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GNU/Linux

Server

=> ↺ Kubernetes Blog ☛ Blog: dl.k8s.io to adopt a Content Delivery Network

• We’re happy to announce that dl.k8s.io, home of the official Kubernetes binaries, will soon be powered by Fastly.

• Fastly is known for its high-performance content delivery network (CDN) designed to deliver content quickly and reliably around the world. With its powerful network, Fastly will help us deliver official Kubernetes binaries to users faster and more reliably than ever before.

• The decision to use Fastly was made after an extensive evaluation process in which we carefully evaluated several potential content delivery network providers. Ultimately, we chose Fastly because of their commitment to the open internet and proven track record of delivering fast and secure digital experiences to some of the most known open source projects (through their Fast Forward program).

Applications

=> ↺ It’s FOSS ☛ 10 Best Virtualization Software for Linux

• Virtualization software is prevalent because of its use cases and benefits. You get to experiment, test, or run software that requires a specific OS version.

• Virtualization provides an abstract concept of computer hardware to help you create virtual machines (VMs), networks, storage, and more. The benefits include isolation, security, and the freedom to test things to your heart’s extent.

• Different types of virtualization software cater to desktop users, server administrators, and enterprises.

• While I list all kinds of virtualization software, I mention who it is for.

Instructionals/Technical

=> ↺ University of Toronto ☛ Let’s Encrypt (really ACME) has a decent reason for (still) using CSRs

• As I found out a while back (in this entry), the ACME protocol that Let’s Encrypt invented and used submits its actual requests for TLS certificates as Certificate Signing Requests (CSRs), despite CSRs being famously complicated things that are theoretically full of information that Let’s Encrypt and ACME don’t care about. The story I heard was that this was initially done because Let’s Encrypt worried that the Certificate Authority Baseline Requirements might require CSRs to properly issue a TLS certificate, but recently Matthew McPherrin shared a different and great reason on the Fediverse: [...]

=> ↺ Geshan ☛ A beginner’s guide to running Elasticsearch with Docker and Docker Compose

• Elasticsearch is a powerful, open-source search and analytics engine built on top of the Apache Lucene library. It provides a distributed, scalable, and high-performance platform for storing, searching, and analyzing data in real time. With Elasticsearch, you can quickly index large volumes of data and retrieve relevant information using complex queries. Its versatility makes it suitable for a wide range of use cases, including logging, monitoring, and e-commerce applications.

=> ↺ Terence Eden ☛ Can you follow your own getting started guide?

• And there is was! I changed a false to a true and everything started working. Being the good netizen that I am, I sent a pull request to fix the documentation.

• And then it struck me.

• There’s no CI/CD for documentation.

=> ↺ OSTechNix ☛ How To Dual Boot Windows And Pop!_OS

• Welcome to the comprehensive guide on setting up Dual Boot Windows and Pop!_OS. Whether you’re a Linux enthusiast looking to explore the world of Pop!_OS or a Windows user who wants to dip your toes into the open-source ecosystem, this guide is here to assist you every step of the way. In this guide, we will walk you through the step-by-step process of setting up a dual-boot configuration with Windows 10 and the latest release of Pop!_OS, version 22.04.

=> ↺ Linuxiac ☛ How to Upgrade to openSUSE Leap 15.5 from Leap 15.4

• This guide shows you the step-by-step process to upgrade to openSUSE Leap 15.5 from Leap 15.4 to enjoy the latest features and improvements!

=> ↺ Own HowTo ☛ How to fix unzip command not found on Linux

• If you tried to unzip a zip file recently and you couldn’t get it done because of the errors ” unzip command not found or “bash: /usr/bin/unzip: No such file or directory”

• These errors indicate that unzip is either not installed on your system,

=> ↺ nixCraft ☛ How to upgrade OpenSUSE 15.4 to 15.5 using the CLI

• The latest version of OpenSUSE Linux, version 15.5 “Leap,” has been released. This version offers unparalleled stability due to its use of the SUSE Linux Enterprise (SLE) source and community developments. Hence, this makes it the best choice for a stable Linux experience for users, developers, and system administrators. This page explains how to upgrade from OpenSUSE 15.4 to 15.5 using the CLI.

=> ↺ Linux Capable ☛ How to Install Microsoft SQL Server on Ubuntu 20.04 [Ed: No, it does not run on GNU/Linux, it runs on DrawBridge, so this headline is misleading, relaying Microsoft's deception]

• Microsoft SQL Server is a premier relational database management system (RDBMS) developed by Microsoft Inc. Renowned for its sophisticated capabilities and robust structure, it primarily operates on the structured query language (SQL) to manage, manipulate, and retrieve data within various types of databases.

=> ↺ Purism ☛ The Silicon Valley Matrix- How To Break Free From Internet Centralization!

• The Silicon Valley Matrix Has You… Like the movie the Matrix, internet end users have been enslaved to produce highly valuable information by the very tech giants the internet end user patronizes with their trust, loyalty, and hard-earned money.

=> ↺ Linux Capable ☛ How to Install Express.js on Ubuntu 22.04 | 20.04

• In the pantheon of modern web development, Express.js holds a distinguished position as a premier framework.

=> ↺ Linux Capable ☛ How to Install Node.js on Rocky Linux 9/8

• Node.js is a powerful, open-source JavaScript runtime built on Google’s high-performance V8 JavaScript engine. What sets it apart is its ability to execute JavaScript outside the context of a web browser, hence extending the boundaries of JavaScript from just client-side scripting to crafting server-side applications and command-line tools.

=> ↺ Linux Capable ☛ How to Install Chromium Browser on Rocky Linux 9/8

• As we navigate the expansive digital landscape, having a reliable and adaptable web browser is not just a convenience, it’s a necessity.

=> ↺ How to Set Timezone on Ubuntu?

• Having an accurate timezone is crucial for streamlining processes on a Linux-based or a Debian-based Operating system, especially if you are running VPS Servers or scheduled cron jobs. Moreover, if you are a Linux System Administrator executing pipeline integration (for example, Jenkins), then having the correct timezone becomes all the more important. This tutorial will illustrate the process of setting the timezone in Ubuntu using different methods.

=> ↺ UNIX Cop ☛ Blocking IPs on Nginx

• Hello, friends. In this post, you will learn about blocking IPs in Nginx. This allows you to have a very exhaustive control over the access to the server. Nginx is one of the best web services available today. Its speed in processing requests makes it very popular among sysadmins.

=> ↺ Linux Capable ☛ How to Install ImageMagick on Rocky Linux 9/8

• In the ever-expanding world of software tools and libraries, ImageMagick stands tall as a premier solution for image processing. This open-source software suite, known for its flexibility and robust functionality, handles an impressive array of image formats and operations.

=> ↺ Linux Capable ☛ How to Install PyCharm on Linux Mint 21/20

• As an integral part of the JetBrains family, PyCharm is a widely recognized Integrated Development Environment (IDE) that offers a suite of tools exclusively for Python developers. It leverages a compelling combination of first-class features designed to improve developer efficiency, such as intelligent code assistance, smart code navigation, and seamless version control integration.

=> ↺ Linux Capable ☛ How to Install GNU Emacs on Linux Mint 21/20

• Among the myriad of open-source tools that power the digital universe, GNU Emacs stands out as a legendary text editor in the realm of Unix and Linux operating systems.

=> ↺ Linux Links ☛ Alternatives to popular CLI tools: ps

• We explore free and open source alternatives to ps, a command that reports a snapshot of the current processes.

Games

=> ↺ GamingOnLinux ☛ Overkill drops Linux support for PAYDAY 2

• PAYDAY 2 came to Linux officially back in 2016 but as of today they’ve removed support for it, so it will no longer see updates on the Native Linux version.

=> ↺ GamingOnLinux ☛ Check out the new trailer for Cyber Knights: Flashpoint a squad-tactics heist RPG

• Currently in development from Trese Brothers who made Star Traders: Frontiers and Templar Battleforce, the upcoming Cyber Knights: Flashpoint looks exciting.

=> ↺ GamingOnLinux ☛ Three Minutes To Eight announced by developer of ENCODYA and Clunky Hero

• Three Minutes To Eight is the latest game coming from Chaosmonger Studio following ENCODYA and Clunky Hero, this time with publishing help from Assemble Entertainment. Announced during the the Guerilla Collective showcase it’s due to arrive later this year.

=> ↺ GamingOnLinux ☛ GuliKit reveal an upgraded anti-drift thumbstick module for Steam Deck

• While the Steam Deck is a fantastic handheld devices, there’s always going to be ways to make it better and GuliKit just revealed an upgraded version of their anti-drift thumbstick mod.

=> ↺ GamingOnLinux ☛ Use a camera to solve puzzles in hand-drawn adventure TOEM

• TOEM, a hand-drawn black and white adventure puzzle game from developer Something We Made now has a Native Linux build available.

=> ↺ GamingOnLinux ☛ Fantasy buddy-cop RPG ‘My Familiar’ looks great with a demo up

• Up for trying out a new buddy-cop RPG? My Familiar has a fantastic art-style and really looks like something that could be a bit special.

=> ↺ GamingOnLinux ☛ Colony building strategy game Imagine Earth adds Linux support

• Imagine Earth from developer Serious Bros that originally released back in May 2021 just got upgraded, and now it has Native Linux support.

Distributions and Operating Systems

Canonical/Ubuntu Family

=> ↺ Ubuntu ☛ Ubuntu Blog: Technical deep-dive into a real-time kernel

• Canonical announced the general availability of Ubuntu’s real-time kernel earlier this year. Since then, our community raised several questions regarding the workings of the kernel and tuning guidelines. We aim to provide answers in this and an upcoming follow-up post. 

• Depending on your background knowledge, you may wish to start with the basics of preemption and a real-time system. In that case, this introductory webinar or our blog series on what is real-time Linux, is for you.

Open Hardware/Modding

=> ↺ Raspberry Pi ☛ Celebrating 5801 young people’s digital creations at Coolest Projects 2023

• An absolutely huge congratulations to each and every single young creator who participated in Coolest Projects 2023, our digital technology showcase for young people! 5801 young people from 37 countries took part. This year’s participants made projects that entertained, inspired, and wowed us — creators showcased everything from robotic arms to platformer games. We celebrated…

=> ↺ Raspberry Pi ☛ “Alexa, start the car”: warm up your car remotely with Raspberry Pi

• The Pi Zero runs Home Assistant and talks to the ESP32 board wirelessly. The ESP32 board activates the hardware components which physically press the button on the car key. ‘Remote Start’ and ‘Multi-Relay’ are the ESPHome software add-ons you need to make this happen. ChatGPT wrote the code the ESP32 board uses to get the push pull solenoid to perform just the right sequence of pushes on the car key button.

=> ↺ Tom’s Hardware ☛ Raspberry Pi Drives Sailboat by Automating Autopilot

• According to Joad, there are several problems that he needed to overcome in order to design a more efficient system. Joad explains that many autopiloting systems are expensive and when they break, they can be pricey to fix — often requiring a specialist to repair. By creating his own autopiloting system with a Raspberry Pi, the price is cut significantly, and being the creator of the project means it’s much easier to troubleshoot.

=> ↺ Jeff Geerling ☛ How Raspberry Pis are made (Factory Tour)

• On the factory floor—where they were making Pi Zero, Pi 3 model B+, Pi 4 model B, Compute Module 4, and Compute Module 4S at the time—the Pi’s start as a set of blank PCBs with copper pads, and the first stop is the automated screen printing machine where solder paste is applied with a squeegee. In the picture below, Andrew Puntan (one of our guides, working at the factory for over two decades!) holds up the Pi 3 B+ stencil, and you can see me and Gordon Hollingworth admiring it’s shiny surface: [...]

=> ↺ Arduino ☛ This AI system helps visually impaired people locate dining utensils

• People with visual impairments also enjoy going out to a restaurant for a nice meal, which is why it is common for wait staff to place the salt and pepper shakes in a consistent fashion: salt on the right and pepper on the left.

=> ↺ Arduino ☛ Arduino Cloud embraces Python and JavaScript for new IoT projects

• The Internet of Things (IoT) has become a ubiquitous term, encompassing a vast array of applications ranging from small-scale embedded systems to complex networked devices. Traditionally, IoT development has been synonymous with programming in languages like C and C++.

=> ↺ SparkFun Electronics ☛ Pete on SparkFun’s 20th Anniversary

• I had just finished my music degree at CU. I was playing in my band, giving private guitar lessons, and working at an art gallery. A friend of mine was working as a mechanical engineer for a new electronics company and he let me know that they needed assembly technicians. I thought I’d give it a try and was immediately hooked.

=> ↺ Stacey on IoT ☛ Should you install low-voltage wiring for your smart home in 2023?

• The latter part of that question has a shorter answer, so I’ll start with this one. If you have access to add wiring throughout a home, I’d definitely recommend running at least CAT-6 cables. And I’d aim for at least one ethernet port for bedroom or living area. This will allow wired transfer speeds at up to 1 Gb per second. A nice upgrade would be to use CAT-7 cables for a massive 10 GBps throughput boost.

Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications

=> ↺ 9to5Google ☛ Google Keep rolls out new Single note Wear OS Tile

=> ↺ Phone Arena ☛ First look at the two new Google News Android widgets – PhoneArena

=> ↺ SlashGear ☛ 10 Android Apps Your Old Or Budget Phone Should Avoid At All Costs

=> ↺ SlashGear ☛ 10 Reasons You Shouldn’t Buy A Foldable Android Phone Right Now

=> ↺ Digital Trends ☛ Asus’ latest Android phone could be a big threat to the Galaxy S23 Ultra | Digital Trends

=> ↺ Android Auto 9.7 Skips Beta, Stable Version Now Available

=> ↺ Pocket Lint ☛ Android for beginners: First things to do on your new phone

=> ↺ Digital Trends ☛ Best Buy: Great deals on Google Home, Android, Chromebook | Digital Trends

=> ↺ Android Police ☛ Android 14 Beta 3 fixes the Google Camera app, after Beta 2.1′s crashes

=> ↺ Tom’s Guide ☛ Android TV 14 beta teases several upgrades for Google TV and Android TV — here’s what we know | Tom’s Guide

=> ↺ Google Pixel 6a fingerprint scanner broken after Android 13 update

Free, Libre, and Open Source Software

Web Browsers/Web Servers

=> ↺ [Repeat] APNIC ☛ RIPE 86 bites — QUIC and active network management

• While 90% of the volume of traffic is encrypted, the majority of this traffic is TLS session payload encryption layered above a TCP substrate. This implies that the outer IP wrapper and the TCP control parameters are still exposed to the network. The two communicating parties are still exposed in the IP address header, and while one end of the network transaction might be a shared CDN service point, the Server Name Indication (SNI) in TLS setup is still passed over the network in the clear, so the service point being accessed by the user is still exposed.

• So, while the exact nature of the transaction is opaque to the network observer, the metadata of the transaction, including the service name and port, the client IP address, the time of day, session profile and duration, is still available to the network observer.

Chromium

=> ↺ Wladimir Palant ☛ Another cluster of potentially malicious Chrome extensions

• That extension wasn’t alone. I kept finding similar extensions until I had a list of 109 extensions, installed by more than 62 million users in total. While most of these extensions didn’t seem to contain malicious code (yet?), almost all of them requested excessive privileges under false pretenses. The names are often confusingly similar to established products. All of these extensions are clearly meant for dubious monetization.

Mozilla

=> ↺ 9to5Linux ☛ Thunderbird 115 Reaches Beta with Updated UI and Improved OpenPGP Support

• The Mozilla Thunderbird team teased us for some time now with their Thunderbird “Supernova” release (a.k.a. Thunderbird 115) that promised a revamped calendar and Firefox Sync support.

• Now, users can finally take the Thunderbird 115 release for a test drive, but the first beta version only offers an updated user interface designed to be more modern and customizable, with code that is easier to maintain and improve.

=> ↺ Tor ☛ Self-hosting the Tor Project users forum

• A year and a half ago, we launched the Tor Project users forum, a new discussion platform based on Discourse, allowing us to continue to grow the Tor community and experiment new ways to gather feedback and provide support.

• Today, we’re happy to announce the forum will soon migrate from the free cloud hosting graciously provided by the team behind Discourse to the Tor Project’s own server infrastructure.

=> ↺ Tor ☛ New Release: Tor Browser 12.0.7

• Tor Browser 12.0.7 is now available from the Tor Browser download page and also from our distribution directory.

• This release updates Firefox to 102.12.0esr, including bug fixes, stability improvements and important security updates. We also backported the Android-specific security updates from Firefox 114.

=> ↺ Tails ☛ Improving Tails for human rights defenders in Latin America

• Between 2021 and 2023 Tails, Tor, and the Guardian Project partnered to organize training and usability tests in Ecuador, Mexico, and Brazil. Our goals were to:

• Promote our digital security tools and train human rights defenders in the Global South.

• Learn from their experiences and needs to help us prioritize future work.

• Improve the usability of our tools based on their feedback.

Productivity Software/LibreOffice/Calligra

=> ↺ The Document Foundation releases LibreOffice 7.5.4 Community

Openness/Sharing/Collaboration

Open Data

=> ↺ Sumana Harihareswara ☛ Opening AED Location Data in New York City: Progress Update

• Two months ago, I wrote about a new bill aiming to help New Yorkers find out where our nearest defibrillators are. Great news: the text of the bill has been revised and is a lot better, and the New York City Council’s Committee on Health will vote on it tomorrow. So now’s a good time to tell your councilmember you support Intro 814, “The HEART Act.”

Programming/Development

=> ↺ Daniel Lemire ☛ Parsing IP addresses crazily fast

• So the optimized function is six times faster than the standard one using GCC. Switching to clang (LLVM), you go seven times faster. The fact that LLVM has such an edge over GCC warrants further examination.

• I suspect that my code is not nearly optimal, but it is definitively worth it in some cases in its current state. I should stress that the optimized function includes full validation: we are not cheating.

=> ↺ Rlang ☛ Update to Data Science Software Popularity

• I’ve updated The Popularity of Data Science Software‘s market share estimates based on scholarly articles. I posted it below, so you don’t have to sift through the main article to read the new section.

=> ↺ Daniel Stenberg ☛ Parallel curl tests

• In May 2001 we changed the file format for individual tests and this is still today the format we use. During the Twenty-two years that have passed we have added some 1600 test cases to the collection and we make sure that they can run on virtually any platform and that each test case themselves specify what curl features they require to work so that builds with those features disabled can skip those tests.

• Only a thorough test suite provides the necessary confidence you need to promise to users that we keep existing behaviors and yet we still can and do repeatedly rewrite, refactor and replace large chunks of the internals.

Shell/Bash/Zsh/Ksh

=> ↺ Martin Heinz ☛ The Right Way to Run Shell Commands From Python

• Python is a popular choice for automating anything and everything, that includes automating system administration tasks or tasks that require running other programs or interacting with operating system. There are however, many ways to achieve this in Python, most of which are arguably bad, though.

• So, in this article we will look at all the options you have in Python for running other processes – the bad; the good; and most importantly, the right way to do it.

Leftovers

Science

=> ↺ Hackaday ☛ Op-Amp Challenge: Measuring PH, No Code Required

• When you see a project with a digital display these days, you’ll be forgiven for assuming that there’s some kind of microcontroller behind the scenes. And while that’s often the easiest way to get a project from idea to completion, it’s rarely the most interesting way.

=> ↺ Nature ☛ Faster sorting algorithms discovered using deep reinforcement learning

• Fundamental algorithms such as sorting or hashing are used trillions of times on any given day1. As demand for computation grows, it has become critical for these algorithms to be as performant as possible. Whereas remarkable progress has been achieved in the past2, making further improvements on the efficiency of these routines has proved challenging for both human scientists and computational approaches. Here we show how artificial intelligence can go beyond the current state of the art by discovering hitherto unknown routines. To realize this, we formulated the task of finding a better sorting routine as a single-player game. We then trained a new deep reinforcement learning agent, AlphaDev, to play this game. AlphaDev discovered small sorting algorithms from scratch that outperformed previously known human benchmarks. These algorithms have been integrated into the LLVM standard C++ sort library3. This change to this part of the sort library represents the replacement of a component with an algorithm that has been automatically discovered using reinforcement learning. We also present results in extra domains, showcasing the generality of the approach.

=> ↺ Brr ☛ The Last Egg

• As I talked about in Frost, we have a huge amount of cold storage, and a smaller but still significant amount of DNF (Do Not Freeze) storage. The majority of our food is ordered years in advance, shipped here in bulk, and deep-frozen until needed.

• Fun fact – when we bring up a tub of ice cream from storage, it takes multiple days to carefully warm it to “normal” freezer temperature, so it can be served. If you’ve ever tried to serve ice cream that has been stored on dry ice or in a misconfigured freezer, you’ll understand the struggle.

Hardware

=> ↺ Hackaday ☛ Gesture Sensor Teardown Reveals Intel Heritage

• A few years ago, there was a rush of products on the market to detect motion. The idea being you could interact with your computer like they do on science fiction movies, with giant expressive hand motions in the air. Most of these were aimed at desktop computer users but one company, YouSpace, wanted to bring this technology to retail stores. [IMSAI Guy] got one of their sensor devices and decided to see what was inside it. You can see, too, in the video below.

=> ↺ GPU sales are down almost 40% year on year, the lowest in years, according to new report

• Sales for discrete PC graphics cards or GPUs are in a dire state, with a new report from Jon Peddie Research stating that total AIB shipments decreased by 38.2% in Q1 2023 compared to the same quarter from last year. According to the report, this still equates to roughly 6.3 million units, down from the previous quarter’s 7.16 million units.

=> ↺ Hackaday ☛ Nissan 300zx Dash Given A New Language

• You don’t have to be a car enthusiast to recognize that the 1984 Nissan 300x dash is a work of art. The graceful swoops and multisegment VFDs evoke an aesthetic that reminds us of a particular era. Rather than replace his dash with something drab and modern, [Evan] modified his dash to accept input from newer devices. Many of the sensors that feed directly into the dash are becoming harder to find as the years wear on, and rather than spoof every old device, [Evan] looked at each gauge.

=> ↺ Hackaday ☛ Op-Amp Challenge: A Logic-Free BCD

• Of digital electronics, a wise man once said that “Every idiot can count to one.” Truer words have rarely been spoken, because at the end of the day, every digital circuit is really just an analog circuit with the interesting bits abstracted away. And to celebrate that way of looking at things, we’re pleased to present this BCD to seven-segment converter that uses no logic chips.

=> ↺ [Repeat] Tedium ☛ Bad News Beepers

• Today in Tedium: There’s always a point of constant debate that happens in education around the smartphone. As anyone who has played Candy Crush or dragged a thumb through TikTok can tell you, it is a highly distracting tool, but it is also basically impossible to extract from the hands of teenagers these days, for one important reason: Parents want them to have it, so they can reach them—a discussion point of a recent Atlantic piece. “I asked why they couldn’t just ban phones during school hours,” writer Jonathan Haidt, an ethicist at New York University’s Stern School of Business, wrote. “They said too many parents would be upset if they could not reach their children during the school day.” But it was not always this way, and in fact there was a period where mobile electronics were effectively banned in most schools. And one of the most interesting devices of this type to be banned was the beeper or pager. For those of you who don’t remember when beepers ruled the land, today’s Tedium offers a primer. — Ernie @ Tedium

Health/Nutrition/Agriculture

=> ↺ Michael West Media ☛ Farmers want wriggle room on asset write-off deadline

• Farmers say the federal government’s refusal to extend the deadline for the instant asset write-off will leave them short-changed.

• The tax write-off and temporary full expensing arrangements were introduced by the previous coalition government as an incentive to stimulate the economy during the COVID-19 pandemic.

=> ↺ YLE ☛ Pedestrians and cyclists most often killed in urban traffic, 44% of pedestrians died on zebra crossings

• Fifty-seven percent of those killed in urban accidents were pedestrians and cyclists. Over the decade, there were 156 fatal accidents involving pedestrians and 104 fatalities involving cyclists. Nearly half (44 percent) of fatal pedestrian accidents in built-up areas happened on pedestrian crosswalks.

Proprietary

=> ↺ Apple tries to distance itself from Meta, competition: Don’t call it a headset

=> ↺ Techdirt ☛ OpenAI Sued For Defamation Over ChatGPT ‘Hallucination’; But Who Should Actually Be Liable? [Ed: Those are not "hallucinations"; lies, errors, defamation... why this thing ought not be used by sane people, but it is falsely marketed by Microsoft and Microsoft-bribed 'journalists' for 6 months already]

• Lots of people have been waiting for this, but it’s finally happened: someone has sued ChatGPT maker OpenAI over an AI “hallucination” (i.e., confidently spewing out something that is blatantly wrong). The complaint, filed by Mark Walters, in state court in Georgia, argues that OpenAI made up false and defamatory claims about himself. From the complaint itself:

=> ↺ Quartz ☛ OpenAI has been sued for libel over hallucinations by ChatGPT [Ed: Those are not "hallucinations"; they're lies and defamation. The problem is that Microsoft and its bribed media falsely advertised their lousy chatbot.]

=> ↺ NPR ☛ Tennis stars get lots of hate online. The French Open gave them AI ‘bodyguards’

• “It’s an individual sport,” he said. “So if you lose a game, that’s your fault. You’re very exposed because a lot of people are actually betting on sport and tennis specifically, which means a lot of haters going after you if you lose a point, if you lose a set or if you lose a game.”

=> ↺ Adriaan Roselli ☛ No, ‘AI’ Will Not Fix Accessibility

• Large language models are habitual liars. Meanwhile, automated image descriptions aren’t much better. To give them the benefit of the doubt, perhaps these tools simply lack context.

• A chocolate Rice Krispie treat sits on a saucer in a darkened room, a single lit birthday candle sticking out of it. Also on the table and in shadow to the right is a drill, to the left is a pack of candles, and behind it a set of drill bits. As image tools get better at describing every detail of a picture, as language models do a better job of conveying an emoji-laden tweet in actual words, they are still not the authors of that content. That have no sense of why it was created. They cannot tell you that a series of vertical lines is meant to signify a wall in a meme. They don’t know that the gag of a photo of a Rice Krispie treat with a birthday candle is the power drill in the background.

=> ↺ Gregory Hammond ☛ Why I’ve changed website hosts (aka why I left Cloudways and why you may want to as well)

• The major reason I didn’t want to continue with them was because DigitalOcean operates at a net loss every year (according to their annual income statements). Which means they aren’t profitable.

• Why is being profitable important? There isn’t infinite money available in either funding or grants and without making a profit, the company may have to make decreases in staff (which will mean less new features and worst customer service) or increase prices.

=> ↺ Silicon Angle ☛ Mark Zuckerberg lays out Meta’s grand ambitions for generative AI

• Zuckerberg’s pep talk, which was first reported by Axios, comes at a troubled moment for Meta, which recently let go about 10,000 staff. The layoffs have reportedly shaken the confidence of employees, and the CEO took the opportunity to reassure them of the company’s plans, laying out a roadmap for the future that’s heavily focused on incorporating the latest advances in generative AI, which creates new content and images based on natural language prompts.

Security

=> ↺ Krebs On Security ☛ Barracuda Urges Replacing — Not Patching — Its Email Security Gateways

• It’s not often that a zero-day vulnerability causes a network security vendor to urge customers to physically remove and decommission an entire line of affected hardware — as opposed to just applying software updates. But experts say that is exactly what transpired this week with Barracuda Networks, as the company struggled to combat a sprawling malware threat which appears to have undermined its email security appliances in such a fundamental way that they can no longer be safely updated with software fixes.

Privacy/Surveillance

=> ↺ CNX Software ☛ Silicon Labs FG28 Sub-GHz wireless and 2.4 GHz BLE SoC supports Amazon Sidewalk, Wi-SUN, etc…

• Silicon Labs dual-band FG28 Cortex-M33 SoC comes with sub-Gigahertz and 2.4 GHz Bluetooth LE radios that support long-range networks and protocols like Amazon Sidewalk, Wi-SUN, and other proprietary protocols, as well as a built-in AI/ML accelerator for machine learning inference and SiLabs Secure Vault technology. The chip looks to be an update to the sub-GHz FG25 Cortex-M33 microcontroller with an additional 2.4 GHz BLE radio, but somehow less program memory (up to 256KB) and storage (up to 1024 KB).

=> ↺ Soylent News ☛ Snowden Ten Years Later – Schneier on Security – SoylentNews

=> ↺ EFF ☛ EFF and Allies Send Letters to Senate Judiciary Opposing Bill to Require Messaging Platforms to Report Users to the DEA

• The bill would require private messaging services, social media companies, and even cloud providers to report their users to the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) if they find out about certain illegal drug sales.

• Even with the proposed amendments, S. 1080 would weaken an already insufficient privacy law and would provide a roadmap for more sweeping and overbroad carveouts. Its vague requirements and criminal penalties would result in companies over-reporting users to the DEA for innocent, protected speech. History shows it may also encourage companies to engage in dragnet scanning of user communications, which would result in even more errors and sweep up the same voices Congress is trying to protect.

• Rather than addressing a pressing health crisis caused by fentanyl overdoses, this bill does an end run around the Fourth Amendment  by requesting user information from online services in the form of mandatory reporting and voluntary disclosures. This puts online services in the position to decide whether their users have engaged in a sale of or intent to sell illicit substances and then decide how much to report to the DEA. The bill also expressly undermines the already limited warrant or subpoena and notice requirements of the Stored Communications Act.  

=> ↺ Techdirt ☛ Many Of The States Endlessly Freaking Out About TikTok Still Have State Websites That Funnel Sensitive Data To TikTok [Ed: TikTok is bad not for privacy reasons as much as the other factors of TikTok (Fentanylware)]

• By now we’ve noted several times how the folks most vocally calling for a nationwide TikTok ban are putting on a dumb performance designed to distract you from our lack of competent internet privacy laws and our complete unwillingness to regulate the sleazy data broker space.

=> ↺ Techdirt ☛ Appeals Court Awards Half A Win To Professor Wrongfully Arrested For Sharing ‘Secret’ Tech With Chinese Entities

• Being abnormally suspicious of anything Chinese isn’t new. There’s a wave of hysteria-based lawmaking happening right now involving TikTok, but deciding Chinese nationals and Chinese entities are inherently suspicious has been part of this nation’s cultural fabric since the construction of railroads back in the mid-19th century.

=> ↺ Bruce Schneier ☛ Paragon Solutions Spyware: Graphite

• We’re never going to reduce the power of these cyberweapons arms merchants by going after them one by one. We need to deal with the whole industry. And we’re not going to do it as long as the democracies of the world use their products as well.

=> ↺ Terence Eden ☛ Can this device make a phone call?

• This practice has been discredited for over a decade. UA Strings tend to lie. And, even when they don’t lie, they’re not very precise.

=> ↺ Scoop News Group ☛ AI chatbots want your geolocation data. Privacy experts say beware.

• Concerns about sharing location data with AI models speak to the “wild west” nature of a rapidly growing industry that is beholden to few regulations and largely opaque to consumers and lawmakers. Consumer technologies such as Bard are less than a year old, making it largely unclear what repercussions they could have for privacy down the line.

• The rapid growth in the industry has left regulators in the U.S. and abroad sorting out how the technology exists under current privacy regulations. OpenAI, a leader in the field, landed in hot water in Italy earlier this year after the country’s data protection authority accused it of violating the EU’s data protection rules. More recently, U.S. regulators have warned AI companies “sprinting” to train their models on more and more data that existing consumer protections still apply and failing to heed them could lead to enforcement.

=> ↺ The Hill ☛ Why senators are concerned about Twitter’s data security

• Lawmakers and privacy experts have grown increasingly concerned about Twitter’s data security and privacy safeguards after the departure of top company officials.

• Last week, a group of Democratic senators sent a letter to Twitter raising concerns that recent resignations of top data security executives could put consumer privacy and data security in jeopardy and potentially violate a 2022 consent decree with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC).

Confidentiality

=> ↺ uni Stanford ☛ EU Member States Still Cannot Agree About End-to-End Encryption

• The proactive detection requirement likely renders the CSA Regulation (called “Chat Control” by its opponents) illegal in its current draft form. That’s according to no less an authority than the Council’s own legal service (whose April analysis reaching that conclusion was also leaked) as well as the EU’s own data protection supervisor, which condemned the current draft last year. For one, existing EU law forbids the imposition of a general content monitoring obligation on online platforms; for another, the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights restricts how individuals’ rights may be limited by the state. Mandating the suspicionless monitoring for CSAM of all online communications, and particularly private interpersonal communications (as distinguished from publicly-available content), would impermissibly violate the prohibition against general monitoring as well as Europeans’ fundamental privacy rights. The latter includes the rights of European children, as I pointed out in comments I submitted last May. A year later, the debate over the CSA Regulation continues. One sticking point: what to do about end-to-end encryption.

Defence/Aggression

=> ↺ Gizmodo ☛ Senators Think TikTok’s CEO Lied to Congress

• At least three US senators think TikTok’s CEO may have violated federal law. In recent letters, the lawmakers say Shou Zi Chew lied about the company’s data storage practices during a combative Congressional hearing earlier this year. The renewed focus on Chew’s wishy-washy answers follows a series of news reports which suggest Chinese TikTok and ByteDance employees, and even Chinese Community Party officials, had greater access to US user data than previously known.

=> ↺ Tim Colwill ☛ Satire Without Purpose Will Wander In Dark Places

• Despite not providing any specifics or referencing Talavera by name, the message from the company was clear: if any “real-world hate groups” were to theoretically show up at a Games Workshop event, it could only be because those people had failed to grasp the inherently satirical nature of Warhammer 40,000.

• But there’s one small issue with proclaiming that Warhammer 40,000 and its protagonist The Imperium of Man are “satire”: it’s not true.

• Broadly labelling the entirety of Warhammer 40,000 as “satire” is no longer sufficient to address what the game has become in the almost 40 years since its inception. It also fails to answer the rather awkward question of why, exactly, these fascists who are allegedly too stupid to understand satire are continually showing up in your satirical community in the first place.

• At best, Games Workshop is guilty of muddled and mixed messaging; corporate custodian of a narratively top-heavy fictional universe, trying its best to plot a course through almost four decades of social change. But at its worst, the company is carelessly complicit in the open laundering of fascist ideologies and aesthetics — a slick marketing machine uncritically promoting the talking points and perspectives of the totalitarian right, in crass pursuit of greater profits.

=> ↺ The Register UK ☛ Microsoft injects ChatGPT into ‘secure’ US government Azure cloud [Ed: Microsoft pandering for BAILOUTS again... military ("defence") budget]

• The generative AI boom has reached the US federal government, with Microsoft announcing the launch of its Azure OpenAI Service that allows Azure government customers to access GPT-3 and 4, as well as Embeddings.

• Through the service, government agencies will get access to ChatGPT use cases without sacrificing “the stringent security and compliance standards they need to meet government requirements for sensitive data,” Microsoft explained in a canned statement.

=> ↺ The Nation ☛ Cornel West Should Not Be Running for President

• What does West bring to the race? A roster of legitimate complaints, but without any plan for achievable change. “I am running for truth and justice as a presidential candidate for the People’s Party to reintroduce America to the best of itself—fighting to end poverty, mass incarceration, ending wars and ecological collapse, guaranteeing housing, health care, education, and living wages for all!” Who could disagree? It could all be the sort of idealistic word-collage we get from Marianne Williamson, but in West’s case, running as a third-party candidate poses a far more serious risk to Biden’s reelection and to the fate of the country. Just be clear: He will only take votes away from Biden and help elect a Republican.

=> ↺ VOA News ☛ US Sees Islamic State Affiliates Pooling Resources, Growing Capabilities

• Specifically, the United States is raising concerns about the group’s General Directorate of Provinces, a series of nine regional offices set up over the past several years to sustain the group’s reputation and global capabilities.

• The U.S. State Department on Thursday highlighted the threat posed by these regional offices, designating the leaders of the offices in Iraq and in Africa’s Sahel region as Specially Designated Global Terrorists.

=> ↺ The Telegraph UK ☛ Park stabbing joins France’s long list of violent attacks

• Since Kalashnikov-wielding terrorists – the French-born brothers, Saïd and Chérif Kouachi – slaughtered 11 people in the offices of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in 2015, more than 250 people have been killed in Islamic violence in the country.

=> ↺ Scheerpost ☛ 9/11 Families Horrified by PGA-LIV Golf Saudi ‘Sportswashing’ Deal

• “PGA Tour leaders should be ashamed of their hypocrisy and greed.”

=> ↺ Scheerpost ☛ In China, German Lawmaker Calls for End to Sanctions, an ‘Instrument of War’ (That Backfires for Europe)

• “Sanctions are an instrument of modern warfare”, says leftist member of the German Bundestag Sevim Dağdelen, warning in a speech in China that economic war is backfiring and hurting European workers, fueling unemployment and de-industrialization.

=> ↺ RTL ☛ RTL Today – Toddlers stabbed : Two children ‘still critical’ after France knife attack

=> ↺ One soldier loses his life in armed combat in Siirt

• Specialized sergeant Aydın Ceylan lost his life during a clash in the rural area of Pervari, Siirt.

=> ↺ Five-year-old fatally struck by military vehicle in Hakkari

• The sergeant operating the vehicle has reportedly been placed under custody. In the last ten years, at least 22 children in Kurdish-populated areas of the country have lost their lives due to incidents involving military vehicles.

=> ↺ Democracy Now ☛ “World’s Deadliest Wars Go Unreported”: Journalist Anjan Sundaram

• The acclaimed war correspondent Anjan Sundaram joins us to discuss the state of conflict reporting and why some of the world’s deadliest wars go unreported. We cover conflict in the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda, as well as the future of the international media economy. Due in part to the lingering “colonial” structure of global media, Sundaram says, “these enormous wars, some of the biggest in our world today — and some of the greatest since World War II — are still relatively underreported in the international news.”

War in Ukraine

=> ↺ Meduza ☛ Ukraine reports Russian shelling of Kherson during evacuation of civilians from flooded areas — Meduza

• Ukraine’s Internal Affairs Ministry reported that Russian troops shelled Kherson during the evacuation of citizens from flooded areas following the destruction of the Kakhovka dam.

=> ↺ Meduza ☛ Russian authorities reportedly working to create ‘unified information space’ in annexed Ukrainian territories — Meduza

• In the Russian-annexed parts of Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia and Kherson regions, as well as in the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk “republics,” the Russian authorities have begun work on “reformatting the information space,” the Russian newspaper Vedomosti reported on Friday, citing sources from the Moscow-installed occupation administrations in those areas.

=> ↺ Meduza ☛ Two reported injured after drone hits building in Voronezh — Meduza

• A drone carrying explosives reportedly hit an apartment building in the Russian city of Voronezh on Friday. According to Governor Aleksandr Gusev, two people were injured.

=> ↺ Meduza ☛ Holding up a mirror to Russian national identity: Why life in the borderlands should remind the West to reject the Kremlin’s messaging on the Ukrainian state — Meduza

=> ↺ Meduza ☛ Who destroyed the Kakhovka dam? Meduza examines the likelihoods that Russia blew up the dam, that Ukraine blew up the dam, and that the dam spontaneously collapsed — Meduza

• The authorities of Ukraine and the Kremlin have accused each other of blowing up the dam at the Kakhovka Hydroelectric Power Plant, causing massive flooding on the lower Dnipro river. The dam was destroyed on June 6, however, no evidence has yet emerged that the destruction was intentional. Anonymous sources first said the U.S. authorities planned to declassify documents proving Russian military involvement in the catastrophe, but later official channels said that they had no hard evidence. From existing video footage, experts have been unable to definitively establish the perpetrator in the dam’s destruction. These conditions allow only for speculation about three possible scenarios: one side in the Russia-Ukraine war intentionally destroyed the dam, or the dam somehow spontaneously failed. Right now, the only analytical tool available is determining who benefits more from flooding on the lower Dnipro. Keep in mind, though, that the presence of a motive doesn’t prove guilt. Meduza examines three scenarios. 

=> ↺ Meduza ☛ Radio Liberty: Wagner Group rents offices all over Russia to quietly dispense cash to mercenaries and their families — Meduza

• Relatives of former prisoners who were killed in Ukraine while fighting with Wagner Group explained to publication Sever.Realii (a Radio Liberty project) how the military cartel organizes payments to its fighters and their relatives.

=> ↺ Meduza ☛ ‘Now only the treetops are visible.’ Residents of Kherson describe the devastation caused by the Kakhovka dam disaster — Meduza

• In Ukraine’s Kherson region, thousands of homes were flooded after the Kakhovka Hydroelectric Power Plant’s dam was destroyed on June 6. Journalists from Ukrainska Pravda travelled to the center of the region to speak with local residents to learn more about the scale of the devastation.

=> ↺ Meduza ☛ Construction of new Kakhovka plant estimated to take at least five years and cost $27 million — Meduza

• Ihor Syrota, CEO of Ukrhydroenergo, Ukraine’s largest hydropower company, estimated that building a new hydroelectric power plant at the site of the Kakhovka HPP could take at least five years and cost at least one billion hryvnia (around $27 million), according to a statement from the plant’s headquarters.

=> ↺ Meduza ☛ In spliced video, Russian officer released by Wagner mercenaries describes torture, upbraids Prigozhin for self-promotion — Meduza

• Lieutenant Colonel Roman Vinivitin, whose capture was previously reported by Evgeny Prigozhin’s press service, has released a video in which he accuses the paramilitary cartel of grotesque violations against troops in the regular army.

=> ↺ Meduza ☛ At least one dead after overnight Russian missile and drone attacks on Ukraine — Meduza

• Russian troops attacked multiple Ukrainian territories with kamikaze drones and cruise missiles on Thursday night. According to Ukraine’s Air Force Command, Russia launched a total of six cruise missiles from Tu-95 strategic bombers as well as 16 Shahed drones. Ukrainian air defense forces reportedly shot down 10 of the drones and four of the missiles.

Transparency/Investigative Reporting

=> ↺ Pro Publica ☛ Nonprofit Explorer Adds More than a Million New Form 990s

• ProPublica has added more than a million new tax records for tax-exempt organizations to Nonprofit Explorer, making it easier to assess the finances of charities operating across the nation.

Environment

=> ↺ Rolling Stone ☛ The Climate Crisis Was Always Real. Now It’s in Your Lungs

• Al Gore once told me, “When it comes to climate change, everyone has an ‘oh shit moment’ — that moment when it gets real, when they realize what is at stake.”

• East Coasters are having an ‘oh shit moment’ right now. You look up at the sky and it’s orange, like Mars. And it’s deadly. The World Health Organization defines particulate levels above 10 ug/m3 as unhealthy. Yesterday New York City hit 800. “The air quality in New York City was at its worst ever recorded, with apocalyptic scenes being observed,” climate activist Peter Dynes tweeted. “This is not a simulation or a scene from a movie; this is the current climate reality. Time for the masses to realize the severity of this crisis.”

=> ↺ The Nation ☛ On a Rapidly Warming Planet, Home Is a Luxury

• Greenville Calif.—Pines and firs parched by a three-year drought had been burning for days on a ridge 1,000 feet above my remote mountain town. On August 4, 2021, the flames suddenly flared into a heat so intense it formed a molten cloud the color of bruised flesh. As that sinister cumulus rose above an oval-shaped reservoir, it collapsed, sending red-hot embers down the steep slopes toward Greenville in a storm of torched trees and exploding shrubs. It took less than 30 minutes for the Dixie fire to transform my town’s tarnished Gold Rush charm into a heap of smoldering hand-hewn timbers and century-old brick walls.

=> ↺ European Commission ☛ Circular economy: Commission recommends actions to boost recycling in 18 Member States at risk of missing waste targets*

• European Commission Press release Brussels, 08 Jun 2023 In a report published today, the Commission identifies Member States at risk of not meeting the 2025 preparing for re-use and recycling targets for municipal and all packaging waste and the 2035 landfilling target.

Energy/Transportation

=> ↺ Michael West Media ☛ Drivers face pump pain as profits fuel inflation debate

• Petrol prices are set to surge above $2 a litre this long weekend as new details emerge about what is really driving inflation.

• Motorists have been urged to sniff around for bargains before the King’s Birthday break, with analysis uncovering as much as 45 cents difference between the cheapest and most expensive fuel.

=> ↺ Michael West Media ☛ ACT bans new gas connections, but BBQs have green light

• An Australian-first law to ban new gas network connections has been passed in the ACT but households can still fire up the gas barbecue.

• Energy and Emissions Reduction Minister Shane Rattenbury said the ACT was leading the way on climate change action, with Canberra aiming to be a zero-emissions capital.

=> ↺ DeSmog ☛ DeSmog Launches Industrial Aquaculture Project

• At first glance, fish might seem like a climate-friendly alternative to meat for a world that needs to shift away from carbon-intensive cattle. At least the seafood farming (or ‘aquaculture’) industry would have you see it that way.Right now the market for farmed fish like salmon is booming. In fact it’s the fastest-growing food sector in the world. This is thanks in no small part to excellent marketing that brands this fish as the ‘chicken of the sea’: low-carbon, easy to cook and sustainable.

• But there’s a hitch with this ‘sustainable protein’ spin. Like other intensive farming sectors, aquaculture has been dogged by controversy, and accused of varied ecological and social harms including animal welfare concerns, pollution and highly complex, extractive supply chains, which source the feed that farmed fish rely on.

=> ↺ European Commission ☛ EU among first to accept WTO Agreement on Fisheries Subsidies

• European Commission Press release Brussels, 08 Jun 2023 The EU today formally accepted the World Trade Organization (WTO) Agreement on Fisheries Subsidies on behalf of its 27 Member States.

=> ↺ DeSmog ☛ How Fishmeal Factories Put Food Out of Reach for Communities in The Gambia

• The fishmeal trade is undermining human rights and putting jobs at risk in The Gambia, a new report has found.

• Research by Amnesty International has uncovered a range of social and environmental problems caused by the country’s three fish processing factories, which are strung out along the small West African country’s 30 kilometre coastline. 

=> ↺ DeSmog ☛ They’re not energy companies – they’re fossil fuel companies

• If Marty McFly and Doc were to travel from the past to spring 2023, they’d think that the Delorean had gotten the date wrong; it’s just too hot for this time of year. But thermometers don’t lie. Spain and several Mediterranean countries registered heat in April that would be “almost impossible” without climate change, as an attribution study recently indicated. The same specialists found that the period of extreme temperatures endured by several South Asian regions was at least 30 times more likely the result of global warming. The situation is the same across the world.

=> ↺ DeSmog ☛ Replace fossil fuels — with more fossil fuels? That’s one major utility’s plan.

• By Katie Myers, Grist. This story was originally published in Grist, and is republished here as part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalism collaboration strengthening coverage of the climate crisis.

• Austin Wall was attending an environmental law conference at the University of Tennessee not long ago when, during a discussion of natural gas pipeline projects, a map appeared on the screen and gave him a surprise.

Wildlife/Nature

=> ↺ Scheerpost ☛ You Sure You Want To Eat That Sentient Being? (w/ Peter Singer)

• Peter Singer’s classic work on animal welfare, remastered for the modern age, remains a timeless source of the lessons he has passionately conveyed for the past 50 years.

=> ↺ TwinCities Pioneer Press ☛ How safe is the air? Here’s how to check and what the numbers mean

• The Environmental Protection Agency monitors the air around the country and compiles an air quality index, or AQI.

=> ↺ uni Stanford ☛ Coming to our Senses: Nature Connection As a Shift in Perspective

• The ability to perceive or think differently is more important than the knowledge gained. – David Bohm A friend told me about an experience she had, which I return to often.

=> ↺ Democracy Now ☛ “Airpocalypse”: David Wallace-Wells on Red Skies, Raging Wildfires & Pollution Link to Climate Crisis

• Record-breaking Canadian wildfires continue to fill skies across much of North America with smoke, putting about 100 million people under air quality alerts. New York City recorded the worst air quality of any major city in the world as a result of the haze. Around the world, air pollution is already responsible for as many as 10 million deaths per year, and the problem is likely to get worse, says New York Times opinion writer David Wallace-Wells. He explains how today’s smoky skies are a glimpse of our future in the climate crisis, when warmer temperatures and dry conditions will continue to increase the size and severity of wildfires across the globe. “It’s not just that we’re getting more fires, and it’s not even that they’re getting larger. They’re also getting much more intense, which means that they are cooking much of the landscape,” says Wallace-Wells, author of The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming. We also hear from Cree/Iroquois/French journalist Brandi Morin, who just returned from reporting on the wildfires raging in the remote Indigenous community of Fort Chipewyan in Canada’s North, which she calls the “epicenter of the effects of climate change because it’s downstream from one of the largest oil production developments in the world, Alberta’s oil sands.”

=> ↺ Scheerpost ☛ New York Reports Worst Air Quality in the World as Smoke Creeps Along the Coast

• Canadian wildfires send smoke and air pollution to more than 55 million Americans.

=> ↺ Hackaday ☛ Robotic Fox Is Part Dog, Part Cat — Just Like The Real Thing

• Foxes are cat software running on dog hardware, or so they say. And [Will Cogley] seems to have taken that to heart with this 3D-printed robotic fox, which borrows heavily from projects like Boston Dynamics Spot robodog. True, the analogy breaks down a bit when you include MIT’s Cheetah on the inspiration list, but you get the point.

=> ↺ DeSmog ☛ Oil and Pipeline Companies Are Backing a ‘Water Quality Restoration’ Project in North America’s Biggest Swamp

• Covering a million acres along Louisiana’s central southwest coast, the Atchafalaya Basin is the largest contiguous swamp in North America. It’s home to centuries-old tupelo and cypress trees, along with dozens of species of shellfish and fish, from shrimp and crawfish to freshwater drum and catfish.

• This abundance makes the Basin one the most important points on the Mississippi Flyway, a bustling migratory route that millions of birds travel annually, stretching from breeding grounds in Canada to wintering grounds in Central and South America.

Overpopulation

=> ↺ The Economist ☛ Russia’s population nightmare is going to get even worse

• War is not the sole—or even the main—cause of these troubles, but it has made them all worse. According to Western estimates, 175,000-250,000 Russian soldiers have been killed or wounded in the past year (Russia’s figures are lower). Somewhere between 500,000 and 1m mostly young, educated people have evaded the meat-grinder by fleeing abroad. Even if Russia had no other demographic problems, losing so many in such a short time would be painful. As it is, the losses of war are placing more burdens on a shrinking, ailing population. Russia may be entering a doom loop of demographic decline.

Finance

=> ↺ Caution for Indian IT Professionals: 9 US Companies with the Highest Layoffs of Indian Professionals

=> ↺ Study: Washington state 22nd in the nation for increasing unemployment claims

=> ↺ Michael West Media ☛ Eurozone slips into slight recession

• Eurozone economic output contracted for two consecutive quarters, according to official revised figures, meaning it has entered a technical recession.

• Gross domestic product (GDP) dropped by 0.1 per cent over the first three months of 2023 compared to the fourth quarter of 2022.

=> ↺ Michael West Media ☛ Business Lobby’s War on Albo

=> ↺ Massive Tech Layoffs In 2023: Major Companies & Startups Slash Jobs

• The tech industry’s reckoning from last year continues.. Tens of thousands of tech workers lost their jobs in significant layoffs in 2023, but this time, the biggest names in the industry, including Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Yahoo, Meta, and Zoom, were responsible Startups have also announced layoffs in every industry, from enterprise SaaS to cryptocurrency.

• The macroeconomic environment and the need for discipline on a bumpy road to profitability are frequently the causes of workforce reductions.

=> ↺ India Today ☛ Byju’s is said to fire 1,000 more employees to cut costs

• Byju’s is said to fire hundreds of more employees at the company. A new report claims that the Edtech startup is planning to layoff 1,000 more employees, as part of its cost-cutting measures and to streamline operations. The latest round of layoffs will be impacting a few departments and some third-party staffers. Here is everything we know so far.

• Byju’s first announced the layoff of 2,500 employees back in October 2022 and now, the company is ready to let go of more workers, as per an ET report. The employees who were working on a contractual basis in the on-ground sales teams will be affected the most.

AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics

=> ↺ Marcy Wheeler ☛ Prosecutors Interviewing Witnesses Who Knew Trump Was Hoarding Documents

• The WaPo story reporting that most stolen documents charges will be filed in Florida is more reliable than the report promising an indictment today.

=> ↺ Hollywood Reporter ☛ Longtime Amazon Executive Jeff Blackburn Elected to Roku Board of Directors

• Blackburn most recently served as Amazon’s svp for global media and entertainment, where his purview included Prime Video, Amazon Studios, Amazon Music, Audible and Twitch, among other divisions. The executive retired from Amazon earlier this year after more than two decades at the company, which he first joined in 1998 after helping Amazon with its IPO while working at Deutsche Bank.

=> ↺ Vice Media Group ☛ Pornhub Tells Users to Take Action Before Politicians Take Their Porn Away

• The laws — Virginia SB 1515, Mississippi SB 2346, and Arkansas SB 66 — are copycats of a law passed in Louisiana in January that makes porn sites liable for content that’s “harmful to minors,” and punishes site owners if they don’t doesn’t install age verification technology. For Pornhub viewers in Louisiana, this means submitting to an age check using their driver’s license or other government-issued ID. Privacy experts have called these kinds of laws a “time bomb” for identity theft.

=> ↺ DroidGazzette ☛ Apple wants to build 324,000 square feet of office space in North Carolina

• The campus, which could house more than 3,000 workers, calls for buildings up to 73 feet tall, up to 8 stories, and sits on 281 acres of land.

• According to WRAL Tech Wire, Apple filed the paperwork on May 30, and had begun applying for permits within Wake County in August 2022. The permits were related to clearing land and managing stormwater before construction officially began.

=> ↺ WRAL Techwire ☛ Apple files plans for 324,000 square feet of office space at RTP campus

• An application shows plans for a 324,000-square-foot office, calling for professional space with buildings up to 73 feet tall, roughly 6 to 8 stories. Apple filed the site work plans on May 30 in order to start moving dirt.

• For context, 324,000 square feet is about twice the size of the average Walmart Supercenter.

• Apple was previously awarded $1.2 billion in an incentive package from the state.

=> ↺ Common Dreams ☛ We Love the Smell Of Indictments In the Evening

• Oh yeah. Thank God, Jack Smith, the Boxes Hoax and just this once the media for the news twice-impeached, once-indicted, sedition-attempting, legally liable for sexual abuse grifter, mobster, rancid heap of human garbage and cameo actor in Home Alone 2 Donald Trump has been indicted, this time reportedly on seven federal charges ranging from willful retention of national defense information under the Espionage Act to conspiracy to obstruct justice to making “false statements.” Espionage! Good times.

=> ↺ The Nation ☛ Mike Pence’s Presidential Amnesia

• In the old model of right-wing leadership, a tour as vice president served as a major selling point in a pitch for the presidency. It was, after all, the sole basis for Richard Nixon’s claim to Serious Leader status and the only conceivable explanation for George H.W. Bush’s election. Even Bush’s own achievement-challenged second in command, Dan Quayle, felt more or less obliged to half-heartedly launch his own presidential bid in 2000.

=> ↺ Michael West Media ☛ PM defends Gallagher on Higgins text allegations

• Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has defended his Finance Minister Katy Gallagher amid allegations she misled parliament about when she knew about ex-Liberal staffer Brittany Higgins’ rape allegation.

• Ms Higgins reached a compensation agreement with the Commonwealth in December 2022 after she launched legal action against her employers in the previous coalition government.

=> ↺ The Nation ☛ New CNN Logo/Tattoo

=> ↺ The Nation ☛ Does Fatima Mousa Mohammed Oppose Israel’s Very Existence?

• Fatima Mousa Mohammed said many things during her 12-minute commencement address to the City University New York School of Law graduating class of 2023, earning her a ferocious rebuke—some of it right, much of it wrong—from Ted Cruz, Eric Adams, various Jewish organizations, and CUNY itself, among others. A student speaker selected by her peers, Mohammed made relatively little mention of the “fascist NYPD” compared to her heavy focus on Israel, which broadly commingled the Jewish state with white supremacy, and her calls for the end to “capitalism, racism, imperialism, and Zionism around the world.” She had previously tweeted: “may every Zionist burn in the hottest pit of hell.”

=> ↺ The Nation ☛ How the John Birch Society Won the Long Game

• Even at the peak of its influence in the early 1960s, the John Birch Society was regarded as something of a joke by liberals and conservatives alike. The Birchers were so extreme that many of them thought Barry Goldwater and Richard Nixon were too soft. One California Bircher opined that if Nixon won the Republican gubernatorial primary, “we might as well teach our children how to count in rubles.” Robert Welch, the ex-candymaker and Harvard Law dropout who founded the John Birch Society, became infamous for describing Dwight Eisenhower as a “dedicated, conscious agent of the communist conspiracy.”

=> ↺ The Nation ☛ The Right’s Latest Target: No-Fault Divorce

• Republicans have been on quite a successful rampage against modern life: banning abortion, trying to make contraception harder to get, dumping books about race, sex, gender, and the Holocaust (the Holocaust?!) from school libraries, tormenting trans people. You’d think they’d take a break, but no—now they’ve set their sights on a new target: no-fault divorce. Leading the charge are Republican legislators in some of the worst states for women (looking at you, Louisiana!) and reactionary anti-feminist ranters like Ben Shapiro, Matt Walsh, and Steven Crowder. Fun story: Crowder went viral for portraying himself as a victim of no-fault divorce, expressing shock that his wife could divorce him without his permission even “in Texas”—shortly before a video emerged in which he berated his heavily pregnant wife for, among other domestic failings, not being “wife-worthy.” Milton, thou shouldst be living at this hour!

=> ↺ The Nation ☛ America’s Suburbs Are Breeding Grounds for Fascism

• The Target closest to where I sit is in Torrington, Conn. It’s next to a Home Depot, a Wendy’s, a Walgreens, a Walmart, a Chipotle. Driving is the only option here, unless you’re willing to take the one available bus from downtown and then walk along one of two large highways that bisect the area. If you drive down a few miles, roads without sidewalks appear, on which sit houses for sale—four bedrooms, new construction, two-car garages, and gray exteriors.

=> ↺ Michael West Media ☛ Barunga Voice Declaration calls on people to vote ‘yes’

• Minister for Indigenous Australians Linda Burney has been handed a declaration by the Northern Territory’s four land councils in support of a First Nations voice in the upcoming referendum.

• More than 200 representatives of the Northern, Central, Tiwi and Anindilyakwa councils are gathered on the traditional lands of the Bagala (Jawoyn) people southeast of Katherine for the Barunga Festival, which began on Friday.

Misinformation/Disinformation/Propaganda

=> ↺ NPR ☛ DeSantis campaign shares apparent AI-generated fake images of Trump and Fauci

• In a collage of six pictures of the two men, three appear to be AI-generated fakes depicting Trump and Fauci embracing. The other three are real photos of the two men together in March 2020, according to AFP, which first identified the fakes.

• “It was particularly sneaky to intermix the real and the fake images, as if the presence of the real image would give more credibility to the other images,” said Hany Farid, a digital forensics expert and professor at the University of California, Berkeley.

Censorship/Free Speech

=> ↺ The Nation ☛ New York’s Prison System Abruptly Halts a Policy Censoring Artists and Writers

• On May 11, New York’s Department of Corrections and Community Supervision (DOCCS) quietly issued Directive 4406, requiring incarcerated writers and artists to submit all creative works to the prison superintendent for approval before being sent to a nonprofit organization for publication or exhibition. Writers and artists would not be allowed to receive money, or even a nonfinancial prize such as a book, for their works. The directive defined creative works as including books, art, music, poetry, film scripts, and other writings. It allowed the superintendent to deny approval based on several vaguely worded criteria, including any depiction of the author or artist’s crime or victims, advocating rebellion against governmental authority, or portraying law enforcement or DOCCS “in a manner which could jeopardize safety and security.”

• “This is censorship,” Bellamy said. “If that directive had been in effect [when I was behind bars], the superintendent would not have let me publish about Covid or the death of Val Gaiter [New York’s longest-serving incarcerated woman],” he said.

=> ↺ Techdirt ☛ Jim Jordan Further Weaponizes His Subcommittee On The Weaponization Of The Gov’t To Chill Speech

• Rep. Jim Jordan is at it again. You’ll recall that Jordan ignored subpoenas from the January 6th Committee and was referred to the House Ethics Committee for his failure to respond to those subpoenas. Of course, since being handed the keys to the brand new (created just for him) “Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Government,” Jordan has been furiously flinging spurious subpoenas left and right, and then threatening contempt proceedings for anyone who ignores them.

=> ↺ Techdirt ☛ Tennessee Appeals Court Says Vanity License Plates Are Likely Protected Speech

• There have been lots of legal battles fought over proprietary blends of numbers and letters. States collecting a premium for vanity plates claim this is government speech, since it’s a state-issued plate. Or, if it’s not quite government speech, it’s the government’s tacit approval of this speech, even if the vanity plate really only contains statements made by plate owners.

=> ↺ Meduza ☛ Russian authorities block all sites of human rights advocacy group OVD-Info — Meduza

• Russia’s federal censorship agency, Roskomnadzor, has blocked all of the websites run by the human rights advocacy group OVD-Info. The authorities have not provided a reason for the blockage, according to the organization’s statement.

Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press

=> ↺ IT Wire ☛ Assange to launch second appeal against extradition after losing first bid

• WikiLeaks founder and publisher Julian Assange has lost an appeal to the High Court against a British extradition order which aims to send him to the US for trial over alleged espionage charges.

• However, his wife, Stella, said he would launch a fresh appeal on Tuesday (13 June).

• The rejection of his appeal occurred on 6 June and the decision was made by a single judge, according to the organisation Reporters Without Borders.

=> ↺ Scheerpost ☛ UK: Julian Assange Dangerously Close to Extradition Following High Court Rejection of Appeal

• By Reporters Without Borders Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is deeply concerned by the UK High Court’s decision rejecting WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange’s appeal against his extradition order, bringing him dangerously close to being extradited to the United States, where he could face the rest of his life in prison for publishing leaked classified documents in […]

=> ↺ The Dissenter ☛ Justice Severely Delayed and Denied: UK High Court Rejects Assange’s Request For Appeal After Nearly A Year

=> ↺ The Dissenter ☛ The FBI’s Role In the War on WikiLeaks

Civil Rights/Policing

=> ↺ 37signals LLC ☛ Hybrid combines the worst of office and remote work

• The honeymoon for remote work is over, and managers who never liked the concept to begin with are plotting its complete reversal, so that things may return to how they were before The Great Remote Experiment. This experiment convinced millions of employees of how much better life could be without a commute or even having to live by the office, but also left uneasy the legions of managers whose skills and mindsets were anchored in the office.

• This reversal plot is know as hybrid work, and combines the worst of in-office and remote work worlds. The shrewd – but likely temporary – concession here is starting with three days in the office, two from home. By starting like this, managers who have no interest in remote work at all can claim to have “compromised”, dulling the urge to revolt. Then once resistance has worn down, the last two days can be dropped, and a full-time office reality can once again reign supreme.

=> ↺ Patrick Breyer ☛ #Qatargate: New Ethics Body is toothless

• Today, the European Commission presented its plans for an inter-institutional Ethics Body in response to the “Qatargate” corruption scandal in the European Parliament to increase transparency in nine major EU institutions. But the proposed measures, such as a creating an ethics supervisory body without investigative and enforcement powers, are toothless, criticise MEPs from the Pirate Party, who recently presented their own proposals to increase transparency and integrity.

=> ↺ NPR ☛ Courts have long seen K-9 dogs as impartial. Now police bodycams hold them accountable

• A newly filed federal lawsuit in Texas shows cameras’ potential to undermine K-9 unit legitimacy. Houston resident Alek Schott accuses Bexar County Sheriff’s deputy Joel Babb of pulling him over on Interstate 35 on false pretenses, and then, when he refused to give permission to search his pickup truck, he says K-9 unit deputy Martin A. Molina III prompted his dog to “alert” to the scent of drugs.

• Historically, that claim would have been nearly impossible to prove. But in this case, Schott requested and received the officers’ body camera footage, giving him almost the same view the K-9 handler had — including the moment the handler’s right hand made a gesture toward the attentive dog, which then jumped up on the pickup’s door.

=> ↺ Hollywood Reporter ☛ Writers’ Shut-It-Down Strategy Has Been Effective, Executives Privately Concede

• The focus on shutdowns, which rely on the cooperation of fellow workplace unions, is a remarkable shift for the Writers Guild. During its previous strike in 2007-08, when it found itself far more isolated and at odds with its nominal labor allies, there was no equivalent strategy. Now the guild finds itself the beneficiary of unity, in alignment with the fractious Hollywood worker caucus of other unions, each nursing their own set of at times overlapping grievances, and eager to soften the ground for their own contract negotiations. For its part, the WGA declined to “discuss the specifics” of the shutdown strategy.

• On average, a lost day of production costs companies between $200,000 and $300,000. Insurance policies don’t cover shutdowns that are caused by the strike. Leading industry underwriter Allianz notes to THR, “It is still early days and too soon to speculate on any impact on future insurance premiums.”

=> ↺ The Nation ☛ The Racist, Insulting Resurgence of Work Requirements

• The nation has averted an entirely manufactured financial crisis. Last week, President Biden signed a deal hashed out with House Republicans to raise the debt ceiling—an arbitrary limit Congress places on how much debt the Treasury can take on to pay for the bills Congress itself already incurred—which means a US default, which could have wrecked the economy, is off the table until 2025.

=> ↺ Michael West Media ☛ Sydney Cemetery War: meet the new boss, same as the old boss

• New Minister for Cemeteries, Steve Kamper, risks breaching the NSW Government’s direct dealings guidelines and a referral to ICAC over promises made to the Catholic Archdiocese before the March election. Callum Foote and Michael West report on the battle for control of Sydney’s cemeteries.

• To borrow from The Who’s classic rock song, Won’t Get Fooled Again, “meet the new boss, same as the old boss”, the Catholic hierarchy of the new Labor government under Chris Minns finds itself with the same grave challenges as the former government of Dominic Perrottet.

=> ↺ Pro Publica ☛ Texas Lawmakers Quietly Pull Funding for Child ID Kits

• For months, Texas lawmakers were on track to spend millions of taxpayer dollars to continue distributing child identification kits to Texas schoolchildren, a program championed by state officials.

• In April, both the Texas House and Senate approved preliminary budgets that included money for the National Child Identification Program’s kits.

=> ↺ Scheerpost ☛ The Cultural Looting of Gaza

• Human Rights activist Miko Peled on the theft of priceless archaeological treasures from Gaza, which he argues is part of a larger Israeli campaign of genocide and erasure.

=> ↺ Scheerpost ☛ Supreme Court Weakened Legal Protections for Striking. Only Jackson Dissented.

• Unions still have the right to strike, but eight Supreme Court members erected barriers to that fundamental right.

=> ↺ Meduza ☛ Call it fascism Jonathan Littell on the trial of Oleg Orlov and why imprisoned dissidents are the freest people in today’s Russia — Meduza

• A new political trial started in Moscow on Thursday, June 8. The defendant is Oleg Orlov, a Russian scientist, scholar, human rights advocate, and co-founder of Memorial, Russia’s key civil liberties organization, awarded a Nobel Peace Prize in 2022. The Russian authorities are accusing Orlov of “rehabilitating Nazism” and “discrediting the Russian military” — because he’s dared to compare Vladimir Putin’s regime to the fascist regimes of the past century. The lifelong activist is now threatened with up to five years in prison. The French-American novelist Jonathan Littell, who conducted humanitarian work in Chechnya in the early aughts, witnessing the warfare of Putin’s early years in power, writes about Oleg Orlov, the self-contradictory nature of the charges he is facing, and the importance of defiant dissidents like Orlov and their apparently impractical determination to remain in Russia, facing prosecution. Meduza has translated Littell’s defense of Oleg Orlov originally published in French.

Internet Policy/Net Neutrality

=> ↺ APNIC ☛ IPv6 in Pakistan

• Guest Post: How regulatory or policy support can support IPv6 deployment in Pakistan.

Monopolies

Patents and EU

=> ↺ European Commission ☛ Rule of Law: Commission launches infringement procedure against POLAND for violating EU law with the new law establishing a special committee [Ed: "Rule of Law" cannot be preached by the European Commission after its grotesque attack on laws, constitutions and conventions with the Unified Patent Kangaroo Court]

• European Commission Press release Brussels, 08 Jun 2023 Today, the European Commission opened an infringement procedure by sending a letter of formal notice to Poland for violations of EU law.

=> ↺ European Commission ☛ State aid: Commission approves up to €8.1 billion of public support by fourteen Member States for an Important Project of Common European Interest in microelectronics and communication technologies

• European Commission Press release Brussels, 08 Jun 2023 The Commission has approved, under EU State aid rules, an Important Project of Common European Interest (‘IPCEI’) to support research, innovation and the first industrial deployment of microelectronics and communication technologies across the value chain.

=> ↺ European Commission ☛ EU Chips Act triggers further €22 billion investment into European semiconductor value chain | Statement by Commissioner Thierry Breton [Ed: Thierry Breton, who keeps promoting criminals at the EPO and pushed for an illegal, unconstitutional, kangaroo court in direct violation of international conventions. What does the Commission stand for these days?]

• European Commission Statement Brussels, 08 Jun 2023

• Today the European Commission approved a large Important Project of Common European Interest (IPCEI) on Microelectronics and Communication Technologies…

Software Patents

=> ↺ The Register UK ☛ MediaTek accused of setting ‘patent troll’ on rival, says it will defend itself

• Realtek names Future Link Systems, LLC as the patent assertion company in question, but is also suing Future Link’s parent company, IPValue Management, as part of the same case.

=> ↺ Reuters ☛ MediaTek says will defend itself in accusation over patent ‘bounty’ agreement

• Realtek Semiconductor Corp’s lawsuit, lodged in California, accuses MediaTek of conspiring with IPValue Management Inc in an effort to drive Realtek out of the market and monopolise the industry for chips used in smart televisions and set-top boxes.

=> ↺ Techdirt ☛ US Patent Office Proposes Rule To Make It Much Harder To Kill Bad Patents

• So, this is bad. Over the last few years, we’ve written plenty about the so-called “inter partes review” or “IPR” that came into being about a decade ago as part of the “America Invents Act,” which was the first major change to the patent system in decades. For much of the first decade of the 2000s, patent trolls were running wild and creating a massive tax on innovation. There were so many stories of people (mostly lawyers) getting vague and broad patents that they never had any intention of commercializing, then waiting for someone to come along and build something actually useful and innovative… and then shaking them down with the threat of patent litigation.

Copyrights

=> ↺ Torrent Freak ☛ Pirate IPTV: Running Costs of UK’s Largest Service Revealed

• Last month five men behind pirate IPTV service ‘Flawless’ were sentenced to more than 30 years in prison. While the service generated millions in revenue, operations like this also cost a lot to run. So how much does it cost to buy pirate streams wholesale? Rent server infrastructure? Pay almost two dozen members of staff? Documents seen by TorrentFreak provide the answers.

=> ↺ Torrent Freak ☛ ‘Nude Scenes’ Controversy Triggers Call on Reddit to Filter Infringing Uploads

• Reddit allows people to freely share and discuss content but that freedom has its downsides too. In Denmark, several actors feel abused and violated by Reddit users who clip and share their nude scenes completely out of context. There is a copyright angle to this as well, as the Rights Alliance urges Reddit to provide tools to screen uploads for potential infringements.

=> ↺ The Nation ☛ Raging Bullshit: Credits and the Hollywood Economy

• On May 24, the streaming platform Max, until recently HBO Max, and before that just HBO, issued an apology for a “an oversight in the technical transition from HBO Max to Max.” News of the “oversight” went viral on Twitter, thanks to an anonymous user posting under the handle John Frankensteiner.

Gemini* and Gopher

Personal/Opinions

=> ↺ pet mortality

• I have to come to terms with my dog’s aging and death.

• It’s super hard on me to spot new things each month. Progression of his diseases, signs of old age, changes in his behavior or routines, changes in how he behaves on his walks. Sadly, 6 months are really, really long in a dog’s life, accounted for their overall lifespan. For us, it’s basically nothing, but for them and their bodies, it’s like multiple years. So much can change in that time.

• [...]

• I just think it’s heart breaking to see and know the dog from back then is still in there, but trapped in a failing meat suit, a prison. Thankfully he is still fine in the sense of eating well, pooping and drinking well, being playful, happy, wagging his tail, excited for walks, enjoying pets, and being talkative. But it’s only a matter of months or weeks until he will probably enter the final stage of Cushings, in which he becomes too weak to walk properly, or becomes completely incontinent, pissing himself constantly. That is when it’s time to let go.

=> ↺ is someone’s opinion all that matters?

• Short answer, no. Everyone has different opinions on everything, and even when they do, it’s usually because of different reasons. So if you care about the other person’s opinions, it’s usually because either you can only see people as big balls of different opinions (so that you’d think it’s the only thing you can leech on to others), or you take your opinions more seriously than you probably should (as in all your identity is based around opinions). Otherwise even if the reasons are the same, it’s still just 1 opinion, and there are many other opinions that exists within a person.

=> ↺ K-On!

• Girl joining school club, girls do stuff, girl learn guitar, perform, meet people, do more stuff, somehow everything goes smooth, drink tea, a lot of tea, get stupid reasons, resolve stupid reasons.

=> ↺ 🔤SpellBinding: ADHLOTU Wordo: FACTY

Technology and Free Software

Internet/Gemini

=> ↺ Gemini Identity

• @Morgan has a prototype implementation of an identity service for Gemini. This is certainly interesting! Some quick thoughts: * If this is something that people want to use, it should not rely on a single central server. Anyone should be able to self-host their identity service and servers should not assume a default one. * How does this mesh with people not wanting to be tracked across Geminispace? I suppose you can just opt not to use an identity service if you want to remain more anonymous.

=> ↺ BBS Comments on Cosmos

• Cosmos has been updated to check bbs.geminispace.org for comment posts. Let’s see if this one appears in there!

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