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GNU/Linux

Desktop/Laptop

=> ↺ The Slimbook Titan is here

• So far, the Slimbook Titan is my most expensive laptop to date. It’s also by far the most powerful one, with a spec that wouldn’t shame many a desktop. Of course, the mobility comes at its price. And my deliberate choice to use Linux only also has implications. I will need to see whether I can truly step away from Windows once and for all. Or at least prove that this can be done painlessly by 2025, when Windows 10 goes EOL. Lots of pondering, lots of questions. We have a hypothesis, we need to test it.

• My Titan experiment should be a fun one. Well, I hope. So far, things had not gone that well, I must say. The delivery process was over-complicated and frustrating. The initial laptop setup wasn’t as elegant as I expected. And on that cliffhanger, I must bid you farewell. In the next article, we will look at the installation, the system setup, hardware compatibility, and then some. It ought to be interesting. See ya.

Applications

=> ↺ End of the Road for GIF Recorder ‘Peek’ and Stock Tracker ‘Markets’ Linux Apps

• Peek was an open-source animated GIF recorder that came in quite handy for capturing the contents of a screen.

• Similarly, the ‘Markets’ app was an open-source app for Linux desktops and phones that allowed users to track stock market movements.

• Sadly, both of these apps have been discontinued for their respective reasons.

• Allow me to take you through more details.

Instructionals/Technical

=> ↺ How to get the latest Linux kernel on your Ubuntu box

• For significant subcomponents of Ubuntu – and its derivatives – you don’t need to wait for the next release to appear. You can upgrade major parts on the fly.

• Here at Vulture Towers, we are working on a review of a machine with a 12th-generation Intel chip, and that’s caused issues in some Linux distros. Back in 2021, we reported on work on kernel 5.16 to add Alder Lake support. Ubuntu 22.04 LTS shipped with kernel 5.15, though. The latest release, 22.10, includes the ageing kernel 5.19, which you also get in the latest update to “Jammy”, 22.04.2.

Distributions and Operating Systems

New Releases

=> ↺ LibreELEC 11 Linux distro arrives, now with Kodi 20 ‘Nexus’

• Two months ago, the Kodi Foundation released Kodi 20.0 ‘Nexus’, the latest incarnation of its hugely popular home theater software. The new release comes with a wealth of changes, fixes and new features, including support for multiple instances of binary add-ons, AV1 Video support, and a massive rework of the subtitle system.

• Today sees the arrival of the latest version of LibreELEC, a lightweight Linux distro that is designed to run Kodi on a variety of platforms including Raspberry Pi and Orange Pi. LibreELEC 11′s big new change is it now runs Kodi 20.

=> ↺ Garuda Linux “Raptor’ (230305) – Announcements – Garuda Linux Forum

• What’s up, everyone?

• First of all, we wish every one of you a happy new year (yeah, we are kind of late to release this! ). We also hope 2023 will be a good one for you and your loved ones as well.

• During the last few months, we have been preparing a new release containing quite a few changes for you. This not only brings fundamental changes to one of our editions, but it also features a much improved garuda-update, Dracut as the initramfs tool of choice as well as a clean Qt interface for our setup assistant. Apart from that, we had some major changes to our infrastructure and a lot of little enhancements to all parts of the distro which we are going to take a closer look at now

Arch Family

=> ↺ Arch Linux vs. Ubuntu: Which Should You Use

• Ubuntu and Arch Linux have staunch and vocal supporters. If you’re considering using Linux or changing distribution, you’ll have people promoting both of these to you. But which is right for you?

• The notion to try out Linux can be spurred by many factors. Maybe you’ve heard of Linux and just want to find out more. Perhaps you’re dissatisfied with your current OS and you’re looking for an alternative. Maybe you find the idea of free and open source software intriguing, and worth investigating.

Devices/Embedded

=> ↺ Arduino introduces GIGA R1 WIFI board at $72.82

• The Arduino blog has recently featured the new GIGA R1 Wi-Fi equipped with up to 76x Digital I/Os, 2x DAC pins, camera support, a MIPI interface and other peripherals. This new Arduino board features an ARM Cortex-M7 and a Cortex-M4 as coprocessor for real time applications.

=> ↺ 2.5” Pico ITX SBC based on Elkhart Lake processors

• Last week, Avalue launched the EPX-EHLP Single Board Computer equipped with Celeron/Atom SoC BGA processors. The EPX-EHLP features I/O peripherals such as 2x Stacked DPs ports, 2x 2.5 GbE LAN ports and flexible expansion slots.

=> ↺ Build a Raspberry Pi monitoring dashboard in under 30 minutes

• If you’ve ever wondered about the performance of your Raspberry Pi, then you might need a dashboard for your Pi. In this article, I demonstrate how to quickly building an on-demand monitoring dashboard for your Raspberry Pi so you can see your CPU performance, memory and disk usage in real time, and add more views and actions later as you need them.

• If you’re already using Appsmith, you can also import the sample app directly and get started.

=> ↺ Best Raspberry Pi Projects: March 2023

• We’ve got some cool Raspberry Pi projects to share with you for the month of March that are guaranteed to springboard some fun ideas of your own.

=> ↺ Upgrade RAM On Your Pi 4, The Fun Way

• The Raspberry Pi shortage has been a meme in hacker circles for what feels like an eternity now, and the Pi 4 seems to be most affected – though, maybe it’s just its popularity. Nevertheless, if you’re looking for a Pi 4, you would need to look far and wide – and things are way worse if you need the 8 GB version specifically. Or so we thought – [MadEDoctor] shows us that refreshing online store pages isn’t the only way, having successfully upgraded the RAM chip on the Pi 4 from 1 GB to 8 GB with help of a hot air gun.

=> ↺ The Future of RISC-V and the VisionFive 2 Single Board Computer

• The hardware is reasonably impressive, but the utility hinges on the OS and software support. There’s a Debian image that’s seeing regular updates, with issues continually getting fixed. What we really care about is upstream status, and that process has started. There’s hope for a minimally booting system with kernel 6.3, though there are quite a few drivers to upstream before the system is fully usable with the vanilla kernel.

• And one of those drivers we have to mention is the GPU. The hardware is known as BXE-4-32 GPU, a GPU core from Imagination Technologies, and successor to the PowerVR architecture. Imagination is making a play for getting its designs built into RISC-V chips, and as part of that, has released open source drivers for its modern products. There’s an ongoing effort to upstream those drivers, and some enablement code has already landed in Mesa.

Open Hardware/Modding

=> ↺ 2023-03-05 Refurb weekend: Cobalt RaQ 2

Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications

=> ↺ Vivo X90 Pro review: Creature of the night – Android Authority

=> ↺ Google Keep Android app adds a single-note widget

=> ↺ Best External Storage Drives for your Android Smartphone

=> ↺ Google Keep Android app adds a single-note widget

=> ↺ Here Is What Android 15 Is Going To Be Called

=> ↺ Android 15 codename apparently revealed as ‘Vanilla Ice Cream’ – SamMobile

Free, Libre, and Open Source Software

=> ↺ Switch from Google Workspace to Nextcloud

• If you’re wary of committing your data to cloud services controlled by a corporation but you love the convenience of remote storage and easy web-based access, then you’re not alone. The cloud is popular because of what it can do. But the cloud doesn’t have to be closed. Luckily, the open source Nextcloud project provides a personal and private cloud application suite.

• It’s easy to install and import data—including contacts, calendars, and photos. The real trick is getting your data from cloud providers like Google. In this article I demonstrate the steps you need to take to migrate your digital life from an Android device to Nextcloud.

GNU Projects

=> ↺ grep @ Savannah: grep-3.9 released [stable]

Programming/Development

Python

=> ↺ 2023-03-04 Testing multiple Python versions with nox and pyenv

Leftovers

=> ↺ How Minor League Baseball Scored Itself a Union

• Trevor Hildenberger is a 32-year-old pitcher for a minor league affiliate of the San Francisco Giants. He was used to spending his days thinking about balls, strikes, and fielding errors, but helping organize a union with his fellow ballplayers taught him a lot about political psychology.1

=> ↺ Yesterday’s Drill Press Packed With Tomorrow’s Upgrades

• Those who hibernate in their workshops have a habit of re-imagining their relationship to tools. And [Marius Hornberger] is no exception, but the nine upgrades he’s added to his grandfather’s old drill press puts this machine on a whole other level.

Education

=> ↺ Minneapolis Teachers Union, Cops Battle Over Student Recruitment

• A Minneapolis Public Schools teacher talked to Unicorn Riot about the Minneapolis Police Department’s (MPD) newly created PEACE Recruitment Program and the teachers union’s recent decision to oppose it. “The police are desperate now and they’re coming for our kids.”

Hardware

=> ↺ Review Of The YARD Stick One Radio Dongle

• When it comes to SDR, you can usually find cheap products that receive and expensive products that can also transmit. The YARD Stick One bucks that trend. It can send and receive from 300 MHz to 928 MHz, thanks to the onboard TI CC1111 chip. [Wim Ton] on Elektor put the device through its paces. While the frequency range isn’t as broad as some devices, the price is right at about $99. YARD, by the way, stands for Yet Another RF Dongle.

=> ↺ Graphene And Copper Nanowire Thermal Interface With Low Thermal Resistance

• With the increasing waste heat production by today’s electronics in ever smaller spaces, drawing this heat away quickly enough to prevent thermal throttling or damage is a major concern. This is where research by Lin Jing and colleagues from Carnegie Mellon University’s Department of Mechanical Engineering demonstrates a thermal interface material (TIM) that should provide a significant boost here. In the article, published in ACS Nano (paywalled; open access preprint alternative) the construction of this copper and graphene ‘sandwich’ TIM is described, along with tests.

=> ↺ A Medium Format Camera From Scratch

• Film photography may now be something so outdated as to be unknown to our younger readers, but as an analogue medium it has enjoyed a steady enthusiast revival. There is still a bonanza of second-hand cameras from the days when it was king to be found, but for some photographers it’s preferable to experiment with their own designs. Among them is Reddit user [elelcoolbeenz], who has produced their own medium format camera for 120 roll film.

Health/Nutrition/Agriculture

=> ↺ Montana Schools Struggle With Lead in Water While Awaiting Federal Relief

=> ↺ A Pennsylvania Hospital Is Attempting to Deport an Undocumented Woman in a Coma

=> ↺ More relocation, more Frontex: „Med5“ adopt declaration in Malta

• Malta, Greece, Italy, Spain and Cyprus demand more solidarity in the reception of asylum seekers. The EU interior ministers are meeting this week to discuss the issue.

=> ↺ Japan’s Nuclear-Contaminated Water Disposal Plan is Harmful: Dundar

• The Japanese government announced that it will release radioactive wastewater from the wrecked Fukushima Daiichi plant into the Pacific Ocean.

Proprietary

=> ↺ Radeon Driver Bug Corrupts Windows, AMD Shares Fix

• AMD has acknowledged a rare bug with its Adrenalin drivers that corrupt users’ systems when the “Factory Reset” is checked.

Security

=> ↺ Event Wrap: Cyber Safety Pasifika Workshop

• Jamie Gillespie presented on Internet Fundamentals for LEAs at the Cyber Safety Pasifika Workshop, held in Port Vila, Vanuatu from 6 to 10 February 2023.

=> ↺ 2023-03-06 Sizing router buffers — small is the new big…

Integrity/Availability/Authenticity

=> ↺ [Just humor] Clicking on Heaven’s Door

• We have your e-mail on file, but the associated account appears to have been compromised in a hack perpetrated by a previous applicant (Satan).

Privacy/Surveillance

=> ↺ Adversarial IR Hoodie Lets You Own The Night In Anonymity

• If you’re in the market for something to obfuscate your nefarious nocturnal activities, rejoice — this adversarial infrared hoodie may be just what you’re looking for.

=> ↺ The $2 Billion Question of Who You Are at Work

• Employers are finding personality tests — measuring how employees think and feel — more useful than ever while navigating hybrid work. But the tests are not always up-to-date.

=> ↺ Are You a Cubicle Cat or a Couch Koala? Test Your Office Personality.

• Personality assessment has ballooned into a giant industry that aims to explain your working style. Take our quiz to find out what kind of office creature you are.

Defence/Aggression

=> ↺ Turkey may not want to upset Putin. That could backfire

• When Sweden and Finland declared their intention to join NATO last May, it was seen by many as a poke in the eye for Russia and evidence of a shift in European thinking. Historically, both countries had committed to non-alignment with NATO as a way of avoiding provoking Moscow. The invasion of Ukraine changed that.

=> ↺ US evaluating Ukrainian pilots for possible F-16 training

• The US is working with Ukrainian pilots in the United States to determine how long it would take to train them to fly F-16 fighter jets, three sources briefed on the matter told CNN.

=> ↺ Why ex-CIA chief says another Trump presidency would be ‘dangerous for the world’

• Former US defense secretary and CIA director Leon Panetta joins CNN’s Jim Acosta to discuss the possibility of another Trump presidency.

=> ↺ Maria Pevchikh, Putin’s Grand Inquisitor

• A deputy to Alexey Navalny discusses his near-fatal poisoning, her own probe of Kremlin corruption, and battling Moscow from exile.

=> ↺ 5 people shot near a gun buyback event at a Los Angeles beach

• Five people were injured in a shooting at a Los Angeles beach Saturday — a few miles from where city officials had hosted a gun buyback event earlier in the day, according to the Los Angeles Police Department and Los Angeles City Councilmember Tim McOsker.

=> ↺ Zakaria asks German chancellor what happens next in Putin’s war with Ukraine

• CNN’s Fareed Zakaria sits down for an exclusive interview with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz to discuss his meeting with President Biden and Russia’s ongoing war in Ukraine.

=> ↺ IAEA Holds ‘Constructive’ Nuclear Talks With Iran: Grossi

• Countries like Israel and the United States use the nuclear issue as an “excuse” to further pressure the Iranian people, said President Raisi.

=> ↺ Latvian Leader In Favor Of Sending Fighter Jets To Support Ukraine

• Latvian Prime Minister Krisjanis Karins has spoken out in favor of supplying fighter jets to Ukraine.

=> ↺ What Trench Warfare on Ukraine’s Front Line Looks Like

• The Ukrainian military calls it the zero position, where Russian soldiers are close enough to see, and where an old war tactic takes a horrific toll.

=> ↺ Ukraine Holds Off Russian Forces in Bakhmut As Fighting Intensifies

• Russian troops and Wagner mercenaries are still waging a fierce battle to encircle the eastern Ukrainian city, officials said.

=> ↺ They’re Exporting Billions in Arms. Just Not to Ukraine.

• As traditional weapons suppliers like the U.S. face wartime production shortages, South Korea has stepped in to fill the gap, while trying not to provoke Moscow.

=> ↺ U.S. Sanctions Relief for Syria Troubles Assad Regime Opponents

• Washington has temporarily eased sanctions on the authoritarian government of President Bashar al-Assad to allow humanitarian aid to flow freely after a disastrous earthquake struck Syria.

=> ↺ Turkey Says It’s Working To Renew Black Sea Grain Deal

• Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on March 5 that Ankara is working hard to extend a UN-backed initiative that has enabled Ukraine to export grain from ports blockaded by Russia following its invasion.

=> ↺ Zelenskiy Says Donbas Fighting ‘Painful, Challenging’ As Bakhmut Defenders Struggle To Hold On

• Ukraine’s military said on March 5 that it had repelled more than 130 enemy attacks in 24 hours and claimed to be inflicting massive Russian casualties but gave no definite word on the fate of Bakhmut, where Russian forces were said to have nearly surrounded the devastated city.

=> ↺ Wagner Reportedly Opens Mercenary Recruitment Centers At Russian Sports Clubs

• The Wagner mercenary group fighting along with Russia’s regular and conscripted troops in Ukraine has opened at least three new recruiting centers at Russian sports clubs in the past three days, the U.S.-based Institute for the Study of War (ISW) says.

=> ↺ Muscovites Mark 70th Anniversary Of Stalin’s Death

• More than 1,000 people gathered on Moscow’s Red Square on March 5 for the 70th anniversary of the death of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin, whose divisive legacy looms over the Ukraine conflict.

=> ↺ No Evidence ‘So Far’ That China Is Mulling Arms Deliveries To Russia, EU Chief Says

• The European Union has seen “no evidence so far” that would suggest China was considering supplying weapons to Russia for the war in Ukraine, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said on March 5.

=> ↺ More than 40 Chinese vessels reported around Philippine-claimed island

• Philippine Coast Guard calls their presence off Pag-asa a ‘blatant violation’ of territorial integrity.

=> ↺ Border town residents feel safer after Malaysia cracked down on human smuggling

• Wang Kelian, near Thailand, is where graves of Rohingya and Bangladeshi migrants were found in 2015.

=> ↺ The boxer helping 4,237 Ukrainians return to their homes

• Diana Savenok smiles when she recalls what life was like in Ukraine before Russia’s invasion just over a year ago.

=> ↺ Friend says she was shocked to see this girl speaking at Putin’s rally

• CNN’s Melissa Bell speaks to people who knew Anya Naumenko, a 13-year-old Ukrainian child brought to Russia from Mariupol, after seeing her speak at a rally in Moscow celebrating the Russian army.

=> ↺ Chris Hedges: Lynching the Deplorables

• The criminal investigation undertaken by the federal government against hundreds of participants in the Jan. 6 storming of the U.S. Capitol is polarizing the country and shredding civil liberties.

=> ↺ Russian payment system KoronaPay limits transfers abroad from several major Russian cards — Meduza

• The KoronaPay payment system has limited transfers of funds to overseas accounts from cards issued by a number of major Russian banks, which are subject to Western sanctions. Affected banks include Tinkoff, Alfa-Bank, and Sberbank.

=> ↺ ‘Bolshevik politics was warfare’ Historian Ronald Grigor Suny on Stalin’s rise and Stalinism’s legacy — Meduza

• March 5 marks 70 years since Joseph Stalin died. As the leader of the USSR from 1924 to his death in 1953, Stalin established a totalitarian regime, provoked mass starvation, engineered the Great Terror, and led the Soviet Union to victory in the Second World War. Meduza spoke to Professor Ronald Grigor Suny, a historian and political scientist at the University of Michigan, and author of several books about Stalin and Stalinism, about Stalin’s politics and his rise to power in the early years of the USSR. The interview has been edited for length and clarity.

=> ↺ Meet the British intelligence-linked firm that warped MH17 news coverage

=> ↺ Duma deputy Kartapolov, who co-authored a bill criminalizing “discrediting” volunteers in Russian forces, dismisses concerns about neo-Nazis in volunteer ranks — Meduza

• If Russian neo-Nazis are fighting against Ukraine, they’ve “already been reformed,” Andrey Kartapolov, a State Duma deputy and chairman of the defense committee, said in an interview with St. Petersburg publication Fontanka.

=> ↺ ISW: Wagner Group has started recruiting at Russian sports clubs — Meduza

• American think tank the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) reports that Wagner Group has opened at least three recruitment centers at Russian sports clubs — in Rostov-on-Don, Samara, and Tyumen. Wagner Group itself reports that it has launched eight recruitment centers at sports clubs in Moscow.

=> ↺ 13 bodies, including an eight-month-old baby, discovered under the rubble of a Zaporizhzhia building destroyed in Russian missile strike — Meduza

• The State Emergency Service of Ukraine reports that 13 bodies were discovered under the rubble of a five-story apartment building, a section of which was destroyed by a missile strike launched by Russia early on March 2. The agency reported yesterday that one of the victims was an eight-month-old girl. She was killed with the other members of her family.

=> ↺ Russian Defense Minister reportedly visits Mariupol — Meduza

• The Russian Defense Ministry said on Telegram Monday that Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu traveled to Mariupol to inspect ongoing construction work to “restore the infrastructure of the Donbas.” Among other things, the ministry said, Shoigu visited a medical center, a “DNR” Emergency Services Ministry rescue center, and a new residential neighborhood.

=> ↺ The Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs puts former FSB border guard and alleged participant in attacks on the Bryansk region on wanted list — Meduza

• The Russian internal affairs ministry put Ilya Bogdanov, one of the alleged participants in recent attacks on two villages bordering Ukraine in Russia’s Bryansk region, on the wanted list.

=> ↺ Blinken’s Unwise, Unwarranted Trip to Central Asia

• In an effort to gain leverage against Russia and China, Secretary of State Antony Blinken traveled to Kazakhstan last week to meet with foreign ministers of the five Central Asian nations. The United States has no vital national security interests in any of the five Islamic states that have had long-standing ties to Moscow and are heavily reliant on economic assistance from China. These nations—Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan—maintain close diplomatic and security ties to both Russia and China, and there is no chance that the United States has the leverage to weaken Central Asian relations with Moscow and Beijing. Nevertheless, the New York Times fatuously headlined that “Blinken Finds Some Leverage in Central Asia.”

• The resolution of problems in Central Asia is simply beyond the capabilities of the United States. Blinken’s trip was a fool’s errand that merely exposed the futility of U.S. efforts to practice dual containment against Russia and China as well as U.S. ignorance regarding its own policies that are driving Russia and China into a closer relationship.

Environment

=> ↺ The Constitutional Right to a Healthful Environment (in New York State)

• Just over a year ago, the New York State Constitution was amended to include a right to a healthy environment. Since January 2022, Article 1, Section 19, the so-called Green Amendment to the New York State Constitution, states that “each person shall have a right to clean air and water, and a healthful environment.”

• (Although the term healthful is used, rather than the more common word healthy, there is no significant legal or semantic distinction between the two.)

=> ↺ ‘The Biggest Conservation Victory Ever!’ Global Treaty to Protect Oceans Reached

• Ocean conservationists expressed elation late Saturday after it was announced—following nearly two decades of consideration and effort—that delegates from around the world had agreed to language for a far-reaching global treaty aimed at protecting the biodiversity on the high seas and in the deep oceans of the world.

=> ↺ What If the World Cannot Save the World?

• The United Nations has convened 27 conferences on climate change. For nearly three decades, the international community has come together at a different location every year to pool its collective wisdom, resources, and resolve to address this global threat. These Conferences of Parties (COPs) have produced important agreements, such as the Paris Accords of 2015 on the reduction of carbon emissions and most recently at Sharm el-Sheikh a Loss & Damage Fund to help countries currently experiencing the most impact from climate change.

=> ↺ Oil CEOs Should Be Barred From Global Climate Summits, Not Running Them

• The Chief Executive of the twelfth largest oil producer – Sultan Al Jaber of Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) – has been appointed as president of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change’s (UNFCCC) COP28, the biggest climate change conference that will take place in November, 2023 in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).

=> ↺ Stop Rewarding Destroyers of Our World and Punishing Those Defending It

• As of early February, police have “made more than 90 arrests and dozens of detentions” to facilitate construction of the Coastal GasLink pipeline in northern B.C., “running up a taxpayer tab of more than $25 million,” according to the Narwhal. François Poirier, President and CEO of TC Energy, which owns the project, was rewarded with “$9.81-million in his first full year as CEO, including a $1.1-million bonus and share and stock option awards valued at $6-million,” the Globe and Mail reported.

=> ↺ 40,000 flee homes as floods hit Malaysia

• Rescue efforts are underway in parts of Malaysia after seasonal floods killed at least four people and displaced more than 40,000.

=> ↺ 2023-03-06 Extinction Rebellion Youth take action at Night Watch in Rijksmuseum

Energy/Transportation

=> ↺ Indigenous Activists Escalate Protests Against Wind Farm in Norway

=> ↺ 2023-03-05 ‘Lithium rush’ boosts sales of mineral claims in N.S.

Wildlife/Nature

=> ↺ Now is Not the Time to Remove ESA Protections for Grizzlies

• The governors of Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho have been moving Heaven and Earth to hasten removal of Endangered Species Act (ESA) protections for grizzly bears and return management to the states, most recently through petitions submitted to the US Fish & Wildlife Service requesting the initiation of a status review for the species. Idaho’s petition was rejected, but the petitions submitted by Wyoming and Montana were not, triggering a twelve-month process potentially leading to administrative removal of ESA protections by the Service.

• Meanwhile, Congressional delegations from the northern Rockies have mounted a tandem effort to legislativelyremove protections. Senators Lummis, Barrasso, Crapo, Risch, and Daines recently introduced legislation that would delist two grizzly bear populations constituting the bulwark of recovery efforts in the contiguous United States. Representatives Hageman and Zinke introduced similar legislation in the House. As was the case with Congressional delisting of wolves in the northern Rockies, this legislation would debar judicial review—a measure that has seemingly become the norm among legislators intent on circumventing the ESA.

=> ↺ Colombia to send 70 ‘cocaine hippos’ to India and Mexico, governor says

• Colombia plans to fly dozens of its “cocaine hippos” — the descendents of drug trafficker Pablo Escobar’s private menagerie — to new homes in India and Mexico in a bid to control their booming population, according to the local governor.

Finance

=> ↺ 2023-03-04 Starbucks Workers Attempting to Unionize May Have Just Had Their Best Week Ever

=> ↺ Immigrant Women Workers Are Fighting to Close Disney’s Gender Pay Gap

=> ↺ How to save money as a student in Denmark

• Life on a student budget doesn’t have to be tough in Denmark — follow these tips to get the most out of the experience at a low price.

=> ↺ It’s Hell Week on Wall Street

• Wall Street investors are gearing up for their version of Hell Week — a torrent of jobs data coming over the next few days could easily lead to volatile market swings.

=> ↺ Von Der Leyen To Reject US Anti-Inflation Act Before Biden

• The European Commission President explained that such an act is discriminatory since it encourages European companies to move to the U.S. to benefit from billionaire subsidies.

=> ↺ Credit card debt soars as perks proliferate

• Voracious spending and historically high inflation have helped drive credit card debt to a record high of almost $1 trillion — and credit card issuers are offering all sorts of incentives to lure new customers.

=> ↺ Europe will start charging for entry in 2024

• This week in travel news: The European Commission will start charging for a new visa waiver scheme next year, plus our pick of Croatian and Italian destinations and new Asian hotels.

=> ↺ 2023-03-04 Low-Wage Jobs Are Becoming Middle-Class Jobs

=> ↺ 2023-03-04 SNAP boosts kept millions out of poverty during Covid. Now they’re gone.

=> ↺ Congressional Leaders Are Embracing Dark Money More Than Ever

=> ↺ Ex-Honorary Consul Accused of Financing Hezbollah Indicted on Money Laundering, Terrorism Counts

• A former Lebanese diplomat sanctioned by U.S. authorities for allegedly funneling money to the terrorist group Hezbollah was arrested last week in Bucharest, Romania, and U.S. officials are seeking his extradition.

• Mohammad Ibrahim Bazzi, 58, is accused by federal prosecutors of attempting to evade sanctions by trying to launder and move more than $800,000 from the United States to Lebanon, according to the Department of Justice.

=> ↺ 2023-03-06 Brexit: Can Jeremy Corbyn Still Come To Power?

=> ↺ Rishi Sunak Now Cosplays as an Anti-Brexiteer

• The 1998 Good Friday Agreement, which resulted in the current Northern Irish political settlement, called for a “frictionless” border between the 2 parts of Ireland.

• The Brexit deal Boris “BoJo” Johnson struck with the EU was always going to be a bust because it put this “frictionless” border at risk. BoJo’s deal required a border to exist between the EU-member Republic of Ireland and the UK-belonging (and thus non-EU) Northern Ireland.

=> ↺ Across The Tracks

• In the most productive agricultural area in the world, poverty is endemic. Crisscrossed by irrigation canals and railroad tracks, Fresno is the working-class capital and largest city of California’s San Joaquin Valley, a city where people speak Spanish as readily as English.1

=> ↺ What’s happening to the cost of renting?

• With demand outstripping supply in the rental market, tenants continue to be hit with high rent. But figures suggest the rate of growth is beginning to slow

=> ↺ Can switching to frozen food save you money?

• Which? takes a closer look at whether frozen items can help cut your grocery bills

AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics

=> ↺ 2023-03-05 Vladimir Putin blames alleged lover’s friends for leaking details of their lifestyle, claim insiders

=> ↺ 2023-03-05 Under EU urging, Portugal will no longer issue golden visas

=> ↺ Gambling conference woos regulators

• Today the Gambling Industry’s most exclusive conference, Reform the Game, kicks off in Sydney’s International Conference Centre. With tickets priced at $2500 each, the event will see government regulators such as AUSTRAC speak alongside gambling giants SportsBet and Tabcorp.

• The organisation is billed as “a prestigious 5-day education program structured to build individual and organisational capability, deepen sector knowledge, and advance thinking and discussion about contemporary best practice gambling regulation”.

=> ↺ Hong Kong model’s death and dismemberment resurfaces memories of past horrors

• The postcard image of Hong Kong is one of glitzy skyscrapers against lush mountains, dim sum restaurants and investment bankers in suits.

=> ↺ He’s been declared innocent after serving 38 years for a murder he didn’t commit

• Maurice Hastings, a man wrongfully convicted of a 1983 robbery-homicide and sexual assault, has been declared innocent by a California judge.

=> ↺ Biden commemorates “Bloody Sunday” in Selma by pushing voting rights reform

• President Biden made a fresh appeal for voting rights reform as he commemorated the 58th anniversary of “Bloody Sunday” in Selma, Alabama.

• Driving the news: A critical day in the Civil Rights movement, “Bloody Sunday” in 1965 saw a peaceful demonstration demanding an expansion of voting rights end with police beating demonstrators.

=> ↺ Biden, in Selma, Says Voting Rights Are Still ‘Under Assault’

• The president’s commemoration of Bloody Sunday comes as he is expected to announce a re-election bid, which will require the support of Black voters who were decisive in helping him win the first time.

=> ↺ Diplomat Who Faced Brexit Freeze in U.K. Now Sees a ‘New Beginning’

• As the European Union’s first ambassador in London, João Vale de Almeida had to fight even for official recognition. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and the Windsor Framework are changing things, he says.

=> ↺ We Are All Domestic Terrorists

• Hoo boy. Another CPAC. Shriveled but still stubbornly demented, it offered a carnival of vengeful, bigoted, delusional, fear-mongering crackpots of the far-right universe raging that a woke apocalyptic “they” – communists, trans people, drag queens, socialist rainbow flags – are “coming for you” to destroy your lives. Topping it off was their barking mad overlord – “I am your retribution” – babbling about windmills, baby bonuses, flying cars. What else must we endure, you ask? Try the J6 Prison Choir.

=> ↺ Israeli Anti-Government Protests Hit New Heights as 200,000 March in Tel Aviv

• Ongoing protests against the far-right Israeli government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyhu were larger than ever on Saturday night as an estimated 200,000 people or more took to the streets in Tel Aviv and other cities to denounce judicial reforms they warn put the nation on a path towards dictatorship.

=> ↺ We Must Overturn SCOTUS Decisions That Effectively Deny Rights to Black People

=> ↺ Five opposition leaders remain ‘determined’ despite split in alliance

• Yesterday, the İYİ Party, the second-largest party in the opposition alliance, announced it wouldn’t support the candidacy of CHP leader Kılıçdaroğlu.

=> ↺ Two Cheers for Prince Harry

• Apparently, he doesn’t merit any cheers at all and is now less popular in the US than Prince Andrew. What is surprising about this is that Prince Andrew actually has any popularity to be less than. Apparently, according to a commentator (whose name escapes me) speaking to Piers Morgan, what has caused this latest decline in Harry’s fortunes is the South Park episode featuring cartoon facsimiles of him and Meghan Markel.

• That observation probably says more about the whole ongoing debacle than anything else. A popularity decline because of a cartoon? Are we now living in a cartoon reality? The cartoon, representing the popularity-declined couple as Canadians, portrayed them going on a worldwide privacy tour to ask the world to give them privacy. The couple have missed an opportunity here. The obvious thing for them to do is to actually promote and embark on a Worldwide Privacy Tour. It would be hard to make the situation more absurd and surreal than it already is, and it would be a marvellous display of insouciant panache.

=> ↺ Hype, Hypocrisy, and Lying to the People

• Hypocrisy in high places

• Most folks are honest; this tricks them into a belief in the bedrock honesty of others, especially those who make bold public statements. How could someone lie in a public statement? Most folks know they would not want to live with that embarrassment when the truth inevitably came out.

=> ↺ Reflections on the Day a Mob Assaulted Brazil’s Democracy

• The images of the January 8 violent attacks against the governmental buildings in Brasília spread through international media and are still resounding today. Wearing the colors of the national flag and the beloved Brazilian football team, the mob of supporters of former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, stormed and vandalized the Federal Supreme Court, the National Congress’s building and the Planalto Presidential Palace, institutions that compose the Three Powers Plaza. The aim was to reject the election of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. The parallels to the storming of the U.S. Capitol two years ago are evident.

• Many Brazilian political analysts were not surprised. “Brazilian political experts had been expecting this to happen since last year. The episode shows how a small group of Bolsonaro supporters does not respect the democratic values of the country,” said Brazilian historian and journalist Lucas de Souza Martins in a recent interview with the Americas Program.

=> ↺ “I don’t even understand the position that we can’t get weapons. That was painful to hear.”

Misinformation/Disinformation/Propaganda

=> ↺ Andrey Novashov, first journalist to be convicted of spreading ‘disinformation’ about Russian army, sentenced to eight months of corrective labor — Meduza

• A court in Russia’s Kemerovo region has sentenced journalist Andrey Novashov to eight months of corrective labor for allegedly spreading “disinformation” about the Russia army, according to the Siberian news outlet Taiga.info.

Censorship/Free Speech

=> ↺ “Haole,” Hawaii, Hate Crimes, and White Supremacy

• Is “haole” hate speech? Is it a racial slur? This perennial question was reanimated by a highly unusual federal hate crimes case in which two Native Hawaiian men were sentenced this week to several years in prison.

=> ↺ They Shared Erotic Images in a Group Chat. The Fine: $17,000.

• A couple in Singapore created a Telegram account where they posted risqué content for subscribers. They were convicted of violating nudity and obscenity laws.

Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press

=> ↺ Russian FSB claims it prevented assassination attempt on conservative media group founder Konstantin Malofeev by Russian Volunteer Corps head Denis Kapustin — Meduza

• The Russian FSB said Monday that it prevented an assassination attempt against Konstantin Malofeev, the founder of the Russian Orthodox TV network Tsargrad. The agency claimed that neo-Nazi Denis Kapustin, whose anti-Putin Russian Volunteer Corps claimed responsibility for last week’s incursion into Russia’s Bryansk region from Ukraine, planned to blow up Malofeev’s car, but that the attempt was thwarted.

Civil Rights/Policing

=> ↺ Life Without Parole Prisoners Reignite Movement to End Mass Incarceration

• A 50-year-old organization led by prisoners with life sentences has emerged from a COVID shutdown to fight for the abolition of legalized slavery.

=> ↺ UC Berkeley Professor Taught with Suspected Native American Remains

• For decades, famed professor Tim White used a vast collection of human remains — bones sorted by body part and stored in wooden bins — to teach his anthropology students at the University of California, Berkeley.

=> ↺ Wave of suspected poison attacks on schoolgirls sparks protests in Iran

• Worried parents protested in Iran’s capital Tehran and other cities on Saturday over a wave of suspected poison attacks that have affected schoolgirls in dozens of schools, according to Iranian news agencies and social media videos.

=> ↺ Sub-Saharan African countries repatriating citizens from Tunisia after ‘shocking’ statements from country’s president

• Several sub-Saharan countries, including Ivory Coast, Mali, Guinea and Gabon, are helping their citizens return from Tunisia following controversial remarks from the country’s president last month concerning illegal immigration into the North African country.

Monopolies

=> ↺ 2023-03-04 Amazon is shutting down eight cashierless Go stores

Patents

=> ↺ 2023-03-05 Webinar on Litigating Patents before UPC, German, and Brazilian Courts

Copyrights

=> ↺ Copyright Holders Score ‘Dynamic’ Pirate Site Blocking Order in Argentina

• A national court in Buenos Aires, Argentina, requires local Internet providers to block thirty pirate streaming services. The dynamic blocking order sets an important precedent, local anti-piracy outfit Alianza stresses. Blocklist updates are no unnecessary luxury either, as many of the targeted domains were already outdated before the measures went live.

=> ↺ 90 Million DMCA Takedowns in 90 Days: MindGeek’s $32m Piracy ‘Win’ Meets Reality

• When a subsidiary of PornHub owner MindGeek was awarded $32 million in damages and an injunction against pirate site Daftsex, that should’ve been decisive. The stark reality is that the site never went offline. In response, the company is now engaged in the largest, most instense DMCA notice campaign in history. In just 90 days, Google received requests to remove 90+ million URLs.

Gemini* and Gopher

Personal

=> ↺ In Any Other Context My Constant Stench of Garlic Is Repellent

• I’ve been awake for less than ten minutes and I can already feel the fatigue pulling my eyes inwards. Normally Herr Jet Lag doesn’t last this long. Or does he? It’s nearly five in the morning in Seminole. My time here so far has been wholly unproductive creativity-wise. Within me is a piercing guilt.

• Perhaps it is a gradually newfound perception of mortality that creates this guilt. It’s not a guilt associated with any harm I’ve done or could do to others. It’s as if I am cutting myself down with the blade of wasted time. True – I am out of sorts at the moment. Usually after the nastiness that accompanies travel, I am useless for days. I must conquer the uselessness – fight the lethargy. It’s certainly not an easy task.

=> ↺ 🔤SpellBinding: DEINSUZ Wordo: SWEAT

=> ↺ Announcement – New Chinukwawa Newsletter

• It’s a place for mine own projects. Currently only I have up the smolnet servers. And I just released the first edition of one of the projects, a Chinukwawa newsletter and resource site. Considering the amount of speakers is very low, I doubt this paper will win any Pulitzer. Regardless, the aim is language revitalization and indigenous language support in this UN Decade of Indigenous Languages. My hope is to stimulate interest in learning Chinukwawa amongst both indigenous and settler communities, and perhaps toward other indigenous languages. As such, the working language is Chinukwawa, but I expect if one or two people read it, I shall post a bit in what other languages for which I have barely passing marks, including English. The main course of the smorgasbord will naturally be interviews and blither. I aim to keep it ⅔ lighthearted, and ⅓ grave. A change of pace for me, and one hopes somewhat salubrious.

Technical

Programming

=> ↺ Cross Compilers part 2

• In part one of this series, we built a cross toolchain capable of compiling C and C++ code on an x86_64 linux machine which will then run on a riscv64 linux machine using musl libc. As the final step, we compiled a simple Hello world! executable to test the toolchain. In part 2, we’re going to go through using the cross compiler to build real world software, and explore some common pitfalls that are encountered due to build systems not being designed with cross compilation in mind.

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