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● Links 16/04/2023: Many Videos and Some New Distro Releases

Posted in News Roundup at 12:00 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

GNU/Linux

Audiocasts/Shows

• Joel is dead to us.

Instructionals/Technical

• Sentry is a free and open-source error-tracking platform that monitors and fixes crashes in real-time. It allows software developers to see what matters, solve quicker, and learn continuously about their applications.

• Let’s discuss the commands that we can use on our Terminal to install the Discord app on Debian Linux such as Bookworm 12. Discord which was launched in 2015 is now used by millions of people to connect similar interest communities and share thoughts.

• Handling multiple Linux systems or once in a while, there might be chances of forgetting the root user password. If so, here is the article to reset the root password on Debian 12 Linux (bookworm) servers or desktops.

Desktop Environments/WMs

• LXQt is a highly lightweight, modular, fast desktop environment designed to be user-friendly and easy to use. It relies on the Qt toolkit and provides a highly customizable interface that allows users to tweak the look and feel of their desktop environment to their liking.

• One of the main advantages of LXQt is its meager system requirements. Because of this, it is suitable for older or low-specification computers, so it is an excellent choice for users looking to bring new life to their old machines.

• Just over five months after its previous LXQt 1.2 release, this lightweight desktop environment has pleased its users with the release of the brand-new LXQt 1.3. So, let’s see what’s new.

Distributions and Operating Systems

• Want a reliable Linux distribution for your 32-bit system? These distros with 32-bit support will empower your older machine.

New Releases

• The status of the 4MLinux 42.0 series has been changed to STABLE. Edit your documents with LibreOffice 7.5.2 and GNOME Office (AbiWord 3.0.5, GIMP 2.10.34, Gnumeric 1.12.55), surf the Internet with Firefox 111.0 and Chromium 106.0.5249.91, send emails via Thunderbird 102.8.0, enjoy your music collection with Audacious 4.3, watch your favorite videos with VLC 3.0.18 and SMPlayer 22.7.0, play games powered by Mesa 22.2.3 and Wine 8.3. You can also setup the 4MLinux LAMP Server (Linux 6.1.10, Apache 2.4.56, MariaDB 10.6.12, PHP 5.6.40, PHP 7.4.33, and PHP 8.1.17.). Perl 5.36.0, Python 2.7.18, Python 3.10.8, and Ruby 3.1.3 are also available.

• On April 13, we released EuroLinux version 8.8 beta. It is compatible with the latest version of Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® 8.8 beta. It allows you to test technical innovations and compatibility with the upcoming EuroLinux 8.8. Version 8.8 beta includes new versions of developer software (LLVM 15, Rust 1.66, Go 1.19), SELinux policies update, kernel version 4.18.0-477, updates to containerization and virtualization tools. EuroLinux 8.8 beta also provides new software – the modules postgresql:15, nginx:1.22, jaxb:4 or swig:4.1. It also includes packages for Python 3.11.

• Core v14.0 updates the linux kernel version to 6.1.2 glibc updated to 2.36, gcc updated to 12.2.0

• See System Announcement in the support forum for detailed change log and update notes.

• To download an .iso file for installing SCALE Bluefin, go to https://www.truenas.com/truenas-scale/ and click Download. Manual update files are also available at this location.

Devices/Embedded

• EDATEC revealed yesterday a small embedded device with support for the Raspberry Pi CM4. The ED-IPC2010 comes in an aluminum alloy case and it includes an onboard encryption chip. The EDATEC is another industrial-grade device based on the Raspberry Pi CM4 similar to the IGN800 from Onlogic seen last year.

Free, Libre, and Open Source Software

GNU Projects

• We are happy to announce the release of GNU Taler v0.9.2.

• An Android app has a UI written in Java, not on top of a C/C++ based GUI toolkit (GNOME, Qt, KDE, wxWidgets, …). Gnulib cannot help you porting this part of an application to Android. But when an application has a large part written in C, and you want to reuse this part in the Android app, Gnulib is useful. Recently, Android has been added to the list of portability targets of Gnulib. This means that most of the POSIX functionality that you might use in your application will compile and work fine also on Android. In particular, the work-in-progress port of GNU Emacs to Android uses Gnulib to its best.

Leftovers

• It’s been noted many times before that suffering, from an evolutionary perspective, is a necessity of existing.

• It comes about as a result of our having expectations, narratives of ourselves and the world which we can’t break out of. These narratives are necessary, of course, because in an adaptive environment, once you stop having a narrative you die.

• We can even “validate” this hypothesis of sorts, there is a genetic condition that leads to humans being born without internal narratives. We know this from a few people that survive it into adulthood, usually in a very sheltered environment due to helicopter parents, because most humans born this way die within a few months or, at most, years.

• What we now refer to as “Hinduism” is an amalgamation of traditions that share a dichotomous past.

Science

• A new way to see exoplanets.

• But it hasn’t been tested in humans yet.

• This stuff is special.

• “We’ve never seen this exact material anywhere.”

Health/Nutrition/Agriculture

• If we don’t say NO to all harmful things that surround us now, we’re going to

• enter what I call a New Middle-Age (a dystopia). Take care, don’t be afraid

• to be different (If you want to be someone, be yourself).

• If you want people to do something the healthy way, you must make the healthy

• way the easy way.Me – Corollary to a Traditional saying (replace “healthy way” by

Security

Privacy/Surveillance

• An infra-red (IR) blaster (or universal smart remote) is an small device that helps you control any remote-operated device at your home. We will demonstrate how you can use an IR blaster to replace the physical remote that came with your TV/set-top box.

• Pressure is mounting on Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg to abandon plans to open Horizon Worlds, the tech giant’s flagship virtual reality platform, to children aged between 13 and 17.

Defence/Aggression

• China won’t sell weapons to either side in the war in Ukraine, the country’s foreign minister said, responding to Western concerns that Beijing could provide military assistance to Russia.

• A man has been sentenced to life in prison in Chechnya for taking part in an attack in 2000 on Russian riot police in the North Caucasus region that left at least 40 law enforcement officers dead.

• Finland’s embassy in Moscow has received a letter containing an unknown powder and has reported the matter to the Russian authorities, Russian news agencies reported on April 14.

• The entire Russian Pacific Fleet was put on high alert on April 14 for snap drills that will involve practice missile launches in a massive show of force amid the tensions with the West over the fighting in Ukraine.

Environment

Wildlife/Nature

• A “horrific” explosion and fire at a dairy farm in the southern US state of Texas killed about 18,000 head of cattle and injured one agricultural worker, authorities said on Thursday.

• The Hong Kong government’s plan to reclassify 16 farmland or greenbelt sites in the New Territories to allow open storage and other uses has been slammed by a green group. Greenpeace have criticised the spread of brownfield sites, which often refers to farmland polluted by industrial activity.

Finance

• About 100 oil workers have resumed protests in Kazakhstan’s volatile town of Zhanaozen to demand jobs after a similar protest they held in Astana was forcibly dispersed earlier this week and the demonstrators were sent home.

• The San Francisco Bay Area is the home of Apple, Google, and Meta, but its grip on the technology sector’s future is arguably weakening.

• Come May 1, film and TV scribes could put their pens down indefinitely.

• Spring has sprung in Manhattan, and so have rental prices.

AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics

• A former Hong Kong politician testifying against dozens of fellow democrats during the city’s largest national security case has admitted to a judge that an “anti-government” tendency emerged during the course of organising an unofficial primary election in 2020.

• Half of Hongkongers have trouble naming even one member of the current term “patriots-only” Legislative Council, 15 months into their tenure, a poll has found. Hong Kong’s first “patriots-only” LegCo election took place in December following a Beijing-mandated overhaul of the electoral system that minimised the role of democrats.

• By Peter Catterall Brazilian leader Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is set to forge closer ties with Chinese President Xi Jinping during a meeting in Beijing on Friday, a day after he lashed out at the power of the US dollar and the IMF.

• A Moroccan court has sharply increased the jail sentences handed down against three men convicted of “indecent assault” for the repeated rape of an 11-year-old girl in a case that sparked public outrage.

• Iranian religious scholar Sedigheh Vasmaghi has challenged Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei over the Islamic republic’s mandatory hijab law, holding him responsible for the “financial, physical, social, moral, psychological, and political” consequences of confronting opponents to the law.

• Opposition activist Madina Koketaeva, who unsuccessfully took part in March 19 parliamentary elections, has been detained in Kazakhstan’s largest city, Almaty, amid an ongoing crackdown over dissent following the balloting.

• Allies of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, including current and former officials, could soon face fresh U.S. sanctions for alleged corruption, sources told RFE/RL’s Hungarian Service, a possible further sign of worsening ties between Washington and Budapest.

Censorship/Free Speech

• Golrokh Ebrahimi Iraee, a prominent Iranian civil rights activist, has been sentenced to seven years in prison and handed “additional punishments” by the Tehran Islamic Revolutionary Court for actions going “against the regime.”

Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press

• Raman Pratasevich, a Belarusian journalist who was detained in Belarus in 2021 after the commercial flight he was on was forced to land in Minsk, has been handed a new felony charge and now faces up to 25 years in prison if convicted.

• India has brought a new case against the BBC for alleged violation of foreign exchange rules.

Civil Rights/Policing

• A Russian woman arrested last August in Albania on spying charges will not be extradited to Russia, a court in Albania ruled on April 14.

• The US Supreme Court Friday issued a 9-0 opinion in Axon Enterprise, Inc. v. Federal Trade Commission, holding that separate legal challenges to the structure of the Security and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) may proceed in federal court.

• US Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito Friday issued an order extending a temporary block on a lower Texas federal judge’s decision to suspend the US Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) approval of the abortion drug mifepristone.

Internet Policy/Net Neutrality

• The government’s support for Bill C-11 has often been framed on economic terms with Canadian Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez arguing that the bill will “create good jobs for Canadians in the cultural sector”. I’ve long maintained the government’s claims that the bill will generate billions of dollars in new money was massively exaggerated and that a far more likely scenario would be that the bill would simply lead to a reshuffling of existing expenditures.

TikTok (Fentanylware)

Monopolies

Patents

• UCB, Inc. v. Actavis Lab’ys UT, Inc., 2023 WL 2904757, — 4th —   (Fed. Cir. Apr. 12, 2023)

• Rotigotine is a drug used to treat Parkinson’s disease. People with Parkinson’s disease experience significant gastrointestinal dysfunction, such as difficulty swallowing, which can frustrate the oral administration of drugs. However, the complications associated with oral treatment can be avoided by means of a transdermal patch that delivers the drug through the patient’s skin.  In order to cross the skin barrier, however, the drug must be in an “amorphous,” i.e., non-crystalline, form.  If the drug crystallizes in the patch, it will generally not be able to cross the skin barrier.

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