today's leftovers
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Linux Weekly Roundup #201
Welcome to this week's Linux Weekly Roundup.
We had a peaceful week in the world of Linux releases with the releases of MX Linux 21.2.1, ExTiX Linux 22.9, and Debian Edu 11.5.0.
Application wise, Audacity 3.2.0 has been released.
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[From Arch] Removing python2 from the repositories
Python 2 went end of life January 2020. Since then Arch has been actively cutting down the number of projects depending on python2 in their repositories, and they have finally been able to drop it from our distribution, making it disappear from Parabola too. If you still have python2 installed on your system consider removing it and any python2 package.
If you still require the python2 package you can keep it around, but please be aware that there will be no security updates.
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 24, Number 39
Another week, another security vulnerability. This one could be a biggie, so pay attention. Security Bulletin: IBM Common Cryptographic Architecture (CCA) is vulnerable to denial of service (CVE-2022-22423), which you can find out more about here.
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Microsoft LinkedIn “experimented” on over 20 million people over five years and may have stopped some of them from getting a job.
Basically, LinkedIn is there to make Microsoft money (duh) by running skeevy tests on people, who probably didn’t even read the EULA, which might have caused them to miss employment opportunities.
When Microsoft was reached for comment, they had none.
What are you going to say when you’ve been outed as ruining someone’s hopes and dreams for career advancement (or even finding a job at all in a bad economy), in the pursuit of a better algorithm to bring in ad money from people who haven’t stopped to consider why this is all “free”?
As a separate issue, LinkedIn is not doing as well as the obsequious Gates-Funded New York Times would suggest.
The New York Times runs hundreds of Gates propaganda articles and even softens what they do when their LinkedIn division screws people who have accounts there.
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How to ditch Facebook without ditching your friends
Facebook users claim to hate the service, but they keep using it, leading many to describe Facebook as "addictive." But there's a simpler explanation: people keep using Facebook though they hate it because they don't want to lose their connections to the people they love.