Roy Schestowitz

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posted Saturday, October 22, 2022 at 23:54:08

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posted Saturday, October 22, 2022 at 23:54:26

• Mastodon is a waste of time. Just more social control media. Let's go back to blogs. https://idroot.us/install-mastodon-ubuntu-22-04/    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 03:16:11

• "My Samsung 870 EVO 2TB SDD is dying after 13 months of basic workstation operation." https://lukas.zapletalovi.com/2022/10/send-warning-email-when-your-drive-is-dying.html    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 03:17:58

• "some times ago I had a discussion with a person from Microsoft where I told them about this problem and the response I got back was, effectively: "I don't understand what the problem is" followed by "just run the compiles from the correct shell"." https://nibblestew.blogspot.com/2022/10/making-visual-studio-compilers-directly.html VS Code is proprietary    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 03:29:13

• "Available from crates.io." No, the site sis NOT accessible without JS and NOT accessible to non-GAFAM browsers. Rust is a joke! https://www.figuiere.net/hub/wlog/fall-of-releases/    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 03:31:35

• Microsoft: it's our fault. but we won't compensate you. https://thehackernews.com/2022/10/microsoft-confirms-server.html    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 03:35:21

• Proprietary software gives you ransom https://thehackernews.com/2022/10/multiple-campaigns-exploit-vmware.html    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 03:36:11

• NET-based. Windows TCO. https://thehackernews.com/2022/10/emotet-botnet-distributing-self.html    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 03:38:24

• Microsoft puts back doors in everything for the FBI and NSA https://thehackernews.com/2022/10/researchers-claim-microsoft-office-365.html see http://techrights.org/wiki/Microsoft_and_the_NSA    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 03:41:15

• #Techrights Bulletin for Saturday, October 22, 2022 http://techrights.org/txt full archive: http://techrights.org/txt-archives #gnu #linux #freesw #plaintext    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 04:05:46

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

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 04:06:04

• "The COINTELPRO era never ended, as Black people bear the brunt of FBI surveillance. The war on terror gave a new rationale for using paid informants to entrap Black people. Romeo Langhorne is the latest victim of a government created crime" https://www.blackagendareport.com/fbi-still-targets-black-people-entrapment    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 04:28:02

• Quickpost: Testing A Lemon Battery https://blog.didierstevens.com/2022/10/22/quickpost-testing-a-lemon-battery/    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 04:28:39

• "So people visited the website and signed in with their Twitter account. Whereupon the app started posting spam." https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2022/10/why-cant-twitter-stop-the-twoo-fun-ask-for-me-spam/    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 04:30:03

• Surveillance buzzwords much of the time https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/big-data-storage/    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 04:32:32

• Small Business Weak: Why Bills C-11 and C-18 Undermine the Government’s Claims of Small Business Support https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2022/10/small-business-weak/    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 04:36:31

• Government Moves to Block Dozens of Potential Witnesses as it Shuts Down Bill C-18 Hearings https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2022/10/shutdownc18/    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 04:37:04

• "Earlier this week, I attended an excellent talk with Frances Haugen, the well-known Facebook whistleblower, who delivered a compelling case that the social media giant, driven by profit maximization, consistently errs on the side of technical choices that keeps users engaged, angry, and on the platform, often at an enormous societal cost." https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2022/10/why-the-real-bill-c-18-threat-is-bill-c-18/    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 04:37:58

• Manage Dependencies with the deps R Package for Docker Containers ⚓ https://hosting.analythium.io/manage-dependencies-with-the-deps-r-package-for-docker-containers/ | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//hosting.analythium.io/manage-dependencies-with-the-deps-r-package-for-docker-containers/    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 04:45:14

• A turn in the welding robotics community https://rosindustrial.org/news/2022/10/18/a-turn-in-the-welding-robotics-community    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 04:46:02

• Malicious actors too can use this "telemetry" https://www.mandiant.com/resources/blog/silketw-because-free-telemetry-free    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 04:48:41

• Microsoft Windows TCO: "The unpacked core for the analyzed URSNIF LDR4 sample has the internal name LOADER.dll." https://www.mandiant.com/resources/blog/rm3-ldr4-ursnif-banking-fraud    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 04:50:17

• digest 0.6.30 on CRAN: More Package Maintenance http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2022/10/18#digest_0.6.30    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 04:52:19

• "In South Korea, Kakao is ubiquitous. Nearly everyone, from schoolchildren to the elderly, uses the Korean tech company’s apps for messaging, taxis, navigation and payments. It’s Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, Uber, Google Maps and Venmo wrapped into one." https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/10/17/kakao-outage-south-korea-fire/ Try to have LIFE, not APP. Apps aren't life.    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 04:54:23

• "The Guardian informs me that Suella Braverman has resigned, stating...." gemini://malinfreeborn.com/gen/poliltical_stories.gmi    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 05:14:32

• [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/sneps/D392.jpg    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 05:16:00

• [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/cheetahs/D737.jpg    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 05:16:05

• Germany Says Deaths Increased by 9% Last Month, But That’s Measuring This Year Compared to Two Years of Pandemic https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2022/10/23/germany-says-deaths-increased/    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 05:52:30

• ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): #HowTo Get KDE Plasma 5.26 in Kubuntu 22.10 Kinetic Kudu ⇨ http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2022/10/23/How_to_Get_KDE_Plasma_5_26_in_Kubuntu_22_10_Kinetic_Kudu.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2022/10/23/How_to_Get_KDE_Plasma_5_26_in_Kubuntu_22_10_Kinetic_Kudu.gmi ∎    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 06:35:21

• CDC: US Births Decreased About 10% in Half a Decade, Infant Mortality Stayed About the Same https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2022/10/23/infant-mortality-pre-and-post-covid-19/    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 08:06:24

• "I really do need to find work that’s not gig economy bullshit, but I’m so fundamentally unsuited for employment. I have no patience, I can’t stand up for hours on end, I can’t do heavy labor... I thought maybe I might apply at a local cafe, but the questions on their application include “What is your favorite TV show”" gemini://gemini.locrian.zone/gemlog/job-woes.gmi    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 08:13:18

• New Fractal Images: - Mandelbrot 0003H: gemini://gem.librehacker.com/fractals/mandelbrot/mand0003.png    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 08:13:39

• Tough economy: people sewing their own clothes again gemini://gemini.mingmengtou.org/2022-10-23-taking-in-a-merino-top.gmi    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 08:14:48

• "It’s time to get me up to speed with modern CSS. There’s so much new in CSS that I know too little about." ☛ https://www.matuzo.at/blog/2022/100daysof-day20/ | Source: Manuel Matuzovic    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 09:01:36

• "The last changes I made to my classless CSS framework, Vanilla CSS, was in November of 2021." ☛ https://tdarb.org/blog/dogfooding-vanilla-css.html | Source: Bradley Taunt    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 09:01:42

• [Old] "I wrote much of the script for this lecture by merging my January/February 2021 FreeBSD Journal article" ☛ https://www.coreystephan.com/freebsd-friday/ |    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 09:02:12

• [Old] "I have used the Pi 4 with FreeBSD 13-RELEASE for a range of tasks." ☛ https://www.coreystephan.com/pi4-freebsd/ |    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 09:02:18

• As per official numbers (with vast dataset comprising almost 4 million births per year) https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2022/10/23/infant-mortality-pre-and-post-covid-19/    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 09:17:42

• "So the population moved from about 0.9% of the population dying per year to 1.2%. Make that a decade and we’re talking about a shift from about 9% to 12%. Longevity/life expectancy is decreasing." https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2022/10/23/germany-says-deaths-increased/    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 09:18:06

• Innodisk releases USB camera modules for AI applications - CNX Software ⚓ https://www.cnx-software.com/2022/10/23/innodisk-usb-camera-modules-for-ai-applications/ ䷉ Source: CNX Software | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.cnx-software.com/2022/10/23/innodisk-usb-camera-modules-for-ai-applications/    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 09:23:47

• How I feel after getting 'let go' by my former employer gemini://eph.smol.pub/1666499213    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 09:25:14

• My new used ThinkPad T460s gemini://foobucket.xyz/gemlog/2022-10-23-My_new_used_ThinkPad_T460s.gmi    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 09:26:32

• ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Security Leftovers ⇨ http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2022/10/23/Security_Leftovers.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2022/10/23/Security_Leftovers.gmi ∎    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 09:27:49

• ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Today's 𝘛𝘶𝘹 𝘔𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴 HowTos ⇨ http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2022/10/23/today_s_howtos.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2022/10/23/today_s_howtos.gmi ∎    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 09:27:58

• [Old] "what counts as self-driving?" ☛ https://www.pcmag.com/how-to/6-levels-of-autonomous-self-driving-explained | Source: PC Mag    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 09:29:03

• [Old] "let's take a closer look at level 5 autonomy" ☛ https://www.hotcars.com/level-5-autonony-driverless-cars-when/ |    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 09:29:08

• "The official ASUSTOR getting started guide recommends installing ASUSTOR Control Center" ☛ https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2022/easier-way-find-asustor-nas-set-it | Source: Jeff Geerling    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 09:29:34

• "The original motherboard eventually got flaky, so I transferred everything over to a 1400c/166 motherboard" ☛ https://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2022/10/refurb-weekend-powerbook-1400.html | Source: Old VCR    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 09:30:04

• "However, as a matter of principle, we do not shoot down drones, and the police do not recommend it to anyone else either" ☛ https://yle.fi/news/3-12665060 | Source: YLE    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 09:30:09

• "This lo-fi orchestra found modest fame on Twitter playing an 8-bit synthesised rendition of Mike Oldfield’s Tubular Bells" ☛ https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/a-raspberry-pi-pico-conducts-this-lo-fi-orchestra/ | Source: Raspberry Pi    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 09:30:15

• "The pair also faced problems when implementing OpenCV to recognise faces." ☛ https://magpi.raspberrypi.com/articles/auralock-automatic-door-opener | Source: Raspberry Pi    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 09:30:31

• ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Open Hardware and New Hardware Issues ⇨ http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2022/10/23/Open_Hardware_and_New_Hardware_Issues.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2022/10/23/Open_Hardware_and_New_Hardware_Issues.gmi ∎    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 09:38:59

• lipton https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/21/arts/music/lenny-lipton-dead.html    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 09:39:12

• germany https://garyfouse.blogspot.com/2022/10/germany-update-on-stabbing-murders-in.html    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 09:39:21

• "Browsers cover so much ground and are so large that they effectively contain multiple substantial projects as subsystems." ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/web/BrowserProgrammingChallenge | Source: uni Toronto    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 10:21:28

• "Turns out, a relational database is perfectly adequate (such as MySQL or PostgreSQL)." ☛ https://alexn.org/blog/2022/10/21/modeling-queue-for-delayed-messages-via-rdbms/ | Source: Alexandru Nedelcu    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 10:21:50

• [Old] "My FOSDEM 2021 presentation" ☛ https://www.coreystephan.com/fosdem21/ |    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 10:22:26

• "You may have seen Debra Ansell’s sound-reactive LED embroidered party dress." ☛ https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/meet-debra-ansell-geek-mom-projects-hackspace-60/ | Source: Raspberry Pi    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 10:22:41

• "The distribution of non-discrete variables is represented by a histogram" ☛ https://finnstats.com/index.php/2022/10/20/difference-between-a-histogram-and-a-bar-graph/ | Source: Finnstats    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 13:54:55

• "Looking at static mocks, imagining a set of goals, and saying “yeah that looks good” is one thing." ☛ https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2022/seeing-vs-using/ | Source: Jim Nielsen    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 13:55:06

• "a follow-up to last month’s MLOps with vetiver in Python and R webinar" ☛ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2022/10/mlops-with-vetiver-in-python-and-r-answering-your-questions/ | Source: Rlang    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 13:55:54

• "Webmentions work by sending a notification to a special server on a site called a Webmention endpoint." ☛ https://jamesg.blog/2022/10/21/send-webmention-in-python/ | Source: James G    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 13:55:59

• "After her initial shock, Kate began to realise something even more disturbing" ☛ https://metro.co.uk/2022/10/21/deepfake-porn-takes-seconds-to-make-but-can-wreck-lives-17605029/ | Source: Metro UK    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 13:56:33

• "Sadly, my MSc provider aren't particularly proactive in providing resources to students" ☛ https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2022/10/msc-so-you-have-to-write-a-literature-review/ | Source: Terence Eden    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 13:57:15

• "The quality of the air we breathe has a direct impact on our health. Poor air quality can cause a variety of health problems" ☛ https://blog.arduino.cc/2022/10/20/environmental-monitoring-of-corporate-offices-with-arduino-pro/ | Source: Arduino    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 13:57:55

• "In the few countries where they overlap, the two strains appear to be co-circulating rather than out-competing each other." ☛ https://www.sfchronicle.com/health/article/Is-there-really-a-COVID-nightmare-variant-17517688.php | Source: San Fancisco    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 13:58:29

• "In a private system, there’s an additional cost: profits." ☛ https://breachmedia.ca/busting-myths-about-privatized-healthcare/ | Source: Breach Media    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 13:58:45

• "As you can see, Microsoft has essentially bypassed the GPG check by enabling the check" ☛ https://baronhk.wordpress.com/2022/10/22/microsoft-edge-for-linux-uses-outdated-gpg-and-then-configures-it-to-silence-your-distributions-package-security-checks/ | Source: DaemonFC (Ryan Farmer)    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 14:01:58

• "As EU policymakers are about to adopt new laws to empower consumers and increase cyber-resilience" ☛ https://privacyinternational.org/report/4965/we-looked-software-support-practices-5-most-popular-smart-devices-and-results-may | Source: Privacy International    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 14:02:17

• "Let's take a look at some of the design decisions of these consumerized alarm systems" ☛ https://computer.rip/2022-10-22-wireless-burglary.html | Source: Computers Are Bad    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 14:02:50

• "Today, noyb.eu filed a GDPR complaint against the Austrian news magazine Profil." ☛ https://noyb.eu/en/two-are-better-one-profilat-strikes-back-forced-banner-when-users-make-wrong-choice | Source: NYOB    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 14:03:05

• "In a non peer-reviewed paper that he has posted on his lab's website, Humphreys claims to have provided the most complete characterization of Starlink’s signals to date." ☛ https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/10/21/1062001/spacex-starlink-signals-reverse-engineered-gps/ | Source: MIT Technology Review    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 14:03:36

• "We have developed and applied a blind signal identification technique to uncover the frequency- and time-domain structure of the Starlink Ku-band downlink signal." ☛ https://radionavlab.ae.utexas.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/starlink-structure.pdf |    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 14:04:01

• "A new congressional report commissioned by Bernie Sanders finds that the 1 percent now own one-third of all wealth" ☛ https://jacobin.com/2022/10/bernie-sanders-wealth-concentration-oligarchy-democracy/ | Source: Jacobin Magazine    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 14:04:46

• "Investigators believe the couple "kidnapped and then murdered in Pakistan their own daughter" ☛ https://tribune.com.pk/story/2382816/pakistani-couple-arrested-in-spain-over-daughters-honour-killing | Source: The Express Tribune    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 14:04:50

• "allegedly illegally made his way to the West front of the Capitol grounds" ☛ https://www.axios.com/2022/10/21/new-york-attorney-capitol-riot-police-attack-charges | Source: Axios    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 14:05:34

• "sponsored" and very clearly missing john sinclair https://emorywheel.com/6-greatest-cannabis-activists-of-all-time/    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 14:06:03

• Free software and theology https://odysee.com/@DistroTube:2/theology-professor-and-free-software:b    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 14:06:16

• "The GMK NucBox 8 offers up to 6GB RAM, 128GB of eMMC" ☛ https://linuxgizmos.com/gemini-lake-based-mini-pc-available-for-139/ | Source: Linux Gizmos    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 14:06:57

• OPEC https://www.axios.com/2022/10/19/opec-cut-saudi-arabia-biden-admin-public-support    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 14:07:11

• Iran https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11333547/Iran-questions-Britney-Spears-mental-health-voiced-support-womens-rights-protests.html    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 14:07:29

• Archery master shoots numerous arrows straight through a keyhole (video) | Boing Boing ⚓ https://boingboing.net/2022/10/21/archery-master-shoots-numerous-arrows-straight-through-a-keyhole-video.html ䷉ Source: BoingBoing | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//boingboing.net/2022/10/21/archery-master-shoots-numerous-arrows-straight-through-a-keyhole-video.html    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 14:08:16

• Journalist Sues Predator Spyware Maker for Allegedly Helping Government Surveil Him - SoylentNews ⚓ https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=22/10/19/1639212 ䷉ Source: Soylent News | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=22/10/19/1639212    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 14:08:44

• "BIGTREETECH has unveiled a compact board equipped with a 64-bit Allwinner H616 processor." ☛ https://linuxgizmos.com/som-board-features-allwinner-h616-processor/ | Source: Linux Gizmos    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 14:10:10

• "The latest Steam Client Beta replaces the old Big Picture Configurator for individual games" ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2022/10/valve-starts-roll-out-of-the-steam-deck-controller-configurator-to-desktop-steam/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 14:10:45

• "Another Beta update is available for the Steam Deck, with Valve adding in just a few more "Friday fixes"." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2022/10/valve-put-up-a-few-more-fixes-in-the-new-steam-deck-beta/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 14:10:53

• "Claimed to be the largest Baltic-region infrastructure project, the Rail Baltica project will cover a length of 870km in Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania." ☛ https://www.railway-technology.com/news/rb-rail-cinea-rail-baltica-project/ |    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 14:11:35

• "Another stage of the Rail Baltica railway spatial planning has been completed" ☛ https://www.railtarget.eu/technologies-and-infrastructure/rail-baltica-completes-another-stage-of-the-railway-spatial-planning-heres-all-you-need-to-know-3692.html |    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 14:11:53

• "Sam Bankman-Fried, a 30-year-old co-founder of the cryptocurrency exchange FTX, is a $15 billion enigma." ☛ https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2022/10/sam-bankman-fried-crypto-ftx-2022-midterms/671823/ | Source: The Atlantic    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 14:12:09

• "Both are mistakes. Let’s keep trying to fix the climate crisis and end fossils." ☛ https://idiomdrottning.org/fusion | Source: Idiomdrottning    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 14:12:28

• "The idea is simple: Store excess free energy from your rooftop in your batteries rather than selling it back to a utility that doesn't like the idea and offers a pittance." ☛ https://www.cnet.com/home/energy-and-utilities/why-you-need-home-batteries-no-its-not-all-about-blackouts/ | Source: CNET    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 14:12:56

• "Earth continues to hemorrhage biodiversity, according to the latest Living Planet Report." ☛ https://overpopulation-project.com/more-like-a-dying-planet-report/ | Source: Overpopulation    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 14:13:30

• "As drafted at time of writing, Bill C-26 would empower the Minister of Industry to compel telecommunications providers to do or refrain from doing anything in the service of securing Canadian telecommunications networks" ☛ https://citizenlab.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Report158-critical-analysis-telecom-act.pdf | Source: Citizen Lab    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 14:16:53

• "Should these recommendations or ones derived from them not be taken up...." ☛ https://citizenlab.ca/2022/10/a-critical-analysis-of-proposed-amendments-in-bill-c-26-to-the-telecommunications-act/ | Source: Citizen Lab    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 14:16:58

• "It was the best day of my life" ☛ https://eu.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/detroit/2021/12/09/john-sinclair-white-panther-party-how-old-is-john-sinclair-marijuana-pot-michigan-detroit/8814801002/ | Source: Gannett    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 14:17:05

• [Old] "The event was a peculiar and historic musical confluence of protest, pot and politics that resonates even today in Michigan's progressive cannabis laws" ☛ https://eu.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/detroit/2021/12/05/night-john-lennon-showed-up-ann-arbor-free-john-sinclair/8813761002/ | Source: Gannett    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 14:17:20

• ">We were as surprised as anyone could have been." ☛ https://2600.com/content/2600-kicked-youtube-sarcastic-remark | Source: 2600    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 14:18:23

• assange ☛ https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/7950785/assange-lawyer-asks-what-happens-when-the-law-that-is-meant-to-protect-us-silences-us/ | Source: Canberra Times    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 14:18:36

• "According to VOA, the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists has documented that as of Wednesday" ☛ https://saharareporters.com/2022/10/21/over-40-journalists-detained-iran-covering-anti-hijab-protests | Source: Sahara Reporters    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 14:19:21

• "Assange has committed no crime. He has, instead, been hounded, vilified and persecuted by the imperialist powers" ☛ https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2022/10/20/kicc-o20.html | Source: WSWS    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 14:19:27

• Probably not the worst idea: setting a quaternary clock to display GMT gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 14:22:36

• "While it should have been a moment of pride for the Pakistani cricket fans to see our athlete" ☛ https://tribune.com.pk/story/2382809/twitter-comes-to-sana-mirs-defence-after-she-was-trolled-for-sharing-pictures-with-male-cricketers | Source: The Express Tribune    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 14:22:58

• "The tradition dates back to 1931, when the third week in October was set aside to look at the culture and society" ☛ https://news.err.ee/1608759694/saturday-is-finno-ugric-tribal-day-flags-raised | Source: Eesti Rahvusringhääling    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 14:23:15

• "A 15-year-old Iranian girl died last week after being beaten during a raid by the security forces on her school" ☛ https://www.france24.com/en/asia-pacific/20221020-iran-schoolgirl-dies-after-being-beaten-by-security-forces-teachers-union-says | Source: France24    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 14:23:43

• "The ITU's most important meeting, the Plenipotentiary Conference, just wrapped up in Bucharest after three weeks of ceremony" ☛ https://labs.ripe.net/author/suzanne_taylor_muzzin/reflections-on-the-itu-plenipotentiary-conference-2022/ | Source: RIPE    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 14:24:05

• "Naively, I assumed that this was a lucky escape, but that the idea would be back unless we were on our guard." ☛ https://walledculture.org/a-concept-that-should-not-exist-at-all-is-already-implemented-the-paying-public-domain/ | Source: Walled Culture    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 14:26:34

• "They include Acapella-extractor, which amassed 3.2 million site visits in the last 12 months" ☛ https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/record-industry-clamps-down-on-ai-based-music-extractors-that-infringe-on-copyrights/ | Source: Music Business Worldwide    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 14:26:39

• "The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has submitted its most recent overview of notorious markets to the U.S. Trade Representative." ☛ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2022/10/18/major-labels-ai-extractors-mixers-copyright-infringement/ | Source: Digital Music News    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 14:26:45

• "Artists working within all kinds of media have raised concerns in recent years—and increasingly, with the rising popularity of text-to-image generators like DALL-E—about whether AI-generated art infringes on individuals’ copyright." ☛ https://www.vice.com/en/article/pkgxqz/record-labels-say-ai-music-generators-threaten-music-industry | Source: Vice Media Group    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 14:26:58

• strike ☛ https://truthout.org/articles/railroad-workers-threaten-to-strike-and-call-for-public-takeover-of-the-rails/ | Source: TruthOut    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 14:32:13

• Pregnant behind bars ☛ https://truthout.org/articles/being-pregnant-in-prison-is-a-nightmare-that-wont-be-ended-by-one-bill-alone/ | Source: TruthOut    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 14:32:37

• subpoena ☛ https://truthout.org/articles/trump-subpoenaed-for-central-role-in-effort-to-overturn-election/ | Source: TruthOut    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 14:33:06

• Wisconsin ☛ https://www.propublica.org/article/wisconsin-election-2022-photos | Source: Pro Publica    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 14:33:23

• evictions ☛ https://www.propublica.org/article/atlantic-county-court-tosses-landlords-effort-to-evict-tenants | Source: Pro Publica    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 14:33:47

• Committee on Economic Policy ☛ https://torrentfreak.com/department-of-piracy-punish-russias-enemies-boost-morale-hurt-pirates-221022/ | Source: Torrent Freak    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 14:34:22

• Puerto Rico and Jackson ☛ https://truthout.org/articles/puerto-rico-and-jackson-mississippi-share-climate-injustices-and-solutions/ | Source: TruthOut    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 14:34:43

• Debt ☛ https://truthout.org/articles/appeals-court-temporarily-blocks-student-debt-cancellation/ | Source: TruthOut    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 14:35:03

• "A lot of people complain that Roombas are unreliable, poor at their job, or just plain annoying." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2022/10/22/trying-to-build-the-worlds-fastest-roomba/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 14:35:27

• "why we are so fascinated with robots that come in the shape of people" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2022/10/22/retrofitting-robots/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 14:35:46

• Chelsea Manning censored ☛ https://thedissenter.org/the-parts-of-chelsea-mannings-book-censored-by-the-us-government/ | Source: The Dissenter    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 14:36:17

• Kherson ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2022/10/22/isw-russian-retreat-from-kherson-has-begun | Source: Meduza    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 14:36:34

• Kherson ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2022/10/22/administration-of-annexed-kherson-requires-residents-to-leave-the-city-immediately | Source: Meduza    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 14:36:38

• Inflation ☛ https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/10/22/fight-inflation-tax-rich-and-corporate-profiteers | Source: Common Dreams    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 14:37:10

• Debt ☛ https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/10/22/heres-status-student-debt-relief-applications-open | Source: Common Dreams    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 14:37:57

• louisiana ☛ https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/10/22/systemic-grid-failure-killing-people-louisiana-voting-can-save-their-lives | Source: Common Dreams    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 14:38:17

• PG&E ☛ https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/10/22/utility-ceos-see-soaring-pay-families-struggle-afford-energy-bills | Source: Common Dreams    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 14:38:51

• People who wish to browse information quickly and easily ought to take a look at Gemini; the video above shows one way to use it for news, photos, Git/coding, and more http://techrights.org/2022/10/23/browse-information-faster-with-gemini/    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 14:40:23

• "Millions without power across Ukraine" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2022/10/23/millions-without-power-across-ukraine | Source: Meduza    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 14:43:24

• "Defensive structures made of concrete blocks are being installed in the Belgorod region, says regional governor Vyacheslav Gladkov" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2022/10/22/construction-begins-on-prigozhin-line-in-belgorod | Source: Meduza    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 14:43:48

• LoRaWAN ☛ https://hackaday.com/2022/10/22/building-a-local-network-with-lorawan/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 14:44:34

• "One of the main reasons the Commodore 64 became an icon of the 1980s was its MOS 6581 “SID” sound chip that gave it audio capabilities well beyond those of other microcomputers of the 8-bit era." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2022/10/22/the-commodordion-turns-two-c64s-into-a-single-instrument/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 14:44:56

• E89: Tech Talk: Secure Your Linux Server - Invidious ⚓ https://yewtu.be/watch?v=0JJaZTmBNLw | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://auragem.space/youtube/video/0JJaZTmBNLw    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 14:46:54

• "In this video, I'm going to do an installation and first look of the recently released Ubuntu 22.10, codenamed "Kinetic Kudu". What's new in this release? And is it worth it to upgrade if you are running 22.04?" https://yewtu.be/watch?v=lG48ru8FIdo    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 14:47:30

• "So it's urgent that at some point the governments act to split these big corporations and stop the magma from rolling in any further." https://informatique-libre.be/swilmet/blog/2022-09-20-gafam-magma.html    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 14:48:01

• Devhelp https://informatique-libre.be/swilmet/blog/2022-10-23-devhelp.html    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 14:48:45

• "This artwork was also here to test my new workflow, one that attempts to get better volumes, light, and ease preserving a contrast between sharp edges and soft shading. I had to test it on a funny character full of energy and motion." https://www.davidrevoy.com/article934/fanart-arale-dr-slump    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 14:56:49

• "The three patches consisting of a few hundred lines of code establishes the new subsystem and initial DRM subsystem integration." About 300 lines of code. Sometimes Phoronix does articles about patches that are just TWO lines of code. https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Accel-Subsystem-Patches    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 14:58:16

• "11 files changed, 122 insertions(+), 86 deletions(-)" https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/Y1ULKYsASLRoVb7N@zn.tnic/    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 14:58:54

• Intel code so bad that it's being removed and replaced https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20221021203413.1220137-1-jithu.joseph@intel.com/    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 14:59:45

• Removing "486-class hardware" from Linux while adding PROPRIETARY garbage of MICROSOFT. What happens when the fraud Sheela Microsoft and his wife Jim Zemlin take control of the Linux project. https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=wjrpH1+6cQQjTO6p-96ndBMiOnNH098vhS2jLybxD+7gA@mail.gmail.com/    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 15:01:55

• Linux doesn't care about robust system , just "modern" spying crap    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 15:02:29

• Techrights will soon publish a long article/series on how "modern" systems are failing us    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 15:03:05

• ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Shows and Videos: Look of Ubuntu 22.10, #HowTo Secure Your Linux Server, and GNU World Order ⇨ http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2022/10/23/Shows_and_Videos_Look_of_Ubuntu_22_10_How_to_Secure_Your_Linux_.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2022/10/23/Shows_and_Videos_Look_of_Ubuntu_22_10_How_to_Secure_Your_Linux_.gmi ∎    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 15:04:36

• ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Updates on Steam Deck ⇨ http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2022/10/23/Updates_on_Steam_Deck.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2022/10/23/Updates_on_Steam_Deck.gmi ∎   

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 15:04:47

• ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Devices and Programming/Modding: Raspberry Pi and More ⇨ http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2022/10/23/Devices_and_Programming_Modding_Raspberry_Pi_and_More.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2022/10/23/Devices_and_Programming_Modding_Raspberry_Pi_and_More.gmi ∎    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 15:04:56

• ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): 𝘛𝘶𝘹 𝘔𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴 Programming Leftovers ⇨ http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2022/10/23/Programming_Leftovers.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2022/10/23/Programming_Leftovers.gmi ∎    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 15:22:26

• "resurgence in the cyberdeck community" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2022/10/22/2022-cyberdeck-contest-qaz-personal-terminal/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 15:23:30

• starlink ☛ https://hackaday.com/2022/10/22/when-elon-says-no-just-reverse-engineer-the-starlink-signal/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 15:23:48

• Tulsi Gabbard ☛ https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/10/22/if-tulsi-gabbard-falls-woods-should-it-make-sound | Source: Common Dreams    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 15:24:18

• "Two people were killed by shelling in the border town of Shebekino, reports Vyacheslav Gladkov, governor of Russia’s Belgorod region" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2022/10/22/two-killed-and-12-injured-in-strikes-on-the-russian-border-town-of-shebekino | Source: Meduza    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 15:24:51

• "Journalists from Mediazona and the BBC’s Russian service, along with a team of volunteers, established based on open-source research..." ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2022/10/22/in-the-month-since-russia-announced-partial-mobilization-41-conscripts-have-died | Source: Meduza    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 15:25:15

• Medicare ☛ https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/10/22/medicare-all-remains-best-cure-sick-healthcare-system | Source: Common Dreams    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 15:25:37

• Corporations ☛ https://scheerpost.com/2022/10/22/how-corporations-get-away-with-murder-to-inflate-prices-on-rent-food-and-electricity/ | Source: Scheerpost    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 15:25:59

• arizona ☛ https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/10/22/armed-poll-watchers-arizona-heighten-alarm-over-right-wing-voter-intimidation | Source: Common Dreams    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 15:26:18

• Holidays and amazon... ☛ https://truthout.org/articles/this-holiday-season-could-be-watershed-moment-for-amazon-organizers/ | Source: TruthOut    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 15:27:07

• Chelsea Manning ☛ https://scheerpost.com/2022/10/22/chelsea-mannings-book-further-complicates-us-governments-case-against-julian-assange/ | Source: Scheerpost    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 15:27:27

• "I've dedicated much of the past decade to growing and empowering civic engagement at Miami Dade College—the largest community college in Florida" ☛ https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/10/22/why-voting-and-celebration-should-go-hand-hand-college-campuses | Source: Common Dreams    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 15:28:03

• "What do you get when you throw all accepted bicycle designs out the window and start fresh?" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2022/10/22/velomobile-gets-electric-assist/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 15:28:20

• "Despite the economically disastrous impact the Nord Stream pipeline sabotage will have on Europe, Western media still holds its tongue about it." ☛ https://scheerpost.com/2022/10/22/patrick-lawrence-europes-self-destruction/ | Source: Scheerpost    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 15:28:47

• New App Lets You Save Clipboard Content as a New File on Ubuntu http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2022/10/22/Marcos_Costales_Clipboard_content_to_file_New_app.shtml   

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 15:35:18

• "How to create a Sankey plot in R?, You must install the ggsankey library and modify your dataset using the package’s make_long function in order to produce a Sankey diagram in ggplot2." https://datasciencetut.com/how-to-create-a-sankey-plot-in-r/    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 15:50:41

• New Repositories Working Group - R Consortium ⚓ https://www.r-consortium.org/blog/2022/10/19/new-repositories-working-group ䷉ | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.r-consortium.org/blog/2022/10/19/new-repositories-working-group    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 15:51:22

• Interesting Uses of censo2017 a Year After Publishing https://ropensci.org/blog/2022/10/19/censo2017-one-year-after/    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 15:51:58

• "If you’ve worked in a spreadsheet application before, you’re likely familiar with the “text-to-columns” tool. This tool allows you to split one column of data into multiple columns based on a delimiter. This same functionality is also achievable in R through functions such as the “separate” function from the “tidyr” library." https://medium.com/trevor-french/splitting-text-in-r-5aa892054732    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 15:53:28

• Little useless-useful R functions - R Solution with O(n) Time and O(n) Space complexity for CanSum() problem | TomazTsql ⚓ https://tomaztsql.wordpress.com/2022/10/17/little-useless-useful-r-functions-solution-with-on-time-and-on-space-with-r-on-for-cansum-problem/ | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//tomaztsql.wordpress.com/2022/10/17/little-useless-useful-r-functions-solution-with-on-time-and-on-space-with-r-on-for-cansum-problem/    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 15:54:28

• Little useless-useful R functions - R Solution with O(n) Time and O(n) Space complexity for CanSum() problem | TomazTsql ⚓ https://tomaztsql.wordpress.com/2022/10/17/little-useless-useful-r-functions-solution-with-on-time-and-on-space-with-r-on-for-cansum-problem/    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 15:54:44

• "They announce their intention to pursue the idea." https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/attack-on-net-neutrality-eu-commission-remains-stubborn/    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 15:58:02

• This chart shows how union membership has declined over the years https://www.businessinsider.com/chart-union-membership-changes-decline-over-the-years-2022-9?r=US&IR=T    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 15:58:47

• "There were 7 themes of programming as play identified from the analysis: artistry, catalyst, fun, playgrounds, spontaneity, tinkering, and anti-work." https://austinhenley.com/blog/programmingasplay.html    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 16:00:47

• "So, La Trussterfuck's career is approximately over. At 45 days, she's the shortest-serving Prime Minister in British parliamentary history; she's been in and out of office so fast there hasn't even been time for an episode of Doctor Who to air during her tenure" http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2022/10/strong-and-stable.html    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 16:05:13

• "I also don’t buy their claim that these voices are completely generated. Most of Jobs’s lines have auditorium echo — they sound like clips copy-and-pasted. If they can really generate these voices, why doesn’t their virtual Rogan actually say Steve Jobs’s name?" https://daringfireball.net/linked/2022/10/17/ai-podcast-rogan-jobs    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 16:05:53

• The past 1-2 days http://audio-video.gnu.org/video/ was made to redirect to https://www.gnu.org/audio-video/philosophy-recordings.html    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 16:36:30

• Efficiency comparison of dplyr and tidyr functions vs base R | R with White Dwarf ⚓ https://blog.rwhitedwarf.com/post/comparison_dplyr_vs_base_r/ ䷉ | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//blog.rwhitedwarf.com/post/comparison_dplyr_vs_base_r/    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 16:42:57

• "The best part? It's open source and you can use it too!" https://www.sparkfun.com/news/5471    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 16:43:54

• sparkfun has outsourced to proprietary Twitter, which is controlled by frauds and war criminals. poor taste.... https://www.sparkfun.com/news/5466    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 16:46:14

• "The issue here is that the author, understandably so, equates wealth with money." https://www.epistem.ink/p/book-review-safe-haven-investing    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 16:48:19

• "All the places on the hill that have an offensive view of our site… are private property. The public cannot even go there. I guess that the theory is that people trespassing on private property might interrupt their late night burglary attempts" https://www.positech.co.uk/cliffsblog/2022/10/15/solar-farm-update-we-finally-have-planning-permission/    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 16:49:19

• 🔤SpellBinding: DGILNUV Wordo: MASER gemini://tilde.cafe/~spellbinding/gemlog/2022-10-23.gmi    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 16:50:55

• CG Art Will Push the Top 1% to Human Artists https://danielmiessler.com/blog/ai-art-push-1-percent-human-artists/    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 16:52:20

• "Now, late in my adult life, I’ve become convinced that perhaps the central pathology of our time is the relentless pursuit of efficiency, which has overshot its mark and become oppressive." https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2022/10/20/Ordering-Things-Online    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 16:53:28

• What it means to see a 'bad' certificate in TLS Certificate Transparency logs https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/tech/TLSCertTransBadCertMeanings    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 16:54:45

• Arecibo telescope to be replaced by education center - El Reg ⚓ https://www.theregister.com/2022/10/17/arecibo_telescope_education_center/?td=keepreading ䷉ Source: The Register UK | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.theregister.com/2022/10/17/arecibo_telescope_education_center/?td=keepreading    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 16:55:44

• Backdooring a summarizerbot to shape opinion https://pluralistic.net/2022/10/21/let-me-summarize/#i-read-the-abstract    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 16:58:00

• "eliminate more than 99% of the massive environmental damage caused by Ethereum's consuming about half as much power as Bitcoin." https://blog.dshr.org/2022/10/the-power-of-ethereums-merge.html    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 16:59:06

• Big Bropther Surveillance with some "blockchain" thrown in for hype's sake https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-10-16/south-korea-aims-to-boost-economy-with-digital-id-on-blockchain    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 17:01:45

• A Machine Learning-Based Solution Could Help Firefighters Circumvent Deadly Backdrafts https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2022/10/machine-learning-based-solution-could-help-firefighters-circumvent-deadly    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 17:02:22

• "Steve Gibson, he discussed the fact that Microsoft has chosen not to fix a well understood security vulnerability currently in their OME (Office Method Encryption), that has existed for years, a commonly used system, which claims to have a means to encrypt text in Office, say before sending it or storing it." https://eponymouspickle.blogspot.com/2022/10/encountered-and-reported-security.html    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 17:04:16

• "Security guards for the powerful pokies lobby threw reporter Callum Foote out of the ClubsNSW annual meeting Friday afternoon but not before members were told Clubs would be signing up both Premier Dominic Perrottet and Opposition leader Chris Minns to another favourable deal on poker machine regulations." https://michaelwest.com.au/gaming-the-machine-clubsnsw-to-sign-up-politicians-perrottet-and-minns-for-another-4-years/    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 17:05:39

• "If you are using OpenSSL 1.1.1 or higher, there now finally is a built in command line option which I'll also cover." https://raymii.org/s/tutorials/OpenSSL_generate_self_signed_cert_with_Subject_Alternative_name_oneliner.html    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 17:06:32

• "Computers are artifacts humans use to speed up calculations. Are the brains of nonhuman animals not computers? Does a cell not compute when it reads a string of DNA to assemble a protein?" https://ahelwer.ca/post/2022-10-19-defining-computation/    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 17:08:13

• "Writing a package sounds big - and it can for sure be. But in its simplest form, it’s not that much more than putting a function in a package structure. The R community is great and came up with multiple great helpers that make your life easier!" https://cosimameyer.com/post/understanding-the-basics-of-package-writing-in-r/    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 17:17:12

• "It is true that R, being open source (meaning that everyone can contribute), is evolving rapidly. This means that even if I am using R for several years and on a daily basis, I like to stay informed in order to stay up to date with the program and the latest coding practices." https://statsandr.com/blog/how-to-keep-up-to-date-with-the-latest-r-news/    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 17:17:59

• Hillshade, colors and marginal plots with tidyterra (I) | One world ⚓ https://dieghernan.github.io/202210_tidyterra-hillshade/ ䷉ Source: | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//dieghernan.github.io/202210_tidyterra-hillshade/    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 17:19:59

• "In the latter half of this year we’ve reported on a number of threats from information operations campaigns to widespread campaigns targeting Microsoft 365" https://www.mandiant.com/resources/blog/cyber-snapshot-issue-two    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 17:21:45

• "Another angle of pushback is that Twitter needs thousands of employees because their business model is different from WhatsApp’s. Twitter’s business model sucks. I mean it doesn’t just suck, it infamously sucks." https://daringfireball.net/linked/2022/10/22/more-on-twitter-headcount do not communicate through platforms that act like this    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 17:23:12

• LOL "SmartRent" https://staceyoniot.com/can-you-add-a-secondary-z-wave-controller-for-a-connected-door-lock/    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 17:23:47

• Surveillance, not "smart" https://staceyoniot.com/why-the-new-roku-smart-home-is-a-safe-bet-for-the-company/    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 17:24:20

• "WhatsApp circa 2014 — with 50 employees and 500 million users — is a good counterpoint." https://daringfireball.net/linked/2022/10/21/dhh-twitter-headcount    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 17:26:08

• Just making cars vastly more expensive to maintain and repair for almost no practical benefit https://www.ft.com/content/585ce908-d2ba-418e-97af-f4a93e900ec8    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 17:32:05

• "The lawsuit, filed Thursday, claims Google illegally collects and indefinitely stores information about Texans’ facial geometry and voiceprints without their consent, even if they’re not the ones using Google devices." https://www.texastribune.org/2022/10/20/ken-paxton-google-lawsuit-biometric-data/    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 17:32:52

• Ubuntu Vs Zorin OS | Which is the Best Linux Distro? (For 2022) - Invidious ⚓ https://yewtu.be/watch?v=fjesJBtQzQA | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://auragem.space/youtube/video/fjesJBtQzQA    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 17:33:46

• Replace Manufacturer Logo in Ubuntu 22.04 | 22.10 Startup Screen | UbuntuHandbook ⚓ https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2022/10/replace-manufacturer-ubuntu/ ䷉ Source: Ubuntu Handbook | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2022/10/replace-manufacturer-ubuntu/    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 17:34:50

• 215: Linux 6.0, Ubuntu 22.10, GNOME 43, KDE Plasma 5.26, Fedora, System76 and more Linux news! - This Week in Linux - TuxDigital ⚓ https://tuxdigital.com/podcasts/this-week-in-linux/twil-215/ ䷉ Source: Tux Digital | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//tuxdigital.com/podcasts/this-week-in-linux/twil-215/    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 17:36:03

• ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): 4MLinux 40.1 STABLE released. ⇨ http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2022/10/23/4MLinux_40_1_STABLE_released.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2022/10/23/4MLinux_40_1_STABLE_released.gmi ∎    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 17:40:16

• ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Best Steam Deck Games Released in the Past Week - 2022-10-23 Edition ⇨ http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2022/10/23/Best_Steam_Deck_Games_Released_in_the_Past_Week_2022_10_23_Edit.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2022/10/23/Best_Steam_Deck_Games_Released_in_the_Past_Week_2022_10_23_Edit.gmi ∎    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 17:45:57

• ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): 5 Free and Open-source School Management Software for Linux ⇨ http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2022/10/23/5_Free_and_Open_source_School_Management_Software_for_Linux.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2022/10/23/5_Free_and_Open_source_School_Management_Software_for_Linux.gmi ∎    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 19:13:10

• ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Kirigami Addons 0.5 release ⇨ http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2022/10/23/Kirigami_Addons_0_5_release.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2022/10/23/Kirigami_Addons_0_5_release.gmi ∎    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 19:14:09

• ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): New App Saves Clipboard Content as New File on Ubuntu ⇨ http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2022/10/23/New_App_Saves_Clipboard_Content_as_New_File_on_Ubuntu.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2022/10/23/New_App_Saves_Clipboard_Content_as_New_File_on_Ubuntu.gmi ∎    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 19:14:29

• ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Arch Linux vs. Manjaro: Differences Between Them Explained ⇨ http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2022/10/23/Arch_Linux_vs_Manjaro_Differences_Between_Them_Explained.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2022/10/23/Arch_Linux_vs_Manjaro_Differences_Between_Them_Explained.gmi ∎    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 19:14:43

• ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): 𝘛𝘶𝘹 𝘔𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴: Google Android Leftovers ⇨ http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2022/10/23/Android_Leftovers.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2022/10/23/Android_Leftovers.gmi ∎    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 19:14:53

• KDE neon is Now Based on Ubuntu 22.04 ‘Jammy Jellyfish’ http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2022/10/21/KDE_neon_Rebased_on_Jammy.shtml   

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 19:20:28

• enabling-gemlog-comments-over-email gemini://gems.geminet.org/avr/2022-10-23-enabling-gemlog-comments-over-email.gmi    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 19:21:50

• "Isn't "Programming Microcontrollers at Home" a modern wonder of our time as well, that many just take for granted? Especially after the appearance of the Arduino hw/sw system, seemingly out of the blue?" gemini://ew.srht.site/en/2022/20221023-wonders-6-programming-controllers.gmi    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 19:22:19

• About mandating tools to developers gemini://ew.srht.site/en/2022/20221023-tools.gmi "I understand, that people socalized in another epoch find other things normal. But please leave me alone, if you would please be so kind as to."    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 19:23:31

• Reddit shilling proprietary software of Microsoft for developers. After banning many GNU/Linux users and putting Microsofters in change of "Linux" sections. Boycott Reddit. Microsoft is a client of Reddit.    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 19:25:32

• Reddit: corporate PROPAGANDA disguised as "COMMUNITY"    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 19:26:12

• "We cover events and user groups that are running in Luxembourg. This article forms part of our Linux Around The World series." https://www.linuxlinks.com/linux-luxembourg/    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 19:28:13

• ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Gemini Articles of Interest ⇨ http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2022/10/23/Gemini_Articles_of_Interest.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2022/10/23/Gemini_Articles_of_Interest.gmi ∎    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 19:32:00

• Turning Legitimate Criticism into "Alternative Facts" gopher://zaibatsu.circumlunar.space:70/0/~visiblink/phlog/20221023    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 19:35:27

• Octo progress, burning out... gemini://gemini.ctrl-c.club/~stack/gemlog/2022-10-23.Octo.progress.gmi "I miss Lisp, however. I wish I could figure out a way to apply this tech to a Lisp interpreter, but that seems like a much larger project."    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 19:36:49

• New Fractal Image gemini://gem.librehacker.com/fractals/mandelbrot/mand0002.png    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 19:37:44

• ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Flatpak on Slackware ⇨ http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2022/10/23/Flatpak_on_Slackware.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2022/10/23/Flatpak_on_Slackware.gmi ∎    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 19:38:07

• HP and marketing people https://www.macrumors.com/2022/10/19/hp-laptop-ad-shows-macos/    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 19:40:42

• ACM publishes some more Facebook marketing SPAM https://cacm.acm.org/news/265839-applying-the-metaverse/fulltext    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 19:41:37

• No More Butts in Seats? Measuring Productivity in a Hybrid-Work Environment https://www.apqc.org/blog/no-more-butts-seats-measuring-productivity-hybrid-work-environment    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 19:42:33

• Hydrogels pave the way for the future of soft robotics ⚓ https://techxplore.com/news/2022-09-hydrogels-pave-future-soft-robotics.html ䷉ Source: TechXplore | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//techxplore.com/news/2022-09-hydrogels-pave-future-soft-robotics.html    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 19:43:37

• Inflation-Adjusted Income for U.S. Engineers Drops https://spectrum.ieee.org/electrical-engineer-salary    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 19:44:21

• WTF???? "artificial intelligence material" https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/a-new-ai-material-can-learn-behaviors-and-adapt-to-different-circumstances    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 19:45:17

• "HEY HI" (AI) truly became a spammy marketing term    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 19:45:56

• https://ruralindiaonline.org/en/articles/we-are-slaves-to-the-company/   

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 19:47:16

• "Maize seed farmers in Krishna district of Andhra Pradesh have been waiting for their dues from a faraway seed company for over a year. Such delays are common, and the farmers’ loans and losses are growing" https://ruralindiaonline.org/en/articles/we-are-slaves-to-the-company/    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 19:47:25

• "One of the conditions of the arrangement with one of my employers was that I had to largely keep this a secret from my coworkers there." https://jaylittle.com/post/view/2022/10/two-jobs-one-life-nothing-is-forever    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 19:58:33

• ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Today's 𝘛𝘶𝘹 𝘔𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴 HowTos ⇨ http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2022/10/23/howtos.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2022/10/23/howtos.gmi ∎    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 19:58:52

• "He argues that building websites is not about clinging to an ideal like the separation of concerns: markup separate from styles separate from scripts" https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2022/website-fidelity/    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 19:59:20

• "You’d think it would be silly to try and reduce something with the adjective “world wide” in its name into a binary classification (websites or web apps) — yet here we are." https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2022/labels-spectrums-and-the-web/    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 20:00:28

• "This is (hopefully) the final part of the restoration. All the parts have arrived, time to get cracking." https://linuxjedi.co.uk/2022/10/14/acorn-archimedes-a3010-restoration-part-4/    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 20:00:51

• Equating surveillance with "cybersecurity"? https://staceyoniot.com/how-matter-is-a-key-step-forward-for-cybersecurity/    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 20:02:02

• "Intel’s chip offerings are clearly to blame, but that very much is a Lenovo problem. A huge problem, really" https://daringfireball.net/linked/2022/10/19/chin-thinkpad-x1-yoga    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 20:03:31

• "Sometimes I wonder what would happen if Iraq had won the eight-year war against Iran. Sometimes people ask me about what will we replace this regime with. I always think about it. What will we lose?" https://alirezahayati.com/2022/10/20/occupied/    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 20:04:32

• "The stability of the domain names is another problem. Imagine all maintainers, or at least those who control the domain name, get arrested over request for data of a user, and they remain in jail for enough time for the domain to get expired. Why would happen then? You can imagine." https://alirezahayati.com/2022/10/16/the-need-for-decentralized-domain-name-system-is-much-felt/    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 20:04:58

• Why Privacy is Crucial for Democracy - neritam ⚓ https://neritam.wordpress.com/2022/10/18/why-privacy-is-crucial-for-democracy/ ䷉ Source: Neritam    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 20:05:30

• "This comes as women now reportedly face harsher restrictions in Afghanistan than anywhere else in the world." https://www.democracynow.org/2022/8/15/afghanistan_taliban_us_occupation_withdraw_womens    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 20:06:02

• Old: Science and Environmental Communication on YouTube: Strategically Distorted Communications in Online Videos on Climate Change and Climate Engineering https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcomm.2019.00036/full    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 20:06:58

• "His video quickly went viral and triggered a wave of news coverage." https://tomdispatch.com/americas-forever-wars-go-viral/    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 20:07:55

• Privatisation/Privateering https://popular.info/p/this-multi-billion-dollar-corporation    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 20:08:32

• Tax avoidance of the rich makes us all poorer - neritam ⚓ https://neritam.wordpress.com/2022/10/20/tax-avoidance-of-the-rich-makes-us-all-poorer/ ䷉ Source: Neritam    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 20:09:03

• "Maybe most of all, he's pragmatic about the technology and where he believes it should be regulated." https://matt-rickard.com/sec-gensler-and-crypto    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 20:09:38

• "Take, for instance, reasoning like Why I Don't Use Netscape (1999). To this day, some developers still bemoan sites with JavaScript. In the past, maybe it was a decent rule of thumb – early internet users and academics tended to have simple static sites, which might be the most information dense." https://matt-rickard.com/getting-stuck-in-the-past    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 20:10:16

• "But behind the scenes, it's likely just scanning your network and matching any MAC addresses in Asustek's range. Which is easy to do without a third party app."    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 20:11:41

• "But behind the scenes, it's likely just scanning your network and matching any MAC addresses in Asustek's range. Which is easy to do without a third party app." https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2022/easier-way-find-    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 20:11:47

• "But behind the scenes, it's likely just scanning your network and matching any MAC addresses in Asustek's range. Which is easy to do without a third party app." https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2022/easier-way-find-asustor-nas-set-it    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 20:12:00

• "The goal of IndieWeb Utils is to make it easier for you to add IndieWeb features to your application in Python. In v0.3.0, released earlier this week, we added a lot of new features to the library." https://jamesg.blog/2022/10/12/indieweb-utils-v-0-4-0/    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 20:12:50

• "Physical media was still the preferred way to consume media. Besides sports content, and some TV shows that were cable-exclusive for a time, most people would run by Blockbuster and pick up a movie." https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2022/streaming-services-lost-plot    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 20:13:27

• Judgement day is coming for Sports Rorts, other Coalition grants schemes - Michael West ⚓ https://michaelwest.com.au/judgement-day-is-coming-for-sports-rorts-other-coalition-grants-schemes/ ䷉ Source: Michael West Media | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//michaelwest.com.au/judgement-day-is-coming-for-sports-rorts-other-coalition-grants-schemes/    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 20:14:46

• "After that you also need to re-create the initramfs with update-initramfs -k all -c to include the new firmware. Having kernel version 5.18 or newer is also required for stable Zen 4 support. It might be that a fresh Mesa version is also of importance, but as I am running sid on this machine I can only say that Mesa 22.2.1 that is in sid works fine." http://aigarius.com/blog/2022/10/16/ryzen-7000-amdgpu/    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 20:15:09

• Sabine Hossenfelder: Backreaction: Why are we getting fatter? ⚓ http://backreaction.blogspot.com/2022/10/why-are-we-getting-fatter.html ䷉ Source: Sabine Hossenfelder | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?http%3A//backreaction.blogspot.com/2022/10/why-are-we-getting-fatter.html    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 20:15:47

• "10 years ago I was a vastly different person than who I am today. I had just gotten out of a high school experience that I don't look back on fondly. I was a ball of depression and I was sent out to college because that's what I was supposed to do." https://xeiaso.net/blog/basketball-10year    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 20:23:39

• ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Security Leftovers ⇨ http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2022/10/23/Security_Leftovers.1.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2022/10/23/Security_Leftovers.1.gmi ∎    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 20:31:39

• ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): 𝘛𝘶𝘹 𝘔𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴 Programming Leftovers, Mostly R ⇨ http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2022/10/23/Programming_Leftovers_Mostly_R.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2022/10/23/Programming_Leftovers_Mostly_R.gmi ∎    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 20:31:50

• ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Videos: Ubuntu Vs Zorin OS and This Week in Linux ⇨ http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2022/10/23/Videos_Ubuntu_Vs_Zorin_OS_and_This_Week_in_Linux.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2022/10/23/Videos_Ubuntu_Vs_Zorin_OS_and_This_Week_in_Linux.gmi ∎    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 20:31:58

• Surveillance or turning one's home into a Gulag https://staceyoniot.com/do-wyze-cameras-in-google-home-need-a-hub/    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 20:37:06

• "Alice and Bob share an office. Their shifts sometimes overlap, but they often start and end at different times. They go in, do their work, and leave. However they have a rule: the last one to leave has to turn off the lights." https://blog.fredrb.com/2022/10/15/go-concurrency-shared-memory/    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 20:37:59

• "Simple lock implementation Day 2 of daily blogs This is a simple sync.Locker implementation in Go for learning purposes" https://blog.fredrb.com/2022/10/16/go-concurrency-simple-lock-impl/    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 20:38:22

• "I wouldn’t pretend to know either way; nothing about this war makes sense to me, either for the innocent Ukranians being killed, or the Russians dying to protect the big ego of a small man." https://rubenerd.com/targeting-civilians-with-outdated-maps/    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 20:39:08

• "A self-cleaning craft room with a giant resin/wood table commissioned from Blacktail Studios, with her sewing machines, Wacom tablets, pens/markers, fabric, and All The Things.™" https://rubenerd.com/what-youd-want-in-a-dream-home/    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 20:40:19

• RC Week 4: Gratitude and emotions https://ntietz.com/blog/rc-week-4-recap/ "I've also learned about how chess engines work and wrote one that, using a standard technique, can beat me."    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 20:41:27

• Oh dear. Stop outsourcing computer backups to GAFAM. It's insane! Even if you do nothing illegal! https://rubenerd.com/fixing-a-comet-server-after-misconfiguring-s3/    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 20:43:17

• "The bottoms-up model is extremely effective for onboarding companies to cloud – it's extremely cheap to get started (in some cases, AWS will even give you up to $100,000 in credits as a startup). It only begins to become more expensive as a company matures." https://matt-rickard.com/cloud-repatriation-or-not    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 20:44:58

• "The previous release had ~100 commits, and this one has 149 since previous feature release!" https://carlosbecker.com/posts/goreleaser-v1.12    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 20:46:21

• "Infrastructure companies will be forced to think through this the most. It's no coincidence that Dropbox was one of the first to repatriate its services from the cloud (ironically, Dropbox was enabled by the cloud as one of the first customers of Amazon S3)." https://matt-rickard.com/cloud-repatriation-or-not    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 20:47:39

• "Software continues to get simpler. For example, open-source data center and workload management software continue to make repatriation an easier task." https://matt-rickard.com/cloud-repatriation-or-not    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 20:47:54

• Understanding '+incompatible' in Go module version names https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/programming/GoModulePlusIncompatibleMeaning    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 20:49:18

• FOSS Weekly #22 - Github GPL Violation Machine, Tails 5.5, Ubuntu 22.10, Google's OS in Rust, and more https://fossweekly.beehiiv.com/p/foss-weekly-22-github-copilot-investigation-tails-5-5-ubuntu-22-10-google-s-os-in-rust    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 20:56:13

• How to get your CPU using the terminal? https://unixcop.com/get-your-cpu-using-the-terminal/    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 20:57:13

• ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): postmarketOS // v22.06 SP3: The One Where We Upgraded All The Kernels ⇨ http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2022/10/23/postmarketOS_v22_06_SP3_The_One_Where_We_Upgraded_All_The_Kerne.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2022/10/23/postmarketOS_v22_06_SP3_The_One_Where_We_Upgraded_All_The_Kerne.gmi ∎    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 21:00:06

• How to Create a Cool Photo Mosaic on Linux With Polyfoto ⚓ https://www.makeuseof.com/create-cool-photo-mosaic-on-linux/ ䷉ Source: Make Use Of | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.makeuseof.com/create-cool-photo-mosaic-on-linux/    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 21:06:20

• "The data is replicated from the Primary database to the Standby or Secondary databases." https://earthly.dev/blog/set-up-postgresql-db/    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 21:08:00

• Sound https://ciechanow.ski/sound/    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 21:08:39

• When Clownflare says "your connection is secure" it means "we're able to spy on you" i.e. it is NOT secure. They often block Tor.    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 21:57:32

• Prescription CheckTheFactsicillin: $8bn Medicare fraud exhibits symptoms of Hyperbolizosis - Michael West ⚓ https://michaelwest.com.au/prescription-checkthefactsicillin-8bn-medicare-fraud-exhibits-symptoms-of-hyperbolizosis/ ䷉ Source: Michael West Media | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//michaelwest.com.au/prescription-checkthefactsicillin-8bn-medicare-fraud-exhibits-symptoms-of-hyperbolizosis/    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 22:08:09

• Greenwashing https://staceyoniot.com/ntt-envisions-a-greener-iot-sensor/    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 22:11:09

• One up on Barnaby: government delivers Coalition election promise for port, petrochemicals, gas subsidies - Michael West ⚓ https://michaelwest.com.au/government-delivers-barnaby-joyce-election-promise-for-port-petrochemicals-gas-subsidies/ ䷉ giving taxpayers' money to those who are thieves, those who also ruin the planet    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 22:12:24

• Where’s my drives? https://dan.langille.org/2022/10/18/wheres-my-drives/    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 22:14:12

• Surveillance devices and bugs https://staceyoniot.com/former-googler-creates-tiny-ml-sensor-startup/    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 22:15:21

• It does not write anything. You are plagiarising. It's plagiarism. Microsoft helps you violate copyright law. https://matt-rickard.com/ai-will-write-most-code    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 22:16:40

• "Before I powered it off to update the Buildroot image on the SD card I hooked up a serial console and checked its uptime." https://www.wezm.net/v2/posts/2022/garage-door-monitor-update/    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 22:18:43

• Techrights is at Gemini, where it has over 43,000 pages and serves millions of requests each year; it gets updated all the time http://techrights.org/2022/10/23/gemini-first-class/    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 22:19:17

• This Github Bot Is Harmful To Users - Devs - Invidious ⚓ https://yewtu.be/watch?v=1lYgB_NHFYk | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://auragem.space/youtube/video/1lYgB_NHFYk    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 22:26:02

• Really bad: "Google Calendar is the go-to calendar app for most people organizing their lives online." Read as: many people report all their key activities to governments, insurance companies, foreign corporations. https://www.maketecheasier.com/display-alternate-calendar-google-calendar/    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 22:26:53

• A giant grocery merger will send "inflation" through the roof https://pluralistic.net/2022/10/17/united-states-vs-vons/#pricing-power    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 22:31:19

• "But we don't have peer into their minds! We can just dial into their investor calls, where top execs of giant companies brag about hiking prices under cover of inflation..." https://pluralistic.net/2022/10/17/united-states-vs-vons/#pricing-power    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 22:31:57

• "I love to participate in radio amateur contests. I never will have a chance to win such a contest, but it is a great chance for a QRP station because there is much activity on the bands and there are many stations with “big ears” (= big antennas) who will be able to hear you even with low power." https://www.urspringer.de/2022/10/17/results-of-the-contests-of-last-weekend/    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 22:32:59

• "I bring it up today because there’s actually a couple APIs that are sort of related, that I wanted to highlight." https://austingil.com/contenteditable-and-designmode/    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 22:33:35

• "My personal health is good. I only wish it extended to more people I care about. No, this is supposed to be positive!" https://rubenerd.com/things-im-thankful-for-october-2022/    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 22:34:18

• "We'll start with an overview of the algorithm viewed through the lens of the algorithm it enhances, minimax." https://ntietz.com/blog/alpha-beta-pruning/    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 22:34:54

• "Star and Crown casino directors manage to avoid any civil or criminal sanctions after facilitating money laundering." https://michaelwest.com.au/100-million-fine-is-just-a-cost-of-doing-business/    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 22:37:03

• "Suppose that you have a Go module example.org/cks/mymod, or a pre-modular Go package that would be a module if you modularized it, and this module is in a VCS repository of its own (which is the common case)." https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/programming/GoModuleProperSetup    

posted Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 22:39:44

• October   

posted Monday, October 24, 2022 at 04:14:09

• #Techrights Bulletin for Sunday, October 23, 2022 http://techrights.org/txt full archive: http://techrights.org/txt-archives #gnu #linux #freesw #plaintext    

posted Monday, October 24, 2022 at 04:14:25

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

posted Monday, October 24, 2022 at 04:14:33

• ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: October 23rd, 2022 ⇨ http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2022/10/24/9to5Linux_Weekly_Roundup_October_23rd_2022.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2022/10/24/9to5Linux_Weekly_Roundup_October_23rd_2022.gmi ∎    

posted Monday, October 24, 2022 at 04:15:45

• ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): You Can Now Install KDE Plasma 5.26 on Kubuntu 22.10, Here’s How ⇨ http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2022/10/24/You_Can_Now_Install_KDE_Plasma_5_26_on_Kubuntu_22_10_Here_s_How.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2022/10/24/You_Can_Now_Install_KDE_Plasma_5_26_on_Kubuntu_22_10_Here_s_How.gmi ∎    

posted Monday, October 24, 2022 at 04:15:54

• "In Emily M. Stark's Certificate Transparency is really not a replacement for key pinning" ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/tech/TLSCertTransAboutEcology | Source: uni Toronto    

posted Monday, October 24, 2022 at 04:22:54

• "In this tutorial I am going to use Void Linux to "replicate" how FreeBSD is utilizing ZFS snapshots for boot environments" ☛ https://unixsheikh.com/tutorials/void-linux-root-on-an-encrypted-zfs-mirror-with-syslinux-mbr-and-zfsbootmenu.html | Source: Unix Sheikh    

posted Monday, October 24, 2022 at 04:23:09

• "I was fascinated recently by “Why we’re breaking up with CSS-in-JS” by Sam Magura." ☛ https://nolanlawson.com/2022/10/22/style-performance-and-concurrent-rendering/ | Source: Nolan Lawson    

posted Monday, October 24, 2022 at 04:23:22

• "The GameDev industry in Vilnius presents opportunities for further growth" ☛ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/1806000/vilnius-is-establishing-itself-as-newest-gaming-industry-hub | Source: LRT    

posted Monday, October 24, 2022 at 04:23:52

• "Unity seems to hold pretty well in 2022. In fact, the results are better than what I had on the old Vivobook." ☛ https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/unity-desktop-2022.html | Source: Dedoimedo    

posted Monday, October 24, 2022 at 04:24:26

• "With ZFS creating a new jail is a piece of cake and a matter of seconds." ☛ https://box.matto.nl/build-sbcl-on-freebsd.html | Source: MJ Fransen    

posted Monday, October 24, 2022 at 04:25:26

• "The melody side of the Commodordion runs Qwertuoso." ☛ https://linusakesson.net/commodordion/index.php |    

posted Monday, October 24, 2022 at 04:26:08

• "After a bit of searching through the web, I’m going to assume that a typical smartphone nowadays has a battery of 10 Wh." ☛ https://blog.didierstevens.com/2022/10/22/quickpost-testing-a-lemon-battery/ | Source: Didier Stevens    

posted Monday, October 24, 2022 at 04:26:34

• "Two weeks ago, I posted some details of my collection of kerosene lanterns" ☛ https://www.sevarg.net/2022/10/22/keropunk-part-2-kerosene-lantern-analysis/ | Source: Russell Graves    

posted Monday, October 24, 2022 at 04:26:58

• "To participate and receive the tools: share your idea through a video or a PDF and be part of this incredible project" ☛ https://blog.arduino.cc/2022/10/21/arduino-and-iconic-outdoor-brand-k-way-with-the-support-of-edge-impulse-launch-a-call-for-developers/ | Source: Arduino    

posted Monday, October 24, 2022 at 04:27:09

• "Ricardo is an experienced musician who was looking to replace some of the functions from his Roland MC-101 with something that had better sound quality and the ability to support audio input. It also had to have compatibility with his Groovebox, a digital instrument designed to make electronic loops." ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/news/raspberry-pi-headless-m8-synthesizer | Source: Tom's Hardware    

posted Monday, October 24, 2022 at 04:27:41

• "And it turns out that this isn’t a particularly well solved problem." ☛ https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/big-data-storage/ | Source: Bert Hubert    

posted Monday, October 24, 2022 at 04:29:21

• "If you wanna return multiple values, though, that’s when you can write (values foo bar)." ☛ https://idiomdrottning.org/multiple-values | Source: Idiomdrottning    

posted Monday, October 24, 2022 at 04:29:52

• "In this how to, we will use two Python modules to create a GUI application that will remove the background from an image. The first module, rembg from Daniel Gatis will remove the background from any image presented to it." ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/how-to/python-remove-image-backgrounds | Source: Tom's Hardware    

posted Monday, October 24, 2022 at 04:30:28

• "The Raspberry Pi Pico W was released with a robust MicroPython firmware" ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/how-to/raspberry-pi-pico-w-newsfeed-circuitpython | Source: Tom's Hardware    

posted Monday, October 24, 2022 at 04:30:54

• "Trainor has perfected the TikTok formula, balancing music promotion with giving a real, intimate look into her personal life." ☛ https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/meghan-trainor-takin-it-back-interview-1234613110/ | Source: Rolling Stone    

posted Monday, October 24, 2022 at 04:31:42

• "The result, for now, is more of a tribute website than an archive." ☛ https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/22/technology/steve-jobs-archive.html | Source: New York Times    

posted Monday, October 24, 2022 at 04:31:48

• "Today in Tedium: It’s easy to forget now, but desktop publishing was an immensely innovative thing when it emerged within the computing industry in the early ’80s." ☛ https://tedium.co/2022/10/12/forgotten-desktop-publishing-tools-history/ | Source: Tedium    

posted Monday, October 24, 2022 at 04:32:05

• "More than 1.5 million square feet in Kips Bay will be transformed into “state-of-the-art teaching and commercial facilities” on Hunter College’s Brookdale Campus." ☛ https://secretnyc.co/science-park-and-research-campus-kips-bay-nyc/ |    

posted Monday, October 24, 2022 at 04:32:47

• "Some of the key takeaways from my perspective is there is a hunger for intelligent yet easy to use solutions." ☛ https://rosindustrial.org/news/2022/10/18/a-turn-in-the-welding-robotics-community | Source: ROS Industrial    

posted Monday, October 24, 2022 at 04:33:06

• "She realized many of those reporters not only had little experience in the field" ☛ https://text.npr.org/1129257212 | Source: NPR    

posted Monday, October 24, 2022 at 04:33:35

• Windows TCO ☛ https://www.databreaches.net/ransomware-attack-on-indianapolis-housing-agency-has-landlords-tenants-concerned/ | Source: Data Breaches    

posted Monday, October 24, 2022 at 04:34:45

• "VSCodium does an extremely good job at disabling data collection, but due to not being licensed by Microsoft under the proprietary license VSCodium is not able to connect to the Microsoft Visual Studio Code Marketplace" ☛ https://ghuntley.com/fracture/ |    

posted Monday, October 24, 2022 at 04:34:51

• "discriminating" ☛ https://cio.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/corporate-news/republican-committee-sues-google-over-email-spam-filters/95028184 | Source: India Times    

posted Monday, October 24, 2022 at 04:35:07

• "The RNC said that for most of the month, nearly all of its emails end up in users’ inboxes but at the end of the month" ☛ https://www.reuters.com/world/us/republican-national-committee-sues-google-over-email-spam-filters-2022-10-22/ | Source: Reuters    

posted Monday, October 24, 2022 at 04:35:54

• "As we have repeatedly said, we simply don’t filter emails based on political affiliation" ☛ https://variety.com/2022/digital/news/republicans-sue-google-spam-filter-1235411855/ | Source: Variety    

posted Monday, October 24, 2022 at 04:36:01

• Proprietary software ☛ https://www.axios.com/2022/10/22/rnc-lawsuit-google-spam-filter-blocks-email | Source: Axios    

posted Monday, October 24, 2022 at 04:36:12

• "Microsoft this week laid off close to 1,000 employees" ☛ https://www.computerworld.com/article/3676580/microsoft-lays-off-nearly-1-000-staffers-reports.html | Source: Computer World    

posted Monday, October 24, 2022 at 04:36:35

• Azure layoffs again ☛ https://www.washingtonpost.com/video-games/2022/10/18/microsoft-xbox-layoff/ | Source: The Washington Post    

posted Monday, October 24, 2022 at 04:36:54

• iTWire - Half of India smartphone users seek new devices; 3Q shipments slip ⚓ https://itwire.com/mobility/half-of-india-smartphone-users-seek-new-devices-3q-shipments-slip.html ䷉ Source: IT Wire | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//itwire.com/mobility/half-of-india-smartphone-users-seek-new-devices-3q-shipments-slip.html    

posted Monday, October 24, 2022 at 04:38:56