Aug 262022
 

I basically hadn’t touched the X11 version since the Twentieth Century, so it was looking pretty threadbare compared to other platforms. I replaced the 1991-vintage Xlib version with a backport of the macOS OpenGL version to GTK 3. Let me know how it works on your incomprehensibly powerful hundred dollar supercomputer.Source only release. I didn’t bother re-spinning the various other platform builds just to bump the version number.

Previously, previously, previously, previously, previously, previously.

External feed Read More at the Source: https://www.jwz.org/blog/2022/08/dali-clock-2-45-released/

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Aug 262022
 

Online proctoring companies employ a lengthy list of dangerous monitoring and tracking techniques in an attempt to determine whether or not students are potentially cheating, many of which are biased and ineffective. This week, one of the more invasive techniques—the “room scan”—was correctly deemed unconstitutional by a federal judge. “Room scans” are a common requirement in proctored exams where students are forced to use their device’s camera to give a 360-degree view of everything around the area in which they’re taking a test. Often, this is a personal residence, and frequently a private space, like a bedroom. (A demonstration of a room scan by Proctorio can be seen here.) 
We have criticized room scans as well as…

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Aug 262022
 

Intel GPUs from the consumer desktop Arc Graphics hardware to the Intel Data Center Flex GPU Series “Arctic Sound M” and forthcoming Xe HPC Ponte Vecchio are built around fully open-source drivers. A common misconception or confusion I’ve heard many times over the past number of months has been questioning whether Intel’s discrete GPU driver support on Linux is open-source or is closed-source, etc. Well, it’s fully open-source aside from the usual firmware caveat and running on Linux. Here is some initial commentary with running the Intel Arc Graphics A380 on Linux!

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Aug 262022
 

A court ruled that the Ben & Jerry’s founders can’t legally make Unilever
stop selling ice cream under that name in Israel’s colonies in Palestine.

External feed Read More at the Source: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#25_August_2022_(ben_jerrys_lose_israeli_settlements_palestinian)

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Aug 262022
 

With the vociferous debate over President Joe Biden’s announcement that the federal government will cancel a portion of outstanding student debt, it’s important to understand how Americans came to owe the current cumulative total of more than $1.6 trillion for higher education.
In 1970, Ronald Reagan was running for reelection as governor of California. He had first won in 1966 with confrontational rhetoric toward the University of California public college system and executed confrontational policies when in office. In May 1970, Reagan had shut down all 28 UC and Cal State campuses in the midst of student protests against the Vietnam War and the U.S. bombing of Cambodia. On October 29, less than a week before the…

External feed Read More at the Source: https://theintercept.com/2022/08/25/student-loans-debt-reagan/

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