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GNU/Linux

=> ↺ Make Use Of ☛ What Is GNU/Linux and Why Does Hardly Anyone Call It That?

• You’re interested in Linux and have read a few blog posts. Along the way, you’ve come across a funny name: GNU/Linux. What do those letters mean, and why do people keep appending them to Linux?

• This is a simple question, but the answer brings us to a debate that has persisted in the Linux world for decades.

Audiocasts/Shows

=> ↺ 2023-05-27 Patent Troll Comes After Valve’s Steam Deck

=> ↺ 2023-05-27 Fedora KDE ditches X11, Android vulnerability, Intel to drop 32bit?: Linux & Open Source News

=> ↺ 2023-05-27 How To Manually Install And Manage AUR Packages

=> ↺ 2023-05-26 [Older] Nintendo thumbs players in the eye one last time.

=> ↺ 2023-05-26 [Older] How to install Ubuntu Unity 23.04

=> ↺ 2023-05-26 [Older] DT Chat With Patrons (May 28, 2023)

=> ↺ 2023-05-25 [Older] KDE Takes First Steps Towards Linux HDR Support

=> ↺ 2023-05-25 [Older] 10 ASCII Games You Can Play in Linux Terminal [For Retro Arcade Game Lovers]

=> ↺ 2023-05-25 [Older] Don’t fall for unauthorized #SteamDeck resellers… they’re bad news.

=> ↺ 2023-05-25 [Older] Ubuntu Unity 23.04 overview | Unity, once again.

=> ↺ 2023-05-25 [Older] Hey, DT! I’ve Used Linux Mint For 6 Months. Should I Move To Arch? (And More Questions)

=> ↺ 2023-05-25 [Older] How to install Microsoft Fonts on MX Linux 21.3

=> ↺ 2023-05-25 [Older] The END of DISTRO HOPPING? All Linux distros in one single system with VanillaOS

=> ↺ 2023-05-24 [Older] How to install FreeOffice on MX Linux 21.3

=> ↺ 2023-05-24 [Older] How to install AlmaLinux OS 9.2

=> ↺ 2023-05-23 [Older] The FOSS & privacy champion you didn’t know about: FRAMASOFT

=> ↺ 2023-05-23 [Older] Arch Linux Successfully Migrates Repos To Git!!

=> ↺ 2023-05-23 [Older] AlmaLinux OS 9.2 overview | Free Linux OS for the community, by the community

=> ↺ 2023-05-23 [Older] How to install Wire Desktop on MX Linux 21.3

=> ↺ 2023-05-23 [Older] Navigating Emacs Documents With Imenu

=> ↺ 2023-05-22 [Older] How to install Sublime Text on MX Linux 21.3

=> ↺ 2023-05-22 [Older] The Worst Anti Linux Desktop Blog Post

=> ↺ 2023-05-22 [Older] Do You Need A Separate /home Partition for Linux?

=> ↺ 2023-05-22 [Older] Is it safe to buy a Steam Deck right now?

=> ↺ 2023-05-22 [Older] Manjaro 22.1.0 “Talos” Xfce Edition Quick Overview #shorts

=> ↺ 2023-05-21 [Older] X11 Extensions Made Xorg Actually Usable

=> ↺ 2023-05-21 [Older] Set Your Desktop On Fire With These GNOME Extensions

=> ↺ 2023-05-21 [Older] How to install WPS Office 2019 on MX Linux 21.3

Instructionals/Technical

=> ↺ ID Root ☛ How To Install Flask on Fedora 38

• In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Flask on Fedora 38. Are you looking to build web applications on Fedora 38? Flask, a popular Python web framework, can be a great option. With its lightweight and easy-to-use structure, Flask is perfect for creating simple to complex web applications.

=> ↺ Detect Failures and Ensure High Availability: DRBD and Corosync/Pacemaker

=> ↺ Petros Koutoupis ☛ New Article: Detect Failures and Ensure High Availability: DRBD and Corosync/Pacemaker

• My latest article is now available on the ADMIN Magazine website (and issue 73 of ADMIN Magazine) and is called “Detect Failures and Ensure High…

=> ↺ Make Use Of ☛ 2023-05-25 [Older] How to Turn On Developer Mode on Chromebook

=> ↺ Make Use Of ☛ 2023-05-24 [Older] 5 Reasons Why You Should Update the Linux Kernel

• Your distro might constantly notify you to update the Linux kernel. But why should you update it when it’s been running fine?

=> ↺ Make Use Of ☛ How to Run Linux on Android Devices

• Want to run Linux on Android? Here are methods for both unrooted and rooted devices to get a Linux desktop running on your phone.

=> ↺ Make Use Of ☛ What Is a GZ File and How Do You Unzip It?

• Found a GZ file on your computer but can’t open it? Here’s how you extract the file content on Windows, macOS, and Linux.

Distributions and Operating Systems

Fedora Family / IBM

=> ↺ TechTarget ☛ Now a DevOps platform, OpenShift ups value — and complexity

• Red Hat raises OpenShift’s profile as a DevOps platform with software supply chain security but faces questions about networking strategy and observability staff departures.

=> ↺ TechTarget ☛ Automating modernization: Takeaways from Red Hat Summit 2023

• Get an industry analyst’s take on major announcements from this year’s Red Hat Summit and AnsibleFest and how the developments fit into today’s IT landscape.

=> ↺ Oracle announces general availability of latest Oracle Linux releases

• The latest releases of Oracle Linux enhance the user experience across on-premises, cloud, and edge deployments, with a focus on operational consistency and improved efficiency, to accelerate time-to-market for critical infrastructure assets.

=> ↺ Fedora Infrastructure Status: s390x power outage

• The Red Hat Westford location will have more power line work done. This will require the building to be powered down in places which will affect various services like network connections and s390x builders.

• koji builds and composes will be affected with builds waiting until the s390x builders are able …

=> ↺ SJVN ☛ The Free RHEL 9.2 Clone Distros Arrive

• Hot on the heels of the release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 9.2, its free rival clones, AlmaLinux OS 9.2 and Rocky Linux 9.2, arrived on the scene. Built on the foundation of the RHEL 9.2 source code, both offer the latest RHEL feature enhancements and features. Classic CentOS may be on its way to history, but RHEL clones for cost-conscious users.

• Both AlmaLinux OS and Rocky Linux incorporate a host of security enhancements. These include an idle session termination rule to the Security Content Automation Protocol (SCAP), Clevis automated encryption framework upgrades that accommodate external tokens, and support for multiple Certificate Authority (CA) files for Rsyslog’s TLS-encrypted logging.

=> ↺ Red Hat Official ☛ 2023-05-23 [Older] Smoothing the transition: CentOS Linux 7 to Red Hat Enterprise Linux

=> ↺ Red Hat Official ☛ 2023-05-23 [Older] Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security turns 4.0 today, moves to PostgreSQL

=> ↺ Red Hat Official ☛ 2023-05-23 [Older] Introducing Red Hat Service Interconnect

=> ↺ Red Hat Official ☛ 2023-05-23 [Older] Making cloud-native more accessible: Red Hat’s vision for Red Hat OpenShift with hosted control planes

=> ↺ Red Hat Official ☛ 2023-05-23 [Older] Modernizing RHEL management

=> ↺ Red Hat Official ☛ 2023-05-23 [Older] Podman Desktop 1.0: The next-gen container management solution streamlining developers container operations

=> ↺ Red Hat Official ☛ 2023-05-23 [Older] Red Hat OpenShift 4.13 is now available

=> ↺ Red Hat Official ☛ 2023-05-23 [Older] Improving supply chain resiliency with Red Hat Trusted Software Supply Chain

Canonical/Ubuntu Family

=> ↺ Ultimate Edition (GNU/Linux): Innovation at its finest

• New toy? I don’t typically talk about products I buy – I do buy a bunch of them. This product is so good I have bought 2 of them and I am considering buying not just a third one, but a fourth one. I will be forthcoming, it is not cheap. What is it?

Open Hardware/Modding

=> ↺ Arduino ☛ Analyze the ambient sound around you with this Arduino setup

• You’ve probably heard that there isn’t any sound in space. That’s because sound is vibration traveling through a medium, like air or wood, and space is a mostly empty vacuum. The frequency of the vibration in a medium is the pitch of the sound and the amplitude is the volume.

Free, Libre, and Open Source Software

Programming/Development

=> ↺ James Just James: Blocked select logging (deadlock finding) in golang

• I’ve been writing some massively concurrent code for mgmt lately. The concurrency makes it incredibly bug prone. In this case it’s usually races or deadlocks. I’ve got a new trick to make the process more pleasant.

• The Problem:

• I’m sure many of you have written some code like this before:

• // just a small excerpt for { select { case <-someEvent: // some awesome thing happened! case <-ctx.Done(): return ctx.

=> ↺ Chris ☛ The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Conditional Probabilities

=> ↺ How Much Memory Do You Need to Run 1 Million Concurrent Tasks?

• In this blog post, I delve into the comparison of memory consumption between asynchronous and multi-threaded programming across popular languages like Rust, Go, Java, C#, Python, Node.js and Elixir.

• Some time ago I had to compare performance of a few computer programs designed to handle a large number of network connections. I saw huge differences in memory consumption of those programs, even exceeding 20x. Some programs consumed little over 100 MB, but the others reached almost 3 GB at 10k connections. Unfortunately those programs were quite complex and differed also in features, so it would be hard to compare them directly and draw some meaningful conclusions, as that wouldn’t be an apple-to-apple comparison. This led me to an idea of creating a synthetic benchmark instead.

=> ↺ Memory Allocation

• One thing that all programs on your computer have in common is a need for memory. Programs need to be loaded from your hard drive into memory before they can be run. While running, the majority of what programs do is load values from memory, do some computation on them, and then store the result back in memory.

• In this post I’m going to introduce you to the basics of memory allocation. Allocators exist because it’s not enough to have memory available, you need to use it effectively. We will visually explore how simple allocators work. We’ll see some of the problems that they try to solve, and some of the techniques used to solve them. At the end of this post, you should know everything you need to know to write your own allocator.

=> ↺ “Rewrite it in Rust” Considered Harmful?

=> ↺ Writing Python like it’s Rust

• I started programming in Rust several years ago, and it has gradually changed the way I design programs in other programming languages, most notably in Python. Before I started using Rust, I was usually writing Python code in a very dynamic and type-loose way, without type hints, passing and returning dictionaries everywhere, and occasionally falling back to “stringly-typed” interfaces. However, after experiencing the strictness of the Rust type system, and noticing all the problems that it prevents “by construction”, I suddenly became quite anxious whenever I got back to Python and wasn’t provided with the same guarantees.

• To be clear, by “guarantees” I don’t mean memory safety here (Python is reasonably memory safe as-is), but rather “soundness” – the concept of designing APIs that are very hard or outright impossible to misuse and thus prevent undefined behaviour and various bugs. In Rust, an incorrectly used interface will usually cause a compilation error. In Python, you can still execute such incorrect program, but if you use a type checker (like pyright) or an IDE with a type analyzer (like PyCharm), you can still get a similar level of quick feedback about a possible problem.

Perl / Raku

=> ↺ Perl ☛ 2023-05-26 [Older] This week in PSC (108)

=> ↺ Perl ☛ 2023-05-25 [Older] Perl Weekly Challenge #218 – Feeling Negative

=> ↺ Perl ☛ 2023-05-21 [Older] Perl Weekly Challenge #217 – Flattening the Matrix

=> ↺ Perl ☛ 2023-05-20 [Older] TWC 217: Big and Boundless in The Matrix

Leftovers

=> ↺ Writing summaries is more important than reading more books

• One thing I’ve learned over time is to read fewer books but to take the time to write summaries for the good ones. The ROI of spending 2h writing a synopsis is much higher than spending those 2h powering through the next book on your list. Reading is not about page count or speed [1]. What matters is how it changes your thinking and what you take away from it. Optimize for comprehension, not volume.

• If your goal is to maximize comprehension, you need to ask questions while you read — questions that you yourself must try to answer in the course of reading. This is something I believe curious people do naturally. Forcing yourself to ask questions and to answer them also makes it easy to write a synopsis: When you’re done, simply write down the most important questions you’ve encountered and how the book has answered them.

Education

=> ↺ New York Times ☛ Winnie the Pooh ‘Run, Hide, Fight’ Book Draws Parents’ Ire

• The Dallas school district apologized for not providing guidance to parents when it sent students home with a book that teaches how to respond to dangerous situations at school.

Hardware

=> ↺ Tux Digital ☛ Hardware Addicts 76: RibbonFet and PowerVia, The Key to Intel’s Next Generation of CPUs

• Welcome to Hardware Addicts, a proud member of the TuxDigital Network. Hardware Addicts is the podcast that focuses on the physical components that powers our technology world.

Health/Nutrition/Agriculture

=> ↺ New York Times ☛ Belgium Sentences Students Over Hazing Death of Sanda Dia

• Sanda Dia, a 20-year-old Black student at the Catholic University of Leuven, died in 2018 after members of an elite fraternity forced him to drink fish oil, swallow goldfish and stand in an ice-filled trench.

=> ↺ New York Times ☛ The Surgeon General’s Social Media Warning and A.I.’s Existential Risks

• Plus, Kevin and Casey react to this week’s tech headlines.

Security

=> ↺ Fedora 38 templates available

• New Fedora 38 templates are now available! We provide fresh Fedora 38 template packages through the official Qubes repositories, which you can install in dom0 by following the standard installation instructions. Alternatively, we also provide step-by-step instructions for performing an in-place upgrade of an existing Fedora template. After upgrading your templates, please remember to switch all qubes that were using the old template to use the new one.

=> ↺ Bruce Schneier ☛ Expeditionary Cyberspace Operations

• Cyberspace operations now officially has a physical dimension, meaning that the United States has official military doctrine about cyberattacks that also involve an actual human gaining physical access to a piece of computing infrastructure.

=> ↺ SANS ☛ DocuSign-themed email leads to script-based infection, (Sat, May 27th)

• Introduction

=> ↺ SANS ☛ Using DFIR Techniques To Recover From Infrastructure Outages, (Fri, May 26th)

• Recently, I was involved in a network outage caused by a defective pfSense firewall appliance.

Privacy/Surveillance

=> ↺ Gizmodo ☛ 2023-05-22 [Older] Facebook and Instagram Fined $1.3 Billion, Ordered to Stop Sending EU Data to U.S.

=> ↺ Engadget ☛ 2023-05-22 [Older] Meta hit with $1.3 billion fine over Facebook’s EU-US data transfers

Defence/Aggression

=> ↺ The Straits Times ☛ Taiwan reports Chinese aircraft carrier sailed through strait

• The Shandong sailed in a northerly direction around midday through the strait sticking to its median line.

=> ↺ The Straits Times ☛ Man who opened Asiana plane door in mid-air tells police he was ‘uncomfortable’

• He said he “wanted to get off the plane quickly”.

=> ↺ CS Monitor ☛ Oath Keepers founder sentenced to 18 years for Jan. 6 seditious conspiracy

• A federal judge’s 18-year prison sentence for Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes, is the longest yet among people involved in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.

=> ↺ CBC ☛ 2023-05-25 [Older] U.S. Capitol rioter photographed with feet on desk in Nancy Pelosi’s office sentenced to over 4 years

=> ↺ Off Guardian ☛ OffG’s Quick Take: White House Truck Attack – A LITERAL False Flag?

• Perhaps you heard, on Monday night a man allegedly attempted to ram a U-Haul truck into the White House railings, with the avowed intent of killing the President. He didn’t quite get that far, naturally. The man was later identified as one “Sai Varshith Kandula”, a Missouri man of Indian descent.

=> ↺ New York Times ☛ Colombia’s Peace-Whisperer Makes Plenty of Enemies

• Leyner Palacios’s push for dialogue, forgiveness and reconciliation has made him the face of peace in Colombia — and subjected him to death threats.

=> ↺ YLE ☛ Military drills held across Finland this weekend as Nato warships visit Helsinki

• The Finnish Defence Forces (FDF) warn that the use of dummy drill ammunition as well as military aircraft and helicopters may cause noise disturbances in certain areas.

=> ↺ The Straits Times ☛ Separatists in Indonesia’s Papua threaten to shoot NZ hostage if denied talks, video shows

• Guerrilla fighters kidnapped Phillip Mehrtens in February.

=> ↺ Atlantic Council ☛ What the world should expect from Erdogan now

• Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan triumphed in his re-election bid on Sunday. Our experts break down what to expect next on the war in Ukraine, NATO enlargement, Syria, and more.

=> ↺ Axios ☛ Turkey’s President Erdoğan wins re-election

• Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan declared victory in Sunday’s presidential runoff, triumphing over a united opposition and claiming another five-year term.

• Why it matters: This was expected to be the most difficult election of Erdoğan’s two decades in power.

=> ↺ Federal News Network ☛ VP Harris, 1st woman to give commencement speech at West Point, welcomes cadets to ‘unsettled world’

• Vice President Kamala Harris has become the first woman to deliver a commencement speech at West Point. In her address, the vice president lauded graduating cadets for their noble sacrifice in serving their country. But she noted an “unsettled world” because of Russian aggression and the rising threats that China poses. Some 950 men and women took part in the graduation ceremony. While Harris visits West Point, New York, President Joe Biden heads to Colorado Springs, Colorado, on Thursday to dole out advice to graduates at the U.S. Air Force Academy. Earlier this month, the president was the commencement orator at Howard University, his vice president’s alma mater.

War in Ukraine

=> ↺ AntiWar ☛ Drones Over the Kremlin: Is Ukraine Trying To Assassinate Putin?

• On May 3, two slow moving drones flew over the Kremlin and then exploded in flames when the Russian military forced them down.

=> ↺ France24 ☛ Ukraine downed 58 out of 59 drones in Russia’s overnight attack, says Kyiv

• Kyiv on Sunday said it had shot down 58 out of the 59 drones that Russia launched in an overnight attack. The attack was the largest of its kind on the Ukrainian capital since the start of the war, according to local officials. Read our live blog for all the latest developments in the war in Ukraine. All times are Paris time (GMT+2).

=> ↺ France24 ☛ ‘They should be embarrassed’: Ukraine’s Kostyuk calls out French Open crowd after boos

• Ukraine’s Marta Kostyuk took issue with the French Open’s notoriously fickle crowd, and players’ silence over the war in her home country, after she was booed off the court on Sunday for declining to shake hands with her Belarusian opponent on an otherwise unremarkable opening day at Roland Garros.

=> ↺ France24 ☛ Belarus’ Sabalenka defeats Ukraine’s Kostyuk, Tsitsipas reaches second round at French Open

• The famously fickle Paris crowd made themselves heard on the opening day of the French Open, booing when Ukraine’s Marta Kostyuk refused to shake hands after her first-round defeat by Aryna Sabalenka of Belarus on Sunday.

=> ↺ RFERL ☛ Take A Stand On War, Ukraine’s Kostyuk Tells Belarus’s Sabalenka At French Open

• Marta Kostyuk refused to shake hands with Aryna Sabalenka after their first-round match at the French Open and the Ukrainian says the Belarusian should take a stronger, more personal stand against Russia’s war against Ukraine.

=> ↺ JURIST ☛ Over 100 Germany civil servants to leave Russia as war in Ukraine continues

• Over 100 diplomatic staff and teachers working for German cultural organization Goethe-Instituts are scheduled to leave Russia by June following a ruling from the Russian government, according to a Saturday report from German news agency Suddeutsche Zeitung.

=> ↺ JURIST ☛ International Bar Association calls for UN to create tribunal for Russia

• The International Bar Association (IBA) adopted a resolution for the creation of a Special Tribunal on Saturday for Russia to try crimes of aggression in Ukraine.

=> ↺ JURIST ☛ Japan unveils further sanctions on Russia following G7 Summit

• Japan’s government announced new sanctions Friday against Russia for its ongoing invasion of Ukraine and recent agreement to deploy nuclear weapons in Belarus. The sanctions include measures meant to freeze the assets of 17 Russian individuals and 78 entities.

=> ↺ RFERL ☛ Zelenskiy Seeks Sanctions On Iran As Ukraine War Rages On

• Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy initiated sanctions against Iran for a period of 50 years, according to state news agency Unian, referring to a presidential legislative initiative received by the Ukrainian parliament.

=> ↺ RFERL ☛ Wagner Chief Prigozhin Says Kremlin Blanking Him On State Media Will Provoke Backlash

• Russia’s most powerful mercenary said on May 28 he was convinced that senior Kremlin officials had banned reporting about him on state media, cautioning that such a misleading approach would lead to a backlash from the Russian people within months.

=> ↺ teleSUR ☛ Iran Dismisses Ukraine’s Drone Supply Claims as Baseless

• Ukraine and Western countries have accused Iran of exporting suicide drones to Russia for use in the ongoing conflict in Ukraine.

=> ↺ The Atlantic ☛ Make Russia Pay

• The West has already frozen some $300 billion in Russian assets. Here’s the case for seizing them.

=> ↺ New York Times ☛ French Open: Ukraine’s Kostyuk Booed After No Handshake With Belarusian Sabalenka

• Marta Kostyuk of Ukraine had the crowd on her side initially, but then was booed after she did not shake hands with Aryna Sabalenka of Belarus after losing to her in straight sets.

=> ↺ New York Times ☛ Ukraine Repels Large Russian Drone Attack on Kyiv

• More than 40 drones were intercepted over Kyiv, where city officials said at least one person had been killed, probably by falling debris.

=> ↺ LRT ☛ Security threat or arbitrary rejection? Belarusian exiles battle with Lithuania’s migration policies

• Russian and Belarusian citizens applying for residence in Lithuania have to prove they are not a threat to national security. They have to fill out questionnaires with questions like “Whose is Crimea?” and fear arbitrary decisions from Lithuania’s institutions.

Environment

=> ↺ CS Monitor ☛ More wetlands wiped out? Supreme Court favors farmers over protections.

• The Supreme Court is curtailing the federal government’s power to protect some wetlands, making it easier for farmers and developers to fill or disturb wetlands. The decision weakens the Clean Water Act, a bedrock environmental law.

Finance

=> ↺ LRT ☛ Lithuania may have more EU funds frozen if tax reform stalls – finance minister

• The European Commission will suspend transfers to Lithuania from the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF) if the government’s proposed tax reform stalls, Finance Minister Gintarė Skaistė warned on Wednesday.

=> ↺ Michael West Media ☛ Higher power bills to ‘drive Victorians to poverty’

• Victorians will be driven into poverty by higher power bills after the state’s economic regulator pushed forward with its default offer increase, community advocates warn.

=> ↺ New York Times ☛ The Case Against Student Debt Relief Barely Even Pretends to Make Sense

• A loan servicing agency looks to make more money, not less, if Biden’s plan goes into effect.

=> ↺ Michael West Media ☛ Police probe into PwC tax info case could be broadened

• Federal police investigating claims against PwC are looking at whether potential criminal activity at the consulting giant extends beyond one individual. The confirmation came as the government raised concerns about legal constraints handicapping it from getting out of existing PwC contracts following revelations a former partner shared confidential tax policy information to drum up business.

=> ↺ Michael West Media ☛ Senators to probe government action on PwC scandal

• Finance department officials are set to be grilled on how the government plans to respond to the scandal over consultants PwC. In January, a now former PwC partner was caught sharing confidential federal government tax policy information to drum up business.

=> ↺ Michael West Media ☛ Milkrun is reborn with new Woolworths partnership

• Collapsed fast grocery delivery service Milkrun has been rescued by industry giant Woolworths. The company emailed customers on Thursday, announcing it would now be branded Milkrun powered by Metro. Supplied by Woolworths Metro, the takeover sees Milkrun and its blue branding become a part of the grocery chain’s Metro60 platform.

=> ↺ YLE ☛ Hypo: Finland to see biggest property price drop in 30 years

• A monthly market review by the home financing specialists Hypo found that housing prices will fall by an average of seven percent in Finland during 2023.

=> ↺ Yahoo News ☛ Ex-Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield explains ‘the root of all the excess’ after tech’s over-hiring—and it’s all about prestige

• Tech companies have been laying off workers in droves this year. One big reason is that they hired too many people in the first place when times were easier. Stewart Butterfield, the former CEO of Slack, shared some insights this week on how the over-hiring can happen, identifying a behavior among supervisors that he considers the “root of all the excess.”

=> ↺ India Times ☛ IT company Airmeet lays off 30% of workforce; reasons that CEO’s email to employees gives for job cuts

• Homegrown virtual events platform Airmeet has reportedly laid off nearly about 30 per cent of its workforce. The job cuts are across various departments. According to the Inc42 website, the layoffs impacted sales, marketing, tech and operations departments at the Bengaluru-based startup. The job cuts are spread across the company’s operations in India, the US and Europe. Backed by Sequoia Capital, the platform recently raised $35 million in its Series B funding round from Prosus Ventures, Sistema Asia Fund.

AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics

=> ↺ France24 ☛ ‘I am not at all safe,’ says ex-Pakistani PM Khan as he condemns mass arrests of supporters

• Pakistan’s former prime minister and PTI party leader Imran Khan was released on bail on May 12 after being arrested on graft charges. Since then, he says he has been “isolated” at his home, cut off from the senior leadership of his party, while thousands of his supporters have been arrested. “Anyone who supports PTI is either arrested or has gone underground,” he told FRANCE 24 from his home in Lahore.

=> ↺ RFERL ☛ Kazakh Activist Sent To Pretrial Detention Instead Of Being Released After Serving Jail Term

• The chairman of Kazakhstan’s unregistered Algha Kazakhstan (Forward Kazakhstan) party, Marat Zhylanbaev, has been sent to pretrial detention for two months instead of being released after serving a 20-day jail term.

=> ↺ New Yorker ☛ E. Jean Carroll on Defamatory Trump, and Rob Marshall on “The Little Mermaid”

• Carroll and her lawyer, Roberta Kaplan, on their next move against Donald Trump’s campaign of defamation. Plus, the director of Disney’s new film on bringing the mermaid to life.

=> ↺ New Yorker ☛ E. Jean Carroll Discusses Trump’s Comeuppance

• Since losing a civil case to the journalist, who accused him of sexual abuse and defamation, Trump has doubled down on his attacks.

=> ↺ New York Times ☛ Ken Paxton Fighting for Conservative Causes Has Helped Him Survive Legal Woes

• With the Texas House set to vote on his impeachment, Mr. Paxton is counting on political support that he’s amassed as a Republican legal firebrand.

=> ↺ New York Times ☛ Impeachment Vote for Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton: What to Know

• The Texas House is set to vote on Saturday on the impeachment of Mr. Paxton, the culmination of years of official complaints and legal proceedings involving the three-term attorney general.

=> ↺ New York Times ☛ Here’s Why So Many People Are Moving to the U.K.

• Despite post-Brexit restrictions and government vows to control it, immigration to Britain reached an all-time high in 2022, driven by war, politics and economics.

=> ↺ New York Times ☛ ‘Different Standards’: The Struggle of Indigenous Journalists in Australia

• The departure of the TV host Stan Grant has set off a conversation about race and racism in the country’s media industry.

=> ↺ Michael West Media ☛ PM makes plea to opponents to back Indigenous voice

• Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has implored parliament to back the Indigenous voice, saying the body would lead to a more united and reconciled country. As debate on the constitutional change continued in parliament, the prime minister sought to reassure opponents of the voice that the proposal was a simple change that would provide meaningful action.

Misinformation/Disinformation/Propaganda

=> ↺ Michael West Media ☛ Ben Roberts-Smith to learn defamation fate

• Almost 11 months after his lengthy trial, Victoria Cross recipient Ben Roberts-Smith will soon learn whether his defamation case over war crimes reports has been successful.

=> ↺ Engadget ☛ 2023-05-27 [Older] Twitter pulls out of EU’s voluntary Code of Practice against disinformation

=> ↺ Jacobin Magazine ☛ 2023-05-26 [Older] Ron DeSantis Is Too Extremely Online to Stand a Chance

=> ↺ Gizmodo ☛ 2023-05-25 [Older] Twitter Is Shifting Right | Future Tech

=> ↺ Deutsche Welle ☛ 2023-05-25 [Older] US: DeSantis announces presidential run amid Twitter flaws

=> ↺ Engadget ☛ 2023-05-25 [Older] Twitter says startups can ‘experiment’ with its data for $5,000 a month

=> ↺ Gizmodo ☛ 2023-05-24 [Older] Meta Begins Its Next Round of Mass Layoffs

Censorship/Free Speech

=> ↺ New York Times ☛ Berlin Police Investigate Roger Waters Over Nazi-Style Uniform

• Mr. Waters, a founder of Pink Floyd, who has long been critical of Israel, has worn similar clothing in the past when playing songs from Pink Floyd’s album “The Wall.”

Civil Rights/Policing

=> ↺ RFERL ☛ Brussels, Tehran Swap Prisoners In Move Criticized By Iranian Exile Group

• Belgium and Iran have swapped prisoners in an exchange mediated by Oman, a move criticized by an exiled Iranian opposition group as “shameful.”

=> ↺ New York Times ☛ Iran Frees Belgian Aid Worker in Prisoner Swap

• The aid worker, Olivier Vandecasteele, had been sentenced to 40 years in prison for spying. The former diplomat was convicted of plotting a 2018 bomb attack.

=> ↺ YLE ☛ Purra threatens to quit government talks unless “sufficient results” are reached on Friday

• “Immigration as a whole is difficult,” the Finns Party leader said on Friday.

=> ↺ OpenRightsGroup ☛ Board nominations open

• Open Rights Group is electing three Board members for a two year term, to help lead our governance and oversight at a time of major change. As we grow to meet new challenges, we need a Board with greater diversity that will help us find new allies and funders.

=> ↺ RFERL ☛ Jailed Kyrgyz Politician Jeenbekov’s Wife Sent To Pretrial Detention On Corruption Charge

• Salkynai Alimbaeva, the wife of jailed Kyrgyz opposition politician Ravshan Jeenbekov, was sent to pretrial detention for two months on May 26 on corruption charges.

=> ↺ CS Monitor ☛ India’s civic spirit, still safely housed

• A new Parliament building reflects Hindu architecture, yet it also has sparked a vigorous defense of the country’s democratic ideals.

=> ↺ New York Times ☛ Restaurant Chain Franchises Face Scrutiny From the FTC

• Troubles at the restaurant chain Burgerim highlight concerns about whether franchisees need more protection in their contracts with franchisers.

=> ↺ Minister engages in heated exchange with protesters via bus microphone as many detained

• Days into the crucial presidential vote, Minister Soylu visited İstanbul’s Gazi neighborhood, known for its working-class demographics and historical association with leftist and socialist groups.

=> ↺ LRT ☛ Lithuanian government backs plans to set up special agency for migrants

• The Lithuanian government on Wednesday approved amendments aimed at reforming the existing migrant reception and accommodation system, including plans to set up a special agency.

=> ↺ NL Times ☛ 2023-05-25 [Older] 30 tips after police release photos of AZ rioters; Seven arrests beforehand

=> ↺ New York Times ☛ Vietnam Activist Jailed for Mocking Official’s Salt Bae Meal

• A powerful Communist official ate a gold-encrusted steak in London. An activist who poked fun at the excess was sentenced to more than five years.

=> ↺ RFERL ☛ Belarusian Art Manager Gets Two Years In Prison Amid Ongoing Crackdown

• A court in Belarus’s northeastern city of Vitsebsk has sentenced musician and art manager Uladzimer Bulauski to two years in prison as authoritarian ruler Alyaksandr Lukashenka’s regime continues its brutal crackdown on dissent.

=> ↺ YLE ☛ Finnish court issues 10.5-year sentence for more than 100 sex crimes

• The Pirkanmaa District Court on Thursday convicted a man of sex crimes and related offences involving over 100 victims, most of them minors.

=> ↺ CS Monitor ☛ Taliban waging war against women, rights groups say in call for action

• Report by two human rights groups, including Amnesty, says Taliban treatment of women is gender-based persecution, a crime against humanity. Imprisonment, torture cited in call to international community to take legal action.

=> ↺ New York Times ☛ Judge Temporarily Blocks South Carolina Abortion Ban

• The new law prohibited most abortions after six weeks, and was just signed into law.

Monopolies

Copyrights

=> ↺ New Yorker ☛ A New Way to Hear Some Revelatory Charlie Parker Bootlegs

• “Bird in L.A.,” now available on streaming, features Parker’s audacious artistry in a wide range of live settings.

=> ↺ IP Kat ☛ 2023-05-26 [Older] A right to information when there’s no IP: CJEU discusses the scope of Article 8 Enforcement Directive [Ed: IP is misleading; copyright?]

=> ↺ IP Kat ☛ 2023-05-24 [Older] The Nice Classification conundrum

=> ↺ IP Kat ☛ 2023-05-22 [Older] [Guest post] What if AI wrote this post? – An inquiry into the impact of AI on the creative industries

Gemini* and Gopher

Technical

Internet/Gemini

=> ↺ The HTTP client person as seen from Gemini

• If we’re trading random opinions about what is visually pleasing, I find gemtext to be quite pleasing and readable, and tag the modern web as “vigorously unusable” for a variety of reasons that very much includes the visual–annoying pop-ups, CPU wasting animations, anemic fonts, low contrast, unreadable colors, etc. If a site works in w3m, it can sometimes be as good as gemtext.

• [...]

• Why does the protocol need high transfer speeds? And the energy waste of gemini is trivial compared to that of the modern web. Start Firefox? No, I already know what the CPU fans sound like, and how much memory does that piggy want this year?

• [...]

• If by “normal” you mean a document bloated with menus, tracking, ugly visuals, dark patterns, autoplaying videos, pop-ups, images, javascript with a visible refresh rate like Word 6 had, and who knows how many security vulnerabilities along for the ride, then, probably not.

• A recent web page I was trying to summarize weighed in at ~350,000 bytes; the actual content on that page was probably 1300 bytes. And that was without any additional resources that a Firefox would go out and grab by default. Gemini? Cat the text into a file. HTML? Load up a parser library, learn how CSS Selectors are useless, and that all that pretty OO code is too slow, try another parser library, figure out how to build a buffer up with the text you want, emit those blocks into a plain-text form… err, you were saying something funny about gemini being a waste of CPU?

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• Trusting all of the Certificate Authority certificates that ship with a typical web client has its own set of problems. Maybe some nice government told someone to sign something, or there’s a corrupt employee, or the black hats can use lettuce encrypt just as well as anybody else.

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• Certificate Authorities have various problems, as mentioned above, and some folks do use lettuce encrypt certificates on their gemini servers, and a gemini client could easily offer HTTPesque verification, if you want (mine does). In practice TOFU hasn’t been a problem, so a mandate of CA certs is not showing up in my crystal ball.

=> ↺ Rosy Crow 1.1.0 Released

• Client certificates may be imported and exported. Note that only individual PEM-encoded file which contains both the certificate and the private key may be imported. Identities exported from Lagrange fit this pattern, and have been confirmed to work in Rosy Crow. Importing and exporting encrypted keys is supported via password entry.

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