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 15:28:57

• Free Software Leftovers • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/163420    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 15:29:08

• Fedora and Red Hat Leftovers • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/163421    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 15:29:18

• Today’s 𝘛𝘶𝘹 𝘔𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴 Leftovers • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/163422    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 15:29:26

• As the time for bording aproached, the gate agent announced that, "we do not have a captain or first officer for this flight." gemini://1436.ninja/gemlog/20220405.gmi    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 16:52:03

• Coronavirus (COVID-19) in the UK: "Today's update is delayed. The current estimate for release is 5:30pm. Further updates will be provided here." Need more time to 'cook' the numbers a bit to downplay the issue?    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 17:17:31

• Linux Mint 21 “Vanessa” Will Be Based on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, New Upgrade Tool in the Works • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/163423    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 17:17:43

• Google #Android Leftovers • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/163424    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 17:17:49

• 17:31PM. "Today's update is delayed. The current estimate for release is 5:30pm. Further updates will be provided here." I've even bypassed cache. They're making false promises.    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 17:31:12

• "The current estimate for release is 5:30pm" -NHS coronavirus portal. The current estimate for release is 5 minutes ago (future tense).    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 17:34:18

• Over 20,000 COVID-19 Patients in British Hospitals, NHS Reports It Has “DATA ISSUE” and “2,714 Deaths [...] Added Retrospectively on 6 April 2022″ http://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2022/04/06/data-issue/    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 17:56:24

• Will excess mortality report also need to be amended in light of those 'missing' 2700+ dead Brits? https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/excess-mortality-in-england-weekly-reports “2,714 Deaths [...] Added Retrospectively on 6 April 2022″ http://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2022/04/06/data-issue/    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 18:01:35

• These charts are misleading as 5-year averages take into account the peaks from TWO years of COVID-19 https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1065176/Weekly_report_mortality__W13.pdf    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 18:04:14

• FAQ: The Difference Between Centralized and Decentralized ⚓ https://tedium.co/2022/04/06/centralization-decentralization-social-networking-faq/ ䷉ Source: tedium    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 18:27:08

• Probably just changes names, goes under some other shell, carries on as usual without the burden of lawsuits https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2022/04/cyberweapons-arms-manufacturer-finfisher-shuts-down.html    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 18:29:21

• "As falsified war videos and misleading information continue to circulate on Tiktok, the platform should be doing everything in its power to flag Russian propaganda and disinformation." https://www.accessnow.org/digital-rights-ukraine-russia-conflict/    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 18:29:51

• Was this article sponsored by Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook? https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20220406-tiktok-is-having-a-bad-war-say-disinformation-experts    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 18:30:37

• A kind and gentle reminder is in order as “smart” things are better described as spy things; Social control media and ‘phones’ are no exception to this http://techrights.org/2022/04/06/social-control-media-and-apps/    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 18:31:52

• EPO.org — the official Web site of Europe’s second-largest institution — has become an insanely dishonest propaganda outlet which incites to break the law and violate constitutions; it’s not forgivable that other European authorities are tolerating this http://techrights.org/2022/04/06/epo-org-illegal-content/    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 18:32:12

• "Collaboration and sharing just make so much sense, I'm very glad the free software community exists." gemini://calcuode.com/gemlog/2020-11-21_how-i-found-out-about-foss.gmi    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 18:36:26

• "GOG aren't having the best of times recently, with details about their financial troubles painting a bleak picture, although it seems they have something of a plan. Later they announced some changes, including a tweak to what they mean by DRM free." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2022/04/gog-attempt-to-bring-customers-back-with-a-revival-of-good-old-games/    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 18:38:18

• Toasty: Ashes of Dusk confirm a Native GNU/Linux build is planned, shown off on Steam Deck | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2022/04/toasty-ashes-of-dusk-confirm-a-native-linux-build-is-planned-shown-off-on-steam-deck/ ䷉ Source: Gaming On Linux | GNU | Linux | Games    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 18:38:46

• Open source XR runtime Monado adds initial 6DoF 'inside-out' tracking support http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/163419#comment-33290   

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 18:41:22

• Sam Altman’s Worldcoin Promised Them Free Crypto For An Eyeball Scan. Now They Feel Robbed. ⚓ https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/richardnieva/worldcoin-crypto-eyeball-scanning-orb-problems ䷉ Source: buzzfeednews    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 18:52:11

• New: Setting up usteer and band-steering in OpenWrt https://openwrt.org/usteer?rev=1649248566&do=diff    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 18:53:10

• Security updates for Wednesday [LWN] ⚓ https://lwn.net/Articles/890404/ ䷉ Source: LWN | Kernel | Linux    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 18:56:02

• [ubuntu/jammy-proposed] mesa-amber 21.3.7-0ubuntu1 (Accepted) ⚓ https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/jammy-changes/2022-March/011765.html ䷉ Source: ubuntu    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 18:59:22

• What's going on with Ubuntu? Now they politicise the news about tech with Ukraine flags everywhere https://ubuntu.com//blog/the-state-of-robotics-february-march-2022    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 19:00:32

• Maybe next year Canonical will put flags of Palestine and/or of Israel in release announcements of Ubuntu    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 19:01:30

• "Bugs and typos in Linux Bash scripts can do dire things when the script is run. Here are some ways to check the syntax of your scripts before you even run them." GNU Bash, not Linux bash. Linux is a kernel. https://www.howtogeek.com/788955/how-to-validate-the-syntax-of-a-linux-bash-script-before-running-it/    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 19:04:19

• GitLab should have embraced RockyLinux. AlmaLinux is licking the army boosts of criminals from Microsoft. https://linuxiac.com/gitlab-switched-from-centos-8-to-almalinux/    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 19:07:17

• "The Linux gaming world moves FAST. Since my last guide about installing the "glorious" custom version of Valve's Proton, things have become MUCH easier." https://yewtu.be/watch?v=7eyUrL2JS9Q    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 19:07:59

• Emacs 28.1 released • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/163425    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 19:08:53

• Godot Engine - Dev snapshot: Godot 4.0 alpha 6 ⚓ https://godotengine.org/article/dev-snapshot-godot-4-0-alpha-6 ䷉ Source: godotengine    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 19:08:59

• Emacs 28.1 released • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/163425    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 19:09:29

• INNOTECH reveals the AX-1020 Atom x6000E Elkhart Lake SBC  ⚓ https://linuxgizmos.com/innotech-reveals-the-ax-1020-atom-x6000e-elkhart-lake-sbc/ They've chosen back-doored chips    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 19:11:24

• Everything is being rebranded "clown" now... https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/innovation-and-flexibility-open-design-approach-cloud-ran-and-access-networks    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 19:12:14

• When Qt says "Commercial" is actually means proprietary https://www.qt.io/blog/commercial-lts-qt-5.15.9-released    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 19:27:37

• Reset your Canon printer’s maintenance cartridge with this hack | Arduino Blog ⚓ https://blog.arduino.cc/2022/04/06/reset-your-canon-printers-maintenance-cartridge-with-this-hack/ ䷉ Source: Arduino | Hardware | OpenHardware | Hacking    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 19:28:21

• APIs: The Building Blocks of Modern Software Development ⚓ https://www.itprotoday.com/development-techniques-and-management/why-apis-are-foundation-modern-software-development ䷉ Source: itprotoday (dodging discussion about software freedom)    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 19:29:23

• "Wind River is proud to announce a new member of the commercially supported Wind River GNU/Linux family, Wind River GNU/Linux Distro. Distro is a binary GNU/Linux distribution created from our source code–based GNU/Linux product." https://blogs.windriver.com/wind_river_blog/2022/04/introducing-the-wind-river-linux-binary-distro/    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 19:31:02

• Sigil is a free, open-source eBook and ePUB editor for Windows, Linux, and macOS • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/163426    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 19:37:49

• Antmicro releases open-source hardware Snapdragon 845 baseboard designed with KiCad - CNX Software ⚓ https://www.cnx-software.com/2022/04/06/antmicro-open-source-hardware-snapdragon-845-baseboard-designed-with-kicad/ ䷉ Source: Linux | GNU | Hardware | cnxsoftware    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 19:38:42

• GNU, not Linux https://www.fosslinux.com/52963/what-is-bash-shell-and-know-its-importance-in-linux.htm    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 19:40:20

• Linux Mint 21 Code Name Announced with New Upgrade Utility and More • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/163427    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 21:43:13

• Google #Android Leftovers • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/163428    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 21:43:20

• Linux Mint 21 is named 'Vanessa' http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/163423#comment-33291   

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 21:44:38

• The Automation Myth gemini://beyondneolithic.life/articles/the_automation_myth.gmi    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 21:51:46

• GNU Bash in GNU/Linux • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/163429    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 21:51:59

• RE: Lightweight GUIs, TUIs gemini://iveqy.com/gemlog/2022-04-06_re_lightweight_guis_tuis.gmi "I installed linux, Red Hat 5.2 and was happy, until I upgraded to Fedora and my computer got painful slow again!"    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 21:52:54

• "This project will of course be open-source in the future, but as this is still completely unusable (I have just started on the project yesterday), this will have to wait a little bit. " gemini://blog.schmidhuberj.de/2022/04/06/another-new-project/    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 21:53:56

• "On a previous gemlog, I described how I prefer to use my electronics device in a greyscale (desaturated) mode for accessibility and anti-doomscrolling reasons, as colour processing is nontrivial." gemini://rosenzweig.io/gemlog/2022-04-06-update-a-smol-kernel-hack.gmi    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 21:54:47

• "We can introduce people to the topic via FOSS frontends for existing platforms, such as NewPipe for YouTube and Nitter for Twitter." gemini://jsreed5.org/log/2022/202204/20220406-economic-woes-and-foss.gmi    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 21:55:49

• When your 'browser' is about 30 million lines of code https://us-cert.cisa.gov/ncas/current-activity/2022/04/06/mozilla-releases-security-updates-firefox-firefox-esr-and    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 21:58:30

• ProprietarySoftware = Garbage. https://us-cert.cisa.gov/ncas/current-activity/2022/04/06/citrix-releases-security-updates-hypervisor "An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial-of-service condition."    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 21:59:15

• Also: when your 'browser' is over 30 million lines of code: "This version addresses vulnerabilities that an attacker could exploit to take control of an affected system." https://us-cert.cisa.gov/ncas/current-activity/2022/04/06/google-releases-security-updates-chrome    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 22:00:03

• India’s Criminal Procedure (Identification) Bill jeopardizes privacy — it must not be enforced - Access Now ⚓ https://www.accessnow.org/indias-criminal-procedure-identification-bill-jeopardizes-privacy/ ䷉ Source: accessnow    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 22:03:15

• Phoronix still jumping the shark for AMD marketing. I'm quickly losing interest in anything the site has to show, even links it has in it...    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 22:04:55

• Microsoft's shill is still promoting proprietary nonsense. https://tirania.org/blog/archive/2022/Apr-06.html see http://techrights.org/2022/03/05/miguel-quits-or-pushed-out/    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 22:06:00

• Download and Test Inkscape 1.2 Beta • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/163430    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 22:06:08

• Planet GNONE: Microsoft employees. Criminal company OK, just don't unset the precious CoC (compatible with crimes).    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 22:07:15

• A Vanishing Nova: *Uranographia Britannica* (ca. 1749) – The Public Domain Review ⚓ https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/bevis-uranographia/ ䷉ Source: publicdomainreview    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 22:08:13

• "According to Foré, she and Blaede quickly hammered out a handshake agreement." https://fossforce.com/2022/04/elementary-os-faces-uncertain-future-after-co-founder-split/    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 22:11:08

• Regulatory Competition: Where the UK Stands on Tech - Disruptive Competition Project ⚓ https://www.project-disco.org/competition/040622-regulatory-competition-where-the-uk-stands-on-tech/ ䷉ Source: project disco    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 22:11:52

• Mozilla entering politics again. Ukraine and Russia. ⚓ https://blog.mozilla.org/en/internet-culture/mozilla-explains/cyberattack-meaning-russia-ukraine/ ䷉ Source: Mozilla | WWW | FreeSW | Firefox | Internet    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 22:15:13

• "Short for malicious software, malware generally refers to any program designed to take harmful actions against a computer system or network." Sounds like today's Mozilla Firefox ⚓ https://blog.mozilla.org/en/internet-culture/cyberattacks-glossary-of-terms-ransomware-ddos/ ䷉ Source: Mozilla | WWW | FreeSW | Firefox | Internet    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 22:16:31

• 7 of the Best USENET Newsgroups Still Active Today - Make Tech Easier ⚓ https://www.maketecheasier.com/best-usenet-newsgroups/ ䷉ Source: maketecheasier (WTF is with this photo? Man with Apple PC wearing shades in the dark???)    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 22:18:06

• "Apparently, in some parts of this world, the /usr/-merge transition is still ongoing. Let's take the opportunity to have a look at one specific way to take benefit of the /usr/-merge (and associated work) IRL." MinceR https://0pointer.net/blog/running-an-container-off-the-host-usr.html    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 22:19:29

• "Automotive Grade Linux (AGL), a collaborative cross-industry effort developing an open source platform for all connected car technologies, announces IndyKite, Marelli and Red Hat as new Bronze members." https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/indykite-marelli-and-red-hat-join-automotive-grade-linux-301519317.html    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 22:23:22

• [Those should run Free software only, otherwise you harm them] Public Knowledge Urges Congress To Pass Bill Providing Veterans, Students With Refurbished Computers - Public Knowledge ⚓ https://publicknowledge.org/public-knowledge-urges-congress-to-pass-bill-providing-veterans-students-with-refurbished-computers/ ䷉ Source: publicknowledge    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 22:24:42

• New Steam Games with Native Linux Clients - 2022-04-05 Edition - Boiling Steam ⚓ https://boilingsteam.com/new-steam-games-with-native-linux-clients-2022-04-05-edition/ ䷉ Source: boilingsteam    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 22:25:33

• Joystick with Arduino: How to Interface with Code Explained ⚓ https://peppe8o.com/joystick-with-arduino-how-to-interface-with-code-explained/ ䷉ Source: peppe8o    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 22:27:07

• The ordering operators | Aristotle [blogs.perl.org] ⚓ http://blogs.perl.org/users/aristotle/2022/04/ordering-ops.html ䷉ Source: perl    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 22:32:06

• [Too US-centric] Free Cybersecurity Resources for Protecting Your Organization ⚓ https://www.fosslife.org/free-cybersecurity-resources-protecting-your-organization ䷉ Source: fosslife    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 22:33:42

• WeasyPrint converts any HTML webpage into a rich PDF document https://medevel.com/weasyprint/ needs to delete proprietary software GitHub, controlled by Microsoft (criminals) and NSA    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 22:36:46

• Atom: Access to Memory. The Web Catalog • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/163431    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 22:36:59

• "In this video, I am going to show how to install deepin 20.5." https://yewtu.be/watch?v=OQ_wYk5iRpM    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 22:37:40

• How to Install Latest Firefox as classic Deb in Ubuntu 22.04 | UbuntuHandbook ⚓ https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2022/04/install-firefox-deb-ubuntu-22-04/ ䷉ Source: UbuntuHandbook | FreeSW | GNU | Linux    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 22:38:07

• Today’s #HowTos | #UNIX • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/163432    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 22:47:07

• Open Hardware/Modding: Arduino and More • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/163433    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 22:47:22

• Introducing the Wind River Linux Binary Distribution • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/163434    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 22:47:29

• Deadliest COVID-19 day in the UK since 2019. About 3,000 deaths. http://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2022/04/06/data-issue/    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 22:49:03

• Games: GOG, Steam, and Godot Engine • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/163435    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 22:51:12

• 66.6% of that is Microsoft https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 22:55:21

• Microsoft Windows TCO https://us-cert.cisa.gov/ncas/current-activity/2022/04/06/cisa-adds-three-known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog http://techrights.org/2022/04/04/lies-infiltration-and-nsa/    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 22:55:52

• CUPS and Raspberry Pi AirPrinting • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/163436    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 22:56:01

• Soy can be soy drink (if processed) or milk substitute, but never call it soy milk as it's basically a marketing lie/sham.    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 23:00:38

• Webspam disguised as "deals"; Laura Tucker and this site are mostly spam. No disclosure. A lot of the Web became like that. https://www.maketecheasier.com/deal/logitech-mk570-wireless-wave-keyboard-and-mouse-combo/    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 23:04:06

• "Based on some random data a bunch of news outlets started saying that nobody is adopting Windows 11 and microsoft is dissapointed but looking at prior Windows releases tells a very different story." https://yewtu.be/watch?v=8hihk3UC3Ig http://techrights.org/2022/01/26/microsoft-delighted-by-failure/    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 23:13:23

• If Brodie Robertson gets his 'info' from Reddit, sooner or later he'll be repeating Microsoft shills and trolls    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 23:14:03

• Planet GNOME is shilling proprietary software by keeping Miguel de Icaza in it (link omitted) http://techrights.org/wiki/Miguel_de_Icaza#2022    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 23:16:42

• Slackware: Chromium 100 out-of-band security update addresses (again) a single vulnerability | Alien Pastures ⚓ https://alien.slackbook.org/blog/chromium-100-out-of-band-security-update-addresses-again-a-single-vulnerability/ ䷉ Source: Slackware    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 23:30:02

• Old skool = good school https://jmtd.net/log/Hope_in_a_Darkened_Heart/    

posted Wednesday, April 06, 2022 at 23:38:16

• "Linux files"??? https://www.networkworld.com/article/3656413/2-ways-to-remove-duplicate-lines-from-linux-files.html    

posted Thursday, April 07, 2022 at 00:08:00

• Today’s #HowTos | #UNIX • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/163437    

posted Thursday, April 07, 2022 at 00:10:24

• "Gulag Analytics has lately been declared illegal in France and Austria." https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly/episodes/675    

posted Thursday, April 07, 2022 at 00:11:05

• "In this video, we are looking at Kubuntu 22.04 Beta. Enjoy! For the links and more," https://yewtu.be/watch?v=_UaXrYJUUAg    

posted Thursday, April 07, 2022 at 00:11:58

• CIQ and Gulag Clown to Provide Optimized Experience for Rocky Linux | Business Wire ⚓ https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220406005995/en/CIQ-and-Google-Cloud-to-Provide-Optimized-Experience-for-Rocky-Linux    

posted Thursday, April 07, 2022 at 00:15:46