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● Links 06/02/2023: Linux 6.2 RC7 and Fatal Earthquake

Posted in News Roundup at 3:34 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz Links 06/02/2023:

GNU/Linux

Audiocasts/Shows

• On this episode of This Week in Linux: we’ve got a new release from the WINE project, elementary OS 7 is out, we’ll get some previews for the next releases of GNOME and KDE Plasma. Plus we’ve got some news from openSUSE — Ubuntu and so much more on Your Weekly Source for Linux GNews!

• Chris attempts to get Fedora 37 on his M1 Max MacBook Pro, while Wes and Brent try the “every distro at once” desktop.

Kernel Space

Applications

• Google Drive is one of the most popular cloud storage services available today. With the increasing number of Linux users, the demand for Google Drive clients on Linux is also growing. In this article, we will introduce you to the 6 best Google Drive clients for Linux, each with its unique features and capabilities. Whether you’re looking for an easy-to-use interface, advanced features, or robust synchronization options, you’ll find it here.

Instructionals/Technical

• REMI is a comprehensive third-party repository that offers the most recent and cutting-edge versions of PHP and its modules for RHEL-based systems.

• Hello, friends. In this post, you will learn how to install Nala on Ubuntu 22.04 Let’s see. Introduction Nala is a front-end for libapt-pkg. Specifically, we interface using the python-apt api. Strictly speaking, it is not a new package manager that will replace APT, but rather an improved form of APT.

• Hello techies, in this post, we will cover how to Install Elementary OS 7 step by step with screenshots on laptop or desktop. It is based on latest and stable Ubuntu 22.04 LTS.

• AI tools are currently the talk of the town, both positively and negatively.

• Kali Linux is Debian-based Linux distribution, a powerful operating system for penetration testing, ethical hacking, and network security assessment. It is widely used by ethical hackers, security researchers, and penetration testers.

• It’s the ultimate “go-to” operating system for security and hacking workloads.

• In this tutorial, I will show you how to install Kali Linux on VirtualBox on Windows.

• Testing your internet speed from the Linux terminal can be useful for troubleshooting connectivity issues or for monitoring the performance of your network. The process is straightforward and requires the use of a few simple commands.

• REMI is a comprehensive third-party repository that offers the most recent and cutting-edge versions of PHP and its modules for RHEL-based systems.

• The Xfce desktop environment is a popular alternative to the default GNOME desktop environment with many Linux distributions, including Ubuntu. Xfce is designed to be fast, lightweight, and highly customizable, making it an excellent choice for users who want a more efficient and personalized computing experience.

• How to send schedule backup success and failure emails from Duplicacy with Mailgun

• This simple tutorial shows how to easily check your SSD health in Ubuntu and/or Linux Mint desktop. I’ve been running Ubuntu Linux on my old laptop for about 7 years.

Distributions and Operating Systems

BSD

• OpenSSH 9.2 and 9.2p1: security fixes and other improvements were released this week, giving system administrators and users the latest in secure remote access protocols.

Devices/Embedded

• ATOMS3 Lite is the latest ESP32-S3 IoT platform from the M5Stack Atom series wireless programmable controllers, doing without the 0.85-inch display and IMU sensor  found in the ATOM S3 development kit simply using an RGB LED instead.

• Robustel R5020 Lite is an industrial 5G router with 4G LTE Cat 18 fallback, two Gigabit Ethernet ports and WiFi 5 connectivity, as well as features such as an RS232 or RS485 serial port,  wide 12-36V DC power input, and support for an extended temperature range.

Free, Libre, and Open Source Software

• The fediverse is a grand improvement in many ways over walled gardens like Twitter, but there’splentyof room to improve. For example, federation does little good for users on a site that unexpectedly shuts down without time for users tomigrate.Today I was seeing concern that the admin in charge of mstdn.party and mstdn.plus had gone silent. These instances have thousands of users. It looks like they’ve resurfaced but were radio silent for weeks. Consider this a drill, eventually some of the instances with thousands of users will almost certainly fail without notice.

Web Browsers/Web Servers

Chromium

• RTX Video Super Resolution is ready in the stable Chrome 110 release, and Nvidia should launch an enabling driver shortly.

Programming/Development

Rust

• This will relate my short learning journey in implementing a procedural macro in Rust:i18n-format.

• Building Rust applications means having to deal with localization, ie allowing the UI to be translated in other languages. This is a big deal for users, and thanks to existing tooling, if you use gtk-rs and if you use therust-gtk-templateto boostrap your project you should be all set. The GNOME community has an history of caring about this and most of the infrastructure is here.

• However there is one sore point into this: gettext, the standard package used to handle strings localization at runtime doesn’t support Rust. For some reasonthe patch to fix it is stuck in review.

Leftovers

• A strong earthquake has hit Turkey and been felt in other parts of the Middle East and Europe.

• Almost 200 people have died in Turkey and Syria after an earthquake, with the death toll expected to rise.

• Turkey, a hotbed of seismic activity, sits on the Anatolian Plate, which borders two major faults as it grinds northeast against Eurasia.

• A powerfulearthquakestruck southeastern Turkey early Monday, killing dozens of people and wounding hundreds of others in the country and across the border inSyria, and razing many buildings.

• A powerful 7.8 magnitude earthquake has hit southeast Turkey and Syria, toppling buildings and sending panicked residents pouring outside in a cold winter night. More than 230 people were killed in both countries, hundreds were injured and the toll was expected to rise.

• A magnitude 7.8 earthquake has hit southern Turkey, the United States Geological Survey (USGS) said. The quake’s depth is 24.1 kilometers (14.9 miles), located 23 kilometers (14.2 miles) east of Nurdagi, Gaziantep province, according to the USGS. CNN Supervising Meteorologist Brandon Miller explains why this earthquake could be particularly devastating.

• A 7.8 magnitude earthquake shook central Turkey early Monday and was followed by another strong temblor

• At least 118 people were killed in two countries after one of the strongest earthquakes to hit Turkey in more than 100 years sent tremors across the region, collapsing buildings and sending residents running into the streets.

• Read on to discover why an actor, playwright, director, artistic director and musical theatre school owner impressed us the most in 2022

• The girl, 16, may have jumped into the water to swim with a pod of dolphins when she was attacked, the authorities said.

Science

• The cows are able to produce 18 metric tons of milk per year.

• Whoa!

Health/Nutrition/Agriculture

• “We are not fully sure why it’s happening now.”

• Experts say food insecurity has worsened amid sanctions and Covid-19 lockdowns.

Proprietary

• Oracle Corp plans to invest $1.5 billion in Saudi Arabia in the coming years as it builds up…

Security

• The hackers of LOpht testified before Congress and went on to shape today’s cybersecurity industry. This is the story of how it started.

• Cybersecurity agencies in Europe are warning of ransomware attacks exploiting a 2-year-old computer bug as Italy experienced widespread internet outages.

• Pig Butchering, also known as Sha Zhu Pan and CryptoRom, is an ugly name for an ugly scam.

• Italian news agency Ansa reported that the most affected countries in Europe have been France, Finland and Italy.

Defence/Aggression

• Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov is being replaced by General Kyrylo Budanov, the head of the country’s military intelligence agency, according to the leader of President Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s faction in parliament.

• There is nothing new about superpowers spying on one another, even from balloons. But for pure gall, there was something different this time.

• The Albanese government deserves credit for its handling of the China relationship.

• Ted Olson — the former US solicitor-general in the George W. Bush administration who argued against basic legal rights for Guantánamo Bay prisoners and defended their indefinite detention and torture — made a stunning admission Thursday…

• Former Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta discusses China’s response to a suspected spy balloon being shot down off the East Coast of the US.

• In December, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida announced the most ambitious expansion of military power in Japan since the creation of the country’s self-defence forces in 1954.

• One South African Air Force (SAAF) crew member has been killed and another wounded after their Oryx transport helicopter was hit by gunfire in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) on Sunday 5 February.

• Ukraine’s defence minister said on Sunday the reluctance of Western allies to send fighter jets would cost Ukrainian forces “more lives” as fierce fighting continued in the eastern battleground city of Bakhmut. Earlier, Germany’s prosecutor general said his office had collected “hundreds” of pieces of evidence showing war crimes committed by Russian forces in Ukraine, calling for an international effort to bring leaders to justice. Follow our live blog to see today’s events. All times are Paris time (GMT+1).

• Police in Massachusetts say an officer shot and killed a woman with a weapon after a family member requested a wellness check

• An envoy for Qatar’s foreign minister visited the Afghan capital on February 5 and met with the Taliban administration’s acting foreign minister, according to the Afghan Foreign Ministry.

• Former Iranian President Mohammad Khatami has joined opposition figure and ex-Prime Minister Mir Hossein Musavi in calls for political change as the country continues to be stricken with widespread anti-government protests.

• Russia and Iran are moving forward on plans to establish a factory in Russia aimed at producing some 6,000 Iran-designed drones of the type Moscow has used in the Ukraine war.

• House Republicans are indicating plans to investigate the Biden administration’s response to a suspectedChinese surveillance balloonthat wasshot downoff the coast of South Carolina on Saturday.

• American officials worry that commercial activities in Turkey and the United Arab Emirates could be fueling Russia’s war machine and have threatened to punish those involved.

• When Stefan Passantino (91L) graduated from Emory University School of Law, he had already started to make a name for himself.

• India is preparing to relaunch its INS Vikramaditya aircraft carrier after a major refit, a critical step toward fulfilling its plan to deploy two carrier battle groups as it seeks to strengthen its regional maritime power to counter China’s increasing assertiveness. The former Soviet carrier acquired from Russia will joins India’s first domestically built carrier that was launched late last year, the INS Vikrant, in undergoing outfitting and sea trials.

• The body of Pakistan’s exiled former military ruler Pervez Musharraf, who became a key U.S. ally during the “war on terror,” is expected to be repatriated on February 6.

• A burial is expected later on Monday.

• KMT deputy chairman Andrew Hsia would leave for China on Wednesday.

• About 200,000 Russians have left their homeland for Serbia since the start of the war in Ukraine

Environment

• In Moncton city, temperatures dropped to -28.1 C, which broke a 1917 cold weather record of -27.8 C.

• Brazil on Friday sank a decommissioned aircraft carrier, the Navy announced, despite environmental groups claiming the formerly French ship was packed with toxic materials that will contaminate the ocean.

Energy/Transportation

• Japanese industrial company Daikin has signed a deal with the northern English city of Manchester…

• Fortum wants to keep its Loviisa facility operational until the end of 2050.

• Markets still undervalue the myriad benefits DERs provide for resiliency and decarbonization, and incumbents aren’t willingly ceding ground any time soon.

• Will we come to embrace DERs before it’s too late?

Wildlife/Nature

• Victims, detectives and federal agents are expected to speak in court Monday before a Las Vegas-area judge decides whether to grant bail to a former “Dances With Wolves” actor.

Finance

• We offer advice on what to do if your account has been frozen

• Asian stock markets are lower after strong U.S. jobs data fanned fears of more interest rate hikes to cool inflation. Shanghai, Hong Kong and Seoul retreated. Tokyo gained. Oil prices rose. Wall Street wilted after government data showed U.S. employers hired twice as many people in January as the previous month.

• Meme stock mania was supposed to be over, right? Guess what: It’s not.

• NET MIGRATIONto Finland should be increased by almost 300 per cent to around 44,000 to stabilise the number of working-age people in the country, declares a newly published report from Etla Economic Research.

AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics

• Yevgeny Prigozhin, who leads a major mercenary force fighting in Ukraine called the Wagner Group, is rising in power, but could he replace Russian President Vladimir Putin? Russian investigative journalist Mikhail Zygar discusses with CNN anchor Erin Burnett.

• The deep-pocketed network associated with billionaire Charles Koch is preparing to throw its money and weight behind a single Republican candidate in the 2024 presidential primary — in a move that could significantly reshape the GOP field.

• At least 200 people have lined up outside a Hong Kong court on early Monday morning, as the trial of the city’s largest national security case against 47 democrats begins after some defendants have been detained for almost two years.

• Iranian media reported Saturday the dismissal from Tehran Azad University of nine professors, allegedly as a result of expressing views critical of the Islamic Republic. This development follows recent protests by Tehran students sparked by the death in custody of Mahsa Amini, as well as new disciplinary procedures against students refusing to wear hijab.

• The first Newspoll of the year has delivered good news for federal Labor and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese. Labor has maintained its 10-point margin over the coalition on a two-party-preferred basis as parliament returns for a sitting week expected to be dominated by the economy and the referendum on an Indigenous voice.

• Victorian senator Lidia Thorpe is preparing to announce her intention to quit the Greens party and move to the cross bench. Senator Thorpe is expected to make the announcement following a partyroom meeting on the first parliamentary sitting day, where the Greens discussed their approach to the upcoming referendum on an Indigenous voice to parliament.

• A majority of Democrats now think one term is plenty for President Joe Biden, despite his insistence that he plans to seek reelection in 2024. That’s according to a new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. It shows just 37% of Democrats say they want Biden to seek a second term, down from 52% in the weeks before last year’s midterm elections.

• Democratic unity in Arizona helped the party pick up two U.S. Senate seats and the top three state offices over the last few years. But Sen. Kyrsten Sinema’s estrangement and subsequent divorce from Democrats is fueling fears that discord in the state could complicate President Joe Biden’s path to reelection. It could also dim the party’s hopes for maintaining control of the Senate.

Misinformation/Disinformation/Propaganda

• Amid high egg prices, social media users are claiming that common chicken feed products are preventing their own hens from laying eggs

• The Canadian government on Friday further amended the Special Economic Measures (Russia) Regulations to list an additional 38 Russian individuals and 16 entities.

Censorship/Free Speech

• “A special committee will be formed to monitor the behaviour of MPs in Parliament.

• Iranian media reported Saturday the dismissal from Tehran Azad University of nine professors, allegedly as a result of expressing views critical of the Islamic Republic. This development follows recent protests by Tehran students sparked by the death in custody of Mahsa Amini, as well as new disciplinary procedures against students refusing to wear hijab.

• A spokesperson for Pakistan’s media regulator says it has blocked Wikipedia for hurting Muslim sentiment by not removing allegedly blasphemous content

Civil Rights/Policing

• Actions underscore the lengths to which Chinese police will go to keep tabs on Uyghurs abroad

• The three Christian leaders said gay people should be welcomed by their churches, during an unprecedented joint airborne news conference returning home from South Sudan.

• Police bribes and harassment are part of everyday life for those who flee the war-torn country

• Recent migrants say they fled a political crackdown in the wake of the 2019 protest movement, some in a big hurry

• Australia and the United Kingdom consider themselves global leaders in the modern anti-slavery movement.

Monopolies

Copyrights

• The Mechanical Licensing Collective (MLC) had accumulated at least $561 million in unmatched royalties as of 2021’s end, according to tax documents reviewed by Digital Music News.

Gemini* and Gopher

Personal

• today was my first day trying some new logging software. previously, i was using the roastime software from aillio and now i’m on artisan which is open source and supports many different machines. i am excited to join the community using artisan and a free and open source data logger/control suite.

• the coffees today are the rest of the kenya from the previous 1lb bag, and starting out a 5lb bag of Columbia Honey Process Aponte which will be my gift coffee for friends once i have it a bit more dialed in, plus my go-to espresso roast.

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