We wish everyone a happy winter solstice (at least those in the North), nice holidays and a happy new year. This message dates to the solstice on December 22nd. Desejamos a todos um feliz solstício de inverno (pelo menos no norte), boas festas e um feliz ano novo. Esta mensagem data do solstício em 22 de dezembro. Wir wünschen allen eine schöne Wintersonnenwende (zumindest im Norden), schöne Feiertage und einen guten Rutsch ins neue Jahr. Diese Nachricht datiert auf die Sonnenwende am 22. Dezember. Les deseamos a todos un feliz solsticio de invierno (al menos los del norte), buenas fiestas y un feliz año nuevo. Este mensaje data del solsticio el 22 de diciembre.
The climate conference in Madrid only managed to make a minimal compromise, which in no way does justice to the current situation. This is mainly due to the USA, Australia and Brazil, three countries in which climate change deniers are in power. Climate researcher Mojib Latif therefore advocates a coalition of the willing. If the economic hopes placed in alternative energies are fulfilled, this could be a positive example. But we would also suggest to punish or at least limit the damage the boycotters are causing through economic and trade rules and sanctions. The principle of voluntariness does not work in the economy - and neither does it work among irresponsible heads of government.
Bolsonaro´s government helps those who plunder the Amazon and who kill everyone who defies their criminal activity including mining, logging and land grabbing by impunity. This year 27 people died from conflicts in the countryside compared to only two death in 2018. Seven were indigenous leaders. Even worse they have raided a renown NGO and arrested four volunteeer firefighters accusing them of having spawned the fires. Bolsonaro´s fascists use outright lies when fueling propaganda and ultra-nationalistic discourse. His Finance Minister Paulo Guedes, openly suggests that growing left-wing opposition may oblige them to institute the military dictatorship's notorious “A-5” law, which dissolved Congress and led to the detention, torture, and murder of the dictatorship's opponents. Also Alessandra Munduruku, fell victim to this indiscriminate assault on Earth Defenders when her house was invaded and her computer, cell phone, flash drives, and important documents stolen …
The deblive CD has been updated for many new programs and some new features: ddrescue, gparted, smartctl (hdd health), konversation (IRC), falkon (web browser), twinkle (VoIP), telegram (chatting), kdiff3, kwrite and wine. The programs to create own installs in pydeps have also been freshened: contrib + two blue ray support, improved dependency analysis. uniq-unsorted helps in extending existing copy and install lists. When booting via Grub there is an own menu entry for Flashrom now. The default boot menu entry is booted after 8 seconds now which is especially useful when the BIOS should block USB keyboard access. The first version of this scriptset has been published together with debcheckroot.
