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GNU/Linux

Instructionals/Technical

=> ↺ Make Use Of ☛ When Should You Consider WSL vs. a Standard Linux Distro? [Ed: WSL is an ATTACK on GNU/Linux. Don't touch it. Microsoft may have already laid off the team behind it because it failed. You know it is an ATTACK on GNU/Linux based on who's promoting it and how.]

=> ↺ Make Use Of ☛ How to Change the Notification Alert Sound in Ubuntu

• Ubuntu’s classic alert sound is iconic, but you’re not alone if you’re sick of hearing it. Luckily, Ubuntu offers four other amazing alert sounds that you can choose from—and you can even replace the files for these sounds to add custom alert sounds if you’re feeling creative.

=> ↺ Google Chrome & other Chromium browsers not loading properly (broken graphics) on Ubuntu & Fedora, workarounds inside

• Google Chrome, the world’s most popular browser, has revolutionized the way we access the internet. Its elegant interface and lightning-fast performance have earned it a reputation as a top choice for millions of users.

=> ↺ Own HowTo ☛ Add custom text to terminal when you launch it

• In this tutorial, you will learn how to add a custom text or function at the top of your terminal, everytime you launch terminal. For example, we are going to add a custom command that will show us the logged in users in our system whenever terminal is launched.

WINE or Emulation

=> ↺ ScummVM ☛ Journey Now Into an Age of Chivalry in an Alternate Reality

• A stalwart party exploring the unknown, seeking the fabled Inner Sanctum. But all is not what it seems in the world of Varn�

• The ScummVM Team is pleased to announce full support for the PC version of the first game of the Might and Magic series: Might and Magic Book One: The Secret of the Inner Sanctum. Two modes are supported: [...]

Distributions and Operating Systems

=> ↺ Hackaday ☛ Bye Bye Ubuntu, Hello Manjaro. How Did We Get Here?

• Last week I penned a cheesy fake relationship breakup letter to Ubuntu, my Linux distribution of choice for the last 15 years or so. It had well and truly delivered on its promise of a painless Linux desktop for most of that time, but the most recent upgrades had rendered it slow and bloated, with applications taking minutes to load and USB peripherals such as my film scanner mysteriously stopping working. I don’t have to look far to identify the point at which they adopted Snap packages as the moment when it all went wrong. I’d reached the point at which I knew our ways must part, and it was time to look for another distro.

• My daily driver is a middle-aged Dell laptop, it’s about five years old but because I invested in the highest spec I could at the time, with an i7 of the day and 16 gigabytes of memory it’s still a contender. My problem when changing distros is that this machine is my livelihood, I can’t afford for anything to go wrong with it and any changeover has to be fast. I thus had to select a distro for which the installation is painless, the learning curve is minimal, and which doesn’t have too many neckbeard quirks. This is for earning a living, not messing about with.

BSD

=> ↺ Ruben Schade ☛ FreeBSD brightness controls on Panasonic laptops

• I have a longer post about my “new” Japanese Panasonic CF-SZ6 laptop pending. But in the meantime, you can enable Yamamoto Taku’s acpi_video(4) driver to get backlight controls on your function keys:

• Older Japanese Panasonic laptops used Ogawa Takaya’s and Takahashi Yoshihiro’s acpi_panasonic(4), which I assumed was required but broken on these newer machines. I’d written my own devd wrapper scripts around intel_backlight, before realising they implement generic ACPI drivers. Whoops!

Devices/Embedded

=> ↺ i.MX 91 SoC powered System on Module for secure & reliable Linux edge processing solutions

• iWave adds to the iW-RainboW-G50M family: The Solderable NXP i.MX 91-based LGA System on Module (SoM) for Linux edge processing solutions. The SoM incorporates the newest member of the i.MX 9 applications processor series and is built on the OSM v1.1 solderable SoM standard, providing extensive interfaces in a rugged and compact form factor.

• The Rainbow-G50M family provides for hardware and software commonality and ensures scalability based on the requirement and application. Evaluation Kits of the System on Module will be ready to purchase in June 2023.

=> ↺ Help Net Security ☛ Wind River introduces Security Scanning Service for Linux CVEs

• Wind River has introduced Wind River Studio Linux Security Scanning Service that provides professional-grade scanning to identify Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs).

Leftovers

=> ↺ New York Times ☛ Iowa Building’s Flaws Were Well Documented Before Deadly Collapse

• Residents said complaints about the apartment building in Davenport went unaddressed, and they questioned why the city did not intervene more aggressively.

Science

=> ↺ The Atlantic ☛ Why Everyone Is Suddenly Talking About Aliens

• A new report of secretive government programs investigating “non-human” vehicles and “pilots” bears a striking resemblance to many that came before.

=> ↺ Science Alert ☛ A Single Injection Could Potentially Replace Neutering For Female Cats

• So far, so good.

=> ↺ Science Alert ☛ The Birth of a Black Hole Created The Brightest Space Explosion Ever Seen

• So bright our instruments struggled to measure it.

=> ↺ Science Alert ☛ Parasites May Be Hijacking Evolution on Planet Earth

• Where are they taking us?

=> ↺ Vice Media Group ☛ Scientists Discover Ancient ‘Lost World’ That Rewrites History of Life on Earth

• The remains of a “lost world” of ancient organisms that are likely ancestors to all plants and animals, including humans, have finally been detected.

Education

=> ↺ uni Michigan ☛ Skilled Trades Union members ratify new four-year contract

• Members of the U-M Skilled Trades Union have ratified a new four-year contract with the university that provides annual wage increases, bonuses and additional short-term sick time.

=> ↺ Vice Media Group ☛ Tenants Formed a Union to Fight the ‘Google of Student Housing’ Trying to Evict Them

• Members of the Core Spaces Tenant Union aren’t going to let their landlord evict nearly 1,000 people to renovate their units without a fight.

=> ↺ The Atlantic ☛ A Big Problem With College Admissions Could Be About to Get Worse

• If affirmative action ends, how much more perverse could the process become?

=> ↺ Latvia ☛ Teachers’ union ready to call for Education Minister’s resignation

• The Latvian Education and Science Workers Union continues to request the government to comply with all the requirements of the teachers’ strike by June 30, and, if this is not done, will request the resignation of Education and Science Minister Anda Čakša, the trade union said in a statement on June 7.

=> ↺ uni Stanford ☛ In-person voting for union election wraps up; vote by mail ongoing

• The NLRB will accept mail-in ballots for the Stanford graduate worker unionization election until 5 p.m. on June 30. The announcement of election results is expected in early July.

Health/Nutrition/Agriculture

=> ↺ YLE ☛ Helsinki Children’s Hospital shortens heart surgery queue

• The hospital’s heart surgery queue problem has eased, but needs further improvement, according to Jari Petäjä, Chief Executive of Child and Adolescent Services at HUS.

=> ↺ teleSUR ☛ Zimbabwe: Over 2000 Suspected Cholera Cases

• “Zimbabwe has so far recorded 2,076 cases, with 1,942 recoveries and 15 deaths…”

=> ↺ The Atlantic ☛ French People Are Fighting Over Giant Pools of Water

• The underground reserves that fill mega-basins are not an infinite resource.

=> ↺ Science Alert ☛ Masturbation May Actually Protect Against Pathogens. Here’s Why.

• You do you.

=> ↺ The Atlantic ☛ It’s 5 a.m. Somewhere

• Why do people drink so early at airports?

=> ↺ Science Alert ☛ ‘Food Swamps’: Scientists Explain The Health Risks of Living Inside Them

• Your ZIP code explains a lot.

=> ↺ Tedium ☛ Bad News Beepers

• Considering the reputation that pagers and beepers had as a tool for drug trafficking, especially in schools. Did it smother a legitimately useful technology?

=> ↺ Latvia ☛ Domestic tourism gradually returning to pre-pandemic levels [Ed: Misleading headline because it is below and the currency lost a lot in value, so apples are being compared to oranges with maybe 30% less in value]

• Data published by the Central Statistical Bureau (CSB) June 7 show that in 2022 Latvian residents went on 9.3 million same-day and overnight trips in Latvia, which is 12.2 % more than in 2021, and spent EUR 405.6 million, 35.6 % more.

=> ↺ teleSUR ☛ Japan Should Be Transparent on Radioactive Water Discharge

• Russian Diplomat Zakharova urged Japan to inform neighboring countries about its actions to address a potential radiation threat-

Proprietary

=> ↺ Silicon Angle ☛ WordPress is getting an AI assistant that will write blog posts for you [Ed: Chatbots are not "AI"; they are just spew generators without any understanding.]

=> ↺ uni Stanford ☛ How ethics is becoming a key part of research in tech

• Faculty and administrators within the McCoy Family Center for Ethics in Society and Human-Centered AI are working to make ethical programming a focal point of the research process through a mix of voluntary and mandatory fellowships, review boards and coursework.

=> ↺ Bleeping Computer ☛ Microsoft OneDrive down worldwide following claims of DDoS attacks [Ed: GAFAM says use clown storage (i.e. send all your data to us). It's more robust against data loss. PROVIDED YOU CAN ACCESS IT AT ALL (got Internet connection? Does the service not have downtime at this time?)]

Windows TCO

=> ↺ Scoop News Group ☛ White House needs to urgently fix nation’s approach to protecting critical infrastructure, group says

• Attacks against critical infrastructure are reaching new heights, but strategy documents outlining federal efforts are a decade old.

=> ↺ Scoop News Group ☛ US cyber officials offer technical details associated with CL0P ransomware attacks

• CISA and the FBI offered details to help organizations protect themselves against the group that has claimed hundreds of victims.

Security

=> ↺ LWN ☛ Security updates for Thursday

• Security updates have been issued by Debian (chromium, firefox-esr, and ruby2.5), Fedora (curl, dbus, pypy, pypy3.8, pypy3.9, python3.10, and python3.8), Red Hat (python and python-flask), Scientific Linux (emacs), SUSE (firefox, google-cloud-sap-agent, libwebp, opensc, openssl, openssl-3, openssl1, python-sqlparse, python310, and supportutils), and Ubuntu (libxml2, netatalk, and sysstat).

Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt/Fear-mongering/Dramatisation

=> ↺ Bleeping Computer ☛ New Fractureiser malware used CurseForge Minecraft mods to infect Windows, Linux [Ed: Using Microsoft proprietary stuff to make "Linux" sounds like the problem]

Integrity/Availability/Authenticity

=> ↺ Latvia ☛ Latvians have been scammed out of €3.5 million this year

• Nearly €3.5 million has been scammed out of Latvia’s population this year, but the State Police think that the damage was even higher, Latvian Television reported on June 7.

Privacy/Surveillance

=> ↺ Zimbabwe ☛ Liquid courts the public sector, looks to end use of Gmail for govt business

• Liquid Intelligent Technologies held a ‘Data protection for the public sector’ event. Indeed, representatives from the IT departments of various public sector organisations were in attendance. And data protection was discussed. In a few hours, the Data Protection Act of 2021 was unpacked, an overview of data protection was given and data protection solutions…

=> ↺ La Quadature Du Net ☛ Family Branch of the French Welfare System: technology in the service of exclusion and harassment of the most vulnerable

• Translation from a paper originally published in French in October 19th, 2022

• For the past year or so, we have been fighting the effects of the digitialization of French public administrations and the use of scoring… [...]

=> ↺ Atlantic Council ☛ Export controls: A surprising key to strengthening UK-US military collaboration [Ed: Banning encryption that works is only strengthening high-profile criminals]

=> ↺ Atlantic Council ☛ Export controls: A surprising key to strengthening UK-US military collaboration [Ed: Banning encryption that works is only strengthening high-profile criminals]

• US allies have been quietly frustrated for decades about the indiscriminate and extraterritorial application of export controls, in particular the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR).

=> ↺ Bert Hubert ☛ The Dutch government wants to automatically and administratively gain permission to target victims of hackers

• This is a mirror of the original about:intel post, since the about:intel server is sadly overloaded.

• The Dutch government is proposing adding a lex specialis to its existing intelligence and security services act. This addition significantly changes the scope of many powers and also extends who they can be applied to.

• A draft of an English summary of this proposed law can be found here. A far longer summary in Dutch is here.

=> ↺ Silicon Angle ☛ Meta to take action after investigation finds Instagram algorithm promoted child sex abuse material

• Meta Platforms Inc.-owned Instagram today said it will take action after an investigation by The Wall Street Journal and researchers at Stanford University and the University of Massachusetts Amherst revealed the company’s algorithm was promoting child sexual abuse material to pedophiles.

Confidentiality

=> ↺ Court House News ☛ High court sides with Medicaid fraudster in identity theft case

• The Supreme Court unanimously shot down the government’s broad reading of identity theft law Thursday in a decision that will shorten the prison sentence of an Austin psychologist who defrauded Medicaid.

• “While the Government represents that prosecutors will act responsibly in charging defendants under its sweeping reading, this Court ‘cannot construe a criminal statute on the assumption that the Government will ‘use it responsibly,’’” Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote for the court in the 21-page ruling.

Defence/Aggression

=> ↺ teleSUR ☛ School Shooting After Graduation in US, 2 Killed and 5 Wounded

• “We think the suspect knew at least one of the victims”

=> ↺ RFERL ☛ Belgrade To Prod Ethnic Serbs In North Kosovo To Vote In Elections

• Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said he will try to use his influence to persuade Serbs in northern Kosovo to take part in elections, the U.S. envoy for the Western Balkans, Gabriel Escobar, told journalists on June 7 in Belgrade.

=> ↺ RFERL ☛ Kazakh Opposition Politician Detained On Bribe-Taking Charge

• Nurzhan Altaev, the leader of Kazakhstan’s unregistered El Tiregi (People’s Pillar) party has been detained on a charge of taking a bribe, the Central Asian nation’s Anti-Corruption Agency said on July 7.

=> ↺ RFA ☛ Argentine court hears allegations of genocide against Myanmar leaders

• Universal jurisdiction case to review accounts of rape and slaughter of Rohingya.

=> ↺ RFA ☛ Myanmar military is stepping up attacks on schools ahead of school year

• The attacks are seen as a warning to families whose children attend non-junta schools.

=> ↺ JURIST ☛ Connecticut governor signs law implementing extensive gun control measures

• Connecticut governor Ned Lamont signed House Bill (HB) 6667 into law Tuesday which includes a wide variety of comprehensive gun control measures.

=> ↺ JURIST ☛ US appeals court rules that Second Amendment protects non-violent offenders from federal firearm bans

• The US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit ruled on Tuesday that the Second Amendment of the Constitution protects non-violent offenders from federal firearm bans. The case resulted from Bryan Range’s appeal from the US District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Circuit Judge Thomas M. Hardiman authored the opinion of the court.

=> ↺ The Strategist ☛ Recognising service in the shadows: the case for an Australian intelligence service medal

• Do you recall the ‘Garage Girls’ from this year’s Australia Day honours?

=> ↺ Latvia ☛ Auditor: army food contract should be terminated

• The scandalous €220 million army food procurement was “outside” of the traditional defense agency procurement system, it was not well planned and the result was not in line with the needs of the army, according to the State Audit conclusion on June 7.

=> ↺ Latvia ☛ BALTOPS 23 military drills taking place in Kurzeme, Latvia

• From June 4 to 16, a large-scale annual international military exercise “BALTOPS 23″ takes place in the Baltic Sea region, with the participation of 19 NATO members and one ally, Sweden.

=> ↺ LRT ☛ Russia may be jamming GPS signal over Lithuania

• Russia has been scrambling GPS signal over Estonia, the country’s authorities have confirmed to the Bloomberg news agency. Pilots flying over Lithuania have also reported their GPS signals being affected, according to the state air navigation company, Oro Navigacija.

=> ↺ RFERL ☛ Tech CEOs Urged To Create Alliance Of ‘Engineers Against Dictators’ To Open Online Space In Russia

• Representatives of Russia’s independent media and Reporters Without Borders (RSF) have asked leading technology companies to create an alliance of “engineers against dictators” to prevent the total shutdown of Russia’s online informational space.

=> ↺ RFERL ☛ Moscow Court Sends Several Anti-War Activists To Pretrial Detention On Extremism Charges

• A court in Moscow on June 8 sent four activists from the Vesna (Spring) youth movement to pretrial detention until at least August 5.

=> ↺ RFERL ☛ Romania Tells Russia To Reduce Staff At Embassy In Bucharest

• The Romanian government has informed Russia that it must reduce the number of diplomats and administrative staff at its embassy in Bucharest by 51 positions.

=> ↺ RFERL ☛ Federal Judge Dies After Apparent Fall From High-Rise Apartment In Russia’s Tatarstan

• A federal judge has died after apparently falling from his 12th floor apartment in Kazan, the capital of Russia’s Republic of Tatarstan.

=> ↺ The Strategist ☛ All talk, no dialogue on Asian security

• The International Institute for Strategic Studies’ Shangri-La Dialogue, Asia’s largest security conference, has wrapped up its 2023 meeting in Singapore.

=> ↺ New York Times ☛ Blinken’s Visit to Saudi Arabia Caps Biden Effort to Rebuild Ties

• Biden aides are closely watching Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s overtures to China, his attitude toward Israel and his balancing act with Russia and Ukraine.

War in Ukraine

=> ↺ JURIST ☛ Ukraine plot to attack Russia-Germany Nord Stream pipeline revealed: Washington Post

• The Biden administration knew that Ukraine planned to attack a majority Russian-owned natural gas pipeline, owned by Nord Stream, three months ahead of an actual attack on the gas line, according to documents reviewed by the Washington Post.

=> ↺ Atlantic Council ☛ Russian War Report: Satellite imagery analysis captures flood threat after dam’s destruction

• Satellite imagery of the Nova Kakhovka dam’s collapse reveals the extent of the damage caused by extreme flooding in Kherson Oblast.

=> ↺ New York Times ☛ Kherson is hit by Russian shelling hours after a Zelensky visit.

• Ukraine’s interior ministry said that eight people were injured in an attack near an evacuation point where medics, emergency workers and rescue teams have been gathering.

=> ↺ New York Times ☛ Satellite Images Show Scale of Flooding From Ukraine Dam Collapse

• Photographs released by Planet Lab offer some of the clearest glimpses yet of the situation in cities and villages downstream from the destroyed Kakhovka dam in Ukraine.

=> ↺ Axios ☛ What to watch as Ukraine’s counter-offensive heats up

• Ukrainian forces attacked Russian positions in the southeast of the country on Thursday as the country’s long-awaited counteroffensive gets underway.

• Why it matters: Ukraine has spent six months preparing for this moment. Its forces are armed with Western artillery, tanks and training. But Russia’s military has also had ample time to entrench its positions and bring in additional forces.

=> ↺ [Repeat] New York Times ☛ Rishi Sunak to Talk Tech With Biden, but Ukraine Is Likely to Surface

• While economic cooperation and the challenges posed by artificial intelligence are on the agenda, Russia’s invasion presents immediate threats.

=> ↺ New York Times ☛ Biden and Sunak Say Their Countries Will Support Ukraine for the Long Haul

• The U.K. prime minister, on a tour of Washington meant to deepen economic and diplomatic ties with the United States, had a message for Russia: “We will be here as long as it takes.”

=> ↺ New York Times ☛ Your Friday Briefing: A Major Ukrainian Offensive

• Also, a victory for voting rights in the U.S.

=> ↺ Latvia ☛ Donations to Ukraine jumped after Kakhovka dam destruction

• After the Russian occupation forces blew up the Kakhovka hydropower station and dam in Ukraine, which resulted in the flooding of large areas, Latvian people’s donations to Ukraine have increased, the head of the charity platform Ziedot.lv, Rūta Dimanta, told Latvian Radio on June 8.

=> ↺ Atlantic Council ☛ Can Russia be held accountable for the destruction of the Kakhovka dam?

• Initial analysis indicates that Russia deliberately destroyed the Kakhovka dam in what would qualify as one of Moscow’s worst war crimes in Ukraine, but holding the Kremlin accountable will prove extremely difficult, writes Danielle Johnson.

=> ↺ Atlantic Council ☛ Kakhovka dam collapse threatens Europe’s largest nuclear plant

• The blowing up of the Kakhovka dam in Russian-occupied southern Ukraine threatens to deprive the nearby Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant of vital water supplies and raises the threat of nuclear disaster, writes Suriya Evans-Pritchard Jayanti.

=> ↺ Atlantic Council ☛ Mapping the last decade of Russia’s disinformation and influence campaign in Ukraine

• Since its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Russia has continued its information operations, targeting more than just Ukraine, say speakers at a RightsCon event hosted by the Digital Forensic Research Lab.

=> ↺ RFERL ☛ U.K. PM Sunak In Washington To Talk About Ukraine Aid, NATO Leadership

• British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is meeting on June 8 with U.S. President Joe Biden at the White House to discuss the war in Ukraine and NATO’s future leadership.

=> ↺ RFERL ☛ As Ukraine Assesses Flood Damage After Dam Breach, IAEA Says Nuclear Plant Still Getting Cooling Water It Needs

• The Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant in Ukraine is still receiving water needed to cool its reactors despite the rupture of the Kakhovka dam, the IAEA said on June 8 as Ukraine assessed the damage caused by flooding and as President Volodymyr Zelenskiy addressed environmental activists.

=> ↺ France24 ☛ Is the Kakhovka dam breach a hard blow to the Ukrainian counteroffensive?

• The destruction on Tuesday of the Kakhovka dam, near the town of Kherson, has been seen by some as strategic blow to Ukrainian counteroffensive plans that have been in the works for months. But crossing the Dnipro River is not the only way Ukraine can regain territories occupied by Russia.

=> ↺ France24 ☛ Russian shelling hits flood-hit Kherson after Zelensky visit, says Ukraine

• Nine people were injured Thursday in Russian shelling in the Kherson region as it deals with massive flooding from the destruction of the Kakhovka dam, according to Ukrainian officials. The attacks came shortly after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky visited Kherson. Moscow meanwhile accused Ukraine of killing two people at an evacuation point in the Russian-controlled side of the Dnipro River.

=> ↺ RFERL ☛ U.K. Unveils New Sanctions Targeting Russia’s Ally Belarus

• Britain announced new sanctions against Belarus on June 8 in its latest punishment for the country’s support of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and suppression of anti-government activists.

=> ↺ RFERL ☛ Russian Officer Accuses Wagner Group Of Abductions, Torture Of Russian Military Personnel

• Russian Colonel Roman Vinivitin, who was captured by Wagner fighters in eastern Ukraine issued a video on June 8 accusing the private mercenary company of abducting Russian armed forces personnel and torturing them.

=> ↺ teleSUR ☛ US Prevents Ukraine From Settling Conflict With Russia

• The Ukrainian government withdrew from peace talks because of U.S. pressure, according to Nikolay Patrushev.

=> ↺ RFERL ☛ NATO Officials ‘Committed’ To Ukraine Victory Ahead Of Alliance Summit Set To Discuss Enlargement

• NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg and U.S. Ambassador to NATO Julianne Smith said on June 7 that NATO funding will be a major topic at the military alliance’s summit next month in Vilnius along with enlargement and security guarantees.

=> ↺ teleSUR ☛ Russia Repels Ukrainian Attack in Zaporozhye

• As a result of the two-hour fight, the Ukrainian Army lost 30 tanks, 11 armored infantry vehicles, and some 350 personnel, the Russian Defense Minister said.

=> ↺ RFERL ☛ Russian Forces Shell Kherson Shortly After Zelenskiy Visit To Areas Hit By Flooding

• Russian forces shelled the Kherson area shortly after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on June 8 visited the southern region where rescue teams are working to save thousands of people trapped by catastrophic flooding caused by the rupture of a major dam on the Dnieper River.

=> ↺ RFERL ☛ EU Agency Calls For Longer-Term Prospects For Ukrainian Refugees

• EU governments should make preparations to integrate refugees from Ukraine permanently, according to the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights.

=> ↺ RFERL ☛ Council Of Europe Envoy Calls Russian Rights Defender Oleg Orlov’s Trial ‘Travesty Of Justice’

• The Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights Dunja Mijatovic has called the trial of Oleg Orlov, a leader of the liquidated Memorial Human Rights Center in Moscow, over the alleged discrediting of Russian forces involved in Kremlin’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine “a travesty of justice.”

=> ↺ The Atlantic ☛ The True Purpose of Ukraine’s Counteroffensive

• Kyiv needs to show Russians that the war is not worth fighting.

=> ↺ TwinCities Pioneer Press ☛ Biden, Sunak vow to stick together on Ukraine, deepen cooperation on clean energy transition, AI

=> ↺ CS Monitor ☛ At French Open, Ukrainian tennis stars seek Russian support

• In Paris, the long shadow of the Ukraine war has complicated rivalries among Ukrainian, Russian, and Belarusian players in the French Open tennis tournament.

=> ↺ CS Monitor ☛ Dam collapse: Zelenskyy mobilizes aid for devastated Kherson

• Ukrainian President Zelenskyy visits flood-hit Kherson, assessing evacuation efforts and aid provision. The mayor of the Russian-occupied town of Nova Kakhovka reports five deaths and ongoing evacuation of the remaining two residents after the dam breach.

=> ↺ New York Times ☛ Ukraine Attacks Russian Positions as Signs of Counteroffensive Grow

• The assaults, with Western tanks and armored vehicles, appear to mark a long-awaited counteroffensive that Ukraine hopes will retake territory and shore up allies’ resolve to keep supplying weapons.

=> ↺ New York Times ☛ Zelensky Visits Kherson, and Russia Shells Flooded City

• President Volodymyr Zelensky traveled to the city of Kherson, trying to rally rescue crews. Russian forces shelled the city not long after his visit.

=> ↺ New York Times ☛ Cross-Border Skirmishes Heighten Anxiety for Ukrainian Villagers

• Even as new attacks have brought the war into Russia, the Russians have responded with force, raising the threat for the few civilians left in towns along the border.

=> ↺ New York Times ☛ Ukraine Mounts Major Offensive Against Russian Lines in South

• A senior U.S. official said that fighting appeared to be a main thrust in Kyiv’s long-awaited counteroffensive to retake land captured by Russia.

Environment

=> ↺ LRT ☛ Earth turning into ash as Lithuania hit with intense drought

• At least a third of crops are expected to be lost as Lithuania’s farmers battle with an intense drought. Forest fires are also causing concern.

Energy/Transportation

=> ↺ H2 View ☛ Clean Hydrogen Partnership looks to bolster European cooperation and gives hydrogen hubs update

• The Clean Hydrogen Partnership is looking for regional and national Managing Authorities from the EU-27 and Horizon Europe associated countries with which to develop cooperation in relevant key areas for hydrogen development.

=> ↺ H2 View ☛ India’s IH2A submits $5bn national green hydrogen hub plan to government

• The India Hydrogen Alliance (IH2A) has submitted a National Green Hydrogen Hub Economic Viability and Development Plan to the government, with potential to create five large National Green Hydrogen Corporations collectively worth $5bn by 2030.

=> ↺ Atlantic Council ☛ Three challenges in cryptocurrency regulation

• Cryptocurrency regulators around the world face multiple challenges. They must protect customers and put in place safeguards to prevent the next FTX-style collapse, all while coordinating across diverse jurisdictions.

=> ↺ LRT ☛ Public transport in Vilnius to be free during NATO summit

• Public transport in Vilnius will be free on July 10-13, the Vilnius City Council decided on Wednesday.

Wildlife/Nature

=> ↺ YLE ☛ Saimaa seals relocated to protect fragile population’s genetic diversity

• For the first time in more than 30 years, biologists translocated two of the highly endangered seals within their natural habitat. The moves were aimed at bolstering the population’s dwindling genetic diversity.

=> ↺ Vice Media Group ☛ Delivery Drivers Share What It’s Like Delivering in Hazardous Wildfire Smoke

• Drivers are delivering through Canadian wildfire smoke with coughing fits, low visibility, and no protection from their company.

=> ↺ France24 ☛ US East Coast blanketed in hazardous smog from Canadian wildfire

• Schools across the US East Coast canceled outdoor activities, commercial airline traffic was slowed and millions of Americans were urged to stay indoors on Wednesday as smoke from Canadian wildfires drifted south, blanketing cities in a thick yellowish haze.

Overpopulation

=> ↺ Overpopulation ☛ The Population Factor back by popular demand

• In 2020 and 2021, I recorded two seasons of the TV show The Population Factor. Each episode features in-depth conversations focused on a particular aspect of the population/environment connection. Check out seasons one (hour-long episodes) and two (half-hour episodes), all available for free streaming at the links below. by Phil Cafaro Season 1 Episode 1.

Finance

=> ↺ YLE ☛ Cost of summer cottages varies widely across Finland

• The costs associated with maintaining a summer cottage differ by hundreds of euros a year in different locations.

=> ↺ YLE ☛ Finnish police, EU partners crack down on cross-border tax evasion

• The suspects allegedly used complex trading schemes to commit tax fraud and move company shares around dividend payment dates.

=> ↺ The Atlantic ☛ The Next Crisis Will Start With Empty Office Buildings

• Commercial real estate is losing value fast.

=> ↺ Digital Music News ☛ Talent Agency YMU Hits Financial Turbulence with Nearly $90M in Debt — Report

• Talent agency YMU hits financial turbulence with lending debts nearing $90 million. U.K.-based Talent management agency YMU Group (You, Me & Us), which features a transatlantic music division, is exploring options for financial restructuring, according to Sky News.

=> ↺ The Strategist ☛ Combating the cyber heists that are costing the global economy

• Across the world, governments and businesses depend on the transformative powers of digital technology to drive economic growth.

=> ↺ European Commission ☛ Keynote speech by Commissioner McGuinness at the Joint EC-ECB Conference on European Financial Integration 2023 on ‘A strong European financial system for the future: working towards Banking Union and Capital Markets Union’ [Ed: EU for bankers, not for people]

• European Commission Speech Brussels, 07 Jun 2023 So very good morning everyone.

• I’m very pleased to be here too, because one never knows what will get in the way.

=> ↺ Silicon Angle ☛ Smartsheet shares drop on free cash flow outlook miss

=> ↺ Federal News Network ☛ Portland bans daytime camping, imposes other restrictions

• Officials in Portland, Oregon, have voted to pass an ordinance prohibiting camping during daytime hours in most public places as the city struggles to address a longtime homelessness crisis. The 3-1 council vote Wednesday changes city code to say that people may camp in nonrestricted areas from 8 p.m. to 8 a.m., but after that they must dismantle their sites until the permitted overnight hours begin again. The ordinance also bans all camping near schools, parks and other locations. The measure aims to bring Portland into compliance with a state law taking effect July 1. That law bars local governments from prohibiting camping outright but lets them have certain limits on where, when and how camps are set up.

=> ↺ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Hong Kong may miss goal of building 12,000 public housing flats on Fanling golf course

• Hong Kong authorities may not be able to meet their initial goal of building 12,000 public housing flats on the Fanling golf course, the city’s development chief has said, as she reaffirmed the government’s intention to build on the site.

=> ↺ France24 ☛ French parliament speaker to block attempt to repeal pension reform law

• The speaker of France’s parliament said Wednesday she would block an attempt to repeal a recent law raising the retirement age which was enacted after months of protests.

=> ↺ TwinCities Pioneer Press ☛ GOP conservatives shutter House to protest McCarthy-Biden debt deal, setting up next budget brawl

• Speaker Kevin McCarthy is suddenly confronting a new threat to his power. Angry hard-right conservatives have brought the House chamber to a halt, reviving their displeasure over the debt ceiling deal struck with President Joe Biden. McCarthy brushed off the disruption as healthy political debate — not too different from the 15-vote spectacle it took in January for him to finally convince his colleagues to elect him as speaker. But it’s a foreshadowing of the next budget fight as Congress tries to fund the government at the levels agreed to, or risk a federal shutdown in fall.

=> ↺ CBS ☛ Unemployment aid applications jump to highest level since October 2021 [Ed: Huge proportion of USians of adult/working age not working. This downplays the real situation.]

=> ↺ Forbes ☛ Jobless Claims Unexpectedly Surge To Highest Level Since October 2021

=> ↺ ABC ☛ US applications for jobless benefits highest since October 2021

• The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits last week rose to its highest level since October 2021, but the labor market remains one of the healthiest parts of the U.S. economy.

• The Labor Department reported Thursday that U.S. applications for jobless claims were 261,000 for the week ending June 3, an increase of 28,000 from the previous week’s 233,000. Weekly jobless claims are considered representative of U.S. layoffs.

• The four-week moving average of claims, which evens out some of the weekly variations, rose by 7,500 to 237,250.

=> ↺ India Times ☛ ‘No Job Despite 280 Applications,’ Former Microsoft Techie Shares Ordeal Two Months After Layoff

• The first quarter of 2023 was a miserable time for many tech giants’ employees. From Google, Intel, Dell, and HP to Microsoft, many tech giants announced mass layoffs that affected thousands of employees. Following that, many affected employees shared their ordeal and a former Microsoft employee was the latest one to do.

=> ↺ Silicon Angle ☛ Despite earnings beat, soft guidance weighs on HashiCorp’s stock [Ed: HashiCorp layoffs. A Microsoft proxy of sorts.]

=> ↺ Quartz ☛ A quarter of Indian youth are unemployed, worse than Indonesia and Bangladesh

• Nearly a quarter of Indians aged between 15 and 24 were jobless in 2022. Countries in the neighborhood such as Indonesia, Bangladesh, and even Bhutan, did better on this front, according to World Bank.

=> ↺ Quartz ☛ There’s never been a better time in the US to be an electrician

• The number of electricians employed in the US is at an all-time high in April, and they’re being paid better than ever. But can America sustain the supply of skilled tradespeople needed for these roles?

=> ↺ Inflation is making luxury handbags ‘unaffordable to an aspirational buyer’

• According to McKinsey & Company, for the first time in more than two years, “high-income consumers’ spending growth was negative. In fact, they’ve reduced their spending more aggressively than lower-income groups have.”

=> ↺ The Telegraph UK ☛ Eurozone sinks into recession

• The eurozone entered into a technical recession at the start of the year, according to revised data, as rising inflation hit consumer spending.

• The economy shrank by 0.1pc for a second consecutive quarter in the first three months of 2023, figures from the EU’s statistic agency showed.

• Eurostat revised down an earlier forecast that had predicted slight growth, after the continent’s largest economy Germany said last month it had fallen into recession.

• It had previously estimated that the eurozone economy had expanded by 0.1pc in the first quarter of the year.

=> ↺ New Data Shows UK Tech Investment Fell 57% in 2023

• UK technology companies raised £5.9 billion during the first half of 2023 in the sharpest funding decline across Europe, according to a new report.

• Data shows that UK tech investment fell by 57% year-over-year, while France decreased by 55% and Germany by 44%, according to analysis from investment firm Atomico.

• In the State of European Tech – 2023 First Look report, investment overall has taken a dramatic hit from record highs in 2021, though it appears to show signs of stabilising.

• Across Europe, total investment is set to reach about $50bn (£40.8bn) for 2023 as a whole, based on its current trajectory. That’s a massive 50% drop compared to the record highs of 2021, which saw $106bn (£85bn) of investment, and a 38% drop from 2022.

AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics

=> ↺ Marcy Wheeler ☛ NYT’s Pre-DOJ Meeting Attempted Rebuttal

• Days before Trump’s lawyers complained to Jack Smith about how Trump’s attorney-witnesses were treated the NYT attempted to rebut a report that Evan Corcoran was “waved off” searching locations besides the storage closet more interesting.

=> ↺ Marcy Wheeler ☛ Dry Run: The Filing Room Came to Trump

• After it became public that Trump had returned hundreds of classified records in January 2022, Trump denied he had been in the filing room sorting classified documents. DOJ likely now has abundant evidence that the filing room came to him.

=> ↺ Marcy Wheeler ☛ The Thirteenth Amendment

• What political rights do we have as citizens of the United States?

=> ↺ YLE ☛ Survey: People in Finland increasingly interested in next year’s EU elections

• People in the EU are concerned about the economy and their own personal financial situation, according to results of the latest Eurobarometer.

=> ↺ teleSUR ☛ Greece Could Have 3rd Elections if There is No Majority

• Under the electoral system, the more parties enter Parliament, the more difficult it will be for the absolute winner to reach majority as the required threshold increases to 41 percent.

=> ↺ uni Michigan ☛ Trump Cards: The weaponization of bad press

• Whether it’s felony indictments involving hush money, a civil suit surrounding a ’90s rape accusation or a new case involving his former personal attorney, there seems to be no end to the legal troubles former President Donald Trump is facing.

=> ↺ Atlantic Council ☛ Iran is playing musical chairs with leadership positions. None of these individuals have been sanctioned.

• Playing musical chairs with leadership positions provides opportunities to recalibrate and update coercive economic measures on Iran.

=> ↺ France24 ☛ Justice Department informs Trump he is target of classified documents probe

• Federal prosecutors have notified former US President Donald Trump’s attorneys he is the target of an investigation into his handling of classified materials, a person familiar with the matter said on Wednesday, adding to his legal troubles as he campaigns for the White House in 2024.

=> ↺ Federal News Network ☛ Connecticut to adjourn largely bipartisan session in contrast to rancor in other states

• The Democratic-controlled Connecticut General Assembly is poised to wrap up what’s been one of the most bipartisan legislative sessions in recent memory. It’s a marked contrast from the partisan rancor seen in other legislatures this year. Democratic and Republican lawmakers are crediting old fashioned relationship-building, a willingness for compromise, a healthy budget surplus and the strict midnight adjournment on Wednesday. Even so, not every advocate is thrilled with this year’s political compromises, especially when it comes to the state budget. Meanwhile, lawmakers have walked out in Oregon, expelled members in Tennessee and silenced a Montana representative.

=> ↺ Axios ☛ House GOP drops plan to hold FBI director in contempt

• The Republican-led House Oversight Committee on Wednesday dropped its plans to advance a measure holding FBI Director Christopher Wray in contempt of Congress.

• Why it matters: The contempt push was the closest House Republicans have come to direct action against an executive branch official as part of their vast array of probes into the Biden administration.

=> ↺ teleSUR ☛ Algeria, Guyana, Korea, Sierra Leone, and Slovenia Join UNSC

• The new members of the United Nations Security Council will replace Albania, Brazil, Gabon, Ghana, and the United Arab Emirates.

=> ↺ RFA ☛ Fiji’s prime minister says policing agreement with China under review

• The Pacific island nation is balancing economic ties with China and traditional security relations with the West.

=> ↺ Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Hong Kong’s Jimmy Lai files appeal against rejection of attempt to challenge national security committee decision

• Hong Kong pro-democracy media mogul Jimmy Lai has filed an appeal against the High Court’s rejection of his attempt to challenge a national security committee decision which effectively barred a foreign lawyer from representing him, local media reported. Lai, 75, is currently facing trial under the Beijing-imposed national security law and the colonial-era sedition law.

=> ↺ teleSUR ☛ Fiji & New Zealand Reaffirm Close Relationship

• “New Zealand and Fiji are connected by a kinship forged in Pacific culture, identity, and interests…”

=> ↺ RFERL ☛ Former Kazakh President Nazarbaev’s Office Being Canceled

• The office of former Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbaev, known as the office of the First President of Kazakhstan, will cease to exist within the next 45 days, the Central Asian nation’s Finance Minister Erulan Zhamaubaev said on June 7.

=> ↺ RFA ☛ Mother, sister killed after militiaman accused of Myanmar singer’s murder

• Pro-junta militia shot dead the preschool teachers in their Yangon region home.

Misinformation/Disinformation/Propaganda

=> ↺ The Strategist ☛ Japan targeted by Chinese propaganda and covert online campaign

• The Chinese Communist Party is ramping up a multi-year propaganda and covert social media campaign focusing on Japan’s plans to release wastewater from the earthquake-stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.

Censorship/Free Speech

=> ↺ RFERL ☛ Ilhom Theater In Tashkent Stages ‘Reading’ Of Play Of Jailed Russian Director Berkovich

• The Ilhom Theater in the Uzbek capital, Tashkent, has staged what it called “a reading” of a play by jailed Russian theater director Yevgenia Berkovich and playwright Svetlana Petriichuk, who were arrested in May in Moscow on a charge of justification of terrorism through the play.

=> ↺ RFERL ☛ Russian Human Rights Group’s Websites Blocked For Unspecified Reasons

• Russian human rights group OVD-Info said on June 8 that its two websites had been blocked by the country’s media watchdog, Roskomnadzor, without explanation.

Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press

=> ↺ New Yorker ☛ What the Shakeup at CNN Says About the Future of Cable News

• Will Chris Licht’s attempts to move the network toward the center outlast his own brief tenure as C.E.O.?

=> ↺ The Atlantic ☛ Chris Licht’s Fundamental Mistake

• The ousted CNN executive failed to grasp the altered landscape of American politics.

=> ↺ France24 ☛ CNN ousts CEO Chris Licht after Trump town hall, tumultuous tenure

• CNN ousted chief executive Chris Licht after a tumultuous year leading the struggling news network that culminated in a damning magazine profile and the growing realization that he’d lost the confidence of the network’s journalists.

=> ↺ Press Gazette ☛ Barclay family says reports Telegraph owner will enter administration are ‘unfounded’

• Telegraph and Spectator will be put up for sale in days to pay debts, reports.

=> ↺ Press Gazette ☛ Decline of print and beef ban help Guardian reduce greenhouse gas emissions [Ed: Now the greenewashing reaches laughable new lows...]

• Print remains a valuable revenue stream for The Guardian’s publisher.

Civil Rights/Policing

=> ↺ New York Times ☛ Justices Thomas and Alito Delay Release of Financial Disclosures

• The justices asked for extensions to file annual forms that detail gifts, travel and real estate holdings.

=> ↺ YLE ☛ Wednesday’s papers: Union worries, foreign graduate employment and a €121,000 speeding fine

• Speeding fines in Finland are linked to income, and can therefore be pretty large.

=> ↺ RFA ☛ Uyghur hatmaker and wife confirmed to have died in prison in Xinjiang

• Authorities arrested them in 2017 for ‘illegal’ religious activities.

=> ↺ uni Michigan ☛ Nursing professor placed on leave amid misconduct allegations

• Content warning: this article contains descriptions of sexual harassment and abuse. On May 11, Patricia Hurn, Dean of the School of Nursing, announced that Professor Robert Stephenson had been placed on paid administrative leave.

=> ↺ LRT ☛ Detaining migrants unconstitutional, rules Lithuanian court

• The detention of migrants who crossed the border irregularly was unconstitutional, Lithuania’s Constitutional Court ruled on Wednesday.

=> ↺ Atlantic Council ☛ Activists and experts assemble in Costa Rica to protect human rights in the digital age

• Our Digital Forensic Research Lab is convening top tech thinkers and human-rights defenders at RightsCon to collaborate on an agenda for advancing rights globally.

=> ↺ RFERL ☛ Six Arrested In Romania, Germany, Bulgaria In Probe Of People-Smuggling Ring

• Six people have been arrested in Romania, Germany, and Bulgaria in raids targeting a network alleged to have smuggled hundreds of migrants into Romania and Germany, officials said.

=> ↺ Reason ☛ Encouraging Readers to Harass Person for Alleged Sexual Misconduct Creates Jurisdiction in Person’s Home State

• From Lord v. Smith, decided last Friday by Judge Virginia Kendall (N.D. Ill.), reaffirming an earlier decision: Both Lord and Smith are professional online gamers with millions of followers on streaming platforms and social media. They use the handles Ohmwrecker and H2O Delirious, respectively. Lord alleges that Smith began a defamatory online harassment campaign, accusing…

=> ↺ RFERL ☛ Richard Branson Calls For Release From Prison Of Iranian Rapper Salehi

• Billionaire entrepreneur and philanthropist Richard Branson has called for Iranian authorities to release popular rapper Toomaj Salehi, whose health has reportedly deteriorated since he was arrested during Tehran’s clampdown on nationwide anti-government protests in October

=> ↺ RFA ☛ Cambodia threatens fines, prison for those urging election boycott

• The warning comes after the main opposition party was excluded from the July 23 national vote.

Internet Policy/Net Neutrality

=> ↺ SANS ☛ Management of DMARC control for email impersonation of domains in the .co TLD – part 2, (Wed, Jun 7th)

• In my previous DMARC diary, I was discussing how DMARC control is handled on all CO domains from April 2023 and provided the detail about this control for com.co domains.

=> ↺ PR Web ☛ Secure64 Software Corporation, announces the launch of its next generation of Secure64 DNS Caching™ and DNS Authority™ platforms.

=> ↺ The Verge ☛ Louisiana passes bill banning kids from the internet without parental consent – The Verge

• State lawmakers in Louisiana passed a new bill banning minors from creating their own social media accounts without the explicit consent of a parent or guardian.

Monopolies

Patents

=> ↺ Celebrating 30 years of innovation in Slovakia

• On 31 May, the Industrial Property Office of the Slovak Republic (SK IPO) hosted an event to commemorate the 30th anniversary since its founding, as well as three decades of innovation in Slovakia.

=> ↺ JURIST ☛ EU starts infringement proceedings against Poland over new Russian influence law [Ed: Whilst at the same time the EC (European Commission) violates constitutions, breaks the law, and violates international conventions to make up a bogus 'court', a kangaroo courts, for fake patent monopolies granted by a corrupt office that intentionally violates the EPC]

• The European Commission initiated infringement proceedings against member state Poland on Thursday over the country’s recently-passed law aimed at officials who have allegedly come under Russian influence.

=> ↺ Kluwer Patent Blog ☛ Unified Patent Court: 465.247 opt-outs in the sunrise period [Ed: Unified Patent Court is illegal, but Team UPC keeps trying to distract from the crime but talking about something minor and irrelevant; this system is in crisis because corruption has become the norm by now. Team UPC knows that it's doing something illegal. Deep inside it always knows that, but it hopes critics will "move on" or "forget about it"...]

=> ↺ Unified Patents ☛ AdaptFlow media serving patent challenged in reexam

• On June 6, 2023, Unified Patents filed an ex parte reexamination proceeding against U.S. Patent 10,015,064, owned and asserted by AdaptFlow Technologies LLC, an NPE. The ’064 patent generally relates to prefetching content based on an access pattern of a user on a network. The patent is currently being asserted against Roku.

=> ↺ Unified Patents ☛ $2,000 awarded for Fortress IP entity Neo Wireless ’908 patent prior art

• Unified is pleased to announce PATROLL crowdsourcing contest winner, Ketan Sachdeva, who was awarded a cash award of $2,000 for his prior art submissions on U.S. Patent 10,833,908, owned by Neo Wireless, LLC, an NPE and Fortress IP entity.

Trademarks

=> ↺ TTAB Blog ☛ TTAB Grants ARTNCRAFT Cancellation Petition: Respondent’s Amazon Take-Down Notice Excused Petitioner’s Subsequent Nonuse

• The Board granted a petition to cancel a registration for the mark ARTNCRAFT for, inter alia, ceramic knobs and pulls, finding confusion likely with petitioner’s identical, prior-used common law mark for overlapping goods. Respondent claimed that petitioner abandoned his mark through nonuse for a period of three years, beginning in 2019. But the Board found the nonuse excusable because it resulted from respondent’s Amazon take-down notice. Vardhman Sancheti v. Bhupendra Tekwani DBA Artncraft, Cancellation No. 92077340 (June 5, 2023) [not precedential] (Opinion by Judge Cynthia C. Lynch).

Copyrights

=> ↺ Digital Music News ☛ SM Entertainment Employee Fires Back Amid EXO Dispute — As Fans Call Out the K-Pop Company’s ‘Misleading Statements in the Media’

• The much-publicized showdown between SM Entertainment and EXO is continuing to heat up, as an SM employee is refuting the idea that the boy band’s members were duped into signing predatory and difficult-to-understand contracts. This newest twist in the high-stakes dispute just recently came to light in reports from regional outlets.

Gemini* and Gopher

Personal/Opinions

=> ↺ Christina’s 5 questions

• My generation’s mass affect was supposedly depressive hedonism, which I didn’t totally embody either. Most of my friends in adolesc- ence & young adulthood, when generational id- entity forms, were 5-10 years older or raised in the Soviet Union. I strongly identified with (grand)Pa’s & (great-grandma) Meme’s narratives of their childhoods. The concept of duty, for example, had outsize importance to me. Nonethe- less, I understand depressive hedonism (and its drug, MDMA/ecstasy) better than cruel optimism (and its drug, xanax).

=> ↺ hi

• tomorrow is Friday it is a good day everyone likes it unless you don’t

Science

=> ↺ Adventures in Autoimmune Diseases

• Four years ago, I woke up with pain and stiffness in my hands. Within a few days, it had spread to my feet. Within a couple of weeks, it was making it hard to sleep.

• I was terrified. Everything seemed to point to rheumatoid arthritis – an extremely unpleasant disorder that, in time, results in loss of function – and it seemed like my fears were confirmed when a blood test at my primary-care provider came back with a positive rheumatoid factor.

Technology and Free Software

Internet/Gemini

=> ↺ Social media presence

• So, where am I currently to be found?

• You’ve come to the right place. This is my blog! http://alexschroeder.ch/

• I hang out in IRC for chat. If you don’t have a chat client, I’ve installed a web client for you to use, if you want. It’s hosted on Campaign Wiki, but you can use it to connect to other servers, too. If you’d like to be constantly connected, I can get you an account. https://talk.campaignwiki.org/

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