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⦿ IRC Proceedings: Friday, May 06, 2022 | Techrights
⦿ Plasma Desktop in Latest KDE Neon (State-of-the-Art Plasma) | Techrights
䷼ Bulletin articles (as HTML) to comment on (requires login):
http://techrights.org/2022/05/07/irc-log-060522/#comments
http://techrights.org/2022/05/07/state-of-the-art-plasma/#comments
䷞ Followed by Daily Links (assorted news picks curated and categorised):
http://techrights.org/2022/05/07/non-tech-topics/#comments
http://techrights.org/2022/05/07/sparkylinux-6-3/#comments
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Plasma Desktop in Latest KDE Neon
Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 4.0
http://techrights.org/videos/plasma-in-kde-neon.webm
Summary: KDE Neon had a new release this past Thursday; I’ve decided to show
what OS I tinker with these days (GNU/Linux at the cutting/bleeding edge)
THE current OS that I use (on the new machine) is KDE Neon. It is a very low
end machine, but it copes OK with the best of KDE.
The above video shows some of the newer elements of the current experience/
layout of Plasma, which changes every year or at least every month. It is the
most versatile and powerful desktop environment out there, but it’s not as
intimidating as it was in the late 1990s because advanced options are sheltered
away deeper inside menus and windows. Don’t want them? Then don’t use them!
“It is the most versatile and powerful desktop environment out there, but it’s
not as intimidating as it was in the late 1990s because advanced options are
sheltered away deeper inside menus and windows.”KDE Neon isn’t_recommended_for
production_machines (this isn’t my main OS yet), but for those of us who are
KDE enthusiasts (I’ve used it since I was a teenager) it’s a potentially fun
experience. Not too shockingly I managed to cause Plasma to crash halfway
through the video above (it self-recovered). KDE Neon has long been the subject
of intrigue because of its unique development and distribution model. You can
download it here (the latest_release_is_just_2-3_days_old). These live images
mean you can test-drive the OS without actually installing it (until you feel
confident enough). █
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Posted in News_Roundup at 11:27 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
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§ Contents⠀➾
* GNU/Linux
o Distributions
o Devices/Embedded
* Free_Software/Open_Source
* Leftovers
* § GNU/Linux⠀➾
o ⚓ I_deleted_Windows!_And_switched_to_Fedora⠀⇛
Last sunday I finally decided it’s time to leave Windows
properly behind. I had Windows installed on my PC just in
case I want to dualboot back to it.
But almost year has been gone by since I switched to
Kubuntu and.. Nope. I didn’t boot Windows single time
during this ~11 months.
Also I switched to Fedora because things went wrong with
partition resizing…
o § Audiocasts/Shows⠀➾
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Hackaday_Podcast_167:_Deadly_Art_Projects,_Robot
Lock_Pickers,_LED_Horticulture,_And_Good_Samaritan_Repairs⠀⇛
Join Hackaday Editor-in-Chief Elliot Williams and
Managing Editor Tom Nardi for a review of all the
tech that’s fit to print. Things kick off with an
update about the Hackaday Prize and a brief account
of the 2022 Vintage Computer Festival East. Then
we’ll talk about an exceptionally dangerous art
project that’s been making the rounds on social
media, a smart tea kettle that gave its life so
that others can hack their device’s firmware, some
suspiciously effective plant grow lights, and the
slippery slope of remote manufacturer kill
switches. We’ll wrap things up with some thought
provoking discussion about personal liability as it
pertains to community repair groups, and a close
look at what makes synthetic oil worth spending
extra on.
o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾
# ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ How_to_Install_a_Desktop_Environment/GUI_in
Ubuntu_Server⠀⇛
Most servers don’t need a graphical interface, but
sometimes they can be a big help. Here’s how to
install a desktop environment in Ubuntu Server.
# ⚓ How_to_Install_GNU_Octave_on_Ubuntu⠀⇛
Linux is used by many professionals in many fields.
One of them is programming and specifically in
science-oriented programming. That’s why today, you
will learn how to install GNU Octave on Ubuntu
20.04. This programming language will help you to
work with numbers focused on calculations related
to various sciences.
# ⚓ TecAdmin ☛ How_To_Install_PHP_(8.1,_7.4_or_5.6)_on_Ubuntu
22.04_–_TecAdmin⠀⇛
PHP is a programming language used for developing
web applications. You must install PHP packages on
a Ubuntu system to run the application written on
it. Generally, it is used to create e-commerce
websites, blogs, and API applications.
We will use the Ondrej PPA for installing PHP on
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS system. Which contains PHP 8.1,
8.0, 7.4, 7.3, 7.2. 7.1, 7.0 & PHP 5.6 packages.
You can install any of them version as required for
your application. The new application developers
are suggested to use latest PHP version ie PHP 8.1.
In this tutorial, you will learn how to install PHP
on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS system. This tutorial is also
compatible with Ubuntu 20.04, and 18.04 systems.
# ⚓ Ubuntu Handbook ☛ How_to_Share_Folder_/_Transfer_Files_over
LAN_in_Ubuntu_22.04_|_UbuntuHandbook⠀⇛
Want to share your files over local network or
transfer file from one PC to another PC? Here are a
few commonly used ways to do the job in Ubuntu
22.04 LTS.
# ⚓ Linux Made Simple ☛ How_to_install_Kdenlive_22.04.0_on_a
Chromebook⠀⇛
Today we are looking at how to install Kdenlive
22.04.0 on a Chromebook. Please follow the video/
audio guide as a tutorial where we explain the
process step by step and use the commands below.
# ⚓ Monitor_And_Administer_Linux_Servers_Using_Cockpit_–
OSTechNix⠀⇛
This guide explains what is Cockpit tool and how to
install Cockpit in various Linux distributions, and
finally how to manage and administer Linux servers
using Cockpit via a web browser.
# ⚓ Linux_Top_Command_Explained⠀⇛
# ⚓ APNIC ☛ The_transition_to_IPv6:_Are_we_there_yet?⠀⇛
The saga of the IPv6 transition continues to
surprise us all. RFC 2460, the first complete
effort at a specification of the IPv6 protocol, was
published in December 1998, more than twenty years
ago.
The entire point of IPv6 was to specify a successor
protocol to IPv4 due to the prospect of running out
of IPv4 addresses. Yet we ran out of IPv4 addresses
more than a decade ago. This transition to IPv6 has
been going on for 20 years now, and if there was
any urgency that was instilled in the effort by the
prospect of IPv4 address exhaustion, then we’ve
been living with exhaustion for a decade now. So
perhaps it’s time to ask the question: How much
longer is this transition going to take?
This was the question that was put to a panel at
the recent ARIN 49 meeting, and, predictably, there
was no clear consensus as to what the answer might
be. I’d like to explore this question here in a
little more detail.
# ⚓ X25519 Key Exchange ☛ Hands-on:_X25519_Key_Exchange⠀⇛
Key exchange is a mechanism where two parties
(Alice and Bob) can agree on the same number
without an eavesdropper being able to tell what it
is. X25519 is the name of one method of key
exchange, by doing point operations on the
Curve25519 elliptic curve: [...]
# ⚓ Bartosz Ciechanowski ☛ GPS⠀⇛
Global Positioning System is, without a doubt, one
of the most useful inventions of the late 20th
century. It made it significantly easier for ships,
airplanes, cars, and hikers to figure out where
they are with high degree of accuracy.
One of the most exciting aspects of this system are
the satellites surrounding Earth. Here’s a current
constellation of active satellites, you can drag
the view around to see it from different angles:
[...]
# ⚓ Trend Oceans ☛ How_to_Install_GoLang_(Go_Programming
Language)_in_Ubuntu_[5_Steps]⠀⇛
GoLang (also referred to as Go) is an open-source
statically typed programming language developed by
Robert Griesemer, Rob Pike, and Ken Thompson at
Google and launched in November 2009.
GoLang is known to be 3x faster than the python
programming language and supports memory safety,
garbage collection, structural typing, and CSP-
style concurrency.
Stick with us to learn “how to install GoLang in
Ubuntu Linux in 5 simple steps“.
o § Games⠀➾
# ⚓ My_new_project:_Jeuxterm_(online_games_in_terminal)⠀⇛
Hello, fellow Geminauts, Tildezens and whoever else
stumbles upon this post.
I love text-based things, and I love games, and I
love creating stuff. So, I guess, coming up with
this project makes a lot of sense.
In this post I will describe what I have in mind,
what I already have done, and share links and
screenshots. I hope this will be interesting for
some at least!
o § Devices/Embedded⠀➾
# § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾
# ⚓ Writing_“Hello,_world!”_from_scratch_part_I:_making_a
new_ISA⠀⇛
Why would one design a new ISA? With RISC-
V and MIPS being open ISA with great support,
there is not much point in doing so.
Personally, I mostly did this for fun and
artistic aspiration. I had a few ideas
trotting in my head about what a fun ISA
could be. I did want wanted to make a simple
ISA, but rather a family of ISA for 8-bit,
16-bit, 32-bit, 64-bit, or even more bit-
having processors that all share the same
instruction set. At first, I even wanted to
be able to make a processor with exotic word
sizes but I scrapped that idea. I also wanted
a Von Newman architecture and having
instructions being a single indexable amount
of memory. Those three needs combined meant
that I needed to have instruction on only 8
bits. This is quite low, even some 8-bit
computers use 16 bits instructions.
o § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾
# ⚓ [Old] Zimbabwe ☛ Mousai_is_an_awesome_music_identification
app_for_Linux⠀⇛
This is all wonderful but as already hinted in the
introduction getting Shazam to work on Linux is
more of a workaround. It’s also unlikely that there
will ever be a Linux version of Shazam, it seems as
though the team behind the app are not working on
it. And yet sometimes you are busy working on a
laptop when you hear a song play in a movie, TV
show or in your neighbour’s house. Your phone might
not be at hand and you might not want to put your
laptop down and go hunt for it. This is where
Mousai comes in handy.
# § Web Browsers⠀➾
# ⚓ UXCollective ☛ It’s_time_we_fix_the_unethical_design
of_cookie_consent_windows⠀⇛
However, thanks to data protection laws,
sites are now obliged to inform users about
cookies (trackers) and cannot track them
without the user’s consent.
But designers have learned to get around this
law and are using different design techniques
to make users accept all cookies (trackers)
anyway.
I’m targeting designers, not companies, in
this article. I need to write another article
about companies. I think each designer is
responsible for their own design and must
ensure that their design is ethical.
Now, let’s examine the cookie consent window
designs of two companies (N26 and Revolut)
and learn about the design techniques they
use.
# ⚓ Tor ☛ Arti_0.3.0_is_released:_Robustness_and_API
improvements⠀⇛
Arti is our ongoing project to create a
working embeddable Tor client in Rust. It’s
not ready to replace the main Tor
implementation in C, but we believe that it’s
the future.
Right now, our focus is on making Arti
production-quality, by stress-testing the
code, hunting for likely bugs and adding
missing features that we know from experience
that users will need. We’re going to try not
to break backward compatibility too much, but
we’ll do so when we think it’s a good idea.
# § SaaS/Back End/Databases⠀➾
# ⚓ Alexander Solovyov ☛ PostgreSQL_collation⠀⇛
I’ve got into a situation with PG I’ve never
been into before. There is a financial
reports table, containing some description of
a transaction, with columns like date, amount
and comment. And this comment field is often
used to search for something case-
insensitively. This is done best using where
lower(comment) like ‘%some words%’ using
trigram index: [...]
# § Programming/Development⠀➾
# § Shell/Bash/Zsh/Ksh⠀➾
# ⚓ [Old] Alexander Solovyov ☛ Useful_shell
prompt⠀⇛
There are only a few apps I use every
day and shell — ZSH — is one of the
most used. It’s been that way since the
beginning of the ’00s and back then I
spent a lot of time configuring my
prompt to be a good balance between
compact/readable and useful. I found
that I dislike fancy two-line prompts,
information on a right-hand side
(because of its awkward behavior), and
stuff like that. So the result looks
like that: [...]
* § Leftovers⠀➾
o ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Flexures_Make_This_Six-DOF_Positioner_Accurate_To_The
Micron_Level⠀⇛
It’s no secret that we think flexures are pretty cool,
and we’ve featured a number of projects that leverage
these compliant mechanisms to great effect. But when we
saw flexures used in a six-DOF positioner with micron
accuracy, we just had to dig a little deeper.
o ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Tree_Forks_As_Natural_Composite_Joints_In
Architecture⠀⇛
A problem facing architects when designing complex three-
dimensional structures lies in their joints, which must
be strong enough to take the loads and vector forces
applied by the structure, yet light enough not to
dominate it. Many efforts have been made to use
generative design techniques or clever composites to
fabricate them, but as Dezeen reports, a team at MIT are
exploring an unexpected alternative in the form of
naturally occurring tree forks.
o ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Retrotechtacular:_How_Television_Worked_In_The_1950s⠀⇛
Watching television today is a very different experience
from that which our parents would have had at our age,
where we have high-definition digital on-demand streaming
services they had a small number of analogue channels
serving linear scheduled broadcasting. A particular film
coming on TV could be a major event that it was not
uncommon for most of the population to have shared, and
such simple things as a coffee advert could become part
of our common cultural experience. Behind it all was a
minor miracle of synchronised analogue technology taking
the signal from studio to living room, and this is the
subject of a 1952 Coronet film, Television: How It
Works! Sit back and enjoy a trip into a much simpler
world in the video below the break.
o ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Jefferson_and_the_University⠀⇛
o ⚓ The Nation ☛ Jazz_Fest_Is_Back._Let’s_Dance._(But_It’s
Complicated.)⠀⇛
New Orleans, La.—The crush of fans pressing their way
into Gentilly Boulevard gate at 11 am last Friday
revealed a pent-up desire, at last satisfied: The New
Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival was back.
o ⚓ The Nation ☛ 9_Ways_of_Looking_at_Mother’s_Day⠀⇛
o ⚓ The Nation ☛ I_Vance_to_Suck_Your_Blood⠀⇛
o ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Handel_on_Fire⠀⇛
Fire season is upon us. There’s no off-season anymore.
24/7 takes on paradoxically darker and brighter—and ever
hotter—connotations.
One of the biggest, most destructive fires in New
Mexico’s history is sweeping through the mountains east
of Santa Fe, having already engulfed more than 160,000
acres. The Calf Canyon and Merit Peak Fires began as
separate blazes but merged ten days ago. Elsewhere in the
American Southwest dozens of smaller fires rage.
o ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Our_Deeply_Subconscious_Magical_Thinking⠀⇛
One thing he explained was that large birds like ducks
and eagles travel typically by day, navigating by land
features, whereas songbirds and warblers fly at night and
navigate off the stars. Some birds, weighing barely an
ounce, fly 450 miles a day for a week straight, sometimes
over long stretches of open water, just to get back home
to their natural breeding grounds. He described how the
shapes of certain land masses, like in the Middle East
can funnel large numbers of birds into narrow corridors.
When it was time for questions, one woman asked, “For the
birds that fly during the day and navigate by what they
see on land, will the ones flying over Ukraine be able to
make it?”
o ⚓ Times Higher Education ☛ Iran_threatens_academic’s_execution_‘to
thwart_war_crimes_trial’⠀⇛
The Iranian government is threatening to execute a
Swedish-Iranian academic to thwart a trial against an
Iranian official accused of war crimes, a leading non-
profit organisation has said.
Ahmadreza Djalali was arrested and charged with espionage
during an invited visit to the University of Tehran in
2016. Sentenced to death in 2017, he has been held in
solitary confinement for months at a time and is
suffering serious health problems.
o ⚓ Tedium ☛ Cathode_Ray_Tubes:_Unusual_Ways_They_Were_Used_Beyond_TV
Sets⠀⇛
The cathode-ray tube is having a bit of a revival at the
moment in the public consciousness, as people who grew up
with these screens suddenly see the distinct advantages
they hold in certain use cases, often related to the
things they display. (Sometimes, though, the CRT becomes
a bit of a villain in the story, something that a
confused contributor to TechRadar found as he struggled
to get his set working because he couldn’t find a
compatible remote.) Of course, the electron guns that we
brought into our homes by the millions were primarily
used as television sets, but they also had other uses—or
at least other novel methods of use—worth highlighting.
And with that in mind, today’s Tedium highlights
inventive and novel uses of the good ol’ CRT.
o ⚓ music?_makes_me_happy⠀⇛
yesterday on my way home i walked by someone singing a
song from my childhood outside the train station and i
dropped them $2 and they smiled at me, and i think that’s
such a nice experience! to be fair it wasn’t a really old
song. i think it was a mashup of ‘i want it that way’ and
some other songs, but it reminded me of really warm
nights in the living room with my family just goofing
around, and the entire childhood stuff.
o ⚓ Spacing_Out_–_Gangnam_Style⠀⇛
It took me back to my time in Korea.
To be perfectly honest, at least part of the reason why I
initially moved to Korea was some kind of desire to
discover more about Buddhism, Confucianism, and Taoism. I
wanted to move to a society that had been shaped by these
historical movements in the same way I believed my own
had been shaped by Christianity (specifically,
Catholicism).
While I did indeed learn more about these traditions and
the subtle influences they *can* have on social order,
the predominant social force I learned the most about
was, of course, capitalism (and also some even more
dogmatic forms of Christianity!).
o § Science⠀➾
# ⚓ [Old] Bartosz Ciechanowski ☛ Curves_and_Surfaces⠀⇛
From fonts to animated movies, curves and surfaces
constitute fundamental building blocks of many
geometrical designs. Over the course of this blog
post I’ll explain how this model of a mask can be
very smooth despite being described by a limited
number of small points that you can drag around to
change the mask’s shape: [...]
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Karl_Marx:_Student_and_Teacher_of
Technology⠀⇛
This article will use Marx’s own writings and
secondary sources to trace the history of Karl Marx
as a student of technology starting with Nathan
Rosenberg’s seminal essay in 1976[1] through Amy
Wendling’s work in 2011.[2] The essay will provide
a historiography of Marx and how scholars have
analyzed his perceptions of technological
development and how it relates to his ongoing
objective critiques of capitalism. Peter Novick
famously stated in his Introduction that
objectivity in history could be like “Nailing jelly
to a wall,” but this essay will argue that Marx was
a dedicated student of technology and wasn’t
speculating in subjectivity on the topic.[3]
o § Education⠀➾
# ⚓ Salon ☛ Republicans’_rush_to_block_Biden_from_forgiving
student_debt_backfires⠀⇛
Over the last two years, Republicans argued that
President Biden, who made a campaign promise to
cancel student debt, does not have legal authority
to fulfill that pledge, insisting that the tens of
millions of Americans currently crushed by student
loans should be forced to pay them down. But now,
amid new reports that Biden is considering a
partial jubilee, Republicans are backing a bill
that would prevent the president from pulling the
trigger – a tacit acknowledgment Biden appears to
have the power to finally make good on his promise.
# ⚓ TruthOut ☛ “Parental_Rights”_Groups_Want_to_Eliminate_the
Department_of_Education⠀⇛
o § Hardware⠀➾
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Pico_Chording_Keyboard_Is_Simultaneously_Vintage
And_New⠀⇛
On paper, chording — that’s pressing multiple keys
to create either a single character or a whole word
— looks like one of the best possible input
methods. Maybe not the best for speed, at least for
a while, but definitely good for conserving the
total number of keys. Of course, fewer keys also
makes for an easier time when it comes to building
keyboards (as long as you don’t have to code the
chording software). In fact, we would venture to
guess that the hardest part of building your own
version of [CrazyRobMiles]’s Pico Chord Keyboard
would be teaching your fingers how to work together
to chord instead of typing one at a time.
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ ElectriPop_Turns_Cut_Mylar_Into_Custom_3D
Structures⠀⇛
Mylar has a lot of useful properties, and as such
as see it pop up pretty often, not just in DIY
projects but in our day-to-day lives. But until
today, we’ve never seen a piece of Mylar jump up
and try to get our attention. But that’s precisely
the promise offered by ElectriPop, a fascinating
project from Carnegie Mellon University’s Future
Interfaces Group.
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Screwed_Up:_Can_Technology_Be_A_Substitute_For
Regular_Maintenance⠀⇛
The bane of life for anyone who possesses a well-
used pile of spanners is the humble nut and bolt.
Durable and easy to fasten, over our lifetimes we
must screw and unscrew them by the million. When
they do their job they’re great, but too often the
seize up solid, or more alarmingly, gradually undo
themselves over time due to vibration or thermal
stress. There are a host of products such as
locking nuts or thread sealant to deal with this
problem, but the Fraunhofer Institute have an idea
which might just remove the worry surrounding
important fastenings. Their work has resulted in a
solar-powered bolt with an embedded sensor that
phones home when the connection loosens, allowing
an engineer to be dispatched with a spanner to
tighten it up.
o § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾
# ⚓ Deutsche Welle ☛ What_are_millets_and_can_they_help_create
global_food_security?⠀⇛
Millets have been around since 3000 BC and are
believed to be among the earliest domesticated
plants, long serving as a staple crop for millions
of farmers, particularly in India, China and many
parts of Africa.
Sometimes dubbed “nutri-cereals” due to their high
levels of iron, fiber and certain vitamins, they
are still grown in more than 130 countries. Yet
they only play a significant role in the diets of
some 90 million people in Africa and Asia, and are
often regarded as food for the poor.
By comparison, around half the global population
relies on rice, and more than one-third on wheat.
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Cape_Cod_Bay_in_the_Crosshairs_—_Holtec’s
Reactor_Waste_Water_Threat⠀⇛
The newly minted subsidiary intends to dump roughly
one million gallons radioactively contaminated
nuclear reactor waste water into Cape Cod Bay,
which happens to be a part of the protected
Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary. The
million gallons are stagnating in the shutdown
Pilgrim reactor’s waste fuel pool, formerly used to
cool extremely hot uranium fuel rods which are
taken from the reactor core (at around 5,092
degrees Fahrenheit) when fresh fuel is emplaced.
Holtec’s pollution plan has produced such a tsunami
of public opposition that Massachusetts Senator Ed
Marky convenes a congressional subcommittee field
hearing in Plymouth, Massachusetts Friday, May 6,
to air questions about an array of vexing problems
with decommissioning the Pilgrim reactor, which is
on the northwest shore of Cape Cod Bay. Markey is
Chair of the Senate Environment and Public Works
Subcommittee on Clean Air, Climate, and Nuclear
Safety.
# ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ Premature_“Normalcy”_Could_Backfire_as_U.S.
COVID_Death_Toll_Passes_1_Million_&_New_Variants_Spread⠀⇛
Governments around the world are eagerly returning
back to pre-pandemic conditions by relaxing
preventative restrictions, lifting mask mandates
and pulling back public funding. Dr. Abraar Karan,
infectious disease fellow at Stanford University
School of Medicine, says these moves are overly
optimistic and that the U.S. is not prepared for
new variants spreading around the country. “We’re
trying to say it’s over. It’s not true,” he says.
“As time goes on, immunity wanes, and we will begin
to see more severe cases.”
# ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ Global_Death_Toll_from_COVID-19_Tops_15
Million_as_Vaccine_Inequity_Continues_to_Prolong_Pandemic⠀⇛
The World Health Organization says the coronavirus
pandemic has now caused an excess of 15 million
deaths globally. We look at how staggering death
counts reveal broader political failures to protect
public health and close the international vaccine
gap. “Western governments and rich corporations who
are based primarily in the West have done very
little to advance vaccine inequity or to help the
entire world end this pandemic faster,” says Achal
Prabhala, coordinator of the AccessIBSA project,
who adds that many poor countries have also not
used all the policy tools at their disposal.
# ⚓ Orac ☛ Martin_Kulldorff_promotes_an_old_antivax_narrative
about_“natural_immunity”⠀⇛
The antivaccine movement has have long promoted a
narrative going back to as long as the concept of
immunity due to vaccines has existed that vaccine-
induced immunity is somehow “inferior” to “natural
immunity.” Of course, as I like to respond,
vaccine-induced immunity is every bit as “natural”
as “natural immunity” resulting from infection and
recovery from infection. Even better, whatever its
duration and robustness relative to post-infection
immunity (the more correct term for “natural
immunity”) vaccine-induced has the advantage of not
requiring a person to suffer through the disease
and face the risks of severe complications and
death. Yet antivaxxers have long fetishized
“natural immunity” as far superior to vaccine-
induced immunity, even when it isn’t, which goes
along their narrative that portrays vaccines as
somehow “unnatural,” “dirty,” and “contamination”
of their “purity of essence.” So it comes as no
surprise that Martin Kulldorff, one of the three
scientists who authored the Great Barrington
Declaration and currently the “scientific director”
of an astroturf anti-public health think tank
billed by its founder as the “spiritual child of
the Great Barrington Declaration,” the Brownstone
Institute.
# ⚓ no_background_noise_in_this_pub⠀⇛
On Tuesday I lost all hearing in my left ear over
the course of three hours. I had that otherwise
common, ephemeral tinnitus that one sometimes
experiences for 3-4 seconds. I had an unusual
number of bouts, and they started lasting
progressively longer. Then hearing just never
returned.
o § Integrity/Availability⠀➾
# § Proprietary⠀➾
# ⚓ Threat Post ☛ Attackers_Use_Event_Logs_to_Hide
Fileless_Malware [iophk: Windows TCO]⠀⇛
The technique involves injecting shellcode
directly into Windows event logs. This allows
adversaries to use the Windows event logs as
a cover for malicious late stage trojans,
according to a Kaspersky research report
released Wednesday.
Researchers uncovered the campaign in
February and believe the unidentified
adversaries have been active for the past
month.
# ⚓ Scoop News Group ☛ Russian_ransomware_group_claims
attack_on_Bulgarian_refugee_agency⠀⇛
A ransomware group believed to have strong
ties within Russia said Wednesday that it
will release files it took from the Bulgarian
government agency responsible for refugee
management, a nation that has reportedly
hosted hundreds of thousands of fleeing
Ukrainians.
# § Security⠀➾
# § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾
# ⚓ Patrick Breyer ☛ European_Parliament
opposes_plan_to_fingerprint_all_MEPs_for_a
“biometric_attendance_register”⠀⇛
Yesterday, a large majority of
Members of the European
Parliament opposed the
Parliament’s plans to register
their presence by processing
their fingerprints. By 420:202:15
votes they called on the Bureau
to “develop an alternative
solution that does not involve
the processing of biometric
data”. For example, an electronic
attendance register could rely on
Members badges or their mobile
phones, and it could come with
random and periodic checks by
human monitoring.
# ⚓ BBC ☛ Period_tracking_apps_warning_over
Roe_v_Wade_case_in_US⠀⇛
Some of these apps share data
with third parties.
Exactly what the apps do with the
period data is unclear, but some
third parties feed that
information back to the big tech
companies like Google, Meta and
Amazon.
Cooper Quintin, senior staff
technologist at the EFF, told the
BBC: “We strongly suggest that
the developers of period tracking
apps start thinking about the
amount of data they are storing
about their customers, and
especially the ways that data
could one day be used or misused
in the future to cause harm, or
be a tool of surveillance.
# ⚓ EFF ☛ SafeGraph’s_Disingenuous_Claims
About_Location_Data_Mask_a_Dangerous
Industry⠀⇛
In response, SafeGraph agreed to
stop selling data about Planned
Parenthood visitors. But it also
defended its behavior, claiming
“SafeGraph has always committed
to the highest level of privacy
practices ensuring individual
privacy is NEVER compromised.“
The company, it continued, “only
sell[s] data about physical
places (not individuals.)”
This framing is misleading.
First, SafeGraph for years did
sell data about individuals—and
then remained closely tied to a
business that still did so.
Second, the aggregated location
data that SafeGraph now sells is
based on the same sensitive,
individual location traces that
are collected and sold without
meaningful consent.
Last year, EFF reported public
records showing that SafeGraph
had sold 2 years of
“disaggregated, device-specific”
location data about millions of
people to the Illinois
government, starting in January
2019.
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ The_Border-Industrial
Complex_in_the_Biden_Era:_Robotic_Dogs_and
Autonomous_Surveillance_Towers_Are_the_New
Wall⠀⇛
I started climbing to get a
better look and soon found myself
alone on a golden hill dotted
with alligator junipers and
mesquite. Brilliant vermilion
flycatchers fluttered between the
branches. The road, though, was
Border Patrol all the way. Atop
the hill opposite mine stood a
surveillance tower. Since it
loomed over our campsite, I’d
been looking at it all weekend.
It felt strangely like part of
French philosopher Michel
Foucault’s panopticon — in other
words, I wasn’t sure whether I
was being watched or not. But I
suspected I was.
After all, that tower’s cameras
could see for seven miles at
night and its ground-sweeping
radar operated in a 13-mile
radius, a capability, one Border
Patrol officer told me in 2019,
worth “100 agents.” In the term
of the trade, the technology was
a “force multiplier.” I had first
seen that tower freshly built in
2015 after CBP awarded a hefty
contract to the Israeli company
Elbit Systems. In other words, on
top of that hill, I wasn’t just
watching some unknown event
developing; I was also in the
middle of the border-industrial
complex.
o § Defence/Aggression⠀➾
# ⚓ ABC ☛ Sweden_reintroduces_border_checks,_citing_‘a_serious
threat’⠀⇛
Sweden said Friday it was reintroducing temporary
border controls at ferry terminals, airports, road
crossings with other countries and other entry
points to the Scandinavian nation because there
“still is a serious threat to public order and
internal security.”
The Swedish government said the temporary controls
would start immediately and last until Nov. 11,
meaning travelers will have to show passports and
visas during the 6-month period.
# ⚓ ANF News ☛ IHD:_What_happened_in_Dersim_is_a_genocide⠀⇛
On the anniversary of the Dersim Genocide, the
Human Rights Association (IHD) Headquarters issued
a written statement.
The statement noted that military operations
against Dersim began with a decision of the Council
of Ministers dated May 4, 1937, within the
framework of the “Tunceli Law” numbered 2884 and
dated December 25, 1935, and that “tens of
thousands of Kurds/Alevis were massacred during
these operations. Military actions lasted until
1938, and the topography of Dersim was
substantially depopulated by forced displacement as
a result of the mass slaughter.”
# ⚓ BIA Net ☛ ‘Reinstate_the_name_of_Dersim,_unveil_the_burial
site_of_Seyit_Rıza’⠀⇛
The Human Rights Association (İHD) Central Office
released a statement today (May 4) and marked the
anniversary of the Dersim Massacre, which began in
eastern Turkey on May 4, 1937 and continued in
1938. The İHD has underlined that the massacres
committed in Dersim constituted a genocide,
underlining “the need to face the genocide”.
The Association has also recalled that President
and Justice and Development Party (AKP) Chair Recep
Tayyip Erdoğan apologized for the Dersim massacre
in 2011, when he was the Prime Minister.
# ⚓ Defence Web ☛ Cameroon_and_Russia_sign_defence_agreement⠀⇛
The content of the 13-page document is quite vague,
mentioning the exchange of information in the field
of international defence and security policy,
military education, military hydrography and
medicine. This new episode of Russia’s diplomatic
offensive in Africa, in the aftermath of the
invasion of Ukraine and subsequent Western
sanctions, follows the refusal from many African
countries, Cameroon included, to condemn Moscow at
the UN General Assembly.
# ⚓ LRT ☛ US_rushed_cyber_team_to_Lithuania_over_Russia_
[cracking]_threat_–_media⠀⇛
The mission involved specialists arriving at a
country following its invitations, “where they scan
networks with the goal of building the host
countries’ resilience and share any new information
about threats with government and private industry
circles back in the US”, according to the Bloomberg
news website.
The mission in Lithuania “was moved up in the
queue” due to the threat posed by Russia, according
to Hartman.
The United States has previously deployed its cyber
teams to countries including Estonia and Ukraine.
# ⚓ Hungary ☛ Secretary_of_National_Security_and_Defense
Council_of_Ukraine:_Hungary_was_warned_about_Putin’s_plans_to
attack_Ukraine⠀⇛
The secretary of the National Security Council of
Ukraine, Oleksiy Danilov, said Hungarian
authorities were informed about a full-scale attack
on Ukraine beforehand by the Russian President.
“Hungary openly declares its cooperation with the
Russian Federation. Moreover, Putin warned [them]
in advance that there would be attacks on our
country,” Danilov said. He also believed Hungary
had plans for part of the territory of Ukraine.
The Hungarian embassy in Kyiv took to Facebook and
wrote they are “outraged” by the allegations that
Budapest was warned in advance about Russia’s plans
to go to war. “The statement by Oleksiy Danilov,
head of the National Security and Defense Council
(NSDC), ‘contains accusations that are false and
unfounded, and incite hatred against the Hungarian
people and Hungary in Ukrainian public opinion,
which is suffering from war’,”- the embassy’s
social media post reads.
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Taking_Aim_at_Putin:_Stephen_Cohen_Contests
the_Myths⠀⇛
Well, I am hardly going to sort these matters out
fully, but I have chosen the late Stephen F.
Cohen’s book, War with Russia? From Putin and
Ukraine to Trump and Russiagate (2022) as a
companion to get a handle on the demonization of
Putin (one of several core themes). We appear to be
stumbling around in the darkness; maybe Cohen can
beam some light into this darkness shrouding our
understanding of the Russia-Ukraine conflict.
Cohen is well-qualified to be our guide. He was a
professor of Russian Studies and History at New
York University (1998-2011) and Princeton
University (1968-1998), where he directed the
Russian Studies program. He was good friends with
Gorbachev, and there is an affectionate photo in
the book having dinner at one of Gorbachev’s
favourite restaurant in Moscow.
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Winston_Churchill’s_Rap_Sheet:_A_Record_of
Empire⠀⇛
Ali’s book, titled Winston Churchill: His Times,
His Crimes, is both a biography of one of
humanity’s greatest criminals and a history of that
criminal’s times. Like most humans with power both
granted to them and taken by them, Churchill’s
personal biography is tied up in the story of the
times he lived in. As he rightly should, Ali spends
most of his narrative detailing and discussing
Churchill’s military, political and diplomatic
actions as a member of the British Empire’s ruling
class. In this discussion, Churchill’s racism and
misanthropy is revealed. Obviously, those aspects
of his personality informed his actions as a
military man and politician. In addition, they
informed the nature of Britain’s ruling elites as
surely as their arrogance and sense of genetic
superiority informed Churchill’s estimation of
himself.
The litany of crimes here is long. Churchill seems
to have never missed an opportunity to stroke his
ego. If he could do so while attacking a perceived
enemy of the Empire—whether that enemy was a miner
in Britain’s pits, an Irish Republican, a citizen
of India, a Soviet revolutionary or another of the
Empire’s enemies—so much the better. In Ali’s
telling, it becomes clear that Churchill preferred
fascism to any kind of communism and considered
those who opposed his dear and glorious empire to
be his personal enemies. All that said, this is a
political biography above all else. Churchill’s
particular psychopathies underlie the narrative but
are not the basis of it. Likewise, his personal
life is mentioned primarily in terms of his
political actions. In a manner similar to others
whose political personas are rightly or wrongly
larger than life, Churchill comes across as a man
whose politics were the foundation of his person
and whose person defined his politics; politics of
arrogance and prejudice that they were.
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ North_Korea’s_Real_Threat:_Radical
Isolation⠀⇛
North Korea’s nuclear program has been the
perennial threat that concerns South Korea, East
Asia, and the United States. Some pundits are even
suggesting that the nature of this threat has
recently changed—that North Korea is no longer just
interested in possessing nuclear weapons in order
to deter attacks by other countries. Instead, as
Washington Post columnist Josh Rogin argues, North
Korea is now seriously considering using nuclear
weapons for offensive purposes as part of an effort
to take over the Korean peninsula.
This seems far-fetched. Pyongyang has difficulty
even maintaining control of its own territory.
Having seen Russia’s embarrassing failure to take
over Ukraine, a considerably weaker country, the
North Korean government can’t seriously believe
that it could invade and control South Korea, a
considerably stronger country.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ ‘At_least_a_few_rubles’:_Public-sector_employees
in_Russia_urged_to_donate_to_murky_‘fundraisers’_for
Ukrainian_refugees⠀⇛
In the lead up to Moscow’s full-scale invasion of
Ukraine, the authorities in the self-proclaimed
“Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics” announced
mass evacuations to Russia. Now, after ten weeks of
all-out war, roughly a million Ukrainians have been
forced to flee to Russian territory. As Meduza
reported previously, civilians living in areas
occupied or blockaded by Russian troops have been
forcibly evacuated to Russia and brought to
“filtration camps.” In mid-April, the Russian
Cabinet allocated nearly 439 million rubles ($6.5
million) from the country’s reserve fund for the
accommodation of these refugees. However, in a
number of Russian regions, public-sector employees
are being urged to donate part of their paychecks
to purported “fundraisers” in support of displaced
Ukrainians.
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ On_the_Night_Bus_to_Kyiv⠀⇛
Kyiv, Ukraine—After Russian attacks targeted
infrastructure all across Ukraine earlier this
week, damaging critical rail lines in the western
part of the country, a bus bound for Kyiv was full
when it departed from Warsaw an hour before
midnight on Wednesday.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Boris_Johnson_Pressured_Zelenskyy_to_Ditch
Peace_Talks_With_Russia:_Ukrainian_Paper⠀⇛
The Ukrainian news outlet Ukrayinska Pravda
reported Thursday that British Prime Minister Boris
Johnson used his surprise visit to Kyiv last month
to pressure President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to cut
off peace negotiations with Russia, even after the
two sides appeared to have made tenuous progress
toward a settlement to end the war.
Citing unnamed sources from Zelenskyy’s “inner
circle” and advisory team, Pravda reported that
“Johnson brought two simple messages to Kyiv”:
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Russian_Officials_Must_Be_Held_to_Account
for_Documented_War_Crimes:_Amnesty⠀⇛
Global human rights group Amnesty International on
Friday called for accountability “up the chain of
command” in Russia for war crimes the organization
says it has documented in extensive interviews and
on-the-ground research in Ukraine.
“Hierarchal superiors… who knew or had reason to
know about war crimes committed by their forces,
but did not attempt to stop them or punish those
responsible, should also be held criminally
responsible.”
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Investigation_Shows_Hundreds_of_US_Cops
Being_Trained_by_Far-Right_Extremists⠀⇛
Hundreds of cops across the United States have been
taught by individuals who espouse far-right
extremist views, according to a new investigation
that was published Friday to sound the alarm on a
burgeoning and unregulated private training
industry.
Reuters identified five law enforcement trainers
who have been hired by police and sheriffs’
departments nationwide despite their support for
right-wing militia groups, including the Oath
Keepers, Proud Boys, and Three Percenters; the
QAnon conspiracy, which baselessly claims that
Democrats and Hollywood stars belong to a cabal of
Satanist pedophiles and cannibals; and former
President Donald Trump’s “Big Lie” that the 2020
election was stolen.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Opinion_|_The_Dangerous_American_Game_of
Helping_Kill_Russian_Generals⠀⇛
A New York Times report that the United States has
been providing real time intelligence to the
Ukrainian army with the specific purpose of killing
Russian generals brings America a long step closer
to actual war with Russia.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ ‘Toxic_assets’_How_Russia’s_invasion_of_Ukraine
tore_Yandex_apart⠀⇛
In late April, Russian Internet giant Yandex
announced it was selling its news service,
Yandex.News, and its personal recommendations
service, Yandex.Zen, to the social networking
company VKontakte (VK). VK is run by Vladimir
Kiriyenko, son of Russian presidential
administration First Deputy Chief of Staff Sergey
Kiriyenko. Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
began, these products (just like Yandex overall)
have faced a barrage of criticism for misleading
millions of users by withholding credible
information about the war while leaving up
inaccurate information from pro-Kremlin sources.
Meduza special correspondent Svetlana Reiter tells
the story of how a once-progressive news aggregator
ruined Yandex’s reputation, caused an employee
exodus, and landed its deputy CEO on sanctions
lists.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ How_‘mobilization’_works_in_Russia_Human_rights
expert_Pavel_Chikov_explains_what_reservists_and_draftees_can
expect_if_Putin_openly_declares_war⠀⇛
The Kremlin denies it vociferously, but Western
analysts and state officials warn that Vladimir
Putin could declare Russia’s full military
mobilization as soon as May 9, when the country
celebrates the USSR’s victory in World War II. Ben
Wallace, the UK’s secretary of state for defense,
says such an announcement wouldn’t surprise him,
adding that Putin could claim that Russia is now at
war “with Nazis all over the world,” necessitating
mass conscription. Meduza asked Pavel Chikov, the
head of the human rights group Agora, who would be
affected by a full mobilization and whether it
would still be possible to avoid being drafted in
Russia’s armed forces.
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Alabama_Police_Chief_Sued_Over_His_Response_To
Anti-Police_Brutality_Protests⠀⇛
Following the brutal killing of an unarmed black
man (George Floyd) by a Minnesota police officer
(convicted murderer Derek Chauvin), protests
against police violence erupted around the country.
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ The_Economic_Shock_Waves_From_the_War_in
Ukraine_Will_Impact_Us_All⠀⇛
In 1919, the renowned British economist John
Maynard Keynes wrote The Economic Consequences of
the Peace, a book that would prove controversial
indeed. In it, he warned that the draconian terms
imposed on defeated Germany after what was then
known as the Great War—which we now call World War
I—would have ruinous consequences not just for that
country but all of Europe. Today, I’ve adapted his
title to explore the economic consequences of the
(less than great) war now underway—the one in
Ukraine, of course—not just for those directly
involved but for the rest of the world.
# ⚓ Site36 ☛ Ukraine_war:_New_Eurojust_regulation_in_fast-track
procedure⠀⇛
The EU Justice Agency is to be allowed to store and
process personal and biometric data for the first
time. Eurojust will also be authorised to analyse
digital evidence, but it does not actually have a
mandate to do so.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ ‘He_wanted_to_make_sure_those_monsters_don’t_come
back’:_Alexey_Ptakh,_a_hostage_in_the_2004_Beslan_school
siege,_is_now_fighting_in_Ukraine._Meduza_spoke_to_his
mother.⠀⇛
On September 1, 2004, terrorists took 1,128 people
hostage inside a school in the North Ossetian town
of Beslan, including children, parents, and
teachers. 333 people were killed and 783 were
injured, making the siege one of the largest
terrorist attacks in Russian history. Hostage No.
281 on the list compiled by Beslan teachers after
the siege was then-15-year-old Alexey Viktorovich
Ptakh. In 2022, his name appeared on a different
list: the list of soldiers in the 34th Brigade from
Vladikavkaz, which, according to the Ukrainian
Defense Ministry, is participating in Russia’s
invasion of Ukraine. Meduza special correspondent
Svetlana Reiter spoke with Alexey Ptakh’s mother,
Tatyana, about how her son ended up in the war.
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Nuclear_Threats_Like_We_Have_Never_Seen⠀⇛
Aiding Ukraine’s defense Russian invasion, “Would
lead to consequences you have never seen”.
President Putin February 24, 2022
Threats to use nuclear weapons are as old as
nuclear weapons. Threats to use nuclear weapons may
even be their main function. Increasingly bellicose
statements by Putin and Russian State media during
Russia’s hot war in Ukraine are unprecedented, and
must be taken seriously.
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Fascism_is_Intentional⠀⇛
When Atwood penned her famous book in 1985, she
could not have imagined just how prescient it would
be seen decades later. Then the Hulu series was
produced. It differed in many significant ways from
the book. The character of Offred, for instance,
did not have the same agency or defiance as the one
in the television series. She was a witness to the
brutality of the Republic of Gilead, but she didn’t
actively participate in resisting it as Elizabeth
Moss’ portrayal did. Although the series was
powerful, well written and well acted, the book
presents us with a more universal experience of a
person living under authoritarian cruelty.
But it came in the time of Trump. A time of
unmasked misogyny. Resistance, or even the
facsimile of it, became a popular rallying call.
Now, we watch stupefied at the continuing
resurgence of fascism, dressed up in the guise of
Christianity, in the same nation that would
eventually become Atwood’s fictional Gilead. The
recent leak of a US Supreme Court draft opinion may
be one of those prophecies foretold.
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ By_Redefining_UNRWA,_Washington_Destroys
the_Foundation_for_a_Just_Peace_in_Palestine⠀⇛
Though UNRWA was not established as a political or
legal platform per se, the context of its mandate
was largely political, since Palestinians became
refugees as a result of military and political
events – the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian
people by Israel and the latter’s refusal to
respect the Right of Return for Palestinians as
enshrined in UN resolution 194 (III) of December
11, 1948.
“UNRWA has a humanitarian and development mandate
to provide assistance and protection to Palestine
refugees pending a just and lasting solution to
their plight,” the UN General Assembly Resolution
302 (IV) of December 8, 1949 read. Alas, neither a
‘lasting solution’ to the plight of the refugees,
nor even a political horizon has been achieved.
Instead of using this realization as a way to
revisit the international community’s failure to
bring justice to Palestine and to hold Israel and
its US benefactors accountable, it is UNRWA and, by
extension, the refugees that are being punished.
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Ukraine_War_Fuels_NATO_War_Machine⠀⇛
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Why_Won’t_Europe_Call_for_an_End_to_This
War?⠀⇛
Manipulation of the news around Russia’s war on
Ukraine is aimed to prevent public opinion from
seeking a lasting peace for both Ukraine and the
region. The aim of this information war is to
prolong the war to serve the interests of those who
wish to promote it. How does one know what
constitutes facts and what constitutes lies, and
how can one learn to explain events without being
accused of justification?
Causes Leading to War
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Is_Ukraine_a_War_Crime_or_Business_as
Usual?⠀⇛
There are two conflicting narratives about Ukraine.
The first narrative – the idealistic, legal point
of view that is repeated frequently by the West –
is that Ukraine is a sovereign country that can
independently choose its foreign policy. If it
wishes to be closer to Europe, either joining the
European Union or NATO, that is its choice. As a
sovereign nation since 1991, Ukraine is free and
independent.
The second narrative – aligned with Realpolitik –
is that major powers have spheres of influence
around their borders. While there are no legal
bases for this position, it is customarily
recognized that countries such as the United
States, China and Russia cannot have hostile
threats close to them. Major powers have stated
this and acted on its assumptions throughout
history.
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Toward_a_Peoples_Ukraine_Wars_Tribunal⠀⇛
At the same time, from the outset of these events
there was much more limited international support
for the American-led punitive response by NATO
featuring harsh sanctions amounting to ‘economic
warfare,’ shipment of weaponry to the beleaguered
country, dehumanization of Putin and Russo-phobic
propaganda, along with silence about recourse to
diplomacy. In the background was the related
internal struggle within Ukraine between the
dominant force in the Western part of the country
and the Russian-speaking Ukrainians in the Donbas
East.
As Russian military operations proceeded,
perceptions of the core conflict began to change.
What seemed at first a simple war of aggression, to
be followed by belligerent operation, is now
becoming a geopolitical war between the United
States and Russia, with strategic goals quite apart
from the outcome of events in Ukraine, as well as
heightening costs of the encounter for the entire
world, including the people of Ukraine and
especially the extreme poor everywhere. And while
Washington bears the main responsibility for this
shift, the Russian response by way of veiled
threats of recourse to nuclear weaponry emanate
from Moscow and Putin. Yet the essential character
in this elevation of the war strategy to a
geopolitical level of engagement is to care less
about bolstering Ukrainian resistance to Russian
aggression and far more about inflicting defeat on
Russia and the renewal of post-Cold War
transatlantic unity by the revitalization and
expansion of the NATO alliance with Russia once
more the enemy of Western democracy. This
geopolitical war has much larger strategic
consequences and risks than the initial proxy war
between Russia and the United States that concerned
the future of Ukraine.
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ No_Proxy_War:_Stop_the_Dying⠀⇛
The development in question is U.S. Defense
Secretary Lloyd Austin’s ominous comments after
returning from a visit to Kyiv. Austin said that
the U.S. wants to see “Russia weakened to the
degree that it can’t do the kinds of things that it
has done in invading Ukraine.” Austin also said
that Washington thinks Ukraine can “win” its war
with Russia if it receives proper weapons and
support from the West.
Questions For Your Liberal Imperialist Aunt
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ The_Long_Hand_of_Slave_Breeding,_Redux⠀⇛
That requires that we look anew to history and the
Constitution, which, Justice Alito is quite
correct, does not include the word ‘abortion’ (or
‘space travel’ or ‘automobile’ or even ‘woman’) but
does include ‘slavery’.
When I first wrote that opening paragraph, in 2012,
my friend and sister Pamela Bridgewater, who’d been
their impetus, was alive. She was starting cancer
treatments, which ultimately failed. At that
moment, though, she was intending to revise her
legal writings on reproductive liberty and the
legacies of slave breeding into a book that would
speak a common language to women, particularly the
class of women whom she’d escorted to safety while
doing clinic defense in Florida, Wisconsin, DC. She
was a legal scholar, a professor, an activist, a
sex radical, a diva. Pamela was fire.
o § Transparency/Investigative Reporting⠀➾
# ⚓ Courage Found ☛ Daniel_Hale_is_Courage’s_newest
beneficiary⠀⇛
On May 10, Daniel’s support team is hosting an
online meeting for supporters to write letters
together to Hale in prison.
# ⚓ Courage Found ☛ One_Year_in_a_Cage:_Letter_Writing_Night
for_Daniel_Hale,_May_10⠀⇛
As we approach one year of Daniel Hale’s
incarceration, his support team invites you to a
night of reflection and solidarity on Tuesday, May
10, at 7:30pm EST: “We miss him so much and
community helps us and him keep his fighting spirit
– forever in pursuit of justice – alive.” Register
here.
o § Environment⠀➾
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ What_Is_the_Value_of_Our_Environment?⠀⇛
# ⚓ uni Stanford ☛ Nukes_Are_Environmentalists’_Problems_Too⠀⇛
I have a confession to make. So focused on the
existential threats of climate change, biodiversity
decline, soil loss, population growth, antibiotic
misuse, and other slow-to-unfold ways humanity can
destroy itself, I spend little time thinking about
the instantaneous way: nuclear annihilation.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Landmark_Inquiry_in_Philippines_Backs
Accountability_for_‘Climate-Polluting’_Corporations⠀⇛
Campaigners within and beyond the Philippines on
Friday applauded a new government report that backs
accountability for major polluters driving the
climate emergency and its associated negative
impacts on human rights.
“We enjoin all Filipinos to stand up for climate
and environmental justice, and ensure our elected
officials in the next administration take this to
heart.”
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Opinion_|_Where_the_Hell_Is_the_Green_New
Deal?⠀⇛
In November 2018, the Green New Deal became a
rallying cry for climate activists when members of
the Sunrise Movement occupied House Speaker Nancy
Pelosi’s office and adopted the slogan as their
unifying message. A few months later, Rep.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), who had joined the
young activists in Pelosi’s office, brought this
message to Congress when she partnered with Sen. Ed
Markey (D-MA) to introduce their Green New Deal
resolution. More manifesto than binding
legislation, the resolution laid out a vision of an
equitable clean energy transition for the United
States.
# § Energy⠀➾
# ⚓ BBC ☛ Why_one_firm_is_banking_on_carbon_fibre_bikes
in_Europe⠀⇛
Located in Campia (not far from Oliveira de
Frades, a town famous for bikes), a group of
investors from Portugal, Germany, and Taiwan
launched the firm in 2018.
The company believe manufacturing of hi-tech
bicycle components is poised to return to
Europe, after decades of supply from firms in
China and Taiwan.
# ⚓ Renewable Energy World ☛ New_Jersey_floating_solar
project_aims_to_be_nation’s_largest⠀⇛
Construction is underway on an 8.9 MW
floating bifacial solar array at a water
treatment facility in New Jersey.
NJR Clean Energy Ventures, a unit of New
Jersey Resources, claims the project will be
the largest floating solar array in the U.S.
once it’s completed.
# ⚓ The Verge ☛ US_punishes_Blender.io_for_helping_North
Korea_launder_millions_in_stolen_Axie_
[cryptocurrency]⠀⇛
The US Treasury Department announced on
Friday that it’s sanctioning Blender.io,
essentially cutting the Bitcoin mixer off
from the US financial system (legally
speaking, anyway). The department alleges
that the service, which lets people obfuscate
the record usually kept by the blockchain,
was used by North Korea to “support its
malicious cyber activities and money-
laundering of stolen virtual currency.”
# ⚓ ABC ☛ US_sanctions_North_Korean_cryptocurrency_mixing
firm⠀⇛
The sanctions, imposed by the Treasury
Department’s Office of Foreign Assets
Control, are the first ever on a digital
asset mixing service. The new sanctions also
point to the growing use of digital assets to
perpetuate illegal acts by state actors and
individuals.
# ⚓ DeSmog ☛ How_the_Oil_and_Gas_Industry_Is_Trying_to
Hold_US_Public_Schools_Hostage⠀⇛
The oil and gas industry wants to play a
word-and-picture association game with you.
Think of four images: a brightly colored
backpack stuffed with pencils, a smiling
teacher with a tablet tucked under her arm, a
pair of glasses resting on a stack of pastel
notebooks, and a gleaming school bus
welcoming a young student onboard.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Hawaii_Legislature_Calls_For_Fossil
Fuel_Non-Proliferation_Treaty⠀⇛
Hawaii lawmakers put the state on the path to
making history after the Legislature passed a
resolution Thursday endorsing a document
called the “Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation
Treaty.”
“Hawaii is taking our own bold actions for
climate change resilience and to move off
fossil fuels.”
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ More_Business_as_Usual:_Biden’s_Old-
Growth_Forest_Plan⠀⇛
Unsurprisingly, however, this “historic and
bold” action plan reveals a doubled down
commitment to business-as-usual programs and
policies that exacerbate the climate crisis
and its damaging effects on forests and
communities; increase threats from wildfires,
and open the door to new, extreme and
unproven technologies to be unleashed on wild
forests–all in the service of timber, oil and
gas, mining, biotechnology and other
industries.
Carbon Offsets: One of the major themes
running through the EO is an emphasis on
forests as carbon sinks that will offset
carbon emissions. This model of forests as
offsets, however, has been
widely debunked for enabling ongoing
pollution. In this way, it simultaneously
exacerbates climate injustice because this
ongoing pollution largely occurs in low
income communities, and threatens the very
existence of forests by sidestepping the dire
need to curb forest-killing emissions.
# § Wildlife/Nature⠀➾
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Green_Groups_Blame_Bolsonaro_Policies
as_Amazon_Deforestation_Sets_New_Monthly_Record⠀⇛
Brazil’s space research agency revealed
Friday that deforestation in the country’s
Amazon rainforest last month shattered the
previous record for April, a development one
conservation campaigner called “very scary”
and an indication of the criminal level of
environmental destruction occurring under the
administration of far-right President Jair
Bolsonaro.
“The Amazon is controlled by landowners,
illegal loggers, and miners. Crime is the
reality.”
# ⚓ The Revelator ☛ Protect_This_Place:_Lianyungang,_an
Underrated_Pearl_in_the_Yellow_Sea⠀⇛
o § Finance⠀➾
# ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Labor_Force_Participation_Continues_Toward_Pre-
Pandemic_Levels⠀⇛
# ⚓ Pro Publica ☛ Lawmakers_Approve_$600_Million_to_Help_Fix
Housing_Program_for_Native_Hawaiians⠀⇛
The Hawaii Legislature on Thursday unanimously
passed landmark legislation appropriating $600
million for the state’s Native Hawaiian
homesteading program, a chronically underfunded
initiative that has long fallen short of its
promise to return Native people to their ancestral
land.
The amount represents the largest one-time infusion
of money in the program’s 101-year history, and
it’s more than seven times the record amount that
state lawmakers approved last year. The majority of
the funds will go toward the development of nearly
3,000 lots, most of them residential, on Hawaii’s
main islands.
o § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾
# ⚓ Eesti Rahvusringhääling ☛ Estonia_and_Japan_sign_digital
cooperation_agreement⠀⇛
The MOC between Estonia and Japan reflects the
willingness of these two highly developed digital
societies to share their knowledge and experience,
Sutt said according to a ministry press release.
“Digital development and sustainability are
important drivers of economic growth in both
Estonia and Japan,” he said. “Digitalization leads
to a more efficient use of resources, but it cannot
come at the expense of security. Therefore, the
cooperation agreement places a strong emphasis on
cybersecurity, secure digital identification,
secure cloud solutions, data protection and the
secure use of data.”
# ⚓ Rolling Stone ☛ Marjorie_Taylor_Greene_Can_Stay_on_Ballot
Despite_Alleged_Jan._6_Role,_Judge_Rules⠀⇛
Free Speech for the People responded to the
decision by sending a letter to Raffensperger,
arguing that Beaudrot’s ruling “betrays the
fundamental purpose” of the 14th Amendment and
“gives a pass to political violence as a tool for
disrupting and overturning free and fair
elections.”
# ⚓ The Hill ☛ A_safe,_open_internet_with_transatlantic_rules
is_easier_than_it_sounds⠀⇛
On both sides of the Atlantic, [Internet] users
face the same issues of disinformation and online
harm, amplified by the same powerful digital
platforms. But despite increasingly similar
governance ideas, transatlantic collaboration on a
comprehensive digital regulatory regime is not in
the cards, given the disparities in the U.S. and
European legal systems, norms and priorities, along
with starkly different time frames.
Two weeks ago, the European Union reached a deal on
the final terms of its landmark regulation, the
Digital Services Act. The EU leads the way on what
it hopes will become the global standard, following
in the footsteps of the General Data Protection
Regulation (GDPR), the EU’s privacy and data
protection regime. The United Kingdom is not far
behind, with the possible adoption of its massive
Online Safety Bill (OSB) early next year.
# ⚓ The Hill ☛ Judge_tosses_out_Trump_lawsuit_over_lifting
Twitter_ban⠀⇛
A California judge on Friday tossed out former
President Trump’s lawsuit that sought to lift his
Twitter ban.
U.S. District Judge James Donato, who was nominated
by former President Obama, said in his ruling that
Trump’s claims that Twitter’s ban against him
violated the First Amendment did not hold much
water, given that the amendment only applies to the
government violations of the right and not private
company abridgments.
# ⚓ PC World ☛ U.S._SEC_slaps_Nvidia_with_a_$5.5_million_fine
over_GeForce_GPUs_used_for_crypto⠀⇛
Specifically, Nvidia violated Section 17(a)(2) and
(3) of the Securities Act of 1933 and the
disclosure provisions of the Securities Exchange
Act of 1934, according to the SEC.
“The SEC’s order also finds that Nvidia’s omissions
of material information about the growth of its
gaming business were misleading given that Nvidia
did make statements about how other parts of the
company’s business were driven by demand for
crypto, creating the impression that the company’s
gaming business was not significantly affected by
cryptomining,” the SEC said.
# ⚓ Medforth ☛ Eric_Zemmour_alerts_the_French:_Emmanuel_Macron
prepares_the_France_of_the_communist_Mélenchon⠀⇛
Translation: The crowd shouted “Allah Akbar”
surrounding the blissful Macron
# ⚓ YLE ☛ Pro-Russia_[blockade]_organisers_discuss_violence,
guns_in_closed_group_chat⠀⇛
[YLE] followed a chat thread on WhatsApp, in the
Russian language, about plans for Sunday’s event.
The discussion, involving around 70 people, used
aggressive language and nationalist themes.
Some of the chat participants suggested carrying
out violence against potential counter-protesters,
with a few saying they were considering bringing
firearms.
# ⚓ RFA ☛ Musk’s_Twitter_acquisition_prompts_renewed_fear_of
Chinese_influence,_infiltration⠀⇛
Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover has sparked fears that
the platform may now be more vulnerable to
Beijing’s influence, amid an ongoing overseas
influence and infowar campaign by the Chinese
Communist Party (CCP).
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ New_York’s_Redistricting_Chaos_Is_Now_the
Nation’s_Problem⠀⇛
Last week, the New York State Court of Appeals, the
highest court in the state, invalidated the House
and state Senate districts that had been drawn by
the Democrat-controlled legislature. The ruling was
a shock to the state’s political class, which did
not expect such a legal challenge—initiated by
Republicans—to succeed in a court where six of
seven judges are registered Democrats. The court
decision threw the task of drawing new maps to a
court-appointed special master, who will have until
May 24 to produce new House maps. To comply with
this timeline, the judges ordered federal and some
state primaries to be shifted from June to August.
# ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Schumer_Promises_Vote_on_Codifying_“Roe”_Without
Workaround_for_Filibuster⠀⇛
# ⚓ Hungary ☛ Orbán:_“The_proposed_sanctions_against_Russian
oil_are_tantamount_to_a_nuclear_bomb_thrown_on_the_Hungarian
economy”⠀⇛
Every Friday, Hungary’s prime minister gives an
interview on one of the state-owned radio stations.
Since the independent media has not had a chance to
interview him for many years, these weekly radio
interviews are the only opportunity to find out
what the leader of the country thinks about current
events, how he sees his opponents and any issues at
hand. Here’s a brief summary of the most important
points he touched on this morning.
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ Meet_the_Poster_Boy_for_the_GOP’s_Trumpian
Cult_of_Personality⠀⇛
J.D. Vance secured Ohio’s Republican US Senate
nomination Tuesday not by impressing the voters of
Ohio but by winning the favor of one man. Vance was
Donald Trump’s candidate, which is all that matters
anymore in a Republican Party where Trump’s wish is
the electorate’s command.
# ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Trump_Encouraged_Elon_Musk_to_Buy_Twitter,_Truth
Social_CEO_Devin_Nunes_Says⠀⇛
# ⚓ Green Party UK ☛ Greens_celebrate_record_breaking_results
as_party_breaks_500_councillors_mark_across_England_and
Wales⠀⇛
The party has so far made a net gain of 75, gaining
seats from Labour and Conservatives in areas as far
ranging as Burnley, Hastings, Hackney, Somerset,
Plymouth and South Tyneside. The party also saw an
historic eight wins in Wales including in Newport,
Monmouthshire and Neath Port Talbot.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Manchin_Only_Dem_to_Join_GOP_to_Reroute
Billions_in_Climate_Funds_to_Pentagon⠀⇛
Sen. Joe Manchin voted against his own party’s
climate action proposal once again this week,
joining the Republicans in their effort to reroute
billions of dollars from a climate fund to develop
weapons systems at the Pentagon.
The West Virginia right-wing Democrat was the only
member of his party to vote for a motion filed by
Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) to gut the Green Climate
Authorization Act, a bill introduced last year by
Rep. Adriano Espaillat (D-N.Y.).
o § Misinformation/Disinformation⠀➾
# ⚓ FAIR ☛ ‘The_Core_of_Copaganda_Is_the_Symbiotic_Relationship
Between_Press_and_Police’⠀⇛
Janine Jackson interviewed Copwatch Media‘s Josmar
Trujillo about hyper-policing for the April 29,
2022, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly
edited transcript.
o § Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾
# ⚓ The Economist ☛ China_unveils_its_vision_of_a_global
security_order⠀⇛
More disruptively for the world at large, China is
growing more willing to adopt Russian arguments
about how to organise a global security order. On
April 21st Mr Xi presented a new “Global Security
Initiative” to the Boao Forum for Asia, a Chinese
gathering of bigwigs. Mr Xi’s initiative is dense,
brow-furrowing stuff. He calls for a security order
that is “common, comprehensive, co-operative and
sustainable” and declares humanity “an indivisible
security community”. This slab of party-speak is
sprinkled with bromides about respecting
sovereignty and territorial integrity that sound
rich coming from a friend of Mr Putin’s.
Mr Xi’s speech is a code. Governments from Europe
to Japan and Australia should take it seriously,
for it is China’s latest bid to delegitimise the
American-led defence alliances and treaties that
have guaranteed their security for decades. Much of
Mr Xi’s new initiative builds on “Asia for the
Asians” arguments that China has promoted in its
home region for years. In a commentary on his
boss’s Global Security Initiative, China’s foreign
minister, Wang Yi, traced the lineage of common,
comprehensive, co-operative and sustainable
security back to a “New Asian Security Concept”
offered by Mr Xi in 2014 to the Conference on
Interaction and Confidence-Building Measures in
Asia (CICA), a multinational forum.
# ⚓ Broadband Breakfast ☛ FCC_Commissioner_Carr_Hopes_Musk
Follows_Through_on_Proposed_Twitter_Speech_Reforms⠀⇛
Speaking at the Free State Foundation’s Annual
Policy Conference, Carr stated that he is “very
glad to hear” of Musk’s purchase but that speech
reform online should not depend upon trusting a
billionaire owner and thus Section 230 reform
should still take place.
# ⚓ ABC ☛ Woman_forced_to_land_in_Belarus_gets_6_years_in
prison⠀⇛
Pratasevich was the editor of Nexta, a popular
channel on the Telegram messaging app that was a
key factor in organizing protests in Belarus after
President Alexander Lukashenko won a disputed sixth
term in August 2020.
Sapega ran another Telegram channel that published
the personal data of civil servants and military
personnel who took part in mass repressions of the
protests.
Western countries denounced the plane diversion as
tantamount to air piracy by Belarus. The European
Union banned Belarusian airlines from its air space
and airports as part of sanctions against the
country.
# ⚓ [Old] Forbes ☛ The_Babylon_Bee’s_Twitter_Account_Was
Suspended,_But_That_Made_Its_Story_Go_Viral⠀⇛
In a series of follow-up tweets, Dillon explained
that the account would be restored in 12 hours, but
that the countdown won’t begin until the tweet was
deleted, which he refused to do. On Monday morning,
Dillon further added while the offending tweet
remains live, The Babylon Bee is unable to post
anything new.
# ⚓ [Old] Newsweek ☛ Why_Was_The_Babylon_Bee_Suspended_by
Twitter?_CEO_Seth_Dillon_Reacts_to_Ban⠀⇛
“We’re not deleting anything. Truth is not hate
speech. If the cost of telling the truth is the
loss of our Twitter account, then so be it,” Dillon
tweeted.
# ⚓ RFA ☛ Russian_street_singer_with_anti-Putin_sign_in_brief
legal_scrape_in_Vietnam⠀⇛
After images of Kniazev, a stage name, went viral
on Vietnamese social media on Monday, multiple
Vietnamese media organizations reported on Tuesday
that Lam Dong police arrested Kniazev because of
the sign. Protests of any kind in one-party
Communist Vietnam, an ally of Moscow, are rare and
quickly snuffed out.
# ⚓ Buzz Feed ☛ Elon_Musk_Will_Fund_His_Twitter_Deal_With_Money
From_Countries_That_Suppress_Free_Speech⠀⇛
When Elon Musk announced his bid to buy Twitter
last month, he said he wanted to make the social
network a beacon for free speech. But as Musk
scrambles to pull together funding for the $44
billion deal, the billionaire is also planning to
accept financing for the deal from two countries
that have historically restricted freedom of
speech: Saudi Arabia and Qatar.
On Thursday, an SEC filing revealed new financiers
for Musk’s takeover plan, which include Saudi
Prince Alwaleed bin Talal and Qatar’s sovereign
wealth fund. Both countries impose harsh censorship
to quash dissent: A Qatari law states that
spreading “false or malicious news” can land you in
prison for five years, while in Saudi Arabia,
critics of the government have faced arrest and
even murder. Saudi Arabia ranks number 166 out of
180 on the World Press Freedom Index, while Qatar
ranks number 119, according to Reporters Without
Borders.
# ⚓ Project Censored ☛ Book_Banning_on_the_Rise_in_the_US_–_The
Project_Censored_Show⠀⇛
Audio used by permission of event organizers and
parents of the minors.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Opinion_|_Anti-Zionism_Is_About_Dignity_for
All_Peoples:_A_Response_to_ADL’s_Jonathan_Greenblatt⠀⇛
Jonathan Greenblatt, the ADL’s CEO, in a speech
just given to the ADL Virtual Leadership Summit,
proclaims, among many other falsehoods, that anti-
Zionism is “predicated on the negation of another
people” and devotes considerable time to attacking
organizations that are committed to Palestinian
justice. His speech was grounded in extreme
defamation, in a blatant distortion of history, and
in a breath-taking lack of any moral compass.
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ The_ADL_Goes_Full_Bully⠀⇛
It once seemed that Jonathan Greenblatt, whatever
his other shortcomings, knew his right foot from
his left. Now, the Anti-Defamation League CEO
appears to have become disoriented.
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Missouri_And_Louisiana_Sue_Biden_Administration
Because_Twitter_Blocked_Hunter_Biden_Link_Before_Biden_Was
President⠀⇛
This one is just absolutely bizarre. The Attorneys
General of Missouri and Louisiana are now suing
President Joe Biden and a whole bunch of his
administration, including press secretary Jen
Psaki, Dr. Anthony Fauci, DHS boss Alejandro
Mayorkas, and newly appointed Disinfo czar Nina
Jankowicz, in a nearly incomprehensible complaint
that the Biden administration forced social media
sites to take down information, mostly before it
was in office. Also, apparently Section 230 is both
bad and the Biden support for repealing it violates
the 1st Amendment. Or something. It really does not
make much sense at all.
o § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾
# ⚓ ABC ☛ Daunte_Wright’s_mother_detained_after_recording
traffic_stop⠀⇛
The mother of Daunte Wright, who was fatally shot
by a suburban Minneapolis police officer, says was
injured while she was briefly detained by one of
the same department’s officers after she stopped to
record an arrest of a person during a traffic stop
# ⚓ ABC ☛ Autopsy:_Patrick_Lyoya_killed_by_cop’s_shot_to_the
head⠀⇛
Dr. Werner Spitz performed a separate autopsy at
the request of the family and announced the
findings on April 19. He, too, said a shot to the
head killed Lyoya. He believes the gun was pressed
against the head.
“It’s highly significant that Dr. Steve Cohle found
the identical findings of Dr. Spitz,” said Lyoya
family attorney Ven Johnson, referring to the
county medical examiner.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ ‘Cry_More’:_Starbucks_Mocked_for
Complaining_About_Workers’_White_House_Visit⠀⇛
Starbucks’ union-busting management garnered little
public sympathy Friday after it complained in a
letter to the White House that labor
organizers—including Laura Garza of Starbucks
Workers United—were invited to meet with President
Joe Biden but official company “representatives”
weren’t.
“We are deeply concerned that Workers United, which
is actively engaged in collective bargaining with
us and trying to organize all our stores and our
+240,000 partners (employees), was invited to the
meeting while not inviting official Starbucks
representatives to discuss our view on the matter,”
A.J. Jones, senior vice president of global
communications and public affairs at Starbucks,
wrote in a letter to Steve Ricchetti, counselor to
the president.
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Illinois_Cops_Are_Hitting_Students_With_Hefty
Fines_For_Breaking_School_Rules⠀⇛
Putting cops in schools is a terrible idea. It
tends to encourage school administrators to
abdicate their disciplinary duties and allow cops
to decide which school policy violations should be
treated as criminal acts.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ After_Court_OKs_‘Ethnic_Cleansing’_in_West
Bank,_Israel_Advances_4,000_Settler_Homes⠀⇛
Less than two days after Israel’s highest court
upheld orders for what anti-apartheid campaigners
called the “ethnic cleansing” of eight Palestinian
hamlets in the West Bank, Israeli authorities on
Friday announced the advancement of nearly 4,000
new Jewish-only settlement homes in the illegally
occupied territory.
“It is an indicator that Israel is violating
international law with impunity and without
accountability, and it shows that the international
community is using double standards.”
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Jewish_People_Should_Stand_Up_Against
Violent_Injustices_in_Our_Name⠀⇛
Passover is a perfect example of this sequence.
Always a favorite of mine, this spring holiday
passed a few weeks ago. Across the country, Jewish
families gathered to commemorate the story of the
Jews’ escape from slavery in Egypt with beautiful
food and well-worn prayers and songs. Chanting
rapid-fire rounds of “Chad Gadya” with my family
never gets old.
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Judge:_Clemency_Board_With_Three_Cops_On_It
Doesn’t_Violate_Rule_Against_More_Than_Two_People_From_Same
Profession⠀⇛
The justice system loves a stacked deck. Well,
certainly the prosecutorial side loves it. Courts
are, at best, ambivalent. Occasionally, this
behavior gets called out.
# ⚓ TruthOut ☛ The_House_Will_Vote_Next_Week_on_Allowing_Its
Staffers_to_Unionize⠀⇛
# ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Texas_Abortion_Funds_Work_to_Reduce_Looming
Harms_of_Post-”Roe”_Criminalization⠀⇛
# ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ “I_Was_Raped_by_My_Father._Abortion_Saved
My_Life”:_Prof._Michele_Goodwin_on_SCOTUS_&_the_New_Jane
Crow⠀⇛
As the Supreme Court is poised to strike down Roe
v. Wade, we speak with law professor Michele
Goodwin, who has written extensively about how the
criminalization of abortion polices motherhood. She
discusses how on the eve of the court’s oral
arguments in the Dobbs case in November, she wrote
about how an abortion saved her life. She describes
how the U.S. has historically endangered and denied
essential health services to Black and Brown women,
and calls new abortion restrictions “the new Jane
Crow,” warning that they will further criminalize
reproductive health and encourage medical
professionals to breach their patients’
confidentiallity and report self-administered
abortions to law enforcement.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Experts_Warn_GOP_War_on_Abortion_Will_Turn
Red_and_Blue_States_Into_‘Mutually_Hostile_Legal
Territories’⠀⇛
As the U.S. Supreme Court’s right-wing majority
appears poised to overturn landmark decisions
protecting reproductive rights and more, experts
are warning that the GOP’s war on abortion will
lead to interstate legal battles that threaten to
“tear America apart,” as New York Times opinion
columnist Michelle Goldberg put it on Friday.
“We will have two wildly different abortion regimes
in this country.”
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Opinion_|_Is_the_Supremely_Right-Wing_Court
About_to_Overturn_the_Majority’s_Will_on_Abortion?⠀⇛
The U.S. Supreme Court building in Washington, DC
is truly august, its Corinthian columns and ornate
pediments reminiscent of ancient Rome’s Temple of
Mars Ultor, erected by Emperor Augustus to
commemorate Mars, the god of war, in his role as
avenger. Augustus employed the imperial design to
convey that a new order had arrived after quelling
a civil war that had consumed the region for fifty
years. Two thousand years later, Supreme Court
Justice Samuel Alito has unleashed his own form of
vengeance, from within the Supreme Court’s columned
walls, revealed in a draft opinion he authored,
leaked by a person or persons not yet publicly
known then published by Politico.
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ The_Logistics_Arm_of_the_Abortion-Rights
Movement_Is_Gearing_Up⠀⇛
A group of abortion providers who had just flown
home to California from a conference with
colleagues huddled together in the airport to
process the news. In Washington, D.C., reproductive
justice activist Renee Bracey Sherman cried on the
metro. On a farm in Illinois where she raises goats
while coordinating travel for abortion patients in
the region, Alison Dreith took half a Xanax and
went to bed, understanding that she needed to be
rested for the next day—for the next decade.
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Tired_of_Being_Worked_to_Death,_Labor
Strikes_Back⠀⇛
Meanwhile also in Seattle on April 21, baristas
struck at the Chinatown-International District
store. Earlier that month, employees at two other
Starbucks walked out. At April’s end, workers voted
to unionize stores in Wisconsin and North Carolina.
So with pickets popping up all over the place,
workers on strike, and vociferous employee
complaints about being overworked, underpaid and
shocking stories of threats and retaliation against
union leaders, Starbucks’ corporate image took a
dive lately, to say the least. The corporation’s
founder, Howard Schultz, didn’t help matters by
proclaiming in early April that his companies were
being “assaulted” by unions.
According to Vice News, Schultz issued this
memorable lament “the very same day the company
fired a union organizer at a store in Arizona.” In
fact, it has fired quite a few organizers across
the nation and quite shamelessly plays dirty.
Remember that Schultz was the guy heading Hillary
Clinton’s 2016 list to lead the labor department,
if she ascended to the white house. Good to know,
in case you still harbored the delusion that the
Clintons are in any way, or ever were, friendly to
unions.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Amazon_Fires_Managers_at_Recently_Unionized
Warehouse⠀⇛
More than half a dozen managers at Amazon’s JFK8
fulfillment center in Staten Island were abruptly
fired Thursday, a month after workers at the
warehouse made history by overwhelmingly voting in
favor of unionizing.
“Hard to interpret this as anything other than a
message to other Amazon managers: don’t let your
workers unionize.”
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Court_Dismisses_Case_After_Prosecutors_Make_It
Impossible_For_Defendants_To_Access_Evidence⠀⇛
Prosecutors have an obligation to turn over
evidence — exculpatory or otherwise — to criminal
defendants. They often don’t. In rare cases, this
refusal to play by the rules results in dismissals
or sanctions. But, for the most part, they tend to
get away with it, allowing the government to stack
the prosecutorial deck in its favor to obtain easy,
illegitimately obtained wins.
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ The_‘Stick_To_Sports’_Crowd_Is_Now_Coming_After
Gaming_Companies⠀⇛
There has been a trend over the past decade or so
in which a very specific part of America’s
political spectrum appears to be simultaneously
advocating for “free speech” in ways that have
nothing to do with the American system while also
attacking all kinds of other speech and insisting
that speech not happen. Hypocrisy isn’t something
new to American politics, of course, but the levels
at which this is occurring are starting to get
damned ridiculous. For example, the phrase “stick
to sports” has entered into the popular lexicon. It
existed prior to recent times, of course, dating
back at least as far as Muhammad Ali, Jackie
Robinson, and Billie Jean King. But the reactions
to figures such as Colin Kaepernick and LeBron
James, who was told by one cable news anchor to
“shut up and dribble,” has taken a tone that just
doesn’t fit with modernity.
# ⚓ Pro Publica ☛ Black_Students_in_Illinois_Are_Far_More
Likely_to_Be_Ticketed_by_Police_for_School_Behavior_Than
White_Students⠀⇛
At Bloom Trail High School in Chicago’s south
suburbs, the student body is diverse: About 60% of
the 1,100 students are Black or multiracial.
Another 27% are Latino. And 12% are white.
But when you look at the group of students who get
ticketed for misbehavior at school, the diversity
vanishes.
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ For_Second-Generation_Immigrants,_the
American_Dream_Can_be_a_Nightmare⠀⇛
My parents came to this country from India nearly
60 years ago. Like countless other immigrants, they
came seeking freedom, economic opportunity, and the
American Dream for themselves and their children.
The American Dream means a lot of different things.
But for older Americans, it looks something like
having financial security, the ability to retire at
65, and an advanced health care plan.
# ⚓ FAIR ☛ Chris_Lehmann_on_Multi-Racial_Democracy,_Mike
Rispoli_on_Funding_Local_News⠀⇛
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ Blue_States_Will_Be_Stretched_to_Their_Limits
Post-Roe⠀⇛
The stunning leak of Justice Alito’s draft ruling
overturning Roe v. Wade has, in dramatic fashion,
pushed California and its Western neighbors to the
fore of the movement to protect access to abortion.
Over the past week, Governor Newsom has vowed to
both codify the right to an abortion in the state’s
Constitution and make the state, which has had
legal abortions since 1967, something of a
sanctuary for those from other parts of the country
seeking abortions.
# ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Democrats_Had_50_Years_to_Save_and_Protect
“Roe.”_They_Failed.⠀⇛
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Nothing_is_More_Personal_Than_the_Right_to
Control_Your_Own_Body⠀⇛
So as a human with reproductive organs, the leaked
draft of a Supreme Court opinion overruling Roe v.
Wade — and the constitutional right to abortion —
is obviously personal to me. But it’s personal for
another reason, too.
I come from a line of pro-choice advocates. My late
grandmother, Eileen Alperstein, was on the board of
a Planned Parenthood chapter. She fought to get an
ad placed in The New York Times to shine a light on
the issue, well before Roe v. Wade was settled.
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ “Democracy”_Doesn’t_Work_as_an_Argument
Against_Overturning_Roe_v._Wade⠀⇛
As always, I’ll refrain from sharing my own
opinions on abortion as such. I’m not interested in
convincing anyone of anything there, if for no
other reason than that I’m not firmly convinced
myself.
I won’t refrain from sharing my opinions on poor
arguments, though. Both in general and on abortion
specifically, they’re quite possibly my top pet
peeve. And the worst argument I’m hearing right
now is … the envelope, please …
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ The_Supreme_Court_Spoiler_Alert⠀⇛
Ironically, while in the process of trashing
women’s privacy rights, the Supreme Court is miffed
that its privacy rights were violated.
In any event, the good news is, that the leaked
proposed opinion will likely not be the final
opinion. The bad news, however, is that whatever
the final opinion looks like, the Court’s
conservative majority will probably overturn Roe,
leaving decisions on abortion to be made by each
state.
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Leaking_for_Roe_v_Wade⠀⇛
The subject matter was positively incendiary: the
potential overturning and judicial eradication of
Roe v Wade, a 1973 decision which has generated a
literature both for and against its merits of
herculean proportions. In its draft form, Dobbs v
Jackson Women’s Health entertains a full-throated
attack on the decision that had legalised abortion
via constitutional fiat, even if the original
grounds centred on privacy.
Such an inner illumination of processes was never
the intention of the US Supreme Court. For over
two centuries, it had not seen the like of this.
For the most part, whatever their persuasion, the
justices have kept religiously mum on the issue of
a case till final publication. In an address to
the American Constitution Society, given on June
15, 2012, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
was not giving anything away to the audience about
what fate awaited the Affordable Care Act. The
justices had originally voted on the matter on
March 30. By mid-June, opinions had already been
drafted and circulated in the judicial conclave.
“Those who know don’t talk,” teased Ginsburg. “And
those who talk don’t know.”
# ⚓ FAIR ☛ Media_Shocked_by_the_Leak,_Not_the_Opinion⠀⇛
When Politico (5/2/22) published a leaked draft
Supreme Court opinion that would, if handed down by
the Court, overturn Roe v. Wade and undermine the
foundation for many privacy rights enjoyed by
Americans today, it was a headline story across US
news outlets. But in the flood of coverage, too
many elite media outlets focused on the leak itself
and treated the issue as a political football,
rather than centering the real-world implications
the opinion would have for everyday people.
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Dobbs,_Roe,_and_the_Myth_of_Supreme_Court
as_a_Defender_of_Individual_Rights⠀⇛
The leaked majority opinion in Dobbs overturning
Roe v. Wade is troubling on many fronts—the least
of which is the leak of which so many are focusing
on. The first problem is of course what it does—it
is the first time in American history the Supreme
Court overturned one of its own constitutional
precedents in order to take away rights. In my
research, the Supreme Court has only overturned
about 145 of its own constitutional precedents over
time. Notably, Brown v. the Board of Education
declaring segregation unconstitutional overturned
Plessy v Ferguson’s “separate but equal doctrine.”
Lawrence v. Texas reversed Bowers v Hardwick which
ruled that gays and lesbians have no right to
sexual privacy.
Dred Scott was a horrible decision, but it did not
create less rights for African-Americans; they
already had none and the decision simply made that
point clear. Dred Scott perhaps correctly reflected
the intent of the constitutional framers, many of
whom in fact were slave owners. Our hero worship of
the framers often ignores this fact or that as many
have argued, the Constitution was a document
engulfed by slavery and racism and as Thurgood
Marshall once pointed out, the opening words of
it—We the people—hardly was inclusive.
# ⚓ Pro Publica ☛ Draft_Overturning_Roe_v._Wade_Quotes_Infamous
Witch_Trial_Judge_With_Long-Discredited_Ideas_on_Rape⠀⇛
When U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, in a
draft opinion obtained and published this week by
Politico, detailed his justifications for
overturning Roe v. Wade, he invoked a surprising
name given the case’s subject. In writing about
abortion, a matter inextricably tied to a woman’s
control over her body, Alito chose to quote from
Sir Matthew Hale, a 17th-century English jurist
whose writings and reasonings have caused enduring
damage to women for hundreds of years.
The so-called marital rape exemption — the legal
notion that a married woman cannot be raped by her
husband — traces to Hale. So does a long-used
instruction to jurors to be skeptical of reports of
rape. So, in a way, do the infamous Salem witch
trials, in which women (and some men) were hanged
on or near Gallows Hill.
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Roaming_Charges:_Playing_for_Keeps⠀⇛
+ Overturning Roe is just the first thread pulled
in what will be a much greater unraveling, which
will take place over the next decade.
+ Alito’s draft opinion in Dobbs. v. Jackson
Women’s Health Organization, which wipes away a
fundamental right to bodily autonomy and sets the
groundwork for abolishing dozens of other personal
rights, also exposes how fraudulent and cynical the
GOP rhetoric about individual liberty has become,
from vaccines to guns. We’re seeing a deeply
reactionary ideological agenda come to fruition and
the Alito Court (I guess we should call it that
now) is going to be the wrecking ball that smashes
any legal impediments to its completion. The fact
that it has taken place even as the rightwing has
repeatedly lost the popular vote in national
elections shows how broken our political system is
and how weak–often complicit–the opposition and
often majority party has been for the last 50
years. Things are going to get much worse before
they get better, if–given the runaway pace of
climate change–they get better…
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Supreme_Court:_Politics,_Then_Country⠀⇛
It’s all about politics, not honest debate about
policy, as the minority Republican Party with the
support of conservative judges its presidents
nominated erodes more American freedoms, little by
little – everything from limiting voting rights to
permitting what can be taught and read in schools
and libraries.
They’re conducting a war on privacy with
conservative judges at the spearhead, the
Constitution be damned. It’s a living document, not
some tombstone in America’s backyard. Proof? The 27
amendments of 33 passed by Congress and sent to the
states for ratification.
o § Internet Policy/Net Neutrality⠀➾
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Dems_Accused_of_Caving_to_‘Rabid’_Telecom
Industry_Smear_Campaign_Against_FCC_Nominee⠀⇛
Supporters of Federal Communications Commission
nominee Gigi Sohn and other critics of the
telecommunications industry’s efforts to thwart her
U.S. Senate confirmation this week called out not
only those behind the smear campaign but also
Democratic leaders.
“Dem leadership is nowhere to be found defending
their nominee.”
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Fraternal_Order_Of_Police_Helps_Boost_Telecom
Smear_Campaign_Against_FCC_Nominee_Gigi_Sohn⠀⇛
We’d already noted how telecom and media giants are
engaged in a last ditch attempt over the next few
weeks to derail Biden’s nomination to the FCC, Gigi
Sohn. Sohn is widely admired by folks on both sides
of the aisle, and is eminently qualified on stuff
like expanding access to affordable broadband,
media consolidation, consumer protection, privacy,
and media diversity.
# ⚓ RIPE ☛ RIPE_NCC_Internet_Country_Report:_Bulgaria,_Moldova
and_Romania⠀⇛
Our latest report details the Internet landscape in
Bulgaria, Moldova and Romania, giving an overview
of the current level of development and capacity
for future growth. We examine the countries’ major
market players, Internet number resource holdings
and transfers, IPv6 readiness, the relationship
between different networks in the countries, their
international connectivity to the global Internet,
access to K-root, traffic paths and routing
security.
# ⚓ APNIC ☛ Public_cloud_and_technical_culture⠀⇛
By subscribing to public cloud offerings, an
organization can focus on its core business and not
worry about the physical infrastructure or
traditional skillset of support staff. Outsourcing
to cloud operators who maintain the platform means
your customers/employees/partners can access
services without your company needing to host on
physical premises. However, it is changing the
traditional technical culture of organizations,
with trained and skilled resources declining in
enterprise organizations.
# ⚓ spartan://_on_lagrange⠀⇛
Lagrange v1.13.3 supports spartan!
o § Monopolies⠀➾
# § Patents⠀➾
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Opinion_|_Biden_Broke_His_Promise_to
Support_Generic_Covid-19_Vaccines_for_the_World⠀⇛
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ While_Hoarding_Vaccine_Recipe,
Moderna_Got_Another_$300_Million_From_US_Taxpayers⠀⇛
The Massachusetts-based pharmaceutical giant
Moderna disclosed in a financial filing this
week that it received another $300 million in
U.S. government funding for coronavirus
vaccine development in March even as the
company hoarded its technology from the
world—and attempted to undermine a critical
vaccine project in South Africa.
“The corporation must give it back by sharing
the tech with others and make this vaccine
available to everyone, everywhere.”
# ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Moderna_Got_Another_$300_Million_From_US
Taxpayers_While_Hoarding_Vaccine_Recipe⠀⇛
# ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Vaccine_Inequity_Prolongs_Pandemic_as
Worldwide_Death_Toll_Tops_15_Million⠀⇛
# § Copyrights⠀➾
# ⚓ The Verge ☛ Sweeping_legal_ruling_orders_ISPs_to
block_pirate_sites⠀⇛
ISPs and other companies — or the defendants
— could still contest the order. But it’s not
clear the biggest players are going to. AT&T
declined to comment on whether it would
dispute the decision, and Verizon didn’t
respond to a request for comment. (Charter
didn’t immediately respond to a more recently
made request.) Comcast also declined to say
whether it would push back on the injunction
but offered slightly more detail. “We only
recently learned about it and the
implications and are still examining it,”
said spokesperson Sena Fitzmaurice.
# ⚓ Creative Commons ☛ Episode_28:_Open_Culture_VOICES_–
Mariana_Ziku⠀⇛
Welcome to episode 28 of Open Culture VOICES!
VOICES is a vlog series of short interviews
with open GLAM (galleries, libraries,
archives, and museums) experts from around
the world. The Open Culture Program at
Creative Commons aims to promote better
sharing of cultural heritage in GLAMs
collections. With Open Culture VOICES, we’re
thrilled to bring you various perspectives
from dozens of experts speaking in many
different languages on what it’s like to open
up heritage content online. In this episode,
we hear from Mariana Ziku, an art historian
and curator with specialization in digital
humanities. Her research focuses on
intangible, audiovisual and documentary
heritage. Mariana is a co-founder and
programme curator of the Biennale of Western
Balkans, where she works on promoting
intangible and natural heritage through art,
technology and open knowledge.
# ⚓ Creative Commons ☛ Episode_27:_Open_Culture_VOICES_–
Simon_Tanner⠀⇛
Welcome to episode 27 of Open Culture VOICES!
VOICES is a vlog series of short interviews
with open GLAM (galleries, libraries,
archives, and museums) experts from around
the world. The Open Culture Program at
Creative Commons aims to promote better
sharing of cultural heritage in GLAMs
collections. With Open Culture VOICES, we’re
thrilled to bring you various perspectives
from dozens of experts speaking in many
different languages on what it’s like to open
up heritage content online. In this episode,
Simon Tanner, Professor of Digital Cultural
Heritage at King’s College London, joins us
to share his insights on open GLAM. Simon is
a digital humanities scholar with a broad
interest in cross-disciplinary thinking and
collaborative approaches that reflect a
fascination with interactions between memory
institution collections (libraries, museums,
archives, media and publishing) and the
digital domain. As an information
professional, consultant, digitization expert
and academic, he helps major cultural
institutions across the world transform their
impact, collections and online presence.
# ⚓ Torrent Freak ☛ U.S._Copyright_Office_Seeks_Input_on
Mandatory_DMCA_“Upload_Filters”⠀⇛
The U.S. Copyright Office has launched a
public consultation to evaluate whether it’s
wise to make certain technical protection
measures mandatory under the DMCA. The Office
hopes to hear all relevant stakeholders and
the public at large in what may become a de
facto review of the recently introduced SMART
Copyright Act.
# ⚓ Torrent Freak ☛ Movie,_Music,_Gaming_&_Publishing
Groups_Join_ISPs_in_Deal_to_Block_Piracy⠀⇛
Major entertainment industry groups
representing film studios, record labels,
videogame developers and publishers have
signed a deal with internet service providers
in Sweden to simplify the blocking of pirate
sites. The signatories will also work
together to help form clear legislation that
will pave the way for a streamlined
administrative site-blocking regime.
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Disney_Is_Still_Trying_To_Avoid_Paying_Its
Writers⠀⇛
There are all sorts of silly and made up
reasons to be mad at Disney, but those
shouldn’t take away from the many legitimate
ways in which Disney is a terrible, awful
company. For years, it was one of the most
aggressive in pushing for ever expanded
copyrights, and was one of the chief
lobbyists pushing to extend copyright in all
sorts of directions. To be honest, over the
last two decades, some of the other big
Hollywood/media companies have gotten even
more aggressive than Disney, but Disney has
certainly remained aggressively awful.
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§ Contents⠀➾
* GNU/Linux
o Distributions
o Devices/Embedded
* Free_Software/Open_Source
* Leftovers
* § GNU/Linux⠀➾
o § Desktop/Laptop⠀➾
# ⚓ Bloomberg ☛ China_Orders_Government,_State_Firms_to_Dump
Foreign_PCs⠀⇛
China has ordered central government agencies and
state-backed corporations to replace foreign-
branded personal computers with domestic
alternatives within two years, marking one of
Beijing’s most aggressive efforts so far to
eradicate key overseas technology from within its
most sensitive organs.
# ⚓ China_intends_to_transfer_state_institutions_and_state-
owned_enterprises_to_Linux_and_PCs_of_local_manufacturers⠀⇛
According to Bloomberg, China intends to stop the
use of computers and operating systems of foreign
companies in state institutions and state
enterprises within two years. It is expected that
the initiative will require the replacement of at
least 50 million foreign-brand computers, which are
ordered to be replaced with equipment from Chinese
manufacturers.
According to preliminary data, the prescription
will not apply to components that are difficult to
replace, such as processors. Despite the
development of China’s own chips , most Chinese
manufacturers continue to use Intel and AMD
processors in PCs. Microsoft software is
recommended to be replaced with Linux-based
solutions developed by Chinese manufacturers.
o § Server⠀➾
# ⚓ Business Wire ☛ AlmaLinux,_Popular_CentOS_Alternative,_Now
Available_on_Oracle_Cloud⠀⇛
# ⚓ HPC Wire ☛ AlmaLinux_Now_Available_on_Oracle_Cloud⠀⇛
AlmaLinux OS Foundation, the nonprofit that
stewards the community owned and governed open
source CentOS replacement AlmaLinux, today
announced AlmaLinux is now available on the Oracle
Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) marketplace, continuing
AlmaLinux’s penetration into the cloud. With this
addition to the Oracle Cloud Marketplace (OCM),
enterprises can now add AlmaLinux into their
Virtual Cloud Network (VCN) with the simple click
of a button for both x86_64 and Aarch64.
o § Audiocasts/Shows⠀➾
# ⚓ Video ☛ Install_Arch_Linux_The_Easy_Way_With_The_Official
Install_Script_–_Invidious⠀⇛
I’ve always argued that the standard command line
installation of Arch Linux is easy and anyone can
do it (seriously!). But many people fear command
line installations, so Arch Linux now comes with a
guided menu-based install script that is as easy-
to-use as the Ubiquity installer or the Calamares
installer.
# ⚓ Video ☛ Welcome_To_My_New_House_&_Studio_Planning_–
Invidious⠀⇛
It’s finally happening, I’m finally moving out of
my current place and into a place with one of my
good mates, here I’ll have so much more space but
right now nothing is finished. My room/studio isn’t
finished is neither is most of the house but it
will be soon enough.
# ⚓ Chrome Uboxed ☛ Steam_Deck_unboxing_and_hands-on_initial
impressions_[VIDEO]⠀⇛
Generally speaking, we unbox and review
Chromebooks, ChromeOS tablets, Chromeboxes and
Chromebases around here. If it runs ChromeOS in any
way, shape or form, we’re interested. If it is
#madebyGoogle, we’re interested. If it works with a
Chromebook, we’re interested. But there are
outliers, too, and some of those devices have
direct impact on the wider ChromeOS ecosystem. The
Steam Deck from Valve is one such device, and there
are some good reasons why we’re keenly interested
in this handheld gaming machine.
# ⚓ Video ☛ Ubuntu_22.04_LTS_Released_|_The_BIGGEST_Update_To
Ubuntu_Yet!_–_Invidious⠀⇛
The most popular Linux distribution in the world
gets a massive update, that is packed with stunning
new features and major improvements like Dynamic
Triple Buffering, Gnome 42, advanced customization
options and so much more. A new interface style,
amazing performance boost, better customization
options, and a host of new features make Ubuntu
22.04 LTS noteworthy. Yes this is the biggest
update to Ubuntu yet. So let’s jump right in and
see what’s new in Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, the new tech
that enables a boosted performance, the stability,
the deal with snap apps, the UI changes, gaming,
installation and everything else.
o § Kernel Space⠀➾
# ⚓ Latest_Linux_Kernel_Not_Working_Right?_So_you_can_go_back_–
LinuxStoney⠀⇛
In this tutorial we are going to learn how to
degrade Linux kernel version if latest version
didn’t work fine, We always recommend updating
Windows, Linux and programs to the latest versions
available. Thanks to them, we can correct errors,
improve the performance and general functionality
of the PC and be able to use it in the safest way
possible. However, there are times when problems
appear as soon as the Kernel or any system
component is updated. And when this happens, what
can we do?
The first thing we want to make clear is that,
whenever possible, it is better to use the latest
version of the Linux Kernel . The why is very
simple. Just like other operating systems, or other
programs, when the kernel is updated, bugs and
problems are corrected, both in terms of operation
and security, which allow the computer to work in
the best possible way and, above all, in the safest
way possible.
# ⚓ Intel_wants_to_fix_sleep_malfunction_on_Linux_laptops⠀⇛
That Linux doesn’t shine on laptops is pretty well
known. Problems with energy management have been a
constant in its history, which have sometimes led
to significant regressions . Fortunately, Intel
seems to be willing to do its part to at least get
better at carrying out the suspension process.
It seems there are models of laptops with Intel
processors that run hotter than they should,
leading to battery drain that can occur even when
the computer goes to sleep . With the problem on
the table, Intel has decided to take action on the
matter to introduce a solution in the Linux kernel,
since the origin is apparently a bug in S0ix caused
by overheating of the PCH, but before getting into
the flour, let’s briefly explain what S0ix and PCH
are.
o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾
# ⚓ H2S Media ☛ 2_ways_to_find_my_IP_address_on_Ubuntu_22.04
Jammy_JellyFish⠀⇛
Let’s learn the GUI and Command ways to find the IP
address on Ubuntu 22.04 Jammy JellyFish to identify
the local Internal address, Default Gateway, MAC
address, or DNS server.
If you are into system administration or installing
some program that requires your system’s IP
address, then this tutorial could help you.
# ⚓ H2S Media ☛ How_to_Install_Maven_on_Ubuntu_22.04_LTS_Jammy
–_Linux_Shout⠀⇛
Learn the steps to install Apache Maven on Ubuntu
22.04 LTS Jammy JellyFish using the command
terminal to manage Java-based projects.
Apache Maven is an open-source Java tool for the
standardized creation and management of Java-based
projects. As per the developers of Maven, it is
intended to facilitate the daily development work
by trying to automate as many steps as possible in
the development cycle from the creation of a
software project to compilation and testing to the
distribution of the software. Based on the
specified standards, only a few configuration
settings have to be stored for most build
management tasks to map the life cycle of a
software project.
# ⚓ Peta Pixel ☛ How_to_Convert_HEIC_to_JPG_|_PetaPixel⠀⇛
Photographers have to deal with a variety of image
types and new file formats appear from time to
time, usually offering benefits that, while
helpful, might not be immediately obvious. This can
lead to frustration and hours lost when simply
trying to complete a project. That’s particularly
true when a new camera or device saves images that
can’t be opened or edited in the normal workflow.
# ⚓ ByteXD ☛ How_to_Use_the_SSH_Config_File_–_ByteXD⠀⇛
The SSH Config File is a text file that contains
configuration information for your SSH client. This
file is usually located in your home directory, and
the path is ~/.ssh/config.
It is used to store configuration information for
your SSH client, such as the hostname of the server
you are connecting to, your username, and your
private key file.
It’s useful for keeping your SSH client’s
configuration organized and for sharing your
configuration with others, and also for automating
your SSH client’s configuration.
In this tutorial we will learn by examples how to
use the SSH config file to modify and simplify our
networking needs using Linux.
# ⚓ H2S Media ☛ How_to_Install_Python_2_on_Ubuntu_22.04_LTS
Jammy_Linux_–_Linux_Shout⠀⇛
Get the easy steps to install Python2 or 2.7 on
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Jammy JellyFish using the command
terminal to run old applications that need this
version.
Python is an object-oriented programming language
that offers clear syntax and easy readability; it
is easy to learn and very versatile. The language
was released in 1991 and is similar to PERL.
Available to use on UNIX, Linux, Windows, and Mac
OS.
The programming language is standard equipment in
many Linux distributions. Python can also be used
on many mobile operating systems. For web servers,
WSGI (Web Server Gateway Interface) is a universal
interface between the server and Python.
# ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_To_Install_Remmina_Desktop_Client_on_Manjaro
21_–_idroot⠀⇛
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install
Remmina Desktop Client on Manjaro 21. For those of
you who didn’t know, Remmina is a free and open-
source remote desktop client that allows users to
access remote machines from a distance. It supports
the following protocols X2Go, RDP, SSH, SPICE, and
VNC.
This article assumes you have at least basic
knowledge of Linux, know how to use the shell, and
most importantly, you host your site on your own
VPS. The installation is quite simple and assumes
you are running in the root account, if not you may
need to add ‘sudo‘ to the commands to get root
privileges. I will show you the step-by-step
installation of the Remmina remote desktop client
on a Manjaro 21.
# ⚓ ByteXD ☛ What_is_/dev/null_in_Linux_and_How_to_Use_It_–
ByteXD⠀⇛
The null device in Unix systems is /dev/null.
Its purpose is to immediately discard anything sent
to it.
It’s known also as a bucket or a blackhole. Like
throwing something in a thrash bucket or sending it
to a blackhole never to be seen again.
In this guide we will discuss what is the purpose
of /dev/null, why it exists, and how to use it.
# ⚓ TechRepublic ☛ 10_ways_to_check_ports_in_Linux_to_help
troubleshoot_systems_|_TechRepublic⠀⇛
System and network troubleshooting often involves
checking and obtaining information about ports to
ensure functionality and determine the source of
problems. Learn some handy tips to help keep
systems running smoothly.
o § Wine or Emulation⠀➾
# ⚓ WineHQ_–_Wine_Announcement_–_The_Wine_development_release
7.8_is_now_available.⠀⇛
The Wine development release 7.8 is now available.
What's new in this release:
- X11 and OSS drivers converted to PE.
- WoW64 support in the sound drivers.
- Number formatting using the new locale
database.
- Various bug fixes.
The source is available from the following
locations:
https://dl.winehq.org/wine/source/7.x/wine-
7.8.tar.xz
http://mirrors.ibiblio.org/wine/source/7.x/wine-
7.8.tar.xz
Binary packages for various distributions will be
available from:
https://www.winehq.org/download
You will find documentation on https://
www.winehq.org/documentation
You can also get the current source directly from
the git
repository. Check https://www.winehq.org/git for
details.
Wine is available thanks to the work of many
people. See the file
AUTHORS in the distribution for the complete list.
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Wine_7.8_is_out_now_with_X11_and_OSS
drivers_converted_to_PE_|_GamingOnLinux⠀⇛
Wine is the compatibility layer that allows you to
run games and applications developed for Windows –
on Linux (plus also macOS and BSD). A new biweekly
development release is out now with Wine 7.8. It’s
a major part of what makes up Steam Play Proton and
enables a ton of games to work on the Steam Deck.
Once a year or so, a new stable release is made.
o § Games⠀➾
# ⚓ Boiling Steam ☛ More_than_2600_Games_On_The_Steam_Deck,
with_Corpse_Party_as_Verified_–_Boiling_Steam⠀⇛
It did not take too long to move from 2500 to 2600
games: there are now 2624 games at the time of
writing working on the Steam Deck – in two
categories as usual…
# ⚓ Boiling Steam ☛ Quieter_Fans_With_The_Latest_Steam_Deck
Beta⠀⇛
One of my biggest complaints in my initial Steam
Deck impressions (and I know I’m not alone) was the
fan noise. While I don’t think I have a
particularly whiny unit, the small fan has a sound
profile that’s been described accurately as a
distant hairdryer.
I noted that a better fan curve would help as the
Deck was constantly starting and stopping the fan
at a very audible level, even for simpler games and
desktop usage. There’s also the issue with some
Deck users having a much more audible whine, from
what appears to be the design of one of the fans
used in the Deck (looks like random chance which
yours has). Some have taken to using electrical
tape to alter the fan noise, though I wouldn’t
necessarily suggest it.
# ⚓ System76_Scheduler_seeks_to_improve_and_optimize_the
execution_of_games_and_applications_–_LinuxStoney⠀⇛
System76 , the well-known American Linux computer
assembler and the one responsible for the Pop!_OS
distribution, has published version 1.1 of its
programmer, developed with the purpose of improving
the response of the software in your operating
system and obviously your computers, although it
shouldn’t of having problems for its
reimplementation on the part of others seeing that
it is published under the MPL 2.0 license.
The scheduler, whose official name is System76
Scheduler , is written in Rust and is responsible
for automatically adjusting the Linux processor
scheduler to prioritize processes and thus improve
responsiveness. This component takes into account
whether the computer is connected to power or
running on battery power for further optimization
purposes. Version 1.1 has introduced a full level
kernel priority under the responsive profile and
voluntary level in case of running on battery
power.
o § Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾
# § K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt⠀➾
# ⚓ This_week_in_KDE:_New_features_and_many_bugfixes_for
Plasma_5.25⠀⇛
This week Plasma 5.25 reached its “soft
feature freeze” date, at which point we don’t
add any large new features or major code
refactorings. This reduces risk and gives us
a longer period of time to polish those
changes before the final release. So as you
can imagine, everyone rushed to merge their
big stuff right before the deadline! As a
result, this week I can present are tons of
new features and important refactorings that
fix multiple bugs. Check it out…
# § GNOME Desktop/GTK⠀➾
# ⚓ #42_Numerous_Emojis_·_This_Week_in_GNOME⠀⇛
Update on what happened across the GNOME
project in the week from April 29 to May 06.
# ⚓ Builder_GTK_4_Porting,_Part_III⠀⇛

Another week of porting Builder which
ultimately sent me on a few fun tangents. I
especially enjoyed the work on Template-GLib
which brought me back to my days working on
languages and runtimes.
I would like to specify how wonderful the new
shortcut components are in GTK 4,
particularly if you’re writing complex
applications that have to manage layered
shortcuts, user overrides, and such. I’m
thinking applications in the class of
Inkscape, GIMP, Builder, Darktable, and such
will really benefit from this someday.
# ⚓ Bottles_developers_join_the_GNOME_Foundation⠀⇛
Bottles, the application that allows you to
create and manage Wine environments, has been
gaining popularity in recent times thanks to
the fact that it is easy to use and offers
many possibilities. Bottles’ prominence has
ended with its developers making the decision
to officially become part of the GNOME
Foundation.
The membership of the Bottles developers
within GNOME will allow them, as explained by
the corresponding website of the foundation
behind the environment, “to run for the
election of the Board of Directors, to vote
in the elections for the Board of Directors
and to suggest referendums. The membership
process is supervised by the Membership and
Elections Committee”.
o § Distributions⠀➾
# § IBM/Red Hat/Fedora⠀➾
# ⚓ Fedora_Linux_to_Keep_Legacy_BIOS_Support,_For_Now⠀⇛
Fedora Linux to continue support of Legacy
BIOS as the decision for Fedora 37 is
rejected by the Fedora Engineering and
Steering Committee (FESCo) due to several
factors.
# ⚓ The Next Platform ☛ The_Hyperscalers_Point_The_Way_To
Integrated_AI_Stacks_–_The_Next_Platform [Ed: IBM-
sponsored writer Timothy Prickett Morgan composes some
word salad about "Hey Hi"; "Sponsored by Intel"]⠀⇛
# ⚓ Network World ☛ IBM_announces_first_major_update_to
Power9_servers_in_three_years⠀⇛
IBM will launch the first major update to its
i operating system for Power CPU-based
servers in three years. The enhancements are
largely hardware-oriented, supporting both
the older Power9 and the newer Power10, which
has been available since last September.
# § Debian Family⠀➾
# ⚓ Published_deb-get_utility,_offering_apt-get-like
functionality_for_third-party_packages⠀⇛
Distributions generally allow the integration
of so-called third-party repositories. these
are repositories that do not come from the
distribution and are therefore not protected
by their keys. Opinions differ greatly as to
whether such repositories should be included
at all.
# ⚓ SparkyLinux_6.3⠀⇛
The 3rd update of Sparky 6 – 6.3 is out.
It is a quarterly updated point release of
Sparky 6 “Po Tolo” of the stable line. Sparky
6 is based on and fully compatible with
Debian 11 “Bullseye”.
# ⚓ Tails_5.0:_the_Linux_distro_that_protects_your
privacy_makes_the_leap_to_Debian_11⠀⇛
Tails 5.0 is the new version of the amnesic
incognito live system , the most popular of
the Linux distributions focused on the
protection of privacy on the Internet and, as
you can see, it comes with round numbers,
which is worth dedicating a space exclusively
to it , instead of, as we do more often,
relegating it to PING .
releases in a timely manner Tails is that
they happen pretty often and the changes are
usually minimal. The secret of Tails to offer
the high level of privacy that it offers is
to be based on the Tor network and for
greater guarantee, it is essential to have
each new version of Tor that appears and that
incorporates security and other patches.
Thus, Tails is updated every time Tor is
updated.
Of course, Tails is a Linux distribution and
it also has other components apart from Tor,
so it receives other types of updates. Tails
5.0 is an unbeatable example of this, since
the major version jump corresponds to the
base system jump, since Tails 5 moves its
foundations to Debian 11 ‘Bullseye’ , with
all the new features that this entails.
# ⚓ Charles_Fussell,_Jonathan_Cohen_&_Debian_SLAPP
microsite,_resignations⠀⇛
A large sum of money from Debian funds is now
paying for Jonathan Cohen, a lawyer at
Charles Fussell & Co LLP, to purse a SLAPP
lawsuit and try to shut down the Debian
Community News and the Uncensored Debian
Planet web sites.
# ⚓ Leader_adds_PBX_hardware_vendor_Call4tel_–
Distribution_–_CRN_Australia⠀⇛
The US-based company specialises in small-
sized plug and play PBX appliances
preinstalled with 3CX’s V18 software and
Debian 10.
# ⚓ ARN ☛ Leader_wins_distie_deal_with_UC_vendor_Call4tel
–_ARN⠀⇛
Call4tel appliances come preloaded with 3CX
Version 18 and Debian 10, allowing users to
load their licensing and configure their SIP
accounts and IP phones. The appliances can
also be converted for use as a Session Border
Controller (SBC) in a hosted 3CX environment.
# § Canonical/Ubuntu Family⠀➾
# ⚓ TecAdmin ☛ Download_Ubuntu_16.04_LTS_–_DVD_ISO_Images
–_TecAdmin⠀⇛
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Jammy Jellyfish is released
and available for download. This tutorial
will provide you the download links to DVD
ISO Images of Ubuntu 22.04 LTS with different
desktop flavors. You can find the Ubuntu
22.04 release notes on its official website.
o § Devices/Embedded⠀➾
# ⚓ Linux Gizmos ☛ Radxa_offers_affordable_Rock_Pi_4_C+
equipped_with_Rockchip_RK3399-T_processor⠀⇛

Radxa recently unveiled details about their newest
SBC (Single Board Computer) Rock Pi 4 C+. At first
sight, the Rock Pi 4 C+ seems to have implemented a
slower Rockchip processor (up to 2.0GHz w/
overclock) compared to their previous models,
however the board ships for an affordable price
(~59$-69$).
For this Rock Pi model, Radxa opted to integrate
the Rockchip RK3399-T SoC which consists of 4x
Cortex-A53 (up to 1.5GHz w/ overclock) and 2x Arm
Cortex-A72 (up to 2.0GHz w/ overclock). The SoC
also comes with a Mali T860MP4 GPU that supports
OpenGL ES, Vulkan and Open CL. As in previous
models, the Rock Pi 4 C+ has 4GB of RAM LPDDR4 with
clock speeds up to 3200Mb/s.
The company has a Wiki to provide documentation
regarding hardware, OS installation and Linux/
Android development. Radxa also has a forum for
additional support.
# ⚓ CNX Software ☛ Khadas_VIM4_Review_–_Part_2:_Android_11
preview_and_benchmarks_–_CNX_Software⠀⇛
Raspberry Pi 4 outperforms both Amlogic platforms
for 2D graphics, but Khadas VIM4 really shines when
it comes to 3D graphics with over twice the
performance of ODROID-N2+ and 6.4x faster
performance than Raspberry Pi 4. So Khadas VIM4 and
Amlogic A311D2 processor in general should be a
pretty good platform for gaming or other
applications that require fast 3D rendering
capabilities.
That will be all for Android 11 on Khadas VIM4 SBC
for now, I’ll have a bit more to test on Ubuntu
22.04 Desktop with WiFi 6 and GbE networking,
storage performance, Linux benchmarks, GPU and VPU
support, etc… I’d like to thank Khadas for sending
the board for review. It’s scheduled to launch on
May 10, and we’ll know the price at that time. You
can register your interest on Khadas website to get
notified of availability.
# ⚓ RISC-V_edges_closer_to_reality:_Alibaba_close_to_porting
Android_to_RISC-V⠀⇛
In order for RISC-V to become mainstream, it needs
to be able to run modern operating systems, have
accessible compilers, and be compatible with
mainstream applications. Recently, Alibaba
announced that it is getting closer to porting
Android to RISC-V, which marks a major milestone in
the widespread adoption of RISC-V.
# § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾
# ⚓ Liliputing ☛ Rock_Pi_4_Model_C+_is_more_of_a_minus_
(less_powerful_than_the_Model_C,_but_also_cheaper)_–
Liliputing⠀⇛
Usually when a company sticks a plus sign on
the end of a product, it’s because it’s
better than the normal version (or because
it’s a streaming service). But when it comes
to Radxa’s new Rock Pi 4 Model C+ single-
board computer, the updated model is actually
a bit less powerful than the Rock Pi 4 Model
C that launched a few years ago.
At least it’s also cheaper. Perhaps more
importantly though, it’s actually in stock.
You can pick one up for $60 from AllnetChina
or pay $65 at Ameridroid.
# ⚓ Codasip_adopts_Siemens’_OneSpin_tools_for_formal
verification⠀⇛
Codasip, the leader in processor design
automation, has expanded its adoption of
formal verification solutions for
comprehensive and thorough processor testing
with the addition of OneSpin IC verification
tools from Siemens EDA. Codasip has
continually invested heavily in processor
verification to underpin the company’s
ability to deliver the industry’s highest
quality RISC-V processor IP. [sic]
# § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾
# ⚓ The Informant ☛ Android_starts_playing_Nintendo
Switch_games⠀⇛
# ⚓ Forbes ☛ Urgent_Google_Android_Security_Patch,
Attacks_Underway,_Samsung,_Pixel⠀⇛
# ⚓ The Sun ☛ Urgent_warning_for_Android_users_that_apps
may_be_spying_on_them_–_the_symbols_on_your_phone_to
watch_out_for⠀⇛
# ⚓ [Working]_How_to_Completely_Delete_and_Uninstall_Apps
on_Android⠀⇛
# ⚓ Android Authority ☛ 5_Android_apps_you_shouldn’t_miss
this_week_–_Android_Apps_Weekly⠀⇛
# ⚓ Android Authority ☛ I_prefer_Android_face_unlock_to
Apple’s_Face_ID_for_one_simple_reason⠀⇛
# ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ 5_Great_Samsung_Apps_That_All_Android
Users_Should_Download⠀⇛
# ⚓ 12_Best_Uses_For_Old_Android_Phones⠀⇛
# ⚓ Forbes ☛ Android_Circuit:_Galaxy_Z_Flip_Leak,_Oppo
Find_N_Review,_Genshin_Impact’s_Massive_Impact⠀⇛
# ⚓ How_To_Change_Your_Default_Apps_On_Android_Phones⠀⇛
# ⚓ How_to_merge_duplicate_contacts_on_Android_–
Phandroid⠀⇛
# ⚓ Android Police ☛ Android_13_Beta_1_for_Android_TV_is
ready_for_developers⠀⇛
# ⚓ Phone Arena ☛ Samsung_continues_the_Galaxy_A_series
Android_12_rollout_–_PhoneArena⠀⇛
# ⚓ AVMultiPhone_is_a_peculiar_MATE-on-phone_desktop
spin⠀⇛
After SXMO, the DWM-on-phone mod that became
popular for its practical minimalism with the
PinePhone, and the lesser known ExpidusOS
XFCE-based shell, many of the traditional
lightweight Linux desktops are receiving
touch-friendly adaptions. A relatively new
project, AVMultiPhone, is loosely based on
the popular MATE desktop, which continues the
GNOME 2 legacy experience with modern
libraries such as Gtk3.
However, there is more to this than standard
MATE. First and foremost, the touchscreen
experience appears to be nearly complete, and
generally usable. Secondly, a series of
applets and configurations was added to ease
the integration of details such as
touchscreen keyboards.
# ⚓ Hacker News ☛ Google_Releases_Android_Update_to_Patch
Actively_Exploited_Vulnerability [Ed: On Android, this
would be a risk if you run malicious "apps" that want
root; or if you update these to inherit new and
malicious behaviour]]⠀⇛
Google has released monthly security patches
for Android with fixes for 37 flaws across
different components, one of which is a fix
for an actively exploited Linux kernel
vulnerability that came to light earlier this
year.
Tracked as CVE-2021-22600 (CVSS score: 7.8),
the vulnerability is ranked “High” for
severity and could be exploited by a local
user to escalate privileges or deny service.
* § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾
o ⚓ The New Stack ☛ Small-Scale_Fab:_Make_Parts_with_Free/Open_Source
Software_–_The_New_Stack⠀⇛
There’s tremendous interest in small-scale fabrication
and manufacturing these days. The topic is constantly
covered in trade journals and the news. I think it’s the
best time ever to be in tech and there is a bright future
for anyone leaping into the “small-scale” sector.
Lots of techies understand the basic concepts. Say you
want to make a bracket. Just buy a 3D printer, sit it on
your desk, maybe whip out a quick CAD model on your
notebook, push the button on the printer and poof… out
comes a super ultra-cool physical part.
Yaaaahhh, well… technology is still complicated and
nuanced complexity markedly affects expectations, from
family members and friends, all the way up through
organizations and the general public. I typically maybe
just get a “that’s nice, what’s it good for?” response.
Like everything else, you have to know stuff to answer
their question.
This new series aims to help you fearlessly step into
small-scale fabrication and inspire you to help guide it
into practicality. Here’s a hint: Curiosity, willingness
to learn, Free/Open Source Software and a modest bit of
cash will put you solidly in the game.
o ⚓ Medevel ☛ Why_enterprise_and_medium-size_companies_should
consider_using_Sandstorm⠀⇛
Sandstorm is an open source project built by a community
of volunteers with the goal of making it really easy to
run open source web applications.
o ⚓ Medevel ☛ VTENEXT_is_the_Open_Source_CRM_and_BPM_solution⠀⇛
VTENEXT is released and distributed under the GNU AFFERO
GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE Version 3.0.
o ⚓ Medevel ☛ Track_your_nutrition_with_this_amazing_free_Android
app:_Energize⠀⇛
Energize is a fairly new food and nutrition for Android
systems. It is totally a free and open-source application
that you can download, build, install for free, and even
examine the source code.
[...]
The project is released under The GNU General Public
License v3.0 only
o ⚓ Beta News ☛ How_to_continue_the_growth_of_open_source_in_the_UK⠀⇛
Open source adoption rates are growing globally, with
non-propriety code proving to be both efficient and cost-
effective for a variety of organizations. Approximately
82 percent of IT decision-makers are more likely to
choose a vendor that actively gives back to the open
source community, according to a recent report from Red
Hat. In the UK in particular, much of the reason for
this open source drive is down to increased public cloud
usage, the growing demand for rapid digital
transformation and a greater understanding of open
source’s cybersecurity resilience.
To help continue this open source upsurge in a
sustainable manner, organizations utilizing the
technology need to be contributing back to the community,
to best enable the development of the technology.
o ⚓ Venture Beat ☛ Meet_Logseq,_an_open-source_knowledge_management
system_that_‘stores_data_like_a_brain’ [Ed: Open-source with dash
typically means it is fake]⠀⇛
With support for markup languages such as Markdown and
Emacs’ Org-mode, Logseq enables users to create tasks,
manage and store notes or to-do lists, embed pages,
annotate PDFs and create links between all the
information contained within, to create a free flow of
information.
o ⚓ Open-source_OS_is_a_low-cost_alternative_to_Windows_for_IPCs_–
Drives_and_Controls_Magazine⠀⇛
FreeBSD supports both 32- and 64-bit platforms, providing
scalable implementation from ARM CPUs up to powerful Xeon
CPUs. It has a small footprint, taking up less than 300MB
of RAM.
o ⚓ Open_source_and_liability [Ed: Charlatan and fraud Craig Wright
is using the term "Open Source" to promote his lies]⠀⇛
o ⚓ IT Web ☛ Open_source_–_the_gift_that_keeps_on_giving [Ed: They
have managed to skip GNU like it never existed and does not
exist]⠀⇛
In a world in which conflict, crime and chaos dominate
mainstream news and social media channels around the
world, there’s one global project that proves that people
of vastly different backgrounds, cultures and creeds can
work together for the betterment of humanity, everywhere.
[...]
The roots of the open source project can be traced back
to the 1960s and the development of Unix, which grew into
a collection of standalone operating systems for
mainframe computing. But it was only when Finnish student
Linus Torvalds released Linux, a version of Unix, as a
new, free operating system kernel in September 1991, that
open source was truly accelerated. The open source label,
however, only came to the fore in 1998 after the release
of the Netscape source code.
o ⚓ Medevel ☛ UsTaxes_is_an_open-source_free_tax_filing_app_for_USA⠀⇛
UsTaxes is a free, open-source tax filing application
that can be used to file the Federal 1040 form. It is
available in both web and desktop versions. It is
provided free of charge and requires no sharing of
personal data.
o § Events⠀➾
# ⚓ Linux_App_Summit_2022⠀⇛
A week ago I attended Linux App Summit (LAS) 2022
in Rovereto, Italy. It was great to finally travel
and meet people again, after more than two years.
At the same time it would be naive to think the
pandemic is over, and it’s still a few days too
early for the final verdict on whether we managed
to meet safely, but things look very promising so
far.
o § Web Browsers⠀➾
# ⚓ Medevel ☛ Missing_the_classic_Opera_browser?_Try_Otter⠀⇛
Otter is a free open-source web browser that
recreates the old Opera 12 browser experience. It
is completely open-source project as it is released
under the GPL-3.0 License.
Otter is written primarily in C++ and leverages Qt5
framework. The project receives constant updates
that include new features, improvements, and bug
fixes
# § Mozilla⠀➾
# ⚓ Firefox_100:_technological_resurrection,_popular
death⠀⇛
Recently appeared Firefox 100, an event that
is more symbolic than anything else, although
Mozilla has emphasized it with a thank you
message shown to all those who have executed
it. Do not misunderstand, when I speak of
symbolism, I am referring only to the
psychological impact that the number 100 has,
nothing more.
Firefox 100 maintains the good progress that
the browser has shown in recent months, a
good job that, unfortunately, is not helping
it to rise in user quota, since it is
currently behind the current Microsoft Edge ,
based on Chromium and with official version
for Linux .
It’s no secret that I’m a staunch supporter
of Wayland, so I use Firefox almost out of
obligation because it’s the only major web
browser with mature support for the graphics
protocol. Until January 2022 I used the RPM
version provided by Fedora , which has
Wayland support enabled by default, and from
that date I started using the Flatpak build
hosted on Flathub , whose Wayland support can
be easily enabled with Flatseal .
# ⚓ Paul Thurrott ☛ Mozilla_Releases_Firefox_100⠀⇛
o § MongoDB⠀➾
# ⚓ TechRepublic ☛ Why_your_open-source_project_definitely
should_not_be_the_next_Kubernetes⠀⇛
Take Firecracker, an open-source, micro-
virtualization project that AWS released in 2018.
Firecracker was almost universally hailed as cool
technology … and then mostly disappeared from
public view. I wrote about some early community
success, but even that (Weave Ignite to improve
Firecracker’s ease-of-use, among other things) came
from a close AWS partner. To give Firecracker more
community heft, I suggested that AWS follow Google
and open up governance around Firecracker, not just
its code.
AWS didn’t listen but, not for the first time, my
opinion didn’t seem to matter. (That’s a polite way
of saying maybe I was wrong.)
Fast forward to 2022, and Firecracker is quietly
getting used in lots of cool places. I say
“quietly” because, well, why would anyone shout
their infrastructure from the rooftops? But when I
asked, some interesting users surfaced, like
Stripe, Fly.io, System Initiative and more. Of
course, it’s still true that most contributors to
Firecracker are employed by AWS.
But even if Firecracker would have remained a
community of one (AWS), it arguably would have been
worth it. In fact, that’s essentially what I argued
while I worked for AWS, indicating that there were
clear customer-oriented reasons to open-source
Firecracker, regardless of community involvement.
Open source ensured Firecracker would play nicely
with the Linux community and enabled tighter
“compounded product gains” for customers.
# ⚓ OpenSource.com ☛ Build_community_engagement_by_serving_up
Lean_Coffee⠀⇛
I recently started a new job at MongoDB as a
Principal Community Manager, spearheading the
MongoDB Community Champions program. In that role,
I faced two challenges.
First, I was joining a brand new, fully remote
team. Not only was I new myself, but the team as a
whole was just beginning to form, with new members
coming on board a couple of times per month. This
team was also spread across several time zones,
with about half of them older, established members
who’ve been with the company for a long time and
know each other pretty well, and the other half
entirely new faces.
Second, the Community Champions program started
during the pandemic. As a result, program
participants from around the world had very little
opportunity to meet each other and meld as a group.
I wanted to find out more about what they wanted to
discuss and learn, so I could use that to plan out
the first few months of programming. I also wanted
to give them a chance to talk with each other about
their interests.
I ran these scenarios past a friend of mine, the
fabulous Donna Benjamin, and she suggested an
extremely useful tool from the Open Practice
Library: Lean Coffee.
# ⚓ TechRepublic ☛ Appwrite’s_new_open-source_fund_could_offer
a_novel_path_to_sustainability_|_TechRepublic⠀⇛
“While some projects are used by millions, they
might still struggle to find a reasonable way to
monetize and sustain themselves. This is where we
believe we can help,” Fux said. Open-source
projects need all sorts of support, he continued,
but in his experience, “financial support was my
biggest concern” as a maintainer. Sometimes,
however, there’s no intent to ignore cash-strapped
maintainers. “Companies benefit from your work but
are not always aware of the challenges you need to
face to deliver it,” he suggested. Therefore,
Appwrite’s open-source fund is as much designed to
raise cash as “awareness of the challenges required
to deliver high-quality, open-source products.”
o § FSF⠀➾
# § GNU Projects⠀➾
# ⚓ 10_Professional-Level_Web_Design_Tools_to_Get_the
Ideal_Website [Ed: GNU's GIMP]⠀⇛
o § Programming/Development⠀➾
# ⚓ Techstrong Group ☛ Git_for_Mainframe:_Back_to_the_Future⠀⇛
Software delivery modernization should be done with
care, especially with mission-critical mainframe
apps. But for some, modernization will feel like a
trip back to the future.
Mainframe applications are typically systems of
record with high-value transactions, significant
compliance risk and an essential need for stability
and security. They’ve been running reliably, often
for decades, with code changes made by teams of
dedicated developers using time-tested interfaces
like ISPF (green screens) and Eclipse integrated
with mainframe-based source management
tools—Endevor is the most widely used example.
# ⚓ Top_10_Trending_Open-Source_Python_Projects_on_GitHub [Ed:
Pretending that anything Microsoft does not control simply
does not exist]⠀⇛
# ⚓ Top_10_AI_Skills_that_will_Get_You_a_Job_in_FAANG_Companies
in_2022_–_Analytics_Insight [Ed: Surveillance jobs]⠀⇛
# ⚓ Top_10_Python_Jobs_Developers_Should_Apply_for_in_FAANG
Companies⠀⇛
# ⚓ 15_Best_Coding_Games_for_Kids_–_Kids_Programming_Classes_&
Websites⠀⇛
Simply put, coding is telling a computer or machine
how to perform a task. As a rep from Raspberry Pi
Foundation explains, “Coding is one aspect of
digital making. When you write code, you are
writing instructions for a computer to follow.” As
complex as they may seem, computers are actually
simple devices, so that’s why you have to give them
really simple instructions that you then build into
a complex set of rules. And learning how to provide
those instructions isn’t just helpful for computers
— it challenges programmers to communicate with
computers in a way that makes sense. Why is coding
good for kids? Teaching your kid how to code won’t
just make them a computer whiz — it will teach them
plenty of other valuable skills as well. “When
young people are given opportunities to learn and
create with code, they can do incredible things,
from expressing themselves creatively, to
highlighting real-world issues or controlling a
robot,” the Raspberry Pi Foundation rep says.
“Coding also helps develop young people’s
resilience and problem-solving skills, as debugging
is a key part of the process to ensure their code
works correctly.” Yes, they may get frustrated at
times, but it’s all part of the process!At what age
can a child start coding? Just like when learning a
new language, it’s both better and easier to learn
coding skills from a young age. “There is research
into children being able to learn aspects of coding
from the age of three, as well as during
kindergarten and early elementary school,” the
Raspberry Pi Foundation rep explains.
# ⚓ Dirk Eddelbuettel ☛ RProtoBuf_0.4.19_on_CRAN:_Updates⠀⇛
A new release 0.4.19 of RProtoBuf arrived on CRAN
earlier today. RProtoBuf provides R with bindings
for the Google Protocol Buffers (“ProtoBuf”) data
encoding and serialization library used and
released by Google, and deployed very widely in
numerous projects as a language and operating-
system agnostic protocol.
This release contains a pull request contribution
by Michael Chirico to add support for the
TextFormat API, a minor maintenance fix ensuring
(standard) string are referenced as std::string to
avoid a hickup on Arch builds, some repo updates,
plus reporting of (package and library) versions on
startup. The following section from the NEWS.Rd
file has more details.
# ⚓ SpiderMonkey_Newsletter_(Firefox_100-101)_|_SpiderMonkey
JavaScript/WebAssembly_Engine⠀⇛
SpiderMonkey is the JavaScript engine used in
Mozilla Firefox. This newsletter gives an overview
of the JavaScript and WebAssembly work we’ve done
as part of the Firefox 100 and 101 Nightly release
cycles.
# § Python⠀➾
# ⚓ Linux Links ☛ 7_Best_Free_and_Open_Source_Python
Object-Relational_Mapping_Software⠀⇛

Object–relational mapping (ORM) is a
programming technique for converting data
between incompatible type systems using
object-oriented programming languages. This
creates, in effect, a “virtual object
database” that can be used from within the
programming language.
In essence, ORM is a design pattern for
converting (wrapping) that data stored within
a relational database into an object that can
be used within an object oriented language.
It creates a layer between the language and
the database, helping programmers work with
data without the OOP paradigm.
# ⚓ Learn_how_to_program_with_this_Python_Humble_Bundle
for_as_little_as_$1_–_News_Azi⠀⇛
Looking to improve your Python programming
skills? Humble Bundle and No Starch Press
have put together the Python Book Bundle with
up to 18 books.
The Humble Bundle is all in the name of
charity, so the minimum payments for each
tier are suggestions, but if you like the
cause you can always give more. The
beneficiaries for this bundle include the
Python Software Foundation and the Hacker
Initiative. Here’s what’s available.
# ⚓ Python_Basic_Electronics_Control_with_the_Raspberry
Pi_|_Developer.com⠀⇛
The Raspberry Pi device, beyond just being a
low-cost introductory computing tool, also
provides a robust electronic controller
interface that enables programmatic control
of external electronic systems. These systems
can be as simple as turning on or off an LED,
or as complex as being able to control a
robotic arm or other, more elaborate,
electronic devices. This Python and embedded
programming tutorial will show the reader how
to use Raspberry Pi-specific Python libraries
to control basic electronic components. Many
similar Python tutorials presume extensive
knowledge in the use of such components, but
this article will not make that presumption.
Instead, programmers will be shown a “gentle”
introduction into the electronics concepts
needed to get this project going, in the
hopes that this foundation will encourage the
reader to do more experimentation beyond the
simple experiment to be presented within this
two part programming series.
* § Standards/Consortia⠀➾
o ⚓ PR Newswire ☛ VESA_Launches_Industry’s_First_Open_Standard_and
Logo_Program_for_PC_Monitor_and_Laptop_Display_Variable_Refresh
Rate_Performance_for_Gaming_and_Media_Playback⠀⇛
* § Leftovers⠀➾
o § Science⠀➾
# ⚓ Four_Columbians_Elected_to_the_National_Academy_of_Sciences
|_Columbia_News⠀⇛
Computer scientists Alfred Aho and Toniann Pitassi,
mathematician Michael Harris, and sociologist Mario
Small join this year’s class of new members.
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ Good_Products_and_Bad_Businesses⠀⇛
Over the past 15 years, clever digital ideas have
captured imaginations, transformed habits and
reshaped industries and economies.
It might seem surprising, then, that so many great
digital products in this generation have come from
bad businesses.
Spotify has reshaped music, but the company is
still figuring out how to turn a consistent profit.
Uber has altered cities and become a way of life
for some riders and drivers. The company has also
spent far more cash than it has brought in over its
13-year life.
App companies like DoorDash, Instacart and Gopuff
have hooked some Americans on deliveries of
restaurant meals, groceries or convenience items,
but hardly any company that brings fresh food to
our doors has made it work financially. Robinhood
helped make investing accessible and fun, but it
hasn’t made free stock trades profitable. Twitter
is a cultural force, but it’s never been a good
company.
# ⚓ How_sleep-deprived_see_and_evaluate_others’_faces_|_NSS⠀⇛
Acute sleep loss increases the brain’s reactivity
toward positive and negative affective stimuli.
Thus, despite well-known reduced attention due to
acute sleep loss, we hypothesized that humans would
gaze longer on happy, angry, and fearful faces than
neutral faces when sleep-deprived. We also examined
if facial expressions are differently perceived
after acute sleep loss.
# ⚓ Turing_Distinguished_Leader_Series:_Ashu_Garg,_General
Partner,_Foundation_Capital⠀⇛
In this Turing Distinguished Leader Series session,
we conversed with Ashu Garg, General Partner at
Foundation Capital. Ashu is an early investor in
several unicorns, including Turing.
# ⚓ 3D Printing Industry ☛ Taking_back_control:_new_3D_printed
bracelet_empowers_the_hand-impaired_to_play_video_games_–_3D
Printing_Industry⠀⇛
Researchers at the University of Sydney have
developed a 3D printed sensor bracelet that allows
those with hand impairments to more easily use
computers and play video games.
By detecting vibrations in users’ wrists as they
move their fingers, the wearable is said to be
capable of picking up inputs, before relaying these
to a machine learning (ML) program that converts
them into computational commands. Once they’ve
perfected this process, the team intends to make
the bracelet open-source, with the aim of improving
smart device access for disabled people across the
world.
# ⚓ uni Sydney ☛ Sensor_bracelet_designed_to_give_back_control
to_hand-impaired_–_The_University_of_Sydney⠀⇛
Australian researchers are developing a 3D printed
bracelet to allow people living with hand-
impairment to easily use computers and play video
games.
# ⚓ Software_Heritage:_the_software_Library_of_Alexandria_–
Hello_Future_Orange⠀⇛
The Software Heritage project aims to build a
software Library of Alexandria: a perennial,
universal source code archive to serve society,
science, and industry.
In today’s information society, software is
everywhere. It is at the heart of scientific
research, technological developments, and ever more
industrial processes. Software plays a pivotal role
in the everyday life of our society. It gives us
access to humanity’s knowledge and cultural
heritage, of which it is also a part. However,
software is fragile: it can be altered or made
unusable.
# ⚓ Purdue,_Ivy_Tech_partner_on_next-generation
microelectronics_workforce_–_Purdue_University_News⠀⇛
Purdue University and Ivy Tech Community College
are partnering to help meet the future workforce
needs in microelectronics, a field that is expected
to add more than 100,000 workers over the next
decade.
The agreement will provide a variety of
collaborative educational opportunities for faculty
and students in microelectronics and will explore
ways to attract more talent to this area.
o § Education⠀➾
# ⚓ Indigenous_language_key_piece_in_province’s_education
overhaul⠀⇛
Manitoba’s latest education reform action plan is
calling for tangible actions to support Indigenous
students in the classroom through access to
language and culture.
The provincial government announced its action plan
Wednesday responding to recommendations provided by
Manitoba’s kindergarten to Grade 12 education
commission.
# ⚓ Huawei_launches_‘Digital_Bus’_project_to_level_up_education
sector_in_Thailand⠀⇛
Huawei launched a new project entitled ‘Digital
Bus’ to turn the education sector towards
technology in Thailand. The company took this step
to enhance the knowledge of digitalization and new
techs among the Thailand citizens.
o § Hardware⠀➾
# ⚓ Panasas_Debuts_New_Products,_Continues_Software_Focus⠀⇛
Panasas started off specializing in storage
hardware, but more than 20 years on, the company is
placing a big bet on its software stack to meet
storage needs for high-performance applications.
The company on Wednesday introduced new storage
products called ActiveStor Ultra XL and ActiveStor
Flash for high-performance computing and artificial
intelligence applications. The products are built
on the company’s PanFS file system, which
orchestrates data movement in large clusters
deployed over a network.
# ⚓ HPC Wire ☛ Panasas_Debuts_New_Products_as_It_Emphasizes
Storage_Software_in_Business_Shift⠀⇛
o § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾
# ⚓ Real_Problems,_Real_Solutions_to_the_Long-Term_Care
Crisis⠀⇛
Making at-home care work for America starts with
tackling these 6 challenges
o § Integrity/Availability⠀➾
# § Proprietary⠀➾
# ⚓ Gizmodo ☛ Microsoft_Tells_Users_to_Uninstall_Windows
11_Update_That_Causes_Apps_to_Crash [Ed: Windows
eXPeriment]⠀⇛
# ⚓ Microsoft_advises_users_to_uninstall_Windows_11
update [Ed: This might be a plagiarism site, but it's
funny nonetheless]⠀⇛
# ⚓ Globe Newswire ☛ CloudCasa_by_Catalogic_to_Feature
Cyber-Resilient_Kubernetes_Backups_at_KubeCon_+
CloudNativeCon_Europe_2022⠀⇛
# ⚓ Protocol ☛ TurboTax_will_pay_$141_million_for
scamming_taxpayers⠀⇛
TurboTax will pay $141 million to residents
in every state and Washington D.C. for
misleading claims that its tax preparation
services are free, New York Attorney General
Letitia James announced Wednesday.
Under the agreement, a total of 4.4 million
taxpayers who used TurboTax’s free edition
for tax years 2016 through 2018 will get a
direct payment of approximately $30 for each
year. These users were told that they had to
pay to file, even though they were eligible
to file for free using the IRS Free File
program, which the Intuit withdrew from in
2021. In New York, 176,000 residents who were
“tricked into paying to file their federal
tax return” will receive a total of more than
$5.4 million.
# ⚓ John Gruber ☛ MacOS_Server,_Adieu⠀⇛
# § Security⠀➾
# ⚓ Security_Bulletin_04_May_2022⠀⇛
SingCERT’s Security Bulletin summarises
the list of vulnerabilities collated
from the National Institute of
Standards and Technology (NIST)’s
National Vulnerability Database (NVD)
in the past week.
# ⚓ 25+_Vulnerable_websites_to_practice_your
ethical_hacking_skills⠀⇛
In recent times as the field of
information is on the rise a new term
‘Ethical Hacking’ has emerged and
opened many different avenues for IT
and cyber security professionals. Now
more and more people are getting
familiar with the field of information
security and are getting interested in
learning about hacking skills.
For budding hackers, these are often
the best way to hit the ground running
in case of career choices towards
penetration testing or also known as
vulnerability assessment and pen
testing (VAPT).
# ⚓ TechStory Media ☛ What_are_the_Best_Automated
Penetration_Testing_Tools_in_2022?_–_TechStory⠀⇛
The process that identifies and
resolves security issues within a
network or a system is known as
automated penetration testing and it
can be a rather time-taking method,
especially if done manually. This is
where automated penetration testing
tools come in. They automate the
process of pentesting, making it easier
and faster for you to find and fix
vulnerabilities. We will discuss the
best-automated penetration testing
tools available today.
# ⚓ Duo ☛ Threat_Actor_Increases_Dwell_Time_By
Targeting_Opaque_Devices_|_Decipher⠀⇛
Researchers have uncovered a threat
actor that is targeting the emails of
employees at various companies –
including ones that focus on corporate
development, mergers and acquisitions
and large corporate transactions – for
suspected espionage purposes.
The group, UNC3524, turned researchers’
heads by having a longer-than-average
dwell time on victim networks, due in
part to the group’s installation of
backdoors on opaque network appliances
like SAN arrays, load balancers and
wireless access point controllers that
do not support security tools like
antivirus or endpoint protection.
Victims have been located in the U.S.,
Germany and Singapore, said
researchers.
# ⚓ The New Stack ☛ Understand_the_3_P’s_of_Cloud
Native_Security [Ed: But clown computing is the
opposite of security. It is a data breach,
technically speaking.]⠀⇛
# ⚓ Dependency_Issues:_Solving_the_World’s_Open-
Source_Software_Security_Problem_–_War_on_the
Rocks [Ed: This_is_a_proprietary_software
problem,_too]⠀⇛
The idea of a lone programmer relying
on their own genius and technical
acumen to create the next great piece
of software was always a stretch. Today
it is more of a myth than ever.
Competitive market forces mean that
software developers must rely on code
created by an unknown number of other
programmers. As a result, most software
is best thought of as bricolage —
diverse, usually open-source
components, often called dependencies,
stitched together with bits of custom
code into a new application.
This software engineering paradigm —
programmers reusing open-source
software components rather than
repeatedly duplicating the efforts of
others — has led to massive economic
gains. According to the best available
analysis, open-source components now
comprise 90 percent of most software
applications. And the list of
economically important and widely used
open-source components — Google’s deep
learning framework TensorFlow or its
Facebook-sponsored competitor PyTorch,
the ubiquitous encryption library
OpenSSL, or the container management
software Kubernetes — is long and
growing longer. The military and
intelligence community, too, are
dependent on open-source software:
programs like Palantir have become
crucial for counter-terrorism
operations, while the F-35 contains
millions of lines of code.
# ⚓ Security Week ☛ Cyberespionage_Group_Targeting
M&A,_Corporate_Transactions_Personnel⠀⇛
Security researchers at Mandiant are
documenting the discovery of a new
hacking group focused on cyberespionage
targeting employees responsible for
corporate development, large corporate
transactions, and mergers and
acquisitions.
Referred to as UNC3524 – Mandiant uses
‘UNC’ to track uncategorized hacking
groups – the threat actor does not
appear interested in immediate
financial gain, given that it manages
to remain undetected for an order of
magnitude longer than the average dwell
time of 21 days in 2021.
[...]
To keep the malware footprint low, the
attackers relied on built-in Windows
protocols. Lateral movement was
obtained through a customized version
of Impacket’s WMIEXEC tool, which
employs Windows Management
Instrumentation to create a semi-
interactive shell.
# § Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt/Fear-mongering/
Dramatisation⠀➾
# ⚓ ZDNet ☛ This_unpatched_DNS_bug_could_put
‘well-known’_IoT_devices_at_risk_|_ZDNet⠀⇛
uClibc stopped being maintained
in 2012 after the release of
version uClibc-0.9.33.2, while
the uClibc-ng fork is designed
for use within OpenWRT, a common
OS for routers “possibly deployed
throughout various critical
infrastructure sectors”,
according to Palanca.
# ⚓ Nozomi_Networks_Discovers_Unpatched_DNS
Bug_in_Popular_C_Standard_Library_Putting
IoT_at_Risk⠀⇛
Nozomi Networks Labs discovered a
vulnerability (tracked under CVE-
2022-30295, ICS-VU-638779,
VU#473698) affecting the Domain
Name System (DNS) implementation
of all versions of uClibc and
uClibc-ng, a popular C standard
library in IoT products. The flaw
is caused by the predictability
of transaction IDs included in
the DNS requests generated by the
library, which may allow
attackers to perform DNS
poisoning attacks against the
target device.
# ⚓ Port Swigger ☛ Zero-day_bug_in_uClibc
library_could_leave_IoT_devices_vulnerable
to_DNS_poisoning_attacks_|_The_Daily_Swig⠀⇛
A zero-day vulnerability in
uClibc and uClibc-ng, a popular C
standard library, could enable a
malicious actor to launch DNS
poisoning attacks on vulnerable
IoT devices.
The bug, tracked as ICS-VU-
638779, which has yet to be
patched, could leave users
exposed to attack, researchers
have warned.
# ⚓ DNS_bug_found_in_C_standard_library_used
in_popular_IoT_products⠀⇛
Researchers on Monday reported
they discovered a vulnerability
affecting the DNS implementation
of all versions of uClibc and
uClibc-ng, a popular C standard
library in many well-known IoT
products.
In a blog post, Nozomi Networks
Labs said the flaw was caused by
the predictability of transaction
IDs included in the DNS requests
generated by the library, which
may let attackers perform DNS
poisoning attacks against the
targeted devices.
The researchers reported that
major vendors such as Linksys,
Netgear, and Axis, as well as
Linux distributions such as
Embedded Gentoo use uClibc. The
researchers explained that
uClibc-ng was specifically
designed for OpenWRT, a common OS
for routers possibly deployed
throughout various critical
infrastructure sectors.
# ⚓ Hacker News ☛ Unpatched_DNS_Related
Vulnerability_Affects_a_Wide_Range_of_IoT
Devices⠀⇛
Cybersecurity researchers have
disclosed an unpatched security
vulnerability that could pose a
serious risk to IoT products.
# ⚓ Gear_from_Netgear,_Linksys,_and_200
others_has_unpatched_DNS_poisoning_flaw_|
Ars_Technica⠀⇛
Vulnerability in 3rd-party
libraries can send devices’ users
to malicious sites.
# ⚓ The Record ☛ Industrial_cybersecurity
researchers,_looking_for_help,_go_public
with_unpatched_IoT_bug_–_The_Record_by
Recorded_Future⠀⇛
The Record by Recorded Future
gives exclusive, behind-the-
scenes access to leaders,
policymakers, researchers, and
the shadows of the cyber
underground.
# ⚓ ZDNet ☛ Open-source_security:_It’s_too
easy_to_upload_‘devastating’_malicious
packages,_warns_Google⠀⇛
o § Environment⠀➾
# § Energy⠀➾
# ⚓ Protocol ☛ Wikipedia_doesn’t_want_your_crypto
donations_anymore⠀⇛
The Wikimedia Foundation will stop accepting
crypto donations after months of pressure
from members of the Wikipedia community. The
foundation said on Sunday it will close its
BitPay account, which facilitated crypto
gifts.
Members of the community had asked for the
foundation to end crypto donations last month
following a debate among 400 Wikipedia users.
The group opposing the foundation’s crypto
policy was primarily concerned with the
negative climate impacts of crypto mining and
the foundation’s reputation.
# ⚓ Wikipedia_Stops_Accepting_Bitcoin_(BTC),_Ethereum_
(ETH)_–_Benzinga⠀⇛
# ⚓ Yahoo News ☛ The_Wikimedia_Foundation_won’t_accept
crypto_donations_anymore⠀⇛
# ⚓ Protocol ☛ California_is_pushing_for_its_own
‘transparent’_crypto_regulations⠀⇛
# § Wildlife/Nature⠀➾
# ⚓ Super_Predator_Megaraptor_–_Largest_known_dinosaur
fossil_from_the_raptor_family_found_in_Argentina⠀⇛
A News that would get the makers of Jurassic
Park excited – Paleontologists in Argentina
have discovered the remains of the largest
dinosaur from the Raptor family – the
Megaraptor. The new species has been named
‘Maip macrothorax’ by the National Council
for Scientific and Technical Research.
Raptors, popularized by the movie – Jurassic
Park, were not huge in size but aggressive
and intelligent. Megaraptors, were much
bigger with most species ranging 20-26ft in
length and couple of feet taller than humans
in height. The ‘Maip macrothorax’ found in
Argentina measures 33ft long and weighed over
5tons.
# ⚓ Edinburgh_zoo_welcomes_two_new_endangered_penguins⠀⇛
Edinburgh zoo has welcomed two new baby
penguins, after the first eggs of the season
hatched.
Both are endangered Northern rockhoppers.
Rockhoppers are endangered due to climate
change and overfishing.
Zookeepers are keeping a close eye on the new
arrivals, as the first 30 days are critical –
they are also hopeful that the gentoo penguin
eggs will begin hatching soon.
Dawn Nicoll, senior penguin keeper at
Edinburgh Zoo, said: “Northern rockhopper
penguins are endangered due to climate
change, changes in marine ecosystems and
overfishing, so it is really exciting to
welcome these new chicks.
o § Finance⠀➾
# ⚓ Gas,_diapers,_essential_items_will_be_tax-free_in_Florida⠀⇛
# ⚓ Come_Home_Montana_recruitment_campaign_draws_mixed
reception⠀⇛
Gov. Greg Gianforte’s signature pledge to bring
home Montana’s kids and grandkids, now backed by a
$700,000 marketing campaign, has run headlong into
angst over Montana’s ‘crazy real estate market.’
o § Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾
# ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Online_Censorship_of_Ukraine_Dissent_Is
Becoming_the_New_Norm_–_scheerpost.com⠀⇛
Big Tech and the corporate media are ushering in an
ominous era of intense censorship over Ukraine.
# ⚓ The Washington Post ☛ Musk_gets_help_from_tech_titans_and_a
Saudi_prince_in_Twitter_bid [Ed: Larry Ellison, Saudi Regime,
Musk... promoted here in the Bezos Post. The plutocrats take
direct control of the communications of so many people.]⠀⇛
Two weeks ago, business leaders publicly questioned
whether Elon Musk was serious in his bid to take
Twitter private. Now, some of the top investors in
the world are lining up to backstop his ambitions.
# ⚓ ADN ☛ Elon_Musk_gets_help_from_techies,_Saudi_prince_and
crypto_king_in_bid_to_own_Twitter⠀⇛
Two weeks ago, business leaders publicly questioned
whether Elon Musk was serious in his bid to take
Twitter private. Now, some of the world’s top
investors are lining up to backstop his ambitions.
# ⚓ Free Press Journal ☛ India_isn’t_a_safe_place_for_comedians
either,_writes_Anil_Singh⠀⇛
Why cite the Reporters Without Borders report on
the lack of press freedom in India when your
humourists are being targeted?
o § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾
# ⚓ The Hill ☛ Supreme_Court_revisits_prayer_in_school_in
football_coach_case⠀⇛
# ⚓ Why_the_Dobbs_Leak_Is_Dangerous⠀⇛
his week’s leak of the draft majority opinion in
Dobbs, the Mississippi abortion case, is
unprecedented. Leaks from the Court have occurred
before, but this leak is different, a potentially
shattering event, both because of the leaker’s
probable motives and the leak’s probable effects.
Most likely, the leaker set out to intimidate one
or more of the justices and affect the outcome of
the case. Alternatively, the leaker hoped to
destroy the Court as an institution—in the
approving phrase of one progressive commentator, to
“burn this place down.” The long-term consequences
of the leak may be severe.
o § Internet Policy/Net Neutrality⠀➾
# ⚓ Fast Company ☛ Big_ISPs_just_gave_up_on_blocking_net
neutrality_law_in_CA⠀⇛
On Thursday, major internet service providers
(AT&T, Verizon, Comcast, et al.) dropped a lawsuit
challenging a California law requiring broadband
networks to treat traffic and content from all
websites and services equally. The ISPs’ legal
challenge had already lost three times in
California Federal courts. Network neutrality
proponents are calling the abandonment of the suit
a huge win for digital rights and the open web.
The ISP trade groups revealed their decision in a
brief filed Wednesday in the Federal District Court
of California, Eastern District. “When they lost
last time around . . . they really lost,” says Evan
Greer of the grassroots tech-rights group Fight for
the Future, which has long advocated for net
neutrality but was not directly involved in the
case. “The court all but said that if you take this
case to the Supreme Court you will lose.”
o § Monopolies⠀➾
# ⚓ Protocol ☛ EU_accuses_Apple_of_violating_competition_laws_–
Protocol⠀⇛
The European Commission sent Apple a “preliminary
view” that the company is violating competition
laws.
# ⚓ Protocol ☛ Google_just_fired_another_AI_researcher⠀⇛
Google fired Satrajit Chatterjee, an AI researcher
in the company’s Brain group who criticized a
research paper on computers designing computer
chips that was published in the scientific
publication Nature last year and involved work from
researchers in Google’s chip and Brain teams.
The paper presented a method for automatically
generating parts of a computer chip more
efficiently than humans. Chatterjee disputed parts
of the paper, and was fired in March after Google
told his research team that he couldn’t publish a
rebuttal of some of the claims made in the paper,
sources told The New York Times. Researchers who
had worked on a rebuttal argued that Google broke
its own AI principles by rejecting the paper.
# ⚓ Newsweek ☛ Facebook,_Google_Face_Regulatory_Reckoning_That
May_End_Big_Tech_Dominance [Ed: Salesforce-owned 'paper'
forgot Microsoft? ]⠀⇛
# ⚓ Competition_Law_in_the_Digital_Space:_A_Study_of
Exclusionary_Conduct_by_Tech_Conglomerates⠀⇛
At the heart of any competition law regime is the
promotion of free markets and the elimination of
anti-competitive practices. India, for example,
established the Competition Commission of India
under the Indian Competition Act (2002), to protect
and promote competition in markets, prevent
practices that hinder competition, and protect the
rights and interests of consumers.[1] In the United
States (US), two key antitrust laws are in
place—i.e., the Sherman Act and the Clayton Act—to
curb anti-competitive activities.[2] Similarly, the
Treaty for the Functioning of the European Union
(TFEU) is aimed at penalising offenders that
disrupt healthy competition in the local markets.
Articles 101 to 106, which form the basis of the
antitrust regime of the European Union (EU), outlaw
agreements that lead to cartelisation, monopolistic
practices, and abuse of dominance.
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