https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/07/bank-america-pay-100-million-consumers-150-million/
On Tuesday, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) announced that Bank of America will be fined and required to compensate customers who had been harmed by the bank’s illegal and deceptive activities.
https://journal-neo.org/2023/06/20/why-the-west-is-whitewashing-terrorism-in-vietnam-and-myanmar/
As US-Chinese tensions grow and as it becomes increasingly clear the US is unable to compete with China head-to-head in terms of development
https://www.oracle.com/news/announcement/blog/keep-linux-open-and-free-2023-07-10/
Currently on Fedora Kinoite I have a relatively long pkglist function I use to track any changes I do.
As you can see, I can use 4/5ths of this function on Debian, but following the reference manual on a virtual machine gave me a veeery long list. I'm investigating this further but I wonder if you guys have something easy prepared.
function pkglist -d "Gets list of installed packages"
# Prevent descriptions in other languages
set -l LANG C
# Define pkglists location
set -l dot $HOME/.config/dotfiles
echo "(1/5) RPM-OSTREE status"
rpm-ostree status > $dot/pkglist.rpm-ostree --booted
echo "(2/5) Identify flatpaks"
flatpak list --app --columns=application > $dot/pkglist.flatpak
echo "(3/5) Identify pinned flatpak runtimes"
flatpak pin > $dot/pkglist.flatpak.pinned
echo "(4/5) Identify flatpak overrides"
for i in (cat $dot/pkglist.flatpak)
if test -s (flatpak override --show --user $i|psub)
echo $i
flatpak override --show --user $i
echo
end
end > $dot/pkglist.flatpak.overrides
echo "(5/5) Save KDE configuration"
fedora konsave -s kde_configuration --force
# to apply configuration
# fedora konsave -a kde_configuration
git -C $dot st
end
https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/cpe-weekly-update-week-27-2023/
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Red Hat is going full evil mode and Fedora, which is largely controlled by Red Hat, is also pushing forward with questionable decisions. At this time, as some Fedora users look for a new $HOME there are many recommending OpenSUSE but before doing this, please read the post below.
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About fifteen years ago, Microsoft felt threatened by Linux’s growing market share, and decided to team up with/outright buy patent trolls and use the new portfolio of around 230 patents to claim that the Linux distributions were infringing on Microsoft’s intellectual property and potentially sue them.
As Red Hat and other FOSS companies entrenched in their positions and geared up for a long and expensive legal fight, SuSE saw an opportunity to displace Red Hat, and threw everybody under the bus by saying something like, “Yes, Linux absolutely infringes on Microsoft patents. We will pay you for using your IP if you shield us from litigation.”
So that threw out the entire argument that Linux did not infringe on Microsoft patents because you had the second biggest Linux company saying it was true and the right thing to do was to pay Microsoft for all of their wonderful contributions. So Microsoft did this kind of mobster thing where they let SuSE pay them for “protection” from lawsuit, and then used this as precedent that the other Linux distributors weren’t playing fairly unless they also paid for patent use. And SuSE hoped that this would result in only Novell/SuSE being the legal Linux to buy in the market and everybody would run to them with open arms. Kind of a dick move.
This emboldened Microsoft, and resulted in lawsuits from Microsoft over things like, accessing the FAT filesystem from a Linux device (TomTom, at the time GPS device company) and is historically the reason that Nexus phones (which became Google Pixel phones) never came with SD card expansion (so they wouldn’t be accessing a FAT filesystem from Linux). So for the next half decade or so, Microsoft decided to just start suing everybody over patent infringement, and this is how the smartphone era was born and why it is really difficult to do things that would be obvious on a computer – smartphone designers had to invent new ways, even if obtuse, to get around patents.
In 2018 Microsoft decided that they needed Linux, and ended hostilities by giving the patent portfolio (now up to 60000+ patents) to a consortium of companies called Open Innovation or something like that, that was originally designed to share patents freely without litigation in response to Microsoft’s aggressive behavior a decade earlier.
https://apnews.com/article/africa-abortion-supreme-court-limits-9b02bb07cc50967804fb84704891baf7
When the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the national right to abortion a year ago, it shook efforts to legalize and make abortions safer in Africa.
However, we also want to ensure that the data we collect is meaningful, so gnome-initial-setup will default to displaying the toggle as enabled,even though the underlying setting will initially be disabled. (The underlying setting will not actually be enabled until the user finishes the privacy page, to ensure users have the opportunity to disable the setting before any data is uploaded.) This is to ensure the system is opt-out, not opt-in. This is essential because we know that opt-in metrics are not very useful. Few users would opt in, and these users would not be representative of Fedora users as a whole. We are not interested in opt-in metrics.
Essentially they're playing with words to say it's opt in but if you just click Next like most users will do, it'll be enabled. The developer openly admits few users would opt in and complains that it wouldn't be useful.
However, we also want to ensure that the data we collect is meaningful, so gnome-initial-setup will default to displaying the toggle as enabled,even though the underlying setting will initially be disabled. (The underlying setting will not actually be enabled until the user finishes the privacy page, to ensure users have the opportunity to disable the setting before any data is uploaded.) This is to ensure the system is opt-out, not opt-in. This is essential because we know that opt-in metrics are not very useful. Few users would opt in, and these users would not be representative of Fedora users as a whole. We are not interested in opt-in metrics.
Essentially they're playing with words to say it's opt in but if you just click Next like most users will do, it'll be enabled. The developer openly admits few users would opt in and complains that it wouldn't be useful.
https://www.iol.co.za/news/opinion/breathing-a-sign-of-relief-in-beijing-5da35180-2fe8-467a-bb80-e56623360bb9
China’s remarkable turnaround to improve the air quality in Beijing should serve as an example to the rest of the world, says the writer.
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