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⦿ [Meme] When Egotistic People Make Egoistic Companies Staff Becomes Disgruntled | Techrights

⦿ IRC Proceedings: Thursday, January 05, 2023 | Techrights

⦿ When the Employer Becomes a Liar and a Bully | Techrights

⦿ When the ’Issue’ is People Who Speak About the Real Issue | Techrights

⦿ When the Employer Becomes an Egoistic Stalker | Techrights

⦿ Truth Hurts: Colleagues Sleeping With the Support Manager at Sirius Open Source Inc. | Techrights

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✐ [Meme]_When_Egotistic_People_Make_Egoistic_Companies_Staff_Becomes

Disgruntled⠀✐

Posted in Deception, Free/Libre_Software at 9:42 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽⦇Andrew_Bucknor:_it's_not_for_the_company;_it's_for_me,

serving_me_and_my_big_ego⦈_

Summary: Disgruntled staff* at Sirius_‘Open_Source’ does not wish to lie and

work for unethical_people; the company then prefers to think of the staff as

the real problem (inversion of narratives)

This wasn’t limited to my wife and I. There’s evidence of others, including a

close colleague. He hated the company’s shift to proprietary stuff (he did

resist), he admits he was bullied, he repeatedly antagonised having to lie to

clients, and he is very unhappy about not being able to access machines or

certain systems just because he’s not literally sleeping with the Support

Manager (like some new workers… yes, plural!). Moreover he felt like a task was

done intentionally on a weekend off to keep him off the job, using a technology

he does not know (they try to keep other staff down, to keep the “bedroom” in

control of the company).

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⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⠛⠁⠀⠀⣸⣿⣿⠁⠀⠙⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣯⣛⣿⣿⣛⡃⢀⣠⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠻⣿⣯⣆⡉⠀⠉⠉⠀⢀⣀⠀⢤⣼⣷⡺⢇⠂⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀

⣿⣿⣿⠿⠋⢀⣴⣶⣶⣿⣿⣿⠇⠀⠀⠀⠈⠻⠿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣶⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣀⣈⢉⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣾⣭⡋⠉⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀

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⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣛⠿⠿⠿⢿⣿⡿⠟⠀⣸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠟⠉⢁⣴⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠤⡿⠿⠿⠿⠇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠙⠻⢿⠿⠉⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⠈⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀

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✐ IRC_Proceedings:_Thursday,_January_05,_2023⠀✐

Posted in IRC_Logs at 5:13 am by Needs Sunlight

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✐ When_the_Employer_Becomes_a_Liar_and_a_Bully⠀✐

Posted in Deception, Free/Libre_Software at 9:37 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

‘Big Shot’ boss: You’re accused of doing nothing. You committed an act of

“nothingness”. Merry Xmas, Rianne!

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                      will_find_out_what_I_did⦈_

Summary: A manager at Sirius_‘Open_Source’ has accused my wife, Rianne, of

basically nothing at all! She did nothing, hence she’s considered “guilty”; she

resigned following this unwarranted bollocking, seeing that the company had

gone broke and hid its presence in a network of shells, impeding potential

lawsuits for compensation; today we reveal the full chain of correspondence and

offer related context

THE LIAR AT SIRIUS has not only picked_on_yours_truly; he also picked on my

wife. Presumably being married to me means that any accusation against myself

is also equally applicable to her.

How does that work? It goes like this:

“Presumably being married to me means that any accusation against myself is

also equally applicable to her.”Even the letters to me get reproduced and are

then being sent to her (with her name instead of mine) and the only connection

the company was able to find is that she_wanted_to_raise_money_for_koalas_amid

very_deadly_wildfires_in_Australia. I re-post her blog post under my name (she

has no account in Techrights) several years ago and this astoundingly becomes

‘evidence’ against her. Just wow!

Don’t believe me? Watch…

Accusation #1:

🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽⦇Accusation_#1⦈_

This is the Bytes Media site, not Techrights. Nothing suggests she runs

Techrights. That she runs Tux Machines is nothing new; she has done this for

nearly a decade already. This is not even surprising and the company’s own site

— even at this very moment — boasts about it:

🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽⦇Rianne_schestowitz⦈_

Accusation #2:

🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽⦇Accusation_#2⦈_

Notice the author on the right; this was posted originally in Tux Machines (by

Rianne), then merely copied by me.

Accusation #3:

🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽⦇Accusation_#3⦈_

This is about editorial work in Tux Machines, not Techrights. It’s worth noting

that he even stalked the old (now retired) site of Tux Machines to ‘prove’ a

connection — a fact that the company boasts about in its very own site! Even

right now! They’ve failed to removed our names from the site even more than a

month after we had resigned. Maybe they worry clients would find out things had

gone really sour at the company.

Accusation #4:

🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽⦇Accusation_#4⦈_

They failed at basic reading comprehension if they think a blog post in Tux

Machines implies Rianne does write Techrights. What is the above even meant to

imply???

We’re astounded the company wasted not just time but also physical paper

sending us (by post) the above, as if to make some point (the lawyer thought

the same upon seeing this). We’ll come back to this later when we cover this

travesty some more. It is a cautionary tale to anyone else who gets bullied by

bosses, based on nothing at all! It cannot be overstated (nor understated) that

she did nothing at all. Nothing!

“They failed at basic reading comprehension if they think a blog post in Tux

Machines implies Rianne does write Techrights.”Over a day ago (we saw this

hours after it had been posted) Major_Hayden_wrote_about_“red_flags” (Major

Hayden is a sysadmin who worked in a number of well known companies). He said a

couple of days ago: “Survival in almost any company requires you to believe

that your contributions create value for someone somewhere. You also need a

belief that your chance for further opportunities in the company should improve

as the product improves. [...] When red flags start to appear, talk to your

manager about them as soon as possible! Don’t let them fester and get worse

while you’re silently becoming more and more upset and stressed. Try to bring

them up with your manager in the context of your experience with them.”

It seems like a common issue; Hayden worries that the company where he worked

started lying to clients (or, as he puts it more politely, wasn’t honest with

clients). Such pathological liars or gaslighters or bullies are drowning the

boat that all of us are in. In this particular case we deal with a sociopath

who has no time to read my E-mail but has several weeks to carefully read

years’ worth of IRC logs in my site, my wife’s site, and my wife’s old (now

retired) site! Some productivity right there…

Amazing, keep up the great work, Mr. CEO! Unless you’re the only person left in

‘your’ company (he hasn’t been in the company as long as we have; he’s fairly

new).

“In this particular case we deal with a sociopath who has no time to read my E-

mail but has several weeks to carefully read years’ worth of IRC logs in my

site, my wife’s site, and my wife’s old (now retired) site! Some productivity

right there…”The “big shot” Mr. CEO fails to grasp that the company brought the

criticism upon itself by mistreating staff for years, then lying to them and

about them. As the Internet meme goes, “you must be new here,” Mr. CEO! Let us

tell you a little about the company’s history. The staff can teach you a thing

or two.

This is a CEO who has no clue how to manage the Wiki and we need to lecture

him, explaining to him that as manager he is the one responsible for adding

clients to the Wiki (after a couple of years as CEO he still did not know

that!).

Anyway, amid all this self-defeating campaign against my wife came this letter

that was folded to save money and still belongs right in the wastebasket. Yes,

he didn’t even want to pay for a proper envelope. Must be a budget issue…

Now it’s our turn to show and to explain what a pathetic and likely illegal

thing he embarked on. So we decided to take screenshots in December or even do

some videos (e.g. show in OBS/Webcamoid just how ridiculous this entire thing

was). There’s lots more on the way…

At the end of the day the company left itself bruised badly by bullying staff

for years. It made some previously-ambitious and motivated staff less loyal or

even disloyal.

“Aside from E-mails, the boss had her put on call; he recorded her (yes, audio

and video) while she was baffled over what this thing was all

about.”Outsourcing is what’s left of the company now (it’s a middleman,

reseller, parasitic firm that’s severely hobbled and unable to contribute).

There are almost no geeks with technical skills left, just mostly self-

appointed ‘managers’ who don’t do their own job, just pocket the money or

surplus off of geeks, some of whom work all night long on shoestring budget.

It’s an exploitative relationship; the managers are milking the brand

(productive past staff earned reputation like this!) and the remaining staff —

not to even surmount the abuse against staff since 2019, i.e. 4 years ago. We

covered this before.

In the communications below one can see how it all started and later this month

we shall talk about why it’s a kangaroo court, definitely not compliant with

British laws. Aside from E-mails, the boss had her put on call; he recorded her

(yes, audio and video) while she was baffled over what this thing was all

about. She had no clue. Because she did nothing and hadn’t said anything.

It was certainly a waste of recording, but the E-mails that followed showed

eagerness to harass and intimidate her. We’re dealing with a barely-trained

manager pretending to be a cop, picking on a totally innocent person who has no

clue what’s even going on or why.

Here is everything in chronological order and accompanying notes/explanations.

This is how it started:

 Dear Rianne,

 Could we please have a call urgently to discuss a matter that has

 been brought to my attention?

 Would you be able to join a video call at this link? [redacted]

 I will telephone you shortly to discuss timing.

 Kind regards,

 [redacted]

She wasn’t checking her personal E-mail account in real time, so then he phoned

our personal landline at home (not the company’s phone! Perhaps that too was

disabled/suspended already) to draw her attention to an E-mail having been

sent. Upon logging in and checking Thunderbird she noticed her company account

had been suspended (or at least dysfunctional).

She responded quickly regarding another such “weirdness”:

 Hi [redacted],

 I can’t login to [redacted] it says your account has been disabled.

 Regards,

 Rianne

Notice they failed to actually inform her and never said what had happened.

They took action prematurely or shot before asking any questions. We’ll revisit

this some other time and explain why it may be a breach of British law.

He responded (still by E-mail, they suspended everything, so they contacted her

via personal E-mail):

 Hi Rianne,

 You don’t need to be logged in to Google to use that link. You can

 post that link into any browser window and join the meeting.

 Could you please re-try?

 Thanks,

 [redacted]

She said:

 I’m in.

He said:

 Hi Rianne,

 I can’t see you listed as a participant in the meeting attendees?

 Let’s try a Zoom call instead.

 Would you be able to join a Zoom meeting with the following details?

 This should again just work via any web browser.

 To give you time to get it set up, can we please meet at 14:30?

 Many thanks,

 [redacted]

And she replied:

 Hello [redacted],

 Ok, I’ll see you at 14:30.

 Best,

 Rianne

After the call, which revealed absolutely nothing at all, he had the audacity

to say “you are formally suspended” without even specifying anything that she

had done wrong!

Here’s the E-mail:

 Dear Rianne,

 Further to our meeting by video conference earlier today, please see

 attached letter confirming our discussion that you are formally

 suspended from your role of Support Engineer with Sirius Open Source.

 The attached letter provides further information about this action.

 Kind regards,

 [redacted]

This above-mentioned “letter” provided no evidence at all.

She responded after a couple of visits to lawyers.

Hi,

 I believe I was unfairly treated on several grounds, including

 relevant protocols.

 Here is the gist of the issues:

 1. no due process

 2. no evidence presented (or claims merely alluded to without

 context/link)

 3. guilt by association (almost identical letter, too)

 Roy and I visited lawyers on Friday and on Monday. We spoke about the

 facts in length.

 We don’t yet wish to escalate this matter and would rather settle

 amicably.

 Rianne

He did not even respond to this E-mail. He just simply ignored anything that

did not suit his twisted agenda.

Days later he wrote:

 Dear Rianne,

 Please see the attached letter regarding your attendance at an

 investigation meeting tomorrow.

 Kind regards,

An “investigation” for nothing basically; they accuse another person and then

try to engage in ‘guilt’ by association (the other person isn’t guilty of

anything either).

Rianne responded, politely:

Hi,

 Please be patient. My lawyer will respond to you soon. I will not

 attend any meetings prior to that.

 Best,

 Rianne

Well, if that wasn’t bad enough he then kept pushing “Reminders” by E-mails,

despite having not received any input to the effect he wanted. He kept

postponing each time the kangaroo ‘court’ was empty, as it was likely

constructed in violation of the law.

Days later Rianne followed up:

Hi,

 The meeting with the lawyer was today. The legal rights are now

 clearer. Cooperation with your instructions are now possible.

 Best,

 Rianne

Suddenly the company ‘discovers’ they left something out:

 Dear Rianne,

 Thanks for your message.

 As per our letter, you are entitled to be accompanied by either a

 work colleague or by a Trades Union representative.

 Just to be clear, it is not Sirius’ responsibility to run or operate

 a Union. Trades Unions are independent bodies that operate separately

 to employers so that they can work for the benefit of their members.

 It is also not Sirius’ responsibility to nominate a suitable Trades

 Union. It is a right under UK law for each employee to make an

 individual decision to choose whether or not they wish to join a

 Union. Sirius is an equal opportunity employer and makes no

 distinction at all between those who are members of a Trade Union and

 those who are not.

 Kind regards,

That was not good enough:

Hi,

 That does not answer my main question or my main point. The point is,

 you’ve presented me with a false dichotomy. That also does not follow

 the protocols, as per my lawyer.

 Regards,

 Rianne

In order to keep this post relatively concise we’ll come back to this at a

later date when rights of staff are discussed further.

Some hours later, after seeking legal advice, she noted that she deserved

(legally entitled) to be accompanied by someone else:

Hi,

 My lawyers say I can be accompanied not only by a trade union person.

 Sirius doesn’t have a union.

 Best,

 Rianne

It was like talking to a wall because they did not facilitate what was allowed

and in fact they had hidden those rights until she pointed those out (or after

Mr. Boss was belately speaking to a professional at the company’s side). They

kept pushing and pushing for another meeting:

 Dear Rianne,

 Thank you for your reply.

 Please see the attached letter regarding your attendance at a re-

 scheduled investigation meeting.

 Kind regards,

They even pushed this until December:

 Dear Rianne,

 Please see the attached letter regarding attendance at a disciplinary

 hearing this Friday 2nd December.

 Kind regards,

Many “Reminders” followed, but still no compliance with rules. The company

wasn’t interested in actual facts, laws etc.

Rianne gave up at this point, seeing the company wasn’t interested in any input

about law and protocols. She resigned in December:

 Dear [redacted],

 I am writing to announce my resignation as a support engineer in

 Sirius Open source Ltd. effective today, 2nd of December 2022. This

 was not an easy decision to make; I have been working with Sirius for

 nine years, but it feels like this has come to an end. The situation

 recently hasn’t been managed/handled according to laws; this hassle

 could have been avoided if only the rules and protocols have been

 followed.

 Sincerely,

 Rianne

It took the company nearly 10 days to reply to that.

 Dear Rianne,

 Please see attached letter regarding your resignation.

 Yours sincerely,

This was covered_here_before,_as_the_contents_of_the_letter_were_truly_absurd.

To summarise, Rianne and I wished to send a formal document to the employer as

a response to trumped-up accusations. We knew it would help if legal

representatives (like someone in his/her capacity as a lawyer) could

acknowledge that this is our position and that they’re there to take the

matters further upon instruction from the clients. Not to endorse the message

(statement) but to assure the company that the clients have legal

representatives and are presently considering further action, such as lawsuit

or whistle-blowing. At the end we chose the latter, seeing the companies was

acting like an eel, hiding behind rocks and shells, especially weeks before the

bullying began. The company changed its address 3 times in just 5 weeks,

leaving both ‘companies’ with the address of its accountants, i.e. a phony

registration (even if technically it’s legal to do so).

“The company changed its address 3 times in just 5 weeks, leaving both

‘companies’ with the address of its accountants, i.e. a phony registration

(even if technically it’s legal to do so).”We assume that most readers don’t

bother reading the PDF, as it is long, but it might help to have this series at

the site (blog posts or wiki) at all times; it might help other people in case

— or at the time — of similar incidents. Ever since we resigned we spotted at

least 4 blog posts in the FOSS-centric blogosphere that we felt were inspired

by us (but could not actually prove the correlation). Geeks like to focus on

coding, testing, tickering etc. Sadly this means not many are aware of their

legal rights and this leaves them vulnerable to sociopaths who somehow made

their way into management positions in companies whose products/services they

don’t even understand. Heck, they do not and cannot understand the staff

either! Maybe that counts as management, but that’s not actual leadership and

it usually ends badly as both clients and staff get fed up with the lies, the

threats, the endless (false, baseless etc.) finger-pointing, and mostly cover-

up. Charlatans and imposters are toxic to companies where the atmosphere or the

work climate can rapidly deteriorate, causing colleagues to leave and creating

critical vacuums (e.g. systems nobody can maintain or knows how to patch,

extend etc.), begetting unpaid pensions, a lack of payslips (violation of

British law by the way!), no actual servers and so on.

For those who want to get a quick roundup of the wrongs and the injustices done

to my wife, here is the gist of the issues:

no due process

no evidence presented (or claims merely alluded to without context/link)

gross accusation inflation

guilt by association (identical letter, too)

the company has a history doing this to couples, e.g. one blind colleague

based in Germany; it was very serious and it went to court (cost the company or

its Directors — a manager and the CEO — a lot of money, went on for a long

time, settled at the end)

Portions of E-mail correspondence prior to the abuse and resignation is now

included here along with further context that anyone can judge independently.

Attachment of an employee handbook (may not be very similar to the latest

version) isn’t possible for confidentiality reasons and PDF versions of the

letters sent will likely be shown in the next post, albeit only on camera.

Employment contracts (printed for us, to be brought home) don’t say much at

all, so staff was basically compelled to sign some “Web pages” online,

consenting to largely unknown terms. Later on in this series we’ll show he we

were pressured to sign new contracts ‘by surprise’ without any legal advice

available.

“Unless this was a case of digital “swatting” (someone who hates us trying to

falsely report us to the employer, possibly anonymously), this is the employer

manufacturing a ‘case’.”In Rianne’s own words: “I think my employer does not

wish to settle amicably, and it seems to boil down to a manager’s ego rather

than anything wrong I did.”

Unless this was a case of digital “swatting” (someone who hates us trying to

falsely report us to the employer, possibly anonymously), this is the employer

manufacturing a ‘case’.

The cheaply-made hatchet job never goes far. It only backfires. The victims

always remember. █

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⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⠀⠀⠀⠈⠉⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢹⡇⠀

⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢠⣤⣀⣀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⡇⠀

⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠤⠾⢿⣿⠋⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⡇⠀

⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣤⢸⡇⠀

⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠄⡄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠘⢸⡏⠀

⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⢻⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢠⡇⠨⠄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣷⠀

⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⠀

⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣟⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣸⣿⠀

⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣟⠀⠀⠈⠉⠙⠛⠼⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢠⣼⣽⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠀

⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠻⢛⣛⣟⣛⡏⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣀⣀⡀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡏⠀⢀⣀⣄⡰⠂⠀⠀⠉⠀⠀⠀⠈⠉⠉⠉⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀

⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣦⣀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠐⠚⠋⠉⠋⠉⠙⠛⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠈⠉⠉⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀

⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣶⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶

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⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠘⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠉⠉⠉⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿

⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿

⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿

⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣵⣿

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⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣺⡁⠀⠀⡐⢷⡁

⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢼⣽⣤⠼⠄⠀⣄⣠

⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⡜⠖⡅⠲⠾⣊⠑⠇

⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠰⠶⡬⡅⠁⠄⠀⠀⡰⠀

⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣐⣗⠐⠀⠼⠁⡆⡟⠀

⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠠⠤⠀⣠⣠⠠⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⢀⠀⣀⢀⡀⡤⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡗⡽⠩⠀⠀⡤⡆⠈⠋⠀

⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡧⠀⠀⠀⢀⣠⣤⣽⣻⣶⣿⣿⣎⣁⣀⣀⣀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣀⣀⣠⣤⣶⣿⣷⣾⣿⣦⣿⢸⣆⣮⣇⣀⠀⢀⢀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠄⠀⠀⢀⡆⢘⠂⠐⠃⡈⣕⠰⠀⠁⡡

⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡟⢀⣠⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣶⣻⣿⣷⣠⡶⢤⣤⣠⣄⣄⣀⣀⣐⠑⠀⠀⠗⠀⠀⢩⡀⠔⠀⠟

⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣟⠠⠮⠄⢀⠀⡀⡎⢃⠚⠅⠀

⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣯⣽⡀⠀⠄⡂⢀⠈⠁⠀⠀⠀⢔

⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡭⠁⠒⡈⠀⠈⡀⢀⠀⡀⡀⢒

⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡐⠂⠏⢸⠀⣼⠀⡇⣿⠀⣇⠒⢸⣿⣿

⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣦⣥⣶⣸⣤⣿⣴⣧⣤⣴⣧⣤⣾⣿⣿

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⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣉⣉⣉⣉⣉⣉⣉⣉⣉⣉⣁⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⠀⠀⣿⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿

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⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⣿⡿⠀⠀⠀⣴⣴⣥⣧⣯⣾⣿⡯⠭⠭⠭⠭⠭⠯⡭⢯⠭⠭⠭⠭⢭⠭⠭⠭⠯⢭⠭⠭⠭⠯⢭⠭⠭⠭⠽⠭⠿⠿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⣿⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿

⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⣿⣧⡁⠄⠄⣐⠿⡻⣻⣟⢿⣿⡯⠭⠭⠽⢭⠭⢽⠽⠭⢽⠽⡭⠭⠭⠭⣭⣯⣭⣭⣯⣭⣽⣭⣭⣽⣭⣽⣭⣭⣭⣯⣿⣙⣋⣛⣙⣋⣉⣛⣛⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⣿⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿

⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⣿⡿⠯⠥⠭⠿⠬⠼⠦⠤⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⣿⠿⣿⡿⢿⣿⣿⡿⠿⣿⠿⢿⣿⢿⣿⣿⠿⢿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⣿⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿

⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⣿⡿⣿⣯⡭⣭⣭⣭⡭⣿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣽⣷⣿⣟⣽⣽⣿⣻⣿⣯⣿⣿⣿⣟⣝⣿⣽⣿⣷⣿⣿⣿⣽⣿⣭⣿⣯⣿⣿⣯⠭⣭⢭⢭⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⣿⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿

⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⢿⡯⣿⢿⢿⣯⣿⣽⣿⣿⣿⣿⣝⣛⣓⣟⣛⣙⣟⣛⣿⣿⣻⣻⣿⣿⣿⣻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣯⣽⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⣿⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿

⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⣿⡯⣽⢽⣯⣿⢽⠭⡯⣿⣽⣿⡟⠛⠿⣿⣿⣿⠋⠉⠉⠉⠉⠙⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣟⢛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣻⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⣿⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿

⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⣿⣯⣽⢽⣯⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠹⠿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣛⣿⣟⣿⣷⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⣿⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿

⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠠⠿⠿⠿⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣽⡿⣽⣽⣽⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⣿⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿

⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⣷⣶⣶⣶⣷⣶⣶⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠶⢦⠀⠀⢀⣀⣀⣀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠛⠛⠛⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣻⣻⣟⣿⣿⣻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⣿⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿

⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⡶⣷⣿⣛⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⢀⣤⢼⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣶⠀⣾⣴⡆⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⡽⡽⣯⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⣿⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿

⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⣿⡿⠿⢿⠿⠿⣿⠿⠿⠿⠿⢿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠳⢭⠀⠀⠸⠿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠀⣽⣿⠃⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣟⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⣿⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿

⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⣿⣽⢾⡿⢿⣿⣿⣽⣿⢿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠛⠀⠆⠀⠀⠐⣦⠹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡏⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡾⣾⣷⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⣿⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿

⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⣿⣻⣟⣻⣿⣿⣿⣻⣟⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠇⠀⠀⠈⠉⠉⠉⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⣿⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿

⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⣿⠾⡷⡿⢾⣿⣶⣿⣿⣿⣷⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠾⢾⠶⣿⣿⡾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⣿⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿

⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⣿⣻⣟⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣯⣿⣻⣻⣽⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⣿⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿

⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣶⣦⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⡿⣿⣷⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⣿⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿

⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⣿⣯⣩⣍⣩⣽⣫⣽⣍⣭⣭⣿⣇⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣭⣿⣿⣯⣽⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⣿⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿

⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⣿⣽⣯⡿⣽⣽⣿⣭⣿⣽⣿⣿⡿⠿⣿⡿⠿⡿⡿⢿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣿⣿⣿⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⣿⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿

⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⣿⣟⣛⣓⣾⣶⣻⣛⣟⣿⣻⣿⣷⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣷⣼⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠿⠿⠿⠿⣿⣿⣯⣭⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⣿⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿

⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⣿⣽⠯⢿⣿⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣛⣛⡛⣻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣯⣤⣭⢽⣤⣭⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⣿⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿

⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣶⣶⣶⣿⣿⣷⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣶⣷⣷⣶⣶⣶⣷⣾⣷⣶⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣶⣶⣿⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿

⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤

⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⠿⢿⣿⣿⠿⠿⢿⣿⣿⠿⠿⢿⣿⣿⡿⠿⠿⣿⣿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⣿⣿⣿

⣿⡟⠉⠙⡏⢹⠙⢙⠀⡏⢻⠋⡟⠉⡙⣹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠁⠀⠀⠀⢹⡇⠀⠀⠀⢹⡇⠀⠀⠀⢹⡏⠀⠀⠀⠈⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿

⣿⡇⠀⠀⡇⢸⠀⣿⠀⡇⠘⠀⡇⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣦⡀⠀⣠⣾⣧⡀⠀⣀⣾⣧⡀⠀⣀⣾⣷⣄⣀⣀⣴⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿

⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿

⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿

⣿⣿⣿⣿⡏⣭⣹⢹⢏⢿⡟⢿⢹⠹⣿⡏⣭⣽⣿⢋⣍⡟⣭⣻⢹⣿⠉⣭⣽⢩⣙⣭⢩⡟⣭⡻⢹⠏⡿⡉⣯⢩⣭⡭⣹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿

⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⣦⢺⠘⣬⡜⣿⣎⢸⢰⡜⡇⠶⢿⣿⡳⠆⣏⠿⢻⢰⣶⠀⠶⢿⠲⢎⣿⢸⣟⠿⢣⡏⣼⣀⡇⣿⢸⡟⠴⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿

⣿⣿⣿⣿⣟⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣻⣿⣿⣿⣿

⣿⣿⣿⣿⡏⠙⠛⠛⠛⠻⠛⡏⡻⠻⠛⡟⢻⡏⠻⠻⠛⠛⠛⠿⡻⢋⠛⡏⡙⠟⢟⠛⠛⠟⢻⠙⢻⣟⡹⡻⠛⠻⡻⡟⠛⠻⢻⠋⠛⠋⠛⠛⠟⠟⢻⠛⠟⠛⢹⡟⠟⠛⢻⢙⠟⠛⠛⠻⡿⠛⢙⠙⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿

⣿⣿⣿⣿⡷⢶⣶⢶⣶⣷⣶⣷⣷⣶⣶⣷⢶⢷⣶⡶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣾⣶⣷⣶⣶⣦⣴⣶⣶⣾⣶⣿⣷⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣿⣶⣶⣶⡶⡾⣶⣶⣾⣶⣾⣶⣾⣿⣶⢶⣾⡶⣶⣶⣶⣷⣷⣶⣶⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿

⣿⣿⣿⣿⣇⣈⣰⣀⣀⣸⣀⣀⣎⣂⣀⣗⣀⣂⣚⣂⣸⣡⣄⣀⣮⣂⣆⠀⣟⣀⣀⣇⣸⣇⣛⡀⣨⣪⣂⣀⣺⣀⣰⠐⣀⣆⣀⣀⣰⣻⣀⣀⣀⣸⣎⣠⣂⣰⣐⣀⣇⣀⣃⣆⣀⠐⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿

⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠛⠛⠛⠙⠛⠛⠛⡛⢻⡟⠛⡛⡋⡟⠛⡛⣛⠛⠛⠙⣛⠛⠛⢻⢛⢛⠻⠛⠛⡛⡛⠛⡟⠛⠛⠛⠋⠛⡻⢛⠛⡟⠋⡛⢉⡛⢻⠙⡛⣻⠉⡻⠛⡟⡛⡛⠙⠛⠛⠛⢻⠛⠛⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿

⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣾⣶⣶⣾⣶⣶⣶⣶⣾⣷⣶⣷⣶⣷⣶⣶⣿⣶⣶⣶⣿⣶⣶⣾⣶⣶⣶⣷⣶⣷⣷⣤⣿⣶⣷⣶⣶⣶⣾⣶⣼⣷⣶⣷⣾⣶⣾⣶⣶⣿⣶⣷⣶⣷⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣤⣶⣶⣶⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿

⣿⣿⣿⣿⡟⡻⠿⠟⠿⠿⢿⠿⠿⠻⠿⠻⠿⠿⢿⠿⢿⠿⠿⠿⢻⠿⠟⠻⠿⢿⠟⠿⢿⡿⠟⠟⠛⠿⣿⠿⢻⠻⠿⠿⡿⠿⠿⠿⠟⠿⠿⠿⠟⡿⠿⠿⠿⡿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠟⠿⠿⣟⢛⡿⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿

⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣶⣴⣾⣾⣦⣼⣾⣶⣴⣴⣶⣶⣶⣥⣧⣾⣶⣾⣶⣾⣶⣿⣴⣶⣿⣴⣶⣼⣧⣶⣶⣾⣦⣾⣶⣾⣶⣷⣶⣷⣶⣦⣶⣶⣶⣴⣷⣶⣷⣴⣷⣶⣷⣴⣴⣶⣴⣴⣯⣴⣿⣾⣵⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿

⣿⣿⣿⣿⣇⣁⣁⣁⣡⣀⣠⣁⣁⣀⣸⣟⣇⣀⡁⣹⣁⣀⣀⢈⢸⣆⣀⣇⣠⣁⣀⣏⣈⢀⣡⣀⣠⣈⣇⣃⣠⣙⣀⡘⣟⣌⣠⣁⣀⣐⣉⣀⣇⣀⣌⣀⣇⢂⡅⣁⣁⣸⣇⣈⢈⣃⣀⣈⢈⣽⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿

⣿⣿⣿⣿⡟⠛⠿⢛⠛⠛⣻⣟⠛⠛⠿⠛⣿⡏⢙⠙⠛⡻⡛⠛⡏⠛⡿⠻⠛⠻⠙⣛⠛⡛⢛⠟⠛⡛⡻⠛⢛⢛⠟⠟⠋⠛⢻⠟⣿⡟⠛⣻⡟⠛⠻⢛⡛⠛⢹⠙⡛⠟⠛⢻⡟⠟⡛⣻⡟⠛⠛⣻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿

⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣶⣶⣶⣶⡶⣾⣿⣶⣾⢶⣶⣾⡷⣷⣶⣶⣷⣷⣶⡷⣶⣷⣶⣷⣶⣶⡷⣶⣷⣾⣶⣶⣷⣾⢶⣶⣾⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣷⣶⢿⣷⣶⣶⣾⣷⣶⣾⢶⢾⣾⣶⡾⣷⢶⣷⣾⣷⣶⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿

⣿⣿⣿⣿⣇⣀⣐⣀⣐⣇⣐⣄⣀⣕⣸⣀⣳⣀⣀⣀⣀⣿⣀⣸⣀⣆⣨⡇⣀⣀⣆⣀⣀⣻⣀⣀⣀⣳⣇⠎⣔⣀⣹⣗⣀⣀⣾⣰⣀⣀⣐⣸⣀⣐⣰⣆⣀⣯⣂⣸⣰⣅⣀⣇⣂⣐⡀⢠⣠⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿

⣿⣿⣿⣿⡟⠛⡛⠛⡛⢿⠙⢻⡍⣽⠛⢻⠙⠋⠛⢛⢙⠟⡛⠛⠛⣽⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿

⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⣶⣶⣶⣶⣿⣶⣾⣷⣷⣶⣾⣾⣷⣶⣶⣾⣷⣷⣶⣶⣼⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿

⣿⣿⣿⣿⡟⠻⢿⡿⠿⢿⠿⠿⢿⠿⡿⣿⠿⠻⠿⣿⠻⠿⠿⠿⢿⡿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠻⠿⢿⡿⠟⠻⠿⠿⢻⠿⠛⠛⠿⠿⠿⠿⢿⡿⠿⠟⠻⡿⠿⠿⢿⣿⠿⠻⠿⣿⡟⠿⠿⠿⡟⠿⢿⠿⠿⠿⠿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿

⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣶⣼⣷⣶⣶⣦⣾⣾⣶⣦⣿⣴⣶⣦⣿⣦⣶⣶⣶⣼⣷⣶⣶⣾⣷⣶⣦⣼⣧⣶⣴⣴⣴⣾⣦⣶⣷⣶⣾⣶⣶⣾⣧⣶⣶⣶⣶⣷⣶⣶⣿⣴⣶⣶⣿⣷⣶⣴⣶⣷⣦⣾⣶⣶⣶⣿⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿

⣿⣿⣿⣿⣇⣀⣀⣀⣥⣀⣰⣐⣇⣀⣠⡁⢀⣈⣈⠀⣀⣀⣷⣂⣀⣘⣟⣠⣁⣿⣀⣸⣖⣄⣀⣹⣀⣃⣐⣀⣏⣀⣄⣀⣇⡀⣈⣀⣀⣈⣂⣻⣀⣡⣀⣸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿

⣿⣿⣿⣿⣯⠙⠋⡻⣍⡉⠉⠛⢻⣿⠉⢻⠛⠛⡻⡻⠛⣿⠉⢛⢛⠋⠛⠟⠟⠛⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿

⣿⣿⣿⣿⡷⢶⣶⡾⠿⣷⣶⢶⣾⣿⣶⣶⣦⣦⣶⣶⣶⣾⣶⣾⣦⣴⣶⣶⣶⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿

⣿⣿⣿⣿⣇⣥⣆⣂⣀⣀⣸⣀⣀⣀⡀⢀⣨⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿

⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿

⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿

⣿⣿⣚⣿⣿⣯⣜⣿⣨⣑⣇⣕⣺⣷⣋⣱⣂⣮⣨⣿⣅⣝⣿⣒⣅⣿⣩⣪⣸⣟⣲⣿⣭⣑⣟⣿⣰⣇⣋⣮⣷⡕⣿⣀⣾⣿⣈⣃⣇⣗⣟⣸⡗⣈⣫⣨⣘⣸⣇⣕⣺⣾⣪⣹⣸⣎⣀⣺⣿⣕⣿⣨⣇⣕⣽⣿⣷⣨

⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡟⡻⢻⣿⠛⡟⣻⣟⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿

⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛

⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠐⠂⠀⠀⠀⠂⠐⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠘⠛⠀⠐

⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠠⠀⠠⠀⠄⠀⠀⠄⠀⣶⠀⠤⠄⠤⠤⠀⠀⠀⠄⠀⠠⠄⠤⠠⠠⠄⠀⠀⢴⠆⠠⠤⠠⠀⠠⠦⠀⠀⠠⠤⠄⠀⠶⠀⠤⠀⠄⠤⠤⠀⠰⠂⠀⠠⠤⠀⠴⠄⠄⠤⠤⠤⠀⢐⡒⠠⠤⠠⠤⠤

⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⢶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶

⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣶⣷⣾⣿⣷⣿⣶⣾⣿⣿⣿⣷⣶⣾⣾⣿⣿⣷⣾⣶⣶⣾⣿⣿⣷⣷⣶⣶⣶⣿⣷⣿⣿⣶⣿⣾⣾⣶⣾⣿⣿⣷⣶⣾⣶⣾⣷⣷⣿⣿⣿⣶⣶⣶⣾⣾⣾⣿⣷⣶⣷⣾⣿⣿⣿⣾⣶⣷⣾

⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣟⣉⡏⢉⣽⡿⠿⠿⣿⣍⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⣩⣿⣿⣿⣿⣯⡉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⢉⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡙⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⠛⣻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣟⠉⢉⠉⡏⠉⠉⠉⠉⢹

⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣟⢉⡇⠀⠙⠁⣶⣶⡀⠂⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠉⠀⢠⣤⢘⠂⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠙⢡⠀⢠⡟⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠆⠀⣀⣤⠀⠴⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡇⢠⢸

⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣟⠛⡇⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⡄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⠀⢸⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢰⣿⣿⠀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠘⠀⡀⣼⢸

⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣟⠛⡇⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢘⣋⣼⣃⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣛⣀⣘⣷⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢘⣿⣟⣀⡃⣷⠀⠐⢊⣠⢰⡇⣿⣼

⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣇⣀⣀⣀⣿⣿⡏⢁⣀⢀⢀⣀⡀⣀⡀⣀⣀⠀⡈⣿⣏⣭⣀⡀⢀⣀⡀⣀⡀⣀⣀⡙⣿⡏⢋⣀⡀⡀⣀⢀⢀⣀⡀⣀⣸⢉⣿⡏⢁⣿⣀⣸⣐⣙⣸⣇⣿⣿

⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿

⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢻⠻⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⡻⡿⣿⣿⡛⡟⣿⢿⢿⢻⢿⡿⣿⣿⢿⡟⣻⡿⢿⢿⢿⢿⡟⣟⢿⢿⢿⣿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣾⣿⣷⣿⣯⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿

⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠟⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⣾⡿⢷⡿⠿⢷⢿⣾⢾⢷⣿⣿⡞⢺⠿⢾⠿⣿⢿⢾⢾⣷⣾⣿⣷⣶⣷⣿⣿⣿⣷⣾⣷⣿⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿

⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣾⣾⣿⣾⣿⣿⣾⣾⣾⣾⣾⣾⣾⣷⣿⣷⣷⣶⣿⣿⣾⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣿⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿

⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡏⠁⠈⣿⣿⡍⣽⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿

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⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣇⣅⣹⣅⣸⣏⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇

⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠐⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢸⣿⡇⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇

⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣆⠀⣀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇

⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠏⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠘⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇

⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡏⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇

⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠋⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣰⣾⣾⡝⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇

⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡀⠀⠉⠙⠿⣿⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇

⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠉⠛⠛⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇

⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠁⠀⠀⠀⢀⣀⡀⠙⠉⠙⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⢸⣿⣿⣿⣾⣾⣿⣿⣾⣿⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇

⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠉⠋⠻⠄⠀⣠⡾⢿⣿⣿⣿⡇⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇

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⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢑⡭⣤⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠒⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠘⡄⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇

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⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠘⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡇⠀⠀⠂⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇

⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡀⢀⣀⡀⣀⢀⡀⡀⢀⣀⢀⣀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇

⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣟⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡇⢸⣯⣥⣿⣿⣷⡇⢸⢸⢸⣿⡇⠀⠀⡄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡇⠀⠀⠀⠸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇

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⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣟⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⢸⡂⢈⣷⣴⣿⣾⡗⣿⠂⣇⢸⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠠⠄⡀⠀

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⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣛⣛⣛⣛⣻⣟⣟⣿⣻⣻⣿⣻⣿⣻⣿⣻⣿⣿⣿⣛⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣛⣿⣻⣿⣛⣟⣻⣻⣟⣻⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀

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⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣶⣶⣷⣸⣶⣿⣷⣿⣶⣶⣾⣶⣶⣿

⣿⣿⣇⣿⣿⣡⣃⣉⣉⣉⣁⣇⣉⣩⣻⣍⣹⣏⣝⣈⣈⣉⣉⣉⣹⣉⣸⣉⣁⣀⣉⣁⣉⣸⣏⣉⣛⣝⣽⣉⣅⣃⣀⡈⣽⣞⣩⣇⣈⣉⣏⣹⣋⣭⣫⣫⣿⣋⣽⣿⣟⣵⣇⣌⣙⣈⣉⡉⣈⣈⣙⣉⣉⢹⣿⣿⣿⣿

⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣴⣴⣤⣤⣤⣤⣤⣶⣴⣤⣶⣶⣤⣤⣴⣦⣤⣤⣴⣤⣶⣤⣦⣤⣤⣦⣤⣤⣦⣤⣤⣤⣶⣦⣴⣴⣴⣴⣤⣦⣤⣤⣤⣶⣤⣶⣶⣤⣦⣤⣶⣤⣤⣴⣦⣶⣤⣦⣤⣤⣤⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿

⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠟⠟⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡟⠛⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡟⠛⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿

⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠸⠇⠠⠀⠀⠀⠀⠸⠄⠀⠀⠘⠇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢠⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿

⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠻⠏⢛⡛⠛⠛⢛⠛⡏⠛⠛⢛⢛⠏⠋⠛⠛⠛⠛⠻⢻⠛⢻⠙⠛⠛⠛⠛⡿⠋⠋⢻⠋⡏⠛⡛⢻⠉⡋⢙⡛⢹⡋⢹⡟⢹⢛⡋⣿⣿⡏⡉⠛⢹⠟⠛⡛⣻⡏⠘⠛⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿

⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠉⠉⠭⢭⣭⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣶⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿

⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣶⣶⣶⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠯⠉⠋⠹⠹⠹⠿⣹⣂⢽⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿

⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡍⠭⡿⠿⡿⢿⡛⡏⢉⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿

⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠉⣉⣏⣉⣙⣩⣍⡇⠠⢼⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿

⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠆⠀⡇⠀⢸⠠⠬⡷⢉⣹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿

⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⢿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⢿⣿⠿⡿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⢿⣿⣿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿

⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣀⣤⠀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢼⠄⠀⠠⠀⠥⠤⠦⠒⠀⠀⠄⡘⠉⠀⣰⠂⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⢛⣛⣘⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿

⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠠⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠠⠧⡀⠀⠁⠀⠠⡤⠀⠀⠁⣀⣢⣎⡐⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢶⣇⠀⢀⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢠⢷⣿⡇⢈⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿

⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠁⢉⣠⢰⡀⠀⠀⠀⠠⠤⠍⠛⠿⠿⠷⠐⠂⠒⠊⠀⠚⠙⠉⠀⡆⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣨⡂⣪⣾⡿⢺⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿

⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡄⠸⣿⡄⠀⠀⢺⣿⣶⣶⣶⠀⠀⠀⠀⢠⣶⣶⣄⣜⢘⣀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠛⠛⠛⠙⠃⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿

⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡃⣀⣙⡛⣛⣉⣙⣛⡛⠛⠉⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠉⠛⠿⣿⣿⣟⣛⣛⣋⣁⣭⡭⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠠⠤⠄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿

⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠤⠿⣟⣻⣿⠿⠋⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠻⢿⡿⠿⣿⣟⠿⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿

⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⢘⢋⠈⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠉⠜⢗⠛⠆⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿

⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣯⣿⣿⡇⠀⠁⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣤⡄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠙⠛⠭⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣤⣴⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿

⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣇⢀⣐⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢰⣿⣿⣿⣿⡄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⣥⣴⡄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢻⣿⡿⠂⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢘⣏⠇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿

⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡏⠀⡁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣽⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢹⣷⠖⠊⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠋⠉⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠼⠃⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿

⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠉⠛⡛⠉⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠛⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠘⠀⠀⠀⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠸⠋⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿

⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡀⠀⣀⠀⠸⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠐⠂⠰⡷⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢠⡦⣀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿

⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⣿⡿⠗⠀⢀⠀⠨⣿⣾⡶⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠄⠀⠐⠛⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⡈⠢⡲⣶⣤⣤⣀⣀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿

⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠁⠀⠁⠀⠈⠀⠀⠉⠛⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣀⣠⠂⠂⠂⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡇⠀⢱⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿

⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠂⠀⠀⠢⠦⠦⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣠⣾⡇⣄⠀⠀⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡇⠀⡘⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⢺⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿

⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣁⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣀⣼⣿⣿⡇⣿⣷⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠃⢰⡁⣿⡇⢿⣿⡗⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿

⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠃⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠙⠛⠃⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠖⢻⣿⣷⣿⣦⣤⢻⣿⣇⡤⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠸⠀⣾⢸⣿⣇⢨⣿⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿

⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠛⠎⢿⣿⣿⣿⣇⠙⣿⣷⢳⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⠃⣰⣿⣸⣿⣿⢸⡇⠀⢼⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿

⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣶⣶⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣶⣶⣿⣷⣿⣿⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿

⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠏⠝⠛⠛⠛⠻⠛⡛⠛⣿⠋⠙⣟⠛⡟⢛⠉⡟⠻⠛⠛⠛⠛⢻⠛⠛⢻⠛⠙⢻⠏⡛⢯⢩⠟⠛⠛⡛⣻⠋⢛⠿⡹⠛⠛⠋⣻⡛⣹⠉⠛⣻⠛⠻⠛⣿⡿⠛⢫⡛⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿

⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢟⡻⠛⠛⠛⠛⡻⣳⣟⡻⣟⠟⠛⠟⡟⢛⠛⣻⡟⢛⠻⠿⠳⡻⡻⠛⠻⢻⢟⠛⡻⠟⢛⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿

⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣾⣷⣾⣶⣷⣿⣿⣾⣿⣾⣷⣾⣾⣾⣷⣾⣷⣿⣶⣷⣿⣾⣾⣿⣿⣾⣿⣾⣷⣾⣶⣶⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿

⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡛⠛⣻⣛⠛⣛⣿⣛⢛⣿⣿⡟⣹⣯⣏⣫⢏⣟⢩⡍⡝⡿⡻⠛⠛⢛⠋⡟⠙⢛⡟⢛⠛⢛⢛⠛⠋⢻⠛⠛⠛⡻⢛⢛⠛⢛⢛⡟⢋⡟⠙⠙⣟⠛⡛⣻⡿⠛⡛⢛⡛⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿

⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡄⢹⣿⠂⠸⣿⠇⣾⣿⠟⡿⠻⠟⠿⡿⠻⢻⠛⢿⠻⠿⠟⠻⢿⡻⣻⠻⠿⠛⠻⣿⡛⠟⢿⡻⣛⢻⠛⠿⠿⠛⡿⠻⠻⢻⠺⠻⢟⢛⠿⢻⣟⠿⠛⠻⢿⣛⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿

⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⡀⠋⣼⡀⠛⣸⣿⣿⠷⠷⠶⠶⠾⣶⠷⠾⠶⠾⠶⠶⠖⡶⢾⠾⠿⠶⠶⠶⣲⣞⠒⠷⠶⣾⡷⠾⠗⠷⠶⠶⡷⠶⡶⠾⠶⣾⡷⠾⠷⠾⡿⠻⠶⠶⡞⠷⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿

⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⣰⣿⣷⣠⣿⣿⣿⢶⢷⣶⢿⣶⢿⡷⠶⣶⣾⣶⣶⣶⣾⣿⣷⣶⣶⣶⣶⣵⣿⣶⣷⣶⣷⣶⣷⣶⣶⣾⣶⣷⣶⣷⣿⣾⣤⣿⣶⣾⣼⣷⣶⣶⣾⣿⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿

⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⣴⣦⣴⣿⣶⣴⣧⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿

⣿⣟⠹⣿⣟⡉⠙⡻⠛⠻⢹⠙⢛⠉⣟⠛⣟⢛⠛⠋⠛⡛⠻⠛⡿⠋⡟⡻⡻⢻⡟⠛⠙⠙⠛⠛⢋⣿⠟⡙⣻⡿⣻⡏⠙⠛⣿⡿⣛⣿⣙⡟⠿⣿⡟⣟⠛⢻⣛⡛⡻⡛⣿⡛⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿

⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠋⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠙⣿⣿

⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡀⠀⠀⠀⢀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠐⣿⣿

⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠉⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣤⠀⣿⣿

⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⣤⣟⠓⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⠀⣿⣿

⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠈⠙⠀⢾⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⠀⣿⣿

⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠰⣿⠀⣿⣿

⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣀⠀⠀⣀⣀⠀⠀⢀⣀⠀⠀⠀⣀⣀⠀⠀⢀⣀⡀⠀⢀⣀⡀⠀⣀⣀⠀⠀⢀⣀⡀⠀⠀⣀⡀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣐⣖⣲⣖⣒⣒⣒⣖⣒⣲⣖⣒⣒⣒⣒⣒⣒⣒⣖⣒⣖⣒⣒⣒⣒⣒⣒⣒⣶⣿⠀⣿⣿

⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡉⠉⠉⠉⠉⢉⡉⠉⠉⠉⢉⠁⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⠉⢁⡈⠉⠉⠉⢉⡉⠉⠉⠉⣉⠉⠉⢉⡉⠉⣉⠉⢉⡉⠉⠉⠉⠉⢉⣉⣉⣉⣉⣉⣉⣉⣉⣉⣉⣉⣉⣉⣉⣉⣉⣉⣉⣉⣉⣉⣉⣉⣉⣿⠀⣿⣿

⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣿⠀⣿⣿

⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢿⡻⠿⡿⡿⠿⢿⢿⡿⡿⠿⢬⣭⣭⣭⣭⣤⣭⣭⣭⣭⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣤⣭⣭⣭⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⣿⠀⣿⣿

⣿⣿⣿⣿⡟⢸⣿⣤⣵⣤⣧⣷⣶⣾⣼⣧⣷⣤⣼⣭⣽⣯⣭⣭⣭⣍⣯⣩⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⡷⠶⠶⠶⠶⠶⠶⠶⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠶⠶⠾⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠇⣿⠀⣿⣿

⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⢸⢳⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⡒⡒⣶⣖⣒⡒⡒⡖⢒⠒⢲⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡟⣿⠀⣿⣿

⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⢸⢸⣿⣧⣤⣤⣤⣤⣥⣴⣤⣤⣤⣤⣼⣿⣿⣿⠛⠻⠟⠻⠟⡟⠻⠻⠟⠛⠛⠿⠟⠛⢛⠻⡟⠻⠻⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣤⣤⣤⣤⠤⠤⠴⣼⣤⣤⣭⣿⣿⡇⣿⠀⣿⣿

⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⢸⢸⣿⡿⠷⠷⢿⣿⣿⣿⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣒⣒⣒⣒⣒⣓⣒⣚⣒⣚⣒⣒⣒⣛⣚⣒⣓⣒⣚⣚⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⣛⡛⢿⣿⣿⣿⠿⢿⠿⣾⣶⣶⠾⡿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⣿⠀⣿⣿

⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⢸⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣇⣈⣉⣉⣭⣉⣉⣉⣇⣈⣉⣉⣇⣉⣩⣍⣉⣉⣇⣌⣉⣉⣉⣽⣄⣈⣉⣹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⡇⣿⠀⣿⣿

⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⢸⢸⣿⡇⣿⢳⣗⣒⣖⣺⣾⣒⣲⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⣯⣭⣭⣤⣬⣭⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⢸⣿⣿⡟⣻⣛⣛⣛⣟⣻⣛⣻⣛⣿⣿⡇⡇⣿⠀⣿⣿

⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⢸⢸⣿⣃⣛⣋⡯⢭⣿⡯⠽⢽⣯⠯⣯⣿⣿⣿⣷⠷⡶⢲⣶⣾⣾⣾⣷⣶⣶⣾⣿⣶⣶⣾⣶⣿⣷⣷⣶⣾⣾⣿⣿⣾⣾⣿⡿⢗⣚⣶⣾⣿⢸⣿⣿⢡⣯⣿⣶⣾⣶⣶⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⡇⣿⠀⣿⣿

⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⢸⢸⣿⣛⣏⣻⣟⣋⣋⣹⣟⣟⣻⣻⣿⣿⣿⣿⡟⣛⢛⣻⣿⣟⣛⣿⣛⣟⣛⣟⣿⣛⣛⣛⣟⣻⣛⣟⣟⣟⣛⣟⣻⣿⣿⡇⣾⣿⣿⣾⢿⣿⢸⣿⣷⣾⣿⣿⣿⣝⣹⣉⣙⣿⣏⣿⣿⡇⡇⣿⠀⣿⣿

⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⢸⢸⣿⣙⣻⣉⣛⣋⣛⣋⣉⣙⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢸⣿⠶⢶⣷⢾⠶⠶⢶⢶⠾⠧⡵⠶⠾⡷⠶⡿⠶⢥⠾⡾⢷⠷⡿⢿⡜⣿⣿⢿⠿⣿⢸⣿⣟⠛⣟⡿⣿⡻⣿⢟⡿⡻⡿⢿⠿⡇⡇⣿⠀⣿⣿

⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⢸⢸⣿⣶⠲⠲⡲⠶⠶⠟⣟⣻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣾⣿⣭⣭⣯⣭⣭⣽⣿⣽⣽⣭⣭⣯⣭⡭⣭⣿⣽⡽⣭⣽⣽⣿⣿⣿⣿⣆⣭⣶⣿⣿⢸⣿⣿⣿⣯⣭⣯⣭⣯⣭⣽⣽⣿⣿⣿⡇⡇⣿⠀⣿⣿

⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⢸⢸⣿⣽⠯⠭⠽⢭⠭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣽⣿⣿⣿⣿⣗⣳⣗⣳⣒⣻⣖⣓⣖⣟⣚⣒⣖⣒⣒⣖⣒⣛⣒⣓⣖⣚⣗⣓⣒⣚⣺⣿⣛⣟⣛⣛⣛⣿⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⡇⣿⠀⣿⣿

⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⢸⢸⣿⣿⣶⣷⣶⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡧⡿⠿⠥⠾⡯⠭⣿⢽⠽⠿⡥⠼⢽⠽⠬⣽⡽⢵⢽⠷⢭⡯⠿⠯⠭⠽⠽⡿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⡇⣿⠀⣿⣿

⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⢸⢪⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⡭⢭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣭⣿⣟⣛⣛⣙⣿⣻⣿⣹⣟⣟⣛⣟⣏⣟⣿⣻⣿⣻⣩⣫⣿⣿⣟⣏⣯⣿⣟⣿⣯⣿⣛⣿⣿⣿⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣤⣤⣤⣤⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⡇⣿⠀⣿⣿

⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⢸⢸⣿⣿⠿⣿⢿⢷⢷⣶⢾⣿⡿⡿⠿⢿⣿⣿⣗⣚⣲⣖⣶⣒⣶⡳⣞⣲⣒⣶⣖⣲⣛⢒⣲⣺⣛⣗⣗⣶⣒⣓⣞⣖⣒⣳⣶⣒⣺⣟⣿⣿⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢁⡶⡴⡄⢹⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⡇⣿⠀⣿⣿

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Posted in Deception, Free/Libre_Software at 5:04 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

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Sirius Kangaroos

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Summary: Unable to justify its business practices, Sirius_‘Open_Source’ starts

a witch-hunt against people who found the courage to discuss the matter, both

internally and in private (not naming the culprits)

THE above video covers what was published earlier today because verbal

clarifications may help those with severe reading comprehension and/or a

sinister agenda (that’s Matthew_Garrett).

The real chronology here is, I spoke about things wrong with the company

(confidentially and internally). When that failed to work, repeatedly even, I

consulted other people on the matter. Then started a campaign of retaliation

against me — an effort to silence me and cover things up, as usual. This is the

new management style.

“There has been other petty stuff like going after staff for saying lies are

lies, but never handling the actual lies or the liar.”Among the many scandals

(we still have many left to mention) Sirius staff members have a manager who

brought 3 women (one former wife) into the company despite lack of relevant

experience/skills, resulting in mistakes that clients noticed (for instance,

pasting an entire handover into the command line!). An insider or outsider

might joke that it looks like giving them jobs in exchange for sex. Apparently

pointing this out is the issue, whereas the real issue remains unaddressed. But

the main issue here has nothing to do with sex; the issue is lack of

qualifications, overt nepotism, and special access given in exchange for

bedroom stuff/favours. This is a well-known yet under-reported problem in the

tech industry. Last year a whistleblower told us that she was compelled to have

sex or even orgies in order to get/keep a job.

There has been other petty stuff like going after staff for saying lies are

lies, but never handling the actual lies or the liar. CEOs won’t hold

themselves accountable. They won't_investigate_or_fire_themselves_either,

despite making ridiculous assertions to that effect.

This is what happens when pathological liars run a company, sometimes like a

tightly-knit family in the “club” sense, not pseudo kinship that makes a better

work atmosphere (companies acting like a family isn’t the same as companies

being actual families or sex partners). █

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Posted in Deception at 12:10 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

It was always about protecting his ego

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Summary: After years of bullying and persistent lying by Sirius management (it

had done this to colleagues, too) came a fabricated ploy/plot to remove

dissenting workers

IT has now been over a month since I left my job and started writing about what

had happened (not for 12 years but particularly the past 4 years, especially

after Gates_Foundation had passed money to the CEO under an NDA!).

It has since then been apparent that the company, Sirius_‘Open_Source’ (Sirius

now tries to get rid of these articles), is trying to gag me and censor me.

That won’t work. It’ll only embolden me further.

As it turns out, Sirius is run by stalkers. Yes, what on earth do they even do

all day? Spy on people. They should do their job, but they don’t (we’ve

provided ample evidence of their failings and inability to do very basic stuff

like payslips — a legal requirement!).

So while workers stay up all night (fixing flaws, incidents etc.) they go

behind their backs reading years-old IRC logs, fishing for ‘dirt’ so as to

avoid paying compensation or separation fees. Yes, the company was broke, so it

decided to take this route.

Today I wish to share full communications (albeit redacted) about what happened

in November. There was an account suspension, without any due process, as one

insecure and insincere manager failed to follow protocols. The manager then did

the equivalent of not just refusing entry to the building but handing a box

with belongings from the desk. It is unjust and likely not legal (dubious as

per British law given the circumstance). It is mean-spirited and vindictive. To

be clear, I did nothing wrong, but the company was broke and wanted to deflect.

In weeks that followed the manager was once again relying on truly poor legal

advice, if any at all!

We assume they did the same to some colleagues, so we show their process for

‘ousting’ technical staff, based on lies, while moving their ‘shells’ into

secret addresses (and instead placing the address of an accountant, impeding

possible litigation against the company).

Here’s how it all started:

 Dear Roy,

 Would we please have a call urgently to discuss a matter that has

 been brought to my attention?

 Would you be able to join a video call at this link? [redacted]

 I will telephone you shortly to discuss timing.

 Kind regards,

 [redacted]

He wanted me to use Google.

I then responded:

 Can we do the discussion over email instead?

 Regards,

 [Roy]

He then suggested Zoom.

 Hello Roy,

 No. I’m afraid not. We are required to have a call.

 Please see the meeting details below.

 The meeting will be brief.

 Many thanks,

Later:

 Hello again Roy,

 We are waiting for you in the call now as soon as you are ready

 please.

 Thank you,

Then:

 Hi Roy,

 We have successfully been able to use the technology to have a call

 with your household this afternoon, so we understand that it is not a

 technical issue that would prevent you from taking a Zoom call. I

 have also just tried to ring the landline which has now rung out.

 It is very important that we speak as the matter is serious and

 urgent.

 Can you please let me know if you are free to join a Zoom call now.

 Otherwise, you are due on shift at 17:30 and we will speak then.

 Can I remind you that a failure to attend for work without a

 satisfactory explanation would potentially lead to disciplinary

 action under the terms of your employment contract.

 Kind regards,

Notice they use my impending shift to make it seem like “disciplinary action”;

they didn’t even let me in (to carry out work).

Then he (there are two people above, only one talking though) suggested other

proprietary things (yes, everything this “Open Source” company nowadays uses

for communications is proprietary!), but that’s not the main issue. As it

turned out, they had blocked me from Slack too, so I wrote:

 I cannot access Slack. I tried from several PCs.

 Regards,

Roy

Then he said:

 Hi Roy,

 Thank you for your reply. I wasn’t asking you to join via Slack, I

 sent you a link to a Zoom call.

 Can you please join a Zoom Call now with the following details.

 Many thanks,

I also said:

 > Hi Roy,

 > Thank you for your reply. I wasn’t asking you to join via Slack, I

 sent you a link to a Zoom call.

 > Can you please join a Zoom Call now with the following details.

Hi,

 I think it must be done in writing so that things can be presented

 and checked within context.

 Regards,

Roy

By this point I had already realised what it was about. He was reading years’

worth of IRC logs and trying to build (frame) a ‘case’ against me. To be clear,

simply talking (mostly in private) about the issues with the company is seen as

unacceptable as if the company is a religion or cult. Even if nobody (not even

the company) is named!

Then he escalated (the mask fell) and showed his real intentions:

 Hi Roy,

 This call is not itself part of an investigation and is not in itself

 a disciplinary hearing.

 We are simply trying to inform you of a matter that has been brought

 to our attention so that we have properly communicated with you and

 to confirm your working status.

 Nothing needs to be presented or checked in this call, there will be

 time for anything like that later.

 It really is in your interests to hear what we have to say and we can

 take matters from there.

 As it is currently your formal work shift time, the management

 instruction that I am giving you is to join us on this call now,

 nothing else.

 If you could please join the Zoom call now we can have a short call.

 Regards,

And what is this “investigation” about? We’ll come to that later. The short

story, it’s based on a lie.

I responded as follows:

 > Hi Roy,

 > This call is not itself part of an investigation and is not in

 itself a disciplinary hearing.

 > We are simply trying to inform you of a matter that has been

 brought to our attention so that we have properly communicated with

 you and to confirm your working status.

 By suspending my account I think you pre-judged my “working status”

 before we even had a chance to communicate or clarify.

 > Nothing needs to be presented or checked in this call, there will

 be time for anything like that later.

 > It really is in your interests to hear what we have to say and we

 can take matters from there.

 I prefer to do this by E-mail or text, as it is more suitable a

 medium and ‘paper trail’ is needed.

 > As it is currently your formal work shift time, the management

 instruction that I am giving you is to join us on this call now,

 nothing else.

 I cannot even access my account. I think you pre-judged my status.

 Regards,

Roy

Now the other manager got angry and fired off this E-mail with all caps and

typos:

 Roy,

 You are employed by this company, and it is current your work shift.

 The perfectly reasonable management instruction is that you join

 Andrew and me in the Zoom cal NOWl: [sic]

 Failure to do so will be a clear breach of your employment contract

 and company policies.

 [redacted]

 Sirius Founder and Group CEO

I responded as follows:

 > Roy,

 > You are employed by this company, and it is current your work

 shift.

 My account is currently suspended. You took action before speaking to

me.

 Regards,

Roy

They knew I was right. It upset them. Then came this:

 Hi Roy,

 We have acted entirely within our rights as your employer and within

 the strict terms of your Employment contract and as communicated in

 our company Employee Handbook.

 Nothing has been pre-judged, and no findings have been reached as the

 investigation process has not yet been carried out.

 Indeed by failing to attend even a call and refusing to answer the

 phone, you are preventing yourself from receiving precisely the

 information that we are trying to provide.

 Again, we are not at the stage where findings will be assessed, we

 are simply attempting to carry out the very first step of a process

 which is to communicate with you.

 We have now been waiting in a call for nearly an hour, are you able

 to join us now?

 If you do not join us on the call by 17:30 we will take this as a

 failure to comply with a properly issued management instruction, we

 will close the call and we will investigate this incident as a

 potential disciplinary issue too.

 Regards,

He got the time wrong.

 Correction, if you don’t join us on the call by 18:30

They wanted me to dance to their music, which was lies and distortion of what I

had actually said. I responded as follows:

 > We have acted entirely within our rights as your employer and

 within the strict terms of your Employment contract and as

 communicated in our company Employee Handbook.

 The contract is a ‘two-edged sword’ that also protects my rights as

 an employee. At the moment I see myself as prejudged with account

 suspension (without me even being made aware of anything).

 Regards,

Roy

It had already become very obvious that they were trying to engineer

‘departure’ of people based on a construction of lies.

I later on the same day received what they had planned all along:

 Dear Roy,

 Despite our repeated requests, you have failed to follow a properly

 issued management instruction to attend a call to enable us to inform

 you of an alleged breach of company policy by you that may amount to

 gross misconduct.

 You have therefore also potentially further breached company policy

 by failing to attend work for your designated support shift in the

 manner requested, despite very clear, written management instruction

 requiring you to do so.

 Given your refusal to take a call that would allow us to inform you

 of the alleged misconduct, you have therefore left us no choice other

 than to act by email.

 You are formally suspended from your role of Support Engineer with

 Sirius Open Source with immediate effect.

 The attached letter provides further information about this action.

 Regards,

To be very clear, what they allege to be “misconduct” is me wanting a proper

conversation based on facts. They did not want that. Then they alleged that me

not being able to cover my shift (before they had suspended the account) was

“misconduct”. They basically set up the whole thing like this.

There was no due process as severe/drastic action had been taken before even

hearing the ‘accused’.

So of course I consulted an employment lawyer about this. I spoke to a couple

of people, who were rather shocked by the way Sirius had handled it. It seemed

like it about one man’s ego (the manager) and he was stalking staff outside

work, looking to ‘punish’ people who didn’t tolerate lies.

Even two weeks later the management was still desperate to arrange a ‘kangaroo

court’ session:

 Dear Roy,

 Please see the attached letter regarding your attendance at an

 investigation meeting tomorrow.

 Kind regards,

It was getting so pathetic that he even stalked out some personal YouTube

account of mine to sniff out an E-mail address and add an appointment to

something called “Google Calendar”. That’s sad… he was so desperate to

‘interrogate’ for his ego’s sake.

Then he kept sending reminders again… and again… and again. There were like 5

reminders sent in total, followed by these assertions:

 Dear Roy,

 Thank you for your reply.

 Please see the attached letter regarding your attendance at a re-

 scheduled investigation meeting.

 Kind regards,

It was a PDF made with proprietary software, asserting that for failing to face

a kangaroo court after I had already been prematurely ‘judged’. It clearly

wasn’t about fact-finding.

The same letter would later be sent by post, along with screenshots that are

taken out of context and lack URLs.

Days later he once again sent a message via “Google Calendar”, clearly (and

increasingly) desperate to get me to dance to his tune. It would be a sham

“investigation”; it was meant to be this way.

He then sent yet more letters trying to get me to submit myself, despite having

already received messaged explaining why it was not possible. All those .ics

files (he uses Apple stuff, not “Open Source”) were piling up, maybe 12 of them

in total, all in vain. It was getting rather embarrassing at this point. He was

starting to frame this as “disciplinary hearing” (as was the case all along;

they were engaged in posturing).

Either way, from my own end I sent a clear message, based on consultation from

lawyers. Of course the company chose to ignore that.

The same day I spoke to lawyers I sent the following:

 Dear all,

 I believe I was unfairly treated on several grounds, including

 relevant protocols pertaining to several aspects. I will spare you

 the details but can elaborate if needed.

 Here is the gist of the issues:

 1. No due process

 2. Verbal/oral distortion of claims

 3. You misrepresented alleged evidence, but conveniently presented it

 as facts to my wife

 4. No hard evidence presented (just a reference to a handbook we lack

 a copy of)

 5. Rather gross accusation inflation against a person whom you did

 not even speak to

 There are more point, but I shall keep this brief.

 The company has a history doing this to couples, e.g. one blind

 colleague based in Germany; it was very serious and it went to court,

 based on a trusted source (it cost the company and/or its Directors —

 xxxxx and xxxxx — a lot of money, as went on for a long time;

 allegedly got settled at the end but injured the company).

 We visited lawyers on Friday and on Monday. We spoke about the facts

 in length and have a good understanding of our rights.

 We agreed that we don’t yet wish to escalate this matter and would

 rather settle amicably.

 Regards,

 Roy,

 [Your longest-serving employee (aside from the founder)]

Of course the company more or less ignored this reality.

When they kept inviting me to things they knew would not qualify as a proper

hearing (explanation of this point due tomorrow) I sent:

Hi,

 Under the European Convention on Human Rights Article 6 (England is

 in the European Court of Human Rights) I am entitled to have a

 representative and access an objective tribunal. You will hear from

 my lawyer soon.

At this stage it was abundantly clear, also to lawyers, that there was merely a

malicious witch-hunt.

On December first I sent the following:

Hi,

 I’ve been receiving some relatively solid and professional legal

 advice for several weeks already. To put it quite bluntly, the

 impression legal professionals get is that the company cannot afford

 lawyers and thus makes wild guesses, based on a gut feeling at best.

 In Rianne’s case, the allegations are shockingly weak. This, in turn,

 makes the trail of correspondence work very strongly in our favour.

 We’re not impulsive, we just follow the law. We’ve both followed the

 law all along. We know our rights and we have people to assess the

 law.

 The latest invitation is legally problematic for several distinct

 reasons. It would not constitute a fair ‘trial’, on a number of

 different grounds. What you’re trying to apply here is the

 controversial Reid method, which isn’t just notorious but also

 unlawful in some jurisdictions. No proper protocols and procedures

 were followed until (probably due to a lack of legal advice) more

 recently. In fact, “Investigation Meeting” suddenly and

 disingenuously became “Disciplinary Hearing”. The process embarked

 upon did not respect the employee’s right to privacy (setting out the

 importance of confidentiality) and it seems to be more of a personal

 vendetta than a real, justifiable case.

 Regarding any such hearing, where possible the employer should get

 somebody who’s not involved in the case to carry out the

 investigation, for example another manager or someone from HR. HR

 does not exist in Sirius per se, so the company needs to contract

 outwards, just like several years ago where HR sided with us, not

 with the harasser in chief. We never received an apology after that

 incident. And moreover, I wish to make it known that I am referring

 to a single example of many such incidents. I can elaborate later.

 The sudden and very much unprovoked-for suspension is problematic on

 a number of legal grounds. There’s consensus among legal

 professionals (visited or spoke to several) that it was inappropriate

 and over the top. Perhaps the purpose of it was to obstruct the

 accused from accessing defensive/supportive evidence. There’s no

 reason for a suspension of someone who for 12 years never ever did

 something “dodgy” to company or client assets; quite the contrary.

 Unless the employer thinks there is a risk that the employee might

 tamper with evidence or influence witnesses, a suspension is entirely

 unnecessary. I have no history of tampering with evidence or

 influencing witnesses. In fact, the “evidence” presented (only a

 fortnight later!) is actually controlled by me rather than the

 company. The IRC logs are very informal and have nothing to do with

 Sirius.

 There is also consensus that what’s proposed constitutes a kangaroo

 court and the reason you don’t want an independent HR agency to

 handle this (like before) is that the case will be thrown out with

 prejudice and the company may be held accountable for a lot more than

 just frivolous accusations and moral damages (twofold).

 On deciding whether to suspend an employee, there are also clear

 legal guidelines. If there’s a serious issue or situation, an

 employer might consider suspending someone while they investigate.

 But in this case, the nature of the accusations makes it abundantly

 frivolous. An employer should consider each situation carefully.

 Suspension will only be needed in some rather rare situations. This

 is why, right from the very beginning, the letters and demands sent

 were legally invalid. If an employer feels they need to suspend

 someone, it’s important to consider alternative options to suspension

 and the wellbeing of the person they’re thinking of suspending

 (unless the intention is to shock and seek reprisal). The employer

 should think about who will handle matters if further action is

 needed, but in this case it seems like one or two person control the

 process from beginning to end. Where possible, a different person

 should handle each step of the disciplinary procedures: the

 investigation, the disciplinary hearing and outcome, and the appeal

 hearing (if an appeal is raised).

 It might moreover be useful to document (e.g. write in great length)

 and to show a clear, systematic pattern; I can prove and neatly

 present a pattern of evidence which points to the actions by the CEO

 being vindictive. It would not be unprecedented either. Expect a 50-

 page report quite soon. A legal team is looking into it.

 The process has in general been a travesty and a potential source of

 disgrace to the company. In this particular case, someone acting as a

 judge for oneself is not looking good. In principle, recusing oneself

 is one option, but the process is already tarnished by irregularities

 that hamper any perception of objectivity and fairness.

 This is not a good way to end a relationship with the company. It

 didn’t have to end like this.

 A good company values its workers, listens to workers, instead of

 treating them like enemies to be deceived and marginalised. Apropos,

 only minutes ago:

 https://techcrunch.com/2022/11/30/lastpass-goto-breached-customer-

 information/

 If only someone kept warning that LastPass was trouble…

Twelve hours later I sent the_report:

 The report is now ready.

 See [Att].

I resigned the following day. It was abundantly clear, as noted in the report,

that this was just part of the ongoing bullying, which had gone on for years.

In the next part there will be focus on what was done to my wife, who had

worked in the same company since 2013. In her case, it’s even far worse. It’s

far worse that they picked on her after she had done absolutely nothing.

After the weekend we’ll show that this whole witch-hunt was in fact initiated

based on a Big Lie. █

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⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⢿⣿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠛⠛⠛⠻⠛⢛⣛⡛⠟⣛⢛⡛⢛⢋⣉⡉⣩⣭⠉⡍⢫⠉⡭⢭⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡏⠀⠊⢾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡄⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿

⣿⣿⣿⡏⢰⠈⡃⡞⠱⠀⡏⢱⢸⡏⠁⢸⢇⢷⠈⣿⢠⣧⢸⢸⢇⢸⢸⣀⡂⢻⣀⠂⣧⣏⢀⠣⣄⢾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⢀⢴⣾⣿⡿⠿⠿⢧⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿

⣿⣿⣿⣷⢸⠀⡷⠙⢢⠀⡗⢊⠈⡏⠁⢸⠘⣾⠀⢹⢸⣿⠸⣾⢸⡎⢸⡇⡂⢸⣐⡂⣏⠸⡄⣆⣸⢨⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣇⠀⠀⠀⠀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿

⣿⣿⣿⣿⠸⢀⣇⠓⠞⣁⢃⣼⣄⣓⣒⣘⣠⣛⣠⣈⣼⣿⣦⣭⣬⣥⣮⣭⣥⣬⣤⣴⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⢿⣀⠒⠶⠏⠁⠀⢀⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿

⣿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠻⠿⠛⠛⠟⡛⢛⡛⢛⠛⣋⡛⢿⠋⡙⣉⣉⡛⣩⢭⡹⡏⣭⢹⢋⡥⢬⢉⡔⢮⢡⠖⡎⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠠⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿

⡏⢸⠛⡆⢸⠉⠡⢸⢳⠀⣯⠙⡆⣷⢸⢣⢸⢸⡇⣙⢸⠀⡇⢻⣠⠇⣿⢠⢥⡇⢻⢸⠸⡇⢸⢸⡇⢤⠈⠳⡔⢿⣿⣿⠿⠛⠋⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠉⠛⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿

⣿⢸⠒⣇⢸⠋⡀⣸⣸⡄⣿⠀⡇⣿⢸⠈⣾⠘⡇⢹⢸⡄⡇⢸⠀⡇⢹⣀⡆⡇⢸⣘⡀⣇⡸⠀⢧⡼⠐⠤⠟⣸⡟⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠔⠁⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿

⣿⡸⢀⠛⡘⠒⣂⣋⣀⣃⣘⣚⣡⣘⣈⣠⣌⣤⣭⣭⣾⣧⣥⣬⣴⣥⣶⣤⣾⣿⣶⣶⣶⣶⣶⣿⣶⣾⣿⣷⣿⡟⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢠⣤⣶⣶⣦⣄⣶⡄⠀⠀⠀⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿

⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣀⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⣿⣿⣷⡄⠀⠘⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿

⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣠⣿⣿⣿⣿⣦⣸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡟⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿

⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠉⠛⠋⠉⠈⣿⣿⣷⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿

⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢇⣴⣶⡆⠀⠀⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠇⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿

⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣟⣼⣿⣿⠁⡌⠀⠈⠻⢿⣿⣿⠟⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣄⢀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿

⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⢀⠇⠀⠀⠀⠠⠀⠀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿

⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡟⠛⣸⠀⠀⢄⢈⠢⠡⠋⡄⡧⡆⠀⠀⠀⠀⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⣽⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿

⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣶⣿⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⠀⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿

⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡆⠉⠉⠉⠉⢙⣛⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿

⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣭⣽⣿⣿⣛⣛⣿⣿⡿⠿⣿⣷⣴⣶⣴⣷⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿

⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⠿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿

⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢏⡥⢭⠋⣭⢫⠉⡍⠛⡝⢛⠛⡟⣛⣛⡛⣛⣛⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠁⣀⣀⠀⣀⣀⣀⣄⣀⠀⠈⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿

⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢸⡇⢸⢸⡿⣸⠀⡇⣆⢳⡜⣸⣷⠀⡇⠀⡇⢸⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠇⠀⠙⠋⢩⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡆⠀⢹⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿

⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠸⣅⡼⢸⠀⣿⠀⣇⣛⢸⠇⣿⣿⢸⡇⢸⡇⢸⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠲⣿⣿⠿⠿⠿⢇⠀⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿

⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣶⣶⣶⣶⣦⣶⣭⣭⣬⣼⣿⣿⣬⣵⣧⣝⣩⣾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⢀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢡⠀⠘⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿

⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢱⠶⣍⢩⠉⡭⢭⠛⡭⢍⠛⡭⣝⢛⡛⢛⢛⣛⣛⢛⣛⡻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⠀⠀⢸⣧⡐⠲⣦⡞⠈⠀⢀⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿

⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢸⠀⡟⢸⠀⠳⡈⢀⡇⣌⢸⡇⢸⠈⡇⡜⢸⣇⡒⢸⠀⡇⣽⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿

⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⢸⣠⠇⢸⠐⣆⣹⠸⣇⣰⢸⡁⣼⠀⣧⡇⢸⠁⠆⢸⠉⡇⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣆⠀⠀⠐⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⠙⠛⠿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿

⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣶⣶⣾⣶⣶⣶⣶⣷⣬⣴⣶⣭⣵⣷⣭⣴⣬⣭⣥⣬⣤⣣⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠟⠋⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠙⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿

⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠃⡆⢰⢡⣦⠉⣭⢹⣿⢫⡍⢻⡿⢩⢻⡟⡙⠟⣛⢻⢛⣛⡻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠏⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿

⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⢀⡇⣶⢸⢹⢸⢹⢸⡏⡜⢹⢸⡇⣾⢸⠇⡇⢰⢹⠀⢸⢀⡇⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡏⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠈⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿

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                ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 2048

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Posted in Deception at 12:36 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

Notice that neither the company nor people are named in this two-person chat

🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽⦇Sirius_sleeping_with_the_boss⦈_

Summary: In its_muck-raking, Sirius management complains not about things that

are false but are embarrassing (but the company and its people aren’t even

mentioned in this very informal chat)

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                ䷩ 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚎 2126

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Posted in News_Roundup at 1:07 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴 🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇GNOME bluefish⦈

§ Contents⠀➾

* GNU/Linux

      o Desktop/Laptop

      o Server

      o Audiocasts/Shows

      o Graphics_Stack

      o Applications

      o Instructionals/Technical

      o Games

      o Desktop_Environments/WMs

            # K_Desktop_Environment/KDE_SC/Qt

            # GNOME_Desktop/GTK

* Distributions_and_Operating_Systems

      o New_Releases

      o Canonical/Ubuntu_Family

      o Devices/Embedded

      o Open_Hardware/Modding

      o Mobile_Systems/Mobile_Applications

* Free,_Libre,_and_Open_Source_Software

      o Programming/Development

* Leftovers

      o Science

      o Education

      o Hardware

      o Health/Nutrition/Agriculture

      o Security

            # Privacy/Surveillance

      o Defence/Aggression

      o Environment

            # Energy/Transportation

            # 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 Monopolies

            # Copyrights

* Gemini*_and_Gopher

      o Personal

      o Technical

            # Internet/Gemini

            # Programming

* § GNU/Linux⠀➾

      o § Desktop/Laptop⠀➾

            # ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ 9_Reasons_Why_Linux_Might_Catch_Up_to_Windows

              and_macOS_in_2023⠀⇛

                   Linux distros already dominate the server world.

                   But can Linux catch up to and surpass Windows and

                   macOS in the desktop market?

                   Linux may not get as much attention as other tech

                   fields, but its future looks brighter in 2023 and

                   beyond thanks to several trends that have been

                   going on through 2022.

                   Let’s take a look at them and see why Linux may

                   finally catch up to Windows and macOS in the new

                   year.

            # ⚓ University of Toronto ☛ The_different_sorts_of

              ‘iconification’_of_windows_in_X⠀⇛

                   In X, application windows can be in a variety of

                   states. They can be on the screen, they can not

                   have been ‘mapped’ yet, they can be mapped but

                   located off the currently visible area of the

                   screen (many of my windows spend a lot of time in

                   other pages of my virtual desktop), and pretty much

                   since the beginning they can be what was originally

                   called ‘iconified’ but which these days is often

                   called ‘minimized’ in documentation that ordinary

                   people read.

            # ⚓ [Old]_Trashware,_a_practice_whose_time_has_passed?_|_Stop

              at_Zona-M⠀⇛

                   Back in 2010, I explained that “trashware” is the

                   practice of saving “old” computers from the trash

                   bin, and successfully reusing them, thanks to Free

                   Software like Linux. Today, I share, with

                   permission from the author, a reformatted

                   translation of this email about the serious limits

                   and hurdles of doing trashware today.

                   [...]

                   Giomba’s own, final observations were that, when

                   compared with the huge effort madem, 40 computers

                   are a really small number, that make it hard to

                   expect that trashware may be regularly practiced.

                   But if asked again to do it, they will certainly

                   accept, as knowing they can help someone is always

                   a great reward!

            # ⚓ My_own_thoughts_on_why_trashware’s_time_has_passed_|_Stop

              at_Zona-M⠀⇛

                   Two months ago I posted here the thoughts of a

                   Linux user on why, and how, the practice of

                   trashware, that is saving “old” computers from the

                   trash bin, and successfully reusing them, thanks to

                   Free Software like Linux, has passed its time.

            # ⚓ My_own_thoughts_on_why_trashware’s_time_has_passed,_part_2

              |_Stop_at_Zona-M⠀⇛

                   and so on. All things for which there is no

                   intrinsic need to know how to program or do system

                   administration. In short, and always without

                   belittling those who still want to focus on

                   trashware and succeed: if we talk about digital

                   competence and awareness, at the point we have

                   reached there is a much more urgent need for people

                   who know and do and ask for things like those , and

                   when I manage to meet people willing to learn more

                   at that level, I don’t even get to talk to them

                   about trashware, and there’s almost never time.

      o § Server⠀➾

            # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ You_No_Longer_Own_What_You_Buy:_Arlo_Cameras

              Lose_Updates,_Cloud_Storage⠀⇛

                   One of the common themes here at Techdirt over the

                   last decade is how the very meaning of “ownership”

                   and “property” has changed — often for the worse.

                   In the broadband connected era, firmware updates

                   can often eliminate functionality promised to you

                   at launch, as we saw with the Sony PlayStation 3.

                   And with everything now relying on internet

                   connectivity, companies can often give up on

                   supporting devices entirely, often leaving users

                   with very expensive paperweights as we saw

                   after Google acquired Revolv.

            # ⚓ Unix Men ☛ Transcription_Services_on_Linux:_A_Guide_to

              Enhancing_Productivity_and_Efficiency⠀⇛

                   In conclusion, Linux provides a powerful platform

                   for transcription services. It offers many

                   advantages over other operating systems, including

                   its open-source nature and excellent security

                   features. Additionally, AI-powered transcription

                   services can help to improve accuracy and reduce

                   the amount of time needed for manual editing. With

                   the right hardware and software setup, businesses

                   can take advantage of transcription services on

                   Linux to streamline their workflows and improve

                   efficiency.

      o § Audiocasts/Shows⠀➾

            # ⚓ Video ☛ Vanilla_OS_22.10_overview_|_Immutable.._..but_also

              not._–_Invidious⠀⇛

                   In this video, I am going to show an overview of

                   Vanilla OS 22.10 and some of the applications pre-

                   installed.

            # ⚓ Video ☛ Kali_Linux_Xfce_2022.4_Quick_overview_#shorts_–

              Invidious⠀⇛

                   A Quick Overview of Kali Linux Xfce 2022.4

            # ⚓ Video ☛ Org_Agenda_Is_A_Powerful_Scheduling_App_(Let’s

              Configure_It!)_–_Invidious⠀⇛

                   The killer feature of Emacs is undoubtedly Org

                   mode. One of the really amazing programs that is

                   built around Org mode is ‘org-agenda’, which is a

                   scheduling application.

            # ⚓ Video ☛ Massive_new_rendering_tricks_are_coming_to_the

              Steam_Deck._(Plus_other_Deck_news)_–_Invidious⠀⇛

                   While there hasn’t been a beta Steam Deck client

                   update this week, that doesn’t mean there hasn’t

                   been some massive news. HDR will be coming to the

                   Steam Deck, but what’s more: Ray Tracing support as

                   well.

            # ⚓ Video ☛ 8-Bit_Week_—_Day_1_–_2_Roundup_–_Invidious⠀⇛

      o § Graphics Stack⠀➾

            # ⚓ Who-T:_X_servers_no_longer_allow_byte-swapped_clients⠀⇛

                   In the beginning, there was the egg. Then fictional

                   people started eating that from different ends, and

                   the terms of “little endians” and “Big Endians” was

                   born.

                   Computer architectures (mostly) come with one of

                   either byte order: MSB first or LSB first. The two

                   are incompatible of course, and many a bug was

                   introduced trying to convert between the two (or,

                   more common: failing to do so). The two byte orders

                   were termed Big Endian and little endian, because

                   that hilarious naming scheme at least gives us

                   something to laugh about while contemplating

                   throwing it all away and considering a future as, I

                   don’t know, a strawberry plant.

                   Back in the mullet-infested 80s when the X11

                   protocol was designed both little endian and big

                   endian were common enough. And back then running

                   the X server on a different host than the client

                   was common too – the X terminals back then had less

                   processing power than a smart toilet seat today so

                   the cpu-intensive clients were running on some

                   mainfraime. To avoid overtaxing the poor mainframe

                   already running dozens of clients for multiple

                   users, the job of converting between the two byte

                   orders was punted to the X server. So to this day

                   whenever a client connects, the first byte it sends

                   is a literal “l” or “B” to inform the server of the

                   client’s byte order. Where the byte order doesn’t

                   match the X server’s byte order, the client is a

                   “swapped client” in X server terminology and all

                   16, 32, and 64-bit values must be “byte-swapped”

                   into the server’s byte order. All of those values

                   in all requests, and then again back to the

                   client’s byte order in all outgoing replies and

                   events. Forever, till a crash do them part.

                   If you get one of those wrong, the number is no

                   longer correct. And it’s properly wrong too, the

                   difference between 0×1 and 0×01000000 is rather

                   significant. [0] Which has the hilarious side-

                   effect of… well, pretty much anything. But usually

                   it ranges from crashing the server (thus taking all

                   other clients down in commiseration) to leaking

                   random memory locations. The list of security

                   issues affecting the various SProcFoo

                   implementations (X server naming scheme for Swapped

                   Procedure for request Foo) is so long that I’m too

                   lazy to pull out the various security advisories

                   and link to them. Just believe me, ok? *jedi

                   handwave*

            # ⚓ LWN ☛ Hutterer:_X_servers_no_longer_allow_byte-swapped

              clients_[LWN.net]⠀⇛

                   Peter Hutterer writes about the disabling of

                   support for byte-swapped clients in the X.org

                   server and the reasons why this was done.

            # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ NVIDIA_driver_v525.78.01_out_fixing_bugs

              and_supports_RTX_4070_Ti⠀⇛

                   NVIDIA has today released driver version 525.78.01

                   for Linux which includes support for the new RTX

                   4070 Ti, along with a few select bug fixes. Not

                   that you would want to buy an RTX 4070 Ti, since

                   it’s ridiculous for the price.

      o § Applications⠀➾

            # ⚓ Trend Oceans ☛ FirewallD_released_the_first_update_of_2023.

              Let’s_see_what_the_new_features_are⠀⇛

                   Let’s take a look at the latest version of

                   FirewallD, which was released at the start of 2023.

            # ⚓ Trend Oceans ☛ Pinta_Installation_Instructions_for_all

              Major_Linux_Distributions_and_Microsoft_Windows⠀⇛

                   Who doesn’t have a memory when it comes to

                   painting? Every painting has a memory, especially

                   if it was created by you at some point in your

                   life. So let’s download the software and make the

                   memory

            # ⚓ Medevel ☛ 17_Open_Source_Free_API_Testing_And_Development

              Apps⠀⇛

                   API or Application Programming Interface is a set

                   of protocols, definitions that allow different

                   programs or systems to talk or message with each

                   other.

                   Companies develop API software in order to deliver

                   their services quicker, integrate their service

                   with third-party, or even create scalable mobile,

                   desktop, and web apps using the same API endpoints.

                   API testing and debugging is an essential part of

                   API development workflow, no matter what type of

                   API service you are building.

            # ⚓ It’s FOSS ☛ FOSS_Weekly_#23.01:_New_Year,_New_FOSS,_New

              Distros,_Recommended_Tools_and_More_Linux_Stuff⠀⇛

                   Happy new year

                   What’s new in the new year 2023? It’s FOSS 🄸🄼🄰🄶🄴

                   🄳🄴🅂🄲🅁🄸🄿🅃🄸🄾🄽 ⦇:)⦈

                   If you have visited the website, you might have

                   already noticed that it has changed drastically.

                   We worked on moving the website from WordPress to

                   Ghost during the winter holidays. It was supposed

                   to be your Christmas gift but things took longer

                   than expected.

                   The new platform provides a lean, clean and faster

                   website. You’ll notice the speed boost while

                   browsing the site, especially on mobile devices.

                   A new commenting system is in place that allows

                   adding images and gifs. The dark theme blends well

                   with your system preference.

                   More pleasant changes will be added in the coming

                   weeks. I’ll create a separate page detailing how

                   you can get more out of your experience with It’s

                   FOSS.

                   Meanwhile, please send me your feedback on the new

                   design, if things are working as expected or if you

                   notice strange behavior.

            # ⚓ TecMint ☛ 10_Top_Open_Source_Caching_Tools_for_Linux_in

              2023⠀⇛

                   Reliable distributed computing systems and

                   applications have become the cornerstone of

                   prominent businesses, especially in automating and

                   managing mission-critical business processes and

                   delivering services to customers.

                   As developers and system administrators of these

                   systems and applications, you are expected to

                   provide all kinds of information technology (IT)

                   solutions that will ensure that you have the most

                   efficient systems available.

      o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾

            # ⚓ Manuel Matuzovic ☛ Day_74:_using_!important_in_cascade

              layers⠀⇛

                   In order to understand how !important works in

                   cascade layers, you have to understand how

                   !important works generally. The conclusion of this

                   post might not be what you expect.

            # ⚓ Rachel ☛ Another_look_at_the_steps_for_issuing_a_cert⠀⇛

                   How about we give that a shot now? Let’s just go

                   through the steps for getting a secure web site

                   going, and ignore the specifics of the protocol for

                   the moment.

                   First, the baseline assumptions: there’s a key.

                   There’s a certificate signing request which

                   references that key. Then there’s the certificate

                   itself with a signature which attaches it to the

                   “web of trust” (ehhh…) that is largely accepted by

                   most clients. Okay?

            # ⚓ Jim Nielsen ☛ Justify_Space_Between_Individual_Items_in

              Flexbox⠀⇛

                   This is a seemingly trivial thing but I’ve probably

                   looked it up at least three times now, so it’s time

                   to write a blog post about it in hopes that I’ll

                   finally remember the solution.

                   tl;dr when aligning a flat hierarchy of items with

                   flexbox, you can use margin: auto to get the effect

                   of justification between individual items.

            # ⚓ Rachel ☛ S_p_a_m_m_y_s_y_s_c_a_l_l_s_in_strace_dumps⠀⇛

                   The problem comes when you have a program that has

                   a bunch of stuff to put on the wire, and yet it

                   does it with individual calls to write(). Instead

                   of pushing (say) ~2 KB at the network with a single

                   call, it instead spins through the buffer, writing

                   each one individually. Now you have 2000 packets

                   flying around, all with their headers and

                   everything else as overhead. Having the kernel

                   batch this up is basically saving the world from

                   broken code.

            # ⚓ Data Swamp ☛ How_to_boot_on_a_BTRFS_snapshot⠀⇛

                   I always wanted to have a simple rollback method on

                   Linux systems, NixOS gave me a full featured one,

                   but it wasn’t easy to find a solution for other

                   distributions.

                   Fortunately, with BTRFS, it’s really simple thanks

                   to snapshots being mountable volumes.

            # ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_To_Install_CoreFreq_on_Rocky_Linux_9_–

              idroot⠀⇛

                   In this tutorial, we will show you how to install

                   CoreFreq on Rocky Linux 9. For those of you who

                   didn’t know, CoreFreq is a useful tool for

                   monitoring the performance of x86 CPUs and

                   identifying potential issues or bottlenecks. Its

                   real-time monitoring capabilities and support for

                   multiple CPUs make it a valuable tool for system

                   administrators and developers.

                   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 CoreFreq to display real-time

                   information about your CPU performance on Rocky

                   Linux. 9.

            # ⚓ Beginners_Guide_for_Ping_Command_in_Linux⠀⇛

                   PING, also known as “Packet Internet Groper,” is

                   the most common networking tool used in Windows,

                   Linux, and macOS to test the connection between the

                   source and the destination.

                   The destination, or remote system, could be a web

                   server, your router, or a computer on your local

                   network; you will specify them with their domain or

                   IP address.

                   When you specify the destination (domain or IP

                   address), the ping command will send a series of

                   ICMP (Internet Control Message Protocol) packets to

                   the remote system and wait for the response.

                   In the response output, you will get different

                   pieces of information using which you can determine

                   whether the remote system is alive or not, the

                   latency of the network, and how many packets are

                   dropped.

                   Although you might already be aware of the basic

                   usage of this command, stick with this article to

                   learn several variations and options for the ping

                   command (with examples).

            # ⚓ Beginners_Guide_for_Hash_Command_in_Linux⠀⇛

                   You might already be aware of the Linux shell’s

                   default behavior of capturing each user’s executed

                   commands and storing them in the “~/.bash_history”

                   file, so later you can view the history list using

                   the history command.

                   Although, history is not the only location where

                   your executed commands are stored, a Linux shell

                   like Bash, Ksh, or Zsh also stores the user’s

                   executed commands in a list known as a hash list.

                   In this article, you will learn what the hash list

                   is, the differences between it and the history

                   list, and how to use its command-line tool to

                   manage records in the hash list in Linux.

            # ⚓ TechRepublic ☛ How_to_deploy_Apache_Tomcat_on_Ubuntu

              Server⠀⇛

                   Need to serve your java apps from a user-friend web

                   app? Look no further than Tomcat. Find out how to

                   install Tomcat on Ubuntu Linux.

            # ⚓ DebugPoint ☛ Learn_w_Command_in_Linux_&_BSD_with_Examples⠀⇛

                   The w command is a utility in Linux that displays

                   information about the users currently logged into

                   the system and their processes. It shows who is

                   logged on and what activities they are doing. That

                   means it can show what processes they are running

                   in their system.

                   Here’s some examples.

            # ⚓ UNIX Cop ☛ How_to_install_VIM_text_editor_on_Ubuntu

              22.04?⠀⇛

                   In this post, you will learn how to install VIM on

                   Ubuntu 22.04 VIM is a very popular text editor, so

                   it is always convenient to have it at hand.

            # ⚓ Linux Shell Tips ☛ How_to_Install_Chrony_NTP_to_Synchronize

              Time_in_RHEL9/8⠀⇛

                   Network Time Protocol (NTP) is a networking

                   protocol that synchronizes time and date settings

                   across computer systems in a network. It is

                   responsible for maintaining accurate time and date

                   settings in computer systems in order for them to

                   run critical tasks such as cron jobs, shell

                   scripts, and real-time applications.

                   NTP has since been replaced by chronyd, a

                   networking daemon that is an implementation of the

                   Network Time Protocol. The Chronyd service

                   synchronizes the system clock with online NTP

                   servers or an on-premise NTP server.

                   Chronyd is tailored to function in unfavorable

                   networking environments such as in heavily

                   congested networks and intermittent network

                   connections. It records impressive time accuracy

                   within a few milliseconds for systems synchronized

                   over the internet and tens of microseconds for

                   computers on a LAN.

            # ⚓ markaicode by Mark ☛ Geany_Installation_on_Linux_Mint_21_|

              Mark_Ai_Code⠀⇛

                   Geany is the most widely used, lightweight, quick,

                   and open-source text editor for programming. It is

                   a multi-platform program that operates on a variety

                   of platforms including NetBSD, Solaris, Windows,

                   and Linux.

            # ⚓ markaicode by Mark ☛ How_to_Upgrade_Fedora_in_Easy_Steps_|

              Mark_Ai_Code⠀⇛

                   If you are a new Fedora user, you may not be aware

                   that it is available in many versions. The most

                   recent version of Fedora is the “main” version,

                   also known as the “Current” version. This indicates

                   that developers have previously issued versions

                   that consumers may upgrade from a lower version.

                   This article examines how to update your Fedora

                   distribution.

            # ⚓ markaicode by Mark ☛ How_to_Install_VirtualBox_7.0_on_RHEL

              9_|_Mark_Ai_Code⠀⇛

                   Oracle VM VirtualBox is a prominent free and open-

                   source virtualization software extensively used by

                   desktop enthusiasts, system administrators, and

                   programmers to construct virtual machines for

                   testing operating systems, among other things.

            # ⚓ markaicode by Mark ☛ How_to_Install_CakePHP_Framework_on

              Ubuntu_22.04_|_Mark_Ai_Code⠀⇛

                   This guide examines how to install VirtualBox 7.0

                   on RHEL 9 editions in order to construct guest

                   virtual machines from an ISO image file.

            # ⚓ markaicode by Mark ☛ How_to_Install_Telegram_on_Fedora

              Linux_37_|_Mark_Ai_Code⠀⇛

                   Telegram is a free smartphone messenger similar to

                   WhatsApp. Users connect using their phone numbers

                   and can quickly talk, exchange photographs, videos,

                   documents, and files, and download them. In

                   addition, video and phone conversations may be

                   conducted, and polls, groups, and channels can be

                   formed to network with one another. Telegram is

                   especially popular because of the latter

                   capability.

                   Installing software on Windows and macOS is quite

                   straightforward, but Linux users are less

                   acquainted with the process. As a result, if you’re

                   running Fedora Linux and wish to install the

                   Telegram client, follow the instructions below.

            # ⚓ markaicode by Mark ☛ How_to_Redirect_404_Error_to_Home_Page

              in_WordPress_|_Mark_Ai_Code⠀⇛

                   The 404 error code indicates that the requested

                   page does not exist on the server. If you’re

                   receiving repeated 404 errors on your WordPress

                   site and don’t have a 404 page. In this case,

                   simply redirect all 404 requests to your website’s

                   home page with a 301 redirect. You do not need to

                   install any additional plugins on your site to do

                   this, instead, a little PHP code will do it for

                   you.

      o § Games⠀➾

            # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ DIY_GameTank_Game_Console_Gets_Upgraded

              Cartridge⠀⇛

                   Over the summer, you might recall seeing a homebrew

                   6502 game console called the GameTank grace these

                   pages. The product of [Clyde Shaffer], the system

                   was impressively complete, very well documented,

                   and even had a budding library of games.

            # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Steam_Deck_Beta_update,_plus_easy_Flatpak

              updates_and_more_HDR_teasing⠀⇛

                   Three fun bits for you today including Steam

                   desktop and Steam Deck Beta updates, an easy way to

                   update third-party Flatpaks on Steam Deck in Gaming

                   Mode and another HDR teaser from Valve.

            # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ PlayStation_3_emulator_RPCS3_hits_a_big

              milestone_with_all_games_now_bootable⠀⇛

                   RPCS3 is a free and open source PlayStation 3

                   emulator, and they hit a huge milestone for

                   compatibility recently.

            # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Dwarf_Fortress_hit_nearly_half_a_million

              sales_in_December_2022⠀⇛

                   Dwarf Fortress from developer Bay 12 Games and

                   publisher Kitfox Games finally had the Steam

                   release in December 2022, and it seems like it went

                   very well. It’s currently sat with

                   an Overwhelmingly Positive user rating from over

                   15,000 Steam user reviews.

            # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ Space_and_atmospheric_flight_simulator

              Flight_Of_Nova_gets_a_Linux_version⠀⇛

                   Flight Of Nova is a solo-developed space and

                   atmospheric flight sim currently in Early Access,

                   it looks quite impressive and it now has a Native

                   Linux version. If you love flying sims and sci-fi,

                   you’re going to like this, it even has HOTAS

                   support.

      o § Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾

            # § K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt⠀➾

                  # ⚓ Linux Links ☛ Best_Free_Android_Apps:_KOReader_–

                    document_viewer⠀⇛

                         KOReader is a document viewer for a wide

                         variety of file formats. It’s available for

                         Linux, Android, and E Ink devices.

                         The software has 2 interfaces consisting of a

                         reading screen and a file browser. The image

                         below shows the file browser.

                         The most important thing to learn about the

                         reading screen is where to tap/click. This is

                         neatly illustrated in the software’ user

                         guide.

            # § GNOME Desktop/GTK⠀➾

                  # ⚓ 9to5Linux ☛ GNOME_44_Desktop_Environment_Is_Slated

                    for_Release_on_March_22nd,_2023⠀⇛

                         While you are probably enjoying your GNOME 43

                         desktop environment, the GNOME devs are

                         already working hard on the next major

                         release, GNOME 44, due out in late March 2023

                         with more new features and enhancements.

                         That’s right, GNOME 44 is coming in a few

                         months as yet another major update in the

                         GNOME 40 series of this popular desktop

                         environment for GNU/Linux distributions. The

                         release schedule was published a while ago,

                         suggesting a final release date of March

                         22nd, 2023.

* § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾

      o ⚓ DebugPoint ☛ Top_10_Linux_Distributions_for_Programmers_in_2023_

        [Featured]⠀⇛

             We review the top 10 best Linux distributions for

             programmers and developers to help with their work and

             personal projects.

             Developers or programmers use various tools and

             applications for their job or projects. It includes code

             editors, programming language compilers, add-ons,

             databases, etc.

      o ⚓ It’s FOSS ☛ Budgie’s_Upcoming_10.7_Release_Promises_These_3_Key

        Improvements_for_Linux_Users⠀⇛

             Budgie is a desktop environment designed to keep clutter

             to a minimum and provide users with a clean/minimal

             experience.

             Back in January 2022, the former-co-lead of Solus, Joshua

             Strobl left Solus to work on SerpentOS, but he continued

             to work on Budgie.

             So, he forked the project into a new repository and

             formed the Buddies Of Budgie organization. Three months

             after that, they released Budgie 10.6.

             It was a good release, if not extraordinary.

      o § New Releases⠀➾

            # ⚓ Linspire_–_The_easiest_Desktop_Linux:_Linspire_12_Public

              Alpha_1_Released⠀⇛

                   Today we have released Linspire 12 Public Alpha 1.

                   This build highlights the newest LTS release. This

                   has been a longer release schedule then what we

                   hoped for highlighting security and stability as

                   Linspire will start to have a 12 month release

                   cycle.

                   This release includes:

                   Linux kernel 5.15

                   GNOME Desktop

                   Thunderbird

                   OnlyOffice 7.2

                   Microsoft Edge 108

                   The full suite of GNOME multimedia players

      o § Canonical/Ubuntu Family⠀➾

            # ⚓ Linuxiac ☛ Mint’s_LMDE_5:_POC_or_the_Best_Linux_Desktop_Out

              There?⠀⇛

                   Linux Mint, a 16-year-old distribution, launched

                   its initial release in August 2006. Throughout the

                   years, the distribution has focused on a single

                   simple goal: an easy and user-friendly Linux

                   desktop for everyday users.

                   This straightforwardness and adherence to the

                   golden rule of keeping things simple, easy to use,

                   and workable has earned it a large user base. So,

                   of course, it is no coincidence that the Linux Mint

                   21.1 release takes the top spot in our rankings for

                   the best desktop Linux distros for 2022.

                   Mint, as we all know, is based on Ubuntu. Its

                   guiding idea is to remove all of Ubuntu’s existing

                   flaws, build on top of the existing base, then

                   package and provide it in an easy-to-use desktop-

                   focused Linux distro. This is achieved mainly in

                   Mint’s Ubuntu-based flagship edition, Cinnamon.

            # ⚓ OMG Ubuntu ☛ The_Future_of_ZFS_on_Ubuntu_Desktop_is_Not

              Looking_Good_–_OMG!_Ubuntu!⠀⇛

                   I hate to say it, but it looks like Ubuntu on ZFS

                   is a dead effort.

                   In 2019 Canonical was upbeat about their support

                   for contentious file system, making waves with the

                   release of Ubuntu 19.10 which featured an

                   experimental option to install Ubuntu (kernel,

                   system files, and user data) on a ZFS volume.

                   Ubuntu was the first major Linux distro to embrace

                   ZFS, despite the tangle of issues around its

                   licensing.

                   But since then the enthusiasm has waned.

                   Last year, Ubuntu developers pushed to remove Zsys

                   from Ubuntu’s Ubiquity installer. This is an

                   integral tool Ubuntu created to make it easier to

                   manage and maintain ZFS-based installations. In a

                   bug report they bluntly noted that ‘priority

                   changes’ in the desktop team meant Zsys was no

                   longer something they want to “advertise using”.

            # ⚓ OMG Ubuntu ☛ Nala_is_a_Neat_Alternative_to_Apt_on_Ubuntu_–

              OMG!_Ubuntu!⠀⇛

                   If there’s one command-line tool I know most of you

                   use it’s APT, or the Advanced Package Tool.

                   Every Debian-based Linux distro (Ubuntu included)

                   uses APT because, well, it’s good at what it does.

                   To quote Wikipedia, APT takes the hassle out of

                   managing software on Linux by “automating the

                   retrieval, configuration and installation of

                   software packages, either from precompiled files or

                   by compiling source code.”

                   Whether you want to check for updates, upgrade your

                   system, or install software from your distro’s

                   repo, apt lets you do it quickly, do it easily, and

                   do it relatively safely.

                   But I’m not here to talk about why you should use

                   APT…

      o § Devices/Embedded⠀➾

            # ⚓ Stacey on IoT ☛ Surprise:_Samsung_is_making_SmartThings

              hardware_again!⠀⇛

                   One never knows what to expect at the Consumer

                   Electronics Show. And so far, the biggest surprise

                   is news of the Samsung SmartThings Station, a smart

                   home hub with Matter support and a programmable

                   button. Just for kicks, the SmartThings Station is

                   also a 15-watt wireless charger too.

                   No, a smart home hub with Matter isn’t surprising.

                   A smart home hub from Samsung is.

      o § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾

            # ⚓ Kian Ryan ☛ Getting_Started_With_Z80ASM_On_The_RC2014⠀⇛

                   Happy New Year.

                   We’re going to start the new year by going down to

                   the metal. The RC2014 Classic II and Pro ROM images

                   both contain copies of the Small Computer Monitor.

                   SCM is a machine code monitor and assembler for Z80

                   systems.

                   We’re going to switch a RC2014 Classic II from

                   booting 32K BASIC to SCM, assemble an example

                   program using z80asm, convert it to Intel hex code,

                   and run that code on the RC2014.

            # ⚓ Jeff Geerling ☛ Getting_to_1.5_Gbps_WiFi_6E_on_the

              Raspberry_Pi_CM4⠀⇛

                   In the past, I had some faltering attempts where

                   sometimes things would work—sort-of—using WiFi 6

                   (802.11ax, 40 MHz bandwidth, 2×2) using an Intel

                   AX200 M.2 card on the Raspberry Pi Compute Module

4.

                   But Netgear saw my post about upgrading to 2.5 Gbps

                   networking and decided to send me an upgraded

                   Insight WAX630E access point—the one that does WiFi

                   6E with full support for 6 GHz and 160 MHz channel

                   width. I had previously tested on an ASUS RT-AX86U

                   (WiFi 6 only) and Netgear WAX620 (also WiFi 6

                   only), and it was high time I tried everything on

                   the latest version of Raspberry Pi OS.

            # ⚓ SparkFun Electronics ☛ SparkFun_Turns_20⠀⇛

                   I guess I never really realized it, but as I look

                   back at the history of SparkFun, it’s puzzles all

                   the way down. SparkFun turns 20 years old this

                   week, and next year I’ll have worked at SparkFun

                   half of my life. Since SparkFun opened its doors,

                   there was always work to do. The challenge of

                   getting a little faster to market, writing a little

                   cleaner code, open sourcing more technologies, and

                   increasing the production yield rate a few

                   fractions of a percentage more was, and continues

                   to be, thrilling. I get to puzzle for work, and

                   I’ve got a whole team of like minded folks that

                   makes another twenty years of SparkFun sound

                   absolutely delightful.

            # ⚓ Old VCR ☛ The_MOS_6502_is_(mostly)_Turing-complete_without

              registers⠀⇛

                   These tricks work primarily because the ISA allows

                   memory-to-memory operations, i.e., altering a

                   memory location without explicitly moving data

                   through a program-visible register, a historical

                   holdover from its roots in the Intel 8086 and its

                   ancestors. (Let’s not even talk about its Turing-

                   complete faults.) Other pre-RISC CPUs of that era

                   also have memory-to-memory addressing, including

                   the MOS 6502, which despite its simplicity being

                   inspiration for the RISC ARM architecture is not

                   itself RISC. It should be no surprise you can make

                   the 6502 do this trick too even with its more

                   constrained instruction set, and we can do it with

                   just four instructions, not counting rts to return

                   to the operating system.

            # ⚓ ROS Industrial ☛ Teaching_an_Old_Robot_New_Tricks⠀⇛

                   Robotics is increasingly present in our daily lives

                   in one way or another. Although many hear the word

                   ‘Robotics’ think of humanoid-type robots or even

                   robotic arms used in industry, the reality is that

                   robotics has many forms and applications, from

                   autonomous mobile robots (AMR) to standard

                   industrial robots. Robots range in size from as

                   small of the palm of your hand, to robots capable

                   of reaching the top of an airplane.

            # ⚓ Raspberry Pi ☛ Gender_Balance_in_Computing_—_the_big

              picture⠀⇛

                   Improving gender balance in computing is part of

                   our work to ensure equitable learning opportunities

                   for all young people. Our Gender Balance in

                   Computing (GBIC) research programme has been the

                   largest effort to date to explore ways to encourage

                   more girls and young women to engage with

                   Computing.

            # ⚓ Hackster ☛ This_DIY_Logic_Gate_Game_Is_Perfect_for_Learning

              Computing_Fundamentals_–_Hackster.io⠀⇛

                   You’re reading this article, so we can safely

                   assume that you know how to operate a computer. But

                   do you understand how that computer works? Most

                   people don’t — and that includes many technical

                   people who work on computers for a living. That’s

                   because computers, at their lowest level, rely on

                   Boolean logic that isn’t intuitive to the human

                   brain. If you’re interested in gaining an

                   understanding of Boolean logic and computing

                   fundamentals, then Bkriet’s DIY logic gate game is

                   a great way to start.

            # ⚓ Linux Gizmos ☛ Espressif_presents_new_dual-core_ESP32-P4

              RISC-V_SoC⠀⇛

                   Espressif System shared details about the upcoming

                   Dual-core RISC-V ESP32-P4 SoC. The announcement

                   mentions that this 400MHz ESP32-P4 SoC includes an

                   “AI instruction extension, an advanced memory

                   subsystem, and integrated high-speed peripherals.”

            # ⚓ CNX Software ☛ Espressif_ESP32-P4_–_A_400_MHz_general-

              purpose_dual-core_RISC-V_microcontroller_–_CNX_Software⠀⇛

                   Espressif ESP32-P4 is a general-purpose dual-core

                   RISC-V microcontroller clocked at up to 400 MHz

                   with AI instructions extension, numerous I/Os, and

                   security features.

                   It also happens to be the first microcontroller

                   from Espressif Systems without wireless

                   connectivity, and as such, it should probably be

                   seen as an alternative to STM32F7/H7 or NXP i.RT

                   Arm Cortex-M7 microcontrollers/crossover

                   processors, and likely offered at a significantly

                   lower cost. It should also offer lower power

                   consumption than other ESP32 chips thanks in part

                   to a third RISC-V core clocked at 40 MHz that can

                   keep the system running while the other two high-

                   performance cores are down.

            # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ PCB_Gets_Weighty_Assignment⠀⇛

                   [Curious Scientist] tried building an integrated

                   strain gauge on a PCB, but ran into problems.

                   Mainly, the low resistance of the traces didn’t

                   show enough change under strain to measure easily.

                   Even placing a proper strain gauge on the PCB had

                   limitations. His new design uses a bridge design to

                   make the change in the gauges usefully large. You

                   can see a video of the project below.

            # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ New_And_Improved_Arduboy_Mini_Smashes_Funding

              Goal⠀⇛

                   Just before the holidays, we brought you word of

                   the Arduboy Mini — the latest in the line of open

                   source 8-bit handheld gaming systems designed by

                   [Kevin Bates]. He was good enough to send along a

                   prototype version ahead of the system’s Kickstarter

                   campaign, and we came away impressed with the

                   possibilities it offered for customization.

            # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Developing_An_Open_Source_Bike_Computer⠀⇛

                   While bicycles appear to have standardized around a

                   relatively common shape and size, parts for these

                   bikes are another story entirely. It seems as

                   though most reputable bike manufacturers are

                   currently racing against each other to see who can

                   include the most planned obsolescence and force

                   their customers to upgrade even when their old

                   bikes might otherwise be perfectly fine. Luckily,

                   the magic of open source components could solve

                   some of this issue, and this open-source bike

                   computer is something you’ll never have to worry

                   about being forced to upgrade.

            # ⚓ peppe8o ☛ How_to_use_a_Relay_with_Raspberry_PI_Pico_and

              MicroPython⠀⇛

                   How to use a Relay with Raspberry PI Pico.

                   Explaining how relays work and how to use it with a

                   water pump inlcuding MicroPython code

      o § Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications⠀➾

            # ⚓ Android Authority ☛ PS2_emulator_for_Android_ends_due_to

              developer_woes_–_Android_Authority⠀⇛

            # ⚓ TechCrunch ☛ New_Android_Auto_features_give_car_display_a

              user-design_makeover_•_TechCrunch⠀⇛

            # ⚓ Ars Technica ☛ Android_Automotive_goes_mainstream:_A_review

              of_GMâs_new_infotainment_system_|_Ars_Technica⠀⇛

            # ⚓ 9to5Google ☛ BMW_will_bring_Android_Automotive_to_iDrive

              9⠀⇛

            # ⚓ 9to5Google ☛ Pixel_owners_having_Bluetooth_issues_after

              January_update⠀⇛

            # ⚓ Android Authority ☛ How_to_rotate_your_screen_on_Android_–

              Android_Authority⠀⇛

            # ⚓ SlashGear ☛ How_To_Delete_Duplicate_Contacts_On_Android

              Phones⠀⇛

            # ⚓ What_Is_Android_System_WebView?_And_Should_You_Disable_It?

              –_TechPP⠀⇛

            # ⚓ The Sun ☛ Urgent_warning_issued_to_all_Android_phone_owners

              â_it’s_‘critical’_that_you_act_today_|_The_US_Sun⠀⇛

            # ⚓ TechRadar ☛ This_dangerous_Android_malware_is_seeing_a_huge

              rise_in_infections_|_TechRadar⠀⇛

            # ⚓ Phone Arena ☛ OnePlus_may_be_testing_an_Android_tablet

              codenamed_âAriesâ_–_PhoneArena⠀⇛

            # ⚓ Sportskeeda ☛ PUBG_Mobile_latest_2.4_update_download_link

              for_all_Android_devices_(2023)⠀⇛

            # ⚓ Computer World ☛ 7_advanced_Android_adjustments_for_your

              new_year_|_Computerworld⠀⇛

            # ⚓ The_Android_gaming_handheld_Razer_Edge_gets_a_release

              date⠀⇛

            # ⚓ SamMobile ☛ Galaxy_Tab_A8_gets_Android_13_One_UI_5.0_update

              right_on_time_–_SamMobile⠀⇛

            # ⚓ Android Police ☛ Android_Auto’s_massive_redesign_is_finally

              rolling_out_to_everyone⠀⇛

            # ⚓ Android Police ☛ Get_ready_to_live_life_on_the_Razer_Edge,

              as_this_next-gen_Android_gaming_handheld_prepares_to_land⠀⇛

            # ⚓ 9to5Google ☛ Stadia_for_Android_gets_one_final_update

              before_Google_kills_it⠀⇛

            # ⚓ BBC ☛ Many_Android_phones_to_get_satellite_connectivity_–

              BBC_News⠀⇛

            # ⚓ Reuters ☛ Google_set_to_challenge_India_Android_antitrust

              ruling_at_Supreme_Court-sources_|_Reuters⠀⇛

            # ⚓ Android Authority ☛ How_to_rotate_your_screen_on_Android_–

              Android_Authority⠀⇛

            # ⚓ 9to5Google ☛ Google’s_CES_Booth_Tour:_Android_swings_+_slot

              machines_[Video]⠀⇛

            # ⚓ Tom’s Guide ☛ I_love_my_Android_tablet,_but_wouldn’t

              recommend_buying_one_|_Tom’s_Guide⠀⇛

            # ⚓ 10_Best_Drawing_Apps_for_Android_[2023]:_Paint_–_Draw_Like

              a_Pro_–_TechPP⠀⇛

* § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾

      o ⚓ Pointless_tribalism_in_FOSS_|_AksDev⠀⇛

             I’m not talking about critique. Assholes of the world

             love to pretend their behavior is “critique” but rest of

             us know that’s not how it works. If it uses inflammatory

             language and insults, it’s not critique.

             I for sure ignore any complaints about my games and

             projects that start with telling me off, either directly

             or indirectly. I do not care at that point. Seethe.

             Sure this is more an internet/human problem in general,

             but there’s nothing to gain from this, especially in FOSS

             world. We’re a small community, trying to survive against

             big money corporations. FOSS projects don’t suddenly get

             more money if people go “X is better and Y users are

             dumby smelly.” There just is no reason to be an ass about

             any of this.

             Why jeopardise all these years of survival for some shit-

             talk?

             The usual one is the GNOME vs KDE “debate”, that is so

             pointless I don’t even understand why it exists.

             The answer to these “debates” is simple: Try all desktop

             environments that interest you. Stick with the one that

             you like best.

             No need to bring flamewars into this. Completely

             pointless.

      o ⚓ OpenSource.com ☛ Use_time-series_data_to_power_your_edge_projects

        with_open_source_tools⠀⇛

             Gathering data as it changes over the passage of time is

             known as time-series data. Today, it has become a part of

             every industry and ecosystem. It is a large part of the

             growing IoT sector and will become a larger part of

             everyday people’s lives. But time-series data and its

             requirements are hard to work with. This is because there

             are no tools that are purpose-built to work with time-

             series data. In this article, I go into detail about

             those problems and how InfluxData has been working to

             solve them for the past 10 years.

             InfluxData is an open source time-series database

             platform. You may know about the company through

             InfluxDB, but you may not have known that it specialized

             in time-series databases. This is significant, because

             when managing time-series data, you deal with two issues

             — storage lifecycle and queries.

      o ⚓ NVISO Labs ☛ DeTT&CT:_Automate_your_detection_coverage_with

        dettectinator⠀⇛

             Dettectinator is a tool developed by Martijn Veken and

             Ruben Bouman of Sirius Security that enables the

             automation of DeTT&CT data source and technique

             administration YAML files needed to create visibility and

             detection layers in the ATT&CK Navigator. This tool can

             be integrated as a Python library within your security

             operations center (SOC) automation tools or used via the

             command line.

      o ⚓ Remy Van Elst ☛ Leaf_Node_Monitoring_v2023.01_released,_major

        performance_improvements,_new_layout_and_new_checks!⠀⇛

             I’m pleased to announce the next version of Leaf Node

             Monitoring, the simple and easy to use open source site

             and server monitoring tool. Major new features include a

             responsive and adjustable layout, massive performance

             improvements and a new check type, allowing you to

             execute external processes, for example, the nagios/

             monitoring plugins. This post goes over everything that

             is new in this release.

      o § Programming/Development⠀➾

            # ⚓ How_to_make_your_application_support_Input_method_under

              Linux_|_CS_Slayer⠀⇛

                   As an Linux application developer, one might not

                   aware that there could be certain effort required

                   to support Input Method (or Input Method Editor,

                   usually referred as IME) under Linux.

                   [...]

                   Even if you are not aware, you are probably already

                   using it in daily life. For example, the virtual

                   keyboard on your smart phone is a form of input

                   method. You may noticed that the virtual keyboard

                   allows you to type something, and gives you a list

                   of words based on what you already partially typed.

                   That is a very simple use case of input method. But

                   for CJKV (Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese)

                   users, Input method is necessary for them to type

                   their own language properly. Basically imagine

                   this: you only have 26 English key on the keyboard,

                   how could you type thousands of different Chinese

                   characters by a physical keyboard with only limited

                   keys? The answers, using a mapping that maps a

                   sequence of key into certain characters. In order

                   to make it easy to memorize, usually such mapping

                   is similar to what is called Transliteration , or

                   directly use an existing Romanization system.

            # ⚓ D Lang ☛ Memory_Safety_in_a_Systems_Programming_Language

              Part_3⠀⇛

                   The first entry in this series shows how to use the

                   new DIP1000 rules to have slices and pointers refer

                   to the stack, all while being memory safe. The

                   second entry in this series teaches about the ref

                   storage class and how DIP1000 works with aggregate

                   types (classes, structs, and unions).

                   So far the series has deliberately avoided

                   templates and auto functions. This kept the first

                   two posts simpler in that they did not have to deal

                   with function attribute inference, which I have

                   referred to as “attribute auto inference” in

                   earlier posts. However, both auto functions and

                   templates are very common in D code, so a series on

                   DIP1000 can’t be complete without explaining how

                   those features work with the language changes.

                   Function attribute inference is our most important

                   tool in avoiding so-called “attribute soup”, where

                   a function is decorated with several attributes,

                   which arguably decreases readability.

                   We will also dig deeper into unsafe code. The

                   previous two posts in this series focused on the

                   scope attribute, but this post is more focused on

                   attributes and memory safety in general. Since

                   DIP1000 is ultimately about memory safety, we can’t

                   get around discussing those topics.

            # ⚓ Rlang ☛ Lollipop_chart⠀⇛

                   According to modern recommendations in data viz,

                   lollipop charts are generally a better alternative

                   to bar charts, as they reduce the visual distortion

                   caused by the length of the bars, making it easier

                   to compare the values. So, in the next versions of

                   the ‘modEvA‘ and ‘fuzzySim‘ packages, functions

                   that produce bar plots will instead (by default)

                   produce lollipop charts, using the new ‘lollipop’

                   function which will be included in ‘modEvA‘. I know

                   ‘ggplot2‘ produces great lollipop charts already,

                   but I like to keep my package dependencies to a

                   minimum, or else they become much harder to

                   maintain… So here’s the new function: [...]

            # ⚓ Rlang ☛ Combining_R_and_Python_with_{reticulate}_and

              Quarto⠀⇛

                   The R versus Python debate has been going on for as

                   long as both languages have existed. I’m not one to

                   takes sides – I think you need to use the best tool

                   for the job. Sometimes R will be better. Sometimes

                   Python will be better. But what happens if you need

                   both languages in the same workflow? Do you need to

                   choose? No, is the simple answer. You can use both.

                   This blog post will show you how you can combine R

                   and Python code in the same analysis using

                   {reticulate} and output the results using Quarto.

            # ⚓ Daniel Lemire ☛ Transcoding_Unicode_with_AVX-512:_AMD_Zen_4

              vs._Intel_Ice_Lake⠀⇛

                   Most systems today rely on Unicode strings.

                   However, we have two popular Unicode formats: UTF-

                   8 and UTF-16. We often need to convert from one

                   format to the other. For example, you might have a

                   database formatted with UTF-16, but you need to

                   produce JSON documents using UTF-8. This conversion

                   is often called ‘transcoding’.

                   In the last few years, we wrote a specialized

                   library that process Unicode strings, with a focus

                   on performance: the simdutf library. The library is

                   used JavaScript runtimes (Node JS and bun).

            # ⚓ Barry Kauler ☛ Started_developing_automatic_language

              translation⠀⇛

                   The trick in the script is that it forces certain

                   strings to not be translated. In the above example,

                   that is “EasyOS”, “${VER}” and “http://

                   from.here.com/subdir”

            # ⚓ OpenSource.com ☛ An_introduction_to_DocArray,_an_open

              source_AI_library⠀⇛

                   DocArray is a library for nested, unstructured,

                   multimodal data in transit, including text, image,

                   audio, video, 3D mesh, and so on. It allows deep-

                   learning engineers to efficiently process, embed,

                   search, store, recommend, and transfer multi-modal

                   data with a Pythonic API. Starting in November of

                   2022, DocArray is open source and hosted by the

                   Linux Foundation AI & Data initiative so that

                   there’s a neutral home for building and supporting

                   an open AI and data community. This is the start of

                   a new day for DocArray.

                   In the ten months since DocArray’s first release,

                   its developers at Jina AI have seen more and more

                   adoption and contributions from the open source

                   community. Today, DocArray powers hundreds of

                   multimodal AI applications.

* § Leftovers⠀➾

      o ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Replace_Your_Automatic_Transmission_With_A_Bunch_Of

        Relays⠀⇛

             A “Check Engine” light on your dashboard could mean

             anything from a loose gas cap to a wallet-destroying

             repair in the offing. For [Dean Segovis], his CEL was

             indicating a fairly serious condition: a missing

             transmission. So naturally, he built this electronic

             transmission emulator to solve the problem.

      o ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ The_King_and_the_Champ:_More_Than_Just_Sports

        Icons⠀⇛

             The recent death of Pelé has elicited universal

             admiration for him as a player and person. Considered the

             greatest soccer player of all time, he was eulogized well

             beyond his native Brazil. (Pelé was declared an “official

             national treasure” in 1961 by the Brazilian government

              to prevent him from being transferred to a foreign

             club.) Pelé’s enchanting smile and legendary soccer

             accomplishments endeared him to millions around the

             world. The president of the world’s soccer association,

             FIFA, told journalists: “We’re going to ask every country

             in the world to name one of their football stadiums with

             the name of Pelé.” Not since the heyday of Muhammad Ali

             had the world seen such a sports legend who became a

             larger-than-life figure capturing global popularity and

             veneration.

             What is it about Pelé and Ali that led so many people to

             admire them?

      o ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Nepo_Babies_and_the_Myth_of_the_Meritocracy⠀⇛

             There is a common feeling that many of us have

             experienced in professional or academic environments,

             especially when we struggle against gender or racial

             bias. It’s called “imposter syndrome”—the feeling that

             one doesn’t deserve one’s position and that others will

             discover this lack of competence at any moment. I felt

             this way as a female graduate student in a science field

             in the 1990s. I felt it as a young journalist of color in

             a white-dominated industry.

             The rich and the elite among us appear to feel the

             opposite—that they are deserving of unearned privilege. A

             recent series of stories in New York Magazine headlined

             “The Year of the Nepo Baby” has struck a chord among

             those who are being outed for having benefited from

             insider status. Nepo babies are the children of the rich

             and famous, the ones who are borne of naked nepotism and

             whose ubiquity exposes the myth of American meritocracy.

             Nepo babies can be found everywhere there is power.

      o ⚓ The Nation ☛ Why_the_Godfather_of_Human_Rights_Is_Not_Welcome_at

        Harvard⠀⇛

             Soon after Kenneth Roth announced in April that he

             planned to step down as the head of Human Rights Watch,

             he was contacted by Sushma Raman, the executive director

             of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at the Harvard

             Kennedy School. Raman asked Roth if he would be

             interested in joining the center as a senior fellow. It

             seemed like a natural fit. In Roth’s nearly 30 years as

             the executive director of HRW, its budget had grown from

             $7 million to nearly $100 million, and its staff had gone

             from 60 to 550 people monitoring more than 100 countries.

             The “godfather” of human rights, The New York Times

             called him in a long, admiring overview of his career,

             noting that Roth “has been an unrelenting irritant to

             authoritarian governments, exposing human rights abuses

             with documented research reports that have become the

             group’s specialty.” HRW played a prominent role in

             establishing the International Criminal Court, and it

             helped secure the convictions of Charles Taylor of

             Liberia, Alberto Fujimori of Peru, and (in a tribunal for

             the former Yugoslavia) the Bosnian Serb leaders Radovan

             Karadzic and Ratko Mladic.1

      o ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Israeli_Government_Accused_of_‘Assassinating

        Democracy’_With_Proposed_Judiciary_Overhaul⠀⇛

             Israeli liberals and critics around the world sounded the

             alarm Thursday over a plan by Israel’s new far-right

             government to dramatically limit the power of the

             country’s judiciary, in part by allowing a simple

             parliamentary majority to overturn Supreme Court rulings.

      o ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Decoding_Israeli_‘Extremism’⠀⇛

             Anyone with but half eye open during the last several

             decades should by now realize that undisclosed Zionist

             Long Game preceded the establishment of Israel in 1948,

             and aims at extending Israeli sovereignty over the whole

             of Occupied Palestine, with the possible exception of

             Gaza. The significance of Netanyahu’s public affirmation

             of this previously secretive long game is that it may be

             reaching its final phase and the far right governing

             coalition is poised to pursue closure.

             Netanyahu claim of exclusive Israel’s supremacy on behalf

             of the Jewish people over the whole of the promised land

             is in direct defiance of international law. Additionally,

             Netanyahu’s statement is at direct odds with Biden’s

             stubborn insistence, however farfetched, on reaffirming

             support for two-state solution. This zombie approach to

             resolving the Israel/Palestine struggle has dominated

             international diplomacy for years, usefully allowing the

             UN and its Western members to maintain their embrace of

             Israel without seeming to throw the Palestinian people

             under the bus.

      o ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Netanyahu_Ushers_in_the_Most_Anti-Palestinian

        Government_in_Israel’s_History⠀⇛

             The new government will annex the West Bank, expand

             illegal Jewish settlements and discriminate against LGBTQ

             people.

      o ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ Diana_Buttu_&_Gideon_Levy:_Israel’s_New_Far-Right

        Gov’t_Entrenches_Apartheid_System_with_U.S._Support⠀⇛

             Far-right Israeli politician Itamar Ben-Gvir’s Tuesday

             visit to the Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied East Jerusalem is

             being roundly condemned across the Middle East. Ben-Gvir

             is a key part of Benjamin Netanyahu’s new far-right

             government, which includes ultranationalist and

             ultraorthodox parties that are calling openly for the

             annexation of the West Bank. “The international community

             has to speak with one voice in rejecting this extremism

             and rejecting those terrorists and those elements of

             fascists in the Israeli government,” Palestine’s

             ambassador to the U.N., Riyad Mansour, urged Wednesday.

             In 2007, Ben-Gvir was convicted in an Israeli court of

             incitement to racism and supporting a terrorist

             organization. In 2021, he relocated his parliamentary

             office to the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of Jerusalem,

             where settlers have attempted to violently evict

             Palestinian residents from their homes. As the newly

             sworn-in minister of national security, Ben-Gvir will now

             be responsible for border police in the West Bank. We

             speak to Gideon Levy, an Israeli journalist and author,

             and Diana Buttu, a Palestinian lawyer and former adviser

             to the negotiating team of the Palestine Liberation

             Organization, about Ben-Gvir’s visit, Netanyahu’s new

             government and surging violence against Palestinians.

      o ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ How_Do_You_Mourn_the_Death_of_an_Israeli

        Democracy_That_Never_Was?⠀⇛

             Even before the new Israeli government was officially

             sworn in on December 29, angry reactions began emerging,

             not only among Palestinians and other Middle Eastern

             governments, but also among Israel’s historic allies in

             the West.

      o ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Israel_Was_Never_a_Democracy:_So_why_is_the_West

        Lamenting_End_of_‘Liberal’_Israel?⠀⇛

             Even before the new Israeli government was officially

             sworn in on December 29, angry reactions began emerging,

             not only among Palestinians and other Middle Eastern

             governments, but also among Israel’s historic allies in

             the West.

             As early as November 2, top US officials conveyed to

             Axios that the Joe Biden Administration is “unlikely to

             engage with Jewish supremacist politician, Itamar Ben-

             Gvir”.

      o ⚓ Adafruit ☛ If_The_Lord_of_the_Rings_Was_an_80s_Dark_Fantasy

        Film⠀⇛

             This is pretty fun. It’s digital concept art of what

             Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings films might have looked

             like if they were 80s dark fantasy.

      o ⚓ Jamie Brandon ☛ 0031:_2022,_systems_distributed,_[...]⠀⇛

             I gave up on twitter, so this log is now only posted via

             atom or email. [...]

      o ⚓ Adriaan Zhang ☛ Something_Meaningful_to_Me⠀⇛

             I remember when I first learned that once the Sun had

             depleted its supplies of hydrogen over the span of five

             billion years, it would swell in size, consuming Earth as

             it entered the penultimate stage of its life. For ten

             year old me, this was one of the most pressing threats

             that I faced, second only to death by black hole. I

             cursed the duplicitous nature of the star that gave us

             warmth and light, furious that it would destroy my home

             planet long before I got a chance to observe the many

             cosmic events that were set to transpire after its

             untimely incineration.

      o ⚓ Meduza ☛ ‘Spare_us_the_hypocrisy’_Ukraine_doesn’t_want_Putin’s

        Orthodox_Christmas_ceasefire_—_Meduza⠀⇛

             Orthodox Christians in both Ukraine and Russia celebrate

             Christmas on its Julian date, January 7. Making yet

             another offensively “unifying” gesture, Patriarch Kirill,

             head of the Russian Orthodox Church, proposed that Russia

             and Ukraine cease their “infighting” for 36 hours, to let

             Orthodox believers attend Christmas church services.

             Despite Kyiv’s immediate criticism of the “truce” as

             nothing but a “cynical trap” and a “piece of propaganda,”

             Russian President Vladimir Putin supported the

             patriarch’s proposal, instructing the Defense Ministry to

             implement a temporary ceasefire on Orthodox Christmas.

      o ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ ‘Keep_Hypocrisy_to_Yourself,’_Says_Ukraine

        Official_After_Putin_Orders_Christmas_Truce⠀⇛

             Under pressure from a key religious leader, Russian

             President Vladimir Putin on Thursday announced a 36-hour

             cease-fire for the war on Ukraine launched last

             February—a move swiftly criticized by an adviser to

             Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

      o ⚓ Telex (Hungary) ☛ Hungarian_professor_who_taught_lecture_from

        trenches_receives_mini-sculpture_in_Ukraine⠀⇛

      o ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Neo-Zapatismo_and_Me⠀⇛

             I was a first-hand witness and then an active participant

             in a socio-political phenomenon that erupted out of

             Mexico, went global and became known as Neo-Zapatismo.

             As a witness, I just happened to be there when it

             started, on day one, when no one had a clue what was

             going on, including, and especially, the Mexican Army,

             not to mention the Mexican government, Washington, the

             CIA and any number of international journalists who

             started to pour into town on day two. Which is when I

             became an active participant, because the first

             journalists to arrive found me, and pretty soon all the

             others started to look me up, too. Meanwhile, the CIA

             moved into my home, or rather, where I lived and worked

             at the time, and my life shifted into any number of

             unknown new gears.

      o ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ The_French_Baguette⠀⇛

             The French baguette is a generic word for things long and

             thin – stick, rod, etc. Hence une baguette magique – the

             stuff of children’s stories and adult illusions.

             The most important baguette, of course, is the one we

             eat. The French consume them in their billions each year.

      o ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ A_Genuine_Working_Class_Hero⠀⇛

             I had barely finished reading Robert W. Cherny’s new

             biography of International Longshore Workers’ Union

             (ILWU) longtime leader titled Harry Bridges: Labor

             Radical, Labor Legend when an email popped in my box with

             a statement from a group of retired and current ILWU

             members calling for the union to “oppose the US/NATO-

             provoked war in Ukraine.” This call, signed by a couple

             of dozen folks, is a welcome reminder that organized

             labor can make a difference beyond the contracts it helps

             its members hammer out. It is also a confirmation of the

             radical nature of the ILWU. Unlike so many other unions,

             the ILWU has generally rejected identifying with the

             numerous imperial adventures the United States has

             engaged in since the early twentieth century. Instead, it

             has decried these actions in word and deed, often staging

             one-day strikes against certain military actions and even

             refusing to load munitions bound for another US-created

             war. Likewise, it was ILWU that joined together with

             Occupy Wall Street in Oakland, CA. to organize a one-day

             city-wide strike and shut down the Port of Oakland in

             2011.

             Cherny’s text is about as complete a biography of Bridges

             as one will find. Politically astute and with a deep

             understanding of the complexities of labor organizing and

             union work, the text presents a portrait of a man, his

             politics, and his steadfast belief in the necessity and

             potential power of an organized working class.

             Simultaneously, the reader is provided a detailed history

             of laborers on the docks of the United States’ west

             coast. There is little to nothing left out of this

             history; the conflicts with the magnates of the shipping

             industry and the conflicts with other unions over turf

             and politics. Also included are detailed explorations of

             the conflicts within the union Bridges presided over for

             decades–conflicts over politics, overt racism, and over

             worker solidarity. To his credit, the picture the reader

             ultimately sees by the time they have finished the book

             is one of the best pictures of labor unionism ever

             written down. In this reviewer’s opinion, it ranks with

             the various volumes of the classic The Industrial Workers

             of the World by Fred Thompson and Jon Bekken or Philip

             Foner’s multivolume classic History of the US Labor

             Movement.

      o ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ The_Slippery_Slope:_Jacobin_and_Downhill_Skiing⠀⇛

             Jacobin is a publication that is described by those

             responsible for it as “a leading voice of the American

             left, offering socialist perspectives on politics,

             economics, and culture.”

             Would you expect those responsible for what Jacobin

             publishes to include an article with the title

             Nationalize the Ski Slopes (which is referring to

             downhill ski resorts) calling for “powder to the people”

             by a writer who sees himself as “exploring and explaining

             socialism with simple words and real examples” as being

             anything other than a joke?

      o ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ The_Greatest_Depression_of_All?⠀⇛

             Let me start 2023 with a glance back at a December news

             moment that caught my eye. To do so, however, I have to

             offer a bit of explanation.

             First, the obvious: I’m an old guy and, though I spend

             significant parts of any day scrolling through endless

             websites covering aspects of our ever-changing world, I

             have a subscription — yes, it’s still possible! — to the

             New York Times. That’s the paper New York Times. For

             those of you too young to know, once long ago, in an era

             when TVs were still black and white and the Internet, at

             best, a figment of some sci-fi novelist’s imagination,

             all papers and magazines were printed and sold on actual

             paper. Hence, of course, the graphically descriptive and

             definitional name “newspaper.”

      o § Science⠀➾

            # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ Retrotechtacular:_Critical_Code_Reading,_70s

              Style⠀⇛

                   Anyone who has ever made a living writing code has

                   probably had some version of the following drilled

                   into their head: “Always write your code so the

                   next person can understand it.” Every single coder

                   has then gone on to do exactly the opposite, using

                   cryptic variables and bizarre structures that

                   nobody else could possibly follow. And every single

                   coder has also forgotten the next part of that

                   saying — “Because the next person could be you” —

                   and gone on to curse out an often anonymous

                   predecessor when equally inscrutable code is thrust

                   upon them to maintain. Cognitive dissonance be

                   damned!

      o § Education⠀➾

            # ⚓ Mark Nottingham ☛ What_I_Learned_in_Law_School⠀⇛

                   In the last decade or so, it’s become increasingly

                   apparent that the Internet is going to be subject

                   to more legal regulation. Because it’s a global

                   network, this is tricky; fragmentation risk grows

                   if regulation isn’t consistent between

                   jurisdictions. And of course, there are all the

                   other pitfalls of regulation — it’s difficult to

                   agree on societal goals, much less change working

                   systems to meet those goals without ill effect.

                   When I saw this happening from the perspective of a

                   technical contributor to the Internet and Web, as

                   well as one who’s held leadership positions such as

                   on the W3C TAG and Internet Architecture Board, I

                   frequently observed a gap — well-meaning technical

                   people who didn’t understand policy issues (or

                   worse, made naïve assumptions about how that world

                   works), and well-intentioned policy people who

                   didn’t have a deep understanding about how tech

                   works.

                   So I decided to educate myself. Looking around, I

                   saw several social science-based programs that

                   focus on the Internet, but I wanted to understand

                   the other sort of ‘code’ — the law. I didn’t want a

                   JD; just an education in how the law works, with a

                   focus on the Internet.

      o § Hardware⠀➾

            # ⚓ GamingOnLinux ☛ AMD_reveal_Ryzen_7000_X3D_processors,

              desktop_65W_CPUs_and_new_mobile_chips⠀⇛

                   AMD came out with a bang at CES with a whole bunch

                   of new products, including some impressive looking

                   X3D processors added to the Ryzen 7000 lineup.

            # ⚓ The Next Platform ☛ Paving_The_Way_For_800_Gb/sec_Ethernet

              In_The_Enterprise⠀⇛

                   There are exceptions to every rule, but in general,

                   when it comes to datacenter networks, enterprise

                   customers are doing now what the hyperscalers and

                   cloud builders were doing six or seven years ago.

                   Each set of customers have very precise needs,

                   which is why switch ASIC makers have different

                   chips aimed at different parts of the market and

                   why the major Ethernet switch makers – both OEMs

                   and ODMs – have a wide portfolio of devices.

                   Enterprises have much smaller Ethernet networks

                   linking their systems – by several orders of

                   magnitude – and they tend to run at lower bandwidth

                   networks as well – by maybe a factor of 2X to 20X,

                   depending on the use case. It is tough to say if

                   servers have lower Ethernet network interface

                   speeds because they network has lower bandwidth or

                   if the network speed drives the NIC speed. But what

                   is definitely true is that enterprises are in

                   different places in the evolution of their networks

                   compared to the hyperscalers and cloud builders.

      o § Health/Nutrition/Agriculture⠀➾

            # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ The_Salton_Sump_and_the_Virtual_Sea⠀⇛

                   The Salton Sea, its glory days long gone, is now a

                   35-mile- long growing hazard to public health for

                   miles around, a mortal danger to the water fowl

                   migrating on the Pacific Flyway, death to the fish

                   that once inhabited it, but a boon to all who

                   hustle public funds in the name of  positive

                   solutions.

                   One of the largest hustlers, for example, the

                   Salton Sea Management Program, consists of three

                   state agencies, The California Natural Resources

                   Agency, the California Department of Water

                   Resources, and the California Department of Fish

                   and Wildlife, so the funds stay among friends. The

                   state has pledged about $400 million for its

                   efforts at habitat rehabilitation over the next

                   decade.

            # ⚓ James G ☛ Taking_a_break_from_personal_projects:_Mental

              health_and_coding⠀⇛

                   Compounded with other factors, writing more

                   personal projects has added to my anxiety. I wanted

                   to write this post to say one thing: if you feel

                   anxious or worried about progress on personal

                   projects, don’t feel that you have to continue. If

                   you always feel in the middle of something and say

                   you’ll stop when you are done, ask whether that is

                   true or whether you’re going to keep starting new

                   things and get stressed. This regularly happens

                   with me and I end up needing to take an indefinite

                   break, like I am doing now.

            # ⚓ The Nation ☛ Biden_&_Co._Are_Finally_Bringing_Some

              Firepower_to_the_Abortion_Fight⠀⇛

                   The Biden administration has finally taken steps to

                   make abortion pills at least as accessible as

                   erectile dysfunction pills. All it took was the

                   Supreme Court’s revocation of an established

                   constitutional right for the first time in US

                   history—in the form of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s

                   Health—and the culmination of the Republicans’

                   decades-long war on reproductive freedom to get

                   them to do what Democrats should have done years

                   ago. This week, the Food & Drug Administration made

                   a small legal change in its classification of the

                   drug mifepristone, and the Department of Justice

                   confirmed that the drug can be sent through the

                   mail.

            # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ China_Ditched_Zero_Covid–Maybe_It_Shouldn’t

              Have⠀⇛

                   For years China beat the U.S. on covid. While

                   millions died of the disease in the western world

                   and over a million in the U.S., China instituted a

                   supposedly authoritarian zero covid policy, which

                   smacked fatalities down into the mere thousands.

                   This was all the more remarkable, given the

                   gigantic size of China’s population. But then, in

                   late November, protests erupted. The Chinese – or

                   some of them – were sick of lockdowns, constant

                   tests, travel restrictions and quarantines. Next,

                   in a shock to western elites salivating at the

                   delusion that these protests would topple the

                   government, China eliminated zero covid in early

                   December, ending quarantine measures starting

                   January 8. And the protesters got what they wanted.

                   Two-hundred and fifty million Chinese were infected

                   within weeks of ditching zero covid. Millions will

                   now die, and the health care system is overwhelmed.

                   Remember, even the vaccinated sicken in large

                   numbers. It turns out that emulating the west, when

                   it comes to public health, is a very, very bad

                   idea.

                   That’s because the west, epitomized by the United

                   States, has no public health system. It has a

                   criminal health care racket, as befits a government

                   that behaves similarly in its adventures all over

                   the world. What makes you think it would conduct

                   itself any differently here at home? It doesn’t.

                   But that didn’t stop it from gleefully proclaiming

                   it will now test for covid only arrivals from

                   China. It would be far more effective from a public

                   health perspective to require masks on planes, in

                   airports and other enclosed public spaces. But God

                   forbid the geniuses in Washington should do

                   anything actually helpful. Besides, they’re too

                   busy preening over their supposed victory over

                   China, and vaunting it by testing those who travel

                   there.

            # ⚓ Hackaday ☛ The_Dawn_Of_Synthetic_Milk:_When_Milk_Becomes

              More_Like_Beer⠀⇛

                   What would we do without milk in modern day

                   society? Although lactation originally evolved as a

                   way to provide a newborn mammal with nutrients and

                   the other essentials during the first weeks of

                   their life, milk has for thousands of years now

                   been a staple food in human cultures. Whether from

                   cows, camels, sheep or other mammals, each year

                   humans consume many liters of this mythical

                   substance, with our galaxy’s name – the Milky Way

                   –  coming courtesy of Greek mythology and a spilled

                   milk incident.

      o § Security⠀➾

            # ⚓ LWN ☛ Security_updates_for_Friday_[LWN.net]⠀⇛

                   Security updates have been issued by Debian

                   (libetpan and smarty3), SUSE (libksba, rpmlint-

                   mini, tcl, and xrdp), and Ubuntu (curl, firefox,

                   and linux-oem-5.14).

            # ⚓ The New Stack ☛ 4_Ways_to_Use_Kernel_Security_Features_for

              Process_Monitoring_–_The_New_Stack⠀⇛

                   The large attack surface of Kubernetes’ default pod

                   provisioning is susceptible to critical security

                   vulnerabilities, some of which include malicious

                   exploits and container breakouts. I believe one of

                   the most effective workload runtime security

                   measures to prevent such exploits is layer-by-layer

                   process monitoring within the container.

                   It may sound like a daunting task that requires

                   additional resources, but in reality, it is

                   actually the opposite. In this article, I will walk

                   you through how to use existing Linux kernel

                   security features to implement layer-by-layer

                   process monitoring and prevent threats.

            # ⚓ Unicorn Media ☛ Malware_Effects_at_Least_30_WordPress

              Plugins_–_Update_Now⠀⇛

                   If you publish a website using WordPress as your

                   platform, right now would be a good time to go to

                   the back end and see if any of your installed

                   plugins need updating. If there are any, you might

                   want to click on the “update now” button.

            # § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾

                  # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Irish_Data_Protection_Authority,_Under

                    Pressure_From_Other_EU_Officials,_Says_Meta’s_Clickwrap

                    Agreement_Is_No_Legal_Basis_For_Targeted_Ads⠀⇛

                         Some big news out of the EU this week as the

                         Irish data protection authority has fined

                         Meta over $400 million, claiming it violated

                         the GDPR. The full details of the ruling are

                         not yet out (apparently, the officials are

                         working with Meta over what needs to be

                         redacted — which is not out of the ordinary

                         in the EU, but still feels sketchy), but the

                         basic idea is that Meta sought to get around

                         some of the GDPR’s consent rules regarding

                         using data for customization / targeting by

                         including “consent” directly in the terms of

                         service. The Irish regulator overseeing the

                         case had initially indicated that this was

                         legitimate, but apparently changed their

                         minds.

                  # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Apple’s_Encryption_Plan_Is_Good,_But_Still

                    Leaves_Some_Questions_Unanswered⠀⇛

                         Recently, Apple announced some quality of

                         life updates for services and devices used by

                         millions. The company opted to give its users

                         more privacy and security by offering them

                         the option to fully encrypt data stored in

                         its cloud service. For years, iCloud accounts

                         have been the endaround for encrypted

                         devices, allowing law enforcement (and

                         malicious hackers) to access content and

                         communications inaccessible through the

                         device that created them.

                  # ⚓ NPR ☛ Looking_to_watch_porn_in_Louisiana?_Expect_to

                    hand_over_your_ID⠀⇛

                         As of Jan. 1, 2023, people in Louisiana will

                         need to present proof of their age, such as a

                         government-issued ID, to visit and view

                         pornographic websites like Pornhub, YouPorn

                         and Redtube.

                         The controversial law, known as Act 440,

                         requires adult websites to screen their

                         visitors using “reasonable age verification.”

                         The new law applies to any websites whose

                         content is at least 33.3% pornographic

                         material that is “harmful to minors,”

                         according to the bill signed last June. The

                         law doesn’t specify how the 33.3% would be

                         calculated.

                  # ⚓ Dhole Moments ☛ Hindsight_is_2022:_A_recap_of_this

                    blog_and_its_author_in_2022⠀⇛

                         One of the things that came out of my

                         decision to shitcan Twitter was an increased

                         focused on the Fediverse.

                         One of the more pronounced problems with

                         federated social media, which is also true of

                         traditional social media, is that server

                         operators can read any messages you send.

                         This problem is abstracted away by large tech

                         companies and centralized platforms, but it’s

                         a very obvious threat when anyone can run

                         their own server.

                         The obvious solution to this problem is end-

                         to-end encryption! But it’s not trivial, and

                         the prior efforts of the Mastodon community

                         left a lot to be desired.

                  # ⚓ Michael West Media ☛ Twitter_[breach]_‘exposed_200

                    million_emails’⠀⇛

                         Twitter has not commented on the report,

                         which Gal first posted about on social media

                         on December 24, nor responded to inquiries

                         about the breach since that date.

                         It was not clear what action, if any, Twitter

                         has taken to investigate or remediate the

                         issue.

                         Reuters could not independently verify the

                         data on the forum was authentic and came from

                         Twitter.

                  # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Towards_an_Anthropology_of

                    Surveillance⠀⇛

                         With the rapid growth of metadata and

                         political and corporate surveillance in

                         America during the last two decades,

                         anthropologists Roberto J. González and David

                         H. Price—long-time contributors to

                         CounterPunch—have been studying the impacts

                         and implications of these developments. Both

                         Price and González recently published books

                         that critically examine surveillance in the

                         United States (Price’s The American

                         Surveillance State: How the U.S. Spies on

                         Dissent and González’s War Virtually: The

                         Quest to Automate Conflict, Militarize Data,

                         and Predict the Future). Below are excerpts

                         from an extended conversation between the two

                         on the cultural, military, and political

                         dimensions of surveillance, technology,

                         culture, and power.

                  # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Government_Continues_To_Rely_On_Private

                    Contractors_To_Bypass_Privacy_Protections⠀⇛

                         There’s only so much domestic surveillance

                         the government can engage in before it starts

                         running into problems. The Supreme Court’s

                         Carpenter decision strongly suggested

                         gathering data in bulk to track people might

                         run afoul of the Fourth Amendment. Lower

                         courts have delivered a variety of opinions

                         on the subject. Meanwhile, a few privacy-

                         oriented legislators are trying to codify

                         privacy protections that would limit the

                         government’s ability to abuse the Third Party

                         Doctrine to obtain massive amounts of data.

      o § Defence/Aggression⠀➾

            # ⚓ Meduza ☛ First_group_of_Russian_prisoners_who_fought_in

              Ukraine_with_PMC_Wagner_granted_amnesty_—_Meduza⠀⇛

                   For the first time, a group of Russian prisoners

                   that fought in the war against Ukraine as part of

                   the Wagner private military company has been

                   granted amnesty, the mercenary group’s founder,

                   Evgeny Prigozhin, said on Thursday.

            # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ The_Tragedy_of_Ukraine⠀⇛

                   Written mostly before Russia’s 2022 invasion of

                   Ukraine, the book The Tragedy of Ukraine: What

                   Classical Greek Tragedy Can Teach Us About Conflict

                   Resolution is an illuminating read for anyone

                   wishing to know how we arrived at the existential

                   crossroads that threatens WWIII. This is the book

                   for those hungry for an historical understanding of

                   Ukraine’s seething internal conflict—western

                   hypernationalism versus eastern cultural diversity

                   —that made Ukraine vulnerable to a geopolitical

                   power struggle, a pawn in the cruel hands of both

                   Russia and the United States.

            # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ The_Latest_on_the_War_in_Ukraine⠀⇛

            # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Why_History_Matters:_the_Left_and_Ukraine⠀⇛

                   When US President, racist, segregationist,

                   eugenicist, and liberal Democrat Woodrow Wilson

                   sent soldiers from the American Expeditionary Force

                   to ‘negotiate’ the aftermath of the October

                   Revolution in the USSR in 1919, the Indian Wars in

                   the US were still underway, slavery had only

                   recently been abolished, and the inconclusive end

                   of the first global imperialist war—WWI, was

                   setting up a sequel—WWII, to be fought. That

                   Wilson’s worldview in 1919 formed the basis of

                   German fascist ideology a decade later provides

                   insight into how ruling-class ideas take root.

                   In contrast to liberal political theory where

                   people develop opinions in isolation, Wilson was

                   very much a person of his economic class and time.

                   American capital had close to a billion dollars

                   invested in Russia when the Bolsheviks turned the

                   world upside down by launching a revolution to

                   govern themselves. American (and German)

                   industrialists, having convinced themselves that

                   were rich because they were genetically / racially

                   / morally superior to workers, imagined that a

                   successful workers revolution would place inferiors

                   in charge of their superiors (went the logic).

            # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Putin_instructs_Russian_Defense_Minister_to

              declare_ceasefire_for_Orthodox_Christmas_—_Meduza⠀⇛

                   Vladimir Putin has instructed Russian Defense

                   Ministry Sergey Shoigu to declare a temporary

                   ceasefire along the entire line of contact between

                   the Russian and Ukrainian armies for Orthodox

                   Christmas, the Kremlin reported on Monday.

            # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Zelensky’s_office_criticizes_Orthodox_Patriarch

              Kirill’s_Christmas_truce_proposal_—_Meduza⠀⇛

                   Patriarch Kirill, head of the Russian Orthodox

                   Church, called for a two-day cease-fire between

                   Russia and Ukraine during the Eastern Orthodox

                   Christmas celebration on January 6–7, so that

                   Orthodox believers could attend Christmas church

                   services.

            # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Main_cathedral_of_Kyiv_Pechersk_Monastery

              repossessed_by_state_—_Meduza⠀⇛

                   The Dormition Cathedral and Feast Church of the

                   Kyiv Pechersk Lavra, a historic Kyiv monastery also

                   known as the Monastery of the Caves, have been

                   repossessed by the state, following the expiration

                   of a lease that gave the Ukrainian Orthodox Church

                   temporary rights over the two cultural monuments.

            # ⚓ Pro Publica ☛ What_We_Know_About_U.S.-Backed_Zero_Units_in

              Afghanistan⠀⇛

                   In 2019, reporter Lynzy Billing returned to

                   Afghanistan to research the murders of her mother

                   and sister nearly 30 years earlier. Instead, in the

                   country’s remote reaches, she stumbled upon the

                   CIA-backed Zero Units, who conducted night raids —

                   quick, brutal operations designed to have

                   resounding psychological impacts while ostensibly

                   removing high-priority enemy targets.

            # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Jan._6_Rallies_to_Demand_Accountability_for

              Trump,_‘Urgent_Action_to_Protect_Our_Democracy’⠀⇛

                   Democracy defenders will mark the second

                   anniversary of the deadly January 6, 2021 attack on

                   the United States Capitol with nationwide rallies

                   to demand accountability for former U.S. President

                   Donald Trump and push for “reforms to protect our

                   freedom to vote.”

            # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Far_Right_Extremists_Flex_Political_Muscle_Ahead

              of_January_6_Anniversary⠀⇛

            # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Is_This_Just_the_Beginning_of_Far_Right_Attempt

              to_Make_Congress_Dysfunctional?⠀⇛

            # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Amid_House_Chaos,_Watchdogs_Urge_GOP_to_Abandon

              Plans_to_Gut_Ethics_Commission⠀⇛

            # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Watchdogs_to_House_Republicans:_Don’t_Gut

              Congressional_Ethics_Office⠀⇛

                   Watchdogs are urging House Republicans to revise

                   language in the chamber’s proposed rules package

                   that would undermine an independent congressional

                   ethics body’s ability to function at precisely the

                   moment when it is expected to launch probes of

                   several GOP lawmakers.

            # ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Speaker_of_the_House_Faces_Political_Peril

              From_Member_Deaths_and_Resignations—Especially_With_a_Narrow

              Majority⠀⇛

                   The Congress that ended on Jan. 3, 2023, had 15

                   vacancies, a rate unmatched since the 1950s. If

                   that rate continues, whoever leads the now-closely

                   divided House will face trouble.

            # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ US_House_Adjourns—Again—After_11_Failed

              Votes_to_Select_a_Speaker⠀⇛

                   For the first time since before the U.S. Civil War,

                   the House of Representatives on Thursday surpassed

                   10 rounds of voting for speaker and the narrow GOP

                   majority still failed to rally behind one

                   candidate, ultimately voting to adjourn until

                   Friday afternoon.

            # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Before_the_Bombs_Drop,_the_Platitudes

              Fall⠀⇛

                   What is democracy but platitudes and dog whistles?

                   The national direction is quietly predetermined —

                   it’s not up for debate. The president’s role is to

                   sell it to the public; you might say he’s the

                   public-relations director in chief:

            # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ The_New_Cold_War_Could_Be_Worse⠀⇛

                   More than one-third of the U.S. population was born

                   after 1970, and thus has no personal memories of

                   the Cold War, particularly the Berlin crises or the

                   Cuban missile crisis.  Since we are in the early

                   stages of a new Cold War, it’s a good time to

                   review the tensions that we will confront.  Spoiler

                   alert: Cold War 2.0 will be more costly and risky

                   than its predecessor.

                   The soaring defense budget, which is woefully

                   understated in the mainstream media, is the

                   Congress’ pet rock and its only genuine bipartisan

                   undertaking.  The media consistently refers to the

                   record defense budget ($858 billion), but ignore an

                   additional $300 billion that is devoted to the

                   military.  The latter figure would include

                   important elements of spending by the intelligence

                   community, which primarily serves the military; the

                   Department of Energy, which stores our nuclear

                   inventory; the Veterans’ Administration; and

                   important agencies of the Department of Homeland

                   Security, which include the Coast Guard, the

                   world’s seventh largest navy.  The roughly $1.2

                   trillion devoted to defense equals the sum that the

                   rest of the global community allocates to the

                   military!

            # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ America’s_Unknown,_Looming_Nuclear

              Disaster⠀⇛

            # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Before_the_Bombs_Come_the_Platitudes⠀⇛

                   What is democracy but platitudes and dog whistles?

                   The national direction is quietly predetermined —

                   it’s not up for debate. The president’s role is to

                   sell it to the public; you might say he’s the

                   public-relations director in chief:

                   These are the words of President Biden, in his

                   introduction to the National Security Strategy,

                   which lays out America’s geopolitical plans for the

                   coming decade. Sounds almost plausible, until you

                   ponder the stuff that isn’t up for public

                   discussion, such as, for instance:

            # ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ 101st_Airborne_Still_Deployed_in_Romania

              Simulating_War_With_Russia⠀⇛

                   Members of the division told CBS in October that

                   they were prepared to enter Ukraine if given the

                   order.

            # ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ 26_Dems_in_Congress_Urge_DOJ_to_Continue

              Moratorium_on_Federal_Executions⠀⇛

                   The lawmakers asserted that “there are serious

                   concerns about arbitrariness in the application of

                   the death penalty, the disparate impact of the

                   death penalty on people of color, and the alarming

                   number of exonerations of individuals previously

                   sentenced to death.”

            # ⚓ Site36 ☛ More_or_less_Frontex?_Its_FRO_wants_reinforced

              presence_in_EU_problem_states⠀⇛

                   Because of human rights violations, non-

                   governmental organisations are demanding the

                   withdrawal of Frontex from Greece. Their

                   Fundamental Rights Officer, on the other hand,

                   wants to increase the number of EU border guards

                   deployed in the event of violations.

      o § Environment⠀➾

            # ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ Was_2022_the_Year_the_World_Turned_a_Corner_on

              Climate_Change?⠀⇛

                   Mitchell Beer reports on U.S. climate analyst Dr.

                   Leah Stokes’ recent comments on last year’s global

                   realizations.

            # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ World_Could_Lose_Half_of_Glaciers_This

              Century_Even_If_Warming_Is_Kept_to_1.5°C⠀⇛

                   In a study that scientists say gathered “an

                   unprecedented amount of data” to determine the fate

                   of the world’s ice sheets with more precision than

                   ever before, researchers revealed Thursday that

                   even if humans manage to limit planetary heating to

                   1.5°C above preindustrial temperatures, half of the

                   planet’s glaciers are expected to melt by 2100.

            # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ UK_Saw_Hottest_Year_on_Record_in_2022—Made

              160_Times_More_Likely_by_Climate_Crisis⠀⇛

                   Last year was the hottest year on record in the

                   United Kingdom, the national meteorological service

                   reported Thursday, emphasizing that the human-

                   caused climate emergency was what drove the country

                   to see record-breaking heat last summer and an

                   annual average temperature of 50°F, or 10.03°C.

            # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Where_Oh_Where_Are_the_Screaming_Headlines

              About_Planetary_Destruction?⠀⇛

                   Let me start 2023 with a glance back at a December

                   news moment that caught my eye. To do so, however,

                   I have to offer a bit of explanation.

            # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Oxford_Study_Warns_Extreme_Heat_and_Drought

              to_Hit_90%_of_World_Population⠀⇛

                   As interlinked extreme heat and drought events grow

                   in intensity and frequency amid the ruling class’

                   ongoing failure to adequately slash planet-heating

                   fossil fuel pollution, over 90% of the global

                   population is projected to suffer the consequences

                   in the coming decades, according to peer-reviewed

                   research published Thursday in Nature

                   Sustainability.

            # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ “Public_Trust:”_a_Key_Legal_Tool_to

              Preserve_Our_Natural_Resources⠀⇛

                   With the reality of climate change becoming more

                   apparent in the form of extreme weather events such

                   as heat waves, droughts, and floods, it is clear

                   that the future of all life on the planet is in

                   peril. To stress the immediacy and seriousness of

                   human-caused climate change and its effects, United

                   Nations Secretary-General António Guterres

                   addressed the leaders and representatives of nearly

                   200 countries at COP27 in November 2022.

                   “Our planet is fast approaching tipping points that

                   will make climate chaos irreversible,” said

                   Guterres at the conference. “We are on a highway to

                   climate hell with our foot still on the

                   accelerator.”

            # § Energy/Transportation⠀➾

                  # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ ‘An_Issue_of_Legacy’:_Groups_Demand

                    TVA_Drop_Plans_to_Build_New_Gas_Plant_and_Pipeline⠀⇛

                         A coalition of more than 100 environmental

                         advocacy groups on Wednesday urged the Biden

                         administration to take executive action to

                         stop the Tennessee Valley Authority from

                         building a new fossil gas plant and pipeline

                         to replace a key coal-fired facility.

                  # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Why_The_Brooklyn_Rail_Matters⠀⇛

                         Right now, when the art world, like the

                         larger culture within which it is embedded,

                         is stressed beyond belief, this is the right

                         moment for radical innovation. For what

                         history shows sometimes is that traumatic

                         crises open up the possibilities for dramatic

                         change. For a long time, theorists have

                         classified contemporary art in terms of

                         mutually exclusive binary oppositions. Early

                         modernists set the advanced avant-garde

                         against aesthetically reactionary Salon

                         painting. Clement Greenberg presented self-

                         critical modernism versus the uncritical

                         kitsch of mass culture. Rosalind Krauss and

                         her Octoberists opposed politically

                         progressive post-modernists to their

                         aesthetically reactionary contemporaries. And

                         of course, other theorists proposed various

                         other oppositions. Over time the examples

                         have changed, but the governing principle

                         always remains the same: there is the good

                         progressive work and the opposite, the bad

                         conformist art. But now it’s possible to

                         drastically change that way of thinking.

                         The Brooklyn Rail, a free monthly journal

                         founded in October 2000, publishes ten issues

                         per year, both 20,000 in hard copy and online

                         with 3 million in readership worldwide. It

                         includes art reviews, interviews with artists

                         and also coverage of books, music, dance,

                         poetry, theater, and politics. Phong H. Bui,

                         the publisher and artistic-director, who has

                         up-to-date curated nearly 100 exhibitions

                         since The Rail‘s conception, has undertaken,

                         at the arrival of the Trump Presidency

                         2016, a series of exhibitions since under the

                         slogan Artists Need to Create on the Same

                         Scale that Society Has the Capacity to

                         Destroy, a neon work by Lauren Bon, which can

                         be used as a title or a subtitle. For

                         example, Occupy Mana: Artists Need to Create

                         on the Same Scale that Society Has the

                         Capacity to Destroy at Mana Contemporary, New

                         Jersey, and Occupy Colby: Artists Need to

                         Create on the Same Scale that Society Has the

                         Capacity to Destroy in 2017, or Artists Need

                         to Create on the Same Scale that Society Has

                         the Capacity to Destroy: Mare Nostrum as

                         collateral project, co-curated with Francesca

                         Pietropaolo, at Venice Biennale in 2019. And

                         starting in May 2022, working with Cal

                         McKeever, he organized seven exhibitions in

                         New York City collectively entitled Singing

                         in Unison: Artists Need to Create On the Same

                         Scale That Society Has the Capacity to

                         Destroy.

                  # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Amtraks_Across_America:_the_Many

                    Adlai_Stevensons⠀⇛

                         This is the ninth part in a series about

                         Amtrak travels during summer 2022.

                         The semester was ending at Champaign-Urbana,

                         as the train filled up with students dragging

                         large duffel bags and backpacks, not to

                         mention iced coffees topped with straws.

            # § Wildlife/Nature⠀➾

                  # ⚓ The Revelator ☛ Birding_for_All:_How_to_Make_Enjoying

                    Birds_More_Accessible⠀⇛

      o § Finance⠀➾

            # ⚓ The Nation ☛ Reflections_on_Vienna’s_Social_Housing_Model

              From_Tenant_Advocates⠀⇛

                   Rents are reaching unimaginable heights and

                   homeownership is increasingly out of reach for many

                   people in the United States. As housing organizers,

                   legislators, and everyday people debate paths

                   forward, there is growing interest in a radical

                   transformation of the housing market through the

                   expansion of social housing. While this is a

                   relatively new term in the US, it is common

                   parlance in other parts of the world that have a

                   stronger social safety net and a tenant organizing

                   history.

            # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Biden_Signs_Bill_to_End_Profiteering_From

              Prisoners’_Calls_to_Loved_Ones⠀⇛

                   Justice campaigners celebrated Thursday after U.S.

                   President Joe Biden signed a bill empowering

                   federal regulators to ensure that charges for video

                   and audio calls from correctional and detention

                   facilities are “just and reasonable.”

            # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Blame_the_Wealthy_Not_the_Weather:_Inside

              Southwest’s_Horrible_Holidays⠀⇛

            # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Fed_Will_Cause_Unnecessary_Harm_to_the_US

              and_World_Economy_Next_Year⠀⇛

                   Here are eight predictions for the coming year, in

                   accordance with a hallowed tradition that I have

                   previously not honored. If some of the supporting

                   facts below seem unfamiliar, it could be because

                   they have not received the attention they deserve.

                   But they are real, and links to sources are

                   provided. First, some good news about the US

                   economy:

                   Inflation will likely continue to fall until it

                   becomes obvious that it is no longer a serious

                   concern. Inflation (as measured by the Consumer

                   Price Index) has already fallen precipitously over

                   the past five months: annualized inflation has been

                   2.5 percent (July through November), as compared

                   with 11.8 percent for the preceding five months

                   (February through June). If this looks surprising,

                   it’s because the number most reported in the media

                   is for November 2021-November 2022, which is 7.1

                   percent. This is true, but not as informative about

                   what’s been happening more recently.

            # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ One_Upside_to_House_GOP_Chaos:_Delay_of

              Their_Effort_to_Reward_Wealthy_Tax_Cheats⠀⇛

                   Republicans’ inability to agree on a new Speaker of

                   the House of Representatives is dangerous for a

                   variety of reasons and an embarrassment to the

                   country. But no one should shed any tears over the

                   delay this creates for the House Republicans in

                   passing their first legislative priority, a bill to

                   facilitate tax crimes by the wealthy.

            # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Progressive_Senators_Sound_Alarm_Over_Rise

              of_‘Predatory’_Medical_Credit_Cards⠀⇛

                   A group of progressive senators raised alarm this

                   week over a pernicious outgrowth of the United

                   States’ for-profit healthcare system: medical

                   credit cards.

            # ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ The_Inflation_and_Deflation_Stories_of_Our

              Lifetime_(and_No,_They’re_Not_the_Ones_You_Think!)⠀⇛

                   Tom Engelhardt starts off the new year wondering

                   why about the most crucial inflationary and

                   deflationary stories of our time.

            # ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ US_Child_Care_Deficit_Impacts_Multiple_Sectors

              of_the_Country⠀⇛

                   With funds from the American Rescue Plan drying up,

                   there are fewer workers in the child care industry,

                   higher tuition for child care providers and fewer

                   Americans participating in the workforce.

      o § AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics⠀➾

            # ⚓ NPR ☛ Amazon_CEO_says_company_will_lay_off_more_than_18,000

              workers⠀⇛

                   In a blog post, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy wrote that

                   the staff reductions were set off by the uncertain

                   economy and the company’s rapid hiring over the

                   last several years.

                   The cuts will primarily hit the company’s corporate

                   workforce and will not affect hourly warehouse

                   workers. In November, Amazon had reportedly been

                   planning to lay off around 10,000 employees but on

                   Wednesday, Jassy pegged the number of jobs to be

                   shed by the company to be higher than that, as he

                   put it, “just over 18,000.”

            # ⚓ [Repost] Daniel Pocock ☛ Debian_Conflict_of_Interest

              Register⠀⇛

                   Does Debian need a Conflict of Interest register?

                   People have asked for it several times. Cabal

                   members have always refused.

                   Over the last few years, I’ve had various questions

                   from people about how much they can really trust

                   certain people in Debian.

                   Vigilantes claim to have a Code of Conduct for

                   Debian. But a Code of Conduct is worthless without

                   any process for managing Conflict of Interest. Last

                   weekend the DebConf8 room allocation data was

                   published somewhere on the internet and this gives

                   some scary insights into Conflict of Interest.

            # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Donald_Trump_Gets_1_Vote_for_Speaker_As_McCarthy

              Loses_for_7th_and_8th_Time⠀⇛

            # ⚓ Democracy Now ☛ Chaos_in_the_House:_Is_This_Just_the

              Beginning_of_a_Far-Right_Attempt_to_Make_Congress

              Dysfunctional?⠀⇛

                   The U.S House of Representatives still has no

                   speaker after Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy

                   failed to get the full backing of his party over

                   the course of two days and six rounds of voting. A

                   contingent of about 20 far-right lawmakers opposes

                   McCarthy’s elevation to the top job, but no other

                   candidate has emerged so far who can garner the 218

                   votes necessary to claim the speaker’s gavel. The

                   impasse has ground all congressional business to a

                   halt, including the swearing-in of new members like

                   Texas Democrat Greg Casar, who says the dysfunction

                   in Congress is no accident. “This is part of their

                   goal. They don’t want a functioning federal

                   government that can pass legislation and support

                   working people,” Casar says of the Republican

                   Party. We also speak with The Intercept’s Ryan

                   Grim, who says much of the press has missed the

                   substance of the fight over the speakership, which

                   is about the far right’s drive to slash social

                   spending, even if it means refusing to raise the

                   debt ceiling and triggering a U.S. default that

                   would crash the economy.

            # ⚓ The Nation ☛ It’s_Not_the_Job_of_Democrats_to_Save_the

              GOP⠀⇛

                   Oscar Wilde reportedly dismissed Charles Dickens’s

                   mawkish novel The Old Curiosity Shop by quipping,

                   “One must have a heart of stone to read the death

                   of little Nell without laughing.” In the spirit of

                   Wilde, we can survey the disarray among

                   congressional Republicans and conclude that it

                   would take a heart of stone not to gleefully

                   chortle at the misery of would-be House Speaker

                   Kevin McCarthy. Like a Dickensian orphan, McCarthy

                   has undergone humiliation after humiliation,

                   repeatedly abasing himself before the likes of

                   Donald Trump and Representative Marjorie Taylor

                   Greene in a desperate quest to be crowned head of

                   the House.

            # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Kevin_McCarthy_Has_Won_His_Own_Race_to_the

              Bottom⠀⇛

            # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Dems_Raise_Concerns_Over_‘Creepy’_Role_of

              McCarthy_Super_PAC_in_Speaker_Talks⠀⇛

                   Why is a billionaire-funded super PAC aligned with

                   Republican Rep. Kevin McCarthy playing a role in

                   talks over who will become the next speaker of the

                   House?

            # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Biden_Calls_GOP’s_Inability_to_Select_Speaker_of

              the_House_“Embarrassing”⠀⇛

            # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ If_Biden_Runs_in_2024,_Who—If_Anyone—Will

              Represent_Progressives?⠀⇛

                   With 2023 underway, Democrats in office are still

                   dodging the key fact that most of their party’s

                   voters don’t want President Biden to run for re-

                   election. Among prominent Democratic politicians,

                   deference is routine while genuine enthusiasm is

                   sparse. Many of the endorsements sound rote. Late

                   last month, retiring senator Patrick Leahy of

                   Vermont came up with this gem: “I want him to do

                   whatever he wants. If he does, I’ll support him.”

            # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Congressman_Moonlighting_As_A_Master’s_Degree

              Student_In_AI⠀⇛

                   We’ve spent years criticizing many politicians,

                   especially in Congress, for trying to regulate

                   technology that they don’t seem to understand and

                   often falling prey to wild moral panics about the

                   technology. That’s why it’s quite refreshing to see

                   this story that the Washington Post had in the

                   waning days of 2022 about Rep. Don Beyer, who has

                   represented a district in Northern Virginia since

                   2015, and whose hobby is… to be getting a masters

                   degree in artificial intelligence from George Mason

                   University.

            # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Erdogan_tells_Putin_that_Russia’s_calls_for_peace

              should_be_supported_by_‘unilateral_ceasefire’_—_Meduza⠀⇛

                   Russian President Vladimir Putin and Turkish

                   President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan spoke by phone on

                   Thursday, the Turkish news agency Anadolu reported,

                   citing the Erdoğan administration.

            # ⚓ The Nation ☛ Kathy_Hochul’s_Nomination_of_Hector_LaSalle_Is

              a_Self-Inflicted_Wound⠀⇛

                   If there’s been one worthwhile consequence of the

                   Trump years, it’s been the realization that local

                   politics matter. After years of Republicans’

                   dominating state legislative and judicial contests,

                   Democrats fought back in the midterms, taking

                   precious ground in statehouses and minimizing GOP

                   pick-up opportunities in Congress. One outlier was

                   New York: Lee Zeldin, an unapologetic Trump

                   supporter, was nearly elected governor and

                   Democrats were crushed in competitive House races.1

            # ⚓ The Nation ☛ Landing_Gear⠀⇛

            # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Cuba_Says_Biden_Applies_Blockade_Even_More

              Aggressively_Than_His_Predecessors⠀⇛

            # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Cuban_Teachers_and_Students_Make_the

              Revolution⠀⇛

                   Schools in Cuba are places where doors opened up

                   for all Cuban young people to learn and for

                   students, even of oppressed classes, to prepare for

                   one or another kind of work that would contribute

                   to Cuba’s development as an independent nation.

                   Cuban education has been ground zero, we suggest,

                   for ending inequalities.

                   Cuban literacy teachers, 123 of them, arrived in

                   Honduras on December 20. With Honduran colleagues,

                   they would be utilizing Cuba’s special method “Yo

                   se puedo” (Yes I can) to teach literacy. It’s found

                   worldwide application.

            # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Ocasio-Cortez_Says_Democrats_Can_Take_Advantage

              of_GOP’s_“Chaos”_to_Gain_Power⠀⇛

            # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ Biden_Rebuked_for_Doubling_Down_on

              ‘Poisonous_Anti-Immigrant_Policies_of_the_Trump_Era’⠀⇛

                   The Biden administration has called the Trump-era

                   Title 42 policy “obsolete” and urged the U.S.

                   Supreme Court to strike it down, but on Thursday

                   President Joe Biden announced a significant

                   expansion of the migrant expulsion program in an

                   effort to deny entry to Cubans, Haitians, and

                   Nicaraguans who arrive at the U.S.-Mexico border.

            # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Keep_Down_the_Fascism_Detectors:_Elise

              Stefanik,_the_New_York_Times,_and_the_Appeasement-by-Deletion

              of_Fascism⠀⇛

                   Never underestimate the often subtle, smooth, and

                   sophisticated complicity of liberal journalists in

                   normalizing and appeasing the fascisation and the

                   related lethal farceification (I apologize for

                   making up words) of US American politics.

                   Take New York Times’ “Pulitzer Prize-winning

                   political reporter” Nicholas Confessore’s recent

                   8100 word-plus Times report on the “MAGA

                   transformation” of Elise Stefanik (R-NY), the

                   number three Republican (Republifascist) in the US

                   House of Representatives.

            # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Shakeup_At_CNN!_A_Fly_on_the_Wall⠀⇛

            # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ 100+_Groups_Call_on_North_American_Leaders

              to_Act_on_Guns,_Climate,_and_Immigrant_Justice⠀⇛

                   Three days before U.S. President Joe Biden, Mexican

                   President Andres Manuel López Obrador, and Canadian

                   Prime Minister Justin Trudeau are set to meet in

                   Mexico City, more than 100 grassroots groups from

                   all three countries called on the leaders on

                   Thursday to take action together to help solve the

                   climate crisis, end gun violence, and address

                   injustices facing migrants across North America.

            # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Roaming_Charges:_No_Speaker,_No_Cry⠀⇛

                   + There are 100 members of the “Progressive

                   Caucus,” who capitulated within seconds to nearly

                   every demand Pelosi made, and 40 members of the

                   Freedom Caucus who don’t mind waterboarding their

                   own leader in public to get their way & ditching

                   him if they don’t.

                   + Sartre’s No Exit, starring Kevin McCarthy, in a

                   limited engagement: “Hell is other people in your

                   own party.”

            # § Misinformation/Disinformation/Propaganda⠀➾

                  # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Sputnik_news_executive_Marat_Kasem_charged

                    with_espionage_in_Latvia_—_Meduza⠀⇛

                         Marat Kasem, editor-in-chief of Sputnik Litva

                         (the Lithuanian division of the pro-Kremlin

                         news outlet Sputnik), was taken into custody

                         in Latvia, reports RIA Novosti.

      o § Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾

            # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Woke,_PC,_and_Cancel_Culture⠀⇛

                   The obsession with woke/PC language has gotten

                   farcical, and cost people their jobs and careers.

                   Yes, people should not use hard, explicit racist

                   language. The n-word is off limits, just as it

                   should be. But it’s gotten slightly out of hand.

                   We’re not supposed to use the term “brown bag”? A

                   family member gave me a report entitled

                   “Elimination of Harmful Language,” a study by

                   Stanford. They say:

                   “The goal of the Elimination of Harmful Language

                   Initiative is to eliminate many forms of harmful

                   language, including racist, violent, and biased

                   (e.g., disability bias, ethnic bias, ethnic slurs,

                   gender bias, implicit bias, sexual bias) language

                   in Stanford websites and code.”

      o § Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press⠀➾

            # ⚓ Craig Murray ☛ Trains_(Mostly)_Planes_and_Automobiles_Part

              5⠀⇛

                   I was able to discuss with them the international

                   law aspects of Julian’s case, and particularly the

                   judgment in Julian’s case affirming that the UK is

                   not bound in law by international agreements or

                   treaties not incorporated into UK domestic law.

                   In Julian’s case, political extradition is

                   specifically forbidden by Article 4 of the 2007 UK/

                   US Extradition Treaty. However the courts have

                   ruled that the Treaty has no effect in UK law as it

                   has not been incorporated in UK domestic

                   legislation.

                   [...]

                   The British courts argue that the Treaty depends

                   for its force on the 2003 Extradition Act, which

                   does not exclude political extradition. But the

                   2003 Act is an enabling act on which subsequent

                   treaties depend. It does not dictate the provisions

                   of those treaties and it most assuredly does not

                   say those treaties may not exclude political

                   extradition.

                   The argument is extraordinary that the extradition

                   is only taking place at all under the UK/US

                   Extradition Treaty, but that Article 4 of the

                   Treaty is not operative – but all the other

                   articles are.

                   The rest of the Treaty is no more incorporated in

                   UK domestic law than Article 4 is. It is a

                   nonsensical argument, tying knots of legal

                   sophistry to justify the extradition.

                   What interested the German students even more than

                   the individual instance was the extraordinary

                   general claim that the UK is not bound by

                   provisions of international law in treaties it has

                   ratified.

      o § Civil Rights/Policing⠀➾

            # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ Oklahoma_Lawmaker_Pens_Bill_to_Ban_Gender-

              Affirming_Care_for_Anyone_Under_Age_26⠀⇛

            # ⚓ Meduza ☛ Russian_ex-prisoners_granted_amnesty_for_mercenary

              service_reportedly_include_convicted_murderer_—_Meduza⠀⇛

                   The first group of Russian ex-prisoners to be

                   granted amnesty for their participation in the war

                   in Ukraine with PMC Wagner includes people who were

                   convicted of murder, robbery, organized crime, and

                   amphetamine production, according to the

                   independent outlet Agentstvo and the BBC’s Russia

                   Service.

            # ⚓ The Nation ☛ Hyperdrive⠀⇛

                   The embers of the Los Angeles uprising were still

                   burning, in 1992, when Will Alexander published his

                   short essay “Los Angeles: The Explosive Cimmerian

                   Fish” in the pages of Sulfur. Run by the poet

                   Clayton Eshleman, the small magazine had acquired a

                   considerable reputation for upending the country’s

                   “official verse culture.” The fall 1992 issue also

                   featured poems by Jorge Santiago Perednik, Jayne

                   Cortez, Jackson Mac Low, Barbara Guest, Allen

                   Ginsberg, Xavier Villaurrutia, and Charles Olson,

                   among others. Compared to these luminaries of the

                   inter-American avant-garde, Alexander was an

                   obscure outsider. Aged 44 and with a lone pamphlet

                   to his name (Vertical Rainbow Climber, 1987), he

                   had been selling tickets at the LA Lakers box

                   office for a living. His essay, fusing experimental

                   poetry and political revolt with a singular vision,

                   marked his explosive debut in the wider world of

                   American letters.

            # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ ‘A_Win_for_Freedom’:_South_Carolina_Supreme

              Court_Permanently_Blocks_Abortion_Ban⠀⇛

                   Reproductive rights supporters in South Carolina

                   and across the country celebrated Thursday once the

                   state Supreme Court permanently struck down a law

                   banning abortion after around six weeks, or before

                   many people even know they are pregnant.

            # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Policing_and_the_structure_of

              racialization⠀⇛

                   (The Militarization of the Police– Part 3)

                   This series of articles on police militarization

                   was initiated in response to the government (Dept.

                   of Defense) policy of providing military equipment

                   to local police departments. We have evaluated this

                   policy in the context of social violence, under

                   which term we have included both civilian violence

                   against persons and property and police violence

                   against civilians. Though a false separation

                   between these two forms of violence has been

                   created by labeling only one of them “criminality,”

                   that is a distinction that has been rejected here.

                   It is false insofar as police violence serves as a

                   role model for civilian violence. And police

                   deployment of military equipment (assault rifles,

                   tear gas, armored vehicles, etc.) implies or even

                   admits to a comparability of enactment.

            # ⚓ Counter Punch ☛ Reading_Žižek_Seriously⠀⇛

                   Slavoj Zizek complains that he is not taken

                   seriously as a theorist and this is just one more

                   way to silence him. He admits this is partly of his

                   own doing.

                   A recent piece here on CounterPunch which I very

                   much enjoyed criticized Zizek for saying Hitler was

                   not violent enough. Like him or not this is a

                   misleading characterization. Again perhaps by

                   Zizek’s own doing. But this is intentional. He is

                   assuming a certain intelligence on the part of his

                   reader. He is assuming that most people when they

                   hear “Hitler was not violent enough” will not

                   immediately say “kill more Jews” but rather will

                   interrogate violence and fascism in general.

            # ⚓ Scheerpost ☛ More_Women_Are_Being_Detained as_Jail

              Populations_Near_Pre-COVID_Levels⠀⇛

                   A look at incarceration trends shows that as jails

                   fill back up, women are being booked at a faster

                   rate.

      o § Internet Policy/Net Neutrality⠀➾

            # ⚓ TruthOut ☛ FTC_Unveils_New_Rule_Banning_Companies_From

              Using_Noncompete_Clauses⠀⇛

            # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ Big_Telecom’s_Quest_To_Tax_Big_Tech_For_No

              Reason_Will_Cause_Massive_Internet_Instability,_Group_Warns⠀⇛

                   For much of the last year, European telecom giants

                   have been pushing for a tax on Big Tech company

                   profits. They’ve tried desperately to dress it up

                   as a reasonable adult policy proposal, but it’s

                   effectively just the same thing we saw during the

                   U.S. net neutrality wars: telecom monopolies

                   demanding other people pay them an additional troll

                   toll — for no coherent reason.

      o § Monopolies⠀➾

            # ⚓ Common Dreams ☛ ‘Victory_for_American_Workers’:_FTC

              Proposes_Ban_on_Noncompete_Clauses⠀⇛

                   Progressive advocacy groups and lawmakers

                   celebrated Thursday after the Federal Trade

                   Commission proposed a new rule that, if finalized,

                   would prohibit employers from including noncompete

                   clauses in employment contracts, which the agency

                   described as “a widespread and often exploitative

                   practice that suppresses wages, hampers innovation,

                   and blocks entrepreneurs from starting new

                   businesses.”

            # § Copyrights⠀➾

                  # ⚓ Torrent Freak ☛ MPA_&_RIAA_Deployed_60+_Lobbyists_in

                    2022,_Piracy_Top_of_The_Agenda⠀⇛

                         When ensuring the profitability of multi-

                         billion dollar industries, engaging

                         governments at the highest level is the way

                         to get things done. The MPA and RIAA spent

                         almost $8 million on lobbying in 2022, with

                         copyright and piracy at the top of the

                         agenda. Most of the 60+ lobbyists deployed

                         are products of the government/private sector

                         ‘revolving door’.

                  # ⚓ Torrent Freak ☛ 25_Private_Torrent_Trackers_Went

                    Offline_After_BREIN_Tracked_Down_‘Scripter’⠀⇛

                         The Dutch private torrent tracker scene has

                         been decimated by BREIN. The anti-piracy

                         group tracked down a man who coded and

                         maintained the scripts these sites were

                         using. The same person also arranged hosting

                         and sold seedboxes and VPN services.

                         Meanwhile, actions against other people

                         involved are underway.

                  # ⚓ Techdirt ☛ DidYouKnowGaming_Gets_Video_Nintendo

                    DMCA’d_Restored⠀⇛

                         Back in December we discussed how Nintendo

                         got a video on the DidYouKnowGaming YouTube

                         channel taken down via a DMCA notice. While

                         Nintendo is notorious for being an

                         intellectual property bully and enforcing

                         what it thinks are its rights in as draconian

                         a manner as possible, what stood out about

                         this particular story is that the video in

                         question was a journalistic effort to

                         document a game pitched to Nintendo that

                         never came out, included no gameplay footage,

                         and therefore didn’t reproduce any actual

                         game assets. It appears for all the world

                         that Nintendo used the DMCA system to take

                         down a video comprised of pure gaming

                         journalism, which is not how any of this is

                         supposed to work.

* § Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾

      o § Personal⠀➾

            # ⚓ 🔤SpellBinding:_BYHLOSC_Wordo:_FONDU⠀⇛

            # ⚓ I_roam_here_again⠀⇛

                   I have returned to this place once again. I need an

                   outlet to properly word my thoughts and record them

                   somewhere. As a prove that I am not going insane

                   and in fact this is all is real. I am real. He is

                   real. He is keeping me safe, he handles things from

                   now.

      o § Technical⠀➾

            # § Internet/Gemini⠀➾

                  # ⚓ My_Writing_PC⠀⇛

                         A quick gemlog. I have setup my spare laptop

                         as a writing PC. I installed a barebones

                         archlinux (minimal profile). Because I

                         couldn’t be bothered I used the archinstall

                         script. It’s seriously stupid easy when using

                         the script!

                  # ⚓ Re:_Gemini_mentions⠀⇛

                         Ok, I will not spend a lot of time on this. I

                         just want to say I agree with Sandra. The

                         Gemini mentions proposal just feels like

                         another stepping stone to something overly

                         complex and the whole beauty of Gemini was

                         simplicity.

                  # ⚓ In_which_I_slag_on_the_Gemini_mentions_proposal_for

                    half_an_hour⠀⇛

                         I don’t wanna implement mentions. It’s

                         breaking something that already worked. We

                         already had aggregators or email or just the

                         faith that people are reading their friends’

                         capsules (or just skimming it, when it comes

                         to firehoses like mine).

                         This is what’s been so teeth-pulling about

                         Gemini. Always getting more homework dumped

                         in our laps. Specs upon specs upon specs for

                         their own sake. Not into it. I’ve said many

                         times that Gemini is enworsening, not

                         ameliorating, the reckless, infinite scope of

                         web browsers. We were drowning in specs so

                         please don’t thrown us an anchor made of even

                         more specs to save us. We’ll only drown even

                         more.

            # § Programming⠀➾

                  # ⚓ feed_me_content⠀⇛

                         I have created something. Well, it is the

                         same feed for midnight pub, but it contains

                         the content of posts as well, so I can read

                         it easily from my feedreader.

=> =============================================================================

Gemini_(Primer) links can be opened using Gemini_software. It’s like the

World Wide Web but a lot lighter.

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§ Contents⠀➾

* GNU/Linux

      o Server

      o Audiocasts/Shows

      o Kernel_Space

      o Applications

      o Instructionals/Technical

      o Games

      o Desktop_Environments/WMs

            # GNOME_Desktop/GTK

* Distributions_and_Operating_Systems

      o New_Releases

      o BSD

      o PCLinuxOS/Mageia/Mandriva/OpenMandriva_Family

      o SUSE/OpenSUSE

      o Fedora_/_Red_Hat_/_IBM

      o Debian_Family

      o Canonical/Ubuntu_Family

      o Open_Hardware/Modding

* Free,_Libre,_and_Open_Source_Software

      o GNU_Projects

      o Licensing_/_Legal

      o Programming/Development

            # Perl_/_Raku

            # Python

            # Java

* Leftovers

      o Hardware

      o Security

            # Privacy/Surveillance

      o Environment

            # Energy/Transportation

      o Censorship/Free_Speech

      o Monopolies

* Gemini*_and_Gopher

      o Personal

      o Politics

      o Technical

* § GNU/Linux⠀➾

      o § Server⠀➾

            # ⚓ Venture Beat ☛ Confluent_expands_Kafka_Streams

              capabilities,_acquires_Apache_Flink_vendor_|_VentureBeat⠀⇛

                   The ability to stream data is a core capability of

                   the open-source Apache Kafka technology. Among the

                   leading vendors that supports Kafka with commercial

                   products and services is Confluent, which is led by

                   the original creators of Kafka. Confluent had its

                   initial public offering (IPO) in June 2021, with

                   demand for real time data streaming continuing to

                   grow.

            # ⚓ InfoWorld ☛ Why_you_should_use_Docker_and_containers_|

              InfoWorld⠀⇛

                   A book published in 1981, called Nailing Jelly to a

                   Tree, describes software as “nebulous and difficult

                   to get a firm grip on.” That was true in 1981, and

                   it is no less true four decades since. Software,

                   whether it is an application you bought or one that

                   you built yourself, remains hard to deploy, hard to

                   manage, and hard to run.

                   Docker containers provide a way to get a grip on

                   software. You can use Docker to wrap up an

                   application in such a way that its deployment and

                   runtime issues—how to expose it on a network, how

                   to manage its use of storage and memory and I/O,

                   how to control access permissions—are handled

                   outside of the application itself, and in a way

                   that is consistent across all “containerized” apps.

                   You can run your Docker container on any OS-

                   compatible host (Linux or Windows) that has the

                   Docker runtime installed.

                   Docker offers many other benefits besides this

                   handy encapsulation, isolation, portability, and

                   control. Docker containers are small (megabytes).

                   They start instantly. They have their own built-in

                   mechanisms for versioning and component reuse. They

                   can be easily shared via the public Docker Hub or

                   private repository.

                   Docker containers are also immutable, which has

                   both security and operational benefits. Any changes

                   to a container must be deployed as an entirely new,

                   differently versioned container.

                   In this article we’ll explore how Docker containers

                   make it easier to both build and deploy

                   software—the issues containers address, how they

                   address them, when they are the right answer to the

                   problem, and when they aren’t.

      o § Audiocasts/Shows⠀➾

            # ⚓ Video ☛ Linux_Distros_Spying_On_People?_–_Are_You_Being

              Tracked_–_Invidious⠀⇛

                   A quick video re-sharing information I believe is

                   important to the Linux community concerning some

                   peoples opinions on certain distros tracking users.

                   Take a look and let me know what you think in the

                   comments below.

            # ⚓ Video ☛ Vanilla_OS_:_The_Next-Generation_Linux_Distro_Is

              Here_With_STUNNING_FEATURES_(_FOR_2023)_–_Invidious⠀⇛

                   This is the all-new Vanilla OS, and believe me when

                   I say it, this innovative distro is the next step

                   in the evolution of desktop Linux. Now I know you

                   might be saying, “Great, another Linux distro, but

                   why? And why do we need so many Linux distros

                   anyway.” That is a good question. But the

                   developers of Vanilla OS asked a better question.

                   “Why not all the Linux distros, all at once”.

            # ⚓ Video ☛ No,_Arch_isn’t_n°1,_X.org_is_dying,_Meta_fined_€390

              million:_Linux_–_Open_Source_News_–_Invidious⠀⇛

            # ⚓ Video ☛ Jackbox_Party_Pack_9_–_Invidious⠀⇛

            # ⚓ Video ☛ Ring_Camera_–_What_If_My_Neighbor_Has_One? [Ed:

              Online YouTube ☛ soon]⠀⇛

                   Why should we be concerned when our neighbor has a

                   Ring doorbell? This video addresses the concerns

                   and provides some better ideas without compromising

                   privacy.

            # ⚓ Video ☛ Sending_Your_Pee_Print_To_The_Internet [Ed: Online

              YouTube ☛ soon]⠀⇛

                   This week in the Weekly News Roundup, a new company

                   will send your pee print to the cloud, Windows has

                   more sideloading malware, and New York guts the

                   already passed right to repair bill. We also visit

                   SillyVille.

      o § Kernel Space⠀➾

            # ⚓ Bootlin ☛ Debugging,_tracing_and_profiling_training_course

              materials_published_–_Bootlin’s_blog⠀⇛

                   Back in November 2022, we announced the

                   availability of a new training course titled Linux

                   debugging, profiling, tracing and performance

                   analysis.

                   At the time, this training course was still being

                   prepared, but since then Bootlin engineer Clément

                   Léger finished the preparation and successfully

                   delivered the training course to a group of

                   participants.

            # ⚓ Linux Plumbers Conference (LPC) ☛ Linux_Plumbers

              Conference:_LPC_2022_Attendee_Survey_Summary⠀⇛

                   We had 206 responses to the Linux Plumbers survey

                   in 2022, which, given the total number of in person

                   conference participants of 401, and virtual

                   participants of 320, has provided high confidence

                   in the feedback.

                   [...]

                   Overall: 91.8% of respondents were positive about

                   the event, with 6.3% as neutral and 1.9% were

                   dissatisfied. 80.1% indicated that the discussions

                   they participated in helped resolve problems. The

                   BOF track was popular and we’re looking to include

                   it again in 2023. Due to the fact we were having

                   our first in person since the pandemic started, we

                   did this event as a hybrid event with reduced in

                   person registration compared to prior years, as we

                   were unsure how many would be willing to travel and

                   our venue’s capacity. The conference sold out of

                   regular tickets very quickly after opening up

                   registration though, so we set up a waiting list.

                   With some the travel conditions and cancelations,

                   we were able to work through the daunting waiting

                   list, and offer spots to all of those on the list

                   by the conference date. Venue capacity is something

                   we’re looking closely at for next year and will

                   outline the plan when the CFP opens early this

                   year.

                   [...]

                   Events: Our evening events are feeling the pressure

                   from the number of attendees especially with the

                   other factors from the pandemic. The first night

                   event had more issues than the closing event and we

                   appreciate the constructive suggestions in the

                   write-in comments. The survey was still positive

                   about the events overall, so we’ll see what we can

                   do make this part of the “hallway track” more

                   effective for everyone next year.

      o § Applications⠀➾

            # ⚓ 5_Best_Free_Android_Emulators_For_Linux_2023_–_Play_Retro

              Titles_–_DekiSoft⠀⇛

                   Ever since smartphones have made an entry into our

                   lives they have had a lot of influence on our

                   socio-cultural movements. As a user of Linux who

                   can run phone apps right in your system means a lot

                   to many. Android, which is the de-facto mobile OS,

                   used by many people around the world also leverages

                   its eco-system to achieve all objectives. This list

                   has the 5 best Android emulators for Linux that are

                   free to download Oh, and they are open-source too.

            # ⚓ Best_9_Latex_Editors_for_Windows_11_and_Linux_(2023

              Selection)⠀⇛

                   Because of the vast choices, we are sharing 9 of

                   the best Latex editors compatible with Windows 11

                   and any Linux distro with a GUI.

            # ⚓ Medevel ☛ 9_Free_Open_Source_Avatar_Generator_Projects⠀⇛

                   Here, we offer you the best open source and free

                   Avatar creator that you can use totally for free.

                   Even more, you can download, customize, and rebuild

                   the projects with new functionalities on your local

                   machine, as they are Open source apps.

      o § Instructionals/Technical⠀➾

            # ⚓ Linux Capable ☛ How_to_Install_CPU-X_on_Manjaro_Linux⠀⇛

                   CPU-X is free and open-source, which gathers

                   information from the system’s CPU, motherboard,

                   RAM, graphics card, and more, then displays this

                   information in an easy-to-read format. The

                   following tutorial will teach you how to install

                   CPU-X on Manjaro Linux, utilizing the command line

                   terminal with Manjaro’s package manager pamac.

            # ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ How_to_Establish_Remote_Desktop_Access_to

              Ubuntu_From_Windows⠀⇛

                   You’re in one room, sitting at a PC; the data you

                   want is in another, on a computer running Ubuntu.

                   If both computers are in the same house, no

                   problem, but what if they’re in different offices?

                   It might be a bit of a walk!

                   The answer, therefore, is setting up a remote

                   desktop connection. Learn how to set up a remote

                   desktop from Windows to Ubuntu.

            # ⚓ Linux Made Simple ☛ How_to_install_FnF_Spritesheet_and_XML

              Maker_4.2.5_on_a_Chromebook⠀⇛

                   Today we are looking at how to install FnF

                   Spritesheet and XML Maker 4.2.5 on a Chromebook.

                   Please follow the video/audio guide as a tutorial

                   where we explain the process step by step and use

                   the commands below.

            # ⚓ ID Root ☛ How_To_Install_Cinnamon_Desktop_on_Ubuntu_22.04

              LTS_–_idroot⠀⇛

                   In this tutorial, we will show you how to install

                   Cinnamon Desktop on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. For those of

                   you who didn’t know, Cinnamon is a free and open-

                   source desktop environment for the X Window System

                   that derives from GNOME 3 but follows traditional

                   desktop metaphors. It was developed by Linux Mint,

                   an operating system based on the Ubuntu

                   distribution. It is among the best desktop

                   environments for Linux Desktops designed for speed,

                   flexibility, and advanced innovative features. One

                   of the main features of Cinnamon is its flexibility

                   and customization options. Users can change the

                   layout and appearance of the desktop by using

                   themes, applets, and desklets. Cinnamon also

                   includes a range of built-in desktop applications,

                   including a file manager, a text editor, and a

                   terminal emulator.

                   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 Cinnamon Desktop environment on

                   Ubuntu 22.04 (Jammy Jellyfish). You can follow the

                   same instructions for Ubuntu 22.04 and any other

                   Debian-based distribution like Linux Mint,

                   Elementary OS, Pop!_OS, and more as well.

            # ⚓ TecAdmin ☛ How_to_Install_and_Secure_OpenSSH_Server_on

              Pop!_OS_–_TecAdmin⠀⇛

                   OpenSSH is a popular open-source implementation of

                   the Secure Shell (SSH) protocol, which is used to

                   securely connect to and manage remote systems over

                   a network. OpenSSH is included in many popular

                   Linux distributions, including Pop!_OS, and it

                   provides a wide range of tools and utilities for

                   securely accessing and managing remote systems.

            # ⚓ TecAdmin ☛ How_to_Open_Port_in_Linux_–_TecAdmin⠀⇛

                   In a Linux operating system, a port is a

                   communication endpoint for either sending or

                   receiving data over a network. Network ports are

                   identified by a number, and each port number is

                   associated with a specific type of network service.

                   For example, port 80 is used for HTTP traffic, port

                   21 is used for FTP, and port 25 is used for email.

                   In order to establish a network connection, you

                   need to open a port on your Linux system. There are

                   several methods for doing this, including using the

                   built-in firewall programs FirewallD, UFW, and

                   iptables. Each of these methods has its own set of

                   advantages and disadvantages, and in this article,

                   we will discuss how to open a port in Linux using

                   each of these methods.

            # ⚓ Linux_DataOps:_a_career_path_with_endless_potential [Ed:

              Buzzwords instead of job titles]⠀⇛

                   Are you looking for a career that combines the

                   power of Linux with the excitement of big data? If

                   so, Linux DataOps may be the perfect fit for you!

                   In this rapidly growing field, professionals work

                   to optimize and manage the data pipelines and

                   workflows that drive businesses and organizations

                   in the digital age. But what exactly is Linux

                   DataOps, and why should Linux careers consider

                   going into this field? In this article, we’ll take

                   a closer look at the opportunities and challenges

                   of Linux DataOps careers, and provide tips and

                   resources for those interested in pursuing this

                   exciting and in-demand career path.

            # ⚓ OpenSnitch:_a_simple_application_firewall_for_GNU/Linux

              ⠀⇛

                   OpenSnitch is an application firewall with a simple

                   graphical interface that allows to easily accept or

                   deny network connections from any program.

            # ⚓ Major Hayden ☛ Automatic_container_updates_with_watchtower

              –_Major_Hayden⠀⇛

                   Keeping things updated quickly becomes a monotonous

                   task. I’m surrounded by devices that demand updates

                   on different frequencies. Phones, computers,

                   tables, cloud instances, containers, and even my

                   car need constant attention for updates that

                   improve security or fix bugs. (Sometimes the

                   updates cause bugs, but let’s forget about those

                   for now)

                   My container infrastructure runs on Fedora CoreOS

                   and it updates itself. It has an immutable layer

                   underneath my containers that updates using ostree.

                   However, keeping containers updated is a constant

                   battle. Updating the containers themselves is

                   fairly easy with a podman pull or docker pull

                   followed by a stop and start. It’s a bit easier

                   with docker-compose, but it’s still a nuisance to

                   remember to update.

            # ⚓ OSNote ☛ Sudo_Configuration_on_Ubuntu_and_Linux_Mint_–

              OSNote⠀⇛

                   System administrators can allow users to execute

                   commands without passwords using Sudo rights, also

                   known as superuser do. This command temporarily

                   elevates privileges, allowing users to do crucial

                   tasks without logging in as the root user. As a

                   result, you must authenticate yourself by entering

                   your login credentials into the system, confirming

                   that you have the appropriate rights to perform

                   tasks.

                   However, providing this information again overtakes

                   time, but there is a way that you can use it to

                   disable the authentication. As a result, this

                   article will show you how to create a password-less

                   sudo on Ubuntu and Linux Mint. So is Linux mint

                   good for beginners? I would say Linux Mint is one

                   of the best Linux distro for Beginners. Linux mint

                   requires the same hardware as Ubuntu, and

                   Installing Linux Mint is easy, have a look here to

                   download it.

            # ⚓ TecAdmin ☛ What_is_a_Binary_File?_–_TecAdmin⠀⇛

                   A binary file is a type of computer file that is

                   stored in a binary format, which means that it is

                   composed of a series of 0s and 1s that represent

                   the data stored in the file. Binary files are often

                   used to store data in a form that is more efficient

                   or more compact than a text file.

                   Binary files are used for a wide range of purposes,

                   including storing executable programs, images,

                   audio and video files, and data files. The most

                   common type of binary file is an executable file,

                   which is a program that can be run on a computer.

                   Other common types of binary files include image

                   files (such as JPEG, PNG, and GIF), audio and video

                   files (such as MP3, AVI, and MOV), and data files

                   (such as database files and spreadsheet files).

      o § Games⠀➾

            # ⚓ FEX ☛ FEX_2301_Tagged!⠀⇛

                   Happy new year! A new month brings a new release of

                   FEX-Emu, bringing in the new year.

                   A large amount of work in this last month, showing

                   that FEX-Emu isn’t slowing down even through the

                   holiday season.

            # ⚓ Boiling Steam ☛ Reviewing_Linux_Gaming_Predictions_for

              2022:_Sirmikester_–_Boiling_Steam⠀⇛

                   We continue with the individual Linux gaming

                   predictions that we shared back in January 2022.

                   This time, it’s the turn of one of our guests,

                   Sirmikester, to review his own predictions below.

            # ⚓ Boiling Steam ☛ Inscryption_Review_–_Boiling_Steam⠀⇛

                   Yet another card game? Well, Inscryption certainly

                   did look at the very least original when I first

                   checked out the trailer a few months back. That was

                   enough to convince me to try it out! The fact that

                   it has recently received a Linux client was also a

                   good sign.

                   Inscryption is NOT yet another card game. There’s a

                   lot more to it, and the card battles themselves

                   also feel extremely different from what you may be

                   used to. When you face your opponent, everything

                   will be decided within a few minutes. Sometimes the

                   card battles are over in just 30 seconds. But let

                   me back track a little bit. You first need to

                   understand the context.

                   The first screen of the game shows a few typical

                   options, and “new game” is greyed out. You have to

                   “continue game” in order to start, while you have

                   never saved anything up until now. Weird? Yes.

                   You’ll understand that way later.

      o § Desktop Environments/WMs⠀➾

            # § GNOME Desktop/GTK⠀➾

                  # ⚓ This Week in GNOME ☛ #77_Happy_New_Year!_–_This_Week

                    in_GNOME⠀⇛

                         Update on what happened across the GNOME

                         project in the week from December 30 to

                         January 06.

* § Distributions and Operating Systems⠀➾

      o § New Releases⠀➾

            # ⚓ risiOS_37.1.1_Release_Notes⠀⇛

                   Hello risiOS users! We hope your new year is off to

                   a great start. We have released a minor update with

                   a few bug fixes for your operating system.

                   risiTweaks: Added an option to switch between

                   light/default and dark styling within the

                   risiTweaks tool. This option was already available

                   in the Settings app, but we’ve added it to

                   risiTweaks as well to make it easier to access.

                   This was added after me watching a user in a

                   YouTube video where a user tried to change the gtk3

                   theme to enable dark mode instead of toggling on

                   dark mode in GNOME Settings. We hope this small

                   change can prevent some confusion.

                   risiWelcome: We’ve added mediainfo as a dependency

                   for Kdenlive in the video production script. This

                   fixes a missing dependency Kdenlive complains

                   about.

                   rTheme: rTheme has been updated to version 0.3.

                   This update includes a fix for a bug involving

                   GNOME Shell support, as well as backend changes to

                   prepare rTheme for use on other distributions.

                   risiOS ISO: This is the first ISO built using a new

                   build system we are creating to make it easier to

                   create Fedora based distributions. More info the

                   come within the next 2 months…

                   We’ve also updated a number of packages as part of

                   this release. As always, we recommend keeping your

                   system up to date to ensure that you have the

                   latest features and bug fixes.

                   Thank you for using risiOS!

      o § BSD⠀➾

            # ⚓ The Register UK ☛ Fancy_a_quick_tour_of_DragonFly_BSD_6.4?

              •_The_Register⠀⇛

                   DragonFly BSD – or just DragonFly for short – is

                   the youngest and most experimental member of the

                   BSD family. Its latest release came out on the

                   penultimate day of 2022. Although it’s not a major

                   version, here at The Reg FOSS desk we thought it

                   was time to take a look at DragonFly, as we’ve

                   recently looked at the other members of the BSD

                   family – as we describe in the sidebar.

                   The big-ticket item in this version is hardware-

                   supported virtualization in the NVMM hypervisor.

                   NVMM (not to be confused with NVMe) appeared in

                   DragonFly version 6.1.

                   The name, slightly strangely, is short for the

                   NetBSD Virtual Machine Monitor, because this

                   hypervisor was ported over across from that sibling

                   project, as described on the NetBSD blog.

                   Project lead Matthew Dillon began Dragonfly BSD in

                   2003 as a fork of FreeBSD 4.8, the final release of

                   the 4.x series. Unlike the other BSDs, Dragonfly

                   BSD supports just one platform: x86-64. Its

                   designers emphasize performance and scalability. It

                   supports 128 CPU cores, 256 hardware threads, and

                   up to a million processes, and claims

                   multiprocessor scaling to rival Linux – a kernel

                   with far more developers and investment than all of

                   the BSDs put together.

      o § PCLinuxOS/Mageia/Mandriva/OpenMandriva Family⠀➾

            # ⚓ OpenMandriva News ☛ OpenMandriva_ROME_–_The_rolling_release

              –_OpenMandriva⠀⇛

                   OpenMandriva ROME Platinum candidate has been

                   released a short time ago and we are confident it

                   has been enjoyed by the users.

                   To make sure you do not fall behind, we are

                   announcing a new way to keep you up to date: ROME,

                   the OpenMandriva rolling edition.

            # ⚓ PCLOS Official ☛ Firefox_browser_updated_to_108.0.2_–

              PCLinuxOS⠀⇛

                   Firefox is a damn good browser, with a very good

                   reputation, and with enough firepower to keep both

                   beginner and more advanced users happy. It’s

                   somewhat sad that even though Firefox does so many

                   things just right, the best thing about it is that

                   it is not Chrome.

            # ⚓ PCLOS Official ☛ Cider_1.6.0_–_PCLinuxOS⠀⇛

                   Cider is a new cross-platform Apple Music

                   experience based on Electron and Vue.js written

                   from scratch with performance & visuals in mind.

                   Requires an Apple ID. Access Apple Music from your

                   Linux desktop!

            # ⚓ PCLOS Official ☛ KDE_applications_updated_–_PCLinuxOS⠀⇛

                   The KDE applications suite has updated to 22.12.1

                   and now available in the PCLinuxOS software

                   repository.

      o § SUSE/OpenSUSE⠀➾

            # ⚓ SUSE’s Corporate Blog ☛ World’s_fastest_supercomputer_runs

              SUSE_Linux_|_SUSE_Communities⠀⇛

                   Looking back at 2022, certainly one of the most

                   dramatic leaps forward in the compute world was a

                   supercomputer breaking the exascale barrier,

                   meaning it can process more than a quintillion

                   calculations per second — making it capable of

                   performing the most complex computing tasks in the

                   world and setting the stage for breakthroughs in

                   climate modeling, astrophysics, genomics, medicine

                   and a more efficient energy grid, just to name a

                   few.

                   [...]

                   SUSE Linux Enterprise Server and the newer SUSE

                   Linux Enterprise Micro version run “under the

                   covers” as the embedded OS for many other systems

                   and devices of which you may not be aware. My

                   daughter was thrilled to send me a picture of a

                   SUSE Linux Point of Service-powered terminal

                   deployed at a well known grocer where she works

                   saying “You never told me SUSE runs our cash

                   registers!”.

            # ⚓ Dominique Leuenberger ☛ openSUSE_Tumbleweed_–_Review_of_the

              week_2023/01_–_Dominique_a.k.a._DimStar_(Dim*)⠀⇛

                   Almost 2% of 2023 is already behind us. Week 1 is,

                   from experience, always a still rather quiet week.

                   Many contributors are still with their families or

                   are just stretching some vacation. But, of course,

                   only ‘many’ and by far not all. Tumbleweed managed

                   to release 7 snapshots since the last review (1230,

                   1231, 20230101…20230105).

            # ⚓ Build_system_statistics_–_Zoltán’s_Blog⠀⇛

                   From time to time we should ask ourselves how are

                   we doing. Are we successful, are we on the right

                   track, are we heading to the right direction, are

                   we fast enough, are we accelerating or slowing

                   down?

                   This time I am talking about the openSUSE Linux

                   Distribution and about the SUSE Linux Enterprise

                   Server.

      o § Fedora / Red Hat / IBM⠀➾

            # ⚓ Remi Collet ☛ QElectroTech_version_0.90_–_Remi’s_RPM

              repository_–_Blog⠀⇛

                   RPM of QElectroTech version 0.90, an application to

                   design electric diagrams, are available in remi for

                   Fedora and Enterprise Linux ≥ 8.

            # ⚓ Tools_to_automate_parts_of_my_Fedora_packager_workflow_|

              Ceci_n’est_pas_une_fromage⠀⇛

                   I’ve just set up a Codeberg repo for some of the

                   scripts I’ve been using to help reduce the number

                   of keystrokes I need to perform daily task without

                   breaking anything for anyone else.

            # ⚓ Remi Collet ☛ Remi_Collet:_PHP_version_8.0.27,_8.1.14_and

              8.2.1⠀⇛

                   RPMs of PHP version 8.2.1 are available in remi-

                   modular repository for Fedora ≥ 35 and Enterprise

                   Linux ≥ 8 (RHEL, Alma, CentOS, Rocky…) and in remi-

                   php82 repository for EL 7.

                   RPMs of PHP version 8.1.14 are available in remi-

                   modular repository for Fedora ≥ 35 and Enterprise

                   Linux ≥ 8 (RHEL, Alma, CentOS, Rocky…) and in remi-

                   php81 repository for EL 7.

                   RPMs of PHP version 8.0.27 are available in remi-

                   modular repository for Fedora ≥ 35 and Enterprise

                   Linux ≥ 8 (RHEL, Alma, CentOS, Rocky…) and in remi-

                   php80 repository for EL 7.

            # ⚓ Red Hat Official ☛ 5_security_technologies_to_know_in_Red

              Hat_Enterprise_Linux_|_Enable_Sysadmin⠀⇛

                   Learn about some of the RHEL features that can help

                   you protect your systems from threats.

            # ⚓ Enterprisers Project ☛ 5_Harvard_Business_Review_articles

              that_resonated_with_CIOs_in_2022 [Ed: Red Hat amplifying

              management instead of technical stuff]⠀⇛

      o § Debian Family⠀➾

            # ⚓ Finally_making_use_of_bpftrace⠀⇛

                   I am old enough to remember when BPF meant the

                   traditional Berkeley Packet Filter, and was

                   confined to filtering network packets. It’s grown

                   into much, much, more as eBPF and getting familiar

                   with it so that I can add it to the suite of tips

                   and tricks I can call upon has been on my to-do

                   list for a while. To this end I was lucky enough to

                   attend a live walk through of bpftrace last year.

                   bpftrace is a high level tool that allows the easy

                   creation and execution of eBPF tracers under Linux.

                   Recently I’ve been working on updating the

                   RetroArch packages in Debian and as I was doing so

                   I realised there was a need to update the quite

                   outdated retroarch-assets package, which contains

                   various icons and images used for the user

                   interface. I wanted to try and re-generate as many

                   of the artefacts as I could, to ensure the proper

                   source was available. However it wasn’t always

                   clear which files were actually needed and which

                   were either ‘source’ or legacy. So I wanted to

                   trace file opens by retroarch and see when it was

                   failing to find files. Traditionally this is

                   something I’d have used strace for, but it seemed

                   like a great opportunity to try out bpftrace.

            # ⚓ Thorsten Alteholz ☛ Thorsten_Alteholz:_My_Debian_Activities

              in_December_2022⠀⇛

                   This month I accepted 276 and rejected 27 packages.

                   The overall number of packages that got accepted

                   was 288.

      o § Canonical/Ubuntu Family⠀➾

            # ⚓ Ubuntu ☛ What_changing_vehicle_ownership_habits_and

              mobility_trends_mean_for_the_future_of_the_automotive

              industry_|_Ubuntu⠀⇛

                   These past few years, we’ve observed major changes

                   in vehicle ownership significantly impacting the

                   future of the automotive industry. From vehicle

                   ownership to car-sharing applications, our use of

                   vehicles is completely changing. Let’s go through

                   some of the major reasons for these changes and how

                   they are shaping mobility trends.

            # ⚓ Ubuntu ☛ Kubescape_brings_a_new_level_of_security_to

              Charmed_Kubernetes_|_Ubuntu⠀⇛

                   The popular open-source platform Kubescape by ARMO

                   has been recently announced as a fully managed

                   operator called a Charm for Canonical’s Charmed

                   Kubernetes distribution. This collaboration between

                   Canonical and ARMO is exciting for the solution it

                   enables for end users, ultimately resulting in

                   hardened and more secure Kubernetes environments.

      o § Open Hardware/Modding⠀➾

            # ⚓ Raspberry Pi ☛ Liz_and_Eben_honoured_by_The_National_Museum

              of_Computing⠀⇛

                   Last month, Raspberry Pi co-founders Liz and Eben

                   Upton took a trip to The National Museum of

                   Computing (TNMOC) in Bletchley (home of the

                   codebreakers) because TNMOC thinks they’re both

                   really rather good.

            # ⚓ Adafruit ☛ Raspberry_Pi_co-founders_Liz_and_Eben_honoured

              by_The_National_Museum_of_Computing⠀⇛

                   The National Museum of Computing has a mission

                   statement To bring to life the history and ongoing

                   development of computing for inspiration, research,

                   learning and enjoyment for the benefit of general

                   and specialist publics of all ages.

            # ⚓ Adafruit ☛ The_MacroPad_Jukebox⠀⇛

            # ⚓ Adafruit ☛ E-Fidget_–_an_RP2040-based_haptic_board⠀⇛

                   Micha appeared on this weeks’ Show and Tell

                   videocast discussing their project: E-Fidget. E-

                   Fidget is a battery-powered haptic feedback based

                   fidget spinner. It’s RP2040-based and 100% OSHW!

* § Free, Libre, and Open Source Software⠀➾

      o ⚓ Jiri_Eischmann:_Account_Verification:_from_Mastodon_to

        CzechPoint⠀⇛

             When Twitter’s account verification policy began to

             change late last year, a debate about how to do identity

             verification for online accounts stirred. As I found out,

             the way Mastodon does it is surprisingly elegant.

             Previously, Twitter had a verification process for high-

             profile accounts (politicians, journalists, etc.). I

             honestly don’t know what that verification entailed, but

             after the Twitter takeover, Musk came up with the idea

             that anyone who pays $8 is eligible for verification. The

             ironic thing was that the new process didn’t actually

             include any identity verification at all. You paid $8,

             got a blue badge, and could impersonate anyone. This

             unsurprisingly didn’t work, so after a series of bummers

             over a short period of time, they discontinued this

             method of verification. They restarted it just recently

             and it seems to be as flawed as before.

             Not that I have any major need to have my social media

             accounts verified, but I was wondering if there was any

             way to verify an account on Mastodon, because there isn’t

             some central entity that can verify your accounts. I

             found out that Mastodon goes about it in a pretty elegant

             way. It outsources the authentication to internet domain

             administrators.

      o § GNU Projects⠀➾

            # ⚓ GNU ☛ The_Filesystem_Hierarchy_Standard_Comes_to_Guix

              Containers_—_2023_—_Blog_—_GNU Guix⠀⇛

                   GNU Guix is different from most other GNU/Linux

                   distributions and perhaps nowhere is that more

                   obvious than the organization of the filesystem:

                   Guix does not conform to the Filesystem Hierarchy

                   Standard (FHS). In practical terms, this means

                   there is no global /lib containing libraries, /bin

                   containing binaries,¹ and so on. This is very much

                   at the core of how Guix works and some of the

                   convenient features, like per-user installation of

                   programs (different versions, for instance) and a

                   declarative system configuration where the system

                   is determined from a configuration file.

                   However, this also leads to a difference in how

                   many pieces of software expect their world to look

                   like, relying on finding a library in /lib or an

                   external tool in /bin. When these are hard coded

                   and not overcome with appropriate build options, we

                   patch code to refer to absolute paths in the store,

                   like /gnu/store/hrgqa7m498wfavq4awai3xz86ifkjxdr-

                   grep-3.6/bin/grep, to keep everything consistently

                   contained within the store.

                   It all works great and is thanks to the hard work

                   of everyone that has contributed to Guix. But what

                   if we need a more FHS-like environment for

                   developing, testing, or running a piece of

                   software?

      o § Licensing / Legal⠀➾

            # ⚓ FSF ☛ Sharing_knowledge_about_the_GNU_family_of_licenses⠀⇛

                   Copyright and licensing associate Craig Topham

                   discusses the work done by the Licensing and

                   Compliance Lab to answer licensing questions via

                   articles, the FAQ, and email.

                   I am truly grateful for the opportunity to serve a

                   community where sharing is at the core of its

                   purpose. It’s amazing that we can duplicate

                   software so quickly — just a few taps on a keyboard

                   or clicks of a mouse — to such great benefit. In

                   the free software community, there are other

                   elements that can be spread just as easily as

                   computer source code. One of them is knowledge.

                   From helping someone use free software to spreading

                   the understanding of free software, knowledge comes

                   in all shapes and sizes. This includes sharing

                   knowledge of the GNU General Public Licenses (GPL)

                   and free software licensing more generally.

                   As the copyright and licensing associate at the

                   Free Software Foundation (FSF), one of my tasks is

                   to coordinate with licensing volunteers of the

                   Licensing and Compliance Lab. As a part of the Lab,

                   the licensing volunteers help the FSF share free

                   software licensing knowledge. We do this together

                   through the combined decades of experience and the

                   plethora of licensing materials available on

                   fsf.org and gnu.org. However, the world we live in

                   constantly generates new curiosities and areas to

                   explore, inevitably leaving people with new

                   questions. When this happens, the Licensing and

                   Compliance Lab is here to provide answers. Your

                   support will help us continue to do so heading into

                   the future. As free software licensing is a complex

                   subject, we’re proud to provide this service to

                   free software developers and other members of the

                   community.

                   Much like free software, knowledge requires someone

                   to have it first in order to distribute it. When it

                   comes to free software licensing knowledge, the

                   licensing volunteers have it in abundance. Although

                   a small group, they have answered over 1,300

                   questions sent in by those hoping to better

                   understand how the family of GNU licenses work

                   since the pandemic started in March 2020. I can

                   honestly say that this work would have been

                   impossible without the licensing volunteers.

      o § Programming/Development⠀➾

            # ⚓ Setting_Up_a_CI_System_Part_5:_Time-sharing_your_test

              machines_–_mupuf.org⠀⇛

                   This article is part of a series on how to setup a

                   bare-metal CI system for Linux driver development.

            # ⚓ Adafruit ☛ An_alternate_ESP32_flashing_utility⠀⇛

                   esputil is a command line tool for managing

                   Espressif devices. It is a replacement for

                   esptool.py.

            # ⚓ Qt ☛ Compiling_QML_to_C++:_A_4x_speedup⠀⇛

                   As you may know, you can compile your QML code to

                   C++ these days. There are multiple reasons why you

                   would do this. One of them is that it leads you to

                   better structured code by forcing you to declare

                   the types you’re using. The most important one is

                   that the resulting program will run faster.

                   In my previous posts I’ve been rather cautious

                   about the actual performance numbers. This is for a

                   reason. The Qt Quick Compiler cannot translate any

                   old JavaScript you throw at it, and depending on

                   the exact characteristics of your code, the

                   resulting speedup varies greatly. We’re constantly

                   working on increasing the Qt Quick Compiler’s

                   coverage of the QML language, but it’s still a long

                   way to go.

            # ⚓ Qt ☛ Permission_APIs_in_Qt_6.5⠀⇛

                   Many features of today’s devices and operating

                   systems can have significant privacy, security, and

                   performance implications, if misused. As a result,

                   it’s increasingly common for platforms to require

                   explicit consent from the user before accessing

                   these features.

            # ⚓ Adafruit ☛ libcpucycles_–_count_CPU_cycles_on_several

              architectu⠀⇛

                   libcpucycles is a public-domain microlibrary for

                   counting CPU cycles. Cycle counts are not as

                   detailed as Falk diagrams but are the most precise

                   timers available to typical software; they are

                   central tools used in understanding and improving

                   software performance.

            # § Perl / Raku⠀➾

                  # ⚓ Perl ☛ This_Week_in_PSC_(092)_|_Perl_Steering_Council

                    [blogs.perl.org]⠀⇛

                         Having been off for two weeks, we spent a

                         while just catching up with the state of the

                         world. Not much of note to report this week.

            # § Python⠀➾

                  # ⚓ Adafruit ☛ John_Park’s_CircuitPython_Parsec:_Short_vs

                    Long_Press⠀⇛

                         You can use a single button to mean two

                         different things depending on how long you

                         press it! Learn how to use a short duration

                         vs. a long duration button press in

                         CircuitPython.

                  # ⚓ Ross_Burton:_PySnooper_and_BitBake⠀⇛

                         The biggest catch is remembering that BitBake

                         classes and recipes are not Python, they just

                         have Python blocks in, so you can’t decorate

                         a function inside a class or recipe. In this

                         case you’ll need to use with block.

                         This looks like a very useful tool and I look

                         forward to using it next time I’m tearing my

                         increasingly greying hair out.

            # § Java⠀➾

                  # ⚓ Make Use Of ☛ How_to_Install_NetBeans_on_Linux⠀⇛

                         Apache NetBeans is an open-source IDE that

                         lets you create desktop, mobile, and web

                         applications in various programming languages

                         such as C, C++, Java, PHP, etc. It is a

                         popular choice of IDE for developers around

                         the world due to its versatility, ease of

                         use, and range of features.

                         NetBeans is available for Windows, Linux, and

                         macOS. Let’s look at some of the features of

                         NetBeans and ways to install it on Linux.

* § Leftovers⠀➾

      o § Hardware⠀➾

            # ⚓ CNX Software ☛ Qualcomm_Snapdragon_Satellite_enables_two-

              way_messaging_using_the_Iridium_network [Ed: Surveillance

              that never stops, no matter where you are; quality of life

              isn't being connected all the time; sometimes it's the

              opposite]⠀⇛

                   You may soon be able to get true global coverage

                   even in remote areas thanks to Qualcomm Snapdragon

                   Satellite which will offer pole-to-pole coverage

                   and two-way messaging for emergency use, SMS

                   texting, and other messaging applications.

                   Qualcomm made this possible through a partnership

                   with Iridium to bring satellite-based connectivity

                   to next-generation premium Android smartphones

                   starting with devices based on Snapdragon 8 Gen 2

                   Mobile Platform, while emergency messaging support

                   was done in collaboration with Garmin.

      o § Security⠀➾

            # ⚓ Bruce Schneier ☛ Remote_Vulnerabilities_in_Automobiles_–

              Schneier_on_Security⠀⇛

                   This group has found a ton of remote

                   vulnerabilities in all sorts of automobiles.

                   It’s enough to make you want to buy a car that is

                   not Internet-connected. Unfortunately, that seems

                   to be impossible.

            # ⚓ Sam Curry ☛ Web_Hackers_vs._The_Auto_Industry:_Critical

              Vulnerabilities_in_Ferrari,_BMW,_Rolls_Royce,_Porsche,_and

              More_|_Sam_Curry⠀⇛

                   During the fall of 2022, a few friends and I took a

                   road trip from Chicago, IL to Washington, DC to

                   attend a cybersecurity conference and (try) to take

                   a break from our usual computer work.

                   While we were visiting the University of Maryland,

                   we came across a fleet of electric scooters

                   scattered across the campus and couldn’t resist

                   poking at the scooter’s mobile app. To our

                   surprise, our actions caused the horns and

                   headlights on all of the scooters to turn on and

                   stay on for 15 minutes straight.

            # ⚓ Diffoscope ☛ Reproducible_Builds_(diffoscope):_diffoscope

              231_released⠀⇛

                   The diffoscope maintainers are pleased to announce

                   the release of diffoscope version 231. This version

                   includes the following changes:

                   * Improve “[X] may produce better output” messages.

                   Based on a patch by

                   Helmut Grohne. (Closes: #1026982)

            # ⚓ Qualcomm_UEFI_Flaws_Expose_Microsoft,_Lenovo,_Samsung

              Devices_to_Attacks [Ed: But it is ‘secure’ according_to

              Microsoft’s_troll_army]⠀⇛

            # ⚓ Public Knowledge ☛ Public_Knowledge_Commends_FCC_Vote_To

              Strengthen_Data_Breach_Notification_Requirements_–_Public

              Knowledge⠀⇛

                   Today, the Federal Communications Commission

                   released a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to update

                   data breach reporting requirements for telephone

                   services. The proposed rules would strengthen the

                   agency’s requirements for notifying consumers and

                   federal law enforcement following discovery of a

                   breach involving customer proprietary network

                   information (CPNI). Public Knowledge applauds the

                   Commission for this important, bipartisan effort to

                   keep our personal telephone data safe, and ensure

                   timely notice to law enforcement and the public of

                   any breach.

            # § Privacy/Surveillance⠀➾

                  # ⚓ Wired ☛ WhatsApp_Launches_a_Tool_to_Fight_Internet

                    Censorship [Ed: Conde Nast (Microsoft et al) refers to

                    WhatsApp as "encrypted messaging app" but it is

                    actually a mass surveillance app; calling it encrypted

                    messaging is misleading... Facebook sees everything and

                    so does the US government]⠀⇛

                         Amid internet shutdowns in Iran, the

                         encrypted messaging app is introducing proxy

                         connections that can help people get online.

                  # ⚓ Wired ☛ The_Slow_Death_of_Surveillance_Capitalism_Has

                    Begun_|_WIRED⠀⇛

                         SURVEILLANCE CAPITALISM JUST got a kicking.

                         In an ultimatum, the European Union has

                         demanded that Meta reform its approach to

                         personalized advertising—a seemingly

                         unremarkable regulatory ruling that could

                         have profound consequences for a company that

                         has grown impressively rich by, as Mark

                         Zuckerberg once put it, running ads.

                         The ruling, which comes with a €390 million

                         ($414 million) fine attached, is targeted

                         specifically at Facebook and Instagram, but

                         it’s a huge blow to Big Tech as a whole. It’s

                         also a sign that GDPR, Europe’s landmark

                         privacy law that was introduced in 2018,

                         actually has teeth. More than 1,400 fines

                         have been introduced since it took effect,

                         but this time the bloc’s regulators have

                         shown they are willing to take on the very

                         business model that makes surveillance

                         capitalism, a term coined by American scholar

                         Shoshana Zuboff, tick. “It is the beginning

                         of the end of the data free-for-all,” says

                         Johnny Ryan, a privacy activist and senior

                         fellow at the Irish Council for Civil

                         Liberties.

                  # ⚓ France24 ☛ ’Gut_punch’:_Meta_bruised_in_EU_data

                    fight⠀⇛

                         European regulators have laid down one of the

                         biggest challenges so far to the

                         multibillion-dollar business model of

                         Facebook owner Meta, analysts said on

                         Thursday.

                         The Silicon Valley titan was handed a 390-

                         million-euro ($413-million) fine on Wednesday

                         as part of a years-long tussle with the

                         European Union over data privacy.

                         But more significantly, European regulators

                         dismissed the legal basis Meta had used to

                         justify gathering users’ personal data for

                         use in targeted advertising.

                         Meta makes its money from highly targeted

                         ads, a system made possible only by

                         understanding the behaviour of its users

                         intimately.

                  # ⚓ [Old]_Apple_airtags_as_stalker_tools_|_Stop_at_Zona-

                    M⠀⇛

                         Making everything, people included, easily

                         trackable with no other skill than owning an

                         iPhone and a few Euros to spare is obviously

                         such a harmless idea that nobody could ever

                         conceive abusing it. Except they do, of

                         course. The Guardian recently reported that a

                         woman discovered her ex-boyfriend was

                         stalking her, thanks to an AirTag he had

                         placed in the trunk of her car the last time

                         they had met.

                  # ⚓ Help Net Security ☛ 3_important_changes_in_how_data

                    will_be_used_and_treated⠀⇛

                         Regula has presented their vision of the

                         developments that will shape the industry’s

                         landscape in 2023. Deepfakes, new cyber-

                         hygiene norms, and demand for mature ID

                         verification platforms are among some of the

                         predictions for the next year.

                         While more and more industries move their

                         customer experiences to digital, online

                         identity verification is becoming an

                         essential part of our life. It lets people

                         cope with all sorts of mission-critical

                         activities online: opening bank accounts,

                         applying for benefits, getting insurance

                         payouts, and even getting medical advice.

                         Still, the security of the digital IDV

                         process is the number one concern that is

                         forming the industry’s landscape and driving

                         the majority of significant changes.

      o § Environment⠀➾

            # § Energy/Transportation⠀➾

                  # ⚓ There_are_10_Biggest_Problems_With_Electric_Cars…_|

                    Stop_at_Zona-M⠀⇛

                         post on Medium describes ten fundamental

                         problems with battery electric vehicle (BEVs)

                         as a leading climate change mitigation

                         option.

                         Here, I argue that the first problem is the

                         biggest, and that it should be too much for

                         the industry, even if it were the only one.

                         [...]

                         To begin with, it makes no sense to expect

                         that BEVs could replace cars as quickly as

                         “normal” cars replaced carts and horses.

                         That happened because cars were objectively

                         better than horses in many ways. But BEVs are

                         still just cars. In any REAL WORLD scenario,

                         cars will never eliminate traffic, save you

                         money, move you faster or find parking spots

                         more quickly just by being electric.

      o § Censorship/Free Speech⠀➾

            # ⚓ [Older]_New_Zealand_is_a_bit_less_good_today_|_Stop_at

              Zona-M⠀⇛

                   Censorship can indeed come from every side.

                   [...]

                   According to ZeroHedge, New Zealand Prime Minister

                   Jacinda Ardern just called for an international

                   alliance to censor speech.

      o § Monopolies⠀➾

            # ⚓ CCIA ☛ AICOA’s_Failure_and_the_Future_of_Competition_Policy

              in_Congress_–_Disruptive_Competition_Project⠀⇛

                   As the 118th Congress gets underway, it is useful

                   to examine why the previous session’s “antitrust”

                   efforts failed, and to consider how the House and

                   Senate should proceed with competition and internet

                   policy that would actually encourage innovation and

                   competition while protecting America’s global edge

                   in the technology sector.

                   Despite much fanfare and promises by lawmakers and

                   proponents, misguided antitrust legislation

                   designed to weaken some of America’s most prominent

                   technology companies was not even brought to a vote

                   on the floor of the House of Representatives or the

                   Senate. The American Innovation and Choice Online

                   Act (“AICOA”)(S.2992 / H.R.3816) failed to pass

                   because of serious privacy, security, and content

                   moderation problems that were identified early on

                   but never adequately addressed by sponsors and

                   supporters.

                   The collapse of AICOA illuminates the fundamental

                   problem with current antitrust efforts in Congress.

                   For decades courts and antitrust agencies have put

                   consumers first in their evaluation of competition

                   in the economy. This attention to the consumer

                   welfare standard has led to tremendous benefits for

                   innovation and the broader economy. Current

                   lawmakers are instead obsessed with the size or

                   conduct of specific companies and how to exert

                   pressure on them or break them up. It is time for

                   Congress to return to basic economics and promote

                   antitrust efforts from a grounded, evidence-driven

                   perspective or the failures of this legislative

                   approach will be repeated in the new Congress.

* § Gemini* and Gopher⠀➾

      o § Personal⠀➾

            # ⚓ The_Weighty_Problem_#diet⠀⇛

                   I am over weight. I had started to get a handle on

                   it back in early 2020, just in time for a pandemic,

                   lockdowns and now nearly three years of nearly 100%

                   home working.

            # ⚓ Not_in_the_mood_for_D&D⠀⇛

                   The OGL 1.1 discussion is spoiling my appetite for

                   D&D. What a mess.

            # ⚓ Day_006:_The_room_of_glory_of_and_the_room_of_division⠀⇛

                   Since I had not enough time yesterday to publish

                   something, double ration today!

      o § Politics⠀➾

            # ⚓ Antitheism⠀⇛

                   I’m an atheist. In this post I’ll clarify why I

                   think antitheism is a flawed position.

      o § Technical⠀➾

            # ⚓ Thinkpad_thermal_paste_replacement⠀⇛

                   I live in a refurbished Thinkpad household. I use

                   an X220 as my “daily driver” (lately it’s sometimes

                   been more like a “weekly driver”, but whatever),

                   while my wife has an X230. The X230 has been

                   struggling against pretty severe overheating issues

                   for a long time now. It doesn’t get hot enough to

                   cross any alarm thresholds, triggering a shutdown

                   or anything like that, but it routinely gets way

                   too hot to comfortably use on a lap. So, I finally

                   took advantage of recent holiday downtime to

                   replace the thermal paste on both CPUs and clean

                   the fans out with compressed air. This was by far

                   the most substantial laptop maintenance work I’ve

                   done. Back in the Good Old Days (TM) of IDE and ISA

                   and PCI, when RAM capacity and CPU clocks were

                   strictly Megaunit affairs, I knew pretty well what

                   I was doing when it came to PC internals, and my

                   teenage bedroom often resembled one of those iconic

                   scenes from Serial Experiments: Lain, but it’s been

                   a looong time and I’m well and truly out of the

                   loop, hardware-wise. I didn’t become a laptop user

                   until quite late in life, and so I’ve just never

                   done anything other than replace hard disks or RAM.

            # ⚓ Pocket_Ereader_and_Austria⠀⇛

                   I’ve had this little Eink “development” device, the

                   M5Paper, for a while now and it has mostly been

                   relegated to the fridge as a weather forecast

                   dashboard and lately it’s just been in the drawer.

                   I had high hopes that someone (not me, I’m not that

                   smart) would develop some sort of multipurpose

                   firmware that could do various useful things like

                   reading text of different sorts and maybe some

                   other PIM type stuff. That has not happened

                   unfortunately and I was starting to consider

                   selling it on to someone that can actually you

                   know, develop things. Then I was going through my

                   github stars and looking at the recently updated

                   repos to see if anything interesting had happend

                   with any of the projects I follow there when I saw

                   this diy-esp32-epub-reader project. I have no

                   recollection of finding this before or starring it.

                   Maybe it was not very far along when I first

                   discovered it so it left my brain rather quickly?

                   Well I flashed it and it turns out it is quite

                   serviceable as a super basic ereader! I mean

                   really, really basic but it does get the primary

                   job done of reading epubs and it fits in a pocket

                   very nicely.

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