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  • Still harping about last year's news while Windows is actively hijacked, even remotely, and there are np patches https://www.esecurityplanet.com/threats/log4j-vulnerability-ai-big-data-threat/    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 00:07:59


  • Today in #Techrights • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/165039    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 00:08:22


  • How to manage your Debian install with Smxi https://www.addictivetips.com/ubuntu-linux-tips/how-to-manage-your-debian-install-with-smxi/    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 00:11:36


  • Microsoft-connected sites amplifying Micrososft's own anti-Linux FUD, which distracts from the worst threats and culprits https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/microsoft-detects-massive-surge-in-linux-xorddos-malware-activity/    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 00:14:05


  • Has Jim Zemlin got his Microsoft logo tattoo yet?    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 00:14:47


  • GNU program, not Linux command https://bytexd.com/linux-tail-command-with-examples/    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 00:15:46


  • Today’s #HowTos | #UNIX • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/165040    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 00:17:57


  • case insensitive string comparisons in C https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2022/05/19/case-insensitive-string-comparisons-in-c/    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 00:18:01


  • They release it in a Microsoft/NSA proprietary software site. No, it is not trustworthy. https://blog.rust-lang.org/2022/05/19/Rust-1.61.0.html    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 00:19:02


  • Is Framework Laptop bribing bloggers again?    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 00:20:18


  • Microsofters selling proprietary snake-oil for "Linux" https://www.crowdstrike.com/blog/crowdstrike-cloud-security-extends-to-red-hat-enterprise-linux-versions/    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 00:22:27


  • Promotional VPN webspam disguised as 'article' https://www.techradar.com/news/surfshark-vpn-for-linux-gets-a-breakthrough-new-feature    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 00:23:31


  • Budgie on Fedora, Rocky Linux funding - Linux and open source news - Invidious https://yewtu.be/watch?v=ZQrvnQLcku8    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 00:27:22


  • "Why Google's new open-source security effort might fall a bit short, the Arch snag this week, a big win for Right to Repair, and why you might soon have a new favorite filesystem." https://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/148637/linux-action-news-241/    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 00:27:56


  • Meander Coil++ enables safe, wireless power transmission | Arduino Blog ⚓ https://blog.arduino.cc/2022/05/19/meander-coil-enables-safe-wireless-power-transmission/ ䷉ Source: Arduino | Hardware | OpenHardware | Hacking    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 00:28:34


  • The 'Linux' Foundation lets proprietary software companies which attack security and sometimes attack Linux... speak 'for' it https://linuxfoundation.org/blog/open-source-software-security-turning-sand-into-concrete/    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 00:30:18


  • Some people speak negatively about me just because I criticise companies that pay them.    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 00:32:45


  • "Trust, however, will not just appear out of the blue. Trust needs to be achieved somehow. Can algorithm suggested "friends" a la Linkedin, Xing, facebook etc. be trusted? Nope. Can members of smaller groups like the mailing list of a project be trusted? Maybe." gemini://ew.srht.site/en/2022/20220519-re-sincere-conversation.gmi    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 00:33:32


  • "Occasionally there have been arguments along the lines that tranport layer security (TLS) is too complicated and should be removed from gemini (and other sites, too). I disagree." gemini://ew.srht.site/en/2022/20220519-re-tls-or-not.gmi    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 00:34:17


  • epo.org has been turned into a non-stop propaganda machine of Benoît Battistelli and António Campinos because the EPO routinely breaks the law; it’s rather tasteless that while Ukrainians are dying the EPO’s mob exploits Ukraine for PR purposes http://techrights.org/2022/05/19/pr-of-epo-kicks-in/    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 00:35:51


  • While the EPO‘s António Campinos incites people (and politicians) to break the law he’s also attacking, robbing, and lying to his own staff; thankfully, his staff isn’t gullible enough and some MEPs are sympathetic http://techrights.org/2022/05/19/meme-epo-budget-tanking/    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 00:36:09


  • António Campinos is lying to his staff and losing his temper when challenged about it; Like Benoît Battistelli, who ‘fixed’ this job for his banker buddy (despite a clear lack of qualifications and relevant experience), he’s just robbing the EPO’s staff http://techrights.org/2022/05/19/csc-on-epo-heist/    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 00:36:27


  • Security, Fear-mongering, and Openwashing • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/165041    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 00:36:46


  • CNN stops bothering to hide that the economy has turned sour. - BaronHK’s Rants ⚓ https://baronhk.wordpress.com/2022/05/19/cnn-stops-bothering-to-hide-that-the-economy-has-turned-sour/ ䷉ Source: baronhk    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 00:37:18


  • "Nvidia has been receiving a lot of positive responses on there open source driver project but they've also had plenty of people trolling the repo and if you're one of the people doing this please stop, you're not helping anyone." https://yewtu.be/watch?v=a6tx5PCZOPg    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 00:38:27


  • "A couple of months back, I did a video on creating my very first GTK app using Haskell. And it was a lot of fun! So let's continue along on this journey. Today, I'm creating a GTK app in less than an hour from start to finish using Haskell. You can do this too! You won't need to really know much about GTK or Haskell to follow along with me for this one." https://yewtu.be/watch?v=ViW-bcNQ6Lc    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 00:38:57


  • "Pepper&Carrot episode 37 production report: an important milestone today. The alpha version (still in French) was posted to proofreaders." https://www.davidrevoy.com/article908/ep37-production-report-desk-setup    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 00:40:54


  • Videos: GTK, Nvidia, and More • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/165042    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 00:44:59


  • Today’s #HowTos | #UNIX • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/165043    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 00:45:18


  • Software: Inkscape, Docspell, and Organize • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/165044    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 00:45:25


  • "I recently read about a study whose findings were that people tend to swear more easily if it wasn’t in their mother’s tongue. Their rationale was that people associate less emotions with the translations of swear words as they would do with those in their native language" https://blog.jabberhead.tk/2022/05/19/europe-trip-journal-entry-17-separation-of-concerns/    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 00:46:00


  • "I’m just so sick and tired and goddamned disgusted by it all. I’ve tuned out advertising completely. I don’t have any streaming disservices in my house. I watch movies and stuff on discs. Usually ones I borrowed at the library, which I have to pay taxes for whether I use it or not." https://baronhk.wordpress.com/2022/05/19/cnn-stops-bothering-to-hide-that-the-economy-has-turned-sour/    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 00:47:30


  • "The Democrat Party and the Republican Party that let laissez-faire Crapitalism dictate trade policy, who bankrupted us as a nation, who convinced us all we could “just go shopping” to cure what ails you, have no answers for how to fix anything, because they’re the ones who don’t really want to fix it." https://baronhk.wordpress.com/2022/05/19/cnn-stops-bothering-to-hide-that-the-economy-has-turned-sour/    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 00:48:04


  • "I believe that economists will eventually call this the “app” or “smartphone” bubble, because it seems like everything involving those is shit hitting the fan, but there are lots of other bubbles too, like “cryptocurrencies”." https://baronhk.wordpress.com/2022/05/19/cnn-stops-bothering-to-hide-that-the-economy-has-turned-sour/    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 00:48:41


  • My Favorite Modules: Time::Piece | Tom Wyant [blogs.perl.org] ⚓ http://blogs.perl.org/users/tom_wyant/2022/05/my-favorite-modules-timepiece.html ䷉ Source: perl    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 00:49:45


  • Replacing proper languages with something controlled by Microsoft and the NSA... https://blog.ganneff.de/2022/05/rust-munin-munin-plugin.html    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 00:51:03


  • Larabel today: yes, I keep the 'gifts' https://www.phoronix.net/image.php?id=system76-thelio-major&image=thelio_major_2_med    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 00:52:35


  • Is this journalism or a commercial? https://www.crn.com/news/cloud/red-hat-ceo-open-hybrid-cloud-will-be-defined-by-hardware-innovation-at-the-edge-    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 00:54:38


  • Red Hat Leftovers/Puff Pieces • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/165045    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 00:59:17


  • Programming Leftovers • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/165046    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 01:02:31


  • Makes the assumption you have systemd gemini://altesq.net/~masqq/gemlog/2022-05-18.gmi    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 01:18:00


  • #Techrights Bulletin for Thursday, May 19, 2022 http://techrights.org/txt full archive: http://techrights.org/txt-archives #gnu #linux #freesw #plaintext    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 06:37:31


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

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 06:37:35


  • "EDITOR IS FINE. YOU FUCK IT, IT ONLY GET BLOATED AND STILL ANNOYING TO USE. GO TO VIMTUTOR, PRACTICE WITH "LEARN VIMSCRIPT THE HARD WAY." THEN YOU NOT NEED DUMB SHIT PUT INTO EDITOR." gemini://skylarhill.me/posts/dumb-meme.gmi    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 06:40:28


  • "Not everyone is working on the shell all day long. This is a choice everyone can make, but it is by no means compelling. I do use the i3/sway window managers, so I'm clearly working in a GUI envionment. However, a tiling window manager full of terminal/bash frames is indistinguishable from the pure console for many people." gemini://ew.srht.site/en/2022/20220519-re-bloat.gmi    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 06:41:32


  • Cheetah a Day — Day 593: feed those babies gemini://nytpu.com/cheetahs/D593.jpg    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 06:43:31


  • Snow Leopard a Day — Day 236 gemini://nytpu.com/sneps/D236.jpg    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 06:43:46


  • "Regarding naivete, I can identify how, when becoming more privacy-aware, I stopped using my legal name online, I deleted a lot of traces and connections, and I went "into the dark"." gemini://compudanzas.net/biosejo_120220519.gmi    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 06:45:32


  • Oracle Linux 8.6 is out. https://www.oracle.com/linux/    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 06:49:47


  • Things Are Getting Rusty In Kernel Land | Hackaday ⚓ https://hackaday.com/2022/05/17/things-are-getting-rusty-in-kernel-land/ ䷉ Source: hackaday    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 06:51:01


  • Crouton's way https://www.slashgear.com/869314/how-to-set-up-linux-on-your-chromebook/    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 06:52:09


  • Firefox for Android no longer gives the user control over the browsing experience. Privacy Browser turns off JavaScript by default. - BaronHK’s Rants ⚓ https://baronhk.wordpress.com/2022/05/20/firefox-for-android-no-longer-gives-the-user-control-over-the-browsing-experience-privacy-browser-turns-off-javascript-by-default/ ䷉ Source: baronhk    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 06:52:53


  • "It said that Tesla's "lack of a low-carbon strategy" and "codes of business conduct," along with racism and poor working conditions reported at Tesla's factory in Fremont, California, affected the score." https://www.cnbc.com/2022/05/18/why-tesla-was-kicked-out-of-the-sp-500s-esg-index.html    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 06:54:12


  • Microsoft-connected sites continue to attack "Linux" https://securityboulevard.com/2022/05/security-bsides-sofia-2022-sergey-kostovs-how-to-collect-linux-malware/ see http://techrights.org/2019/09/09/attacking-foss-by-proxy/    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 06:54:50


  • Haha. No. Copying to AWS is NOT A BACKUP. Copying data to AWS is a SECURITY BREACH! https://www.lisenet.com/2022/backup-kubernetes-cluster-resources-to-aws-s3-with-velero/    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 06:56:34


  • Speaking of security breach, do not use proprietary software https://itwire.com/security/experts-urge-vmware-users-to-patch-critical-flaws-right-away.html VMware used projection tactics http://techrights.org/wiki/VMware#2022    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 06:57:51


  • "EasyOS is an experimental distribution, subject to change as I explore new ideas. I want to go into an exploratory binge now, toying with some fundamental structural changes, so might be a bit unresponsive to any questions posted on the forum." https://bkhome.org/news/202205/time-out-to-explore-ideas.html    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 06:59:54


  • EasyOS/Debian: Easy Bookworm version 0.3 released https://bkhome.org/news/202205/easy-bookworm-version-03-released.html    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 07:00:26


  • Linux Foundation became a diploma mill company that uses its money for paid-for Webspam while it is oppressing Linux and propping up the agenda of proprietary giants https://linuxfoundation.org/blog/success-story-preparing-for-kubernetes-certification-improves-a-platform-development-engineers-skills/    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 07:01:55


  • init: add "hostname" kernel parameter (kernel/git/akpm/mm.git - akpm's fork of linux.git) ⚓ https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm.git/commit/?h=mm-everything&id=8282016618874dbc195a15b2aacf34db1c09bfc2 ䷉ Source: git    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 07:08:56


  • Today’s #HowTos | #UNIX • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/165047    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 07:09:08


  • Announcing the release of Oracle Linux 8 Update 6 • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/165048    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 07:09:15


  • "I ended up on the phone with Crapital One for another hour before giving up. They just don’t want to help their customers with the dispute resolution process." https://baronhk.wordpress.com/2022/05/20/capital-one-tells-me-to-get-a-letter-from-the-buick-dealership-for-my-batteries-plus-dispute-and-then-says-it-doesnt-count/    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 07:10:21


  • iTWire - Eight months after Huawei CFO freed, Canada bans Chinese telco gear ⚓ https://itwire.com/government-tech-policy/eight-months-after-huawei-cfo-freed,-canada-bans-chinese-telco-gear.html ䷉ Source: itwire    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 07:11:32


  • Intel Arc Graphics Cards Get ’VRAM Self-Refresh’ Feature In Latest Linux Drivers ⚓ https://wccftech.com/intel-arc-graphics-cards-get-vram-self-refresh-feature-in-latest-linux-drivers/ ䷉ Source: wccftech    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 07:12:19


  • "Introducing metalfinder, a cli tool to find concerts using your local music collection! At the moment, it scans your music collection, creates a list of artists and queries Bandsintown for concerts in your town. Multiple output formats are supported, but I mainly use the ATOM one, as I'm a heavy feed reader user." https://veronneau.org/introducing-metalfinder.html    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 07:13:21


  • Rockchip RK3588 Pico-ITX board launched with four-node cluster box (Crowdfunding) - CNX Software ⚓ https://www.cnx-software.com/2022/05/20/rockchip-rk3588-pico-itx-board-launched-with-four-nodes-cluster-box/ ䷉ Source: Linux | GNU | Hardware | cnxsoftware    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 07:14:40


  • Today’s #HowTos | #UNIX • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/165049    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 07:20:09


  • Firefox for Android no longer gives the user control over the browsing experience. Privacy Browser turns off JavaScript by default. • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/165050    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 07:27:49


  • Louis-Philippe Véronneau - Introducing metalfinder • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/165051    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 07:27:57


  • "Ready for even more improvements to come to the KDE Plasma desktop? I know I am and Plasma 5.25 Beta is now available" ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2022/05/kde-plasma-525-beta-is-out-now-for-testing/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 07:30:18


  • "Old World is a new Native Linux historical strategy game from Soren Johnson" ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2022/05/old-world-from-the-civilization-iv-designer-releases-on-steam-along-with-linux-support/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 07:30:41


  • "Broken Sword 5 - the Serpent's Curse from Revolution Software just had a big update" ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2022/05/broken-sword-5-the-serpents-curse-gets-spruced-up-works-on-steam-deck/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 07:30:56


  • "Having you been holding out for the Native Linux port of Psychonauts 2?" ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2022/05/the-linux-port-of-psychonauts-2-will-land-next-week/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 07:32:07


  • Mesa 22.1.0 out now improving open source graphics http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/165010#comment-33741   

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 07:33:01


  • "Are you a user of NoiseTorch? It's a popular way of getting some pretty great noise suppression on your microphone" ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2022/05/developer-of-popular-noise-suppression-tool-noisetorch-has-dev-machine-compromised/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 07:33:53


  • Interesting. Yesterday in gamingonlinux 4 out of 7 articles (a majority) were not about games at all!    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 07:36:31


  • "The report is based on interviews of 1,296 information technology (IT) leaders from 14 countries" ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/red-hats-state-enterprise-open-source-report-highlights-government-sector | Source: Red Hat Official http://techrights.org/2022/03/03/state-of-proprietary-software/    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 07:37:16


  • "Supporting up to four Raspberry Pi CM4 or Jetson Nano modules, the Turing Pi 2 is the newest cluster module from the same company that launched the Turing Pi V2 last year." ☛ https://linuxgizmos.com/raspberry-pi-cm4-cluster-board-includes-rockchip-rk3588-soc-support/ | Source: Linux Gizmos    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 07:38:09


  • Kubernetes 1.24: Introducing Non-Graceful Node Shutdown Alpha | Kubernetes ⚓ https://kubernetes.io/blog/2022/05/20/kubernetes-1-24-non-graceful-node-shutdown-alpha/ ䷉ Source: kubernetes    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 07:38:55


  • Bob the Angry Flower - Limited Nuclear War ⚓ http://www.angryflower.com/1448.html ䷉ Source: angryflower    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 07:39:16


  • Gulag is selling FUD https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/introducing-assured-open-source-software-service Avoid Gulag, it's no longer working for us in any way; it's an NSA front, one of many...    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 07:40:12


  • Germany... https://english.alarabiya.net/News/world/2022/05/18/Suspended-sentence-for-German-woman-who-joined-ISIS-aged-15-    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 07:40:27


  • Worse than Europe https://bianet.org/english/lgbti/262071-leaflets-advising-stoning-lgbti-s-to-death-distributed-in-turkey-s-eskisehir    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 07:40:44


  • old: FSF on "liberation" https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/take-the-next-step-in-living-liberation-watch-the-libreplanet-2022-videos-today    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 07:40:59


  • How Often Can You Be Infected With the Coronavirus? - The New York Times ⚓ https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/16/health/covid-reinfection.html ䷉ Source: nytimes    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 07:41:14


  • Putin plays his asshole card | I, Cringely ⚓ https://www.cringely.com/2022/05/18/putin-plays-his-asshole-card/ ䷉ Source: cringely    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 07:41:34


  • How Bill Gates Impeded Global Access to Covid Vaccines - neritam ⚓ https://neritam.wordpress.com/2022/05/18/how-bill-gates-impeded-global-access-to-covid-vaccines/ ䷉ Source: neritam    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 07:42:02


  • Software patents should not be legal, let alone "essential" https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-regulation/have-your-say/initiatives/13109-Intellectual-property-new-framework-for-standard-essential-patents_en    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 07:42:20


  • OnlyFans Star Got Her Instagram Back by Sleeping With Facebook Employees ⚓ https://www.dailydot.com/irl/kittylixo-onlyfans-instagram-employees/ ䷉ Source: dailydot    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 07:42:53


  • inkscape https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=es&tl=en&u=https://www.muylinux.com/2022/05/19/inkscape-1-2/    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 07:43:06


  • "While it’s true that some plants thrive on neglect, many of them do just fine with a few ounces of water once a week" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2022/05/19/water-your-plants-just-four-times-per-year/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 07:44:10


  • "Once you get tired of printing keychains and earbud holders with your 3D printer" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2022/05/19/put-a-new-spin-on-your-3d-printed-parts/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 07:44:26


  • Assange ☛ https://dontextraditeassange.com/post/letter-from-adolfo-perez-esquivel-nobel-peace-laureate-to-uk-secretary-of-state-priti-patel/ | Source: Don't Extradite Assange    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 07:45:25


  • "This war must be settled at the negotiating table, not on the battlefield!" ☛ https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/05/19/peace-advocates-sound-warnings-progressive-lawmakers-go-all-40-billion-ukraine-war | Source: Common Dreams    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 07:45:46


  • "Abortion is currently only legal in Oklahoma until about six weeks of pregnancy." ☛ https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/05/19/oklahoma-lawmakers-pass-strictest-us-abortion-ban-while-roe-still-stands | Source: Common Dreams    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 07:50:32


  • War on books ☛ https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/05/19/judy-blume-mo-willems-among-1300-childrens-authors-condemn-wave-book-suppression | Source: Common Dreams    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 07:51:00


  • "Desperation, decay, and violence are far from exceptional for Rikers." ☛ https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/captives-rikers-jarrod-shanahan/ | Source: The Nation    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 07:51:15


  • "American veterans who came to disdain and actively oppose the very conflicts they were sent to fight." ☛ https://www.thenation.com/article/world/ukraine-russia-peace-activism/ | Source: The Nation    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 07:51:45


  • On abortion ☛ https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/05/19/where-are-goddamn-men | Source: Common Dreams    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 07:52:12


  • AOC ☛ https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/05/19/ocasio-cortez-maloney-should-quit-dccc-post-if-he-runs-against-mondaire-jones | Source: Common Dreams    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 07:52:28


  • "We need a titanic shift in thinking from world leaders on how to prevent and resolve conflicts to end this soaring human suffering." ☛ https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/05/19/war-disasters-drive-all-time-high-nearly-60-million-displaced-home-nations | Source: Common Dreams    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 07:52:51


  • "I recently reached out to a couple of people whose views I greatly value to ask how they would respond to that question." ☛ https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/05/19/onslaught-of-the-oily-authoritarians/ | Source: Counter Punch    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 07:53:14


  • "In 2014, the Obama-Biden administration, especially Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs Victoria “Screw the EU” Nuland" ☛ https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/05/19/bidens-empty-quiver/ | Source: Counter Punch    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 07:53:26


  • "During the Cold War, the black propagandists were again in high demand." ☛ https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/05/19/the-british-art-of-black-propaganda/ | Source: Counter Punch    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 07:53:36


  • "For months, the Biden administration has been hinting that these governments would be excluded." ☛ https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/05/19/for-bidens-summit-of-the-americas-obamas-handshake-with-raul-castro-shows-the-way/ | Source: Counter Punch    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 07:53:55


  • Al Jazeera ☛ https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/05/19/the-world-should-be-forever-grateful-to-shireen-abu-aqleh/ | Source: Counter Punch    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 07:54:12


  • Peru ☛ https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/05/perus-isps-show-imbalanced-commitments-users-privacy-new-hiperderechos-report | Source: EFF    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 07:54:38


  • Antiwar ☛ https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/05/19/ukraine-the-antiwar-dilemma/ | Source: Counter Punch    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 07:55:07


  • There are now about 198,000 deaths in the UK with COVID-19 on the death certificate https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/deaths?areaType=overview&areaName=United%20Kingdom    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 08:01:48


  • "Narendra Modi, has been firmly in the U.S. camp" ☛ https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/05/19/india-has-a-key-role-to-play-in-a-possible-new-world-order/ | Source: Counter Punch    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 08:02:20


  • "Spanish-speaking people, who have lived in the US since it stole half of Mexico’s land, have a tradition of smoking marijuana" ☛ https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/05/19/how-decriminalized-marijuana-is-reinventing-racism-and-poisoning/ | Source: Counter Punch    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 08:02:42


  • "Borneo’s tropical rainforest trying to keep up with the orangutans" ☛ https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/05/19/experimenting-on-monkeys-is-cruel-keeping-them-is-a-threat-to-public-health/ | Source: Counter Punch    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 08:03:24


  • "the “Great Replacement” theory" ☛ https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/05/19/suppressing-insane-ideas-doesnt-stop-insane-conduct/ | Source: Counter Punch    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 08:03:54


  • "We did not deliberate upon the ethics of remuneration, or the science of ecosystems. We were hooked." ☛ https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/05/19/must-environmental-leaders-conform-or-dare-we-actually-lead/ | Source: Counter Punch    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 08:04:20


  • Father ☛ https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/05/19/whos-the-father/ | Source: Counter Punch    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 08:05:30


  • "From May to November 2022, our seminars focus on the theme of cross-disciplinary computing" ☛ https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/guzdial-teaspoon-computing-tsp-language-broadening-participation-school/ | Source: Raspberry Pi    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 08:17:30


  • How Putin’s eldest daughter sees it ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2022/05/19/how-putin-s-eldest-daughter-sees-it | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 08:21:27


  • Roe ☛ https://scheerpost.com/2022/05/19/no-more-bystanders-in-the-post-roe-era/ | Source: Scheerpost    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 08:22:00


  • "For three weeks, more than 300 refugees from Mariupol have been living in the town of Vrangel in Russia’s Far Eastern Primorsky Krai" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2022/05/19/i-don-t-know-what-to-do | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 08:24:33


  • Bulletful ☛ https://scheerpost.com/2022/05/19/america-the-bulletful/ | Source: Scheerpost    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 08:24:45


  • Microsoft helps this brutality ☛ https://scheerpost.com/2022/05/19/ice-probably-spied-on-you/ | Source: Scheerpost http://techrights.org/2021/04/04/microsoft-nationalism/    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 08:25:23


  • Warren on abortion ☛ https://truthout.org/articles/warren-calls-out-tech-firms-for-selling-abortion-clinic-patients-location-data/ | Source: TruthOut    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 08:25:49


  • War criminal. If we say "Terrorussia" we should make a similar word for USA. ☛ https://truthout.org/articles/bush-accidentally-condemns-brutal-invasion-of-iraq-when-talking-about-ukraine/ | Source: TruthOut    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 08:26:35


  • Games: Old World, Broken Sword 5, Psychonauts 2 • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/165052    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 08:37:42


  • Programming Leftovers • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/165053    

POSTED fRIDAY, mAY 20, 2022 AT 08:38:38


  • Devices/Embedded Leftovers • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/165054    

POSTED fRIDAY, mAY 20, 2022 AT 08:38:46


  • Today’s 𝘛𝘶𝘹 𝘔𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴 Leftovers • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/165055    

POSTED fRIDAY, mAY 20, 2022 AT 08:38:54


  • In KDE Neon I cannot install any new cursor. Latest ISO, I've tried about 20 cursor theme. No luck.    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 08:56:00


  • GOP ☛ https://truthout.org/articles/trumps-attempt-to-shut-down-all-us-embassies-in-africa-epitomizes-todays-gop/ | Source: TruthOut    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 10:51:52


  • Free School Meals ☛ https://truthout.org/articles/end-of-free-school-meals-will-be-catastrophic-for-kids/ | Source: TruthOut    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 10:52:11


  • Roe ☛ https://truthout.org/audio/are-you-preparing-for-a-post-roe-world/ | Source: TruthOut    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 10:52:29


  • Debt ☛ https://truthout.org/articles/7-in-10-young-voters-support-canceling-student-debt-poll-finds/ | Source: TruthOut    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 10:52:59


  • On abortion ☛ https://truthout.org/articles/jayapal-breaks-with-top-dems-endorses-cisneros-against-anti-abortion-incumbent/ | Source: TruthOut    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 11:02:38


  • Sony ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2022/05/19/more-details-sony-reportedly-telling-its-game-studios-not-to-comment-on-abortion-issue/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 11:02:55


  • Moscow ☛ https://truthout.org/video/talks-to-end-war-in-ukraine-are-collapsing-as-us-seeks-regime-change-in-moscow/ | Source: TruthOut    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 11:03:18


  • "disinfo" as censorship pretext; sounds like something China and Russia do... ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2022/05/19/homeland-security-once-again-demonstrates-its-own-incompetence-pauses-orwellian-named-disinfo-board/ | Source: Techdirt    

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


  • Vadim Shishimarin ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2022/05/20/i-fired-so-they-d-leave-me-alone | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 11:04:40


  • "Jake Johnson reports on the ex-president's incredible slip." ☛ https://scheerpost.com/2022/05/19/george-w-bush-condemns-the-unjustified-and-brutal-invasion-of-iraq-in-telling-slip/ | Source: Scheerpost    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 11:05:18


  • "Why has the American far right adopted an anti-American conspiracy theory as its rallying cry?" ☛ https://scheerpost.com/2022/05/19/tucker-carlsons-great-replacement-theory-comes-from-an-anti-american-nazi/ | Source: Scheerpost    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 11:05:34


  • CPAC ☛ https://telex.hu/english/2022/05/19/cpac-hungary-begins-with-orban-sharing-his-recipe-for-success | Source: Hungary    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 11:06:19


  • Cycling ☛ https://telex.hu/english/2022/05/19/the-star-cyclist-got-the-joke-and-thanked-hungarians-for-naming-a-bus-stop-after-him | Source: Hungary    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 11:06:39


  • "The People’s Liberation Army is firing at dummy US warships in the Uighur region" ☛ https://digit.site36.net/2022/05/19/hypersonic-weapons-china-tests-aircraft-carrier-killer-in-the-desert/ | Source: Site36    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 11:06:55


  • Climate ☛ https://www.thenation.com/article/environment/climate-carbon-bomb-guardian/ | Source: The Nation    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 11:07:13


  • "fossil fuel investments" ☛ https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/05/19/global-climate-movement-warns-nations-have-just-6-months-end-fossil-fuel-finance | Source: Common Dreams    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 11:07:32


  • Theft "legalised" ☛ https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/05/19/analysis-26-us-billionaires-paid-average-tax-rate-just-48-recent-years | Source: Common Dreams    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 11:08:14


  • "They're coming for me!" ☛ https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/05/19/heart-mightier-sword | Source: Common Dreams    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 11:08:30


  • Medicare ☛ https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/05/19/why-seniors-me-are-fighting-against-medicare-direct-contracting-and-aco-reach | Source: Common Dreams    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 11:08:57


  • "The Logitech Z906 is a well-rounded 5.1 surround sound system." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2022/05/19/hacking-the-logitech-z906-speaker-system/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 11:09:33


  • OpenCV ☛ https://hackaday.com/2022/05/19/opencv-running-on-tiny-microcontroller/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 11:09:50


  • "Last summer, the Supreme Court finally applied some common sense to the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA)." ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2022/05/19/following-supreme-court-precedent-federal-court-says-unexpected-collection-of-data-doesnt-violate-the-cfaa/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 11:11:40


  • "When a tragedy happens, lawsuits tend to follow." ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2022/05/19/lawsuit-attempts-to-hold-tiktok-responsible-for-death-of-10-year-old-girl-who-engaged-in-a-blackout-challenge/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 11:12:02


  • "former Megaupload executives Mathias Ortmann and Bram van der Kolk revealed that they had reached a deal" ☛ https://torrentfreak.com/megaupload-pair-face-10-years-in-prison-on-new-organized-crime-charges-220519/ | Source: Torrent Freak    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 11:13:41


  • MKVCage ☛ https://torrentfreak.com/court-foreign-torrent-site-operator-can-be-sued-in-the-us-220519/ | Source: Torrent Freak    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 11:14:04


  • "Her work spans international and continental work to advance the library sector as a key player in education" ☛ https://creativecommons.org/2022/05/19/episode-31-open-culture-voices-buhle-mbambo-thata/ | Source: Creative Commons    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 11:15:22


  • "she was scientific advisor at the National Institute of Art History from 2008 to 2016" ☛ https://creativecommons.org/2022/05/19/episode-32-open-culture-voices-martine-denoyelle/ | Source: Creative Commons    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 11:15:48


  • "On March 10, two workers at a construction site in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, were straddling a steel beam 15 feet in the air" ☛ https://www.thenation.com/article/activism/immigrant-workers-exploitation-alba/ | Source: The Nation    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 11:18:16


  • If These Walls Could Talk ☛ https://www.thenation.com/article/society/if-these-walls-could-talk/ | Source: The Nation    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 11:18:44


  • "RootsAction" ☛ https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/05/19/looks-another-bad-blue-corporate-democrat-just-bit-dust | Source: Common Dreams    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 11:19:17


  • "Israel will not pursue a criminal investigation into the killing of Palestinian American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh" ☛ https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/05/19/we-were-expecting-says-family-after-israel-says-no-criminal-probe-killing-shireen | Source: Common Dreams    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 11:20:06


  • On abortion ☛ https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/05/19/i-simply-cannot-stand-jayapal-endorses-cisneros-against-anti-abortion-incumbent | Source: Common Dreams    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 11:20:53


  • Organised cartels getting their way ☛ https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/05/19/now-do-windfall-tax-say-climate-groups-after-passage-big-oil-price-gouging-bill | Source: Common Dreams    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 11:30:19


  • Democratic [sic] Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) ☛ https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/05/19/progressives-condemn-dccc-chair-disgraceful-self-dealing-ny-primary-debacle | Source: Common Dreams    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 11:31:24


  • ICE ☛ https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/05/19/ice-spying-you blame Microsoft, too http://techrights.org/2021/04/04/microsoft-nationalism/    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 11:32:04


  • 𝘛𝘦𝘤𝘩𝘳𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵𝘴 IRC Proceedings: Thursday, May 19, 2022 • Techrights ⚓ http://techrights.org/2022/05/20/irc-log-190522/ ䷉ Source: Techrights | GNU | Linux | FreeSW | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2022/05/20/irc-log-190522/    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 11:52:02


  • Ubuntu vs Manjaro: Comparing the Different Linux Experiences • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/165056    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 11:53:06


  • 10 Fun Free and Open Source Turn-Based Strategy Games • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/165057    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 11:58:39


  • "Supreme Court member Justice Samuel Alito's secret plan for canceling the constitutional right of women" ☛ https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/05/19/why-should-we-people-respect-court-subverts-will-people | Source: Common Dreams    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 11:59:33


  • Today I see a headline speaking of a "Post-"Roe" World". I didn't know the United States is the world. Most of the world is still civilised enough.    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 12:00:27


  • Bush ☛ https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/05/19/telling-slip-george-w-bush-condemns-unjustified-and-brutal-invasion-iraq | Source: Common Dreams    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 12:00:56


  • Gun Control ☛ https://www.democracynow.org/2022/5/19/kris_brown_filibuster_blocks_gun_control | Source: Democracy Now    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 12:01:55


  • Neoliberalism ☛ https://www.democracynow.org/2022/5/19/chile_drafts_new_constitution_movement_victory | Source: Democracy Now    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 12:02:10


  • "the United Nations warns about the devastating global impact of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine" ☛ https://www.democracynow.org/2022/5/19/nina_khrushcheva_russia_ukraine_want_wins | Source: Democracy Now    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 12:02:32


  • Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) ☛ https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/05/dojs-new-cfaa-policy-good-start-does-not-go-far-enough-protect-security | Source: EFF    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 12:03:00


  • Mariupol ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2022/05/19/it-was-the-only-option | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 12:03:43


  • PCB ☛ https://hackaday.com/2022/05/19/pcb-linear-motors-for-model-trains/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 12:04:08


  • Buffalo ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2022/05/19/nys-attorney-general-launches-ridiculous-blatantly-unconstitutional-investigations-into-websites-the-buffalo-shooter-used/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 12:04:50


  • So-called "broadband" ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2022/05/19/billions-in-broadband-funding-begin-to-flow-before-weve-mapped-broadband-gaps/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 12:05:12


  • "over 2,500 deaths per day" ☛ https://www.thenation.com/article/society/case-numbers-covid/ | Source: The Nation    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 12:05:39


  • Next month there will be over 200,000 dead Brits with COVID-19 on the death cert. It ain't over.    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 12:06:11


  • Mexico ☛ https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/05/19/mexico-leads-in-opposing-the-cuba-blockade-and-us-imperialism/ | Source: Counter Punch    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 12:06:31


  • "Clearview’s facial recognition AI business model has always been “fuck everything.” The company scraped the open web of all the data it could find" ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2022/05/19/clearview-settles-lawsuit-agrees-to-stop-doing-business-in-illinois/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 12:07:03


  • "Popular Information‘s Tesnim Zekeria about baby formula shortages" ☛ https://fair.org/home/we-live-in-an-economy-that-provides-little-support-to-new-parents/ | Source: FAIR    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 12:07:24


  • "work much with computers at a low level" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2022/05/19/scotts-cpu-from-the-bottom-up/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 12:07:45


  • "When it comes to putting a flexible grip on a tool, you might reach for a self-fusing silicone tape or other similar product." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2022/05/19/flexible-grip-for-hammer-made-with-3d-printing-pen/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 12:08:10


  • "There are two ways for a server serial console to work in the x86 world." ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/sysadmin/SerialConsolesUnappealing | Source: uni Toronto    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 12:12:27


  • "Software Engineering vacancies at Canonical are numerous" ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/news/canonical-linux-gaming-job-advert | Source: Tom's Hardware    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 12:13:02


  • "I only arrived back on the Linux desktop recently in the context of games" ☛ https://rubenerd.com/time-splits-between-oss-via-mark-c/ | Source: Ruben Schade    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 12:22:11


  • "Why might you want to run CURRENT?" ☛ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/165059 | Source: Klara    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 12:24:27


  • "wrote in what are believed to be his online journals that he learned how to illegally modify his rifle by watching YouTube videos" ☛ https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/buffalo-shooting-shooter-payton-gendron-video-youtube-gun-rcna29709 | Source: NBC    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 12:25:16


  • "As part of restoring my Amiga 1000 into the beautiful machine it once was, I wanted to be able to use the floppy drive without having to use a USB stick" ☛ https://linuxjedi.co.uk/2022/05/14/amiga-1000-restoration-floppy-drive-and-wcs-failure/ | Source: Andrew Hutchings    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 12:25:41


  • "The Pi does not perform swimmingly. But... I did get a single array of 60 hard drives—20TB Exos HDDs to be exact" ☛ https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2022/petabyte-pi-project | Source: Jeff Geerling    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 12:26:14


  • "repurposed Anet A8 Plus 3D printer" ☛ https://blog.arduino.cc/2022/05/18/this-robotic-system-automatically-scans-film-slides-on-its-own/ | Source: Arduino    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 12:27:15


  • Google #Android Leftovers • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/165058    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 12:28:12


  • Evaluating FreeBSD CURRENT for Production Use • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/165059    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 12:28:42


  • "I wanted to grab a CSV version of a JSON representation of an entityset in the Northwind OData service." ☛ https://qmacro.org/blog/posts/2022/05/19/json-object-values-into-csv-with-jq/ | Source: DJ Adams    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 12:29:55


  • "What I really want, though, is a solution that lets me diff two pieces of text that aren’t yet files." ☛ https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2022/quick-dirty-text-diffing/ | Source: Jim Nielsen    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 12:32:32


  • "I've loved typing for decades. But I recently got with handwriting implements, and was astonished by how less manic I felt capturing rumination at that pace." gemini://midnight.pub/posts/956    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 12:33:55


  • the new and upgraded framework laptop gemini://erock.io/2022/05/19/new-framework-laptop.gmi    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 12:35:41


  • A Storm Before Skiing gemini://sprock.dev/posts/storm-before-skiing.gmi    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 12:36:56


  • "" ☛ https://www.erlang.org/news/157 | Source: Erlang    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 13:15:41


  • "Since I was unable to travel for a couple of years during the pandemic" ☛ https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=6375 | Source: Bunnie Huang    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 13:15:47


  • "I wrote my first programs in PHP today (with a lot of help from the [Internet])" ☛ https://jamesg.blog/2022/05/18/learning-php/ | Source: James G    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 13:16:16


  • [Old] "When I started to self-host some of the online services I depend on, this was a natural first target" ☛ https://www.nfsmith.ca/articles/self-hosting-part-2/ |    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 13:16:25


  • "For programmers, Bash enables you to efficiently search for particular keywords" ☛ https://earthly.dev/blog/bash-read-files/ | Source: Earthly    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 13:17:02


  • "It's sometimes a bit hard to follow how you are to do things, but overall I quite like it." ☛ https://bjhess.com/blog/2022/HTML-only-backstory/ | Source: Barry Hess    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 13:18:19


  • "Earlier this year, Cendyne published A Deep Dive into Ed25519 Signatures" ☛ https://soatok.blog/2022/05/19/guidance-for-choosing-an-elliptic-curve-signature-algorithm-in-2022/ | Source: Dhole Moments    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 13:19:45


  • "Pollution killed 9 million people globally in 2019, accounting for one in six deaths, an analysis suggests." ☛ https://www.newscientist.com/article/2320777-pollution-killed-9-million-people-worldwide-in-2019-alone/ | Source: New Scientist    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 13:28:52


  • "his failure to anticipate a crisis of supply" ☛ https://newrepublic.com/article/162000/bill-gates-impeded-global-access-covid-vaccines | Source: New Republic    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 13:29:43


  • "Gates has been tacitly and explicitly defending the legitimacy of knowledge monopolies since his first Gerald Ford–era missives against open-source software hobbyists." https://newrepublic.com/article/162000/bill-gates-impeded-global-access-covid-vaccines    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 13:30:54


  • "He was on the side of these monopolies during the miserable depths of the 1990s African AIDS crisis. He’s still there today, defending the status quo and running effective interference for those profiting by the billions from their control of Covid-19 vaccines." https://newrepublic.com/article/162000/bill-gates-impeded-global-access-covid-vaccines    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 13:31:34


  • "There is nothing quite so humbling as being completely responsible for the wellbeing of another person." ☛ https://flower.codes/2022/05/17/startup-dad.html | Source: Zach Flower    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 13:32:09


  • "The widely accepted idea of a cost-of-living crisis does not begin to capture the gravity of what may lie ahead." ☛ https://www.economist.com/leaders/2022/05/19/the-coming-food-catastrophe | Source: The Economist    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 13:32:37


  • Microsoft Windows cost/true Windows TCO ☛ https://cacm.acm.org/news/261085-new-approach-for-faster-ransomware-detection/fulltext | Source: ACM    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 13:34:10


  • "I learned recently that PGP keys can be used for SSH authentication." ☛ https://www.nfsmith.ca/articles/gpg-ssh/ |    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 13:34:53


  • "The outlet’s sources indicate the plan is for ad-supported games that draw from the library of its parent company, ByteDance" ☛ https://www.theverge.com/2022/5/19/23131385/tiktok-gaming-tests-livestream-zynga-html5-bytedance | Source: The Verge    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 13:36:09


  • "Even the vice-president at Uniphore admits the limitations of the technology." ☛ https://www.tanyagoodin.com/2022/05/zoom-uncomfortable-emotion-ai/ |    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 13:36:39


  • "But four years later, it hasn’t taken over the market – most people have simply forgotten about it." ☛ https://theconversation.com/facebook-dating-was-set-to-take-over-the-market-instead-it-was-dead-in-the-water-181375 | Source: The Conversation    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 13:36:49


  • "" ☛ https://www.theverge.com/2022/5/19/23131268/ford-f-150-lightning-truck-phone-as-key-delay | Source: The Verge    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 13:36:58


  • "Benson, a Democrat, revealed the alleged remark for the first time in an interview with NBC News." ☛ https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2022-election/michigan-election-chief-trump-suggested-arrested-treason-executed-rcna29406 | Source: NBC    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 13:39:16


  • "Gabriele Tilmann, senior public prosecutor in Munich, has warned against automatically inferring religious motives" ☛ https://medforth.biz/for-german-courts-islamist-assassins-are-mentally-ill-only-right-wing-extremist-perpetrators-are-considered-punishable-by-law/ | Source: Medforth    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 13:39:21


  • "Being from a desert community in California, I know the sound of gunshots" ☛ https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/paris-terrorism-trial-eodm-1.6456089 | Source: CBC    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 13:40:03


  • "Ever since the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) in late 2008, central banks have kept real interest rates close to, and for much of the time below, zero." ☛ https://blog.dshr.org/2022/05/metastablecoins.html | Source: David Rosenthal    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 13:41:48


  • "The oil and gas industry is largely foreign-owned so outside of salaries paid in Australia most benefits of the industry’s activities go offshore." ☛ https://gerikson.com/blog/comm/Libera-one-year.html | Source: Gustaf Erikson    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 13:41:54


  • "People who put their hard-earned cash into a tumbling cryptocurrency unit that is at the heart of the latest sharp decline in digital coins may be regretting they did not read a recent paper by Canadian financial technology scholar" ☛ https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/crpto-tumble-column-don-pittis-1.6450411 | Source: CBC    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 13:42:26


  • "The system will be microgrid-ready and is expected to come online in early 2023." ☛ https://www.renewableenergyworld.com/storage/u-s-army-launches-renewable-energy-projects-at-military-bases/ | Source: Renewable Energy World    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 13:43:11


  • Number of working/active Gemini capsules known to Lupa fast approach 1965    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 13:45:54


  • Social Control Media [sic] is harmful ☛ https://www.teenvogue.com/story/social-media-platforms-voting-snapchat | Source: Teen Vogue    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 13:46:39


  • "We’ve seen signs of a looming splinternet for years" ☛ https://www.internetsociety.org/blog/2022/05/protecting-the-internet-as-we-know-it-three-things-you-can-do-today-to-stop-the-splinternet/ | Source: Internet Society    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 13:46:54


  • "I find this an extremely conflicted situation. How come the CEO seconds a motion of confidence in the Chair when the CEO himself is mentioned in the objection?" ☛ https://sysadmin-journal.com/afrinic-ceo-impromptu-travel-and-attempt-to-oust-the-board-chair/ | Source: Ish Sookun    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 13:47:32


  • Social control media = Misinformation/Disinformation AMPLIFIED. "However, that claim about Costco hiking its prices is false." ☛ https://www.salon.com/2022/05/19/swallows-fake-news-on-costco-hot-dog-price-hike/ | Source: Salon    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 13:48:23


  • Social control media is a weapon for liars and frauds (like Musk) because there's no fact-checking    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 13:49:32


  • Coalition to Boris Johnson: Sanctions must protect Russian internet access ⚓ https://www.accessnow.org/internet-access-russia-belarus-uk-government-letter/ we have our own Putin, another bloodthirsty mobster    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 13:55:01


  • Letter to U.K. government: Do not disrupt internet access in Russia or Belarus https://www.accessnow.org/letter-to-uk-government-do-not-disrupt-internet-access-in-russia-or-belarus/    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 13:55:27


  • Microsoft and its minions in ZDNet spread FUD against Linux. Microsoft hates Linux. Linux Foundation won't do a thing about it! http://techrights.org/2022/05/18/funded-by-puppies/    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 13:57:03


  • "A Meta executive told employees on Thursday that they are prohibited from talking about abortion on Workplace" ☛ https://www.theverge.com/2022/5/19/23131714/meta-ban-abortion-discussion-at-work-facebook-workplace-roe-v-wade | Source: The Verge    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 13:59:38


  • "The Christian girl had apparently challenged a group of Muslim students spreading Islamic propaganda" ☛ https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/05/muslim-mob-beats-stones-torches-female-christian-raymond-ibrahim/ | Source: Frontpage Magazine    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 13:59:43


  • "In future, the Berlin police may not transmit data on assaults to victim support institutions and counselling centres" ☛ https://medforth.biz/germany-berlin-police-may-no-longer-report-attacks-on-jews-and-gays/ | Source: Medforth    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 13:59:48


  • BillBC, protector of pedophiles, on MI5 agents blackmailing people ☛ https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-61508520    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 14:01:04


  • "Messing had allegedly posted make-up tutorials online before converting to Islam." ☛ https://www.euronews.com/2022/05/18/german-is-bride-given-two-year-suspended-prison-sentence | Source: EuroNews    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 14:01:22


  • "She was accused of sending blasphemous messages to a group chat after refusing to date" ☛ https://www.christianpost.com/news/islamic-cleric-defends-murder-of-christian-woman-report.html | Source: Christian Post    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 14:01:44


  • "Pakistan's Parliament in 1974 declared the Ahmadi community as non-Muslims." ☛ https://www.news18.com/news/world/pakistani-man-from-minority-ahmadi-community-stabbed-to-death-over-faith-police-5197771.html | Source: India    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 14:02:05


  • "A video of a Nigerian policeman supporting the lynching of Deborah Samuel" ☛ https://saharareporters.com/2022/05/16/nigerian-policeman-endorses-killing-sokoto-student-deborah-says-muslims-condemning-act | Source: Sahara Reporters    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 14:02:27


  • "Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers ordered all female presenters on TV channels to cover their faces on air" ☛ https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/afghan-taliban-order-female-tv-anchors-cover-faces-rcna29755 | Source: NBC    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 14:02:45


  • "In 2013, the Internet Society, in partnership with the Africa Top Level Domain (AfTLD) and the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)" ☛ https://www.internetsociety.org/blog/2022/05/strengthening-africas-domain-name-system/ | Source: Internet Society    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 14:03:03


  • "Without the Deck UI, the Steam Deck is just a boring handheld PC. But for all those masochists who love inferior user experiences, the Windows audio driver is now available!" https://yewtu.be/watch?v=Pbjxxo2lIw4    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 14:04:49


  • Fakecoin charlatans https://www.benzinga.com/markets/cryptocurrency/22/05/27266273/9-members-of-dogecoin-foundation-who-they-are-what-they-do    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 14:05:36


  • Totally fake 'security' https://www.darkreading.com/careers-and-people/-isc-unveils-100k-in-the-uk-scheme-to-expand-the-uk-cybersecurity-workforce-with-100-000-free-entry-level-certification-exams-and-education-opportunities    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 14:12:37


  • Today’s #HowTos | #UNIX • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/165060    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 14:17:23


  • "Based on Fedora" Ultramarine 36 is released https://ultramarine-linux.org/    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 14:18:38


  • Today too Phoronix is pushing lots of Microsoft and AMD. I don't even wish to link to it....    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 14:21:04


  • "this is another Micrononical development" https://www.phoronix.com/forums/forum/phoronix/latest-phoronix-articles/1324694-ubuntu-desktop-exploring-microsoft-azure-ad-integration http://techrights.org/2022/05/11/canonical-boosting-windows/    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 14:21:56


  • "Now that FESCo has decided (1) that Fedora will keep supporting BIOS booting, the people working on Fedora's bootloader stack will need help from the Fedora community to keep Fedora booting on systems which require Legacy BIOS to boot." https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/NMNQC2RX42QWPACLAMXJE4Z4U24YI35G/ http://techrights.org/2022/04/08/planned-obsolescence-ibm/    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 14:22:58


  • "The goal of this SIG is to help the folks working on Fedora's bootloader stack to keep Fedora booting on systems which require Legacy BIOS to boot." https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/BiosBoot "Legacy" is a loaded propaganda term    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 14:24:56


  • [PATCH v4 0/2] x86/fpu: Make AMX state ready for CPU idle - Chang S. Bae ⚓ https://lore.kernel.org/linux-pm/20220517222430.24524-1-chang.seok.bae@intel.com/ ䷉ Source: intel    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 14:25:34


  • xwayland: Add -force-xrandr-emulation switch https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/commit/?id=7cdcdfea08ad9d63466286a6f94783cbf5fc3717&utm_source=anzwix    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 14:26:06


  • "Galleon Systems’ GPS NTP time server had a command injection vulnerability in the firmware of their NTS GPS device which could allow total control of the device through the web management interface." https://www.pentestpartners.com/security-blog/galleon-nts-6002-gps-command-injection-vulnerability-cve-2022-27224/    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 14:27:11


  • Hans de Goede still works for ICBM. So many of his colleagues left already. https://hansdegoede.livejournal.com/26260.html    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 14:28:49


  • ICBM pretends that CentOS is still a thing https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/cpe-weekly-update-week-20-2022/ almost all the CentOS people have resigned    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 14:29:50


  • "Smart" is for dumb consumers https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2022/05/bluetooth-flaw-allows-remote-unlocking-of-digital-locks.html    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 14:30:36


  • Wait until they find out the car too can be hijacked and controlled remotely https://jalopnik.com/researchers-break-into-a-tesla-and-drive-away-using-blu-1848938417    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 14:31:38


  • Google #Android Leftovers • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/165061    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 14:34:09


  • Mozilla opens testing for Manifest v3 extensions in Firefox http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/165050#comment-33742   

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 14:35:01


  • Security Leftovers • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/165062    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 14:36:06


  • Taking a Break from Social Media Makes you Happier and Less Anxious - Study Hacks - Cal Newport https://www.calnewport.com/blog/2022/05/16/taking-a-break-from-social-media-makes-you-happier-and-less-anxious/    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 14:36:42


  • The locking should be the LEAST of the worries https://www.reuters.com/technology/tesla-cars-bluetooth-locks-vulnerable-hackers-researchers-2022-05-17/ "smart" cars = back doors http://techrights.org/2021/12/20/not-so-smart-cars/    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 14:39:07


  • A programmer’s guide to GNU C Compiler | ⚓ https://opensource.com/article/22/5/gnu-c-compiler ䷉ Source: FreeSW | RedHat | IBM | GNU | Linux    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 14:39:55


  • KDAB at Embedded World 2022 in Nuremberg - KDAB ⚓ https://www.kdab.com/embedded-world-2022-in-nuremberg/ ䷉ Source: kdab    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 14:40:36


  • Fedora Leftovers • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/165063    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 14:41:25


  • "I abandoned the idea to interview children younger than 9 years because it seems they are not necessarily aware that they are using the internet." https://curlybracket.net/2022/05/20/internet-kids-pt2.html    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 14:42:12


  • Funny as the so-called "professionals" I know are chronic liars and manipulative assholes //jacobian.org/2022/may/19/honesty/    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 14:43:15


  • "COVAX presents a high-stakes demonstration of Gates’s deepest ideological commitments, not just to intellectual [sic] property [sic] rights [sic] but also to the conflation of these rights with an imaginary free market in pharmaceuticals—an industry dominated by companies whose power derives from politically constructed and politically imposed monopolies. Gates has been tacitly and explicitly defending the legitimacy of knowledge monopolies" https://newrepublic.com/article/162000/bill-gates-impeded-global-access-covid-vaccines    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 14:45:00


  • "COVAX presents a high-stakes demonstration of Gates’s deepest ideological commitments, not just to intellectual [sic] property [sic] rights [sic] but also to the conflation of these rights with an imaginary free market in pharmaceuticals—an industry dominated by companies whose power derives from politically constructed and politically imposed monopolies." https://newrepublic.com/article/162000/bill-gates-impeded-global-access-covid-vaccines    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 14:45:17


  • "Gates’s deepest ideological commitments, not just to intellectual [sic] property [sic] rights [sic] but also to the conflation of these rights with an imaginary free market in pharmaceuticals—an industry dominated by companies whose power derives from politically constructed and politically imposed monopolies." https://newrepublic.com/article/162000/bill-gates-impeded-global-access-covid-vaccines    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 14:45:41


  • Programming Leftovers • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/165064    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 14:56:52


  • Games: Canonical, Valve and Wine, Deck UI • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/165065    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 14:57:31


  • Today’s 𝘛𝘶𝘹 𝘔𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴 Leftovers • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/165066    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 15:02:19


  • LTS Laptops gemini://gemini.dimakrasner.com/lts-laptops.gmi    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 15:33:18


  • "Great article about how messed up it is that the ADL is conflating white supremacy with hafrada-critical groups like CAIR and JVP and how stark that messed-up–ness appears in the face of white supremacist terrorism. (And that there are conservative Jews that are themselves repeating anti-CRT, replacement theory talking points.)" gemini://idiomdrottning.org/mantle-of-responsibility    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 15:33:58


  • "I opposed and ended a trivial patent once (I found prior art) but the lesson I learned from that is that it’s important to oppose even non-trivial patents. If I identify and stop only the stupid patents, I’m only doing the work of the patent office for them." gemini://idiomdrottning.org/trivial-patents    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 15:34:31


  • "Alex has found the perfect tool to bring your recipe management into the future. Plus, a convenient trick for scripts with passwords, dying hard drives, and the killer new Proxmox feature." https://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/148657/recipe-for-success-self-hosted-71/    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 15:49:33


  • Brian has been used like a second "mascot" by the LF, which does not actually USE "Open Source" https://linuxfoundation.org/blog/linux-foundation-podcast-series-untold-stories-of-open-source/    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 15:52:50


  • Monopolies and American corporations (and their lawyers) are a priority for today’s EPO, Europe’s second-largest institution http://techrights.org/2022/05/20/debunking-monopoly-tony/    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 15:53:50


  • Watch this graph of Windows going down from around 99.5% to just 11.55% this month http://techrights.org/2022/05/20/windows-in-turkey/    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 15:54:33


  • This talk by Hüseyin GÜÇ was uploaded under the title “Real world GNU/Linux story from Istanbul” http://techrights.org/2022/05/20/huseyin-guc-pardus-linux/    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 15:54:44


  • IBM posted this while sacking lots of workers (and Red Hat faces a mass exodus of its talent) https://enterprisersproject.com/article/2022/5/most-wanted-soft-skills-it-pros    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 15:56:04


  • This is the ICBM which FORCED even workers who are working from home "100% of the time" to get a jab https://enterprisersproject.com/article/2022/5/remote-work-5-tips-keep-your-teams-healthy-successful    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 15:56:46


  • Former ICBM executive Irving Wladawsky-Berger: The 2022 Work Trend Index: How to Get Hybrid Right ⚓ https://blog.irvingwb.com/blog/2022/05/making-hybrid-work-work.html ䷉ Source: irvingwb    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 15:57:32


  • Indonesian LibreOffice community: recent activities https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2022/05/20/indonesian-libreoffice-community-recent-activities/    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 15:58:07


  • Today in #Techrights • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/165067    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 15:58:46


  • How to raise funding for your robotics venture | Chapter 2 - Akara | Ubuntu ⚓ https://ubuntu.com//blog/how-to-raise-funding-for-your-robotics-venture-chapter-2-akara ䷉ Source: ubuntu    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 16:04:29


  • MrDoc is a web-based document management system DMS https://medevel.com/mrdoc/    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 16:04:58


  • 5g...5g. HYPE HYPE... https://www.cnx-software.com/2022/05/20/5g-redcap-limits-bandwidth-to-85mbps-industrial-iot/ see http://techrights.org/2021/12/27/fact-based-5g-criticism/    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 16:05:36


  • Former IBM executive Irving Wladawsky-Berger is boosting a bunch of self-serving PR from Microsoft. To me, ICBM is not AGAINST Microsoft but WITH Microsoft. Same in Canonical. It is grotesque. Trump and Biden bail out Microsoft, the stolen money is then passed to corrupt other companies.    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 16:07:36


  • LilyGO T-HC32 board with the world’s smallest Arm MCU (HC32L110B6) is now available for $9 - CNX Software ⚓ https://www.cnx-software.com/2022/05/20/lilygo-t-hc32-board-worlds-smallest-mcu-hc32l110b6/ ䷉ Source: Linux | GNU | Hardware | cnxsoftware    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 16:13:30


  • "Linux Plumbers Conference 2022 is pleased to host the linux/arch Microconference... The linux/arch microconference aims to bring architecture maintainers in one room to discuss how the code in arch/ can be improved, consolidated and generalized." https://lpc.events/blog/2022/index.php/2022/05/20/microconferences-at-linux-plumbers-conference-linux-arch/    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 16:14:08


  • Customize GNOME 42 with A Polished Look • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/165068    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 16:16:23


  • "2021’s critical darling from Double Fine Productions, Psychonauts 2, is finally releasing on macOS and Linux in the very near future." https://www.nme.com/news/psychonauts-2-is-coming-to-macos-and-linux-next-week-3230415    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 16:36:48


  • "Fedora 36 is out and it is packed with fantastic new features. We get the flashy new gnome 42 with its new GTK 4 apps and stunningly gorgeous dark mode." https://yewtu.be/watch?v=0g1qWeS_lj0    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 16:37:38


  • LOL! Sigstore... and more proprietary (Microsoft/NSA) crap https://www.techtarget.com/searchitoperations/news/252518401/Citi-donates-software-supply-chain-security-kit-to-OpenSSF    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 16:39:20


  • CentOS Community Newsletter... but it is NOT a community, it is besieged by ICBM's strikes, and it's a shadow of its former self (many resigners) https://blog.centos.org/2022/05/centos-community-newsletter-may-2022/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=centos-community-newsletter-may-2022    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 16:42:37


  • ICBM does not want CentOS to succeed because it does not understand how the GPL works or simpler does not tolerate the GPL. Same as Microsoft    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 16:43:30


  • Every week xda publishes an article like this for different device/s, always promoting an ATTACK on GNU/Linux (Windows/Microsoft) as a first choice instead of REAL GNU/Linux https://www.xda-developers.com/does-hp-spectre-x36-2022-linux/    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 16:44:29


  • Rust project has been in disarray with many resignations; this is a face-saving update https://blog.rust-lang.org/inside-rust/2022/05/19/governance-update.html    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 16:48:12


  • Eventually Rust will be managed by people who cannot even CODE, i.e. the usual. Empty vessel...    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 16:48:43


  • Loaded title; it's not so fast-growing and there have been growing pains https://thenewstack.io/rust-whats-next-for-the-fast-growing-programming-language/ http://techrights.org/2020/08/31/linux-should-reject-github/    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 16:50:58


  • Rust "CEO: Rebecca Rumbul, formerly director of research and engagement at digital democracy charity mySociety, and before that the Privacy Collective." https://www.theregister.com/2021/11/19/rust_foundation_ceo/    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 16:52:21


  • Wouter Verhelst: Faster tar https://grep.be/blog//en/computer/play/Faster_tar/    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 16:53:47


  • Videos/Shows: Fedora 36, “The Untold Stories of Open Source”, and More • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/165069    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 16:53:57


  • Stefano Maffulli speaks of "open source movement", but it's NOT a movement, it's a corporate plot/ploy to crush the REAL movement, called Free software https://blog.opensource.org/exploring-the-future-of-open-source/    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 16:55:24


  • Stefano Maffulli knows his true masters; they're not Free software hackers who laid all the foundations, they're proprietary software companies looking to exploit and plunder those hackers while rewriting history.    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 16:57:12


  • Carlo Piana is a very good addition to OSI. But they have too many Microsofters in there, still. Most of the OSI's budget goes to Microsoft. It's a compromised organisation. https://blog.opensource.org/welcome-new-directors/    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 16:59:18


  • openSUSE Tumbleweed – Review of the week 2022/20 https://dominique.leuenberger.net/blog/2022/05/opensuse-tumbleweed-review-of-the-week-2022-20/    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 17:00:36


  • Using red herrings to replace standards with a pile of censorshipware controlled by Microsoft https://www.sdxcentral.com/articles/news/openssf-linux-foundation-want-to-replace-c-c/2022/05/    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 17:01:39


  • ...of course there's a missing disclosure there as many sites that push and enhance LF talking points (read: monopolies) in fact receive funding/bribes to do this    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 17:02:43


  • Corrupt media: pay us to write about you, lie for you... https://corporate.sdxcentral.com/products/content/    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 17:04:07


  • WWW = spam disguised as 'articles' https://corporate.sdxcentral.com/products/advertising/    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 17:04:35


  • This is where LF money goes: NOT Linux but bribing the media. They're hardly even hiding it. https://corporate.sdxcentral.com/products/demand-generation/    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 17:05:10


  • "Linux" has become just a meaningless label like "dolphin safe" http://techrights.org/2021/11/09/linux-foundation-greenwash/    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 17:05:43


  • EteSync is an encrypted E2E sync and backup tools for your data https://medevel.com/etesync/ "The Etebase server is released under the AGPL-3.0 License."    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 17:07:53


  • "updating Fedora on my partners laptop. This particular laptop was lacking a Wifi driver but that is now solved in Fedora 36. I can provide yet another datapoint that the GNOME 42 screenshot experience creates joy and happiness." https://samthursfield.wordpress.com/2022/05/20/status-update-19-05-2022/    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 17:08:30


  • "It’s insane to me how many jobs in america are either completely pointless or actively harmful." gemini://alex.flounder.online/journal.gmi    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 17:10:18


  • "Hacker" "Noise" = corporate beehive. "Instead of simply commenting on Hacker News like I did in previous similar posts, I thought I’d write a little blog post I could link there and in future discussions." https://andregarzia.com/2022/01/gemini-is-a-little-gem.html    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 17:11:18


  • Rust does not solve security problems http://techrights.org/2020/08/31/linux-should-reject-github/    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 17:12:19


  • "hacker" "news" values actual hackers like "Truth Social" values truth...    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 17:13:41


  • Twitter the company down 52 dollars to 37, but judging by what Microsoft and Icahn did to Yahoo! (or Elop at Nokia) I expect it to be at 20 dollars soon. Twitter as a company is worthless; it's mostly making losses in the process of advancing ruinous agenda for frauds and narcissists like Musk.    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 17:16:18


  • Facebook is down from almost $400 to under $200. Oh, sorry, META! They rename themselves to pretend to be something they're not.    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 17:17:22


  • "The Hacker News" now amplifies Microsoft FUD against "Linux". See? Microsoft HATES Linux. But Zemlin LOVES Microsoft. http://techrights.org/2021/12/19/slovenia-and-epo-leadership/    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 17:18:21


  • Reproducible Builds (diffoscope): diffoscope 213 released https://diffoscope.org/news/diffoscope-213-released/    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 17:18:46


  • "In this video, I am going to show how to install Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9." https://yewtu.be/watch?v=Mt0YEJ3R_Ak    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 17:19:34


  • Today’s #HowTos | #UNIX • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/165070    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 17:23:35


  • Security: Patches, Snake Oil, and Reproducible Builds/Diffoscope • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/165071    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 17:23:46


  • Fedora / CentOS / Red Hat / IBM Leftovers • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/165072    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 17:24:04


  • Mozilla is promoting Google proprietary software (and spyware) in the Firefox blog; Google is funded this https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/xyla-foxlin-youtube-engineering/    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 17:25:25


  • "Two posts in one month is a record for May of 2022. Might even shoot for three at this rate. Yesterday I posted a hasty roundup of what’s been going on with zink. It was not comprehensive. What else have I been working on, you might ask." https://www.supergoodcode.com/depth/    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 17:26:20


  • "Students should not have to use proprietary software to participate in the educational process. The FSFE joins the Dutch coalition ‘Fair Digital Education’ supporting privacy-respecting solutions involving Free Software in schools." https://fsfe.org/news/2022/news-20220520-01.en.html    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 17:26:59


  • Microsoft is NOT "concern-trolling" Linux. It is ATTACKING Linux. If you're not seeing it, maybe Microsoft-funded 'media' has brainwashed you. SO CONGRATS.    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 17:28:01


  • Where Mozilla (Google) money is wasted: spamming ads and endorsements for Google's YouTube instead of Firefox https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/xyla-foxlin-youtube-engineering/    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 17:37:00


  • Top 15 Best Download Managers for Linux in 2022 • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/165073    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 17:37:33


  • LibreOffice and Free/Libre Software in Education • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/165074    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 17:37:44


  • Or just do not use AWS at all. It's an expensive trap. https://www.howtoforge.com/what-is-aws-guarduty-and-how-to-use-it/    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 18:45:09


  • Firefox Nightly: These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 115 https://blog.nightly.mozilla.org/2022/05/20/these-weeks-in-firefox-issue-115/ Many of us are still nostalgic about it, but Mozilla's leadership is not    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 18:46:20


  • Seems like veiled marketing, not organic YouTube "material" https://yewtu.be/watch?v=VXEL2Nn1sp4    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 18:47:41


  • Kapow 1.6.0 released https://gottcode.org/kapow/ Switched to Qt 6    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 18:49:38


  • Outsourcing one's readership to a volatile third party seems like short-sighted and risky a move from a site almost 30 years old https://lwn.net/Articles/895898/    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 18:50:54


  • Kubuntu General News: Plasma 5.25 Beta available for testing http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/165021#comment-33743   

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 18:52:24


  • LWN has outsourced to a site with these rather ludicrous rules, which bans even debating the moderators' actions! There's even worse in there! https://fosstodon.org/about/more    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 19:07:44


  • "There's a handful of popular package managers that are used on various Linux distributions, and dnf is among the most popular. It's the default package manager on distros such as Red Hat, CentOS, AlmaLinux, Rocky Linux, Fedora, among others." https://yewtu.be/watch?v=mL1hMBYP1bQ    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 19:15:08


  • Today’s #HowTos | #UNIX • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/165075    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 19:18:55


  • Mozilla: Firefox Nightly and Marketing Fluff • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/165076    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 19:25:05


  • Kernel Leftovers • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/165077    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 19:25:15


  • Programming Leftovers • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/165078    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 19:38:51


  • Today’s 𝘛𝘶𝘹 𝘔𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴 Leftovers • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/165079    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 19:39:00


  • In many of today's CoC happiness is not an option. It's mandatory. Dissent is seen as worse than the actual crimes that the dissent is against.    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 19:42:03


  • "The last time I went to Disneyland Paris, I used my smartphone to record the G-forces during some rides. I used an app called Physics Toolbox Accelerometer to record the acceleration to CSV files. Then, I made a small Python script to filter the data and plot it." gemini://gemini.bobignou.red/posts/G-forces-at-Disneyland-Paris.gmi    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 20:49:08


  • NetHack over Gemini Proof-of-Concept gemini://gemini.dimakrasner.com/gemhack.gmi    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 20:49:35


  • Creating a NixOS thin gaming client live USB gemini://perso.pw/blog/articles/nixos-thin-gaming-client.gmi    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 20:50:31


  • When it comes to Linux, Michael see only his sponsors (x86) in it https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-5.18-Nears-Release    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 21:10:31


  • FreeBSD 13.1 is out for everything from PowerPC to x86-64 http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/164926#comment-33744   

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 21:12:55


  • Monkeypox Fears May Rescue Endangered Corporations https://unlimitedhangout.com/2022/05/investigative-reports/monkeypox-fears-may-rescue-endangered-corporations/    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 21:13:49


  • How Democracies Spy on Their Citizens | The New Yorker ⚓ https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/04/25/how-democracies-spy-on-their-citizens ䷉ Source: newyorker    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 21:15:30


  • The rise of high-tech despotism - The Record by Recorded Future ⚓ https://therecord.media/the-rise-of-high-tech-despotism/ ䷉ Source: therecord    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 21:16:02


  • Google #Android Leftovers • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/165080    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 21:16:14


  • Satire: Google Maps Adds Shortcuts Through Houses Of People Google Knows Aren’t Home Right Now ⚓ https://www.theonion.com/google-maps-adds-shortcuts-through-houses-of-people-goo-1848861825 ䷉ Source: theonion    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 21:17:34


  • Cautioning people not to download random junk and then execute it; not a problem in the OS per se https://blog.sonatype.com/new-pymafka-malicious-package-drops-cobalt-strike-on-macos-windows-linux    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 21:19:46


  • Okteta making a small step to Qt6 | Attracted by virtual constructs ⚓ https://frinring.wordpress.com/2022/05/20/okteta-making-a-small-step-to-qt6/ ䷉ Source: frinring    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 21:22:46


  • "Update on what happened across the GNOME project in the week from May 13 to May 20." https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2022/05/twig-44/    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 21:23:20


  • Public Submissions to U.S. Government Reveal Corporate Wishlist for IPEF: More Power at Our Expense https://citizen.typepad.com/eyesontrade/2022/05/public-submissions-to-us-government-reveal-corporate-wishlist-for-ipef-more-power-at-our-expense.html organised plunder    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 21:23:52


  • "That billionaire, “corporate raider” Ron Perelman, has deep and controversial ties to the Clinton family and the Democratic party as well as troubling ties to Jeffery Epstein." https://unlimitedhangout.com/2022/05/investigative-reports/monkeypox-fears-may-rescue-endangered-corporations/    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 21:24:41


  • xkcd: Angular Diameter Turnaround ⚓ https://xkcd.com/2622/ ䷉ Source: xkcd    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 21:55:08


  • "Congress (and increasingly, state legislatures) has become a field for political football games, with vulnerable and marginalized people often used as the balls they toss around to score points and to attack their opponents." gemini://willowashmaple.smol.pub/2022-05-18-toxic-partisan-democracy    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 21:58:17


  • "On the one hand, it has been said by the conservatives that the United States is a republic, in which the constitution protects the rights of minorities from the wills of the mob. While this sounds good on its surface, it actually isn't when one considers that by "minorities" they usually mean "persecuted" rich white Christians." gemini://willowashmaple.smol.pub/2022-05-18-toxic-partisan-democracy    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 21:58:53


  • "I was checking how to remove background noise on calls so that everyone can be unmuted all the time. There's a tool, krisp.ai, that offers that for win and mac." gemini://lof.flounder.online/gemlog/2022-05-20%20how%20an%20open%20source%20project%20can%20get%20compromised.gmi    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 22:12:54


  • "How sad. It's a product that interfaces with pulseaudio, giving it access over every audio stream in your system. A wet dream for a spy agency. And of course, it got compromised." gemini://lof.flounder.online/gemlog/2022-05-20%20how%20an%20open%20source%20project%20can%20get%20compromised.gmi    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 22:13:15


  • "When my brother died, he left behind two young sons--one in middle school and the other in elementary. He was also in the middle of a divorce that wasn't finalized, so he left his wife with many financial issues that did not seem easy to deal with." gemini://rooster.smol.pub/tj2    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 22:14:47


  • Portable music memories gemini://sev.smol.pub/1653054239    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 22:15:39


  • UK 2022 and Germany 1933 gemini://midnight.pub/posts/958    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 22:16:09


  • Gemini: bringing the sense of wonder to the Internet again gemini://willowashmaple.smol.pub/2022-05-19-sense-of-wonder-again    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 22:16:41


  • A Call for a Gemini Without TLS gemini://gemini.ctrl-c.club/~stack/gemlog/2022-02-13.notls.gmi    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 22:17:56


  • "It is almost certain that widely-accepted and used cryptography is compromised and is not a threat to governments (otherwise we would see a serious push for other technologies which include backdoors). In fact it is very likely that NSA and other such players are actively introducing and supporting certain encryption technologies." gemini://gemini.ctrl-c.club/~stack/gemlog/2022-02-13.notls.gmi    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 22:18:31


  • Is a Unix Philosophy Browser Possible? gemini://gemini.ctrl-c.club/~stack/gemlog/2022-05-10.lagrange.gmi    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 22:19:05


  • "The Android port of Lagrange has progressed to a point where it's now running on a real device." gemini://skyjake.fi/gemlog/2021-12_lagrange-meets-a-green-robot.gmi    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 22:19:57


  • Trim Strings in Vim / Organize Firefox History gemini://pwshnotes.flounder.online/gemlog/2022-05-18-trim-strings-firefox-history.gmi    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 22:20:45


  • "Scientists Uncover a Shady Web of Online Spider Sales" gemini://alex.flounder.online/journal.gmi    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 22:26:57


  • DeleteGithub gemini://gemini.dimakrasner.com/gemhack.gmi    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 22:28:12


  • "It’s patents and patenting as a whole that’s the problem, not just trivial patents. " gemini://idiomdrottning.org/trivial-patents    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 22:29:07


  • "Sparta, for them as don't know, is a variant of gemini, without the (imo) unnecessary overhead of tls. This all appears to be a project of Michael Lazar, who's jetforce I have been using to serve gemini here from the very beginning." gemini://dgold.eu/arcadia.gmi    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 22:31:57


  • Flatpak App of the Week: Pika Backup - Keeping Your Data Safe Was Never Easier • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/165081    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 22:38:37


  • 10 of the Best Graphic Design Software for Linux • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/165082    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 22:39:44


  • The 5 best Application Launchers for Ubuntu • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/165083    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 22:39:52


  • GNOME and KDE: This Week in GNOME, Qt6 and KF6 • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/165084    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 22:40:46


  • Bing censors search for Xi Jinping, Citizen Lab report finds http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/165024#comment-33745   

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 22:54:29


  • Centralised or federated censorship/filtering platforms (also known as “social [control] media” [sic]) aren’t the way forward; we’re therefore a little surprised that Linux Weekly News (LWN) bothers with that languishing bandwagon all of a sudden http://techrights.org/2022/05/20/lwn-outsourcing/    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 23:38:35


  • "In 1991, Linus Torvalds started this fantastic Linux project and prior to that, Richard Stallman came up with the idea of GPL, the general public license. Thus, a new model to deliver software code in an open and transparent manner came into existence. Stallman can be quoted with the famous phrase: „If you think about open source, think free as in free speech, not free beer.“" https://www.eurasiareview.com/17052022-bernd-rodler-real-innovation-and-progress-happen-beyond-big-tech-part-i-interview/    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 23:42:00


  • "In 1991, Linus Torvalds started this fantastic Linux project and prior to that, Richard Stallman came up with the idea of GPL, the general public license. Thus, a new model to deliver software code in an open and transparent manner came into existence. Stallman can be quoted with the famous phrase" https://www.eurasiareview.com/17052022-bernd-rodler-real-innovation-and-progress-happen-beyond-big-tech-part-i-interview/    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 23:42:16


  • Mysterious firm seeks to buy majority stake in Arm China - El Reg ⚓ https://www.theregister.com/2022/05/20/mysterious_arm_china/ ䷉ Source: theregister    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 23:43:23


  • HP finally offering PROPER GNU/Linux... and on ARM instead of x86 https://hpdevone.com/    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 23:45:48


  • The 10 Best Linux Apps for Musicians • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/165085    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 23:48:10


  • How to migrate from Blogger to WordPress https://unixcop.com/migrate-from-blogger-to-wordpress/ getting away from Gulag    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 23:50:33


  • "When I write the word “imagineering,” what does it mean to you? Does it make you think of a certain company or concept? Is that company or concept perhaps something related to a cartoon or a theme park?" https://tedium.co/2022/05/20/disney-imagineering-word-history/    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 23:54:39


  • Today’s #HowTos | #UNIX • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/165086    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 23:54:47


  • "Banking is a competitive, but they try to stay out of each other’s way. Why I like credit cards and hate annual fees. What is FICO and VantageScore?" https://baronhk.wordpress.com/2022/05/20/banking-is-a-competitive-but-they-try-to-stay-out-of-each-others-way-why-i-like-credit-cards-and-hate-annual-fees/    

posted Friday, May 20, 2022 at 23:55:52



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