Microsoft is Down and Pretending to be "Open"

• Down productivity tools: Microsoft Teams takes a Monday tumble

  Microsoft's collaborative Slack-alike, Teams, is having a difficult start to the week, with users unable to log in to share their hopes, dreams and Word documents with their co-workers. Problems started at around 13:00 UTC, as users found themselves presented with connection errors as they attempted to hook up to the service. Naturally, they took to Twitter to share their experience.

• Microsoft is going all-in on 'Inner Source' [Ed: Microsoft's de facto PR person at CBS on how Microsoft will keep giving malicious software with NSA back doors while calling it "open". Dr. Glyn Moody, to his credit, warned about it over a decade ago in Linux Journal when he said Microsoft would bamboozle nontechnical people/officials by claiming it itself is its competition and is "open source" (even when it's proprietary, with back doors).]

• After Open Source, Microsoft Wants “Inner Source” For A Better Future [Ed: Having bribed OSI and others, Microsoft is now trying to redefine and totally control FOSS (all products proprietary but with openwashing for marketing purposes). Remember "Shared Source"? Microsoft keeps rebranding. Microsoft: we’re sort of kind of like “open”. We bought some things. BP: we’re sort of green. We changed our logo and mentioned words like “climate”.]

HowTos and Development Leftovers

• One liner scripts to ease your Linux tasks

• Discrete Fourier Transform in Calc

• How to List Installed Packages on Ubuntu and Debian [Quick Tip]

• Simple guide to install MySQL WorkBench for Linux (Ubuntu & RHEL/CentOS)

• How to install Yarn NPM Client on Ubuntu and Manage Dependencies through it

• How To Automatically Change GNOME Background In Intervals Using BASH

• 4 secrets management tools for Git encryption

• Final touch up for the boy boundary detection mechanism

  Sorry for not posting yesterday as I am terribly sick, although I am still sick today mine condition is a lot more better now. After the previous article we have basically developed a boundary detection mechanism for the player object and in this article, we will do the final touch up for that mechanism. Here are the final rules that we need to apply in order to complete the boundary detection mechanism for the boy.

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Today in Techrights

• What Happened in the United States Now Happens in Europe: Lots of Patents Turn Out to Be Bunk, Fake, Bogus, Invalid and Thus Worthless
• Stephen Rowan’s and Nellie Simon’s Letter to EPO Staff: eDossier Has “Not Reached the Required Quality Levels.”
• Search Matters Not at the European Patent Office
• António Campinos Still Needs to Undo Battistelli’s Union-Busting Activities at the EPO
• António Campinos Still Needs to Hold Team Battistelli Accountable for Illegally Bringing Weapons to the EPO
• Links 18/2/2019: Linux 5.0 RC7, RISC-V Spreading Fast