Roy Schestowitz

• Hummingbird: Father-Daughter Guitar Build gemini://rawtext.club/~mieum/music/2022-04-17-hummingbird.gmi    

posted Sunday, April 17, 2022 at 00:16:06

• #Techrights Bulletin for Saturday, April 16, 2022 http://techrights.org/txt full archive: http://techrights.org/txt-archives #gnu #linux #freesw #plaintext    

posted Sunday, April 17, 2022 at 06:48:15

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

posted Sunday, April 17, 2022 at 06:48:31

• "I've been using VMWare Workstation at work for a long time now." Ewww... ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/linux/VirtualizationWithGUIWants | Source: uni Toronto    

posted Sunday, April 17, 2022 at 06:54:40

• "My preferred method for deploying webapps is to have the webapp listen directly on port 443, without any sort of standalone web server or HTTP reverse proxy in front" ☛ https://www.agwa.name/blog/post/using_sni_proxying_and_ipv6_to_share_port_443 | Source: Ayer    

posted Sunday, April 17, 2022 at 06:55:01

• "Raspberry Pi with an AMD Radeon 5450" ☛ https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2022/how-run-glmark2-drm-benchmark-external-gpu-on-raspberry-pi | Source: Jeff Geerling    

posted Sunday, April 17, 2022 at 06:55:42

• "Another good question. Why a fourteen-year-old program that doesn't even support CSS 3.0?" ☛ https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/kompozer-linux.html | Source: Dedoimedo    

posted Sunday, April 17, 2022 at 06:56:43

• "In a recently accepted paper in the open access journal Quantitative Methods for Psychology that Daniel Schad led, we discuss how, using Bayes’ rule" ☛ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2022/04/ever-wondered-how-the-probability-of-the-null-hypothesis-being-true-changes-given-a-significant-result/ | Source: Rlang    

posted Sunday, April 17, 2022 at 06:57:28

• "When hiring developers, there are many things we are looking for, but over the years I have found that raw coding ability is easily the most important quality to look for." ☛ https://freakingrectangle.wordpress.com/2022/04/15/how-to-freaking-hire-great-developers/ |    

posted Sunday, April 17, 2022 at 06:57:49

• "The usual way of error checking in C, where you check the return and only then look at errno, works when you use it, but it’s possible to construct cases with surprising results" ☛ https://flak.tedunangst.com/post/cgo-does-clear-errno | Source: Ted Unangst    

posted Sunday, April 17, 2022 at 06:58:10

• "One advantage of the Wiener construction is that the Kuratowski pair has an odd degenerate case: if !!a=b!! it is not really a pair at all, it's a singleton." ☛ https://blog.plover.com/2022/04/15/ | Source: Mark Dominus    

posted Sunday, April 17, 2022 at 06:58:30

• "The problem isn’t Twitter doing something to them; the problem is the people on Twitter doing something to them." ☛ https://danielmiessler.com/blog/a-quick-thought-on-musk-buying-twitter/ | Source: Daniel Miessler    

posted Sunday, April 17, 2022 at 07:08:45

• "With over 530,000 registered members, according to threat intelligence firm Recorded Future," ☛ https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/12/politics/raidforums-seizure/index.html | Source: CNN    

posted Sunday, April 17, 2022 at 07:08:58

• "Raidforums.com, along with Raid.ws and Raid.lol domains used by the site, were seized by the U.S. Department of Justice" ☛ https://siliconangle.com/2022/04/12/raidforums-hacking-forum-take-offline-founder-indicted/ | Source: Silicon Angle    

posted Sunday, April 17, 2022 at 07:09:31

• "In a parallel statement, Europol also lauded the takedown saying the RaidForums online marketplace had been seized in an operation" ☛ https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/us-european-partners-announce-takedown-hacker-website-raidforums-2022-04-12/ | Source: Reuters    

posted Sunday, April 17, 2022 at 07:12:52

• "This post assumes that you possess some familiarity with zero-knowledge proofs." ☛ https://blog.trailofbits.com/2022/04/15/the-frozen-heart-vulnerability-in-bulletproofs/ | Source: Trail Of Bits    

posted Sunday, April 17, 2022 at 07:13:04

• "So here’s how this will go, folks. I’ll show you a screenshot of the site, and the date it existed." ☛ https://kevq.uk/the-design-history-of-this-website/ | Source: Kev Quirk    

posted Sunday, April 17, 2022 at 07:13:23

• "Want to write a new Wikipedia article but can't think of a subject not already covered?" ☛ https://blog.plover.com/2022/04/16/#missing | Source: Mark Dominus    

posted Sunday, April 17, 2022 at 07:13:51

• "The mystery of the miracle year by Dwarkesh Patel is a great blog post that's been floating around." ☛ https://matt-rickard.com/annus-mirabilis/ | Source: Matt Rickard    

posted Sunday, April 17, 2022 at 07:14:11

• "What I told them was porn is a form of entertainment." ☛ https://www.salon.com/2022/04/16/why-i-started-watching-porn-when-i-turned-50/ | Source: Salon    

posted Sunday, April 17, 2022 at 07:15:02

• "Together with Dell Technologies, we deliver world-leading Open Source solutions and services that capitalize on the benefits of Open Source" ☛ https://ubuntu.com//blog/canonical-at-dell-technologies-world-2022 | Source: Ubuntu    

posted Sunday, April 17, 2022 at 07:15:54

• "According to sources, the thinking is that if a digital currency has to have the utility of paper currency" ☛ https://cio.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/corporate-news/rbis-digital-currency-to-have-anonymity-feature-for-low-value-transactions/90873355 | Source: India Times    

posted Sunday, April 17, 2022 at 07:18:28

• [Old] "Nearly 70% of smart TVs and 46% of game consoles were found to contain hardcoded DNS settings" ☛ https://labzilla.io/blog/force-dns-pihole |    

posted Sunday, April 17, 2022 at 07:18:44

• "Video conferencing apps (VCAs) make it possible for previously private spaces" ☛ https://wiscprivacy.com/papers/vca_mute.pdf |    

posted Sunday, April 17, 2022 at 07:21:37

• "They found that all of the apps they tested occasionally gather raw audio data while mute is activated, with one popular app gathering information" ☛ https://techxplore.com/news/2022-04-youre-muted-videoconferencing-apps-mic.html | Source: TechXplore    

posted Sunday, April 17, 2022 at 07:22:13

• [Old] "In the twentieth century, photography enabled the mass reproduction of art works, broadening their accessibility while degrading their individual impact." ☛ https://www.newyorker.com/culture/infinite-scroll/have-iphone-cameras-become-too-smart | Source: New Yorker    

posted Sunday, April 17, 2022 at 07:22:19

• LXQt 1.1.0 Officially Released with File Manager DBus Support, New Themes and More • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/163810    

posted Sunday, April 17, 2022 at 07:22:32

• "After East Timor declared independence from Portugal in 1975, Indonesian dictator Suharto ordered an invasion and tried to crush the national liberation movement." ☛ https://jacobinmag.com/2022/04/australia-indonesia-cover-up-atrocities-east-timor-suharto-annexation/ | Source: Jacobin Magazine    

posted Sunday, April 17, 2022 at 07:24:41

• [Old] "Among EU nations, there are wide gaps between which countries import the most Russian gas in quantity and which are most dependent on the Russian gas they import" ☛ https://thehill.com/policy/equilibrium-sustainability/3260553-these-european-countries-are-the-most-dependent-on-russian-gas/ | Source: The Hill    

posted Sunday, April 17, 2022 at 07:25:10

• "Violent riots by Muslim migrant groups broke out in Sweden after the announcement that they were going to stage a Koran burning." ☛ https://medforth.biz/sweden-rioting-muslim-mobs-even-attack-the-fire-brigade-attempting-to-extinguish-the-fires-caused-by-the-rioters-videos/ | Source: Medforth    

posted Sunday, April 17, 2022 at 07:25:18

• "Our actions have shown that freedom of speech and freedom of peaceful assembly no longer exists in Sweden. Now, Sharia is the law of the land." ☛ https://rairfoundation.com/quran-riots-in-sweden-islamic-migrants-violently-seize-control-as-police-retreat-videos/ | Source: RAIR Foundation    

posted Sunday, April 17, 2022 at 07:25:24

• "The state chief minister took to Twitter and appealed to people to maintain peace and harmony" ☛ https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/04/india-policeman-rescues-infant-flames-after-muslim-ashlyn-davis/ | Source: Frontpage Magazine    

posted Sunday, April 17, 2022 at 07:25:36

• "McNally’s idea for how to implement a tracking system is quite unique, as it involves placing a particulate matter-sensing package" ☛ https://blog.arduino.cc/2022/04/15/tracking-the-harmful-particulate-pollution-from-wildfires-intelligently/ | Source: Arduino    

posted Sunday, April 17, 2022 at 07:27:41

• "I have now had one cloudy day, and one much more sunny day." ☛ https://www.revk.uk/2022/04/solar-install-part-3-performance.html | Source: RevK    

posted Sunday, April 17, 2022 at 07:29:22

• "I installed monitoring for power usage a few months ago. This is using Shelly EM power monitoring modules with current clamps" ☛ https://www.revk.uk/2022/04/solar-install-part-2-tasmotashelly-em.html | Source: RevK    

posted Sunday, April 17, 2022 at 07:29:28

• "I finally have a solar install, and a battery on order." ☛ https://www.revk.uk/2022/04/solar-install-part-1.html | Source: RevK    

posted Sunday, April 17, 2022 at 07:29:35

• "In other words, we can say that it’s nothing but a safe and reliable database of records." ☛ https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/5-reasons-to-become-a-blockchain-developer/ | Source: Geeks For Geeks    

posted Sunday, April 17, 2022 at 07:30:04

• "This RfC was open to community input between January 10, 2022 and April 12, 2022." ☛ https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Stop_accepting_cryptocurrency_donations |    

posted Sunday, April 17, 2022 at 07:30:12

• "So much for that. Add an unexpected family death into the mix. At least this is all getting out of the way while I'm young." gemini://harrison.cafe/it-pours-2    

posted Sunday, April 17, 2022 at 07:33:58

• "Perhaps related to this, I’ve drastically reduced my participation in and consumption of social media over the last several months." gemini://degrowther.smol.pub/20220416_updating_inconsistently    

posted Sunday, April 17, 2022 at 07:34:54

• "Leysner is one of the tens of thousands of victims of what the Dutch have dubbed the “toeslagenaffaire,” or the child care benefits scandal." ☛ https://www.politico.eu/article/dutch-scandal-serves-as-a-warning-for-europe-over-risks-of-using-algorithms/ | Source: Politico    

posted Sunday, April 17, 2022 at 07:36:10

• "The French Presidency is aiming to loosen restrictions on law enforcement use of "artificial intelligence" technology" ☛ https://www.statewatch.org/news/2022/april/eu-ai-act-plans-to-loosen-controls-on-law-enforcement-use-of-artificial-intelligence/ | Source: State Watch    

posted Sunday, April 17, 2022 at 07:36:20

• [Old] "The European Union institutions are taking the significant step to regulate artificial intelligence systems" ☛ https://edri.org/our-work/civil-society-calls-on-the-eu-to-ban-predictive-ai-systems-in-policing-and-criminal-justice-in-the-ai-act/ | Source: EDRI    

posted Sunday, April 17, 2022 at 07:36:28

• "This month marked my first time filing taxes in two countries, and I can assure you it is the worst." ☛ https://drewdevault.com/2022/04/15/Status-update-April-2022.html | Source: Drew DeVault    

posted Sunday, April 17, 2022 at 07:36:35

• "Following a suspension last month, major streaming site Lookmovie was forced to switch to a new domain." ☛ https://torrentfreak.com/mpa-ace-pounce-on-new-lookmovie-domain-plus-streaming-iptv-sites-220416/ | Source: Torrent Freak    

posted Sunday, April 17, 2022 at 07:37:09

• "The U.S. Helsinki Commission on Monday raised alarm over the detention of Kara-Murza in Moscow" ☛ https://www.newsweek.com/helsinki-commission-calls-russia-release-true-patriot-kara-murza-1697110 | Source: Newsweek    

posted Sunday, April 17, 2022 at 07:42:25

• "When Rushdie was being persecuted, people rightfully recognized that the death decrees issued on him were not protected speech." ☛ https://idiomdrottning.org/free-speech-vs-itself | Source: Idiomdrottning    

posted Sunday, April 17, 2022 at 07:42:39

• "Muhammad Kace, 56, is a former Muslim cleric who converted to Christianity in 2014." ☛ https://www.persecution.org/2022/04/08/christian-youtuber-indonesia-sentenced-10-years-prison/ | Source: ICC    

posted Sunday, April 17, 2022 at 07:42:49

• "While a Muslim, he taught at an Islamic boarding school and went on the hajj pilgrimage to Mecca in Saudi Arabia three times." ☛ https://www.ucanews.com/news/indonesian-christian-jailed-for-10-years-for-blasphemy/96815 | Source: Union Of Catholic Asian News    

posted Sunday, April 17, 2022 at 07:43:03

• "On Thursday afternoon, riots broke out in the Skäggetorp districst of Linköping." ☛ https://medforth.biz/linkoping-sweden-during-the-visit-of-anti-islam-activist-rasmus-paludan-some-opposing-protesters-flee-from-the-police-after-injuring-three-officers-and-destroying-their-vehicles-while-shouting-a/ | Source: Medforth    

posted Sunday, April 17, 2022 at 07:43:14

• "Four Islamist militants have been sentenced to death for killing a prolific Bangladeshi writer more than 18 years ago." ☛ https://thenationonlineng.net/bangladesh-sentences-islamist-militants-for-killing-secular-writer/ |    

posted Sunday, April 17, 2022 at 07:43:24

• "Azad earned the wrath of JMB and other militants and extremists because of his writings challenging bigoted thoughts." ☛ https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/bangladesh-court-sentences-four-islamist-militants-to-death-for-murder-of-writer-humayun-azad/article65318593.ece | Source: The Hindu    

posted Sunday, April 17, 2022 at 07:43:37

• "The illustrated author and academic of Dhaka University was stabbed near Bangla Academy in the capital on February 27, 2004." ☛ https://www.thedailystar.net/news/bangladesh/crime-justice/news/after-18-years-verdict-due-today-3003596 | Source: The Daily Star    

posted Sunday, April 17, 2022 at 07:43:50

• "Nigerian atheist activist Mubarak Bala, detained in April 2020, was sentenced Tuesday to 24 years after pleading guilty to 18 charges in a blasphemy case." ☛ https://www.africanews.com/2022/04/05/nigeria-atheist-activist-mubarak-bala-sentenced-to-24-years-in-blasphemy-case/ | Source: Africa News    

posted Sunday, April 17, 2022 at 07:44:14

• "School librarians have tough jobs. And in 2021, an unprecedented number of attempts to ban books made it even tougher" ☛ https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2022/04/11/librarians-censorship-book-ban | Source: WBUR Radio    

posted Sunday, April 17, 2022 at 07:44:30

• "Yishan Wong, who was Reddit’s chief executive officer for more than two years between 2012 and 2014" ☛ https://www.news.com.au/technology/online/social/former-reddit-chief-says-elon-musk-is-in-for-a-world-of-pain-over-twitter-takeover/news-story/8cf22f9b4996eb4d4498f15bc76f006d | Source: News AU    

posted Sunday, April 17, 2022 at 07:49:32

• "Despite the recent revelation of Musk’s stake in the company, he’s been buying shares since the end of January." ☛ https://jacobinmag.com/2022/04/elon-musk-twitter-shareholder-purchase/ | Source: Jacobin Magazine    

posted Sunday, April 17, 2022 at 07:49:38

• "But Killing added that information, as always, must be fact-checked" ☛ https://www.voanews.com/a/defeating-censorship-about-war-in-ukraine-a-focus-of-ted-conference/6532061.html | Source: VOA News    

posted Sunday, April 17, 2022 at 07:49:47

• "When it comes to manga, censorship will always be an issue needing closer examination, and reports of it happening seem to grow by the month." ☛ https://comicbook.com/anime/news/manga-censorship-controversy-religion-cult/ | Source: Comic Book    

posted Sunday, April 17, 2022 at 07:50:30

• "There are two ways to look at the BBFC. One is as an organisation that does what it says, and classifies things." ☛ https://www.economist.com/britain/2022/04/13/the-classification-of-films-is-changing | Source: The Economist    

posted Sunday, April 17, 2022 at 07:51:05

• "Substance is not their strongest suit." ☛ https://www.michaelwest.com.au/news-corps-easter-albo-shellacking/ | Source: Michael West    

posted Sunday, April 17, 2022 at 07:52:49

• "These sweeping arrests expose the intolerance for independent reporting that has made Somaliland a hostile environment for members of the press" ☛ https://cpj.org/2022/04/fifteen-journalists-detained-for-covering-prison-fight-in-somaliland/ | Source: CPJ    

posted Sunday, April 17, 2022 at 07:52:55

• "Lee’s arrest in 2017 had a chilling effect on Taiwanese human rights activists because at the time he was a relatively low-profile activist" ☛ https://www.voanews.com/a/taiwanese-rights-activist-freed-in-china/6530851.html | Source: VOA News    

posted Sunday, April 17, 2022 at 07:53:36

• "Now your generation is at the forefront of another breakthrough" ☛ https://jacobinmag.com/2022/04/gen-z-join-labor-movement-change-the-world-union-organizing/ | Source: Jacobin Magazine    

posted Sunday, April 17, 2022 at 07:53:55

• "Christ is God" ☛ https://medforth.biz/austria-radical-muslim-beats-man-who-distributed-bibles/ | Source: Medforth    

posted Sunday, April 17, 2022 at 07:54:42

• "The fatwa was released by preacher Mohamed Saleh El-Munajjid, a Syrian national of Palestinian origin who lives in Saudi Arabia" ☛ https://english.alaraby.co.uk/news/outcry-after-egypt-fatwa-calls-non-muslims-infidel | Source: TheNewArab    

posted Sunday, April 17, 2022 at 07:54:55

• "The Human Rights Association (İHD) Delegation for Monitoring Prisons in Marmara Region has announced its findings regarding the rights violations" ☛ https://bianet.org/english/human-rights/260552-prisoners-forced-to-commit-suicide-in-istanbul-transferred-to-other-prisons | Source: BIA Net    

posted Sunday, April 17, 2022 at 07:55:14

• no javascript present https://projects.rys.io/ukrainvasion/    

posted Sunday, April 17, 2022 at 07:55:51

• "As we head into the 2022 congressional elections, the implications of Trump's Big Lie, the January 6 violent insurrection at the Capitol" ☛ https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/04/16/three-key-roles-jan-6-committee-should-play-its-upcoming-public-hearings | Source: Common Dreams    

posted Sunday, April 17, 2022 at 08:00:15

• "Baseball Rebels: The Players, People, and Social Movements That Shook Up the Game and Changed America" ☛ https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/04/16/dont-believe-sanitized-history-jackie-robinson-he-was-radical | Source: Common Dreams    

posted Sunday, April 17, 2022 at 08:00:35

• "I just spent an amazing day at the Smithsonian Museum of African American History" ☛ https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/04/16/teaching-honest-history | Source: Common Dreams    

posted Sunday, April 17, 2022 at 08:01:07

• "If you’re an experienced hacker, you’ve probably run into a problem at some point and thought “let’s make a tool to automate that”." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2022/04/16/a-neat-little-tool-to-reset-the-fuses-on-your-attiny/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Sunday, April 17, 2022 at 08:02:12

• "The days of yore saw telex machines and dot-matrix printers with continuous feed paper churning out data in hardcopy form in offices around the world." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2022/04/16/rss-printer-gives-you-the-hard-copy-news-you-desire/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Sunday, April 17, 2022 at 08:02:23

• Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to SAS Enterprise Miner • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/163811    

posted Sunday, April 17, 2022 at 08:02:42

• "I’m a huge DIY’er. I don’t like to buy things when I can build them myself." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2022/04/16/easy-extensible-open/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Sunday, April 17, 2022 at 08:03:49

• "The News That Didn’t Make the News" ☛ https://www.projectcensored.org/the-project-censored-newsletter-april-2022/ | Source: Project Censored    

posted Sunday, April 17, 2022 at 08:21:24

• "Tens of thousands of anti-far right protesters marched across France on Saturday as opponents of presidential candidate Marine Le Pen seek to form a united front" ☛ https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/04/16/french-elections-tens-thousands-marched-saturday-against-far-right-le-pen | Source: Common Dreams    

posted Sunday, April 17, 2022 at 08:21:44

• "If there’s one thing people love to argue about, it’s charter schools." ☛ https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/04/16/top-5-charter-school-myths-debunked | Source: Common Dreams    

posted Sunday, April 17, 2022 at 08:22:24

• "84 years ago, a teenager built a TV set in a basement in Hammond, Indiana." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2022/04/16/can-you-help-solve-the-mystery-of-this-1930s-tv/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Sunday, April 17, 2022 at 08:22:43

• "Having a pool is great, but it also requires significant monitoring and maintenance to keep it crystal clear and clean." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2022/04/16/iot-pool-monitor-helps-you-keep-it-crystal-clear/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Sunday, April 17, 2022 at 08:22:50

• "We’ve noticed a couple of things about the “Widget from a Single Bolt” genre of metalworking videos" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2022/04/16/tiny-pneumatic-tool-made-from-a-single-ish-bolt/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Sunday, April 17, 2022 at 08:22:58

• "Input devices consisting of optical readers for punched paper tape have been around since the earliest days of computing, so why stop now?" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2022/04/16/paper-tape-reader-self-calibrates-speaks-usb/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Sunday, April 17, 2022 at 08:23:04

• "I’m often asked whether consumers are better or worse off since the modern consumer movement took hold in the nineteen sixties" ☛ https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/04/16/consumer-protection-progress-and-regress-sixties-now | Source: Common Dreams    

posted Sunday, April 17, 2022 at 08:23:25

• Google #Android Leftovers • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/163813    

posted Sunday, April 17, 2022 at 08:23:39

• bucha https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/04/14/video-puts-russian-armored-units-bucha-street-strewn-with-bodies/    

posted Sunday, April 17, 2022 at 08:23:51

• sligo https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/sligo-suspect-planned-to-kill-more-men-in-the-coming-days-33hlwh67d    

posted Sunday, April 17, 2022 at 08:24:06

• Microsoft is organised crime https://www.wsj.com/articles/microsoft-faces-antitrust-complaint-in-europe-about-its-cloud-services-11647463334 wsj paywall    

posted Sunday, April 17, 2022 at 08:24:44

• Snap! https://odysee.com/@BrodieRobertson:5/do-ubuntu's-snap-deserve-so-much:1    

posted Sunday, April 17, 2022 at 08:24:56

• Oil https://www.france24.com/en/africa/20220416-ship-carrying-750-tonnes-of-fuel-sinks-off-tunisia-s-southeast-coast https://www.dw.com/en/tunisia-ship-carrying-750-tons-of-fuel-sinks-off-coast/a-61493926    

posted Sunday, April 17, 2022 at 08:25:15

• People die while weapons companies become rich https://www.axios.com/ukraine-deaths-kyiv-russian-invasion-96e2fcfe-c3df-44d9-9977-14ff68669e11.html    

posted Sunday, April 17, 2022 at 08:25:35

• NATO https://www.thenation.com/article/world/nato-ukraine-debate/    

posted Sunday, April 17, 2022 at 08:25:46

• perfilacion https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=es&tl=en&u=https://algorace.org/2022/03/01/la-sociedad-civil-pide-a-la-ue-que-prohiba-el-uso-de-ia-predictiva-y-de-perfilacion/    

posted Sunday, April 17, 2022 at 08:26:03

• COVID-19 still killing millions ☛ https://truthout.org/articles/uninsured-people-are-left-behind-as-government-covid-19-funding-dries-up/ | Source: TruthOut    

posted Sunday, April 17, 2022 at 08:26:50

• New York City ☛ https://truthout.org/articles/luxury-building-workers-in-new-york-city-authorize-strike/ | Source: TruthOut    

posted Sunday, April 17, 2022 at 08:27:18

• Manchin ☛ https://truthout.org/articles/manchin-visits-alberta-as-canada-ramps-up-us-lobbying-amid-energy-crisis/ | Source: TruthOut    

posted Sunday, April 17, 2022 at 08:27:33

• TPS ☛ https://truthout.org/articles/activists-celebrate-after-biden-grants-tps-status-to-cameroonian-immigrants/ | Source: TruthOut    

posted Sunday, April 17, 2022 at 08:27:50

• "Ghost Gun" ☛ https://truthout.org/articles/beyond-the-ghost-gun-ban-we-need-our-leaders-to-fund-violence-prevention/ | Source: TruthOut    

posted Sunday, April 17, 2022 at 08:28:02

• Abortion ☛ https://truthout.org/articles/liberal-cities-are-not-immune-to-mounting-attacks-on-abortion-rights/ | Source: TruthOut    

posted Sunday, April 17, 2022 at 08:28:12

• Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Oracle MySQL • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/163812    

posted Sunday, April 17, 2022 at 08:29:02

• EC-R3568PC is a compact rugged mini PC based on Rockchip RK3568 SoC https://www.cnx-software.com/2022/04/17/ec-r3568pc-compact-rugged-mini-pc-rockchip-rk3568/    

posted Sunday, April 17, 2022 at 08:30:43

• No mobile phone is good for privacy, due to the topology of the disservice https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/59479.html    

posted Sunday, April 17, 2022 at 08:34:48

• Why did TechRadar REPOST (date change) this sensationalist, misleading garbage??? https://www.techradar.com/news/multiple-vulnerabilities-put-40-million-ubuntu-users-at-risk    

posted Sunday, April 17, 2022 at 08:36:23

• "Windows Defender is a b!t@h.. just bends right over and takes it up rear input.. Emsisoft is a joke... won't find anything until AFTER its found by something else... I've manually quarantined more files than it has done." https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/t/771042/somebodys-screwing-with-me/    

posted Sunday, April 17, 2022 at 08:37:43

• "We have lots of feedback on Pop!_OS, keyboard shortcuts, and backup scripts. We also have comments on installing Linux on Asus computers and talk about some Elementary news" https://goinglinux.com/shownotes.html#glp422    

posted Sunday, April 17, 2022 at 08:39:41

• "Now that I'm back on Pipewire it's time to fix my terrible audio solution and setup a patchbay, and since my original stint on Pipewire there are now some native pipewire patchbays like Qpwgraph which work really well." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDBGsbwMo40    

posted Sunday, April 17, 2022 at 08:40:16

• LOL. Branding mice "mac" and "gaming". They're generic mice, stop with this BS. What next? Mice for women and mice for men? https://fossjon.wordpress.com/2022/04/16/computer-mouse-selection/    

posted Sunday, April 17, 2022 at 08:43:36

• Today’s cars aren’t made to last long or respect the will of drivers/owners/buyers; this is a very big deal! http://techrights.org/2022/04/16/modern-cars/    

posted Sunday, April 17, 2022 at 08:44:11

• Twitter tells me that more than a month after I left entirely the number of so-called ‘impressions’ suddenly quadrupled (or more); this might suggest doctoring by Twitter (which wants to inflate its perceived value) http://techrights.org/2022/04/16/twitter-lies/    

posted Sunday, April 17, 2022 at 08:44:35

• What Is A Chromebook? How Does It Compare To Windows & Mac? • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/163814    

posted Sunday, April 17, 2022 at 08:49:26

• Ubuntu vs Arch Linux for Performance, Gaming & Programming • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/163815    

posted Sunday, April 17, 2022 at 08:49:49

• TechRadar is RE-posting old junk. I think it's a form of SEO abuse.    

posted Sunday, April 17, 2022 at 08:52:34

• Open Hardware/Modding Leftovers • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/163816    

posted Sunday, April 17, 2022 at 08:52:40

• Essentially free • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/163817    

posted Sunday, April 17, 2022 at 08:52:46

• How I scan family photos on Linux | ⚓ https://opensource.com/article/22/4/scan-family-photos-linux ䷉ Source: FreeSW | RedHat | IBM | GNU | Linux    

posted Sunday, April 17, 2022 at 08:53:46

• "Lots and lots of non-fiction in this mix. Maybe a tiny bit better than normal at not buying tons of books that I don't have time to read, although my reading (and particularly my reviewing) rate has been a bit slow lately." https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/journal/2022-04/001.html    

posted Sunday, April 17, 2022 at 08:57:04

• Any PROFOUND practical benefit? Probably not... patent evergreening https://linuxgizmos.com/broadcom-introduces-worlds-first-wi-fi-7-chipset-solutions/    

posted Sunday, April 17, 2022 at 08:57:51

• Today’s #HowTos | #UNIX • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/163818    

posted Sunday, April 17, 2022 at 09:00:09

• Programming Leftovers • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/163819    

posted Sunday, April 17, 2022 at 09:54:17

• Today’s 𝘛𝘶𝘹 𝘔𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴 Leftovers • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/163820    

posted Sunday, April 17, 2022 at 09:54:23

• "Turns out that for a few use cases, the Steam Deck might actually be the best handheld out there to play Nintendo games. A Steam Deck owner on Twitter has shown how the Deck controls are ideally suited to support the Metroid Prime Trilogy." https://boilingsteam.com/metroid-prime-trilogy-a-great-fit-for-the-steam-deck/    

posted Sunday, April 17, 2022 at 10:01:34

• Today in #Techrights • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/163821    

posted Sunday, April 17, 2022 at 10:04:32

• Double-Masked, Double Purpose (or How to Compel Selfish People and COVIDiots to Respect Social Distance) http://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2022/04/17/social-distance/    

posted Sunday, April 17, 2022 at 10:15:31

• Reuters was printing lies for criminals from the EPO half a decade ago. This is a lie. And not only that; EPO violates the EPC. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-europe-patent-usa-idUSKCN11K2SB    

posted Sunday, April 17, 2022 at 10:23:30

• No, they don't give a crap about the European Patent Convention (EPC). They routinely violate it. https://www.mondaq.com/uk/patent/1112360/europct-patent-application-route    

posted Sunday, April 17, 2022 at 10:24:21

• Borders are guarded better by ensuring neighbours have no incentive to escape. https://news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/bidens-plan-to-end-border-wall-work-draws-appeal-by-arizona    

posted Sunday, April 17, 2022 at 10:25:20

• Prepear is not an apple https://www.mondaq.com/uk/patent/1162272/comparing-apples-with-pears-again    

posted Sunday, April 17, 2022 at 10:26:30

• Charging you even more for legally-invalid patents https://www.mondaq.com/uk/patent/1160516/epo-to-increase-official-fees-from-1-april-2022    

posted Sunday, April 17, 2022 at 10:30:44

• Nokia is operating via patent trolls these days; this is what Microsoft turned Nokia into... https://www.worldipreview.com/news/continental-loses-automotive-patent-pool-suit-22142    

posted Sunday, April 17, 2022 at 10:31:48

• "South Korea-based Samsung and Irish company Solas OLED have agreed to settle a patent suit, less than half a year after Samsung lost challenges against the finding that it owes approximately $77 million." https://www.worldipreview.com/news/samsung-and-solas-seek-to-settle-patent-dispute-22164    

posted Sunday, April 17, 2022 at 10:32:25

• The US Patent and Trademark Office has announced that it will no longer grant requests from Russia’s IP office to participate in the Global Patent Prosecution Highway.   

posted Sunday, April 17, 2022 at 10:33:03

• They've managed to put patent litigation ahead of actual innovation as the priority https://www.mondaq.com/france/patent/1171148/what-are-patent-prosecution-highway-pph-programmes-and-should-you-be-using-them    

posted Sunday, April 17, 2022 at 10:35:27

• Watch out, Rocky Linux? https://www.mondaq.com/trademark/1172372/rocky-opposition-knocked-out-by-concept-of-trademark-neutralisation    

posted Sunday, April 17, 2022 at 10:36:25

• "The US Patent and Trademark Office has announced that it will no longer grant requests from Russia’s IP office to participate in the Global Patent Prosecution Highway." https://www.worldipreview.com/news/uspto-stops-fast-track-patent-examinations-from-rospatent-22176    

posted Sunday, April 17, 2022 at 10:37:14

• The mole at the USPTO (Iancu) did its damage https://www.iam-media.com/in-house-operations/unified-patents-ipr-filings-shrink-case-outcomes-show-impact-npes see http://techrights.org/wiki/index.php/Andrei_Iancu    

posted Sunday, April 17, 2022 at 10:55:39

• My common Gemini crawler pitfalls gemini://gemini.conman.org/boston/2022/04/16.1    

posted Sunday, April 17, 2022 at 10:57:14

• 2022-04-16: 10,000 years in real life and in popular culture gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/    

posted Sunday, April 17, 2022 at 10:58:35

• Top Apache projects in 2021: From Superset, to NuttX ⚓ https://thestack.technology/top-apache-projects-in-2021-from-superset-to-nuttx/ ䷉ Source: thestack    

posted Sunday, April 17, 2022 at 13:57:18

• False dichotomy: "low-wage workers" and "careers in tech" https://www.benzinga.com/pressreleases/22/04/n26638094/the-hg-foundation-backs-merit-america-to-help-low-wage-workers-access-careers-in-tech many tech jos are low paid    

posted Sunday, April 17, 2022 at 13:58:53

• As if they didn't know what voters the GOP targets... https://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/story/news/2022/04/14/vermont-leaders-respond-attacks-lgbtq-vermonters/7315954001/    

posted Sunday, April 17, 2022 at 13:59:44

• Old tactics: pretend that even atheists are religious nuts. For expressing technical opposition to a technical issue. https://venturebeat.com/2012/12/07/president-of-the-free-software-foundation-unleashes-old-testament-wrath-on-ubuntu-linux-spyware/    

posted Sunday, April 17, 2022 at 14:00:44

• "To be honest, I hadn't even considered the environmental consequences of my reading medium - perhaps when my kids are a bit older (they've just turned 5) they'll also help me think harder about such things!" gemini://thelambdalab.xyz/phlog/2019-10-30-Ebooks-in-Gopherspace-(reply-to-dgold).txt    

posted Sunday, April 17, 2022 at 14:02:28

• "I agree that most of the technical content hosted on Gemini is about Gemini itself, and usually repeating the same points, because I guess there are bits from Gemini that are not ideal and there is a lot of conversation around them." gemini://capsule.usebox.net/gemlog/20220417-re-stepping-away-from-gemini.gmi    

posted Sunday, April 17, 2022 at 16:39:46

• "Here's are just a whole bunch of RSS feeds, loosly grouped, that I think are worth subscribing to over on the Web." gemini://gemini.rlamacraft.uk/misc/rssFeeds.gmi    

posted Sunday, April 17, 2022 at 16:40:32

• Pine Phone Pro gemini://kwiecien.us/gemlog/202204170145.gmi "it fits in your pocket and has touchscreen input. It also just so happens to do phone calls, SMS, and connect to mobile data."    

posted Sunday, April 17, 2022 at 16:41:30

• "Of course, that's why I left... everything just stays the same, and there is more to life than staying in one place." gemini://kwiecien.us/gemlog/202204170026.gmi    

posted Sunday, April 17, 2022 at 16:42:21

• LXQt 1.1 Desktop Environment Is Here Based on the Qt 5.15 • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/163822    

posted Sunday, April 17, 2022 at 19:06:53

• Google #Android Leftovers • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/163823    

posted Sunday, April 17, 2022 at 19:07:00

• Excellent Free Tutorials to Learn Pony - LinuxLinks ⚓ https://www.linuxlinks.com/excellent-free-tutorials-learn-pony/ ䷉ Source: LinuxLinks | GNU | Linux | FreeSW    

posted Sunday, April 17, 2022 at 20:33:31

• Solaris Might Be Free If You Want It | Hackaday http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/163642#comment-33373   

posted Sunday, April 17, 2022 at 20:38:33

• With unconditional help from coup-installed EPO presidents Benoît Battistelli and António Campinos Team UPC is pushing to replace legitimate, common courts with a bunch of kangaroo courts like the EPO's internal tribunals; due to the demise if not death of journalism there’s nobody left to challenge them http://techrights.org/2022/04/17/upc-vacuum/    

posted Sunday, April 17, 2022 at 20:41:52

• Bristows over the years (the above people have since then stepped down) http://techrights.org/2022/04/17/bristows-cried-wolf/    

posted Sunday, April 17, 2022 at 20:42:06

• The EPO and the EU can become casualties of the cross-Atlantic patent litigation ‘cartel’, fronted by Benoît Battistelli and António Campinos http://techrights.org/2022/04/17/upc-npc/    

posted Sunday, April 17, 2022 at 20:42:27

• European software patents? Or proper patents one can successfully enforce in a court? (A real court, not UPC unicorns and kangaroos) http://techrights.org/2022/04/17/crisis-of-legitimacy-eu-upc-epo/    

posted Sunday, April 17, 2022 at 20:42:50

• This talk was uploaded a long time ago. “FSF staff welcomed the talented illustrator and artist David Revoy, who created the beautiful designs commemorating our “coral anniversary..." http://techrights.org/2022/04/17/david-revoy-freesw/    

posted Sunday, April 17, 2022 at 20:43:14

• Today’s #HowTos | #UNIX • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/163824    

posted Sunday, April 17, 2022 at 20:44:19

• Seems like a security bug rather than feature https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2022/04/ubuntu-22-04-remote-desktop-control/    

posted Sunday, April 17, 2022 at 22:12:54

• Windows killer https://www.androidpolice.com/install-chrome-os-flex-chromebook-explainer/    

posted Sunday, April 17, 2022 at 22:17:41

• This Week in Linux 194: LXQt, SUSE’s Next-Gen OS, MX Linux, OpenSSH, OpenRazer, Bitwig, StarLabs and more Linux news! - TuxDigital ⚓ https://tuxdigital.com/podcasts/this-week-in-linux/twil-194/ ䷉ Source: TuxDigital | GNU | Linux    

posted Sunday, April 17, 2022 at 22:19:35

• http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/163670#comment-33376    

posted Sunday, April 17, 2022 at 22:22:00

• A headline at Hot Hardware calls it “a sexy Linux laptop with deep learning chops… being pitched as the world’s most powerful laptop for machine learning workloads.”    

posted Sunday, April 17, 2022 at 22:22:37

• A headline at Hot Hardware calls it “a sexy Linux laptop with deep learning chops… being pitched as the world’s most powerful laptop for machine learning workloads.” http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/163670#comment-33376    

posted Sunday, April 17, 2022 at 22:22:47

• Caolán McNamara: "I thought I'd try some of the built-in GTK CSS support. So here we animate the widget to reduce its left and right margins inwards a little and its opacity to 50% before returning to its original properties." http://caolanm.blogspot.com/    

posted Sunday, April 17, 2022 at 22:24:08

• MUTTER_DEBUG_USE_KMS_MODIFIERS=0 https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/merge_requests/2359    

posted Sunday, April 17, 2022 at 22:25:35

• A few words of relevance to Techrights and its strategy, future direction, and technical work http://techrights.org/2022/04/17/covering-patents-2022/    

posted Sunday, April 17, 2022 at 22:27:09

• The EPO will never be the same; for 12 years it has been governed by gangsters, mobsters or banksters from France http://techrights.org/2022/04/17/meme-godly-oversight-at-the-epo/    

posted Sunday, April 17, 2022 at 22:27:35

• "But what is the main thing in the Geminispace? I’m always repeating that the answer is people. Gemini protocol gathered people who were attracted by its idea." gemini://szczezuja.space/gemlog/2022-04-17-Re-stepping-away-from-gemini.gmi    

posted Sunday, April 17, 2022 at 22:32:06

• "Unifont 14.0.03 is now available." http://savannah.gnu.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=10161    

posted Sunday, April 17, 2022 at 22:34:58

• GNU Mailutils - News: Version 3.15 http://savannah.gnu.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=10160    

posted Sunday, April 17, 2022 at 22:35:48

• "We had a wonderful week in the world of Linux Releases with the releases of EndeavourOS 22.1, SparkyLinux 2022.04, Bluestar Linux 5.17.2, and Manjaro 21.2.6." https://www.linuxmadesimple.info/2022/04/linux-weekly-roundup-178.html    

posted Sunday, April 17, 2022 at 22:37:48

• "In this video, I discuss five incredibly useful command line utilities: uname, hostname, basename, dirname and logname. All of these programs are part of the GNU core utilities that are installed on every GNU/Linux distribution." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zT37cVNR1w    

posted Sunday, April 17, 2022 at 22:38:50

• Today’s #HowTos | #UNIX • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/163825    

posted Sunday, April 17, 2022 at 22:50:13

• Today’s #HowTos | #UNIX • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/163825    

posted Sunday, April 17, 2022 at 22:54:08

• Software Patents: "The ‘942 patent relates to automatic file sharing across a distributed network." https://www.unifiedpatents.com/insights/2022/4/15/topia-technology-patent-challenged    

posted Monday, April 18, 2022 at 00:01:05

• "The ’257 patent relates to transmitting digital content from a mobile apparatus to a wireless output device and has been asserted against Roku." https://www.unifiedpatents.com/insights/2022/4/11/flexiworld-patent-challenged    

posted Monday, April 18, 2022 at 00:03:58

posted Friday, April 15, 2022 at 16:19:14