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⦿ Kakistocracy at Sirius ‘Open Source’: Running the Company Like a ’Hobby’, Perpetually and Shamelessly by Hobbyist and Absent ‘Management’ | Techrights
⦿ GAFAM Against Higher Education: Fixing the Broken Academy | Techrights
⦿ IRC Proceedings: Thursday, December 29, 2022 | Techrights
⦿ Symptoms of an Impending Bankruptcy? | Techrights
⦿ [Meme] The Koala Nightmare | Techrights
⦿ Links 30/12/2022: Ultimate Edition and a ‘Right To Repair’ Bill Scandal | Techrights
䷼ Bulletin articles (as HTML) to comment on (requires login):
http://techrights.org/2022/12/30/cluster-bomb-of-a-company/#comments
http://techrights.org/2022/12/30/fixing-the-broken-academy/#comments
http://techrights.org/2022/12/30/irc-log-291222/#comments
http://techrights.org/2022/12/30/offloading-liabilities/#comments
http://techrights.org/2022/12/30/playing-with-koala-fire/#comments
http://techrights.org/2022/12/30/ultimate-edition/#comments
䷞ Followed by Daily Links (assorted news picks curated and categorised):
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✐ Kakistocracy_at_Sirius_‘Open_Source’:Running_the_Company_Like_a‘Hobby’,
Perpetually_and_Shamelessly_by_Hobbyist_and_Absent_‘Management’⠀✐
Posted in Deception, Free/Libre_Software at 12:02 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽⦇How_Sirius_wants_to_be_perceived;What_Sirius_became⦈
Half of what’s left of the company is basically a family
🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇Sarin bomblets⦈ Summary: Sirius_‘Open_Source’ has become a
minuscule company that’s unable to serve clients and is shamelessly lying to
what remains of its client base; Human Resources (HR) is missing in action
(MIA), so the operations are improvised and detached from the Rule of Law
TWO DAYS remain until the end of the year and the end of my last month at
Sirius — a company that I joined in February 2011. Most of my time at the
company was OK, but things took a drastic turn for the worse around 2019 or a
little earlier (it was like a Sarin cluster bomb; see image to the right).
There was a glimmer of hope (that things would improve) at the end of 2020
owing to a managerial shuffle, but such hopes were short-lived and overly
optimistic. The person who was meant to ameliorate matters resorted to finger-
pointing and cover-up at the end of 2021, culminating in fierce arguments over
legality, truth, ethics, and various technical aspects.
“The person who was meant to ameliorate matters resorted to finger-pointing and
cover-up at the end of 2021, culminating in fierce arguments over legality,
truth, ethics, and various technical aspects.”The differences became
irreconcilable in November of this year and at the start of December I
deposited a report that I had prepared with my wife for a few days. It was
almost 50 pages in length, accurately highlighting the abuse we had encountered
in recent years.
We regret to say that Sirius doesn’t stand a chance of surviving. It’s run by
dishonest people who don’t know what they’re doing and they’re moreover unable/
unwilling to listen to important stakeholders.
“We regret to say that Sirius doesn’t stand a chance of surviving.”At the
moment it is unclear where the company is based or where to send legal papers
to. The ‘UK’ CEO is sending envelopes without a return address, the other CEO
lives in some unspecified address in another country (colleagues haven’t seen
him for about half a decade), and the company’s registered address changed
three times this past autumn (both the company and the awkward subsidiary
attached to it — more on that another day), so the only address for the company
is in fact some accountancy firm that deals with salaries.
Sirius will mostly be remembered by us as a company that originally strived to
spread and support Free and Open Source software… years before it became so
desperate for cash that it started lying and outsourcing everything (in spite
of strong opposition from staff).
From the report sent to our employer on December 1st:
=> =============================================================================
The Office Manager, the Account Manager, and the CEO don’t have understanding
of Open Source and some lack any technical background and are thus unfit for
the roles they occupy. In some contexts, this is legally actionable and as far
as the public knows, there was never a job advertised for those roles, i.e.
each of these was just ad hoc appointment. The CEO has a single-page Web site
that says almost nothing and has no track record of actual work (in 18 years).
It’s hard to figure out where all that confidence is derived from.
A company that had properly accredited managerial staff in 2011 is now run like
a hobby, or by people who think they themselves are the law. No involvement of
HR — no evidence of it anyway — so it’s all improvised and likely a one-man
fishing expedition, trying to become judge, jury, and executioner. This is not
acceptable. This needs to be independently investigated.
There are many legal issues with the way Sirius handles itself. As noted
earlier in this document, the company did not pay the pension for months at the
time, it did not pay a webhost until it was too late, and staff members haven’t
received payslips for months.
The company conveniently shifts the attention to two workers. Funnily enough,
the official Sirius web site still links to the sites they claim to be
“defamatory”, using Roy and Rianne for self-serving marketing purposes. The
Sirius Web site states that Rianne runs TuxMachines, yet it’s presented as a
“discovery” in the accusations. How is that anything short of satire? █
Photo credit: U.S. Honest John missile warhead cutaway, showing M134 Sarin
bomblets (c. 1960). Public Domain.
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⣤⣴⣿⠀⠀⢄⢤⡳⣾⣦⣴⠿⠋⠀⠹⣿⣿⣦⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢿⣿⣿⣶⣬⣷⡗⠓⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⣰⣏⣿⣿⣿⡟⠀⠀⢻⣿⣿⣿⠆⢾⣿⠀⠀⠀⠁⠉⠙⠉⠉⠀⠀⠉⠉⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⣿⣿⡿⣾⣿⢻⣿⠙⣿⢿⡇⣼⣿⡄⣿⢸⣿⣿⢿⢰⣿⢻⣧⠀⢹⣿⣿⣿⣻⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣿⣿⣿⡆⢸⣿⢿⣼⠹⣿⣿⣿⡇⣿⣿⡇⣿⣿⣿⡦⢰⣿⢻⣷⢸⣿⢿⡃⣿⡇⣿⡇⣼⣿⣼⣿⡟⢸⣿⢻⣷⢀⡀⠀
⣿⣿⣇⣿⣿⢸⣿⣦⣿⢸⣿⣿⣿⣷⣿⢸⣿⣿⣼⡞⠿⣷⣄⣀⣸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣻⣿⣿⡿⣿⡅⢸⣿⣾⣿⣾⣿⣿⣿⡇⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣼⣿⣾⣿⣼⣿⣶⣅⣿⣇⣹⣧⣿⣧⣿⣿⠶⣸⣿⢸⣿⣸⣇⣴
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣻⣿⣹⣿⣽⣿⢸⣿⣿⣿⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⢿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠛⠛⠉⠉⠙⠛⠛⠛⠛⠿⠟⠋⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⣀⠀⢰⣴⠀⠛⠀⣶⠀⠒⢀⡆⠠⢦⣥⠀⠤⣌⢈⠉⠍⢙⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠘⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡯⠤⣼⣇⡀⣏⣀⣋⣘⣷⣀⣃⣐⣚⣉⡐⠂⢋⣏⠁⠄⢈⠋⢍⠻
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡀⡀⢠⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡏⢰⡈⢂⠁⣶⡆⢡⠀⠸⠃⢠⡆⢠⡌⠙⢉⠉⡏⠉⢻⠉⡉⢰⠎⣰
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠐⠤⠤⠅⠑⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣤⣉⣴⣤⣙⣡⣄⣘⣤⡆⢸⣃⠰⠶⠀⣬⠀⠉⠸⣦⡀⡷⠀⢾⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠛⠻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣤⣙⣋⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣀⣀⣀⣀⢀⡀⠀⠀⣸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠈⠿⠿⠿⠿⠷⠄⠀⠀⠀⠹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣄⣀⣀⣀⣀⣩⣍⣉⣹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⠛⠛⠿⠿⠿⠟⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣽⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣤⣠⣄⣀⣀⣀⣿⣿⡏⣿⣿⡇⢸⣿⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣻⣿⣷⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⠐⠒⠂⡀⠐⠒⡂⣺⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢠⠀⠁⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
⠀⢀⠀⠀⠐⠀⠂⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠉⠉⠉⠉⠁⠀⠇⠀⠈⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿
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Posted in Free/Libre_Software, GNU/Linux, Google, Microsoft at 12:14 am by
Guest Editorial Team
Guest post by Dr. Andy Farnell
Previously in this mini-series:
What_Now?
🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇Andy Farnell's Digital Vegan⦈ Summary: “I was being polite,
and writing in a moderate style appropriate for The Times,” Dr. Farnell
stresses. “The truth is much harder.”
In my summing up of inappropriate technologies that blight higher education, I
previously claimed that the primary cause is lack of joined-up understanding. I
said that we should re-examine the power to shape academic life accidentally
handed to non-academic faculties such as ICT, security and compliance teams.
“Many of these trajectories are beyond reform. They have become societal issues
that even governments are struggling to address.”I was being polite, and
writing in a moderate style appropriate for The Times. The truth is much
harder. Many of these trajectories are beyond reform. They have become societal
issues that even governments are struggling to address.
What is happening in universities reflects a global trend. However, it’s the
job of universities is to resist that. The trend is “technological ignorance”.
A harsh fact is, digital technology is making us stupid at a tremendous rate.
The greatest violence in the world is ignorance, and if universities are
anything at all, they are by definition the natural enemy of the ignorance
companies like Microsoft, Facebook and Google are offering us – a descent into
passivity and dependence. Universities have survived historical attempts at
dissolution, but those threats have been external. Unhealthy technology gets
into the marrow of our institutions.
“In a pathological rush toward centralisation and scale institutions have grown
by ingesting food that has the sugar coating of “efficiency and control”, both
of which are toxic except in small amounts.”In Digital_Vegan I offered a
different perspective on technology, not as a tool, but as a food. Healthy
technology does not make us bloated and slow like the heavily processed junk-
food of Big-Tech.
In a pathological rush toward centralisation and scale institutions have grown
by ingesting food that has the sugar coating of “efficiency and control”, both
of which are toxic except in small amounts. This fat (over-systematisation,
security, silos, AI, central portals) accumulates around the institutional
organs. A defensive reaction against information overload, plus a paranoid
drive to hide or abstract organisational workings, then blocks our
communication pathways.
Soon all problems, even fatal ones are hidden from top management. Oblivious
managers lie about things being all-well. Systems of metrics, surveillance and
modelling lie too, because the entire organisation is now mobilised around
making them lie. The organisation becomes fat, dumb and happy. But junk
technology is not made to nourish and satisfy. Digital solutionism means always
consuming more. The next update. The next security fix.
“Once upon a time being a university sysadmin was a high accolade. Few jobs
were as challenging and diverse.”Returning to the question of what can be done,
I will go much further here; In academia, the conceits of centralised network
governance and common policies have failed. Spectacularly. They are a race to
the bottom of cheaply outsourced junk-food that bleeds control from those who
should hold it. Most of all there is a profound competence problem, which
companies like Microsoft and Google are exploiting to the hilt.
Once upon a time being a university sysadmin was a high accolade. Few jobs were
as challenging and diverse. The ability to install, configure and run a mail
server, multiple web servers and a network with thousands of nodes and
thousands of password logins was a badge of professional pride. It meant
running a heterogeneous network of Sun, Silicon Graphics, Apple, Windows, and
specialised hardware while supporting academics in their selection,
installation and self-directed usage of diverse software. Professors in the
maths, physics, economics and computing departments would regularly write and
deploy their own software! Like a good librarian, even if the sysadmin did not
understand all those subjects, she at least had to be able to talk to the
academics.
“The disconnect between the official theoretical syllabus and daily practice is
immense. Today my university could not afford to hire my own graduates for
roles currently occupied by people I would fail if they were my students.”Today
that role is unrecognisable. Not because technology “got better”, but because
we all got a lot dumber and more dependent on click-box cloud technology. We
don’t own or really understand it now. We have a shrugging, negative
permissions culture. The first position is to assume nothing can be done.
The disconnect between the official theoretical syllabus and daily practice is
immense. Today my university could not afford to hire my own graduates for
roles currently occupied by people I would fail if they were my students.
Much of what we teach is in fact obsolete because, if the standards of our own
institutions are anything to go by, nobody actually needs to know how anything
really works. The reality is they’d be better off doing a Microsoft Azure,
Amazon AWS or Google Cloud certificate for a tenth of the price and spend the
rest of their careers clicking on drop-down menus with meaningless brand names.
The skill-set of educational ICT has been eviscerated.
“What that means is that it no longer the academics who decide what research
and teaching can or cannot happen. Nor its it deans and vice-chancellors. It is
Microsoft and Google.”Most egregiously, the highest levels have been staffed
not by experienced administrators with an understanding of the demands and
complexities of a university network, but by “industry dropouts” who bring
toxic corporate buzzwords and hostile values into an institution that requires
curious, tactful consultation, openness, trust and cooperation.
What that means is that it no longer the academics who decide what research and
teaching can or cannot happen. Nor its it deans and vice-chancellors. It is
Microsoft and Google. Their minions, installed within our universities are now
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(ℹ) Images, hyperlinks and comments at http://techrights.org/2022/12/30/offloading-liabilities/#comments
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Gemini_version_available_♊︎
✐ Symptoms_of_an_Impending_Bankruptcy?⠀✐
Posted in Deception, Finance, Free/Libre_Software at 3:26 am by Dr. Roy
Schestowitz
Video_download_link | md5sum 40e0b150595f3d35232a867e7c02391f
The Sirius Implosion
Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 4.0
http://techrights.org/videos/sirius-imploding.webm
Summary: The situation at Sirius has gotten really bad; there are well overdue
invoices, dodgy address changes, and recently a major client (oldest client)
suffered a very major outage after Sirius had racked up thousands of pounds in
unpaid hosting bills
THE above video deals with this morning’s part as well as yesterday’s part.
Some of the symptoms we’ve been seeing lately suggest that Sirius_‘Open_Source’
might be heading towards bankruptcy/insolvency/administration (tomorrow’s part
is entitled “Successful Bankruptcy”).
“When a company starts debt-loading or offloading liabilities to other parties
(public companies, upstream suppliers, private clients, staff) it’s certainly
time to demand what you’re entitled to and go away.”A company that fails to pay
bills and is making up excuses/pretexts to deny severance is a company that
does not care about its future. A recent example of this was Elon Musk at
Twitter. When a company starts debt-loading or offloading liabilities to other
parties (public companies, upstream suppliers, private clients, staff) it’s
certainly time to demand what you’re entitled to and go away. My wife and I
left this month and the video above is part of a long story we must tell,
ensuring others are forewarned (not about Sirius alone; other companies behave
similarly sometimes). █
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✐ [Meme]_The_Koala_Nightmare⠀✐
Posted in Australia, Deception, Free/Libre_Software, Law at 12:08 am by Dr. Roy
Schestowitz
🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽⦇Sirius_UK_CEO,_Andrew_Bucknor;_Koala:I'll_always_remember⦈
Summary: Haunted by burning_koalas, the ‘UK’ CEO of Sirius_‘Open_Source’
belatedly realises his mistake; maybe he should not be using animal charities
as ‘evidence’ in a witch-hunt next time… (if he finds another job)
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§ Contents⠀➾
* GNU/Linux
o Audiocasts/Shows
o Applications
o Instructionals/Technical
o Games
* Distributions_and_Operating_Systems
o New_Releases
o Devices/Embedded
o Open_Hardware/Modding
* Leftovers
o Science
o Hardware
o Health/Nutrition/Agriculture
o Security
# Privacy/Surveillance
o Defence/Aggression
o Transparency/Investigative_Reporting
o Environment
# Energy
# Wildlife/Nature
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 Digital_Restrictions_(DRM)
o Monopolies
# Copyrights
* Gemini*_and_Gopher
o Technical
* § GNU/Linux⠀➾
o § Audiocasts/Shows⠀➾
# ⚓ Jupiter Broadcasting ☛ Jellyfin_January_|_Self-Hosted_87⠀⇛
We kick off our Jellyfin January challenge and
invite you to join us. Plus, Chris has some new
hardware and our thoughts on the trouble at the
Matrix foundation.
o § Applications⠀➾
# ⚓ OMG! Linux ☛ HandBrake_1.6_Released_with_AV1_Video_Encoding
Support_–_OMG!_Linux⠀⇛
A major update to HandBrake, a popular, cross-
platform and open-source video transcoder (and then
some), has been released.
HandBrake 1.6.0 is a notable release as it is the
first version of the app to support AV1 video
encoding. AV1 is a new, open-source video codec
that many hope will supplant H.264 as the go-to
video standard in the future — momentum its
inclusion here is sure to add to.
Also new in this release is high bit depth and
color depth support for many of HandBrake’s
existing encoders and filters. Additionally, there
are new 4K AV1 General, QSV, and MKV presets;
renamed web presets; and VP8 presets removed (as
VP8 is RIP).
o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾
# ⚓ LinuxConfig ☛ How_to_mount_a_remote_filesystem_over_SSH
with_sshfs⠀⇛
SSH (Secure Shell) is a protocol used to establish
an encrypted connection with a remote machine using
a client-server model: the ssh server runs on the
machine we want to access remotely, while a client
is used on the machines from which we want to
connect. Thanks to sshfs, we can use an existing
SSH connection to mount a remote directory in a
secure way, without using additional services like
NFS or Samba.
# ⚓ Geetu R Vaswani ☛ How_to_create_and_use_LUKS_encrypted
partition_in_Linux⠀⇛
It is easy to create a LUKS container and a
partition within it, using the GUI on Linux. The
application that enables this easily is the gnome-
disk-utility. However, if you want to use the
command line to set up a LUKS encrypted device,
read on.
Exercise appropriate caution before doing any of
the below with appropriate safeguards as they can
result in permanent data loss.
# ⚓ Unix Men ☛ How_To_Calculate_Ip_Subnet_Address_with_Ipcalc⠀⇛
If you’re working with Linux machines and want to
manage a network, the bottom line is that you will
need to get a handle on subnetting.
Subnetting involves breaking down networks into
much smaller networks. This helps improve routing
efficiency and prevent network-wide threats from
taking them down.
Managing subnetting requires calculating the subnet
mask, which demands that binary math be performed
with the IP address. This is where the ipcalc
command comes in.
# ⚓ OMG! Linux ☛ Make_Firefox_Look_Like_a_Native_GTK_App_–
Here’s_How_–_OMG!_Linux⠀⇛
Mozilla Firefox is great: it’s free, open source
software that works well, is updated often, and
looks great on every Linux distro out there,
regardless of desktop environment.
But did you know you can make Firefox look more at
home on the GNOME desktop?
Yup, you can — all thanks to the Firefox GNOME
Theme project!
In this post I detail just how dramatic this theme
is; how you can install it on your system; and
mention few additional tweaks you can make to
complete the transformation.
# ⚓ RoseHosting ☛ How_to_Install_Shopware_on_Ubuntu_22.04_–
RoseHosting⠀⇛
Shopware Community Edition (CE) is a free and open-
source e-commerce application. It is an alternative
to another e-commerce application, Magento or
Prestashop. Shopware is a very powerful and
flexible application. It is built on a number of
symphony framework components developed in PhpStorm
through the core features and its plugins. In this
tutorial, we will show you how to install Shopware
Community Edition (CE) on a fresh Ubuntu 22.04.
# ⚓ H2S Media ☛ Adduser_Command_usage_in_Linux_with_Examples_–
Linux_Shout⠀⇛
Adding users in Linux using the graphical interface
is an easy task. But what about the command line?
There are many users who either have only CLI or
prefer to use commands for adding a new user.
We can use the adduser command to create new users.
With adduser, not only the user itself is created,
but also the other necessary settings are made,
such as creating a home directory, assigning the
user to a group, setting the login shell, etc.
Although it a command line command, but the
creation of the user is interactive.
adduser is typical for all distributions based on
Debian, RedHat, and other Linux. Let’s see how to
install and use it.
# ⚓ UNIX Cop ☛ How_to_install_Pix_(Linux_Mint_X-app)_on_Ubuntu
22.04⠀⇛
Although I don’t use Linux Mint nowadays, I must
admit that your X-Apps are great. Simple, stable,
and efficient, they are more than enough for
everyone. However, the one I like is Pix. So, today
you will learn how to install Pix (Linux Mint X-
app) on Ubuntu 22.04.
# ⚓ DebugPoint ☛ How_to_Install_MX_Linux_Step-by-Step_Guide
[Ed: Updated today]⠀⇛
MX Linux is a Debian-based systemd-free
distribution that primarily targets lightweight and
older hardware. It became popular recently due to
its unique native app tools, stability, active
development and a nice community of users & devs.
MX Linux currently features Xfce, KDE Plasma and
Fluxbox for desktops. The Debian-stable base
provides the ultimate stability. Moreover, it also
provides a 32-bit installer for that older
hardware.
A simple tutorial shows how to install the popular
lightweight distribution MX Linux as a standalone
system, dual-boot and in VM.
o § Games⠀➾
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Some_of_the_best_Steam_Deck_games_in_2022⠀⇛
Here’s my own take on a top list of games to check
out for Steam Deck that were released in some form
in 2022, or had a major update to improve them.
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Steam_Deck_OS_update_fixes_factory_reset,
Forza_Horizon_5_OS_update_in_Preview⠀⇛
Valve have released two small updates to the Steam
Deck OS (SteamOS) and here’s what’s new and
improved.
# ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ A_round-up_of_what_was_popular_on
GamingOnLinux_in_2022⠀⇛
Here’s an end of year 2022 round-up of some of the
most-read articles on GamingOnLinux that I’ve
picked out, just in case you missed any! As a
reminder: you can follow the main article RSS feed,
and every article category tag also has an RSS feed
too!
# ⚓ Video ☛ Microsoft_♥_Steam_Deck._*Ominous_musical_sting*_–
Invidious [Ed: Dumb, harmful, and misleading clickbait from a
Valve shill]⠀⇛
* § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾
o ⚓ Linuxiac ☛ 5_Best_Linux_Distro_Releases_for_Servers_in_2022:_Our
Top_Picks⠀⇛
Although Linux has grown in popularity on the desktop,
its real strength and power remain on the server front,
where the OS is the sole leader. And, because the year is
ending, we’ve compiled a list of the best server Linux
distro releases in 2022.
So, if you’re in the market for a reliable and high-
performing Linux distro for your server, you’re in luck!
There are many excellent options, and we’ve rounded up
the top 5 in this list. Each of these distros has its
strengths and features, making them stand out as the best
choices for servers in 2022.
o § New Releases⠀➾
# ⚓ DebugPoint ☛ Vanilla_OS_22.10_“Kinetic”_Debuts_with
Groundbreaking_Release⠀⇛
Vanilla OS’s maiden release is finally out,
bringing a new way of computing with Linux
distribution. It has been under development and
followed by a closed beta for the last few months.
And finally, the team officially released Vanilla
OS 22.10 “Kinetic” as their first-ever release.
Vanilla OS makes its much-anticipated maiden debut
with its first release: Vanilla OS 22.10.
Here’s what’s new.
# ⚓ It’s FOSS ☛ Vanilla_OS_Stable_Release_Has_Landed!⠀⇛
Previously, they had also announced that they would
use the ‘Jade’ installer from the Crystal Linux
team.
But, they changed their mind and opted to build the
‘Vanilla Installer’ on top of their existing
‘Vanilla First Setup’ project.
# ⚓ Let’s_Rock!_Arch!_–_Ultimate_Edition⠀⇛
It was a huge educational tour for me, yes I have
it installed. I modified Repostorm to convert
software as well as make it build repositories,
multiple at that.
o § Devices/Embedded⠀➾
# ⚓ OMG! Linux ☛ Pine64_Announce_a_PineTab_2_is_Coming_Next
Year_–_OMG!_Linux⠀⇛
If you’ve been pining (heh) for a souped-up, super-
fast Linux tablet running on open source software,
Pine64 have you covered.
Today, Pine64 announced the PineTab2 – a successor
to its original PineTab Linux tablet released in
2018.
Not that many people were able to buy the PineTab.
Major supply chain disruptions owing to the
pandemic (and the ensuring knock-on effects
thereof) made it nigh-on-impossible for Pine64 to
source the components and manufacturing slots
needed to produce it.
But forget all that; that’s old news.
# ⚓ CNX Software ☛ Khadas_VIM1S_review_–_Ubuntu_22.04_tested_on
an_Amlogic_S905Y4_SBC⠀⇛
In this review of Khadas VIM1S SBC, we’ll install
Ubuntu 22.04, and report our experience testing the
performance such as memory speed and eMMC flash
performance, and 3D graphics capabilities.
Just like Khadas VIM4 and Edge2, the Khadas VIM1S
SBC ships with the OOWOW firmware that allows easy
installation of operating systems by downloading
the images, and flashing them directly to the eMMC
flash. You need just to connect a monitor and a USB
keyboard and have an Internet connection through
either LAN or Wi-Fi. Let’s start by installing
Ubuntu 22.04 on Khadas VIM1S together.
If no OS is installed, OOWOW will boot
automatically, but if there’s already another OS
installed, you can press and hold the Function
button, press the Reset button, and release the
Function button. After a few seconds, the OOWOW
Wizard as shown in the picture below should show
up. If an Ethernet cable is not connected, we can
select Network to configure Wi-Fi as the
installation process requires downloading an image
from Khadas servers.
# ⚓ Linux Links ☛ BrosTrend_Linux_WiFi_Adapter_AC1200_AC3L
Review⠀⇛
This review looks at the BrosTrend Linux USB WiFi
Adapter AC1200 (AC3L). Unlike most Wi-Fi sellers,
BrosTrend provide Linux support for Ubuntu and
Ubuntu-based distros. Their Wi-Fi adapter chipsets
and drivers are developed by Realtek.
The AC3L retails for around £36 ($41). You get the
Wi-Fi adapter, 2 omni-directional Wi-Fi antenna
with a gain of 5dBi, a USB 3.0 cradle with 5 foot
USB extension cable. There’s a CD with driver and
manual (not for Linux systems), and a quick
installation guide (paper).
# ⚓ Linux Gizmos ☛ Xiaomi_first_Mini_PC_features_12th_Gen_Intel
Core_i5⠀⇛
The XM22AL5S is Xiaomi’s first Mini PC featuring
the i5 1240 processor (12-Cores/16-Threads). The
device is equipped with one 2.5GbE LAN port, 2x
Thunderbolt 4 ports, 2x HDMI ports, an active
cooling system and WiFi6/Bluetooth 5.3.
o § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ A_Fun_Low-Cost_Start_For_Your_Macropad_Hobby⠀⇛
If you were ever looking for a small relaxing
evening project that you could then use day-to-day,
you gotta consider the Pico Hat Pad kit by [Natalie
the Nerd]. It fits squarely within the Pi Pico
form-factor, giving you two buttons, one rotary
encoder and two individually addressable LEDs to
play with. Initially, this macropad was intended as
an under-$20 device that’s also a soldering
practice kit, and [Natalie] has knocked it out of
the park.
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Pi-Cast_Adds_ATX_Signalling_To_KVM⠀⇛
A KVM is a great tool for administering a number of
different computers without cluttering one’s desk
with extra peripherals, or for having to re-connect
the keyboard, video, and mouse to each new machine
as needed. For local administration this can save a
ton of time and headache. For remote
administration, though, a virtual KVM is needed,
and although these solutions are pricey it’s
possible to build one around a Raspberry Pi for a
fraction of the cost. This one adds even more
functionality by also switching the ATX signals
from the motherboard and simplifying cable
management to boot.
* § Leftovers⠀➾
o ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ My_Favorites_of_2022⠀⇛
I’m really not a big fan of these “best of” lists, but of
all the new arts entertainment (or edutainment as KRS-One
would say) I consumed this past year, here’s what helped
me most in wading through the radioactive waste of 2022.
o ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Unmediated_Community_–_Ten_Years_of_The_Invisible
Army⠀⇛
I do not and have never used a smartphone.
Before you continue reading, I’d like you to stop and
ponder that for a moment. Think about how much of your
everyday life is now integrated into this machine.
o ⚓ Mexico News Daily ☛ Poinsettia,_from_obscure_Mexican_weed_to_the
‘Christmas_flower’⠀⇛
However, the poinsettia was still largely unknown in the
United States. But all that changed in the early 1900s.
German emigrant Albert Ecke started a commercial orchard
in California in 1909, the Ecke Family Ranch, to
cultivate the plant. He started sending free poinsettias
to decorate on-air broadcast sets of television studios
for the holidays. His plan paid off, and millions began
to associate poinsettias with Christmas.
o ⚓ GO Media ☛ Andrew_Tate_Arrested_for_Human_Trafficking_in_Romania
After_Pizza_Box_Gave_Away_His_Location⠀⇛
A Twitter spat that misogynist social media personality
Andrew Tate started with 19-year-old climate activist
Greta Thunberg over his masculinity led Romanian
authorities to arrest him and his brother, Tristan, for
human trafficking and rape on Thursday, according to
local media and police.
Tate taunted Thunberg on Twitter about the carbon
emissions of his 33 cars, to which Thunberg replied with
a joke about “small dick energy” that racked up millions
of likes. Tate then posted a humiliating 2-minute video
of himself smoking a cigar in a robe and insisting that
he was not at all owned by the teenager. The video
prominently featured two boxes of pizza from a local
shop, which reportedly tipped off authorities to his
whereabouts.
o ⚓ BBC ☛ Andrew_Tate_detained_in_Romania_over_rape_and_human
trafficking_case⠀⇛
Rumours had swirled online that police had been tipped
off to Mr Tate’s presence in the country after he posted
a video taking aim at the environmental activist Greta
Thunberg. However, this is not believed to be the case.
In the footage he posted, he was handed a pizza box from
a local restaurant, which some users suggested had
inadvertently revealed his location to officers.
o ⚓ Drew Schuster ☛ sup⠀⇛
We quickly discovered a few interesting characteristics
of net send that could be used for some silliness. For
one, the alert dialog that opened up stole keyboard focus
and was generally disruptive. You could spam as many net
send commands as you wanted and the alerts would just
pile up on a user’s screen, with no clear way to dismiss
them all. We took advantage of this by mashing up and
enter as well as writing batch scripts to render our
friends’ computers useless. Eventually a tense truce was
called, when we found out that receiving a net send
message while playing the hidden copy of Unreal
Tournament GOTY we had installed on the school network
would temporarily take the player out of the game for
just long enough to be killed in a critical moment.
The most creative exploit we came up with for net send
was on students (and teachers) who weren’t yet aware of
the feature. We had the ability to open an official
windows alert on anyone’s machine, and at a glance it
wasn’t obvious these messages were coming from another
computer on the network. We started sending messages like
“Critical Error: Please Restart Your Computer
Immediately” and would watch with glee as our victim
sighed deeply before restarting their computer.
o ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ In_New_Year’s_Address,_UN_Chief_Says_‘We_Need
Peace,_Now_More_Than_Ever’⠀⇛
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres on
Wednesday beseeched humanity to “make 2023 a year when
peace is restored to our lives, our homes, and our
world,” a message that came as dozens of wars and armed
conflicts rage around the world.
o ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ United_Nations_Chief_António_Guterres_Begs_the_World
for_Peace_in_2023⠀⇛
Brett Wilkins reports on the United Nations Secretary
General António Guterres’ poignant and urgent New Year’s
address.
o ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ Are_Peace_Talks_Possible?_Prof._Gilbert_Achcar_on
Whether_Russia_&_Ukraine_Can_Negotiate_End_to_War⠀⇛
The war in Ukraine is now in its 11th month, and Russia
unleashed a new bombardment this week of cities across
the country, including the capital Kyiv. This comes as
both Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Russian
President Vladimir Putin have expressed a willingness to
negotiate an end to the war — but their positions remain
so far apart that there are no real hopes of peace talks,
says longtime antiwar activist, author and international
relations scholar Gilbert Achcar. “For now, both sides
are just probably betting on being able to achieve more
on the ground and not really serious about a ceasefire
and negotiations under the present conditions,” he says.
o ⚓ The Nation ☛ We_Lost_Barbara_Ehrenreich_in_2022,_but_We_Can’t
Lose_Sight_of_Her_Visionary_American_Socialism⠀⇛
Barbara Ehrenreich was every good thing that was said
about her, and more. The visionary author and activist,
who died in 2022 at age 81, was, as her September New
York Times obituary reminded us, America’s great
“explorer of prosperity’s dark side.” With Fear of
Falling: The Inner Life of the Middle Class (1989),
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America (2001),
and Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American
Dream (2005), Ehrenreich developed a fact-based critique
of contemporary capitalism that was brilliantly
researched and appropriately acerbic—as were the
articles, essays, speeches, and media appearances that
made her not just a tireless reporter but also a vital
social commentator.
o ⚓ Meduza ☛ Composer_Eduard_Artemyev_has_died_—_Meduza⠀⇛
Soviet and Russian composer Eduard Artemyev passed away
at 86 years old.
o ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Robot_Rebellion_Brings_Back_BBC_Camera_Operators⠀⇛
The modern TV news studio is a masterpiece of live video
and CGI, as networks vie for the flashiest presentation.
BBC News in London is no exception, and embraced the
future in 2013 to the extent of replacing its flesh-and-
blood camera operators with robotic cameras. On the face
of it this made sense; it was cheaper, and newsroom
cameras are most likely to record as set range of very
similar shots. A decade later they’re to be retired in a
victory for humans, as the corporation tires of the
stream of viral fails leaving presenters scrambling to
catch up.
o ⚓ The Nation ☛ New_Year_Wishes⠀⇛
o ⚓ TruthOut ☛ New_York_Prosecutors_Open_Investigation_Into
Representative-Elect_George_Santos⠀⇛
o ⚓ Hackaday ☛ A_Nomadic_Chair⠀⇛
There’s no shortage of different types of folding or
portable chairs, but designer [Jorge Penadés] built a
backpack chair that will go the long haul.
o ⚓ Hackaday ☛ The_Sweetest_Glue_In_The_World⠀⇛
Perhaps we’re not alone in having a penchant for gummy
sweets, but we have to admit to never following the train
of thought shared by [Lost Art Press]. Upon finding that
a hide glue ingredient was raw gelatin obtained from a
confectionery company, they stored away the knowledge and
eventually tried making some glue using Haribo Goldbears
from a gas station.
o ⚓ Hackaday ☛ 2022_FPV_Contest:_Turbo_Super_Submarine⠀⇛
The projects featured on these pages frequently rule the
air, the ground, the rails, and even the waves, but very
rarely do they rule the deep. Building a submarine is
hard, and thus it’s a challenge not taken on by all but
the most courageous of builders. This hasn’t discouraged
[Timo] though, who has embarked on the construction of
what is shaping up to be a very nice underwater ROV
build.
o § Science⠀➾
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ The_Rise_and_Rise_of_Artificiality⠀⇛
it’s a strange world getting stranger each day
viruses coming out of the closet păthos rising from
marshes to posit terror, and help us throw it all
away.
on the planet with the only known life in the
universe, humans are fading artificial beings are
persuading and the mad piper is playing his fife.
o § Hardware⠀➾
# ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Debugging_Laser_Cut_Wobble,_The_Scientific_Way⠀⇛
[PWalsh] was using his lasercutter to cut acrylic,
expecting the cuts to have a pleasantly smooth
edge. Alas, the edges turned out to be wobbly and
sandpaper-like, not smooth in the slightnest.
Bummer! Internet suggested a stepper motor swap,
but not much in the way of insights – and that
would’ve been a royal pain for sure. How would you
approach debugging such a problem? Well, [PWalsh]
didn’t want to swap crucial components willy-nilly,
going the scientific way instead, and breaks it
down for us.
o § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾
# ⚓ VOA News ☛ US_Lawsuit_Claims_Pharma_Distributor_Worsened
Opioid_Epidemic⠀⇛
The U.S. Justice Department is suing one of the
largest U.S. drug distributors for failing to
report suspicious orders of prescription opioids,
saying the company’s “years of repeated violations”
contributed to the deadly U.S. opioid epidemic.
In a civil lawsuit filed Thursday, the department
alleges that AmerisourceBergen and two subsidiaries
violated the Controlled Substances Act by failing
to report “at least hundreds of thousands” of
suspicious orders for prescription painkillers to
the Drug Enforcement Administration.
The department is seeking potentially billions of
dollars in penalties.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Big_Pharma_and_GOP_Allies_Aim_to_Sabotage
Medicare_Drug_Price_Reforms⠀⇛
The pharmaceutical industry and its Republican
allies in Congress are openly signaling their plans
obstruct at every turn as the Biden administration
looks to begin implementing a recently passed law
that will allow Medicare to negotiate drug prices
for the first time in its history.
# ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Big_Pharma_and_GOP_Open_About_Plans_to_Obstruct
Medicare_Drug_Price_Reforms⠀⇛
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Architects_of_Medicare_Privatization:
Congress,_Biden_and_the_CMS⠀⇛
It is easy and appropriate to target the private
health insurance companies who earn excessive
profits from the Medicare Trust Fund through
Medicare Advantage plans, especially given the
well-documented evidence of overcharging and fraud.
But it is essential that we remember that it has
been the U.S. Congress and the Executive Office
that promoted the privatization of Medicare, to
varying degrees, since it was first signed into law
by President Johnson in 1965 and enacted the
following year.
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ University_Of_Oklahoma_The_Latest_To_Issue_A
Performative_Ban_Of_TikTok⠀⇛
Pretending that you’re actually fixing the world’s
privacy and national security issues by banning
TikTok is just so very hot right now. Numerous
states have passed new rules banning TikTok on
government employee devices. And Marco Rubio has
proposed a federal law that would ban TikTok unless
ByteDance is willing to sell the popular app to an
American company (presumably GOP-aligned Oracle).
# ⚓ ABC ☛ Indiana_blocks_Chinese-owned_app_TikTok_from_state
devices⠀⇛
The blockage came on the same day that Indiana’s
attorney general sued TikTok, claiming the video-
sharing platform misleads its users, particularly
children, about the level of inappropriate content
and security of consumer information.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ DOJ_Suit_Accuses_Major_Drug_Distributor_of
Fueling_US_Opioid_Crisis⠀⇛
The Biden administration on Thursday filed suit
against one of the nation’s largest pharmaceutical
distributors, AmerisourceBergen, and two of its
subsidiaries for allegedly violating federal law
and contributing to the opioid epidemic.
# ⚓ Pro Publica ☛ How_Fraud_Increases_Medicare_Spending_on
COVID-19_Testing⠀⇛
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to churn,
Medicare spending on testing for the virus
continued to increase in 2022 and is outpacing the
two prior years.
Through Oct. 31, Medicare had spent $2 billion on
COVID-19 tests in 2022, an amount that will surpass
last year’s total as claims are filed, according to
new data provided to ProPublica by CareSet, a
research organization that works to make the health
care system more transparent.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ House_Dems_Say_FDA_‘Inappropriately
Collaborated’_With_Biogen_on_New_Alzheimer’s_Drug⠀⇛
Nearly two years after a leading U.S. consumer
advocacy group sounded the alarm on the matter,
House Democrats released a report Thursday showing
the Food and Drug Administration and pharma giant
Biogen “inappropriately collaborated” prior to the
controversial approval of a new $28,000-per-year
Alzheimer’s drug of questionable efficacy.
o § Security⠀➾
# ⚓ Krebs On Security ☛ Happy_13th_Birthday,_KrebsOnSecurity!⠀⇛
KrebsOnSecurity turns 13 years old today. That’s a
crazy long time for an independent media outlet
these days, but then again I’m bound to keep doing
this as long as they keep letting me. Heck, I’ve
been doing this so long I briefly forgot which
birthday this was!
# § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾
# ⚓ NPR ☛ A_U.K._medical_office_mistakenly_sent_patients
a_text_message_with_a_cancer_diagnosis⠀⇛
About 20 minutes later, the “NHS-NoReply”
number messaged: “Please accept our sincere
apologies for the previous text message sent.
This has been sent in error. Our message to
you should have read We wish you a very merry
Christmas and a Happy New Year.”
# ⚓ EFF ☛ Surveillance_in_San_Francisco:_2022_in_Review⠀⇛
Unfortunately, San Francisco took a wrong
turn in 2022. Over objections of many
community groups, the Board of Supervisors
passed temporary legislation allowing police
to get live access to private security
cameras to address any crime, no matter how
minor. We’ll be back in 2024, when the
ordinance sunsets, to demand that the city
not restart this surveillance program.
The prolonged fight began in early 2022 with
the threat of dueling ballot measures on
whether to strengthen or weaken the
surveillance control ordinance. A coalition
came together, and the measures were
withdrawn. Then the fight shifted to a new
proposed ordinance to authorize a specific
surveillance ordinance. The bill would allow
police to request live access from the owner
of any private security camera for up to 24
hours after an alleged crime, as well as
during any “significant events.”
The SFPD’s proposal allowed the police to
access thousands of private surveillance
cameras,including those outside of residences
and businesses, as well as the massive
surveillance camera networks of the many
Business Improvement Districts and Community
Benefit Districts in various neighborhoods
around the city. Before the new legislation,
police could only request historical footage
from these cameras. But this new proposal
gave police the power to live monitor
“significant events”—defined to include any
“large or high-profile event,” implicating
people exercising their First Amendment
rights during protests or religious
gatherings. The concern was far from
hypothetical: EFF and the ACLU of Northern
California sued the city after SFPD accessed
a business district’s camera network to
monitor protests for 8 days following the
police murder of George Floyd in the summer
of 2020.
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Phone_Malware_Company_Linked_To_Greek
Domestic_Surveillance_Scandal_Raided_By_Law
Enforcement⠀⇛
NSO Group isn’t the only phone malware firm
to draw international attention. Sure, NSO’s
decision to sell to human rights abusers and
aid/abet surveillance of journalists,
lawyers, government critics, and political
leaders drew the most attention, but there
were others. And all of these malware
purveyors seem to have sprung from the same
source: spies whose last employer was the
Israeli government.
o § Defence/Aggression⠀➾
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Russia_fires_new_wave_of_missiles_across_Ukraine
Thousands_are_without_power_in_Kyiv,_Lviv,_and_beyond_after
Moscow’s_latest_attack_—_Meduza⠀⇛
On the morning of December 29, the Russian army
launched another round of shelling attacks on
Ukraine. Air raid alerts were issued for all of
Ukraine’s regions. Before the shelling began,
Ukrainian presidential advisor Oleksiy Arestovich
reported that Russia was expected to fire about 100
missiles over multiple waves. His colleague
Mykhailo Podolyak later said that the country had
actually been targeted by 120 missiles, though
after the shelling stopped, the Ukrainian General
Staff reported that the total number of missiles
was 69. According to Mykolaiv Regional Governor
Vitalii Kim, in addition to missiles, Russia also
used Iranian drones to attack Ukraine’s territory.
The previous massive shelling attack against
Ukraine occurred on December 16.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Lavrov_rejects_Zelensky’s_‘peace_formula,’
questioning_his_sanity_—_Meduza⠀⇛
Russia is rejecting the 10-step peace plan proposed
by the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, said
Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in an interview to
the state-run RIA Novosti. In his own words,
# ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Can_Russia_and_Ukraine_Negotiate_an_End_to_War
Amid_New_Wave_of_Strikes?⠀⇛
# ⚓ TruthOut ☛ January_6_Committee_Withdraws_Trump_Subpoena⠀⇛
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Underwhelmed:_Some_Predictable_Silences_in
the_U.S._House_Select_Committee_Report_on_January_6th⠀⇛
What to make of the Final Report of the US House
Select Committee on the January 6th Attack on the
US Capitol (hereafter “the report”)?
Let’s start with the good news – the discovery,
telling, and re-telling of some basic truths. The
report shows beyond serious doubt that the wannabe
fascist strongman Donald Trump was the “the
central cause” of the insurrection. “None of the
events of Jan. 6,” the committee rightly found,
“would have happened without him.”
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Life_After_Trump⠀⇛
What I find so hopelessly frustrating about the
January 6th inquiry is this. Yes, it is no doubt
true that Trump, his cohorts and a sizable amount,
if not the entire Republican Party is corrupt,
quite likely criminal in nature as well but
definitely complicit in corruption and in the
defense of Trump and his actions. Yes, Trump and
his cohorts should be tried and punished in that so
rare of things, a just and fair manner, and we as a
nation should be able to put this whole affair, the
Trump era that is, behind us
Yes, the American democratic experiment is at stake
as we so often hear these days. But the threat to
our democracy is from both sides of the aisle (oh
the irony) and a “turning point”, as they also like
to say, may have been reached (really?). But will
prosecuting a number of the January 6th rioters or
even the “Orange One” himself bring much real
satisfaction and save our democracy? I think not.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Faith_Leaders_Say_Jan._6_Committee_Report
Downplays_Role_of_Christian_Nationalism⠀⇛
In an effort to fill in what they say are critical
gaps in the U.S. House select committee’s report on
the January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol,
faith leaders are pushing the corporate media and
the American public to confront the role Christian
nationalism played in the insurrection, warning
that ignoring the link could make similar violence
more likely in the future.
# ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Jan._6_Transcripts_Show_Trump_Wanted_“Blanket
Pardon”_for_Capitol_Attackers⠀⇛
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ The_January_6_Committee’s_‘Crime_and
Punishment’⠀⇛
The most surprising thing about the final report of
the U.S. House Select Committee to Investigate the
January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol
isn’t the mountain of evidence of Donald Trump’s
criminality that it contains nor the criminal
referrals it makes to the Justice Department, but
its readability. According to The New York Times,
at least a half dozen publishing houses are
releasing their own editions of the 845-page tome.
On a December 22 broadcast, MSNBC host Lawrence
O’Donnell nailed it when he remarked, “This is the
way a great novelist would lay out this story.”
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ White_Supremacy_and_January_6:_What’s
Missing_from_the_Congressional_Report⠀⇛
In the run-up to the two-year anniversary of
January 6th (J6), the United States House Select
Committee on the January 6 Attack has released a
new report highlighting some troubling realities
regarding Donald Trump’s failed insurrection.
Unfortunately, it falls short in exposing the
extent of the threat of rising white supremacy in
America. At a whopping 814 pages, the report is
incredibly thorough in documenting what happened on
J6 and Trump’s role in stoking a failed coup. The
report blames “one man” for the insurrection,
emphasizing a “multi-part conspiracy” on the former
president’s part to overturn the lawful results of
the 2020 presidential election.” Those who’ve paid
close attention to news reporting in the wake of
the J6 attack are unlikely to be surprised by any
of the committee’s major findings. Some of the most
detailed scholarship on this matter (see here and
here) has already sketched out the story of J6,
which is reinforced in this report, including the
following:
One of the recommendations from the J6 committee is
that Trump should be prosecuted for his actions in
relation to the insurrection and failed coup. As
the report states:
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ BlackRock_Accused_of_‘Trying_to_Cash_In_On
the_Disaster’_With_Ukraine_Reconstruction_Deal⠀⇛
Investment behemoth BlackRock was accused Thursday
of what author Naomi Klein termed “disaster
capitalism” after war-ravaged Ukraine’s president
announced he would work with the firm to coordinate
foreign investment in the country’s reconstruction.
# ⚓ The Gray Zone ☛ Declassified_intelligence_files_expose
inconvenient_truths_of_Bosnian_war⠀⇛
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ The_Kremlin_Goes_Neocon⠀⇛
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Wars_and_More_Wars:_The_Sorry_U.S._History
in_the_Middle_East⠀⇛
The American republic morphed well over a century
ago into an empire of many endless wars. With U.S.
troops still in Syria, Iraq, Somalia and numerous
African countries, with over 800 military bases in
more than 70 countries and a war budget of roughly
one trillion dollars a year, it’s no surprise that
one of our main exports is weapons and that arms
merchants call the shots in Washington. Presidents
come and go, but the wars don’t: they drag on. And
when a president does manage to extract the country
from one of these military quagmires, as Biden did
in Afghanistan, he gets nothing but grief.
This only serves to encourage barbarity – like
freezing Afghanistan’s $7 billion in the bank,
while Afghans starve due to the U.S. having bombed
their country back almost to the stone age. Afghans
need their funds. They have an absolute moral right
to them, as most of the world recognizes, because
famine kills them in greater numbers without those
monies. Indeed, after the U.S. military departure,
reparations would have seemed to be in order. But
no. Washington just stole their money and walked
away.
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ The_Radioactive_Legacy_of_the_Cold_War⠀⇛
That the world hasn’t been the same since the
ignition of the Atomic Age in the 1940s is
certainly an understatement, yet the public’s
awareness of how the nuclear industry operates has
always been dismally low. Secrecy has played a part
— especially in relation to bomb-making activities
— but so too has the establishment news media,
which focuses on individual events and sidelines
institutional factors. So an accident is news (if
it’s not covered up), but not the regular practices
or misguided motivations that led to it, even
though they were ultimately responsible.
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ The_Dialogic_of_Violence⠀⇛
The word “dialogic” refers to the logic of
dialogue. Dialogue is more than just two people
talking “at” each other – you know, throwing
opinions around like candy. “Dialogue” refers to an
exchange of ideas. Opinions just come and go. But
in dialogue, ideas address each other. Underlying
each statement in a dialogue is the (often
unspoken) question, “why do you think what you just
said is so, or even meaningful, to either of us?”
It is the fact that participants can answer that
question as their exchange proceeds that drives
each dialogue to new and more insightful ideas
(about whatever they are talking about). The ethics
of that question provide inclusion in mutual
reasoning and the building of thought; it enables
each participant to reach into the universe of the
other, which makes both bigger. It brings people
together. The luxury of throwing around opinion-
candy leaves one isolated in what just tastes good
personally.
Crime is not an opinion. And neither is police
brutality. Both are forms of social violence for
which the gnawing question silently lurks: “why are
you doing this?” Though it asks for reasons, the
act of violence never goes beyond its raw
existence. It simply violates. Period. Whatever the
robber is responding to in his past, or in his
situation, the meaning of the theft is
performative, nothing else. When a cop gives a
command, and responds to disobedience with
violence, its performativity is its reality. It
simply exists. Indeed, if the cop had a warrant, he
would simply serve it. But when the cop shoots a
person, he is by-passing that “detail.” No warrants
are served, and no messages are given. The
relevance of any message (such as for justice)
would have already died under the force of that
violence. When somebody dies, it is too late to
make a “message” relevant to them. Only the “fear
component” of law enforcement is left, lying around
on the ground for others to see.
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Seeking_Justice_in_the_Name_of_Hate:_In
Defense_of_BDS⠀⇛
With this clarion call born of principle and
necessity, a respected Rabbi and leader of the
American Jewish community of the early 1930’s
called for an absolute boycott of German goods as
the “duty of all self-respecting Jews.”
He urged the boycott not because German’s were
white, or Christian, or blonde haired and blue
eyed. And few if any in the United States accused
him of any such mindless targeted hate. The
boycott, which was fundamentally rooted in human
rights, was necessary in an effort to try to stem
the growing odium and bloodletting sure and soon to
follow.
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Zelensky’s_Visit_and_the_Season’s_Spirit⠀⇛
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s surprise
visit to Washington on December 21 was hailed as
“historic.” It came 300 days after the Russian
invasion and at a critical time for the
continuation of robust United States aid and
support. While Zelensky got much of what he asked
for in terms of military equipment (Patriot air
defense system) and cash ($850 million in security
assistance), a holiday season perspective offers a
different focus on the visit. While accepting that
Zelensky told the Congress, “Your money is not
charity. It is an investment in global security and
democracy,” one should wonder about the presents
given by the U.S. Congress (and taxpayer) in the
spirit of the holiday season.
All Christmas presents given to children are
investments in one way or another. As for giving
during Hanukkhah, gifts are exchanged each of the
eight days and nights, and often “Hanukkah Gelt
(money)” is given to children as are books and
educational material.
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Ukraine_Women_Prove_Resilient_in_the_Face
of_War⠀⇛
The war in Ukraine is having growing negative
effects on women and girl’s health and well-being.
They encompass not only gender-based violence, but
include all aspects of women’s and girl’s lives.
Access to basic services and life-saving sexual and
reproductive health care have been drastically
disrupted.
Since the 2013 Maidan revolution, also known as
“dignity revolution,” Ukrainian women have been
increasingly engaged in the political, social, and
economic affairs of the country. This engagement
has led to an increase in women’s political
participation, manifested by gains in parliamentary
seats and in village and regional councils. As a
result, Ukraine has ratified or joined most
international agreements on gender equality.
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Go_Bonobos_in_2023!⠀⇛
Moving through the fog of perma-war, pestilence,
puritanism and greed into the bright, blinding
light of a brand new year that’s looking to be
worse—much worse!—I will fear no evil, as I
continue along the Bonobo Way of peace, love,
equality, ecology and good sex.
At least, that’s what I keep telling myself as I
pop the bubbly for a “Happy Nude Rear,” kick up my
heels and say “Howdeeeee 2023!”
# ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ State_Department_Approves_$180_Million_Arms
Sales_for_Taiwan⠀⇛
The deal is for Volcano anti-tank mine-laying
systems.
# ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Patrick_Lawrence:_The_Souls_of_Ukrainian
Folk⠀⇛
As Kyiv prepares to persecute the souls of its own
people, it seems we are about to witness just how
inhumane this project has been from the outset.
o § Transparency/Investigative Reporting⠀➾
# ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ FBI_Cointelpro_Is_Back_and_Worse_Than_Ever⠀⇛
Elon Musk has opened the floodgates to expose the
FBI’s latest war on Americans’ freedom of speech.
The FBI massively intervened to pressure Twitter to
suppress accounts and tweets from individuals the
FBI disapproved, including parody accounts. The
FBI and other federal agencies also browbeat
Facebook, Instagram, and many other […]
o § Environment⠀➾
# ⚓ Eesti Rahvusringhääling ☛ From_new_year_‘blue’_diesel_will
only_be_available_with_prior_registration⠀⇛
Special-purpose diesel, known as “blue” diesel, has
a lower excise tax and is intended for farmers who
use tractors to till fields and fishermen. However,
the cheaper fuel is frequently purchased and used
for other purposes.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ I’m_Dreaming_of_a_Warm_Christmas⠀⇛
2:00 am. Boink! My eyes pop open. It’s Christmas
Eve, but it’s not that I just heard Santa wandering
through the house. It’s far more banal: gotta use
the bathroom. I crawl out of bed, step bare-assed
into… oh my God… a learning experience.
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ A_Habitable_Earth_Depends_on_Lula⠀⇛
On January 1, the moment he is sworn in as
president of Brazil for a second time, Lula da
Silva will become perhaps the most important person
in the worldwide effort to confront the climate
emergency. Usually, the obstacles to slowing global
warming are somewhat dispersed: wasteful electric
utilities in rich nations; multiple oil giants,
ranging from Chevron to Saudi Arabia’s national
producer; even individual consumers who persist in
buying gas-guzzling SUVs. No one person or single
government can challenge them all at the same time.
# ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Climate_Crisis_Made_Everyday_Life_More_Expensive
in_2022⠀⇛
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Another_Blistering_Year_Next_Year?⠀⇛
NASA claims that 2022 was one of the hottest years
ever recorded. Furthermore, according to
CareOurEarth.com, this past year experienced:
“Record-Breaking Heatwaves Around the World.”
It was the year of fires (everywhere, big fires),
scorching heat (globally) floods (Pakistan! Europe,
China) loss of potable water (especially France and
Italy) nearly impassable commercial waterways
(Danube, Po, Rhine, Mississippi) sunbaked droughts
(US Southwest, Chile) sputtering water reservoirs
(Lake Mead). In all, a mini-biblical-scale
worldwide disaster scenario that conditioned people
of the world for what to expect when global warming
really cranks up bigtime.
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Ban_the_Bomb_Cyclone!⠀⇛
As I write, a bomb cyclone has turned much of the
continental United States into an ice palace. In
Wyoming the temperature dropped 40°, from 43° to
3°, in a half an hour, breaking all records. NBC
reports 55 dead in a “once-in-a-lifetime” blizzard.
The New York Times reports 29 people died in
western New York state. The dead included, “people
found trapped in their cars and those who had
“cardiac-related events” while removing snow from
driveways outside their homes and businesses I
email my 82-year-old retired doctor friend in Woods
Hole, “How are you doing?” after I look up the
temperature there and see that it’s 15°. He’s doing
fine. He sends pictures of snow in his front yard.
He’s got an insulated house, heat pumps, and
radiant floor heating– the comforts money can buy.
Others are not so lucky.
The article in the New York Times and NBC news
report do not mention climate change. It’s hard to
believe the subject never occurred to the reporters
or their editors. So why not add a paragraph
quoting a climate scientist on the subject. Were
they concerned if they interviewed one saying, yes,
these events are going to become more common,
because of climate change they would need to
interview another with an opposing opinion, and
readers would lose interest. Or is there some other
reason?
# § Energy⠀➾
# ⚓ The Hill ☛ ‘Absolutely_shocking’:_Traveler_records
airport_police_threatening_to_arrest_Southwest
customers⠀⇛
While inside the terminal, they were
approached by a BNA police officer. The
video, captured by Robinson, showed the
officer saying, “You and her need to leave or
you’ll be arrested for trespassing.”
Morrison couldn’t believe what she was
hearing.
“You said you’re going to arrest people for
trespassing, for being at a ticket counter
for a flight?” Morrison asked in the video.
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Half_Lives,_Half_Strories_and_Half
Truths_from_Department_of_Energy_This_Week⠀⇛
When Jennifer Granholm, U.S. Secretary of
Energy, posthumously restored the security
clearance of Robert Oppenheimer this week,
she revealed little that had not been known
about the “father of the Atomic Bomb”, and
more about the culture of secrecy that
surrounds the history of nuclear weapons.
Testimony in secret committee hearings about
Oppenheimer’s loyalty to the United States,
declassified after sixty years, attested to
Oppenheimer’s patriotism, his singular
contribution to the development of the
fission bombs that destroyed the Japanese
cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and his
ardent support for tactical nuclear weapons
defending Europe against Soviet invasion.
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Amtraks_Across_America:_The_City_of
New_Orleans_to_Chicago⠀⇛
This is the eighth part in a series about
Amtrak travels during summer 2022.
Before leaving New Orleans, I made the long
bike ride out to Chalmette, where in 1815 the
last battle of the American Revolution (well,
officially it was in the War of 1812) was
fought between Andrew Jackson’s rabble-at-
arms and British redcoats under the command
of General Sir Edward Pakenham.
# § Wildlife/Nature⠀➾
# ⚓ Telex (Hungary) ☛ We_might_destroy_Lake_Balaton_in_15
years_if_we_act_mindlessly⠀⇛
o § Finance⠀➾
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Moscow_reportedly_planning_to_allow_illegal_use_of
foreign-made_software_whose_developers_have_left_Russian
market_—_Meduza⠀⇛
The Russian Finance Ministry is working on a bill
that would both “decriminalize” the illegal use of
foreign software whose developers have left the
Russian market and impose compulsory licensing on
it, according to the Russian newspaper Kommersant.
# ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Starbucks’s_Refusal_to_Bargain_With_21_Stores_Is
Illegal,_NLRB_Says⠀⇛
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Yes,_Government_is_A_Business._No,_You’re
Not_The_Customer.⠀⇛
On December 15, the US Government Accountability
Office released a report on the Internal Revenue
Service’s failings in “providing customer service
to taxpayers.”
Are taxpayers “customers?” Let’s have a look at
that idea.
o § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾
# ⚓ Salon ☛ Elon_banned_me_for_calling_him_a_“bologna_face.”
I’m_a_history_professor_with_139_followers⠀⇛
Others have been banished for lesser offenses,
including a half-dozen prominent journalists. Their
ousters provoked howls of protest, including
threatened sanctions by the EU, but now they’re
back to tweeting. Not me. I’m still banned, and no
one has come to my defense. Not even one of my 139
followers.
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Latin_America_and_Caribbean_Year_2022_in
Review⠀⇛
Challenges for a Pink Tide Surging Over a Volatile
US Hegemony
2023 marks the 200th anniversary of the Monroe
Doctrine. This imperial fiat arrogates to the US
the unilateral authority to intervene in the
affairs of sovereign states in the Western
Hemisphere and to exclude any other power from
meddling in what is viewed as Washington’s
backyard. Two centuries later, the doctrine faces a
fragile future.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ ‘He’s_Failed_to_Take_Real_Action’:
Buttigieg_Under_Fire_for_Handling_of_Airline_Debacle⠀⇛
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg is facing
growing backlash from members of Congress and
corporate watchdogs who say his department failed
to take sufficient action in the lead-up to mass
flight cancellations surrounding the Christmas
holiday, a meltdown that has its roots in decades
of airline consolidation, greed, and lax oversight.
# ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Sanders_Urges_Transportation_Secretary_to_Hold
Southwest_CEO_Accountable⠀⇛
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Some_Tricks_To_Making_Mastodon_Way_More_Useful⠀⇛
It’s been interesting to watch over the last few
months as tons of people have migrated from Twitter
to Mastodon (or similar compatible ActivityPub-
based social media platforms). I’ve noticed,
however, that some people keep running into the
same issues and challenges as they discover that
Mastodon is different than what they’re used to
with Twitter. There are a few tips and tricks I’ve
been sharing with various people that seemed pretty
broadly applicable, so I figured it was worth doing
a post laying them out.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ How_the_Corporate_Takeover_of_American
Politics_Began⠀⇛
The corporate takeover of American politics started
with a man and a memo you’ve probably never heard
of.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Rights_Advocates_Alarmed_Over_Israel’s_New
‘Fascist,_Racist,_and_Settler’_Government⠀⇛
Global concerns about the new Israeli
government—especially what it means for
Palestinians—continued to grow Thursday as Benjamin
Netanyahu took the oath of office to again serve as
prime minister, this time leading the most far-
right and religiously conservative coalition in the
country’s history.
# ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Benjamin_Netanyahu_and_the_Final_‘Execution_of
the_Palestinian_People’⠀⇛
Juan Cole reports on the deals the once-again
Israeli prime minister made with the far-right to
grab power.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ ‘Execution_of_the_Palestinian_People’:
Netanyahu_Vows_Massive_Israeli_Squatting_on_Palestinian
Land⠀⇛
As part of his bargain with the fascist blocs of
Religious Zionism and Jewish Power, according to
the Israeli newspaper Arab 48, incoming Prime
Minister Netanyahu spoke of an “exclusive Jewish
right” to expand settlements inside Israel proper,
in Galilee and the Negev, as well as to plant
squatters in the Palestinian West Bank.
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ Is_Kari_Lake’s_Defeat_the_End_of_MAGA?⠀⇛
As the year winds down, the courts have slammed the
door in the face of election deniers one more time.
Kari Lake, heir apparent to Trumpism’s refusal to
accept ballot box defeats, sued Maricopa County in
a Hail Mary effort to overturn the gubernatorial
election result in Arizona. She argued that printer
malfunctions and other Election Day problems added
up to a deliberate effort to cheat her of victory
and resulted in more than enough votes’ not being
counted to materially alter the outcome.
# ⚓ The Nation ☛ The_Butler_Didn’t_Do_It!_Rian_Johnson’s_Glass
Onion_(Spoiler_Alert!)⠀⇛
In interviews about Knives Out (2019) and Glass
Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (2022), writer/director
Rian Johnson name-checks Agatha Christie, whose
classic whodunits have spawned a century of high-
profile adaptations. Since most are period
pieces—see Kenneth Branagh’s Murder on the Orient
Express from 2017 and Death on the Nile from this
past year—there was room to stake out fresh
terrain.
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Americans_Rejected_Election_Denial_and
Adopted_Reforms_in_2022—Let’s_Build_on_That⠀⇛
A year ago I wrote that we were “in a great fight
for the future of American democracy. Nothing
less.” As 2023 starts there is reason for hope.
# ⚓ Insight Hungary ☛ Ukrainian_Foreign_Ministry_says_Orbán_is
indirectly_calling_for_Ukraine’s_defeat_in_the_war⠀⇛
The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry issued a statement
on Tuesday, that the Hungarian PM’s statements
“show pathological disregard for Ukraine and the
Ukrainian people who are fighting Russian
aggression, and they also show his political short-
sightedness.” The statement points out that the
“defeat of Ukraine in the war, which Viktor Orban
indirectly calls for, would lead to a direct threat
of Russian aggression against Hungary and
Hungarians”.
“Orbán should ‘ask himself whether he wants peace’.
If the answer is yes, he should use his close ties
with Moscow to persuade Moscow to stop its
aggression against Ukraine and withdraw its
troops,” the ministry’s statement reads.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Kadyrov_on_running_for_President_of_Russia:_I_have
the_right,_but_I_won’t_do_it_—_Meduza⠀⇛
During a year-end press conference, Head of
Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov announced that he will
never run for President of Russia, but noted that
he has every right to do so.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ ‘I_heard_my_husband’s_inhuman_screams’_Kherson
residents_recount_the_torture_they_experienced_under_Russian
occupation_—_Meduza⠀⇛
# ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Biden_WH_Reminds_GOP_Leaders:_You_Don’t_Have
Oversight_Powers_Until_Next_Week⠀⇛
# ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Biden_Admin_Plans_to_Expand_Title_42_to_Expel
Cubans,_Nicaraguans_and_Haitians⠀⇛
# ⚓ Pro Publica ☛ Nazi_Germany_Used_Honorary_Consuls_to_Advance
Agenda_Globally⠀⇛
In 1942, as Nazi Germany began to send hundreds of
thousands of Jews to killing centers, Brazilian
police swooped into a port city in the South
American country and arrested a wealthy landowner.
To locals, he was Otto Uebele, a Brazilian manager
of a prominent coffee trading company. He also
served as honorary consul for Germany — and was an
accused Nazi spy.
# ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Zelensky_Appoints_Sexologist_Pyramid_Schemer
as_Ambassador_to_Bulgaria⠀⇛
While Zelensky hypnotizes Western governments into
forking over vast sums to finance his war effort,
he has appointed a literal hypnotist (and part-time
sexologist multi-level marketer) to a high-level
diplomatic position.
# § Misinformation/Disinformation/Propaganda⠀➾
# ⚓ The Hill ☛ TikTok_trend_leads_to_diabetes_medication
shortages⠀⇛
Influencers and celebrities on TikTok are
showing off their weight loss with before-
and-after pictures, giving credit to the
medication. Elon Musk credited Ozempic for
helping him lose 30 pounds. An ad for the
drug even cites weight loss as a benefit of
the drug, saying the average person loses 12
pounds.
But enthusiasm for the drug has led to a
lower supply of the drugs. The Food and Drug
Administration lists Ozempic as “currently in
shortage.” Some patients report switching to
lower doses to help stretch the supply. >
o § Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ St._George_ribbon,_banned_in_several_European
countries,_made_official_‘symbol_of_military_glory’_in_Russia
—_Meduza⠀⇛
Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a new
law equating the black-and-orange-striped ribbon of
St. George with state-protected “symbols of
military glory.” Its public desecration may now
lead to misdemeanor or even felony charges.
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Police_beat_and_arrest_Moscow_State_University
professor_Mikhail_Lobanov_—_Meduza⠀⇛
Mikhail Lobanov, a professor in Moscow State
University’s Department of Mechanics and
Mathematics, was jailed for 15 days for non-
compliance with police. The news was posted by a
third party on Lobanov’s Telegram channel. Lobanov
himself said that police beat him while searching
his apartment.
# ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ On_the_Influence_of_Neo-Nazism_in_Ukraine⠀⇛
A short history of neo-Nazism in Ukraine in
response to NewsGuard’s charge that Consortium News
published false content about its extent.
o § Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press⠀➾
# ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ West_Virginia_Journalist_Fired_in_Alleged
Retaliation_Over_Reporting_on_Abuse_in_State_Facilities⠀⇛
A journalist at West Virginia Public Broadcasting,
the state’s public television and radio news
network, was fired from her position after
reporting on abuses taking place at state-run
psychiatric facilities—reporting that allegedly
sparked threats from state health officials and
pressure on the network to change its coverage of
the state government.
# ⚓ VOA News ☛ Fleeing_Taliban_Rule,_Journalists_Find
Themselves_Trapped_in_Iran⠀⇛
Shortly after, Taliban fighters stormed the paper’s
office in Kabul, Rasoli said, and warned the staff
“not to publish anything that is not in line with
the group’s policies.”
Rasoli said the Taliban were angry that the paper
had used the term “suicide attackers” instead of
“self-sacrificing.”
The Taliban did not respond to VOA’s request for
comment.
o § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾
# ⚓ Meduza ☛ Putin_signs_law_making_‘sabotage’_punishable_by
life_in_prison_—_Meduza⠀⇛
Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a
federal law making activities classified as
“sabotage” punishable by up to life in prison.
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Confessions_of_a_Vegan_Evangelist⠀⇛
What omnivores complain about is true
Vegans are evangelical. Case in point: On the day I
ate my last morsel of Parmigiano Reggiano, I was
born again, and I wanted everybody to know that my
animal-eating sins were washed away. It didn’t
matter how many hot dogs, hamburgers, rashers of
bacon, pounds of beef and chicken, cheese balls or
ice cream cones I ate in my former life, I was now
as guiltless as a new-born babe – even more so,
since I didn’t drink milk. And in the glow of my
conversion, I felt like my other sins were cleansed
too. If Macbeth and Lady Macbeth were vegans, he’d
have found a good night’s sleep and she’d have
washed away that “damned spot.”
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Roaming_Charges:_Watching_the_Detectives,
the_Year_in_Police_Crime⠀⇛
+ Since 1970, the number of incarcerated people in
the US has increased by 700%, to the point that the
US prison population is the largest in the world
both per capita and in total numbers. As of 2019,
there are an estimated 2.3 million people behind
bars.
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Helping_These_Groups_Helps_You_and_Reflects
Your_Generosity_of_Spirit⠀⇛
It is that time of the year when generous people
make donations to civic organizations that are the
bedrock of our democratic society. Some are worthy
charities. Others are advocates for change through
advancing justice.
Below are many nonprofit groups working for causes
furthering environmental and consumer health and
safety, economic well-being and peace.
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Because_Polygamists_Are_Queer_People_Too,
Goddammit⠀⇛
Nicky, why can’t you just smile and join the pride
parade? I must hear this refrain at least ten times
a day from people both inside and out of my
community. With all the progress, with all the
popular approval, why can’t I just be one of those
happy Queers you see on TV? Why must I insist on
being such a fucking bummer? And sometimes I wish
it was that easy too. That I could just put on a
pair of heels and embrace the simple pleasures of
mainstream inclusion. The only problem is that I
know way too much about the history of Western
Civilization to pretend that progress isn’t a
fucking trap.
I can’t pretend that the globalized corporate
culture that defines the collective West isn’t a
moral desert defined by commercialism, conformity
and assimilation. I can’t pretend that this culture
isn’t the direct descendant of the White Anglo-
Saxon Puritan culture that wiped out the pagan
tribes who once revered my people for what made us
unique, and I can’t pretend that being Queer isn’t
defined by our long history of resistance to this
culture and that allowing ourselves to be absorbed
into it would be tantamount to genocide.
# ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ Iran_Protests_Pass_100_Days_as
Demonstrators_Facing_Brutal_Crackdown_Request_International
Solidarity⠀⇛
Anti-government protests in Iran, launched in
September following the death of Iranian Kurdish
woman Mahsa Amini in the custody of Iran’s morality
police, have passed their 100th day, even as
demonstrators have been met with widespread
arrests, brutal violence by police and executions.
The Human Rights Activists News Agency reports
thousands of protesters have been arrested and more
than 500 protesters have been killed so far,
including 69 children. At least 26 more
demonstrators are facing execution. As calls grow
for the United States and the international
community to respond to Iran’s brutal crackdown,
President Biden has hinted attempts to restore the
Iran nuclear deal may be dead. We’re joined by Hadi
Ghaemi, executive director and founder of the
Center for Human Rights in Iran, and Nahid
Siamdoust, a former journalist who is now Middle
East and media studies professor at the University
of Texas at Austin.
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ James_P._Cannon:_America’s_Pioneer
Trotskyist⠀⇛
A Review of Bryan D. Palmer’s James P. Cannon and
the Emergence of Trotskyism in the United States,
1928–38
(This is an expanded version of Murray E.G. Smith’s
presentation at “Historical Materialism 2022,”
November 13, 2022, SOAS, University of London)
o § Internet Policy/Net Neutrality⠀➾
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ AT&T,_Verizon,_T-Mobile_Could_Dodge_Millions_In
Location_Data_Fines_Thanks_To_Industry_Attacks_On_FCC_Nominee
Gigi_Sohn⠀⇛
Telecom and media giants are running a sleazy year-
long smear campaign against Biden FCC nominee Gigi
Sohn aimed at miring the agency in perpetual
consumer protection gridlock. The attacks have been
carefully seeded across the US press through
various think tanks and nonprofits, and falsely
accuse Sohn of everything from hating police to
being an enemy of rural America. The lies are
baseless, but have proven effective enough to stall
Senate confirmation.
o § Digital Restrictions (DRM)⠀➾
# ⚓ Hollywood Reporter ☛ Netflix_Shares_Climb_After_Stock
Upgrade_on_Rosy_View_of_Ad-Tier⠀⇛
Netflix launched its advertising tier Nov. 3, at a
lower price of $6.99 a month. The streamer has
already begun taking measures to limit account
sharing, by allowing users to move their profiles
to new membership accounts, and The Wall Street
Journal reported Dec. 21 that a password crackdown
will come in earnest in 2023.
# ⚓ Techdirt ☛ After_Dumb_Lobbying_Delays_And_Ample_Watering
Down,_NY_Passes_Landmark_‘Right_To_Repair’_Bill⠀⇛
New York State has finally passed a landmark “right
to repair” bill proving American consumers some
additional protection from repair monopolies. After
some annoying delays created by lobbyists, New York
State Governor Kathy Hochul signed the legislation
on December 29.
o § Monopolies⠀➾
# ⚓ EFF ☛ The_Year_We_Got_Serious_about_Tech_Monopolies:_2022
in_Review⠀⇛
As they address tech monopolies, courts and
enforcement agencies are beginning to acknowledge
the interplay of user privacy and security concerns
with antitrust, thanks in part to EFF’s advocacy.
In February, we explained to a federal appeals
court that Apple’s total control over apps on its
mobile devices is not necessary to keep users safe,
and in fact makes many users less safe.
Antitrust cases against the tech giants still face
serious obstacles from a judiciary that’s become
increasingly hostile to claims of monopoly abuse.
EFF’s brief was filed in Epic Games’s challenge to
Apple’s restrictive App Store policies, which was
thrown out by a district court and is now awaiting
an appeals court ruling. The FTC’s challenge to
Facebook (now Meta) over its history of acquiring
potential competitors like Instagram and WhatsApp
has faced similar obstacles. We’ve also seen some
small but significant wins, including suits against
legal research provider Westlaw and computer gaming
giant Valve getting past their initial legal
hurdles.
It’s important that antitrust enforcers persist in
their efforts because we can’t count on internet
platforms and services that don’t face real
competition to safeguard users’ rights. Sometimes
they fail spectacularly. And even when they do a
good job of protecting users, their protection is
fickle, able to be stripped away with the whims of
a mercurial CEO, or when cooperation with
government surveillance suits their business
interests.
# § Copyrights⠀➾
# ⚓ [Old] uni North Texas ☛ 17_USC_§_109:_The_First_Sale
Doctrine⠀⇛
There are at least two issues with digital
files that make a digital first sale rule
problematic. First, it is difficult to
transfer digital files without creating a
copy in some way. If I want to sell you a
song I legally purchased from iTunes, I will
almost certainly create a copy when I give it
to you. If I email it to you, I create a copy
when I attach it to the email and you create
a copy when you download it. If I burn it to
a CD, I create a copy on the CD and you
create a copy when you put it on your
computer. Or if I put it on a flash drive, I
create a copy when I put it on the drive, and
you create a copy when if access it from the
drive. I might be able to get around this by
selling you my hard drive, but not only is
that impractical, it’s also not clearly
permitted by the law. The problem is that
when you access the file, your computer still
create a copy in some way, and that may still
trigger infringement.
Second, digital files are infinitely and
perfectly copyable in a way that physical
media are not. As such, it’s much harder to
be sure the thing you’re transferring is, in
fact, the original, or even what the original
is. Even if I decide to sell you my iTunes
songs by giving you my hard drive, it is
difficult to ensure I didn’t create a copy
for myself and stash it on my other hard
drive. The first sale doctrine allows people
to dispose of the works they have purchased,
but does not permit them to keep a copy for
themselves. So we have to be careful how to
apply this doctrine to digital works.
# ⚓ [Old] uni Massachusetts ☛ First_Sale_(or_Exhaustion)
Doctrine_in_Copyright⠀⇛
“First Sale” (also called the “exhaustion
doctrine”) is the name in US copyright law
for the idea that owners of copies of
copyrighted works have the right to re-sell,
lend, give away, or even destroy their
personal copies of works. The copyright
holder’s right to control the distribution of
their work goes away after the “first sale”
of the work. The “First Sale Doctrine” is
codified in U.S. copyright law at 17 U.S.C.
Section 109.
In other areas of law, such as patent law,
this principle is called the “exhaustion”
principle.
# ⚓ Torrent Freak ☛ Pirate_Movie_Cammers_Plagued_UK
Cinemas_After_COVID_Shut_Them_Down⠀⇛
Protecting movies from piracy during their
theatrical windows is an industry priority
but week in and week out, ‘cammed’ copies
stubbornly appear online. This summer several
unusually good copies were linked to cinemas
in the UK, where ‘camming’ can result in a
prison sentence. Logically, camming should be
incredibly rare, but that’s certainly not the
case, far from it.
# ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ The_Radically_Changing_Art_Market⠀⇛
The art world system includes artists,
dealers, curators, collectors and critics.
Artists make works sold by dealers, who sell
with the help of museum curators and private
collectors. And critics interpret and
validate this art. But right now the role of
the critic has become deeply insecure. At
present, it’s almost impossible to make a
living as a freelance critic. And the number
of journalistic posts for critics is
vanishingly small. Gentrification which
transforms former down-and-out neighborhoods
like Manhattan’s East Village, good places
for writers and young artists, into trendy
sites has transformed the entire art world.
Young artists can no longer afford lofts, and
art dealing has become much more expensive.
The same is happening in many other cities.
And so while in the mid-twentieth century
there were important independent scholars,
now it’s no longer possible to make a living
from art writing.
The value of many commodities is established
by the marketplace. And so we don’t require
critics to establish the value of raw
materials or useful goods. But we do need
critics to establish the value of the
artifacts that are displayed to be sold in
the art market. No one needs a painting- and
there is no particular relation between the
cost of art production and its exchange
value. An enormous number of paintings are
produced, and just a few of them have
economic value. This present role of art
criticism is a relatively new development
associated with modernism. In the Dutch
Golden Age, Rembrandt, Saenredam and Vermeer
didn’t need art critics. And outside of
Europe, often art worlds functioned without
art criticism. The importance of art
criticism in modernism and what comes after
is in part a response to the very nature of
this art. In this period, when radical
aesthetic innovation is the norm, we need
theorization provided by critics in order to
identify what art matters. Without art
critics, we wouldn’t know what to make of the
paintings of Jackson Pollock, Robert Ryman or
Sean Scully, who all rework tradition in ways
that require articulation in order to be
understood.
* § Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾
o § Technical⠀➾
# ⚓ Fountain_Pen_Notebooks⠀⇛
I own a Pilot Vanishing Point fountain pen, a
fairly expensive pen but well worth the price for
me. In two years I’ve only seen it clog once, after
almost two straight months of no use–which if
course was my own fault.
Fountain pens tend to write better on certain types
of paper than others. Glossy paper can interrupt
the smooth flow of ink from the pen’s nib, and in
extreme cases can cause the pen to either leak or
clog. Coarse paper can transmit a scratchiness
through a fountain pen that would otherwise be
dampened by the rollerball in a ballpoint or gel
pen. Other types of paper are prone to feathering
(ink spreading along the surface of the paper) or
bleeding (ink soaking through the paper and
becoming visible on the other side).
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World Wide Web but a lot lighter.
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§ Contents⠀➾
* GNU/Linux
o Server
o Applications
o Instructionals/Technical
* Distributions_and_Operating_Systems
o New_Releases
o Fedora_/_Red_Hat_/_IBM
o Devices/Embedded
o Open_Hardware/Modding
o Mobile_Systems/Mobile_Applications
* Free,_Libre,_and_Open_Source_Software
o Programming/Development
# Python
* Leftovers
o Science
o Security
# Privacy/Surveillance
o Environment
# Energy
o AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics
* Gemini*_and_Gopher
o Personal
o Technical
# Programming
* § GNU/Linux⠀➾
o ⚓ ELinux ☛ What_is_the_lightest_Linux_operating_system?_|_Linux
Webhosting_blog⠀⇛
In general, Linux distributions that use lightweight
desktop environments and window managers, such as LXDE,
Xfce, and Openbox, tend to be lighter and more resource-
efficient than those that use more heavyweight desktop
environments such as Gnome and KDE.
o § Server⠀➾
# ⚓ TecAdmin ☛ Docker_Run:_A_Beginner’s_Guide_to_Run_Docker
Containers_–_TecAdmin⠀⇛
Docker is a popular tool for packaging and
deploying applications, and a key part of the
Docker workflow is running Docker containers. In
this beginner’s guide, we will explain what Docker
containers are and how to run them.
# ⚓ How_to_transition_from_Linux_Admin_to_Linux_DevOps_role
[Ed: Moving from a real job title to a buzzword]⠀⇛
Linux DevOps is the practice of using Linux-based
systems and tools to build, deploy, and manage
applications in a continuous integration and
continuous deployment (CI/CD) environment.
o § Applications⠀➾
# ⚓ It’s FOSS ☛ An_Open-Source_Alternative_to_Google,_Alexa,
and_Siri_in_Works_for_Home_Assistant_Platform⠀⇛
Home Assistant is an open-source smart home
platform that focuses on providing local control
and privacy to its users. It can run off a
Raspberry Pi or even a local server.
They also have a subscription service for access to
additional features such as support for Alexa and
Google Assistant, which is managed by a company
called ‘Nabu Casa’.
# ⚓ Medevel ☛ 9_Open_Source_Serious_Calculator_Apps_For_Linux,
Windows,_and_macOS⠀⇛
Math calculators are handy tools not just for
students, but for everyone. Even we have access to
calculators as built-in apps for mobiles and our
operating systems, there is still need to have
open-source advanced calculators on our systems.
Here in this article, we offer you a list of open
source calculator apps, as some come with advanced
and unique features.
# ⚓ TecMint ☛ Must-Have_Essential_Applications_for_Linux
Desktop_Users⠀⇛
Modern GUI Linux distributions bundle with
essential applications to help users get started
without much of a hassle. This means that you don’t
need to install them in the first place.
Despite that, developers are constantly coming up
with newer and more innovative applications which
streamline workflows and make the life of the
ordinary desktop user much easier.
In this guide, we look at some of the most
essential applications for desktop Linux users.
# ⚓ Barry Kauler ☛ Limine_Installer_frugal_install_detection
fix⠀⇛
Limine Installer is a project for a GUI to install
the Limine bootloader.
o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾
# ⚓ Adafruit ☛ The_Linux_Command_Line_by_William_Shotts_5th_Ed_
(free_PDF_available)_#Linux⠀⇛
The Linux Command Line by William Shotts – Fifth
Internet Edition Available Now!
# ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_Telegram_on_Linux_Mint_21_|
20_–_LinuxCapable⠀⇛
Telegram is a free, cross-platform messaging app
with end-to-end encryption. It’s famous for
providing video calling and other missing features
from Facebook or Twitter – one of its main
attractions! In the following tutorial, you will
learn to install Telegram on Linux Mint 21 or Linux
Mint 20 release series using the apt package
manager and flatpak package manager, with some tips
for maintaining or removing popular messenger
software in the future.
# ⚓ How_to_Download_and_Install_Kdenlive_22.12_on_Ubuntu,_Linux
Mint⠀⇛
This beginner tutorial will show you how to
download and install Kdenlive 22.12 on Ubuntu
22.04, Ubuntu 20.04, and Linux Mint 21.
# ⚓ Doug Brown ☛ Upgrading_my_Chumby_8_kernel_part_2:_Initial
Linux_boot⠀⇛
This is a continuation of my previous post about
upgrading the old 2.6.28 Linux kernel that came
with my Chumby 8. In that post, I got a modern U-
Boot working with SD card support, which is what I
needed in order to boot Linux.
# ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_Tor_Browser_on_Linux_Mint_21
|_20⠀⇛
Tor browser provides a secure, anonymous way to
explore the Internet. With its open-source code and
mission of protecting personal identity, Tor helps
you stay safe while browsing online. In the
following tutorial, you will learn how to install
Tor Browser on Linux Mint 21 or Linux Mint 20
release series using various methods using the
command line terminal with some information on
basic setup.
# ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_QMPlay2_on_Ubuntu_22.04_|
20.04⠀⇛
QMPlay2 is a free, open-source multimedia player
that offers enhanced audio and visual experience.
It’s equipped with the latest technology to deliver
excellent playback of all formats supported by
FFmpeg, libmodplug (including J2B and SFX), Audio
CDs, raw files, Rayman 2 music, and chiptunes. The
following tutorial will demonstrate how to install
QMPlay2 on Ubuntu 22.04 Jammy Jellyfish or Ubuntu
20.04 Focal Fossa using a LaunchPAD PPA dedicated
to QMPlay2 or using Flatpak with Flathub
repository.
* § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾
o § New Releases⠀➾
# ⚓ Vanilla_OS_Vanilla_OS_22.10_Kinetic_is_out!⠀⇛
It is with great pleasure that we announce that
Vanilla OS 22.10 Kinetic, the first stable release
of the project, is available for download!
We have been working on the project for many
months, there were many changes along the way and
also many complications, but we managed to get
through them.
Introducing such a large project is not easy, there
are many ways, many means and so many things to
say. To make it easier for you to understand this
project, we created a commercial like the big guys
do (or at least we tried). Here it is below, enjoy
it but then come back here, we have a lot to talk
about!
# ⚓ Meet_Calculate_Linux_23!_–_Forum_Announcements_–_Calculate
Forum⠀⇛
We are pleased to announce the release of Calculate
Linux 23.
This new (year) version includes a server Calculate
Container Manager for working with LXC, a new cl-
lxc tool, and features mirror selection for
updates.
Calculate Linux Desktop featuring the KDE (CLD),
Cinnamon (CLDC), LXQt (CLDL), Mate (CLDM) or Xfce
(CLDX and CLDXS) desktop, Calculate Container
Manager (CCM), Calculate Directory Server (CDS),
Calculate Linux Scratch (CLS) and Calculate Scratch
Server (CSS) are now available for download.
o § Fedora / Red Hat / IBM⠀➾
# ⚓ Red Hat Official ☛ Top_22_sysadmin_guides_and_tutorials_of
2022_|_Enable_Sysadmin⠀⇛
This was an amazing year for the Enable Sysadmin
community. We saw an average of more than 825,000
page views per month in 2022, which is over 200,000
per month more than in 2021. Overall, we generated
more than 9.5 million page views and 5.4 million
unique visitors in 2022, far surpassing 2021′s
traffic.
# ⚓ Enterprisers Project ☛ 11_hot_IT_roles:_A_day_in_the_life⠀⇛
Ever wonder what it’s like to be a CISO, product
leader, or software developer? Are you looking to
pivot careers from being a data scientist to a
cognitive scientist? This year, The Enterprisers
Project published a special series entitled “A day
in the life”. Contributing authors shared their
career stories to highlight what they love about
their job, and the challenges they are facing.
Through this series, readers get right in the shoes
of their colleagues.
# ⚓ OpenSource.com ☛ 5_ways_to_bring_open_source_to_your_job_|
Opensource.com⠀⇛
Open source drives businesses and organizations
around the world. This year, Opensource.com authors
published several outstanding articles about open
source at work. Topics ranged from contributing to
open source, to mentoring, and productivity. Here
are five of my favorite articles about how open
source can help your career and organization.
# ⚓ Fedora Magazine ☛ Working_with_Btrfs_–_Snapshots_–_Fedora
Magazine⠀⇛
This article will explore what Btrfs snapshots are,
how they work, and how you can benefit from taking
snapshots in every-day situations. This is part of
a series that takes a closer look at Btrfs, the
default filesystem for Fedora Workstation and
Fedora Silverblue since Fedora Linux 33.
o § Devices/Embedded⠀➾
# ⚓ CNX Software ☛ Pironman_review_–_A_Raspberry_Pi_4_enclosure
with_M.2_SATA,_safe_power_off,_RGB_LED_strip,_and_more⠀⇛
SunFounder Pironman is a Raspberry Pi 4 enclosure
inspired by Michael Klement’s DIY Raspberry Pi 4
mini server with an OLED display and ICE Tower
cooling solution, as well as some improvements such
as an aluminum alloy and acrylic enclosure, support
for an M.2 SATA SSD, a power button for safe
shutdown, an IR receiver, and an RGB LED strip.
The company sent me a Pironman kit without
Raspberry Pi 4 for review. I’ll check the package
content, go through the assembly, software
installation, and testing of the unique features
listed above.
o § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾
# ⚓ Jamie Zawinski ☛ Rotary_Keypad⠀⇛
# ⚓ Adafruit ☛ Adafruit_7_Segment_0.56″_Backpack_Holder⠀⇛
# ⚓ Adafruit ☛ Arduino_Mega_+_Ethernet_Shield_+_DMX_Shield⠀⇛
Recently, we have noticed electronics projects
integrated with 3D printed enclosures, brackets,
and sculptures, so each Thursday we celebrate and
highlight these bold pioneers!
Have you considered building a 3D project around an
Arduino or other microcontroller? How about
printing a bracket to mount your Raspberry Pi to
the back of your HD monitor? And don’t forget the
countless LED projects that are possible when you
are modeling your projects in 3D!
# ⚓ Adafruit ☛ CircuitPython_8.0.0_Beta_6_Released!⠀⇛
# ⚓ Adafruit ☛ Gingerbread:_automate_design_of_decorative_PCBs
in_KiCad⠀⇛
Gingerbread is a set of Python utilities used by
Winterbloom to create decorative printed circuit
boards (PCBs), such as the ones used for front
panels. It initially started with a command-line
driven, Python implementation but eventually
involved into a fully browser-based application
utilizing a native library written in Zig & C and
compiled to WASM.
o § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾
# ⚓ SlashGear ☛ You_Can_Turn_Your_Android_Phone_Into_A
Universal_Remote._Here’s_How⠀⇛
# ⚓ Android Police ☛ Android_Auto_Google_Assistant_glitch
leaves_new_Android_13_users_driving_solo⠀⇛
# ⚓ 9to5Google ☛ Test_Android_13_predictive_back_gesture_on
Pixel_with_these_apps⠀⇛
# ⚓ Sportskeeda ☛ How_to_create_backup_on_Samsung_Android
phones⠀⇛
# ⚓ Despite_being_an_Android_babyface,_Samsung_failed_to
understand_dynamic_theme_in_2022_–_Huawei_Central⠀⇛
* § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾
o § Programming/Development⠀➾
# ⚓ DJ Adams ☛ Learning_from_exploring_a_question_on_jq_|_DJ
Adams⠀⇛
Occasionally I browse the Newest ‘jq’ questions on
Stack Overflow and try to gently expand my jq
knowledge, or at least exercise my young jq
muscles. This morning I came across this one: Jq
extracting the name and the value of objects as an
array. Sometimes the questions are hard, sometimes
less so. This one didn’t seem too difficult, so I
thought I’d take a quick coffee break to see what I
could come up with (the question had already been
answered but I didn’t look until later).
# ⚓ Data Science Tutorials ☛ Load_Multiple_Packages_in_R_–_Data
Science_Tutorials⠀⇛
Load Multiple Packages in R, The following example
demonstrates how to apply this syntax in practice.
# ⚓ Plotting_two-way_interactions_from_mixed-effects_models
using_alias_variables_|_Pablo_Bernabeu⠀⇛
Whereas the direction of main effects can be
interpreted from the sign of the estimate, the
interpretation of interaction effects often
requires plots. This task is facilitated by the R
package sjPlot (Lüdecke, 2022). In Bernabeu (2022),
the sjPlot function called plot_model served as the
basis for the creation of some custom functions.
One of these functions is alias_interaction_plot,
which allows the plotting of interactions between a
continuous variable and a categorical variable.
Importantly, the categorical variable is replaced
with an alias variable. This feature allows the
back-transformation of the categorical variable to
facilitate the communication of the results, for
instance, when the categorical variable was sum-
coded, which has been recommended for mixed-effects
models (Brauer & Curtin, 2018).
# ⚓ Why_can’t_we_be_friends?_Plotting_frequentist_(lmerTest)
and_Bayesian_(brms)_mixed-effects_models_|_Pablo_Bernabeu⠀⇛
Frequentist and Bayesian statistics are sometimes
regarded as fundamentally different philosophies.
Indeed, can both methods qualify as philosophies,
or is one of them just a pointless ritual? Is
frequentist statistics about \(p\) values only? Are
frequentist estimates diametrically opposed to
Bayesian posterior distributions? Are confidence
intervals and credible intervals irreconcilable?
Will R crash if lmerTest and brms are
simultaneously loaded? If only we could fit
frequentist and Bayesian models to the same data
and plot the results together, we might get a
glimpse into these puzzles.
# ⚓ Bayesian_workflow:_Prior_determination,_predictive_checks
and_sensitivity_analyses_|_Pablo_Bernabeu⠀⇛
This post presents a code-through of a Bayesian
workflow in R, which can be reproduced using the
materials at https://osf.io/gt5uf. The content is
closely based on Bernabeu (2022), which was in turn
based on lots of other references. In addition to
those, you may wish to consider Nicenboim et al.
(2023), a book in preparation that is already
available online (https://vasishth.github.io/
bayescogsci/book).
# § Python⠀➾
# ⚓ TecAdmin ☛ Python_writelines()_Method_–_TecAdmin⠀⇛
If you’re a Python programmer, you may have
heard of the `writelines()` Method. But what
exactly is it? The `writelines()` Method is a
powerful tool that makes it easy to write a
list of strings to a file. You can think of
it as a shortcut for writing multiple lines
to a file. It’s a great way to save time and
effort when writing files.
The `writelines()` method in Python is a
method that is used to write a list of
strings to a file. It is a method of the File
object in Python, which represents an open
file. With `writelines()`, you don’t have to
worry about formatting the lines correctly –
it does it for you. All you have to do is
provide a list of strings and the `writelines
()` Method will handle the rest. Another
great benefit of `writelines()` is that you
can use it with any type of file – from plain
text to audio and video files. So if you need
a quick and easy way to write to a file, the
`writelines()` Method is the perfect
solution.
# ⚓ Didier Stevens ☛ New_tool:_teeplus.py_|_Didier
Stevens⠀⇛
This new tool, teeplus.py, is an extension of
the tee command.
The tools takes (binary) data from stdin, and
sends it to stdout, while also writing the
data to a file on disk.
While the tee command requires a filename as
argument, teeplus.py takes no arguments (only
options).
By default, teeplus.py will write the data to
a file on disk, with filename equal to the
sha256 of the data and extension .vir.
And it will also log this activity in a log
file (teeplus.log by default).
* § Leftovers⠀➾
o ⚓ Bryan Lunduke ☛ CIA_–_FBI_can_neither_confirm_nor_deny_they_know
about_these_Operating_Systems⠀⇛
Which is pretty doggone funny. I’d like to imagine that
Plan 9 is part of some complex spy program. Possibly
involving Nazi’s. And space lasers.
But this got me thinking… What other Operating Systems
can the CIA “neither confirm nor deny” knowing about?
Let’s find out!
o ⚓ Bryan Lunduke ☛ Help_The_Lunduke_Journal_“Speak_Truth_to_(Tech)
Power”⠀⇛
The sad reality is that every major Tech Publication is
directly funded by the very same companies that they
cover.
Publications writing about Microsoft are funded by ad
dollars from Microsoft.
Publications writing about Enterprise Linux companies are
funded by ad dollars from Enterprise Linux Companies.
o ⚓ Ben Congdon ☛ My_Favorite_Books_of_2022⠀⇛
Another year, another slate of books to reflect back
over! I read about as many books this year as I usually
do (perhaps slightly fewer), but many more of them were
read as audiobooks than I usually do.
[...]
TPM is a philosophy textbook about phenomenology, but
it’s written in a pretty accessible style if you’re
modestly familiar with philosophy. It was likely the most
illuminating books I read this year, as it gave me a much
more complete set of words/concepts to talk about
consciousness. If you talk to people about philosophy
enough, or are in circles that discuss AI, you often get
to this frustrating breaking point in conversations
around debates about what consciousness is.
Phenomenology, in a sense, is a study of that debate.
I haven’t had time to digest the concepts in this book
enough to give a full treatment to them, but a couple key
items I enjoyed reading in this book were: (1) the idea
of reflective and pre-reflective consciousness, (2) the
idea that consciousness and embodiment are intertwined at
a deep level, (3) a description of how conscious thought
interacts with the passage of time, (4) the integration
of perception and intentionality into consciousness, and
(5) the idea that there is valuable scientific
information to be discovered from using an “inside-out”
view of consciousness as the object of study.
o ⚓ ESPN ☛ Pele,_king_of_‘beautiful_game,’_dies_at_82⠀⇛
Pele, the Brazilian king of football who won a record
three World Cups and became one of the most commanding
sports figures of the past century, died Thursday. He was
82.
The standard-bearer of “the beautiful game” had undergone
treatment for colon cancer since 2021. He had been
hospitalised for the past month with multiple ailments.
Sao Paulo’s Albert Einstein hospital, where Pele was
undergoing treatment, said he died at 3:27 p.m. “due to
multiple organ failures resulting from the progression of
colon cancer associated with his previous medical
condition.”
o ⚓ Adriaan Zhang ☛ So_Long,_2022⠀⇛
As I write this blogpost, 2022 will meet its demise in
the span of just three days. So I thought I’d take a
moment to reflect on what a year it’s been.
o ⚓ Terence Eden ☛ Early_forms_of_Interactive_TV⠀⇛
Way back in the mists of time, I did my secondary-school
work experience at the BBC. Specifically, Children’s BBC.
Every day for a couple of weeks, I’d commute into White
City, wander those hallowed halls, sit at a desk, and…
You know… I can’t remember! I know I got to visit the
“Broom Cupboard”, and I’m pretty sure I did a lot of data
entry, oh – and I sat in a meeting for “Two-Way TV”.
These were the early days of the consumer Internet. The
WWW was still brand new and it wasn’t certain that it
would be the dominant communications medium of the
future. Digital TV had just launched in the UK and users
were regularly exhorted to “press the red button now!”
Doing so would bring up an MHEG page which acted as a
sort of fancy teletext.
[...]
In the year 1999, Children’s BBC launched a TV show
called “Sub-Zero”. Hardly anyone remembers it – indeed
there’s barely a paragraph on Wikipedia. It doesn’t exist
on YouTube. Essentially, it was kids’ version of The
Crystal Maze. With some kids taking part via webcams!
o ⚓ Terence Eden ☛ The_Life_Script_–_a_play_for_algorithms⠀⇛
Another short story. This time in the form of a
screenplay – formatted with screenplay.css.
o ⚓ Favourite_books_of_2022:_Memoir/biography_–_Chris_Lamb⠀⇛
In my two most recent posts, I listed the fiction and
classic fiction I enjoyed the most in 2022.
o § Science⠀➾
# ⚓ 2D_material_may_enable_ultra-sharp_cellphone_photos_in_low
light_|_Penn_State_University⠀⇛
A new type of active pixel sensor that uses a novel
two-dimensional material may both enable ultra-
sharp cellphone photos and create a new class of
extremely energy-efficient Internet of Things (IoT)
sensors, according to a team of Penn State
researchers.
“When people are looking for a new phone, what are
the specs that they are looking for?” said
Saptarshi Das, associate professor of engineering
science and mechanics and lead author of the study
published Nov. 17 in Nature Materials. “Quite
often, they are looking for a good camera, and what
does a good camera mean to most people? Sharp
photos with high resolution.”
# ⚓ New York Times ☛ An_A.I._Pioneer_on_What_We_Should_Really
Fear⠀⇛
# ⚓ Victor_Venema_1971_–_2022⠀⇛
Victor Venema PhD was born in Groningen in the
Netherlands. He attended Groningen University,
where he was awarded his PhD in Physics for
research on the measurement of cloud structure.
o § Security⠀➾
# ⚓ Diffoscope ☛ Reproducible_Builds:_diffoscope_230_released⠀⇛
The diffoscope maintainers are pleased to announce
the release of diffoscope version 230. This version
includes the following changes:
[ Chris Lamb ]
* Fix compatibility with file(1) version 5.43;
thanks, Christoph Biedl.
[ Jelle van der Waa ]
* Support Berkeley DB version 6.
* § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾
o ⚓ Tim Bray ☛ ongoing_by_Tim_Bray_·_Privacy_Is_OK⠀⇛
I hate to write a piece just saying Someone Is Wrong On
The Internet. But Reid Blackman’s The Signal App and the
Danger of Privacy at All Costs (in the NYTimes, forsooth)
is not just wrong but dangerously misleading. I haven’t
seen a compact explainer on why, so here goes.
Blackman’s description of what Signal does is accurate:
Provides an extremely private communication path among
individuals and groups; private to the extent that
Signal.org (a nonprofit) doesn’t even know who’s talking
to whom, let alone what they’re saying.
Blackman argues that this is dangerous because bad people
could use it to plan nefarious activities and the legal
authorities wouldn’t be able to eavesdrop on them and
stop them. Indeed, bad people can and (I’m sure) do use
cryptography to evade surveillance.
[...]
Don’t worry, be happy · While I acknowledge that in an
ideal world we’d be able to eavesdrop on bad people
without shattering privacy for good ones, that’s not the
world we live in. And I actually don’t think it’s that
big a problem. For example, Blackman notes that in the
course of the law-enforcement investigation of the
January 6th insurrection, police got access to the
traitors’ Signal conversations. How? Obviously, by
getting into their computers or phones, where those
conversations are stored.
Serious security professionals would rather hide a camera
on your office wall or a keylogger in your PC than try to
break the code.
o ⚓ Bloomberg ☛ [Repeat]_NSA_Watchdog_Concluded_One_Analyst’s
Surveillance_Project_Went_Too_Far⠀⇛
§ Environment⠀➾
* § Energy⠀➾
o ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ A_hissy_fit_for_the_record_books_–_Michael
West⠀⇛
Kevin Gallagher is crying poor whilst raking in cash.
Using his media allies to push a false narrative around
the minor gas price caps.
o ⚓ David Rosenthal ☛ DSHR’s_Blog:_Dominoes⠀⇛
When important parts of the cryptosphere collapse, such
as Terra/Luna or FTX/Alameda, people often ask “is this
the end of crypto?”. The answer so far is no. But as the
“crypto winter” continues, and contagion spreads from
exchanges to miners and their financiers, the number of
important parts still standing is decreasing.
[...]
If you look at the cryptocurrency ecosystem as a black
box, nothing inside the box can create fiat currency.
Some of the fiat currency flowing in from the buyers ends
up with the miners, the remainder ends up with the
sellers. The professionals are not in the business of
losing money, so they expect to take out more than they
put in. This would represent not paying the miners, and a
disproportionate share of what is left after that. So
everyone else has to both pay the miners and take out
less than their share of what is left. The criminals
using cryptocurrencies for money laundering are doing so
because it is cheaper than other laundries; they expect
to lose some on the deal. The retail traders have to lose
the rest.
A rough estimate of the total amount of fiat currency
that could be extracted from the black box can be made by
taking the “attestations” of the major stablecoins at
face value and summing them; there are unlikely to be
large stores of fiat in the box that haven’t been
converted to stablecoins. This gets us $66.2B (USDT) +
$44.2B (USDC) + $17.4B (BUSD) + $0.7B (USDD) = $128.5B,
against a current total “market cap” of cryptocurrencies
at around $800B. If there was a “bank run” in the
cryptosphere, it is likely that the total recovery would
be around the $128.5B or 16%. The costs involved in
selling the non-cash securities forming part of the
stablecoins’ backing might be roughly matched by the fiat
the estimate missed.
§ AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾
* ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ The_Qantas_code_of_profiteering_–_Michael_West⠀⇛
Qantas is pulling back capacity to keep its airfare prices high
as cagey chief Alan Joyce profiteers from the airline’s
dominant market position and political clout.
* ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ How_Murdoch,_Costello_and_The_Cartel_Choir_got_the
wrong_tune_–_Michael_West⠀⇛
Deaf to the Murdoch and Nine Entertainment descants of the
fossil fuel choir soaring high above the harmonies of Woodside,
Shell and Santos, the Australian stock market sent Santos and
Woodside share prices up, not down, in the wake of the Albanese
government’s gas market intervention. Daniel Bleakley exposes
the bull.
* ⚓ The Hill ☛ EXPLAINER:_Kansas’_Democratic_governor_imposes_TikTok_ban_|
The_Hill⠀⇛
Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly banned the use of TikTok on the state-
issued devices of government workers under her control on
Wednesday, becoming one of the first Democratic governors to
restrict the popular social media app.
* ⚓ John Gruber ☛ Kansas_Governor_Imposes_TikTok_Ban_on_State-Issued
Devices⠀⇛
The fact that TikTok is phenomenally popular is not a reason to
let it slide — it’s exactly the reason it is urgent to ban it.
The CCP is using TikTok to spy on people worldwide, and promote
CCP-friendly propaganda.
§ Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾
* § Personal⠀➾
o ⚓ 🔤SpellBinding:_CENOPTY_Wordo:_TROTS⠀⇛
* § Technical⠀➾
o § Programming⠀➾
# ⚓ Using_markov_chains_to_generate_gibberish⠀⇛
Playing around with it, I wanted to generate some
text and started porting some code I wrote in
Clojure to Guile Scheme. It’s a basic
implementation of Markov Chains; analyze input to
record the likelihood some term(s) are followed by
other terms and use those statistics to generate
data at random.
=> =============================================================================
World Wide Web but a lot lighter.
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§ Contents⠀➾
* GNU/Linux
o Desktop/Laptop
o Audiocasts/Shows
o Applications
o Instructionals/Technical
o Desktop_Environments/WMs
# K_Desktop_Environment/KDE_SC/Qt
# GNOME_Desktop/GTK
* Distributions_and_Operating_Systems
o New_Releases
o Gentoo_Family
o SUSE/OpenSUSE
o Canonical/Ubuntu_Family
o Open_Hardware/Modding
* Free,_Libre,_and_Open_Source_Software
o Programming/Development
# Perl_/_Raku
* Leftovers
o Science
o Hardware
o Security
# Privacy/Surveillance
o Defence/Aggression
o Environment
# Energy
o Finance
o AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics
o Digital_Restrictions_(DRM)
o Monopolies
# Copyrights
* Gemini*_and_Gopher
o Technical
# Science
* § GNU/Linux⠀➾
o § Desktop/Laptop⠀➾
# ⚓ 2022_was_the_year_of_Linux_on_the_Desktop⠀⇛
Thanks to the 2022 StackOverflow developer survey
we can finally say 2022 was the year of Linux on
the Desktop!
Linux as a primary operating system had been
steadily climbing for the past 5 years. 2018
through 2021 saw steady growth with 23.2% , 25.6% ,
26.6% , 25.3% , and finally in 2022 the usage was
40.23%. Linux usage was more than macOS in 2021,
but only by a small margin. 2022 it is now 9% more
than macOS.
# ⚓ OMG! Linux ☛ More_Developers_Use_Linux_than_Mac,_Report
Shows_–_OMG!_Linux⠀⇛
The 2022 StackOverflow developer survey shows that
more developers use Linux than Mac.
And while Windows remains the most used platform
with developers overall it’s not by as much as you
may think.
The traditional annual survey from developer
resource Stack Overflow reveals, as noted by
Thurrot, that Microsoft Windows is the most widely
used operating system among developers who took
part in the poll.
A smidgen over 48 percent of developers say they
use Windows in their work-related tasks (and a
larger 62% say they use it for their non-work/
personal/hobby needs).
# ⚓ 9to5Linux ☛ Meet_the_Slimbook_Kymera_Ventus_AMD_Black
Limited_Edition_Linux_Gaming_PC⠀⇛
To welcome 2023, Linux hardware vendor Slimbook
announced today a Limited Edition of their Slimbook
Kymera Ventus Linux-powered computer featuring
support for the latest and greatest AMD and Intel
CPUs, as well as black coating.
Powered by the latest and greatest AMD Ryzen 7000
series with up to 16 cores and 5,7GHz boost clocks
or the 13th Gen Intel “Raptor Lake” processors with
up to 24 cores and 5,8GHz boost clocks, the
Slimbook Kymera Ventus AMD Black Limited Edition
desktop computer comes with an ATX-sized, full-
metal case in an “intimidating” black color that
“radiates respect and elegance from all its
corners.”
o § Audiocasts/Shows⠀➾
# ⚓ Video ☛ Manjaro_22.0_“Sikaris”_Gnome_Edition_overview_–
Invidious⠀⇛
In this video, I am going to show an overview of
Manjaro 22.0 “Sikaris” Gnome Edition and some of
the applications pre-installed.
# ⚓ Video ☛ The_Worst_Tech_of_2022_–_Invidious⠀⇛
Last year I did the top 5 worst devices in 2021,
lets go over the worst technology that hurts all of
us daily for 2022.
o § Applications⠀➾
# ⚓ OMG! Linux ☛ PeaZip’s_New_Update_Boosts_Speed,_Lowers
Memory_Usage_–_OMG!_Linux⠀⇛
A new version of PeaZip, a free and open-source
file archiver and data compression tool, is
available to download.
PeaZip 9.0 boasts major improvements in speed and
memory usage. Developers working on the utility say
it is now roughly 10% faster and uses 10% less
memory when opening archives with over 250k files.
It’s also ~3x faster at adding files to archives
too.
Given that decompression and compression is the
core ask of an app of this kind, PeaZip’s newly-
added performance improvements are sure to be
appreciated by the app’s most avid users.
# ⚓ OMG! Linux ☛ Tokodon_is_a_Qt-based_Mastodon_Client_for
Linux_–_OMG!_Linux⠀⇛
The decentralised social network Mastodon is
ballooning in popularity right now, with millions
of folks flocking in to what the Fediverse has to
offer.
But you don’t need to use a web browser or your
mobile device to read, follow, and share updates on
Mastodon. You can do it from the comfort of the
Linux desktop using Tokodon.
Tokodon is a Qt-based Mastodon client for Linux
desktops. It sports a clean, straight-forward user
interface with all of the core features front-and-
center. You’re never more than a click (or a poke)
away from navigating your way around.
In this post I give you an overview of what the app
can (and can’t) do.
# ⚓ OMG! Linux ☛ Fragments_is_a_Simple_Torrent_Client_for_Linux
–_OMG!_Linux⠀⇛
There are plenty of torrent clients for Linux with
open-source apps like Deluge, qBittorrent and
Transmission the most post popular.
But if you’re looking for lightweight torrent
client that fits GNOME desktop like a glove, be
sure to check out Fragments.
Fragments is free, open-source torrent client
written in GTK4/libadwaita. Designed to be easy to
use, Fragments opens BitTorrent files and magnet-
links so you can download the files they point to.
A supremely focused tool, Fragments provides most
of the features you need with none of the bloat you
don’t. Being built on top of Transmission it
supports many of the same features. It can also be
used as remote control for Fragments or
Transmission running on different devices.
# ⚓ Medevel ☛ Converter_Now:_An_Impressive_Privacy-focused_Free
Unit_Converter⠀⇛
Converter Now is a Libre (Open Source) lightweight
unit converter app, that features a user-friendly
interface, and a dozen of units that you can
convert from and to.
[...]
Converter Now is released under the GNU General
Public License Version 3.0.
o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾
# ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_To_Install_Ghost_on_Rocky_Linux_9_–_idroot⠀⇛
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install
Ghost on Rocky Linux 9. For those of you who didn’t
know, Ghost is a popular open-source blogging
platform that allows users to easily create and
manage their own blogs. It is written in JavaScript
and runs on the Node.js library, making it a highly
scalable and flexible platform.
This article assumes you have at least basic
knowledge of Linux, know how to use the shell, and
most importantly, you host your site on your own
VPS. The installation is quite simple and assumes
you are running in the root account, if not you may
need to add ‘sudo‘ to the commands to get root
privileges. I will show you the step-by-step
installation of the Ghost Content Management System
on Rocky Linux. 9.
# ⚓ peppe8o ☛ Raspberry_PI_OS_Lite:_Install,_Setup_and
Configure⠀⇛
Install Raspberry PI OS Lite without Desktop
Environment to provide a lite OS for your Raspberry
Pi Projects, with extra guides for advanced
settings…
o § Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾
# § K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt⠀➾
# ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ 6_Reasons_Why_Many_Linux_Distros_Don’t
Ship_KDE_by_Default⠀⇛
When it comes to customizability, there’s no
other desktop that even comes close to KDE
Plasma. So why don’t more distributions ship
KDE by default?
The KDE Plasma desktop is great, but most
Linux distros default to GNOME instead. Why
don’t more go all-in on KDE? Plasma is more
than capable of serving as the foundation for
a distro, so why aren’t more KDE-based
options available? Turns out, the reasons are
mostly technical.
# § GNOME Desktop/GTK⠀➾
# ⚓ Ubuntu Handbook ☛ This_Extension_Adds_Audio
Visualizer_on_Desktop_in_Ubuntu_22.04_|_22.10_|
UbuntuHandbook⠀⇛
Want to display audio/music visualizer on the
desktop? This extension can do the job for
Ubuntu 22.10, Fedora 37, Arch/Manjaro Linux
with GNOME.
It’s “Sound Visualizer” extension for Gnome
Shell based on Gstreamer specially for
Wayland. And, it’s working good in my case in
Ubuntu 22.04, though it’s said for Gnome v43.
* § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾
o ⚓ H2S Media ☛ 5_Best_Linux_Distros_to_use_on_Home_PC_–_laptop_in
2023⠀⇛
When it comes to a home pc or laptop that is accessible
by multiple people then you must want an operating system
that is not only secure but also enough simple and easy
to understand by everyone. As more and more people are
getting aware of security and privacy concerns because of
increasing internet penetration in our daily lives, Linux
distros’ developers keep doing hard work to make them
more user-friendly and easy to understand.
Also, if you have multiple PCs in your home, then for
installing Linux you don’t have to pay anything.
Moreover, you don’t want RedHat, CentOS, Kali Linux, or
OpenSUSE which are more inclined toward professional
users. In-home, we want something which indeed Linux but
less sophisticated, and easy to understand, installation
packages should be available via Software Manager and can
detect all PC hardware to set up corresponding drivers.
o § New Releases⠀➾
# ⚓ OMG! Linux ☛ EndeavourOS_’Cassini’_is_Now_Available_to
Download_–_OMG!_Linux⠀⇛
A new version of Arch-based EndeavourOS Linux
distro is available to download.
EndeavourOS “Cassini” — as with previous
EndeavourOS releases the codename references a NASA
mission/project/effort — features a wealth of
lower-level changes, new artwork, and improved
support for ARM devices, including the PineBook
Pro.
Although EndeavourOS is a rolling release distro
new ISO images are issued periodically. These make
it easy for new users to jump-aboard the rolling-
release train without needing to download and
install an avalanche of post-install updates.
# ⚓ OMG! Linux ☛ Manjaro_22.0_‘Sikaris’_is_Now_Available_to
Download_–_OMG!_Linux⠀⇛
A brand new version of Manjaro, a popular Arch-
based Linux distro, is available to download.
Manjaro 22.0 “Sikaris” makes a stack of updated
tech available to users, including Network Manager
1.40, PipeWire 0.3.57, Mesa 22.1.7, and a refresh
to the Calamares installer. The recent Linux 6.1
kernel is available in this release.
Three distinct editions, each based around a
different open-source desktop environment, are
available. I personally use the regular KDE
version, but the GNOME and Xfce editions are pretty
popular too.
Manjaro GNOME edition ships with GNOME 43 (which
features a wealth of improvements across the board
including a more user-friendly Quick Settings
menu).
Manjaro also updates its “Layouts Switcher” app
with the ability to create dynamic wallpaper pairs
(that change with system dark mode preference) and
an toggle to fetch the latest version of the
Firefox GNOME Theme for better integration.
Manjaro Xfce is based around the new Xfce 4.18
release, which includes split view, file
highlighting, and recursive search in the Thunar
file manager, new panel options, and other
miscellaneous improvements.
o § Gentoo Family⠀➾
# ⚓ 9to5Linux ☛ Gentoo-Based_Calculate_Linux_23_Is_Out_with
Xfce_4.18,_Cinnamon_5.6,_and_LXQt_1.2⠀⇛
Calculate Linux 23 has been released by maintainer
Alexander Tratsevskiy and it’s now available for
download as the latest version of this rolling-
release Gentoo Linux-based distribution featuring
some of the latest GNU/Linux technologies and Open
Source software components.
Arriving a year after Calculate Linux 22, the
Calculate Linux 23 release is powered by the long-
term supported Linux 5.15 LTS kernel series and
comes with some of the latest and greatest desktop
environments, including Xfce 4.18, Cinnamon 5.6,
LXQt 1.2, and MATE 1.26. The KDE edition,
unfortunately, ships with KDE Plasma 5.25.5 instead
of the latest KDE Plasma 5.26 release.
# ⚓ Linuxiac ☛ Calculate_Linux_23:_Updated_Desktop_Environments
and_New_Tools⠀⇛
KDE Plasma 5.25.5, Xfce 4.18, MATE 1.26.0, Cinnamon
5.6.5, LXQt 1.2, and newly added containerization
tools shine in the brand-new release of Gentoo-
based Calculate Linux 23.
Calculate Linux is a Gentoo-based Linux
distribution that brings the complexity of Gentoo
to the average Linux user in a convenient and easy-
to-use box. In other words, it is an excellent way
to get started in the Gentoo ecosystem without
compiling everything.
However, even though it comes with a GUI installer
and some graphical tools, the distribution is
intended for more advanced Linux users. In other
words, expect to see something other than the
features you’re used to seeing in distros like
Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Manjaro, etc. No, we’re talking
about a one-of-a-kind beast.
o § SUSE/OpenSUSE⠀➾
# ⚓ Dominique Leuenberger ☛ openSUSE_Tumbleweed_–_Review_of_the
week_2022/52_–_Dominique_a.k.a._DimStar_(Dim*)⠀⇛
Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers,
The last week of the year was tranquil, and I think
nobody is surprised by this. The holiday takes time
away from computers and redirects it to other
important events. Yet, sufficient requests had been
submitted to openSUSE Tumbleweed to let the distro
roll on with another 7 snapshots published
(1223…1229). Granted, there have not been ground-
breaking changes happening.
o § Canonical/Ubuntu Family⠀➾
# ⚓ OMG! Linux ☛ Linux_Mint_21.1_Upgrade_Now_Available_to
Existing_Users_–_OMG!_Linux⠀⇛
It’s now possible to upgrade Linux Mint 21 to Linux
Mint 21.1, the latest version of the popular
Ubuntu-based Linux distribution.
In a blog post the Linux Mint team announced
they’ve opened the official upgrade path from Linux
Mint 21 to 21.1. This means anyone using Linux Mint
21 can upgrade to Linux Mint 21.1 from the desktop
itself, without needing to download an ISO and
perform a “reinstall”.
Linux Mint 21.1 “Vera” released on December 20. It
features a modest crop of changes, including a new
“show desktop” applet, restyled folder icons, and
the ability to install Flatpak app updates from the
Update Manager.
# ⚓ Full Circle Magazine ☛ Full_Circle_Magazine_#188⠀⇛
This month:
* Command & Conquer
* How-To : Python, Blender and Latex
* Graphics : Inkscape
* Everyday Ubuntu
* Micro This Micro That
* Review : Kubuntu 22.10
* Review : Ubuntu Cinnamon 22.04
* Ubports Touch : OTA-24
* Tabletop Ubuntu
* Ubuntu Games : Dwarf Fortress (Steam Edition)
plus: News, My Story, The Daily Waddle, Q&A, and
more.
o § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾
# ⚓ Hackster ☛ Auto-pause_your_TV_–_Hackster.io⠀⇛
I’m often tired when I sit down to watch TV at the
end of a day, so I want the experience to be as
easy as possible. One simple improvement I’ve
dreamt about is having the TV notice when I’ve got
up so it can automatically pause the current show,
and then resume it when I return. I decided to
prototype this using one of our Person Sensors,
together with a Circuit Playground Express board
from Adafruit. This guide will show you how to
build one too, with no soldering required!
The video above shows how the final device works.
When no face is detected for five seconds, an IR
signal is sent to the TV emulating pressing the
pause button on your remote control. When a face is
detected again for at least one second, the code
for play is sent. It’s definitely still a
prototype, with lots of rough edges to be smoothed
out, but I’ve had fun playing with it myself and
demoing it to other people. I’d love to see a
commercial product like this, so I hope it sparks
someone’s imagination.
# ⚓ Pi_Pico_Pinout_Display_on_the_Command_Line_–_Raspberry_Pi
Spy⠀⇛
Displaying the pinout of a Raspberry Pi Pico is
possible using my “picopins” script. The script
displays the pinout in a colour coded format
showing the location of power, ground and GPIO
pins. I find it useful if I’m coding Pico projects
on my laptop or Pi 400 and need to check the
location of a GPIO pin.
# ⚓ [Older]_Pi_Pico_W_Pinout_and_Power_Pins_–_Raspberry_Pi
Spy⠀⇛
The Pi Pico W Pinout is identical to that of the
original Pi Pico. The Pi Pico W microcontroller
board offers all the features of the Pi Pico with
the addition of WiFi and Bluetooth.
The Pico W can accept 0.1″ pin-headers which can be
soldered to the board as required.
# ⚓ Scanntronik_Manuals_–_pagetable.com⠀⇛
The German company “Scanntronik” offered a lot of
high-quality hardware and software for the
Commodore 64 series computers, most in the space of
graphics and desktop publishing. They are well-
known for their Pagefox and Printfox software as
well as their Handyscanner 64 hardware. This page
offers most of the German-language manuals from
across their product range as searchable PDFs.
# ⚓ Let’s_build_a_nixie_watch_–_jaeblog_jaeblog⠀⇛
Ok ok ok, this is not a Nixie, it’s a Panaplex
watch, but that sounds so much less fun. They work
like nixies, but they are flat and often 7 segment
displays, somewhat common in alarm clocks and tech
gear.I got a few of them from a friend and compared
to nixies, they are rather small and flat. So why
not make a wristwatch with them!
Like nixies, panaplex displays require a high
voltage to operate, around 200V. Which, on a
wristwatch is a little challenging. I also wanted
this to be a somewhat usable watch, unlike some of
the nixie watches that, while cool, look quite
cumbersome to wear due to their size.
This display is the ZM1570, which according to the
datasheet, is similar to the ZM1550 but a little
radioactive, fun!
So let’s look at what it takes to make a watch with
these and how small all the circuitry can be.
So for a simple watch, without any smart nonsense,
just a few things are needed. A display, a simple
microcontroller, a somewhat accurate clock source
and a battery. Of course, this display also needs
quite a unique power supply, so let’s start with
tackling that.
* § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾
o § Programming/Development⠀➾
# ⚓ Programming Language DataBase ☛ A_brief_interview_with_Mu
creator_Dr._Kartik_Agaram⠀⇛
Dr. Kartik Agaram is a professional programmer by
day and the author of several open source projects
that try to demystify computers. His projects all
show a great love for programming and empathy for
readers grappling with a strange codebase.
# ⚓ Golang_is_evil_on_shitty_networks_–_Somewhere_Within
Boredom⠀⇛
This adventure starts with git-lfs. It was a normal
day and I added a 500 MB binary asset to my server
templates. When I went to push it, I found it
interesting that git-lfs was uploading at 50KB per
second. Being that I had a bit of free time that
I’d much rather be spending on something else than
waiting FOREVER to upload a file, I decided to head
upstairs and plug into the ethernet. I watched it
instantly jump up to 2.5 MB per second. Still not
very fast, but I was now intensely curious.
Since I figured I would have originally been
waiting FOREVER for this to upload, I decided to
use that time and investigate what was going on.
While I would expect wired ethernet to be a bit
faster than wifi, I didn’t expect it to be orders
(with an s) of magnitude faster. Just to check my
sanity, I ran a speed test and saw my upload speed
on wifi at 40MB per second, and wired at 60MB per
second.
After some investigations with WireShark and other
tools, I learned that my wifi channels have a
shitload of interference in the 2Ghz band, and just
a little in the 5Ghz band. During this time, I also
learned that my router wouldn’t accept a single
5Ghz client due to a misconfiguration on my part.
So, non-sequitur, apparently enabling “Target Wake
Time” was very important (I have no idea what that
does). Once that was fixed, I saw 600MB per second
on my internal network and outside throughput was
about the same as wired.
# ⚓ Medium ☛ The_Bitter_Truth:_Python_3.11,_Cython,_C++
Performance_|_Agents_and_Robots⠀⇛
This article compares various approaches to speed
up Python. However, it should be clear in advance
that C++ is still faster than Python. The question
is by how much?
The article is tailored for Data Scientists and
persons with domain knowledge and Python experience
that are interested in results gained from a
simulation.
The article demonstrates the current state of
Python’s performance using one example only. It is
not a rigorous comparison. It shows what tools are
available, how to measure performance gains, and
what best practices are.
# ⚓ ACM ☛ The_End_of_Programming⠀⇛
When I was in college in the early 1990s, we were
still in the depths of the AI Winter, and AI as a
field was likewise dominated by classical
algorithms. My first research job at Cornell
University was working with Dan Huttenlocher, a
leader in the field of computer vision (and now
Dean of the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing).
In Huttenlocher’s Ph.D.-level computer vision
course in 1995 or so, we never once discussed
anything resembling deep learning or neural
networks—it was all classical algorithms like Canny
edge detection, optical flow, and Hausdorff
distances. Deep learning was in its infancy, not
yet considered mainstream AI, let alone mainstream
CS.
Of course, this was 30 years ago, and a lot has
changed since then, but one thing that has not
really changed is that CS is taught as a discipline
with data structures, algorithms, and programming
at its core. I am going to be amazed if in 30
years, or even 10 years, we are still approaching
CS in this way. Indeed, I think CS as a field is in
for a pretty major upheaval few of us are really
prepared for.
# ⚓ Another_Year_of_#TidyTuesday_|_Nicola_Rennie⠀⇛
Last year, I wrote a blog post discussing of how I
found participating in #TidyTuesday every week for
a year. Well, this year I did the same again. And
so I’m writing another blog post about it! If
you’re unfamiliar with #TidyTuesday, it’s a weekly
data challenge aimed at the R community. Every week
a new data set is posted alongside a chart or
article related to that data set, and ask
participants explore the data.
# § Perl / Raku⠀➾
# ⚓ Perl ☛ SemVer_but_with_Extra_Steps_|_Toby_Inkster_
[blogs.perl.org]⠀⇛
This is a variant of SemVer which mostly
meets all its rules, except for releases
prior to 0.2.0, where we bend them slightly.
It is my intention to use this versioning
system for all open source software I develop
from 1 January 2023 onwards. Existing open
source projects I manage will adopt this
scheme from their next release onwards.
(Type::Tiny already somewhat does.)
* § Leftovers⠀➾
o ⚓ CubicleNate ☛ A_2022_Christmastime_Blathering_–_CubicleNate’s
Techpad⠀⇛
As the year comes to a close, it is often filled with
mixed emotions about my personal evaluation of my
performance for the year. Many things were advanced, some
things didn’t advance far enough and others may have even
regressed a bit but I would say, over all, I am in a
better position today than I was at the end of last year.
It’s easy to dwell on the mistakes I made, especially
about what I prioritized but very often those things are
observed with the benefit of hindsight. I do what I can
to take my various decisions, regardless of outcome and
learn from it the best that I can.
o ⚓ Commonweal Magazine ☛ Escaping_the_Algorithms_|_Commonweal
Magazine⠀⇛
In recent months, artificial intelligence developers have
released tools to the general public that have
demonstrated the capacity of AI to mimic and perhaps, in
some cases, even surpass human creative capacities. The
technology, known by the general term “generative AI,” is
trained on large datasets consisting of examples of
images or writing. It can then spit out images conforming
to a specific description, pieces of writing in a user-
specified genre, or convincing responses to a series of
questions.
The results can be quite startling. When I asked DALL-
E 2, the image generator, to produce an image of “an FBI
agent playing pinball in the style of Paul Klee,” it
produced something that felt like a Klee to the untrained
eye and wouldn’t look out of place in an art gallery. I
had the uncomfortable experience of kind of liking it.
And the text generator ChatGPT (Generative Pre-trained
Transformer) produced a plausible, if juvenile, draft of
a poem about the risks of AI: “Once we create it, we
can’t control its mind, / It could turn against us, and
be unkind.” Others have used AI to write code, play
games, and even diagnose maladies.
o ⚓ AI:_Markets_for_Lemons,_and_the_Great_Logging_Off⠀⇛
The good news is, we know how to fix the root problem of
information asymmetry. In the case of used cars, there
are now services like CarFax and CarMax and the whole
“certified pre-owned vehicle” thing that make it a lot
easier to know a car’s history before you buy it. And
even in the old days, you could insist on taking the car
to your local mechanic first. Similar fixes have come for
spam phone calls – caller ID makes it clear when the
caller is someone from my contacts list, and iOS now even
pre-flags suspicious calls as probable spam. And in the
case of people I might want to talk to but aren’t in my
contact list yet, in almost all cases they’ll have
scheduled the call ahead of time.
o § Science⠀➾
# ⚓ Ars Technica ☛ Scientists_may_have_found_the_first_water
worlds_|_Ars_Technica⠀⇛
Two planets that were originally discovered by the
Kepler mission may not be what we thought they
were. Based on an initial characterization, it was
thought these planets were rocky bodies a bit
larger than Earth. But continued observation has
produced data that indicates the planets are much
less dense than we originally thought. And the only
realistic way to get the sort of densities they now
seem to have is for a substantial amount of their
volume to be occupied by water or a similar fluid.
We do have bodies like this in our Solar
System—most notably the moon Europa, which has a
rocky core surrounded by a watery shell capped by
ice. But these new planets are much closer to their
host star, which means their surfaces are probably
a blurry boundary between a vast ocean and a steam-
filled atmosphere.
o § Hardware⠀➾
# ⚓ IEEE ☛ Minuscule_Sensing_Suite_Is_a_Big_Step_Toward_Robotic
Gnats⠀⇛
In the late 1980s, Rod Brooks and Anita Flynn
published a paper in The Journal of the British
Interplanetary Society with the amazing title of
Fast, Cheap, and Out of Control: A Robotic Invasion
of the Solar System. The paper explored the idea
that instead of sending one big and complicated and
extremely expensive robot to explore (say) the
surface of Mars, you could instead send a whole
bunch of little and simple and extremely cheap
robots, while still accomplishing mission goals.
The abstract of the paper concludes: “We suggest
that within a few years it will be possible at
modest cost to invade a planet with millions of
tiny robots.”
That was 1989, and we’re still nowhere near
millions of tiny robots. Some things are just
really hard to scale down, and building robots that
are the size of bees or flies or even gnats
requires advances in (among other things) sensing
for autonomy as well as appropriate power systems.
But progress is being made, and Sawyer Fuller,
assistant professor at the University of Washington
(who knows a thing or four about insect-scale
flying robots), has a new article inScience
Robotics that shows how it’s possible to put
together the necessary sensing hardware to enable
stable, autonomous flight for flying robots smaller
than a grain of rice.
o § Security⠀➾
# ⚓ LWN ☛ Security_updates_for_Friday_[LWN.net]⠀⇛
Security updates have been issued by Debian
(libcommons-net-java), Fedora (python3.6), and SUSE
(conmon, polkit-default-privs, thunderbird, and
webkit2gtk3).
# ⚓ Bleeping Computer ☛ New_Linux_malware_uses_30_plugin
exploits_to_backdoor_WordPress_sites [Ed: Microsoft-connected
tries to badmouth GNU/Linux and free software with a word
salad, mistaking malware for "back doors" and not bothering
to explain the machines need to be compromised in the first
place (somehow)]⠀⇛
A previously unknown Linux malware has been
exploiting 30 vulnerabilities in multiple outdated
WordPress plugins and themes to inject malicious
JavaScript.
# § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾
# ⚓ Bruce Schneier ☛ Recovering_Smartphone_Voice_from_the
Accelerometer⠀⇛
Eavesdropping from the user’s smartphone is a
well-known threat to the user’s safety and
privacy. Existing studies show that
loudspeaker reverberation can inject speech
into motion sensor readings, leading to
speech eavesdropping. While more devastating
attacks on ear speakers, which produce much
smaller scale vibrations, were believed
impossible to eavesdrop with zero-permission
motion sensors. In this work, we revisit this
important line of reach. We explore recent
trends in smartphone manufacturers that
include extra/powerful speakers in place of
small ear speakers, and demonstrate the
feasibility of using motion sensors to
capture such tiny speech vibrations. We
investigate the impacts of these new ear
speakers on built-in motion sensors and
examine the potential to elicit private
speech information from the minute
vibrations. Our designed system EarSpy can
successfully detect word regions, time, and
frequency domain features and generate a
spectrogram for each word region. We train
and test the extracted data using classical
machine learning algorithms and convolutional
neural networks. We found up to 98.66%
accuracy in gender detection, 92.6% detection
in speaker detection, and 56.42% detection in
digit detection (which is 5X more significant
than the random selection (10%)). Our result
unveils the potential threat of eavesdropping
on phone conversations from ear speakers
using motion sensors.
# ⚓ Associated Press ☛ Police_Tap_COVID-19_Tech_to_Expand
Global_Surveillance⠀⇛
Police forces worldwide are tapping
technologies developed for coronavirus
contact tracing for mass surveillance.
China, for example, requires citizens to
install cellphone applications to move about
freely in most cities as part of its COVID
policy. The apps use telecommunications data
and polymerase chain reaction test results to
generate individual quick response codes that
change hue based on a person’s health status,
but evidence suggests these and other health
codes have been used to suppress dissent.
o § Defence/Aggression⠀➾
# ⚓ Los Angeles Times ☛ A_new_generation_of_police_robots_faces
backlash_–_Los_Angeles_Times⠀⇛
Spot isn’t like other police dogs.
For starters, it has no head. Or fur. And instead
of kibble and water, it runs on a lithium-ion
battery.
When the four-legged robot, which can climb stairs,
open doors and transmit 360-degree video, was
unveiled a few years ago, it was billed as a potent
new tool for industries whose workers are often in
dangerous conditions. It could, for example, detect
radiation for an energy company or inspect the
safety of a mining tunnel, its creator, Boston
Dynamics, said in promotional material.
And police officials around the U.S. realized that
Spot, which its inventors named, also offered an
upgrade from the slower, less agile robots
currently used in high-risk situations such as
negotiating with hostage takers and assessing
suspicious packages.
The Los Angeles Police Department decided it needed
to have a Spot. It turned to the L.A. Police
Foundation, which raises money for the department,
to cover the nearly $280,000 price tag that
included upgrades and warranties.
# ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ War_Powers_Inquiry:_“just_as_Britain
has_the_Gurkhas,_the_Americans_have_us?”_–_Michael_West⠀⇛
The Parliamentary Inquiry into War Powers heard the
pros and cons of a parliamentary vote to go to war
versus the status quo, that is, the Prime Minister
alone can make the call. Zacharias Szumer reports
on the hearings and the big points of concern.
Civil society groups, veterans and all who have
long fought for a greater democratisation of the
way Australia goes war finally got their day in
parliament on Friday, with what may be the one and
only hearing of the Inquiry into International
Armed Conflict Decision Making.
Over five hours, those both for and against reform
were questioned on the arguments made in their
submissions by members of the defence subcommittee
of the Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs,
Defence and Trade (JSCFADT). Debates ranged from
complex Constitutional questions to the toll of war
on veterans’ mental health. However, there were
several themes that consistently loomed over the
proceedings.
o § Environment⠀➾
# § Energy⠀➾
# ⚓ Erich Styger ☛ [Older]_Energy_Crisis_in_Europe:
Optimizing_a_Building_from_4.5_to_2.4_MWh_|_MCU_on
Eclipse⠀⇛
With the war in the Ukraine, energy prices in
Europe reached new record levels. This
initially affected the gas price which does
not affect me directly. But it had a big
impact on the price for electrical energy
too. In my village, the price for electrical
energy is now at 0.45 CHF/kWh, starting
October 1st 2022. It is twice as much as what
it used to be, and three times more what it
used to be the price for the energy at night
time.
o § Finance⠀➾
# ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Fares_zoom_above_costs_as_Qantas_cries
poor_to_politicians_and_staff;_cries_rich_to_sharemarket_–
Michael_West⠀⇛
antas is pulling back capacity to keep its airfare
prices high as cagey chief Alan Joyce profiteers
from the airline’s dominant market position and
political clout. Michael Sainsbury reports on the
insipid ACCC report into airline competition.
The combination of Qantas’s mounting profits,
record high airfares, threats by Alan Joyce to cut
“marginal” routes and the struggle of offshore
airlines to get more landing slots in Australia all
point to one thing: the failure of competition in
the Australia airline sector.
Yet the Australian Competition and Consumer
Commission (ACCC) and the Albanese government seem
determined to do not very much about it. On
December 6, the competition watchdog issued its
latest quarterly report on domestic competition in
the Australian airline market.
It runs to over 100 pages, a quarterly exercise
that is surely costing taxpayers hundreds of
thousands of dollars a pop, and details the fact
that average revenue per passenger, an indication
of average airfares across all fare types, was 27%
higher in October 2022 than it was in October 2019
before the Pandemic. It also confirms that airlines
have wound back capacity, the key move behind
rising prices and corporate profits at the expense
of customers.
An index of the discounted economy fares on the top
70 domestic routes in November 2022 was more than
double what it was in April 2022, an 11-year low.
In September this year, the same index of the
cheapest available fares reached a 15-year high.
o § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾
# ⚓ The Washington Post ☛ Here’s_who_helped_Elon_Musk_buy
Twitter_–_The_Washington_Post⠀⇛
o § Digital Restrictions (DRM)⠀➾
# ⚓ I’m_Done_With_Google_|_Deijin’s_Blog⠀⇛
My auntie is in hospital for christmas this year.
It’s been identified as flu, but it seriously
affected her because she has a lot of heath
problems including terminal cancer.
Every year at christmas she likes to watch The
Wizard of Oz. She has a copy of it I got on google
play for her which she can play on her tablet. So
this year my dad brought her tablet to me before
taking it to the hospital.
Why did my dad need to bring it to me? Well they
don’t have internet at their house, and every so
often google decides to lock you out of the google
play movies app until you connect to the internet
to verify the licence. That’s right, downloaded
copies of a movie that you purchaced can be taken
from you on a whim.
But whatever, my dad has brought it to me, lets
connect it to the internet and get it working for
her.
So I connect it to the internet and I click onto
the app, it says that new higher quality versions
are available for the movies. I don’t care, just
let me check it plays… oh, it’s not downloaded
anymore. Okay, let me download this new copy, huh.
Failed to download. I click on another one that is
still downloaded from before and it says “video
format not supported”. Well that’s a lie, it is a
fairly old android tablet, but I haven’t downloaded
anything since connecting to the internet so this
is the same copy of the movie that has played fine
previously on this tablet.
o § Monopolies⠀➾
# § Copyrights⠀➾
# ⚓ The Verge ☛ Sherlock_Holmes_will_finally_escape
copyright_this_weekend⠀⇛
Watching the copyrights on art expire still
feels like a novelty. After all, the US
public domain was frozen in time for 20
years, thawing only in 2019. But this
weekend’s Public Domain Day will give our
cultural commons a few particularly notable
new works. As outlined by Duke Law School’s
Center for the Study of the Public Domain,
the start of 2023 will mark the end of US
copyrights on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s final
Sherlock Holmes stories — along with the
seminal science fiction movie Metropolis,
Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse, and the
first full-length “talkie” film The Jazz
Singer.
* § Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾
o § Technical⠀➾
# § Science⠀➾
# ⚓ Extreme Tech ☛ NASA’s_Lunar_Flashlight_Launches_to
Shine_a_Light_on_Lunar_Ice_–_ExtremeTech⠀⇛
The Lunar Flashlight is a compact 6U CubeSat,
sporting mostly off-the-shelf hardware like a
conventional lithium-ion battery and HaWK
solar panels. There’s also a flashlight of
sorts, as the name implies. It’s actually an
infrared spectrometer that emits light in
four different wavelengths. We already know
there is frozen water on the moon, but the
Lunar Flashlight aims to create a more
accurate map of its distribution. It will
scan the shadowy depths of craters where
sunlight has never reached, mostly in the
higher latitudes.
When shined on the lunar surface, the
infrared lasers will bounce back after
striking regolith. However, water ice will
absorb light and give away its presence.
Locating an accessible supply of ice on the
moon could be a boon to future missions,
which could use lunar water to make fuel for
a return trip to Earth or a trip to the outer
solar system.
# ⚓ Medical News ☛ Researchers_develop_a_virtual
molecular_library_of_thousands_of_‘command_sentences’
for_cells⠀⇛
Using new machine learning techniques,
researchers at UC San Francisco (UCSF), in
collaboration with a team at IBM Research,
have developed a virtual molecular library of
thousands of “command sentences” for cells,
based on combinations of “words” that guided
engineered immune cells to seek out and
tirelessly kill cancer cells.
[...]
The advance allows scientists to predict
which elements – natural or synthesized –
they should include in a cell to give it the
precise behaviors required to respond
effectively to complex diseases.
“This is a vital shift for the field,” said
Wendell Lim, PhD, the Byers Distinguished
Professor of Cellular and Molecular
Pharmacology, who directs the UCSF Cell
Design Institute and led the study. “Only by
having that power of prediction can we get to
a place where we can rapidly design new
cellular therapies that carry out the desired
activities.”
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