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โฆฟ Twitter: Not a Platform for Activism But for AstroTurfing and Manipulation by States and Plutocracy | Techrights
โฆฟ Condรฉ Nast (Owner of Reddit and Many Other Microsoft-Funded Sites) Promoting Software Patents | Techrights
โฆฟ The Outdated Microsoft Worldview (Mindframe of Post-Mainframe Era): A Mindset of Windows Being Ubiquitous in the Market (and Where It Cannot be Avoided) | Techrights
โฆฟ IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, November 30, 2022 | Techrights
ไทผ Bulletin articles (as HTML) to comment on (requires login):
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http://techrights.org/2022/12/01/nixos-22-11-released/#comments
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โ Twitter:_Not_a_Platform_for_Activism_But_for_AstroTurfing_and_Manipulation_by
States_and_Plutocracyโ โ
Posted in Deception at 8:50 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
Video_download_link | md5sum 0b4166404b0b377c374bbc0f2632219a
Social Manipulation is Not Media
Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 4.0
http://techrights.org/videos/twitter-is-manipulative.webm
Summary: More people are finding out that social control media is all about
control; it is controlled by states and oligarchs, itโs not a grassroots tool
THE past monthโs news coverage about Twitter was music to our ears because it
said things we had been saying for a long time. A lot of the problems in
Twitter are belatedly receiving light, including the bots and the spam, not to
mention interference by states. See โTwitter_grapples_with_Chinese_spam
obscuring_news_of_protestsโ (Jeff Bezos Post) and countless articles like this
one in our batches of daily links (almost a dozen in total, certainly more than
half a dozen). An associate has said this is โjust like Goatse and co on
Slashdot, same purposeโฆโ
This isnโt limited to China. The worldโs โdemocraticโ countries do the same
thing. They not only manipulate social control media (they have army units
devoted to this task), they even join_hands_with_Communist_China_in_this
illegal_agenda, doing cooperative self-promotion.
โA lot of people are going to learn the hard way that controlling oneโs own
platform is the safest way forward.โIt is meanwhile being alleged_that_Twitter
purges_left-leaning_users as if itโs a new thing or a fresh revelation that
Twitter engages in mass censorship based on political orientation. โNo one
shouldโve honestly believed Elon Musk would use his ownership of Twitter to
champion free speech,โ this article says. Well, obviously. This is why people
ought to stop renting space on other peopleโs platform; they need to make their
own and โfederationโ should be done directly, e.g. over RSS (not a centralised
or federated environment; use real syndication).
A lot of people are going to learn the hard way that controlling oneโs own
platform is the safest way forward. โ
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(โน) Images, hyperlinks and comments at http://techrights.org/2022/12/01/ars-for-sw-patents/#comments
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โ Condรฉ_Nast_(Owner_of_Reddit_and_Many_Other_Microsoft-Funded_Sites)_Promoting
Software_Patentsโ โ
Posted in Deception, Law, Patents at 8:57 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
Video_download_link | md5sum 6db8ca6bdf056b9d669021af0407d08e
Ars Technica-lly Lame
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http://techrights.org/videos/swpats-ars.webm
Summary: SoylentNews is boosting Condรฉ Nast fluff, including glorification of
software patents which ought not be granted at all after 35 U.S.C. ยง 101/Alice
(SCOTUS, 2014)
TEN days ago we published_this_video about Reddit, which is owned by Condรฉ_Nast
and therefore promotes a Microsoft agenda. Itโs a firehose of Microsoft PR
disguised as โcommunityโ and itโs many other bad things. This company basically
thrives in the illusion that it is something it is not and likely against.
Editorial control should not be absolute, but as_we've_just_shown, in open (to
manipulation) social control media abuse and mischief are warranted, even
inevitable. It happened to Slashdot before and it happens in many other sites,
especially when they grow to attract large audiences. Those with the money
(corporations) can overwhelm the process by means of bribes and AstroTurfing.
In Reddit, for instance, Microsoft adopted both approaches.
Microsoft is the worst and the most shameless about this. โTheyโve been
astroturfing nonstop before during and since Team99,โ an associate recalls,
linking to more_examples โfrom back when The Register was still independent,โ
noting that a lot of journalism about this went offline. โI guess it is to
their credit that they have not deleted nor โreorganizedโ away the old
articles. The same goes for Wired.โ
โItโs a firehose of Microsoft PR disguised as โcommunityโ and itโs many other
bad things.โThe video above responds to poor_editorial_choices_by_SoylentNews.
Itโs one among several recent examples, which include misinformation (and
sometimes resort to including Microsoft propaganda). We didnโt mention it at
the time, but it has been getting worse. The site is now linking_to_this_puff
piece_about_software_patents. โ
โMind Control: To control mental output you have to control mental input. Take
control of the channels by which developers receive information, then they can
only think about the things you tell them. Thus, you control mindshare!โ
โMicrosoft,_internal_document [PDF]
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โ The_Outdated_Microsoft_Worldview_(Mindframe_of_Post-Mainframe_Era):_A_Mindset
of_Windows_Being_Ubiquitous_in_the_Market_(and_Where_It_Cannot_be_Avoided)โ โ
Posted in Deception, GNU/Linux, Microsoft at 10:07 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
Video_download_link | md5sum 7dc4085c80840c2279100a66970cc142
Windows is Not Needed Anymore
Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 4.0
http://techrights.org/videos/rob-on-windows.webm
Summary: Itโs mostly incorrect to describe Windows as something that cannot be
avoided in technical occupations or something thatโs worth learning (or
actively using)
THERE is this outdated and bizarre notion that Windows is still everywhere.
Itโs not. Windows is still rather dominant in laptops and desktops, but only
laptops and desktops, plus these days those arenโt even the majority of
Internet-connected devices.
The above video responds to this_very_recent_video which smacks of
misinformation. As our associate puts it, โRob Braxmanโs most recent video toed
the Microsoft line to a certain extent. While in some wayโs knuckling under
like that may seem โpragmaticโ on the surface, it is 1) wasting your time with
Microsoft junk, methods, and quirks and 2) limiting your future options by 2a)
not spending time learning real methods and 2b) feeding market share to
Microsoft instead of squashing itโ (already happening, however not fast
enough).
The associate moreover says that โRob has to take that stance or risk having
his YouTube channel banned otherwiseโ (many GNU/Linux channels were cautioned,
suspended or banned for merely promoting Free software; some get instantly
demonetised for it, based on keywords). โ
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โ IRC_Proceedings:_Wednesday,_November_30,_2022โ โ
Posted in IRC_Logs at 2:57 am by Needs Sunlight
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* ยง GNU/Linuxโ โพ
o ยง Serverโ โพ
# โ Top 500 โ Top_500:_November_2022โ โ
Frontier is the clear winner of the race to
exascale, and it will require a lot of work and
innovation to knock it from the top spot.
The Fugaku system at the Riken Center for
Computational Science (R-CCS) in Kobe, Japan,
previously held the top spot for two years in a row
before being moved down by the Frontier machine.
With an HPL score of 0.442 EFlop/s, Fugaku has
retained its No. 2 spot from the previous list.
The LUMI system, which found its way to the No. 3
spot on the last list, has retained its spot.
However, the system went through a major upgrade to
keep it competitive. The upgrade doubled the
machines size, which allowed it to achieve an HPL
score of 0.309 EFlop/s.
# โ Kubernetes Blog โ Boosting_Kubernetes_container_runtime
observability_with_OpenTelemetry_|_Kubernetesโ โ
When speaking about observability in the cloud
native space, then probably everyone will mention
OpenTelemetry (OTEL) at some point in the
conversation. Thatโs great, because the community
needs standards to rely on for developing all
cluster components into the same direction.
OpenTelemetry enables us to combine logs, metrics,
traces and other contextual information (called
baggage) into a single resource. Cluster
administrators or software engineers can use this
resource to get a viewport about what is going on
in the cluster over a defined period of time. But
how can Kubernetes itself make use of this
technology stack?
o ยง Audiocasts/Showsโ โพ
# โ The TLLTS Podcast โ The_Linux_Link_Tech_Show_Episode_981โ โ
joel hates crappy corporate software.
# โ Video โ Setup_a_Homelab_to_learn_and_improve_your_Tech
skills._โ_Invidiousโ โ
Setup a Homelab to learn and improve your Tech
skills. Also someone asked me to share my setup.
You donโt need much. I run a bunch of virtual
machines and containers on that one server.
# โ mintCast Podcast โ mintCast_401_โ_Bill_Hammers_Nextcloud_โ
mintCastโ โ
First up in the news: Network-crashing leap seconds
to be abandoned, Asahi Linux Improves Apple Silicon
Support
o ยง Kernel Spaceโ โพ
# โ LWN โ Scaling_the_KVM_community_[LWN.net]โ โ
The scalability of Linus Torvalds was a recurring
theme during Linuxโs early years; these days
maintainer struggles are a recognized problem
within open-source communities in general. It is
thus not surprising that Sean Christopherson gave a
talk at Open Source Summit Europe (and KVM Forum)
with the title โScaling KVM and its communityโ. The
talk mostly focused on KVM for the x86
architectureโthe largest and most mature KVM
architectureโwhich Christopherson co-maintains. But
it was not a technical talk: most of the content
can be applied to other KVM architectures, or even
other Linux subsystems, so that they can avoid
making the same kinds of mistakes.
# โ LWN โ Block-device_snapshots_with_blksnap_[LWN.net]โ โ
As a general rule, one need not have worked in the
technology industry for long before the value of
good data backups becomes clear. Creating a backup
that is truly good, though, can be a challenge if
the filesystem in question is actively being
changed while the backup process runs. Over the
years, various ways of addressing this problem have
been developed, ranging from simply shutting down
the system while backups run to a variety of
snapshotting mechanisms. The kernel may be about to
get another approach to snapshots should the
blksnap patch set from Sergei Shtepa find its way
into the mainline.
The blksnap patches are rigorously undocumented, so
much of what follows comes from reverse-engineering
the code. Blksnap performs snapshotting at the
block-device level, meaning that it is entirely
transparent to any filesystems that may be stored
on the devices in question. It is able to create
snapshots of a set of multiple block devices, so it
should be suitable for RAID arrays and such. The
targeted use case appears to be automated backup
systems; the snapshots that blksnap creates are
described as โnon-persistentโ and are meant to be
discarded once a real backup has been made.
Since blksnap works at the block level, it must be
given space to store snapshots that is separate
from the devices being snapshotted. Specifically,
there are ioctl() operations to assign ranges of
sectors on a separate device for the storage of
โdifference blocksโ and to change those assignments
over time. There is a notification mechanism
whereby a user-space process can be told when a
given difference area is running low on space so
that it can assign more blocks to that area.
The algorithm used by blksnap is simple enough:
once a snapshot has been created for a set of block
devices (using another ioctl() operation), blksnap
will intercept every block-write operation to those
devices. If a given block is being written to for
the first time after the snapshot was taken, the
previous contents of that block will be copied to
the difference area, and a note will be made that
the block has been changed since the snapshot was
created. Once that is done, the write operation can
continue normally. The block devices thus always
reflect the most recent writes, while the
difference area contains the older data needed to
recreate the state of those devices at the time the
snapshot was created.
# โ LWN โ Networking_and_high-frequency_tradingโ โ
The high-frequency-trading (HFT) industry is rather
tight-lipped about what it does and how it does it,
but PJ Waskiewicz of Jump Trading came to the
Netdev 0ร16 conference to try to demystify some of
that, especially with respect to its use of
networking. He wanted to contrast the needs of HFT
with those of the traditional networking as it is
used outside of the HFT space. He also has some
thoughts on what the Linux kernel could do to help
address those needs so that HFT companies could
move away from some of the custom code that is
currently being developed and maintained by
multiple firms in the industry.
o ยง Applicationsโ โพ
# โ Tor โ Arti_1.1.0_is_released:_Anti-censorship_support!โ โ
Arti is our ongoing project to create an next-
generation Tor client in Rust. In September, we
released Arti 1.0.0, our first stable release. Now
weโre announcing the next feature release, Arti
1.1.0.
Arti 1.1.0โฒs claim to fame is its support for Torโs
anti-censorship features: You can now use Arti with
bridges and pluggable transports! (We have tested
it with obfs4proxy and snowflake.)
o ยง Instructionals/Technicalโ โพ
# โ UNIX Cop โ How_To_Install_Memtester_on_Ubuntu_20.04_|_22.04
LTSโ โ
In this guide, we will show you how to install
Memtester on Ubuntu systems.
Memtester is an effective userspace tester for
stress-testing the memory subsystem. It is very
effective at finding intermittent and non-
deterministic faults. Note that problems in other
hardware areas (overheating CPU, out-of-
specification power supply, etc.) can cause
intermittent memory faults, so it is still up to
you to determine where the fault lies through
normal hardware diagnostic procedures; memtester
just helps you determine whether a problem exists.
Memtests are memory-testing programs that check for
faults in the RAM of your system. Memtest or
Memtest86+ reads data, writes the memory address
patterns, and checks the errors. It can output a
list of bad RAM regions usable by the BadRAM kernel
patch so that you can still use your old RAM with
one or two bad bits.
# โ Jason W Comeau โ Color_Formats_in_CSSโ โ
CSS has a whole slew of different color formats:
hex codes, rgb(), hsl(), lch(), the list goes on!
Which one should we use? It might seem like an
inconsequential decision, but there are some pretty
important differences between them. And, honestly,
I think most of us are prioritizing the wrong
things. ๐
In this tutorial, Iโll take you on a tour of the
different options. Weโll see how they work, how we
can decipher them, and how we can use them to our
advantage. Later, Iโll show you how modern CSS lets
us make on-the-fly adjustments, if we pick the
right color format.
# โ Daniel Lemire โ Generic_number_compression_(zstd)โ โ
I have done a lot of work that involves compressing
and uncompressing data. Most often, I work on data
that has specific characteristics, e.g., sorted
integers. In such cases, one can do much better
than generic compression routines (e.g., zstd,
gzip) both in compression ratios and performance.
# โ Itโs FOSS โ How_to_Automatically_Indent_Your_Code_in_Visual
Studio_Code [Ed: "it's FOSS" is promoting Microsoft
proprietary software (NOT FOSS) that's spying on users. The
site lost its way about a year ago.]โ โ
# โ DebugPoint โ How_to_Enable_โDark_Modeโ_in_LibreOfficeโ โ
Tutorial for you on how to enable dark mode in
LibreOffice in Ubuntu, Linux and Windows systems.
LibreOffice, the free and open-source office
productivity software, is used by millions
worldwide. This cross-platform software runs on
Windows, Linux, and other distributions.
Millions of users around the world use LibreOffice.
Probably that includes you. And everyone seems to
prefer dark mode these days. And there are some
advantages as well.
o ยง Gamesโ โพ
# โ The Interactive Fiction Competition โ Winners_of_the_2022
IFCompโ โ
# โ GamingOnLinux โ Valve_giving_away_tons_of_Steam_Decks
during_The_Game_Awards_2022โ โ
Want to win a Steam Deck? Valve directly are giving
you quite a few chances, with a whole bunch of them
being given away during The Game Awards.
# โ GamingOnLinux โ Top-down_PvPvE_Battle_Royale_game_Gene
Shift_Auto_now_free_to_play_on_Steamโ โ
After many years of development and going through
multiple different names like Subvein, Mutant
Factions and Gene Shift โ the online mode has gone
free to play as Gene Shift Auto.ย Offering a lot of
fun for the price of nothing, this Native Linux
game is inspired by Grand Theft Auto 2 for a lot of
it.
# โ GamingOnLinux โ Starcom:_Unknown_Space_arrives_in_December,
Linux_support_a_โhigh_priorityโโ โ
Starcom: Unknown Space is entering Early Access in
December from Wx3 Labs, LLC set in the same
universe as their previous game Starcom: Nexus. In
their FAQ post on Steam, the developer made it
clear that Linux support is a โhigh priorityโ and
they did provide a Native Linux build on their
previous game too.
# โ GamingOnLinux โ Two_Point_Campus:_Space_Academy_announced
for_December_6thโ โ
Two Point Campus: Space Academy is the first
expansion for the popular university building sim
from the makers of Two Point Hospital.ย Releasing on
December 6th it brings with it a whole universe
ofย new featuresย including three stellar campus
locations, six student archetypes to welcome
aboard, six far-out courses and classrooms and
more.
# โ GamingOnLinux โ OpenTTD_adds_variable_interface_scaling_in
a_fresh_Betaโ โ
A big release of the Transport Tycoon Deluxe
inspired game OpenTTD is upcoming, with a second
Beta available now with some great new features
like variable interface scaling. While based on
TTD, OpenTTD had a wide array of improvements
including bigger maps, better multiplayer,
dedicated servers, better AI and so much more.
# โ GamingOnLinux โ Steam_Deck_hits_Japan,_Hong_Kong,_South
Korea_and_Taiwan_on_December_17thโ โ
Valve and Komodo have officially announced the
Steam Deck will arrive in Japan, Hong Kong, South
Korea and Taiwan on December 17th.
* ยง Distributions and Operating Systemsโ โพ
o ยง Red Hatโ โพ
# โ Red Hat Official โ Red_Hat_Summit_2023:_Save_the_date!โ โ
Red Hat Summit is the place for our customers,
partners, community members and IT professionals to
come together to innovate, learn and help shape the
future of the enterprise. This year, we are
returning to Boston, Massachusetts, and encourage
you and your team to join us on May 23-25, 2023 for
engaging keynotes, customer and partner stories,
access to Red Hat experts, hands-on labs and much
more.
# โ Red Hat Official โ Using_Red_Hat_OpenShift_OperatorHub_on
restricted_networksโ โ
# โ Red Hat Official โ Customer_success_stories:_How_Red_Hat
OpenShift_solved_challenges_for_organizations_in_IT,
entertainment_and_the_public_sectorโ โ
In this monthโs customer success highlights, learn
how Colombiaโs Superintendence of Industry and
Commerce, Westech and Kaizen Gaming used Red Hat
OpenShift to accelerate time to market, improve
scalability and expand services while also meeting
stringent security and compliance requirements.
# โ Red Hat Official โ Event-driven_automation:_Whatโs_in_an
event-driven_automation_architecture?โ โ
# โ Red Hat Official โ Red_Hat_Adds_New_Collaboration_and_MLOps
Capabilities_in_Red_Hat_OpenShift_Data_Scienceโ โ
Today, we are announcing several new capabilities
to Red Hat OpenShift Data Science, our managed
cloud service for data scientists and developers of
intelligent applications. Red Hat OpenShift Data
Science now includes new features for deeper data
analysis and better collaboration between ITOps,
data scientists, and intelligent application
developers. Furthermore, customers can now use
committed AWS spend to purchase and run Red Hat
OpenShift Data Science directly through AWS
Marketplace, providing easier accessibility and
flexibility for deployments. This is included as
part of Red Hatโs latest announcement for its
expanded portfolio of open solutions publicly
available in AWS Marketplace.
# โ Red Hat Official โ PaaS_to_Kubernetes_to_cloud_services:
Looking_back_at_10_years_of_Red_Hat_OpenShiftโ โ
Nearly 10 years ago this week, at the very first
AWS re:Invent, Red Hat took a leap of faith with
our technology portfolio. We built on the success
of our flagship Red Hat Enterprise Linux and JBoss
Middleware solutions and launched Red Hat OpenShift
Enterprise 1.0, Red Hatโs fully open source, hybrid
Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) offering geared for
enterprise developers.
# โ Red Hat Official โ Event-driven_automation:_Automation_vs.
event-driven_automationโ โ
In a world where the term โautomationโ often
triggers fears of job eliminations, in the tech
industry that couldnโt be further from its intent.
Imagine that you no longer needed to check the
mail, stop for gas, recharge your cell phone, or
restock groceries. Think of how much extra time
youโd gain to spend with your family and friends,
perhaps travel the world, invest in a hobby or even
justโฆrest. You might already be automating some of
these chores in your own life, and youโre thinking
โI already have my groceries delivered to my door,
and my phone charges itself when I set it on my
desk.โ Thatโs exactly what Iโm getting at. Does
that make you less valuable? Or are you more
productive because of it?
o ยง Debian Familyโ โพ
# โ CNX Software โ Sipeed_Maix-III_devkit_features_AXERA_AX620A
SoC_for_AI_vision_applications_โ_CNX_Softwareโ โ
Sipeed provides a Debian 11-based Linux operating
system for the development board booting from the
MicroSD card.
o ยง Open Hardware/Moddingโ โพ
# โ CNX Software โ NanoPi_R5C_mini_router_features_two_2.5GbE
ports,_supports_M.2_wireless_modules_โ_CNX_Softwareโ โ
FriendlyELEC provides several Linux images for the
board/router, namely FriendlyWrt 22.03 64-bit based
on the latest OpenWrt 22.03, Debian Buster Desktop,
and FriendlyCore Lite based on Ubuntu 20.04 with
all images relying on the Linux 5.10 LTS kernel.
The company also supports buildroot for people
wanting to roll out their own custom Linux
distribution. More details can be found in the
Wiki.
# โ Stacey on IoT โ Can_a_robotic_switch_shut_off_your_wireless
lights?โ โ
Thinking outside the box a little, we sought out a
connected battery pack module to add some wireless
functionality to Jonโs current lights.
Unfortunately, we came up empty on that front.
Device makers would rather sell you a new product
in most cases rather than retrofit hardware to
upgrade an older product.
# โ SparkFun Electronics โ Sending_Sensor_Data_Over_WiFiโ โ
Weโre all familiar with WiFi. It runs our home,
letโs us stream our favorite movies, and keeps us
from having to talk with other people when weโre at
a coffee shop. But thereโs more ways to use WiFi
than simply accessing the internet through
different applications. In this tutorial, weโll
show you how to set up your own peer-to-peer
network to sense data from one area and send that
data to an LCD screen somewhere else without
needing any internet connection or routers. This a
great first step in being able to remove the wires
from any embedded physical computing application.
* ยง Free, Libre, and Open Source Softwareโ โพ
o โ [Repeat] Ruben Schade โ Thinking_aloud_about_Gemini_and_Gopherโ โ
Yet itโs also been a bit of a reality check I wasnโt
expecting. Much of the world has at least moved on from
dialup, but this low-speed, high-latency connection is
closer to how more people use the Internet than I
probably appreciate.
You do use a connection like this differently. You ration
what youโre downloading, use plugins like NoScript to
more actively filter dynamic content and images, and you
check the size of a package before downloading it. You
even get used to unitasking, because you probably canโt
be loading too many concurrent things before your primary
task gets painful.
o ยง SaaS/Back End/Databasesโ โพ
# โ PostgreSQL โ PostgreSQL:_DBConvert_Streams_v0.5.0
released.โ โ
Slotix s.r.o. is pleased to announce the first
public release of DBConvert Streams v0.5.0.
DBConvert Streams (DBS) is an event-driven data
replication platform for database administrators
who require zero downtime database migration and
continuous data replication as workloads move to
the clouds and more data needs to be transferred.
DBS source readers use Change Data Capture (CDC)
technology to respond in real time to all data
changes in a particular source table or the entire
database.
o ยง Licensing / Legalโ โพ
# โ LWN โ Class_action_against_GitHub_Copilotโ โ
The GitHub Copilot offering claims to assist
software developers through the application of
machine-learning techniques. Since its inception,
Copilot has been followed by controversies, mostly
based on the extensive use of free software to
train the machine-learning engine. The announcement
of a class-action lawsuit against Copilot was thus
unsurprising. The lawsuit raises all of the
expected licensing questions and more; while some
in our community have welcomed this attack against
Copilot, it is not clear that this action will lead
to good results.
Readers outside of the US may not be entirely
familiar with the concept of a class-action lawsuit
as practiced here. It is a way to seek compensation
for a wrong perpetrated against a large number of
people without clogging the courts with separate
suits from each. The plaintiffs are grouped into a
โclassโ, with a small number of โlead plaintiffsโ
and the inevitable lawyers to represent the class
as a whole. Should such a suit prevail, it will
typically result in some sort of compensation to be
paid to anybody who can demonstrate that they are a
member of the class.
Class-action lawsuits have been used to, for
example, get compensation for victims of asbestos
exposure; they can be used to address massive
malfeasance involving a lot of people. In recent
decades, though, the class-action lawsuit seems to
have become mostly a vehicle for extorting money
from a business for the enrichment of lawyers. It
is not an uncommon experience in the US to receive
a mailing stating that the recipient may be a
member of a class in a suit they have never heard
of and that, by documenting their status, they can
receive a $5 coupon in compensation for the harm
that was done to them.
Compensation for the lawyers involved, instead,
tends to run into the millions of dollars. Not all
class-action lawsuits are abusive in this way, but
it happens often enough that it has become second
nature to look at a new class-action with a
jaundiced eye.
# โ 1105 Media Inc โ Debunking_the_Misconceptions_of_Open
Source_Security_Platformsโ โ
In fact, open source is the foundation of so many
of the digital technologies we take for granted
today. Not only was open source code the origin of
the World Wide Web, it has also made remote
collaborative development possible which, since the
pandemic, has become absolutely essential to the
way we work.
Moreover, because the open source community is
built around the idea of collaboration, open source
projects have the benefit of multiple perspectives
and areas of expertise coming together, creating
something stronger and more robust than the sum of
its parts.
o ยง Programming/Developmentโ โพ
# โ Allen_Wirfs-Brock:_How_Smalltalk_Became_a_AI_Languageโ โ
There is a story behind how Tektronix Smalltalk
became branded as an AI language in 1984.
In the 1960s-70s, Tektronix Inc had grown to become
an industry leading electronics competing head-to-
head with Hewlett-Packard. In the early โ80s
Tektronix was rapidly going digital and money was
being poured into establishing a Computer Research
Lab (CRL) within Tek Labs. Two early successful CRL
projects was my effort to create a viable
performance Smalltalk virtual machine that ran on
Motorola 680xx family processors and Roger Bates/
Tom Merrowโs effort to develop an Alto-like 680xx
based workstation for use in the lab.
# โ LWN โ Git_evolve:_tracking_changes_to_changes_[LWN.net]โ โ
The Git source-code management system exists to
track changes to a set of files; the stream of
commits in a Git repository reflects the change
history of those files. What is seen in Git,
though, is the final form of those commits; the
changes that the patches themselves went through on
their way toward acceptance are not shown there.
That history can have value, especially while
changes are still under consideration. The proposed
git evolve subcommand is a recognition that changes
themselves go through changes and that this process
might benefit from tooling support.
Some patches are applied to a projectโs repository
soon after being written, but other take more work.
Consider, for example, support for stackable
security modules, which has been through (at least)
38 revisions over many years. If and when this work
lands in the Linux kernel mainline, it will bear
little resemblance to what was initially posted
years ago. Each revision will have undergone
changes that will have rippled through much of the
39-part patch set. Git can support iteration on a
series like that, but it can be a bit awkward,
leading many developers to use other tools (such as
Quilt) to manage in-progress work.
# โ Enrico_Zini:_Things_I_learnt_in_November_2022โ โ
You can Build-Depend on debhelper-compat (=version)
and get rid of debhelper as a build-dependency, and
of debian/compat (details)
# โ Medevel โ Frank_framework_Low-code_Open-source_Messaging
Frameworkโ โ
Frank Framework is a free open-source low-code
messaging framework that allows developer to
connect systems, integrate services and create a
data applications.
It is an open-source platform to quickly build
enterprise applications. To have an enterprise
application, or as we say a Frank, you have to
deploy the Frank!Framework in combination with XML
configuration files.
# โ AdventOfCode โ Advent_of_Code_2022โ โ
The first puzzles will unlock on December 1st at
midnight EST (UTC-5). See you then!
# โ Syncpup โ โLet_It_Crashโ_under_attackโ โ
With that said, I just donโt understand the
obsession with testing in Erlang? Did we lose sight
of the essence of Erlang? Or are some of us
Erlangutans bored, need to fill in the day with
busy-work, and thus spend too much time writing
tests in Erlang?
# โ [Old] Lucien Cartier-Tilet โ [EN]_Writing_a_Dynamic_Array
in_Cโ โ
Although C is a very, very popular language, it is
also known to be quite tiny: memory is handled
manually, and much of what is available in its
standard library is a given in all other languages.
But C being a low level language also means it
lacks a lot of other stuff other popular languages
have; for instance, dynamic arrays are present in
the library of most popular languages, be it
JavaScript, C++, Rust and so on, but Cโs simplicity
forbids them from being there. If you want it in C,
you have to implement it โwhich is exactly what I
did!
# โ Bruno Rodrigues โ Functional_programming_explains_why
containerization_is_needed_for_reproducibilityโ โ
Iโve had some discussions online and in the real
world about this blog post and Iโd like to restate
why containerization is needed for reproducibility,
and do so from the lens of functional programming.
When setting up a pipeline, wether youโre a
functional programming enthusiast or not, youโre
aiming at setting it up in a way that this pipeline
is the composition of (potentially) many
referentially transparent and pure functions.
# โ Buttondown โ I_am_disappointed_by_dynamic_typingโ โ
Hereโs weird thing about me: Iโm pro-dynamic types.
This is weird because Iโm also pro-formal methods,
in fact teach formal methods as a career, which
seems completely antithetical. So on one hand I
teach people how to do static analysis, on the
other I use languages which make static analysis
impossible.
# โ Vox โ AI_experts_are_increasingly_afraid_of_what_theyโre
creatingโ โ
Of course, handing over huge sectors of our society
to black-box algorithms that we barely understand
creates a lot of problems, which has already begun
to help spark a regulatory response around the
current challenges of AI discrimination and bias.
But given the speed of development in the field,
itโs long past time to move beyond a reactive mode,
one where we only address AIโs downsides once
theyโre clear and present. We canโt only think
about todayโs systems, but where the entire
enterprise is headed.
The systems weโre designing are increasingly
powerful and increasingly general, with many tech
companies explicitly naming their target as
artificial general intelligence (AGI) โ systems
that can do everything a human can do. But creating
something smarter than us, which may have the
ability to deceive and mislead us โ and then just
hoping it doesnโt want to hurt us โ is a terrible
plan. We need to design systems whose internals we
understand and whose goals we are able to shape to
be safe ones. However, we currently donโt
understand the systems weโre building well enough
to know if weโve designed them safely before itโs
too late.
o ยง Standards/Consortiaโ โพ
# โ Broadband Breakfast โ U.S._Must_Lead_on_International_Tech
Standards_to_Counter_Chinese_Influence:_Raimondoโ โ
China is attempting to โgame the global systemโ by
advocating international tech standards that favor
โauthoritarian standards and values,โ Raimondo said
in a speech at the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology. Such efforts not only disadvantage
American companies, the secretary argued, but
threaten the free flow of information and data
privacy.
โIn recent years, China has purposefully and
aggressively assumed leadership positions in
several important international tech standard-
setting bodies,โ Raimondo said, endorsing American
collaboration with allies against Chinaโs
aggression.
# โ IT Wire โ ACMA_releases_options_paper_on_exploring_future
use_of_the_1.9_GHz_bandโ โ
Telecommunications industry regulator the
Australian Communications and Media Authority
(ACMA) has received responses from 22 stakeholders
and interested parties to a discussion paper it
released on exploring future use of the 1.9 GHz
band.
* ยง Leftoversโ โพ
o โ Vice Media Group โ Robot_Landlords_Are_Buying_Up_Housesโ โ
Imagine Homes is an example of an โautomated landlord,โ a
company that uses new data tools and technologies to
minimize the costs of on-site human labor while
collecting profits from rental properties. They are
essential to the new and growing sector of companies
backed by Wall Street investment firms that buy up
thousands of single-family rental homes across several
states.
o โ Counter Punch โ IdeasโEven_the_Most_Foolish_OnesโHave
Consequencesโ โ
Well, they may start from that, but humans that they are,
some of them try to rationalize their hates and fears
into theories that, though detached from reality,
literally provide the ammunition that enables their
followers to wreak havoc, like the guy did who descended
on a store frequented by Black people in Buffalo several
months ago in order to kill as many African-Americans as
possible.
Matthew Roseโs A World After Liberalism (Yale University,
2021) brings together and critically analyzes the
thoughts of people that most of us probably have not
heard of but are worshiped in far right networks around
the world. Rose says we better listen to what these guys
are saying, even if we find them utterly distasteful,
because their ideas have consequences.
o โ Hackaday โ NERF_โ_Neural_Radiance_Fieldsโ โ
Making narrative film just keeps getting easier. What
once took a studio is now within reach of the dedicated
hobbyist. And Neural Radiance Fields are making it a
dramatic step easier. The guys from [Corridor Crew] give
an early peek.
o ยง Scienceโ โพ
# โ Salon โ Is_the_brain_a_quantum_computer?_A_remarkable_pair
of_studies_suggests_soโ โ
On a macroscopic scale, the realm of baseballs and
planets, objects tend to have well-defined
locations and velocities. This is the realm of
โclassicalโ physics. But the rules of physics
operate slightly differently in the world of the
very small. On a quantum scale โ in this sense, we
mean โtinyโ โ individual atoms or particles donโt
have fixed points, but a probability that they
exist within a certain place at a certain time.
Odder still, individual particles can have
connections to other particles in different points
in space.
Still, this idea that quantum mechanics is
implicated in consciousness is still not very
popular among most neuroscientists or physicists,
who believe consciousness happens via classical
physics, not the quantum level. Itโs especially
hard to test the idea because it requires measuring
living human brain activity at mind-bogglingly
small levels.
# โ Brr โ Cape_Crozierโ โ
I recently had the opportunity to visit a nearby
field camp and assist with some IT tasks! This was
a short, couple-hour trip to help get the camp
ready for summer science work.
o ยง Hardwareโ โพ
# โ The Register UK โ UK_risks_missing_the_boat_on_having_a
semiconductor_industryโ โ
# โ Hackaday โ Cardboard_Game_Tokens_Become_Shiny_Click-Clacks
With_DIY_Treatmentโ โ
Tabletop games and cardboard tokens go hand-in-hand
for a good reason: they are economical and
effective. However, their tactile attributes leave
a little to be desired. Thereโs something really
great about high-quality pieces possessing a shiny,
pleasing smoothness and click-clack handling that
cardboard simply canโt deliver, but that all
changes withย [Dzhav]โs simple method for converting
cardboard tokens into deluxe versions of themselves
with a little work and a resin coating.
# โ Hackaday โ Nano-Sized_7-Segment_LED_Display_On_A_Surface
Mount_Moduleโ โ
Inspired by a prank tweet, [Sam Ettinger]
endeavored to create an SMD seven-segment display.ย
The NanoRaptor NanoSegment implements a panel of
seven-segment display modules sized at โ0806โ each
or just a bit wider than a standard 0805 SMD
footprint.ย Each of the seven segments is a single
0201 LED.ย Six I/O lines and three resistors are
required to operate each module.
o ยง Health/Nutrition/Agricultureโ โพ
# โ The Atlantic โ Iโm_Scared_of_My_Baby_Monitorโ โ
Experiences will, of course, vary. Romper ran the
headline โYes, Your Baby Monitor Is Making Your
Anxiety Worse.โ In The New Yorker, Karen Russell
writes, โPerhaps the scariest thing is how quickly
Iโve gotten over my unease; Iโve become addicted to
live-streaming plotless footage of our baby.โ And
the author Megan Stielstra wrote for The Rumpus
more than a decade ago about the baby cam as a kind
of portal. A rougher example of the technology, her
camera flipped between two frequency channels and
was thus able to connect, unexpectedly, to a
neighborโs unit of the same model: โWhenever The
Baby would fall asleep, Iโd stare at his Day-Glo
body on the monitor, making sure he wasnโt
chokingโor levitating or exploding or whatever
horrible thing Iโd imagineโand then, assured of his
safety, Iโd flip the channel to see how that other
mother was doing.โ Here she found a connection that
helped her through the gloom of postpartum
depression, whose symptoms, she said, can be โas
varied as the flowers in a greenhouse.โ
# โ SCMP โ South_Dakota_Governor_Kristi_Noem_bans_TikTok_from
state-owned_devices,_citing_China_linksโ โ
Noemโs executive order prohibits state employees
and contractors from accessing the app on state-
owned devices
# โ Mediaite โ South_Dakotaโs_Kristi_Noem_Bans_TikTok,_Warns_of
Chinese_Intelligence_Gatheringโ โ
โToday, Governor Kristi Noem signed Executive Order
2022-10, which bans the Chinese social media
platform TikTok for state government agencies,
employees, and contractors using state devices,โ
announced the governor in a press release.
โThis order is in response to the growing national
security threat posed by TikTok due to its data
gathering operations on behalf of the Chinese
Communist Party (CCP),โ the statement added.
# โ US News And World Report โ South_Dakota_Gov._Noem_Bans
TikTok_From_State-Owned_Devicesโ โ
TikTok is owned by ByteDance, a Chinese company
that moved its headquarters to Singapore in 2020.
It has been targeted by Republicans who say the
Chinese government could access its user data like
browsing history and location. U.S. armed forces
also have prohibited the app on military devices.
# โ CNN โ South_Dakota_governor_bans_state_employees_from_using
TikTok_on_government_devicesโ โ
South Dakotaโs governor signed an executive order
on Tuesday banning state agencies, employees and
contractors from accessing TikTok on government
devices, citing โthe growing national security
threatโ posed by the Chinese-owned social media
platform.
โSouth Dakota will have no part in the intelligence
gathering operations of nations who hate us,โ Gov.
Kristi Noem said in a press release. โThe Chinese
Communist Party uses information that it gathers on
TikTok to manipulate the American people, and they
gather data off the devices that access the
platform.โ
The order goes into effect immediately.
# โ Deseret News โ Is_there_a_difference_between_TikTok_in_the
U.S._and_China?_A_social_media_analyst_compares_it_to_opium
and_spinachโ โ
Although theyโre both owned by ByteDance, Douyin โ
Chinaโs version of TikTok โ offers a different
version of the social media app that is unavailable
to the rest of the world, especially for children.
โItโs almost like they recognize that technology is
influencing kidsโ development, and they make their
domestic version a spinach version of TikTok, while
they ship the opium version to the rest of the
world,โ Tristan Harris, a former Google employee,
and advocate for social media ethics, said of
Chinaโs approach to TikTok.
# โ NBC โ Drinking_water_to_retail:_How_a_rail_strike_could
upend_the_economyโ โ
One of the most direct impacts of a rail shutdown
would be a potential shortage of clean drinking
water for millions of households that rely on
publicly owned water systems.
Treatment plants use chlorine and other chemicals
to clean the water that eventually flows out of the
tap, and the vast majority of those chemicals are
transported around the country by rail from
factories to distribution centers.
# โ Counter Punch โ Survey_of_the_AgroAbsurdโ โ
But then, shrewd white men arrived and discovered
that the soil of this desert was in fact a rich
alluvial plain of Colorado River silt that could be
cleared, ploughed, harrowed, irrigated, planted and
made to grow profitable crops for export on the
railroad. So, they bought a great deal of land,
developed a small canal from the Colorado, sold
land to other white men, who began the new form of
gaining food โ not by gathering the fruits of this
rich desert, but by planting crops and gambling on
markets.
Soon, the gamblers started a more ambitious canal,
the All-American Canal. It blew out and flowed
north into the Salton Sink for three years,
creating the Salton Sea. It took the resources of
Southern Pacific to stop the flow in 1907.
# โ Counter Punch โ Rumbles_of_Discontent_in_China_Over_Xiโs
Zero-Covid_Policyโ โ
# โ Pro Publica โ Editorโs_Note:_A_Review_of_Criticisms_of_a
ProPublica-Vanity_Fair_Story_on_a_COVID_Origins_Reportโ โ
On Oct. 28, ProPublica and Vanity Fair published a
story about an interim report on the origins of
COVID-19 released by the Republican oversight staff
of a Senate committee. The interim report was the
product of a far-reaching investigation into the
question of how the pandemic began, and we wanted
to give readers an inside view of the teamโs work
and share independent expertsโ views of its
findings.
The debate over COVID-19โs origins has been
contentious from the start, and the reportโs
conclusion that the pandemic was โmore likely than
not, the result of a research-related incidentโ
triggered criticism. Scientists, China observers
and others questioned the Senate teamโs findings
and our reporting about them.
o ยง Proprietaryโ โพ
# โ The Economist โ What_is_the_war_in_Ukraine_teaching_Western
armies?โ โ
Contrary to popular wisdom, Javelin and NLAW anti-
tank missiles supplied by America and Britain did
not save the day, despite featuring heavily in
video footage from the first week of the conflict.
Nor did Turkeyโs TB2 drones, which struggled to
survive after day three. โThe propaganda value of
Western equipmentโฆwas extremely high at the
beginning of the war,โ noted Jack Watling of RUSI,
one of the reportโs authors, recently on โThe
Russia Contingencyโ, a podcast on Russian military
issues. โIt didnโt really have a substantial
material effect on the course of the
fightingโฆuntilโฆApril.โ The decisive factor was more
prosaic, he added. โWhat blunted the Russians north
of Kyiv was two brigades of artillery firing all
their barrels every day.
# โ India Times โ AWS_and_Atos_announce_deal_to_accelerate
cloud_adoptionโ โ
The agreement will provide Atosโ customers with
large infrastructure outsourcing contracts to
quicken their workload migrations towards the
cloud, the firms said, adding that Atos will
consult with over 800 customers to offer a new
hybrid cloud service with the option to move
selected workloads to AWS.
# โ Silicon Angle โ Why_your_cloud_computing_costs_are_so_high
โ_and_what_you_can_do_about_themโ โ
John Purcell, chief product officer at custom
developer DoiT International Ltd., tells of one
customer who made a keystroke error that caused the
company to spin up an Amazon Web Services Inc.
instance much larger than what was needed. A job
that was supposed to finish on Friday was never
turned off and ran all weekend, resulting in
$300,000 in unnecessary charges. โThere is a small
single-digit percentage of companies that manage
cloud costs well,โ he said.
# โ Computer World โ Forget_Rip_and_Replace._Innovate_in
Place.โ โ
Moving to the cloud for cloudโs sake can become a
recipe for disappointment. The reason? Many
organizations are simply attempting a โlift and
shiftโ moving their code to the cloud but not
modernizing it in any meaningful way. As a result,
they donโt get any of the benefits in terms of
improved performance, reliability, or new
capability. The return on the effort just isnโt
there and can create a recipe for other headaches.
o ยง Linux Foundationโ โพ
# โ Linux_Foundation_Certifications_Included_in_Guide_for
National_and_Foreign_Workers_Seeking_Employment_in_Beijing_โ
Victoria_Advocateโ โ
# โ Bosch_and_XPENG_Join_ELISA,_Hosted_by_Linux_Foundationโ โ
The ELISA (Enabling Linux in Safety Applications)
Project announced that Robert Bosch GmbH and XPENG
Motors have joined the project, marking its
commitment to Linux and its effective use in
safety-critical applications in connected cars.
Hosted by the Linux Foundation, ELISA is an open
source initiative that aims to create a shared set
of tools and processes to help companies build and
certify Linux-based safety-critical applications
and systems.
o ยง Securityโ โพ
# โ TechCrunch โ LastPass_says_it_was_breached_โ_againโ โ
# โ EFF โ Let_Data_Breach_Victims_Sue_Marriottโ โ
We say โno way.โ Along with our friends at EPIC,
and with assistance from Morgan & Morgan, EFF
recently filed an amicus brief arguing that
negligent data breaches inflict grievous privacy
harms in and of themselves, and so the victims have
โstandingโ to sue in federal court โ without the
need to prove more. The case, In re Marriott
Customer Data Breach, arises from the 2018 breach
of more than 130 million records from the hotel
companyโs reservation system. This included guestsโ
names, phone numbers, payment card information,
travel destinations, and more. We filed our brief
in the federal appeals court for the Fourth
Circuit, which will decide whether the plaintiff
class certified by the lower court shares a class-
wide injury.
Our brief explains that once personal data is
stolen, it can be used against the breach victims
for identity theft, ransomware attacks, and to send
unwanted spam. The risk of these attacks causes
psychological injury, including anxiety,
depression, and PTSD. To avoid these attacks,
breach victims must spend time and money to freeze
and unfreeze their credit reports, to monitor their
credit reports, and to obtain identity theft
prevention services.
Courts have long granted standing to sue over harms
like these. Intrusion upon seclusion and other
privacy torts are more than a century old. As the
U.S. Supreme Court has recognized: โboth the common
law and literal understanding of privacy encompass
the individualโs control of information concerning
[their] person.โ
# ยง Integrity/Availability/Authenticityโ โพ
# โ Unmitigated Risk โ TOFU_and_the_Webโ โ
For the uninitiated, TOFU is an acronym for
Trust On First Use. The basic idea is that
the user makes the trust decision associated
with a communication channel on the first
visit.
To understand the concept here, you need to
know what we mean by โcommunication channelโ
and what we โtrustโ them for.
# ยง Privacy/Surveillanceโ โพ
# โ Reason โ Chinaโs_Lockdown_Protests_Show_Why_You
Shouldnโt_Let_Government_Weaken_Encryption,_Anonymityโ โ
The Wall Street Journal reports that
protesters are using encrypted apps like
Telegram to organize, start group chats, and
communicate about possible sites to organize
and avoid the police. And Chinese police, in
turn, are using whatever tools they have to
try to track the protesters through social
media and their phones. The Journal writes:
[...]
# โ Ed Grochowski โ Android_Privacy_Tipsโ โ
Over the past decade, Googleโs Android has
become the most popular operating system for
smartphones. Android serves a dual purpose:
for the user, it powers the phoneโs
functionality, and for Google, it transmits
information about the user for the purpose of
displaying relevant advertising.
Such information-gathering capability is
unprecedented. Google has become the worldโs
largest spy organization, also known as a
digital advertising company, without the
constraints imposed on government spy
agencies. Gathering information about users
is big business for many technology companies
(Google, Facebook, Amazon, and Microsoft).
This article presents steps that an Android
user can take to minimize the amount of
information being collected while preserving
the essential functionality of the phone. I
wrote this article based on my experience
with Android 6.0.1 Marshmallow on the Moto G4
Play.
o ยง Defence/Aggressionโ โพ
# โ NBC โ Why_cutting_the_head_off_the_Oath_Keepers_snake_wonโt
be_enoughโ โ
The evidence of a seditious conspiracy introduced
in the Oath Keepersโ trial was damning, yet
obvious. This is an organization whose stated goal
is to confront a federal government it sees as
illegitimate, openly using the rhetoric of
revolution.
# โ TruthOut โ Oath_Keepers_Founder_Convicted_of_Seditious
Conspiracy_for_Role_in_Jan._6โ โ
# โ Variety โ Amazon_Will_Continue_to_Sell_Antisemitic
Documentary_for_Now:_โWe_Have_to_Allow_Access_to_Those
Viewpoints,_Even_If_They_Are_Objectionable,โ_CEO_Saysโ โ
More than 200 celebrities and entertainment execs,
including Mila Kunis, Debra Messing and Mayim
Bialik, signed an open letter calling on Amazon (as
well as and Barnes & Noble) to stop selling the
antisemitic documentary and book โHebrews to
Negroes: Wake Up Black America.โ
# โ The Telegraph UK โ Climate_change_will_make_migration
levels_soar_in_the_future,_says_former_MI5_bossโ โ
โThe migration we have seen so far as a result of a
conflict in some cases or economic migration will
be as nothing compared to the migration which the
northern countries in the hemisphere are going to
see as people move away from areas that are
uninhabitable,โ she said. โAnd that is a very
strong reason to address the climate issue. Because
if we donโt address it fully and properly, this is
going to happen.โ
# โ Barrons โ Pakistan_Taliban_End_Ceasefire,_Order_Nationwide
Attacksโ โ
The Tehreekโe-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), a separate
entity from the Taliban in Afghanistan but sharing
a similar Islamist ideology, have been responsible
for hundreds of attacks and thousands of deaths
since emerging in 2007.
They agreed to a truce earlier this year after
Afghanistanโs new Taliban rulers took a prominent
role in brokering peace talks, but negotiations
made little progress and there were frequent
breaches.
# โ NYPost โ Radical_Islamic_cleric_Shaikh_Abdullah_Faisal
stands_trial_for_trying_to_recruit_โNYPD_copโ_to_ISISโ โ
During opening statements in Manhattan Supreme
Court on Monday, prosecutors described Shaikh
Abdullah Faisal, 59, as an Islamic State recruiter
and marriage broker who had committed โfar reaching
crimes of terrorism.โ
Faisal is accused of communicating with the
undercover NYPD officer by e-mail, text and video
chat in a bid to encourage her to join ISIS and
carry out attacks overseas from 2015 to 2017.
# โ EFF โ Let_Them_Know:_San_Francisco_Shouldnโt_Arm_Robotsโ โ
These San Francisco supervisors seem not only
willing to approve dangerously broad language about
when police may deploy robots equipped with
explosives as deadly force, but they are also
willing to smear those who dare to question its
possible misuses as sensationalist, anti-cop, and
dishonest.
When can police send in a deadly robot? According
to the policy: โThe robots listed in this section
shall not be utilized outside of training and
simulations, criminal apprehensions, critical
incidents, exigent circumstances, executing a
warrant or during suspicious device assessments.โ
Thatโs a lot of events: all arrests and all
searches with warrants, and maybe some protests.ย
When can police use the robot to kill? After an
amendment proposed by Supervisor Aaron Peskin, the
policy now reads: โRobots will only be used as a
deadly force option when [1] risk of loss of life
to members of the public or officers is imminent
and [2] officers cannot subdue the threat after
using alternative force options or de-escalation
tactics options, **or** conclude that they will not
be able to subdue the threat after evaluating
alternative force options or de-escalation tactics.
Only the Chief of Police, Assistant Chief, or
Deputy Chief of Special Operations may authorize
the use of robot deadly force options.โ
o ยง Transparency/Investigative Reportingโ โพ
# โ Eesti Rahvusringhรครคling โ MS_Estonia_ferry_investigation
continues,_no_additional_funds_yet_allocatedโ โ
The Estonian Safety Investigation Bureau (ESIB)
will ask the government for additional funding
within a week. The current phase of the
investigation involves the creation of a digital
twin of the MS Estonia ferry to model the hull
damage caused by a collision with the seafloor.
o ยง Environmentโ โพ
# ยง Energyโ โพ
# โ The Hill โ [Cryptocurrency]_investors_who_lost_big_in
FTX_crash_protest_Bankman-Fried_appearanceโ โ
Nonetheless, questions are swirling now about
loans made from FTX to one of Bankman-Friedโs
other companies, Alameda Research, before FTX
was discovered to have solvency issues and
problems paying back its regular customers.
# โ NPR โ Sam_Bankman-Fried_strikes_apologetic_pose_as_he
describes_being_shocked_by_FTXโs_fallโ โ
Bankman-Fried spoke for more than an hour,
wearing his signature T-shirt and appearing
apologetic when the interviewer, journalist
Andrew Ross Sorkin, read messages from FTX
customers who said they had lost their life
savings.
# โ BBC โ Ex-FTX_boss_Bankman-Fried:_โI_didnโt_try_to
commit_fraudโโ โ
The man once hailed as a legendary figure in
the [cryptocurrency] industry told The New
York Times he had had a โbad monthโ and had
almost no money left.
The global [cryptocurrency] exchange, that
was at one point valued at $32bn (ยฃ26.5bn),
collapsed earlier this month.
# โ NBC โ Former_FTX_CEO_Sam_Bankman-Fried_says_he_didnโt
โtry_to_commit_fraudโโ โ
Bankman-Fried, appearing at the New York
Times DealBook Summit, insisted in an
interview with CNBC anchor Andrew Ross Sorkin
over a video call that he was โshockedโ by
his firmโs collapse.
โI was excited about FTX a month ago. โฆ I was
shocked by what happened,โ Bankman-Fried
said, adding, โI substantially underestimated
what the scale of the market crash could look
like and the speed of it.โ
# โ Democracy Now โ Meet_Puerto_Rican_Journalist_Bianca
Graulau,_Featured_in_Viral_Bad_Bunny_Video_on
Injustices_in_PRโ โ
Puerto Ricoโs financial oversight board has
voted to extend a contract with LUMA Energy โ
the private U.S.-Canadian corporation that
took over the islandโs power grid and is
widely denounced by residents on the island
for its inconsistent service and high prices.
The privatization of Puerto Ricoโs power
grid, supported by an unelected board
appointed by the U.S. government, represents
the โeveryday consequences of colonialism,โ
says independent reporter Bianca Graulau,
whose latest documentary is called โPaรญs de
Apagones,โ or โCountry of Blackouts.โ
# ยง Wildlife/Natureโ โพ
# โ CS Monitor โ Cities_are_killing_birds._Activists_and
architects_have_solutions.โ โ
The warbler is fortunate. In the contest
between birds and cities, cities are winning.
Scientists estimate that collisions with
buildings kill as many as 1 billion birds a
year in the United States. The light from
ever-expanding cities is disrupting the
movement of creatures that evolved to migrate
in the dark. And the modern architectural
penchant for glass has proved deadly.
Lights Out programs, in which owners and
managers agree to switch off exterior lights
during peak migration times, have spread to
45 U.S. cities. Some architects and
developers are using specially treated glass
that birds can see. Grassroots activists are
asking homeowners to consider their own
windows as well.
The issue is bigger than birds,
conservationists say.
# โ The Atlantic โ Tracking_the_Mountain_Lion_That_Ate_a
Chihuahuaโ โ
I spoke with Jeff Sikich, a wildlife
biologist who monitors the lionโs
whereabouts, to discuss tracking the famous
cat and its contemporaries, as well as the
issues that mountain lions face in urban
environments. (When pressed to tell me which
local lion was his favorite, Sikich declined
to name one, saying only that P-22 was โup
there.โ He spoke much more tenderly about a
female named P-19.)
# โ Mexico News Daily โ Sac_Actun_cave_system_named_one
of_100_global_geological_heritage_sitesโ โ
The first-ever ranking to compile a database
of geological sites of scientific value, the
project had the support of UNESCO and seeks
to accomplish a worldwide inventory of
geological heritage of international
relevance.
Sac Actun, the only site in Mexico to have
made the list, is the largest underwater cave
system in the world and the second largest
cave after the Mammoth Cave in Kentucky,
United States.
# โ The Revelator โ Europeโs_Surprising_Record_of_Dam
Removalsโ โ
# โ TruthOut โ Meatpacking_Giant_Tied_to_Child_Labor,
Deforestation_and_Mass_COVID_Infectionโ โ
o ยง Financeโ โพ
# โ Scheerpost โ Inequality_and_Dishonesty_Will_Kill
Democracyโ โ
By Jim Mamer / Original to ScheerPost On November
2, 2022, less than a week before the recent
national election, President Biden delivered a
speech warning against voter intimidation,
political violence and threats to democracy. He
also added that those who question the results of
any election they lose are attempting to โsubvert
the electoral [โฆ]
# โ CoryDoctorow โ The_Big_Four_accounting_firms_are_one_(more)
scandal_away_from_collapseโ โ
But not with accounting. Accountancy has dwindled
to four massive, structurally important, terminally
conflicted companies: EY, KPMG, PWC and Deloitte,
and all four make more money selling โconsultingโ
to companies than they do for signing off on their
books.
That means that the Big Four routinely sign off on
fraudulent books, because a failure to make nice
with companies that are cheating the taxman and/or
their investors and/or their creditors will cost
the Big Four those fat consulting contracts.
# โ Pro Publica โ A_Billionaire_Got_the_Chicago_Mayorโs_Support
to_Lease_Public_Land._Then_He_Wrote_Her_Campaign_a_$25,000
Check.โ โ
For months, Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot has pushed
a controversial plan to turn over public housing
land to a professional soccer team owned by an
influential billionaire.
In mid-November, that billionaire owner of the
Chicago Fire Football Club, Joe Mansueto, donated
$25,000 to the mayorโs reelection campaign.
# โ TruthOut โ The_Fedโs_Response_to_Rising_Inflation_Protects
the_Wealthy_at_Workersโ_Expenseโ โ
# โ TruthOut โ Progressives_Say_Congress_Must_Raise_Debt_Limit
Now_to_Protect_Social_Programsโ โ
o ยง AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politicsโ โพ
# โ The Hill โ How_to_break_Chinaโs_grasp_on_digital_tradeโ โ
This is especially critical for companies who want
to access a new market, but forfeit their
intellectual [sic] property [sic] or trade secrets
in the process of simply selling their products. In
that case, a country like China can simply
replicate the technology, and put the American
company out of business. I know from meetings in my
state that Hoosier businesses canโt afford that
risk, especially as they come off the heels of a
pandemic in a weakened economy.
# โ ABC โ EU_warns_Musk_to_beef_up_Twitter_controls_ahead_of
new_rulesโ โ
Thierry Breton, the EUโs commissioner for digital
policy, told the billionaire Tesla CEO that the
social media platform will have to significantly
increase efforts to comply with the new rules,
known as the Digital Services Act, set to take
effect next year.
The two held a video call to discuss Twitterโs
preparedness for the law, which will require tech
companies to better police their platforms for
material that, for instance, promotes terrorism,
child sexual abuse, hate speech and commercial
scams.
# โ NYPost โ Feds_โpaying_attentionโ_to_โreportingโ_on_Twitter
misinformation:_White_Houseโ โ
Jean-Pierre replied that โ[Biden] has always said
and he has been very clear in his belief that it is
important for social media platforms to continue to
take steps to reduce hate speech and
misinformation. And weโll continue to say that. But
media platforms make independent choices about the
information that they present.โ
# โ YLE โ Turkish_police_arrest_two_Finnish_citizens_over
TikTok_videoโ โ
In a brief notice on Twitter, the Ankara Police
Department said that the shared video showed the
pair tearing up Turkish banknotes, adding that
authorities have initiated โlegal measures.โ
Turkish police noted that the detained Finnish
citizens were born in Somalia and that they were in
Turkey to take part in a Erasmus student exchange
programme
# โ NPR โ Twitterโs_chaos_could_make_political_violence_worse
outside_of_the_U.S.โ โ
Under the chaotic changes unleashed by Elon Musk,
Twitter users in the U.S. are confronting problems
that have long plagued the social network in other
parts of the world โ and which are at risk of
getting even worse under its new billionaire owner,
according to human rights and freedom of expression
advocates.
# โ RFERL โ Tech_Giant_Yandex,_Battered_By_Wartime_Censorship,
Reorganizes,_Will_Leave_Russiaโ โ
Russian tech giant Yandex has said it is
reorganizing its operations, moving to cut its ties
with Russia in a restructuring that solidifies
government control over a company once seen as a
bellwether for the countryโs digital economy.
The announcement comes after months of internal
turmoil, with executives departing, the sale of the
two of the companyโs best-known products, and
company shares hitting basement prices prior to
being frozen on international stock exchanges.
# โ Pro Publica โ Whatโs_at_Stake_When_the_Supreme_Court_Argues
Moore_v._Harperโ โ
To hear some tell it, a Supreme Court case set for
argument on Dec. 7 could spell the end of democracy
in the United States. If the Republicans who
brought the case, Moore v. Harper, prevail, state
legislatures will effectively be free to override
the votes of their citizens in presidential
elections, the doomsayers predict. That might allow
a future presidential candidate to undo an
election, much as Donald Trump attempted, but
failed, to do in 2020.
The Atlantic warned that the โCourtโs right-wing
supermajority is poised to let state lawmakers
overturn votersโ choice in presidential elections.โ
The Guardian opined that a ruling in favor of the
GOP would mean that โwhether Republicans win or
lose elections via the popular vote will not matter
because they will be able to maintain power
regardless.โ And Slate called Moore v. Harper โthe
Supreme Court case that could upend democracy.โ
# ยง Misinformation/Disinformation/Propagandaโ โพ
# โ NBC โ How_[Internet]_sleuthing_in_unsolved_University
of_Idaho_slayings_can_be_โextremely_dangerousโโ โ
The hundreds of tips and calls provided to
local, state and federal investigators as a
result of cyber sleuthing can help โ both to
pinpoint plausible leads and to rule out
potential suspects โ but former FBI agents
and law enforcement experts say they more
often than not are a hindrance to an
investigation, divert resources and
attention, and can even be harmful by
ensnaring innocent people.
# โ CS Monitor โ Misinformation_isnโt_new._Colonial
America_was_rife_with_it.โ โ
Taylorโs erudite and engaging debut vividly
demonstrates the challenges of transmitting
information in the early modern age. In the
17th century, British commercial vessels were
the colonistsโ primary source for foreign
news. When a ship arrived at port, its
captain would distribute letters heโd been
asked to deliver upon reaching his
destination; in addition, the crew and
passengers would provide oral accounts of
noteworthy events back in Europe.
Both of these information sources had obvious
shortcomings: letters took months to arrive
and were frequently lost at sea, while oral
reports might be little more than
unsubstantiated rumors. The rise of
newspapers, whose numbers expanded throughout
the 18th century, made the distribution of
news more centralized and hierarchical. As a
result, elites began to exert more influence
over the information that was transmitted.
โCompared to the letter-writing and oral
cultures that preceded them,โ Taylor writes,
โnewspapers were more likely to obey the
whims of the mighty.โ
# โ [Old] Associated Press โ Report:_TikTok_bad_at
culling_US_election_misinformation_adsโ โ
TikTokโs algorithms are very good at finding
videos to keep people glued to their phone
screens for hours on end. What they are not
so good at, a new report has found, is
detecting ads that contain blatant
misinformation about U.S. elections.
# โ NPR โ Indianaโs_AG_wants_the_doctor_who_spoke_of_10-
year-oldโs_abortion_to_be_penalizedโ โ
Bernardโs lawyers argue Indiana Attorney
General Todd Rokita, who is stridently anti-
abortion, has been spreading false or
misleading information about the doctor with
his investigation allegations for several
months.
o ยง Censorship/Free Speechโ โพ
# โ VOA News โ Taliban_Bans_VOA,_RFE/RL_Radio_in_Afghanistanโ โ
Taliban authorities have announced a ban on FM
radio broadcasts from Voice of America (VOA) and
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) stations
in Afghanistan, citing complaints they have
received about programming content.
The ban will be enforced on December 1, according
to a directive issued by the Talibanโs ministry of
information and culture.
# โ Medforth โ Germany:_Muslim_stabbed_refugee_to_death_who_had
fled_from_Syrian_Islamists_because_he_had_made_negative
remarks_about_Islam_โ_but_he_did_not_have_to_go_to_prison_for
itโ โ
Three months after the murder in a pizzeria in
Neustadt am Rรผbenberge (Hanover region), the public
prosecutorโs office in Hanover has requested that
the Somali Abdi R. (22) be placed in a psychiatric
ward.
Detention instead of jail!
# โ Dawn Media โ Censoring_moviesโ โ
AS a former member of the Central Board of Film
Censors (CBFC), Islamabad, I wish to share with the
public the procedures followed when feature films,
publicity films and cartoons meant for public
viewing are presented for approval.
# โ Asia News โ Cianjur:_Muslims_damage_tents_offered_by
Christians_to_earthquake_victimsโ โ
In a video that went viral on Twitter, people are
seen removing a banner that reads โHumanitarian
Movement of the Indonesian Evangelical Reformed
Churchโ and one man is heard saying โdestroy themโ,
referring to the blue tents provided for disaster
survivors. Another man, wearing a long robe and a
white cap โ clothes usually worn by radical and
conservative Muslims โ can be seen smilingly
filiming the episode.
# โ RFERL โ Iran_Charges_Dissident_Rapper_Toomaj_Salehi_With
Spreading_โCorruption_On_Earthโโ โ
Isfahanโs judicial chief, Asadollah Jafari, was
quoted on November 27 as saying that Salehi faces
other charges, including โpropaganda activity
against the establishment, forming an illegal group
with the intention of disrupting the security of
the country, cooperating with hostile governments,
and spreading lies and inciting others to commit
violence.โ
A U.S.-based rights group said on November 26 that
Toomaj Salehiโs trial had begun โwithout a lawyer
of his choice,โ and his family said his โlife is at
serious risk.โ
# โ The Sunday Times UK โ Chinese_censorship_threatens_the_arts
โ_we_owe_them_our_protectionโ โ
Perhaps most tellingly, even before a ball had been
kicked, Qatari authorities had reached for their
playbook of draconian measures to neuter coverage
and dissent, banning everything from beer to
banners and arm bands, and preventing journalists
from reporting freely.
o ยง Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Pressโ โพ
# โ VOA News โ Colombia_Journalist_Killed_by_Gunmen_on
Motorcycleโ โ
La Union Mayor Fabian Echeverria told AFP that
gunmen on the back of a motorbike had shot Cordoba,
who was โaround 40 years old,โ three times as he
traveled in a rural area on Monday afternoon.
Cordoba was the director of a local television
channel who โpublished information criticizing
local government and about insecurity in the region
on his Facebook page,โ the Colombian Foundation for
Press Freedom (FLIP) wrote on Twitter.
# โ Donโt Extradite Assange โ Brazilian_cross-party
Parliamentarians_approve_resolution_urging_American
authorities_to_drop_the_charges_against_Julian_Assangeโ โ
In a letter sent to the President of the United
States, Joe Biden, and the Speaker of the House of
Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, the parliamentarians
are against the extradition of Assange to be tried
in North American territory and warn that this fact
would create a negative precedent for freedom of
expression and the free exercise of the press
throughout the world.
o ยง Civil Rights/Policingโ โพ
# โ CS Monitor โ Native_American_tribes_restore_historic
connections_to_bisonโ โ
The Rosebud Sioux are intent on expanding the
reservationโs herds as a reliable food source.
Others have grander visions: The Blackfeet in
Montana and tribes in Alberta want to establish a
โtransboundary herdโ ranging over the Canada border
near Glacier National Park. Other tribes propose a
โbuffalo commonsโ on federal lands in central
Montana where the regionโs tribes could harvest
animals.
โWhat would it look like to have 30 million buffalo
in North America again?โ said Cristina Mormorunni,
a Mรฉtis Indian whoโs worked with the Blackfeet to
restore bison.
# โ VOA News โ Rights_Group:_Iran_Arrests_Actors_Behind_Defiant
No-Headscarves_Videoโ โ
Iranian authorities have arrested the two actors
behind a viral video where a group of film and
theatre figures stood silently without headscarves
in solidarity with the protest movement, a rights
group said Wednesday.
The actor and director Soheila Golestani, who
appeared without her headscarf in the video, and
the male director Hamid Pourazari, who also
appeared prominently, have both been arrested, the
US-based Human Rights Activists News Agency said.
# โ Fortune โ Man_fired_for_failing_to_be_โfunโ_at_work_wins
compensation_lawsuitโ โ
That so-called incompetence arose when Mr. T
refused to comply with Cubikโs โfunโ values that
the court said involved engaging in excessive
drinking and other problematic behaviors. As his
refusal to participate was given as a reason for
his dismissal, the judge deemed he had been
wrongfully fired.
# โ India Times โ Man_fired_for_being_โboringโ_and_not_drinking
with_colleagues_drags_employer_to_court,_wins_Rs_2.5_lakhโ โ
But only a few manage to not fall into the pressure
and hold their ground. This man employed by a
French company is one of them. Despite the pressure
and his surroundings, this man identified as Mr T,
whose full name is not disclosed, refused to be
part of his companyโs โfunโ environment, but that
cost him his job.
Yes, you read that right. Mr T was, who worked at a
consulting firm called Cubik Partners, was fired
for being โinsufficient professionallyโ because he
didnโt become a part of the teamโs building
activities with colleagues and was โboringโ in his
job.
After losing his job, the man knocked on Paris
courtโs door, where he won the legal battle against
his employer.
# โ Firstpost โ Mangaluru:_3_Muslims_including_lady_doctor
ganged_up_to_convert_Hindu_woman,_forced_her_to_wear_burqa,
FIR_lodgedโ โ
Following the accusations, Mangaluru police have
lodged a case of forced conversion against all
three. Detailed investigation in the matter is
underway.
# โ Essel Group โ Iran:_Bank_manager_sacked_for_providing
service_to_woman_without_veilโ โ
Mehr news agency reported that the bank manager in
Qom province, near Tehran, โhad provided bank
services on Thursday to an unveiled womanโ. As a
result, he was โremoved from his position by order
of the governor,โ Mehr quoted deputy governor Ahmad
Hajizadeh. Mehr added that the video of the
unveiled woman โelicited a lot of reaction on
social media.โ
# โ Forbes โ Pioneering_Underground_Cartoonist_Aline_Kominsky-
Crumb_Dies_At_74โ โ
Kominsky-Crumb was a founding member of the
influential all-female collective that produced the
anthology Wimminโs Comix, a long-running feminist
comic published by Last Gasp from 1972-1985.
Kominsky-Crumb, along with artist Diane Noomin,
broke with the group in the mid-1970s to do their
own publication, Twisted Sisters. Both comics were
some of the first to deal squarely with the
political issues around female empowerment,
criticism of the patriarchy, sexual politics,
lesbianism and other topics central to feminist
ideology.
# โ YLE โ Culture_ministry_awards_activist_Ujuni_Ahmed_for
human_rights_workโ โ
Ahmed is also known as the Director of the Fenix
Helsinki organisation, which works with immigrant
women and children, as well as an outspoken critic
and activist against the practice of female genital
mutilation (FGM) and so-called โhonourโ killings.
# โ Democracy Now โ โEnough_Is_Enoughโ:_Rail_Workers_Decry
Bidenโs_Push_to_Impose_Strike-Breaking_Labor_Dealโ โ
President Biden is pushing Congress to block a
pending nationwide rail strike and push through a
contract deal that includes no sick days and is
opposed by four of the 12 rail unions. Bidenโs
latest request is an attempt to โlegislate us
basically back to work, before weโve even had a
chance to strike,โ says locomotive engineer and
Railroad Workers United organizer Ron Kaminkow.
โWorkers should have the right to take off work for
a reasonable amount for whatever reason they need
it,โ says labor professor Nelson Lichtenstein, who
urges the rail workers to strike anyway.
# โ TruthOut โ House_Passes_Rail_Contract_With_7_Days_Paid_Sick
Leave_in_Win_for_Workersโ โ
# โ Democracy Now โ Striking_Univ._of_California_Grad_Students
Speak_Out_on_Nationโs_Largest-Ever_Higher_Education_Strikeโ โ
The largest higher education strike in U.S. history
has entered its third week in an effort to secure
livable wages, more child care benefits, expanded
family leave and other demands. Some 48,000
academic workers at all 10 University of California
campuses are on strike, including teaching
assistants, postdoctoral scholars, graduate student
researchers, tutors and fellows. We speak with a
professor and graduate students at three campuses
in the UC system, as a tentative deal with
postdoctoral scholars and academic researchers was
announced Tuesday by the University of California
that does not cover graduate student employees who
make up the vast majority of those on strike. โWe
are the ones who are producing the work. Weโre
teaching the classrooms. And yet, most of these
student workers qualify for food stamps,โ says UCLA
doctoral student and local union head Enrique
Olivares Pesante. UC Davis student researcher
Aarthi Sekar describes how international graduate
students have also been impacted. We also speak
with Nelson Lichtenstein, director of the Center
for the Study of Work, Labor, and Democracy at UC
Santa Barbara.
o ยง Digital Restrictions (DRM)โ โพ
# โ Variety โ Joe_Rogan_Had_the_Most_Popular_Podcast_on_Spotify
in_2022โ โ
Heโs a controversial figure: Rogan came under fire
this year for spreading misinformation about the
COVID vaccine on his show, prompting a boycott of
Spotify by Neil Young and a few other artists.
Rogan also faced a backlash over his use of the N-
word in older episodes of his podcast. Earlier this
year, Spotify removed 70 episodes โThe Joe Rogan
Experienceโ that included โracially insensitive
language,โ which Spotify CEO Daniel Ek said were
pulled at Roganโs request.
o ยง Monopoliesโ โพ
# ยง Copyrightsโ โพ
# โ BoingBoing โ Metropolis_(1927)_enters_the_public
domain_on_January_1,_2023โ โ
Fritz Langโs iconic 1927 silent film,
Metropolis, is set to enter the public domain
on January 1, 2023. This is great news for
film fans around the world, who will now be
able to freely access, view, and enjoy this
beloved classic. Metropolis is often
considered one of the most influential films
of the silent era. Its groundbreaking visual
effects, futurism-inspired set design, and
compelling story about class struggles and
the two-edge sword of technological progress
have inspired countless filmmakers throughout
the years.
# โ Torrent Freak โ โPro_Camcorder_Pirateโ_Arrested_in
Govt,_Police_&_UK_Cinema_Chain_Operationโ โ
The UKโs Police Intellectual Property Crime
Unit recently revealed the arrest of a man as
part of a movie piracy investigation. No
further details have been made public but
TorrentFreak understands that the matter was
so serious that the government, PIPCU, an
organized crime unit, a specialist anti-
piracy team, and cinema operators teamed up
to track the suspect down.
# โ Torrent Freak โ Telegram_Discloses_Personal_Details
of_Pirating_Users_Following_Court_Orderโ โ
Telegram has complied with an order from the
High Court in Delhi by sharing the personal
details of copyright-infringing users with
rightsholders. The order, which was issued
despite fierce opposition, sets a precedent
in India. The Court, meanwhile, clarifies
that the information can also be shared with
the Government and police.
* ยง Gemini* and Gopherโ โพ
o ยง Personalโ โพ
# โ Pseudo-anonymous_Strugglesโ โ
In the fourth grade I made a mistake that has
probably impacted my life more than anything else.
Me and another kid, Marcus, had birthdays 2 days
apart from each other. Marcus was having his
birthday party on the Sunday closest to our
birthdays, and there was a school event on the
Saturday before it. Me, being an impatient 9 year-
old, got very upset that I would need to wait a
whole extra week before I could have my birthday
party, and I had a bit of a temper tantrum, with
all my anger being directed towards Marcus for
having his party then. I also had a youtube channel
at the time where I would post really bad Lego
review videos and little skits with the Lego
characters. Well in the heat of my temper tantrum I
thought it would be a good idea to make a video
about my dire predicament. I think the actual
content of the video was actually fairly tame, just
an angry 9 year old crying to the camera about the
situation, but I let my emotions take control when
I titled the video โKILL MARCUS LASTNAMEโ and made
the description โIf anyone sees Marcus in real life
please hurt him badlyโ. My friend Ken ended up
reporting me to the school for it and I was
suspended for 2 days and barred from using any
computers at the school for a month as well as
being banned from using the internet for anything
besides school at home for a month.
# โ Making_plansโ โ
Today I took a look at the tourist websites for a
few cities that I might want to visit. Iโm excited
to go travel, especially because these cities are
places Iโve never been to, and are in an
environment Iโve never visited before.
One of the cities had a really broken website which
talked more about the tourism bureaucracy than cool
things to do in the city; I probably wonโt go all
the way there. That same city has a lot of problems
in its economy and a high crime rate, which is
another factor pushing me away from visiting.
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ยง Contentsโ โพ
* GNU/Linux
o Desktop/Laptop
o Audiocasts/Shows
o Instructionals/Technical
o Games
o Desktop_Environments/WMs
# K_Desktop_Environment/KDE_SC/Qt
# GNOME_Desktop/GTK
* Distributions_and_Operating_Systems
o Reviews
o New_Releases
o SUSE/OpenSUSE
o Red_Hat_/_IBM
o Canonical/Ubuntu_Family
o Open_Hardware/Modding
o Mobile_Systems/Mobile_Applications
* Free,_Libre,_and_Open_Source_Software
o Events
o Web_Browsers/Web_Servers
# Chromium
# Mozilla
o SaaS/Back_End/Databases
o Productivity_Software/LibreOffice/Calligra
o Programming/Development
# Perl_/_Raku
# Rust
* Leftovers
o Science
o Education
o Health/Nutrition/Agriculture
o Proprietary
o Security
# Privacy/Surveillance
o Defence/Aggression
o Environment
# Energy
o Finance
o AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics
o Censorship/Free_Speech
o Freedom_of_Information_/_Freedom_of_the_Press
o Civil_Rights/Policing
o Internet_Policy/Net_Neutrality
o Monopolies
# Copyrights
* Gemini*_and_Gopher
o Personal
o Technical
* ยง GNU/Linuxโ โพ
o ยง Desktop/Laptopโ โพ
# โ 9to5Linux โ System76โs_Rust-Based_COSMIC_Desktop_Promises
HDR_Support,_Smooth_NVIDIA_Experienceโ โ
As you probably know already, System76 decided a
few months ago that itโs time to create its own
Linux desktop environment thatโs not based on an
existing desktop environment. System76โs in-house
distribution Pop!_OS Linux currently features a
graphical desktop environment derived from GNOME,
called COSMIC.
Future versions of the COSMIC desktop wonโt be
based on GNOME, but written from scratch in Rust.
It will have its own Wayland compositor, called
Victoria, which is being developed as we speak with
better support for features like HiDPI, HDR, and
fractional scaling, as well as tiling and a smooth
experience for NVIDIA GPU users.
o ยง Audiocasts/Showsโ โพ
# โ The BSD Now Podcast โ BSD_Now_483:_ZFS_Time_Machineโ โ
Research Unix Version 6 in the Open SIMH PDP-11
Emulator, The Hot Tub Time Machine is Your ZFS
Turn-Back-Time Method, NFS on NetBSD: server and
client side, HardenedBSD October 2022 Status
Report, Nushell : Introduction, and more
o ยง Instructionals/Technicalโ โพ
# โ H2S Media โ How_To_Install_Bitcoin_Core_wallet_on_Ubuntu
22.04_LTSโ โ
Bitcoin Core is open-source software that connects
to the Bitcoin peer-to-peer network to download and
fully validate blocks and transactions. It also
includes a wallet and graphical user interface. It
ensures every block and transaction it accepts is
valid. This wallet is a full node that validates
and relays transactions on the Bitcoin network.
This means no trust in a third party is required
when verifying payments. Here we learn how to
install BitCoin core on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Jammy
JellyFish.
# โ Network World โ Linux_bash_tips:_Many_ways_to_loop_using
bash [Ed: GNU Bash, not "Linux bash". Linux has no bash
implementation.]โ โ
The bash shell provides a superb functionality when
it comes to writing scripts. This includes many
ways to loop through a pile of data so that you can
get a lot done with one running of a script.
Whether youโre looping through a large group of
numeric values, days of the week, usernames, words,
files, or something else entirely, bash has an
option that can make it easy for you.
# โ ID Root โ How_To_Install_Akaunting_on_Ubuntu_22.04_LTS_โ
idrootโ โ
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install
Akaunting on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. For those of you who
didnโt know, Akaunting is a free, open-source, and
online accounting software for small businesses and
freelancers. It is used for creating and managing
invoices, quotes, and finances. Any user who wants
to use the Akaunting for small and medium business
or personal usage can access it locally or remotely
with the help of the internet and browser, once
installed.
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 โsudoโ to the commands to get root
privileges. I will show you the step-by-step
installation of the Akaunting on Ubuntu 22.04
(Jammy Jellyfish). You can follow the same
instructions for Ubuntu 22.04 and any other Debian-
based distribution like Linux Mint, Elementary OS,
Pop!_OS, and more as well.
# โ DebugPoint โ How_to_Install_Flatpak_Apps_in_Ubuntu_and
Other_Linuxโ โ
Flatpak is the new way of distributing apps across
the Linux universe, irrespective of the
distribution. This cross-distro application
distribution and deployment framework enable
developers to Flatpak setup for apps for all major
distributions.
The major hurdles in any Linux app distribution are
dependencies, and Flatpak covers that. Flatpak
builds bundles the dependencies for the respective
apps, and end-users need not worry about it.
# โ DebugPoint โ How_to_Install_Notepad++_in_Ubuntu_and_Other
Linuxโ โ
This quick beginnerโs guide will help you to
install Notepad++ in Ubuntu and Fedora.
Notepad++ is a very popular free developer-friendly
text editor and is primarily popular in Windows
systems. However, you can easily install this in
Linux systems thanks to snap.
# โ HowTo Forge โ How_to_Install_Flask_with_Nginx_and_Gunicorn
on_Rocky_Linuxโ โ
Flask is a microframework written in Python for
developing modern web applications and API
(Application Programming Interface).
# โ HowTo Forge โ How_to_Install_and_Use_Nessus_Security
Scanner_on_Rocky_Linuxโ โ
Nessus is an open-source network vulnerability
scanner for vulnerability assessments, penetration
testing, and ethical hacking.
# โ HowTo Forge โ How_to_Install_ReactJS_with_Nginx_on_Ubuntu
22.04โ โ
React.js is a free and open-source JavaScript
framework developed by Facebook in 2011.
# โ OSNote โ How_to_Install_OpenLiteSpeed_Web_Server_on_Debian
11_โ_OSNoteโ โ
OpenLiteSpeed is an open-source HTTP server with a
similar feature set to Apache but builds on more
recent technologies.
OpenLiteSpeed is powered by the extremely fast
LiteSpeed Web Server, which excels in both
performance and stability โ itโs up to 20 times
faster than Apache when serving static files.
It also has built-in caching for dynamic content,
load balancing, compression, and security features
not found in most other web servers.
The LiteMage Cache & Accelerator Module supports
cache digests (HTTP conditional GET/POST requests),
bytecode caching, PHP accelerators, and SCGI cache
support to further improve responsiveness for end-
users.
# โ OSNote โ How_to_Install_and_Use_Java_JDK_on_Debian_11_โ
OSNoteโ โ
Java is one of the most popular programming
languages. Java is portable, which means you can
make your code run on different types of computers
without having to rewrite it. Itโs also object-
oriented, which means that it enables programmers
to write reusable software components.
# โ Linux Capable โ How_to_Install_NVIDIA_Drivers_on_CentOS_9/
8_Streamโ โ
When it comes to graphics drivers for NVIDIA video
cards, there are two main options: the proprietary/
open-source NVIDIA drivers or the open-source
Nouveau drivers. Most importantly, the Nouveau
drivers are perfectly acceptable; however, if you
use your Linux system for activities requiring
high-performance graphics, you may want to consider
using the official NVIDIA drivers. The Nouveau
drivers are community-created and -supported
drivers that are available free of charge; however,
they may not offer the same level of performance as
the NVIDIA drivers. Ultimately, deciding which
driver to use depends on your needs and
preferences.
The following tutorial will teach you how to
install the NVIDIA drivers on CentOS 9 or 8 Stream
using the command line terminal using the Nvidia
CUDA repository so you have the latest version of
Nvidia Drivers installed on your system.
# โ Red Hat Official โ Troubleshoot_node_connectivity_issues_in
Ansible_Automation_Platform_controller_|_Enable_Sysadminโ โ
Check connectivity to hosts youโre managing with
your AAP controller and get a spreadsheet-based
summary of any exceptions.
# โ Barry Kauler โ Boot-partition_mounts_as_msdos_instead_of
vfatโ โ
If you click on the boot-partition of the usb-
stick, it will mount and will show in the file
manager, as expected; however, it has mounted as
the title says, as an msdos filesystem instead of
vfat.
Way back in the early days of the FAT filesystem,
all files were โ8.3โณ, that is, maximum eight-
character name and maximum three-character
extension. Microsoft introduced an extension to
allow longer filenames, and also to store upper-
case and lower-case characters โ though FAT
remained case-insensitive.
The old 8.3 is what we call the โmsdosโ filesystem,
and the extension is โvfatโ. The problem that has
mysteriously appeared is that when click on the
boot-partition, it mounts as msdos.
o ยง Gamesโ โพ
# โ Boiling Steam โ The_Steam_Deck_Orders_Are_Proceeding_in
Japan_โ_Boiling_Steamโ โ
Itโs official, after the announcement on twitter
yesterday, it seems like Valve and Komodo have
finally got their act together to ship some units
to Japan, planning to meet their plans of
โdelivering all units by the end of the yearโ at
the last minute of the last hour. Now the question
is whether Santa or Komodo will be first to deliver
presents.
[...]
The email basically invites you to go and pay
within 3 days to validate your order, just like in
other geographies. Note that the shipment will
happen actually later, on the 17th of December and
not before. As the Japan delivery services tend to
be super quick, I would not be surprised if the
first people get it on the 17th or on the 18th at
the earliest.
# โ Telex (Hungary) โ American_murderer_who_blamed_role-playing
game_for_his_actions_released_from_prison_after_38_years_โ
Telex_finds_outโ โ
# โ Ubuntu Pit โ Best_Linux_Gaming_Distros:_10_Shortlisted
Recommendationsโ โ
In the past, Linux was not a viable option for
gamers seeking stability and performance. However,
now there are hundreds of different Linux
distributions that can be used for various
purposesโincluding gaming! Although it is not as
popularized, there are some great Linux gaming
distributions that provide excellent performance,
stability, and flexibility. These best Linux gaming
distros come equipped with features such as
innovative drivers, software, emulators, and much
more to ensure a smooth gaming experience. The
following gaming Linux distributions have been
designed to enable a user to install and play games
easily.
[...]
We have compiled a list of the best Linux gaming
distros that come pre-optimized for gaming. These
distros have all been handpicked and tested by our
team to ensure the highest quality possible. So
without further ado, here is the list of the Best
Linux Gaming Distros.
o ยง Desktop Environments/WMsโ โพ
# ยง K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qtโ โพ
# โ OpenSource.com โ 5_reasons_I_use_the_Dolphin_file
manager_on_Linux_|_Opensource.comโ โ
Computers are basically fancy file cabinets,
full of folders and files waiting to be
referenced, cross-referenced, edited,
updated, saved, copied, moved, renamed, and
organized. Of course, the files and folders
are only virtual, and so software developers
came up with the modern โdesktopโ user
interface. Your screen is the top of your
โdesk,โ which you can use as a surface for
taking out files from their folders so you
can review and work on them. The analogy
seems almost quaint these days because
computers are so much more than just a filing
cabinet. And yet the model remains, for many
of us, as the primary way we interact with
data on our personal computers, which makes
humble file manager software some of the most
important applications you use.
The KDE Plasma Desktop provides Dolphin as
its file manager. At first glance, itโs a
simple and almost minimal application. Donโt
let that fool you, though. Thereโs a lot of
potential in how you interact with the files
on your computer, and Dolphin recognizes
that. Here are five of my favorite Dolphin
features.
# ยง GNOME Desktop/GTKโ โพ
# โ OMG Ubuntu โ Metagedit_is_a_Featured-Packed_Plugin
for_Gedit_Text_Editor_โ_OMG!_Ubuntu!โ โ
Metagedit is a powerful Python-based plugin
for the Gedit text editor that adds a flurry
of additional features to the famed FOSS
tool.
Although Gedit was replaced by the (GNOME)
Text Editor app in Ubuntu 22.10 it remains
available to install from the Ubuntu repos,
and is still the default text editor in
earlier versions, including Ubuntu 22.04 LTS.
And while Gedit is not everyoneโs text editor
of choice it has a solid feature set, is a
native Linux app, and integrates perfectly
with the GNOME desktop. For basic to
intermediate needs like mine (I mainly edit
.css, .js, and .php files) Gedit is
everything I need.
* ยง Distributions and Operating Systemsโ โพ
o ยง Reviewsโ โพ
# โ Web Pro News โ Linux_Distro_Reviews:_Zorin_OSโ โ
Zorin OS is an excellent Linux distro aimed at new
users, although it offers a little something for
everyone.
Although I briefly played with Linux Mandrake and
Caldera Linux a couple of decades ago, Zorin OS was
my first introduction to Linux when I decided to
switch from the Mac in early 2022. Since I am a
former Mac user, where UI design plays a major part
in the Apple experience, I was attracted to the
professional design of Zorin OS and its desktop-
centric focus.
o ยง New Releasesโ โพ
# โ 9to5Linux โ NixOS_22.11_โRaccoonโ_Released_with_GNOME_43,
KDE_Plasma_5.26,_and_OpenSSL_3โ โ
Coming six months after NixOS 22.05 โQuokkaโ, NixOS
22.11 โRaccoonโ is here with new and updated
packages, as well as new features like support for
more secure algorithms for software and system
login passwords through the implementation of the
libxcrypt library, nsncd as a replacement of nscd
for resolving hostnames, users, etc., as well as
support for enabling the use of NVIDIAโs open-
source kernel driver.
The NixOS 22.11 release also comes with OpenSSL 3,
OpenSSH 9.1, PHP 8.1, Perl 5.36, and Python 3.10 by
default, support for Linode cloud images, native
compilation support for the emacs package, markdown
generated NixOS documentation, Nix 2.11.0 package
management system, and support for the latest GNOME
43 and KDE Plasma 5.26 desktop environment series.
# โ NixOS_22.11_manualโ โ
The NixOS release team is happy to announce a new
version of NixOS 22.11. NixOS is both a Linux
distribution, and a set of packages usable on other
Linux systems and macOS.
This release is supported until the end of June
2023, handing over to NixOS 23.05.
# โ NixOS_22.11_releasedโ โ
Hey everyone, we are Martin Weinelt and Janne Heร,
the release managers for this stable release and we
are very proud to announce the public availability
of NixOS 22.11 โRaccoonโ.
This release will receive bugfixes and security
updates for seven months (up until 2023-06-30).
# โ ArcoLinux_v22.12_|_ArcoLinuxโ โ
MANY NEW DESKTOPS HAVE ARRIVED
New desktop CHADWM โ TWM
We have also added the desktop Chadwm to the list
in the ArcoLinux Tweak Tool.
# โ Genode โ Genode_โ_Release_notes_for_the_Genode_OS_Framework
22.11โ โ
With version 22.11, we pursued two new exploratory
topics as we envisioned on the projectโs road map
for this year, namely the use of the framework for
hardware-software co-design work, and principally
enabling suspend/resume functionality on PCs.
A decade ago, we explored the combination of Genode
with FPGA technology for the first time. Our
interest in this direction got reignited two years
ago when we started enabling Genode on a board
based on the Xilinx Zynq, which combines an ARMv7
SoC with FPGA fabric. This line of work eventually
culminated in new development work flows for
creating hardware IP cores and Genode components in
tandem. Section Hardware-software co-design with
Genode on Xilinx Zynq covers the results of this
line of work.
The second largely exploratory topic is the
practical use of sleep states on PC hardware, which
โ until this point โ remained rather mysterious to
us. Section Low-level mechanism for suspend/resume
on PC platforms reports on our findings and the
forthcoming integration of this feature into
Genode.
Besides the exploration work, the profound
enhancement of our Intel GPU multiplexer stands
out. As detailed in Section Hardware-accelerated
graphics with Intel GEN12+ GPUs, the new version
supports up-to-date GEN12+ GPUs, comes with
numerous robustness and performance improvements,
and got adapted to Genodeโs new uniform driver
infrastructure.
The latter point brings us to the most elaborate
development under the hood of the framework, which
is the great unification of the device-driver
interfaces across all supported architectures.
Section Uniform use of new platform-driver
interface wraps up this intensive line of work,
which left no PC-related driver unturned.
A recurring theme throughout this year is the use
of Genode on the PinePhone. The current release is
no exception. Sections Emerging Sculpt OS variant
for the PinePhone and PinePhone drivers for audio,
camera, and power control report on the progress at
the user-facing side as well as the driver-related
achievements digging deep into the realms of power
management, audio, and the camera.
Among the many further topics of the current
release are virtualization on PC and ARM (Sections
ARM virtual machine monitor and Seoul VMM), plenty
of device-driver improvements, and enhanced tooling
that makes the framework ever more enjoyable to use
(Section Build system and tools).
o ยง SUSE/OpenSUSEโ โพ
# โ OpenSUSE โ Nano,_VirtualBox_update_in_Tumbleweedsโ โ
A steady pace of openSUSE Tumbleweed snapshots
arrived to users this week and there were tons of
conversation on the openSUSE Factory mailing list
regarding plans to advance the rolling releaseโs
microarchitecture and discussions about the
mitigation plan/call for help.
The changes to x86-64-v2 are expected to take place
in the first quarter of the 2023 new year and
forthcoming changes will be communicated on both
the mailing list and blog.
A single package arrived in snapshot 20221128. The
Skype plugin for chat client Pidgin, skype4pidgin,
updated to version 1.7. The plugin fixed the loss
of admin rights when joining a room, problems with
file transfers through the client and issues where
people were not appearing as being online.
An update of gawk 5.2.1 arrived in snapshot
20221127. The utility fixed issues with the
debugger, dropped a few patches and addressed some
subtle issues with untyped array elements being
passed to functions. The general purpose
cryptographic library package libgcrypt, which is
based on code from GnuPG, updated to version 1.10.1
and fixed minor memory leaks. The package was
updated to improve support for PowerPC
architectures and it added the hardware
optimizations configuration file hwf.deny to the /
etc/gcrypt/ directory. There was also a git+ update
of kdump, an update of heaptrack 1.4.0, iputils
20221126 and libeconf 0.4.9, which added new
Application Programming Interface calls and fixed
some compiling issues.
o ยง Red Hat / IBMโ โพ
# โ Enterprisers Project โ Product_experience_and_engineering:
A_day_in_the_life_|_The_Enterprisers_Projectโ โ
One of the biggest misconceptions about tech
executives is that we are born self-assured and
confident, have all the credentials, and are
motivated to climb the ranks. But early on, I
walked a winding path through many disciplines,
including account management, business management,
photography, and design. Because I donโt have a
college degree, I felt I had to prove myself โ even
as my work responsibilities grew.
It took me years to realize the truth: I struggled
with imposter syndrome for most of my professional
life โ that nagging voice that tells you youโre not
going to make it past a certain level in the
industry. In many ways, I held myself back more
than anyone else did.
# โ Enterprisers Project โ Why_security_should_be_on_every_IT
departmentโs_end-of-year_agendaโ โ
As we approach the last month of Q4, all eyes are
set on planning for 2023.
From budget to headcount to the product roadmap,
there are a variety of subjects on every
organizationโs agenda. For IT teams, these agendas
get more specified and granular, as they are
responsible for the tools and investments that will
keep the infrastructure running and secure for the
next year.
With that in mind, what should be on your IT
departmentโs agenda between now and the end of the
year? What is important and time-sensitive enough
to ideate on in the next month?
In short, the answer is security. There are various
reasons that security should be on every IT
departmentโs end-of-year IT agenda. Read on for the
top three.
# โ Red Hat โ Top_Linux_resources_of_2022_|_Red_Hat_Developerโ โ
As we head towards the end of 2022, Red Hat
Developer is taking a look back at the most
intriguing and popular content for the technologies
that matter most to our readers. Weโll start off
with a roundup of the best Red Hat Enterprise Linux
content of 2022, highlighting some of the most
popular stories about Red Hatโs flagship Linux
distribution.
o ยง Canonical/Ubuntu Familyโ โพ
# โ Ubuntu โ Telco_network_healing_and_auto-scaling_with_Open
Source_MANO_TWELVE_|_Ubuntuโ โ
The second Open Source MANO (OSM) release with Long
Term Support (LTS) has landed. Open Source MANO
Release TWELVE offers two years of support with
security patches. The release has outstanding
features to offer to both VNF vendors and system
integrators residing in the MANO (Management and
Network Orchestration) ecosystem. ETSI OSM (Open
Source MANO) can be integrated with multiple cloud
platforms and virtual infrastructure managers
(VIM). Service providers and operators leverage the
OSM platform to run services either on virtual
machines (VMs) or containerised frameworks, i.e
Kubernetes. This release offers the much-awaited
features of auto-scaling and auto-healing for telco
networks.
[...]
Seamless upgrades to running CNF instances give
better flexibility to apply Day-2 primitives
without having to stop them first. It enables
operators to apply new changes. The release TWELVE
webinar demonstrated a similar feature by deploying
a CNF on the Kubernetes cluster. Day-2 primitives
were performed on a running CNF.
[...]
OSM Release TWELVE brings valuable features to OSM
by targeting practical use cases. VNF vendors and
service providers can leverage new LTS releases and
benefit from multi-cloud platforms and live upgrade
compatibility. OSM is at the heart of the NFV
domain delivering compelling features for
innovators to focus on cost optimisation, network
automation and enhancements as technology evolves.
Release TWELVE delivers features like auto-scaling
and auto-healing to telcos for their mission
critical and production grade networks. It enables
flexibility and agility for networks so VNF/CNF
vendors can focus on delivering quality services.
o ยง Open Hardware/Moddingโ โพ
# โ Hackster โ Charles_Lohrโs_Linux-Capable_Really_Tiny_RISC-
V_Emulator_Exists_in_a_Single_400-Line_C_Header_File_โ
Hackster.ioโ โ
Electrical engineer Charles Lohr has built a 32-bit
RISC-V emulator with a difference: it exists as a
single C header file, of around 400 lines of code โ
yet is capable of running Linux, despite a lack of
memory management unit (MMU).
โIโve been working really hard over the last few
weeks on this little tiny RISC-V emulator. The
really tiny part about is is that it doesnโt have
an MMU which is something that virtually all
desktop modern processors have,โ Lohr explains.
โThe reason I wanted to do this was I wanted to see
if I could run Linux on it. Something that was
close to but not as simple as an ESP32-C3. And well
the answer was. Yes. In fact I was able to write a
really tiny RISC-V emulator. The actual emulator
part all exists in this one function in this header
file and it was only around 350, 400 lines of code.
And itโs able to run Linux and Iโm able to have
executables and whatever on it.โ
# โ CNX Software โ Inkplate_2_is_a_2.13-inch_WiFi_ePaper
display_programmable_with_Arduino_or_MicroPython_
(Crowdfunding)_โ_CNX_Softwareโ โ
The InkPlate 2 is mostly designed to be programmed
in the Arduino IDE using the Inkplate library
itself based on the Adafruit GFX library, and with
several code samples albeit none of which are
specifically designed for the 2.13-inch wireless
display at this time. There are two other ways to
control the display either with MicroPython or
using the board as a peripheral receiving UART
commands from a host microcontroller to update the
display.
# โ Raspberry Pi โ 768_teams_of_young_people_have_entered_Astro
Pi_Mission_Space_Lab_2022/23โ โ
This year, 768 teams made up of 3086 young people
from 23 countries sent us their ideas for
experiments to run on board the International Space
Station (ISS) for Astro Pi Mission Space Lab.
# โ Hackaday โ A_Weather_Station_For_Whether_It_Rains_Or
Shinesโ โ
[Giovanni Aggiustatutto] creates a DIY weather
station to measure rain fall, wind direction,
humidity and temperature. [Giovanni] has been
working on various parts of the weather station,
including the rain gauge and anemometer, with the
weather station build incorporating all these past
projects and adding a few extra features for
measurement and access.
o ยง Mobile Systems/Mobile Applicationsโ โพ
# โ Android_14_update_tracker:_Hereโs_everything_we_know_so_far
[Cont._updated]_โ_PiunikaWebโ โ
# โ SamMobile โ Samsung_Galaxy_F42_5G_gets_Android_13,_its_last
major_software_update_โ_SamMobileโ โ
# โ GSM Arena โ Nothing_starts_taking_sign-ups_for_Phone_(1)
Android_13_update_beta_โ_GSMArena.com_newsโ โ
# โ Giz China โ Realme_GT_Neo_3T_global_version_starts_Android
13_testing_โ_Gizchina.comโ โ
# โ Nokia Power User โ Nokia_Mobile_confirms_Android_13
compatibility_for_Nokia_XR20,_G50,_G11_Plus,_X20_โ_X10
smartphones_โ_Nokiapoweruserโ โ
# โ Gizmodo โ OnePlus_One-Ups_Google_With_Four_Years_of_Android
Updatesโ โ
# โ 9to5Google โ Google_Keep_dual-pane_redesign_for_Android
tablets_rolling_outโ โ
# โ Phone Arena โ Google_changes_some_chimes_for_its_RCS
powered_Messages_app_for_Android_โ_PhoneArenaโ โ
# โ Android Headlines โ Guide_to_setting_your_Android_for
gamingโ โ
# โ TechRepublic โ How_to_manage_call_rejecting_with_your
Android_smartphone_|_TechRepublicโ โ
# โ Future Publishing Limited โ iPhone_or_Android_phone:_which
is_the_better_buy_for_children?_|_T3โ โ
* ยง Free, Libre, and Open Source Softwareโ โพ
o โ OpenSource.com โ Intangible_gift_ideas_with_open_source_in_mindโ โ
In terms of intangible gifts you give others, find fun
small projects where youโre exploring something that
nobody in the world has ever done before. Before the
pandemic, I decided to upload an 8K digital storytelling
video to YouTube, created using LibreOffice Draw. Of the
8 billion people living on planet Earth, thereโs (roughly
speaking) one person using LibreOffice Draw to create 8K
videos on YouTube. That would be me. And, in the process
of doing so, I teach others how they can do so, too.
Let me leave you with one last thought. Open source is
not only a software creation method, it is an approach to
living oneโs life. I find it an enriching way to live
oneโs lifeโand this enrichment can be given to others.
o โ Medevel โ TANIA_is_an_Open-source_Free_Farmer_Assistant_And_Smart
Farming_Solutionโ โ
Tania is a free and open source farm management software.
You can manage your farm areas, farm reservoirs, farm
tasks, inventories, and the crop growing progress. It is
designed for any type of farms.
Tania is written in the Go programming language, which
means it runs directly as a binary software without the
need for software like MAMP, XAMPP, or WAMPP. However,
you may need MySQL if you decide to use it instead of
SQLite.
o ยง Eventsโ โพ
# โ Collabora โ Shifting_to_open_gears_for_the_Automotive_Linux
Summitโ โ
With doors open again to The Land of the Rising
Sun, automotive and open source aficiandos alike
are making their way to the Automotive Linux Summit
2022 held in Yokohama and virtually. Taking place
from from December 5 to 6, this event is held in
conjunction with Open Source Summit Japan.
This conference connects the developer community
with automotive vendors and users, thereby aiming
to enlighten the application of open source code
and embedded device use within this industry. Two
talks hosted by Collaboraโs Marius Vlad and Daniel
Stone will seek to shed light on this in the realms
of the AGL compositor and graphics upstream
solutions.
# โ Document Foundation โ LibreOffice_Conference_2022_videos:
Arabic/Persian/Klingon_support,_wiki_cleaning,_project
sustainability_โ_The_Document_Foundation_Blogโ โ
Hereโs another batch of talks from the recent
LibreOffice Conference 2022!
o ยง Web Browsers/Web Serversโ โพ
# ยง Chromiumโ โพ
# โ Google โ Chrome_Releases:_Chrome_Beta_for_Android
Updateโ โ
Hi everyone! Weโve just released Chrome Beta
109 (109.0.5414.23) for Android. Itโs now
available on Google Play.
You can see a partial list of the changes in
the Git log. For details on new features,
check out the Chromium blog, and for details
on web platform updates, check here.
# โ Google โ Chrome_Beta_for_iOS_Updateโ โ
# ยง Mozillaโ โพ
# โ Mozilla โ Pulse_Joins_the_Mozilla_Family_to_Help
Develop_a_New_Approach_to_Machine_Learningโ โ
Iโm proud to announce that we have acquired
Pulse, an incredible team that has developed
some truly novel machine learning approaches
to help streamline the digital workplace. The
products that Raj, Jag, Rolf, and team have
built are a great demonstration of their
creativity and skill, and weโre incredibly
excited to bring their expertise into our
organization. They will spearhead our efforts
in applied ethical machine learning, as we
invest to make Mozilla products more
personal, starting with Pocket.
Machine learning (ML) has become a powerful
driver of product experience. At its best, it
helps all of us to have better, richer
experiences across the web. Building ML
models to drive these experiences requires
data on peopleโs preferences, behaviors, and
actions online, and thatโs why Mozilla has
taken a very cautious approach in applying ML
in our own product experiences. It is
possible to build machine learning models
that act in service of the people on the
internet, transparently, respectful of
privacy, and built from the start with a
focus on equity and inclusion. In short,
Mozilla will continue its tradition of DOING:
building products that serve as examples of a
better way forward for the industry, a way
forward that puts people first.
# โ DebugPoint โ Download_Firefox_Browser:_All_Version
Links_and_Detailsโ โ
This reference page contains all the links to
Firefox browser downloads, including stable,
beta, and developer editions.
Firefox is the worldโs leading free and open-
source web browser available for all
platforms. You can download and install it
for Linux, Windows, macOS, and mobile phones.
Developed by Mozilla Corporation, it is a
modern web browser that supports all the
modern web tech and formats, powered by the
Gecko engine.
o ยง SaaS/Back End/Databasesโ โพ
# โ Joe Brockmeier โ Hello_Percona!โ โ
Happy to share that I started a new job this week
as Head of Community at Percona! I know itโs
traditional to talk about how excited you are for a
new job, but itโs true, Iโm really psyched about
the opportunity, the team Iโll be working with and
Percona as a company.
Perconaโs philosophy and mission align really
nicely with my personal values. Percona is
committed to open source and helping its customers
succeed with open source databases. Not open core,
open source.
The commitment to open source is massively
important to me. I consider myself to be fairly
pragmatic about open source, but I do believe that
being genuinely committed to open source is best
for the company, its customers and the larger
ecosystem. Done right, everybody wins. Finding that
balance is hard, no doubt, but the work is
worthwhile and Iโm here for it.
o ยง Productivity Software/LibreOffice/Calligraโ โพ
# โ Document Foundation โ Getting_Started_Guide_7.4_and_Impress
Guide_7.4_Available_for_Downloadโ โ
The LibreOffice Documentation Team announces the
immediate availability of the Impress Guide 7.4 and
Getting Started Guide 7.4
The Impress Guide 7.4 was coordinated by Peter
Schofield and revised by Kees Kriek. The guide is
available in PDF as well as in ODF formats. An
online version is available in the bookshelf
website.
o ยง Programming/Developmentโ โพ
# โ Drew DeVault โ I_shall_toil_at_a_reduced_volumeโ โ
Over the last nine years I have written 300,000
words for this blog on the topics which are
important to me. I am not certain that I have much
left to say.
I can keep revisiting these topics for years, each
time adding a couple more years of wisdom and
improvements to my writing skills to present my
arguments more effectively. However, I am starting
to feel diminishing returns from my writing. It
does not seem like my words are connecting with
readers anymore. And, though the returns on my work
seem to be diminishing, the costs are not. Each new
article spurs less discussion than the last, but
provides an unwavering supply of spiteful
responses.
# โ Medevel โ Agile_UI_โ_Low-code_PHP_Frameworkโ โ
Agile Toolkit is a Low Code framework written in
PHP. Agile UI implement server side rendering
engine and over 50 UI generic components for
interacting with your Data Model.
# โ OpenSource.com โ Learn_JavaScript_in_2023_|
Opensource.comโ โ
With JavaScriptโs 27th anniversary approaching in
just a few days, we at Opensource.com are
reflecting on how it has evolved into one of the
most commonly-used programming language in the
world. Why is it so popular? JavaScript is a
universal language beloved by developers of all
levels from beginners to advanced users. It can run
anywhere from your phone to your server. And of
course, there are the frameworks. From ReactJS to
AureliaJS, thereโs a framework for nearly every use
case. Best of all, JavaScript is supported by a
thriving open source community.
To celebrate JavaScriptโs milestone, weโve put
together a collection of JavaScript tutorials to
help you continue your development journey. Authors
Mandy Kendall, Seth Kenlon, Jessica Cherry, Sachin
Samal, Ajay Pratap, and Ramakrishna Pattnaik
contributed to this downloadable eBook. With it,
youโll have a chance to practice your JavaScript
code by writing a guessing game. Then get familiar
with React and even build your own app. This
JavaScript guide gives you quick access to more
than 165 terms you need to know to level up your
skills.
# ยง Perl / Rakuโ โพ
# โ Perl โ Making_GitHub_CI_work_with_Perl_5.8. [Ed: Perl
should spend no time and effort cushioning Microsoft
proprietary software that's a major threat to security
(can quietly introduce back doors at compile time)]โ โ
A while back. I got a pull request from Gabor
Szabo adding a GitHub action to one of my
distributions. I have been working with this,
but have not (so far) blogged about it
because, quite frankly, I am still not sure I
know what I am doing.
# ยง Rustโ โพ
# โ Rust Weekly Updates โ This_Week_In_Rust:_This_Week_in
Rust_471โ โ
* ยง Leftoversโ โพ
o โ Hackaday โ Building_Your_Own_Consensusโ โ
With billions of computers talking to each other daily,
how do they decide anything? Even in a database or server
deployment, how do the different computers that make up
the database decide what values have been committed? How
do they agree on what time it is? How do they come to a
consensus?
o โ Hackaday โ Mechanical_Keyboard_With_A_Framework_Insideโ โ
Like the Commodore 64 and other keyboard computers of
yore, the [Elevated Systems]โs CJ64 fits all of its
processing and I/O into a single keyboard-shaped package.
o ยง Scienceโ โพ
# โ DeSmog โ Heartland_Instituteโs_Survey_Actually_Supports_the
97%_Climate_Science_Consensus_Itโs_Trying_to_Attackโ โ
The Heartland Institute, a self-described free-
market think tank notorious for its climate science
denial efforts, is at it again. This time,
Heartland is frantically spinning the results of a
survey it commissioned in its latest attempt to
dispute the robust scientific consensus on climate
change.ย
To be clear, climate experts overwhelmingly agree
that climate change is happening and that humans
are primarily responsible. And thereโs plenty of
evidence about that consensus.
# โ Hackaday โ JCB_Is_Exploring_Hydrogen_Combustion_Engines_For
Construction_Machineryโ โ
When we think about greening up the planet, solar
panels and electric cars are often at the forefront
of our mind. However, thereโs a whole bunch of
other things out there that are spewing out carbon
dioxide that also need to be cleaned up. That
includes leaf blowers, lawn mowers, and yes โ big
equipment for construction and agricultural work!
o ยง Educationโ โพ
# โ Common Dreams โ Opinion_|_In_the_Cynical_Name_of_โFreedom,โ
DeSantis_Puts_Academia_Under_Attackโ โ
In 2021, Floridaโs Republican Governor Ron
DeSantis, in agreement with Brazilโs neo-fascist
President Jair Bolsonaro, signed a law allowing
college students to record professors to detect any
ideological bias. As long as it wasnโt the true
ideologyโhis.
# โ Common Dreams โ DeSantis-Backed_Education_Purge_Begins
After_School_Board_Takeovers_in_Floridaโ โ
Despite outcry from parents, teachers, and
students, newly elected right-wing school board
members in Sarasota County, Florida on Tuesday
became the latest allies of Republican Gov. Ron
DeSantis to oust a school superintendent over the
districtโs adherence to public health guidance
during the coronavirus pandemic.
Dozens of community members gathered at a school
board meeting in Sarasota County on Tuesday evening
to support Brennan Asplen, the superintendent of
schools since 2020, whose contract was the subject
of the meeting.
# โ Telex (Hungary) โ 8_more_Hungarian_high_school_teachers
fired_for_civil_disobedienceโ โ
# โ TruthOut โ Striking_UC_Grad_Students_Speak_Out_on_Largest-
Ever_Higher_Ed_Strike_in_USโ โ
# โ The_Slavery_in_Modern_Educationโ โ
They trace the conduct of the student and the
educator in theory and practice and conclude that
Ubuntu is indispensable in the education process
because it gives the same authenticity.
o ยง Health/Nutrition/Agricultureโ โพ
# โ Common Dreams โ โEgregiousโ:_PFAS_Firefighting_Foam_Spills
at_Notorious_Red_Hill_Naval_Facility_in_Hawaiiโ โ
Hawaiian state and U.S. Naval officials confirmed
Tuesday that firefighting foam containing โforever
chemicalsโ leaked at the Red Hill Bulk Fuel Storage
Facility in Honolulu, requiring cleanup efforts and
increased monitoring of soil and water.
Commonly called forever chemicals because they
persist in the human body and environment for long
periods, per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS)
have been tied to a variety of health problems.
They are used in not only some firefighting foams
but also cookware, food packaging, and water-
resistant clothing and furnitureโthough there are
growing calls to ban them.
# โ Common Dreams โ Rights_Groups_Rip_NYC_Mayor_Over_Forced
Hospitalizations_for_Mental_Illnessโ โ
Rights groups are sharply condemning New York City
Mayor Eric Adamsโ Tuesday directive requiring local
law enforcement and emergency medical workers to
respond to the intertwined mental health and
homelessness crises with involuntary
hospitalizations.
โThis โcompassionateโ approach neglects the demands
of the vulnerable communities heโs claiming to
help.โ
# โ Meduza โ Meningitis_outbreak_sends_more_than_30_warehouse
workers_to_hospital_in_Moscow_region_โ_Meduzaโ โ
Twelve Belarusian citizens, who worked at a
warehouse in the Moscow regionโs Istra district,
were hospitalized with suspected meningitis, as
reported by the Belarusian embassy in Moscow. The
diagnosis was confirmed in 10 of those cases. One
of them is in critical condition. Another person
from that group may have died at the hospital, but
this information has not yet been officially
confirmed.
# โ DeSmog โ Fracking_Company_Pleads_No_Contest_in_Iconic_Water
Contamination_Case_in_Dimockโ โ
On Tuesday, gas company Coterra Energy pleaded no
contest to environmental crimes related to
contaminated water supplies from fracking
operations more than a decade ago. The plea is the
culmination of a long saga that has left residents
of a small Pennsylvania town without clean drinking
water for 14 years, and it resulted in some
semblance of accountability for a company that has
long denied any wrongdoing.
โWe are here today because fundamentally
Pennsylvanians have a right to clean air and pure
water. And for too long, the good people of Dimock
have waited to have the clean water that our
constitution promises restored to them in their
homes and throughout our community,โ Pennsylvania
Attorney General Josh Shapiro said at a press
conference on November 29. โMore than a decade of
waiting for a permanent plan for clean drinking
water is far too long.โ
o ยง Proprietaryโ โพ
# โ Itโs FOSS โ Microsoft_Office_365_Declared_illegal_for
German_Schools,_Againโ โ
The last time this happened was in 2019, when
Office 365 was banned from schools in the German
state of Hesse.
If youโre curious: Office 365 package offers a
polished set of proprietary tools used by many
professionals worldwide, which is why it is
popular.
However, it poses quite a few privacy concerns, as
noted by German authorities, which have not been
addressed yet.
Hence, the decision was taken by the German Data
Protection Conference (DSK or Datenschutzkonferenz)
to ban the use of Microsoft Office 365 in schools
across the country.
o ยง Securityโ โพ
# โ The Register UK โ Twenty_years_on,_virus_scanner_ClamAV
puts_out_version_1_โข_The_Registerโ โ
The ClamAV command-line virus scanner used on many
Linux boxes has attained an important-looking
milestone release: version 1.0.0.
Itโs not really the first finished version, of
course. Open source version numbering is something
of a work of fiction, up there with โOf course I
love youโ and โThe checkโs in the post,โ but even
so, this particular milestone has been a while in
coming. ClamAV, which describes itself as โthe
open-source standard for mail gateway-scanning
softwareโ, has finally emitted an official one-
point-zero version, only six months after its 20th
birthday โ and whatโs more, itโs a long-term
support release, too.
Original developer Tomasz Kojm released the first
version, 0.10, on May 8, 2002. As itโs open source,
since then, itโs been ported to almost anything
youโre likely to find connected to the internet.
Itโs included in the repos of most Linux distros,
as well as FreeBSD, OpenBSD and NetBSD. Itโs also
part of Appleโs optional extra macOS Server
package. Indeed it runs on most things, from
OpenVMS to OS/2.
The project was acquired by SourceFire in 2007,
which itself was subsequently bought by Cisco in
2013, and which still sponsors development.
# โ Make Tech Easier โ FBI_Warns_of_Tech_Support_Scams_through
Remote_Desktop_Softwareโ โ
This week, the Federal Bureau of Investigation
(FBI) issued a warning about tech support scams
that are conning people into giving away access to
their financial accounts through remote desktop
software. Perhaps the most frightening aspect of
the report is the bureauโs admission that the
numbers are probably higher than what they
reported.
# โ LWN โ Security_updates_for_Thursday_[LWN.net]โ โ
Security updates have been issued by CentOS
(device-mapper-multipath, firefox, hsqldb, krb5,
thunderbird, and xorg-x11-server), Debian (libraw),
Fedora (freerdp and grub2), SUSE (bcel, emacs,
glib2, glibc, grub2, nodejs10, and tomcat), and
Ubuntu (linux-azure-fde and snapd).
# โ Gizmodo โ Sirius_XM_Bug_Lets_Researchers_Hijack_Hondas,
Nissans,_Acurasโ โ
Newly revealed research shows that a number of
major car brands, including Honda, Nissan,
Infiniti, and Acura, were affected by a previously
undisclosed security bug that would have allowed a
savvy hacker to hijack vehicles and steal user
data. According to researchers, the bug was in the
carโs Sirius XM telematics infrastructure and would
have allowed a hacker to remotely locate a vehicle,
unlock and start it, flash the lights, honk the
horn, pop the trunk, and access sensitive customer
info like the ownerโs name, phone number, address,
and vehicle details.
# โ Bruce Schneier โ Sirius_XM_Software_Vulnerabilityโ โ
Cars are just computers with four wheels and an
engine. Itโs no surprise that the software is
vulnerable, and that everything is connected.
# ยง Privacy/Surveillanceโ โพ
# โ Techdirt โ EFF_Asks_Court_To_Rein_In_Orange_County,
CAโs_DNA_Dragnetโ โ
DNA collection at the time of arrest may make
sense in certain cases. If itโs a violent
crime โ rape, murder, home invasion, etc. โ
it probably is smart to take some sort of a
sample which may help place the suspect at
the scene of the crime.
# โ Techdirt โ FBI_Director_Gets_Back_On_His_Anti-
Encryption_Bullshit_In_Statement_To_Homeland_Security
Committeeโ โ
Weโll get to Chris Wray in a moment, but
first letโs do a throwback to May 29, 2018 โ
the date the FBI first promised to correct
its miscount (estimated to be off by as much
as 4,000 devices) of uncrackable devices in
its possession. Multiple statements utilizing
the FBIโs bad stats were edited, with the
erroneous number replaced with footnotes like
this:
# โ The Washington Post โ Hereโs_a_first:_Journalists_and
a_U.S._citizen_are_suing_NSO_Groupโ โ
A lawsuit filed against spyware industry
leader NSO Group on Wednesday represents the
first of its kind from a U.S. citizen and the
first by journalists in U.S. courts.
Itโs the latest salvo in a multi-front battle
against foreign commercial spyware. That
battle has been pursued in the executive
branch, Congress, the courts and the tech
industry. In fact, the lawsuit came the same
day that Google called out a Spanish firm it
says is a spyware vendor.
Wednesdayโs lawsuit accuses NSO Group of
violating the main federal anti-hacking law,
as well as a computer access and fraud law in
California, the location of the federal court
where the plaintiffs filed their complaint.
The plaintiffs are reporters and others who
work for El Faro, a Salvadoran news
organization, who allege they were targets of
NSO Groupโs Pegasus spyware.
The plaintiffs want a judge to declare that
NSO Group has violated U.S. law. They also
want a judge to order the company to disclose
the client who spied on them, Carrie DeCell,
senior staff attorney with the Knight First
Amendment Institute, told me.
o ยง Defence/Aggressionโ โพ
# โ The Nation โ Larry_Krasner_on_What_Will_Actually_Reduce
Crimeโ โ
Can a predominantly white state legislature
overturn the votes of a predominantly Black city?
Larry Krasner, Philadelphiaโs district attorney,
was elected in 2017 on a reform agenda and has
faced a GOP backlash ever since. This October, on
the last day of business before the 2022 midterms,
Martina White, a Republican state representative,
filed articles for impeachment. If the initiative
wins a majority in the GOP-dominated state House,
Krasner will have to stand trial in the Senate. How
has the GOP weaponized the issue of violence to
smear criminal justice reform and the Democrats
pushing for change? And what is being done about
the disregard being shown to Black voters who voted
heavily for the DA and largely continue to support
Krasnerโs work? Charles D. Ellison, executive
producer and host of Reality Check on WURD, and
Sara Lomax-Reese, cofounder of URL Media, joined me
for this conversation.
# โ Meduza โ Odesa_City_Council_votes_to_move_Catherine_II_and
Suvorov_monuments_from_city_streets_to_Fine_Arts_Museum_โ
Meduzaโ โ
Odesa City Council has voted to remove two
monuments related to the Russian imperial presence
in Odesa from the city streets, and to move them to
the Odesa Fine Arts Museum.
# โ Meduza โ Penitentiary_stops_giving_Alexey_Navalny_letters
from_his_wife_โ_Meduzaโ โ
Yulia Navalnaya, the wife of imprisoned politician
Alexey Navalny, posted a letter from her husband on
Instagram.
# โ Meduza โ Federation_Council_dismisses_Alexey_Kudrin_as
Audit_Chamber_head,_freeing_him_for_Yandex_pivot_โ_Meduzaโ โ
Russiaโs Federation Council voted to approve the
early dismissal of Alexey Kudrin from his post as
Audit Chamber chairman, according to Interfax.
Kudrinโs dismissal was requested earlier by
Vladimir Putin.
# โ Scheerpost โ Israeli_Forces_Kill_Four_Palestinians_in
Occupied_West_Bank,_Including_Two_Brothersโ โ
The three Palestinians killed overnight were
identified as Jawad Rimawi, 22, Thafer Rimawi, 21,
and Mufid Ikhlayel, 44. A fourth Palestinian was
killed later on Tuesday morning after carrying out
a car-ramming that left one Israeli wounded.
# โ Meduza โ โAn_artist,_not_a_soldierโ_Plainclothes_officers
arrested_war_protester_Daniil_Shershnev._Hours_later,_they
sent_him_to_a_military_base._โ_Meduzaโ โ
Plainclothes officers in Moscow arrested 23-year-
old artist and war critic Daniil Shershnev, his
girlfriend Ekaterina told the independent media
outlet Holod.
# โ Meduza โ Russia_appoints_new_director_for_occupied
Zaporizhzhia_NPP_โ_Meduzaโ โ
The Russian nuclear power company Rosenergoatom
announced that a new director has been appointed
for the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, which has
been under the Russian militaryโs control since the
start of the full-scale war in Ukraine.
# โ Meduza โ Explosion_at_the_Ukrainian_embassy_in_Madrid
injures_employee_โ_Meduzaโ โ
An employee of the Ukrainian embassy in Madrid
sustained minor injuries after an explosion.
Reuters, citing Spanish police, reports that the
victim is in the hospital.
# โ Meduza โ Make_peace,_not_war_The_Kremlinโs_internal_polling
shows_that_more_than_half_of_Russians_now_favor_negotiations
with_Ukraine,_while_only_a_quarter_want_to_continue_the
invasion_โ_Meduzaโ โ
# โ Meduza โ Russian_defense_purchasing_set_to_increase_by_50
percent_in_2023_โ_Meduzaโ โ
When speaking before the Defense Ministry
collegium, Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu said that
Russiaโs defense purchasing will increase by almost
50 percent in 2023, โfactoring in the additional
budgetary means being allocated.โ
# โ Telex (Hungary) โ Four_months_not_enough_for_Hungary_to
ratify_Swedish-Finnish_NATO_accession_โ_while_other_laws
pushed_through_in_days_or_weeksโ โ
# โ Telex (Hungary) โ A_country_can_only_join_NATO_if_it_does
not_threaten_the_security_of_its_members_โ_Szijjรกrtรณโ โ
# โ Meduza โ Their_degradation_and_colonialism_vs._our
peacemaking_Russiaโs_Culture_Ministry_issues_โpriority
topicsโ_list_designed_to_guide_filmmakers_to_state_grants_for
new_projects_โ_Meduzaโ โ
Russiaโs Culture Ministry has published a list of
โpriority topicsโ for filmmakers planning to apply
for government grants next year. The ministryโs
official website encourages directors and
cinematographers seeking state funding to
โconsiderโ working on one of the 17 topics deemed
valuable to Russian propaganda. Below, Meduza
republishes the ministryโs full list of topics that
we can all look forward to seeing addressed in
future Russian films. How many masterpieces do you
expect with these cinematic priorities?
# โ FAIR โ ACTION_ALERT:_NYT_Has_Found_New_Neo-Nazi_Troops_to
Lionize_in_Ukraineโ โ
The New York Times has found another neo-Nazi
militia to fawn over in Ukraine. The Bratstvo
battalion โgave access to the New York Times to
report on two recent riverine operations,โ which
culminated in a piece (11/21/22) headlined โOn the
River at Night, Ambushing Russians.โ
# โ Video โ San_Francisco_Police_Will_Start_Using_Deadly
Explosive_Robots_โ_Invidiousโ โ
In this video I discuss the new policy passed that
allows San Fransisco Police Department use deadly
robots against suspects in certain circumstances.
o ยง Environmentโ โพ
# ยง Energyโ โพ
# โ Common Dreams โ โFinally,_Some_Justiceโ:_Fracking
Company_to_Pay_Millions_for_Poisoning_Townโs_Waterโ โ
Environmental justice advocates celebrated
Tuesday when a fracking company accepted
responsibility for poisoning drinking water
supplies in Dimock, Pennsylvania.
โDimock residents have known for 14 years
that Cabot Oil & Gas is guilty of
contaminating our water.โ
# โ The Nation โ Democrats_and_the_Crypto_Meltdownโ โ
The collapse of FTX, a crypto currency
exchange that went from a valuation of $32
billion to bankruptcy, is sending shock waves
not just through the economy but also
politics. FTXโs founder, Sam Bankman-Fried,
was the second-biggest donor to the
Democratic party in 2022. He has many complex
ties with Democratic politicians, policy-
makers, and pundits. In a recent column, I
wrote about how Democrats have a crypto
problem.
o ยง Financeโ โพ
# โ Robert Reich โ The_Fedโs_Inflation_Mistake_Continuesโ โ
# โ Common Dreams โ Democrats,_Progressive_Groups_Push_DOJ_to
Publish_Database_of_โCorporate_Lawbreakingโโ โ
After three congressional Democrats on Tuesday
unveiled the Corporate Crime Database Act, which
would direct the U.S. Department of Justice to make
information about corporate wrongdoing and efforts
to curb it publicly available, dozens of
progressive organizations and individuals implored
federal lawmakers to pass the legislation as
quickly as possible.
โThe runaway consequences of rogue corporations are
nothing short of catastrophic.โ
# โ Common Dreams โ As_Corporations_Enjoy_Record-High_Profits,
Experts_Urge_Congress_to_โRein_Them_Inโโ โ
Economic justice advocates on Wednesday responded
to new U.S. government figures showing nonfinancial
corporate profits soared to record levels during
the third quarter of 2022 by urging congressional
lawmakersโmost of whom receive substantial
corporate campaign contributionsโto take action
against the capitalist greed that progressive
experts say is the main driver of inflation.
โInstead of raising interest rates and slowing the
economy toward a recession, Congress and Biden
should be taking aim at corporate price gouging.โ
# โ Scheerpost โ Could_China_Help_Brazil_To_Overcome_Its
Economic_Crisis?โ โ
The economic partnership between Brazil and China,
which has advanced greatly in the last two decades,
may be one of the keys to reversing the crisis that
Brazil faces. But some challenges will need to be
faced with diplomacy and strategic planning.
# โ Scheerpost โ Bidenโs_Student_Debt_Relief_Program_Is_Now_in
the_Hands_of_the_Supreme_Courtโ โ
By Marjorie Cohn / Truthout More than 40 million
lower-income people burdened with student loans are
still waiting for clarity about how much they will
owe and when their next payments will be due, as
the Supreme Court decides if it will rule on
whether to allow President Joe Bidenโs student debt
relief program to [โฆ]
# โ Common Dreams โ Lame-Duck_Dems_Must_Lift_Debt_Limit,
Advocates_Say_as_GOP_Doubles_Down_on_Social_Security
Threatsโ โ
Progressives on Wednesday warned that time is
running out for Democratic leaders to take
Republicans at their word regarding slashes to
social safety net programs, as U.S. Sen. John Thune
indicated the GOP will use a potential fight over
the debt ceiling next year as leverage to push
cutsโunless the Democrats act now to raise the debt
limit while they still control the Senate and
House.
Thune (R-S.D.), who is the number-two Republican in
the Senate as the chamberโs minority whip, told
Bloomberg Tuesday that the party has a โlong listโ
of policy priorities for the next Congress, which
will commence on January 3. The party plans to put
forward budget reforms including to federal
programs which they have long claimed, erroneously,
are unsustainable.
# โ Scheerpost โ More_Evidence_Elon_Musk_Is_No_Geniusโ โ
As Twitter implodes under Muskโs rule, a lawsuit
argues Tesla is vastly overpaying the worldโs
richest man.
# โ TruthOut โ San_Francisco_Has_Voted_to_Tax_Corporate
Landlords_for_Leaving_Housing_Vacantโ โ
# โ The Nation โ The_Rise_and_Fall_of_the_American_Fraudsterโ โ
Without much notice, the American scene now boasts
an array of professional scam artists meeting a
richly deserved comeuppance. The tangle-haired
crypto titan Sam Bankman-Fried has presided over an
epic meltdown at his FTX empire; the trading
platform had yielded him an estimated net worth of
$15.6 billion, and that number now stands at a nice
round zero, with Bankman-Fried facing a host of
legal smackdowns in the offing. Elon Musk, lauded
far and wide as the genius tech disrupter of the
age, has run his latest acquisition, Twitter,
straight into the ground, displaying rank
ignorance, insatiable bro-hubris, and rudderless
right-wing conspiracy-mongering in equal parts.
Elizabeth Holmes, the founder of the phony blood-
testing app, Theranos, is bound for prison for more
than 11 years on fraud charges.
o ยง AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politicsโ โพ
# โ Common Dreams โ โDonald_Trump_Has_Finally_Run_Out_of_Places
to_Hideโ_as_House_Dems_Get_Tax_Returnsโ โ
The Democratic-controlled U.S. House Ways and Means
Committee on Wednesday received six years of former
President Donald Trumpโs federal tax returns,
ending a three-year battle in which the 2024
Republican presidential candidate fought fiercely
against sharing documents that every one of his
predecessors since Richard Nixon have disclosed.
โDonald Trump has finally run out of places to
hide,โ wrote Jason Easley and Sarah Jones at
PoliticusUSAโs The Daily. โFor years the
speculation about what is in the tax returns that
Trump had refused to release ran rampant. Was he
really broke? Did he take money from foreign
governments? Did he commit crimes? There were so
many questions, and now the answers could finally
be arriving.โ
# โ The Nation โ Young_People_Made_It_Clear:_Abortion_Rights
Must_Be_Codifiedโ โ
Before the Supreme Courtโs landmark reversal of Roe
v. Wade, there was debate on whether abortion would
drive Democrats to cast their ballots in the 2022
midterm elections. โIn polls, the people who report
caring most about abortion relative to other issues
are young, progressive, educated, concentrated in
cities, and of higher income,โ wrote Natalie Shure
in The New Republic, โalready one of the Democratic
Partyโs strongest bases.โ
# โ The Nation โ Reverend_William_Barberโs_Pastoral_Letter_to
the_Republican_Partyโ โ
# โ Scheerpost โ What_Comes_After_the_Decline_of_American
Democracy?โ โ
Clarence Lusane questions whether weโre in a
prelude to a new all-American version of
authoritarianism, or worse.
# โ Common Dreams โ Opinion_|_Defending_Democracy_While_Waiting
for_the_Cavalry_to_Arriveโ โ
If there is anything certain in todayโs political
world it is that the Republican Party represents an
existential threat to the survival of democracy.
And it would be a mistake to take too much comfort
from the recent midterm election results. The
better than expected showing by the Democrats
bought some time, but American democracy will
remain at risk for as long as the GOP remains the
party it is today. In two years there will be
another election, then another, and another after
that. To preserve a functioning democracy, the
Democrats have to win every time in a closely
divided country. To tear it down, the GOP need win
only once. Just one election where they win control
of both houses of congress and the presidency at
the same time, and itโs over (they already control
the Supreme Court). And given the inevitable cycles
of American politics, we know that day must
eventually come. And when it does, Americaโs 250-
plus year experiment in self-government will
effectively end.
# โ The Nation โ How_Social_Media_Ensures_That_No_One_Hears
Amber_Heardโ โ
Amber Heard and her legal team recently filed an
opening brief seeking to overturn the defamation
verdict that Heardโs ex-husband, Johnny Depp, won
this summer in his lawsuit challenging Heardโs
written characterization of their relationship in a
piece for The Washington Post. And as Heardโs
appeal gets under way, a group of experts signed an
open letter objecting to her unprecedented
vilification in the press and on social media. The
letter also draws attention to how the case has
spawned intensive victim-blaming misogynyโand the
spread of unfounded defamation suits modeled on
Deppโs case, which seek to silence and harm women
seeking legal protection from abuse.
# โ Common Dreams โ Opinion_|_The_GOPโs_Absurd,_Disingenuous
Hunt_for_Non-Existent_Election_Fraudstersโ โ
This election year has added a new season to our
countryโs calendar: The silly season.
o ยง Censorship/Free Speechโ โพ
# โ Common Dreams โ Evidence_Grows_of_Left-Wing_Twitter_Purge
Directed_by_Muskโ โ
While claiming to have bought the social media
giant in order to make it โan inclusive arena for
free speech,โ multibillionaire Twitter owner Elon
Musk is apparently overseeing what critics claim is
a purge of anti-fascist voices, The Intercept
reported Tuesday.
โNo one shouldโve honestly believed Elon Musk would
use his ownership of Twitter to champion free
speech.โ
# โ Techdirt โ Ninth_Circuit_Tells_Disgruntled_YouTube_Users
The_Government_Didnโt_Get_Their_Accounts_Suspendedโ โ
Some people just donโt understand social media. Or
the Constitution. Or moderation efforts.
o ยง Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Pressโ โพ
# โ Scheerpost โ New_York_Times_Fails_To_See_Its_Own
Hypocritical_Practicesโ โ
In a long and detailed Twitter thread, Scott
Hechinger dives into the malpractices of the New
York Times when it comes to reporting on certain
criminal justice elements.
# โ Scheerpost โ Cryptome_Founder_Asks_to_be_Indicted_With
Assangeโ โ
John Young, the founder of the Cryptome website,
has asked the U.S. Justice Department to also
indict him as he published un-redacted State Dept.
files before WikiLeaks did, reports Joe Lauria.
# โ AccessNow โ FAQ:_how_the_EU_plans_to_protect_media_freedom
โ_Access_Nowโ โ
A free, independent, and diverse press is essential
for holding democracies to account. As public
watchdogs, the mediaโs ability to provide accurate,
independent, and reliable information is vital for
allowing the public to scrutinise political
leaders, make informed political choices, and
exercise their fundamental rights and freedoms. But
around the world, media freedom is increasingly
restricted or subject to state interference.
To address this worrying trend, the European
Commission proposed the European Media Freedom Act
(EMFA) in September 2022. This FAQ dives into why
such a proposal is needed, how it would strengthen
media independence and safeguard media pluralism,
and what happens next.
[...]
A: The EMFA promises to reverse the trend of
deteriorating media freedom in the EU. European co-
legislators will start negotiating the details of
the proposal next year, which is likely to be
challenging given the varied interests of Member
States, media service providers, and media freedom
advocates.
As the legislative process unfolds, Access Now will
continue to defend fundamental rights online, by
scrutinising the relationship between online
platforms and media service providers, and opposing
any use of spyware against journalists or other
members of the media.
o ยง Civil Rights/Policingโ โพ
# โ Techdirt โ As_US,_UK_Embrace_โAge_Verify_Everyone!โ_French
Data_Protection_Agency_Says_Age_Verification_Is_Unreliable
And_Violates_Privacy_Rightsโ โ
We keep seeing it show up in a variety of places:
laws to โprotect the childrenโ that, fundamentally
begin with age verification to figure out who is a
child (and then layering in a ton of often
questionable requirements for how to deal with
those identified as children). We have the Online
Safety Bill in the UK. We have Californiaโs Age
Appropriate Design Code, which a bunch of states
are rushing to emulate in their own legislatures.
In Congress, there is the Kids Online Safety Act.
# โ The Nation โ Senate_Democrats_Need_to_Fight_Harder_Than
Marco_Rubio_for_Rail_Workersโ โ
President Joe Biden wants Congress to block a
railroad strike after members of four key unions
rejected a contract proposal that failed to address
their demands for paid sick leave, regularly
scheduled weekends, and other quality-of-life
concerns for workers in a highly stressful
industry. And top Democrats in the House and Senate
are jumping on board for federal intervention, with
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) telling
reporters, โI donโt like going against the ability
of unions to strike, but weighing the equities, we
must avoid a strike.โ
# โ Common Dreams โ House_Passes_Paid_Sick_Leave_for_Railway
Workers_Despite_Opposition_of_207_Republicansโ โ
Lawmakers in the U.S. House of Representatives
voted Wednesday by a margin of 221-207 to pass a
concurrent resolution adding seven days of paid
sick leave to a White House-brokered contract that
was rejected by over half of the nationโs unionized
rail workforce but that President Joe Biden urged
Congress to force through to prevent a nationwide
rail strike next month.
โRailroad workers have made a simple, dignified
request for the basic protections of paid leave.โ
# โ Common Dreams โ Opinion_|_Shame_on_โUnion_Joeโ_Biden_for
Not_Siding_With_Railway_Workersโ โ
First of allโsolidarity from our union shop to the
rail workers who intend (if they can) to strike
next week, whose demand for four days of paid sick
leave per year is one that should not have to be
begged for, much less go unmet. History will not
look kindly on President Jon Biden and
congressional leaders forcing a contract on rail
workers that includes no sick leave during the
pandemic that Biden irresponsibly declared is over,
which continues to kill hundreds of Americans a
day, to avoid a shutdown of supply chains before
the holidays.
# โ Common Dreams โ โPut_Up_or_Shut_Up,โ_Says_Sanders_as
Progressives_Move_to_Add_7_Sick_Days_to_Railway_Dealโ โ
Sen. Bernie Sanders said late Tuesday night that it
was time to โput up or shut upโ for any U.S.
lawmaker who claims to fight for the working class
as he and other progressives in Congress vowed to
insert paid sick leave into a labor agreement
between railway workers and the nationโs rail
companies.
โIf you are a supporter of the working class how
are you going to vote against the proposal which
provides guaranteed paid sick leave to workers who
have none right now?โ
# โ The Nation โ Fast_Food_Runs_in_My_Familyโ โ
Before the sun rose, I biked to work. There were
few cars on the road and it was early enough most
days that the stoplights still blinked yellow.
Alternating between the sidewalks and streets, the
world felt like mine. Itโs that way in a small
town, where everything feels attainable for a
moment because thereโs no one else around to claim
it. The stillness, the cornfields, the wind blowing
through overgrown grass. But it wasnโt the solitude
that made me choose the early shift; it was shame.
# โ The Nation โ The_Minnesota_Workers_Who_Are_Still_Searching
for_Justiceโ โ
When Matthew Northrup was a child in the 1980s, his
dad would drive him around the area near their home
in Fond du Lacโa neighborhood in Duluth, Minn.,
named for the Northrupsโ tribe, the Fond du Lac
Band of Superior Chippewaโpointing out sites that
their people considered historically important. On
one such drive, he motioned toward a grassy hill
just past Highway 23 along the St. Louis River,
which flows into the southern tip of Lake Superior.
โSon, all of your ancestors are buried up there,โ
he said.
# โ The Nation โ Bleeding_Hearts_and_Blind_Spotsโ โ
Everyoneโs family history is complicated. Nearly
everyone has an estranged sibling, a drunken uncle,
a contentious aunt, or a well-kept secret trauma.
With DNA testing and genealogy websites, everyone
is almost guaranteed to find a cousin, a half-
sibling, or even a parent previously unknown to
them. During American slavery, the bloodlines of
slaveholding families were particularly fraught.
Without technology, โMamaโs baby and Papaโs maybe,โ
as the saying goes, could be kept hidden. When an
enslaved child had red hair, freckles, and the same
dimple or gait as their biological father, everyone
noticed, but they never discussed these
relationships. Behind the family portraits,
genetics told everything. The irony among
slaveholders and their enslaved descendants was
that light skin meant little. Slavery did not
discriminate: The children of white masters could
be bought, sold, beaten, or sexually assaulted.
Interracial relationships did not bring people
together in an era of slavery; rather, they kept
them apart.
# โ Common Dreams โ Opinion_|_Beware_Western_Hypocrisy_When_It
Comes_to_Human_Rights_at_the_World_Cupโ โ
United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken
recently came out against a ban on rainbow armbands
at the World Cup tournament in Qatar, which various
European team captains had intended to sport in
support of LGBTQ rights and against discrimination.
Blinken flagged the ban as โconcerningโ and a
restriction on โfreedom of expressionโ.
# โ TruthOut โ Senate_Passes_Respect_for_Marriage_Act_to
Protect_Same-Sex_Marriage_Rightsโ โ
# โ TruthOut โ Native_American_Women_Make_51_Cents_for_$1
Earned_by_Non-Latino_White_Menโ โ
# โ The Nation โ Native_American_Heritageโ โ
# โ Internet Freedom Foundation โ Legislative_Brief_on_Digital
Rights_for_Winter_Session_2022โ โ
We have prepared our legislative brief on digital
rights for the Winter Session 2022 of the Indian
Parliament. In our brief, we highlight some of the
focus areas within the larger issues of digital
rights, surveillance, platform governance and free
speech, data protection, and other concerns that
call for extensive deliberation in the Houses of
Parliament.
o ยง Internet Policy/Net Neutralityโ โพ
# โ Techdirt โ Comcast_Derails_Promising_Community_Broadband
Projects_In_Washington_Stateโ โ
The good news: thereโs more than $50 billion in
broadband subsidies coming down the road courtesy
of COVID relief and infrastructure legislation.
o ยง Monopoliesโ โพ
# โ Techdirt โ Yet_Another_Study_Shows_U.S._Broadband_Users_Are
Being_Ripped_Off_By_Local_Monopoliesโ โ
For decades, weโve discussed how U.S. broadband is
generally spotty, expensive, and slower than many
countries due to regional monopolization. And, for
just as long, weโve highlighted how U.S.
policymakers in both parties comically go out of
their way to not even acknowledge that monopolies
are a problem, often instead employing vague,
causation-free rhetoric about a mysterious digital
divide.
# ยง Copyrightsโ โพ
# โ Public Domain Review โ Concrete_Poetry:_Thomas_Edison
and_the_Almost-Built_World_โ_The_Public_Domain_Reviewโ โ
The architect and historian Anthony
Acciavatti uses a real (but mostly forgotten)
patent to conjure a world that could have
been.
# โ Walled Culture โ A_new_US_law_makes_it_easier_for
copyright_trolls_to_terrorise_people_with_claims_of
alleged_infringement_โ_Walled_Cultureโ โ
The legal landscape is already strongly
tilted in favour of copyright holders. But
that doesnโt stop the copyright maximalists
from demanding more ways to enforce their
intellectual monopolies. The latest expansion
of enforcement powers is doubly concerning.
First, because its explicit purpose is to
make it even easier to bring cases against
alleged copyright infringement. And secondly,
because so few people know about it yet.
This latest expansion is the result of a new
US law, called the Copyright Alternative in
Small-Claims Enforcement (CASE) Act. A post
on the Educause Review site explains that
CASE creates something called the Copyright
Claims Board (CCB), with greatly simplified
procedures for bringing legal actions. For
example, they do not need to be filed in a
federal court, which is typically very
expensive. Legal representation is not
required, and filing fees start at just $100.
In addition, statutory damages would be
available for an infringement even if it
occurred before registration with the US
Copyright Office.
Those may be useful features for independent
artists who lack legal teams but wish to
pursue their claims of copyright
infringement. But they will be an even
greater boon to copyright trolls, who will be
able to fire off illegitimate claims for very
little upfront cost. Faced with what look
like serious legal threats, many people will
choose to pay off the trolls, rather than
face the prospect of navigating a new legal
system they have probably never heard of.
* ยง Gemini* and Gopherโ โพ
o ยง Personalโ โพ
# โ I_put_horses_heads_in_peopleโs_bedsโ โ
Minions in 4E are like normal creatures but have
only one HP. They attack player characters just
like normal.
Mobs in 5e, this is kind of a forgotten rule
because itโs one of those weirdo DMG variants, but
itโs just an alternate way for a mob of creatures
to make their attack rolls by looking at a chart.
This saves a ton of time. Like, if you have a bunch
of skeletons and theyโre fighting enemies of AC 16
or lower, that means for every two skeletons, one
hit, so if you have 49 skeletons, 24 of those will
hit so you can just dish out 24d6+48 damage to
their enemies. (Or, if youโre using the static
damage numbers, which for skeletons are 5, you dish
out 120.)
# โ Hopeโ โ
# โ One_D&D_(first_survey)โ โ
Wow, one thing I really disliked in One D&D
(getting a first-level feat in your background, a
la PF2) was ranked the highest, beloved by 90%:
# โ exped_medium_pillow_case_rc1โ โ
second attempt at the pillow case for my exped
medium pillow. no fabric measurement: the pillow on
the fabric, judged where to cut the fabric.
# โ ๐คSpellBinding:_EFIZOSL_Wordo:_GRAIโ โ
# โ My_reviewing_scaleโ โ
Low numbers are bad, high are good.
Itโs not bounded and can go negative (so far things
have stayed between -20 to +20).
0 is spending the equivalent amount of time looking
at a mono-colored (non-papered or -patterned) wall.
o ยง Technicalโ โพ
# โ PICO-8_raycaster_basics_(Dark_Streets_devlog_#1)โ โ
First steps in writing a first-person shooter in
PICO-8
I have been playing around with PICO-8 for a few
months now. PICO-8 is a fantasy console, emulating
a device-that-could-have-existed somewhere around
30-40 years ago. It includes great editors and an
API designed for game development. PICO-8 is rather
limited in resources, but that is the part of its
charm โ it makes you think about the efficiency of
the code you write and avoids feature creep.
# โ Busted_CRT_TVโ โ
First daughter (my only child) kicked over the TV,
a Panasonic PV-C1332 manufactured in August 2002.
The plastic case is cracked. Thereโs a purple
splotch in the upper right corner of the display.
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