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  • 04/11: release of RebornOS 2022.04.10 https://rebornos.org/    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 00:19:17


  • This ladder must be fake and sold considering how many workers, including managers, are fleeing Red Hat https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/red-hat-named-fortunes-100-best-companies-work-list-fourth-year-row    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 00:20:27


  • "Linux-based portable gaming PC has a few creative tricks up its sleeve" https://www.musicradar.com/news/valve-steam-deck-bitwig-studio-daw-vcv-rack-plugin    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 00:21:18


  • "This may give the impression that Firefox would feel absolutely at home on the GNU/Linux desktop." https://www.makeuseof.com/how-to-make-firefox-feel-native-on-linux/    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 00:22:46


  • "If you're looking for a way to better organize your Firefox bookmarks, the built-in tagging system might be a big help. Learn how to take advantage of this feature." https://www.techrepublic.com/article/how-to-firefox-tagging/    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 00:23:17


  • How to use Ghostery’s privacy-minded Dawn browser | TechRepublic ⚓ https://www.techrepublic.com/article/how-to-use-ghosterys-privacy-minded-dawn-browser/ ䷉ Source: techrepublic    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 00:23:48


  • How to Install Your Own Federated Twitter with Pleroma - Make Tech Easier ⚓ https://www.maketecheasier.com/install-federated-twitter-pleroma/ ䷉ Source: maketecheasier    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 00:24:31


  • "Any code submission to LibreOffice should pass Gerrit code review in order to get merged into the LibreOffice codebase. This is possible using the code review tool Gerrit." https://dev.blog.documentfoundation.org/2022/04/11/how-to-use-gerrit-code-review-effectively/    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 00:25:31


  • What are Vim Modes? How to Change Them? ⚓ https://linuxhandbook.com/vim-modes/ ䷉ Source: LinuxHandbook | GNU | Linux    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 00:26:34


  • Implementing buzzwords https://devops.com/3-must-haves-when-implementing-devsecops/    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 00:30:00


  • A buzzwords strategy https://www.suse.com/c/glimpse-reduces-time-to-launch-with-agile-devops-strategy/    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 00:30:52


  • SUSE is pushing SAP's proprietary software AGAIN https://www.suse.com/c/accelerate-your-cloud-vision-join-suse-at-sap-sapphire-orlando/    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 00:31:32


  • "Tyler Limkemann returns (after an extended absence) with a very nice article about how they used the Raku Programming Language to solve Wordle challenges. With plenty of code and theoretical background." https://rakudoweekly.blog/2022/04/11/2022-15-wordling/    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 00:32:01


  • "SmokeMachine reported on IRC to have found an unusual use of subset." https://gfldex.wordpress.com/2022/04/11/a-subset-of-red/    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 00:32:38


  • "Tyler Limkemann returns (after an extended absence) with a very nice article about how they used the Raku Programming Language to solve Wordle challenges. With plenty of code and theoretical background." https://rakudoweekly.blog/2022/04/11/2022-15-wordling/    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 00:32:54


  • "Hello, everyone --let's review the Apache community's activities from over the past week" https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/entry/the-apache-weekly-news-round21    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 00:35:05


  • "In this video, we are looking at how to install Flightgear on Debian 11." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHUT3ScE3NE    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 00:38:46


  • "Most Arch Linux installers including the primary iso require an internet connection to complete the installation process but what if you don't have one well you're in luck because Arch Boot exists." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mb3ykTklnWU    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 00:39:52


  • "Firewalls are made to protect the network from any threat by filtering both the in and outbound traffic and ensuring network security as well. The first thing when we talk about the 9 best open source firewalls is that they are free, well let us explain such a term for [Free] software" https://dekisoft.com/best-free-open-source-firewall/    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 00:40:57


  • WTH is "Gaming Monitor"? Way to charge several times more for the same thing and bribe sites like "maketecheasier" for hype. https://www.maketecheasier.com/deal/lg-27-ultrascreen-gaming-monitor/    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 00:42:27


  • "Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 730 for the week of April 3 – 9, 2022." https://ubuntu-news.org/2022/04/11/ubuntu-weekly-newsletter-issue-730/    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 00:43:57


  • Years ago FOSS Force spoke about the corruption of Linux Foundation. Now, after getting money from Linux Foundation, it does puff pieces for the corrupt Linux Foundation. SJVN effect. https://fossforce.com/2022/04/protecting-open-source-security-as-cold-war-turns-hot/    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 00:48:37


  • Microsoft, Microsoft... more than anything else https://www.cisa.gov/uscert/ncas/current-activity/2022/04/11/cisa-adds-eight-known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 00:50:42


  • Richard Stallman: The state of the free software movement https://www.fsf.org/events/rms-20220413-online tomorrow.    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 00:51:15


  • Destination Linux 273: Our Takes on the Hottest Linux News of 2022 https://destinationlinux.org/episode-273/    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 00:53:52


  • Jussi Pakkanen: Getting web proxys and certificates working on Linux or "if it's all the same to you, I'd rather take a thousand years of the Sarlacc pit, thankyouverymuch" https://nibblestew.blogspot.com/2022/04/getting-web-proxys-and-certificates.html    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 00:54:52


  • "Because all Librem computers share are built on base OS/PureOS, there are many crossovers when it comes to software. Here is the guide you can use for all Librem Computers." https://puri.sm/posts/definitive-guide-to-user-documentation-for-librem-devices/    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 00:55:55


  • How to Install and NSA shit on GNU/Linux ⚓ https://www.makeuseof.com/how-to-install-ghidra-linux/ ䷉ Source: makeuseof    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 01:04:41


  • Ubuntu News and HowTos • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/163618    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 01:06:13


  • Firefox Nightly: These Weeks In Firefox: Issue 113 https://blog.nightly.mozilla.org/2022/04/11/these-weeks-in-firefox-issue-113/    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 01:07:19


  • Today’s #HowTos | #UNIX • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/163619    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 01:07:33


  • Salix 15.0-alpha1 is release. But no message yet in https://blog.salixos.org/    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 01:08:16


  • "To take advantage of performance improvements, the latest security-vulnerability enhancements, and bug fixes, we've upgraded JRE for Cassandra and Elasticsearch. Both, Cassandra and Elasticsearch will now use JRE 8u322. Other components will now use JRE 11.0.14." https://www.marketscreener.com/quote/stock/DYNATRACE-INC-63216144/news/Dynatrace-Managed-release-notes-version-1-238-40023980/    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 01:09:19


  • Those are not "Linux" things; you are reinforcing misconceptions about what Linux actually is... https://www.networkworld.com/article/3657050/demystifying-and-on-linux.html    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 01:10:15


  • Extracting Credentials from Multifunction Devices - Hurricane Labs ⚓ https://hurricanelabs.com/blog/extracting-credentials-from-multifunction-devices ䷉ Source: hurricanelabs    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 01:11:12


  • Security Leftovers • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/163620    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 01:16:13


  • #Techrights Bulletin for Monday, April 11, 2022 http://techrights.org/txt full archive: http://techrights.org/txt-archives #gnu #linux #freesw #plaintext    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 04:06:12


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

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 04:06:17


  • "Moving on from legacy BIOS and Xorg, Raspberry Pi OS finally catches up with security basics, the UK government give us more reasons to be angry, the usual KDE goodness, and more." https://latenightlinux.com/late-night-linux-episode-172/    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 06:06:06


  • Keeping algae in check with a DIY pond monitor | Arduino Blog ⚓ https://blog.arduino.cc/2022/04/12/keeping-algae-in-check-with-a-diy-pond-monitor/ ䷉ Source: Arduino | Hardware | OpenHardware | Hacking    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 06:21:32


  • TuxMachines will be back shortly. Please do not submit any stories until the evening as we restore the site to its ptevious state (there was a DB issue)   

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 12:52:27


  • Archcraft April Release Available • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/163621    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 13:59:42


  • TuxMachines now fully recovered from its database crash. We had to restore many nodes by hand.    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 14:00:42


  • "Earlier this year I started a PhD in pure mathematics at KU Leuven in Belgium and in this blog post I discuss my research workflow." ☛ https://castel.dev/post/research-workflow/    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 14:26:21


  • "It's amazing to me how much FUD is being spread about the Fediverse in that post." ☛ https://blog.peerverse.space/lets-talk-about-project/    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 14:26:43


  • "Raisi’s comments came as talks between Iran and world powers in Vienna to revive the 2015 nuclear deal have stalled." ☛ https://english.alarabiya.net/News/middle-east/2022/04/09/Iran-s-president-vows-to-continue-nuclear-activities | Source: Saudi Arabia    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 14:27:09


  • "Ali Harbi Ali stabbed to death the veteran MP at a constituency surgery last year in a “cold and calculating” attack" ☛ https://www.itv.com/news/anglia/2022-04-11/terrorist-found-guilty-of-murder-of-mp-sir-david-amess | Source: ITV    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 14:28:21


  • "He will be sentenced at the Old Bailey on Wednesday" ☛ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/04/11/ali-harbi-ali-found-guilty-murdering-sir-david-amess/ | Source: The Telegraph UK    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 14:28:33


  • "During the trial, prosecutors said Ali, who is From Kentish Town in north London, had spent years planning to kill an MP." ☛ https://www.gloucestershirelive.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/sir-david-amess-murder-trial-6936098    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 14:29:01


  • "Opening the trial, prosecutor Tom Little said the case was "nothing less than an assassination" carried out" ☛ https://text.npr.org/1092004302 | Source: NPR    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 14:29:20


  • "The region is also increasingly inhospitable to America." ☛ https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/islamic-state-morphs-grows-pakistan-afghanistan-84007697 | Source: ABC    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 14:29:31


  • "At least 153 pieces of cryptocurrency-related legislation were pending this year in 40 states and Puerto Rico" ☛ https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/10/us/politics/crypto-industry-states-legislation.html | Source: New York Times    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 14:29:53


  • "Isabelle Surply claims that she got “hundreds of messages threatening her with death, rape and beheading”." ☛ https://medforth.biz/france-politician-who-denounces-an-imams-inflammatory-sermons-is-threatened-with-murder-and-rape/ | Source: Medforth    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 14:30:43


  • "Once outside students followed West. Purcell said more than 100 students followed her to her car" ☛ https://www.wkbw.com/news/local-news/ub-police-investigating-reports-of-harassment-following-politicians-visit    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 14:30:48


  • Hungary, Orban, and the other virus ☛ https://telex.hu/english/2022/04/11/fact-check-have-hungarian-researchers-proven-that-covid-escaped-from-a-lab-not-quite | Source: Hungary    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 14:44:29


  • They always say they care about children... ☛ https://telex.hu/english/2022/04/11/ngos-to-be-fined-for-encouraging-invalid-votes-at-the-hungarian-governments-child-protection-referendum | Source: Hungary    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 14:44:55


  • "The United States will have a new justice on the Supreme Court, and it will be Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson." ☛ https://www.thenation.com/article/society/supreme-court-confirmation-jackson/ | Source: The Nation    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 14:45:49


  • "The president’s party nearly always loses congressional seats in midterm elections" ☛ https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/biden-democrats-election-strategy/ | Source: The Nation    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 14:53:08


  • Children blah blah ☛ https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/do-we-value-our-childrens-lives/ | Source: The Nation    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 14:53:15


  • "Anatol Lieven is a senior fellow at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft." ☛ https://www.thenation.com/article/world/war-ukraine-end-lieven/ | Source: The Nation    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 14:59:29


  • "Although the hearing covered bread and butter issues, the mainstream corporate media ignored it." ☛ https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/04/11/corporate-media-ignores-senate-hearing-on-corporate-greed-and-inflation/ | Source: Counter Punch    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 14:59:51


  • "3D laser engraving" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2022/04/11/quick-hacks-countersinking-screw-heads-with-3d-laser-engraving/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 15:01:25


  • "Computer memory has taken on many forms over the years" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2022/04/11/glow-in-the-dark-computer-memory-illuminates-the-fundamentals/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 15:01:48


  • "I likened ivermectin to acupuncture" ☛ https://respectfulinsolence.com/2022/04/11/sbm-versus-ivermectin-and-other-implausible-treatments/ | Source: Orac    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 15:02:10


  • "/e/OS from /e/ Foundation is one of the very few Android-based operating systems" ☛ https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/get-google-out-of-your-mobile-life-with-e-os/ | Source: PIA    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 15:02:36


  • The 5 Things That Taught Me The Most About Linux ⚓ https://odysee.com/@DistroTube:2/the-5-things-that-taught-me-the-most:7 ䷉ Source: DistroTube    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 15:06:31


  • iophk: MS = sabotage; microsofters = saboteurs; https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/06/us/politics/us-russia-malware-cyberattacks.html    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 15:06:51


  • Meet Lite XL: A Lightweight, Open-Source Text Editor for Linux Users • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/163622    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 15:13:45


  • A crime? In whose eyes? Men's? https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/texas-da-murder-charge-abortion-case-dropped-83998374    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 15:14:29


  • "And muskrat was OK'd as a Lenten option in parts of Michigan, either because the War of 1812 left farms devastated and food options in short supply, or because a missionary allowed hungry fur trappers to eat muskrat during a time when food was scarce, depending on who you ask." https://www.foodandwine.com/news/capybara-beaver-muskrat-lent-approved-foods    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 15:15:18


  • "(Either way, it seems to date back to the early 1800s.)" https://www.foodandwine.com/news/capybara-beaver-muskrat-lent-approved-foods    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 15:15:30


  • A liberal education https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/liberal-education    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 15:16:15


  • "Democrats have identified as the party of science, and that has served them well" ☛ https://www.thenation.com/article/society/covid-politics-democrats/ | Source: The Nation    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 15:17:38


  • "Our once limitless horizon is suddenly contracting" ☛ https://www.thenation.com/article/environment/degrowth-movement-economy/ | Source: The Nation    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 15:17:56


  • Try this open source alternative to Salesforce • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/163623    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 15:19:48


  • 5 Best Free and Open Source Incident Response Tools • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/163624    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 15:19:55


  • "EFF's Cindy Cohn and Danny O’Brien" ☛ https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/04/podcast-episode-making-hope-adam-savage | Gilmore and Barlow knew better how to run EFF    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 15:22:07


  • "climate revolution" ☛ https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/04/11/we-wont-stop-climate-scientists-vow-keep-fighting-after-global-mobilization | Source: Common Dreams    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 15:24:20


  • "Ukrainian Ministry of Culture" ☛ https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/04/11/dostoevsky-was-not-villain-neither-are-war-resisters-within-russia | Source: Common Dreams    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 15:24:54


  • "The fallout from Russia's invasion of Ukraine has reminded us of the unforeseeable disruptions constantly confronting the global economy." ☛ https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/04/11/economic-shock-therapy-neoliberals | Source: Common Dreams    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 15:25:22


  • "The situation is serious—never has the far-right been so strong in France." ☛ https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/04/11/defeated-french-left-urges-voters-block-far-right-reelect-macron | Source: Common Dreams    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 15:25:55


  • "The United Kingdom's ostensibly leftist Labour Party came under fire Monday after calling for nationwide injunctions to block direct actions" ☛ https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/04/11/disgrace-uk-labour-party-slammed-seeking-injunction-against-climate-activists | Source: Common Dreams    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 15:26:38


  • "Climate & Democracy" ☛ https://www.thenation.com/article/environment/mckibben-democracy-climate-change/ | Source: The Nation    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 15:27:12


  • "A coalition of progressive leaders from across the globe demanded Monday that the Biden administration immediately drop all charges against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange" ☛ https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/04/11/global-progressive-leaders-urge-biden-drop-us-charges-against-assange | Source: Common Dreams    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 15:27:43


  • "Russian forces have used cluster munitions in populated areas of Ukraine at least two dozen times since they started the invasion of that country" ☛ https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/04/11/long-lasting-danger-cluster-bomb-use | Source: Common Dreams    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 15:28:10


  • "Vietnamese diplomat Lê Đức Thọ, a real national anti-colonial revolutionary, turned his down." ☛ https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/04/12/raytheon-john-so-black-and-white/ | Source: Counter Punch    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 15:28:54


  • "Pricing fossil fuels to cover both their supply and environmental costs—in other words, not subsidizing the industry" ☛ https://www.projectcensored.org/fossil-fuel-industry-subsidized-at-rate-of-11-million-per-minute/ | Source: Project Censored    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 15:30:01


  • Linux 4.9.310 • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/163625    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 15:30:17


  • 8+ Locate command usage with examples for Linux • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/163626    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 15:30:22


  • Pscp in Linux System: Everything You Need To Know About • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/163627    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 15:30:48


  • MX Linux Casually Drops Version 21.1, Codenamed "Wildflower" • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/163628    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 15:30:57


  • "Commenters told him that the best fluid level sensor was a hacked blood pressure monitor." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2022/04/11/blood-pressure-cuff-hacked-into-water-level-sensor/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 15:31:55


  • GulagTube is not suitable for science ☛ https://hackaday.com/2022/04/11/trenton-computer-festival-makes-youtube-debut/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 15:32:26


  • 5G ☛ https://www.projectcensored.org/expansion-of-wireless-5g-technology-to-oceans-threatens-wildlife/ | Source: Project Censored    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 15:32:55


  • "French President Emmanuel Macron and far-right candidate Marine Le Pen are headed to a runoff on April 24" ☛ https://www.democracynow.org/2022/4/11/emmanuel_macron_marine_le_pen_runoff | Source: Democracy Now    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 15:33:41


  • "Legacy for Life on Earth" ☛ https://therevelator.org/lovejoy-legacy/ | Source: The Revelator    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 15:34:16


  • Child Advocates Sue New York Over Proposed Shadow Foster Care System — ProPublica ⚓ https://www.propublica.org/article/child-advocates-sue-new-york-over-proposed-shadow-foster-care-system ䷉ Source: propublica    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 15:35:42


  • Imran Khan became 'buddies' with Putin; bad strategy ☛ https://www.democracynow.org/2022/4/11/pakistan_imran_khan_ousted_prime_minister | Source: Democracy Now    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 15:36:30


  • "We speak with historian Tariq Ali about the ongoing war in Ukraine, where more than 4.5 million people have fled since the start of Russia’s invasion." ☛ https://www.democracynow.org/2022/4/11/tooba_syed_tariq_ali_ukraine_russia | Source: Democracy Now    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 15:36:49


  • "war criminal" ☛ https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/04/12/another-genocide-bucha-joins-guernica-and-babi-yar/ | Source: Counter Punch    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 15:37:06


  • "conclusion of a historic trial and a decades-long pursuit of justice" ☛ https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/04/12/the-trial-of-thomas-sankaras-killers-2/ | Source: Counter Punch    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 15:37:41


  • "Steam Turbine Skateboard" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2022/04/12/a-v2-rocket-inspired-steam-turbine-skateboard-is-just-around-the-corner/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 15:38:42


  • "We’re fans of unusual forms of transport here, so when we saw an article featuring a home-made motorcycle chariot we knew we had to share it with you." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2022/04/11/this-chariot-is-pulled-by-a-team-of-motorcycles/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 15:38:48


  • EndeavourOS Apollo Release Introduces a new Worm Window Manager http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/163607#comment-33327   

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 15:41:40


  • "six weeks of artillery fire and missiles raining down on Kyiv" ☛ https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/04/11/will-russia-be-held-accountable-war-crimes-ukraine | Source: Common Dreams    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 15:42:54


  • "two dozen so-called "classical" charter schools" ☛ https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/04/11/right-wing-college-expanding-charter-school-network-combat-progressive-teaching | Source: Common Dreams    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 15:43:26


  • Google #Android Leftovers • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/163629    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 15:44:19


  • Patents kill. WTO profits from death. ☛ https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/04/11/leaked-wto-covid-patent-waiver-text-very-bad | Source: Common Dreams    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 15:45:12


  • "Khan is the first Prime Minister to be removed by the parliament in such a way" ☛ https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/04/12/imran-khans-removal-is-a-blow-not-a-victory-for-pakistans-democracy/ | Source: Counter Punch    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 15:45:51


  • Qualcomm Edge AI Vision kit combines Qualcomm QCS610 SoC & Sony IMX415 4K ultra low light camera • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/163630    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 15:58:08


  • "In the age of COVID policies and politics" ☛ https://www.projectcensored.org/the-library-of-things-movement-cutting-waste-reclaiming-local-economies-and-community/ | Source: Project Censored    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 16:45:27


  • "greenwashing" ☛ https://www.projectcensored.org/corporations-increasingly-held-accountable-for-greenwashing/ | Source: Project Censored    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 16:45:43


  • Buffalo ☛ https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/04/12/whats-going-on-in-buffalo/ | Source: Counter Punch    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 16:46:11


  • "The Global Alliance of National Human Rights Institutions, which conducts the review every five years" ☛ https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/04/12/political-appointments-downgrading-the-australian-human-rights-commission-2/ | Source: Counter Punch    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 16:46:53


  • Doing something actually useful ☛ https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/04/12/workers-members-of-congress-join-forces-to-save-senate-cafeteria-jobs/ | Source: Counter Punch    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 16:51:34


  • "One week later on April 6, Brian Deese, director of the White House National Economic Council, announced that the consequences" ☛ https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/04/12/india-proves-isolating-russia-isnt-easy/ | Source: Counter Punch    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 16:51:56


  • "26-year-old Latina woman who was arrested Thursday and accused of causing the “death of an individual through a self-induced abortion.”" ☛ https://www.democracynow.org/2022/4/11/texas_starr_county_lizelle_herrera_abortion | Source: Democracy Now    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 16:52:39


  • "Not only does every Hollywood movie pass a Pentagon censor test it also celebrates personal acts of violence like Will Smith’s slap" ☛ https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/04/12/i-wont-cancel-will-smith-not-a-comedy-bit/ | Source: Counter Punch    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 16:53:08


  • Punjab ☛ https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/04/12/women-in-punjab-pushed-to-the-sidelines/ | Source: Counter Punch    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 16:53:26


  • "Kligman conducted at least two experiments on prisoners funded by Johnson and Johnson." ☛ https://www.projectcensored.org/johnson-and-johnson-paid-to-inject-prisoners-with-asbestos-unsealed-documents-reveal/ | Source: Project Censored    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 16:53:47


  • "Facebook’s DIO consists of three tiers of banned users." ☛ https://www.projectcensored.org/facebooks-blacklist-of-dangerous-individuals-and-organizations-stifles-public-debate/ | Source: Project Censored    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 17:04:47


  • "K-12 staff shortages" ☛ https://www.projectcensored.org/k-12-cafeteria-staff-are-severely-underpaid/ | Source: Project Censored    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 17:05:09


  • "How come Joe Biden can call Vladimir Putin a war criminal but not others, for example, the crown prince?" ☛ https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/04/11/mehdi-hasan-asks-official-why-biden-can-call-putin-war-criminal-not-mbs | Source: Common Dreams    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 17:06:27


  • "Renewable Capacity" ☛ https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/04/11/solar-wind-surge-2021-another-testament-renewable-energys-resilience | Source: Common Dreams    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 17:06:49


  • "It doesn’t pay to think too hard about the nuances of fictional time travel." ☛ https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/sea-tranquility-emily-mandel/ | Source: The Nation    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 17:07:11


  • ScamCoins ☛ https://krebsonsecurity.com/2022/04/double-your-crypto-scams-share-crypto-scam-host/ | Source: Krebs On Security    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 17:12:22


  • "Today also marks the three year anniversary of when Julian Assange was dragged out of the Ecuadorian Embassy in London by the Metropolitan Police" ☛ https://dontextraditeassange.com/post/progressive-leaders-call-on-us-president-joe-biden-to-drop-the-charges-against-julian-assange/ | Source: Don't Extradite Assange    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 17:13:03


  • "The charges against Assange are an affront to journalists everywhere and a threat to press freedom." ☛ https://dontextraditeassange.com/post/three-years-since-julian-assanges-arrest-from-the-ecuador-embassy-reactions-statements/ | Source: Don't Extradite Assange    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 17:13:45


  • "Having taken up arms against Russia for a fifth time" ☛ https://www.mintpressnews.com/us-lawmakers-welcomed-notorious-georgian-warlord-now-boasting-of-war-crimes-in-ukraine/280182/ | Source: Mint Press News    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 17:14:22


  • "telecom monopolies" ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2022/04/11/illinois-missouri-and-new-york-lawmakers-are-helping-telecom-monopolies-block-broadband-competition/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 17:14:38


  • FBI works for... ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2022/04/11/appeals-court-calls-out-fbi-for-treating-rich-people-better-than-poor-people/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 17:15:15


  • "If you want to trigger a conservative, just suggest nationalizing the US gas and oil industry." ☛ https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/04/11/nationalize-us-fossil-fuel-industry-now | Source: Common Dreams    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 17:15:52


  • "At first glance, last autumn’s Glasgow climate summit looked a lot like its 25 predecessors." ☛ https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/04/11/putins-aggression-shows-why-defeating-autocracy-key-combating-climate-crisis | Source: Common Dreams    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 17:16:01


  • "International Criminal Court's investigation" ☛ https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/04/11/us-limits-icc-complicate-bidens-aim-aid-putin-war-crimes-probe | Source: Common Dreams    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 17:16:46


  • "A private equity firm created by former White House adviser and Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner has reportedly secured a $2 billion investment..." ☛ https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/04/11/hes-cashing-kushner-firm-gets-2-billion-saudi-fund-run-crown-prince | Source: Common Dreams    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 17:16:52


  • "Zelenskyy characterized the humanitarian situation in Mariupol as "the worst" of the war" ☛ https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/04/11/zelenskyy-claims-tens-thousands-dead-mariupol-city-braces-last-battle | Source: Common Dreams    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 17:18:02


  • "knocking an elderly peace activist" ☛ https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/04/11/buffalo-cops-who-shoved-75-year-old-peace-activist-ground-cleared-wrongdoing | Source: Common Dreams    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 17:18:17


  • "This agenda is anti-worker, anti-consumer" ☛ https://robertreich.org/post/681207712764346368 | Source: Robert Reich    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 17:18:45


  • "annual environment poll, conducted by telephone from March 1 to 18, measured public support for a half-dozen policies designed to mitigate the fossil fuel-driven climate" ☛ https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/04/11/despite-big-oil-roadblocks-poll-shows-majority-us-support-climate-action | Source: Common Dreams    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 17:19:41


  • Send the Marines packing ☛ https://truthout.org/video/far-right-threat-looms-in-france-as-macron-faces-marine-le-pen-in-runoff/ | Source: TruthOut    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 17:20:17


  • Avoid starbucks 'ambiance' cult ☛ https://truthout.org/articles/labor-officials-find-starbucks-illegally-fired-seven-union-organizers-in-memphis/ | Source: TruthOut    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 17:20:53


  • Down the drain ☛ https://truthout.org/articles/if-the-state-of-the-world-makes-you-want-to-scream-youre-not-alone/ | Source: TruthOut    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 17:21:27


  • "interminably long “tech CEO” hearings in front of Congress" ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2022/04/11/despite-what-fox-news-tells-you-a-new-study-did-not-prove-that-gmail-is-biased-against-conservatives/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 17:22:30


  • "When President Joe Biden took office, he immediately began using executive actions to unravel the worst of the Trump administration’s bureaucratic rulings." ☛ https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/public-charge-immigration-biden/ | Source: The Nation    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 17:23:12


  • Food crisis ☛ https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/04/11/aid-group-warns-palestine-wheat-reserves-could-soon-run-out-amid-ukraine-crisis | Source: Common Dreams    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 17:23:36


  • "Twitter labeled his account as being “Russia state-affiliated media.”" ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2022/04/11/uk-politician-who-had-shows-on-russian-tv-channel-threatens-to-sue-twitter-for-noting-his-connections-to-russian-media/ | Source: Techdirt, WTH??    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 17:24:23


  • "I’ll admit this recent decision sort of passed me by." ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2022/04/11/supreme-court-deals-blow-to-lying-cops-lowers-bar-for-malicious-prosecution-lawsuits/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 17:26:03


  • "The hedge fund Alden Global Capital is notorious for plundering newspapers, relentlessly creating “news deserts” and “ghost papers.”" ☛ https://fair.org/home/documenting-the-struggle-against-a-hedge-fund-stripping-journalism-for-parts/ | Source: FAIR    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 17:26:38


  • "Janine Jackson interviewed EFF’s Dave Maass about transparency and journalism for the April 22, 2022, episode of CounterSpin." ☛ https://fair.org/home/you-have-to-laugh-at-the-ways-agencies-will-evade-giving-you-information/ | Source: FAIR    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 17:27:34


  • "" ☛ https://truthout.org/articles/a-survivor-of-violence-is-being-punished-in-the-best-place-to-live-in-america/ | Source: TruthOut    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 17:27:54


  • Palestine ☛ https://truthout.org/articles/palestines-wheat-reserves-could-soon-run-out-amid-ukraine-war-oxfam-warns/ | Source: TruthOut    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 17:28:22


  • Graft and bribes ☛ https://truthout.org/articles/trumps-records-of-gifts-from-foreign-leaders-are-missing-state-dept-reveals/ | Source: TruthOut    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 17:28:42


  • "On April 1, a Moscow court debated the case of four editors from the student magazine Doxa on trial for charges of inciting minors to take part in protests." ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2022/04/11/self-censorship-leads-to-impotence | Source: Meduza    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 17:29:32


  • "In Russia’s Republic of Dagestan, a federal subject in the North Caucasus, many young men are eager to join the military." ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2022/04/11/who-caused-this-unemployment-nazis-or-our-government | Source: Meduza    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 17:29:54


  • "The last remaining soldiers still defending Mariupol against complete Russian occupation say they’ve been left without the Ukrainian authorities’ support" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2022/04/11/they-ve-written-us-off | Source: Meduza    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 17:30:24


  • "Since the beginning of Russia’s war in Ukraine, State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin has been even more vocal about his devotion to Vladimir Putin" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2022/04/11/he-s-not-a-person-he-s-a-biorobot | Source: Meduza    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 17:30:36


  • "Borodyanka is a small town in the Kyiv region, on the right bank of the Dnipro River." ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2022/04/11/stolen-lives-stolen-hopes | Source: Meduza    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 17:30:48


  • "The Government of Indonesia continues to crack down on piracy." [sic] ☛ https://torrentfreak.com/piracy-numbers-drop-after-indonesia-blocks-over-3500-pirate-sites-220411/ | Source: Torrent Freak    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 17:31:31


  • "In 2013, pirate streaming site Afdah began offering a comprehensive library of infringing movies to millions of users." ☛ https://torrentfreak.com/ace-finally-seizes-pirate-streaming-domains-after-years-of-legal-action-220411/ | Source: Torrent Freak    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 17:31:37


  • "A couple months back, Starlink and Elon Musk got several weeks of press adulation for shipping thousands of low orbit satellite terminals to Ukraine" ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2022/04/11/u-s-buries-fact-it-gave-elon-musk-3-million-to-send-satellite-dishes-to-ukraine/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 17:32:53


  • Crazy trademark policy ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2022/04/11/stone-brewing-fresh-off-trademark-win-against-keystone-sued-for-blatant-tm-infringement/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 17:33:14


  • "This article gave me one of the explanations, or perhaps the explanation, of why the round Earth became flat" ☛ https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/04/11/why-is-the-earth-flat/ | Source: Counter Punch    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 17:33:45


  • COVID-19 still out there, getting stronger ☛ https://truthout.org/articles/the-ba-2-variant-is-now-dominant-and-weary-as-we-are-we-cant-dismiss-it/ | Source: TruthOut    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 17:34:22


  • Buycotts ☛ https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/04/12/beauty-and-the-culture-war-beast-buycott-beats-boycott/ | Source: Counter Punch    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 17:35:27


  • "Reagan and Biden" ☛ https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/04/12/the-reagan-and-biden-booms/ | Source: Counter Punch    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 17:35:48


  • "This interview has been edited for length and clarity." ☛ https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/04/11/how-to-have-fearlessly-curious-conversations-in-dangerously-divided-times/ | Source: Counter Punch    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 17:38:19


  • Putin turns fossil soon ☛ https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/04/11/after-putin/ | Source: Counter Punch    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 17:40:23


  • He has balls? ☛ https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/04/11/elon-musk-is-hiding-the-ball-again-on-taxes/ | Source: Counter Punch    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 17:40:47


  • "This is not evidence of great success. France still had not gotten its unemployment rate down to its pre-recession lows." ☛ https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/04/11/the-new-york-times-and-macron/ | Source: Counter Punch    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 17:41:24


  • "Overnight, civil disobedience by climate scientists erupted in 25 countries on every continent enraged that the IPCC report" ☛ https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/04/11/scientists-hit-the-streets/ | Source: Counter Punch    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 17:45:32


  • Microsoft is bribery and the author of this article is Microsoft's media mole for nearly 15 years already https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-04-12/microsoft-customers-decry-cloud-contracts-that-sideline-rivals    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 18:00:30


  • "This week, the House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly to call for an investigation of the war crimes now being committed by the Russians in Ukraine." ☛ https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/04/11/washingtons-wedding-album-from-hell/ | Source: Counter Punch    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 18:03:16


  • "digi-fascism" ☛ https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/04/11/the-rise-of-digi-fascism/ | Source: Counter Punch    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 18:05:03


  • "allowing ourselves to commit mass murder" ☛ https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/04/11/standing-together-for-the-sacred/ | Source: Counter Punch    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 18:06:12


  • Oklahoma ☛ https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/04/11/oklahoma-state-officials-resist-supreme-court-ruling-affirming-tribal-authority-over-american-indian-country/ | Source: Counter Punch    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 18:06:33


  • Flu Epidemic ☛ https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/04/12/whats-driving-the-avian-flu-epidemic-in-domesticated-birds/ | Source: Counter Punch    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 18:09:50


  • "Nation-states tend to be large abstract concepts, none more so than the United States, which was born of a set of concepts." ☛ https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/04/11/how-the-nation-state-crushed-the-region-and-created-our-global-survival-crisis/ | Source: Counter Punch    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 18:10:04


  • "I survived 30 days in ChromeOS as a poweruser. I don’t use Chrome Browser and I don’t enjoy using Andorid apps." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVRZlqmGrUk    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 18:22:30


  • Mythbusting: Linux apps SUCK and they SLOW Linux growth - Invidious ⚓ https://yewtu.be/watch?v=0fJQ-EoQauE ䷉ Source: Video | Invidious | Multimedia    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 18:23:18


  • Which is your preferred way to control logical flow? #programming #javascript - Invidious ⚓ https://yewtu.be/watch?v=o3pQbZpJ6Nc ䷉ Source: Video | Invidious | Multimedia    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 18:24:23


  • 'Security' as expensive gadgets that won't compensate for real issues: "Have you considered using a YubiKey? In this complete guide, you'll learn everything you need in order to get started with these awesome security keys." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pANjo6B09iI    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 18:28:41


  • "In the 25th episode of Enterprise Linux Security, Jay and Joao catch up on a few things in the news, including the results of a recent Internet Crime Report, and more!" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EUYg-Pi2G8    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 18:29:40


  • "In this video, I am going to show an overview of MX Linux 21.1 and some of the applications pre-installed." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oVCZtlVKZU    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 18:30:11


  • "Here is a stylisation research for "Pepper the traveler in incognito mode" for episode 37. But why a stylisation research now?" https://www.davidrevoy.com/article906/ep37-production-report-style    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 18:35:48


  • Ruby Patches Important Bugs • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/163631    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 18:37:18


  • Shows and Videos: Late Night Linux, Destination Linux, and New Videos • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/163632    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 18:40:29


  • Software Patents legitimised by Open Invention Network (OIN) https://www.streetinsider.com/Globe+Newswire/Truist+Joins+the+Open+Invention+Network/19902267.html    

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


  • KeepItOn: Turkmenistan rips a page from the authoritarian playbook, digitally disconnects nation - Access Now ⚓ https://www.accessnow.org/turkmenistan-digitally-disconnects-nation/ ䷉ Source: accessnow    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 18:44:58


  • Says the company where older colleagues get labeled "dinobabies" and dismissed https://opensource.com/open-organization/22/4/open-world-inclusivity-norberg-review    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 18:46:03


  • Microsofters; "it appears that the most recent update to the game has rendered the FPS game unplayable on the portable gaming PC and other Linux Proton systems." https://www.pcgamesn.com/halo-the-master-chief-collection/update-breaks-steam-deck http://techrights.org/wiki/AARD    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 18:47:21


  • "Between 2022-04-05 and 2022-04-12 there were 25 New Steam games released with Native Linux clients. For reference, during the same time, there were 195 games released for Windows on Steam, so the Linux versions represent about 12.8 % of total released titles." https://boilingsteam.com/new-steam-games-native-linux-clients-2022-04-12/    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 18:48:05


  • Games: Most Steam and Handhelds • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/163633    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 18:52:32


  • WTF are you doing, ICBM Red Hat? https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/how-deploy-run-and-monitor-microsoft-sql-server-rhel    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 18:54:15


  • Red Hat uses proprietary software here https://www.tfir.io/enterprise-open-source-adoption-is-growing-red-hat-report/ http://techrights.org/2022/03/03/state-of-proprietary-software/    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 18:58:28


  • Red Hat loves "Open Source" so much that sometimes it even uses it itself. Sometimes...    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 18:59:29


  • Today’s #HowTos | #UNIX • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/163634    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 19:13:57


  • Programming Leftovers • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/163635    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 19:38:04


  • Open Hardware/Gadgets: Coverage of /e/OS and Arduino • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/163636    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 19:38:12


  • Openwashed Corporatism (IBM and SUSE) • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/163637    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 19:38:18


  • PeaZip 8.6 Released with More Customizable UI Layout, Improved Extraction and Archiving • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/163638    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 19:38:25


  • Today’s 𝘛𝘶𝘹 𝘔𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴 Leftovers • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/163639    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 19:38:32


  • Binary Coded Decimal gemini://hoseki.iensu.me/posts/binary-coded-decimal.gmi    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 19:47:01


  • "So if you've read the last couple of entries on here you won't really be surprised to know that I'm quitting one of my jobs, the non-profit one that's been the source of a lot of my misery lately." gemini://inconsistentuniverse.space/gemlog/2022-04-11-quitting.gmi    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 19:47:48


  • "Yes, this is another post about my current project, mastersearch. But as progress was pretty good in the last two days, I thought I would just post a update." gemini://blog.schmidhuberj.de/2022/04/11/search-everything-with-dmenu/    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 19:48:52


  • LXQt 1.1.0 Promises Major Visual Uplift and Improvements • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/163640    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 19:59:59


  • Ubuntu MATE 22.04 – New Features and Release Details • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/163641    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 20:00:05


  • written on Pinebook Pro gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/agk/phlog/2022-03-25-mo.txt    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 23:16:21


  • New-to-me Mandolin gemini://rawtext.club/~mieum/music/2022-04-12-new_mandolin.gmi    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 23:17:12


  • A sort of 'photojournalism' in Gemini gemini://republic.circumlunar.space/users/korruptor/blog/2022-04-12-OLL22.gmi    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 23:18:11


  • "In this blog, we will be introducing the concept of High-performance computing (HPC) and HPC clusters. We will also introduce a few categories of practical workloads important in the HPC space." https://ubuntu.com//blog/what-is-high-performance-computing-hpc-part-1    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 23:20:42


  • PostgreSQL: pg_dbms_job v1.2.0 released ⚓ https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/pg_dbms_job-v120-released-2435/ ䷉ Source: postgresql    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 23:22:18


  • On "privacy initiatives" by spying companies... like Mozilla https://blog.mozilla.org/netpolicy/2022/04/12/competition-should-not-be-weaponized-to-hobble-privacy-protections-on-the-open-web/    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 23:23:30


  • Michael now shows just two from the AMD 'crate' https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=amd-aocc-milanx&num=1 see http://techrights.org/2022/02/03/phoronix-went-too-far/    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 23:24:53


  • "April is a transition month, with the season starting to change from winter to spring, and a new quarter is beginning to unfold. A lot to plan, but it also means a lot of things to be excited about. With that spirit, let’s see what the Mozilla Support community has been up to these days..." https://blog.mozilla.org/sumo/2022/04/11/whats-up-with-sumo-april-2022/    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 23:25:51


  • IBM openwashing surveillance, or spying "lite", with Microsoft proprietary GitHub (tied to NSA) https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2022/04/12/observability-2022-why-it-matters-and-how-opentelemetry-can-help    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 23:27:56


  • ICBM Red Hat uses GNU logo while attacking the founder of GNU, defaming him to hijack his work/projects https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2022/04/12/state-static-analysis-gcc-12-compiler    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 23:28:59


  • FAQ: The EU’s plan to regulate political ads - Access Now ⚓ https://www.accessnow.org/eu-regulation-political-ads/ ䷉ Source: accessnow    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 23:29:42


  • IFF writes to the Chief Secretary of Rajasthan urging greater scrutiny of internet shutdown orders. KeepItOn ⚓ https://internetfreedom.in/iff-writes-to-the-chief-secretary-of-rajasthan-urging-greater-scrutiny-of-internet-shutdown-orders-keepiton/ ䷉ Source: internetfreedom    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 23:30:14


  • “The Great Resignation” myth/narrative is being promoted by IBM, which lays off its own workforce https://enterprisersproject.com/article/2022/4/it-hiring-4-tips-retain-attract-top-it-talent    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 23:31:43


  • ICBM pushing buzzwords at the expense of actual substance or science https://enterprisersproject.com/article/2022/4/agile-hybrid-work-benefits    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 23:32:57


  • "This year the syslog-ng project will participate in the Google Summer of Code (GSoC) as a mentor organization again. If you are a university student or otherwise eligible to participate in the GSoC program, you can choose to develop a new feature for syslog-ng." https://www.syslog-ng.com/community/b/blog/posts/syslog-ng-in-gsoc-2022    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 23:33:40


  • "Some criticisms though; the GUI has limited adjustments, mostly just colours. You copy an existing theme, then modify colours -- and you can't import a theme. Another criticism is that the generated theme is large, mostly because, for gtk 3.20+, it has a file 'gtk.gresource' that is about 5MB." https://bkhome.org/news/202204/oomox-gtk-theme-designer.html    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 23:34:46


  • "In this project, we’re going to be making a set of wirelessly controlled animatronic eyes. I’ve been wanting to do this project for a while, so when Quantum Integration launched their new Motor & Servo Driver board, this project immediately came to mind." https://www.the-diy-life.com/3d-printed-wireless-joystick-controlled-animatronic-eyes/    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 23:35:54


  • Use of isset() Function in PHP ⚓ https://linuxhint.com/isset-function-php/ ䷉ Source: LinuxHint | PHP | FreeSW 🐧    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 23:36:48


  • "How do different free and open source software projects do mentorship, and how can we all learn from each other? Daniel Garcia Moreno (EndlessOS Foundation and GNOME), Emily Gonyer (openSUSE), Ilmari Lauhakangas (The Document Foundation), and Marie Nordin (Fedora) discuss this in a panel moderated by Ben Cotton" https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2022/04/12/panel-discussion-on-mentorship-fedora-mentor-summit-2022-including-libreoffice/    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 23:38:14


  • IBM zSystems: Add support for z16 as CPU name. ⚓ https://gcc.gnu.org/git/?p=gcc.git;a=commitdiff;h=82a4c5c704433249aa2adc89ef58b6b70e50c930 ䷉ Source: gcc | ibm    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 23:40:52


  • How come the Microsoft boosters at BleepingComputer never use similar wording like 1.5 billion Windows users impacted...? https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/critical-hp-teradici-pcoip-flaws-impact-15-million-endpoints/    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 23:42:26


  • "Open-source Audacity can record and edit audio files on more tracks than you can imagine. It then outputs exactly what you need. It is perfect for noobs and pros alike, on any desktop OS." https://www.pcmag.com/picks/best-free-software    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 23:44:17


  • "I’m happy to announce that Qt 6.3 has been released today. As always, the release is packed with many new features as well as a large amount of bug fixes." Still proprietary software though. No-go area? https://www.qt.io/blog/qt-6.3-released    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 23:45:09


  • Microsoft tumbles as UBS suggests Office 365 could see 'gentle deceleration' (NASDAQ:MSFT) | Seeking Alpha ⚓ https://seekingalpha.com/news/3822364-microsoft-tumbles-as-ubs-suggests-office-365-could-see-gentle-deceleration ䷉ Source: seekingalpha http://techrights.org/wiki/index.php/Microsoft_-_Financials    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 23:45:57


  • Microsoft = corruption. Bribes. Crime. http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162988#comment-33323    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 23:46:23


  • Move to LibreOffice https://www.techradar.com/in/news/microsoft-365-is-getting-a-rather-uncharitable-price-hike stop supporting crimes; quit paying criminals http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162988    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 23:47:39


  • Ksplice Known Exploit Detection for VM_IO Use After Free, BPF bounds checking, and more… https://blogs.oracle.com/linux/post/ksplice-known-exploit-detection-001    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 23:49:25


  • "Today's story, from a reader Regomised as "Al", concerns his time at a company in the 1980s. The company was working on a project to replace thousands of ageing "dumb" terminals with PCs. "The Great PC Invasion and Distributed Computing Revolution were under way," Al observed." https://www.theregister.com/2022/04/11/who_me/    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 23:50:23


  • Git has security only on Microsoft Windows (the NSA back doors) https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/xmqqv8veb5i6.fsf@gitster.g/ http://techrights.org/wiki/index.php/Microsoft_and_the_NSA    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 23:56:16


  • "Google has released Chrome version 100.0.4896.88 for Windows, Mac, and Linux. This version addresses vulnerabilities that an attacker could exploit to take control of an affected system." https://www.cisa.gov/uscert/ncas/current-activity/2022/04/12/google-releases-security-updates-chrome https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2022/04/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_11.html    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 23:57:24


  • US says internet services are exempt from Russian sanctions https://www.theverge.com/2022/4/11/23020221/us-russian-sanctions-treasury-department-exemption-internet-services because US spies on Russia    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 23:57:54


  • Costa Rica: first country to call for a moratorium on spyware technology ⚓ https://www.accessnow.org/costa-rica-first-country-moratorium-spyware/ ䷉ Source: accessnow    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 23:58:46


  • "Mary Gartside's Essay antedates James Sowerby’s and Goethe’s treatises on colour, while its illustrations have been deemed some of the earlier examples of abstraction in painting." https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/gartside-theory-of-colours/    

posted Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 23:59:28


  • "CVE-2021-26726 has been assigned to this vulnerability. A CVSS v3 base score of 8.8 has been calculated" https://www.cisa.gov/uscert/ics/advisories/icsa-22-102-01    

posted Wednesday, April 13, 2022 at 00:00:20


  • CVSS v3 9.0 (!!!)... Wind River VxWorks... and they keep saying this proprietary platform is soooo good for security https://www.cisa.gov/uscert/ics/advisories/icsa-22-102-02    

posted Wednesday, April 13, 2022 at 00:01:27


  • "Exploitable remotely" https://www.cisa.gov/uscert/ics/advisories/icsa-22-102-04    

posted Wednesday, April 13, 2022 at 00:02:34


  • ASSRocks! Uses chips with NSA back doors. https://linuxgizmos.com/asrock-industrial-release-new-range-of-industrial-motherboards-w-12th-gen-intel-core-processors/    

posted Wednesday, April 13, 2022 at 00:03:38


  • AMD GPU "open"... blank (no text) until/unless you run proprietary JS on your machine https://gpuopen.com/learn/introducing-hiprt/    

posted Wednesday, April 13, 2022 at 00:05:55


  • CVSS v3 9.8 (nearly 10!) https://www.cisa.gov/uscert/ics/advisories/icsa-22-102-05 "a server used to control and communicate with autonomous mobile robots in hospitals"    

posted Wednesday, April 13, 2022 at 00:07:08


  • Data Brokers: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) - Invidious ⚓ https://yewtu.be/watch?v=wqn3gR1WTcA ䷉ Source: Video | Invidious | Multimedia    

posted Wednesday, April 13, 2022 at 00:07:43


  • "Worldline announced it has launched one of the most advanced LINUX-based 4G POS terminal – LINURA LP 7220 with highest security protocol, Dual Core Cortex processor and 256MB RAM to enhance in-store digital payments experience in India." https://www.freepressjournal.in/technology/worldline-launches-linura-lp-7220-pos-terminal-in-india    

posted Wednesday, April 13, 2022 at 00:09:49


  • "pgBadger is a PostgreSQL performance analyzer, built for speed with fully detailed reports based on your PostgreSQL log files." https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/pgbadger-v118-released-2434/    

posted Wednesday, April 13, 2022 at 00:10:27


  • Amidst Disagreement, elementary co-Founder Quits and Joins Endless OS http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162346#comment-33329   

posted Wednesday, April 13, 2022 at 00:11:52


  • NSA back doors https://www.cnx-software.com/2022/04/12/asrock-4x4-box-5000-series-mini-pc-features-amd-zen-3-ryzen-5000-u-series-processor/    

posted Wednesday, April 13, 2022 at 00:14:28


  • Emulating Raspi2 like hardware with Rasbian in 2022 http://sven.stormbind.net/blog/posts/deb_qemu_rpi2_2022/    

posted Wednesday, April 13, 2022 at 00:15:03


  • Hardly about Linux at all https://finance.yahoo.com/news/linux-foundation-google-cloud-launch-183000677.html    

posted Wednesday, April 13, 2022 at 00:17:29


  • Software patents legitimised in the name of "Linux" https://wraltechwire.com/2022/04/12/in-the-limelight-truist-joins-open-invention-nework/    

posted Wednesday, April 13, 2022 at 00:18:21


  • Announcing the First Oracle Solaris 11.4 CBE • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/163642    

posted Wednesday, April 13, 2022 at 00:19:10


  • Microsoft Windows TCO: Industroyer2: Industroyer reloaded | WeLiveSecurity ⚓ https://www.welivesecurity.com/2022/04/12/industroyer2-industroyer-reloaded/ "Windows executable named 108_100.exe"    

posted Wednesday, April 13, 2022 at 00:21:07


  • "...the grey window decorations are a JWM theme in this snapshot. But, EasyOS 3.3 also has a light-blue JWM theme. In the above snapshot, everything inside the window is the GTK theme. I modified the 'flat-grey-rounded' theme and created a new GTK3 'EasyBlue' theme." https://bkhome.org/news/202204/easyblue-theme-for-gtk2-and-gtk3.html    

posted Wednesday, April 13, 2022 at 00:22:22


  • Security a Key Benefit of Open Source Enterprise Software https://www.fosslife.org/security-key-benefit-open-source-enterprise-software so try using it, Red Hat http://techrights.org/2022/03/03/state-of-proprietary-software/    

posted Wednesday, April 13, 2022 at 00:24:54


  • Not quite what it sounds like... https://blog.arduino.cc/2022/04/12/introducing-the-arduino-secure-boot/    

posted Wednesday, April 13, 2022 at 00:26:48


  • EasyOS Appearance Tweaks • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/163643    

posted Wednesday, April 13, 2022 at 00:28:14


  • Guess what it runs... https://www.kulr8.com/news/money/lambda-teams-up-with-razer-to-launch-the-world-s-most-powerful-laptop-for-deep/article_ea5e6b2d-eaff-511e-8b45-89965e7e6a16.html    

posted Wednesday, April 13, 2022 at 00:29:27


  • Outsourced to Microsoft proprietary software = opposite of real security https://www.suse.com/c/safety-ram-protecting-variables-with-ones-complement/    

posted Wednesday, April 13, 2022 at 00:32:31


  • Security Leftovers • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/163644    

posted Wednesday, April 13, 2022 at 00:40:05


  • Security of proprietary crap: "An attacker could exploit one of these vulnerabilities to take control of an affected system." https://www.cisa.gov/uscert/ncas/current-activity/2022/04/12/citrix-releases-security-updates-sd-wan-products    

posted Wednesday, April 13, 2022 at 00:41:10


  • "The SSH (Secure SHell) protocol is a remote shell protocol that creates a secure channel (by using an encrypted connection), for accessing servers on an insecure network (like the Internet itself)." https://bytexd.com/how-to-connect-to-ssh-without-typing-a-password/    

posted Wednesday, April 13, 2022 at 00:41:39


  • Halo: The Master Chief Collection broke on Linux and Steam Deck, here's a quick fix | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2022/04/halo-the-master-chief-collection-broke-on-linux-and-steam-deck-heres-a-quick-fix/ ䷉ Source: Gaming On Linux | GNU | Linux | Games    

posted Wednesday, April 13, 2022 at 00:43:02


  • Strategy game 'Old World' comes to Steam and GOG on May 19 with Linux support | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2022/04/strategy-game-old-world-comes-to-steam-and-gog-on-may-19-with-linux-support/ ䷉ Source: Gaming On Linux | GNU | Linux | Games    

posted Wednesday, April 13, 2022 at 00:43:43


  • Fedora 36 Beta: The new Adwaita/GTK4 work breaks the world, causes confusion, but the performance is terrific. - BaronHK’s Rants ⚓ https://baronhk.wordpress.com/2022/04/12/fedora-36-beta-the-new-adwaita-gtk4-work-breaks-the-world-causes-confusion-but-the-performance-is-terrific/ ䷉ Source: baronhk    

posted Wednesday, April 13, 2022 at 00:46:30


  • Firefox 99.0.1 maintenance update released - gHacks Tech News ⚓ https://www.ghacks.net/2022/04/12/firefox-99-0-1-maintenance-update-released/ ䷉ Source: ghacks    

posted Wednesday, April 13, 2022 at 00:49:21


  • "Back when I first started using Arch Linux I was usng i3 and now I'm finally trying out Sway which is intended to be a drop in replacement for i3 or i3 gaps over on the Wayland side." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09mQAZAzwJg    

posted Wednesday, April 13, 2022 at 00:51:49


  • Comments like "Chrome is actually open source" and "Google actually owns Odysee." What?! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgAAobbb1pY    

posted Wednesday, April 13, 2022 at 00:52:51


  • Fedora 36 Beta: The new Adwaita/GTK4 work breaks the world, causes confusion, but the performance is terrific. • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/163645    

posted Wednesday, April 13, 2022 at 00:53:34


  • "In this video, we are looking at EndeavourOS 22.1." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRwzWSEvyg0    

posted Wednesday, April 13, 2022 at 00:54:51


  • Mozilla Firefox Leftovers • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/163646    

posted Wednesday, April 13, 2022 at 00:55:21


  • Intel outsourced to Microsoft proprietary software as usual https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Intel-ControlFlag-1.1-PHP Intel got innfiltrated, scuttled in-house GitLAB http://techrights.org/wiki/Intel_leaks    

posted Wednesday, April 13, 2022 at 00:57:03


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posted Monday, April 11, 2022 at 15:37:32


  • 101 Linux Commands Every User Should Know • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/163600    

posted Monday, April 11, 2022 at 15:44:53


  • "Ploum also recommends the book "Rebel Code" by Glynn Moody. I appreciate the recommendation and will definitely be looking into it!" gemini://moddedbear.xyz/logs/2022-01-18-re-design-vs-evolution.gmi    

posted Monday, April 11, 2022 at 15:46:51


  • Today’s #HowTos | #UNIX • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/163601    

posted Monday, April 11, 2022 at 15:47:12


  • Russia and Sanctions https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/videos/20220406154700819/    

posted Monday, April 11, 2022 at 15:49:12


  • Concerns Raised Again Over New EU-U.S. Data Sharing Agreement ⚓ https://www.dailydot.com/debug/us-eu-data-sharing-mass-surveillance/ ䷉ Source: dailydot    

posted Monday, April 11, 2022 at 15:51:34


  • OpenRazer 3.3 adds support for more hardware on Linux | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2022/04/openrazer-33-adds-support-for-more-hardware-on-linux/ ䷉ Source: Gaming On Linux | GNU | Linux | Games    

posted Monday, April 11, 2022 at 15:52:39


  • "community-built" https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2022/04/steam-deck-plugin-loader-gets-another-release-should-work-better-now/ can't wait to hear terms like "THE DRM COMMUNITY..."    

posted Monday, April 11, 2022 at 15:54:09


  • But Bitcoin was never about anonymity anyway https://www.wired.com/story/tracers-in-the-dark-welcome-to-video-crypto-anonymity-myth/ so now Conde Nast (Wall Street) associated this with assault on children? Even though it's not about privacy at all?    

posted Monday, April 11, 2022 at 15:56:04


  • "U.S. Treasury moves to keep Russians connected despite sanctions, while Russian regulator Roskomnadzor targets Google" https://www.accessnow.org/digital-rights-ukraine-russia-conflict/ but Gulag is on their side: http://techrights.org/2022/03/10/donetsk-and-gulag-or-google-now-bans-parts-of-ukraine-for-being-invaded-by-russia/    

posted Monday, April 11, 2022 at 16:01:55


  • Material Shell Extension added support to Gnome 42 • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/163602    

posted Monday, April 11, 2022 at 17:30:23


  • Over 200 COVID-19 Deaths Today (But Don’t Worry, Go Watch Football) http://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2022/04/11/dont-worry-go-watch-football/    

posted Monday, April 11, 2022 at 18:18:09


  • Looking back on IBM’s game-changing mainframe moments - Reseller News ⚓ https://www.reseller.co.nz/article/696906/looking-back-ibm-game-changing-mainframe-moments/ ䷉ Source: reseller    

posted Monday, April 11, 2022 at 18:39:24


  • LinuxHint’s Latest C++ Tutorials • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/163603    

posted Monday, April 11, 2022 at 19:17:48


  • IBM/Red Hat boosting Microsoft again today https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2022/04/11/introduction-nodejs-reference-architecture-part-8-typescript    

posted Monday, April 11, 2022 at 19:51:43


  • "Find out what this year's Summit has to teach you about Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat OpenShift, Ansible, and more." https://neuroblog.fedoraproject.org/2022/04/11/next-open-neurofedora-meeting-11-april-1300-utc.html    

posted Monday, April 11, 2022 at 19:52:55



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